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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
05HANOI313	NSC Senior Director Michael Green's Meeting with FM [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Dzy Nien told visiting Senior Director for Asia Michael J. Green that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is optimistic about the bilateral relationship and, though very unhappy about Vietnam's designation as a Country of Particular Concern for Rel [...]	2005-02-07 11:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF OTRA OVIP ETRD VM WTO RELFREE HUMANR HIV AIDS APEC CVR

05HANOI314	NSC Senior Director Michael Green's Meeting with [...] (SBU) Summary: NSC Senior Director for Asia Dr. Michael J. Green and the Ambassador discussed bilateral relations and regional strategic dynamics with Minister/Chairman of the Government Office Doan Manh Giao on February 4. Giao urged the removal of Vietnam's designation as a Country of Part [...]	2005-02-07 11:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF PGOV OVIP ETRD CASC MASS VM WTO RELFREE APEC
05HANOI3185	ANGRY POPULAR REACTION TO DISSIDENT HOANG MINH [...] (SBU) Dissident Hoang Minh Chinh returned to Hanoi from Ho Chi Minh City on December 1. The 83-year-old Chinh informed us late that day that, when he arrived home at 11:30 a.m., he was greeted by a crowd of about 150 men aged 30-50 years old. No one in Chinh's family recognized these men and [...]	2005-12-02 10:08:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM VM HUMANR
05HANOI3190	VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths in Vietnam since October 29. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed Vietnam's 66th human AI case on November 25 after a 15-year old boy contracted H5N1. During an informal donors' meeting chaired by the World Bank [...]	2005-12-02 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU
05HANOI3237	INCSR, PART I, VIETNAM [...] (U) The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continued to make progress in its counternarcotics efforts during 2005. Specific actions included: sustained efforts of counternarcotics law enforcement authorities to pursue drug traffickers; increased attention to interagency coordination; continued coop [...]	2005-12-09 06:37:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM PINS VM CNARC
05HANOI3240	VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since the confirmed October 29 death of a Hanoi man. The total number of active AI-affected provinces and cities decreased to 15 out of Vietnam's 64 provinces and cities, but localized poultry outbreaks have spread. Th [...]	2005-12-09 07:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU
05HANOI3256	Codel Chris Smith Discusses Human Rights, TIP with [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting Congressman (and vice-Chairman of the House International Relations Committee) Christopher Smith (R-NJ) met with two of Vietnam's most seasoned America experts, Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang and National Assemblywoman Madame Ton Nhu Thi Ninh in separate meetings. C [...]	2005-12-13 03:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM OVIP VM TIP HUMANR RELFREE APEC ASEAN
05HANOI3259	CONGRESSMAN SMITH DISCUSSES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Visiting Congressman (and Vice-Chairman of the House International Relations Committee) Christopher Smith (R-NJ) met with Vietnamese government officials, and Catholic, Protestant and Buddhist leaders in Hanoi on December 2. Principal issues discussed were improvements and chal [...]	2005-12-13 03:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE TIP HIV AIDS ETMIN
05HANOI3287	VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) cases. The number of active AI-affected areas decreased from 166 communes in 17 provinces to 126 communes in 15 provinces over the past two weeks, with no new reported outbreaks in poultry during the past week. The Government [...]	2005-12-16 06:17:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU
05HANOI3334	VIETNAM'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TENTATIVELY [...] (SBU) Summary: While still fundamentally a rubber stamp for official policy, Vietnam's National Assembly (NA) has made tentative moves toward a more independent role. It has also become an important tool in the Vietnamese Communist Party's limited efforts to reform Vietnam's political system, [...]	2005-12-21 06:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV VM SOE DPOL
05HANOI3353	VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths in Vietnam since October 29. The number of animal AI affected provinces in Vietnam continues to drop from a high of 21 in mid-November to 13 this week. With AI "in check" in recent weeks and consumer confidence rebounding [...]	2005-12-23 02:40:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU
05HANOI3384	VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths in Vietnam since October 29. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) issued a circular guiding the quarantine, transport and sale of poultry and poultry products. Post's Marine Attache observed four disin [...]	2005-12-29 10:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU
05HANOI3392	A DOLLAR HERE, A DOLLAR THERE: THE ECONOMIC COST OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The cost of Avian Influenza (AI) both in human and agriculture terms has been greater in Vietnam than in any other country. AI has killed 42 people in Vietnam and over 50 million poultry have been culled to prevent its spread since December 2003. The World Bank estimates that [...]	2005-12-30 08:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMED AMGT CASC EAGR EAID ECON EFIN EIND EINV ETRD PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU
05HANOI353	PRIME MINISTER ISSUES INSTRUCTION ON PROTESTANTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Phan Van Khai issued on February 4 an Instruction to guide Ministries and People's Committees in their relations with Protestant churches and believers. The document directs authorities to assist Protestant followers in celebrating their faith, including by openi [...]	2005-02-15 10:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
05HANOI363	NSC Senior Director Michael Green Discusses [...] (SBU) Summary: According to a senior Evangelical Church of Vietnam: North (ECVN) representative, the GVN has provided new freedom to the Church, despite not yet having released implementing regulations for the Ordinance on Religion. Now that the GVN has permitted (after a 20-year delay) the E [...]	2005-02-16 09:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HANOI392	VIEWS ON PRIME MINISTER'S INSTRUCTION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: A Government of Vietnam (GVN) official indicated that the new Instruction on Protestants (Ref. A) divides Vietnam's unrecognized Protestant denominations into those established before 1975, which will be encouraged to "regularize" their status, and those that arrived in Vietnam [...]	2005-02-18 10:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
05HANOI395	NORTHERN PROTESTANT CHURCH OUTLINES PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Evangelical Church of Vietnam: North (ECVN) plans to begin renovating its churches, building new ones and appointing four pastors in the new future. In appointing the new pastors, the Church will follow the relaxed notification requirements of the new Ordinance on Religion. [...]	2005-02-18 10:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HANOI4	GVN PROVIDES INFO, ASKS FOR AID AGAINST [...] (SBU) On December 31, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) delivered a written demarche, translated below, to Poloff (who provided it soon after to EAP/BCLTV (ref)). The document recounts the plan of a Vietnamese American group called the Provisional Government of Vietnam (a.k.a the Governme [...]	2005-01-03 09:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL VM CNARC
05HANOI423	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH HANOI PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE [...] (U) Summary: In a February 18 meeting with the Ambassador, Hanoi City People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Quoc Trieu described the city's many priorities and development plans and noted that the city will celebrate its 1000th anniversary in 2010. The Ambassador described lapses in intellectual [...]	2005-02-23 09:07:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EINV KIPR PINR VM AFLU IPROP
05HANOI439	DEPUTY GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR VISITS HANOI [...] (U) Summary: From January 26-31, 2005, Dr. Joseph O'Neill, Deputy Coordinator and Chief Medical Officer in the Office of Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) visited Vietnam to become better acquainted with the HIV/AIDS situation and with the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Emergency P [...]	2005-02-23 10:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV EAID SOCI PGOV PREL VM
05HANOI441	Codel McHugh Discusses Fullest Possible Accounting [...] (U) Summary: Representatives and Armed Services Committee Members John McHugh, Jim Marshall and Ken Calvert met February 22 with Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan, Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang, National Assembly Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Vu Mao and Vice Minister of Defense Colone [...]	2005-02-24 06:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OVIP VM HIV AIDS WTO RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN BTA
05HANOI462	S/P OFFICER MEETS WITH PROTESTANT LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Evangelical Church of Vietnam: North (ECVN) pastors have begun to engage provincial authorities about renovating and rebuilding churches. The Church is also looking into registering some sub-chapters and opening a bible school. In the future, the ECVN plans to increase outreac [...]	2005-02-25 09:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
05HANOI465	S/P OFFICER ENGAGES GVN OFFICIALS ON RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary: An official from the Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) sees Vietnam's new Ordinance on Religion and Instruction on Protestants as significantly reducing restrictions on religious activities. The situation for Protestants in the Central Highlands has improved recently, he cl [...]	2005-02-25 10:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HANOI468	VIETNAM: 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-25 14:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	APEC ASEAN BTA EFIN EINV FINREF ILAB IPROP KTDB OPIC PGOV SOE VN WTO
05HANOI570	IRF Ambassador at Large Hanford's March 4 Meeting [...] (SBU) Summary: During a nearly three-hour meeting March 4, Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) Chairman Ngo Yen Thi told visiting Ambassador at Large for International Religious Affairs John V. Hanford that the situation for religious freedom in Vietnam has never been better, with the recent [...]	2005-03-08 11:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HANOI575	VIETNAM: 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-09 04:40:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	APEC ASEAN BTA EFIN EINV ELAB FINREF IPROP KTDB LABOR OPIC PGOV SOE VN
05HANOI580	TEXT OF THE IMPLEMENTING DECREE FOR VIETNAM'S [...] Below in paragraph 2 is an unofficial Embassy translation of the implementing decree for Vietnam's Ordinance on Belief and Religion (reftel). Although the decree is dated March 1, it was not released to the public until late March 7. Embassy and ConGen Ho Chi Minh City will report septel our [...]	2005-03-09 10:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KJUS KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HANOI598	GVN OBJECTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (SBU) Deputy America's Department Director Nguyen Ba Hung and U.S. Desk Director Nguyen Hoanh Nam met March 11 with PolCouns and Poloff to express the GVN's "disappointment" about the Vietnam section of the 2004 Human Rights Report. "The report ignores many of the new things that are happening [...]	2005-03-11 06:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV VM HUMANR
05HANOI599	IRF AMBASSADOR AT LARGE HANFORD MEETS WITH GVN [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met March 6 with Vice Minister for Public Security Nguyen Van Huong. Huong objected to the designation of Vietnam as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) and said many in the GVN were asking why they should c [...]	2005-03-11 06:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HANOI622	The Ambassador's March 10 Meeting with Minister of [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met March 10 with Minister of the Office of the Government Doan Manh Giao, the equivalent of the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff. The Ambassador described the current state of play of Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford's ongoing [...]	2005-03-11 10:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF PINR MARR OVIP ETRD VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE WTO BTA
05HANOI644	GVN EXPLAINS NEW RELIGION DECREE [...] (U) Nguyen Khac Huy, Acting Director of the Legal Office of the Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA),met with Poloff and Political Assistant on March 14 to give an official view of the Implementing Decree for the Ordinance on Religion (Reftels). The Decree is aimed at devolving decision mak [...]	2005-03-15 08:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HANOI660	VIETNAM: CHILD MARRIAGE [...] The legal age for marriage in Vietnam, according to the Law on Marriage and Family, is 20 for men and 18 for women. There is no lower legal age for marriage even with parental consent. In practice, most marriages in urban areas conform to the national law; however, in rural areas, underage c [...]	2005-03-17 09:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN
05HANOI7	GVN REQUESTS U.S. ASSISTANCE IN RENDITION OF [...] (SBU) Embassy received a note December 29 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting U.S. assistance in returning the "fugitive" Ly Tong, who is currently serving a prison sentence in Thailand (translation of note in para 3). (Note: Ly Tong, a former pilot with the Republic of (South) Vi [...]	2005-01-03 09:29:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL VM
05HANOI716	DISCUSSIONS WITH VIETNAM ON CPC ACTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Bilateral discussions between the USG and GVN to address the issue of Country of Particular Concern (CPC) designation and Presidential action have stalled on the form, rather than substance, of a bilateral "binding agreement" as allowed by the International Religious Freedom Ac [...]	2005-03-24 08:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HANOI719	Pragmatic Diplomacy: Vietnam's Relations with [...] (SBU) Vietnam's relations with post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe and Mongolia have shown the GVN's willingness to move beyond ideology and politics to satisfy practical foreign policy, economic and security needs. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the demise of C [...]	2005-03-24 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD PGOV SOCI RS EZ PL HU MG VM
05HANOI749	ENGAGING VIETNAM ON BURMA AND ASEAN [...] (SBU) DCM John Boardman, accompanied by Poloff, met with Acting Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for ASEAN Affairs Nguyen Duy Hung March 28. Drawing from reftel talking points, the DCM asked Hung his thoughts on Burma's chairmanship of ASEAN. 2. (SBU) The DCM suggested that the issue [...]	2005-03-30 09:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV BM VM ASEAN
05HANOI767	EXILED BUDDHIST LEADER RETURNS TO VISIT HOMELAND [...] (SBU) Summary: Exiled Buddhist leader Thich Nhat Hanh (TNH) completed a "successful" two-and-a-half-month visit to Vietnam, his first in almost forty years. In a private meeting with the Ambassador March 26, he described the Buddhist community in Vietnam as split and weakened due to Governme [...]	2005-03-31 10:07:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HANOI885	GVN TACKLES LAND ISSUES [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam's rapid economic development and the flow of migrants from the crowded and poor Mekong Delta, Red River Delta and Northwest Highlands into urban centers and the Central Highlands have contributed to considerable tension over land issues. While allocation of title to agric [...]	2005-04-15 04:02:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EFIN ECON SENV SOCI VM ETMIN
05HANOI909	The Ambassador's April 18 Meeting with Communist [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met for the first time April 18 with Nguyen Van Son, the Chairman of the Communist Party's External Relations Commission. Chairman Son was optimistic about continued progress in expanding the bilateral relationship, noting that the Party attaches importance to the U.S. ro [...]	2005-04-20 01:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF PINR PREF MARR OVIP ETRD VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN APEC ASEAN WTO
05HANOI919	Vice Foreign Minister Discusses PM Visit, Religious [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent speech to the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM),Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang implied that a visit to Washington by Prime Minister Phan Van Khai was almost a sure thing. He described steps Vietnam has already taken to overcome the hurdle of designation as [...]	2005-04-20 08:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF OVIP ETRD VM WTO RELFREE HUMANR APEC
05HANOI956	VIETNAM OFFERS AMNESTY TO SIX RELIGIOUS PRISONERS [...] (SBU) The MFA informed us April 26 that Vietnam will offer amnesties to six individuals whom the United States had highlighted as cases of concern for religious reasons. In addition, Mennonite Le Thi Hong Lien, for whom we had requested the GVN provide appropriate medical care, will also be gi [...]	2005-04-26 09:05:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF CASC VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HARARE1	THE INDIAN COMMUNITY OF BULAWAYO [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite their strong ties to the country, Zimbabwe,s ethnic Indians are increasingly contemplating emigration as a result of the country,s continuing economic slide. This was the message Econoff received from the Indian community in Bulwayo on a recent visit. The loss of this [...]	2005-01-03 08:30:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV ELAB ZI
05HARARE1004	ZIMBABWEQS WINTER OF DISCONTENT [...] (C) The winter of Murambatsvina (Operation Restore Order) seems to have changed everything in Zimbabwe and nothing. Robert Mugabe is still president and likely to remain so for as long as he wants Q which could be until the day he dies. ZANU-PF is still firmly in control. The economy is sti [...]	2005-07-22 11:57:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE1006	RESTORE ORDER UPDATE: DEMOLITIONS CONTINUE, [...] (S) Despite the Government,s announcement of the suspension of Operation Restore Order, demolitions continue sporadically in Harare, including the destruction of an industrial complex on July 18. The police are reportedly waiting for word from President Mugabe himself before agreeing to suspe [...]	2005-07-22 16:43:00	Embassy Harare	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ECON ASEC ZI
05HARARE1007	ARMED RESISTANCE GROUP SEEKS US ASSISTANCE [...] (S/NF) The Embassy has received several requests from various groups for meetings with the Ambassador/CDA in the past few weeks to discuss overthrowing the Mugabe regime. We have rejected all of these meetings, out of concern that they could have been attempts by the GOZ to implicate the USG i [...]	2005-07-22 16:43:00	Embassy Harare	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC ZI
05HARARE1008	ZIMBABWE,S WINTER OF DISCONTENT [...] (C) The winter of Murambatsvina (Operation Restore Order) seems to have changed everything in Zimbabwe and nothing. Robert Mugabe is still president and likely to remain so for as long as he wants ) which could be until the day he dies. ZANU-PF is still firmly in control. The economy is still [...]	2005-07-22 16:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE1009	SAG-GOZ NEGOTIATIONS AND THE USG [...] (C) The Mugabe regime is confronting a "perfect storm" of converging challenges - international opprobrium over Operation Restore Order, the economy's accelerating implosion, and a looming IMF vote on Zimbabwe's expulsion. As a result, the GOZ is showing growing desperation and signaling unch [...]	2005-07-25 13:54:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EFIN SA ZI
05HARARE1018	SURPRISING MONETARY POLICY STATEMENT SIGNALS [...] (SBU) Summary: Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono's surprise monetary policy statement of July 21 announced a substantial devaluation and an increase in interest rates among other measures designed to arrest the country,s economic decline. At his diplomatic briefing the next day, Gono stresse [...]	2005-07-26 13:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE1034	OPPOSITION LEADER ON DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS, POLITICAL [...] MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai on July 26 told the CDA that he supported efforts by outside parties, including the AU and the UN, to get more engaged on Zimbabwe. He complimented the recently released report of UN Envoy Tibaijuka and called for the appointment of a UNCHR rapporteur for Zimb [...]	2005-07-28 12:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE1038	GOZ CONTINUES ATTACK ON MUNICIPALITIES [...] (C) The GOZ suspended the MDC mayor of Mutare on July 22, ostensibly for misusing public funds. However, the mayor told us July 28 that showing the UN Special Envoy the areas of Mutare affected by Operation Restore Order was the real reason for his suspension. Meanwhile, the GOZ ordered rest [...]	2005-07-29 08:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE1088	ZIMPLATS CEO ON CHINESE INTEREST IN PLATINUM [...] (C) Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats) CEO Greg Sebborn told CDA on July 29 that his company was not worried about China's interest in Zimbabwean platinum in the long-term because China lacked the technological know-how to compete. However, the Chinese could cause short-term problems by levera [...]	2005-08-02 10:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EMIN EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV ZI
05HARARE1095	UNDP RESREP ON NEXT STEPS FOLLOWING TIBAIJUKA [...] (C) UNDP Resrep Agostinho Zacharias briefed the donor community July 28 on the UN,s next steps following the release last week of UN Special Envoy Tibaijuka,s report on Operation Restore Order. Zacharias said the goal was to work with the GOZ to end further demolitions and to provide relief t [...]	2005-08-02 13:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PREL PGOV PHUM ZI
05HARARE1103	IOM UPDATE ON RESTORE ORDER RELIEF EFFORTS [...] (C) On August 1, International Organization for Migration (IOM) officials told CDA and USAID mission Director they had received no reports of further demolitions following Vice President Mujuru,s announcement last week that the operation was over. They also reported that the GOZ had agreed to [...]	2005-08-03 13:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PTER EAID ZI
05HARARE1105	TSVANGIRAI,S SECOND TREASON TRIAL CHARGES WITHDRAWN [...] (U) The GOZ on August 2 dropped the remaining treason charge against MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai. The latest charge stemmed from Tsvangirai's role in mass demonstrations against the ruling party in June 2003. (Note: Prosecution on a first treason charge ended with Tsvangirai's acquittal [...]	2005-08-03 15:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE1115	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR HALL,S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) The US Mission in Harare, Zimbabwe welcomes your August 9-13 visit. You are coming at a critical time in Zimbabwe,s independent history. Once the breadbasket of Southern Africa the country is now a basket case. The political, economic, and humanitarian crises that have gripped the cou [...]	2005-08-05 09:59:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PREL PGOV PHUM OVIP ZI
05HARARE1126	CALTEX HEAD ON FUEL SHORTAGES; GOZ POLICIES [...] (C) In an August 4 meeting with the CDA, Caltex Zimbabwe Chairman Simba Kambarami told the CDA that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) had asked the major oil companies present in Zimbabwe to provide lines of credit for fuel imports to help with fuel shortages. He said the RBZ was also advoca [...]	2005-08-11 08:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PGOV EFIN EINV ELTN ZI
05HARARE113	MDC SECRETARY-GENERAL ON TSVANGIRAI TRIP, ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on January 18, MDC Secretary-General Welshman Ncube reported that MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai planned to lead an opposition delegation to Washington February 6-9. Ncube noted that ZANU-PF's internal turmoil was opening space for opposition el [...]	2005-01-20 13:11:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE1146	MDC WINS BULAWAYO MAYORAL POLL [...] (U) In an August 13 election, Bulawayo MDC Mayor Japhet Ndabeni-Ncube retained his mayoral seat over ZANU-PF challenger Dickson Solman Abu Basuthu by a margin of 29,575 to 5,509. Barely ten percent of Bulawayo,s 331,447 registered voters cast ballots. ----------------- ZESN Observations - [...]	2005-08-17 13:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE1147	GOCHE TELLS AMBASSADOR HALL FOOD SITUATION IN [...] (C) Minister of Public Service, Labor and Social Welfare Nicolas Goche told visiting USUN Rome Ambassador Hall on August 12 that Zimbabwe needed 1.2 million MT of food this year but that the GOZ had contracts for sufficient deliveries from South Africa. Ambassador Hall questioned whether the [...]	2005-08-17 14:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE1155	AMBASSADOR HALL SURVEYS EMPTY BREADBASKET [...] (C) During his August 11-13 visit to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Tony Hall witnessed firsthand the food insecurity caused by the GOZ,s misguided agricultural policies and recurring drought, and the destruction caused by Operation Restore Order. UN representatives told Ambassador Hall a GOZ appeal f [...]	2005-08-19 09:11:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE1156	CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM BILL GAZETTED [...] (U) The GOZ published a bill to amend the constitution on July 15. Proposed amendments include: transfer of title to the state of land acquired during land reform; elimination of judicial challenges to land acquisitions; the addition of a Senate to the legislature; additional restrictions on [...]	2005-08-19 09:56:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ZI
05HARARE1175	ZIMBABWE STOCK MARKET PARALYZED [...] (C) The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has virtually ground to a halt in reaction to GOZ stopgap measures to help close the budget shortfall and finance the burgeoning domestic debt. The introduction of a withholding tax on the sale of securities, and stricter enforcement of requirements for i [...]	2005-08-24 15:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV ZI
05HARARE1180	RUMORED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN NATIONAL PARK [...] (SBU) Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF) Vice President Johnny Rodriguez claimed in July in a widely distributed newsletter that the GOZ was planning an agricultural development project in the middle of the Mana Pools National Park. This claim remains unsubstantiated and appears to be ba [...]	2005-08-26 07:23:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KIDE ECON EFIN PGOV ZI
05HARARE1208	GOZ BURIES ANOTHER HERO [...] (U) Minister of Indigenization and Empowerment and ZANU-PF Politburo member Josiah Tungamirai died on August 25 in a South African clinic reportedly of kidney failure. The GOZ quickly named him a national hero and buried him on August 28 at Hero,s Acre. According to local media accounts, Tu [...]	2005-08-29 15:10:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE1209	MDC MP COLTART ON PLANNED U.S. VISIT; REQUEST FOR [...] (C) MDC Shadow Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs David Coltart on August 25 told the CDA that together with Zimbabwean exiled businessmen Strive Masiyiwa and Nigel Chanakira, he was employing church connections in the United States to seek a meeting with President Bush in Oc [...]	2005-08-29 16:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE1238	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS SAIL THROUGH PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Parliament passed the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (17) Bill on August 30 by a vote of 103 to 29. The immediate impact of the 17th revision to the 1979 Lancaster House constitution will be: to cement the GOZ,s acquisition of commercial farmland; to grant the government authority to [...]	2005-09-02 10:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE1239	IMF MISSION FINDS MODEST REFORM MEASURES, HEARS [...] (C) Summary. An IMF mission was in country from August 22-September 1 to give advice, assess economic policies, and review the strength of the GOZ,s commitment to economic reform prior to the September 9 meeting of the Fund's Executive Board. The team acknowledged recent modest progress by t [...]	2005-09-02 16:14:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV ZI
05HARARE125	BIG MANUFACTURER HALTS U.S. FURNITURE EXPORTS [...] (C) Once Zimbabwe's largest exporter to the U.S., local furniture manufacturer Wilson International's head recently told Econoff that he now considers his firm uncompetitive in the U.S. market. Due to an overvalued zimdollar and the GOZ,s revocation of export incentives, Wilson currently ships [...]	2005-01-24 13:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV EFIN ECON ETRD EINV ZI
05HARARE1269	CENTRAL BANK SWEEPS FOREX ACCOUNTS TO PAY IMF [...] (C) Summary. In yet another blow to investor confidence, and a reflection of the depth to which monetary probity has sunk, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) appears to have raided private foreign currency accounts to help finance its unexpectedly large recent arrears payment to the IMF. The [...]	2005-09-08 15:49:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV ZI
05HARARE1271	TSVANGIRAI INVIGORATING BASE TO CAPITALIZE ON GOZ [...] (C) Summary. In a September 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) President Morgan Tsvangirai said that ZANU-PF's hold on power was fragile and that he envisioned a more confrontational MDC as a means to boost the public's confidence in the opposition and to expl [...]	2005-09-09 10:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE1290	ZVOBGO ON RULING PARTY DYNAMICS [...] (C) Eddison Zvobgo, Jr., an astute player in the ruling party's younger generation and son of Robert Mugabe's late principal intra-party rival, on September 12 told the Ambassador that the ruling party was essentially biding its time until its octeganarian leader passed from the stage. Zvobgo [...]	2005-09-14 16:00:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE1292	MINISTER SUGGESTS TAKEOVER OF WHITE FIRMS [...] (SBU) Transport and Communications Minister Chris Mushohwe told the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) at its September 7-9 annual congress that the GOZ could decide to take over all white-owned and controlled firms. His remarks, reported in the international press, sent a shudder thr [...]	2005-09-15 15:51:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM ZI
05HARARE1310	ZIMBABWE: 2005 UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOZ made no changes to child labor laws or regulations in the past year. The ongoing economic and social crisis in Zimbabwe impedes additional efforts to address child labor problems. The country's high HIV infection rate continues to contribute to the number of child-head [...]	2005-09-20 15:08:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM ECON PGOV ZI
05HARARE1322	SIMBA MAKONI - DISILLUSTIONED AND IN-THE-WAITING [...] (C) Summary: During a September 21 meeting, Politburo member and ex-Finance Minister Dr. Simba Makoni told the Ambassador there was much more questioning of policy by government insiders since Operation Restore Order. Mugabe, however, was out of touch with reality, his mind blocked to what [...]	2005-09-26 07:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE1331	IDEOLOGY, DESPERATION FUEL GOZ,S TIES TO CHINA [...] (C) Summary: The ruling ZANU-PF party has long maintained a close diplomatic and military relationship with China, dating back to the liberation war in the 1970,s. In recent years as the GOZ,s international isolation increased and the local economy nosedived, Zimbabwe has placed growing impor [...]	2005-09-27 06:59:00	Embassy Harare	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EMIN PGOV PHUM PREL ZI CH
05HARARE1345	CONTINUING RIVALRIES, SUCCESSION TENSIONS [...] (C) By many measures, the Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party is as firmly in control of Zimbabwe as ever. Its tainted but overwhelming parliamentary election "victory" in March left it in firm control of the legislature and executive, and simultaneously demoralized Zimbabwe's political oppo [...]	2005-09-28 15:12:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE1346	ISOLATED LAND SEIZURES BUT MIXED SIGNALS ON [...] (C) Summary: Incendiary comments about "Faster Track" land reform by GOZ Ministers may have spurred some recent isolated, but violent farm seizures, but it is unclear whether they signal a new series of farm invasions. Nevertheless, pressure on commercial farmers to give up their farms is i [...]	2005-09-29 06:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM ZI
05HARARE1352	RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR IN THE SEARCH OF AN OPENING [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-29 15:47:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM ZI
05HARARE1356	ZIMBABWE RUNNING ON EMPTY [...] (C) Summary. Fuel supplies in Zimbabwe are at critical levels as a result of the GOZ,s gross economic mismanagement, forcing commuters and business to rely on the black market if they want to remain mobile. Zimbabwe has faced period fuel crunches for several years, but in the past month sup [...]	2005-09-30 10:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV PREL ZI
05HARARE1357	TSVANGIRAI WALKS TO PROVE RELEVANCY, TEST WATERS [...] (C) Summary. For the past two weeks MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has walked the 16-kilometer roundtrip journey to SIPDIS and from work as a means to highlight the failure of the GOZ,s economic policies and to demonstrate solidarity with average Zimbabweans struggling to cope with the pressi [...]	2005-09-30 10:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE1362	ZIMBABWE NOT COMPLIANT WITH AGOA ELIGIBILITY [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-03 15:24:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINT ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE14	WHITE FARMER GROUP SAYS SITUATION MIGHT IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Doug Taylor-Freeme, the head of the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU),said the pace of fast track land reform had perceptibly slowed. He attributed this in part to the efforts of Reserve Bank (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono to try to restore productivity to the agriculture sector. H [...]	2005-01-06 13:36:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR PGOV EFIN ECON ETRD EINV
05HARARE141	NEW ELECTORAL COMMISSION APPOINTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOZ last week announced the appointment of the Zimbabwe Election Commission, a new institution with potentially important responsibilities in the conduct of the March parliamentary elections. Its composition was worked out in consultation with the opposition MDC, which has [...]	2005-01-26 14:32:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ZI
05HARARE1418	THE INCIDENT THAT WASN'T [...] (SBU) While on a nature walk the afternoon of October 10 (Columbus Day) the Ambassador inadvertently stumbled into a poorly marked military installation in the midst of Harare,s Public Botanical Garden. The soldiers on duty, who were unfamiliar with diplomatic credentials, briefly detained the [...]	2005-10-17 15:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ZI
05HARARE1420	MOYO WEAVES TALE OF PARTIES IN DISARRAY [...] (C) In an October 13 meeting with the Charge, Independent MP and former Minister of Information Jonathan Moyo said that both the opposition MDC and ruling ZANU-PF were significantly weakened since the March parliamentary elections. The MDC, he said, had been focused inward since the elections [...]	2005-10-18 13:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC ZANU PF
05HARARE1421	TSVANGIRAI ON SENATE ELECTIONS; MDC DIVISIONS [...] (C) MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai on October 18 told the Ambassador that there was division within the MDC over participation in Senate elections but no split of the party. The party leadership was effectively divided in half, but the party,s supporters strongly favored his position in favor [...]	2005-10-18 14:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE1446	VIEWS FROM BULAWAYO [...] (C) Zimbabwe Desk Officer and PolOff visited Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, October 14 and 15. Eric Bloch, a local economist, detailed his insider's understanding that the GOZ had sourced its US$120 million arrears payment to the IMF solely through "voluntary" payments. In discuss [...]	2005-10-20 15:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE1448	SOARING COST OF LIVING HITS WORKING POOR HARDEST [...] Summary: Soaring inflation has hit Zimbabwe,s working poor hardest of all income earners, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, September 2005 Cost of Living Analyses. While the GOZ,s Central Statistical Office reported September,s overall year-on-year inflation rate at 359.8 percent, up from [...]	2005-10-21 10:28:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM ZI
05HARARE1455	TSVANGIRAI GAINING UPPER HAND IN SENATE DEBATE [...] (C) MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai appears to be emerging on top in the intra-party debate over participation in the Senate elections. Tsvangirai,s stance has clearly resonated with the MDC,s rank and file, which believes that participation would only legitimize a corrupt and powerless inst [...]	2005-10-24 14:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE1461	ECONOMIC CONTRACTION HOLLOWING OUT ZIMBABWEAN [...] (C) As we have reported elsewhere, Zimbabwe,s steep economic decline is beginning to be felt by the country,s security forces, the main pillars of support for the increasingly authoritarian Mugabe regime. On October 18, Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri went public with complaints that t [...]	2005-10-25 15:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
05HARARE1467	FAUX-MDC CANDIDATES THROW HATS INTO SENATE RING [...] (C) At Monday's nomination court hearings, 26 individuals registered as MDC candidates for the Senate elections on November 26. As expected, MDC leaders in the three Matabeleland provinces went forward with contesting the election, accounting for 15 of the candidates. However, the other ele [...]	2005-10-26 15:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE147	SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: THE U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Zimbabwe Report for the 2004-2005 edition of Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: the U.S. Record, is found in paragraphs 2 through 14. Due to the sensitive nature of U.S. assistance in Zimbabwe, few specific activities were included. Additional material, which is not [...]	2005-01-27 12:25:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KDEM PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ZI HURI
05HARARE1490	MDC LEADERS LOOKING TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES, TAKE [...] (C) In an evening meeting on October 27, MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai told the Ambassador that his meeting earlier that day with the MDC,s other leaders had gone well. They had not resolved as yet the issue of participation in the Senate elections but had agreed that the struggle against P [...]	2005-10-28 11:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC ZANU PF
05HARARE1492	CORRECTED COPY - NEW FOREX TRADING REGIME - A LOT [...] (SBU) In his Monetary Policy Review Statement for the third quarter of 2005, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gono announced numerous policy shifts, many of which centered around replacement of the auction system of foreign currency allocation by a system intended to be largely governed [...]	2005-10-31 14:18:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PGOV ZI
05HARARE1508	MDC TALKS INCONCLUSIVE; SPLIT LOOMING? [...] (C) Brian Raftopolous, mediator in the opposition MDC's efforts to bridge the schism in the party over the Senate elections, told poloff on November 2 Party President Morgan Tsvangirai had won the battle for popular support for an SIPDIS election boycott but that his opponents in the party [...]	2005-11-03 13:17:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC SOCI ELAB PHUM PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE1509	NCA PLANS DEMONSTRATIONS FOR NOV 5 [...] (C) On November 3, National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) Chairperson, Lovemore Mudhuku told poloff that the NCA was planning a series of demonstrations around the country to protest the creation of the Senate and to call for a new constitution. The demonstrations were to take place simultan [...]	2005-11-03 13:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
05HARARE1512	TSVANGIRAI AIDE ON PARTY RIFT, CIVIL ACTION, PITCH [...] (C) MDC Secretary for Presidential Affairs Gandhi Mudzingwa on November 2 told poloff that opposition President Morgan Tsvangirai would stand his ground in the intra-party conflict, even if it meant driving the party's current Ndebele leadership away. He said that Tsvangirai would make his c [...]	2005-11-04 09:20:00	Embassy Harare	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV ASEC PREL PHUM ELAB ZI MDC
05HARARE1521	MEDIA REACTION TO AMBASSADOR,S TOUGH TALK [...] (SBU) The Ambassador,s speech on November 2 on the causes of Zimbabwe,s economic decline has generated a wide array of media coverage within Zimbabwe. These accounts range from factual portrayals and enthusiastic endorsement in the independent press to sensationalized calls for the Ambassado [...]	2005-11-07 14:51:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE1527	NCA MARCHES, MADHUKU ARRESTED [...] (C) On November 7, National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) Chairperson, Lovemore Madhuku, told poloff that demonstrations planned for November 4 (reftel) had gone well. As a result of NCA tactics and their own declining morale, police response to the demonstrations had been weak and fewer demo [...]	2005-11-08 14:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI

05HARARE1534	TRADE UNION PROTESTS AND ARRESTS [...] (C) The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) staged protests in six major cities across Zimbabwe on November 8, ending with the delivery of a petition to the Minister of Finance on the country's economic meltdown. At least 120 people ZCTU activists, including ZCTU President Lovermore Mato [...]	2005-11-09 15:46:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ASEC PHUM SOCI PGOV ECON ZI ZCTU
05HARARE1536	LEO MUGABE,S EXCESS PROMPTS GOVERNMENT REBUKE [...] (C) Robert Mugabe,s nephew Leo Mugabe on October 20 was arrested on charges of illegally exporting 30 tons of flour. Leo Mugabe and his wife face charges of fraud, smuggling, and violating handling procedures of a controlled commodity -- grain. Mugabe,s lawyer told poloff the third charge was [...]	2005-11-10 11:46:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EAGR ZI
05HARARE1537	TSVANGIRAI ASCENDANT AS MDC STRUGGLES CONTINUE [...] (C) At a meeting with diplomats at party headquarters November 10, MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai confirmed the party's planned boycott of scheduled November 26 senate elections but left the door open for reconciliation with the Ncube faction that had supported participation. However, despi [...]	2005-11-10 12:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE1560	PROTESTERS RELEASED, PLANNING MORE ACTION [...] (C) On November 10 and 11, the police released the arrestees involved in the recent Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) sponsored protests. The police also released student activists and other civil society members who had been arrested last wee [...]	2005-11-14 15:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB ASEC SOCI ZI ZCTU
05HARARE157	ADDENDUM TO ZIMBABWE SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (U) ADDENDUM: USG-FUNDED PROGRAMS OF USD 100,000 OR MORE (approximate FY-04 funds, not including funds that carried over from FY-03) DA-funded activities: NGO advocacy - 700,000 Local governance - 500,000 Victims of Torture - 600,000 ESF-funded activiti [...]	2005-01-28 06:52:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KDEM PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ZI
05HARARE1578	TSVANGIRAI EMERGING ON TOP IN MATABELELAND [...] (C) MDC President Tsvangirai,s successful November 13 rally in Bulawayo - and the "pro-Senate" faction's poor showings in contrast - confirmed the ascendancy of the Tsvangirai faction in Matabeleland, according to MDC and SIPDIS civil society figures in Bulawayo. A former moderator in the [...]	2005-11-17 14:12:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE1591	MBALEKWA ON UPM STRUCTURE, PLATFORM, STRATEGIES [...] (C) In a November 18 meeting with poloff, United People's Movement (UPM) principal Pearson Mbalekwa said the party was concentrating on building organizational structures and a platform that would make it competitive in local elections by next year. He said that the movement continued to draw [...]	2005-11-22 09:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE1603	ZIMBABWE,S NOVEMBER 26 SENATE ELECTIONS: [...] (C) November 26 marks election day for the newly-recreated Senate. Few observers expect the institution to produce much beyond 66 new offices to be handed out by the government as patronage. Given voter apathy, the calls for a boycott from MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai, and lackluster ZAN [...]	2005-11-23 13:54:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI ZANU PF MDC
05HARARE1608	TSVANGIRAI "SUSPENDED", PREPARING FOR PARTY [...] (C) Following the &non-event8 Senate elections on November 26 (septel),opposition MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai received a letter from party Vice President Gibson SIPDIS Sibanda, a leader of the pro-election faction, purporting to suspend Tsvangirai from the party. At a meeting with the [...]	2005-11-28 15:17:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC ZI MDC
05HARARE1619	NEW GOZ LAW FURTHER RESTRICTS LABOR RIGHTS [...] (C) The Labor Amendment Bill, passed by Parliament on November 2, increased the role of the GOZ in mediating industrial disputes and excluded public sector employees from labor law protections, both of which are potentially objectionable to the International Labor Organization (ILO). The Zimb [...]	2005-12-02 09:36:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL ZI ZCTU
05HARARE1620	MDC Split Gets Nastier [...] (C) With the campaign for and against the Senate behind them, the two rival MDC factions have begun the battle for control over the party's institutions and assets. The Ncube faction drafted a legal application on November 28 seeking to bar party president Morgan Tsvangirai from speaking for t [...]	2005-12-02 11:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ZI MDC
05HARARE164	EXCHANGE RATE CRIPPLES MIDLANDS INDUSTRY [...] (C) Industrialists in Central Zimbabwe,s manufacturing/mining hub have told Econoff that the overvalued zimdollar has decimated output since the late-1990s, with the sharpest drop having taken place during 2004. Cement production at Sino-Zimbabwe Cement Company is off 67 percent, wire produc [...]	2005-01-31 14:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV EFIN ECON EINV ZI
05HARARE1647	SENATE TAKES OFFICE WITH SOME SURPRISE APPOINTEES [...] (C) The 66 members of the Senate took the oath of office on November 30, amidst little fanfare and low expectations. They adjourned the next day until December 13. Beyond reviewing and debating the budget bill (septel) it is unclear what will be on the Senate,s agenda when it resumes. In ad [...]	2005-12-06 14:09:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE165	WHITE FARMER GROUPS STILL AT ODDS [...] (C) A recent appeal by a branch of the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) requesting financial assistance for a reception for Vice President Joyce Mujuru has divided white farmers. The CFU, which has defended the appeal, told us privately it was part of an effort to rebuild ties with the GOZ. Howe [...]	2005-01-31 14:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV ZI ECON EINV
05HARARE1663	UN ENVOY WRESTLES CONCESSIONS FROM MUGABE [...] (C) UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland visited Zimbabwe December 4-7 to survey the ongoing humanitarian crisis and to press the GOZ for better cooperation. In his public remarks Egeland was relatively upbeat, claiming good UN/GOZ [...]	2005-12-09 05:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI UN
05HARARE1673	COURT SIDES WITH TSVANGIRAI, OPPONENTS PLOT NEXT [...] (SBU) High Court Justice Yunus Omerjee on December 9 dismissed the court case seeking to bar Morgan Tsvangirai from conducting MDC party business (reftel). Omerjee also ordered that former MDC deputy secretary general Gift Chimanikire ) in whose name the application was submitted ) pay the c [...]	2005-12-12 14:20:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE1674	THE 2006 BUDGET - FAULTY PREMISES UNDERMINE THE [...] (SBU) Zimbabwe,s 2006 budget, announced December 1 by Finance Minister Murerwa, is premised on a number of unrealistic projections, primarily a strong rebound in the agricultural and mining sectors. It forecasts 2-3.5 percent GDP growth in 2006, a fall in inflation to 80 percent by end-2006, [...]	2005-12-12 14:31:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EFIN EMIN PGOV
05HARARE1675	MIC CENSURE OF FINGAZ POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED [...] (C) On December 1, the Media and Information Commission (MIC) gave the Financial Gazette newspaper seven days to retract an article the paper had published or face charges under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA). The article accused the Central Intelligence Organ [...]	2005-12-12 14:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON ZI
05HARARE1678	ZIMBABWE: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) This cable responds to reftel request to update information for the 2005 Country Report on Terrorism. ------------------ GENERAL ASSESSMENT ------------------ 2. (SBU) Zimbabwe does not fit the criteria stipulated in paragraph 7 (a) (b) and (c) of reftel instructions. Despite our s [...]	2005-12-13 11:35:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PGOV PREL ZI
05HARARE1679	GOZ SEIZES TWO CRITICS, PASSPORTS, EYING MORE [...] (C) Exercising the power given to it by Constitutional Amendment 17, the GOZ last week seized the passports of two regime critics, newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube and deposed MDC spokesperson Paul Themba Nyathi. The seizures comes amidst the revelation that the GOZ has drafted a list of 64 [...]	2005-12-13 13:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE168	INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - ZIMBABWE [...] The Zimbabwean economy remains very weak, making it unlikely to attract or absorb signficiant foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2005. In recent years, FDI has been less than US$10 million annually, down from US$300-500 million in the mid-1990s. As we note in the more extensive Country Comme [...]	2005-02-02 05:30:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB EFIN ECON ETRD EINV PGOV ZI
05HARARE1680	THE NEW SENATORS: FEW GUIDING LIGHTS [...] (C) By far the majority of the 66 new Senators are ruling party hacks, in office only to accumulate a salary and government-provided luxury cars, a fleet of which, according to a state-controlled newspaper, will cost more than US$4.3 million at the overvalued official rate. Nonetheless, the [...]	2005-12-13 14:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ZI
05HARARE1681	ZANU-PF CONFERENCE ATTACKS PARTY/GOZ OFFICIALS, [...] (U) At the ZANU-PF annual national conference held in Esigodini December 9-10, President Mugabe conceded significant problems in agrarian reform, which he attributed in part to misallocation among ruling party officials and poor planning by the government. The party reportedly adopted a repo [...]	2005-12-13 15:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAGR ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE1687	INFLATION RATE AT LEAST 500 PERCENT AND RISING [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOZ's Central Statistical Office reported 502 percent annualized inflation in November. A steep increase in the price of food and non-alcoholic beverages dominated the rise. A more objective report by PricewaterhouseCoopers put the cost of living increase at 809 percent [...]	2005-12-14 14:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EFIN PGOV ZI
05HARARE1688	MURAMBATSVINA,S VICTIMS TO BE DISPLACED AGAIN? [...] (SBU) International Organization for Migration (IOM) officer Justin MacDermott told poloff on December 15 that the GOZ-appointed Harare City Council is preparing to resettle approximately 350 families from Hopely Farm to the rural areas. These families had earlier been evicted from Mbare und [...]	2005-12-15 14:18:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE1692	ATTORNEY GENERAL CALLS PASSPORT SEIZURES UNLAWFUL; [...] (C) Trevor Ncube, publisher of Zimbabwe's independent Standard and Independent weeklies and South Africa's Mail and Guardian, confirmed to the Ambassador on December 15 that GOZ authorities had returned his seized passport (ref B) on December 14. Ncube reported that he would be leaving for S [...]	2005-12-15 14:48:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO ZI
05HARARE1712	PUBLISHER TREVOR NCUBE ON MEDIA ENVIRONMENT AND [...] In a December 15 meeting, Trevor Ncube, publisher of The Independent and The Standard (as well as the Mail and Guardian in South Africa) told the Ambassador about his successful legal efforts to get back his passport (reftel). Ncube added that the GOZ was determined to curb the independent pr [...]	2005-12-20 13:06:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO ZI
05HARARE1715	MANICALAND VISITORS SIGNAL POSSIBLE RESURGENCE OF [...] (C) In separate meetings at the Embassy on December 19, the Mutare "bishops troika" and recently elected MDC Chairman for Manicaland Roy Bennett laid out for the Ambassador their separate efforts to rejuvenate "people power" in Zimbabwe, especially in Manicaland. The bishops said church leade [...]	2005-12-20 15:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC SOCI ZI MDC
