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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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06NAHA214LDP SEEKING SILVER LINING IN PENDING GUBERNATORIAL RACE
[...] (C) Summary: Conservative, pro-US/Japan alliance Okinawans selected the capable but not particularly popular Hirokazu NAKAIMA as their candidate for the November prefectural governor's election, then hoped the anti-alliance reformists would run two or more candidates and split the opposition [...]
2006-09-25 09:01:00Consulate NahaCONFIDENTIALMARR PINS JA
06NAHA228PAC3 SUCCESSFULLY INTRODUCED TO OKINAWA
[...] (C) Summary: The introduction of the Patriot PAC-3 Air Defense Battalion into Okinawa is a success, with the locally (in Okinawa) most difficult part, the ground movement of sensitive equipment from port and pier to its destination within Kadena AFB, completed October 13. Despite some miscalc [...]
2006-10-16 10:19:00Consulate NahaCONFIDENTIALMARR PINS JA
06NAHA229OKINAWA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES ANNOUNCE PLATFORMS,
[...] (C) Summary: Recently both Okinawa gubernatorial candidates have announced their policy platforms, which are long on aspirations and short on details. Reformist candidate Keiko ITOKAZU declared her top issue to be opposing the relocation within Okinawa of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futen [...]
2006-10-18 08:41:00Consulate NahaCONFIDENTIALJA PREL MARR
06NAHA238OKINAWA GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN: POSTER SPOT REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Okinawa Prefecture gubernatorial race remains too close to call, and the two major candidates are engaged in a technically illegal unofficial poster campaign. The reformist parties backing the woman running as their unified candidate seem torn between self-promotion and gett [...]
2006-11-08 03:11:00Consulate NahaCONFIDENTIALMARR JA KN
06NAHA241OKINAWA GOVERNOR'S RACE VERY CLOSE, BUT WINDS SHIFTING TO
[...] (C) With just three days left until the November 19 Okinawa gubernatorial election, all the media in Okinawa and both campaign camps still say they see the race as too close to call. Nevertheless, we are willing to go out on a limb and predict a narrow victory by the conservative candidate Hir [...]
2006-11-16 12:04:00Consulate NahaCONFIDENTIALJA PREL MARR
06NAHA243CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE NAKAIMA WIN OKINAWA GOVERNOR'S RACE
[...] (C) Summary. On November 19, Okinawan voters elected conservative candidate Hirokazu NAKAIMA over reformist, anti-base candidate Keiko ITOKAZU as their new governor by a margin of 5.6 points. Nakaima's victory showed the Okinawan electorate rejected Itokazu's focus on the elimination of Marine [...]
2006-11-20 07:55:00Consulate NahaCONFIDENTIALJA PREL MARR
06NAIROBI1003JUSTICE MINISTER WON,T QUESTION POLICE RAID
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Justice Minister Karua refuses to criticize the police raids on the Standard Media Group, even going so far as to assert that it might have been justified on "national security" grounds. Karua's main concern seems to be that she and other cabinet members were not consulted before [...]
2006-03-07 07:53:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
06NAIROBI1032Challenges to Airport Certification in Nairobi
[...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting U.S. FAA airport certification specialist Ed Dorsett's training for Kenyan inspectors highlighted many deficiencies at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) that will likely prevent its certification to ICAO standards until 2007. Regulator Kenya Civil A [...]
2006-03-08 05:20:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON PGOV KE
06NAIROBI1048 NAIROBI INPUT FOR 2006 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON AGOA
[...] In response to reftel, please find at para 2 Post's input for the President's report to Congress on Kenya's political and economic climate as it relates to AGOA eligibility. This text has also been sent by e-mail to AF/EPS and AF/E. In addition, please note that this mission, through USAID- [...]
2006-03-08 08:23:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EAID PREL KE
06NAIROBI1059 THIRD ANNUAL AFRICAN FINE COFFEE CONFERENCE
[...] USAID/REDSO through the Regional Agricultural Trade Expansion Support (RATES) program, supported the Eastern African Fine Coffees Association (EAFCA) to once again successfully implement and host the Third African Fine Coffee Conference and Exhibition, known by many as the World?s WILDEST Coff [...]
2006-03-08 09:24:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ECON ETRD KE PGOV SENV
06NAIROBI1090JUSTICE MINISTER WON'T QUESTION POLICE RAID
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Justice Minister Karua refuses to criticize the police raids on the Standard Media Group, even going so far as to assert that it might have been justified on "national security" grounds. Karua's main concern seems to be that she and other cabinet members were not consulted before [...]
2006-03-09 08:30:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
06NAIROBI1094SOMALIA: DONORS PREPARE TO SUPPORT SECURITY FOR THE
[...] (SBU) Donors and UN agency representatives have enthusiastically endorsed a Security Plan for the Transitional Federal Parliament's (TFP) interim seat in Baidoa. A March 7 fact-finding trip may have generated commitments of funds sufficient to finance the entire plan - - including the very se [...]
2006-03-09 10:41:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER EAID PREL MOPS ASEC KPAO SO KE
06NAIROBI1114AN UNSETTLED KENYA AWAITS NEXT SHOE TO DROP
[...] (S) SUMMARY: President Kibaki publicly stands firm behind the Kenyan Police raid on the Standard Media Group. Meanwhile, Standard journalists and others privately say the raids were prompted by a State House belief that the paper possesses documents implicating the President's family in grand [...]
2006-03-10 12:48:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNPINS SNAR ASEC ECON PREL KCOR KDEM KE
06NAIROBI1154KENYAN GOVERNMENT FUMBLES, OPPOSITION BENEFITS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With Parliament set to reconvene March 21, Kenya's "ODM" opposition is armed with a number of issues over which to take on the government. Buoyed by the government's recent media crack-down gaffe, ODM leaders have publicly recommitted themselves to cooperation. Their united ext [...]
2006-03-15 02:25:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KE
06NAIROBI1161 17TH HORN OF AFRICA CLIMATE OUTLOOK FORUM
[...] The 17th Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) climate outlook forum (COF) took place in Nairobi March 1-3, organized by the USAID-supported Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC). The forum brought together policy makers, technical expert [...]
2006-03-15 04:02:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV TPHY XW ZF EAGR ECON ETRD KE PGOV SOCI
06NAIROBI1238 HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN
[...] This is the second update cable in response to Ref A request for bi-weekly reports on the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa. USAID Missions in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and REDSO/Somalia contributed to this report. REGIONAL REPORTS 2. NAIROBI-BASED REGIONAL MEETINGS A [...]
2006-03-17 10:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KESO
06NAIROBI1239 HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN
[...] This is the second update cable in response to Ref A request for bi-weekly reports on the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa. USAID Missions in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and REDSO/Somalia contributed to this report. REGIONAL REPORTS 2. NAIROBI-BASED REGIONAL MEETINGS A [...]
2006-03-17 11:07:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KESO
06NAIROBI1283 ADDITIONAL KENYA REPLY ON SHARING OF GENETIC
[...] SUMMARY: Following the delivery of Ref A talking points last week, Econoff met with Kenyan trade officials and heard additional details of Kenya's strong support for a binding, negotiated protocol on access and benefit sharing of genetic resources (ABS). Kenya believes that a new protocol i [...]
2006-03-21 13:49:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD TBIO KE
06NAIROBI1444 HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN
[...] This is the third update cable in response to Ref A request for biweekly reports on the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa. USAID Missions in Kenya and Ethiopia, REDSO (Somalia, Djibouti),and OFDA/ECARO contributed to this report. FLASH REPORT 2. Early reports from an ongo [...]
2006-04-03 03:33:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA ASEC
06NAIROBI1445 HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
[...] This is the third update cable in response to Ref A request for biweekly reports on the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa. USAID Missions in Kenya, Ethiopia, REDSO Somalia, Djibouti, and OFDA contributed to this report. ------------ FLASH REPORT ------------ 2. Early rep [...]
2006-04-03 03:33:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KE SO
06NAIROBI1560UP IN SMOKE: KENYA'S HISTORIC COCAINE HAUL FINALLY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Fifteen months after its initial seizure, Kenya's record haul of cocaine was successfully destroyed under joint Kenyan and international supervision on March 31. Despite repeated and unsupported allegations that it had been tampered with, preliminary verification and testing in [...]
2006-04-10 09:18:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL PINR KCRM PGOV ASEC KE UN CO
06NAIROBI1600FIVE KENYAN PARLIAMENTARIANS KILLED IN CRASH
[...] (U) The April 10 crash of a Kenyan Air Force Y-12 plane in Marsabit, north-central Kenya (reftel),claimed the lives of 14 of 17 passengers, including five sitting members of Parliament. Announcing the names of the deceased and injured, President Kibaki declared three days of national mourni [...]
2006-04-11 14:55:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR MASS PREL ASEC KE
06NAIROBI1637KENYA BULLISH ON EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY TRANSPARENCY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Deep-sea oil exploration is scheduled to begin in late-2006 off the coast of Kenya. In preparation for a possible discovery, key donors and the Australian company in charge of exploration are encouraging the Government of Kenya (GOK) to start planning now on how to avoid the "r [...]
2006-04-13 12:32:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN EPET ENGR KCOR KE
06NAIROBI1701(C) CHALLENGES IN OUR CT RELATIONSHIP WITH KENYA
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Post faces an increasingly difficult operating environment in which to pursue counter-terrorism (CT) cooperation with the Kenyan Government (GOK). In the absence of a focused, functional government that views CT as part of its political and national interest, Post is pursuing a [...]
2006-04-20 06:44:00Embassy NairobiSECRETASEC PTER PGOV PINR PINS PREL MARR KDEM KE
06NAIROBI1761COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR
[...] Country clearance is hereby granted for the visit of AA/AFR/EA Lloyd Pierson from o/a April 30 to o/a May 3, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to visit USAID Staff and Programs. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed travel. Per reftel [...]
2006-04-25 14:10:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE
06NAIROBI1804 RAINS STABILIZE PASTORALIST DECLINE IN KENYA
[...] The arrival of the long rains in Kenya's Garissa and Wajir districts have stabilized the dramatic decline in pastoralist livelihoods experienced in recent months. However, humanitarian interventions remain necessary to ensure both short- and long-term recovery. Potential interventions shoul [...]
2006-04-26 11:53:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KE
06NAIROBI1808Drought and Oil Prices Drive Kenya's Inflation
[...] Drought-induced food price increases and rising oil prices caused Kenya's overall inflation rate in March 2006 to jump 19.4% compared to March 2005. This will exacerbate poverty in Kenya, where over half the population is unemployed and living on less than $1/day. However, underlying inflati [...]
2006-04-26 14:08:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN KE
06NAIROBI1819POST'S RESPONSE TO PROPOSED WJEI PROGRAM FOR KENYA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Post welcomes the Interagency Assessment Team,s recommendations for a Women's Justice and Empowerment Initiative (WJEI) in Kenya and its request for Post input on the advisability, feasibility, and costs of the proposed activities, as well as a second area for geographic focus. Po [...]
2006-04-27 08:15:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI KE
06NAIROBI1850 HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN
[...] The widespread heavy rains experienced in the region during the first ten days, or dekad, of April subsided in the second dekad. During the second dekad of April, most parts of Somalia and Djibouti, northern and eastern Kenya, and the eastern half of Ethiopia, where most of the drought-affec [...]
2006-04-28 09:19:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KE
06NAIROBI1881 USAID/OFDA Southern Somalia
[...] Somalia is experiencing the worst drought in a decade, compounded by the effects of fifteen years of armed conflict that has destroyed public infrastructure and basic services, and stressed the population?s coping strategies. The majority of the 2.1 million drought-affected people resides i [...]
2006-05-02 13:51:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SO
06NAIROBI1930USAID ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR MICHAEL HESS
[...] From April 7 to 13, Assistant Administrator of the USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (AA/DCHA) Michael E. Hess traveled to Kenya to assess the impact of drought and to view USAID interventions. AA/DCHA Hess visited drought-affected pastoralists in Mandera Dist [...]
2006-05-03 12:58:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KE
06NAIROBI1939 MEASLES AND POLIO INCIDENCE AND RESPONSE IN
[...] Since 2005, isolated measles and polio cases surfaced in drought-affected Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Increased migration by pastoralists during the drought has raised concerns of a widespread, regional outbreak. In response, the U.N. Children?s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization [...]
2006-05-04 10:19:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SO KE ET
06NAIROBI1953KENYA: 2006 SPECIAL 301 NOTIFICATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to U.S. concerns about the worsening counterfeiting problem in Kenya, the country's top trade bureaucrat acknowledged the government's weaknesses in adequately enforcing IPR, and showed interest in working with the USG and the U.S. private sector to improve the situ [...]
