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04LILONGWE768	MALAWI AT A CROSSROADS WITH IMF [...] (SBU) At last week's outbriefing to donor countries, the IMF's Article IV assessment team said Malawi's new government is going in the right economic direction and that the IMF team would recommend a Staff Monitoring Program for the 2004/05 fiscal year. They assessed the GOM's draft budget as [...]	2004-08-09 13:54:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EINV PREL MI

04LILONGWE785	ISLAM IN MALAWI: A POST-MALAWI FIVE PERSPECTIVE [...] (S) The June 2003 expulsion of five non-Malawian Muslims suspected of ties to Al-Qaida (AKA the "Malawi Five"),which the press characterized as and most Malawians believe to have been a USG-initiative, came at time when the Muslim-Christian divide was being exploited by politicians in the run- [...]	2004-08-12 13:25:00	Embassy Lilongwe	SECRET	KISL PINR KPAO PTER ASEC PREL KIRF OIIP MI
04LILONGWE800	MALAWI'S PRIVATE SECTOR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT MUTHARIKA [...] (U) A recent visit to Malawi's business capital, Blantyre, showed the private sector to be generally optimistic about the new administration's economic direction. The consensus is that President Mutharika seems to be serious about cutting corruption and winning donor support through fiscal di [...]	2004-08-18 11:12:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV PREL KCOR MI
04LILONGWE823	MUTHARIKA TO "OPEN DIALOGUE" WITH MUGABE [...] (C) President Bingu wa Mutharika plans "to open a behind-the-scenes dialogue" with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during a August 26-28 trip to Zimbabwe. Mutharika, who will be in Zimbabwe to attend the annual Agricultural Society Show on August 27, is "concerned" about the situation in Z [...]	2004-08-24 13:13:00	Embassy Lilongwe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ZI MI
04LILONGWE838	MALAWI'S PRIVATE SECTOR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT MUTHARIKA [...] (U) A recent visit to Malawi's business capital, Blantyre, showed the private sector to be generally optimistic about the new administration's economic direction. The consensus is that President Mutharika seems to be serious about cutting corruption and winning donor support through fiscal di [...]	2004-08-30 06:03:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV PREL KCOR MI
04LILONGWE839	NOISE ABOUT CORRUPTION IN MALAWI [...] (C) Malawi's new administration has been very public about its intention to bring corruption under control. President Bingu wa Mutharika has replaced the chief government prosecutor, who in turn has publicly targeted several former ministers and ruling party members. The noise of a crackdown [...]	2004-08-30 06:04:00	Embassy Lilongwe	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN KCOR PGOV PREL MI
04LILONGWE849	AGOA UPDATE FOR MALAWI [...] (U) SUMMARY: Malawi meets AGOA eligibility requirements for 2004. The GOM continues to liberalize its economy to a market-based model, improve rule of law, remove barriers to trade and investment, reduce poverty through economic policy, combat corruption, and protect worker rights. AGOA benef [...]	2004-09-01 14:17:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ELAB PREL EFIN PHUM MI AGOA
04LILONGWE850	AFRICAN PEERS RATE MALAWI [...] (SBU) In line with President Bingu wa Mutharika's commitment at the recent African Union Summit to have Malawi reviewed by the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM),a preliminary report commissioned by the GOM finds "significant gaps" in economic management, a need for executive branch checks, [...]	2004-09-02 09:40:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON EFIN PREL KCOR MI
04LILONGWE854	MALAWI'S FISCAL PERFORMANCE IMPROVING [...] (C) Based on performance in its first 100 days in office, the administration of President Bingu Wa Mutharika appears to be focusing effectively on fiscal discipline. Recent consultations with Ministry of Finance officials and resident staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World B [...]	2004-09-02 13:18:00	Embassy Lilongwe	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV PREL PGOV MI
04LILONGWE896	MALAWI HAS THE MONEY--NOW WHAT? [...] (U) The World Bank vice president for Africa recently briefed donors in Lilongwe, confirming that the Bank was disbursing $25 million in order to support the new government's fiscal reform agenda and to avoid a currency crisis. He reported that the GOM is looking to raise the bar on economic [...]	2004-09-16 13:43:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EAID EFIN PREL MI
04LILONGWE968	MALAWI'S BUDGET APPROVED [...] (U) Malawi's Parliament approved the FY 2004/05 budget on September 24. During the course of deliberations, Parliament added MK4.2 billion ($39 million) of additional spending, principally for HIV/AIDS programs. The deficit would remain at about MK8.5 billion ($79 million),or 4.3 percent of [...]	2004-10-08 11:12:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID ETRD PREL MI BUD FIN
04LIMA126	PERUVIAN NARCOTRAFFICKER FERNANDO ZEVALLOS: [...] (SBU) Embassy's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office plans to deliver two letters on January 13: -- one to suspected narcotrafficker Fernando Zevallos Gonzalez requesting that he present himself at the Embassy to make a sworn statement regarding his eligibility to enter the U.S. a [...]	2004-01-09 16:32:00	Embassy Lima	SECRET	CVIS SNAR PREL KCRM PINR PE
04LJUBLJANA1079	SLOVENIA ON OSCE ELECTION OBSERVERS FOR IRAQ [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief raised the points in reftel with Blanka Jamnisek of the OSCE task force. Though points had been provided in advance of the meeting, Jamnisek apologized for being unprepared to respond to the demarche. In addition to preparing for the OSCE ministerial this weekend, the Sl [...]	2004-11-30 11:41:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IZ SI
04LJUBLJANA1080	SLOVENIA FIRM ON MAINTAINING ICTY CONDITIONALITY [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to the Head of the Western Balkans Department at the MFA, Peter Reberc. Reberc is recently returned from eight years in Rome first at the Slovene Mission to the Holy See and then the bilateral Mission. He explained that the Government of Slovenia is [...]	2004-11-30 11:46:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PREL PGOV ICTY
04LJUBLJANA1088	EXBS: SLOVENIA AND CROATIA PROGRAM ADVISOR MONTHLY [...] SUMMARY: Passports were received from Slovenia and visas granted for the Washington Department of Commerce (DOC) workshop in December. Three members of the Slovenian Government and three from Croatia attended the London Export Conference. The University of Georgia (UGA) conducted a Slovenia [...]	2004-12-03 12:22:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR SI
04LJUBLJANA1090	AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW (AGAIN) SLOVENE FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel on Dec. 4 prior to the minister's departure for the OSCE Ministerial in Sofia. Rupel appeared relaxed and very comfortable in his surroundings, which he had vacated less than six months ago. Rupel said he was looking forward [...]	2004-12-06 08:57:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SI OSCE
04LJUBLJANA1092	SLOVENE BIOMETRIC PASSPORT UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Slovenia will begin issuing a first-phase biometric passport containing photo recognition data before October 26, 2005. A second-phase biometric passport incorporating both photo recognition and fingerprints will be introduced at a later date, in compliance with new EU requirement [...]	2004-12-07 08:02:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT PREL KPAO SI
04LJUBLJANA1107	SLOVENIA: FOMIN RUPEL AND USOSCE AMB MINIKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 10 December meeting with COM and USOSCE Ambassador Stephan Minikes, FoMin Rupel set out Slovenian priorities for its OSCE CiO year, indicating a special interest in dealing with issues in Southeastern Europe. Discussion focused on Ukraine and on the need to engage the Russ [...]	2004-12-14 07:27:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR SI OSCE RU
04LJUBLJANA1111	SLOVENIA: COM MEETS NEW JUSTICE MINISTER LOVRO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 13 December, COM called on newly confirmed Justice Minister Lovro Sturm and raised denationalization of AmCit-held property, court backlogs, the pending Slovenian request for the return of alleged financial criminal Davorin Sadar, and the need to negotiate a mutual legal as [...]	2004-12-14 11:15:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR SI
04LJUBLJANA1119	COM CALL ON NEW SLOVENE FINANCE MINISTER, ANDREJ [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador paid a courtesy call on newly confirmed Finance Minister, Andrej Bajuk, on December 13. Accompanying the Ambassador were DCM and Pol/Econ chief. Bajuk, interestingly, held the meeting with no staff present. Throughout the discussion, Bajuk stressed the need for the [...]	2004-12-16 10:41:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL SI
04LJUBLJANA1121	OPERATION BALKAN VICE V: SLOVENIA [...] (S) Pol-Miloff delivered reftel talking points and list to MFA International Security Department staffers Bostjan Jerman and Maja Zuzek on 17 December. Jerman and Zuzek received the information gratefully and said they would pass it on directly to representatives at the Bank of Slovenia, Off [...]	2004-12-17 09:57:00	Embassy Ljubljana	SECRET	KAWC PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC SI ICTY
04LJUBLJANA1125	INVITATION TO MINE ACTION CONFERENCE; LJUBLJANA, [...] (U) INVITATION: PM/WRA and Embassy Ljubljana would like to announce an upcoming Regional Mine Action Coordination (RMAC) Conference, scheduled to take place in Ljubljana on 13-14 January 2005. PM/WRA Senior Program Coordinator and Program Manager for Demining in the Balkans Murphey McCloy w [...]	2004-12-17 11:25:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM KHDP SI
04LJUBLJANA1128	SLOVENIA ON YUKOS AUCTION [...] (C) Pol/econ chief delivered reftel points to Angelina Trajkovski of the MFA's Office for Eastern Europe on December 20. Trajkovski explained that no official reaction at the minister level had been developed, but that this was clearly a step backward for Russia and of concern to Slovenia. [...]	2004-12-20 11:12:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON KPAO PREL PHUM RS SI
04LJUBLJANA1129	SLOVENIA ON ITER [...] EconOff delivered reftel talking points to Dr. Milos Komac, State Undersecretary in the Scientific Office at the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. Komac is Post's chief contact on issues related to ITER. Komac mentioned during the demarche that Slovenia is very interested in particip [...]	2004-12-21 09:00:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TRGY
04LJUBLJANA1134	SLOVENIA: COM MEETS NEW DEFENSE MINISTER ERJAVEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 22 December courtesy call by COM, new DefMin Karl Erjavec called for intensifying cooperation between the U.S. and Slovenia, particularly in the field of training. Erjavec confirmed that the GoS remained focused on its commitment to spend two percent of GDP on defense by [...]	2004-12-23 06:28:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PINR SI NATO
04LJUBLJANA266	SLOVENIA: "FORMER SOVIET BLOC" RHETORIC ILL- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Slovenian media have reported extensively on erroneous references to Slovenia as part of the "former Soviet Bloc" made during recent NATO accession ceremonies. Slovenes take umbrage at this historical inaccuracy and the lack of understanding it demonstrates as to how forme [...]	2004-04-01 05:38:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR PGOV KMDR SI NATO
04LJUBLJANA283	SLS TO PULL MINISTERS AND LEAVE COALITION [...] (U) IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING AN 05 APRIL MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PEOPLES PARTY (SLS),SLS PRESIDENT JANEZ PODOBNIK ANNOUNCED THAT THE THREE SLS MINISTERS (JUSTICE MINISTER IVAN BIZJAK, TRANSPORT MINISTER JAKOB PRESECNIK, AND AGRICULTURE MINISTER FRANC BUT) WOULD BE OFFERING THE [...]	2004-04-06 12:51:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SI EUN
04LJUBLJANA324	SLOVENIA: FOMIN TO ATTEND BERLIN ANTI-SEMITISM [...] (U) POL/ECON CHIEF AND POL-MILOFF DELIVERED REFTEL TALKING POINTS AND DELEGATION LIST ON 15 APRIL TO MFA OSCE TASK FORCE MEMBERS URSKA AJDISEK AND KATARINA GRADIC, BOTH OF WHOM WORK ON HUMAN DIMENSION ISSUES. AJDISEK SAID THAT FOMIN DMITRIJ RUPEL AND AT LEAST TWO OF HIS KEY STAFFERS, INCLUDIN [...]	2004-04-15 12:22:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SOCI SI OSCE
04LJUBLJANA377	SLOVENIA: TERRORISM FINANCE: PREVENTING KONGRA-GEL [...] (C) ON 23 APRIL, ECONOFF DELIVERED REFTEL POINTS TO PETER JAPELJ, FIRST COUNSELOR IN THE MFA OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DISARMAMENT. JAPELJ PROMISED TO SHARE THE INFORMATION WITH MFA STATE UNDERSECRETARY FOR VISA POLICY ANDREJ STER. HE WILL ALSO DISSEMINATE THE INFORMATION AMONG TH [...]	2004-04-26 12:43:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PREL PTER IZ TU SY JO SI
04LJUBLJANA429	SLOVENIA: ARTICLE 98 FOLLOW-UP [...] (U) DCM, ACCOMPANIED BY POL-MILOFF AND ODC CHIEF, DELIVERED REFTEL TALKING POINTS TO MFA STATE SECRETARY FOR MULTILATERAL AFFAIRS SAMUEL ZBOGAR ON 10 MAY. ZBOGAR, ACCOMPANIED BY STAFF ASSISTANT MATEJ MARN AND NORTH AMERICA DESK OFFICER GREGOR KOZOVINC, WAS GRATEFUL TO HEAR THAT IMET FUNDS WO [...]	2004-05-10 12:23:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS MARR PREL SI
04LJUBLJANA438	SLOVENIA: SAVA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE [...] (U) This cable responds to reftel request for information on the status of Slovenia's commitment to the establishment of a Permanent Sava River Basin Commission, the implementation of its mandate, and official representation. On 05 May, MFA State Undersecretary and Stability Pact National Co [...]	2004-05-11 13:02:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID ECIN EWWT PREL SI
04LJUBLJANA511	SLOVENIA: SECRETARY MINETA'S BILATERAL MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 25 May, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta and his visiting delegation called on his Slovenian counterpart, Marko Pavliha, to discuss the bilateral transportation agenda prior to the start of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) meeting held i [...]	2004-06-02 11:24:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT EAIR ELTN ECON PREL PINR SI
04LJUBLJANA599	SLOVENIA: CENTER-RIGHT OPPOSTION PARTIES FORM NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Assembly for the Republic (AFTR) held an inaugural public meeting on 23 June reuniting DEMOS members, drawing like-minded academics, and gathering considerable media attention (ref A). The AFTR continued to press its message for inclusion and national renovation in an atte [...]	2004-06-28 08:32:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SI
04LJUBLJANA646	SLOVENIA: NEW CENTER FOR EU INTEGRATION ANNOUNCED [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 08 July, GOS announced its intention to create a new center to assist EU aspirants, in particular Western Balkan hopefuls. Although it is still in the early stages of development, the European Commission and the World Bank have already expressed an interest in the project. E [...]	2004-07-09 13:11:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EU SI
04LJUBLJANA653	SLOVENIA: NATIONAL ELECTIONS CALLED FOR 03 OCTOBER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek has called for National Assembly elections to be held on 03 October. Although the official electoral campaign starts on 03 September, the deadline for registering official candidate lists is 08 September. END SUMMARY CHOOSING THE DATE FOR TH [...]	2004-07-13 03:39:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL SI
04LJUBLJANA660	SLOVENIA: MOSQUE REFERENDUM DECLARED [...] (U) SUMMARY. In a 7-1 decision, the Slovenian Constitutional Court rejected a proposed referendum on the construction of a mosque in Ljubljana. The Court declared that the referendum violated the right to freedom of religion set out in Article 41 of the Slovenian Constitution. The Islamic [...]	2004-07-13 12:43:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF SI
04LJUBLJANA726	SLOVENIA: GoS APPROVES POTOCNIK'S EU COMMISSIONER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On 29 July, the GoS approved Janez Potocnik's nomination to serve as Slovenia's Commissioner in the EU. Potocnik has had great experience within the EU, having served as Slovenia's top accession negotiator and interim Commissioner. He is independent and can be considered a f [...]	2004-07-30 10:35:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR EU SI
04LJUBLJANA773	SLOVENIA'S EC PORTFOLIO COMPLEMENTS NATIONAL [...] (U) By all accounts the European Commission Science and Research portfolio assigned to Slovene Commissioner Janez Potocnik is a positive development for Slovenia. Both the ruling coalition and opposition parties view this portfolio, as opposed to the EU Enlargement portfolio many expected for [...]	2004-08-18 04:53:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL TSPL SI
04LJUBLJANA818	SLOVENIA COM'S FAREWELL CALL ON MINISTER OF LABOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador paid a farewell call on Minister of Labor, Family and Social Affairs, Vlado Dimovski on August 30. Dimovski, who will not run for a seat in Parliament and does not plan to remain in government after elections, was openly critical of the last two years of leadership [...]	2004-09-02 02:59:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ELAB PINR PGOV SI GTIP
04LJUBLJANA85	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF GEN JAMES L. JONES, SACEUR [...] (SBU) While you will be wearing your NATO hat during your 11-12 February visit to Slovenia, you may wish to emphasize the following shared U.S. and NATO priorities during your discussions with Slovenian officials: -- Slovenia's bilateral and NATO commitment to bring defense spending to 2% o [...]	2004-01-13 10:00:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL PGOV PINR SI NATO
04LJUBLJANA854	COM'S FAREWELL CALL ON SLOVENIA'S PRIME MINISTER, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador paid a final visit to Prime Minister Anton (Tone) Rop on September 9. It was a warm and cordial meeting and PM Rop appeared more relaxed and congenial than in previous meetings. Despite terming the elections too close to call, Rop exuded an air of confidence tha [...]	2004-09-13 10:22:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SI GTIP
04LJUBLJANA884	SLOVENIA: ELECTIONEERING TACTICS CREATE [...] (U) Summary: Slovenia's newswires have been alight since the arrest and detention of Janez Podobnik, president of the right-leaning Slovene Peoples Party (SLS),and 11 other members of the party, by Croatian authorities in a disputed border region, 22 September. With elections in just over t [...]	2004-09-23 12:29:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PBTS HR SI
04LJUBLJANA976	SLOVENIA IN THE BIG LEAGUES NOW: DAS CONLEY HELPS [...] SUMMARY: (U) The visit of DAS Heather Conley to Ljubljana October 20-21 was well timed to take advantage of the momentum created by the arrival of a new U.S.ambassador. Her meetings at the MFA, MOD and with a small group of influential private citizens have helped us to galvanize and re-focu [...]	2004-10-25 11:26:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR SI OSCE
04LJUBLJANA981	SLOVENIAN MOD GIVES DAS CONLEY DEFENSE REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Heather Conley engaged high level MoD officials in a productive dialogue about the current status and future of Slovenian defense reforms during meetings on 21 October. Both State Secretary Milan Jazbec and State Undersecretary Uros Krek described the Slovenian commitment t [...]	2004-10-26 11:26:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MCAP MOPS SI NATO
04LONDON3070	PREVENTING TRAVEL TO POSSIBLE KONGRA-GEL [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-23 17:47:00	Embassy London	SECRET	PTER PREL PINS IZ TU EU SY JO UK
04MADRID1002	SPAIN:HUMANITARIAN AID FOR HAITI [...] We received Spain's response to reftel from Felipe Bragado de las Heras, Chief of Staff to the Secretary General of the Spanish Agency for International Development. Spain has donated EUR 300,000 (USD 366,000 at an exchange rate of EUR 1.0=USD 1.21) to the United Nations Flash Appeal for Haiti [...]	2004-03-25 09:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF PREL HA SP
04MADRID1027	REBUILDING IRAQ: MADRID SUBCONTRACTING [...] We are working with the Spanish Council of Chambers of Commerce to organize the April 29 Madrid visit of Admiral David Nash and delegation. The Council is open to inviting other European and Moroccan companies to participate. The Council agrees with the format for the conference suggested r [...]	2004-03-26 14:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BEXP PREL SP
04MADRID1040	SPAIN:AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE RESPONSE [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for Continental Asia Alejandro E. Albargonzalez San Martin told us March 25 that Spain's delegation will not be making new commitments to Afghanistan at the Berlin Conference. He noted that while Spain will carry out its previous pledge of $113 million through [...]	2004-03-29 05:09:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV AF SP NATO
04MADRID1052	SPAIN: UPDATE ON ZAPETERO'S CABINET SELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: Future Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is revealing his cabinet selections on a piecemeal basis as the government formation process procedes. Thus far he has officially named Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega as First Vice President of Government and Minister of th [...]	2004-03-29 14:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SP PSOE
04MADRID1072	NEW SOCIALIST MAJORITY APPEARS STABLE [...] (SBU) Summary. The margin of the Socialist (PSOE) victory on March 14 should allow them to take power without any formal coalition agreements with smaller parties. While the PSOE's 164 seats fall 12 short of an absolute majority, it should allow them to govern stably, especially given the fac [...]	2004-03-30 14:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID1074	SPAIN: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met March 30 with Socialist defense minister-designate Jose Bono. The meeting was very pleasant and friendly, and Bono pledged to do his part to continue the fine relations the U.S. and Spain have developed over the years. He characterized himself as a "moderate soc [...]	2004-03-30 15:30:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER SP
04MADRID1096	SPAIN: SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF AND DEPSECSTATE [...] (C) Summary: When you meet with Jose Bono April 5 in Washington, you will find this long-time Socialist party "heavyweight" an affable, smooth politician who could be a pro-U.S. voice of reason in the new government headed up by Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. We [...]	2004-04-01 11:41:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS SP
04MADRID1118	SPAIN: PARTIAL RESPONSE TO GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) We delivered reftel talking points and letter April 2 to Guillermo Kirkpatrick, the MFA's Deputy Director General for International Disarmament Affairs. We addressed the letter to Secretary General for Foreign Affairs Javier Gil Catalina, the under secretary-level official who deals with [...]	2004-04-02 14:50:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM PREL SP
04MADRID1122	AMBASSADOR'S OUTREACH TO GALICIA [...] Summary: The Ambassador traveled March 30-31 to Santiago de Compostela, capital of the northwestern region of Galicia, to open the eighth in a series of regional seminars on E-Commerce and Internet for small and medium sized firms. The Ambassador took the opportunity to meet with President of [...]	2004-04-02 15:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON ETRD PREL SP
04MADRID1141	SPAIN TERRORISM UPDATE: MARCH 11 TERRORISTS BLOW [...] (SBU) Three weeks after the March 11 terror train bomb attacks, terrorism and the police fight against it continue to dominate the Spanish political and media landscape. In recent days, the police scored two successes: tracking down the suspected leaders of the March 11 attacks to a Madrid [...]	2004-04-05 18:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL SP
04MADRID1186	SPAIN: RESPONSE TO JAYSH AL-MAHDI VIOLENCE [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-07 16:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS SP MAR
04MADRID1187	ZAPATERO AND SPANISH TROOPS IN IRAQ: POLITICAL [...] (C) Political pressure is high on incoming Socialist President Rodriguez Zapatero to fulfill his campaign promise to pull the 1300 Spanish troops out of Iraq absent a new UN mandate giving the UN the lead role. Zapatero is on the hook to demonstrate to his supporters that his surprise election [...]	2004-04-07 18:37:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID1200	INVESTITURE SCHEDULE FOR SPAIN'S NEW SOCIALIST [...] Summary. Spain's Congress of Deputies is slated to begin the investiture sessions to install the new Socialist government on April 15. Depending on whether the Socialist leader, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, receives an absolute majority or not on the first vote, he could be sworn in as Pres [...]	2004-04-14 06:54:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SP
04MADRID1201	SPANISH RESPONSE: PRESS STATEMENT ON UNSCR 1534 [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-14 06:54:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PREL SP UNSC UN
04MADRID1523	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DAILY PRESS OF APRIL 3, 2004 AND SUBSEQUENT DAYS REPORTED FRENCH POLICE IN CONJUNCTION WITH SPANISH GUARDIA CIVIL PROCEEDED TO THE ARREST OF THE AL [...]	2004-05-03 10:23:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID1569	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING NAMES, AND INFORMATION PER REFTEL, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. NAME: SINGH, DILBAG - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: AUG. 16, 1978, INDIA - AGE RANGE (26-30) - COMPLEXION: MEDIUM BUILD - EYES: BROWN - HAIR: SHORT BLACK [...]	2004-05-05 09:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID1570	SPANISH RESPONSE TO EURO-MEDITERRANEAN MINISTERIAL [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on May 3 to Enrique Mora, Director of the MFA's Office of EU Foreign Policy and Common Security. Mora said that the EU states will be presenting their Middle East reform proposal (the EU's equivalent of our Greater Middle East Initiative) to the Arab states at [...]	2004-05-05 11:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KMPI PHUM PREL SP EUN
04MADRID1601	SPAIN: URGENT DEMARCHE REGARDING AMENDED UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-06 14:49:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS SP UNGA
04MADRID1619	SPAIN BIOS ON OFFICIALS IN PRESIDENT'S [...] (U) Summary: Over the past week, Spain's Council of Ministers has named new, top-level government officials. We are presenting biographical information on these new officials in three parts to keep you informed of our new political interlocutors in the Spanish government. This cable provid [...]	2004-05-07 11:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID1620	SPAIN BIOS ON NEW FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND [...] (U) Summary: This is the second of a three part series on new top-level officials in the Spanish government. Biographical information on officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Defense is provided. See septels for bios on the Office of the President, and Minis [...]	2004-05-07 11:19:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID1621	SPAIN BIOS ON NEW JUSTICE AND INTERIOR [...] (U) Summary: This is the final of three cables on new top level official in the Spanish government. Biographical information on top officials in Spain's Ministries of Justice and Interior is provided. See septels for bios on the Office of the President, and Ministries of the Presidency, Fo [...]	2004-05-07 11:46:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID1636	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. NAME: AL-FETORY, SHEREF - ALIASES: AL-FAYTURI, SARIF - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: DEC. 10, 1973, BENGHAZI, LIBYA - CLASS: NEGATIVE - AL-FETORY RESI [...]	2004-05-07 14:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP AL
04MADRID1656	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. IN EARLY MAY 2004, SPANISH AUTHORITIES WERE SEARCHING FOR TWO ASSOCIATES OF MOROCCAN NATIONAL AMER EL-AZIZI, WHO IS BEING SOUGHT AGGRESIVELY BY SPANISH POL [...]	2004-05-10 14:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID1657	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON MAR 23, 2004, THE SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE ARRESTED THE FOLLOWING SUSPECTED TERRORIST FOR THEIR POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT IN THE 11 OF MARCH 2004 TERRORIST AT [...]	2004-05-10 14:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID1658	VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY04 - APRIL [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON APRIL 5 AND 19, 2004, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP. 2. DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL 2004, MADRID SUBMITTED FIVE VISAS VIPER CABLES IDENTIFYING 45 INDIVIDUALS, TWO SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ETA AND 43 SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF [...]	2004-05-10 14:52:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID1690	TAIWAN OBSERVERSHIP AT WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-12 10:14:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL TW SP WHO
04MADRID1708	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON MAY 6, 2004, SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED SAED EL HARRAK FOR POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT IN THE MARCH 11, 2004 TERRORIST TRAIN BOMBINGS IN MADRID, SPAIN. DAILY PRESS [...]	2004-05-12 15:29:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP EL
04MADRID1713	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT THE CORRECT DOB FOR THE SUSPECTED TERRORIST REPORTED IN REFTEL. 2. NAME: KHAYATA KATTAN, ABDULLA - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: JAN. 24, 1961, ALEPPO, SYRIA - NATURALIZED SPANISH CITIZEN - CLASS: POSITIVE 3. KHAYATA WAS A KEY CONTACT OF DETAINED SPA [...]	2004-05-13 07:55:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID1716	SPANISH POSITION ON ROLLOVER OF UNSCR 1487 [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Inigo de Palacio, MFA Director of UN Affairs, on May 7. De Palacio stated while no decision had yet been made, Spain may abstain on the vote to roll over UN Security Council Resolution 1487 this year. He said that the change from voting in favor to abstaini [...]	2004-05-13 11:26:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP UNSC KICC
04MADRID1731	DCM'S MEETING WITH MFA STATE SECRETARY BERNARDINO [...] (C) DCM paid an initial call May 10 on MFA State Secretary Bernadino Leon, who said this was his first meeting SIPDIS with a foreign embassy since taking office. Leon made a point of saying that the new government wanted to have excellent relations with the U.S., especially on counter-terrorism in [...]	2004-05-13 15:10:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID1733	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NEA A/S BILL BURNS [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to NEA A/S Bill Burns, Staff Assistant Kevin Roland and EUCOM POLAD Terry Snell to travel to Madrid, May 18. 2. (U) Control Officer at Embassy Madrid is Political Officer Colin Cleary. He can be reached at work (34-91-587-2386) [...]	2004-05-13 15:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP AMGT PREL SP
04MADRID1762	SPAIN'S POSITION ON UNSCR 1487 ROLLOVER NOT YET [...] (C) Charge delivered ref A points May 14 to Deputy Foreign Minister Bernardino Leon. In addition to ref A points, Charge made clear that President Zapatero, Foreign Minister Moratinos and other high-level officials in the Zapatero government have stated a number of times they wish to maintai [...]	2004-05-14 15:55:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP UNSC KICC
04MADRID1763	SPANISH RESPONSE TO MAY 17-18 EU FMS MEETING [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on May 14 to Enrique Mora, Director of the MFA's Office of EU Foreign Policy and Common Security. Mora said that the new Spanish government would maintain Spain's previous policies on the issues being discussed at the next EU General Affairs and External Relat [...]	2004-05-14 16:19:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP EUN
04MADRID1798	SPAIN'S RESPONSE TO INVITATION TO BECOME GLOBAL [...] Per reftel Pol-miloff met May 10 with Guillermo Kirkpatrick, MFA's Director General for International Arms Control Affairs to revisit this issue. Kirkpatrick said given the new government is still getting into place, it is highly unlikely the GOS will make a decision on whether to become a G [...]	2004-05-18 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC PARM PREL SP
04MADRID1806	IRAQ ASSISTANCE: MAY 25-26 DOHA MEETING ON IRAQ [...] According to our contact at the Ministry of Economy, the GOS will be represented at the Doha Meeting by Technical Adviser Ines Menendez de Luarca Bellido of the Ministry of Economy's General Directorate for International Finance, and the Director of the Spanish Commercial Office in Dubai, UAE, [...]	2004-05-19 10:52:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SP
04MADRID1816	TERRORIST FINANCING: SPAIN'S ABILITY TO FREEZE [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-19 15:19:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER EFIN ECON PREL ETTC SP
04MADRID1831	SPAIN: DISAPPOINTED BUT STILL ENGAGED AFTER [...] (C) Spanish MFA officials were upset that Equatorial Guinean President Obiang allowed the opposition Convergence for Social Democracy Party (CPDS) to pick up only a handful of seats in the April 25 legislative elections. Citing serious voting irregularities, Spanish officials concluded that t [...]	2004-05-19 16:11:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EK SP
04MADRID1832	SPAIN: MFA OFFICIAL SEES NO CHANGE IN CUBA POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met May 18 with Pablo Gomez de Olea, the MFA's deputy director general for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Gomez assured us the Zapatero government will maintain a tough stance on Cuba and will not unilaterally backtrack on the EU's strict common position on C [...]	2004-05-19 16:21:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CU SP
04MADRID1842	IRAQI ASSETS: RASHEED BANK ASSETS LOCATED IN SPAIN [...] (C) Working level contacts at SEPBLAC, Spain's financial intelligence unit, informed us that they located the suspected Rasheed Bank (REF A) assets during a recent unannounced (REF B) investigation of Banco Arab Espanol. The numbered account contained USD 25,863.79 and has been dormant since [...]	2004-05-20 11:13:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL IZ SP UNSC
04MADRID1857	IRAQ ASSISTANCE: NO CHANGES TO DATE ON SPANISH [...] We discussed the status of Spain's pledge for Iraq reconstruction with Directorate General of International Finance Technical Adviser Ines Menendez de Luarca Bellido. Menendez said that her Director General and Secretary of State for Economy have not yet been able to discuss this matter with t [...]	2004-05-21 10:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN IZ PREL SP
04MADRID1861	MEETING WITH MFA'S DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR EUROPE AND [...] (C) PolCouns and poloff paid an initial call May 17 with the MFA's newly-named Director General for Europe and North America, former Spanish Ambassador to Denmark and Lithuania Josep (Pepe) Pons. Previously, the Directorate General for North America had been combined with the Asia portfolio, [...]	2004-05-21 10:56:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP NATO
04MADRID1864	MFA'S NEW POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, [...] (C) MFA Political director Rafael Dezcallar told Polcouns in a May 20 meeting that Spain wanted to be helpful on Afghanistan but likely would have to determine whether resources would be available. He indicated the GOS likely would not be able to meet all of the requests the USG has present [...]	2004-05-21 13:29:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP NATO
04MADRID1867	SPAIN: DCM WITH SPANISH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary: DCM Manzanares met with Spanish President Zapatero's national security advisor Carles Casajuana May 20 to brief him on our request for increased Spanish support for ISAF, urge the GOS to vote in favor of the UNSC ICC rollover resolution and share USG's initial thoughts on the UN [...]	2004-05-21 13:31:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SP NATO
04MADRID1870	SPAIN: ZAPATERO'S CHIEF OF STAFF ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: DCM Manzanares met May 18 with Jose Enrique Serrano, President Zapatero's chief of staff. Serrano said the Zapatero government planned to maintain the same excellent relations other Spanish governments have had with the U.S. since the administration of Socialist president Felip [...]	2004-05-21 14:47:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP NATO
04MADRID1871	NEA A/S BURNS IN MADRID [...] (C) NEA A/S William Burns paid a five-hour visit to Madrid May 18, meeting with President Zapatero's new National Security Advisor, Carlos Casajuana, and the new Deputy Foreign Minister, Bernardino Leon. The Spanish expressed a desire to work with the US on such issues as encouraging better [...]	2004-05-24 11:47:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL SP MO AG IZ
04MADRID1945	SPAIN SUPPORTS RUSSIA IN PSI CORE GROUP AND WILL [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-26 15:28:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC OPDC PARM PREL
04MADRID1954	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. NAME: NASSAR, MUSTAFA SITMIRYAM - AKA: "ABU MUS'AB AL-SURI" - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: 1956, SYRIA - CLASS: POSITIVE (UNDER DIFFERENT POB) - [...]	2004-05-27 07:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID1955	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. NAME: BELHADJ, YOUSEFF - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: MAY 27, 1976, TOUZINE, MOROCCO - CLASS: NEGATIVE - BROTHER OF MOHAMMED BELHADJ WHO WAS ARRESTED BY [...]	2004-05-27 07:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID1956	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED NOUREDDINE BOUHABILA ASSOCIATE OF ISLAMIC EXTREMIST KHALAD ABIDI, AKA "ABBAS", WHO WAS FORMERLY BASED IN BARCELONA, SPAIN. BOUHABIL [...]	2004-05-27 07:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID1997	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS ARE BELIEVED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MAHDJOUB-ZERROUG TERRORIST NETWORK IN SPAIN. 3. NAME: ZENIMI, REDOUANE - AKA: " [...]	2004-05-28 15:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2006	SPAIN: ZAPATERO'S CHIEF OF STAFF ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: DCM Manzanares met May 18 with Jose Enrique Serrano, President Zapatero's chief of staff. Serrano said the Zapatero government planned to maintain the same excellent relations other Spanish governments have had with the U.S. since the administration of Socialist president Felip [...]	2004-06-01 07:02:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP NATO
04MADRID2039	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON MAY 6, 2004, SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED SAED EL HARRAK FOR POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT IN THE MARCH 11, 2004 TERRORIST TRAIN BOMBINGS IN MADRID, SPAIN. DAILY PRESS [...]	2004-06-02 10:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP EL
04MADRID2040	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON FEBRUARY 22, 2004, THE SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED THE ALGERIAN SUSPECTED TERRORIST LARBI BEN AHMED ALLAG. 3. NAME: ALLAG, LARBI BEN AHMED - AKA: BOU [...]	2004-06-02 10:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2041	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. THE FOLLOWING ARE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS MEMBERS OF SPAIN-BASED NETWORK LED BY EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC RADICAL SOUGHT IN CONNECTION WITH MARCH 11, 2004 ATTACKS IN S [...]	2004-06-02 10:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL EL

04MADRID2042	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON FEBRUARY 22, 2004, THE SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED THE ALGERIAN SUSPECTED TERRORIST LARBI BEN AHMED ALLAG. 3. NAME: ALLAG, LARBI BEN AHMED - AKA: BOU [...]	2004-06-02 10:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2043	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. THE FOLLOWING ARE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS MEMBERS OF SPAIN-BASED NETWORK LED BY EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC RADICAL SOUGHT IN CONNECTION WITH MARCH 11, 2004 ATTACKS IN S [...]	2004-06-02 10:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL EL
04MADRID2085	VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY04 - MAY [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON MAY 3 and 17, 2004, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP. 2. DURING THE MONTH OF MAY 2004, MADRID SUBMITTED ELEVEN VISAS VIPER CABLES IDENTIFYING TWENTY TWO INDIVIDUALS, THREE SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ETA AND NINETEEN SUSPE [...]	2004-06-04 09:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID2096	SPAIN: VIEWS ON IRAQ RESOLUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY Spanish MFA Political Director Dezcallar, who now has overall Iraq responsibility in the MFA, told us June 3 that Spain appreciated the constructive and positive attitude evident in the US-UK revised text. He said Spanish President Zapatero personally had instructed Spanish UN P [...]	2004-06-04 15:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID2101	SPAIN-SYRIA: ASAD VISIT TO MADRID [...] (C) Summary: Spanish MFA Political Director Dezcallar told us that Syrian President Asad during his June 1-2 visit to Madrid indicated he was fully willing to "go all the way8 with Israel to achieve peace ) but on the basis of the return of all Syrian territory. However, the Syrians said [...]	2004-06-04 16:34:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID2136	SPAIN'S ZAPATERO: STILL IN CAMPAIGN MODE [...] (C) Summary: Almost three months after his electoral victory and a month and a half after formally taking office, Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his Spanish Socialist Worker's Party (PSOE) remain in campaign mode, intensely focused on winning a decisive victory for Spanis [...]	2004-06-07 15:57:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID2144	SPANISH EU ELECTIONS - LOOKING FOR AFFIRMATION OR [...] (C) The Spanish political scene is now focused on the June 13 European Parliamentary elections. Because of EU enlargement, Spain will elect 54 members, down from the 64 seats it received in 1999. With the EU elections coming only three months after the surprising March general elections, the [...]	2004-06-08 12:32:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SP EUN PSOE
04MADRID2163	SPAIN AND UNSC IRAQ RESOLUTION: PROMISE OF [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM met June 8 with Spanish Foreign Minister Moratinos to press him not only for a yes vote on the UNSCR on Iraq, but a strong, positive explanation of the vote that also included clear support for the Iraqi Interim Government (IIG). As he had said publicly to the press, M [...]	2004-06-08 17:01:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ SP UNSC
04MADRID2164	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO SEVILLE, SOCIALIST HEARTLAND [...] (SBU) During the Ambassador's June 3 visit to Seville, Andalusia Region President Manuel Chaves told him that Spanish President Zapatero seeks "normal, strong" relations with the US despite Zapatero's rapid withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq. Chaves, a long-time Socialist party "boss," [...]	2004-06-09 09:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL ECON SP MO
04MADRID2180	EU EXPANSION AMBASSADOR: PRO-TURKEY, DOUBTFUL ON [...] (C) We met with Ambassador Jorge Fuentes, MFA Ambassador on Special Mission for EU Enlargement, on May 28 to discuss Spanish foreign policy inside the EU and the GOS's view on further enlargement. Fuentes agreed with our assessment that with the EU Parliamentary elections coming so soon after [...]	2004-06-09 15:50:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU SP EUN
04MADRID2181	SPANISH DEFENSE MINISTER PREVIEWS POSSIBLE [...] (C) Ambassador Argyros, accompanied by DCM and PolCouns, met June 8 with Spanish Defense Minister Jose Bono to reinforce NATO's and the USG's requests for Spanish support in augmenting ISAF and coalition operations in Afghanistan. As Bono's schedule permitted this meeting only several weeks [...]	2004-06-09 16:20:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID2201	SPANISH RESPONSE TO JUNE 14-15 EU FMS MEETING [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on June 10 to Enrique Mora, Director of the MFA's Office of EU Foreign Policy and Common Security. On general questions regarding the EU Constitution, Mora said he thought the EU Constitution would be approved by June 25. He said the double majority populatio [...]	2004-06-10 15:49:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP EUR
04MADRID2205	SPAIN: POSITIVE ABOUT U.S. VIEWS ON IRAN/IAEA [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-13 10:48:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY SP
04MADRID2206	SPAIN AGREES ON U.S VIEWS TO STRENGTHEN IAEA [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-13 10:48:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY SP
04MADRID2210	SPANISH EU ELECTIONS: SOUR VICTORY, SWEET DEFEAT [...] (U) The Socialist Party (PSOE) won Spain's EU Parliamentary elections on June 13, but by a smaller margin than expected, 43% to 41%. The two-point difference offers something positive to both major parties, though the Popular Party probably comes away with the moral victory. The Socialists w [...]	2004-06-14 11:06:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP PSOE
04MADRID2215	AZNAR KEPT UNDER WRAPS IN EU PARLIAMENT ELECTION [...] (C) Jose Maria Aznar did not participate in the Popular Party's campaign for the June 13 EU parliamentary election. With the Socialists making the war in Iraq and distancing Spanish foreign policy from the US their central campaign issues, Popular Party leaders decided that Aznar was too radioactiv [...]	2004-06-14 12:17:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SP
04MADRID2217	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMB THOMAS E. MCNAMARA [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Thomas E. McNamara, Senior Advisor for UN Counter-Terrorism matters, to travel to Madrid June 14-16 for discussions with government officials. 2. Embassy Control Officer is Political Officer Colin Cleary who can be reached at wor [...]	2004-06-14 14:31:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PTER PREL SP
04MADRID2230	SPANISH DEPUTY FM CONFIRMS INCREASED AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Spanish Deputy Foreign Minister Bernardino Leon apologized to Charge June 14 on behalf of the Spanish government for negative remarks the Spanish first vice president made about Secretary Rumsfeld June 4. Leon also confirmed Spain will increase its participation in Afghanistan [...]	2004-06-14 17:44:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS IZ SP UNSC KICC
04MADRID2236	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF JUNE 9, 2004 AND SUBSEQUENT DAYS REPORTED THAT THE ITALIAN POLICE ARRESTED THE ALLEGED RADICAL ISLAMIST RABEI OSMAN SAYED AHMED, ALI [...]	2004-06-15 10:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2277	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. NAME: HAMOUYA, MOURAD - AKA: MALKI - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: UNKNOWN, MOROCCO - CLASS: NEGATIVE - INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST RELATES THA [...]	2004-06-17 06:38:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2278	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ACCORDING TO INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST, ON JUNE 1, 2004, SPANISH AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATING THE 11 MARCH 2004 TERRORIST ATTACKS IN MADRID, SPAIN, DETAI [...]	2004-06-17 06:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2279	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ACCORDING TO CBP REPORTING, ON MAY 26, 2004, AT GEORGE BUSH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TEXAS, ALVARO BORRAS COMPDERA ARRIVED FROM MEXICO CITY, PRESENTED A SPANISH [...]	2004-06-17 06:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2280	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS ARE UNDER INVESTIGATION BY SPANISH AUTHORITIES FOR POSSIBLE LINKS TO TERRORISM DUE TO THEIR SUSPECTED ASSOCIATION WITH "ANSAR AL- [...]	2004-06-17 06:40:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP EL
04MADRID2281	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST INDICATES THAT AFTER THE 11 MARCH 2004 TERRORIST BOMBINGS IN MADRID, SPAIN, IN THE SCOPE OF THE UNIT OF ANTITERRORISM COO [...]	2004-06-17 06:40:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2341	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. IN APRIL 2004, A MOROCCAN GOVERNMENT SERVICE PROVIDED BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON SOME OF THE 11 MARCH 2004 MADRID BOMBING SUSPECTS AND ASSOCIATES AS FOLLOWS: [...]	2004-06-21 15:07:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2342	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. FOLLOWING IS THE STATUS OF SPANISH INVESTIGATION OF SUSPECT BARCELONA-BASED TERRORIST CELL. AS OF EARLY JUNE 2004, POST HAS RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM THE [...]	2004-06-21 15:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2343	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS ARE BELIEVED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE RECENTLY ARRESTED IN MILAN, ISLAMIC EXTREMIST RABEI OSMAN EL SAYED AHMED, ALIAS: "MOHAMED [...]	2004-06-21 15:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2369	BLOOMFIELD DELEGATION UPDATES SPANISH ON GLOBAL [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Lincoln Bloomfield and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy Andrew Hoehn briefed GOS officials June 15 on the latest USG thinking on the global defense posture review (GDPR) and its possible impact on Spai [...]	2004-06-23 10:36:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID2398	SPAIN: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UNEP'S STRATEGIC [...] We shared reftel points with Ana Paredes, MFA Subdirector General for International Technical Organizations and Amparo Ramblas, Deputy Director for International Relations, Ministry of Environment. 2. Paredes responded that she has not heard of any proposed plan that would require the UNE [...]	2004-06-24 15:00:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PREL SENV SP