05HARARE1716	AMBASSADOR AND ZANU-PF INSIDER SIMBA MAKONI [...] (C) In a December 20 meeting with the Ambassador, ZANU-PF Politburo member and former Finance Minister Simba Makoni said ZANU-PF had finally acknowledged economic &problems8 but would not be able to change its disastrous economic policies without a change in leadership. The earliest that coul [...]	2005-12-20 15:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE176	RBZ: GOLD EXPORTERS GET DEVALUATION; FAST-TRACK [...] (C) The highlight of Reserve Bank (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono,s January 26 address to the nation on the country,s economy was the announcement that he had devalued the zimdollar from Z$ 6,151 to 8,692:US$ for gold producers. However, he left in place the controlled exchange rate of Z$ 5900:US$ [...]	2005-02-04 04:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD PGOV ECON EINV ZI
05HARARE180	OPPOSITION LEADER POSTPONES WASHINGTON VISIT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai told the Ambassador on February 2 that he needed to stay in Zimbabwe to focus on the upcoming parliamentary elections instead of traveling to the United States and Canada next week as earlier planned. Tsvangirai was optimistic about the party's ch [...]	2005-02-04 11:11:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE182	SACC AND IDASA READY TO LAUNCH ZIMABABWE ELECTION [...] (SBU) One day after the the Governament of Zimbabwe's (GOZ) announcement of March 31 as the date for general Parliamentary elections, a group consisting of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) quitely traveled to Harare to fin [...]	2005-02-04 14:09:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PHUM PGOV AMGT ECON XA AFIN ZI
05HARARE183	WOMEN'S GROUP PLANS FURTHER DEMOCRATIC ACTIVISM [...] (C) Jenny Williams, National Coordinator of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA),told the Ambassador February 1 that her organization had succeeded in creating political space for itself and its agenda of democratic change in Zimbabwe. WOZA,s challenge now was to maintain that space while drama [...]	2005-02-04 14:10:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI ZI
05HARARE196	BFIF PROJECT REPORT: EMBASSY TRADE FAIR PROMOTES [...] (SBU) An Embassy-hosted trade fair promoting U.S. information technology (IT) products on Feb. 3 drew an estimated 6,000-8,000 visitors and, according to a post-event survey, generated orders worth US$ 374,000. --------------------------------------------- - Visitors Both Browsed and Purchas [...]	2005-02-08 12:25:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETRD PGOV ECON EINV ZI
05HARARE202	PARALLEL EXCHANGE RATE HITS Z$11,000:US$ [...] (C) Summary: Importers are now buying U.S. dollars at Z$10,500-11,000:US$, a zimdollar depreciation of 20 percent since Reserve Bank (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono,s January 26 address to the nation, according to Zimbank Senior Economist Best Doroh. Unless Gono devalues official exchange rates, [...]	2005-02-09 11:15:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD PGOV ECON EINV ZI
05HARARE207	SPY TRIO GETS JAIL TERMS [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-10 11:05:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE212	U.S. SEED PRODUCER YEARNS FOR BETTER TIMES [...] (C) Summary: U.S seed-producer Pioneer Hi-Bred International expects a disappointing commercial maize harvest in Zimbabwe this year, Financial Controller Simon Nyanhete told Econoff on Feb. 8. Pioneer has enlisted hundreds of farmers resettled by the GOZ under fast-track land reform to grow [...]	2005-02-10 14:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV ZI ECON EINV
05HARARE228	ZANU-PF DINOSAURS, DISSENTERS EXPOSE RULING PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's February 7-9 trip to Bulawayo and Masvingo, ZANU-PF "Old Guard" figures Thenjiwe Lesabe and Dumiso Dabengwa excoriated the party's younger generation for their unseemly disregard for "liberation values," in their view, the basis for ZANU-PF's right to rul [...]	2005-02-14 14:58:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE229	MATABELELAND RESTIVE AS CAMPAIGNS COMMENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's visit to Bulawayo February 7-8, MDC and civil society figures reviewed the election environment in surrounding Matabeleland, a historically marginalized region that is the principal home to Zimbabwe's leading minority Ndebele tribe (about 15 percent of th [...]	2005-02-15 05:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC ZANU PF
05HARARE249	INDEPENDENT DAILY'S FATE REMAINS UNCERTAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: A favorable Supreme Court judgment in the case of The Daily News, which was shut down by the GOZ in September 2003, was expected on February 7 but was not announced. Sources say Supreme Court Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku suppressed the announcement due to his annoyance that n [...]	2005-02-17 09:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO ZI
05HARARE250	OPPOSITION BESET BY FACTIONALISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a February 9 breakfast with the Ambassador, MDC MP for Masvingo Central Silas Mangono gave an account of the February 8 intra-party violence and his ouster as MDC candidate for his current seat in the upcoming election. According to Mangono, his supporters were unsuccessfully [...]	2005-02-17 09:27:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE251	DINOSAURS AND DISSENTERS - TAKE TWO [...] (C) The Ambassador met February 14 with the Minister of State for Indigenisation and Empowerment, J.T. Tungamirai, a Politburo member and reputedly close to President Mugabe, as well as separately with two of the ZANU-PF Members of Parliament who lost in the party primaries two weeks ago. The [...]	2005-02-17 11:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE261	GOZ PORTRAYS IMF DECISION AS "REPRIEVE" [...] (U) In its lead story on February 18, the GOZ,s daily Herald newspaper characterized the International Monetary Fund (IMF),s postponement of a decision on Zimbabwe,s compulsory withdrawal as "reflect(ing) a vote of confidence in the country,s home-grown economic turnaround efforts." The Herald [...]	2005-02-18 09:47:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD PGOV ECON EINV ZI
05HARARE295	TYCO TRUCK SALES OFF 90 PERCENT IN ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Summary: The head of U.S. firm Tyco,s local subsidiary told Econoff on February 10 that truck sales plummeted 90 percent from 1999 to 2004. On a brighter note, Tyco now sells three times as many parts as in 1999, since transport firms are trying to lengthen the lifespan of each vehicle. [...]	2005-02-22 06:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV ZI ECON EINV
05HARARE301	CURRENCY FALLS SHARPLY AND HIGH INFLATION RETURNS [...] (C) Summary: Zimbabwe,s inflation has begun to trend sharply upwards, following a sudden spike in the parallel market exchange rate. The Central Statistical Office (CSO) tracked January,s inflation at 14.1 percent, the highest monthly rate in over a year. The ruling ZANU-PF party will still [...]	2005-02-23 09:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV ZI ECON EINV
05HARARE310	BULAWAYO AND MASVINGO'S MDC MAYORS ON CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: During a recent trip to south-central Zimbabwe, the Ambassador met with the mayors of Bulawayo and Masvingo on February 8 and 9 respectively. Both mayors are members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Mayor Japhet Ncube of Bulawayo criticized the central go [...]	2005-02-23 14:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE311	CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER RELENTS ON ELECTION BOYCOTT, [...] (C) The Ambassador met February 18 with Lovemore Maduhku, head of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA). Madukhu said his organization and other civil society groups regarded the upcoming elections as a sham and had unsuccessfully tried to convince the opposition Movement for Democratic C [...]	2005-02-23 14:38:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE312	ZIMBABWE STILL AGOA INELIGIBLE [...] Zimbabwe remains ineligible for African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) benefits. We submit the following input for the President,s Section 106 report to Congress. 2. Market Economy/Economic Reform/Elimination of Barriers to U.S. Trade: Since the late-1990s, the government has approached [...]	2005-02-24 10:20:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETRD PGOV ECON EINV ZI
05HARARE318	PRE-ELECTION ENVIRONMENT POSITIVE BUT MIXED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The election campaign period for the parliamentary elections scheduled for March 31 is in full swing with the peaceful launches of the ZANU-PF and MDC campaigns. The environment is notably less violent than in past elections, although the opposition continues to experience spo [...]	2005-02-25 13:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI MDC ZANU PF
05HARARE325	COKE TO NEGOTIATE NEW PRICE [...] (C) Summary: Producing a price-controlled commodity, Coca-Cola's local subsidiary will now resume negotiations with the GOZ's Ministry of Trade and Industry over the cost of its hallmark drink. Coke country manager Togi Chinoda told Econoff on February 22 that the company now loses money on e [...]	2005-02-28 14:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV ZI ECON EINV
05HARARE326	EXCHANGE RATE HAMPERS COTTON EXPORTS [...] (C) Summary: Cargill Managing Director John Battershell told Econoff on February 23 that ginners of cotton - the country's top foreign exchange earner in 2004 - have given the GOZ an ultimatum: either the GOZ heavily subsidizes the crop or it permits a more realistic exchange rate than the pr [...]	2005-02-28 14:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD PGOV ECON EINV ZI
05HARARE327	CENTRAL BANK TO TOLERATE PARALLEL MARKET UNTIL [...] (C) Reserve Bank (RBZ) Exchange Control Chief O.C. Masiiwa told Econoff on February 22 that the Governor Gideon Gono has instructed him not to pursue high-profile parallel traders until after the March 31 parliamentary elections. Masiiwa said Gono fears many parallel traders are well-connected [...]	2005-03-01 08:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV ZI ECON EINV ZANU PF
05HARARE345	ZIMBABWE'S INTERIM REPORT CARD ON IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: With just over four weeks to go before the nation's parliamentary elections, the GOZ continues to implement measures to further its case that it is complying with SADC election principles and guidelines. Many of the measures have been superficial or incompletely implemented. Th [...]	2005-03-02 11:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE347	MIDLANDS GOVERNOR ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: On February 22, ZANU-PF Midlands Governor Cephas Msipa told the Ambassador that this year,s elections would be less violent than past elections. He predicted the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would retain only one or two of its five seats in the province. Respon [...]	2005-03-02 12:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE383	ZIMBABWE'S ELECTION -- WHAT'S A SUCCESS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The March 31 parliamentary election cannot deliver a change of government, which under Zimbabwe,s constitution is appointed by President Mugabe. That said, the stakes are high for both parties. ZANU-PF's objective is an election that secures it a 2/3 majority of 100 seats, incl [...]	2005-03-09 15:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC ZANU PF
05HARARE384	MDC CANDIDATES OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met February 23 with three MDC officials: sitting Ministers of Parliament Willias Madzimure and Job Sikhala who are defending their seats, and MDC candidate for Parliament Goodrich Chibaira. The candidates were optimistic that the MDC would do well in the election [...]	2005-03-10 06:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE395	IS THE NGO BILL DEAD? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The controversial NGO bill (reftel),passed by the Parliament in December, appears to have effectively expired due to President Mugabe's failure to sign it by the constitutionally prescribed deadline. Some NGOs remain concerned that Mugabe may yet sign the bill into law and ar [...]	2005-03-11 09:46:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID PGOV PREL ZI
05HARARE418	SUPREME COURT KEEPS DAILY NEWS CLOSED [...] (U) Zimbabwe's Supreme Court on March 14 announced its decision in a consolidated set of cases involving the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ),publisher of the shuttered Daily News (TDN) and Daily News on Sunday (reftel). The Court set aside the Media and Information Commission's (MI [...]	2005-03-15 15:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPAO ZI
05HARARE424	CHILD MARRIAGE IN ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOZ and NGOs in Zimbabwe have not focused significantly on the issue of child marriage to date, focusing more on the effects of households headed by children in a society devastated by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. End Summary. 2. (SBU) The following corresponds to questions in [...]	2005-03-16 11:29:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV ECON ELAB SCUL SOCI KWMN ZI HIV AIDS
05HARARE428	ELECTORAL COURT HOLDS BENNETT ELIGIBLE [...] (U) In its first decision since it was appointed last month, Zimbabwe's Electoral Court announced March 15 that MDC MP Roy Bennett will be permitted to run for his Chimanimani seat. Electoral Court Judge Tendai Uchena overturned the Chimanimani nomination court's refusal on February 18 to ce [...]	2005-03-16 15:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE457	BUSINESSMEN WANT RAPID POST-ELECTION CHANGES [...] (C) Summary: Participants at the Embassy's March 17 business roundtable agreed that Reserve Bank (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono had further damaged the economy since taking office on December 1, 2003 with his emphasis on state control of the economy. They disagreed whether more market-oriented [...]	2005-03-24 15:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV ZI ECON EINV
05HARARE459	ZIMBABWE'S LESS VIOLENT ELECTION [...] (C) This is the latest in a series of cables post is doing assessing the legal setting, pre-electoral environment, and conduct of Zimbabwe,s March 31 parliamentary elections. According to everyone involved in the election, violence is much reduced from the 2000 parliamentary and 2002 president [...]	2005-03-25 09:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI
05HARARE467	PLAYING FIELD HEAVILY TILTED, BUT OUTCOME STILL [...] (C) With less than a week to go before Zimbabwe,s electorate goes to the polls the result is uncertain. The election playing field is heavily tilted in the ruling party's favor. However, the MDC has proven stronger than expected and ZANU-PF weaker. Mugabe,s gamble to reduce violence in ord [...]	2005-03-28 12:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE468	INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE MOYO ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Controversial independent MP candidate Jonathan Moyo on March 22 told a visiting U.S. Congressional staff delegation and an Embassy election observer that ZANU-PF was a &spent force.8 He described ZANU-PF as a party of tribalists with no direction. Moyo also expressed little regard for t [...]	2005-03-28 12:18:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE469	OPPOSITION LEADER UPBEAT IN ELECTION STRETCH DRIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a dinner at the Residence on March 24, MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai confidently predicted to the Ambassador and a visiting Congressional staff delegation that his party would win a majority of the contested seats in the March 31 parliamentary election. Tsvangirai said Z [...]	2005-03-28 12:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE474	HOUSE STAFF DELEGATION VISITS ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) Majority Staffer Malik Chaka and Minority Staffer Pearl-Alice Marsh from the House of Representatives International Relations Committee (HIRC) visited Zimbabwe March 20-25, traveling to Bulwayo March 21-22. In Bulawayo the Staff Delegation met renegade independent candidate Jonathan Moy [...]	2005-03-30 09:57:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON ZI VIP
05HARARE48	UPDATED NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] (SBU) Embassy Harare Date of Submission: January 11, 2005 2. (SBU) Head of Government & State Last Name: Mugabe First/Middle Names: Robert Gabriel Formal Title: President Office Telephone Number: (263 4) 707-091/9 Comments: To reach Residence call office number and ask to be connected to [...]	2005-01-11 13:04:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ZI
05HARARE486	South African Ambassador Acknowledges MDC Momentum [...] (C) South African Ambassador Ndou called on Ambassador Dell March 30 to discuss Zimbabwe's March 31 parliamentary elections. Ndou said his government hoped to see the election lead to intra-party talks and perhaps to a government of national unity. The Ambassador responded that the MDC seeme [...]	2005-03-30 17:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE487	ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS: SMOOTH OPENING [...] (SBU) Early diplomatic observer reports characterize Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections as peaceful and orderly with only isolated reports of government or ruling ZANU-PF harassment of the opposition MDC. Diplomatic observer teams are reporting long queues at many polling stations, but shorte [...]	2005-03-31 14:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ZI PGOV
05HARARE488	MDC HEAD PREDICTS VICTORY AND ASKS SUPPORT [...] (C) In a midnight meeting with the Ambassador on March 30, MDC leader Morgan Tsvagirai predicted that his party would win a majority of the contested seats in the next day,s parliamentary elections. He said he would hold a press conference on Friday afternoon, April 1, to claim a democratic m [...]	2005-03-31 15:09:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE491	CURRENCY AUCTIONS BECOMING IRRELEVANT [...] (C) Summary: Foreign exchange demand at the Reserve Bank (RBZ),s 14-month-old currency auctions is now twelve-times greater than supply. Traders are migrating in droves to the illegal parallel market. After the March 31 parliamentary elections, the GOZ will either have to resolve the supply/ [...]	2005-04-01 09:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV ZI ECON EINV
05HARARE492	MDC TAKES EARLY URBAN LEAD BUT ALLEGES FRAUD; [...] (C) Summary: Early election returns show that the MDC has won 28 of the first 32 announced seats. However, almost all of these wins were in urban areas, taking all 7 seats in Bulawayo and 16 of 17 announced in Harare. Despite the early official results, MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai was [...]	2005-04-01 12:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ZI PGOV MDC
05HARARE501	INTERIM RESULTS INDICATE NET SHIFT TO RULING PARTY [...] (C) As of 9:30 p.m. local time, the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) had reported 49 seats won by ZANU-PF and 35 seats won by the MDC. More importantly, the results so far represent a net shift of ten seats to the ruling party's favor from the 2000 election. The opposition MDC has also fa [...]	2005-04-01 20:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI ZANU PF MDC
05HARARE502	FRAUDULENT LANDSLIDE "WIN" FOR ZANU-PF [...] (C) Nearly complete results show ZANU-PF cruising to an overwhelming win in Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections amid mounting (and credible) allegations of fraud by the MDC and civil society. With five seats remaining to be announced, ZANU-PF has taken 74 and the MDC 40, with one independent [...]	2005-04-02 12:47:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ZI SF PGOV PREL MDC ZANU PF
05HARARE508	TSVANGIRAI BOUNCING BACK: DETAILS FRAUD AND NEXT [...] (C) A more upbeat MDC Head Morgan Tsvangirai told the Ambassador late Saturday night that his contacts inside the CIO had told him the MDC had won over 90 seats in the March 31 Parliamentary elections. Tsvangirai said his next step was to go after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and f [...]	2005-04-04 17:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
05HARARE509	TAINTED ELECTION GIVES ZANU-PF 2/3 MAJORITY, [...] (U) In the wake of the March 31 elections, Zimbabwe's new Parliament will include 108 MPs from ZANU-PF (including 30 appointees),41 from the MDC, and one independent, Jonathan Moyo. Despite the MDC,s claims that the results were rigged, the South African, SADC and AU observer missions have, [...]	2005-04-04 17:23:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE525	GOZ THREATENS NEW PRICE CONTROLS [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOZ's daily Herald led its April 6 edition with an exhortation from Industry and Trade Minister Samuel Mumbengegwi to the private sector to rescind recent price hikes. The Herald, as well as GOZ-aligned Mirror, echoed these warnings in Thursday's editorials. A ZANU-PF offi [...]	2005-04-07 13:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV ZI ECON EINV
05HARARE547	ZANU-PF POLITBURO MEMBER DISMISSIVE OF PARTY,S [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a candid exchange with the Ambassador on April 6, politburo member and former Finance Minister Simba Makoni asked about U.S. reaction to the elections. The Ambassador explained USG objections, sharing with Makoni a copy of the Embassy press release. Makoni said the U.S. anal [...]	2005-04-08 12:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN PHUM ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE559	LOWER QUALITY ZIMBABWEAN TOBACCO HITTING MARKET [...] (C) Summary: Mashonaland Tobacco Company Marketing Director Graham Dupree told Econoff on April 8 his company was paying about half as much per kilogram of tobacco this year as last. Dupree attributed the steep fall in price to both an increasing global supply and a poorer quality Zimbabwean [...]	2005-04-11 13:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV ZI EINV
05HARARE562	A KINDER, GENTLER ZANU-PF? NOT LIKELY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Speculation that an overwhelming ZANU-PF win in the Parliamentary elections, coupled with the recent party purges (ref A),would lead ZANU-PF to moderate its stance toward the opposition so far appears unfounded. Mugabe's public portrayal of the MDC has returned to a more vitriol [...]	2005-04-11 14:00:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE563	ZIMBABWE'S FLAWED ELECTION - WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Inexplicably high voting totals, high voter turn-away rates, and manipulation of voter registration rolls appear to have been used in combination by the ruling ZANU-PF party in a large number of constituencies to ensure its &victory8 in Zimbabwe,s March 31 parliamentary electio [...]	2005-04-11 15:46:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE569	FOREX DEMAND EXPLODES [...] (C) Summary: Importer demand for foreign exchange through official channels is setting new records. Traders continue to migrate to the parallel markets, where the zimdollar now trades at US$16,000:US$, down from Z$8,000:US$ in November. End Summary. 2. (C) Demand at the Reserve Bank (RBZ) [...]	2005-04-12 09:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV ZI EINV
05HARARE575	MOSTLY OLD GUARD IN NEW GOZ APPOINTMENTS [...] (U) Following the swearing in of all 150 new members of Parliament on April 12, legislators elected ZANU-PF Party Chairman John Nkomo as Speaker and Mashonaland West ZANU-PF stalwart Edna Madzongwe as Deputy Speaker. Nkomo replaces Emmerson Mnangagwa, who lost his parliamentary race last mont [...]	2005-04-13 15:14:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
05HARARE580	LESSONS LEARNED FROM ZIMBABWE,S 2005 PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) The lessons to be learned from Zimbabwe,s tainted March 31 parliamentary elections fall into four categories, lessons for: (a) the opposition; (b) civil society; (c) regional outreach; and, (d) the US government. Some of these lessons are not new but build on or refine lessons from previo [...]	2005-04-14 11:47:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE588	MDC Post-Election Plans Taking Form [...] In an April 14 meeting with the Ambassador, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai laid out in more detail his party's plans for challenging the GOZ in the wake of a third successive stolen election. Tsvangirai said Mugabe would never leave power by democratic means. The Zimbabwean people would have [...]	2005-04-16 08:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE604	MORE OF THE SAME IN NEW GOZ CABINET [...] (C) President Mugabe on April 15 announced a new, expanded cabinet, which he said was geared to &turn around8 Zimbabwe,s economy. However, most members of the new Cabinet are holdovers from the previous one, including on the economic front, although some Ministers have shifted portfolios. Th [...]	2005-04-21 14:58:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE617	GOZ GOES AFTER ZCTU [...] (C) Since the March 31 Parliamentary elections, the leaders of three unions have been pressing for a leadership change at the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). Among other charges, the three union leaders have alleged financial malfeasance. However, the ZCTU leadership and many of the [...]	2005-04-26 12:17:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV ECON ZI ZCTU
05HARARE663	MEDIA REPRESSION CONTINUES UNDER NEW INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Following his appointment in mid-April, new Minister of Information and Publicity Jokonya has made public overtures to local journalists. However, Jokonoya has also reiterated his commitment to the existing repressive media laws and Government intimidation of journalists has continued u [...]	2005-05-09 14:57:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV PREL ZI
05HARARE671	ZCTU CELEBRATES MAY DAY UNDER THREAT [...] (C) In their respective May Day campaigns, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) focused on poverty and taxes, while the GOZ-sponsored Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions (ZFTU) accused employers of purposefully causing shortages of basic commodities to stir civil unrest. Even as the ZC [...]	2005-05-10 16:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV ECON ZI ZCTU
05HARARE672	POST ELECTION VIOLENCE YIELDS FIRST POLITICAL [...] (C) MDC spokesperson for Mashonaland West Biggie Haurobi confirmed to poloff on May 9 the circumstances surrounding the April 29 murder of MDC activist Moffat Ebrahim, which had been reported by the local press. According to Haurobi, ZANU-PF supporters in the Kashimhure Village near Karoi were [...]	2005-05-11 05:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI ZANU PF MDC
05HARARE703	GOZ RAIDS ZCTU OFFICES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Zimbabwean police raided Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) offices on May 13, removing files and small amounts of foreign currency. A renegade element of the Commercial Workers, Union of Zimbabwe (CWUZ) voted out ZCTU Vice President Lucia Matibenga as the union's President [...]	2005-05-16 15:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV ECON PHUM ZI ZCTU
05HARARE713	DUST-UP AT MDC,S HARVEST HOUSE [...] (U) According to local press reports, a gang of youths occupied the MDC's Harvest House headquarters May 16-17 and demanded the removal of party Secretary-General Welshman Ncube, Deputy Secretary-General Gift Chimanikire, Treasurer Fletcher Dulini-Ncube and other senior executives. President [...]	2005-05-20 07:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE715	VICE-PRESIDENT CORDIAL, SIGNALS LITTLE IN MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a courtesy call by the Ambassador on May 19, Vice-President Joyce Mujuru reiterated her government's desire for better relations with the United States, but gave no indication that the GOZ was contemplating concrete steps to encourage rapprochement. The Ambassador recount [...]	2005-05-20 07:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE737	URBAN TENSIONS BOILING OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Clashes between residents and police over the high profile destruction of unauthorized structures around town and the city's growing failure to deliver services have increased political tension in the capital. Police presence and roadblocks are markedly increasing, including outs [...]	2005-05-27 09:41:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE740	ECONOMIC POLICY STATEMENT OFFERS LITTLE HOPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono's Monetary Policy Statement of May 19 set out a series of piecemeal prescriptions that most local economists and business people agree will be unable to stem Zimbabwe's continued economic decline, including soaring inflation, a deteriorating curr [...]	2005-05-27 10:33:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI PHUM EINV ZI
05HARARE741	MDC HEAD ON GROWING UNREST; WASHINGTON TRIP [...] MDC Head Morgan Tsvangirai met with the Ambassador May 27 to discuss the growing unrest in the country. Tsvangirai said the GOZ seemed to be trying to provoke a response that it could crush but may have miscalculated given the numbers of people involved and their desperation. He said the op [...]	2005-05-27 11:47:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE760	GONO LAYS IT ON THICK [...] (C) Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono told the Ambassador June 1 that the GOZ wanted western financial assistance and better relations with the U.S. and the UK. The GOZ was prepared to play by global economic rules, including honoring bilateral investment agreements, and was prepared to negot [...]	2005-06-02 15:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
05HARARE773	GOZ TELLS AMBASSADOR, WFP FOOD SITUATION UNDER [...] (C) In a June 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister for Social Welfare Nicholas Goche said Zimbabwe faced a shortfall of 1.2 million metric tons of maize, but that the GOZ had already locked in enough imports from South Africa to cover the shortfall. In that framework, the GOZ was prepared t [...]	2005-06-03 09:35:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PHUM ZT
05HARARE774	MDC OFFICIAL ON PARTY TACTICS, INTERNAL TURMOIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: MDC Secretary for Presidential Affairs (and principal aide to Party President Morgan Tsvangirai) Gandi Mudzingwa on June 1 told poloff that the party was working closely with civil society to foment protests over the GOZ crackdown against the informal sector. Mudzingwa asserted [...]	2005-06-03 10:10:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE788	STAY-AWAY PLANNED FOR JUNE 9 AND 10 [...] (C) The "Broad Alliance" of civil society and opposition groups, including the MDC, is organizing a mass work stoppage for June 9 and 10, as a first step toward possible later mass protests. However, the National Constitutional Assembly's (NCA) Lovemore Madhuku appears to the stay-away's drivi [...]	2005-06-07 12:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC

05HARARE801	INFORMATION MINISTER ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, MEDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a courtesy call by the Ambassador at the Ministry on June 2, new Minister of Information Tichaona Jokonya defended the GOZ's media policy and its Operation "Restore Order". He said he wanted better relations with the independent media and with the USG. The Ambassador cond [...]	2005-06-09 13:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO PHUM PGOV ZI
05HARARE803	DAY ONE OF STAY-AWAY [...] (C) June 9, day one of the Broad Alliance-led two-day stay-away, appeared to be a partial success. The greatest impact was in Harare where Embassy staff observed slightly reduced vehicular traffic and significantly reduced pedestrian traffic. Some businesses reported that the majority of the [...]	2005-06-09 14:46:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ASEC ZI MDC
05HARARE804	NO NEW DIRECTION IN MUGABE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) President Mugabe's speech to the opening session of the new Parliament on June 9 projected familiar themes of western conspiracies and government intervention in the economy. It broke little new ground and reinforced that the GOZ was unlikely to relax its heavy-handedness in political, [...]	2005-06-09 15:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE83	TURMOIL AND INTRIGUE CONTINUE IN RUN-UP TO ZANU-PF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Harare's headlines continue to be dominated by tales of intra-ZANU-PF conflicts and a spy scandal in the run-up to the ruling party's parliamentary primaries scheduled for January 15. Plans to reserve a quota of seats for women appears to be the method of choice for dislodging c [...]	2005-01-14 09:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE830	A LOOK BACK AS OPERATION "RESTORE ORDER" ENTERS [...] (C) As the GOZ,s crackdown, code-named Operation &Murambatsvina8 or &Restore Order8 enters its fourth week it shows no sign of slowing down. The crackdown began shortly after Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono,s national address on May 19, in which he blamed the informal economy for sabotaging [...]	2005-06-14 08:58:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC ZI
05HARARE831	MODEST STAY-AWAY RESULTS CHALLENGE BROAD ALLIANCE [...] (C) The NCA,s Lovemore Madukhu, organizer of last week,s stayaway action, called it a limited success. However, Madhuku acknowledged that poor organization and communications had hampered the effort. Other opposition leaders were less charitable. While some alliance members felt slighted in [...]	2005-06-14 11:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ZI
05HARARE847	2005 ZIMBABWE REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) The U.S. Government is aware of seven expropriation claims of U.S. persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ). All seven claims arise out of the GOZ's Land Resettlement Program, which commenced in 2000. In the past year, the general pace of land reform has c [...]	2005-06-17 08:34:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC EFIN EINV KIDE PGOV KSPR ZI
05HARARE868	MDC HEAD PREVIEWS MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR FRAZER [...] MDC President Morgan Tsavngirai met with CDA June 21 to discuss his June 22-24 trip to South Africa and his meeting with Ambassador Frazier. Tsvangirai said the purpose of the trip was to meet with IRI,s communications expert and discuss the party,s message in the wake of another stolen elec [...]	2005-06-22 15:24:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
05HARARE871	ZIMPLATS STILL INVESTING DESPITE UNCERTAINTY [...] (C) Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Pvt.) Ltd. (ZimPlats) CEO G. Sebborn told PolOff on June 21 that the company was open to expanding its Zimbabwe operations despite ongoing political and economic turmoil. However, the additional investment would be conditioned upon GOZ guarantees regarding land te [...]	2005-06-23 13:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EMIN ECON PGOV ZI
05HARARE872	OLIVINE STRUGGLING TO REMAIN OPERATIONAL [...] (C) Olivine Managing Director Ian MacKenzie told PolOff on June 21 that his company was on the verge of shutting down large parts of its operations due to lack of foreign exchange and the country,s small soya and cotton crop. As the single largest provider of bakers, fats, a shut down could al [...]	2005-06-23 13:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON PGOV ZI
05HARARE911	PROCEDURES FOR ZIMBABWE,S SANCTIONS REGIME [...] (SBU) As the USG prepares to adjust the Zimbabwe sanctions list, Post offers the recommendations below concerning classification of the visa sanction list, notifications of sanctioned individuals, and entry of names into the visa lookout system. Post will send via septel suggested additions/d [...]	2005-07-05 09:07:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR CVIS ZI
05HARARE914	RESTORE ORDER TSUNAMI ROLLS ON [...] (C) Now in its second month, Operation Restore Order is affecting both urban and rural populations throughout the country. In Harare, residents of high-density suburbs, domestics and other staff in low-density suburbs, and tenants in downtown office buildings have been turned out of their bui [...]	2005-07-05 14:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ASEC ZI
05HARARE923	"RESTORE ORDER", HUNGER STALK MASVINGO [...] (C) Poloff's visit to Masvingo June 27-28 disclosed that the GOZ's Operation "Restore Order" was less onerous there than in Harare and other locations. However, opposition and NGO sources said hunger was growing in the region and continued food availability was uncertain. End summary. --- [...]	2005-07-06 10:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAGR ECON EAID SOCI ASEC ZI
05HARARE928	UN ENVOY CRITICAL OF GOZ AND "RESTORE ORDER", [...] (C) UN Special Envoy Anna Tibaijuka on July 4 told the CDA and visiting Congressional staff Gregory Simpkins and Pearl Alice Marsh that she found the GOZ's Restore Order campaign misguided, destructive, and wrong. She said that GOZ officials, including President Mugabe, had been unapologetic [...]	2005-07-06 13:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID SOCI ZI
05HARARE935	CFU ON RESTORE ORDER AND OTHER EVENTS [...] (C) Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) President Douglas Taylor-Freeme told the CDA on July 6 that RBZ head Gideon Gono was interested in luring white farmers back to Zimbabwe and protecting those still here from further seizures. However, Gono,s influence had not been able to prevent the seizure [...]	2005-07-08 08:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON PGOV ZI
05HARARE938	COCA-COLA REPRESENTATIVE OFFERS A CANDID PERSONAL [...] (C) Coca-Cola Communications Director Sherree Gladys Shereni told the CDA on July 7 that Coca-Cola had resolved a payment dispute with its main Zimbabwe distributor and would continue providing Coke syrup to the country. Coca-Cola remained committed to the country long-term but she said she h [...]	2005-07-08 09:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON PGOV ZI
05HARARE944	OPERATION RESTORE ORDER WREAKS HAVOC IN MUTARE [...] (C) On June 23 and 24, poloff visited the city of Mutare in Zimbabwe,s Eastern Highlands to see the effects of Operation Restore Order. During the visit she met with the City,s MDC Mayor as well as local businessmen. The high-density suburb of Sakubva has been hard hit, and Mutare,s main mar [...]	2005-07-11 11:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAGR ECON EAID SOCI ASEC ZI
05HARARE949	UN SPECIAL ENVOY BRIEFS ON MISSION RESULTS: [...] (C) UN Special Envoy Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka briefed the donor community July 8 on the results of her visit. In a sop to the GOZ, she called Operation Restore Order &well-intentioned,8 but was nonetheless highly critical of its underlying assumption that urbanization could be reversed and of [...]	2005-07-11 14:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ZI
05HARARE951	ZIMBABWE SANCTIONS - SUGGESTED ADDITIONS AND [...] (SBU) In response to the flawed March parliamentary elections, the EU,s new sanctions list, and the GOZ,s brutal Operation Restore Order, Post suggests the additions and deletions to the visa sanctions list detailed below. ------------------ Names To Be Added ------------------ 2. (SBU) [...]	2005-07-11 15:16:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
05HARARE954	AGREMENT REQUEST [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-12 11:33:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ZI
05HARARE970	ANOTHER CASH CRUNCH COMING? [...] (SBU) Zimbabwe's largest denominated bill, Z$20,000 (US$2 at the official exchange rate, less than US$1 at the parallel market rate),appears to be growing scarcer, reportedly as a result of deliberate GOZ policy. It is being replaced with smaller bills that will prove cumbersome to use in com [...]	2005-07-14 10:54:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON PGOV ZI
05HARARE976	STAFFDEL SIMPKINS ENGAGES ON RESTORE ORDER [...] (C) On a visit to assess and discuss the effects of Operation Restore Order, Majority Staffer Gregory Simpkins and Minority Staffer Pearl-Alice Marsh from the House of Representatives International Relations Committee (HIRC) traveled to Harare and Bulawayo, July 2-6. The staffdel saw first ha [...]	2005-07-15 07:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON EFIN SOCI ZI VIP
05HARARE977	BUSINESS LEADERS PLEAD FOR IMF LENIENCY [...] (C) At a meeting with the CDA on July 13, Congress of Zimbabwean Industries (CZI) President Patison Sithole, CZI immediate past president Kumbirayi Katsande, and Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe President Jack Murehwa urged that the USG not support IMF expulsion of Zimbabwe. They expressed concer [...]	2005-07-15 07:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL EINV ZI
05HARARE980	GOZ ANNOUNCES SUSPENSION OF DEMOLITIONS [...] (SBU) On July 15, Housing Minister Ignatius Chombo announced that the GOZ would halt Operation Restore Order, the GOZ's nationwide campaign to demolish "unauthorized structures" (reftel),for ten days in order to allow low-density suburb residents time to legalize any structures that do not co [...]	2005-07-18 13:56:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR ASEC ZI
05HARARE981	ZCTU CRISIS CONTINUES [...] (C) Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, (ZCTU) Information Officer Mlamleli Sibanda told PolOff on July 15 that two separate ZCTU meetings were disrupted within the past week by &trouble-maker8 unions (Ref A and B). In one meeting, four women were beaten up badly by several men. Sibanda adde [...]	2005-07-18 14:15:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ELAB ECON PGOV ZI
05HARARE982	THIRD FORCE READY TO EMERGE? [...] (C) Pearson Mbalekwa, an ex-MP who recently resigned from ZANU-PF, told poloff on July 14 that a "third force" was coalescing and expected to emerge publicly within two months. The force, which so far lacked a leadership structure, would likely be composed of disaffected ZANU-PF elements large [...]	2005-07-18 15:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE988	MORE BLOWS FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA [...] (C) In a blow to media freedom, the Media and Information Commission (MIC) has again denied operating licenses to the semi-independent weekly Tribune newspaper and to the independent Daily News and Daily News on Sunday. The two decisions were announced July 13 and 19 respectively. The publis [...]	2005-07-20 06:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
05HARARE990	MOYO ON ZANU-PF, NEED FOR NEW LEADERSHIP [...] (C) In a July 5 exchange with visiting Congressional senior staff Greg Simpkins and Pearl Alice Marsh, Jonathan Moyo cast ZANU-PF as a party in crisis - ossified in policy and beholden to one man who no longer enjoyed the confidence of either the party or the nation. He said conditions were [...]	2005-07-20 10:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI ZANU PF
05HARARE991	OPERATION RESTORE ORDER IN BULAWAYO [...] (SBU) Operation Restore Order has had a profound effect on Bulawayo, Zimbabwe,s second largest city, much as it has in other cities around the country. During a visit to Bulawayo with Staffdel Simpkins on July 3-4, embassy staff viewed scenes of devastation and relief efforts at sites for dis [...]	2005-07-20 14:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ASEC ECON ZI
05HARARE995	ZIMBABWE FINANCIAL SANCTIONS - SUGGESTED ADDITIONS [...] (SBU) In response to the flawed March parliamentary elections, the EU,s new sanctions list, and the GOZ,s brutal Operation Restore Order, Post suggests the additions and deletions to the financial sanctions list detailed below. Post relayed suggested additions and deletions to the visa sancti [...]	2005-07-20 15:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN PINR PHUM PGOV ZI
05HELSINKI1013	EXTREMISM IN FINLAND [...] (C) Summary: Finland has a small but growing Muslim population of approximately 20,000. Extremist sentiment is not widespread throughout the Muslim community, but areas of concern exist. Embassy Helsinki's strategy to combat extremism consists of an active outreach to Finland's Muslims co [...]	2005-09-26 06:59:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KMPI KPAO PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID FI
05HELSINKI1015	FINLAND WILL NOT (YET) SUPPORT LISTING THE LTTE AS [...] (C) PolChief delivered subject demarche to Ambassador Mikko Pyhala, MFA office director for South Asia. Pyhala noted that the GOF has publicly denounced the assassination of the Sri Lankan foreign minister and continues to condemn the LTTE both for other murders attributed to it and for its u [...]	2005-09-26 09:46:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KTFN PTER PREL CO FI
05HELSINKI1113	FINLAND: MY THOUGHTS AS I DEPART POST [...] (SBU) Summary: Finland's 2006 second-term EU Presidency offers the opportunity to strengthen trans- Atlantic ties and advance key U.S. interests. The U.S. and Finland share a broad agenda, including promoting democracy, crisis management and peacekeeping, trafficking-in-persons, and security [...]	2005-10-18 13:40:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID SOCI FI EU
05HELSINKI1114	AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT HALONEN [...] (C) The Ambassador on Oct. 7 paid a farewell call on President Halonen. Halonen began her remarks by pointedly telling the Ambassador "I am a friend of America." She said that Finnish-American relations were strong, and that she looked forward to working together with the U.S. in the futur [...]	2005-10-19 05:10:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL FI
05HELSINKI1116	FINNISH PRESIDENT HALONEN'S TRAVELS TO RUSSIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In late Sept. and early Oct., President Halonen has made official visits to Russia and to Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. In Russia, the GOF sees bilateral progress on environmental issues and border security, in part thanks to the good relations between the two presidents. Howe [...]	2005-10-19 06:24:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM SENV FI AJ EU RS LG UK EN AM
05HELSINKI1128	BMENA FUND/FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE - FINLAND [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-21 14:09:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID EFIN EINV PGOV PHUM EU DA
05HELSINKI1139	EVERY FINN'S PRESIDENT: WHY TARJA HALONEN REMAINS [...] (SBU) Social Democratic President Tarja Halonen remains enormously popular in Finland, and polls consistently predict that she will easily win a second term in January's election. Halonen's left-wing base remains rock solid and her appeal across party lines is the object of great envy. Finlan [...]	2005-10-26 11:58:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ELAB PINR FI
05HELSINKI1163	FINLAND CONDEMNS IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S EXTREMISM [...] (U) The GOF has roundly condemned Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's October 25 call for Israel to be "wiped off the map." On Oct. 27, Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja released a public statement that expressed the GOF's "deep disapproval of the Iranian president's comment;" emphasized that "und [...]	2005-11-01 14:22:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER PHUM PGOV IR FI
05HELSINKI1175	FINLAND: SUPPORTS U.S. APPROACH ON BOLIVIA [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-04 06:35:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL FI
05HELSINKI1210	CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM IN [...] (U) Summary and Action Request: This message contains an action request. Please see para. 7. 2. (U) Charg and APAO called on the Secretary General of the Finnish Parliament, Seppo Tiitinen, to discuss celebration plans for the 100 year anniversary of the Parliament beginning on June 1, 20 [...]	2005-11-17 12:01:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV FI
05HELSINKI1234	FINLAND: NO MONITORS FOR BOLIVIAN ELECTIONS [...] (U) Poloff spoke with MFA desk officer for Bolivia Anu-Vuori Kiikeri on November 28 about the rescheduled Dec. 18 elections. Kiikeri had just returned from a visit to La Paz where she attended a meeting of EU ambassadors. She said that Finland will not send election monitors to Bolivia. Fi [...]	2005-11-28 14:30:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL BO FI
05HELSINKI1267	CHARGE'S MEETING WITH FINNISH PRIME MINISTER [...] (S) Summary: Prime Minister Vanhanen and Charge reviewed several issues of interest to the U.S. and Finland Nov. 25. Vanhanen raised the issue of an alleged CIA flight through Finland about which the GOF has faced heavy political and press criticism. He also discussed the current presidential [...]	2005-12-08 15:12:00	Embassy Helsinki	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON MARR MOPS FI EU
05HELSINKI1277	FINLAND MOVES TO IMPLEMENT NATIONAL ACTION PLAN [...] (U) Summary: Finland is in the process of implementing its new National Action Plan. Each ministry and agency has created an internal implementation strategy. An interagency working group will monitor and report results. Police and prosecutors are investigating several cases, but suffer f [...]	2005-12-12 11:28:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG SOCI FI
05HELSINKI1281	FINNISH RESPONSE TO S LETTER ON ALLEGED US [...] (C) Summary: Finnish MFA officials have offered generally measured reactions to the Secretary's response to Foreign Secretary Straw on alleged US detention and transportation of terrorist suspects through the EU. FM Tuomioja publicly welcomed the Secretary's dialogue with European partners at [...]	2005-12-12 13:38:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM FI EUN
05HELSINKI1286	DEMARCHE TO FINLAND - CONDEMNING THE ASSASSINATION [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-15 08:20:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER FI
05HELSINKI1290	FINLAND: UN RAPPORTEUR WELCOMES THE SECRETARY'S [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Scheinin welcomed the Secretary's clarification of U.S. policy on transportation of prisoners and U.S. obligations under the CAT. He said her specific reference to "degrading" treatment was important, but noted that additional clarificati [...]	2005-12-15 12:32:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI FI
05HELSINKI1310	FINLAND'S "NATO CANDIDATE" STRESSES TRANS-ATLANTIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Swedish People's Party candidate and MEP Henrick Lax briefed us on the presidential campaign and the political challenges facing the US and Europe. He expressed grave concern about developments in Russia and argued that Finland must assume far greater leadership in helping formu [...]	2005-12-23 10:45:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MARR SENV PINR FI
05HELSINKI137	FINLAND: REACTION TO IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (C) Finland's Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja has not issued a formal statement on the Iraqi elections, but told reporters in Brussels on January 31 that the elections were a step in the right direction. He said that he was particularly encouraged that the majority of Iraqis voted despite th [...]	2005-02-02 15:08:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ FI
05HELSINKI15	FINNISH AID IN SUPPORT OF TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORT [...] (SBU) The Government of Finland is about to increase its total disaster assistance donation to 12 million euros. GoF donations have increased over the past week to keep slightly ahead of private donations. End Summary 2. (U) Embassy Helsinki made subject demarche immediately on the mornin [...]	2005-01-04 11:42:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR EAID PGOV FI
05HELSINKI185	ACEH: FINNISH INTERMEDIARY MORE PESSIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (S) DCM Weisberg met with Juha Christensen on February 11 to discuss the Aceh talks in Helsinki. Christensen is the Finnish businessman who facilitated the introduction of former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari as a mediator between the GoI and GAM. Christensen was decidedly more pessim [...]	2005-02-11 14:55:00	Embassy Helsinki	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS ID FI EAID
05HELSINKI228	ACEH TALKS: FINNISH MEDIATORS POSITIVE AFTER DAY 2 [...] (C) Poloff spoke with Meri-Maria Jaarva of the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) on the night of February 22. Jaarva is the chief assistant of former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari for the Aceh talks. Jaarva said that there had been an "enormous change" in the demeanor and attitude of [...]	2005-02-23 09:04:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS MARR EAID ASEC ID FI
05HELSINKI3	EMBASSY HELSINKI'S RESPONSE TO SEMI-ANNUAL REQUEST [...] Per reftel, Post submits the following updated contact information on leading Finnish government figures. 2. COUNTRY: Republic of Finland DATE: December 29, 2004 HEAD OF GOVERNMENT: Last Name: Vanhanen First Name/Middle Name: Matti Taneli Conventional Usage: Mr. Prime Mini [...]	2005-01-03 06:45:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL AMGT FI
05HELSINKI303	FINLAND: CHILD MARRIAGE [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to paragraph 6 of reftel: A) (U) The legal age of marriage for males and females in Finland is 18. The Ministry for Justice reports that the overwhelming majority of marriages in Finland are between couples age 18 and older. It is possible to petiti [...]	2005-03-11 14:48:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI FI
05HELSINKI695	FINLAND'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELA [...] (C) Acting Pol Chief delivered the reftel talking points to Anne Lammila, Director for the Latin America Unit at the Finnish MFA. Lammila chose not to elaborate on her assessment of the situation in Venezuela, except to point out that the GoF is concerned about conditions there (particularly wi [...]	2005-06-28 06:21:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE FI
05HELSINKI810	FINLAND: LIKELY TO ACCEPT UZBEK ASYLUM SEEKERS [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-18 06:31:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL FI IDP
05HELSINKI873	PUTIN VISITS FINLAND [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Earle I. Mack met privately with Jarmo Viinanen, Chief of Staff to Finland's President Tarja Halonen, on August 3. Viinanen briefed the Ambassador about Russian President Putin's 2 day visit to Finland for meetings with Halonen. Viinanen said that both sides emphas [...]	2005-08-04 05:11:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM RS EN FI
05HELSINKI920	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CONSERVATIVE PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Conservative Party presidential candidate Sauli Niinisto provided us a candid summary of his views on the upcoming campaign and on key issues of interest to the United States. Domestically, he criticized President Halonen for benefiting from Finland's decade of economic and fore [...]	2005-08-23 13:17:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU FI TU
