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10BAGHDAD149	FM ZEBARI PREVIEWS JCC, REVIEWS CHAPTER VII [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari told A/DCM January 18 that he welcomed arrival of NEA A/S Feltman for the holding of the first Diplomatic Joint Coordinating Committee, set for January 24. Zebari also informed A/DCM that he had written to the President of the Security Council and the DG [...]	2010-01-21 13:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ KU IR

10BAGHDAD150	IN SALAH-AD-DIN, BUILDING PROVINCIAL CAPACITY [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (U) SUMMARY. Salah ad Din PRT is fostering economic development in the province through banking and agriculture initiatives. The PRT supports the expansion of private banking by facilitating the opening of Al-Warka [...]	2010-01-21 14:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON EFIN EAGR IZ
10BAGHDAD151	PM ADVISOR SIGNALS IRAQ WILL LIKELY NEGOTIATE, NOT [...] (C) On January 20, the Chair of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission (and former Oil Minister) Thamir Ghadhban told Emboffs that the GOI was moderating its rhetoric on oil production increases and compliance with an eventual OPEC quota. He noted approvingly the shift in emphasis in Oil Mi [...]	2010-01-21 14:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD152	TERRORIST FINANCING: REVIEW OF TRANCHE 4 OF UN [...] (SBU) EmbOffs delivered reftel talking points to MFA Coordinator of Support and Deputy Director of International Organizations, Ambassador Mohammed Al-Humaimidi on January 20. Al-Humaimidi was very appreciative of the information and said that he would have the Iraqi Mission to the United Na [...]	2010-01-21 15:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PREL PGOV ECON IZ
10BAGHDAD153	PARTY BLOC LEADERS SEEK TO FIT SQUARE PEG OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Key political leaders continued to meet behind the scenes January 21 to develop a solution to the ongoing de-Ba'athification controversy. Badr bloc leader Hadi al-Amiri, the key Shi'a figure in the negotiations, continues to shop around the Ammar al-Hakim (ISCI) proposal (gener [...]	2010-01-21 17:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD154	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED ENGLISH LANGUAGE [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in the English Language Training and Basic American Langua [...]	2010-01-22 11:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD155	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI) who have been nominated to participate in the Human Resources (HR) Course scheduled [...]	2010-01-22 11:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD157	OIL RAPPROCHEMENT? KRG PUBLISHES TWO CONTRACTS [...] (SBU) In the next step of a an apparent (and very ginger) rapprochement between Baghdad and Erbil over Iraq's oil sector management, the KRG published on January 17 the full texts of its previously secret oil field development and production contracts with oil companies DNO and Genel Energy, a [...]	2010-01-22 11:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD160	TWO GOI OFFICIALS ON IRAN CROSS-BORDER OIL FIELDS [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Oil officials will continue technical-level talks with Iran over cross-border oil fields, and remain open to formal discussions of oil field unitization. To conclude such talks, MOO officials would welcome greater support from other parts of the GOI, including the Mi [...]	2010-01-22 12:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD169	MOMENTARY STALL IN CRAFTING SOLUTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political negotiations to resolve the de-Ba'athification controversy appear to have stalled in the wake President Talabani's January 21 actions questioning the legitimacy of the Accountability and Justice Commission (AJC). Talabani's move -- including a statement in support of n [...]	2010-01-23 15:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD172	TURKISH AMBASSADOR ON ARTICLE 140 AND KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Kahl on January 11, Turkish Ambassador Murat Ozcelik said senior KRG officials recently signaled for the first time an understanding that Kirkuk would not ultimately be annexed to the Iraqi Kurdistan [...]	2010-01-24 07:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ TU
10BAGHDAD173	TURKISH AMBASSADOR ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION, IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Kahl on January 11, Turkish Ambassador Murat Ozcelik said Turkey does not want PM Maliki to win another term and will actively support other coalitions. Driven in part by their desire to preserve recently improved Tu [...]	2010-01-24 08:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KNNP IZ IR TU
10BAGHDAD174	PRT NINEWA: MOSUL MAYOR DESCRIBES DISSATISFACTION [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: As news spreads about the effort to ban candidates from the March national election on the grounds that they are Ba'athists, the mayor of Mosul claimed in a January 17 meeting that authorities in Baghdad plan t [...]	2010-01-24 09:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD178	PRT ANBAR: PROMINENT ANBARIS SPEAK OUT AGAINST [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar (Ramadi) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In meetings on January 14 and 16 that PRTOffs and representatives of U.S. forces held with prominent Anbari imams and sheikhs, the Anbaris expressed anger at reports that the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) had agreed to [...]	2010-01-24 15:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD179	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to participate in the C-130 Refresher Simulator Course schedu [...]	2010-01-25 04:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD18	PRT DIYALA: MUQDADIYA PUBLIC MARKET RISES FROM THE [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Before near destruction in clashes between Coalition Forces, Al Qaeda, and militias in 2006 and 2007, the Aruba Suq in Muqdadiya Qada (district) was the largest market in Diyala Province, and the third largest in Iraq. The abse [...]	2010-01-03 17:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PREF EAID IZ
10BAGHDAD183	RRT ERBIL: AMBASSADOR MEETS BARZANI AND BARHAM [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary. On January 18 in Erbil, the Ambassador met separately with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani and KRG PM Barham Salih. Both were sympathetic to U.S. concerns about the political aspects of the de-Ba'athification co [...]	2010-01-25 08:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET IZ TU
10BAGHDAD184	PRT SALAH AD DIN: FORMER GOVERNOR FINALLY REMOVED [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Salah Ad Din (PRT) reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In the early morning hours of January 21, following issuance of a Council of Ministers letter rescinding its prior support of former Salah al-Din (SaD) Governor Mutashar, the Iraqi army an [...]	2010-01-25 12:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ KCOR
10BAGHDAD19	NINEWA PRT: CHRISTIANS WARY ABOUT PERSISTENT [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Attacks on northern Iraq's Christian community in recent weeks, although comparatively unspectacular, have left the beleaguered minority population wary ahead of the national election. Widespread Iraqi and [...]	2010-01-04 06:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD192	SHIFT IN DE-BA'ATHIFICATION CONTROVERSY TO APPEALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Attention on the de-Ba'athification controversy shifted January 26 to the official appeals process for the 512 candidates disqualified by the Accountability and Justice Commission (AJC). It is unclear to what extent the proposal by Badr Bloc leader Hadi al-Amiri, based more on [...]	2010-01-25 16:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD198	MUTHANNA PRT: LONG SHADOW OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Muthanna PRT Team Leader met with Provincial Council Chairman Lateef Hassan al-Hassani, at his request, on January 14 at JSS Soto. During the meeting Chairman Hassani decried what he called &Iranian heavy handedness and threats8 a [...]	2010-01-26 16:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV IZ
10BAGHDAD20	PUBLIC OUTRAGE OVER BLACKWATER DECISION GENERATING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Public outrage has erupted within Iraq over the decision of U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina to dismiss the charges brought against Blackwater employees for their role in the deaths of 17 Iraqis on September 16, 2007. GOI spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh condemned the decision on Januar [...]	2010-01-04 16:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS ASEC IZ
10BAGHDAD201	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED ENGLISH LANGUAGE [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in the English Language Training and Basic American Langua [...]	2010-01-27 06:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD206	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON MOQTADA AL-SADR'S KINDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a three-hour introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ismail al-Sadr (strictly protect),cousin of Moqtada al-Sadr, made the following points: (1) Iraq owes a debt of gratitude to the U.S. for toppling Saddam and will require a lasting partnership [...]	2010-01-27 12:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR EG IZ
10BAGHDAD209	DEMINING IRAQ: HIGH-WATER MARK OF PROGRESS ACHIEVED [...] (U) Deputy Minister of Environment Kamal Latif Hussein marked the completion of a humanitarian landmine clearance project in Baghdad's "Army Canal" January 23 with leaders of the Iraq Mine and UXO Clearance Organization (IMCO),an Iraqi NGO and U.S.-grantee. National television networks cover [...]	2010-01-27 14:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHDP PARM PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD211	SCENESETTER FOR IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI'S [...] (C) Vice President Tareq al-Hashimi hopes to use his trip to Washington to bolster his image domestically as a respected national figure and defender of Sunni interests. We understand from his advisors that he sees himself as a contender to succeed Jalal Talabani as President. Time and again, [...]	2010-01-27 16:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD215	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to participate in the C-130 Refresher Simulator Course schedu [...]	2010-01-28 06:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD216	AMBASSADOR AMPLIFIES VP'S MESSAGES IN IRAQI MEDIA INTERVIEWS [...] Summary: Reinforcing the messages delivered by Vice President Biden during his recent visit to Iraq, Ambassador Hill hosted a January 24 round table discussion with eight local Arabic media outlets, followed by interviews with two major Iraqi TV channels. The back-to-back media engagements at t [...]	2010-01-28 06:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ KPAO PREL
10BAGHDAD218	DPM SHAWAYS ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, SFA, AND DFI [...] (C) Summary: New Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways told Assistant Chief of Mission for Assistance Transition (ACMAT) Haslach on January 27 that he favored free markeQ; wants to re-energize the Strategic Framework Agreement,s Economic and Energy Joint Coordination Committee (JCC); and belie [...]	2010-01-28 12:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IZ PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD22	IRAQI VIEWS ON EVENTS IN IRAN AND IMPACT ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-05 12:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD222	DE-BA'ATHIFICATION BY THE NUMBERS [...] (SBU) The total universe of candidates disqualified under de-Ba'athification stands at 406. According to Accountability and Justice Commission (AJC) data provided by IHEC and UNAMI, 63 candidates have now been reinstated (removed from the list of disqualified). The AJC sent the most recent [...]	2010-01-28 16:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD224	PRT KARBALA: TENSIONS MOUNT DURING COUNTDOWN TO [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala reporting cable. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY. Dissension is mounting in the Shi'a religious community in Iraq's south following a reported decision from the Iraqi Commission on Shi'a Religious Endowments (Awqaf) to cease most live broadcasts [...]	2010-01-29 13:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KISL PTER IR IZ
10BAGHDAD225	RECOMMENDATION FOR FUTURE U.S. CIVILIAN PRESENCE [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: This message responds to ref A request for a drawdown plan for Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Iraq. The plan below has been jointly agreed by Ambassador Hill and GEN Odierno. Embassy and USF-I request interagency concurrence on this plan, which envi [...]	2010-01-29 13:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL APER AMGT IZ
10BAGHDAD226	ALLAWI WALKS BACK HIS BOYCOTT THREAT; ISSAWI STILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iyad Allawi walked back his threat of an election boycott in public and private comments January 28.While he attempted to create the perception that the boycott threat remained a live option, he noted in other remarks that the real purpose of the remarks had been to let the Saud [...]	2010-01-29 18:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD23	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED ATA TRAINING [...] This is an expedited action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates, who have been nominated to participate in the ATA/VIP Protection Course. All applicants are officers at the Ministry [...]	2010-01-05 13:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD233	A/S FELTMAN AND FM ZEBARI LAUNCH DIPLOMATIC JCC- [...] (C) Summary: On January 24, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, A/DCM, and a delegation of experts on Chapter VII issues met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and an interministerial committee of Iraqi experts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad. [...]	2010-01-30 09:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ JO KU PGOV PREL SY TU YM
10BAGHDAD234	A/S FELTMAN AND FM ZEBARI CO-CHAIR DIPLOMATIC JCC- [...] (C) Summary: On January 24, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, A/DCM, and a delegation of experts on Chapter VII issues met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and an interministerial committee of Iraqi experts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad. [...]	2010-01-30 09:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KU PGOV PREL SY
10BAGHDAD235	A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES EXTERNAL RELATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a follow up meeting to the diplomatic Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC),A/S Feltman met with PM Advisor Sadiq Rikabi on January 24 to discuss Iraq's external relations, the de-Baathification controvery and government transition. Rikabi expressed his desire to see the JCC focu [...]	2010-01-30 09:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL IZ SY
10BAGHDAD236	A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES IRAQI REGIONAL INTEGRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S Feltman met with the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Chairman Ammar al-Hakim on January 23 to discuss Iraq's role in the region and Hakim's recent regional engagement efforts. Hakim stressed the importance of Iraq's regional integration and the need for Arab states to [...]	2010-01-30 10:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD238	DPM AL-ISSAWI ON DE-BA'ATHIFICATION, THE IRAQIYA [...] (C) SUMMARY: DPM Rafi al-Issawi said the growing realization among some Shi'a politicians of the Iraqiya Coalition's appeal and the threat it posed to sectarian-based politics spurred the de-Ba'athification effort, which was intended to divide Sunni voters and perhaps prompt them to boycott. [...]	2010-01-30 11:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD241	PRT SALAH AD DIN: MEDICAL SUPPLY BREAKDOWN [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Clinics and hospitals in Salah ad Din are at risk of failing due to a breakdown in the government medical supply system. Some hospitals have begun sending patients to private clinics or pharmacies to p [...]	2010-01-30 15:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV AMED TBIO IZ
10BAGHDAD243	VP HASHEMI REVIEWS DE-BA'ATHIFICATION ISSUE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: VP Hashemi reviewed with NEA A/S Feltman January 24 the current state of play on the de-Ba'athification controversy. He expressed the hope that USG interlocutors would convince PM Maliki that the de-Ba'athification decisions of the Accountability and Justice Commission (AJC) sho [...]	2010-01-31 07:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ SA
10BAGHDAD244	TURKISH AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAQI POLITICS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on January 13, Turkish Ambassador Murat Ozcelik shared his views on PM Maliki, government formation and Kirkuk. Ozcelik said Turkey does not want PM Maliki to win another term and will support other coalitions, including Iyad Allawi,s al-Iraqiya A [...]	2010-01-31 11:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM MARR PGOV PREL PTER TU
10BAGHDAD245	PRT NINEWA: NINEWA GOVERNOR MEASURED IN RESPONSE [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Taking a pragmatic approach to the Iraqi Government's de-Ba'athification efforts, Ninewa Provincial Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi suggested the current controversy may play to the favor of coalitions most affected [...]	2010-01-31 13:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KISL IZ
10BAGHDAD246	PM MALIKI CLAIMS DE-BA'ATHIFICATION CONTROVERSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Nouri al-Maliki told the Ambassador and CG January 28 that the de-Ba'athification controversy had "stabilized" and that he expected the specially appointed Cassation Chamber to announce its decisions on the 350-odd appeals from disqualified candidates within a few days. (COMM [...]	2010-01-31 15:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ TU
10BAGHDAD247	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR AL SHAMI [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in the Orthopedics Surgery and Rehabilitation Observership [...]	2010-01-31 15:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD248	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR KAREEM [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in the Defense Language Combined Logistics Captains Career [...]	2010-01-31 15:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD249	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR MOHAMMED [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated to participate in the Defense Language Institute/Infantry Advanced Leader [...]	2010-01-31 15:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD250	DIYALA VISIT HIGHLIGHTS PROGRESS OF IDP RETURNS INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: A January 24 visit to Diyala province demonstrated that a GOI-led initiative to create conditions for return is reaching returnee populations and appears to be having a positive effect on populations that are considering coming back. The Government of Iraq (GOI) is enthusiastic [...]	2010-01-31 16:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD253	MELKERT WARNS MALIKI ON DE-BA'ATHIFICATION; IHEC [...] (C) UNAMI has stepped in to add urgency and reinforcement to the Embassy's message to Iraqi political leaders that the Accountability and Justice Commission must be compelled to stop its activities, that the appeals process must be legally sound to ensure due process for candidates, and that t [...]	2010-01-31 16:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD254	AMBASSADOR MEETS KURDISH OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first meeting with a U.S. Ambassador, the leader of the Kurdish opposition Goran ("Change") Movement, Nawshirwan Mustafa, made the following points: 1) U.S. observers will be critical in ensuring the legitimacy of upcoming national parliamentary elections; 2) Goran expects [...]	2010-01-31 17:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD258	IRAQ'S BORDER SURVEILLANCE PROJECT TAKES SHAPE, [...] (S) SUMMARY: We joined Interior Minister Bolani at a January 30 groundbreaking of a border roads project that took place along the Iraq-Syrian border. Supported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE),the border roads project is headed by the Department of Border Enforcement (DBE) under [...]	2010-02-01 15:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PBTS PGOV PREL MASS IZ
10BAGHDAD259	PRT ANBAR: ANBAR HOLDS SUCCESSFUL ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 27, about 30 Iraqi bankers and businessmen attended a conference organized by PRT Anbar on using electronic funds transfer (EFT) through banks for payments. Representatives from the USF-I Al Asad Regional Contracting Center described how participants could open an EFT ac [...]	2010-02-01 15:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD260	GOI ELECTIONS SECURITY PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI released its election security plan to all field operational commanders at a conference on January 23. LTG Ayden Quadar presided over the conference and facilitated the ensuing discussions about preparations for elections security. The plan is largely based on the one us [...]	2010-02-01 15:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV PREL PTER
10BAGHDAD265	TRACKING DE-BA'ATHIFICATION NUMBERS GETS TRICKY IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Efforts to short-circuit the AJC process by questioning its legitimacy seem to have ground completely to a halt, as political parties have replaced some 180-200 candidates who were disqualified by the AJC and are seeking decisions on appeals. Embassy and UNAMI are pressing for a [...]	2010-02-01 16:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD266	THE DE-BA'ATHIFICATION CONTROVERSY: SECTARIANISM, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The de-Ba'athification controversy that erupted in early January and has yet to subside is complicated, with the intentions of the political players involved often clouded in ambiguity. At its simplest, it can be viewed as an Iranian plot, directed by Tehran allies Ahmed Chalab [...]	2010-02-01 16:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD267	FM ZEBARI ANNOUNCES GOI'S WMD ACTION PLAN [...] (C) Summary: On January 28, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari held a brief meeting with A/DCM and COMs from the other four permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The FM briefed the group on recent developments on the Oil for Food (OFF) and follow-on arrangements for the D [...]	2010-02-02 06:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD269	DPM SHAWAYS DISCUSSES ARAB-KURD, REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on January 24, DPM Rosch Shaways told A/S Feltman that Arab-Kurd dialogue remains ongoing despite a realization on both sides that little progress will be made on resolving big issues before national elections. Shaways expressed satisfaction with the progress of the C [...]	2010-02-02 07:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD270	PRT MUTHANNA: WITH RETURN OF SHEIKH KASHAN, [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Recently returned from his self-imposed exile in Germany, Sheikh Hakim Khazal Kashan hopes to win a seat in the Council of Representatives (COR) from Muthanna. In a surprising change of political attitude, he is running as part of [...]	2010-02-02 09:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD271	IMPLEMENTING THE COMBINED SECURITY MECHANISMS IN [...] (SBU) This is a joint Embassy Baghdad/USF-I message. 2. (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Combined Security Mechanisms (CSMs) consist of temporary, non-political measures across the disputed internal boundary (DIBs) areas of northern Iraq, and are designed to ensure the security of the Iraqi pop [...]	2010-02-02 12:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS IZ
10BAGHDAD272	UNAMI TRIES TO ENERGIZE KIRKUK PROPERTY DISPUTE [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk Cable 2. (C) SUMMARY: The dispute over property claims in Kirkuk is a major obstacle to ethnic and political reconciliation. There are nearly 42,000 pending claims for property confiscated during the Saddam era, which are complicated by post-2003 cancellations of a [...]	2010-02-02 13:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM IZ
10BAGHDAD273	ANBAR ACTING GOVERNOR READY TO HELP "ANBAR BANKERS" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Acting Governor of Anbar Province Fuad Jatab Hamad and Deputy Governor for Administrative Affairs Hikmat Jasim Zaidan spoke at PRT Anbar's Monthly Bankers' Roundtable January 28. The two publicly confirmed banks' vital role in attracting investment to the province and pledged to [...]	2010-02-02 14:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD276	BAGHDAD-ERBIL OIL RAPPROCHEMENT? PM ADVISOR OFFERS [...] (C) Summary: The chair of the prime minister's Advisory Commission, Thamir Ghadhban, offered little hope for a quick resolution of the disagreement between the central Government of Iraq (GOI) and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over the legitimacy of the two KRG-negotiated oil contract [...]	2010-02-02 15:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD277	SPEAKER SAMARRAI'E HOPES FOR QUICK RESOLUTION OF [...] (C) Summary: Council of Representatives (COR) Speaker Samarrai'e noted his concern about the delay in resolving the current de-Ba,athification dispute, stressing that current public passions made a political settlement very difficult. On the future of the Presidency Council, Samarra,ie conce [...]	2010-02-02 16:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD279	RRT ERBIL: KRG MOVES TO AMEND PRESS LAW RAISE [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) authorities and other sources confirm that the government will propose amendments to the region's 2008 press law in a bid to regulate electronic media, provide greater protection against perceived inv [...]	2010-02-02 17:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR IZ
10BAGHDAD28	AFTER INITIALING OIL CONTRACTS, IRAQ DEMANDS [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Iraq (GOI) has demanded significant changes to its contracts with the three winning consortia in Iraq's first oil bid round on June 30. While sixteen of these changes were incorporated in advance into the revised model contracts used for the second bid round in [...]	2010-01-05 15:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD281	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING IN USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Security Forces, Ministry of Interior (MOI) who have been nominated to participate in site visits to observe IG [...]	2010-02-03 13:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD282	NINEWA GOVERNOR TESTS FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: As the first test of the newly operational tripartite Combined Security Mechanisms (CSM) in northern Iraq, Ninewa Provincial Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi - whose freedom of movement in Kurdish-controlled areas of Ninewa has been circumscribed since he took office in 2009 - visited [...]	2010-02-03 13:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER PBTS IZ
10BAGHDAD283	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OUTREACH ON IRAQ UNIVERSAL [...] (C) On February 2, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Selim. Selim stated that she will lead Iraq's delegation to Geneva for the Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council on February 16. She noted that the final list of delegates is not yet [...]	2010-02-03 15:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN IZ
10BAGHDAD284	BAGHDAD-ERBIL OIL RAPPROCHEMENT? MPS OFFER [...] (C) Summary: Key members of the parliament's oil and gas committee offered little hope for a quick resolution of the disagreement between the Government of Iraq (GOI) and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over the legitimacy of the two KRG-negotiated oil contracts published on January 17 [...]	2010-02-03 16:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD286	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from Ministry of Interior (MOI)who have been nominated to participate in the Vehicle Maintenance Training and Study Course dur [...]	2010-02-04 06:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD288	IRAQ AGREES TO MANPADS REDUCTION PROGRAM [...] (U) This cable contains an action request (see paragraph 5). 2. (S//NF) The Government of Iraq (GOI) officially supports a plan to adopt a host-country led MANPADS reduction program (subsequently "MANPADS program", reftel). National Security Council Director General Khamza Sharif Hasan told [...]	2010-02-04 10:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	IZ PARM PGOV PREL PTER MASS MARR
10BAGHDAD289	PRT ANBAR: ABU RISHA DISCUSSES POLITICAL [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Anbar (Ramadi) cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY. On January 19, PRT Team Leader and incoming U.S. Division-Central (USD-C) deputy commanding general for Anbar met with paramount Anbar Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, the Mutammar Sahawat al-Iraq (MSI) Party S [...]	2010-02-04 11:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD290	ALLAWI CRITICIZES PM MALIKI'S AUTHORITARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Iraqiyya coalition leader Ayad Allawi told A/DCM on February 2 that the Accountability and Justice Commission's (AJC) effort to eliminate candidates on de-Ba'athification grounds was symptomatic of a broader problem of intimidation in the Iraqi political system. He att [...]	2010-02-04 13:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM LE IR IZ
10BAGHDAD291	PRT KARBALA: VOTERS IN DOUR MOOD AS UNOFFICIAL [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Karbala province has been allotted ten seats in the next Council of Representatives (CoR). Local PRT employees and Karbala business and community leaders expect that Dawa will win four to five seat [...]	2010-02-04 14:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD292	CRACKS IN THE KDP-PUK ALLIANCE? [...] (C) SUMMARY. Cracks are beginning to emerge in the alliance between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Party (PUK),as evidenced by the absence of a high-level PUK representative in the KRG delegation that met POTUS on January 25. The erosion of the PUK's p [...]	2010-02-04 15:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ KDEM
10BAGHDAD293	UNAMI HIGH LEVEL TASK FORCE (HLTF) MEETING FOCUES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UNAMI-run High-Level Task Force (HLTF) on disputed internal boundaries (DIBs) met on February 1 and agreed to: 1) order the evacuation of school properties in Kirkuk occupied by political parties; 2) support the establishment of a court of cassation (appellate court) in Kirku [...]	2010-02-04 16:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD294	PM MALIKI SALTING INTEL AGENCIES WITH DAWA [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. In recent weeks, the Prime Minister's office has directed the removal of Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Ministry of Interior (MOI) intelligence officers due to alleged links to the Ba'ath party or the former regime. In at least one case, these PM lists have coincid [...]	2010-02-04 16:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
10BAGHDAD295	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who has been nominated to attend the General Surgery Observationship course during the [...]	2010-02-04 16:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD296	POLITICAL PARTIES REACT TO JUDICIAL DECISION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Cassation Chamber's February 3 decision ordering the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) to allow all candidates who have appealed their de-Ba'athfication disqualifications to remain on the ballot was widely denounced by the major Shi'a-led parties as "un [...]	2010-02-04 17:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD299	PRT KIRKUK: NEWEST MEMBERS OF KIRKUK'S BAR [...] This is a Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team message. 2. (SBU) Summary: On January, 21 and 23, 2010, the Kirkuk Jurist Union (KJU) hosted a successful two-day workshop on practical skills for the legal practice in Iraq. The two-day event also included a tour of Kirkuk's primary detentio [...]	2010-02-05 01:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS KCRM IZ
10BAGHDAD30	GOI LEADERS REQUEST USG APPEAL OF BLACKWATER [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-05 16:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC IZ KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL
10BAGHDAD300	PRT KIRKUK: FIRST ELECTION IN FIVE YEARS SPURS [...] (U) This a PRT Kirkuk cable 2. (C) SUMMARY: Despite voter cynicism, ethnic tension, uncertainty about the province's future status, and electoral list fraud allegations, there is intense interest in Kirkuk in the national elections. Provincial leaders predict voter turnout of 80 percent or [...]	2010-02-05 03:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCOR PHUM IZ
10BAGHDAD302	CHAPTER VII: NEGOTIATION OF U.S. VICTIM CLAIMS [...] (C) Summary: On July 16 and 17, 2009 PM Maliki,s top legal and political advisers and U.S. representatives from the Department of State, Department of Justice, Department of Defense, and Department of Treasury reached preliminary agreement on a draft state-to-state claims settlement text f [...]	2010-02-05 15:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KU PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD303	SANI DISCUSSES KIRKUK WITH BAGHDAD POLITICIANS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq (SANI) met with Kurdish leadership at the Council of Representatives (COR) on the topic of the disputed internal boundary (DIBs) areas and Kirkuk. Kurdish Alliance List (KAL) bloc leader Fuad Masoum and Deputy COR Speaker Arif Tay [...]	2010-02-05 16:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU IZ
10BAGHDAD304	DE-BA'ATHIFICATION FALLOUT: INA ASKS AMBASSADOR TO [...] (C) MP Qassim Daoud (Iraqi National Alliance/Solidarity bloc leader) invited the Ambassador to his residence on February 5 to deliver a message on behalf of the INA coalition's Executive Committee. Daoud first said he had his own views on the matter, then more formally explained that recent s [...]	2010-02-05 17:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IR IZ
10BAGHDAD306	VPOTUS DISCUSSES KURDISH ISSUES, THE IRAQI BUDGET, [...] (U) January 23, 2010; 1:45 p.m.; Baghdad, Iraq. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Vice President Biden Ambassador Christopher Hill General Raymond Odierno, Commander, USF-I Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor, OVP Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs [...]	2010-02-06 12:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG PHUM KDEM KU IZ
10BAGHDAD308	RUMAILA OIL-FIELD LAWSUIT CONTINUES BUT SUCCESS [...] (C) Summary: The lawsuit concerning the Rumaila oil-field contract continues and could affect the nine other contracts awarded from Iraq's June and December 2009 oil bid rounds. However, key Government of Iraq (GOI) officials predicted the lawsuit would be unsuccessful. No decision is expected [...]	2010-02-06 14:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD309	PRT ANBAR: PROVINCIAL ELECTION PREPARATIONS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar (Ramadi) cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY. On 25 January, the Anbar Governorate Elections Officer (GEO) briefed the military, police and civilian leadership of Anbar on the Independent High Electoral Commission's (IHEC's) election-day plan. Additionally, Iraqi police army lead [...]	2010-02-06 15:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD310	DIWANIYAH PROVINCE: DE-BA,ATHIFICATION ISSUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: An anti-Ba,athist demonstration, coupled with the Provincial Council,s announcement that former officials of the Saddam regime must give up their weapons within seven days, mark an escalation of the Ba,athist issue in predominantly Shi,a Diwaniyah Province. Diwaniyah,s Governor [...]	2010-02-06 15:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KCOR IZ
10BAGHDAD311	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR KASSIM [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who has been nominated to attend the Basic American Language Instructor Course during [...]	2010-02-07 05:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD312	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR ABADI [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following individual from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who has been invited by the American Enterprise Institute to a reception and dinner h [...]	2010-02-07 06:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD313	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to attend the Patrol Boat Training during the period 12 April [...]	2010-02-07 06:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD314	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to attend the Human Resources Training during the period 22 M [...]	2010-02-07 06:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD315	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to attend the Senior Executive Seminar during the period 29 M [...]	2010-02-07 06:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD316	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR MOHAMMED [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who has been nominated to attend the Defense Language Institute Advance Leaders'Course [...]	2010-02-07 06:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD319	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI) who have been nominated to attend an Internal Affairs Training Course during the per [...]	2010-02-07 11:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD326	VPOTUS MEETING WITH PM MALIKI [...] (U) January 23, 2010, 11:00 a.m.; Baghdad, Iraq 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden Ambassador Christopher Hill GEN Raymond Odierno, Commanding General USF-I Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor, OVP Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary, NEA Colin Kahl, DASD Pun [...]	2010-02-08 06:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD329	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR AL [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who has been nominated to attend the Special Operations Combating Terrorism Course dur [...]	2010-02-08 11:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL

10BAGHDAD330	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to attend the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Manage [...]	2010-02-08 12:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD336	PRT SALAH AD DIN: DELISTED CANDIDATES DESCRIBE [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Prior to the Cassation Chamber's February 3 decision ordering the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) to allow all candidates who have appealed their de-Ba'athfication disqualifications to rem [...]	2010-02-08 14:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV KCOR PREL KDEM IZ IR
10BAGHDAD3379	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AL-SAAD [...] This is an expedited action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) Security Forces, who has been nominated to participate in a naval conference i [...]	2010-01-01 07:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD338	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PM MALIKI, ISCI CHAIRMAN; [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Ambassador met separately with PM Maliki and ISCI Chairman Ammar al-Hakim on February 7 to press for early resolution of the de-Ba'athification controversy, underscore U.S. support for de-Ba'athification in accordance with Iraqi law, and push back on accusations t [...]	2010-02-08 16:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD3386	PRT SALAH AD DIN: GOI INTERFERENCE IN PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah Ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Following a two month standoff with the GOI central Government, the Salah Ad Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) is poised to forcibly remove the former Provincial Governor (PGOV) of SAD--which it voted from office on October 27 [...]	2010-01-01 10:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KJUS IZ
10BAGHDAD3387	CORRECTED COPY: PRT SALAH AD DIN: GOI INTERFERENCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah Ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Following a two month standoff with the GOI central Government, the Salah Ad Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) is poised to forcibly remove the former Provincial Governor (PGOV) of SAD--which it voted from office on October 27 [...]	2010-01-01 13:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KJUS IZ
10BAGHDAD339	VPOTUS MEETING WITH IRAQI PRESIDENT TALABANI [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Talabani told VP Biden that Iraqi leaders understand the need for a transparent solution to the political problem created by the attempt to disqualify some parliamentary election candidates because of alleged Ba'athist ties. He claimed the main Sunni parties and politic [...]	2010-02-09 07:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EPET IZ
10BAGHDAD34	IRAQI SPEAKER ON FUTURE OF THE PRESIDENCY, BUDGET, [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Council of Representatives (COR) Speaker Iyad Sammarra'i confirmed for Pol M/C January 4 that the Constitution made clear that Iraq's Presidency Council would not continue after the end of the term of the current government, and the new President would not have the veto. H [...]	2010-01-06 13:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD340	BABIL PRT WORKSHOPS DEMONSTRATE VALUE OF FORENSIC [...] This is a Babil PRT cable. 2. Summary: The Babil PRT held two forensic workshops with local provincial judges, investigators, and journalists at FOB Kalsu in December 2009 and January 2010. The workshops included a walk-through of the Army Crime Lab at FOB Kalsu, briefings on the effecti [...]	2010-02-09 13:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SOCI IZ
10BAGHDAD344	PRT NAJAF: CLEAR PROGRESS ON ANTI-CORRUPTION, BUT [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Najaf reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Anti-Corruption Coordinator (ACCO),Embassy rule of law (ROL) officer, and USF-I officer visited Najaf to engage local officials in assessing corruption in Najaf and government's efforts to improve. C [...]	2010-02-09 15:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD351	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED PATROL BOAT TRAINING, [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to attend the Patrol Boat Training Course during the period 1 [...]	2010-02-11 03:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD352	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ATA/VIP U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING, [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI) who have been nominated to attend the ATA/VIP Protection Course during the period 13 [...]	2010-02-11 03:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD353	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ATA/VIP U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING, [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI) who have been nominated to attend the ATA/VIP Protection Course during the period 1 [...]	2010-02-11 03:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD354	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED PATROL BOAT TRAINING, [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to attend the Patrol Boat Training Course during the period 1 [...]	2010-02-11 03:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD355	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED PATROL BOAT TRAINING, [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to attend the Patrol Boat Training Course during the period 1 [...]	2010-02-11 03:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD356	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED PATROL BOAT TRAINING, [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to attend the Patrol Boat Training Course during the period 1 [...]	2010-02-11 03:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD36	VICE PRESIDENT ABD AL-MAHDI'S JANUARY 12-14 VISIT [...] (C) Vice President Adel Abd al-Mahdi travels to Washington to show us that he has what it takes to be Prime Minister, according to his close aides. We assess that he is a strong candidate for Prime Minister in the next government, having positioned himself as a good compromise for Shi'a partie [...]	2010-01-06 17:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PHUM OVIP KJUS SA IR IZ
10BAGHDAD360	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED PATROL BOAT TRAINING, [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who have been nominated to attend the Patrol Boat Training Course during the period 1 [...]	2010-02-11 08:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD362	PRT WASIT: BA,ATH DISQUALIFICATION REACTION AND [...] (S) Summary and Comment: Wasit,s largely Shia population supported attempts to disqualify former Ba,athists from the upcoming national elections, although there was also a perception that the disqualification process was politicized and posed risks. No prominent candidates were affected in [...]	2010-02-11 11:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	ASEC PGOV PREL PTER IZ IR
10BAGHDAD364	CW DESTRUCTION PLAN IN IRAQ: NO MONEY AND SHIFTING [...] (C) Summary. During a February 7 meeting with PMOff and a United States Forces - Iraq (USF-I) J-3 representative, Dr. Mohammed Al Sharaa, Director General of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate (INMD),claimed the GOI did not forward prior chemical munitions find reports to the Organiz [...]	2010-02-11 15:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL OPCW CWC IZ
10BAGHDAD365	PRT KARBALA: ATTACKS DURING ARBA'IN LEAVE 56 DEAD [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Fears of violence in Karbala during Arba'in (reftel A) were realized after four deadly attacks left 56 dead and more than two hundred wounded among the several million visitors to the event, culmina [...]	2010-02-11 15:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KTER IZ
10BAGHDAD368	SETTING THE CONDITIONS - MARCH 7TH ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: USG, GOI, and international election security planning continues since the January 23rd release of the GOI,s election security plan. The Ambassador hosted a well attended and received election briefing for the Baghdad diplomatic community on February 4th that focused heavily on s [...]	2010-02-11 15:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV PREL PTER ASEC
10BAGHDAD369	UPDATE #1: NINEWA GOVERNOR'S FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tempers that flared in the wake of the February 1 confrontation involving Kurdish security forces, Ninewa Governor Nujaifi, and U.S. forces have cooled for the moment. Angered by the detention of 11 males accused of attacking Nujaifi's convoy, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG [...]	2010-02-11 15:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KDEM PBTS IZ
10BAGHDAD371	AYAD ALLAWI COMMENTS ON IRAQI POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and a group of advisors met with POL M/C February 9 to discuss the Iraqi political environment and increased sectarian tensions in the run-up to national elections. Allawi acknowledged that the Cassation Chamber, in a shift from its February [...]	2010-02-11 17:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD376	CASSATION CHAMBER AFFIRMS DISQUALIFICATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The official start of the Iraqi electoral campaign kicked off February 12 amid reports that the Cassation Chamber has issued decisions affirming the disqualifications of prominent Sunni politicians Saleh al-Mutlaq and Dhafer al-Ani. No official notification has been received by [...]	2010-02-12 16:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD377	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ALAARAGY AND AL-SODANI [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD, who have been nominated to participate in the Sovereign Challenge at Special Operation [...]	2010-02-13 08:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD378	POLITICAL MANEUVERING AND IRAQI SECURITY FORCES [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. The Iraqi Army (IA) continued to complicate the political situation in Salah Ad-Din (SAD) by forming a cordon around the SAD Provincial Council building, with orders from the Prime Minister to prevent access by the Provincial Council Chairman. Additionally, the PM attempted t [...]	2010-02-13 09:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
10BAGHDAD379	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CT TRAINING, GROUP 1 [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates who have been nominated from the Iraqi Liaison Officers (LNOs) at the Iraqi Operations Coordination Group (IOCG) to participate [...]	2010-02-13 09:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD380	PRT KIRKUK: PUK SHEDS ITS OWN TO GUARANTEE LOYALTY [...] (U) This is a Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) reporting message. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The Kirkuk chapter of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) is systematically purging party members who they believe are vulnerable to recruitment by opposition party Goran. With the national parl [...]	2010-02-13 11:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD381	UPDATE #3: BARZANI EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR RELEASE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Approximately 90 minutes before the February 11 deadline set by the Kurds to withdraw from the Ninewa Combined Check Points (CCPs) and block the roads north of Mosul to the Kurdistan Region, KRG President Barzani was persuaded to extend the deadline to February 13 to allow time [...]	2010-02-14 09:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS PBTS IZ
10BAGHDAD382	PRT ANBAR: DESPITE EFFORTS, VOTER PARTICIPATION [...] (U) This is an Anbar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) reporting message. 2. (SBU) Summary. Anbari government leaders, tribal sheikhs and religious leaders are encouraging Anbaris to vote in the March 7 national elections. Yet PRT-gathered anecdotal evidence and polling data suggests s [...]	2010-02-14 14:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KCOR KDEM
10BAGHDAD383	PRT NAJAF: DEADLY EXPLOSIONS ROCK KUFA [...] (U) This is a Najaf Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) reporting cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Three nearly simultaneous bombings occurred in Najaf province February 12 as the roads were crowded with pilgrims preparing to attend observances for the end of the Arba'in holiday and commemoratio [...]	2010-02-14 15:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IZ IR
10BAGHDAD386	PRT KARBALA: ANTI-BA'ATH SENTIMENT RUNS HIGH AS [...] This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala report. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Karbala Governor Amal al-Din al-Hir (party) told PRToffs on February 11 that the United States had suffered a "loss of prestige" from its perceived efforts to "return Ba'athists to power" and war [...]	2010-02-15 06:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PREL PGOV IZ
10BAGHDAD387	PRT MUTHANNA: MUTHANNA GOVERNOR CANCELS MEETING [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (PM) reportedly ordered Muthanna Governor Ibrahim Salman al-Mayali (State of Law) to cancel his February 10 meeting with Ambassador Hill in Baghdad. The Governor advised the PRT that the PM wanted to [...]	2010-02-15 08:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD389	CORRECTED COPY: PRT KARBALA: ANTI-BA'ATH SENTIMENT [...] This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala report. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Karbala Governor Amal al-Din al-Hir (party) told PRToffs on February 11 that the United States had suffered a "loss of prestige" from its perceived efforts to "return Ba'athists to power" and war [...]	2010-02-15 09:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PREL PGOV IZ
10BAGHDAD394	CORRECTED COPY: PRT KARBALA: ANTI-BA'ATH SENTIMENT [...] This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala report. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Karbala Governor Amal al-Din al-Hir (State of Law) told PRToffs on February 11 that the United States had suffered a "loss of prestige" from its perceived efforts to "return Ba'athists to power" [...]	2010-02-15 10:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PREL PGOV IZ