04MADRID2416	SPANISH RESPONSE: MAINTAINING THE EU ARMS EMBARGO [...] (C) Summary: Spain continues to say that they believe the human rights situation in China is improving and that the EU arms embargo no longer makes sense. (Note: In our various approaches to senior levels of the previous government, we received a similar response.) Spain believes that it is i [...]	2004-06-25 15:44:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR CH TW SP EUN
04MADRID2417	SPANISH UNDECIDED ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff discussed reftel points June 24 with Marcos Rodriguez in the MFA's Office of International Disarmament Affairs. Poloff delivered the demarche jointly with Enrico Vencenti, political counselor at the Italian Embassy and Peter Spoor, first secretary political officer at t [...]	2004-06-25 17:05:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL SP CWC
04MADRID2440	SPAIN: AMBASSADOR PAYS COURTESY CALL ON INTERIOR [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by DCM, paid a courtesy call June 24 on Minister of Interior Jose Antonio Alonso. Ambassador thanked Alonso for all the support Embassy has received on various security issues and commented on the outreach already made by Alonso with his U.S. counterpart (Alonso ha [...]	2004-06-29 11:15:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER SP
04MADRID2443	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON JUNE 11, 2004, PORTUGUESE AUTHORITIES ARRESTED THE FOLLOWING MOROCCAN NATIONALS IN PORTO, PORTUGAL, ON SUSPICION OF PLANNING A TERRORIST ATTACK. THE GROUP [...]	2004-06-29 11:31:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP EL
04MADRID2477	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] THIS IS A REPEAT OF MADRID 002443. MADRID INADVERTENTLY OMITTED CLASS RESULTS FOR SUSPECTS. POST REGRETS INCONVENIENCE. 2. POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 3. ON JUNE 11, 2004, PORTUGUES [...]	2004-07-01 08:32:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP EL
04MADRID2478	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. AS OF LATE JUNE 2004, SPANISH AUTHORITIES WERE INVESTIGATING WHAT THEY CONSIDERED ALERTING BEHAVIOR BY MOROCCAN CITIZEN SAMIR EL MOKHTAR. MOKHTAR WAS IMPLI [...]	2004-07-01 08:32:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP EL
04MADRID2479	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. IN LATE APRIL 2004 A PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT SERVICE WAS INVESTIGATING INDIVIDUALS SUSPECTED OF POSING A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY. THEY HAD DISCOVERED ME [...]	2004-07-01 08:32:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL ALI
04MADRID2480	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON THE EVENING OF JUNE 20, 2004, THE SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE (SNP),ARRESTED ALGERIAN CITIZEN REDA ZERROUGH, DPOB: DEC. 5, 1967, ALGERIA, AT ALICANTE AIRPOR [...]	2004-07-01 08:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID2481	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. FOLLOWING ARE ADDITIONAL DETAILS OBTAINED BY SPANISH AUTHORITIES ON INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED WITH SUSPECT TERRORIST RABI' OSMAN EL SAYED AHMED, RECENTLY ARRE [...]	2004-07-01 08:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL EL
04MADRID2482	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY "EL PAIS" OF JUNE 10, 2004, REPORTED THAT FRENCH AUTHORITIES EXTRADITED THE ETA MEMBER, JUAN LUIS AGUIRRE LETE TO SPAIN, AFTER SERVING A SENTENCE IN F [...]	2004-07-01 08:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2483	SPAIN - BIOGRAPHIES ON MFA DIRECTORS GENERAL [...] (U) This cable provides biographies on new directors general in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI, Spain's equivalent of USAID). GOS directors general are roughly equivalent to State Department assistant secretaries; AECI directors gen [...]	2004-07-01 08:34:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL EAID SP PSOE
04MADRID2484	OPERATION BALKAN VICE IV: SPAIN [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Alvaro Rodriguez, MFA Director for Central and Southern Europe on June 30. Rodriguez stated that he would pass along our information to his MFA colleagues in Brussels, as he believed that there would be a meeting of the EU's Western Balkan Working Group on M [...]	2004-07-01 09:28:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC KAWC SP ICTY
04MADRID2487	SPAIN AGREES TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-01 10:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL SP CWC
04MADRID2488	SPAIN: STILL REVIEWING PSI INFORMATION SHARING [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-01 14:51:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL SP
04MADRID2492	SPAIN: LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III WAIVER REVIEW [...] (C) Summary: The previous Spanish government under President Jose Maria Aznar was long in the forefront within the EU and on its own in criticizing Cuban human rights abuses, lack of movement toward democracy and absence of fundamental rights for Cuban citizens. The current government under Sociali [...]	2004-07-01 16:39:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	CU ETTC PREL PHUM SP
04MADRID2518	HAITI DEMARCHE FOR BUDGET SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-02 11:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN PREL
04MADRID2528	SPAIN: LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW CLARIFICATION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-02 15:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC PREL CU SP
04MADRID2529	SPAIN: ZAPATERO GOVERNMENT AUTHORIZES AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: The Zapatero government's Council of Ministers approved July 2 a substantial increase in Spain's presence in Afghanistan. Zapatero will put the contribution to a parliamentary vote Tuesday, July 6. We expect parliament to approve the contribution. The GOS has proposed to incr [...]	2004-07-02 16:28:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER SP
04MADRID2530	SPAIN: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Popular Party leader Mariano Rajoy, meeting with the Ambassador June 30, was upbeat about the PP's showing in the June European Parliament elections and in the party's prospects to regain power. Rajoy upbraided the Zapatero government for causing strains with Washington and for [...]	2004-07-02 16:51:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID2534	TERRORIST FINANCE: ITALIAN NAMES - LIST 59 [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-06 09:54:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSEP KVPR ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS
04MADRID2544	VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY04 - JUNE [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON JUNE 7 AND 28, 2004, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP. 2. DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE 2004, MADRID SUBMITTED FIFTEEN VISAS VIPER CABLES IDENTIFYING FIFTY-SEVEN INDIVIDUALS, EIGHT SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ETA AND FORTY- NIN [...]	2004-07-06 11:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID2558	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. AS OF EARLY JUNE 2004, RAY MOHAMED, AKA MOURAD, WAS ARRESTED ON JUNE 8, 2004 BY THE BELGIAN FEDERAL POLICE FOR HIS CONTACTS WITH RABI' OSMAN EL-SAYED AHMED, [...]	2004-07-07 06:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID2560	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. AS OF LATE JUNE 2004, FOUR ADDITIONAL INDIVIDUALS WERE BELIEVED TO BE POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED WITH PREVIOUSLY BARCELONA-BASED SUSPECT AL-QAEDA ASSOCIATE KHALAD [...]	2004-07-07 06:52:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL MIAH
04MADRID2579	SPANISH PARLIAMENT OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVES [...] (C) Summary: The Spanish Parliament overwhelmingly approved July 6 President Zapatero's proposal to increase substantially Spain's troop presence in Afghanistan. The vote was 302 in favor, 10 against and 1 abstention. Only the former communist United Left party and several obscure parties [...]	2004-07-08 06:43:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS SP NATO
04MADRID2586	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. AS OF LATE JUNE 2004, THE NORTH AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS LISTED BELOW WERE BELIEVED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE NETHERLANDS SUSPECTED TERRORIST CELL MEMBER OR DUTCH [...]	2004-07-08 10:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL EL
04MADRID2587	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY "EL PAIS" REPORTED THAT SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED THE ALGERIAN CITIZEN NASREDDINE BOUSBAA ON JULY 1, 2004. HE IS ACCUSED OF FORGERY OF OFFICIAL DOCUMEN [...]	2004-07-08 10:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2602	VP SOLBES SAYS BUSINESS RELATIONS WITH U.S. CRUCIAL [...] SUMMARY: AT a June 24 Embassy-hosted lunch, Second Vice President and Minister for Economy and Finance Solbes said the new Spanish Administration wants to foster U.S.-Spanish business relations. He reiterated his intention to retain budget stability and increase productivity while devolving [...]	2004-07-08 14:38:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EFIN PREL SP
04MADRID2618	SPANISH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON JULY 12-13 EU FMS [...] (C) Summary: Spain sees the EU-ASEM summit in danger over the insistence of Asian nations to include Burma as a full member. The GOS supports the opening of an EC office in Baghdad and stresses the importance of holding at least one of the two planned elections in Afghanistan this Fall. On t [...]	2004-07-09 14:50:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP EUN
04MADRID2619	SPANISH RESPONSE: RESPECTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN SYRIA [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on July 6 to Enrique Mora, Director of the MFA's Office of EU Foreign Policy and Common Security. Mora was not able to give an immediate reaction, but later spoke to Poloff on July 9. He stated that Spain and the EU share the general concern with the USG rega [...]	2004-07-09 14:51:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SY SP
04MADRID2625	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST INDICATES BRITISH AUTHORITIES DETAINED ON JUL 6, 2004, THE FORMER BARCELONA-BASED EXTREMIST FILALI OUALI AKA: ABDORRAHMAN [...]	2004-07-12 11:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL OUALI
04MADRID2626	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST INDICATES THAT AS OF EARLY JULY 2004, MOROCCAN NATIONAL BOUCHRA BEN ABDELLAH WAS SUSPECTED OF ENGAGING IN ISLAMIC EXTREMIST [...]	2004-07-12 11:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL BEN
04MADRID2627	SPAIN-UK: GIBRALTAR VISIT BY UK NUCLEAR SUB [...] (U) The visit by the British nuclear submarine HMS Tireless to Gibraltar has provoked acute tension within the GOS towards Britain. The HMS Tireless, which arrived the morning of July 9, originally sparked controversy in May 2000 when it docked at Gibraltar for repairs after developing a crac [...]	2004-07-12 13:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID2636	SPAIN SUPPORTS EU PRESSURE ON DARFUR, INCREASES AID [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA desk officer for sub-Saharan Africa Nuria Reigosa and the Spanish Agency for International Development Secretary General,s Head of Cabinet Francisco Javier Jimenez de Gregorio regarding the imminent crisis in Darfur. Reigosa told us that at the July 12 [...]	2004-07-12 15:48:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EAID SP UNSC
04MADRID2659	SPAIN: NEW "APPROACH" ON WESTERN SAHARA; VIEWS ON [...] (C) The GOS is pursuing a new "approach" to resolve the crisis in the Western Sahara but its elements remain unclear, according to the newly appointed MFA Director General for the Mediterranean, Near East, and Africa, Alvaro Iranzo. The Spanish Deputy Foreign Minister is in the process of di [...]	2004-07-14 13:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MO WI SU SP USUN
04MADRID2660	SPAIN SUPPORTS PROPOSED UNSC RESOLUTION ON SUDAN [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-14 13:17:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SU SP UNSC
04MADRID2670	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST INDICATES THAT AS OF MID-APRIL 2004, TWO INDIVIDUALS, REFERRED TO AS AL QAEDA MEMBERS, WERE IN MAICAO, COLOMBIA, TO OBTAIN [...]	2004-07-14 13:55:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID2671	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. OVER SEVERAL DAYS IN EARLY-TO-MID JUNE 2004, THE SPANISH GUARDIA CIVIL DETAINED NINE SPANISH NATIONALS FOR THEIR ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN THE ACQUISITION, TR [...]	2004-07-14 13:56:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2679	IRAQI ASSETS: LISTING OF INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-14 15:55:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PREL IZ SP UNSC
04MADRID2688	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON THE MORNING OF JULY 12, 2004, THE SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE (SNP) ARRESTED MARCH 11 MADRID BOMBING SUSPECT AND SPANISH CITIZEN, ABDERRAHMAN HAMMADI AFANDI. [...]	2004-07-15 07:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2689	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. POST RECEIVED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON ASSOCIATES OF FORMER BARCELONA-BASED ALGERIAN NATIONAL AND SUSPECT TERRRORIST KHALAD ABIDI, AKA: ABBAS 3. NAME: [...]	2004-07-15 07:04:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID2692	SPANISH RESPONSE TO CUBAN RESOLUTION IN ECOSOC [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-15 08:54:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SP
04MADRID2693	SPAIN:ICJ ADVISORY OPINION ON ISRAELI SECURITY [...] (C) We delivered reftel A demarche to Juan Manuel Linares, MFA Deputy DG for UN Affairs, on July 13 and to Alberto Moreno, MFA Deputy DG for Middle East Affairs, on July 14. Both stated that they could not commit to a position on the proposed UNGA resolution, as the EU had not yet decided on a [...]	2004-07-15 08:54:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS SP ICJ UNGA
04MADRID2700	SPAIN AND CUBAN OUTREACH [...] (C) Ref A sought post's view on the likelihood the GOS or Spanish NGOs would participate in outreach to Cuban civil society to pressure the Castro government to hasten democratic transition on the island. We discussed Cuba with new MFA Director General for Latin America Sandomingo (Ref B). [...]	2004-07-15 15:15:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU SP
04MADRID2708	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON JULY 14, 2004, FRENCH POLICE ARRESTED TWO SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION ETA. THE POLICE GAVE CHASE TO THE SUSPECTS AFTER THEY DROVE TH [...]	2004-07-15 16:09:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2712	SPAIN: GUANTANAMO DETAINEE RELEASED ON BAIL [...] (C) Legat and other agencies have met and consulted at length on the release on bail July 13 of Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed. While there is disappointment within the rank and file of the Spanish National Police, they emphasize that it was a provisional release on bail. Prosecutorial Magistrate [...]	2004-07-16 07:05:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KJUS PGOV SP
04MADRID2724	SPAIN: ASSISTANCE TO HAITI [...] We delivered ref A&B demarches July 15 to Manuel de la Iglesia, Chief of Cabinet to the Secretary of State for International Cooperation, and Francisco Javier Jimenez de Gregorio, Chief of Cabinet to the Secretary General of the Spanish Agency for International Development. Spain's total assi [...]	2004-07-16 15:40:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN PREL HA SP
04MADRID2745	SPAIN: ASSISTANCE TO HAITI (CORRECTED COPY) [...] We delivered ref A&B demarches July 15 to Manuel de la Iglesia, Chief of Cabinet to the Secretary of State for International Cooperation, and Francisco Javier Jimenez de Gregorio, Chief of Cabinet to the Secretary General of the Spanish Agency for International Development. Spain's total assi [...]	2004-07-19 16:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN PREL HA SP
04MADRID2800	SPAIN: DEMARCHE ON IRAN'S MILITARY PROCUREMENT [...] (S) Summary: The Spanish MFA told us it was unaware that Spanish firms have been involved in Iran's attempt to procure military and electronic equipment, according to officials in the Office of International Affairs of Disarmament. Such attempts would put Spanish business interests at odds [...]	2004-07-22 16:28:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PARM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS IR SP
04MADRID2804	SPAIN: LETTER FROM SECRETARY POWELL TO FM [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-23 08:24:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP ODPC
04MADRID2844	SPAIN SUPPORTS REVISED DRAFT UNSC RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-26 13:47:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SU SP UNSC
04MADRID2852	SPAIN: TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF CIRA AS [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche July 15 to Luis Felipe Fernandez de la Pena, Special Ambassador for Counterterrorism, and Juan Antonio Aliaga Mendez, the Ministry of Economy's Deputy Director for Inspection and Control of Capital Movements. In a July 22 meeting, Desk Officer Miguel Garcia- [...]	2004-07-27 08:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KSEP KVPR KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS SP EUN
04MADRID2877	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-28 11:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2916	MUSLIM OUTREACH WORLDWIDE [...] Embassy Madrid welcomes this Muslim Outreach initiative and provides the following information about our outreach efforts: 2. Brief Context for Muslim Outreach efforts in Spain: An estimated 500,000 to one million Muslims live in Spain. Almost all are of foreign origin, with only about 3, [...]	2004-07-30 15:30:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KDEM OIIP PREL EAID PHUM PGOV EUN OEXC SP
04MADRID2936	SPAIN: RESPONSE TO PSI INFORMATION SHARING REQUEST [...] (C) Spain concurs with the PSI proposal to share information with non-member countries, but Spanish defense officials continue to question its operational aspects and lessons learned. End Summary. 2. (C) Over the past few months, we have met with Marcos Rodriguez in the Office of Interna [...]	2004-08-03 05:56:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL SP
04MADRID2937	SPAIN MEGAPORTS MOA SIGNING AWAITING LEGAL COUNSEL [...] (SBU) Summary: We accompanied Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Administrator Paul Longsworth and William Kilmartin of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation to meetings with the director of Spanish Customs and the president of the Por [...]	2004-08-03 07:13:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL SP
04MADRID2955	SPANISH POSITION ON UNSC AND ICJ ADVISORY OPINION [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Juan Manuel Gonzalez de Linares, MFA Deputy Director General of UN Affairs, on August 2. Gonzalez de Linares stated that Spain will wait and see what the General Assembly presents to the Security Council before taking a definitive position, adding that, a [...]	2004-08-03 14:32:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS SP ICJ UNGA
04MADRID2958	USOAS AMBASSADOR'S MEETING ON LATIN AMERICA [...] (C) Summary: In his July 29 meeting in Madrid with Spanish MFA Director General Sandomingo, USOAS Ambassador Maisto urged Spain to send observers to the Venezuelan referendum and to remain firm on Cuba. Maisto thanked the GOS for its decision to send police/troops to Haiti with a Moroccan [...]	2004-08-03 15:31:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID2961	SPANISH POSITION ON UNSC 1540 IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) Summary. We delivered reftel demarch to Juan Manuel Gonzalez de Linares, MFA Deputy Director Genral of UN Affairs, and Enrique de Yturriaga, Special Assistant to the Director General of the Coordination Unit for Spain's Participation in the UNSC, on August 2. Gonzalez de Linares and Yt [...]	2004-08-03 15:34:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PK SP UNSC
04MADRID2964	SPAIN UNDETERRED BY FAHIM'S REMOVAL FROM VICE [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-04 06:14:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AF SP
04MADRID2965	SPAIN QUESTIONS EFFECTIVENESS OF REMOVING CAVEATS [...] (C) Spain is reviewing restrictions it may have placed on Spanish forces that are participating in KFOR but would prefer to help strengthen Kosovo police forces to improve KFOR's effectiveness, according to Kosovo specialists at the Spanish Foreign Ministry. Following the outbreak of violence [...]	2004-08-04 12:26:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL YI SP NATO
04MADRID2966	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION OBTAINED AT THIS POST INDICATES JORDANIAN NATIONAL OMAR QASEM RADWAN AL SHABOUL, WAS LIVING IN SPAIN AND WAS IN CONTACT WITH AT LEAST TWO KEY S [...]	2004-08-04 12:30:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP AL
04MADRID2967	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED AT THIS POST INDICATES THAT AS OF LATE JULY 2004, THE SEVENTH BODY FOUND IN THE APARTMENT IN LEGANES, A SUBURB IN THE OUSKIRTS OF MADRI [...]	2004-08-04 12:31:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID2977	SPAIN NOTIFIED OF US INTEREST IN SPANISH OSCE [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche concerning Spain's candidacy for the 2007 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to Maria Victoria Scola Pliego, MFA Special Representative for OSCE issues, on August 4. Scola Pliego was encouraged by the U.S. position [...]	2004-08-05 08:08:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP OSCE
04MADRID2991	SPAIN ON HOSTAGE TAKING AND MURDER IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-06 14:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER IZ SP
04MADRID2992	SPAIN LOOKS TO SYRIA RELATIONS AND UNSC ROLE TO [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-06 14:28:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PREL PTER IZ SY SP
04MADRID3007	VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY04 - JULY [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON JULY 13 AND 28, 2004, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP. 2. DURING THE MONTH OF JULY 2004, MADRID SUBMITTED EIGHTEEN VISAS VIPER CABLES IDENTIFYING SEVENTY-FOUR INDIVIDUALS, THREE SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ETA AND SEVENTY- [...]	2004-08-06 15:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID3023	U.S. NOTE VERBALE AND TALKING POINTS DELIVERED ON [...] (U) We delivered ref A U.S. note verbale and ref B talking points on UN General Assembly Resolution 58/41 regarding improvement of the effectiveness of the methods of work of the First Committee to Juan Manuel Gonzalez de Linares, MFA Deputy Director General for UN Affairs, on August 10. Go [...]	2004-08-10 14:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PARM PREL SP CDG UNGA
04MADRID3034	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DAILY "EL PAIS" OF JUNE 30, 2004 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE ARRESTED SEMAAN GABY EID ON JULY 28, 2004, FOR HIS ALLEGED PARTICIPATION IN [...]	2004-08-10 15:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SEMAAN GABY EID
04MADRID3052	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. AS OF MID-JULY 2004, THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS ARE BELIVED TO BE POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED WITH PREVIOUSLY BARCELONA-BASED AL QAEDA SUSPECT KHALED ABIDI, WHO WAS [...]	2004-08-10 15:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID3066	SPAIN/EU SUPPORT FOR THE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Following up on USOAS Ambassador Maisto's strong pitch to the GOS on the Venezuelan presidential referendum (ref a),Poloff delivered ref b points on August 10 to Javier Ignacio Martinez del Barrio, Technical Advisor to the Deputy Director for Countries within the Andean Community. Martin [...]	2004-08-11 10:53:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE KPAO SP
04MADRID3074	SPAIN: MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-11 15:23:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MD SP

04MADRID3075	SPANISH MFA ISSUES STRONG STATEMENT CONDEMNING [...] On August 5 we demarched the Spanish Foreign Ministry (MFA) encouraging Spain to make a strong statement condemning hostage taking and murder in Iraq (reftel). Assistant Secretary Burns raised the issue with Foreign Minister SIPDIS Moratinos August 8, and Moratinos requested a copy of Amb [...]	2004-08-11 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER IZ SP KPOA
04MADRID3077	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF AUG. 7, 2004 REPORTED THAT THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE SPANISH COUNTERTERRORISM POLICE AS THE SUSPECTED ME [...]	2004-08-12 11:46:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID3079	SPAIN REQUEST FOR USNATO MULTI-COUNTRY TOUR FOR FY- [...] IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL REQUEST, MADRID WOULD LIKE TO RESERVE SPACE FOR TWO SPANISH PARTICIPANTS FOR EACH OF THE FOLLOWING MULTI-COUNTRY TOURS: - SFOR - ISTANBUL COOPERATION INITIATIVE - NATO'S OUT-OF-AREA OPERATIONS 2. POST WILL PROVIDE SPECIFIC NOMINATIONS SEPTEL, IN EARLY TO [...]	2004-08-12 11:49:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL SCUL SP NATO
04MADRID3080	SPAIN ENCOURAGED BY US SUPPORT FOR WEOG ROTATION [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel talking points and Secretary of State Colin Powell's letter regarding US support for Western European and Others Group (WEOG) rotation for the UN Commission on Human Rights (CHR) membership to Gonzalo Alvarez Garrido, Acting MFA Deputy Director General for UN Affa [...]	2004-08-12 11:50:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PHUM PREL SP
04MADRID3103	SPAIN: GLOBAL DEFENSE POSTURE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-13 12:53:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAO SP NATO
04MADRID3118	SPAIN: FURTHER REACTION TO GLOBAL DEFENSE POSTURE [...] (C) Following up on ref A demarche and ref B reporting cable concerning U.S. Global Defense Posture Review (GDPR),we delivered the demarche August 15 to General Felix Sanz, the Spanish Armed Forces' Chief of Defense, and Admiral Francisco Torrente, Secretary General for Defense Policy at the [...]	2004-08-15 17:18:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAO SP NATO
04MADRID3126	SPAIN WILL SEND MORATINOS TO OSCE CONFERENCE ON [...] (U) The Spanish MFA has told us that Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will be leading the Spanish delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Conference on Racism, Xenophobia, and Discrimination in Brussels on September 13-14. Alvaro Rodriguez Alvarez, [...]	2004-08-18 11:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM SP OSCE
04MADRID3210	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF AUG. 21 AND SUBSEQUENT DAYS REPORTED THAT BASED ON THE INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED BY THE SPANISH SCIENTIFIC POLICE, THE SPANISH N [...]	2004-08-26 13:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID3212	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY "EL PAIS" OF AUG. 21, 2004 REPORTED THAT THE DUTCH MINISTRY OF JUSTICE AUTHORIZED THE HANDOVER OF THE SUSPECTED TERRORIST, KHALID BOULOUDO, A 29 YEAR [...]	2004-08-26 13:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID3232	MORATINOS AGREES WITH US POSITION FOR WEOG [...] (C) Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos agrees with US efforts to reach a rotation agreement within WEOG to occupy the posts assigned in the Human Rights Commission. Poloff received the text of Moratinos' response to Secretary of State Colin Powell's August 11 letter (Ref A) fro [...]	2004-08-27 11:05:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PHUM PREL SP
04MADRID3255	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. DELEGATION TO [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to the U.S. Delegation to Second World Urban Forum including Simmons, Panehal, Carlson, Lord, Freedman and Glenn with USAID; Shea, Sorzano and Lam with HUD; Parcher with the U.S. Geological Survey; Hirsch with the Smithsonian Institute; and Swaney [...]	2004-08-27 15:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL SP
04MADRID3600	A MID-TERM LOOK AT SPAIN'S SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff discussed Spain's Security Council September presidency with Juan Manuel Gonzalez de Linares, MFA Deputy Director of United Nations Affairs, and Enrique de Yturriaga Saldanha, MFA head of UNSC Issues. Both stressed that Spain has tried to be an "honest broker" as the hea [...]	2004-09-21 06:09:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP UNSC UN
04MADRID3605	A MID-TERM LOOK AT SPAIN'S SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff discussed Spain's Security Council September presidency with Juan Manuel Gonzalez de Linares, MFA Deputy Director of United Nations Affairs, and Enrique de Yturriaga Saldanha, MFA head of UNSC Issues. Both stressed that Spain has tried to be an "honest broker" as the hea [...]	2004-09-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP UNSC
04MADRID3625	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER AT POST [...] (SBU) Information provided below is keyed to ref A's para. 5. 2. (SBU) DCM Robert Manzanares serves as Terrorism Finance Coordinator (TFCO). Phone number: 34 - 91 587 2205. E-mail: ManzanaresB@state.gov 3. (SBU) Economic Officer Carl Schonander serves as Deputy Terrorism Finance Coor [...]	2004-09-21 15:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL SP
04MADRID3639	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS. 2. SPANISH DAILY "EL PAIS" OF SEP. 20, 2004 REPORTED THAT FRENCH POLICE ARRESTED TWO SUSPECTED ETA TERRORISTS IN A POLICE ROAD BLOCK IN MONTAUBAN, FRANCE. THE INDIVIDUALS WERE ARMED AND DRIVING A S [...]	2004-09-23 09:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID3644	SPANISH GOVERNMENT STRONGLY SUPPORTS NEW [...] Summary: In a delayed response to ref A demarche, Technical Advisor Manuel Alhama Orenes in the Cabinet of Secretary of State for International Cooperation (aid) Leire SIPDIS Pajin, defined the new position of the GOS on international aid as "anything is possible". Spain is now a major sup [...]	2004-09-23 13:32:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN ECON EINV PREL SP
04MADRID3696	SPAIN: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IFC PRIVATE [...] Embassy will continue to engage GOS on supporting the IFC facility. MANZANARES [...]	2004-09-24 15:00:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EAID PREL ECON EINV SP
04MADRID3699	SPANISH OFFICIALS REACT TO PRESIDENT BUSH REMARKS [...] (C) Spanish officials have reacted defensively to President Bush's remarks concerning Spain's withdrawal from Iraq, made at his September 23 joint press conference with Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Allawi. During a courtesy call by Charge and Econcouns September 24, the MFA's Director Genera [...]	2004-09-24 15:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS SP
04MADRID3701	SPAIN'S ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CHALLENGE [...] (U) Summary. The GOS has announced a plan to revise its Law on Foreign Aliens (Ley de Extranjeria) to grant legal status to undocumented immigrants who can demonstrate that they have worked a minimum of one year in Spain. The GOS is acting in response to a massive increase in illegal immigrat [...]	2004-09-24 16:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON SMIG MO SP
04MADRID3728	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON SEP. 15, 2004, THE SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS IN BARCELONA, SPAIN. THEY ARE ACCUSED OF FORGERY AND DRUG TRAFFICKING. SPANISH POL [...]	2004-09-28 07:40:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL ALI
04MADRID3741	SPAIN: IRAQ DONOR'S MEETING TOKYO [...] No summary [...]	2004-09-28 13:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN IZ PREL SP
04MADRID3760	VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY04 - SEPTEMBER [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON SEP. 27, 2004, AS PART OF THE MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP AND WAS CHAIRED BY THE CHARGE, ROBERT MANZANARES. THE CHARGE EXPRESSED HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE CONTINUING STRONG COOPERATION AND COMMITMENT TO THE PROGRAM BY ALL AGENCIES [...]	2004-09-29 08:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID3773	TERRORIST FINANCE: JAMA'AT AL TAWHID WA'AL-JIHAD [...] No summary [...]	2004-09-29 15:06:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	CVIS EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN SP LVPR
04MADRID3776	SPAIN'S WEOG ROTATION RESPONSE IN AUGUST 27 LETTER [...] (C) To update the record Ref A, Poloff delivered Secretary of State Colin Powell's August 11 letter to the MFA SIPDIS and received the text of Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos' response to Powell's letter on August 26. Madrid 3232 (Ref B) dated August 27, 2004, contains Moratinos' [...]	2004-09-29 15:46:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PHUM PREL SP
04MADRID3829	SPAIN SUPPORTS EU ROAD MAP ON NORMALIZING LIBYA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff delivered reftel talking points to Enrique Mora Benavente, Head of EU Planning at the MFA, on September 29. Mora Benavente told Poloff that Spain favors the four-step European "road map" to normalized relations and economic cooperation with Libya. The four-step process [...]	2004-10-01 15:45:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV SP EUN
04MADRID3833	NEW IRAQ EXECUTIVE ORDER [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-04 11:51:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PREL PTER KTFN SP
04MADRID3836	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NORMAN ANTOKOL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Norman Antokol, Analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, DOS to travel to Madrid, October 13-17 for orientation, familiarization and Embassy consultations on the political and economic circumstances in Spain. 2. Control Officer a [...]	2004-10-04 13:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PINR PREL SP
04MADRID3839	SPAIN FAVORS CODE OF CONDUCT WITH THE LIFTING OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. EUR/WE Director Kathleen Allegrone, Charge, and Poloff delivered reftel talking points and discussed U.S. human rights concerns at all levels of the Spanish MFA September 28-30. Spain believes that the Code of Conduct is sufficient to monitor arms sales to China of EU states. [...]	2004-10-04 14:07:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC PHUM CH EUN
04MADRID3846	SPAIN CELEBRATES ARREST OF ETA LEADERS [...] (C) Summary. Spanish politicians, police officials, and the media rejoiced after learning of the capture of ETA leader Mikel Albizu Iriarte, his partner Soledad Iparragirre, and 19 other ETA members and supporters in southern France and northern Spain. Police also seized hundreds of pounds of [...]	2004-10-05 08:04:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL SP
04MADRID3889	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. THE SPANISH DAILY NEWSPAPER "EL PAIS" ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2004, REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE (SNP) ARRESTED FIVE SUSPECTED ETA MEMBERS IN VIZCAYA AND LEON, SPA [...]	2004-10-05 14:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID3892	SPAIN URGES FRANCE TO BUDGE ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) The Spanish Foreign Ministry's chief diplomat for Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and African issues told visiting EUR/WE office director Kathy Allegrone October 1 that Spain has edged "closer toward neutrality" on the Western Sahara issue and is urging France to budge from its firm support [...]	2004-10-05 16:39:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PGOV PREL SP UNSC
04MADRID3911	DCI SPECIAL ADVISOR'S COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON IRAQ [...] (C) Per reftel instructions, poloff met with MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Moreno Humet to advise him of the 10/6 release of DCI Special Advisor Duelfer's report on Iraq WMD. Moreno requested details regarding the nature and scope of the ISG investigation, after whic [...]	2004-10-06 14:21:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR SP KPDD
04MADRID3914	CUBA: MFA ON INVITING DISSIDENTS TO SPANISH [...] (C) Poloff contacted MFA Deputy Director General for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Pedro Gomez de Olea on 10/7 to discuss reports that the Spanish Embassy in Havana was planning to break with EU policy by not inviting dissidents to its national day reception on 10/12. Gomez de Olea, wh [...]	2004-10-07 11:11:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU SP
04MADRID3937	SPAIN: APPROACH TO EU MEMBERS ON AID, TRADE FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-07 14:40:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN PREL EU TU CY SP
04MADRID3951	PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE, SPAIN'S VIEWS ON IRAQ, CHINA, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff discussed Iraq, China, Libya, Sudan, and North Cyprus with Enrique Mora Benavente, MFA Head of EU Planning, on October 6. Mora Benavente does not expect that Iraq will be discussed at the GAERC meetings. Spain's position on the China arms embargo remains unchanged; for [...]	2004-10-08 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP EUN
04MADRID3969	PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE, SPAIN'S VIEWS ON IRAQ, CHINA, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff discussed Iraq, China, Libya, Sudan, and North Cyprus with Enrique Mora Benavente, MFA Head of EU Planning, on October 6. Mora Benavente does not expect that Iraq will be discussed at the GAERC meetings. Spain's position on the China arms embargo remains unchanged; for [...]	2004-10-08 15:42:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP EUN
04MADRID4015	UNSCR 1559: SPAIN WILL SUPPORT FOLLOW-UP RESOLUTION [...] (C) Poloff disscussed Ref A points on 4/13 with MFA Deputy Director General for the Near East Alberto Moreno Humet. He said the GOF had already engaged the Spanish MFA several times on this issue and that the Spain generally accepted French and U.S. thinking on how to proceed. Moreno said he [...]	2004-10-15 14:17:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE SP UNSC
04MADRID4060	ALLEGED MISDEEDS OF U.S. FLAGGED RESEARCH VESSEL [...] (C) The R/V Powell has been on U.S. Embassy Madrid's radar screen since September, when it first contacted us for assistance in processing a request to make a port call in a Spanish harbor. Since our first contact with it, this vessel has demonstrated a consistent pattern of ignoring and at [...]	2004-10-19 14:31:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL MARR KRVC TPHY SP EWWT
04MADRID4063	DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER REGRETS UNHELPFUL MOD [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Bernardino Leon told DCM Manzanares Oct. 14 that he agreed that DefMin Bono's comments last week about US-Spain relations and the US role in the Spanish National Day Parade were extremely unhelpful. Leon promised there would be no further comments from President Zapatero [...]	2004-10-19 15:41:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID4080	SPAIN ON POLISARIO RHETORIC, WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary. Spain will convey a message to the Madrid Polisario representative calling on the Polisario to cease threats to resume armed conflict with Morocco. MFA Maghreb Office Director Carlos Fernandez Arias also shared Spain's views on the state of play in Western Morocco, including GOS [...]	2004-10-20 12:45:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF MO AG SP
04MADRID4093	PRESS REPORTS PROGRESS IN BREAKING UP TRAFFICKING [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-21 10:30:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL SP
04MADRID4109	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY "EL PAIS" OF OCT. 16, 2004 REPORTED THAT THE GERMAN POLICE ARRESTED ON OCT. 15, 2004 IN HAMBURG, THE ALLEGED AL QAEDA MEMBER IN EUROPE MAMOUN DARKAZANLI, [...]	2004-10-22 12:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4110	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING NAMES OF SUSPECTED ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS WITH POSSIBLE TERRORIST TIES IN SPAIN. 3. NAME: EL BAYADE, ABDESALAM [...]	2004-10-22 12:07:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL EL
04MADRID4112	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS ZARZECKI [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Thomas Zarzecki, Department of State to travel to Madrid, October 24-26 to meet with Spanish officials to discuss conventional weapons procurement issues (per reftels B,C and D). 2. (U) Control Officer at Embassy Madrid is Political [...]	2004-10-22 13:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL MARR PARM SP
04MADRID4115	CUBA: SPAIN CONFIDENT IT CAN OVERTURN EU MEASURES [...] (C) Summary. Spain is determined to roll back key elements of the June 2003 EU "restrictive measures" on Cuba implemented in the wake of Castro's crackdown on the opposition. MFA officials are confident they have sufficient support within the EU to do so. The GOS counts the UK, France, Swed [...]	2004-10-22 15:24:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV CU SP
04MADRID4119	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DAILY PRESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION MEDIA REPORTED ON OCT. 4, 2004 AND SUBSEQUENT DAYS THAT FRENCH POLICE IN COORDINATION WITH THE SPANISH GUARDIA [...]	2004-10-22 15:35:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL SP
04MADRID4147	AMBASSADOR MEETS MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with Minister of Justice Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar on October 21 to discuss law enforcement issues, including counterterrorism cooperation, trafficking in persons, and Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition treaties (MLAT). The Ambassador stressed the USG's [...]	2004-10-27 13:39:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CASC SP
04MADRID4179	PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE, NOV 2: IRAQ, IRAN, MEPP, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff discussed Iraq, Iran, the Middle East Peace Process, Russia, Sudan, Somalia, Ukraine, Kosovo, and North Cyprus with Enrique Mora Benavente, MFA Head of EU Planning, on October 26 and October 28. Mora Benavente said that EU police training in Iraq would take place after [...]	2004-10-29 11:29:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP EUN
04MADRID4197	SPAIN: BRIEFING ON IRAN PROCUREMENT ATTEMPTS IN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Dr. Thomas Zarzecki of INR/SPM, accompanied by poloff, provided an intelligence briefing to an interagency GOS audience on October 25 on arms procurement attempts in European countries by state sponsors of terrorism, especially Iran. The well-received briefing sparked discussion [...]	2004-11-02 15:13:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PARM PREL MASS MOPS PINR IR SP
04MADRID4243	ILSA RESPONSE FROM REPSOL IS BUSINESS AS USUAL [...] (SBU) We spoke with Mario B. Rosso, Director General of the Eastern Hemisphere and Caribbean for REPSOL-YPF (Repsol) about Reftel A and B points. 2. (SBU) Rosso was well-prepared to handle the topic, explaining that the framework agreement noted in Reftel B was only "investigative," and t [...]	2004-11-03 14:47:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC ENRG EPET PREL IR SP
04MADRID4283	SPAIN: ZAPATERO TO RAISE HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES WITH [...] (C) The Government of Spain is aware of all three human rights issues raised in reftel demarche. The Spanish agree that the possible moves by Chavez supporters threaten democracy, human rights and civil rights in Venezuela. The Zapatero government will raise these issues with Venezuelan pre [...]	2004-11-05 16:29:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SP
04MADRID4294	SPAIN SUPPORTS US POSITIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-08 13:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL
04MADRID4322	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAME AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. AS OF OCTOBER 2004, THE SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT AN ASSOCIATE OF ALGERIAN NATIONAL AND ISLAMIC EXTREMIST MOHAMED ACHRAF, AKA MUSTAFA HAW [...]	2004-11-12 12:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4324	VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 - OCTOBER [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON OCT. 25, 2004, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP AND WAS CHAIRED BY THE DCM, ROBERT MANZANARES. THE CHARGE EXPRESSED HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE CONTINUING STRONG COOPERATION AND COMMITMENT TO THE PROGRAM BY ALL AGENCIES AT P [...]	2004-11-12 12:07:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4337	SPAIN ON SUPPORT FOR IRAQI SPECIAL TRIBUNAL: [...] (C) Poloff met on 11/12 with Eva Martinez of the MFA's Directorate General for the Near East to encourage Spanish assistance for the Iraqi Special Tribunal. Martinez said Spain had received no request from the Iraqi Interim Authority (IIG) for assistance in preparing for the Iraqi Special Tri [...]	2004-11-12 16:18:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER PREF SP
04MADRID4367	SPAIN: AMBASSADOR MAKES FAREWELL CALL ON FOREIGN [...] (C) Ambassador met with Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos November 10 at the Foreign Ministry for a farewell call. Ambassador began by saying it was time to get the U.S.-Spain relationship moving forward. Moratinos agreed and said Spain and the U.S. needed to start working on a positi [...]	2004-11-15 15:48:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID4373	SPANISH DELEGATION TO THE CWC DISCUSSIONS ON HOST [...] (C) In response to reftel request regarding Spain's participation in host country agreement (HCA) discussions on the margins of the 29 November-3 December session of the 9th Conference of States Parties (CSP),an MFA official told poloff November 10 that the following officials plan to attend [...]	2004-11-15 16:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KTIA SP CWC
04MADRID4374	(S) SPAIN: SHIELD S59A-03: EMBASSY MEETING ON [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Poloffs delivered non-paper providing additional information on Telstar on November 10 to the Spanish Foreign Ministry's director general for international economic relations, Javier Hergueta. Hergueta said Telstar is willing to cooper [...]	2004-11-15 17:01:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC SP CBW
04MADRID4381	SPAIN SUPPORTS TURKISH EU ACCESSION [...] (C) Spain supports Turkish EU candidacy, a policy that has remained consistent through both the Popular Party administration of Jose Maria Aznar and the current Socialist administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. MFA EU Correspondent Luis Canovas del Castillo told Poloff November 15 t [...]	2004-11-16 11:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN PREL EU TU SP
04MADRID4386	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DAILY PRESS OF OCTOBER 19, 2004 REPORTED THAT THE SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED SEVERAL ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS WHO WERE BELIEVE TO BE PLANNING SUICIDE ATTACK [...]	2004-11-16 14:52:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4387	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON OCTOBER 28, 2004, THE SPANISH AUTHORITIES ARRESTED 13 INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED TO ISLAMIC EXTREMIST MOHAMED ACHRAF, AKA MUSTAFA HAWARI, AKA MIKAEL ETIENNE [...]	2004-11-16 14:53:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4388	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON NOVEMBER 3, 2004, AS PART OF THE ON-GOING "OPERATION NOVA" SPANISH AUTORITIES ARRESTED THE FOLLOWING MOROCCAN AND THREE ALGERIAN NATIONALS, POSSIBLY ASS [...]	2004-11-16 14:53:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4389	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM SPANISH AUTHORITIES HAVE HIGHLIGHTED CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES OF ALGERIAN NATIONAL SAMIR BENBELLIL. SUBJECT HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN VARIOUS [...]	2004-11-16 14:53:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4415	TERRORISM FINANCE DISCUSSIONS WITH GOS TREASURY [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-18 15:30:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN PREL PTER SP
04MADRID4430	SPAIN: RESPONSE TO SECOND ROUND OF UKRAINIAN [...] (C) Poloffs met with the MFA desk officer for Russia and Eastern European affairs, Marta Ruiz, 11/16 to encourage Spain's participation in the second round of presidential election in the Ukraine set for November 21 and to hear GOS views on imposing visa restrictions on Ukrainian officials w [...]	2004-11-19 11:28:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EU SP