05HELSINKI930	FINLAND: PLANS FOR SEPTEMBER 1-2 GYMNICH MEETING [...] Summary: (U) The GoF plans to concentrate on three issues at the Gymnich: EU enlargement, the Middle-East Peace Process, and the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Finland will strongly support the start of Turkish accession talks on Oct. 3, and EU Commissioner for Enlargement Ollie Rehn (a Finn) [...]	2005-08-26 14:00:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	EU PGOV PHUM PREL FI EUN
05HELSINKI948	GOF RESPONSE ON IRAQ CONSTITUTION [...] DCM met September 1 with Finnish MFA Undersecretary for Political Affairs Markus Lyra to discuss the GOF's public response to the Iraqi draft constitution and to request a public statement supporting the democratization process in Iraq. She noted that the foreign ministers from the five Nordi [...]	2005-09-02 11:03:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IZ FI
05HELSINKI949	GOF CONCERNED ABOUT SYRIA BUT HESITANT ABOUT [...] (C) DCM delivered subject demarche to MFA Undersecretary for Political Affairs Markus Lyra. The GOF has not received a request from Syria for a high level meeting at the UNGA, but Lyra said he would communicate our request to Finland's UNGA delegation. He fully agreed that Syria has failed to [...]	2005-09-02 11:03:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY FI
05HELSINKI974	TFUS01: ACCEPTANCE OF FINNISH ASSISTANCE OFFER FOR [...] Per reftel instructions, Embassy Helsinki has conveyed to the GOF the USG's acceptance of part of Finland's offer for assistance, to include 9,000 sheets, 200 small tarps, 200 first aid kits, 120 cooler cases, 1,000 pillow cases, and 3,500 thermosheets. 2. Contact information for the host g [...]	2005-09-13 05:09:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV ASEC MARR AMGT AMED
05HELSINKI988	FINLAND'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SPAR OVER [...] (SBU) Summary: The unofficial opening rounds of Finland's presidential campaign appear to indicate that European and trans-Atlantic security issues could become central themes. Conservative Party candidate Niinisto has advocated that Finland embrace European security guarantee mechanisms and [...]	2005-09-16 07:51:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR FI NATO
05HERMOSILLO440	HERMOSILLO - ARMED ATTACK AT COUNTRY CLUB LINKED TO HOSPITAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: In an early morning raid on November 10th, approximately eighteen men shot their way into the exclusive Los Lagos neighborhood in Hermosillo, firing about 400 high-caliber bullets into the house of a local resident. Although they did not shatter the bulletproof windows of the hou [...]	2005-11-16 22:08:00	Consulate Hermosillo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC ALOW PREL SNAR MX CASC
05HILLAH366	KARBALA UIA/555 CANDIDATE CONFIDENT OF STRONG PERFORMANCE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The number two candidate on the United Iraqi Alliance list (UIA, ballot number 555) in Karbala, Mouther Hussein Hassan Al-Hakim, expressed optimism over his coalition's chances in the December 15 national election, stating, "My list is in a good position." Al-Hakim, an independe [...]	2005-12-12 19:44:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL IZ
05HILLAH367	DIWANIYAH IECI HEAD PREPARED FOR FRAUD ACCUSATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Diwaniyah Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq Head Saad Madhloom told REO Al-Hillah staff in a December 7 meeting that he was staffing provincial polling sites to prepare for allegations of fraud from partisans of Iyad Allawi's National Iraqi List (ballot number 731.) Madhloom [...]	2005-12-12 19:48:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ PDEM
05HILLAH371	BABIL ELECTION SECURITY TIGHTER THAN A CHAMPAIGN CORK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent pre-election security meeting hosted by REO Al-Hillah and attended by the local Coalition Forces commander, Iraqi officials and a United Nations election observer put the finishing touches on a three ringed security plan for Babil Province. The Babil representative f [...]	2005-12-13 19:18:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
05HILLAH373	WASIT UIA/555 SLATE LEADER CONFIDENT IN CAMPAIGN'S FINAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Governor and leader of the United Iraqi Alliance (Ballot Number 555) list in Wasit, Mohammed Al-Khateeb (Shi'a Islamist independent) is confident that a strong performance in the December 15 national election will lay the groundwork for continued Shi'a Islamist dominance of [...]	2005-12-14 15:09:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL IZ
05HILLAH374	NAJAF INA EXPECTS WIDESPREAD ELECTION DAY VIOLENCE [...] (U) This is a SET NAJAF cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Najaf head of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National Accord party (INA) told SET Najaf December 9 that he expected widespread election day violence directed at INA supporters and facilities by supporters of the United Iraqi Alli [...]	2005-12-14 18:54:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
05HILLAH375	549/ISLAMIC COALITION CANDIDATE PREDICTS "HARD COMPETITION" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number two candidate in Karbala on the Islamic Coalition list (ballot number 549),Ibrahim Ali Abbas Al-Mutayri, predicted that the electoral contest for Karbala's six seats in the new National Assembly would feature "hard competition" between the Islamic Coalition and the [...]	2005-12-14 19:14:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL IZ
05HILLAH377	AMBASSADOR, SENATORS PRAISE IRAQI VOTERS, ELECTION PROCESS [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and U.S. Senators Joseph Biden, Lindsay Graham, Saxby Chambliss and Maria Cantwell praised the Iraqi people for their participation in the national election before a group of Western and Iraqi reporters outside a downtown Al-Hillah polling station Decemb [...]	2005-12-16 11:44:00	REO Hillah	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO IZ
05HILLAH378	MOOD SERENE, SECURITY EXTENSIVE AT DOWNTOWN AL-HILLAH [...] Summary: Family trips to polling places, patriotic music and mosque exhortations characterized the activity around one downtown Al-Hillah, Babil Province polling station on December 15. Male and female screeners courteously searched voters as they moved smoothly through the entrance. Policemen [...]	2005-12-16 19:29:00	REO Hillah	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM IZ
05HILLAH380	SISTANI, SADR OFFER APPROVAL OF ELECTION PROCESS IN MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings December 17 with Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani and Moqtada Sadr each expressed his approval of the December 15 election process. In meetings in Najaf, Sistani reportedly stressed to Jaafari the importance of quickly releasing th [...]	2005-12-18 17:20:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL IZ
05HILLAH382	MOSQUE SERMONS DIFFER ON OIL PRICE HIKE [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-24 13:13:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL EPET EFIN EAID IZ
05HILLAH383	WASIT: THE VIEW FROM THE WINNER'S SEAT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-28 17:37:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
05HILLAH384	SISTANI-AFFILIATED CLERIC ASSASSINATED IN NAJAF; IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: Unidentified gunmen assassinated Sayyid Fattah Al-Thabhawi, a mid-level Shi'a cleric affiliated with Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, on December 26. The cleric, who also was aligned with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI),was shot outside his home in th [...]	2005-12-28 18:05:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
05HILLAH385	SADRIST SHAYKH, RELEASED FROM JAIL, TELLS OF ALLEGED PRISON [...] (C) Summary: In a private meeting in Najaf on December 27, a high-ranking Sadrist shaykh recently released from prison told Moqtada Al-Sadr that while in prison, he was tortured and the Koran was defiled, Sadrist sources reported to SET Najaf local staff. The shaykh also expressed to Sadr his d [...]	2005-12-31 14:29:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ
05HILLAH386	NAJAF MOSQUE SERMONS CRITICIZE COALITION, SUPPORT ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: The Friday prayer speaker at the primary Sadrist mosque in Najaf blamed Coalition Forces for recent raids on a Sadrist cleric's home, accused them of desecrating the Koran and called for Ibrahim Jaafari to remain as Prime Minister. At a mosque affiliated with the Supreme Council fo [...]	2005-12-31 14:32:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ KIS
05HOCHIMINHCITY1009	MORE ON ALLEGATIONS OF QUANG NGAI RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) Post continues to monitor closely reported incidents involving severe harassment of two ethnic minority Protestant house church congregations in Quang Ngai province in Vietnam's Central Coastal region (reftel). A few days after we submitted a letter to the HCMC External Relations Office [...]	2005-09-22 02:22:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HOCHIMINHCITY1010	HCMC NEIGHBOR PROVINCE TRANSITIONING FROM AGRICULTURE TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Neighboring HCMC to the south, Long An has developed as a center of Mekong Delta agriculture. But its proximity to HCMC makes it a natural location for industrial development. Some businesses, including Nike, have already begun to capitalize on this geography, and provincial o [...]	2005-09-23 03:01:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV ETRD VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY1024	STATUS OF HCMC'S NEW LIFE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH STILL AT AN [...] (SBU) Summary: The unregistered expatriate New Life Fellowship Church continues to meet in small groups following HCMC police cancellation of its weekly church services at a hotel in HCMC's District 5 in late August. NLF Pastor-in-Charge told us September 26 that he had declined overtures fro [...]	2005-09-27 11:48:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY104	STATE TRADING IN VIETNAM - PETROVIETNAM A [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables on industry perspectives in southern Vietnam on the role of the state in the economy. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU): Vietnam's oil and gas industry is completely controlled by the state-owned Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation, known as PetroVietnam. [...]	2005-01-27 03:18:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ETRD EPET ECON EINV PGOV VM SOE
05HOCHIMINHCITY1043	BINH DINH PROVINCE: GETTING IT RIGHT [...] (U): Binh Dinh Province, on Vietnam's central coast, is significantly out-performing its neighbors. Despite the poor resources and traditional poverty of the central region, Binh Dinh ranked 21st out of 61 provinces in the UNDP 2003 Vietnam Millennium Development Goals Index, and 12th out of [...]	2005-10-04 06:16:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EINV SOCI ETRD PHUM SENV VM HIV AIDS SOE
05HOCHIMINHCITY1045	INTERVIEWS WITH VISAS-93 APPLICANTS SHOW SOME PROGRESS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. HCMC's Refugee Resettlement Section recently concluded interviews of 124 ethnic minority families as part of the VISAS-93 reunification process for Central Highlands ethnic minority families. This was the first time that ConGen staff have had completely unfettered access to a l [...]	2005-10-04 06:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY1046	AVIAN FLU: U.S. BUSINESS CONCERN GROWS [...] SUMMARY (U) ConGen has noted an increase in interest in Avian Influenza (AI) pandemic preparedness among American Citizens and the U.S. business community in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). In searching for answers, more and more individuals are turning to the ConGen for guidance. An informal sam [...]	2005-10-04 07:47:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON AMED TBIO CASC PGOV SENV SOCI VM AFLU
05HOCHIMINHCITY106	VIETNAM MENNONITE CHURCH PRISONER LE THI HONG LIEN [...] (SBU) Summary: A lengthy interview with the father of Le Thi Hong Lien, one of six Mennonite prisoners, leads us to conclude that claims by overseas NGO's that she was abused and tortured to the point of mental collapse are not supported by available evidence. It seems clear that Lien had a se [...]	2005-01-28 00:45:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM RELFREE HUMANRIGHTS
05HOCHIMINHCITY1073	RIOT AT HCMC DRUG REHABILITATION CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: An October 2 riot in a HCMC juvenile rehabilitation center for drug users and sex workers resulted in the escape of approximately 800 detainees. Most of the detainees have returned to the center, some voluntarily, some involuntarily. Authorities reported to us that fewer than [...]	2005-10-14 12:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI SNAR PHUM KHIV VM CNARC HIV AIDS
05HOCHIMINHCITY1082	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND THE PROTESTANT COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Discussions in early October with the GVN- recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV),house church leaders and provincial government officials indicate that steady progress continues to be made of religious freedom issues affecting Protestants in central coastal V [...]	2005-10-18 10:05:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR ETMIN RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY1091	CENTRAL VIETNAM'S TALE OF TWO PROVINCES: POLITICS, [...] (SBU): The Consul General led a team to Danang and Quang Nam provinces October 4-7 to broaden U.S. engagement in central Vietnam and to promote U.S. economic, human rights and religious freedom interests. The style and substance of our interaction with the province's two Party Secretaries and [...]	2005-10-20 10:54:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV PREL SOCI ETRD PHUM PINR VM DPOL HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY1092	TOURISM SUCCESS IN CENTRAL VIETNAM TOWN OF HOI AN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The historic coastal town Hoi An in central Quang Nam province is a model of private sector development. A thriving trading center 300 years ago, Hoi An in recent years has drawn on its tradition of entrepreneurship and has leveraged the progressive attitudes of provincial leader [...]	2005-10-20 10:55:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV VM LABOR
05HOCHIMINHCITY11	DELTA FACES DIFFICULTIES ON THE ROAD TO PROSPERITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting the Mekong Delta, the Ambassador found that considerable investment in infrastructure, education and government reform are needed to set conditions for rapid economic growth. The long, porous border with Cambodia is a challenge for local officials, who are struggling t [...]	2005-01-06 08:44:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV PREL SOCI ETRD PHUM VM KCRM SMIG SNAR LABOR HIV AIDS TIP CNARC
05HOCHIMINHCITY1105	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CONSULTS FOREIGNERS ON DOING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly (FACNA) organized a consultative meeting on September 1, 2005, in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) to solicit direct feedback from foreign businesspeople on how the implementation of Vietnam's regulations and policies affect them. [...]	2005-10-25 03:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV VM WTRO WTO DPOL
05HOCHIMINHCITY1140	Miracle on Dong Khoi Street [...] Rumors began flying around Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday, October 29, that a statue of the Virgin Mary in central Saigon had been seen weeping. The Cardinal's Office told post on October 31 that the rumor of the "Crying Maria" had been started on Saturday afternoon by a young seller of lottery [...]	2005-10-31 09:54:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY1143	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN GIA LAI PROVICE: TWO STEPS FORWARD, [...] (SBU) Summary: A reliable contact in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai told us October 31 that, overall conditions for the GVN-recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) in the province continue to improve. Additional churches have been recognized and new pastors trained [...]	2005-11-01 09:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HOCHIMINHCITY1151	COMMUNIST PARTY REFORMERS PUSH FOR CHANGE [...] (SBU): Former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, senior statesman of the Party in southern Vietnam, has reportedly emerged in recent months as the de facto spokesman of the Party's reformist wing. According to a Party insider close to Kiet, his critique of the draft political report of the 10th party [...]	2005-11-03 10:27:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON EINV PREL SOCI VM DPOL
05HOCHIMINHCITY1152	HCMC CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE PUSHES FOR GREATER ROLE IN [...] (SBU) From October 27 to 29, the HCMC Archdiocese hosted an international workshop on strategies to care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). The declared goal of the workshop was to develop a concrete action plan for the Church on HIV/AIDS in HCMC. The unwritten subtext was an effort to p [...]	2005-11-04 03:41:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SNAR PREL SOCI PHUM KIRF VM RELFREE HIV AIDS HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY1155	MEDIA, DISSIDENTS AND THE PARTY: DILEMAS AND POLITICAL [...] (U) This is a joint Hanoi-HCMC cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Vastly differing media treatment of dissident Hoang Minh Chinh in Hanoi and HCMC newspapers underscores the differences between conservatives and reformers within the Party in advance of the 10th Party Congress. Soon after Chinh made [...]	2005-11-04 11:20:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL PINR VM HUMANR DPOL
05HOCHIMINHCITY1182	THREE HCMC HOUSE CHURCHES SEEK LEGALIZATION, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of three house church organizations headquartered in HCMC -- Baptist, Mennonite and Seventh Day Adventist -- have applied to legalize their operations in HCMC, the first such applications under Vietnam's legal framework on religion. Although they have the legal right t [...]	2005-11-09 09:17:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY1200	POULTRY ALMOST UNAVAILABLE IN HCMC [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ho Chi Minh City authorities are tightening restrictions on the sale of poultry within city limits as part of its avian influenza prevention plan. Several large supermarkets in HCMC have halted sales of domestic poultry, though they still plan to sell eggs. Combined with the GVN [...]	2005-11-10 10:40:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD EAID PGOV TBIO SOCI PINR CASC AMED VM AMGMT AFLU
05HOCHIMINHCITY1202	DISSIDENT HOANG MINH CHINH RETURNS TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Early on November 13 democracy activist Tran Khue called us to report that fellow dissident Hoang Minh Chinh and his wife had just returned from the United States. Khue said airport police were trying to confiscate Chinh's passport and other personal documents, but Chinh refused, arguing [...]	2005-11-14 10:53:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY1212	NEW LIFE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH STATUS - UPDATE [...] (SBU) New Life Fellowship church (NLF) pastor-in-charge Eric Dooley and responsible local and central-level officials have held a series of meetings on the impasse over the operations of the church (ref A). Dooley told us that, in mid-October, at the recommendation of the HCMC Committee for R [...]	2005-11-16 09:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF SOCI CASC VM HUMANR RELFREE

05HOCHIMINHCITY1217	RESULTS OF NEW INTERVIEWS WITH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS VISAS-93 [...] (SBU) HCMC's Refugee Resettlement Section (RRS) continues to conduct VISAS-93 family reunification interviews for Central Highlands ethnic minority individuals. As in August and September, when 124 cases were interviewed (reftel),ConGen staff had unfettered access to nine more ethnic minori [...]	2005-11-18 10:34:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM PREF KIRF VM ETMIN
05HOCHIMINHCITY1220	NEW FRICTIONS BETWEEN UNIFIED BUDDHIST CHURCH OF VIETNAM AND [...] (U) On November 20, the Paris-based International Buddhist Information Bureau, the de facto overseas voice of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV),issued a press release reporting that the police "physically assaulted" UBCV General Secretary Thich Quang Do and "tore his robe [...]	2005-11-21 10:27:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF SOCI VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY1269	AVIAN INFLUENZA - A LOOK AT FOUR PROVINCES IN VIETNAM'S [...] (SBU) Summary. USAID Regional Infectious Diseases Advisor and EconOff visited Can Tho, Hau Giang, An Giang and Dong Thap provinces of the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam to assess provincial Avian Influenza (AI) preparedness activities. While outbreaks of AI in poultry and humans in th [...]	2005-12-07 13:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM AFLU
05HOCHIMINHCITY127	GVN WISEMAN THANH ON CENTRAL HIGHLANDS AND USG RELATIONS [...] (SBU) Vo Viet Thanh, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for the South, told us on February 1 that the GVN is determined to resolve problems related to the Montagnards in the Central Highlands despite opposition from some provincial officials and "conservative elements" in Hanoi. The GVN's t [...]	2005-02-02 05:17:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY1277	VISIT OF CONGRESSMAN SMITH TO HUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Congressman Chris Smith met with provincial government officials, GVN-backed religious leaders, and prominent dissidents in Hue on December 3. The exchange with Hue government was pointed; provincial officials largely stiff-armed the Congressman's calls for more comprehensive [...]	2005-12-13 08:22:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KIRF SOCI PHUM OVIP VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY1293	VISIT OF CONGRESSMAN CHRISTOPHER SMITH TO HO CHI MINH CITY [...] (SBU) Summary: In an intensive one day visit December 4, Congressman Chris Smith met with provincial government officials, prominent political dissidents and religious freedom activists. HCMC officials did not make any tangible commitments, but acknowledged their obligation to create a positiv [...]	2005-12-15 10:17:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF SOCI PHUM VM HIV AIDS HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY1295	MEKONG DELTA DEVELOPMENT- RIPE FOR BIOTECH AND CAPITAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's Mekong Delta provinces will have difficulty meeting the GVN's goal of nearly doubling per capita GDP by 2010 without substantial reform and investment. A recent visit by the Consul General to two of the most prosperous Delta provinces revealed neither advances in produ [...]	2005-12-16 09:39:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL PGOV SOCI EINV EAID EAGR VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY1296	NEW CAN THO PARTY SECRETARY - A RISING STAR? [...] (U) The Consul General met with the newly appointed Party Secretary of Can Tho Province, Nguyen Tan Quyen, on December 6. SIPDIS Can Tho, the unofficial capital of the Mekong Delta region, is one of four independently administered cities in Vietnam. Although Can Tho's 2004 growth rate of 14. [...]	2005-12-16 10:06:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON PINR VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY1310	CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: SECURITY JITTERS ACCOMPANY RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary: Reliable contacts in the Protestant community in the Central Highlands told us that security has been intensified throughout the region in the run-up to Christmas. In archconservative Dak Lak Province there appear to be near-blanket restrictions on Protestant gatherings. Elsewhe [...]	2005-12-21 12:31:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF SCUL SOCI PHUM VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HOCHIMINHCITY1311	THE AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 15-16 VISIT TO HCMC AND BINH DUONG [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador's December 15 and 16 visits to one of HCMC's 21 drug rehabilitation centers and a local HIV testing and ARV treatment center highlighted the challenges facing the city in planning for the upcoming release of some of the centers' 30,000 residents, many of whom are H [...]	2005-12-21 12:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EAID PHUM SOCI SNAR TBIO VM HIV AIDS
05HOCHIMINHCITY132	DEPUTY GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR VISITS HCMC [...] (SBU) Summary. Dr. Joseph O'Neill, Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, heard from government officials, health care providers, and NGO directors who expressed thanks for USG assistance to combat HIV/AIDS and pointed out the need for further anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment and technical traini [...]	2005-02-02 10:21:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV PGOV EAID PREL SOCI VM HIV AIDS
05HOCHIMINHCITY1338	CHRISTMAS 2005 IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: ConGen contacts in the Catholic and Protestant communities report that, barring a handful of exceptions, Christmas services in all Central Highland provinces and elsewhere in southern and central Vietnam were held without any government interruption despite increased police and [...]	2005-12-30 02:34:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KIRF SCUL SOCI PHUM VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY142	AMENESTIED PRISONERS RETURN HOME; MENNONITE PASTOR [...] (SBU) Summary. ConGen HCMC has confirmed that amnestied prisoners Nguyen Van Ly (Father Ly),Nguyen Dan Que (Dr. Que),Nguyen Dinh Huy, Truong Van Duc, and Huynh Van Ba (aka Thich Thien Minh or Thich Thien Tu) were released from prison as part of the 2005 Tet Amnesty (Refs A, B). Imprisoned M [...]	2005-02-04 05:07:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY143	VIETNAM TO GROW EVEN FASTER SAY HCMC LEADERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ho Chi Minh City leaders reported to the Consular Corps that the Party Central Committee Plenum had endorsed the goal of raising Vietnam's GDP from LDC levels by 2010. Consul General observed that this implied a growth rate of about 15 percent (to raise per capita GDP from just u [...]	2005-02-04 09:20:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY15	AMBASSADOR VISITS UBCV LEADER IN HCMC [...] (SBU) During a December 5 visit with the Ambassador and Consul General, Thich Quang Do, Secretary General of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV),thanked the Ambassador for his continued interest in the UBCV and welcomed international pressure calling for greater religious free [...]	2005-01-07 10:02:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY160	HIV/AIDS INTER-FAITH SERVICE DRAWS TOP CITY [...] (U) Over 6,000 people attended an inter-faith prayer service to raise HIV/AIDS awareness organized by the Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City on the evening of February 15. Senior city government and Party leaders as well as heads of Vietnam's six recognized religions participated in the [...]	2005-02-16 10:52:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI KIRF PGOV KHIV VM RELFREE HIV AIDS
05HOCHIMINHCITY162	DEVELOPMENT AND BORDER ISSUES IN THE NORTHERN MEKONG [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent visit by the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) to the Mekong Delta provinces of Dong Thap and Vinh Long revealed that, like much of the rest of the Mekong Delta, these provinces rely heavily on agri- and aquaculture to fuel their economic growth. Plentiful harvests of rice [...]	2005-02-16 13:09:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EINV PREL SOCI ETRD PHUM EAGR SNAR VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY169	CG CALLS ON DISSIDENT NGUYEN DAN QUE; UPDATE ON FATHER LY [...] (SBU) Summary: Recently amnestied democracy activist Nguyen Dan Que appeared healthy and relaxed when the CG visited him at his HCMC home on February 17. He said that over the near term he plans to maintain a low-key profile but remains committed to encouraging Vietnam's transition to democr [...]	2005-02-17 10:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI KIRF PREL PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY189	UPDATE ON MENNONITES: PASTOR NGUYEN HONG QUANG AND LE THI [...] (SBU) On February 22, visiting S/P Staffer William Inboden and ConGenOffs met with Ms. Le Thi Phu Dung (strictly protect),wife of imprisoned Mennonite house church pastor Nguyen Hong Quang. Dung said she has visited her husband in HCMC's Chi Hoa prison "two or three times" and is able to deliv [...]	2005-02-24 11:15:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY190	S/P STAFFER INBODEN HCMC MEETINGS ON UBCV [...] (SBU) In a meeting on February 22 with visiting S/P staffer William Inboden and ConGenOffs, Deputy Head of the HCMC Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) Vo Ngoc Hue said the GVN was tolerant towards leaders of the outlawed United Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV),despite the UBCV taking acti [...]	2005-02-24 11:21:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY191	S/P STAFFER'S HCMC CONSULTATIONS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with visiting S/P staffer William Inboden and ConGenOffs in HCMC February 20-23, HCMC officials cited the Prime Minister's February 4 "Order on Protestantism" as evidence of the GVN's commitment to improve the climate for religious practice in Vietnam. They said th [...]	2005-02-24 12:09:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY210	VISIT TO A REMOTE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS VILLAGE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On March 1, CG and PolOff made a stop at a small village in a remote area of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. The hour-long discussion with local residents highlighted the economic disparities between the indigenous Montagnards and ethnic Vietnamese migra [...]	2005-03-03 10:45:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI SCUL SENV PINR PREF KIRF PHUM VM ETMIN
05HOCHIMINHCITY212	UPDATE ON MENNONITE HOUSE CHURCH IN HCMC [...] (SBU) In the evening of February 27, local HCMC police detained the wife of imprisoned Mennonite Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang and 18 worshipers. According to our house church contacts, at the end of the Sunday service, police informed the group that they were assembling illegally and made a report [...]	2005-03-04 05:36:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY221	Mennonite prisoner Le Thi Hong Lien transferred to mental [...] (SBU) On March 7, Le Quang Du (strictly protect),father of Mennonite prisoner Le Thi Hong Lien, gave us an update on his daughter's status following her transfer in mid-February from HCMC's Chi Hoa prison to another facility in Binh Phuoc province. Du told us that on February 26, he and his so [...]	2005-03-07 06:47:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY238	INITIAL ANALYSIS OF GVN'S IMPLEMENTING DECREE ON RELIGION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Implementing Decree for the Ordinance on Religion and Belief offers a number of significant advances, primarily in creating clear procedures for non-recognized religious groups to apply to legalize their operations. It lays out specific deadlines for officials to provide a [...]	2005-03-10 10:13:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY248	AMBASSADOR FOCUSES ON ETHNIC MINORITY AND RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials in the Central Highlands provinces of Lam Dong and Dak Lak told the Ambassador that they are implementing Hanoi's policies to expand religious freedom and to improve the lives of ethnic minorities, but said they would not tolerate "Dega Protestants" using religion for [...]	2005-03-11 10:52:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ECON EINV PREF SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HOCHIMINHCITY288	LOCAL VIEWS OF GVN DECREE ON RELIGION [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the issuance of the Implementation Decree for the Ordinance on Religion and Belief (reftels),we discussed its implications for the officially recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) and the members of the unrecognized Protestant house church movement [...]	2005-03-17 07:31:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY293	CONDITION OF FORMER MENNONITE PRISONERS MISSTATED IN NGO [...] (SBU) Summary: UK-based NGO Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) issued a press release on March 15 alleging torture of a number of the Mennonite Six; followers of Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang who were arrested following a confrontation with police officers in March 2004. Key statements in the re [...]	2005-03-21 02:28:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY307	CONSUL GENERAL FOCUSES ON ETHNIC MINORITY AND DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: A visit to the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kontum from March 15 to 17 reinforced our view that Gia Lai is taking serious steps to address socio-economic and religious issues affecting the provinces Montagnard minority. The Deputy Director of the province's Minist [...]	2005-03-23 11:00:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HOCHIMINHCITY324	EASTER CELEBRATIONS PEACEFUL IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Our contacts in the recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) and in the unofficial house church movement have told us that their Easter celebrations largely were peaceful throughout southern Vietnam, including the Central Highlands. Our contacts in the Central Highlands [...]	2005-03-28 10:20:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY325	HOA HAO ACTIVISTS PLAN PROTESTS IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: The California-based Hoa Hao Buddhist Organization, Phat Giao Hoa Hao, informed us on March 4 of the arrest of two Hoa Hao activists in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. They are being investigated for distributing audio-visual materials without proper licensing. In a foll [...]	2005-03-29 01:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY364	GVN BEGINS CONSULTATIONS ON DECREE ON RELIGION: FRICTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Contacts in the Protestant community report that central- and provincial-level officials have begun formal consultations on implementation of Vietnam's new legal framework on religion. The officially recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam has begun a training course f [...]	2005-04-08 00:48:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY379	MEETING WITH AMNESTIED UBCV ACTIVIST THICH THIEN MINH [...] (SBU) On April 9, we met with Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) monk Thich Thien Minh (aka Huynh Van Ba) who had been released from prison February 2 as part of the GVN's 2005 Tet amnesty (ref B). Thich Thien Minh was arrested and tried in 1979 for protesting the GVN confiscation of hi [...]	2005-04-11 12:24:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY383	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH HCMC DEPUTY PARTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) The Ambassador, accompanied the CG, PolOff and notetaker, met HCMC Deputy Party Secretary Le Hoang Quan at HCMC's Communist Party Headquarters on March 30. The Ambassador, noting the ongoing port call of the USS Gary to HCMC, said that he believed that the U.S.-Vietnam relationship had i [...]	2005-04-12 08:14:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI KIRF PHUM VM HUMANR HIV AIDS RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY396	APPEAL OF MENNONITE PASTOR QUANG AND MEDIA AFTERMATH [...] (SBU)Summary: On April 12, an HCMC Court denied an appeal to overturn the conviction and three-year sentence of Mennonite Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang. Quang's lawyer, Nguyen Van Dai, complained that the judge ignored his argument that Pastor Quang's "infractions" during a March 2004 altercation [...]	2005-04-14 08:20:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY398	SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, HIV/AIDS AND HCMC'S DRUG [...] (SBU) Summary. HCMC is struggling to provide effective substance abuse and medical treatment for injecting drug users, one of the principal vectors of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Vietnam. HCMC maintains 21 rehabilitation centers for roughly 30,000 drug addicts, who are administratively -- and oft [...]	2005-04-14 11:35:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI KHIV SNAR PHUM VM CNARC HIV AIDS
05HOCHIMINHCITY422	(SBU) GVN ADVISOR THANH ON PARTY REFORM, CHINA, CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Special Advisor to the Prime Minister in the South Vo Viet Thanh described for the Consul General on April 18 his frustrations with the pace and tenor of reform in Vietnam and outlined ideas for change, particularly within Vietnam's Communist Party (CPV). Thanh said [...]	2005-04-20 12:03:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR VM CH HUMANR ETMIN CVR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY428	HCMC: WILL LAND LAW CURB SPECULATION? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Vietnam's new land law is intended to stem rampant land speculation, which has been exacerbated by corruption and a lack of other investment alternatives. Domestic and foreign investors hope the new law and related decrees will make the market more transparent and stable, and m [...]	2005-04-22 03:27:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ECON PGOV SENV VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY433	MEETING WITH AMNESTIED HOA HAO ACTIVIST TRUONG VAN DUC [...] (SBU) We met with Hoa Hao activist Truong Van Duc on April 22 during a visit to the Mekong Delta. Duc was released from prison on February 1 as part of the GVN's 2005 Tet amnesty (ref A). He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in February 2001 for "causing social disturbance" and "obstructing [...]	2005-04-25 11:22:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY438	HOA HAO ACTIVISTS JAILED IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) On April 27, a district court in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang sentenced two Hoa Hao activists, brothers Tran Van Hoang and Tran Van Thang, to nine and six months prison respectively, for producing and distributing "illegal" recordings of the Hoa Hao faith. They also were fined [...]	2005-04-28 10:41:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY449	HCMC COMMEMORATES THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE [...] (SBU) Ho Chi Minh City threw an elaborate celebration to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the war and the reunification of the country. The cornerstone of the April 30th event was a three-hour parade followed by speeches from Communist Party national and city leaders. In the reviewing [...]	2005-05-04 12:56:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY451	HCMC CELEBRATES THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF THE [...] (U) Ho Chi Minh City threw an elaborate celebration to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the war and the reunification of the country. The cornerstone of the April 30th event was a three- hour parade followed by speeches from Communist Party national and city leaders. In the reviewing s [...]	2005-05-04 13:53:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR SOCI VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY493	THE HUMAN RIGHTS CASE OF VIETNAMESE PASTOR THAN VAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past two weeks ConGen HCMC has been investigating the case of Baptist Pastor Than Van Truong, who allegedly was involuntarily committed to an mental institution in Dong Nai province for the peaceful expression of his religious and political beliefs. Truong reportedly h [...]	2005-05-12 11:58:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY516	THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S VISIT TO HCMC: CHALLENGES AND [...] (SBU) Summary: During his visit to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) on May 6, the Deputy Secretary focused on the economic challenges and opportunities that lay ahead for HCMC, Vietnam's economic and financial locomotive. The U.S.-educated Vice-Chairman of HCMC's People's Committee told the Deputy Sec [...]	2005-05-18 13:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI EAID PINR OVIP VM WTO SOE LABOR IPROP
05HOCHIMINHCITY524	(SBU) HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH MISLEADING ON CENTRAL HIGHLANDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a briefing paper in May 2005 entitled "Persecution of the Montagnards Continues: Dega Christians targeted in latest crackdown." We have reached out to our contacts in the Protestant and Catholic communities in the Central Highlands. They can [...]	2005-05-20 06:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL KIRF ECON PGOV VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HOCHIMINHCITY525	MENNONITE TORTURE CLAIMS DO NOT APPEAR CREDIBLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Following her amnesty in late April, we met on May 10 with Mennonite activist Le Thi Hong Lien and her father (both strictly protect) to investigate claims that torture in prison led to her mental collapse. Our lengthy interviews of Lien and her father and follow-up discussions [...]	2005-05-20 10:00:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY534	AVIAN FLU IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM: COMPLACENCY SETS IN [...] (U) Summary: Although avian influenza continues to pose a serious medical and economic risk to Vietnam since the most recent outbreak in December 2004, average Vietnamese citizens in southern and central Vietnam have modified neither their diet nor their livelihood, continuing to eat and rais [...]	2005-05-24 01:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR KPAO SENV PGOV SOCI VM AFLU
05HOCHIMINHCITY55	VIETNAM'S PRESS PUSHES BACK AFTER REPORTER'S ARREST [...] (SBU) Summary. The recent indictment of an investigative journalist triggered a media-backlash from her newspaper, other major HCMC news outlets, legal experts, and the general public -- much to the surprise of the Communist Party and the Ministry of Public Security (MPS). It is unclear if th [...]	2005-01-15 10:17:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO PHUM SOCI PREL VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY58	AVIAN FLU: FRESH OUTBREAK IN SOUTHERN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Since the end of December 2004, Vietnam's southern provinces have experienced a renewed outbreak of avian flu. Southern provincial authorities have issued a ban on the transport of poultry and poultry products within and out of disease-stricken areas. Chicken is disappearing fr [...]	2005-01-19 23:54:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR KPAO SENV PGOV SOCI VM AFLU
05HOCHIMINHCITY581	MOUNTING CONCERNS ABOUT PASTOR TRAN VAN TRUONG [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 27, we traveled to the province of Dong Nai to meet with provincial and medical officials regarding Pastor Than Van Truong. Per reftel, Truong was diagnosed as "delusional" and involuntarily committed to a mental institution after a series of run-ins with police, largely [...]	2005-06-01 12:18:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY586	MEETING WITH ACTIVIST FATHER NGUYEN VAN LY [...] (SBU) Summary: In his first meeting with U.S. officials since his release from prison in February, democracy and religious freedom activist Father Nguyen Van Ly told us that he would continue to oppose Communist rule in Vietnam. Ly expressed skepticism that the GVN would faithfully implement [...]	2005-06-02 11:20:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY594	VIETNAM BUSINESS FORUM: WTO AND ENTERPRISE CONCERNS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Vietnamese and foreign business leaders highlighted the continued need for infrastructure development and legal reform at the Vietnam Business Forum, the biannual meeting between the business community and the GVN. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan, who led the GVN's delegation to [...]	2005-06-06 03:46:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV VM WTRO WTO
05HOCHIMINHCITY600	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: VIETNAM'S HOA HAO UNDER PRESSURE [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent spike in tensions between Hoa Hao dissidents and police in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang highlights the divisions in Vietnam's Hoa Hao community between the GVN-controlled Executive Committee of Hoa Hao Buddhism (ECHB) and independent, unrecognized groups. The f [...]	2005-06-07 04:14:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY609	HUE DEMONSTRATES PROGRESS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent visit to Hue, Catholic and Protestant leaders painted a picture of an increasingly tolerant provincial leadership. Overall, they have made more tangible progress in urban areas than in the rural hinterland. There is budding cooperation between religious groups [...]	2005-06-09 01:23:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HIV AIDS
05HOCHIMINHCITY623	HUE DEMONSTRATES PROGRESS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent visit to Hue, Catholic and Protestant leaders painted a picture of an increasingly tolerant provincial leadership. Overall, they have made more tangible progress in urban areas than in the rural hinterland. There is budding cooperation between religious groups [...]	2005-06-09 07:23:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY634	VIETNAM'S LARGEST PROTESTANT GROUP REPORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) were cautiously optimistic that a meetings in Hanoi and HCMC with GVN officials in late May set the stage for improved conditions for the Protestant Church, particularly in the Central Highlands. While the SECV is di [...]	2005-06-14 13:56:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY636	VIETNAM'S LARGEST PROTESTANT GROUP REPORTS PROGRESS AFTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) were cautiously optimistic that a meetings in Hanoi and HCMC with GVN officials in late May set the stage for improved conditions for the Protestant Church, particularly in the Central Highlands. While the SECV is di [...]	2005-06-14 13:57:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR ETMIN RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY667	PAROCHIALISM AND THE STATE SECTOR LIMIT HUE'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Party and local government leaders of the central Vietnam province of Thua Thien Hue extolled the economic potential of the province to Consul General May 23-24. The potential is clearly there -- Hue has the attributes to become a tourism and knowledge-based economy leader. Ho [...]	2005-06-16 10:23:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV PREL SOCI ETRD PHUM VM SOE
05HOCHIMINHCITY687	UPDATE ON IMPRISONED MENNONITE PASTOR NGUYEN HONG QUANG [...] (SBU) Le Thi Phu Dung, wife of imprisoned Mennonite pastor Nguyen Hong Quang, told us June 23 that she has just returned from visiting her husband in his new prison in Dak Lak Province. Quang was transferred from Bo La prison in Binh Duong Province, adjacent to Ho Chi Minh City, to Dac Trung [...]	2005-06-24 02:27:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY739	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: CAO DAI: PRIEST OR PUPPETS? [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the GVN-recognized Tay Ninh Cao Dai sect, a once anti-Communist, autonomous religious and social organization, maintain that they have an excellent relationship with the GVN. They praised the GVN for its support of the Cao Dai religion and said the new legal framework [...]	2005-07-14 00:36:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS SOCI KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY786	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: "WAIT AND SEE" IN TAY NINH PROVINCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Religious leaders in Tay Ninh Province stated the Ordinance on Religion has made a positive difference in their relationship with provincial and local authorities. While generally optimistic, their sentiments were dampened by doubts about the effectiveness of the new legal frame [...]	2005-07-25 10:39:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY811	UNHCR REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE UTKAN VIEWS ON EVE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: In HCMC before his August 2-4 visit to the Central Highlands, UNHCR Regional Representative Utkan, accompanied by Hanoi-based UNHCR representative Vu Anh Son, told ConGenOffs that cooperation with the GVN on issues related to the return of ethnic minority refugees from Cambodia [...]	2005-08-02 11:02:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF SOCI PREL PGOV CB VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY816	PASTOR TRUONG STILL IN THE ASYLUM -- ACTION REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request which has been cleared by Embassy Hanoi. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Baptist Pastor Than Van Truong remains confined in the criminal ward of Central Mental Hospital #2 in Dong Nai province with no resolution of his case in sight. Over the past month, D [...]	2005-08-04 09:44:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY818	(SBU) AMBASSADOR MEETS DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST NGUYEN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a private meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, democracy activist Nguyen Dan Que told the Ambassador that there has been a gradual expansion of personal freedoms in Vietnam. The visit of Prime Minister Phan Van Khai to the United States has strengthened the hand of "liberals" within [...]	2005-08-05 11:54:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY825	VIOLENCE FLARES BETWEEN POLICE AND HOA HAO IN MEKONG [...] (SBU) Summary: A day of violence involving police and Hoa Hao Buddhist adherents in the Mekong Delta included numerous arrests and two self-immolations in An Giang province, one resulting in an adherent's death. We have urged local officials to avoid taking actions that would further stir up [...]	2005-08-08 10:34:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY846	TENSIONS CONTINUE BETWEEN HOA HAO AND MEKONG DELTA [...] (SBU) Summary: Tensions between Hoa Hao activists and authorities in An Giang and Dong Thap provinces remain high a week after two activists self-immolated in response to police raids on their homes. Police remain camped outside the homes of select Hoa Hao leaders, and as many as 25 more follo [...]	2005-08-12 13:14:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY847	MENNONITE PASTOR REPORTS ON DISSENTING MEMBERS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with PolOffs, Pastor Nguyen Quang Trung, president of the Vietnam Mennonite Church (VMC),characterized relations as amiable between his church and government officials at central and provincial levels. Trung claims to represent the entirety of the 8,000-strong Menn [...]	2005-08-13 09:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY855	AVIAN FLU IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Experts in southern Vietnam have begun to prepare for the possibility of an avian influenza (AI) outbreak during the cool season of December-February by focusing on poultry biosafety and vaccinations. ConGen contacts report that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural`QQ$Qpment h [...]	2005-08-16 00:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON AMED TBIO CASC PGOV SENV SOCI VM AFLU
05HOCHIMINHCITY86	VIETNAM MENNONITE TORTURE CLAIMS UNCONVINCING [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. and Canada-based religious groups published reports claiming that two Vietnamese Mennonite Church members were tortured throughout their nine-month prison term. These reports claimed that the two are under medial treatment for severe physical trauma, including potentially l [...]	2005-01-24 08:36:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY872	ATTEMPTED SELF-IMMOLATION IN FRONT OF CONGEN HCMC [...] (SBU) At approximately 0900 local time, August 19, an unidentified man, dressed in street clothes, collapsed a short distance from the main entrance of the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. The Consulate local guards rushed to assist, and found that the person's clothes were doused with gas [...]	2005-08-19 09:13:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV ASEC KIRF VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY878	HOA HAO ATTEMPTED SELF-IMMOLATION FOLLOW-UP [...] (SBU) Further to the attempted self-immolation in front of the Consulate earlier in the day, Hoa Hao dissidents Truong Van Duc and Le Quang Liem contacted ConGenOffs again within minutes of each other around 1500h to discuss the incident. Duc told us that his Hoa Hao "contacts" in the Mekong [...]	2005-08-19 09:53:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF ASEC VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY886	HCMC POLICE RELEASE ATTEMPTED SELF-IMMOLATION [...] (SBU) HCMC police contacts told RSO on August 23 that they had just released from custody the individual who attempted self- immolation in front of the Consulate on August 19 (ref A). They refused to divulge any details on the individual, other than reiterating that he was "mentally unstable. [...]	2005-08-23 09:42:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF ASEC VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY891	AVIAN FLU: POULTRY VACCINATION BEGINS IN TIEN GIANG [...] (SBU) Summary: A ConGen visit to southern Tien Giang Province provided insights into the way in which Vietnam is handling poultry vaccinations as a means of halting the spread of avian influenza. Tien Giang is one of two provinces nation-wide that will serve as a starting point for the GVN' [...]	2005-08-23 23:51:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON AMED TBIO CASC PGOV SENV SOCI VM AFLU
05HOCHIMINHCITY894	AMBASSADOR'S ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During a mid-August visit to Vietnam's central coastal provinces of Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam and Danang, the Ambassador told provincial leaders that continued reform and privatization were essential for strong economic growth. The Ambassador also focused on MIA issues and lo [...]	2005-08-24 10:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON KIRF PREL SOCI KHIV SNAR PHUM VM