10BAGHDAD395	CORRECTED COPY: PRT KARBALA: ANTI-BA'ATH SENTIMENT [...] This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala report. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Karbala Governor Amal al-Din al-Hir (Da'wa) told PRToffs on February 11 that the United States had suffered a "loss of prestige" from its perceived efforts to "return Ba'athists to power" and war [...]	2010-02-15 10:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PREL PGOV IZ
10BAGHDAD403	OIL MINISTER AND OTHERS ON FUTURE PRODUCTION AND [...] (U) Summary: At a recent seminar, Oil Minister Shahristani predicted the global oil market will need Iraq's increased production resulting from the ten oilfield development and production contracts from Iraq's 2009 oil bid rounds. The head of Iraq's State Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) predicted [...]	2010-02-16 10:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD405	PRIME MINISTER INSERTS HIMSELF INTO AUTHORIZATION [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki, through the Office of the Commander in Chief head General Faruq, directed February 12 that the PM must authorize all U.S. combined operations following a February 11/12 U.S.-Iraqi operation in the southern Iraqi province of Maysan. The operation was aim [...]	2010-02-16 13:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS PTER IZ
10BAGHDAD407	OIL MINISTER RECOMMENDS RESUMING OIL EXPORTS FROM [...] (C) Summary: Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told ACMAT Haslach and USF-I DCG Hunzeker that he has recommended to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that exports of oil from the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR) resume. However, Shahristani also said that "many serious problems" remain in resolvin [...]	2010-02-16 14:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD408	IRAQ IN-COUNTRY REFUGEE PROGRAM -- MAXIMIZING EFFICIENCY [...] (SBU) Summary: At the second anniversary of the "Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act" the in-country refugee program has doubled capacity since last year and is functioning more efficiently as it focuses on the most vulnerable in the program. Processing has improved through a concerted dedication of De [...]	2010-02-16 14:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD410	WASIT,S PROVINCIAL COUNCIL MOVES TO OUST [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Wasit,s Provincial Council (PC) passed a unanimous resolution on February 10 to dismiss former Ba,athists from provincial and national ministry government jobs unless they publicly renounce their former affiliation. It is unclear if the resolution is constitutional [...]	2010-02-16 14:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL PTER IZ
10BAGHDAD411	PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION SECURITY PLANNING - GOI AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent briefings by the GOI and United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) personnel provided insights into the state of election security planning in advance of the March 7th national poll. On February 11th, the Electoral Supreme Security Committee (ESSC) hosted a second [...]	2010-02-16 14:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PTER ASEC IZ
10BAGHDAD412	OIL MINISTER ON PREPARING FOR IOC OPERATIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: Oil Minister Shahristani expressed to ACMAT Haslach and USF-I DCG Hunzeker complete, and perhaps unrealistic, confidence in the Ministry of Oil's (MOO's) preparations to support international oil companies (IOCs) as they begin operations under the ten contracts awarded from Iraq's [...]	2010-02-16 14:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD413	UPDATE #4: NINEWA PROVINCIAL GOV FILES PETITION [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Ninewa Provincial Governor (PGOV) Nujaifi filed a petition requesting a change of venue from Tal Kayf back to Mosul for the 9 detainees (reftels A, B, C),citing concern for his personal safety to appear in Tal Kayf for the investigative hearing. In doing so, the anticipated [...]	2010-02-16 14:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS IZ
10BAGHDAD417	PRT KIRKUK: CAMPAIGN PERIOD OFF TO A ROCKY START [...] (U) This is a Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. The Kirkuk Campaign period started poorly on the evening of February 11. Within hours after IHEC lifted the curfew on campaign activities, the Iraqi Police (IP) received numerous complaints about violations [...]	2010-02-17 06:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM IZ
10BAGHDAD420	IRAQ IN-COUNTRY REFUGEE PROGRAM -- MAXIMIZING EFFICIENCY [...] (SBU) Summary: At the second anniversary of the "Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act" the in-country refugee program has doubled capacity since last year and is functioning more efficiently as it focuses on the most vulnerable in the program. Processing has improved through a concerted dedication of De [...]	2010-02-17 10:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD425	PRT KARBALA: ANTI-BA'ATH SENTIMENT CREATES STRANGE [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala report. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: (C/NF) Strong anti-Ba'ath sentiment in Karbala has created an odd mix of cooperation and competition among provincial political entities to date. Local Sadrists and followers of former PM Ja [...]	2010-02-17 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD426	PM MALIKI ORDERS RETURN TO ALMOST NORMAL [...] (S/NF) The Prime Minister's Office issued a memorandum February 16 to the Defense and Interior Ministries which reversed the February 12 order to suspend U.S.-Iraqi combined security operations (text in paragraph two below). The new order effectively allows almost all Iraqi Security Force o [...]	2010-02-17 15:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS PTER IZ
10BAGHDAD429	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING, USA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI) who have been tentatively selected for FBI-sponsored training during the period 23-2 [...]	2010-02-18 06:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD430	PRT DIYALA: AMBASSADOR HILL DISCUSSES IDPS, SUNNI [...] (U) This is a Diyala Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary: Ambassador Hill visited Governor Abd-al-Nasir al Muntsir al-Mahdawi and,separately, local leaders in the village of Al Mujadad on February 8 in Diyala Province. The Governor said the security situation in hi [...]	2010-02-18 07:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL IZ IR
10BAGHDAD434	AMBASSADOR MEETS UNAMI SRSG TO DISCUSS A [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and UNAMI SRSG Melkert agreed February 6 to work together to create a robust new impetus for settlement of Iraq's disputed internal boundaries (DIBs) following the March 7 election. The USG and UNAMI will work to establish a broad-based "normalization process" (t [...]	2010-02-18 12:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD442	PRT MAYSAN: ALI AL-SHARQI OPERATION SPURS PUBLIC [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Inaccurate reports of a unilateral USF-I raid upon a village in southern Maysan provinces, leaving a woman and child among the ten dead, sparked angry reactions among local residents. In reality, the combined Iraqi-US operation was aimed [...]	2010-02-19 07:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS KDEM KPAO IR IZ
10BAGHDAD446	DIWANIYAH PROVINCE: PUSHING FURTHER ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Diwaniyah Province officials continue to press their de-Ba,athification campaign, and some of them view their province as a trailblazer in the effort. Governor Salim Alwan led a February 9 demonstration to protest against allowing former Ba,athists to run in the upcoming electio [...]	2010-02-19 12:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
10BAGHDAD447	AMBASSADOR SHEHI DISCUSSES THE UAE'S ROLE IN IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq (SANI) discussed the UAE's role in Iraq with Ambassador Abdullah Ebrahim Alzoy al Shehi on February 7. Shehi noted the Sunni - Shi'a divide, Iraq's lack of a "business friendly" investment climate and Iraqi's poor educational system as significan [...]	2010-02-19 13:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD451	UPDATE #5: ASSAYESH TAKE CAPTIVES - SIX DETAINEES [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 16, a Mosul detention facility (Trans Jail) released 6 of 9 Wanna detainees. Although it was a welcome relief for all concerned, the release was in advance of the legal paperwork. Judges have become increasingly aware of the tensions between Provincial Governor Nuja [...]	2010-02-19 14:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM IZ
10BAGHDAD452	EXAMINING OPTIONS FOR BAGHDAD'S DISPLACED PERSONS [...] (SBU) Summary: RefCoords conducted a series of visits to informal settlements of internally displaced persons (IDPs) around Baghdad province on February 9, 10, 11 and 15. The visits reaffirmed the need to take a tailored, multi-faceted approach to create durable solutions for the estimated 180 [...]	2010-02-19 16:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD454	ARREST OF SUNNI PC MEMBER STOKES CRIES OF ELECTION [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala message. 2. (S/NF) Summary: The arrest of yet another Sunni Provincial Council member, Najim Abdullah Ahmad (Iraqqiya coalition lead for Diyala) on February 7th, is fueling cries that Sunnis are being targeted for arrest by the central government to help shape the e [...]	2010-02-20 13:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ KDEM PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD455	PRT NINEWA: CREDIT CRUNCH STIFLES ECONOMIC [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. SUMMARY: Banking leaders in Ninewa province told PRT that significant barriers to commercial and consumer lending in Ninewa province continue to hamper economic development. The precarious security situation, a paralyzed p [...]	2010-02-20 13:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EINV PREL PGOV IZ
10BAGHDAD456	OIL MINISTER TO CHANGE SIGNING BONUSES FOR 2009 [...] (C) Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told Assistant Chief of Mission for Assistance Transition (ACMAT) Haslach and U.S. Forces-Iraq (USF-I) Deputy Commanding General for Support (DCG) Hunzeker on February 11 that the refundable signing bonuses, stipulated in the three contracts awarded from [...]	2010-02-20 13:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD457	CHEVRON ON IOC INVESTING IN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with ACMAT Haslach, Chevron expressed eagerness to return to Iraq, but not at any price. The company might join one of the ten consortia that were awarded contracts from Iraq's two oil bid rounds in 2009; Total is a likely partner. Chevron suggested that differences in i [...]	2010-02-20 14:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD458	UPDATE #6: TIT FOR TAT - A SPATE OF KURDISH [...] (C) SUMMARY. The KRG leadership remains fixated on the continued incarceration of three Wanna detainees, charged with assaulting the Ninewa governor and demands their immediate release. In apparent retaliation, unidentified Kurdish security elements - presumably Assayesh and/or Zervani - d [...]	2010-02-21 09:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KDEM PHUM PTBS IZ
10BAGHDAD460	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED DEFENSE RESOURCE [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI) who have been nominated to attend the Defense Resource Management training during th [...]	2010-02-21 12:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD461	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ATA/VIP U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING, [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI) who have been nominated to attend the ATA/VIP Protection Course during the period 1 [...]	2010-02-21 12:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD462	PRT ANBAR: PRT HELPS TACKLE PROVINCIAL WATER [...] (U) This is an Anbar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT)(Ramadi) cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: A three year drought and damming along the upper Euphrates River has dramatically reduced the amount of water available in Anbar Province. Water levels in Lake Qaddasiya, the province's main reservoir, [...]	2010-02-21 14:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV PREL IZ TU SY JO
10BAGHDAD463	PRT ANBAR: ANBARIS PERCEIVE IRANIAN INFLUENCE, [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar (Ramadi) cable. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY: Iranian attempts to exert influence in Anbar Province face a significant obstacle: Anbar is 96% Sunni and Anbaris view Iran as Iraq's mortal enemy. Most of PRT's interlocutors believe that Iran has been meddling in Iraq not only t [...]	2010-02-21 16:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ IR
10BAGHDAD465	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED OFFICER TACTICAL [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who has been nominated to attend the Officer Tactical Intelligence Course during the p [...]	2010-02-22 06:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD466	NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE CELL OPERATIONAL BUT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Prime Minister created the National Intelligence Cell (NIC) after the December 8 high profile terrorist attacks in Baghdad to consolidate information and work with operational units to prevent future attacks. While it started off slow, it now is beginning to p [...]	2010-02-22 09:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
10BAGHDAD467	IRAQ'S PRE-ELECTION TRENDS: THE NORTH [...] (C) Summary: This cable focuses on the northern and north-central provinces of Iraq (Ninewa, Erbil, Dohuk, Sulaymaniah, Kirkuk, Diyala),and Anbar, and serves as a companion piece to earlier reporting on Iraq's southern provinces (ref A). At the end of the first official week of campaigning [...]	2010-02-22 11:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PREL PGOV
10BAGHDAD469	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING FOR ZORA [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MOD) who has been nominated to attend the Human Resources Training during the period 22 Mar [...]	2010-02-22 12:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD470	GOI RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON VISIT OF UNDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge delivered reftel demarche to DFM Labeed Abbawi February 17, regarding the visit to Syria of Under Secretary Burns and Coordinator for Counterterrorism Benjamin. Abbawi said the GOI would not have problems with the visit. Reports in the Arab press that Washington had decide [...]	2010-02-22 12:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY IZ
10BAGHDAD471	PRT NAJAF: GEO OFFICIALS CONFIDENT AS ELECTIONS [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Najaf reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: On February 10 and 16, PRToffs met with local Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) Chairwoman Ms. Bushra Kadhum Zamili to discuss plans for the March 7 national elections [...]	2010-02-22 14:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC IZ
10BAGHDAD472	SANI DISCUSSES ARTICLE 140 WITH DPM ROWSCH SHAWAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Dr. Rowsch Shaways welcomed Senior Advisor to Northern Iraq's (SANI) proposal of a major post-election effort to engage stakeholders in an inclusive, broad-based effort keyed to the first phase of the Article 140 process: normalization. Shaways agreed [...]	2010-02-22 14:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD473	CORRECTED COPY: IRAQ'S PRE-ELECTION TRENDS: THE [...] (C) Summary: This cable focuses on the northern and north-central provinces of Iraq (Ninewa, Erbil, Dohuk, Sulaymaniah, Kirkuk, Diyala),and Anbar, and serves as a companion piece to earlier reporting on Iraq's southern provinces (ref A). At the end of the first official week of campaigning [...]	2010-02-22 15:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PGOV IZ
10BAGHDAD474	MFA SENDS FOLLOW-UP LETTER TO IAEA; REVIEWS WORK [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Zebari has sent a second follow-up letter to IAEA Director General Amano making explicit the GOI intent to provisionally apply the Additional Protocol (AP). The short February 17 letter states that the AP "will be implemented provisionally as of the date of this letter pendin [...]	2010-02-22 16:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD479	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED DEFENSE RESOURCE [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI) who have been nominated to attend the Defense Resource Management training during th [...]	2010-02-23 08:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
10BAGHDAD481	USF-I COUNTER PKK ACTION PLAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: USF-I is drafting a joint action plan to recommend initiatives for the GOT and GOI to consider in combating the PKK following a visit to Ankara by USF-I Commanding General Ray Odierno on February 3. Turkish Ambassador to Iraq, Murat Ozcelik, on February 17 presented two action [...]	2010-02-23 11:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ MARR PREL PTER TU
10BAGHDAD483	PRT MUTHANNA: DE-BA'ATHIFICATION AS POLITICAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Anti-Ba'athist sentiment is now the political weapon of choice in Muthanna. The Provincial Council recently enacted a law to purge all civil servants who might have been associated with the banned party, even if [...]	2010-02-23 12:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD485	BABIL TRIBAL LEADER PREDICTS IRAQIYYA COALITION TO [...] This is a Babil PRT Cable 2. Summary. On February 17, Chief Sheikh Adnan Abd al-Munim al-Janabi told PRToff that his public call for a boycott among his predominantly-Sunni 150,000 tribe is mostly for show. He said that he believes the Iraqiyya coalition could win as many as 100 seats [...]	2010-02-23 15:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SOCI
10BAGHDAD487	PRT KARBALA: SLA BRINGS ITS "A TEAM", WHILE INA [...] This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Karbala report. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: PM Maliki expects the State of Law Alliance (SLA) to attain six (out of ten) seats in his home province of Karbala, with likely winners in Da'wa to include Da'wa parliamentary bloc head Ali al-A [...]	2010-02-23 15:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD488	DIYALA GOVERNOR TO ISF: STOP ELECTION-SHAPING [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala message. 2. (C) Summary: Diyala,s Governor, Abd al Nasr Al Mahdawi, used Diyala,s February 21st election security rehearsal to warn senior Iraqi Security Force officials from across the province against executing additional politically-motivated arrest warrants prio [...]	2010-02-23 16:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	IZ KDEM PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD490	EPRT BAGHDAD WEST: INTERNALLY DISPLACED RAISING [...] This is an ePRT Baghdad West report. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On February 16, Kadhimiyyah District Advisory Council (DAC) Chairman Muslim Salih repeated to ePRT Baghdad West Team Leader (TL) his preference that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) resident in local clusters return to their places [...]	2010-02-23 18:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM IZ
10BAGHDAD497	UPDATE #7: NINEWA SCORE REMAINS 3 TO 8 - SEEKING A [...] (C) SUMMARY. As of late afternoon February 23, the three Wanna detainees in Mosul have been formally charged under Chapter 2 Paragraph 222, which pertains to offenses against the state, in regards to gathering with intent to commit crimes. The three could remain in jail pending apprehensive [...]	2010-02-24 11:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KDEM PHUM PTBS KJUS IZ
10BAGHDAD499	COALITION PROFILE: PM MALIKI'S STATE OF LAW [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a significant move toward political independence, PM Maliki announced the formation of the State of Law Alliance (SLA) in October 2009, distancing himself from the Iraqi National Alliance (INA),the dominant Shi'a-led coalition. Despite its strong ties to Iran, SLA [...]	2010-02-24 14:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IR IZ
10BAGHDAD500	DETAINEE RELEASES AND TARGETING APPROVAL CHANGES [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: U.S. forces transferred thirteen detainees captured in Maysan in a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation in accordance with demands by the PM and terms of the Security Agreement. After an initial transfer of nine of the detainees, the Prime Minister ordered high value target [...]	2010-02-24 15:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS PTER IZ
10BAGHDAD506	PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN IRAQ - TARGETED VIOLENCE DOWN BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR reports that it has not seen an increase in targeted violence against Palestinians in Iraq. It does report an increase in: accounts of harassment at the many checkpoints found throughout Iraq; reports of arbitrary and targeted detentions following terrorist incidents in B [...]	2010-02-25 13:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD507	MEK/ASHRAF: GOI PLANS TO RELOCATE MEK ON HOLD FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 24 meeting with Emboffs and USF-I officials, the Chairman of the GOI's Ashraf Committee responsible for the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MeK) stated the following: (1) The GOI has no plans to move the MeK for the foreseeable future given the national elections and the [...]	2010-02-25 15:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER CVIS IR IZ
10BAGHDAD512	DE-BA,ATHIFICATION, ELECTION VIOLATIONS, MAR START [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Much as it is dominating the business of governing in Muthanna (reftel A),anti-Ba,athist sentiment is a dominant theme of the campaign, for the moment. The furor is squeezing out other, more traditional campa [...]	2010-02-26 14:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD513	PRT NAJAF: FORMER OIL MINISTER AND COR CANDIDATE [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Najaf reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Najaf parliamentary candidate and former Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr-Uloum (Iraqi National Alliance/Independent) met PRT Team Leader February 18 to discuss his campaign and the impact of de-Ba'athificati [...]	2010-02-26 15:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PREL KDEM OESC IZ
10BAGHDAD514	PRT KIRKUK: KURDISH CAMPAIGN BEHAVIOR - UNHEEDED [...] This is a Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. Politically motivated intimidation, vandalism and threats of violence in Kirkuk did not subside following the provincial governor's emergency meeting, calling on political parties to cease irresponsible behavior [...]	2010-02-26 15:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM IZ
10BAGHDAD515	RRT ERBIL: PUK-GORAN VIOLENCE CONTINUES [...] (U) This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) Summary: A series of violent incidents beginning February 16 involving shootings and stabbings between supporters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Goran (Kurdish for "change") political movement has ra [...]	2010-02-27 13:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KTER KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD516	RRT ERBIL: EFFORTS TO CONTROL CLASHES IN [...] (U) This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) Summary: Sulaimaniyah's election security committee broadcast the decision February 19 to ban all outdoor campaign activities in Sulaimaniyah province between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. through the end of the [...]	2010-02-27 14:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL ASEC KTER IZ
10BAGHDAD519	PRT MAYSAN: IRAQI NATIONAL ALLIANCE POISED FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Well-respected local political observers predict that Iraqi National Alliance (INA) candidates may capture seven of Maysan,s ten Council of Representative (COR) seats. Provincial INA leaders successfully exploited anti-Ba'athist sentiment, appeared strong in the aft [...]	2010-02-28 07:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD52	PM MALIKI ON BLACKWATER, OIL CONTRACTS, UM QASR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi PM Maliki told the Ambassador January 7 that he was very satisfied with recent counterterrorism operations mounted in the Mosul area, attributing some of the success to measures he had implemented in the past that were providing the critical institutional support required t [...]	2010-01-08 14:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PTER IZ IR
10BAGHDAD520	HUMAM AL-HAMMUDI: ELECTION PROSPECTS AND U.S. ROLE [...] (C) Summary: Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) bloc leader Humam al-Hammudi was optimistic regarding the election and believed the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) and State of Law Alliance (SLA) were in very close competition. He welcomed U.S. and UNAMI efforts, especially monitoring, to s [...]	2010-02-28 07:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD521	MOD/MOI PERSONNEL CHURN INDICATIVE OF POLITICAL [...] (SECRET/NOFORN) SUMMARY: February 24 media accounts of renewed de-Ba'athification are not new; rather, they represent the culling of up to 376 MoD and MoI personnel previously reported in mid- and senior-level personnel assignments. Many of these personnel movements, however, arguably are unre [...]	2010-02-28 07:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PINS MCAP IZ
10BAGHDAD522	DIWANIYAH PROVINCE: DE-BA,ATHIFICATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Diwaniyah Province officials have eased up on their de-Ba,athification campaign, and in their conversations with PRToffs they now downplay plans for its implementation. Yet the de-Ba,athification issue lingers in the suspension of First Deputy Governor Ab,d Muslim Ghazali, a [...]	2010-02-28 07:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD526	RRT ERBIL: KURDISTAN ISLAMIC PARTY LEADERS ON [...] (U) This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable. 2. (C) Summary. The Ambassador,s Senior Advisor to Northern Iraq (SANI),RRT Team Leader, and RRT staff met separately with Salahaddin Bahauddin, leader of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) and Ali Bapir, leader of the Kurdis [...]	2010-02-28 14:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD535	LESSONS LEARNED FROM IDP RETURNS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Community leaders from south Baghdad's Saydiya neighborhood report that approximately 7,200 displaced families have returned since early 2008 and that around 1,400 families have not returned but rent out their homes. (NOTE: Baghdad ePRT tracking data from police statistics sh [...]	2010-02-28 15:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD63	FALLOUT OVER BLACKWATER CONTINUES, ALBEIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The public upset over the decision of U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina to dismiss the charges against former Blackwater employees for their role in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in September 2007 has quieted, but there continue to be repercussions. The Embassy and CODEL McCai [...]	2010-01-11 11:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PREL ASEC IZ

10BAGHDAD64	KRG OFFICIALS ON ARTICLE 140 AND KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with senior leaders of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG),the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraqi (SANI) emphasized U.S. support for a negotiated, consensus-based solution to Kirkuk. SANI stressed to Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Kamal Kirkuki an [...]	2010-01-11 14:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM USNC IZ
10BAGHDAD65	LETTER OF CONDOLENCE FOR VP BIDEN FROM IRAQI VP [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-11 15:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD70	IRAQI PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: Senators John McCain (R/AZ),Joseph Lieberman (I/CT),John Barrasso (R/WY),and John Thune (R/SD) on January 5, 2009 held meetings with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi to discuss the recent Blackwater ruling, upcoming Iraqi national election, an [...]	2010-01-11 15:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL
10BAGHDAD71	PM ADVISOR CITES IMPACT OF BLACKWATER DECISION ON [...] (C) Summary: PM Advisor Sadiq Rikabi told Pol M/C January 10 that the Blackwater decision would greatly complicate efforts to settle the Saddam-era civil claims of American citizens, and telegraphed that the GOI intended to use the decision as a lever in its bargaining on the level of compen [...]	2010-01-11 18:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNSC KJUS PREF IZ
10BAGHDAD74	S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL: WOMEN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the absence of comprehensive data, trafficking of women and girls for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and indentured servitude in Iraq appears to be a persistent and widespread problem. As the Government of Iraq (GOI) has not taken significant steps to [...]	2010-01-12 05:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM TIP AID SGWI TRSY ODAG
10BAGHDAD79	NAJAF GOVERNOR ON PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRT, including the Team Leader, Public Diplomacy Officer, the Chief Engineer, and one of our Linguists, met with Gov. Adnan Al-Zurfi January 5 to discuss a range of topics including a post-election Shia alliance, security, the Najaf International Airport, and the elections. Z [...]	2010-01-12 14:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV KCOR KISL KTFN PREL ASEC IZ
10BAGHDAD83	DETERIORATING CONDITIONS AT THE ANBAR DETENTION [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar (Ramadi) cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During a series of December visits to the Hurricane Point Judicial Complex in Ramadi, PRTOffs discovered unsafe and unsanitary conditions at the recently occupied detention facility. The principal cause of these condition [...]	2010-01-13 08:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM
10BAGHDAD89	IN WAKE OF ATTACKS, ANBAR GOVERNMENT SIDESTEPS [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar (Ramadi) cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The December 30 attacks against the Provincial Government Center in Anbar resulted in the resignation of the Provincial Chief of Police. The direct involvement of Prime Minister Maliki and Sahwa party head Sheikh Ahmed ab [...]	2010-01-13 12:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV KCOR KISL KTFN PREL ASEC IZ
10BAGHDAD90	AMBASSADOR PRESSES AL-MALIKI ON AL-MUTLAQ [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-13 13:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD91	RRT ERBIL: NO SIGN PUK-GORAN TENSIONS ABATING IN [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (U) Summary: Recent violence in Sulaimaniyah Province (details reported reftel) may foreshadow a rough and dirty political struggle between the PUK and Goran ("Change") Movement in the runup to the March 7 national elections. Everyone from KRG PM Salih [...]	2010-01-13 14:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD92	AMBASSADOR PRESSES AL-MALIKI ON AL-MUTLAQ [...] (C) Summary: In a difficult January 12 meeting, Iraqi PM al-Maliki strongly defended the actions against Sunni politician Saleh al-Mutlaq, insisting that no one could intervene in the process and that those who worry about sectarian tensions are "blowing things out of proportion." In respons [...]	2010-01-13 14:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAGHDAD93	NAJAF ELECTIONS DIRECTOR REPORTS ON POLLING [...] (U) This is a Najaf Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. PRT Najaf met with the Najaf Governorate Electoral Office (GEO) Director Bushra Kadhum Al-Zamily and Deputy Director Anwar Tha'aban Abid Ali regarding preparations for the upcoming elections. Director [...]	2010-01-13 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD94	ATTACKS STRIKE LOCAL ANBAR COUNTERRORISM UNIT [...] (U) This is a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Anbar (Ramadi) reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On January 7, a series of coordinated IED attacks targeted key members of the Counterterrorism Unit (CTU),Iraqi Police (IP),and judicial system in the central Anbar province cit [...]	2010-01-13 15:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PTER PGOV ASEC PREL EAID KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ
10BAGHDAD97	THE WAY FORWARD ON THE AL-MUTLAQ CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Summary: The controversy that has erupted over the possible barring of Sunni political leader Saleh al-Mutlaq has highlighted some of the swirling political cross-currents evident in the run-up to Iraqi elections in March. Few if any contacts have anything good to say about Mutlaq but ma [...]	2010-01-13 16:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
10BAKU11	WHY WE NEED A DEMOCRACY DIALOGUE WITH AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past year the democracy and human rights situation has worsened in Azerbaijan, harming the long-term stability of the country and our bilateral relations. Azerbaijan continues to be a strategically important country for the United States, particularly in terms of securi [...]	2010-01-07 11:55:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
10BAKU117	KREMLIN FREQUENT FLYER NARYSHKIN BRINGS SOFT POWER [...] (C) Summary. Sergey Naryshkin, the head of the Russian Presidential Administration, completed another high-profile visit to Baku - his fifth since President Aliyev's second presidential term began in October 2008 - from January 22-24. Naryshkin's visits combine close-hold diplomacy with Pres [...]	2010-02-18 13:46:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RU AM AJ
10BAKU118	AZERBAIJAN: S/GWI FY2010 PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] SUMMARY: Per reftel, this cable summarizes the three prioritized Post proposals addressing (1)prevention of gender-based violence through public awareness in IDP populated areas in the outskirts of Baku; (2) legal empowerment of women through education and individualized legal support in isola [...]	2010-02-19 14:09:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PHUM AID COM TSY AJ KWMN PREL
10BAKU120	AZERBAIJAN: AFGHAN TRAINING SUPPORT DEMARCHE [...] (C) Poloff delivered Reftel demarche to Anar Jahangirli, chief of the Security Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jahangirli was unable to confirm Azerbaijani participation at the 23 February Force Generation Conference, but said that the Ministry of Defense had been prope [...]	2010-02-22 09:09:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PGOV PREL AF AJ
10BAKU123	KAZAKH CIO TRIP TO BAKU AND YEREVAN "ONLY FOR [...] (C) Summary: Kazakhstan's Embassy eagerly denied to Poloff that FM Kanat Saudabayev, visiting Baku February 14-15 as OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CIO),brought any new proposals with him relating to Nagorno-Karabakh (NK),contrary to local media reporting. The Embassy emphasized that the Minister [...]	2010-02-23 12:21:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR AJ AM
10BAKU126	KHAMEINI REPORTEDLY COMMITTED TO LIMITED [...] (S) According to a Baku-based Iranian source with previously demonstrated access to information on inner-regime and reformist politics, Rafsanjani has obtained a written commitment from Supreme Leader Khameini to release large numbers of prisoners, return Revolutionary Guard detachments to th [...]	2010-02-25 05:18:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER AJ AF PK IR
10BAKU129	KHAMEINI REPORTEDLY COMMITTED TO LIMITED [...] (S) According to a Baku-based Iranian source with previously demonstrated access to information on inner-regime and reformist politics, Rafsanjani has obtained a written commitment from Supreme Leader Khameini to release large numbers of prisoners, return Revolutionary Guard detachments to th [...]	2010-02-25 05:18:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER AJ AF PK IR
10BAKU130	KHAMEINI REPORTEDLY COMMITTED TO LIMITED [...] (S) According to a Baku-based Iranian source with previously demonstrated access to information on inner-regime and reformist politics, Rafsanjani has obtained a written commitment from Supreme Leader Khameini to release large numbers of prisoners, return Revolutionary Guard detachments to th [...]	2010-02-25 05:18:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER AJ AF PK IR
10BAKU132	AZERBAIJAN: CHANGES TO MEDIA LAW CONSTRICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's Parliament on February 12 approved changes to media legislation that further restrict journalists from gathering and disseminating information while reinforcing the government's ability to investigate the public. In an already constrained media environment, these ch [...]	2010-02-25 06:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
10BAKU134	AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT TO U/S BURNS: "YOU CAN'T [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev used this coarse street slang to describe the relationship between Russian President Medvedev and PM Putin, but he might well have used the same idiom to describe his concerns about Turkey-Armenia reconciliation and the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) Peace Process. He to [...]	2010-02-25 08:15:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR ETRD AJ AM RS IR TU
10BAKU136	AZERBAIJAN 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Embassy submits answers to reftel questions on Trafficking in Persons in Azerbaijan. Point of contact is Poloff Joanna Ganson and she can be reach by phone 994-12-498-0335, fax 994-12-465-6671, and email gansonjh@state.gov. Estimated number of hours spent on thi [...]	2010-02-25 13:21:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL PINR KTIP ELAB KMCA PREF
10BAKU137	AZERBAIJAN: FATIMA ZAHRA MOSQUE AWAITS ITS FATE [...] (U) The Fatima Zahra mosque located in the Yeni Guneshli area of Baku's Surakhani District remains closed, and its construction is frozen amid press reporting and statements by religious officials criticizing the potential destruction of the mosque. 2. (C) In early February 2010, Po [...]	2010-02-26 12:40:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM IR AJ
10BAKU138	HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS NOW FOCUS ON RELIGIOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 22 poloff met with three of Azerbaijan's leading human rights defenders for an update on their major concerns. Topping their list were increasing Iranian-inspired religiosity and property rights, as well as political prisoners and NGO registration problems. The righ [...]	2010-02-26 12:45:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KIRF KISL IR AJ
10BAKU16	EXBS: AZERBAIJAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - December [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-08 12:48:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP AJ
10BAKU17	POLICE BRUTALITY IN NAKHCHIVAN VILLAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 27, 28 and January 5, police allegedly arrested and mistreated hundreds of residents of a small village in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan. The OSCE Office in Baku, through conversations with residents of the village now living in Baku, was able to confirm the b [...]	2010-01-08 12:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
10BAKU24	AZERBAIJAN: ENGAGEMENT ON WOMEN'S ISSUES [...] (SBU) This cable answers reftel questions on USG engagement on women's issues in Azerbaijan. 2. (SBU) Provide details on current women's issues programs which highlight Post's work with civil society, NGOs, local governments, international or regional organizations, and other relevant inter [...]	2010-01-12 13:03:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KWMN AJ
10BAKU27	AZERBAIJAN: POLOFF AND LES FACE HARASSMENT IN [...] (SBU) At 1100 local January 13, a group composed of Poloff, a political LES and the DCM of the Norwegian Embassy in Baku were harassed by an angry crowd while visiting the village of Bananiyar in the autonomous exclave of Nakhchivan to investigate the events reported in Reftel. On approaching [...]	2010-01-13 13:42:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC AJ
10BAKU32	AZERBAIJAN: AMBASSADOR MORNINGSTAR MEETING WITH [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On January 15, Ambassador Morningstar met with President Ilham Aliyev, and separately with Foreign Minister Mammadyarov, to discuss the status of various issues in the region and emphasize the U.S. desire to maintain strong bilateral relations with Azerbaijan. They [...]	2010-01-15 14:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EIND EPET PGOV PREL PTER TU AM AJ
10BAKU39	AZERBAIJAN: DIPLOMATS HARASSED IN NAKHCHIVAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: As detailed in reftel A, on December 28 and January 5, police mistreated hundreds and arrested dozens of residents of Bananyar, a small village in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan. Poloff and a political LES joined the Norwegian DCM on a fact-finding trip to Nakhchivan on Ja [...]	2010-01-19 13:43:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KIRF AJ
10BAKU49	AZERBAIJAN: FOREIGN MINISTER BLAMES THE U.S. FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: During Ambassador Morningstar's January 15 meeting with Foreign Minister Mammadyarov, Charge took the opportunity to draw the Minister's attention to the recent incident in Nakhchivan (ref A) and the Charge's earlier discussion with Deputy Foreign Minister Sadiqov. The exchang [...]	2010-01-25 12:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC KDM AJ
10BAKU50	AZERBAIJAN: FM EXPECTED AT LONDON CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-25 13:06:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF
10BAKU59	EXBS: AZERBAIJAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - January [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-29 06:35:00	Embassy Baku	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP AJ
10BAKU69	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR CLAIMS NAKHCHIVAN POLICE [...] (C) On January 29, Senior Presidential Advisor for Law Enforcement Fuad Alesgarov told the Charge that "I don't know if there were Interior Ministry abuses in Bananyar village (of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic),but if there were, we had to do it to fight religious extremism." He continu [...]	2010-02-02 13:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PHUM PREL KTIP AJ IR
10BAKU77	AZERBAIJAN: MEETING WITH BP PRESIDENT JAVANSHIR [...] (C): Charge Lu and Energy Officer met with BP President Rashid Javanshir and British Ambassador Dr. Carolyn Browne on February 1. Javanshir reviewed the January 22 meeting in Baku between President Aliyev and BP Head of Exploration and Production (E&P) and Board Member Andy Inglis. Aliyev t [...]	2010-02-03 14:29:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL TU IR AJ
10BAKU79	AZERBAIJAN GOVERNMENT COMMENTS ON MOBILIZING [...] (C) Baku Iran Affairs Officer vigorously delivered reftel talking points on February 2 to Elchin Huseynli, MFA point man on the Iranian nuclear program. Huseynli, reports directly to GOAJ Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov, and was accompanied by his deputy, Aykan Hajizada. 2. (C) Husey [...]	2010-02-04 13:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UNSC OSCE RU IR AJ
10BAKU86	BAKU SCENESETTER FOR U/S BURNS' FEBRUARY 19 VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Baku will be a welcome demonstration of high-level attention to Azerbaijan as the Turkey-Armenia normalization process moves toward a conclusion. Baku is plainly seeking assurances that the United States will continue to engage on Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) after the Tur [...]	2010-02-09 14:32:00	Embassy Baku	SECRET	PREL PGOV ETRD EPET ENRG PHUM KDEM AJ AM TU
10BAKU92	VIEW FROM BAKU - "IRAN CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS" [...] (C) Over the last ten days Baku Iran watcher has met with over a dozen Iranian contacts to obtain their insights and expectations on the upcoming 22 Bahman/February 11 opposition demonstrations in Iran. Contacts polled included Iranian bankers, wealthy businessmen, NGO figures, journalists, [...]	2010-02-10 12:24:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL PHUM AJ IR
10BAKU93	VIEW FROM BAKU - "IRAN CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS" [...] (C) Over the last ten days Baku Iran watcher has met with over a dozen Iranian contacts to obtain their insights and expectations on the upcoming 22 Bahman/February 11 opposition demonstrations in Iran. Contacts polled included Iranian bankers, wealthy businessmen, NGO figures, journalists, [...]	2010-02-10 13:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL PHUM AJ IR
10BAKU97	VIEW FROM BAKU - "IRAN CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS" [...] (C) Over the last ten days Baku Iran watcher has met with over a dozen Iranian contacts to obtain their insights and expectations on the upcoming 22 Bahman/February 11 opposition demonstrations in Iran. Contacts polled included Iranian bankers, wealthy businessmen, NGO figures, journalists, managem [...]	2010-02-11 10:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL PHUM AJ IR
10BAMAKO102	MALIAN PRESS REPORTS THAT GOM RELEASED AQIM [...] (SBU) On February 19, the Malian newspaper l'Independant carried a front page news story stating that in an extraordinary session beginning at 6:30 a.m. on the morning of February 18, the judge presiding over the court of first instance of Bamako's Commune III released four Al Qaeda in the L [...]	2010-02-19 13:36:00	Embassy Bamako	SECRET	ML PREL PTER
10BAMAKO11	MALIAN PRESIDENT ADDRESSES DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON [...] (C) Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) followed his annual formal New Year,s greeting to the diplomatic corps with a lengthy private discourse on the problems he is facing in the north of Mali. While acknowledging Mali's own shortcomings and without mentioning particular nations [...]	2010-01-07 15:27:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ML PGOV PREL PTER
10BAMAKO13	MALI SEEKS AGREMENT FOR AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE MAMADOU [...] (SBU) The Embassy received on January 8 a diplomatic note (dated January 4) from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Mali in Bamako. The note seeks the USG's agrement for the appointment of Mamadou Traore as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotent [...]	2010-01-11 14:26:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OFDP ML
10BAMAKO17	AQIM SEEKING INTERMEDIARY IN MAURITANIA VIA MALIAN [...] (S/NF) Presidential advisor Kader Bah called PolCouns on the evening of 01/05/10 to inform that he had received a request from AQIM via Mohamed ould Mataly to facilitate contact with someone in Mauritania close to President Aziz who could be an intermediary for negotiations. By way of backgro [...]	2010-01-12 14:50:00	Embassy Bamako	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL ML
10BAMAKO48	MALI - GHFSI DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY [...] (U) Embassy Bamako is pleased to submit its Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative (GHFSI) diplomatic strategy paper. Post has a robust plan to foster agricultural development. It coordinates closely with the Government of Mali (GOM) and international donor partners. We have identified s [...]	2010-01-29 11:11:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR PREL ML
10BAMAKO49	MALI APPROVES A CONTENTIOUS 2010 BUDGET [...] Summary: Mali's National Assembly approved the 2010 budget, also known as the finance law, on December 18. The law passed by a wide margin in spite of concern in the preceding weeks from opposition political parties about the irregular way the GOM was accounting for revenue from privatized par [...]	2010-01-31 11:12:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EAID EINT PREL PGOV
10BAMAKO53	MALI APPROVES A CONTENTIOUS 2010 BUDGET [...] Summary: Mali's National Assembly approved the 2010 budget, also known as the finance law, on December 18. The law passed by a wide margin in spite of concern in the preceding weeks from opposition political parties about the irregular way the GOM was accounting for revenue from privatized par [...]	2010-02-01 11:23:00	Embassy Bamako	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EAID EINT PREL PGOV
10BAMAKO59	MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE IRAN'S ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) On February 1 Charge met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Al-Maamoun Keita to highlight U.S. efforts to mobilize diplomatic engagement with Iran in 2009, underscore the lack of a meaningful Iranian response, outline U.S. view of the necessity of increasing pressure on Iran [...]	2010-02-01 17:27:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PARM PREL UNSC
10BAMAKO75	MALIAN SECURITY SERVICE ARRESTS CHEIBANI OULD HAMA [...] (S) On February 2, 2010, Malian security forces apprehended Cheibani ould Hama (a.k.a. Alhassan ould Mohammed). Cheibani has been accused of participating in the kidnappings of four western tourists along the Mali/Niger border in late December 2008/early January 2009. These were later sold [...]	2010-02-09 09:27:00	Embassy Bamako	SECRET//NOFORN	PINS PREL PTER ML
10BAMAKO98	NEW ALGERIAN AMBASSADOR TO MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (S) The new Algerian Ambassador to Mali, Nourredine Ayadi, paid what turned out to be much more than a courtesy call on the Ambassador on February 10. Ayadi said Algeria's and Mali's fate were tied together by history and geography. Unfortunately, the two countries have a very different app [...]	2010-02-19 12:50:00	Embassy Bamako	SECRET	MARR ML PREL PTER
10BAMAKO99	NEW ALGERIAN AMBASSADOR TO MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (S) The new Algerian Ambassador to Mali, Nourredine Ayadi, paid what turned out to be much more than a courtesy call on the Ambassador on February 10. Ayadi said Algeria's and Mali's fate were tied together by history and geography. Unfortunately, the two countries have a very different app [...]	2010-02-19 12:50:00	Embassy Bamako	SECRET	MARR ML PREL PTER
10BANDARSERIBEGAWAN12	NEW YEAR BRINGS NEW REGULATIONS FOR CREDIT CARDS AND [...] (SBU) The Government of Brunei (GOB) rang in the New Year with a series of immediately applicable personal credit card regulations enforced throughout the banking community. Raising minimum age limits, regulating card balance limits independent of bank control, and imposing mandated deposits w [...]	2010-01-15 07:48:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AMGT ETRD ECON BX
10BANDARSERIBEGAWAN32	BRUNEI DEBATING COPENHAGEN ACCORD [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-16 00:35:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KINR BX
10BANDARSERIBEGAWAN6	BRUNEI'S EXPANDING ANTI-CORRUPTION PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) Brunei has seen a relative increase in corruption case brought to trial as well as said trials receiving extensive media coverage. Most cases involve Government of Brunei (GoB) employees charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The GoB employees range from a career diplomat receivi [...]	2010-01-08 04:07:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KINR BX
10BANGKOK113	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES NEW MFA PERMANENT [...] (C) Summary. During a January 12 meeting with the new MFA Permanent Secretary Theerakun Niyom, the Ambassador and Theerakun explored opportunities for U.S. engagement in Thailand and the region, agreeing that additional U.S. involvement would be valuable for both nations. The Ambassador prev [...]	2010-01-14 09:42:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM APEC SMIG TH LA
10BANGKOK114	THAILAND: MFA REACTS STRONGLY TO AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador's opinion piece on the repatriation of the Lao Hmong in the Bangkok Post on January 13 triggered an immediate reaction from the RTG (full op-ed text included at para 7). The PM's office and MFA called first thing in the morning. PermSec Theerakul tasked the MFA Americas [...]	2010-01-14 10:16:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PREF TH
10BANGKOK126	THAILAND PLANS TO ASSIST HAITI [...] (SBU) The RTG plans to provide $20,000 assistance to Haiti following the devastating earthquake on January 12, Phisek Panupat of MFA's Latin America Division confirmed to us. (Note: No information on how that money would be sent.) The RTG is forming an interagency team to examine what addition [...]	2010-01-19 00:13:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM TH
