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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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09SUVA346SCENE-SETTER FOR PACOM VISIT TO TONGA
[...] (C) Your visit to Tonga comes at a time when the benefits of our increased engagement are coming to fruition. This past year, the Tonga Defense Service (TDS) completed a successful deployment to Iraq. The U.S. Navy,s Pacific Partnership 2009 mission took place in July. This joint effort wa [...]
2009-08-31 04:35:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR TN FJ PGOV PHUM
09SUVA347Shiprider Agreement Nets Four Million Dollars for Kiribati
[...] The High Court of Kiribati advised Deputy Chief of Mission Pruett on August 27 that it had upheld AUD 4.7 million (USD 3,967,743 million) of a lower court's judgment of AUD 5.1 million in fines against a fishing company for unlicensed fishing near Kiritimati (Christmas) Island in the Northern [...]
2009-09-01 03:47:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS SENV PREL KR
09SUVA386SEMI-ANNUAL COUNTRY FRAUD SUMMARY REPORT - EMBASSY SUVA
[...] COUNTRY CONDITIONS The countries in Suva's diverse consular district (Fiji, Tonga, Nauru, Kiribati, and Tuvalu) are small and remote nations with struggling economies. Political uncertainty in some of these island states contributes to their respective economic instability. Fiji's military [...]
2009-09-30 21:01:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CVIS CMGT CPAS KFRD FJ
09SUVA63UN-COMMONWEALTH MEDIATORS SEEK REASSURANCE
[...] (SBU) A joint UN-Commonwealth team has visited Suva seeking reassurance from Fiji,s interim government (IG) that it still wants the UN and Commonwealth to mediate Fiji,s political crisis through a &President,s Political Dialogue Forum8 (PPDF). Interim Prime Minister Bainimarama has refused to [...]
2009-02-18 05:53:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALFJ PGOV PHUM
09SUVA82PRC VICE PRESIDENT XI'S VISIT TO FIJI
[...] (SBU) Summary. The recent stop-over in Fiji of China's Vice President Xi Jinping enroute to his Latin America visits provided Beijing an opportunity to strengthen incrementally its growing economic, security, and political relationship with Suva. For Fiji's interim government (IG),the timin [...]
2009-03-05 03:49:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID FJ CH
09SUVA96FIJI'S RULE OF LAW IN "DIRE STRAITS"
[...] (U) Summary: The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) released a report entitled "Dire Straits: A Report on the Rule of Law in Fiji" on March 3. The IBA completed the report despite being banned from visiting Fiji by the Interim Government (IG). The report concludes [...]
2009-03-15 20:14:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL FJ
09SUVA99FIJI POLITICAL LEADERS AGREE ON AGENDA FOR DIALOGUE
[...] (U) Summary: Fiji's political leaders met with Interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama on March 13 and agreed on the agenda for a political dialogue being brokered with the support of the UN and the Commonwealth. It was the second time Fiji's 18 political parties have met since the [...]
2009-03-19 02:50:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL FJ KDEM
09SYDNEY227SEPTEMBER 2009 FRAUD SUMMARY - MISSION AUSTRALIA
[...] Country Conditions: Australia is a low-fraud environment for consular services. Local economic and governmental conditions make for a qualified visa applicant pool. Host country identity documents are highly reliable. Challenges in the area of consular work are mostly a result of the growin [...]
2009-10-28 00:48:00Consulate SydneyUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC AS
09SYDNEY60FORMER OPPOSITION LEADER COMMENTS ON RUDD AND AN
[...] (C/NF) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has taken a tactical, rather than strategic approach to the economic crisis, according to former opposition leader Brendan Nelson. As a result, Nelson predicts Rudd will back off of other strategic efforts, like the proposed emissions trading scheme and defen [...]
2009-03-13 05:01:00Consulate SydneyCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR MASS AS
09SYDNEY81MARCH 2009 FRAUD SUMMARY - MISSION AUSTRALIA
[...] Country Conditions: Australia is a low-fraud environment for consular services. Local economic and governmental conditions make for a qualified visa applicant pool. Host country identity documents are highly reliable. Challenges in the area of consular work are mostly a result of the growin [...]
2009-03-30 03:01:00Consulate SydneyUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC AS
09TAIPEI1004POLITICAL HEAT RISING IN WAKE OF TYPHOON MORAKOT
[...] (C) Summary. Vice Foreign Minister Andrew Hsia became the first political victim of Typhoon Morakot, stepping down to accept responsibility for his Ministry's initial decision to refuse international aid. Members of Taiwan's opposition party- and some ruling party legislators - are calling fo [...]
2009-08-18 10:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR AEMR PGOV XE TW
09TAIPEI1005MORAKOT SITREP 6: HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY PASSES,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The death toll from Typhoon Morakot has hit 127, with an additional 522 deaths likely to be confirmed in the coming weeks. Taiwan is moving into a second phase of disaster response, with operations focusing on sheltering and relocating victims. USAID/OFDA Acting Regional Advi [...]
2009-08-18 23:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW
09TAIPEI1010H1N1 UPDATE: SECOND DEATH RECORDED AS CASES TOP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Taiwan authorities estimate there are over 9,000 individuals in Taiwan currently infected with H1N1. The island recorded its second H1N1 death last week, and a further three individuals are still hospitalized with severe cases. Taiwan CDC (TCDC) is reviewing treatment guidelines [...]
2009-08-19 08:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLU KFLO TBIO XE TW
09TAIPEI1011MORAKOT SITREP 7: RELIEF EFFORTS MAKING HEADWAY AS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The death toll from Typhoon Morakot has risen slightly, but is likely to more than double at some point in the near future as more than 400 missing persons are unaccounted for in areas buried by mudslides. Rescue and evacuation efforts are largely complete and restoration of w [...]
2009-08-19 10:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON AEMR CASC PREL PGOV SENV XE TW
09TAIPEI1013MORAKOT SITREP 8: TAIWAN SHIFTING FOCUS TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The typhoon death toll stands at 141, with 440 individuals listed as missing. Services such as water, communications, and electricity have been restored to nearly 100 percent of affected households. The Central Emergency Operations Center is standing down, and will be replac [...]
2009-08-20 08:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON AEMR CASC PREL PGOV SENV XE TW
09TAIPEI1029CODEL BERMAN'S AUGUST 20-22 VISIT TO TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary. Taiwan officials expressed appreciation for U.S. assistance in response to Typhoon Morakot during the August 20-22 visit of CODEL Berman. President Ma Ying-jeou and opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen both underscored the importance of U.S. security commitments to Taiwan, including th [...]
2009-08-25 08:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALOREP OVIP MASS MARR PREL PGOV PHUM TW CH
09TAIPEI1042PRESIDENT MA STRUGGLES TO RECOVER POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou is working full time to regain his political footing after widespread criticism he reacted far too slowly to Typhoon Morakot. With opinion polls showing a precipitous decline in his popularity, Ma went to the worst-hit villages to console victims, apologize [...]
2009-08-28 00:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR AEMR PGOV XE TW
09TAIPEI1065FOREIGN MINISTER URGES PROGRESS ON BILATERAL TIES,
[...] (C) Summary. Taiwan hopes the restoration of mutual trust in the bilateral relationship will result in concrete progress on bilateral issues, Foreign Minister Ou Hong-lien told the Director during their introductory meeting. The Director said the United States also wants to deepen the relatio [...]
2009-09-01 10:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CVIS ECON ETRD EAIR SENV UNGA TW US
09TAIPEI1069H1N1 HIGHLIGHTS TAIWAN'S SHORTCOMINGS IN RISK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. H1N1 has caused five deaths in Taiwan, and although the illness' trajectory is not atypical relative to other areas with outbreaks, more severe cases and deaths are expected in the coming months. Taiwan has placed an order for Tamiflu and an H1N1 vaccine from Swiss sources, an [...]
2009-09-02 08:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALAEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLU KFLO TBIO XE TW
09TAIPEI1092PRESIDENT MA SEEKS TO REGAIN POLITICAL FOOTING
[...] (C) On September 7, President Ma Ying-jeou accepted the resignation of Premier Liu Chao-shiuan and the entire Cabinet in a bold effort to regain his political footing after the Government's much-criticized typhoon response. Ma chose two savvy politicians to lead the new Cabinet, Kuomintang (KM [...]
2009-09-08 09:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM TW CH
09TAIPEI1093TAIWAN MAKES A CASE FOR UNFCCC PARTICIPATION AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Taiwan is seeking U.S. assistance in a proposed bid to join the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as an "emissions entity." Taiwan argues it should be allowed to actively participate through the UNFCCC in global environmental discussions that may af [...]
2009-09-09 09:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALAORC SENV PGOV PREL UNGA XE CH TW
09TAIPEI1106OPPOSITION LEADER: DPP SUPPORT WILL GROW AS RULING
[...] (C) Summary. Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on September 10 she anticipated no policy shifts under President Ma Ying-jeou's new Cabinet and predicted the new Premier would have a tough time managing the executive branch. The ruling Kuomint [...]
2009-09-11 07:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TW
09TAIPEI1107CABINET RESHUFFLE: MANY NEW FACES, BUT NO MAJOR
[...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou's policy of pursuing improved ties with China should continue apace under the new Cabinet sworn in September 10. In addition to naming a new Premier and Vice Premier, Ma put new faces atop key Ministries such as Defense, Foreign Affairs and Economics in th [...]
2009-09-11 07:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM TW CH
09TAIPEI1121DPP HEAVYWEIGHT FRANK HSIEH: OPPOSITION MUST CHECK
[...] (C) Summary. The opposition needed to play an oversight role in Taiwan politics, given KMT dominance of the executive and legislative branches, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) former Presidential candidate Frank Hsieh told the Director during their introductory meeting. In particular, the D [...]
2009-09-16 09:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL TW CH
09TAIPEI1125Taiwan Telecom: Carlyle Sells Kbro to Taiwan Mobile
[...] (SBU) Taiwan Mobile Company announced September 16 it will spend NTD 32.8 billion (USD one billion) to buy Kbro Company, Taiwan's second-largest cable TV system operator, from the Carlyle Group. Taiwan mobile will be the market leader among cable TV system operators, providing service to one-th [...]
2009-09-17 08:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON ECPS TW
09TAIPEI1141TAINAN COURT ACQUITS KEY DPP PLAYER
[...] (SBU) Summary. Tainan Mayor Hsu Tian-tsai, the opposition politician most vocal in demanding a fair trial for former President Chen Shui-bian, was himself recently acquitted of corruption charges. The Tainan District Court last month ruled in favor of Hsu in a corruption case related to a local [...]
2009-09-21 02:25:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PREL TW CH
09TAIPEI1145SEPTEMBER 26 BY-ELECTION GIVES TAIWAN OPPOSITION
[...] (C) Summary: The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has a strong chance to capture a Legislative Yuan seat in a closely watched by-election this week because of a local split in the ruling Kuomintang (KMT). A victory for the struggling opposition could provide momentum going into i [...]
2009-09-21 08:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM TW
09TAIPEI1146THE DIRECTOR MEETS NEW FM YANG
[...] (C) Summary: Although the results of President Ma's "diplomatic truce" with the PRC were mixed, Taiwan would continue efforts to improve cross-Strait ties, newly-appointed Foreign Minister Timothy Yang told the Director during their very cordial September 21 introductory meeting. Taiwan woul [...]
2009-09-21 10:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ETRD AMGT UNGA MARR EAGR CVIS ABLD
09TAIPEI1149UIGHUR DOCUMENTARY AT CENTER OF LATEST
[...] (C) Summary: At the urging of the city government, a Kaohsiung film festival rescheduled the screening of a documentary about Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer in hopes of lessening possible PRC repercussions on the local economy. Several mainland tourist groups have cancelled visits to Kaohsiung [...]
2009-09-22 10:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM CH TW
09TAIPEI1150DIRECTOR MEETS KMT LEADERS IN KAOHSIUNG
[...] (SBU) Summary: In separate September 17 meetings in Kaohsiung with the Director, two local KMT "heavyweights" underscored the KMT's need to accelerate typhoon reconstruction and economic growth in southern Taiwan. Executive Yuan Southern Office CEO Lo Shih-hsiung praised U.S. typhoon relief [...]
2009-09-22 22:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EAID EINV SENV TW
09TAIPEI1157NEW TAIWAN PREMIER SAYS PRESIDENT MA REGAINING
[...] (C) Summary: Newly appointed Premier Wu Den-yih told the Director on September 23 that President Ma Ying-jeou was regaining the public's support after it fell precipitously in the immediate aftermath of Typhoon Morakot. On cross-Strait ties, Wu said he didn't foresee long-term harm from the Dal [...]
2009-09-23 09:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ABLD AMED CH TW
09TAIPEI1166DIRECTOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH STRAITS
[...] (C) Summary. Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Chiang Ping-kun (P. K. Chiang) told the Director on September 24 the pace of cross-Strait working-level negotiations had increased after a dip that was partly attributable to China's displeasure over the Dalai Lama's visit. Chiang said se [...]
2009-09-25 10:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON PREL TW EINV ETRD PGOV
09TAIPEI1185JUSTICE MINISTER LAYS OUT THREE PRIORITIES FOR
[...] (C) Summary: In her introductory meeting with Director Stanton on September 30, Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng laid out three priorities on which she hoped Taiwan and the U.S. could strengthen cooperation. She urged progress toward a U.S.-Taiwan extradition agreement, an issue she said en [...]
2009-10-01 07:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KJUS KCRM PHUM TW CH
09TAIPEI1189KMT GRANDEE LIEN CHAN CALLS FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Kuomintang (KMT) Honorary Chairman Lien Chan told the Director he favored gradual implementation of confidence-building measures to further improve relations with China. Lien spoke warmly about his relationship with China's President Hu Jintao, but appeared less enthusiastic abou [...]
2009-10-02 08:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR APECO TW CH
09TAIPEI1195TAIWAN READIES FOR TYPHOONS PARMA AND MELOR
[...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau (CWB) on October 2 predicted course tracks for typhoons Parma and Melor that would bring potentially torrential rains to northern and eastern areas of Taiwan October 4-8. Lighter rains are expected in central and southern areas, which are still [...]
2009-10-02 08:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON AEMR CASC PREL PGOV SENV XE TW
09TAIPEI1196VISA WAIVER FOR TAIWAN: THE U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST
[...] (C) Summary: One of the most pro-United States places in the world, Taiwan has a highly literate, technologically advanced, and well-educated population, no links to terrorism, a low rate of fraud related to U.S. visas and immigration, and strong commercial, travel and educational links to th [...]
2009-10-05 08:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCVIS PREL TW
09TAIPEI1235MOFA URGES U.S. SUPPORT FOR TAIWAN ICAO AND UNFCCC
[...] (C) On October 13, Taiwan's diplomatic allies sent letters to the UN Permanent Representatives of all ICAO and UNFCCC member states (except the PRC),urging them to support Taiwan's meaningful participation in those organizations, MOFA International Organizations Director General Paul Chang an [...]
2009-10-16 09:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL EAIR SENV TW
09TAIPEI1266MAINLAND CHINA TOURISM PROVING DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD
[...] (U) This is the first of two reports on political implications of newly launched people-to-people cross-Strait exchanges. This cable looks at the influx of Chinese tourists to Taiwan. Septel will look at mainland university students in Taiwan. 2. (C) Summary: Tour groups from nearly every c [...]
2009-10-28 07:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KDEM PREL ETRD SOCI CH TW
09TAIPEI1274MA ADMINISTRATION "VERY GLOOMY" OVER U.S.-TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary: National Security Council Secretary General Su Chi told the Director on October 30 that widespread public criticism of the recently signed U.S.-Taiwan protocol left him feeling very pessimistic about its prospects. He cited opposition from lawmakers who could derail the pact as p [...]
2009-10-30 05:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL EAGR TW
09TAIPEI1293FLOW OF CHINA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO TAIWAN STARTS
[...] (U) This is the second of two reports on the political implications of people-to-people cross-Strait exchanges. This cable looks at Chinese students coming to Taiwan. Reftel examined the influx of mainland Chinese tourists. 2. (C) Summary: Cross-Strait educational exchanges have developed m [...]
2009-11-04 06:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EDU PINR KPAO TW CH
09TAIPEI1308FORMER PRESIDENT LEE TENG-HUI ON BEEF,
[...] (C) Summary: During a November 4 introductory meeting with the Director, former President Lee Teng-hui mainly attributed the current impasse on U.S. beef imports to the Kuomintang (KMT) administration's failure to inform Taiwan's people of its plans. The public needed to be assured that the [...]
2009-11-05 22:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TW
09TAIPEI1324NEXT STEPS FOR ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS ON TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary: Engaging Taiwan labor authorities remains a key goal for local U.S. counter-trafficking efforts. Recent high-profile anti-trafficking events, including G/TIP Ambassador Luis CdeBaca's October 23 DVC on labor trafficking, AIT Deputy Director's October 26 speech calling for increas [...]
2009-11-09 08:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALKJUS KCRM PGOV PREL TW CH
09TAIPEI1336LEGISLATURE FREEZES PART OF BUDGET FOR PURCHASING
[...] (C) Summary. The Legislative Yuan Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee froze nearly USD 200 million from the 2010 defense budget, most of which would buy U.S. weapons in the procurement pipeline or on Taiwan's &wish list.8 A well-placed legislative staff member said the freeze was a result o [...]
2009-11-10 06:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR TW CH
09TAIPEI1350U.S. BEEF IMPORTS NOT A MAJOR ISSUE IN YEAR-END
[...] (C) Summary: During recent reporting trips to three counties in north and central Taiwan, PolOffs found little evidence the controversy over expanded imports of U.S. beef would be a major issue in upcoming local elections. Although the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and even so [...]
2009-11-13 09:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL ETRD TW
09TAIPEI1383GREENING TAIWAN, PART II: ELECTRIC VEHICLE
[...] (U) Reftel introduced Taiwan's plans to develop a "green technologies" industrial base through a USD 1.5 billion public investment plan, which the authorities hope will attract a further USD 6.25 billion in domestic and foreign investment over the next five years, create 110,000 new jobs, and [...]
2009-11-20 10:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALSENV ECON ENRG EINV TRGY TSPL TW XE
09TAIPEI1397DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH KAOHSIUNG MAYOR CHEN CHU
[...] (SBU) Summary: In her November 18 meeting with Director Stanton, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu reiterated familiar DPP themes, maintaining that the KMT was rolling back Taiwan's democracy and using the judiciary to persecute the DPP. Mayor Chen chided President Ma for tilting too far toward China [...]
2009-11-25 03:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EAID EINV SENV TW
09TAIPEI140KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON DOMESTIC POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary. Although the global economic environment would make 2009 a tough year for Taiwan's ruling party, the KMT was in relatively good shape to face the electoral challenges ahead, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the Director during a wide-ranging February 9 dinner. The December race f [...]
2009-02-10 08:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR WHO CH TW
09TAIPEI1412PRESIDENT MA, OPPOSITION PARTY SEEK POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: Both President Ma Ying-jeou and the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) view the December 5 elections for county magistrates, city mayors and local council members as crucial to resurrecting their battered political fortunes. Ma has been racing around the island to cam [...]
2009-12-02 08:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALTW PGOV
09TAIPEI1422AIT DIRECTOR AND INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSS LAW
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 3 introductory meeting with the Director, Interior Minister Jiang Yi-huah reaffirmed Taiwan's commitment to continued close cooperation with the United States on border security and anti-human trafficking issues. Jiang also said he hoped for progress on entering the [...]
2009-12-03 09:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCVIS KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL TW CH
09TAIPEI1424PRESIDENT MA, OPPOSITION PARTY SEEK POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: Both President Ma Ying-jeou and the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) view the December 5 elections for county magistrates, city mayors and local council members as crucial to resurrecting their battered political fortunes. Ma has been racing around the island to cam [...]
2009-12-03 09:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TW CH PREL
09TAIPEI1453TAIWAN'S GHG REDUCTION STRATEGY FACES CARBON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Taiwan is one of the world's largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG). Officials, academics, and civil society have found common cause in the idea of creating a "low-carbon society" in Taiwan, motivated by political, economic, and disaster mitigation goals. The cen [...]
2009-12-09 22:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALSENV ECON ENRG EINV TRGY PREL TSPL TW XE
09TAIPEI1484TAIWAN CONFIRMS SETBACKS ON WHO VACCINE, EXECUTIVE
[...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Section Chief Jonathan Sun confirmed the information contained in ref, telling AIT Pol Chief on December 14 that the WHO would not accept a contribution of 500,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine because Taiwan was not &pre-qualified8 to donate [...]
2009-12-14 09:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL WHO TW CH
09TAIPEI1499PRESIDENT MA UNSHEATHS THE "POCKETKNIFE" IN BID TO
[...] (C) Summary: King Pu-tsung, a longtime trusted ally of President Ma Ying-jeou, returned to Taiwan from the Brookings Institution on December 16 to assume the post of Secretary General of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party. The hurried recall of King indicated Ma's deep concern after the KMT's p [...]
2009-12-17 06:26:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TW
09TAIPEI197FM OU ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, TRA ANNIVERSARY
[...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Ou assured the Director on February 18 that the Foreign Ministry will keep AIT fully abreast of its planning for events related to the 30th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) and said no events are being planned on or around April 3, the anniversary of [...]
2009-02-20 09:14:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AMGT ABLD CVIS CH TW
09TAIPEI209NSC DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL ON ARMS SALES,
[...] (C) Summary. Taiwan's arms sale requests, including those approved but not yet notified and those pending U.S. approval are an essential part of the Ma Administration,s defense and cross-Strait strategies, NSC Deputy Secretary General Ho Sze-yin told the Acting Director February 24. NSC Secre [...]
2009-02-24 10:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCH ETRD MARR PGOV PREL EAID WHO TW
09TAIPEI212 Taiwan IPR: 2009 301 Watch List Submission
[...] (SBU) The Taiwan authorities continued to strengthen intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement over the past 12 months. The long-awaited specialized IP Court started accepting cases in July 2008, and by year's end had a caseload of 694 cases. The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) [...]
2009-02-25 09:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR TW
09TAIPEI2222008-2009 TIP REPORT - TAIWAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 06:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KTIP KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
09TAIPEI236HOW TAIWAN GETS ITS NEWS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Surveys show that fewer than half of the people in Taiwan read newspapers. All but 5% of the population watch several hours of TV daily. 90 percent of Taiwan's 15 million internet users are under age 35. Almost all educated young people turn to the Internet as their primary sou [...]
2009-03-04 09:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO TW OIIP
09TAIPEI238NSC OFFICIAL LEE HAI-TUNG ON DEFENSE REVIEWS, ARMS
[...] (C) Summary. Taiwan's arms requests, including those approved, but not yet notified and those pending U.S. approval, are an essential part of the Ma Administration's defense and cross-Strait strategies, NSC Deputy Secretary General Lee Hai-Tung told the Acting Director on March 2. Lee identi [...]
2009-03-04 10:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR CH TW
09TAIPEI254PRESIDENT MA ON CROSS-STRAIT TIES AND U.S.
[...] (C). Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou discussed bilateral relations, cross-Strait ties and Taiwan's domestic situation during a cordial one-hour meeting March 6. The President expressed confidence with the pace and direction of relations with China, noting that U.S. support for the process, in th [...]
2009-03-06 09:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCH EAGR ECON ETRD MARR PREL TW WHO
09TAIPEI26 2008 IPR Wrap-up: Progress Continues, Trouble Spots
[...] (SBU) The Taiwan authorities continued combating intellectual property rights (IPR) violations over the past 12 months. The long-awaited specialized IP Court started accepting cases in July 2008, and by year's end had a caseload of over 700 cases. The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) [...]
2009-01-08 08:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR ETRD PGOV TW
09TAIPEI260OPPOSITION LEADER ON CROSS-STRAIT TIES AND TAIWAN
[...] (C) Taiwan will pay and unacceptably high political and economic cost for President Ma's proposed trade liberalization agreement with China, opposition DPP party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen predicted during a meeting with the Director March 9. Tsai also criticized Ma for his lack of transparency [...]
2009-03-09 09:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR ETRD PGOV ECON TW CH
09TAIPEI308AIT CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT'S MARCH 16 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) In a March 16 meeting with Legislative Yuan (LY) President Wang Jin-pyng, AIT Chairman Raymond Burghardt underscored U.S. security commitments to Taiwan and urged prompt legislative approval of Taiwan's WTO GPA accession. Wang expressed appreciation for continued U.S. support for Taiwan's [...]
2009-03-19 09:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON CH TW
09TAIPEI377THE DIRECTOR'S MARCH 31 MEETING WITH PREMIER LIU
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 31 meeting with the Director, Premier Liu Chao-shiuan said opening Taiwan's market to the full range of U.S. beef imports is only a matter of timing. He predicted the opening could take place as early as May or early June. The Premier saw no obstacles to Legislative Yu [...]
2009-04-01 07:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV ETRD EAGR PREL CVIS KIPR TW
09TAIPEI382FRANK HSIEH TO URGE FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN
[...] (C) Summary: Former Premier and presidential candidate Frank Hsieh told the Director on April 1 that he would use his radio program later in the day to strongly urge former Chen Shui-bian to stop interfering in DPP politics. The party desperately needs to distance itself from the former pres [...]
2009-04-01 10:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
09TAIPEI388SOUTHERN TAIWAN: DPP NOMINEE IN DEEP-GREEN TAINAN COUNTY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Not normally accustomed to the political spotlight, deep-Green Tainan County, former President Chen's home district, grabbed headlines on April 1 when the DPP announced its nominee for this December's county magistrate race. Despite some local DPP polls showing a clear edge fo [...]
2009-04-03 01:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON TW
09TAIPEI39TAIWAN NSC ON PIRATES, BEEF, HU JINTAO SPEECH AND
[...] (C) Summary. This is an action request; please see paragraph 11. During a January 12 meeting with Director Young, NSC Secretary General Su Chi told us Taiwan is not seriously considering sending naval vessels to the Gulf of Aden to protect its merchant ships. This was more a PR effort follo [...]
2009-01-12 11:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV ECON ETRD EAGR TW CH
09TAIPEI433CROSS-STRAIT POLICY UNDER PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU
[...] (C) Ma Ying-jeou is the central player in a vigorous, if at times poorly coordinated, effort to reshape Taiwan,s ties with China. While his approach to cross-Strait issues represents a dramatic shift from that of his predecessor, it is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Ma will focus on [...]
2009-04-09 07:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD PINR ECON WHO TW CH US
09TAIPEI467GOVERNMENT TIGHT-LIPPED AS RUMORS OF WHA OBSERVER
[...] (C) Despite widespread media speculation, Taiwan officials have been tight-lipped, both publicly and in private, about possible talks with China on Taipei's bid for WHA observer status. Although there are a number of sensitive political issues to be resolved, public statements by President M [...]
2009-04-15 10:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV WHO TW CH
09TAIPEI480MAINLAND AFFAIRS COUNCIL CHAIRWOMAN LAI SHIN-YUAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 22 meeting with the Director, Mainland Affairs Council Chairwoman Lai Shin-yuan said the April 25-26 third round of cross-Strait talks in Nanjing will result in agreements on anti-crime and financial cooperation and scheduled passenger flights, as well as a joint statem [...]
2009-04-22 10:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN EAIR TW CH
09TAIPEI49TAIPEI MAYOR HAU LUNG-BIN ON POLITICAL AND
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Director on January 12, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin maintained that KMT party-government relations are smooth but admitted that President Ma and his core advisors have on occasion not communicated well with the KMT legislative caucus prior to controversial dec [...]
2009-01-13 10:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TW
09TAIPEI510TAIWAN ANNOUNCES BREAKTHROUGH AGREEMENT ON WHA
[...] (C) Based on an April 28 personal invitation from WHO Director General Margaret Chan, Taiwan Health Minister Yeh Ching-chuan will lead a delegation to observe the May World Health Assembly meeting, VFM Andrew Hsia told the Director during an April 29 meeting. The invitation is the result of T [...]
2009-04-29 10:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV WHO TW CH
09TAIPEI515APRIL 30 SWINE FLU UPDATE FOR TAIWAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As of midday local time April 30, no cases of the H1N1 virus have been detected in Taiwan. Taiwan health officials believe they are well-prepared to meet the latest challenges posed by the H1N1 virus. Airports have beefed up thermal screening of incoming passengers, and the a [...]
2009-04-30 10:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLU KFLO TBIO TW CH
09TAIPEI518STRAITS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION CHAIRMAN P.K. CHIANG
[...] (C) Summary: Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang told the Director on April 30 that President Ma Ying-jeou had hoped to put the proposed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) on the agenda for the next round of cross-Strait talks later this year. However, during t [...]
2009-04-30 10:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
09TAIPEI559PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU ON WHA, JAPAN
[...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou told the Director on May 7 that Taiwan plans to focus on participation in WHA and WHO activities for the present and not push to join other international organizations. Taiwan will proceed cautiously because Beijing is worried the WHA observership breakthro [...]
2009-05-08 11:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAGR CH TW
09TAIPEI571FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN TO REMAIN IN
[...] (C) Summary: Former President Chen Shui-bian's detention was extended for another two months (May 26 - July 25) by the Taipei District Court on May 11. The decision came after a distraught Chen appeared in court on May 7 to appeal emotionally for his release from detention. Complaining to t [...]
2009-05-12 10:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
09TAIPEI578TAIPEI MAYOR HAU ON NEW OFFICE COMPOUND, DPP
[...] (C) Summary. Taipei Mayor Hau Long-bin (KMT) accepted the Director's invitation to attend AIT's New Office Compound (NOC) site dedication ceremony on June 22. Hau also indicated that his staff had approached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) about acquiring the plot of land adjacent to t [...]
2009-05-13 09:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALAMGT ABLD PREL PGOV EAIR TW CH
09TAIPEI580Taiwan Telecom: Broadband Deployment Initiatives
[...] (SBU) As you would expect of one of the world's leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) hardware manufacturers, Taiwan's broadband infrastructure is well-developed and growing. Since the year 2000, the Taiwan authorities have appropriated almost USD five billion to fund a seri [...]
2009-05-14 08:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON ECPS TW
09TAIPEI589DPP AND PRO-GREEN GROUPS PLAN MAY 17 RALLY AGAINST
[...] (SBU) Summary: The DPP and pro-Green organizations are gearing up for demonstrations in Taipei and Kaohsiung on Sunday, May 17, timed to coincide approximately with President Ma Ying-jeou,s first anniversary in office (May 20). After the demonstration in Taipei in front of the Presidential Of [...]
2009-05-15 11:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
09TAIPEI590MAC CHAIR ON CROSS-STRAIT TALKS AND OPPOSITION
[...] (SBU) Summary. Cross-Strait talks continue to be successful, Mainland Affairs Council Chair Lai Shin-yuan stressed to the Director on May 14, and she dismissed opposition criticisms as baseless. Plans to open financial services markets on both sides of the Strait, along with investment oppor [...]
2009-05-15 23:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH
09TAIPEI609TFFLU01: TAIWAN CONFIRMS FIRST H1N1 CASE
[...] (SBU) On May 20, Taiwan health authorities confirmed the first occurrence of H1N1 in Taiwan. The infected passenger arrived on May 18 at 9:30 pm on Cathay Pacific flight CX 468 from Hong Kong, having started his trip in New York. The 52-year-old Australian national had a fever when he arrived [...]
2009-05-20 08:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR CASC KFLO TBIO PREL HHS TW
09TAIPEI610TAIWAN RATIFIES TWO UN HUMAN RIGHTS COVENANTS
[...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou on May 14 signed the instruments of ratification for the U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Local human rights advocates hailed the passage as a [...]
2009-05-20 08:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KJUS KCRM TW CH
09TAIPEI651TAIWAN INTEREST IN EXTRADITION PACT REFLECTS
[...] (C) Summary: During his May 27 Los Angeles transit, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou reiterated that signing an extradition agreement is a top priority for Taiwan's relations with the United States. Already, popular dissatisfaction with U.S. inability to return Taiwan fugitives is putting at risk [...]
2009-06-03 09:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM KJUS PGOV CVIS KFRD TW CH
09TAIPEI660TAIWAN CONFIRMS 17 CASES OF H1N1 FLU
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Since our last report Taiwan health officials have confirmed 17 cases of the H1N1 virus, including a case of locally contracted H1N1 virus. Authorities have downgraded Taiwan from a pandemic alert level of "Yellow 3" to "Yellow 2" since no new cases of local transmission have [...]
2009-06-05 09:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLU KFLO TBIO TW CH
09TAIPEI67H5N2 OUTBREAK TESTS TAIWAN'S PREPAREDNESS TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A low-pathogenic H5N2 virus outbreak, discovered on a Kaohsiung chicken farm in October 2008, but not reported for two months, underscores the need for transparency at the Council of Agriculture (COA) regarding virus outbreaks among poultry and animals. The authorities' slow re [...]
2009-01-16 09:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA ETRD PGOV TW
09TAIPEI670STRAITS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION (SEF) CHAIRMAN P. K.
[...] (C) Summary. Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P. K. Chiang confirmed he will be in China between June 16-21, with plans to meet Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin to initiate preliminary talks on the timing and agenda for the next round [...]
2009-06-08 10:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON PREL TW EINV ETRD PGOV
09TAIPEI718TAIWAN TIP REPORT DELIVERED
[...] (C) On June 16, AIT Pol Chief delivered the Taiwan TIP Report narrative to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General of North American Affairs Harry Tseng. Tseng expressed particular interest in whether there were any significant changes compared to last year's report and whether Taiwan's [...]
2009-06-17 06:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALKWMN KCRM ELAB PHUM PGOV KPAO SMIG TW
09TAIPEI737Penghu in Lead to Open Taiwan's First Casino
[...] (SBU) Summary: Penghu County recently submitted an application to the Executive Yuan (EY) to establish a casino on the island, and will hold a legally-required referendum on the issue in August. The Ministry of Transportation and Communication (MOTC) will soon establish an interagency casino c [...]
2009-06-22 02:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV TW
09TAIPEI756TAIWAN CONFIRMS 61 CASES BUT DOWNGRADES
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On June 19, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (TCDC) confirmed Taiwan's 61st case of H1N1 and also downgraded the virus from a Category I Notifiable Infectious Disease to Category IV, meaning that medical doctors and hospitals are only required to report "severe" H1N1 cases [...]
2009-06-24 02:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLU KFLO TBIO TW CH
09TAIPEI778THE DIRECTOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRESIDENT MA
[...] (C) Summary. The United States does not agree with the PRC view that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan are out of step with improving cross-Strait ties, the Director told Ma Ying-jeou during his June 25 farewell call on the President. Taiwan arms purchases are intended solely to replace older systems [...]
2009-06-26 10:01:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD MARR TW CH
09TAIPEI876Taiwan IPR: Taiwan to Target Indirect Patent Infringement
[...] (SBU) The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) recently announced preliminary plans to amend the Patent Law to protect against indirect patent infringement. The changes would allow patent-holders to bring suit against upstream and middle-stream component suppliers who abet downstream prod [...]
2009-07-22 07:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR TW
09TAIPEI896DPP EXPELS MEMBERS FOR ATTENDING KMT-CCP FORUM
[...] (C) Summary. The DPP expelled former legislator Hsu Jung-shu and former Council of Agriculture head Fan Chen-tzung from the party on July 27 for ignoring a party ban and attending the KMT-CCP Fifth Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Cultural Forum in China. The DPP's stern stance demonstrates [...]
2009-07-27 08:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
09TAIPEI904MA YING-JEOU, HU JINTAO EXCHANGE LETTERS THROUGH
[...] (C) Summary. President Ma Ying-jeou, elected Kuomintang (KMT) Party Chairman on July 26, received a congratulatory letter the same day from Hu Jintao, in his capacity as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Ma sent a reply the following day thanking Hu for his message and c [...]
2009-07-28 09:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TW CH
09TAIPEI913DPP CHAIR TSAI HOLDING STEADY BUT HURDLES REMAIN
[...] (C) Summary. DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen appears to have a firm handle on party politics this summer, partly due to initiatives on a referendum on President Ma's proposed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement with China and on judicial fairness. Tackling these projects that appeal to broad se [...]
2009-07-30 09:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
09TAIPEI914DPP CHAIR TSAI HOLDING STEADY BUT HURDLES REMAIN
[...] (C) Summary. DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen appears to have a firm handle on party politics this summer, partly due to initiatives on a referendum on President Ma's proposed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement with China and on judicial fairness. Tackling these projects that appeal to broad se [...]
2009-07-30 09:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
09TAIPEI915MAINLAND AFFAIRS COUNCIL CHAIR LAI ON U.S.-TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary. Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairwoman Lai Shin-yuan told ADIR in a July 28 meeting that the overall message she received from U.S. officials and academics on her recent visit was support for Ma's cross-Strait policy and a strengthened U.S.-Taiwan relationship. Lai said, despi [...]
2009-07-30 10:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TW CH
09TAIPEI937TAIWAN EXPRESSES INTEREST IN GLOBAL FORUM TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Taiwan's high-tech electronics industries annually produce millions of CO2-equivalent tons of greenhouse gases (GHG). Despite successful voluntary GHG emission reduction programs, more action will be required under the likely implementation of a GHG emissions cap now under revie [...]
2009-08-05 06:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALTW XE ENRG OIIP TRGY TSPL SENV
09TAIPEI939THE KMT-CCP CROSS-STRAIT FORUM UNDER CHAIRMAN MA
[...] (C) Summary. President Ma Ying-jeou, who was uncontested in the July 26 election for Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT),is likely to continue the KMT-CCP Cross-Strait Forum. The event, which held its fifth meeting July 11-12 in Changsha, Hunan, on educational, cultural, and social issues, has [...]
2009-08-06 02:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TW CH
09TAIPEI964RECOMMENDATION FOR FOREIGN POLICY REFUSAL OF VISA
[...] (C) Summary. AIT recommends that the visa application for Chen You-hao (among the ten "Most Wanted" criminal fugitives in Taiwan) be denied on the basis of foreign policy considerations. Visa issuance would seriously undermine U.S. law enforcement cooperation with Taiwan and, further, could a [...]
2009-08-11 09:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCVIS KFRD KJUS PREL TW CH
09TAIPEI966DEATH TOLL FROM TYPHOON MORAKOT RISES, RESCUE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The death toll and damages caused by Typhoon Morakot continue to rise as rescue workers fan out across central and southern Taiwan to ascertain the typhoon's full impact. Penetration into remote areas by rescuers, including members of the Ministry of National Defense's "speci [...]
2009-08-11 09:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW
09TAIPEI974TYPHOON RECOVERY UNDER WAY AS USG DONATES
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST - PLEASE SEE PARA 5. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The official death toll from Typhoon Morakot continues to rise, hitting 67 in the latest count, and estimated economic losses have mounted to at least USD276 million in the agricultural sector alone. Infrastructure rep [...]
2009-08-12 09:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW
09TAIPEI992MORAKOT DEATH TOLL REACHES 117 AS TAIWAN WELCOMES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The death toll from Typhoon Morakot has reached 117 individuals. The agricultural sector has lost an estimated USD300 million, and road repair costs are already topping USD420 million. Local areas see continued improvements in infrastructure and sanitation conditions as rescu [...]
2009-08-14 09:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW
09TAIPEI996MORAKOT SITREP 5: DEATH TOLL CLIMBS AGAIN AS U.S.
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The estimated losses from Morakot continue to mount, suggesting this could be the most deadly weather-related disaster to hit Taiwan in fifty years. Relief and rebuilding efforts are gaining momentum. The arrival here of supplies provided by DoD received wide media coverage. [...]
2009-08-17 09:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON AEMR CASC PGOV SENV XE TW
09TALLINN10TRAVEL & TOURISM: ESTONIA'S HIDDEN ECONOMIC
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The travel and tourism industry in Estonia accounts for an estimated one-fifth of GDP, and is increasingly important as the economy moves away from its old manufacturing base. In-bound and out-bound tourism from Finland, Sweden, Russia and elsewhere is thriving, and the cruise s [...]
2009-01-08 14:52:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EFIN ECON EINV EN
09TALLINN106ESTONIA TO CODEL BERKLEY: U.S. VALUES MAKE WORLD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The April 14-15 visit to Tallinn by the Congressional delegation led by Representative Shelley Berkley (D-NV) provided an occasion for a clear affirmation of the strong U.S.-Estonia relationship. Media coverage was widespread and positive. All Estonian interlocutors urged caut [...]
2009-04-17 11:05:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ENRG OREP AMGT ASEC RU EN
09TALLINN124TFFLU01: ESTONIAN PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PLANNING
[...] There are no suspected or confirmed cases of H1N1 Influenza A in Estonia at this time. The Estonian Government has dusted off a pandemic influenza action plan prepared in 2006, when concerns about avian influenza were at their highest. Post has spoken with GOE officials and private practiti [...]
2009-05-06 14:15:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09TALLINN169H1N1 STRIKES AMERICAN STUDENT GROUP IN ESTONIA
[...] Summary. H1N1 has emerged among a U.S. school group comprised of 33 high school students and 3 teachers (all American citizens except for one) traveling through Estonia on a bus trip through Eastern Europe. The group's plans to continue from Estonian to Latvia were delayed when five tested [...]