05HOCHIMINHCITY896	AMBASSADOR MEETS DISSIDENT BUDDHIST LEADER [...] (SBU) Summary: At an August 13 meeting with Thich Thien Hanh, the senior-most member of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) in Hue, the Ambassador encouraged Hanh and the UBCV to seek to regularize their legal status. Hanh said the UBCV could envision working with the GVN, but onl [...]	2005-08-24 23:55:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HOCHIMINHCITY910	REPORTS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VIOLATIONS IN QUANG NGAI [...] (SBU) Following up on an earlier lead from a reliable contact in the Protestant house church movement, on August 22 we spoke with Dinh Ruong (strictly protect),a preacher in Quang Ngai Province of the GVN-recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV). Ruong reported that an SECV ch [...]	2005-08-26 10:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY924	MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY IN HCMC SEEKS POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff (accompanied by RSO) was invited to a first-ever meeting at HCMC's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) headquarters at which officials made a pitch for greater cooperation between the MPS and ConGen on political issues. The clear implication was that this cooperation was p [...]	2005-09-01 08:41:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PINR PREL SOCI KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR CTERR
05HOCHIMINHCITY949	PROBLEMS IN HCMC EXPAT PROTESTANT CHURCH [...] (SBU) Summary: The New Life Fellowship Church (NLF),a Protestant church in HCMC that has served primarily the expatriate community, has run afoul of Vietnamese authorities, apparently due in part to the church's recent outreach to Vietnamese citizens. Working with the church's leader and local [...]	2005-09-08 11:15:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY962	RESULTS OF USG REFUGEE MONITORING VISIT TO GIA LAI [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on interviews and observations during a visit to Gia Lai Province September 6-8, a joint Hanoi-HCMC team found no indications of mistreatment or discrimination against the 18 returnees interviewed. Although a number of returnees raised grievances related to GVN policies [...]	2005-09-12 11:16:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
05HOCHIMINHCITY968	GIA LAI AND DAK LAK PROVINCES ON DIFFERENT PATHS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: During a visit to Gia Lai Province September 6- 8 to assess the conditions of ethnic minority returnees, Gia Lai officials enumerated the various steps they are taking to normalize the status of Protestant churches in the province, in particular the GVN-recognized Southern Evang [...]	2005-09-14 07:27:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY984	SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AND HIV/AIDS IN HCMC (UPDATE) [...] (SBU) The visit of an INL-led team to HCMC underscored the need for new approaches in drug rehabilitation and in HCMC's 20 drug rehabilitation centers. HCMC is still struggling to provide effective substance abuse and medical treatment for the 30,000 injecting drug users and commercial sex wor [...]	2005-09-16 07:38:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI SNAR PHUM VM KHIV CNARC HIV AIDS RELFREE
05HOCHIMINHCITY994	PASTOR TRUONG RELEASED FROM THE ASYLUM WITH STRINGS [...] (SBU) The lawyer representing Pastor Than Van Truong informed us on September 17 that Dong Nai officials earlier that day had released Truong from the mental hospital to which he had been involuntarily committed for nearly a year. On September 17 and again on September 19, we spoke with Truon [...]	2005-09-20 04:11:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
05HONGKONG1444	ACTING CE TSANG PLAYING DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary and comment/suggestion: On March 17, I met Hong Kong Acting Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang to convey U.S. concern about the rule of law in Hong Kong (ref a). Tsang insisted that the Hong Kong Government (HKG) had reached its position on the two/five year question through commo [...]	2005-03-17 09:33:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HK CH
05HONGKONG1769	ACTING CE TSANG SEEKS U.S. UNDERSTANDING [...] (C) Acting Chief Executive (A/CE) Tsang called me late April 6 to provide background regarding the Hong Kong Government's (HKG) decision to initiate a request for an interpretation to settle the issue of the duration of the term of the CE to be elected in July of this year. He said that a br [...]	2005-04-06 10:55:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL CH HK
05HONGKONG4611	HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE DONALD TSANG LOOKS AHEAD [...] (C) At lunch with me on October 3, Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang looked ahead to the Government's Policy Address on October 12, its upcoming proposals for political reform, and his visit to the U.S. at the end of October. With the policy and political reform issues out in the open, he hop [...]	2005-10-03 09:06:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CH HK
05ISLAMABAD15278	TFPK01: PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE -- DISASTER RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: The Government of Pakistan (GOP) now has a firmer grasp on managing relief efforts, but still faces coordination problems between its civilian and military leaders. The Prime Minister's coordination center is considering a USG proposal to have embassy liaison [...]	2005-10-12 02:20:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PK PREL PAS
05ISLAMABAD15286	TFPK01: POLITICAL PARTIES AND MILITANT [...] (U) Summary: Pakistan's political parties are mobilizing their own relief/recovery operations for victims of the South Asian earthquake. All have promised to send funds, supplies, and teams to the affected areas and several are setting-up independent relief camps. In addition, Kashmiri mil [...]	2005-10-12 09:23:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID MOPS PK
05ISLAMABAD15316	TFPK01 - PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: RELIEF OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Relief supplies and assistance teams are beginning to reach affected areas even as transportation remains a serious on-going problem. There is great concern that deteriorating weather conditions -- snow has already begun falling in parts of Kashmir -- may exace [...]	2005-10-12 16:00:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD15463	POLITICAL FALLOUT FROM DISASTER RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary: The GOP and the Pakistan military have faced substantial media and public criticism, much of it unjustified, for their perceived ineffectiveness in earthquake response. Musharraf's public address on October 12, a damage control exercise, was overshadowed by continued media images [...]	2005-10-14 09:54:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID MASS PK
05ISLAMABAD15513	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: RELIEF MOVING FORWARD [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Relief efforts in Pakistan are pushing forward, as the government begins to implement a coherent Concept of Operations for managing its response to the crisis. The U.S. has received diplomatic clearance to double its milair relief flights into Islamabad, and a [...]	2005-10-14 14:29:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PK MASS PARM AEMR ASEC PGOV AADP CASC AID
05ISLAMABAD15518	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: SURVEY TRIP TO MUZZAFARABAD [...] Summary: A USG survey team consisting of personnel from State, USAID, and DOD visited Muzzafarabad and surrounding areas of Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) from October 11-13. During the visit, the team met with officials from the local and AJK government, the Pakistani military, and relief workers [...]	2005-10-15 08:59:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD15522	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: ONE WEEK LATER [...] (C) Summary and introduction: One week after the October 8 South Asian earthquake, public and private relief operations on the ground are pushing forward. The Government of Pakistan's (GOP) strategic concept of operations for the relief campaign, however, continues to evolve, with the Army' [...]	2005-10-16 05:35:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS MOPS PGOV PK PREL
05ISLAMABAD15531	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: UNHCR PLANS FOR CAMPS AND [...] The October 8, 2005 magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Pakistan left an estimated 3.3 million people without shelter (UN Office of Humanitarian Coordinator, October 15). Providing temporary shelter from them remains a top priority of the international assistance effort and the government of Pakist [...]	2005-10-16 12:23:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR EAID MASS PARM PGOV PK PREL AID UN
05ISLAMABAD15555	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION [...] From October 13 to 15, the USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) conducted an assessment in Muzaffarabad. The USAID/DART,s assessments confirmed that winterized tents are the priority in earthquake affected areas. The health cluster estimates that 67,000 persons are in need of imme [...]	2005-10-17 08:16:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR ASEC EAID ECON KMDR KPAO MASS OIIP OPRC PGOV PK PREL
05ISLAMABAD15677	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: ONLY MINOR MISSTEPS IN [...] (U) In the days since a violent 7.6 earthquake rocked northern Pakistan at 0853 October 8th, the Pakistan military has responded to the national crisis with valor and dedication. Army helicopters were in the air less than two hours after the quake struck, flying reconnaissance missions over [...]	2005-10-19 07:44:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PK MASS AEMR PREF ASEC PGOV EAID
05ISLAMABAD15730	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] The U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that there are 100,000 to 250,000 people who are not receiving relief in remote areas. UNICEF will be assessing these un-accessed areas. The Government of Pakistan (GOP) requested that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) establish camps [...]	2005-10-20 01:55:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD15731	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: AN OPEN DOOR TO KASHMIR? [...] (C) Summary: During an October 18 press conference, President Musharraf sent out a trial balloon on Kashmir, announcing that Pakistan would allow Kashmiri civilians--including Kashmiri politicians--from across the LOC to come to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) to meet relatives and assist in rec [...]	2005-10-20 01:56:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PREL PGOV IN
05ISLAMABAD15736	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: PUBLIC REACTION TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) Summary: Public criticism of the Government of Pakistan's (GOP) relief operations continues. Media images of angry survivors still waiting for adequate relief, coupled with often-inaccurate and inflamatory editorials are fueling this resentment. Opposition parties have seized on this c [...]	2005-10-20 05:29:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD15766	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] The Government of Pakistan (GOP) estimates that the earthquake killed 41,121 people and injured 67,634 others, and these numbers are likely to increase. The USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) reports that the GOP has made a credible effort to respond to the earthquake given [...]	2005-10-20 11:37:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD15769	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: ISLAMIST AND EXTREMIST [...] (S) Summary: Islamist parties, clergy, and militant/extremist groups are using the Kashmir earthquake to strengthen their public image in affected areas...and to raise money. Member parties of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) are engaged in independent relief efforts through their charitable [...]	2005-10-20 13:07:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREL PTER PK

05ISLAMABAD15860	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] On October 21, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that 62,000 tents were delivered to Pakistan by the international community and 50,000 tents have been delivered by the Government of Pakistan (GOP). IOM further stated that there are currently 194,000 tents available [...]	2005-10-22 18:09:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD15862	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: KARZAI TO MAKE CONDOLENCE [...] (C) On October 21, the Afghan Embassy confirmed to post that AfghQsident Karzai plans to make a short condolence visit to Pakistan on Monday, October 24. According to Afghan Ambassador Tarzi, President Karzai will call on President Musharraff and PM Aziz, followed by a press event. The Paki [...]	2005-10-22 18:09:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PK PGOV AF
05ISLAMABAD15950	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: WHAT THE U.S. MUST ACCOMPLISH IN GENEVA [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-24 12:34:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS MOPS PGOV PK PREF PREL
05ISLAMABAD15959	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: KASHMIRI GOVERNMENT VIEWED AS [...] (C) Summary: The autonomous Government of Azad Jammu Kashmir (GAJK) has played virtually no role in earthquake relief. Its bureaucracy was devastated along with the capital of Muzzafarabad, while its political leadership (most of which was in Islamabad at the time of the earthquake) has been [...]	2005-10-24 12:57:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16024	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) continues to facilitate the movement of excess U.S. military commodities to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for distribution in affected areas. The USAID/DART observed market activity and the delivery of food stocks to private busines [...]	2005-10-25 09:58:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16025	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) continues to facilitate the movement of excess U.S. military commodities to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for distribution in affected areas. The USAID/DART observed market activity and the delivery of food stocks to private busines [...]	2005-10-25 09:59:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16051	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: MBS GEARING UP FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the detailed needs assessment is just beginning, multilateral development banks (MDBs) are trying to come up with funds to support reconstruction needs following Pakistan's October 8 earthquake. The World Bank board will vote October 25 on a $200 million package of e [...]	2005-10-25 11:31:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PREF PK
05ISLAMABAD16063	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) On October 25, Ambassador received USN VADM Stufflebeam, commander of the NATO team visiting Islamabad to coordinate NATO's earthquake relief deployment to Pakistan. VADM Stufflebeam told Ambassador that he would only be on the ground in Pakistan for the time necessary to conduct a Comma [...]	2005-10-26 02:09:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PK MASS PGOV EAID AEMR ASEC NATO UN
05ISLAMABAD16073	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] From October 22 to 23, a team of three Foreign Service nationals from USAID/Pakistan conducted an assessment in Muzaffarabad and several villages that were affected by the earthquake. The team visited Muzaffarabad city, Shaeed Gali, Hasan Gali, Jabbi Haider Shah, Lamian Battian, and Gari Hab [...]	2005-10-26 11:23:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16138	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] As of October 25, the death toll in Pakistan reached 53,000, and the total affected population was between 2.7 and 2.8 million people. Shelter continues to be the primary need of those affected by the earthquake. The Government of Pakistan (GOP) continues to monitor the water and sanitation [...]	2005-10-28 01:50:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16139	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] As of October 25, the death toll in Pakistan reached 53,000, and the total affected population was between 2.7 and 2.8 million people. Shelter continues to be the primary need of those affected by the earthquake. The Government of Pakistan (GOP) continues to monitor the water and sanitation [...]	2005-10-28 01:50:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16140	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: PARTS SHORTAGE MAY SOON [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Since October 8, Pakistan's Army Aviation has kept its fleet of heavy-lift MI-17 helicopters in the air flying daily sorties transporting relief supplies to areas devastated the South Asian earthquake. To accomplish this dramatic shift in its mission, reourcef [...]	2005-10-28 01:51:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PK PREL
05ISLAMABAD16190	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: UN TRYING TO GET UP TO SPEED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission staff with direct interaction with the UN's earthquake relief effort - from the team leader for USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to emboffs attending UN sectoral cluster groups -- characterize the UN response thus far as "a day late and a dollar short," wit [...]	2005-10-31 01:34:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR EAGR EAID ECIN ECON MASS PGOV PK PREF PREL SENV AESC UN
05ISLAMABAD16220	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION [...] The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) reports that the Government of Pakistan (GOP) is increasingly open to non-tent shelter alternatives. In Muzaffarabad, the U.N. Children,s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that it has met 80 to 90 percent of SPHERE standards for water. The GOP h [...]	2005-10-31 04:54:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16473	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF [...] (C) The isolation of many areas impacted by the October 8 earthquake has long afforded Islamist politicians and conservative religious clerics an uncritical audience for their at times extremist worldviews, in which America (or the West) as enemy of Islam featured prominently. Anecdotal evide [...]	2005-11-04 02:19:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREL PK PAS
05ISLAMABAD16474	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] From October 30 to 31, the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) Economic and Livelihoods Advisor (ELO),Program Officer (PO),Water and Sanitation Officer (WSO),Shelter and Settlements Advisor (SSA),Earthquake Expert (EE),Military Liaison Officer (MLO),Field Officer (FO),[...]	2005-11-04 02:24:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16553	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: A VISIT TO BATTGRAM [...] (C) Forward Operating Base Mansehra Officer-in-Charge and Econoffs visited Battgram district on November 5. Settlement patterns have complicated relief as damage is spread across mountain villages with low population densities. Interlocutors were concerned for villages in the Allai tehsil, [...]	2005-11-07 13:02:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID MASS MOPS PGOV PK PTER ECON PREF ASEC
05ISLAMABAD16577	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: A VISIT TO BATTGRAM [...] (C) Forward Operating Base Mansehra Officer-in-Charge and Econoffs visited Battgram district on November 5. Settlement patterns have complicated relief as damage is spread across mountain villages with low population densities. Interlocutors were concerned for villages in the Allai tehsil, [...]	2005-11-08 08:00:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID MASS MOPS PGOV PK PTER ECON PREF ASEC
05ISLAMABAD16641	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: PROTECTION SECTOR REPORT [...] Due to the enormity and complexity of this emergency and the major focus on providing shelter to villages in the mountains, it has been extremely difficult to monitor relief distributions in order to ensure that vulnerable populations, including those without effective male protection, are id [...]	2005-11-09 06:05:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16643	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF [...] As of November 2, approximately 981,800 affected beneficiaries in Pakistan are receiving food aid. This is 98% of the 1 million caseload identified by the U.N. World Food Program (WFP). WFP's recent assessment estimates more than 2.3 million people are in need of food aid. Various non-gove [...]	2005-11-09 06:07:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC EAGR PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16741	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: FIELD VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] From November 2 through 9, Deputy Director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Greg Gottlieb visited Pakistan to work with USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) on developing programming and staffing plans for next approximately 150 days of the earthquake emerg [...]	2005-11-10 09:12:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16819	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] On November 5, Deputy Director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Greg Gottlieb, accompanied by the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART),traveled to earthquake-affected areas. The group met with implementing partners and members of the Government of Pakistan [...]	2005-11-12 07:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16827	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: THE ROLE OF NGOS IN THE [...] The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) subscribes to the overall Government of Pakistan (GOP) Federal Relief Commission (FRC) strategy that primary focus at this stage in the relief effort should be placed on providing in-situ shelter and food security support for earthquake-affec [...]	2005-11-14 02:13:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16834	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION [...] On November 6, the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) met with representatives of all seven implementing partners in Pakistan. On November 7, Deputy Director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Greg Gottlieb and USAID/DART staff met with Kevin Kennedy, the ne [...]	2005-11-14 04:04:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16850	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: KAGHAN AND ALLAI VALLEYS [...] Summary: A team from the Embassy's Forward Operating Base in Mansehra (Officer-in-Charge (OIC),USAID/DART Field Officer, U.S. Military Liaison Officer) and representatives of five USAID-funded NGOs visited the Northern Kaghan and Allai Valleys on November 9. In both areas, Pakistan military [...]	2005-11-14 11:25:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS MOPS ECON PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16875	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: AREAS IN MANSEHRA DISTRICT [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Forward Operating Base - Mansehra Officer-in-Charge (OIC) and Emboff accompanied NWFP Parliament minority leader on a November 7 tour of Mansehra tehsil. During the visit, it became clear that relief was not reaching several areas damaged by the October 8 earthquake. R [...]	2005-11-14 12:38:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON ASEC AEMR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD16881	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART WATER AND [...] From October 19 through November 13, a water and sanitation officer (WSO) was deployed to Pakistan as part of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART). Through numerous trips through affected areas; assessments, and interviews with representatives of non-governmental organizations [...]	2005-11-15 01:55:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD17384	PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: THE SITUATION IN KOHISTAN [...] Summary: Southern Kohistan fared somewhat better than neighboring provinces during the October 8 earthquake with only two subdistricts affected and comparatively less damage. In terms of assistance, however, the 50-55% of the affected areas, population left homeless have fared far worse. Onl [...]	2005-11-25 08:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD17421	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] With the onset of winter, some Pakistanis living at higher elevations are beginning to relocate temporarily to lower elevations. The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) has received reports, however, of people moving not just from the mountains to camps at lower elevations, but als [...]	2005-11-25 11:44:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD17426	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART ECONOMICS AND [...] Immediately following the October 8 earthquake, relief agencies concentrated efforts on providing affected populations with urgently needed humanitarian assistance and shelter to assure survival during the upcoming winter months. The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team's (DART) program ha [...]	2005-11-25 15:12:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD17557	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT [...] In October 2005, the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) reported that preliminary assessments by the UN World Food Program (WFP) estimated more than 2.3 million Pakistanis in need of food assistance per reftel. At that time, several NGOs suggested this figure was too high, but mor [...]	2005-11-28 13:25:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD17621	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: ONGOING NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR [...] With the onset of winter, relief activities are moving into a critical stage where the needs of the earthquake- affected populations must be met efficiently and quickly. The difficulty of this task has been exacerbated by the changing climatic conditions, which are significantly altering the n [...]	2005-11-29 14:08:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD17623	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: ONGOING NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR [...] With the onset of winter, relief activities are moving into a critical stage where the needs of the earthquake- affected populations must be met efficiently and quickly. The difficulty of this task has been exacerbated by the changing climatic conditions, which are significantly altering the n [...]	2005-11-29 18:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD17711	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART COLLABORATION [...] Coordinating relief efforts and ensuring that USAID implementing partners reach populations in need without duplicating efforts are significant aspects of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team's (DART) work. Given the difficulties of this humanitarian operation, there is a need for coll [...]	2005-12-01 08:05:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD17853	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART USING GIS TO [...] Since the beginning of the earthquake response, the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) has included a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Officer. The GIS Officer, currently from the U.S. Department of State's Humanitarian Information Unit, regularly prepares maps and informatio [...]	2005-12-02 08:33:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD18030	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: UN CREATES ANOTHER MEDIA [...] On December 3, 2005, the UN Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator (UNHC) in Pakistan stated that the relief effort is on a knife,s edge and called for increased donor support for the USD 550 million UN Flash Appeal. Local and international media picked up on the UNHC,s remarks a [...]	2005-12-06 07:56:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK UN
05ISLAMABAD18159	CORRECTED COPY -- PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE: UN CREATES [...] On December 3, 2005, the UN Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator (UNHC) in Pakistan stated that the relief effort is on a knife,s edge and called for increased donor support for the USD 550 million UN Flash Appeal. Local and international media picked up on the UNHC,s remarks a [...]	2005-12-07 12:45:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK UN
05ISLAMABAD18328	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART BOLSTERS SHELTER [...] The rapid onset of the Himalayan winter has brought greater urgency to efforts to winterize shelters of earthquake-affected populations. Agencies are stepping up efforts to ensure that families receive adequate winterization materials and tools, including blankets and plastic sheeting to rein [...]	2005-12-09 14:19:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD18492	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART MONITORS [...] On December 11, 2005, the US Military provided helicopter transport to Pashtu and Gangwal villages in the remote earthquake-affected Allai Valley for three USAID/DART members, the Commander of the 3rd Marine Hospital Shinkiari and Mansehra, and the US Embassy's Mansehra Forward Operating Base [...]	2005-12-13 04:28:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD18810	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: CONFUSION OVER WFP AND GOP [...] On December 1, 2005 the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) and the Government of Pakistan (GOP) implemented a new division of geographic responsibilities to distribute food to approximately 2.3 million people in the earthquake-affected areas of Northern Pakistan. The GOP requested that WFP move it [...]	2005-12-16 13:57:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISLAMABAD19100	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: UN PERFORMANCE SHOWS [...] More than two months into the earthquake relief effort, the UN has made some improvements in response to early criticisms of start-up delays and performance issues reported in ref A. However, a lack of overall UN leadership, poor coordination, and insufficient staff continues to undermine the [...]	2005-12-21 13:25:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK UN
05ISLAMABAD19471	PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART WATER AND [...] The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) water and sanitation officer (WSO) in Mansehra is addressing critical sanitation and water supply issues in Mehra and other camps, and providing technical assistance to agencies working in earthquake-affected areas of Northwest Frontier Provin [...]	2005-12-29 05:03:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
05ISTANBUL1	TURKEY GETS A DATE FROM THE EU, ISTANBUL REACTS [...] (u) Summary: The December 17 EU decision to begin membership negotiations with Turkey in October 2005 was greeted in Istanbul with a mixture of relieved satisfaction and lingering skepticism. Following the initial euphoria after the decision was announced, some Turks in academic circles alrea [...]	2005-01-03 10:03:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EU TU
05ISTANBUL1199	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH: FRUSTRATED WITH GOT INERTIA [...] (C) Summary: In a July 11 introductory call with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Charge reaffirmed USG support for religious pluralism and freedom in Turkey, for the re-opening of the Halki seminary on Heybeli Island, and for Turkey's EU accession process as the best way forward for achiev [...]	2005-07-13 11:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1333	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH: KINALIADA CONTROVERSY BOILS [...] (C) Summary: Controversy flared this week between the GOT and the Ecumenical Patriarch after Turkish bureaucrats delayed the opening of a longstanding youth summer camp at a monastery on Kinali Island in an attempt to force church officials to recognize state seizure of that property. Church [...]	2005-08-03 16:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU OSCE
05ISTANBUL1359	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE RAISES SPECIFIC CONCERNS [...] (C) In a July 11 meeting with Charge (ref A),Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew offered to share with us upon his return the points discussed during his July 11-12 discussions in Brussels with EU officials, including European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and EU Enlargement Commissio [...]	2005-08-09 11:51:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE
05ISTANBUL1420	CHP DISSIDENTS: VOICES FROM ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: Discontent among "dissidents" within the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) (ref A) continues to fester in Istanbul. The party's July 31 Istanbul Congress, which began in fisticuffs, left the provincial party apparatus firmly in the hands of supporters of CHP Chairman D [...]	2005-08-18 15:06:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ISTANBUL147	INTERNECINE WARFARE THREATENS TO SPLIT OPPOSITION [...] (sbu) Summary: Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Deniz Baykal and Sisli Mayor Mustafa Sarigul are set for a collision course at the upcoming January 29-30 party congress. Efforts by Istanbul MP Zulfu Livaneli and CHP delegate Hursit Gunes to present themselves as compromise candidates [...]	2005-01-28 17:43:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ISTANBUL1495	ISTANBUL BOMBING TRIAL POSTPONED [...] (U) 30 of the 71 defendants in the November 2003 Istanbul bombings were brought before Istanbul's Heavy Penal Court (Agir Ceza Mahkemesi) No. 10 for their closing statements on August 27. Their lawyers reiterated that the attacks were not targeted at the Turkish Republic but at the US and its [...]	2005-08-29 15:10:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV PREL PTER TU
05ISTANBUL1506	DAS BRYZA'S ISTANBUL MEETINGS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Istanbul Chief Rabbi Isak Haleva on August 24, visiting EUR DAS Matthew Bryza strongly reaffirmed USG support for religious freedom and pluralism in Turkey and stressed that the subject will remain front and center in o [...]	2005-08-31 12:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1556	HIZB-UT TAHRIR ACTIVE IN ISTANBUL [...] (U) Members of the radical Islamic organization Hizb-ut Tahrir (HT) staged a protest and delivered a press statement after Friday prayers at Fatih Mosque in Istanbul on September 2. Calling for the the reinstatement of the Caliphate, HT's putative leader in Turkey, Yilmaz Celik, reportedly c [...]	2005-09-09 14:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PHUM PINS PTER TU
05ISTANBUL1557	TROUBLE IN PARADISE AS EXAGGERATED HARASSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Within weeks of Western press reports hailing them as a haven of tolerance and a lingering reflection of Istanbul's historic but much diminished diversity, Istanbul's Princes' Islands have again been in the news in recent days as a result of allegations by a local human rights g [...]	2005-09-09 14:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1577	SDIF CHIEF REVIEWS A SUCCESSFUL BUT TURBULENT YEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation with visiting Ankara Econ Counselor and Istanbul P/E Chief, the Chairman of Turkey's Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (SDIF),Ahmet Erturk, reviewed his organization's progress in recouping Turkey's losses from the 2001 banking crisis. Noting that th [...]	2005-09-15 09:07:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV CASC TU
05ISTANBUL1579	INTROSPECTION AND SCUFFLES MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY [...] (SBU) Summary: In contrast to its indifferent approach to earlier anniversaries, Istanbul marked the 50th anniversary of the infamous 1955 riots that sounded the death knell for its once vibrant Greek Orthodox community with exhibits, panels, and a flurry of media attention. Interest focuse [...]	2005-09-15 09:46:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU
05ISTANBUL1628	ISTANBUL VATICAN REPRESENTATIVE SANGUINE ABOUT GOT [...] (C) In the Consul General's September 21 introductory call on Istanbul Apostolic Vicar Monsignor Georges Marovitch, Marovitch indicated that the Vatican is satisfied with the GOT's invitation to Pope Benedict XVI to visit Turkey in 2006. (Note: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I had invited [...]	2005-09-22 13:53:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1655	ISTANBUL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT BLOCKS "ALTERNATIVE [...] (U) This is an action message, see para 13. 2. (SBU) Summary: In a controversial decision unveiled just hours before the start of the "Alternative Armenian Conference," at which independent-minded speakers planned to challenge Turkish orthodoxy about the massacre of Armenians in 1915, an [...]	2005-09-23 18:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM
05ISTANBUL1680	"ALTERNATIVE ARMENIAN CONFERENCE" GOES FORWARD [...] (U) Summary: The "Alternative Armenian Conference" (on Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire) unfolded without incident on September 24 and 25 at a campus of its third organizer, Bilgi University, less than 48 hours after an Istanbul court had attempted to block it. Foreign Minister Gul, who, [...]	2005-09-27 16:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM
05ISTANBUL1723	UNDER SECRETARY HUGHES' ISTANBUL MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: During her 24-hour visit to Istanbul, Under Secretary Hughes met with religious leaders representing a range of confessions and exchanged views on how extremism can most effectively be counteracted. All stressed the need to combat the underlying causes of extremism, including [...]	2005-10-05 10:37:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TU
05ISTANBUL1734	ISTANBUL MEZZES: SLICES OF LIFE FROM TURKEY'S [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables offering a sampling of political, economic and human rights topics making news in Istanbul. Green on the Green ------------------ 2. (U) Residents of Istanbul's upscale and secular residential Kadikoy districts are up in arms about a City Cou [...]	2005-10-06 06:26:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1766	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH: OCTOBER 3 PROVIDES NEW [...] (C) Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew told CG October 9 that he was optimistic regarding Education Minister Celik's remarks to Milliyet newspaper last week that he would "open the (Halki) seminary overnight" if it were up to him. Bartholomew acknowledged the Minister's having uttered similar [...]	2005-10-12 10:52:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL1804	ARMENIAN CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS DEBRIEF STEVEN [...] (C) Summary: Three organizers of the recent "Alternative Armenian Conference" here (ref A) told former U.S. Congressman and GOT consultant Steven Solarz October 7 that the watershed conference would embolden students to pursue more serious and objective research on the topic. They averred - [...]	2005-10-18 15:00:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU AM
05ISTANBUL1825	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE: METROPOLITAN DOWNBEAT ON [...] (C) Summary: Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia, a senior advisor at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, expressed his skepticism October 13 to visiting EUR/SE Director Doug Silliman about the GOT's ability and willingness to move the Halki seminary issue forward. Silliman underlined USG support [...]	2005-10-20 11:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1844	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH PUBLICLY HIGHLIGHTS CONCERNS [...] (U) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew raised publicly October 20 his inability to use his ecumenical title in Turkey and the continued lack of dialogue with the Turkish government on such key issues as reopening Halki Seminary. Turkish press gave wide coverage to the remarks, which wer [...]	2005-10-24 09:40:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1867	TURKEY-ARMENIA: TRACK TWO ON TRACK? [...] (C) Summary: Turkish-Armenian "Track Two" efforts continue to chip away at old attitudes. A New Jersey-based Armenian Orthodox Church official was pleased with his reception in Ankara during a recent visit, and plans to organize tours to Turkey with diaspora Armenians next year. "Alternati [...]	2005-10-27 11:49:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM
05ISTANBUL1888	ISTANBUL MEZZES: SLICES OF LIFE FROM TURKEY'S [...] (U) This is the second in a series of cables offering a sampling of political, economic and human rights topics circulating in Istanbul; herewith, a special "Ramazan" edition. Istanbul Iftars --------------- 2. (U) "Iftar," or the traditional breaking of the Ramadan ("Ramazan," in Tur [...]	2005-10-31 15:19:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL1957	CDA ADDRESSES ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE/APPEAL OF [...] (U) Summary: he Ecumenical Patriarchate and Rabbi Arthur Schnier's Appeal of Conscience Foundation hosted a cnference in Istanbul November 7-9, bringing togethr religious and other leaders from the Balkans, Cntrl sia nd th Cacasus, as well as Greece' Mnste o Edcaion and Religious Affairs, [...]	2005-11-15 15:55:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL TU
05ISTANBUL1960	ARMENIAN ARCHBISHOP ON KATHOLIKOS VISIT [...] (C) Summary: New York-based Archbishop Khajag Barsamian of the Armenian Church of America told CG November 9 Armenian Katholikos Karekin II of Echmiadzin is considering a visit to Turkey next year, adding that he had received positive reactions from both Turkish diplomats in New York and Ar [...]	2005-11-16 12:45:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR AM
05ISTANBUL1977	ARMENIAN PATRIARCH AT ODDS WITH ECUMENICAL [...] (C) In the course of responding to a routine visa inquiry from the Istanbul-based Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II, CG noted his absence at the November 7 opening session of a conference hosted by the Ecumenical Patriarch and the New York-based Appeal of Conscience (septel). Mesrob's representa [...]	2005-11-18 08:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL2003	SINNED AGAINST OR SINNING? OWNERS OF FAILED [...] (C) Summary: In recent months, a number of owners of failed Turkish banks have begun to speak out to condemn the Turkish government for pursuing a "vendetta" against them-- including for political and even religious reasons-- and to warn that Turkish government actions to seize their assets ar [...]	2005-11-23 14:31:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL2020	ISTANBUL WRITERS SPEAK OUT ON FREEDOM OF [...] (SBU) Summary: A "Gathering for Freedom of Expression" November 19-22 in Istanbul brought local writers, authors and activists together to evaluate the state of free speech in Turkey. Though Noam Chomsky's counter-intuitive (and perhaps garbled) statement that Europe has much to learn from [...]	2005-11-28 16:39:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL2053	ISTANBUL POLITICS: TAYYIP BEY STILL IN CHARGE? [...] (C) Summary: Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas captured the city's attention last month when he fired Istanbul Deputy Mayor Idris Gulluce, following intense media speculation that Gulluce was the real power behind the throne. The move allowed Topbas to regain "face," but privately contacts have to [...]	2005-12-06 09:45:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL2058	ARMENIAN CONFERENCE FALLOUT: PROSECUTORS TARGET [...] (U) Adding to the growing list of publishers and writers being taken to criminal court (ref A),an Istanbul prosecutor filed charges December 2 against five prominent Turkish journalists for their articles criticizing the September 2005 Istanbul court decision that granted an injunction blocki [...]	2005-12-06 15:44:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL2059	IRAQI SUNNI ARAB TEAM PRESENTS OLD GRIEVANCES TO [...] (C) Summary: At a December 4 meeting in Istanbul organized by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, a delegation of Iraqi Sunni Arab political figures told Ambassador Khalilzad that the "insurgents" want the political process in Iraq to succeed, but seek more credibility in the process. They demand [...]	2005-12-06 16:11:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS IZ
05ISTANBUL2071	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S DECEMBER 4 MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: During a very cordial hour-long lunch sandwiched between U.S. meetings with a team of Iraqi Sunnis -- conducted in Istanbul and orchestrated and observed by the GOT -- Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told visiting U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad that Turkey had counseled t [...]	2005-12-07 14:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY IZ TU SYRIA
05ISTANBUL2076	ISTANBUL ASSEMBLY: CHP MARGINALIZED [...] (C) Summary and Comment: According to CHP's leader in the Istanbul Municipal Assembly, Deputy Mayor of Besiktas Kemal Akar, the Assembly, as an institution, is marginalized in all aspects of city decision-making. Akar complained about the lack of transparency in AK Party real estate develop [...]	2005-12-08 13:03:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL2077	PATRIARCH EXPRESSES APPRECIATION FOR DEPARTMENT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-08 13:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE
05ISTANBUL2110	ISTANBUL'S AK PARTY WOMEN: GETTING (RELATIVELY) [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Istanbul Women's Branch celebrated the 71st anniversary of women's suffrage in Turkey December 5 with a panel discussion focused on expanding the role of women in politics. AKP remains a party in which women do the grassroot [...]	2005-12-14 08:48:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV TU POLITICAL PARTIES
05ISTANBUL2134	PAMUK TRIAL POSTPONED PENDING JUSTICE MINISTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: In an unsurprising move, the judge presiding at the initial hearing in Istanbul,s Sisli District courthouse for Orhan Pamuk,s trial on charges of insulting the Turkish state decided to delay action on the case pending Justice Ministry review of possible "procedural flaws." Th [...]	2005-12-16 15:50:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL2152	ISTANBUL JOURNALISTS DEBATE TURKISH POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador exchanged views with senior Turkish journalists n Istanbul on key foreign policy issues, includig Iraq, Iran, Syria, Cyprus, EU accession and doestic developments in Turkey. In this off-the-recrd discussion, debate was most spirited among thejournalists regarding t [...]	2005-12-22 12:45:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL2171	AMBASSADOR'S FIRST VISIT TO ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) In his first visit to Istanbul December 18-20, Ambassador met with a range of business, government and other leaders, including Mustafa Koc, head of Turkey's largest holding company, Aydin Dogan, the country's leading media baron, the Turkish-American Business Council (TAIK),the Americ [...]	2005-12-26 23:29:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV TU
05ISTANBUL2180	FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND MINORITY PROPERTY ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: "The genius of democracy is in freedom of expression; those without this are hunters and gatherers." Thus Can Paker, Chair of TESEV (Istanbul's preeminent thinktank) opened a December 10 conference on Turkey's Minority Rights Question, underlining Turkish civil s [...]	2005-12-28 13:27:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV TU PHUM
05ISTANBUL2186	ISTANBUL MEZZES: SLICES OF LIFE FROM TURKEY'S [...] (U) This is the third in a series of cables offering a sampling of political, economic and human rights topics circulating in Istanbul. Vatican II ) Muslim Style? -------------------------- 2. (SBU) We recently attended a Koran reading and sermon at Sehzadebasi Mosque in the Eminonu-Fat [...]	2005-12-29 14:28:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL267	IZMIR VIEWS ON APP CLOSURE, OVACIK MINE RESTART, [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings in Izmir February 2-4, Izmir liaison officer informed municipal, business and academic officials of the Congressional decision to close the Izmir American Presence Post and the U.S. plan to reopen a consular agency. Regarding U.S. efforts to reopen the Ovacik Gold [...]	2005-02-17 13:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU PHUM EINV
05ISTANBUL329	MUNICIPALITY TO FUND ISTANBUL TIP SHELTER, BUT [...] Summary and comment: In recent Istanbul meetings on trafficking in persons (TIP),G/TIP officer Jennifer Donnelly discussed the upcoming TIP report and Turkey's Tier 2 watch list placement with Istanbul prosecutors, municipal and governorate officials and the leading Turkish NGO on TIP issues. [...]	2005-02-28 14:25:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TU BO MD PHUM KCRM PGOV KJUS TIP IN TURKEY
05ISTANBUL377	MOSQUE-STATE RELATIONS: ISTANBUL DEBATES ROLE OF [...] (u) Subject: A new report on the relationship among religion, state, and society by TESEV, a prominent establishment Turkish think tank, has stimulated a lively discussion among Istanbul academic and media circles on the role and future of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet). TES [...]	2005-03-08 13:21:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL TU
05ISTANBUL38	ISTANBUL POLICE ON TIP AND MURDER OF BELARUSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 27, poloff met with Osman Kaplan, Deputy Director of the Foreigners Unit of the Istanbul Police Department, to follow up on trafficking in persons issues raised during the visit of a Moldavan anti-TIP government delegation (ref B) and the murder of a Belarusian woman [...]	2005-01-11 07:37:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TU BO MD KCRM PGOV KJUS
05ISTANBUL383	ISTANBUL POLICE BRUTALITY DRAWS EU CRITICISM [...] (c) Summary: The use of violence by Istanbul police to break up a demonstration of Turkish women on March 6 prompted widespread international press coverage and criticism from a visiting EU Troika delegation. Our human rights contacts characterized the police response as harsh and unacceptable [...]	2005-03-08 15:16:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
05ISTANBUL890	REFLEXIVE TURKISH NATIONALISM ENSNARES MASTERCARD [...] (SBU) Summary: After briefly basking in the reflected glow of last week's exciting UEFA Champion's League Final in Istanbul between Milan and Liverpool, corporate sponsor Mastercard has found itself dealing with a public relations nightmare in recent days following public criticism of inclusion in [...]	2005-06-01 11:51:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KISL ASEC TU
05JAKARTA15147	FORMER PRESIDENT MEGAWATI CRITICIZES YUDHOYONO'S [...] (C) In a November 18 meeting with the Ambassador, former President Megawati Soekarnoputri played the part of opposition leader to the hilt, expressing dismay with the performance of the current administration and President Yudhoyono's reliance on Islamist political parties. Megawati downplaye [...]	2005-11-22 10:13:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL ID
05JAKARTA9989	ACEH: KALLA BRIEFS ENVOYS ON "HIS" PEACE DEAL [...] (C) The Ambassador and heads of mission from Australia, Finland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK (also representing the EU) called on Vice President Jusuf Kalla on July 22 to receive the GOI's brief on the draft Aceh peace accord. Kalla's presentation echoed that of lead negoti [...]	2005-07-22 11:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS MARR EAID ECON KJUS ID
05JEDDAH1904	WOMEN MAKING STRIDES IN THE ASIR REGION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. During a June 13-14 visit to the Asir Province, Poloffs met with a number of local women to discuss women's employment in the Kingdom. In Asir, women have long played a role in the public sphere, working as shopkeepers in the local bazaar -- a rare sight in Saudi A [...]	2005-06-15 16:50:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN SOCI
05JEDDAH2181	SNAPSHOT OF STUDENT OPINION: UNDERGRADS FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following the June 28 opening of the first American Corner in Saudi Arabia at the College of Business Administration (CBA) in Jeddah, Conoff accompanied a group of CBA undergraduates and their student advisor on a June 30 hiking trip to the mountains near Mecca. In discussions [...]	2005-07-02 13:24:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SCUL SOCI KISL
05JEDDAH2183	JEDDAH CONTACTS FOCUS ON A VARIETY OF WOMEN'S [...] (U) Several high-level Jeddah contacts have recently shared with Post information shedding light on the current social situation of women in the Western Province and, to some extent, the Kingdom as a whole. OPTIONS DISCUSSED AHEAD OF POSSIBLE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WOMEN WILL DRIVE 2. (C) C [...]	2005-07-02 14:05:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN SOCI KLAB
05JEDDAH2238	MOSQUE SERMONS IN SAUDI ARABIA: AVOID WASTING TIME [...] (C) Summary: In Friday, July 1 sermons, imams in Mecca and Medina noted the start of the summer holiday season in Saudi Arabia by reminding congregants of the "dangers" of wasting time. In Mecca, the imam also criticized "deviants" who had caused bloodshed and violence in Saudi Arabia, and [...]	2005-07-05 14:50:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL
05JEDDAH2495	UNDERGRADS FRET ABOUT JOBS AND DISCUSS TERROR [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Conoff participated in an outdoor "Youth Challenge" competition on July 21 sponsored by the College of Business Administration (CBA) Youth Business Club and "Yalla Ya Shabbab" (roughly "Let's Go Guys"),a youth-oriented television program. On June 30, Conoff visited [...]	2005-07-23 14:21:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PTER SOCI
05JEDDAH3366	SAUDI KING PLEASED WITH PROGRESS AGAINST [...] (S) SUMMARY. On September 5, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security Fran Townsend met with King Abdullah at his invitation at the King's home in Jeddah. The meeting, notable for its warm and friendly tone, focused on the Saudi progress in subduing Saudi terrorists and the need to c [...]	2005-09-13 11:44:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	PGOV PTER PREL SA
05JERUSALEM3528	PA MINISTER ASKS USG TO HELP COMBAT GROWING HAMAS [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Abu Libdeh told Staffdel Savit on July 28 that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is working to fight terrorism and beat Hamas at its own game by establishing several schemes to protect the vulnerable segments of Palestinian society and "keep you [...]	2005-08-05 14:31:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KCOR KTFN KWBG IS