2006-05-05 06:11:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR KE
06NAIROBI1968COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA
[...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA staff, Ms. Andrea Tracy to Nairobi, Kenya o/a June 10- 13, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to consult with and support OFDA/ECARO Office on Burundi programming issues. 3. Hotel accommodation has been arranged at the Mayfair Hotel. H [...]
2006-05-05 09:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AO KE
06NAIROBI1980COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR USAID/OFDA/ECARO
[...] Country clearance is requested for USAID/OFDA/ECARO Operations Officer, Myra Kraut Vinner to travel to Bujumbura, Burundi during the period o/a May 14-18, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to follow up on transition of the Burundi OFDA Office and to coordinate administrative requirement [...]
2006-05-08 08:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA BU
06NAIROBI2056COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR USAID/OFDA/ECARO
[...] Country clearance is requested for USAID/OFDA/ECARO Regional Advisor, Alan Dwyer to travel to Bujumbura, Burundi during the period o/a May 21-26, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to visit and review OFDA programs. 3. Travel details for Dwyer are as follows: 05/21/06 Nbo/Buj K [...]
2006-05-11 12:56:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA
06NAIROBI2369 BI-LATERAL MEETING BETWEEN USAID/REDSO/FFP AND
[...] Summary: On May 3, 2006, USAID/REDSO/FFP and the regional WFP Operations Division Kampala (WFP/ODK) held their third annual bi-lateral meeting. These annual meetings are designed to provide a forum for each party to discuss topics of mutual concern in managing the nearly 1.6 million MTs of Ti [...]
2006-05-30 12:47:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDDJ ER EAID SO
06NAIROBI2414 HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN
[...] Water availability has improved due to the recent rainfall, but rains were below average to poor in some pastoralist districts. Livestock conditions are improving and prices of livestock have increased. However, full recovery will require several consecutive seasons of good rains. In additio [...]
2006-06-02 09:43:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KE
06NAIROBI2418Uganda Makes Progress on GSP/AGOA Labor Complaint
[...] (U) Summary: Regional Labor Attache's second visit to Kampala found encouraging progress on addressing the worker rights issues described in the AFL/CIO petition seeking to revoke Uganda's trade privileges under the General System of Preferences (GSP). Uganda has passed four significant labor [...]
2006-06-02 10:09:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB AGOA ECON ETRD PHUM PGOV UG
06NAIROBI2419Uganda Makes Progress on GSP/AGOA Labor Complaint
[...] (U) Summary: Regional Labor Attache's second visit to Kampala found encouraging progress on addressing the worker rights issues described in the AFL/CIO petition seeking to revoke Uganda's trade privileges under the General System of Preferences (GSP). Uganda has passed four significant labor [...]
2006-06-02 10:14:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB AGOA ECON ETRD PHUM PGOV UG
06NAIROBI2438 USAID/OFDA ASSESSMENT OF KENYA'S GARISSA
[...] Although long season rains improved pasture conditions and water availability in most drought- affected areas of Kenya, patchy showers in Garissa District have left many areas dry, impeding recovery efforts. Water tankering activities continue in several divisions where residents still face a [...]
2006-06-05 08:20:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KE
06NAIROBI2501 HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN
[...] Water availability has improved due to the recent rainfall, but rains were below average to poor in some pastoralist districts. Livestock conditions are improving and prices of livestock have increased. However, full recovery will require several consecutive seasons of good rains. In additio [...]
2006-06-07 11:53:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KE
06NAIROBI2532 HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN
[...] Water availability has improved due to the recent rainfall, but rains were below average to poor in some pastoralist districts. Livestock conditions are improving and prices of livestock have increased. However, full recovery will require several consecutive seasons of good rains. In additio [...]
2006-06-09 06:17:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KE
06NAIROBI259KENYA SUBMISSION FOR INSCR PART II, MONEY
[...] Per Ref A request, below is post's submission for Part II of the INSCR Report on Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. Unfortunately, there has been very little change in the conditions, laws, or policies surrounding money laundering and financial crimes (and many other issues) since last yea [...]
2006-01-19 11:29:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR KE
06NAIROBI260SOMALIA: ALL SIDES READY TO DELIVER A PARLIAMENT -
[...] (C) The "Aden Declaration," signed by the Somali President and Speaker of the Parliament, provides an entry point to engage with the parties to the divided Transitional Federal Institutions. They, in turn, have asked the USG for specific diplomatic efforts to improve the environment for the c [...]
2006-01-20 01:12:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER EAID PREL MOPS ASEC KPAO SO KE
06NAIROBI2616AIRPORT SECURITY INCIDENT LEADS TO EXPULSION OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Airport security is optional, for those with connections to high-level government officials and their associates. This point was underscored June 8 when two Armenian "mercenaries" (reftels) assaulted security officials at Kenya's main airport, waving firearms and bypassing inspe [...]
2006-06-14 13:51:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALASEC KDEM PREL KE
06NAIROBI2618JOWHAR FALLS
[...] (U) Action request - para 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The town of Jowhar came under Islamic Court Union (ICU) control the afternoon of June 14. The UN received direct assistance from known extremist Aden Hashi Ayrow to protect the UN compound in Jowhar, an incident that makes it appear that Ayrow [...]
2006-06-14 14:28:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPINS PGOV PREL MARR SO
06NAIROBI2640SOMALIA: ISLAMIST ADVANCES, PROSPECTS FOR
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The Somali town of Belet Weyne was taken over by the Islamic Courts Union (ICU),apparently by fiat rather than force, the morning of June 15. This now puts the ICU in control of the entire Shebelle valley and offers enhanced connections to supplies from the Gulf. Leaders in the [...]
2006-06-15 15:35:00Embassy NairobiSECRETPINS PGOV PREL SO
06NAIROBI274 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006
[...] Following is the 2005 Investment Climate Statement for Kenya. This information will also be transmitted to EB/IFD/OIA via e-mail and included in Chapter 6 of the 2006 Country Commercial Guide for Kenya, to be delivered through FCS channels. ----------------------------------- A.1. Opennes [...]
2006-01-20 05:43:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV KE
06NAIROBI2870KENYA: SCANDAL CONTROL CROWDS OUT INTEREST IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With another corruption scandal emerging, this time involving private corporations whose malfeasance may have been enriching government officials, and another ministerial tirade against the media, the government has again demonstrated its aversion to transparent, democratic gover [...]
2006-06-30 11:39:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PREL KCOR EAID KE
06NAIROBI3088COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR USAID/OFDA/ECARO REGIONAL ADVISOR, ALAN DWYER
[...] Country clearance is requested for USAID/OFDA/ECARO Regional Advisor, Alan Dwyer to travel to Bujumbura, Burundi during the period o/a July 23-28, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to visit and review OFDA programs. 3. Travel details for Dwyer are as follows: 07/23/06 Nbo/Bjm [...]
2006-07-17 02:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKE NOTAG
06NAIROBI315PATRONAGE IN MOMBASA: THE KENYA PORTS AUTHORITY
[...] (C) Summary: Based on demands from local politicians for an appointee from Coast Province, Kenyan Transport Minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere appointed Abdalla Mwaruwa to the critical position of Managing Director (MD) of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA). The Minister ignored the KPA Board,s recom [...]
2006-01-24 09:48:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALECON EWWT KCOR ETRD PGOV KE
06NAIROBI3173COURTS ADVANCING ON BAIDOA? POSSIBLY NOT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Reports of an imminent Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) attack on Baidoa appear exaggerated. Two reports, although differing in details, link the militia movement to Rahanweyn clan disgruntlement with the Transitional Federal Government. The UN advises that the Court militia has re [...]
2006-07-20 14:59:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR PTER KISL SO
06NAIROBI3394 REPORT ON A REGIONAL PLANNING MEETING CROP
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-04 08:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SOCI UN XA
06NAIROBI3437KENYA CRIMINALIZES SEXUAL (AND SOME TRAFFICKING)
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 31, Kenya's National Assembly voted to criminalize the worst forms of sexual offenses, including rape, defilement, child pornography and sex tourism, and sexual harassment. While amendments to the bill may have watered down some of the proposed protections, the passage of [...]
2006-08-08 08:56:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PHUM PREL EAID SOCI KE
06NAIROBI3630 REPORT ON A REGIONAL PLANNING MEETING CROP
[...] The second stage of implementation of the Crop Crisis Control Project (C3P) was launched with a regional planning workshop in Kigali, Rwanda June 13- 15, 2006. The goal of this activity, supported by the Famine Prevention Fund, is a regionally coordinated response to the catastrophic spread of [...]
2006-08-18 10:07:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SOCI UN XA
06NAIROBI3726KENYAN GOVERNMENT DROPS ONE CASE AGAINST
[...] (C) Summary: An almost one-year old legal case against two journalists charged with publishing an "alarming" article has been quietly dropped by the government of Kenya (GOK). But the GOK is pursuing another legal case against other journalists under the same law, despite the risk of negative [...]
2006-08-24 14:48:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PREL KE
06NAIROBI393NAIROBI BUILDING COLLAPSE: RESCUE MISSION
[...] SUMMARY: As U.S., Israeli and British rescue teams wrapped-up their much-appreciated operations on January 26, the Kenyan government transitioned the rescue operation to recovery, with a reported three more bodies pulled from the rubble overnight. At a January 26 remembrance ceremony held at [...]
2006-01-27 08:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MASS PREL AMGT ASEC KE
06NAIROBI3952Information Requested For Secretary's Initiative On Global
[...] The GOK generally recognizes the role of information Communication and Technology (ICT) in national development and the need for a national policy that promotes and facilitates private sector investment for the benefit of all Kenyans. The Kenya Communications Act (KCA) 1998 and the GOK's subse [...]
2006-09-12 14:11:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EINT EAID PHUM KE
06NAIROBI4020S&P Gives Kenya Sovereign Credit Rating Grade B
[...] Summary: In its first sovereign credit review, Kenya earned a "stable" outlook, grade 'B+' long-term foreign currency, and 'BB-' long-term local currency credit ratings from Standard and Poor's (S&P),making GOK securities below the minimum BBB- rating for investment grade. The private sector [...]
2006-09-14 14:45:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON ETRD KE
06NAIROBI4330AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES LEGISLATIVE AGENDA AND OTHER ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: Kenyan Vice President Moody Awori, who sets parliament's agenda as leader of the House Business Committee, assured the Ambassador that an anti-money laundering bill and plea bargaining legislation will be passed by this parliament. He also insisted that long pending appointments t [...]
2006-10-06 06:04:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV PREL KCOR AGOA PTER KE
06NAIROBI4376Overall Inflation Climbs Again in Third Quarter
[...] After falling in the second quarter from the drought-induced March peak thanks to a good rainy season, overall inflation began climbing again in August. Since September 2005, food prices have risen 20%, which impacts the poor most heavily. Interest rates began rising in August. The Central B [...]
2006-10-11 13:50:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EAGR KE
06NAIROBI4378Overall Inflation Climbs Again in Third Quarter
[...] After falling in the second quarter from the drought-induced March peak thanks to a good rainy season, overall inflation began climbing again in August. Since September 2005, food prices have risen 20%, which impacts the poor most heavily. Interest rates began rising in August. The Central B [...]
2006-10-11 14:13:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EAGR KE
06NAIROBI4420SECURITY CONCERNS PERSIST AT WILSON AIRPORT
[...] (C) Summary: Concerns about security and possible terrorism at Nairobi's Wilson Airport persist. The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) notice of October 4 moving all Somalia passenger flights from Wilson to the better-regulated Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) should help, but Ke [...]
2006-10-16 03:37:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPTER EAIR CASC ECON KE SO
06NAIROBI4421Charterhouse Bank and Money Laundering; Still Waiting for
[...] (C) Summary: The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) is fighting a rearguard legal battle to keep Charterhouse Bank temporarily closed in light of convincing evidence that the bank is little more than a money laundering machine. Beyond this, however, the GOK appears to be doing little to bring the cas [...]
2006-10-16 03:38:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKCOR KCRM PREF ECON EFIN KE
06NAIROBI4472AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - KENYA
[...] This message responds to ref A's request for updated information pertaining to Kenya's continued eligibility for trade preferences under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Country: KENYA Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: Population of 33.5 million in 2 [...]
2006-10-16 13:48:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDAGOA ECON ETRD KE
06NAIROBI4741Proposed Kuwaiti Investment in Kenya Looks Fishy
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kuwait's Al Bader International Development Company allegedly asked the Kenyan Government for exclusive rights to develop a port, airport, resort, and oil complex near Lamu on Kenya's north coast, but the project appears impractical. Post is concerned the proposal may instead be [...]
2006-11-05 12:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT EINV KCOR PTER KE KU
06NAIROBI494CORRUPTION IN KENYA: FINANCE MINISTER RESIGNS,
[...] (C) Summary: In an unprecedented move, Kenya's Finance Minister has resigned in response to the Anglo-Leasing and related revelations. In resigning, David Mwiraria asserted his innocence - a claim swiftly countered by John Githongo, the man whose dossier on high-level corruption and cover-up [...]
