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06DHAKA6265	HOME MINISTER PROVIDES BACKGROUND ON CHOUDHURY CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge d'Affaires a.i. met with Home Minister Lutfozzaman Babar on October 12 to discuss journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Charge informed Babar that the Embassy remains very engaged in the Choudhury case. She reminded the Home Minister of U.S. focus in the case, namely to [...]	2006-10-13 11:25:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BG

06DHAKA627	KIBRIA MURDER TRIAL ADJOURNS UNTIL LATE FEBRUARY [...] (SBU) Summary: The judge of the Kibria murder trial denied most defense motions before adjourning it until late February at the earliest. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On February 7, eight defendants charged with the January 27, 2005, murder of A.M.S. Shah Kibria went on trial in a speedy tribunal [...]	2006-02-07 11:02:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PHUM BG
06DHAKA628	KIBRIA MURDER TRIAL ADJOURNS UNTIL LATE FEBRUARY [...] (SBU) Summary: The judge of the Kibria murder trial denied most defense motions before adjourning it until late February at the earliest. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On February 7, eight defendants charged with the January 27, 2005, murder of A.M.S. Shah Kibria went on trial in a speedy tribunal [...]	2006-02-07 12:00:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PHUM BG BGD
06DHAKA630	SOLICITATION FOR INCLE FUNDS [...] Per 2005 STATE 221416, post is forwarding the following TIP proposal submitted by The Asia Foundation (TAF). Given the limited resources available through INCLE this year, we do not feel this is this is a strong proposal. The problems addressed in this proposal are either adequately address [...]	2006-02-08 01:39:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BG
06DHAKA6301	INTER-PARTY ELECTION TALKS RESUME: MORE FORM OVER [...] (SBU) On October 16, Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary-general Mannan Bhuiyan and Abdul Jalil, his SIPDIS counterpart from the opposition Awami League, met for 45 minutes in the fifth round of inter-party talks on the upcoming election. Afterwards, both leaders told reporters they had [...]	2006-10-16 10:21:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6304	SECURITY TOPS LIST OF PRE-ELECTION CONCERNS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Observers in the Chittagong area, where high levels of violence and fraud are expected in the upcoming election, see security as their biggest concern. Like other parts of Bangladesh partially stabilized by the deployment of the notoriously aggressive Rapid Action Battalion, they [...]	2006-10-16 10:59:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6305	CONTROVERSIAL JOURNALIST FILES SUIT AGAINST "JMB [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 16, journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury updated us on his recent suit against the government to remove "JMB judges" from the bench, his sedition case, and the status of his case against his alleged attackers on October 5. Choudhury also provided the names of govern [...]	2006-10-16 11:11:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6368	"STOLEN FILMS" ALLEGEDLY AT ROOT OF DISPUTE WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The October 5 incident involving journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury took a new turn with the revelation that the person he accused of attacking him, Hussain Khan Helal, is a U.S. citizen. POLOFF met with Helal when he came to the Embassy's Consular Section to complain abo [...]	2006-10-19 11:52:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6390	BANGLADESH GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (C) PolOff spoke with MFA Director of the America and Pacific Wing Mahbub Saleh on October 22 to discuss the BDG's October 16 diplomatic note (ref a) regarding the Bangladesh detainee. Saleh acknowledged the note did not expressly respond to the conditions in the Embassy's July 31 diplomatic [...]	2006-10-23 12:07:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PINS KAWC BG
06DHAKA6455	OPPOSITION LISTS 11 DEMANDS BY NOVEMBER 3, [...] (SBU) On October 30, Awami League president Sheikh Hasina met with and challenged Caretaker Chief Adviser Ahmed to prove his neutrality by taking action by November 3 on 11 fronts: A) The Chief Election Commissioner and three election commissioners must be removed, and all election officer [...]	2006-10-31 07:11:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6521	CARETAKER GOVERNMENT ADVISORS APPOINTED [...] (SBU) Summary. The opposition Awami League fared well with its nominees for caretaker advisers, though portfolios have yet to be assigned. Sporadic political violence persists, mostly outside of Dhaka. Under apparent pressure from the former ruling party, the caretaker government reversed two [...]	2006-11-01 10:16:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6539	KHALEDA ZIA ASSURES AMBASSADOR HER PARTY OPPOSES [...] (SBU) Late November 1, Ambassador and poloff (notetaker) called on former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia at her residence on the military cantonment. Morshed Khan, recently Foreign Minister, and Manan Bhuiyan, secretary general of her Bangladesh Nationalist Party, were also present. 2. (C) Amb [...]	2006-11-02 09:23:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM BG
06DHAKA6540	JAMAAT ISLAMI LEADER BLAMES AWAMI LEAGUE FOR [...] (U) On November 2, the Ambassador and Poloff (notetaker) met with Jamaat Islami (JI) Ameer and outgoing Minister for Industry Motiur Rahman Nizami. JI Secretary General and outgoing Minister for Social Welfare Ali Hassan Mohammed Mujahid, Assistant Secretary General Mohammed Kamaruzzaman, and [...]	2006-11-02 09:56:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6665	BOUCHER STRESSES NON-VIOLENCE, DIALOGUE, AND FREE [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary Boucher stressed to Bangladeshi political leaders U.S. government support for free, fair, credible and peaceful elections, and urged all parties to refrain from violence. Chief Advisor Ahmed expressed confidence that elections would take place peacefully and [...]	2006-11-19 08:21:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BG
06DHAKA6683	TODAY'S ACTION AWAY FROM THE STREETS [...] (C) Summary. Embattled Chief Election Commissioner Aziz may be contemplating a long leave of absence, which could remove one opposition flash point, but the Awami League now demands that Chief Adviser Ahmed also go before lifting its nationwide blockade. Rumors that Chief Adviser Ahmed suffe [...]	2006-11-20 11:06:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6724	BANGLADESH HEADS TOWARD RENEWED OPPOSITION BLOCKADE [...] (SBU) Summary. The government and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have offered some changes in the election schedule, but the Awami League says this is not enough to avert a resumption of its nationwide blockade. Political tensions are inching up, as reflected by an apparent rampage this af [...]	2006-11-30 10:54:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6763	HASINA RULES OUT NEW TALKS WITH INTERIM MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary. As the army deployed today nationwide "to aid civil administration," Awami League president Sheikh Hasina told Ambassador there is no point in resuming talks with Caretaker Government advisers because "they know our position and they know what to do." Publicly, the Awami League [...]	2006-12-10 09:35:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM BG
06DHAKA6767	CARETAKER ADVISERS REPORTEDLY RESCIND RESIGNATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Chief Adviser Ahmed has reportedly persuaded at least three of the four advisers who tendered their resignations today to step back and join other advisors in a meeting with Ahmed to discuss their concerns about his performance. In response to press reports of the resignations, [...]	2006-12-11 09:44:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6790	UNHCR REPORTS PROGRESS ON ROHINGYAS [...] (C) On December 12 UNHCR Resident Representative Pia Pritz-Phiri updated POLOFF on the Rohingya refugee situation. Pritz-Phiri said she was preparing to sign UNHCR's 2007 sub-agreement with the GOB the following day. She said that in contrast to the 2006 agreement, which was completed only in [...]	2006-12-17 03:52:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM BG
06DHAKA6791	UNHCR REPORTS PROGRESS ON ROHINGYAS [...] (C) On December 12 UNHCR Resident Representative Pia Pritz-Phiri updated POLOFF on the Rohingya refugee situation. Pritz-Phiri said she was preparing to sign UNHCR's 2007 sub-agreement with the GOB the following day. She said that in contrast to the 2006 agreement, which was completed only in [...]	2006-12-17 08:10:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM BG
06DHAKA6792	UNHCR REPORTS PROGRESS ON ROHINGYAS [...] (C) On December 12 UNHCR Resident Representative Pia Pritz-Phiri updated POLOFF on the Rohingya refugee situation. Pritz-Phiri said she was preparing to sign UNHCR's 2007 sub-agreement with the GOB the following day. She said that in contrast to the 2006 agreement, which was completed only in [...]	2006-12-17 08:11:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM BG
06DHAKA6844	AWAMI LEAGUE SIGNS ELECTORAL PACT WITH ISLAMIC [...] (SBU) News on December 24 that the Awami League (AL) would contest the elections was overshadowed by reports the AL had entered into an election pact with an Islamic party. The press reported that AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Khelafat-e-Maj [...]	2006-12-28 09:35:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BG
06DHAKA775	SOLICITATION FOR INCLE FUNDS [...] Per reftel, post is forwarding the following TIP proposal submitted by the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Training and Development (OPDAT) at the US Department of Justice. It is our understanding that this same proposal has already been submitted directly to the G/TIP office. 2. Post s [...]	2006-02-14 00:59:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BG
06DHAKA776	REQUEST FOR ESF FUNDING [...] Per reftel, post is forwarding the following TIP proposal submitted from the Daywalka Foundation. Post supports the enclosed proposal. 2. Daywalka, in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM),submitted this 2 year proposal for funding in 2005 with Post's input [...]	2006-02-14 00:59:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KCRM PHUM ELAB PREL SMIG ASEC BG PGOV
06DHAKA932	REPRESENTATIVE CROWLEY MEETS WITH RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) On February 21, Representative Joseph Crowley began his visit to Dhaka by laying a wreath at the monument to the Bangla Language Movement in commemoration of National Language Day. Mr. Crowley, accompanied by USAID Mission Director George and poloff (notetaker),met separately with lea [...]	2006-02-23 02:15:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM BD
06DILI112	TRUTH AND FRIENDSHIP COMMISSIONERS PUSH FOR ACCESS TO SCU [...] (C) The bilateral Indonesia-East Timor Truth and Friendship Commission (TFC) has made a surprise request for full access, with necessary redaction to assure witness confidentiality, to the files of the Serious Crimes Unit (SCU). After Prosecutor-General Longuinhos Monteiro refused the request, [...]	2006-03-11 11:05:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KJUS KAWC PHUM KPKO TT
06DILI18	EX-MILITIA MEMBERS KILLED IN CLASH WITH EAST TIMOR BORDER [...] (U) Summary: Three alleged members of 1999-era anti-independence militias were shot dead by officers of East Timor's Border Patrol Unit (BPU) on Friday, January 6. One of the three, Jose Mausorte, was a prominent member of the Halilintar militia and had been accused of involvement in several [...]	2006-01-09 15:18:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PHUM ASEC KAWC TT ID
06DILI192	MORE VIOLENCE IN DILI AREA LAST NIGHT, BUT CALM TODAY [...] (U) Summary: There was more rioting yesterday evening in the village of Tasitolu, just west of Dili, and at least three more people died, apparently shot by members of the armed forces (FDTL) who had responded to the Tasitolu riot, in addition to the two who had died earlier in Dili. Although [...]	2006-04-29 15:57:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI194	DILI REMAINS CALM, BUT THOUSANDS STILL DISPLACED AS RUMORS [...] Summary: The situation in Dili was relatively calm last night, but there were still several disturbances reported, including shots fired in two Dili neighborhoods, reported clashes in the hills outside of Dili, and fighting at one of the major markets. There was another fight between groups of [...]	2006-04-30 15:04:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI200	UPDATE ON DILI SECURITY SITUATION: RETURN TO NORMAL IS SLOW [...] Dili remains abnormally quiet following Friday's rioting and the security operations in response. It appears that the armed forces (FDTL) have relinquished law enforcement responsibilities to the national police (PNTL),but they remain involved in patrolling. Currently, there are five confirm [...]	2006-05-01 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI203	DAS JOHN MEETING WITH PRESIDENT GUSMAO [...] (C) Summary: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Eric John, along with Ambassador Rees and Emboffs, met with President Xanana Gusmao May 2 to discuss U.S. priorities and concerns in East Timor. The major focus of the discussion was the riots on Friday, April 28 and the subsequent intervention of th [...]	2006-05-03 11:06:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR PREL KJUS KCRM KAWC ID TT
06DILI210	DAS JOHN MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER ALKATIRI [...] (SBU) Summary: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Eric John, along with Ambassador Rees and Emboff, met with Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri on May 3. DAS John congratulated Alkatiri on the many things that the Government of East Timor (GOET) is getting right, such as their work with the Millennium C [...]	2006-05-04 15:15:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR PREL KJUS KCRM KAWC ID TT
06DILI213	EAST TIMOR UPDATE: ARMY RETURNS TO BARRACKS AS GOET URGES [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy's current assessment is that the potential for politically motivated violence in East Timor in the near future appears to be de-escalating. Although the likelihood of imminent violence appears low, the ongoing political and constitutional crisis caused by Prime Minis [...]	2006-05-05 15:36:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI214	AMBASSADOR GUTERRES ON POLITICAL/SECURITY SITUATION AND [...] (SBU) Emboff met with East Timor's Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, Jose Luis Guterres, on May 6. Guterres is running against Prime Minister Alkatiri for Secretary General of the ruling Fretilin Party in the party congress scheduled for May 17-20. Ambassador Guterres conveyed st [...]	2006-05-06 14:17:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR KDEM TT
06DILI219	ALKATIRI, RAMOS-HORTA EXPRESS OPTIMISM, BUT PEOPLE ARE STILL [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-09 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI220	THE VIEW FROM THE WEST: MEETINGS WITH DISSIDENT MILITARY [...] (SBU) Summary: In addition to the ex-military "petitioners" who led the April demonstration in Dili, there are a number of dissident members of the national police (PNTL) and armed forces (FDTL) who have gone AWOL and are currently located in mountainous areas of western East Timor. Many, alt [...]	2006-05-10 15:19:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI226	EAST TIMOR UPDATE: WHAT IS THE PRESIDENT THINKING? [...] (S) Summary: Despite the widespread popular belief in East Timor that the ongoing political and security crisis can only be resolved if the President invokes the constitutional provision permitting the dismissal of the Prime Minister, President Gusmao and his close associates have made clear t [...]	2006-05-11 19:08:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI228	EAST TIMOR UPDATE: WHAT IS THE PRESIDENT THINKING? [...] (S) Summary: Despite the widespread popular belief in East Timor that the ongoing political and security crisis can only be resolved if the President invokes the constitutional provision permitting the dismissal of the Prime Minister, President Gusmao and his close associates have made clear t [...]	2006-05-11 19:24:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI229	RAMOS-HORTA: WOULD ACCEPT PRIME MINISTER POSITION [...] (S) Summary: In a conversation with Ambassador Rees, Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said he believes Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri will probably be defeated in next week's Fretilin Party Congress. He believes Alkatiri has brought the defeat upon himself by his arrogant and sometimes abusive [...]	2006-05-12 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI236	FOREIGN MINISTER REPORTS PROGRESS IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 13 meeting with the Diplomatic Corps, Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta reported that significant progress was made over the weekend to ease tensions with the dissident military groups including the group led by Major Reinado and the 591 Petitioners led by Lt. Salsinha. [...]	2006-05-16 11:15:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC KPKO KDEM TT
06DILI245	CHARGE MEETS WITH STATE MINISTER ANA PESSOA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge Stein and USAID representative Fuller held a warm meeting with Senior Minister and Minister for State Administration Ana Pessoa on May 22, 2006 to discuss the commission she leads to investigate the grievances of the former FDTL soldiers, the "petitioners" dismissed earlier [...]	2006-05-22 15:13:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR KDEM TT
06DILI246	DILI SITREP MAY 22 [...] (SBU) The situation was more tense than in recent days as rumors and exaggerations circulated widely. An outbreak of communal violence in Becora (Dili's easternmost suburb),where gangs of eastern and western youth armed with slingshots, knives, and machetes clashed intermittently throughout t [...]	2006-05-22 15:13:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR KDEM TT
06DILI247	EAST TIMOR SITREP #1 FOR MAY 23, 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: GOET PROPOSAL FOR TALKS FALTERS AS REINADO AND FDTL CLASH COMMENTS FROM THE FOREIGN MINISTER REQUESTS FROM THE GOET POLICE ISSUES IDP CAMPS SITUATION IN DILI End Summary. GOET PROPOSAL FOR TALKS FALTERS AS REINADO AND FDTL CLASH 2. (C) Charge Stein and USDR traveled to [...]	2006-05-23 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM TT
06DILI252	EAST TIMOR SITREP #1 FOR MAY 24, 2006 [...] (U) Summary. - EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF COMMENCMENT OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN FDTL AND DISSIDENTS - FDTL ACTIVITIES - OTHER VIOLENCE IN DILI - AIR TRAFFIC ISSUES - DISIDENT MILITARY GROUPS - OTHER POLICE ISSUES - IDP CAMPS OVERCROWDED - AMCIT PHOTO JOURNALIST COMES UNDER FIRE IN TASITOLU - AMC [...]	2006-05-24 07:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CACS TT
06DILI253	EAST TIMOR SITREP #2 FOR MAY 24, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION CONTINUED FIGHTING BETWEEN FDTL AND DISSIDENT FORCES UPDATE ON DISSIDENT LEADERS POLICE UPDATE THE SITUATION IN DILI IDP UPDATE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY EVACUATION End summary. GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION 2. (C) At a meetin [...]	2006-05-24 15:33:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM TT
06DILI254	EAST TIMOR REQUESTS FOREIGN MILITARY INTERVENTION; PRIME [...] (S) Summary: East Timor's four top government leaders today announced that the government would request military intervention from Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, and Malaysia to restore order and to end what President Xanana Gusmao called "this climate of panic." Foreign Minister Jose Ramo [...]	2006-05-24 15:36:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI258	EAST TIMOR SITREP #2 FOR MAY 24, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION CONTINUED FIGHTING BETWEEN FDTL AND DISSIDENT FORCES UPDATE ON DISSIDENT LEADERS POLICE UPDATE THE SITUATION IN DILI IDP UPDATE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY EVACUATION End summary. GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION 2. (C) At a meetin [...]	2006-05-25 07:15:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM TT
06DILI259	EAST TIMOR SITREP #2 FOR MAY 24, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION CONTINUED FIGHTING BETWEEN FDTL AND DISSIDENT FORCES UPDATE ON DISSIDENT LEADERS POLICE UPDATE THE SITUATION IN DILI IDP UPDATE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY EVACUATION End summary. GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION 2. (C) At a meetin [...]	2006-05-25 07:15:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM TT
06DILI262	EAST TIMOR REQUESTS FOREIGN MILITARY INTERVENTION; PRIME [...] (S) Summary: East Timor's four top government leaders today announced that the government would request military intervention from Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, and Malaysia to restore order and to end what President Xanana Gusmao called "this climate of panic." Foreign Minister Jose Ramo [...]	2006-05-25 07:27:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI263	DILI UPDATE: FIGHTING IN DILI INCREASES, PRESIDENT ASSUMES [...] (U) Summary: -- President Assumes Control of the Military (on Paper) -- FDTL Soldiers Shoot Unarmed Police and UN Personnel -- Violence in the Capital Worsens -- Casualty Information -- Military Reportedly Arming Civilians -- Status of Amcits -- Special Police Unit Requests Embassy Assistanc [...]	2006-05-25 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CASC TT
06DILI268	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 26, 2006 [...] (U) SUMMARY -- AUSTRALIAN PATROLS COMMENCE, SOME VIOLENCE CONTINUES -- GOVERNMENT DEFIES PRESIDENT -- PRESIDENT INTENDS TO DISMISS THE GOVERNMENT -- FOREIGN MINISTER: PRIME MINISTER SHOULD RESIGN -- SECURITY ENVIRONMENT IMPROVES BUT REMAINS TENSE -- NATIONAL HOSPITAL STRUGGLING TO CARE FOR WO [...]	2006-05-27 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CASC TT
06DILI274	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 29, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: PRIME MINISTER MAY ENDORSE PRESIDENT'S ASSUMPTION OF SECURITY POWERS MINISTERS OF INTERIOR AND DEFENSE WILL BE REPLACED TOMORROW ALKATIRI REFUSES TO RESIGN, BUT MAY SOON BE DISMISSED VIOLENCE SIGNIFICANTLY DOWN, LOOTING CONTINUES FDTL WITHDRAWS FROM DILI HQ ADF SUCCESSFULLY RESP [...]	2006-05-30 11:30:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CASC TT
06DILI276	EAST TIMOR SITUATION REPORT FOR MAY 30 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-30 19:20:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM KPKO CASC TT
06DILI279	EMBOFFS INTERVIEW NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSIONER IN HIDING [...] (C) Summary: Vice Interior Minister Alcino Barris, Police Commissioner Paulo Martins and dozens of police officers from all branches have reassembled the national police (PNTL) hierarchy at an orphanage in the hills overlooking Dili. The group has been disarmed by the Australian Defense Forces [...]	2006-05-31 15:15:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PHUM TT CU CH
06DILI280	EAST TIMOR SITUATION REPORT FOR MAY 30 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 15:15:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CASC TT
06DILI281	EAST TIMOR SITUATION REPORT FOR MAY 31 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 15:15:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CASC TT
06DILI291	AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH MINISTER RAMOS-HORTA [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-03 19:12:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	ASEC PGOV MOPS PHUM TT KDEM KPKO
06DILI293	EAST TIMOR WEEKEND UPDATE: JUNE 3-5, 2006, [...] (U) Summary: Pro-Xanana security ministers are sworn in; Superior Council endorses President's security plan; Ramos-Horta begins Defense Minister duties; FRETILIN Central Committee endorses Alkatiri, promotes Lobato; Australia on post-UNOTIL planning; Anti-Alkatiri demonstration reportedly ca [...]	2006-06-05 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN CASC KPKO AU PO TT
06DILI296	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 6, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: 1500 Anti-Alkatiri demonstrators arrive from western districts; Ambassador meets with new Minister of the Interior Parliament deliberates with a bare quorum; Portuguese paramilitary police continue operations without JTF Coordination; Malaysian diplomats announce need for externa [...]	2006-06-06 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN CASC AU PO TT
06DILI299	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 7, 2006 [...] (U) Summary. - Demonstrators return to their districts; - UN envoy Ian Martin departs Dili; - International police force update; - Readout on Ramos-Horta's meetings with dissident leaders; - Australian and New Zealand Defense Ministers visit; - Parliament's [...]	2006-06-07 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN KPKO CASC PO MY TT AS
06DILI300	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 8, 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary - GNR restricted to barracks after confrontation with Australian forces; - Provisional cooperation agreement reached between JTF and Portuguese forces; - Armed group claims Alkatiri gave them weapons to kill opponents; - Foreign Defense Attaches inv [...]	2006-06-08 19:25:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN KPKO CASC PO MY AS TT
06DILI301	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 9, 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: - AFP commander gives policing plan to Ramos-Horta; - GNR Equipment Arrives in Baucau; - Former Minister of Police Bids Farewell to PNTL Commanders; - Sources confirm Fretilin Headquarters in Ermera District was burned; - Status of the news media; - JTF agrees to provide secur [...]	2006-06-09 11:26:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN KPKO CASC PO MY TT AS
06DILI303	EMBOFFS MEET WITH ALLEGED FRETILIN "SECRET SECURITY" FORCE [...] (C) Summary. U.S. Embassy and United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL) PolOffs met today with the leaders of the "Fretilin Secret Security" force in their mountaintop compound outside of Liquica. The group, comprised entirely of former Falintil resistance fighters, showed PolOffs t [...]	2006-06-12 15:16:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINS ASEC TT
06DILI304	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 12, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: GOET Calls on UN to Establish Independent Special Inquiry Commission; Opposition MP Joins Major Reinado to Call for Changes to the Constitution; GNR Cooperates Effectively with JTF; Security environment. End summary. GOET Calls on UN to Establish Independent Special Inquiry [...]	2006-06-12 15:16:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN KPKO CASC PO MY TT AS
06DILI306	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 13, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: Pro-Alkatiri armed group reported in Los Palos; Ramos-Horta casts doubt on whether UN investigation would include "Fretilin Security Forces"; Fretilin National Planning Committee may meet to discuss current crisis; Opposition MPs walk out of Parliament in protest of a Fretilin r [...]	2006-06-13 15:14:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KPKO CASC PO MY TT AS
06DILI308	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 14, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: President addresses Parliament; Fretilin presents itself as the victim; Ramos-Horta briefs diplomatic corps on GOET requests for post UN-mission; Prime Minister wants Timorese control of police; Security environment; End Summary. President addresses Parliament -------------- [...]	2006-06-14 15:05:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KPKO CASC PO MY TT AS
06DILI313	EMBASSY DILI VIEWS ON POST-UNOTIL MISSION [...] (U) Summary: This message discusses possible components of a follow-on United Nations mission in East Timor after the expiration of the anticipated two-month extension of the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL). Whether or not the mission is conducted under Chapter VII authority and [...]	2006-06-16 19:27:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	KPKO PREL PGOV PHUM AU PO MY TT
06DILI316	PRESIDENT GUSMAO SAYS HE WILL DISMISS PRIME MINISTER THIS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 19:20:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV MOPS KPKO KCRM TT AS
06DILI320	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 20, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: --- President still plans to dismiss Prime Minister after Council of State meeting tomorrow; --- Arrest warrant issued for Lobato; --- Ramos-Horta in Baucau, plans to head further East tomorrow; --- Anti-Alkatiri demonstration begins, may grow in coming days; --- Weapons confisca [...]	2006-06-20 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KPKO CASC PREF EAID AS TT
06DILI322	EAST TIMOR SITREP: PRIME MINISTER PERSUADES PRESIDENT TO [...] (U) Summary: --- Prime Minister persuades President to delay dismissal --- Anti-Alkatiri demonstration continued; --- Lobato's house surrounded; --- Security environment in Dili. End Summary. Prime Minister persuades President to delay dismissal ----------------------------------- (S) A [...]	2006-06-21 11:19:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KPKO CASC PREF EAID AS TT
06DILI325	UPDATE FROM AFP ON INTERNATIONAL POLICING IN DILI [...] (C) Summary: Emboff met yesterday with Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commander Steve Lancaster to review the current status of international policing in Dili. Lancaster reported that the international police have not yet reached full capacity, primarily due to a delay in the arrival of the [...]	2006-06-22 07:07:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS ASEC PHUM AU PO NZ TT
06DILI35	RESPONSE TO CRIMINALIZATION OF DEFAMATION IN NEW PENAL CODE [...] (U) Last month the Council of Ministers announced their approval of a new penal code for East Timor. The law is now in the hands of the President either to promulgate or to veto. Although no official copies of the law are available, leaked copies have been circulated among civil society organi [...]	2006-01-20 08:50:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KPAO TT
06DILI355	RAMOS-HORTA BECOMES PRIME MINISTER IN NEW FRETILIN [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-10 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MOPS TT
06DILI369	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JULY 10-17, 2006 [...] Summary: New government leaves opposition parties cold Prosecutor General sworn in for second four-year term Rai Los hands over his weapons Parliament back to work on electoral law and Alkatiri case Plans for additional demonstrations called off Internally Displaced People (IDPs) beginning to [...]	2006-07-17 12:09:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI387	PRO-REINADO DEMONSTRATIONS SMALL BUT WORRYING [...] (SBU) Summary: Demonstrations are being staged in Dili to protest the arrest and detention by international forces earlier this week of Major Alfredo Reinado, the leader of a group of dissident Military Police that played a prominent role in the violent clashes in and around Dili in late May. [...]	2006-07-29 15:05:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR AU PO TT
06DILI394	EAST TIMOR UPDATE JULY 24-31, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: Continued repercussions of Reinado arrest Prime Minister presents his Government Program to Parliament Council of State extends the "State of Crisis" through August 20 International Commission of Inquiry: Briefing by the Executive Director End summary. Continued repercussions [...]	2006-08-01 09:05:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR UN TT
06DILI404	INCREASED GANG ACTIVITY STRETCHES LIMITS OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: There has been a notable increase in disturbances around Dili in recent days, beginning late last week and continuing through today. These have mostly occurred in neighborhoods that have been regular sites of conflict during the last few months. Additionally, there has been a r [...]	2006-08-08 10:16:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PHUM ASEC AU TT
06DILI405	IDP RETURN PLANS AND SECURITY ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: In a conversation with Charge d'Affaires on August 7, Anna Pessoa, the Minister for State Administration, discussed the current state of planning for the return of as many as 150,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) to their homes in Dili. Noting the deteriorated security envi [...]	2006-08-09 02:49:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC PREF EAID TT
06DILI424	REDUCED VIOLENCE IN DILI, BUT SERIOUS PROBLEMS REMAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: During the last week there was a significant reduction in the gang-related incidents reported in reftel, but late last week there were several serious incidents and the potential for renewed gang activity remains. Although some of the factors contributing to the resumption of ga [...]	2006-08-21 02:44:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PHUM ASEC AU CASC PREF KJUS TT PGOV
06DILI429	PRESIDENT GUSMAO ASKS ANNAN TO RETAIN SRSG HASEGAWA THROUGH [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-23 09:13:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC KPKO TT JA
06DILI439	PRESIDENT GUSMAO CONCERNED ABOUT CAPE VERDE SRSG CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-29 02:56:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	CV PO TT KPKO UN PREL KDEM PHUM
06DILI452	MAJORITY OF DILI'S POPULATION STILL DISPLACED [...] (U) Summary: Dili has become a city characterized by a large displaced population residing in over 50 separate camps. Resolving this issue and convincing internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return home is turning out to be a slow and complicated process, partially due to the complexity of th [...]	2006-09-07 11:09:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PGOV UN ASEC TT
06DILI463	DILI SECURITY UPDATE: GANG DISTURBANCES BECOMING ENTRENCHED [...] (SBU) Summary: Following a spike in gang activity in early August in the period immediately following the arrest of dissident Major Alfredo Reinado, there was a reduction in such incidents later in the month. However, gang incidents have gradually escalated during the ensuing weeks, particular [...]	2006-09-13 02:04:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PHUM ASEC CASC PREF AU PO TT
06DILI487	PREVIEW OF UN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY REPORT ON TIMOR CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. According to one of its principal authors, the UN Special Commission of Inquiry report pulls no punches in naming the direct perpetrators and assessing responsibilities for the April-May crisis. The report recommends prosecution of former Interior Minister Rogerio Lobato and elem [...]	2006-10-03 07:47:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS KPKO ASEC UN TT
06DILI518	RELEASE OF UN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY REPORT ON TIMOR CRISIS [...] Summary: The Report of the United Nations Independent Special Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste was released today to the National Parliament of East Timor and to the public. The UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) will now commence with an effort to distribute it widely throughou [...]	2006-10-17 13:07:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KJUS KPKO ASEC UN TT
06DILI578	MULTIPLE DIALOGUE INITIATIVES ATTEMPT TO ADDRESS TIMOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent weeks have seen a flurry of dialogue and reconciliation efforts among East Timorese institutions and leaders. These have included series of meetings between the armed forces (F-FDTL) and the national police (PNTL),initiatives by youth group and gang leaders, and a high l [...]	2006-11-29 11:03:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM MARR KPKO TT
06DILI70	UPDATE ON JANUARY BORDER INCIDENTS [...] (U) Summary: Two border incidents that occurred in January have caused a spike in tension between East Timor and Indonesia. First, on January 6, three alleged members of 1999-era militias were shot dead by East Timor's Border Patrol Unit (BPU). See Reftel. Then, on January 24, it was reporte [...]	2006-02-15 05:37:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PHUM ASEC TT ID
06DILI84	INDONESIAN TRUTH AND FRIENDSHIP COMMISSIONERS ARRIVE IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The five Indonesian members of the bilateral Truth and Friendship Commission (TFC) arrived in Dili on Sunday to commence a weeklong program. The program is to include meetings with high-level Government officials, site visits, meetings with victims of violence in 1999, and a fo [...]	2006-02-21 14:21:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL JKUS KCRM KAWC ID TT
06DJIBOUTI300	DJIBOUTI'S INPUT FOR 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-08 06:01:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON PHUM XA DJ
06DJIBOUTI314	IMAGES FROM THE REGIONAL ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN [...] (U) SUMMARRY: Unprecedented aspects have been noticed during the campaign for Djibouti's first ever Regional Elections for which campaigning began on February 25 and ended on March 8. The Regional and Communal Elections are set to take place on March 10, 2006. At the end of 2005, President Gu [...]	2006-03-09 17:11:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM DJ
06DJIBOUTI32	DJIBOUTI'S INTERIOR MINISTER ON DECENTRALIZATION [...] (U) During a December 20 meeting with visiting REDSO Director, Andrew Sisson, Ambassador, REDSO Chief of Limited Presence Countries, Andrew Karas, and USAID Education Program Director, Alpha Bah, Minister of Interior Yacin Elmi Bouh offered his perspective on Djibouti's recent efforts at decen [...]	2006-01-08 11:52:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAID PHUM SCUL DJ
06DJIBOUTI433	DAS YAMAMOTO MEETS WITH PRESIDENT AND FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 2, AF Deputy Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto met separately in Djibouti with SIPDIS President Ismail Omar Guelleh and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to discuss the Ethiopian/Eritrean border conflict, engaging with Somalia, and strengthening the coalition at [...]	2006-04-07 07:47:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PHUM MARR DJ SO
06DJIBOUTI473	DJIBOUTI, THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, AND AFRICAN [...] On April 16, Ambassador Ragsdale and Poloff (notetaker) delivered letter reftel A from Secretary Rice and reftel B talking points to Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf. 2. Ambassador Ragsdale encouraged the Government of Djibouti not to support candidacies for UN Human Right Council memb [...]	2006-04-19 13:35:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL PHUM DJ UN
06DJIBOUTI555	DJIBOUTI ON IRAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] (C) 1. Poloff delivered demarche per reftel to Nasser Mohammed Hassan, the Assistant Director for Bilateral Affairs in charge of America/Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hassan said he could not give an official response, as all other Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials are current [...]	2006-05-10 11:50:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL DJ
06DJIBOUTI589	DJIBOUTI COMPLIES WITH BOYCOTT STATUTES [...] Reftel demarche was delivered to Mohammed Tayeb, the Deputy Director of Arab Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said that as a member of the Arab League, Djibouti fully complies with the Arab League Boycott, but does not require foreign companies to comply with the boycott requirem [...]	2006-05-16 11:16:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PREL KBCT KIRF ABLD PHUM AL DJ
06DJIBOUTI64	DJIBOUTI AND DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM [...] (C) Ambassador raised January 14 with Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Yousuf the issue of United Nations reform, using points and background information provided in reftels. The Foreign Minister appeared aware of U.S. positions on reform in general and on the Human Rights Council and [...]	2006-01-16 08:43:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM ADCO DJ UN
06DJIBOUTI798	DJIBOUTI: TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST ACTION PLAN [...] (U) On July 5, Poloff and Polasst delivered TIP Tier 2 Watch List Action Plan non-paper to Youssouf Aden Moussa, the Deputy Director of Bilateral Relations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Poloff explained that the United States is committed to working with Djibouti to combat trafficking in [...]	2006-07-06 13:43:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM PREL DJ
06DOHA213	HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS IN QATAR,S LEGISLATION [...] Summary: At a recent workshop sponsored by the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC),participants examined and discussed the extent to which Qatar's constitution and legislation meets international human rights standards. Participants from the government sector, academia, the press and quasi [...]	2006-02-13 10:31:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI QA
06DOHA303	QATAR: 2006 ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified--entire report. 2. (U) Embassy Point of Contact is Political Officer, Farah Chery-Medor. Tel. 974-488-4101 ext. 6453. Fax 974 488-4163. One FS-04 officer spent 34 hours in the preparation of this report cable. 3. (U) Following is post's sixth annual Anti- [...]	2006-02-27 12:58:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB QA

06DOHA360	NATIONALITY LAW: CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICAL RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary. The recent Amiri decision to restore citizenship to approximately 6,000 people who were stripped of their Qatari nationality last year came as a welcome surprise to thousands of people whose fate has been uncertain for over a year. Not coincidentally, the decision comes on the hee [...]	2006-03-09 06:02:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL QA
06DOHA362	QATARI WOMEN ON ELECTION ISSUES [...] Summary. The political section recently met with a group of Qatari women as part of Post's outreach activities to Qatari women in support of their efforts to realize broad political participation in society. Young and old women from various professional backgrounds credited Sheikha Mozah, wife [...]	2006-03-09 13:35:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN KDEM KMPI QA
06DOHA456	DOHA ROUNDUP [...] Topics: ----------- -Energy & Economy, paragraphs 2-4 -Labor, para. 5 -Civil Society, para. 6 -Drug Abuse, para. 7 --------------------------- Launch of Energy City Qatar --------------------------- 2. Hailed as the Middle East's first energy business hub, Energy City Qatar (ECQ),[...]	2006-03-26 13:12:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON EINV ELAB KDEM PHUM PGOV INL SOCI
06DUBAI1075	AKBAR GANJI'S SENTENCE UP MARCH 17 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-27 13:39:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV IR SOCI
06DUBAI1319	IRAN'S HOJJATIYEH SOCIETY (C-NES-01487) [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-08 16:12:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	IR PGOV PHUM PINR
06DUBAI1455	HEAD OF DUBAI WOMEN'S SHELTER NOT INTIMIDATED BY CRITICS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sharla Musabih, head of an independent women's shelter in Dubai, dismissed recent public criticism of her shelter by a prominent Sunni cleric, saying it was not a threat to her operation. She said she was trying to schedule a meeting with him to discuss the matter further. The D [...]	2006-03-14 14:11:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI AE
06DUBAI1729	CHAIRMAN, SECGEN OF NEW UAE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO COMMENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Chairman and Secretary General of the new Emirates Human Rights Association said their secular-oriented group had formed in order to offer itself as a secular alternative to an earlier group dominated by "fundamentalists." In a worrisome development, the UAEG had attempted to p [...]	2006-03-22 14:52:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV AE
06DUBAI1847	DUBAI SHELTER NOT CLOSING [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-28 10:32:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI AE
06DUBAI1904	SITUATION IN IRAN'S KHUZESTAN AND REQUESTS FOR SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-04 14:33:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	PGOV PREL IR PHUM PINR SOCI
06DUBAI2014	ESTONIAN SOLDIER OUT ON BAIL [...] (U) Consul General contacted Netherlands CG April 11 to seek an update on the case involving the Estonian soldier serving with NATO forces in Afghanistan, who was arrested at Sharjah Airport on February 23 for drunkeness and molesting a female police officer. Sharjah's Shari'a court originally [...]	2006-04-11 13:18:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR PHUM NATO AE EN
06DUBAI2600	ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN THE UAE [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-10 09:52:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM SOCI KCRM ET AE SY
06DUBAI2756	IRANIAN STUDENT ACTIVIST VIEW OF IRAN AND US POLICY [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-15 13:33:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	PGOV PREL IR PHUM
06DUBAI2757	IRANIAN STUDENT ACTIVIST CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-15 14:06:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	PREL PGOV IR PHUM
06DUBAI2762	ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN THE UAE [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-16 11:02:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM SOCI KCRM ET AE SY
06DUBAI3131	JEWISH MP: NO CHANGE IN SITUATION FOR IRANIAN JEWS BUT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-24 15:30:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	PGOV PREL IR PHUM
06DUBAI3263	LOBBYING EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF IRANIAN POLITICAL PRISONER [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-30 12:51:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IR PHUM
06DUBAI4105	DIRECTOR OF DUBAI IMMIGRATION DISMISSED [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-03 13:01:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV PHUM AE
06DUBAI4108	IRAN SEES SPIES EVERYWHERE, INCLUDING IN JAHANBEGLOO [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-03 14:44:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	IR PREL PHUM PINR
06DUBAI52	JEWS IN IRAN OKAY, BUT HAMPERED BY GLASS CEILING [...] (C) Summary: According to an Iranian Jewish couple, the situation of Jews in Iran is pretty good, as long as they remain apolitical. They are allowed to worship freely. The main drawback of being an Iranian Jew is the inability to move up in jobs with the Iranian government. End Summary. Ira [...]	2006-01-03 13:51:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	IR PHUM PINR PGOV
06DUBAI5246	IRPO: THE STATUS OF IRAN'S ASSYRIAN AND JEWISH COMMUNITIES [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-16 13:03:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM IR
06DUBAI566	UZBEK CONSUL GENERAL DISCUSSES TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) Uzbekistan's Consul General in Dubai, Bakhityor Madaev, discussed with PolEconoff January 23 Trafficking in Persons and related issues. He reported that Uzbekistan prosecutes traffickers and restricts travel of single women to the UAE, but that Neighboring states are used as mean [...]	2006-02-07 09:09:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SOCI KCRM ECON PHUM TC UZ KZ KG
06DUBLIN1046	GOI APPRECIATES INFORMATION ON USG DETAINEE POLICY [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-08 17:06:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PTER EI
06DUBLIN1111	IRELAND AND THE UN HRC: DARFUR IS THE HIGHEST [...] (C) The Irish Government largely agrees with USG views on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC),but sees Darfur as the highest priority for the HRC's second session, according to Eamon MacAodha, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Counsellor for Human Rights, to whom Pol/Econ Section Chief deliv [...]	2006-09-27 15:08:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UN EI
06DUBLIN1395	IRELAND'S VIEWS ON DECEMBER GAERC [...] (C) POLOFF delivered Ref A - D demarches on December 7 to Mary Connery, Deputy European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs. Ireland continues to support work aimed at lifting the arms embargo on China, though does not expect a relaxation of the current embargo to emerge from the GAE [...]	2006-12-08 16:01:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	IS PREL PGOV PHUM IE
06DUBLIN216	IRELAND: TO DEFER TO EU PRESIDENCY FOR VENEZUELAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-01 08:19:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EU PGOV PHUM PREL VE EI
06DUBLIN249	IRELAND SHARES U.S. CONCERNS ON ODIHR'S BELARUS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 17:23:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PHUM PREL BE EI
06DUBLIN258	IRELAND: DELAYS IN SIGNING THE THIRD ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-10 17:24:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ICRC PHUM PREF PREL EI
06DUBLIN262	IRELAND - 2006 ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The most significant trafficking development in Ireland in 2005 was an increase in government attention to the problem. The government formed a working group between the Department of Justice and the police and wrote legislation bringing Ireland into conformity with UN and EU [...]	2006-03-13 15:33:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EI
06DUBLIN293	IRELAND UNLIKELY TO MAKE A STATEMENT ON SYRIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-22 10:25:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SY EI
06DUBLIN314	IRELAND SUPPORTS VISA BAN ON LUKASHENKA [...] (C) Ireland supports an extended visa/travel ban on Lukashenka and other officials associated with the fraudulent March 19 Belarusian elections, in line with discussions at the March 24 EU leaders meeting, according to Conleth Brady, acting Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Desk Officer for [...]	2006-03-28 11:19:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CVIS EUN BO EI
06DUBLIN362	IRISH CROWD MOVED BY "THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO" [...] Summary. On April 5, an emboff attended the Amnesty International sponsored public screening of "The Road to Guantanamo" and a following Q&A session with former Guantanamo detainees, Rhuhel Ahmed, and Shafiq Rasul. The film is a docu-drama that presents a damning account of USG treatment of [...]	2006-04-06 16:57:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER OPRC KPAO PINR PHUM MARR MOPS PINS
06DUBLIN374	GAERC: IRELAND STILL AVERSE TO BELARUS SANCTIONS [...] (C) Summary: On April 6, Post delivered reftels' demarche points to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU Correspondent. Kelly noted Ireland's support for the April 10 GAERC's likely approval of an expanded visa ban against Belarusian officials culpable in the fraudulent March 19 [...]	2006-04-07 17:15:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER OPRC EUN ECON ETRD SOCI EI
06DUBLIN391	IRELAND MAINTAINS HARD LINE ON BURMA SANCTIONS [...] (C) Ireland supports the unconditional renewal of the EU's common position on Burma, said James McIntyre, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Deputy Director of the Asia and Oceania Political Division, to whom Emboff delivered reftel points on April 12. Additionally, he informed Emboff that [...]	2006-04-12 17:24:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BM EAID EU PHUM PREF EI
06DUBLIN400	IRELAND SHARES U.S VIEWS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Ireland will not support countries seeking membership to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) that have been sanctioned by the UN Security Council for human rights violations, said Eamonn MacAodha, Director of the Human Rights Unit at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),to whom Emboff d [...]	2006-04-13 17:44:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR OPDC PHUM UNGA EI
06DUBLIN470	IRELAND LIKELY TO SIGN RED CRYSTAL PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-28 13:10:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PHUM PREF PREL ICRC SZ IE
06DUBLIN473	NO IRISH SUPPORT FOR IRAN ON HRC [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-28 18:54:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL EI
06DUBLIN555	PUBLIC DEBATE ON RENDITION AND SHANNON CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: A May 9 seminar on rendition and torture hosted by Amnesty International Irish Section and the Irish Centre for Human Rights focused on the USG's use of Shannon Airport and the CIA's alleged practice of leasing civilian planes to circumvent authorities. Debate at the seminar hi [...]	2006-05-18 17:08:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EUN EAIR KTIA EI MARR MOPS