05JERUSALEM3703	DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION UPDATE, AUGUST 12, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of disengagement, several key coordination issues are much closer to being resolved than a week ago. Representatives of settler farmers and anonymous private donors agreed early August 12 on a contract to sell the greenhouses and other infrastructure for just under USD [...]	2005-08-12 16:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV PHUM KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05JERUSALEM3791	DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION UPDATE, AUGUST 17, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: At a trilateral crossings meeting August 17, USG representatives tabled a proposal for spending the USD 50 million in supplemental assistance to upgrade four of the crossings between the West Bank/Gaza Strip and Israel and asked for PA and GOI responses within the next few days. [...]	2005-08-17 17:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV PHUM KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05JERUSALEM5669	HAMAS AND FATAH OFFICIALS REJECT HOUSE RESOLUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fatah and Hamas spokesmen reacted strongly to the U.S. House of Representatives resolution against Hamas participation in the January 25 Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections. While most of the official Hamas statements focused on U.S. "interference" and "hypocrisy," Ga [...]	2005-12-20 17:28:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS

05KABUL4948	INTIMIDATION FORCES VILLAGERS TO INCREASINGLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Local NGOs in Kandahar report increased intimidation by anti-coalition forces. This, compounded by continuing corruption, creates an extremely difficult environment for aid organizations. Villagers are asking NGOs not to return. Corrupt officials are impeding their work in other [...]	2005-12-07 10:41:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
05KABUL4953	KANDAHAR PROVINCIAL COUNCIL NOT REPRESENTATIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Governor of Kandahar and local NGOs told the Ambassador that the newly elected Provincial Council is not representative of the province's population and is being circumvented by use of the shura system. They believe the shuras currently are a better means to identify and add [...]	2005-12-07 10:49:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
05KABUL4967	KARZAI DISCUSSES ASSISTANCE BUDGET WITH [...] (SBU) President Karzai and AID Administrator Natsios on November 17 ran through a tour dhorizon of the progress of U.S. assistance programs, Afghan needs, U.S. budget realities, and plans for counter-narcotics work in the coming year. While Karzai continues to believe a twenty percent reduct [...]	2005-12-07 12:40:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV SNAR AF
05KABUL4971	AFGHANISTAN (WITH UK HELP) LEADS BABY STEPS TOWARD [...] (SBU) The joint GoA and UK-hosted Regional Economic Cooperation Conference was held in Kabul December 4 and 5. The event featured an opening address by President Karzai, and speeches by GoA economic ministers and regional delegates, who were primarily at the ministerial and vice- ministerial l [...]	2005-12-08 05:36:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL KPWR EAID PGOV AF
05KABUL4976	PRT FARAH: A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. MOI replaced Farah Provinces Chief of Police Colonel Allah Wadin Noorzai on November 14 with Brigadier General Said Agha. First indications are favorable although he must deal with issues of ingrained corruption, bribery and a poorly-functioning judicial system. On Nov [...]	2005-12-08 10:18:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER AF
05KABUL4985	CODEL MURPHY/SKELTON MEETS KARZAI [...] (SBU) Congressmen Murphy, Skelton, and Marshall, accompanied by Ambassador Neumann, met with President Karzai on November 24 to discuss U.S. engagement in Afghanistan. Karzai expected the inauguration of the newly elected Parliament to occur December 18 or 19 since announced for the 19th. He [...]	2005-12-08 13:59:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL PGOV SNAR PARM MASS AF
05KABUL4988	PRT/GHAZNI: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL BEGINS WORK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Members of Ghazni's recently seated Provincial Council met cordially on December 3, their second official meeting since a contentious election for Council officers and Meshrano Jirga members. Council members agreed that the main purpose of the Council is to keep the Provincial Ad [...]	2005-12-09 06:20:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
05KABUL5010	KARZAI'S MESHRANO JIRGA APPOINTMENTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Karzai released his official list of 34 appointments to the Meshrano Jirga (MJ, Upper House of Parliament) on December 10. The list fulfills Afghan Electoral Law requirements that he include 17 women, two Kuchi representatives, and two representatives of the martyrs and [...]	2005-12-11 12:49:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
05KABUL5024	REVISED AFGHANISTAN COMPACT FOR WASHINGTON REVIEW [...] (SBU) This cable includes the full text of the December 11 revised Afghanistan Compact and three Annexes for Washington review. This final revision reflects the bulk of consensus recommendations reached at a series of December 2- 5 PrepCom meetings held on the margins of the Kabul Regional Ec [...]	2005-12-13 02:33:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID PREL PGOV AF
05KABUL5025	CN ACTIVITIES IN THE JUSTICE SECTOR [...] (U) Summary: Justice reform and law enforcement are key components of Embassy Kabul's Counter Narcotics Implementation Plan (CIP). Over the past two months, the DOJ prosecutors (assigned to the Embassy) have made significant progress in establishing legal institutions and reforming laws to ens [...]	2005-12-13 02:51:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV PTER PREL KCRM AF
05KABUL5027	AFGHAN PARLIAMENT - ONE WEEK UNTIL INAUGURATION DAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the final week before Afghanistan's first Parliamentary Inauguration in 30 years, discussions among MPs are intently focused on who will take the "plum jobs" in the new National Assembly. Despite skepticism among some partisan politicians in Kabul, both the Ambassador and USG [...]	2005-12-13 05:06:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM AF
05KABUL5032	AFGHANISTAN (WITH UK HELP) LEADS BABY STEPS TOWARD [...] (SBU) The joint GoA and UK-hosted Regional Economic Cooperation Conference was held in Kabul December 4 and 5. The event featured an opening address by President Karzai, and speeches by GoA economic ministers and regional delegates, who were primarily at the ministerial and vice- ministerial l [...]	2005-12-13 10:25:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL KPWR EAID PGOV AF
05KABUL5034	GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS, AND MISSISSIPPI MEET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A MEETING WITH THE GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI AND GENERAL BLUM, KARZAI WAS IN A GENIAL MOOD, HIGHLIGHTING PROGRESS ON COUNTER NARCOTICS, BUT PRESSING FOR CONTINUED INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO ENSURE SUCCESS. HE PRAISED THE AFGHAN PEOPLE'S COMMITMENT TO DEMOC [...]	2005-12-13 12:25:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR AF
05KABUL5038	HELMAND GOVERNOR SENT TO PARLIAMENT; REPLACED BY [...] (U) President Karzai has named Engineer Mohammad Daoud, currently holding a senior position at the National Security Council, as the new Governor of Helmand Province. Per reftel, outgoing Governor Mullah Shir Mohammad Akhund is leaving Helmand to take a seat in the Meshrano Jirga (MJ, Upper H [...]	2005-12-14 08:10:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
05KABUL5039	GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS, AND MISSISSIPPI MEET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A MEETING WITH THE GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI AND GENERAL BLUM, KARZAI WAS IN A GENIAL MOOD, HIGHLIGHTING PROGRESS ON COUNTER NARCOTICS, BUT PRESSING FOR CONTINUED INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO ENSURE SUCCESS. HE PRAISED THE AFGHAN PEOPLE'S COMMITMENT TO DEMOC [...]	2005-12-14 08:10:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR AF
05KABUL5042	EMERGING AFGHAN INTERAGENCY PROCESS TO MANAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. USDOJ and CFC-A representatives briefed a delegation of Afghan officials on the fundamentals of an interagency process. The GOA officials are to become the working group that will decide the form of the process Afghanistan will use to receive detainees transferred by the USG. [...]	2005-12-14 08:10:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KAWC AF
05KABUL5047	GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS, AND MISSISSIPPI MEET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A MEETING WITH THE GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI AND GENERAL BLUM, KARZAI WAS IN A GENIAL MOOD, HIGHLIGHTING PROGRESS ON COUNTER NARCOTICS, BUT PRESSING FOR CONTINUED INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO ENSURE SUCCESS. HE PRAISED THE AFGHAN PEOPLE'S COMMITMENT TO DEMOC [...]	2005-12-14 08:11:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR AF
05KABUL5050	KARZAI PROMISES RESULTS ON CN, ASKS FOR GREATER [...] (C) Summary: President Karzai convened a meeting of his cabinet on December 11 to press for implementation of the GOA's Counter Narcotics (CN) strategy. In the meeting, Karzai addressed the disparity between UNODC's (21 percent reduction) and the USG's (48 percent reduction) survey results reg [...]	2005-12-14 08:21:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV PREL PTER SNAR AF
05KABUL5051	DEPUTY MINISTER DAUD BOLSTERS OPERATIONAL SUPPORT [...] (C) On December 11, 2005, Deputy Minister General Daud Daud of the Ministry of Interior (MOI),Alistair Corbett of the UK Drugs Team and Doug Wankel Director of Embassy Kabul's CN Task Force, met with General Wardak of the Ministry of Defense (MOD). General Wardak, who had previously worked wit [...]	2005-12-14 08:22:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV AF
05KABUL5052	FINANCE MINISTRY DEFLECTS CUSTOMS REFORM [...] (C) Afghan customs reform is lagging due to weak GoA commitment and systemic corruption at all levels. In discussions between USAID and its implementing partner Bearing Point (BP) and with the UK,s DFID and its implementing partner Adam Smith International (ASI),there was broad agreement th [...]	2005-12-14 09:27:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EAID ETRD PGOV AF
05KABUL5066	MINISTRY OF FRONTIERS AND TRIBAL AFFAIRS: [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Minister of Frontiers and Tribal Affairs Alhaj Sayeed Ahmad Haqbeen described for Poloffs the important work of his Ministry in supporting national unity and understanding. The key competencies of the Ministry of Frontier and Tribal Affairs (MFTA) are promoting the nation [...]	2005-12-14 12:54:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AF
05KABUL5071	PRT/GHOR - PICNIC POLITICS [...] (U) SUMMARY: PolOffs and Chaghcharan AIDOff spent the afternoon of December 8 with Ghor Governor Afzali, former Ghor Governor and current MP Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Malekzada, and several of Afzali's wealthy family members chatting about local politics in classic Afghan style - over a lavish meal [...]	2005-12-14 15:18:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM AF
05KABUL5076	THE DIPLOMATIC COMMUNITY DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON [...] (SBU) On December 13, 2006, a diplomatic delegation lead by Canadian Ambassador David Sproule delivered a demarche to Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Abdullah addressing the arrest, trial proceedings, and jail sentence of Afghan journalist Ali Mohaqiq Nasab. The delegation included Amb [...]	2005-12-15 04:25:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IR RS BO AF UNGA SEP
05KABUL5089	IRAQ: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR ELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-15 13:01:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IZ AF
05KABUL5110	POPPY ELIMINATION PROGRAM (PEP) STATUS REPORT [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Afghanistan (GOA) sponsored Poppy Elimination Program continues to move forward. The Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) is on-target to hire all PEP personnel by early 2006. All seven PEP teams have Afghan members and four international advisors (IA) have been hi [...]	2005-12-17 03:17:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PREL PGOV PTER KCRM AF
05KABUL5118	DUELING AFGAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE [...] (SBU) An ongoing battle between the AID-supported Afghan International Chamber of Commerce (AICC) and the GTZ- supported Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry is heating up with a proposed law that would effectively eliminate the AICC, dealing a significant blow to the development of an inde [...]	2005-12-17 14:01:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN PREL EAID PGOV AF
05KABUL5120	CN MEETING WITH GOVERNOR OF BADAKHSHAN IN KABUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a December 6, 2005 meeting at the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN),Badakhshan Governor Majeed spoke about rural development assistance and reduction of opium cultivation with MCN Minister Qaderi and representatives of the MCN, UK Embassy, and US Embassy. Several members [...]	2005-12-17 15:12:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL PGOV PTER KCRM AF
05KABUL5121	TWO SCHOOLS ATTACKED IN HELMAND [...] (SBU) A TEACHER WAS KILLED ON DECEMBER 16 IN NAD ALI DISTRICT IN HELMAND PROVINCE. ALTHOUGH THE MOTIVE WAS UNCLEAR, TERRORISM IS LIKELY. ON DECEMBER 17, ANOTHER INCIDENT INVOLVING A SCHOOL TOOK PLACE, THIS TIME IN THE PROVINCIAL CAPITAL. TWO MEN ON A MOTORCYCLE DROVE TO THE KARTELEGON SCH [...]	2005-12-18 03:22:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID PTER AF
05KABUL5169	PRT HERAT: ANA/ANP NAB RENEGADE JAMIAT COMMANDER [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please do not release to ISAF. 2. (SBU) In a combined operation on December 13, ANP and ANA elements succeeded in apprehending renegade Jamiat Commander Mullah Mustafa, who had been responsible for extensive illegal roadblocks, banditry and [...]	2005-12-19 12:29:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AF
05KABUL5176	INAUGURATION OF AFGHAN PARLIAMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The inauguration ceremonies for Afghanistans first Parliament in over 30 years began shortly after 10 a.m. on the cold and cloudy morning of 19 December. The city was under strict security, with most roads and even pedestrian traffic strictly controlled. Both the upper and lower [...]	2005-12-20 07:13:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PREL KCRM KDEM AF
05KABUL5180	PRT: BADGHIS: AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN PROVINCE [...] Summary: In one of the poorest countries in the world, Badghis is one of (out of 34) the poorest provinces in Afghanistan. There is no paved road network, no electricity except for a few small generators, and no radio reception outside the capital of Qal I Now. Apart from its presence in Q [...]	2005-12-20 12:27:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER KDEM PINR EAID SNAR AF
05KABUL5181	KUNDUZ POLITICS OF CORRUPTION IN THE BAGHLAN [...] (U) Summary: Highway Police forces throughout the north and northeast and Afghan National Police (ANP) forces in Baghlan province are both dominated by Tajik warlords and drug traffickers. General Abdul Khalil has assigned former jihadi/Hezb-i-Islami loyalists from Baghlans Andarab District [...]	2005-12-20 12:27:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AF GE
05KABUL5186	PRT/FARAH: SEXUAL POLITICS OVERSHADOW AS [...] (SBU) Summary: Five men and three women were sworn in as Provincial Councilors in Farah Province November 10. Gender division was overcome with the decision to elect a woman to the Vice Chairperson position. Aside from a momentary gaffe from Governor Wasefi as he tried to make the selection [...]	2005-12-21 10:07:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AF
05KABUL5188	Poetry and Motion - Sikhs and Hindus Return to [...] (SBU) Summary: A November 11 poetry reading hosted by the Paktia Literary Society not only opened Gardez's new Afghan Government-built Marriage Hall but also revealed significant progress in the faith of the people in the GOA. A three hour gathering of some 300 Pashto men in Gardez's unheat [...]	2005-12-21 10:07:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF
05KABUL5198	PRT HERAT: TROUBLING ISSUES AFFECT HERAT'S DIAG [...] (C) Summary: Herat Governor Anwari is angered by reported MOI criticism of DIAG (Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups) in his province. It is Kabul, he affirmed at the December 14 weekly DIAG Committee meeting, which is underperforming. The GOA, moreover, has failed, so far, to force Herat's [...]	2005-12-21 11:37:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER AF
05KABUL5200	QANOONI ELECTED SPEAKER OF WOLESI JIRGA IN SECOND [...] (U) KABUL MP YOUNUS QANOONI WON THE VOTE FOR SPEAKER OF THE WOLESI JIRGA (LOWER HOUSE) IN A SECOND ROUND OF VOTING LATE IN THE AFTERNOON OF DECEMBER 21. IN THE INITIAL ROUND OF VOTING, QANOONI TOOK 108 VOTES; KABUL MP USTAD ABDRAB ALRASOUL SAYAFF HAD 88 VOTES; PAKTIKA MP PEER SAYED ISHAQ GAIL [...]	2005-12-21 14:53:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AF
05KABUL5201	JAILED JOURNALIST ALI MOHAQIQ NASAB RELEASED WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Jailed journalist Ali Mohaqiq Nasab was released from jail with a suspended six-month sentence. During the hearing Nasab gave a one-sentence apology stating, "I ask the court to forgive me if I caused any confusion and problem." This statement appeased the court and the orig [...]	2005-12-22 02:21:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV PTER AF
05KABUL5219	AFGHAN PARLIAMENT: SELECTION OF DEPUTY SPEAKERS [...] (C) Begin summary: Both houses of the Afghan Parliament have now selected Deputy Speakers, ending a week of behind-the-scenes horse trading and bargaining for the coveted positions. Although the actual promises may never be fully revealed,the result has been a list of names that reflect both [...]	2005-12-22 13:53:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM AF
05KABUL5223	Update on CN Activities 11/20-12/20 [...] Summary: The Counter Narcotics Public Information (CNPI) campaign is entering phase two: eradication, which will be folded into ongoing rule of law and health campaigns. Hiring for PEP teams continues with the aim of hiring of Afghan staff by early January and the hiring of the International A [...]	2005-12-24 06:32:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL PGOV PTER KCRM AF
05KABUL5234	PRT GHAZNI FIRST PROVINCIAL JUSTICE CONFERENCE [...] SUMMARY: Afghan justice officials, including representatives of the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Interior, Supreme Court, and Attorney General?s office, attended a conference with provincial justice officials December 14-15 in Ghazni Province. The conference was hosted by the provincial go [...]	2005-12-26 06:20:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PREL KCRM EAID KDEM AF
05KABUL5256	REVISED AFGHANISTAN COMPACT [...] (SBU) The GoA pushed back strongly against Washington's undercutting the reciprocal balance of the Afghanistan Compact but accepted most of our other points. In a December 24 meeting, Senior Economic Advisor to the President Naderi and UNAMA Deputy SRSG Haq reviewed with Ambassador the lates [...]	2005-12-27 12:11:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID PREL PGOV AF
05KABUL5268	PRT/BAMYAN: GOVERNMENT TAKES FIRST STEPS TOWARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bamyan Provincial authorities may be unelected but they appear to grasp the idea that their legitimacy derives from the people. The Governor's office organized and hosted a PRT-funded two-day conference outlining ongoing development activity in Bamyan. Participants appreciated [...]	2005-12-28 11:51:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID ECON PHUM SOCI AF
05KABUL5272	PAKISTAN AMBASSADOR DEDICATED TO IMPROVING [...] (C) Ambassador Neumann met with newly arrived Pakistan Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin in a December 28 courtesy call. Azizuddin is dedicated to improving relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and arrived with a mandate to attack all irritants in the bilateral relationship as they appear. Th [...]	2005-12-29 05:57:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PK AF
05KABUL5273	PRT/QALAT: CHALLENGES IN SOUTHEASTERN ZABUL PROVINCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Zabul Governor Arman has a strategic goal of a goo 2. (SBU) PRT PolOff discussed the goal with the Governor, as well as Goal Of Connecting Pakistan and the Ring Road in Zabul 3. (SBU) Governor Armans vision is to have a good road connect Qalat Shinkay District 4. [...]	2005-12-29 06:33:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER ECON EAID ELTN AF
05KABUL5274	PRT JALALABAD: NEW NANGARHAR CHIEF OF POLICE APPOINTED [...] (SBU) Summary. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai welcomed newly appointe Nangarhar Police Chief Basir Salangi at a special ceremony on Decembe 27 attended by district chiefs of police, the Nangarhar chief justice and other key judicial sector personnel. Sherzai, who has been activ campaigning to kee [...]	2005-12-29 07:49:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SNAR AF
05KABUL5292	CORRECTED COPY PRT/QALAT: CHALLENGES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Zabul Governor Arman has a strategic goal of a good road connecting the Ring Road in Qalat to the Pakistani border in southeastern Zabul Province. The road improvement is underway (with US funding),but the districts are not secure yet nor under the effective control of the ce [...]	2005-12-31 06:10:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER ECON EAID ELTN AF
05KABUL5297	CORRECTED COPY: PRT JALALABAD: NEW NANGARHAR [...] (SBU) Summary. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai welcomed newly appointed Nangarhar Police Chief Basir Salangi at a special ceremony on December 27 attended by district chiefs of police, the Nangarhar chief justice, and other key judicial sector personnel. Sherzai, who has been actively campaigning [...]	2005-12-31 06:13:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SNAR AF
05KATHMANDU1155	WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT FROM MAY 24 TO 31, 2005 [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS `Supporting democracy is not meddling': Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said THAT India has no intention to interfere in the internal affairs of Nepal, and that attempts to encourage democracy in the northern neighbor should not be construed as interference. "Our atte [...]	2005-06-01 08:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP
05KATHMANDU1167	UPDATE ON NEPAL'S POLITICAL EVENTS [...] (U) The Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) jailed former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and former Minister Prakash Man Singh for refusing to post bail. On May 31, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) decided to boycott the RCCC, stating it had been unconstitutionally form [...]	2005-06-01 12:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU1192	NEPALI FM: INDIA BROKERING MAOIST-POLITICAL [...] (C) CDA telephoned FM Pandey on June 3 to express concern over reports that security services prevented UML Central Committee member Jhalanath Khanal from boarding a plane for Delhi on June 2. (Note: Khanal had told us on May 30 that he was going to India for medical treatment. According to [...]	2005-06-03 11:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM PINS IN NP
05KATHMANDU1193	TIBETAN WELFARE SOCIETY UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. UNHCR Resident Representative Abraham Abraham said on June 2 that he will likely meet with the Foreign Minister the week of June 6 to discuss the registration of a new UNHCR implementing partner in processing Tibetan Refugees passing through Nepal, the Tibetan Welfare Society. Whi [...]	2005-06-03 11:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PINS NP
05KATHMANDU1194	POLITICAL LEADER DISCUSSES MAOISTS, PALACE [...] (SBU) Anil Jha, Joint Secretary General of the Nepal Sadbhavana Party-Anandi Devi (a small, terai-based, centrist party),told Emboff on June 2 that the seven party alliance would urge the Palace and the Maoists to enter into dialogue only after the reinstatement of the House of Representatives [...]	2005-06-03 11:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU1203	WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT FROM JUNE 1 TO 6, 2005 [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS Go to court; not street: Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Tulsi Giri on Sunday suggested that the political parties and lawyers should ask for justice at the Supreme Court rather than take to the streets. On Sunday Giri said that rule of law couldn't be establish [...]	2005-06-06 12:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP
05KATHMANDU1236	NEPAL POLICE ARREST MAOIST VICTIM PROTESTORS [...] (U) Summary. Fifty-three Maoist Victim Association protestors were arrested by police on the grounds that they had no permission to be in a restricted area in Kathmandu on June 5. However, Nepali political parties held a mock parliament event on June 3 in which 19 National Assembly members [...]	2005-06-08 03:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM PREF NP
05KATHMANDU1245	NEPAL: DETENTIONS DECREASED TO 49 POLITICOS [...] (SBU) His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) has released from detention all but 49 politicians, according to conversations we had with seven political parties. CPN-UML reported that three student leaders remained in detention, Nepali Congress - 27 members, Nepali Congress (Democratic) (NC( [...]	2005-06-08 10:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU1248	TIBETAN WELFARE SOCIETY JUNE 8 UPDATE [...] (C) On June 7, the Charge pressed Foreign Minister Pandey to act to register the Tibetan Welfare Society. Pandey said he understood the importance of registering the Tibetan Welfare Society, but noted that the Home Ministry would have an important say. He thought it would be better to work [...]	2005-06-08 12:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PINS NP
05KATHMANDU1255	51 NEPALI JOURNALISTS ARRESTED AND RELEASED [...] (U) As part of a 17 day protest plan against the continuing ban on news broadcasts on FM radio stations, 51 Nepali journalists from the Federation of Nepal Journalists (FNJ) were arrested in Kathmandu for protesting in a restricted area on June 8. Authorities released all 51 from jail early o [...]	2005-06-09 11:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM PREF NP
05KATHMANDU1256	NEPAL THINKING AGAIN ABOUT BHUTANESE REFUGEES [...] (C) UNHCR Resident Representative Abraham Abraham reported to us a conversation he had with Nepal Foreign Secretary Acharya on June 7 to press the issue of Bhutanese SIPDIS refugees in Nepal. Acharya said the government of Bhutan must start implementing their agreement to take back refugees [...]	2005-06-09 11:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PTER PINS NP
05KATHMANDU1257	IFES NEGATIVE ABOUT SUPPORTING MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Two members of IFES, an international nonprofit organization that supports building democracies, visited Nepal as part of a USAID funded project to investigate opportunities to work with the Nepal Election Commission. IFES concluded that its support is not needed for the King's proposed No [...]	2005-06-09 11:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS NP
05KATHMANDU1267	FM PANDEY ON UNSC REFORM, RELATIONS WITH INDIA [...] (C) On June 9 the Charge pressed Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey on the need for His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) to reach out to the political parties. She explained that Washington was focused on Nepal and needed a sense of how the process of returning to democracy would move for [...]	2005-06-10 08:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINS NP GON
05KATHMANDU1293	NEPAL: KING TO QATAR, SON PARAS TEMPORARILY IN [...] (U) His Majesty King Gyanendra and his wife departed Nepal for Doha, Qatar on June 13 to participate in the Second Summit Conference of the Developing Countries. Their Majesties travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on June 18 before returning to Nepal on June 22. As he did last time he lef [...]	2005-06-14 11:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
05KATHMANDU1294	GOVERNMENT ARRESTS JOURNALISTS; BAN ON INDIAN [...] (U) The government arrested 98 human rights activists and lawyers, including 71 journalists, from Kathmandu and Kavre Districts on June 13. The government released all 50 arrested in Kavre the same day. Journalists from FM radio stations vowed to continue their protest programs despite the [...]	2005-06-14 12:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PINS PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU1295	VICE CHAIRMAN TULSI GIRI AND WIFE ON BANK BLACKLIST [...] (C) After the public revelation that Dr. Tulsi Giri, two-time Prime Minister under the Panchayat system and current Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers, and his wife Sahara Giri, were on the list of major loan defaulters, Nepal's Ministry of Finance put on hold its request that all gover [...]	2005-06-14 12:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU1297	RECONSTITUTED NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION [...] (C) In a June 14 meeting with all five members of the newly reconstituted National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) (ref A),Chairman Khatri told CDA that he appreciated U.S. support. He stated that the NHRC was continuing its protection and promotion work with greater vigor. He added that the [...]	2005-06-15 08:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU1305	SOME LABOR RIGHTS IN NEPAL REMAIN CURTAILED [...] (SBU) After the King assumed power February 1, His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) imposed extensive restrictions on trade unions and their leaders. HMGN banned labor union strikes by industries that were on an "Essential Services/ Commodity List," including fourteen service sectors the [...]	2005-06-15 11:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB KDEM PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU1320	NEPAL: GARMENT EXPORTS DROP 43 PERCENT, BUT [...] (U) Nepal's ready-made garment exports to the United States declined by 43 percent in the first five months of 2005 following the expiration of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA). Entrepreneurs within the garment sector attributed the decline to the combined effects of MFA phaseout and the gov [...]	2005-06-16 11:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV ETRD PINS NP
05KATHMANDU1321	GOVERNMENT APPOINTS DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) On June 13, the government appointed chairmen and vice chairmen of the District Development Committees (DDC) in 25 out of 75 districts of the country in accordance with the Local Self Governance Act of 1999. The Ministry of Local Development stated that the remaining 50 districts' DDC c [...]	2005-06-16 12:07:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS NP GON
05KATHMANDU1323	RELEASE AND RE-ARREST OF POLITICAL LEADERS [...] (SBU) On June 15, following a Supreme Court order, the government released three leaders of the People's Front Nepal (PFN) from the Kathmandu District Court. However, the police re-arrested Nava Raj Subedi, General Secretary of the PFN, from the party office premises within five hours of his [...]	2005-06-16 12:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PHUM NP GON
05KATHMANDU1324	NEPAL: KOIRALA RETURNS ENERGIZED FROM INDIA [...] (U) Former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress (NC) President Girija Prasad Koirala returned to Kathmandu on June 15 and revealed to reporters that he had telephone conversations with Maoist leaders during his week-long trip to India. He reportedly asked the rebels, without receiving a reply, t [...]	2005-06-16 12:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU1342	WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT FROM JUNE 14 TO 20, [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS Maoists positive over seven parties' call: A day after the seven opposition parties called on the Maoists to support their ongoing pro-democracy movement, the CPN (Maoist) Sunday said it had taken their call in a positive light. Issuing a press statement Sunday, Maoist chai [...]	2005-06-20 10:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP
05KATHMANDU1343	NEPAL: OVER 100 POLITICOS ARRESTED NATIONWIDE [...] (SBU) On June 17, His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) arrested 97 political leaders and workers in the course of a nationwide protest program launched by the seven political parties' alliance. There were no arrests in Kathmandu, as the political parties avoided areas the HMGN has prohibit [...]	2005-06-20 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM NP GON
05KATHMANDU1345	NEPAL: MAOISTS BACK 7-PARTY APPROACH TO BOYCOTT [...] (C) Maoist leader Prachanda announced the Maoist's support of the seven party alliance agenda, including the parties' June 18 decision to boycott municipal elections and to not recognize government appointments at the local and district level. Prachanda also said that he had ordered a halt to [...]	2005-06-20 11:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS PGOV MOPS NP
05KATHMANDU1353	KOIRALA DISTRUSTFUL OF MAOISTS AND KING [...] (C) Charge found former Nepalese PM and current leader of the seven party alliance 80-year-old GP Koirala fit and spry when calling on him at his residence on June 21 after his return from a "medical" trip to India. Koirala said that there was an important role for the international community [...]	2005-06-21 12:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS NP IN GON
05KATHMANDU1384	WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT FROM JUNE 21 TO 27, [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS Subedi released from detention: Ending a weeklong drama, the government released Navaraj Subedi, general secretary of People's Front from detention as per the second order from the Supreme Court on Friday. He had been re-arrested nine days ago and the government had claime [...]	2005-06-28 05:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP
05KATHMANDU2146	DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGY FOR NEPAL [...] (C) Embassy Kathmandu welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Secretary's call for a strategic and systematic review of our democracy promotion efforts. The situation in Nepal is fragile and deteriorating rapidly. The main impediment to the growth of democracy here is the violent Maoist i [...]	2005-09-30 10:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC EAID NP
05KATHMANDU2151	RNA FINDS OFFICERS GUILTY IN RELATION TO HUMAN [...] (SBU) On September 27, the military court of the Royal Nepal Army (RNA) sentenced Colonel Bobby Khatri and Captains Sunil Adhikari and Amit Pun, the son of a senior RNA General, to six-month jail terms and temporary suspensions of promotion. They were found guilty in relation to the killing o [...]	2005-09-30 11:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PINS NP
05KATHMANDU2178	INDIAN POLITICAL LEADERS VISIT NEPAL [...] (SBU) During a September 28-30 visit to Kathmandu, a six-member Indian political delegation, headed by politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechuri, expressed support for multiparty democracy in Nepal. The group, which also included leaders of five other politic [...]	2005-10-04 11:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2185	NEPAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CITES IMPROVEMENTS, [...] (C) In a public session to review the activities of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) since March, NHRC Chairman N.B. Khatri and Acting Secretary Kedar Prasad Poudyal informed members of the diplomatic and donor community, including the Ambassador, that both Maoists and security forc [...]	2005-10-05 11:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER PINS NP
05KATHMANDU2210	NEPAL FACES LOOMING CRISIS IN PETROLEUM SUPPLY [...] (SBU) The state-owned monopoly oil importer, the Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC),is experiencing a serious financial crisis. Unable to collect payment of the balance owed by NOC, the NOC's supplier, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC),has threatened to stop providing petroleum products to Nepal. The [...]	2005-10-07 11:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL NP
05KATHMANDU2213	VICE-CHAIRMAN GIRI SAYS KING HAS "NO OBJECTIONS" [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Vice-Chairman Dr. Tulsi Giri on October 7 regarding Giri's earlier request that the Ambassador discuss with political party leaders a possible interlocutor to facilitate reconciliation with the Palace (reftel). The Ambassador explained that the Party leaders all s [...]	2005-10-07 11:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL NP
05KATHMANDU2217	ICJ GENERAL SECRETARY UNDERSCORES CONTINUED [...] (C) In a recent meeting with the Ambassador, Nicholas Howen, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ),stressed the importance of protecting human rights in what could potentially become an increasingly repressive environment in Nepal. The Ambassador and Howen discussed possibilities of prol [...]	2005-10-07 11:53:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER PINS NP
05KATHMANDU2218	EU TROIKA SEES STRONG RISK OF POLITICAL COLLAPSE [...] (U) An October 6 statement on Nepal released by a European Union (EU) Troika noted that unless all involved moved quickly to address the country's problems effectively, there was a "strong risk" of political collapse. The Troika called on those in Nepal who wanted peace "to act now." Specific [...]	2005-10-07 11:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS NP
05KATHMANDU2229	KING CALLS FOR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS BUT MUZZLES [...] (C) The same week the King announced that parliamentary elections would take place by April 2007, and a February 8 date for municipal elections, he promulgated a restrictive media ordinance banning news on FM radio and increasing fines for slander against the royal family. The Election Commis [...]	2005-10-14 11:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2264	NEPALI CONGRESS: NEPOTISM ALIVE AND WELL [...] (C) On October 18, Nepali Congress (NC) Party President Girija Prasad Koirala appointed 18 members of the 36-member NC Party Central Working Committee. On September 1, NC Party members had elected the other 18 members of the Committee, and re-elected GP Koirala as Party President (reftel). Si [...]	2005-10-19 11:53:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2293	PARTIES PAN POLLS, PLAN MAOIST DIALOGUE [...] (C) On October 19, seven party alliance leaders officially announced they would boycott municipal elections set for February 8 and would hold dialogue with Maoist rebels with the immediate objective of prolonging the Maoist's unilateral cease-fire so that a conducive atmosphere for dialogue cou [...]	2005-10-20 10:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS NP
05KATHMANDU2295	MAOIST ATROCITIES CONTINUE DESPITE CEASEFIRE [...] (U) Despite a three-month unilateral ceasefire announced on September 3 by Prachanda, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist),the rebels continued to commit atrocities daily. The Maoists abducted more than 4,500 civilians, including teachers and students, in the month f [...]	2005-10-20 11:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINS PTER PHUM PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2308	FINANCIAL CRISIS IN NEPAL OIL CORPORATION [...] (SBU) Only three weeks after averting a financial crisis, the state-owned monopoly oil importer Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has again defaulted on payment to its supplier Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). Nepal's Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) last averted a petroleum sup [...]	2005-10-21 13:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2315	SAFE MIGRATION: PREVENTION OF LABOR AND SEXUAL [...] (SBU) With dwindling economic prospects stemming from a decade-long Maoist insurgency, increasing numbers of Nepalese workers are leaving for other countries in search of safety and better employment opportunities. The Embassy and USAID recently gathered representatives from UN agencies and N [...]	2005-10-24 08:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ELAB PINS KWMN NP
05KATHMANDU2318	MIDNIGHT RAID SEIZES RADIO EQUIPMENT [...] (U) This contains an action request. See paragraph 9. Summary ------- 2. (C) Dozens of armed police stormed the Kathmandu office of Kantipur FM Station, part of Nepal's largest media conglomerate, near midnight on October 21, took control of the station staff at gunpoint, and seized sat [...]	2005-10-24 10:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2327	REVIEW OF STATE OF RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (C) In separate meetings with Vice-Chairmen Dr. Tulsi Giri and Kirti Nidhi Bista, the Ambassador expressed concern about recent developments in Nepal. The Ambassador shared the Department's October 24 statement on "The Government of Nepal's Seizure of Radio Equipment," stressing that the U.S [...]	2005-10-26 03:07:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2333	AFGHANISTAN'S INCLUSION INTO SAARC [...] (C) On October 26, Acting Foreign Secretary Nabin Bahadur Shrestha, in response to DCM sounding him out about Nepal's support for Afghan inclusion in SAARC (reftel),stated that SAARC would have to reach a consensus decision. He acknowledged that the idea had been floated in the past, but sai [...]	2005-10-27 00:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AF NP
05KATHMANDU2360	POLITICAL PARTY "BANDH" WIDELY OBSERVED [...] (C) The Seven Party Alliance pulled off a broadly successful general closure ("bandh") of transportation, schools, factories, and shops in the Kathmandu Valley on October 28 to protest the stringent new media ordinance and the Government's action against Kantipur FM radio station (reftels). O [...]	2005-10-28 11:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON NP
05KATHMANDU2377	VICE CHAIRMAN GIRI REPORTEDLY CRITICIZES PRESIDENT [...] (U) Major English-language daily, the Himalayan Times, on October 31 reported that Vice Chairman Giri, addressing a "rally for peace" in Rautahat (Terai) said, "I am very surprised why no one can touch the U.S. president while he is the biggest human rights violator. This government will ne [...]	2005-10-31 11:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS NP
05KATHMANDU2378	CONTINUING PROTESTS AGAINST MEDIA ORDINANCE [...] (U) Nepalese journalists, lawyers and politicos jointly launched protest programs across the country against the King's new stringent media ordinance (ref A). The protests, however, have so far failed to gain much public support. As reported ref B, the October 28 bandh was generally observed [...]	2005-10-31 11:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2379	CHINESE MILITARY AID TAKES PRESSURE OFF KING TO [...] (C) Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Thapa announced on October 24 that China had committed about 1 million USD for military assistance to Nepal this year, noting that more assistance would follow next year. The Ambassador publicly (septel) and privately (ref A) cautioned that, while Nepal [...]	2005-10-31 11:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS CH NP JP
05KATHMANDU2383	CHINESE MILITARY AID TAKES PRESSURE OFF KING TO [...] (C) Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Thapa announced on October 24 that China had committed about 1 million USD for military assistance to Nepal this year, noting that more assistance would follow next year. The Ambassador publicly (septel) and privately (ref A) cautioned that, while Nepal [...]	2005-11-01 04:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS CH NP
05KATHMANDU2387	AMBASSADOR'S REMARKS CALLING FOR FREE MEDIA, FAIR ELECTIONS [...] Ambassador Moriarty made front-page headlines October 26 and 27 i USG OUT IN FRONT ON SUPPORT FOR FREE MEDIA ------------------------------------------ 2. On October 25, the Embassy released the text of a statement by De 3. The Ambassador continued this show of support for free media [...]	2005-11-04 09:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PREL PGOV PHUM KMDR KPAO NP
05KATHMANDU2389	NEPAL-INDIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Indian Ambassador Mukherjee told the Ambassador that it was likely Indian Prime Minister Singh would have a bilateral meeting with the Nepal King on the margins of the upcoming SAARC summit in Dhaka. Mukherjee said Singh would likely send a clear message to the King on the need to reconci [...]	2005-11-04 10:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS CH IN NP
05KATHMANDU2390	EMBASSY ISSUES PRESS RELEASE WARNING AGAINST [...] On November 4, the Embassy issued the following press release in both English and Nepali, as discussed reftels. Text of Press Release: Embassy Warns Against Maoists-Parties "Alliance" The U.S. Embassy notes with alarm recent reports in Nepal media on the emerging potential for an " [...]	2005-11-04 11:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER OPRC KPAO NP
05KATHMANDU2391	AMBASSADOR'S REMARKS CALLING FOR FREE MEDIA, FAIR [...] Ambassador Moriarty made front-page headlines October 26 and 27 in a series of comments supporting free media and questioning the call by His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) for elections amidst a crackdown on the press and a continuing refusal by the government to reach out to the politi [...]	2005-11-04 11:20:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PREL PGOV PHUM KMDR KPAO NP

05KATHMANDU2399	NEPALI CONGRESS NOT FORMING ALLIANCE WITH MAOISTS [...] (C) Nepali Congress (NC) President GP Koirala, reacting to the Embassy's recent statement warning against a Maoist-Parties alliance, insisted to the Ambassador on November 7 that his party would "not join hands with the Maoists while they still had guns." Koirala, who expressed concern about [...]	2005-11-07 11:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PINR NP
05KATHMANDU2400	POLITICAL PARTIES: TALKS, NOT ALLIANCE, WITH [...] (U) Responding to the Embassy's November 4 Press Statement "Embassy Warns Against Maoists-Parties 'Alliance'" (ref A),leaders of the Seven-Party Alliance stressed to the media that the ongoing dialogue with the Maoists should not be construed as an attempt to forge an agreement with the insur [...]	2005-11-07 11:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP
05KATHMANDU2407	MAOISTS MENACE RURAL NEPAL [...] (C) Taking advantage of the Maoist unilateral cease-fire, the Ambassador traveled to Lumbini Zone in western Nepal October 24 and 25 to discuss the current situation with local government officials, human rights activists, political party leaders and journalists. All told the Ambassador of the [...]	2005-11-08 06:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS PTER MOPS NP
05KATHMANDU2415	UNHCR REGIONAL DIRECTOR ON BHUTANESE REFUGEES, [...] (U) This is an action request please see para. 3. Bhutanese Refugees: Need Solution to Protracted Problem --------------------------------------------- ----------- 2. (C) Janet Lim, UNHCR Director for the Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, briefed the diplomatic community in Nepal on Novemb [...]	2005-11-09 07:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PTER PHUM PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2418	POLITICAL PARTIES GET MESSAGE ABOUT DANGER OF [...] (C) The parties have clearly received our message warning of the dangers of a Maoist-Parties Alliance and have reiterated that they would not seek an alliance with the Maoists unless they lay down their arms (ref A). CPN-UML Acting General Secretary Bamdev Gautam, who had maintained the need [...]	2005-11-09 08:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER OPRC KMDR KPAO NP
05KATHMANDU2445	NEPAL RATIFIES SAARC CONVENTIONS [...] On October 31, Nepal ratified two SAARC Conventions: SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution; and SAARC Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia. Ref A had reported Nepal had committed to ratif [...]	2005-11-14 08:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG NP
05KATHMANDU2452	POSSIBLE DEMARCHE FOR GOVERNMENTS HOSTING KING [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) King Gyanendra is currently traveling outside Nepal for three weeks. In addition to Dhaka (where he attended the SAARC summit),we understand the King will visit Tunisia for the World Summit on the Information Society, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, [...]	2005-11-14 11:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINS NP
05KATHMANDU2453	NO STAY ON MEDIA ORDINANCE [...] (C) On November 11, the Supreme Court declined to issue a stay order on the implementation of the controversial media ordinance (ref A). The Court also refused to continue the interlocutory stay order issued on October 27 ordering the government not to take further action against Kantipur FM, [...]	2005-11-14 11:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2488	NGO CODE OF CONDUCT NOW IN EFFECT [...] (C) Nepal's new Code of Conduct for Social Organizations came into effect on November 10, allowing the Social Welfare Council to suspend the registration or cancel an organization's license in case of a breach of Code. The Social Welfare Council formulated the Code after discussions with vari [...]	2005-11-15 11:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID NP
05KATHMANDU2492	CPN-UML LEADER: DIALOGUE, NOT ALLIANCE, WITH [...] (C) In a November 15 meeting with CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal, the Ambassador emphasized that SIPDIS the USG was not against dialogue between the political parties and the Maoists with the goal of bringing the Maoists into the political mainstream. While not clearly admitti [...]	2005-11-16 04:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS NP
05KATHMANDU2493	FEAR AND HOPE IN EASTERN, RURAL NEPAL [...] (C) During a November 9-10 visit to the Morang and Dhankuta Districts in Eastern Nepal, the Ambassador met with the National Human Rights Commission's (NHRC) new Biratnagar team, journalists, NGO representatives, government officials, members of the business community, and discovered considera [...]	2005-11-16 06:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID MCAP PTER NP
05KATHMANDU2498	RASTRIYA JANASHAKTI PARTY TO BOYCOTT POLLS [...] (U) On November 15, the Rastriya Janashakti Party's (RJP) Central Committee decided to boycott the municipal elections scheduled for February 8, 2006 and the parliamentary polls to be held in April 2007. (Note: The RJP splintered off from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) in March to form [...]	2005-11-16 10:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2508	INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER [...] (SBU) Along with others from the donor community and United Nations agencies, the Embassy signed the following letter to the Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare regarding our concerns about the new Code of Conduct for NGOs (reftel). In the letter, the international community expre [...]	2005-11-17 11:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL NP
05KATHMANDU2516	CHINESE AMBASSADOR DENIES COMMERCIAL WEAPONS [...] (C) Chinese Ambassador Sun Heping categorically stated to the Ambassador in a November 18 meeting that China had no large commercial sales to Nepal in the works. The Ambassador described to Sun his comments at a press conference in Butwal (refs A and B) that new provisions of large amounts of [...]	2005-11-18 08:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MCAP PGOV PINS CH NP
05KATHMANDU2517	UML CADRES REJECT AGREEMENT WITH MAOISTS [...] (C) According to UML contacts, more than 400 cadres spent two days discussing the agreement initialed by the party's leadership with the Maoists to overthrow Nepal's monarchy. The group overwhelmingly rejected the pact, recommending instead that the alliance of Nepal's major seven political pa [...]	2005-11-18 09:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2519	UML PLANS NOVEMBER 19 DEMONSTRATION IN WEST [...] (C) The November 18 newspapers front-paged that zonal and regional administrators were attempting to mobilize local government officials to prevent CPN-UML's demonstration planned for November 19 in Butwal. CPN-UML General Secretary MK Nepal had told the Ambassador November 15 that the Butwal [...]	2005-11-18 10:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2529	UML HAS SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATION IN WEST [...] (C) On November 19, CPN-UML held a peaceful mass meeting to protest against the King and in favor of democracy in Butwal, Rupandehi District. Despite reported government efforts to prevent supporters from reaching Butwal, thousands attended. Estimates of the crowd vary: Birendra Chhetri, Cha [...]	2005-11-21 11:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2547	KING SHOULD SEIZE INITIATIVE AND CALL CEASE-FIRE [...] (C) In separate meetings on November 21, the Ambassador suggested to Vice-Chairmen Kirti Nidhi Bista and Tulsi Giri that His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) call for a cease-fire with international monitoring. If the Maoists accepted, Nepal would be closer to peace. If the Maoists refus [...]	2005-11-22 10:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM ECON EINV NP
05KATHMANDU2548	AMBASSADOR REVIEWS POSSIBLE PARTY-MAOIST [...] (C) In a November 21 discussion on developments in Nepal, the Ambassador and Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee discussed a reported agreement between the political parties and the Maoists. The Ambassador related that British Ambassador Keith Bloomfield had approached him at a social function on [...]	2005-11-22 11:28:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV MASS MCAP NP
05KATHMANDU2549	COAS THAPA WELCOMES PROPOSAL THAT KING CALL FOR [...] (C) In a November 22 meeting, COAS Thapa thought the Ambassador's suggestion that the King call for an internationally-monitored cease-fire was a good proposal. Thapa denied there was any cooling of our military-military relationship and welcomed a visit by PACOM Commander Admiral Fallon. The [...]	2005-11-22 11:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MCAP MASS NP
05KATHMANDU2556	PARTIES AND MAOISTS ANNOUNCE 12 POINT [...] (U) This contains an action request. Please see paragraph 14. Summary ------- 2. (C) On November 22, the seven-party alliance and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) separately issued a twelve point "understanding" in which both groups agreed to the goal of a constituent assembly el [...]	2005-11-23 12:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
05KATHMANDU2565	FM PANDEY: BITTER TOWARD INDIA, NEED TO [...] (C) Hosting the Ambassador over one-on-one drinks at his home just hours after returning to Nepal from his international travel, FM Pandey was particularly bitter toward the Government of India (GOI),accusing them of brokering the recent Maoist-Parties understanding (ref A). Pandey indicated [...]	2005-11-25 08:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PGOV AMGT NP