2006-02-02 12:30:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EFIN KCOR PGOV PREL KE
06NAIROBI5112GUNS, THUGS, AND POLITICS: INSECURITY IN KENYA
[...] (C) Summary: The recent attack on Kenya's top official responsible for security and the outbreak of gang violence in one Nairobi slum have focused national attention on what the government in a November 9 statement called the "recent upsurge in rape, house robberies, carjacking, and general [...]
2006-11-30 13:44:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PHUM KE
06NAIROBI5265U.S. FIRMS IN THE RACE TO BUILD A FIBER OPTIC CABLE IN EAST
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya and the rest of the East Coast of Africa are on the cusp of achieving interconnection to the worldwide web via undersea fiber optic cable. Two projects are racing to begin construction, and the leading contender, Seith East Africa, is 100% U.S.-owned. Moreover, Seith has [...]
2006-12-14 13:55:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS EFIN KE IN AE
06NAIROBI5299 USG HUMANITARIAN PLANNING FOR SOMALIA
[...] Fears of conflict between the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia and the Islamic Courts are growing. USG and other humanitarian organizations are working together on contingency planning efforts. These include developing scenarios (based on the assumption that non-combatants will be [...]
2006-12-19 13:19:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI PREF PREL SO
06NAIROBI5345 KENYA: 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) This is post's submission for the 2006 Country Report on Terrorism. Begin text: 2. (SBU) The government of Kenya continued to cooperate with the United States in identifying terrorist groups operating within Kenya. However, more work remains to be done in domestic areas such as law enf [...]
2006-12-22 10:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC EFIN KE
06NAIROBI5388 Ethnicity & Politics in Kenya: Part 1, The
[...] (SBU) Summary: A common Kenyan view of the colonial period holds that blatant favoritism by those in power on behalf of their own ethnic group was never more intense than in Kenya's first 68 years of its 111 year existence. Major political figures in today's Kenya were in their 30s at indepen [...]
2006-12-29 06:57:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KCOR KE
06NAIROBI633SOMALIA: PARLIAMENT STUMBLES TOWARD BAIDOA
[...] (C) The Somali President, Prime Minister, and Speaker of the Parliament gathered over the February 11 weekend to iron out their differences over holding the first-ever session of the Somali Parliament inside Somalia. Politicians from the Haber Gedir clan met the same weekend to seek an end to [...]
2006-02-13 09:59:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER EAID PREL MOPS ASEC KPAO SO KE
06NAIROBI72(S) INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRAFFICKING RING ENJOYS
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The absence of convictions in high-profile cocaine cases and the New Year's Eve murder of the lead police officer investigating drug trafficking through the Port of Mombasa (East Africa's regional maritime hub) amply demonstrate that international narcotics trafficking rings have [...]
2006-01-09 01:17:00Embassy NairobiSECRETSNAR PREL PINR KCRM PGOV KE
06NAIROBI817QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI
[...] (U) Summary. The following report replies to Ref B reinstitution of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications as well as cases of American [...]
2006-02-23 12:20:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
06NAIROBI920KENYA SUBMISSION FOR THE SIXTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Nairobi's submission for the Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP). Information is keyed to the format provided in reftel. 2. (SBU) STATUS AND EXTENT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN KENYA I. Overview A. Origin, Transit, and Destination Origin [...]
2006-03-01 10:28:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KE
06NAIROBI939MASKED GUNMEN STORM NEWSPAPER OFFICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A March 2 assault on a leading daily newspaper in Kenya, undertaken with the assistance of the police, marks a new low in the Kibaki administration,s respect for the rule of law. The &Standard8, despite its occasional editorial lapses, offers Kenyan readers hard-hitting investiga [...]
2006-03-02 10:13:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC KE
06NAIROBI945MASKED GUNMEN STORM NEWSPAPER OFFICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A March 2 assault on a leading daily newspaper in Kenya, undertaken with the assistance of the police, marks a new low in the Kibaki administration's respect for the rule of law. The "Standard", despite its occasional editorial lapses, offers Kenyan readers hard- hitting investiga [...]
2006-03-02 11:34:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC KE
06NAIROBI968 HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
[...] Summary: ------------ This is the first cable in response to reftel request for bi-weekly reports on the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa. It is formatted according to reftel guidelines. USAID Missions in Ethiopia and Djibouti contributed to this report. A regional humanitari [...]
2006-03-03 08:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDDY EAID ET PHUM PREF EGAD CENTCOM PRES ECON
06NAIROBI974INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CONDEMNS ATTACK ON PRESS
[...] (U) The pre-dawn March 2 Kenyan police commando-style raids on the Standard Media Group's headquarters, television transmission station, and printing plant, which resulted in the destruction of property, arrests and the burning of newspapers, and the disruption of newsprint and broadcasting op [...]
2006-03-03 12:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC KE
06NAPLES102LAGGING ECONOMY (MEANING JOBS) TOPS LIST OF VOTER CONCERNS
[...] Summary: The primary economic issue in Italy's Mezzogiorno is far and away that of "jobs". Unemployment has always run at higher levels in the South than in central and northern Italy, and southern voters are sure the current economic downturn has hit them the hardest. Parents, educators, p [...]
2006-03-29 15:47:00Consulate NaplesUNCLASSIFIEDIT PGOV ECON ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06NASSAU1312PRIME MINISTER AND AMBASSADOR REVIEW RELATIONS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a frank discussion in a one-on-one meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Christie expressed surprise at the Bahamian voting record in the U.N. and limited multilateral cooperation with the U.S. at the UN. The Prime Minister and Ambassador agreed that bilateral coop [...]
2006-08-28 22:36:00Embassy NassauCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR UNGA BF
06NASSAU1616RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD PARTNERSHIP FORGES
[...] Since its inception in December 2005, the Bahamas-Rhode Island National Guard State Partnership Program (SPP) has helped forge new avenues of cooperation between the United States and the Bahamas. These SPP initiatives have supplemented Embassy efforts to build local capacity and have helped [...]
2006-10-24 21:29:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS PHUM BF
06NASSAU1706CUBAN PROPAGANDA AND THE BAHAMIAN FRIENDS OF THE
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The Bahamian Friends of the Cuban Five -- a small group of leftist Bahamians with pro-Cuban sympathies -- has recently organized pro-Castro rallies and supported anti-U.S. propaganda in The Bahamas. The group, which is aided by the Cuban embassy in Nassau, has described Cuba [...]
2006-11-14 18:09:00Embassy NassauSECRETPREL PINR CU BF
06NASSAU1707UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE: BAHAMAS ASSESSING COUNTRY
[...] (C) Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel demarches to Foreign Minister Mitchell and MFA Permanent Secretary Rodgers, noting that the Secretary had asked that we convey strong U.S. opposition to the use of 'no action' motions to block UNGA consideration of human rights issues. He emphasized tha [...]
2006-11-14 18:41:00Embassy NassauCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA BF
06NASSAU1814BAHAMASAIR HEMORRHAGING CASH, NO LONGER FOR SALE
[...] (U) Speaking at a signing ceremony for a contract with middle-management, Bahamasair Chairman Basil Sands admitted that the government-owned airline lost approximately $18 million during fiscal 2006, slightly less than the estimated $20 million it lost during fiscal 2005. Sands' comments come [...]
2006-12-11 21:28:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBF EAIR ECON PGOV
06NASSAU442SCENESETTER FOR NASSAU CARICOM MINISTERIAL:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Secretary's March 21-22 meeting in Nassau with CARICOM foreign ministers offers an opportunity to frame a positive, forward-looking agenda for our relations with the Caribbean. With the Haitian elections behind us, the ministerial will allow us to reinvigorate our cooperation [...]
2006-03-14 21:10:00Embassy NassauCONFIDENTIALBF ECON ETRD OTRA PGOV PREL SNAR XL
06NASSAU612BAHAMAS BACKGROUND FOR CARICOM-USTR MEETING
[...] The Bahamas will be represented at CARICOM's April 12 meeting with USTR Portman by Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell and Leonard Archer, the Bahamian Ambassador to CARICOM. Background material on The Bahamas and Minister Mitchell follows. Economy is Small but Developed ----------------------- [...]
2006-04-06 20:27:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL BF
06NASSAU71BAHAMAS - CRIME STATISTICS AND TRENDS
[...] (SBU) Statistics from the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) just released show that during 2005 there has been a 10 per cent increase in serious crime recorded in Nassau, with increasing figures reported for murder, armed robbery, attempted robbery and unlawful sexual assaults. Serious crime ha [...]
2006-01-13 16:18:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC
06NASSAU862FM MITCHELL AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS HUMAN RIGHTS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell asked to meet with the Ambassador May 24 to coordinate management of mounting public concerns about sonar testing at the Atlantic Undersea Testing and Evaluation Center (AUTEC). During the meeting Mitchell also sought to defend The Bahamas' vote for [...]
2006-06-01 19:59:00Embassy NassauCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR KUNR CU BF
06NDJAMENA1112SENATOR OBAMA MEETS WITH PRESIDENT DEBY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Deby stressed to Senator Obama the negative impact that continued violence in Darfur would have on regional security, and expressed his support for a United Nations Peacekeeping operation to pave the way for the implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement. Deby also [...]
2006-09-06 16:04:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1183UNHCR'S SECURITY CONCERNS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNHCR still remains concerned that it will not have the capacity to cope with a refugee influx, and new IDP movements should violence in eastern Chad escalate after the end of the rainy season. Chadian government representatives are absent from a number of areas where UNHCR op [...]
2006-10-02 16:31:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA1281CHAD GENERAL KILLED IN AMBUSH BY REBELS
[...] (SBU) Summary: A leading Chadian general died of his wounds after being ambushed by the rebel group Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD). Government of Chad reports of Sudanese bombing in Chad's north eastern border region were contradicted by humanitarian groups on the ground [...]
2006-10-30 13:55:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1318NEW CHADIAN REBEL ALLIANCE--UFDD
[...] (C) Summary. Three Chadian rebel groups formed a new alliance in October 2006. According to its communique, the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) wants to organize transparent elections and abhors taking power by force. Nonetheless, it sent an armed column into central [...]
2006-11-09 07:11:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV RREL PINR CD SU
06NDJAMENA1334IDP CRISIS IN GOZ BEIDA
[...] (SBU) Goz Beida has become significantly more unstable as a result of attacks on villages which have produced a new wave of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Attempts to tally numbers of individuals and families are underway, but UNHCR staff from the town of Kou Kou-Angarana estimated that [...]
2006-11-15 16:21:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA1343CHADIAN REBEL GROUP UFDD ESTABLISHES POLITBURO
[...] In a communique dated November 12, 2006, the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) named its politburo. An informal translation follows: Quote Republic of Chad Political Military Opposition Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) After consultations amon [...]
2006-11-21 08:22:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINR CD
06NDJAMENA1380 CHADIAN ELECTIONS IN 2007
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Chadian government estimates that the 2006 com ================ The Election Request ================ 2. (U) In a letter dated October 5, 2006, Chadian Prime Minister Pasc 3. (U) Separate studies funded by the UNDP and the EU concluded that --a population c [...]
2006-11-30 10:10:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA1382 CHADIAN ELECTIONS IN 2007
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Chadian government estimates that the 2006 communal elections and the 2007 legislative elections will cost around $11.65 million; and it has requested financial assistance from the US, France, Germany, the European Union, and the United Nations Development Program. Th [...]
2006-11-30 18:13:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM CD
06NDJAMENA1444LULL IN CHAD REBEL ACTIVITY; GOC TRIES NEW TACK IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting between Chadian rebel forces and the Chadian Army (ANT) has subsided since December 18. Reports of a rapprochement between rebel FUC (United Front for Change) leader Mahamat Nour and President Deby providing for the integration of Nour forces into the ANT have not been [...]
2006-12-22 12:20:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREF PREL SU CD
06NDJAMENA210CHAD:DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST DANISH CARTOONS
[...] At approximately 0800 on February 11, 2006 a group of 3,000 Chadians gathered at the Grand Mosque, located approximately 2 miles from the U.S. Embassy, to protest the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. The group proceeded to the parade ground in front of the Presidential Palace [...]
2006-02-13 14:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASCR CD
06NDJAMENA336CHAD: MAVERICK OPPOSITIONIST UNDERLINES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition leader Yorongar, in a call on the Ambassador February 27, said that the opposition would never agree on a single candidate but, if (huge if) fair elections could be assured, Deby would lose to almost anyone. He cited recent rebel activity in the south as a further [...]
2006-03-01 16:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA351CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON A COORDINATED APPROACH
[...] (C) Summary: French Ambassador Bercot, saying he had been authorized by Paris to brainstorm with the Ambassador, volunteered a scenario March 3 (uncleared by his government),in which the U.S. and France would support and facilitate a graceful exit for President Deby. Under this scenario, [...]