04MADRID4431	SPAIN WILL LIKELY SUPPORT U.S. METHYL BROMIDE [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-19 12:07:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV AORC EAGR ETRD PREL SP
04MADRID4443	SPAIN SUPPORTS SUDAN DRAFT RESOLUTION IN UNSC [...] (C) Spain fully agrees with U.S. efforts on the UK-penned draft resolution focusing on the North-South peace process in Sudan. Juan Manuel Gonzalez de Linares, Deputy Director General for UN Affairs at the MFA, told Poloff that he hoped that the resolution would be passed by consensus in Na [...]	2004-11-19 16:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU SP UNSC
04MADRID4444	SPAIN: RESPONSE TO SECOND ROUND OF UKRAINIAN [...] (C) Poloffs met with the MFA desk officer for Russia and Eastern European affairs, Marta Ruiz, November 16 to encourage Spain's participation in election monitoring during the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election on November 21 and to hear GOS views on imposing visa restrictio [...]	2004-11-19 16:37:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EU SP
04MADRID4445	SPAIN'S VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF NOV 22 GAERC: MEPP, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff discussed the Middle East Peace Process, China, Kosovo, Belarus, Cyprus, ESDP issues, Iran, and Ukraine with MFA Deputy EU Correspondent Luis Canovas del Castillo on November 18. Poloff also discussed Spain's views on Turkey with Juan Aristegui, MFA Subdirector General o [...]	2004-11-22 07:59:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP EUN
04MADRID4474	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON NOV. 19, 2004 THE DAILY LOCAL NEWSPAPER "EL PAIS", REPORTED THAT FOLLOWING THE DETENTION OF SOME OF THE ALLEGED ETA LEADERSHIP MEMBERS IN FRANCE ON OCT. 3, [...]	2004-11-23 16:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4486	SPAIN CONTINUES TO SUPPORT SIX-PARTY ITER FRAMEWORK [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-24 14:28:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	TNGD TRGY TSPL ENRG PREL
04MADRID4488	SPAIN: LATEST ON EU ARMS EMBARGO ON CHINA [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-24 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC CH SP EUN
04MADRID4492	MEETING ON WITH DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER ON IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Defense Minister Francisco Pardo told Charge that the MOD will take the lead in promoting "excellent" bilateral ties between Spain and the U.S. Regarding the tender for the S-80 submarine weapons system, Pardo indicated a GOS decision would be forthcoming soon. He strongl [...]	2004-11-24 16:34:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL SP
04MADRID4499	SPAIN/IRAN-IAEA: RESPONSE TO US REQUEST FOR STRONG [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-26 13:26:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR SP IAEA
04MADRID4500	MFA CLAIMS SURPRISE AT CUBA'S NORMALIZATION OF TIES [...] (C) Summary. MFA DG for Latin America Sandomingo told Polcouns that the GOS had been surprised by the Cuban Government announcement that it would resume official contacts with the Spanish Embassy in Havana after more than 17 months of having "frozen" such ties. Sandomingo cast the move as a [...]	2004-11-26 16:00:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CU SP
04MADRID4501	SPANISH OFFICIALS CANNOT ATTEND MEETING IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Spanish officials have indicated that they will now be unable to attend discussion on the host country agreement (HCA) on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) as previously promised because it conflicts with other arms control meetings that they are scheduled to attend during the [...]	2004-11-26 16:31:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KTIA SP CWC
04MADRID4523	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS OF NOV. 17, 2004, REPORTED THAT SPANISH NATIONAL COURT JUDGE BALTASAR GARZON, INDICTED ISLAMIC EXTREMIST ABDELADIM AKOUDAD, ALIAS "NADU [...]	2004-11-30 08:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4524	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. AS PART OF AN ON-GOING COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATION, SPANISH AUTHORITIES ARRESTED THE FOLLOWING ALGERIAN NATIONALS: 3. NAME: BOUKHIRI, MOHAMED - G [...]	2004-11-30 08:40:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4550	SPAIN/CUBA: REVIEW REGARDING SUSPENSION OF TITLE [...] (C) Summary. Spain is among the most important foreign investors in Cuba and the ruling Socialist party has continued the Popular Party's policy of encouraging further investment and trade with Cuba. On human rights issues, the GOS has broken with the Aznar administration's emphasis on suppo [...]	2004-12-01 12:41:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL CU SP
04MADRID4552	VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 - NOVEMBER [...] THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON NOV. 8 AND ON NOV. 29, 2004, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP AND WAS CHAIRED BY THE CHARGE, ROBERT MANZANARES. THE CHARGE EXPRESSED HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE CONTINUING STRONG COOPERATION AND COMMITMENT TO THE PROGRAM BY AL [...]	2004-12-01 12:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4553	SPAIN/CUBA: REVIEW REGARDING SUSPENSION OF TITLE [...] (C) Summary. Spain is among the most important foreign investors in Cuba and the ruling Socialist party has continued the Popular Party's policy of encouraging further investment and trade with Cuba. On human rights issues, the GOS has broken with the Aznar administration's emphasis on suppo [...]	2004-12-01 12:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL CU SP
04MADRID4554	SPAIN/CUBA: REVIEW REGARDING SUSPENSION OF TITLE [...] (C) Summary. Spain is among the most important foreign investors in Cuba and the ruling Socialist party has continued the Popular Party's policy of encouraging further investment and trade with Cuba. On human rights issues, the GOS has broken with the Aznar administration's emphasis on support for [...]	2004-12-01 12:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL CU SP
04MADRID4585	SPAIN/AFGHANISTAN: SPAIN STILL CONSIDERING ISAF [...] (C) Prior to receipt of ref a demarche request, Charge, Polcouns and other embassy officers used previously scheduled meetings and conversatons the week of November 23 and 26 to press the Chief of Defense, Deputy Defense Minister, MOD DG for International Relations and MFA Political Director [...]	2004-12-02 16:14:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR SP NATO
04MADRID4603	VIRTUAL PRESENCE PROGRAM (VPP) IN [...] (SBU) Summary Embassy Madrid has decided to initiate Virtual Presence Programs (VPP) for Andalusia and the Basque country a one year trial basis. Charge initiated the Andalusia VPP concept while visiting Seville November 30-December 1. He hosted a well attended reception for the U.S. Davis [...]	2004-12-03 13:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL SP
04MADRID4612	CHAVEZ COURTS SPANISH SOCIALISTS;LEAVES POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Spain November 21-23, in a trip that was touted by the Spanish government as primarily economic in nature. Chavez commenced his stay by stating that good relations with Spain "have become of strategic importance" and that he "welcomes the [...]	2004-12-03 16:10:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EPET ELAB EIND PHUM PREL MARR SP VE
04MADRID4638	VIRTUAL PRESENCE PROGRAM (VPP) IN SEVILLE/ANDALUSIA INITIATED [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Madrid has decided to initiate Virtual Presence Programs (VPP) for Andalusia and the Basque country on a one year trial basis. Charge initiated the Andalusia VPP concept while visiting Seville November 30 - December 1. He hosted a well attended reception for the U.S. Da [...]	2004-12-09 10:40:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL
04MADRID4649	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION TO CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. NAME: BEN ABDELLAH, SAMIR - GENDER: MALE - DPOB: NOV. 29, 1967, MOROCCO - CLASS: POSITIVE 3. ON NOVEMBER 22, 2004 THE SPANISH POLICE ARRESTED [...]	2004-12-09 16:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL BEN
04MADRID4657	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN [...] Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Attorney General Ashcroft and his team on December 17 for the signing of the bilateral protocol to the multilateral MLAT (REF A) and a meeting with Minister of Justice Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar. We have incorporated the new arri [...]	2004-12-10 07:47:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OVIP CASC KCRM KJUS PREL SP EUN
04MADRID4677	SPAIN: CHARGE MEETS WITH CHIEF OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with Spanish Chief of Defense General Felix Sanz December 9. Sanz said he will do all in his power to strengthen U.S./Spain military ties. He agreed it was not useful talk about whether the military relationship between the two countries is "balanced," rather Spain' [...]	2004-12-10 16:53:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS SP NATO
04MADRID4687	DEPUTY FM LEON ON CUBA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-13 15:50:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SP
04MADRID4708	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. DAILY SPANISH PRESS "EL PAIS" OF DEC. 10, 2004 REPORTED THAT THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS WERE ARRESTED BY THE SPANISH POLICE ON DEC. 8, 2004, IN THE SPANISH- [...]	2004-12-14 16:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL WAKI
04MADRID4748	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. BETWEEN 18 AND 19 NOVEMBER 2004, THE SPANISH POLICE RE-DETAINED AL-JAZIRAH JOURNALIST TAYSIR ALOUNI KATE AND NINE OF HIS ASSOCIATES IN SPAIN AS SUSPECTED I [...]	2004-12-17 16:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
04MADRID4749	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. ON DECEMBER 13, 2004, THE SPANISH NATIONAL POLICE ARRESTED THE FOLLOWING FOUR INDIVIDUALS IN THE ON-GOING "OPERACION LAGO". 3. NAME: LEBIK, ABDELKADER [...]	2004-12-17 16:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL LEBIK
04MADRID4768	SPANISH CONGRESS RATIFIES S AND T AGREEMENT [...] This is an action request for OES/STC -- see para 3. 2. Embassy has received Spanish Foreign Ministry Note Verbal 385/2.3, dated December 14, 2004, informing us that the Spanish lower house and Senate had ratified the January 20 and February 2, 2004 exchange of notes extending the validi [...]	2004-12-20 14:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCI PREL SP
04MADRID4776	VISAS VIPER SUBMISSION [...] POST WISHES TO SUBMIT AND/OR UPDATE THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND INFORMATION IN CLASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH VIPER PROCEDURES: 2. SPANISH DALY PRESS OF DEC. 18, 2004 REPORTED THAT TWO OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL COURT JUDGES ORDERED THE ARREST OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR EXTREMISTS BASED IN LAN [...]	2004-12-20 16:31:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL EL
04MADRID4778	SPAIN: INDECISIVE ON ISAF STAGE TWO ROLE [...] (C) Summary: Charge met December 20 with Spanish National Security Advisor Carles Casajuana to discuss Spain's role in ISAF stage two. Casajuana was very reluctant to commit the Zapatero government to any role in stage two. Casajuana said it was very unlikely the GOS would announce a decisi [...]	2004-12-21 07:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS SP NATO
04MADRID4787	SPAIN ON AUSTRALIA'S SUBMISSION TO CONTINENTAL [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-21 10:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PBTS PHSA PREL KTIA AS AY SP
04MADRID4788	ITER: SPAIN DEMARCHED ON ITER FINANCING [...] (C) ESTHOFF passed Ref A points and letter December 20 to Science Ministry Technology Policy Director General Carlos Alejaldre Losilla, reiterating U.S. support for Japan's ITER proposal, noting U.S. concerns regarding lack of clarity in the EU's ITER proposal, and underscoring our commitment [...]	2004-12-21 11:36:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TRGY SP EUN
04MADRID4827	LOCAL NGO PRESSURES SPAIN ON CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary. On 12/21, Poloff met with Rafael Rubio, head of the Spanish NGO "Cuba en Transicion" (Cuba in Transition),a human rights organization dedicated to raising public awareness in Spain about human rights abuses in Cuba. Rubio, who generally works with the Popular Party (PP) but has [...]	2004-12-22 14:52:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CU SP
04MADRID4830	VISIT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT FOR MLAT SIGNING [...] (C) Summary. Attorney General John Ashcroft visited Spain on December 17 to sign the bilateral protocols to the U.S.-EU Mutual Legal Assistance (MLAT) and Extradition Treaty. During his one-day visit, Attorney General Ashcroft also held separate meetings with the Minister of Justice and the M [...]	2004-12-22 14:56:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC KJUS PREL SP

04MADRID484	SPANISH PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC ADVISOR COMMENTS ON [...] (SBU) On February 11 we spoke with Roman Escolano, Economic Advisor to Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar to get an update (since reftels A and B) on where Aznar's initiative for barrier-free transatlantic trade is going. Escolano confessed that the GOS is in an anomalous situation -- a month [...]	2004-02-12 12:54:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL SP EUN
04MADRID4887	SHIELD S59A-03: SPAIN INFORMED THAT TELSTAR [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-29 15:34:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC SP IR CBW
04MADRID4890	SPAIN: YUKOS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-29 17:29:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ECON PREL PHUM KPAO RS SP
04MADRID495	POINTS DELIVERED: FOREIGN LEADERS MEETING WITH [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Esther Monterrubio, Director General for Eastern Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Monterrubio said that Spain, as an EU member, is monitoring elections in the Ukraine very carefully. She agreed with our position that the Ukraine's accession t [...]	2004-02-13 10:39:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP SP EUN
04MADRID519	SPANISH DELEGATES TO ATTEND MARCH 23 DEFENSE [...] AS REQUESTED REFTEL, EMBASSY PROVIDED LETTER ON THE PROPOSED MARCH 23 EXPORT DIALOG TO MR. RAMON MURO MARTINEZ AT THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMICS. MR. MURO INFORMED US THAT HE WILL LEAD A SPANISH DELEGATION OF THREE OFFICIALS. IN ADDITION TO MURO, THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DELEGATION WILL BE JOSE L [...]	2004-02-13 14:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL ETTC SP
04MADRID527	SPANISH ELECTION OUTLOOK: ONE MONTH OUT, POPULAR [...] (C) Polls one month before the March 14 Spanish general election continue to point to victory for the Popular Party and Aznar's successor as party leader, Mariano Rajoy. The PP hopes not just for a plurality, but for an absolute majority. Were the PP to fall far short of an absolute majority, [...]	2004-02-13 17:21:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP NATO
04MADRID561	SPANISH RESPONSE: VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO [...] (C) Per reftel A, we spoke with Inigo de Palacio, MFA Director of UN Affairs, on February 9 to deliver demarche on voluntary contributions to the Special Court for Sierra Leone. De Palacio said he could not give a response at that time, but would pursue the issue within the MFA. On February [...]	2004-02-18 13:24:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR PINS SL SP KWCI UNSC
04MADRID607	SPANISH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON FEBRUARY 23-24 EU [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarches on February 20 to Enrique Mora, Director of the MFA's Office of EU Foreign Policy and Common Security. 2. (C) Regarding reftel A topics, Mora stated that the discussion on Afghanistan will include the EU's concern that the references to Islam in the Afghan [...]	2004-02-23 06:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP EUN
04MADRID608	9-11 COMMISSION VISIT: MEETING WITH JUDGE GARZON [...] (SBU) Dieter Snell and Hyon Kim of the 9-11 Commission visited Madrid February 13. At their request, the Embassy arranged a meeting for them with Judge Baltasar Garzon of the National Court. This was the only appointment with Spanish officials that the Commission staff sought. Garzon is [...]	2004-02-23 07:29:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL SP
04MADRID613	THE SPANISH NATIONAL ELECTIONS: FREQUENTLY ASKED [...] (U) This cable aims at providing "at a glance" answers to questions we have received from Washington audiences about the upcoming Spanish national elections, including the complexities of Spain's parliamentary system and its regional aspects. 2. (U) WHEN ARE THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS? --- [...]	2004-02-23 12:07:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID618	SPAIN: EU TO BACK OAS POSITION ON VENEZUELA [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-24 06:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE SP
04MADRID635	SPAIN: ELBARADEI TELLS PALACIO IAEA SHOULD MOVE [...] (C) Poloff queried Guillermo Kirkpatrick, the Foreign Ministry's Deputy Director General for Disarmament, about Minister Palacio's February 19 meeting with IAEA Director General ElBaradei in Vienna. Kirkpatrick said ElBaradei told Palacio he was extremely happy with Libya's cooperation with [...]	2004-02-24 16:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV PREL PTER SP
04MADRID648	PSI: SPAIN SUPPORTS SUA AMENDMENT BUT DISCUSSION [...] Post presented reftel points to Deputy Director General for International Disarmament Affairs, Guillermo Kirkpatrick, at the MFA. Kirkpatrick said the MFA would support the proposal because it strengthened PSI measures to curb WMD proliferation. He added that because the proposal involved i [...]	2004-02-25 15:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP SP
04MADRID649	SPAIN AGAINST FULL WEOG PARTICIPATION FOR ISRAEL [...] (U) Please see action request in paragraph 4. 2. (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Inigo de Palacio, MFA Director of UN Affairs, on February 24. De Palacio stated that while Spain and the EU would support renewing Israel's WEOG New York membership in May, the EU's common policy is to "gi [...]	2004-02-25 15:51:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS EU AORC SP UN
04MADRID650	REQUEST FOR SECURITY SECTOR ASSISTANCE IN LIBERIA: [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-25 16:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAID EFIN PGOV PREL LI SP
04MADRID679	SPANISH ELECTIONS: CONCERNS ABOUT AN ETA ATTACK [...] (C) Spanish police are concerned that ETA may strike in the period before the March 14 national elections. Juan Hidalgo, Senior Advisor to the State Secretary for Security, told us February 26 that ETA's recent announcement of a "cease-fire" in Catalonia meant that it might seek to strike [...]	2004-02-27 13:33:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL SP
04MADRID711	IRAQI ASSETS:RASHEED BANK ACCOUNTS IN SPAIN [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-01 16:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PREL IZ SP UNSC
04MADRID730	SPANISH RESPONSE TO EU BURMA POLICY DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-03 15:45:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM SP EUN
04MADRID750	DASD BRZEZINSKI DISCUSSES NATO NON-FUNDING OF [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for European and NATO policy Ian Brzezinski met February 26 with Ministry of Defense officials in Madrid to discuss the NATO Security Investment Program,s (NSIP) funding of Spanish air defense systems and Spain's blockage of NATO infrastructure [...]	2004-03-04 17:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PGOV SP NATO
04MADRID755	LIBYA/IAEA: CONSULTING WITH BOG MEMBERS ON LIBYA [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-04 18:08:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PREL PARM LY SP IAEA
04MADRID764	SPANISH NATIONAL ELECTIONS: THE KEY ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: As Spanish voters focus on the March 14 nationals elections in earnest, three issues will dominate their thinking: the war against ETA terrorism, unease over growing secessionist tendencies in the Basque and Catalan regions, and the economy. On all three issues, Aznar,s Popular [...]	2004-03-05 16:42:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP PREL
04MADRID773	IRAN/IAEA: REACTION TO DG'S IRAN REPORT [...] (C) We met with Marcos Rodriguez Cantero of the International Disarmament division at MFA on March 3 and conveyed US views on the IAEA Iran Report. Rodriguez told us that Spain shares US concerns about Iranian non-proliferation and the findings contained in the IAEA Iran report. Non-prolifera [...]	2004-03-08 06:05:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC SP IAEA
04MADRID817	SPANISH NATIONAL ELECTIONS: VIEWS BEYOND MADRID [...] (C) Summary: Spanish regional leaders in Valencia, Asturias, Andalucia and Extremadura from both the Socialist and Popular Parties believe the Popular Party will gain the most seats in the March 14 national elections. But most of them - except for two Socialist party members in regional Soci [...]	2004-03-10 12:19:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID822	SPANISH RESPONSE TO 60TH SESSION OF THE UN [...] (C) Summary. The head of the MFA's Human Rights Office stated that Spain's priorities for the upcoming UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) session are substantially the same as USG priorities, focusing on many of the same countries and issues. On sensitive subjects, he said that Spain will [...]	2004-03-10 15:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SP UNHRC
04MADRID825	EQUATORIAL GUINEA: SPANISH MFA ON ALLEGED COUP [...] (C) President Obiang has demanded that Spain extradite to Equatorial Guinea a political opponent who resides in Madrid, Severo Moto, accused of sponsoring an alleged coup plot uncovered this week. MFA has received no official request, and would not transfer Moto if one were received. MFA [...]	2004-03-10 16:32:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SP EK
04MADRID827	SPAIN'S 9-11: ETA MASSACRE IN MADRID THREE DAYS [...] (SBU) ETA terrorists struck March 11 in the center of Madrid, placing bombs on four commuter trains. There were a total of 13 explosions (including three police-controlled explosions to disactivate bombs.) The bombs exploded in the middle of rush hour, from 0835 to 0855 local. Interior Minister Ace [...]	2004-03-11 13:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC SP OSAC
04MADRID839	SPAIN'S ISAF CONTRIBUTIONS [...] (C) Polmiloff delivered reftel demarche March 10 to Manuel Acerete, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Deputy Director General for International Security Affairs. Acerete confirmed Spain would attend SHAPE's March 11 Force Generation Conference. He explained that due to its commitments in Ir [...]	2004-03-11 18:29:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR SP NATO
04MADRID850	SPAIN'S UNITED LEFT (IU) PARTY: A DECLINING FORCE [...] (SBU) Note: This message was planned prior to the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid as a feature of Embassy's advance reporting on Spain's March 14 elections. It provides a snapshot of the United Left Party, one of Spain's smaller, but still significant political parties. End note. 2. [...]	2004-03-12 15:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SP
04MADRID856	IRAQI ASSETS:RASHEED BANK ACCOUNTS IN SPAIN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) Though we received information from the Ministry of Economy that Rasheed Bank accounts were liquidated by the Banco Arab Espanol (ref b),we were contacted by officials of Spain's Financial Intelligence Unit, SEPBLAC (Executive [...]	2004-03-12 16:37:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PREL IZ SP UNSC
04MADRID864	SPANISH ELECTIONS: SCENARIOS FOR COALITION [...] (C) Before the March 11 terrorist attacks, the conservative Popular Party and its candidate Mariano Rajoy were slated to win the Spanish elections, but few confidently assessed the PP would win an absolute majority in Parliament. As part of Embassy Madrid,s election reporting plan, we have b [...]	2004-03-12 19:08:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID865	SPAIN: POSSIBLE IMPACT OF TERRORIST ATTACK ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: BEFORE THE MARCH 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS IN MADRID, THE DRAMA OF THE MARCH 14 SPANISH NATIONAL ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN CENTERED ON WHETHER PRESIDENT AZNAR'S POPULAR PARTY AND ITS CANDIDATE MARIANO RAJOY, WOULD WIN ENOUGH SEATS IN PARLIAMENT TO GOVERN WITH AN ABSOLUTE MAJORITY (REFTEL). O [...]	2004-03-12 19:47:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MADRID881	SPANISH FOREIGN POLICY UNDER NEW SOCIALIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Well before the March 14 general elections, Socialist Workers' Party of Spain (PSOE) leader Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero made clear that if elected he would refocus Spanish foreign policy away from the primacy of the transatlantic link and toward Spain,s traditional EU partners [...]	2004-03-15 14:43:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP NATO
04MADRID893	MADRID MARCH 11 BOMB ATTACKS: STATUS OF [...] (C) The investigation into who perpetrated the March 11 attacks in Madrid continues, with an Al Qaeda link looking increasingly likely. While authorities cannot completely rule out responsibility by the terrorist group ETA, or a possible ETA role in coordination with an Islamic terrorist group, the [...]	2004-03-15 17:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL SP
04MADRID900	FORMATION OF THE NEW SPANISH GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Summary. Spain's parliamentary system is flexible on exact dates for installing governments after a general election, but given historical timeframes, Socialist leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero should be invested as President of the Government by the end of April or the beginning of Ma [...]	2004-03-16 13:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID901	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FINCEN BAITY AND SHOWELL [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Deputy Director William Baity and Country Desk Officer Jennifer Showell, Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN),to travel to Madrid March 21-24 to attend meetings hosted by Spain's Financial Intelligence Unit, SEP [...]	2004-03-16 15:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PREL SNAR SP PTER
04MADRID958	MADRID BOMB ATTACKS: STATUS OF INVESTIGATION - [...] (C) Information from official sources remains limited due to the secrecy order issued by the judge presiding over the investigation, Judge Juan del Olmo. LegAtt Office will request further information through our mutual legal assistance treaty, but receipt of information as a result of that r [...]	2004-03-18 17:30:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL SP
04MADRID959	SPANISH REACTION TO DEMARCHE ON MARCH 22-23 EU FMS [...] (C) Summary. Spain will be putting terrorism at the top of its agenda for the March 22-23 EU FMS meetings and the March 25-26 European Council meetings. Jointly with the Dutch, Spain will be backing the creation of a EU Coordinator for anti-terrorism efforts. The MFA's EU Office also expects [...]	2004-03-18 17:32:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP EUN
04MADRID960	DEALING WITH ZAPATERO: AN INEXPERIENCED BUT [...] (C) Summary: This message provides initial embassy thinking on how to deal with President-Elect Zapatero in the lead up to his government's formation and the early stages of his administration. Zapatero has no experience in administration or foreign affairs. He is likely to be a difficult but [...]	2004-03-18 18:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SP PSOE
04MADRID961	WHO ARE THE SPANISH SOCIALISTS? [...] (C) Summary: The Socialist Workers Party of Spain (PSOE),surprise victor in March 14 elections, is a center-left party in the European social democrat tradition. Since the end of the Franco regime and the beginning of Spain's modern democracy in 1977, PSOE has generally advocated comprehensive soc [...]	2004-03-18 18:38:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP PSOE
04MADRID974	AMBASSADOR,S MEETING WITH POSSIBLE NEW SPANISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Argyros had a cordial discussion March 22 with Miguel Angel Moratinos, reported to be the leading candidate to serve as Foreign Minister under the government of Spanish Socialist Worker's Party (PSOE) leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Moratinos stressed Zapatero,s appreci [...]	2004-03-22 19:18:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
04MANAMA1000	TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF SIX NAMES [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-27 08:31:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KSEP KVPR BA
04MANAMA1037	BAHRAIN SENDING AMBASSADOR TO BAGHDAD [...] Bahrain Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Yusif Mahmoud phoned CDA June 30 to inform her that the GOB will announce today that it is upgrading its representation to Iraq to the ambassadorial level. No one has been named to the position yet, but Mahmoud hopes to be able to provide the [...]	2004-06-30 14:13:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IZ BA OFPD
04MANAMA1047	BAHRAIN CONFIRMS IMPLEMENTATION OF MARITIME [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-05 08:18:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT ACOA ASEC EAIR ETRD ECON ETTC ENRG KSTC PARM PTER PHSA PREL BA
04MANAMA1060	THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR LINE ON TERRORISM [...] (S/NF) CDA Molly Williamson, PMIL and RSO met for 90 minutes with Interior Minister, General Shaikh Rashid and Brigadier General Zayani Saturday July 3, 2004 at 1100 to discuss cooperation on counter-terrorism and security issues. COMMENT: King Hamad and his advisors have done the calculus on [...]	2004-07-06 05:20:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	ALOW ASEC BA PREL PTER
04MANAMA1064	MESSAGE FROM THE CROWN PRINCE AND COMMANDER-IN- [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-06 08:22:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA1069	MESSAGE FROM SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN SALMAN AL KHALIFA, [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-06 09:43:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA1070	ESSAGE FROM SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN SALMAN AL KHALIFA, [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-06 09:45:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA1073	MESSAGE FROM THE CROWN PRINCE AND COMMANDER-IN- [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-06 13:52:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA1103	MESSAGE FROM SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN SALMAN AL KHALIFA, [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-12 10:59:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA1120	GOB RE-ARRESTS THE BAHRAINI SIX [...] The GoB re-arrested the "Bahraini Six" yesterday afternoon on suspicion of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. The six were taken to the Public Prosecutor's Office and were transferred to Galali prison at approximately 2:00 a.m. this morning. Amal Ahmed Abdulla Abdul, Under Secretary of the P [...]	2004-07-15 12:33:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BA
04MANAMA1123	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ICJ ADVISORY OPINION ON [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-17 10:10:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL BA ICJ UNGA
04MANAMA1125	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. INITIATIVES FOR THE 59TH [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-18 10:48:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON PHUM KDEM AORC BA UNGA UN
04MANAMA1146	BAHRAINI TERROR SUSPECTS END HUNGER STRIKE [...] The six detainees held by the GOB on suspicion of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts (see ref) ended their hunger strike after four days. The detainees' lawyer Abdullah Hashim was quoted in the Bahrain Tribune on July 19 that the six agreed to end the hunger strike due to the deteriorating h [...]	2004-07-19 13:26:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER BA
04MANAMA1187	MFA MAKES ASSURANCES OF NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA officials gave assurances to Charge that the security and stability of Bahrain is the GOB's top priority. As a signal that the GOB is serious about regional security concerns, MFA announced that Bahrain will host the next International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) [...]	2004-07-27 12:09:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER BA KSEC
04MANAMA1200	MUSLIM WORLD OUTREACH IN BAHRAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bahrain is an Islamic state with a population that is 98 percent Muslim. Bahraini contacts have discussed the potential of a possible shift towards conservatism in Bahrain. However, some groups, such as Beit Al Qura,an, the Bahrain Women,s Society, and the Bahrain Youth Forum Soc [...]	2004-07-28 13:37:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA EAID KDEM KPAO OEXC OIIP OPRC PGOV PHUM PREL
04MANAMA1205	59TH UNGA ATTENDANCE - INTERIM REPORT [...] (U) The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa plans to attend the 59th UNGA Debate. According to MFA Director of Bilateral Relations Dr. Dhafer Al Umran, exact travel dates have yet to be identified. As of July 31, Shaikh Mohammed's wife is not planning to accompany h [...]	2004-08-01 13:57:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA
04MANAMA1213	JUSTICE MINISTER DISCUSSES COUNTER-TERRORISM LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 2, Minister of Justice Jawad Al Arrayed stressed to Charge that there is strong political will at the highest levels of the GOB to fight terrorism and ensure national security. Minister Al Arrayed told Charge, in confidence, that H.M. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa is [...]	2004-08-03 05:30:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS PTER BA KSEC
04MANAMA1214	PRIME MINISTER COMMITTED TO NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and select members of his Cabinet stressed to Charge that security is Bahrain's utmost priority and that consequently Bahrain will remain at a heightened state of vigilance. PM stressed that full cooperation and sharing of informati [...]	2004-08-03 05:30:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ETRD BA KSEC
04MANAMA1223	IRAQ DEMARCHE DELIVERED - CONDEMNING HOSTAGE [...] (U) On August 3, 2004, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Assistant Undersecretary Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa and Director of Bilateral Relations Dr. Dhafer Al Umran. Shaikh Abdul Aziz told PolOff that the GOB condemns all hostage taking and murde [...]	2004-08-04 05:05:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER PHUM IZ BA
04MANAMA1225	(C/NF) MINISTER OF INDUSTRY TALKS SECURITY AND FTA [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-04 10:14:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ETRD KTEX ELAB BA KSEC KINR
04MANAMA1227	MINISTER OF INTERIOR: HELP US PUT THESE GUYS AWAY [...] (S/NF) CDA, RSO and POL met with Interior Minister General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa and Under-Secretary for Operations Brigadier General Abdel-Latif Zayani August 3 to discuss the status of the investigation regarding the six Bahraini extremists in custody, security issues and U.S. [...]	2004-08-04 10:34:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER PREL PGOV BA
04MANAMA1228	BAHRAIN'S FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES DOD SCHOOL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa stressed to Charge during an August 4 meeting the need to find a way to work together to keep the most important cultural tie, the Department of Defense Bahrain School, operational. Shaikh Mohammed conveyed GOB's offe [...]	2004-08-04 17:22:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAIR ETRD BA IZ
04MANAMA1229	IRAQI AMBASSADOR PROCLAIMS ALLAWI VISIT A SUCCESS [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-05 14:25:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EINV BA IZ
04MANAMA128	DCM RETURNS FROM NAJAF AND ENGAGES BAHRAINI [...] To further post's goal of convincing Bahraini audiences about U.S. goals in Iraq, PAS Manama arranged tailored media events for DCM Ford, who recently returned to Bahrain from a three month rotation as the CPA Governorate Coordinator in Najaf. Bahrain is a small island and many Embassy contac [...]	2004-01-27 13:50:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KMDR KPAO BA
04MANAMA1283	CROWN PRINCE PROMOTING INTERNAL INTELLIGENCE AND [...] (C) The Charge held her initial meeting with Crown Prince (CP) Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa to discuss joint counter-terrorism efforts, the security situation and the status of the DOD Bahrain School. They also covered the Saudi proposal for Muslim troops to Iraq and the U.S. global de [...]	2004-08-16 11:49:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR MOPS MCAP PINS BA
04MANAMA1285	GLOBAL DEFENSE POSTURE REVIEW: CROWN PRINCE [...] (S) Charge presented Refs A and B talking points on the U.S. global defense posture review to Crown Prince (CP) Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa August 15 during a meeting that also covered joint counter-terrorism efforts, the security situation, and the Saudi proposal for Muslim troops to [...]	2004-08-16 14:47:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	MARR MCAP MOPS PARM PREL KPAO BA NATO
04MANAMA1290	BAHRAIN SUPPORTS TROOP CONTRIBUTION TO IRAQ IN [...] (S) Charge presented Ref A talking points on the U.S. thoughts on the Saudi proposal for Muslim troops to Iraq to Crown Prince (CP) Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa August 15 during a meeting that also covered joint counter-terrorism efforts, the security situation, and the U.S. global defen [...]	2004-08-17 09:49:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL OPDC MOPS MARR BA IZ
04MANAMA1299	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: QUASHING NAM CRITICISM OF THE [...] (C) On August 18 the Charge delivered reftel demarche to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar. She urged the Government of Bahrain to resist any moves within the NAM meeting in Durban to undermine UNSCR 1540. Abdul Ghaffar promised to relay the information to app [...]	2004-08-18 13:37:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC BA
04MANAMA1302	MINSTATE ABDUL GHAFFAR DISCUSSES COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) The Charge met with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar to discuss the status of Bahrain's counter-terrorism law, recent press articles on legal cases concerning detainee [...]	2004-08-20 13:11:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ASEC PGOV BA
04MANAMA1305	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US NOTE VERBALE ON REFORM OF [...] (U) On August 16, Post delivered reftel note verbale and non-paper to Bahrain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. MFA Director of Bilateral Relations Dr. Dhafer Al Umran told PolOFF on August 18 that the GOB would most likely vote in favor of US Resolution 58/41. "Bahrain is for anything to im [...]	2004-08-21 15:14:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PARM PREL BA CDG UNGA
04MANAMA1314	BAHRAIN PLANNING TO ATTEND G8 BMENA FORUM FOR THE [...] (SBU) Charge August 22 delivered reftel talking points, plan for establishing the Forum for the Future, and draft agenda for the Forum for the Future preparatory meetings to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar. Abdul Ghaffar replied that Foreign Minister Mohammed [...]	2004-08-24 11:41:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON KMPI BA UNGA
04MANAMA1337	CODEL MILLER DISCUSSES COUNTER-TERRORISM, IRAQ, [...] (C) Codel Miller met with Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa August 22 and discussed the domestic security situation, status of counter-terrorism laws in Bahrain, Iraq, the military confrontation in Najaf, U.S. public outreach efforts in the Middle East, Arab-Israeli relations, A [...]	2004-08-28 15:12:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR ECON ETRD BA IZ
04MANAMA1355	BAHRAINI CABINET APPROVES DRAFT FTA [...] (U) On August 29 the Bahraini Cabinet approved the current draft of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. Press reports on the Council,s decision followed a familiar refrain, highlighting the FTA's economic benefits, particularly the potential for job creation, as well as dut [...]	2004-08-30 14:44:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PGOV BA
04MANAMA1357	MINSTATE ABDUL GHAFFAR DISCUSSES SECURITY, [...] (C) The Ambassador paid an introductory call on Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar August 30 to discuss priority issues in the bilateral relationship. Regarding the security situation in Bahrain, the Ambassador, stating that he had learned that the judge had granted a [...]	2004-08-31 11:15:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC ECON ETRD BA
04MANAMA1360	RECEIPT OF DIPLOMATIC NOTE REQUESTING VISIT TO [...] (SBU) As mentioned during the Ambassador's August 30 meeting with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar (septel),the Embassy received the following diplomatic note August 30. 2. (SBU) Begin Text of Diplomatic Note MOS-140 Dated August 30, 2004: The Ministry o [...]	2004-08-31 14:26:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR ASEC PREL PTER BA
04MANAMA1365	CABINET AFFAIRS MINISTER MUTAWWA DELIVERS DRAFT [...] (S) The Ambassador paid an introductory call September 1 on Minister of Cabinet Affairs Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Mutawwa and discussed Bahrain's draft counter-terrorism law, bilateral counter-terrorism cooperation and the six terrorism suspects, U.S. influence in the Arab world, Saudi Arabia, [...]	2004-09-01 16:04:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC ETRD ECON BA
04MANAMA1386	MINISTER SAIF READY TO LAUNCH FTA ROAD SHOW [...] (U) The Ambassador met with Minister of Finance and National Economy Abdullah Hassan Saif September 7 to discuss the upcoming signing of the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the October 1 meeting of finance ministers on the G8 Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) initiative [...]	2004-09-08 14:26:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL BA
04MANAMA1387	MINISTER OF INFORMATION DISCUSSES AL JAZEERA AND IRAQ [...] (C) Al Jazeera Satellite Channel and Iraq dominated the conversation during the Ambassador's Sept. 6 introductory call on Minister of Information Nabeel bin Yaqoob Al Hamer. The Minister said that he had directed Bahrain Satellite Television to stop airing the videotapes on abductions and kid [...]	2004-09-08 14:27:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO OIIP KMPI BA
04MANAMA1388	BAHRAINI TENDER BOARD BRINGS TRANSPARENCY TO [...] (U) The Ambassador paid an introductory call on Minister of State and Chairman of the Tenders Board Abdul Hussein Ali Mirza on September 6, discussed the upcoming Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA),and reviewed the recently implemented tender process. The Ambassador noted that the FTA would [...]	2004-09-08 14:28:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL BA
04MANAMA1390	CROWN PRINCE DISCUSSES PLANNED LABOR REFORM [...] (C) During the Ambassador's September 5 introductory call on Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (septel),the CP said that his office was organizing a national debate on labor law reforms. The initiative stems from Bahrain's desire to move away from an economy based upon a low cost lab [...]	2004-09-08 15:08:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ELAB ECON BA
04MANAMA1391	BAHRAIN SUPPORTS BMENA INSTITUTE [...] (U) The Ambassador met with Bahraini Minister of Finance and National Economy Abdullah Saif September 7 to discuss the October 1 meeting of finance ministers on the G8 Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) initiative (Ref A),the IFC's Private Enterprise Partnership for the Middle East a [...]	2004-09-10 12:28:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL BA
04MANAMA1402	BAHRAIN: ENDING STATE SPONSORSHIP OF TERRORISM [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief delivered Ref A demarche on ending state sponsorship of terrorism on September 8 to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow-Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz listened carefully to the points, particularly those on Iran. He re [...]	2004-09-13 05:09:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL BA
04MANAMA1409	USUN AMBASSADOR SIV VISIT - 59TH UNGA [...] (C) On September 7, US Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and Coordinator of the US delegation to the UN General Assembly Sichan Siv met with GOB officials and parliamentarians to discuss the United States' five UN General Assembly priorities (Reftel). ----------- [...]	2004-09-13 14:57:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PREL PGOV BA ECOSOC UNGA
04MANAMA1419	LABOR MINISTER WELCOMES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE [...] (C) In an introductory meeting on September 11, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA) Majeed bin Mohsin Al Alawi explained to the Ambassador that his portfolio included labor reform, vocational training, unemployment, facilities for the disabled, occupational safety inspections and en [...]	2004-09-14 14:24:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ELAB PHUM KMPI KCRM KDEM BA
04MANAMA1422	MINISTER OF OIL DISCUSSES PETROLEUM SECTOR WITH [...] (C) Minister of Oil Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa told the Ambassador September 6 that U.S. companies have participated successfully in the development of Bahrain's petroleum and petrochemicals sector, and he looks forward to continued cooperation with the U.S. He stated that his primary concern is [...]	2004-09-15 09:18:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET BA PROG
04MANAMA1452	MESSAGES FROM THE CROWN PRINCE TO PRESIDENT BUSH [...] (U) On September 15, 2004, post received letters of congratulations from Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa to President Bush and Vice President Cheney on the signing of the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement. Original documents are being sent by pouch to the desk. 2. (U) Begin text [...]	2004-09-21 11:55:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA1453	MESSAGES FROM THE PRIME MINISTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH [...] (U) On September 15, 2004, post received letters of congratulations from Prime Minister Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa to President Bush and Vice President Cheney on the signing of the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement. Original documents are being sent by pouch to the desk. 2. (U) Begin t [...]	2004-09-21 11:56:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA1454	MESSAGE FROM THE KING TO PRESIDENT BUSH ON FTA [...] (U) On September 15, 2004, post received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs covering a telegram from King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa to President Bush on the signing of the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement. Original document is being sent by pouch to the desk. Begin text [...]	2004-09-21 11:58:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA1465	COMMERCE MINISTER CALLS FTA A TURNING POINT [...] The Ambassador met with Minister of Commerce Ali Bin Saleh Al Saleh on September 15 to discuss the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the potential for increased cooperation between U.S. and Bahraini businesses. Al Saleh noted that this year had been a "turning point" in the U.S.-Ba [...]	2004-09-22 15:08:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON PGOV ETRD BA
04MANAMA1466	PUBLIC WORKS AND HOUSING MINISTER: PLATE IS FULL [...] Ambassador met with Minister of Housing and Public Works Fahmi Bin Ali Al Jowder on September 8 to discuss new and ongoing projects, the Ministry,s experience with U.S. business partners and potential opportunities for U.S. business as a result of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA). While officia [...]	2004-09-22 15:09:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL BEXP MARR BA
04MANAMA1467	SCENESETTER FOR COMBATANT COMMANDER CENTRAL [...] (S) General Abizaid, we look forward to seeing you in Bahrain. We have asked for calls on the King, Crown Prince, and the Defense Minister apart from your attendance at the Disaster Preparedness Conference. Since your last visit here, the travel warning has been lifted and the DOD Bahrain S [...]	2004-09-22 15:19:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL MARR PGOV BA
04MANAMA1469	BAHRAIN: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH TRANSPORTATION [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met with Minister of Transportation Sheikh Ali Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa on September 8 to discuss efforts to expand and manage Bahrain,s transportation infrastructure. Al Khalifa,s portfolio also includes civil aviation as well as telecommunications, postal services and pub [...]	2004-09-25 12:41:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA BEXP EAIR ECON PREL
04MANAMA1475	BAHRAIN: TOKYO DONORS' MEETING FOR IRAQ [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief September 21 delivered reftel demarche regarding the Tokyo donors' meeting for Iraq to MFA Director for Bilateral Affairs Dhafer Al-Umran. He noted that he had already been approached by both the Japanese and Iraqis concerning Bahraini participation in the meeting. He s [...]	2004-09-26 13:48:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN PREL BA IZ