06DUBLIN562	AFGHANIS ON HUNGER STRIKE IN IRISH CHURCH [...] Summary. According to official sources and press reports, 41 Afghani asylum seekers began a hunger/thirst strike in Dublin's historic St. Patrick's Cathedral to protest perceived pending deportations. Since the strike began on May 12, eight of the all male group have been admitted to a hosp [...]	2006-05-19 17:14:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AF CVIS PHUM PREF PTER UNHCR PINS EI
06DUBLIN566	IRELAND IN LINE WITH EU PRESIDENCY STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-22 11:50:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SY EI
06DUBLIN582	AFGHANI HUNGER STRIKE IN IRELAND ENDS WITHOUT [...] (U) On May 20, a seven-day hunger/thirst strike instigated by 41 Afghani asylum seekers ended peacefully and without major incident. Per reftel, this group of men sought refuge in Dublin's historic St. Patrick's Cathedral in a bid to strengthen their asylum cases. (None actually faced immed [...]	2006-05-24 12:02:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AF CVIS PHUM PREF PTER UNHCR PINS EI
06DUBLIN664	IRELAND CONSIDERS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN HUMAN [...] On May 31 emboff delivered reftel dipnote and talking points to Department of Foreign Affairs Human Rights Section Director Eamonn MacAodha. MacAodha confirmed Ireland's participation at the September 7 New York meeting of the States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Politica [...]	2006-06-09 13:27:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM US UNHRC EI
06DUBLIN668	GAERC: IRELAND HOPES FOR POSITIVE OUTCOME TO [...] (C) Summary: On June 8, Post delivered reftel points to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs EU Correspondent. Kelly stated that Montenegro will highlight the discussions on the Balkans and that he believes the EU will welcome the Montenegrin Parliament's expected declaration of independe [...]	2006-06-09 18:29:00	Embassy Dublin	SECRET	PREL PHUM PTER EUN ECON ETRD SOCI EI
06DUBLIN684	IRISH NGOS PLEASED WITH TIP REPORT [...] This is an action request: see paragraph 11. 2. SUMMARY: On June 9, the Ambassador held a roundtable discussion with NGO representatives in regards to the release of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The representatives were very pleased with the report overall, citing its worldwide [...]	2006-06-15 13:58:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL EI
06DUBLIN689	IRELAND TO SIGN "RED CRYSTAL" PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-16 11:01:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ICRC PREF PREL EI
06DUBLIN719	IRELAND MAINTAINS SUPPORT FOR RED CRYSTAL PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-21 15:44:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ICRC PREF PREL EI
06DUBLIN729	IRISH SHARE USG PRIORITIES FOR NEW HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-22 15:02:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL EI
06DUBLIN731	UZBEK HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST PRESENTED AWARD IN [...] (U) On June 16, Uzbek national Ahmadjan (aka Akhmadian) Madumarov was named as the recipient of the second annual Front Line Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk for his work as an activist in Uzbekistan. According to the Irish NGO Front Line, Mr. Madumarov, of the Independent Human Right [...]	2006-06-22 16:08:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV UZ ZK PINS EI
06DUBLIN778	IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIANS MAKE THEIR CASE IN IRELAND [...] (U) In a June 18-24 trip sponsored by the International Republican Institute (IRI) and organized with embassy assistance, a group of Iraqi parliamentarians visited Ireland to learn from the Irish experience of reconciliation and to plead for more Irish assistance. During this visit the group [...]	2006-06-30 15:49:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IZ EI
06DUBLIN838	IRELAND WALKS EU PARTY LINE ON CUBA [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-14 16:28:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	CU PHUM PREL PGOV EI
06DUBLIN849	IRELAND NOT LIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE TO HAITI INTERIM [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-19 09:22:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL EI
06DUBLIN903	IRELAND MAINTAINS CONCERNS ON BURMA BUT WILL NOT [...] (C) On August 1, emboff delivered reftel points to Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Asia Section First Secretary James McIntyre. McIntyre said that the GOI would not ask the EU Presidency to withdraw or downgrade their invitation for Burma to attend the September Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) [...]	2006-08-02 12:41:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM FI BU EUN EI
06DUBLIN94	IRELAND MOSTLY AGREES WITH USG ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Ireland agrees with ref A demarche points on ensuring the prospective UN Human Rights Council's recourse to country-specific resolutions and on completing the UN management/mandate review, according to John Deady and Brian Cahalane, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Director and [...]	2006-01-27 12:37:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM UNAUS ADCO EI
06DUSHANBE1174	TAJIKISTAN: HELSINKI COMMISSION COUNSEL'S FIRST VISIT [...] (U) SUMMARY: H. Knox Thames, Counsel for the U.S. Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, visited Tajikistan June 14-17 for the first time. During his trip, he met with political party representatives, religious leaders, government officials, [...]	2006-06-26 05:53:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1329	TAJIKISTAN'S SDPT CHAIRMAN SUFFERS STROKE, ALLEGES FOUL [...] (C) Rahmatullo Zoyirov, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) met with PolOff July 13 after suffering a minor stroke two weeks earlier. Zoyirov, an energetic opposition politician, was noticeably absent during the Embassy's official opening on June 28 and the July 4 r [...]	2006-07-14 13:18:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1353	TAJIKISTAN: DPT'S ISKANDAROV SAFE IN PRISON, FOR NOW [...] (U) Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (DPT) Deputy Chairman, Rahmatullo Valiev assured PolOff July 12 that the DPT's Chairman Mahmmadruzi Iskandarov is not being maltreated in prison, and discussed the emergence of the "Vatan" (Motherland) faction of the DPT. 2. (U) Valiev reported that [...]	2006-07-18 11:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1354	TAJIKISTAN: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES UNDER SCRUTINY [...] (U) Tajik media reported that Murodullo Davlatov, Chairman of the State Committee for Religious Affairs (SCRA),in a press conference July 13, singled out the Jehovah's Witnesses and said that the group's proselytizing activities "arouse public indignation." Valery Dudaev, Tajikistan's Jehov [...]	2006-07-19 09:38:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE1362	TAJIKISTAN'S NEW MEDIA COALITION NOT ENTIRELY INDEPENDENT [...] (SBU) Three prominent media associations formed the new Partnership for Democracy in June, a media coalition group designed to address misunderstandings among journalistic bodies and foster improved relations between mass media and the government. However, despite the group's good intentions [...]	2006-07-20 08:56:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1420	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRESIDENT RAHMONOV [...] (C) During the Ambassador's 90-minute one-on-one farewell call with President Rahmonov July 19, the President spoke without notes, because, we learned later, he had not expected a working meeting. President Foreign Policy Adviser Erkin Rahmatulloyev told us, "Generally, ambassadors come to sa [...]	2006-07-24 08:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PROP ECON EINV ENRG MARR KDEM IR
06DUSHANBE1425	NDI NOT GETTING THE ANSWERS THEY WANT FROM TAJIK GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov and Deputy Minister of Justice Sharipova, National Democratic Institute (NDI) representatives pressed the Tajik government to register the organization and issue a visa for an American staff member to manage the Dushanbe office. [...]	2006-07-25 11:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1442	PRESIDENT KARZAI WORRIES ABOUT RUSSIAN INTENTIONS IN CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai invited the Ambassador for a private one-hour breakfast at the Presidential Guest House in Dushanbe before returning to Kabul July 28. After a 20-minute one-on-one, Karzai invited his foreign minister and two other advisers to join. WHAT'S RUSSIA UP [...]	2006-07-28 10:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR RS AF IR TI
06DUSHANBE1470	TAJIKISTAN'S POLITICAL PARTIES CONSIDER BOYCOTTING ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The three main opposition political parties are considering boycotting Tajikistan's presidential election as a statement of protest. Knowing Rahmonov will win handily and worried legitimate opposition candidates may not even have a chance to run, the Democratic Party of Tajikis [...]	2006-08-02 12:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1498	RADIO SILENCE CONTINUES FOR BBC IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (SBU) Tajikistan's State Radio and Television Committee (SRTC) announced August 2 it refused to give BBC a license to broadcast in Tajiki/ Farsi on FM radio. Margaret Belof, the British DCM, told PolOff August 3 the committee based its refusal on two grounds: the BBC is still not properly re [...]	2006-08-04 11:51:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE1593	TAJIK FM NAZAROV'S MEETING WITH DAS EVAN FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tan and relaxed from his trip to the EurAsEC meeting in Sochi, Tajikistan's Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov told Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum August 18 that U.S- Tajik bilateral relations were based on trust, and hoped the next phase would focus on economic assista [...]	2006-08-21 12:32:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG KDEM PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE1613	TEN WEEKS TO ELECTIONS, TAJIKISTAN MOVING SLOWLY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ten weeks out from the November Presidential election, Tajik authorities are moving very slowly to implement improvements to the electoral process. After a significant step forward in May, when Tajik authorities presented donors with a the first government plans to address previ [...]	2006-08-28 12:30:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1628	MERCY CORPS UNDER SCRUTINY FROM TAJIK JUSTICE MINISTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tajik authorities, reacting to a secret poison pen letter to the Ministry of Justice from disgruntled Mercy Corps local staff, threatened to deport a Mercy Corps expat unless the Embassy intervened to correct the situation. Mercy Corps conducted an internal investigation, and fo [...]	2006-08-31 07:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1655	TAJIKISTAN: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY. On September 4, just one business day after arriving at post, Ambassador Jacobson presented her credentials to Tajik President Emomoli Rahmonov. Rahmonov thanked the United States for its support of counter terrorism and counter narcotics efforts and said he looked forward to [...]	2006-09-06 13:30:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID SNAR KDEM PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE1705	ROCK AND ROLL IN DUSHANBE [...] What could cause Tajikistan's youth to swell with anger, defy laws prohibiting mass gatherings and demonstrations, and take to the streets of Dushanbe? Were they protesting non-transparent election practices in Tajikistan leading up to the presidential election in November? Were they angry over [...]	2006-09-13 11:30:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE1706	ROCK AND ROLL IN DUSHANBE [...] What could cause Tajikistan's youth to swell with anger, defy laws prohibiting mass gatherings and demonstrations, and take to the streets of Dushanbe? Were they protesting non-transparent election practices in Tajikistan leading up to the presidential election in November? Were they angry over [...]	2006-09-13 11:30:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE1720	TAJIK SYNAGOGUE AND ORTHODOX CHURCH SUFFERS ANOTHER MOLOTOV [...] (U) Assailants threw Molotov cocktails onto the premises of the Jewish synagogue and Russian Orthodox Church September 14. The assailants and their motives are unknown but synagogue members verified that two young Tajik men ages 17-20 threw three Molotov cocktails into the synagogue. Two Mo [...]	2006-09-18 07:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE1740	TAJIK KIDS ARE PICKIN' COTTON! [...] Cotton picking season has descended on Tajikistan, and just as in the days of central planning, several reporting districts are already exceeding set targets. According to news reports, Kulob region in Khatlon Olbast has yielded over 21,000 tons of cotton - 26% of the region's annual target. [...]	2006-09-22 09:50:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ELAB PGOV PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE1803	SCENESETTER FOR A/S BOUCHER'S VISIT TO DUSHANBE [...] (U) Embassy Dushanbe welcomes Assistant Secretary Boucher back to Tajikistan. This visit will be a good opportunity for you to build upon your May meetings in Dushanbe and give an extra push for better conduct one month before the presidential election. 2. (C) The U.S.-Tajikistan bilat [...]	2006-09-29 11:23:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV TI
06DUSHANBE1840	FOREIGN MINISTER LOOKS SOUTH FOR OPPORTUNITY AND NERVOUSLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a 45-minute meeting with Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher October 6, Foreign Minister Talbak SIPDIS Nazarov remarked that the United States and Tajikistan have a positive bilateral relationship because they have built an atmosphere of trust. He thanked Boucher for [...]	2006-10-07 08:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV ENRG TI
06DUSHANBE1841	TAJIK PRESIDENT TELLS BOUCHER ELECTION SHOULD MEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a two-hour meeting with Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher October 6, Tajikistan's President SIPDIS Emomali Rahmonov stressed the positive bilateral relationship with the United States. Stating he wanted to deepen contacts at every level, Rahmonov thanked the United Stat [...]	2006-10-07 08:24:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV ENRG TI
06DUSHANBE1848	ONE MONTH OUT: TAJIK GOVT SHUTS DOWN WEBSITES AHEAD OF THE [...] (U) Tajikistan's internet service providers blocked access to several websites deemed "opposition" sites one month ahead of the November 6 presidential election. Sites include popular news information agencies such as Ferghana.ru and Centralasia.ru. The Ministry of Communications' Agency o [...]	2006-10-10 09:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1863	FOUR WEEKS OUT: POLITICAL PARTY FACTION BRIBES MINISTRY OF [...] (SBU) Four weeks out from the November 6 presidential election, five candidates have successfully registered candidate. Opposition political parties are weaker than ever, as a faction of the Democratic Party has won government approval. The government ordered internet providers to block ne [...]	2006-10-12 11:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1935	THREE WEEKS OUT: OBSERVER MISSION DEPLOYING WITH MORE VIGOR [...] (C) Three weeks out, Tajikistan shows few visible signs of an impending presidential election. Aside from a two-story poster of President Rahmonov (resplendent with five by two foot eyebrows) on Dushanbe's main boulevard, campaign materials are conspicuously absent in the capital. PolOffs sa [...]	2006-10-23 06:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1998	ONE WEEK OUT: RAHMONOV'S PR CAMPAIGN STRENGTHENS, DPT DRAMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: With six days to go before the election, the pocket party candidates have hit the campaign trail and look more like public relations agents campaigning for Rahmonov than candidates in their own right. The Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (DPT) drama continues with the remnant DP [...]	2006-10-31 12:41:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2020	TAJIK POLITICAL PARTIES FEAR SITUATION WILL DETERIORATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the Tajik presidential election a foregone conclusion, Tajik political parties try to plan for after the election, but from their perspective, the future looks bleak. Political party leaders predict that the government will clamp down on political activity. Some are runni [...]	2006-11-03 07:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2033	TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION REPORT #1 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The polls have yet to close, but Tajikistan's presidential election seems to suffer from many of the same problems as the 2005 parliamentary election. The pre-election period did witness positive cooperation between international organizations (especially the United Nations a [...]	2006-11-06 14:02:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2038	RAHMONOV WINS TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WITH 79.3 PERCENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Rahmonov won a third term with 79.3 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results. Embassy observers deployed throughout Tajikistan witnessed the gamut of election practices from completely transparent tabulation processes to blatant ballot stuffing by commissi [...]	2006-11-07 12:26:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE204	NDI LOCAL DIRECTOR DEPARTS [...] (U) National Democratic Institute (NDI) local Director Gegham Sargsyan left Tajikistan on Wednesday morning, February 1, after a final unannounced police check and brief detention on the evening of January 31. The NDI Director had been wrangling with authorities for the past week or so, sinc [...]	2006-02-01 10:39:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR TI
06DUSHANBE2044	POLITICAL PARTIES REACT TO RAHMONOV'S WIN [...] (U) Tajik president Emomali Rahmonov won 79.3 percent of the vote in the November 6 election. Although his popularity is genuine among the people, opposition parties remain vocal in criticizing the election and will continue to express dissatisfaction with the current president and call him [...]	2006-11-08 13:25:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2050	TAJIK ELECTION NUMBERS SHOW SURPRISING REGIONAL DIFFERENCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rahmonov's re-election to a third term November 6 indicates his genuine popularity among Tajiks and reflects the people's recognition that Rahmonov's years as president have coincided with a period of relative stability in the country. Many in fact were surprised Rahmonov did [...]	2006-11-09 13:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE208	TAJIK PRISON FACILITIES IN POOR CONDITION [...] (U) PolOff visited a youth detention center and Tajikistan's central penitentiary medical facility January 31. Both facilities are in poor condition and lack adequate medical supplies and equipment. Deputy Minister of Justice, Izzatullo Sharipov, granted EmbOffs access in hopes the United St [...]	2006-02-01 11:37:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE2084	DEMARCHE ON BELARUS ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTION DELIVERED, USUN [...] (C) PolOff discussed talking points per reftel on the demarche on Belarus' anti-U.S. United Nations resolution with Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs November 15. 2. (C) Nasredinov acknowledged Bel [...]	2006-11-15 11:22:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BO TI
06DUSHANBE2147	DEMONSTRATORS CHARGE ILLEGAL DETENTION AND VIOLATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three Democratic Party of Tajikistan members were released November 19 after serving 15 days in prison for organizing a demonstration. Khairiddin Gulyaev and Temur Toshev (also known as Temur Iskandarov),two of the imprisoned members, met with Poloff November 22 to assert thei [...]	2006-11-28 11:56:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2169	TAJIKISTAN: RAHMONOV RESTRUCTURES GOVERNMENT AND STARTS [...] President Emomoli Rahmonov has restructured the Tajik government and begun appointing a new cabinet, a move expected following his November 6 re-election to another seven-year term. Rahmonov reduced the total number of ministries and state committees from 25 to 17 and state agencies from 15 [...]	2006-12-04 05:50:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID EAIR ENRG KDEM PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE2171	TAJIKISTAN: RAHMONOV RESTRUCTURES GOVERNMENT AND STARTS [...] This cable is to replace Dushanbe 2169. 2. President Emomoli Rahmonov has restructured the Tajik government and begun appointing a new cabinet, a move expected following his November 6 re-election to another seven-year term. Rahmonov reduced the total number of ministries and state comm [...]	2006-12-04 10:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID EAIR ENRG KDEM PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE2186	COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS IMAM RETURNS FROM U.S. TO PREACH [...] (U) Badriddin Karimov, a local Tajik imam who participated in the USAID-sponsored Community Connections Program, "Religion in a Secular Society," returned to Tajikistan inspired by the pluralism and tolerance he observed in the United States. On the 20-day program to the United States, Karim [...]	2006-12-07 06:35:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM KIRF KPAO EAID TI
06DUSHANBE2193	REQUEST FOR FUNDING FOR TRANSLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNTRY [...] Post looks forward to the release of the 2006 Human Rights Report. Post plans to translate the Tajikistan Country Report into both Russian and Tajik. Tajik is the official state language and Russian is commonly used among government officials, civil society, media, and the general population [...]	2006-12-08 10:56:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE2206	IRPT MEMBER CONVICTED, FREEDOM OF SPEECH VIOLATED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A city court convicted Mukhtorjon Shodiev, an Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) member, December 6 of inciting violence and calling for an overthrow of the government in remarks he gave in front a small, private audience. He was sentenced to nine months in prison. [...]	2006-12-12 12:38:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL TI
06DUSHANBE2209	TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET: NO GOOD NEWS FOR U.S. DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Nothing about President's Rahmonov's new cabinet suggests that democracy and human rights programs will now operate more freely. After months of Tajik officials counseling us to "wait until after the November 6 election" to push for registration of the National Democr [...]	2006-12-13 12:57:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2210	DUSHANBE'S MAYOR STRIKES AGAIN, AS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dushanbe's Mayor Ubaidulloyev, known for his autonomy in governing Tajikistan's capital, has his eye on a building owned by the Grace Sun Min Church and wants to turn the building into a school. However, his motives appear suspect, in light of his past attempts to take the chur [...]	2006-12-13 12:57:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2219	TRADING PLACES: TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET OF OLD HANDS WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: With a few exceptions, Tajik President Rahmonov's post-election appointments simply shuffled loyalists and favorites into different positions, further concentrating power in the hands of those from his home region of Kulob. Instead of naming new, younger officials or educated tech [...]	2006-12-14 13:50:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID ENRG SNAR KDEM TI AF
06DUSHANBE2226	HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENTS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Dushanbe commemorated International Human Rights Day/Week with a variety of events: having students paint a mural on the Embassy walls, showing a Human Rights related movie followed by a discussion group, and hosting a number of public speaking events focused on the theme "De [...]	2006-12-19 12:52:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KPAO KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2228	HOW WE CAN HELP THE TAJIK ELECTION COMMISSION PREPARE FOR [...] (U) This is an Action cable. See Paragraphs 5 and 9. 2. (U) Without the pressure of an upcoming election and with the international spotlight shining elsewhere, we have an unusual opportunity to engage Tajikistan's Central Commission for Elections and Referenda. The CCER would like to ma [...]	2006-12-20 11:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KPOA KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE224	NDI DIRECTOR SHOULD RETURN TO TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and Acting Foreign Minister Yatimov paved a way for National Democratic Institute (NDI) local Director Gegham Sargsyan to register and return to Dushanbe. Sargsyan left for Moscow on February 1 after harassment and pressure from Tajik officials. Yatimov knew the [...]	2006-02-02 13:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR TI
06DUSHANBE2247	THE FUTURE OF TAJIK COTTON - ANYTHING BUT LIGHT AND FLUFFY [...] (U) Summary: Despite the ailing cotton sector's debt-ridden farms and declining harvest, cotton remains Tajikistan's most important export and biggest crop. International donors have joined forces, backing major projects to reinvigorate the sector. The Government of Tajikistan, the National [...]	2006-12-22 14:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON EAID ELAB PGOV PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE226	TAJIKISTAN SDPT MEMBERS RELEASED FROM JAIL [...] Two Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) members imprisoned after the parliamentary elections last year have been released. Nizomaddin Begmatov, the Rasulov District SDPT Chairman and Nasim Shukurov, a member of the Sughd Region's SDPT branch were released on January 31 and February 1 [...]	2006-02-02 13:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE227	TAJIK PRISON FACILITIES IN POOR CONDITION [...] (U) This message replaces REFTEL A, adding TAG: CASC. 2. (U) PolOff visited a youth detention center and Tajikistan's central penitentiary medical facility January 31. Both facilities are in poor condition and lack adequate medical supplies and equipment. Deputy Minister of Justice, Izz [...]	2006-02-03 03:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TI

06DUSHANBE338	TAJIKISTAN: POLITICAL PARTY ACTIVIST FREED FROM JAIL [...] Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) activist and lawyer Fayzinoso Vohidova was released from prison February 21. On October 13 the Sughd regional prosecutor's charged Vohidova with "forgery and the production and sale of forged documents", "evading tax payments", and "causing damage b [...]	2006-02-23 05:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE396	TAJIK GOVT DELAYS PUBLICATION OF OPPOSITION PAPER [...] A local Dushanbe court has dragged its feet reviewing Mukhtor Boqizoda's case, thereby further preventing the publication of Boqizoda's "Neru-i Sukhan," an independent newspaper critical of President Rahmonov's administration and perceived by the government as "opposition." The government sh [...]	2006-02-28 13:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE397	TAJIKISTAN'S 2005-2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] The following is Embassy Dushanbe's 2005-2006 Trafficking in Persons Report. Post's lettering system matches reftel's. OVERVIEW OF TAJIKISTAN'S ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS A. Tajikistan is an origin country for trafficking. International trafficking for the purposes [...]	2006-02-28 14:58:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD ASEC
06DUSHANBE408	TAJIKISTAN: IRPT LEADER CLOSELY WATCHED [...] (C) Muhiddin Kabiri, First Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT) will travel to the United States March 8 to deliver a speech at Columbia University on the state of religion and politics in Tajikistan after the wave of "color revolutions" in other post-Soviet countries. Kab [...]	2006-03-02 05:15:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE442	TAJIK STUDENTS DEMAND APOLOGY FROM EMBASSY OVER 2004 HUMAN [...] (U) Students from Tajikistan's Technological University published an open letter March 2 criticizing by name an Embassy Public Affairs Section FSN for distributing the State Department's 2004 Human Rights Report on Tajikistan. The students charge the report with being slanderous and inaccur [...]	2006-03-06 10:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE447	TAJIK STUDENTS DEMAND APOLOGY FROM EMBASSY OVER 2004 HUMAN [...] Students from Tajikistan's Technological University published an open letter March 2 criticizing by name an Embassy Public Affairs Section FSN for distributing the State Department's 2004 Human Rights Report on Tajikistan. The students charge the report with being slanderous and inaccurate. [...]	2006-03-07 03:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE50	TAJIKISTAN STRENGTHENS ANTI-TIP EFFORTS WITH U.S. [...] SUMMARY: Tajikistan has made significant progress on combating trafficking-in-persons (TIP) violations, but efforts remain hindered by lack of extradition agreements, ineffective coordination, and deep-rooted social issues. The government and the International Organization for Migration (IOM [...]	2006-01-09 04:39:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG KWMN TI
06DUSHANBE524	TAJIK SNAPSHOT OF THE UNITED STATES THROUGH THE LENS OF [...] Reporting on the United States in the independent Tajik print media varies from week to week and issue to issue, but a definite pattern is discernable. The United States, along with Russia and Iran, are always featured prominently in the weekly independent print media. While each paper will [...]	2006-03-20 12:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE53	TAJIK GOVT CORRUPTS HAJJ, MAINTAINS TIGHT CONTROL OVER [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 23, the first of more than 20 planeloads of Tajik hajjis, Muslim pilgrims journeying to Mecca, left Dushanbe for Saudi Arabia. These hajjis are the lucky, well-connected or wealthy few. For the majority of Tajiks, government restrictions, corruption and expensive br [...]	2006-01-09 09:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE535	TAJIKISTAN'S WOMEN'S COLONY, PRISON OR PARADISE? [...] (U) Nestled in the mountains near the Nurek dam, one hour from Dushanbe, Tajikistan's sole women's prison is far more sanitary and progressive than men's prisons. The manicured gardens, relatively clean buildings, holiday activities and good management attempt to mask the sub-standard condit [...]	2006-03-23 12:09:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KWMN KIRF SOCI SNAR TI
06DUSHANBE541	DRAFT LAW ON RELIGION MAY SEVERELY CURTAIL CHRISTIAN, [...] Draft legislation from the State Committee for Religious Affairs (SCRA) proposes new restrictions and regulations on religious activity which have raised serious concerns for all religions practiced in Tajikistan. The SCRA recently circulated the draft "Law on the Freedom of Faith and the Rel [...]	2006-03-24 15:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE542	DRAFT LAW ON RELIGION MAY SEVERELY CURTAIL CHRISTIAN, [...] Draft legislation from the State Committee for Religious Affairs (SCRA) proposes new restrictions and regulations on religious activity which have raised serious concerns for all religions practiced in Tajikistan. The SCRA recently circulated the draft "Law on the Freedom of Faith and the Rel [...]	2006-03-24 15:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE55	FIRE IN TAJIK ORPHANAGE RAISES QUESTIONS [...] (U) At least 13 disabled children died when a fire destroyed Chorbogh orphanage early January 8. Neighbors pulled children out of the burning Dushanbe facility, home to almost 100 mentally and physically disabled children. Many victims were bedridden and unable to escape. Metal bars on the [...]	2006-01-09 14:28:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE575	OSCE CHAIRMAN DE GUCHT BRIEFLY VISITS DUSHANBE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Visiting OSCE Chairman-in-Office de Gucht raised the draft NGO and religion laws with President Rahmonov, pressed for BBC to be re-registered for FM broadcasts in Dushanbe, and discussed [...]	2006-03-30 11:23:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF UK UZ TI
06DUSHANBE576	CORRUPTION, TAJIK STYLE: "WE PAY FOR EVERYTHING BUT THE AIR [...] (SBU) During EmbOff's March visit to southwestern agrarian Farkhar district, Mahmadali Hakimov, head of "Zamin," a successful conglomerate with businesses in farming, textiles, construction, banking, and hotels, philosophized about the high price of doing business in Tajikistan. "We pay for e [...]	2006-03-30 12:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE620	TAJIKISTAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Dear Assistant Secretary Lowenkron: I would like to solicit your help in advancing democracy in Tajikistan. See request in para eight. 3. (U) Tajikistan's next presidential election will be i [...]	2006-04-07 10:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE648	TAJIKISTAN: IRPT SAYS RAHMONOV WILL USE LIBEL SUIT AS [...] (C) Muhiddin Kabiri, the Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) told PolOff April 6 President Rahmonov likely will stop the lawsuit filed by Dushanbe Vodokanal against IRPT Chairman Said Abdullo Nuri closer to the election in November. 2. (U) Dushanbe Vo [...]	2006-04-11 10:12:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE669	TAJIKISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO TRY TO HELP RESOLVE [...] (S) Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov agreed to designate a government point of contact to help resolve the issue of transferring Tajik citizens from Guantanamo to Tajikistan (reftel). In a 40-minute meeting April 6, Nazarov listened carefully as the Ambassador explained the assurances necessar [...]	2006-04-12 09:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM PROP PTER ECON KAWC RS TI
06DUSHANBE704	TAJIK JOURNALISTS UNION SUSPENSION NOT A CRACK DOWN ON MEDIA [...] On April 11 the Ministry of Justice announced a Dushanbe district court suspended the Union of Journalists of Tajikistan for three months. The suspension is not seen as a threat to media freedom, but rather a move by the government to oust the Union's current chairman, Hayot Davlatov. 2. [...]	2006-04-14 06:55:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE722	TAJIKISTAN'S CRA CHAIRMAN ON NEW DRAFT RELIGION LAW: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EmbOffs met with Chairman of the Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA),Murodullo Davlatov, on April 12 and April 14 to discuss an ACCELS/USAID Community Connections program for religious leaders and a regional religion conference organized by the Tajik government's Center for [...]	2006-04-18 08:53:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE751	TAJIKISTAN: UNTOP AND OSCE SPONSOR FIRST PRESIDENTIAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for the Tajikistan Office for Peace Building (UNTOP),Ambassador Vladimir Sotirov (secunded to the UN from the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry),cond [...]	2006-04-24 09:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE766	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS ISLAM, DRAFT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Ambassador met with Karomatullo Olimov, Presidential Advisor on Social Development and Public Contacts, April 21 at Olimov's request for a wide-ranging discussion of Islam and the r [...]	2006-04-24 11:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KISL KIRF KPAO IR TI
06DUSHANBE781	TAJIK SECURITY SERVICES DETAIN NDI'S ACTING DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Interior officers detained National Democratic Institute (NDI) Acting Director Nurul Rahimbekov April 26 as he was attempting to board a domestic flight to Khujand to conduct a training program for political parties. Contacts in the Ministry of Security, which has ta [...]	2006-04-27 10:59:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE798	TAJIK FM SAYS NDI DETENTION AN ISSUE FOR KAZAKHSTAN, NOT US [...] (C) Foreign Minister Tabak Nazarov told the Ambassador April 28 the allegations against detained National Democratic Institute (NDI) Acting Director Nurul Rahimbekov were too "shameful" to discuss, but the Embassy of Kazakhstan, not the United States, must handle the situation (reftel). In a [...]	2006-04-28 11:28:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE827	TAJIKISTAN'S MOST ISLAMIC REGION FEELS MOST NEGLECTED [...] SUMMARY: Rasht Valley, one of Tajikistan's most isolated and devoutly Islamic districts, feels left behind. The economic boom evident elsewhere in Tajikistan has yet to reach this agricultural area. NGO and civil society leaders observe that while international organizations are active, mor [...]	2006-05-03 13:25:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE834	TAJIKISTAN'S RELIGIOUS LEADERS REACT TO DRAFT LAW ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings with PolOff April 12-25, religious leaders unanimously expressed grave concerns with the State Committee on Religious Affairs' (SCRA) new draft law on religion. [...]	2006-05-04 16:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE840	TAJIKISTAN: WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY EVENTS [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Dushanbe marked World Press Freedom Day with an on-line press conference with the Ambassador answering questions from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia. The Ambassador also participated in a World Press Freedom Day roundtable hosted by Internews, the Institute for War and P [...]	2006-05-07 07:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE841	TAJIKISTAN: IRPT SAYS DETAINED MEMBER MURDERED [...] (U) Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) member Sadullo Marupov died by falling from the third story of a police station in Isfara, a northern Tajikistan town in the Sughd region known for its strong Islamic roots. Officials state that Marupov committed suicide; however, IRPT membe [...]	2006-05-07 08:41:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KISL KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE865	TAJIKISTAN: SCA A/S BOUCHER, NSC MILLARD MEET WITH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and National Security Council Senior Director Elisabeth Millard met May 8 with Tajikistan's political party leade [...]	2006-05-10 17:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE899	TAJIKISTAN: SDPT LEADER QUESTIONED BY GENERAL PROSECUTOR'S [...] (U) Chairman of the Socialist Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT),Rahmatullo Zoyirov, was questioned four times by the General Prosecutor's office. Zoyirov told PolOff the General Prosecutor's office summoned him repeatedly to interrogate him on his recent statement claiming Tajikistan's [...]	2006-05-17 10:13:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE903	TAJIKISTAN: MFA SUBMITS GUANTANAMO DIP NOTE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Post received a diplomatic note from Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreeing to accept four Tajik Guantanamo detainees. The dip note is likely the result of the meeting of LTC Ron Miller, Military Advisor to the [...]	2006-05-18 03:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC TI
06DUSHANBE920	TAJIKISTAN: ELECTIONS COMMISSION APPEALS FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] Heads of diplomatic missions convened at the United Nations Tajikistan Office of Peacebuilding (UNTOP) for the international donor community's monthly meeting on electoral issues May 17. Mirzoali Boltuyev, Chairman of the Central Commission on Elections and Referenda (CCER),presented a chart [...]	2006-05-19 12:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06EFTOPORTMORESBY194	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - CANDIDACY OF IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-27 06:04:00	Embassy Port Moresby	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PUNR PHUM PP BP NH
06EFTOPORTMORESBY197	PNG AND VANUATU ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) PNG and Vanuatu have agreed with U.S. position on the undesirability of having Iran on the UN Human rights council. On April 28, Ambassador discussed the issue with Sato Kilman, DPM and FM of Vanuatu. Kilman said Vanuatu agreed completely that Iran would be an inappropriate member of the [...]	2006-05-01 01:25:00	Embassy Port Moresby	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PUNR PHUM PP BP NH
06EFTORANGOON1092	LOCAL NLD YOUTH HONOR ACTIVIST SU SU NWE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite increased scrutiny and harassment by the authorities, local NLD Youth members in Twante Township outside Rangoon held a ceremony July 30 honoring Su Su Nwe, the recently released political prisoner who successfully sued the regime over forced labor in her village (ref [...]	2006-08-01 11:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06FLORENCE24	TIP 2005 REPORT FOR SAN MARINO [...] (SBU) Following is Congen Florence TIP report for the Republic of San Marino: Overview: San Marino is not a country of origin for international trafficking of persons, nor is it a country of transit or destination of such persons. According to Government officials, there has not been a [...]	2006-03-01 09:04:00	Consulate Florence	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SM EUN HUMAN RIGHTS
06FRANKFURT4232	TIP: Follow-Up on Pre-World Cup Raids in State of Hesse [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In pre-World Cup raids against forced prostitution and trafficking in the German state of Hesse on May 10, German law enforcement officials detained 74 persons. Police and NGOs are now working with prostitutes to identify trafficking victims and build cases against pimps/traffic [...]	2006-06-21 06:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC GM
06FRANKFURT5016	Court Ruling on Headscarf Raises New Questions on Ban [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 7, the Stuttgart Regional Court ruled that public school teacher Doris Graber should be permitted to wear her headscarf in class. While the court recognized that a headscarf violates religious neutrality, it acknowledged that it cannot prohibit a headscarf while allowing C [...]	2006-07-25 14:20:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KISL GM
06FREETOWN1018	SIERRA LEONE'S NEW HUMAN RIGHT COMMISSION SWORN IN [...] (U) Sierra Leone achieved another milestone in its post-conflict recovery on December 11 with the inauguration of the new Human Rights Commission (HRC). The five commissioners, who were proposed by civil society organizations, were sworn-in on International Human Rights Day in the presence o [...]	2006-12-12 19:46:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM SL
06FREETOWN1028	SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE: NEW SPECIAL [...] (C) The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) recently announced the appointment of Stephen Rapp as the new Special Prosecutor. Mr. Rapp called on the Ambassador December 14. In separate visits by AF/W Director Phil Carter on November 15 and Special Advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large for [...]	2006-12-18 17:22:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PREL PGOV PHUM SL
06FREETOWN1042	SPECIAL COURT UPDATE: COURT PRESIDENT TO TRAVEL TO [...] (C) President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone Justice George Gelaga King informed the Ambassador December 22 that he planned to travel to New York to meet with the Court's Management Committee on January 22. He also requested Post's assistance to arrange meetings on January 23-24 at t [...]	2006-12-27 17:12:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PREL PGOV PHUM SL
06FREETOWN322	Sierra Leoneans React to Human Rights Report [...] On April 13, the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee hosted its second annual workshop on the status of human rights in Sierra Leone and used the State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices as its basis for discussion. Human Rights Committee Chairman Dr. Alusine Fofana used t [...]	2006-04-19 17:11:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB KDEM KSEP PGOV PREL SL
06FREETOWN409	RE-ARRESTED: AMCIT ACCUSED OF TREASON [...] (C) On May 16, one day after a magistrate judge released American Citizen Michael Chemidlin and three Sierra Leoneans held on charges of conspiracy and treason for taking photographs of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, police re-arrested Chemidlin and two of the three Sierra Leoneans. The m [...]	2006-05-24 10:07:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PINS KCRM PREL PHUM KDEM KAWC SL
06FREETOWN473	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SL GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS TIP [...] On June 6, the Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Acting Foreign Minister Dr. Mohamed Kamara. The Ambassador encouraged the GoSL to activate the Trafficking in Persons Task Force, as stipulated in the new Anti-Trafficking Act, and prepare a national strategy on TIP. Kamara was pleased [...]	2006-06-12 09:23:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG SL
06FREETOWN514	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SIERRA LEONE HAS NO DESIRE TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-23 14:03:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SL
06FREETOWN529	OHCHR FIELD OFFICE NEEDS TO WORK HARDER ON TRC [...] The UNIOSIL Human Rights Section manages UNHCHR activities in Sierra Leone. The Section Director told PolAsst that the primary activities of his office were dissemination, sensitization, and implementation of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recommendations. Recent [...]	2006-06-30 09:03:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL SL
06FREETOWN537	TIP TASK FORCE: UP BUT NOT QUITE RUNNING [...] On June 22, the Minister of Social Welfare met with PolOff to discuss the progress of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Task Force. The minister voiced concerns over the contents of the 2005 TIP Report, but was committed to the establishment of the Task Force. In its first meeting, the Task [...]	2006-07-03 09:18:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG SL
06FREETOWN709	FREETOWN REPLY: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE UN HUMAN [...] (C) On August 28, Director General of Foreign Affairs Umaru Wurie told the Ambassador that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recommended to their mission at the UN to vote in favor of Ruth Wedgewood's candidacy to the UN Human Rights Committee. 2. (C) On an earlier occasion, Wurie told Po [...]	2006-08-29 07:45:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SL US
06FREETOWN776	SIERRA LEONE'S RULING PARTY THREATENS RIVALS [...] (C) During a recent trip to ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) strongholds in southern and eastern Sierra Leone to gauge the popularity of Charles Margai's SLPP breakaway party, the People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC),PolOff found a disturbing pattern of manipulation, intimi [...]	2006-09-15 16:49:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SL
06FREETOWN819	PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION MEMBERS [...] On October 3, Parliament confirmed five representatives for the newly-established Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone. 2. The new representatives are: Jamesfina King: Has a Master's Degree in International Legal Studies with a focus on Human Rights. She has been in private practice fo [...]	2006-10-05 11:50:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KBIO SL
06FREETOWN856	DEMARCHE ON RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES [...] On October 17, Charge met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Umaru Wurie to deliver reftel points and non-papers. Charge expressed USG concerns about the flaws of the text, noting that the document endorsed by the Human Rights Council lacked consensus and a definition of the t [...]	2006-10-18 11:53:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA UN SL
06FREETOWN957	FREETOWN GRANTS G/TIP COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of Amy Lemar, Program Analyst for Africa in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),to Freetown December 10 - 14. A contract expediter meets all visitors - see para 9 below. Visitors are urged to read the conten [...]	2006-11-22 14:52:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA KCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SMIG NI BN SG SL
06GABORONE453	SCENESETTER FOR DAS THOMPSON'S VISIT TO BOTSWANA [...] Mission Botswana welcomes the visit of DAS Carol Thompson on April 12-13. As a stable, middle-income, multi-party democracy, Botswana represents the potential of Africa. Yet, Botswana faces significant challenges - a severe HIV/AIDS epidemic, an international human rights controversy over th [...]	2006-03-31 12:07:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON KHIV PHUM MOPS BC
06GABORONE623	INFIGHTING, LACK OF CAPACITY HOBBLES BOTSWANA LABOR [...] Summary: The majority of trade unions represented at May Day celebrations in Gaborone have dismissed their umbrella body, the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU),as worthless. Unionists accused the government and employers of destabilizing their organizations by instigating factiona [...]	2006-05-08 13:35:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV PHUM BC
06GABORONE737	PROSPECTS IMPROVE FOR DIALOGUE OVER CKGR [...] (U) SUMMARY: As the court case between the San relocated from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Government of Botswana nears its end, a group of local NGOs has established a coalition to resume dialogue between the San and the Government. Regardless of the High Court's decision, exp [...]	2006-06-06 05:08:00	Embassy Gaborone	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BC
06GABORONE860	PRIVATE SECTOR FAULTS GOVERNMENT FOR SLOW GROWTH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Despite the Government of Botswana's generally liberal economic policies, the business community perceives burdensome regulations and rising corruption as obstacles to robust growth. Conversations with business representatives outside of Gaborone revealed concerns that slowing g [...]	2006-06-28 14:43:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM BC
06GABORONE865	BOTSWANA YOUTH STRUGGLE WITH UNEMPLOYMENT [...] SUMMARY: Botswana's youth face a lack of both training and job opportunities, creating situations of poverty that can lead to commercial sex work, HIV/AIDS, and anti-social behavior. Despite a significant problem of commercial sex work, none of our contacts have heard of scenarios in which [...]	2006-06-29 09:45:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PHUM SOCI BC
06GENEVA1174	LEGAL ADVISER BELLINGER MEETS WITH HIGH [...] (SBU) While in Geneva for the U.S. presentation before the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva, State's Legal Adviser John Bellinger met May 8 with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour. Her agenda included a request for more funding, a grim report on her Sudan trip, and a [...]	2006-05-16 15:17:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM OTRA SU
06GENEVA1456	JUNE 13 HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS [...] Discussion during the June 13 informal consultations focused on the second, more substantive week of the June 19-30 Human Rights Council inaugural session. President-designate Luis Alfonso de Alba provided attendees with a draft program of work (e-mailed to IO-RHS and DRL-MLA-DL),which drew [...]	2006-06-14 14:42:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA1468	JUNE 15 HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) President-designate de Alba circulated a revised agenda for first session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) during June 15 informal consultations. Delegates complained of a lack of transparency regarding the agenda item "pressing human rights issues" and demanded to see a precise list of [...]	2006-06-16 04:11:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA1610	HRC: JUNE 27 WESTERN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP MEETING [...] Summary: The Western Human Rights Group met June 27 to review the state of play at the Human Rights Council. Swiss Ambassador Blaise Godet, the Western Group's Bureau representative, reported on the Bureau's June 26 meeting, at which the priority was President de Alba's effort to avoid a Pal [...]	2006-06-29 05:20:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA1637	RESOLUTIONS ON ALL FIVE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] The Human Rights Council (HRC) passed resolutions on all five inter-governmental working groups during the June 29-30 conclusions and recommendations portion of the inaugural session. Discussion on the working group resolutions took place June 26-27, at which time the United States delivered [...]	2006-07-03 14:48:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA1638	HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT [...] UN General Assembly President and Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson opened the inaugural session of the Human Rights Council (June 19-23) with a speech recalling why the Council was created and the challenges it faced. UN Secretary General Annan endorsed the adoption of the SIPDIS Conv [...]	2006-07-03 14:48:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA1673	HRC: SPECIAL SESSION ON PALESTINE \ [...] (U) Summary: The Human Rights Council concluded its first \ Special Session on July 6 with the passage of a resolution \ entitled "Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian \ Territory" by a vote of 29-11-5. The resolution demands that \ Israel end its military operations in the OPT, abi [...]	2006-07-07 09:27:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA1699	ECOSOC HIGH LEVEL SEGMENT ADOPTS MINISTERIAL [...] The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held its High Level Segment in Geneva July 3-5 to discuss the linkage between employment and economic development. A 40-paragraph Ministerial Declaration was adopted after protracted negotiations, drawing attention to the needs of the world's unempl [...]	2006-07-11 11:39:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ELAB EAGR ETRD EFIN PHUM KUNR ECOSOC UN