2006-03-06 16:48:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NDJAMENA404CHAD: PRESIDENTIAL LETTER ON BORDER INSECURITY
[...] Embassy received March 13 a letter from President Deby to President Bush on border insecurity and rehatting. Original has been pouched to AF/C for transmittal to the White House. Following is Embassy unofficial translation. 2. Begin Text: Republic of Chad Presidency of the Republic T [...]
2006-03-13 15:28:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL CD SU
06NDJAMENA529CHAD: TAIWAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONVENES AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's Foreign Minister told the Ambassador April 9 that he was bringing his Africa ambassadors together in Ndjamena for a strategy session on how to cope with China's ratcheted-up efforts to expand influence in Africa and squeeze Taiwan out. Taiwan's assistance programs to [...]
2006-04-12 18:17:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CD
06NDJAMENA541CHAD: RUPTURE WITH SUDAN, THREAT ON REFUGEES, OIL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-15 13:48:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF CD SU
06NDJAMENA608CAR: BOZIZE WILL MEET CAR REBELS, ARCHBISHOP SAYS
[...] (U) The following cable was drafted by U.S. Embassy Bangui. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Archbishop of Bangui told Poloff on April 25 that the CAR rebel group Union of Republican Forces (UFR) and President Bozize recently agreed to meet and engage in a dialogue. Some issues remain, but the Archbish [...]
2006-04-28 14:51:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CT
06NDJAMENA612CHAD: ELECTION PREPARATIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Chadian presidential election campaign ends midnight on May 1, with elections scheduled for May 3. From the field of 5 original candidates it appears that only four remain. Opposition groups continue to call for a "ville morte" (dead city) on May 3 and for citizens to boycot [...]
2006-04-30 13:25:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KDEM PGOV CD
06NDJAMENA737CHAD: OPPOSITION MEMBERS HOPE U.S. WILL PLAY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During recent meetings two opposition leaders of the CPDC coalition reiterated that the May 3 presidential election was a farce and said it was "too late" to negotiate with President Idriss Deby Itno, at least without the significant involvement of and pressure from the interna [...]
2006-05-23 06:41:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EPET CD
06NDJAMENA747EQUIVOCAL MESSAGES ON DARFUR PEACE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Key Darfur interlocutors in N'djamena explained their reasons for dissatisfaction with the recently signed Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) in meetings with Ambassador Wall May 24 and 25. JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim poured venom on SLM leader Minni Minawi, whom he described as "dead [...]
2006-05-25 13:45:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SU CD
06NDJAMENA755DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT: TOUGH SELL IN REFUGEE CAMPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese refugees say they will support the Darfur Peace Agreement if Sudan Liberation Movement faction leader Abdelwahid Nur signs and their need for individual compensation are adequately met. From May 23 to 27, P/E officer traveled to six of twelve refugee camps to explain [...]
2006-05-30 06:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF ASEC CD SU
06NDJAMENA822CHAD TO CONSIDER SUPPORT FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] Post delivered June 9 reftel demarche diplomatic note regarding the candidature of Prof. Ruth Wedgwood for re-election to the UNHRC to Chad MFA North America Desk Officer Adoum Mahamat Yahya. Pol/Econ Officer stressed Prof. Wedgwood's qualifications, and provided her CV with the diplomatic no [...]
2006-06-09 12:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC CD
06NDJAMENA831PRESIDENT DEBY TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL: STOP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Deby made an impassioned plea for UN intervention in Darfur and along Chad's border in a meeting with members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) June 10. He accused Sudan of aggression against Chad and warned that Chad's collapse would spread chaos in the [...]
2006-06-12 15:31:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL CD SU
06NDJAMENA95CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON WORLD BANK AND DEBY
[...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging tour d'horizon, the French Ambassador in Chad defended President Deby as the only option for Chad, and affirmed that France would defend Chad's territorial integrity. France, according to Ambassador Bercot, is working to prevent Chad from becoming a failed sta [...]
2006-01-26 06:26:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL CD
06NEWDELHI1095CARTOONS: GOI ISSUES STATEMENT OF CONCERN, INDIAN
[...] (C) Summary: Indian Muslims joined in scattered protests against the Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad following Friday prayers on February 10. Most denounced the offensive cartoons, while a few directed their anger into either anti-US demonstrations (encouraged by the Iranian E [...]
2006-02-13 14:05:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SOCI KISL KDEM SCUL IN DA IR
06NEWDELHI1169NEW INDIAN MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS BACKS
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with newly appointed Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on February 14 to review plans for the President's visit, push for an Indian reply on our proposal for a democracy initiative (Ref B) and present the US appeal for further Indian assistance equ [...]
2006-02-15 12:50:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM UNSC PHUM PTER MARR MASS MOPS KNNP
06NEWDELHI1174PRESIDENT KALAM LOOKS FARTHER EAST FOR NEW
[...] (C) Summary: Giving new reach to India's "Look East" policy, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's January 31 to February 9 visit to Singapore, the Philippines and South Korea produced new education, defense and economic initiatives in a region whose importance to the GOI is growing steadily. Durin [...]
2006-02-15 14:27:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEAN ENRG KNNP ETRD ECON SOCI SCUL MASS
06NEWDELHI1220EXPANDED CSLA SCOPE IS BLOCKING AGREED PROGRESS IN
[...] (C) Summary: Approaching the President's visit to India, we need action by Washington principals in order to consolidate recent progress on civilian space cooperation and disentangle this from our trade agenda. The original NSSP goal to permit Indian launch of US satellites and foreign satel [...]
2006-02-16 11:01:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC ETRD KSCA TSPA KNNP IN OVIP POTUS
06NEWDELHI130FM ASO INVIGORATES THE INDO-JAPANESE RELATIONSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso's January 3-5 visit to New Delhi sent clear signals to the GOI that Tokyo wants to work past nuclear differences and build a closer strategic relationship with India. Within Japan, the Indians say, Aso has been a primary proponent of better ties [...]
2006-01-06 13:39:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP ECON ENRG EPET ETRD JA IN
06NEWDELHI1315MUSLIMS SQUARE OFF - AGAINST AND FOR THE POTUS
[...] (C) Summary: On February 21, influential Muslim leader Imam Bukhari of Old Delhi's Jama Mosque confirmed to Poloff that he had rejected overtures from anti-American leaders to support their "Bush go Back" campaign. Bukhari, who formerly supported anti-US campaigns, has moderated his views an [...]
2006-02-22 12:46:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR IAEA KNNP KISL KDEM SCUL IN
06NEWDELHI1318ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PROPOSED DELIVERABLE ON
[...] (U) This is an Action Request for PM -- see Para 5. 2. (SBU) National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) Joint Secretary Arvind Gupta and NSCS Deputy Director Cdr. Mukesh SIPDIS Saini on February 21 discussed with Poloff Reftel questions relating to Articles 1.2 (the joint Cybersecurit [...]
2006-02-22 12:53:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KCIP KCRM ECPS EFIN TINT IN
06NEWDELHI1320INDIA AND THE US ON NEPAL: STILL NO DAYLIGHT, WE
[...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran sought reassurance on February 22 that India and the US were still reading off the same page on Nepal policy, and underlined that India still sees the Maoist insurgency as the principle problem in Nepal. He requested USG action to convinc [...]
2006-02-22 14:01:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS IN NP PK
06NEWDELHI1321CHIRAC VISIT PUSHES US AGENDA ON CIVIL NUCLEAR
[...] (C) Summary: President Chirac's February 19-21 trip to New Delhi, which focused on political, economic, defense and energy cooperation, served as a preview for President Bush's upcoming visit. In a program and agenda very similar to our President's, the GOF made progress on "soft power" issue [...]
2006-02-22 14:35:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP FR IN
06NEWDELHI1395AHLUWALIA: INDIA RESPONSIBLE NUCLEAR POWER, FAVORS
[...] (C) Summary: The civil-nuclear deal continues to be a political "hot-button," but Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia stated to Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) on February 20 that the UPA Government supports the July 18 agreement and hopes a viable separation p [...]
2006-02-24 14:13:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALMNUC PREL ENRG EPET OVIP IR IN
06NEWDELHI1396POSITIVE BURNS-SHARMA FEBRUARY 24 MEETING FOCUSES
[...] (C) Summary: The February 24 meeting between Under Secretary for Political Affairs Burns and Indian Minister of SIPDIS State for External Affairs Anand Sharma reflected important GOI political endorsement of the positive direction of our bilateral relationship. Sharma, well-versed in the w [...]
2006-02-24 14:48:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG KNNP OVIP CVIS EINV ENLT KFLU TBIO
06NEWDELHI1445KASHMIRIS SPOIL PM'S DELHI DIALOGUE BUT INDIA
[...] (C) Summary: The Prime Minister continues to try to implement his vision of reconciliation in Kashmir, despite much political turbulence there and criticism from the BJP. PM Singh's February 25 roundtable on Kashmir attracted mainstream politicians, academics, and intellectuals, but none of t [...]
2006-02-27 15:16:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PHUM PBTS KISL IN PK IZ
06NEWDELHI161D/NSA SUPPORTS INTEL SHARING ON TERRORISM; SAYS
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 9 meeting with the DCM (other topics reported Septel),Deputy NSA Vijay Nambiar pledged to seek the NSA's approval for greater intelligence sharing on terrorism threats within India, particularly as the upswing in USG official visits and US investment increases the p [...]
2006-01-09 13:53:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV EFIN OVIP PINR ASEC ENRG MNUC
06NEWDELHI1660RAJASTHAN GOVERNMENT QUELLS HARASSMENT OF EMMANUEL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Local press recently reported that Hindu activists had attacked churches, hospitals and schools associated with the Emmanuel Ministries (EM) in Rajasthan, and blocked its employees from entering a hospital and orphanage. Embassy contacts in Rajasthan acknowledged that Hindu ac [...]
2006-03-09 13:37:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KIRF KDEM PGOV SCUL CASC IN
06NEWDELHI1699INDIA AND AUSTRALIA SEEING EACH OTHER IN A NEW
[...] (C) Summary: Australian Prime Minister John Howard on March 9 concluded a successful four-day visit to Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai and signed six agreements on a range of issues, including a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Defense Cooperation that will bury lingering Indo-Australian suspic [...]
2006-03-10 14:58:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS ENRG ECON ETRD MNUC TRGY TSPL ASEAN
06NEWDELHI1738GOI HOPES FOR RESPONSE ON UN DEMOCRACY FUND
[...] (U) This message contains an ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 7. 2. (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Sanjiv Arora told PolCouns and Poloff on March 13 that India is awaiting a US response to its proposal to set up a New Delhi office of the UN Democracy Fund. The GOI also l [...]
2006-03-13 13:48:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM IN
06NEWDELHI1806PRESIDENT KALAM IN BURMA: BALANCING REALPOLITIK WITH HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-16 11:15:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALASEAN BM ECON ELAB ENRG EPET KDEM PHUM PREL
06NEWDELHI1814GOI MOVING DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE FORWARD
[...] (C) The Charge, accompanied by PolCouns and Poloff, called on Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on March 16 to further our discussion on democracy initiatives. Charge explained USG reservations regarding the initial GOI proposal to establish a New Delhi office of the UN Dem [...]
2006-03-16 12:43:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV IN
06NEWDELHI1818LONG-SIMMERING PROPERTY DISPUTE AT HEART OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although the Emmanuel Mission (EM) case has aroused considerable controversy in the press, the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly and the Lok Sabha (Parliament),it is not likely to be resolved quickly. There are powerful vested property-interests on both sides of the dispute. Co [...]
2006-03-16 13:13:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KIRF KDEM PGOV SCUL CASC IN
06NEWDELHI1850GOI HOPING FOR POSITIVE BANGLADESH PM VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: Bangladesh Prime Minister Zia's March 20-23 visit to New Delhi, reciprocating Prime Minister Singh's visit to Dhaka in November 2005, reflects in large part Singh's sustained efforts and desire to ease long-standing bilateral tensions. Zia is expected to attend a ceremonial rece [...]
2006-03-17 12:16:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ETRD PTER EINV PBTS IN BD
06NEWDELHI1854SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BOND
[...] (SBU) Senator Bond, your delegation's 22-23 March visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating India-US relationship on the heels of President Bush's historic summit and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After forty years of mutual indiffe [...]
2006-03-17 14:25:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM INCB IN
06NEWDELHI20SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTERT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Speaker Hastert, your delegation's upcoming visit to India on January 10-13 provides a significant opportunity to advance the burgeoning India/US relationship. After forty years of drift during the Cold War, the US and India are making up for lost time. Thanks to the energy a [...]