05KATHMANDU2595	MAOIST LEADER NEGATIVE ON EXTENDING CEASE-FIRE [...] (SBU) In a November 24 interview published on the official Maoist website and a November 27 interview with BBC's Nepali Service, Maoist leader Prachanda explained the benefits of the Parties-Maoist understanding (reftel). Prachanda called the understanding an agreement that was the "preliminar [...]	2005-11-28 08:47:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS MOPS NP
05KATHMANDU2605	UML PROTESTS PEACEFUL IN THE SOUTH AND WEST [...] (C) On November 25, CPN-UML held a peaceful mass meeting to protest against the King and in favor of democracy in Pokhara, western Nepal. Emboff observed the demonstration and found it was peaceful and that authorities did not try to prevent it from taking place. The demonstrators paraded th [...]	2005-11-28 10:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS NP
05KATHMANDU2615	GOVERNMENT SILENCES RADIO STATION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. Summary ------- 2. (U) On November 27, the Government shut down Nepal's first community radio station, Radio Sagarmartha, and seized its satellite uplink equipment at gunpoint. The government claimed that the station was violating [...]	2005-11-28 12:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2633	GOVERNMENT RESTRICTS TIBETAN REFUGEE MOVEMENT [...] (C) Two separate recent incidents cause concern that His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) may be restricting normal transit of Tibetan refugees. In both cases, HMGN has cited the need to investigate a November 17 incident when police apprehended 43 Tibetans transiting Nepal without docume [...]	2005-11-29 10:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF NP
05KATHMANDU2635	UML LEADER CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (C) CPN-UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal told the Charge November 28 that the political parties would shun violence, even if the Maoists broke the cease-fire, due to expire December 3. He speculated that the insurgents might pose conditions for extending the cease-fire. He emphasized his conti [...]	2005-11-29 10:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
05KATHMANDU2638	MAOIST ATROCITIES CONTINUE DESPITE CEASEFIRE [...] Despite a three-month unilateral ceasefire announced on September 3 by Prachanda, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist),the rebels continued to commit atrocities daily. They attacked infrastructure and used extortion and looting to fund their insurgency. However, data [...]	2005-11-29 11:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PTER PHUM PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2649	SUPREME COURT: PASSPORTS TO WOMEN WITHOUT [...] (U) On November 28, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court directed the government to issue passports to women under 35 years of age, without requiring consent of their guardians. Two female petitioners challenged the Cabinet decision of 1995, which barred government authorities from issui [...]	2005-11-30 09:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KWMN PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2652	GOVERNMENT INTERESTED IN US COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) In separate meetings on November 18, Nepali officials shared with visiting S/CT South Asia Officer William Slaven the actions that His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) was taking against terrorism and how those activities complemented U.S. counterterrorism strategy. Nepal is focused o [...]	2005-11-30 09:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL NP
05KATHMANDU2653	NC-D PARTY SUSPICIOUS, BUT VIEWS UNDERSTANDING [...] (C) In a November 29 meeting with the Charge, Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) Acting President Gopal Man Shrestha hailed the Maoist-Parties understanding a "breakthrough for peace and democracy," but noted that many details needed to be worked out. He worried that the Maoists might be usin [...]	2005-11-30 10:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
05KATHMANDU2654	SUPREME COURT RULING ALLOWS RADIO STATIONS TO [...] (SBU) In two separate cases, the Supreme Court stayed government efforts to curb radio broadcasts of news. On November 30, the Supreme Court ordered the government not to ban any FM radio station from broadcasting news until it issued a final decision on the King's February 1 declaration bann [...]	2005-11-30 10:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2657	FORMER PM THAPA WORRIED ANARCHY POSSIBLE [...] (C) Five-time former Prime Minister and leader of the Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) Surya Bahadur Thapa told the Charge November 30 that he was not happy that the political parties were "compelled to join the Maoists in an unnatural alliance." He explained that while the "natural alliance" [...]	2005-11-30 10:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
05KATHMANDU2668	DIPLOMATIC COLLEAGUES CONCERNED ABOUT MAOISTS, [...] (C) In separate discussions with the ambassadors of Israel, Norway, Bangladesh, and Germany, the Ambassador discussed our concerns that the recent 12-point understanding between the political parties and Maoists contained no Maoist commitment to give up violence (ref A). He remarked that the [...]	2005-12-01 08:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS NP
05KATHMANDU2685	MAOISTS EXTEND UNILATERAL CEASE-FIRE ONE MONTH [...] This is an action request. Please see para. 5. Maoists Announce One-Month Extension of Cease-Fire --------------------------------------------- ------ 2. (U) On the morning of December 2, the last day of the Maoists' original three-month cease-fire (ref A),Maoist party chairman Prachand [...]	2005-12-02 08:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
05KATHMANDU2692	UML PROTEST IN KATHMANDU MOSTLY PEACEFUL [...] (C) The December 2 demonstration organized in Kathmandu by the CPN-UML against the "autocratic monarchy" was largely peaceful. Emboffs observing the demonstration estimated that between 15,000 and 20,000 people participated. They said the atmosphere was not tense (the participants sang "We Sh [...]	2005-12-02 11:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2699	ANTI-TERRORISM ORDINANCE CHANGED [...] (U) The government changed legal procedures relating to anti-terrorism legislation when it most recently renewed the Terrorist and Disruptive Ordinance (TADO) 2005 for six months. The Courts will now hear all anti-terrorist cases in-camera. Under existing law, cases relating to "vulnerable g [...]	2005-12-05 10:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PGOV KCRM NP
05KATHMANDU2700	KING RETURNS, PROTESTS CONTINUE [...] (SBU) Following his return to Nepal after a three week absence, the King issued a statement on December 2 calling on the people of Nepal to unite with patriotism. Though he did not specifically address the Party-Maoist 12 point understanding announced in his absence, he termed efforts toward [...]	2005-12-05 10:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2728	EMBASSY RAISES TIBETAN REFUGEE PROBLEM [...] (C) On December 5, the Charge spoke with the Foreign Minister and the following day with the Home Secretary to urge His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) to resume normal transit of Tibetan refugees (reftel),flagging the severe overcrowding at the Tibetan Reception Center (TRC). In both ca [...]	2005-12-06 10:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF NP
05KATHMANDU2733	USTDA IDENTIFIES PROFITABLE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS [...] (SBU) In separate meetings during her recent mission to Nepal, U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) contractor Judy Chang found that U.S. companies may have a competitive advantage in transportation projects in Nepal dealing with cargo rail development, the upgrading of airports, and inte [...]	2005-12-07 07:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EFIN ETRD ELTN EAIR PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2743	KING RESHUFFLES CABINET [...] (SBU) On December 7, King Gyanendra reshuffled his cabinet for the third time since February 1, keeping both Vice Chairmen Tulsi Giri and Kirti Nidhi Bista, and Foreign Minster Ramesh Nath Pandey. He did not appoint a Prime Minister. The King included 18 new faces (four new to national gover [...]	2005-12-08 10:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2773	HUMAN RIGHTS DAY PROTEST INTO RESTRICTED AREA [...] (C) The Citizens Movement for Peace and Democracy (CMPD) organized a demonstration in Kathmandu to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10. The organizers announced their intention to enter into a restricted area in the center of Kathmandu as part of their call for the restoration o [...]	2005-12-12 09:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2783	DOMINANT MAOIST PRESENCE IN FAR WEST DISTRICT OF [...] (C) During a December 5-9 World Food Program (WFP)-organized trip including the Norwegian Ambassador, the mission head for Britain's Dept. for International Development (DFID),a representative of the Technical Cooperation of the Federal Republic of Germany (GTZ),and the Embassy's P/E Chief t [...]	2005-12-12 11:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID MOPS NP
05KATHMANDU2791	LOOKING TOWARD SPRING 2006 UN HR MEETING IN GENEVA [...] (C) A group of representatives of countries donating to the Nepal Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) met on December 9 to discuss strategy regarding Nepal for the Spring 2006 UN Commission on Human Rights (CHR) meeting in Geneva. The representatives agreed that while either [...]	2005-12-13 10:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2793	INDIAN FS SARAN: KING NEEDS TO RECONCILE WITH [...] (C) On December 12, Indian Foreign Secretary Saran told the Ambassador that he was visiting Nepal to follow-up on the Dhaka meeting between PM Singh and King Gyanendra and to keep open lines of communication with the government in Nepal. Saran's message to the King in his December 13 audience w [...]	2005-12-13 11:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2804	NEW HOME MINISTER TO PROMOTE DIALOGUE WITH PARTIES [...] (C) New Home Minister Kamal Thapa told the Ambassador on December 13 that until "the Maoists showed sincerity," the government would not talk with them. Thapa saw no indication that the Maoists had changed their policy of using violence to achieve their goal of power, even if they now say that [...]	2005-12-14 10:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP
05KATHMANDU2811	FM PANDEY SEEKS SPECIAL, LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) On December 14, Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey emphasized to the Ambassador that HMGN sought a long-term special Nepal-U.S. relationship; Pandey urged the U.S. to change course and use engagement, rather than pressure, with the King. The Ambassador responded that he was authorized to [...]	2005-12-15 10:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PREF PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2813	MAJOR PARTY HEADS SKEPTICAL ABOUT FUTURE MAOIST [...] (C) On December 14, in separate meetings with Nepali Congress (NC) President G.P. Koirala and CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal, the Ambassador cautioned that SIPDIS if the Maoists returned to violence, Washington would look askance at the political parties remaining linked to the [...]	2005-12-15 11:28:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
05KATHMANDU2816	PARTY DEMONSTRATION PEACEFUL, BUT VALLEY-WIDE [...] (C) The December 15 demonstration organized in Kathmandu by the seven party alliance was peaceful. Emboffs observing the demonstration estimated that between 5,000 and 7,000 people participated. The atmosphere was not tense, although many police monitored the demonstration. UN OHCHR and othe [...]	2005-12-15 11:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CASC ASEC NP
05KATHMANDU2820	FINANCE MINISTER WANTS TO ENSURE NEPAL QUALIFIES [...] (C) On December 14, newly-appointed Finance Minister Roop Jyoti agreed with the Ambassador that everyone should be worried about Nepal meeting its World Bank commitments to prevent Nepal's USD 100 million Poverty Reduction Strategy Credit II (PRSC II) loan from being jeopardized. He said that [...]	2005-12-16 05:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL PGOV EINV EFIN EAID NP
05KATHMANDU2827	PARTY CLOSURE OF KATHMANDU VALLEY WIDELY [...] (C) Students and the seven political parties' cadre enforced the seven-party-alliance-called December 16 bandh (closure) of Kathmandu Valley to protest the December 14 indiscriminate killing of civilians by a Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) soldier in Nagarkot (reftel). Emboffs observed that most s [...]	2005-12-16 10:28:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MOPS ASEC CASC NP
05KATHMANDU2871	LITTLE PROGRESS ON REFUGEE ISSUES [...] (C) Despite calls in a variety of meetings from December 12-15 by the Ambassador, DCM and visiting PRM/ANE Deputy Director Larry Bartlett for His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) to issue travel documents and exit permits to Tibetan and Bhutanese refugees, HMGN continued to withhold issuanc [...]	2005-12-20 09:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL NP
05KATHMANDU2885	SUPREME COURT DECISIONS IMPROVE WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND [...] (C) On December 15, the Supreme Court nullified a law that required married women wanting to sell their land to obtain consent from their husband, son, and unmarried daughters, and for unmarried women to get consent from their father and mother. The Court also issued a directive order for His [...]	2005-12-21 10:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KWMN NP
05KATHMANDU2905	PALACE REMAINS ON COURSE WITH FEBRUARY 1 GOALS [...] (C) In a December 20 press conference, Vice-Chairman Dr. Tulsi Giri gave what was widely regarded as a response to the messages carried by Indian FS Saran (ref A) and the Ambassador in his December 16 meeting with the King. Giri said the government was moving forward on the King's February 1 [...]	2005-12-23 06:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL NP
05KATHMANDU2906	SECRETARY GENERAL OF PARLIAMENT EAGER FOR [...] (SBU) On December 21, Surya Kiran Gurung, Secretary General of Nepal's Parliament, met with a Congressional Staffdel and welcomed possible future Parliamentary exchange between the two countries, although he was not confident that Nepal would have an acting Parliament in the near future. Gurun [...]	2005-12-23 06:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL NP
05KATHMANDU2907	MAOISTS ANNOUNCE ACTION AGAINST ELECTION [...] (C) On December 22, the Maoists reacted to Vice-Chairman Giri's December 20 statement (septel) in a public relations campaign aimed at both internal and external audiences. Maoists announced a February 5-11 strike to boycott elections, including "physical action" against those involved in the [...]	2005-12-23 06:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2939	PRO-PALACE SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS [...] (C) On December 28, the King appointed four pro-Palace judges to the Supreme Court, including former Attorney General Pawan Kumar Ojha who resigned his post on December 25 to accept the Supreme Court nomination. Supreme Court judges must retire at age 65, but there were no new vacancies or ex [...]	2005-12-28 09:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP
05KATHMANDU2952	INDIAN OIL CORPORATION FLEXIBLE WITH NEPAL'S LATE [...] (C) The Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) concluded a three-day review meeting on December 25th in which the IOC stated it "would extend maximum help" to the NOC regarding the NOC's request to extend payment deadlines. The NOC has recently paid import bills late and [...]	2005-12-30 07:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ENRG ETRD EFIN PGOV NP
05KATHMANDU2956	PARTIES PLAN POLL BOYCOTT [...] (C) The UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on December 28 that the Maoist leadership had given assurances that they had not instructed cadre to abduct or kill as part of their anti-election plan (ref A). The Maoists gave no indication whether they would extend the [...]	2005-12-30 08:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM PREL NP
05KATHMANDU2969	UML SUSPICIOUS OF MAOIST INTENTIONS [...] (C) UML Leader MK Nepal told the Charge on December 30 that he was suspicious of Maoist intentions. He said the Maoists were not acting against the Palace, but rather targeting common people, so he suspected the Maoists were playing both the Parties and the Palace. He said he did not know wh [...]	2005-12-30 10:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL NP
05KHARTOUM1945	SUDAN MARKS WORLD AIDS DAY [...] On December 1, Sudan marked the occasion of World AIDS Day with the Khartoum launch of the Global Campaign "Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS" at Friendship Hall. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, the Sudan National AIDS Program, UNAIDS, and UNICEF, the event featured remarks by First [...]	2005-12-05 03:55:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KHIV PGOV SOCI SU
05KIEV5150	UKRAINE: PRESS COVERAGE OF THE GAS DISPUTE WITH RUSSIA [...] Summary: Most Ukrainian media have described Russia's intention to hike Ukraine's gas prices as politically motivated. Many press reports also highlighted the assertion from Ukrainian leaders that this is a step in Ukraine's transition from patriarchal to pragmatic relations with Russia. Depen [...]	2005-12-23 10:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO EPET ENRG PREL PGOV RS UP
05KIGALI27	KAGAME CRITICIZES NATION'S OFFICIALS FOR ALLOWING [...] SUMMARY: In his closing address to over 800 GOR officials attending a constitutionally mandated "National Council of Dialogue", President Kagame hailed "good governance, security and patriotism" -- rather than "foreigners' wishes and beliefs" -- as the foundation for Rwanda's development. He [...]	2005-01-10 13:19:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM RW
05KINGSTON100	2004 A BANNER YEAR FOR CRIME IN JAMAICA [...] (C) Summary: For many Jamaicans, crime remained a major preoccupation throughout 2004. According to the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) Crime Statistics Report (CSR) for 2004, close to nine thousand major crimes were committed island-wide during the year. By December 31, the number of ho [...]	2005-01-11 19:09:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV SNAR JM
05KINGSTON1037	DEMARCH DELIVERED: WESTERN HEMISPHERE TRAVEL [...] Responding to reftel request, Charge on April 5 communicated talking points by telephone to Gilbert Scott, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of National Security, and to Barbara James, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industry Tourism. Both were interested in the issue and appreciated the advance [...]	2005-04-14 20:07:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	JM AADP AMGT CASC CMGT CPAS KPAO KCSY KHLS PGOV PREL CA BD XL XM
05KINGSTON1055	SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL KOLBE APRIL 17-19 VISIT TO [...] Post welcomes the 17-19 April visit to Jamaica of CoDel Kolbe. Jamaica, which has enjoyed a strong democratic tradition since independence from Britain in 1962, is undergoing a significant period of transition as longtime political leaders retire, or prepare to do so. P.J. Patterson, Jamaica's [...]	2005-04-15 21:21:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS JM
05KINGSTON1100	KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: APRIL 1-21, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- Golding Wins By-Election in Peaceful Day of Voting -- Violence in West Kingston Follows Golding Election -- Phillips Steps Up Crime-Fighting Measures -- Tourism Industry Resists Government Price Hikes -- Unions Seek Increased Benefits for Sugar Workers -- Chinese Rai [...]	2005-04-22 21:06:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON JM KCOR KCRM EINV EAID ELAB
05KINGSTON1106	PNP INSIDER SHARES PREDICTIONS OF PRIME MINISTER'S [...] (U) Poloff met on April 18 with Balfour Denniston, member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the People's National Party (PNP). Denniston discussed Prime Minister P.J. Patterson's expected plans for retirement in the next year, and the candidates who are likely to succeed him as par [...]	2005-04-25 16:17:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	JM PREL PGOV
05KINGSTON1161	JAMAICAN DELEGATION TO THE OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] Per reftel request, poloff on April 29 delivered reftel points on the OAS General Assembly to Ann Scott, Caribbean and Americas Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Scott responded that Foreign Minister K.D. Knight has been proposed to lead the delegation, but that the r [...]	2005-05-02 14:29:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	JM AORC ASEC CVIS PREL PGOV EAID KSUM KPAO XM OAS
05KINGSTON1197	KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: APR 22 - MAY 6, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- Police Under Attack from Kingston Gunmen -- Latest Crime Statistics -- Prime Minister Rolls Out the Goodies -- PNP Sources Report Concerns of a Party Divided -- Mexican President Fox Visits Jamaica -- Air Jamaica Settles Labor Dispute ----------------------------- [...]	2005-05-06 20:58:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV JM SNAR KCOR KCRM ELAB
05KINGSTON1251	GOJ SUPPORT FOR IACHR CANDIDATE CAROZZA STILL [...] On April 29, poloff deliverd reftel talking points and CV by telephone and fax to Angella Brown, Deputy Director, International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). Brown welcomed the information and replied that she was already aware of the issue a [...]	2005-05-12 18:47:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM XM JM OAS
05KINGSTON1257	2005 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] Embassy Kingston is aware of one investment dispute between a U.S. citizen/entity and the GOJ. This dispute was first described in ref B, was updated in refs C and D, and was included in the 2004 Report on Investment Disputes. 2. Post was last contacted by Claimant via his lawyer in June [...]	2005-05-12 20:33:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	KIDE EINV ECON CASC EFIN PGOV JM OPIC
05KINGSTON1289	JAMAICA: POLICE OFFICERS CALL OUT SICK [...] (U) On Monday, May 9, angry Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) officers blocked Finance Minister Omar Davies from leaving the Ministry of Finance and Planning building in an attempt to force the Minister to respond within 48 hours to the officers, demands for a 47 percent wage increase. Davies, [...]	2005-05-18 17:17:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR ASEC JM
05KINGSTON1321	JAMAICA: CRIME SNAPSHOT FOR MAY 9 - 20 [...] Crime Statistics 2. Another Police Officer Slain in the Line of Duty 3. Prime Minister Calls Crucial Meeting on Corruption 4. Gunmen Open Fire on Passenger Bus Filled with School Children ------------------------------ Crime Statistics - Nothing New ------------------------------ Â [...]	2005-05-24 16:40:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR JM
05KINGSTON1337	PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANIZATION OF JAMAICA CALL FOR [...] (C) Protesting against the escalating crime rate, the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ) announced on Thursday, May 19, their intention to lead a three day protest, commencing with a rally at Emancipation Park, located a block from the Consular Section in New Kingston, on Wednesday, [...]	2005-05-25 13:48:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR JM
05KINGSTON1342	DIRECTOR FOR CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS MEETS WITH JLP [...] (U) Visiting WHA/CAR Office Director Brian Nichols, accompanied by poloff, met on May 10 with James Robertson, Deputy Leader of the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) and Member of Parliament for Western St. Thomas. Robertson offered his views on the recent spate of police killings in Kingston, JLP le [...]	2005-05-25 20:51:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM JM
05KINGSTON1346	WHA/CAR DIRECTOR NICHOLS DISCUSSES WHTI WITH GOJ [...] Summary: On May 11, Director of Caribbean Affairs Brian Nichols and Econoff met with Paul E. Pennicook, Director of Tourism at the Jamaica Tourist Board, to discuss the impact of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) on Jamaica's tourism industry, as well as the general prospects fo [...]	2005-05-26 16:34:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV CPAS JM
05KINGSTON1349	JAMAICA: ANTI-CRIME PROTEST RECEIVES MIXED REACTION [...] (U) Summary: Across the island, there was mixed reaction as well as turnout to the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica's (PSOJ) May 25 call for businesses to close down in a show of solidarity against the escalating crime rate. Most private sector businesses supported the idea of reduction [...]	2005-05-26 19:20:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR JM
05KINGSTON1361	WHA/CAR DIRECTOR MEETS WITH LEADING PM CANDIDATE, [...] (C) On May 11, visiting WHA/CAR Director Brian Nichols met with Undersecretary for Bilateral Affairs and non-resident Ambassador to Haiti Peter Black to discuss OASGA issues, the situation in Haiti, and the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI),about which Black registered concern. Nich [...]	2005-05-27 20:58:00	Embassy Kingston	SECRET	PREL PGOV KCRM PINR JM
05KINGSTON1363	WHA/CAR DIRECTOR BRIAN NICHOLS GETS DOWN TO [...] Summary: On May 11, Director of Caribbean Affairs Brian Nichols, accompanied by Econoff, met with American Chamber of Commerce President Anthony Jenkinson to discuss the business climate in Jamaica. While citing the ongoing difficulties caused by the high crime levels and the GOJ's heavy debt [...]	2005-05-31 11:10:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KCRM JM
05KINGSTON1449	A SENIOR POLICE OFFICER DISCUSSES DEPORTEES, [...] Summary: In a June 3 meeting with Poloff, the head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB),Assistant Commissioner of Police George Williams, concurred with one of the findings of an Embassy-funded study of deportees, acknowledged deep corruption within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF),[...]	2005-06-07 13:18:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KCRM JM
05KINGSTON1460	DIRECTOR OF CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS VISITS USAID-FUNDED [...] On May 12, WHA/CAR Director Brian Nichols toured the USAID-funded Grants Pen Community Policing Facility located in Kingston. Facilitating the tour from the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham) was Becky Stockhausen and Bob Olson from the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). Stockhausen [...]	2005-06-08 15:06:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KCRM JM
05KINGSTON1465	A SENIOR POLICE OFFICER DISCUSSES DEPORTEES, [...] (C) In a June 3 meeting with Poloff, the head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB),Assistant Commissioner of Police George Williams, concurred with one of the findings of an Embassy-funded study of deportees, acknowledged deep corruption within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF),char [...]	2005-06-08 20:46:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KCRM JM
05KINGSTON1511	PRIVATE SECTOR'S ANTI-CRIME DECLARATION STIRS MORE [...] (SBU) In a business sector show of solidarity against Jamaica's escalating murder rate, the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ) launched a three day crime protest on May 25 (Ref A) that received mixed reactions among the island's population. The May 25 kick-off commenced with a rall [...]	2005-06-15 16:04:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR JM
05KINGSTON1534	KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: MAY 7 - JUNE 16, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- TIP: GOJ Responding to Threat of Sanctions -- Foreign Carriers Yield After Call Blocking Crisis -- Mayor of Spanish Town Resigns Following Arrest -- Seaga Offers Advice on his 75th Birthday -- Crime Statistics - Count Them Yourself -- Tax Laws to Fight Crime -- Prime [...]	2005-06-17 19:11:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV JM SNAR KCOR KCRM ELAB CASC TIP
05KINGSTON1578	REFORMING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION: USG [...] On June 23, Poloff delivered reftel talking points and non-paper to Pamela Ingleton, Acting Deputy Director, International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). Ingleton accepted the message and said that she would share the information with her depa [...]	2005-06-24 19:42:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	KUNR PREL PGOV UNSC AORC JM
05KINGSTON1579	UN REFORM: PROMOTING OUR PRIORITIES [...] On June 23, Poloff delivered reftel talking points and non-paper to Pamela Ingleton, Acting Deputy Director, International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). Ingleton accepted the message and said that she would share the information with her depa [...]	2005-06-24 19:44:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	KUNR PREL PGOV AORC JM UNSC
05KINGSTON1652	KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: JUNE 17-30, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- Poll Shows Davies Gaining Ground -- Six Closer to Extradition to U.S. -- JCF Recruits Abroad as Crime Soars -- Jamaica to Launch Copyright Campaign -- Trade Deficit Deteriorates -- Jamaica and China Sign Bauxite Agreement -- Thailand Views Jamaica As Possible Hub - [...]	2005-07-05 11:29:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV JM KCRM CASC EAGR
05KINGSTON1667	EXECUTIVE ORDER BLOCKING PROPERTY OF WMD [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-06 18:36:00	Embassy Kingston	SECRET	PARM PREL PGOV MNUC EFIN ETTC JM
05KINGSTON1802	KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: JULY 1-21, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- Hurricanes Cause More Damage in Jamaica -- Government Leads Opposition in National Poll -- Police Raids Target Trafficking Victims -- Murder Leading Cause of Death in Males -- Jamaica Opens Embassy in Beijing -- President of Ghana Visits Jamaica -- Tranquility Bay Ru [...]	2005-07-22 20:15:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV KCRM CASC JM UNGA TIP
05KINGSTON1888	PNP INSIDER COMMENTS ON RACE TO SUCCEED PRIME [...] (U) Summary: On July 28, Pol/Econ Chief and Poloff met with Balfour Denniston, local businessman and member of the People's National Party's (PNP) National Executive Committee (NEC),the ruling party's highest decision-making body outside of its annual conference. Denniston shared his perspec [...]	2005-08-06 04:31:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR JM
05KINGSTON1919	KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: JULY 22 - AUGUST 12, [...] This week's topics: -- U.S. Trafficking Report a Wake-Up Call, Says PM -- Two More Officers Charged in Crawle Case -- Six Police Officers Charged in Flankers Case -- Murder Rate Continues to Soar -- Jamaica to Miss Inflation Targets -- Tourism Bookings Tumble -- Hurricane Damage Near USD 3 [...]	2005-08-12 18:30:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV KCRM PHUM JM TIP
05KINGSTON2026	VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ VISITS JAMAICA [...] (C) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Jamaica August 23 to conclude a 16-point agreement with Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, including a bilateral Petro-Caribe accord. Chavez arrived the day after U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson called for the USG to assassinate him, raising the profi [...]	2005-08-29 12:46:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG JM
05KINGSTON2054	UN REFORM/JAMAICA: PRESSING DIFFICULT COUNTRIES [...] (C) On August 25, Charge, accompanied by Pol/Econ Chief, conveyed Ref A points to Ambassador Douglas Saunders, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). Shortly before Charge was to depart for the MFAFT with Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Sakurai to convey the d [...]	2005-08-31 17:21:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PREL PGOV JM
05KINGSTON2069	LETTER TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH FROM ACTING [...] The Embassy received a Diplomatic Note from Acting Prime Minister of Jamaica, Dr. The Honorable Peter Phillips, requesting the following condolence message be forwarded to His Excellency George W. Bush, President of the United States. 2. Begin text: The Government and People of Jamaica are [...]	2005-09-02 19:54:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV OPDC OPRC PREL JM
05KINGSTON2082	JLP ORCHESTRATES ISLANDWIDE DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST [...] (U) On September 6, the opposition Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) carried out an island-wide demonstration against the People's National Party government, on the same day that Prime Minister P.J. Patterson was hosting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Cuban President Fidel Castro, and senior delegations [...]	2005-09-07 20:49:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI ELAB JM
05KINGSTON2292	THE CONTROVERSY OVER EXTRADITION [...] (C) On October 3, NAS Director spoke with the Legal advisor to the Minister of Justice, Dr. Stephen Vasciannie and Justice Ministry Permanent Secretary Carol Palmer regarding reports that the GOJ is preparing to move extradition cases from the Resident Magistrate Court (RMC) to the Supreme Cou [...]	2005-10-05 17:01:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM JM
05KINGSTON237	SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY IN JAMAICA [...] Per reftel request, the following text constitutes Post's 2004-2005 report on supporting human rights and democracy in Jamaica. 2. Jamaica has a mixed human rights record, with serious problems in some areas. The government is faced with high rates of crime, violence, and drug traffickin [...]	2005-01-28 12:18:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	JM PHUM ELAB KDEM KSEP PGOV PREL
05KINGSTON24	OPPOSITION LEADER SEAGA TO STEP DOWN AFTER 43 [...] Summary. Opposition leader Edward Seaga on December 29 announced his retirement from representational politics after nearly 43 years as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Western Kingston. Seaga, who had previously stated his intention to step down as party leader by January 31, 2005, surpris [...]	2005-01-04 14:16:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV JM PREL
05KINGSTON2505	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS DOHA [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-04 14:53:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KSUM PGOV JM

05KINGSTON26	PM PATTERSON RESPONDS TO SECRETARY'S ARTICLE 98 [...] On January 3, Post received by courier a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). The dipnote accompanied a letter from Prime Minister P.J. Patterson in response to the Secretary's November 22 letter regarding Article 98 (see Refs A and B). As the Prime [...]	2005-01-04 15:45:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL JM MARR OPDC OPRC PGOV XG XH XT KICC
05KINGSTON2642	AMBASSADOR'S NOV. 29 COURTESY CALL ON PORTIA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador paid an initial courtesy call on Portia Simpson Miller, Minister of Local Government, Community and Sport, on November 29. Simpson Miller, considered the most popular politician of either party in Jamaica, outlined the responsibilities falling under her portfolio [...]	2005-12-02 20:35:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR JM
05KINGSTON2682	KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER 26 - DECEMBER [...] This week's topics: -- JLP Holds Annual Conference -- Poverty Cut in Half -- GOJ Increases Social Benefits -- Brazilians to Invest in Sugar Industry -- Chinese Government to Finance Mega Projects -- Tourist Arrivals to Surge -- Police Officers on Trial -- Crime Statistic [...]	2005-12-09 19:08:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV PHUM ELAB KHIV JM
05KINGSTON2697	LEADING POLLSTER ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (C) On December 9th, respected veteran pollster Don Anderson (protect) discussed electoral issues with Pol/EconCouns and Poloff. Anderson described Peoples National Party (PNP) Member of Parliament and government minister Portia Simpson Miller as a strong contender to become the next leader o [...]	2005-12-14 12:36:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM JM
05KINGSTON2784	KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: DECEMBER 10 - DECEMBER [...] This week's topics: -- Police Officers on Trial for Murder -- Telecommunications Company Goes Belly-up -- Electricity Thieves Cost Power Company -- Cricket World Cup -- Bauxite Industry Labor Issues -- Weak Christmas Retail Season -- Egg Farmers Seek Duty Protection -- E [...]	2005-12-23 19:29:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV PHUM ELAB KHIV JM
05KINGSTON393	LABOR MINISTER DALLEY ON PNP SUCCESSION, LABOR [...] Summary: On February 4, Poloff met with Labor Minister Horace Dalley. On the eve of the People's National Party's (PNP) vice-presidential election, Dalley expressed his concern that internal factions could pull the party into conflict. He also shared his predictions for the election results, [...]	2005-02-11 21:16:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	JM PHUM ELAB PGOV CVIS
05KINGSTON623	GOJ, IOM, AND UNHCR AGREE MOST HAITIAN MIGRANTS [...] (SBU) Just after dawn on March 4, a boatload of 58 Haitians arrived in Long Bay, Portland, raising the total of Haitian migrants in Jamaica to 496. During a week which began with the one-year anniversary of former President Aristide's resignation and departure from Haiti, the GOJ continues to [...]	2005-03-04 22:31:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SMIG HA JM
05KINGSTON63	DELIVERED: FINAL INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT FOR JAMAICA [...] On January 4, poloff delivered reftel text of Jamaica's Interim TIP Assessment by fax to Ann Scott, Assistant Director, Caribbean and Americas Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). Scott acknowledged receipt of the fax, and stated that she would pass the informati [...]	2005-01-07 17:22:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL JM TIP
05KINGSTON640	A "NEW VISION" FOR THE JLP [...] (U) Emboffs met on February 24 with James Robertson, Deputy Chairman of the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP),and jointly on February 25 with Ken Baugh, Leader of the Opposition, and Karl Samuda, JLP General Secretary. Robertson shared his thoughts on the outgoing leader, Edward Seaga, and the JLP,s [...]	2005-03-07 21:15:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	JM PGOV PREL
05KINGSTON655	LABOR MINISTER DALLEY ON SEAGA, GENERAL ELECTION, [...] (U) On February 24, Emboffs met with Labor Minister Horace Dalley, who shared his views on former Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) leader Edward Seaga's departure from politics and the succession issues within the People's National Party (PNP). He also discussed his view of the party's platform in [...]	2005-03-08 18:55:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	JM PGOV PREL ELAB CMGT CVIS
05KINGSTON673	JAMAICA LABOR PARTY: FROM THE WILDERNESS TO THE [...] (U) Summary: The Jamaica Labor Party on February 21 held its annual conference, which had been postponed twice since September 2004 due to Hurricane Ivan and internal disputes. The meeting officially elected Bruce Golding, who ultimately ran unopposed, to the position of party leader. The even [...]	2005-03-09 20:36:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	JM PGOV PREL
05KINGSTON698	CHILD MARRIAGE: JAMAICA [...] Per reftel instructions, this cable addresses the issue of child marriage in Jamaica. 2. A. What is the legal age of marriage in your country? Is it the same for girls and boys? Is there a lower legal age for marriage with parental consent? 3. A. The legal age of marriage, with or with [...]	2005-03-11 16:59:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	JM ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN
05KINGSTON797	KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: MAR 5-17, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- Date Set for West Kingston By-Election -- A New Record? Crime Rate up 49% from 2004 -- Shooting at Funeral; Finance Minister Unharmed -- JLP Councillors Sue Government over Toll Bridge -- 11 Cubans Rescued Near Jamaica -- Jamaica Hosts African Diaspora Conference - [...]	2005-03-18 21:05:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON JM KCOR KCRM EINV EAID
05KINSHASA100	GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN BEMBA-OWNED RADIO AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Authorities in Kinshasa shut down two television stations and a radio station owned by Vice President Bemba. These stations aired comments made by an ousted former minister, which were critical of President Kabila. This action comes during a period of heightened tension between [...]	2005-01-21 09:07:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KPAO CG
05KINSHASA1010	DPKO AFRICA CHIEF TITOV VISIT TO THE DRC [...] (C) Summary: UN DPKO Africa Division Chief Dmitry Titov briefed several diplomats June 11 on his visit to the DRC, the first in two years. Titov spoke of particular concerns regarding Ituri District, and negative influence from neighboring states. In addition, Titov reported &palpable8 tensi [...]	2005-06-20 14:03:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO CG UN
05KINSHASA1013	REDUCED ITURI MILITIAS SHOWING RENEWED LIFE [...] (U) During his recent visit to the DRC (septel),UN DPKO Africa Chief Dmitry Titov spoke at some length regarding continuing security concerns in Ituri District. These comments echo those of MONUC, GDRC, and international community representatives of renewed dangers in the key northeastern D [...]	2005-06-20 15:18:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO PGOV CG
05KINSHASA1033	CONGO/B: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHES AND TIP [...] The following demarches were delivered on June 16, 2005, by the Ambassador and Econ/Cons Officer to Ambassador Gregoire Kaya, Interim Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 2. Release of the 2005 TIP Report (REF A) - Ambassador conveyed to Kaya that the 2005 TIP Report [...]	2005-06-23 10:05:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OPRC KCRM KWMN PHUM KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER CVIS KVPR KPAO EAGR ETRD TBIO PARM MNUC KNNP KUNR PGOV AORC CF UNESCO KSCI UNSC
05KINSHASA1042	KINSHASA TENSE AS JUNE 30 APPROACHES [...] (SBU) Summary: Though tensions are rising in Kinshasa and elsewhere in the country in anticipation of June 30, the security situation remains generally calm. Some opposition leaders, most particularly UDPS leader Etienne Tshisekedi, continue to call for the end of the transitional government [...]	2005-06-24 16:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CG
05KINSHASA1043	CATHOLIC BISHOPS SEND MIXED MESSAGE ON TRANSITION [...] (U) The Catholic Bishops' Conference (CENCO) issued a statement June 22 in which it criticized "the automatic extension" of the transition, as well as calls to bring the transition down June 30th by "violence and chaos." The Bishops want the government to explain why elections were not organiz [...]	2005-06-24 16:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM CG
05KINSHASA1053	JUNE 30--KINSHASA CALM BUT JUMPY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Kinshasa is calm but jumpy in the run-up to June 30. As expected, the Congolese military and police have increased visible patrols throughout Kinshasa over the past few days, and salary payments for police and military in Kinshasa have started. There were no reported demonstrations [...]	2005-06-28 12:19:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC ASEC CG
05KINSHASA1055	UGANDA PRESIDENT MUSEVENI THREATENS PROBLEMS [...] (C) Ugandan President Museveni sent a letter June 22 to DRC President Kabila in which he condemns both the transitional government and MONUC for not taking more proactive measures against remaining ADF elements in Province Oriental (bordering Uganda). The letter follows a similar missive sen [...]	2005-06-28 13:54:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA1056	30 JUNE: PPRD CONFIDENT IN POLICE, LESS SO IN [...] (C) National Security Advisor Samba Kaputo told PolCouns June 27 that the government (i.e., the president's party, the PPRD) is confident that the police (controlled by the PPRD Minister of Interior) will support the government June 30, but that there are some doubts that all the military will [...]	2005-06-28 14:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR KPKO CG
05KINSHASA106	GREAT LAKES PEACE PROCESS - TRIPARTITE MEETING [...] (SBU) Ambassador-at-Large Andre Kaponga told DCM on January 20 the DRC delegation to the February 2 Tripartite will "probably" be headed by Minister of Regional Cooperation Mbusa Nyamwisi. (Note: Foreign Minister Ramazani told the Ambassador on January 18 that he would not be able to attend s [...]	2005-01-21 14:49:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PREF MOPS CG
05KINSHASA1065	30 JUNE: KINSHASA CALM, BUT TENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY. As of mid-day June 29, Kinshasa was calm but tense, with no security incidents reported. Post will continue to monitor closely the developing situation. END SUMMARY. More Monitoring --------------- 2. (C) Police patrols continued overnight in Kinshasa on June 28 without inc [...]	2005-06-29 11:43:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC ASEC KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1066	TRANSITION ASSESSMENT COMPLETE -- NOW WHAT? [...] (C) Summary: The government officially ended its assessment of the transition's accomplishments and failings June 28. The assessment, heralded in President Kabila's May 16 public remarks, has been officially billed as designed to provide a blueprint for improvement in the last year of the t [...]	2005-06-29 12:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1070	ELECTIONS: MIXED COMMITTEE APPROVES OPERATING [...] (C) Summary: At the urgent request of the Minister of the Interior, the electoral "Comite de Pilotage" (the oversight committee composed of ambassadors from donor countries, UNDP, MONUC and Congolese ministers involved in the elections process) met June 29 to review progress on voter registr [...]	2005-06-29 14:48:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1072	ITURI MILITIAS REPORTEDLY OBTAINING ARMS AND [...] (C) Summary. Monuc and NGO officials in Ituri have received credible reports of increased support for Ituri militias from Ugandan businessmen and military officers in the form of arms shipments, training, and efforts to build a coalition of militias. Monuc officials point to recent meetings in [...]	2005-06-29 14:57:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO PHUM PREL MOPS UG CG
05KINSHASA1079	JUNE 17 MEETING OF THE CIAT WITH THE ESPACE [...] (C) Summary: The International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) met with three GDRC Vice Presidents June 17. President Kabila was absent to attend the funeral of his aunt in Lubumbashi. The meeting lasted over four hours, with discussion in some depth covering Transition extensi [...]	2005-07-01 10:31:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO KDEM CG
05KINSHASA1088	SOLDIERS ATTACK CIVILIANS IN MBANDAKA [...] (C) About 60 soldiers went on a rampage July 3 in Mbandaka in Equateur Province, killing 9 civilians, injuring 35, and raping 8 women. Initial press reports identified the troops as Mai Mai, but the Minister of Defense and the National Executive Secretary of the Movement for the Liberation of [...]	2005-07-05 14:56:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MARR KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1091	FDLR STATEMENT [...] (C) National Security Advisor Samba Kaputo told Ambassador and other Tripartite ambassadors June 22 (reftel) that the GDRC was preparing an official statement regarding FDLR repatriation, which would be followed by the release of an FDLR statement indicating willingness to participate in unco [...]	2005-07-06 13:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CG
05KINSHASA1094	REFUTING UGANDAN CLAIMS OF ADF REGROUPMENT [...] (C) Recent Ugandan allegations that 1,000 Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) soldiers are regrouping in Ituri along the Ugandan border are unfounded, according to MONUC. Although Ugandan press reported that a joint aerial surveillance mission conducted with the UN in December 2004 identified ADF b [...]	2005-07-06 15:57:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UG CG
05KINSHASA1099	MONUC OPERATION SENDS SIGNAL TO FDLR [...] (C) On July 4 MONUC launched operation "Falcon Sweep" in the territories of Walungu and Karambe (located about 10km east and 50 km south east of Bukavu, South Kivu). The small (about 80-man) mission is designed primarily to determine the locations of FDLR elements, particularly concentrations [...]	2005-07-07 09:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO PREL MOPS CG
05KINSHASA1100	INTRA-FDLR FIGHTING IN EASTERN DRC [...] (C) MONUC and GDRC sources report fighting between FDLR units in eastern DRC. In a July 6 meeting, Presidency Special Advisor for Security Samba Kaputo told the Ambassadors/Charges of the U.S., Belgium, and Holland and UN SRSG Swing that fighting had apparently started around 1730 hrs (local) [...]	2005-07-07 09:33:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1104	FDLR REPATRIATION INITIATIVE UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Several ambassadors met with Presidency Special Advisor for Security Kaputo July 6 for an update regarding GDRC activities to achieve repatriation of FDLR members to Rwanda. Kaputo attributed the delay of a GDRC statement on the subject to an extended GDRC &assessment8 seminar, [...]	2005-07-07 15:32:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1115	SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIAL ARRESTED IN NORTH KIVU [...] (U) SUMMARY: Eighth Military Region Chief of Staff (COS),and four bodyguards were arrested and brought before a military court in Goma following a shoot-out on July 1 that killed seven people. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Col. Christopher Bindu (a Mai Mai) and four of his armed guards were arrest [...]	2005-07-08 11:02:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPKO ASEC CASC CG
05KINSHASA1143	TRANSITION ASSESSMENT: AN AMBITIOUS BLUEPRINT FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The final report from the government's transition assessment seminar highlighted challenges faced during the past two years and outlined recommendations for the third - and last - year of the transition. Although some recommendations were constructive, the vague and overly-broad r [...]	2005-07-14 15:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1161	CONGOLESE MILITARY MOVES COMMANDERS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Congolese military is in the process of moving a few key military commanders. As of July 18, Kinshasa observers believed that Brigadier General Matthieu Agolowa would replace South Kivu Military Regional Commander (MRC) Mbuja Mabe, and Banyamulenge General Patrick Masunzu would [...]	2005-07-18 13:15:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV CG
05KINSHASA1202	PRESIDENT REGISTERS TO VOTE IN KINSHASA - [...] (U) President Joseph Kabila registered to vote in Kinshasa July 24, the last regularly scheduled day for voter registration in the capital. Minister of Interior, Theophile Mbemba, a prominent member of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) which supports Kabila, also regis [...]	2005-07-25 14:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO PREL CG
05KINSHASA1203	MONUC OPERATIONS AGAINST FDLR A SUCCESS---WITHIN [...] (C) Summary: During MONUC's weekly diplomatic meeting July 20, MONUC Military Chief of Staff General Jean Francois D'Escury discussed MONUC's initiatives to address the FDLR problem, particularly in South Kivu. D'Escury stated that MONUC's recent military operations had been a success, express [...]	2005-07-25 15:05:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO PREL MOPS CG
05KINSHASA1220	CURRENT MONUC OPERATIONS IN SOUTH KIVU PROVINCE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and other members of the International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) toured MONUC operational areas in South Kivu and were extensively briefed by the Pakistani brigade July 22 - 23. MONUC has launched an aggressive series of operations in the provinc [...]	2005-07-26 14:42:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS CG UN
05KINSHASA1223	GDRC REMAINS SUPPORTIVE OF US POSITION ON UNSC [...] (C) Ambassador has discussed UNSC reform issue (ref A) with Foreign Minister Raymond Ramazani. PolOff also has raised this issue with Ramazani's chief of staff, Ambassador Fabien Zulu (ref B),as well as other GDRC officials. The GDRC continues to support the U.S. view that measures to refor [...]	2005-07-27 12:20:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KUNR CG UNGA UNSC
05KINSHASA1224	UDPS LEADER STILL PLAYING THE SPOILER [...] (C) Summary: UDPS leader Etienne Tshisekedi continues to miss opportunities to play a constructive role in the electoral process now underway in the DRC. Most recently, after demanding -- and receiving -- a one-week extension of voter registration in Kinshasa to ensure that UDPS members wou [...]	2005-07-27 12:47:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV CG
05KINSHASA1229	SOME LUBERIZI INTEGRATION CENTER PROGRESS [...] (U) Ambassadors/Charges composing the International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) stopped at the Luberizi military integration camp while on a visit to South Kivu Province July 22. The Luberizi camp is located very near the Burundi border, at the site of a prior, now largely d [...]	2005-07-27 13:48:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM CG
05KINSHASA127	HIGH MEDIA AUTHORITY SUSPENDS TELEVSION PROGRAM [...] (SBU) On January 13, the High Media Authority (HAM) suspended the television program "Forum des Medias" for thirty days. In announcing the suspension, the HAM remarked that this program has "proved to be in violation of ethical standards set out under the terms and conditions of its own contr [...]	2005-01-25 13:44:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO KDEM CG
05KINSHASA1289	VOTER REGISTRATION CENTER IN KASAI ORIENTAL [...] (SBU) An unidentified individual set fire to a voter registration center in Mbuji Mayi, Kasai Oriental, August 9, causing slight injuries to four people, and minor damage to the registration equipment, Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) officials said. According to these officials, around 1 [...]	2005-08-10 12:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO PREL CG
05KINSHASA1302	DRC-UGANDA DISCUSS CROSS BORDER TENSIONS [...] (C) Congolese Vice-President Azarias Ruberwa flew to Kampala August 9 to meet with Ugandan President Museveni and discuss the recent spike in cross-border security concerns, particularly in Ituri and North Kivu provinces. Ruberwa was accompanied by Presidential Advisor Serufin Wej and Ministe [...]	2005-08-11 13:33:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CG