06GENEVA1954	HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PASSES LEBANON RESOLUTION AT [...] In its second special session the Human Rights Council (HRC) passed August 11 by a vote of 27-11-8 with one absent a resolution condemning Israel for its actions in Lebanon. The resolution did not included any reference to Hizballah or its actions. The resolution sponsors, primarily from the [...]	2006-08-12 11:46:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2030	INSIDE THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL \ [...] (C) The newly established Human Rights Council (HRC) \ within the space of two months held an inaugural session \ (June 19-30) and two special sessions (July 5-6 and August \ 11) both focused on condemning Israel. As the U.S. \ Government debates whether or not to seek election to the \ Council n [...]	2006-08-23 05:21:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC PREL
06GENEVA2161	SEPTEMBER 1 INFORMALS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL'S [...] Human Rights Council (HRC) President Luis Alfonso de Alba chaired informal consultations September 1 to discuss the upcoming HRC session (Sept. 18-Oct. 6),which is expected to deal with substantive matters deferred at the first session in June. According to de Alba's draft timetable, each m [...]	2006-09-05 15:21:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2169	DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES' GENEVA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles held a series of bilateral meetings in Geneva August 31 and September 1 with select missions to discuss the upcoming Human Rights Council (HRC) session. The meetings are summarized below. United Kingdom -------------- 2. (C) DAS Barks-Ruggles discussed w [...]	2006-09-06 15:31:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2170	HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT DISCUSSES ISRAEL'S [...] (C) In an open and friendly meeting August 31 with DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, Mexican Permanent Representative and Human Rights Council (HRC) President Luis Alfonso de Alba explained his interactions with the Israeli and Lebanese missions in the aftermath of three resolutions calling for in [...]	2006-09-06 15:35:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2171	UNITED STATES CONSULTATIONS WITH THE OFFICE OF THE [...] DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Erica Barks-Ruggles and Ambassador Tichenor, accompanied by PolCouns and Washington- and Geneva-based staffers, met with High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour August 31 to discuss a broad range of human rights-related issues, including OHCHR field ope [...]	2006-09-06 15:37:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2251	PAKISTANI PERMREP ON OIC TACTICS FOR HRC -- TIT [...] (C) In a meeting, at our request, Ambassador Tichenor delineated U.S. concerns regarding the Human Rights Council and urged Pakistani PermRep Masood Khan to take a more constructive approach to safeguard the Council's credibility. Khan, while appearing calm and reasonable, laid out an OIC s [...]	2006-09-14 15:13:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC PK
06GENEVA2337	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL -- REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON [...] This is an action request. See para 6. SUMMARY ------- 2. Informals, led by Swiss Permanent Representative Blaise Godet, were held September 15 to continue discussions on replacing the existing 1503 human rights procedure with a new complaints procedure endorsed by the Human Rights Co [...]	2006-09-22 08:20:00	Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2628	COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES AMBASSADORS REGROUP [...] (U) Ambassador Tichenor hosted Community of Democracies Convening Group (CD/CG) ambassadors Oct. 13 to discuss the second Human Rights Council (HRC) session and ways for the CD to play a more meaningful - and visible - role in Geneva by taking common positions on issues, making joint statements [...]	2006-10-17 14:35:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2654	LITTLE PROGRESS AND MUCH CONFUSION AND FRUSTRATION \ [...] (C) The Human Rights Council's second session was \ adjourned without achieving much after three weeks. It is to \ resume November 27-28, when it will deal with 44 resolutions \ tabled by members when it became apparent that little of \ substance would be achieved. The Council's failure was due [...]	2006-10-19 13:15:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2657	WESTERN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP PREPARES FOR THIRD [...] (SBU) The Western Human Rights Group (WHRG) met October 18 to strategize how best to prioritize its efforts to ensure better results for the November 27-December 8 Council session. The WHRG's efficacy risks being undermined by divisions between the EU- and non-EU members of the group, with T [...]	2006-10-19 16:43:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2658	JUSCANZ FOCUSES ON NEXT HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (U) JUSCANZ members met October 18 to review outcomes (or lack thereof) of the second session of the Human Rights Council (9/18-10/6) and to discuss enhancing coordination on issues coming before the next HRC session (11/27-12/8). The view, broadly shared in the group, is that President Luis [...]	2006-10-20 05:16:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2913	HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL THIRD SPECIAL SESSION: ONCE [...] (U) The Human Rights Council (HRC) concluded its third Special Session November 15 with the passage of a one-sided resolution condemning Israeli military operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, especially the death of civilians in Beit Hanoun November 8, by a vote of 32-8-6. The r [...]	2006-11-15 19:05:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2928	HRC: CANADA ASKS WESTERN GROUP TO CONSIDER A [...] (SBU) The Western Human Rights Group (WHRG) met November 17 at Canada's request to discuss the possibility of requesting a special session of the Human Rights Council to address the situation in Darfur/Sudan or of asking that a segment of the November 27 - December 8 Council session be devote [...]	2006-11-17 14:02:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UNHRC SU
06GENEVA2993	HRC: PRESIDENT'S PROPOSED DECISION FOR FUNDING OF [...] (U) Human Rights Council President Luis Alfonso de Alba has circulated the text of a Presidential decision to be adopted by consensus during the third regular session of the Council, 11/27-12/8, requesting adequate funding for the HRC to discharge its responsibilities under UNGA resolution 60 [...]	2006-11-22 17:44:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UNHRC AORC
06GENEVA3120	Amine Mohammad Al-Bakry, detainee - #40 in Geneva 2006 [...] Mission has received a communication from Leila Zerrougui, Chairperson-Rapporteur for the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, concerning Amine Mohammad Al-Bakry, a Yemeni citizen, detained at the US Air Force Base of Baghram, near Kabul, Afghanistan. This communication has been sent via e-ma [...]	2006-12-14 11:34:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA3134	HRC: CONGRESSIONAL STAFFDEL MEETS OHCHR, COUNCIL [...] Congressional staffers for the outgoing and incoming chairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House International Relations Committee were in Geneva Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 2006 to discuss the state of the Human Rights Council (HRC) with key players from the diplomatic community, United N [...]	2006-12-15 08:31:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC UN
06GENEVA3143	JORDANIAN PERMREP ISSUES PRESS RELEASE ON DARFUR [...] (U) The Jordanian Mission in Geneva December 15 issued a press release (para 2),which has been posted on the Human Rights Council's extranet page, stating that remarks made by Jordanian PermRep Mousa Burayzat November 28 regarding Darfur during second HRC session were "his personal impression [...]	2006-12-15 16:27:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC JO
06GENEVA597	36TH UNHCR STANDING COMMITTEE: AFRICA DISCUSSIONS [...] (U) Summary: Africa Bureau Director Marjon Kamara and Director of Operations for the Sudan Situation Jean-Marie Fakhouri addressed participants in the 36th Meeting of the Standing Committee (SC) of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on March 8. Both highlighted the di [...]	2006-03-16 13:07:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF PREL SMIG XA
06GENEVA763	COMMUNICATION FROM SRS ON ESA EXECUTIONS REGARDING [...] Mission received a communication from Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, regarding a raid conducted by Multinational Forces on March 15, 2006 at the house of Faiz Harrat Al- Majma'ee in Iraq. This communication has been sent via e- mail to IO [...]	2006-04-03 14:48:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC
06GEORGETOWN1043	GUYANA: OUR POST-ELECTION AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: President Bharrat Jagdeo starts his second five-year term with a firm parliamentary majority and apparent control over his own People's Progressive Party (PPP). He aligned his priorities in an October 2 conversation with the Ambassador as breaking Guyana's wave of violent crime [...]	2006-10-05 20:01:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PHUM KDEM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN1149	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF [...] EmbOff delivered reftel talking points and non-papers to Esther Gitten, Desk Officer within the Multilateral and Global Affairs Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Senior MFA personnel are currently preoccupied with the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) meeting being held i [...]	2006-11-02 20:16:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA UNGA GY
06GEORGETOWN1178	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COUNTRY SPECIFIC RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS AT [...] EmbOff delivered reftel talking points to Jackie Hamer, Director for Multilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 6. Hamer had no substantive response. Ambassador is scheduled to follow up with Foreign Minister Insanally at 1600 hours, Wednesday, November 8. ROBINSON [...]	2006-11-08 17:32:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA UN GY
06GEORGETOWN1224	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTION ON [...] A/DCM delivered reftel talking points to Jackie Hamer, Director for Multilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 17. Hamer had no substantive response. Post will follow-up with the Foreign Ministry early the week of November 20. ROBINSON [...]	2006-11-17 19:49:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UN GY
06GEORGETOWN1252	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SANTA CRUZ MINISTERIAL [...] EmbOff delivered reftel talking points on November 29 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of Americas and Asia Director Audrey Waddell. Waddell promised to relay talking points to Commissioner of the Civil Defense Commission Col. Chabilall Ramsarup, who will represent Guyana at the Minis [...]	2006-11-29 20:28:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PHUM SENV USTR OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN132	PROPOSAL FOR TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS INCLE PROJECT [...] Below is Embassy Georgetown's proposal for an FY 2006 INCLE funded anti-trafficking in persons program to build the capacity of the Guyanese criminal justice system: A. Title: Technical Assistance Proposal to Increase the Capacity of Guyana's Criminal Justice System to Combat [...]	2006-02-07 15:29:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SMIG SNAR KWMN KCRM KJUS GY
06GEORGETOWN157	CENSUS PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO GUYANESE SOCIETY [...] SUMMARY. The GoG released the results of Guyana's 2002 Population and Housing Census in October 2005. The census confirmed two demographic trends that will profoundly shape the country's political and economic development: a) total population is stagnant and predicted to fall; and b) the ethn [...]	2006-02-15 13:11:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI PGOV PHUM SMIG CVIS GY
06GEORGETOWN197	SIXTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ASSESSMENT- [...] (SBU) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2006 Annual Trafficking in Persons Report: BEGIN REPORT. Overview of a country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: -- A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destinat [...]	2006-03-01 15:31:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD GY
06GEORGETOWN235	JAGDEO TAKING CAMPAIGN TO LOW ROAD: ELECTION [...] (C) President Jagdeo summoned Ambassador as well as the British and Canadian High Commissioners to his home on short notice Saturday March 4. Jagdeo wanted to discuss the elections and security. He said that he has started his campaign. (Note: Jagdeo has not yet been officially designated th [...]	2006-03-13 16:17:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM SNAR KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN257	Radio, monopoly and technology in Guyana [...] Summary: The Stabroek News, the leading independent daily newspaper in Guyana, carried an editorial on Friday, March 17, analyzing GoG ambivalence with regard to radio broadcasting in Guyana. The editorial is reproduced below: Begin Text: One cannot avoid the conclusion that after thirt [...]	2006-03-17 20:25:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PROP PGOV PHUM SCUL KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN29	FONMIN DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND OAS VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Insanally January 9 to discuss: a) efforts to strengthen the UN human rights machinery through the Human Rights Council; b) OAS A/SGY Ramdin's anticipated visit and the need for an OAS long-term observer mission for the upcoming elections; and [...]	2006-01-10 19:54:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL GY UN OAS
06GEORGETOWN422	IMPLEMENTATION OF ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT: GUYANA [...] Per consultation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, and the Guyana Customs and Trade Administration, Guyana does not have any laws on record to implement the Arab League Boycott (ALB),nor are Israeli products denied market access. The GOG doe [...]	2006-05-11 15:33:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	KBCT ABLD PHUM PIRF AL GY
06GEORGETOWN597	GUYANA RESPONSE: UNHRC - ANTICIPATED OIC ASSAULT [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered points orally June 19 per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs, Jacqueline Hamer. She said that Guyana would not be represented at the UN Human Rights Council session. Nevertheless, she agreed in principle that the HRC [...]	2006-06-20 17:50:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM GY
06GEORGETOWN839	CHILD LABOR AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) DIGEST-JULY [...] NGO in project to combat child labor in Region Three 2. Shadick: TIP Networks to be established countrywide 3. Indigenous group calls for intervention by people trafficking unit in Region Seven 4. Shadick taps Amerindian Captains, Councillors for TIP training 5. Shadick Under Fire for Comm [...]	2006-08-23 16:54:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PHUM SOCI KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN903	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: NAM SUMMIT AND IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] EmbOff delivered Iran NAM demarche using talking points in Ref A to Jackie Hamer, Director for Multilateral and Global Affairs, Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Hamer said she will convey the points to Minister Rudy Insanally, who is currently attending the NAM ministerial in Havana. H [...]	2006-09-12 15:03:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PTER IAEA IR GY

06GEORGETOWN974	WHO NEEDS A GOVERNMENT? GUYANA NOT BOTHERED BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The PNCR and AFC have both filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the delay in convening Parliament and of the swearing-in of government ministers before they were formally elected to Parliament. Also, in an unprecedented move President Jagdeo left the country for [...]	2006-09-22 20:37:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM OAS GY
06GUANGZHOU10336	Short March -- A Cold Shoulder in Shanwei [...] (SBU) Summary: Consulate Guangzhou's "Short March" to Eastern Guangdong cities (septel) got off to a non-rousing start when Shanwei officials found it "inconvenient" to meet with us. This probably because Shanwei contains the township of Dongzhou, the site of December 2005 land compensation [...]	2006-04-06 23:42:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PHUM PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU10337	Short March: Consulate Guangzhou Drives Deep into [...] (SBU) Summary: Continuing its efforts to get especially its Entry Level Officers (ELOs) on full two-year consular tours out of the office and onto the roads, cities, and villages of south China to do policy advocacy and public diplomacy work, Consulate Guangzhou embarked on its "short march" [...]	2006-04-06 23:42:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR EINV PHUM KPAO PINR AMGT CMGT CH
06GUANGZHOU10542	Short March: Shantou Back in the Black [...] (SBU) Summary: Shantou officials say that the city's economy is back on track in a big way after negative growth in 2001 and slow growth in 2002. Long known as a center of smuggling and piracy, city officials state that Shantou plans to realize its role as the key city of Eastern Guangdong [...]	2006-04-07 03:34:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR EINV PHUM KPAO PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU10676	Factories and Money: Visit by Federal Reserve [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangdong is not reaping long-term benefits from the majority of its manufacturers because they are processing and assembly plants, according to Guangzhou academics. China should move away from this type of manufacturing and focus instead on high value-added and high- technolog [...]	2006-04-07 08:04:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL CH TW KN
06GUANGZHOU10741	THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR IN SHENZHEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Much attention is being given to China's growing rural-urban gap. At the same time, the gap within urban areas, between established residents and migrants from rural areas, is becoming more marked. Shenzhen, as China's richest city, enjoys unparalleled prosperity, yet at the [...]	2006-04-07 09:09:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PGOV PHUM ECON EINV PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU11042	THAT WAS JUST A DREAM: HAINAN NOT LOSING ITS [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Hainan officials, only 80,000 Hainanese, or about 1% of Hainan's population, practice an officially sanctioned religion. Of these, 40,000, or half, are Protestants. For Hainan's government, the protection of religious freedom is important, but the need to "coordi [...]	2006-04-10 05:21:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV SCUL CH
06GUANGZHOU11043	Short March: Shantou -- Still in the Dark On IPR, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shantou officials state that despite its notoriety in the past as a haven for the production of counterfeit goods, the city has reformed dramatically in intellectual property rights (IPR). Through education, new laws, and law enforcement, Shantou is cracking down on producers [...]	2006-04-10 05:21:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON SCUL EINV PHUM KPAO PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU11468	Disagreement on Building a New Socialist [...] (U) Summary: A substantial number of Chinese rural development experts at a major think tank conference believed that the rural-urban gap is a startling eight to one (when taking into consideration "public services") instead of three to one. There was a virtual consensus among conference del [...]	2006-04-12 05:51:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR PHUM SENV EIND SOCI PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU11657	Heart of Gold: It Isn't Easy Doing Good -- The NGO [...] (SBU) While headlines trumpet the growth of Chinese civil society, philanthropy, and volunteerism as part of a budding harmonious society, the truth in South China is that legal status is out of reach for most non-governmental organizations (NGOs) - foreign and domestic. In this legal gray a [...]	2006-04-14 00:12:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ECON SOCI KPAO PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU11680	"The Voice of Thy Brother's Blood Crieth Unto Me" [...] (SBU) Summary: Senseless killing matters deeply to Chinese -- particularly when involving excessive governmental power (as in the "control" of public unrest). That's why governments, including those in south China, work assiduously to control and suppress public outcry, including that emanati [...]	2006-04-14 09:04:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KPAO SOCI SCUL PGOV PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU12155	(SBU) Heart of Gold: "Business NGO" Legislation [...] (SBU) Faced with nearly insurmountable legal registration requirements foreign and domestic NGOs often turn to registering as a normal for-profit business, which is technically illegal. While widespread enforcement is rare, authorities in South China take advantage of the illegal status of t [...]	2006-04-21 08:53:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU13381	Heart of Gold: The Chinese Government (GONGOs) [...] (SBU) Summary: While government-affiliated non- governmental organizations (GONGOs) provide needed social services, they in many cases by nature preclude or impede the development of a strong `western style' non-governmental organization (NGO) sector. Being so tightly aligned with the governm [...]	2006-04-27 08:05:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ECON SOCI KPAO PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU13384	The Long March: Driving Deep into the Hakka and [...] (SBU) Summary: Continuing its efforts to get especially its Entry Level Officers (ELOs) on full two-year consular tours out of the office and onto the roads, cities, and villages of south China to do policy advocacy and public diplomacy work, Consulate Guangzhou embarked on its "long march" [...]	2006-04-27 09:43:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR EINV PHUM KPAO PINR AMGT CMGT CH
06GUANGZHOU13564	Migrant Labor and Rural Disputes in Guangdong: [...] (SBU) Summary: Migrant labor and land issues headed the agenda of the recent visit by two human rights officers to Guangdong province. The trip was an excellent opportunity to probe some of Southern China's most sensitive issues: migrant laborer discrimination and corruption in land compensa [...]	2006-04-28 09:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ELAB EAGR SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU13576	RELIGION IN XIAMEN: TRUE TO FORM, OFFICIAL NUMBERS [...] (SBU) Summary. During a visit to Xiamen's religious affairs bureau, an official provided numbers that, almost certainly, underestimate the true size of Xiamen's flocks. The official also stressed the separation between education and religion in Xiamen, and that there were no formal links betw [...]	2006-05-04 09:15:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV SCUL CH
06GUANGZHOU14013	The Rights Protection Movement Leadership in South [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) The rights protection movement in China, a QvirtualQ network of democracy activists throughout the mainland, is gaining force and membership. This is the vision optimistically espoused by Guo Feixion [...]	2006-05-11 07:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU14707	Long March: Country Roads Bring Tourists, Trade, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Longyan Prefecture in western Fujian Province is literally at a crossroads. Newly constructed highways and some still in the works are central to the area's plans to increase tourism, diversify agriculture, expand exports, and improve rural conditions. Leaders in the Prefectu [...]	2006-05-16 09:56:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PHUM CMGT CH
06GUANGZHOU14712	Heart of Gold: A Solid "Foundation" for NGO Work? [...] (SBU) Summary: If the Foundation Law serves as an example, non-governmental organization (NGO) legislation is in for a slow, twisting, uneven ride. One and a half years after new regulations were issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA),foundations in South China still are trying to rea [...]	2006-05-17 04:58:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ECON SOCI KPAO PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU15376	Heart of Gold: Chinese NGOs - What's in a Name? [...] (SBU) Summary: What do the Guangdong Petroleum Society, the Communist Youth League Volunteers, the Guangdong Tobacco Society, and World Vision (a Christian charity group) have in common? According to the Chinese government, they are all NGOs. By broadening the definition of NGO beyond the t [...]	2006-05-24 08:28:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU15624	Twelve Dongzhou Villagers Sentenced: Government [...] (U) Western and Hong Kong media sources have reported that on May 24, sentencing was given for villagers involved with the December 2005 Dongzhou riot in Guangdong Province. Of the approximately 20 villagers standing trial for illegally using explosive materials and disturbing public order, 1 [...]	2006-05-26 09:08:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON CH
06GUANGZHOU17422	Shut Up Erin Brokovich!: China's Fear of Popular [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) The Chinese government cannot allow rising political personalities to develop without its control. Zou Tao, a Shenzhen-based businessman with connections to the "Rights Protection Movement", single-ha [...]	2006-06-13 01:53:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU17671	Moving on Up? Dongzhou Doesn't Faze Guangdong [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the problems of the December Dongzhou and other recent protests, the credibility of Guangdong Provincial Party leaders appears strong. On the public side, Party Secretary Zhang Dejiang has given a number of well-received speeches instructing local leaders on how to bett [...]	2006-06-14 07:47:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SOCI PHUM CH
06GUANGZHOU18191	GUANGDONG HUMANISTIC ASSOCIATION BEGINS PRIVATE, [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary. China's first-ever privately-funded magazine has recently been launched in Guangdong Province. According to its publisher, Hao Yuanwen, the monthly magazine, entitled Citizen ("Shimin"),was designed to lay th [...]	2006-06-22 01:30:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU18748	WHERE LONELY PLANET DOES NOT GO: A VISIT TO XILIN [...] (SBU) Summary. A visit to Guangxi's Xilin County revealed one of the poorest and most remote areas in Guangzhou's consular district. Despite the area's overall poverty, there were marked distinctions between relatively prosperous Xilin Town and the county's backward countryside. The Zhuang m [...]	2006-06-23 08:34:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH
06GUANGZHOU20883	British Discuss South China: Economic/Political [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a recent meeting with British Consulate colleagues, the topics for discussion included growth in the high-end real estate market, prospects for continued economic growth in South China, successful strategies for requesting meetings with local officials on sensitive topics, [...]	2006-07-05 07:58:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV SENV PHUM ASEC CVIS CH
06GUANGZHOU20890	Guangdong Humanistic Association Part 2: The [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary ------- 2. (C) Emboldened by government protection in provincial and national party circles, the Guangdong Humanistic Association is leading an experiment in civil society development. The association publi [...]	2006-07-06 01:43:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON CH
06GUANGZHOU20891	GHA Part 3: The May Fourth Movement and [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary ------- 2. (C) A recent meeting with two pro-democracy activists revealed significant aspects of contemporary Chinese activism. These activists, involved with the magazine "Citizen" and the Guangdong Humanis [...]	2006-07-06 02:49:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU21192	From Rural to Urban, Part 1: Industry Finds a New [...] (U) Summary. Qingyuan, Guangdong Province's largest and fastest-growing prefecture, is in the middle of an industrialization boom that will have far-reaching consequences for its urban and rural populations. The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is no longer as cost-competitive as it once was due to a [...]	2006-07-12 09:14:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH
06GUANGZHOU21212	From Rural to Urban, Part 2: Qingyuan Villages Tap [...] (SBU) Summary: Qingyuan, Guangdong province's largest and fastest-growing prefecture, is riding a wave of industrialization that has brought rising incomes to its rural communities. Villages that used to live off their crops and government subsidies now rely on family members who work in citi [...]	2006-07-13 06:34:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH
06GUANGZHOU21213	House Church Registration in South China: Few [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (SBU) While crackdowns against house churches in South China seem on the decline, nevertheless, registration seems a daunting task to many groups. Throughout the Consular district, the only tr [...]	2006-07-13 07:54:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU21650	Hunan Walk-in: Tiananmen Era Protestor's Ideals [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) A former imprisoned protestor from the Tiananmen Square era recently approached the Consulate with information of his personal history and continued harassment from the Chinese government. [...]	2006-07-17 06:38:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU25214	BEATING AROUND THE BUSH: STRATEGIES FOR WRITING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AN EXAMINATION OF THE EDITORIALS IN RECENT ISSUES OF "CITIZEN" ("SHIMIN"),A POLITICALLY PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE THAT WAS STARTED LAST FEBRUARY (REFS A, B AND C),REVEALS A ROUNDABOUT STRATEGY FOR DISCUSSING SENSITIVE POLITICAL ISSUES IN CHINA. THOUGH IT IS OF COURSE EXTREMELY RIS [...]	2006-08-02 07:51:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU27723	"Adapting to China's Situation": Self-Censorship by [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent discussions with editors of two prominent South China newspapers revealed a conformist attitude and a willingness to "go with the flow." Based on these two interviews, Congenoffs found that mainstream journalists must be willing to work within the system in order to surv [...]	2006-08-17 06:59:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU27725	With U.S. Consulate's Help, Magazine "Citizen" [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting between a representative of the American philanthropy group the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the publisher of the magazine "Citizen," arranged by the Consulate, methods for raising money for "Citizen" were discussed. The Rockefeller representative, without making [...]	2006-08-17 06:59:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU27726	"Citizen" Article Writes About "Wei quan" Activists [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent article in the progressive magazine "Citizen" ("Shimin") profiles ten Chinese activists, linking them under the term "wei quan." Yet the nature of the "wei quan" movement remains unclear, and articles such as this may indicate that various activists are trying to set d [...]	2006-08-17 06:59:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU29575	South China Lawyer Detained in Guangzhou -- Law [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General James Turner. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) On September 6, labor rights lawyer and China Labor Watch employee, Tang Jingling, was detained at the Guangzhou East Train station while proceeding through passport control to board a train to Hong Kong. TangQs [...]	2006-09-08 06:18:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU30533	Leading Member of "Rights Protection Movement" [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert X Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary: On September 14, Guo Feixiong, a leading figure in the "Rights Protection Movement," a nation-wide virtual network of activists, was arrested in Guangzhou on charges of "illegal business operation". This [...]	2006-09-22 08:35:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU30534	Shenzhen Independent "Candidates" Zou Tao and [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert X Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) A PSB-led effort to crackdown on dissidents appears to have thwarted efforts by democracy activists to run as candidates in upcoming Shenzhen elections. Shenzhen-based activists Zou Tao and Jian [...]	2006-09-22 08:36:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU30826	The Politics of History: "Freezing Point" Author [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert X Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary and comment: Guangzhou history Professor Yuan Weishi, who is best known for his January "Freezing Point" article, is following in the footsteps of Chinese intellectuals whose views are out-of-sync with thos [...]	2006-09-27 08:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU31041	GHA 4: Citizen Magazine Chooses Self-Censorship [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary and comment: "Citizen" will hold back the magazine's tenth issue till next year due to government pressure--including blacklistings, electronic surveillance and direct warnings--put on the group since August. [...]	2006-10-06 06:12:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32154	Central and Local Officials Debate Public Services [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Central officials, local officials, and academics attending a high level academic symposium in Hainan disagreed on how to efficiently and equitably build a "public service government." Central and local officials in attendance had very different views of their governance responsi [...]	2006-11-03 08:47:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PHUM CH
06GUANGZHOU32161	Fujian Dissident Calls for Efforts on Behalf of [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Former Tiananmen-era activist and dissident writer Lin Xinyu discussed with poloffs his efforts, along with other activists, to pressure the Chinese government for the release of detained activists Gao Zhi [...]	2006-11-06 01:44:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32264	Guangdong Villagers Clash with 1,000 Police: [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Western and Hong Kong media sources reported that on November 8, villagers protesting in Shunde, Guangdong, (one hour southwest of Guangzhou) detained around 300 officials and foreign dignitarie [...]	2006-11-13 08:29:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32306	Dongzhou Crackdown II: No Blood, but Amcit [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: On November 18, in a scene reminiscent of the violent clash on December 6, 2005 in the same village, up to 2,000 armed police, using tear gas and flash bullets, secured the release of eight local officials [...]	2006-11-21 08:20:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC DENNIS DANFUNG PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32321	Religious Round-up: Amcit Missionaries Denied [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Several recent incidents may highlight the Guangzhou's Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB) intent to make a religiously restrictive environment for Christian missionaries. Four Amcit Protestant "tentmaker" mis [...]	2006-11-27 08:49:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CH
06GUANGZHOU32364	Two Shenzhen Labor Campaigns Stopped: NGOs Closed [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Shenzhen officials continue to be concerned about the activities of labor NGOs and recent government reaction to restrict their political activities seems to bear this out. On November 9, during investiga [...]	2006-12-04 07:47:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32368	(C-AL6-01852) South China Rights Protection Part I: [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Rights activists in South China believe that access to money and the ability to organize and address issues of concern are among the key problems they will continue to face in the future. They know that f [...]	2006-12-06 06:17:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32369	(C-AL6-01852) South China Rights Protection Part [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Some South China Rights Protection Movement activists want to focus less on overt political activities that the government will view as opposition and more on information sharing and education, thereby bro [...]	2006-12-06 06:59:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32380	Hostage Taking Again in Same Township: Do Foshan's [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Approximately 1,000 villagers in Foshan, Guangdong Province, stormed the local village committee office on November 30, to protest illegal land sales and to demand the release of 23 village rep [...]	2006-12-07 01:39:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM CH
06GUANGZHOU32421	Labor Conditions in the Pearl River Delta (Part 1 of 3): [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Many migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) - mostly little-educated young people, including some who are underage, from interior and western provinces - continue to face harsh and unsafe working conditions, long hours, overtime wage arrears, child labor, unsuitable liv [...]	2006-12-19 07:08:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM EFIN PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32431	Labor Conditions in the Pearl River Delta (Part 2 of 3): [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial and municipal authorities both inside and outside of Guangdong Province have enacted protective measures such as labor rights training, vocational training, higher minimum wages, labor inspections, and the blacklisting of malfeasant companies to deal with labor viola [...]	2006-12-19 07:48:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM EFIN PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32432	Labor Conditions in the Pearl River Delta (Part 3 [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary: Pearl River Delta (PRD) labor conditions remain poor because many migrant workers are ignorant of their basic rights, too destitute to pursue complaints legally, are barred from receiving minimum wages and [...]	2006-12-19 07:56:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM EFIN PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32440	Trial of Sanshan Farmers Begins: More Protests to [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A Foshan court official has confirmed that the trial of seven farmers - accused of Triad-related extortion - from a village in Guangdong has begun; outside lawyers have been barred from particip [...]	2006-12-21 04:18:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM CH
06GUANGZHOU32442	Guangzhou Stakes New Territory in Transparency [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangzhou will implement two transparency regulations in 2007 that are reportedly the first of their kind in China and signal a shift to more local government accountability. One requires public discussion of all draft administrative regulations; the other allows the public to re [...]	2006-12-21 07:58:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PHUM PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU5378	Progressive Magazine's 2005 Award Winners for [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Li Datong, the originator of the China Youth Daily's "Freezing Point" section, is the most prominent person named in the Nanfengchuang ("South Wind Window") list of 2005 annual award winners for acting "for the public good" -- the magazine's raison d'etre. Then agai [...]	2006-02-27 08:42:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KPAO OPRC OIIP PGOV PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU5798	Journey to the West: Habitat For Humanity's Will [...] (SBU) Summary: Consulate Guangzhou is assisting Habitat for Humanity's Guangxi branch to continue its projects there through a partnership with Guangxi University's College of Civil Engineering and Architecture which can provide legal cover for Habitat since it cannot register as a non-govern [...]	2006-03-02 08:15:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAGR SOCI PHUM CH
06GUANGZHOU6981	Staffdel Halpin: Thoughts on Chen Shuibian, Social [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chen Shuibian's pledge to abolish the national unification council and guidelines was the first step in a dangerous political game and has outraged mainland academics, said scholars at China's largest Taiwan Research Institute during a recent visit by Dennis Halpin, professional [...]	2006-03-14 09:04:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL CH TW KN
06GUANGZHOU6985	Staffdel Halpin: Thoughts on Chen Shuibian, Social [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chen Shuibian's pledge to abolish the national unification council and guidelines was the first step in a dangerous political game and has outraged mainland academics, said scholars at China's largest Taiwan Research Institute during a recent visit by Dennis Halpin, professional [...]	2006-03-14 09:06:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL CH TW KN
06GUANGZHOU6994	Hong Kong-Based Corporate Finance Officers To Try [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chief Financial Officers of several prominent Hong Kong-based international multinational companies along with a few of their mainland-based counterparts have established the "International Association of CFOs and Corporate Treasurers (China) Limited" (IACCT China) with th [...]	2006-03-14 09:10:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV SCUL PHUM CH
06GUANGZHOU7743	Heart of Gold: Searching for Business [...] (SBU) Summary: Bereft of any significant private sector contributions, a strong and broad civil society sector has not developed to any extent resembling the pace of the enormous economic growth that has taken place in south China. There are signs that many private businesses may want to be [...]	2006-03-24 08:40:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ECON KPAO OPRC OIIP PGOV CH
06GUATEMALA1000	GUATEMALAN LAND REFORM FLOUNDERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Lack of a clear land policy has sparked trouble for the Government of Guatemala. Historical problems over land ownership, disputes between peasants and landowners, land takeover and forced evictions, plus friction among the Ministry of Agriculture, Secretary of Agrarian Affairs a [...]	2006-05-22 13:27:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ELAB EAGR ECON GT
06GUATEMALA1012	GUATEMALAN NATIONAL DIALOGUE OFF TO SHAKY START [...] The GOG kicked off a new national dialogue on social issues on May 15. Formally called the National Accords for the Implementation of Social Spending and the Reduction of Poverty, the effort aims to bring together elements of Guatemalan government and society to share ideas on addressing pov [...]	2006-05-23 22:21:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB EAID PGOV EFIN EAGR GT
06GUATEMALA1150	GUATEMALAN SOLDIERS ALLEGEDLY BEAT STREET KIDS [...] (U) Summary: Allegations surfaced that Guatemala's joint military-police patrols are not operating as designed. Guatemalan Army units are in some instances patrolling without their police counterparts and thus without any legal authority to conduct arrests or detentions. Worse, a respected N [...]	2006-06-13 19:08:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM KJUS MOPS PGOV EAID GT
06GUATEMALA1173	GUATEMALAN AMBUSH LEAVES AN ARMY CAPTAIN AND A [...] (SBU) Summary: A heavily armed group of 40 men ambushed a joint patrol of Guatemalan army, police and park rangers. They wounded two men and are, as of noon June 15, still holding hostage three others in northwestern corner of the Peten. End summary. 2. (SBU) A 40-man joint patrol of the [...]	2006-06-15 17:41:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PGOV ASEC SNAR SENV PHUM EAID GT
06GUATEMALA128	URIBE'S VISIT TO GUATEMALA [...] (SBU) Summary: Colombia's President Uribe paid a highly successful visit to Guatemala January 19-20. He publicly committed to support Guatemala's bid for the UNSC, to provide counter-narcotics cooperation and to conclude a free trade agreement. Uribe's address to the Guatemalan Congress was [...]	2006-01-24 21:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SNAR MASS PHUM ETRD CO GT UNSC
06GUATEMALA1313	SPANISH JUDGE DEPARTS GUATEMALA EMPTY-HANDED [...] Summary: Spanish judicial personnel departed Guatemala without having obtained any official testimony regarding the 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy and the deaths of two Spanish citizens. They did, however, draw international attention to the lack of activity by the Guatemalan authorities [...]	2006-07-07 12:44:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KJUS MASS GT
06GUATEMALA1419	GUATEMALA: CONGRESS APPROVES REVISED ORGANIZED [...] (SBU) Summary: The Guatemalan Congress approved a revised organized Crime Bill on July 19. Passage of the bill was a major victory for the Embassy's efforts over the past three years to get Guatemala to adopt modern law enforcement authorities (a conspiracy statute and provisions for wireta [...]	2006-07-24 15:01:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV PHUM KCRM KJUS ASEC EAID PTER GT
06GUATEMALA168	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Derham hosted a meeting with 10 leaders of the Guatemalan human rights community to share views on security and violent crime. Most agreed that while violence has many sources, the current government does not engage in social cleansing or violence against any sector of [...]	2006-01-30 15:10:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAID SNAR KJUS GT
06GUATEMALA1773	GUATEMALA: NAM SUMMIT DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-07 20:56:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA PTER PHUM GT
06GUATEMALA1774	GUATEMALA: PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH ON DETAINEES IN THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-07 21:01:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL GT
06GUATEMALA1803	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM FOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-11 22:02:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC IR GT
06GUATEMALA195	GUATEMALA: REACTION TO DEATH OF PEACEKEEPERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The deaths of eight Guatemalan peacekeepers in the Congo has provoked some criticism of Guatemalan participation in international peacekeeping. The Guatemalan President praised the dead peacekeepers as heroes and reiterated his government's continued commitment to UN peacekeep [...]	2006-02-01 13:31:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREL KPKO PHUM MASS GT CG UG SU UN
06GUATEMALA198	GUATEMALAN JUDGE DISMISSES CASE AGAINST RIOS MONTT [...] (SBU) A Guatemalan judge dropped charges of coercion, threats, sedition, and involuntary manslaughter against former army general and de facto head of state Efrain Rios Montt. The charges, tied to his presumed leadership of the "Black Thursday" riots of July 2003, were dropped at the request [...]	2006-02-01 17:43:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS KCOR GT
06GUATEMALA2099	GUATEMALA SUPPORTS UN DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-25 22:18:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KTIA UN GT
06GUATEMALA2100	GUATEMALA: UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON THE SITUATIONS OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-25 22:19:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PHUM PREL PTER GT LE IS
06GUATEMALA2201	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON CUBA AND THE IBERO-AMERICAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 18:22:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM CU GT
06GUATEMALA2202	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON OPPOSING THE CUBA EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 18:23:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PRL UNGA UN CU GT
06GUATEMALA2245	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 18:40:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KTIA UN GT
06GUATEMALA2452	GUATEMALA: 2007 UAE/UN-HOSTED GLOBAL TIP CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-15 17:49:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG GT
06GUATEMALA247	GUATEMALAN PROSECUTORS APPEAL RIOS MONTT DECISION [...] (U) Summary. The Guatemalan Public Ministry is appealing a judge's decision to dismiss charges of threats, coercion, sedition, and involuntary manslaughter against FRG leader Rios Montt. It claims the judge was wrong to dismiss the case rather than respond to the prosecutor,s request for "pr [...]	2006-02-07 22:54:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS KCOR GT
06GUATEMALA2471	ILLEGAL ALIEN DETENTIONS IN THE U.S. REVIVE [...] (C) Summary: The December 12 raids of Swift meatpacking plants in the U.S. that resulted in the reported detentions of some 500 Guatemalans have generated a media storm. Critics of the Berger Government have renewed charges that the GOG does not do enough to protect undocumented Guatemalans [...]	2006-12-19 16:13:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG GT
06GUATEMALA2473	GUATEMALA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH UN TO CREATE [...] Summary: The Government of Guatemala (GOG) signed an agreement with the United Nations December 12 to establish the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). Pending approval and ratification by the Guatemalan Congress, the independent UN-led body will investigate illeg [...]	2006-12-19 18:12:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT
06GUATEMALA2485	GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-21 22:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
06GUATEMALA2486	GUATEMALAN WOMEN'S GROUP REPORTS DECLINE IN [...] Summary: According to a recent study by Grupo Guatemalteco de Mujeres (GGM),only 11 percent of the total number of murders of women in Guatemala should be labeled "femicide," which GGM considers the most extreme manifestation of violence against women. Based on investigations conducted over [...]	2006-12-21 22:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT
06GUATEMALA2504	GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-26 18:03:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL PHUM PINS GT
06GUATEMALA2505	GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-26 18:27:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL PHUM PINS GT
06GUATEMALA27	GUATEMALAN REACTION TO HR 4437 [...] AMBASSADOR MET SEPARATELY ON JANUARY 4 WITH VICE PRESIDENT STEIN AND FOREIGN MINISTER BRIZ, AND MADE REF B POINTS ON ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM INCLUDING A TEMPORARY WORKERS PROGRAM, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT MAKING PUBLIC STATEMENTS THAT UNDERMINE THE PRESIDE [...]	2006-01-06 16:10:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SMIG PHUM PREL PGOV EAID KJUS GT
06GUATEMALA379	GUATEMALA: MILITARY RESERVISTS TO AID POLICE [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to steadily increasing violent crime and personnel shortages in Guatemala's National Civilian Police (PNC),the GOG announced a plan to deploy 3,000 military reservists and ex-soldiers as auxiliary police agents until the end of 2006. After receiving a month of tr [...]	2006-02-24 14:18:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM KCRM PGOV ASEC GT