2009-06-26 13:46:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09TALLINN17 TALLINN'S BFIF FY09 PROPOSAL
[...] Summary: Embassy Tallinn proposes one FY09 project for the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund connected to the upcoming launch of the Commerce-State Post Partnership Program MOU for Fee Collection. Post requests funding to send our Economic/Commercial/EU LES for training in Foreign Commerci [...]
2009-01-14 14:12:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD BEXP AMGT ABUD BTIO EINV EN
09TALLINN182009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - ESTONIA
[...] (U) The following is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Estonia, keyed to questions in reftel. 2. (U) A.l. Openness to Foreign Investment Since joining the EU in 2004, the Estonian government has sought to maintain liberal policies in order to attract investments that could produce [...]
2009-01-14 14:40:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB EINV OPIC
09TALLINN187TALLINN'S BFIF FY09 REPORT
[...] (U) Summary: Embassy Tallinn received USD 3,090 from the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) to send our Economic/Commercial Assistant to the Pow Wow trade fair and training in Miami on May 15-May 21. Post used 3,036.34 USD for the project. End Summary. 2. (U) Post initiated in 200 [...]
2009-07-17 12:51:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD BEXP ABUD AFIN BTIO EINV EN
09TALLINN237AFHGAN ILLEGAL MIGRATION CORRIDOR THROUGH ESTONIA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-06 09:16:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS SMIG PHUM PREF KFRD KCRM EN
09TALLINN247A/S GORDON'S AUGUST 13 VISIT TO ESTONIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first official visit to Tallinn on August 13, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon and Estonian FM Urmas Paet discussed a wide range of issues and agreed there was much the U.S. and Estonia could do together to reinforce democracy in Eastern Eu [...]
2009-08-19 15:50:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NATO EN
09TALLINN293U.S.-Baltic Annual CFE Consultations: Support for CFE, U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: The three Baltic states used this year's annual CFE consultations in Tallinn to express regret that U.S.-Russia discussions on CFE were not progressing due to Russia's repetition of old ideas, but insisted the U.S. continue to lead on CFE in order to maintain a unified NATO appro [...]
2009-09-25 15:02:00Embassy TallinnSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL NATO KCFE EN
09TALLINN305Relations with Russia, From Estonia's Russian East
[...] (U) Summary: Pol/Econ Chief recently visited Narva, in north-eastern Estonia, a city that sits (literally) on the EU's bridge to Russia. Narva is overwhelmingly ethnically and linguistically Russian, yet Emboff found that the city's ties to Russia are few and growing weaker. Students prefer t [...]
2009-10-06 09:58:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EN
09TALLINN307Estonia: Goldstone Report Delivered
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-14 08:28:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PTER KPAL EN
09TALLINN309NATO SYG VISIT TO ESTONIA
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On October 13, poloff met with Kristel Engman, NATO desk officer in the MFA's Security Policy Division to receive a readout of NATO Secretary General Rasmussen's October 8th visit to Tallinn. The SYG met with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, Foreign [...]
2009-10-14 13:22:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS MARR NATO EN
09TALLINN311Estonia:Local Elections Outlook
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 18, Estonians and non-citizen legal residents will cast ballots in local elections for 226 town councils. While the debates outside Tallinn remain focused on local and domestic issues ("it's the economy, stupid") , the race in Tallinn is being trumpeted (by the oppo [...]
2009-10-15 14:22:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPGOV EN
09TALLINN315Estonia: Response to October GAERC Points
[...] Pol Chief delivered reftel points to Kristina Meius, Director of the MFA's European Division, on October 22. Meius provided the following responses: 2. Afghanistan/Pakistan: Estonia believes the EU must play a more visible role in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and make this region a priori [...]
2009-10-23 13:11:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EUN EN
09TALLINN317Estonian FM Visit to Belarus; Lukashenko Goes On (and On and
[...] (C) Summary: Pol Chief met with MFA Desk Officer for Belarus, Moldova, and Central Asia Risto Roos on October 28 for a read-out of Foreign Minister Urmas Paet's October 20 - 21 visit to Minsk. Lukashenko, assuring Paet that Estonia was not his enemy, spent the bulk of their 90-minute meeting lashin [...]
2009-10-30 13:47:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BO EN
09TALLINN335Estonia: Opposition Dominates Local Elections
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The October 18th local elections for 226 town councils throughout Estonia resulted in few surprises, other than a robust turnout of 60.57 percent, considerably higher than the 47.4 percent participating in the last local elections in 2005. The Center Party won a clear majority i [...]
2009-11-16 11:15:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EN
09TALLINN34ESTONIA'S POST-IRAQ AGENDA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 22, the Government of Estonia (GOE) concluded formally Estonia's participation in coalition operations in Iraq, after lengthy negotiations between GOE and Government of Iraq (GOI) on the status of Estonian forces failed to produce results. In the days following this d [...]
2009-02-02 12:06:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO IZ EN
09TALLINN345Deputy PM Ivanov's Non-Visit to Tallinn
[...] (SBU) Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov visited Tallinn November 19 to watch a basketball game between CSKA Moscow (which the press states Ivanov has long supported) and Estonian team BC Kalev Cramo. MFA contacts said the Estonian MFA learned of the visit just hours in advance. The [...]
2009-11-24 12:37:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPREL RS EN
09TALLINN3522009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Tallinn's submission for the 2009 - 2010 (EUR) International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control. ---------- I. SUMMARY ---------- 2. (U) The seizures of large amounts of narcotic substances, detection of drug traffi [...]
2009-10-30 15:49:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EN
09TALLINN360PSV AT AS ELCOTEQ TALLINN
[...] Econ/Commercial Officer Brian Frere carried out post-shipment verification at AS Elcoteq Tallinn, on 10 November 2009. 2. Post met for approximately one hour with Jan Kotka, General Manager of AS Elcoteq Tallinn. An examination of the firm's records confirmed that Elcoteq received reft [...]
2009-11-12 15:23:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDETTC EN
09TALLINN37ESTONIA - NINTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING REPORT
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Tallinn's Anti- Trafficking Report for Estonia. Responses are keyed to the checklist (Ref A). Post's points of contact on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) are Political Officer Alamanda Gribbin (Email: GribbinAL@state.gov; tel: +372-668-8291) and Political Assistant [...]
2009-02-10 07:43:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF
09TALLINN380FIRST H1N1 DEATH IN ESTONIA RAISES CONTROVERSY
[...] Summary. Estonia reported its first confirmed H1N1-related death on November 23. The death of the otherwise healthy 13-year old boy has focused press attention on decisions made by local health practitioners, and raised questions as to whether the death was avoidable. The Estonian Social Mi [...]
2009-11-25 11:58:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDCASC AMED TBIO KFLU EN
09TALLINN383Estonia's Missing Russian Parties
[...] (U) Summary: Even though one-third of Estonia's population is Russian-speaking, Estonia has no strong Russian political parties. The few ethnic Russian parties that have formed have remained on the margins of politics. Instead, largely because it is the only Estonian political party reaching o [...]
2009-12-17 12:48:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SOCI EN
09TALLINN58ESTONIAN RESPONSE TO NPT SURVEY REQUEST
[...] (U) On March 4, 2009, the Government of Estonia (GOE) provided a detailed response to Ref A (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) survey). The text of the GOE response appears in paragraph 3. Per reftel request, Post is unaware of other reporting of the GOE position on this issue. The GOE [...]
2009-03-09 07:24:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDAORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL
09TALLINN60FRAUD SUMMARY - TALLINN: SEPT 2008 TO FEB 2009
[...] COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Economic growth in Estonia, previously running at over 10 percent per year, has ground to a halt in the wake of the global economic crisis and is expected to contract sharply in 2009, falling to perhaps as much as negative 9 percent. The Estonian government (GoE) has alread [...]
2009-03-11 11:28:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT KFRD ASEC CVIS CPAS EN
09TALLINN78ESTONIA ON ECON CRISIS: TRUST THE FREE MARKET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 24 meeting with Econoff, Ministry of Finance (MOF),Central Bank and MFA officials concurred with most reftel points on the financial crisis, but noted that they do not feel the EU needs to increase the size of its stimulus package. GOE officials question whether the IM [...]
2009-03-26 12:05:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALECIN ECON EFIN EUN PREL EN
09TALLINN83 FISCAL TRANSPARENCY IN ESTONIA
[...] (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions contained in Reftel A, paragraph three: -- In 2008, Estonia received $4.15 million in combined IMET and FMF funding from the USG, and will receive funding under both programs again in 2009. -- In 2008 Transparency International (TI) ranked Esto [...]
2009-03-30 13:48:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL EN
09TALLINN86ESTONIA on AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN
[...] (C) On March 31, POl/Econ Chief and DATT met with Christian-Marc Liflander, MOD Director for Policy Planning and MOD and Paul Teesalu, MFA Director for Security Policy to discuss the Government of Estonia response to the Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategic Review (Ref A) as well as possible deliver [...]
2009-04-01 07:21:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS EAIF NATO PK AF EN
09TASHKENT100UZBEKISTAN: NEW STUDY ON LABOR MIGRATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: In December, the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) office in Tashkent published a new study on labor migration from Uzbekistan based on surveys conducted in 2006 and 2007. While the study does not reflect the impact of the current financial crisis upon labor migratio [...]
2009-01-23 11:48:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON KIRF KTIP PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS KZ UZ
09TASHKENT1011UZBEKISTAN: OFF-SHORE DEA COUNTRY ATTACHE FINALLY GRANTED
[...] (U) Summary: On June 15, the Embassy was informed orally by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the accreditation request for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Country Attache has been approved. This is a major step forward and should usher in a new era of enhanced counternarcotics c [...]
2009-06-18 10:57:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SNAR KCRM EAID UZ
09TASHKENT1013UZBEKISTAN: NEW IOM REGIONAL HEAD OPTIMISTIC ABOUT FORMAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16, poloffs met with regional officials from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and a prominent Uzbek anti-trafficking NGO to discuss the organization's status. A new IOM regional coordinator will cover all of Central Asia for IOM, and he is confident th [...]
2009-06-18 11:10:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB KTIP EAID UZ
09TASHKENT1023UZBEKISTAN: SWISS CONCLUDE DRUG HARM REDUCTION PROJECT AT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Swiss Embassy in Tashkent marked the end of what it saw as a successful six-year drug harm reduction project, which included provision of clean needles and condoms to thousands of drug users in Uzbekistan with the goal of stopping the spread of disease, particularly HIV and [...]
2009-06-19 10:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KHIV SNAR SZ DEA UZ
09TASHKENT1025UZBEKISTAN: SANJAR UMAROV'S HEALTH CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE
[...] (C) Summary: On June 17, emboffs met with members of the Sunshine Coalition, who reported that their imprisoned leader, Sanjar Umarov, was suffering severe mental illness in prison. On June 18, the Ambassador met with Umarov's son Arslan, who just finished a four-day visit in the prison with [...]
2009-06-19 10:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1027UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF MAY SEEK TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM
[...] (C) On June 17, Matthew Taylor, the Public Relations Officer at UNICEF's Uzbekistan office, told poloff that the organization will be "changing tack" to take a harder line in its dealings with the Government of Uzbekistan. Taylor said that a coalition of NGOs, led by Human Rights Watch, [...]
2009-06-19 10:33:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM UNICEF ELAB PGOV PREL KTIP UZ
09TASHKENT105UZBEKISTAN: JAPANESE OFFICIALS COMMENT ON BILATERAL
[...] (S) Summary: Japanese engagement in Uzbekistan appears to be on the rise, judging from recent comments from Japanese diplomats and consultants in Tashkent as well as press reporting. In addition to high-level Uzbek and Japanese visits in Tokyo and Tashkent in 2008, a "Central Asia Plus Japan" [...]
2009-01-27 04:44:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPREL ECIN PGOV PBTS EAID UZ
09TASHKENT1053Visit of CODEL Faleomavaega to Uzbekistan
[...] (SBU) Embassy Tashkent warmly welcomes CODEL Faleomavaega's visit to Uzbekistan. Post's point of contact for assistance with the trip is Political Officer Steven Prohaska, whose contact information is as follows: office telephone: 998-71-120-5450, ext. 2113, cell phone: 998-71-370-1466, unclas [...]
2009-06-22 11:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN UZ
09TASHKENT1063Uzbekistan: Scenesetter for CODEL Faleomavaega's June Visit
[...] (SBU) Embassy Tashkent warmly welcomes your trip, which marks the first visit by a Congressional delegation to Uzbekistan in four years. Uzbekistan is the most populous country in Central Asia, its 28 million (overwhelmingly Muslim) people nearly as many as the other four former Soviet republi [...]
2009-06-24 11:13:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV ASEC BEXP ENRG ETRD KNNP MARR MOPS
09TASHKENT108Medvedev's Visit to Uzbekistan
[...] (C) Summary: Official Tashkent is still parsing the January 22-23 visit of Russian President Medvedev. Discussions here with contacts, including the Russian Embassy, have brought several key themes to the fore: -- Regional Water Issues: In a major victory for the Uzbeks in the perennial tug [...]
2009-01-27 14:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ENRG RS UZ
09TASHKENT1095Uzbekistan: Human Rights Round Table
[...] (C) Summary: Local human rights activists and members of the diplomatic corps attended a round table discussion at the Embassy on June 23, 2009. Among the attendees was Elena Urlaeva, who reported she is doing fine after having been roughed last week by hooligans while doing activist wo [...]
2009-06-26 10:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT110UZBEKISTAN: INSPECTION OF BORDER CROSSING POINTS IN ANDIJON
[...] (C) On January 20, Poloff and Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Assistant traveled to the Ferghana Valley to inspect EXBS and International Naroctics and Law Enforcement (INL) Program-funded equipment provided to the Border Guards of the National Security Service. The equipment [...]
2009-01-28 12:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPBTS ASEC PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1181Uzbekistan: UNSCR 1874 Demarches Delivered
[...] (SBU) On July 8, Poloff delivered reftel demarches on implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1874 to Nurillo Abdullaev of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk. Post will report any substantive response. NORLAND [...]
2009-07-09 11:33:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MNUC ECON PREL PGOV MTCRE EFIN KN UZ
09TASHKENT1183EXBS: UZBEKISTAN EXBS ADVISOR QUARTERLY REPORTING CABLE,
[...] Site Assessments and Meetings during this Reporting Period. a. In advance of and during 5-17 April, EXBS Office/Pol- Econ Section provided support to the International Border Interdiction Training and International Rail Interdiction Training courses conducted by Department of Homeland Secur [...]
2009-07-09 12:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KG
09TASHKENT1201Uzbekistan: U.S.-Uzbekistan Working Group Discusses
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S.-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group (JWG) met on June 24 for an update on the implementation of 38 projects funded by U.S. Food for Progress programs. Despite the apparent benefits that these jointly-agreed projects on irrigation, improving agricultural productivity, and enh [...]
2009-07-13 12:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ECIN SOCI PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1255UZBEKISTAN: ADB SIGNS MOU ON AFGHAN RAILWAY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Hong Wang, the ADB's visiting Director for Transport and Communications, told us on July 16 that he expected to sign an MOU with the GOU to build a rail link from Hayraton to Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan. He said construction would begin this October, and an ambitious timetabl [...]
2009-07-20 10:11:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDMARR ETRD ECON PREL AF UZ
09TASHKENT1259Uzbekistan: GOU Officials Shut Down Embassy Outreach Event
[...] (C) On July 16, Government of Uzbekistan officials shut down an educational outreach event conducted by Post's Public Affairs Section (PAS) Education Advisor (a Foreign Service National) and Summer Intern at a Samarkand language center. The "English for You" language center (an officially regi [...]
2009-07-20 13:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALOEXC KPAO PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1269Uzbekistan: U/S Burns Meeting with Uzbekistan Civil Society
[...] (C) Summary: On July 12, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns and a delegation of U.S. officials met with five Uzbek civil society activists. The group explained that during the years since the 2005 Andijon events, civil society had been all but decimated. They we [...]
2009-07-22 09:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1271Uzbekistan: Under Secretary Burns' July 13 Meeting with
[...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging meeting that lasted over three hours, President Karimov affirmed to Under Secretary Burns his desire to turn the page on U.S.-Uzbek relations and work together to restore trust based on mutual interests and mutual respect. Citing Afghanistan as Uzbekistan [...]
2009-07-22 09:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PHUM RS AF UZ
09TASHKENT1279Uzbekistan Responds to Afghanistan Demarche
[...] (C) On July 22, Charge d'Affaires and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on assistance to Afghanistan to Uzbekistan's new MFA Americas Department Chief Bakhtiyor Ibragimov and Acting MFA USA Desk Chief Nurillo Abdullaev. Charge asked Uzbekistan to provide Post with a document outlining Uzbekista [...]
2009-07-22 12:59:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS MARR PGOV AF UZ
09TASHKENT128Uzbek Foreign Minister on Medvedev Visit
[...] (C) Summary: Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov met with the Ambassador for over ninety minutes on January 29 for a wide ranging discussion that included Russian President Medvedev's visit to Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, NDN, relations with Tajikistan and regional issues. Norov expressed satisfaction wi [...]
2009-02-02 13:23:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR ENRG ECON TI RS UZ
09TASHKENT1325Uzbekistan: Ataev and Norov Remarks Reflect Concerns About
[...] (C) Summary: The first set of astonishingly high-level meetings between the Government of Uzbekistan and two representatives from the Center for Strategic and International Studies kicked off on July 27 with meetings between them and National Security Council Secretary Ataev, NSC First Deputy S [...]
2009-07-28 12:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC AORC PGOV ECIN ELTN ENRG KISL MARR MOPS
09TASHKENT1329UZBEK S&T: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. OES/STC Officer Michael C. Schena (ESToff) visited Uzbekistan from June 1 through July 6 to discuss Uzbek Science and Technology (S&T) infrastructure and to continue negotiations on a U.S.-Uzbek S&T Cooperation Agreement (reftel). This cable focuses on biotechnology and agricult [...]
2009-07-28 12:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL TSPL ETTC KTIA KIPR KSTC UZ
09TASHKENT1357Uzbekistan: Rumors of Succession Planning, Government
[...] (S/NF) Summary: On July 28, a member of the Government of Uzbekistan relayed to us a number of discussions taking place within Uzbekistan's Presidential Apparat about succession planning and government reshuffling. Some members of the Apparat believe that Gulnora Karimova will become President [...]
2009-07-31 05:39:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR AORC RS UZ
09TASHKENT1421Uzbekistan: Mixed Messages on Child Labor in the Cotton
[...] (C) Summary: In conversations in the last few weeks with poloff, UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef and Child Protection Officer Siyma Barkin have expressed their frustration with the GOU and its efforts to address child labor. Neither Shareef nor Barkin expected an inde [...]
2009-08-05 10:15:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL ELAB KTIP UZ
09TASHKENT1423Uzbekistan: Tashkent Tidbits August 5, 2009
[...] (C) On July 29, Center for Strategic and International Studies representatives Andy Kuchins and Tom Sanderson met with us to give us a read-out of their meetings with various Government of Uzbekistan officials. Across the board, GOU officials appeared very enthusiastic about improving relation [...]
2009-08-05 11:30:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC MOPS ECON PBTS PINR KJUS UZ
09TASHKENT1435Uzbekistan: ICRC Prison Monitoring Program Extended
[...] (SBU) Rafaello Muller, Deputy Head of the International Committee for the Red Cross's (ICRC) Regional Delegation, informed poloff today that the GOU agreed on Wednesday, August 5, 2009, to extend last year's six-month pilot program allowing ICRC to enter and evaluate prisons. Prison visi [...]
2009-08-07 12:45:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1437UZBEKISTAN: Human Rights Update
[...] (C) Summary: Although Post was happy to report the continuation of a prison monitoring program by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),the human rights climate in Uzbekistan remains difficult, at best. The recent sentencing of journalist Dilmurod Sayyidov to twelve years [...]
2009-08-10 12:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL ELAB UZ
09TASHKENT1441Uzbekistan: Boosting Economic Ties with Brazil
[...] (S/NF) On July 28, an official in Uzbekistan's Oliy Majlis provided Embassy's FSN Political Assistant with a readout of President Karimov's May trip to Brazil. (Note: The Uzbekistan National News Agency Online reported on May 28 that both sides signed agreements on technical cooperation; on e [...]
2009-08-14 04:17:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNEAGR ECON ECIN PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1445Uzbekistan: GICNT Demarche Delivered
[...] (SBU) On August 13, Post delivered reftel demarche to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Post will report any response septel. NORLAND [...]
2009-08-14 06:24:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC UZ
09TASHKENT1453Uzbekistan: PSI Exercise Demarche Delivered
[...] (SBU) On August 18, Post delivered reftel demarche on PSI Exercise Leading Edge 2010 to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Post will report any substantive response septel. NORLAND [...]
2009-08-19 11:09:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC PARM PREL KNNP UZ
09TASHKENT1459Uzbekistan: UNICEF Visitor: Child Labor Assessment Not
[...] (C) Summary: UNICEF visiting Senior Child Protection Advisor Joanne Dunn met with DCM and poloff Monday, August 17 to discuss child labor and the upcoming cotton harvest. Dunn stated that it is "way too late" for an assessment to be planned and implemented during this year's cotton harv [...]
2009-08-20 08:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1469DETAILS OF TASHKENT SHOOT-OUT MURKY; GOU TYPICALLY MUM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Uzbek law enforcement officers engaged in a "shoot-out" with a group of armed men in a downtown neighborhood of Tashkent on Saturday, August 29, at approximately 18:00 local time. The identities and affiliations of the armed men have not been confirmed. Contacts in the Ministr [...]
2009-09-03 13:25:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KCRM UZ
09TASHKENT1473TASHKENT SHOOT-OUT ATTRIBUTED TO UZBEK EXTREMIST GROUP
[...] (SBU) Summary: An official press release from the Uzbek Attorney General's Office published September 4 reported that the shoot-out which took place on Saturday (reftel) was part of a special operation directed at a group of Islamic terrorists. The armed men were believed to be members of an [...]
2009-09-04 13:22:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KCRM UZ
09TASHKENT1479Uzbekistan: Amnesty Decree Announced, Human Rights Activist
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan announced an amnesty resolution last week, through which some prisoners and criminal defendants may apply to the court for clemency. The resolution includes several restrictions, which may serve to limit the number of political and religious p [...]
2009-09-09 16:16:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1481Uzbekistan: Update on Trial of Journalist Dilmurod Sayid
[...] (U) Summary: The Samarkand Regional Criminal Court commenced a hearing for journalist Dilmurod Sayid (aka Sayyidov) in Samarkand Province on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, to consider his harsh prison sentence and various procedural irregularities during his trial. Midway through the heari [...]
2009-09-11 08:30:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT1489Uzbekistan: Notes from the Northwest
[...] (SBU) Summary: Hayitbay Yakirboy, a human rights activist from Khorezm, met with poloff on August 12, 2009 to discuss issues facing northwestern Uzbekistan. Yakirboy addressed labor trafficking problems and discontent in the semiautonomous region of Karakalpakstan and the northwest province o [...]
2009-09-16 11:46:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1493Tashkent Tidbits September 17, 2009
[...] (C) A Brazilian coach for Uzbekistan's premiere team, Bunyodkor, recently told PE Chief of an incident following a match against Bunyodkor's poor rival Pakhtakor (the cotton pickers)in which Bunyodkor lost 1-0 when most of its Brazilian star power got red cards in the first 10 minutes of play. [...]
2009-09-17 11:20:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KCOR UZ
09TASHKENT1496UZBEKISTAN PREPARES FOR DECEMBER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
[...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan slated for December 2009 are likely to result in minimal changes to the overall structure of decision-making in the country; however, what may define the development of governmen [...]
2009-08-17 06:15:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID KDEM UZ
09TASHKENT1499Uzbekistan: Update on Trial of Journalist Dilmurod Sayid
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Regional Samarkand Court on September 11 upheld the 12.5 year sentence of independent journalist and human rights activist Dilmurod Sayid on charges of extortion and bribery. (See reftel.) Sayid's attorney will appeal this decision to the Chairman of the Regional Court, and [...]
2009-09-18 08:47:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1501Uzbekistan: Hidirova Describes Her Imprisonment
[...] (SBU) Post reported earlier this summer on the arrest and release of Jizzakh farmer and human rights activist Oyazimhon Hidirova (aka Khidirova),who spent roughly five weeks in jail after being arrested on charges of hooliganism. (See reftels.) Hidirova and her public defender Ziyodullo [...]
2009-09-18 08:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1505Uzbekistan: UNICEF Representative Discusses Child Labor
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 16, Ambassador Norland met with UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef to discuss child labor in the cotton fields. Shareef discussed a recent high-level meeting with the GOU, and discussed his ideas for short- and long-term solutions to the child [...]
2009-09-18 12:02:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1507Uzbekistan: Suspected Case of Anthrax Puts USG-Funded
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the month of August, media in Uzbekistan reported a suspected case of Anthrax in the Toytepi region near Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The man suspected with Anthrax was believed to have been exposed during the slaughtering of his cows. The Biological Threat Reduction Program labora [...]
2009-09-18 12:18:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV TBIO TSPL CDC UZ
09TASHKENT1511Uzbekistan: UNICEF Representative Discusses Child Labor
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 16, Ambassador Norland met with UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef to discuss child labor in the cotton fields. Shareef discussed a recent high-level meeting with the GOU, and discussed his ideas for short- and long-term solutions to the child [...]
2009-09-22 06:18:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1515Ambassador's Sept 23 Meeting with Uzbek FM Norov
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador, Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov expressed appreciation for the Eid message from the Secretary and said he looked forward to meetings on the margins of the UNGA next week. Commenting on the draft agenda for the Annual Bilateral Consultations (ABC),he [...]
2009-09-23 12:32:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SCUL ECON UZ
09TASHKENT1519Uzbekistan: Baptist Leader Faces Criminal Charges
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-24 12:15:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1523Bukharan Jews Cite Religious Tolerance in Uzbekistan
[...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief joined members of one of Tashkent's Bukharan Jewish Synagogues on September 25 for their celebration of the beginning of the upcoming Yom Kippur holiday and their (delayed because of Ramadan) celebration of Uzbek Independence Day. Unlike other minority religious communities [...]
2009-09-30 06:23:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI KIRF UZ
09TASHKENT1543Uzbekistan: A/S Blake Meets with Civil Society
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14, A/S Blake met with civil society representative Sukhrobjon Ismoilov in Tashkent. Ismoilov warned of a growing Islamist agenda amongst Uzbek exiles living in Europe - a particularly disturbing thought. He also addressed agricultural reform, advocating for [...]
2009-10-16 12:52:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1548UZBEKISTAN PREPARES FOR DECEMBER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
[...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan slated for December 2009 are likely to result in minimal changes to the overall structure of decision-making in the country; however, what may define the development of governme [...]
2009-08-25 12:19:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID KDEM UZ
09TASHKENT1549Uzbekistan: UNICEF Brainstorming Session on Child Labor:
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 8, UNICEF hosted a brainstorming session for members of the international community to discuss the issue of child labor in the cotton sector. Although the failure of Uzbekistan to invite the International Labor Organization (ILO) to do an assessment this year wa [...]
2009-10-22 12:27:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UN UZ
09TASHKENT1551Uzbekistan: Tashkent Tidbits - October 26, 2009
[...] (C) According to both EU Embassy diplomatic contacts in Tashkent and press reporting, the EU looks set to lift its arms embargo on Uzbekistan, the last of the Andijon-related sanctions that remains since Brussels lifted the visa and travel ban in 2008. Although there apparently is not unanimity [...]
2009-10-27 06:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON UZ
09TASHKENT1555A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: SHOULD THE OSCE MONITOR ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) officials face a difficult decision as they consider whether to send a team to monitor Uzbekistan's parliamentary elections, slated to take place on Decemb [...]
2009-10-27 14:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALAORC KDEM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1559UZBEKISTAN DELIEVERED NONPAPER ON US REPORTABLE FOOD
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Reportable Food Registry to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 28, 2009. Post will report any responses septel. NORLAND [...]
2009-10-29 12:59:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON UZ
09TASHKENT156UZBEKISTAN: PLIGHT OF AFGHAN REFUGEES WORSENING
[...] (C) The newly arrived head of the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) Refugee Support Unit in Tashkent, Ustina Kupreychik, reported that the situation for Afghan refugees in Uzbekistan has worsened since the fall (ref A). According to Kupreychik, 67 Afghan refugees have been forcibly [...]
2009-02-10 05:15:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UNDP UNHCR AF UZ
09TASHKENT1563Uzbekistan: 64th UN General Assembly, Third Committee, 2009
[...] (U) In response to reftel, Post delivered the demarche requesting Uzbekistan's support for postponing the Defamation of Religions resolution in this year's UNGA Third Committee. Post determined that delivering the information on the remaining human rights priorities would be counterprodu [...]
2009-10-29 12:59:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UZ
09TASHKENT1567UZBEKISTAN'S COTTON SECTOR STILL A BASTION OF THE COMMAND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) continues to control the "commanding heights" of the cotton sector, exercising strict control over all aspects of cotton production and sale, from setting planting and harvest quotas to negotiating all ginning and export contracts on behalf of f [...]
2009-11-03 12:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDECON SOCI PHUM UZ
09TASHKENT1573Uzbekistan: The Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 26, poloff met with Chairman of Uzbekistan's Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) to discuss concerns of various religious minority groups in the country. In preparation for the meeting and in the days that followed, poloff met with representatives from the Uz [...]
2009-11-09 12:11:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KIRF UZ
09TASHKENT1579Uzbekistan: The Cotton Harvest in Jizzakh
[...] (C) Summary: On November 6, 2009, poloff met with human rights activists and a representative of the leading anti-trafficking NGO in Jizzakh, a city of roughly 150,000 people in a largely agricultural region about three hours southwest of Tashkent. Human rights activists spoke about seve [...]
2009-11-13 12:03:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT158TASHKENT TIDBITS FEBRUARY 10, 2008
[...] (SBU) Post has updated its cost of living analysis for Uzbekistan through the end of 2008. At 21.6 percent, the cost of living grew more slowly in 2008 than in 2007, when it increased by 29.2 percent. The cost of foodstuffs increased by only 17.0 percent as contrasted with a 29.1 percent rise [...]
2009-02-11 04:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KIRF SOCI PHUM KISL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT1585Uzbekistan: Human Rights Activist Beaten
[...] (C) Summary: Human rights activist Bahtiyor Hamroev, a good contact of the Embassy from Jizzakh province, reported he was beaten by law enforcement on Wednesday, November 11, when he tried to meet recently returned opposition figure Bahodir Choriev in a Jizzakh cafC). A second activist, [...]
2009-11-13 13:49:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1589Uzbekistan: TIP Interim Assessment
[...] (U) In response to reftel, post submits the following information for the TIP Interim Assessment on Uzbekistan. A. Substantive Action to End the Use of Forced Labor During the Cotton Harvest --------------------------------------------- ---------------------- -------------- [...]
2009-11-17 13:45:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KCRM KTIP KWMN SMIG UZ
09TASHKENT1593Uzbekistan: Human Rights Activists and Religious Figures
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-24 07:18:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KCRM UZ
09TASHKENT1595UZBEKISTAN: SCA DAS KROL'S MEETINGS ON ECONOMIC AND ENERGY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On November 19 and 20, DAS for South and Central Asian Affairs George Krol had a series of meetings on economic, trade, and energy issues in Tashkent. Meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investment, and Trade and at the Uzbek Chamber of Commerce revolved prima [...]
2009-11-24 13:50:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON EINV EPET ENRG PREL BEXP UZ
09TASHKENT1597Uzbekistan: SCA DAS Krol Meets with Civil Society
[...] (SBU) Summary: During his visit to Tashkent on November 18-21, DAS for South and Central Asian Affairs George Krol reached out to civil society representatives, GOU officials, and journalists to discuss human rights and other broad issues facing Uzbekistan. (Please see reftels for a rea [...]
2009-11-25 07:41:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1599Uzbekistan and Human Rights: The Lessons of Sanjar Umarov's
[...] (C) Summary: The release from prison on November 7 of jailed businessman and opposition figure Sanjar Umarov was the most important step the GOU has taken on human rights this year. Umarov's release came about as the result of principled engagement and quiet, behind-the-scenes diplomacy. It wa [...]
2009-11-30 06:24:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1603Uzbekistan: TIP Update: Trends and Tactics
[...] (SBU) Summary: From early October to mid-November, poloff has had several meetings with government officials, NGO leaders, and representatives from the human rights community to discuss trends in trafficking, as well as anti-trafficking efforts. The GOU continues to prioritize tradition [...]
2009-12-01 11:53:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KTIP UZ
09TASHKENT1609Uzbekistan: Human Rights Update
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post continues to follow the cases of imprisoned journalist Dilmurod Sayyid (aka Saidov) and poet Yusuf Juma, two Uzbek citizens convicted of charges widely believed to be politically motivated. Family members of both Sayyid and Juma report the two men to be in bad health [...]
2009-12-04 07:28:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT162Uzbekistan Scenesetter for General Petraeus
[...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Uzbekistan is the first by a senior U.S. official since the new Administration took office and comes at a pivotal moment in regional politics. In Tashkent, as elsewhere in the region, there is concern about the course of events in Afghanistan and doubts as to whether [...]
2009-02-11 12:38:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1621Uzbekistan: Suspending GSP Counterproductive
[...] (C) Post understands that the inter-agency is preparing to discuss the issue of suspension of Uzbekistan's GSP benefits based on petitions related to child labor and intellectual property rights. A decision to suspend or revoke GSP for Uzbekistan would be counterproductive - it would do little [...]
2009-12-09 11:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ELAB PHUM ECON SOCI KIPR UZ
09TASHKENT1627Uzbekistan: GOU Takes Small Steps on Child Labor
[...] (SBU) Summary: Uzbekistan recently announced two initiatives to address child labor in the country: the first is a legislative change that reportedly will hold individuals responsible for using children to work under hazardous conditions; the second is the dedication of 2010 to youth de [...]
2009-12-15 12:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1633Uzbeks Looking for Assistance on Security for Afghan Rail
[...] (C) Former Ambassador Joe Presel, in Tashkent on private business, gave Charge a readout of a meeting with the Chairman of the Uzbek National Security Service, Rustam Innoyatov. Confirming reports from other sources (Ref A),Innoyatov said the GOU is very concerned about the security of i [...]
2009-12-17 11:53:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEAID PTER PREL AF UZ
09TASHKENT1637UZBEKISTAN: TASHKENT TIDBITS DECEMBER 18, 2009
[...] (SBU) Dilmurod Sayyid, who was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison last June, was transferred December 15 from Navoi Prison to Sangorod, the Tashkent-based prison hospital. Embassy contact Abdurahmon Tashanov, who attended Sayyid's trial, told the Embassy that he was turned away from v [...]
2009-12-18 12:30:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI EINV ETRD UZ
09TASHKENT1639UZBEKISTAN: GOU PROPOSAL ON TERMEZ
[...] (C) Summary. An apparent Uzbek offer of troop transit to Afghanistan via Termez warrants close attention. It is not inconsistent with the gradual improvement in relations across the board, including on human rights, outlined in last week's political consultations with Foreign Minister Norov [...]
2009-12-23 12:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR UZ
09TASHKENT1651PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN UZBEKISTAN: NOTHING WRONG BUT THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Elections for Uzbekistan's lower house of Parliament took place on Sunday, December 27. Five election observation teams from the Embassy visited 33 polling stations in Tashkent and the neighboring regions, and concluded that although the elections were not free and fair (no opp [...]
2009-12-30 11:55:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UZ
09TASHKENT177UZBEKISTAN: REPORTS OF CRACKDOWN ON "NUR" RELIGIOUS GROUP
[...] (C) Summary: Uzbek authorities appear to be significantly ratcheting up the pressure on suspected members of the banned Nur (or "Nurcilar") religious organization, which is associated with the conservative (but not extremist) religious teachings and Pan-Turkish ideology of Turkish scholar Feth [...]
2009-02-13 09:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL SOCI TU UZ
09TASHKENT1850Uzbekistan: Media Reaction to Assistant Secretary Blake's
[...] (U) Summary: Media coverage of A/S Blake's visit to Uzbekistan was primarily factual and positive. Numerous articles noted U.S. appreciation for Uzbekistan's support of international efforts in Afghanistan. The existence of other shared interests was also noted by both state and unofficial medi [...]
2009-10-23 03:50:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT1904UZBEKISTAN IN OR OUT OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN ENERGY GRID?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent weeks GOU officials have sent frightening signals to Uzbekistan's neighbors by saying that the country cannot guarantee reliable transit of power, wants payments for power overflows, and may even withdraw from the United Central Asia Power System (CAPS). Now nearly en [...]
2009-10-28 12:42:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG KPWR UZ
09TASHKENT1926Uzbekistan: GOU Demonstrates its Commitment to Education
[...] (U) SUMMARY. With over 60% of its population under the age of 25, Uzbekistan has made a significant commitment in the last few years to improve its education system and to transition from a Soviet-era model to one that is consistent with internationally accepted requirements. The Government of [...]
2009-10-30 06:52:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SOCI OEXC ECON UZ
09TASHKENT193UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVISTS SEEK TO BRIDGE GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador recently met with activists from the independent Rapid Reaction human rights group (RRG),who described their plans for the upcoming year, including applying for official registration and setting up a "think-tank" with like-minded activists and defense attorneys to [...]
2009-02-19 10:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID ECON KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT194UZBEKISTAN: AFGHAN REFUGEES DESCRIBE HARRASSMENT;
[...] (C) Summary: On February 12, poloff met with 25 Afghan refugees at the office of a Tashkent-based NGO which provides humanitarian assistance to refugees. The Afghans alleged widespread harassment by government officials, and some refugees experienced forced deportation back to Afghanistan. T [...]
2009-02-19 10:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREF KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UNDP UNHCR AF UZ
09TASHKENT1948THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN UZBEKISTAN: IS SECULARISM STRONGER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Gender issues in Uzbekistan continue to be a complicated matter. De jure, women in this secular, former Soviet society enjoy protections from discrimination, with relatively modern legislation and government policies pushing society towards greater gender equality. De fa [...]
2009-11-02 11:10:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KWMN KISL UZ
09TASHKENT1956UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON THE GOLDSTONE REPORT
[...] (U) DCM delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Director Bakhtiyar Ibragimov. Post will report any substantive response septel. NORLAND [...]
2009-11-03 11:50:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PTER UZ
09TASHKENT1958UZBEKISTAN: DRAFT 2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Uzbekistan is a geographically strategic crossroads between South Asia and Europe. It is primarily a transit country for opiates originating in Afghanistan, with an estimated 95 tons of Afghan opiates passing through Central Asia each year. Well-established trade routes fac [...]
2009-11-03 14:23:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT196Uzbekistan: Submission for Ninth Annual Trafficking in
[...] (SBU) Post's submission for the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report begins in paragraph 4. Per reftel, this information covers the period from March 2008 to February 2009. The information provided in the report has been gathered from numerous sources, including the Government of U [...]
2009-02-19 12:21:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KTIP PHUM KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KWMN ZK
09TASHKENT1960UZBEKISTAN: SMEs - ARE THEY ALL THEY'RE CRACKED UP TO BE?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Small businesses play an important role in the economy of Uzbekistan, a country with the largest labor resources in Central Asia, but the degree to which small to medium enterprises (SMEs) drive the Uzbek economy is not clear. GOU officials repeatedly trumpet the growing role o [...]
2009-11-04 06:51:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINT UZ
09TASHKENT1966UZBEKISTAN: STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING THE USE OF CHILD LABOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This USAID-drafted cable examines strategies for addressing the problem of child labor in the cotton sector in Uzbekistan. (Please see Ref A for an analysis of the cotton sector overall and a specific look at this year's harvest.) Uzbekistan's cotton economy remains state-driven [...]
2009-11-05 10:32:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PHUM SOCI SENV UZ
09TASHKENT197Uzbekistan Still Seems on Track with Money Laundering
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan is currently in the midst of a process to enact legislative changes that would bring its anti-money laundering and countering the finance of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime into compliance with international standards. The Uzbeks are likely on track to f [...]
2009-02-19 12:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EFIN ECON KCRM PINR UZ
09TASHKENT2UZBEKISTAN: STAFFDEL DISCUSSES COUNTERTERRORISM WITH MVD
[...] (C) Summary: On December 15, House Foreign Affairs Committee staffers and Emboffs discussed counterterrorism with several officials from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). The MVD officials held that Uzbekistan is stable and a system of information-sharing with other ministries an [...]
2009-01-05 11:04:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPTER SOCI PGOV PREL PINS UZ
09TASHKENT206SUSPECTED AMCIT MISSIONARIES TOLD TO LEAVE UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: Authorities have told three AmCits associated with the New Hope faith-based humanitarian assistance NGO, which provides medical assistance to disabled persons in Tashkent, that they must depart Uzbekistan by February 25. Emboffs met with the AmCits, who plan to depart Uzbekistan [...]
2009-02-23 13:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALCASC EAID KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT208UZBEK WORKSHOP FOR IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1540 -- A REGIONAL
[...] (U) Summary: On February 10-11 a workshop on implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 was jointly sponsored in Tashkent by the Export and Related Border Security (EXBS) program and the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This cable addresses broader region [...]