05KINSHASA1320	GROWING LOGISTICS PROBLEMS TRHEATEN VOTER [...] (C) Summary: Accumulating reports of logistics problems in the ongoing and critically important voter registration process prompted an extraordinary meeting of the CIAT with the Independent Election Commission (CEI) on August 12, and a broader meeting chaired by President Kabila on August 15. [...]	2005-08-16 15:01:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO CG UN
05KINSHASA1323	ELECTION LAW MOVING TO CENTER STAGE [...] (C) The next major step needed for DRC elections is an election law to provide statutory authority and to specify the legal parameters for general elections. The issue has been receiving considerable attention in Kinshasa, most recently in the August 15 meeting chaired by President Kabila inv [...]	2005-08-17 10:06:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1329	CONGO/B: BEACH TRIAL VERDICT EXPECTED TODAY; EAC [...] (SBU) Summary. A verdict is expected today in the trial of 15 of the country's senior security officials over the disappearance of more than 350 political refugees in events referred to as 'the affair of the missing at the beach' or the 'beach' case. Post recognizes that there is some possibil [...]	2005-08-17 14:57:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PHUM AEMR AMGT KJUS CF
05KINSHASA1345	CONGO-B: AN ASSESSMENT OF POLITICAL STYLE AND [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A product of years of strife, struggle, and coalition building to gain and retain power, Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has emerged as the uncontested and unquestioned leader of government, chairman of the corp [...]	2005-08-22 11:28:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON PHUM ASEC ETRD EINV CF
05KINSHASA1356	ATTACKS ON VOTER REGISTRATION CENTERS IN ITURI [...] (SBU) Armed elements attacked two voter registration centers in the areas of Bule (120 kms NE of Bunia) and Komanda (80 kms SE of Bunia) in Ituri on August 22, UN and Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) sources reported. According to the sources, armed elements from the Union of Congolese P [...]	2005-08-23 10:18:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO PREL CG
05KINSHASA1383	VOTER REGISTRATION IMPROVING, BUT SIGNIFICANT [...] (C) Summary: At an August 25 meeting with CIAT, Independent Electoral Commission and GDRC officials reported improvements in the voter registration process. More than 6 million Congolese have now registered, and registration began in three additional provinces this week. Significant challen [...]	2005-08-26 10:41:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA139	REVISED CONGOLESE DELEGATION TO THE AU SUMMIT IN [...] (U) Post was informed January 26 that, due to a conflict with a previously scheduled trip to India, Foreign Minister Ramazani will not head the Congolese delegation to the AU Summit in Abuja as reported reftel. The Congolese delegation instead will be led by Vice President for Social Affairs [...]	2005-01-26 14:34:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AU CG
05KINSHASA1398	RUMORS AND REALITIES IN NORTH KIVU [...] (U) Rumors of war are running rampant again in North Kivu, fed in large part by General Laurent Nkunda's contacts with the international press. Nkunda has boldly declared his intent to recommence hostilities in the DRC sometime soon, with the alleged backing of hundreds, if not thousands, of [...]	2005-08-31 08:49:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CG
05KINSHASA1432	RWANDA EXPELS NKUNDA LOYALISTS [...] (U) Congolese press and Radio Okapi reported September 7 that the GOR had expelled 10 former Congolese soldiers who had fled to Rwanda with General Nkunda following last year's attack on Bukavu. The press reported that the 10 were sent to Goma, where they are currently under arrest. 2. (C) [...]	2005-09-07 13:03:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CG RW
05KINSHASA1433	MUSEVENI LETTER TO AU ON DRC [...] (C) Ugandan President Museveni has written several letters in recent months (to DRC President Joseph Kabila, the UNSC and President Bush) complaining about the alleged threat to Uganda's security posed by the continuing presence of some ADF elements in Orientale Province in eastern Congo. In [...]	2005-09-07 13:16:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV CG UG
05KINSHASA1447	SECURITY SECTOR REFORM: MOVING - WITH DIFFICULTY [...] (C) Summary: Several meetings in the past week have featured significant discussions at senior levels regarding critically important Security Sector Reform programs. The Ambassador and President Kabila reviewed the subject September 2, a long September 6 CIAT/Espace Presidential underscored t [...]	2005-09-08 15:19:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1455	EU SECURITY MISSION REFORM REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-09 10:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS EU CG
05KINSHASA1460	CONTENTIOUS ELECTIONS DISCUSSION AMONG THE VICE [...] (C) Summary: A discussion of the state of election preparations consumed nearly two hours during a September 6 meeting of the International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) and the Espace Presidentiel (President Kabila and four Vice Presidents). The discussion was marked by conten [...]	2005-09-12 07:32:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA148	2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - CONGO-KINSHASA [...] Summary: The Congolese Government (GDRC) has completed over one year of its transition from war to peace with only limited impact on the investment climate. The inclusion of former rebel groups in the GDRC has provided a modicum of political stability. Additionally, IMF and World Bank reform [...]	2005-01-27 14:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV KTDB PGOV PREL CG OPIC
05KINSHASA1484	MONUC TAKES ACTION ON SEXUAL MISCONDUCT [...] (C) Nigerian Civil Police (CivPol) officers under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct remain confined to their barracks in Kinshasa pending official results of a board of inquiry, an official at MONUC's Office for Addressing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (ASEA) reported. According to t [...]	2005-09-14 10:41:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO PREL PHUM CG
05KINSHASA1494	NKUNDA: LOTS OF SMOKE, LITTLE FIRE [...] (C) General Nkunda's return to North Kivu apparently is a non-event. Changed circumstances in the province have left Nkunda between a rock and a hard place. Reportedly fleeing Rwanda in advance of an anticipated arrest warrant, and evidently lacking financial or military support from Kigali, [...]	2005-09-15 10:06:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PREL CG RW
05KINSHASA1501	NIGERIA TO REPATRIATE CIVPOL CONTINGENT FOLLOWING [...] (U) The Nigerian Government has decided to repatriate its entire Civilian Police (CivPol) unit from MONUC following sexual abuse allegations which are the subject of an ongoing UN investigation, according to a September 15 statement from the spokesman for the UN Secretary General. The statement [...]	2005-09-16 10:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO PREL PHUM CG NI
05KINSHASA1519	ALLEGATIONS OF LRA ENTRY INTO DRC [...] (C) Some press reports indicated September 20 that the GOU alleges that elements of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have fled into the northeastern part of Orientale province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In response to these articles, PolCouns spoke September 20 to MONUC's milita [...]	2005-09-20 13:59:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR CG UG UPUO
05KINSHASA1532	LRA INCURSION INTO DRC CONFIRMED; MONUC AND GDRC [...] (C) PolCouns followed up evening of September 20 with MONUC on the question of a possible incursion into the DRC by elements of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). MONUC confirmed that about 320 armed LRA elements, accompanied by about 50 family members, had entered the DRC through Sudan the even [...]	2005-09-21 13:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA1559	LRA UPDATE: MONUC/FARDC MISSION LIKELY THIS WEEKEND [...] (C) Sixth regional military commander General Padiri continued September 22 to insist to LRA that the GDRC is prepared to assist with and accept only unconditional surrender. He told MONUC that he is negotiating, as of yesterday, directly with Kony (in Sudan) via satphone, as well as with Co [...]	2005-09-23 06:20:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MARR PGOV CG UG
05KINSHASA1567	LRA UPDATE: MONUC MISSION ARRIVES IN ABA, FARDC [...] (C) Three MONUC aircraft arrived in Aba late afternoon September 25 with Sixth Military Regional Commander General Padiri, several MONUC DDRRR experts and UNHCR officials. They were met by LRA Colonel Otti and taken to the LRA camp. Initial discussions were not promising, however. The LRA has [...]	2005-09-26 08:24:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA1579	LRA UPDATE: CONGOLESE WOULD LIKE LRA OUT [...] (C) Vice President Ruberwa told the Ambassador September 26 that he shares the feelings of other senior GDRC officials that the LRA incursion into northern DRC represents an unwelcome intrusion into what is already a complicated and sensitive context. The government would like the LRA gone, p [...]	2005-09-26 15:37:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV KPKO CG UG SU
05KINSHASA1584	LRA UPDATE: KABILA PERSONALLY ENGAGED, URGANDAN [...] (C) During a rancorous seven-hour meeting September 26 of the Supreme Defense Council (chaired by President Kabila and composed of senior government officials responsible for security issues),the normally soft-spoken Kabila uncharacteristically took Army Chief of Staff Kisempia and Air Force [...]	2005-09-27 08:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA1585	LRA UPDATE: PRESIDENCY OFFICIAL SAYS OKIDI NOT [...] (C) Prompted apparently by a September 26 conversation between SRSG Swing and President Kabila, Kabila's Private Secretary, Kikaya bin Karubi, called PolCouns September 26 to SIPDIS say that Kabila was very upset at implications that elements of the GDRC or the Presidency might have been in [...]	2005-09-27 08:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA1596	LRA UPDATE: CONGOLESE TROOPS MOVE TOWARD ABA [...] (C) Congolese Air Force General John Numbi told PolCouns September 27 that the first 200 (of a total of 500) Congolese commando troops left Kinshasa en route for Kisangani. Numbi said an additional 100 (again of a total of 500) commandos also were dispatched from Kamina training base where th [...]	2005-09-28 07:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA1613	LRA UPDATE: TROOP MOVEMENT CONTINUES, LRA HUNGRY [...] (C) The movement of Congolese troops toward Aba via Kisangani and Aru is expected to continue today. General Padiri spoke the evening of September 28 again with Colonel Tabu but no flexibility was evident in the LRA position. Tabu complained, however, that the family members (and presumably t [...]	2005-09-29 07:18:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA162	CONGOLESE FRANC EXPERIENCING INSTABILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Congolese franc is experiencing a progressively worsening bout of instability that commenced in September 2004, and which has seen the franc depreciate 17.4 percent from September through January. The Congolese Central Bank (BCC) has intervened with over $50 million in the pa [...]	2005-01-31 12:44:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV CG
05KINSHASA1626	LRA UPDATE: 200 FARDC TROOPS IN ABA, ANOTHER 650 [...] (C) Both the FARDC and MONUC confirmed to PolCouns morning of September 30 that 200 FARDC troops are currently in Aba. (Note: These are non-integrated forces which General Padiri had ordered transferred from other patrol points in northeastern Oriental province, one company plus two platoon [...]	2005-09-30 09:53:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA1639	RETURN OF DRC REFUGEES FROM TANZANIA TO SOUTH [...] (U) OFDA Rep Victor Bushamuka visited Baraka and Fizi from August 22 to 26 to assess the situation of returning DRC refugees from Tanzania. Fizi political leaders unilaterally decided in early August to send boats to Tanzania to bring refugees back to South Kivu at a rate of 5,000 per week so [...]	2005-10-03 08:23:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CG
05KINSHASA1641	LRA UPDATE: FARDC DEPLOYMENTS, CONTACTS WITH [...] (C) MONUC Divisional Commander Gen Cammaert confirmed October 1 separately to the Ambassador and PolCouns that MONUC was initiating during the weekend the transport of FARDC troops already in Aru (Ituri District, Orientale Province) to Aba (Haut-Uele District, Orientale Province) to deal with [...]	2005-10-03 10:41:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV KPKO UG CG
05KINSHASA1642	POSSIBLE PROGRESS REGARDING TEACHERS' STRIKE [...] (C) During an October 3 breakfast, Presidency Ambassador-at-Large Antoine Ghonda told the Ambassador that government officials are very concerned about the ongoing teachers' strike (reported reftel),and the risks that this could escalate into widespread social unrest. Ghonda reported that Pr [...]	2005-10-03 10:55:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CG
05KINSHASA1647	CONGO/B: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHES [...] The following demarches were delivered on September 16, 2005 to Mr. Felix Ngoma, the Americas Desk Officer for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Note: REF G had also been earlier delivered, on September 9, 2005, by Charge' d'Affaires Rutherford to the Minister of Finance (see paragraph 6). [...]	2005-10-04 07:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETTC KTFN EFIN PGOV PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR KISL KPAO OIIP TBIO EAGR ECON ECIN EAIR EAID KSCA SOCI UK SA CF UNGA WTO AID
05KINSHASA1648	MASS GRAVES REMINDER OF RWANDAN INVASION [...] (U) The grisly discovery over the weekend of three mass graves in North Kivu, probably the first of a series likely to be soon exhumed, is a reminder of the violence which has plagued the Great Lakes region. MONUC Head of Office Njuzi told PolCouns that MONUC's very preliminary estimation is [...]	2005-10-04 09:30:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV MARR CG RW
05KINSHASA1649	VP RUBERWA MUSES ON ELECTIONS, CONGO'S FUTURE [...] (C) During an October 2 dinner, VP Ruberwa shared his insights on his evaluation of his own character and electoral chances/options, as well as his opinion of the other two likely presidential candidates, VP Jean-Pierre Bemba and President Joseph Kabila. A Tutsi Triumphant ---------------- [...]	2005-10-04 10:19:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CG
05KINSHASA1658	ELECTION UPDATE [...] (U) The Election Steering Committee (Comite de Pilotage) met October 3 to review the status of election preparations and the general electoral calendar. Committee membership includes Chief of Mission representation from donors, UN agency heads, technical support staff, and senior GDRC officia [...]	2005-10-04 15:01:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1662	LRA UPDATE: OVER 300 FARDC IN ABA BUT NO MISSION [...] (C) As a result of MONUC's efforts in transporting FARDC troops from Aru to Aba, there are now about 350 FARDC troops in Aba. About 300 are in Aru, awaiting transfer via helicopter (25 troops per load) to Aba. FARDC likely will have to ask MONUC for transport assistance for another 500 troo [...]	2005-10-05 10:02:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA1665	15 MILLION VOTERS REGISTERED [...] (SBU) Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) officials said they had registered 15 million voters as of October 4. This represents over fifty percent of the initial estimate of 28 million potential voters nationwide. They noted the vast majority of voter registration centers have opened in all [...]	2005-10-05 13:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KPKO PREL CG
05KINSHASA1668	RETURN OF THE TIGERS TO DRC [...] (C) PolCouns met October 4 (at their request) with a group of Katangan Tigers in Kinshasa to, as they put it, pave the way for the return of the exiles. (Note: The Tigers are seeking to return after over 30 years in exile, as Kapend stressed several times. Given evidence of their attacks on [...]	2005-10-06 13:42:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF CG AO
05KINSHASA1672	TEACHERS' STRIKE: AN EMERGING DEAL, OR STILL [...] (C) Summary: The GDRC continues difficult negotiations with teachers' unions to try to end the month-long teachers' strike and quell rising tension throughout the DRC, even as private and parochial school leaders call for their students to return to school. The Government continues to face pre [...]	2005-10-06 15:54:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CG
05KINSHASA1677	LRA UPDATE: FARDC MISSION POSSIBLE SUNDAY/MONDAY [...] (C) The CIAT (International Committee to Accompany the Transition) meeting October 6 was briefed by General Babacar Gaye (MONUC Force Commander) on LRA-related developments. Gaye confirmed that MONUC has transported about 522 FARDC troops to Aba and said they expect to have the necessary two [...]	2005-10-07 10:00:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA1678	NEW CAST OF CHARACTERS FOR GDRC PARASTATALS [...] (C) PolCouns met in September with Ngoba Maloba, the former CEO of the Congolese electricity company SNEL, who was replaced in the August 5 realignment of the directors of most of the major Congolese parastatals. Although Maloba complained bitterly that he was the victim of &political deals,8 [...]	2005-10-07 10:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EMIN KCOR CB
05KINSHASA1686	LRA UPDATE: BACK IN SUDAN? [...] (C) As reported reftel, MONUC and FARDC officials traveled to Aba the morning of October 7 in order to present a "last chance" disarmament proposal to LRA forces that crossed into the DRC from Sudan on September 19. When the MONUC team, led by MONUC political section chief (and acting director [...]	2005-10-08 07:29:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO PGOV MARR CG UG
05KINSHASA1690	CONFIRMED SOUTH KIVU MASSACRE BY RASTA/FDLR [...] (C) Rasta/FDLR elements massacred 15 people in Kanyola, South Kivu on October 10, according to MONUC poloff. (Note: We believe the Rasta to be a radical creation of the FDLR. End note.) Two women and six children were among the dead. A FARDC patrol not far from Kanyola originally reported the [...]	2005-10-11 13:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1692	REOPENING OLD DEBATES [...] (C) The first week of the new Parliamentary session was disrupted by a debate on whether sitting Parliamentarians who have been named to posts on parastatal companies should be allowed to occupy double positions (and receive double salaries). National Assembly President Olivier Kamitatu told [...]	2005-10-11 14:13:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON CG
05KINSHASA170	DR Congo: Supporting Human Rights and [...] (U) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) emerged in 2002 from a war that claimed more than three million lives. With the assistance of the international community, the former government, rebel groups, civil society, and the political opposition formed a transitional government in 2003. [...]	2005-02-01 14:52:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB KDEM PGOV PREL CG
05KINSHASA1705	TEACHERS' STRIKE: GDRC OFFER ON THE TABLE, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Private school students began returning to classrooms in Kinshasa on Monday, October 10, but public and parochial schools throughout the DRC remained closed, waiting for teachers' unions to come to an agreement with the GDRC on their salary demands. This was despite calls from lea [...]	2005-10-13 10:15:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CG
05KINSHASA1717	VP BEMBA UPBEAT ON POST-TRANSITION ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary. At an October 4 meeting with the Ambassador and Economic Counselor in his office, Vice President Jean Pierre Bemba was upbeat and optimistic about the DRC economy and ostensibly about prospects for 2006 and the post-elections period. He laid out the GDRC stance on the ongoing [...]	2005-10-14 10:02:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV CG
05KINSHASA172	CONGO/B: MEETING WITH NEW FINANCE MINISTER, PLANS [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-02 06:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON CFED IMF
05KINSHASA1731	RAMAZANI WILL NOT ATTEND TRIPARTITE MEETING; DRC [...] (C) During his October 13 meeting with the Ambassador regarding the UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention (reftel A),Minister of Foreign Affairs Raymond Ramazani spoke about the upcoming Tripartite meeting and the security situation in the eastern part of the country, particularly in South Kivu [...]	2005-10-17 12:57:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1734	TEACHER'S STRIKE ENDS IN KINSHASA, CONTINUES IN [...] (C) Summary. Striking teachers in public elementary, secondary, and professional schools in Kinshasa agreed to go back to work beginning Monday, October 17. The final GDRC salary offer was accepted in principle and a dozen presidential decrees that promoted approximately 6000 higher-level te [...]	2005-10-17 15:05:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CG
05KINSHASA1757	SOUTH KIVU NON-KIDNAPPING [...] (C) Reports of armed Mai Mai troops taking UNDP hostages in South Kivu October 19 were discounted October 20 by MONUC Poloff. Disgruntled due to lack of promised pay, eight soldiers (out of more than 500 awaiting demobilization) temporarily locked an undetermined number of demobilizing soldier [...]	2005-10-20 11:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1765	DRC VOTER REGISTRATION NEARS 17.5 MILLION [...] (U) The Independent Election Commission (CEI) released October 18 its latest figures on voter registration in DRC, reporting that nearly 17.5 million people have enrolled for the Constitutional referendum currently scheduled for December 18. Almost one million people have registered in the pas [...]	2005-10-21 10:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1770	DRC, UGANDA AGREE TO COORDINATED PATROLS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. In a joint communique following an October 18 bilateral meeting, the GDRC and the GOU agreed to coordinate their patrols against suspected Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) forces operating in DRC. Such efforts are to be conducted within each country's respective borders, as neither sid [...]	2005-10-24 17:15:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA1776	OCTOBER 21 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT, VP'S: [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-25 14:56:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM CG

05KINSHASA1783	ITURI UPDATE: OPERATIONS AGAINST MILITIAS "BEARING [...] (C) Summary. Recent joint operations by MONUC and Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) against militia groups in the Ituri district have seen promising results, according to MONUC officials. Nearly 1,000 militia members have turned themselves in during the past month and mo [...]	2005-10-26 16:49:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS CG
05KINSHASA1784	FARDC: LRA FORCES BELIEVED NO LONGER IN DRC; [...] (C) MONUC Political Officer Oleg Sepelev briefed PolOff October 26 regarding the presence of Lord's Resistance Army forces in the DRC, as well as recent reactions by the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and Ugandan People's Defense Forces (UPDF) to the LRA's activities. [...]	2005-10-26 16:49:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS CG
05KINSHASA1801	CONGO/B: CHARGE'D'AFFAIRE'S INITIAL CALL ON [...] (U) On October 27, Charge' d'Affaires, Mark Biedlingmaier and former A/CDA Sharon Rutherford paid an initial courtesy call on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chief of Protocol, Ambassador Aime' Clovis Guillond. This courtesy call was the first step to introduce newly arrived Charge' d'Affair [...]	2005-10-28 12:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL CG UNGA PGOV
05KINSHASA1807	DRC: DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON IRANIAN EXTREMISM AND [...] (C) PolOff delivered October 31 reftel demarches and talking points (reftel B) to Ambassador Ngoy Lulu, Director of African and Middle Eastern Affairs at the DRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When told of Iranian President Ahamdi-Nejad's remarks, Lulu said he shared USG concerns that such state [...]	2005-10-31 15:12:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ IR CG
05KINSHASA1814	FARDC 5TH BRIGADE BEGINS FIRST INTEGRATED MISSION [...] (C) The FARDC 5th Integrated Brigade of the 8th military region began its first mission, code-named North Nexus, against FDLR rebels in Virunga National Park, North Kivu, on October 31. Also for the first time FARDC took the lead, with MONUC providing planning and logistical assistance, in [...]	2005-11-01 12:20:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1815	PRESIDENCY COUNSELOR ON EAST SITUATION [...] (C) I met one-on-one with Presidency Ambassador at Large Antoine Ghonda on Friday October 28 to review events subsequent to the recent Tripartite Plus meeting in Kampala. Regarding the situation in the east, Ghonda expressed some dismay about the apparent lack of USG understanding over GDRC se [...]	2005-11-01 12:20:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS CG
05KINSHASA183	HIGH-LEVEL DISCUSSIONS ON ELECTIONS, CONSTITUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Congolese political figures are holding a seminar in Kinshasa February 2, 3, and 4 to discuss electoral and constitutional issues. Key players such as opposition figure Etienne Tshisekedi and the Catholic Church will not participate. Ideally, the conference will lead to [...]	2005-02-02 16:29:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM CG
05KINSHASA1830	MORE THAN 300 FORMER ZAIRIAN SOLDIERS RETURN TO DRC [...] (U) On November 1-2, 318 former soldiers of the Mobutu-era Armed Forces of Zaire (FAZ) returned to the DRC from Brazzaville after fleeing the country following the fall of the Mobutu regime in 1997. The soldiers and their families (totaling 764 persons) are undergoing a sensitization and orien [...]	2005-11-03 14:23:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG CF
05KINSHASA1831	NORTH KIVU 5TH BRIGADE OPERATIONS: A STEP FORWARD [...] (C) Reftel reported a new military operation launched October 31 in North Kivu province in the area in and around Virunga Park, primarily targeting rebellious Mai Mai units and Rwandan FDLR. The operation is significant in that it represents the first involving a FARDC integrated brigade in e [...]	2005-11-03 14:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1834	5TH INTEGRATED BRIGADE MISSION AGAINST FDLR IN [...] (C) The FARDC 5th Integrated Brigade is continuing operations in its mission to remove FDLR rebels from Virunga National Park, North Kivu. Launched October 31 as part of Operation North Nexus (reftel),this was the first military action involving an integrated FARDC brigade in the Kivus. To [...]	2005-11-03 15:43:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1840	DRC ELECTIONS UPDATE: ALMOST 20 MILLION VOTERS [...] (U) The Independent Election Commission (CEI) has released the latest round of figures of voter registration in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Total enrollment through November 4 has surpassed 19.9 million. Enrollment figures by province are as follows: Kinshasa (2,963,101); Bas Congo (1,23 [...]	2005-11-04 13:11:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1845	Congo/Brazzaville: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHES [...] The following demarches were delivered between October 7 and November 4. 2. 60TH UNFC: Support of UNGA First Committee Resolution (REF A): Econ/Cons Officer Bakken delivered talking points and resolution text to Mr. Felix Ngoma, Americas Desk Officer for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (M [...]	2005-11-07 10:47:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON CF UNGA
05KINSHASA185	RESURGENCE OF ETHNICALLY-BASED VIOLENCE IN ITURI [...] (U) Summary. Lendu militias attacked the Ituri Hema village of Tche January 26, causing an unknown number of civilian casualties and hundreds of IDPs. A similar attack on another village February 1 apparently resulted in about 60 deaths. Clashes between Lendu and Hema militias in the Djugu ter [...]	2005-02-03 13:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPKO PHUM CG
05KINSHASA1854	MONUC DIVISIONAL COMMANDER COMMENTS ON NORTH KIVU [...] (C) Ambassador hosted for lunch on Saturday, November 5 MONUC,s eastern division commander, MG Patrick Cammaert. The Ambassador asked for Cammaert,s observations regarding the recently-launched FARDC/MONUC operation in North Kivu province targeting FDLR and Mai Mai elements in the Virunga area [...]	2005-11-08 10:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS CG
05KINSHASA1855	TSHISEKEDI GAMBIT WITH THE VISITING UNSC [...] (C) A few days prior to the arrival in Kinshasa of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC)on November 5 , two key officials of Etienne Tshisekedi,s opposition UDPS party approached French Ambassador Georges Serres to request a meeting with the UNSC. (Note: The French PermRep was the UNSC's lead for [...]	2005-11-08 11:38:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG UNSC
05KINSHASA1860	UNSC REITERATES SECURITY, ELECTION CONCERNS IN [...] (C) Summary: An intense schedule for the visiting U.N. Security Council in Kinshasa focused on the election process and security sector reform. There was some focus of good governance issues, although clear misgivings by some UNSC members limited those discussions. For reasons that are uncle [...]	2005-11-08 15:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO CG UNSC
05KINSHASA1870	LARGEST CONGOLESE BANK CLAIMS GROSS INJUSTICE [...] (SBU) Summary. The DRC's largest and oldest bank has launched a lobbying campaign in opposition to a Supreme Court decision that upheld a USD 5.7 million judgment against it. The Commercial Bank of the Congo (BCDC) claims that the October 28 decision is a gross miscarriage of justice and yet [...]	2005-11-09 11:55:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV KCOR KJUS CG
05KINSHASA1873	FARDC MILITARY TRIBUNAL REQUESTS MONUC SUPPORT IN [...] (SBU) Following an October 25 joint visit to recently discovered mass graves in Rutshuru territory by a MONUC Human Rights Division team and a FARDC military tribunal, the latter requested MONUC assistance in conducting an inquiry. Specifically, the FARDC military tribunal requested the follow [...]	2005-11-09 14:02:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1876	LRA UPDATE: MONUC-FARDC PLAN SEARCH-AND-CORDON OPS [...] (C) Summary. According to MONUC sources, Operation Eastern Endeavour is to begin in the vicinity of Aba on November 10, encompassing forces from MONUC and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) in an effort to identify and capture any elements of the Lord's Resistance Army [...]	2005-11-09 15:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG UG SU
05KINSHASA1893	IMPORTANT NEW POLITICAL COALITION BEING LAUNCHED [...] (C) Summary: Three veteran political figures, National Assembly President Kamitatu, and former ministers Endundo and Pay Pay, have formed a new political coalition that will back Pay Pay,s candidacy for President in next year,s election. News of the candidacy will be broached next week through [...]	2005-11-14 07:08:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1903	FIGHTING IN ITURI BREAKS UP A MILITIA CELL [...] (C) About half of a 3,000-man strong FARDC detachment, all elements of the First Integrated Brigade, backed by two MONUC attack helicopters and with MONUC logistical assistance, engaged elements of the Revolutionary Congolese Movement (MRC) November 14-16 in the southeast corner of Orientale p [...]	2005-11-17 10:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1907	NEW SOUTH KIVU GOVERNOR PRESENTS PLANS FOR THE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 17 meeting, newly appointed Governor of South Kivu Deogratias Buhamba-Hamba outlined his top five priorities for the province. These are: 1) improved intercommunity relations, 2) rebuilding and development, 3) ending recruitment by local militias, 4) region [...]	2005-11-18 10:19:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CG
05KINSHASA1923	INTER-PPRD RIVALRY BRINGS NEW GOVERNOR TO KINSHASA [...] (C) Kimbembi Mazingi, a little-known politician not involved in government since the late 1990s under former president Laurent Kabila, was appointed Governor of Kinshasa November 15. He replaced Jean Kimbunda, a close ally of PPRD Secretary General Vital Kamarhe. (Note: The PPRD is the S [...]	2005-11-21 09:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CG
05KINSHASA1926	CABINET SHUFFLE ANNOUNCED [...] (U) Summary: A long-expected cabinet shuffle was announced November 18. New ministers include Finance, Economy, Industry, Energy, Agriculture, Primary Education, Culture and Arts, Higher Education, and Youth and Sports. A new governor of Province Orientale has also been appointed. End summ [...]	2005-11-21 11:16:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CG
05KINSHASA1940	ONGOING FARDC OPERATIONS TO IMPROVE SECURITY IN [...] (U) Despite some press reports suggesting otherwise, there has been no significant increase in the number of internally displaced persons in Katanga province, DRC. Ongoing government military operations (which began over 6 weeks ago) against Mai Mai elements headed by renegade leader Gideon a [...]	2005-11-23 15:52:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV CG
05KINSHASA1950	ITURI UPDATE: FARDC CONTINUES ATTACKS ON MILITIAS [...] (C) Summary. The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC),with logistical support from MONUC troops, are continuing their attacks on militia elements in Ituri and are achieving more operational successes. However, a new resurgence of MRC activity in the northern section of Itur [...]	2005-11-25 13:11:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1951	Congo/Brazzaville: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHES [...] The following demarches were delivered by Econ/Cons Officer Bakken to Mr. Felix Ngoma, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Officer, on November 23, 2005. 2. MDA Demarch on Additional Geneva Protocol (REF A): In response to talking points and non-paper, Ngoma indicated that the informa [...]	2005-11-28 06:11:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON CF IMO WTO
05KINSHASA1954	CIAT SLAMS GOVERNMENT INERTIA AND PROCRASTINATION [...] (C) Summary: The International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) on November 25 issued an unusually harsh communique, taking the government to task for its continued inaction on issues of critical importance in bringing the DRC's transition to a successful conclusion. Frustrated at [...]	2005-11-28 13:09:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO PREL CG CIAT
05KINSHASA1956	KAMITATU DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM MLC/GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Olivier Kamitatu, President of the National Assembly and Secretary General of the MLC party, along with 45 MLC senators and deputies from all provinces, delivered a letter on November 26 asking MLC founder and DRC Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba for a more democratic party. In it, the [...]	2005-11-28 14:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR CG
05KINSHASA1960	FIVE FDLR KILLED IN FIGHT WITH FARDC IN NORTH KIVU [...] (C) According to MONUC's Goma office, the FARDC Fifth Integrated Brigade killed five FDLR militia who they had surprised while on patrol in Musesa, Rutshuru district November 28. Two FDLR escaped, and five weapons were recovered. 2. (C) However, North Kivu Governor Serufuli told polcouns [...]	2005-11-29 07:51:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1969	FOREIGN MINISTER COMPLAINS ABOUT CIAT COMMUNIQUE [...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Ramazani convoked the Kinshasa diplomatic corps the morning of November 30 to express the GDRC's unhappiness with CIAT's November 25 communique that took transition leaders to task for inaction on security sector reform, non-payment of salaries to the military, delays in [...]	2005-11-30 13:49:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1993	NEW DRC MINISTER OF ECONOMY, PIERRE MALOKA [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-07 13:11:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PINR PGOV CG
05KINSHASA1995	DRC ARRESTS SUSPECT FOR MURDER OF BANGLADESHI [...] (C) MONUC officials confirmed December 7 that soldiers of the Armed Forces for the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) arrested December 5 Justin Ngole Dalo, also known as Koliba, for the murder of nine MONUC Bangladeshi soldiers during an ambush in DRC's Ituri District in February 2005. Kolib [...]	2005-12-07 15:05:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA1998	ITURI UPDATE: THE MILITIA THREAT, PETER KARIM, AND [...] (C) Summary. PolCouns and PolOff visited Bunia November 28-30 to review ongoing efforts by MONUC, civil society, local government and NGOs to bring peace and stability to the historically volatile region. Militia violence continues to threaten these efforts despite recent offensives by the Con [...]	2005-12-07 17:43:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG UG
05KINSHASA2001	AMNESTY LAW: QUESTION MAY NOT BE SETTLED YET [...] (C) On November 29 the National Assembly passed the long-awaited amnesty law, but the central issue -- the fate of those accused of assassinating former president Laurent Kabila -- remains explosive and far from settled. Passage of the law itself triggered a spate of bad feelings, as the law [...]	2005-12-08 16:22:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG KPKO
05KINSHASA2017	PRE-ELECTORAL MOVES: KAMITATU GAMBIT COULD BRING [...] (C) The long-simmering tension between MLC president (and DRC Vice President) Jean-Pierre Bemba and National Assembly President Olivier Kamitatu (the Secretary General and number two of the MLC) has reached an explosive point which is fracturing the party. The divorce appears to have been trig [...]	2005-12-12 07:48:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CG
05KINSHASA2019	Congo/Brazzaville: Delivery of Demarches and [...] The following demarches were delivered by Econ/Cons Officer Bakken to Mr. Felix Ngoma, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Officer, on December 9, 2005. 2. EITI Update and Outreach (REF A): In response to talking points and non-paper, Ngoma indicated that the ROC has endorsed the ini [...]	2005-12-12 10:11:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KTFN ECON CF USTR WTO
05KINSHASA204	PARLIAMENTARIANS AIM TO FINISH CONSTITUTION BY [...] (U) SUMMARY: A working group of parliamentarians and government representatives agreed February 4 to a calendar that would have the Senate finish with the draft constitution by February 27 and the National Assembly adopt a final version by March 14. On issues of substance, the group basicall [...]	2005-02-07 09:42:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PREL CG
05KINSHASA205	INTER-INSTITUTIONAL SEMINAR UNREALISTIC ON [...] (U) Summary: The Elections Finance Committee of the Feb 2-4 Inter-Institutional Seminar highlighted the $100 million gap in funding for elections in the DRC. While committee discussion tended to focus on increased funding from the international community, plenary debate concentrated on general [...]	2005-02-07 09:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINS KDEM EFIN ECON CG
05KINSHASA2054	FDLR GROUP RETURNS TO RWANDA FROM DRC [...] (C) A group of 82 FDLR militia members, along with 76 dependents, crossed into Rwanda from South Kivu on December 15. The group was led by Seraphin Bizimungu, also known as General Amani. According to MONUC officials, the group entered Rwanda via the transit center in Shangugu with MONUC ass [...]	2005-12-16 14:30:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO PREL CG RW
05KINSHASA2055	UDPS TORPEDOS INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION INITIATIVE [...] (C) During the November visit of the U.N. Security Council to the DRC, members of Etienne Tshisekedi,s UDPS party approached the French Ambassador indicating that the party realized the need to modify the party,s rejection of the Transition and election process. In other words, the UDPS was i [...]	2005-12-16 15:36:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA2059	NKUNDA'S PRESENCE IN NORTH KIVU PROVINCE [...] (C) Following CODEL Brownback,s visit to eastern DRC, the Ambassador traveled Dec. 3 with the MONUC North Kivu Indian Brigade commander to a small forward operating base at Katchanga in the Masisi area of North Kivu. Indian military commanders told the Ambassador the base had been established [...]	2005-12-20 09:59:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS KPKO CG RW UN
05KINSHASA2060	RENEWED BANYAMULENGE TENSIONS [...] (C) There is a renewed threat of clashes in the High Plateau region of South Kivu province. The problem arises from a new source: tensions within the High Plateau Banyamulenge community. The proximate cause was the return of the "Group of 47," former Banyamulenge combatants who had reportedl [...]	2005-12-20 10:01:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA2065	AMNESTY LAW IN TROUBLE - AGAIN [...] (C) A December 14 Supreme Court decision (made public December 17) opens again the contentious issue of amnesty for the group of individuals accused (and convicted to death in absentia) of involvement in the assassination of former president Laurent Kabila. The Court ruled that such a crime is [...]	2005-12-21 09:55:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG
05KINSHASA2072	TAX AUTHORITIES ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: The GDRC's tax authority is grappling with a high-level scandal that also implicates several large enterprises. In October, Congolese authorities arrested the director of the national tax authority, Direction Generale des Impots (DGI),plus other DGI officials and businesspersons [...]	2005-12-21 11:16:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KCOR EINV ECON PGOV CG
05KINSHASA208	TENSIONS ESCALATING WITHIN CONGOLESE MILITARY IN [...] (C) Rumors reached Kinshasa February 4 that "large numbers" of Mai Mai are massing near Bukavu in South Kivu and threatening to attack the city. PolCouns spoke February 5 and 6 to Defense Minister Adolphe Onasumba, presidential staffer Mulegwa (currently in Bukavu) and Senior Presidential Ad [...]	2005-02-07 14:23:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PINS CG
05KINSHASA2088	DRC NEARS AGREEMENT ON ELECTORAL SYSTEM [...] (C) After extensive consultations, Congolese political leaders seem to be arriving at a tentative agreement on the DRC's draft electoral law, which will lay out the framework for the size of electoral districts and the type of voting system (i.e., majority or proportional) to be implemented for [...]	2005-12-23 10:18:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG
05KINSHASA2102	FARDC ENGAGES HEAVILY ARMED MILITIAS IN ITURI [...] (C) The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC),with air and other logistical support from MONUC troops, launched Operation Eden December 21 against militia elements in the northeastern Ituri District. MONUC sources report operations are being directed against the Congolese R [...]	2005-12-27 16:02:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG UG
05KINSHASA2110	ITURI: POSSIBLE UGANDAN SUPPORT TO MILITIAS; KARIM [...] (C) MONUC military commanders told PolOff December 28 that a truck captured by the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) during operations in Nioka (reftel A) belongs to the Ugandan military. MONUC officials said the truck, which was being driven by three Ugandan civilians (later arrested),bore the [...]	2005-12-29 10:27:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG UG
05KINSHASA213	OPPOSITION PARTY SEES JAN. 14 STRIKE AS A VICTORY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A UDPS political party official sees the January 14 general strike in Kinshasa as an indication of his party's renewed strength. According to the official, Vice President Bemba approached UDPS leader Etienne Tshisekedi recently with an offer of political alliance, but Tshisekedi [...]	2005-02-08 14:28:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM CG
05KINSHASA214	VP BEMBA WANTS TO DISTANCE MLC FROM TRANSITIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice President Bemba wants to distance his party from the transitional government, according to a senior official in Bemba's party, the MLC. The official said Bemba is trying to reach out to Etienne Tshisekedi's opposition party, the UDPS. END SUMMARY. Bemba Envisions Difficu [...]	2005-02-08 14:28:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM CG
05KINSHASA216	DRC BUDGET COMPLETE BUT MAY NEED REVISIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The draft 2005 GDRC budget is currently awaiting Parliamentary approval. It has increased 42.2 percent compared to the 2004 budget, with foreign assistance comprising 58 percent of total revenue. The budget is balanced and totals $1.809 billion. Provisions of GDRC normal income [...]	2005-02-08 14:50:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI CG
05KINSHASA217	CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON EXCHANGE RATE INSTABILITY [...] (C) Summary: Pol/Econ Counselor and econoff met with Congolese Central Bank (BCC) Governor Jean-Claude Masangu on February 2 to discuss exchange rate instability in the DRC. Masangu believes, as does the IMF (Ref A),that the GDRC budget deficit is largely to blame for the depreciation of the [...]	2005-02-08 15:05:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV CG
05KINSHASA218	CONGOLESE TRANSITION ACTORS EVALUATE ELECTORAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Parliamentarians and other transition government officials met in Kinshasa February 2-4 to exchange views on how to improve the electoral process. Their main recommendations include increased GDRC financial and logistical support for the Independent Electoral Commission; starting [...]	2005-02-08 15:08:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINS PREL CG
05KINSHASA23	GDRC RESHUFFLES CABINET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GDRC carried out a sizeable cabinet reshuffle January 3, replacing the Ministers of Defense, Mines, and Energy, among others. The long-awaited move is the outcome of a recent parliamentary report on official corruption, combined with a desire on the part of the RCD-Goma's l [...]	2005-01-05 14:38:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CG
05KINSHASA231	CATHOLIC BISHOPS TELL POLITICIANS TO GET TO WORK, [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Congo's Catholic bishops issued a public statement on February 5, calling upon the transitional government and parliament to buckle down so that national elections can take place "as soon as possible." The statement also warned unnamed political parties against "manipulating [...]	2005-02-09 15:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS KDEM CG
05KINSHASA234	SENIOR GDRC FIGURES ARGUE OVER WHO GETS TO MUZZLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The DRC's Minister of Press and Information, Henri Mova Sakanyi, issued a decree January 18 barring many radio and television stations from broadcasting political news and call-in shows. In protest, members of the Asociation of Congolese Community Radio Stations (ARCO) suspended [...]	2005-02-09 16:36:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO KDEM CG
05KINSHASA243	CONGO/B: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] As requested in Reftel, here is the 2004-5 report on Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record for the Republic of Congo (Congo/Brazzaville). 2. BEGIN TEXT: The Republic of Congo is ruled by a government in which most of the decision-making authority is vested directly in th [...]	2005-02-11 11:08:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KSEP CF HURI
05KINSHASA29	CONGO/B: GOVERNMENT MINISTERS ASKED TO RESIGN, NEW [...] (SBU) ALL MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT, MINISTERIES INCLUDED, WERE ASKED TO SUBMIT THEIR RESIGNATIONS LATE EVENING JANUARY 5, 2004. WE ARE TOLD THAT THE CABINET WILL DRASTICALLY CHANGE, AND THAT PRESIDENT SASSOU WILL ANNOUNCE THE NEW CABINET ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2005. IN ADDITION OUR CONTACT [...]	2005-01-06 15:01:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON ASEC
05KINSHASA295	INFORMATION MINISTER BACKTRACKS ON MEDIA BAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The DRC's information minister on February 16 rescinded an order he issued in January which banned community radio stations from broadcasting political news. END SUMMARY. Information Minister Backtracks ------------------------------- 2. (U) Minister of Press and Information [...]	2005-02-22 07:56:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO KDEM PHUM SOCI CG
05KINSHASA31	KABILA'S QUIET KISANGANI VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 3, President Kabila arrived in Kisangani, Province Orientale with little fanfare or advance notice. On January 5, Kabila met with several Ituri warlords scheduled to become FARDC brigadier generals. The President appears to be inspecting the new FARDC forward operati [...]	2005-01-06 16:08:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CG
05KINSHASA332	OFFICIAL REQUEST FROM GDROC FOR U.S. MILITARY [...] Embassy received February 24 two letters from DRC Minister of Defense Alphonse Onasumba to acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Theresa Whelan, requesting that the U.S. SIPDIS consider reactiving the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the DRC and provide assistance to the Trilate [...]	2005-02-28 09:21:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA338	MONUC SUCCESSFULLY DISARMS ITURI MILITIAS [...] (U) Summary. On February 23 a contingent of 350 Nepalese peacekeepers encircled a camp of armed militia who were threatening civilians in Ari Wara, Northern Ituri. The peacekeepers convinced the militia members to peacefully give up approximately 250 weapons and join Ituri's demobilization and [...]	2005-02-28 15:24:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPKO PHUM PREL CG
05KINSHASA339	CIAT STATEMENT ON ITURI KILLINGS [...] (U) Ambassadors comprising the International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) issued a public statement February 28 strongly condemning the killing of nine Bangladeshi peacekeepers in Ituri by militiamen on February 25. Copies of the communique were given to President Kabila and t [...]	2005-02-28 16:56:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPKO PHUM PREL MOPS CG CIAT
05KINSHASA342	INCREASING UNION ACTIVITY: PRIVATE SECTOR UNION [...] (U) Summary. The DRC labor sector is facing two key events in 2005: union elections and a civil census. Vice President Z'ahidi N'goma and the National Labor Council authorized labor union leadership elections in April 2004. The Ministry of Labor is attempting to organize these elections fro [...]	2005-03-01 06:59:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV SOCI CG
05KINSHASA354	Updated List of GDRC Leaders [...] SUMMARY. On February 17, DRC President Joseph Kabila completed a cabinet reshuffle that began January 3. An updated list of all GDRC vice presidents, ministers and vice ministers follows. END SUMMARY. Vice Presidents --------------- - Mr. Jean-Pierre BEMBA (MLC) - Mr. Abdoulaye YERODIA N [...]	2005-03-02 09:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR CG
05KINSHASA355	MONUC PURSUES MILITIA INVOLVED IN PEACEKEEPERS' [...] (SBU) According to MONUC sources, a contingent of 242 Pakistani special peacekeeping forces on March 1 conducted a military operation against the Front for National Integration (FNI) in Djugu territory, Ituri. These sources said that MONUC engaged over 100 militia and inflicted "heavy casualti [...]	2005-03-02 11:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPKO PHUM PREL MARR CG
05KINSHASA356	SAN'EGIDIO COULD SEE SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Ambassador received a letter from President Kabila's Ambassador-at-Large Antoine Ghonda informing him that on March 6, the FDLR has agreed in principle to publicly agree to renounce violence, denounce the Rwandan genocide, and agree to disarm and voluntarily repatriate to Rwanda. Infor [...]	2005-03-02 13:27:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPKO CG RW
05KINSHASA365	PROGRESS REPORT ON ELECTORAL COMMISSION'S TIMELINE [...] (SBU) Summary. Immediately following the February 2-4 Inter-Institutional Seminar, the DRC's Independent Electoral Commission published an electoral timeline highlighting the need to provide the CEI with increased office and storage space, and to begin identifying voting registration centers b [...]	2005-03-03 10:09:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINS PREL CG
05KINSHASA370	ITURI UPDATE [...] (SBU) According to MONUC sources, the military operation conducted by Pakistani special peacekeeping forces March 1 against the Front for National Integration (FNI) in Loga, Djugu territory, Ituri, has so far resulted in over 50 militia casualties. These sources said two peacekeepers were inju [...]	2005-03-03 11:53:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPKO PHUM PREL MARR CG
05KINSHASA404	ITURI CALM IN WAKE OF MONUC ACTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The site of a recent MONUC military operation in Ituri is now calm and people are returning to their homes, according to NGO sources who visited the area March 5-7. Several international NGOs and UNICEF also resumed providing humanitarian assistance to internally-displaced peopl [...]	2005-03-08 15:59:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPKO MOPS PHUM PREL CG
05KINSHASA410	U.N. BRIEFS ON ITURI SITUATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: U.N. officials briefed Kinshasa-based diplomats and humanitarian workers on March 8 about the current situation in Ituri. They stressed the need for the GDRC to adopt a clear position towards Ituri militias and to address the dire humanitarian situation they have caused. End Summa [...]	2005-03-09 16:27:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPKO MOPS PHUM PREL CG
05KINSHASA423	MEDIA AUTHORITY TO MUZZLE RELIGIOUS STATIONS? [...] SUMMARY: The Congo's media authority reportedly decided in late February that religious-based radio or television stations should not be permitted to broadcast political news. If true, this would cut off a significant source of information for many Congolese. END SUMMARY. 2. According to [...]	2005-03-11 11:27:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO KDEM CG
05KINSHASA436	CONGO/B: POLITICAL ATMOSPHERICS - POOL REGION [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the last two weeks, both the Ninja and Pool Region issues have returned to the forefront of the political landscape in Congo-Brazzaville. Beginning with a stand off between "Ninjas" and security forces in the BaCongo neighborhood of Brazzaville followed by the Government's [...]	2005-03-14 14:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC CF
05KINSHASA457	UNHCR DONORS VISIT SOUTH KIVU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNHCR hosted a field mission for donors to South Kivu February 14-16. This mission gave donors an opportunity to view firsthand the current state of affairs, infrastructure, political climate and security concerns surrounding processing of refugees in South Kivu. The mission [...]	2005-03-17 09:12:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PGOV CG