06GUATEMALA421	GUATEMALA'S TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT SUBMISSION [...] Embassy Guatemala's point of contact for trafficking in persons (TIP) is Labor Attache Troy Fitrell, [502]2326-4635, and fax [502]2334-8474. Troy Fitrell (FS-2) spent 10 hours on the preparation of this report. PolOff Sarah Palaia (FS-4) spent 25 hours on the preparation of this report. PolS [...]	2006-03-01 15:50:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GT
06GUATEMALA453	GUATEMALAN PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL CLEANSING [...] Summary: The phrase "social cleansing" has entered wide usage in Guatemala, even though it is generally used to refer to vigilantism. While no evidence has yet surfaced of a state policy of extrajudicial killings of undesirable elements -- the definition of social cleansing -- the Human Righ [...]	2006-03-06 22:33:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KCRM PGOV EAID ASEC SNAR KJUS GT
06GUATEMALA534	FOREIGN MINISTERS' DECLARATION ON U.S. IMMIGRATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Foreign Ministers of Central America, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic met in Antigua, Guatemala, on March 15, 2006. They reiterated their call for an hemispheric conference to promote "best practices" in temporary worker programs. They agreed to lau [...]	2006-03-17 16:16:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF PHUM CVIS SMIG GT XK CO DR EC MX
06GUATEMALA591	GUATEMALAN INDIGENOUS CALL ON AMBASSADOR TO CONVEY [...] On March 21 the Ambassador met with a group of Guatemalans calling itself the "Campaign for Life and Against the Wall." The leaders, who represented five primarily indigenous highland departments, delivered a letter addressed to the U.S. Senate as well as a petition containing approximately [...]	2006-03-23 19:40:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SMIG CVIS SNAR EAID PREF PHUM GT
06GUATEMALA593	GUATEMALAN COURT ADDRESSES DOMESTIC LABOR ISSUES [...] Summary: Guatemala's Constitutional Court suspended two articles of the Guatemalan Labor Code that exempted domestic laborers from standard legal protections. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has had a standing recommendation to Guatemala to reform these articles for more than seve [...]	2006-03-23 22:32:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM PGOV GT
06GUATEMALA607	GUATEMALA: MILITARY MODERNIZATION NEEDED [...] (SBU) Summary: The Guatemalan military faces increasing challenges in operating and maintaining its aging equipment. The Guatemalan military has a modernization plan but no funding to support the plan. The GOG stipulated that modernization funding must come from either sale of military prop [...]	2006-03-27 21:58:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL EAID PHUM SNAR KPKO GT
06GUATEMALA668	GUATEMALA TAKING ACTION TO CORRECT FAULTY LANGUAGE [...] (U) The Guatemalan Congress is asking President Berger to veto the organized crime bill (reftel) because of ambiguous language in a last minute amendment that would have cut in half the maximum prison sentences for several types of major crimes, including murder and kidnapping. 2. (U) Pre [...]	2006-04-04 20:24:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV PHUM KCRM KJUS ASEC EAID PTER GT
06GUATEMALA9	GUATEMALAN VICE PRESIDENT SLAMS U.S. IMMIGRATION [...] Vice President Eduardo Stein used the opportunity of a public address December 29 commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Peace Accords to strongly criticize pending legislation in the U.S. Congress concerning border security (HR4437 "Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigratio [...]	2006-01-03 22:07:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG PHUM PREL PGOV EAID KJUS GT
06GUATEMALA937	GUATEMALA'S OHCHR FIELD OFFICE [...] Summary: After only ten months, it is too early to evaluate the OHCHR's field activities in Guatemala. The OHCHR is still planning its training efforts for judges and its democracy building initiatives in advance of the 2007 elections. Nonetheless, OHCHR's staff has demonstrated a responsiv [...]	2006-05-15 16:30:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM EAID PREL GT
06GUATEMALA986	UPDATE ON GUATEMALA'S NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY [...] (SBU) We would like to provide an update on the status of the National Security Strategy (NSS) project for Guatemala, and confirm our and the Government of Guatemala's (GOG) strong interest in pushing this project forward as the basis for developing an integrated approach to the country's d [...]	2006-05-18 22:30:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI MASS SNAR EAID GT
06HANOI1010	VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY NICHOLSON MEETS MOLISA [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 28, 2006 Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Nicholson, met in separate meetings with Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) Nguyen Thi Hang and with the President of the Vietnam Association of Veterans (VAV),Lieutenant General (retired) Dang Quan Thu [...]	2006-05-03 09:52:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF VM

06HANOI1011	VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY NICHOLSON MEETS [...] (U) Summary: Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Nicholson told Prime Minister Phan Van Khai during their April 28 meeting that the United States strongly supports Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and achievement of Permanent Normalized Trade Relations (PNTR). He emph [...]	2006-05-03 09:53:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	OVIP PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI111	VIETNAM CPC DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN GENERAL MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with Assistant FM Nguyen Duc Hung to deliver reftel demarche on a way forward on religious freedom, and took the opportunity to raise other bilateral issues, including human rights, family reunification for Vietnamese refugees in the United States, repatriatio [...]	2006-01-13 06:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI1112	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE NORTH PART I: POLOFF [...] (SBU) At the recommendation of Protestants in Hanoi, an Embassy team visited Lao Cai Province in the third week of April to investigate allegations of district-level abuse against Protestant groups. The team was able to discuss with officials several serious allegations made against Lao Cai p [...]	2006-05-10 09:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PGOV SOCI PHUM VM
06HANOI1113	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE NORTH PART II: POLOFF [...] (SBU) At the recommendation of Protestants in Hanoi, an Embassy team visited Ha Giang Province in the third week of April to investigate allegations of district-level abuse against Protestant groups. The team was able to discuss with officials several serious allegations made against Ha Giang [...]	2006-05-10 09:56:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI VM
06HANOI1115	AMBASSADOR MEETS MPS VICE MINISTER [...] (SBU) During a May 9 meeting with Vice Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Huong, the Ambassador welcomed progress in developing cooperative bilateral law enforcement contacts, but called on MPS to do more; recognized improvements in the religious freedom situation in Vietnam, but underline [...]	2006-05-11 03:00:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF PHUM KIRF PGOV ASEC VM
06HANOI1232	BAPTISTS MEET IN VIETNAM, HIGHLIGHT THEIR SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Baptist World Alliance - an international umbrella group for some (perhaps 30 million, according to their President),but not all, of the world's Baptists - visited Vietnam May 16-21 to meet with the GVN and hold a large meeting of Baptists in Ho Chi Minh City. The delegati [...]	2006-05-22 09:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VM
06HANOI1320	VIETNAMESE DISSIDENTS ANNOUNCING A NEW PARTY; [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, a meeting convened by prominent Hanoi dissident Hoang Minh Chinh to prepare documents in advance of a planned June 1 declaration of the re-establishment of the Democracy Party of Vietnam (DPV),was raided by police. A member of the new party called a public meeting wit [...]	2006-05-30 11:59:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	HUMANR PHUM PGOV PREL VM
06HANOI1324	VIETNAM: WEDGEWOOD/UNHRC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 07:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM US UNHRC VM
06HANOI1338	VIETNAMESE DISSIDENTS ANNOUNCE NEW PARTY; GVN [...] (SBU) Summary: The DPV made the public announcement today of the reestablishment of the long-defunct DPV, and there was no overt reaction by the GVN. The MFA did, however, call in representatives of the Embassies who met with the DPV leadership on May 30 to protest foreign involvement in "il [...]	2006-05-31 10:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HUMANR PREL PGOV PHUM VM
06HANOI1368	SITREP: VIETNAMESE NEW PARTY DISSIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Activists report that following the June 1 announcement of the re-establishment of the Democratic Party of Vietnam (DPV) police have harassed some of its members. The activists have publicly called for help. Other western diplomats are cautious about maintaining contact with t [...]	2006-06-05 00:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HUMANR PREL PGOV PHUM VM
06HANOI1369	Vietnam/TIP: DEMARCHE DELIVERED, RECEIVED WELL [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and an advance copy of the Vietnam language in the TIP report to Americas Desk Section Chief Le Chi Dzung June 5. Dzung was well briefed on the main TIP issues of concern regarding Vietnam in the report. He said that Vietnam appreciates the overall bala [...]	2006-06-05 00:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN PREL PGOV SMIG VM
06HANOI1389	FURTHER VIETNAMESE NEW PARTY DISSIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 6, Poloff delivered a verbal message to a representative of the Democracy Party of Vietnam (DPV) representative that we will continue to meet with dissidents, but this should not be misconstrued as active support presaging intervention with the GVN. Police harassment of [...]	2006-06-06 10:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HUMANR PREL PGOV PHUM VM
06HANOI1398	THE AMBASSADOR AND VFM LE VAN BANG DISCUSS HUMAN [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST: PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 5. 2. (SBU) Summary: Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang made a push for a meeting with Secretary Rice for Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan in Washington on June 19, reviewed noncommittally our proposals for possible substance for the Preside [...]	2006-06-07 07:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD APEC PHUM AMGT OVIP CVIS CASC
06HANOI1412	VIETNAMESE CATHOLICS SEE SOME PROGRESS, SOME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 6, the Hanoi Archbishop updated Poloff on conditions for Catholics in the North. Despite some overall progress, conditions for believers in provinces in the mountainous border regions remain difficult. There is also an apparent slackening of local level officials' effo [...]	2006-06-07 09:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1454	DISSIDENTS PUSH HARD WITH LITTLE BACKLASH SO FAR [...] (U) The reporting and comment in this cable is by Consulate General Ho Chi Minh City, with additional reporting and commentary by Embassy Hanoi. 2. (C) Summary: Dissidents in Ho Chi Minh City, including Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, report that they are receiving increased attention but that harassme [...]	2006-06-14 10:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1466	VIETNAM PLANS TO REGISTER A FEW PROTESTANTS, RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although the GVN Religious Affairs authorities are non-committal about future Embassy visits to monitor religious freedom developments in the North, they have begun a pilot project for registering eight ethnic minority Protestant congregations in three provinces. In addition, th [...]	2006-06-15 09:14:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1503	VIETNAM RECEIVES ADDITIONAL GENEVA PROTOCOL DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 10:44:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ICRC PHUM PREF IS SZ VM
06HANOI1520	THANH HOA PROTESTANTS REPORT BEATING BY POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 20, Poloffs met with a Protestant individual from Thanh Hoa Province who provided a credible report that he and another Protestant had been beaten by police on June 18 after they were taken from their house church. Poloffs presented this information, including graphic ph [...]	2006-06-20 12:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1535	VIETNAMESE PROTESTANTS WARY OF / EXPEL POLITICAL [...] (S) SUMMARY. In early June, Hanoi Protestants expelled activist political dissident Lawyer Dai Nguyen from their church executive board because of concerns that his recent political activities would damage church interests. They also suspect that, at the worst, he may be a GVN agent provocate [...]	2006-06-22 07:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	SECRET	PGOV PHUM HUMANR VM
06HANOI1554	SOME PROGRESS FOR QUANG NINH PROTESTANTS [...] (SBU) On June 16, Poloff met Quang Ninh Province religious affairs officials and visited a Ha Long City Protestant house church. Poloff was allowed to participate in a frank dialogue between provincial officials and congregants at the church concerning the group's one year delayed registration [...]	2006-06-23 07:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR RELFREE VM
06HANOI1636	Ambassador's Meeting with Chairman of Ethnic Minority [...] (SBU) During a June 30 lunch meeting with the Ambassador, GVN Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs Chairman K'sor Phuoc previewed his upcoming visit to the United States as an opportunity to learn about U.S. policy towards Native Americans and describe Vietnam's own ethnic minority policies. P [...]	2006-07-03 02:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF PREF SOCI VM
06HANOI1666	PROTESTANT BEATING: EMBASSY INVESTIGATES REPORT FROM THANH [...] (SBU) On June 29 Poloff met with provincial, district and district police officials in Thanh Hoa Province to look into the alleged June 18 beating of un-registered Protestants by police in Thieu Vien Commune (reftel). Although some provincial officials attempted to pass off the beatings as the [...]	2006-07-06 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1678	POLOFF VISITS BAC GIANG, MEETS WITH LOCAL BAPTISTS AND [...] (SBU) On June 19, Poloff met with provincial officials in Bac Giang Province and sat in on a heated exchange between Baptist believers and local commune officials. Provincial officials acknowledge that the province does not plan to register the group anytime soon under the GVN's framework on r [...]	2006-07-06 10:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI173	VIETNAM: FY2006 INCLE AND ESF TIP PROPOSALS [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-19 23:27:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB SMIG EAID KCRM KFRD VM
06HANOI1751	Vietnam: Contrasting Support for Religious Freedom in Two [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The issue of religious freedom featured prominently during the Ambassador's visit to the two northern provinces of Yen Bai and Phu Tho on June 25 and 26. The visit was a study in the contrasting treatment by provincial authorities of religious communities in these t [...]	2006-07-11 10:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PGOV SOCI PHUM VM
06HANOI1764	LETTER TO AMBASSADOR HANFORD - SIX PROTESTANT CHURCHES [...] (SBU) On July 12, the MFA's Americas Department forwarded a letter (full text in para. 3) from Chairman Ngo Yen Thi of the GVN's Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) to Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford relating the CRA's concerns that we will accept a recent [...]	2006-07-12 09:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI179	Codel Gillmor Discusses WTO, Human Rights, Fullest [...] (U) Summary and Comment: Members of Codel Gillmor met January 17 with National Assembly (NA) Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Vu Mao, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan and National Assembly President Nguyen Van An to discuss bilateral relations, including Vietnam's WTO aspirations, trade relat [...]	2006-01-20 10:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM ECON OVIP VM
06HANOI1802	VIETNAM'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES NEW GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: During an unusually long summer session convened May 16-June 29 to approve the new government selected by the Communist Party of Vietnam's (CPV) 10th Party Congress, Vietnam's National Assembly (NA) also debated ten laws and approved three resolutions (debate on the [...]	2006-07-17 04:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM HUMANR ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI1803	VIETNAM'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES TEN NEW LAWS, [...] (SBU) Summary: During an unusually long summer session convened May 16-June 29 to approve the new government selected by the Communist Party of Vietnam's (CPV) 10th Party Congress (Ref A),Vietnam's National Assembly (NA) also debated ten laws and approved three resolutions. These new laws in [...]	2006-07-17 04:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM HUMANR ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI1864	BUDDHIST LEADERS CONFIRM REPORT OF MISTREATED MONKS IN BAC [...] (SBU) Summary: The unrecognized Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) recently reported that a number of monks staged a demonstration in Hanoi to protest the wrongful arrest and torture of Buddhists in Bac Giang Province. While the State-sanctioned Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) refutes th [...]	2006-07-21 09:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1877	AMBASSADOR VISITS CATHOLICS IN THAI NGUYEN AND LANG SON [...] (SBU) Summary: On a July 5-7 provincial outreach trip, the Ambassador discussed issues related to the Catholic Church with the leaders of Thai Nguyen, Bac Giang and Lang Son provinces (Protestant issues, especially in Bac Giang and Lang Son, reported septel). In Thai Nguyen, the Ambassador al [...]	2006-07-24 10:43:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI188	Central Highlands: UNHCR, Protestant Pastor Discuss [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR representatives traveled to Dak Lak and Kon Tum provinces January 17-20 to meet with local officials and ethnic minority returnees. In both provinces, UNHCR interviewed a number of returnees in private. There were no allegations of mistreatment by the authorities. Howev [...]	2006-01-23 10:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM CB
06HANOI1880	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PROTESTANT ISSUES IN THREE NORTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: During a July 5-7 provincial outreach trip, the Ambassador discussed Protestant issues with the leaders of Thai Nguyen, Bac Giang and Lang Son provinces. Thai Nguyen officials were open-minded about the issue of registration, but tightlipped about their future plans. [...]	2006-07-25 07:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI1888	Prime Minister Meets with Protestant Leaders [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung met July 24 with the leaders of Vietnam's two officially recognized Protestant churches to welcome their contributions to national development while cautioning against the use of religion for "hostile purposes." During the meeting, the PM reportedly promise [...]	2006-07-25 10:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1897	(SBU) MFA CONFIRMS DISSIDENT'S RELEASE UNDER CONSIDERATION; [...] (SBU) On July 25, the MFA confirmed to the Ambassador that prominent dissident Dr. Pham Hong Son will (likely) be released September 2, but requested we keep this information close-hold within the USG until the GVN makes their final decision in August. The GVN has not decided if it will release [...]	2006-07-26 07:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1916	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HIV/AIDS, TIP, LABOR EXPORT LAW AND [...] (SBU) On July 20, the Ambassador met with the Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Social Affairs Committee to encourage legislation supporting HIV/AIDS programs, assisting counter-trafficking in persons efforts, establishing labor export oversight and establishing better foreign adoption c [...]	2006-07-28 09:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM HUMANR TIP HIV AIDS ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI196	SCENESETTER FOR THE U.S.-VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Lowenkron: Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The bilateral Human Rights Dialogue, the first since 2002, will help us to bring into focus a number of key issues our two countries will need to address this year, particularly in [...]	2006-01-24 10:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF VM
06HANOI1999	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNHCR REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE [...] (SBU) On August 1, UNHCR provided the Ambassador with a readout of recent Vietnmam-related developments. UNHCR is working to resolve the status of 9,500 Cambodians (Khmer Krom) living in southern Vietnam through a joint working group with the GVN and Government of Cambodia, though progress is [...]	2006-08-07 08:43:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PREF VM CB
06HANOI2004	VIETNAM'S POPULATION POLICY IN 2006 [...] (SBU) While Vietnam officially no longer restricts the number of children couples may have, GVN propaganda campaigns still strongly encourage individuals to practice family planning (FP) and keep family size to at most two children. Fines or administrative sanctions for larger families are rar [...]	2006-08-08 01:53:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM KPOP
06HANOI2045	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW GVN OFFICE OF THE GOVERNMENT VICE [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 7, the Ambassador met with Office of the Government Vice Chairman Nguyen Xuan Phuc, the new number two official in the Prime Minister's office. During the broad-ranging conversation, the Ambassador pressed for: quick resolution of the proposed Boeing, Liberty Mutual an [...]	2006-08-11 09:47:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ETRD EINV ECON AMGT KNNP EAID VM
06HANOI2051	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, PEACE CORPS, UNGA [...] (SBU) On August 10, the Ambassador discussed the upcoming visit of United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford with Acting Director General Pham Van Que of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Department. Regarding USG concerns about the slow pac [...]	2006-08-11 12:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER KIRF UN EAID VM
06HANOI2084	VIETNAM MFA NONCOMMITTAL ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-16 10:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNHRC VM
06HANOI2148	EMBASSY ASSESSMENT OF CONDITIONS FOR PROTESTANTS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GVN appears to be fighting an uphill battle to force northern provincial officials to change their approach to religion. Suspicions that Protestants are agents of the United States are still deeply ingrained in the region, and some local officials find it hard to take seriou [...]	2006-08-23 06:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2152	MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES PRESIDENT'S VISIT, HIGH-LEVEL [...] (SBU) On August 22, MFA Americas Department Acting Deputy Director General Pham Van Que reviewed a number of issues of bilateral concern with the DCM. According to Que, the GVN's top two goals for the President's visit are passage of PNTR and removal of Vietnam's CPC designation; the GVN also [...]	2006-08-23 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM OVIP OTRA CASC VM
06HANOI2170	THANH HOA PROVINCE PROTESTANT DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On August 24, Poloff met again with Protestants from Thanh Hoa Province who report having been involved in recent police beating and harassment incidents (reftels). Police harassment and physical abuse continue, but they now also report that provincial officials are intervening [...]	2006-08-25 07:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI2186	GVN Previews National Day Amnesties, Including One Amcit and Two Prisoners of Concern [...] (SBU) Summary: The MFA informed us August 28 that Amcit Nguyen Bach and two prisoners of concern to the USG -- Dr. Pham Hong Son and Ma Van Bay -- will be released on the occasion of Vietnam's September 2 National Day amnesty. Although the releases are "without conditions," there will be cert [...]	2006-08-28 07:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF OASC CASC VM
06HANOI2240	RECENT VIETNAM-CHINA ANTI-TRAFFICKING COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's border region with China accounts for the majority of its trafficking in persons cases. To tackle this problem, both countries are bolstering their law enforcement cooperation, including through bilateral agreements and operational cooperation. Their efforts have yie [...]	2006-09-01 07:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN KOCI PHUM KCRM CH VM
06HANOI2245	VIETNAM RELIGIOUS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (SBU) This cable summarizes religious freedom developments in Vietnam during the week ending September 1. This summary was coordinated with ConGen Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). Hanoi Developments ------------------ 2. (SBU) Religious prisoner Ma Van Bay's impending National Day amnesty and r [...]	2006-09-01 08:49:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2295	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: MFA PREPARING LETTER TO [...] (C) MFA Americas Department Deputy Director Le Chi Dzung told Pol/C September 7 that his office is currently drafting a letter from Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang to Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford. Although the contents of the letter are not yet final, [...]	2006-09-07 09:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI2303	NAM SUMMIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GVN WILL SUPPORT NAM [...] (SBU) On September 7, Poloff met with GVN MFA officials to deliver Ref A's points for NAM summit attendees. These officials indicated that the GVN will support the Guatemalan candidacy. On the issue of terrorism, the GVN opposes any type of terrorist act against civilians. Concerning democra [...]	2006-09-08 06:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PREL PTER PHUM CU VM
06HANOI2305	CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: POINTS TO RAISE WITH THE GVN ON [...] (U) Action Request. See paragraph 5. This request was coordinated with ConGen HCMC (Ref A). Summary ------- 2. (C) Mission Vietnam is concerned about an up-tick in police activities directed against ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands who are in cellular telephone contact with [...]	2006-09-08 08:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM
06HANOI2321	POLOFF VISITS THANH HOA FULL GOSPEL PROTESTANTS, PROVINCE [...] (SBU) On September 8, Poloff visited the Thanh Hoa community in which members of the Full Gospel Protestant Church have recently suffered police harassment and beatings. Poloff met at the church with one church member and his neighbors. During a separate meeting with Poloff, provincial offici [...]	2006-09-11 09:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI2328	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH HANOI PROTESTANTS [...] (C) Summary: IRF Ambassador John Hanford met with Protestant leaders in Hanoi on August 16. They noted that the overall environment for religion in the north and Northwest Highlands is "significantly less threatening" than in the past, as the number of arrests, attempted forced renunciations [...]	2006-09-12 06:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
06HANOI2329	DETAINEE POINTS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Pol/C delivered Ref A's points to MFA International Organizations Department Senior Officer Pham Thi Kim Anh on September 11. Kim Anh had no immediate reaction except to note that the GVN had raised issues related to detainee operations during the U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue in F [...]	2006-09-12 07:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL VM
06HANOI2352	NAM SUMMIT POINTS ON DARFUR AND IRAN DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-15 06:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNSC PREL PTER PHUM KPKO IAEA IR SU VM
06HANOI2358	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH GVN OFFICIALS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 17, IRF Ambassador John Hanford met in separate meetings with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem and MFA International Organizations Department Director General Minh to discuss the GVN's record of implementing its commitments to improve religious [...]	2006-09-15 09:42:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2360	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH MFA VICE MINISTER BANG: [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 18 meeting with IRF Ambassador John Hanford, Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang acknowledged that implementation of the GVN's framework on religion has been slow in the north because of local officials' concerns about preserving their power. However, the USG shou [...]	2006-09-15 10:05:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV CASC VM
06HANOI2380	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS ETHNIC AFFAIRS MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: IRF Ambassador John Hanford met Minister/Chairman K'sor Phuoc of the GVN's Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs August 17 to discuss GVN efforts to facilitate the practice of religion among ethnic minority groups, particularly those in Vietnam's north. Ambassador Hanford urged t [...]	2006-09-19 04:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2381	PUBLIC SECURITY VICE MINISTER PROMISES PROGRESS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: IRF Ambassador John Hanford met Vice Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Huong August 18 to discuss the GVN's recent record on religious freedom and to urge the GVN to expedite further progress. Ambassador Hanford provided a list of ten short-term actions that the GVN could u [...]	2006-09-19 04:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2397	UNHCR MONITORING VISIT TO CENTRAL HIGHLANDS [...] (SBU) UNHCR recently completed its 13th monitoring mission to the Central Highlands and reported nothing out of the ordinary in terms of the well-being of the interviewed returnees. Significantly, the UNHCR team was able to meet with a returnee who had been tried and convicted of human smuggli [...]	2006-09-19 10:02:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM CB
06HANOI2399	COMMITTEE FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS UPDATES DCM ON RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) On September 15, Chairman Ngo Yen Thi of the GVN's Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) briefed the DCM on recent religious freedom developments in Vietnam. The CRA reports that eighteen congregations have been chosen in five out of 19 northern provinces for "pilot registration." These [...]	2006-09-19 10:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2412	RECENT GVN ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS: SMOKE AND [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the wake of several high-profile corruption scandals, the GVN is taking steps, both substantive and symbolic, to address corruption involving government and Communist Party officials. In August, the National Assembly Standing Committee passed a resolution specifyi [...]	2006-09-20 09:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KCOR VM
06HANOI242	EAP A/S HILL MEETS SENIOR COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 13, EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill met with Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) External Relations Commission Director Nguyen Van Son to discuss the U.S.-Vietnam bilateral relationship and regional issues of mutual interest. In addition to upcoming high-le [...]	2006-02-06 06:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ECON CB KN VM
06HANOI2434	First-Ever National Assembly Donors Forum on the Gender [...] (U) Summary: On September 15, 2006, the National Assembly held its first-ever forum to meet with foreign donors and international agency representatives to discuss how to improve the current draft Gender Equality Law. The participants agreed that, with gender inequality a serious problem in Vi [...]	2006-09-21 09:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM VM SOCI
06HANOI244	A/S HILL DISCUSSES BURMA, CAMBODIA, LAOS, CHINA [...] Summary: In a frank lunch meeting January 13 with visiting EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill, senior GVN diplomats said that Vietnam is worried about China's increasing influence in Southeast Asia, particularly Burma, Cambodia and Laos, and urged the United States to engage more wit [...]	2006-02-06 06:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM CB BM LA VM
06HANOI249	EAP A/S Hill's Meeting with Vietnamese FM Nguyen [...] (SBU) Summary: During his meeting January 13 with Foreign Minister Nguyen Dzy Nien, EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill underlined the need for the United States and Vietnam to systematize their bilateral discussions on issues of mutual interest, such as Burma and Cambodia; expressed [...]	2006-02-06 09:47:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV APEC ETRD PHUM CB CH BM KN VM
06HANOI2496	SENIOR MPS OFFICIAL ON PRESIDENT'S VISIT, [...] (C) Summary: During a September 29 discussion with the Charge on a number of issues of bilateral concern, Vice Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Huong: stressed that the GVN would do its utmost to ensure the security of President Bush during his November visit to Vietnam; noted GVN securi [...]	2006-09-29 08:53:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR PHUM ASEC OVIP VM
06HANOI250	EAP A/S Hill's Meeting with Vietnam VFM Le Van Bang [...] (SBU) Summary: During his January 13 meeting with Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang, EAP A/S Christopher R. Hill underscored the importance of making progress in next week's WTO talks, urged Vietnam to improve its human rights situation and welcomed Vietnam's role in regional structures such [...]	2006-02-06 09:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CB BM CH VM
06HANOI2510	VIETNAM'S PRESIDENT MEETS WITH CATHOLIC LEADERS [...] (SBU) On September 28, State President Nguyen Minh Triet met with leaders of Vietnam's Catholic Church for the first time since taking office in June. During the meeting, Triet underlined the GVN's willingness to allow Catholics to become more involved in Vietnam's socio-economic development. [...]	2006-09-29 10:14:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI2511	VIETNAM'S PRESIDENT MEETS WITH CATHOLIC LEADERS [...] (SBU) On September 28, State President Nguyen Minh Triet met with leaders of Vietnam's Catholic Church for the first time since taking office in June. During the meeting, Triet underlined the GVN's willingness to allow Catholics to become more involved in Vietnam's socio-economic development. [...]	2006-09-29 10:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI2570	Religious Freedom: CRA Chairman Discusses Recent Progress [...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 5 meeting with the Charge, Committee on Religious Affairs Chairman Ngo Yen Thi described GVN efforts to accelerate registrations of Protestant congregations in the North. The late September conference for northern local officials was described as a success: o [...]	2006-10-05 10:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2599	CDA DISCUSSES POTUS VISIT, BILATERAL ISSUES WITH [...] (C) The Charge met on October 10 with MFA Americas Department Acting Director General Pham Van Que to continue discussions related to the POTUS visit. Que suggested that President Bush consider adding a short visit with the Communist Party's General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, in part to balanc [...]	2006-10-11 09:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV ECON VM
06HANOI2606	CDA DISCUSSES POTUS VISIT, BILATERAL ISSUES WITH [...] (C) The Charge met on October 10 with MFA Americas Department Acting Director General Pham Van Que to continue discussions related to the POTUS visit. Que suggested that President Bush consider adding a short visit with the Communist Party's General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, in part to balance [...]	2006-10-11 11:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV ECON VM
06HANOI2608	SENATOR HAGEL DISCUSSES TRADE, PEACE CORPS, HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On October 10, Senator Chuck Hagel discussed Vietnam's WTO accession, Human Rights and the Peace Corps with the GVN's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem. Khiem noted that the GVN is working to prepare for the President's upcoming visit by fulfilling its commitments [...]	2006-10-12 03:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV OTRA ECON VM
06HANOI2617	HANOI'S NEW CIVIL SOCIETY LAW IN LIMBO [...] (C) Summary: The GVN in late September pulled the 11th version of the draft Law on Associations (LOA) from the National Assembly's (NA) upcoming agenda. The Politburo, which has ultimate say over legislation put forward to the NA, probably is foot-dragging because it fears the law,s potential [...]	2006-10-12 09:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL PGOV ECON VM
06HANOI2620	SENATOR HAGEL DISCUSSES PNTR AND ECONOMIC, SOCIAL REFORMS [...] (SBU) On October 6, Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Chairman and Politburo member Nguyen Phu Trong briefed Senator Chuck Hagel on the NA's developing oversight role in Vietnam's policymaking process and in promoting social and economic development. Trong said passage of Permanent Normal Tra [...]	2006-10-13 01:33:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV OTRA ECON VM
06HANOI2624	MFA PROTESTS AMBASSADOR'S REMARKS CONCERNING DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 11, MFA Americas Department Acting Director General Pham Van Que called in the Charge to protest remarks about the Vietnamese political movement 8406 Bloc made by the Ambassador during an October 2 Radio Free Asia interview. According to Que, the remarks caused a negat [...]	2006-10-13 04:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2630	SCENESETTER FOR DRL A/S LOWENKRON'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Hanoi looks forward to welcoming you back to Vietnam. Your visit will help us to address a number of key issues in the lead-up to the President's November visit. It will also underscore to the Vietnamese that progress on core American concerns and values must keep pace with the s [...]	2006-10-13 09:16:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI2663	NEW DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE FORMS [...] (SBU) This message was coordinated with ConGen Ho Chi Minh City. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Using strong language, local activists announced on October 18 the establishment of an umbrella alliance of democratic organizations with the aim of pushing for a multi-party system in Vietnam. Th [...]	2006-10-19 08:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM VM
06HANOI2705	Ministry of Culture and Information Suspends Newspapers for [...] (U) SUMMARY: Both Vietnamese and international media outlets reported extensively over the weekend on the GVN's October 20 suspension of two newspapers for a period of one month. These organizations, as well as numerous, more prominent papers, have carried stories in the last few months about [...]	2006-10-24 02:16:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KPAO VM
06HANOI2710	MFA OUTLINES BUREAUCRATIC DIFFICULTIES IN ADVANCING [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 23, the DCM met with MFA Americas Department Deputy Director Nguyen Ba Hung to discuss the status of bilateral issues in advance of the POTUS visit. The DCM reviewed the list of as-yet unresolved official and commercial agreements that need to be concluded, noting our [...]	2006-10-24 10:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI2712	MOJ VICE MINISTER TELLS A/S LOWENKRON [...] (SBU) On October 19, Ministry of Justice Vice Minister Hoang The Lien told Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron that a "political decision" has been made to abolish Administrative Decree 31 (which authorizes officials to impose punishments without due proces [...]	2006-10-25 02:42:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF OTRA ECON VM
06HANOI2727	ASSISTANT SECRETARY LOWENKRON DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS WITH [...] (SBU) On October 19, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron told Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang that, while the United States recognizes there have been positive human rights developments in Vietnam, we will continue to urge the release of the two remaining [...]	2006-10-26 03:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV OTRA ECON VM
06HANOI2833	DEMARCHES ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On November 8, Poloff discussed reftel points on the Cuba embargo resolution and the Australian amendment with MFA International Organizations Department Deputy Director Vu Anh Quang. Mr. Quang said the GVN position is consistent with the majority of countries that support the Cuba embar [...]	2006-11-08 10:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PREL PHUM UN CU VM
06HANOI2842	DEMARCHES ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-10 02:40:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNHCR UN VM
06HANOI2916	EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS VISIT PHAM HONG SON [...] (C) Summary and Comment: European diplomatic representatives in Hanoi were able to visit Pham Hong Son in his home on November 23. However, the meeting -- in which Son described his democratic beliefs, explained his unwillingness to join forces with newly formed activist groups in Vietnam an [...]	2006-11-29 09:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM VM
06HANOI293	MEETING WITH AFM HUNG: VFM LE VAN BANG MAY TRAVEL [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Assistant Foreign Minister Nguyen Duc Hung informed the Charge February 10 that National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Van Yeu tentatively plans to lead an Assembly delegation to Washington February 26 for discussions with Congress on WTO and the PNTR vote. VFM Le [...]	2006-02-10 10:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM OTRA VM
06HANOI2940	VIETNAM: WOMEN EMPOWERMENT CONTACTS [...] On November 28, Poloff shared reftel fact sheet on recommendations from the Women's Empowerment Working Session with Nguyen Thi Minh Quy, Director of the National Committee for the Advancement of Women. After discussing the sheet with her colleagues, Quy will send us ideas on possible projects [...]	2006-12-01 09:02:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM PREL RP UNGA
06HANOI3004	LETTER TO AMBASSADOR HANFORD FROM VICE MINISTER OF PUBLIC [...] (SBU) On December 8, Ministry of Public Security contacts passed a letter to Poloff from Vice Minister Nguyen Van Huong to Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford (unofficial translation below). Our contacts noted that lifting Vietnam's Country of Particular Concer [...]	2006-12-13 01:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI3012	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDES SESSION, CONTINUES TO [...] (C) During its recently concluded session, the National Assembly approved Vietnam's WTO-entry Protocol and debated and passed 11 laws and one resolution. These included a controversial new Law on Gender Equality and a Law on Residence. However, a long-standing draft Law on Associations was w [...]	2006-12-14 08:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL VM
06HANOI3018	Vietnam Moves to Abolish Decree 31 [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On December 14, the National Assembly Standing Committee passed a resolution supporting a GVN proposal to abolish Decree 31, the measure that provides for "administrative detention" of those whose actions do not merit prosecution under the criminal code. Provided th [...]	2006-12-15 10:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM SOCI VM
06HANOI3021	MFA Protests Ambassador's Remarks in Support of Greater [...] (SBU) During a roundtable with foreign correspondents on December 13, the Ambassador spoke on the issue of human rights, freedom of expression and the GVN's treatment of activists and others who peacefully voice their political views. Responding to a reporter's question about the activities of [...]	2006-12-18 00:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KPAO VM
06HANOI3033	DURING HANOI VISIT, UNHCR COMMENTS ON 42 VIETNAMESE H'MONG [...] (SBU) According to a UNHCR official in Hanoi, Thai authorities have reportedly threatened to deport 42 Vietnamese ethnic H'mong recently arrested in Thailand. UNHCR is negotiating a solution with the Vietnamese and Thai MFAs calling for third-party resettlement. All parties appear to accept th [...]	2006-12-19 08:16:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM HUMANR PREF VM
06HANOI3059	COMMITTEE FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS AND PROTESTANT ORGANIZATION [...] (SBU) The Government Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) told Poloff on December 19 that it will issue recognition certificates to two previously unrecognized church organizations on December 23. The CRA also confirmed the existence of a controversial training manual on Protestantism. The man [...]	2006-12-22 08:52:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI3070	UNHCR: "NO GENERAL THREAT" IN VIETNAM CENTRAL HIGHLANDS; [...] (SBU) At a December 15 briefing to Hanoi-based diplomats, UNHCR highlighted that the overall environment for Vietnamese ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands was improving, despite an increase of arrivals to Cambodia in 2006. Refugee status recognition rates have dropped significantly in [...]	2006-12-26 09:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM HUMANR PREF CB VM
06HANOI392	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH DPM VU KHOAN [...] (SBU) Summary: During a February 21 meeting, IRF Ambassador Hanford and Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan agreed that the recently concluded Human Rights Dialogue will help to spur on further positive developments in the bilateral relationship. On the issue of religious freedom, Ambassador Hanf [...]	2006-02-22 09:29:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI393	U.S.-VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron, accompanied by IRF Ambassador John Hanford met, February 20 with Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang. After reviewing the bilateral Human Rights Dialogue's morning session (septel),A/S Lowenkron urged the GVN not to constrain NGOs under an impending new [...]	2006-02-22 09:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI394	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS RELIGIOUS LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary: IRF Ambassador John Hanford met February 21 with Buddhist and Protestant leaders to discuss issues surrounding the practice and management of organized religion in Vietnam. Both the Buddhist and Protestant representatives acknowledged progress in the religious freedom situation [...]	2006-02-22 09:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI395	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS VIETNAM MPS VICE MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John V. Hanford told Vice Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Huong that he is encouraged by developments in Vietnam related to religious freedom, but remains concerned about the slow pace of church regist [...]	2006-02-22 09:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
06HANOI461	STAFFDEL GROVE DISCUSSES BILATERAL RELATIONS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior MFA officials cautioned visiting Senate Appropriations Committee Majority Clerk Paul Grove that continued USG pressure on Burma and Cambodia will only push those countries closer to China, and will not succeed in convincing them to become more responsible international a [...]	2006-02-27 09:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL PHUM KIRF SNAR KWMN KCRM OMIG VM

06HANOI510	Update on Prisoners of Concern; Prisoner Tran Van [...] (SBU) Summary: A passing reference during the recent U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue to the suicide of one of our prisoners of concern led to several confusing exchanges with the MFA and the eventual confirmation that Tran Van Luong, the former Director of Vietnam's Center for Applied Phys [...]	2006-03-06 08:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
06HANOI549	CONDITIONS FACING ETHNIC MINORITY PROTESTANTS IN [...] (SBU) An Embassy and DRL/IRF team recently visited the Northwest provinces of Lao Cai and Yen Bai to examine social conditions for ethnic minorities and to advocate for the rapid registration of ethnic minority Protestant groups. Protestant leaders from the region reported that local officials [...]	2006-03-09 10:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM VM
06HANOI551	U.S.-VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: AFTERNOON [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF SOCI PREL PGOV PREF VM
06HANOI552	U.S.-VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: MORNING SESSION [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV SOCI VM
06HANOI582	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS CHAIRMAN THI OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met February 21 with the head of Vietnam's Committee for Religious Affairs. They agreed that the GVN has taken important steps to establishing religious freedom in most of the country; however the Northwe [...]	2006-03-14 03:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI584	CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: UNHCR TO VISIT MARCH 22; UNHCR [...] (SBU) Summary: A UNHCR team will visit Gia Lai Province March 22-23 to meet with the families of "double-backers." The team has also requested private meetings with two individuals who were allegedly mistreated by local authorities. The GVN has invited Assistant High Commissioner Erika Felle [...]	2006-03-14 10:34:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM CB
06HANOI625	VIETNAM: WILL LIKELY APPROVE ADDITIONAL GENEVA [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-17 02:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ICRC PHUM PREF IS SZ VM
06HANOI638	GVN REPORT ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) On March 10, the GVN's Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) sent the Ambassador a report on religious conditions in Vietnam in 2005 (unofficial translation in paragraph 4). The first part of the report lists Vietnam's achievements in promoting religious freedom in 2005, and the second p [...]	2006-03-20 07:52:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM VM
06HANOI667	U.S.-VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: AFTERNOON [...] (SBU) In an agreed continuation of the morning session on religious freedom and ethnic minority affairs of the February 20 U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue, before beginning the afternoon schedule, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford presented the GVN side wi [...]	2006-03-22 10:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV VM
06HANOI669	U.S.-VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: MORNING SESSION [...] (SBU) Delegations from the United States and Vietnam met for the two countries' first Human Rights Dialogue in over three years February 20. The morning session included opening remarks, Vietnam's presentation of its approaches to human rights, a discussion of criminal code, prison conditions [...]	2006-03-22 10:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI670	AMBASSADOR AND VFM LE VAN BANG DISCUSS WTO, HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador focused on Vietnam's WTO entry, practical developments in our human rights discussions, possible Congressional visits and developments in the bilateral relationship over the next six months during a March 21 lunch with Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang. VFM Bang [...]	2006-03-22 23:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD APEC PHUM AMGT OVIP CVIS CASC VM