2006-01-03 12:49:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM PK INCB IR
06NEWDELHI2090PM'S OLIVE BRANCH TO PAK: BUREAUCRACY, PUNDITS SEE
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh's speech launching the bus service to Nankana Sahib from Amritsar on March 24 continued his efforts to push rapprochement with Pakistan, but Singh still faces resistance from skeptical Indo-Pak watchers in India and his own bureaucracy. Singh's speech was no [...]
2006-03-27 12:35:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV IN PK
06NEWDELHI2172INDIA WILL SUPPORT OUR INCB CANDIDATE IF WE
[...] (SBU) After PolCouns raised reftel points regarding the nomination of Ambassador Levitsky for re-election to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) on March 29, MEA Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Manjeev Puri responded that India would be pleased to support the US candidat [...]
2006-03-30 12:48:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR AORC PREL UN IN
06NEWDELHI2173GOI PRIVATELY MAINTAINING PRESSURE TO DEMOCRATIZE
[...] (C) Summary: MEA Burma watcher Mohan Kumar told PolCouns March 30 that the GOI is continuing privately to push the military regime in Burma to pursue democratic reforms. Kumar elaborated on President Kalam's visit to Burma earlier this month, and indicated that discussions on democracy figur [...]
2006-03-30 13:59:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM BM IN
06NEWDELHI2226INDIA RE-STATES ITS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL MANTRA
[...] (C) Summary: MEA's UN Joint Secretary Manjiv Puri was sanguine about the as-yet unaddressed flaws in the new Human Rights Council, arguing that the need to stand for election in the General Assembly would bar the worst human rights violators from the Council. India and the US have different approac [...]
2006-03-31 12:44:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KUNR KDEM UN IN
06NEWDELHI2229GOI GETS GOOD ATMOSPHERICS BUT LITTLE SUBSTANCE
[...] (C) Summary: The GOI went to great lengths to cast a positive glow over Bangladesh Prime Minister Zia's March 20-22 visit to New Delhi in an effort to improve the tone of the bilateral relationship. Our MEA contacts lamented that this positive turn-around came just in time for Zia's lame duc [...]
2006-03-31 13:37:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EINV ETRD ENRG EPET IN BG
06NEWDELHI2231SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HAGEL
[...] (SBU) Senator Hagel, your delegation's 8-12 April visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating transformation of the India-US relationship following President Bush's historic March 1-3 meeting and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After fo [...]
2006-03-31 15:07:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM INCB PTER
06NEWDELHI2255SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTERT
[...] (SBU) Speaker Hastert, your delegation's 9-12 April visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating transformation of the US-India relationship following President Bush's historic March 1-3 meeting and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After [...]
2006-04-03 13:18:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM PTER ECON
06NEWDELHI2323INDIA GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SAARC
[...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and Poloff's April 4 introductory call on Preeti Saran, the new MEA Joint Secretary for SAARC, revealed an element in the GOI that is generally upbeat about SAARC's potential to improve regional cooperation, in line with Prime Minister Singh's long-term vision of Indian [...]
2006-04-05 14:03:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD ENRG ECIN EAID IN AF BG BT
06NEWDELHI2363SIX ALLEGED VARANASI TERRORISTS ARRESTED
[...] (U) Uttar Predesh police on April 5 announced the arrests of six alleged terrorists they say were behind the March 7 twin bomb blasts in Varanasi (Reftel). The press reports -- many of which were un-bylined, a possible sign they came from an Intelligence Bureau or Research and Analysis Wing s [...]
2006-04-07 12:42:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV PHUM IN PK
06NEWDELHI2365KASHMIRI SEPARATISTS LACK CLEAR AIM BUT TERRORISTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Meetings in Srinagar with Kashmiri separatists reveal a group that lacks consensus and is divided by a leadership squabble over how to respond to Prime Minister Singh's launch of a roundtable dialogue process. Most expect to boycott the PM's planned May roundtable in J&K and are [...]
2006-04-07 13:57:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV KDEM PBTS KISL PHUM ECON ASEC
06NEWDELHI2496MEA PROVIDES A/S BOUCHER WITH TOUR D'HORIZON OF
[...] (C) Summary: Over an April 7 lunch, MEA regional Joint Secretaries provided Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher with SIPDIS a review of India's relations with its neighbors in South and Central Asia. Boucher probed them specifically on Nepal, Pakistan (including Kashmir),Afghanistan, Cent [...]
2006-04-13 06:09:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ENRG ETRD PBTS MOPS ELTN EPET KDEM
06NEWDELHI2529RAJASTHAN'S CHIEF MINISTER TELLS SPEAKER HASTERT
[...] (C) In an otherwise cordial April 10 courtesy call with Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and seven accompanying Congressman, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje expressed genuine anger at the activities of Christian missionaries in her state and provided a spirited defense of the rece [...]
2006-04-13 12:08:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR KIRF KDEM SCUL CASC IN
06NEWDELHI2536PM ASKS SEN HAGEL FOR HELP PASSING CIVIL NUKE
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an April 10 meeting in Delhi with Senator Chuck Hagel asked for "Congressional blessings" for the US-India civil nuclear deal. He outlined to the Senator the importance of the deal to India's burgeoning economy, and made the case that India is a [...]
2006-04-14 10:18:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY BEXP EFIN
06NEWDELHI2587SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 19 US-INDIA CT JOINT WORKING
[...] (C) Summary: The US-India counterterrorism dialogue reflects our shared values and encompasses the range of CT issues in South Asia. New Delhi focuses on combating jihadi terrorism launched from Pakistan, which complicates USG efforts to engage Delhi in a more vibrant intelligence dialogue without [...]
2006-04-18 07:08:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPTER PGOV PINR PREL PINS MASS KJUS KTIA TBIO
06NEWDELHI264CODEL KERRY PROBES FOR AN INDIAN BOTTOM LINE ON
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 meeting with visiting Senator John Kerry, Prime Minister Singh underlined India's intention to fulfill the terms of the July 18 civil nuclear understanding, but rebuffed the Senator's effort to explore enhancements to the deal that might help to minimize Congressio [...]
2006-01-12 11:59:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP ENRG PTER ECON IR PK CH IN
06NEWDELHI2706INDO-PAK ON THE RIGHT TRACK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Seen from Delhi, Indo-Pak engagement seems to keep going strong, with the PM planning what he hopes will be a May or July trip to Pakistan that will be heavy on substantive achievement. In addition, India has made an important water concession to Pakistan and highly placed sourc [...]
2006-04-21 13:31:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS KDEM PHUM PTER ECON EWWT IN PK
06NEWDELHI2790NEW DELHI ADAPTING TO CRITICISM AS NEPAL SITUATION
[...] (C) Summary: The GOI issued a strong statement of support for the "Nepalese people" on April 25, after widespread criticism over its Nepal policies including former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh on April 24 who assailed India's Nepal policy as "masterly inactivity" that "let down the people of [...]
2006-04-25 14:00:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV KDEM IN NP
06NEWDELHI2919POST ASSESSMENT: CHEEMA UNLIKELY TO FACE TORTURE
[...] (U) This is a corrected copy, with changes throughout. 2. (SBU) Summary: As with the pending case involving Kulbir Singh Barapind (Ref A),Post's assessment is that the law enforcement climate in India, and specifically in Punjab, has dramaticalhy improved since Harpal Singh Cheema ("Cheem [...]
2006-04-28 13:30:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PHUM PGOV IN
06NEWDELHI294NSA NARAYANAN MULLS SENATOR KERRY'S SUGGESTIONS ON
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 meeting with visiting Senator John Kerry that focused exclusively on the civil nuclear agreement and nuclear non-proliferation, NSA MK Narayanan reiterated the GOI's support for its draft separation plan, and allowed that New Delhi "will not backtrack" on obligati [...]
2006-01-14 09:30:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG MNUC KNNP SENV PTER IN PK CH
06NEWDELHI2967INDIA STRENGTHENS RESOLVE IN AFGHANISTAN DESPITE
[...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for SCA and PA. Please see Para 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Following the Taliban's decapitation of an Indian mobile phone network engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan, Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran made a thinly veiled reference to Pakistani support for the T [...]
2006-05-01 14:00:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS EAID IN PK
06NEWDELHI2998TERRORISTS MASSACRE 35 HINDUS IN J&K AFTER
[...] (U) This is an Action Request for PA and SCA. Please see Para 18. 2. (C) Summary: Terrorism raised its ugly head in J&K twice, after April 30 and May 1 attacks in Jammu left over 35 Hindus dead in an attempt to fan the flames of religious hatred and spoil the atmosphere before PM Singh m [...]
2006-05-02 13:13:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM PBTS KISL IN
06NEWDELHI3006GOI RESPONSE POSITIVE TO UN DEMOCRACY FUND
[...] (C) In a May 2 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (United Nations/Political) Sanjiv Arora said that the GOI plans actively to promote the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF, Ref A) to Indian NGOs and civil society organizations, including via the MEA's Internet site, and to facilitat [...]
2006-05-03 07:40:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNGA KUNR IN AF KG
06NEWDELHI3130HURRIYAT UPBEAT ABOUT MEETING WITH PM SINGH AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The moderate separatist Kashmiri Hurriyat led by Mirwaiz Omar Farooq was quite pleased with their May 3 meeting with Indian PM Singh and his commitment to dialogue on the full range of Jammu and Kashmir issues and to improved human rights. The Hurriyat are also gearing up to begin [...]
2006-05-05 14:49:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PBTS PINR KDEM PHUM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI317GOI PREFERS BILATERAL GOVERNMENT MECHANISM ON
[...] (S) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Hamid Ali Rao told PolCouns on January 17 that the GOI is uncomfortable with the direct communication between our Consulate in Mumbai and the Sabero company, and requested that we instead use a bilateral government mech [...]
2006-01-17 14:04:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPARM PREL CBW ETTC MTCRE IR IN
06NEWDELHI3266SRI LANKAN ENVOY URGES INDIAN ENGAGEMENT, BUT
[...] (C) Summary: Sri Lanka's visiting Foreign Minister has requested India's help to resume peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),while concurrently seeking India's assistance to choke LTTE's financial and logistical resources. Despite Sri Lanka's request, domestic politic [...]
2006-05-11 12:12:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV MASS IN
06NEWDELHI3334MEA POSITIVE ON PAK, AFGHANISTAN, TURKMENISTAN,
[...] (C) Summary: A senior MEA official told us Indo-Pak people-to-people links continue to proliferate, with a recent Pakistan Peoples' Party delegation visiting India and the prospect of a PM Singh visit to Pakistan this summer. The Composite Dialogue continues, with some hope for a tangible d [...]
2006-05-15 09:20:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL MOPS EPET EAID PBTS PINR ENRG EWWT
06NEWDELHI3466WHY IT'S TOUGH FOR INDIA TO CLIMB DOWN FROM SIACHEN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-18 12:12:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALIN MOPS PBTS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER
06NEWDELHI3471CONGRESS SHOOTS ITSELF BY REVIVING THE CASTE QUOTA
[...] (C) Summary. The Congress party needlessly set off a political firestorm by proposing a bill to add a 27 percent quota for "other backward castes (OBCs)" in public higher education institutions. OBCs are castes that do not face traditional discrimination but have been determined to be "econo [...]
2006-05-18 12:50:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO IN
06NEWDELHI3582INDIA SEEKS TO PROTECT POSTAL SERVICES FROM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Communist labor unions boast 600,000 members in the public sector postal department and the UPA government cannot remain in power without Communist support. In a demonstration of the fetters that the Communists can maintain over UPA economic policy, the Congress-dominated UPA [...]
2006-05-23 12:47:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ELAB PGOV EINV PREL EFIN ETRD IN
06NEWDELHI3583CONGRESS FARES BADLY IN SPECIAL SESSION OF
[...] (C) Summary. Congress ineptitude and a predilection for scoring "own goals" on domestic policy turned what should have been a routine wrap-up session of Parliament into an embarrassment for the UPA that has left the Prime Minister's political stock in the doldrums. Congress convened the May [...]
2006-05-23 13:06:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PARM MNUC ENRG PINR MARR IN
06NEWDELHI3611EMBASSY AND MEA HOLD PRODUCTIVE, FOCUSED CTJWG
[...] (U) This is an Action Request for SCA and S/CT. Please see Para 17. 2. (C) Summary: The DCM and key Embassy interlocutors on counterterrorism issues (see Paras 21-22) on May 19 reviewed with MEA Additional Secretary (International Organizations) KC Singh action items that emerged from the April 19 [...]
2006-05-24 10:28:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPTER EFIN TBIO PREL PINS SCUL KCIP ASEC EAIR
06NEWDELHI397PM SINGH EMPHASIZES MUTUAL BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told visiting US Representative Paul Gillmor (R-OH) and his delegation January 13, 2006 that the future of US-India relations was extremely promising, that India and America shared common values, that both would benefit from successful passage of l [...]