04MANAMA1476	BAHRAIN: COMBATANT STATUS REVIEW TRIBUNAL REQUEST [...] (C) This is an action request; please see para 3. 2. (C) Ambassador delivered Ref A combatant status review tribunal request for assistance September 22 to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar. Abdul Ghaffar said that he would initiate action to try to locate the [...]	2004-09-26 13:56:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PINR PREL BA
04MANAMA1489	CROWN PRINCE LEADS LABOR MARKET REFORM WORKSHOP [...] (U) On September 23, Crown Prince Sheikh Salman Al Khalifa and the Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) held a widely publicized public workshop on labor reform. A politically potent issue, it was the first time the government openly addressed the employment challenges Bahrain faces. A M [...]	2004-09-28 09:44:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ELAB BA
04MANAMA1495	EMBASSY MANAMA - TFCO RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2004-09-29 13:06:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BA ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN
04MANAMA1516	GENERAL ABIZAID DISCUSSES REGIONAL SITUATION WITH [...] (C) Commander U.S. Central Command General Abizaid met with King Hamad, Crown Prince Salman, and Defense Minister Khalifa on September 27 to discuss Iraq and the upcoming elections there, the need for full Sunni participation in the election, Iranian interference in Iraq, and the situations in [...]	2004-10-02 14:18:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PTER BA IZ IR
04MANAMA1524	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S VISIT TO [...] (S) Mr. Secretary, we warmly welcome you to Bahrain. While the genesis of your trip is meeting with Operation Iraqi Freedom coalition Ministers of Defense on the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, your visit comes at an important time in our bilateral relationship with Bahrain. The mil-mil re [...]	2004-10-04 15:26:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL MARR MOPS PTER ECON OVIP BA
04MANAMA1528	BAHRAIN: COMBATANT STATUS REVIEW TRIBUNAL REQUEST [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief October 4 delivered Refs A and B information regarding Guantanamo detainee Shaikh Salman Ebrahim Mohammed Al Khalifa's request for witness testimony to MFA Under Secretary Shaikh Abdul Aziz Al Khalifa. He listened carefully to the points and reconfirmed that the United Sta [...]	2004-10-05 10:38:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PINR PREL BA
04MANAMA1536	BAHRAIN: DELIVERY OF U.S. DRAFT REFORM RESOLUTION [...] (U) Post delivered reftel talking points and U.S. draft resolution on reforming the UNGA First Committee to the MFA via diplomatic note on October 2. We will follow up after October 11, when Assistant Under Secretary for Political and International Cooperation Affairs Ahmed Al-Haddad returns [...]	2004-10-05 14:16:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PARM PREL BA CDG UNGA

04MANAMA1542	BAHRAIN AND NEXT STEPS ON NATO'S ISTANBUL [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief met with MFA Under Secretary Shaikh Abdul Aziz Al Khalifa October 4 to discuss NATO Deputy Secretary General Alessandro Rizzo's one-day visit to Bahrain SIPDIS and NATO's Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI). While noting that the GOB had not yet developed a detailed po [...]	2004-10-06 12:51:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL BA MEPP NATO
04MANAMA1553	SECRETARY OF DEFENSE OCTOBER 9, 2004 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: SecDef met with Bahrain King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa on October 09, 2004, in Bahrain. The King made the following points: (1) The ultimate responsibility for the security of Iraq rests with the Iraqis, not the U.S. (2) Reaffirmed Bahrain's commitment to support the U.S. both [...]	2004-10-12 12:53:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV BA SA IZ
04MANAMA1558	KING OPENS PARLIAMENT WITH SHOW OF UNITY [...] (C) King Hamad October 9 opened Parliament's third session since the adoption of the National Charter with a speech focusing on the need for unity, dialogue, and tolerance in the Kingdom. The King warned that in-fighting puts prosperity at risk and people must find a way to express differenc [...]	2004-10-12 15:53:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL BA
04MANAMA1564	MINISTER OF INTERIOR: FOUR EXTREMISTS TO BE TRIED [...] (S/NF) Minister of the Interior Shaikh Rashid assured the Ambassador October 11, 2004 that the four extremists currently in detention would appear in court shortly, and that he had anticiapted they would be brought to trial. (On October 13, BNSA advised the Embassy that the four will continue [...]	2004-10-13 13:44:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC BA PINR PREL PTER
04MANAMA1566	CROWN PRINCE TO CNO: BAHRAIN SCHOOL IS ASSET FOR [...] (C) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Vernon Clark met with Crown Prince and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahrain Defense Force Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa on October 10 and discussed the status of the Bahrain School, a review of U.S. naval presence in the region, terrorism and the [...]	2004-10-13 16:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL PTER BA
04MANAMA1571	BAHRAIN: NOTICE OF FINAL DETERMINATION OF [...] (C) This is an action request; please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Ambassador October 16 delivered reftel demarche concerning the final determination of the Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) for four Bahraini detainees to Foreign Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, noting tha [...]	2004-10-17 14:42:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PINR PREL BA
04MANAMA1572	BAHRAIN: DCI SPECIAL ADVISOR'S COMPREHENSIVE [...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche regarding the release of the "Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI for Iraq WMD" under cover of diplomatic note number 371 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There was no Bahrain-specific coverage of the issue in the local press. MONROE [...]	2004-10-17 14:52:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR BA KPDD
04MANAMA1578	BAHRAIN ON TIMING OF FORUM FOR FUTURE, GCC, [...] (C) Ambassador October 16 told Foreign Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa that the Forum for the Future (FfF) meetings in Morocco would take place December 10 (sub-ministerial) and 11 (ministerial). He noted that Bahrain would host the GCC summit in December and suggested that t [...]	2004-10-18 11:05:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON BA
04MANAMA1580	BAHRAIN: IRANIAN ACTIVITY IN IRAQ [...] (S) Ambassador October 16 delivered reftel demarche concerning Iranian activity in Iraq to Foreign Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, emphasizing increasing United States concern about Iranian behavior in Iraq. The Minister responded that the GOB shares our concerns and he has [...]	2004-10-18 11:17:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PTER BA IZ IR
04MANAMA1594	BAHRAIN: U.S. NOMINEE FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL [...] (U) Pol/Econ chief delivered reftel demarche October 12 concerning Judge Theodor Meron's nomination for reelection as permanent judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to MFA Director for International Organizations Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho responded tha [...]	2004-10-19 13:00:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS KAWC PHUM PREL BA UNGA
04MANAMA1595	BAHRAIN: OPPOSING CUBA'S UN RESOLUTION AGAINST [...] (U) Pol/Econ chief delivered reftel demarche October 12 on opposing Cuba's UN resolution against the embargo to MFA Director for International Organizations Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho said that Bahrain always votes in favor of the resolution because of Cuba's steadfast support for resolutions o [...]	2004-10-19 13:14:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD BA CU UNGA
04MANAMA1603	BMENA ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER GETTING OFF THE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified (Deliberative Process); not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On October 12 the Ambassador met with Minister of Finance and National Economy Abdulla Bin Hassan Saif to discuss implementation of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Bahrain's decision to host a [...]	2004-10-20 08:39:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL BA
04MANAMA1607	TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF JAMA'AT [...] (U) Pol/Econ chief delivered Ref A designation of Jama'at Al-Tawhid wa'al-Jihad, background paper, and non-paper via diplomatic note number 379 October 18 to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow-Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz SIPDIS bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Al Khalifa promised to [...]	2004-10-20 12:04:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS BA LVPR
04MANAMA1611	BAHRAINI WITNESSES PREPARED TO DELIVER WRITTEN [...] (C) This is an action request; please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Per Ref B, Pol/Econ chief discussed with MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow-Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa October 18 possible options for Bahraini witnesses to deliver testimony on behalf o [...]	2004-10-23 14:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KAWC PTER PHUM PINR BA
04MANAMA1612	BAHRAINI SECURITY TEAM DATA FOR GUANTANAMO VISIT [...] (C) This is an action message; please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Per reftels, the GOB requested approval for a security team to visit Bahraini detainees at Guantanamo. State agreed to process the request pending receipt of bio data for the members of the proposed team. Post received an offi [...]	2004-10-23 14:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PINR PREL BA
04MANAMA1618	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CROWN PRINCE [...] (S/NOFORN) Summary. The Crown Prince told the Ambassador October 23 that he would make calls to key Congressional leaders to urge early ratification of the FTA. He defended his recent labor reform proposals, which were recently criticized by elements in the business community. He denied that [...]	2004-10-25 10:24:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER BA
04MANAMA1622	BAHRAIN: COSTA RICA CLONING RESOLUTION, UNGA [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief met with MFA Director for International Organizations Ghassan Shaikho October 12 to discuss the Costa Rica resolution on human cloning and Bahrain's bid for the UNGA presidency for the 2006-07 session. Shaikho said that the GOB opposes human cloning, but had requested an [...]	2004-10-25 12:49:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL BA UNGA
04MANAMA1660	The Bahrain Financial Center - If you build it, [...] (U) Summary: On October 17 the Ambassador visited the Bahrain Financial Harbor (BFH),a USD $1.3 billion project to develop a mini-city of luxury offices and apartments targeted at the financial services and insurance sectors. The BFH is seen as a complement to GOB efforts to promote Bahrain [...]	2004-11-02 07:06:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON EINV BA
04MANAMA1662	BAHRAIN: UNGA RESOLUTION ON HUMAN CLONING [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief October 30 delivered Ref A demarche concerning the state of play on the Costa Rica resolution on cloning to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho was interested to hear that Saudi Arabia will vote in favor of the resolution and comm [...]	2004-11-02 15:12:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PREL BA UNGA
04MANAMA1663	BAHRAIN: REPASCH CANDIDACY FOR RE-ELECTION TO UN [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief October 30 delivered reftel demarche concerning Thomas Repasch's candidacy for re-election to the UN Joint Staff Pension Committee to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho was particularly interested in the geographic distribution of [...]	2004-11-02 15:15:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PREL BA UNGA
04MANAMA1664	BAHRAIN: NOTICE OF GUANTANAMO ADMINISTRATIVE [...] (S) Pol/Econ chief October 31 passed reftel information concerning upcoming Administrative Review Board (ARB) proceedings for detainees Adil Kamil Al Wadi and Salah Al Balushi to MFA First Secretary Shaikh Turki Al Khalifa. (Note: Shaikh Turki is responsible for the detainees issue in the ab [...]	2004-11-02 15:16:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL KAWC BA PETER
04MANAMA1665	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON U.S. CONCERNS OVER [...] (S) The Ambassador November 2 delivered Ref A demarche to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Abdul Ghaffar and Minister of Industry (and confidant of the King) Fakhro. He also spoke with Minister of Justice Al Arrayed and President of the Court of Cassation Shaikh Khalifa Al Khalifa. Abdu [...]	2004-11-02 15:51:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PTER ASEC PREL BA
04MANAMA1669	CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FROM THE CROWN PRINCE TO [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-06 10:31:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA1671	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY ARMITAGE'S [...] (S) We warmly welcome your visit to Bahrain. Your trip comes at a critical stage. The court's November 1 decision to release the four terrorism suspects sends the wrong signal on the GOB's commitment to fighting the war on terrorism. Your meeting with King Hamad represents the best opportuni [...]	2004-11-06 14:02:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PTER ASEC BA
04MANAMA1684	BAHRAIN SCHOOL: PRESERVE THE DOD CONNECTION [...] (C) We now face, as we did last summer, an urgent decision regarding the DODEA-sponsored Bahrain School: should we continue to support it as a DODEA school, or should we begin the process of conversion to a more traditional international school. While the school does indeed fit the profile of [...]	2004-11-08 11:49:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASCH AMGT BA
04MANAMA1689	KING HAMAD VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) In a November 8 discussion following Deputy Secretary Armitage's meeting with King Hamad the night before SIPDIS (septel),Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammad Abdul Ghaffar told the Deputy Secretary the King wanted to meet with President Bush in Washington in the coming [...]	2004-11-09 10:25:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL BA
04MANAMA1692	BAHRAIN: DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-09 14:09:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL BA
04MANAMA1695	EMBASSY MANAMA'S RAMADAN ACTIVITIES SHOWCASE [...] Embassy Manama's 2004 Ramadan activities follow: -- The Ambassador hosted a lively youth-oriented U.S. Elections Night "majlis" in his Residence on November 2. More than one hundred University of Bahrain students, NGO representatives, journalists, and government officials attended. Eleven [...]	2004-11-10 07:29:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OIIP OEXC SCUL KPAO BA
04MANAMA1698	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES COUNTER-TERRORISM, IRAQ, [...] (S) The Ambassador met with Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa November 8 for a discussion that included counter-terrorism, Iraq, and human rights. He expressed the USG's deep concern about the judge's release of the four terrorism suspects on November 1 and urged the GOB to use all [...]	2004-11-10 09:24:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PTER PHUM BA
04MANAMA1699	BAHRAIN TO HOST INAUGURAL MENA FATF MEETING [...] (U) Bahrain will host the inaugural meeting of the Middle East/North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENA FATF) on November 29-30. The establishment of a FATF-styled regional body in the Middle East and North Africa is, according to the Bahrain Monetary Agency's (BMA) Compliance chief, "a [...]	2004-11-10 11:30:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN BA
04MANAMA1707	SHOUTING MATCH ERUPTS IN PARLIAMENT OVER FALLUJAH [...] (U) Shia and Sunni deputies in the Council of Representatives (COR) engaged in a heated shouting match November 9 during debate over a statement condemning the U.S. attack in Fallujah. Twenty-four of the 40 COR members forwarded a written request to issue a statement to chairman Khalifa Al D [...]	2004-11-10 15:14:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BA IZ
04MANAMA1708	DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETING WITH KING HAMAD [...] (S) The Deputy Secretary met with King Hamad November 7 to discuss Bahrain's counter-terrorism efforts, the situation in Iraq, and Bahrain's relations with its neighbors. The King opened the meeting with a surprise proposal to commit a company of special forces troops to Afghanistan as part o [...]	2004-11-10 15:40:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL MARR ASEC PTER BA IZ
04MANAMA1737	BAHRAIN: SUPPORTING SECRETARY POWELL'S [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-22 12:06:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL BA IZ
04MANAMA1738	ARTICLE 98: BAHRAIN CONCERNED ABOUT PRESENTING [...] (U) This is an action message; please see para 6. 2. (C) Ambassador, noting that he had been called personally by Under Secretary Bolton on the subject, delivered reftel points on completing Article 98 agreements November 20 to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar. [...]	2004-11-22 12:07:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS MARR PREL BA KICC
04MANAMA1745	SCENESETTER: KING HAMAD'S NOVEMBER 29 VISIT TO [...] (S) King Hamad requested to visit Washington to congratulate the President on his reelection, reaffirm Bahrain's strong support for U.S. Iraq policy and the war on terrorism, and consult with the President on Bahrain's hosting of the December 20 GCC Summit and outcomes the USG would like from [...]	2004-11-22 14:26:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PTER ASEC PHUM ECON ETRD BA
04MANAMA1747	BAHRAIN PARTICIPATION IN G8 BMENA FORUM FOR THE [...] (SBU) Ambassador November 20 delivered Ref A and B G8/BMENA talking points and agendas to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar. Abdul Ghaffar said that Minister of Finance and National Economy Abdulla Saif would attend the December 11 meetings in Rabat, but it was not [...]	2004-11-23 04:49:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON KMPI KDEM BA
04MANAMA1759	SECRETARY OF THE NAVY ENGLAND MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: MFA Minister of State Abdul Ghaffar told Secretary of the Navy England November 22 that the King will SIPDIS use his upcoming visit to Washington to stress to the President that Bahrain is proudly aligned with the U.S., and to remind the people of Bahrain that the people of the [...]	2004-11-24 12:03:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PTER ASEC BA
04MANAMA1760	MESSAGE FROM THE KING TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-24 12:43:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA1761	SECRETARY OF THE NAVY ENGLAND MEETING WITH [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-24 12:50:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC PTER MARR BA
04MANAMA1762	BAHRAIN OFFERS TO HOST IRAQ FACTIONS MEETING [...] (U) Bahrain Foreign Minister Shaikh Mohammed Al Khalifa, speaking at the November 22-23 Sharm El Sheikh conference on Iraq, reported Bahrain's readiness to host a meeting of all factions in Iraq prior to the scheduled January 30 elections in order to encourage broad participation in the vote. [...]	2004-11-24 12:53:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ BA
04MANAMA1766	SECRETARY OF THE NAVY ENGLAND'S MEETINGS WITH KING [...] (C) Secretary of the Navy Gordon England met with King Hamad and Crown Prince Salman November 23 and discussed the King's November 29 visit to Washington, Bahrain's counter-terrorism efforts, Iraq, and Iran. The King expressed his appreciation for the invitation to meet with the President an [...]	2004-11-25 14:11:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PTER ASEC BA IZ
04MANAMA1781	BAHRAIN: BMENA FORUM FOR THE FUTURE DEMARCHE AND [...] (U) On November 28 Embassy Manama delivered the letter from Secretary Powell regarding the Forum for the Future meeting on December 11 (reftel A) to Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa via diplomatic note. 2. (U) As requested in reftel C, EconOff reviewed the status of t [...]	2004-11-29 13:43:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN ETRD KDEM PREL KMPI BA
04MANAMA1782	BAHRAIN: POST SUPPORT FOR MEPI PROGRAM IMPLEMENTERS [...] (U) Post appreciates this opportunity to provide feedback on our experiences working with MEPI implementers. For the most part our experience has been positive, however, we would like to see better coordination on implementer travel including advance notice and contact information for those a [...]	2004-11-29 13:45:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT EAID ECON KDEM KPAO PREL KMPI BA
04MANAMA1792	GCC COMPLAINS US-BAHRAIN FTA BREAKS THE RULES [...] (C) Summary: A November 23 Reuters article generated a flurry of responses in the Bahraini press including front-page coverage of comments by the Prime Minister. The article quoted an unnamed Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) official who said GCC member states believed the U.S.-Bahrain Free Tra [...]	2004-12-01 08:20:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL BA
04MANAMA181	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING POLITICAL COMMITMENT TO [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-09 11:50:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	TRGY ENRG PARM OPDC PREL KNNP KSTC
04MANAMA1814	SAUDI STATEMENT ON GCC BILATERAL AGREEMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Saudi FM Prince Saud, speaking at a conference in Bahrain December 5, criticized bilateral security and economic agreements between GCC countries and international powers. Bahrain quickly reacted publicly and privately. Publicly, it issued a statement defending its signing of th [...]	2004-12-06 11:39:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA GCC
04MANAMA1821	BAHRAIN: RESPONSE TO LETTER FROM SECRETARY POWELL [...] (U) Embassy Manama received the following response from Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Bin Mubarak Al-Khalifato Secretary Powell's letter on the Broader Middle East and SIPDIS North Africa (BMENA) meeting in Rabat via diplomatic note on December 6. 2. (U) Begin Text November 30 [...]	2004-12-07 12:20:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON KMPI KDEM KPAO OPDC BA
04MANAMA1823	CODEL HAGEL MEETS WITH CROWN PRINCE AT GULF [...] (C) Summary: Bahrain's Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa met with Senators Chuck Hagel, Dianne Feinstein and Lincoln Chafee and their staff on December 4 on the margins of the "Gulf Dialogue," an international conference sponsored by the GOB and organized by the London-based Inte [...]	2004-12-07 14:01:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OTRA BA IZ IS
04MANAMA1824	CROWN PRINCE TO PROPOSE CONTROVERSIAL DRAFT LABOR [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador and Embassy Baghdad Political-Military Counselor and former Ambassador to Bahrain Ronald Neumann, Crown Prince Sheikh Salman Al Khalifa said he would submit a draft labor law to the Cabinet by late January or early February. He hoped the parliament would a [...]	2004-12-07 14:08:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ELAB BA
04MANAMA1829	GCC CRISIS? MINISTERIAL FOUNDERS ON BAHRAIN FTA [...] (C) The December 7 meeting of GCC Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finance, aimed at preparing for the 25th GCC Summit in Manama December 20-21, ended in failure over Saudi insistence that all discussions of FTAs with the United States stop, Deputy Foreign Minister and Minister for Foreign Aff [...]	2004-12-08 13:00:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON BA GCC
04MANAMA1834	TERROR SUSPECT CASE REFERRED TO CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) The High Criminal Court judge hearing the case of four Bahrain terrorist suspects adjourned their criminal trial for two weeks on December 6 to allow defense lawyers to test the constitutionality of the case with the Constitutional Court. The lawyers argued in court that the article under w [...]	2004-12-08 14:21:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL BA
04MANAMA1835	MENA FATF ESTABLISHED TO COMBAT MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The inaugural meeting of the MENA FATF held on November 29 and 30 in Manama, Bahrain was attended by Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors from fourteen countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The ministers selected a President, Vice President and Executive Secre [...]	2004-12-08 14:47:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN BA
04MANAMA1839	BAHRAIN TO PROCEED WITH GCC SUMMIT [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-09 11:10:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD BA GCC
04MANAMA1840	US TREASURY DELEGATION DISCUSSES SYRIAN 311 [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-09 14:55:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN BA
04MANAMA1849	BAHRAIN: SUPPORT FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-12 07:03:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BA UNGA
04MANAMA1858	BAHRAIN SETS TIMETABLE FOR DEPLOYMENT TO [...] (S) SUMMARY: Minister of Defense al-Khalifa outlined for the Ambassador the timeline for the proposed deployment of Special Forces troops to Afghanistan. Training for the deployment will begin in the UAE in January 2005. Both Bahrain and UAE want the deployment to be low profile. After me [...]	2004-12-13 06:15:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	BA MARR MOPS PREL
04MANAMA1862	ABDEL AZIZ AL-HAKIM DISCUSSES IRAQI FUTURE WITH [...] (C) Summary. SCIRI Chairman Al-Hakim visited Bahrain this week, bringing a positive message of reassurance that Iraqi Shia wished to work with Sunnis to forge a new Iraq. Hegemony of one faction, he insisted, was not a model for Iraq. He said he had talked with many Sunni religious leaders in [...]	2004-12-13 11:49:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER BA IZ
04MANAMA1866	LATEST ON SAUDI-BAHRAIN FTA ISSUE [...] (C) Minister of Finance Abdulla Seif, just back from the Forum for the Future meeting in Rabat, was short on details about discussions on the margins of the Forum about the FTA dispute with Saudi Arabia, but expressed confidence that a formula will be found to resolve the issue within the GCC. [...]	2004-12-13 15:01:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL BA GCC
04MANAMA1867	DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Bahraini Crown Prince Salman December 4 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. DNSA Hadley praised Bahrain's leadership role in the G8 Broader Middle East reform initiative, and noted the President's desire [...]	2004-12-14 06:35:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KDEM PGOV BA IR
04MANAMA1879	BAHRAIN: SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE TO GCC FOREIGN [...] (C) NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Philo Dibble delivered reftel message to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar December 13. The minister assured DAS Dibble that the MFA would carefully consider all points of the message. 2. (C) PolEcon chief also delivered refte [...]	2004-12-15 12:12:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS OPDC BA
04MANAMA1880	BAHRAIN: ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR AND FULL [...] (C) NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Philo Dibble delivered reftel message to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar December 13. Abdul Ghaffar said the GOB had encouraged Sunnis to participate in Iraqi elections and would continue to do so. 2. (C) PolEcon chief also [...]	2004-12-15 12:13:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC IZ BA
04MANAMA1882	DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal December 5 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. DNSA Hadley encouraged Saud to reach out to Iraqi Sunnis to participate in the January 30 elections. The Foreign Mini [...]	2004-12-15 12:33:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KDEM PGOV SA IR SY IZ
04MANAMA1884	DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Iraqi National Security Advisor Qassem Daoud December 4 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Daoud said that Iraq faced a number of crises: obtaining weapons quickly; procuring helicopters and armored veh [...]	2004-12-15 12:34:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV KDEM IZ IR BA
04MANAMA1885	DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (S) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdulla December 5 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Bin Alawi said that Oman is looking forward to negotiating a free trade agreement with t [...]	2004-12-15 12:34:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PTER ASEC ETRD ECON MU IR BA
04MANAMA1886	DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Kuwaiti National Security Council President Shaikh Sabah Khaled Al Sabah December 4 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Shaikh Sabah hailed the strong bilateral relationship and stated that Kuwaitis are [...]	2004-12-15 12:35:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PTER ASEC KU IZ IR SY BA
04MANAMA1888	DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Abdallah Rashed Al Nuaymi December 4 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Al Nuaymi said that the United Arab Emirates was pleased with progress in the bila [...]	2004-12-15 12:39:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KDEM IZ IR BA TC
04MANAMA1889	DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Yemeni Interior Minister Rashed Mohammed Al Alimi December 5 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Al Alimi thanked the U.S. for its counter terrorism assistance and expressed his desire to increase cooper [...]	2004-12-15 12:39:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR ASEC YM SA BA
04MANAMA1890	DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with UK Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister Sir Nigel Sheinwald December 4 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Sheinwald said that the UK government had solidified around the January 30 date for Iraq [...]	2004-12-15 12:40:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM MARR MOPS PTER UK IR IZ BA
04MANAMA1891	DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Australian Defense Minister Robert Hill December 5 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Hill said that Australia is staying in the Iraq coalition and is looking at how its forces can be more useful. DNSA [...]	2004-12-15 12:42:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS AU IZ BA
04MANAMA1899	NEA DAS DIBBLE DISCUSSES FTA, FORUM FOR THE [...] (C) Summary. On a December 12-13 visit to Manama, NEA DAS Dibble paid a call on Bahraini Minister of National Economy (MOFNE) Abdulla Saif. They discussed the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA),the recent Forum for the Future meeting in Rabat, and plans for the establishment of the En [...]	2004-12-15 13:03:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECIN PREL BA
04MANAMA1912	GCC MANAMA SUMMIT CONCLUDES UNDER SHADOW OF [...] (C) Saudi Arabia's concern about bilateral free trade agreements with the United States overshadowed the 25th GCC Summit, which took place in Bahrain December 20-21. The last minute downgrading of Saudi's representation from Crown Prince Abdulla to Prince Sultan set the tone at the beginning [...]	2004-12-21 14:41:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD BA GCC
04MANAMA1914	CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ACCEPTS TERROR SUSPECT CASE [...] (C) As expected, Bahrain's Criminal Court decided on December 20 to temporarily suspend its hearing on the case against four terrorist suspects, pending a decision by Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of article 157 of the penal code under which the four are charged. The decision [...]	2004-12-21 15:17:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PREL BA
04MANAMA1925	GCC SUMMIT: BAHRAIN MFA GIVES UPBEAT READOUT [...] (C) Summary. Bahrain MFA Minister of State Abdel Ghaffar termed the 25th GCC Summit a "very good and successful event," citing the conclusion several economic agreements aimed at mobility and integration within the GCC as well as the Summit's success in sidestepping Saudi concerns over FTAs. [...]	2004-12-22 15:40:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD BA GCC
04MANAMA1938	BAHRAIN: DEMARCHE ON THE 12 COUNTERTERRORISM [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-28 08:51:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PREL BA
04MANAMA2	BAHRAIN AND ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT [...] (C) I discussed with Foreign Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak on December 31 the possibility of Bahrain's completing the Article 98 Agreement through a secret exchange of notes rather than by parliamentary ratification. Although Bahrain's foreign ministry has consistently said ratificati [...]	2004-01-01 05:20:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL BA
04MANAMA217	POSSIBLE CHR RESOLUTION ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-16 14:34:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IZ BA
04MANAMA224	MESSAGE FROM BAHRAIN'S PRIME MINISTER TO SECRETARY [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-17 11:01:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AMGT
04MANAMA227	BAHRAINI MFA WITH US ON IRAQ RESOLUTION AT UNCHR [...] (C) BAHRAINI MFA DIRECTOR FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS TOLD POL/ECON CHIEF ON FEBRUARY 17 THAT BAHRAIN AND SEVERAL OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES ARE NOT INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING THE ALGERIAN RESOLUTION ABOUT IRAQ BEFORE THE UNCHR. (HE CITED KUWAIT AS ANOTHER ARAB COUNTRY TAKING THIS STANCE. [...]	2004-02-17 15:23:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA IZ PHUM PREL
04MANAMA235	CTAG COUNTRY AMBASSADORS SEE NO IMMEDIATE NEEDS IN [...] (U) CTAG Ambassadors in Bahrain agreed U.S. Embassy-led efforts are meeting key Bahraini needs, but they wondered if the April 2004 Formula One race event's security would be adequate. Over lunch at DCR February 17 with the Ambassadors from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the Japanese [...]	2004-02-18 14:22:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ETTC EFIN ASEC PREL BEXP BA
04MANAMA264	CONSPIRACY LAW POSSIBILITIES - MEETING WITH MOJ [...] (C) Upon return from his Washington trip, the Crown Prince placed a wake-up call to the Justice Minister to ask about Bahrain's conspiracy law, the Minister told CDA and PolOff on February 22. Minister of Justice Jawad bin Salim Al Arayed asked us what a conspiracy law should do. The CDA e [...]	2004-02-24 16:26:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PTER PREL ASEC BA
04MANAMA265	SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY GROSSMAN'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Mr. Grossman, the American Embassy in Bahrain looks forward to your visit next week, and we know the Bahrainis will be anxious to talk to you about the Greater Middle East Initiative. Bahrain, a Major Non-NATO Ally, and the United States are long-time friends, and King Hamad is a parti [...]	2004-02-24 17:05:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETRD BA
04MANAMA27	CHAIR OF CHR-60 - BAHRAIN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-07 13:33:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BA
04MANAMA28	SCENESETTER FOR USDOC ASSISTANT SECRETARY LASH [...] Our team at Embassy Manama welcomes the upcoming visit of Assistant Secretary Lash to Bahrain. I regret that I will not be here to meet you, but we are arranging an excellent program in my absence. Your visit will further strengthen ties between the Commerce Department and Bahrain, building [...]	2004-01-07 14:23:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ECON PREL BA IZ
04MANAMA280	MESSAGE FROM HIS MAJESTY KING HAMAD BIN ISSA AL [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-29 06:42:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AMGT
04MANAMA291	KING HAMAD SUPPORTS REFORM IN THE MIDDLE EAST [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-04 09:43:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BA
04MANAMA321	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN DISARMAMENT COMMISSION [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-10 06:19:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PARM PREL UNDC CDG
04MANAMA322	NO SIGN OF MOVEMENT ON ARTICLE 98 RATIFICATION [...] (C) Charge asked Bahraini MFA Minister of State on March 8 and the Foreign Minister on March 9 whether the GoB had determined how it wanted to move forward with implementing our signed Article 98 agreement. The Minister of State said the MFA lawyers still have not determined what legal mean [...]	2004-03-10 07:18:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KJUS KTIA BA KICC
04MANAMA331	INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN --BAHRAIN [...] (C) Charge delivered ref demarche to MFA Minister of State on Monday, March 8. Charge emphasized Afghanistan's major reconstruction needs. The Minister of State was not aware of the conference but understood our request and said he would study it. 2. (C) Comment: Bahrain does not see [...]	2004-03-10 14:15:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV
04MANAMA337	BAHRAIN HAILS SIGNING OF IRAQI TEMPORARY [...] ALL LEADING NEWSPAPERS IN BAHRAIN REPORTED ON MARCH 9 THE OFFICIAL BAHRAIN GOVERNMENT STATEMENT PRAISING SIGNING OF THE TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN IRAQ BEGIN TEXT: BAHRAIN YESTERDAY WELCOMED THE SIGNING OF THE INTERIM CONSTITUTION IN IRAQ, SAYING IT WAS A POSITIVE STEP ON THE RIGHT W [...]	2004-03-11 08:30:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IZ BA
04MANAMA338	IRAQ HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION STILL OFF MESSAGE [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-11 09:50:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IZ BA UNHRC
04MANAMA351	BAHRAIN AND THE 6OTH SESSION OF THE UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-13 13:04:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BA UNHRC
04MANAMA368	BAHRAIN AND ARTICLE 98: SLOW MOTION [...] (C) The Bahraini Government is still pondering what to do about bringing our signed Article 98 agreement into effect. Charge on March 16 again asked the MFA Minister of State whether the Government would agree to a confidential exchange of notes. The Minister, clearly annoyed that Charge w [...]	2004-03-16 14:56:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIA KICC BA JUS
04MANAMA370	POST RESPONSE: U.S.-BAHRAIN FTA GOVERNMENT [...] Post believes that the following should be ADDED to the list of government entities that conduct procurements that may be of interest to U.S. suppliers: --Royal Court --Prime Minister's Court --Crown Prince's Court The following have independent budgets and so should also be included: - [...]	2004-03-17 12:44:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD PREL BA
04MANAMA372	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: AWARDS OF IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-17 13:19:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN KPAO PREL IZ
04MANAMA375	SUPPORT FOR GREATER MIDDLE EAST INITIATIVE IN [...] (SBU) Following U/S Grossman's visit to Bahrain on 3/3/04, Charg was invited by Al-Wasat Newspaper, to participate in a discussion forum about the Greater Middle East Initiative on 3/14/04. The forum was attended by a cross section of Bahrainis representing academia, business, media, and go [...]	2004-03-17 14:00:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KMDR PGOV KPAO KDEM BA
04MANAMA402	BAHRAIN NOT TRANSFERRING OLD IRAQI ACCOUNT FUNDS [...] (C) Bahrain will not promptly transfer approximately USD 47 million in funds from old Iraqi-owned bank deposits to the United Nations Development Fund for Iraq (DFI),Finance Minister Saif told Charge on March 20. Charge had urged Saif that the issue had been outstanding since the summer of [...]	2004-03-24 12:14:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA EFIN IZ PREL
04MANAMA403	MFA MINSTATE ASKS FOR TIME ON ARTICLE 98 [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-24 12:26:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL MARR PTER BA KICC
04MANAMA404	BAHRAINI CROWN PRINCE SAYS SHEIKH YASSIN KILLING [...] (C) Bahraini Crown Prince Sheikh Salman told CENTCOM's General Abizaid March 24 that the killing of Sheikh Yassin was a setback to those in the Arab World who want more and faster reforms. Notably, he said the Bahraini Government (still the chair of the Arab League) has heard that the Tunis [...]	2004-03-24 12:50:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA KISL PREL
04MANAMA410	BAHRAIN TO STUDY CUBA AND CHINA RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-25 09:37:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BA UNHRC
04MANAMA411	GUANTANAMO AGAIN ON MFA MINSTATE'S AGENDA [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-25 09:49:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PTER PREL BA

04MANAMA429	ENCOURAGING CHR MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THE RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-29 10:17:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BA UNHRC
04MANAMA430	BAHRAINIS ALSO SURPRISED BY ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 5. 2. (C) Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Mubarak told the Ambassador on March 29 that the sudden postponement of the Arab League summit was a surprise to him and the other ministers meeting in Tunisia. Describing details very much a [...]	2004-03-29 13:30:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA PREL
04MANAMA431	BAHRAINI VIEWS ON IRAQ: WONDERING ABOUT IRAQI [...] (S) Summary: Bahrain's King Hamad remains concerned about the extent of Shia and Iranian influence in Iraq but is strongly supportive of our efforts there. His son the Crown Prince urged us to take care with the de-Baathification process to avoid alienating Iraqi Sunnis. The King and Crown [...]	2004-03-29 14:22:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL IZ BA
04MANAMA444	MEPI FY 2004 FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (U) Post's MEPI working group met on March 23 to review ref A. The following is the Mission's response. CROSS PILLAR 2. (U) Post's MEPI working group is considering four MEPI small grants. Post will advise MEPI of details via email per reftel. ECONOMIC PILLAR 3. (U) In conjunctio [...]	2004-03-31 10:39:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI EAID ECON PREL KPAO BA
04MANAMA448	COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY PROGRESS [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-31 11:14:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN PREL ASEC BA
04MANAMA453	LETTER DELIVERED: MESSAGE TO KING HAMAD BIN ISA AL [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-03 08:48:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL IZ BA
04MANAMA476	BAHRAIN ON SADR: VERBAL SUPPORT FOR US, MAYBE [...] (C) Bahraini Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Abdelghaffar expressed strong (verbal) support for Coalition operations to contain Muqtada Sadr and the Jaysh al-Mahdi. Charge stressed the challenge Sadr represents in Iraq and the need for a forceful Coalition response. Abdelghaffar agreed [...]	2004-04-05 13:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA IZ MOPS PREL
04MANAMA485	BAHRAIN NON-COMMITTAL ON CUBA AND CHINA UNCHR [...] (U) Foreign Affairs MinState Muhammad Abdulghaffar responded to Charge's April 3 delivery of reftel demarche with a promise to refer the matter to his staff and Geneva mission for study. On April 6, MFA Director for International Organization Affairs said he had of no new instructions and w [...]	2004-04-06 13:50:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BA UNHRC
04MANAMA486	BAHRAINI GOVERNMENT MULL STATEMENT ON IRAQ, [...] (C) Charge followed up with a top political advisor to Bahrain's King Hamed bin Isa on April 6 to brief on Iraq developments and urge a statement of public support for U.S. efforts in Iraq. The King's advisor said that the King and his kitchen cabinet had discussed Iraq events and our reques [...]	2004-04-06 14:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA IZ MOPS PREL
04MANAMA498	BAHRAINI SHIA INITIALLY COOL ON MUQTADA AL-SADR [...] (C) Even if Coalition operations to arrest Muqtada Al-Sadr result in his death, Bahraini Shia are unlikely to react violently. On April 7 POL Section polled a wide spectrum of Shia contacts regarding the spike in violence in Iraq. The majority of our Shia contacts doubted that the apprehens [...]	2004-04-08 13:03:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS ASEC PREL BA
04MANAMA503	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-11 10:24:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PREL PARM BA
04MANAMA504	SUPPORT FOR COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS AT THE UN [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-11 10:24:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BA UNHRC
04MANAMA505	DONORS' CONFERENCE FOR CYPRUS SETTLEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-11 10:24:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL CA CY GR TU BA GCC EUN
04MANAMA518	GOB TONE ON IZ CAREFUL IN PUBLIC AMIDST STREET [...] (C) On April 9 a GOB official statement expressed concern about the violence in Iraq and urged all parties to exercise self-restraint. The statement also said that Bahrain hopes to see the reconstruction of Iraq and the restoration of stability. Privately, top GOB officials have told the C [...]	2004-04-12 15:32:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ KPAO BA
04MANAMA523	BAHRAINI LEADERS ON IRAQ: FOCUS FIRST ON [...] (C) Summary: The King, Crown Prince and Foreign Minister told visiting American officials on April 13 that the U.S. needs to focus more of its effort on restoring stability in Iraq immediately, and to worry less about building democracy there in any short time frame. The King and Foreign M [...]	2004-04-13 15:23:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL BA
04MANAMA524	TERRORISM FINANCING - ZINDANI: ENFORCING UN [...] (U) On April 12, Charge delivered reftel demarche to Minister of State of Foreign Affairs Abdelghaffar requesting that the GOB redouble its efforts to locate and freeze all assets linked to Yemeni cleric Shaikh Zindani. 2. (C) Minister Abdelghaffar seemed somewhat surprised that Zindani [...]	2004-04-14 08:10:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KSEP KVPR BA
04MANAMA525	ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Congressman Ryan called the Arab League's boycott of Israel a "Free Trade Agreement (FTA) showstopper" in his April 7 meetings with parliamentarians, the Minister of Finance and National Economy and the Minister of State of Foreign Affairs. Although Ryan praised Bahrain for being the lea [...]	2004-04-14 08:15:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KBCT PREL ETRD ECON BA
04MANAMA526	BAHRAINI LEADERS ON IRAQ: FOCUS FIRST ON [...] (C) Summary: The King, Crown Prince and Foreign Minister told visiting American officials on April 13 that the U.S. needs to focus more of its effort on restoring stability in Iraq immediately, and to worry less about building democracy there in any short time frame. The King and Foreign M [...]	2004-04-14 11:25:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL BA
04MANAMA527	GOB TONE ON IRAQ CAREFUL IN PUBLIC AMIDST STREET [...] (C) On April 9 a GOB official statement expressed concern about the violence in Iraq and urged all parties to exercise self-restraint. The statement also said that Bahrain hopes to see the reconstruction of Iraq and the restoration of stability. Privately, top GOB officials have told the C [...]	2004-04-14 11:25:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ KPAO BA
04MANAMA528	BAHRAINI FM SAYS REFORM IS STILL ON ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Mubarak told us on April 13 that the next Arab League summit would issue a statement supporting domestic reforms inside Arab states. The Minister said that during the last Arab League ministerial in Cairo Egypt, Jordan and Yemen had each pre [...]	2004-04-14 12:21:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BA
04MANAMA529	SCENE SETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY ARMITAGE'S VISIT [...] (C) Mr. Armitage: We are delighted you are coming to Bahrain, and the Bahraini Government is as well. King Hamad has met Generals Abizaid and Myers during the past two weeks, but as political issues move to the fore in Iraq the King had hoped a senior State Department official would come he [...]	2004-04-14 13:19:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PHUM BA
04MANAMA530	MILITARY EQUIPMENT EXPORTS TO LIBYA DEMARCHE [...] (U) CDA delivered reftel demarche to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Abdelghaffar on April 13. Minister Abdelghaffar expressed his government's support of the U.S. initiative to limit military equipment exports to Libya. FORD [...]	2004-04-14 13:27:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PARM PREL PGOV OPDC ETTC KSTC BA JHR LY OVIP DONALD RUMSFELD
04MANAMA537	SUDAN RESOLUTION AT UNCHR DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Embassy A/DCM and PolOff delivered the Department's Sudan UNCHR resolution demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director of Bilateral Relations, Dr. Dhafer Al-Umran, on April 14. Dr. Dhafer reported that the GOB will very likely support a United Nations Human Rights Commission res [...]	2004-04-15 12:08:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BA
04MANAMA551	BAHRAIN SAYS IT'S AGAINST CUBAN RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) Bahraini MFA Minister of State Abdelghaffar told Charge April 18 that Bahrain does not think the Cuban resolution about Guantanamo detainees is helpful, and it asked Cuba to withdraw the resolution. Abdelghaffar said it was obvious the Cubans are trying to score political points with the [...]	2004-04-18 11:33:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	BA PHUM PREL UNHCR