10BANGKOK146	THAILAND SUPPORTS U.S. INDICTMENT IN JUTHAMAS [...] (SBU) Summary. Per reftel request, we notified officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),the Office of the Attorney General (OAG),and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) January 17-18 regarding DOJ's intention to unseal an indictment against Juthamas Siriwan and her daug [...]	2010-01-19 09:23:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCOR KCRM TH
10BANGKOK147	SOUTHERN THAILAND: JUNE 2009 MOSQUE SHOOTING [...] (SBU) Summary: Sutthirak Kongsuwan, the prime suspect in the June 8, 2009 shooting at the Al Furqon mosque in Narathiwat, turned himself into Thai police on January 14 after months of pressure from Democrat Party politicians on security forces for progress in the case. Authorities announced t [...]	2010-01-19 10:05:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
10BANGKOK148	THAILAND INCREASES PLANNED CASH AID FOR HAITI, MOD [...] (SBU) We conveyed reftel U.S. appreciation for Thailand's assistance for Haiti relief efforts to Phisek Panupat of the Latin America Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs January 19. Phisek confirmed to us that the Thai Cabinet had decided earlier January 19 to increase Thailand's offer [...]	2010-01-19 11:30:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT TH HA
10BANGKOK149	THAILAND: RED-SHIRT CORE LEADERS TELL AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with top strategists of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD, or "red-shirts") on January 14 to engage them on UDD plans for anti-government protests in the new year. The Ambassador stressed the importance of the movement eschewing violence a [...]	2010-01-20 04:44:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
10BANGKOK165	CABINET RESHUFFLE UNFOLDS LARGELY ACCORDING TO PLAN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) Five new cabinet members took their oath of allegiance to King Bhumibol on January 18, completing a long-anticipated change to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's administration. While the changes affecting De [...]	2010-01-20 09:23:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
10BANGKOK175	THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG Bangkok has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individual listed below, who has been selected to attend the below-me [...]	2010-01-21 07:45:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
10BANGKOK178	AMBASSADOR AND RTG SPOKESMAN DISCUSS RED SHIRTS, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with RTG spokesperson Dr. Panitan Wattanayakorn at the Residence January 21 to review the latest political developments in Thailand. Panitan analyzed the three main factions within the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD),aka t [...]	2010-01-22 07:14:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PREF SMIG TH
10BANGKOK184	THAILAND: AUTHORITIES SEARCH RED SHIRT AGITATOR,S [...] (U) Summary: Police raided the home of Maj. Gen. Khattiya Sawasdiphol (aka "Seh Daeng") on January 21 in connection with his possible involvement in an apparent grenade attack targeting Royal Thai Army (RTA) Commander in Chief Anupong Paojinda. Authorities also raided Seh Daeng's former drive [...]	2010-01-22 11:09:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
10BANGKOK185	A/S SHAPIRO AND THE AMBASSADOR PRESS FOR [...] (C) Summary. During a January 13-15 visit, Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro and the Ambassador repeatedly raised a USG request for the Thai government's list of screened-in Hmong during meetings with Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thuagsuban, Minister of Defense [...]	2010-01-23 10:40:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG TH LA
10BANGKOK186	A/S SHAPIRO VISIT: DISCUSSIONS OF REGIONAL ISSUES, [...] (C) Summary. During a January 13-15 visit, Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro discussed a range of regional issues during meetings with senior Thai officials. The rise of China was viewed benignly by Thai officials, who stressed that Beijing was more interested [...]	2010-01-23 10:42:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM MARR MASS TH CH CB
10BANGKOK192	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES PRIVY COUNCIL CHAIR [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador paid a series of New Year's-related calls on influential Thai figures, including Privy Council Chair GEN Prem, Privy Council member ACM Siddhi, and former PM Anand, to discuss the year ahead. Abhisit's performance, issues related to the royal family, and challenges posed by [...]	2010-01-25 07:59:00	Embassy Bangkok	SECRET	PREL PGOV TH
10BANGKOK197	A/S SHAPIRO VISIT: BILATERAL TIES AND DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary. During a January 13-15 visit, Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro met with a wide range of military and civilian government officials to discuss U.S.-Thai relations, Thai views of strategic challenges, and RTG plans to deploy a battalion of peacekeep [...]	2010-01-25 09:47:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS PINS PHUM TH
10BANGKOK198	THAI-CAMBODIAN SPAT: THAI RANGERS CLASH WITH [...] (C) Summary: Thai rangers clashed January 24 with Cambodian troops in area east of the Preah Vihear temple. The clash apparently occurred near where Cambodian troops had engaged in illegal logging inside Thailand earlier in January. There were no reports of casualties. Local Thai and Cambodi [...]	2010-01-25 09:57:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
10BANGKOK207	THAILAND: NO STANDARDS WHEN IT COMES TO "OWNING" [...] (U) Summary: In recent weeks, the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD, or "red-shirts") has targeted Privy Councilors Surayud Chulanon and Prem Tinsulanonda and their alleged encroachment on protected national parks to highlight the issue of illegal land holdings in Thailand, [...]	2010-01-26 02:26:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
10BANGKOK209	BANGKOK ENGAGES MEDIA AND PUBLIC ON HAITI [...] Summary: Post engaged local Thai audiences in a variety of ways to counter any possible misperceptions, inaccuracies and misinformation regarding U.S. relief efforts for Haiti. The centerpiece of the outreach was a roundtable for Thai journalists held by the Ambassador on Thursday, January 21 [...]	2010-01-26 04:53:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO KDEM OIIP HA TH
10BANGKOK210	SUSPECTED VIOLATION OF ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT BY [...] (C) Summary. Post believes that the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has violated the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) by transferring Pratt & Whitney F100 engines to Samsung Industries in the Republic of Korea and Bet Shemesh Industries in Israel for overhaul and repair, prior to return to Thaila [...]	2010-01-26 09:40:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS ETTC TH
10BANGKOK211	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES OPPOSITION PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador called on opposition Puea Thai party Chair GEN Chavalit Yongchaiyuth January 26 to discuss the Thai political year ahead, the relationship between Thaksin, his Puea Thai party, and the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD),and the agenda that [...]	2010-01-26 09:45:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
10BANGKOK227	THAILAND: DEMOCRATS OPPOSE CHARTER CHANGES [...] (U) Summary: The Democrat Party MP caucus voted on January 26 to oppose the proposal by the five junior members of the governing coalition to amend the constitution. The coalition partners had proposed altering the articles dealing with the parliamentary electoral system (Article 94) and parli [...]	2010-01-27 11:14:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
10BANGKOK233	THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG Bangkok has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the 3 individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the bel [...]	2010-01-28 10:12:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
10BANGKOK244	THAILAND: PM'S DEMOCRAT PARTY IN SIMMERING LEGAL [...] (C) Even as the Democrat party struggles to manage the political fallout associated with spurning its coalition partners on the constitutional amendment push (reftel),another cloud looms on the horizon. The party stands accused by political opponents of running afoul of the Political Parties [...]	2010-01-28 10:48:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
10BANGKOK248	THAI TELECOMS: FINANCE MINISTER KORN'S PLAN TO BREAK THE 3G [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Thai government has repeatedly delayed the auction and licensing of third generation (3G) telecommunications services -- largely because of disagreements over how to deal with the two state-owned telecommunications operators, TOT and CAT, and the private providers that have c [...]	2010-01-29 04:56:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV KIPR PREL TH
10BANGKOK249	THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG Bangkok has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the unit and the commander listed below, who has been selected to attend [...]	2010-01-29 09:02:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
10BANGKOK255	DASD SCHER ADDRESSSES ASEAN CENTRALITY, U.S. ROLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a January 21-23 visit, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Robert Scher met with officials from the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss a variety of bilateral and regional issues. The centrality of [...]	2010-01-29 11:04:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SMIG TH
10BANGKOK259	DASD SCHER ADDRESSSES ASEAN CENTRALITY, U.S. ROLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a January 21-23 visit, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Robert Scher met with officials from the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss a variety of bilateral and regional issues. The centrality of [...]	2010-02-01 06:49:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SMIG TH
10BANGKOK269	CHINA,S SUSTAINED, SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS TO COURT [...] (C) Summary: Thai contacts from government to academia see a decade-long Chinese romance of Southeast Asia, both through ASEAN and bilaterally, to have been successful in increasing Chinese influence during a period in which many believe that U.S. influence and prestige in the region has waned [...]	2010-02-02 04:24:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SMIG TH
10BANGKOK276	EMBASSY ENGAGES THAI OFFICIALS ON SECOND BOUT [...] (C) Summary: Per reftel request, we briefed officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on January 27 and Office of the Attorney General (OAG) on February 1 about the existence of a second, sealed indictment and USG plans to submit an additional extradition request for Viktor Bout. The [...]	2010-02-02 09:18:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	CJAN PGOV PREL TH
10BANGKOK278	THE CURSE OF THE BLUE DIAMOND: THAILAND INDICTS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the latest chapter of a two decade-long saga which has long soured Thai-Saudi relations, the Royal Thai Government (RTG) Office of the Attorney General on January 12 indicted five police officers in connection with the 1990 murder of a Saudi Arabian businessman with family ti [...]	2010-02-02 10:43:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SA TH
10BANGKOK281	THAILAND: MINORITY COALITION PARTNERS SUBMIT [...] (U) Summary: The five junior partners in the ruling government coalition moved forward February 3 with filing a motion to change two provisions of the constitution, while continuing to profess their commitment to the coalition. The partners seek to alter the articles in the constitution that [...]	2010-02-03 08:05:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
10BANGKOK283	THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG Bangkok has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individual listed below, who has been selected to attend the below-me [...]	2010-02-03 09:50:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
10BANGKOK286	CHINA'S RISE AS THAILAND'S ECONOMIC PARTNER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For the month of December 2009, China, for the first time, displaced the United States as Thailand's top export market. For the previous year as a whole, the U.S. barely held on to the number one position it has held for decades, but China is likely to overtake the U.S. in 2010. [...]	2010-02-03 09:51:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV PREL CH TH
10BANGKOK287	THAILAND: KING BHUMIBOL RESUMES A MORE VISIBLE [...] (C) King Bhumibol Adulyadej has actively presided over three separate swearing-in ceremonies at Siriraj Hospital since mid-January, dispensing philosophic advice to ministers and judges in public and the Prime Minister in private. In addition to swearing-in the five new cabinet members on Jan [...]	2010-02-03 10:47:00	Embassy Bangkok	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR TH
10BANGKOK3	PM ABHISIT AT THE ONE-YEAR MARK: A MOSTLY POSITIVE [...] (C) One-year into his term as Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva has lasted in office far longer than most political prognosticators ever thought possible. Through this sheer act of survival in the rough and tumble world of Thai politics, he has confounded his detractors and rebutted -- in the [...]	2010-01-04 04:45:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
10BANGKOK310	China's Role in Thai Education Growing, but not [...] (SBU) This is the third in a series of cables on China's influence in Thailand. 2. (SBU) Summary. The impact of China's efforts to increase its soft power in Thailand is evident in the field of education. The number of Thai students in China and of Chinese students in Thailand has increa [...]	2010-02-04 23:59:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO SCUL PREL CH TH
10BANGKOK319	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR MEETS FORMER PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with former Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa on February 4 at Chart Thai Pattana party headquarters to review the latest political developments. Countering much press speculation, Banharn told the Ambassador he never expected the Democrat party to endorse the [...]	2010-02-05 09:17:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR TH
10BANGKOK320	THAI FINANCE MINISTER REAFFIRMS TO AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: In a February 4 meeting, Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij reaffirmed to the Ambassador his personal commitment to working through economic and commercial issues of concern to the USG and U.S. businesses. Korn informed the Ambassador that draft customs law amendments may be presen [...]	2010-02-05 10:01:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV PREL KHLS EWWT TH
10BANGKOK34	THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG Bangkok has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the 3 individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the bel [...]	2010-01-07 03:03:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
10BANGKOK340	THAILAND: GOVERNMENT PREPARES FOR THE LATEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Posturing and positioning ahead of the latest "final battle" promised by anti-government red-shirt activists at the end of the month picked up pace the first week of February, as larger cracks emerged within the pro-Thaksin camp. Finance Minister Korn told Ambassador February 4 [...]	2010-02-09 08:02:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
10BANGKOK344	THAILAND: "LET THE MAGIC AMULET BREAK YOUR NECK" - [...] (C) Summary. Thai refusal to allow Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen to bring armed soldiers to visit Ta Muen Thom, border temple ruins long under Thai control, February 8 apparently led to Hun Sen's most recent scathing denunciation of Thai PM Abhisit, with the colorful insults dominating Tha [...]	2010-02-09 11:44:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SMIG TH
10BANGKOK35	THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG Bangkok has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individual listed below, who has been selected to attend the below-me [...]	2010-01-07 03:03:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
10BANGKOK360	RELO BANGKOK REPORT ON ENGLISH-TEACHING IN THAILAND [...] (SBU) Summary. The Regional English Language Office (RELO) in Bangkok, consisting of a RELO and a RELO Assistant (LES),is actively engaged in a variety of programs aimed at improving the teaching and learning of English in SE Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Taiwan). A dive [...]	2010-02-11 05:44:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL TH KPAO OEXC SCUL

10BANGKOK362	THAILAND: EAP DAS MARCIEL ENGAGES RED-SHIRT [...] (U) Summary: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel met separately with the top strategists of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD, or "red-shirts") and a group which included PM deputy SecGen and Acting Government Spokesman Panitan on February 10 to discuss the state [...]	2010-02-11 07:46:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
10BANGKOK366	SOUTHERN THAILAND UPDATE: ROLE OF PARAMILITARY AND [...] (C) Summary: A variety of government, academic, and civil society contacts we engaged in Thailand's violence-affected southern provinces in late December presented consistent perceptions about the various paramilitary groups affiliated with military or interior/police structures and operating i [...]	2010-02-11 08:02:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
10BANGKOK367	EXBS: THAILAND/VIETNAM/CAMBODIA ADVISOR MONTHLY [...] (U) Advisor participated in a Thai Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) border trip to Chiang Mai, Jan. 11-13. Advisor met with Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTArF) Director, Department of Border Affairs, on Jan. 15 regarding December's International Border Interdiction Training (IBIT) in Mc [...]	2010-02-11 08:50:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL TH VN CB
10BANGKOK378	THAILAND S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS FOR THE 2010 [...] (SBU) Embassy Bangkok's grant review committee submits the following four proposals for consideration for the 2010 Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI) small grants initiative. Our first choice is an innovative and comprehensive economic empowerment program for women in Souther [...]	2010-02-12 08:02:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO TH
10BANGKOK381	DAS MARCIEL ENGAGES THAI LEADERS ON BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary. EAP DAS and Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs Scot Marciel engaged the Thai MFA PermSec and PM deputy SecGen, as well as several prominent Thai thinkers, on key regional and bilateral issues during his February 10 visit to Bangkok. Issues included regional architecture, U.S.-Thai rel [...]	2010-02-12 10:28:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SMIG TH
10BANGKOK384	THAILAND: BANGKOK ON EDGE FOLLOWING BOMB SCARE, [...] (SBU) Summary: With Bangkok already tense following weeks of small-scale anti-government protests, two bombing incidents over the weekend served to further heighten anxieties in Thailand's capital. Late in the evening on February 13, a grenade exploded at a college near Government House with [...]	2010-02-16 09:20:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
10BANGKOK385	THAILAND PUSHES FOR USG ENGAGEMENT ON ASEAN [...] (SBU) MFA Department of ASEAN Affairs Counselor Suriya Chindawongse told PolOff and EXBS Advisor February 12 that ASEAN leaders had prioritized Connectivity, an ASEAN initiative established by heads of state and government in October 2009. Suriya told us that ASEAN would promote Connectivity [...]	2010-02-16 10:05:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF ETTC CH JA TH
10BANGKOK411	ADMIRAL WILLARD'S VISIT TO THAILAND: IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) Summary. Senior Thai leaders stressed continued U.S. engagement in Thailand and assistance to the Thai military as extremely valuable during Admiral Willard's February 2-7 visit. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva highlighted his desire for continued strong U.S. engagement in Thailand and [...]	2010-02-18 05:04:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF MARR MASS MCAP TH
10BANGKOK413	ADMIRAL WILLARD'S VISIT TO THAILAND: RTG FOCUSED [...] (C) Summary. Senior Thai leaders provided their view of the strategic goals for Thailand and the nations' goals for the future for PACOM Commander Admiral Willard during his February 2-7 visit. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva encouraged increased U.S. engagement in the region, particularly [...]	2010-02-18 06:48:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF TH
10BANGKOK414	ADMIRAL WILLARD'S VISIT TO THAILAND: POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. During U.S. Pacific Command Commander Admiral Robert Willard's February 2-7 visit to Thailand in conjunction with the multilateral Cobra Gold exercise, Thai officials and political commentators expressed optimism that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva would be able to effectively [...]	2010-02-18 06:48:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF TH
10BANGKOK43	SCENESETTER FOR CONGRESSMAN FALEOMAVAEGA,S JANUARY [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Congressman Faleomavaega, Embassy Bangkok warmly welcomes your visit. You will arrive January 16 to a Kingdom of Thailand divided politically and focused inward, uncertain about the country's future after [...]	2010-01-07 09:08:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
10BANGKOK434	DON,T CALL IT A COMEBACK: THAKSIN,S PARTY LOOKS TO [...] (C) Fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Puea Thai political party appears poised to reassert its political pre-eminence in one of its traditional strongholds in Northeastern Thailand, aka Isaan. Unlike in central Isaan (REF B),and south-central Issan (REF C),where the trend [...]	2010-02-23 00:32:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR TH
10BANGKOK45	SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHAPIRO [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Shapiro, Embassy Bangkok welcomes you to Thailand. Despite ongoing domestic discord and current inward focus, Thailand's strategic importance to the U.S. cannot be overstated. Your visit provides an opportunity to signal the United States' appreciation for the long-s [...]	2010-01-07 10:42:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS PINS PHUM TH
10BANGKOK470	THAILAND: RED PLANS CRYSTALLIZE ON EVE OF THAKSIN [...] (C) The Thai Supreme Court will issue the much anticipated verdict in the Thaksin assets case February 26. The judgment itself remains an unknown, with most contacts anticipating either a partial or full seizure of the frozen 76 billion baht (more than $2 billion). However, the Thaksin-affili [...]	2010-02-25 09:23:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR CASC TH
10BANGKOK478	THAILAND: GT200 BOMB DETECTOR FAILURE IGNITES [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva ordered a halt to RTG procurement of the GT200 explosive detection device on February 16, after tests conducted by the Ministry of Science and Technology determined the device was ineffective. The GT200 is used throughout Thailand by many agenci [...]	2010-02-26 08:22:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
10BANGKOK481	THAILAND: MFA ANTICIPATING OCTOBER ELECTIONS IN [...] (C) Summary. MFA Burma Unit Chief Arunrung Phothong Humphreys told us February 24 that the RTG still believed that Burma would hold elections in October of this year, despite some rumors that they would be held in May (reftel). The RTG intends to increase assistance to Burma for development a [...]	2010-02-26 09:40:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SMIG TH BU
10BANGKOK61	THAILAND: PM ABHISIT TAKES A STAND, FORCES DEPUTY [...] (C) Deputy Public Health Minister Manit Nopamornbodi tendered his resignation January 10 in the wake of a scandal involving planned procurement irregularities that already cost the Health Minster his job (reftel). The resignation represented a sharp about face for both Manit and his political [...]	2010-01-11 11:24:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
10BANGKOK80	THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG Bangkok has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the 3 individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the bel [...]	2010-01-12 07:11:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
10BANGKOK86	THAILAND TO PUSH FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary. During a meeting with MFA Permanent Secretary Theerakun Niyom, the Ambassador reviewed U.S. policy towards Rangoon and emphasized the important role the RTG could play in encouraging broad and inclusive political dialogue in Burma. The Permanent Secretary expressed agreement, an [...]	2010-01-12 10:12:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF TH BM
10BANGUI1	THE ELECTION PROCESS IN THE CAR - A WORK IN PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The electoral prospectus for the 2010 Central African (CAR) presidential and legislative elections was announced by electoral authorities last month, but with a tight schedule and continuing violence in many parts of the country, the CAR will face many challenges in meeting the t [...]	2010-01-05 06:49:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CT
10BANGUI11	CAR: MINISTER REQUESTS MORE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, RETURN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador and DCM met with Minister of Economy, Planning, and International Cooperation Sylvain Maliko and his deputy on January 22 to discuss U.S. development assistance to the Central African Republic (CAR). The meeting was at Maliko's request. Maliko praised the high level [...]	2010-01-25 08:43:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AID EAID ECON PREL CT
10BANGUI13	CAR: BIG HILLBILLY BLUEGRASS BAND TAKES BANGUI [...] SUMMARY: The visit of "Bob Perilla's Big Hillbilly Bluegrass Band" (BHBB) to the Central African Republic from January 16 to 21 was a resounding success that enabled post to build good will with the Central African Government and populace and provide an exchange of traditional American and Cent [...]	2010-01-25 16:55:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SCUL CT
10BANGUI14	DISTRACTED DRIVING DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO CARG [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-26 13:28:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SOCI UNDP UNGA EU CT
10BANGUI17	CAR: HAITI DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] Reftel demarche was delivered to the Central African Republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on January 27. Post will report any response. 2. On January 20, the Ambassador delivered remarks in Sango, the national language, during a major cultural event and called for solidarity with the peo [...]	2010-01-28 17:15:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF EAID ECON HA CT
10BANGUI2	FURTHER ATTACKS TARGETING NGOS IN NE CAR MARK TROUBLING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The December 22 and 23 targeted attacks on International Medical Corp (IMC) facilities, in northeastern Central African Republic (CAR) continue a disturbing pattern in this lawless and unstable part of central Africa (Ref A). The recent discovery of the three IMC vehicles for sa [...]	2010-01-05 17:09:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PREF CT
10BANGUI29	BOZIZE PARRIES OPPOSITION THIS TIME, BUT ELECTORAL CALENDAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Saturday, January 30, 2010, President Francois Bozize convoked the Central African political class and the Bangui diplomatic corps to discuss and resolve a contretemps over the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). He further took the opportunity to address, but not give cl [...]	2010-02-01 15:20:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CT
10BANGUI34	CAR: FORMER MINISTER AND CURRENT MILITA LEADER LIKELY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charles Massi, a four-time former minister and political head of the Patriotic Convention for Justice and Peace (CPJP) militia group (Ref A),is widely presumed murdered after Chadian forces arrested him and turned him over to Central African authorities in December 2009. While f [...]	2010-02-08 07:58:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CT
10BANGUI36	CAR: FORMER PRESIDENT KOLINGBA DIES, LEAVES BEHIND A PARTY [...] (SBU) Former Central African President Andre Kolingba, who ruled the country from 1981 to 1993, died in Paris on February 7, 2010 after a long illness. Coming to power in a coup d'etat, General Kolingba ruled the CAR as a one party state until forced into elections in 1993. A former Ambassador [...]	2010-02-08 13:14:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CT
10BANGUI41	LINKAGE BETWEEN DDR AND ELECTIONS COULD SPELL TROUBLE FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 2010 Central African elections and the country's Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programs are becoming increasingly linked, which could result in serious difficulties for the country in the coming months. The opposition continues seek every opportunity to [...]	2010-02-16 15:10:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CT
10BANGUI42	CAR: PRESIDENT CUTS FUNDING FOR THE ELECTIONS AND ASKS THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Though the Central African Republic Government (CARG) promised USD 7.9 million for the upcoming national elections, President Bozize announced on February 2 that the CARG would only make USD 4.3 million available. President Bozize then urged the United Nations Peace Building Fun [...]	2010-02-16 17:26:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CT
10BANGUI46	S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: In response to Ref A, below is Post's submission for S/GWI funding for the Central African Republic (CAR). The program seeks to improve women's leadership capacity, provide technical assistance and capacity building for women's organizations, and promote women's political advancem [...]	2010-02-19 07:34:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY CT
10BANGUI54	CAR: ELECTIONS DELAYS THREATEN CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER, MAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Central African constitutional and electoral law stipulates that elections must occur 105 days before the end of the government's mandate, with the Council of Ministers announcing elections at least 60 days before the planned date. Although the Independent Electoral Commissi [...]	2010-02-24 12:43:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CT
10BANGUI7	CAR: IMPROVEMENTS IN BUDGET TRANSPARENCY EVIDENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is a response to Ref A. The Central African Republic (CAR) made commendable strides to address budget transparency in 2009. Though there is still much ground to cover, the government, with the help of the international community, is making concerted efforts to increase its [...]	2010-01-14 16:49:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AID EAID ECON EFIN PREL CT
10BANGUI9	DIAMONDS IN THE CAR: DELETERIOUS TO DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Central African Republic (CAR) is at the bottom of the UN's Human Development Index while at the same time possessing vast mineral wealth that could fuel economic growth. Diamonds, in particular, make up roughly 45 percent of all exports from the CAR. Yet, despite particip [...]	2010-01-20 09:19:00	Embassy Bangui	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KCOR ECON EFIN EMIN CT
10BANJUL65	Ambassador Meets with President Jammeh [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-26 12:10:00	Embassy Banjul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PHUM GA
10BARCELONA20	BARCELONA BRIEF - A TWICE MONTHLY ROUNDUP OF POL/ECON [...] (U) Barcelona Mayor Jordi Hereu's announcement that the city will bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics has sparked tension with the neighboring autonomous community of Aragon, which also seeks to host the Games. Hereu's surprise announcement last month caught many off guard, as Aragon's capital c [...]	2010-02-22 09:36:00	Consulate Barcelona	UNCLASSIFIED	SP FR AN PGOV PNAT PREL KCOR ECON EINV ELAB
10BASRAH3	BASRAH'S PRESS: A WORK IN PROGRESS [...] (SBU) A recent joint press conference held by Basrah PRT Leader and Basrah Governor Shiltagh Aboud to highlight USG reconstruction efforts generated revealing insights into the current state of Basrah's local media. The coverage -- which ranged from exaggeratedly positive ("PRT to rebuild city [...]	2010-02-06 08:00:00	REO Basrah	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC KPAO KMDR KDEM PGOV PREL IZ
10BASRAH5	BASRAH'S REACTION TO DE-BA'ATHIFICATION [...] (C) The conflict over de-Ba'athification has sparked three demonstrations in Basrah, and provoked strong reactions from the government and influential leaders. While a demarche to the Provincial Council Chair appears to have dampened emotions over perceived USG involvement in this issue, the i [...]	2010-02-20 11:47:00	REO Basrah	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL IZ IR
10BEIJING102	PRC/CENTRAL ASIA: NATURAL GAS PIPELINE OPENING [...] (C) Summary: Following President Hu Jintao's December 12-14 visit to Central Asia and his participation in the inauguration of the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline, the PRC hopes to deepen political and economic ties to the region, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). In [...]	2010-01-14 09:12:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN ENRG EWWT EPET ETRD MARR CH
10BEIJING104	JANUARY 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHINA'S INTERNET, HAITI [...] Key points at the January 14 MFA press briefing were: --"China's Internet is open and the Chinese Government encourages the development and application of the Internet and creates a favorable environment." --"China's law prohibits cyber attacks, including hacking" and China "welcomes inter [...]	2010-01-14 09:46:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC ETRD CH TW IR IN JA AU
10BEIJING105	GOOGLE DAY 2: BALL STILL IN GOOGLE'S COURT [...] (C) Summary. Google's Beijing headquarters continued business "as usual" today as it still provided the China-based version of its search engine. Google emphasized its filtering of that search engine remained "unchanged" and "compliant with Chinese law." Google has not yet engaged the Chinese [...]	2010-01-14 11:57:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PREL CH
10BEIJING107	DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 9, 2009 the Legislative Affairs Office of the Chinese State Council released for public comment proposed changes to regulations regarding detainees under special administrative detention. The draft contained a list of proposed changes that seemed to be aimed at assua [...]	2010-01-15 02:51:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL CH
10BEIJING11	MEDIA REACTION: CHINA POLICY, U.S. POLICY, AFGHANISTAN [...] CHINA POLICY "China and its neighbors should build a wealth zone on the land" The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao)(01/05)(pg 2):"The China-ASEAN free trade area will significantly reduce this region's dependence on Western markets and capi [...]	2010-01-05 08:50:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING113	MEDIA REACTION: GOOGLE, CHINA POLICY, THE MIDDLE EAST [...] GOOGLE "What on earth does Google want to do?" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/15)(pg 14): "Normally commercial companies like Google will try hard to avoid things like making political requests to China. Secretary Clinton has c [...]	2010-01-15 08:48:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING114	UNSCR 1267 SANCTIONS SOLICITING INFORMATION FOR [...] (C) On January 4, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Attache Jiang Bo reftel points soliciting information relevant to the review of the two entities of interest to China, the Benevolence International Foundation and the Eastern Tu [...]	2010-01-15 08:54:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN PINR PREL CH YM UN
10BEIJING122	POSITIVE OFFICIAL REACTION, MUTED PRESS REACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: An MFA official responded positively to the Secretary's January 12 speech on Asian regional architecture, inviting further bilateral discussion on how best to build effective regional institutions. Stating that differences among Asian states made an EU-like structure untenable, o [...]	2010-01-15 10:29:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ASEAN APECO ARF XC XE XU
10BEIJING123	PRC: PRIME MINISTER NEPAL ENJOYS SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepalese and PRC official sources stated that Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's December 26-31 visit to China achieved tangible outcomes, including the signing of two official agreements, commercial contracts and broad agreement to strengthen the bilateral relationship. P [...]	2010-01-15 10:39:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EAID ECON PHUM CH NP IN
10BEIJING13	JANUARY 5 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S.-SINO RELATIONS, [...] Key points at the January 5 MFA press briefing included: -- On trends in U.S-China relations, the two sides worked from a "comprehensive common ground," believed in the peaceful development of the relationship, and respected the "core interest" of each other. -- The PRC followed the "ethic [...]	2010-01-05 23:18:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM PARM SOCI CH NK UK IR VM PG XA
10BEIJING135	MEDIA REACTION: GOOGLE, HAITI [...] GOOGLE a. "Don't be against the Chinese people's opinion" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/18)(pg 14): "A poll conducted by the Global Times website revealed that only 20% of netizens support Google's action, while more than 40% d [...]	2010-01-19 08:31:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING137	DESPITE LISBON TREATY, BILATERAL RELATIONSHIPS [...] (C) Summary: Though uncertainty exists on how EU-PRC relations might change in the wake of the recent ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the PRC hopes to "consolidate strategic trust" in the relationship, according to an MFA official. PRC and EU contacts alike concur that while EU-PRC relation [...]	2010-01-19 10:11:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN KIPR SENV EINV ETRD PHUM
10BEIJING138	JANUARY 19, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHINA'S INTERNET, [...] Key points at the January 19 MFA press briefing were: -- China asserts that foreign firms, including Google, must respect Chinese laws and customs China claimed to be the biggest victim of hacking attacks. -- A Japanese proposal to build facilities on Okinotori reef is inconsistent with in [...]	2010-01-19 22:58:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM EINT TINT SENV CH AR AF IN JA
10BEIJING144	JANUARY 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING [...] Key points at the January 12 MFA press briefing were: -- China believes sanctions "cannot fundamentally resolve" the Iranian nuclear issue. -- China opposes the sheltering, by any country, of Guantanamo Uighurs because they are "members of a terrorist group." Doing so would contravene UNC [...]	2010-01-20 06:48:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC ETRD CH TW IR IN JA AU
10BEIJING145	JANUARY 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING [...] Key points at the January 12 MFA press briefing were: -- China believes sanctions "cannot fundamentally resolve" the Iranian nuclear issue. -- China opposes the sheltering, by any country, of Guantanamo Uighurs because they are "members of a terrorist group." Doing so would contravene UNC [...]	2010-01-20 06:51:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC ETRD CH TW IR IN JA AU
10BEIJING146	PRC SCHOLARS GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ON SOUTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC scholars view the late-December passage of the Southern Sudan Referendum Law as "only the first step" in a long and difficult Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) implementation process. The scholars acknowledged that Southern Sudan will likely vote for independence in January [...]	2010-01-20 07:53:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID EPET PHUM SOCI KDEM CH SU
10BEIJING148	PRC/TERRORISM FINANCE: PRC REQUESTED TO DROP UN [...] (C) PolOff delivered ref A points concerning UN 1267 Committee listing of Abdur Rahman Makki, Azam Cheema and Mohammad Masood Azhar Alvi to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin January 20. PolOff noted U.S. intention to submit additional [...]	2010-01-20 08:53:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN KTFN PREL UNSC CH IN PK
10BEIJING150	MEDIA REACTION: GOOGLE, HAITI, U.S. POLICY [...] GOOGLE "China should enhance the building of its information sovereignty" The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao)(01/20)(pg 2): "Information freedom without supervision can only be realized in smaller countries. If this happens in China, it [...]	2010-01-20 09:07:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING157	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, EXCHANGE RATE, YEMEN [...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "The U.S. media slanders that China discriminates against Avatar" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/21)(pg 1): "Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of the Bureau of Film, State Administration of Radio, Film and [...]	2010-01-21 08:40:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING158	JANUARY 21, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: HAITI, START TALKS, [...] Key points at the January 21 MFA press briefing were: -- China announced it had sent four additional peacekeepers to help Haiti's earthquake relief efforts. -- China asserts that the United States and Russia must substantially reduce their nuclear arsenals in a verifiable and irreversible [...]	2010-01-21 22:56:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM EINT MNUC SENV CH ZA RS AF HA SZ
10BEIJING167	MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S SPEECH, U.S.-JAPAN [...] SECRETARY CLINTON'S SPEECH a. "Secretary Clinton's speech promotes internet freedom" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/22)(pg 3): "Although the U.S. officials denied that Secretary Clinton's speech was targeted at China, after Goog [...]	2010-01-22 09:35:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING168	PRC: POSITIVE RESPONSE TO SECRETARY'S SPEECH ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA officials responded positively to the Secretary's January 12 speech in Honolulu on Asia-Pacific multilateralism, claiming that the PRC and the U.S. shared nearly identical principles for the development of regional institutions in the Asia-Pacific. MFA officials welcomed fur [...]	2010-01-22 11:24:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ASEAN APECO ARF IN XC XE XU
10BEIJING183	SECRETARY'S INTERNET FREEDOM SPEECH: CHINA REACTION [...] (C) Secretary Clinton's January 21 speech on Internet Freedom touched a nerve in China. Official reaction was negative, with harsh criticism coming from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an official statement and from other parts of the Chinese system through critical articles and editorials [...]	2010-01-25 07:28:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PHUM EINV CH
10BEIJING189	PRC ON LONDON CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC and the U.S. share an interest in ensuring that the London Conference highlights the international community's firm support and long-term commitment to Afghanistan's stability and development, an MFA official told us January 22. While the PRC supports an Afghan-led proce [...]	2010-01-25 08:38:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO ECON EFIN EAID CH PK AF IN UK
10BEIJING192	MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S SPEECH, HAITI [...] SECRETARY CLINTON'S SPEECH a. "To be vigilant about the U.S.'s Internet hegemony" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/25)(pg 14): "Google's attack against the Chinese government, Secretary Clinton's speech on 'Internet freedom' and P [...]	2010-01-25 08:56:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING204	MEDIA REACTION: INTERNET FREEDOM, U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, [...] INTERNET FREEDOM a. "Keep in mind the lessons learned by blindly following the West's steps" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/26)(pg 14): "A few Chinese intellectuals are fascinated about Western political theories, hoping that Ch [...]	2010-01-26 08:43:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING206	YEMEN CONFERENCE: PRC SUPPORTS BROAD-BASED EFFORT [...] (C) In response to reftel points explaining USG efforts in Yemen, goals for the January 27 London meeting, and future multilateral efforts, MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Attache Jiang Bo told PolOff January 26 that China appreciated the U.S. perspective [...]	2010-01-26 09:51:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID YM CH
10BEIJING207	GOOGLE UPDATE: PRC ROLE IN ATTACKS AND RESPONSE [...] (S) Summary: A well-placed contact claims that the Chinese government coordinated the recent intrusions of Google systems. According to our contact, the closely held operations were directed at the Politburo Standing Committee level. -- Another contact claimed a top PRC leader was actively worki [...]	2010-01-26 10:55:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	ECON PGOV PHUM PREL EINV CH
10BEIJING208	PRC HUMAN RIGHTS: IMPACT OF FOUR PARTY ELDERS' [...] (C) Summary: On January 17, four Communist Party elders published an open letter questioning the legal basis for the conviction of rights activist and Charter 08 co-author Liu Xiaobo on charges of "inciting subversion." The letter did not call on the Chinese government to release Liu, but rat [...]	2010-01-26 11:13:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI CH
10BEIJING209	JANUARY 26, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TAIWAN ARMS SALES, [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-26 11:43:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM MASS EINT TINT SENV CH AF HA
10BEIJING21	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, WAR ON TERROR, NORTH [...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "Many U.S. think tanks predict Sino-U.S. frictions" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/06)(pg 16): "In regard to the Eurasia Group's report that Sino-U.S. relations are likely to worsen and become the biggest ge [...]	2010-01-06 08:47:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING216	MEDIA REACTION: INTERNET FREEDOM [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-27 08:55:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING217	PRC: DEMARCHE ON HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO HAITI [...] (SBU) China appreciates U.S. humanitarian assistance to Haiti and hopes to keep in close touch with the United States through bilateral and multilateral channels regarding assistance to Haiti, MFA Department of North American Affairs U.S. Division Deputy Director Zhao Yumin told EconOff January [...]	2010-01-27 09:39:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF EAID ECON CH HA
10BEIJING218	PRC MEDIA DEBATE CHINA'S ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following President Obama's December 1 announcement at West Point to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, Chinese Communist Party(CCP)-affiliated media and the PRC's official television network CCTV began airing disparate views on the proper PRC response to the situation [...]	2010-01-27 10:00:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO ECON CH PK AF XD ZK
10BEIJING230	MEDIA REACTION: INTERNET FREEDOM, CHINA POLICY [...] INTERNET FREEDOM a. "The White House started the 'Internet War' to prepare for elections" The official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (Zhongguo Qingnianbao)(01/28)(pg 2): "The Chinese people are a little confused by the fact that an unprecedented 'Internet War' is occurring when [...]	2010-01-28 08:50:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING231	BUILDING U.S. JOBS BY LEVERAGING CHINA,S GROWTH [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-28 10:17:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH
10BEIJING232	JANUARY 28, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TALKS WITH DALAI LAMA [...] Key points at the January 28 MFA press briefing were: -- Chinese officials will meet with representatives of the Dalai Lama for talks in the "near term." -- The EU arms embargo against China was the result of "political prejudice" and China demanded that it be lifted. -- Requests for inf [...]	2010-01-28 10:35:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM MASS EINT TINT SENV CH AF JM
10BEIJING233	PRC/INDIA: CONTACTS SEE POSITIVE OUTLOOK FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: China and India will seek to leverage the positive atmosphere surrounding the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations in 2010 to project an image of a healthy, stable bilateral relationship, according to PRC academics and Indian diplomatic contacts. There is consensus that terr [...]	2010-01-28 10:47:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER MARR CH PK AF IN XD
10BEIJING240	MEDIA REACTION: STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, WAR ON TERROR [...] STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS a. "Obama shouted that the United States won't be the second in the world" The People's Daily-sponsored and internationally-focused commercial news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao) (3/14)(pg 1): "In President Obama's 71-minute State of the Union address [...]	2010-01-29 09:01:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING243	S/P DEPUTY DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH MFA COUNTERPART [...] (C) SUMMARY: The United States and China are both aware of the "strategic importance" of their relationship, notwithstanding recent "troubles" and "differences," said MFA Policy and Planning Department DDG Zhao Jianhua in a January 26 meeting with S/P Deputy Director Chollet. The Strategic a [...]	2010-01-29 10:23:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON SENV CH AF PK UNSC
10BEIJING245	EU OFFICIAL IN BEIJING DOWNPLAYS SPANISH COMMENTS [...] (C) EU Mission Political Counselor Alexander McLachlan told PolOff January 29 that some EU member states were annoyed with Spanish Ambassador to China Blasco Villa's recent statements to Chinese media that suggested that the EU would consider lifting its arms embargo against China. The Spanish Amba [...]	2010-01-29 10:55:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PGOV ECON CH EU
10BEIJING246	PRC/EGYPT: IRAN SUPPORT, LOP-SIDED BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to an Egyptian diplomatic contact, Arab states are increasingly frustrated by China's ability to obtain concessions in the China-Arab Cooperation Forum without offering the region commensurate support for its interests. China was primarily interested in political suppo [...]	2010-01-29 11:00:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON CH EG IR
10BEIJING247	GOOGLE UPDATE: CHINA TECH BUSINESS COMMUNITY [...] (C) Summary. Despite media reports quoting Google officials in the U.S. as saying Google is in talks with China, a Ministry of Commerce official told a visiting U.S. delegation on January 28 that "it would be better if Google stopped telling the media that it is in negotiations with China, sin [...]	2010-01-29 12:10:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PREL CH
10BEIJING250	PRC/KOREAS: ROK EMBASSY VIEWS ON RECENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korea asked China to stop publishing cross-border trade statistics, the South Korean Ministry of Unification (MOU) Counselor in Beijing told Econoffs. The North's recent currency revaluation probably would work in the short term, but the he assessed the ban on foreign curr [...]	2010-02-01 01:04:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL ETRD EINV PGOV PINR MNUC KNNP KN
10BEIJING259	MEDIA REACTION: ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, INTERNET FREEDOM [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-01 08:51:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING260	PRC INITIAL RESPONSE TO TAIWAN ARMS SALE [...] (C) Summary: Two days after the announcement of new arms sales to Taiwan, China's negative reaction to the announcement dominated all discussions of U.S.-China relations. Observers predict a continued series of responses across various sectors that could be exacerbated if President Obama mee [...]	2010-02-01 11:30:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS PARM CH TW