06HANOI697	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEVELOPMENT IN HOA BINH AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On a recent visit to Hoa Binh and Son La provinces west of Hanoi, the Ambassador discussed economic and issues development local leaders. The Hoa Binh officials were notably progressive in their approach to development, which bodes well for their province. However, Son La's o [...]	2006-03-27 08:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI715	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN HOA BINH [...] (SBU) Summary: On a March 13-15 visit, the Ambassador discussed religious freedom issues with the leaders of Hoa Binh and Son La Provinces (reftel). The difference between the Hoa Binh approach to religious freedom and Son La's attitudes was stark. Hoa Binh is a model for the kind of leader [...]	2006-03-29 04:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI736	GVN AVOIDS HARSH CRITICISM OF 2005 HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Unlike in previous years, the GVN has not launched an intensive media campaign against the 2005 Human Rights Report. This could reflect a decision to avoid possible repercussions with the U.S. Congress that would complicate a PNTR vote on WTO membership. It may al [...]	2006-03-31 08:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI739	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ETHNIC MINORITY ISSUES IN HOA [...] (SBU) Summary: On a March 13-15 visit, the Ambassador discussed ethnic minority issues with the leaders of Hoa Binh and Son La Provinces (reftels). Son La has a much larger potential problem with ethnic tension arising from the massive displacement of ethnic minority Thai communities by the [...]	2006-03-31 08:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI748	AMBASSADOR MEETS COUNTERNARCOTICS TASK FORCE IN SON [...] (SBU) Summary: On a March 14-15 visit to Son La Province, the Ambassador received a briefing on U.S. funded, UNODC-administered counternarcotics efforts in the region. Since the inception of this effort, coordination has improved among local, regional and cross-border security officials, and [...]	2006-04-03 07:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF ETRD EINV ECON SNAR VM
06HANOI767	LEADERSHIP RUMORS ABOUND FOLLOWING THE 14TH [...] (SBU) Summary: Rumors continue to swirl about the likely changes in Vietnam's leadership following the 10th Party Congress in April. They have grown especially intense since last week's close of the 14th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (CPV),which announced that it had [...]	2006-04-04 02:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI775	VIETNAM: HIGH-LEVEL GVN TIP REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: "Complicated developments" in trafficking in persons (TIP) in Vietnam (which is coded official language for a worsening of the situation) provoked a surprisingly high-level conference on TIP in Hanoi that involved two Politburo members and numerous other senior officials in a r [...]	2006-04-04 09:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KCRM PINS VM TIP
06HANOI783	SCENESETTER FOR SPEAKER HASTERT'S VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Mr. Speaker: Your visit to Vietnam comes at an important time in our bilateral relationship. Last year, the United States and Vietnam commemorated the tenth anniversary of normalized relations, the highlight of which was the very successful visit to the United States by Prime Minister [...]	2006-04-05 08:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PHUM PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EFIN VM
06HANOI802	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-06 05:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	KUNR UNCHR PHUM PREL UNGA VM
06HANOI833	Vietnam Tackling Abusive Export Labor Firms [...] (SBU) Summary: Confronted with problems related to a burgeoning export labor industry, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) is taking action to regulate the industry and protect workers from potential abuse. In an effort to mitigate unemployment and develop its pool of skilled workers, the Governm [...]	2006-04-12 10:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV PHUM KCRM PINS VM TIP
06HANOI835	HANOI DISCUSSES NEW LAW ON ASSOCIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On April 3, the GVN presented its ninth draft of a New Law on Associations to donor community Ambassadors, representatives of Vietnam's associations and international NGOs and other interested parties. Follow-on discussion was open and pointed. Controversial elemen [...]	2006-04-13 04:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI853	HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT MEETS VIETNAMESE PM [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert told Prime Minister Phan Van Khai that he is committed to working hard to pass Permanent Normalized Trade Relations (PNTR) for Vietnam because "it is the right thing to do" and because economic development and international integratio [...]	2006-04-17 06:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL ETRD WTO PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI862	SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE DELEGATION MEETS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CHAIRMAN NGUYEN VAN AN [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert delivered a basic message in Hanoi: we support, in principle, Vietnam's economic development and openness and will work hard to pass Permanent Normalized Trade Relations for Vietnam because international economic i [...]	2006-04-17 08:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL PHUM KIRF ECON ETRD WTO VM
06HANOI872	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: HANOI AUTHORITIES FACILITATING [...] (SBU) An expatriate Amcit who is a Jehovah's Witness informed Poloff on April 14 that representatives of the small congregation of witnesses in Hanoi recently were called in by local Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) officials and given two application forms for official registration as a P [...]	2006-04-18 05:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM VM
06HANOI885	TIP/Vietnam: Vietnam Ministries Get Action [...] (SBU) The Government of Vietnam has begun implementation of a new decision consolidating each responsible ministry's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) efforts and instructing government agencies to develop new programs to deal with the issue. 2. (SBU) Issued by Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khi [...]	2006-04-19 10:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KCRM PINS VM TIP
06HANOI894	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: PROTESTANT EFFORTS TO REGISTER; [...] (SBU) House church leaders affiliated with the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (ECVN) recently updated Poloff on their efforts to officially register the activities of their congregations in Vietnam's northern provinces. Progress in registration and other improvements in conditions for Protestan [...]	2006-04-20 09:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM VM
06HANOI896	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, UNSC, NEXT SECRETARY- [...] (SBU) The DCM met April 19 with MFA International Organizations Department Acting Director General Vu Anh Quang to deliver reftel's points and letter from the Secretary to Foreign Minister Nguyen Dzy Nien. Quang said SIPDIS that the MFA values U.S. viewpoints on multilateral issues such as [...]	2006-04-20 10:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UN UNSC KUNR PHUM GT VE VM
06HANOI952	MDA - VIETNAM WILL VOTE YES IN JUNE [...] (SBU) In response to Ref A's points, MFA International Organizations Department First Secretary Ngo Thi Lien reported that Vietnam will vote "yes" at the International Conference in June. However, the GVN is still studying the Third Additional Protocol and has no plan at this time to sign it. [...]	2006-04-26 10:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC SZ VM
06HANOI992	UNHCR ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) UNHCR's Assistant Commissioner for Protection Erika Feller visted Gia Lai Province April 26-27 and met Vice Foreign Minister Nguyen Phu Binh April 28. While in Gia Lai, she met with six returnees (including two individuals who were singled out by Human Rights Watch),who described their [...]	2006-04-28 10:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM CB
06HARARE1010	CURRENCY CHANGEOVER SPARKS CONFUSION [...] (C) With five business days remaining until the currency conversion deadline of August 21, business contacts tell us the country is woefully unprepared for the expiration of the old bearer checks. Most businesses have suspended or significantly reduced sales, chiefly of imports, rather than [...]	2006-08-11 13:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1056	NEW RELIGIOUS GROUP OFFERS WAY FORWARD [...] (SBU) During their visit to Harare, staffdel visitors met with the religious leaders spearheading the Christian Alliance (CA),a new opposition grouping that seeks to unite all anti-GOZ forces. Born out of the Church's efforts last year to help those affected by Operation Restore Order, the [...]	2006-08-29 14:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1067	TSVANGIRAI LEADS MARCH ON PARLIAMENT [...] (U) Anti-Senate MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai led a demonstration of between 500 and 1,000 supporters from the party's downtown Harare headquarters to Parliament in the afternoon of September 1. Marchers, many of whom joined the demonstration in progress, carried placards calling for Mugab [...]	2006-09-05 13:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1078	LABOR LEADERS IMPRESS STAFFDEL WITH CANDID TALK OF [...] (U) A congressional staff delegation visiting Zimbabwe came away from a meeting with two prominent labor leaders impressed with their candid discussion of the fractured state of the opposition movement and sobering description of the daily challenges workers face in Zimbabwe's severely depress [...]	2006-09-06 13:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB ZI
06HARARE11	GOZ INTENSIFIES ASSAULT ON MDC MUNICIPAL [...] (C) All 19 of Mutare's MDC city councilors resigned on January 4 in response to their December 29 suspension by Minister of Local Government Ignatius Chombo over alleged mismanagement. The Minister appointed an acting council of ruling party loyalists to run the city. Chombo also suspended [...]	2006-01-09 05:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC ZANU PF
06HARARE112	GOZ INTENSIFIES ATTACK ON ZIMBABWE LAWERS FOR [...] (C) According to several Embassy sources in civil society, the GOZ,s crackdown on the independent radio station Voice of the People (VOP) is actually directed at the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and its head Arnold Tsunga. Tsunga and other ZLHR employees, as VOP trustees, have been [...]	2006-02-02 13:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE113	ADDENDUM TO ZIMBABWE SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-03 07:24:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB ZI KDEM
06HARARE1130	PREVIEW OF LABOR'S PLANS FOR NATIONWIDE [...] (C) The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) plans to lead processions in 35 cities and towns throughout the country on Wednesday, September 13 to protest against poor wages, high taxes, weak economic conditions, lack of access to HIV/AIDS drugs, and continuing harassment of civil society [...]	2006-09-12 14:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB ZI
06HARARE1143	GOVERNMENT INTIMIDATION AND PREEMPTIVE ARRESTS [...] (C) Government preemptive actions forestalled a series of planned protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions' (ZCTU) on Wednesday, September 13. Over 100 ZCTU members were detained and police reportedly severely beat several union leaders. The government press called the ZCTU protests [...]	2006-09-15 11:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB ZI
06HARARE1162	GOZ BRUTALLY REACTS TO NCA MARCHES [...] (SBU) The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) staged marches in key cities across Zimbabwe on September 20 triggering a violent police and ZANU-PF youth militia reaction in Mutare and, to a lesser extent, Harare. Smaller numbers of NCA supporters also marched in Gweru and Masvingo, where [...]	2006-09-21 14:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1163	ZCTU MEMBERS RECOUNT TO AMBASSADOR POLICE [...] (C) ZCTU leaders described to the Ambassador their arrest and brutal beatings by Zimbabwe police following their attempted demonstration on September 13 (Ref). They noted that the police van in which they were to be transported to the police station was on empty. At the notorious Matapi sta [...]	2006-09-21 14:36:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB ZI
06HARARE1164	STEVENSON ATTACK COMMISSION POINTS FINGER AT GOZ [...] (SBU) Anti-Senate leader Morgan Tsvangirai held a Press Conference September 20 to announce the findings of the commission appointed by the anti-Senate MDC to investigate the July 2 attack on pro-Senate MDC MP Trudy Stevenson. According to Tsvangirai, the commission concluded that GOZ securit [...]	2006-09-21 15:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1175	AMERICAN LABOR DELEGATION DENIED ENTRY TO ZIMBABWE [...] (U) An African-American labor delegation was denied entry to Zimbabwe September 22 despite holding valid visas. The visit had been in the planning for months. The only explanation from the GOZ was that the visit was now "unacceptable.Q8 We believe the GOZ feared the visit would draw attenti [...]	2006-09-25 06:47:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB ZI
06HARARE1190	ANOTHER NCA MARCH AND MORE BEATINGS ADDS TO [...] (SBU) Approximately 300 National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) members marched in downtown Harare on September 25, seeking to deliver a petition calling for a new constitution to Parliament. The police were initially caught unaware due to the high level of secrecy surrounding the planning. H [...]	2006-09-26 14:17:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE1192	VOP UPDATE: COURT DROPS CHARGES [...] (SBU) At the latest installment of the trial of the Voice of the People (VOP) trustees for illegally broadcasting (Reftel for background) on September 25, Magistrate William Bhila removed the accused from further remand, a move that essentially drops the charges against the seven defendants. [...]	2006-09-27 08:09:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE1216	COMMISSION HIGHLIGHTS CIO INVOLVEMENT IN STEVENSON [...] (C) The commission of inquiry report on the Trudy Stevenson attack concludes that the GOZ's Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) security apparatus was most likely responsible for the assault. The report notes that the MDC's internal failings and divisions have made both its pro- and anti [...]	2006-10-03 12:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE124	GOZ CASTS MDC'S ZAMBIA EXCURSION AS USG PLOTTING [...] (C) Following Zambia's expulsion of a delegation of senior MDC officials on February 2 (refs A, B),Zimbabwe's state media has alleged that the U.S. Embassy had arranged a meeting in Zambia between the delegation and "officials from US-funded Freedom House". The articles appear to be part of [...]	2006-02-06 13:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO ASEC PHUM PGOV ZI MDC
06HARARE1242	ZIMBABWE NOT COMPLIANT WITH AGOA ELIGIBILITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-12 10:15:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	AGOA ASEC ECON ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM ZI
06HARARE1247	PARLIAMENTARY WOMEN'S CAUCUS GAINING GREATER VOICE [...] (U) Zimbabwe,s Parliamentary Women,s Caucus on October 6 met with civil society and donor representatives to call for greater cooperation across party lines on gender issues. Participants at the meeting said that the Caucus, which is lead by ZANU-PF MP Flora Bhuka and MDC MP Thokozani Khupe, [...]	2006-10-16 09:44:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KWMN PGOV PHUM ZI
06HARARE1262	MDC SUSPENDS TROUBLESOME MP [...] (U) The anti-Senate faction of the MDC on October 15 suspended Tafara-Mabvuku MP Timothy Mubawu from his official party positions due to his connection to the attack on pro-Senate MDC MP Trudy Stevenson (ref B) and his sexist remarks in Parliament (ref A). MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti o [...]	2006-10-18 12:59:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE128	ZIMBABWE ESF ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROJECT [...] Summary. Embassy Harare submits the following International Organization for Migration (IOM) proposal for funding consideration from FY2006 ESF appropriations. The proposal is for assistance to IOM's activities in Zimbabwe as part of the Southern African Counter-Trafficking Assistance Progra [...]	2006-02-07 14:14:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ASEC ELAB SMIG ZI KWMN KCRM
06HARARE1294	LOW VOTER TURNOUT LEADS TO BIG ZANU-PF WIN [...] (SBU) Preliminary results reported in the government-controlled press today are calling Saturday's rural district council elections a ZANU-PF victory. Official results are expected by Tuesday, October 31. The key feature of the elections was very low voter turnout. Initial reports from elec [...]	2006-10-30 15:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE1299	CHURCH LEADERS "NATIONAL VISION" REJECTED BY [...] (C) Summary. A group of religious leaders presented President Mugabe October 27 with a so-called "national vision" document they said is intended as a road map for dialogue leading to a resolution of Zimbabwe,s problems. While stating that the document could lead to consensus among Zimbabwea [...]	2006-10-31 14:43:00	Embassy Harare	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM ZI
06HARARE136	URBAN LAND SEIZED IN LATEST AFFRONT TO PRIVATE [...] (C) The GOZ in mid-December 2005 seized Gletwyn property, an urban-zoned development area within Harare,s city limits, marking the GOZ's first formal taking of urban land apart from legal eminent domain proceedings. The Police Housing Cooperative and Divine Homes, a housing development compan [...]	2006-02-08 15:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1360	ZANU-PF WINS RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL ELECTIONS -- [...] (U) In an election characterized by extremely low turnout, the ruling party won the vast majority of the 1,326 Rural District Council (RDC) seats. The MDC managed victories, however, in a number of areas, including a few previously considered impenetrable. ZANU-PF relied heavily on pressure [...]	2006-11-15 14:36:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE1376	ARCHBISHOP PIUS NUBE ON THE STATE OF ZIMBABWE [...] (C) A despondent Archbishop Pius Ncube told polchief and visiting deskofficer November 16 at Catholic Church offices in Bulawayo that most Zimbabweans average have "given up" any hope for change. Mugabe and ZANU-PF are interested only in clinging to power and will rig elections. The MDC is w [...]	2006-11-17 17:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1421	ZIMBABWE: RESPONSE TO SECRETARY'S INITIATIVE ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-30 11:20:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS EINT EAID PHUM
06HARARE1433	WOMEN'S RIGHTS MARCHERS ARRESTED, ASSAULTED [...] (SBU) Police in Bulawayo brutally suppressed a demonstration of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) on Wednesday, November 29 as the women's rights group launched their "People's Charter," a demand for social justice and affordable basic services. According to WOZA, more than 70 women were arreste [...]	2006-12-01 10:29:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE1475	UPDATE FOR WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR REPORT - [...] (U) In 2006, Zimbabwe endured the seventh straight year of economic contraction. According to NGOs and labor groups, the incidence of child labor has continued to increase as a result of declining economic and social conditions, which have made children more susceptible to the exploitative fo [...]	2006-12-18 12:55:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB ZI
06HARARE1490	UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (C) Summary. Recent developments in the GOZ's efforts to combat trafficking are encouraging, but we remain guarded that they have the political will and resources to follow through on stated plans. Since April, the government has established an inter-ministerial taskforce, a woman was sentenc [...]	2006-12-20 12:20:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID
06HARARE1491	UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (C) Summary. Recent developments in the GOZ's efforts to combat trafficking are encouraging, but we remain guarded that they have the political will and resources to follow through on stated plans. Since April, the government has established an inter-ministerial taskforce, a woman was sentenc [...]	2006-12-20 14:56:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID ZI
06HARARE1500	UPDATE ON EFFORTS TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] Retransmission of Harare 1490 with correct subject line. (C) Summary. Recent developments in the GOZ's efforts to combat trafficking are encouraging, but we remain guarded that they have the political will and resources to follow through on stated plans. Since April, the government has esta [...]	2006-12-28 07:00:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB USAID ZI
06HARARE160	MP ON "PRO-SENATE" FACTION ACTIVITIES, PLANS [...] (C) MDC pro-senate faction MP Priscilla Misihairabwa-Mushonga told poloff February 2 that little progress had been made in resolving the dispute that had split the MDC, though the tone was improving. She said the biggest challenge facing her faction was selecting a national leader. She repo [...]	2006-02-14 05:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM ZI
06HARARE177	WHERE'S THE LOVE? - VALENTINE'S DAY ARRESTS [...] (U) On February 14, approximately 300 members of women's activist group Women of Zimbabwe Arise! (WOZA) marched in Harare, demanding affordable food and social justice. Police arrested around 250 of the women along with their lawyer, Tafadzwa Mugabe of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. The p [...]	2006-02-16 05:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
06HARARE185	SUPREME COURT REJECTS TSVANGIRAI ELECTION CHALLENGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Supreme Court on February 12 rejected MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai's application to have it take over his 2002 presidential election challenge from the High Court, where it has languished for years. Strapped for resources, the MDC will likely scale back its strategy of ch [...]	2006-02-17 09:47:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
06HARARE187	PARLIAMENT RESUMES, BUT FOR HOW LONG? [...] (C) Zimbabwe,s Parliament resumed on February 7, marking the first sitting of the Senate since that body was abolished in 1990. However, the legislative agenda is very thin and MPs could be sent home any day. Although two bills were introduced into the Senate, the supposedly august house rec [...]	2006-02-21 04:20:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE215	FORMER STUDENT LEADER EMERGES AS PRO-SENATE [...] (C) On February 19, former student leader Arthur Mutambara, who now resides in South Africa, announced his decision to run for president of the pro-senate faction of the MDC. A number of pro-senate MDC MPs expressed strong support for Mutambara and said he would breathe new life into the part [...]	2006-02-23 13:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
06HARARE227	STUDENTS PROTEST IN RESPONSE TO COLLEGE TUITION [...] (C) Massive tuition increases at state colleges have triggered student unrest as the academic year resumes this month. The GOZ announced in early February that tuition for the coming year would jump from between Z$6 and Z$9 million to between Z$30 and Z$45 million. Upset that scholarships w [...]	2006-02-24 09:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL ZI
06HARARE252	ZIMBABWE ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) Zimbabwe is a country of origin and transit for trafficked persons. This year there were also two cases of girls trafficked to Zimbabwe from South Africa. Most of the information about the scope of trafficking remains anecdotal, however, the government and the police investigate and tra [...]	2006-03-02 09:53:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB ZI KWMN KFRD
06HARARE266	ZVOBGO ON ZANU-PF, CHANGE [...] (C) Eddie Zvobgo, Jr., the popular son of Robert Mugabe's late principal intra-party rival of the last ten years, told the Ambassador on March 1 that the ZANU-PF faithful all recognized the need for substantive change, including realignment to the West. Nonetheless, change probably would wai [...]	2006-03-02 18:05:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM ZI
06HARARE298	GOZ EYING CONTROL OF MINING SECTOR [...] (C) Minister of Mines Amos Midzi announced on March 3 that Cabinet had approved in principle amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act that would force foreign-owned mining companies to hand over 51 percent of their shares to the GOZ. The GOZ is preparing to present the legislation to Parliamen [...]	2006-03-08 17:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EMIN ECON EFIN PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE303	MORE ARRESTS, SUPPOSED MDC LINKS IN ARMS SEIZURE [...] (U) The GOZ-controlled Herald newspaper on March 9 reported that ten more suspects had been arrested in connection with the March 7 discovery of arms in Mutare (reftel). The article did not identify all of those reportedly in custody but claimed that a number of MDC officials had been arrest [...]	2006-03-09 16:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE310	ZIMBABWE - INPUT FOR 2006 REPORT ON AGOA [...] Zimbabwe continues to fall short of AGOA,s qualifying criteria. Post,s input for the annual AGOA report (reftel) follows: ------- Economy ------- 2. The government has an interventionist approach to the economy and Zimbabwe is generally unwelcoming to foreign investment. Private sec [...]	2006-03-10 12:44:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM ZI
06HARARE317	ARMS CACHE SUSPECTS CHARGED, LINKED TO [...] (SBU) The GOZ on March 11 charged eight suspects connected to last week,s arms seizure in Mutare (reftel). The eight were charged under Public Order and Security Act (POSA) prohibitions against processing weapons to commit banditry, sabotage, or terrorism. Appearing in a Mutare court to be c [...]	2006-03-14 16:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE319	JUDGE FREES SEVEN ARMS CACHE DEFENDANTS [...] (C) Ruling that police had acted improperly, High Court Judge Charles Hungwe on March 14 withdrew charges against all suspects linked to the arms cache discovered in Mutare last week, except for Michael Peter Hitschmann (reftel). The seven were released the morning of March 15. Zimbabwe Lawy [...]	2006-03-15 16:48:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE321	CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER DISSES MDC FACTIONS AND [...] (C) The chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA),Lovemore Madhuku, told poloffs March 13 that the opposition MDC was failing to exploit Zimbabweans' deepening economic frustration and that civil society would take the lead if necessary. Madhuku said ZANU-PF was doing a better j [...]	2006-03-15 17:00:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE355	CONGRESS REAFFIRMS TSVANGIRAI'S GRASSROOTS [...] (C) Despite GOZ pressure, an estimated 15,000 enthusiastic delegates, many of whom traveled at their own expense, attended the MDC anti-Senate faction's Congress on March 17-19 and reaffirmed their support for Morgan Tsvangirai, who was unanimously reelected president. MPs SIPDIS Thokozan [...]	2006-03-21 16:49:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE372	MOYO ON POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, AVENUES FOR CHANGE [...] (C) Independent MP Jonathan Moyo told poloff March 22 that the growing proximity of Mugabe's departure and economic collapse were increasing a national impetus for political change. In this uncertain environment, securocrats were the only ones focusing on policy and stability, and they were [...]	2006-03-24 12:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE374	IOM CHIEF ON LACK OF GOZ COOPERATION, FUNDING WOES [...] (C) On March 22, Mohammed Abdiker, Chief of Mission for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Harare, told the Ambassador that the GOZ continued to hinder efforts to assist internally displaced persons (IDPs),many of whom were living in dire conditions. IOM nonetheless was bui [...]	2006-03-27 15:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM PREL KWMN ZI
06HARARE376	ZLHR DIRECTOR ON ANTI-REGIME ACTIONS AT HOME AND [...] (C) Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) Director Arnold Tsunga on March 23 told the Ambassador that he enjoyed surprisingly good relations with many GOZ authorities, who he said were increasingly ambialent about GOZ repression. He said that despite GOZ harassment, ZLHR continued its act [...]	2006-03-27 17:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID PGOV ASEC PREL ZI
06HARARE42	MUGABE CONFIDANT FLOATS TRIAL BALLOON [...] (C) In a January 10 meeting with Ambassador, Father Fidelis Mukonori, Zimbabwe's senior Jesuit and a confidant of Robert Mugabe, recommended western re-engagement, including a secure "way out" for Mugabe. The Ambassador responded he would be open to discussing with GOZ leaders the post-Mugabe [...]	2006-01-12 15:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PHUM ZI
06HARARE424	REENERGIZED ANTI-SENATE MDC WING PLANS INCREASED [...] (C) In a series of separate meetings with the Ambassador, leaders of the anti-Senate faction of the MDC depicted an opposition party that was reenergized by a successful Congress and prepared to confront the regime with greater energy and focus. Morgan Tsvangirai said he would conduct nation [...]	2006-04-11 11:28:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE434	NEW LEGISLATION WOULD TIGHTEN GOZ'S GRIP [...] (C) The GOZ in recent weeks has put forward several bills to Parliament, many of which would bolster the state's security apparatus. The Suppression of Foreign and International Terrorism Bill would update Zimbabwe's counterterrorism laws, and the Interception of Communications Bill would al [...]	2006-04-13 14:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PINR EAGR TBIO PGOV ECPS PHUM PREL
06HARARE469	AG EXECUTIVES GLOOMY ON ECONOMIC SITUATION, [...] (C) At an agriculture roundtable hosted by the Ambassador on April 12, five sector leaders lamented the GOZ's paralysis on economic policy and its continuing negative impact on agriculture. Expressing concerns over prospective chaos and even violence if the economy deteriorated further, some [...]	2006-04-21 12:39:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV BEXP ECON PHUM SOCI ZI
06HARARE49	TSVANGIRAI ON MDC CONGRESS(ES),ACTION PLAN, [...] (C) Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told the Ambassador on January 13 that he was pleased with progress on his party's provincial congresses and ongoing reconstitution of the party leadership. He reported on preparations for the March 18-19 MDC national congress, which included meetings [...]	2006-01-17 15:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE532	AU REQUESTS "PROVISIONAL MEASURES" FROM GOZ IN [...] (C) Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) Executive Director Arnold Tsunga conveyed to the Ambassador on May 5 a copy of a letter dated April 7, 2006, to President Mugabe from Ambassador Salamata Sawadogo, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' rights (ACPHR) (full text [...]	2006-05-09 14:15:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE533	DEMONSTRATORS TAP SCHOOL FEE RESENTMENT [...] (U) Police arrested 185 demonstrators who had been protesting school fees at a Women of Zimbabwe Arise! (WOZA) demonstration in Bulawayo on May 4; all were released as of May 8. A brief WOZA demonstration in Harare May 8 attracted 80-100 participants. None of the participants were arrested [...]	2006-05-09 15:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE553	ZIMBABWEANS ON THE EDGE OF A BREAKDOWN: THE VIEW [...] (C) During a May 2-3 visit to Bulawayo, Ambassador Dell met with both factions of the MDC, an activist organization, and a local economist. MDC anti-Senate faction Vice-President Thokozani Khupe argued that Zimbambweans were ready for mass peaceful action but needed to see the opposition taki [...]	2006-05-11 18:06:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE583	"OPERATION ROUND-UP" SO FAR LARGELY ILLUSORY [...] (U) The GOZ-controlled Herald daily reported in a front-page story on May 15 that Harare police last week had picked up 10,000 "squatters, vagrants and street youths" for relocation to rural areas after "screening." According to the article, the exercise was part of "Operation Round-Up", an [...]	2006-05-17 16:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC ZI
06HARARE586	IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED AT REFUGEE CAMP [...] (C) During poloff's May 10 visit to the remote Tongogara Refugee Camp, home to approximately 2,300 of the 12,300 refugees Zimbabwe hosts, UNHCR officials lamented budget challenges to camp operations and outlined areas of need, such as water distribution and opportunities for self-sufficiency. [...]	2006-05-18 14:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF EAID ZI
06HARARE626	ZCTU LABOR CONFERENCE LACKS SPARK [...] (SBU) At the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions' (ZCTU) Sixth General Conference in Harare May 19-20, the approximately 300 delegates in attendance reconfirmed most of the ZCTU leadership but took little concrete action to confront the GOZ over its disastrous policies. ZCTU Secretary General W [...]	2006-05-24 16:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ECON ELAB PGOV PHUM ZI
06HARARE665	ZLHR ON INTRA-AU FRICTION OVER HUMAN RIGHTS; [...] (C) Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) representatives on May 31 advised the CDA on efforts by the Council of Ministers of the African Union, at GOZ instigation, to thwart the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) through procedural improprieties and budget manipulatio [...]	2006-06-05 17:11:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE666	BENNETT'S LAWYER ON ASYLUM CASE [...] (C) Arnold Tsunga, the attorney for MDC Treasurer Roy Bennett, on May 31 told the CDA that Bennett had appealed the South African Department of Home Affairs' recent rejection of Bennett's asylum application. (Embassy has forwarded the original application and judgment to AF/S.) However, Tsun [...]	2006-06-05 17:14:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE670	ZVOBGO ON STASIS, PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE IN ZANU-PF [...] (C) ZANU-PF businessperson and provincial official Eddie Zvobgo told poloff June 1 that the ruling party would remain in disarray and paralyzed by succession tensions until Mugabe passed from the scene. However, he did not believe Mugabe intended to leave office any time soon. Moreover, neit [...]	2006-06-07 14:15:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE683	BITI ON MDC PLANS, INTER-PARTY ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) MDC anti-senate faction Secretary General Tendai Biti on June 7 told poloff that resource constraints would probably delay faction plans to get people on the streets. He reported that ZANU-PF's Mnangagwa and Mujuru factions each were making pitches to faction President Morgan Tsvangirai, w [...]	2006-06-12 07:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC PREL ZI
06HARARE698	FLAGGING PRO-SENATE MDC FACTION WRITES OFF [...] (C) MDC pro-Senate faction leaders on June 6 outlined their plans for the immediate future to emboffs, especially including outreach to the Embassy and a possible trip to the United States by the faction's president. Pro-Senate faction Secretary General Welshman Ncube and deputy Secretary Gen [...]	2006-06-13 11:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE7	DESPITE GOZ RHETORIC, COOPERATION WITH UN ONGOING [...] (C) In the month since UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland visited Zimbabwe, the GOZ has continued its vitriolic attacks against the envoy and the UN, especially over the issue of shelter for the victims of Operation Murambatsvina. [...]	2006-01-04 13:38:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE702	TSVANGIRAI ON EUROPE TRIP, NEXT STEPS [...] (C) In a June 11 meeting with the Charge, MDC anti-senate faction President Morgan Tsvangirai said he made important progress in refurbishing the faction's relationships with donors and the diaspora during a European tour earlier in the month. The opposition leader reiterated the faction's co [...]	2006-06-14 11:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM EAID ZI
06HARARE721	MURAMBATSVINA ECHOES CONTINUING [...] (C) On June 15, officials from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that municipal police burned down the houses and possessions of approximately 100 families in the Harare suburb of Glen Norah early that day. City officials had served an eviction notice to the families [...]	2006-06-15 15:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE725	MADHUKU ON NCA PLANS, ATMOSPHERICS FOR CIVIL [...] (C) National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) Chairperson Lovemore Madhuku on June 14 told poloff that his organization would organize street demonstrations in the capital within three weeks, with or without collaboration from the opposition MDC and others in civil society. The NCA planned to e [...]	2006-06-16 09:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI

06HARARE74	HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS LATEST GOZ TARGET [...] (C) The GOZ has stepped up its pressure against the prominent local NGO Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR). Police attempted to arrest the NGO,s Executive Director and reportedly are still searching for him and another lawyer involved with the independent radio station Voice of the Peop [...]	2006-01-24 11:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE764	FORMER ZANU-PF OFFICIAL LAUNCHES NEW OPPOSITION [...] (U) Daniel Shumba, a former ZANU-PF provincial chairman for Masvingo, officially launched the United People,s Party (UPP) on June 24 in Harare before a smaller than advertised crowd of approximately 800 supporters. (N.B. Shumba was one of the six provincial chairmen forced out of the ruling pa [...]	2006-06-27 15:33:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC ZI
06HARARE765	INFORMATION MINISTER'S PASSING LEAVES NO VOID [...] (U) The state media on June 22 announced the June 21 death of Minister of Information and Publicity Tichaona Jokonya. A former Permanent Representative at the UN and Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority, Jokonya was 67. The minister had been treated in the United States for [...]	2006-06-27 15:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO ZI
06HARARE770	NO STABILITY IN SIGHT FOR ZIMBABWE'S LAND REFORM [...] (C) Commercial Farm Union Vice President Trevor Gifford on June 27 updated poloff on the GOZ's latest 99-year lease form, which would vest in the GOZ unfettered authority to repossess any properties distributed in its ongoing chaotic land reform process. Gifford said the form offered insuffi [...]	2006-06-28 15:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV ASEC EINV PHUM PREL ECON ZI
06HARARE772	A CHASTENED MUTAMBARA SEEKS ASSISTANCE AND TOUTS [...] (C) MDC pro-Senate faction President Arthur Mutambara on June 27 sought the Ambassador's assistance and advice in connection with a planned U.S. visit. The Ambassador responded that we would support the visit and added that we would provide equitable assistance to Mutambara,s faction in the [...]	2006-06-29 14:24:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE783	MUTARE BISHOP ON DIALOGUE WITH MUGABE, NATIONAL [...] (C) In a June 29 meeting with the Ambassador, Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe Bishop Trevor Manhanga said President Mugabe seemed genuine in his recent efforts to reach out to religious leaders. He said Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) head Happyton Bonyongwe was facilitating the bis [...]	2006-07-03 14:06:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE791	PRO-SENATE MDC MP LLEGEDLY ATTACKED BY ANTI-SENATE FACTION [...] (SBU)MDC pro-Senate faction MP Trudy Stevenson was severely assaulted on July 2 along with four other pro-Senate faction officials. Stevenson, who was reportedly attacked with a machete and rocks, has alleged that youths aligned to the anti-Senate MDC faction of Morgan Tsvangirai carried out [...]	2006-07-05 16:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ZI ASEC PGOV
06HARARE803	VICTIMIZED MP DOWNPLAYS TSVANGIRAI LINK IN PRIVATE [...] (SBU) Pro-Senate MDC MP Trudy Stevenson on July 7 told USAID local staff member that she did not believe the anti-Senate leadership ordered the July 2 attack on her and four other pro-Senate officials (reftel). Recovering at home and in high spirits, she said it was even possible that the GOZ [...]	2006-07-10 16:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE918	STEVENSON ATTACK TRIAL COMMENCES [...] (C) The trial of six youths accused of assaulting pro-Senate MDC MP Trudy Stevenson and four other pro-Senate faction officials resumes on July 20 (ref A). The lawyer for three of the accused contends that the evidence is circumstantial and that only one of the victims was able to identify t [...]	2006-07-19 16:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM ZI
06HARARE933	STEVENSON ATTACK TRIAL POSTPONED A MONTH [...] (U) The trial of six accused assailants of pro-Senate MDC MP Stevenson and four other pro-Senate faction officials convened on July 20. Magistrate William Bhila immediately postponed the case until August 23 so that prosecutors could amend the charges to include a seventh suspect arrested on [...]	2006-07-25 10:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE946	LATEST CLEAN UP OPERATION TARGETS MBARE MARKET [...] (SBU) Officials from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on July 21 reported to post that police on July 14 and 15 demolished the Magaba informal marketplace in Harare's high-density suburb of Mbare. Magaba venders told an Embassy local staff member on July 24 that police on h [...]	2006-07-27 11:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE95	MDC INSIDER ON INTRA-PARTY NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) MDC MP Tendai Biti, who has been negotiating with Welshman Ncube,s faction on behalf of MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai, told the Ambassador January 19 that he had SIPDIS prepared a document that would lead to an amicable MDC &divorce.8 The Harare East MP said he had also prepared a dr [...]	2006-01-30 15:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE96	ADVERSE REACTION TO GONO'S POLICY STATEMENT [...] (C) Reaction to Reserve Bank (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono's Monetary Policy Statement for the Fourth Quarter (details septel) has been largely negative. The independent media gave the most prominent coverage to Gono's public reference to the regime,s concern about public unrest over food insec [...]	2006-01-30 16:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE970	GONO ANNOUNCES MONETARY STATEMENT BOMBSHELL [...] (C) In his mid-term Monetary Policy Statement on July 31, Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono announced a currency redenomination that will slash three zeros from Zimbabwe's inflation-ridden notes. This conversion will be carried out through August 21, after which the old notes will become wor [...]	2006-08-01 15:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE977	ZIMBABWE - FY-2006 ESF REQUEST [...] (SBU) As stated in the Mission Performance Plan, Zimbabwe today is a paradox. On the one hand, President Robert Mugabe and his ruling party have tightened their grip over the country in the past year and have benefited from the split in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). On [...]	2006-08-03 13:04:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AFIN AMGT EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL XA ZI
06HAVANA10078	PAYA PRESENTS PROPOSAL FOR DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Oswaldo Paya has unveiled his latest push for a democratic Constitution, calling for a legal framework that would embrace multiple political parties, private enterprise and "social justice." The document, entitled "All Cubans," stems from a "N [...]	2006-05-11 22:30:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU
06HAVANA10271	MOTHER OF ALL MARCHES BY CUBA'S "LADIES IN WHITE" [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's "Ladies in White," relatives of political prisoners, held a successful protest march in Havana on May 13. Seventeen Ladies marched from the house of leading member Laura Pollan to a monument honoring Leonor Diaz, the mother of national hero Jose Marti, and laid flowers to [...]	2006-05-15 21:01:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA10738	NEW THINKING IS NEEDED, PAYA TELLS CHIEF OF MISSION [...] (C) Summary. Leading Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, chief of the Christian Liberation Movement and driving force behind the Varela Project, told the COM May 18 that "we all have to do new things" to help bring democracy to Cuba. When asked about a recent overture from Martha Beatriz Roque, he s [...]	2006-05-22 18:33:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA11234	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP [...] (C) Summary: The health of hunger-striking dissident Guillermo Farinas has taken a turn for the worse, and he is threatening to leave his hospital to "go home to die." The "Ladies in White" are to be awarded Human Rights First's annual prize. Activists reacted positively to their May 24 con [...]	2006-05-26 21:12:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA11516	"FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC CUBA" INSPIRE ACTIVISTS, [...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-democracy activists got a boost from the May 24 conference call with the "Group of Friends of Democratic Cuba," a loose alliance of US Representatives, European diplomats in Washington, prominent members of the Miami exile community and others. One of the activist part [...]	2006-06-02 20:53:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA11629	CUBA CRACKING DOOR OPEN TO MORE CATHOLIC CLERGY [...] (C) Summary: The Cuban Government has eased its strict limits on issuing work permits to foreign Catholic clergy. The GOC has long adhered to a policy of approving new applicants only to the extent that they replace clergy who have stopped working in Cuba. However, since June 2005, the GOC ha [...]	2006-06-05 17:08:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI CU
06HAVANA11895	CUBA RELEASE OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (C) Cuba's Tier 3 placement in the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report presents a challenge in terms of informing the host country, given the Cuban Government's hostility to U.S. criticism and the paucity of news sources available to ordinary Cubans. Since mid-January, the Cubans have refused [...]	2006-06-06 20:37:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL CU
06HAVANA11957	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP [...] (C) Summary: With Internet advocate Guillermo Farinas up to Day 128 of his hunger strike, 38 supporters have announced a sympathy fast. Oswaldo Paya of Varela Project fame is summarizing his "Program for All Cubans" in a pamphlet. Paya is also collecting evidence on bogus pro-democracy acti [...]	2006-06-08 13:06:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PREL KWMN SOCI CU
06HAVANA12488	BRITISH POLOFF ANALYZES "COMMON POSITION" ON CUBA [...] (C) Summary: The UK's human rights officer in Havana shared with us June 15 her thoughts on the European Council's recently released draft conclusions on the EU's "Common Position" toward Cuba. (The draft states, among other things, the EU's commitment to seeking dialogue with both the Cuban G [...]	2006-06-16 15:25:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA12981	EX-POLITBURO MEMBER CONVICTED OF INFLUENCE-PEDDLING [...] (C) Summary: A Cuban court has convicted Juan Carlos Robinson Agramonte, a former member of the Cuban Communist Party's Political Bureau (Politburo),of influence-peddling and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. The June 16 conviction was announced June 21 in a page-two bulletin in state-co [...]	2006-06-22 16:09:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA13065	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP [...] (C) Summary: The Cuban Government has resumed systematic harassment of pro-democracy activists following a respite in which the European Council discussed a "Common Position" on Cuba and the UN launched its Human Rights Council. After laying low for two weeks, GOC-organized militants on June 2 [...]	2006-06-22 19:53:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA13740	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: JULY 5, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: The number of documented political prisoners in Cuba dropped by four percentage points over the past six months, as the Cuban Government stepped up its use of less-scrutinized forms of control, including warnings, beatings and "acts of repudiation." Government-directed thugs hel [...]	2006-07-05 14:50:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA13782	IN HAVANA, A (MOSTLY) HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY [...] (C) Summary: Baseball trumped politics in Havana on July 4, with nearly 600 people attending USINT Havana's baseball-themed Independence Day celebration at the Chief of Mission's Residence. Civil-society figures, including Cuba's most prominent dissidents, mingled with third-country diplomat [...]	2006-07-05 20:20:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA14841	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP JULY 21, 2016 [...] (C) Summary. Within a 24-hour period, Cuban authorities arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to four years dissident Alexander Santos Hernandez for "dangerousness." Another dissident, Camilo Cairo Falcon, was sentenced to one year of correctional work for "public disorder," following his p [...]	2006-07-21 20:23:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA15674	ROQUE UNVEILS PLAN FOR TRANSITION GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Martha Beatriz Roque has released a 27-page transition plan for Cuba produced by her Assembly to Promote Civil Society. Titled "Anticipating the Day After," the 15-section document is a self-described "compendium of ideas" that focuses on issu [...]	2006-08-07 22:03:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU
06HAVANA15749	ANTI-DISSIDENT ACTIVITIES CONTINUE IN CUBA [...] (C) Summary: Cuban regime agents continue to carry out "acts of repudiation" and other aggressive actions against pro-democracy activists, but to no greater or lesser extent than before the July 31 announcement of Fidel Castro's temporary withdrawal. Since then, at least five anti-dissident i [...]	2006-08-09 11:49:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU
06HAVANA15860	CUBAN ACTIVISTS MOURN DEATH OF GUSTAVO ARCOS [...] (C) Cuban pro-democracy activists on August 9 mourned as Gustavo Arcos, grandfather of the island's human rights movement, was cremated in Havana. Arcos died the previous day at a hospital after battling a number of ailments, including Alzheimers. According to his widow, his dying wish was t [...]	2006-08-09 20:19:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16023	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP AUGUST 11, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's "Ladies in White" expressed concern that their weekly march outside Havana's Santa Rita church on Sunday, April 13, will be their most dangerous ever, as it coincides with the 80th birthday of Fidel Castro and could prompt a counter-protest by regime supporters. Elsewhere i [...]	2006-08-11 20:45:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16439	NO RELIEF FOR CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS, OR THEIR [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's political prisoners continue to suffer from appalling and unhealthy prison conditions, while many of their family members face vindictive and even terrifying acts organized by the Cuban Government. On August 16 and 17, USINT spoke on the phone with the spouses or parents of [...]	2006-08-18 17:30:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16609	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP AUGUST 18, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: The Catholic Church's senior official in Cuba, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, celebrated a mass for recently deceased pro-democracy activist Gustavo Arcos on August 17, with diplomats, activists and journalists in attendance. For an hour, at least, Arcos got his dying wish of a unified o [...]	2006-08-18 19:55:00	US Interests Section Havana	SECRET	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16698	DEATH THREAT FOR CUBAN ACTIVIST ROQUE [...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-regime thugs held a late-night "act of repudiation" August 19-20 outside the home of pro-democracy activist Martha Beatriz Roque and brandished a pistol while inviting her to "step outside so we can kill you." Roque, head of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society (APSC),[...]	2006-08-21 20:46:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16699	RETALIATION FEARED AFTER MASS FOR GUSTAVO ARCOS [...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-democracy activists are weighing the impact of Cardinal Jaime Ortega's controversial mass, celebrated August 17, for Gustavo Arcos, the recently deceased dean of the island's human rights movement. Activists say the GOC is livid over the event and that retaliation agains [...]	2006-08-21 21:18:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16867	CUBAN ACTIVIST FERRER PREPARES CALL FOR PLEBISCITE [...] (C) Summary: Dissident Cuban doctor Darsi Ferrer remains conspicuously out of prison, two weeks after calling on the Cuban people to openly defy the Government. Ferrer told us August 23 he is fearful and uneasy over the GOC's failure to arrest him for his appeal, which was carried by five Mia [...]	2006-08-23 20:43:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16868	ROQUE ON TENTATIVE COOPERATION WITH PAYA, OTHERS [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban activist Martha Beatriz Roque expressed optimism August 23 over what she described as her warming ties with Oswaldo Paya, the other heavyweight in the splintered dissident community. Roque said that at an August 17 event, she and Paya conversed and saw eye to eye on [...]	2006-08-23 22:02:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16901	FARINAS HUNGER STRIKE HITS DAY 205 [...] (C) Summary. The hunger strike of Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas reached 205 days on August 24, after the independent journalist allowed the flow of IV fluids to be restored following his transfer to a hospital room where he could receive visitors. Farinas' girlfriend, dissident Noelia Ped [...]	2006-08-24 17:07:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA17059	RUMOR CONTROL: FIDEL SAID TO UNDERGO NEW OPERATION [...] (C) Summary: As would be expected, Havana is awash in rumors over the health of Fidel Castro. One, from a dissident who has provided accurate information in the past, says Castro underwent follow-up surgery between August 24 and 26, but that no other details are available. Our suspicion that [...]	2006-08-29 12:12:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA17126	CUBAN ACTIVISTS REACHING OUT TO NAM PARTICIPANTS [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's "Ladies in White" have started distributing a letter to nations that will participate in or observe Havana's September 11-16 meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement. The letter calls on foreign governments to request the immediate, unconditional liberation of Cuba's peaceful p [...]	2006-08-30 20:40:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA17683	CUBAN FARINAS ENDS HUNGER STRIKE AFTER SEVEN MONTHS [...] (C) Summary: Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas ended his hunger strike August 31 after surviving on IV fluids for seven months in a campaign for internet access for all Cubans. The independent journalist decided to end the hunger strike following a joint appeal by three leading women dissiden [...]	2006-09-01 18:55:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA17684	CUBAN GOVT DETAINS DISSIDENT DOCTOR DARSI FERRER [...] (C) Summary: Around 50 Cuban State Security officers took dissident doctor Darsi Ferrer into custody September 1 and held him at a Havana police station, where, according to his wife, Yusnaimy Jorge, he refused to sign an official warning. The Government accused him of putting up "Cambio" ("Ch [...]	2006-09-01 19:26:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA20774	REPRESSION IN CUBA WORSE UNDER RAUL, SAY ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: Many Cuban human rights activists believe that repression has worsened on the island since the July 31 "proclamation" that Raul Castro had assumed temporary control. Between October 2 and 5, we asked ten leading human rights and pro-democracy advocates - a majority of them former [...]	2006-10-06 21:30:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA21100	AT CUBA'S INDEPENDENT LIBRARIES, UNCENSORED DEBATE [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's outlawed Assembly to Promote Civil Society (ASPC),led by Martha Beatriz Roque, launched its "Congress" of independent librarians October 10 and reported successful meetings in at least six provinces. APSC said 153 independent libraries are taking part in the four-and-a-ha [...]	2006-10-13 20:36:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA21636	CUBAN MILITANTS PUMMEL INDEPENDENT LIBRARIANS [...] (C) Summary: Cuban communist militants brutally attacked two dissidents in Villa Clara province on October 10, the opening day of an extended "Congress" of independent librarians. The attack, which lasted more than an hour and involved forcibly transporting the dissidents from one city to ano [...]	2006-10-19 22:32:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA21638	CONFERENCE CALL TO MEXICO BRINGS CUBAN YOUTH [...] (S) Summary: Leaders of two Cuban pro-democracy youth groups took part in a USG-facilitated teleconference October 17 with university students in Monterrey, Mexico. At the Havana end, at the PAO Residence, 25 young Cubans took part, mainly from the Marti Youth Coalition (CJM) but also from Yo [...]	2006-10-19 22:47:00	US Interests Section Havana	SECRET	PHUM PREL SOCI CU
06HAVANA22158	DISSIDENT DETENTIONS AND ROBBERIES ON RISE IN CUBA [...] (C) Summary and Comment: While rumors abound over how much time Fidel Castro has left (septel),Cuban authorities are increasingly detaining and even robbing pro-democracy and human rights activists. In the past 10 days, at least seven dissidents were detained, most for brief periods, after v [...]	2006-10-25 22:31:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA22539	CUBA FREES POLITICAL DETAINEE, LETS 3 OTHERS LEAVE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Cuban Government freed political detainee Ricardo Medina Salabarria on October 25 after holding him without charge for more than 15 months. Medina, head of the religious affairs committee of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society (APSC),was taken into custody after [...]	2006-10-30 17:31:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA22900	CUBAN GOVERNMENT TARGETS OPPOSITION YOUTH LEADERS [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-02 22:46:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA22904	CUBAN GOVERNMENT TARGETS OPPOSITION YOUTH LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: The Cuban Government briefly detained opposition youth leader Edgard Lopez Moreno and two other dissidents on November 2 after they visited a USINT internet center. Police seized materials from Lopez and the others and warned them to halt their dissident activities. The detentio [...]	2006-11-03 14:06:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23342	CUBAN ACTIVISTS SLAM REGIME IN MESSAGES TO [...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-democracy activists signaled to participants in the Montevideo Ibero-American Summit their dismay over the participants' failure to hold the Cuban Government accountable for human rights violations. Oswaldo Paya of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) released a stat [...]	2006-11-06 22:45:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23355	CUBAN PROSECUTOR SEEKS 15 YEARS FOR PRISON [...] (C) The Cuban Government has informed the family of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo that he has been indicted for jailhouse disorder and disrespect - charges for which the Pinar del Rio prosecutor is seeking 15 years. Zapata's mother shared a copy of the indictment with us on November [...]	2006-11-06 22:48:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23502	CUBAN INMATES DECRY LACK OF MEDICAL CARE, FRESH AIR [...] (C) In a relatively rare move, Cuba's Foreign Ministry has accepted and promised to respond to a letter from prisoners denouncing conditions at Kilo 5 prison in Pinar del Rio. The letter, dated November 1, was written by a common prisoner, Nestor Hernandez Escalona, and signed by 13 others, th [...]	2006-11-13 22:03:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23515	DISSIDENT DETAINED AFTER FAILING TO ANSWER SURVEY [...] (C) Summary: A recent incident involving Cuban dissident Niurka Brito Rivas illustrates how the Cuban regime sometimes attempts to incriminate its opponents in illegal activity. Brito spent three days in jail in October, without charges, after she failed to fill out a survey sent by her daughte [...]	2006-11-15 21:21:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23521	CUBAN INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST GARCIA DETAINED, [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-16 20:27:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23527	CUBAN PRO-DEMOCRACY GROUP TO DISTRIBUTE BULLETINS [...] (C) A leading Cuban pro-democracy group, Martha Beatriz Roque's Assembly to Promote Civil Society (APSC),plans to start distributing a two-sheet, four-page news "bulletin" on the streets of several Cuban cities on December 10, Human Rights Day. On November 15, Roque shared with us a draft of [...]	2006-11-17 21:07:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23544	CUBA RELEASES 3 DETAINEES, PROLONGS JAILING OF 2 [...] (C) Summary. The Cuban Government has released from prison three more dissidents, one of whom had been convicted and two held without charges since a July 22, 2005 protest in Havana. The releases bring to at least five the number of political detainees/prisoners freed in recent weeks. Meanwhi [...]	2006-11-27 14:29:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23546	LANDMARK FORUM BRINGS TOGETHER YOUNG CUBAN [...] (C) Summary: An unprecedented opposition youth forum brought together young Cuban pro-democracy activists and counterparts from Monterrey, Mexico on November 24 in Havana. The three-hour-long event, held at the PAO Residence, saw participants engage in open debate after watching an inspiration [...]	2006-11-27 19:37:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23547	IN WAKE OF GAO REPORT, DISSIDENTS ISSUE STATEMENT [...] (C) As debate swirls within Cuba's human rights community over a GAO report that questions oversight and spending for Cuban democracy programs, four leading activists have signed a statement that they say is aimed at expressing support for certain exile groups, including the Support Group for [...]	2006-11-28 21:21:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23566	CUBAN POLITICAL POLICE DETAIN YOUTH ACTIVIST [...] (C) Summary: Cuban State Security officials searched the home of youth activist Ahmed Rodriguez Albacia on December 4 and took him into detention, ten days after he helped organize an opposition youth forum that brought together three influential youth groups. Witnesses said the officials for [...]	2006-12-04 21:48:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23578	PAYA ON RAUL SPEECH: FREEDOM NEEDED, NOT SHOW OF [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban human rights activist Oswaldo Paya of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) has responded to General Raul Castro's December 2 speech by saying the Cuban people need basic freedoms, not a show of military force. Paya, founder of the Varela Project signature drive f [...]	2006-12-06 22:27:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23579	CUBAN 75ER PALACIOS GAINS CONDITIONAL RELEASE [...] (S) Summary: The Cuban Government granted conditional probation December 6 to self-described pro-democracy activist Hector Palacios Ruiz, allowing him to head home from the Havana hospital where he says he spent the last three years. Palacios, apparently freed on health grounds, belongs to the [...]	2006-12-06 22:39:00	US Interests Section Havana	SECRET	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23582	ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, CUBAN MOB ATTACKS ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: A large group of Cuban communist militants and State Security officials broke up a Human Rights Day march by 12 peaceful activists, throwing several to the ground in front of UNESCO's Havana office. The activists, led by Dr. Darsi Ferrer Ramirez, were pushed, kicked and punched, [...]	2006-12-11 21:11:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23588	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL FLAKE: FIDEL EBBING AWAY [...] (SBU) Summary: CODEL Flake arrives at a pivotal, historic time in Cuba. We and others consider Fidel Castro's health to be so critical that he could die any day. His brother, Raul Castro, has been in charge since July 31, 2006, and has done nothing to significantly change the Cuban regime's [...]	2006-12-12 18:10:00	US Interests Section Havana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV ECON PHUM KDEM SMIG CU
06HAVANA23602	PAYA: IT'S TIME FOR U.S.-CUBA DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Oswaldo Paya told COM on December 13 that the time has come for the United States and Cuba to hold talks in order to "change the atmosphere" in bilateral relations. Paya said the Cuban Government has for decades succeeded at making the United [...]	2006-12-14 21:05:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23608	CUBAN REGIME STIFFS CODEL FLAKE [...] (C) Summary: A Congressional Delegation led by Rep. Jeff Flake (R/AZ) spent the December 15-17 weekend publicly urging a change in US policy, but privately getting rebuffed by a Cuban regime that insisted it had no reason or desire to reform itself. The CODEL presented a letter requesting re [...]	2006-12-18 17:00:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL ECON PHUM KDEM CU
06HAVANA23611	"LADIES IN WHITE" WEBSITE LAUNCHED [...] (C) A new, polished website on Cuba's "Ladies in White" was launched on December 18, produced by the NGO Spanish Solidarity With Cuba. The professionally crafted website (www.damasdeblanco.com),created with the Ladies' permission, describes the group's genesis (in April 2003, following the " [...]	2006-12-18 20:44:00	US Interests Section Havana	SECRET	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23612	CODEL FLAKE PRESS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: CODEL Flake was besieged by international press upon arrival in Havana on December 15 (reftel). Both in their individual comments to the media and in a joint statement read at a December 17 press conference, CODEL members characterized this as a time for dialogue and an "histor [...]	2006-12-18 20:55:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL ECON PHUM KDEM CU
06HAVANA23617	CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP UNVEILS NEW MAGAZINE [...] (C) Summary: A new 75-page magazine, "Dawn," has been produced by the Cuban Human Rights Foundation, headed by blind activist Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva of Ciego de Avila. A Foundation member shared the first edition with us on December 18. Some of the material is already outdated, but the pu [...]	2006-12-19 21:12:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA9060	ROQUE ROUGHED UP, BLOCKED FROM ATTENDING USG EVENT [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Marta Beatriz Roque was recovering on April 26 after being roughed up by Communist militants who prevented her from leaving her neighborhood to attend a USG-organized event. Roque was not alone in being blocked; Elsa Morejon, the wife of polit [...]	2006-04-26 21:42:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA9102	ROCA, SANCHEZ RAP USINT'S INTERNET-ACCESS POLICY [...] (C) Summary: XXXXXXXXXXX on April 18 requested a meeting with COM, without declaring the reason. At the April 24 meeting, they presented a list of 10 independent journalists banned from USINT's two Internet Centers since 2004, saying they had been unfairly blacklisted. XXXXXXXXXXX called the [...]	2006-04-27 19:40:00	US Interests Section Havana	SECRET	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA9342	POLITICAL PLURALISM KEY TO CUBA'S FUTURE, SAYS PAYA [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Oswaldo Paya met with the COM on April 27 and argued that it will be imperative for a future, legitimate Cuban Government to embrace political pluralism. Paya said individual members of the Communist Party (CP) should not be excluded from the [...]	2006-04-28 22:15:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU
06HAVANA9469	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque is recovering after being roughed up by Communist militants outside her home. Roque, weary but defiant, met with COM April 29 and expressed pleasure with the wide media coverage of the incident and subsequent foreign-government attenti [...]	2006-05-05 14:36:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA9846	ROADTRIP BY CANADIAN POLOFF YIELDS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Canadian Poloff Ram Kamineni, who covers human rights, briefed us May 5 on his recent weeklong road-trip to the cities of Camaguey, Las Tunas, Manicaragua, Puerto Padre, Santa Clara and Santiago. Kamineni met dozens of pro-democracy activists and "Ladies in White" (relatives of [...]	2006-05-08 20:18:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA9928	TEMPERS FLARE AT CUBAN HIV/AIDS SANITARIUM [...] (C) Summary: Around 227 sufferers of HIV/AIDS at a sanitarium outside Havana have reportedly launched a protest over inadequate food and medical care. At the facility in San Jose de las Lajas, in Havana Province, the 227, out of a total facility population of 252, are ignoring guards' orders [...]	2006-05-09 22:05:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI CU
06HELSINKI1058	PUTIN AT THE OCT. 20 EU HEADS OF GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The October 20 EU Heads of State or Government Informals will feature two main components: (1) the informal EU leaders' sessions, where principals will discuss migration, Darfur, innovation and energy; and (2) a dinner with Russian President Putin, which will focus on energy issue [...]	2006-10-17 13:30:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ENRG ETRD PGOV EUN MOPS FI RU SU
06HELSINKI1088	ENERGY, IMMIGRATION, AND INNOVATION: EU HEADS OF [...] (U) The EU Heads of State or Government on 20 October met in Lahti, Finland to discuss external energy relations, immigration, and technological innovation. In press statements throughout the day, the Finnish EU presidency sought to portray the EU as united on these difficult issues, but publ [...]	2006-10-26 11:22:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ETRD EUN FI MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL SU
06HELSINKI1092	CORRECTED COPY: ENERGY, IMMIGRATION, AND [...] (U) Summary: The EU Heads of State or Government on 20 October met in Lahti, Finland to discuss external energy relations, immigration, and technological innovation. In press statements throughout the day, the Finnish EU presidency sought to portray the EU as united on these difficult issues, [...]	2006-10-27 12:24:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ETRD EUN FI MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL SU
06HELSINKI1093	PUTIN IN LAHTI: MAKING FRIENDS AND INFLUENCING [...] (U) Summary: Russian President Vladimir Putin was the guest of honor at a dinner following the EU Heads of State or Government summit in Lahti on October 20. The leaders were also joined by Finnish President Halonen who has faced criticism for inviting Putin at all. Prime Minister Vanhanen t [...]	2006-10-30 06:40:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM FI MOPS ENRG ETRD EUN RU
06HELSINKI1112	EU-RUSSIA JHA PERMANENT PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL READOUT [...] The EU-Russia Permanent Partnership Council on Justice and Home Affairs met in Helsinki on 30 October. The Finnish Minister of Justice Luhtanen and Minister of the Interior Rajamaki represented the Presidency, German Minister of Justice Zypries and Minister of the Interior Schauble represented [...]	2006-11-01 06:45:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KJUS PHUM PTER EUN FI RU
06HELSINKI1148	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PM VANHANEN [...] (C) Ambassador Ware met with Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen Nov.8. Fresh from having recently hosted the EU-Ukraine Summit and the EU Heads of State/Government informals in Lahti (which included dinner with Russian President Putin),Vanhanen provided additional insights on Putin's Russia; ener [...]	2006-11-09 14:41:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ENRG EUN FI RU UP
06HELSINKI1209	GAERC - FINNISH RESPONSE [...] (U) PolChief delivered December GAERC demarche to Finnish EU Correspondent Jarno Syrjala November 5 and followed up further by phone November 7. Syrjala highlighted the following points: 2. (C) TURKEY/ENLARGEMENT: The Finnish Presidency is greatly encouraged by Turkey's announcement that i [...]	2006-12-07 13:12:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UN EUN YI SR BK IS LE IR TU
06HELSINKI1214	DEMARCHE TO EU MEMBERS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-08 12:11:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM EUN LE FI
06HELSINKI1244	TRANSLATION GUIDANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING - [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-18 08:57:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM APER KPAO
06HELSINKI182	FINLAND: 2006 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) The following responses are keyed to the checklist in ref A. Embassy Helsinki's point of contact on TIP is Political Officer David Allen Schlaefer; SchlaeferDA2@state.gov; 358-09-6162-5482 or 358-050-322-7923. The Embassy estimates that 80 hours of time were spent preparing this rep [...]	2006-03-08 07:56:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI SMIG PGOV KCRM ELAB KWMN ASEC KFRD PREF FI
06HELSINKI505	FINLAND'S EU PRESIDENCY PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) During its EU Presidency, Finland will generally be a cooperative partner for the US, keen to facilitate US-EU cooperation and improve overall trans-Atlantic relations. We should expect no GOF-generated surprises; the Finns view their Presidency as a continuation of ongoing processes an [...]	2006-06-02 12:24:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM SMIG EAID EU FI
06HELSINKI733	TFLEO1: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES LEBANON CRISIS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Ware met with Finland's Foreign Minister, Erkki Tuomioja, on July 31. Tuomioja said that his just-completed trip to the Middle-east confirmed his view that Israel could not achieve its military goals, and that an immediate cease-fire followed by a comprehensive settl [...]	2006-07-31 15:45:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MEPP EUN FI
06HELSINKI786	FINLAND: VIEWS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SPECIAL [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with Johanna Suurpaa, Director of the MFA's Human Rights Unit, about the proposed Special Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) on Lebanon. Poloff emphasized that at this critical point in the Lebanon crisis (reftel),any HRC Special Session would be an unhelpful dist [...]	2006-08-09 12:57:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM PREL PTER IS LE FI
06HELSINKI814	FINLAND NONCOMMITAL ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-16 11:58:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	FI PHUM US
06HELSINKI815	FINLAND WON'T JOIN BERN PROCESS DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-16 12:02:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	CH PGOV PHUM PREL EUN FI
06HELSINKI816	FINLAND: PRESIDENCY UPPING SRI LANKA INVOLVEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-16 13:27:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CE EUN FI
06HELSINKI876	FINLAND SUPPORTS DELAY OF KAZAKHSTAN'S OSCE [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-31 07:55:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KZ FI
06HELSINKI885	FINLAND AND SRI LANKA CONTACT GROUP [...] (U) MFA Sri Lanka desk officer Marita Meranto assured emboff on September 4 that Finland would attend the Sri Lanka Contact Group's experts meeting in Washington on September 27. She said that because of the press of business arising from Finland's EU presidency, Finland's representative woul [...]	2006-09-04 09:12:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PHUM PINS PREL PTER CE FI
06HELSINKI91	FINLAND: BROAD SUPORT FOR UN REFORM [...] (U) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja on January 25. She underscored the importance the U.S. attaches to UN reform by emphasizing our instructions to deliver the demarche at the ministerial-level. Tuomioja welcomed the initiative and indicated broad agreem [...]	2006-02-01 14:59:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ADCO
06HERMOSILLO228	MAJOR PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS VISIT SONORA [...] (SBU) Summary. All three major presidential candidates campaigned in Sonora over the last two weeks, with none of them making a big splash. The calculated distancing of Governor Bours from Robert Madrazo was obvious. However, the Governor still studiously avoided an irrevocable split with Ma [...]	2006-05-31 02:18:00	Consulate Hermosillo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM MX
06HERMOSILLO274	CULIACAN CONFERENCE EXPLORES REFORM ALTERNATIVES FOR MEXICAN [...] (U) Summary: On May 25, little more than a month before Mexico's national elections, the annual binational academic conference in Sinaloa on democratic development comparatively examined presidential and parliamentary systems. Participants reviewed the strengths and weaknesses of Mexico's p [...]	2006-06-27 00:31:00	Consulate Hermosillo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON EINV OEXC MX
06HERMOSILLO286	HERMOSILLO -- OBSERVATION OF JULY 2 NATIONAL AND LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The voting process in Hermosillo, as observed by Consulate teams, was clean and fair and managed well at neighborhood polling stations. Transit voters at "casillas especiales" experienced long delays and frustrations but showed an admirable determination to vote, some waiting [...]	2006-07-03 22:24:00	Consulate Hermosillo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM MX
06HERMOSILLO29	SONORA PRI AND PAN PARTIES PREPARE FOR 2006 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Electoral politics are beginning to grab the local headlines in Sonora. In a state where the National Action Party (PAN) is strongest, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Governor Bours has visibly asserted his local political identity and independence from the PRI nation [...]	2006-01-21 01:18:00	Consulate Hermosillo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM MX

06HILLAH147	SWAT COMMANDER'S DEATH MAY JEOPARDIZE NON-PARTISAN SECURITY [...] (C) Summary and comment: The head of the Al-Hillah SWAT team was assassinated in his office on Oct. 13, days after being informed by the office of the Prime Minister (PM) that he was being replaced. Though the victim had a warrant out for his arrest on terrorism charges, a confluence of factor [...]	2006-10-13 18:23:00	REO Hillah	SECRET	PGOV PINS PREL PINR PTER PHUM IZ
06HILLAH42	WASIT PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CONDEMNS U.S. ROLE IN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a contentious meeting with Regional Embassy Office Al-Hillah staff in Al-Kut, the Wasit Provincial Council (PC) Chairman and members of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) harshly criticized the United States' role in the ongoing government formation negot [...]	2006-03-12 17:01:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL PHUM PTER IZ
06HILLAH45	NAJAF GOVERNOR VOICES CONCERNS OVER IDP (INTERNALLY [...] (U) This is a SET Najaf cable. 2. (C) Summary. Set Najaf staff met March 15 with Najaf Governor Assad Al Taee. The short meeting focused on the governor's concern regarding the influx of (IDP) Internally Displaced Persons into Najaf. Al Taee claimed that nearly 400 families have moved [...]	2006-03-19 07:36:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IZ
06HILLAH98	INTERNAL DISPLACED PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL IRAQ: AN UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 24, Ali Abbass Jahaker, head of the Wasit Office, Ministry of Displacement and Migration briefed REO staff on the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) situation in South Central Iraq. Jahaker provided updated Ministry statistics for South Central IDPs: Najaf 1600 families [...]	2006-06-01 14:38:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KISL PREF PHUM IZ
06HOCHIMINHCITY1009	POPULAR ANGER OVER LAND DISPUTES; PROTESTS IN HCMC [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past few months, ConGen has observed a steady stream of small, peaceful protests over land, representing disgruntled groups from the Mekong Delta and the HCMC region. HCMC media contacts tell us of popular dissatisfaction over land expropriation policy and associated o [...]	2006-09-06 10:00:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI KJUS EAID ECON PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1028	REPORT FROM THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: OBSERVATIONS ON ETHNIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Interviews in HCMC with thirteen ethnic minority families from Gia Lai seeking to join family members in the U.S. revealed no pattern of discrimination or harassment. Interviews suggested continued incremental improvement in living conditions and religious freedom in Gia Lai, alt [...]	2006-09-08 11:09:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1047	HCMC CARDINAL ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, HIV/AIDS AND THE APEC [...] (SBU) Over dinner September 13, Archbishop of HCMC Cardinal Pham Minh Man told the Consul General that conditions for the Catholic Church continue to improve gradually in Vietnam. Vietnam's bishops met in Hue earlier in September to discuss next steps in promoting the interests of the Catholic [...]	2006-09-14 08:55:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF SNAR SOCI VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1050	ETHNIC MINORITY NATIONALISM, RELIGION AND MIGRATION: [...] (SBU) Ref A reported allegations about conditions in the Central Highlands made by ethnic minority advocacy groups to Department officials on September 11. The advocates asserted that ethnic minority individuals are not fleeing for economic reasons, but because of severe human rights and relig [...]	2006-09-14 09:20:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1066	HCMC SCENE SETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL HAGEL [...] (SBU) Senator Hagel: It is my pleasure to welcome you and your delegation to Ho Chi Minh City on October 5. The city has changed enormously since your last visit here in 1999. There is a new, modern satellite city to the south, extensive new construction in the center and a commercial [...]	2006-09-20 05:21:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1074	THE UNIFIED BUDDHIST CHURCH OF VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Ref A reported questions on the status of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) and on allegations of serious harassment of UBCV members in provinces in the HCMC Consular district. This message provides our analysis of the status of the UBCV and the causes for government repressi [...]	2006-09-21 09:17:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1089	UBCV PATRIARCH HOSPITALIZED [...] (SBU) Thich Vien Dinh, a senior member of the Unified Buddhist Church (UBCV) in HCMC confirmed Internet reporting that UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang was hospitalized on September 25 for a heart ailment and pneumonia. According to Thich Vien Dinh, at least one UBCV monk from HCMC was able to [...]	2006-09-26 07:01:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1114	UBCV MONKS VISIT HOSPITALIZED PATRIARCH IN HCMC: AN [...] (SBU) On October 2 we spoke with Thich Vien Dinh, a senior HCMC-based member of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV). He told us that on September 29, UBCV General Secretary Thich Quang Do led a delegation of 20 senior UBCV monks to visit hospitalized UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang. [...]	2006-10-02 08:35:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1115	UBCV MONKS VISIT HOSPITALIZED PATRIARCH IN HCMC: AN [...] (SBU) On October 2 we spoke with Thich Vien Dinh, a senior HCMC-based member of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV). He told us that on September 29, UBCV General Secretary Thich Quang Do led a delegation of 20 senior UBCV monks to visit hospitalized UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang. [...]	2006-10-02 08:36:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1122	PROTESTANT SETBACK IN A NINH THUAN VILLAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: A local evangelist from an ethnic minority village in central Ninh Thuan told us that all 30 followers affiliated with his Inter-Evangelistic Movement had renounced Protestantism under pressure. Local officials reportedly threatened to withhold government benefits and ostracize [...]	2006-10-03 08:49:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1144	VIETNAM'S TIGHTER GRIP ON THE INTERNET [...] (SBU) Summary: The Party and the GVN have introduced new legal and technical measures to strengthen controls over the Internet. Much of the focus is centered on bolstering firewalls, preventing search engines from displaying unwanted content and centralizing Internet monitoring in Vietnam's [...]	2006-10-06 07:25:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PINR PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1185	SEPARATISM AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS [...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 10-12 visit to the province of Gia Lai, officials told us that U.S.-based activists continue to foment separatism in the Central Highlands and flight to Cambodia. Officials are concerned about what they believe are new efforts to organize anti-GVN activities b [...]	2006-10-17 09:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1186	MONITORING VISIT TO ETHNIC MINORITY RETURNEES AND VISAS-93 [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: During a visit to the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai from October 10-12, PolOff, accompanied by the French Polcouns, met with 10 ethnic minority returnees and the families of two others in their homes. No government officials participated in our visits with r [...]	2006-10-17 10:55:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1197	HCMC LICENSES 25 HOUSE CHURCHES [...] (U) The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) October 17 announced that by the end of October, 25 Protestant house church congregations will be registered to operate in the city. Some of the licenses will be handed out in ceremonies that will be held October 20 and 24. [...]	2006-10-19 11:38:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1207	SENATOR HAGEL VISITS HO CHI MINH CITY [...] During an October 4-5 visit to HCMC, Senator Chuck Hagel was officially welcomed by HCMC Party Secretary Le Thanh Hai, who said it was good have the Senator back in Vietnam after a seven-year absence. Hai said he was pleased that bilateral relations continued to improve and that President Bus [...]	2006-10-20 11:09:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	OVIP PHUM PREL SOCI ECON EFIN PGOV KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1222	PHU YEN PROVINCE: PROMISING OR PROBLEMATIC? [...] (SBU) Summary: Phu Yen province in Central Coastal Vietnam has promise -- especially in aquaculture, light industry and tourism -- but is being held back by a rigid and insular government. Despite the relatively orthodox approach to economic development, the province appears to be implementing [...]	2006-10-25 09:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1236	GVN REACTS TO CROSS BORDER MIGRATION TO CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) During an October 27 meeting to review the results of our recent refugee monitoring visit to the Central Highlands (reftel),our counterparts in the HCMC External Relations Office told PolOff that they were instructed to express GVN concern over the continued outflow of ethnic minority in [...]	2006-10-27 10:22:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1243	ADJUDICATING ETHNIC MINORITY PRIORITY-ONE REFUGEE CASES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 11, 12 and 13. 2. (C) Over the past few months, the Mission P-1 Committee has been working to develop information on a potential political refugee (P-1 visa) case involving an ethnic minority individual from the Central Highlands provin [...]	2006-10-31 07:19:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1245	HCMC PROTESTANT CHURCH TO ADD OVER 180 PASTORS TO ITS ROLLS [...] (SBU) On October 31, ConGenOffs attended the first graduation ceremony for the Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) since the GVN recognized the organization in 2001. A total of 219 students received various religious degrees, including BAs in Theology. The SECV will ordain 183 of th [...]	2006-11-01 04:18:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1246	ADJUDICATING ETHNIC MINORITY PRIORITY-ONE REFUGEE CASES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 11, 12 and 13. 2. (C) Over the past few months, the Mission P-1 Committee has been working to develop information on a potential political refugee (P-1 visa) case involving an ethnic minority individual from the Central Highlands provin [...]	2006-11-01 05:00:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1270	HCMC POLITICAL ACTIVIST INVOLUNTARILY COMMITTED TO MENTAL [...] (SBU) On November 3, HCMC-based dissident leader Tran Khue reported to us that his colleague Bui Kim Thanh was taken by police for a psychiatric evaluation in HCMC. She was subsequently involuntarily committed to the national mental hospital in neighboring Dong Nai province. (Note: Thanh i [...]	2006-11-07 04:45:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1348	SOUTHERN DISSIDENT WATCH POST-APEC [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the run up to APEC and in response to the stepped up activities of various dissident groups, the GVN intensified its suppression of pro- democracy activists. As reported Ref C, example phone and Internet access to dissidents was cut and many faced constant police [...]	2006-12-01 12:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1350	SOUTHERN DISSIDENT WATCH POST-APEC [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the run up to APEC and in response to the stepped up activities of various dissident groups, the GVN intensified its suppression of pro- democracy activists. As reported Ref C, example phone and Internet access to dissidents was cut and many faced constant police [...]	2006-12-04 07:24:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1361	SOUTHERN DISSIDENT WATCH POST-APEC [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the run up to APEC and in response to the stepped up activities of various dissident groups, the GVN intensified its suppression of pro- democracy activists. As reported Ref C, example phone and Internet access to dissidents was cut and many faced constant police [...]	2006-12-05 19:09:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1391	HONG KONG CARDINAL VISITS HCMC [...] (SBU) On December 13, PolOff met with the Vicar General of the HCMC Archdiocese to discuss the December 3 visit of the Bishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze Kiun, to Ho Chi Minh City. This was the first visit of Cardinal Zen to Vietnam since his investiture in February 2006 and only his [...]	2006-12-13 11:11:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM CH HK
06HOCHIMINHCITY1404	HCMC CONTACT ON CHINA, INTERNAL CPV POLITICS AND PRESSURE ON [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: On December 12 we met with Huy Duc (protect),a well-placed HCMC media contact, to review the results of the APEC Leaders' Summit, media issues and internal political developments. Duc reportedly is close to Politburo member Truong Tan Sang, head of the Communist P [...]	2006-12-15 11:45:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL CH PGOV PHUM PINR VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1483	HCMC REFUSES TO DISCUSS OR TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO ACTIVIST [...] (U) This is an action request: Please see Paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) On December 5, PolOff met with working-level HCMC External Relations officials to discuss the case of Bui Kim Thanh, a HCMC-based land rights activist involuntarily committed to the national mental hospital in neighboring Dong [...]	2006-12-22 09:59:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1485	HUMAN RIGHTS CASE OF DOAN VAN DIEN AND DOAN HUY CHUONG [...] (C) Summary. Following up on reftel reports of a series of dissident arrests prior to the APEC Leaders' Summit, ConGen was able to confirm the detention of Doan Van Dien and Doan Huy Chuong -- father and son -- in HCMC. They appear to have been targeted for their peaceful political and socia [...]	2006-12-26 03:56:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PHUM SOCI KIRF PGOV PREL VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1490	THE BEST CHRISTMAS YET IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Key contacts in the Catholic and Protestant communities told ConGen on December 26 that they were very pleased with how the 2006 Christmas season unfolded. The Secretary General of the GVN-recognized Southern SIPDIS Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) -- Vietnam's largest Protestant [...]	2006-12-26 08:42:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1493	VIETNAM IN-COUNTRY PRIORITY ONE REFERRAL [...] (C) Summary: Mission's Priority One (P-1) Referral Committee has completed consideration of twelve possible P- 1 applicants and is referring one individual, Phan Van Ban, to PRM for consideration. The other eleven individuals did not have persecution claims or credible fears that are either [...]	2006-12-26 09:45:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PHUM SOCI KIRF PGOV PREL VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY18	VISIT TO ETHNIC MINORITY MINORITY RETURNEES IN DAK LAK [...] (SBU) Summary: During a January 4-5 visit to the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, PolOff met with four ethnic Jarai voluntary returnees from Cambodia and the family of a fifth. Government officials reported -- and other returnees confirmed -- that a sixth returnee was killed in a late De [...]	2006-01-06 11:23:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI EAID VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
06HOCHIMINHCITY214	DRL A/S LOWENKRON AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE DELEGATION'S [...] (SBU) Summary: In an intensive one-day visit February 21, DRL Assistant Secretary Barry K. Lowenkron met with HCMC Party Secretary Nguyen Minh Triet, HCMC MFA representatives, prominent SIPDIS political dissidents and protestant house church leaders. He also met with civil society, local N [...]	2006-02-27 04:59:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI VM HUMANR RELFREE SOE WTO DPOL
06HOCHIMINHCITY229	(SBU) HCMC NEWSPAPERS PUSH BOUNDS OF POLITICAL DEBATE [...] (C) Summary: Although all of HCMC's newspaper are subject to Party control and censorship, two of its leading national dailies -- Tuoi Tre and Thanh Nien -- have become more assertive, even on some political matters. The newspapers, financially independent, politically well-connected, and i [...]	2006-03-03 10:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM VM LABOR DPOL HUMANR
06HOCHIMINHCITY230	VIETNAM CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: ETHNIC MINORITY ISSUES IN DAK [...] (SBU) Summary: EAP/MLS Desk Officer and Poloff visited Dak Nong February 24-26. Officials emphasized their commitment to religious freedom and economic and social development of the large ethnic minority community. Leaders of the GVN-recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) a [...]	2006-03-03 11:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KIRF SOCI EAID VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
06HOCHIMINHCITY29	DAK LAK: ENCOURAGING SIGNS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) Summary: The atmosphere for religious freedom in the hitherto intransigent Central Highlands province of Dak Lak appeared much improved during a ConGen visit in early January. In contrast to past visits, provincial officials told us that they now are prepared to implement Vietnam's legal [...]	2006-01-10 02:59:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF SOCI PHUM VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
06HOCHIMINHCITY388	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN THE MEKONG: KIEN GIANG PROVINCE [...] (U) Summary: Kien Giang Province is reportedly a source of trafficked women and children, particularly for the sex trade in Cambodia. The provincial Women's Union is spearheading anti-trafficking efforts working with the International Office of Migration on an awareness campaign to counsel p [...]	2006-04-17 04:43:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL CVIS KWMN ELAB SMIG SOCI TW
06HOCHIMINHCITY395	NEW INTERVIEWS WITH VISAS-93 APPLICANTS SHOW GRADUAL [...] (SBU) Summary. In March, ConGen conducted private interviews with 12 VISAS-93 (family reunification) Central Highlands ethnic minority beneficiary families in HCMC. These interviews show that conditions for ethnic minority families -- including religious freedom -- continue to improve gradual [...]	2006-04-18 10:02:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PREF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY412	VIETNAM INTERNET: NEW CHANNELS FOR MEDIA AND POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Internet use in HCMC and other towns -- small and large -- in Vietnam is expanding dramatically. Although the GVN has established a tight regulatory and technical framework to control the Internet, its impact on use and access appears relatively muted thus far. Political and r [...]	2006-04-21 10:58:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PINR PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY435	CAO DAI ACTIVIST JAILED [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 14, a Cao Dai activist, Tran Huu Phuoc, was sentenced by a Tay Ninh court to two years' imprisonment for "slandering" government officials and members of the GVN-recognized Cao Dai Executive Council. Government-controlled press in Tay Ninh Province subsequently accused [...]	2006-04-25 10:09:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF SOCI VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY436	HCMC PALTALK INTERNET ARRESTEES VISITED [...] (SBU) On April 21, ConGen spoke with Chau Van Hung, uncle of Truong Quoc Huy and Truong Quoc Tuan, two of the original "PalTalk" arrestees. (Per reftels, the two, along with another brother and Lisa Pham, a U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, were arrested on October 19, 2005 and charged with attem [...]	2006-04-25 12:39:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY437	HCMC POLICE DISCUSS RECENT TIP RING BUST [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 18, PolOffs met with HCMC Ministry of Public Security officials to review details of a late March police sweep against an international Trafficking in Persons ring that operated in HCMC and the Mekong Delta. Police confirmed that 39 young women from southern Vietnam res [...]	2006-04-25 12:56:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY456	MORE ON VIETNAMESE BRIDES TO TAIWAN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent visit to the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho, a local reporter and expert on women's issues estimated that at least 14,000 women -- mostly poor and uneducated -- have married Taiwanese and some South Korean men since 2000. The perceived economic benefits of ove [...]	2006-04-28 11:24:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY466	EASTER AND THE PROTESTANT COMMUNITY IN SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Protestant Easter celebrations generally were peaceful throughout Central and Southern Vietnam, including in the Central Highlands. Unregistered house churches were told to apply for permission to hold Easter services, but largely were not prevented from celebrating the holida [...]	2006-05-05 11:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY471	VETERAN'S AFFAIRS SECRETARY NICHOLSON VISITS HCMC [...] (SBU) During a two day visit to HCMC, April 26-27, Secretary Nicholson called on key HCMC government and military leaders the Archbishop of HCMC and Cardinal Pham Minh Man. The Secretary also visited the fledgling HCMC stock exchange to discuss development in Vietnam's capital market and met [...]	2006-05-08 12:34:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PHUM PREL SOCI ECON EFIN PGOV KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY491	HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICERS VISIT TWO VIETNAMESE PRISONS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: As a follow-up to USG requests made at the February 2006 Human Rights Dialogue in Hanoi, on May 9 and 10, HCMC and Hanoi PolOffs visited two prisons in southern Vietnam; An Phuoc and Z30A. We had requested access to the Z30A, which reportedly also housed a number of [...]	2006-05-11 10:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY503	VIETNAM PARTY CONGRESS: HCMC REACTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. HCMC-based businessmen, bureaucrats and journalists are disappointed, but realistic about the results of the Party Congress. Despite the strong push from the reform wing, in their view, conservatives and supporters of the status quo prevailed. They are uncertain about the orie [...]	2006-05-17 03:18:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL ECON SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY521	TIP IN THE MEKONG: THE EXPERIENCE OF CAN THO PROVINCE [...] (SBU) Summary: During an April visit by ConGen officers to the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho, provincial police and Women's Union officials reviewed their enforcement and education outreach efforts to combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP). The officials demonstrated an understanding of the ch [...]	2006-05-19 04:49:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY538	MENNONITES AND POLICE IN CONFRONTATION IN HCMC [...] (SBU) On May 23, political activist Do Nam Hai told us that Mennonite Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang and other members of his church had been detained by local HCMC District 2 police on May 22. Radio Free Asia also broadcast an interview with Pastor Quang's wife Le Thi Phu Dung in which she allege [...]	2006-05-23 09:30:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY551	CONSUL GENERAL MEETS UBCV PATRIARCH THICH HUYEN QUANG [...] (SBU) Summary: In a private meeting on May 18, Thich Huyen Quang, Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) told the Consul General that he is not optimistic about prospects for normalization of his organization's status. The 87 year-old monk said that he remains under e [...]	2006-05-24 10:16:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY559	MENNONITES GOAD AUTHORITIES: HCMC FOLLOW UP [...] (SBU) On May 24 we met with the HCMC External Relations Office (ERO) to follow up on the May 22 clash between Mennonite Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang and HCMC police. The ERO officials confirmed that Quang and all his followers had been released in the early evening of May 23. (Per reftel, on May [...]	2006-05-26 03:13:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY564	HCMC ARCHDIOCESE EXPANDS HIV/AIDS ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past 18 months, the HCMC archdiocese has steadily expanded its efforts to provide community-based assistance to HIV/AIDS victims. The church continues to operate a government-approved HIV/AIDS clinic within the Trong Diem drug rehabilitation center. With the apparen [...]	2006-05-26 08:38:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY587	DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHERN MEKONG DELTA: AMBASSADOR'S [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador visited Tien Giang, Ben Tre and Tra Vinh provinces May 3-5. All three neighboring provinces face similar challenges in improving transport infrastructure, boosting competitiveness and finding new sectors for growth. Ben Tre appears to have progressed furthest, lar [...]	2006-06-02 08:08:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL ECON EAID KWMN TIP SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY588	FIRST GVN OFFICIAL OUTREACH TO UNOFFICIAL RELIGIOUS GROUPS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 30 in HCMC, the central-level Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) held its first briefing on Vietnam's legal framework on religion to encourage unrecognized religious groups to legalize their status. Over 100 representatives attended from unregistered religious organ [...]	2006-06-02 08:16:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY590	ETHNIC KHMER OF TRA VINH PROVINCE [...] (SBU) Summary: In early May, the Ambassador visited Tra Vinh Province in the Mekong Delta and discussed ethnic Khmer issues with provincial officials, local Khmer and a leading Khmer Buddhist cleric. Ethnic Khmer make up 30 percent of the population of Tra Vinh and conditions for this minorit [...]	2006-06-02 11:28:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL ECON EAID KIRF SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY599	RESULTS OF NEW VISAS-93 INTERVIEWS [...] (SBU) Summary: In mid-May, ConGen conducted private interviews in HCMC with four VISAS-93 (family reunification) ethnic minority beneficiary families from the Central Highlands. The results are consistent with previous rounds of interviews and show improvement in the conditions for ethnic min [...]	2006-06-05 05:14:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PREF KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY609	NEW HOA HAO TENSIONS IN THE MEKONG DELTA [...] (SBU) On June 4, a Hoa Hao contact sent us via email an open letter signed by Hoa Hao dissident Le Quang Liem, asking for "emergency intervention from international agencies" to end a hunger strike by 16 members of Liem's group in Dong Thap province in the Mekong Delta. According to the letter, [...]	2006-06-06 10:21:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PREF KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY612	CHINESE ALIEN SMUGGLING THROUGH HCMC [...] (U) On May 9, the HCMC branch of the Anti-Social Evils Police (PC-14) rescued four Chinese children from a traffickers' "safe house" in HCMC. According to press reports, the rescue came from a tip-off from a bus driver in neighboring Tay Ninh province who noticed that the children did not spea [...]	2006-06-08 05:05:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW CH VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY630	HOA HAO STANDOFF ENDS PEACEFULLY [...] (SBU) In an interview with Radio Free Asia on June 10, Hoa Hao dissident Le Quang Liem stated that he ordered his 16 followers to end their 11-day hunger strike in the Mekong Delta's Dong Thap province (reftel). According to Liem, on June 8, three senior police officials met with him in HCMC f [...]	2006-06-12 06:35:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PREF KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY674	TRAN HUU PHUOC LIKELY NOT A HUMAN RIGHTS CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: Cao Dai believer Tran Huu Phuoc was imprisoned in April for two years for slander. He alleged that he was being persecuted for his religious and political beliefs. We believe that his is not/not a human rights or religious freedom case. Phuoc's legal troubles stem from his re [...]	2006-06-23 07:20:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR SOCI PREL PREF KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY72	PROBLEMS WITH RETURNEE TREATMENT IN KONTUM PROVINCE [...] (C) Summary: The visit of a joint Hanoi/HCMC team to Kontum Province's Sa Thay district revealed problems with treatment of at least some ethnic minority returnees from Cambodia. Although we were promised free access to returnees and their families in their homes, in practice the plainclothes [...]	2006-01-20 06:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI ECON KIRF PREF CB VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY732	THICH QUANG DO COMES TO DINNER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Venerable Thich Quang Do, President of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, attended a small dinner hosted by the Consul General July 10 -- despite the monk's ongoing pagoda arrest. He welcomed the opportunity to talk at length about the need for political change i [...]	2006-07-12 12:40:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY740	DAKLAK: INVESTIGATING MINORITY ABUSE CHARGES [...] (SBU) On July 7, CG and Poloff visited the ethnic minority hamlet of Buon Cuor Knia in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak. The purpose of the visit was to assess allegations made by Human Rights Watch and the Montagnard Human Rights Organization that at least two ethnic minority individ [...]	2006-07-13 08:22:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY741	DAK LAK: GRADUAL PROGRESS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FAMILY [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-13 08:54:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF PTER PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY808	DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF VIETNAM PRESSES; GVN RESPONDS CAREFULLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Political activist and senior member of the nascent Democratic Party of Vietnam (DPV) Tran Khue faces official harassment as he presses his party's agenda. HCMC authorities restricted Khue's movement and briefly detained him on July 15, 16 and 18, when he was questioned about t [...]	2006-07-25 12:33:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV PINR VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY82	VIETNAM'S ISLAMIC COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Southern and central Vietnam's 30,000- to 50,000-member Sunni Muslim community does not appear to face significant restrictions in its ability to worship. Unlike Vietnam's five other recognized religious organizations, the Muslim community does not have a national leadership to [...]	2006-01-24 03:24:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KISL KIRF PGOV SOCI PREL SA CB LY EG VM ETMIN RELFREE