2006-01-19 15:19:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MNUC ENRG PTER ETRD EINV KDEM OVIP
06NEWDELHI3997INDIA BEHIND ON BIOTERROR PREPARATIONS BUT TAKING
[...] (C) Summary: The GOI regards a bioterrorism attack as an event of such low probability that the potential impact does not register high on New Delhi's agenda. We have no reason to believe terrorist organizations operating in India have access to pathogens at this time; also, bioterrorism is inconsi [...]
2006-06-08 12:05:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV TBIO PINS KSCA PINR EAIR SENV
06NEWDELHI4200CONGRESS ON THE DEFENSIVE WITHIN ITS COALITION
[...] (C) Summary: Congress is feeling increasingly isolated, as regional parties nominally part of the UPA openly join BJP and Left Front (LF) protests against the recent petroleum product price hikes. The Prime Minister on June 7 asked the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MPNG),s Secretary [...]
2006-06-15 11:41:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON EINV EFIN ELAB EPET ENRG IN
06NEWDELHI4202RUMORS OF A THIRD FRONT YET AGAIN MAKE THE ROUNDS
[...] Summary: Congress MP and insider Rashid Alvi told us on June 12 that the party inner circle is concerned that untrustworthy regional allies could defect to the NDA and perhaps make a move to unseat the UPA before the next session of Parliament (currently scheduled for the third week in July). [...]
2006-06-15 12:02:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KISL ECON EINV SCUL PREL IN
06NEWDELHI4254MEA AWAITING CENTRAL ASIAN ENERGY TRADE
[...] (C) Summary: USAID South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy (SARI/E) regional coordinator delivered ref A demarche to the GOI Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary for Eurasia Jaimini Bhagwati, who was generally supportive of all trade initiatives but cautious about the prospects [...]
2006-06-16 12:17:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID EINV ENRG EPET ETRD IN PGOV
06NEWDELHI4283BARAPIND EXTRADITION COMPLETE
[...] (SBU) At DRL's request, PolOffs witnessed immigration officials admit Kulbir Singh Barapind to India at Indira Gandhi International Airport on June 18, and his hand over to officers of the Punjab Police Force. Barapind told PolOff that he had been well cared for, was not concerned for his sa [...]
2006-06-19 10:55:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPHUM CJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PGOV IN
06NEWDELHI4406BARAPIND SATISFIED WITH HIS CONDITIONS
[...] (U) This is an action request for DRL. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: Extradited terrorism suspect Kulbir Singh Barapind told PolOff and PolFSN that he has not been mistreated by the Punjab Police and is fully satisfied with the medical care the Punjab authorities are providing. H [...]
2006-06-22 12:35:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM CJAN PTER PREL KCRM PGOV IN
06NEWDELHI4667STAGED ENCOUNTERS A BLEMISH ON INDIAN CT, LAW
[...] (SBU) Summary: A review of Indian media would suggest that police, military and paramilitary officers have become expert at intercepting terrorists and at killing them in self-defense. Scratch the surface, however, and what lies underneath is an "encounter killing" -- an extrajudicial execut [...]
2006-07-03 13:27:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM IN
06NEWDELHI4826US/GOI COUNTER TERRORISM COOPERATION MAY SUFFER FROM ALLEGED SPY SCANDAL
[...] (C) MEA Additional Secretary (International Organizations) K.C. Singh used a July 7 meeting with the DCM to raise the recent Indian press allegations (primarily in the ""Indian Express"") that a US diplomat used our Cybersecurity Forum to recruit officers in India's National Security Council Secret [...]
2006-07-10 14:06:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER KCIP PINR IN
06NEWDELHI4928J&K CROSS-SECTION AGREES, EVERYTHING SLIPPING
[...] (C) Summary: July 5-8 meetings in Srinagar and Jammu with a cross-section of journalists, police officials, NGO activists, businesspeople, and politicians from most major J&K parties demonstrated to Poloff and PolFSN that our J&K interlocutors are united as never before in their assessment th [...]
2006-07-13 10:15:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL CASC PHUM PBTS SCUL SOCI PREF
06NEWDELHI512UNDERSECRETARY BURNS AND FS SARAN DISCUSS NEXT
[...] (C) Summary: Undersecretary Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Saran reviewed ten potential deliverables for the SIPDIS President's visit during a January 20 working lunch. In a meeting later that day, U/S Burns stressed to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia that I [...]
2006-01-25 05:44:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL EAGR PGOV PINR ENRG PHUM PTER SCOI IN
06NEWDELHI5133WHY AL-QA'IDA WOULD HAVE DIFFICULTY GAINING
[...] (SBU) Summary: We -- and many of our contacts -- are skeptical about the July 13 telephone claim by a man calling himself "al-Qa'ida's Kashmir spokesman Abu Hadeed" to Current News Service in Srinagar -- our J&K journalist contacts say terrorist groups regularly use CNS to distribute their me [...]
2006-07-21 06:41:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL SCUL IN PK
06NEWDELHI5135INDIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD: ADVISING
[...] (C) Summary: The National Security Advisory Board -- populated by civilians, but supported by the GOI National Security Council Secretariat -- is a little-discussed institution designed to provide creative long-term assessments to the National Security Advisor, and through him to the Cabinet [...]
2006-07-21 07:22:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR IN
06NEWDELHI5136INDIA'S NSCS: PROFESSIONALS IN A "BUREAUCRATIC
[...] (C) Summary: India's National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) was a little-known institution until a SIPDIS recent series of "Indian Express" articles alleged that several of its employees were involved in a spy ring (Ref A). From collating intelligence inputs to supporting National S [...]
2006-07-21 07:29:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PINR IN
06NEWDELHI5239PURPORTED "INDIA'S MOST WANTED" LIST EXPANDS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the Indo-Pak Composite Dialogue talks on Terrorism and Narcotics Trafficking on May 30 in Islamabad, Home Secretary VK Duggal and his Pakistani counterpart Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah exchanged their countries' "most wanted" lists of fugitives each capital seeks e [...]
2006-07-26 08:58:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV PINR KCRM IN PK
06NEWDELHI5470INDIAN MUSLIM RESENTMENT SMOLDERING OVER LEBANON AND GAZA
[...] (C) Summary: Events in Lebanon and Gaza have attracted considerable attention in India, but are of particular concern to the country's 130 million Muslims. The Urdu press has treated Lebanon/Gaza events in great detail. Editorial opinion --some planted by Iranian agents-- is uniformly anti-Isra [...]
2006-08-04 09:15:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KISL SCUL EINV IN
06NEWDELHI5495A GARRULOUS SONIA GANDHI OPENS UP TO MARIA SHRIVER
[...] (C) Summary: In a relaxed August 3 conversation with California first lady Maria Shriver, Sonia Gandhi revealed a rare glimpse of herself. Usually withdrawn and reserved in public, she spoke at great length and radiated confidence on women's' issues and some aspects of her private life. Mrs. Gandhi [...]
2006-08-04 13:17:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM SCUL KWMN PINS IN
06NEWDELHI554MEA UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK DESPITE PUNDITS' NAYSAYING
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 25 meeting with PolCouns, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha provided a positive read-out of the January 17-18 Third Round of the Indo-Pak Composite Dialogue talks, and of Indo-Pak relations generally, despite the pall cast by the cross-bo [...]
2006-01-25 13:33:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ETRD ELTN MOPS KNNP IN PK
06NEWDELHI556JEHADI TERRORISM STALKS INDIA'S TIES WITH AMERICA
[...] (C) Summary: India enters the new year under the continued threat of jehadi terrorist attacks that could harm American interests and negatively affect Indo-Pak relations. The nature and scope of terrorist attacks launched by jehadi groups, particularly Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT),ev [...]
2006-01-25 14:18:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV PINR ASEC KISL IN PK
06NEWDELHI5609A/S BOUCHER AND FOREIGN SECRETARY SARAN TALK
[...] (S) Summary. In an August 7 meeting between A/S Boucher and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, A/S Boucher: -- told Saran that the U.S. is committed to maintaining the spirit of the civil-nuclear deal as agreed on July 18; and -- explained concrete steps the U.S. has taken against Pakistani t [...]
2006-08-11 10:29:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PINR PARM KNNP AORC UN NP PK
06NEWDELHI583GOI PROMISES MILITARY SUPPORT TO SRI LANKA AND
[...] (C) Summary: During U/S Burns' January 21 consultations on regional issues, the GOI relayed its concerns over the increasingly possible return to war in Sri Lanka and the conflict between the need for Iranian gas and the looming crisis over Tehran's nuclear program. Indian Foreign Secretary [...]
2006-01-27 08:41:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MOPS ENRG EPET IR CE IN
06NEWDELHI5962BIODATA: DIXIT, SHEILA (DELHI CHIEF MINISTER)
[...] (C) Chief Minister, Sheila Dixit has been the Chief Minister of Delhi since 1998. Her second term began in December 2003. Dixit is a Punjabi Hindu, a dominant political bloc in the capital, has remained close to the Gandhi dynasty, and remains a key political advisor to Congress Party Presid [...]
2006-08-28 11:57:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV PREL KWMN IN
06NEWDELHI6133THE PM PICKS A WINNER: SHIV SHANKAR MENON TO BE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 31 announcement that seasoned diplomat Shiv Shankar Menon will succeed Shyam Saran as Foreign Secretary with Saran moving to a newly-created post as the PM's Special Envoy for the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Deal represents not only a domestic coup for PM Singh, but also bod [...]
2006-09-01 12:49:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI6230NSA NARAYANAN SUGGESTS SARAN-BURNS MEETING AS
[...] (C) Summary. In a September 6 meeting with National Security Advisor Narayanan, Ambassador Mulford urged India to re-engage in negotiations on the 123 Agreement. Narayanan would not commit India to doing so, but offered as a sign of India's engagement to send Foreign Secretary Saran to meet [...]
2006-09-06 15:44:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
06NEWDELHI6298INDIA'S ROLE IN NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: India may attempt to transform its role to that of a "bridge power" between the developed North and the impoverished South during the upcoming NAM Summit in Havana. In the context of considerable public and internal GOI debate about the utility of NAM and India's proper place in t [...]
2006-09-08 13:38:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON ECIN IN
06NEWDELHI6520INDIA, US "CONVERGE" ON SRI LANKA, LESS ON
[...] (C) Summary. In a September 18 courtesy call, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary Mohan Kumar told PolCouns: -- India and the U.S. have a "broad convergence" of interests on Sri Lanka; -- India continues to tell the GSL that there can be no military solution to the conflict, [...]
2006-09-19 10:26:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM CE BG IN
06NEWDELHI657UPA CABINET SHUFFLE GOOD FOR AMERICA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 13:24:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL ECON ENRG EPET EMIN EAID MASS
06NEWDELHI6582INDIA KEEPING AN EYE OPEN FOR OPPORTUNITIES IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Joint Secretary for Eurasia Jaimini Bhagwati argued that India's role as an observer in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a useful opportunity to help the organization set reasonable priorities. Bhagwati expressed interest in cooperating with the U.S. on techni [...]
2006-09-21 12:06:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KISL MARR AF UZ TI TX KZ KG
06NEWDELHI6583DELHI STRIKES: 4 DEAD; CONGRESS LEADERSHIP
[...] (U) On September 20, four people died in clashes between police and protesters during a "bandh," or general strike the Trader's Association ordered in Delhi. The Trader's Association ordered the strikes in response to action taken by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to fulfill a Supreme Cou [...]
2006-09-21 12:10:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PINR ELAB IN
06NEWDELHI659FS SARAN DISMISSES ANONYMOUS PRESS CLAIMS THAT
[...] (C) Foreign Secretary Saran dismissed anonymously-sourced press reports that India would abstain in the upcoming February 2 IAEA BOG vote on Iran (other topics reported septel) when he met the Ambassador on January 30. Saran showed surprise when the Ambassador described the Reuters report in [...]
2006-01-30 13:52:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALMNUC PREL ENRG EPET IR IN
06NEWDELHI6770INDIA WELCOMES COORDINATION WITH US AS IT PURSUES
[...] SUMMARY: India's senior foreign ministry official charged with managing relations with Asia, Ashok Khanta, unofficially expressed interest in pursuing a four-party dialogue with the US, Japan, and Australia with a focus on regional issues including maritime security, science and technology c [...]
2006-09-28 12:15:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR AORC EAID EIND MOPS OVIP PHSA
06NEWDELHI6886PRIME MINISTER COUP IN POLITICAL BATTLE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-05 08:21:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALOTRA PGOV PHUM PREL ECON PINR SOCI IN
06NEWDELHI7095INDIA'S SRI LANKA POLICY DESCRIBED AS DECISIVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 27 September roundtable discussion on India-Sri Lanka relations, the consensus among prominent journalists and think-tankers was that the GOI should pursue a Track II dialogue with the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) in three phases: achieve a sustainable cease-fire agreement [...]