10BEIJING262	TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION FOR UN 1267 [...] (C) On February 2, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Attache Jiang Bo reftel points informing the PRC of U.S. plans to submit the name of Muthanna Hadith al-Dari to the United Nations 1267 Sanctions Committee by February 11, 2010 [...]	2010-02-02 08:36:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	PTER KTFN PINR PREL CH UN JO SY IZ
10BEIJING266	MEDIA REACTION: ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-02 09:16:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING268	TAIWAN ARMS SALES: U.S. FIRMS' EXPOSURE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Representatives of major U.S. firms involved in the Taiwan arms deal (and with significant China operations) tell the Embassy they are concerned about possible Chinese sanctions resulting from the deal, but have not yet been contacted by Chinese authorities. Chinese media have f [...]	2010-02-02 10:38:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAIR PREL CN TW
10BEIJING269	FEBRUARY 2, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TAIWAN ARMS SALES, [...] Key points at the February 2, 2010 MFA press briefing were: -- The announcement of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan "seriously damages the core interests" of the two countries and will negatively impact bilateral exchanges and regional issues. -- China will place sanctions on "every U.S. company" [...]	2010-02-02 12:04:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM ETRD MNUC CH JA IR
10BEIJING276	MPS REQUESTS ASSISTANCE IN REPLACING HUMAN [...] (SBU) During a meeting with Embassy Beijing on January 29, Chen Shiqu, Director of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS)Office of Combating Human Trafficking requested assistance in updating the statistical models currently in use for deriving data on trafficking in China. Chen stated that the [...]	2010-02-03 07:06:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CH KTIP KWMN PGOV PREL
10BEIJING278	MEDIA REACTION: ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, DALAI LAMA, [...] ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN "U.S. arms sales will have a serious negative effect on Sino-American exchanges and cooperation on many issues" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)(02/03)(pg 3): "Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Ma Zhaoxu said that 'The United States insis [...]	2010-02-03 09:54:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING28	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, CARBON TARIFF, [...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "Calmly deal with trade protectionism" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (01/07)(pg 3): "Some countries' protectionist measures have added more difficulty to the global economic recovery. Unfortunately, following the financial crisis, some cou [...]	2010-01-07 09:17:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING281	TAIWAN ARMS SALE: MEDIA REMAINS FIERCELY CRITICAL, [...] (C) Summary: Beijing observers continue to claim that despite the loud and angry official reaction to the U.S. announcement of arms sales to Taiwan, the government wants to avoid fundamentally damaging U.S.-China relations. Nonetheless, real popular discontent may underlay harsh media statemen [...]	2010-02-03 23:16:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PARM CH TW
10BEIJING29	JANUARY 7 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: [...] Key points at the January 7 MFA press briefing were: -- China opposes the use of sanctions against Iran and believes nuclear proliferation concerns should be resolved through diplomatic channels. -- Japan's territorial claim to the "reef" in the East China Sea goes against the UN Conventio [...]	2010-01-07 10:05:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC ETRD CH TW IR JA MZ
10BEIJING290	MEDIA REACTION: MEETING THE DALAI LAMA, ARMS SALES TO [...] MEETING THE DALAI LAMA a. "Obama insists on meeting the Dalai Lama; Sino-U.S. relations are drastically cooling down" The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China Business News (Diyi Caijing)(02/03)(pg A5): "Zhang Zhi-rong, professor of Tibetan Studies at Beijing Univer [...]	2010-02-04 08:40:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING292	CHINA ASSET BUBBLES: ARE THEY HERE, WILL THEY POP? [...] (C) Summary. China's massive 2009 monetary stimulus program was instrumental in avoiding economic recession during the global crisis, but the huge amount of new credit flowing into the economy has prompted concerns that asset bubbles could form -- and burst -- in the property and equity marke [...]	2010-02-04 10:51:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL PGOV CH
10BEIJING293	PRC/IRAN: BEIJING CONTINUES TO CALL FOR PATIENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC counsels continued patience on the Iran nuclear issue because it seeks a "thorough solution" to the problem, and it supports the removal of all 1200kg of low-enriched uranium from Iranian soil, according to an MFA contact. PRC officials have urged Iranian counterparts in [...]	2010-02-04 11:22:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH BR
10BEIJING294	FEBRUARY 4, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TAIWAN ARMS, IRAN, [...] Key points at the February 4, 2010 MFA press briefing were: -- The announced sale of arms to Taiwan is a "gross intervention" into China's internal affairs and in complete disregard to China's "stern" opposition. -- China has taken note of the report regarding Tehran's plans to sell enrich [...]	2010-02-04 11:53:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM ETRD MNUC CH JA IR SZ
10BEIJING295	TAIWAN ARMS: CHINESE CALL IN U.S. FIRM [...] (C) SUMMARY. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) summoned General Electric (GE) China President Mark Norbom to the MFA on February 4 to warn GE on its participation in Taiwan arms sales, referring specifically to the sale of Sikorsky helicopters "built by UTC and GE." The MFA official, [...]	2010-02-04 12:39:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAIR PREL CN TW
10BEIJING307	MEDIA REACTION: ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, RMB APPRECIATION [...] ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN a. "The United States threatens to be tougher on China" The People's Daily-sponsored and internationally-focused commercial news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/05)(pg 1): "President Obama's remarks to be tougher on China on trade issues seems to have star [...]	2010-02-05 08:55:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING309	(C) PRC COOPERATION ON SIX-PARTY TALKS, DPRK [...] (C) PRC, South Korean and Japanese contacts believe that Chinese efforts in the Six-Party Talks process will not suffer from Chinese anger at the recent U.S. decision to sell arms to Taiwan. MFA Asia Department Korean Peninsula Affairs Office Director Mao Ning told PolOff February 3 that work [...]	2010-02-05 09:08:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PARM CH KN KS JA TW

10BEIJING310	CHINA/ECONOMY: HU JINTAO RECONFIRMS ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a major February 3 speech at the Central Party School, President Hu Jintao called for the ministers and top provincial leaders present to accelerate China's economic structural adjustment. While acknowledging the impact of the financial crisis, Hu emphasized that the crisis h [...]	2010-02-05 09:49:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL CH
10BEIJING327	MEDIA REACTION: DALAI LAMA, U.S.-CHINA TRADE RELATIONS [...] DALAI LAMA "China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson remarks on planned Obama-Dalai meeting" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (02/06)(pg 3): "Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu said, 'China resolutely opposes the visit by the Dalai Lama to the United St [...]	2010-02-08 08:13:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING33	(C) CHINA-AFGHAN RELATIONS PLAGUED BY CORRUPTION, [...] (C) Corruption and commercial fraud have plagued China-Afghan economic relations, according to a Beijing-based Afghan diplomat. Our contact claimed that a "mafia" of corrupt Afghan officials, including Foreign Minister Ragin Dadfar Spanta and former Minister of Mines Ibrahim Adel, had receive [...]	2010-01-08 09:22:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EINV EMIN PREL PGOV AF CH
10BEIJING342	MEDIA REACTION: CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT, RMB EXCHANGE RATE, [...] CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT "Reflection on capitalism in the international financial crisis" The official Communist Party People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) (02/09)(pg 23): "The outbreak of the international financial crisis urged many people to reexamine the capitalist's development direction. In [...]	2010-02-09 08:48:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING343	FEBRUARY 9, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: 6-PARTY TALKS, IRAN, [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-09 09:53:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM ETRD MNUC CH JA IR
10BEIJING345	CORRECTED COPY: FEBRUARY 9, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-09 23:02:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM ETRD MNUC CH JA IR KN
10BEIJING351	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, IRAN [...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "Be vigilant about being pushed to the opposition side of the world by the U.S." The People's Daily-sponsored and internationally-focused commercial news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/10)(pg 14): "In 2010, Sino-U.S. relations are undergoing a substant [...]	2010-02-10 09:03:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING353	BEIJING'S OLYMPICS AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS TEMPORARY [...] (SBU) The results of a Cornell University-led study on air quality control measures imposed by the Chinese government during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing show that local controls in Beijing succeeded in only temporarily improving air quality. Although the measures reduced certain pollutants, [...]	2010-02-10 09:13:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV CASC KGHG TRGY ENRG PREL CH
10BEIJING355	PRC/IRAN: BEIJING'S PROLIFERATING ARGUMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC academics are deploying a range of arguments against new UN Security Council sanctions against Iran, but some contacts say China will not go it alone in opposing them. A well-placed think-tanker argued that Iranian political divisions could result in favorable changes to the [...]	2010-02-10 09:42:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ENRG PTER MNUC IR CH
10BEIJING356	FEBRUARY 9, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, IRAN, [...] Key points at the February 9, 2010 MFA press briefing were: --Following a meeting with Chinese Communist Party International Liaison Department Director Wang Jiarui, DPRK officials stated that North Korea is ready to continue consultations with relevant parties regarding the Six-Party Talks. [...]	2010-02-10 09:51:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM ETRD MNUC CH JA IR KN
10BEIJING357	CHINESE BANKS: WILL THE 2009 CREDIT BINGE COME [...] (C) Summary. New loan issuance by Chinese banks in January totaled RMB 1.6 trillion (USD 235 billion),nearly equal to last year's record pace of RMB 1.62 trillion, and would have been even larger if regulators had not intervened mid-month to curtail lending. In public, Chinese financial off [...]	2010-02-10 09:58:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	CH ECON EFIN PGOV PREL
10BEIJING358	TIBET: CHINA FEELING PUBLIC PRESSURE TO REACT [...] (C) Summary: Increased expression of nationalistic sentiment and public anger over recent Taiwan arms sales mean the PRC leadership will need to somehow "punish" the United States if the President meets with the Dalai Lama, according to several contacts. A Tibetan academic at a Communist Pa [...]	2010-02-10 10:29:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PREL CH
10BEIJING359	MAINTAINING POSITIVE U.S.-PRC RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: A Chinese public perception that U.S. China policy under President Obama would be "different" than that of his predecessors and that recent warming in cross-Strait relations made arms sales unnecessary fueled many Chinese' vitriolic response to the latest Taiwan arms sales, accord [...]	2010-02-10 10:45:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS ECON ETRD CH TW IR AF KN
10BEIJING360	CHINA DEFINES ITS TERMS ON INDIGENOUS INNOVATION: [...] (C) Summary. Chinese interlocutors made it clear to a visiting interagency team the week of January 24 that China intends to keep giving their home-grown innovators an edge, including preferences under government procurement. The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) advised it would rev [...]	2010-02-11 03:11:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV PREL CH
10BEIJING362	MEDIA REACTION: COLOR REVOLUTION, IRAN, INTERNATIONAL [...] COLOR REVOLUTION "'Color Revolution' is a democratized political game" The official Communist Youth League newspaper China Youth Daily (Zhongguo Qingnianbao) (02/11) (pg 5): "In fact, the 'color revolution' is none other than 'non-normal regime change' carried out through the interference [...]	2010-02-11 08:15:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING367	AFRICAN EMBASSIES SUSPICIOUS OF US-CHINA [...] (C) African Embassy officials told EmbOffs that many in the African community were uncomfortable with the concept of US-China development cooperation in Africa. China's fast, efficient, "no strings attached" bilateral approach is popular in the region, as is the PRC preference for infrastructure ov [...]	2010-02-11 09:20:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID EINV CH XA
10BEIJING369	VFM CUI PROTESTS POTUS-DALAI LAMA MEETING [...] (C) Summary: In a February 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai delivered a "stern representation" and expressed China's "grave concern" about the President's planned February 18 meeting with the Dalai Lama. Such a meeting "would amount to connivance with the Dal [...]	2010-02-11 10:28:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MASS PGOV SOCI CH TW
10BEIJING377	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, IRAN [...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "Sino-U.S. competition will see who changes its growth method first" The People's Daily-sponsored and internationally-focused commercial news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/12)(pg 14): "Both the United States and China are seeking new advantages [solut [...]	2010-02-12 07:00:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING378	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRC CONTEMPLATING MINUSTAH [...] (SBU) On February 12, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Attache Jiang Bo reftel points seeking information on possible PRC contributions in support of MINUSTAH. Jiang confirmed that the PRC was considering providing assistance bu [...]	2010-02-12 08:00:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HA SOCI MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC EFIN
10BEIJING379	UPDATE: TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION FOR UN [...] (S) In response to State reftel delivered to the MFA on February 2, MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Attache Jiang Bo informed PolOff on February 12 that the PRC supported U.S. proposal to submit the name of Muthanna Hadith al-Dari to the UN 1267 S [...]	2010-02-12 08:44:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	PTER KTFN PINR PREL CH UN JO SY IZ
10BEIJING38	PRC: WHITE HOUSE SENIOR ADVISOR VALERIE JARRETT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 18 round table with White House Senior Advisor and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls Valerie Jarrett, Chinese activists working on issues effecting women and girls in China noted that while there had been significant improvements in China on women [...]	2010-01-11 01:31:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN CH
10BEIJING380	PRC/PAKISTAN: NO PLA BASE PLANNED, CCP PLAYING ALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent press speculation about PRC plans to establish a military presence in Pakistan is completely groundless, has been fanned by paranoid Indian news outlets and can be traced back to a single op-ed by a Chinese academic, according to Pakistan Embassy officials. The Pakistani [...]	2010-02-12 08:58:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR CH PK AF IN XD
10BEIJING382	CHINA-ROK RELATIONS: MINOR TENSIONS, POSITIVE [...] (C) Summary: In a round of recent meetings on the state of Sino-ROK relations, Chinese and ROK officials agree that the overall trend of the bilateral relationship is positive. Chinese leaders are quite pleased at the appointment of Yu Woo-ik, the former Chief of Staff to ROK President Lee My [...]	2010-02-12 09:27:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PARM ECON KN KS CH
10BEIJING383	STOMP AROUND AND CARRY A SMALL STICK: CHINAÂ´S NEW [...] (C) Summary: The harsh (per usual) PRC reaction to the recent U.S. announcement of arms sales to Taiwan and President ObamaÂ´s intention to meet with the Dalai Lama has focused Chinese domestic attention on a phenomenon already observed (and criticized) abroad: ChinaÂ´s muscle-flexing, triumpha [...]	2010-02-12 10:12:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS MARR TW EUN CH
10BEIJING393	PRC-INDONESIA: INCREASED PRC DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC State Councilor Dai Bingguo's "warm, friendly" January 21-26 visit to Indonesia reinforced the perception that China-Indonesia relations have been relatively free of tension of late; however, in reality PRC diplomatic assertiveness with Indonesia has risen steadily in recent [...]	2010-02-18 07:08:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN ASEAN CH ID XC XE
10BEIJING399	MEDIA REACTION: DALAI LAMA MEETING; U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS; [...] DALAI LAMA MEETING "Dalai Lama meeting to be held as scheduled" The official English-language newspaper China Daily (02/18) (pg 1): "Despite the choice of location, however, any state leader who meets with the Dalai Lama in private or public risks damaging relations with China, said Pang Z [...]	2010-02-18 08:48:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING4	MEDIA REACTION: U.S., U.S. - CHINA, ECONOMIC [...] U.S. "No breakthroughs on the DPRK/Iran nuclear issues can be achieved without the United States" The Beijing-based newspaper sponsored by official intellectual publication Guangming Daily and Guangdong Provincial official publication Nanfang Daily, The Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao)(01/03)(p [...]	2010-01-04 09:03:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING413	MEDIA REACTION: DALAI LAMA MEETING, IRAN [...] DALAI LAMA MEETING a. "The Dalai Lama's lies and the prejudice of the West" The official intellectual publication Guangming Daily (Guangming Ribao)(02/21)(pg 8): "Although it does not require the approval of another country for a state leader to meet someone, sometimes there are exceptions [...]	2010-02-22 08:54:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING414	EMBASSY BEIJING WELCOMES S/R BOSWORTH, S/E KIM [...] (U) Embassy Beijing warmly welcomes the visit of Special Representative for North Korea Policy Stephen W. Bosworth and Special Envoy for Six-Party Talks Sung Kim and their delegation to China Feb. 24-25, 2010 for consultations related to North Korea policy. Additional Members of Delegation: [...]	2010-02-23 01:33:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA AMGT KNNP JA KN KS PREL MNUC CN
10BEIJING424	PRC/CHAD: MINURCAT ESSENTIAL TO SAFEGUARDING IMAGE [...] (C) The Government of Chad's (GOC) continued support of UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) was "very important" to safeguarding the image of the UN and protecting the reputation of UN Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKOs),MFA International Organizations and Conferences [...]	2010-02-23 08:50:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO PREF CD CT CN
10BEIJING425	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN 1267 SANCTIONS: RESULTS OF [...] (SBU) On February 23, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Second Secretary Xu Zhongsheng reftel points sharing USG findings based on its completion of review of the third tranche of names circulated by the UN 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban [...]	2010-02-23 08:55:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KTFN PREL UNSC EFIN CH UN
10BEIJING426	PAKISTAN/CHINA: FM QURESHI LAUDS PRC-PAKISTAN FRIENDSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan's friendship with the PRC is a "cornerstone" of Pakistan's foreign policy and a "model for other countries to emulate," Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a February 23 speech at a PRC think tank. He welcomed China's role as an intermediary [...]	2010-02-23 09:20:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PREL CH PK AF
10BEIJING427	CHINA PROVIDED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE [...] (S) PolOff passed ref A nonpaper providing additional information about attempts by the Malaysia-based firm Electronics Component Limited (ECL) to buy TRS-500 gyroscopes from the Chinese firm VibTel Industrial Co. Inc. to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Dire [...]	2010-02-23 09:28:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH MY
10BEIJING428	CHINA ALERTED TO POSSIBLE MISSILE-RELATED EXPORT [...] (S) PolOff passed reftel nonpaper providing information about a December 2009 offer by Chinese company Hong Kong 4 Star Electronics Ltd. to sell gyroscopes produced by a Russian company to Iran's Isfahan Optics Industries to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy [...]	2010-02-23 09:28:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH
10BEIJING429	MEDIA REACTION: RMB EXCHANGE RATE, DALAI LAMA MEETING [...] RMB EXCHANGE RATE a. "How to view China's decreased holding of U.S. Treasury bonds" The China Radio International sponsored newspaper World News Journal (Shijie Xinwenbao)(02/23)(pg 2): " Before the U.S. economy bottoms out, any appreciation of the U.S. dollar is only temporary and is mani [...]	2010-02-23 09:29:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING43	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, CHINA POLICY [...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "U.S. - China strategic partnership irreversible and increased differences inevitable" The official Communist Youth League China Youth Daily (Zhongguo Qingnianbao)(01/11)(pg 5): "Since the beginning of 2010 U.S.-China relations have, just like the weather in the Northe [...]	2010-01-11 09:55:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING430	CHINA ALERTED TO POSSIBLE MISSILE-RELATED EXPORT TO IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-23 09:50:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH
10BEIJING431	CHINA PROVIDED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE [...] (S) PolOff passed ref A nonpaper providing additional information about attempts by the Malaysia-based firm Electronics Component Limited (ECL) to buy TRS-500 gyroscopes from the Chinese firm VibTel Industrial Co. Inc. to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Dire [...]	2010-02-23 09:51:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH MY
10BEIJING432	FEBRUARY 23, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S.-PRC RELATIONS, [...] Key points at the February 23, 2010 MFA press briefing were: --China looks to the United States to take credible measures to undo the damage to U.S.-PRC relations following arms sales to Taiwan and President Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama. --China hopes relevant parties will show flexi [...]	2010-02-23 23:00:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM KN NG DA UN CH IR JA PK IN ZA IS
10BEIJING443	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, DALAI LAMA MEETING, [...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "The United States exagerates that China is the top network threat" The People's Daily-sponsored and internationally-focused commercial news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/24)(pg 3): "Tang Lan, expert of information security at the China Institute of Co [...]	2010-02-24 09:48:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING451	CHINA'S NEW CHARITY LAW ON THE HORIZON; CONTACTS [...] (C) Summary: Draft legislation to promote charitable organizations and foundations in China is on the National People's Congress (NPC) agenda for this year, according to several contacts. The Ministry of Civil Affairs (MOCA) has sponsored a draft national Charity Law and has encouraged provi [...]	2010-02-25 09:04:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	CH ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI
10BEIJING454	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, DALAI MEETING, IRAN [...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS "Be careful about the U.S.'s transferring middle class crisis" The People's Daily-sponsored and internationally-focused commercial news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(02/25)(pg 14): "The American engineer's suicidal airplane attack on the tax bureau building [...]	2010-02-25 09:51:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING458	FEBRUARY 25, 2010 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: AMBASSADOR BOSWORTH [...] Key points at the February 25 MFA press briefing were: -- Foreign Minister Yang met with visiting Special Representative Ambassador Stephen Bosworth. China will coordinate and consult with all parties to push for an early resumption of the Six-Party Talks. The six parties are currently prese [...]	2010-02-25 22:59:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM MASS MNUC KNNP EINT EFIN CH TW KN KS PK
10BEIJING462	JAN 13 US-CHINA INTERPARLIAMENTARY DIALOGUE: TAIWAN, NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan arms sales and trade issues dominated the 5th session of the U.S. China Inter-Parliamentary Group (IPG),which took place in Beijing January 13. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) led the U.S. Senate delegation to the IPG, which also included Senators Christopher "Kit" Bond (R- [...]	2010-02-26 04:59:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM MASS ETRD KIPR CVIS EFIN SENV ENRG
10BEIJING467	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC RELATIONS, U.S.-CHINA [...] U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC RELATIONS "It is really difficult to reduce U.S. debt" Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper 21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(02/26)(pg 2): "Data has shown that China's faith in U.S. bonds did not decrease. In the future [...]	2010-02-26 08:19:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING5	UK-PRC HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE POSTPONED AFTER [...] (C) Summary: On December 29 British citizen Akmal Shaikh, who the UK government had asserted was mentally ill, was executed for narcotics charges. On the same day the Chinese government notified the UK that it was indefinitely postponing the January session of the annual UK-PRC bilateral huma [...]	2010-01-04 10:12:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
10BEIJING65	U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U. S. [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. HHS) have a strong and valued partnership with China's Ministry of Health (MOH),Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and Chinese Academ [...]	2010-01-12 07:45:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV TBIO SOCI CH GT KE EG TH KZ
10BEIJING67	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, WAR ON TERROR, NORTH [...] U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS a. "China declares anti-missile interception successful" The official Communist Party international news publication Global Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(01/12)(pg 1): "Experts said that this is the first time that China has announced its anti-missile experiment results to th [...]	2010-01-12 08:42:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING68	BEIJING STUDENTS TALK POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: Nine Chinese university students and recent graduates shared with PolOffs December 18 their views on China's domestic challenges, climate change, human rights, corruption and minority policies. Citing China's formidable internal challenges, the students argued that Americans gro [...]	2010-01-12 08:57:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	CH PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI
10BEIJING72	JANUARY 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-12 11:07:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC ETRD CH TW IR IN JA AU
10BEIJING79	CHINA DEMARCHED REGARDING JANUARY 2010 MISSILE [...] (S) PolMinCouns delivered ref A demarche and non-paper posing several questions regarding China's January 11 ground-based missile intercept test to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Director General Cheng Jingye on January 13. Referring to the Xinhua news announcement made "the same [...]	2010-01-13 09:09:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL MCAP TSPA CH
10BEIJING80	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-JAPAN ALLIANCE, U.S. POLICY, NORTH [...] U.S.-JAPAN ALLIANCE "Where should U.S.-Japan alliance go?" The official Xinhua Daily Telegraph (Xinhua Meiri Dianxun)(01/13)(pg 8): "Experts say that if an alliance is running well, there is no need to reiterate its importance. However, U.S.-Japan relations have seen some friction over th [...]	2010-01-13 09:09:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIJING86	MEDIA REACTION: GOOGLE, TAIWAN, FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] GOOGLE a. "Google's global strategy will experience a severe setback if it withdraws from the China market" The official popular newspaper Beijing Youth Daily (Beijing Qingnianbao)(3/14)(pg B9): " Over the past four years, and under the leadership of its CEO, Dr. Kai-fu Lee, it has not bee [...]	2010-01-14 08:36:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV KGHG KMDR OPRC CH
10BEIRUT100	ENVIRONMENT MINISTER RAHHAL WELCOMES U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Water management, reforestation and solid waste management were the Environment Ministry's key priorities, new Environment Minister Mohammed Rahhal told the Ambassador on January 28. Rahhal pledged continued cooperation with USAID reforestation programs and asked for assistance i [...]	2010-02-01 09:37:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ECON EFIN ENRG EPA PGOV PREL KGHG AID LE
10BEIRUT108	INFORMATION MINISTER PRESSURED TO ATTACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Information Tareq Mitri informed the Ambassador on January 27 that President Sleiman continues to be personally interested in the issue of House Resolution 2278 regarding satellite providers broadcasting channels carrying anti-American incitement to violence. Mitri said tha [...]	2010-02-03 14:38:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL KPAO PINR LE
10BEIRUT11	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTINGS' JANUARY 8 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Embassy Beirut welcomes your January 8 visit as the first high-level delegation to Lebanon of 2010. As Lebanon emerges from a six-month struggle to form a new national unity government, your meetings with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Foreign Min [...]	2010-01-05 15:03:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV KDEM EAID UNSC PTER MARR PREF
10BEIRUT113	PM COMMITS TO UNSCR 1701/BORDER CONTROL [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Hariri met with UNSCOL Michael Williams and ambassadors from key donor nations on February 2 to assure them that border control remains a high priority for his government. In order to address donor concerns, Hariri, who as chair of the Ministerial Border Committee [...]	2010-02-04 15:22:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL PTER PGOV SY LE
10BEIRUT114	JUSTICE MINISTER NAJJAR ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, [...] (C) Summary: Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar informed the Ambassador on February 3 that he had forwarded a draft trafficking in persons law to the cabinet for approval, a step needed before it goes to a parliamentary vote. He did not expect the draft to face political opposition. His ministr [...]	2010-02-04 15:53:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KTIP KJUS PHUM KWMN PREF EAID SY
10BEIRUT118	GEAGEA ON MARCH 14 POSITIVE MOMENTUM, CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: The March 14 coalition has recaptured some of its momentum as it prepares to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Rafik Hariri's assassination on February 14, Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea told the Ambassador on February 3. Geagea complained of Syria's ascendant status [...]	2010-02-05 12:26:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR KPAL LE SY SA
10BEIRUT122	ECONOMY MINISTER SAFADI OPTIMISTIC ON GROWTH [...] (U) This message is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Summary: In a February 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Economy and Trade Mohammed Safadi requested assistance in setting up meetings during his private March 7-14 trip to Washington. The prime minister, presi [...]	2010-02-05 16:16:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV EAID MEPI KIPR LE
10BEIRUT123	SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' FEBRUARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Beirut warmly welcomes your February 16-17 visit to Lebanon. As the country emerges from a six-month struggle to form a new national unity government, your meetings with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri will rein [...]	2010-02-05 16:20:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC MARR MOPS PBTS KPAL EAIR
10BEIRUT154	CRASH OF ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES 409, GOL CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The January 25 crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 409 into the Mediterranean minutes after takeoff from the Beirut airport has brought to light the GOL's weak crisis management planning and interagency coordination. While such deficiencies are common around the world, Lebanon's u [...]	2010-02-17 11:00:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PGOV PREL MASS MCAP LE ET
10BEIRUT16	MINDEF MURR CONTINUES PRESSING FOR SOF SUPPORT [...] (S) Summary: Defense Minister Elias al-Murr announced to the Ambassador a plan to restructure the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) with an emphasis on special operations forces (SOF). Murr asked the Ambassador for help in convincing Prime Minister Saad Hariri not to spend a large portion of a prom [...]	2010-01-06 15:20:00	Embassy Beirut	SECRET	MARR MASS MCAP KJUS PREL PTER KPAL LE
10BEIRUT184	INL A/S JOHNSON PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR ISF REFORM [...] (C) Summary: INL Assistant Secretary David Johnson assured MGen Rifi, the head of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF),of continued U.S. support to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Lebanese police so they can exercise their authority in all of Lebanon. Gen. Rifi acknowledge [...]	2010-02-25 13:55:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PTER KPAL LE
10BEIRUT187	DEMARCHE ON SYRIAN TRANSFERS OF ARMS TO HIZBALLAH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In response to the Ambassador's February 25 demarche on the danger of Syrian transfers of increasingly sophisticated weaponry to Hizballah, Prime Minister Saad Hariri acknowledged the urgency and serious nature of the message and said he had feared that Hizballah had "new technol [...]	2010-02-25 16:30:00	Embassy Beirut	SECRET	PTER PREL PBTS MASS MOPS IS LE TU SY
10BEIRUT188	DEMARCHES ON SYRIAN AND IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-25 16:50:00	Embassy Beirut	SECRET	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IAEA IR SY
10BEIRUT24	JUMBLATT SAYS RECONCILIATION WITH RIVALS NEARLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: His reconciliation with the March 8 alliance is nearly complete, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt told the Ambassador on January 5. While his base had initially opposed his exit from March 14 and his opening to the Shia, Jumblatt explained, they were "getting used" to his shift, which [...]	2010-01-08 13:46:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR KCRM SY LE
10BEIRUT4	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCAIN'S JANUARY 8-9 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Embassy Beirut welcomes your January 8-9 visit as one of the first high-level delegations to Lebanon of 2010. As Lebanon emerges from a six-month struggle to form a new national unity government, your meetings with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and [...]	2010-01-05 07:27:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV KDEM EAID UNSC PTER MARR LE
10BEIRUT40	UNIFIL EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND [...] The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has an authorized strength of 15,000 troops with current troop strength at just over 12,500. In response to ref A, we found no public or media reports concerning trafficking in persons (TIP) or sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) involving [...]	2010-01-13 16:21:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPKO PHUM LE UN
10BEIRUT42	CODEL HASTINGS' JANUARY 8 VISIT TO LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: During a January 8 visit to Lebanon, a delegation headed by Representative Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) met with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Foreign Minister Ali el Chami. Representative Hastings reiterated Congressional support for Lebanon's democratic i [...]	2010-01-14 10:35:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL PGOV KDEM EAID UNSC PTER MARR PREF
10BEIRUT44	SCENESETTER FOR SEMEP GEORGE MITCHELL'S JANUARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Beirut warmly welcomes your January 19-20 visit to Lebanon. As the country emerges from a six-month struggle to form a new national unity government, your meetings with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, Foreign Minis [...]	2010-01-14 14:30:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MEPP PTER PINR UNSC MARR SY IS LE
10BEIRUT47	PRIME MINISTER HARIRI MEETS WITH CODEL MCCAIN [...] (C) Summary: Increased U.S. military assistance to Lebanon is a priority, Prime Minister Saad Hariri told CODEL McCain on January 9. Though wary of Syrian intentions after his recent trip to Damascus, Hariri said he would work to build on positive practical steps to improve the bilateral rela [...]	2010-01-15 13:04:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER UNSC MASS MCAP KJUS PBTS LE SY IR
10BEIRUT50	PRESIDENT SLEIMAN, SPEAKER BERRI AND WALID [...] (C) Summary: An urgent need for progress on regional peace was the common priority for President Michel Sleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri, and Druze leader Walid Jumblatt during their meetings with visiting CODEL McCain on January 8 and 9. Sleiman sought reassurances that U.S. military assistance [...]	2010-01-19 07:21:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER UNSC MASS KPAL KJUS ECPS SY IR LE
10BEIRUT51	GEMAYEL ON MARCH 14 [...] (C) Summary: Although March 14 leaders -- save Druze leader Walid Jumblatt -- continue to meet to discuss policy issues on a regular basis, Prime Minister Saad Hariri is pulling back from taking a March 14 leadership role given his new office, said Kataeb leader Amine Gemayel. Gemayel expres [...]	2010-01-19 08:52:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KISL SY LE
10BEIRUT66	NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR GEN. JONESÂ´ VISIT TO LEBANON [...] (C) SUMMARY. National Security Advisor General Jim Jones explained to President Michel Sleiman, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander General Jean Kahwagi January 15 the U.S. administration,s intention to pursue additional sanctions ag [...]	2010-01-21 15:57:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MASS UNSC LE IS SY IR
10BEIRUT67	SPECIAL TRIBUNAL BEIRUT OFFICE REPORTS CONTINUING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The work of the Beirut investigative team of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is progressing smoothly, according to Valerio Aquila, head of the STL's Office of the Prosecutor in Beirut. The recent high-profile resignations of senior STL staff in The Hague were expected and [...]	2010-01-21 16:31:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL KJUS SY LE
10BEIRUT72	NEW CABINET'S AGENDA AND EFFECTIVENESS STILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The new Lebanese cabinet, which first met on December 21, has not resolved any substantive issues during the three sessions that have been held to date. All sides appear keen to avoid polarization in the cabinet following the late 2009 dispute over the wording of the ministerial [...]	2010-01-22 15:13:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM LE
10BEIRUT89	S/E MITCHELL RULES OUT FORCED NATURALIZATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell affirmed to Lebanese President Michel Sleiman, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, and Foreign Minister Ali Chami that the U.S. opposes the forced naturalization of Palestinians in Lebanon under any circumstance. During his Janua [...]	2010-01-29 08:11:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR UNSC MEPP KPAL SY IS LE
10BEIRUT96	UNSCOL WILLIAMS ON UNIFIL INCIDENT, GHAJAR [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL) Michael Williams shared with the Ambassador on January 27 a disturbing report of a January 23 act of aggression against a UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) foot patrol in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil involving an angry crowd an [...]	2010-01-29 16:02:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC MARR MOPS PTER PINR IS SY LE
10BEIRUT99	PM HARIRI SETS SIGHTS ON TURKEY AS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his aides explained that Lebanon was seeking "strategic cooperation" with Turkey following the PM's January 10-12 visit to Ankara and Istanbul. Turkish diplomats in Beirut confirmed that the Lebanon and Turkey signed six agreements, includi [...]	2010-02-01 09:21:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PINR MARR TU SY LE
10BELFAST15	NORTHERN IRELAND'S SDLP ELECTS MARGARET RITCHIE PARTY [...] (C/NF) Summary: Seeking to right itself following years of decline in the post-Good Friday Agreement era, the SDLP has chosen Margaret Ritchie to succeed Mark Durkan as party leader. Ritchie will seek to regain the party's pre-eminence among Northern Ireland's nationalist voters by differentia [...]	2010-02-12 14:15:00	Consulate Belfast	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINR UK EI
10BELGRADE116	SERBIA: ALMOST 700 CONFIRMED CASES OF H1N1 INFLUENZA; LOW [...] (SBU) The number of cases and deaths attributed to H1N1 in Serbia continues to climb. While the GoS continues to publicize the dangers of the virus and the need for vaccination, many in the Serbian public remain skeptical. As a result of the low demand for vaccinations, Serbia has cut t [...]	2010-01-22 15:16:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KFLU AMGT PINR ECON AMED SR
10BELGRADE118	Scenesetter for the U.S. Visit of Serbian Deputy Prime [...] (SBU) Ivica Dacic, who wears three hats as First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior, and head of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS),is perhaps the most savvy and intriguing member of the Serbian government. As the head of strongman Slobodan Milosevic's former party, Dacic has laid [...]	2010-01-22 15:40:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC KCRM SR
10BELGRADE124	SERBIA RESPONSE: U.S. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO HAITI [...] (SBU) Post conveyed Ref A points to Foreign Affairs Ministry North America Desk Officer Srdjan Miljkovic on January 25. Miljkovic replied that he would pass the information to his colleagues at the MFA Department of Multilateral Economic Cooperation, who were responsible for Serbian assistance [...]	2010-01-25 12:18:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF EAID ECON HA SR
10BELGRADE162	SERBIA TO CONTINUE TESTING KOSOVO VISITS POLICY [...] (SBU) Following the recent expulsions from Kosovo of Serbian officials, the Government of Serbia will likely continue to test the Kosovo visits policy and the resolve of the international community to enforce it. The EU Personal Representative Office in Belgrade, which receives all Serbian vi [...]	2010-02-02 11:03:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KV SR
10BELGRADE178	SUBJECT: BALKANS REGIONAL REFUGEE COORDINATOR REPORT OF [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-04 17:19:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PGOV SR
10BELGRADE19	Serbia: Ambassador's First Meeting with President Tadic [...] (C) In a January 28 meeting with Serbian President Tadic, the Ambassador emphasized her desire to expand bilateral cooperation on defense and economic issues, as well as to increase high-level contacts between our governments. Tadic welcomed the intent but expressed frustration that he had not [...]	2010-01-29 17:50:00	Embassy Belgrade	SECRET	PREL PGOV SR KV
10BELGRADE21	Ambassador's February 2 Meeting with Serbian Foreign [...] (C) During their first meeting on February 2, Foreign Minister Jeremic reinforced President Tadic's recent statements that 2010 would be the "Year of Solutions" for the Western Balkans. When pressed for details, however, the "solutions" appear linked to the expectation that other parties woul [...]	2010-02-05 13:28:00	Embassy Belgrade	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SR BK KV HR MW US
10BELGRADE23	SERBIA: AMBASSADOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) In a February 2 conversation with the Ambassador, Defense Minister Sutanovac welcomed the opportunity for increased bilateral engagement and identified his top goals for 2010 as professionalization of the military, sending troops to peacekeeping operations in Lebanon and Cyprus, and increa [...]	2010-02-05 14:07:00	Embassy Belgrade	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR SR KV
10BELGRADE24	SERBIA: WEDDED TO COAL FOR ENERGY AND POLITICAL NEEDS [...] (SBU) Serbia remains deeply wedded to coal to fuel its energy needs. Despite ongoing efforts to further diversify energy resources to include more hydropower and renewable energy (Ref A),Serbia's natural abundance of coal has assured that the fossil fuel will have a primary place in meeting S [...]	2010-01-06 13:22:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINT ENRG SENV PREL PGOV SR KV
10BELGRADE244	SERBIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE FEBRUARY 18-21 VISIT OF CODEL [...] (SBU) Your visit to Serbia comes at a time when Serbia's pro-European government is stable and recently achieved key milestones in its path to EU membership. To keep making progress, however, Serbia must stop allowing the Kosovo issue to undermine its broader foreign policy approach and shift [...]	2010-02-12 11:11:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON MARR PREL OREP SR
10BELGRADE248	SERBIA: PATRIARCH TELLS AMBASSADOR HE WANTS TO "REINTRODUCE" [...] (SBU) During a courtesy call with Ambassador Warlick on February 12, Patriarch Irinej assessed the current state of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC),expressed a desire to "reintroduce" Serbia to Europe and the United States, and touched on the future of Church relations with the Vatican and [...]	2010-02-12 17:03:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL SR KV
10BELGRADE25	SERBIA: AMBASSADORâ€™S FIRST MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL FOREIGN [...] (C) In a February 3 conversation with the Ambassador, presidential foreign policy advisor Jovan Ratkovic conveyed Serbia's desire for intensified cooperation with the United States and detailed his plans to visit Washington February 10-12 to discuss possible ways forward on Kosovo, saying Serbia so [...]	2010-02-05 14:20:00	Embassy Belgrade	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR SR KV
10BELGRADE254	SERBIA: ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENCY STARTS OPERATION [...] (SBU) Serbia's new Anti-Corruption Agency officially opened its doors January 1, 2010, after months of preparatory work. Despite government officials' strong statements supporting anti-corruption efforts, some observers noted that the new agency lacked effective enforcement power; others were [...]	2010-02-17 07:21:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KCOR SR
10BELGRADE26	SERBIA: RASIM LJAJIC UNVEILS SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF [...] (SBU) The new Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS),led by popular Minister of Labor and Social Policy Rasim Ljajic, held its founding party congress in Belgrade in mid-December. Marking Ljajic's ascension from leadership of the regional Sandzak Democratic Party (SDP) to a nation-wi [...]	2010-01-08 09:38:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SR
10BELGRADE274	Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Djelic Talks Kosovo to [...] (SBU) Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Technology Djelic told the Ambassador that Serbia sought a more "balanced" solution for Kosovo, otherwise Serbia would be isolated from the EU and would not advance toward Europe. Djelic thanked the United States for supporting Serbia's [...]	2010-02-19 17:52:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL EINV TSPL SR
10BELGRADE28	Balkans Regional Refugee Coordinator Report of Weekly [...] (SBU)December 14-30 Report on Weekly Activities -- Macedonia Government to Take over Refugee Assistance in 2010 -- UNHCR Macedonia's Exit Strategy -- More Returns to Kosovo from Macedonia Possible -- Macedonia's New Amended Asylum Law; Operations Show Improvement -- Kosovo Returns - [...]	2010-01-08 13:09:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PGOV SR
10BELGRADE282	SERBIA: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] Serbia's TIP Situation -------------------------- A. The office of the National Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Persons and the Agency for Coordination of Protection of Trafficking Victims, as well as other government ministries and agencies, provide information about traffi [...]	2010-02-22 14:28:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC ELAB PHUM PREL SMIG KCRM KFRD KTIP KWMN SR
10BELGRADE29	Serbia: Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic to Ambassador: [...] (C)Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told the Ambassador, during her February 9 courtesy call, that following his meetings and recent trip to the United States he was committed to expanding our police cooperation on training and operational issues. He assured the Ambassad [...]	2010-02-12 17:50:00	Embassy Belgrade	SECRET	PGOV PREL ASEC SR
10BELGRADE3	Post ICJ Opinion: Serbia to Continue Obstructing Kosovo [...] (C) We expect Serbia will continue to obstruct and undermine Kosovo's sovereignty in the lead up to and following the International Court of Justice's advisory opinion, which most believe will be ambiguous. Regardless of the position taken by the ICJ, Kosovo's independence and sovereignty are irref [...]	2010-01-12 13:30:00	Embassy Belgrade	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KV SR

10BELGRADE302	SERBIA: CONGRESSMAN POMEROY PROMOTES SERBIA'S EU PATH AND [...] (SBU) During his Feb 18-21 visit to Serbia, Representative Pomeroy expressed strong support for Serbia's EU integration and encouraged leaders to find a modus vivendi on Kosovo. In separate meetings, Prime Minister Cvetkovic, Deputy Prime Minister Djelic and Foreign Minister Jeremic, conveyed [...]	2010-02-25 09:56:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SR
10BELGRADE312	SERBIAN RESPONSE: RESPONSE DESIGNATION OF ENTITIED RELATED [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-25 11:32:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MNUC KNNP IR GM PREL PARM EFIN SR
10BELGRADE324	SERBIA: Recipe for a NATO Debate - Let Stand 10 Years Then [...] (SBU) In recent months Serbian media and civil society have tossed a decade of taboos out the window by publishing letters, op-eds and articles that openly debate Serbia's future relationship with NATO, which they have portrayed for years as a "criminal organization." Despite sharp emotional [...]	2010-02-26 11:11:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR PREL OEXC SCUL SR KPAO
10BELGRADE35	SERBIA: FINGERPOINTING CONTINUES IN MAJOR ORGANIZED CRIME [...] (C) Serbian efforts to crack down on narcotics trafficking and organized crime have led to several arrests, including in the Operation Balkan Warrior case, which began with Serbian cooperation in seizing two tons of cocaine in October 2009. Montenegrin-born organized crime figure Darko Saric [...]	2010-02-24 17:37:00	Embassy Belgrade	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM SR MW