06HOCHIMINHCITY87	ANALYSIS OF PROVINCIAL PARTY CONGRESSES IN CENTRAL AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In late 2005, provincial Communist Party Committees in southern and central Vietnam conducted their Party Congresses to select the new crop of provincial leaders for the 2006-2010 term. The results may offer some indication of the thinking and direction of the Party as it prepa [...]	2006-01-25 08:58:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL SOCI KIRF PHUM VM DPOL
06HOCHIMINHCITY902	NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HOA HAO COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) We met twice in June and July with Le Phuoc Sang, Chairman of the Central Executive Council of the Hoa Hao Buddhist Church based in Garden Grove, California. Sang was a leader of the Hoa Hao community before 1975 but fled to the U.S. before the fall of Saigon. According to Sang, after b [...]	2006-08-14 04:28:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PREF KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY917	POLICE BRUTALITY RISING; CENTRAL HIGHLANDS DEATH CONFIRMED [...] (C) On August 7, the Montagnard Foundation issued a press release from the United States reporting that an ethnic minority individual, Y Ngo Adrong, was tortured to death while in police custody in Ea H'leo district of Dak Lak province in the Central Highlands. Two ConGen contacts from the pro [...]	2006-08-17 07:28:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREF KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY925	(C) DISSIDENTS AND POLICE STEP UP ACTIVITIES IN HCMC [...] (C) Summary: Two new political activist networks are emerging in the HCMC consular district working alongside more established dissidents. The new groups - the 8406 Bloc (named for their April 8, 2006 manifesto) and the Bach Dang Giang Foundation -- are more activist and daring than the more c [...]	2006-08-18 09:18:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY927	AMBASSADOR MEETS NEW HCMC LEADERSHIP: PEACE CORPS AND [...] (SBU) On August 3, the Ambassador met with Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Party Secretary and Politburo member Le Thanh Hai and HCMC People's Committee Chairman Le Hoang Quan, both promoted to their new positions after the April National Party Congress. The Ambassador underscored the USG's support for [...]	2006-08-21 06:00:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN PHUM EAID VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY936	PALTALK/8406 BLOC ACTIVIST DETAINED AGAIN [...] (C) On the night of August 18, plainclothes police detained Truong Quoc Huy and his brother Trung Quoc Tuan at an internet cafe in HCMC. (Per reftels, Huy is a member of the "8406 bloc" dissident group and one of three individuals held by police for nine months in the "PalTalk" Internet chatro [...]	2006-08-23 03:42:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY972	HCMC ARCHDIOCESE ENCOUNTERS RESISTANCE AS IT TRIES TO EXPAND [...] (SBU) On August 28, HCMC CDCRep and PolOff met with Father John Dinh Toai, head of the HCMC Catholic Archdiocese "Pastoral Care" HIV/AIDS network to review the status of cooperation with local authorities. Toai told us that the church is able to conduct its HIV/AIDS activities with the tacit, [...]	2006-08-29 05:45:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SNAR SOCI ELAB ECON VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY987	PROTESTANTS BUILD A SEMINARY IN THE SOUTH [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-30 09:53:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HONGKOG2054	MNUSCRIPT OF ZHAO ZIYANG CONVERSATIONS LEAKED TO [...] (C) Summary: On May 15, Liu Baopu, the son of Zhao Ziyang's aide Bao Tong, discussed with poloff the recent controversy over a leaked manuscript about Zhao written by Zong Fengming, Zhao's qigong meditation coach. Zong, 86, recently complained to the media that portions of his manuscript, ba [...]	2006-05-18 03:29:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1251	DRL OFFICER RANA SIU'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: LABOR [...] (C) Summary: During a March 13-16 visit to Hong Kong, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rana Siu discussed labor issues with local NGOs and a mainland-based labor lawyer. Han Dongfang, Director of "China Labour Bulletin (CLB)," said that mainland local authorities have warned the families of industr [...]	2006-03-24 09:15:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HK CH PINR PHUM ELAB
06HONGKONG1252	DRL OFFICER RANA SIU'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: CIVIL [...] (C) During a March 13-16 visit to Hong Kong, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rana Siu discussed civil society and political party developments with Hong Kong-based NGOs. According to the National Democratic Institute (NDI),the pro-Government parties have become more skittish about participating i [...]	2006-03-24 09:21:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HK CH PINR PHUM ELAB
06HONGKONG1362	CARDINAL ZEN OPTIMISTIC ON SINO-VATICAN RELATIONS; [...] (C) Summary: On March 30, newly appointed Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun said he was optimistic about the restoration of ties between the Holy See and Beijing. According to Zen, the Pope had made clear that he wanted to visit the mainland. During a special Vatican ceremony for the new cardinals o [...]	2006-03-31 10:27:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1417	LIBERAL PARTY CHIEF FLOATS IDEA OF A RULING PARTY [...] (C) Summary: On April 3, James Tien, Chairman of the pro-business Liberal Party (LP),proposed an amendment to an election bill currently under discussion by the Legislative Council, which would allow the winning Chief Executive (CE) candidate to retain his/her political party affiliation. Un [...]	2006-04-04 11:30:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1512	DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S ELECTION STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: On April 7, Consul General Cunningham met with Lee Wing-tat, Democratic Party (DP) Chairman to review the party's election strategy. Lee said he welcomed the creation of the Civic Party and seemed pretty confident that the pan-democrats could get the hundred plus Chief Executive [...]	2006-04-11 09:57:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1656	UPDATE ON COVERT SURVEILLANCE AND WIRETAPPING [...] (C) Summary: As committee debate continues in the Legislative Council (Legco) on the Government's bill to regulate covert surveillance and wiretapping, critics of the legislation say they want to amend several troubling aspects of the legislation. Two prominent legal groups recently issued re [...]	2006-04-20 09:11:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG1744	CIVIC PARTY: SEEKING FUNDS AND SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: More than one month after its inauguration as Hong Kong's newest political party, the Civic Party (CP) continues to promote itself and its platform to the public and to seek financial support for its activities. On April 22, CP Chairman Kuan Hsin-chi and party leader Audrey Eu mi [...]	2006-04-26 10:05:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1817	CHINA ORDAINS BISHOP AGAINST VATICAN'S WISHES, [...] (C) Summary: On April 30, the Catholic Diocese of Kunming ordained a new bishop at a ceremony organized by the government-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) and ignored appeals from the Holy See to postpone the ordination ceremony of Father Ma Yinglin, who had not been ap [...]	2006-05-02 10:06:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG1819	CHIEF EXECUTIVE DONALD TSANG AND THE DAB: CORE [...] (C) Summary: Since his early March return from the National People's Congress (NPC) annual meeting in Beijing, Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang has drawn closer to Hong Kong's leading pro-Beijing political party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). Beg [...]	2006-05-02 10:09:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1861	HONG KONG TRANSITION PROJECT POLL FINDS SUPPORT [...] (SBU) During a May 3 press conference, Researcher Michael DeGolyer announced the results of a poll conducted by the Hong Kong Transition Project and commissioned by the National Democratic Institute (NDI),a U.S. NGO. The poll, &Parties, Policies and Political Reform in Hong Kong,8 was conduct [...]	2006-05-04 10:21:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1941	HONG KONG PRIVACY COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE [...] (C) Summary: On May 2, Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner confirmed to poloff that the Commission was investigating whether information provided by Yahoo! regarding mainland journalist Shi Tao, had violated the territory's Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. Although Shi is not a Hong Kong resi [...]	2006-05-10 09:37:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2050	CHINA INSTALLS ANOTHER BISHOP IN WORSENING [...] (C) Summary: On May 14, Bishop Zhan Silu celebrated Mass to mark his formal installation as Bishop of the Mindong Diocese in the PRC,s Fujian Province. According to Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the papal representative in Hong Kong, Zhan was illicitly ordained a bishop in 2000 but was never form [...]	2006-05-17 10:36:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG2054	MANUSCRIPT OF ZHAO ZIYANG CONVERSATIONS LEAKED TO [...] (C) Summary: On May 15, Liu Baopu, the son of Zhao Ziyang's aide Bao Tong, discussed with poloff the recent controversy over a leaked manuscript about Zhao written by Zong Fengming, Zhao's qigong meditation coach. Zong, 86, recently complained to the media that portions of his manuscript, ba [...]	2006-05-18 03:29:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2399	RUMORS INTENSIFY OVER NEW CHIEF SECRETARY; SOME [...] (C) Summary: The Chief Executive (CE) election is more than nine months away, but press speculation about behind-the-scenes jockeying for the Chief Secretary (CS) and other ministerial positions has already begun. Many had predicted that John Tsang Chun-wah, Director of the CE's Office and c [...]	2006-06-09 08:25:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2452	CHING CHEONG DETENTION: HONG KONG JOURNALIST [...] (C) On August 5, 2005, the PRC issued formal charges of espionage against "Straits Times" journalist Ching Cheong. On June 12, 2006, Johnny Lau, a former colleague of Ching's and a veteran China analyst, told poloff that since then there has been no satisfactory progress on Ching's case (i.e. [...]	2006-06-13 09:51:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CH HK PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
06HONGKONG2493	UPDATE ON COVERT SURVEILLANCE AND WIRETAPPING [...] (C) Summary: The government is becoming frustrated with the Legislative Council's (Legco) slow progress in scrutinizing a covert surveillance and wiretapping bill and has signaled that it may force a vote by August 2. On June 12, Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee called the progress "unsatis [...]	2006-06-15 10:06:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG2513	DEMOCRATIC PARTY RESISTS REVEALING MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: The Democratic Party (DP) is the only one of Hong Kong's four largest political parties which has failed to comply with a long-existing but only recently publicized legal requirement to release its membership roster. While the DP initially announced that it would publish its list [...]	2006-06-16 08:40:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG2635	UPDATE ON COVERT SURVEILLANCE AND WIRETAPPING [...] (C) Summary: The Bills Committee on the Interception of Communications and Covert Surveillance (BC) finished scrutinizing the legislation on June 22 -- only 10 days after Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee criticized the Committee SIPDIS for its slow progress (see ref a). Pro-democracy memb [...]	2006-06-26 09:24:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG2638	ANSON CHAN JOINS WITH DEMOCRATS IN URGING PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary: On July 25, former Chief Secretary Anson Chan announced that she would join the July 1 pro-democracy march and urged Hong Kongers to turn out for the rally. Appearing in a joint press conference with fourteen democratic legislators, Chan denied that her decision to participate in [...]	2006-06-26 10:09:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2709	LOW TURNOUT EXPECTED FOR JULY 1 MARCH DESPITE [...] (C) Summary: Organizers expect only 30,000 to 40,000 people to participate in this year's July 1 pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, despite the high-profile participation of popular former Chief Secretary Anson Chan. Nevertheless, the organizers hope that by placing less emphasis on other socia [...]	2006-06-30 09:21:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PINR PGOV PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2728	JULY 1 DEMONSTRATIONS: PRELUDE TO 2007 CHIEF [...] (C) Summary: on July 1, Hong Kong marked the ninth anniversary of its reversion to the PRC with three major events: an official flag-raising ceremony led by Chief Executive Donald Tsang, a "patriotic" parade organized by a coalition of pro-Beijing and pro-business organizations that drew 40-5 [...]	2006-07-03 10:02:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG2786	QUASI-OFFICIAL PRC MAGAZINE ALLEGES U.S. [...] (C) Since the 1997 handover, the PRC Government has conveyed its displeasure with U.S. policy towards Hong Kong through two primary channels -- formal demarches in Hong Kong and/or in Beijing, and/or the pro-Beijing local media -- often alleging U.S. "interference" in China's "internal affairs [...]	2006-07-07 09:34:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH

06HONGKONG2850	HIGH COURT RULES ON COVERT SURVEILLANCE CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 12, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) struck down a February lower court ruling that had granted six-month "temporary validity" to the Government's covert surveillance and wiretapping operations, despite the lower court's finding that such operations were uncons [...]	2006-07-12 09:35:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG2908	HONG KONG CONTACTS DISCUSS THE MEANING OF "WEI [...] (C) Summary: According to Consulate contacts, the Chinese term "wei quan" is being used with increasing frequency to describe a broad range of protests occurring in China, as well as the work of a group of mainland lawyers and citizens/activists involved in these protests. While there is no d [...]	2006-07-17 09:36:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2949	NO ADDITIONAL ILLICIT BISHOP ORDINATIONS PREDICTED [...] (C) Summary. On July 18, Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the papal representative in Hong Kong, told poloff that he did not expect any illicit Chinese bishop ordinations in the coming weeks and predicted a quiet summer. The Pope, said Nugent, at Cardinal Joseph Zen's suggestion and urging, hoped to [...]	2006-07-19 08:44:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL CH HK VT
06HONGKONG2950	ANSON CHAN FORMS CORE GROUP, AGAIN DECLINES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 19 speech, former Hong Kong Chief Secretary Anson Chan once again declined to say whether she would enter the 2007 Chief Executive election. Instead, she discussed the Basic Law's provision of a legal basis for universal suffrage and criticized attempts to establish n [...]	2006-07-19 08:48:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG2966	FORMER SECRETARY FOR SECURITY REGINA IP RETURNS TO [...] (C) Summary: On July 18, following a well-choreographed return to Hong Kong, former Secretary for Security Regina Ip launched the Savantas Policy Institute, a think tank which will focus on how to transform Hong Kong into a knowledge-based economy and develop the city into the mainland's platf [...]	2006-07-20 10:17:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2981	MACAU ECONOMIC GROWTH ACCELERATING [...] (C) Summary: Macau's economy is again picking up steam as GDP growth surged 18.8 percent in the first quarter of 2006. Growth is being driven largely by the booming tourism and gaming sectors, and by massive investment in a number of large-scale casino and infrastructure projects. Tax receipt [...]	2006-07-21 10:47:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG3065	U.K. TAKES STRONGER LINE ON HONG KONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A JULY 25 REPORT, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT STATED THAT HONG KONG SHOULD IMPLEMENT UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE "AS SOON AS POSSIBLE" AND ALSO OBSERVED THAT THERE HAS BEEN "LITTLE OR NO VISIBLE PROGRESS" TOWARD THAT GOAL. THE REPORT RECEIVED BROAD COVERAGE IN THE HONG KONG PRESS, WHICH ALSO [...]	2006-07-28 11:07:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR HK CH UK
06HONGKONG3066	USCC MEETING WITH CARDINAL ZEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A JUNE 25 MEETING WITH MEMBERS OF THE U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION (USCC),CARDINAL JOSEPH ZEN SAID THE TWO RECENT PRC ORDINATIONS OF BISHOPS WITHOUT VATICAN APPROVAL HAD CONSTITUTED A RETURN TO THE PRACTICE OF FIFTY YEARS AGO, ALTHOUGH HE BELIEVED THE IM [...]	2006-07-30 04:46:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM CH HK
06HONGKONG3067	USCC MEETING WITH DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE FOR THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: DURING A JUNE 26 MEETING WITH A VISITING DELEGATION FROM THE U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION (USCC),THREE MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE FOR THE BETTERMENT AND PROGRESS OF HONG KONG (DAB) EXPLAINED WHY THEIR [...]	2006-07-30 04:58:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR HK CH
06HONGKONG3068	USCC MEETING WITH HONG KONG HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JUNE 26, HONG KONG CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS (HKCTU) SECRETARY GENERAL LEE CHEUK-YAN AND AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (AI) HONG KONG-BASED RESEARCHER MARK ALLISON BRIEFED VISITING MEMBERS OF THE U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION (USCC) ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATI [...]	2006-07-30 05:18:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG3069	USCC MEETING WITH PRO-DEMOCRACY LEGISLATORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JUNE 26, SIX HONG KONG PRO-DEMOCRACY LEGISLATORS TOLD A VISITING DELEGATION FROM THE U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION (USCC) THAT HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE DONALD TSANG "HAS PUT DEMOCRACY INTO A BLACK HOLE." BEIJING WAS "VERY WORRIED" THAT FORMER CHIEF SECRE [...]	2006-07-30 05:31:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG3109	COVERT SURVEILLANCE BILL TO PASS DESPITE [...] (SBU) SUMARY: PAN-DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATORS ANNOUNCED ON JLY 28 THAT THEY WOULD VOTE EN BLOC AGAINST THE COVERT SURVEILLANCE BILL WHEN IT COMES UP FOR A VOTE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AS EARLY AS AUGUST 2. DESPITE THIS, PASSAGE OF THE LEGISLATION IS ALL BUT ASSURED GIVEN THE SUPPORT OF THE PRO [...]	2006-08-01 10:27:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG3120	HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS REPORT POSSIBLE LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) ON AUGUST 2, THE "ORIENTAL DAILY" AND ITS SISTER PUBLICATION "THE SUN" REPORTED THAT GAO SIREN, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LIAISON OFFICE (CGLO) IN HONG KONG, WOULD RETIRE BY THE END OF YEAR. GAO, 62, BEGAN WORKING AT THE CGLO IN JANUARY 2000 AS ONE OF EIGHT DEPUTY DIRECTORS, TH [...]	2006-08-02 08:29:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3171	LEGCO PASSES COVERT SURVEILLANCE BILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON AUGUST 6, THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (LEGCO) PASSED A CONTROVERSIAL LAW REGULATING THE USE OF COVERT SURVEILLANCE, INTERCEPTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS, AND INTERCEPTION OF POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS BY HONG KONG LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. PRO-DEMOCRACY LAWMAKERS CRITICIZED THE LEGISLAT [...]	2006-08-07 10:36:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG3207	PROMINENT HONG KONG PROTESTANT DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary and Comment. On July 31, Reverend Chan Kim-kwong, Executive Secretary of the Hong Kong Christian Council (HKCC) told poloff that the issue of Sino-Vatican relations had moved beyond the State Council's purview and was currently being deliberated by the General Office of the Centra [...]	2006-08-09 11:23:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG3208	PROMINENT HONG KONG PROTESTANT DISCUSSES ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. ON JULY 31, REVEREND CHAN KIM-KWONG, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COUNCIL (HKCC) AND FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE (CE) ELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBER, PREDICTED TO POLOFF THAT IN THE UPCOMING CE ELECTION, 26 OF THE 40 VOTES FROM THE RELIGIOUS SUB-SECTOR WOULD GO TO THE CAN [...]	2006-08-09 11:30:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH KCRM SMIG
06HONGKONG3271	HONG KONG JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION AND LOCAL MEDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: "STRAITS TIMES" JOURNALIST CHING CHEONG IS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR IN THE BEIJING SECOND INTERMEDIATE PEOPLE'S COURT ON AUGUST 15 FOR A TWO-DAY HEARING, THE INDEPENDENT HONG KONG DAILY "MING PAO" REPORTED AUGUST 14. THE NEWSPAPER SPECULATED THAT THE TRIAL WOULD BE CLOSED TO THE PUBLI [...]	2006-08-14 11:22:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3374	DEMOCRATIC PARTY VICE CHAIRMAN AND LEGISLATOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: FOUR BAT-WIELDING ASSAILANTS ATTACKED DEMOCRATIC PARTY (DP) VICE CHAIRMAN ALBERT HO ON AUGUST 20; HO SUFFERED INJURIES TO HIS HEAD, ARM, AND FACE. AFTER VISITING THE LAWMAKER IN THE HOSPITAL, CHIEF EXECUTIVE (CE) DONALD TSANG DECLARED, "WE WILL ARREST THEM (THE CULPRITS) AND BRI [...]	2006-08-21 11:03:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3400	DEMARCHE TO MACAU ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (C) On August 15, poloffs delivered Ref demarche on trafficking in persons (TIP) to Deputy Director Patricia Ferreira of Macau's International Law Office. Ferreira reacted positively to the recommendations contained in the nonpaper about how Macau could improve its TIP tier rating and agreed [...]	2006-08-23 10:03:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PINR PGOV HK CH KCRM KWMN PREL SMIG MC
06HONGKONG3559	HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS PUBLISH CHING CHEONG VERDICT [...] (SBU) SEVERAL HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED "STRAITS TIMES" JOURNALIST CHING CHEONG'S ALLEGED COURT JUDGMENT ON SEPTEMBER 5. ACCORDING TO THE PRESS, THE PRO-BEIJING SING TAO NEWS CORPORATION WAS THE FIRST MEDIA ORGANIZATION TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE LEAKED VERDICT TO ITS WEBSITE ON SEPTEMBER [...]	2006-09-06 00:30:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3750	HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA FRENZY OVER COVERT [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The late-August publication of sneak paparazzi-style photos of partially clad "canto-pop" singer Gillian Chung has sparked a public debate in Hong Kong over the proper balance between right to privacy and freedom of the press. Women's rights activists and some politici [...]	2006-09-19 08:44:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3872	ANSON CHAN RULES OUT RUNNING FOR TOP POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: In a move undoubtedly welcomed in Beijing, former Hong Kong Chief Secretary Anson Chan announced on September 23 that she would not contest the 2007 Chief Executive (CE) election, removing the most serious complication for incumbent CE Donald Tsang's reelection bid. Chan told the [...]	2006-09-27 09:45:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3912	MFA COMMISSIONER IN HONG KONG PRESSES FOR CHAN AS [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-30 07:24:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3970	G/SENK VISIT TO HONG KONG AND MACAU [...] (C) Summary: Christian Whiton, Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea Jay Lefkowitz (G/SENK),during a September 29-30 visit briefed Hong Kong Legislative Council members and NGO representatives on United States policies toward North Korean refugees and the implication [...]	2006-10-06 03:55:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV HK CH MC KN
06HONGKONG3973	OVERVIEW OF HONG KONG'S ASYLUM POLICIES [...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong, which is not a signatory to the United Nations Refugee Convention, does not grant asylum to refugees but allows the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Hong Kong Office to assess all refugee claims submitted by asylum seekers. A recent doubling of as [...]	2006-10-06 06:51:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV PREL PREF PINR HK CH
06HONGKONG4066	G/TIP OUTREACH TO MACAU GOVERNMENT ON COMBATING [...] (C) Summary: Mark Taylor, Senior Coordinator for the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),accompanied by Gayatri Patel, G/TIP Reports Officer for China, met with government and non-government contacts in Macau September 29-30 to gather information on human trafficking [...]	2006-10-13 10:29:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KCRM SMIG SOCI PGOV PHUM HK CH MC MG
06HONGKONG4115	FALUN GONG: STRUCTURE AND FINANCING AS SEEN FROM [...] (C) Summary: The Falun Gong (FLG) movement has virtually no organizational structure, coordinated policy, or central financing, according to numerous Falun Gong contacts in Hong Kong. It is better thought of as a very loose association of practitioners who communicate through emails and regu [...]	2006-10-17 09:26:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PINR PGOV HK CH
06HONGKONG4214	EAP ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL IN HONG KONG [...] (C) Summary: EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill, accompanied by EAP Special Assistant Thomas Gibbons, exchanged views on local and regional issues with a broad spectrum of key Hong Kong contacts, during an October 21-23 visit. William Ryback, the Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong [...]	2006-10-25 09:25:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH TW KN
06HONGKONG4288	CARDINAL ZEN REQUESTS RETIREMENT AS BISHOP OF HONG [...] (C) Summary: Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the papal representative in Hong Kong, told us that even though Cardinal Joseph Zen has publicly stated his desire to retire as Bishop of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese in order to concentrate on Sino-Vatican issues, he did not believe that the Pope had a [...]	2006-11-02 04:20:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG4398	CHIEF EXECUTIVE ELECTION COMMITTEE -- ACCOUNTING [...] (C) Summary: Mandy Tam, the functional constituency legislator representing the accounting sector, told us on November 2 about the challenges of recruiting pro-democracy accountants to compete for the twenty accounting subsector seats in the Chief Executive (CE) Election Committee. Many acco [...]	2006-11-09 06:25:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG4414	BEIJING-BASED UNHCR REPRESENTATIVE CALLS ON CONSUL [...] (C) Veerapong Vongvarotai, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Representative for China and Mongolia, discussed asylum and refugee issues with Consul General Cunningham on November 9. Vongvarotai, who was accompanied by Choosin Ngaotheppitak, Senior Protection O [...]	2006-11-09 09:41:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PREF HK CH KN MC
06HONGKONG4529	PRO-BEIJING MAGAZINE ALLEGES U.S. "INTERFERENCE" [...] (C) "Mirror" magazine, a pro-Beijing Chinese-language monthly, repeated well-worn allegations in its November issue that the USG continued to interfere in Hong Kong's internal affairs (Ref A). "Mirror" magazine is published by Xu Simin, a retired Chinese People's Political Consultative Confere [...]	2006-11-21 10:12:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG4535	MFA COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE PROTESTS U.S.-CHINA [...] (C) Deputy Director General of the MFA Commissioner's Office Kuang Rongjian called Poloff (in the absence of the Economic/Political Chief) on November 21 to convey PRC "opposition" to statements pertaining to Hong Kong as detailed in the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission's 200 [...]	2006-11-22 08:48:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG4610	CHINA ORDAINS THIRD "ILLICIT" BISHOP OF THE YEAR; [...] (C) Summary: Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the papal representative in Hong Kong, told us on December 1 that the installation of Wang Renlei, the Vicar General of the Xuzhou Diocese in Jiangsu Province, as the auxiliary bishop of the diocese was "quite worrying" and "provocative." The participati [...]	2006-12-01 11:15:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG4666	UNOFFICIAL MARCH 25 REFERENDUM TO ASSESS VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: Former legislator Cyd Ho, Co-Convenor of "Project Civil Referendum", recently discussed her plans for a large-scale unofficial referendum in Hong Kong on March 25, 2007 -- the same day as the Chief Executive (CE) election by the 800-member CE Election Committee. Ho and the other [...]	2006-12-07 03:01:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG4786	CHING CHEONG'S FAMILY AND HONG KONG LEGISLATURE [...] (C) Summary: The family of detained "Straits Times" reporter Ching Cheong formally requested on December 16 that mainland authorities release Ching on medical parole, or allow him to serve his sentence in a Guangdong prison, following last month's decision by a Beijing appeals court to uphold [...]	2006-12-20 03:54:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG4809	MACANESE PROTEST LABOR POLICIES AND CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary and comment: Approximately 600 workers and citizens in Macau took to the streets on December 20, the seventh anniversary of Macau's reversion to the PRC, to protest labor issues and government corruption in the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR). Unlike the May 1, 2006 de [...]	2006-12-21 09:04:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR CH HK MC
06HONGKONG4884	MAINLAND "HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS" GATHER IN HONG [...] (C) Summary: Nine mainland activists gathered in Hong Kong to network and share experiences regarding their weiquan ("rights protection") activities during a two-day conference. Amnesty's original intent in bringing these activists to Hong Kong was to provide them with a safe place outside of [...]	2006-12-29 09:10:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG686	HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS REPORT A READJUSTMENT OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The "Oriental Daily" and its sister publication "The Sun" reported on February 17 that during a January 6 Politburo Standing Committee meeting, members reviewed and readjusted policy towards Hong Kong. Beijing concluded that the failure of the reform package last Decem [...]	2006-02-17 10:44:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HK CH PINR PHUM
06HONGKONG755	BISHOP ZEN ELEVATED TO CARDINAL [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On February 22, Pope Benedict XVI named 15 new cardinals, among them Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, head of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese, and an outspoken defender of religious freedom on the mainland as well as a leading figure in the democracy movement in Hong Kong. Ze [...]	2006-02-23 12:22:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	CH HK PGOV PHUM PINR PREL VT
06HONGKONG817	2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: HONG KONG [...] (SBU) Hong Kong is in compliance with the standards described in Ref A for the elimination of trafficking in persons. There has been further improvement over the past year in those areas that have, for the past five years, justified Hong Kong's inclusion on the Department's "Tier 1" list. Th [...]	2006-02-28 06:23:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR PGOV HK CH KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD
06HONGKONG818	2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: MACAU [...] (SBU) Macau, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC),is not a source of trafficked persons, but it is a destination and transit point for illegal immigration and prostitution. There are no good estimates of how many of these illegal migrants and prostitu [...]	2006-02-28 06:53:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR PGOV HK CH KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD
06HONGKONG851	LU XINHUA, HONG KONG'S NEW MFA COMMISSIONER [...] (C) Summary: On February 27, Lu Xinhua arrived in Hong Kong and took up his new post as the Commissioner of the PRC Foreign Affairs Office, replacing the outgoing Yang Wenchang. Lu will be Hong Kong's fourth commissioner since the handover and at 55, will also be the youngest. During his thi [...]	2006-03-01 10:32:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG943	BEIJING LEADERS, YET AGAIN, REAFFIRM SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary: On March 6, Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang concluded a five-day trip to Beijing to attend the fourth session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing -- his first time as CE. In recent weeks, Tsang has been dogged by speculation, prompted by dissatisfaction among [...]	2006-03-07 11:59:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	CH HK PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
06IRANRPODUBAI14	IRANIAN ACTIVISTS LAUD US HUMAN RIGHTS PRESSURE, ADVISE [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-29 17:16:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	IR PREL PGOV PHUM
06IRANRPODUBAI20	IRANIAN INSIDER CLAIMS AHMADINEJAD IS LOSING SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-14 17:37:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IR KNNP PHUM
06IRANRPODUBAI9	SITUATION FOR WOMEN AND NGOS IN IRAN DETERIORATING, SAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: AN IRANIAN PROFESSOR AND WOMENS RIGHTS ACTIVIST DESCRIBED GOVERNMENT PRESSURE ON ACTIVISTS AND NGOS IN IRAN FOR IRAN REGIONAL PRESENCE OFFICE (IRPO) DIRECTOR AND IRPOFF. SHE SAID THE SITUATION FOR WOMEN IN IRAN HAS DETERIORATED UNDER THE AHMADINEJAD PRESIDENCY. WHILE THE POLICE [...]	2006-11-02 13:51:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PGOV PHUM
06ISLAMABAD10740	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF [...] (C) On June 7, 2006, poloff joined Australian Deputy High Commissioner Jason Robertson in delivering demarche points and non-papers (Ref A) on the Chair's text of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to MFA Director General (UN) Tasneem Aslam. (Note: Both the Australian High [...]	2006-06-07 12:46:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL UN PK
06ISLAMABAD11267	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) On June 14, poloff delivered Ref A points on the Human Rights Council (HRC) to MFA (UN) Director Shafqat Ali Khan. Khan responded by saying that the Government of Pakistan (GOP) also wants the HRC to get off to a strong start. To that end, the GOP agrees that this initial session of t [...]	2006-06-15 03:41:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PK PREL UN PHUM
06ISLAMABAD11365	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PAKISTAN'S TRAFFICKING [...] (U) On June 12, Ambassador met with Interior Minister Sherpao to cover a broad range of issues (other reported septels),including trafficking in persons. Minister Sherpao said he had read the 2006 TIP report and found the section on Pakistan to be encouraging. He also thanked Ambassador for [...]	2006-06-16 02:33:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PK KWMN
06ISLAMABAD11708	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ANTICIPATED OIC ASSAULT ON [...] (C) At a June 19 lunch with Director General of the MFA Khalid Mahmood, Ambassador raised Ref A points regarding the possibility of highly politicized statements and resolutions regarding Israel at the initial session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva. Mahmood said that the Governm [...]	2006-06-20 12:17:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PK PREL PHUM UN
06ISLAMABAD12517	END OF THE HUDOOD ORDINANCES? [...] (C/NF) Summary: Following a two month public awareness campaign, President Musharraf on July 1 instructed the Council on Islamic Ideology (CII) to prepare a revised Hudood Ordinance for review and adoption by August. In addition, the President announced his intention to sign an order on July [...]	2006-07-03 12:21:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM KISL KWMN PK
06ISLAMABAD13376	MUKHTARAN MAI: ACCUSATIONS OF FAMILY MEMBERS [...] (S/NF) A range of credible NGO contacts have confirmed to post serious problems within the local community being instigated by Mukhtaran's family in her home district of Mianwalli. These six well-respected Pakistani NGOs, including Strengthening Participatory Organizations, Pattan, and Awaz C [...]	2006-07-12 13:41:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	KWMN PHUM PGOV PK
06ISLAMABAD13378	OPTIONS FOR DRL PROGRAMMING SUPPORT TO PROMOTE [...] (C) Summary: Consultations with Pakistan's Minister of Women's Affairs, as well as women legal scholars and activists from across Pakistan, point to two promising areas for USG assistance in promoting women's human rights in Pakistan. The first is support for public information campaigns to [...]	2006-07-13 04:54:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KWMN PGOV PHUM PK
06ISLAMABAD14096	EMBASSY ASSESSMENT OF SUNDAY TIMES JUD TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 21, London,s Sunday Times published a story written by Marie Colvin that detailed a slavery ring run by a member of a USG designated terrorist organization, Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD). The story follows a Pakistani Christian named 'Amir', whose real name is Pervaiz Yaqoob (pl [...]	2006-07-21 14:18:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER PHUM PK KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KFRD
06ISLAMABAD14910	REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON UPCOMING GOP VISIT TO [...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraph 3. 2. (C) On July 31, Poloff met with MOI LtCol Imran Yaqoob, who said that only two GOP officials plan to travel to Guantanamo to visit detainees of Pakistani nationality -- himself and MOI Operations Officer, Major Khalid Mahmood Khan. Yaq [...]	2006-08-02 02:32:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD15302	CONFIRMATION OF GOP VISIT TO GTMO [...] (S) On August 4, poloff delivered Ref A points in separate meetings with National Crisis Management Center (NCMC) Operations Director LTC Imran Yaqoob and MFA (Americas) Hameed Abdul. 2. (S) LTC Imran said that poloff's points track with the Government of Pakistan's (GOP) understanding [...]	2006-08-04 11:50:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PK PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC
06ISLAMABAD15766	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DERAILING UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Polcouns delivered reftel demarche on August 9 to Tariq Osman Hyder, Additional Secretary for UN Affairs at the MFA. 2. Hyder responded that the decision to appeal to the Human Rights Council (HRC) was made at the August 3 meeting in Malaysia of the Organization of the Islamic Conference ( [...]	2006-08-09 12:45:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	IS LE MOPS PHUM PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD16956	HUDOOD AMENDMENTS MOVED TO COMMITTEE AS ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: After a initial failure to convene a quorum on August 18, the Pakistan Muslim League-led (PML) government of Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz introduced a bill during the August 21 National Assembly session proposing amendments to the Hudood Ordinance, the draconian 19 [...]	2006-08-28 13:20:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PGOV KWMN KDEM PHUM
06ISLAMABAD17261	GOP RESPONSE ON DETAINEE REPATRIATION AND READ-OUT [...] (C/NF) On August 25, PolCouns met LTC Imran Farooq, MoI/National Crisis Management Cell Operations, to solicit his assessment of his visit to the detention facilities at Guantanamo (GTMO). LTC Imran said that interviews with the Pakistani detainees went well. The Pakistani delegation left [...]	2006-08-30 13:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KAWC PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD17908	DEMARCHE ON NAM SUMMIT DELIVERED [...] (C) Summary: On September 5, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UN-I) Director Haider Shah. Poloff and Shah discussed the issues that might be discussed during the NAM summit in Havana: the UN Security Council race between Guatemala and Venezuela, an internationa [...]	2006-09-08 11:53:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA PTER PHUM CU PK
06ISLAMABAD18012	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: SPEECH ON GWOT DETAINEES, [...] (C) On September 7, 2006, PolCouns presented Ref A points to MFA (Americas) Director Mansood Khan. Khan appreciated the briefing and requested additional information on draft to establish military commission and the timeline for Congressional action. DCM also presented the same points to Fo [...]	2006-09-12 03:41:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	AF KAWC PHUM PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD18902	SPOT REPORT - RUMORS OF A COUP [...] (C) Summary. On September 24, Pakistan was abuzz with (unfounded) rumors of a coup against President Musharraf, who was away on official travel in the United States. Cell phones and text messages allowed the rumor to quickly spread and many Government of Pakistan (GOP) and Embassy officials [...]	2006-09-25 10:44:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PK
06ISLAMABAD18917	HUDOOD ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS: A BIG SLOPPY MESS [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: With President Musharraf on official travel in the U.S., the governing Pakistan Muslim League (PML) announced a tactical retreat in it beleaguered campaign to amend the Hudood Ordinance, the Sharia-based laws on criminalizing extramarital sexual relations and e [...]	2006-09-25 11:38:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM KWMN PGOV PHUM PK
06ISLAMABAD18929	REQUEST FROM GOP TO BAN TRAVEL BY ALLEGED BLA [...] (U) This cable contains action requests; please see para. 8. 2. (SBU) On September 14, the Consular Section received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) presenting a list of 80-some individuals that the Government of Pakistan (GOP) asserts are connected to the Ba [...]	2006-09-25 12:58:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	CVIS PGOV PHUM PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD18997	DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) On September 26, poloff delivered ref A and B demarche points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Human Rights and Security Council) Assistant-Director Wajit Hashmi. Hashmi said he would take demarche points under advisement and would forward them to his superiors. BODDE [...]	2006-09-27 07:11:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UN PREL PK
06ISLAMABAD19193	BALOCHISTAN: UNQUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-02 06:50:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PK
06ISLAMABAD20834	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRIPARTITE REQUEST ON THE UN [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-23 13:19:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIA PHUM PREL PK UN
06ISLAMABAD21904	SUBJECT: BALOCHISTAN -- PAST THE CRISIS? [...] SUMMARY: (C) In the ten weeks since Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in an encounter with the Pak Army, the Government of Pakistan has moved on several fronts to defuse another "nationalist" uprising by Baloch tribals who feel increasingly marginalized in their own province. Massive development [...]	2006-11-09 08:06:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PK
06ISLAMABAD22028	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES WOMEN'S PROTECTION BILL [...] (U) This cable contains an action request: please see para. 7. 2. (C) Summary: After weeks of acrimonious debate, Pakistan's National Assembly passed the controversial Women's Protection Bill on November 15, amending provisions in the Shari'a-based Hudood Ordinance on rape and sex outs [...]	2006-11-16 12:28:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	KWMN PGOV PHUM PK
06ISLAMABAD22290	PROTECTION OF PAKISTANI WOMEN: NOW, IT'S THE LAW [...] (U) Summary: On December 1st, President Pervez Musharraf signed the Women's Protection Bill (WPB) into law, marking the first time in three decades that a Pakistani government has successfully rolled back laws that have stood virtually untouched since the institution of the Hudood Ordinance [...]	2006-12-04 10:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KWMN PGOV PHUM PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD22365	GOP ARRESTS BALOCH POLITICAL LEADERS TO STOP LONG [...] (U) On November 27, police raided Baloch National Party (BNP) President Sardar Akhtar Mengal's office and put him under house arrest. The arrest was the most prominent of a series that have occurred since the announcement of a "long march" from Gwadar to Quetta to protest President Musharraf's [...]	2006-12-08 03:08:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD3576	KARACHI BOMBING: CONDOLENCES AND CONDEMNATIONS [...] Summary. Pakistani politicians at all levels--from President Musharraf and PM Aziz to a wide-spectrum of political party representatives--have reached out to US Embassy and Consulate officials to offer their condolences and express their condemnation of the 2 March bombing outside of the US Co [...]	2006-03-04 02:51:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	PK PHUM PGOV PTER
06ISLAMABAD4595	DRL FUNDING FOR 2007 PAKISTAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Post has designed an electoral support strategy in order to promote free and fair elections national and provincial elections in 2007. In order to implement fully the various aspects of this strategy, we will require dedicated funding support from DRL to complement our USAID DG [...]	2006-03-20 14:17:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM KDEM PK
06ISLAMABAD5787	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR G/TIP GAYATRI PATEL [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of Gayatri Patel from April 9 to April 14. Post also does not object to Consulate Lahore granting post clearance. The purpose of the visit is gather additional information on the GOP's anti-trafficking efforts. 2. Control officer [...]	2006-04-06 01:56:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OTRA PKMN PHUM PREL
06ISLAMABAD5945	MESSAGE DELIVERED THAT U.S. IS NOT RUNNING FOR UN [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-07 10:45:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KUNR PREL PHUM UNGA PK
06ISLAMABAD6117	A/S BOUCHER MEETING WITH CHIEF ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with A/S Boucher, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Qazi Mohammad Farooq stressed his commitment to holding a free and fair election in 2007. A/S Bouhcer pledged our continued support and stressed the importance of the commission's independence as vital to su [...]	2006-04-11 12:56:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PK
06ISLAMABAD7823	GOP SUPPORTS PAKISTANI, NOT IRANIAN, HRC CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-02 13:58:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM PK PREL UNHRC
06ISLAMABAD8845	PAKISTANI COMPLIANCE WITH OIC AND AL BOYCOTTS [...] Post offers the following response to reftel queries regarding Pakistani observance of boycotts of Israel and Israeli-made products. 2. Pakistan is not a member of the Arab League (AL) and is not, therefore, bound by the AL boycott (ALB). 3. Pakistan is a member of the Organization of [...]	2006-05-16 10:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KBCT ABLD PHUM PIRF AL PK
06ISLAMABAD9152	PAKISTANI COMPLIANCE WITH OIC AND AL BOYCOTTS [...] Post offers the following response to reftel queries regarding Pakistani observance of boycotts of Israel and Israeli-made products. 2. Pakistan is not a member of the Arab League (AL) and is not, therefore, bound by the AL boycott (ALB). 3. Pakistan is a member of the Organization of [...]	2006-05-19 07:03:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KBCT ABLD PHUM PIRF AL PK
06ISLAMABAD9711	NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR SUPPORTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN [...] (C/NF) Summary: In an introductory call with the Ambassador on May 25, recently appointed Minister for Women's Development and Youth Affairs Sumaira Malik provided an overview of her key programmatic priorities, offering new and valuable areas for immediate and medium-term USG assistance. Mal [...]	2006-05-26 04:59:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM KWMN EAID PGOV SOCI PK