2009-02-24 08:27:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KNNP AORC OSCE UNSC UZ
09TASHKENT2110Uzbekistan: Media Reaction to DAS Krol's Visit to Tashkent
[...] (U) Summary: Local media reports on DAS Krol's visit to Uzbekistan were found only online. Of these, only two were by state media outlets. State media reported on the visit in the context of the adoption of the Annual Bilateral Consultations (ABCs). Such reports were neutral in tone. Independen [...]
2009-12-01 10:37:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT2168UZBEKISTAN: WEATHER, CLIMATE, AND HYDROLOGY WORKSHOP GIVES
[...] (SBU). SUMMARY: On November 10-12 the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) hosted a Regional Workshop on Improving Weather, Climate, and Hydrological Service Delivery and Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters. The workshop's purpose was to discuss weather, climate, and hydrological service delivery [...]
2009-12-04 13:01:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL SENV TSPL UZ
09TASHKENT217UZBEKISTAN: JOURNALIST REPORTEDLY ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF
[...] (U) In an announcement on its website, the Ezgulik human rights group reported that independent journalist and human rights defender Dilurod Sayyidov was arrested in Tashkent on February 22 and handed over to authorities from Samarkand province on February 23. After his arrest, Sayyidov repo [...]
2009-02-25 10:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT2194UZBEKISTAN 2009 INCSR REPORT - PART II: FINANCIAL CRIMES AND
[...] Uzbekistan is not an important regional financial center and does not have a well-developed financial system. Corruption, narcotics trafficking and smuggling generate the majority of illicit proceeds. Local and regional drug-trafficking and other organized crime organizations control narcotics [...]
2009-12-11 08:13:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR UZ
09TASHKENT22UZBEKISTAN: TIP PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN CONTINUES;
[...] (U) Summary: In the past few months, the government has continued a wide-ranging public awareness campaign on trafficking-in-persons (TIP) in the government-controlled mass media (ref A and B). Conducting a relatively non-extensive survey, poloff uncovered more than 70 separate TIP-related st [...]
2009-01-07 12:07:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ECON ELAB KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI KZ RS UZ
09TASHKENT220UZBEKISTAN: 2008 INL END USE MONITORING REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-26 05:32:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL ASEC AFIN EAID UZ
09TASHKENT222UZBEKISTAN: TRIAL OF ALLEGED RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST EXTRADITED
[...] (C) Summary: The trial of Haitjon Juraboev, a religious extremist suspect who was extradited by Kyrgyz authorities to Uzbekistan in September 2008, is nearing completion in Tashkent, according to an independent activist monitoring the trial. Juraboev has reportedly pled innocent to all the cha [...]
2009-02-26 13:01:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PREF PREL SOCI UNHCR KG
09TASHKENT223UZBEKISTAN: IV ALUMNUS AND DISABLED RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRESTED
[...] (C) Summary: On January 21 an independent news website reported that Chairman of the Uzbek Society of the Disabled (and International Visitor Leadership Program [IVLP] alumnus) Oybek Isoqov had been arrested on charges of bribery. When CAO met with him on February 13, Isoqov denied all wrong [...]
2009-02-26 13:13:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT2242UZBEKISTAN: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) In Uzbekistan, widespread poverty and pockets of discontent with the social and political situation create conditions that religious extremists could exploit. Despite potential threats, the government of Uzbekistan (GOU) maintained tight control over the security situation within Uzbek [...]
2009-12-22 12:19:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR UZ
09TASHKENT226Uzbekistan: State-run Shelter for TIP Victims Nears
[...] (C) Summary: Officials from the Ministries of Internal Affairs and Justice told poloff in separate meetings on February 11 that, pursuant to President Karimov's decree in November and the country's new anti-TIP law, the first state-run shelter for TIP victims is nearing completion and will off [...]
2009-02-27 11:14:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV KTIP PHUM PREL KWMN SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT227UZBEKISTAN: MEDIA REACTION TO GENERAL PETRAEUS'S VISIT
[...] (U) Summary: CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus's February 16-17 visit to Tashkent received broad media coverage in the local, state-run press, the international media and wire services, and on GOU-controlled and independent news websites. There was much speculation that his trip was link [...]
2009-02-27 12:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT229TASHKENT SECURITY ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE -
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 12:56:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNASEC UZ PTER
09TASHKENT2292Uzbekistan: Media Reports on Parliamentary Elections
[...] (U) Summary: In the run up to the elections, minor differences among parties were covered by both state and independent media to an extent never seen before. Coverage of the election results dominated media reports following the elections. State media highlighted high turnout among voters, whi [...]
2009-12-30 13:11:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT231Tashkent Tidbits - March 2, 2009
[...] (SBU) A successful ongoing INL-sponsored forensic laboratory improvement program implemented by DOJ-ICITAP suffered a mild setback when the Government of Uzbekistan delivered a diplomatic note on February 17 denying a proposal to send an Uzbek forensic scientist to the Harris County Medical Exa [...]
2009-03-02 06:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EFIN ICRC KCOR ECON KCRM UZ
09TASHKENT235UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL 301 REVIEW RECOMMENDATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Uzbekistan made little noticeable progress in development and enforcement of IPR legislation in 2008. It is difficult for a consumer to find music, video, and software products that can with confidence be identified as licensed; pirated versions are still the norm. We are enc [...]
2009-03-02 08:39:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR UZ
09TASHKENT242Uzbekistan: Yusuf Jumaev Allegedly Mistreated in Jaslyk
[...] (C) On February 27 poloff met with Feruza Yusufjon Kizi, the daughter of dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev, who is serving a five-year sentence at the Jaslyk prison in the remote northwest province of Karakalpakstan (ref B). Yusufjon Kizi was accompanied on the unscheduled visit to the Embassy by Ba [...]
2009-03-03 08:29:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT244UZBEKISTAN, OSCE, AND WATER: CONVERSATION WITH OSCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting with the Ambassador, OSCE Conflict Center Director Herbert Salber said he saw a slight opening in Uzbekistan's willingness to accept third party assistance to solve increasing water tensions in Central Asia. Uzbek officials do not exhibit the same confidence when dis [...]
2009-03-03 10:25:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON SENV PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT248How the Kagan Munitions Explosions Saved a Neighborhood and
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff met informally in Tashkent with two English language professors from Bukhara State University on several social occasions between February 27 - March 1. Both are talented and highly motivated teachers who have a good pulse on community life from their vantage point in Bukh [...]
2009-03-04 07:04:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON KCOR PINR UZ
09TASHKENT249Activist: Andijon Province Has Become a Mini-Turkmenistan
[...] (C) On March 3 well-known human rights activist and long-time Embassy contact Saidjahon Zaynabiddinov visited the Embassy and talked to poloff about current conditions in Andijon Province. He previously reported that, unusually, the province was being administered almost entirely by outsiders [...]
2009-03-04 12:46:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI ECON PREL UZ
09TASHKENT250HOKIM OF JIZZAKH PROVINCE QUIETLY REPLACED
[...] (SBU) On February 18, Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev went to Jizzakh and, according to a presidential decree, released Musa Anarbaev of his duties as Hokim of Jizzakh Province. Mirziyaev appointed Makhmud Parsamatovich Holbutayev to take his place. Before this assignment Holbutayev used to [...]
2009-03-04 12:57:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR UZ
09TASHKENT257Former Acting Governor of Samarkand Province Sentenced To 15
[...] (SBU) In April 2008 the state-controlled press reported that the Acting Hokim (Governor) of Samarkand Province, Azamkhon Bakhromov, was relieved of his duties and there were reports at that time that he was subsequently placed under house arrest (reftel). On March 3, sources told our Political [...]
2009-03-06 13:01:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR PTER PINR ZJ UZ
09TASHKENT271Uzbekistan: Institute for New Democracies Director Denied
[...] (C) Summary: On March 5 the recently arrived AmCit Country Director of the U.S. Government-funded NGO Institute for New Democracies (IND) was denied accreditation by the Uzbek Government. This is a surprising and disappointing event which, as usual, has not yet been explained (Ambassador is wr [...]
2009-03-12 11:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID PINR UZ
09TASHKENT277UZBEKISTAN: "NUR" RELIGIOUS GROUP CRACKDOWN CONTINUES
[...] (C) Summary: Authorities are continuing a widespread crackdown on suspected members of "Nur," a banned conservative (but not extremist) religious organization associated with Turkish scholar Fethullah Gullen (ref A). According to reports from independent and state-controlled media, at least 1 [...]
2009-03-13 12:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL SOCI TU UZ
09TASHKENT279UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON THREE CASES INVOLVING JOURNALISTS
[...] (U) Summary: This cable provides updates on the cases of three journalists who have recently been imprisoned or charged with various crimes: Salidjahon Abdurakhmanov, a journalist from Uzbekistan's Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic who was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on politically-mo [...]
2009-03-13 12:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KPAO OSCE PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT281MFA Drubbing Over Tadjibayeva Award
[...] (C) Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov convoked the Ambassador on March 13 to convey GOU displeasure over the March 11 International Women of Courage Award for Mutabar Tadjibayeva. Delivering in an icy tone a message that likely came on instruction from President Karimov, Norov said that giv [...]
2009-03-13 12:46:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UZ
09TASHKENT289UZBEKISTAN: UN CONVENTION ON DISABLED PERSONS ADOPTED;
[...] (U) On March 2, the state-controlled UzReport.com website reported that new Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan to the United Nations in New York Murad Askarov signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol on February 27. The article noted tha [...]
2009-03-16 08:22:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT291UZBEKISTAN: INL SPONSORS FORENSIC DELEGATION VISIT TO USA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),with the support of the Department of Justice Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP),arranged as a part of a successful ongoing project the participation of Uzbek forensic experts in th [...]
2009-03-16 08:33:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC PHUM PREL KCOR KCRM UZ
09TASHKENT3UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST REPORTS ON KILLING OF AKROMIYIST;
[...] (C) Summary: An Andijon-based human rights activist recently reported the killing by law enforcement officials of a young member of "Akromiya," a religious-business organization whose members were at the center of the 2005 Andijon events. The activist specifically requested that the United [...]
2009-01-05 11:16:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER SOCI KG
09TASHKENT323At Times Angry Karimov Says Afghan Transit Can Continue,
[...] (S) Summary. President Karimov told the Ambassador March 18 that his earlier understanding with General Petraeus regarding commercial transit of non-lethal cargo through Uzbekistan to Afghanistan remains in place, despite Karimov's evident embarrassment at the public recognition accorded hum [...]
2009-03-18 14:38:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPREL MARR PGOV PHUM PINR UZ
09TASHKENT327UZBEKISTAN: EDUCATION MINISTRY ON ANTI-CHILD LABOR EFFORTS;
[...] (U) Summary: During a meeting on February 23, Ministry of Public Education officials discussed their efforts to combat child labor during the cotton harvest season. They reported that Uzbekistan's transition from 9-year to 12-year mandatory free secondary education, a major reform, would be f [...]
2009-03-19 13:01:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON ELAB KCRM PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT331UZBEKISTAN'S SYSTEM OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION AT A
[...] (SBU) Summary: A contact recently provided a copy of a government document entitled "Index of the Ministry of Public Education for the 2007-2008 Academic Year," which provides a useful snapshot of the country's primary and secondary education system. The document shows that few students study [...]
2009-03-19 13:10:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ECON ELAB KPAO OEXC PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT343IOM Predicts Slim Pickings for Uzbek Migrants and Increase
[...] (SBU) Summary: International Organization for Migration (IOM) Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Country Director Mahmoud Naderi told poloff on February 10 that he expects the going to get tougher for Uzbek labor migrants and that he foresees an increase in TIP cases as desperate would-be workers seek [...]
2009-03-23 11:19:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL KTIP ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PINR KCOR RS KZ UZ
09TASHKENT361UZBEKISTAN: RECENT ALLEGATIONS OF PRISONER ABUSE AND DEATHS
[...] (C) Summary: In the past few months, independent human rights activists and websites have reported on several serious human rights issues at Uzbek prisons, including deaths in custody. Activists also provided updates on the condition of political prisoners Alisher Karamatov and Sanjar Umarov. [...]
2009-03-26 08:42:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ICRC KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT375Uzbekistan: Spring Road Woes Further Isolate Ferghana
[...] (U) Summary: Poloff made an overland trip to the Ferghana Valley on March 20-22 and encountered poor road conditions on the only link between Tashkent Province and the three populous provinces on the other side of a high mountain range. The poor conditions may be a temporary result of heavy w [...]
2009-03-26 12:37:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON SOCI MARR PINR UZ
09TASHKENT395UZBEKISTAN INDICATES AREAS WHERE HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS IS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a report of Uzbekistan's recent Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC),Uzbek officials agreed to several substantive recommendations from other member states on how to improve its human rights record. Uzbek officials also anno [...]
2009-03-30 04:23:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ELAB KIRF KPAO KTIP PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT415UZBEKISTAN: UNIVERSITIES NOT MEETING DEMAND FOR HIGHER
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent Embassy-sponsored Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) alumni reunion, one alumnus, a lecturer at a private university, revealed that the growth of the higher education system in Uzbekistan is not keeping pace with demand. Uzbekistan also lags behind its Centra [...]
2009-03-31 10:30:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOEXC ECON KPAO PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT437Uzbekistan: Counternarcotics Meetings for CENTCOM and DEA
[...] (C) Summary: Experts in counternarcotics, engineering, and contracting from the U.S. Army's Central Command (CENTCOM) as well as the visiting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Ankara-based Country Attache participated in meetings with a wide range of law enforcement and military representa [...]
2009-04-03 08:25:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC SNAR KCRM MASS EAID PINR TI AF UZ
09TASHKENT441Uzbekistan: World Bank Official Discusses Economic
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 24 meeting with us, a World Bank economist discussed Uzbekistan's economy and the effects of the global financial crisis on it. Despite the limited exposure of Uzbekistan's financial sector to global markets, the slow-down in construction abroad (particularly in Russia) [...]
2009-04-03 10:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECON ELAB EFIN ENRG EPET EINV PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT443Uzbekistan: Report on Fiscal Transparency
[...] (SBU) The following is Post's response to reftel. A. Is the central government expected to receive or is it already receiving U.S. foreign assistance funded using FY 09 funds? Yes. Multiple programs funded by U.S. agencies including USAID and State provide technical assistance, but not dir [...]
2009-04-03 11:00:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL UZ
09TASHKENT449UZBEKISTAN: SECURITY SERVICES SEEKING TO ENTRAP HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The National Security Service (NSS) appears to be attempting to entrap the Embassy's Human Rights Officer by arranging meetings for him outside the Embassy on sensitive topics that could then be taped. On at least three separate occasions over the past month, we have strong re [...]
2009-04-06 06:26:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNPHUM KDEM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT451UZBEKISTAN: THE WAY FORWARD ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary: While human rights abuses remain all too common in Uzbekistan, the government has taken some positive steps in certain areas over the past year. Uzbekistan is not posed to become a democracy anytime soon, but we continue to believe that the most effective strategy for curbing abus [...]
2009-04-06 12:40:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID ELAB ICRC KDEM KIRF KISL KTIP PGOV PREL
09TASHKENT453UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVISTS REPORTING UNRELIABLE CHILD LABOR DATA
[...] (C) Summary: On March 30, the independent Ezgulik human rights group released its report on child labor practices during the 2008 fall cotton harvest at a roundtable hosted by the British Embassy. While Ezgulik announced that nearly a million Uzbek children participated in the cotton harvest, [...]
2009-04-06 12:55:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON ELAB KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT463UZBEK ASYLUM-SEEKER EXTRADITED FROM KYRGYZSTAN RECEIVES
[...] (C) On March 30, independent human rights activist Ismoil Adilov provided poloff with court documents regarding the case of Haitjon Juraboev, a religious extremist suspect who was extradited by Kyrgyz authorities to Uzbekistan in September 2008 (reftel). According to the documents, on February [...]
2009-04-07 06:59:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UNHCR KG UZ
09TASHKENT467Uzbekistan Parliament Passes Law Reestablishing an
[...] (C) Summary: A Department of Justice (DOJ) expert traveled to Tashkent March 30 - April 2 to provide technical assistance to Uzbekistan regarding its draft anti-money laundering and countering the finance of terrorism (AML/CTF) legislation. Surprisingly, the Uzbek Senate passed the legislatio [...]
2009-04-07 09:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EFIN KCRM ECON ECIN PINR UZ
09TASHKENT469Uzbekistan: DTRA and Uzbek Officials Review Biological
[...] (C) Summary: A Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) delegation met with officials from the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) in mid-March to discuss cooperation under the framework of the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP). The GOU showed up in force and at a high level--with many Deput [...]
2009-04-07 11:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALTBIO TSPL PTER PINS PGOV PBTS PREL ASEC SENV UZ
09TASHKENT481GENERAL TERRORISM THREAT ASSESSMENT IN UZBEKISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-08 04:34:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNPTER ASEC UZ
09TASHKENT483UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF SIGNS NEW AGREEMENT ON CHILD LABOR WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 6, the Ambassador met with a visiting UNICEF representative from Geneva, who reported that UNICEF would sign a new Annual Work Plan with the government that fleshes out several key points from the September 2008 National Action Plan (NAP) on the elimination of child lab [...]
2009-04-10 09:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI TX UZ
09TASHKENT497UZBEKISTAN: RECENT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM
[...] (C) Summary: During a meeting at the Embassy on March 30, independent human rights activist Ismoil Adilov handed over to poloff a collection of court documents from recent trials he had monitored involving suspected religious extremists. The documents demonstrate that at least six women were [...]
2009-04-13 15:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT511Uzbekistan: Anti-Corruption Workshop Launches UN Convention
[...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),with funding support from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),conducted a workshop on March 31 - April 1 on implementation of the UN Convention Against Corruption. International experts, [...]
2009-04-14 13:13:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID EFIN KCOR SOCI PHUM LG UZ
09TASHKENT531Uzbekistan: New Hokims Elected to Senate Committees
[...] (SBU) On March 27-28, 2009, Uzbekistan's Senate of the Oliy Majlis (parliament) held its eighteenth plenary session. Consistent with Article 77 of Uzbekistan's Constitution, recently-appointed hokims of Surkhandarya, Samarkand, Tashkent, Navoi, and Khorezm Provinces had been elected senators by [...]
2009-04-16 10:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR UZ
09TASHKENT55UZBEKISTAN: ANATOMY OF A HIZB UT-TAHRIR CASE
[...] (C) Summary: This cable examines in depth a recent Hizb ut-Tahrir case reported by state-controlled and independent media and a local human rights activist. While the case highlights on-going abuses in the government's campaign against suspected religious extremists, it also demonstrates how [...]
2009-01-13 10:49:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT559TASHKENT TIDBITS APRIL 22, 2009
[...] (SBU) We attended a roundtable on transboundary water issues at the Oliy Majlis on March 4. The two hour session was chaired by Sadyk Safaev, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and former Ambassador to the U.S. The roundtable produced nothing new in terms of policy; all speakers [...]
2009-04-22 10:10:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON KIRF SOCI PHUM KISL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT56UZBEKISTAN: HIZB UT-TAHRIR ARRESTS IN 2008
[...] (C) Summary: State-controlled media, independent news website s, and local human rights activists continue to report on arrests in Uzbekistan of suspected members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) religious extremist group, as well as the arrests of other banned religious groups members. In 2008, t [...]
2009-01-13 12:01:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER SOCI
09TASHKENT563UZBEKISTAN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PRESS BLITZ CONTINUES
[...] (U) Summary: Regular trafficking in persons (TIP) articles continue to be published in the state-controlled press, and public service announcements are prevalent in all forms of mass media. Uzbekistan's extensive efforts on raising public awareness and highlighting its powerful new criminal c [...]
2009-04-22 13:04:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN UZ
09TASHKENT581UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST REPORTS ATTACKS ON HERSELF AND ADOPTED
[...] (C) Summary: On April 23, poloff met with Human Rights Alliance activist Elena Urlaeva, who reported being attacked by two unknown assailants on April 15 after receiving threatening phone calls for weeks demanding that she leave Uzbekistan. She also reported that her adopted 5-year old son wa [...]
2009-04-27 10:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT585UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST ACCUSES OPPOSITIONISTS OF EMBEZZLING
[...] (C) Summary: During an April 23 meeting with poloff, Human Rights Alliance activist Elena Urlaeva, who was attacked by unknown assailants on April 15 (septel),accused Free Farmers Party leader Nigara Khidoyatova and Gulam Umarov, the son of imprisoned Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, [...]
2009-04-27 12:42:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT59UZBEKISTAN: UZBEK SINGER NOT ARRESTED
[...] (U) Reports in the press that popular Uzbek singer Yulduz Usmanova was arrested on January 10 appear to be false. Reported yesterday by the independent Voice of Freedom website and then picked up by Kyrgyz News Agency AKIPress, the story claims that she was arrested during a wedding performan [...]
2009-01-14 12:31:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV KPAO SCUL UZ
09TASHKENT601UZBEKISTAN: NARCOTICS SEIZURES NOW REGULARLY HIGHLIGHTED IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: This is the first of planned regular updates about narcotics seizures publicized in the Uzbek state-controlled mass media. Emboffs have noted a substantial increase recently in the number of articles and television news reports highlighting narcotics-related arrests and seizure [...]
2009-04-29 04:52:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SNAR KCRM PHUM KCOR ASEC TI UZ
09TASHKENT647UZBEKISTAN: SIX MORE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS CONVICTIONS
[...] (U) Summary: Convictions of six more trafficking offenders were reported in separate articles in the state-controlled press on April 30 - May 1, the latest examples of Uzbekistan's aggressive enforcement of its 2008 law and criminal code amendments. The Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs report [...]
2009-05-06 10:19:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KTIP UZ
09TASHKENT703UZBEKISTAN: LONG-TIME MINISTER OF HEALTH SACKED
[...] (C) Summary: On April 23, President Karimov relieved long-time Minister of Health Feruz Nazirov from his duties and appointed Adkham Ilkhamovich Ikramov, who had been serving as First Deputy Minister of Health, as his replacement. Reportedly, Nazirov was fired due to unsatisfactory work [...]
2009-05-11 12:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI KCOR UZ
09TASHKENT705UZBEKISTAN: ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK'S STOCK RISES WITH
[...] (C) Summary: On May 3 Deputy Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Tashkent office, Kiyoshy Tamaguchi, told poloff that ADB recently completed a favorable assessment of Uzbekistan for its 2009-2010 cycle, which cleared the way for a substantial increase in loans from USD 170 million to [...]
2009-05-11 12:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON UZ
09TASHKENT715ACTIVIST SHARES VIEWS ON TRENDS IN UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: On May 7, the Ambassador met with Bukhara-based human rights activist Shukhrat Ganiev, who argued that the recent government crackdown on independent groups over the past few months was largely driven by worries over presidential succession and the upcoming December 2009 Parliament [...]
2009-05-12 11:58:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT723UZBEKISTAN: PORK BAN POINTS DELIVERED
[...] (U) We delivered reftel points in person on May 7 to Nurillo Abdullaev of the MFA's North America Desk. Without comment, he assured us he would send them on the appropriate agencies in the GOU. 2. (U) On April 28 the GOU imposed a ban on import of meat, pork, and live animals from vari [...]
2009-05-12 12:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD UZ
09TASHKENT73UZBEKISTAN: CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE AND
[...] Summary: Per reftel request, post is providing the following update on child labor in Uzbekistan. In 2008, the Government of Uzbekistan undertook legal reforms to combat the use of child labor. In January 2008, Uzbekistan adopted a new law on children's rights which clarified protections for [...]
2009-01-16 10:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ECON ELAB EIND ETRD KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI
09TASHKENT751UZBEKISTAN: AGRICULTURE, BORDERS, AND ISLAM IN THE FERGHANA
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff visited the Ferghana Valley on May 5-6, traveling through Fergana and Andijon Provinces en route to Kyrgyzstan. The overland trip was a good opportunity to take the pulse of this unique and populous area of the country. The land border crossing with Kyrgyzstan between And [...]
2009-05-13 10:24:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KTIP SOCI EAGR KISL ASEC KG UZ
09TASHKENT767UZBEKISTAN: UNODC HOSTS OPERATION TARCET PRECURSOR
[...] (U) Summary: On May 12-13, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office in Central Asia hosted a policy planning session in Tashkent in preparation for the second year of Operation TARCET, which is focused on interdicting precursor chemicals en route to Afghanistan. Th [...]
2009-05-14 13:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR KCRM ASEC UZ AF ZK IR
09TASHKENT769UZBEKISTAN: ANDIJON COMMEMMORATION BROKEN UP IN TASHKENT
[...] (C) On May 13, a small group of human rights activists attempted to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the tragic events in Andijon by laying a wreath at the monument of courage in central Tashkent, according to the independent website Uznews.net. Poloff spoke with Dilorom Ishakova on May 1 [...]
2009-05-14 13:17:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT795Uzbekistan: Korean Ambassador Shares Views of Cooperation
[...] (C) Summary: On May 15, Korean Ambassador Jea-min Kyun gave the Ambassador a read-out of Korean President Lee Myung-bak's visit to Uzbekistan earlier that week. An energetic President Karimov had accompanied Lee for virtually the entire duration of the three-day visit, and over the course of v [...]
2009-05-18 12:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN PGOV ENRG ETRD BEXP EAID EINV EMIN KS UZ
09TASHKENT823Apparent Terrorist Attacks in Eastern Uzbekistan
[...] (C) Several years of relative calm was broken in Uzbekistan's Andijon province on May 26 when a group of assailants armed with AK-47s attacked security force installations in the town of Khanabad on the border with Kyrgyzstan. Information on the attack and ensuing firefight is sketchy. An of [...]
2009-05-27 12:11:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPTER PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT83UZBEKISTAN: COMMENT ON DOL DRAFT LIST FOR TVPRA
[...] Per ref A, Embassy Tashkent appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. We recognize that child labor continues to be [...]
2009-01-21 08:22:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ECON ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT831UZBEKISTAN: POST STRONGLY SUPPORTS UNICEF DRAFT COUNTRY
[...] (C) Summary: On May 27, the Ambassador met with UNICEF Country Representative Mahboob Shareef, who reviewed elements of the draft 2010 - 2015 country program for Uzbekistan and (protect) quietly encouraged the U.S. to vote in favor of the document at the upcoming June 10 board meeting. Sharee [...]
2009-05-28 06:20:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KOCI ELAB UN SOCI ECON UZ
09TASHKENT915UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON TRIAL OF JOURNALIST DILMUROD SAYYIDOV
[...] (C) Summary: On June 1, the trial of journalist and Ezgulik member Dilmurod Sayyidov commenced near Samarkand. Ezgulik activist Abdurakhmon Tashanov, who is monitoring the trial, reported that there is some cause for "cautious optimism" after a motion was approved to include discussion of a p [...]
2009-06-05 12:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT917UZBEKISTAN: NGO COUNTERPART INTERNATIONAL SEEKS FORMAL
[...] (C) Summary: On June 2, DCM and emboffs met with visiting representatives from Counterpart International, who are quietly exploring legal avenues for seeking formal registration in Uzbekistan. While humanitarian assistance programs have continued on a small scale since the Government of Uzbek [...]
2009-06-05 12:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM SOCI PREL UZ
09TASHKENT921UZBEKISTAN: DESPITE CLAIMS, ECONOMIC CRISIS HITS HOME
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. First quarter macroeconomic results show that the real sectors of the Uzbek economy are already facing serious problems created by the downturn in the world economy. Despite GOU claims to the contrary, analysis of official statistics indicates that total exports in the first [...]
2009-06-05 13:29:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT9272009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CASES:
[...] (U) The United States Government is aware of six (6) claims of United States persons against the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU). 2. (U) a. Claimant A b. 2002 c. Claimant A was the chief operator of a soft drink manufacturing plant in Uzbekistan after its independence in 1991. Howe [...]
2009-06-08 08:20:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDCASC EINV KIDE OPIC UZ
09TASHKENT929UZBEKISTAN: OSCE SPONSORS HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION WORKSHOPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 4 in Tashkent the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sponsored a workshop on education efforts to promote awareness on human rights, which attracted several high-profile government officials and several international experts. A separate June 5 eve [...]
2009-06-08 09:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE UZ
09TASHKENT941Uzbekistan: Border Security Training Courses at Termez
[...] (C) Summary: From April 5 through April 17, U.S. Customs and Border Protection trainers conducted border interdiction and rail interdiction training courses for Government of Uzbekistan officials at Uzbekistan's border with Afghanistan. Uzbek participants actively participated in the training [...]
2009-06-08 12:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPBTS PREL PGOV KNNP PHUM ASEC UZ
09TASHKENT959UZBEKISTAN: NEW ATTORNEY LICENSING EXAMINATION REDUCES
[...] (C) Summary: The newly-established Uzbekistan Chamber of Lawyers, which supplanted the Bar Association, is conducting its first round of mandatory new licensing examinations for all defense attorneys who actively practice in courts of law. Several attorneys have complained that the testing pr [...]
2009-06-11 08:34:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI KCOR UZ
09TASHKENT961UZBEKISTAN: ANDIJON ACTIVIST OFFERS CONSPIRACY THEORIES
[...] Summary: On June 9, emboffs met with Saidjahon Zaynabiddinov, a well-known human rights activist based in Andijon and a frequent contact for independent websites and the Embassy alike. Zaynabiddinov reported that his youngest son was arrested for a double murder and, although his son confessed [...]
2009-06-11 08:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT997UZBEKISTAN: HEAD OF ODIHR QUIETLY PLANNING VISIT AND
[...] (C) Summary: The Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ambassador in Uzbekistan, Istvan Venczel, told us that the Director of ODIHR is quietly planning to visit Tashkent and meet with high-ranking officials in July. The visit could set the stage for OSCE election monitorin [...]
2009-06-16 12:19:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM OSCE PGOV UZ
09TBILISI10ABKHAZ GANG LEADER MURDERED;FIRE-FIGHT AT
[...] (C) Begin Summary: On January 3, Emzar Tchkadua, head of an Abkhaz separatist gang, was murdered. Tchkadua himself killed one of his own relatives and fellow gang members, Daur Ladikovich Tchkadua, on December 30. The Georgian Foreign Ministry (Ref A) and Georgian media reported that Russi [...]
2009-01-05 14:21:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG
09TBILISI1005GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIAN REGIME CLAIMS 50,000 VOTE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. Elections for the de facto South Ossetia parliament were held in South Ossetia on May 31 without any official internationally-recognized monitoring organizations taking part. De facto officials claimed to the Russian press that about 50,000 people voted, with 46 perce [...]
2009-06-01 13:57:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KBDS RU GG
09TBILISI1006EMBASSY TBILISI'S 2009 TAFT FUND FOR REFUGEES PROPOSAL
[...] Summary: Post is pleased to propose a project for the FY09 Taft Fund for Refugees in support of the registration of Georgia's Roma population, focusing initially on the majority of Georgia's Roma population who live in Tbilisi. The project aims to provide the international and local communit [...]
2009-06-02 05:54:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF PHUM GG
09TBILISI1010GEORGIA: PROTESTS: AGAIN QUIET - TALKS ONGOING
[...] (C) Summary: Only a few hundred protesters rallied in front of Parliament on June 1; a similar number blocked traffic for one hour in the afternoon in front of the Tbilisi Mayor's office. Cells continued to be removed by protesters from Rustaveli Avenue, with protesters and cells concentrat [...]
2009-06-02 12:09:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1024GEORGIA: PROTESTS MEAGER - MOIA CONFIRMS FIRING
[...] (C) Summary: A few hundred protesters rallied in front of Parliament on June 2; prior to that a joint statement was read at the Ministry of Defense condemning Saakashvili for what it called a "purposeful destruction" of the Georgian military. The statement called upon diplomats to monitor t [...]
2009-06-03 12:01:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1029GEORGIA: POST PURSURING AVAILABILITY OF AIR ASSETS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-03 14:32:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SMIG PARM PK GG
09TBILISI1033GEORGIA: PROTESTS: OBLIGATIONS CHARTER SIGNED -
[...] (C) Summary: Protests were again small on June 3. A group of several hundred protesters gathered at the Supreme Court to watch 16 members of the non-parliamentary opposition sign an "Obligations Charter." The eight page document outlines the GoG's failures, the non-parliamentary oppositio [...]
2009-06-04 12:04:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1034GEORGIA: RUSSIA MOVES IN ON ABKHAZ ECONOMY \
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Recent moves suggest an \ increasing Russian interest in exploiting economic \ opportunities in Abkhazia. The Georgian Law on Occupied \ Territories stipulates that all business in Abkhazia be \ conducted pursuant to existing Georgian regulations (reftel),\ but Russian en [...]
2009-06-05 09:07:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALECON EPET PREL KBTS RS TU GG
09TBILISI1035GEORGIA: DISCONTENT IN ABKHAZIA WITH RUSSIA'S WARM
[...] (C) Summary and comment. According to press reporting and the Abkhaz government-in-exile, civil society groups and others in Abkhazia have begun to criticize de facto Abkhaz "president" Sergey Bagapsh for handing Abkhazia over to the Russians. Opposition leaders and ordinary Abkhaz appear es [...]
2009-06-05 09:15:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG
09TBILISI1045GEORGIA: 2ND INCIDENT MECHANISM BETTER, OR MAYBE
[...] (C) Summary and comment. On May 29 the EUMM and OSCE co-facilitated the second session of the Joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (JIPRM) at Dvani on the South Ossetian administrative boundary line. The participants engaged on such substantive issues as security for locals livin [...]
2009-06-05 14:29:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KPTS RS GG
09TBILISI1055GEORGIA: PROTESTS: GACHECHILADZE - SAAKASHVILI TO
[...] (C) Summary: More cells were taken down over the weekend of June 6-7 freeing Rustaveli Avenue in front of the Tbilisi Marriott. Cells remain adjacent to Parliament and still block a portion of Rustaveli Avenue. Protests were light over the weekend. The non-parliamentary opposition is pla [...]
2009-06-08 15:00:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1056GEORGIA: MOIA RESPONDS TO INVESTIGATION
[...] (C) Summary/Comment: Post continues to closely monitor claims of beatings, crime and other incidents surrounding the ongoing street protests in Tbilisi. In response to our inquiries about 22 reported incidents, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MoIA) sent a detailed list of all reported inc [...]
2009-06-08 15:02:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1057GEORGIA: PEREVI -- STILL COMPLICATED
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Russian forces still occupy the small village of Perevi, which is located in undisputed Georgian territory and outside South Ossetia -- a fact even the Russians do not dispute in private. The EUMM reports the Russians may be preparing finally to withdraw, thereby res [...]
2009-06-08 15:02:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KPTS RS GG
09TBILISI1073GEORGIA: FM VASHADZE DISCUSSES UNOMIG WITH A/S
[...] (C) Summary. In a June 10 meeting focused almost exclusively on the UN negotiations, Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze made clear that Georgia would stick to its redlines, even if it meant ultimately killing a UN mission in Georgia. EUR Assistant Secretary Philip Gordon pushed back h [...]
2009-06-11 09:21:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS UNSC UNOMIG RS GG
09TBILISI1080EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT MAY 2009
[...] May 11-12: EXBS arranged the second of four implementing phases of the Tracker licensing system in Georgia. The main goals of this session were to review and revise the Tracker equipment request; collect all the local documents that Tracker needs to generate (licenses, permits, certificat [...]
2009-06-12 05:06:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG
09TBILISI1089GEORGIA: A/S GORDON MEETS LEADERS FROM ACROSS
[...] (C) Summary: On June 10, A/S Gordon met with Speaker David Bakradze, United National Movement (ruling party) MPs, Parliamentary opposition MPs, and non-parliamentary leaders. Speaker Bakradze explained the GoG's strategy in dealing with the ongoing protests and the history behind street polit [...]
2009-06-12 14:32:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1090GEORGIA: SECURITY INCIDENTS RAISE CONCERNS
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. Three separate security incidents within the last week could indicate that the Russians, Abkhaz or South Ossetians may wish to bump up instability in the midst of the UNOMIG negotiations. South Ossetians set up a new checkpoint near Perevi on June 8 and continue to h [...]
2009-06-12 15:21:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS RS GG
09TBILISI1095GEORGIA: PARLIAMENT OPENS, VIOLENCE ENSUES
[...] (C) Summary: On June 12, Parliament convened for the first time since the protests started on April 9. The day was marked by violence as protesters attacked MP Gia Tortladze and threw rocks, eggs, and other objects at Speaker Bakradze. Five protesters were arrested in connection with the [...]
2009-06-15 15:25:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1096GEORGIA: UNOMIG MONITORS IN SUKHUMI AND ZUGDIDI ON
[...] (C) Summary. UNOMIG military monitoring officers (MMOs) in Zugdidi and Sukhumi are frustrated with the application of the current UNOMIG mandate and strongly feel that another full technical rollover would be futile. The two main problems they face, according to the MMOs themselves, are lack [...]
2009-06-15 15:28:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS UNSC UNOMIG GG
09TBILISI1097GEORGIA: PROTESTS MOVE TO DIGHOMI; MOIA ADMITS
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. On June 15, after a demoralizing weekend for protest leaders in which the USG and other members of the diplomatic community condemned June 12 attacks by protesters against members of parliament, protesters who had taken part in the attacks dared police to come and g [...]
2009-06-15 15:28:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI1101GEORGIA: FIRST STEPS TOWARDS RE-OPENING THE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. The Government of Georgia announced May 26 that negotiations with Russia were underway to open the border at Kazbegi-Zemo Larsi, the only land border point of entry with Russia in the undisputed territory of Georgia. Russia closed the border in June 2006 in order to [...]
2009-06-16 13:08:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS RS GG
09TBILISI1104GEORGIA: GOG APOLOGIZES; NON-PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) Summary: The June 15 incident at the Dighomi Police Station (reftel) resulting in the detention of 39 protesters caused few initial political ripples. Non-parliamentary leaders addressed about 500-1000 supporters in front of Parliament at roughly 7 pm the same day. Non-parliamentary l [...]
2009-06-16 13:56:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1108GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND THE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-17 09:36:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALOSCE PREL EU NATO PGOV PHUM KDEM ECON GG
09TBILISI112GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA-RUSSIA -- THE HONEYMOON IS
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Recent stories from inside Abkhazia suggest that the initial euphoria following Russia's recognition of Abkhazia's independence has faded, with the reality of Russia's all encompassing influence sinking in. Russia already wields tremendous influence on the political, [...]
2009-01-21 13:46:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG
09TBILISI1131GEORGIA: RUSSIA KEY TOPIC IN ABKHAZ POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary and comment. In seeming contradiction to recent reports of concern in Abkhazia about Russian influence (ref A),UNOMIG officials, de facto authorities, opposition journalists, and NGOs in Abkhazia told visiting poloff that Abkhaz politicians are trying to out-do each other to show [...]
2009-06-19 13:42:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG
09TBILISI1132GEORGIA: POTENTIAL IMPACT OF UNOMIG CLOSURE
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Russia's veto of a technical rollover of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia leaves a significant gap in both transparency of the military situation in Abkhazia and protection of its residents, especially those in the Gali region. Nevertheless, the actual impact may b [...]
2009-06-19 13:46:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1136GEORGIA: EXPLOSIONS DAMAGE TWO EUMM VEHICLES;
[...] (C) On June 21st at approximately 1105 am, explosions damaged an EUMM armored patrol vehicle and accompanying private ambulance near Eristskali, located west of the Enguri River near the Abkhazian administrative boundary line in undisputed Georgian territory. The Georgian ambulance driver di [...]
2009-06-22 12:06:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI1140GEORGIA: CIVIL SOCIETY MEETS WITH A/S GORDON
[...] (SBU) Summary. Georgian academics, analysts and civil society leaders discussed domestic politics, the necessity of developing more robust civil institutions, and relations with Russia at a June 11 lunch with EUR Assistant Secretary Philip Gordon. While participants' opinions varied, in gen [...]
2009-06-22 13:41:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS GG
09TBILISI1143GEORGIA: MFA INFORMED OF GEORGIA'S TIER ONE TIP
[...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Division of Americas desk officer Nana Shonia on June 15th. Poloff emphasized the recommendations set forth in the report. Ms. Shonia promised to relay the information to the appropriate GOG officials, including at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, [...]
2009-06-23 09:35:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KPAO KTIP
09TBILISI1149GEORGIA: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ISSUES CLUSTER
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. On April 14, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report entitled "A Dying Practice" on the use of cluster munitions by Russia and Georgia in the August 2008 conflict. NGOs involved in explosive remnants of war (ERW) clearance in Georgia generally agree with the report [...]
2009-06-23 14:18:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI GG
09TBILISI1150GEORGIA: UPDATE ON THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN
[...] (C) Summary. There are conflicting reports on the extent of humanitarian-related problems in Gali among UNOMIG officials, NGOs in Zugdidi and Sukhumi, the Abkhazia Government in-exile and Abkhaz de facto authorities. The main issues affecting Georgian residents in Gali today include the lack [...]
2009-06-23 14:31:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG
09TBILISI117GEORGIA: INTERIOR MINISTER SAYS RUSSIANS
[...] (C) Summary. Minister of Internal Affairs Merabishvili told the Ambassador January 22 that using night-vision goggles, the Georgians had seen Russian special forces with sniper rifles conducting operations across the administrative boundary lines in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. (UNOMIG made [...]