10BELGRADE48	SERBIA STILL NOT COOPERATING FULLY WITH EULEX [...] (SBU) More than a year after the initial deployment of the EU Rule of Law Mission to Kosovo (EULEX),Serbia has failed to fully cooperate with the Mission. While Serbia has cooperated with EULEX on police matters to a degree, its purposeful obstruction on customs and the judiciary threatens [...]	2010-01-12 12:32:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KV SR
10BELGRADE72	Serbia: Prime Minister Protests Bogdanovic Removal from [...] (SBU) On January 13 the Prime Minister convoked Quint Ambassadors and Charges to formally protest Kosovo Minister Bogdanovic's expulsion from Kosovo earlier that day (reftel). The government released a statement about the meeting to highlight their protest of the action. The incident recei [...]	2010-01-14 16:53:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPKO SR KV
10BELGRADE88	SERBIA SAYS KOSOVO ELECTRICITY OFFER IS INSUFFICIENT AND [...] (SBU) Serbia's lead electricity negotiator, Assistant Minister for Kosovo Dragan Petkovic, insists Serbia wants to find a solution to the ongoing electricity dispute in northern Kosovo, but says KEK's proposal is insufficient and its willingness to reconnect the north is insincere. While Petk [...]	2010-01-19 11:14:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG KV SR
10BELMOPAN55	BELIZEAN PUBLIC IN AN UPROAR OVER FOREIGN [...] (U) SUMMARY: A comment made by Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington following a meeting at the Organization of American States (OAS) has stirred widespread discontent among Belizean nationalists, NGO,s, and political leaders. Elrington was quoted as describing Belize,s border with Guatemala as [...]	2010-02-02 20:40:00	Embassy Belmopan	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PGOV PREL OAS BH GT
10BERLIN100	LEFT PARTY CHAIRMAN OSKAR LAFONTAINE BIDS FAREWELL [...] (C) Left Party Co-Chairman Oskar Lafontaine's January 23 resignation from the Bundestag and as party chair due to his battle with cancer has created an immediate leadership vacuum in The Left Party, leaving no one of similar stature to take over. His announcement has fueled speculation about [...]	2010-01-25 16:21:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	GM PGOV PREL
10BERLIN103	(S) NIAG 9229: GERMANY INFORMED OF IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-25 16:40:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	KNNP PARM PREL ETTC MNUC IR GM
10BERLIN104	(S) NIAG 9060: NO PRESSURE-TRANSDUCER SHIPMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-25 16:46:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL IR GM
10BERLIN106	GERMAN GOVERNMENT INCREASES HAITI ASSISTANCE TO 15 [...] (U) SUMMARY. Germany is increasing its official assistance to Haiti to 15 million euros following the January 12 earthquake. The increase reflects 5 million euros in new funds from the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) that will support construction of housing for displa [...]	2010-01-25 17:20:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL UN GM HA
10BERLIN11	EMILY HABER'S RISE TO POWER IN GERMANY'S [...] (U) The following report contains observations about the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs' new Political Director Emily Haber based on Embassy PolOff's experience as Transatlantic Diplomatic Fellow in the Western Balkans division (209) at the MFA between September 2007-August 2008. PolOff, [...]	2010-01-07 07:38:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET//NOFORN	GM PREL PGOV
10BERLIN110	WESTERWELLE WILL NOT ATTEND LONDON CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) Poloff met with MFA Desk Officer responsible for Yemen Gudrun Masloch January 26 to provide reftel points and discuss Germany's approach to Yemen. Gudrun said that due to Bundestag meetings, Foreign Minister Westerwelle will not attend the January 27 London Conference on Yemen, but will [...]	2010-01-26 15:37:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID GM YM
10BERLIN111	GERMANY: THE SHAKEY ROAD TO THE 850 TROOP INCREASE [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-26 16:58:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF GM
10BERLIN112	GERMANY: THE SHAKY ROAD TO THE 850 TROOP INCREASE [...] (S) Chancellor Merkel on January 26 announced that Germany will send 850 more troops to Afghanistan (500 for immediate deployment and 350 to be held in reserve) in addition to increasing development assistance from 220 million euros to 430 million euros, increasing police trainers from 123 to [...]	2010-01-26 17:09:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF GM
10BERLIN116	ISRAELI PRESIDENT PERES GRIPS GERMAN BUNDESTAG [...] (U) The German government went far to demonstrate its "special relationship" with Israel during the visit of Israeli President Shimon Peres to Berlin January 25-28. German fighter jets met Peres' aircraft as it entered German airspace and accompanied to its landing in Berlin. Security in the [...]	2010-01-27 16:55:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM IS
10BERLIN117	(S) IRAN-BOUND SIEMENS COMPUTERS REMAIN STUCK IN DUBAI [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-27 17:01:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC IR AE UK CH GM
10BERLIN128	ACTION REQUEST: OVERCOMING GERMAN DOUBTS ON U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (C) Embassy Berlin strongly recommends that the Washington Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) and data privacy experts currently scheduled to visit Brussels next week also visit Berlin to discuss TFTP and U.S. data privacy policy with German officials. Ge [...]	2010-01-29 06:35:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN KCRM KHLS ECPS ECON PREL KPAO KTIA
10BERLIN129	GERMANY: ROUND 56 CONSULTATION PERIOD BEGINS [...] (S) Post delivered the reftel host nation notification to the MFA and MOD on January 25 regarding the planned closure of USAREUR facilities in Mannheim, Heidelberg and Giessen. Poloff delivered the notification to MFA Deputy Head of the North America Division Daniel Kriener, while USAREUR liai [...]	2010-01-29 13:21:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	MARR NATO PREL GM
10BERLIN135	SUBJECT: GERMAN OBJECTION TO USG FILING ON CCW [...] (C) German MFA Arms Control Chief Peter Gottwald called PolCouns January 29 to make the USG aware of an "objection" that Germany and other European countries were filing relating to the January 2009 USG deposit of instruments of ratification of Protocol III (on use of incendiary weapons) of th [...]	2010-01-29 17:07:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR EUN GM
10BERLIN137	HOST NATION SENSITIVITY SURVEY: DISESTABLISHMENT [...] (C) Reftel requested Embassy Berlin's assessment of host nation sensitivity regarding Navy plans to disestablish the Fleet Readiness Center Northwest Detachment Expeditionary Logistics Unit at Sembach (state of Rhineland Pfalz),Germany. 2. (C) Government Reaction. We do not expect a negati [...]	2010-02-01 09:59:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL GM
10BERLIN138	MAXIMIZING GERMANY'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE TRAINING [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-01 10:34:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO GM AF
10BERLIN140	GERMANY SOLICITS US VIEWS ON AUSTRALIA GROUP [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARA 5. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Germany is in the process of defining its export control policy for highly-sensitive Australia Group (AG)-controlled items to foreign distributors and is seeking advice from US export control authorities. Specifically, Ge [...]	2010-02-01 14:04:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ECON ETTC PREL GM
10BERLIN144	IRANIAN COMMUNITY IN GERMANY FOCUSED ON HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Germany's Iranian exile community is focused on the Iranian government's human rights abuses and what they see as the lack of sufficient international response both from the U.S. and from the EU. In recent conversations with poloff Iranian exiles living in Germany expressed the [...]	2010-02-01 16:48:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR GM
10BERLIN147	IRANIAN IAEA PERM REP DEMANDS NEGOTIATIONS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a restricted high-level January 19 event organized by the Koeber Foundation, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iranian Permanent Representative to the IAEA argued that negotiations about Iran,s nuclear program remained the only constructive and promising approach to avoid further escal [...]	2010-02-02 16:43:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KNNP IR GM
10BERLIN153	DEFLATED EXPECTATIONS FOR MERKEL'S DREAM COALITION [...] (C) Summary: One hundred days after Germany's black-yellow coalition took office, a strong, unified government led by Chancellor Merkel has yet to materialize. The much anticipated "dream coalition" comprised of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU),its Bavarian sister the Christian Social Uni [...]	2010-02-03 16:56:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON GM
10BERLIN154	GERMAN MFA SUPPORTS PACE MISSION BUT FEARS TIME IS [...] (U) On January 29, poloffs delivered reftel demarche to MFA office director for Iraq, Klemens Semtner. Semtner said that the MFA had engaged with German PACE representatives in support of the UNAMI invitation for an observer mission. However, his office had not yet received any feedback. Se [...]	2010-02-04 12:11:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL COE FR XG GM
10BERLIN157	DEFENSE MINISTER ZU GUTTENBERG REVEALS STRUGGLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Defense Minister zu Guttenberg revealed in a February 3 meeting with Ambassador Murphy that coalition partner FM Westerwelle -- not the opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) -- had been the single biggest obstacle to the government seeking a bigger increase in German troops [...]	2010-02-04 16:07:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO GM AF
10BERLIN161	BND LOBBYING MERKEL AND USG ON SATELLITE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The German External Intelligence Service (BND) is soliciting support and funding from the Chancellery for transatlantic cooperation on a High Resolution Optical System (HiROS) reconnaissance satellite constellation. Senior BND officers will brief Chancellor Merkel on February [...]	2010-02-05 13:26:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA FR GM
10BERLIN164	WESTERWELLE ON AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, TAC NUKES [...] (C) German FM Westerwelle told Amb February 5 that it was important to refocus Afghanistan efforts on civilian reconstruction; that we needed to avoid suggesting German troops engaged in less risk than other countries; that he did not invite Iranian FM Mottaki to Germany or seek a meeting wit [...]	2010-02-05 15:32:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	OTRA MARR NATO PARM PINS PREL PGOV GM AF IR
10BERLIN165	GERMANY TO RAISE CONCERNS DURING IRAN UNIVERSAL [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs met with MFA Iran Desk Thomas Henzschel and MFA Human Rights Office Georg Klussmann February 4 to discuss Germany's approach to the upcoming February 15 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Iran in the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) (reftel points were delivered January 26 t [...]	2010-02-05 16:14:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IR GM
10BERLIN172	GERMANY PROFESSES STRONG SUPPORT FOR CONTINGENCY [...] (S) Post delivered reftel points on NATO contingency planning to MFA NATO Office Director Bernhard Schlagheck and Deputy Director Gunnar Denecke on February 3. Schlagheck claimed that assertions in a recent article of the Economist -- which specifically named Germany as a early opponent of ex [...]	2010-02-09 20:38:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	MARR MCAP NATO PREL GM
10BERLIN175	TEHRAN: OPEN FOR BUSINESS; POLICE ON CHARM [...] (C) Summary: A European Iran analyst, who travels frequently to Iran, recently returned to Germany from a three-week trip to Tehran during which he met with contacts and attended an Institute for Politics and International Studies (IPIS) sponsored conference in mid January. He noted that th [...]	2010-02-11 12:21:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR GM
10BERLIN176	INTERIOR MINISTER VIEWS ON TFTP, AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Federal Interior Minister de Maiziere told the Ambassador that the Chancellor and he were personally contacting German European Parliamentarians to obtain their support for the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) interim agreement in the run up to the February 11 EP vote. T [...]	2010-02-11 15:12:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV MARR AFDB AFIN GM
10BERLIN180	CHANCELLOR MERKEL ANGERED BY LACK OF GERMAN MEP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chancellor Merkel is privately angry over the lack of support German members of the European Parliament gave the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) interim agreement and is worried that Washington will view the EP's veto as a sign that Europe does not take the terrorist threat s [...]	2010-02-12 17:09:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN PGOV PREL PINR ETTC EAIR EFIN KCRM
10BERLIN181	GERMANY RELIEVED BY EU SUMMIT OUTCOME ON GREECE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chancellor Angela Merkel's government welcomed the decision taken at the EU's February 11 informal summit in Brussels not to provide financial assistance, for the moment, to cash-strapped Greece. German officials believe a bailout is not needed at this time, and that extending a [...]	2010-02-12 19:04:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN ECON PREL EUN GM GR PGOV
10BERLIN187	FDP SQUISHINESS ON IRAN SANCTIONS AND TFTP [...] (C) The Ambassador hosted lunch on February 8 for Free Democratic Party (FDP) Bundestag members to discuss party politics (see reftel) and foreign policy. The FDP has plummeted dramatically (50%) in the polls and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (FDP) has been unable to leverage the MFA as [...]	2010-02-17 16:48:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR AF GM
10BERLIN189	ATHENA -- THE GERMAN GODDESS OF BALLISTIC MISSILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bremen-based OHB-System is seeking a partnership with "like-minded" countries to develop and deploy a ballistic missile (BM) early warning/tracking satellite constellation, dubbed Athena, conceptually capable of accurately tracking northern latitude missiles from early launch thr [...]	2010-02-18 12:24:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA FR RS CH GM
10BERLIN192	BULGARIA ACTIVELY SEEKS DISCUSSION ON HOSTING OF [...] (S) Begin summary. During a February 6 meeting on the margins of the Munich Security Conference, Bulgarian FM Nickolay Mladenov told U/S Tauscher that Bulgaria stands ready to discuss the hosting of any part of the U.S./NATO missile defense system on its territory. He further proposed sending [...]	2010-02-19 11:11:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	PARM PREL NATO BG GM
10BERLIN193	ISRAELI DEPUTY FM FLAGS TOP CONCERNS: QME AND MIDDLE EAST NUCLEAR FREE ZONE [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-19 11:11:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	GM IS NATO PARM PREL XF
10BERLIN194	BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE DEFENCE CHIEF DISCUSSES EUROPEAN SECURITY, NPT REVCON [...] (S) Summary. On the margins of the Munich Security Conference, February 6, UK Foreign Office Director General for Defense and Intelligence Mariot Leslie told U/S Tauscher that the allies should negotiate with Russia a new follow-on agreement to the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty. L [...]	2010-02-19 11:11:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	CD GM KCFE NATO NPT PARM PREL UK
10BERLIN197	GERMAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANSF TRAINING [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires delivered ref A points to MOD State Secretary Ruediger Wolf and MFA Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force Director Ruediger Koenig in separate meetings on February 18, encouraging Germany to clarify at the February 23 NATO/ISAF Force Generation Conference what specific NATO req [...]	2010-02-19 17:08:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL MARR MOPS NATO GM AF
10BERLIN198	GERMAN VIEWS ON THE EU ARMS EMBARGO AGAINST CHINA [...] (U) Post delivered points from both reftels to deputy MFA European Correspondent Hans-Peter Jugel on February 19. EU ARMS EMBARGO AGAINST CHINA 2. (C) In response to our reaffirmation of U.S. opposition to a lifting of the EU arms embargo against China, Jugel distanced Germany from Spanis [...]	2010-02-19 17:14:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM NATO EUN GM CH IR HA UP
10BERLIN204	GERMANY DOWNBEAT ON MOVING PAKISTAN AT CONFERENCE [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Office Director for Nuclear Arms Control, Stefan Kordasch on February 18. Kordasch said that Germany had already met with Pakistani officials to assuage their concerns about being strong-armed at the CD -- reminding them that no CD agreement c [...]	2010-02-22 15:47:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MNUC KNNP PREL PK GM
10BERLIN205	GERMAN AFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR MINUSTAH [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-23 12:17:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HA SOCI MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC EFIN KJUS KPKO
10BERLIN206	Germany's Coming Solar Eclipse? [...] Summary: Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen plans to cut Germany's solar feed-in tariffs by 15 percent as of April 2010. While the proposals are much less dramatic than the 30 percent reduction advocated by consumer organizations, the solar sector has indicated that any subsidy cut above [...]	2010-02-23 12:46:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG PREL GM
10BERLIN214	IRAN SANCTIONS: GERMANY FULLY SUPPORTIVE BUT [...] (C) On February 23, Emboffs delivered reftel points on IRGC designations to MFA and Economics Ministry officials. Martin Lutz of the Economics Ministry made it clear that Germany is supportive of the next round of sanctions and is on board with targeting the IRGC. He expressed appreciation fo [...]	2010-02-25 12:49:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR GM
10BERLIN216	GERMANY ON-BOARD TO CLAMP DOWN ON IRANIAN SHIPPING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Germany supports sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) along with its affiliates and views denying Iran access to insurance/reinsurance as an excellent vehicle to do so. On February 23, Emboffs delivered reftel demarche to the German Ministries o [...]	2010-02-25 16:43:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KNNP PARM PREL UK IR FR GM
10BERLIN218	GERMAN DEPUTY NSA BELIEVES TIMING COULD UNDERMINE [...] (C) Begin Summary. During a February 12 meeting with U/S Defense Flournoy, German Deputy National Security Advisor Rolf Nikel said he was doubtful that allies could reach agreement on the issue of territorial defense in time to make a final decision at the NATO Summit in Lisbon. Specifically, [...]	2010-02-26 08:34:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL NATO GM
10BERLIN22	GERMANY: MOUNTING BUMPS IN ROAD TO LONDON [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. The German government is struggling to get some traction on an Afghanistan strategy in the run-up to the January 28th London Conference, and thus far the indications are not promising. Chancellor Merkel chaired a mini-cabinet meeting January 4 in preparation for the conferen [...]	2010-01-07 16:42:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR MOPS NATO GM AF
10BERLIN227	GERMAN GOVERNMENT SUCCEEDS IN WINNING LARGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. An overwhelming majority of opposition Social Democrats (SPD) joined the government parties on February 26 in supporting a new one-year mandate for the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan, which increases the authorized troop ceiling by 850 (including a 350-soldier reserve). SPD Caucus Le [...]	2010-02-26 17:08:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO GM AF
10BERLIN25	BUNDESTAG TO EXAMINE CIA/BLACKWATER ASSASSINATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 27 the Bundestag Interior Affairs Committee will examine allegations that a CIA team tracked a suspected al-Qaida supporter in Hamburg and planned to assassinate him before eventually aborting the mission. The story originated from a recent Vanity Fair article on Black [...]	2010-01-08 12:17:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV GM
10BERLIN35	GICNT: GERMANY NOTIFIED OF NEW DATES; QUESTIONS [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel points to German MFA desk officer Dr. Bernd Rinnert. Russian MFA First Secretary Dmitry Cherkaschin also attended. Rinnert thanked Econoff for the information. 2. (SBU) Rinnert wondered aloud how the GICNT fits into the G-20 as it overtakes the G-8 and, pre [...]	2010-01-12 07:42:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PTER KGIC GM
10BERLIN37	BERLIN SENATE ADMINISTRATION DEFENDS DECISION TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Division Director for Foreigner Issues at the Berlin Senate Administration for Interior Issues and Sport, Peter Marhofer, firmly defended his office's denial of residency permits for two AmCit Scientologists to Embassy PolOff on both technical grounds and based on their Scientol [...]	2010-01-12 11:11:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	GM KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL
10BERLIN38	LONDON CONFERENCE: GERMANY TO FOCUS ON POLICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Westerwelle intends to emphasize the importance of civilian police training at the January 28 London Conference on Afghanistan and announce that Germany is willing to increase its contributions in this area. Although the inter-agency has yet to finalize the speci [...]	2010-01-13 06:31:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PTER PGOV PREL AFDB AF GM
10BERLIN42	SPD CHAIR GABRIEL SAYS NO SPD MAJORITY FOR MORE [...] (C) Summary: Social Democratic Party Chair Sigmar Gabriel told the Ambassador in a January 12 meeting that building stability in Afghanistan before troop reductions begin in 2011 will require greater attention to training Afghan troops and police, and that sending more combat troops is not as [...]	2010-01-13 17:37:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF GM
10BERLIN43	OHB ECLIPSES ASTRIUM FOR GALILEO CONTRACT BUT BOTH END UP WINNERS [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-14 16:30:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA FR UK GM
10BERLIN44	(S) NIAG 9241: GERMANY INFORMED OF IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-14 16:33:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MNUC IR GM
10BERLIN45	(S) NIAG 9242: GERMANY INFORMED OF IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-14 16:35:00	Embassy Berlin	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MNUC IR GM
10BERLIN5	GERMANY NOTIFIED OF COLLISION RISK TO TUBSAT-A [...] (U) Per refs A and B, Econoff notified Dr. Udo Renner of the Technical University in Berlin (TU Berlin),TUBSAT-A Project Manager, of the January 10 collision risk posed by debris from the Russian COSMOS 2251 satellite. Dr. Renner was very appreciative of the notification and was previously u [...]	2010-01-05 14:11:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA PARM PREL NASA IT FR GM
10BERLIN50	GERMANY'S EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE TO HAITI FOLLOWING [...] (U) SUMMARY: Germany's immediate response to the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti includes the following: 500,000 euros for food aid, 1 million euros for search and rescue operations, a trained search and rescue team, and two water purification devices. More assistance should be forthcomin [...]	2010-01-14 18:18:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL GM
10BERLIN53	GERMANY BOOSTS ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Germany is poised to ramp up its civilian reconstruction and development assistance to Afghanistan by two-thirds over last year, bringing its 2010 total to 430 million euros ($620 million). Additional funding would go towards rural development projects in the north. This consid [...]	2010-01-15 11:17:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL AF GM PK
10BERLIN58	H1N1 Update: Infection Rate Still Low [...] (U) SUMMARY: From January 2-8, the number of confirmed H1N1 infections in Germany rose by 1,137 to a total of 216,818 cases. The number of H1N1 deaths in Germany increased to 178. Due to the lack of demand for the H1N1 vaccination, Germany has cut its order for the 2009-H1N1 vaccine to 34 milli [...]	2010-01-15 16:54:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU ECON PREL SOCI CASC GM
10BERLIN61	GERMANY SKEPTICAL ON COORDINATION OF PRT CIVILIAN [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points to MFA AF/PAK Task Force Director Ruediger Koenig on January 15, strongly encouraging Germany to send a senior official to participate in a January 25 meeting with D/SRAP Jones and other Deputy SRAPs before the start of Prague PRT Conference. Koenig noted t [...]	2010-01-15 17:30:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL NATO GM AF
10BERLIN62	GERMANY STRONGLY SUPPORTS U.S. VIEWS ON TRANSITION [...] (C) Post delivered ref A points to MFA AF/PAK Task Force Director Ruediger Koenig on January 15, emphasizing the U.S. hope that NATO's progress in developing a plan for provincial transition could be highlighted as a deliverable at the January 28 London Conference. Koenig, just back from pre- [...]	2010-01-15 17:32:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO GM AF
10BERLIN65	GERMAN MOD READY TO CONCLUDE BILATERAL MOU ON [...] (C) After consulting with MFA, post delivered reftel points and a copy of the draft bilateral MOU on January 15 to COL Harald Gante, the head of the Afghanistan Team on the MOD's Joint Commitments Staff. Gante confirmed that the MOD is the right interlocutor on the German side to negotiate the [...]	2010-01-19 14:37:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO GM AF
10BERLIN68	GERMANY PLANS NO INDIVIDUAL COMPENSATION PAYMENTS [...] (C) MOD and Chancellery officials have assured us that Germany will be very prudent and follow established precedents in addressing demands for compensation by the families of civilians allegedly killed in a September 4 air strike ordered by the German PRT Kunduz commander against two hijacked [...]	2010-01-19 19:32:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO GM
10BERLIN69	CHANCELLOR EMPHASIZES NEED FOR BROAD POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The internal German debate regarding a possible increase in German troops in Afghanistan after the January 28 London Conference is back on a positive trajectory now that government concerns about the planned inflow of U.S. forces into the north have been largely dispelled. Defense [...]	2010-01-19 19:48:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO GM AF
10BERLIN70	GERMANY INCREASES HAITI ASSISTANCE TO 7.5 MILLION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Germany has increased humanitarian assistance to Haiti following the January 12 earthquake to 7.5 million euros. Of this total, the Development Ministry (BMZ) is providing 2.5 million euros for food aid and the Foreign Ministry is contributing the remainder for emergency assistan [...]	2010-01-20 06:38:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL UN GM HA
10BERLIN71	GERMANY INCREASES HAITI ASSISTANCE TO 7.5 MILLION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Germany has increased humanitarian assistance to Haiti following the January 12 earthquake to 7.5 million euros. Of this total, the Development Ministry (BMZ) is providing 2.5 million euros for food aid and the Foreign Ministry is contributing the remainder for emergency assistan [...]	2010-01-20 06:39:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL UN GM HA
10BERLIN76	ISRAEL USES GERMANY FOR INTERNATIONAL ENTREE, [...] (C) MFA NEA Assistant-Secretary equivalent Andreas Michaelis told Pol M-C January 20 that the January 18 German-Israeli consultations in Berlin were primarily oriented toward the bilateral relationship rather than the peace process or regional issues, outside of Iran. He described Israeli FM [...]	2010-01-20 15:59:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KPAL KWBG IS IR GM
10BERLIN80	GERMANY INCREASES HAITI ASSISTANCE TO 10 MILLION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mission Germany is actively engaging the German government and public on Haiti following the January 12 earthquake, and has formed an internal task force to coordinate our initiatives. As part of our efforts, I would like to update you on our outreach activities, the German go [...]	2010-01-21 06:40:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL UN GM HA
10BERLIN81	GERMAN MFA HOPE IRAN SANCTIONS TARGET LEADERS NOT MASSES [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-21 11:33:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KNNP IR GM
10BERLIN86	GERMAN VIEWS ON JANUARY 25 EU FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (C) Post delivered reftel points to MFA European Correspondent Michael Fluegger on January 18 and followed up with him on January 20. 2. (C) On Iran, Fluegger said Germany supported all the U.S. points, with the exception of the one calling for the EU to repeat that it stands ready to "acco [...]	2010-01-22 11:09:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN IR BK SO AF UP GM
10BERLIN87	SPD PARLIAMENTARIANS WILLING TO CONTEMPLATE TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Parliamentarians from the opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) indicated privately to the Ambassador that under the right circumstances, they might support a modest increase of German troops in Afghanistan. They also promised to remain "serious" on Afghanistan even though the [...]	2010-01-22 11:10:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO GM AF
10BERLIN9	GERMANY: COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM 2009 [...] Begin text of report: German security officials stress that Islamist-inspired terrorism is the greatest threat to German security and they estimate that roughly 185 individuals have undergone paramilitary training over the past ten years at Islamist extremist training centers located primari [...]	2010-01-06 13:30:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC PGOV PREL GM
10BERLIN93	SPECULATION THAT EADS MAY GET OUT OF THE SATELLITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a mid-level EADS-Astrium manager, Tom Walati, the European Aerospace Defense and Space Company (EADS) may elect to sell off its EADS-Astrium Satellites subsidiary if its fortunes do not change in bidding for lucrative European satellite contracts. This drastic measur [...]	2010-01-25 12:11:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA FR UK GM
10BERLIN94	GERMAN MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR HABER REVIEWS TOP [...] (C) In a January 20 introductory call with the Ambassador, MFA Political Director Emily Haber (see REFTEL) discussed Iran sanctions strategy, FM Westerwelle's tough message in Yemen, the politics of Afghanistan, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. She praised U/S/ Burns' leadership in the E3 3 meeting in N [...]	2010-01-25 13:16:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AF GM IR PGOV PREL YM
10BERLIN95	GERMAN AMB. IN IRAN: TRANSITION TO "NORMAL" [...] (C) Summary: Germany's new Ambassador to Iran, Bernd Erbel noted that he had not been warmly received by the Iranian government and that most European diplomats are finding the environment in Tehran increasingly difficult to work in. His impression after his first two and a half months was [...]	2010-01-25 13:42:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GPGOV IR GM
10BERLIN98	GERMAN PRIVATE DONATIONS FOR HAITI REACH 86 [...] (U) SUMMARY. German private donations for victims of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti have reached 86 million euros. A televised fundraiser on January 19 was responsible for over 20 million euros of the total. While private donations are less than at a similar point following the 2004 Asia [...]	2010-01-25 16:14:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL UN GM HA
10BERLIN99	GERMANY AND THE EU ON IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES [...] (C) German MFA Iran Task Force Director Krueger told poloff January 21 that during the mid-January EU PSC meeting Germany proposed a motion calling on all EU capitals to demarche Iranian Ambassadors in EU capitals on Iran's Human Rights violations. Krueger said the Greeks were the first to c [...]	2010-01-25 16:15:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR GM
10BERN21	SWISS FIRM QUARTZCOM COLLUDING WITH IRANIAN FRONT [...] Pol-Econ Couns. was called in by Swiss Economics Department Industrial Export Control chief Juergen Boehler on January 15 to discuss reftel case. (Reftel points were previously provided to the Economics Department.) Boehler stated that Swiss authorities are grateful for the U.S. information [...]	2010-01-19 16:31:00	Embassy Bern	SECRET	SZ IR KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC
10BERN31	ENGAGEMENT WITH MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN SWITZERLAND [...] (SBU) Embassy Bern is taking a multi-disciplinary approach to engagement with Muslim communities in Switzerland, coordinating efforts between the Political-Economic and Public Affairs sections (reftel). Switzerland has a Muslim population of approximately 320,000 (4.3 percent of the total pop [...]	2010-01-25 21:31:00	Embassy Bern	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KISL KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SOCI SZ XG
10BERN40	BILATERAL DIALOGUE WITH IRAN REGARDING HIKERS? [...] (S) On January 2, 29 and 30, DCM Carter met with Swiss State Secretary Ambuehl and Swiss AMB to Iran Leu, who passed information detailing Swiss conversations with Iranian FM Mottaki on the margins of the World Economic Forum (WEF),in Davos, Switzerland, during which Swiss FM Calmy-Rey and Mo [...]	2010-02-01 07:00:00	Embassy Bern	SECRET	PREL CASC MNUC SZ IR
10BERN44	SWISS ATTENDANCE AT 2010 INSTABILITY AND GENOCIDE [...] Further to reftel, Poloff contacted Mo Bleeker, Senior Advisor Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) to confirm Swiss intention to participate in the March 17-19 Instability Warning and Genocide Prevention Symposium. Bleeker a [...]	2010-02-02 15:33:00	Embassy Bern	UNCLASSIFIED	KAWC PREL OTRA SZ
10BERN76	CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT (CD)/FMCT: SWISS [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel A message on February 24 to Andreas Friedrich, Head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Section of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Friedrich's deputy, Jean-Daniel Praz, joined the meeting. 2. (C) Friedrich said that Switzerland is very frustrated [...]	2010-02-25 16:22:00	Embassy Bern	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MNUC KNNP PREL SZ
10BERN77	SYRIA AT MARCH IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING: [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel message on February 24 to Andreas Friedrich, Head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Section of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Friedrich's deputy, Jean-Daniel Praz, who is the FDFA's coordinator for IAEA issues, joined the meeting. 2. (C) Refe [...]	2010-02-25 16:22:00	Embassy Bern	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IAEA MNUC SY SZ
10BERN79	CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT (CD)/FMCT: SWISS [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel A message on February 24 to Andreas Friedrich, Head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Section of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Friedrich's deputy, Jean-Daniel Praz, joined the meeting. 2. (C) Friedrich said that Switzerland is very frustrated [...]	2010-02-25 16:22:00	Embassy Bern	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MNUC KNNP PREL SZ
10BERN80	SYRIA AT MARCH IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING: [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel message on February 24 to Andreas Friedrich, Head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Section of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Friedrich's deputy, Jean-Daniel Praz, who is the FDFA's coordinator for IAEA issues, joined the meeting. 2. (C) Refe [...]	2010-02-25 16:22:00	Embassy Bern	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IAEA MNUC SY SZ
10BERN82	CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT (CD)/FMCT: SWISS [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel A message on February 24 to Andreas Friedrich, Head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Section of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Friedrich's deputy, Jean-Daniel Praz, joined the meeting. 2. (C) Friedrich said that Switzerland is very frustrated [...]	2010-02-25 16:22:00	Embassy Bern	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MNUC KNNP PREL SZ
10BERN83	SYRIA AT MARCH IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING: [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel message on February 24 to Andreas Friedrich, Head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Section of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Friedrich's deputy, Jean-Daniel Praz, who is the FDFA's coordinator for IAEA issues, joined the meeting. 2. (C) Refe [...]	2010-02-25 16:22:00	Embassy Bern	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IAEA MNUC SY SZ
10BISHKEK10	KYRGYZSTAN'S ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT PLANS [...] (C) Summary: The Kyrgyz Government plans to make large investments in its electricity infrastructure over the next few years in order to increase generation capacity, create an electricity transmission system that would be potentially independent of its neighbors, and upgrade its distribution [...]	2010-01-06 08:02:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL KG
10BISHKEK113	SCENESETTER FOR SRAP HOLBROOKE'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Bishkek welcomes the visit of Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard C. Holbrooke to Kyrgyzstan on February 19. Your visit comes at a timely period as the U.S.-Kyrgyzstan relationship has experienced positive momentum since the signing of the new agreement for [...]	2010-02-16 07:41:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KG
10BISHKEK114	KYRGYZ DEMOCRACY, OR POLITICAL THEATER: PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES A NATIONAL KURULTAI [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-16 08:23:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	KG PGOV PREL
10BISHKEK160	KYRGYZSTAN: S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post is submitting two project proposals in response to the call for nominations for the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI) small grants initiatives (reftel). Post's first choice proposal is the proposal for funding of a regional conference on women's empowerment, [...]	2010-02-19 08:49:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PREL KPAO
10BISHKEK37	PRESIDENT BAKIYEV OUTLINES A NEW FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: In two separate speeches during the last week of December, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev voiced the need for a new Kyrgyz foreign policy doctrine better suited to the country,s current challenges, and vowed to continue with a series of large-scale reforms initiated in 2009. W [...]	2010-01-12 07:20:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KG
10BISHKEK38	FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SENTENCED TO 8 YEARS [...] (SBU) On January 11, the Bishkek Garrison Military Court sentenced former Minister of Defense, Presidential candidate, and political insider, Ismail Isakov, to eight years in prison at a maximum security prison. Isakov was convicted of corruption, including illegally transferring to his son an [...]	2010-01-12 08:09:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KG
10BISHKEK5	KYRGYZSTAN: BALYKCHY DEFENDANTS GUILTY - ANOTHER [...] (SBU) On December 25, the city court of Balykchy, a city two hours east of Bishkek, sentenced four Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan supporters to four years in prison and another 15 individuals to several years probation in connection with post-presidential election protests. All the def [...]	2010-01-04 09:27:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KG
10BISHKEK51	TRANSIT CENTER RENEWAL AND U.S. COMMITMENTS LOOM [...] (U) See para 18 for action requests. 2. (C) Summary: The U.S. must inform the Government of Kyrgyzstan of its intent to renew the Transit Center agreement for another year by April 14. Since the agreement went into effect in July 2009, U.S.-Kyrgyzstan relations have improved significant [...]	2010-01-20 10:17:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KG

10BISHKEK52	KYRGYZSTAN'S IMPROVING BUDGET TRANSPARENCY [...] SUMMARY: The Kyrgyz Government has taken significant steps to increase the transparency of its budget and has a detailed plan to further improve its budget process. The 2010 budget passed by Parliament in December is available on the internet and provides detailed figures in many areas. In 20 [...]	2010-01-21 01:38:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EFIN PREL KG
10BISHKEK55	Kyrgyzstan: Media Responds to Human Rights Situation [...] (U) Summary: Recent events, including the conviction and harsh sentencing of presidential candidate and former Minister of Defense Ismail Isakov on corruption charges (reftel) and Kyrgyzstan's downgraded rank in Freedom House's freedom index, have triggered an increase in negative articles on t [...]	2010-01-22 03:12:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KPAO KG
10BISHKEK56	Chinese Soft Power in Kyrgyzstan [...] (SBU) Summary: China is making inroads in Kyrgyzstan, a country that has traditionally gravitated toward Russia. The Chinese Embassy in Bishkek recently achieved a public diplomacy coup when it agreed to donate 20,000 satellite receiver boxes in exchange for permission to broadcast two televis [...]	2010-01-22 04:12:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO KG CH
10BISHKEK57	KYRGYZSTAN: AMBASSADOR ATTENDS BELL SANCTIFICATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 13, the Ambassador attended a ceremony for the blessing of nine new bells at a newly reconstructed Russian Orthodox Church. The ceremony was also attended by First Lady Tatiana Bakiyeva. The appearance of the First Lady was notable as she does not make many public a [...]	2010-01-22 04:22:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPAO KG
10BISHKEK68	KYRGYZSTAN: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) On January 22, the Ambassador discussed the humanitarian crisis in Haiti (reftel points) with Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Sarbayev. Sarbayev noted that he had been in China on an official visit when the earthquake occurred. Nonetheless, he had sent condolences to the Haitian government and [...]	2010-01-27 04:00:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF EAID ECON HA KG
10BISHKEK71	KYRGYZ OMBUDSMAN BLAMES SECURITY SERVICES FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kyrgyz Ombudsman for Human Rights Tursunbek Akun said in a meeting with the Ambassador that he was very concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan. He asserted that the Kyrgyz State National Security Service (SNB) was responsible for the death o [...]	2010-01-29 03:14:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KG
10BISHKEK82	KYRGYZSTAN'S TRIALS: WAITING FOR EVIDENCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The trial of six people charged with starting an ethnic riot in the village of Petrovka continues to grind forward. Witness after witness denies that the defendants were inciting the riot, and many say that the three prominent activists on trial were trying to stop it. The p [...]	2010-02-02 08:52:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KG
10BISHKEK84	KYRGYZSTAN SEEKS SIGNS FROM THE U.S. OF LONG-TERM [...] (C) Action request para. 8. 2. (C) Summary: The Government of the Kyrgyz Republic is actively reviewing the state of its relationships with the U.S., Russia, and China, seeking a balance which would best serve its interests. A key concern of our interlocutors is what role the U.S. inten [...]	2010-02-02 10:04:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MARR KG
10BISHKEK86	MAXIM BAKIYEV'S DEBUT ON THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Maxim Bakiyev made his international debut leading an official delegation to China. He returned home triumphant, at least at first glance, with several signed agreements, including one on Chinese financing for the construction of a trans-Kyrgyzstan power transmission line. Howev [...]	2010-02-03 02:31:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KG
10BISHKEK91	KYRGYZSTAN: AMBASSADOR AND FM DISCUSS ICG VISA [...] (C) Summary: In a cordial meeting, Ambassador Gfoeller and Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Kadyrbek Sarbayev discussed the denial of a visa extension to the International Crisis Group's Central Asia Project Director Paul Quinn-Judge by the MFA. The Ambassador expressed concern at the decision and no [...]	2010-02-05 08:47:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MARR KG
10BISHKEK96	HEAD OF KYRGYZ SECRETARIAT CLAIMS RFE/RL FOSTERS [...] (C) Summary: In a friendly lunch at the Ambassador's residence, Oksana Malevanaya, the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, reiterated her opposition to RFE/Radio Azzatyk, claiming that their programs are anti-government, anti-Christian, and promote intolerance to the edge of anti-Semitism [...]	2010-02-08 06:45:00	Embassy Bishkek	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KG
10BISHKEK98	HEAD OF SECRETARIAT ASSERTS SADYRKULOV DEATH AN [...] (S) Summary: During a friendly lunch at the Ambassador's residence, Oksana Malevanaya, the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, broached the topic of Medet Sadyrkulov's death. She said that he was her husband, soul mate and the father of her youngest child, and that she could not have con [...]	2010-02-09 06:11:00	Embassy Bishkek	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINS PHUM KG
10BOGOTA100	DISASTER DECLARATION: COLOMBIAN FOREST FIRES [...] SUMMARY: In response to the increasing number and severity of forest fires that have affected 98 municipalities in 12 departments across Colombia, the Chief of Mission has determined that the disaster is of sufficient magnitude to warrant U.S. Government assistance. The damage has exceeded the [...]	2010-01-11 02:02:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SENV PREF SOCI EAGR ECON PREL PGOV CO
10BOGOTA103	COLOMBIAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY: DYING OR JUST DOWNSIZING? [...] (U) SUMMARY. Long a cornerstone of Colombia's industrial base, the textile/apparel industry has declined in recent years. Industry experts point to four primary reasons for the sector's dismal performance in 2009: 1) decreased exports, particularly to Venezuela; 2) short-term U.S. trade prefe [...]	2010-01-28 21:41:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL EIND KTEX CO
10BOGOTA105	COLOMBIA CONTINUES ROBUST RELIEF EFFORTS IN HAITI [...] (SBU) Summary. Colombian military and civilian sectors continue in high gear supporting relief efforts in Haiti. Colombia has flown 14 flights transporting 294 personnel, 21 dogs and 224,509 pounds of supplies to Haiti. Colombian medical personnel have performed more than 2,150 procedures near [...]	2010-01-28 21:46:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV ECON PREL MARR KPAO CO HA
10BOGOTA11	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S JAN 11-13 VISIT [...] (C) Your visit is an opportunity to focus U.S. and Colombian efforts to consolidate Colombia's gains as the country enters a transition year. President Uribe will seek your reassurance of our commitment to their fight against illegal drugs and illegal armed groups. His decision on whether to [...]	2010-01-06 23:01:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL OVIP PGOV PHUM PTER ECON ETRD EAID SNAR MOPS CO
10BOGOTA111	USG-FUNDED LABOR RIGHTS PROJECTS UPDATE [...] Summary: The USG has allocated $33 million to improve labor rights in Colombia through 17 projects in the 2001-2011 timeframe: one by the Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL),six by the Department of Labor (DOL),and ten by the U.S. Agency for International [...]	2010-02-01 14:11:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR LAB CO
10BOGOTA115	DRUMMOND FIRES WORKERS FOR ILLEGAL STRIKE [...] (SBU) U.S. mining company Drummond has begun the process of firing the majority of the National Mining and Energy Industry Workers' Union's (SINTRAMIENERGETICA) 35-member board of directors due to the union's illegal strike in March 2009. SINTRAMIENERGETICA leaders have urged a negotiated solut [...]	2010-02-01 14:41:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR LAB CO
10BOGOTA121	COLOMBIA REACTS PRUDENTLY BUT FIRMLY TO ALLEGED VENEZUELAN [...] (C/NF) Minister of Defense Silva told the Ambassador that an alleged January 27 Venezuelan overflight of Colombian airspace was a deliberate provocation and that he expected more such incidents. According to the GOC, a Venezuelan military helicopter crossed into the Colombian department of Arau [...]	2010-02-01 22:01:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS ETRD OAS CO VE
10BOGOTA125	SUPREME COURT INCHING TOWARDS DECISION ON PROSECUTOR GENERAL [...] (SBU) On January 28 the Supreme Court convened a session to vote on a new Prosecutor General (Fiscal General),though it failed to reach the required votes to make a selection and will reconvene February 4. The move suggests that the Court has abandoned its argument that President Uribe's "ter [...]	2010-02-02 14:04:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL CO
10BOGOTA13	Peace Commissioner Lays Out Way Ahead on FARC, ELN [...] (S/NF) Colombian High Commissioner for Peace Frank Pearl told the Ambassador January 5 that his office is preparing "roadmaps" for the next Administration on how best to pursue peace agreements with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and National Liberation Army (ELN). Pearl acknowle [...]	2010-01-07 13:44:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER SNAR PARM ECON CO
10BOGOTA132	AMBASSADOR'S TRIP TO CARTAGENA HIGHLIGHTS THE RICHNESS OF [...] The Ambassador traveled to Cartagena on December 4-5 to inaugurate the 13th Houston Series conference, visit two USAID projects, meet with landmine survivors, and attend a luncheon hosted by AmCham Cartagena. The Ambassador's visit to Cartagena was widely covered by the press and highlighted t [...]	2010-01-14 20:12:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID PHUM EINV ECON ETRD PTER PREL SOCI CO
10BOGOTA136	TFHA01: COLOMBIAN RESPONSE TO HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE [...] (SBU) The Government of Colombia (GOC) sent an Air Force B-727 to Haiti to participate in humanitarian relief operations on the morning of January 14. The flight carried 7 doctors, 20 search and rescue officials, and emergency food and medical supplies. Colombian officials said the flight was [...]	2010-01-14 23:17:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR MARR PREL KPKO AORC CO HA
10BOGOTA141	TAKING A LEAD IN THE ENERGY AND CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Colombia plans to host the first regional Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) meeting in Bogota on February 26 in preparation for the April ECPA ministerial. Department of Energy officials visited Bogota to assist the GOC's planning efforts. The regional mee [...]	2010-02-03 16:16:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON PREL KSUM
10BOGOTA145	Third Uribe Term Increasingly Likely [...] (C) President Uribe took another step toward a third term with his January 20 decision to adhere to restrictions designed to level the playing field between an incumbent president and his/her competitors. As expected, the Inspector General recommended January 12 that the Constitutional Court a [...]	2010-02-03 21:29:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL KJUS PINR PHUM CO
10BOGOTA149	Judge's Reportedly Critical Report Kicks Off Debate on [...] (SBU) Constitutional Court Judge Humberto Sierra presented his legal analysis on the constitutionality of the presidential reelection referendum to the other eight members of the Court on February 3 in a closed session. Although the report is supposed to be confidential for five years, even be [...]	2010-02-04 17:11:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PGOV KDEM PREL KJUS PINR PHUM CO
10BOGOTA15	COLOMBIA REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT TO COMBAT SPREADING FIRES [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: The GOC requested emergency USG fire-fighting assistance on January 6 to help combat a growing number of fires caused by an atypical drought in Colombia. More than 60 municipalities have been affected by such fires, damaging an estimated 1,700 hectares. Our [...]	2010-01-07 18:44:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV EAGR ECON PREL PGOV CO