06ISLAMABAD9964	PROGRESS TOWARDS DEMOCRACY [...] (C/NF) Summary: The upcoming national and provincial elections will be an important bellwether on progress towards democratization in Pakistan. However, free and fair elections must be supported by long-term systemic changes that are necessary to institute good governance and firm civilian co [...]	2006-05-31 07:02:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PHUM PK
06ISTANBUL130	TURKISH PM ENCOURAGES WOMEN POLS AT ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan pushed forcefully for an increased role for women in public life in Turkey at the January 28 opening of a conference organized within the Alliance of Civilizations initiative. He acknowledged that social mores and traditions have inhibited such participa [...]	2006-02-02 14:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1302	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE - EUR DAS BRYZA JULY 12 [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Bryza discussed a potential way to resolve the long-standing Halki issue with the Ecumenical Patriarch during a July 12 meeting. The Patriarch also raised property issues, noting that the Government of Turkey (GOT) had begun selling seized Ecumenical Patriarchate prope [...]	2006-07-19 07:05:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL1478	SUCCESSION ISSUE: PRIORITY AND LIFELINE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Patriarchate senior advisor, Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia, stressed to us during an introductory meeting on August 16 that the priority issue for the Ecumenical Patriarchate was the succession of the Patriarch. He noted that Turkish citizenship requirements for any poten [...]	2006-08-17 14:22:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1528	ISTANBUL PROTESTANT CHURCH GRANTED OFFICIAL STATUS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Istanbul Protestant Church Foundation has acquired official status for its church as a "place of worship" after a legal process lasting more than two years. This is the first time that such an application has been approved by the Government of Turkey (GOT) following the cha [...]	2006-08-24 10:23:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1625	TURKISH JEWISH COMMUNITY MEETING WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary. At their request, PM Erdogan met with Istanbul's Jewish Community in the wake of last month's events in Lebanon and perceived growing animosity towards the community here. While initially skeptical, the PM offered a sympathetic hearing and gave assurances he would take steps to [...]	2006-09-08 14:38:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1669	TURKISH IMAM MURDERED; COMMUNITY ADMINISTERS [...] (U) Summary. An Imam reportedly in line to succeed the current head of the Nakshibendi tarikat (mystical Sufi organization) in Turkey was stabbed to death in his mosque following morning prayers. His attacker was immediately killed by the Imam's fellow worshippers. The incident continues t [...]	2006-09-14 10:07:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1711	PM ERDOGAN ADDRESS TO WESTERN THRACE TURKS [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan, speaking to Western Thrace Turk minority members at a conference in Istanbul, urged EU member Greece to respect the rights of his "brothers and sisters" in Western Thrace. He stated publicly that efforts by the Government of Greece (GOG) to resolve problems facing th [...]	2006-09-21 07:24:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL TU GR
06ISTANBUL1717	ELIF SAFAK ACQUITTED WHILE ARTICLE 301 REMAINS ON [...] (C) Summary: The long anticipated trial of Elif Safak began and ended today with a prosecutor reluctantly recommending and a judge agreeing to acquit the renowned author of charges stemming from Turkey's controversial Article 301. Protesters remained out of view with extreme security measure [...]	2006-09-21 16:23:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL172	ARMENIAN CONFERENCE FALLOUT: TRIAL OF FIVE [...] (U) Summary: Nationalist tensions took center stage at the opening hearing of five Turkish journalists charged with insulting and seeking to influence the Turkish judiciary as a result of columns they wrote criticizing the court injunction that temporarily blocked last September's "Alternativ [...]	2006-02-09 14:13:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1818	TURKEY'S CHIEF RABBI ASSESSES COMMUNITY'S SITUATION [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's Chief Rabbi, Rav Isak Haleva, underlined concerns in the Jewish community over a growing "negativity" in the minds of average Turks toward Jews as demonstrated in the press and daily interchanges between neighbors. Describing Turks as characteristically and traditional [...]	2006-10-05 07:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1865	LOCAL OFFICIALS, PUBLIC STAY ON MESSAGE IN EDIRNE [...] (SBU) Summary. Local officials, reporters and academics in Edirne sent a clear and consistent message during the Consul General's regional familiarization trip: concern about the PKK threat and U.S. cooperation in combating it is not reserved for Ankara and southeastern Turkey but extends to [...]	2006-10-11 11:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON GR KPAO PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2013	ISTANBUL'S KURDISH INTELLECTUALS: THE TIME IS NOW [...] (S) Summary. Istanbul's Kurdish intellectuals opine the evolving political situation in Turkey and the region sets a favorable stage for agreement to end the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. According to these intellectuals, Turkey's Kurds -- accepted as equals during Turkey's war of independenc [...]	2006-11-02 13:59:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PTER TU
06ISTANBUL2015	ISTANBUL'S ECUMENICAL RAMAZAN: BOREK, BARDAKOGLU [...] (U) Summary: Turkey's lively diversity and internal contradictions are no more apparent than in Istanbul during the month of Ramazan. While nearly 70% of Turks as a whole are reported to fast during this period, the evenings' numerous iftars are often more social and political than they are s [...]	2006-11-02 14:05:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2084	ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS NOT CLASH OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Alliance of Civilizations High-Level Group presented its final report on November 13 in Istanbul to UNSYG Annan as well as the Turkish and Spanish Prime Ministers. The report focuses on political developments, rather than religious or cultural differences, as a primar [...]	2006-11-16 12:29:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UN TU VT
06ISTANBUL2091	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH DISAPPOINTED BY NEW [...] (C) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew used his November 15 meeting with visiting representatives from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to raise a number of problems facing the Patriarchate, in particular the challenges associated with being denie [...]	2006-11-20 11:04:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TU GR
06ISTANBUL210	AKP: THE RIFTS WITHIN (A BREATH OF SCANDAL IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Cuneyd Zapsu, independent businessman, senior advisor to PM Erdogan and founding member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party),is no stranger to controversy. This time, however, his wife Beyza made the front pages, photographed praying in an Istanbul mosque Jan [...]	2006-02-16 11:25:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2104	FOUNDATIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS AND EU ACCESSION: [...] (SBU) Summary: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) completed its nine-day fact finding mission in Turkey with a generally positive view of religious freedom here. Delegation members clearly recognized the significant challenges facing religious minority co [...]	2006-11-24 12:10:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2115	ISTANBUL POLICE CLOSE PATRIARCHATE PRESS CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 27, Istanbul police briefly shut down a press center organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate at a local hotel. Press arrangements for the Papal visit to the Patriarchate had been the subject of some dispute earlier in November (reftel) but both Patriarchate staff [...]	2006-11-28 12:43:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU

06ISTANBUL2141	HALKI SEMINARY READY FOR BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: We visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Halki Seminary with a delegation of Greek Orthodox American citizens during their annual Feast of St. Andrew pilgrimage to Istanbul, coinciding this year with Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Turkey. The seminary is the subject of a long-stan [...]	2006-12-08 09:17:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2149	ISTANBUL'S TESEV TOUCHES ANOTHER TABOO [...] (C) Summary. TESEV, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, convened an international academic conference that discussed internal displacement, with a particular focus on the plight of Turkey's Kurdish population. Discussion of social issues and Kurdish identity would have been [...]	2006-12-11 11:13:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2150	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE ON THE POPE'S VISIT AND [...] (C) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarchate senior advisor Metropolitan Meliton shared with us his deep satisfaction over the success of Pope Benedict XVI's recent visit to Turkey but predicted improved Muslim-Christian relations would not influence the Government of Turkey (GOT) to resolve issues [...]	2006-12-11 12:49:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL TU
06ISTANBUL369	ISTANBUL JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AWAIT LEGAL STATUS [...] (SBU) Summary: Jehovah's Witnesses continue to face obstacles from the Turkish bureaucracy in their efforts to form a legal association. Their members also face short prison terms for refusing to carry arms as part of their mandatory military service, due to their status as conscientious ob [...]	2006-03-14 15:24:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL TU
06ISTANBUL372	ISTANBUL CONFERENCE TACKLES TURKEY'S "KURDISH [...] (C) Summary. A March 11-12 Istanbul conference on "Turkey's Kurdish Problem" brought together a range of leading figures from Turkey's Kurdish community with the ambitious goal of hammering out an alternative to the leadership of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Organizers argued that [...]	2006-03-15 05:40:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL504	ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY ARMENIAN CONFERENCE: A SMALL [...] (C) Summary: A March 15-17 conference at Istanbul University brought defenders of the official Turkish narrative on the events of 1915-16 together with a handful of more independent voices, including Israeli and Armenian presenters, who openly used the term "Armenian Genocide." The conferenc [...]	2006-04-05 08:35:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM TU AM
06ISTANBUL524	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE AT THE ECHR: BUYUKADA [...] (C) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarchate officials have expressed to us deep consternation over alleged changes to the Turkish property registry for the Buyukada Orphanage. Before its 2004 expropriation, the historic structure was the last remaining Greek Orthodox property deeded to the Patriarch [...]	2006-04-10 11:39:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL693	INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SHOWS TURKEY,S GROWING [...] (U) Summary: The Governments of Turkey and the United States co-chaired a high-level conference in Istanbul April 27-28, 2006 on international cooperation for disaster relief and humanitarian assistance. The conference, attended by twelve nations and the leadership of the United Nation,s Off [...]	2006-05-09 11:36:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IR PHUM PREL TU
06ISTANBUL9	ISTANBUL'S AK PARTY CHAIRMAN GETS PERSONAL AT [...] (U) Summary: A December International Migration Symposium in Istanbul provided useful insight into Turkish perspectives on the social justice and security implications of migration, with many Turkish concerns mirroring those in the U.S. An unexpected note was Istanbul AK Party Chairman Mehm [...]	2006-01-04 13:09:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
06JAKARTA10104	POSO 3 EXECUTIONS SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 12 [...] (SBU) The executions of the so-called "Poso 3"-Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Martinus Riwu-in Central Sulawesi following their 2001 convictions for mass murder, torture and arson, have been scheduled to take place on August 12. The three were found guilty of a series of brutal murders [...]	2006-08-10 10:29:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINS PGOV KJUS ID
06JAKARTA10135	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TIER 2 WATCH LIST ACTION PLAN [...] (U) On August 1, we met with Ferry Adamhar, Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs' Directorate for the Protection of Indonesian Citizens and Legal Entities, to deliver the demarche contained reftel. Mr. Adamhar welcomed our points and said he would coordinate the matter within the GOI [...]	2006-08-11 10:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL ID
06JAKARTA10535	S/P DIRECTOR KRASNER'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN [...] (C) Summary: Moderate Islamic leaders told S/P director Stephen Krasner on August 11 that mainstream Muslim organizations in Indonesia were committed to the Indonesian constitution and Indonesia's new democratic order, but many false perceptions needed to be overcome in the public mind. Musli [...]	2006-08-24 07:49:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID SCUL ID
06JAKARTA10539	RICK NESS TESTIFIES IN NEWMONT CASE THIS WEEK [...] (C) Summary. Newmont mining executive and Amcit Richard Ness is scheduled to take the stand in his own defense this week on August 25 in a Manado, North Sulawesi courthouse. He faces fifteen years in prison if convicted on charges of polluting Buyat Bay, the site of the now-closed Newmont Min [...]	2006-08-24 11:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET//NOFORN	EMIN CASC SENV EINV PHUM ID
06JAKARTA1078	INDONESIA REACTS TO RELEASE OF CAVR REPORT [...] (C) Summary. Senior GOI figures and Indonesian politicians have reacted defensively to the allegations of human rights abuses made in the report of East Timor's Committee of Reception, Truth and Verification (reftel). East Timor President Xanana Gusmao presented the report to UN Secretary Gen [...]	2006-01-26 11:06:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS ID TT
06JAKARTA10924	INDONESIA STEPS UP EFFORTS TO PASS TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia's Parliament (DPR) has completed a new draft of its proposed anti-trafficking legislation. President Yudhoyono has designated the Ministry of Women's Empowerment (KNPP) and the Ministry of Law & Human Rights to prepare executive branch comments on the bill. The Gov [...]	2006-09-01 10:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL EAID ELAB KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA11042	INDONESIA SECURITY FORCE VETTING REQUEST, ECON [...] (SBU) Post proposes the following Indonesian security force members for Department clearance for participation in United State Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO),2006 Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA),Enforcement of IPR Program to commence on September 25. Post did not find any c [...]	2006-09-06 06:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR PREL KCRM MARR ID
06JAKARTA11142	EVASIVE RESPONSE ON SRI LANKA CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) We called on Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Director for South and Central Asia Mohamad Asruchin and his assistant Winanto Adi on August 31 to deliver reftel information about the proposed dates of the first meeting of the planned Sri Lanka Contact Group. Asruchin responded that hi [...]	2006-09-08 12:22:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PHUM PINS PREL PTER CE ID
06JAKARTA11143	EVASIVE RESPONSE ON SRI LANKA CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) We called on Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Director for South and Central Asia Mohamad Asruchin and his assistant Winanto Adi on August 31 to deliver reftel information about the proposed dates of the first meeting of the planned Sri Lanka Contact Group. Asruchin responded that hi [...]	2006-09-08 12:33:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PHUM PINS PREL PTER CE ID
06JAKARTA11214	KEITH LUSE'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN MOD DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: Senate SFRC Senior Professional Staff Member Keith Luse met with Indonesian Defense Ministry Director General for Defense Strategy Major General Dadi Susanto on August 28 in Jakarta. Susanto characterized U.S.-Indonesian relations and military cooperation as positive. Susanto w [...]	2006-09-11 10:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS PGOV PHUM ID
06JAKARTA1141	ACEH: ADDITIONAL FUNDING REQUEST FOR GOI-GAM PEACE [...] (SBU) The Aceh peace process remains on track and now moves into a more difficult phase in which the parties begin to develop the parameters of political participation in a normalized Aceh to give voice to all of Acehenese society. Acehenese trust the USG as an honest broker because of our con [...]	2006-01-27 11:33:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PREL PHUM MARR ID
06JAKARTA11475	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): INDONESIA [...] (U) The Fourth Regional Meeting of CWC States Parties in Asia met in Jakarta, Indonesia from September 5-7, 2006. The meeting was attended by 24 States Parties from the Asian Group: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, N [...]	2006-09-15 10:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PTER PHUM AMGT ASEC CWC SA AF MV
06JAKARTA11585	DEFENDANTS' HUNGER STRIKE DELAYS TIMIKA TRIAL [...] (U) On September 19, the Central Jakarta court was scheduled to hear testimony from Indonesian military personnel who arrived on the scene of the August 31, 2002 ambush near Timika, Papua in which two Amcits and one Indonesian citizen were killed. Since the last session, the prosecution decid [...]	2006-09-19 10:32:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA11799	Central Sulawesi: "Poso 3" Executed - Violence [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus Da Silva, and Marinus Riwu were executed September 22. Security situations in Palu, Poso and Tentena remained calm, inspired by a highly visible police and military presence patrolling the streets. Violence erupted in areas of West Timor, Nusa Tenggara [...]	2006-09-22 10:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINS PGOV PNAT KJUS CASC ID
06JAKARTA11845	TIMIKA TRIAL: TNI PERSONNEL TESTIFY [...] (SBU) On September 19, the trial of suspects charged in the 2002 murder of two Americans and one Indonesian near Timika, Papua, resumed. The defendants had ended their hunger strike (reftel) and were present except for Hardi Sugimol, who was recovering from an illness. Amcit victim witnesses [...]	2006-09-25 10:33:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA11892	TIMIKA TRIAL: WITNESS SNAFU CAUSES DELAY [...] (SBU) On September 26, the trial of suspects charged in the 2002 murder of two Americans and one Indonesian near Timika, Papua, resumed. It emerged that there was either a misunderstanding or a disagreement between the prosecution and defense teams about the order of the day's testimony. The [...]	2006-09-26 11:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA11921	AHMADIYAHS SAY THEIR SITUATION REMAINS PRECARIOUS [...] (C) Summary: In the face of intimidation by Islamic fundamentalists, Ahmadiyah leaders characterized their situation in Indonesia as precarious (Reftel). They noted that the Ahmadiyah community continues to experience sporadic acts of violence: in recent months a mob ransacked an Ahmadiyah mo [...]	2006-09-27 08:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SCUL KISL KIRF ID
06JAKARTA12099	TIMIKA TRIAL: LAST DAY OF VICTIM, EXPERT TESTIMONY [...] (SBU) On September 29, Central Jakarta court heard testimony from two victim witnesses and two expert witnesses in the trial of suspects charged in the 2002 murder of two Americans and one Indonesian near Timika, Papua. Amcit victim witness Patsy Spier attended, accompanied by an interpreter [...]	2006-10-02 10:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA12100	Eastern Indonesia: Violence Increases After [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The execution of the "Poso 3" on September 22 was immediately followed by an outbreak of violence in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) (Flores and West Timor) and later in Central Sulawesi, where the executions occurred. The reaction was not unexpected by local officials; police in NTT [...]	2006-10-02 11:45:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA12161	TIMIKA TRIAL: DEFENDANTS REFUSE TO TESTIFY [...] (SBU) The trial of the suspects in the 2002 murder of two Americans and one Indonesian near Timika, Papua resumed on October 3. The opening of the session was delayed by an hour because the head judge in the Timika case also served in the morning session of a circus-like, high-profile corrupti [...]	2006-10-03 11:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA12300	CONVICTION IN MUNIR MURDER OVERTURNED [...] (C) Summary. On October 4, the Indonesian Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, acquitting him in the September 2004 poisoning of prominent Indonesian human rights activist Munir Thalib. The case is widely considered a litmus test of the Indonesian [...]	2006-10-06 10:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PGOV KCRM ID
06JAKARTA12379	AMBASSADOR REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR JUSTICE IN MUNIR [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador asked Suciwati, the widow of slain human rights activist Munir, to meet with on him on October 11 in order to reassure her of the USG's continuing support for justice in the wake of the October 4th Supreme Court acquittal of Pollycarpus Priyanto, who had been previo [...]	2006-10-11 11:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA12494	MUHAMMADIYAH YOUTH CONCERNED ABOUT EXTREMISM AMONG [...] (C) Summary. On October 2 and 3, Poloff made courtesy calls on Muhammadiyah Youth Chairman Izzul Muslimin and Secretary General Gunawan Hidayat. As part of its six-month SIPDIS strategic plan, the Muhammadiyah Youth Central Board will carry out a "census" of local Muhammadiyah Youth leade [...]	2006-10-13 01:05:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER SOCI KISL PHUM ID
06JAKARTA12498	SECRETARY'S INITIATIVE ON GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM -- [...] (U) Summary. Embassy Jakarta welcomes the Secretary's Global Internet Freedom Task Force Initiative (GIFT) and looks forward to contributing to its success. As requested in reftel, a list of USAID projects related to the GIFT is described below. USAID in Indonesia continues to place high p [...]	2006-10-13 06:29:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS EINT EAID PHUM
06JAKARTA12541	INDONESIA SUPPORTS UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF [...] (C) Polcouns and counterparts from the Australian and New Zealand Embassies delivered reftel demarche to Jonny Sinaga, deputy director in the Department of Foreign Affairs' Directorate for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. We presented the main points of the demarche, emphasizing the co [...]	2006-10-13 08:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KTIA UN ID
06JAKARTA12544	PROSECUTORS DELIVER SENTENCING REQUESTS IN TIMIKA [...] Prosecutors delivered their sentencing requests in court on October 13 for seven suspects accused of involvement in the murder of two Amcits in Timika, Papua in 2002. Prosecutors requested a sentence of 20 years for Antonius Wamang and 15 years for Agustinus Anggaibak and Yulianus Deikme on t [...]	2006-10-13 10:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA12607	REVISED DRAFT CRIMINAL CODE WORRIES ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: Legal analysts and NGOs told us that the latest draft of the revised Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP) continues to include controversial provisions on the protection of government officials and state ideology from defamation, and the criminalization of pornography. They feared tha [...]	2006-10-17 05:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA12660	ACEHNESE VILLAGERS EXHUMING CONFLICT VICTIMS' [...] (C) Summary. Acehnese villagers are exhuming the graves of persons executed during the conflict between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian government, Georges Paclisanu (strictly protect),Head of Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),told us recently. Ba [...]	2006-10-18 04:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA12732	EAP DAS ERIC JOHN'S MEETING WITH BG DADI SUSANTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Indonesian Director General for Defense Strategy Susanto on October 18, EAP DAS Eric John raised U.S. human rights concerns, the need for continued military vetting and accountability for past abuses, the importance of a SOFA in underpinning bilateral cooperatio [...]	2006-10-19 10:11:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM MASS MOPS ID
06JAKARTA12776	TNI ANNIVERSARY SPEECHES EMPHASIZE REFORM AND [...] Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudoyono and Commander-in-Chief (Panglima) Air First Marshal Djoko Suyanto urged the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) to continue along the path of reform as the TNI celebrated its 61st anniversary on October 5. The speeches exhorted the TNI to complete its tr [...]	2006-10-20 10:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR PHUM ID
06JAKARTA12778	EAST JAVA'S MUSLIM LEADERS, OBSERVERS COMMENT ON [...] (C) Summary. On October 10, we met with the East Java provincial leadership of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah to discuss their organizations' activities in East Java. We also called on political scientist Aribowo from Surabaya's Airlangga University, who shared his observations (based [...]	2006-10-20 10:28:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PHUM KISL ID
06JAKARTA12782	THE TWO PAPUAS: A CONSUL GENERAL'S VIEW [...] (C) Summary. Papua New Guinea,s Consul General in Jayapura, Papua shared his views on the often prickly relations between Indonesia and his government in an October 12 meeting. He charged that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) were involved in both illegal logging and drug smuggling in PNG. [...]	2006-10-20 11:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM ID PP
06JAKARTA12783	THE TWO PAPUAS: A CONSUL GENERAL'S VIEW [...] (C) Summary. Papua New Guinea,s Consul General in Jayapura, Papua shared his views on the often prickly relations between Indonesia and his government in an October 12 meeting. He charged that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) were involved in both illegal logging and drug smuggling in PNG. [...]	2006-10-20 12:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM ID PP
06JAKARTA12787	NORTH SUMATRA POLICE: NEW SENSITIVITY TO HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Head of Police Intelligence for North Sumatra, Herman Effendi, described the Indonesian police as increasingly focused on human rights during an Oct.3 meeting in Medan. He attributed this positive development partly to widespread human rights training that has reached the low [...]	2006-10-23 03:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS ID
06JAKARTA12798	VP KALLA ON THE COURTS, MCC, PEACE CORPS AND MIDDLE [...] (SBU) Summary. Vice President Jusuf Kalla told the Ambassador on October 20 that the Supreme Court is "not using logic" in its approach to the Munir case, and that people are rightly not happy with the Pollycarpus verdict. He said the Supreme Court would soon reconsider its decision taking int [...]	2006-10-23 07:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PGOV PREL KMCA PHUM ID
06JAKARTA12800	PAPUA: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DENOUNCE ABEPURA [...] (C) Summary. A church-affiliated task force has asked Indonesia's National Committee on Human Rights (KomnasHAM) to open an investigation into the conviction and sentencing of 23 men charged in connection with a March 16 riot in Abepura, Papua that led to the death of three unarmed policemen a [...]	2006-10-23 08:52:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ID
06JAKARTA12874	TIMIKA DEFENDANTS REFUSE TO RESPOND TO SENTENCING [...] (SBU) In an October 31 session lasting less than an hour, the defendants charged in the 2002 murders of two Amcits near Timika, Papua refused to respond to the sentencing requests handed down by prosecutors on October 13 (reftel). Their attorney, Johnson Penjaitan, attended the trial as a sp [...]	2006-10-31 09:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA13007	INDONESIAN POLICE ASK FOR U.S. HELP IN MUNIR CASE [...] (C) On October 31, General Sutanto, Chief of the Indonesian National Police (INP),formally asked Thomas Fuentes, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Office of International Operations, and Embassy Legatt for the FBI's technical assistance in the ongoing investigation into the 2004 murder of Indonesi [...]	2006-11-03 10:48:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS PINR KCRM ID
06JAKARTA13142	TIMIKA TRIAL: WAMANG SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON [...] (SBU) On November 7, Judge Adriani Nurdin sentenced Anthonious Wamang to life in prison for premeditated murder in connection with the August 31, 2002 murders of two Americans and one Indonesian in Timika, Papua. Although prosecutors had requested 20 years, Judge Nurdin cited several conside [...]	2006-11-07 11:52:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA13171	UNGA: DEMARCHES TO INDONESIA ON CUBA EMBARGO, [...] (SBU) After learning that the entire staff of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs Multilateral Affairs Directorate was either in New York or otherwise unavailable, we met November 9 with Harry Purwanto, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Director for North and Central America, to urge [...]	2006-11-09 10:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PREL PHUM ETRD CU ID
06JAKARTA13217	INDONESIA NON-COMMITTAL ON BELARUS, MATHESON [...] (SBU) On November 15 we met with Harry Purwanto, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Director for North and Central America, to present demarches on Belarus' anti-U.S. resolutions (ref A) and to solicit support for the candidacy of Michael Matheson to the International Law Commission (ref B). [...]	2006-11-15 10:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNGA ILC BO ID
06JAKARTA13229	INTERFAITH YOUTH DELIVER POTUS LETTER TO AMBASSADOR [...] In advance of President Bush's upcoming visit to Indonesia, a group of Indonesian interfaith youth leaders met with the Ambassador to present a letter to the President (full text in para 6). The delegates represented all of Indonesia's major religions: Islam (the youth wings of mass-based [...]	2006-11-17 06:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM SOCI KISL ID
06JAKARTA13303	Central and East Java: Increasing [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: Over the past several months, what began as a debate of the controversial draft pornography law has revealed deeper fissures with the leadership of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU),showing a quiet shift to the right of NU clerics and the [...]	2006-11-27 10:09:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL ID
06JAKARTA13324	INDONESIA'S INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Embassy Jakarta provides the following interim assessment of targeted actions by Indonesia on trafficking in persons (TIP) since the June release of the 2006 TIP report, as requested in ref A. Anti-Trafficking Legislation ---------------------------- 2. (SBU) A comprehensive anti-tra [...]	2006-11-28 09:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ELAB KWMN SMIG ID
06JAKARTA13385	MUNIR CASE: INDONESIAN POLICE SAY FBI COULD HELP [...] (S) A police team investigating the case of murdered human rights campaigner Munir will visit FBI Quantico December 4-9, accompanied by Embassy Legatt, for technical assistance in retrieving SMS messages among Munir and those implicated in his murder (Ref A). Lead police investigator Anton C [...]	2006-12-04 07:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA13442	MUSLIM TELEVANGELIST IN POLYGAMY SCANDAL: FANS, [...] (SBU) Summary. Indonesia's most popular Muslim televangelist, Aa Gym, has admitted to taking a second wife, much to the dismay of Muslim progressives and his adoring female followers. Gym's admission, along with a recent sex scandal involving a politician who tried to take his pop star love [...]	2006-12-08 08:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI KISL ID
06JAKARTA13462	ACEH HOLDS FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS, THE FIRST [...] Summary: The U.S. Mission in Indonesia fielded a team of 40 U.S. officials and local support staff to monitor the gubernatorial and district administrative elections in the Indonesian province of Aceh on December 11. Embassy's press release, below, provides our endorsement of the election pr [...]	2006-12-11 12:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM KPAO ID
06JAKARTA13473	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ASEAN SUPPORT FOR UNSC [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to contacts in the Directorate of International Security and Disarmament, which handles UNSC issues, and to Gudadi B. Sasongko of the Directorate for East Asia and Pacific Affairs in the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on December 13. We left a copy of t [...]	2006-12-13 11:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM ID
06JAKARTA13476	CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES INSULTING THE PRESIDENT [...] (U) Summary: A divided Constitutional Court on December 7 struck down three articles of the Criminal Code which made insulting the President or Vice President a criminal act. The instant case involved an appeal brought by two political activists being tried for insulting President Yudhoyono [...]	2006-12-14 07:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13481	U.S. OBSERVATION TEAM FOR ACEH ELECTIONS: WHAT WE [...] (SBU) Summary: A comprehensive post-election analysis of questionnaires returned by members of the official U.S. election observation team confirm our initial report (reftel) that the gubernatorial and district administrative elections in the Indonesian province of Aceh on December 11 were fre [...]	2006-12-14 09:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM KPAO ID
06JAKARTA13497	INDONESIA ON THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) Indonesia's election to the UNSC demonstrates President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) desire to raise his country's international profile. We have recently seen the emergence of a more flexible, multi-faceted style of Indonesian diplomacy, particularly where SBY's personal initiatives a [...]	2006-12-15 09:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AORC UNSC ID
06JAKARTA13503	INDONESIA: 2006 CHILD LABOR UPDATE FOR TRADE AND [...] This report provides updated information on Indonesia's efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, for the period August 2005 to November 2006. This message updates Jakarta's 2005 report (ref c) and draws in places on Jakarta's March 2006 trafficking in persons report (ref b) and t [...]	2006-12-18 01:16:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD EAID PHUM PGOV SOCI KCRM KJUS
06JAKARTA13513	ACEH: IMPLICATIONS OF THE GAM VICTORY [...] (C) Summary: The surprise win of the Free Aceh Movement's (GAM) Irwandi Yusuf in Aceh's gubernatorial election is clear evidence that the province's first direct local elections were genuine and that the peace process is beginning to mature. Irwandi's win is likely to accelerate GAM's transit [...]	2006-12-18 09:42:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ID
06JAKARTA13554	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UAE/UN-HOSTED GLOBAL [...] (U) We met December 21 with Deputy Minister for Child Protection in the Ministry of Women Empowerment, Ms. Sumarni Dawam Rahardjo, to deliver the demarche contained in reftel. Ms. Rahardjo fully agreed with all the points in reftel, particularly noting the importance of holding the internation [...]	2006-12-21 06:11:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KWMN SMIG XX KCRM PHUM ID
06JAKARTA13579	IO PDAS WARLICK MEETS WITH INDONESIAN FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Summary. In December 18 meetings with senior officials of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs, Principal Deputy Secretary for International Affairs James B. Warlick reviewed our agenda for the upcoming session of the U.N. Security Council, to which Indonesia has been elected as [...]	2006-12-22 05:33:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC AORC PHUM ID
06JAKARTA13584	IO PDAS WARLICK MEETS INDONESIAN NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. In a December 19 meeting with IO PDAS James B. Warlick, Indonesian National Security Advisor Dino Djalal stressed that the GOI takes its upcoming UNSC duties very seriously, and looks forward to a constructive working relationship with the U.S. He said that President Yudhoyono [...]	2006-12-26 09:32:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC AORC PHUM BM ID
06JAKARTA13609	IO PDAS WARLICK'S MEETING WITH FORMER FORMIN ALI [...] (C) Summary. On December 19, IO PDAS James B. Warlick met with Ali Alatas, former Foreign Minister of Indonesia (1987-99),to discuss Indonesia's upcoming term as a non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council. Alatas said that both President Yudhoyono (SBY) and Foreign Minister Hassan [...]	2006-12-28 09:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC AORC PHUM MNUC KNNP BM IR ID
06JAKARTA13610	Aceh: Incoming Governor Blasts Syariah, Syariah Police [...] (SBU) Summary: Aceh's incoming governor Irwandi Yusuf has publicly vowed to block new Syariah regulations, including a draft law to cut off the hands of convicted thieves, prompting Syariah officials to withdraw temporarily the proposed law pending revision. Meanwhile, out of the public eye Irw [...]	2006-12-28 23:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KISL SOCI ID
06JAKARTA13613	Aceh: Incoming Governor Blasts Syariah, [...] (SBU) Summary: Aceh's incoming governor Irwandi Yusuf has publicly vowed to block new Syariah regulations, including a draft law to cut off the hands of convicted thieves, prompting Syariah officials to withdraw temporarily the proposed law pending revision. Meanwhile, out of the public eye I [...]	2006-12-29 05:40:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KISL SOCI ID
06JAKARTA13616	NO TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION FOR INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 8, the Constitutional Court (CC) scrapped Indonesia,s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, arguing that it was unconstitutional. There are mixed views here about the importance of this decision and the likely impact on the prosecution of past human rights abuses. [...]	2006-12-29 08:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PGOV ID
06JAKARTA1374	INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT TAKES UP DRAFT ACEH LAW [...] (SBU) The Yudhoyono administration on January 26 delivered its draft Law on Governing Aceh (LOGA) to the House of Representatives (DPR) for debate. The August 15, 2005 GOI-GAM MOU, which ended the armed conflict, requires the law's passage by March 31 -- a deadline that would require legislat [...]	2006-02-02 11:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV EFIN KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA1649	NEW DRAFT RELIGIOUS DECREE WOULD EASE REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) Indonesia's latest draft of the joint ministerial decree on the establishment of houses of worship, if approved, would ease requirements compared with earlier versions (ref a). While Christian religious leaders are still dissatisfied with the requirement of 90 members and 70 supporting si [...]	2006-02-08 10:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS KIRF KISL ID
06JAKARTA2112	INDONESIA-ET TRUTH/FRIENDSHIP COMMISSION FACES [...] (C) Indonesia's senior bureaucrat responsible for human rights in a February 8 meeting described the Indonesia-East Timor Commission on Truth and Friendship (CTF) as "stagnant," due to East Timor's presentation of its human rights report to the UN, the shooting of three Indonesians on the East [...]	2006-02-16 11:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KJUS KAWC TT ID
06JAKARTA2314	UNHCR TO ASSIST CUBAN CITIZEN HELD IN WEST TIMOR [...] (SBU) UNHCR/Jakarta informed us February 21 that it plans to assist Ramon Ballesteros Escobar, a Cuban citizen, with refugee assistance after he illegally crossed into Indonesia from East Timor earlier this month. Immigration authorities are holding Escobar at an Immigration detention facilit [...]	2006-02-21 10:56:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREF KJUS CU ID
06JAKARTA2490	CODEL KOLBE CALLS ON PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO [...] (C) On February 21, President Yudhoyono presented the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) delegation headed by Representative Jim Kolbe with a lengthy description of his priorities including reform, continued democratization, increased economic prosperity, Aceh and Papua. He raised [...]	2006-02-23 12:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KISL MARR OVIP ID IR
06JAKARTA2514	SENATOR FEINGOLD MEETS INDONESIAN HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (SBU) Senator Russ Feingold met February 23 with Indonesian human rights and judicial reform NGOs, and expressed strong support for the promotion of human rights in Indonesia and justice for past abuses. Human rights advocates expressed disappointment at lack of progress in accountability fo [...]	2006-02-24 08:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KJUS ID
06JAKARTA2820	ADMIRAL FALLON'S MEETING WITH MINISTER WIDODO [...] (C) Summary. Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral William J. Fallon, met with Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Widodo A.S. on February 23. He emphasized the importance to the United States of restored mil-mil relations with Indonesia. Both le [...]	2006-03-03 02:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ID
06JAKARTA2849	INDONESIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT, MARCH 2005 TO MARCH 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-03 11:42:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC EAID ELAB KFRD KJUS KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
06JAKARTA2985	TIMIKA CASE NEARING PROSECUTION PHASE [...] (C) Summary. During their February 27 - March 7 deployment to Jakarta, the FBI team investigating the August 2002 murders of two American citizens near Timika, Papua, assisted by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors, supported their Indonesian counterparts in the final stages of preparing the [...]	2006-03-07 10:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC KJUS CASC PHUM ID
06JAKARTA3159	CONTROVERSIAL PORNOGRAPHY BILL POISED TO TARGET [...] (U) Indonesian political interest groups portray the ongoing legislative debate over a pornography law as a struggle for the nation's soul. Some fear that Islamists see the bill as a way to impose a strict "Arabic" ethos while conservatives believe the time as nigh to take a stand against mor [...]	2006-03-09 11:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM KWMN ID
06JAKARTA3246	SUEBU, ATURURI LIKELY WINNERS IN CONTROVERSIAL [...] (C) Summary: Preliminary results indicate that Barnabas "Bas" Suebu and Alex Hesegem were elected as governor and vice governor of Papua province on Friday, March 10. On the following day, incumbent Abraham Atururi and Rahimin Katjong won in neighboring West Irian Jaya province, prevailing ov [...]	2006-03-13 12:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS ID
06JAKARTA3298	SUPREME COURT ORDERS EX-MILITIA LEADER TO JAIL FOR [...] (SBU) Indonesia's Supreme Court on March 13 upheld the conviction of former East Timor militia leader Eurico Guterres and reinstated his ten-year prison sentence. Prosecutors said they would immediately jail Guterres, who has remained free pending his appeal. The politically well-connected G [...]	2006-03-15 03:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KJUS KAWC TT ID
06JAKARTA3347	UNHCR CONFIDENT CUBAN CITIZEN TREATED FAIRLY [...] (C) UNHCR/Jakarta told us on March 13 that it remains confident that Ramon Ballesteros Escobar, a Cuban doctor who fled from his assignment in East Timor, will be treated fairly (reftel). Shinji Kubo, head of Protective Services at UNCHR in Jakarta said that no one, including the Indonesian [...]	2006-03-16 01:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREF KJUS CU ID
06JAKARTA3680	TIP UPDATE: POLICE RAIDS FREE CHILD PROSTITUTES [...] (SBU) The new head of Indonesia's national police anti-trafficking unit (Unit III) has targeted removal of children from prostitution as his first operational priority. Unit III's chief reports that police units in Surabaya, Batam and Jakarta have freed some 37 child victims in these locatio [...]	2006-03-21 08:48:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL EAID KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA3688	TRAINING MOBILE BRIGADE PERSONNEL WOULD IMPROVE [...] (C) The deaths of 3 "Mobile Brigade" (Brimob) policemen in Jayapura, Papua on March 16 highlight a major deficiency in our approach to police training in Indonesia. The 2003 ban on the training of Brimob personnel by ICITAP (ref A) prevents us from aiding the unit most in need of assistance [...]	2006-03-21 11:41:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KJUS ASEC ID
06JAKARTA4035	INDONESIA: MORE ABEPURA AFTERMATH [...] (C) Summary. While Papuan provincial authorities deal with the aftermath of the March 16 Abepura riot, senior GOI figures hint that foreign interests and Jakarta politicians had a hand in the disturbance. An important group of Papuan political and religious leaders wrote President Yudhoyono [...]	2006-03-27 11:08:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CASC ASEC ID
06JAKARTA4364	AMCIT RECEIVES FIVE MONTH SENTENCE FOR VISA VIOLATION; INDONESIAN GETS 30 MONTHS FOR BLASPHEMY [...] (U) Summary: On March 29, the court in Sampang, Madura found U.S. citizen David Ray guilty of violating his student visa and sentenced him to five months in prison. Counting time served, Ray likely will go free the week of April 14, barring a prosecution appeal. The court found Ray's collea [...]	2006-04-04 09:46:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PHUM PGOV KIRF ID DAVID WILLIAM RAY
06JAKARTA4365	CENTRAL SULAWESI: "POSO 3" CLEMENCY APPEAL REJECTED [...] (SBU) Summary: The executions of the so-called "Poso 3"-- Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Martinus Riwu--in Central Sulawesi following their 2001 convictions for mass murder, torture and arson, could take place next week. "Procedural" reasons delayed the executions from their planned Apr [...]	2006-04-04 09:50:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINS PGOV KJUS ID
06JAKARTA4407	VOTE COUNTS FINAL IN PAPUAN GUBERNATORIAL RACES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Provincial Election Commissions of Papua and West Irian Jaya have announced final vote tabulations in direct elections for governor held on March 10 and March 11 respectively. On March 22, the Electoral Commission of West Irian Jaya certified incumbent Bram Atururi as the v [...]	2006-04-05 07:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS KDEM ID
06JAKARTA4464	AUSTRALIAN ASYLUM GRANT TO PAPUANS SPARKS SHARP [...] (C) Summary: The Australian Government's March 23 decision to grant three-year "protection visas" to 42 Indonesian nationals from troubled Papua province has provoked condemnation from the GOI and the Indonesian public. The GOI recalled its ambassador from Canberra, postponed a bilateral [...]	2006-04-06 10:36:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM AS ID
06JAKARTA4465	GROWING WORKER PROTESTS AGAINST CHANGES IN LABOR [...] (SBU) Indonesia experienced its largest labor protest in at least four years, as Indonesian workers took to the streets of Jakarta and other major cities on April 5 to oppose the GOI's plan to amend the basic labor law. The proposed amendments would scale back 2003 concessions to workers and [...]	2006-04-06 10:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA4755	INDONESIA PREVIEWS BALI ASEAN MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary. On April 13, we urged Indonesia, together with its ASEAN partners, to press Burma on human rights and democratization at the upcoming ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Retreat in Bali. We urged further that ASEAN make its concerns on these issues public, as it did at its Kuala Lumpur su [...]	2006-04-13 10:42:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEAN PHUM BM ID
06JAKARTA4756	INDONESIA ENTHUSIASTIC ON U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS PLEDGE [...] (U) On April 11, we conveyed the Secretary's letter on our pledge for the Human Rights Council (reftel a) to Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda under cover of a diplomatic note. 2. (SBU) On April 13, we followed up with Jonny Sinaga, Deputy Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at [...]	2006-04-13 11:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM PREL UNGA ID
06JAKARTA4757	MUNIR CASE: AMBASSADOR SIGNALS CONTINUED U.S. [...] (S) In an April 11 meeting intended to signal continued U.S. concern over the Munir case, Suciwati, the widow of the murdered human rights campaigner, told the Ambassador of her plan to visit Washington in late April as part of a schedule organized by U.S. human rights groups. The visit would [...]	2006-04-13 12:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA4966	DECREE ENDS IN COMPROMISE [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-19 11:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KJUS KIRF KISL ID
06JAKARTA4972	DECREE ENDS IN COMPROMISE [...] (U) On March 23, the Home Affairs and Religious Affairs ministries announced a revised joint ministerial decree on building houses of worship (ref a). Whereas the original decree required an undefined "community approval", the revised decree requires 90 congregation members and 60 supporters [...]	2006-04-20 06:45:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF KJUS KISL ID
06JAKARTA5237	NO SURPRISES AT UBUD ASEAN MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary. Based on readouts from Indonesian Foreign Ministry and Jakarta-based diplomatic contacts, the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Retreat held in Ubud, Bali on April 19 - 20 seems to have been a routine affair. Some ministers expressed disappointment with Burma, but it was hardly a full-c [...]	2006-04-26 11:11:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEAN PHUM BM ID
06JAKARTA5484	BURMESE REFUGEES PUT GOI IN TOUGH SPOT [...] (SBU) A boatload of 77 Burmese men landed April 25 on an island off the coast of Aceh on their way to Malaysia. The Indonesian Navy found the Burmese after a storm blew their boat off course. The government of Indonesian (GOI) is in a tight spot as they weigh the political sensitivities in [...]	2006-05-01 11:12:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV KJUS CVIS ID BM
06JAKARTA5486	UNIONS USE MAY DAY TO CONTINUE PROTESTS AGAINST [...] (SBU) Indonesian unions used May Day to continue their street protests in Jakarta and other major cities against earlier government plans to amend the 2003 Manpower Act to improve the investment climate. United firmly against any revisions to the law, labor leaders turned out 30,000 or more [...]	2006-05-01 11:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA5551	DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON IRAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) We met May 2 with with Jonny Sinaga, Deputy Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),to deliver demarches contained reftels on our opposition to Iran's candidacy for the UN Council on Human Rights. Drawing on talking points [...]	2006-05-03 01:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM PREL UNHRC IR ID
06JAKARTA5580	UNIONS BESIEGE PARLIAMENT (AGAIN),PROTEST TURNS [...] (SBU) Tens of thousands of union-led demonstrators besieged the gates of the Indonesian Parliament (DPR) on March 3 to force Parliament to agree to refuse any amendment to the Manpower Act. The demonstration, with an estimated turnout of 50,000, turned tense in the afternoon as labor leaders [...]	2006-05-03 11:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KJUS ASEC ID

06JAKARTA5704	GOI, UNIONS ASSIGN BLAME FOR MAY 3 VIOLENCE [...] (S) Jakarta is awash in speculation as to the possibility or extent of political manipulation behind the massive May 3 labor demonstrations that turned violent at the Parliament's gates (ref A). In the course of expressing his concern over the violence, President Yudhoyono publicly called on [...]	2006-05-05 12:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ELAB ID

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