2006-10-16 01:12:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER IN CE
06NEWDELHI7274INDIA'S LATEST DEFENSE SCANDAL: FEW LONG-TERM
[...] (C) Summary. Former NDA Defense Minister George Fernandes was accused on October 10 of receiving bribes in a 2000 defense procurement contract for Barak missiles from Israel. The scandal revived memories of last year's Denel affair, where a South African company was blacklisted and all outsta [...]
2006-10-20 13:02:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS KCRM ECON IN
06NEWDELHI7305INDIA'S TAMIL-BASED PARTIES RELUCTANT TO EXPEND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Citing lingering ill feelings over the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, the embarrassment caused by the hasty withdrawal of Indian peacekeeping force deployed to Sri Lanka from 1987-1990, and the unpredictability of the LTTE,leaders of Tamil Na [...]
2006-10-23 12:48:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PREF IN CE
06NEWDELHI7358A.K. ANTONY NAMED MINISTER OF DEFENSE
[...] (U) In an October 23 cabinet reshuffle, President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam named Former Chief Minister of Kerala A.K. Antony Minister of Defense. See paragraphs 3-7 for biographical information on Antony. 2. (C) Our sources tell us that Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi and PM Singh [...]
2006-10-26 13:07:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR IN
06NEWDELHI7466GOI ON THE SAME PAGE REGARDING SRI LANKA, MINOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: India's newly appointed Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee stated on October 30 that it is in India's interest to work with Bangladesh to curb terrorism. While monitoring Bangladesh's deteriorating security situation, Mukherjee noted the current political crisis is an "internal ma [...]
2006-10-31 09:49:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER IN CE
06NEWDELHI7514INDIA STRONGLY DENIES HOWITZER SALES TO BURMA, BUT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy contacts have confirmed press reports that India has supplied Burma 105 mm Howitzers and associated equipment. However, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) denied that any such deals had transpired. India's rationale for supplying weapons to the junta is ostensibly [...]
2006-11-02 07:59:00Embassy New DelhiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER MOPS MARR BM IN
06NEWDELHI7577DECADES OF CORRUPTION LEADS TO URBAN CHAOS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since 1962, shopkeepers aided by corrupt civil servants in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have ignored New Delhi's Master plan and illegally constructed over 50,000 shops in residential zones. After residents, angered by the i [...]
2006-11-03 12:08:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ECON EINV PINR IN
06NEWDELHI759U/S DOBRIANSKY DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN
[...] (C) As part of the February 1 Global Issues Forum, U/S Dobriansky met with Foreign Secretary Saran to discuss initiatives to promote democracy and human rights with India, including presidential deliverables, the UN Deeocracy Fund and UN Human Rights Commission reform. U/S Dobriansky opened [...]
2006-02-02 14:19:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM UNSC PHUM PTER AF HU JP IZ IN
06NEWDELHI761INDO-US GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM REVIEWS PRM/TIP ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: A US delegation led by Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky discussed Bhutanese and Tibetan refugees, trafficking in persons, and forced labor with the Indian delegation headed by Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran at the Global Issues Forum in New Delhi [...]
2006-02-03 03:05:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF ELAB PHUM IN NP BT
06NEWDELHI7725INDIA STILL TESTING THE WATERS IN TAJIKISTAN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In a recent visit to Dushanbe, New Delhi PolOff met with MFA and Ministry of Energy officials and local diplomats to explore Indo-Tajik relations. Indian rehabilitation and construction efforts include a small hydropower project, construction of a tunnel, rehabilitation of the a [...]
2006-11-09 13:44:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PBTS ECIN ENRG SNAR TI IN
06NEWDELHI7759BOUCHER DISCUSSES NUCLEAR TALKS, BILATERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Reflecting the rapid maturation and quickly broadening scope of US-India strategic coordination, visiting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Subramanyam Jaishankar discussed the o [...]
2006-11-13 10:55:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI7764BAD VIBES BEFORE HU JINTAO'S INDIA VISIT?
[...] SUMMARY: (C) China's presidential visit to India may not culminate in any major breakthroughs in Sino-Indian relations. Despite Chinese claims that a momentous announcement will be made during President Hu's possible address to a joint session of the Indian Parliament on his upcoming visi [...]
2006-11-14 01:26:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PBTS IN CH
06NEWDELHI7767BOUCHER AND MENON TOUR D'HORIZON: PAKISTAN,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Secretary Menon told Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher SIPDIS and Ambassador Mulford in a Nov. 10 meeting that countering Pakistani mistrust about India's role in Baluchistan will be difficult. India is concerned about the growin [...]
2006-11-14 04:19:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK
06NEWDELHI7885U/S EDELMAN AND DEFMIN ANTONY AGREE ON POSITIVE
[...] (C) Summary. Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony told Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that his ministry assessed that the Defense Policy Group meeting had been a success, and that he anticipated further U.S.-India cooperation in the future, adding that on the whole the milit [...]
2006-11-21 12:04:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP KSTC KOMC IN
06NEWDELHI7886BOTH SIDES BULLISH ON U.S.-INDIA MIL-MIL TIES
[...] (C) Summary. U.S.-India military-to-military ties - already growing rapidly - were given a fresh boost in back-to-back Defense Procurement and Production Group (DPPG) and Defense Policy Group (DPG) meetings in New Delhi during the week of November 12. In addition to the high-level networking [...]
2006-11-21 12:07:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS ETTC KSTC KOMC IN
06NEWDELHI7942HU JINTAO'S VISIT TO INDIA: LOFTY WORDS BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The November 20-23 visit to India of Chinese President Hu Jintao, while not earth-shattering, appears to have concentrated on economic agreements through a "ten-pronged strategy" while downplaying contentious border disputes. The Joint Declaration announced on 21 November conta [...]
2006-11-22 13:00:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ETRD EINV MNUC PARM IN CH
06NEWDELHI7986BJP FLEXING ITS MUSCLES AGAIN ON TERRORISM,
[...] (C) During the first three days of the Winter Session of Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flexed its muscles, galvanized its base and reinvigorated its role as an opposition party. On November 22, the BJP staged a massive demonstration in Delhi. Reports put attendance somewhere b [...]
2006-11-27 07:55:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL PINR KISL IN
06NEWDELHI8020NARAYANAN TELLS PISTOLE INDIA SEEKS TERRORIST
[...] (S) Summary: In a frank November 27th discussion with FBI Deputy Director Pistole, National Security Advisor Narayanan explained that while the overall intelligence relationship had improved, the U.S. could only strengthen its counter-terrorism cooperation with India by sharing signals intell [...]
2006-11-29 04:54:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PINR PK IN
06NEWDELHI803UNPRECEDENTED INDIA VISIT BY SAUDI KING BOOSTS
[...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary Sanjay Singh told PolCouns and Poloff on February 2 that Saudi King Abdullah's January 25-28 New Delhi visit - the first in 50 years by a Saudi monarch - was a great success, and far broader in scope than was reported in the media. The visit highlighted energy [...]
2006-02-03 14:18:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET ETTC PTER UNGA IN SA PK IR IS
06NEWDELHI8067HU JINTAO FAILS TO COMMIT TO INDIAN RELATIONSHIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There are more questions than answers in the aftermath of Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20-23 visit to India - the first by a Chinese president in 10 years. While taking moderate strides on economic confidence-building measures, it appears that hopes for forward moveme [...]
2006-11-30 12:23:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ETRD EINV MNUC PARM IN CH
06NEWDELHI8100INDIAN INTELLIGENTSIA IN A SEASON OF CRITICIZING
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Indian intelligentsia has been harshly critical of late of the efficacy of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO),the organization responsible for designing and developing India's weapons systems. Government officials have chimed in, blaming the agency for [...]
2006-12-01 12:21:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PARM IN
06NEWDELHI8129INDIA'S MEA PROVIDES READOUT OF SRI LANKA'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of External Affairs' Joint Secretary responsible for Sri Lanka, Mr. Mohan Kumar, SIPDIS provided Polcouns with a readout of Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee's meeting with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Kumar said that Mukherjee hammered home [...]
2006-12-04 12:59:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PTER KTIA MOPS IN CE
06NEWDELHI8137PM SINGH VISIT TO JAPAN: TIME FOR THE U.S. TO SEIZE THE DAY ON CLOSER TRILATERAL COOPERATION
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Singh will visit Tokyo December 13-16 as a follow-on to the ASEAN summit. He and PM Abe are expected to have a feel-good series of meetings, including talks on deepening the bilateral relationship, economic and cultural "deliverables," recognition of the expansion of I [...]
2006-12-05 08:10:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR KDEM JA IN
06NEWDELHI8156RUMORS ABOUT BANGLADESH; MEA CONTINUES TO DENY AID
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Joint Secretary (Bangladesh, Burma Sri Lanka, Maldives) Mohan Kumar informed PolCouns that rumors are rife in Dhaka that the U.S. wants neither Sheikh Hasina, leader of the Awami League (AL),nor Khaleda Zia, head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),to win January's s [...]
2006-12-05 12:54:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MASS PTER KISL IN BG
06NEWDELHI8169EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: KRISHAK BHARTI COOPERATIVE
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Pre-license Check (PLC) at Krishak Bharati Co-operative Limited (Kribhco),Hazira, Sura [...]
2006-12-06 05:18:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDETTC ETRD BEXP IN
06NEWDELHI8243THE SACHAR REPORT DOCUMENTS THE DISMAL STATE OF
[...] (C) Summary: In 2005, the UPA government established the Sachar Commission with a mandate to prepare a report on the current status of Indian Muslims. The report was completed on November 17, 2006 and was made public early in December. It asserts that Indian Muslims are among the poorest co [...]
2006-12-08 12:06:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SCUL ELAB ECON KISL IN
06NEWDELHI8268U/S BURNS AND INDIAN DEFENSE SECRETARY DUTT
[...] (C) Summary. In a December 8 meeting, Undersecretary Burns and Indian Defense Secretary Shekhar Dutt discussed: -- the civil-nuclear cooperation initiative: U/S Burns briefed DS Dutt on the current status and assured Dutt that the final bill is fully consistent with the July 18 and March 2 [...]
2006-12-11 10:30:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR ETRD IN
06NEWDELHI8273BURNS AND MENON DISCUSS PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 7 U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue working lunch, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon discussed: -PAKISTAN: Menon said that the latest round of Foreign Secretary-level talks was productive, but Pakista [...]
2006-12-11 12:00:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PARM PBTS IN PK
06NEWDELHI8276MUKHERJEE EXPRESSES APPRECIATION FOR CIVILIAN
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee t/ld Under Secretary Nicholas Burns on December 8 he appreciated the Bush Administration's efforts to negotiate language for the civilian nuclear legislation that was favorable to India, and said Indian officials were preparing to address their remaining c [...]
2006-12-11 12:56:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ETTC EAID ECON EAGR PINR PTER KDEM
06NEWDELHI8277JAISHANKAR'S POST GAME ANALYSIS OF U/S EDELMAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with the DCM, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Jaishankar provided his analysis of SIPDIS Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman's November visit. Agreeing that substantive developments occurred and the ability of both sides to work collaborati [...]
2006-12-11 13:02:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS ETTC KSTC KOMC IN
06NEWDELHI8278U/S BURNS MEETING WITH INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN
[...] (C) Summary: On December 7, Under Secretary Burns and National Security Advisor Narayanan discussed the impending passage of the U.S-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Bill and hopes that a 123 Agreement could be implemented quickly. They agreed that after conclusion of the historic a [...]
2006-12-11 13:02:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV PINR MOPS IN
06NEWDELHI8280U.S.-INDIA BILATERAL DIALOGUE: BURNS AND MENON
[...] (C) Summary. During the December 7 U.S.-India Bilateral Dialogue, chaired by Undersecretary Burns and Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, the two sides followed up on SIPDIS the list of Presidential initiatives agreed upon in July 2005 and March 2006 by President Bush and PM Singh, as wel [...]
2006-12-11 13:17:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ETRD EFIN ECON EINV KIPR MARR
06NEWDELHI8298INDIAN MP'S ARE GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE
[...] (C) Summary: A selected group of Members of Parliament from the India/US Forum of Parliamentarians (IUFP) discussed a broad range of issues with U/S Burns and Ambassador Mulford during their December 8 meeting. The MPs were mostly from the Congress party, although the BJP and regional partie [...]
2006-12-12 10:42:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ETTC EAID ECON EAGR PINR PTER KDEM
06NEWDELHI8373MOVING THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP FORWARD: PDAS MANN AND JOINT SECRETARIES JAISHANKAR AND KUMAR
[...] (S) Summary: On December 13, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Steven Mann met SIPDIS with out-going MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Jaishankar and his designated replacement Ms. Gyatri Kumar to follow-up on the progress made during Under Secretary Burns' [...]