04MANAMA557	NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR LEADING [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-20 10:31:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL
04MANAMA569	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSC DRAFT RESOLUTION ON NON- [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-21 11:18:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PREL BA UNSC
04MANAMA570	UNSC DRAFT RESOLUTION ON NON-PROLIFERATION: [...] (C) The Charge spoke with MFA Assistant Secretary responsible for UN affairs Ahmed Haddad on April 21 and delivered ref demarche and left talking points as a non-paper. Haddad said he did not know if the Bahraini Ambassador would be at the April 22 meeting but said he would share our paper [...]	2004-04-21 12:02:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL BA UNSC
04MANAMA571	DEMARCHE TO OIC ON IRAQI ISSUES: BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-21 12:03:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ XF BA OIC
04MANAMA572	FEISTY FOREIGN MINISTER FLAGS NECESSITY OF [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-21 12:53:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA
04MANAMA603	LETTER DELIVERED: MESSAGE TO KING HAMAD BIN ISA AL [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-28 07:06:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL IZ BA
04MANAMA612	DEPUTY SECRETARY ARMITAGE'S APRIL 19-20 MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with Deputy Secretary Armitage, King Hamad and Crown Prince Sheikh Salman pledged their government's full commitment to its strategic alliance with the US. The King and Crown Prince stressed the need to immediately restore order in Iraq with the selection of a stro [...]	2004-04-28 14:28:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL BA
04MANAMA629	BAHRAINI REACTION TO TREATMENT OF IRAQI POWS AT [...] (C) Embassy contacts expressed their anger and disgust about the media reports on the treatment of Iraqi POWs at Abu Ghraib Prison. After seeing these images on Al-Jazeira television, President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab told PolOff on May 3 that the USG expects Arabs [...]	2004-05-03 14:12:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BA
04MANAMA64	FURTHER ACTION ON CHR 60 CHAIR: BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-18 10:13:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BA
04MANAMA650	DEMARCHE ON AMENDED GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-05 14:03:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS BA UNGA
04MANAMA676	ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT IN PROCESS [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-11 05:08:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA KICC
04MANAMA677	ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT IN PROCESS [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-11 08:02:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA KICC
04MANAMA678	INVITATION TO KING HAMAD TO G-8 SUMMIT IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Bahraini Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar called Charge evening of May 10 to say King Hamad accepts invitation to lunch at G-8 in Georgia June 10 (reftelcon). 2. (C) Please advise logistical details to be passed to the King's office and the Foreign Mi [...]	2004-05-11 08:05:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL BA
04MANAMA688	STANDING UP EMBASSY BAGHDAD: BAHRAIN NOT [...] We reviewed ref on May 8 with Bahraini MFA Assistant Undersecretary (Assistant Secretary-equivalent) for Bilateral Affairs and on May 11 with the Bahraini MFA Minister of State. The Bahraini officials reiterated broad Bahraini support for American efforts to stabilize Iraq. Bahrain does not [...]	2004-05-11 15:44:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BA IZ PREL
04MANAMA695	INITIAL BAHRAINI VIEWS ON GME PROGRAM INITIATIVES [...] (U) Mission officers distributed program concept papers to some of our better contacts in Government and civil society and later followed up to gauge reactions. MFA Assistant Under Secretary Sheikh Abdelaziz bin Mubarak told Charge May 12 that he had studied the papers and he found the idea [...]	2004-05-12 14:17:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID BA MEPI
04MANAMA714	BAHRAINI FOREIGN MINISTER'S PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) The Government of Bahrain's (GOB) Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa informed us on 05/15/04 that the ideas in reftel about NATO cooperation with Arab countries offer some real opportunities for Bahrain. He would welcome the opportunity to discuss security cooperation [...]	2004-05-16 05:02:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL BA MEPP NAVO
04MANAMA720	TORTURE ALLEGATIONS OF BAHRAINI GTMO DETAINEE - [...] (U) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. The Abu Gharieb prison scandal has spurred stories of Bahraini GTMO detainees being tortured. An open letter to President Bush that specified a Bahraini citizen by name has gained credibility with some government and NGO leaders. Sunni Islamist parliamentarian [...]	2004-05-17 13:34:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER BA
04MANAMA721	BAHRAINIS TO WATCH ABU GHRAIB TORTURE TRIALS [...] (C) The editor in chief of the Akhbar al-Khaleej newspaper group told CDA and PAO over lunch on May 16 that the U.S. can regain some of its lost credibility with the Bahraini public if the soldiers responsible for torture at Abu Gharieb prison are punished sternly and visibly. He expects th [...]	2004-05-17 14:04:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM PREL KPAO BA
04MANAMA725	BAHRAIN MAY SIGN BIG IRAN GAS DEAL AT YEAR'S END [...] (C/NF) Bahraini CP Sheikh Salman bin Hamed told CDA on May 15 that Bahrain may conclude a major agreement to buy Iranian gas by the end of CY 2004. Bahraini demand for natural gas is increasing with projects such as the expansion of the aluminum smelter go forward. These projects are vital [...]	2004-05-17 14:37:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET ENRG ETTC PREL IR QA BA
04MANAMA726	PERSPECTIVE OF SOME SHI'A WOMEN APPAREL INDUSTRY [...] (U) SUMMARY. Bahrain anticipates that the WTO-mandated end of textile quotas at the beginning of 2005 will cause its garment manufacturing sector to contract. The Ministry of Industry estimates that there are 3,600 conservative Bahraini Shi'a women working in this industry. There are few i [...]	2004-05-17 14:47:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KTEX KMPI ETRD PREL KWMN BA
04MANAMA749	DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF TAIWAN OBSERVERSHIP AT [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-20 07:28:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL TW BA WHO
04MANAMA774	LAWYERS STILL STUDYING ARTICLE 98 OPTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-23 15:33:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA KICC
04MANAMA782	INTRODUCING THE DRAFT TEXT FOR A NEW UN SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-25 12:18:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IZ BA UNSC
04MANAMA799	SOME BAHRAINIS RECOGNIZE THE NEED TO PLAN FOR [...] SUMMARY. Assistant USTR for Labor WIlliam Clatanoff, who visited Bahrain May 9-13, sounded a clarion call warning to Bahrainis that its textile and garment industry is in danger from the WTO-mandated end to the textile quota system. He made clear that the US-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA) [...]	2004-05-26 14:12:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KTEX PGOV PREL ETRD KWMN KMPI BA
04MANAMA811	ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT IN PROCESS [...] No summary [...]	2004-05-31 05:22:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA KICC
04MANAMA831	ARTICLE 98 RATIFICATION IN BAHRAIN: WE CAN GET IT [...] (C) King Hamad has promised that he will bring into force the Article 98 exclusion agreement. The foreign minister is struggling to find a way to carry this out without causing a political explosion in Bahrain. I believe the GOB will honor its commitment to us, but I question whether we ar [...]	2004-06-02 08:54:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA KIIC
04MANAMA845	LETTER FROM AMBASSADOR TO JUSTICE O'CONNOR [...] Following is the text of a letter the Ambassador sent directly to Justice O'Connor. Begin text: June 5, 2004 Dear Justice O,Connor: As I prepare to leave Manama to serve as Counselor for Political-Military Affairs in Baghdad, I wanted to update you on judicial reform in Bahrain. Yo [...]	2004-06-05 15:32:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL BA MEPI
04MANAMA858	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: Biological Weapons Convention: [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-07 10:17:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BA PARM PREL CBW
04MANAMA860	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSC DRAFT RESOLUTION ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-07 11:18:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL BA UNSC
04MANAMA863	PART I: PARTING THOUGHTS ON BAHRAIN'S POITCIAL AND [...] (S) Not yet democratic, its stability potentially challenged by a rejectionist Shia opposition, unemployment and cultural backlash, Bahrain has yet managed significant advances in political freedom and economic liberalization in the nearly three years of my tour. Its already complex politica [...]	2004-06-07 15:16:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR KMPI BA KAPO
04MANAMA864	PART II: PARTING THOUGHTS ON BAHRAIN'S POLITICAL [...] (S) Bahraini politics remain a complicated balancing act in a small polity. By no means is it a full democracy, but it is going in the right direction with parliament making real trouble and forcing real changes. If not always wise in their actions, the deputies can scarcely be discounted as [...]	2004-06-07 15:27:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR KPAO KMPI BA
04MANAMA865	OPPOSITION TO ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENTS APPEARS IN [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-08 05:40:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL BA KICC
04MANAMA867	CONDOLENCE MESSAGE FROM THE CROWN PRINCE AND [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-08 08:40:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA868	CONDOLENCE MESSAGE FROM THE CROWN PRINCE AND [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-08 08:41:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA872	GOB'S PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE INTERIM IRAQI [...] SUMMARY: The newly elected Iraqi President received public congratulatory cables from the highest levels of the GOB. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) His Majesty King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa sent a cable of congratulations on June 2 to His Excellency President Ghazi Ajeel Al Yawar to mark his selec [...]	2004-06-09 05:24:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ PREL BA
04MANAMA877	CONDOLENCE MESSAGE FROM SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN SALMAN [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-09 07:04:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA878	CONDOLENCE MESSAGE FROM SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN SALMAN [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-09 07:05:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA930	TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF BARAKAT (LIST [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-15 12:46:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PTER PREL CVIS LE XM BA ETTD LVPR
04MANAMA939	KING RATIFIES TWO COUNTERTERRORISM CONVENTIONS [...] This is an action message, please refer to para 4. 2. On June 3, the English language daily "Bahrain Tribune" published the announcement of King Hamad's ratification of the International Convention For The Suppression Of The Financing Of Terrorism and the International Convention For The S [...]	2004-06-17 09:44:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL BA
04MANAMA980	MESSAGE FROM SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN SALMAN AL KHALIFA, [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-22 12:10:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AMGT BA
04MANAMA989	PROSECUTION OF SEVEN BAHRAINIS ARRESTED ON [...] No summary [...]	2004-06-23 14:23:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PTER ASEC PREL KJUS BA
04MAPUTO1001	MOZAMBICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO VISIT UNITED [...] (SBU) The visits to the United States of ruling party FRELIMO presidential candidate Armando Guebuza and opposition party RENAMO Presidential candidate Afonso Dhlakama offer an opportunity to learn about the positions of the two main candidates in what should be tightly contested December elec [...]	2004-07-27 13:11:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL PGOV ETRD MZ RENAMO FRELIMO
04MAPUTO1026	MUSLIM OUTREACH IN MOZAMBIQUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Post is cognizant of the religious diversity in Mozambique and has taken efforts to include representatives from various religious groups, including Muslims, in its outreach efforts. Given the current demographics of Mozambique and recent world events, post is expanding these eff [...]	2004-07-29 13:41:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PREL EAID KDEM PHUM PGOV OEXC OPRC OIIP MZ KISL
04MAPUTO1040	AMERICAN MISSIONARIES GET TANGLED IN POLITICAL, [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 26, 14 Americans were expelled from Montepuez in Cabo Delgado province, where they were setting up an evangelical mission, on the pretenses that they were acting as spies for Renamo, the opposition party. On July 14-16, Conoff visited Cabo Delgado to meet with local offi [...]	2004-08-02 15:18:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PREL KIRF KISL KDEM MZ RENAMO
04MAPUTO1152	GRM RESPONSE: ACOTA END-USE, SECURITY AND [...] Post received on August 25 a diplomatic note containing ACOTA end-use, security and retransfer assurances from GRM. Following is the complete texts of diplomatic notes exchanged between Post and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Mozambique. 2. Begin text of U.S. [...]	2004-08-26 13:04:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA MASS MARR PREL MZ ACOTA
04MAPUTO1183	SCENE-SETTER FOR VISIT OF AFONSO DHLAKAMA TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition party RENAMO's presidential candidate Afonso Dhlakama will visit Washington following his attendance at the Republican National Convention. RENAMO party officials consider Dhlakama's visit to Washington key for both the party's and the candidate's credibility. As in p [...]	2004-09-02 08:21:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL PGOV ETRD MZ RENAMO
04MAPUTO1196	PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GUEBUZA ON BILATERAL [...] No summary [...]	2004-09-06 09:56:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MZ FRELIMO
04MAPUTO1213	MOZAMBIQUE REMAINS ELIGIBLE FOR AGOA BENEFITS [...] Mozambique meets the requirements for benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). The Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM) continues to make progress in establishing a market-based economy, eliminating barriers to US trade and investment, reducing poverty, promoting [...]	2004-09-10 10:50:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PHUM PREL MZ AGOA
04MAPUTO1228	59TH UNGA: REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE HIGH-LEVEL [...] Post has received detail regarding GRM's high-level attendance at the 59th UNGA. Information requested in reftel follows: A. Head of State will attend. Name and Title: His Excellency Joaquim Alberto Chissano, President of The Republic of Mozambique Arrival and Departure Dates: Not yet availa [...]	2004-09-14 15:57:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP MZ UNGA
04MAPUTO1321	STATUS OF MOZAMBIQUE PORT ISPS COMPLIANCE [...] On September 29, econ/poloff delivered reftel letter and Port Security Advisory (PSA) to Ministry of Transportation and Communication Chief of Staff Antonio Cuna. Mr. Cuna responded by saying that the Port of Maputo and the Port of Beira were in compliance with the International Maritime Organ [...]	2004-09-30 13:49:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EWWT KTIA PBTS PHSA PINS PREL PTER MZ ASEC
04MAPUTO1335	RENAMO CANDIDATE DHALAKAMA ON U.S. TRIP, CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a September 29 meeting with Ambassador La Lime, RENAMO presidential candidate Afonso Dhlakama outlined the themes of democracy and the need for transparent elections that he had emphasized in his recent visit to the United States. He was pleased with the visit and said he had f [...]	2004-10-05 14:31:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MZ DHLAKAMA RENAMO
04MAPUTO1364	CORRECTED COPY: EMBASSY MAPUTO TERRORIST FINANCE [...] (SBU) THE FOLLOWING RESPONSES ARE KEYED TO QUESTIONS RAISED IN THE REFERENCED CABLE. A) EMBASSY MAPUTO'S TERRORIST FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO) IS DCM JAMES DUDLEY. CONTACT DETAILS: Phone: 258-1-492-797 Fax: 258-1-490-071 Cell: 258-82-306-645 E-mail:dudleyjl@state.gov TFCO Deputy and [...]	2004-10-13 14:13:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL MZ
04MAPUTO1376	SCENE-SETTER FOR VISIT OF MCC CEO PAUL APPLEGARTH TO [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: Your visit to Mozambique will provide an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the Mozambican political environment, government, private sector, civil society, and MCC team and to increase Mozambican understanding of the MCC. You will be here during the c [...]	2004-10-18 15:05:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM ECON ETRD MZ MCC
04MAPUTO1406	ELECTION OBSERVER ACCESS STILL UNRESOLVED [...] (SBU) Summary: The EU and the National Elections Commission continue to disagree over the access of observers to provincial and national vote tabulations. The head of the EU's observer mission told a press conference that without access to the tabulations, the EU would not be able to give cred [...]	2004-10-25 06:15:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MZ
04MAPUTO1414	MOZAMBIQUE: INFORMATION ON U.S. MANUFACTURED [...] (SBU) 1. Post has received data on U.S.-manufactured landmines found in Mozambique. The information requested in reftel follows: Country: Mozambique U.S. mines present Number: 130 (out of estimated 82,000 mines cleared/destroyed) Percent of Total: 0.16% Description: U.S. manufactured M14 ant [...]	2004-10-26 14:11:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KHDP MZ
04MAPUTO1447	MUGABE VISITS MOZAMBIQUE, CLAIMS ZIMBABWE IS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Zimbabwean President Mugabe visited Mozambique on October 10 - 12, with stops at Cahora Bassa Dam and the resort town of Vilankulos. Mugabe told reporters his country was overcoming its political and economic crisis and announced that Zimbabwe was paying back its USD 8.5 million [...]	2004-11-03 05:30:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MZ ZM
04MAPUTO1474	PRESIDENT CHISSANO ADDRESSES DIPLOMATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Mozambique wants donor involvement and support as it prepares to hold national elections on December 1-2. President Chissano told Maputo's diplomatic corps that the path to democracy in Mozambique has been filled with challenges, but the process has evolved to the point that Moz [...]	2004-11-08 09:27:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MZ
04MAPUTO1479	TERRORIST FINANCE/MOZAMBIQUE: LIST 63 - [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See para 3. 2. (SBU) On November 8, Econ/Pol Officer delivered reftel List 63, talking points, and background paper to the Director of Legal Issues and Chief of the Accounts Monitoring department for the Banco de Mocambique. The Bank is the financial regulator [...]	2004-11-10 09:22:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KTFN EFIN PTER PREL CVIS ECON MZ LVPR
04MAPUTO1480	TERRORIST FINANCE/MOZAMBIQUE: LIST 62 - [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See para 3. 2. (SBU) On November 8, Econ/Pol Officer delivered reftel List 62, talking points, and background paper to the Director of Legal Issues and Chief of the Accounts Monitoring department for the Banco de Mocambique. The Bank is the financial regulator [...]	2004-11-10 09:22:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KTFN EFIN PTER PREL CVIS ECON MZ LVPR
04MAPUTO1507	MOZAMBIQUE - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AMENDS THE 1990 [...] (U) On November 16, by a rare unanimous vote, RENAMO deputies joined their FRELIMO counterparts in approving a long list of amendments to the 1990 constitution. The majority of the changes were clarifications of existing principles and statutes. The significant amendments are as follows. -- T [...]	2004-11-18 12:08:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MZ FRELIMO RENAMO
04MAPUTO1520	MOZAMBIQUE - FM SIMAO ON MUGABE AND ZIMBABWE'S [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Simao told the Ambassador that he believes the Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will participate in the March parliamentary elections. However, the MDC is growing weaker, several factions have emerged and some are questioning Morgan [...]	2004-11-22 15:41:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV MZ ZI
04MAPUTO1524	MOZAMBIQUE: PROMOTING THE EU RESOLUTION ON THE [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-23 11:04:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM SU MZ UNGA
04MAPUTO1533	PRESIDENT CHISSANO ON MUGABE AND MARCH 2005 [...] (C) Summary: President Chissano believes that Mugabe is interested in improving relations with the US, although still deeply suspicious of US and UK intentions. He will be receptive only if approached without hostility or preconditions. Mugabe might be willing to relinquish power before electi [...]	2004-11-29 04:35:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV MZ ZI LY
04MAPUTO1538	MOZAMBIQUE 2004 GENERAL ELECTIONS: ELECTION EVE [...] (C) Campaigning for Mozambique's December 1 - 2 general elections has ended, and there is no consensus as to what outcome is likely. The negotiations between the National Elections Commission and the European Union appear to have ended with the release of a new electoral process directive that [...]	2004-11-29 11:26:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MZ
04MAPUTO1566	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: VOTE COUNTING [...] (U) Vote counting began at polling stations last night and continued in the morning hours today. Initial results as reported by state-owned Radio Mozambique early this morning indicate FRELIMO candidate Armando Guebuza holds a healthy lead with RENAMO's Afonso Dhlakama running second and PDD's [...]	2004-12-03 10:34:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM MZ FRELIMO RENAMO
04MAPUTO1585	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: PROVINCIAL [...] (U) Although the provincial vote tabulation should have begun December 3, as of December 6, it had started in only Nampula, Zambezia and Sofala provinces. According to National Elections Commission (CNE) spokesman Filipe Mondlate, data entry and tabulation should begin December 7 in another tw [...]	2004-12-07 14:50:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM MZ
04MAPUTO1587	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: RENAMO ALLEGES [...] (C) Senior RENAMO advisor Artur Vilankulu, accompanied by two other RENAMO officials, called on the Ambassador on December 8 to express concern over alleged irregularities in the December 1 - 2 general elections. The three were in the midst of making the rounds of various foreign embassies with [...]	2004-12-09 05:18:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MZ RENAMO
04MAPUTO1603	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: PARALLEL VOTE [...] (U) On December 9 the Carter Center-supported National Electoral Observatory released its parallel vote tabulation (PVT). The PVT, based on a sample of 775 individual polling station results collected by 1600 observers, gives FRELIMO's Guebuza 63.6 percent of the presidential vote, with RENAMO' [...]	2004-12-10 07:34:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM MZ
04MAPUTO1616	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: RENAMO LEADER [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: RENAMO's Dhlakama continues to reject provincial tabulation figures, which show a clear Guebuza victory in the presidential election and a strong FRELIMO win in parliamentary races. Despite the release of an independent parallel vote count largely corroborating the p [...]	2004-12-15 13:34:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MZ DHLAKAMA
04MAPUTO1617	MOZAMBIQUE: DEMARCHE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On December 15 Emboff delivered ref A demarche urging the GRM to oppose any potential motions for non- action in the UN plenary session on previously approved resolutions critical of the human rights situation in Iran and Turkmenistan. In the meeting, the MFA Director for UN Affairs, Ant [...]	2004-12-15 14:28:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL MZ UN
04MAPUTO1623	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: DRAFT USG STATEMENT [...] (U) Embassy provides below for the Department's approval a draft USG statement for use once the results of Mozambique's December 1-2 presidential and legislative elections are announced by the National Elections Commission (CNE). We expect the results to be announced on or soon after the Decem [...]	2004-12-16 14:16:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OPRC MZ
04MAPUTO1639	MOZAMBICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS: GUEBUZA ELECTED [...] On December 21 Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) announced the results of the December 1-2 general elections: FRELIMO Secretary General Armando Guebuza has won the race for president, capturing 63.74 percent of the valid national vote and FRELIMO has returned to Parliament with a [...]	2004-12-21 15:36:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM MZ
04MAPUTO1645	MOZAMBIQUE - DHLAKAMA DENOUNCES ELECTION RESULTS, [...] (SBU) On December 23, a day after the National Elections Commission (CNE) declared Armando Guebuza and his party, FRELIMO, the winners in the presidential and parliamentary elections (reftel),Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the main opposition party RENAMO, held a press conference in Maputo in whi [...]	2004-12-23 14:32:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM MZ DHLAKAMA
04MAPUTO168	Mozambique: Supporting Human Rights and Democracy [...] Mozambique's constitutional government, headed by President Joaquim Chissano, held its second general multiparty elections in 1999. President Chissano was elected in generally free and fair elections. Chissano and the leadership of FRELIMO, which have ruled the country since independence in 19 [...]	2004-02-05 11:02:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL ELAB KDEM KPAO KSEP MZ DHRF
04MAPUTO173	DHRF SOLICITATION FOR FY2004 [...] Post appreciates receiving FY2003 DHRF funding in the amount of $70,000. These funds are critical to raising awareness of human rights concerns and supporting civil society play a more active role in Mozambique's democratic consolidation. A status report for FY2002/2003 funds will be sent sept [...]	2004-02-09 05:41:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PHUM PGOV ECON MZ DHRF
04MAPUTO197	LETTER FROM PRESIDENT CHISSANO [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-13 08:27:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL SL IV LI MZ ECOWAS

04MAPUTO204	CTAG MEETING IN MAPUTO [...] Summary: On February 5, DCM hosted our first CTAG meeting (per reftel request) with counterparts from Spain, Portugal, Russia, France, Italy, Switzerland, UK, Germany, European Commission, and Ireland (representing EU troika). Participants concurred that improved maritime security for Mozambiq [...]	2004-02-17 06:53:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC KCRM SENV PREL MZ
04MAPUTO267	Mozambique: Request for FY 2004 ESF funding [...] Summary: Post requests USD 700,000 for support for transparency of the 2004 National Elections. This election support will build on successful observation and parallel vote tabulation coordinated by Carter Center in The November 2003 municipal elections. End Summary. 2. Mozambique's third P [...]	2004-02-25 14:54:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL MZ ESF
04MAPUTO294	AGOA III: TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTION [...] Overview: Mozambique's once thriving and highly heterogeneous textile and garment industry experienced steady and significant decline throughout the early 1990s. At its peak, the industry was comprised of 45 facilities, including 19 textile and 26 garment factories, producing a wide range of p [...]	2004-03-04 09:06:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KTEX EINV PREL MZ AGOA
04MAPUTO338	SYGSR SWING BRIEFS ON CHISSANO MEETING [...] On March 8, Secretary General's Special Representative Ambassador William Swing called on Ambassador to brief on his meeting in Maputo with President Chissano and the current situation of the MONUC in DRC with sixteen months until the planned June 2005 elections. 2. Ambassador Swing told us [...]	2004-03-12 08:56:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MOPS PREF CG XA ZF MZ SF UG BY UN
04MAPUTO389	ARTICLE 98 WITH MOZAMBIQUE BROUGHT INTO FORCE [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-22 13:57:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL MZ
04MAPUTO463	NACALA CORRIDOR PROJECT IN JEOPARDY -- YET AGAIN [...] (C) Summary. The Nacala Port and Rail Corridor project is yet again in trouble. Two principal outstanding issues remain: 1) the lack of the government of Malawi (GOM)'s signature on a Direct Agreement and 2) on-going disagreements between the project's US-led consortium and the principal Mozam [...]	2004-04-02 09:27:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD PGOV PREL MZ OPIC
04MAPUTO515	MOZAMBIQUE ON DARFUR MONITORING MISSION [...] (U) Classified By: Econ/Pol Chief David Hodge for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on establishment of the Darfur Ceasefire Commission (CFC) the morning of April 14, 2004 with Ambassador Carlos dos Santos, President Chissano's diplomatic adviser and po [...]	2004-04-14 11:32:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SU MZ AU
04MAPUTO541	SCENESETTER FOR GAC AMBASSADOR RANDALL TOBIAS' [...] (C) Introduction and summary. Mozambique is at a critical stage in its efforts to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In Southern Africa, Mozambique presents both the greatest challenges and possibly the greatest opportunity to become the next Uganda-like success in turning around the HIV/AIDS threat. [...]	2004-04-20 14:15:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	KHIV PREL EAID MZ HIV AIDS PEPFAR
04MAPUTO542	MOZAMBIQUE ON DARFUR CEASEFIRE MONITORING [...] (C) On April 20 the Ambassador delivered reftel (A) demarche to Ambassador Carlos dos Santos, diplomatic adviser to President Chissano. Dos Santos was not aware of what had transpired at the April 19 Addis meeting. He promised to brief President Chissano that afternoon at the Parliament before [...]	2004-04-20 14:37:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL SU CD MZ EUN
04MAPUTO544	MORE FROM MOZAMBIQUE ON DARFUR CEASEFIRE [...] (C) Following up on their meeting earlier that day (reftel A) on Darfur ceasefire monitoring arrangements (reftel B),late in the afternoon of April 20 the Ambassador spoke again with Ambassador Carlos dos Santos, diplomatic adviser to President Chissano. Dos Santos reported that he had spoken [...]	2004-04-20 15:33:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL SU CD MZ EUN
04MAPUTO565	COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA IN [...] (S-N/F) Summary: Reftel provided Post opportunity to finalize previous discussions with the Russian Embassy to develop a cooperative relationship between ORCA and Russian counterparts in the counterterrorism area. We envision participation by multiple Mission elements including ORCA, Econ/Pol, [...]	2004-04-27 06:14:00	Embassy Maputo	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER ASEC PREL MZ RU
04MAPUTO655	Ambassador Randall Tobias' Visit to Mozambique [...] Summary: US Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Randall Tobias visited Mozambique April 28-30 to discuss the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief with government officials, key implementing partners, and post's HIV-AIDS working group, and to see first-hand the challenges and opportunities [...]	2004-05-13 06:26:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV KSPR EAID PREL MZ HIV AIDS PEPFAR
04MAPUTO659	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF USCOMNAVEUR [...] (U) Introduction and summary. Your visit comes at a time when the positive bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Mozambique is expanding. Mozambique is the only country in the world that is both a focus country under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and one of the sixteen c [...]	2004-05-14 08:34:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PTER KCRM MZ EFIS ACOTA
04MAPUTO710	COMNAVEUR VISIT STRESSES MARITIME BORDER CONCERNS [...] (U) On May 20 and 21, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe, Admiral Gregory G. Johnson visited Maputo and met with Mozambican officials. His meetings principally covered USG concerns over Mozambique's lack of coastal patrol capacity, Mozambican success in the African Union Peacekeeping Missio [...]	2004-05-28 10:35:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MASS PTER KHDP MZ EFIS PKO ACOTA
04MAPUTO733	NAMES, TITLES, AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR GRM [...] (SBU) Per reftel, post provides updated information below: Post: Maputo Date of Submission: 4 June 2004 Head of Government: Joaquim Alberto Chissano President of the Republic of Mozambique Office numbers: (258) (1) 49-11-21/2; 49-00-44 Comments: President Chissano speaks English. President's [...]	2004-06-04 07:12:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MZ PGOV PREL
04MAPUTO740	DHLAKAMA SPEAKS TO AMBASSADOR ON VISIT TO [...] (C) Ambassador and econ/polofficer (notetaker) met with RENAMO opposition leader and presidential candidate for Afonso Dhlakama at his request on June 4 to discuss his planned trip to the United States and a variety of bilateral and regional issues. Dhlakama was more upbeat and positive than u [...]	2004-06-04 10:52:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MZ DHLAKAMA
04MAPUTO877	MCC VISIT TO MOZAMBIQUE, 8-11 JUNE 2004 [...] SUMMARY. DURING A THREE DAY VISIT, THE THREE- PERSON MCC TEAM MET WITH THE PRIME MINISTER, FIVE MINISTERS, THE CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR, MOZAMBIQUE'S "TECHNICAL TEAM," AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR, CIVIL SOCIETY, THE FINANCIAL SECTOR, FOREIGN INVESTORS, AND DONORS. IN EACH MEETING, [...]	2004-07-01 14:59:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PREL MZ MCC
04MAPUTO945	HELPING MOZAMBIQUE BECOME AN EFFECTIVE [...] (U) This is an action request -- see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: Mozambique continues to seek a more active role in peacekeeping, especially in Africa. Despite very limited resources, the Mozambican Armed Forces have worked effectively at reinforced company strength in the Africa Union's P [...]	2004-07-15 05:23:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MARR PREL KPKO BY MZ ACOTA
04MAPUTO975	MOZAMBIQUE RESPONSE TO U.S. INITIATIVES FOR THE [...] (SBU) Econ/poloff delivered reftel demarche in a meeting with Farouk Faquira, Chief of the United Nations Department, Office of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, July 20. Faquira appreciated the presentation of U.S. initiatives prior to the opening of the 59th UN [...]	2004-07-21 13:39:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PHUM KDEM MZ UNGA
04MAPUTO99	Mocumbi - His days are numbered, it would seem [...] (SBU) Summary: At a Press conference held in Maputo January 20, Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi indicated that he will accept a position as the High Level Representative of a European Union Health Initiative. While he did not state when he would be leaving his current position, it appears that i [...]	2004-01-21 10:52:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KHIV MZ EUN HIV AIDS PEPFAR
04MAPUTO998	MOZAMBIQUE CAUTIOUSLY APPROACHES THE PROSPECT OF A [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador met with Minister of Industry and Commerce Carlos Morgado on July 22 to follow-up on discussions held between Morgado and USTR officials in Washington in early July on the prospect for a US-Mozambique FTA, as well as to discuss the status of Mozambique's participation [...]	2004-07-26 16:08:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAID PREL MZ AGOA MCC TIFA
04MASERU321	MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION INITIAL VISIT TO LESOTHO [...] SUMMARY: The Millennium Challenge Corporation team of Clay Lowery, Tom Briggs and Wesley Wilson paid a very successful initial visit to Lesotho May 26-28. Over the course of two and a half days, they met with the Prime Minister, nearly the entire Cabinet, almost all of the Principal Secretarie [...]	2004-06-01 16:08:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ETRD PREL LT MCC
04MASERU598	MCC CHIEF EXEC VISITS LESOTHO [...] SUMMARY: Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Paul Applegarth and other MCC officials visited Lesotho October 25-26 on a familiarization trip. In an extremely busy 36 hours, Mr. Applegarth and his team met with a wide variety of government, private sector, NGO, [...]	2004-11-01 14:27:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EINV ECON PREL LT MCC
04MONTREAL1574	MONTREAL CONFERENCE WITH THE HAITI DIASPORA (MCHD) [...] (SBU) Summary. Members of the Haitian Diaspora from Canada, the U.S. and Europe assembled December 10-11, 2004, to participate in the MCHD. Canadian Prime Minister (PM) Paul Martin emphasized, at the opening of the MCHD plenary session, that his administration's initiative to invite members [...]	2004-12-13 20:30:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EINV EAID SENV CA HA
04MONTREAL410	International Women's Day - Event at ICAO in [...] Summary: On Monday, March 8, Consul General (CG) Bernadette Allen joined Lieutenant Governor Lise Thibault and Transport Canada Assistant Deputy Minister for Policy Kristine Burr in addressing the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) ambassadors, delegates and staff and other in [...]	2004-03-11 20:52:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KWMN SOCI PREL CSW ICAO
04MONTREAL550	Montreal Jewish School Firebombed on Passover [...] A private Jewish school in Montreal's St. Laurent neighborhood was firebombed in the early morning hours of April 5, the first day of the Passover holiday. The firebombing took place between 2.a.m. and 3 a.m. in the library of the United Talmud Torah St. Laurent School on de l'Eglise Street. [...]	2004-04-06 20:47:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER PHUM KPAL KISL CA
04MONTREAL68	QUEBEC GOVERNMENT CRITICISED FOR HANDLING OF [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-16 19:16:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM PHUM
04MONTREAL696	OAS ASSISTANCE FOR HEMISPHERE PORTS IN MEETING [...] Per reftel A request, post's Principal Officer contacted Port of Montreal (POM) Security Director Felixpier Bergeron to inquire about the POM's progress in completing a plan of action to comply with the new international regulations and standards set by the International Maritime Organization [...]	2004-05-12 16:59:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EWWT KCRM PREL PTER MARAD OAS
04MONTREAL874	KANESATAKE GRAND CHIEF GABRIEL FRUSTRATED BY LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Mohawk territory of Kanesatake has become a haven for marijuana cultivation, drug dealing, arms possession, and other organized criminal activity, ousted Grand Chief James Gabriel told Consulate representatives on June 17. Gabriel, who has not been able to return to Kanesatake sinc [...]	2004-06-23 20:42:00	Consulate Montreal	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PREL PGOV SNAR PHUM CA
04MOSCOW14726	RUSSIA-YEMEN: RESPONSE TO THERMOBARIC WEAPONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: On November 22 Igor Matveyev, of the MFA's Military and Technology Cooperation Division, provided a response to our demarche (reftels) requesting that the GOR not transfer thermobaric weapons to Yemen. Matveyev would not say whether the GOR had made a decision on the matter or i [...]	2004-11-26 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	ETTC KSTC PARM PREL PTER YM RS
04MOSCOW15782	FOLLOW-UP ON U.S.-RUSSIA MANPADS COOPERATION [...] (C) On December 21 we delivered ref A points and U.S. proposed final text for a U.S.-Russia agreement on MANPADS cooperation to Colonel Oleg Skabara of the MOD International Treaties Directorate and Oleg Burmistrov, Political Military Affairs officer of the MFA North America Department. Skaba [...]	2004-12-27 15:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL PTER NATO RS
04MUMBAI2286	MAHARASHTRA GETS A CHIEF MINISTER - FINALLY [...] (SBU) In a sudden change of course following a long day of backroom politicking, Congress selected Vilasrao Deshmukh as the new Chief Minister (CM) of Maharashtra late on October 29. The choice was a surprise to most observers in the state who had expected outgoing CM Shinde to retain the job. [...]	2004-11-01 11:05:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL IN
04MUMBAI2316	MAHARASHTRA GETS A CHIEF MINISTER - FINALLY [...] (SBU) In a sudden change of course following a long day of backroom politicking, Congress selected Vilasrao Deshmukh as the new Chief Minister (CM) of Maharashtra late on October 29. The choice was a surprise to most observers in the state who had expected outgoing CM Shinde to retain the job. [...]	2004-11-03 09:05:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL IN
04MUMBAI2344	BEST BAKERY STAR WITNESS CHANGES TESTIMONY...AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 4, 2004, star eyewitness Zaheera Shaikh of the emblematic/symbolic Best Bakery case from the March-May 2002 violence in Gujarat, refused to testify in the Mumbai special court. A day earlier she had appeared with her brother, another key witness, at a press confere [...]	2004-11-05 10:34:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL IN
04MUMBAI2369	MAHARASHTRA MINISTERS TAKE OATH OF OFFICE; YET TO GET [...] (SBU) On November 9, 2004 Governor Mohammed Fazal administered the oath of office and confidentiality to 15 senior ministers chosen to be part of the Congress/Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led Democratic Front government of Maharashtra. The new ministers have yet to receive portfolios. Chi [...]	2004-11-09 12:10:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN
04MUMBAI2478	ISRAEL REOPENS CONSULATE IN MUMBAI [...] (C) On November 15 visiting Israeli MFA officials briefed Acting PO and Pol/Econ Chief on Israel's decision to reopen its consulate in Mumbai. Israel closed its consulate in Mumbai in mid-2003 as part of cost-cutting measures that affected Israeli diplomatic posts around the world, Israeli MFA [...]	2004-11-29 10:05:00	Consulate Mumbai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TSPA PTER IS IN GOI
04MUSCAT1957	SULTAN QABOOS' MAJLIS SPEECH [...] (SBU) Sultan Qaboos' annual address to the Majlis Oman on October 12 stuck to familiar themes in economic and foreign policy. He emphasized the usual twin pillars of economic diversification and human resource development and focused on the newly established Ministry of Tourism as sign of gov [...]	2004-11-08 09:59:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI MU
04MUSCAT1991	OMAN'S NEW MINISTER: "THE RIGHT WOMAN AT THE RIGHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. Sharifa bint Khalfan bin Nasser al-Yahyai, Oman's new Minister of Social Development, is still getting used to her new job. Working late into the Ramadan nights to get up to speed on the workings of her ministry, she reflected on her sudden transition from academia to a sen [...]	2004-11-13 12:46:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KMPI KWMN PREL SOCI MU
04MUSCAT2011	OMAN: POST SUPPORT FOR MEPI PROGRAM IMPLEMENTERS [...] To date there are no MEPI program implementers with offices in Oman, although we understand there may be some considering establishing a full-time presence in Muscat. Amideast is one such organization, and is currently consulting with a local law firm on the legalities and formalities of estab [...]	2004-11-17 13:09:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT EAID ECON KDEM KPAO PREL KMPI MU MEPI
04MUSCAT2030	NEW SPORTS MINISTER ON THE BALL, BUT OFF ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Oman's energetic new Minister of Sports, Ali al-Sunaidi, shared with the Ambassador his active agenda for developing athletics in Oman. He is eager to build linkages to the U.S. and other countries, both to develop sports programs and training facilities, as well as to market Oman as an [...]	2004-11-23 12:39:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PINR SCUL OEXC SNAR TBIO ETRD MU
04MUSCAT2037	OMAN ATTENDANCE, REACTIONS TO RABAT FORUM FOR THE [...] (SBU) In a November 24 telcon, the MFA Under Secretary's Political Affairs Director, Humaid al-Maani, informed Pol/E Chief that, for the time being, neither Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi nor Minister of National Economy (and de facto Finance Minister) Ahmed bin Abduln [...]	2004-11-24 10:12:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KMPI KPAO ECON PREL
04MUSCAT2050	OMAN: US-EU DIALOGUE ON MIDDLE EAST REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-28 08:18:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI EAID ECON PREL PGOV MU
04MUSCAT2053	OMAN LOBBIES FOR UNESCO GENERAL CONFERENCE [...] (U) This is an action request for IO/T and NEA/APRI - please see para 4. 2. (U) As reported ref A, Oman is lobbying for its Permanent Representative at UNESCO, Dr. Musa bin Jaffar bin Hassan, to be elected to the presidency of the 33rd session of the UNESCO General Conference in 2005. To t [...]	2004-11-28 12:34:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MU
04MUSCAT2111	OMAN: US-EU DIALOGUE ON MIDDLE EAST REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dutch Ambassador (EU Representative) reports having received no instructions from Brussels on quarterly BMENA coordination meetings with the U.S. (ref A). Furthermore, there will be no EU funds earmarked for Oman before 2007 at the earliest. Only seven EU states have missio [...]	2004-12-05 03:17:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KMPI PGOV PREL MU
04MUSCAT2112	AMBITION, VISION, AND FRUSTRATION: OMANI COMMERCE [...] INR/B - please see biographic notes, para 9. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) A rising mid-level Omani commerce official recently described the rapid decline of the Omani textile industry, her experiences within the government, the ill-timed departure of the Commerce Under Secretary, and [...]	2004-12-05 03:26:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD KTEX PINR EIND PREL KWMN SCUL PGOV MU
04MUSCAT2145	RESPONSE TO SECRETARY'S RABAT INVITATION [...] In response to reftel letter from Secretary Powell to G-8 and Broader Middle East and North Africa foreign ministers, the Embassy received December 8 a reply letter from Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah to the Secretary under cover of a diplomatic note. The [...]	2004-12-08 14:03:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI KDEM KPAO PREL ECON OPDC
04MUSCAT2146	OMAN DENOUNCES ATTACK ON U.S. CONSULATE IN JEDDAH [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement December 7 to the Oman News Agency (ONA) in reaction to the December 6 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate General in Jeddah. Per Omani standard practice, the only available version of the MFA statement is that carried by ONA. Begin text: [...]	2004-12-08 14:07:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OPRC PTER SA MU
04MUSCAT2177	OMAN: SUPPORT FOR PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY [...] (C) On December 12, visiting NEA DAS Dibble, accompanied by the Ambassador and Pol/E Chief (notetaker),paid a call on Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi (YBA) to discuss a number of bilateral and regional issues. Delivering the substance of the Secretary's oral messages [...]	2004-12-14 12:52:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG EAID PREL XF MU
04MUSCAT2178	(C) OMAN FM HOSTS QUIET BILATERAL WITH ISRAELI MFA [...] (C) On December 13, at the margins of an Executive Council meeting of the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDREC),an Israeli Foreign Ministry official held a private 90-minute bilateral with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi. The discussion reportedly focused [...]	2004-12-14 13:23:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XF IS MU
04MUSCAT2188	A WARNING FROM MOM [...] (U) On December 14, Oman's Ministry of Manpower (MOM) published an announcement warning citizens about employment in Iraq. The informal translation of the announcement is as follows (begin text): The Ministry of Manpower has noticed the increase in employment offers in the brotherly Republi [...]	2004-12-15 14:11:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ELAB IZ MU
04MUSCAT2189	OMAN FONMIN ON SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE [...] (C) Visiting NEA DAS Dibble reviewed themes in the Secretary's oral message with Omani Foreign Minister Bin SIPDIS Alawi. Concerning Iran's behavior, the Minister recommended finding ways to address Tehran's security concerns and feelings of isolation as an effective means of reducing its [...]	2004-12-16 18:10:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS OPDC ETRD MU
04MUSCAT2190	COMMERCE MINISTER ON FTA, SAUDI CRITICISM [...] (C) Summary: Omani Minister of Commerce and Industry Maqbool bin Ali bin Sultan reassured visiting NEA DAS Philo Dibble that Oman remains firmly committed to signing a bilateral FTA with the U.S. Bluster from the Saudis notwithstanding, Maqbool reiterated that the Omani cabinet has already ap [...]	2004-12-16 18:18:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL BEXP MU
04MUSCAT2245	U.S.-EU DIALOGUE ON MIDDLE EAST REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-22 11:49:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PGOV KMPI PREL MU