2009-01-23 13:09:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG RU
09TBILISI122GEORGIA OKAYS GAS TO SOUTH OSSETIA, ITERA ONLY
[...] (C) Summary: On January 20, the Georgian Government issued an exception to the Law on Occupied Territories to Itera-Georgia in order to provide gas to South Ossetia. Itera-Georgia General Director David Beradze confirmed that Itera concluded a commercial contract with South Ossetia on Januar [...]
2009-01-23 14:34:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG PGOV RU GG
09TBILISI1221GEORGIA: RUSSIA THREATENS MILITARY ACTION AFTER
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: A Russian solider crossed into undisputed Georgian territory near Perevi on July 1. He hid in the home of a local resident until the MOIA took custody of him at approximately 2200 on July 1 when he requested asylum. [...]
2009-07-02 13:41:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI1222GEORGIA: RUSSIA THREATENS MILITARY ACTION AFTER
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: A Russian solider crossed into undisputed Georgian territory near Perevi on July 1. He hid in the home of a local resident until the MOIA took custody of him at approximately 2200 on July 1 when he requested asylum. [...]
2009-07-02 13:43:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI1236GEORGIA: ACTION REQUEST ON UN RESOLUTION 62/249
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph . 2. (SBU) Shalva Tsiskarashvili, Deputy Director of the MFA Office of International Organizations, asked poloff about UNGA resolution 62/249, Status of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, dated May 29 2008 [...]
2009-07-06 14:08:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PHUM GG
09TBILISI1237GEORGIA: UPDATE ON DEFECTION OF RUSSIAN SOLDIER
[...] (C) Summary. The Russian soldier who requested asylum from Georgia met with his family in Tbilisi on July 4 and 5. EUMM, UNHCR, along with the Swiss (as the protective power for Russia in Georgia),Georgians and Russians, coordinated these meetings between Artemiev and his family. Artemiev's [...]
2009-07-06 14:11:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI1243GEORGIA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RULE OF LAW WITH
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Minister of Justice Zurab Adeishvili on July 6 to discuss USG assistance in apprehending a wanted former advisor to President Shevardnadze, Temur Basilia. Basilia is believed to be in the U.S. The Ambassador took the opportunity to raise a number of is [...]
2009-07-07 12:37:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1248GEORGIA: RESPONSE TO OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION REQUEST
[...] (U) Summary and comment. In response to reftel A, post suggests raising human rights concerns in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. With recent Russian vetoes of the OSCE and UN observer missions, outside access to vulnerable populations in both regions is nearly non-exist [...]
2009-07-08 14:48:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALOSCE PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM GG RU
09TBILISI1283GEORGIA: IFC EVALUATES GEORGIA'S SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: On June 29, the International Finance Committee (IFC) released the results of its Sector Competitiveness Overview of Georgia. The Georgian Government requested the IFC conduct the competitiveness survey to help them identify strategic areas to focus investment in hope [...]
2009-07-09 12:31:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EIND EINV ETRD PREL GG
09TBILISI1285GEORGIA DENIES FLYING DRONES IN ABKHAZIA
[...] (C) De facto Abkhaz authorities have publicly accused Georgia of flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) over Abkhazia on July 7. The de facto foreign ministry claims that two Georgian UAVs flew over the village of Saberio in Gali district and Khukhun in Tkvarcheli district. The Georgian MFA i [...]
2009-07-09 14:03:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1291GEORGIA: IRI POLL SHOWS SAAKASHVILI MORE POPULAR,
[...] (C) Summary/Comment: An International Republican Institute (IRI) poll was carried out from June 16th to June 25th, 2009 and polled 1500 Georgians aged 18 years and older in face-to-face interviews. The International Republican Institute found few surprises in its June polling data. The stat [...]
2009-07-10 14:04:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG
09TBILISI1292EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT JUNE 2009
[...] The Georgian Coast Guard (GCG) anniversary ceremony will be held at the GCG base in Poti on July 25. A U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) delegation has been invited to attend. 2. The newly assigned Maritime Advisor (MA),USCG LT Daniel Owen will report to Tbilisi on July 13th for a two year assignment [...]
2009-07-13 11:16:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG
09TBILISI1358GEORGIA: RUSSIANS TIGHTEN CONTROL IN GALI
[...] (C) Summary and comment. In recent weeks Russian Border Guards have tightened control over Abkhaz administrative boundary line crossing points. In a July 22 incident, they detained over 20 ethnic Georgians attempting to depart Abkhazia, confiscated Georgian passports from nine of them, and p [...]
2009-07-24 14:08:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1359GEORGIA: VP BIDEN'S VISIT/SPEECH PLEASES EVERYBODY
[...] (SBU) Summary/Comment. The Vice President's two-day trip to Tbilisi received extensive coverage by the Georgian press and elicited an overwhelmingly positive response from ruling party and opposition politicians, the media, and Georgian political analysts alike. VP Biden's speech at the Ge [...]
2009-07-24 14:10:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREF PREL GG
09TBILISI1379GEORGIA: TAFT GRANT CLOSEOUT FOR WOMEN'S WELLNESS
[...] Summary: On July 7, Poloff visited the NGO Women's Wellness Care Alliance - HERA (HERA),and several beneficiaries of the Julia Taft Grant funding for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). One of the activities conducted by HERA, the Mobile Clinics Project, received USG $14,225.00 from the Taf [...]
2009-07-30 11:11:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID GG
09TBILISI1409GEORGIA: INCIDENTS RAISE CONCERNS, MECHANISMS MEET
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Deputy Foreign Minister Nalbandov told the Ambassador the government is concerned about a spate of recent incidents, especially as the August 7 first anniversary of Georgia's 2008 war with Russia approaches. An explosive device killed the father of a family of IDPs t [...]
2009-07-31 14:51:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1426GEORGIA: HIGH LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT 64TH UNGA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-03 14:13:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OTRA OVIP CVIS UNGA KSEP GG
09TBILISI1427GEORGIA: ADDITIONAL PROVOCATIONS HEIGHTEN TENSION
[...] (C) Summary and comment. On August 2 Russian Border Guards set up poles in the village of Kveshi, 200 meters outside of the South Ossetian administrative boundary, as an apparent first step to establish a checkpoint; on August 3, the Russians and the poles were gone. On August 1 South Osseti [...]
2009-08-03 14:47:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI148RUSSIAN SOLDIER DESERTS, SEEKS ASYLUM IN GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary and comment. On January 26 a Russian soldier based in the Akhalgori Valley inside South Ossetia deserted his post, crossed the administrative boundary at Odzisi, flagged down a Georgian Interior Ministry car, and requested asylum, based on his difficult living conditions. The Min [...]
2009-01-28 13:06:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG
09TBILISI1511GEORGIA: PRESENTATION ON CRIMINAL SYSTEM REFORM
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Representatives of the interagency council to reform Georgia's criminal justice system, established by Presidential decree in 2008, gave a presentation to diplomats and civil society representatives on a broad range of ongoing reforms in areas of juvenile justice, p [...]
2009-08-07 13:56:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM KUS GG
09TBILISI1513GEORGIA: UPDATE ON ALLEGED ATTACKS ON OPPOSITION
[...] (C) Summary/Comment: For the past week, Post has urged the Government to provide more details and investigate alleged beatings of opposition activists. On August 2, former Parliamentary Speaker and opposition leader Nino Burjanadze from the Democratic Movement-United Georgia (DMUG) party in [...]
2009-08-07 13:58:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG
09TBILISI1514GEORGIA: MARKING THE AUGUST 7 ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY
[...] (U) Summary: Georgians commemorated the one-year anniversary of the August 2008 conflict with numerous events around the country, including a mid-day visit by President Saakashvili to a cemetery containing the bodies of soldiers killed in the war, a nationwide moment of silence at 3 pm, an [...]
2009-08-07 14:14:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PBTS GG
09TBILISI1517GEORGIA: INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO ABKHAZIA AND
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Immediately following the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, our small USG aid programs in Abkhazia and South Ossetia were closed, with the exception of HALO Trust's demining program in Abkhazia. Other international donors, including the European Commission ( [...]
2009-08-10 08:49:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS EAID SOCI AID GG
09TBILISI1519GEORGIA: UNEASY CALM AS WAR ANNIVERSARY COMES AND
[...] (C) Summary. August 5 and 6 were uneasily calm after several days of incidents and allegations, followed by five Georgians being kidnapped and returned unharmed on August 7. On August 3, Georgian and South Ossetian forces traded allegations of an attack near Plavismani and Otrevi, and on Augu [...]
2009-08-10 12:45:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1528GEORGIA: NO SURPRISES IN SELECTION OF PUBLIC TV'S
[...] (C) Summary/Comment: On August 10 Georgia Public Broadcasting's (GPB) Board of Trustees elected Gia Chanturia as the new GPB General Director. Perceived as the ruling United National Movement's (UNM) candidate, Chanturia was widely expected to be selected for the position (ref A). Chanturia i [...]
2009-08-12 07:21:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG
09TBILISI1543MR. PUTIN COMES TO GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Russian Prime Minister Putin visited Abkhazia August 12, renewing Russia's commitment to Abkhaz "independence" and promising nearly USD 500 million in spending on military infrastructure. Abkhaz de facto "president" Bagapsh called the visit an example of the "dynamic [...]
2009-08-13 14:41:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1553EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT JULY 2009
[...] The Maritime Advisor (MA),U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) LT Daniel Owen, reported to Tbilisi on July 13th. EXBS Advisor (EA) Charles Hiscock left Tbilisi for annual leave in the States on July 16 with a return to Tbilisi projected for August 3. 2. $200,000 will be allocated during the first week [...]
2009-08-17 12:54:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG
09TBILISI1568GEORGIA: COURT RULES THAT BURJANADZE MUST PAY
[...] (C) Summary: Nino Burjanadze (Democratic Movement - United Georgia) has been ordered by a Tbilisi court to pay 1.2 million lari (approximately USD 715,000) for her tax bill for her dacha in Tkneti, just outside of Tbilisi. The court upheld the assessment of the Ministry of Finance which Bu [...]
2009-08-19 13:09:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1575GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA HONORED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO
[...] (C) Summary. Matthew Bryza paid his farewell visit as Deputy Assistant Secretary to Georgia August 9-11, meeting with senior officials and receiving a Golden Fleece award from President Saakashvili for his contributions to Georgian-American relations. After the ceremony, Bryza and Saakashvil [...]
2009-08-20 14:23:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1580GEORGIA: MOIA FOLLOWS THROUGH, NON-PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: As a result of the August 12 meeting between opposition leaders and the MoIA (ref A),a dozen detainees have been released on bond. The MoIA continues to review the 44 cases that Irakli Alasania (Our Georgia - Free Democrats) provided during the meeting as well as other cases [...]
2009-08-21 13:36:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1582GEORGIA: FUTURE ENGAGEMENT WITH ABKHAZIA AND UN
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. In recent meetings, UN Special Representative Johann Verbeke and other European diplomats have proposed various ideas on the future of the international community's engagement with the breakaway regions, and a possible new role for the UN. Expressing satisfaction th [...]
2009-08-24 04:56:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI1588GEORGIA: MINISTER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SACKED
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Nika Gilauri fired Minister of Economic Development Lasha Zhvania on August 21, ostensibly for poor performance. Zhvania held a near simultaneous press conference in which he announced he was resigning from the Ministry due in part to interference by others in th [...]
2009-08-24 15:13:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI1589GEORGIA: STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE POLICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The reform of Georgia's police forces has been one of Georgia's most significant successes since the Rose Revolution, resulting in a decrease in corruption and improved public image for the police. However, because of the many agencies and branches with overlapping jurisdiction [...]
2009-08-25 05:05:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR KBTS KCRM GG
09TBILISI1602GEORGIA SEEKS U.S. HELP IN PROMOTING UNGA IDP
[...] (SBU) Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Sergi Kapanadze told emboffs on August 25 that the EU has decided to support the draft UN General Assembly resolution entitled "Status of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia a [...]
2009-08-25 14:29:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF UNGA RS GG
09TBILISI1627GEORGIA: LEGAL QUESTIONS SURROUNDING OCCUPIED AREAS
[...] (U) This is an action message; please see paragraphs 9-11. 2. (C) Summary. Recent seizures by the Georgian Coast Guard of Black Sea vessels suspected of violating various Georgian laws, including the Law on Occupied Territories, have raised questions about the legal basis for Georgia's enf [...]
2009-08-27 14:41:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHSA ETRD ETTC EWWT RS GG
09TBILISI1628GEORGIAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE REPLACED
[...] (U) On August 27, President Saakashvili removed Defense Minister Davit Sikharulidze from his position. Saakashvili named Deputy Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia the new Minister of Defense. Sikharulidze, also the former Georgian Ambassador to the U.S., reportedly will remain in the governmen [...]
2009-08-27 14:57:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI1634GEORGIA: READING MISHA'S MIND: WHY A NEW DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary. Since President Saakashvili tapped Bacho Akhalaia to replace Dato Sikharulidze as Minster of Defense on August 27, speculation on Saakashvili's motivations have swept through Tbilisi. Senior Georgian officials have repeated to the Ambassador on multiple occasions in the last s [...]
2009-08-31 14:37:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PTER RS GG
09TBILISI164GEORGIA: UNOMIG OBSERVES SNIPER PATROL IN ABKHAZIA
[...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. On January 22 a UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) patrol in Abkhazia saw seven individuals in unmarked camouflage patrolling near the village of Gvashigverdi, just inside the administrative boundary. Among other weapons, the group carried three SVD sniper ri [...]
2009-01-29 14:36:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1644GEORGIA: TROUBLING HUMAN RIGHTS TRENDS IN ABKHAZIA
[...] (C) Summary. The departure of UNOMIG and arrival of Russian Border Guards have not yet caused a new exodus of ethnic Georgian Gali residents from Abkhazia, according to local observers. Conditions, however, have deteriorated, and the local population is more nervous than ever. Problems incl [...]
2009-09-01 14:35:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PBTS RS GG
09TBILISI165GEORGIA: THE RULING PARTY REFLECTS, DEVELOPS
[...] (C) Summary/Comment: While highly confident in their ability to serve out their mandates, the leaders of the United National Movement (UNM) have gone through a period of self-evaluation as to how best to effectuate their political and policy aims in the coming year. UNM is poised to resume [...]
2009-01-29 14:52:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1653GEORGIA: INCIDENT PREVENTION MECHANISMS HIT STRIDE
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Recent meetings of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRMs) for both Abkhazia and South Ossetia have showed progress toward the original concept: a forum enabling regular exchange of information and the pragmatic discussion of incidents and the security e [...]
2009-09-02 14:28:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1674GEORGIA: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH NINO BURJANADZE?
[...] (C) Summary/Comment: Despite her almost complete lack of political support, Burjanadze, likely because of her past international role as Georgia's acting President (twice) and well-known Speaker as well as the on-going activities of her husband, still commands the GoG's attention. A growing [...]
2009-09-08 14:27:00Embassy TbilisiSECRETPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI170GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS, FINANCE MINISTER
[...] (C) After a prolonged illness over the past few months, including extensive treatment in Europe, Prime Minister Mgaloblishvili submitted his resignation to the President on January 30. Although only 35 years old, Mgaloblishvili is suffering from kidney disease and as reported reftel, is visi [...]
2009-01-30 14:46:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI171GEORGIA: GOVT AGREES TO LIMIT OFFENSIVE CAPABILITY
[...] (C) Summary and comment. In a briefing for diplomats, EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) staff provided information about the January 26 agreement between the EUMM and the Georgian Ministry of Defense (MOD). The EUMM military advisor judged that the limitations the Georgians voluntarily imposed upo [...]
2009-01-30 14:47:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RS GG
09TBILISI1713GEORGIA: ABKHAZ POLITICS HEAT UP AS ELECTIONS DRAW
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Several recent incidents in Abkhazia point to heightened political tension in the area, including de facto "president" Bagapsh's order to his naval forces to attack Georgian ships entering Abkhaz water (reftel),the passage and repeal of the law on "citizenship" for e [...]
2009-09-11 13:26:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF RU GG
09TBILISI1714GEORGIA: FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND SHIP SEIZURES
[...] (C) Summary and comment. The latest round of the incident prevention and response mechanism (IPRM) meetings took place on September 3 in Ergneti for the South Ossetian side and September 8 in Gali for the Abkhaz side. The atmosphere during the South Ossetian IPRM was tense and a considerable [...]
2009-09-11 13:29:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1721EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT AUGUST 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-14 14:33:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG
09TBILISI1738GEORGIA: IRANIAN INVESTMENT IN HYDROPOWER
[...] (U) This is a guidance request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Charge was called in September 9 by Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov with a response to the points contained reftel. The initial points, which cautioned Georgia about the negative consequences of accepti [...]
2009-09-18 13:19:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ENRG IR GG
09TBILISI1739GEORGIA WORRIES ABOUT BELARUSAN RECOGNITION OF
[...] (C) Summary. Since Venezuela's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgian policymakers have warned of a "cascade of recognitions" that could occur should Belarus follow suit. Belarusan President Lukashenko's September 15 statement that the Parliament would consider recognition when [...]
2009-09-18 14:33:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG
09TBILISI1745GEORGIA: LIFE ON THE BRINK IN GALI
[...] (C) Summary. A September 11 trip into Abkhazia confirmed many concerns about the marginal existence facing ethnic Georgian residents of Gali. Emboffs observed decrepit housing, execrable roads, collapsing schools, insufficient health care facilities, horse-drawn carts, and insect-threatene [...]
2009-09-21 13:18:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR RS GG
09TBILISI1756GEORGIA: TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS TBILISI
[...] (C) Summary. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu paid an official visit to Tbilisi September 7-8 and was joined by his Deputy Under Secretary for the Caucasus and Central Asia, Ambassador Unal Cevikoz; Cevikoz later visited Sukhumi on September 10. Davutoglu met with President Saakashvi [...]
2009-09-23 14:35:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU GG
09TBILISI1757GEORGIA: RADICAL ORTHODOX GROUP STOPS MOSQUE
[...] (C) Summary: On September 16, representative of two radical fundamentalist Georgian Orthodox groups, the "Society of Saint David the Builder" and "Union of Orthodox Parents" stopped construction on a mosque in the village of Talaveri. The groups demanded to see the villagers' construction perm [...]
2009-09-23 14:38:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALKIRF PGOV PHUM PREL AZ GG
09TBILISI1765GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI EXPRESSES CONCERN TO DAS
[...] (C) Summary. During her September 15 introductory call on President Saakashvili, EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow urged him to make progress on democratic reforms as a way to increase support for Georgia within the international community and shore up domestic stability, echoing earlier comments from VP [...]
2009-09-25 08:05:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL BR RU AM AZ GG
09TBILISI1766GEORGIA: DAS KAIDANOW URGES DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN
[...] (C) Summary: During meetings with a wide range of GoG officials, non-parliamentary opposition leaders, opposition and majority MPs, and members of civil society, EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow stressed to all of her interlocutors the importance of political engagement and the need for progress on demo [...]
2009-09-25 08:20:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG
09TBILISI1773GEORGIA: NATO ASSESSMENT TEAM OUTBRIEF ON HEELS OF
[...] (C) Summary. Frank Boland, Head of Force Planning Department of NATO Defense Policy and Planning Division, and lead for the NATO Planning and Review Process (PARP) and Annual National Program (ANP) assessment team, briefed NATO Ambassadors and defense attaches on their most recent review, giv [...]
2009-09-25 14:37:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG
09TBILISI1786GEORGIA: TAGLIAVINI REPORT FINDS PLENTY OF BLAME
[...] (C) Summary. The EU-sponsored Tagliavini Commission on the August 2008 war, released in Brussels on September 30, points fingers at many parties, including Georgia, Russia, the de facto authorities, the United States, and the international community writ large. It expressly refuses to iden [...]
2009-09-30 14:38:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1787GEORGIA: JEWISH COMMUNITY RESTORES SYNAGOGUE THEY
[...] (U) With great fanfare, a 150-year-old Ashkenazi synagogue reopened in the "Old Tbilisi" district on September 15. The synagogue was badly damaged by a 1991 earthquake and was closed in 2005. The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC),who held their annual conference in Georgia last year, primari [...]
2009-10-01 14:48:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG
09TBILISI1790GEORGIA: PREDICTABLE POLITICAL PARTY COMMENTARY ON
[...] (U) Summary: Domestic political reaction to the Tagliavini report (reftel) predictably corresponded to long-held political perceptions. Various non-parliamentary opposition leaders took the opportunity, citing a finding in the report criticizing Georgia for a disproportionate use of force [...]
2009-10-02 14:56:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL RR GG
09TBILISI18GEORGIA: ATTEMPTS TO REPRESSURIZE GAS PIPELINE TO
[...] (C) Summary: Despite continued lack of access to sections of the natural gas pipeline running from Agara to Tskhinvali and on to Java, on December 31 the Georgian Oil and Gas Company (GOGC) pressurized the line to determine if gas could be restored to Tskhinvali. Unfortunately, during the r [...]
2009-01-06 13:48:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI1809GEORGIA: MR. LAVROV COMES TO GEORGIA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov visited Abkhazia during the first week of October, reportedly to sign an agreement on visa-free travel, discuss bilateral relations and confer about the results of the latest Geneva talks. Lavrov's schedule, as publicly released, included meetings [...]
2009-10-06 14:45:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RS GG
09TBILISI1810GEORGIA: MISSTEPS ON NEW OSCE PRESENCE
[...] (C) Summary and comment. OSCE Chairman-in-Office Special Representative Christopoulos visited Tbilisi and Tskhinvali September 30 - October 2, hoping to reach agreement on modalities for a new roving OSCE presence. Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Bokeria protested some process fouls, but a [...]
2009-10-06 15:16:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1823GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASD VERSHBOW
[...] (C) Summary. During your visit to Tbilisi, Saakashvili and his team will be watching closely for clues to any adjustments in U.S. policy toward Georgia. They will be anxious to discuss developments at the MOD, to clarify the new Minister's role and to reassure us of Georgia's commitment to [...]
2009-10-08 08:57:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS GG
09TBILISI1853GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION TRYING TO
[...] (C) Summary: The non-parliamentary opposition has spent much of the last three months since July when the final "cells" were taken off of Rustaveli Avenue prior to the Vice President's visit staying out of the spotlight. Behind the scenes, leaders have been engaged in largely fruitless dis [...]
2009-10-08 14:32:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI1877GEORGIA: GINCT DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-09 13:15:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER KGIC GG
09TBILISI1880GEORGIA: UN REP VERBEKE RAISES QUESTIONS ON
[...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. In an October 7 meeting with the Charge, UN Representative Johan Verbeke asked about the U.S. commitment to the Geneva talks -- in particular whether A/S Gordon would be attending the November 11 round. He said Russia was looking for an excuse to downgrade the pro [...]
2009-10-09 14:44:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV UNSC RS GG
09TBILISI1881GEORGIA: ROUGH RECEPTION FOR DANISH FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: During an October 6 visit to Abkhazia, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller met with de facto "foreign minister" Shamba and "president" Bagapsh. In meetings described by the Danish Honorary Consul, who accompanied the FM, as "disastrous," "poorly timed," and "awkward," Moell [...]
2009-10-09 15:06:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV DA RS GG
09TBILISI1884EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT SEPTEMBER 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-13 09:57:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG
09TBILISI1915GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI ACKNOWLEDGES HIS IMAGE
[...] (C) Summary. During a lunch following the Ambassador's credentials ceremony, President Saakashvili acknowledged the international community's questions about the Georgian Government's reform program. However, he insisted that he was committed to using the remaining four years of his term i [...]
2009-10-19 14:32:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL RS GG
09TBILISI1931GEORGIA IDENTIFIES SHERPA FOR NUCLEAR SECURITY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-23 15:16:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ENRG PREL PTER TRGY IAEA GG
09TBILISI1935GEORGIA: INCIDENT PREVENTION - LOTS OF MEETINGS,
[...] (C) Comment. The Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRMs) have become more routine and therefore there is less "breaking news" to report out of them. This has led to more regular contact and a general reduction of tension among the participants. However, the same themes are discus [...]
2009-10-27 14:33:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI1962GEORGIA:COUNTERING RUSSIAN CLAIMS OF TERRORISTS IN
[...] (C) Summary: A visit to Pankisi revealed no evidence of Russian claims of increased terrorist activity in the region. Stopping in each village after reaching the gorge, CDM leader Giorgi Targamadze facilitated discussion among locals, police officials, and community leaders on the situation [...]
2009-10-30 14:49:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI1973GEORGIA INCLINED TO SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-04 14:40:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNGA GG
09TBILISI1990GEORGIA: ALL RELATIVELY QUITE ON THE NOVEMBER 7
[...] (C) Summary/Comment: The second anniversary of the November 7, 2007, GoG crackdown on protesters were marked by low-key, sparsely attended and relatively uneventful demonstrations. The mile-long protest march from the Georgian Public Broadcaster's station to Parliament proceeded peacefully wi [...]
2009-11-09 14:36:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG
09TBILISI1991GEORGIA: PRE-ELECTION VISIT TO ABKHAZIA - NEW
[...] (C) Summary and comment. During a meeting in Sukhumi with Department and Embassy visitors, mid-level de facto officials expressed openness to additional visits from U.S. officials, but were non-committal on waiving the requirement for a "visa" for more senior visitors. They also expressed s [...]
2009-11-09 14:40:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PHUM PREF MOPS EAID RS GG
09TBILISI2002GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR DEMOCRACY WORKING GROUP
[...] (C) Summary. The holding of this first Democracy Working Group as envisioned by the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Charter is greatly anticipated and will be closely followed by the Georgian Government, opposition leaders, and civil society. The Georgian delegation will be anxious to dis [...]
2009-11-12 14:44:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI201GEORGIA: BLUE LANTERN CHECK LICENSE NUMBER
[...] (SBU) Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) officials made reftel inquiries to the Ministry of Defense for the Blue Lantern check for license number 050129249. The check did reveal some irregularities. Neither the Georgian Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Colonel Chachibaia, nor his deputy, Brigad [...]
2009-02-04 10:28:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALETTC KOMC GG
09TBILISI2012EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT OCTOBER 2009
[...] EXBS Georgia has recently learned that the Operation and Maintenance manual for the Caterpillar 3412 diesel engine is available on CD in the Russian language. The model 3412 engine powers the former U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) 82' Point Class patrol boats donated to Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkmeni [...]
2009-11-16 12:12:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG
09TBILISI2024GEORGIA: RISKY SITUATION IN THE BLACK SEA
[...] (C) Summary: Georgian officials confirm that they are neither interdicting vessels outside their territorial waters nor patrolling the waters north of the Enguri River in the Black Sea, and they continue to seek a way forward on shipping with Turkey. There have been no additional maritime in [...]
2009-11-19 12:20:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHSA EWWT MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI203GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF VCJCS
[...] (SBU) Your visit to Georgia follows the visit of USAREUR Commanding General Ham, which was well-received by the Georgians, but focused mainly on military-to-military discussions. Your itinerary will be broader - we have requested meetings with the President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, an [...]
2009-02-04 10:56:00Embassy TbilisiSECRETPGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI2063GEORGIA: U.S. POSTURE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) On November 25, we delivered the points detailed in reftel on the U.S. posture towards the Iranian nuclear program to Levan Nizharadze of the Americas division in MFA. We also noted that this information would likely be the first step as we continued to work with our international partne [...]
2009-11-25 15:15:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL IR GG
09TBILISI2066GEORGIA: UN SEES ABKHAZ INCIDENT PREVENTION
[...] (C) Summary. UN officials see the Abkhaz Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism as a useful mechanism to defuse tensions that provides a constructive vehicle for engaging all sides. The UN reported that most IPRM procedural issues were resolved within the first meeting. They also noted t [...]
2009-11-27 13:00:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI207GEORGIA: BORDER CONTROL CHANGES WORRY
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Organizational changes within the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOIA) effective January 1, specifically in the Border Police and Patrol Police, have changed operations at Georgia's ports of entry. Previously, the Border Police controlled operations and passenger proc [...]
2009-02-05 07:47:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV DOE KNNP GG
09TBILISI2083GEORGIA: ABKHAZ ELECTION CAMPAIGN HEATS UP
[...] (C) Summary and comment. UN team member Hailu Mamo, a long-time Abkhazia observer, believes Abkhaz de facto "president" Bagapsh now faces a tough battle for re-election. Given past elections in Abkhazia, it is possible that this could be a real contest. No single opposition candidate has em [...]
2009-12-01 15:13:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PBTS RS GG
09TBILISI2084GEORGIA: BELARUSIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS VISIT GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary: Belarusian Parliamentarians paid a visit to Georgia in late November, with part of the delegation stopping in Tbilisi to meet with Georgian government officials, and two smaller groups traveling into Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian press broadly covered the visit, and spec [...]
2009-12-01 15:16:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BO GG
09TBILISI2103GEORGIA: DASD WALLANDER PROMOTES PROGRESS ON REFORM
[...] (C) Summary and comment. On the margins of the U.S.-Georgia Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC),DASD Wallander spoke with senior government and parliamentary counterparts about next steps on reform, NATO membership, the National Security Review, the government's engagement strategy with t [...]
2009-12-03 11:27:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI2106GEORGIA: CHURCH AND STATE, MAINTAINING A DELICATE
[...] (C) Summary: Georgian Government officials are privately expressing frustration over the expansive role the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) plays in society. The long-hidden conflict between the GOC and GOG may be beginning to play out publicly in subtle ways. Internet videos mocking GOC Patr [...]
2009-12-03 14:03:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG KIRF
09TBILISI2109 Georgia: Supportive Reaction to President Obama's Speech
[...] (U) Summary: In line with Georgia's strong support of the mission in Afghanistan, senior Georgian officials and the MFA have publicly endorsed the plan laid out by President Obama on December 1st. Georgia's support is backed up by contributions: in November, Georgia sent 170 troops under the [...]
2009-12-04 05:22:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI2131GEORGIA: DETENTIONS RAISE TENSIONS AROUND SOUTH
[...] (C) Summary. A series of detentions over the past month has increased tension between Georgia and the South Ossetian de facto authorities. These recent incidents are not the only such cases, and older outstanding cases, some dating even from before the August 2008 war, have complicated reso [...]
2009-12-04 14:24:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS RS GG
09TBILISI2134EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT NOVEMBER 2009
[...] The Georgian Coast Guard (GCG) Head of Resources, Commander Vepkhvia Bibileishvili, has been dismissed and a successor has yet to be named. Commander Bibileishvili was the main point of contact for several EXBS initiatives at the Georgian Coast Guard base including the restoration of a vessel r [...]
2009-12-07 05:28:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG
09TBILISI2137GEORGIA: A/S POSNER LEADS DEMOCRACY WORKING GROUP
[...] (C) Summary: In the first full meeting of the Democracy Working Group under the umbrella of the U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership, DRL A/S Posner and EUR DAS Kaidanow both challenged the GoG to continue its democratic evolution noting the crucial link between establishing a plur [...]
2009-12-07 12:52:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI2138GEORGIA: DRL A/S POSNER AND EUR DAS KADINOW HEAR
[...] (C) Summary: In preparation for the Democracy Working Group, under the auspices of the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Commission, members of the U.S. delegation met with leading civil society representatives and opposition political leaders who expressed concerns in several areas, includ [...]
2009-12-07 13:05:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI2170GEORGIA: ELECTORAL CODE PASSES FIRST READING,
[...] (C) Summary: As expected, Parliament passed draft amendments to the electoral code on the first reading and is expected to adopt the law after a second and third reading scheduled for later this month. The draft consists of the general consensus as agreed to in the framework of the NDI spo [...]
2009-12-09 14:33:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI2180GEORGIA: LATVIAN PRESIDENT OFFERS MISHA MORAL
[...] (C) Summary: Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, accompanied by his wife and 65 Latvian businessmen, paid an official visit to Georgia in early December. With the economies of both Latvia and Georgia struggling, the visit centered on shared possibilities for enhanced business relationships. G [...]
2009-12-11 14:36:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LV GG
09TBILISI2181GEORGIA: BAGAPSH WINS IN ABKHAZIA
[...] (SBU) According to the "central election commission" of Abkhazia, incumbent "president" Sergey Bagapsh won the "presidential elections" in Abkhazia on December 12 with 59.4 percent of the vote, avoiding the need for a run-off. There was a striking dichotomy in official Georgian reaction tothe [...]
2009-12-14 15:51:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PBTS RS GG
09TBILISI222GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION MUST CHOOSE
[...] (C) Summary: The Georgian Parliament is renewing its efforts to create a working group to reform Georgia's Election Code (ref A) in 2009. Speaker Bakradze has invited significant political parties (inside and outside of Parliament),five local NGOs, the Central Election Commission (CEC),and [...]
2009-02-05 14:18:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG
09TBILISI2239GEORGIA: TRAINING OF GEORGIAN BATTALION FOR
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Both the U.S. and Georgia assess the ongoing training by U.S. Marines of the Georgian 31st battalion in preparation for deployment in Afghanistan as going well. The training is intended to increase Georgian forces' ability to operate in a counter-insurgency environme [...]
2009-12-16 12:26:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF GG
09TBILISI2240GEORGIA DOWNPLAYS NAURU'S RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Georgian officials downplayed the significance of Nauru's apparent December 14 recognition of Abkhazia's "independence," which Russia reportedly encouraged with an offer of $50 million to the island nation. Although officials are discussing with Australian counterpa [...]
2009-12-16 13:57:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS XM AS NR RS GG
09TBILISI2241GEORGIA: FIRST H1N1 DEATHS REPORTED; PUBLIC
[...] (U) Summary. Georgia reported its first confirmed deaths due to H1N1 the week of December 14. As of December 16, there are five confirmed deaths. The reported number of confirmed and unconfirmed H1N1 cases vary widely among the different sources. The reported confirmed cases range from 5 [...]
2009-12-16 13:58:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO EAID AMED SOCI GG
09TBILISI2255GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIANS SPURN OSCE WHILE
[...] (C) Summary and comment. During a December 11 trip Tskhinvali, South Ossetian de facto representatives made clear to outgoing Greek OSCE Chairman Special Representative Christopoulos and his incoming Kazakh successor Bolat Nurgaliyev their lack of interest in an OSCE roving team, their tough [...]
2009-12-21 12:11:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS EPET RS KZ GG
09TBILISI2257GEORGIA: TWO TEENAGERS HELD SINCE NOVEMBER 4
[...] (C) Three Georgians youths were released by the South Ossetian de facto authorities on Saturday December 19th, including two teenagers detained on November 4th and one 16 year old boy detained in July (ref A). Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg met on December 17 [...]
2009-12-21 13:32:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI2276GEORGIA: RUSSIAN SERVICEMAN SEEKS ASYLUM IN GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary. According to Ministry of Refugee Affairs (MRA) officials, a Russian contract soldier, Vitaliy Khripun, crossed the administrative border line (ABL) from the breakaway region of South Ossetia into undisputed Georgia December 20. The European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) and [...]
2009-12-22 14:23:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RU GG PHUM
09TBILISI2277GEORGIA: WWII MEMORIAL RELOCATION IN KUTAISI ENDS
[...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: The planned relocation of a bronze Soviet-era memorial and destruction of its backdrop took a tragic turn when the explosion designed to demolish the backdrop killed two and injured others. The memorial was removed to make way for the construction of a new parliament [...]
2009-12-23 05:32:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM RS GG
09TBILISI2280GEORGIANS PREPARED TO COMPROMISE WITH RUSSIA IN
[...] (C) Summary. The Governments of Georgia and Russia are continuing quiet talks regarding the opening of the land border crossing at Kazbegi-Larsi. Georgian FM Vashadze told the Ambassador that Georgia, Russia and Armenia will meet December 23-24 to continue the discussions begun in Yerevan in [...]
2009-12-23 13:59:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS AM RS GG
09TBILISI2283GEORGIA: DASD WALLANDER MEETING WITH MINDEF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander laid out the results of the Bilateral Defense Consulations (BDC),reaffirming U.S. support for Georgia's defense reform and modernization along Euro-Atlantic lines in her meeting with Georgian Minister of Defense Bacho Akh [...]
2009-12-24 10:05:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI2291GEORGIA: DASD WALLANDER LEADS BILATERAL DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. On 19-20 November, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste A. Wallander co-chaired with First Deputy Minister of Defense Nikoloz Vashakidze the 2009 U.S.-Georgia Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC) in Tbilisi, Georgia. The BDC established the strategic direct [...]
2009-12-29 12:42:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR MOPS GG RS
09TBILISI271GEORGIA: VP'S MUNICH SPEECH WELL RECEIVED,
[...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: Vice President Biden's speech in Munich was very well received in Georgia making front page news in Georgian papers. The Vice President's firm remarks that the United States would never recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia garnered most of the headlines. The meeting [...]
2009-02-09 11:20:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI272GEORGIA: KIDNAPPED FOOTBALL REFEREE FREED,
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Georgian soccer referee, reportedly kidnapped on February 7 on Georgia's main east-west highway by armed South Ossetians, was released to Georgian police on February 8. South Ossetian de-facto authorities, and Russian officials, claim the referee was found and freed by Ossetia [...]
2009-02-09 14:34:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG
09TBILISI313GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI WARNS OF EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC
[...] (U) Summary: On February 12 President Saakashvili delivered his fifth annual state of the union address to the Parliament, which was attended by Members of Parliament, regional governors and the Mayor of Tbilisi, members of the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps including the Charge and a group of [...]
2009-02-13 14:36:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG
09TBILISI314GEORGIA: DISCOVERY OF ORPHAN RADIOACTIVE SOURCE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. On Sunday, February 8, customs officers discovered by chance an orphan radioactive source buried near Kopitnari airport, which is fourteen kilometers west of Kutaisi in western Georgia. Officials from the Nuclear and Radioactive Safety Service (NRSS) determined that [...]
2009-02-13 14:41:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPARM PGOV PREL KNNP DOE GG
09TBILISI321GEORGIA: ABKHAZ, PROUD BUT NERVOUS -- AND READY TO
[...] (C) Summary and comment. During the first official USG trip to Abkhazia since the August 2008 war, Abkhaz de facto officials and civil society representatives showed new confidence in their so-called independence, but also unease with Russia's increasing influence. They believe Russia's reco [...]
2009-02-17 12:07:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG
09TBILISI322GEORGIA: SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN GALI
[...] (C) Summary. During the first official USG trip to Abkhazia since the August 2008 war, representatives of civil society in Gali provided information about several serious human rights concerns facing ethnic Georgians in Gali. They face extortion from well-organized criminal gangs; pressure t [...]
2009-02-17 12:10:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG
09TBILISI324GEORGIA: ALASANIA INTRODUCES POLITICAL TEAM,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Irakli Alasania introduced his political "team" on February 16 at a widely attended presentation event that attracted representatives of most of parties that make up the non-parliamentary opposition and garnered major press attention. The notable names joining Alasania's effo [...]
2009-02-17 14:38:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI332GEORGIA: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 11:55:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER KGIC GG
09TBILISI346GEORGIA SUBJECT: JSC PROCREDIT BANK GEORGIA
[...] Summary: In response to the reftel, Post's inquiry into JSC ProCredit Bank Georgia from both an international financial institution and a competitor revealed no negative information. End Summary. 2. Post has no reports questioning the credibility or positive image of JSC ProCredit Bank Geo [...]
2009-02-20 13:20:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN GG
09TBILISI358GEORGIA: MONITORS FIND NO BUILD-UP OF GEORGIAN
[...] (C) Summary: According to recent briefings by the EU and UN in Tbilisi, European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) and United Nations Observation Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) monitors conducted no-notice inspections of Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOIA) police stations and checkpoints [...]
2009-02-23 14:26:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL RS GG
09TBILISI359GEORGIA: NO RESPONSE YET ON NUCLEAR
[...] Poloff delivered questions in reftel to Nestan Bejanishvili, MFA's Second Secretary of the Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department, on February 17. Bejanishvili did not have immediate answers, but promised to advise poloff when there were substantive responses. Post will rep [...]
2009-02-23 15:34:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDAORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09TBILISI365GEORGIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009
[...] Per reftel, Embassy Tbilisi submits its Investment Climate Statement for Georgia for 2009. Introduction Since 2004 when the Saakashvili Government came to power, the Georgian Government has undertaken an ambitious program to modernize and liberalize its economy. Institutional reforms in [...]
2009-02-24 12:58:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV GG
09TBILISI379GEORGIA: PENDING CHANGE AT NATIONAL BANK OF GEORGIA
[...] (C) Embassy Summary/Comment: Acting head of the National Bank of Georgia (NBG),David Amaglobeli told us that he will be replaced by the current head of the Financial Sector Authority, Giorgi Kadagidze. Amaglobeli believes the decision is in connection with his view that the National Bank o [...]
2009-02-25 14:39:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL PGOV GG
09TBILISI392INFORMATION ON IBERIA REAL ESTATE
[...] Summary: In response to reftel, Post's inquiries into Iberia Real Estate (Iberia) and its umbrella company JSC Iberia Group revealed no negative information that would preclude OPIC financing. End Summary. 2. Iberia enjoys a strong reputation in Georgia's business arena. Iberia is a divers [...]