10BOGOTA159	NEW VOICES IN THE LABOR VIOLENCE DEBATE [...] (SBU) Colombian research institutions are focused on labor violence to an unprecedented degree. Two prominent universities and six think-tanks have recently completed or initiated studies. The influx of new voices has intensified and enriched the debate concerning the causes and scope of viole [...]	2010-02-05 18:09:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR LAB CO
10BOGOTA165	Mixed Reactions to Plan Colombia Cut, GOC to Lobby US [...] (SBU) The Government of Colombia's (GOC) reaction to the announcement of cuts to USG Plan Colombia assistance has been measured and has recognized fiscal realities in the United States as well as Plan Colombia's natural tendency towards reduced assistance. Still, officials have expressed conce [...]	2010-02-05 23:25:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER SNAR EAID CO
10BOGOTA167	TFHA01: COLOMBIA'S LARGEST HUMANITARIAN EFFORT EVER [...] (SBU) Summary. Colombian assistance to Haiti is ongoing and is the largest overseas humanitarian effort in the country's history. The Ambassador and Government of Colombia (GOC) officials highlighted Colombian assistance to Haiti at a public appearance with a backdrop of Colombian and U.S. tro [...]	2010-02-05 23:35:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV ECON PREL MARR KPAO CO HA
10BOGOTA171	FIGHT OVER DEMOCRATIC SECURITY: COLOMBIA CONFLICT UPDATE FOR [...] (C) Despite its weakened state, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continued to carry out asymmetrical attacks on soft targets and executed several higher profile operations in the fourth quarter of 2009 -- including the kidnapping and execution of the governor of Caqueta and an [...]	2010-02-08 15:22:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER MOPS MCAP ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM CO
10BOGOTA177	COLOMBIAN EXPORTS TO VENEZUELA FALL OFF A CLIFF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The last six months of 2009 saw a dramatic decrease in Colombia's exports to Venezuela. Any exports that require administrative permits or preferential exchange rate dollars have virtually dried up. The GOC speculates that smuggling has spiked and holds out little hope for a bi [...]	2010-02-08 20:01:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECIN ECON PREL CO
10BOGOTA18	DIPNOTE REGARDING NON-RESIDENT ORGAN TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS [...] (U) Colombia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered a diplomatic note dated December 16 outlining Colombia's regulations regarding organ transplants for non-resident foreigners. 2. (U) BEGIN UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF DIPLOMATIC NOTE: DAM/CAE No. 68221 The Ministry o [...]	2010-01-05 15:48:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO WHO PREL PHUM CASC AMED CO
10BOGOTA186	DECEMBER COLOMBIA STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT INTIATIVE UPDATE [...] (SBU) Vice Minister of Defense Sergio Jaramillo's resignation leaves the USG without a key National Consolidation Plan (PNC) interlocutor and the GOC lacking a chief PNC strategist and spokesperson. Post is engaging GOC leaders to focus their attention on consolidation in light of upcoming ele [...]	2010-01-20 16:23:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM EAID SNAR CO
10BOGOTA198	Haiti Reporting from Colombia [...] (U) SUMMARY. All leading national and regional newspapers in Colombia continue their extensive coverage of the events in Haiti, and have highlighted the USG's quick response to the crisis. Post has closely followed the overwhelmingly positive coverage of the U.S. role in Haiti disaster assista [...]	2010-01-21 18:43:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO KDEM OIIP HA CO
10BOGOTA201	DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S JANUARY 12, 2010 MEETING WITH [...] (U) January 12, 2010; 10:00 AM; Monteria, Colombia. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Deputy Secretary Steinberg Ambassador William Brownfield DAS Christopher McMullen, WHA DCM Brian Nichols USAID Mission Director Ken Yamashita Political Counselor Mark Wells (notetaker) NAS Director Dan Foote [...]	2010-02-09 19:10:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL OVIP EAID KJUS PGOV PTER SNAR ETRD SENV CO VE
10BOGOTA214	AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: NOVEMBER 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for November, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 2,808 tracks during November. There were three Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks [...]	2010-01-21 21:07:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO
10BOGOTA217	"FTA WITH U.S. IS BLOCKING COLOMBIA'S GLOBAL TRADE POLICY," [...] (C) SUMMARY. Colombian Trade Minister Luis Guillermo Plata told us the lack of U.S. Congressional action on the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA) is hampering Colombian efforts to integrate into the world economy and in particular threatening pending accords with Canada and the E [...]	2010-02-11 18:31:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL ELAB EAIR PGOV CO
10BOGOTA225	COLOMBIA'S CONTRIBUTION TO UN PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN HAITI [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Emboffs spoke on February 11 with officials at the Colombian Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). These Government of Colombia (GOC) officials confirmed that there are currently 26 Colombian police officers in Haiti as part of MINUSTAH. The Colomb [...]	2010-02-11 21:52:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC EFIN KJUS KPKO HA CO
10BOGOTA227	GOC CLAIMS SOME PROGRESS WITH FARC, ELN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Swedish intermediaries have reportedly arranged for a meeting in Sweden between representatives of the Government of Colombia (GOC) and representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Separately, negotiations proceeded for the humanitarian release of two [...]	2010-02-11 23:38:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER CO
10BOGOTA235	THAW WITH ECUADOR EVIDENT AT HAITI SUMMIT [...] (SBU) The Government of Colombia (GOC) continued its leadership in the Haiti relief effort at a February 9 UNASUR (Union of South American Countries) meeting in Quito, Ecuador. At the summit, President Uribe expressed his support for the summit's reconstruction initiatives, including reducing [...]	2010-02-12 17:01:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS PTER ETRD OAS CO EC EAID HA
10BOGOTA237	INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR FOR DOL [...] Per reftel a, post submits the following information for the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Congressional Reporting Requirements related to forced and child labor. 2. The following is new information relevant to tasking 1: The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) [...]	2010-02-12 17:30:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR LAB CO
10BOGOTA238	CODEL ENGEL DISCUSSES FTA AND DCA, ENCOURAGES COLOMBIAN [...] (SBU) House Foreign Affairs Committee Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairman Eliot Engel led a Congressional delegation to Cartagena and Monteria, Colombia from January 7-10, 2010. At his private ranch in Monteria, President Uribe outlined Colombia's progress, with U.S. support, on counterna [...]	2010-01-22 18:30:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR EAID ETRD PHUM MOPS OREP CO
10BOGOTA239	COLOMBIA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LEMIEUX (FEBRUARY 17-19) [...] (SBU) Your upcoming visit to Bogota and two Colombian military facilities is an opportunity to discuss with the Colombians our shared fight against illegal drugs and illegal armed groups as well as the underlying social inequality that drives both phenomena. The possible referendum to allow Pre [...]	2010-02-12 18:58:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID PGOV MCAP MOPS PTER ETRD PHUM SNAR OREP CO
10BOGOTA243	QUESTIONS ABOUND ON WHETHER AIR STRIKE HIT INDIGENOUS TERRITORY [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-12 21:09:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET//NOFORN	CO MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL PTER
10BOGOTA245	Santos Eager to Assume Uribe's Mantle, but Uribe Still [...] (C) The reelection referendum rollercoaster rolls on. Constitutional Court Judge Humberto Sierra's draft decision declaring the referendum unconstitutional initially led many observes to predict the referendum would not be held. This perception was fueled by President Uribe's meetings with pot [...]	2010-02-12 21:09:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL KJUS PINR PHUM CO
10BOGOTA247	TFHA01: FACILITATING COLOMBIAN ACCEPTANCE OF HAITIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Bogota has framed out the procedures to facilitate the transfer of Haitian earthquake patients to Colombia for long-term post-operative care. Key points of contact have been established with the Government of Colombia (GOC) and the Haitian Ministry of Health. Post and G [...]	2010-02-12 22:22:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID PGOV HHS CO PREL HA
10BOGOTA251	TFHA01: FACILITATING COLOMBIAN ACCEPTANCE OF HAITIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Bogota has framed out the procedures to facilitate the transfer of Haitian earthquake patients to Colombia for long-term post-operative care. Key points of contact have been established with the Government of Colombia (GOC) and the Haitian Ministry of Health. Post and G [...]	2010-02-12 23:43:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV PREL HHS CO HA
10BOGOTA252	CABLE COLOMBIAN ACCEPTANCE LEMDP PROGRAM APRIL 2010 [...] Colombia accepts the invitation, per Reftel, for ten (10) students to attend the Law Enforcement Management Development Program (LEMDP) at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in San Salvador, El Salvador, from April 12 to May 21, 2010. 2. Embassy Bogota POC for ILEA is: [...]	2010-01-25 18:21:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR ASEC KCRM PREL OTRA ES
10BOGOTA256	TFHA01: COLOMBIA TAKES LEADERSHIP ROLE IN HAITI RELIEF [...] (SBU) Summary. Colombia has responded comprehensively to the tragic earthquake in Haiti, providing personnel, donations, and much needed supplies. The Colombian military was averaging one to two flights to Haiti per day during the initial week of the crisis and is flying sustainment fli [...]	2010-01-25 22:42:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PREL PGOV MARR KPAO AEMR CO HA
10BOGOTA258	Haiti Reporting from Colombia (January 22-25, 2010) [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post continues to closely follow the Colombian media coverage of the U.S. role in Haiti disaster assistance. Though Colombian coverage of the earthquake aftermath is beginning to diminish, reporting on the U.S. role in providing sweeping disaster and humanitarian assistance continu [...]	2010-01-26 13:00:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO KDEM OIIP HA CO
10BOGOTA260	FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND LONDON CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-26 14:35:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF
10BOGOTA287	UNHCHR REP BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON INTELLIGENCE PURGING [...] (C) United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Chief of Mission Christian Salazar briefed the Ambassador on the results of a delegation of Colombian intelligence officials to Germany in early February to observe safeguards and procedures for protecting citizens from abuse of inf [...]	2010-02-17 19:57:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PHUM UN CO
10BOGOTA291	PRIVATE PLAINTIFFS CHALLENGE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF DCA [...] (C) On February 12, officials from the Colombian Ministry of Defense (MOD) informed us that private plaintiffs filed two separate petitions with the Constitutional Court dated November 12, 2009, challenging the constitutionality of the U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). The pla [...]	2010-02-17 21:46:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV MCAP PTER PHUM CO
10BOGOTA309	SECOND EXTRADITION DENIAL ON GROUNDS OF JUSTICE AND PEACE [...] (SBU) The Supreme Court denied the extradition request for former United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) leader Edwar Cobos Tellez (alias "Diego Vecino") on the grounds that it would compromise the Justice and Peace Law (JPL) and leave victims without recourse to truth and reparations re [...]	2010-02-19 17:20:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PREL PTER SNAR CO
10BOGOTA323	SOME DEVELOPMENTS IN WIRETAPPING SCANDAL, BUT MOST [...] (SBU) Vice Prosecutor General Fernando Pareja told Poloff on February 10 that the Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) continues to progress with four concurrent cases involving former Administrative Department of Security (DAS) employees implicated in illegal wiretapping and intelligence gat [...]	2010-02-22 21:52:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS PHUM PTER CO
10BOGOTA327	ADMINISTRATIVE CHARGES LODGED AGAINST PALACE AIDE, DAS [...] (U) In a follow-up to developments concerning the illegal wiretapping scandal reported in Reftel A, on February 22 Inspector General (Procurador) Alejandro Ordonez announced disciplinary charges against several Colombian government officials. Among the notables, Inspector General Alejandro Ord [...]	2010-02-23 23:01:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO
10BOGOTA333	Specter of "Parapolitics" Hangs Over March Congressional [...] (C) The "parapolitica" scandal severely damaged the 2006-10 Colombian Congress' legitimacy and ability to stand as an independent and productive branch of government (90 members were implicated for collaboration with paramilitaries). The Supreme Court is investigating these cases and has recen [...]	2010-02-24 16:56:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KJUS KCRM CO
10BOGOTA349	VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS SHOWS UPDWARD TREND [...] (SBU) Violence against indigenous people trended upward in 2009 largely based on several massacres of Awa tribe members in the Department of Narino in southwest Colombia. The Government of Colombia (GOC) maintains indigenous groups are not being intentionally targeted based on their ethnicity, [...]	2010-02-26 14:05:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CO
10BOGOTA355	AMBASSADOR ENGAGES PROMINENT LABOR LEADER [...] (U) The Ambassador expressed USG support for the essential role unions play in healthy democratic societies in a February 17 meeting with the Colombian Confederation of Workers (CTC). The CTC is one of the three main labor confederations in Colombia, with 120,000 members organized into approxi [...]	2010-02-26 19:42:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR LAB CO
10BOGOTA357	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COLOMBIA UNABLE TO SUPPLY SMALL ARMS TO [...] (SBU) EmbOff delivered reftel demarche to Colombian Defense Ministry (MOD) officials on February 25. The officials responded that export of arms from Colombia is difficult if not impossible due to complex legal regulations. The officials also indicated that the MOD does not currently have exc [...]	2010-02-26 20:12:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HA SOCI MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC EFIN KJUS KPKO
10BOGOTA359	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COLOMBIA UNABLE TO SUPPLY SMALL ARMS TO [...] (SBU) EmbOff delivered reftel demarche to Colombian Defense Ministry (MOD) officials on February 25. The officials responded that export of arms from Colombia is difficult if not impossible due to complex legal regulations. The officials also indicated that the MOD does not currently have exc [...]	2010-02-26 22:30:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HA SOCI MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC EFIN KJUS KPKO
10BOGOTA361	COURT RULES URIBE THIRD TERM REFERENDUM UNCONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Colombia's Constitutional Court ruled February 26 that the constitutional amendment process to allow President Alvaro Uribe to run for an unprecedented (and controversial) third term could not legally go forward. The Court -- reportedly by a 7-2 vote -- specifically cited flawe [...]	2010-02-26 23:31:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS CO
10BOGOTA380	EXTRADITION: LUIS EDUARDO MANJARRES-PUMAREJO - EXTRADITION [...] The Embassy received official notification from the GOC on January 29, 2010, that the extradition of Colombian national LUIS EDUARDO MANJARRES-PUMAREJO has been approved on the count in para. 2 pursuant to Resolution No. 349, dated December 11, 2009. The individual did not enter an appeal. [...]	2010-02-02 14:54:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL CJAN CO KCRM KJUS
10BOGOTA49	2009 LABOR VIOLENCE NUMBERS AND IMPUNITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) National Union School (ENS) statistics show that murders of trade unionists fell by 20% in 2009, and by 80% since 2002. However, ENS Director Jose Luciano Sanin said the focus on killings masked the scope of anti-union violence -- only 26% of the violent acts ENS had recorded were murders [...]	2010-01-19 14:44:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR LAB CO
10BOGOTA502	COLOMBIA FIGHTING FOREST FIRES WITH USG HELP [...] (U) Summary. Since early January, the USG has assisted the GOC respond effectively to forest fires caused by an atypical lack of rain. Experts expect the fires to spread during a continued drought in February and March. USG assistance to Colombia totals $650,000, notably $515,000 of donated [...]	2010-02-09 21:00:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR ECON PGOV PREL CO
10BOGOTA53	TFHA01: COLOMBIA COORDINATING CLOSELY WITH USG ON HAITI [...] (SBU) Summary. The ChargC) thanked President Uribe for Colombian disaster assistance to Haiti on January 19. Uribe acknowledged the importance of aiding Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake and said that Colombia is sending Colombian National Police (CNP) search and rescue teams, add [...]	2010-01-20 17:21:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KPKO PREL PGOV CO HA
10BOGOTA55	TFHA01: COLOMBIA COORDINATING CLOSELY WITH USG ON HAITI [...] (SBU) Summary. The ChargC) thanked President Uribe for Colombian disaster assistance to Haiti on January 19. Uribe acknowledged the importance of aiding Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake and said that Colombia is sending Colombian National Police (CNP) search and rescue team [...]	2010-01-20 17:40:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PREL PGOV MARR KPKO AEMR CO HA
10BOGOTA600	JANUARY COLOMBIA STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT INTIATIVE UPDATE [...] (SBU) The GOC made progress to secure adequate civilian ministry commitment to the National Consolidation Plan (PNC) but a great deal of work remains to be done. The Center for the Coordination of Integrated Action (CCAI) mapped consolidation regions down to the village level, which should fac [...]	2010-02-17 13:28:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM EAID SNAR CO
10BOGOTA686	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO MEDICAL MISSION HIGHLIGHTS SECURITY [...] (SBU) The Ambassador traveled to La Macarena, Meta, on February 2 to tour a SOUTHCOM-sponsored humanitarian assistance mission supplying medical services to more than 5,000 Colombian citizens. The operation in the former guerrilla heartland underlined the security gains made under Colombia's Na [...]	2010-02-22 17:42:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAGR EAID SNAR MARR CO
10BOGOTA716	S/WGI PROJECT PROPOSAL - COLOMBIA [...] Embassy Bogota nominates the project proposal "Political Training for Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Women" by the Departmental Network of Choco for the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI) small grants initiative. The project complements Post's strategy to promote opportunities [...]	2010-02-23 18:53:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM AID CO
10BOGOTA75	IICA SEEKS USG SUPPORT TO COUNTER BLAME ACCUSATIONS FOR [...] (U) This message contains an action request. Please see paragraphs 2 and 9. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. Representatives of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA),a branch of the OAS, met with Emboffs on January 21 to refute what they see as a Colom [...]	2010-01-22 23:17:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR PREL OAS PGOV CO
10BOGOTA91	OPPOSITION CANDIDATE PARDO DISCUSSES ELECTIONS AND BILATERAL [...] (C) Liberal Party Director and presidential candidate Rafael Pardo predicted that: the Uribe coalition would maintain its congressional majority in the March 14 election, independent Sergio Fajardo would have a tough time winning the presidency due to a lack of congressional support, President [...]	2010-01-27 13:22:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR ECON PTER PINR CO VE CU
10BOGOTA96	CIVILIAN DEMINING EXPECTED IN COLOMBIA FOR 2010 [...] (SBU) During the Second Review Conference of the Ottawa Convention Banning Anti-Personnel Landmines in Cartagena in December, the Government of Colombia (GOC) told Poloff they expect civilian demining to begin in 2010. The GOC also confirmed they would initially limit civilian demining to the [...]	2010-01-08 16:37:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PARM PREL KHDP CO
10BOGOTA97	International Donors Signal Future Support for Consolidation [...] (C) On January 19, the Embassy's Colombia Strategic Development Initiative (CSDI) working group hosted officials from the Dutch, German and Canadian Embassies to discuss CSDI, Colombia's National Consolidation Plan (PNC) and the status of support from those Embassies for the PNC. The chief con [...]	2010-01-27 19:36:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER EAID SNAR CO CA GM NL
10BOGOTA98	COPENHAGEN READOUT: COLOMBIA LOOKS TO CONSOLIDATE LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. Environment Minister Carlos Costa discussed the results of the Copenhagen summit with EconCouns and ESTH officer on January 6. Costa noted the difficult nature of the negotiations, faulting the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) countries and Sudan for blocking [...]	2010-01-08 22:51:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR PREL ENRG ECON EAID CO
10BRASILIA102	BRAZIL: ONE NORTHEAST STATE TRIES TO CATCH THE SOUTH [...] (U) Summary: The development challenges facing the Brazilian northeast state of Piaui are representative of the difficult issues Brazil's poorest regions must overcome to achieve the level of prosperity in the country's southern regions. Despite economic growth rates over the past several yea [...]	2010-02-02 12:13:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC COM USTR EAID PREL BR
10BRASILIA158	Request for Human Rights Vetting for the Special Operations [...] (U) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate, of the Brazilian Navy, who has been nominated to participate in a Special Operations in Combating Terrorism Course, from April 5-9, 2010, in Hurlburt Field, FL, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance A [...]	2010-02-11 19:38:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM BR
10BRASILIA160	Request for Human Rights Vetting for 5TH Annual Sovereign [...] (U) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate, of the Brazilian Police, who has been nominated to participate in the 5TH Annual Sovereign Challenge Conference, March 8-11, 2010, Key West, FL, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. 2. ( [...]	2010-02-11 19:38:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM BR
10BRASILIA162	BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-11 22:55:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC PREL BR
10BRASILIA180	BRAZIL: S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] Brazil is pleased to submit proposals to the S/GWI Small Grants Initiative. We as a Mission believe these proposals will assist in the advancement of U.S. objectives, primarily in supporting our joint effort to provide education to support social advancement in local communities and assistance [...]	2010-02-19 12:17:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY
10BRASILIA184	SCENESETTER FOR THE FEBRUARY 23-26 VISIT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL [...] (SBU) I want to warmly welcome you to Brazil for your visit to Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, and to attend the 8th Meeting of Justice Ministers of the Americas (REMJA). The Government of Brazil (GOB) is enthusiastic that you have decided to attend the REMJA, and you will be eagerly received [...]	2010-02-19 22:10:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KJUS KCRM JUS OAS BR
10BRASILIA19	SENIOR BRAZIL OFFICIALS PRAISE COOPERATION, SEEK CLOSER [...] (C) In separate meetings with the Charge on January 22, Chief of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) General Staff Admiral Joao Afonso Prado Maia de Faria ("ADM Prado Maia") and Foreign Ministry (MRE) Under Secretary for Latin America Antonio Simoes both said they saw no conflict between the United S [...]	2010-01-22 22:21:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL MASS BR HA
10BRASILIA196	Brazil informed of designation related to Iranian [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-26 15:02:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MNUC KNNP IR GM PREL PARM EFIN BR
10BRASILIA204	Brazil: March HRC [...] On February 24, poloff delivered the points reftel to Nathanael de Souza e Silva and Bruna Vieira de Paula of the Division of Human Rights, Ministry of External Relations (MRE). Religious and racial intolerance 2. Poloff handed Silva and de Paula a copy of the U.S.-proposed Action Plan [...]	2010-02-27 21:57:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UN BR GV IR BM CG IS
10BRASILIA29	BRAZIL: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON IRAN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW [...] (C) The Human Rights Department at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) responded favorably to the approach outlined in reftel A of using Iran's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in the Human Rights Council (HRC) to pressure Iran on its human rights performance. MRE Department Deput [...]	2010-01-28 19:57:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PHUM PREL
10BRASILIA3	FX2 at the End of 2009 [...] (C) As 2009 comes to end, Brazil's FX2 competition remains undecided. It had been expected that President Lula would make a decision before the end of the year, so as to be able to complete the sale during his tenure. Practically speaking, however, even if a Presidential decision were to be [...]	2010-01-05 19:40:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC MASS BR
10BRASILIA31	Preparing for the Nuclear Security Summit [...] (SBU) In conjunction with Netherlands ChargC) Frans Van Rijn, ChargC) d'Affaires Lisa Kubiske presented the Note Verbale and points contained in reftel to Ministry for External Relations Under Secretary for Political Affairs Vera Machado. Machado said that the GOB supports the Nuclear Securit [...]	2010-01-29 20:48:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM IAEA AORC MNUC PREL BR
10BRASILIA33	MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE IRAN'S ENGAGEMENT ON ITS [...] (C) ChargC) delivered the reftel demarche Jabnuary 29 to Ministry for External Relations (MRE) Under Secretary for Political Affairs Vera Machado. Machado asked if the USG and P5+1 partners were seeking additional sanctions against Iran at the present time and if the issue had been placed o [...]	2010-01-29 20:52:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IR UNSC BR
10BRASILIA43	BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT LULA [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Shannon presented his credentials to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on February 4. Lula indicated his continuing interest in building a strong relationship with President Obama and his desire for active engagement aimed at developing the enormous potenti [...]	2010-02-09 10:13:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ODIP HA BR
10BRASILIA44	TFHA01: BRAZIL ACTIVE, EAGER TO PARTNER WITH USG ON HAITI [...] (U) In the wake of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the GOB has taken an unusually active role in assistance efforts, building on its leadership of MINUSTAH and recent rotation onto the UN Security Council. Brazilian actions to date include: * Sent by President Lula, Defense Mini [...]	2010-01-15 13:30:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL BR MARR
10BRASILIA45	BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MRE SECRETARY-GENERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. After presenting his credentials to Brazilian President Lula (septel),Ambassador Shannon met for over an hour February 4 with Secretary-General (Deputy FM) Antonio Patriota, covering the work ahead in Haiti, the status of Brazil's FX2 fighter purchase, climate change negotiatio [...]	2010-02-09 10:47:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL SENV MASS HA IR
10BRASILIA48	BRAZIL: DHS DEPUTY SECRETARY LUTE'S VISIT TO BRAZIL JANUARY [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the failed bombing attempt of Delta flight 253 destined for Detroit on December 25, 2009, DHS Deputy Secretary (DEPSEC) Lute visited Brazil on the last stop of a 10 country trip designed to elicit support from partner nations in adopting a multilateral/global respo [...]	2010-01-20 11:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR ASEC BR PTER PREL
10BRASILIA5	Brazil: Foreign Policy as an Emerging Campaign Issue [...] (C) Summary. With both sides unwilling to promote distinctive alternatives to prevailing economic policy in a pre-election environment, Brazil's two principal rival parties - President Lula's Worker's Party (PT) and front-running presidential candidate Jose Serra's Brazilian Social Democratic [...]	2010-01-08 16:29:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BR SU VE CO
10BRASILIA51	Ambassador Shannon's Meeting with MOD Jobim [...] (C) 1. (C) During Ambassador Shannon's introductory call February 5, Minister of Defense Nelson Jobim described the overall bilateral security relationship as strong and transparent. He said he favored expanding it this year, first through a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA),then throug [...]	2010-02-18 13:08:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS BR MASS
10BRASILIA53	BRAZIL: UPDATE ON EFFORTS AND FUTURE PLANS IN HAITI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Brazilian Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty) officials coordinating Brazil's post-earthquake assistance to Haiti listed for PolOffs Brazil's humanitarian donations, gave an update on February 8 on the deployment of Brazilian troops to Haiti, and laid out Brazil's plan for transitioning [...]	2010-02-18 17:56:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL MASS BR HA
10BRASILIA55	BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SECURITY, CN, AND UPCOMING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Institutional Security Office (GSI) Minister General Jorge Felix shared with Ambassador Shannon on February 9 Brazil's top security concerns, which include: assistance and cooperation in Haiti; increased drug trafficking in the region and consumption in Brazil; and security for the [...]	2010-02-18 21:47:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PTER SNAR ASEC BR BL HA DHS KOLY
10BRASILIA59	BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH MRE UNDER SECRETARIES FOR [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings with Ambassador Shannon February 9, MRE Under Secretaries for Political Affairs I Vera Machado and Political Affairs II Roberto Jaguaribe both focused on concerns that Iranian domestic issues would make a solution to the nuclear issues difficult to achieve. [...]	2010-02-19 22:39:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR CH BR
10BRASILIA61	BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH SENIOR PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary. During separate meetings at the Presidential Palace, Foreign Policy Advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia and Presidential Chief of Staff Gilberto Carvalho discussed with Ambassador Shannon their interest in working together on a range of regional and global issues, including Honduras, Ve [...]	2010-02-19 23:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XM BR
10BRASILIA62	Head of Brazil's Haiti Relief Efforts Reports Good [...] (SBU) In a meeting with the Charg???? d'Affaires, a.i., Lisa Kubiske on January 19, Brazil's coordinator for Brazil's Haiti emergency relief effort, Minister Jorge Armando Felix, head of the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI) at the Presidency, said he was pleased with bilateral coordination [...]	2010-01-22 12:20:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL BR

10BRASILIA7	BRAZIL: FOREIGN MINISTRY EAGER TO LAUNCH NEXT PHASE OF [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Celso Amorim broke with normal protocol and practice and met with Ambassador Shannon January 8, only hours after the Ambassador had arrived in country. Amorim welcomed the Ambassador's arrival, lamented the drawn out confirmation process, and said he was eager to [...]	2010-01-11 11:57:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BR
10BRASILIA88	PREPARING FOR THE NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT: DIFFERENCES [...] (SBU) Post has discussed the points raised in reftel with Ministry for External Relations (MRE) Director for Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies Santiago Mourao. Mourao has been active in the Nuclear Security Summit preparation process and understands well the different goals and objectives [...]	2010-01-28 16:46:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MNUC PARM BR IAEA
10BRASILIA9	Brazil Has Not Addressed Amcit Cases with Iran [...] (C) The Government of Brazil has not discussed with the Government of Iran the cases of the six American citizens detained or missing in Iran. Reftel was delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Relations (Itamaraty) Iran desk officer Roberto Salome (currently acting head of the Iran/Central Asia [...]	2010-01-11 19:39:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CASC BR IR
10BRATISLAVA12	SLOVAKIA CAUTIOUS ON CUBA [...] PolOff delivered reftel points to Martin Podstavek, desk officer for Latin America at the Slovak MFA. Podstavek appreciated the information about the recent U.S. engagement with the GOC, particularly on improving communication opportunities for the Cuban people. Podstavek said that the Slova [...]	2010-01-13 13:35:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL SOCI CU LO
10BRATISLAVA14	LANGUAGE LAW UPDATE: SO FAR, ALL QUIET [...] Summary: The implementing guidelines for the Amended State Language Act, which were approved by the Slovak government on December 16, 2009, took effect on January 1, 2010. According to officials from four mixed-ethnicity towns and the Ministry of Culture, there have been few practical effects [...]	2010-01-14 13:23:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV LO
10BRATISLAVA20	SLOVAKIA SEES EYE-TO-EYE ON ISAF TRANSITION MESSAGING [...] (C) Acting DCM delivered reftel demarche to MFA official Radovan Javorcik, whose newly-expanded directorate includes the U.S. and several countries of the Middle East, as well as Afghanistan and Pakistan. Javorcik agreed on the importance of a unified message underscoring international su [...]	2010-01-19 15:47:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL NATO AF LO
10BRATISLAVA22	SLOVAK PLEDGES OF ASSISTANCE TO HAITI [...] (U) According to MFA officials, Slovakia has pledged the following humanitarian assistance to Haiti: - 50,000 euros in financial aid - 18-person medical team - 44-bed field hospital - an unspecified amount of tents, sleeping bags, blankets, clothes, etc. The physical aid is en ro [...]	2010-01-20 10:16:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL UN LO HA
10BRATISLAVA28	SLOVAK RESPONSE TO FAC POINTS [...] (SBU) European Correspondent Albin Otruba accepted USG points for the upcoming Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on January 21 and expressed appreciation that the U.S. and EU are so close on the major issues. Bosnia-Herzegovina ------------------ 2. (SBU) The single item on which Otruba saw a [...]	2010-01-22 08:23:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EUN PGOV AF BH UA LO
10BRATISLAVA30	CHARGE EDDINS CARRIES HAITI MESSAGE ON LEADING BROADCASTER [...] (U) Leading Slovak cable news broadcaster "TA-3" broadcast an exclusive interview with Charge Eddins on Saturday, January 23, as part of their half-hour evening special on the situation in Haiti. In response to a query on speculation that the U.S. would "occupy" Haiti Charge Eddins strong [...]	2010-01-25 15:05:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO KDEM OIIP HA LO
10BRATISLAVA32	SLOVAKIA ON LONDON CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Radovan Javorcik, Director of the Fifth Territorial Department at the Slovak MFA, and Marek Brieska, Desk Officer for Afghanistan, on January 25. Javorcik will accompany Foreign Minister Lajcak to the London Conference. Javorcik said that he had already [...]	2010-01-25 16:44:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF LO
10BRATISLAVA35	NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS...ONE JOURNALIST'S STORY [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-28 15:38:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO KDEM OIIP LO
10BRATISLAVA41	SLOVAKS AGREE ON IMPORTANCE OF PUTTING REAL PRESSURE ON [...] (C) Charge d'affaires made reftel demarche to Slovak MFA Political Director Slobodnik on January 29. Slobodnik appreciated the U.S. points, noting that they reinforced Under Secretary Burns' recent session with EU political directors in Spain. Slobodnik said the Slovaks fully understood that [...]	2010-01-29 14:53:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UNSC IR LO
10BRATISLAVA48	SLOVAKIA READIES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CAPPING NATIONAL DEBT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Slovak cabinet is poised to approve a constitutional law capping the public debt at 50% of GDP and reforming government accounting in order to limit the ability of future administrations to "cook the books." The proposals are an effort by Finance Minister Jan Pociatek to box-i [...]	2010-02-02 13:34:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV PREL LO
10BRATISLAVA60	BALANCING THE UNBALANCEABLE: VOLLEBAEK'S EFFORTS TO MONITOR [...] (C) Summary: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek visited Bratislava on February 8 to meet with Slovak officials and minority representatives to discuss the implementation phase of the newly-amended Slovak State Language Act (ref a). Although Vollebaek told members of B [...]	2010-02-11 11:12:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL LO HU
10BRATISLAVA64	INTRODUCTION TO JUNE 12 NATIONAL ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary. Parliamentary elections will be held in Slovakia on June 12. It is all but certain that Smer-Social Democracy, the party of current Prime Minister Robert Fico, will win the largest share of the votes. Recent opinion polls showed support for Smer around 40 percent, while no other pa [...]	2010-02-16 09:58:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM LO
10BRATISLAVA7	EXPLOSIVES BLUNDER REVERBERATES; FACTS REMAINS MURKY [...] (U) Summary. As much of the world now knows, a January 2 airport security exercise in Poprad, Slovakia, went terribly awry. Slovak police had placed a 100-gram sample of RDX explosives in the bag of a Slovak citizen traveling to his residence in Dublin to test detection capabilities. Ap [...]	2010-01-08 16:06:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAIR EI LO
10BRATISLAVA70	SLOVAKIA DOES NOT INTEND TO CONTRIBUTE TO MINUSTAH [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-18 15:08:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HA SOCI MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC EFIN KJUS
10BRATISLAVA72	ONE DOWN, ONE DIRTY: CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE TAINT [...] (U) Summary. In the past six weeks, the chief of Slovakia's Border and Alien Police (BAP) and its senior officer at the eastern (Ukrainian) border have both fallen from grace, the former taking responsibility for a fiasco involving explosives secreted in luggage by the bomb squad, the latter [...]	2010-02-19 14:54:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS PGOV LO PREL UP PINR
10BRATISLAVA76	SLOVAK RESPONSE TO FEBRUARY FAC DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-22 15:36:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL LO
10BRATISLAVA81	SLOVAKS DOUBT EU ARMS EMBARGO OF CHINA WILL BE LIFTED [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Martin Podstavek, China Desk Officer of the Slovak MFA. Podstavek said that Slovakia is not one of the most "pro-China" countries within the EU, though there have been several recent high-level visits which have focused primarily on expanding economic co [...]	2010-02-25 15:44:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM CH EUN LO
10BRATISLAVA82	SLOVAKS AGREE WITH U.S. POSITION ON CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-25 15:48:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MNUC KNNP PREL LO
10BRAZZAVILLE17	REFUGEE UPDATE-NEARLY 107,000 DRC REFUGEES IN THE LIKOUALA [...] (U) According to UNHCR Brazzaville, the number of displaced in Congo-Brazzaville now totals 106,674. There are approximately 15,000 additional displaced persons in the Central African Republic. Although the displaced population has grown by nearly 20,000 since the last report (REF A),anecdotal [...]	2010-01-15 08:33:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PGOV UNHCR WFP CT CF CG
10BRAZZAVILLE20	TFHA01: CONGO BRAZZAVILLE PLEDGES ONE MILLION USD TO HAITI [...] Congo announced January 20 that it will provide one million USD to the relief effort for Haiti. Post provided host government with information on how to contribute through the UN relief web. 2. Local press has been neutral and factual in its limited reporting on the response to the cris [...]	2010-01-21 09:16:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PGOV PREL HA CF
10BRAZZAVILLE37	BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF, FEBRUARY 3, 2010 [...] (U) Christmas came late to Congo, as the World Bank and IMF announced January 28 that Congo(B) had achieved HIPC "completion point," a significant step toward debt relief for the country. According to the IMF and World Bank, the decision will generate total debt service savings of USD 1.9 billi [...]	2010-02-03 22:01:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV PREL CF
10BRAZZAVILLE53	DRC REFUGEES IN LKOUALA- LOGISTICAL CHALLENGES AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: The government of Congo-Brazzaville (GROC) estimates the total number of DRC citizens displaced to ROC now totals 115,077. Since mid-January, UNHCR has registered over 40,000 displaced persons and expects that the total number of registrations will be about 10% below the GROC's est [...]	2010-02-22 14:37:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL UNHCR WFP CF
10BRIDGETOWN13	FISCAL TRANSPARENCY IN BARBADOS [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-19 12:55:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PREL XL
10BRIDGETOWN162	TFHA01: St. Lucia, Dominica may have Creole-Speaking Police [...] (SBU) Embassy contacts in St. Lucia and Dominica have each signaled that they may be able to supply up to 15 Creole-speaking law enforcement personnel for assignment with the UN in Haiti. St. Lucia is much further along in its thinking; the special services unit (SSU) deputy chief told Emboff [...]	2010-02-18 15:45:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UN KPKO MASS HA XL
10BRIDGETOWN166	S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMISSION - DOMINICA [...] U.S. Embassy Bridgetown received a vigorous response to the U.S. Secretary of State's request for proposals under the "Women's Global Issues" small grants initiative. A total of 65 proposals were received by the early deadlines established by Embassies Bridgetown and Grenada, with at least an a [...]	2010-02-18 19:02:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO AID CDC COM TRSY DO XL
10BRIDGETOWN168	S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] U.S. Embassy Bridgetown received a vigorous response to the U.S. Secretary of State's request for proposals under the "Women's Global Issues" small grants initiative. A total of 65 proposals were received by the early deadlines established by Embassies Bridgetown and Grenada, with at least an a [...]	2010-02-18 19:02:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO AID CDC COM TRSY AC XL
10BRIDGETOWN17	BARBADOS PLEDGES CONTINUED SUPPORT TO COUNTER-DRUG [...] (U) Public comments made by Prime Minister Thompson and Opposition Leader Mia Mottley regarding the need to continue supporting regional counter-narcotics efforts through the Barbados-based Regional Security System (RSS) exemplified Barbados' unified stance on the issue and its commitment to co [...]	2010-01-19 19:24:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS SNAR XL
10BRIDGETOWN170	S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMISSION - ST. VINCENT AND THE [...] U.S. Embassy Bridgetown received a vigorous response to the U.S. Secretary of State's request for proposals under the "Women's Global Issues" small grants initiative. A total of 65 proposals were received by the early deadlines established by Embassies Bridgetown and Grenada, with at least an a [...]	2010-02-18 19:02:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO AID CDC COM TRSY VC XL
10BRIDGETOWN172	S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMISSION - ST. KITTS AND NEVIS [...] U.S. Embassy Bridgetown received a vigorous response to the U.S. Secretary of State's request for proposals under the "Women's Global Issues" small grants initiative. A total of 65 proposals were received by the early deadlines established by Embassies Bridgetown and Grenada, with at least an a [...]	2010-02-18 19:02:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO AID CDC COM TRSY SC XL
10BRIDGETOWN174	S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMISSION - ST. LUCIA [...] U.S. Embassy Bridgetown received a vigorous response to the U.S. Secretary of State's request for proposals under the "Women's Global Issues" small grants initiative. A total of 65 proposals were received by the early deadlines established by Embassies Bridgetown and Grenada, with at least an a [...]	2010-02-18 19:02:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO AID CDC COM TRSY ST XL
10BRIDGETOWN176	S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMISSION - BARBADOS [...] U.S. Embassy Bridgetown received a vigorous response to the U.S. Secretary of State's request for proposals under the "Women's Global Issues" small grants initiative. A total of 65 proposals were received by the early deadlines established by Embassies Bridgetown and Grenada, with at least an a [...]	2010-02-18 19:03:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO AID CDC COM TRSY BB XL
10BRIDGETOWN178	S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMISSION - GRENADA [...] U.S. Embassy Bridgetown received a vigorous response to the U.S. Secretary of State's request for proposals under the "Women's Global Issues" small grants initiative. A total of 65 proposals were received by the early deadlines established by Embassies Bridgetown and Grenada, with at least an a [...]	2010-02-18 19:03:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO AID CDC COM TRSY GJ XL
10BRIDGETOWN19	Rearranging the Dominos in Dominica's Cabinet [...] (C) Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced his new cabinet at an event in the National Stadium on the 4th of January. Fifteen ministerial positions will be parsed out among 18 MPs, almost half of whom are new to government. Skerrit added Foreign Affairs and Information Technology [...]	2010-01-23 00:00:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL XL
10BRIDGETOWN35	PM King: Rising Crime Threatens St. Lucia's Expanding [...] (C) St. Lucia Prime Minister Stephenson King told the Charge in a February 10 meeting that his government is struggling to stem the tide of violent crime that has begun to adversely affect the country's vital but vulnerable tourism sector. He is hiring more police, weeding out corruption in t [...]	2010-02-24 17:18:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MASS SNAR XL
10BRIDGETOWN37	GOLDSTONE FOLLOW-UP ACTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-26 18:50:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS XL
10BRIDGETOWN38	TFHA01: EASTERN CARIBBEAN GOVERNMENTS PLEDGE HAITI [...] (U) Governments, NGOs, businesses and private citizens throughout the Eastern Caribbean have reacted immediately to the Haiti disaster with a massive outpouring of concern and pledges of money and material. Governments in the region are attempting to organize a coordinated response through re [...]	2010-01-15 16:37:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10BRIDGETOWN7	FISCAL TRANSPARENCY IN ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES [...] (U) This cable responds to ref A request for information on fiscal transparency in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Responses are keyed to reftel questions. -- Is the central government expected to receive or is it already receiving U.S. foreign assistance funding using FY 2010 SFOAA? [...]	2010-01-12 18:17:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN PREL XL
10BRUSSELS106	EMBASSY CONTINUES VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN OF AWARENESS [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Brussels, and particularly Ambassador Gutman, have intensified their efforts to raise Belgian public and official awareness, understanding and support for the President's strategy on Afghanistan since the new year. The strategy has included a vigorous round of media interv [...]	2010-01-27 16:03:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV EAID BE AF
10BRUSSELS109	EU: WHAT IS "MAINSTREAMING" WOMEN'S ISSUES AND HOW [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Secretary's priority to integrate women's issues into the broader work of the Department coincides with an effort by the European Union to mainstream gender issues into its own external relations. Towards this end, the EU is currently circulating an internal action plan th [...]	2010-01-27 19:06:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN MASS EU
10BRUSSELS113	BELGIUM:TIP ACTION GUIDE DELIVERED TO MINISTRY OF [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-28 16:00:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KTIP PGOV BE
10BRUSSELS115	BELGIUM: AMBASSADOR GUTMAN'S PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT [...] (U) One week after the earthquake in Haiti, Ambassador Gutman appeared as a guest on the Flemish evening talk show, Phara. During this interview, the Ambassador addressed concerns that America was "taking over" Haiti, as the presenter suggested. When the presenter inquired whether America ha [...]	2010-01-29 09:26:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO KDEM OIIP HA BE
10BRUSSELS119	EU FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL, JANUARY - HAITI [...] (C) Summary: Meeting in Brussels on January 25, EU Foreign Ministers focused their attention on the situation in Haiti and discussed how the EU could better support international community relief efforts taking place there. Following an overview of Spanish presidency priorities, discussions [...]	2010-02-01 06:13:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID AF MASS EUN BK SR SO YM
10BRUSSELS120	EU PARLIAMENT POISED TO VETO U.S.-EU CT TFTP AGREEMENT; PNR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The European Parliament is increasingly likely to veto the U.S.-EU Terrorist Financing Tracking Program (TFTP, also known as SWIFT) next week. There are two aspects to this action. First, members of the European Parliament do not feel that they know enough about the operational [...]	2010-02-01 06:15:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KTFN PGOV PREL PINR ETTC EAIR EFIN KCRM KJUS
10BRUSSELS121	USEU AND MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: USEU Muslim outreach efforts have two objectives: U.S-EU cooperation on countering radicalization in Europe and globally, and sharing of best practices in integrating minorities into our societies. The latter cooperation on broader integration of minorities particularly reinfor [...]	2010-02-01 06:15:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN KISL PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SOCI PTER PINS
10BRUSSELS126	PAKISTAN'S AMBASSADOR DETAILS HIS PRIORITIES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Newly arrived Pakistan Ambassador to the European Union Jalil Abbas Jilani outlined Pakistan's priority topics with the EU during a courtesy call with Ambassador Kennard January 29. Pakistan hopes to formalize relations with the EU by establishing a regular summit schedule ( [...]	2010-02-02 17:02:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EUN PINR PK PREL