04MUSCAT2269	COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP DEMARCHE [...] (C) In a December 27 meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi (YBA),the Ambassador urged on behalf of the G-8 and EU missions Oman's ratification of the final two of twelve international counterterrorism conventions (reftel). The Ambassador noted that the Foreig [...]	2004-12-28 02:53:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC MU
04MUSCAT2278	OMAN: NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-29 05:36:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR MU
04MUSCAT2285	INDIA WINS OMANI SUPPORT FOR UNSC SEAT, DEEPENS [...] (U) On December 25-26, Indian Minister of External Affairs Natwar Singh met with Sultan Qaboos and various government ministers to boost bilateral relations. Oman formally announced its backing of India's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, and the two parties pledged to cont [...]	2004-12-29 07:37:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EPET KCRM MARR IN MU
04NASSAU1033	LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION: AN UNDERDOG FIGHTS AN [...] (C) Charge and Political Officer met with Senator Tommy Turnquest, Leader of the Opposition, on May 18, 2004, to discuss current events in The Bahamas. Under the Ingraham administration from 1992-2002, Tommy Turnquest held the positions of Minister of Public Service, Immigration and Housing, [...]	2004-05-21 12:24:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BF
04NASSAU1148	ATTORNEY GENERAL DEFERS TO THE ALL-POWERFUL FRED [...] (C) Charge, Political Officer, and DEA Country Attache held a private lunch with Bahamian Attorney General and Minister of Education, Alfred Sears, on June 8, 2004 to discuss the long list of issues he faces in his two massive portfolios. Overwhelmed and underpaid, Sears still claimed that h [...]	2004-06-10 19:00:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM PINR BF
04NASSAU1382	TOURISM VS. RELIGION: ANTI-GAY RALLY TARGETS U.S. [...] (C) A number of prominent Bahamian religious figures led a "Save the Bahamas" rally in downtown Nassau on July 11 to protest the pending arrival of the cruise ship "Norwegian Dawn" which is scheduled to dock in Nassau with a group of "gay family" travellers on board the morning of July 16. S [...]	2004-07-15 19:12:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PREL BF
04NASSAU1397	SOME BAHAMIANS DON'T ACCEPT ALL COLORS OF THE [...] (SBU) An estimated 150 protesters gathered early July 16 in downtown Nassau to denounce the government's willingness to allow the "Norwegian Dawn" cruise ship, which on this particular cruise had a large contingent of U.S. citizen-gay families on a trip organized in part by U.S. celebrity Rosi [...]	2004-07-19 15:28:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PREL PGOV BF
04NASSAU1400	BAHAMAS PLANS TO UPGRADE DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN [...] (C) On Friday, July 16, 2004, Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell and Under Secretary for Consular Affairs Carlton Wright returned from a Caricom meeting in Cuba, and held a conference during which Foreign Minister Mitchell reiterated his hope that The Bahamas will be able to open a consulate/emba [...]	2004-07-19 19:12:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	OFDP PREL CU BF
04NASSAU1515	PRIME MINISTER CHRISTIEâ€™S CHINA TRIP, THE LATEST IN A STRING OF VISITS [...] (SBU) Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie will lead an official government delegation to China on August 14-21, continuing a two-year upswing in diplomatic exchanges between The Bahamas and China. In addition to numerous cultural programs, the two nations have exchanged high-level delegations to [...]	2004-08-11 13:21:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP BTIO ECON SCUL CH BF ASEC
04NASSAU153	TURKS AND CAICOS: HAITIAN INFLUX THREATENS PARADISE [...] (C) Charge, NAS, CONS, USCG, and DEA officers visited Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) January 20-23, 2004 and met with the Governor, Chief Minister, other cabinet members and senior civil servants and law enforcement personnel. TCI officials were unanimous in fearing further degradation of [...]	2004-01-27 20:46:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	BF CA PGOV PREL SMIG SNAR UK
04NASSAU1837	CHRISTIE WANTS TO BE THE TONY BLAIR OF CARICOM [...] (C) PM Perry Christie confidant Franklyn Wilson argued during a September 30 luncheon that the U.S. should support Christie's hope to become a regional leader since the Bahamian Prime Minister was America's "Tony Blair" inside Caricom. Wilson again raised the Prime Minister's belief that he w [...]	2004-10-01 16:34:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BF CARICOM
04NASSAU1855	PM CHRISTIE: ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN U.S. [...] (U) Prime Minister Perry Christie told an international audience in Miami on October 1 that while U.S. good intentions toward the English-speaking Caribbean are not in doubt, there is room for improvement in the overall relationship. Christie believed that the U.S. was not sufficiently sensi [...]	2004-10-05 21:18:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON BF CARICOM
04NASSAU1904	DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER EXTOLS OPBAT, U.S. [...] (C) In his courtesy call on Deputy Prime Minister Cynthia Pratt, Ambassador stressed the importance of Bahamian officials acknowledging OPBAT's importance to Bahamian national security. The Deputy Prime Minister extolled the bilateral relationship and acknowledged that OPBAT was critical to B [...]	2004-10-14 10:38:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BF OPBAT
04NASSAU2086	SURGE IN INTERDICTIONS OF HAITIAN MIGRANTS [...] SUMMARY: The U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted over 300 illegal Haitian migrants in five separate interdictions since November 5, a higher rate than usual. Deputy Prime Minister Pratt and other Bahamian officials have expressed directly to the DCM their concerns at the increased number of migr [...]	2004-11-08 20:53:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG PREF PREL PGOV BF
04NASSAU2336	RIOT AND FIRE AT MIGRANT DETENTION CENTER [...] (C) Detained Cuban migrants set fire to a dormitory at the Carmichael Road Detention Center the morning of December 9, 2004, with three detainees temporarily escaping. Violence broke out between some of the migrants and the Bahamian personnel attempting to regain control of the situation. 11 [...]	2004-12-13 11:52:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	SMIG PREL PGOV PHSA CU BF
04NASSAU2407	AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RENEWS CALL FOR DETENTION [...] (C) 37 Cuban nationals remain in detention in The Bahamas after a December 9 fire at a Nassau immigration facility following a disturbance initiated by detainees. Amnesty International continues to call for an independent inquiry into the fire and accompanying melee, in which 11 Royal Bahami [...]	2004-12-22 16:24:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	SMIG PREL PGOV CU BF
04NASSAU364	ANXIOUS PRIME MINISTER REQUESTS MEETING ON HAITI [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-23 21:20:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SMIG BF HA
04NASSAU384	BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT SEEKS SUPPORT FOR FUTURE UN [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-24 22:20:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	BF HA PGOV PREL SMIG
04NASSAU487	CARICOM SURPRISED, UPSET, BUT NOT ANGRY BEING LEFT [...] (C) Charge and Political Officer met with the Bahamian Ambassador to Haiti, Dr. Eugene Newry, and the Under Secretary in the Consular Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Bahamian-Haitian expert, Mr. Carlton Wright, on March 8, 2004 to discuss Bahamian views of the current situation [...]	2004-03-09 17:17:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SMIG HA BF
04NASSAU733	BAHAMIAN PERSPECTIVE ON CARICOM AND HAITI [...] (C) Charge hosted a lunch for the Bahamian Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell, and Foreign Ministry Permanent Secretary, Ms. Patricia Rodgers on March 29. A/DCM and Consular Section Head also participated. The discussion covered a number of topics: The dynamics of recently-completed Caricom h [...]	2004-04-06 15:13:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHSA HA BF CARICOM
04NEWDELHI5734	INDIA RATTLED BY DEVELOPMENTS IN BANGLADESH [...] (C) Summary: Bangladesh watchers in New Delhi have reacted with concern to recent violence there, citing the August 21 attack on opposition leader Sheikh Hasina as symptomatic of a deterioration in the country's political culture, fueling instability in Bangladesh which contributes directly to [...]	2004-09-10 14:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV BG IN
04NEWDELHI6976	BHUTAN MOVING TOWARDS REPATRIATION OF CATEGORY ONE [...] (C) Summary: During an October 24 meeting with PRM A/S Dewey, King Jigme Wangchuck of Bhutan agreed that Category 1 refugees from the Khudunabari Camp could be repatriated and that the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) should exchange a letter specifying the [...]	2004-11-02 05:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF IN NP BT UNHCR
04NEWDELHI6980	INDO-US CYBERSECURITY FORUM: BIO NOTES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable includes biographic data for Arvind Gupta, Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS),who will lead the GOI delegation to the SIPDIS November 9-10 Cybersecurity Forum in Washington, and his deputy, Commander Mukesh Saini. Unless otherwise speci [...]	2004-11-02 06:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR KCIP TINT PREL PGOV IN US
04NEWDELHI6983	INDIA ENCOURAGES DEMOCRACY IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary: India underlined its concerns about the lack of democracy in Burma during the recent visit of Rangoon's military leader Than Shwe, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself delivering the message, MEA Joint Secretary (South East Asia - I) Mitra Vashishta told us on SIPDIS November 1. [...]	2004-11-02 08:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR IN BM CN
04NEWDELHI6998	JASWANT IN THE WILDERNESS [...] (C) Summary: In a warm and constructive November 1 discussion with the Ambassador, Parliamentary Opposition Leader Jaswant Singh reaffirmed his commitment to the US-India relationship, remarking that "I have paid a political price for my support of better relations" between New Delhi and Washi [...]	2004-11-02 11:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PK IZ IN
04NEWDELHI6999	INDIA PUSHING NEPALESE ARMY TO BE MORE ACTIVE [...] (C) The Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) should be more proactive in the fight against the Maoists, MEA Joint Secretary (Bhutan/Nepal) Ranjit Rae told Polcouns and Poloff SIPDIS in a November 1 meeting. Describing the recent India-Nepal security cooperation group meeting, Rae reported that the GO [...]	2004-11-02 11:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IN NP
04NEWDELHI7000	INDIA SUPPORTS REPATRIATION OF CATEGORY 1 [...] (C) Polcouns and Poloff met on November 1 with MEA Joint Secretary (Nepal/Bhutan) Ranjit Rae to brief on the strategy SIPDIS recently outlined by King Wangchuck to A/S Dewey to repatriate Category 1 refugees from the Khudunabari camp (Reftel). Rae replied that the GOI welcomes this strateg [...]	2004-11-02 12:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM IN NP BT UNHCR
04NEWDELHI7013	NSSP PHASE ONE: REVIEWING ACHIEVEMENTS AND PENDING [...] (C) Summary: This is the first of two cables reporting on the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) Implementation Group. USG and GOI counterparts met in two positive and productive sessions of the NSSP Implementation Group on October 20-21 to review accomplishments under Phase One and [...]	2004-11-03 11:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP ETTC IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI7026	INDO-US CYBERSECURITY FORUM PREPARATORY [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14-18, 2004, Department Senior Coordinator for International Critical Infrastructure Protection Policy Michele Markoff and DOD Director of International Information Assurance Programs Tim Bloechl participated in preparatory meetings with the GOI for the November 9-10 [...]	2004-11-04 04:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCIP TINT PREL ECPS KCRM IN US
04NEWDELHI7033	KING OF BHUTAN CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT BUSH ON [...] Just hours after a few of the major networks projected President Bush to win reelection, the Bhutanese Ambassador to New Delhi passed to the Embassy the following message from from King Wangchuck of Bhutan to the President. 2. Begin text. Dear Ambassador Mulford, I have the pleasure in [...]	2004-11-04 10:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL BT IN
04NEWDELHI7053	LOOKING AHEAD TO ASEAN: INDIA ENGAGES EAST ASIA [...] (C) Summary: The GOI has engaged actively with East Asian capitals prior to the November 30 ASEAN Plus One Summit in Laos. India's two-track approach to these states--multilaterally through organizations like ASEAN, and bilaterally--exemplifies New Delhi's strategy of expanding economic and [...]	2004-11-05 05:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TH VM BM LA KS JA IN ASEAN
04NEWDELHI7061	NSSP PHASE TWO: CHARTING THE COURSE [...] (C) Summary: After reviewing achievements made under Phase One (Ref A),the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) Implementation Group discussed the way forward on Phase Two, including legislation, enforcement, outreach, and training to strengthen export controls; adherence to MCTR and [...]	2004-11-05 09:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP ETTC IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI7078	TOWARDS AN INDIA-EU STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Following two relatively rocky summits, and the postponement of this year's meeting, New Delhi hopes the November 8 India-EU Summit will yield tangible progress, MEA Director (Europe - I) Dammu Ravi told Poloff on November 2. The GOI priority is to kickoff a new ""strategic partnershi [...]	2004-11-05 11:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP IN FR GM UK NP BT
04NEWDELHI7081	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO INDIA ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-05 12:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL IN UNGA
04NEWDELHI7082	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BHUTAN ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-05 12:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BT UNGA
04NEWDELHI7090	INDIAN ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ [...] (C) Indian Joint Secretary for the Americas in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar called DCM November 5, to inform the USG about the specifics of Indian assistance to Iraq to help prepare for the upcoming Iraqi elections. Jaishankar said India is offering a 3-part assis [...]	2004-11-05 13:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV PHUM IZ IN
04NEWDELHI7091	INDIAN LEFT NEGATIVE OVER BUSH RE-ELECTION, [...] (C) Summary: Indian Communist Party leaders have criticized PM Manmohan Singh's warm welcome of President Bush's re-election, calling this "an attempt to please American imperialism." Interestingly, however, party spokesperson D. Raja welcomed the PM's commitment to train Iraqi election offi [...]	2004-11-05 13:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG IZ IN US GOI
04NEWDELHI7151	FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO INDIA ON HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-09 10:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL IN UNHCR
04NEWDELHI7248	INDIA UNDERSTANDS US EXPORT PROHIBITIONS, BUT [...] (C) Summary: As instructed in Ref A, in a separate meeting at the conclusion of the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) Implementation Group on October 21 (Refs B and C),Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary Borman, and State Acting Office Director for Regional Affairs, Bureau of Non-P [...]	2004-11-16 12:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP ETTC IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI7249	INDIAN COMPANIES REQUIRE ADDITIONAL COMMITMENTS IN [...] (U) Summary. Some Indian companies that buy high tech goods are asking potential U.S. exporters to agree to additional requirements regarding U.S. export controls, in some cases limiting the exporters' ability to sell in the Indian market. The buyers require clauses in sales contracts that s [...]	2004-11-16 12:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC ECON ETRD PREL KSTC MASS IN
04NEWDELHI7251	INDIA PLEASED ON INDO-PAK TIES, BUT "DOESN'T [...] (C) Summary: India remains upbeat on relations with Pakistan as the pair look toward Round Two of the Composite Dialogue (CD) beginning in late November and extending through early 2005, but is seeking to dampen expectations for breakthroughs on tough bilateral issues such as Kashmir. The de [...]	2004-11-16 13:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG IN PK INDO PAK
04NEWDELHI7291	TERRORIST FINANCING: INDIA'S CABINET OKAYS [...] (U) India's Cabinet on November 11 gave its approval to establish a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU),the last formal hurdle for setting up this long-delayed office. Several years have elapsed as the GOI sorted out the intramural wrangling over the unit's composition and responsibilities. L [...]	2004-11-17 12:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP KTFN SNAR PREL IN KWPR GOI
04NEWDELHI7333	VISA DENIALS THREATEN CREDIBILITY OF NSSP, OPEN [...] (SBU) Summary: A visit to India's premier atomic energy establishments by Alain Bugat, Chairman of the French Atomic Energy Commission, suggests that France is willing to engage in discussions with India on nuclear matters to a degree that is inconceivable within the current NSSP framework. [...]	2004-11-18 10:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL ETTC TSPL CVIS FR IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI7380	IAEA DG ON INDIA'S NUCLEAR ENERGY NEEDS, IRAN, [...] (U) Summary: The GOI used a recent visit by IAEA Director General Dr. Mohammed El Baradei to press its case for reform of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) requirements to facilitate India's cooperation with others in the international community in using nuclear power to fill the country's growi [...]	2004-11-19 11:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP ENRG IR IN IAEA GOI NSSP
04NEWDELHI7389	THE BJP CONTINUES ITS DOWNWARD SPIRAL [...] (C) Summary: Former DPM LK Advani has failed to quell the powerful centrifugal forces that threaten to tear apart the BJP and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA),and the party is continuing a downward spiral that threatens to doom its immediate electoral chances. The Sangh Parivar (famil [...]	2004-11-19 12:34:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL IN
04NEWDELHI7394	PRE-SAARC INDIA GOES EASY ON BANGLADESH [...] (C) Summary: Bangladesh Foreign Minister Morshed Khan's November 1 stop in New Delhi was officially scheduled to deliver India's invitation to January's SAARC Summit in Dhaka, but also provided an opportunity for bilateral discussions on festering cross-border issues. The GOI resisted the tem [...]	2004-11-19 14:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER KISL BG IN
04NEWDELHI7395	ONE YEAR INTO THE INDO-PAK CEASE-FIRE: OPEN-ENDED [...] (C) Summary: As India and Pakistan mark the one year anniversary of their Line of Control (LOC) cease-fire in Kashmir, more Indian troop redeployments and other Indo-Pak progress are "only natural" if cross-border terrorism and infiltration by Pakistan remain low, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakista [...]	2004-11-19 14:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ENRG IN PK IR INDO PAK

04NEWDELHI7424	GOI DOCUMENT: INDO-PAK PROPOSALS WHERE INDIA [...] (C) During a November 19 meeting reviewing the agenda for the upcoming Indo-Pak composite dialogue (reftel),MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Arun K. Singh shared SIPDIS with us four papers outlining progress in the Indo-Pak relationship since 2003, pending bilateral propos [...]	2004-11-22 13:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD IN PK INDO PAK
04NEWDELHI7425	GOI DOCUMENT: RECENT INITIATIVES IN INDO-PAK [...] (C) During a November 19 meeting reviewing the agenda for the upcoming Indo-Pak composite dialogue (reftel),MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Arun K. Singh shared SIPDIS with us four papers outlining progress in the Indo-Pak relationship since 2003, pending bilateral propos [...]	2004-11-22 13:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD IN PK INDO PAK GOI
04NEWDELHI7426	INDIA SAYS SAFTA ON CRUISE CONTROL [...] (C) Summary: The GOI is heading into the January SAARC Summit in Dhaka upbeat about having maintained an ambitious SAFTA (South Asia Free Trade Area) negotiating schedule that aims to have a document ready for member ratification by mid 2005. This optimism has prevailed despite apprehension i [...]	2004-11-22 13:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ETRD PK BG IN GOI
04NEWDELHI7427	GOI DOCUMENT: DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIA-PAKISTAN [...] (C) During a November 19 meeting reviewing the agenda for the upcoming Indo-Pak composite dialogue (reftel),MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Arun K. Singh shared SIPDIS with us four papers outlining progress in the Indo-Pak relationship since 2003, pending bilateral propos [...]	2004-11-22 13:51:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD KNNP MOPS IN PK GOI INDO PAK
04NEWDELHI7494	INDIA WELCOMES AZIZ, FIRST PAKISTANI PM VISIT IN [...] (C) Summary: India received Shaukat Aziz warmly and at the highest levels, on the first visit of a Pakistani PM to New Delhi since 1991. The GOI went out of its way to project a welcoming message, because of the importance it places on reconciliation with Islamabad and because it sees Aziz as [...]	2004-11-24 12:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG PK IN INDO PAK
04NEWDELHI7497	KUMARATUNGA VISIT: SRI LANKA RELATIONSHIP A [...] (C) Summary: Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga's November 3-7 New Delhi visit highlighted that Sri Lanka has become a model neighbor for India. The President's stay included an address to a high-level conference during which she dismissed the notion that "nothing was happening" in he [...]	2004-11-24 12:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PTER CE IN
04NEWDELHI7512	SENATOR BAYH'S MEETINGS IN NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER [...] (C) Summary: In a series of senior level GOI meetings on November 23-24 during a private visit to India, Senator Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) heard a strong Indian commitment to move ahead with our bilateral partnership, coupled with concern about the potential disruptive effect of US F-16 sales to [...]	2004-11-29 05:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KNNP KIPR MASS IN PK IR
04NEWDELHI7571	BJP ASSAILS CONGRESS OVER PAKISTAN F-16 SALES [...] (U) In its recent national meeting in Ranchi, Jharkhand, the BJP National Executive for the first time attacked the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's foreign policy, assailing in particular the Congress' mismanagement of the Pakistan F-16's issue. In its November 29 "Resolution on Some [...]	2004-11-30 11:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MASS IN PK INDO PAK
04NEWDELHI7673	INDIAN JOURNALISTS RAVE ABOUT VISIT TO PAKISTANI KASHMIR [...] (C) Summary: Participants returning from a November 19-December 1 trip by 26 Indian journalists to Pakistan have reported overwhelming popular support in Pakistani Kashmir for opening the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Road. The media representatives were generally surprised by what they saw, and not [...]	2004-12-03 13:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PK
04NEWDELHI7674	GOI UNAPOLOGETIC ON DARFUR NO ACTION VOTE, [...] (C) SA/INS Director Blake and Polcouns used a December 2 meeting with MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar to convey our disappointment at the recent GOI vote at the UN in favor of "no action" on the resolution concerning the plight of refugees in Darfur. Polcouns also urged further ef [...]	2004-12-03 13:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF IN CH UN
04NEWDELHI7675	FOR INDIA UN PANEL REPORT IS ONLY A START [...] (C) Summary: The report of the High-Level Panel on UN Reform represents the beginning of a long-term process in which India has significant stakes, MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) BS Prakash told PolCouns on December 3. Downplaying FM Natwar Singh's apparent rejection of a permanent Secur [...]	2004-12-03 13:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IN UN GOI
04NEWDELHI7701	HIGH LEVEL INDIAN REP FOR AFGHANISTAN INAUGURATION [...] (U) Action request for OVP. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Reflecting significant Indian interests in Afghanistan and GOI support for Karzai's re-election, New Delhi has designated Minister of State in the PMO Prithviraj Chavan to lead the official delegation for the December 7 Afghan inaugurat [...]	2004-12-06 12:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BEXP EAIR IN AF
04NEWDELHI7703	INDO-PAK TRACK II EXCHANGES STRONG, MARRED ONLY BY DISAGREEMENT ON KASHMIR [...] (C) Summary: As India and Pakistan move into Round II of their Composite Dialogue (CD),people-to-people exchanges continue at an accelerating pace, building goodwill, expanding non-official ties, and keeping up a positive atmosphere for formal talks. The recent visit by Pakistani Punjab Chi [...]	2004-12-06 12:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IN PK INDO PAK
04NEWDELHI7733	PUTIN VISIT: FROM RUSSIA WITH TOUGH LOVE [...] (C) Summary: Russian President Vladimir Putin's December 3-5 visit to India did little to broaden their ties beyond defense, despite efforts by both sides to infuse the relationship with new momentum. Both leaders pressed their issues with Russia extracting a promise from India to sign a defe [...]	2004-12-07 13:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KNNP MASS IN
04NEWDELHI7735	DIXIT REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO INDO-PAK RAPPROCHEMENT; CAUTIOUS ON IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Meeting December 7 with the Ambassador, Indian NSA Dixit offered a guardedly optimistic assessment of the Indo-Pak peace process, reaffirming the PM's commitment to ""innovative solutions"" but also cautioning that there will be no territorial concessions by India. ""Short of that [...]	2004-12-08 07:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IN PK IZ INDO PAK
04NEWDELHI7750	SHYAM SARAN "SPEAKS FROM THE HEART" ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: Speaking informally at a just-concluded track-II conference on Nepal, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran argued that New Delhi and Kathmandu must work more closely together to defeat the Maoists, that Nepalese mistrust of India is misplaced, and that economic development could help N [...]	2004-12-08 11:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS EAID PREF ASEC IN NP
04NEWDELHI7754	INDIA REQUESTS PATRIOT PAC-2 CLASSIFIED BRIEFING [...] (C) Following up discussion at the recent US-India Strategic Stability Dialogue (reftel),the GOI has conveyed a December 8 letter (full text para 2) from Foreign Secretary Saran to Undersecretary Grossman formally requesting a classified briefing on the Patriot PAC-2 missile system. The deci [...]	2004-12-08 13:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS IN
04NEWDELHI7755	PROPOSED BUS SERVICE STALLED BY DOCUMENT DISPUTE; RAIL LINK MOVING SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary: The December 7-8 talks in New Delhi on beginning a bus service between the two parts of Kashmir made no progress after the governments failed to break the impasse over documentation and modalities for crossing the LOC. Each side offered what they termed compromise solutions, but [...]	2004-12-08 13:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECPS IN PK INDO PAK
04NEWDELHI7966	INDO-ISRAEL RELATIONS BACK ON TRACK [...] (C) Summary: Israeli Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's December 5-10 visit to India was "extremely positive" and provided an opportunity to expand the bilateral relationship beyond defense, Israel Embassy DCM Yoed Magen told A/PolCouns and Poloff on December 16. The visit, the first high-leve [...]	2004-12-17 10:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TSPA PTER ECON IN IS
04NEWDELHI8192	MEA STATEMENTS AND BRIEFINGS: MALAYSIA, SLOVAKIA, [...] Summary: This is another of our periodic messages summarizing public statements by MEA Spokesman Navtej Sarna and other MEA officials. Here we report Malaysian Prime Minister Badawi's and Slovak President Gasparovic's visits to India, Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's trip to South Korea and [...]	2004-12-28 11:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KNNP TSPA MY LO KS PK BG BM CE NP IN GOI
04NEWDELHI8261	INDIA UNCERTAIN ABOUT ITS NICHE IN IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar reiterated GOI desire to assist in Iraq's elections, but expressed uncertainty about India's role in light of their own political constraints in a meeting with PolCouns and Pol-MilOff on December 29. Regarding the proposed role of th [...]	2004-12-30 11:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID IZ IN
04NEWDELHI8263	SARAN: UN MUST REFLECT CONCERNS OF DEVELOPING [...] (U) In what was billed by the MEA as an important policy speech, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran set forth India's "preliminary" views of the High Level Panel Report on UN Reform in a December 30 address. Prior to Saran's speech, MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) BS Prakash advised us to pay [...]	2004-12-30 11:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP KDEM IN UNSC UNGA
04NEWDELHI8264	BHUTAN HAPPY TO JOIN CT CONVENTIONS, BUT [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-30 11:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL ASEC BT
04NEWDELHI8266	GOI PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGES PROGRESS ON NSSP, [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Natwar Singh publicly acknowledged during a December 22 Parliamentary debate with former FM Yashwant Sinha that India had agreed to non-diversion and end-use verification of US high technology imports, even when they come from a third country. This is a clear si [...]	2004-12-30 12:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL PGOV IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI8267	UPDATE: INDIAN FOREIGN TSUNAMI RELIEF [...] (U) Reflecting the very positive Indian reaction to the US initiative to create a Core Group for tsunami relief, and New Delhi's resolve to do even more to assist India's neighbors, on December 30 the MEA provided us with a further update on GOI support for Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Indone [...]	2004-12-30 12:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AEMR EAID MASS SOCI ID CE MV IN GOI
04OTTAWA2893	NEW CANADIAN TRANSPORT MINISTER INTERESTED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met Minister of Transport Jean Lapierre on October 26 and learned his views on upgrading the bilateral aviation agreement and accelerating infrastructure improvements at land border crossings. The Minister indicated he will push for both, and that port security [...]	2004-10-28 19:34:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECIN EWWT ELTN ASEC PREL CA
04OTTAWA2951	CANADA: MARIJUANA LEGISLATION INTRODUCED ANEW [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-03 13:33:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SNAR PREL KCRM CA
04OTTAWA2963	U.S. AND CANADIAN POLICY PLANNERS SEEK SYNERGY ON [...] (C) Summary: In policy planning talks October 28-29 in Toronto, U.S. and Canadian colleagues exchanged views and sought ways to synergize efforts on a range of global and regional issues. The Canadian team briefed on Canada,s attempt through its International Policy Review to enhance public s [...]	2004-11-04 18:11:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA IR IZ PGOV PREL AF PINS KMPI SCUL
04OTTAWA2983	U.S. GOALS FOR GLOBAL FUND BOARD MEETING IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Canadian aid officials take a more sanguine view than the US both of future funding prospects for the Global Fund and of performance of grants awarded so far, possbily because they rely for information on the Global Fund secretariat. They would welcome more d [...]	2004-11-08 19:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV PREL TBIO CIDA
04OTTAWA2989	GETTING TO KNOW YOU: MEXICAN PRESIDENT FOX VISITS [...] (U) Introduction and Summary: Mexican President Vincente Fox marked the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations and the 10th anniversary of NAFTA with a working visit to Canada October 24-26. Accompanied by eight cabinet-level officials, three senators, and about 40 business leaders, the [...]	2004-11-08 19:55:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PREL ECON EINV CA MX
04OTTAWA2990	GOC LAYS OUT THEIR PREFERENCES FOR PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary - Canada would welcome a January visit by President Bush to set a tone of partnership for the next four years, according to Alex Himelfarb and Tim Murphy, the Prime Minister,s top aides. They would like to use the visit to emphasize Canada,s commitment to North American security in [...]	2004-11-08 20:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ETRD PREL CA
04OTTAWA3027	CANADA: CONSERVATIVES DIVIDED ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Despite broad speculation in media and academic circles that the government was poised to take a (positive) decision on Canada's participation in missile defense, PCO Clerk Alex Himelfarb indicated to the Ambassador that the government would seek to avoid a debate and vote on [...]	2004-11-10 14:46:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR PGOV PREL CA
04OTTAWA3048	214TH MEETING OF THE PERMANENT JOINT BOARD ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At its October 21-22 meeting in Ottawa, the U.S.-Canada Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) -- recommended expeditious negotiation of an agreement to replace the current NORAD agreement expiring May 2006, with a further recommendation that the new Agreement have no termin [...]	2004-11-12 17:26:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR MCAP PTER PINR CA NATO
04OTTAWA3058	CANADA: DEMARCHE ON SECOND ROUND OF UKRAINIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to FAC Deputy Director for Eastern Europe Habib Massoud and Desk Officer Claude Demers November 12, the latter of whom recently returned from observing the first round of elections in Ukraine. Massoud thanked us for the points and commented that we are gen [...]	2004-11-15 13:07:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA EU PGOV PHUM PREL UP FAC
04OTTAWA3115	SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT BUSH,S VISIT TO CANADA, [...] (C/NF) The Canadian Government and the Embassy strongly welcome your visit and the opportunities it will afford to advance our broad bilateral relationship. The two key themes I would stress for your visit are partnership and reassurance. The Canadians need to be reassured that at the end of the [...]	2004-11-18 19:32:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET//NOFORN	CA PGOV PREL
04OTTAWA3132	CANADA'S LIBERALS ON THE DEFENSIVE: POLITICAL [...] (C/NF) Summary: Just over ten days in advance of President Bush's visit to Canada (reftel),PM Martin,s Liberals were hit from three sides in Parliamentary Question Period November 18. Conservatives criticized the PM,s slow disciplining of anti-American MP Carolyn Parrish, questioned the Part [...]	2004-11-19 20:28:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CA PGOV PREL
04OTTAWA3187	CANADA'S ATTENDANCE AT FORUM FOR THE FUTURE; [...] (U) Ambassador Cellucci delivered ref A demarche with Moroccan Ambassador Mohammed Tange November 24 to Mark Bailey, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister for Africa and the Middle East. Ambassador Cellucci stressed the importance the United States, and Secretary Powell personally, place on high-l [...]	2004-11-26 12:50:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KDEM KMPI PREL CA
04OTTAWA3240	CANADIAN PARLIAMENT'S INITIAL REACTION TO [...] (C) Summary: Initial public and political reaction to the visit of President Bush has been largely positive; we have received the "bounce" to the bilateral relationship that we were hoping for. Attention has quickly come to focus on the issues of immediate concern to Canadians however, which a [...]	2004-12-02 22:12:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA PARM PGOV PREL
04OTTAWA3248	CANADA SEEKS BALANCE IN MIDDLE EAST POLICY [...] (C) Summary: In an effort to be a more effective player in the Middle East, Canada will vote against two contentious resolutions on Palestine rather than abstaining as in years past, and will support the resolution on a Middle East nuclear free zone. These votes will bring Canada,s formal UN [...]	2004-12-03 19:02:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA PGOV IS PREL UNGA
04OTTAWA3258	PRESIDENT BUSH VISIT BRINGS TOGETHER DISPARATE [...] (C) Summary: Preparations were in place for large protests during the visit of President Bush but in the end it was a small, albeit at times unruly lot that demonstrated. The stalwarts, such as the Raging Grannies and "No War/No to Bush" coalition, were paralleled by anarchists and others, bu [...]	2004-12-03 22:18:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA PGOV PREL ASEC
04OTTAWA3265	CANADA: MARITIME COOPERATION [...] summary: Canada's Minster of Justice, Irwin Cotler, informed Ambassador Cellucci on November 22 that the Government of Canada would be open to exploratory discussions with representatives of the US Government concerning an evaluation of need and then possible development of a maritime agreem [...]	2004-12-06 15:44:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PGOV PREL PTER SMIG SNAR CA
04OTTAWA3286	CANADA TO SEND A LARGE CONTINGENT TO OBSERVE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Canadian Government, and especially the large Canadian Ukrainian community, are eager to play a major role in ensuring the December 26 run-off elections run smoothly and fairly. However, Canada's decision to send a significantly larger observer contingent to Ukraine than [...]	2004-12-07 19:26:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM UP CA
04OTTAWA3336	RAYTHEON BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: In a December 8 office call, Raytheon representatives (U.S. and Canadian) briefed the Ambassador and mission officers on recent meetings with Canadian Ambassador Kergin in Washington and senators on Parliament Hill. Raytheon assesses that the Canadian government "may be interested" [...]	2004-12-10 21:43:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR PREL CA
04OTTAWA3366	VISIT OF CONGRESSMAN JAMES SENSENBRENNER [...] (U) Congressman James S. Sensenbrenner, Jr., Republican Member of Congress from Wisconsin and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, visited Ottawa December 8-10, 2004. He was accompanied by Judiciary Committee Chief of Staff and General Counsel Philip G. Kiko. 2. (U) Congressman Sen [...]	2004-12-15 20:41:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP ASEC PREL CA
04OTTAWA3374	CANADIAN SENATE RELEASES REPORT OUTLINING DEFENCE [...] (U) Summary: The Canadian Senate's Standing Committee on National Security and Defence released a report, "The Canadian Security Guidebook: An Update of Security Problems in Search of Solutions" on December 8. In the report, the committee cites eighty-six problems in the following areas: B [...]	2004-12-16 15:53:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ASEC PTER MCAP CA EIAR
04OTTAWA3382	CANADIAN GOVERNMENT HAND-WRINGING ON MISSILE [...] (S/NF) In a series of end-of-year interviews, the press has cast a negative spin on Prime Minister Martin's comments on Canadian participation in the Missile Defense Program (MDP). Nonetheless, the government is leaning toward submitting the issue for a debate and vote in Parliament when it [...]	2004-12-16 22:18:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL CA
04OTTAWA3402	CANADA: 2004-2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Unclassified entire text. ----------- I. Summary ----------- 2. The Government of Canada is committed to reducing the harm and availability of illicit drugs within its borders. Health Canada has responsibility for overall coordination of the nation's drug strategy although other dep [...]	2004-12-17 20:39:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL KSEP CA
04OTTAWA3459	CANADIAN DIP NOTE EXPRESSES CONCERNS ABOUT [...] Summary: The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) delivered a diplomatic note (no. NUE-0139) to Acting Econ M/C and Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Attache on December 22, expressing concern about congestion at the Toronto preclearance facility and requesting that DHS take steps to re [...]	2004-12-23 18:59:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON PREL CA FAC
04OTTAWA3460	CANADA: REQUEST FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-23 19:05:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL CA
04OTTAWA3468	CANADA: NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] POST: Ottawa DATE OF SUBMISSION: 29 December 2004 2. NAME OF HEAD OF GOVERNMENT: Paul Martin TITLE: Prime Minister of Canada OFFICE TELEPHONE NUMBER(S): 613-992-4211 RESIDENCE TELEPHONE AND CELL PHONE NUMBER(S): The number above also serves as an operations center; calls will be fo [...]	2004-12-29 17:01:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL CA
04PANAMA1000	ANOTHER PANAMANIAN MADAM IN JAIL; IMMIGRATION [...] (C) According to GOP police reports, an alleged child prostitution ringleader, Elizabeth Archibold Diaz, surrendered herself to the Policia Tecnica Judicial (PTJ) on April 14, 2004. She was accompanied by her attorney and, to date, remains in custody. Archibold is alleged to be the masterm [...]	2004-04-30 12:34:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SMIG CO PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA1015	PANAMA: WHO IS PRESIDENT-ELECT MARTIN TORRIJOS AND [...] (SBU) At 7:35 p.m. local time (8:35 p.m. Washington time),Panama's Electoral Tribunal declared Martin Erasto Torrijos Espino the winner of Panama's May 2, 2004 General Elections. It appeared that voter participation would exceed 75%. Torrijos' five-year term as President will commence Septembe [...]	2004-05-03 02:48:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA1016	PANAMA: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON VICE [...] (SBU) Martin Torrijos chose a seasoned businessman with strong political connections as his First Vice President and a soft-spoken, but seasoned politician as his Second Vice President. First Vice President-elect Samuel Lewis Navarro is the son of former Noriega foreign minister (later anti- [...]	2004-05-03 03:04:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA1046	EMBOFFS DISCUSS COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION, [...] (C) On April 22, PolOffs met with Russian Embassy Counselor (DCM) Oleg Ostrovskiy and First Secretary Evgeny Lebedev for our first tete-a-tete. Both GOR diplomats are Americas specialists and have already served in Panama for a year or more. Noting the good relationship between our countries [...]	2004-05-03 22:36:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EWWT PINR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1047	PANAMA MAY 2 ELECTION RESULTS: POWERFUL PRD AND [...] (C) President-elect Martin Torrijos and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) won a commanding popular mandate in Panama's May 2, 2004 elections, sweeping all provinces but one. The results were a stinging rebuke of President Mireya Moscoso, whose five-year term will end on September 1, 20 [...]	2004-05-03 22:47:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL CHIEF POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA111	ENDARA TO RUN AS PANAMA'S "HONEST GOVERNMENT" [...] (C) Former president Guillermo Endara has mapped a come-from-behind election strategy, positioned himself as the campaign's most serious anti-corruption reformer, derides front-runner Martin Torrijos's lack of experience and ability, and plans tough talks with U.S. negotiators on agriculture [...]	2004-01-20 15:53:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1116	PANAMA: IMPLICATIONS OF THE TORRIJOS VICTORY FOR [...] (C) Martin Torrijos, a 40-year-old politician with little national policy experience, scored a crushing electoral victory on May 2, while his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) is positioned to control Panama's unicameral legislature. After it takes office on September 1, the new governmen [...]	2004-05-07 20:27:00	Embassy Panama	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ETRD EFIN EWWT PM CM CO TW POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1224	PANAMA LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: NEW BALLGAME ON [...] (SBU) Panamanians (current legislators included) are so focused on what will happen after September 1 that they appear to have forgotten entirely that the current Assembly session will continue until the end of May. The Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD),Panama's largest and best organize [...]	2004-05-17 20:49:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA145	PANAMA VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SAMUEL LEWIS [...] (C) In recent meeting with Pol Counselor, first vice presidential candidate Samuel Lewis Navarro argued that the Martin Torrijos ticket of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) offers Panama its best chance to improve social and economic conditions in Panama and eliminate the threat to dem [...]	2004-01-23 15:55:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL EINV PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA148	PANAMA NGO CONCERNED ABOUT CHINESE DEBT BONDAGE [...] (SBU) In a January 8 meeting to discuss trafficking in persons (TIP) and related issues with PolOff and political assistant, acting director of Casa Esperanza, Ramon Aleman Arias said Chinese migrant debt bondage and unregulated child labor are problems in Panama. (NOTE: Casa Esperanza is a l [...]	2004-01-23 18:10:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB PREL PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA1700	WHERE IS PANAMA'S NEW GOVERNMENT HEADING? [...] (C) Martin Torrijos and his inner circle, due to take power on September 1, are pushing an energetic and ambitious transition agenda featuring clear-cut goals in foreign policy (priority to the U.S. and Colombia),security (cooperation with U.S. objectives, new attention to the Caribbean coast [...]	2004-07-01 12:22:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1704	PANAMA'S FM ARIAS NONCOMMITTAL ON REQUEST TO [...] (C) DCM, accompanied by Polcouns, delivered reftel talking points to Panamanian Foreign Minister Harmodio Arias Cerjack on June 30, 2004. With two months left for this government, Arias was (not surprisingly) noncommittal on whether the GOP would be willing to accept protected Cuban and Hait [...]	2004-07-01 19:43:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SMIG PM CU HA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA1740	PANAMA BALKS AT ACCEPTING PROTECTED CUBAN AND [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-08 16:23:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL SMIG PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA1764	PANAMA: PRESIDENT-ELECT TORRIJOS PUSHES [...] (SBU) In a surprise move, President Moscoso ordered "extraordinary sessions" of the Legislative Assembly to discuss constitutional reform. The move drew cheers from some civil society groups and criticism from those like former president and second-place 2004 candidate Guillermo Endara who f [...]	2004-07-09 21:01:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA1814	PANAMA'S PLANS FOR SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP [...] No summary [...]	2004-07-14 21:37:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON KSUM PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA1849	FEDERICO ANTONIO HUMBERT ARIAS TO BE NEXT [...] (C) President-elect Martin Torrijos has selected Federico "Freddy" Antonio Humbert Arias to be Panama's Ambasador to the United States as of September 1, 2004, but has not yet announced the appointment. Foreign Minister-designate Samuel Lewis Navarro told DCM that he already approached Foreign [...]	2004-07-20 14:19:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA1949	PANAMA: SCENE SETTER FOR GEN. HILL'S AUG. 12 VISIT [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome your August 12 visit to Panama. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG commitment to expanding training programs shared between our two countries, and to press for continuing focus on civilian controlled security forces, transparency and anti-corruption within P [...]	2004-08-02 14:15:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL MASS PGOV PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1953	NO DECISION IMMINENT ON CHINA/TAIWAN DIPLOMATIC [...] IN A BREAKFAST MEETING ON JULY 29, PANAMA'S VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT (AND PRESUMPTIVE FOREIGN MINISTER) SAMUEL LEWIS NAVARRO TOLD AMBASSADOR THAT THE INCOMING TORRIJOS GOVERNMENT IS FAR FROM MAKING A DECISION ON THE POSSIBILITY OF DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION OF CHINA. REFERRING TO LEWIS' JUNE 30 INQUIR [...]	2004-08-02 18:58:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW CH PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA1963	Panama's legislature approves constitutional [...] (SBU) Although many thought them dead a month ago, in only 21 calendar days Panama's Legislative Assembly approved a package of 67 constitutional reforms that most Panamanians view favorably. They began as legislator Jerry Wilson's 90-page proposal on behalf of the opposition Democratic Revo [...]	2004-08-03 21:15:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA1992	PANAMA: SCENESETTER FOR USG DELEGATION TO THE [...] (SBU) US Embassy Panama welcomes the USG delegation to the National Security Planning Workshop, Aug. 11-13, which is designed to assist the incoming PRD government headed by President-elect Torrijos who assumes office September 1. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG commitment to [...]	2004-08-06 12:18:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL MASS PGOV PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA204	PANAMA PRESIDENT MOSCOSO DISCUSSES BILATERAL [...] (C) On January 21 Special Envoy for Hemispheric Initiatives Otto Reich, accompanied by Ambassador Watt, met with Panama President Mireya Moscoso. Flanked by Foreign Minister Harmodio Arias and Commerce and Industries Minister Joaquin Jacome, Moscoso pushed an April 2004 start date for the bi [...]	2004-01-30 21:26:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA205	PANAMA'S FOUR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES MEET WHITE [...] (SBU) On January 22, Special Envoy Otto Reich and Ambassador Watt met with Panama's four presidential candidates -- Ricardo Martinelli, front-runner Martin Torrijos, Jose Miguel Aleman, and Guillermo Endara. The candidates explained their strategies, goals, and priorities in a series of 10-m [...]	2004-01-30 21:36:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ETRD PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2105	SCENESETTER: THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO PANAMA'S [...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Panama, I want to express our warmest welcome on your upcoming September 1, 2004 visit to Panama's Presidential Inauguration. Following your November 3, 2003 visit to Panama's Centennial celebrations (reftel),your presence here as the government of Martin Torrijos [...]	2004-08-18 22:37:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD OVIP PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA213	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR NIKOLAY VLADIMIR DEPARTS [...] (SBU) This biographical report details Ambassador and Emboffs' impressions of Nikolay Vladimir during his tenure as Russian Ambassador to Panama as well as the highlights of his Curriculum Vitae. Ambassador Vladimir departed Panama in December 2003, informing Ambassador Watt that he had been [...]	2004-02-02 22:22:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PM RS POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA2176	PANAMA PARDONS ANTIâ€CASTRO CUBANS [...] (SBU) Late on August 25, outgoing President Mireya Moscoso signed an executive decree pardoning four anti"Castro Cuban prisoners "" Luis Posada Carriles and AmCits Gasper Jimenez, Guillermo Novo, and Pedro Remon (see Reftels) and 163 others, as one of her final acts as president. The GOP imme [...]	2004-08-26 22:42:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PM CU HO LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2231	EMBASSY EFFORTS TO PROMOTE SECURITY AND [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. While Panama's remote and economically-underdeveloped Darien Region remains vulnerable to incursions by paramilitary groups and drug traffickers from Colombia, the region's security under Panam [...]	2004-09-02 20:38:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON MASS MOPS SNAR EAID EAGR PREF PREL PINS PTER PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA2274	PANAMA: TAIWANâ€PRC RECOGNITION ISSUE SIMMERS AS [...] (C) With a new, more PRC"friendly Panama government in office on September 1, the question of whether newly inaugurated President Martin Torrijos might drop Panama's long"standing diplomatic recognition of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in favor of the People's Republic of China (PRC) continues [...]	2004-09-08 19:49:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV PM CM TW POL CHIEF