2009-02-27 05:08:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN GG
09TBILISI407GEORGIA: DOZENS BLOCKED FROM HOMES IN OTOBAIA,
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment. Although conflicting reports make it difficult to establish a precise chain of events,dozens of individuals were blocked from their homes in Otobaia after a resident of the village was detained and then fled from Abkhazia. The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs c [...]
2009-02-27 15:00:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI432GEORGIA: POSSIBILITIES FOR A NEW UNOMIG MANDATE
[...] (C) Summary and comment. UN Special Representative Verbeke has twice convened the British, French, German and U.S. chiefs of mission to brainstorm ideas for a new UN mission in Georgia. Taking for granted the eventual closure of the OSCE mission, Verbeke argued that the UN and EUMM will ne [...]
2009-03-05 14:30:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM RU GG
09TBILISI447GEORGIA: MAJOR MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN ABKHAZIA AND
[...] (C) Summary and comment. International monitors continue to report to us their observations of significant military assets and movements inside the Abkhaz and South Ossetian administrative boundaries, including tanks, artillery, and personnel. The assets observed exceed the limits the Georgi [...]
2009-03-06 13:53:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI449GEORGIA: CESIUM-137 SOURCES RECOVERED NEAR
[...] (S) Summary. On Thursday, February 26, the recovery of four Cesium-137 sources, discovered near the Kutaisi-Samtredia central highway (ref B),was successfully accomplished by a joint MOIA and Nuclear and Radiation Safety Service (NRSS) team. Officials from NRSS had assumed that there was jus [...]
2009-03-06 14:37:00Embassy TbilisiSECRETMNUC ASEC PARM PINR KNNP KCRM ZJ GG
09TBILISI450GEORGIA: MAJOR MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN ABKHAZIA AND
[...] (C) Summary and comment. International monitors continue to report to us their observations of significant military assets and movements inside the Abkhaz and South Ossetian administrative boundaries, including tanks, artillery, and personnel. The assets observed exceed the limits the Georgi [...]
2009-03-06 14:37:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI468GEORGIA: DESPITE CONCERNS, GEORGIA WILL COOPERATE
[...] (C) Summary. Senior Georgian officials have raised questions about the objectivity of two members of the EU's independent investigation of the causes of the August 2008 war. They have nevertheless pledged their continued support for and full cooperation with the commission's work. Swiss dip [...]
2009-03-10 14:54:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI470GEORGIA: NEW CORRECTIONS MINISTER TO TACKLE
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance, Dimitri Shashkin, who oversees Georgia's penitentiary, probation, and legal aid programs (septel),is also charged with coordinating the President's democratic reform agenda with actors inside and outside the government. During a Mar [...]
2009-03-10 15:31:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG
09TBILISI484GEORGIA: INCIDENT PREVENTION MECHANISM STALLED
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Despite efforts by the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM),OSCE and UNOMIG to facilitate implementation of the incident prevention mechanism agreed in Geneva, Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto authorities have publicly announced their unwillingness tocooperate for now. The [...]
2009-03-12 13:07:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI511GEORGIA: UNOMIG BEGINS EVALUATING RESPECT FOR
[...] (C) Summary and comment. UNOMIG personnel have begun evaluating the degree to which the various sides respect UNSCR 1866. UNOMIG's position is that 1866 re-imposes on all sides the conditions of paragraph 2a of the 1994 Moscow Agreement, which defines a security zone that excludes all milita [...]
2009-03-17 13:56:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS UNOMIG UNSC RS GG
09TBILISI512GEORGIA: IDPS: NEW AND OLD THEMES
[...] (C) Summary: Recent trips to the west Georgian cities of Kutaisi and Zugdidi reinforce the impression that many of the problems for IDPs from the 1990's remain unaddressed, and the GoG's plan to target their needs directly has not yet yielded visible results. While the GoG has been criticiz [...]
2009-03-17 14:05:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF RR GG
09TBILISI535GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI SEEKS UNAMBIGUOUS SUPPORT
[...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging discussion, President Saakashvili and EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed regional developments, U.S. assistance for Georgia and next steps on the Geneva process. The President shared his views on opposition politicians and the planned April 9 protests. President Sa [...]
2009-03-20 13:45:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AM GG
09TBILISI537GEORGIA: MINISTER OF CORRECTIONS INFORMS DIPCORP
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance (MCLA) Dimitry Shashkin briefed the diplomatic corps March 18 on his ministry's current status and future plans. Shashkin addressed both corrections and democratic reforms, as he did with the Ambassador during a previous meeting (re [...]
2009-03-20 14:07:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHM KDEM GG
09TBILISI538GEORGIA: GOG TO RECOGNIZE OTHER FAITHS, COULD LEAD
[...] (C) Summary: Reintegration Minister Temur Yakobashvili told the Ambassador on March 18 that the GoG is working on a change to the Civil Code to recognize additional churches, namely, the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC),Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim faiths. Currently, only the Georgian Orth [...]
2009-03-20 14:29:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF AR RU GG
09TBILISI55GEORGIA: RUMOR MILL CHURNING FEEDING A RUSSIAN
[...] (C) Summary/Comment: Post is closely following what has the markings of a possible Russian disinformation campaign to create distrust and speculation with the United States and President Saakashvili in the Georgian public. Rumors of impending U.S. or other outside action to remove Saakashvil [...]
2009-01-13 14:03:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI559GEORGIA: BURJANADZE SUPPORTERS ARRESTED ON WEAPONS
[...] (C) Summary/Comment: At roughly 5am on March 23, a number (roughly six to eight but exact numbers are still unclear) of Nino Burjanadze's supporters were arrested on charges of buying automatic weapons. Burjanadze called the Ambassador to register her outrage and to express concern that sh [...]
2009-03-23 12:27:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI56GEORGIA: HALO TRUST'S CLEARANCE ACTIVITIES TO
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment. A $4 million, USG-funded project being implemented by HALO Trust, a British demining NGO, for training, risk education, surveying and clearance operations in the Gori-Tskhinvali corridor and Abkhazia is back on track after a Georgian regulation threatened to derail [...]
2009-01-13 14:12:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PGOV PREF SOCI GG
09TBILISI57GEORGIA SIGNS MOU ON ENGURI WITH RUSSIAN FIRM RAO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: First Deputy Minister of Energy Marika Valishvili confirmed that the Georgian Ministry of Energy and Russian electricity trader InterRAO signed on December 31 a ten-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on joint management of the Enguri Hydropower Plant, located on both sides o [...]
2009-01-13 14:27:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI593GEORGIA: OSCE CIO BAKOYANNIS BRINGS LITTLE TO
[...] (C) Summary. In a March 23 visit to Tbilisi, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Bakoyannis reviewed progress in negotiating a new OSCE mandate for Georgia with Foreign Minister Vashadze. According to Georgian MFA and OSCE staff, Bakoyannis praised Georgia for its flexibility both privately and publicly [...]
2009-03-24 14:54:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS GR RS GG
09TBILISI594GEORGIA: PARLIAMENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: At a March 17 meeting, Parliament's Human Rights Committee Chairman Gia Arsenishvili told Emboffs that the priorities of his committee are passage of the criminal procedure code (CPC),reforms in the penitentiary/parole systems, and concerns about the lack of Georgi [...]
2009-03-24 14:55:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV GG
09TBILISI625GEORGIA: TIME TO MOBILIZE ON NEW UN MISSION
[...] (C) Summary and comment. UN Special Representative Johan Verbeke offered the U.S., French and German ambassadors additional details on his ideas for a new UN mission in Georgia, as well as a readout of recent trips to Washington, London, Moscow and Prague. He urged western countries to weigh [...]
2009-03-27 14:52:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS UNSC UNOMIG KBTS RS GG
09TBILISI626GEORGIA: OPPOSITION MEMBERS IN KIRBALI ALLEGE
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Residents of the village of Kirbali associated with the oppostion told OSCE that sometime during the week of March 15-21, local police officers approached them at their homes in the evening and asked questions for no apparent reason. Details of the report are sketchy [...]
2009-03-27 14:53:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM GG
09TBILISI638GEORGIA: IEDS KILL ONE, WOUND SEVERAL; TENSIONS
[...] (C) Summary. On March 29, two roadside IEDs killed one and wounded six Georgian police officers outside the village of Dvani, in undisputed Georgian territory just outside the South Ossetian administrative boundary. This was the first fatal incident along the South Ossetian and Abkhaz admini [...]
2009-03-30 14:28:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS RS GG
09TBILISI640GEORGIA IMPROVES ITS SCORES IN FORBES RATING
[...] Summary: Despite the August war with Russia and the global credit Crisis, Georgia's ranking in Forbes' annual rating of the best countries in which to do business improved from 68 in 2008 to 64 in 2009, out of 127 countries ranked. The ranking makes Georgia one of the leaders in the region an [...]
2009-03-31 05:38:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV GG
09TBILISI645 Highlighting World TB day in Georgia
[...] Summary: The Ambassador and Embassy officials joined the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP) of Georgia to acknowledge World TB day at the recently opened National Center of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Tbilisi on March 24. At the event, the Ambassador congratulated those working in th [...]
2009-04-01 06:12:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV GG
09TBILISI656 GEORGIA: PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI'S NEW HEALTH INSURANCE
[...] Summary/Comment: On March 1, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's new government initiative to provide inexpensive health insurance to a wider circle of the population was officially launched. Registration for the program will remain open until July  [...]
2009-04-02 07:54:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV GG
09TBILISI660GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT OFFERS OPPOSITION STRUCTURED
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 1, Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance Dimitry Shashkin presented a GOG proposal for dialogue and cooperation on the "second wave of democratic reforms" to the diplomatic community. Shashkin invited all political parties to discuss the government proposal on [...]
2009-04-02 15:17:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG
09TBILISI670GEORGIA OFFERS NON-PAPER ON NEW UN MISSION
[...] (C) On April 2, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov called in the DCM to provide a non-paper with Georgia's thoughts on a new UN mission in Abkhazia, Georgia (as promised in ref A; see paragraph 2 for text) and asked for U.S. support. He indicated he would also pass it to UN Special R [...]
2009-04-06 11:51:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS RS GG
09TBILISI674GEORGIA: GOOD AND BAD NEWS FROM EUMM
[...] (C) Summary and comment. In a recent trip to Moscow, EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) representatives heard that Russia and South Ossetia have taken steps toward establishing an Incident Prevention Mechanism (Abkhazia still awaits a new UN mandate). According to the EUMM, Russia expressed interes [...]
2009-04-06 15:20:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI682GEORGIA SEIZED WITH NON-PAPER ON NEW UN MANDATE
[...] (C) On April 6, DCM delivered to Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov the non-paper on a new UN mandate for Georgia contained in ref A. Although DCM explained that this did not represent a cleared USG interagency, Nalbandov expressed great appreciation for and interest in the document, [...]
2009-04-07 13:51:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS KPKO GG
09TBILISI683GEORGIAN BUSINESS WORRIES ABOUT APRIL 9 INSTABILITY
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Business leaders, both international and Georgian, are increasingly nervous about the upcoming April 9 protest. Nearly to a one, they highlight that opposition leaders, in their single-mindedness to oust Saakashvili, are slowly destroying the economy and Georgia's a [...]
2009-04-07 14:17:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI684OPIC FINANCING FOR LOYAL ESTATE LLC PROJECT
[...] Summary: In response to reftel, Post's inquiry into Loyal Estate LLC (Hyatt) project revealed no negative information that would impede issuance of OPIC credit. End Summary. 2. Kakha Sharabidze, CEO of the Loyal Estate told Econoff that financing remains in place to construct the hotel alt [...]
2009-04-08 05:30:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN GG
09TBILISI690Georgia: INL-funded Legal Socialization Program Launched
[...] Summary: The Georgia Legal Socialization Project (GLSP),funded by INL and implemented by Project Harmony, has successfully sent Ministry of Internal Affairs neighborhood and patrol police to ninth grade classes in order to work with teachers in implementing Project Harmony's "Lawful Culture" [...]
2009-04-08 11:41:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV GG
09TBILISI697GEORGIA: OSCE AND EUMM REPORT RUSSIAN TROOP
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. While Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov keeps warning of potential Georgian belligerence on April 9, the view from Tbilsi looks exactly the opposite. OSCE, UNOMIG and EUMM monitors are reporting to us that they do not see a Georgian threat, but they do see a substantial [...]
2009-04-08 14:46:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI711GEORGIA: PROTESTS PEACEFUL, OPPOSITION TURNOUT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The much anticipated April 9 protests proceeded peacefully, lasting about 6 hours from 2pm to 8pm. Non-parliamentary opposition leaders gave President Saakashvili twenty-four hours to resign or they will engage in further actions. The bulk of the protest took place in front [...]
2009-04-10 14:42:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI715GEORGIA: PREVIEW OF FM VASHADZE'S MEETING WITH THE
[...] (C) The Secretary's April 14 meeting with Georgian FM Grigol Vashadze will help reassure Tbilisi that efforts to improve relations with Russia will not come at the expense of the U.S.-Georgia relationship. The meeting is an opportunity to recognize the restraint and flexibility Georgia has s [...]
2009-04-13 12:53:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI716GEORGIA: PROTESTS CONTINUE DESPITE WANING INTEREST
[...] (C) Summary: Protests waned April 10-12 despite the expiration of the non-parliamentary opposition demand that President Saakashvili resign within 24 hours. On Friday, 5,000-8,000 protesters gathered in front of Parliament and then broke into three groups to block traffic and continue rall [...]
2009-04-13 13:14:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI719GEORGIA: INCREASED RUSSIAN MILITARY ACTIVITY IN
[...] (C) A non-paper passed to the Ambassador on April 11 from the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicates movements of Russian Black Sea naval forces from Sevastopol into the Black Sea. We believe that this information was passed to the Georgians by the Ukrainians. An April 11 report from [...]
2009-04-13 14:53:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR RU GG
09TBILISI735GEORGIA: PROTESTERS BLOCK MAJOR THOROUGHFARES,
[...] (C) Summary: Protests on April 14 again drew a modest crowd of 4000 - 6000 protesters. About 500 protesters blocked a major avenue in the heavily trafficked Vake district near Tbilisi State University. At the direction of Levan Gachechiladze (former presidential candidate) and David Gamkr [...]
2009-04-15 13:26:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI747GEORGIA: PROTESTS CONTINUE THOUGH CROWD PALTRY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The protests waned further on Wednesday, April 15 with only an estimated 1500-2000 protesters in front of Parliament. A small number of protesters (20-30) remained at the Presidential Residence. Approximately 30-40 protesters gathered at the Public Broadcasters building but [...]
2009-04-16 12:26:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI748GEORGIA: PUBLIC DEFENDER AND LAWYERS NGO WORK TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: As protests drag on in front of Parliament in Tbilisi (ref A),two local organizations continue to monitor the situation. The government's Public Defender's Office (PDO) has maintained its monitoring teams (Ref B) with 24-hour coverage since April 9. The PDO uses uniformd four [...]
2009-04-16 12:50:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG
09TBILISI750GEORGIA: ECONOMY 2003 TO 2008 - A CASE STUDY OF
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Although often overshadowed by political crisis and conflict over the separatist territories, the Georgian economy has been reformed and developed since the 2003 Rose Revolution. While the August 2008 war with Russia and the ongoing financial crisis continue to pres [...]
2009-04-16 13:20:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI759GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION NIXES
[...] (C) Summary: Protests were largely halted over the April 17-20 orthodox Easter holiday weekend with only a symbolic number of protesters in the streets. Despite government and EU representative Peter Semneby's efforts to try to engage the non-parliamentary opposition in talks, on Saturday, [...]
2009-04-21 13:43:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI760GEORGIA SEEKS HELP ON TWO POINTS IN UN NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Nalbandov called in the Ambassador April 21 to request U.S. assistance in encouraging the UN Secretary General (UNSYG) to focus on two particular points as he prepares for discussions on Georgia. First, Nalbandov noted the importance of maintaining a reference to G [...]
2009-04-21 14:52:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS KPKO GG
09TBILISI769GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION VOWS TO MAKE
[...] (C) Summary: As the non-parliamentary opposition promised, rallies resumed on Tuesday, April 22 with roughly 5,000 protesters staging in front of Parliament. Levan Gachechiladze vowed to make Tbilisi a "cell" city and the non-parliamentary opposition brought 50-60 fake jail cells and place [...]
2009-04-22 11:11:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI77TBILISI OSAC CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT - JANUARY 2009
[...] (U) Overall Crime and Safety Situation: There are regular reports of crimes against Americans and other westerners in Tbilisi and Georgia as a whole, although the level of violent crime has decreased due to improvements in the standard of living and more visible law enforcement presence in th [...]
2009-01-14 12:23:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER ASEC GG
09TBILISI770TWO VERY DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE SAME COIN -
[...] (C) Summary: Ethnic Armenian Georgians living in Samtskhe-Javakheti (S-J) generally want their province to remain as part of Georgia, albeit with tacit recognition by Tbilisi of Armenian as a regional language. For Ethnic Armenian Georgians (or Javakhsi),the grass is indeed not greener on [...]
2009-04-22 11:31:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID SCUL KIRF AM GG
09TBILISI786GEORGIA: OPPOSITION PROTESTERS INFLATE REGIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: April 22 press reports that the radical opposition mustered 600-plus vehicles from the regions to join 30,000 protesters in front of Parliament were exaggerated and incorrect. Embassy observers and Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOIA) officials estimated no more than 5,000 prote [...]
2009-04-23 13:24:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG
09TBILISI792GEORGIA: OPPOSITION ENCOURAGES WOMEN PRISON RIOT
[...] (C) Summary: Over Orthodox Easter night, April 18-19, approximately 600 women prisoners rioted in Tbilisi's Women's Prison Number Five. They reportedly were upset that they were not granted pardons as part of a general Government pardon of 400 other prisoners throughout the country. Minister [...]
2009-04-24 12:03:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM GG
09TBILISI795GEORGIA: OPPOSITION ERECTS MORE "CELLS," PROTESTS'
[...] (SBU) Summary: Radical opposition protests continued on April 23 and leaders called upon their dwindling supporters to maintain their presence throughout the weekend. Despite cold rain and meager numbers, the opposition continued to erect more "cells" in the areas surrounding Parliament, the [...]
2009-04-24 13:00:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG
09TBILISI800GEORGIA: PROTESTS TO CONTINUE BUT STRAINS ARE
[...] (C) Summary: Modest numbers of protesters turned out both on Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26 with crowds numbering around 2-3000 and 500-1000 respectively. "Cells" continued to block traffic in front of the Georgia Public Broadcaster (GPB) Building, Freedom Square, the Ministry of [...]
2009-04-27 12:40:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI808GEORGIA: FIRST MEETING OF INCIDENT PREVENTION
[...] (C) Summary and comment. The first meeting of the Joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (JIPRM) was held on April 23 on the South Ossetian administrative boundary line at Ergneti. The fact the meeting occurred was a minor victory itself, and the parties agreed to hold a subsequent [...]
2009-04-28 13:00:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI809GEORGIA: PROTEST UPDATE - NO IDEAS, NO PROTESTERS,
[...] (C) Summary: Protests on Monday, April 27 which were supposed to include announcement of a new action plan consisted of no more than 1000 protesters in front of Parliament and a few more scattered at the Presidential Residence, Public Broadcasters Building, State Chancellery, and Freedom Sq [...]
2009-04-28 13:57:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI816GEORGIA: PROTESTS TO CONTINUE DESPITE HANDSHAKE -
[...] (SBU) Summary: Protests were largely abandoned on Tuesday, April 28 as non-parliamentary leaders attended church services for the day of reconciliation. Crowds in front of Parliament were estimated at 500 or less. At a church service led by the Patriarch, that only Irakli Alasani (Allianc [...]
2009-04-29 11:04:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI819 The Roma in Georgia
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel marking International Roma Day, the Embassy posted the Secretary's message on its website and took the opportunity to meet with the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center in Georgia and a representative of the Civil Registry of the Ministry of Justi [...]
2009-04-29 14:25:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KPAO GG
09TBILISI827GEORGIA: PROTESTS STAGNANT - SIGNS OF DESPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: Protests continued on Wednesday, April 29 although only about 2000-3000 attended, a number of who appeared to be onlookers enjoying a nice day rather than dedicated supporters. Protest leaders have vowed to continue, but have not articulated a concrete plan. GOG representativ [...]
2009-04-30 13:20:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI840 MGSF01 GEORGIA'S SWINE FLU RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) As of May 1, no cases of swine flu have been reported in Georgia. The EAC convened on April 28, ensured that pandemic tripwires were reviewed, and shared ref A with American employees per ref A. Schools with U.S. Embassy dependents have been notified of the swine flu problem. Appropri [...]
2009-05-01 13:55:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09TBILISI841GEORGIA: EUMM CONFIRMS COMPLIANCE WITH MOU ON
[...] (C) Summary and comment. The EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) released a public statement April 28 announcing the automatic renewal of its MOU with the Georgian Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Georgia's continued compliance with its provisions. The statement notes that the EUMM has not been able to [...]
2009-05-01 14:19:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS RS GG
09TBILISI843GEORGIA: DFM NALBANDOV ON UN, OSCE
[...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov summoned the Ambassador April 29 to request further U.S. help in encouraging the UN Secretary General to title his report "Situation in Abkhazia, Georgia." He also identified particular redlines for Georgia in the negotiations for a new [...]
2009-05-01 14:21:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL OSCE GR RS KZ GG
09TBILISI850GEORGIA: PROTESTS CONTINUE - NO NEGOTIATIONS FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Protests continued through the weekend although crowds only numbered around 500-1500. Roads remained blocked by "cells" and the opposition announced that more disruptions are being planned. A May 2 concert featuring Levan Gachechiladze's brother, Utsnobi ("Unknown" or "Anonym [...]
2009-05-04 14:28:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI857GEORGIAN FORCES IN CONTROL OF MILITARY BASE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOIA) reported that at 1440 local time the mutineers at the Mukhravani military base surrendered. The soldiers involved have surrendered and laid down their weapons and the MOIA is in control of the base. According to the media, President Saak [...]
2009-05-05 12:27:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RRB GA
09TBILISI858GEORGIA: ESCALATION OF PROTESTS POSTPONED AFTER
[...] (C) Summary: The non-parliamentary opposition told the press that it intends to escalate the protests by blocking major roads into Tbilisi between 4pm and 5pm local time on Tuesday, May 5. Non-parliamentary leaders intend to give President Saakashvili 72 hours to resign or else they will c [...]
2009-05-05 13:31:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI866GEORGIA: FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEFS ON MUTINY
[...] (C) Summary. On May 5, Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze briefed the diplomatic corps on the attempted mutiny earlier in the day, which ended peacefully. He offered additional details on the event itself, which he described as designed to disrupt the NATO Partnership for Peace exercise; he and [...]
2009-05-07 04:59:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI875GEORGIA: PROTESTERS TRY TO ENTER POLICE STATION,
[...] (C) Summary: Georgian non-parliamentary opposition protests turned violent, May 6 when Giorgi Gachechiladze (a pop singer known as "Utsnobi" - "Anonymous"),his brother Levan Gachechiladze and other radical opposition leaders lead a group of protesters from Parliament to Digomi police stati [...]
2009-05-07 12:40:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI894GEORGIA: PROTESTS - OPPOSITION APPEARS TO STEP
[...] (C) Summary: On May 7, a day after violence erupted when opposition protesters charged a police station, non-parliamentary opposition leaders indicated a new willingness to engage in dialogue, although they did not present a united message. Irakli Alasania (Alliance) called for dialogue wi [...]
2009-05-08 13:05:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI90GEORGIA: PRIME MINISTER ILL, AND RUMORED TO BE
[...] (C) Summary: After undergoing several weeks of medical treatment in Germany, Prime Minister Grigol Mgaloblishvili returned to Tbilisi following the Georgian Orthodox Christmas holiday. Throughout his absence, rumors circulated in the capitol, despite denials by President Saakashvili, that Mg [...]
2009-01-16 13:53:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON GG
09TBILISI907GEORGIAN ECONOMY WORSENS, BUDGET CRISIS POSSIBLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Buffeted by the global economic crisis and domestic political instability, the Georgian economy is in decline. The economy constricted 6.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009, and initial April numbers are not promising. Remittances from abroad, especially Russia, have decline [...]
2009-05-12 15:11:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI908GEORGIA: EU DISCUSSIONS REGARDING EUMM'S FUTURE
[...] (C) Summary and comment. According to EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) Head of Mission Haber, EU member states do not have a clear vision of the EUMM in the future. The mission will almost surely be extended for a year, but some elements in the EU would prefer to see it end at that point. Assumi [...]
2009-05-12 15:13:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS RS GG
09TBILISI909GEORGIA: PROTESTS - SOME BLUSTER, LITTLE ACTION
[...] (C) Summary: A small crowd of 2000-2500 appeared in front of Parliament Tuesday May, 12 for what was scheduled to be a major announcement on the non-parliamentary opposition's new action plan in response to their meeting with Saakashvili. No announcement of blocking roads or other near ter [...]
2009-05-13 13:42:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI920GEORGIA: PROTESTS - NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION
[...] (C) Summary: The non-parliamentary opposition's pledge to unblock the road in front of the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) was rescinded, then reinstated and finally implemented early May 14. The back and forth highlighted the now open and obvious rift within the leadership of the non-par [...]
2009-05-15 11:31:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI924GEORGIA: ARRIVAL OF RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS IN
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Two agreements signed April 30 by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto "presidents" Sergey Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity on "joint efforts for protection of state borders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia," has further reinforced Russian c [...]
2009-05-15 14:27:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPARM PBTS PGOV PREL MARR MOPS RS GG
09TBILISI925GEORGIA: CODEL DAVIS DISCUSSES BILATERAL TIES WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 8-9 visit to Tbilisi, CODEL Davis met with President Saakashvili, Minister of Defense Vasil Sikharulidze, women leaders in the GOG and Parliament, and the Speaker of the Parliament (reported septel). Sikharulidze covered Georgia's ongoing defense reforms and the re [...]
2009-05-18 04:57:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG
09TBILISI932GEORGIA: PROTESTS QUIET OVER THE WEEKEND
[...] (C) Summary: Only about 1000 protesters showed up on Saturday and Sunday in front of Parliament. The non-parliamentary opposition announced its plans to hold rallies in all of Georgia to prove to President Saakashvili that the whole country demanded his resignation. The non-parliamentary [...]
2009-05-18 13:56:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI942GEORGIA: SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT UN REPORT ON
[...] (C) Summary and comment. The Georgian Government has made clear, both publicly and privately, its discontent with the UN Secretary General (UNSYG)'s report on Abkhazia, Georgia. It perceives both the title and key elements of the report's substance as a capitulation to Russian pressure, as evi [...]
2009-05-20 14:09:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KBTS RS GG
09TBILISI945GEORGIA: PROTESTS GEARING UP FOR MAY 26
[...] (C) Summary: Protests remained small on May 20. Utsnobi (Giorgi Gachechiladze) performed a rally concert in Batumi to kick off the non-parliamentary opposition's plan to bring "all of Georgia" to Tbilisi for a May 26 rally (independence day parade). Post heard payments to protesters have r [...]
2009-05-21 11:08:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI951GEORGIA: SHOOT OUT WITH AT-LARGE MUTINY SUSPECTS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-21 13:38:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI956GEORGIA: DASD WARLICK'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Mary Warlick, accompanied by the Ambassador, met May 8 with Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria to discuss bilateral issues and review military assistance programs. The meeting provided an opportunity for Bokeria to discuss the ongoing polit [...]
2009-05-22 10:24:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG
09TBILISI957GEORGIA PROTESTS: QUIET TALKS ONGOING - WESTERN
[...] (C) Summary: A small group of protesters locked the major roads on both sides of the river that flows through downtown Tbilisi for roughly 40 minutes May 21 prompting an angry response from motorists that was widely covered in the press. Non-parliamentary opposition rallies in Zugdidi and [...]
2009-05-22 11:19:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI96GEORGIA: WINTER LULL IN INCIDENTS ABRUPTLY ENDS
[...] (C) Summary and comment. After a few weeks of relative calm over the holidays -- which saw several attacks, but no injuries -- a number of serious incidents occurred along the administrative boundaries with South Ossetia and Abkhazia in recent days. On January 16 a Georgan police officer was [...]
2009-01-20 14:32:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG
09TBILISI961GEORGIA: INJURED MUTINY ORGANIZERS STABLE,
[...] (C) Summary. The two mutiny suspects detained following a firefight yesterday, Levan Amiridze and Koba Otanadze, remain in stable condition in a government-controlled hospital, according to the press. According to the Ombudsman,s Office, Otanadze,s brother Nugzar Otanadze was arrested two w [...]
2009-05-22 15:39:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI968GEORGIA: OPPOSITION PROMISED SURPRISES - PATRIARCH
[...] (C) Summary: On Georgian Independence Day, May 26, the non-parliamentary opposition drew its largest crowd since beginning protests on April 9. Between 45,000-50,000 rallied at Dynamo Stadium, where various non-parliamentary opposition leaders spoke to a largely subdued audience. Only sing [...]
2009-05-27 12:36:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI97GEORGIA: MINISTER OF ENERGY ON ENGURI AO DEAL,
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Energy Alexander Khetaguri provided the Ambassador with more details and his private thoughts on the recent deal to enter into a joint management agreement for the Enguri power facility with Russian firm InterRAO-UES (ref A). Despite the negative press the Minister [...]
2009-01-20 14:35:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG
09TBILISI972GEORGIA: PROTESTS SMALL - QUIET
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On May 27, a day after large scale demonstrations, only a small group of protesters numbering roughly 1000-1500 gathered in front of Parliament. The crowd listened to largely subdued speeches by non-parliamentary leaders who have decided to continue protests in sp [...]
2009-05-28 11:30:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI979GEORGIA: PATRIARCHATE BACKTRACKS - VIOLENCE ERUPTS
[...] (C) Summary: A group of about 500 protesters picketed the Mayor's office on May 28 from about noon until 3pm. The rally with about 1000-2000 protesters reconvened for a concert in front of Parliament later that evening. Violence erupted around 9pm local time when protesters allegedly atta [...]
2009-05-29 12:24:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI980GEORGIA: UK FCO DIRECTOR ON ABKHAZIA TRIP, NEED
[...] (C) Summary. During a visit to Tbilisi, Michael Davenport, Director of the Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia Directorate at the British FCO, urged the United States to set a clear example for the international community on how to move forward on Georgia, in particular with regard to Rus [...]
2009-05-29 12:39:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC UNOMIG RS GG
09TBILISI982GEORGIA: CONTROVERSY OVER MAY 31 ELECTIONS IN
[...] (C) Summary and comment. On the eve of May 31 parliamentary elections in South Ossetia, controversy has erupted over the electoral system and establishment of political parties by the "de facto" administration. While Russian officials and South Ossetian "de facto" administration officials cl [...]
2009-05-29 14:10:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KBDS RU GG
09TBILISI999GEORGIA: WEEKEND PROTESTS QUIET - CELLS REMOVED AS
[...] (SBU) Summary: A small crowd of 1500 rallied on May 29 the day after scuffles along Rustaveli Avenue turned violent injuring 14, including eight policemen. A similarly small crowd rallied May 30; only a crowd of about 400-500 rallied May 31. Cells were cleared from Freedom Square overnight [...]
2009-06-01 12:05:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TEGUCIGALPA1002CODEL ROS-LEHTINEN (OCTOBER 5-6)
[...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy welcomes the October 5-6 visit of Codel Ros-Lehtinen to Honduras. Honduras, a close ally of the United States, is currently in the throes of a severe political crisis. Honduran society is severely polarized and reconciliation of the Honduran people will be essential fo [...]
2009-10-02 15:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EAID ECON CASC ASEC
09TEGUCIGALPA1007TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #69 10/02/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC),accompanied by Congressmen Aaron Schock (R-IL),Doug Lamborn (R-CO),and Peter Roskam (R-IL) arrived in Tegucigalpa October 2. The CODEL had arranged its own meetings at the Presidential Palace with de facto regime President Micheletti, the Supreme Court, the [...]
2009-10-02 23:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1011TFH01: OAS REPRESENTATIVE BRIEFS G-16
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador John Biehl of the Organization of American States (OAS) told the G-16 donors group on October 2 that a delegation of OAS Foreign Ministers will visit Honduras on October 7. Biehl said he is optimistic that progress is being made toward finding a solution to Honduras' [...]
2009-10-05 19:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1012TFHO1: PORTS RECOVERING FROM DISRUPTION FOLLOWING
[...] (U) Summary: Though the abrupt return of deposed President Manuel Zelaya briefly complicated the import, export and distribution of goods, business conditions have stabilized. The 48-hour curfew that began on September 21 severely disrupted operations, but one U.S. cargo company reported th [...]
2009-10-05 21:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELTN ETRD EWWT PGOV PINS KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1013TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #70 10/05/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL),along with members of her staff, arrived in Tegucigalpa October 5. The CODEL had arranged meetings at the Presidential Palace with de facto regime representatives and a press conference. The CODEL will also meet with Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodrigu [...]
2009-10-06 00:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1037(C/NF) AFTERMATH OF PRESIDENT ZELAYA'S RETURN TO
[...] (S) This message is in response to questions posed in section A of reftel. 2. (C/NF) Liberal Party candidate Elvin Santos and National Party candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo's reactions to President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was initially negative, but improved after meeting jointly with him. Sant [...]
2009-10-09 23:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1045TFH01: REGIME ISSUES DECREE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The de facto regime enacted a decree on October 5 providing for the revocation of the operating licenses of media outlets that violate national security and public order. This decree follows a decree severely curtailing civil liberties enacted on September 26. De facto regime [...]
2009-10-14 01:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1048TFH01: GUAYMURAS DIALOGUE
[...] (C) Summary. The commissions representing the de facto regime and President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya at the Guaymuras dialogue reached agreement on all articles of the San Jose Accord on October 14, which would require Congress to decide on restoration of officials to their pre-coup positions [...]
2009-10-15 19:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1050TFHO1: POLITICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS WRAP-UP
[...] (SBU) Allegations continue of human rights violations following the September 26 decree that severely limited civil liberties and remains in effect, despite an announcement by the de facto regime on October 5 that it would be abrogated. The pro-Zelaya radio and television stations closed under [...]
2009-10-16 16:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1051ZELAYA NEGOTIATORS BELIEVE AGREEMENT NEAR
[...] (C) Summary. Negotiators for President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya expressed optimism that an agreement on the Guaymuras accords would be reached October 16, in a meeting that morning with the Ambassador and DCM. Zelaya negotiators Minister of Governance Victor Meza and Rodil Rivera Rodil told the A [...]
2009-10-16 17:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1052DROUGHT DAMAGING BUT (SO FAR) NOT DIRE
[...] (U) Summary: Drought conditions brought on by El Nino are affecting large areas of Honduras, damaging crops and putting the food security of 16,000 families at risk. Agriculture officials indicate that they have enough grain reserves to supply the country's needs through early 2010. However, [...]
2009-10-16 18:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON SENV EAID HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1083TFH01: EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA SUPPORTS BRAZILIAN
[...] (C) Summary: Brazilian Charge expressed gratitude for USG intervention to stop the loud music and animal sounds targeted at Brazil's Embassy in Tegucigalpa. Since ousted Honduran President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya took residence at their Embassy on September 21, Embassy Tegucigalpa has been provi [...]
2009-10-24 00:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1087TFH01: FRUSTRATED PRO-ZELAYA RESISTANCE OPPOSES
[...] (C) Summary. Pro-Zelaya resistance movement leaders told the Ambassador on October 23 that, although the Guaymuras negotiations seem to have run their course, they remain open to proposals to resolve the country's crisis. They said resistance movement members are frustrated and some want to [...]
2009-10-28 02:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1090 Merida 2.0 in Honduras
[...] The following is Mission Honduras' input for the revised Merida Initiative strategy. ------------------------------------ I. Security Environment - Assessment ------------------------------------ 2. Citizen security has become an increasing problem for Honduras over the past decade, a [...]
2009-10-29 15:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID MASS MARR KJUS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1100TFHO1: POLICE AND MILITARY USE FORCE TO BREAK UP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Honduran National Police spokesperson confirmed that police and military used force during an October 29 anti-coup protest near the national stadium in Tegucigalpa. Local human rights organizations told Poloff that an unconfirmed 25 protestors were injured. A group of Americ [...]
2009-11-03 20:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR KDEM HO PHUM
09TEGUCIGALPA1103TFH01: TEGUCIGALPA/SAN JOSE AGREEMENT SIGNED
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Craig Kelly, and National Security Council Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs during an October 28-30 trip to Honduras met with President Jose Manu [...]
2009-11-03 23:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1114 TFHO1 Gangs Wage War While Police Distracted By Street
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since a June 18 prison escape by leaders of a Honduras transnational gang, a street war has killed at least 42 people, including four police and nine civilian women and children, most in broad daylight. The 18th Street and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gangs are exploiting the curr [...]
2009-11-06 17:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR SMIG PINS PINR SOCI PGOV CVIS HO KCRM KJUS
09TEGUCIGALPA1119HONDURAS ELECTIONS: WHAT WE ARE WATCHING
[...] (C) Summary: Due to the political crisis, the Honduran election season has effectively been truncated to a one-month campaign period from the signing of the Tegucigalpa/San Jose Agreement October 30 to election day November 29. The crisis has changed the elections landscape in many ways, most [...]
2009-11-06 21:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1120TFH01: DRL VISIT & UPDATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS CASES
[...] (C) Summary. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Deskoff visited Honduras October 13-20 and met with a broad spectrum of Honduran society to observe first hand the human rights situation following the June 28 coup d'etat. Post has confirmed that the October 17 death of union pr [...]
2009-11-06 21:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO PHUM
09TEGUCIGALPA1121TFHO1: UPDATE ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN HONDURAS
[...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of cables regarding meetings held by Poloff and visiting DRL Deskoff October 13-20 to obtain a better understanding of the human rights situation in Honduras since the June 28 coup d'etat. DRL Deskoff and Poloff met with Cesar and Yani Rosenthal, own [...]
2009-11-06 21:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO PHUM
09TEGUCIGALPA1123HTF01: VIEWS OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY ABOUT THE COUP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the third in a series of cables regarding meetings held by Poloff and visiting DRL Deskoff October 13-20 to obtain a better understanding of the human rights situation in Honduras since the June 28 coup d'etat. On October 14, DRL Deskoff and Poloff met Monsignor Juan Jose [...]
2009-11-06 21:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO PHUM
09TEGUCIGALPA1124EFFORTS TO GET TEGUCIGALPA/SAN JOSE AGREEMENT BACK
[...] (C) Summary. President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya announced on November 6 that de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti had violated the letter and spirit of the Tegucigalpa/San Jose Accord and that it was defunct due to the failure to establish a government of national unity and reconciliation [...]
2009-11-07 02:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1147TFHO1: EXPANDING ELECTRICAL ENERGY ALTERNATIVES
[...] (U) Summary: The National Electrical Energy Company of Honduras has re-issued a request for proposals for 250 megawatts of renewable energy in a way that will allow small to medium-sized producers to compete with larger companies. Many small producers indicate they are ready to submit propo [...]
2009-11-13 00:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBTIO EAID ECON ENRG ETRD SENV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1166HONDURAS-EL SALVADOR TRADE BARRIER DISPUTE LEADS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Honduran agricultural association is planning to hold a demonstration aimed at disrupting traffic through the Honduras-El Salvador border crossing point at El Amatillo on November 17. The association, the National Federation of Farmers and Ranchers of Honduras (FENAGH),is [...]
2009-11-17 16:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ECIN ELTN ETRD PBTS PREL CASC BEXP
09TEGUCIGALPA1172009 HONDURAS TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] The following is the Trafficking in Persons Country Assessment For Honduras. TIME PERIOD: April 2008 to mid-February 2009 - Govt. actions Acronyms used: IHNFA Honduran Institute for Children and the Family TIP Trafficking in Persons IO International Organizations NGO Non-governme [...]
2009-02-23 12:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF
09TEGUCIGALPA1192TFH01: NATIONAL PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PEPE
[...] (C) Summary. National Party candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo is the presidential candidate who, two weeks away from election day, polls suggest is on track to win the election scheduled for November 29. Lobo's pledge to Hondurans is that he will improve families' finances, generate employment [...]
2009-11-20 16:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1199TFHO1: BORDER BLOCKADE PROMPTS HONDURAS AND EL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A blockade at a Honduras-El Salvador border point on November 17, organized by a Honduran farmers' association to protest El Salvadoran restrictions on food imports (reftel),significantly disrupted cross-border traffic. In response, Honduran and El Salvadoran officials met t [...]
2009-11-23 14:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ECIN ELTN ETRD PBTS PREL CASC BEXP
09TEGUCIGALPA1205TFH01: ELECTIONS AND THE PROSPECT FOR DISRUPTION
[...] (C) Summary: Continued opposition to elections by supporters of President Zelaya coupled with technical weaknesses in the electoral authorities' reporting system keep open the possibility that the November 29 elections could be disrupted in a few of Honduras' 18 departments, though a nationwid [...]
2009-11-26 00:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1207TFH01: UPDATE ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION PRE-ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary. The Embassy has been at the forefront to pressure the de facto National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL) to take seriously an investigation of interference of the signal of anti-coup Channel 36 television station. On November 23, the de facto head of CONATEL, Miguel Rodas [...]