10BRUSSELS128	AMBASSADOR KENNARDâ€™S MEETING WITH SPANISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 1, Ambassador Kennard made a courtesy call on the Spanish Permanent Representative to the European Union, Carlos Bastarreche Segues. They discussed the state of play for the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP),the nature of the European Parliament after the Lisbon Tr [...]	2010-02-03 10:37:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EUN
10BRUSSELS133	EU HAS "NO INSTRUCTIONS" TO DISCUSS LIFTING CHINA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Commission Asia Unit informed Poloff on February 2 that there has been "absolutely no move" towards lifting the EU's China arms embargo, despite Spanish FM Moratinos's January 26 public reference to the most recent decision by the EU "to review the decision on the arm [...]	2010-02-04 13:54:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM PREL CH PHUM EUN
10BRUSSELS136	BELGIUM: OUTREACH FOR IRAN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-04 16:38:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IR PHUM PREL BE
10BRUSSELS137	BELGIUM: SUPPORTING "EFFECTIVE" SANCTIONS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-04 16:38:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IR UNSC BE
10BRUSSELS141	BELGIAN FM VANACKERE'S JAN 18-25 TRIP TO CENTRAL [...] (C) Summary: MFA Congo Desk Officer Hugues Chantry provided a readout February 1 of Belgian FM Vanackere's January 18-25 trip to the Central African nations of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),Rwanda, and Burundi. Vanackere met the presidents and foreign ministers of all three coun [...]	2010-02-05 17:07:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CG RW BY BE
10BRUSSELS155	BELGIUM: H1N1 CASES KEEP FALLING IN 2010 [...] On January 28, 2010, the Government of Belgium's Interministerial Influenza Commission (IIC) announced an estimated 1,614 new cases of the H1N1 virus in Belgium for the week of January 12 to January 17 (week 3). This figure is marginally higher from an estimated 1,302 cases the previous week. [...]	2010-02-09 14:14:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
10BRUSSELS160	BELGIUM SUPPORTS U.S. ON IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS, BUT [...] (C) On February 9, Embassy Acting PolEconCouns discussed the human rights situation in Iran with Pierre Gillon, Iran desk officer in the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. PolEconCouns noted the issuance on February 8 of the joint US-EU statement and asked whether the Belgian Foreign Ministr [...]	2010-02-09 19:55:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC IR BE
10BRUSSELS161	ISRAELI AMBASSADOR ASKS U.S. SUPPORT ON EU [...] (C/NF) Summary: During a courtesy call with the Ambassador on February 8, Israeli Ambassador to the EU (and to NATO) Ran Curiel described Israel's frustration with the freezing of an upgrade in Israel-EU relations since the end of the Gaza incursion in 2009. Curiel said Israel was instead [...]	2010-02-10 06:20:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EUN IS KPAL PREL
10BRUSSELS17	BELGIUM: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE AMCIT CASES [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-07 08:06:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CASC IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER BE
10BRUSSELS171	IRAN: INCREASING THE PRESSURE ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C/NF) USEU poloff presented reftel demarche on February 8 to Claudia Gintersdorfer, Iran Desk Officer at the European Council Secretariat,s Human Rights Unit, who noted that the demarche complemented the just-issued joint U.S.-EU statement on Iran. She indicated that Iran was a standing point [...]	2010-02-11 15:02:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MNUC PARM IR PREL PHUM PTER EUN
10BRUSSELS172	BELGIUM:LAW ENFORCEMENT AND COUNTERTERRORISM [...] Summary: (C) Poloff discussed reftel points on counterterrorism and law enforcement with relevant contacts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs February 8, the Ministry of Justice February 9, and the Ministry of Interior February 5. In light of the impending rejection of the Terrorist Finance [...]	2010-02-12 08:25:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN KCRM KHLS ECPS ECON PREL KPAO KTIA
10BRUSSELS174	S/GC SPECIAL ENVOY FRIED SEEKS WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary: Daniel Fried, U.S. Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, met on January 27 with Stefaan De Clerck, Minister of Justice of Belgium and (separately) with Dirk Wouters, Chief of Staff to Minister of Foreign Affairs Steven Vanackere. S/E Fried was joined by Matt Olsen, the Director o [...]	2010-02-12 13:16:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PTER BE
10BRUSSELS178	BELGIUM: H1N1 CASES CONTINUE TO FALL IN JANUARY [...] On February 11, 2010, the Government of Belgium's Interministerial Influenza Commission (IIC) announced an estimated 626 new cases of the H1N1 virus in Belgium for the week of January 25 to January 31 (week 5),and an estimated 257 cases during January 18 to 24. Two additional H1N1-related de [...]	2010-02-12 16:24:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
10BRUSSELS179	BELGIUM:2010 TIP REPORT [...] (U) This is the draft TIP report provided by U.S. Embassy Brussels. The data included is old data, and the GOB predicts that new data will be available to complete this report in April, 2010. 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT OF TIP REPORT, with numbering from instruction cable. 25. (SBU) THE COUNT [...]	2010-02-12 16:27:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI KTIP BE
10BRUSSELS181	BELGIAN TRADE WITH IRAN [...] (U) The trade relationship between Belgium and Iran appears insignificant based on the total value of goods imported and exported; however, the relationship has steadily grown over the past few years, and Belgium does play a large role in Iran's total imports and exports. With over 700 million [...]	2010-02-16 16:30:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD ETTC PINR PREL
10BRUSSELS186	CLIMATE: PERSHING AND HEDEGAARD COMMIT TO CLOSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing met with EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard on February 11. Also present was Ambassador William Kennard. Pershing and Hedegaard agreed that the U.S- EU cooperation remains important, particularly in light of the s [...]	2010-02-17 13:55:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG PREL EU
10BRUSSELS191	BELGIUM BEGINS TO DEVELOP AN ANTI-RADICALIZATION [...] (C) Poloff and Political Analysts met recently with GOB security, counterterrorism, and police experts to discuss Belgium's national anti-radicalization policy-planning and development process. Belgium intends to complete by mid-2011 an anti-radicalization white paper that integrates threat d [...]	2010-02-17 16:31:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KISL BE
10BRUSSELS192	GUANTANAMO CLOSURE: SE FRIED DISCUSSES EUROPEAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Special Envoy for Closure of the Guantanamo Detention Facility Daniel Fried, along with Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Michael Posner and Guantanamo Detainee Review Task Force Director Matthew Olsen discussed the detention facility's curr [...]	2010-02-18 05:45:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDRG EUN PTER
10BRUSSELS200	EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONSIDERING SUPPORT TO GUINEAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission's Directorate-General for Development is considering providing support to Guinean judicial and security sector reform (JSSR). The Commission's development aid to Guinea has been largely suspended since September, but a Commission delegation will trave [...]	2010-02-22 06:21:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC EUN GV XA XY EAID
10BRUSSELS203	BELGIAN PREMIER RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO ELDER [...] (U) On February 19, four elder statesmen of Belgian foreign policy, Former NATO Secretary General and Belgian Foreign Minister Willy Claes (Sp.a, Flemish Socialist),former Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene (CD&V, Flemish Christian Democrat),former Foreign Minister Louis Michel (MR, francophone [...]	2010-02-22 16:16:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC MARR PREL PGOV NATO BE
10BRUSSELS204	BELGIUM:AMBASSADOR GUTMAN'S DISCUSSION WITH GOB ON [...] (C) Ambassador Gutman met February 22 with the Diplomatic Advisors at the MFA Dirk Wouters and PM's Office Vincent Houssiau; he then had a phone call with DefMin Pieter De Crem. The conversation followed the usual pattern of Minister De Crem being more optimistic than the MFA or the PM,s off [...]	2010-02-22 17:55:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID MARR AF BE
10BRUSSELS215	BELGIUM:ENCOURAGING ISAF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ANF [...] (C) On February 19, Acting PolEconCouns delivered reftel talking points, requesting more trainers for the Afghan security forces from Belgium and other ISAF countries, to Gilles De Kerchove at the MFA. De Kerchove confirmed that NATO's request for 22 trainers from Belgium and more general ass [...]	2010-02-24 13:10:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR EAID AF BE
10BRUSSELS222	EU INCREASING ENGAGEMENT ON GENDER ISSUES, [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with EU and Belgian officials in January, Anita Botti, Deputy Director of the State Department's Office of Global Women's Issues: -- highlighted the need to implement existing UNSCRs on women, peace and security; -- encouraged an EU view of women as change agent [...]	2010-02-25 12:28:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL PHUM EUN KWMN
10BRUSSELS224	BELGIUM: NO PLANS TO CHANGE POSITION ON CHINA ARMS [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-25 14:04:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM CH EUN BE
10BRUSSELS226	EUR PDAS MCELDOWNEY AND ASHTON CABINET OFFICIAL [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-25 20:21:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN IR
10BRUSSELS228	EU DECLARES U.S. A KEY SECURITY AND DEFENSE PARTNER [...] (C/NF) Summary: EU Political and Security Committee (PSC) ambassadors recently approved a policy paper on EU defense and security relations with non-EU countries, which singles out the United States as an indispensable partner, according to French Pol-Mil Counselor Thomas Bertin (protect). [...]	2010-02-26 11:13:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MOPS MARR PREL EUN
10BRUSSELS23	AMBASSADOR RAPP DISCUSSES COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE [...] (C) Summar Ambassador Stephen J. Rap Belgium would continue to push for the ICC's independent Quthority to initiate trials of crimes of aggression between states. End Summary. MFA Optimistic on Court for S)erra Leone Donation --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. (C) The AfricQ [...]	2010-01-08 15:40:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CG BY RW SL BE
10BRUSSELS231	BELGIUM SUPPORTS MOST U.S. POSITIONS IN 13TH UNHRC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lieke Biesemans, attach for human rights at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, welcomes U.S. engagement in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and views the U.S. as a like-minded ally. Although in complete agreement with U.S. resolutions proposed for Guinea, [...]	2010-02-26 15:08:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BE
10BRUSSELS232	GOB DENIES REPORT THAT IT WILL NOT EXTRADITE [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-26 15:09:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	CJAN KCRM PREL PTER BE
10BRUSSELS26	BELGIUM:RESPONSE TO UN 1267 (AL-QAIDA/TALIBAN) [...] (C) Poloff delivered January 8 reftel demarche to MFA Counterterrorism Coordinator Thomas Baekelandt. Baekelandt said the GOB was well aware of U.S. commitment to the integrity of the sanctions list and expressed confidence in the U.S. review of the Tranche 4 names. Baekelandt expressed grat [...]	2010-01-08 16:06:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KTFN EFIN PREL PTER BE
10BRUSSELS4	EU PRESIDENT VAN ROMPUYâ€™S PLANS FOLLOWING [...] (C//NF) Summary: The Ambassador discussed the Conference of Parties (COP) Conference in Copenhagen and Afghanistan with EU Council Permanent President Herman Van Rompuy over coffee December 23 after delivering the congratulatory letter (reftel) from President Obama. Van Rompuy called the Copenhagen [...]	2010-01-04 13:50:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV EU SENV PINR BE
10BRUSSELS41	BELGIUM: GOB STRATEGY TO SECURE RELEASE OF THREE [...] (C) SUMMARY: After the safe return of three Belgian citizens held in Iran, poloffs met with Pierre Gillon, Iran desk officer in the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to discuss the Belgian approach to obtaining their release and to urge Belgium's assistance in securing the release of Amer [...]	2010-01-14 14:09:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER BE
10BRUSSELS42	AMBASSADOR'S JANUARY 6 MEETING WITH JOSE MANUEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 6, Ambassador Kennard presented his credentials to Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. Barroso was positive about the U.S.-EU relationship, saying, &We want to work with you.8 The 45 minute meeting covered climate change, energy security, dat [...]	2010-01-14 14:42:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EU PGOV PINR PREL SENV
10BRUSSELS48	EU: COPENHAGEN DISAPPOINTING BUT GOOD STEP [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: After the leaders departed Copenhagen, initial commentary was not positive, the prevailing theme being the inability of EU leadership to deliver. Initial press reports highlighted the marginalization of EU officials, but soon began to focus on China's unconstr [...]	2010-01-15 15:29:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EIND PREL KGHG EU
10BRUSSELS49	EU PASSES BURMA REPORT IN ANTICIPATION OF SPECIAL [...] (SBU) According to European Council Desk Officer for South East Asia Leo Schulte Nordholt, EU Special Envoy for Burma/Myanmar Piero Fassino will seek advice from us and the UN on how to negotiate preconditions for his upcoming visit to Burma during his January 26-29 consultations in New York [...]	2010-01-15 15:38:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM EU
10BRUSSELS51	BELGIUM: GOB AWARE OF THREAT OF KIDNAPPING IN [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-19 10:08:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL ASEC XI XG
10BRUSSELS61	BELGIUM: DEMARCHE ON CLARIFYING TRANSITION TO [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche clarifying the difference between the transition of provincial responsibility and Transfer of Lead Security Responsibility to Francois De Kerchove, Director for Security Policy at the Belgian MFA, on January 19. De Kerchove indicated that he understood the di [...]	2010-01-20 12:39:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS NATO PREL AF BE
10BRUSSELS62	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - A/S [...] The EU delegation will consist of Director General Stefano Manservisi, Joana Cruz, Christopher Camp, and Klaus Rudischhauser. 2. The contact information provided for the meetings is Joana Cruz at 32 498 982 657 and Christopher Camp at 251 911 510 977. 3. The EU delegation will ar [...]	2010-01-20 14:04:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC OVIP PREL XA
10BRUSSELS63	DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY JONES DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Stuart Jones met with the European Commission's Director of Asia and Oceania James Moran January 12 to discuss assistance to Pakistan. Moran stated the European Commission is deepening its commitment to Pakistan by increasing its assistance, holding a EU-P [...]	2010-01-20 14:23:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL EUN PK
10BRUSSELS64	BELGIUM: ENGAGEMENT WITH CIVIL SOCIETY IN CUBA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cuba desk officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Sadi Brancart, said that Belgian-Cuba relations are "better than the EU average," thanks to significant development assistance. He was unaware of Spain's initiative to replace the EU common position with individual bi [...]	2010-01-20 15:15:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SOCI CU BE
10BRUSSELS65	SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S JANUARY 21 MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your January 21 meeting with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton will enable you to deepen the relationship you established with her during your introductory meeting at NATO in early December and in subsequent phone calls. By receivin [...]	2010-01-20 15:54:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL MASS MARR EU
10BRUSSELS70	BELGIUM:CENTRAL AFRICA, ESPECIALLY THE DRC, IS [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister's Vanackere's week long trip to Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi from January 18 to 25, underscores the importance of Central Africa to Belgium. For the Belgian political class and the media, Central Africa, especially the Congo, is the chief foreign policy concern. A [...]	2010-01-21 15:17:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID CG RW BY BE
10BRUSSELS73	DEPUTY GREAT LAKES ENVOY JIM YELLIN'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) James Yellin, Deputy to the U.S. Special Advisor for Africa,s Great Lakes region, met with Belgian MFA Africa Division officials on December 18 after returning from his travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),Burundi, and Rwanda with Roeland van de Geer, the EU Special Repr [...]	2010-01-21 15:35:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CG BU RW BE
10BRUSSELS75	TFHA1: COORDINATION OF BELGIAN ASSISTANCE TO HAITI [...] Emboff talked to Geert Vansintjan, Director of the Office of Humanitarian Aid, Food Aid and Rehabilition on January 21 to thank him for Belgium's contributions to Haiti earthquake relief on January 20. Belgium has contributed a "B-fast" team of up to 130 workers who focus on search and rescue [...]	2010-01-21 17:08:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA BE
10BRUSSELS81	EU WELCOMES U.S. INTENT TO PARTICIPATE IN DRC [...] (SBU) On January 20, PolOff conveyed REF A-B points to EU officials in the Crisis Management Planning Directorate (CMPD) and the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability, and on the EU's transatlantic desk. Contacts universally welcomed the news that the U.S. is interested in providing pers [...]	2010-01-22 19:25:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL CG XA ZF EUN
10BRUSSELS82	COPENHAGEN: EU AND MEMBER STATES TO ASSOCIATE AS [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-25 05:16:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KGHG SENV PREL EU
10BRUSSELS85	BALKAN POLITICAL DIRECTORS DISCUSS KOSOVO AND [...] (C) Summary: Meeting in Brussels on January 11, Quint Balkans political directors - representing the U.S., Germany, France, Italy, the UK and EU Council Secretariat - met to discuss the situation in Kosovo and Bosnia. On Kosovo, the EU Council Secretariat noted Serb hardening and suggested [...]	2010-01-26 09:07:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BK KK SR
10BRUSSELS88	EU APPROVES MILITARY TRAINING MISSION FOR SOMALI [...] (SBU) On January 25, EU Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels approved an EU military mission to train Somali National Security Forces in Uganda. French and German contacts tell us the mission will begin in May. Operational level planning will continue under the supervision of EU Political [...]	2010-01-26 13:05:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL SO XA XW UG EUN
10BRUSSELS92	BELGIUM:FM VANACKERE CRITICIZED FOR MEETING KABILA [...] (SBU) All Belgian newspapers gave prominent coverage January 25 to the criticism levied by former Belgian FM Karel De Gucht on FM Steven Vanackere for meeting with Congolese President Joseph Kabila last week. FM Vanackere met with Kabila at his private estate in Lubumbashi, DRC on January 19 [...]	2010-01-26 16:54:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV CG BE
10BRUSSELS96	EULEX MAKING PROGRESS, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 18, the EU convened the EULEX Kosovo Committee of Contributors, which comprises EU and non-EU contributing countries for a political and operational discussion. The Committee heard an operational briefing from the EU and conveyed U.S. policy points to all contribut [...]	2010-01-27 09:02:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL PGOV KV XG EUN
10BRUSSELS97	BELGIUM READY TO TAKE ON LEGACY ISSUES DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 18, EUR/WE Director Maureen Cormack met with Willem Van De Voorde, Deputy Director General for European Affairs at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Van De Voorde will be coordinating the substantive policy issues relating to Belgium's EU presiden [...]	2010-01-27 09:57:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR BE
10BUCHAREST105	ROMANIA: LNG NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD [...] (C) Summary. Excited about the possibility of developing a shortcut to new gas supplies, Minister of Economy and Trade Adriean Videanu relayed his hope to the Ambassador that the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector (AGRI) proposal, which would twin liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals i [...]	2010-02-26 09:54:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL PGOV RO

10BUCHAREST28	NEW FM - A CAREER DIPLOMAT, TRUSTED BY PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Teodor Baconschi, 47, was confirmed by the Romanian Parliament as Minister of Foreign Affairs on December 23, 2009. President Traian Basescu himself pushed Prime Minister Emil Boc to choose Baconschi for the job rather than incumbent MFA State Secretary Bogdan Aurescu who was put forw [...]	2010-01-15 13:19:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RO
10BUCHAREST38	Romanian Reaction to January Foreign Affairs Council [...] POLOFF delivered Ref. non-paper January 20 to Cristian Olimid, Director, EU External Relations. POLOFF verbally delivered USG views on Yemen. Olimid was appreciative of both perspectives and believed that U.S.-Romanian policy was closely aligned. In addition to the above, Olimid indicated th [...]	2010-01-22 07:32:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IS IR AF PK RO
10BUCHAREST39	Romanian Contribution to Haitian Relief Efforts [...] EMBOFF discussed reftel points on January 20 with Mihaela Rutjens, Director of the Developmental Assistance Directorate at the MFA. On January 19 Romania decided to donate EUR 50,000 to Haitian relief efforts via the World Food Program. The funds will come from the GOR's special humanitarian [...]	2010-01-22 08:29:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA RO
10BUCHAREST40	NEW DEFENSE MINISTER - OLD SOLDIERS DON'T DIE, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Retired four-star General Gabriel Oprea brings both military and political know-how to the Ministry of National Defense (MoND). After serving for over a decade as a logistics and legal officer in the Army, Oprea continued to serve as a military academic at the National Defense [...]	2010-01-22 10:05:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RO
10BUCHAREST45	AMBASSADOR'S JANUARY 22, 2010 MEETING WITH NEW ROMANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER BACONSCHI [...] (S) Summary: In his introductory call on new Romanian FM Teodor Baconschi, Ambassador previewed the upcoming visit to Romania by U/S Tauscher and expressed U.S. gratitude for the GOR's January 21 decision to increase its Afghanistan contingent by an additional 600 troops. FM Baconschi noted his gov [...]	2010-01-27 13:19:00	Embassy Bucharest	SECRET	PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF RO
10BUCHAREST81	Law Enforcement and Counterterrorism Information-Sharing [...] (SBU) On February 10, 2010 POLOFF and Department of Justice (DOJ) Resident Legal Advisor to the SECI Regional Center for Combating Transborder Crime (SECI Center) delivered reftel non-paper to Radu Ragea, Deputy Undersecretary at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and Viviana Onaca, Director of the [...]	2010-02-17 04:33:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KTFN KCRM KHLS ECPS ECON PREL KPAO KTIA CON
10BUCHAREST88	ROMANIAN REACTION TO FEBRUARY FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) POLOFF delivered REF non-paper February 19 to Cristian Olimid, Director, EU External Relations. Olimid provided no substantive feedback on the talking points but thanked the Embassy for the information. GITENSTEIN [...]	2010-02-22 06:38:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HA IR UP RO
10BUCHAREST91	ROMANIA CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE EU ARMS EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-22 10:03:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM CH RO
10BUCHAREST92	ROMANIAS ISAF CONTRIBUTIONS OF ANSF TRAINERS [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-22 11:30:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS PREL NATO RO
10BUDAPEST101	HUNGARY'S INITIAL RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ANSF [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-22 12:41:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL NATO AF HU
10BUDAPEST102	HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON THE EU FAC MEETING FEBRUARY [...] (U) MFA EU External Relations and Crisis Situations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed ref email topics with PolOff on February 19. 2. (C) Dekany provided the following comments on three topics: Iran, Ukraine and Libya. -- IRAN: The recent announcement by Iran that it would increase i [...]	2010-02-22 15:24:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU RU UA HU
10BUDAPEST103	HUNGARY'S NON-PAPER ON NATO'S NEW STRATEGIC CONCEPT [...] (SBU) The MFA's NATO Office Director, Eszter Sandorfi, provided PolOff a copy of the following Hungarian Non-paper on NATO's new strategic concept Februray 19. 2. (C) The non-paper text, dated February 2010, follows: Begin text --------------------------------------------- ------ Core [...]	2010-02-22 15:38:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MAPP NATO PREL HU
10BUDAPEST106	PARLIAMENT APPROVES BILATERAL TAX TREATY AND S&T [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-23 14:25:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PREL HU
10BUDAPEST14	RENATIONALIZING MALEV AIRLINES: JAN 31 THE LATEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent press reports indicate that the GOH is close to finalizing a deal by January 31 to reacquire a majority stake in struggling Malev Airlines from Russia's Vnesheconombank (VEB). The conclusion of such a deal would help close a turbulent era for Malev under de facto Russian o [...]	2010-01-12 07:23:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAIR EINV EFIN RU HU
10BUDAPEST16	HUNGARY H1N1 UPDATE: NEW CASES DOWN, FOR NOW [...] Summary: The first wave of the H1N1 pandemic in Hungary appears to be in decline, according to data from the Influenza Surveillance Division of Hungary's National Center for Epidemiology. However, the Center cautions that a second wave may arrive shortly, as schools reopen following the Chri [...]	2010-01-12 14:18:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO PREL ASEC HU
10BUDAPEST23	HUNGARY'S COMMENTS ON AFGHAN TRANSITION PLANNING [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered ref A and B points to the MOD Policy State Secretary Jozsef Bali and MFA's Security Policy and Non-proliferation Deputy Department Head, Gabor Horvath, January 15. Both expressed appreciation for the ref A's clarifying points and acknowledged the importance of continued [...]	2010-01-15 16:05:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF HU
10BUDAPEST26	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETINGS: [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador made January 11-14 introductory calls on President Laszlo Solyom, Prime Minister Gordan Bajnai, and Foreign Minister Peter Balazs. Although the most substantive meeting was with Prime Minister Bajnai, each of the Ambassador's Hungarian interlocutors stressed the [...]	2010-01-19 14:45:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ENRG EPET EINV MARR MOPS PHUM RS LO HR
10BUDAPEST33	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EU ENGAGEMENT WITH CIVIL [...] (C) PolOff delivered ref points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cuba Desk Officer Istvan Sandor on January 19. Sandor greatly appreciated the update on U.S. policy towards Cuba and stated that Hungary's position has been, and will remain, consistently firm with regards to human rights, politic [...]	2010-01-21 16:11:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SOCI CU HU
10BUDAPEST36	HUNGARY'S COMMENTS ON THE JANUARY FAC AGENDA [...] (SBU) MFA EU External Relations and Crisis Situations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed ref email topics with PolEconOff on January 22. 2. (SBU) Dekany provided comments on the following topics: Afghanistan/Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. -- Afghanistan/Pakist [...]	2010-01-22 16:02:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AF BH IR PK SO HU
10BUDAPEST37	AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH SENIOR MFA OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings January 21 with the Ambassador, MFA State Secretaries Laszlo Varkonyi and Gabor Iklody stressed the importance of the U.S.-Hungarian bilateral relationship and outlined proposed cooperation between the Visegrad Four and the USG on Roma and energy issues. Hi [...]	2010-01-25 12:38:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET MOPS PHUM RS BK AF HU
10BUDAPEST38	BRIEFING THE HUNGARIANS ON U.S. DESIRED OUTCOMES [...] (SBU) POL/ECON Counselor briefed Peter Sztaray, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director for Security Policy and Non-Proliferation, January 25 on desired U.S. outcomes from the January 28 London Conference on Afghanistan. Sztaray, who is accompanying Foreign Minister Balazs to the conference [...]	2010-01-25 16:49:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON AF HU
10BUDAPEST39	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES WESTERN BALKANS/SLOVAK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Hungary continues to favor an early NATO Membership Action Plan for Bosnia, believing it could help stabilize the Western Balkans. State Secretary Szabo told the Ambassador that he fears bilateral tensions over the new Slovak language law might be exploited by extremist elements [...]	2010-01-25 16:52:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PHUM PREL OSCE HR YI LO RU HU
10BUDAPEST45	HUNGARY TO HOST HIGH-LEVEL MEETINGS ON EU DANUBE [...] (SBU) Summary: Hungary will host two linked but separate "macro-regional" gatherings in Budapest February 25-26 to give momentum to the EU's Danube Strategy -- an initiative that the GOH has identified as a priority for its 2011 EU Presidency. Hungarian PM Bajnai will host a "Danube Summit" [...]	2010-01-27 15:34:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON SENV EU HU
10BUDAPEST46	HUNGARY IMPRESSED BY U.S. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel message to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cuba Desk Officer Istvan Sandor on January 25 and received a readout of Hungarian contributions to the ongoing relief effort. Sandor noted that Hungary was deeply impressed by the magnitude and effectiveness of U.S. humanit [...]	2010-01-27 15:37:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF EAID ECON HA HU
10BUDAPEST48	HUNGARY H1N1 UPDATE: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA FROM APRIL TO [...] On January 15, Hungary's National Center for Epidemiology published a report on the H1N1 influenza pandemic in Hungary in its weekly journal EpInfo. The report analyzed epidemiological data collected from April 30, 2009 to January 15, 2010. Key data follows. 2. From April 30, 2009 until [...]	2010-01-29 07:55:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO PREL ASEC HU
10BUDAPEST50	HUNGARY'S COMMENTS ON MOBILIZING PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-29 14:31:00	Embassy Budapest	SECRET	PARM PREL UNSC IAEA IR HU
10BUDAPEST51	HUNGARY'S PLANS FOR IRAN'S UNIVERSAL PERIODIC [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-01 15:08:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM IR HU
10BUDAPEST53	HUNGARY CONCLUDES $2 BILLION BOND ISSUE [...] (U) On January 26, Hungary successfully concluded a 2 billion dollar bond auction. There was significant demand for the 10-year dollar denominated bond, with bids in excess of $7 billion from more than 250 investors. Finance Minister Oszko commented that the GOH was pleased with the pricing - [...]	2010-02-01 16:57:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL HU
10BUDAPEST54	PENSIONS EMERGE AS MAJOR ELECTION ISSUE [...] (C) Summary. Pension reform is emerging as a major election issue as Socialist (MSzP) and Fidesz party leaders trade attacks in hopes of winning the votes of Hungary's estimated 2.7 million pensioners. As each party accuses the other's program of leaving pensioners worse off, both are trying [...]	2010-02-02 09:07:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL HU
10BUDAPEST75	U.S. AND HUNGARY SIGN NEW BILATERAL SCIENCE AND [...] On February 4, the United States and Hungary signed a new bilateral Science and Technology (S&T) agreement, superseding the existing S&T agreement of March 2000. Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis signed for the U.S. and Minister for National Development and Economy, Istvan Varga, signed [...]	2010-02-05 15:11:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL PREL KSCA HU
10BUDAPEST88	HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON PRESSURING IRAN ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points to the MFA's Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights Istvan Lakatos February 8 and to the MFA's Iranian Desk Officer Ferenc Kato February 10. Lakatos expressed Hungary's support and agreement with the reftel points, specifically underscoring that Hungary does [...]	2010-02-11 15:42:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IR HU
10BUDAPEST89	LAW ENFORCEMENT AND COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) Summary. There is a good record of information sharing cooperation between U.S. and GOH law enforcement agencies on law enforcement and counterterrorism issues. Hungary's post-communist era constitution, with its broad guarantees of individual rights and liberties, requires high levels of [...]	2010-02-11 15:42:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN KCRM KHLS KPAO PTER ECPS ECON PREL HU
10BUDAPEST90	VISEGRAD FOUR POLITICAL DIRECTORS MEETING IN [...] (SBU) The Hungarian MFA's Political Director, Gabor Ikody, offered to share with PolOff a report of the Visegrad Four (V4) Political Directors January 27-28 meeting in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina. The Political Directors met with the three members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, [...]	2010-02-11 15:45:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN NATO PREL PGOV BK HU
10BUDAPEST97	HUNGARY: NO PLANS TO CONTRIBUTE FORCES TO MINUSTAH [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-17 15:24:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO MCAP MOPP HA HU
10BUENOSAIRES100	MEDIA REACTION: HAITI; CHINA'S CENSORSHIP OF GOOGLE AND [...] Although no longer a front-page news story, Haiti continues to make headlines, with articles now focusing on reconstruction and adoption issues. The Chinese government's censorship of both Google and the Avatar movie, as well as Argentina's nuclear development in view of the upcoming NPT Con [...]	2010-01-29 15:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA CH KNNP AR
10BUENOSAIRES102	MEDIA REACTION: STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS; 1/29/10; BUENOS [...] Local media analyzed President Obama's speech with a flurry of opinion articles, although only three were written by Argentine reporters. Washington correspondents for Argentina's two largest dailies commented on President Obama's attempt to reconnect with the American public but also doubte [...]	2010-01-29 17:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR
10BUENOSAIRES104	Argentina Will Consider Approach to Ecuador on Breakaway [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-29 17:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PBTS PNAT PREL GG AR
10BUENOSAIRES106	MEDIA REACTION; HAITI; 1/30/10 -2/1/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Most local newspapers reported that ten U.S. Baptists were arrested after attempting to take 33 children out of Haiti, as well as on the temporary suspension of U.S. medical evacuation flights from Haiti. One positive opinion piece emphasized the important logistic role played by the U.S. in [...]	2010-02-01 15:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES107	Argentina Fires Financial Action Task Force Representative [...] (C) Summary: The GOA fired its Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Coordinator over the weekend, reportedly in response to Ecuadorian criticism of Argentina's vote to blacklist Ecuador at the recent Abu Dhabi Plenary. Argentina is under the gun itself in an ongoing peer assessment that seems l [...]	2010-02-24 19:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR EC AR
10BUENOSAIRES108	MEDIA REACTION: COMMENTARY CONTINUES FOLLOWING STATE OF THE [...] Over the weekend, only two Argentine dailies, largest daily Clar????n and left-leaning, pro-government P????gina 12, printed opinion articles written by Argentine reporters on President Obama's foreign policy following the State of the Union address. All other dailies published articles fro [...]	2010-02-01 18:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IS
10BUENOSAIRES109	Argentina: Codel Engel Addresses Bilateral Relations [...] (SBU) Summary: Codel Engel enjoyed a very productive visit to Buenos Aires, January 5-7. The Codel was led by Eliot Engel (D-NY) and included Shelly Berkley (D-NV),Pedro Pierluisi (D-PR) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) met with the Codel for two hours [...]	2010-02-24 22:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP ECON ELAB PGOV PREL AR
10BUENOSAIRES11	(C) WHA A/S VALENZUELA MEETS WITH ARGENTINE OFFICIALS, [...] (C) Summary: WHA A/S Arturo Valenzuela met with Argentine Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez and Acting Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti during his December 15-17 visit to Buenos Aires. Valenzuela explained the U.S. position on Honduras, exchanged views on other regional developments, and praise [...]	2010-01-08 21:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PHUM AR
10BUENOSAIRES111	Argentina: Finance Secretary Says Debt Swap Moving Ahead [...] (C) Argentine Finance Secretary Hernan Lorenzino expects the GoA's proposed debt swap agreement to be fully approved by international regulatory authorities and ready for launch by mid-March. Noting the recent negative market environment, he said that the exchange might have to go forward without t [...]	2010-02-25 15:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL AR
10BUENOSAIRES114	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA; THE MILITARY IN LATIN AMERICA; [...] China's threats to suspend its military ties with the U.S. and to impose sanctions on U.S. companies selling weapons to Taiwan received wide coverage over the weekend. Opinion articles highlighted U.S.-Chinese interdependence and their need for a strategic partnership based on issues such as [...]	2010-02-02 13:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL CH AR
10BUENOSAIRES118	Argentina: Finance Secretary Says Full Speed Ahead on [...] (SBU) Argentine Finance Secretary Hernan Lorenzino stressed in a February 1 meeting that the debt exchange is moving ahead at full speed. He repeatedly emphasized that there are no political obstacles to moving it forward and that the Central Bank and Redrado affair is not affecting the trans [...]	2010-02-02 22:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL AR
10BUENOSAIRES120	MEDIA REACTION: HAITI; 2/2/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Most Argentine reporting on the ten U.S. citizens arrested on charges of child trafficking in Haiti was objective. Several cited the State Department spokesperson's remarks that the U.S. is offering assistance aimed at ensuring a fair and transparent trial, noting that the ten Americans have [...]	2010-02-03 14:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES122	MEDIA REACTION: HAITI; 2/3/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Headlines on Haiti on 2/3 focused on PM Jean-Max Bellerive's remarks that the death toll has now reached over 200,000. Only three newspapers reported on the ten Americans arrested for child trafficking. End summary. NEW DEATH TOLL MAKES HEADLINES --------------- 2. Seve [...]	2010-02-03 20:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES124	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS; 2/3-4/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Local and other international news overshadowed U.S.-China conflicts, with only two newspapers printing articles from their own journalists, and the rest using news wires. All articles speculated on possible Chinese retaliation and questioned U.S. motives for "provoking" the disagreements. [...]	2010-02-04 17:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR CH
10BUENOSAIRES13	Argentina: Standoff between the President and the Central [...] (C) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) set off a major institutional crisis in Argentina with her January 8 dismissal of Central Bank (BCRA) Governor Martin Redrado. The GoA has since been fighting frantically with the opposition-controlled Congress, the courts, and media [...]	2010-01-11 23:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AR
10BUENOSAIRES130	MEDIA REACTION: FIRST HAITIAN ORPHAN ARRIVES IN ARGENTINA; [...] Haitian orphan Rosalindha's arrival -- the first in Argentina -- received broad press coverage, most of which noted the medical care the baby received in Pittsburgh. Several media praised U.S. efforts to expedite the orphan's arrival to the country, while two reported on the U.S. decision to [...]	2010-02-04 20:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES134	Argentina: Fiscal Situation Steadily Deteriorating But No [...] (SBU) The long-term Argentine fiscal situation is deteriorating. The fiscal gap is manageable in 2010, but will be difficult to overcome in 2011 without a restoration of the government's ability to borrow on the international financial markets. The GOA has, so far, managed to bridge the gap [...]	2010-02-04 22:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL AR
10BUENOSAIRES138	ARGENTINA - PREPARATIONS FOR GLOBAL NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Emboffs met with Alberto Dojas, Deputy Director at the MFA's Direction for International Security and Nuclear Affairs (DIGAN),and with Francisco Spano and Elena Maceiras, respectively Chairman and Vice-President of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ARN),to discuss points raised in reftel. [...]	2010-02-05 15:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PARM KSUM PINS PREL IAEA PTER AR
10BUENOSAIRES140	MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ROLE IN HAITI; 2/5/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Largest circulation Clarin's editorial on 2/5 acknowledged the U.S.' leading role in humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti, but said that more international cooperation is needed. The ten Americans who were formally charged by the Haitian government with child kidnapping and criminal associat [...]	2010-02-05 15:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES150	MEDIA REACTION; U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN HAITI; TIP; [...] Haiti continues to make headlines in Argentina, focusing on concerns of prolonged U.S. military involvement, trafficking in persons and the need for more humanitarian assistance. Largest circulation Clarin quoted U.S. Army Col. Gregory Kane, Director of U.S. Joint Task Force Haiti operations [...]	2010-02-08 20:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES152	MEDIA REACTION: IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM; 2/9/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Iran's announcement that it is enriching uranium to 20% was widely covered in Argentine newspapers, focusing on U.S. and French discussions in Paris over new sanctions. Articles contained quotes from top U.S. and French officials denouncing Iran's policies and renewing calls for the UN Secur [...]	2010-02-09 19:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IR
10BUENOSAIRES154	ARGENTINA: Firm Offer of 200 Additional Peacekeepers for [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met February 5 and February 8 with Defense Minister Nilda Garre and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, respectively, to confirm Argentina's offer of additional peacekeepers to Haiti. Both confirmed that the formal offer to the UN had been made. Garre said the offer was f [...]	2010-02-10 13:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS MOPS PREL EAID HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES158	MEDIA REACTION: EXPECTATIONS ABOUT UNASUR MEETING ON HAITI; [...] Argentine media reported expectations that the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) meeting in Quito would lead to a South-South cooperation scheme aimed at boosting Haiti's development. Several papers cited comments of the Ambassador and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana following their 2/8 [...]	2010-02-10 14:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES160	MEDIA REACTION: UNASUR MEETING ON HAITI; 2/10/10; BUENOS [...] Argentine press picked up wire reports on the special UNASUR meeting in Quito. Most highlighted that South American leaders pledged 300 million dollars in international aid for Haiti and called for the cancellation of its foreign debt. One article focused on Argentina's decision to send 150 [...]	2010-02-10 16:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES162	MEDIA REACTION: IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM; 2/10/10; BUENOS [...] Argentine media coverage of Iran's nuclear program on 2/10 shifted from covering U.S. and French efforts to sanction Iran to the response from Russia, China, and Brazil. Articles were positive towards Russia's possible support of international sanctions, but also gave a lot of weight to neig [...]	2010-02-10 19:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IR
10BUENOSAIRES166	MEDIA REACTION: HAITI; 2/11-12/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Media continued to focus on the fate of the U.S. missionaries being held on trafficking charges, with one headline referring to them as "appropriators." Pro-government Buenos Aires Economico reported that Coca-Cola Latin America's Group gave a one-million dollar donation to the Red Cross fo [...]	2010-02-12 16:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES178	MEDIA REACTION: IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM; 2/11-16/10; BUENOS [...] Argentine President Kirchner's invitation from President Obama to attend a nuclear summit in April received large, positive press coverage. Newspapers also widely reported on Iran's 31st Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, with articles highlighting the Iranian government trying to suppre [...]	2010-02-16 19:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR
10BUENOSAIRES180	MEDIA REACTION: AFGHANISTAN AND SECRETARY CLINTON; [...] Argentine newspapers mostly limited coverage of NATO's new Afghanistan offensive and Secretary Clinton's Middle East trip to newswires. Secretary Clinton's quote that Iran is heading towards a "military dictatorship" appeared in all papers covering the story, usually as the headline. As for [...]	2010-02-16 19:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR AF
10BUENOSAIRES182	Argentina: Government Interested in Partnering for [...] (U) Action request for Department in para 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Argentine MFA North American Affairs and International Cooperation Directorates asked DCM on February 11 to explore the possibility of establishing a mechanism for coordination of U.S. and Argentine development assist [...]	2010-02-17 18:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL EAGR AR
10BUENOSAIRES186	MEDIA REACTION: IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN; 2/17/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Iran's nuclear program continues to make international headlines, with a focus on the increased pressure from the international community on Iran. One opposition paper reported on the role of Brazilian government as a mediator between the Washington and Tehran, as well as the Obama Administr [...]	2010-02-17 18:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IR AF
10BUENOSAIRES194	MEDIA REACTION: DALAI LAMA, IRAN, HAITI, AND U.S. LATIN [...] Although Europe's financial troubles continue to dominate international news sections, several U.S. topics also made headlines. Articles characterized China's disapproval of the Dalai Lama's visit to the U.S. as a sign that China "wants to be heard" on key international issues. In addition, [...]	2010-02-18 19:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR HA IR CO CH
10BUENOSAIRES200	Argentina: S/GWI Project Proposals [...] Summary: A Country of Healthy Women was developed by Liga Argentina de Lucha Contra El Cancer (LALCEC) with support from Embassy Buenos Aires. Argentina has a low awareness rate of cancer risks, the importance of early detection, and treatment possibilities. Research has shown that a lar [...]	2010-02-19 15:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY AR
10BUENOSAIRES204	MEDIA REACTION: DALAI LAMA IN WASHINGTON; 2/19/10; BUENOS [...] President Obama's meeting with the Dalai Obama led international news sections, with commentary ranging from the meeting's "modesty" to the "deteriorating relations" with China. All articles focused on the President's decision to not hold the meeting in the Oval Office in order to "not irrita [...]	2010-02-19 17:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR CH
10BUENOSAIRES21	Argentina Central Bank Funds Frozen - A Conspiracy to Topple [...] (C) GoA reaction to a U.S. Judge's January 12 decision to embargo some official Argentine funds was swift and strong, but rather than taking aim at the USG, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and other officials are accusing some Argentines - including Vice President Co [...]	2010-01-13 22:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AR
10BUENOSAIRES222	MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, HAITI, AND CHINA; 2/19-22/10; BUENOS [...] Opinion articles about U.S. policy regarding Iran, Haiti, and China filled weekend newspapers in Argentina. The Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Buenos Aires warned against Iran's increasing influence in Latin America, which is "legitimizing" Iran's President. Another article stro [...]	2010-02-22 21:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IR HA CH
10BUENOSAIRES226	MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, FALKLANDS, OAS, U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN [...] Regional issues were the dominating theme on 2/23, including Brazil-Iran relations, the Falkland Islands, the OAS, and an introspective look at Latin American politics. One opinion article criticized Brazil for rolling out the "red carpet" for Iran, while another highlighted differences betw [...]	2010-02-23 20:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR IR BR FK
10BUENOSAIRES23	Argentina Reconsidering its Position on "Defamation of [...] (C) A Foreign Ministry contact informed poloff on January 13 that the Government of Argentina (GOA) is strongly reconsidering its previous position on the Defamation of Religion issue in the UN, and is very likely to change its position from abstaining to voting along with the United States. [...]	2010-01-14 17:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UN AR
10BUENOSAIRES242	MEDIA REACTION: FALKLAND ISLANDS; 2/24/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] The Falklands dispute continued to dominate Argentine media on 2/24. Most newspapers picked up remarks made by Assistant Secretary Crowley reiterating U.S. neutrality in the conflict and encouraging Argentina and Great Britain to resolve the issues through direct dialogue. A/S Crowley's cha [...]	2010-02-24 20:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR FK
10BUENOSAIRES25	U.S. Court Lifting of Asset Freeze Calms Argentine Waters, [...] (C) Summary: A New York District Judge's decision on January 15 to temporarily lift the freeze on Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) reserves in the U.S. calmed the markets and appeared to give the GoA some breathing room to resolve the issues of Martin Redrado's fate as BCRA President and the fut [...]	2010-01-20 18:01:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AR