04PANAMA23	PANAMA ON BOARD FOR A PRODUCTIVE SPECIAL SUMMIT OF [...] (C) Ambassador Watt delivered reftel B demarche to Panama's Foreign Minister Harmodio Arias Madrid and Vice Foreign Minister and Summit of the Americas Coordinator Nivia Rossana Castrellon on December 30. Ambassador Watt stressed with FM Arias the four key areas in Reftel A talking points. On [...]	2004-01-06 21:39:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KSUM PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA2362	PANAMA FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS AMBASSADOR WATT [...] (C) In a September 7 meeting with Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro, Ambassador Watt discussed the Secretary's recent visit to Panama and President Torrijos' travel plans to the UN General Assembly in New York. The Ambassador also discussed ways Panama could contribute to the corruption [...]	2004-09-16 22:03:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2452	PANAMA PLANS ASSERTIVE, COHERENT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) The Torrijos administration plans to run a much more ambitious foreign policy than its predecessor, aiming to sell the Panama "brand" to the world. First Vice President and Foreign Minister Samuel LEWIS Navarro has repeatedly indicated to the Ambassador and EmbOffs that the Torrijos team [...]	2004-09-29 21:51:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2530	PANAMA'S NEW GOVERNMENT IN PRODUCTIVE TALKS WITH [...] (C) WHA Deputy Assistant Secretary Dan Fisk's October 5-7 meetings with President Torrijos and key cabinet officials brought friendly and productive exchanges on security and law enforcement cooperation; foreign policy; economic and trade policy; and good governance/anti-corruption. DAS Fisk [...]	2004-10-13 18:09:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG SNAR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2553	PANAMA'S NEW ADMINISTRATION SCORES RECORD COCAINE [...] (C) Panamanian Public Forces and Embassy Officers contributed to record detainee transfers and cocaine captures in recent weeks, as part of on-going counter-drug Operation Panama Express task force operations. On September 21, Panama National Maritime Service (SMN) marines, Panamanian Publi [...]	2004-10-15 20:27:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM KTIA PGOV PREL PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2583	DAS FISK TOURS PANAMA'S REMOTE DARIEN BORDER REGION [...] (SBU) WHA DAS Dan Fisk and Ambassador Watt, with POL Counselor and NAS Director, visited three locales in Panama's rugged and remote Darien province October 6, including the provincial capital, La Palma. They spent the day viewing Panamanian National Police (PNP) border installations, greeti [...]	2004-10-19 18:58:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2589	PANAMA INVESTIGATORS, PROSECUTORS PUSH TIP AGENDA [...] (SBU) Despite the continued absence of funding for the anti-TIP law enacted in March 2004 (see Reftel A) and a recent change in administration, Panama's Judicial Police (PTJ) and prosecutors have continued to push the TIP agenda. They have publicized the anti-TIP law, created a specialized se [...]	2004-10-19 21:11:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SMIG PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2641	PANAMA'S ARNULFISTA PARTY: ELECTORAL SHELLACKING [...] (C) Up-and-coming Arnulfista Party (PA) leaders will not wait for Party President Mireya Moscoso to complete her term in January 2006 before trying to rebuild the party, ideally minus her. After the PA's meager third-place finish (16.4% of popular vote) in Panama's May 2004 presidential elect [...]	2004-10-27 14:26:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA2661	PANAMA PROTESTS: THE STORY BEHIND BOCAS VIOLENCE [...] (C) A peaceful protest in a north coast town far from the capital against an electric company veered into violence on October 24 after a radical group exploited local tensions and attacked the national police (PNP) with iron bars and Molotov cocktails, injuring 28 people including 24 officers [...]	2004-10-28 22:43:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2691	SCENESETTER: DEFENSE SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S NOVEMBER [...] (C) On behalf of Embassy Panama I would like to extend our warmest welcome on your upcoming November 13-14, 2004 visit to Panama. Your presence here as the government of Martin Torrijos enters its third month signals the great interest of the United States in strengthening our excellent rela [...]	2004-11-02 13:13:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV SNAR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2694	PANAMA: NEW GENERATION OF ARNULFISTA VISIONARIES [...] (C) The strong push to reform the Arnulfista Party (PA) after its May 2004 electoral defeat (see reftel) raises questions about why it occurred, who can repair the damage, what are the PA's long-term prospects, and what it all means for the USG. Most observers blame Mireya Moscoso and her cl [...]	2004-11-02 16:50:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA2698	PANAMA RESPONDS TO CNIES DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) This message contains action requests. Embassy requests Department's guidance on questions in paragraphs 2 and 3. Embassy understands that Department wants to elicit a formal positive response by diplomatic note no later than December 1. In order to meet that deadline, Embassy would [...]	2004-11-02 20:38:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SNAR MOPS PM EARI POL CHIEF
04PANAMA274	EMBASSY PANAMA CONVENES MINI-CTAG [...] (U) Per ref B, on February 2, Embassy's Pol Counselor, AID Director, Econ Counselor and NAS Director met with diplomatic representatives from G-8 countries and Spain to discuss Panama's counterterrorism (CT) requirements and vulnerabilities, each country's CT-related assistance to Panama, and [...]	2004-02-06 18:53:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PREL PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2777	PANAMA PROBABLY WILL NOT MOVE TO OPPOSE [...] (C) This Embassy and other observers hoped that Panama's UNGA voting patterns soon might become more congenial to U.S. interests, given the recent election of Martin Torrijos, a young, modernizing president; his avowed intent to make Panama's UN General Assembly voting "more predictable"; and [...]	2004-11-16 21:44:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PM UNGA POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2829	PANAMA GOVERNMENT WEATHERS FIERCE CRITICISM AS IT [...] (C) With apparent support from President Martin Torrijos, Minister of Government and Justice Hector Aleman is moving to centralize control of the Panamanian Public Forces (PPF). MOGJ sources contend that under the government of former president Mireya Moscoso, MOGJ exercised weak oversight of [...]	2004-11-23 18:49:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR MARR PINS PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2841	PANAMA: TORRIJOS AGENDA CONTINUES AFTER [...] (SBU) President Martin Torrijos and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) are trying to make the most of their honeymoon period. Less than 100 days into its five-year term, the new administration has accomplished one of its top domestic priorities by pushing through a constitutional reform [...]	2004-11-24 14:57:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA2921	SECDEF RUMSFELD'S TWO-DAY PANAMA TOUR A SUCCESS [...] (C) In a two-day visit to Panama November 13-14, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld met with Panamanian President Torrijos and top cabinet officials, visited and overflew the Panama Canal, laid a wreath at the American Battle Monument Commission's Corozal Cemetary, and held a news conferenc [...]	2004-12-03 19:21:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM CM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA2923	PANAMA SEEKS SOLUTIONS TO ARMS-FOR-DRUGS TRADE [...] (C) Since the seizure of the "Otterloo" in 2001, a ship carrying about 3,000 weapons from Nicaragua through Panama to the AUC in Colombia, the Colombian armed groups (FARC and AUC) appear to be relying increasingly on smaller arms-for-drugs purchases, instead of purchasing large amounts of w [...]	2004-12-03 21:08:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS SNAR PGOV PREL PARM PM NI CO CR LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2937	PANAMA, THE G4 AND "PLAN PUEBLA" [...] (C) Mexican President Vicente Fox publicly endorsed Panama's inclusion in the G3 (Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico) during his November 2-3 visit to Panama. According to MFA Advisor Nils Castro and International Organizations Director Javier Bonagas, the GOP's primary interest in joining the G [...]	2004-12-06 21:23:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON ENRG PM CO VZ LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA2943	PANAMA AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING [...] (SBU) Embassy Panama offers the following information and analysis in response to Reftel A tasking. CUBA AND PANAMANIAN POLITICS ----------------------------- 2. (C) Six days before leaving office, late on the evening of August 25, 2004, Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned fou [...]	2004-12-07 19:52:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC PGOV EFIN ETRD PM CU POL CHIEF
04PANAMA298	PANAMA ELECTION COUNTDOWN #1: 12 WEEKS TO GO [...] (U) Monday, February 2, marked the deadline for political parties to register candidacies for presidential, mayoral, legislative and local representative seats. All parties complied with the deadline and despite rumors over the weekend that one would withdraw from the race; all four president [...]	2004-02-09 17:51:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA30	PANAMA UNDECIDED ON 8 OF 9 CERD SPOTS [...] (U) On January 6, MFA International Organizations Deputy Director General Nubia Lezcano advised Poloff that the GOP has committed to one CERD candidate due to "previous agreements," but has not decided who to support for the other eight positions. Lezcano further explained that it was unlikel [...]	2004-01-07 18:50:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA3034	PANAMA PUSHES DISABLED RIGHTS UNDER THE TORRIJOS [...] (SBU) In his first hundred days in office, President Torrijos has moved quickly to deliver on campaign promises to 280,000 disabled citizens and their families to create practical and inclusive institutions to boost compliance with Panama's disability laws. The president's personal interest [...]	2004-12-21 22:30:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL

04PANAMA324	SCENESETTER: CODEL WELLER'S VISIT TO PANAMA [...] (U) Embassy Panama welcomes Codel Weller on their February 19-22 visit to Panama. You will have the opportunity to reiterate US appreciation for the ongoing security and drug enforcement cooperation between our two countries. Your visit highlights our governments' mutual focus on the strate [...]	2004-02-11 20:20:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC PREL ECON PM
04PANAMA325	PANAMA'S PROGRESS ON MARITIME SECURITY -- GOOD [...] (SBU) The September 11 attacks called significant attention to the potential for terrorist exploitation of Panama,s leading maritime position. Panama has the world,s largest flag state registry with approximately 6300 vessels over 500 gross metric tons and approximately 300,000 seafarers. Ad [...]	2004-02-11 20:21:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT KNNP PTER ETTC PREL PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA345	PANAMA READY TO FOLLOW-UP ON IAEA CODE OF CONDUCT [...] (SBU) On February 9, 2004, Embassy delivered diplomatic note No. 162 containing reftel letter from Secretary Powell to Panama's Minister of Foreign Affairs Harmodio Arias. MFA Director General for International Organizations and Conferences Rodolfo Aleman Zubieta advised Poloff that same day [...]	2004-02-13 19:52:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KNNP PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA352	PANAMA ELECTION COUNTDOWN #2: 11 WEEKS TO GO [...] Sensitive But Unclassified. Protect Accordingly. The Race Is On -------------- 2. (U) Candidates for all 1,754 national and local positions to be contested in Panama's May 2 elections have shifted their efforts into high gear. As political advertising increases in every medium from roll [...]	2004-02-13 22:18:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA399	FOCUSING PANAMA'S EFFORT TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) The January 18-21 G/TIP visit to Panama helped refine Embassy and GOP anti-TIP efforts approach to strategies (Ref A). The Embassy will push the GOP to focus its anti-TIP improvements on public awareness campaigns, victims assistance, and increased training. In the short term, legisla [...]	2004-02-19 12:54:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SMIG PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA417	PANAMA ELECTION COUNTDOWN #3: 10 WEEKS TO GO [...] (U) Electoral Magistrates proudly announced that the electoral process is moving forward and is 70 percent complete. Among other things, The Electoral Tribunal must still select and train personnel to staff voting places and set aside space and staff for vote counting committees at the local [...]	2004-02-20 21:15:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA419	PANAMANIAN MADAM HEADED TO PRISON [...] (U) After two trials, two guilty verdicts, years of appeals, and not one day behind bars, the former head of a child prostitution ring, Thonya Xiomara Hubbard (aka Madam Thonya),will be spending the next 76 months in prison. On February 16, the Supreme Appeal Court rejected Hubbard's appea [...]	2004-02-20 23:34:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA440	PANAMA ELECTIONS - NOTES FROM THE FIELD - CHIRIQUI [...] (SBU) Residents of Chiriqui, Panama's largest dairy, coffee, and vegetable producer, and its capital David, Panama's third-largest city, want politicians to focus on unemployment and an agricultural sector threatened by a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. Pol Counsel [...]	2004-02-25 18:17:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PM PINR PREL POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA452	CODEL WELLER UNDERSCORES GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (U) Summary: Codel Weller,s February 19-22 visit to Panama underscored our strong friendship and high level of bilateral cooperation with GoP interlocutors, who included President Moscoso, FM Arias, National Security Advisor Jarvis, and VM for Foreign Trade Adames. Congressman Weller expres [...]	2004-02-26 20:31:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EWWT SNAR PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA465	LA DONA HITS PANAMA'S AIRWAVES. PANAMA ELECTION [...] (U) While a political cartoon in a Panama daily depicted the fifth ballot's funeral, civil society refused to let the issue rest in peace. Criticism abounded in the wake of last week's Electoral Tribunal (ET) and Executive Branch insistence on not issuing a fifth ballot on constitutional ref [...]	2004-02-27 20:49:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA540	LA PRENSA FOUNDER ROBERTO EISENMANN SLAMS PANAMA'S [...] (C) Roberto Eisenmann, Jr., founder of Panama's anti-dictatorship daily newspaper La Prensa, since 1990 turned political maverick and op-ed gadfly, recently shared with POL Counselor some caustic commentary on what he called the "outrageous" attitude of Panama's political class and its corrup [...]	2004-03-04 19:40:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA564	NEW PANAMA POLLS SHOW TORRIJOS WITH LARGE LEAD. [...] (SBU) New polls from two different not necessarily reliable sources are ranking presidential candidates in the usual order. In the Assembly, legislators seeking to rejuvenate their rotten image have proposed forward-leaning reductions in their own privileges, but may lack the political will t [...]	2004-03-08 22:32:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA576	PANAMA ADOPTS "ENERGETIC MEASURES" AGAINST [...] (SBU) In the past ten days (March 1-9) the Panamanian government (GOP) organized an inter-agency anti-TIP working group, set into motion a 45-day action plan, launched a public awareness campaign, prepared tougher anti-TIP legislation, readied a victims hotline, and announced that it had iden [...]	2004-03-09 20:55:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA586	PANAMA OFFERS BETTER HIGH-VALUE TRANSIT GUARANTEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Panama's unilateral alternative to the USG's bilateral MOU proposal may be a better force protection guarantee for US military high-value transits (HVTs). After Embassy receives actual GOP language, probably in one to two months, we will analyze it and report our conclusions and [...]	2004-03-10 21:36:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PINS EWWT MOPS PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA613	OBSERVERS, OPACITY, AND A PLEDGE. PANAMA ELECTION [...] (SBU) With less than two months to go, electoral issues are finally gaining prominence in Panama's media. Panamanian and foreign observers organize for the May 2 elections. Embassy plans to coordinate with OAS and Ombudsman's Office observers to ensure broad coverage of key polling areas on [...]	2004-03-16 13:24:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA615	TORRIJOS TEAM BEGINNING TO LOOK AHEAD TO NEW [...] (C) Still leading in the polls, Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) presidential candidate Martin Torrijos is starting to consider what his administration might look like, well aware of our interest in key PRD appointments. Meeting with PolOff, senior advisor and "friend of Martin" Ubaldino [...]	2004-03-16 21:00:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ETRD MASS PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA633	SCENESETTER: AMBASSADOR ARCOS' VISIT TO PANAMA [...] (U) I warmly welcome your March 23-25 visit to Panama. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG appreciation for the ongoing maritime security cooperation between our two countries, and to press for continuing focus on this as well as aviation security (and increasingly cruise ship securi [...]	2004-03-18 16:01:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT KNNP PTER ETTC PREL PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA651	MORE SECRETS, A DEBATE, AND ANOTHER POLL SHOWS [...] (SBU) Local press meticulously covered former President Ernesto Perez Balladares' unexpected disclosure of discretionary expenditures during his presidency (1994-99),tied to the ongoing battle between Electoral Prosecutor Gerardo Solis and President Moscoso. (Reftels A & B). A March 16 presi [...]	2004-03-19 19:39:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA652	MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE: US-PANAMA EXCHANGE OF [...] The following US diplomatic note no. 325, dated March 17, 2004, was presented by Embassy to the GOP (text per ref B with changes per ref A). Begin text: No. 325 The Embassy of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Republic o [...]	2004-03-19 20:33:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR PREL PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA663	PANAMA TO OUTLINE INITIATIVES AND GOALS TO STEM [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-22 14:22:00	Embassy Panama	SECRET//NOFORN	KNNP PARM PREL PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA715	NAMES FLOATED, A BLAST FROM THE PAST, AND A [...] (SBU) Panama's electoral campaign suddenly became more interesting with a bristling 3/23 confrontation between Arnulfista youth and Endara supporters and a 3/24 shooting incident in a depressed area. From here forward, campaign tensions will mount, primarily in the form of mudslinging and edi [...]	2004-03-29 12:38:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA730	ARTICLE 98 SUPPORTER IN CLOSE RACE WITH U.S. [...] (U) This cable is SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. Please protect accordingly. ----------------- A Fighting Chance ----------------- 2. (SBU) On March 14, PolOffs accompanied Arnulfista Party legislative challenger Jose "Pepe" Gomez on a tour of Veraguas province's 9-3 electoral circuit [...]	2004-03-30 14:17:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA791	Rumors, Observers, and Negative Advertising. [...] (SBU) With the May 2 elections just one month away, the campaigns and the candidates are entering the home stretch. The Electoral Tribunal and the Ombudsman's office are focused on Election Day logistics and observers. Panama's media and civil society are investigating candidates' backgrounds [...]	2004-04-02 21:42:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA802	PANAMA'S DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY PARTY (PRD) AND [...] (C) The prospect of a PRD government assuming power on September 1 is high, barring an unforeseen development. Martin Torrijos enjoys a big lead in the polls barely four weeks before Panama's May 2 presidential election. According to many observers, Martin has consolidated his control over t [...]	2004-04-06 13:23:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA823	PANAMANIAN SUPREME COURT THROWS OUT CHARGES [...] (C) Citing "lack of jurisdiction," by an 8-1 vote, Panama's Supreme Court has terminated Public Ministry investigations of all charges against Israeli national Shimon Yalin Yelinek, currently residing in Panama, for his alleged role in smuggling Nicaraguan military weapons to the paramilitary [...]	2004-04-07 19:29:00	Embassy Panama	SECRET	PARM PREL KCOR PTER KJUS PM NI CO GA POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA85	SCENESETTER: AMBASSADOR OTTO REICH'S VISIT TO [...] (U) Embassy Panama welcomes Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives Ambassador Otto Reich on his January 17 - 24 visit to Panama. You will have the opportunity to reiterate the Ambassador's good governance message to GOP officials, including Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso, priva [...]	2004-01-15 20:19:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD EWWT SNAR OVIP PM NAS
04PANAMA853	PANAMA STRONGLY ENDORSES PSI LEADING UP TO ANNIVERSARY MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-13 12:49:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PREL PARM PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA863	FRAUD PREVENTION, OBSTRUCTIONISM, AND BICKERING. [...] (SBU) Panama's May 2 election - only three weeks away - is starting to concentrate minds. The Electoral Tribunal is implementing fraud prevention procedures, informing voters, and fending off critics. Electoral Prosecutor Gerardo Solis depoliticized his investigation of the Presidency's lega [...]	2004-04-13 21:43:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA875	PANAMA'S FORMER PRESIDENT GUILLERMO ENDARA DRIVES [...] (SBU) His campaign may lack money and glitz and his poll numbers are stubbornly stuck in second place behind Martin Torrijos but former president Guillermo Endara (1989-1994) is confident his single-message campaign -- that he is Panama's only hope for honest government -- will catapult him to [...]	2004-04-14 22:12:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EAGR PM POL CHIEF
04PANAMA886	PANAMA's MAY 2 ELECTORAL PROCESS: NUTS AND BOLTS [...] (U) Panama will hold general elections on Sunday, May 2 to elect a total of 1,756 new officials for five-year terms. Voters will elect a President, two Vice Presidents, 78 legislators (and 156 alternates),75 mayors (and 150 alternates),619 local representatives, 7 councilmen, 20 representa [...]	2004-04-16 14:51:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA892	Education, Absenteeism, and Closing Rallies. [...] (SBU) Candidates, voters, and electoral officials are in the home stretch for Panama's May 2 general elections. The Electoral Tribunal (ET) briefed the diplomatic corps on elections in an April 13 luncheon presentation with media present. On April 14, the ET warned the Supreme Court not to a [...]	2004-04-19 12:53:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA914	PRE-ELECTION VIEWS FROM THE FIELD: NEW [...] (U) EmbOffs recently visited the western Panama reservation (or Comarca) of the Ngobe-Bugl indigenous group as part of our pre-election coverage. The Comarca will elect three new representatives on May 2 to the 78-seat unicameral Legislative Assembly. The new seats could provide some impor [...]	2004-04-21 19:23:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PM
04PANAMA924	PANAMA: THE CAMPAIGN OF ARNULFISTA PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Arnulfista Presidential Candidate Jose Miguel Aleman, a distant third in most public opinion polls, seeks to emerge from President Moscoso's shadow to place first in Panama's May 2 elections. Neutralizing Aleman's greatest logistical asset, the three-party coalition that backs him and its [...]	2004-04-22 12:31:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA925	PANAMA COURT SENTENCES ANTI-CASTRO CONSPIRATORS, GOP DISCUSSES POSSIBLE FUTURE ACTIONS [...] (SBU) On April 20, Panama's Fifth Penal Court convicted six anti-Castro conspirators, including three AmCits, for endangering public safety and sentenced them to seven and eight-year jail terms for a November 2000 plot to kill Fidel Castro. (See Refs A and B.) Luis Posada Carriles, currently [...]	2004-04-22 13:30:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CJAN CASC SNAR CU PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA929	SCENESETTER: AUSTR VARGO'S TRIP TO PANAMA FOR THE [...] (U) I warmly welcome your April 25-30 visit to Panama. The USDEL's visit marks the culmination of a long campaign by the GoP to move forward on an FTA with the U.S. You will have the opportunity to reiterate USG commitment to expanding trade and investment between our two countries, and to pre [...]	2004-04-22 20:43:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PREL PM ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
04PANAMA936	Observers, a non-debate, more polls, and some [...] (SBU) As campaigning hits a feverish pace, candidates Torrijos and Endara decided to skip the final, April 20 debate. Two final public opinion polls with conflicting results have generated controversy, as has another group of Endara supporters who made their support publicly known. The Electo [...]	2004-04-23 19:58:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL PM POL SPECIALIST
04PANAMA954	PSI: ANSWERS TO KEY QUESTIONS ON CARGO HANDLING [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-26 15:19:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KNNP EWWT EAIR PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
04PANAMA975	PANAMA ELECTION EVE OUTLOOK: LIKELY WINNER [...] (C) Martin Torrijos and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD),well ahead by most indicators, are poised to win the presidency and a plurality of legislative seats in Panama's Sunday, May 2, 2004 general elections. The American-educated Torrijos has marginalized the PRD's "old guard" and ha [...]	2004-04-27 22:52:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PANAMA995	Rallies, a ceremony, and transition planning. [...] (SBU) Presidential candidates staged campaign closing rallies throughout the final week before Panama's Sunday, May 2 General Elections. EmbOffs met OAS observers to discuss Election Day plans on April 27. Electoral authorities announced final logistical arrangements and accepted control of [...]	2004-04-29 20:59:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PM POL SPECIALIST
04PARAMARIBO104	US HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY FOR SURINAME [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-05 19:39:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KPAO KSEP
04PARAMARIBO116	DEMARCHE ON MAKING A POLITICAL COMMITMENT TO [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-11 10:14:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC PARM OPDC PREL NS IAEA
04PARAMARIBO117	MILITARY OFFICER VOICES PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR AN [...] (C) Summary. During a February 7 press "Information Day" hosted by Suriname's National Army, a military officer, Major Goerdeyal, called on the Surinamese Government to sign an Article 98 agreement with the United States or face losing US military assistance. Goerdeyal declared that the day [...]	2004-02-11 13:58:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NS
04PARAMARIBO121	SURINAME: WHITE WATER TO BLUE WATER PARTNERSHIP [...] PER REF B, EMBASSY PARAMARIBO IS PLEASED TO CONFIRM THAT SURINAME WILL ATTEND THE MARCH 21-26 WHITE WATER TO BLUE WATER PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE (WW2BW) IN MIAMI (REF A). MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE PERMANENT SECRETARY JASWANT SAHTOE HAS CONFIRMED THE FIVE-PERSON SURINAMESE DELEGATION WILL BE COMPR [...]	2004-02-12 10:36:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO126	LOCAL PUNDIT'S CRITICISM OF FTAA GETS BIG MEDIA [...] SUMMARY: A JANUARY 19 EDITORIAL BY LOCAL PUNDIT NICO WAAGMEESTER CRITICIZED THE FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS (FTAA) PROCESS FOR STRAYING FROM THE ORIGINAL IDEALS OF DEVELOPMENT, DEMOCRACY, FREE TRADE, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. WAAGMEESTER, A MEMBER OF THE CONSERVATIVE EMPLOYERS' UNION ( [...]	2004-02-12 14:43:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL EMIN NS
04PARAMARIBO157	DEMARCHE ON WHO GLOBAL STRATEGY ON DIET, [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-20 15:58:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV AORC PREL NS WHO
04PARAMARIBO165	DEMARCHE TO OAS MEMBERS STATES [...] THE FOREIGN MINISTER IS OUT OF THE COUNTRY UNTIL MARCH 2, 2004. AMBASSADOR MADE REFTEL POINTS TO THE ACTING PERMANENT SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, A FORMER AMBASSADOR TO VENEZUELA. HE WAS AWARE OF THE FEBRUARY 13 OAS/TCC STATEMENT AND UNDERSTOOD OUR CONCERNS. HE INDICATED [...]	2004-02-23 19:20:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM VE NS OAS
04PARAMARIBO183	SURINAMESE MINISTER OF DEFENSE DISAVOWS PRESS [...] (U) SURINAMESE DEFENSE/ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER RONALD ASSEN DISAVOWED TO THE EMBASSY A HEADLINE STORY IN THE FEBRUARY 25 EDITION OF THE LOCAL DAILY DE WARE TIJD, IN WHICH HE REPORTEDLY DECLARED SURINAME'S WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT HAITIAN REFUGEES IF THE SITUATION IN HAITI DETERIORATES. CONTRAR [...]	2004-02-27 19:21:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR NS
04PARAMARIBO184	BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT SURINAME: TRADE, [...] ACCORDING TO THE FEBRUARY 24 EDITION OF THE LOCAL DAILY "DE WARE TIJD," SURINAMESE MINISTER OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY MICHAEL JONG TJIEN FA ANNOUNCED DURING LOCAL CARNIVAL CELEBRATIONS ON FEBRUARY 20 A VISIT BY BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LUS INCIO LULA DA SILVA TO SURINAME AT THE END OF MARCH/EARLY APRI [...]	2004-02-27 19:24:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON EAGR ETRD NS
04PARAMARIBO187	CIVAIR: SAFE SKIES FOR AFRICA, ADOPTING A REGIONAL [...] IN RESPONSE TO THE FEBRUARY 26 REQUEST BY FAA DESK OFFICER FOR NIGERIA AND AFRICAN MULTILATERAL ISSUES FOREST RAWLS, THE EMBASSY PURCHASED ECONOMY-CLASS TICKETS FOR VIVIAN HANENBERG, DIRECTOR OF THE CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY, TO ATTEND A MISSION IN SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, FROM MARCH 8-12, [...]	2004-03-02 19:08:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR EAID PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO195	SURINAME SHOCKED OVER GUYANA TAKING IT TO UNCLOS TO [...] UPON THEIR MARCH 2 RETURN TO SURINAME AFTER A VISIT TO CHINA, SURINAMESE PRESIDENT VENETIAAN AND MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MARIE LEVENS ANNOUNCED SURINAME'S INTENT TO CAREFULLY STUDY THE CASE BROUGHT AGAINST SURINAME BY GUYANA BEFORE UN CONVENTION OF THE LAW OF THE SEAS (UNCLOS) REGARDING T [...]	2004-03-04 18:02:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PBTS NS GY
04PARAMARIBO197	SURINAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER LEVENS EXPRESSES [...] Following her return from a visit to China, Surinamese Foreign Minister, Marie Levens announced publicly that Suriname stands behind CARICOM on Haiti and is concerned about allegations made by ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide that the US forced him out of Haiti. Levens suggested that if t [...]	2004-03-04 18:05:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR KPAO NS
04PARAMARIBO225	SURINAME: NO LIKELY HUMANITARIAN AID FOR HAITI [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-11 18:42:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF PREL EAID NS
04PARAMARIBO33	SURINAME TO SUPPORT US CANDIDATE TO THE COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-16 10:37:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM NS UN
04PARAMARIBO35	SURINAME: WHITE WATER TO BLUE WATER PARTNERSHIP [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-16 10:38:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO39	IIP U.S. RICE POLICY SPEAKER DR. GAIL CRAMER WINS [...] Dr. Gail Cramer, the Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at Louisiana State University, educated Surinamers about U.S. Rice Policy during an October 12-16 visit to Suriname. He met with a variety of government officials, politicians, rice farmers and exporters b [...]	2004-01-16 11:22:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO EAGR PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO454	THANK YOU NOTE FROM MINISTER LEVENS [...] IN A DIPLOMATIC NOTE RECEIVED JUNE 17, THE SURINAMESE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS REQUESTED THAT POST FORWARD A THANK YOU NOTE FROM THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MARIA E. LEVENS TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN L. POWELL. THE SIGNED ORIGINAL WILL BE FORWARDED VIA POUCH TO STATE, WHA/CAR, FO [...]	2004-06-17 18:30:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO464	SURINAMESE DEFENSE MINISTER SHARES VIEWS ON [...] (U) DURING THE JUNE 14 OPENING OF A COURSE ENTITLED "THE THEORIES AND REALITIES OF THE SECURITY OF SMALL STATES" SPONSORED BY ANTON DE KOM UNIVERSITY'S INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, SURINAMESE MINISTER OF DEFENSE RONALD ASSEN PROVIDED A RARE GLIMPSE OF SURINAME'S DEFENSE STANDPOI [...]	2004-06-22 19:23:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR NS
04PARAMARIBO476	PRESIDENT VENETIAAN PRESENTS SYMPATHY LETTER [...] THE EMBASSY RECEIVED ON JUNE 22 A DIPLOMATIC NOTE WITH A SYMPATHY LETTER ADDRESSED TO PRESIDENT BUSH BY PRESIDENT VENETIAAN MARKING THE DEATH OF FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN. THE SIGNED ORIGINAL WILL BE FORWARDED VIA POUCH TO WHA/CAR FOR APPROPRIATE HANDLING. PRESIDENT VENETIAAN ALSO PERS [...]	2004-06-29 10:59:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PREL NS
04PARAMARIBO504	SURINAME: MULLING OVER RESETTLEMENT OF PROTECTED CUBAN AND [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel points on Cuban and Haitian migrants at Guantanamo Naval Base to Surinamese Foreign Minister Marie Levens on July 9, and asked for Suriname's assistance in providing a resettlement opportunity for [...]	2004-07-13 13:29:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL SMIG MARR HA XL NS
04PARAMARIBO523	SURINAME CLINCHES CARICOM'S SUPPORT FOR ITS [...] During their July 5-8 meeting in Grenada, CARICOM heads of state endorsed the nomination of Surinamese diplomat Albert Ramdin for the position of Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of the American States. Ramdin is currently the Caribbean Affairs Advisor to OAS Secretary General [...]	2004-07-19 16:33:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AORC NS OAS
04PARAMARIBO545	CHINESE DELEGATION VISIT TO SURINAME: JUST REGULAR [...] In a July 22 conversation with the Embassy, Political Officer Yumin Zhao of the Chinese Embassy downplayed a recent visit by a delegation from the Peoples National Congress to Suriname. Zhao stressed that the July 6-9 visit was part of a regular orientation of Chinese government officials to [...]	2004-07-27 13:10:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID SOCI CH NS
04PARAMARIBO58	SURINAME PROPOSES NEW ROUND OF BORDER TALKS WITH [...] SURINAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER MARIE LEVENS ANNOUNCED ON JANUARY 11 PLANS TO CONTINUE TALKS WITH GUYANA OVER THE ONGOING BORDER DISPUTE NEXT MONTH. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CAME ON THE HEELS OF PUBLIC STATEMENTS BY GUYANESE FOREIGN MINISTER RUDY INSANALLY, WHO, DURING A RECENT TRIP TO EASTERN GUYANA, [...]	2004-01-23 12:57:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR NS GY
04PARAMARIBO7	HIGH LEVEL PUSH FOR US CANDIDATE FOR COMMITTEE ON [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-05 17:47:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL NS UN
04PARAMARIBO76	DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT FOR THE ELECTION OF REFORM- [...] No summary [...]	2004-01-29 10:41:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL NS CDG UNGA
04PARAMARIBO8	SURINAME FAVORS A MEANINGFUL DECLARATION AT THE [...] (C) Surinamese Foreign Minister Levens told the Ambassador January 5 that Suriname supports the US vision for a meaningful declaration at the Monterey Special Summit of the Americas, which Surinamese President Venetiaan will attend. In addition to firm commitments with firm time frames, Leve [...]	2004-01-06 11:35:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KSUM MARR AMGT NS OAS
04PARAMARIBO80	PRESIDENT VENETIAAN'S VISIT TO THE SPECIAL SUMMIT [...] (U) THE VISIT OF PRESIDENT RONALD VENETIAAN AND OTHER SURINAMESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, INCLUDING MINISTER OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY MICHAEL JONG TJIEN FA, TO THE SPECIAL SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS IN MONTEREY, MEXICO, RECEIVED MUCH PRESS ATTENTION IN SURINAME. ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS, UPON HIS RE [...]	2004-01-30 10:44:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAGR ECON KHIV NS
04PARAMARIBO98	CST GENTIAN COMPLETES OUTSTANDING TRAINING AND [...] FOLLOWING ITS SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO GUYANA (REFTEL),CST GENTIAN SAILED INTO PARAMARIBO JANUARY 21 AND COMPLETED A HIGHLY PRAISED PROGRAM OF TRAINING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS. THE AMBASSADOR MET THE GENTIAN AT SEA ON A SURINAMESE PILOT VESSEL AND SAILED INTO PORT WITH THE GENTIAN'S CREW TO BEGIN T [...]	2004-02-05 13:31:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MASS MARR KPAO NS
04PARIS4951	TITLE III LIBERTAD ACT WAIVER: FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel, we met June 24 with the MFA Cuba Desk Officer, who noted that France had been sharply critical of Cuba's human rights record bilaterally and as an EU member. Even before Havana unilaterally refused EU and French assistance, France had reevaluated its posit [...]	2004-06-29 15:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC FR CU PREL
04PARIS5065	CLARIFICATION REGARDING LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III [...] (U) AS PER REFTEL, POST ON JULY 2 DELIVERED LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III TALKING POINTS TO MFA CUBA DESK OFFICER ERIC CHAUX AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE MFA BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS JACQUES MAILLARD. BOTH PROMISED TO INFORM APPROPRIATE PARTIES IN ADVANCE OF THE JULY 6 CFSP MEETIN [...]	2004-07-02 16:12:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC PREL CA FR
04PARIS5419	GOF/NGOS AND CUBAN OUTREACH [...] (C) Summary: The GOF shares USG goals of facilitating a transition towards democracy, supporting Cuban Civil society, and preparing for a post-dictatorship Cuba. The GOF, French public, and NGOs, however, are critical of the US embargo of Cuba. France's Cuba policy remains anchored in the EU [...]	2004-07-19 16:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU FR
04PARIS5730	FRENCH LABOR CONCERNED WITH VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Emboffs met July 23 at the unions' request with Michele Simonnin, of the trade union Workers' Strength (CGT-FO) and Philippe Selva of the General Confederation of Workers (CGT),two of the three largest labor unions in France, to discuss US foreign policy regarding Venezuela. The labor [...]	2004-08-02 16:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR PREL VE ELAB
04PARIS5906	"J,ACCUSE:" SHARON COMMENTS SPARK QUESTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's July 18 call for Jews to emigrate from France to Israel "as early as possible" in order to escape the "wildest anti-Semitism" touched off a barrage of criticism from both the GoF and French Jewish community. Although Sharon had qualified h [...]	2004-08-10 08:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR IS KIRF PHUM PREL
04PARIS5935	FRENCH RESPONSE TO VENEZUELA REFERENDUM DEMARCHE [...] (C) PolOff met with MFA Venezuelan desk officer Hedi Picquart on August 9 and delivered demarche as per reftel. Picquart noted that France had hoped EU international election observers would participate in the August 15 referendum vote. Unfortunately, the GoV-imposed restrictions were deemed [...]	2004-08-10 16:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE KPAO FR KDEM
04PARIS6889	OSCE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES ON ANTI-SEMITISM AND [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to OSCE desk officer Guillaume de Kerdrel on September 17. Kerdrel indicated that the same points had been discussed during a September 1 meeting in Washington with Department officials and a French delegation that included the Ambassador for Holocaust Iss [...]	2004-09-17 16:17:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM FR OSCE
04PARIS7539	CUBAN ANTI-EMBARGO RESOLUTION: FRENCH RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-14 15:18:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD CU FR UNGA
04PARIS7699	FRENCH RESPONSE TO VENEZUELA HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Venezuelan desk officer Hedi Piquart on October 20. Piquart stressed that while France is concerned with the state of human rights in Venezuela, it does not share our sense of urgency and considers it too early to make any public statements on the [...]	2004-10-21 10:40:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL FR VE
04PARIS8063	ARAFAT IN CONTINUED, POSSIBLY IRREVERSIBLE COMA [...] (C) Summary: As of 1030 local (0430 EST) November 5, MFA officials described Arafat as in a continued coma, with uncertainty whether his condition is irreversible or what permanent damage he might suffer if he regains consciousness. There is still no diagnosis on the cause of his condition. I [...]	2004-11-05 11:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS FR
04PARIS8159	DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS: FRENCH [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA DAS-equivalent for Human Rights in the Directorate of United Nations and International Organizations Affairs Beatrice le Fraper du Hellen on November 9. She indicated that France would co-sponsor all of the reftel resolutions and would vote against [...]	2004-11-09 17:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL FR
04PARIS8227	FRANCE'S EU/CUBA POSITION [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper to MFA Cuba Desk Officer Eric Chaux and U.S. desk officer Jean-Charles Bou on November 12. Chaux opened by saying that even if there were a change in the EU common policy toward Cuba, the GoF would remain critical of the Castro regi [...]	2004-11-12 17:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL FR CU
04PARIS8949	INTERIOR MINISTER VILLEPIN DISCUSSES ANTI-SEMITISM [...] (U) Summary: Throughout his meeting with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum officials on November 19, Interior Minister Villepin underlined the GOF determination to fight anti-Semitism in every way possible. Villepin decried the rise in the number of anti-Semitic acts in France, commente [...]	2004-12-14 14:24:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KISL KIRF FR
04PARIS9025	FRENCH LOBBYING EFFORTS TO SUPPORT UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) As per reftel, Poloff spoke to MFA DAS-equivalent for Human Rights in the Directorate of United Nations and International Organizations Affairs Beatrice le Fraper du Hellen about the need to lobby third countries against supporting any "no action motions" that might be brought by Iran or [...]	2004-12-17 17:25:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL FR EUN
04PARIS9130	FRANCE AND SOUTHERN AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the first of several messages reviewing France's relations with Africa. The southern African region currently attracts less French attention than any other region of Africa. With no francophone countries, and only one country currently engaged in conflict (Angola, at muc [...]	2004-12-27 14:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AO BC LT MI MZ WA SF WZ ZA ZI ZU XA FR
04PARIS9133	FRANCE AND EAST AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY. France's principal long-term concern in East Africa is the management of its relations with Djibouti where it maintains a large permanent military presence. The crisis in Darfur has prompted a more active French policy with regard to Sudan, but it remains largely a "Chad problem" [...]	2004-12-27 14:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM DJ ER ET KE SO SU TZ UG XW XA FR
04PARIS9145	FRANCE AND THE INDIAN OCEAN STATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The standoff in 2002 between Marc Ravalomanana and Didier Ratsiraka following the disputed election in Madagascar was a serious political crisis for the government of France, exposing divisions between the MFA and the presidency. With the crisis resolved, France's attention to t [...]	2004-12-28 10:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CN MA MP SE XW XA FR
04PARIS9146	FRANCE AND CENTRAL AFRICA (SOUTH) [...] (C) SUMMARY. France continues to seek solutions for the crisis in the Great Lakes through policies designed to support DRC President Kabila and the transition process and to block Rwandan interference in Congolese affairs. France's history in the Rwandan genocide complicates their ability to [...]	2004-12-28 10:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BY CF CG CT EK GB RW TP ZF XA
04PARIS9154	U.S. EMBASSY DEMARCHE TO THE FRENCH CONCERNING POSSIBLE PROLIFERATION-RELATED ACTIVITIES BETWEEN INDIA'S DEFENSE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (DRDO) AND THE FRENCH FIRM SAGEM [...] (S) On 12 December 2004, EST officer Alexander Tounger delivered a demarche and provided a non-paper to French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) David Bertolotti, MFA Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nuclear Non-proliferation, concerning the planned visit in m [...]	2004-12-28 15:05:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC HK PK CM GM FR MTCRE