2009-11-26 00:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO PHUM
09TEGUCIGALPA1212SCENESETTER FOR THE ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. Honduras will hold a general election on November 29 with more than 15,000 candidates running for about 2,900 elected positions, including the presidency, all 128 congressional seats, and 298 mayoralties. The scheduling of the election pre-dates the June 28 coup and the election [...]
2009-11-27 19:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1216TFH01: 11/27 HUMAN RIGHTS CASES - GRADIS DEATH AND
[...] (U) Summary. The body of Luis Gradis Espinal, a resistance coordinator, was found in Tegucigalpa on November 23. Human rights organizations alleged that police may have been involved in the kidnapping and killing of Gradis, however police believe the murder resulted from an armed robbery. [...]
2009-11-27 21:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR KDEM HO PHUM
09TEGUCIGALPA1219TFH01: ELECTIONS SITREP 1000 HOURS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Polls opened nationwide with some delays and voting has begun in a generally orderly fashion. There has been a heavy turnout and voters are enthusiastic. The atmosphere in the capital of Tegucigalpa is quiet and normal. Embassy reporting teams deployed nationwide reported no [...]
2009-11-29 16:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1220TFH01: ELECTIONS SITREP 1230 HOURS
[...] (U) Summary. Voting continues without incident nationwide. Several Embassy teams report continuing high voter turnout. There are reports of supplies of indelible ink running low in some locations. No Embassy team reported any security incidents. End Summary. THE POLLS --------- 2. [...]
2009-11-29 19:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1221TFH01: ELECTIONS SITREP 1600 HOURS
[...] (U) Summary. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) extended the closing time of polling centers from 16:00 to 17:00. Security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse anti-coup demonstrators in San Pedro Sula who allegedly threw rocks. A Reuters cameraman was injured in the incident [...]
2009-11-29 22:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1222TFH01: ELECTIONS SITREP - FINAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. November 29 was a great day for Honduran democracy and the Honduran people displayed great civic commitment in expressing their will in the ballot box. Early Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) results showed that National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo was elec [...]
2009-11-30 05:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1223AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya discussed the results of the general elections. Zelaya believes turn out was minimal and that the process had not been credible. The Ambassador countered by passing on the data available suggesting that the process had been free [...]
2009-11-30 20:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1235TFH01:ELECTION RESULTS
[...] (U) Summary. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced unverified results from the rapid transmission of preliminary results (TREP) system on election day, November 29. The TREP figures have now been subject to verification and indicate a voter turnout rate of 50 percent. National Pa [...]
2009-12-02 00:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1241TFH01: CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE ON RESTITUTION BEGINS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Congress began its discussion of the restoration of President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya around 13:00 local time on December 2. The Executive Committee of the Congress read the relevant portions of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord, the letter to the Congress from the commissi [...]
2009-12-03 00:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1249TFHO1: WATER RATIONING IN TEGUCIGALPA
[...] (U) Summary: Local water authorities in Tegucigalpa predict shortages during the dry season of this drought year, and have begun rationing city water services. The manager of the water company hopes that the combination of rationing and drilling new wells will enable the city to continue prov [...]
2009-12-03 23:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON SENV PGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1269HONDURAS: November 2009 INL Monthly Report
[...] Summary. With the Ambassador's approval, Regional Corrections Advisor has resumed working-level contact with Honduran prisons officials and is advising the architect/project manager of the maximum security building project. Post followed up on the interim report of an at-risk youth program gra [...]
2009-12-08 23:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA127AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON NEWLY APPOINTED
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with newly appointed Defense Minister Edmundo Orellana on February 12, and discussed their mutual concern over the ungoverned spaces in the Mosquitia, Honduras' cooperation with Nicaragua, arms destruction, the Honduran Armed Forces' (HOAF) involvement in inter [...]
2009-02-27 16:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PGOV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1275MONITORING VISIT OF G/TIP FY 08 PROGRAM IN HONDURAS
[...] (U) Summary. Poloff met local representatives of CHF International on November 17 in Tegucigalpa to discuss the status of the G/TIP funded "Integrated Protection Services for Victims of Trafficking" (IPSVT) program and in response to reftel. The goal of the program in Honduras is to facilita [...]
2009-12-10 16:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KTIP KWMN PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1277TFHO1: EMBASSY TEAMS REPORT ON ELECTIONS
[...] (U) Summary. This cable provides analysis on the teams deployed by the Embassy throughout Honduras to witness and report back on the general election of November 29, 2009. Embassy teams reported that the vote count at the polling stations they visited went smoothly with few nullified ballot [...]
2009-12-10 16:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA128IRANIAN VISIT TO HONDURAS CANCELED BY PRESIDENT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 16:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1280TFH01: ZELAYA'S ABORTED DEPARTURE FROM HONDURAS
[...] (S) Summary: President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya told the Ambassador late on the afternoon of December 9 that he had obtained safe passage out of Honduras from the de facto regime and would depart that evening on an airplane provided by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and be given "guest of [...]
2009-12-10 19:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1281TFH01: FEMALE REPRESENTATION DECREASES IN CONGRESS
[...] (U) Summary. Election results issued by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) showed that the National Congress will maintain its traditional plurality of male representatives. The next 128-seat legislature will likely contain 25 congresswomen, comprising 19.53 percent of the total congress [...]
2009-12-11 13:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1282TFH01: PROPOSED RESPONSE TO INCREASED DRUG
[...] (U) Summary: The Mission suspended some aspects of joint counternarcotics activity with the GOH as a result of the June 28 coup d'etat. Over the course of calendar 2009, narcotics trafficking through Honduras has significantly increased compared to 2008, a trend that had begun well before the [...]
2009-12-11 21:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR ASEC PREL MASS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1285TFHO1: CHEVRON SENDS MIXED MESSAGES ON LEAVING
[...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with the Ambassador and economic officers, Chevron representatives expressed concern about continuing financial losses tied to the GOH's application of an unfavorable formula for the pricing of finished oil products. The Chevron representatives said that the compa [...]
2009-12-14 20:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ENRG EPET ETRD HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1287TFHO1: POLITICAL CRISIS LEADS TO STEEP DROP IN AIR
[...] (SBU) Summary. EconCouns and EconOffs met with local representatives from Continental, American and Delta Airlines to gauge the overall health of the airline industry in light of the international economic downturn and the Honduran political crisis. Representatives of all three airlines said [...]
2009-12-14 22:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EAIR EAID EFIN EINV ETRD CASC CVIS PGOV
09TEGUCIGALPA1289STATE OF PLAY ON ZELAYA'S DEPARTURE
[...] (C) Summary: Efforts are ongoing to find a solution permitting the departure of President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya from Honduras. Some regime hard-liners are urging de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti to extract as many concessions as possible from Zelaya before allowing his departure. [...]
2009-12-15 00:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1295SUSPICIOUS DEATHS OF SANTOS CORRALES AND WALTER
[...] (U) Summary. Human rights groups allege that two recent deaths were tied to the political crisis. The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CODEH) reported that on December 11, Santos Corrales Garcia was found decapitated in Talanga, however the Honduran FBI (DNIC) told an Embassy Employ [...]
2009-12-16 00:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1298PRESIDENT-ELECT LAUNCHES NATIONAL DIALOGUE
[...] (SBU) Summary: President-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo presided over a meeting on December 14 with representatives of many sectors of Honduran society, following up on his announced intention to create a dialogue with the Honduran people in order for his administration to be an inclusive one. L [...]
2009-12-16 21:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM SOCI HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1300BUS OWNERS STRIKE OVER SUBSIDIES
[...] (U) Summary: After a bus strike that slowed traffic in Tegucigalpa on December 14, the de facto government and Congress agreed to the bus owners' demand for payment of $3.7 million in subsidies promised by the Zelaya administration but not included in the budget. Petroleum transport workers [...]
2009-12-16 22:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PGOV PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1302PRESIDENT-ELECT'S GOVERNMENT PLAN
[...] (U) Summary: President-elect Lobo's plan for his government aims to achieve sustainable development that will improve the lives of his fellow citizens. His plan is based on three pillars: creating jobs and reducing poverty, expanding the reach and quality of education, and ensuring security. [...]
2009-12-17 00:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1317HONDURAS: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] On June 28, President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was removed from office in a coup d'etat. The de facto government that took power was not recognized by the U.S. or any other country, and Honduras was suspended from the Organization of American States. Honduras's resulting international isolati [...]
2009-12-21 23:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC KCRM KJUS EFIN SNAR PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1329HONDURAS: December 2009 INL Monthly Report
[...] Summary: Regional Corrections Advisor visited the correctional training facility in Xalapa, Mexico and attended the Third International Graduating Class in New Mexico Correction Department's Training Academy located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Frontier Police captured six members of a dangerous [...]
2009-12-29 14:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA1333ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY DOGS HONDURAS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Uncertainty at home and abroad dogged the Honduran economy throughout 2009. With two-thirds of its exports destined for the U.S., the country was hard hit by the U.S. recession. On top of the crumbling international situation, President Jose Manual "Mel" Zelaya created a clima [...]
2009-12-29 23:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA149PRESIDENT ZELAYA MEETS FIDEL AND SPEAKS OUT
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Zelaya concluded his three-day visit to Cuba March 4 with a reported meeting with Fidel Castro, who he described as lucid and well. Zelaya traveled to Cuba to attend the 11th International Encounter of Economists on Globalization and Development problems, before which [...]
2009-03-06 20:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD EFIN CU HO
09TEGUCIGALPA15HONDURAS: SUPREME COURT SELECTION PITS CIVIL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Honduran Congress will select the fifteen magistrates who will constitute the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) for the next seven years on January 25, after a process that, while by no means perfect, will have been the most open, transparent selection process for high governmen [...]
2009-01-08 22:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL SNAR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA158CONTENTIOUS CLOSING OF JERZEES DE HONDURAS MAQUILA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Jerzees de Honduras (JDH),a textile factory located north of San Pedro Sula in Choloma closed in January following a labor dispute. The Fair Labor Association (FLA) has determined that while plant management did violate the workers, freedom of association, the decision to close [...]
2009-03-10 20:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ELAB ETRD HO KDEM ECON
09TEGUCIGALPA2ZELAYA EXECUTIVE DECREE FOR 1980S HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya announced the formation of a National Program of Reparations on December 10, the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. The program will compensate victims and the family members of victims who were the victims of human rights violations in the p [...]
2009-01-06 12:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM KJUS SOCI PGOV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA224AMBASSADOR TOURS SAN PEDRO SULA, PROMOTES CLEAN ENERGY
[...] Summary: The Ambassador visited the commercial city of San Pedro Sula to deliver a keynote address at a renewable energy conference. In his speech he described Post's Renewable Energy Strategy (reftel) and affirmed shared goals in this sector. In meetings with the business communities of Sa [...]
2009-03-31 16:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELAB ENRG ETRD KTEX PGOV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA225ZELAYA THREATENS TO NATIONALIZE POWER COMPANIES
[...] (C) Summary: In response to simmering public discontent over the high cost of electricity, President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya has threatened to nationalize the private companies that supply about 60 percent of the nation's power. Congress has attempted to preempt the President by introducing a bill [...]
2009-03-31 23:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALENRG EFIN PGOV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA231HONDURAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS VICE MINISTER ON VICE
[...] (C) Summary. Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Eduardo Rosales raised Honduran participation in the San Jose Central American meeting with Vice-President Biden, President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya's desire to have a referendum on holding a constituent assembly to reform the constitution, and Hondura [...]
2009-04-01 19:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER IR CH TW HO
09TEGUCIGALPA245HONDURAS CONSIDERS SUPPORTING USG CANDIDACY FOR UN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-03 17:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA249Drug confiscations in Honduras for 2009 already exceed 2008
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the first quarter of 2009 USG-supported joint Honduran antinarcotics forces have confiscated more drugs and vehicles than in all of calendar year 2008. Many of the cases have garnered broad press attention, and have sparked increased discussion of the trafficking issue in [...]
2009-04-06 11:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL PGOV KJUS EAID MOPS MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA250HONDURAS: March 2009 INL Monthly Report
[...] The following summarizes Post's INL-supported activities in March 2009. 2. Donations: Four hard drives and cartridges were donated to the Polygraph Unit to increase their memory capacity to store polygraph sessions. Two air conditioners were donated to the San Pedro Sula Prison, one for t [...]
2009-04-06 11:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA298MGSF01: H1N1 Flu Outbreak - Honduras Status Report as of
[...] Both the Embassy and the Government of Honduras have implemented action plans to respond to the crisis. GOH --- 2. The GOH's public response began the evening of Sunday, April 26. The Minister of Health addressed the nation via radio and television. He explained H1N1 flu and its symptom [...]
2009-04-30 12:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKFLO KSAF KPAO AEMR ASEC CASC TBIO HO
09TEGUCIGALPA308GOH RELEASES ANTI-CRISIS PLAN
[...] (U) Summary: With little fanfare, the GOH last week released its plan for countering the local effects of the global economic and financial crisis. The plan largely recapitulates previously announced measures to direct credit on preferential terms to productive sectors, with emphasis on small [...]
2009-05-01 17:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN HO
09TEGUCIGALPA309UPDATE ON 4TH URN
[...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks, increasingly erratic statements and actions by President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya have heightened political tensions here. Zelaya's effort to seek a referendum (the Fourth Urn) in the upcoming national elections in November on whether to convene a constituent assembl [...]
2009-05-01 19:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA310UPDATE ON 4TH URN
[...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks, increasingly erratic statements and actions by President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya have heightened political tensions here. Zelaya's effort to seek a referendum (the Fourth Urn) in the upcoming national elections in November on whether to convene a constituent assembl [...]
2009-05-01 19:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA312OPPOSITION STEALS IDEA FOR "15TH MONTH" OF SALARY
[...] (C) Summary: In an effort to preempt reported plans by President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya to decree that all employers pay their employees an additional month of salary (the 15th month),Congress President Roberto Micheletti proposed a similar bill on April 21. Micheletti's version exempted many c [...]
2009-05-04 18:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ELAB EFIN HO
09TEGUCIGALPA318GOH CLAIMS NO KNOWLEDGE OF POLITICAL ASYLEE
[...] (U) Summary: A diplomatic row between Paraguay and Honduras may arise after the former Paraguayan Minister of the Interior for 23 of Alfredo Stroessner,s 35 year (1954 - 1989) dictatorship, Sabino Augusto Montanaro, returned of his own volition to Paraguay on May 1 with no warning from the Hon [...]
2009-05-06 00:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SMIG HO
09TEGUCIGALPA327HONDURAS: April 2009 INL Monthly Report
[...] The following summarizes Post's INL-supported activities in April 2009. ------------------------- 2. Trafficking in Persons ------------------------- - POL NAS staff and the Military Information Support Team (MIST) met with Strategic Planning and Coordination Director from the Ministry [...]
2009-05-07 17:57:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA33HONDURAN JUSTICE: A NEW SUPREME COURT, ATTORNEY
[...] (U) Summary: Ambassador, accompanied by Poloff, met with Attorney General Leonidis Rosa Bautista and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Vilma Morales on January 12. The main topics discussed were the nominating process for the new magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ as it is know [...]
2009-01-16 17:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV SNAR HO PHUM KJUS SOCI
09TEGUCIGALPA332UPDATE ON JERZEEZ DE HONDURAS LABOR VIOLATION CASE
[...] (U) Summary: Fruit of the Loom,s (FOTL) Russell Corporation (RC) and various U.S.-based NGOs, the Honduran General Workers Confederation (CGT) and former Russell workers from its now closed Jerzees de Honduras (JDH) plant continue to disagree over the sincerity and significance of the measure [...]
2009-05-08 00:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEAID ELAB ETRD HO KDEM ECON
09TEGUCIGALPA34REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL REPORTING ON INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) Summary: Reftel requested commentary on how the international financial crisis is playing out in Honduras. Detailed reporting on the subject appears in refs B through I. Following responses are keyed to questions posed in reftel. End Summary. ----------------------------------------- [...]
2009-01-16 18:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON HO
09TEGUCIGALPA345AMERICAN APPAREL BRANDS SEEK DIALOGUE ON HONDURAN
[...] (U) Summary: Embassy hosted a meeting of U.S. brand name apparel manufacturers April 28 in San Pedro Sula to discuss the global financial crisis, their short-term and long-term Honduran operational plans, and responsible management of plant closings. The group unanimously expressed interest i [...]
2009-05-12 23:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALELAB ETRD HO KDEM ECON
09TEGUCIGALPA35HONDURAN ECONOMY SLOWS IN RESPONSE TO
[...] (C) Summary: The international economic difficulties have impacted on Honduras in the way of slower growth, although the country still managed GDP growth of 4 percent in 2008. Looking to 2009, we expect the U.S. recession to hurt Honduras, export performance of apparel, and traditional produc [...]
2009-01-16 20:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON HO
09TEGUCIGALPA353 Mission Integrated Strategy to Fight Crime and Illicit
[...] Summary and Background: The Mosquitia is a huge swath of territory accounting for nearly 20 percent of Honduras' land mass on the eastern border with Nicaragua. The area is swampy, undeveloped, difficult to access and virtually uninhabited (only 60,000 people),which over the centuries has mad [...]
2009-05-15 00:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SNAR PREL SOCI KCRM KJUS EAID MOPS MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA358PRESIDENT ZELAYA GIVES USD12.5 MILLION TO THE
[...] (C) Summary: On May 11 the Honduran government announced that President Zelaya had tasked the Honduran Military (HOAF) with the project of building a commercial terminal adjacent to the Honduran air force base at Soto Cano, which is home to the U.S. Joint Task Force-Bravo. The public announcem [...]
2009-05-15 22:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV MOPS MARR SNAR PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA366HONDURAS REVIEW OF CUBAN RELATIONS FOR THE
[...] (C) Summary: Investment activity between Honduras and Cuba remain limited, and the Government of Honduras does not appear to exert political influence over Cuba. President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya stated on May 8 that one of the OAS General Assembly,s (OASGA) key orders of business at its session [...]
2009-05-20 00:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL
09TEGUCIGALPA39HONDURAS: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR
[...] SUMMARY: This report is a response to the U.S. Department of Labor action cable (Reftel) regarding the worst forms of child labor in Honduras. The Government of Honduras (GOH) has made clear progress addressing the worst forms of child labor with a new more effective eradication plan, a nation [...]
2009-01-20 19:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EIND ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI HO
09TEGUCIGALPA395FOURTH URN UPDATE: COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF
[...] (C) Judge Jorge Zelaya Zaldana of the Administrative Court of First Instance, ruled on May 27 in favor of the Attorney General in the case he brought against the government (ref A). The Attorney General's case alleged that the government's planned use of the National Statistical Institute (IN [...]
2009-05-28 22:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA438ZELAYA AND THE FOURTH URN
[...] (U) This is an action request message. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: In a lengthy meeting on June 7, the Ambassador conveyed our concerns to President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya over the increasingly polarized political situation in Honduras, attributing much of the blame on his recent actio [...]
2009-06-09 23:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA439ZELAYA AND THE FOURTH URN
[...] (U) This is an action request message. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: In a lengthy meeting on June 7, the Ambassador conveyed our concerns to President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya over the increasingly polarized political situation in Honduras, attributing much of the blame on his recent actio [...]
2009-06-09 23:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL OAS KSUM CU HO
09TEGUCIGALPA445MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT OBAMA
[...] The major locally-generated media reaction to President Obama's speech in Cairo is the following Editorial in the San Pedro Sula-based liberal newspaper, Tiempo by Billy Pena. San Pedro Sula has the largest population of people who trace their family roots to the Middle East. Begin text: [...]
2009-06-11 11:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO HO
09TEGUCIGALPA451HONDURAS CONSIDERS OPPOSITION TO INTERNATIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-11 20:15:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA461HONDURAS: May2009 INL Monthly Report
[...] The following summarizes Post's INL-supported activities in May 2009. ----------------------------- Police/Prosecutor Training ----------------------------- 2. Post sent seven police officers and three customs agents from the Honduran Internal Revenue Office (DEI) to the ILEA course: Bo [...]
2009-06-15 18:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA462(C) ZELAYA ZIG-ZAGS THE RED LINES
[...] (C) Summary: Zelaya is coming closer to stepping over our red lines on maintenance of the constitutional order. His actions have been singularly focused on attempts to push for a poll and a referendum for a constituent assembly to reform the Honduran constitution; the tactics he has used have [...]
2009-06-15 20:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA464PRESIDENT ZELAYA'S LIMOSINE RECEIVES TWO IMPACTS
[...] (C) In the evening of June 12, local media reported a possible attack against President Manual "Mel" Zelaya after the front windshield of the motorcade vehicle in which he was riding in Tegucigalpa received two impacts from objects of unknown origin. The unknown objects cracked the windshield [...]
2009-06-16 00:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALASEC HO PGOV PREL SOCI
09TEGUCIGALPA465LIBERAL PARTY SEEKS CONSENSUS WHILE A FRUSTRATED
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and DCM met with Former President and Liberal Party stalwart Carlos Flores and Liberal Party presidential candidate Elvin Santos to discuss the current political crisis over President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya's push for a poll to seek support for a referendum to have a const [...]
2009-06-16 00:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA474AMBASSADOR WARNS HONDURAN MILITARY ON COUP RUMORS
[...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by DCM, hosted Honduran Military Joint Chief Romeo Vazquez Velasquez and Deputy Chief Miguel Garcia Padgett for breakfast on June 18 and conveyed in the strongest terms USG concerns about rumors that the military would move against the government if Honduran politic [...]
2009-06-18 17:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA479HONDURAN POLITICAL CRISIS UPDATE AND PERSPECTIVE
[...] (C) Summary: Honduras may be racing towards a political train wreck that could threaten its 28 year old democracy. The crisis has been caused by President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya's reckless drive to hold a referendum (Fourth Urn) in the November general elections on whether to convene a constituen [...]
2009-06-19 22:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA489HONDURAN POLITICAL CRISIS UPDATE AND PERSPECTIVE
[...] (C) Summary: Honduras may be racing towards a political train wreck that could threaten its 28 year old democracy. The crisis has been caused by President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya's reckless drive to hold a referendum (Fourth Urn) in the November general elections on whether to convene a constituen [...]
2009-06-23 14:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA491HONDURAN SUPREME ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL TO APRROVE
[...] (C) Poloff visited the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on June 23 to inquire about the 23 applications for independent candidacies the institution had received. TSE President Saul Escobar (who represents the Christian Democratic Party) told us that 16 of the 23 independent candidacies had pa [...]
2009-06-24 13:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI HO
09TEGUCIGALPA492PROTESTS AGAINST THE FOURTH URN
[...] (U) The Alliance for Peace and Democracy, led by religious, private sector and professional organization leaders, marched in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, second largest city and business center, on June 23 in support of democracy and to protest President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya,s attempt to hold a Ju [...]
2009-06-24 20:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA50HONDURAS: GOH-Embassy Task Force Launched To Oversee Merida
[...] Summary: The Ambassador hosted the inaugural meeting of the Bilateral Merida Task Force at his residence on January 21. The meeting was an opportunity for the U.S. and Honduran inter-agency teams to meet, identify their roles and discuss both the context of the Merida effort and set common goa [...]
2009-01-23 10:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV PHUM KJUS EAID MOPS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA502HONDURAS: POLITICAL AND LEGAL STANDOFF CONTINUES
[...] (U) Summary: Presented with widespread defiance from the Military, Congress, the Justice system, pro-democracy protesters and the private sector, President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya has been forced to rely on loyal social activists, labor unions, the police and government bureaucrats for his attempt [...]
2009-06-26 20:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA504HONDURAN MILITARY ARRESTS PRESIDENT ZELAYA
[...] (C) At approximately 02:30 local time (04:30 Washington) Honduran military forces entered the Presidential Palace and arrested President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya. Embassy sources report Zelaya was taken to the Air Force Base adjacent to Toncontin International Aiport and then flown by military air [...]
2009-06-28 14:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA505HONDURAN COUP: SITREP 1, 06/28/09, 10:30 LOCAL TIME
[...] (C) Streets of Tegucigalpa remain calm for the most part as of 10:00 local time (12:00 Washington),although black smoke was seen rising from the area around the Presidential Palace around 08:30, apparently from burning tires. One source at a nearby hotel reported seeing a car burning. A mi [...]
2009-06-28 16:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA507HONDURAN COUP: SITREP 3, 06/28/09, 16:00 LOCAL TIME
[...] (C) Congress officially named Roberto Micheletti interim President of the Republic at approximately 14:15 local time, despite urging by the Ambassador to avoid taking that step. He was sworn in at 15:40. Local channels began transmitting live session of Congress around 13:30, with the Congress [...]
2009-06-28 21:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA508HONDURAN COUP SITREP #6: EVENTS AS OF 06/30/09
[...] (U) The anti-regime demonstration in Tegucigalpa peaked June 29 with a maximum of approximately 3,000 protesters before being dispersed by police and military, but has re-formed and as of noon local is headed along Avenida Miraflores toward the Presidential Palace, where RSO anticipates a clas [...]
2009-06-29 19:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV MARR CASC EAID ELAB ETRD HO
09TEGUCIGALPA514HONDURAN COUP: SITREP #4 06/29/09 AS OF NOON LOCAL
[...] (U) Minister of Security Jorge Rodas reported to Ambassador on June 28 at 16:00 local (18:00 EDT) that there had been virtually no incidents of violence or unrest in the country Sunday, save for those isolated small cases already mentioned in Sitrep #2. The ruling regime called a 21:00-06:00 [...]
2009-06-29 20:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV MARR CASC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA516GUIDANCE REQUEST: DEALING WITH MICHLETTI REGIME IN
[...] (C) Summary: Per reftels, President of the Congress Roberto Micheletti was sworn in yesterday at 14:15 local as President of Honduras. By 17:00, the Embassy had already been invited to the Congress to a celebration of the new Administration. The Embassy refused the invitation and immediately [...]
2009-06-30 01:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS EFIN SNAR ECON EAID MARR PBTS
09TEGUCIGALPA517HONDURAN COUP:SITREP 5, 06/29/09, 18:30 LOCAL TIME
[...] (C) Police and military units dislodged protesters from in front of the Presidential Palace around 16:00, and 40-45 arrests were made. Shots were fired but no one was killed, according to police sources. Earlier in the afternoon police dispersed crowds with tear gas, which reduced the number [...]
2009-06-30 01:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA52NOMINATING COMMITTEE SENDS FINAL LIST OF SUPREME
[...] (U) Summary: The Supreme Court Nominating Committee came to a compromise and submitted a list of 45 candidates for the Supreme Court to the Congress on January 23, despite intense political pressure and a media frenzy, mostly driven by leaks from politicians and from the committee itself. Notab [...]
2009-01-23 20:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM SOCI HO
09TEGUCIGALPA521HONDURAN COUP SITREP #6: EVENTS AS OF 06/30/09
[...] (U) The anti-regime demonstration in Tegucigalpa peaked June 29 with a maximum of approximately 3,000 protesters before being dispersed by police and military, but has re-formed and as of noon local is headed along Avenida Miraflores toward the Presidential Palace, where RSO anticipates a clas [...]
2009-06-30 22:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV MARR CASC EAID ELAB ETRD HO
09TEGUCIGALPA523HONDURAN COUP SITREP #7: EVENTS AS OF 07/01/09
[...] (U) The pro-Zelaya demonstration in Tegucigalpa near the Presidential Palace in front of the Clarion Hotel concluded with minimal violence. A crowd of approximately 5,000 moved toward the OAS mission, which is located approximately three blocks south of the U.S. Embassy. There are continued [...]
2009-07-02 00:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV MARR CASC EAID ELAB ETRD PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA527Honduran Coup Timeline
[...] Summary: The following is the Embassy's timeline of political and legal events leading up to the June 28, 2009 coup. We believe that the military and the Congress conspired in the coup. There were also decisions that impacted on Zelaya's legal situation. Nevertheless, while there is evidence [...]
2009-07-02 20:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR KJUS EAID PHUM MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA529HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION POST COUP
[...] (C) Summary: The media war over the legitimacy of the Honduran coup has taken front stage with various competing interests protesting either in support of the new regime or for the return of ousted President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya. Both groups claim to be defending the constitution and the rule o [...]
2009-07-02 20:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECPS PGOV SOCI DS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA53NOMINATING COMMITTEE SENDS FINAL LIST OF SUPREME
[...] (U) Summary: The Supreme Court Nominating Committee came to a compromise and submitted a list of 45 candidates for the Supreme Court to the Congress on January 23, despite intense political pressure and a media frenzy, mostly driven by leaks from politicians and from the committee itself. Notab [...]
2009-01-23 20:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM SOCI HO
09TEGUCIGALPA530HONDURAN COUP SITREP #8: EVENTS AS OF 07/02/09
[...] (U) There have been a number of demonstrations, with more planned, in Honduras' major cities. While there have been isolated reports of road barricades and small demonstrations in rural areas, credible USG and Amcit sources from widespread villages and towns report that life is basically cont [...]
2009-07-02 21:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR CASC EAID ELAB ETRD PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA531HONDURAN COUP SITREP #8: EVENTS AS OF 07/02/09
[...] (U) There have been a number of demonstrations, with more planned, in Honduras' major cities. While there have been isolated reports of road barricades and small demonstrations in rural areas, credible USG and Amcit sources from widespread villages and towns report that life is basically cont [...]
2009-07-02 22:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR CASC EAID ELAB ETRD PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA532HONDURAN COUP SITREP #9 (UNCLASSIFIED) 07/03/09 AS
[...] (U) Beyond Tegucigalpa, the Honduran countryside remains largely peaceful with some isolated demonstrations on both sides of the issue. In Tegucigalpa, protests both in favor and against the regime are taking place as in past days with little incident. The pro-coup rally outside the President [...]
2009-07-03 21:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV MARR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA533HONDURAN COUP: STEPS TOWARD RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary: Separately from the discussion track the Ambassador is conducting per ref A, Embassy has opened up a back-channel of communication with remnants of the deposed Zelaya Government and dissident members of Congress who are interested in establishing a dialogue leading to national rec [...]
2009-07-04 20:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA535HONDURAN COUP SITREP #10 (UNCLASSIFIED) 07/04/09
[...] (U) All demonstrations have remained peaceful. Today's pro-Zelaya protest, numbering approximately 4,000 to 5,000 people, began at the Pedagogical University, then moved to the Clarion Hotel and onward toward the Supreme Court building. That group, then numbering 10,000, proceeded to Toncont [...]
2009-07-04 22:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV MARR MASS EAID KDEM PHUM SNAR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA537HONDURAN COUP SITREP #11 (UNCLASSIFIED) 07/05/09
[...] (U) Overnight, the pro-Zelaya protesters from outside Tegucigalpa remained camped out at the Pedagogical University in the capital. Their Sunday demonstration began there, and grew to a crowd of 5,000 by 11:00 local (13:00 EDT),when they began to march to Toncontin International Airport. Cha [...]
2009-07-06 00:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA542HONDURAN ECONOMY LIKELY TO LIMP THROUGH 2009
[...] (C) Summary: Unless the current political turmoil leads to prolonged civil unrest, Honduras should be able to avoid a major economic crisis for the balance of 2009. However, recent policies, together with an unfavorable external environment, are severely constraining the options of whoever wi [...]
2009-07-07 00:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN HO
09TEGUCIGALPA543HONDURAS COUP SITREP #12 07/06/2009 AS OF 1600
[...] (C) Following his attempt to land at Toncontin Airport yesterday, President Zelaya landed first in Nicaragua and finally in San Salvador. President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador held a press conference at Comalapa airport late last night with Zelaya, OAS SYG Insulza and other presidents (Kirc [...]
2009-07-07 01:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA555HONDURAS COUP SITREP #13 07/07/2009 AS OF 1530
[...] (C) National press carried prominent stories of President Zelaya's meeting today with the Secretary. The Ambassador spoke to President Zelaya Monday night (Ref A),and President Zelaya thanked the Ambassador for USG support and said he strongly supported a multilateral approach to promote a n [...]
2009-07-08 13:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA56CONGRESS PUSHES THROUGH NEW COURT, RESISTS THREATS
[...] (S) Summary: Congress elected a new Supreme Court, taking all candidates from a list supplied by the Nominating Board (reftel),minutes before its constitutional deadline the night of Sunday, January 25. Congress successfully resisted intense pressure from President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya to ele [...]
2009-01-26 22:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV KCRM SOCI HO
09TEGUCIGALPA564HONDURAS COUP SITREP #14 07/08/2009 AS OF 1500
[...] (U) Zelaya supporters reportedly planned today to block traffic entering Tegucigalpa coming from the direction of Danli. As of 1000 local (1200 EDT),approximately 4,000 protesters had gathered near the highway exit to Danli at a shopping center, "Villas del Sol." As of 1320 local (1520 EDT) [...]
2009-07-08 23:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM HO ASEC
09TEGUCIGALPA565AMCHAM VIEWS ON HONDURAN COUP
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 2, the Ambassador, Consul General, and the Econ section met with the executive directors of the Honduran AmCham to convey the USG position in the wake of the coup. The Ambassador condemned the coup, informed them that the U.S. only recognized President Zelaya as the legi [...]
2009-07-08 23:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV BBSR EINV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA566THE RED TEAM: WHO WANTS ZELAYA BACK?
[...] (C) Summary: The groups demonstrating since June 28 for the return of President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, which for want of a better term we will henceforth call the "Red Team," are primarily comprised of labor unions, peasant groups, teachers and leftist students and social activists. The movement [...]
2009-07-09 01:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA567HONDURAN SOCIETY WELCOMES ARIAS TALKS
[...] (U) Summary: Despite ongoing protests from both sides, Hondurans appear to accept the U.S.-backed idea to bring President Zelaya and the Micheletti regime together for talks with President Arias of Costa Rica later this week. On Tuesday, Congress held its first session since June 28, seven da [...]
2009-07-09 01:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM HO ASEC
09TEGUCIGALPA568HONDURAN COUP: THE "WHITE TEAM"
[...] (C) Summary: Those demonstrating in support of the June 28 coup, who have made the color white the symbol of their movement, share the sincere belief that Zelaya's removal from office was a patriotic act in defense of democratic principles and the constitutional order. The "White Team," which [...]
2009-07-09 13:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA573HONDURAS COUP SITREP #15 07/09/2009 AS OF 1500
[...] (U) As of 1040 local (1240 EDT),there are 2,500 Zelaya supporters blocking traffic on the highway between Choluteca and the El Salvador and Nicaraguan borders near the Germania bridge. This demonstration again confirms pro-Zelaya demonstrators' statements on Tuesday of plans to change their [...]
2009-07-09 23:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA577HONDURAS COUP SITREP #16 07/10/2009 AS OF 1500
[...] (U) On July 10, approximately 2,000 Zelaya supporters assembled to block all north and south bound traffic on the CA-5 highway north of Tegucigalpa. The highway is the major traffic artery connecting the capital with Soto Cano Airbase, as well as the commercially important cities of Comayagua [...]
2009-07-10 21:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA578SUPREME COURT JUSTICES THINK COUP WAS ILLEGAL
[...] (C) Summary: A source on the Supreme Court staff said many justices think the removal of President Zelaya was unlawful. However, they rationalize it as necessary to avoid a bloodbath. The justices are uneasy with any suggestion that Zelaya receive amnesty. The source said a proposal being [...]
2009-07-11 01:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV KDEM KJUS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA579HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/10/09
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-11 01:56:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA581PRESIDENT ARIAS ON MEDIATION
[...] (C) President Arias called the Ambassador to inquire as to the status of his efforts to soften the position of the de facto regime. The Ambassador informed him that the meeting with regime leadership was scheduled for today at 3pm. The Ambassador promised Arias that he would brief him after t [...]
2009-07-13 13:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA584HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION POST-COUP UPDATE 2
[...] (C) Summary: The Attorney General's (AG) aggressive pursuit of corruption charges against Zelaya administration officials seemingly outweigh his consideration for the deteriorating human rights situation. While the situation is not yet dire, civil liberties have been denied, arbitrary arrest [...]
2009-07-13 18:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI DS SNAR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA586HONDURAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY VIEWS ON COUP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The vast majority of the Honduran business community both publicly and privately supports the removal of President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya from office June 28. Major business organizations have published full-page ads over the past week supporting the coup and recognizing the legiti [...]
2009-07-13 21:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ECON EINV EAID ETRD HO
09TEGUCIGALPA588HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/13/09
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-14 00:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA589HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION POST-COUP UPDATE 3
[...] (C) Summary: The human rights situation in Honduran appeared to deteriorate over the weekend as two pro-Zelaya political organizers were killed, a dissident member of Congress reported that her home was raided, and 11 Venezuelan reporters were arrested and then strongly encouraged to leave th [...]
2009-07-14 00:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI DS SNAR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA591HONDURAN COUP: IS THERE A "PINK TEAM?"
[...] (C) Summary: Refs C and D profiled the coalitions currently agitating for the return of President Zelaya (the "Red Team") and opposing his return (the "White Team"). This message explores whether there is any significant "pink" ground between these two camps that can help bridge the differenc [...]
2009-07-14 20:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA592HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/14/09
[...] (U) Summary: This is the third in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. ----------------------------------------- Zelaya and Micheletti Maintain Hard Lines ----------- [...]
2009-07-14 22:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA595HONDURAS COUP SITREP #18 07/14/2009 AS OF 1600
[...] (U) At approximately 9:21 local (11:21 EDT) approximately 700 Zelaya supporters gathered at the National Pedagogical University. By 10:14 local (12:14 EDT),Zelaya supporters began marching and grew to approximately 4000. At 11:41, Zelaya supporters arrived at the Embassy. The demonstrators [...]
2009-07-15 13:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA600HONDURAS COUP SITREP #19 07/15/2009 AS OF 1500
[...] (U) At 10:15 local (12:15 EDT),approximately 3,000 pro-Zelaya demonstrators gathered outside the National Pedagogical University and marched to the Clarion Hotel. At 11:40 local (13:40 EDT),the group marched from the Clarion Hotel to the National Institute of Women, where some protestors th [...]
2009-07-15 22:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA605HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION POST-COUP UPDATE 4
[...] (U) Summary: The human rights situation in Honduras remains tense despite a public invitation for international human rights groups to monitor the situation. The curfew was reinstated the night of July 15 and will last at least through the weekend. Opponents of the de facto regime continue [...]
2009-07-16 19:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA607HONDURAS COUP SITREP #20, 07/16/2009 AS OF 15:00
[...] (U) At 09:15 local (11:15 EDT),approximately 300 pro-Zelaya demonstrators gathered on the southern edge of Tegucigalpa to block the CA-5, Honduras's main highway. An additional 700 Zelaya supporters were en route to the CA-5 north of the city to do the same. At the same time there were also [...]
2009-07-17 01:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA608HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/16/09
[...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. --------------------------------------------- -- Delegations announced for Saturday negotiations [...]
2009-07-17 01:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA611TFH01: REPORTS OF FROZEN BANK ACCOUNTS DENIED
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Attorney General's Office and local banks both deny reports that bank accounts of people tied to the deposed government of President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya have been frozen. The Embassy has contacted government and banking officials to chase these reports down, and found that i [...]
2009-07-17 18:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA612TFH01: WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR WEEKEND VIOLENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: While civil action has so far remained peaceful save for the death of one protester on July 5, there has been a palpable increase in tension leading into the scheduled July 18 round of negotiations between President Zelaya and de facto regime head Micheletti. The prospects for [...]
2009-07-17 19:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV MARR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA614TFH01: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #21 07/17/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) As of 09:00 local (11:00 EDT),pro-Zelaya demonstrations today, July 17, were expected to be similar to those of yesterday, July 16 (Reftel),with demonstrators congregated around the CA-5, Honduras's main highway, at the north and south ends of Tegucigalpa. As of 09:40 local (11:40 EDT),[...]
2009-07-17 21:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC AEMR KFLO PINR
09TEGUCIGALPA616TFH01: AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT
[...] (C) President Arias called the Ambassador at approximately 2:30 pm our time. The Ambassador briefed him on a series of meetings that we have held in the past 30 hours in support of his mediation effort. The Ambassador discussed the productive sessions he had had with the business community, [...]
2009-07-17 22:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA618TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: DONORS EVALUATING ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Donors are evaluating their assistance to Honduras in the wake of the June 28 coup and subsequent suspension of Honduras from the OAS. All members of the G-16 group of official donors to Honduras, with one exception, have suspended communication with the de facto interim govern [...]
2009-07-17 23:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA621TFH01: IMPACT OF COUP AND AID CUT-OFF ON HONDURAN
[...] (C) Summary: The expected reduction in international aid as a result of the June 28 coup will cause hardship for the de facto regime, but the Honduran economy should still be able to avoid collapse this year, barring an unexpected shock, such as a trade embargo or natural disaster. The econom [...]
2009-07-18 20:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA622TFH01: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #22 (UNCLASSIFIED)
[...] (U) As of 11:00 local (13:00 EDT),approximately 1,600 pro-Zelaya demonstrators are gathered at Zelaya's "Popular Bloc" movement headquarters near Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa, and are blocking the nearby major thoroughfare Boulevard Fuerzas Armadas. RSO notes the demonstrat [...]