10BUENOSAIRES256	MEDIA REACTION: CFK CRITICIZES PRESIDENT OBAMA DAYS BEFORE [...] Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's "critical" interview with CNN and her "photo opportunity" with Secretary Clinton made headlines in all newspapers. Most highlighted Kirchner's comments that President Obama failed "to meet Latin American expectations" and that she disapproved of the wa [...]	2010-02-26 19:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR
10BUENOSAIRES34	MEDIA REACTION: US RELIEF EFFORTS IN HAITI [...] All major Argentine newspapers reportedly positively on U.S. relief efforts in Haiti, echoing President Obama's comments that they are "the most important in recent time." Media coverage of U.S. troop deployments also was generally positive, focusing on the humanitarian nature of the mission [...]	2010-01-19 22:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL
10BUENOSAIRES43	Argentina: Former Vice Mayor Michetti Talks National [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with newly-elected national Deputy from Argentina's center-right Republican Proposal (PRO) party Gabriela Michetti on January 8, and discussed the GOA's showdown with Central Bank Governor Martin Redrado (reftel) and the opposition's legislative plans under t [...]	2010-01-26 20:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AR
10BUENOSAIRES46	MEDIA REACTION: US MILITARY DEPLOYMENT IN HAITI; BUENOS [...] The crisis in Haiti did not make the front pages on January 21, with Argentine dailies focusing instead on domestic political disputes. However, Haiti continued to dominate the international sections, with headlines dramatizing the U.S. military deployment. While reporting generally did not c [...]	2010-01-21 13:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES54	MEDIA REACTION: US RELIEF EFFORTS IN HAITI; 01/21-22/10; [...] In contrast to January 20 headlines, which highlighted the U.S. military deployment, Argentine dailies on January 21-22 focused primarily on the January 20 aftershock and early signs of recovery. The Charge d'Affaires' January 20 interviews with public news agency Telam, the country's most pop [...]	2010-01-22 14:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL
10BUENOSAIRES60	MEDIA REACTION: U.S. HUMANITARIAN ROLE IN HAITI; JANUARY 23- [...] Press coverage of U.S. relief efforts in Haiti was mostly positive over the last three days, highlighting the humanitarian nature of the U.S. role. Local media welcomed the U.S.-U.N. agreement putting the U.N. in charge of security operations, following concerns over the use of U.S. troops. [...]	2010-01-25 20:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES63	Argentina: Ambassador Meets New UN Representative [...] (SBU) Ambassador Martinez met on January 28 with the newly-arrived UNDP representative in Argentina, Martin Santiago. Santiago is charged with coordinating the activities of 12 UN agencies in Argentina. Warm and friendly with US officials, Santiago will be a helpful interlocutor and partner i [...]	2010-02-03 17:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI AR
10BUENOSAIRES68	MEDIA REACTION: MONTREAL FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR [...] Local newspapers report on the Montreal First International Conference for Haitian Relief Efforts, highlighting that Canada and humanitarian NGOs called wealthy countries to cancel Haitian debt. Some papers picked up an Embassy press release on the U.S. Southern Command's 50,000 dollar donatio [...]	2010-01-26 20:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES70	MEDIA REACTION: COUNTDOWN TO STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS; [...] Argentine newspapers are reporting growing expectations over President Obama's State of the Union address, portraying it as an effort to regain political momentum and regain initiative. Despite one opinion article critical of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, the speech is expected to con [...]	2010-01-26 20:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR
10BUENOSAIRES71	Argentina: Saber Rattling over Oil Exploration in the [...] (C) This is the first in a series of cables which will address the Argentine reaction to hydrocarbons-related activities in the Falklands/Malvinas islands. 2. (C) The GoA is reportedly hardening its policy on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in response to accelerating oil exploration efforts unde [...]	2010-02-04 16:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV ENRG AR
10BUENOSAIRES76	Argentina Interested in Hosting Small Arms and Light Weapons [...] (U) Action request for Department in para 5. 2. (U) Deputy Pol Couns discussed the proposal (reftel) to co-host with Argentina a regional conference on small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) traffic with Alberto Dojas, Deputy Director for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office on Internat [...]	2010-01-27 19:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC MARR MCAP MOPS PARM PREL MASS AR
10BUENOSAIRES78	MEDIA REACTION: U.S. RELIEF EFFORTS IN HAITI; 01/27/10; [...] The top Haiti story on January 27 was the U.S. troops' "miraculous" rescue of a survivor from the ruins of a collapsed building. Some media also covered Secretary Clinton's strong defense of U.S. relief efforts in response to those who criticized the U.S. decision to send troops along with ci [...]	2010-01-27 19:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES79	Argentine Financial Intelligence Unit Further Compromised [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-05 14:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN ECON KTFN KCRM KJUS PTER SNAR PREL PGOV AR
10BUENOSAIRES80	MEDIA REACTION: STATE OF THE UNION EXPECTED TO FOCUS ON [...] Argentine media expects President Obama's State of the Union address to focus on domestic economic policies. Articles opine that the Obama administration seeks to regain leadership and increase support from middle-class and independent voters. The press is anticipating important announcemen [...]	2010-01-27 20:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES81	Argentina: Buenos Aires Mayor Macri on Political Plans and Current Situation REF: BUENOS AIRES 25; 09 BUENOS AIRES 1222; 09 BUENOS AIRES 55 CLASSIFIED BY: Tom Kelly, DCM; REASON: 1.4(B),(D) [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador hosted prominent opposition leader and Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, along with four of his cabinet members, to lunch January 28. Macri spoke openly of his planned run for president in 2011. He considered President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her husband and [...]	2010-02-05 18:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN ECON PREL SCUL AR
10BUENOSAIRES86	MEDIA REACTION; STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS; 1/28/10; BUENOS [...] Local newspapers extensively covered President Obama's State of the Union Address, leading their international sections. Reactions were mixed. Most newspapers reported positively, highlighting the President's plans regarding job creation and health care reform. Largest daily Clarin and righ [...]	2010-01-28 18:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL AR EFIN ECON ETRD
10BUENOSAIRES88	MEDIA REACTION: HONDURAS; 01/28/10; BUENOS AIRES [...] Local media distinguished between U.S. support for elected President Lobo and the absence of most Latin American countries from his swearing-in ceremony. Newspapers were divided on the U.S. role in the Honduran crisis. Some media blame the U.S. for helping validate the June 28 coup d'etat t [...]	2010-01-28 20:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL HA AR
10BUENOSAIRES89	(C) Argentina: Nestor Kirchner Down, but Not Out [...] (C) Summary: Former President and first spouse Nestor Kirchner (NK) is recuperating after undergoing emergency surgery for a partially blocked carotid artery. NK underwent a carotid endarterectomy, which involved temporarily introducing a shunt in his artery to redirect the blood flow to the [...]	2010-02-12 20:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AR
10BUENOSAIRES90	Argentina Unlikely to Associate with Copenhagen Accord by [...] (U) Summary: Emboffs discussed reftel with Samuel Basualdo of the Argentine Foreign Ministry's Climate Change Office and Gabriel Blanco of the Environment Secretariat's Climate Change Division several times over the last week. The GoA does not appear positively inclined to associate with [...]	2010-01-28 20:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PREL KGHG ENRG AR
10BUENOSAIRES91	Argentina: Profiles of Key Anti-Kirchner Piqueteros REF: BUENOS AIRES 526; BUENOS AIRES 794; BUENOS AIRES 13 09 BUENOS AIRES 1084; 08 BUENOS AIRES 980 CLASSIFIED BY: VilmaSMartinez, Ambassador, DOS, Exec; REASON: 1.4(B),(D) [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent months, Argentina's social activist movements, known as piqueteros, have captured the media spotlight through frequent protests. While former President Nestor Kirchner's efforts to co-opt the movement have divided it, the hotly contested title for noisiest piqueteros go [...]	2010-02-12 21:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON AR
10BUENOSAIRES92	Argentina to Speak Out on Human Rights in Iran during the UN [...] (SBU) On January 26, poloff delivered reftel demarche to the Human Rights division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. The GOA shared aspects of its carefully-crafted recommendations and questions to be presented to Iran during the UN Human Rights Council's (HRC) Universal Periodi [...]	2010-01-28 20:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM UN UNHRC IR AR
10BUENOSAIRES95	Falklands/Malvinas: GoA Requires Permission for Ships to [...] (C) The GoA issued a decree on February 16 requiring ships to obtain GoA permission before sailing from Argentina or through Argentine waters to reach the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner sought to justify the decree based on UN resolutions. The decree is intende [...]	2010-02-17 22:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON PHSA PBTS EFIN PREL ENRG AR
10BUJUMBURA106	DESIGNATION OF ENTITIES RELATED TO IRANS ISLAMIC [...] On February 24, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director General for International Organizations, Adolphe Nahayo, thanked PolOff for sharing the designation information. He did not have any additional comment. Slutz [...]	2010-02-24 15:41:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR BY
10CAIRO108	CAIRO REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING - 99423 THRU [...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Leahy Amendment, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Egyptian government personnel and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to the Embassy. 2. (U) Embassy has [...]	2010-01-20 16:34:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM MASS PREL SNAR PARM EG
10CAIRO113	Egypt planning humanitarian response for Haiti [...] Poloff delivered points in reftel a to MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for American Affairs Amin Malaeka on Jan 20, emphasizing the need for contributions to be registered with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA). Malaeka took the points, and noted the [...]	2010-01-21 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IRC HA EG
10CAIRO119	EGYPT: NEW MB SUPREME GUIDE NAMED [...] Key Points: -- (C) Administrative insider and relative unknown Mohammed Badie, 66, was named the Muslim Brotherhood's eighth Supreme Guide on January 16. Badie's selection represents a generational shift within the group. He is the first Guide not to have known MB-founder Hassan Al-Banna. -- (C) In [...]	2010-01-21 15:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL EG
10CAIRO131	EGYPTIAN APPROACH ON YEMEN CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-27 07:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID YM EG

10CAIRO135	PROMINENT BLOGGER APPEALING POLITICALLY MOTIVATED PRISON [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-28 14:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG
10CAIRO137	ARAB LEAGUE CONCERN OVER SUMMIT; ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE; [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-28 15:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL YM LY EG
10CAIRO139	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT SHERPAS [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-28 15:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM EAID TBIO IAEA AORC CDG ENRG MNUC PGOV PREL EG
10CAIRO143	EGYPT: GENERAL CASEY MEETS WITH CHIEF OF STAFF ENAN [...] (C) Key Points: -- During a January 19 meeting with visiting Chief of Staff of the Army General George W. Casey, Jr., Egyptian military Chief of Staff Sami Enan praised U.S.-Egypt military cooperation and sought support for Egypt's proposed sale of M1A1 tanks to Iraq. -- Enan shared concerns over I [...]	2010-01-31 13:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PARM KNNP IR IZ YM EG
10CAIRO145	A/S POSNER ENGAGES WITH CIVIL SOCIETY, POLITICAL OPPOSITION [...] Key Points: -- (C) In meetings January 13-14, A/S Posner told activists and opposition politicians that the U.S. is seeking ways to advance human rights and political participation over the coming 12-18 months. -- (C) Activists urged the U.S. to end a "double standard" on Israeli human rig [...]	2010-01-31 14:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
10CAIRO147	A/S POSNER PRESSES GOE ON POLICE BRUTALITY, NGO [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In meetings January 12-13, A/S Posner raised the issue of police brutality and prison conditions with senior GOE officials. -- (C) Interior Ministry State Security (SSIS) Director Hassan Abdel Rahman asserted that SSIS has not abused prisoners "in the past ten yea [...]	2010-01-31 15:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
10CAIRO157	RESUMPTION OF U.S.-FUNDED POLICE TRAINING PROGRAM [...] (U) On February 1, the U.S.-funded, human rights-oriented police training program resumed, following its suspension in July 2008 pending bilateral negotiations related to the change in funding from ESF to INCLE (reftels). The February 1-3 three-day course focused on "Data-based Decision Making [...]	2010-02-04 09:52:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM EG
10CAIRO159	Scencesetter for Deputy Secretary Lew's February 15-16 Visit [...] (C) Deputy Secretary Lew, we warmly welcome you to Cairo and are seeking meetings with Prime Minister Nazif, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, and Minister of International Cooperation Aboulnaga. While we continue to work closely and effectively with Egypt on the range of critical regional issues, [...]	2010-02-04 15:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PREL OVIP EFIN EG
10CAIRO161	AFTER CONTROVERSY, NDP MEMBER RECEIVES WARNING FOR MEETING [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) On February 2, the Press Syndicate issued a warning to National Democratic Party (NDP) member XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX for violating its ban on contact with Israelis by meeting September 14 with the Israeli Ambassador in her office at the GOE-funded Al-Ahram Center. -- (C [...]	2010-02-04 15:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI IS EG
10CAIRO163	DAS WITTES ENGAGES GOE, CIVIL SOCIETY ON ELECTIONS, NAGA [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In meetings January 24-25, NEA DAS Tamara Cofman Wittes assured activists of continuing U.S. commitment to promoting democracy and human rights. She urged the GOE to use the penal code, not the Emergency Law, to prosecute the January 6 sectarian killings in Naga Hamadi [...]	2010-02-04 15:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
10CAIRO165	Sudan: NCP Cairo Head Evaluates U.S. and Egyptian Roles [...] (C) Key Points: -- The Head of the Sudanese National Congress Party's (NCP) office in Cairo, Kamal Ali, told us he was working with the Government of Egypt (GoE) to organize the logistics so Sudanese in Cairo can vote in the Sudanese Presidential election. The Government of Sudan (GoS) [...]	2010-02-04 15:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU EG
10CAIRO167	Country Team Support for Third-Party Transfer to Iraq [...] (SBU) The Egyptian military is requesting third-party transfer approval for the sale of M1A1 tanks and ammunition to Iraq. All of the equipment is produced in Egypt under a co-production agreement with the United States. The country team supports the sale. 2. (C) Egypt proposes sell [...]	2010-02-04 16:26:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL MASS ETTC EG
10CAIRO169	Sudan: Launch of the Nuba Mountains People's Forum [...] (C) Key Points: -- Leaders of the Nuba community informed Embassy Cairo that they have created the International Permanent Forum for the Nuba Mountains Indigenous People (Nuba Forum) to protect and advocate for the rights of the Nuba people, which they believe are in danger under the NCP [...]	2010-02-08 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU EG UNCHS
10CAIRO171	Arab League Pursuing Solutions on Somalia and Sudan REF: 10 CAIRO 137 CLASSIFIED BY: Donal A. Blome, Minister Counselor, DoS, ECPO; REASON: 1.4(B),(D) [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-08 14:39:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU SO EG
10CAIRO175	Egyptian MFA on Yemen [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-09 13:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL YM EG
10CAIRO177	Sinai Update: Counter Smuggling and Floods [...] Key Points: -- (S/NF) The GOE claims to have increased its efforts against HAMAS-related smuggling activity, and reports recent success in interdicting and dismantling goods and financial smuggling networks. -- (C) Recent heavy rains in northern Sinai caused an estimated $11 mill [...]	2010-02-09 13:46:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MASS IS KPAL EG
10CAIRO179	SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER [...] (SBU) Director Mueller, I warmly welcome you to Cairo. Your visit provides the opportunity to review and reinforce our strong law enforcement cooperation with the State Security Investigative Service (SSIS),which is under the auspices of Minister of Interior Habib Al Adly (we have reques [...]	2010-02-09 14:42:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PHUM PGOV KJUS EG
10CAIRO181	Scenesetter for Admiral Mullen [...] (S/NF) Key Points: -- Since your last visit, the U.S. and Egypt initiated a senior-level Strategic Dialogue that built upon the improved bilateral atmosphere following President Obama's June 2009 speech in Cairo. We have seen improved cooperation in multilateral fora, in addition to close c [...]	2010-02-09 15:11:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MASS PARM ETTC EG
10CAIRO183	Minister of Social Solidarity Distances Himself from MEPI [...] (C) Key Points: -- Minister of Social Solidarity (MSS) Ali El-Meselhi distanced himself from a MSS diplomatic note which took issue with MEPI funding of Egyptian NGOs. He explained that the note was coordinated by Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboulnaga. -- El-Mesel [...]	2010-02-10 14:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV EG
10CAIRO184	CAIRO REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING - 99488 THRU [...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Leahy Amendment, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Egyptian government personnel and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to the Embassy. 2. (U) Embassy ha [...]	2010-02-02 06:29:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS PREL SNAR PARM EG
10CAIRO185	Egyptians Miffed Over Continuing Algerian Antagonism [...] (C) MFA Cabinet Advisor Mahmoud Afifi told poloff Feb 7 that although the Egyptians have returned their ambassador to Algeria, and are seeking to publicly downplay the recent diplomatic row between the two countries, the Algerians continue to antagonize Cairo. Note: The diplomatic tension was [...]	2010-02-10 14:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG EG
10CAIRO187	MFA, ACTIVIST EXPECTATIONS FOR FEBRUARY 17 UPR REF: 09 CAIRO 2277; 09 CAIRO 1948; 09 CAIRO 1433; 09 CAIRO 44 CLASSIFIED BY: Donald A. Blome, Minister-Counselor, State, ECPO; REASON: 1.4(B),(D) [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-11 08:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UN KTIP EG
10CAIRO197	Egypt: New Round of MB Arrests [...] Key Points: -- (U) Three senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt including Deputy Supreme Guide Mahmoud Ezzat, Spokesman Essam El Eryan and MB "Mufti" Abdel Rahman El Barr were detained by security forces the morning of February 8 along with twelve other members of the MB. [...]	2010-02-11 16:09:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KISL PHUM EG
10CAIRO199	GOE Blinks on Endowment Proposal, Fails to Budge on North [...] No summary [...]	2010-02-11 16:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV EG
10CAIRO213	ACTIVIST URGES U.S DIPLOMATIC APPROACH TO THE GOE ON TORTURE [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) Human rights activist XXXXXXXXXXXX told us February 10 he believes the top USG human rights priority in Egypt should be diplomatic approaches to urge the GOE to combat torture. He recommended quiet diplomacy over public statements. -- (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX was pessimi [...]	2010-02-17 13:38:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KTIP EG
10CAIRO23	EGYPT'S ECONOMY: January 4 PRESS ROUND-UP [...] (U) The following are notable economic news stories that appeared over the past week in the Egyptian press: --------------------------------------------- - Port Said to Continue Operating as a Free Zone --------------------------------------------- - 2. (U) President Mubarak announced dur [...]	2010-01-04 12:50:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD EAGR PREL PGOV EG ET
10CAIRO233	A/S POSNER ENGAGES WITH GOE, ACTIVISTS ON NAGA HAMADI [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In January 12-14 meetings, A/S Posner urged the GOE to hold accountable those responsible for the January 6 Naga Hamadi sectarian killings, and to issue additional statements of condemnation. -- (C) Senior Interior Ministry and MFA officials said the perpetrators [...]	2010-02-23 09:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI EG
10CAIRO237	El Baradei Returns to Cairo [...] (C) Key Points: -- Thousands of supporters greeted former IAEA Chairman Mohammed El Baradei upon his return to Cairo. Beleaguered leaders of the opposition seem relieved at their ability to muster a show of support for El Baradei and enthusiastic about his potential impact. -- El [...]	2010-02-23 13:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
10CAIRO238	Egypt: Prime Minister Announces Center of Excellence [...] (SBU) Key Points: --Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif told the Ambassador and Science Envoy Ahmed Zewail that the Egyptian government (GoE) plans to create a center of excellence targeting entrepreneurship and innovation, although he did not provide a detailed timeline for implementation. --The [...]	2010-02-04 15:46:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO OVIP TSPL EG
10CAIRO247	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MARCH UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SESSION [...] (C) On February 23, we delivered ref A demarche to MFA Deputy Director for Human Rights Omar Shalaby. On defamation of religions, Shalaby said Egypt would support the OIC position. He believed there is currently no broad backing for a binding treaty. On Guinea, Shalaby said Nigeria would take [...]	2010-02-25 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UN EG
10CAIRO249	Development and Peace Key to Resolving North Sinai Problems [...] (S) Key Points: -- New North Sinai Governor Mowafi told poloff his top priority was to increase economic opportunities. He plans to increase the size of the El Arish port to facilitate an export economy, expand agricultural production in the coastal areas, and build heavy industries in [...]	2010-02-25 15:03:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KPAL KWBG IS EG
10CAIRO250	CAIRO REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING - 99533 THRU [...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Leahy Amendment, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Egyptian government personnel and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to the Embassy. 2. (U) Embassy ha [...]	2010-02-08 06:46:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS PREL SNAR PARM EG
10CAIRO253	UPR REACTION: GOE DISPLEASED WITH THE U.S., ACTIVISTS [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) GOE officials, including presidential advisor Soliman Awad, expressed displeasure with the number and the tone of U.S. recommendations at the February 17 UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt's human rights record. -- (C) The MFA noted [...]	2010-02-25 15:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UN KIRF EG
10CAIRO255	TPT Blanket Approval for Non-technology Transfer Requests [...] (C) Post continues its efforts to improve Egypt's End Use Monitoring (EUM) performance and to simplify the Third Party Transfer (TPT) request process in an effort to streamline the process and provide timely responses to the Government of Egypt (GOE). We recommend implementation of a responsive, st [...]	2010-02-28 13:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PARM MASS EG MARR
10CAIRO257	DASD Kahl Meeting with Egyptian Military Officials [...] (C) Key Points: -- On January 31, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Dr. Colin Kahl met with Major General Mohammad al-Assar, Assistant to the Minister of Defense, Major General Ahmad Moataz, Chief of the American Relations Branch, and Major General Fouad Arafa, Consu [...]	2010-02-28 13:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR IS IR IZ EG LY SU
10CAIRO262	Tourism is the "driving force" in the Egyptian Economy [...] (SBU) Key Points: --The Ministry of Tourism (MoT) projects a 5-7% increase in tourism revenues and arrivals for 2010 over last year. --New growth opportunities are expected in Egypt's Mediterranean north shore area and MoT is overseeing plans to increase hotel capacity for the region. - [...]	2010-02-08 13:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID PREL EG
10CAIRO263	Designation of Telecommunications Policy Officer [...] (SBU) Per reftel request for information, Embassy Cairo's telecommunications policy officer and point-of-contact for ICT issues is Economic Officer Ashli Simpson. Ms. Simpson can be reached via e-mail at simpsonac@state.gov or by telephone at +20-2-2797-3467. Please note that Cairo is seven hou [...]	2010-02-28 14:54:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS PREL EG
10CAIRO304	CAIRO REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING - 99546 THRU [...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Leahy Amendment, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Egyptian government personnel and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to the Embassy. 2. (U) Embassy ha [...]	2010-02-16 15:28:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS PREL SNAR PARM EG
10CAIRO33	EGYPT: NEW EDUCATION AND TRANSPORT MINISTERS, FIVE [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-04 15:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ELTN SOCI
10CAIRO358	CAIRO REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING - 99561 THRU [...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Leahy Amendment, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Egyptian government personnel and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to the Embassy. 2. (U) Embassy ha [...]	2010-02-24 12:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS PREL SNAR PARM EG
10CAIRO36	EGYPT-U.S. CIVIL NUCLEAR-RELATED BILATERAL CONTACTS [...] (C) Key Points: -- During separate visits, two Department of Energy (DOE) technical delegations recently held constructive talks with GOE counterparts on indigenous nuclear safety capabilities and the recovery and control of materials usable in dirty bombs. -- Senior GOE officials responsible for n [...]	2010-01-05 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	APCS EG IAEA KNNP PREL TRGY
10CAIRO366	Nonproliferation Meetings in Cairo: UNSCR 1540 Workshop and [...] (U) Key Points: -- A United Nations multilateral workshop for African countries on implementation of UNSCR 1540 was held December 7-10, 2009 in Cairo. The workshop focused on countering WMD proliferation through strengthened border controls. -- U.S. -Egypt bilaterals on the margins [...]	2010-02-24 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KNNP UN ETRD PBTS PREL EG CF CG KE MO NI GH
10CAIRO368	Egypt Requests Support for Reelection to the ICAO Council [...] (SBU) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (SBU) Post received on February 8 a diplomatic note from the MFA's Multilateral Affairs Division. The dip note was addressed to all embassies accredited to Cairo, and was accompanied by a detailed aide memoire requesting support for a GO [...]	2010-02-24 16:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR EG ICAO PREL
10CAIRO60	RAFAH BORDER: GUARD KILLED BY PALESTINIAN SNIPER; [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-11 13:27:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR KPAL TU EG
10CAIRO66	FOREIGN MINISTER, CODEL WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ DISCUSS [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-12 12:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER KPAL IS IR EG
10CAIRO67	ARAB LEAGUE PLANS FOR SUDAN [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-12 13:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU EG
10CAIRO69	CAIRO-BASED DARFURI GROUPS DISCUSS ROADMAP, MINAWI [...] Key Points: -- A representative of the Sudanese United Revolutionary Forces Front (URFF) told us that the URFF, United Resistance Front (URF) and the SLA Unity-Abdallah Yahya support the U.S. Roadmap for Darfur and are prepared to hold a conference in Jebel Marrah to unite the groups, but la [...]	2010-01-12 14:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU EG
10CAIRO78	EGYPT'S AID-BASED DIPLOMACY EFFORTS IN SUB-SAHARAN [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-14 11:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID SU SO EG
10CAIRO79	MFA ADVISOR PRESENTS BLEAK PICTURE OF AFRICAN ISSUES [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-14 11:42:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL EAID SU SO ET ER EG
10CAIRO84	SCIENCE ENVOY ZEWAIL CONCLUDES SUCCESSFUL FIRST VISIT TO [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-18 05:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO OVIP TSPL EG
10CANBERRA1	AUSTRALIA WILL CONSIDER COSPONSORING LISTING [...] (S) The Australian government will consider co-sponsoring the request to list Al-Qa,ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and its two leaders under UNSCR 1267. Peter Scott, Director of Sanctions and Transnational Crime at DFAT, said that he would be unable to give a firm answer on whether Aust [...]	2010-01-04 00:13:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	KTFN PTER PINR PREL SA YM UN AS
10CANBERRA104	AUSTRALIA INCREASES AID TO BURMA, MAINTAINS [...] (C/NF) Summary: Australia will increase its humanitarian and development assistance to Burma by about forty percent over the next three years to roughly USD 40 million. The aid increase is the only major change resulting from Australia's just completed Burma policy review. Australia's current [...]	2010-02-12 05:35:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV BM AS
10CANBERRA113	LETTER ON PROJECT RHODES DATA SHARING DELIVERED [...] (S) Acting Assistant Secretary Van Diepen's letter about sharing Project Rhodes data was delivered to First Assistant Director General XXXXXXXXXXXX of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation on Friday, February 19. BLEICH [...]	2010-02-19 05:02:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC AS
10CANBERRA118	RUDD SAYS ZERO "COMMERCIAL" WHALING IN SOUTHERN [...] (C/NF) Summary: Australia will initiate legal action if Japan does not agree by November to end whaling in the Southern Ocean. PM Rudd announced February 19 that if negotiations do not result in a commitment by Japan to reduce the number of whales killed in the Southern Ocean by "commercial w [...]	2010-02-19 07:30:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV EFIS PREL AS
10CANBERRA119	AUSTRALIA: CONFERENCE ON SOUTH ASIAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An academic conference examined East Asian development models for application to South Asia. Experts concluded that without further reform, neither the Chinese nor the traditional western development model may be appropriate for South Asia. Conference attendees stressed the con [...]	2010-02-21 22:41:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN PREL ECON AS
10CANBERRA12	AUSTRALIA WILL COSPONSOR REQUEST TO LIST YEMENI [...] (S) The Australian government has agreed to cosponsor our request to list Yemen-based al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and its two leaders, Nasir al-Wahishi and Ali al-Shihri, under UNSCR 1267. Sanctions and Transnational Crime Section Director Peter Scott of the Department of Forei [...]	2010-01-06 04:15:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	KTFN PTER PINR PREL SA YM UN AS
10CANBERRA120	AUSTRALIA: CONFERENCE ON SOUTH ASIAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An academic conference examined East Asian development models for application to South Asia. Experts concluded that without further reform, neither the Chinese nor the traditional western development model may be appropriate for South Asia. Conference attendees stressed the con [...]	2010-02-21 22:41:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN PREL ECON AS
10CANBERRA121	AUSTRALIA: CONFERENCE ON SOUTH ASIAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An academic conference examined East Asian development models for application to South Asia. Experts concluded that without further reform, neither the Chinese nor the traditional western development model may be appropriate for South Asia. Conference attendees stressed the con [...]	2010-02-21 22:42:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN PREL ECON AS
10CANBERRA122	AUSTRALIA: CONFERENCE ON SOUTH ASIAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An academic conference examined East Asian development models for application to South Asia. Experts concluded that without further reform, neither the Chinese nor the traditional western development model may be appropriate for South Asia. Conference attendees stressed the con [...]	2010-02-21 22:56:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN PREL ECON AS
10CANBERRA128	AUSTRALIA PRESSURES PAKISTAN ON CONFERENCE ON [...] (C/NF) Australia supports U.S. goals for the upcoming Conference on Disarmament (CD). Officials have already begun to pressure Pakistan to support a new Program of Work (POW) so that discussions can begin on a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT). Australia is worried that beginning inform [...]	2010-02-22 06:12:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM MNUC KNNP PREL
10CANBERRA129	AUSTRALIA TO CONTRIBUTE ADDITIONAL ANSF TRAINERS [...] (C/NF) Deputy National Security Advisor Angus Campbell confirmed that Australia is considering how to increase its contribution to the training mission in Afghanistan while still maintaining current troop levels. It is possible that additional trainers will be sent as part of Australia's emb [...]	2010-02-22 20:56:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MASS PREL NATO
10CANBERRA138	READY TO PRESSURE SYRIA AT IAEA [...] (C/NF) Australia's assessment of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General's report on Syria's nuclear program is "virtually identical" to that of the United States. Wendy Walsh of the Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch at the Department of Foreign Affairs and [...]	2010-02-25 21:42:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM PREL SY IAEA AS
10CANBERRA15	WHALING COLLISION: AUSTRALIA WILL INVESTIGATE [...] (C/NF) The initial video evidence of the collision between a Japanese whaling ship and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) vessel Ady Gil (ref A) strongly suggests that the Ady Gil stopped or slowed significantly in the path of the Japanese whaling vessel Shonan Maru at close range a [...]	2010-01-07 06:08:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIS EWWT PREL AS JA
10CANBERRA17	AUSTRALIA-INDIA: GOA CONCERNED BY LATEST ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: Another Indian student has been attacked in Australia, this time fatally. Nitin Garg, a twenty-one year old was stabbed to death on January 2 as he walked to work in Melbourne. The attack was the most recent in a spate of violent attacks on Indians in Australia over the last two [...]	2010-01-07 21:06:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL IN AS
10CANBERRA24	TWO QANTAS EXECUTIVES HELD IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two Australian airline executives are being prevented from leaving Vietnam over fuel hedging losses incurred by Vietnamese controlled airline JetStar Pacific. Australian airline QANTAS, which owns 27 percent of the airline, is strongly defending the two executives and is trying [...]	2010-01-11 06:21:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ELAB PREF SMIG AS
10CANBERRA25	AUSTRALIA WATCHING CHINA'S IMPENDING INTERCEPT [...] (S/NF) Summary: Australia is watching developments around China's pending intercept test closely and appreciates reftel message as part of the very close coordination with the United States. Deputy National Security Advisor Angus Campbell told us PM Kevin Rudd is concerned and following the [...]	2010-01-11 06:33:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	MCAP PARM PREL TSPA AS
10CANBERRA28	WHALING UPDATE: RUDD TO RAISE WITH SECRETARY, [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: PM Rudd, under increasing political pressure on the current Australia-Japan whaling dispute, will raise the issue with the Secretary on the margins of the January 18 AUSMIN meetings. Australian media will likely ask about U.S. policy on whaling, views on Australia's policy, or [...]	2010-01-12 05:40:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV PREL EFIS AS
10CANBERRA29	AUSTRALIA LIKELY TO APPROACH PRC ON MISSILE [...] (S/NF) Australia will likely join the U.S. and other nations in questioning the PRC over the January 11 ballistic missile intercept (ref A). Charge, GRPO, and Pol/Econ officers briefed National Security Advisor Duncan Lewis on the test on January 12. Charge described the general tone and te [...]	2010-01-12 08:09:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	MCAP PARM PREL TSPA AS
10CANBERRA31	AUSTRALIANS HAVE RAISED THE ISSUE OF AMCIT [...] (S) Australia has urged Iran to release the six AmCits in its custody (reftel). Deborah Stokes, First Assistant Secretary of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),South and West Asia, Middle East and Africa Division saw the Iranian Ambassador, Mahmoud Movahhedi, January [...]	2010-01-13 06:24:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	CASC IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER AS
10CANBERRA32	ENGAGING POSTS ON THE SECRETARY'S SPEECH ON [...] No summary [...]	2010-01-13 07:22:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECIN AS
10CANBERRA33	AUSTRALIA EAGER TO EXPAND GICNT [...] (SBU) Australia supports the broad outlines of draft terms of reference for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),but questions whether a more efficient organizational structure could be developed. Officials stressed the importance of expanding GIGNT's membership, and not [...]	2010-01-13 21:28:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PTER KGIC AS
10CANBERRA34	DHS DEPUTY SECRETARY LUTE VISIT TO AUSTRALIA [...] SUMMARY: In January 10 meetings with Australian Transportation Minister Albanese and National Security Advisor Lewis, DHS Deputy Secretary Lute stressed the need for global cooperation to strengthen security on international flights following the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack. D/S [...]	2010-01-14 02:49:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EAIR PTER PREL AS
10CANBERRA37	TFHA01: AUSTRALIA TO PROVIDE INITIAL $10 MILLION [...] (SBU) Australia will provide an initial tranche of A$10 million to aid groups to assist victims of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. Foreign Minister Smith gave a press conference on January 14 in which he said Australia will provide the money to the International Committee of the Red Cross [...]	2010-01-14 06:13:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID AEMR CASC PREL AS
10CANBERRA41	AUSTRALIA FOCUS ON COPENHAGEN ACCORD, CHINA [...] (C/NF) Summary: Australia is prepared to notify the UNFCC Secretariat that it associates itself with the Copenhagen Accord and to submit its targets or actions by January 31. China and the U.S. should be the first countries to take such action, in the Australian view, in order to shore up suppo [...]	2010-01-15 06:32:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV PREL KGHG AS
10CANBERRA42	AMBASSADOR, THINK TANKS TO REPRESENT AUSTRALIA AT [...] (SBU) Australia will be represented at the upcoming PRT conference in Prague by Ambassador to the Czech Republic Ruth Pearce. Australia does not have a deputy SRAP, and no high level officials from Canberra are planning to attend the conference. Afghanistan Section Director Paul Noonan to [...]	2010-01-18 22:46:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL NATO AF AS
10CANBERRA43	TFHA01: AUSTRALIA FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO HAITI [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (SBU) Australia's initial contribution to the Haiti relief effort - A$10 million (ref C) will be completed this week. Econoff conveyed message in ref B to Ausaid's Thanh Le, Manager for Humanitarian and Emergency Response on January 19. Le sa [...]	2010-01-19 22:05:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL AS
10CANBERRA47	AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS APDP ELECTION OBSERVATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and AusAID officials told DRL Senior Advisor Christopher Camponovo that Australia supported Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership's (APDP) involvement in monitoring upcoming elections in the Solomon Islands and Bougainville. End summar [...]	2010-01-20 07:32:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM AS
10CANBERRA53	SECURITY AND DEFENSE COOPERATION FORUM (SDCF) [...] (C) SUMMARY: Delegations from the United States, Australia, and Japan met in Sydney on November 23, 2009 for the third Security and Defense Cooperation Forum (SDCF). The U.S. delegation was co-chaired by Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro and Assistan [...]	2010-01-21 07:39:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MRRR PARM PINS AS JA
10CANBERRA55	WHALING: AUSTRALIA TO STICK WITH NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Australian negotiators will continue to work towards a deal in the IWC on whaling. Despite aggressive rhetoric by the Japanese, the GOA wants to keep its cool and reach a consensus on a package before the IWC meetings in June. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT [...]	2010-01-22 03:50:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV EFIS PREL AS
10CANBERRA61	HIGH MARKS FOR PROPOSAL ON NPT WITHDRAWAL [...] (C/NF) Australia is very enthusiastic about the proposal to dissuade the abuse of the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) withdrawal provision outlined reftel cable. While Australia would like to see the measures go farther in some cases, they would be satisfied even if the NPT Review Conference ( [...]	2010-01-22 06:01:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PGOV PREL UNGA
10CANBERRA63	ON AFGHANISTAN, THE WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: DFAT and AusAID officials report that Australia is still months away from rolling out its planned civilian surge in Afghanistan. A final announcement is now not expected until March at the earliest. Officials expressed frustration at the slow pace and do not expect that anyt [...]	2010-01-24 23:08:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM PREL MARR MOPS AS AF
10CANBERRA64	AUSTRALIA TO BACK U.S. POSITIONS AT LONDON [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Australia supports the positions outlined in reftel demarche (ref A). While Australia backs a reintegration policy and expects to donate to the trust fund, officials would like more information about exactly how the fund will be structured. AusAID officials welcomed the con [...]	2010-01-25 03:42:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF AS
10CANBERRA66	AUSTRALIA SHARES U.S. VIEWS ON IRAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C/NF) Australia shares U.S. views on the upcoming U.N. Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Iran. Sandra Vegting, a Director in the International Organizations Branch of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, also confirmed that Australia supports U.S. recommendati [...]	2010-01-27 07:07:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM PREL IR AS
10CANBERRA73	AUSTRALIA PLEDGES $89 MILLION TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Australia pledged an additional $89 million ($100 million Australian) in civilian aid to Afghanistan at the London Conference. Of that sum, $45 million will go to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund. $22 million will help fund the proposed Peace and Reintegration Trus [...]	2010-01-29 07:07:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV AS AF
10CANBERRA79	STRONG SUPPORT FOR U.S. POSITION ON IRAN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Australia will support efforts to increase pressure on Iran, whether through the United Nations or other channels. A policy paper has already been written outlining specific measures Australia could take. The United States can count on strong Australian support, regardless of [...]	2010-02-02 20:59:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM PREL IR UNSC AS
10CANBERRA86	GOVERNMENT BLOCKS SHIPMENTS BOUND FOR IRAN [...] (C/NF) Australia has blocked several export shipments bound for Iran because of concerns that the goods could be used in Iran's uranium enrichment program. This news comes as Australia is looking for ways to increase pressure on Iran if it becomes necessary. The news is unlikely to cause a [...]	2010-02-04 06:03:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP AS IR
10CANBERRA88	AUSTRALIA: EMISSIONS BILL BECOMES POTENTIAL [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Climate Change and Water Minister Penny Wong expressed her appreciation for U.S. commitment to addressing climate change, particularly the "extraordinary" U.S. efforts in Copenhagen in an introductory meeting with Ambassador Bleich. Wong stressed the importance of developed co [...]	2010-02-04 07:42:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV ECON KGHG PREL AS
10CAPETOWN29	SOUTH AFRICAN STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS [...] (SBU) South African President Jacob Zuma, relying heavily on the legacy of former President Nelson Mandela (also known here by his clan name: "Madiba"),on February 11 gave his second State of the Nation address since assuming office last May. The South African leader came into the speech some [...]	2010-02-12 16:07:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM SF
10CAPETOWN37	WILL MOTUMI BE MADE PERMANENT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE? [...] (U) Summary . On February 9, Defense Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, briefed Parliament,s Portfolio Committee on Defense and Veterans Affairs (Defense Committee) in response to the poor performance of SA Acting Permanent Secretary (PermSec) in the Ministry of Defense, Tsepe Motumi, the week before [...]	2010-02-22 16:52:00	Consulate Cape Town	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS SF PGOV
10CAPETOWN39	AMBASSADOR GIPS MEETS WITH ATHOL TROLLIP, [...] (C) Summary. On February 12, Ambassador Gips met with Athol Trollip, Parliamentary leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA),the main opposition party in Parliament, to discuss USG programs and cooperation. Also in attendance were Political Counselor, Cape Town CG, and Cape Town Poloff. T [...]	2010-02-25 12:43:00	Consulate Cape Town	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL SF
10CARACAS101	Three Cable Stations Reopen, Student Protests Continue [...] (SBU) Summary: Three of the smaller cable channels closed as a result of the government's January 21 decision to reclassify them as "national" (ref a) were back on the air on January 27 following their successful appeal to Conatel, the broadcasting regulatory agency, to be reclassified a [...]	2010-01-28 15:18:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
10CARACAS103	TFHA01: Demarche Request: U.S. Aid to Haiti [...] (SBU) On January 27, Polcouns delivered ref a demarche and non-paper on U.S. assistance to Haiti to the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry's Director of North American Affairs, Yaneth Arocha. Polcouns also provided a copy of our January 26 diplomatic note strongly protesting the inclusion on V [...]	2010-01-28 16:23:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF EAID ECON HA VE
10CARACAS105	Raising RCTV and Haiti with Venezuelan Foreign Ministry [...] (C) Summary. In a January 27 lunch with the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry's Director for North American Affairs, Yaneth Arocha, Polcouns raised U.S. concerns about official Venezuelan misinformation about U.S. assistance efforts in Haiti (ref a) and the closure of RCTV. Arocha said she [...]	2010-01-28 16:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM VE PINR
10CARACAS109	RCTV President Asks U.S. to Press U.S. Cables Operators to [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with the Charge on January 26, RCTV President Marcel Granier asked the U.S. government to press DirectTV, Net Uno, and Inter to restore RCTV programming in Venezuela. Granier charged that these were "U.S. companies" and that they had illegally bowed to Venezuelan governmen [...]	2010-01-28 23:24:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM VE EINV
10CARACAS119	RE: Chavez Threatens "Radical Action" if Protests Continue [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 28, hundreds of students gathered in cities across Venezuela for a fifth day of protests. Media reports indicate that since January 25, the protests have led to 2 deaths, nearly 70 injuries, and at least 60 arrests/detentions nationwide, although almost all of the [...]	2010-01-29 21:43:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
10CARACAS143	Venezuela: Airlines Close to Deal with GBRV on Arrears [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reached an agreement with the Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) to use the new 2.6 bolivares fuertes (BsF) to $1 exchange rate to liquidate foreign exchange requests pending with the GBRV from international airlines prior to the Ja [...]	2010-02-04 14:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON ETRD PREL SNAR VE BEXP EINT ETTC
10CARACAS15	Chavez Seeks to Institutionalize His Regional Vision and [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continues to try to institutionalize his revolutionary vision for Latin America and his regional leadership by formalizing his socialist ideology; creating and financing new regional political, economic, social and media structures; and trying to [...]	2010-01-07 19:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PREL KDEM VE
10CARACAS161	Venezuela Deports Three Fugitives, Justice Minister Asks for [...] (C) Summary: On February 2, the Venezuelan government (GBRV) deported U.S. fugitive Salomon "Big Daddy" Camacho, as well as two fugitives wanted by France and Colombia. Minister of Justice El-Aissami told PolOff and Legatt that he had been instructed by President Chavez to return these [...]	2010-02-09 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR CO VE KCRM
10CARACAS165	Chavez Calls Protesting Students "Fascists"; "Real Students [...] (SBU) Speaking to his cabinet in a nationally televised broadcast on February 5, President Chavez called the students who protested February 4 "fascists, subversives, violent, filled with hate and anger." He said they "destroyed part of the Metro, and wanted to fill Caracas with violence, so [...]	2010-02-11 16:20:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
10CARACAS167	View from the Countryside: The Government Is Taking Over [...] (C) Summary: Government control is wide and deep in the agricultural state of Yaracuy, located in the northwest part of Venezuela. Business leaders described constant attacks on the private sector through land invasions and expropriations, subsidized agricultural imports, and government indif [...]	2010-02-11 16:22:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EAGR VE

10CARACAS177	Opposition Committed to Elections Despite Challenges [...] (C) Summary. Despite continuing internal rivalries, opposition political party leaders are united on the need to resist Chavez' "provocations" and remain focused on the September legislative elections, where they expect to present a unified candidate slate and to win at least 40 seats i [...]	2010-02-12 15:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM VE

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