04PARIS9159	GOF LAUNCHES ANOTHER PROPOSAL TO FOSTER MORE [...] (C) Summary: Internal power struggles continue to plague the Council for the Muslim Faith (CFCM),the GoF-created umbrella organization which serves as the official French Muslim interlocutor with the government. Meanwhile, in the political arena, two leading contenders in the 2007 president [...]	2004-12-28 15:36:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PREL PGOV PTER KDEM FR
04PARIS9160	UKRAINE: FRENCH ON YUSHCHENKO VICTORY [...] (U) MFA desk officer for Ukraine Benoit Fremont described French satisfaction that the re-run of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election had been conducted freely and fairly. Fremont agreed that while there had been some problems with the balloting, the level of fraud had not [...]	2004-12-28 16:02:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU UP FR PL
04PARIS9167	FRANCE AND CENTRAL AFRICA (NORTH) [...] (C) SUMMARY. Chad, where France maintains a permanent miltary presence, and the Central African Republic (CAR),where France is supporting military and economic reform are key countries for France's Africa policy. The crisis in Darfur has caused concern in France about additional threats to [...]	2004-12-29 11:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CM CT CH ZF XA FR
04PHNOMPENH1609	CAMBODIA HAS A NEW KING -- NORODOM SIHAMONI [...] (C) Summary: On October 14, the Cambodian Throne Council unanimously (9-0) elected Norodom Sihamoni as the new King of Cambodia. Sihamoni (51),a son of former King Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Monineath, has lived for years in France as a dancer and Cambodian Ambassador to UNESCO. He will [...]	2004-10-15 12:55:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CB
04PHNOMPENH1985	CAMBODIA'S BOHEMIAN KING - THE HONEYMOON IS NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: King Norodom Sihamoni continues to reach out to people across Cambodia, bringing a new sense of dignity to the royal house. Though most of his forays into the countryside are carefully scripted, on occasion he breaks the bonds and makes a solid connection with the crowds. His [...]	2004-12-23 08:05:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CB PINR PREL
04PORTAUPRINCE520	PRIME MINISTER FORMS CABINET [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Latortue finalized his cabinet choices on the afternoon of March 16, following consultations with President Alexandre. The cabinet was installed at 14:00 on March 17. Latortue chose to consolidate several existing ministries as a cost-cutting measure, naming only 13 m [...]	2004-03-17 22:29:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HA
04PRAGUE1856	CZECH PARLIAMENT COMPLETES APPROVAL FOR 2005 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Czech Chamber of Deputies approved the final chapters of the government's 2005 deployment plan on December 15. The deployment plan, which reflects the government's priority in the Balkans, calls for up to 600 troops for the KFOR mission in Kosovo, and up to 90 troops as pa [...]	2004-12-21 15:51:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR EZ IZ
04PRAGUE1857	CRISIS IN RULING CZECH CSSD: PARTY STUCK BETWEEN [...] (C) Summary. The initial period of relative calm and promise of consolidation in the main ruling Social Democratic Party (CSSD) after Stanislav Gross took over as acting party chairman this summer effectively ended with its poor showing in the November regional and Senate elections. The elec [...]	2004-12-21 16:38:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EZ
04PRAGUE1859	ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT'S DECEMBER 14 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Attorney General Ashcroft met separately with the Czech Ministers of the Interior and Justice in Prague, December 14, 2004. The Attorney General thanked the Czechs for their contributions in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as for their cooperation with U.S. law enforcement agenci [...]	2004-12-22 10:03:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS PREL CVIS EZ
04PRAGUE1870	CZECH MFA SOLICITS US OPINION ON POTENTIAL SALE OF [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARA 7 2. (C) As foreshadowed in Reftel A, the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs is, for the second time this year, soliciting US opinion on the possible sale of a Czech-produced passive radar system to Pakistan. 3. (C) As in the previous case, dealt with [...]	2004-12-23 13:26:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSTC PARM PREL PINR EZ PK
04PRAGUE1871	RFE/RL GETS "NEW LEASE" ON LIFE IN PRAGUE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) The Czech cabinet announced on December 22 the approval of a new lease for Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),which will extend their tenure in their current headquarters building until December 3 [...]	2004-12-23 14:25:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EZ
04PRAGUE1881	Semi-annual Request for Names, Title and Contacts [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-28 11:47:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL EZ
04PRETORIA3107	LAND REFORM: SLOW BUT STEADY IN SOUTH AFRICA [...] (C) The ANC's approach to land reform is based on respect for private property, reliance on market mechanisms, and tightly controlled public spending. Gains have been made in land redistribution and restitution; however, SAG goals are unlikely to be met without more funding. Land tenure refo [...]	2004-07-09 13:14:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SF ECON EAGR
04PRETORIA3889	TRANSLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT AND POSTING ON [...] Embassy posted the South Africa section of the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2003, the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2003, the report on Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2003-2004, and the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report - June 2004 [...]	2004-08-27 09:58:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KPAO PHUM PREL

04PRETORIA3919	COUNTERING UNHELPFUL NEW INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES [...] (SBU) Summary. Econoff met with Sheldon Moulton, head of the Directorate on Global Economic Organizations, to get South African reactions to reftel demarche. Moulton explained that South Africa firmly supported the concept of an International Finance Facility (IFF) and would continue to do s [...]	2004-08-30 14:00:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EFIN ECON EINV PREL SF
04PRETORIA3991	SOUTH AFRICA'S POSITION ON SEPTEMBER BOG: [...] (C) Ambassador Frazer delivered reftel demarche and passed reftel nonpaper September 2 to Abdul Minty, South Africa's Governor on the IAEA Board of Governors (BOG) and Deputy Director General at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The ambassador emphasized that the USG believes the Sept [...]	2004-09-02 15:31:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR SF IAEA
04PRETORIA4098	INPUT FOR AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW OF SOUTH AFRICA [...] (SBU) South Africa has continued to make progress in establishing a market-based economy, respecting the rule of law, implementing policies to reduce poverty, and combating corruption. There is a strong case to be made that South Africa is meeting the eligibility requirements of the African Gr [...]	2004-09-10 12:07:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EFIN EAID ECON PREL XA SF
04PRETORIA4530	SOUTH AFRICA LAUNCHES NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE [...] Summary and introduction. Following Cabinet's approval on October 6, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) on October 7 formally launched South Africa's climate change response strategy. At the launch event, officials noted the urgency with which Cabinet views responding [...]	2004-10-08 14:49:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG EAID TSPL PREL SF
04PRETORIA4545	PERSPECTIVES ON NEPAD, ISLAM AND THE USA IN SOUTH [...] (SBU) Summary: S/P consultations in South Africa October 6-10, 2004 confirmed strong public and private sector support for NEPAD, due largely to Presidents Mbeki and Obasanjo's strong leadership. Expecting legal status as an African Union (AU) entity, the NEPAD Secretariat was optimistic, [...]	2004-10-12 14:59:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD KDEM PHUM PINR SOCI SF
04PRETORIA4689	AMBASSADOR MEETS DTI MINISTER ON FTA AND BEE [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Frazer discussed the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations and raised U.S. concerns about Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) in her meeting with Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Minister Mpaphlwa on October 19. She underscored U.S. goals for a comprehensive F [...]	2004-10-25 07:55:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EFIN EAID ECON PREL XA SF
04PRETORIA4748	TRADE LINKAGES DRIVING SOUTH AFRICA'S BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Conversations with several Angola watchers from government, business, and academia yielded the common theme that South Africa's relationship with Angola will over the coming years be defined by burgeoning trade linkages between the two. South African firms are investing heavily [...]	2004-10-28 08:05:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	AO ETRD PREL SF EINV
04PRETORIA4865	SOUTH AFRICA: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE'S [...] (U) Summary. South Africa's Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) released its 2003-04 Annual Report in early October. In its first full year of operation, the FIC received almost 7,500 suspicious transaction reports (STRs). The FIC is now turning its attention to raising the quality of STRs, r [...]	2004-11-05 11:34:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL SF
04PRETORIA5238	SCENESETTER FOR SACU FTA MEETING IN WALVIS BAY [...] (SBU) We welcome USTR Ambassador Robert Zoellick's upcoming visit to southern Africa. The U.S.-SACU FTA negotiations are at a crossroads. Ambassador Zoellick's initiative to meet with SACU trade ministers on December 10 in Walvis Bay is critical to any hope for re-establishing momentum for [...]	2004-12-02 15:24:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL SF
04PRETORIA5369	MOELETSI MBEKI CALLS ZIMBABWE A "LONG-TERM [...] (C) Summary. Moeletsi Mbeki, South African political commentator and brother of President Thabo Mbeki, urged the international community to stop "chasing" Mugabe's retirement and view Zimbabwe as a "long-term project." He called for increased international support for the MDC and Zimbabwean [...]	2004-12-14 08:20:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PREL SF ZI
04QUEBEC107	QUEBEC PORT AUTHORITY COMPLIES WITH ISPS CODE [...] Summary: The Port of Quebec announced significant investments to heighten security at its six harbor facilities hence fulfilling the International Maritime Organization (IMO) International Shipping and Port Security Code (ISPS). With financial assistance from the federal government to help [...]	2004-07-15 18:11:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EWWT KCIP PHSA PTER PREL KCRM MARAD IMO
04QUEBEC178	ASYMMETRIC FEDERALISM - A VIEW FROM QUEBEC [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-06 18:59:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CA
04QUEBEC190	QUEBEC CITY 400TH ANNIVERSARY [...] (SBU) Summary: CG and Embassy Minister Counselor for Public Affairs met Oct 14-15 with federal, provincial and municipal representatives involved with planning Quebec's 400th Anniversary in 2008. Quebec Mayor L'Allier pushed for a visible U.S. legacy in the form of a genealogy center, while [...]	2004-11-03 17:36:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PGOV PREL CA
04QUEBEC193	CG MEETING WITH PQ LEADER LANDRY [...] (C) Summary: CG met with Parti Quebecois (PQ) opposition leader Bernard Landry October 28 at his National Assembly office and received a crash course on Quebec history and the separatist movement in what was her first encounter with the former PQ Premier. Despite intense internal wrangling wi [...]	2004-11-08 15:48:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CA ECON
04QUEBEC33	THE QUEBEC SPONSORSHIP SCANDAL AND ITS AFFECT ON NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The scandal involving misuse of public funds for shoring up federalism in Quebec has caused a strong drop in support for federal Liberals in Quebec and a concurrent surge in support for the Bloc Quebecois. Quebecers are angry at what they perceive as "Quebec-bashing." Jean Ch [...]	2004-02-20 15:33:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CA
04QUEBEC35	QUEBEC NATURAL RESOURCE MINISTER ON SOFTWOOD,ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: Natural Resources Minister Sam Hamad told CG Keogh February 17 that a combination of allocation quotas at a level of 35% and dropping the 48/52 split of the accumulating duties as proposed by the U.S. would form the basis of a softwood lumber deal. A substantial portion of th [...]	2004-02-24 18:27:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ENRG PREL PGOV EMIN CA
04QUEBEC43	PAUL OGALIK REELECTED AS PREMIER OF NUNAVUT [...] (U) March 5, sitting Premier Paul Okalik received the consensus to continue as Premier of Nunavut over contender Tagak Curley, the MLA from Rankin Inlet. Ogalik brings his strengths of experience (he has had 5 years as Premier) and education, which includes a law degree, to the job. Now th [...]	2004-03-08 13:27:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SENV EMIN CA
04QUEBEC44	ALGERIAN SEEKING HAVEN IN QUEBEC CHURCH ARRESTED AND [...] (U) The case of an Algerian asylum-seeker who had been living in Montreal for the last six years came to a head this weekend. Mohamed Cherfi, 35, was finally refused asylum by the Canadian government and was deported to the United States March 5. The case has sparked demonstrations and outc [...]	2004-03-08 17:47:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM CA CVIS KISL SMIG
04QUEBEC46	ADQ'S MARIO DUMONT PREDICTS UPHILL BATTLE FOR JEAN CHAREST [...] (U) Summary: The Quebec Assembly resumed March 9 and Action Democratique's Mario Dumont foresees major struggles for the Liberal government. The stage is set for fiery labor negotiations with public sector employees and the upcoming provincial budget may not generate the big tax cuts promis [...]	2004-03-09 18:25:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL CA
04QUEBEC57	MAGDALEN ISLANDS SEAL HUNT CONTROVERSY CONTINUES [...] Summary: CG visited the ice floes off the coast of the Magdalen Islands March 10 to observe the harp seal population on its annual migration from Greenland. As many as 350,000 young seals may be culled in the hunt this year, although this year's higher quota may well not be reached. Opponents [...]	2004-03-25 19:01:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON PREL CA
04QUEBEC79	QUEBEC FEDERAL ELECTION PREVIEW [...] Confidential - entire text. 2. (C) Summary: Politicians and pundits in Quebec from all persuasions were remarkably consistent on the prospects of the Liberals, Bloc Quebecois and Conservatives in the upcoming federal elections in recent conversations with DCM Kelly and CG Keogh. The fo [...]	2004-05-17 22:50:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CA
04QUEBEC80	KANESATAKE CALM BUT CONFRONTATION CONTINUES [...] Confidential - Entire text. 2. (C) Summary: The situation within the Mohawk settlement of Kanesatake, a territory (not a reserve) bordering the U.S., remains tense and complicated but some progress has been made in keeping the peace in the past week. Quebec's provincial police force (SQ) has taken [...]	2004-05-17 22:52:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM CA
04QUITO2198	ECUADOR MOVING FORWARD ON COMBATING TIP [...] Summary. A State Department Trafficking in Persons (TIP) delegation visited Ecuador from July 30 to August 4. Their agenda included a series of meetings with high-level GOE officials (the Ministers of Government and Labor),a congresswoman, different units of the police, the MFA, and severa [...]	2004-08-06 12:27:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV EC
04QUITO2208	GOE CONCERNED, YET UNWILLING TO ACT ON VENEZUELAN [...] (C) At an August 5 dinner hosted by Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez in honor of visiting President Jimmy Carter, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns (reftel) over the August 15 Venezuelan referendum. Gutierrez asserted that Ecuador wanted "real" democracy in Venezuela. The birthplace of [...]	2004-08-09 17:49:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL EC VE
04QUITO2235	ECUADOR'S RAIDS AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] Summary. The police in Ecuador have conducted 75 raids (compared to five required in the action plan) aimed at eradicating trafficking in persons (TIP) and focusing on the commercial sexual exploitation of minors. Minors were found in 25 raids and typically were released to family members. [...]	2004-08-11 22:05:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2251	PARTY POSTURING PROMPTS BUCARAM RETURN RUMORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lucio Gutierrez's recent comments favoring the return of exiled former President Abdala Bucaram have ignited a political firestorm in Ecuador, with leading opposition parties promising that impeachment proceedings would shortly follow. Bucaram, whom Congress removed in [...]	2004-08-13 16:41:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2252	ECUADOR'S TIP CZAR GOES TO THE PRESS [...] Summary. Ecuador's TIP Coordinator, the Minister of Government Baca, cooperated with the country's largest newspaper for a front-page article recognizing the TIP problem and laying out a plan to combat it, including penal code reforms. The reforms are a significant step forward and comply w [...]	2004-08-13 16:43:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2287	ECUADOR LIKELY TO HELP ON NAM RESOLUTION [...] PolCouns provided reftel points to Amb. Fernando Flores Macias, DirGen for Multilateral Affairs, on August 17. Flores told PolCouns on August 18 that Ecuador's delegation to the NAM meeting in Durban, led by Vice Minister Edwin Johnson, will determine the GoE position on this issue. He pledg [...]	2004-08-19 20:29:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PREL PARM MNUC
04QUITO2303	AMBASSADOR'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH PRES. GUTIERREZ [...] (C) Summary: In a private breakfast meeting with the Ambassador and DCM on August 18 at the National Palace, President Lucio Gutierrez discussed upcoming municipal elections, his Cabinet, and requested additional U.S. aid for the social sector. The Ambassador encouraged free and fair electio [...]	2004-08-20 16:41:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2362	AMB. SIV PROMOTES UNGA AGENDA [...] Summary: During a visit to Quito on August 21-22, U.S. Representative to ECOSOC Ambassador Sichan Siv raised UNGA demarche points (Ref A) and other multilateral issues with Amb. Fernando Flores Macias, DirGen for Multilateral Affairs. Ambassador Siv also expressed disappointment with Ecuador [...]	2004-08-26 12:39:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON PHUM KDEM AORC EC UNGA UN
04QUITO2382	ECUADORIAN ARMS, MUNITIONS OFFERED FOR DESTRUCTION [...] In response to the Embassy's offer to include Ecuador in the State Department's Small Arms/Light Weapons (SALW) destruction program, Ecuador's service chiefs recently provided lists of weapons and ammunition they wish to destroy. Ecuador's joint command later blessed the inventory. Post bel [...]	2004-08-27 19:59:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MASS MOPS MARR PREL EC
04QUITO2399	FAWNING THRONGS GREET LULA IN QUITO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cheering crowds met Brazilian President Lula da Silva at every stop during his August 24-25 visit to Quito. Pre-arrival press was universally positive, portraying the ex-labor leader as a third-world savior and counterweight to the United States. Concurrently, editorials ravag [...]	2004-08-30 18:03:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EFIN EC BR UN
04QUITO2446	PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ' LATEST POLITICAL BLUNDER [...] (C) Summary: President Gutierrez urgently invited the Ambassador to a private breakfast on September 7 to discuss fallout from his recent visit to Panama. There, he had met with disgraced former president Abdala Bucaram, setting off a political firestorm at home. After hearing the President's e [...]	2004-09-08 13:18:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ELAB EC
04QUITO2447	ECUADOR CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD ON TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Summary. Ecuador continues to push ahead in its fight against trafficking in persons (TIP). The Embassy TIP working group met on September 1 to review GOE and USG efforts to combat TIP since the August 18th Presidential decree (Reftel). Raids on brothels continued, and the GOE is giving [...]	2004-09-08 16:30:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2449	PREPARING FOR ECUADORIAN ELECTIONS OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Summary: Ecuador's upcoming local elections are an indirect test of the Gutierrez Administration's strength (it is widely expected to fail that test) and, more importantly, an opportunity for Ecuadorian voters to renew their faith in the democratic process. President Gutierrez' Patriot [...]	2004-09-08 17:27:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2459	ECUADOR: POLITICAL INSTABILITY RISING [...] (C) Summary: After a hiatus of three months, and with local elections looming in October, the political temperature here is rising, fueling rumors of political instability. While we take these recurrent rumors with a grain of salt, opposition politicians blame President Gutierrez' political [...]	2004-09-09 22:33:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2464	GALAPAGOS PARK LEADERSHIP POTENTIALLY DESTABILIZED [...] (U)Summary: The status of the leadership of the Galapagos National Park (GNP) is uncertain, with Park Director Edwin Naula facing possible dismissal. There are political motives behind the change and we will continue to press for stability. The US Mission has expressed concern at the highes [...]	2004-09-10 19:50:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2497	ECUADOR: POLITICAL STABILITY AND USG SUPPORT [...] (S) Summary: With President Gutierrez increasingly isolated and weakened, his Cabinet divided and Congress hopelessly fragmented, rumors continue to swirl about a constitutional or extra-constitutional change in the Presidency. In this context we have reviewed how political instability here [...]	2004-09-14 22:44:00	Embassy Quito	SECRET	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2499	ECUADOR EVASIVE OVER NEW YORK BOLTON MEETING [...] (U) In response to Reftel, the Embassy August 20 contacted the Ecuadorian MFA's Article 98 coordinator, attorney Renan Mosquera, to seek a New York meeting between Foreign Minister Patricio Zuquilanda and Under Secretary John Bolton. Customary in the overly formal MFA, Mosquera requested the [...]	2004-09-15 15:06:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EC KICC UNGA
04QUITO2500	FIGHTING ELECTORAL FRAUD, MISCOUNTS WITH TECHNOLOGY [...] SUMMARY: Ecuador's byzantine electoral process demands newspaper-sized ballots, seven-hour counts, and spawns unacceptable numbers of nullified votes. Worse, its complexity raises the possibility of electoral fraud. Ecuador's supreme electoral authority sees a partial solution in increased [...]	2004-09-15 16:02:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM EC
04QUITO2519	ECUADOR CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD ON TIP [...] Summary. Ecuador continues its strong fight against trafficking in persons (TIP),commercial sexual exploitation of minors (CSEM),and child pornography and has made additional progress since the last update. Congress is reviewing penal code reforms to change the definition of a minor to a ch [...]	2004-09-16 20:07:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2550	GALAPAGOS NATIONAL PARK WORKERS CONTINUE TO STRIKE [...] (U) Summary. On September 10, the Minister of the Environment (MOE) replaced the Galapagos National Park (GNP) Director. In protest, the employees of the GNP went on strike. The strike began peacefully and the strikers initially promised not to interrupt tourist operations if their demands [...]	2004-09-20 23:06:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO2552	FEW U.S.-MANUFACTURED LAND MINES IN ECUADOR [...] In response to Reftel, Poloff September 20 contacted Guillermo Leal, chief of the OAS Humanitarian Demining (HD) mission in Ecuador. Leal noted the only U.S.-produced land mine found in Ecuador was the M18A1 Claymore device. The GoE had destroyed seven in-stock Claymores in 2001, Leal recal [...]	2004-09-21 13:31:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	KHDP PREL PGOV EC PE
04QUITO2571	ECUADOR COMMITED TO USG TIP RECOMMENDATIONS [...] PolOff delivered reftel talking points including elements of a USG-supported action plan to combat TIP, to Carlos Jativa, the Minister of Government Raul Baca's assistant, on September 16. In a follow-up meeting with PolOff on September 20, Baca and Jativa concurred with the Tier 2 Watch List [...]	2004-09-22 16:01:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2578	ECUADORIAN ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: With less than a month remaining before Ecuador's October 17 elections, there remain several items of concern which, left unresolved, could prejudice a clean and orderly vote. The Embassy will continue to work with electoral authorities to encourage resolution of these issues. [...]	2004-09-23 17:38:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2594	ECUADOR ELECTIONS: QUITO/PICHINCHA RACES [...] (SBU) Summary: With 19% of the national vote, the electoral battle for Pichincha province, which includes the capital of Quito (itself 15% of the national vote),is a key test of the Democratic Left's (ID) strength. The Quito mayor race overshadows the Pichincha provincial prefect race in n [...]	2004-09-24 18:28:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2595	TIP IN ECUADOR: TRAINING, RAIDS, AND THE ABA'S [...] (U) Summary. The International Labor Organization (ILO) and Ecuadorian police began their joint training series on September 23 to teach the police about commercial sexual exploitation of minors (CSEM). The police conducted 25 raids from September 3 to 8 and rescued 30 minors. The American [...]	2004-09-24 19:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2598	ELECTIONS, NOT GOVERNANCE, DRIVING GUTIERREZ [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lucio Gutierrez, consumed with improving his Patriotic Society Party's performance in Ecuador's October 17 local elections, is pressuring Cabinet officials to adopt populist, poorly conceived economic measures designed to garner votes. Should the PSP fare poorly in Oc [...]	2004-09-24 19:45:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL EC
04QUITO2599	NEW GALAPAGOS PARK DIRECTOR LITERALLY FIGHTS HIS [...] Summary. On September 22, a group of local fishermen, who have long been at odds with the park leadership over environmental regulations, stormed the office of the GNP headquarters in Santa Cruz and helped Fausto Cepeda, the newly appointed director, install himself as park director. The vio [...]	2004-09-24 19:51:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO2602	ECUADOR SENDING ENGINEERS, TROOPS TO HAITI [...] The Government of Ecuador has directed that EC Army engineers and soldiers travel to Haiti to participate in UN-directed peacekeeping (PKO) operations and natural disaster (hurricane) relief. Embassy officials learned September 23 that the first Ecuadorian deployment will include 66 combat e [...]	2004-09-24 20:16:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS MARR PREL SMIG EC HA UN
04QUITO2612	ELECTION NO THREAT TO FOL IN MANTA [...] (SBU) Summary: A pre-electoral visit to the city of Manta and Manabi provincial capital Portoviejo confirmed that the incumbent mayor of Manta, who has been largely supportive of the USG presence at the Forward Operating Location (FOL),is likely to be re-elected in local elections on October [...]	2004-09-28 22:16:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2613	TIDE TURNING IN OXY'S FAVOR BUT A LONG WAY TO GO [...] (C) Summary. The efforts of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) and the Mission are gathering momentum in blunting misperceptions raised by the Procurador's (solicitor general equivalent) allegations against Oxy. Business chambers, financial analysts and GOE officials are coming to understand what Ec [...]	2004-09-28 23:05:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ETRD ECON PREL EC
04QUITO2614	MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT ANNOUNCES INITIATIVE [...] Summary. The Minister of the Environment (MOE),Fabian Valdivieso, announced to the press on September 27 that Fausto Cepeda had been replaced as Galapagos National Park (GNP) Director by GNP employee Victor Carrion. The MOE will form a commission to oversee any future selections of the GNP [...]	2004-09-28 23:35:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO2651	59TH UNGA: ECUADOR SUPPORTIVE ON FIRST COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) We provided talking points and text of U.S. draft UNFC improvement resolution to Amb. Julio Prado, MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs on September 29. On September 30, Prado told PolCouns that the GoE is eager to participate in dialogue through our respective UN missions in New York on t [...]	2004-10-01 16:30:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PARM PREL
04QUITO2655	ECUADORIAN VFM ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ALADI [...] (SBU) Summary: Perhaps to signal his willingness to act as a U.S. ally in his new position on the UN Human Rights Commission, FM Edwin Johnson expressed concern to DCM about Venezuelan and Cuban diplomatic activities in Ecuador and the politicization of the Latin American Integration Associati [...]	2004-10-01 19:22:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM AORC PREL PGOV EC
04QUITO2680	ECUADORIAN ELECTIONS UPDATE #2 [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable provides an update of developments related to the upcoming October 17 provincial and local elections. Most procedural issues are moving toward resolution, the OAS has confirmed an electoral observation mission which Embassy volunteers will participate in, and the S [...]	2004-10-05 15:55:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2702	MAYOR'S RACE A TOSS-UP IN ECUADOR'S THIRD CITY [...] Summary. The Cuenca mayoral race is too close to call between two strong candidates, Fernando Cordero (New City-Pachakutik alliance),the incumbent, and Marcelo Cabrera (Democratic Left),recently the provincial prefect of Azuay. Meanwhile, Xavier Munoz, of Popular Democracy is the clear fro [...]	2004-10-06 21:01:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2704	ECUADOR TRYING TO STABILIZE GALAPAGOS PARK [...] Summary. The Minister of the Environment, Fabian Valdivieso, is attempting to change the process for selecting directors of the Galapagos National Park (GNP),hoping that an independent procedure will purge politics from this position and stabilize park management. The Minister proposes hiri [...]	2004-10-07 13:34:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO2739	POLITICAL LANDSCAPE CHANGING IN ESMERALDAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A pre-election visit to Esmeraldas province suggests that incumbent Esmeraldas Mayor Ernesto Estupinan's rise in political popularity has triggered initial changes to the political landscape in this coastal border region. Estupinan, a member of the leftist Popular Democratic M [...]	2004-10-13 17:04:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2759	FINAL ECUADORIAN ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: This cable provides information about the upcoming October 17 provincial/local elections, their significance, a summary of Embassy involvement in the OAS electoral observation mission, information on how to reach us on election day, suggested press guidance, and a synopsis of re [...]	2004-10-14 20:51:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2762	ECUADOR TO SUPPORT CUBAN UNGA RESOLUTION [...] (U) In response to Reftel, the Embassy October 7 delivered pro-embargo, anti-resolution talking points to the Ecuadorian foreign ministry. In a follow-up meeting October 14 with MFA Director General for Multilateral Policy Miguel Mendes, Poloff emphasized three points: the U.S. embargo was [...]	2004-10-15 14:42:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD EC
04QUITO2771	PRELIMINARY ECUADORIAN ELECTION RESULTS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Ecuadorian voters went to the polls to elect provincial and municipal officials on October 17 in elections the OAS characterized publicly as "free and transparent." Some irregularities were reported but in most polling places voting proceeded relatively smoothly. Preliminary [...]	2004-10-18 19:34:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2773	ECUADOR TIP UPDATE [...] Summary. Ecuadorian police conducted nearly 50 raids September 16 - 30 and found 55 minors suspected as victims of trafficking in persons (TIP). USAID signed a $300,000 agreement with Geneva Global to begin a small grants program aimed at prevention, prosecution and protection of TIP. Press [...]	2004-10-18 21:10:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2810	RETURN TO NORMALCY: PRESIDENT SURVIVES ANOTHER DAY [...] (C) Minutes after local elections concluded on October 17, Ecuador's opposition returned to its game of political "chicken," calling for the impeachment of President Gutierrez for illegal use of public funds for campaign purposes. The judiciary, for its part, issued what some charaterize as a [...]	2004-10-22 12:04:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2861	ECUADOR'S TIP LEGISLATION AND CONFERENCE [...] (U) Summary. Ecuador took additional steps forward in combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP) over the past week. Congress debated the draft of anti-TIP legislation that criminalizes TIP, sexual tourism, child pornography, and child prostitution. On October 22, the MFA and United Nations co-s [...]	2004-10-27 13:48:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2868	GUTIERREZ CANCELS NEW YORK TRIP [...] Summary. On October 27, President Gutierrez told the Ambassador he had canceled his planned early November trip to New York in order to work in Ecuador on judicial reform projects and programs to spur economic growth. Gutierrez hopes the press will portray his decision as a need to focus on [...]	2004-10-27 22:11:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO2869	"POWER-BLINDED" LFC DRIVES IMPEACHMENT PUSH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leon Febres-Cordero (LFC),the cantankerous leader of Ecuador's Social Christian Party (PSC),is determined to destroy President Lucio Gutierrez by any means possible, according to two thoughtful PSC legislators. Brothers Luis Fernando Torres and Carlos Torres, the former the he [...]	2004-10-27 23:09:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL EC
04QUITO2886	EMBASSY PUSHING STABILITY MESSAGE HARD [...] SUMMARY: Reftels outline the current political quicksand enveloping GoE President Lucio Gutierrez. Believing further instability runs counter to Ecuadorian and U.S. interests, the Embassy is immersed in an outreach campaign to bolster rank-and-file support for constitutional democracy and th [...]	2004-10-29 21:32:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM EC
04QUITO2891	ECUADORIAN, CHILEAN FM'S TALK BORDERS, TRADE [...] Summary. Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker met with Ecuadorian officials in Quito on October 28. In a subsequent joint declaration, the countries committed to begin FTA negotiations in 2004, respect existing international treaties (in reference to Chile's maritime disagreements with P [...]	2004-10-29 22:16:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EC CH
04QUITO2923	ECUADOR BANS EXPORT OF SHARK FINS [...] Summary. President Gutierrez has issued a decree banning the export of shark fins. The ban applies to all shark fins, whether they are intentionally harvested or are the result of bi-catch. Despite having been consulted prior to the decree's issuance, a local fishing group is asking Preside [...]	2004-11-05 17:51:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO2927	CONGRATULATORY LETTER FROM PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ TO [...] Embassy received a congratulatory letter from President Gutierrez to President Bush dated November 2 on November 4 under a cover letter from acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Edwin Johnson. 2. Text of Letter from President Gutierrez: Your excellency: On behalf of the Ecuadorian peop [...]	2004-11-05 19:43:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OPDC EC
04QUITO2929	PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ CONFIDENT IN FACE OF [...] (C) Summary: The GoE reacted calmly to the initiation of impeachment proceedings against President Gutierrez by Congress on November 4. The Ambassador spoke with President Gutierrez by telephone on November 4 and on the margins of an unrelated event on November 5. Gutierrez thanked the USG [...]	2004-11-05 21:15:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EC
04QUITO2955	OPPOSITION FALLS SHORT ON FIRST IMPEACHMENT VOTE; [...] (C) Summary: The pro-impeachment opposition on November 9 tried and twice failed to create a special Congressional committee to consider impeachment grounds against President Lucio Gutierrez, effectively stymieing impeachment efforts at an early stage. The opposition came up short of taking [...]	2004-11-10 22:03:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EC
04QUITO2980	TIER 2 WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Summary. Ecuador has taken significant steps since June to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). The government increased public awareness of the problem, reached out to source and destination countries, and established a national plan. The GOE has cooperated with the International Labor Or [...]	2004-11-12 19:07:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3028	RENEWING THE ARTICLE 98 PUSH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Article 98 negotiations in Ecuador have stagnated of late. Two factors are to blame: continued push-back from the Embassy's prime interlocutors, the Foreign Ministry and Congress, and the Gutierrez government's focus on self-preservation in the face of impeachment proceedings. [...]	2004-11-17 21:51:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL EC KICC
04QUITO3081	GOE PRESSES ITS LUCK -- NEXT STEPS ON STABILITY [...] (C) Summary: A concerted USG effort to promote political stability contributed to the lessening of political tension over impeachment, and will continue to be important in the aftermath. Although the situation has calmed somewhat since the failure of an opposition initiative to impeach Presi [...]	2004-11-24 20:32:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EC
04QUITO3099	NOVEMBER TIP UPDATE [...] Summary: This cable reports significant anti-TIP developments since our interim TIP report (Ref A). USAID and Geneva Global will mount six new projects to combat TIP (Trafficking in Persons) by the end of the year. We recently met with two organizations who provide services to children and [...]	2004-11-26 14:32:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3102	FOX VISIT PROMOTES TRADE, INVESTMENT, & [...] Summary: In a brief visit to Quito on November 22-23, Mexican President Vicente Fox sought increased bilateral investment and trade. Presidents Fox and Gutierrez discussed issues of bilateral interest, including commitments to facilitate visa issuance, negotiate an extradition treaty, impro [...]	2004-11-26 20:12:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3103	ARTICLE 98 BACK IN HEADLINES, POST PRESSES CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent public comments from high-level USG visitors and the Ambassador have put Article 98 back in play in Ecuador. Major newspapers and radio/TV outlets have highlighted our efforts, as well as GoE Foreign Minister Patricio Zuquilanda's November 23 claim that the MFA continues [...]	2004-11-26 20:24:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL PGOV EC KICC
04QUITO3108	PRO-GOVT CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY FLEXES MUSCLES [...] Summary: In a marathon session November 25, the new, pro-government legislative majority bypassed President of Congress Guillermo Landazuri's programmed agenda and elected Jorge Montero second vice president. It then replaced the members of the Constitutional Tribunal (TC) and the Supreme E [...]	2004-11-26 22:11:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3115	DONORS LOSING PATIENCE WITH MANAGEMENT OF GALAPAGOS [...] Summary. Ecuador continues to take two steps backward for each step forward in the Galapagos. President Gutierrez signed a decree in October banning the export of shark fins from Ecuador (Reftel A),to promote conservation. The Minister of the Environment, Fabian Valdivieso, however, repla [...]	2004-11-30 13:35:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
04QUITO3146	CONGRESS GOES ON HOLIDAY, BUT REST UNLIKELY [...] (C) Summary: Congress ended its stormy fall calendar on December 2, releasing its combative politicians until January 4. Political leaders are likely to stay busy during holiday season, as all parties regroup for the battle over Congressional leadership and control of the Supreme Court set [...]	2004-12-02 22:14:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3147	ECUADOR ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT SOUTH AMERICAN [...] (SBU) On December 2, President Gutierrez discussed with the Ambassador his upcoming trip to Peru. He will participate there in a meeting of Andean presidents and later join South American leaders in signing a declaration to move toward the creation of a Community of South American Nations. [...]	2004-12-03 15:20:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL EC
04QUITO3151	CAREER DIP TO HEAD ECUADOR'S WASHINGTON EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lucio Gutierrez told the Ambassador on December 2 that he would nominate MFA Bilateral U/S Roberto Betancourt to head Ecuador's embassy in Washington. The career diplomat will replace political appointee Ambassador Raul Gangotena, who submitted his resignation Novembe [...]	2004-12-03 20:53:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3167	PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ CALLS CONGRESS BACK TO DEBATE [...] (SBU) On December 5, in a surprise exercise of constitutional privilege, President Gutierrez canceled his planned trip to Peru and called Congress back from recess into extraordinary session on December 8. In so doing he requested that they consider three issues: 1) the censure of recently [...]	2004-12-07 23:01:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3168	CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECUADORIAN [...] (S) President Gutierrez' call for a special Congressional session, while controversial, is unlikely to directly threaten political stability. Nevertheless, this event bears watching, given the proven potential for Congressional conflicts to lead to unforeseen consequences on stability in thi [...]	2004-12-07 23:05:00	Embassy Quito	SECRET	PGOV PREL MARR EC
04QUITO3192	CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY REVIEW [...] After checking with the MFA, we have been unable to confirm any recent Ecuadorian government actions to advance democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. Ecuador abstained from the UNHRC Cuban human rights resolution in 2004. Further information on this subject may be availa [...]	2004-12-09 22:31:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC PREL EC
04QUITO3256	ARTICLE 98: GOE AWARE OF NETHERCUTT-BACKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Word of the Nethercutt Amendment, which mandates reductions in Economic Support Funds (ESF) available to non-Article 98 signers, has reached GoE leaders, and they are worried. In a pull-aside at a diplomatic reception recently, the foreign minister requested clarification and i [...]	2004-12-17 22:25:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR PGOV EC KICC
04QUITO3257	DECEMBER TIP UPDATE [...] Summary. Ecuadorian police conducted 130 raids from November 12 to December 9 and found 28 minors who may be trafficking victims. The congressional committee reviewed the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) bill, and it has been amended and is ready for Congress' second reading. Several embassies [...]	2004-12-17 22:28:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
04QUITO3260	ECUADOR SPLIT ON SUPPORT OF FREE TRADE AGREEMENT [...] Summary. A public opinion poll sponsored by USAID shows that about half of the Ecuadorian public has heard about the FTA and about half of the public (both informed and uninformed) supports it. Not surprisingly, solid majorities believe that the FTA will benefit the U.S. far more than Ecuado [...]	2004-12-20 20:52:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ECIN ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EC FTA
04QUITO3280	CONTACT INFO FOR GOE OFFICIALS [...] In response to Reftel, Post provides the following contact information for Government of Ecuador leadership: HEAD OF GOVERNMENT/STATE LAST NAME: GUTIERREZ FIRST NAME: LUCIO TITLE: PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OFFICE PH:(593-2) 2580833 / 2588888 CELL: (593)94-236187 COMMENTS: GUT [...]	2004-12-22 20:24:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL EC
04QUITO3302	EX-FINMIN MAY REPLACE CAREER DIP AS AMB-DESIGNATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: GoE President Lucio Gutierrez is reconsidering his earlier designation of career diplomat Roberto Betancourt to head Ecuador's embassy in Washington (Reftel). According to separate Embassy Quito sources, former Minister of Finance Mauricio Pozo now appears the preferred candida [...]	2004-12-28 15:46:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC
04QUITO3304	INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATION ELECTS NEW HEAD [...] Summary: The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) on December 23 elected Luis Macas president of the organization, a post he previously held twice. Macas, a former Minister of Agriculture and an ethnic Saraguro indian from the south of the country, will lead the org [...]	2004-12-28 19:22:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
04RANGOON1014	BURMESE PRIME MINISTER KHIN NYUNT: CHINA FREQUENT [...] (C) Summary: Both the PRC Embassy and the Burmese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) described Burmese Prime Minister Khin Nyunt's 11-18 July visit to China, his eighth overall though the first as PM, as a huge success. The visit, during which Khin Nyunt met senior Chinese leaders and repor [...]	2004-08-06 09:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON PGOV PHUM BM CH
04RANGOON1030	BURMA GETS FIRST PIECE OF GLOBAL FUND PIE [...] (U) Summary: On August 4 the GOB Ministry of Health facilitated a signing ceremony in Rangoon which initiated the tuberculosis (TB) component of a Global Fund (GF) grant to Burma, the country's first tranche of funding from the GF. The first two-year phase of the TB component is for $6.9 milli [...]	2004-08-10 10:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO SOCI PGOV EAID PHUM PREL BM NGO
04RANGOON1035	THE NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY: MONSOON SEASON [...] (C) Summary: The NLD CEC has established regular communications with ASSK and U Tin Oo. An ongoing NLD petition drive to free the two leaders has proven minimally appealing to party members and supporters, and has also encountered some regime resistance in Mandalay and Sagaing divisions. Wi [...]	2004-08-11 09:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM ASSK NLD
04RANGOON1049	BURMA: NLD APPEALS TO HIGH COURT TO FREE ASSK, [...] (C) Summary: The National League for Democracy (NLD) on August 16 initiated a legal maneuver requesting that Burma's High Court order the GOB to release ASSK and U Tin Oo and to allow the party to reopen its offices. NLD leaders are under no illusion that the effort will force the regime to r [...]	2004-08-16 09:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM NLD ASSK
04RANGOON1056	BURMA: HISTORIC HEROIN BUST REVEALS MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: Burma's largest heroin seizure in history (592 kilos seized along the southern coast in early July) has uncovered a major drug trafficking syndicate with possible connections to traffickers and markets in Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia, India, and the United S [...]	2004-08-18 07:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KISL BM
04RANGOON1100	ALLEGED NORTH KOREAN INVOLVEMENT IN MISSILE [...] (S) SUMMARY: North Korean workers are reportedly assembling "SAM missiles" and constructing an underground facility at a Burmese military site in Magway Division, about 315 miles NNW of Rangoon, according to XXXXXXXXXXXX . This unsolicited account should not be taken as authoritative, but it tracks [...]	2004-08-27 08:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PARM PINR PREL KNNP BM KN
04RANGOON1176	AMERICAN CENTER ANNEX IN MANDALAY: FREQUENTLY ASKED [...] (SBU) Given the summer-cycle turnover in personnel working on Burma issues, we thought it would be helpful to provide a quick synopsis of the plan to establish an annex of Rangoon's American Center in Mandalay. This informal format provides Embassy Rangoon's perspective on many questions fre [...]	2004-09-09 09:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ABLD ASEC PREL KPAO KDEM BM

04RANGOON1225	THE BURMESE REGIME'S "SELECTIVE ENGAGEMENT" WITH [...] (C) Summary: A recent exchange of top military visits between Burma and Thailand indicates improving relations between the SPDC and the Royal Thai Armed Forces and is a sign that many wounds have healed since the two armies squared off during a series of deadly border skirmishes in mid-2002. [...]	2004-09-16 10:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR BM TH

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