2009-07-18 20:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA623TFHO1: HONDURAN COUP SITREP #23 (UNCLASSIFIED) AS
[...] (U) As of 10:30 local (13:00 EDT),no protests have been reported in Tegucigalpa or other cities, and roads and highways connecting Tegucigalpa to the rest of the country are open. Pro-Zelaya demonstration leaders are meeting at Zelaya's "Popular Bloc" movement headquarters near Toncontin Air [...]
2009-07-19 17:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA624TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #24 07/20/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) As of 08:30 local (10:30 EDT),RSO contacts indicated that pro-Zelaya demonstrators would gather at the National Congress in downtown Tegucigalpa later in the morning. It was also reported that teacher's unions would accompany the "reds" in the afternoon. At 09:15 local (11:15 EDT),appr [...]
2009-07-21 00:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA631TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #25 07/21/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) As of 08:55 local (10:55 EDT),approximately 100 pro-Zelaya supporters congregated at the entrance to Tegucigalpa's Kennedy neighborhood. As of 10:08 local (12:08 EDT),an estimated 1,500 peaceful demonstrators had congregated with five policemen stationed there as well. As of 11:11 loca [...]
2009-07-21 22:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA632TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/21/09
[...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. -------------------------------------------- Micheletti Remains Firm in his Public Stance -------- [...]
2009-07-22 01:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA633TFHO1: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND EXPRESSION POST
[...] (SBU) Summary: The mainstream Honduran media and the de facto regime have attempted to shape international perceptions of the June 28 coup through an evident reporting bias, intimidation, the closure of media outlets, and violence. While the pressure exerted by the de facto regime on the medi [...]
2009-07-22 13:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA636TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #26 07/22/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) As of 09:36 local (11:36 EDT),approximately 200 Zelaya supporters congregated and proceeded to block traffic on the Boulevard Santa Fe in Tegucigalpa. The demonstrators talked about possibly disrupting the planned pro-Micheletti march scheduled for 10:00 local (12:00 EDT). As of 11:57 l [...]
2009-07-22 23:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA638TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #27 07/23/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) RSO contacts have indicated there will be an increase in activity today, July 23. As of 09:15 local (11:15 EDT),approximately 1,500 peaceful pro-Zelaya demonstrators blocked traffic on the road to the Soto Cano base at the El Durazno post. At this time, 100 military and police were st [...]
2009-07-23 18:09:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM MARR AEMR PINR
09TEGUCIGALPA645TFHO1: OPEN AND SHUT: THE CASE OF THE HONDURAN COUP
[...] (C) Summary: Post has attempted to clarify some of the legal and constitutional issues surrounding the June 28 forced removal of President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya. The Embassy perspective is that there is no doubt that the military, Supreme Court and National Congress conspired on June 28 in wha [...]
2009-07-24 00:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KJUS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA647TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/23/09
[...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. ----------------- San Jose Proposal ----------------- 2. (U) Arias' new eleven point proposal [...]
2009-07-24 15:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA648TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #28 07/24/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) Early Friday morning, July 24, due to the rumored arrival of President Zelaya, pro-Zelaya supporters gathered around the off-ramp to Danli on Tegucigalpa's peripheral highway with plans to caravan to the Las Manos border crossing with Nicaragua. As of 09:30 local (11:30 EDT),police and [...]
2009-07-24 17:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM MARR AEMR PINR
09TEGUCIGALPA649TFHO1: OUR FULL COURT PRESS TO REACH A RESOLUTION
[...] (C) Summary: Post continues to apply pressure on all fronts to bring the conflicting sides to a resolution of the political crisis through the Arias process. The Ambassador and Embassy Officers have met with private sector leaders, civil society representatives, political figures and other fi [...]
2009-07-24 17:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA659TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #29 07/27/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) Over the weekend, most activity was concentrated in southern Honduras due to the arrival of President Zelaya at the Las Manos border crossing with Nicaragua on Friday, July 24. RSO reports there were several military and police roadblocks that prohibited most pro-Zelaya supporters from r [...]
2009-07-27 18:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM MARR AEMR PINR
09TEGUCIGALPA661CLASHES AT BORDER PROTESTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Conditions along the Honduras-Nicaragua border where pro-Zelaya demonstrators have congregated across from the encampment of President Zelaya have become a potential flash point for an escalation to violence in the Honduran political crisis. Human rights groups have lodged prot [...]
2009-07-28 00:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI DS SNAR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA662TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/27/09
[...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. --------------------------------------- Zelaya Spends the Weekend at the Border ------------------ [...]
2009-07-28 00:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA664TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #30 07/28/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) As of 10:30 local (12:30 EDT),approximately 500 pro-Zelaya demonstrators departed the Pedagogical University with plans to march on the headquarters of the private sector lobby group, COHEP. Apart from one road block in Santa Barbara, there were no reports of other significant activity. [...]
2009-07-28 23:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA665TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/28/09
[...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. ------------------------------------- Full Court Press to Honduran Congress ---------------------- [...]
2009-07-29 00:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA666TFH01: FOLLOW-UP REPORT ON BANK ACCOUNT FREEZES
[...] (U) Summary: Ref A reported rumors, none of which Post was able to confirm of banks closing the personal accounts of people associated with the Zelaya administration and their families. Further investigation has confirmed that there was no/no wholesale freezing of accounts and that the banks h [...]
2009-07-29 15:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KDEM PGOV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA672TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #31 07/29/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) As of 09:00 local (11:00 EDT),there was a roadblock by approximately 200 pro-Zelaya demonstrators in La Flecha in the Santa Barbara Department blocking the highway between San Pedro Sula and Copan. In Tegucigalpa, pro-Zelaya protestors met at the Pedagogical University and blocked the cit [...]
2009-07-29 22:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA673TFH01: HONDURAS COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/29/09
[...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. ------------------------------------ Diplomatic Visa Revocation Top Story ------------------------ [...]
2009-07-29 23:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA680TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #32 07/30/2009 AS OF
[...] (C) As of 11:30 local (13:30 EDT),approximately 300 pro-Zelaya demonstrators gathered at El Lolo on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa and attempted to block the northern route of the CA-5, Honduras's main highway to San Pedro Sula. Another group of approximately 100 protesters at El Durazno a fe [...]
2009-07-30 21:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA683TFH01: HONDURAS COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/30/09
[...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. -------------------------------- Reports of Violence at Roadblock -------------------------------- [...]
2009-07-31 00:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA684TFHO1: ASSESSMENT OF THE CONSULAR SECTION'S
[...] (U) Summary: The coup against President Mel, Zelaya on June 28th tested the Consular Sections ability to safeguard American citizens in a time of political uncertainty. The section proved to be up to the challenge, successfully processing hundreds of AmCit calls on the ACS hotline, and makin [...]
2009-07-31 15:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDCASC CLOK CMGT CPAS CVIS CFED
09TEGUCIGALPA687TFHO1: HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION POST-COUP UPDATE 5
[...] (C) Summary: The Honduran human rights situation continues to be difficult as tensions rise in the prolonged political uncertainty. Another aggravating factor has been the presence of President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and the First Lady Xiomara Castro de Zelaya on opposite sides of the Honduran- [...]
2009-07-31 22:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI DS SNAR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA688TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #33 07/31/2009 AS OF
[...] (C) On July 30, Honduran National Police (HNP) arrested 100 people after pro-Zelaya demonstrators clashed with police charged with disbanding the protest. One demonstrator was shot in the head and seriously wounded. Police contacts assert that the police and military were only armed with non [...]
2009-07-31 22:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA692AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS WITH MEDIATION
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador hosted a dinner on August 1 with former President Carlos Flores and Micheletti team members to the Arias mediation, Arturo Corrales and Vilma Morales (neither are members of the Micheletti regime; see Bio notes para 7). Morales and Corrales said they remained comm [...]
2009-08-03 19:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALAEMR KDEM MARR PGOV PINR PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA695TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #34 08/03/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) A relatively quiet weekend was marred by two deaths. The protester shot in the July 30 conflict between pro-Zelaya demonstrators and police (Reftel) died August 1, marking the crisis' second confirmed fatality. In a military checkpoint incident, a car passenger was shot dead by a solider. [...]
2009-08-03 23:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA696TFH01: HONDURAS COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 08/03/09
[...] (U) This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. -------------------------------------- CONGRESS CONSIDERING POLITICAL AMNESTY -------------------------------------- 2 [...]
2009-08-03 23:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA698TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #35 08/04/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) Approximately 500 pro-Zelaya protestors began demonstrating in Colonia Kennedy without blocking traffic. As of 10:45, the protestors were demonstrating aggressively, painting cars and marching down Blvd. Suyapa, blocking a lane of traffic. By 12:00, the protest size has grown to 1000 demo [...]
2009-08-04 22:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA699TFH01: HONDURAS COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 08/04/09
[...] (U) This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. --------------------------------------------- ---- CONGRESS GIVES "GREEN LIGHT" ON POLITICAL AMNESTY -------------------- [...]
2009-08-04 23:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA700TFH01: HONDURAN CONGRESS KEEPS AMNESTY DOOR OPEN
[...] (C) The congressional commission tasked with analyzing the amnesty element of the San Jose Agreement presented their assessment to Congress on August 3. In its report, the commission stated that Congress has the legal authority to grant amnesty for political crimes as described in the San Jos [...]
2009-08-05 00:03:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA703TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #36 08/05/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) Approximately 500 protestors congregated outside of the pedagogical university at 09:55 local (11:55 EDT). At 10:15, the protestors departed the university and began marching down Blvd. Fuerzas Armadas. As of 11:50, the demonstration had grown to approximately 3000 people protesting outs [...]
2009-08-05 23:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA707TFHO1: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND EXPRESSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The freedoms of expression and of the press in Honduras continue to be threatened as members of the de facto government intimidate and attempt to close media outlets, harass journalists, and seize the cameras of photographers and filmmakers. On an unofficial visit the UNHCR Spe [...]
2009-08-06 18:42:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI DS SNAR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA710TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #37 08/06/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) Approximately 120 pro-Zelaya protestors gathered outside of the TIGO mobile telephone company office at 09:15 local (11:15 EDT),claiming the owner was a supporter of the coup. The crowd grew to 2500 by 10:30, and at 11:00 marched to Las Proceres Avenue, passing by the GSO warehouse and m [...]
2009-08-06 23:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA711TFH01: HONDURAS COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 08/06/09
[...] (U) This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. 2. (U) The letter from Assistant Secretary Richard Verma to Senator Lugar is being portrayed in Honduran media as a "so [...]
2009-08-06 23:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PHUM KDEM EAID HO
09TEGUCIGALPA716TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #38 08/07/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) At 09:10, approximately 60 pro-Zelaya supporters gathered on the exit from Tegucigalpa's ring road to the road to Danli, the main route to the Nicaraguan border, preparing to demonstrate. At 11:50, the crowd grew to approximately 1,000-1,200. The leaders of the protest announced that if [...]
2009-08-10 17:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA717TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/27/09
[...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. --------------------------------------- Zelaya Spends the Weekend at the Border ------------------ [...]
2009-08-10 18:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA720TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #39 08/10/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) At 09:50 local time(11:50 EDT),pro-Zelaya followers were gathering at the Pedagogical University preparing for a march/demonstration. At 10:30, a medium size (1000-5000 demonstrators) group was marching from the university northbound on Blvd. Miraflores. At 11:50, they arrived at the Un [...]
2009-08-10 21:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA731TFH01: Drug Trafficking Activity Before and After the
[...] (SBU) Summary: After a series of successful seizure operations in the first half of 2009, the political crisis in Honduras, triggered by the ouster of President Jose Manuel Zelaya on June 28, is already showing its effects by degrading the ability of the Honduran National Police to engage in co [...]
2009-08-11 19:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL PGOV KJUS EAID MOPS MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA733TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #40 08/11/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) Tegucigalpa: Pro-Zelaya followers marched from the outskirts of Tegucigalpa today to gather in a vicinity of the Clarion Hotel for demonstration targeting the Presidential Palace. The crowd totaled between 3,000 and 5,000. Police kept the demonstrators away from the Presidential Palac [...]
2009-08-11 23:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA738TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #41 08/12/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) Tegucigalpa: Pro-Zelaya demonstrations on August 11 were large (over 5,000 people). The largest march into the city was led by Padre Tamayo who led a group of marchers from Olancho. Protestors first congregated at the Clarion Hotel where they heard speeches from First Lady Xiomara de Ca [...]
2009-08-13 01:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA740TFHO1: ZELAYA'S ADMINISTRATION: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
[...] (C) Summary: This message is an update on the status of various Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Administration cabinet-level officials. The Ambassador held a meeting on August 6 (ref A) with those officials currently in Tegucigalpa, he met with others in Managua on July 30, and maintains contact with oth [...]
2009-08-13 18:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA741TFH01: STATUS OF USG ASSISTANCE TO HONDURAS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Following the events of June 28 the United States Government has halted communications with high-level GOH officials and has been steadily suspending programs with the GOH in compliance with USG policy guidance. The following is a summary of the current status of actions taken b [...]
2009-08-13 18:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EAGR ETRD MASS OEXC PGOV PREL SCUL
09TEGUCIGALPA744TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #42 08/13/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) Tegucigalpa: On August 13, a medium-sized (1000-5000) group of pro-Zelaya followers gathered at the Pedagogical University. As of 11:55 local (13:55 EDT),demonstrators were arriving at the Public Ministry. As of 14:00, approximately 1500 demonstrators marched to Radio Globo, where th [...]
2009-08-13 21:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA745TFH01: HONDURAN TOURISM SUFFERS POST-COUP BLUES
[...] (U) Summary: Tourism, the third largest revenue source in Honduras, is significantly down since June 28, having borne the brunt of the economic impact of the coup d'etat. Hotels report higher vacancy rates and airlines have noticed a significant drop in bookings, which have led them to cancel [...]
2009-08-13 21:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALBBSR EAIR ECON ETRD HO KDEM
09TEGUCIGALPA755TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #43 08/14/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) Tegucigalpa: On August 14, a medium-sized (1000-5000) group of pro-Zelaya followers gathered at the Pedagogical University. As of 11:00 local (13:00 EDT),demonstrators entered the Colonia Kennedy neighborhood south of the university, then proceeded along the city's ring road to the Na [...]
2009-08-14 21:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA763TFHO1: HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION POST-COUP UPDATE 6
[...] (SBU) Summary. The human rights situation in Honduras remains tense as mostly peaceful protests of 1,000 to 5,000 continue across Tegucigalpa for the fourth straight day. Tuesday,s violence is being attributed to small elements of youth within the protests who have responded to police counter [...]
2009-08-17 13:21:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA772TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #44 08/17/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) On August 17, as of 10:15 local (12:15 EDT),a group of approximately 50 pro-Zelaya taxi drivers with their vehicles arrived near the Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa to demand a bonus that had been promised in 2008. (Note: This government-paid bonus was promised in order to end a str [...]
2009-08-17 23:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA775TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #45 08/18/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) On August 18, as of 11:30 local (13:30 EDT),a medium (1,000-5,000 people) group of pro-Zelaya supporters arrived at the Supreme Court; police also arrived. 2. (SBU) On August 17, in Villanueva, Cortes, a suburb of San Pedro Sula, members of the anti-bomb squad found a de-fused grenad [...]
2009-08-18 21:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA778TFH01: HONDURAS COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 08/18/09
[...] (U) This is another in a series of round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. ---------------------------- Micheletti on Live Talk Show ---------------------------- 2. (U) In an August 18 interview on t [...]
2009-08-18 23:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA783TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #46 08/19/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) On August 19, as of 12:00 local (14:00 EDT),a small group of less than 1,000 pro-Zelaya supporters demonstrated in front of the U.S. Embassy. Charge and PolOff met inside the U.S. Embassy lobby with Rafael Alegria and other demonstration leaders and listened to their concerns about the [...]
2009-08-19 22:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA785TFH01: HONDURAS COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 08/19/09
[...] (U) This is another in a series of round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. 2. (C) In an August 17 meeting between the elections donor working group (GSE) and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) hosted [...]
2009-08-20 00:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA786TFH01: INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary. A delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) arrived in Tegucigalpa August 16 to evaluate the human rights situation in the country. During the first two days the delegation met with two separate groups of Congressmen, the National Police, the Supreme Co [...]
2009-08-20 18:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA787TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #47 08/20/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) On August 20, as of 12:00 local (14:00 EDT),a small group of less than 1,000 pro-Zelaya supporters marched on Colonia el San Jose del Pedegral in the vicinity of Toncontin International Airport. 2. (SBU) On August 19, at 15:15, a pro-Zelaya vehicular procession of over 100 cars and m [...]
2009-08-20 20:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA789TFH01: G-16 MEETINGS WITH SUPREME COURT, ATTORNEY
[...] (U) Summary. Representatives of the Group of 16 donor countries (G-16) met on August 18 and 19 with the Supreme Court, the Attorney General's office, and the National Commission on Human Rights. The meetings were held in response to a G-16 letter raising concern about the human rights situat [...]
2009-08-21 00:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA790TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #48 08/21/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) On August 21, as of 12:30 local (14:30 EDT),a medium-sized group (1,000-5,000 people) of pro-Zelaya supporters were congregating in front of the Channel 36 building. There was a police presence with this demonstration. 2. (SBU) As of 10:00, a small group (200 people) of the pro-reg [...]
2009-08-21 19:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA798TFH01: HONDURAS COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 08/21/09
[...] (U) This is another in a series of round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. 2. (C) The five-magistrate "Constitutional Hall" of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) agreed on August 20 to review a legal ch [...]
2009-08-21 21:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA806TFH01: HOW THE COUP IS SEEN OUTSIDE THE CAPITAL,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff and Econoff visited the city of Comayagua, Comayagua Department and the towns of Cane and Tutule in La Paz Department to gauge the political and economic effects of the current political crisis outside the capital. Emboffs spoke with agricultural producers and exporters, [...]
2009-08-24 22:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM EAID HO
09TEGUCIGALPA809TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #49 08/24/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) At approximately 0830 local (1030 EDT),the Organization of American States group of Foreign Ministers arrived in Tegucigalpa. The delegation included Argentinean Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, Canadian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Peter Kent, Costa Rican Foreign Minister Bruno [...]
2009-08-24 23:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA817TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #50 08/25/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) At approximately 0945 local (1145 EDT),a group of approximately 1,000-5,000 pro-Zelaya demonstrators gathered peacefully at the National Pedagogical University and marched to the Clarion Hotel. As of 1130 local (1330 EDT),the demonstration had moved toward the Intercontinental Hotel an [...]
2009-08-25 22:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA820MISSION EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE (EAC) MEETING
[...] (SBU) On August 25, the Charge chaired a Mission Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting to review our security posture in response to the Department's press release stating the Embassy would suspend the issuance of nonimmigrant visas beginning August 26. 2. (SBU) The EAC concluded that [...]
2009-08-25 23:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CASC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA830TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #51 08/26/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) As of 14:00 local (16:00 EDT),a medium size group of pro-Zelaya demonstrators marched from the Clarion Hotel to the Embassy. The demonstrators peacefully disbanded at 13:55 local (15:55 EDT). Their message to the US was: "We request you do not support elections in Honduras and that OAS [...]
2009-08-26 23:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA831TFH01: FOREIGN MINISTER DELEGATION FACES DE FACTO
[...] (C) Summary: The OAS delegation of foreign ministers and OAS Secretary General which visited Honduras August 24-25 to press all parties to accept the San Jose Accord as the peaceful solution to the current political crisis concluded without a concrete result, due primarily to inflexibility on [...]
2009-08-27 02:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA832TFH01: HONDURAN COUP POLITICAL WRAP-UP 08/26/09
[...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Representatives of the G-16 donor community met at the World Bank office on August 26 to discuss [...]
2009-08-27 14:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA841TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #52 08/27/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) According to local press reports, at 0300 local (0500 EDT) this morning, police located a homemade bomb inside a vehicle parked outside of the Programa Nacional de Beneficio Rural (PRONABER) building, next to the Secretaria de Comercio (SETCO). The bomb was reported to have contained accele [...]
2009-08-27 19:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA842TFH01: HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION POST-COUP UPDATE 7
[...] (SBU) Summary: Demonstrations in Honduras have been peaceful since violent outbreaks on August 12 and 13. However, allegations of human rights violations continue to be made by various human rights groups following the departure of the visiting delegation from the Inter-American Commission on [...]
2009-08-27 20:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA843TFH01: MEDIA REACTION US VISA SUSPENSION, OAS VISIT AND
[...] (U) Editorial in the Tegucigalpa-based liberal newspaper (8-26-09): "The U.S. government suspended the issuance of visas starting August 26, for non immigrants and non emergency cases, which implies almost the (entire) totality of these documents for Hondurans that want to travel to the U.S. S [...]
2009-08-27 21:06:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL CVIS SMIG HO
09TEGUCIGALPA844HONDURAS PRESS COVERAGE OF INSULZA READOUT TO OAS
[...] (U) Summary. All four major dailies covered the August 26 presentation to the OAS by Secretary General Insulza. They highlighted the failure of the August 24-25 mission of OAS Foreign Ministers, but noted that Insulza remains hopeful that a negotiated settlement to Honduras' political crisis [...]
2009-08-27 21:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA850TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #53 08/28/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) As of 11:00 local (13:00 EDT),a medium sized group of pro-Zelaya demonstrators had gathered at the Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS) on Blvd. Santa Fe and had moved to Colonia Polo Paz for a memorial service for a protestor that was shot and killed during a demonstration at that [...]
2009-08-28 22:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA859TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #54 08/31/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) As of 13:20 local (15:20 EDT) a medium sized group of pro-Zelaya supporters that had been marching in Colonia Monterrey had ended their demonstration and dispersed. --------------------------------- Infrastructure and Communications --------------------------------- 2. (U) As a res [...]
2009-08-31 23:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA860TFH01: ZELAYA APPOINTED HEAD OF ANTHROPOLOGY
[...] (C) Summary: Dr. Dario Euraque, the general manager of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (IHAH),was dismissed from his position on August 21 in what Euraque believes was a political move due to his appointment to the position under the Zelaya administration. Dr. Euraque is a [...]
2009-08-31 23:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA864TFH01: FOUR DETAINED MINORS RELEASED FOLLOWING
[...] (C) Summary. Four minors detained on July 25 by Honduran security forces near Las Manos during pro-Zelaya protests at the border of Honduras and Nicaragua were released on August 27 and 28 following pressure by the local UNICEF representative. In a recent investigation, UNICEF was unable to c [...]
2009-09-01 23:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA866THF01: ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN BEGINS
[...] (U) Summary. The official campaign period for the November 29 election began on August 31. While most attention will focus on the presidential candidates (plus three presidential designees),128 congressional representatives and 298 mayors will also be elected. The Supreme Electoral Tribuna [...]
2009-09-01 23:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM
09TEGUCIGALPA867TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP: LOCAL PRESS WRAP-UP
[...] (U) Summary. This is a round-up of local news reported in major Honduran dailies from August 29 through September 1. End Summary. 2. (U) "El Heraldo," "La Prensa," and "La Tribuna" September 1 report that Venezuelan President Chavez admits it is highly unlikely that President Zelaya will re [...]
2009-09-01 23:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA87HONDURAN CONGRESS SELECTS NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL
[...] (C) Summary. The Honduran Congress elected Luis Alberto Rubi Avila and Roy David Urtecho Lopez as new Attorney General and deputy, respectively, on February 8 from candidates selected by a constitutionally-mandated proposing board. Following tradition, the two candidates each come from one o [...]
2009-02-10 14:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM KJUS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA882G-16 REVIEWS MEMBER POSITIONS AND DISCUSSES
[...] (C) Summary. The G-16 donors' group, currently chaired by Canada, met on September 2 to review meetings held on September 1 by the EU and OAS regarding Honduras' political crisis. There was discussion of the advisability of meetings between the G-16 and electoral candidates and the concern t [...]
2009-09-03 20:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV KDEM XG HO
09TEGUCIGALPA883TFHO1: DE FACTO REGIME TOUTS IMF ACT AS SIGN OF
[...] (C) Summary and Action Request: The Honduran de facto regime is trumpeting the IMF,s inclusion of Honduras in the worldwide increase in Special Drawing Rights (SDR) for members as a sign of international recognition for the regime. Honduras received an allotment of SDR 96 million (approximat [...]
2009-09-03 20:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON AMB CONS DAO DCM AID FCS PAS POL ORA
09TEGUCIGALPA885G-16 REVIEWS MEMBER POSITIONS AND DISCUSSES
[...] (C) Summary. The G-16 donors' group, currently chaired by Canada, met on September 2 to review meetings held on September 1 by the EU and OAS regarding Honduras' political crisis. There was discussion of the advisability of meetings between the G-16 and electoral candidates and the concern t [...]
2009-09-03 22:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL PGOV KDEM XG HO
09TEGUCIGALPA887TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP: LOCAL PRESS WRAP-UP
[...] (U) Summary. This is a round-up of local news reported in major Honduran dailies on September 2. End Summary. 2. (U) "La Tribuna," "El Heraldo," and "La Prensa" September 2 carry headlines reporting that Honduras will not be excluded from an Association Agreement between Central America and [...]
2009-09-03 23:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA888TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP: LOCAL PRESS WRAP-UP
[...] (U) Summary. This is a round-up of local news reported in major Honduran dailies on September 3. End Summary. 2. (U) An "El Heraldo" headline states that President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was greeted in Washington with protests and the newspaper features a photo of anti-Zelaya protestors n [...]
2009-09-03 23:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA889TFH01: HOW THE COUP IS SEEN OUSIDE THE CAPITAL,
[...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with local mayors, business leaders and anti-coup supporters in the towns of Danli and El Paraiso. The political opinions varied widely; however there appeared to be a strong desire to move forward either through November elections or the San Jose Accord. The mayor of [...]
2009-09-04 19:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA890TFH01: HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE FROM PRO-ZELAYA
[...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with nine members of a pro-Zelaya advocacy group in Danli, El Paraiso Department. The group called for the immediate restitution of President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and the restoration of constitutional order in Honduras. Many members of the group described their experi [...]
2009-09-04 20:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA891TFH01: JUSTICE FOR MY ENEMIES: DE FACTO GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since the June 28 forced removal of President Zelaya, the Public Ministry and the de facto regime have waged a concerted effort to discredit and intimidate Zelaya cabinet members and coup opponents through investigations of a string of alleged criminal activities. Formal investi [...]
2009-09-04 20:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KJUS PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA90SOUTHCOM COMMANDER'S HONDURAS VISIT REINFORCES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Taking place on the heels of a near constitutional crisis over the election of the Supreme Court (Ref A),the visit of SOUTHCOM Commander Admiral James Stavridis on January 29-30 could not have been better timed to reinforce our message of democracy and civilian control of the mil [...]
2009-02-10 18:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR MOPS EAID KDEM SNAR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA901TFHO1: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NATIONAL PARTY FIGURES
[...] (C) Ambassador and DCM met with former Honduran president and National Party leader Rafael Callejas and Honduran business mogul and National Party financier Miguel Facusse for lunch September 7 to press for their support to pressure the Micheletti regime to accept the San Jose Accord. Callejas [...]
2009-09-09 00:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA921TFHO1: REACTION TO U.S. VISA REVOCATIONS, NIV
[...] (C) Summary: Public statements from de facto regime members and supporters in response to the September 10 revocation of their U.S. visas have in general been understated, with a few attacks directed at the Ambassador. In private meetings, however, the response has been a mix of anger and conf [...]
2009-09-17 16:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM CASC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA924BUSINESS COMMUNITY LEADERS SAY DE FACTO OFFICIALS
[...] (C) Summary: At a September 14 meeting with three business community leaders, the Ambassador urged them to continue to press all concerned parties to support the San Jose Accords. Amilcar Bulnes, who heads a leading Honduran business association, said that he and his colleagues had unsuccess [...]
2009-09-17 21:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ECON HO
09TEGUCIGALPA939TFH01: SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAYS CONGRESS RATHER
[...] (C) Summary. Supreme Court magistrate David Calix Vallecillo, who claims he was outside Honduras during the period shortly before and after the June 28 coup, told Poloffs that the Supreme Court has not issued any binding judicial decisions regarding the country's political crisis. Calix said [...]
2009-09-18 22:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KJUS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA940TFHO1: PHONE CONVERSATION WITH DE FACTO FINANCE
[...] (C) Summary: Consul General (CG) received a phone call September 17 from Gabriela Nunez, de facto regime Minister of Finance. Nunez was calling to find out if her U.S. visa had been revoked, as she anticipated being invited to Washington, D.C. by the World Bank for consultations. CG confirmed [...]
2009-09-18 23:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM CVIS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA944TFH01: ZELAYA CLAIMS TO BE IN HONDURAS
[...] (C) At 1040 local (1240 EDT) local pro-Zelaya Channel 36 announced that Presient Zelaya had returned to Honduras and was already in Tegucigalpa, at the UN Building. Although such rumors had arisen many times since the June 28 coup, Post immediately began calling sources to determine whether t [...]
2009-09-21 19:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA945TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #55 09/21/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) At 1300 local (1500 EDT),President Zelaya appeared on a balcony before a crowd of over 5,000 supporters who had gathered outside the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, but made no statement. Earlier via radio and television channel 36, Zelaya publicly stated he was ready to sign the San Jo [...]
2009-09-21 22:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA947TFH01: NEED FOR COMMISSION
[...] (C) Honduran authorities can no longer handle their deteriorating political situation and need the intervention of an international commission, preferably headed by senior UN and OAS officials accompanied by regional foreign ministers. The current situation is rapidly deteriorating. There is [...]
2009-09-22 15:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL SOCI HO
09TEGUCIGALPA948TFH01: NEED FOR COMMISSION - CORRECTED CABLE
[...] (C) Summary: Honduran authorities may no longer be able to handle their deteriorating political situation and need the intervention of an international commission, preferably headed by senior UN and OAS officials accompanied by regional foreign ministers. The current situation is rapidly dete [...]
2009-09-22 16:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL SOCI HO
09TEGUCIGALPA949TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #56 09/22/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) Security forces removed protesters from the Brazilian Embassy in the early morning hours, employing tear gas, according to Brazilian Embassy sources. Estimates on the number of protestors removed range from 500 to 1,000, depending on the source. According to a televised police announceme [...]
2009-09-22 19:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA951TFH01: POLITICAL WRAP-UP
[...] (C) Summary. President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and a group of supporters remain in the Brazilian Embassy. The Armed Forces have allowed food and water to be delivered to the Embassy compound and are permitting the departure of Zelaya supporters and local Embassy staff. Rumors are circulatin [...]
2009-09-23 00:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC PHUM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA952TFH01: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND EXPRESSION
[...] (C) Summary. Freedom of the press and expression continue to be threatened in Honduras by the de facto regime and its supporters. Recent actions against anti-coup media outlets continue to create a hostile environment for them. The Ambassador expressed to the head of the National Telecommun [...]
2009-09-23 00:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA953TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #58 09/22/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) As of noon local (1400 EDT) the Brazilian charge d'affaires reported to Emboffs that the electricity and water had been restored in their Embassy. Both the Armed Forces (HOAF) Chief of Defense and the de facto security minister have promised safe passage to embassy employees and Zelaya [...]
2009-09-23 00:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA955TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #59 09/23/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) De facto regime foreign minister Carlos Lopez Contreras read a statement in English on television the evening of September 22. A question and answer period in Spanish followed. Lopez Contreras' statement said de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti is ready to engage in a discussion wi [...]
2009-09-23 19:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA957TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #60 09/23/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) Post continues to pursue confirmation from security forces on behalf of the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires that he will be permitted to re-enter his embassy if he leaves. While individual field commanders for the armed forces and police state they will allow safe passage when informed, they [...]
2009-09-24 01:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC EAIR ECON HO
09TEGUCIGALPA958TFH01: HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION SINCE ZELAYA'S RETURN
[...] (C) Summary. The human rights situation following the return of President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya has deteriorated. Post confirmed the death of one anti-coup protestor on September 22 in Tegucigalpa and is working to confirm another alleged death of an anti-coup protestor in San Pedro Sula [...]
2009-09-24 01:20:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA963TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #61 09/24/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) Bertha Oliva de Nativi, executive director of human rights NGO Committee for the Family of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH),told Poloff on September 23 that Francisco Moncada Alvorado was the name of the victim confirmed killed by security forces due to anti-coup violen [...]
2009-09-24 19:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA966TFHO1: DE FACTO FINANCE MINISTER EXPRESSES CONCERN
[...] (C) Summary: In a series of phone calls to the Consul General (CG) September 24, de facto Finance Minister Gabriela Nunez expressed worry over the deteriorating security situation since the unexpected return to Honduras of President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya. She also angrily questioned the decis [...]
2009-09-25 00:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM CVIS HO
09TEGUCIGALPA967TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #62 09/24/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) The Executive Director of the Center for the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture (CPTRT),a Honduran human rights NGO, sent a letter on September 22 to the President of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly requesting that the UN send a medical and human right [...]
2009-09-25 00:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA975TFHO1: STOCKS OF STAPLES STILL SUFFICIENT
[...] (U) Summary: The de facto regime temporarily suspended the nationwide curfew during the day on Wednesday, September 23 to allow Hondurans to stock up on food, fuel and cash; the curfew was lifted for most of the day on September 24. On September 23, thousands of people rushed to stores, bank [...]
2009-09-25 23:17:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID ETRD EAGR ELTN PINS PGOV SOCI KDEM
09TEGUCIGALPA977TFH01: CHIEF OF DEFENSE ON THE SIEGE AT THE
[...] (C) Within the framework of Department guidance regarding contact with Honduran officials and military, the Ambassador spoke by telephone with de facto regime Chief of Defense MG Romeo Vasquez Velasquez on two occasions September 25 to discuss the situation at the Brazilian Embassy and the cur [...]
2009-09-26 00:26:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM MOPS PREL HO
09TEGUCIGALPA978TFHO1: HONDURAS STILL HAS MONEY IN THE BANK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the post-coup period, some worried if Honduras had sufficient foreign exchange (FX) reserves to finance trade while maintaining its fixed exchange rate. The two major contributors to Honduran FX reserves are Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and remittances. Although during t [...]
2009-09-26 00:33:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID ETRD KDEM BBSR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA979TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #64 09/25/2009 AS OF
[...] (C) Post is thoroughly investigating claims of a gas attack against the Brazilian Embassy. 2. (SBU) A Zelaya supporter reported that the de facto government was not allowing presidential candidates Cesar Ham(UD) and Carlos H. Reyes (independent, pro-Zelaya) into the Brazilian embassy to see [...]
2009-09-26 00:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA983TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #65 09/28/2009 AS OF
[...] (SBU) Four members of a five person OAS delegation were denied entry at Toncontin International Airport on September 27, with U.S. Embassy officers present. Two of the diplomats were U.S. citizens. The fifth diplomat, John Biehl, was permitted to enter Honduras. Details on this incident will [...]
2009-09-28 22:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA986TFH01: ALLEGED GAS ATTACK AGAINST BRAZILIAN
[...] (C) Summary. Embassy received reports on September 25 that a gas attack had been carried out against the Brazilian Embassy and that persons inside the Embassy, including President Zelaya, had become ill. Embassy investigated the allegations. The Brazilian Charge told Embassy that he believe [...]
2009-09-29 13:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA989TFH01: DECREE LIMITING CIVIL LIBERTIES
[...] (U) Summary. The de facto regime issued an executive decree on September 26 limiting for a period of 45 days the freedoms of speech, association, movement, and due process. The National Telecommunications Commission executed the decree by suspending the operating licenses of a pro-Zelaya tele [...]
2009-09-29 22:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA990TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #66 09/29/2009 AS OF
[...] (U) OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza announced yesterday, September 28 that de facto president Micheletti had invited the OAS to bring a delegation to Honduras on October 7 with permission to send an advance team on October 2. The Ambassador spoke to President Zelaya this morning. H [...]
2009-09-29 23:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA993TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #67 09/30/2009 AS OF
[...] (C) Liberal party Congresswoman Argentina Valle told Poloff on September 29 that Congressional leaders decided to establish a commission that will examine the decree passed by the Executive Branch on September 26 that severely limited civil liberties (ref Tegucigalpa 989). Earlier on September [...]
2009-09-30 22:49:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO
09TEGUCIGALPA996TFHO1: COMPANIES COMPLAIN CURFEWS CRUSH COMMERCE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The business community has urged de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti to consider the negative impacts of curfews to business and provide exemptions for maquillas and commerce, according to Honduran Private Enterprise Council (COHEP) representatives. A recent decree limi [...]
2009-09-30 23:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON BBSR EIND EINV ELTN ETRD EWWT PGOV PINS
09TELAVIV100GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, JANUARY 13, 1700 HRS
[...] (SBU) As of 1700 local on January 13, 102 truckloads of humanitarian supplies, including 2 tankers of industrial diesel, were transferred into the Gaza Strip via Kerem Shalom. The Nahal Oz fuel terminal was closed today because of nearby military operations. The Karni crossing, open yesterday [...]
2009-01-13 16:52:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRET//NOFORNEAID PTER EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1006ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media cited President Shimon PeresQs satisfaction over his meeting with President Obama last night. Media quoted the office of the White House Press Secretary as sayin [...]
2009-05-06 11:09:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1014ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. NPT Issues ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted: Quartet envoy to the Middle East Tony Blair as saying that the U.S. administration is working on a new strategy for talks between Israel and the Palestinians and [...]
2009-05-07 10:07:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1023ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Quartet Mideast envoy Tony Blair was quoted as saying in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that PM Benjamin Netanyahu can be a peacemaker. Blair praised Netanyahu for f [...]
2009-05-08 10:56:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1034NETANYAHU'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS SPARK POLITICAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's cabinet on May 3 approved the 2009-2010 budget framework that seeks to shrink Israel's annual budget deficit in part through cuts in expected expenditures. Details on those cuts were released later in the week, sparking the first major politi [...]
2009-05-08 16:06:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EFIN IS
09TELAVIV1039ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] U.S.-Israel Relations 2. Pope Benedict XVI in Israel ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv reported that PA President Mahmoud Abbas declined PM Benjamin NetanyahuQs invitation to meet with him. The media reported that Netanyahu will me [...]
2009-05-11 11:39:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV104GAZA SITUATION REPORT, JANUARY 14, 1200
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Operation Cast Lead continues with IDF troops moving forward, very slowly, towards the center of Gaza City as talks over a ceasefire, and its terms, continue. Approximately 20 rockets landed in southern Israel overnight, although there were no reports of any damage. Two rocke [...]
2009-01-14 10:26:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPTER EAID EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS CASC KWBG
09TELAVIV1041GOI REJECTS COOPERATION WITH GOLDSTONE MISSION
[...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for UN and International Organizations Affairs Evyatar Manor told Pol Couns May 11 that the GOI has definitively decided not to cooperate with the Goldstone Mission to investigate allegations of war crimes during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Manor stressed tha [...]
2009-05-11 12:17:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UN KWBG IS
09TELAVIV105ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-14 11:56:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1052ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on the first day of Pope Benedict XVIQs visit to Israel. The media, taking their cue from Israeli public figures, are critical of the pope for what was [...]
2009-05-12 10:32:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1058ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Pope Benedict XVI in Israel ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz reported that PM Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to promise during his meeting with President Obama at the White House on Monday that Israel will remove all r [...]
2009-05-13 10:48:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV106GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, JANUARY 13, 1700 HRS
[...] (SBU) Kerem Shalom was the only crossing open between Gaza and Israel on January 14, except for limited humanitarian evacuations through Erez. Kerem Shalom transferred 102 truckloads of humanitarian supplies, including three tankers of diesel destined for Gaza hospital generators. The GOI's [...]
2009-01-14 15:29:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PTER EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1070CODEL WEXLER'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY FM AYALON
[...] (C) Summary. Representative Robert Wexler met with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon on May 10. Looking toward PM Netanyahu's May 18 meeting with President Obama, Wexler advised that Netanyahu should support President Obama's engagement with Iran. Wexler said he was confident that the tw [...]
2009-05-13 13:26:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IR SA SY EG TU IS
09TELAVIV1073ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] U.S.-Israel Relations 2. Mideast 3. Israel-South Africa Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz reported that a Qsenior AmericanQ conveyed a message to PM Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. with [...]
2009-05-14 14:03:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1098ISRAEL: A PROMISED LAND FOR ORGANIZED CRIME?
[...] (SBU) Organized crime (OC) has longstanding roots in Israel, but in recent years there has been a sharp increase in the reach and impact of OC networks. In seeking a competitive advantage in such lucrative trades as narcotics and prostitution, Israeli crime groups have demonstrated their abil [...]
2009-05-15 14:14:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS SNAR CMGT KFRD KCOR KCRM KTIP PINR IS
09TELAVIV1099UNION CHIEF UP, BUDGET CHIEF OUT, AS CABINET BUSTS BUDGET
[...] (SBU) On May 13, about fifteen minutes after the cabinet voted 26-4 in favor of the proposed 2009-2010 budget, Ministry of Finance Budget Director Ram Belinkov resigned, citing what he felt was inappropriate handling of the budget process. Belinkov strongly objected to the profound and highly [...]