05KINSHASA461	DR CONGO: CHILD MARRIAGE EXISTS [...] (SBU) Response is keyed to reftel. Begin response: A) The legal age of marriage is 15 for girls and 18 for boys. The government is revising the family code, and experts believe the legal age of marriage for girls will be raised to 18. There is not a lower legal age for marriage with pare [...]	2005-03-17 12:09:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI CG
05KINSHASA464	DR CONGO: CHILD MARRIAGE EXISTS [...] (SBU) Response is keyed to reftel. Begin response: A) The legal age of marriage is 15 for girls and 18 for boys. The government is revising the family code, and experts believe the legal age of marriage for girls will be raised to 18. There is not a lower legal age for marriage with pare [...]	2005-03-18 07:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI CG
05KINSHASA52	LABOR SECTOR UPDATE [...] (U) From Nov-Dec 2004, a series of civil servant strikes to claim salary payments and raises occurred in both government organizations and state-owned enterprises. In 2003-2004, the GDRC negotiated a civil service restructuring plan with the World Bank without union involvement. The GDRC desig [...]	2005-01-11 14:02:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV SOCI CG
05KINSHASA551	GUATEMALAN PEACEKEEPERS DEPLOY TO KISANGANI [...] (C) Summary. MONUC deployed a contingent of 105 Guatemalan special forces trained in counter-insurgency to Kisangani March 29 to serve as a highly mobile unit for crisis situations around the country. End Summary. 2. (C) A MONUC military source in Kisangani told poloff that a contingent of [...]	2005-04-01 11:07:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL MARR MOPS CG
05KINSHASA567	OPPOSITION FIGURE TSHISEKEDI CONTINUES TRYING TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Prominent opposition figure Etienne Tshisekedi declared in an April 2 speech that the SIPDIS transitional government's mandate expires June 30, claiming that the constitutional provision that allows for two six-month extensions is null and void because "the people...have syste [...]	2005-04-05 13:24:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL CG
05KINSHASA582	ELECTIONS CHIEF FIRES BACK AT TSHISEKEDI [...] (U) Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Abbe Malu-Malu, speaking at an elections seminar in Kinshasa, declared to reporters April 7 that "those who say the transition ends on June 30, 2005 are wrong--the real end date is June 30, 2006." (Note: This is a reference to Article 196 [...]	2005-04-07 14:41:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM CG
05KINSHASA584	NORTH KIVU CLASHES LIKELY [...] (C) Summary. MONUC field offices are preparing to repatriate Rwandan Hutu rebels (FDLR) in an increasingly tense atmosphere. The political-military situation in N. Kivu is unclear, and MONUC military patrols have reported increased suspicious activity by ex-ANC (RCD/G armed wing) soldiers in M [...]	2005-04-07 15:32:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CG
05KINSHASA63	JANUARY 10 PROTESTS IN KINSHASA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Violent protests in outlying parts of Kinshasa over the possibility of delayed elections claimed the lives of several civilians on January 10. Post issued two warden messages; no Amcits were injured during the events. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) Violent demonstrations took place in [...]	2005-01-12 15:52:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC ASEC PGOV PINS PHUM CG
05KINSHASA634	"NON-VIOLENT" OPPOSITION THREATENS UNREST IF LEFT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political opposition figure Etienne Tshisekedi and his supporters are continuing to preach fiery SIPDIS anti-transitional government rhetoric, and demand that the political agreement underpinning the transitional government be reopened to give them a share of power. Top Tshise [...]	2005-04-15 07:57:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL ASEC CG
05KINSHASA644	KINSHASA UNIVERSITIES CONCERNED ABOUT STUDENT [...] (C) Summary. Kinshasa university officials expressed concern about the vulnerability of students to manipulation by spoilers opposed to the transition. They feel there is an urgent need for a GDRC sensitization and civic education campaign. The extent to which students will participate in diso [...]	2005-04-15 11:33:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CG KSOC
05KINSHASA645	ITURI MILITIA REPRESENTATIVE DECLARES SUPPORT FOR [...] (U) The Secretary General of the Union of Congolese Patriots-Lubanga (UPC-L),John Tinanzabo, declared on Radio Okapi in Bunia April 14 that his group supported the disarmament process in Ituri. He said UPC-L members who refused to participate in the disarmament program would be regarded as ou [...]	2005-04-15 11:36:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO PHUM PREL CG
05KINSHASA646	THE WAY FORWARD ON FDLR REPATRIATION [...] (C) Embassy Kinshasa shares view expressed ref a that it would be a tragedy to miss the opportunity provided by the Sant' Egidio process to energize the voluntary return of a large number of non-genocidaire FDLR elements and their dependents. This initiative offers the best chance in over te [...]	2005-04-15 11:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PGOV PREF PREL KPKO KAWC CG
05KINSHASA653	KABILA: ELECTIONS PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY, 30 JUNE [...] (C) Ambassador met privately April 16 with President Kabila, at the President's residence. In the wake of a very positive presentation to the CIAT April 15 by Abbe Malu Malu (President of the Independent Electoral Commission),in which he outlined progress on electoral preparations, including [...]	2005-04-18 11:27:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CG
05KINSHASA655	CIAT MEETING WITH THE ESPACE PRESIDENTIEL APRIL 14 [...] (C) Summary: The International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) met April 14 with President Kabila and three of DRC's four Vice Presidents; VP Ruberwa was absent. The first two discussion points centered on progress being seen to disarm militias in DRC's northeastern Ituri District, [...]	2005-04-18 13:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA710	S. KIVU GOVERNOR REMOVED FOR POOR MANAGEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. South Kivu Governor Augustin Bulaimu was dismissed April 25 for poor management and large-scale embezzlement. Post welcomes his dismissal. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) After months of negotiations, Minister of Interior Theophile Mbemba "permanently" suspended South Kivu Governor Augusti [...]	2005-04-27 10:53:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR CG
05KINSHASA718	ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO ASK FOR AN EXTENSION OF [...] (U) The President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI),Abbe Apollinaire Malu Malu, gave a press conference in Kinshasa April 28 to announce that the CEI would ask Parliament for an extension of the transition as provided by Article 196 of the transition's Constitution. Malu Malu said [...]	2005-04-28 13:13:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL CG
05KINSHASA724	CONGOLESE CENTRAL BANK OPERATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Congolese Central Bank (BCC) is currently undergoing strong scrutiny by the IMF. It has modernized its methods of open market operations, but still has little impact in most of the country due to the general weakness of the banking sector. The lack of effective branch offices - [...]	2005-04-29 09:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN ECON PTER PGOV CG
05KINSHASA731	CONGOLESE MINING PRIMER [...] (U) Summary: The natural resources wealth of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is enormous, including diamonds, copper, cobalt, nickel, zinc, uranium, gold, coltan, niobium, and cassiterite. As the DRC turns its eyes to peacetime economic development, the mining sector will become ever mo [...]	2005-04-29 16:16:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN ECON PGOV PREL CG
05KINSHASA735	FDLR PRESIDENT MURWANASHYAKA IN CONGO [...] (SBU) FDLR President Dr. Ignace Murwanashyaka arrived in Kinshasa from Europe the evening of April 28 with the apparent objective of setting into motion steps that will lead to the repatriation of FDLR members and their families to Rwanda. Murwanashyaka met with GDRC officials on April 29, an [...]	2005-05-02 16:37:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA757	ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR IRAQ TRANSITIONAL [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Tosi Mpanu, advisor to FonMin Ramazani, May 4. Mpanu said he would recommend a GDRC statement congratulating the Iraqi people on the establishment of a transitional government in Iraq. HELLYER [...]	2005-05-05 08:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL CG
05KINSHASA764	FDLR PRES. PLANNING VISIT TO SOUTH KIVU [...] (C) SUMMARY. FDLR President Dr. Ignace Murwanashyaka is scheduled to leave Kinshasa for the Kivus in the next few days to meet with field commanders. Although he called on the international community to establish a 'Follow Up Committee,' he did not provide concrete 'next steps' to implement the [...]	2005-05-05 14:49:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA779	CLEANING HOUSE IN KATANGA [...] (C) Summary: International and Congolese media have been seized in recent days with eye-catching reports of a possible provincial seccession or coup against President Kabila in Katanga province. What seems actually to be happening in Katanga is the President cleaning house in "his" province. [...]	2005-05-09 15:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO MARR CG
05KINSHASA790	CONGOLESE CONSTITUTION ALMOST COMPLETE, ELECTORAL [...] (C) After several weeks of intense negotiations, the National Assembly is in the third day of final consideration of the draft constitution, which is expected to be approved by the end of this week. Substantial changes were made to the original text to address concerns earlier voiced by CIAT [...]	2005-05-11 12:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA791	ANGOLAN-TRAINED CONGOLESE TROOPS LOOK GOOD - [...] (C) PolCouns attended the May 6 "graduation" ceremony for the two brigades of Congolese troops trained by the Angolans at Kitona base (in Bas-Congo province). The visit was organized by the Angolan Ambassador and Chief of the Congolese Army General Kisempia, and several CIAT Ambassadors (inc [...]	2005-05-11 13:42:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PGOV PREL CG
05KINSHASA793	N. KIVU UPDATE [...] SUMMARY. (C) The security situation in Rutshuru and Masisi, North Kivu has deteriorated in the past month. About 1500 Congolese (mostly Tutsi) have fled Masisi for Rwanda in the past six weeks, and MONUC is concerned that targeted attacks against Nande by a mostly Hutu ex-ANC (RCD/G military w [...]	2005-05-12 15:09:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO PREF CG

05KINSHASA80	CONGO/B: A LOOK AT THE NEW GOVERNMENT, REACTIONS TO [...] (U) POST HAS NO ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED SYSTEM AT THIS TIME, THEREFORE MORE DETAILED ANAYLSIS WILL BE PROVIDED WHEN POSSIBLE. 2. (U) SUMMARY: IN A FOLLOW-UP TO CONGO/B PRESIDENT DENIS SASSOU NGUESSO'S NEW YEAR'S DAY SPEECH HIGHLIGHTING HIS DESIRE FOR A NEW, MORE EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE, AND SMALL [...]	2005-01-17 10:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CF
05KINSHASA800	FDLR REPATRIATION UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. FDLR President Dr. Ignace Murwanashyaka, MONUC DDRRR Chief, and Congolese officials went to the Kivus May 11 to try to persuade FDLR members and their families to return to Rwanda. Most Kinshasa-based international observers, however, are not optimistic about the FDLR President' [...]	2005-05-13 11:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
05KINSHASA807	WHAT WE NEED TO GET TO ELECTIONS IN THE DRC [...] (C) Now that the Congolese have completed work on the constitution, they and we can focus on realizing the DRC's first democratic elections in almost 50 years. This monumental undertaking -- a model not only for the Great Lakes region but Africa as a whole -- is an avowed policy priority tha [...]	2005-05-16 15:31:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG
05KINSHASA808	CALM RETURNS TO KATANGA [...] (C) The President and several close advisors returned to Kinshasa May 13 after several days in Lubumbashi reportedly tracking down a major Katangan secessionist plot. As reported reftel, the secessionist rhetoric was really a poorly disguised crackdown on Air Force Commander General John Numbi [...]	2005-05-16 15:47:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO MARR CG
05KINSHASA819	CONGO/B: 2005 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES [...] In reply to Reftel A, Embassy Brazzaville reports the following investment disputes in Republic of Congo (Congo/B). 2. Claimant A Year When Dispute Arose: As early as 1999 Case History: Claimant purchased Congolese debt on secondary market and claims that Congo has defaulted on the debt. [...]	2005-05-19 07:43:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC EFIN EINV KIDE PGOV CF OPIC
05KINSHASA82	KINSHASA SHUTS DOWN, NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: The city of Kinshasa shut down on January 14, following calls for a strike to commemorate protesters killed earlier in the week by police. Despite the "dead city," several new GDRC ministers also took their oath of office on January 14, but MLC officials boycotted the ceremony o [...]	2005-01-19 12:48:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS ASEC CASC CG
05KINSHASA823	MLC: ISOLATING BEMBA [...] (1) PolCouns met May 17 and 18 with Movement for Congolese Liberation (MLC) members Olivier Kamitatu and Thomas Luhaka to discuss internal MLC politics and election strategy. (Note: Kamitatu is the President of the National Assembly and Luhaka both the Secretary General of the MLC and the par [...]	2005-05-19 11:43:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG
05KINSHASA854	BANYAMULENGE REFUGEES RETURN TO S. KIVU [...] (C) Summary. Over the past week, about 480 Banyamulenge refugees returned to South Kivu from Rwanda. Although the return started smoothly, problems have developed in the past few days. Post will continue to encourage all parties to help the refugees return. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Over the past [...]	2005-05-24 13:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF CG RW
05KINSHASA870	RUMORS OF ARREST OF AIR FORCE COMMANDER UNTRUE [...] (C) Rumors of Air Force Commander General John Numbi's arrest, which turned out to be unsubstantiated, circulated widely in Kinshasa and throughout the country on May 24. Polcouns met with Numbi, who was not under house arrest as rumored, at his home the afternoon of May 24. Numbi told polcoun [...]	2005-05-26 15:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR CG
05KINSHASA872	CONGO/B: THE TROUBLED POOL REGION - EVERYONE'S TO [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-26 18:54:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CF
05KINSHASA874	ARCHBISHOP MONSENGWO WRITES TO MBEKI ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. Archbishop Monsengwo, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, wrote a letter to South African President Thabo Mbeki using ambiguous language to question the commitment of transition actors to organize elections. The letter was later discussed in a private conversation with [...]	2005-05-27 07:27:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL CG
05KINSHASA878	MINISTER OF DEFENSE ON TSHISEKEDI AND RWANDA [...] (C) During a May 23 meeting with polcouns, Minister of Defense Adolphe Onusumba said his attempts to reason with UDPS leader Tshisekedi about joining the transitional government had failed, that Rwanda would like to replace Congolese Vice President Ruberwa, and that the international community [...]	2005-05-27 10:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS CG RW
05KINSHASA89	CONGO/B: POST-NEW GOVERNMENT - WHAT'S NEXT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: ALTHOUGH THE SHOCK THAT THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED BY PRESIDENT SASSOU ON JANUARY 8, IS NOT NEW AT ALL BUT MAINTAINS MANY OF THE COUNTRY,S WELL-KNOWN HARDLINERS HAS WORN AWAY A BIT, THE ATMOSPHERE OF DISAPPOINTMENT PREVAILS THAT SASSOU MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE UP TO HIS Y [...]	2005-01-20 06:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL CF
05KINSHASA950	NEW SECURITY SECTOR AGREEMENTS SIGNED BETWEEN [...] (U) Summary: Three new security sector reforms were signed on the margins of a June 1 ceremony marking the graduation of the third FARDC integrated brigade (reported septel). The Belgian, South Africa, and DRC agreements provide for additional future training, equipment and infrastructure dev [...]	2005-06-10 11:20:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO MARR CG
05KINSHASA951	THIRD INTEGRATED BRIGADE (MOSTLY) READY [...] (C) Summary: Defense Ministers from the DRC, South Africa and Belgium, several CIAT ambassadors and military attaches, numerous other senior officials, and press participated in the graduation of the third FARDC integrated brigade at the Kamina (Katanga) training center on June 1. The ceremony [...]	2005-06-10 12:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO MARR CG
05KINSHASA961	IMF GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DRC ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary. Visiting IMF officials expressed guarded optimism about DRC economic circumstances and will recommend that the GDRC proceed to the sixth and final IMF review. The team stated that the DRC has made adequate fiscal and monetary progress, with generally stable inflation and exchang [...]	2005-06-13 15:20:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV CG
05KINSHASA962	RUBERWA STILL IN OFFICE, AND LOOKING TOWARD [...] (C) In a wide-ranging private discussion at his residence June 11, Vice President Azarias Ruberwa told the Ambassador that recent RCD-Goma party meetings had proven difficult for him. The sessions had been called because of internal RCD-Goma rules that office-holders should have a tenure of no [...]	2005-06-13 15:57:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CG
05KINSHASA964	KABILA LAUNCHES TRANSITION ASSESSMENT SEMINAR [...] (U) President Kabila presided over the ceremonial opening June 10 of a Transition evaluation and assessment seminar. The Ambassador and other chiefs of mission of members countries of the International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) were also invited to attend, as were select [...]	2005-06-13 16:06:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG
05KINSHASA965	INDIAN PEACEKEEPER KILLED IN N. KIVU [...] (U) Unidentified gunmen killed an Indian peacekeeper and wounded two others 20 miles north of Goma in North Kivu June 13. In the ensuing confusion, Congolese soldiers wounded 8-9 civilians. MONUC has evacuated the civilian and military casualties to a Goma hospital. 2. (C) MONUC Goma Head [...]	2005-06-14 09:54:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG IN
05KINSHASA968	CONGO/B: ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL AFRICA [...] (C) Summary: As current chairman of the Economic Community of Central Africa States (CEEAC/ECCA) sub regional organization, President Sassou convened a summit June 7-8 to encourage CEEAC Presidents to reinvigorate the near moribund entity. Known more in the region by its French acronym CEEA [...]	2005-06-15 12:12:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON CF RW
05KINSHASA987	GDRC QUIETLY APPROVES KINSHASA SECURITY PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kabila reportedly approved a security plan for Kinshasa in early June to prevent unrest later in the month. The Minister of Interior said the plan balances preventive and security measures, including identifying potential troublemakers, deploying the Rapid Intervention P [...]	2005-06-16 15:00:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC MARR CG
05KIRKUK270	(C) WASHINGTON TRIP HELPS BOOST KURDISH SUPPORT FOR STAYING [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. KRG (Erbil) PM Nechirvan Barzani lauded President Bush for hosting his uncle, KRG President Masud Barzani. PM Barzani said that -- while the U.S. had been careful on protocol -- he felt as if the U.S. had received President Barzani as a head of state. PM Barza [...]	2005-12-08 14:01:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS KDEM KISL EINV IZ IR SY KRG
05KIRKUK285	(U) KURDS ANTICIPATE AGAIN FIELDING SECOND-LARGEST BLOC IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Khalilzad met December 2-3 with KRG Regional President Masud Barzani and then with Iraqi President Talabani. The KDP is trying to woo Faili Kurds to drop their support for their own lists or the Shia Islamist lists and support the Kurdish Alliance slate instead. Bar [...]	2005-12-13 18:58:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL IZ KDP
05KIRKUK287	(C) SAMARRA: IECI REPORTS INTIMIDATION BY IA [...] (U) This is a SET Tikrit cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. On 10 and 11 October, IECI employees in the Samarra area were victims of flagrant intimidation by Iraqi Army. END SUMMARY. 3. (C) On 12 December, the Salah Ad Din IECI director, Mr. Salah Salih made a complaint to SET officer about intim [...]	2005-12-14 08:21:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PTER IZ
05KIRKUK288	(SBU) ELECTORAL COMPLAINTS HEAT UP IN KIRKUK [...] (SBU)SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. RC and PolOff heard differing electoral complaints in meetings with Kirkuk Provincial Council Chairman Rizgar Ali and several Turcoman council members plus one Arab member on December 12, 2005. The Kurdish Chairman (affiliated with PUK) expressed frustration and [...]	2005-12-14 08:23:00	REO Kirkuk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM IZ
05KIRKUK289	(C) TURCOMANS: USG MUST PREVENT KURDS STEALING [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. The Iraqi Turcoman Front (ITF) believes the Kurds are making a massive, flagrant effort to steal the election in Kirkuk with IECI connivance. ITF leaders made a number of specific complaints to us and repeatedly threatened to take to the streets if their concer [...]	2005-12-14 19:07:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PNAT KCOR IZ
05KIRKUK290	(C) DIYALA ELECTION PREP: MINOR LOGISTICAL AND SECURITY [...] (U) This is a SET Ba'quba cable. 2. SUMMARY: Three days before the election, the IECI and ISF appear to be well prepared for the polling on December 15. With CF support, the involved organizations have repeatedly drilled for the election day operations, and a December 10 "dress rehearsal" [...]	2005-12-14 19:11:00	REO Kirkuk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
05KIRKUK292	AMBASSADOR LAYS CORNERSTONE FOR AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Khalilzad joined President Talabani and Planning Minister Dr. Barham Salih on December 11 in laying the cornerstone of the future American University in Iraq - Sulaymaniyah (AUI-S). The Kurdistan Regional Government is contributing $10 million to the project. In private m [...]	2005-12-17 05:48:00	REO Kirkuk	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL EAID PGOV SOCI IZ
05KIRKUK293	(U) SULAYMANIYAH AIRPORT GOES INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Sulaymaniyah airport has begun international operations, with weekly flights to Amman and Dubai via Baghdad on Iraqi Airways. On December 10, the Turkish private airline Fly Air inaugurated its service to Istanbul. Other destinations are to be added shortly after [...]	2005-12-18 13:28:00	REO Kirkuk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV IZ IRMO
05KIRKUK302	(S) FUEL TRUCK DRIVERS MAY CRIPPLE OIL FLOW IN CENTRAL IRAQ [...] (U) This is a SET Tikrit cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY. A truckers' strike at the Bayji Refinery may cripple the oil flow throughout central Iraq. This strike, which appears to be unnoticed in other parts of Iraq, is in response to the recent fuel price increase. END SUMMARY. 3. (S) As a res [...]	2005-12-23 17:04:00	REO Kirkuk	SECRET	EPET ECON PGOV PTER IZ
05KUWAIT1016	KUWAITI ELECTORATE TO JUMP 160% IF WOMEN VOTE; [...] If the National Assembly grants Kuwaiti women the right to vote, women will become a vital political constituency as they will constitute 61% of eligible voters. The overall electorate will more than double to 39% of the total citizen population (cited as 956,000) from 15% today. According to [...]	2005-03-13 13:19:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KWMN PHUM KDEM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS FREEDOM AGENDA
05KUWAIT1033	KUWAIT: CHILD MARRIAGE [...] Article 26 of the Kuwaiti personal status law stipulates that the minimum age for GOK authentication of a marriage between two Kuwaiti citizens is 15 years for a woman and 17 years for a man. The woman, regardless of age, requires the consent of a male guardian -- father, eldest brother, uncle, [...]	2005-03-14 09:09:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON ELAB SCUL KWMN KU
05KUWAIT1054	(C) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DISSUADING IRAN FROM [...] (C) During a March 14 meeting, Ambassador raised reftel points with Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, President of Kuwait's National Security Bureau, stressing that formation of the Iraqi Transitional Government should occur free of interference from Iran. Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled said the GOK [...]	2005-03-15 07:35:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC IZ IR KU
05KUWAIT107	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING KUWAIT TO SIGN FINAL [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-08 11:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL PGOV AORC KU
05KUWAIT1071	SECURITY BUREAU REPORTS COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) Summary: In a March 14 meeting with National Security Bureau President Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled, the Ambassador expressed appreciation for Kuwait's aggressive response to recent terror activities and stressed the need for Kuwait to sustain momentum in rounding up militants, amending laws [...]	2005-03-15 12:29:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN ETTC PREL PGOV KU
05KUWAIT1075	UPDATE ON FORMER GTMO DETAINEE NASSER AL-MUTAIRI [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-15 13:11:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KAWC PHUM PINR PREL PGOV KU
05KUWAIT1076	EXTREME ISLAMIST JABER AL-JALAHMA SHARES WORLDVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: Extreme Sunni Islamist Jaber Al-Jalahma, a frequent subject of questioning by state security officials for his links to militants and for preaching violent jihad, granted an unusual and exclusive interview to the Daily Star, which ran in the March 12 edition of the Kuwaiti English [...]	2005-03-15 13:31:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET	PTER PGOV KISL KMDR PINR KU ISLAMISTS
05KUWAIT1078	INTERAGENCY BRIEFING TEAM ON GUANTANAMO ISSUES [...] (C) Embassy Kuwait would welcome the visit of a senior-level interagency team provided that team is empowered to answer direct questions on the 11 Kuwaitis currently detained at Guantanamo. The Kuwaitis have an active legal team in Washington and are familiar with U.S. policies. They would [...]	2005-03-15 13:44:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PINR PREL PGOV PHUM KU
05KUWAIT109	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: USG CALL FOR DONOR SUPPORT TO [...] Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on 8 January. The FM noted that Kuwaiti aid was available, but that some had been held up for lack of runway space in the affected area. 2. In addition to the USD 10 million previously an [...]	2005-01-08 13:12:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EAID AEMR KU
05KUWAIT1091	KUWAITI WOMEN'S RIGHTS: WEEK IN REVIEW [...] (C) Summary: Indications continue to point toward Parliamentary approval of the GOK's draft bill granting women the right to vote. The Ambassador's contacts during the week shared their belief that women will be voting in the 2007 elections. Similar sentiments were heard on the diwaniya circui [...]	2005-03-16 15:26:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KWMN PHUM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT110	DEMARCHE TO GOK ON IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (S) The Ambassador delivered demarche on public support for Iraq's elections to Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad during a meeting on January 8. The Prime Minister reaffirmed Kuwait's strong support for elections this month to install a free Iraqi government and said Kuwait was doing all it [...]	2005-01-08 13:12:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ KU
05KUWAIT1125	KUWAITI TECHNICAL TEAM ON FUEL TO TRAVEL IN APRIL; [...] (C) During a March 19 meeting on Arab League matters (septel) the Ambassador asked Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah about the timing and agenda of a delegation to Washington for discussions on OIF fuel and related issues. Al-Jarallah reported that Foreign Minis [...]	2005-03-19 13:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EFIN MARR PGOV KU
05KUWAIT1131	KUWAIT DEMARCHE ON ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Ambassador raised reftel points with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah on March 19. Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah had already departed for Algiers to prepare for the arrival of Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber [...]	2005-03-19 13:59:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID SY IS IZ KU
05KUWAIT114	SENATOR KERRY AND KUWAITI FM AGREE ON NEED FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a 45-minute discussion January 7, Senator John Kerry and Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah discussed the necessity of holding elections in Iraq on January 30 and the importance of Sunni participation in the elections and representation in I [...]	2005-01-09 08:24:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KU
05KUWAIT115	NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES GOK ANTI-TERROR STRATEGY PAPER [...] (U) Kuwait news daily Al-Qabas obtained and published a Social Affairs Ministry working paper outlining Kuwait's efforts to combat terrorism. The paper, according to the article, is expected to be presented by GOK officials at the upcoming conference in Riyadh on International Counterterroris [...]	2005-01-09 11:45:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL PGOV KISL KU
05KUWAIT1159	KUWAIT COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP: GOK TO USE [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Ambassador chaired on March 14 the monthly meeting of post's Counterterrorism Working Group (CWG). Participants reviewed pending anti-terror legislation, developments in stemming terror financing, and identified criteria by which to assess GOK counterterrorism measures. [...]	2005-03-21 14:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV EFIN ASEC MARR CVIS KU TERRORISM
05KUWAIT1160	FUEL PAYMENT NEGOTIATIONS HIT THE PRESS [...] (C) Summary. Kuwait's daily newspapers have run front-page stories purporting to provide the inside scoop on an allegedly acrimonious disagreement between USG and Kuwait regarding purchase of OIF fuel. The press assert that Kuwait's request for payment of $500 million for post-war fuel deli [...]	2005-03-21 15:08:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL EAID MARR PGOV KU IZ
05KUWAIT1173	AMBASSADOR AND MFA DIRECTOR DISCUSS U.S.-GOK [...] (U) The Ambassador used a March 22 courtesy call on Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Director Ambassador Abdullah Ahmed Al-Murad to thank Kuwait for its vote in favor of a UNGA resolution on Human Cloning. He noted the declaration was a U.S. policy priority and appreci [...]	2005-03-22 14:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV KU UN
05KUWAIT1192	Appeals Court Sentence Silences Liberal [...] (U) SUMMARY: Sentenced to a one-year suspended jail term and three years probation for "defaming Islam," a liberal columnist said he will stop writing. The sentence, overruling a January acquittal, has writers wondering about the government's position on press freedom, and fearful of stiffer p [...]	2005-03-23 09:17:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR KISL PREL PHUM PGOV KU
05KUWAIT1200	KUWAITI VOTING RIGHTS WEEK IN REVIEW: FATWA [...] Summary: As the parliamentary review of the draft legislation granting women political rights moves slowly forward, Islamist MPs are making their supporting and opposing views known. The Ambassador continues to hear from his contacts that the GOK will succeed in efforts to grant women suffrage [...]	2005-03-23 14:51:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KWMN PHUM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT128	TENFOLD INCREASE IN KUWAIT'S TSUNAMI ASSISTANCE [...] On January 9, the Government of Kuwait announced that "in light of the tragic catastrophe and reflecting the feeling of Kuwaitis toward the victims in those countries," it would increase its aid pledge for tsunami-affected nations from $10 million to $100 million. With this pledge, Kuwait has [...]	2005-01-10 06:40:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR PGOV PREL KU
05KUWAIT1286	SENATOR REED THANKS KUWAIT FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT; [...] (C) Summary: Senator Jack Reed (D-RI),accompanied by the Ambassador, OMC-K Chief and Poloff, met Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Shaykh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah March 27 at the Minister's home. The Senator expressed appreciation to Kuwait for assistance with U.S. [...]	2005-03-29 16:24:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OREP PGOV KWMN ECON EAID KU
05KUWAIT1308	ISLAMIC EXTREMIST HAMAD AL-ALI: GOK CONFUSION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Extremist Salafi preacher Hamad Al-Ali continues to preach violent jihad in Kuwait despite GOK attempts to promote tolerance in the society. Al-Ali was recently detained by Kuwait State Security (KSS) for alleged links to two of the January shoot-outs between law enforcement of [...]	2005-03-30 14:15:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PGOV KISL KMDR PINR KU ISLAMISTS
05KUWAIT1309	CHARGES AGAINST MILITARY OFFICER TERROR SUSPECTS [...] (U) Reportedly citing the absence of a crime, Kuwaiti Public Prosecutors on March 29 dropped charges against two former active-duty Kuwait Army soldiers who were detained on January 3 for allegedly plotting attacks against U.S. military assets in Kuwait. The pair, released on bail in mid-Febr [...]	2005-03-30 14:20:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL MOPS KU TERRORISM
05KUWAIT1311	KUWAITI VOTING RIGHTS: MOCK PLEBISCITE CANCELED [...] (C) Summary: Pro-Government MP Jamal Hussein Al-Omar told the Ambassador that the GOK still lacks enough votes to pass legislation granting women's suffrage, but the Government continued to insist the voting rights bill would pass. Sources claim a cabinet reshuffle is in the works to secure en [...]	2005-03-30 14:50:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1336	JORDANIAN-KUWAITI RELATIONS: FROM "TERRIBLE TO [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's outgoing Ambassador to Kuwait told the Ambassador March 30 that Jordanian-Kuwaiti relations have progressed from "terrible to great" during his seven-year tenure. Some low level resentment due to the 1990 Iraqi invasion, however, lingers among some Jordanian parliamentari [...]	2005-04-03 12:40:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID PINR KU JO
05KUWAIT1349	NEW INFORMATION MINISTER HAILED BY LIBERALS, [...] (C) Summary: Moving to fill cabinet vacancies in the run-up to an expected Parliamentary vote on women's rights, the GOK announced March 31 it had chosen Dr. Anas Mohammed Al-Rasheed, sworn in on April 4, as its new Information Minister. A professor and former editorial adviser to local Arabi [...]	2005-04-04 14:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KWMN KDEM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1400	GWOT ASSESSMENT: KUWAIT [...] (S/NF) Summary: Counterterrorism remains at the top of our bilateral agenda and post has experienced increased cooperation from the Government of Kuwait (GOK) in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) since January when a series of security incidents revealed to the GOK a home-grown threat. There [...]	2005-04-06 13:14:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV KU TERRORISM
05KUWAIT1401	MUNICIPAL COUNCIL: KUWAITI WOMEN'S SECOND VOTING [...] (U) Summary: The Kuwaiti women's political participation debate has erupted on a second front: the Municipal Council. A new Municipality Law went into effect March 20 but without reference to the article that would have permitted women to vote, run for office and serve on the Municipal Council. [...]	2005-04-06 13:32:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1404	STILL NO DATE FOR DECISION ON KUWAITI WOMEN'S [...] (U) An expedited National Assembly vote on Kuwaiti women's voting rights may not happen before May. The recent grilling and subsequent proffered resignation of the Health Minister and other Cabinet changes (septel) have delayed a Parliamentary vote originally anticipated for April. Furthermore [...]	2005-04-06 14:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1449	ASSEMBLY SPEAKER, PROMINENT MP DOWNPLAY [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Responding to a week of press speculation that Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah would seek the dissolution of the National Assembly in response to repeated ministerial grillings, National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi told local dailies April 9 that [...]	2005-04-11 04:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
05KUWAIT1460	GOK CONGRATULATES IRAQ ON APPOINTMENT OF LEADERS; [...] (C) Kuwait's English and Arabic press reported that during its weekly Sunday meeting, the Kuwaiti Council of Ministers extended its congratulations to the Iraqi people on the appointments of Jalal Talabani as President, and Ghazi Al Yawar and Adel Abdel Mehdi as his deputies. The April 10 sta [...]	2005-04-11 12:34:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IZ KU EAID KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS
05KUWAIT1462	MP SAYS GOK ALLOWED HEALTH MINISTER'S RESIGNATION [...] (C) During an April 9 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy, Ambassador Richard Jones, Liberal MP Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager told the Ambassador the Prime Minister had committed a "big mistake" in not replacing former Information Minister Mohamme [...]	2005-04-11 13:11:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL KU
05KUWAIT1468	ASSEMBLY FOREIGN RELATIONS CHAIR ON IRAQ'S [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy, Ambassador Richard Jones, met with Chairman of the National Assembly's Foreign Relations Committee, MP Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager on April 9. Ambassador Jones, who had just returned from Iraq, briefed the MP on the formation of the P [...]	2005-04-12 05:32:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
05KUWAIT1498	PRIME MINISTER COMPLAINS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah complained that the State Department's Human Rights Report unfairly accused the GOK of interfering in the country's judicial process during his April 9 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy, Amb [...]	2005-04-13 12:59:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KU
05KUWAIT1500	AMBASSADOR BRIEFS EU MISSION CHIEFS ON MEPI; EU [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador hosted a meeting with EU Chiefs of Mission to discuss Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) projects in Kuwait as well as on-going Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) programs. The EU Chiefs reported the difficulty they had in convincing the GCC to part [...]	2005-04-13 13:03:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KMPI KU MEPI
05KUWAIT1501	GTMO DETAINEE NASSER AL-MUTAIRI RELEASED ON BAIL [...] (C) Summary: Former Guantanamo detainee Nasser Al-Mutairi (US9-KU-000205DP),who was transferred to Kuwaiti custody on January 15, was released April 13 on bail of KD 200 (USD 680) by the Criminal Court, pending the June 1 resumption of the case against him. The court's decision contradict [...]	2005-04-14 09:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PHUM PGOV KU
05KUWAIT1517	AMBASSADOR ENCOURAGES GOK TO ENFORCE UNDERAGE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador urged the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Faisal Hajji Boukhadour to enforce a ban on the employment of underage camel jockeys and extend labor law coverage to domestic help. The Minister explained that the GOK was taking steps to ameliorate these problems but a [...]	2005-04-16 13:39:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PTER ELAB KU
05KUWAIT1560	KUWAIT REINFORCES NEED FOR SUNNI PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) The Ambassador briefed April 17 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah on recent trips of senior U.S. officials to Iraq, stressing the shared U.S.-Iraqi commitment to building a transparent system of governance, ensure security within Iraq and along its borders, a [...]	2005-04-18 13:23:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS
05KUWAIT1594	GOK SKITTISH ABOUT MEPI FUNDING, ASSERTS FOREIGN [...] (C) Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Faisal Hajji Boukhadour voiced his concerns to the Ambassador about Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) funding of Kuwaiti organizations during an April 13 meeting. Under Kuwaiti law, he said, non-governmental organizations may not receive funding [...]	2005-04-19 08:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KMPI PGOV PHUM KU MEPI
05KUWAIT1600	PARLIAMENT GIVES NOD TO WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN [...] The National Assembly gave preliminary approval April 19 to a municipality law amendment giving Kuwaiti women the right to run for, vote in, and be appointed to the Municipal Council. The measure passed 26 to 20 with three abstentions. A second round of voting is expected to take place in tw [...]	2005-04-19 15:01:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1633	KUWAITI WOMEN MOVE TOWARD NEW POLITICAL RIGHTS; [...] (U) Summary: Kuwaiti women moved one step closer toward gaining political rights April 19 as Parliament voted to allow women to vote in elections for and run for Municipal Council (ref A). The amendment to the Municipality Law granting women these new political rights is scheduled to face anot [...]	2005-04-20 13:52:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWMN PHUM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1660	EDUCATION REFORM: NEW KUWAITI TEXTBOOKS BY 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador, accompanied by CAO, met with Kuwait's Minister of Higher Education Dr. Rashid Al- Hamed on April 9, 2005. Discussion focused on reform of the educational system and textbooks. In previous meetings with Emboffs, ministry officials have said that the Ministry's str [...]	2005-04-24 14:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OEXC KISL KU
05KUWAIT1729	FOREIGN MINISTER: GOK SERIOUS ABOUT COMBATING TIP [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador demarched Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on Department concerns regarding Kuwait's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) status (reftel). While highlighting a strong U.S. desire to work with the GOK, the Ambassador raised specific concerns a [...]	2005-04-27 14:17:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL KU
05KUWAIT1752	HELP JUST A CALL AWAY: FOREIGN LABORERS TO PHONE [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-30 12:55:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV ELAB KU
05KUWAIT1777	FOREIGN MINISTER: PROGRESS ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS, IRAN [...] (C) Summary: During an April 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah told the Ambassador that he believes that the GOK has enough votes to pass the women's rights bill for Municipal Council elections on May 2 and that once women are regis [...]	2005-05-01 14:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PBTS KUNC KPAL IZ KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS IRAN
05KUWAIT1791	KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ENCOURAGING SUPPORT [...] (SBU) PolChief delivered reftel demarche on 2 May to Ambassador Faisal Al-Mashan, MFA Arab World Department Manager. Al-Mashan agreed the ITG needs the public support of the international community and asserted Kuwait was among the first countries to welcome the formation of an Iraqi Govern [...]	2005-05-02 10:31:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KU IZ
05KUWAIT1808	KUWAITI WOMEN'S MUNICIPAL POLITICAL RIGHTS REMAIN [...] (U) Summary: The results of the second round of Parliamentary voting May 2 on an amendment to the Municipal Law granting women political rights at the municipal level were 29 in favor, 2 against and 29 abstentions, sparking a debate as to the actual outcome. Some MPs claim a quorum was not rea [...]	2005-05-02 15:05:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1836	CONFUSION AND DELAYS CONTINUE ON WOMEN'S VOTE FOR [...] (U) Summary: After admitting that he was wrong to declare "suspended" the May 2 vote on amending the Municipal Law to allow women political participation (reftel),Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi provided the MPs with legal consultants' opinions on the previous day's vote. [...]	2005-05-03 14:47:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT185	KUWAITIS NOT SURPRISED BY JANUARY 10 SHOOTOUT; [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Most Kuwait dailies described the January 10 incident (reftel),in which two state security officers and one militant were killed in a shootout, as an aggression which "shocked the Kuwaiti street." While the act was roundly denounced throughout the society, interpreta [...]	2005-01-11 14:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL KISL KPAO KU
05KUWAIT1863	WOMEN SPLIT ON FUTURE OF POLITICAL RIGHTS, SOME [...] (C) Summary: During several meetings with women's rights activists and supporters on May 4, PolOffs noted varying differences in opinion on the chances of success for women's political rights. Several expressed little hope that the two-week delay requested by Prime Minister Sabah Al-Ahmad Al [...]	2005-05-05 07:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN SOCI KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1900	KUWAIT WILL CONTINUE TO PUBLICLY SUPPORT ITG AND [...] (C) Summary: During a May 7 call on Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah, the Ambassador noted progress in Iraq since the formation of the Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG) and encouraged Kuwait to continue to make public statements of support. He stressed the n [...]	2005-05-08 14:04:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS
05KUWAIT1901	AMBASSADOR HOSTS WOMEN'S RIGHTS DIALOGUE; WOMEN [...] (U) Summary: During a May 7 luncheon hosted by the Ambassador for Kuwaiti women's rights activists, many women expressed astonishment that an amendment to allow women political participation at the municipal level did not succeed during a second-round vote May 2. In general, they now reject th [...]	2005-05-08 14:52:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1907	MFA UNDER SECRETARY SAYS GOK SERIOUS ABOUT WOMEN'S [...] (C) During a May 7 meeting on regional issues (ref b),Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah opened the discussion with the Ambassador with comments about the debate between the Government and Parliament on women's political rights. Stating, "I can assure you the Go [...]	2005-05-09 10:51:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1908	KUWAITI COURT SENTENCES VIOLENT JIHADISTS TO JAIL [...] (U) Twenty Islamic extremists, including 18 Kuwaitis, were sentenced by the Criminal Court on May 8 in two separate cases for entering Iraq to fight U.S.-led forces, or providing training to others to fight there. Four others, three Kuwaitis and one bidoon (stateless Arab),were fined for low [...]	2005-05-09 12:28:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PTER KJUS KU ISLAMISTS TERRORISM
05KUWAIT1912	PRIVATE POLL IN KUWAIT REVEALS MAJORITY OF MEN [...] (C) Political up-and-comer Shaykh Mohammed Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (ref B) provided the Ambassador with the results from a poll he commissioned indicating 50% of Kuwaiti men back full political rights for women. Another 28% support women's right to vote, but not pursue elected office, w [...]	2005-05-09 14:16:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1947	WOMEN'S RIGHTS: AN UPDATE FROM THE FRONT LINE [...] (C) Summary: Two female women's rights delegations met with Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on May 9 to discuss the GOK's position on the issue of women's political rights. Both groups pledged not to discuss the details of the meeting and promised not to protest or rally in supp [...]	2005-05-10 14:21:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT1976	BACKGROUND ON KEY ISSUES FOR THE WASHINGTON VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah will arrive in Washington May 17, in advance of an anticipated July visit by the Prime Minister. Shaykh Dr. Mohammed's visit follows his participation in the Arab-South America Summit held in Brazil, and planned [...]	2005-05-12 10:22:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PHUM PGOV MARR ECON EAID CVIS IZ KU TERRORISM
05KUWAIT2030	LATEST EXPAT LABORER PROTEST: HOODWINKED [...] (U) Expatriate workers in Kuwait held the latest in a series of protests on their home-country diplomatic missions May 14 as hundreds descended on the Pakistani Embassy. Approximately 300-400 Pakistani laborers protested their current employment condition outside their embassy. According to Aa [...]	2005-05-15 13:21:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB PGOV KU
05KUWAIT2041	GOK UPS ANTE ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS; REQUESTS IMMEDIATE [...] (U) The GOK surprised many during the May 16 session of the National Assembly in what was expected to be a re-vote on the proposed measure to grant women political rights at the Municipal Council level. Bypassing any discussion on municipal-level rights for women, the GOK introduced a motion, [...]	2005-05-16 13:09:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KDEM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
05KUWAIT2064	WELL WORTH THE WAIT: KUWAITI WOMEN GAIN FULL [...] After six hours of debate, the National Assembly passed May 16 an amendment to Article 35 of the election law granting Kuwaiti women full political rights, including voting in parliamentary elections and running for national office starting in 2007, the date of the next elections. Of the 59 M [...]	2005-05-16 17:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT208	KUWAITI CHARITABLE DONATIONS FOR TSUNAMI VICTIMS [...] Following a slow start and feeling the sting of accusations that it has been stingy toward countries hit hard by last month's tsunami, Kuwait has dramatically upped its assistance pledges this week (Ref A). In addition to the $100 million promised by the Government of Kuwait (GOK) on January [...]	2005-01-12 11:56:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR PGOV PREL KU
05KUWAIT2091	KUWAIT: DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT [...] (U) Introduction: Kuwait proudly identifies itself as the region's oldest functioning democracy, pointing as evidence to its 43-year-old constitution; active elected National Assembly; and separate executive, legislative, judicial branches. The May 16 decision to grant Kuwaiti women full p [...]	2005-05-17 14:12:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KDEM KMPI KU
05KUWAIT2093	"MABROUK:" KUWAITI WOMEN GAIN POLITICAL RIGHTS YET [...] (U) Summary: The Government resuscitated a seemingly moribund campaign for women's political rights May 16 culminating in the passage of an amendment granting women full suffrage. On the sixth anniversary to the day that the Amir attempted to grant Kuwaiti women their voting rights in 1999, a [...]	2005-05-17 15:48:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KWMN KDEM PREL KMPI KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT2094	MEDIA REACTION: FULL POLITICAL RIGHTS FOR KUWAITI [...] Summary: Kuwaiti media hailed the granting of full political rights for women by the National Assembly on the evening of May 16, 2005, as a "historic" moment. Initial reaction in all papers was positive and they are calling the granting to Kuwaiti women full political rights as the first st [...]	2005-05-18 03:43:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OIIP PGOV KMDR XF KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS
05KUWAIT214	GRILLING OF JUSTICE MINISTER UNEVENTFUL; PERSONAL [...] Summary: In what is being described as the most bland grilling yet, Justice Minister and MP Ahmed Baqer, the only Salafi in the cabinet, was grilled by liberal MP Jamal Al-Omar on January 10 for nine hours. Al-Omar is known to have a personal feud with the Justice Minister and this is likely [...]	2005-01-12 13:42:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KISL KPAO PINR KU
05KUWAIT215	KUWAIT MFA ON DETAINEES: IF WE CAN'T HAVE THEM [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (S/NF) Pol Chief delivered January 8 background on the 12 Kuwaitis detained at Guantanamo (ref a) to Ambassador Khalid Al-Maqamis, MFA Director of Coordination and Follow Up. Al-Maqamis welcomed the information and confirmed that preparati [...]	2005-01-12 13:48:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL KAWC PGOV KU IZ
05KUWAIT2171	AMBASSADOR MEETS CANDIDATE FOR FIRST WOMAN CABINET [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-22 14:22:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR KWMN KU
05KUWAIT2172	POLITICAL REFORMERS CRITICIZE GOK FOR CRACKDOWN ON [...] (C) Summary: The GOK has come under criticism from prominent Kuwaitis for actions taken against members of the recently established Salafi, Islamist Nation's Party (Hezb Al-Ummah). All fifteen party founders were charged on May 2 with attempting to overthrow the government, violating laws go [...]	2005-05-22 14:22:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS KU ISLAMISTS
05KUWAIT2173	ASSEMBLY SPEAKER SURPRISED BY VOTE ON WOMEN'S [...] (C) Summary: During a May 21 meeting, Speaker of Parliament Al-Khorafi told the Ambassador the May 16 vote on women's political rights was a difficult day and he had not been confident legislation permitting their participation would pass. He named the Prime Minister as the reason for the [...]	2005-05-22 14:41:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWMN ECON EAID IZ KU EPTE WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

05KUWAIT2199	MEDIA REACTION: AMIR'S HEALTH, FOREIGN MINISTER [...] Summary: Kuwaiti media reported on the visit of the Amir, Shaykh Jabir Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, to the United States for "pre-planned" medical check-ups with assurances that the Amir's health was good. All Newspapers reprinted the Kuwait News Agency's (http://www.kuna.net.kw ) reports on Foreign M [...]	2005-05-24 03:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OIIP PGOV KMDR XF KU

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