2009-05-15 18:06:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV ELAB IS
09TELAVIV1105ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 10:47:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1106RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END-USE
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, ODC Chief and MCPO conducted a site survey on May 14 to verify the continued possession by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of 35 Night Vision Goggles (PVS-7D - Nivisys). ODC offs confirmed that all reftel night vision devices (NVDs) were accounted for with the exception of s [...]
2009-05-18 13:33:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC IS
09TELAVIV1115ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-19 10:37:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1122PAPAL VISIT TO ISRAEL UNDERSCORES DIVISIONS MORE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pope Benedict XVI's May 11-15 visit to the Holy Land, while billed as a pilgrimage of reconciliation and peace, served perhaps more to underscore ongoing divisions between Jews and Christians, Muslims and Christians, Israelis and Palestinians, and Israel and the Vatican. Coming [...]
2009-05-20 10:30:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KIRF KPAL VT IS
09TELAVIV1124ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-20 10:39:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1129ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-21 10:07:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1140ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-22 10:17:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1149ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that PM Benjamin Netanyahu told his Likud party's Knesset faction yesterday, following a stormy debate on the outposts, that coordination with Washington over the Iranian [...]
2009-05-26 10:23:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV115GAZA SITREP, JANUARY 15, 1230 - GAZA ON FIRE
[...] Summary: (S//REL USA, ACGU) Israeli-fired artillery rounds struck a warehouse on the UNRWA compound in Gaza City between 0900 and 1000 local on January 15, sparking a fire that threatens fuel storage sites and wounding three. The Embassy has been in contact with IDF Southern Command to urge [...]
2009-01-15 11:11:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL MOPS PINS PINR KWBG EG IS KPAL CASC PHUM
09TELAVIV1153NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP OUTREACH TO ISRAEL
[...] (C) Summary: GOI interlocutors raised familiar themes with a delegation from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) during a recent outreach meeting at the SOREQ Nuclear Research Center on May 14. The GOI continues to seek formal recognition for adhering to NSG Guidelines, and supports a German asso [...]
2009-05-27 04:09:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALKNNP ETTC PARM NPT IS
09TELAVIV1155ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported on the trip to London of three confidants of PM Benjamin Netanyahu to hold talks with Special U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, which are expected to focus [...]
2009-05-27 10:43:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV116ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-15 11:36:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1163GOI SAYS IT IS READY TO EVACUATE OUTPOSTS
[...] (C) Since Prime Minister Netanyahu's May 18 meeting with POTUS, the GOI has publicly announced and demonstrated its intent to dismantle illegal West Bank outposts. On May 20, Ha'aretz reported that Minister of Defense Barak told the YESHA settlers council that the GOI was ready to evacuate ill [...]
2009-05-28 10:26:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1164ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-28 10:35:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1167STABILIZING GAZA
[...] (C) Ambassador met with Israeli MFA Director General Yossi Gal on May 27 to follow up on reftel, the main points of which we passed to MFA and the Prime Minister's Office on May 23 as a non-paper, given that GOI offices were closed for the weekend. Gal said he took as point of departure that t [...]
2009-05-28 14:12:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL EAID
09TELAVIV1171ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast: ------------ Block Quotes: ------------- I. "How We Beat Obama" Senior op-ed writer Akiva Eldar commented in the independent, left-leaning Ha'aretz (6/1): "Let's agree that Obama in his naivete really has become preoccupied with inconsequential matters, such as a handful o [...]
2009-06-01 10:52:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1176NETANYAHU OFFICIALLY REJECTS U.S. POSITION ON
[...] (U) On June 1, Israeli press reported that PM Netanyahu officially rejected the USG position against Israeli expansion of West Bank settlements, including construction to facilitate "natural growth." Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Netanyahu reportedly declared t [...]
2009-06-01 15:33:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1181ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-02 10:27:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1182ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS MEET ON GAZA RECOVERY
[...] (SBU) MFA Deputy Director Irit Ben Abba called EconCouns evening of June 2 to give a readout of the GOI-PA meeting on end-use assurances and Gaza recovery. Ben Abba said the meeting had been led by she and Karim Nashashibi and had gone very well from the GOI perspective. So well, in fact, tha [...]
2009-06-02 10:28:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS
09TELAVIV1191WATER: GOI FEARS LACK OF PWA MAINTENANCE WILL
[...] (SBU) Keying on the April 2009 World Bank Assessment of Restrictions on Palestinian Water Sector Development and in anticipation that water issues may be raised at the June 8-9 Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting, Lt. Col. Uri Singer, COGAT Deputy Foreign Relations Head called in EconCouns [...]
2009-06-03 08:44:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1192ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-03 10:29:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV12ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-05 11:56:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1209ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-04 10:26:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV121GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, JANUARY 15, 1700 HRS
[...] (SBU) The Joint Coordination Room (JCR) convened a 9:30 meeting to introduce the newly appointed Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Yitzhak Herzog, to the diplomatic and international organizations communities in order to demonstrate the GOI's priority on maintaining humanitarian aid for Gazan [...]
2009-01-15 17:06:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PTER EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1216ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-05 11:09:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1221TRILATERAL WATER WORKING GROUP MEETING, APRIL 21,
[...] (C) Summary. With the U.S. as chair, the Trilateral Water Working Group (TWWG) met in Tel Aviv April 21, to facilitate technical discussions on current Israeli and Palestinian water issues. This was the first meeting held since June 2008. The discussion revolved around the general lack [...]
2009-06-05 13:37:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON EAID KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1226ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast: ------------ Block Quotes: ------------- I. "NetanyahuQs Moment" The independent, left-leaning Ha'aretz editorialized (6/8): QFaster than expected, the Prime Minister has reached the moment when he must decide between adhering to his outdated political platform and advanci [...]
2009-06-08 14:08:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1235SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-09 05:16:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV124GAZA SITREP, JANUARY 16, 1200
[...] (S) As of 1100 local on January 16, the USDAO had reported that Israeli heavy armor and mechanized forces were moving into southern Gaza from the Sufa and Kerem Shalom crossings, moves which suggest a ground operation is in the making in the vicinity of the Philadelphi corridor. The Israeli [...]
2009-01-16 10:14:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS PINS PINR KWBG EG LE IS KPAL CASC
09TELAVIV1246GOI INTERIOR MINISTER WANTS SETTLEMENT EXPANSION
[...] (SBU) In a June 8 radio interview, Interior Minister and Shas Party head Eli Yishai publicly committed to using his Ministry's funds to promote expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Prompted by reports that no settlement construction tenders have been issued since PM Netanyahu took [...]
2009-06-09 12:06:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1250EGYPTIAN EMBASSY ALLEGES YA'ALON COMMENT INDICATES
[...] (C) Egyptian DCM Sameh El Souefi briefed members of the diplomatic community including Pol Couns May 28 on the May 24-25 visit of MFA spokesman and director of Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's office Hossam Zaki. El Souefi provided a readout along predictable lines of Zaki's discussions with De [...]
2009-06-09 13:44:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EG KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1251SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-10 12:30:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV126ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Gaza Crisis ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz and other media reported on feverish efforts to achieve a cease-fire by this weekend. Israel Radio reported that Amos Gilad, the head of the Defense Ministry's political-se [...]
2009-01-16 11:22:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1262ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz quoted sources close to PM Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that he will announce in his foreign policy speech scheduled for Sunday the adoption of the Roadmap and the "two-state solut [...]
2009-06-11 09:59:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1270ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast - BLOCK QUOTES ONLY Block Quotes: ------------- I: "Bibi's Dilemma" Shimon Shiffer, senior diplomatic correspondent wrote in the mass-circulation, pluralist Yedioth Ahronot (6/12): "Among the prime minister's close aides, there is a clash between two schools of thought regarding [...]
2009-06-12 10:18:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1273GOI FOLLOW-UP REQUESTS FROM JUNE 7
[...] (S) In follow-up to the June 7 Israeli-Palestinian meeting on anti-money-laundering and counter-terror-finance (AML/CFT practices in West Bank and Gaza banks (REFTEL) GOI officials reviewed with EconOff next steps and additional information they have sought from the Palestinian side. In sepa [...]
2009-06-12 14:11:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETEAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS
09TELAVIV1291ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Prime Minister Netanyahu's Speech I: "For Obama's Ears Senior columnist Nahum Barnea wrote in the mass-circulation, pluralist Yediot Aharonot (6/15): "Three words will remain from the speech at Bar Ilan University: "demilitarized Palestinian state." ... They clarify that if there should b [...]
2009-06-15 10:43:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1295NETANYAHU'S "BAR ILAN ADDRESS" REFLECTS EMERGING
[...] (C) Summary. PM Netanyahu's June 14 speech was a balancing act to deal with widely-perceived U.S. pressure without causing the collapse of his coalition. By announcing his acceptance of a demilitarized Palestinian state beside Israel, Netanyahu moved to the center and embraced positions sup [...]
2009-06-15 13:25:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1299SPECIAL TREATMENT IS NOT ENOUGH: THE GOI
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOI disputes World Bank assertions--widely picked up by U.S. analysts--that the North Gaza Wastewater Treatment Plant (NGWWTP) project is at a standstill because the GOI had not approved entry of necessary equipment and materials into Gaza, noting that all approvals were iss [...]
2009-06-16 12:24:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SENV KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1305ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] PM Netanyahu's Speech 2. Iran I. "Walking Between the Raindrops" Yossi Alper, a member of the Peace and Security Council and a regular contributor to the conservative independent Jerusalem Post wrote6/16): "At the end of the day, another right-wing leader, steeped in Revisionist ideol [...]
2009-06-16 13:46:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1309ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] PM Netanyahu's Speech 2. Iran Block Quotes Only: ------------- Â [...]
2009-06-17 10:17:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1326ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] PM Netanyahu's Speech 2. Iran 3. Mideast Block Quotes Only: ------------- Â [...]
2009-06-18 10:22:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1337OPPOSITION LAWMAKERS BOYCOTT KNESSET TO PROTEST
[...] (U) The Kadima-led opposition this week united to oppose the government's attempts to pass several measures aimed at increasing the long-term stability of Israeli governments, but also specifically intended to assist Prime Minister Netanyahu. Opposition leader Livni pushed to have the six op [...]
2009-06-19 13:54:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV IS
09TELAVIV1338 VICE PRIME MINISTER SHALOM ON HIS NEW REGIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with VPM and Minister for Regional Development Sylvan Shalom on June 18 to discuss the latter's coordinating role in the GOI interministerial committee on West Bank economic development. Shalom outlined his role, which is limited at this point to trying to coordin [...]
2009-06-19 13:59:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL KWBG KPAL IS
09TELAVIV1339ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] PM Netanyahu's Speech 2. Iran 3. Mideast Block Quotes Only: ------------------- Â [...]
2009-06-19 14:09:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1340LIBERMAN'S VISIT TO MOSCOW AND MINSK PART OF GOI
[...] (S) Summary. The MFA's readout on Foreign Minister Liberman's June 2-3 visit to Moscow closely tracked with Embassy Moscow reftel, but with some interesting differences of nuance: the Israelis stated that Liberman's outreach to the Russians represents a new foreign policy priority for Israe [...]
2009-06-19 14:32:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PGOV ECON MASS RU IR IS
09TELAVIV1342ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran Block Quotes Only: ------------------- Â [...]
2009-06-22 12:52:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1346UPDATE ON UNSCO PROPOSAL FOR GAZA
[...] (SBU) Following up on our earlier conversations, and promising contacts at the June 8 AHLC meeting in Oslo, UN Senior Coordinator Robert Serry's staff met with Ministry of Defense PolMil Bureau official Oded Herman and Office of the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COG [...]
2009-06-22 13:12:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1349ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran Block Quotes Only: ------------------- Â [...]
2009-06-23 10:04:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1353ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media quoted PM Benjamin Netanyahu as saying yesterday in Rome that he would not rule out the renewal of Egyptian-brokered negotiations with Hamas in an attempt to secure the releas [...]
2009-06-24 09:56:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1355ISRAELI HEAD OF CIVIL ADMINISTRATION DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 21 meeting in Bet El, Head of the Civil Administration in Hebron, Brigadier General Yoav "Poli" Mordechai (please protect),told U. S. Security Coordinator (USSC) Chief of Operations and Plans, Colonel Stephen Moniz, that improved security coordination with the Palestinia [...]
2009-06-24 13:55:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALKWBG MCAP PGOV PREL ECON IS
09TELAVIV1360ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that yesterday in Paris PM Benjamin Netanyahu continued to refuse to yield ground on the settlement construction issue, even though French President Nicolas Sarkozy squar [...]
2009-06-25 11:45:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1379MOD READOUT ON BARAK'S MEETINGS IN CAIRO
[...] (S) Summary. Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited Cairo June 21 and met one on one with President Mubarak, Intelligence Minister Soliman, and Defense Minister Tantawi. MOD Arab Affairs Adviser David Hacham, who was part of Barak's delegation, provided PolCouns with a readout June 23 based on [...]
2009-06-26 13:22:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MOPS EG KWBG IS
09TELAVIV138ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast Summary: -------- Veteran journalist Eitan Haber wrote on page one of the mass-circulation, pluralist Yediot Aharonot: "[And] we,in our little corner, in the Middle East, in Israel, are tensely waiting to see whether you will continue the tradition of American presidents of the pas [...]
2009-01-20 12:17:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1387ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-29 10:26:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1398ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-30 10:24:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1434ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-02 11:36:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1437MOFAZ CHALLENGING LIVNI WHILE NETANYAHU COURTS BOTH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Former Defense Minister and current Kadima Knesset Member (MK) Shaul Mofaz in recent weeks has been more vocal and direct in challenging party leader Tzipi Livni's leadership. Mofaz's recent statements -- in which he questioned her ability to lead, faulted her for not joining [...]
2009-07-02 15:45:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV IS
09TELAVIV1459ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media highlighted remarks made yesterday by Vice President Joe Biden in Baghdad on ABC-TV's "This Week" program: "We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot [...]
2009-07-06 11:28:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1462INCENTIVES TO WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS MAY PERSIST
[...] (U) On 5 July, the Knesset Finance Committee broadened the criteria by which the government will grant National Priority Area (NPA) status, which could allow the continuation and a potential increase of incentive benefits for West Bank settlers. The NPA bill gives the GOI the legal authority to [...]
2009-07-06 14:11:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1471NEW TAKE ON BUILDING ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN BANKING
[...] (SBU) Irit Roth, Director of Country Legal Counsel and Compliance Division Head for Citi Israel, described operational difficulties as the main impediment to increased business between Israeli and Palestinian private banks in a meeting with EconOff on 6 July. While echoing some of the AML/CF [...]
2009-07-07 08:29:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS
09TELAVIV15GAZA SITUATION REPORT, JANUARY 5, 16:00
[...] (S) Summary: IDF ground operations continued January 5 with heavy artillery fire and troop advances on Gaza City. After bisecting the Gaza Strip, IDF ground forces are methodically closing in on Gaza City. IDF leadership describes a "root canal" ground operation aimed at preventing rocket fi [...]
2009-01-05 17:03:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRET//NOFORNKWBG MOPS PREL PTER PINR EAID ASEC IS
09TELAVIV1503ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media quoted President Obama as saying yesterday on CNN-TV that the U.S. has Qabsolutely notQ given Israel a green light for a possible attack on IranQs nuclear facilities. The Preside [...]
2009-07-08 10:10:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1507STAFFDELS MAKOVSKY AND BENAIM'S MEETING WITH MOD
[...] (S) Summary. Congressional Staffdels Makovsky and Benaim, accompanied by PolCouns, met with MOD Chief of Staff BG Mike Herzog July 2. Their discussion covered improved Egyptian counter-smuggling performance, Egypt's efforts to promote Palestinian national reconciliation, the Arab role in th [...]
2009-07-08 14:38:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PTER PGOV KWBG EG IS
09TELAVIV1510ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post and Israel Radio reported that yesterday State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly dismissed as QinaccurateQ a report published in an Israeli media outlet [Yediot] that Israe [...]
2009-07-09 11:02:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1516ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post cited Israeli assessments that the U.S. and Israel both believe that QIran could, but probably won't, build a bomb within a year.Q According to these appraisals, there i [...]
2009-07-10 10:23:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1521ISRAEL CONFIDENT OF 2010 OECD ACCESSION BUT TAKING
[...] (SBU) In separate meetings with Foreign Affairs, Finance and Environment officials, GOI interlocutors expressed confidence that Israel is well on track for accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) by April 2010. MFA Deputy Director General for Economic Aff [...]
2009-07-10 11:50:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON IS
09TELAVIV1529ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that yesterday, during a special cabinet session in Beersheva, PM Benjamin Netanyahu called on PA President Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian leaders to meet. Ye [...]
2009-07-13 09:47:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1535ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-14 10:41:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1547ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-15 10:14:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1562PRESIDENT PERES VISITS ASTANA AND BAKU
[...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli President Shimon Peres, along with 3 ministers and a 60 person commercial delegation, visited Astana and Baku June 29 - July 1. The stated purpose was to advance the Israeli industrial and business agenda in these countries not traditionally considered close diplomati [...]
2009-07-16 10:43:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL IR AJ KZ IS
09TELAVIV1564ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media (lead story in HaQaretz) reported that yesterday, in a policy address to the Council of Foreign Relations, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave Iran an ultimatum to ac [...]
2009-07-16 14:00:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1565MFA COMMENTS ON MEETINGS WITH MOROCCAN AND OMANI
[...] (C) Summary. Senior MFA officials recently met in Europe with the Moroccan MFA Director General and the Omani Foreign Minister. While the meetings were positive, the Israeli impression is that moderate Arab states are looking for Israeli steps on final status issues, not a settlements freez [...]
2009-07-16 14:40:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL EAIR MO MU MR IS
09TELAVIV1574ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-17 10:03:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1579POLICE REPORTEDLY CLOSE TO RECOMMENDING INDICTMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Israeli press reported on July 15 that police are nearing a decision to recommend to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz that he indict Foreign Minister and Yisrael Beitenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman on money laundering and fraud charges. Following such a recommendation, we expe [...]
2009-07-17 10:30:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IS
09TELAVIV1611ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-20 10:41:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1619ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-21 11:13:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1630ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Deputy State Department Spokesman Robert Wood as saying yesterday: QNo one is asking Israel to act outside its national security interests. What weQre asking both parti [...]
2009-07-22 11:02:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1632ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-23 11:00:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1648ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley as saying yesterday, at the daily State Department briefing: QThere had been some reporting after yesterdayQs briefing that I [...]
2009-07-24 10:45:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1656AMBASSADOR PRESSES GAZA/WEST BANK ISSUES WITH AMOS
[...] (SBU) Ambassador met with Ministry of Defense PolMil Bureau Director Amos Gilad on July 23 to get an update on Gilad's meetings with senior Egyptian officials (septel),to underscore USG support for phase one of the UN Gaza reconstruction plan, to urge continued expansion of the flow of commod [...]
2009-07-24 13:57:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1657MOD SAYS NO MASS OUTPOST EVACUATION PLANNED,
[...] (SBU) On 23 July, Amos Gilad, director of the MOD's Political Military Bureau, told Ambassador that recent Israeli press reports inaccurately stated that the MOD is planning a one-day mass evacuation of outposts (reftel). From 21-22 June, Ha'aretz reported that the MOD had formulated a plan, a [...]
2009-07-24 14:20:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1659SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-27 05:07:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1671SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-28 06:15:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1685ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-29 13:28:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1688PM A/S SHAPIRO'S JULY 22-23 VISIT TO ISRAEL
[...] (S) Summary: Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro met with a number of GOI officials on July 22-23 to stress the importance of the U.S.-Israeli political-military relationship, and to discuss among other issues Israel's Qualitative Military Edge (QME). GOI interlocutors [...]
2009-07-30 10:23:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PGOV MOPS PTER EG CH IR SA LE IS
09TELAVIV1689ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-30 11:36:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1693ISRAEL REPORTS FIRST H1N1 DEATH, ORDERS INOCULATION OF
[...] SUMMARY. Israel's Ministry of Health announced the country's first H1N1-related fatality on Monday, July 27. To date, 1,500 cases of H1N1 have been reported, with 30 to 40 new cases each day. For the first time in Israel's history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued an order for the [...]
2009-07-30 13:32:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT CASC MED IS
09TELAVIV1694IDF TO INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT
[...] (C) Initial IDF rejection of allegations of criminal conduct by troops involved in Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip has given way to admission that some 100 complaints have been leveled at the Israeli military regarding the conduct of its forces during the military assault on Hamas. Media [...]
2009-07-30 15:45:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPGOV IS
09TELAVIV171ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-21 11:05:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1710ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yesterday all media reported that on Friday Saudi Arabia sharply rejected American calls for gestures toward Israel. The Jerusalem Post noted that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who a [...]
2009-08-03 10:58:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1719DAS GLASER'S JULY 29-30 VISIT TO ISRAEL
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) of Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Danny Glaser met with several GOI officials on July 29-30 to express confidence in the Palestinian financial sector, identify Israeli concerns in Palestinian anti-money laundering/counter fin [...]
2009-08-03 14:31:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETEAID EFIN KTFN KPAL IS
09TELAVIV1721ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast ------------------------ Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------ All major print media reported about the international protests against the eviction of two Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheik Jarrah. The media quoted Secre [...]
2009-08-04 09:57:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1726GOI, NGO ASSESSMENT OF JORDAN-ONLY RED SEA PROJECT
[...] (SBU) Summary. The consensus among GOI officials and Israeli NGOs is that the Jordan Red Sea Development Project (JRSP) will not proceed independently of the Red Sea-Dead Sea Conveyance Project (RDS) due to funding and/or legal concerns. GOI interlocutors asserted that Israel has sufficient d [...]
2009-08-05 03:58:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PREL IS JO KWBG
09TELAVIV1732ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mieast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations 3. Iran ------------------------ Key stories in the media ------------------------- HaQaretz reported that Washington issued another diplomatic protest over Israeli conduct in East Jerusalem on Monday, its second in as many weeks. Assistant Sec [...]
2009-08-05 10:20:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1739ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast: *********************** * Missing Section 004 * *********************** *********************** * Missing Section 005 * *********************** *********************** * Missing Section 006 * *********************** *********************** * Missing Sectio [...]
2009-08-06 10:11:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1767ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that Nabil ShaQath, a Fatah Central Committee member, listed 14 preconditions set yesterday by Fatah delegates meeting in Bethlehem to dialogue with Israel, amon [...]
2009-08-07 10:23:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1780ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] U.S.-Israel Relations 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported that the members of the Quartet are trying to arrange a meeting between PM Benjamin Netanyahu and PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas during the course of the UN Gen [...]
2009-08-10 12:05:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1783ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-11 13:51:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1791ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] U.S.-Israel Relations 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Fatah members as saying that Israel should release jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who came in third in the movementQs Central Committee elections [...]
2009-08-12 10:49:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1802ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that Israeli and Hamas spokespeople have presented conflicting reports on progress in the talks about the possible release of Gilad Shalit. YediotQs Arab affairs corres [...]
2009-08-13 13:54:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1808ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted a senior Israeli diplomatic source as saying that Israel might agree to a move led by President Obama in which it would pledge to freeze construction in settlements if i [...]
2009-08-14 11:05:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1824ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-17 11:52:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1831ISRAELI REACTION TO FATAH CONGRESS MIXED
[...] (C) Summary. We have noted a mixed Israeli reaction to the Sixth Fatah Congress and the elections to the Fatah Central Committee. Repeated references to the legitimacy of "resistance" and "popular struggle" in Congress speeches have raised concern among many Israelis, yet at the same time, t [...]
2009-08-18 07:14:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1832ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-18 09:44:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1838LIEBERMAN INDICTMENT SCENARIOS
[...] (C) Reftel reported that the Israeli police recommended August 2 that Attorney General Mazuz indict Foreign Minister Lieberman on bribery, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and other charges. Political insider and media commentator Alon Pinkas (protect) reviewed the legal process wi [...]
2009-08-18 15:26:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IS
09TELAVIV1841ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post quoted a senior Israeli diplomatic source as saying yesterday that U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell is well aware that the Netanyahu government has [...]
2009-08-19 10:26:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1842MINISTERS PUBLICLY SPLIT ON SETTLEMENTS
[...] SUMMARY: Government ministers are sending mixed signals in the press on Israel's position regarding settlements ahead of the expected meeting next week between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Special Envoy Mitchell. Political tensions are growing as several influential ministers visited illegal o [...]
2009-08-19 11:23:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1846ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-20 10:33:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1854NETANYAHU'S RIGHT GETS LOUDER, BOLDER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following a tour of illegal outposts by four cabinet ministers on August 17 (reftel),and ahead of Netanyahu's expected meeting in London next week with Senator Mitchell, some right wing members of the government have continued to up their rhetoric in support of settlements and [...]
2009-08-21 08:07:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL IS
09TELAVIV1855ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media cited the White House as saying yesterday that President Obama wants Israel and the Palestinians to restart stalled peace talks as soon as possible and that he urged both side [...]
2009-08-21 10:34:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV186HIGH COURT REVERSES ELECTION COMMITTEE BAN ON ARAB PARTIES
[...] SUMMARY: Amidst growing tension between Israeli Jews and Arabs over hostilities in and around the Gaza Strip, two right-wing parties and a now-defunct centrist party successfully petitioned the Knesset's Central Elections Committee (CEC) to exclude two Israeli Arab political parties from cont [...]
2009-01-21 17:24:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM IS
09TELAVIV1862ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that yesterday PM Benjamin Netanyahu told the cabinet that he would like to resume direct negotiations with the PA following the U.N. Genera [...]
2009-08-24 10:25:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1866ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Anti-Terrorism Efforts ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that PM Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in London yesterday. Major media reported that officials in his entourage continued to lower expectations in advance [...]
2009-08-25 10:44:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1868ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-26 10:21:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1873ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-27 10:30:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1880ISRAELI MFA ASKS USG TO BROKER OPENING TO INDONESIA
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 26 meeting with PolCouns senior MFA officials Kahanoff and Ben-Abba asked for U.S. help, prior to the scheduled November visit of President Obama to Indonesia, in facilitating the development of Israeli-Indonesian relations. Specifically, they asked if President O [...]
2009-08-27 14:16:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL IN JA IS
09TELAVIV1886ISRAEL HIKES INTEREST RATE TO HEAD OFF INFLATION
[...] (SBU) Amid intense Israeli and international speculation, the Bank of Israel (BoI) became the first central bank to raise interest rates since initial signs of a global recovery. The August 24 hike of 0.25 percent brings the BoI's benchmark rate to 0.75 percent, up from 0.50 percent where it [...]
2009-08-28 09:49:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IS
09TELAVIV1887ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] All conflicts are soluble; 2. Israel is the stronger party; 3. And so it must take the greater risks for peace. Liberals are exasperated by Israel's failure to embrace these principles categorically. Yet we survive in this region because we don't. Edward Kennedy understood all this and more. [...]
2009-08-28 09:58:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1893ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- On August 30, The Jerusalem Post reported that, following the Jerusalem Post/Rafi Smith poll published on Friday, left-wing parties have lamented President ObamaQs unpopularity. Media qu [...]
2009-08-31 10:40:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1904ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-01 10:28:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1915ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted an unnamed Israeli diplomat as saying that there is no disagreement with the U.S. regarding the issue of construction freeze in the settlements. The diplomat was quoted [...]
2009-09-02 12:54:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1918FORMER PRIME MINISTER INDICTED, FORMER MINISTERS
[...] (SBU) The past few days have highlighted, for better and for worse, corruption and ethical conduct among Israel's political elite. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted on August 30 on charges breach of trust and fraudulent conduct. Meantime, Olmert's former Finance Minister Avraha [...]
2009-09-02 14:37:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IS
09TELAVIV1925ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-03 09:57:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV193ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-22 11:55:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1933ISRAEL: NEXT MONTH PIVOTAL REGARDING IRAN
[...] (S) Summary: The GOI views a number of important meetings in September -- including the P5 1 Foreign Ministers, the IAEA Board of Governors, the UN General Assembly and the G-20 -- as pivotal in determining the next course of action regarding Iran's nuclear program. According to MFA Director [...]
2009-09-03 12:32:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL KNNP PGOV IAEA IR RU CH IS
09TELAVIV1948ISRAEL'S FISCAL OUTLOOK
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Israel is likely to meet the 2009 fiscal conditions for U.S. loan guarantees signed at the last Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG) meeting on June 29, but it is less certain that Israel will meet the 2010 expenditure conditions for FY2011 loan guarantees. The country face [...]
2009-09-04 08:04:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN IS
09TELAVIV1950GOI CONSIDERS SEPTEMBER 2 JEC MEETING CONSTRUCTIVE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The September 2 Israeli-Palestinian Joint Economic Committee (JEC) meeting marks the first ministerial-level meeting between the Netanyahu government and the PA and the first time in recent memory that the JEC has been chaired at the ministerial level. Vice PM and Minister for Re [...]
2009-09-04 08:24:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KPAL KWBG IS
09TELAVIV1951THE WAY FORWARD ON FISCAL ISSUES FROM THE 2009 JEDG
[...] (C/NF) Summary: The United States pressed Israel at the 2009 JEDG to consider creating a budget "watchdog" group and institute a new, more effective fiscal rule. In follow-up meetings with Treasury and Emboffs, all three major economic actors in Israel's government agreed with the necessity o [...]
2009-09-04 09:14:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN IS
09TELAVIV1953ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast: ------------ Block Quotes: ------------- I. "A Question of Trust" Senior columnist Nahum Barnea wrote on page one of the mass-circulation, pluralist Yediot Aharonot (9/4): QTepid, cold, frozen: Benjamin Netanyahu is now officially willing to declare a settlement constructi [...]
2009-09-04 10:37:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1955LIKUD RIGHT WING FLEXES ITS MUSCLES
[...] (C) Summary. Israeli media reports claiming that Prime Minister Netanyahu's has agreed to a temporary freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank has mobilized opposition within elements of the Likud party. A small but vocal group of junior Knesset Members (MKs) announced plans for a [...]
2009-09-04 14:34:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IS
09TELAVIV1957ISRAELI UPDATE ON JORDANIAN ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary. A senior Israeli NSC official told us September 4 that National Security Adviser Arad's August 31 visit to Amman was a good opportunity to exchange views but did not produce any results. Contrary to Jordanian expectations reported reftel, Israel does not intend to allow a visit [...]
2009-09-04 14:58:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG JO IS
09TELAVIV1974ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-08 10:31:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1980ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-09 11:01:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1997ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported that PM Benjamin Netanyahu has shortened his planned visit to the U.N. from four days to two. Officials in NetanyahuQs bureau are quoted as saying that the central rea [...]
2009-09-10 10:35:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2004THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador called on Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon September 9 and raised the Goldstone report, the UNGA event marking the 60th anniversary of UNRWA, possible problems with the AHLC, the Wataniya project and the Lebanese border village of Ghajar. The Ambassador noted [...]
2009-09-10 13:41:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UN KWBG IS
09TELAVIV2011ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Anniversary of 9/11 ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media quoted PM Benjamin Netanyahu as saying yesterday before an audience of Likud members in Tel Aviv that Israelis were ready to make concessions for peace [...]
2009-09-11 10:21:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2015SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-14 06:23:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV202ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-23 11:22:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2021SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-15 06:10:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2028THE GOLDSTONE REPORT AND ISRAELI INVESTIGATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Israel has undertaken investigations of approximately 100 complaints it received concerning the activities of the IDF during Operation Cast Lead. The GOI has published a report called The Operation in Gaza: Factual and Legal Aspects, which details the context in which the war [...]
2009-09-15 12:21:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM IS
09TELAVIV2036SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-16 06:04:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2045OPPOSITION LEADER LIVNI TALKS PEACE PROCESS, IRAN
[...] (C) Summary. Sen. Gillibrand met on September 3 with Kadima Chairman and Knesset opposition leader Tzipi Livni. Livni told Gillibrand that Israel must reach a two-state solution with the Palestinians that represents an end to the conflict and does not include a right of return for Palestinia [...]
2009-09-16 10:26:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PTER IR SY IS
09TELAVIV206ISRAELI THINKING ON LEBANON ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: From January 1-10, Poloff and visiting NEA Lebanon desk officer Matthew Irwin discussed Lebanon in meetings with Israeli MFA, MOD, and NSC officials, as well as local academics and journalists. Overall the meetings confirmed that Israel shares the goal of supporting Lebanese mod [...]
2009-01-23 16:42:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PTER LE SY IR IS
09TELAVIV2061ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Goldstone Report 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that at the conclusion of their meetings yesterday, U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell and PM Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to meet again to [...]
2009-09-17 11:08:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV208 ISRAELI CONCERNS ABOUT UPCOMING GAERC MEETING ON
[...] (C) MFA Policy Advisor Tal Becker called the Ambassador to express concern about the upcoming GAERC meeting in Brussels on the Middle East scheduled for Monday, January 26. According to Becker, the French are pushing hard to change the GAERC document in ways that will make things more flexi [...]
2009-01-25 15:48:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL AORC KWBG PHUM IS EU FR
09TELAVIV2080SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-18 06:16:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2089ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that PM Benjamin Netanyahu, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, and President Barack Obama will meet this week, despite U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell's [...]
2009-09-21 10:53:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2096ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-22 10:47:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2099WHY THE GOLDSTONE REPORT MATTERS SO MUCH TO ISRAEL
[...] (C) Summary. The Israeli leadership is deeply alarmed by the Goldstone Report on many levels. Their initial reaction was to deplore the report for accusing much of Israel's military and political leadership of intentionally targeting the civilian population of Gaza during Operation Cast Lea [...]
2009-09-22 14:44:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KWBG IS
09TELAVIV2101ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media viewed President ObamaQs QcoldQ announcement after his meeting yesterday with PM Benjamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas at New YorkQs Waldorf Astoria Hotel as a sign of [...]
2009-09-23 10:53:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2102THE GOLDSTONE REPORT AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and Deputy PolCouns met September 22 with MFA Legal Advisor Ehud Keinan and Principal Deputy Legal Advisor Daniel Taub to follow up on Israel's reactions to the Goldstone Report and seek more specificity concerning the IDF investigatory process. Keinan and Taub stresse [...]
2009-09-23 14:54:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KWBG IS
09TELAVIV2105ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-24 12:35:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2118ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the speech delivered by PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) yesterday. The PM blasted IranQs nuclear program and the welcome Presi [...]
2009-09-25 10:43:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2126ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that, two days before the opening of talks between Iranian and U.S. officials, the Islamic Republic carried out a test launch of long-range missiles capable of reaching I [...]
2009-09-29 11:23:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2131ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Electronic media reported that the Security Cabinet has approved the release of 20 female Palestinian prisoners and detainees in exchange for proof that Gilad Shalit is alive. In a stateme [...]
2009-09-30 13:30:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2147ISRAEL TO RELEASE WOMEN PRISONERS IN RETURN FOR
[...] (SBU) The Prime Minister's Office released a statement September 30 confirming media reports that the security cabinet has decided to release twenty Palestinian women prisoners in return for "updated and unequivocal proof regarding the well-being and status of Gilad Shalit." Prime Minister N [...]
2009-09-30 14:55:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PHUM EG KWBG GM IS
09TELAVIV2149ISRAEL MAKES PROGRESS ON DESALINATION SUBSTITUTION
[...] (U) Summary: Now entering its fifth year of substandard rainfall, Israel is making notable progress in substituting desalinated sea water for natural source fresh water for public consumption. Expanded production from existing seawater facilities should reach 160 million cubic meters (mcm) an [...]
2009-09-30 15:18:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG EINV IS
09TELAVIV2164ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the deal reportedly brokered by Germany and Egypt, in which Hamas will give Israel tomorrow a video recording proving that Gilad Shalit is alive. In exchange Israel will [...]
2009-10-01 11:24:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2166GOI HARDENS LINE ON PA WTO OBSERVER STATUS
[...] (SBU) MFA's Middle East Economic Bureau Director Yael Ravia called EconCouns late Wednesday evening to inform Embassy of the hardened GOI position on a potential Palestinian Authority request for permanent WTO observer status. Ravia said the current GOI position, which she confirmed had been [...]
2009-10-01 14:34:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG ETRD ECON PREL IS
09TELAVIV2167GOI REJECTS FORMING GAZA INVESTIGATORY COMMITTEE,
[...] (C) Summary: Reports in the Israeli media September 30 announced that Defense Minister Barak had proposed the formation of an independent commission to conduct a separate investigation of incidents of civilian deaths in Operation Cast Lead, but MFA later denied the media report, noting that [...]
2009-10-01 14:37:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KWBG IS
09TELAVIV2168ARAD COMMENTS ON SILWAN DINNER, ASSURES USG OF GOI
[...] (C) On September 30, Embassy heard from NGO and Consulate General Jerusalem colleagues that Elad, a right wing religious Zionist group dedicated to asserting Jewish claims to Jerusalem was hosting a tunnel opening ceremony and dinner that evening at a new tunnel site. According to these rep [...]
2009-10-01 14:51:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG IS
09TELAVIV2176ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Hams has handed over to Israel a recent video recording of Gilad Shalit in exchange for the release by Israel of 20 female Palestinian prisoners, and that IDF Chi [...]
2009-10-02 10:16:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2187WHY THE GOI IS SO CONCERNED WITH KEEPING THE
[...] (C) Summary. The past week's discussions with GOI officials about the Goldstone Report have revealed a neuralgic Israeli concern about preventing the report from moving from Geneva to New York. Israeli officials all the way up to PM Netanyahu have insisted that Israel is dead set against re [...]
2009-10-05 11:23:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV UN KWBG IS
09TELAVIV2188ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend the media cited Israeli officialsQ overall satisfaction over the deal involving the publishing of a 2Q42 recording of captive soldier, Gilad Shalit, in exchange for the re [...]
2009-10-05 11:39:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2196ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media emphasized the continued violence around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Clashes continued yesterday between Palestinian demonstrators and security forces. One Israeli soldier wa [...]
2009-10-06 10:22:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2205ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast: ------------ Block Quotes: ------------- I. "Restraint in a Delicate Place" The independent, left-leaning Ha'aretz editorialized (10/7): The growing tension surrounding the Temple Mount threatens to undermine the calm Israel has enjoyed for the past few months.... Netanyahu [...]
2009-10-07 10:47:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV221ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-26 11:12:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2215SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-08 08:43:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2222SEPTEMBER 2009 FRAUD SUMMARY, TEL AVIV
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-08 15:36:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT CASC KFRD ASEC CVIS CPAS IS
09TELAVIV2225SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-09 11:00:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2227ISRAELI, JORDANIAN, AND EGYPTIAN VIEWS ON
[...] (C) Summary: An Israeli official provided the official view of the October 4 rise in tensions connected to the Temple Mount, citing deliberate Palestinian escalation despite advance understandings between the Waqf and Israeli National Police. The Egyptian and Jordanian DCMs provided contrastin [...]
2009-10-09 14:33:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KISR JO EG IS
09TELAVIV2230SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Israel-Turkey Relations 3. Israel-NATO Cooperation ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that yesterday, in his opening speech to the KnessetQs winter session, PM Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the Qtwisted repor [...]
2009-10-13 10:18:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2234MFA CLAIMS POLICE VIDEO PROVES LACK OF SETTLER
[...] (C) In light of the Palestinian Authority's decision to request a special session of the UN Human Rights Council linking the Goldstone Report to "events at Al-Aqsa," Foreign Minister Lieberman convinced the Israel National Police to authorize MFA to use a police video of disturbances on the T [...]
2009-10-13 14:02:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KIRF KWBG IS
09TELAVIV2245ISRAELIS MULL RESPONSE TO TURKISH "HUMILIATIONS"
[...] (S) Summary. Turkey's decision to cancel Israel's participation in the joint Turkey-U.S.-Italy-NATO-Israel Anatolian Eagle air exercise received heavy media coverage here October 11-13. Although the IDF adhered to agreed language on the international portion of the exercise being postponed [...]
2009-10-13 15:58:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL MOPS MASS TU KWBG IS
09TELAVIV2254SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Israel-Turkey Relations 3. Iran 4. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported that Jewish Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL),an associate of President Obama, is likely to become the United St [...]
2009-10-14 13:36:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2256ISRAELI UAV FOOTAGE OF EXPLOSION IN LEBANON
[...] (SBU) On October 13, the Israel Air Force publicly released video footage taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) shortly following the October 12 explosion of an apparent arms cache in the Lebanese village of Tayr Filsi. The IAF UAV footage show Hizballah operatives removing rockets and oth [...]
2009-10-14 15:07:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL LE SY UN IS
09TELAVIV2270SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Israel-Turkey Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot (Shimon Shiffer) reported that, following the failure in obtaining a settlement construction freeze and Arab gestures towards Israel, the U.S. administration is dr [...]
2009-10-15 10:40:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2275SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-16 10:25:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2283SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF USUN AMBASSADOR SUSAN
[...] (S) Summary. Israelis are even more anxious than usual these days as the Goldstone Report is being discussed in Geneva and New York. Israeli leaders have developed a virtually obsessive reaction to the report, which they see as both an assault on the State of Israel and it's democratic inst [...]
2009-10-16 12:26:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM KWBG IR TU IS
09TELAVIV2294SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations: ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post quoted GOI officials as saying yesterday that the Moscow conference on the Middle East may be in jeopardy as a result of Russia's support for the U.N. H [...]
2009-10-19 10:48:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV23ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-06 11:55:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2310SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that President Shimon PeresQ Facing Tomorrow Conference will open in Jerusalem tonight. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, an [...]
2009-10-20 10:31:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2318SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-21 06:05:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
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