2006-12-15 08:40:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PINR EAGR MASS IN
06NEWDELHI8419HINDI BELT MUSLIMS EAGER TO COMBAT POLIO BUT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The persistence of polio in Western Uttar Pradesh (UP) has been the subject of considerable media speculation and analysis, with much of the focus on the Muslim community. Poloff and POL FSN traveled to the area December 11-13 to gauge Muslim views on the subject. The near-u [...]
2006-12-19 11:48:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI KISL IN
06NEWDELHI8463CRUCIAL MUSLIM CONSTITUENCY SPLIT BEFORE IMPENDING
[...] (C) Summary: The crucial state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is facing an election in early 2007 that could displace the current Samajwadi Party (SP) government. Muslims have long been considered a crucial SP "vote bank." A December 11-13 trip to the Muslim dominated areas of Rampur, Moradabad and [...]
2006-12-21 11:44:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN
06NEWDELHI8469NEW DELHI DECLARES PM SINGH'S TOKYO "VERY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan watchers in New Delhi regard PM Singh's Tokyo visit a success, one that achieved India's main goal of taking the relationship one level higher. Economic cooperation agreements highlighted the summit for the Indians, while political principles which had been established in [...]
2006-12-22 01:20:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EQRD KNNP MARR JA IN
06NEWDELHI8511SENATOR SPECTER MEETING WITH P.M. SINGH
[...] (C) Summary. Visiting Senator Arlen Specter (R - PA) called on Indian P.M. Manmohan Singh December 24. Both agreed on the historic impact of the U.S./India civil-nuclear agreement on bilateral relations. P.M. Singh offered the caveat that the significance will be historic once the 123 Agre [...]
2006-12-26 11:50:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ETRD ETTC EAGR IR IS IZ JO KN
06NEWDELHI888CARTOON WARS: INDIAN MUSLIMS (BARELY) PROTEST
[...] (SBU) Summary: Indian Muslim reaction to the controversy over publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper spilled out into the streets on February 6 in the form of a peaceful city-wide strike in Muslim-majority Srinagar, a student demonstration in New Delhi, and small [...]
2006-02-07 13:41:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL ASEC OVIP KDEM SOCI IN IR DA
06NEWDELHI948IRAN'S ANTI-US COLD WAR FALLS FLAT IN INDIA
[...] (C) Summary. India's IAEA Iran vote, the Danish cartoons, and the POTUS visit are reverberating on the Indian political scene, provoking Indian Muslim leaders and activists to speak out. On the domestic front, however, the Congress-dominated UPA government has begun to act on the promises m [...]
2006-02-08 13:08:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IAEA KNNP KISL KDEM SCUL IN IR IZ
06NEWDELHI995WITH AN EYE ON CHINA, PRESIDENT KALAM TO "ENGAGE"
[...] (C) Summary: Signaling GOI intentions to step up engagement with Rangoon despite its concerns about democracy, President Kalam will make a "goodwill visit" to Burma on March 8-10. This will be the highest level visit from India to Burma since Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi traveled to Rangoon [...]
2006-02-09 13:01:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR IN BM
06NEWDELHI997WITH AN EYE ON CHINA, PRESIDENT KALAM TO "ENGAGE"
[...] (C) Summary: Signaling GOI intentions to step up engagement with Rangoon despite its concerns about democracy, President Kalam will make a "goodwill visit" to Burma on March 8-10. This will be the highest level visit from India to Burma since Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi traveled to Rangoon [...]
2006-02-09 13:21:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR IN BM
06NIAMEY1023NIGER: CONSOLIDATING PEACE IN THE AIR AND AZAWAK
[...] SUMMARY. MORE THAN 11 YEARS AFTER THE SIGNING OF PEACE ACCORDS, FORMER MEMBERS OF VARIOUS TUAREG RESISTANCE FRONTS HAVE BEGUN TO RECEIVE THE SUPPORT THEY HAVE BEEN PROMISED. ON SEPTEMBER 8, IN A HALF-DAY CEREMONY IN AGADEZ, THE FIRST CHECKS WERE HANDED TO THE HEADS OF 25 COOPERATIVE GROUPS. [...]
2006-09-12 12:19:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID EAGR SOCI SENV NG
06NIAMEY1055SIGNS OF LIFE FOR NIGER'S BEST EXPORT AS NEW
[...] (SBU) In a sign of heightened interest in Niger's uranium reserves, a small Canadian exploration company - Northwestern Mineral Ventures Inc. - has begun operations in a 4,000 square kilometer concession centered on the northern Nigerien town of Ingal. World market prices for uranium are risin [...]
2006-09-19 12:31:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV ENRG EMIN NG
06NIAMEY1075POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION IN NIGER: (STILL) A
[...] (C) More than two years have passed since Nigeriens elected local councils to govern the country's 265 communes. The advent of political decentralization - a subject of discussion for most of the nation's first four decades of independence - was greeted with excitement by ordinary Nigeriens wh [...]
2006-09-22 16:22:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KCOR EAID NG
06NIAMEY1252November 13 Meeting with Government of Niger (GON) Prime
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a November 13 meeting lasting over an hour, Ambassador Allen, accompanied by USAID program manager Mark Wentling, met with Prime Minister Hama Amadou to discuss Niger's selection as a MCC threshold country. PM staff members Secretary General Malam Ari Boucar and Principal Ad [...]
2006-11-14 15:44:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EAID KMCA NG
06NIAMEY515NIGER: THE LATEST ON PRIVATIZATION
[...] BEGIN SUMMARY. Econoff Gage met with representatives of the Government of Niger (GON),companies and the World Bank (IBRD) to produce the following status report on privatization in Niger. GON privatization efforts have advanced since 1996, when Niger codified in law the desire to pri [...]
2006-05-23 15:05:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EINV PGOV KPRV XA NG
06NIAMEY672NIGER: GROWING INTEREST IN NIGER'S OIL AND
[...] BEGIN SUMMARY. (SBU) Over the past six months, there has been growing interest in Niger's mining and oil sectors by foreign investors, notably from China, Canada and France. As indicated below, the GON is pushing hard to attract investment in the gold, uranium and oil sectors, and to impro [...]
2006-06-26 14:36:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBTIO EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ECON ELAB PREL PINR
06NIAMEY847OPPOSITION PUBLISHER, EDITOR JAILED FOR ALLEGING
[...] (SBU) On August 4, Maman Abou and Oumarou Keita - respectively the Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief of "Le Republican," Niger's oldest, best respected, and most widely circulated opposition weekly - were arrested and jailed by the Detective Branch of the Nigerien National Police. The two men [...]
2006-08-14 15:58:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KPAO PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KMCA NG
06NIAMEY866AGOA: INFORMATION ON TEXTILE AND APPAREL
[...] (U) The following responds to reftel's request for information on Niger's textile and apparel manufacturing capabilities. Niger counts three mid-sized and one larger export oriented textile production firms: Enitex, Ste Alphadi, Herbert Toure, and Ram's Elle et Lui. Details on each follow, and [...]
2006-08-16 17:44:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTEX EINV ETRD NG
06NICOSIA116CYPRUS: H5N1 CONFIRMED IN A CHICKEN AND A TURKEY
[...] (SBU) On January 29, the EU reference laboratory at Weybridge in the UK confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in two samples of chicken and turkey found in the Turkish Cypriot administered area of Cyprus (ref A). Two European Commission veterinary experts arrived late January 29 for a thre [...]
2006-01-30 15:04:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU EAGR EAID KSCA TBIO KSTH WHO AMED
06NICOSIA1208TFLE01: THE EVACUATION CRISIS IS NOT YET OVER:
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST -- SEE PARAGRAPH 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. With civilian outflow from Lebanon slowing, Post is facing a looming crisis involving the approximately 250 or so people who remain in the Cyprus International Fairgrounds because one or more members of their families cannot [...]
2006-07-27 09:39:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS AEMR MARR CASC LE CY
06NICOSIA125EMBASSY NICOSIA EAC - 30 JANUARY 2006 - AVIAN FLU
[...] (SBU) On January 30, 2006, the DCM convened Embassy Nicosia's EAC to brief the Ambassador and review current conditions in response to a confirmed case of the H5N1 found in the area controlled by Turkish Cypriots. Also discussed were actions the Embassy will take as a result of the confirmed [...]
2006-01-31 13:53:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU ASEC AMED CY
06NICOSIA1331DEMARCHING CYPRUS ON BURMESE FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel message on August 7, 2006 to Stelios Makriyiannis in the MFA's Division of Asia and Africa. He replied that the Finnish decision was not surprising because it was indeed in accordance with the EU common position that visas could be issued to Burma cabinet members f [...]
2006-08-08 04:58:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM FI BU EUN
06NICOSIA1345TURKISH CYPRIOTS: LOSING THE PRO-SOLUTION BEAT?
[...] (C) In the two years since the Annan Plan referendum, the Turkish Cypriots have slowly lost their enthusiasm for the kind of pro-settlement policies and rhetoric which, by 2004, had sidelined Denktash, won them unprecedented international sympathy, and kept them "one step ahead" of Papadopoulos [...]
2006-08-09 10:42:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN UN TU CY
06NICOSIA1370CYPRUS HARMONIZES LAW WITH EU COPYRIGHT AND ENFORCEMENT
[...] (U) Summary. In its last session before the summer holidays, on July 13, the House approved five bills aimed at harmonizing Cypriot IPR legislation with that of the EU. While these bills will help further strengthen Cypriot IPR legislation, the House deferred until fall consideration of langu [...]
2006-08-16 05:41:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON ETRD CY
06NICOSIA1607TURKISH CYPRIOT POLITICS: AMBITIOUS LEFTISTS,
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-21 12:53:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON PINR TU CY
06NICOSIA1690CYPRUS: TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING
[...] (U) Answers below are keyed to reftel questions. 2. (U) Q1: Description of how Post is organized to monitor (trade) agreements and respond to foreign trade barrier complaints: Embassy Nicosia does not have a Foreign Commercial Service (FCS) or Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) office. [...]
2006-09-29 12:43:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD CY
06NICOSIA1717EXBS: CYPRUS EXBS REPORTING CABLE: JULY - SEPTEMBER 2006
[...] (SBU) Summary: In June 2006, the Department of Energy's (DOE),Second Line of Defense (SLD) visited Cyprus to make logistical preparations for the upgrade of the radiation portal monitor located at Limassol. During the reporting period, three trainings were offered: 1) A "Global Transshipment [...]
2006-10-05 13:15:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNPP CY
06NICOSIA1754COMMITTEE ON MISSING PERSONS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL LAB
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador toured the newly-established Committee on Missing Persons anthropological lab in the UN Buffer Zone on October 10 to observe firsthand the progress being made in the identification of Cypriots from both communities who went missing in the 1963-1974 period of civil unre [...]
2006-10-12 09:51:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UN TU CY
06NICOSIA188TURKISH CYPRIOTS SHRUG OFF DANISH CARTOONS,
[...] Although the Turkish Cypriot press has given significant coverage (mainly through republished wire service stories) to the controversy surrounding publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed (reftel),the largely secular Turkish Cypriot community appears to be taking the whole issue [...]
2006-02-09 15:00:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC KISL TU
06NICOSIA1883JOURNALISTIC LICENSE, POLITICAL AMBITIONS BEHIND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Nicosia awoke October 22 to "news" the Turkish Army twenty years ago employed Greek Cypriot (G/C) and Greek detainees as "guinea pigs" at weapons production facilities outside Ankara. According to preliminary accounts in leading daily "Philelefteros," the alleged victims, priso [...]
2006-11-03 14:34:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MOPS CY GR TU
06NICOSIA1885CYPRUS: 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Per Reftel request, Post submits in para 2 below Part I (Drugs and Chemical Control) of the 2006-2007 INCSR. The report is based on an update of last year's published version. 2. BEGIN TEXT Cyprus Cyprus has been divided since the Turkish military intervention of 1974, following a c [...]
2006-11-03 15:27:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR CY
06NICOSIA1952NEW TURKISH CYPRIOT ENVIRONMENT "MINISTER" FACES
[...] (SBU) October's cabinet reshuffle in the "TRNC" has led to the creation of a new Environment "Ministry." The new "minister," political novice Asim Vehbi, faces an uphill struggle against the Turkish Cypriots' traditionally cavalier attitude towards environmental protection. Decision-makers i [...]
2006-11-21 15:40:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SENV ECON TU CY
06NICOSIA203TURKISH CYPRIOT OPPOSITION ELECTS NEW LEADER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The National Unity Party (UBP) has elected Nicosia "MP" Huseyin Ozgurgun (see bio below) to lead the party, which is the second largest Turkish Cypriot political party and the north's main opposition formation. Ozgurgun represents a new, young face for his party -- which was thr [...]
2006-02-13 15:32:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU CY
06NICOSIA2033CYPRUS ON TRACK TO ADOPT EURO ON JANUARY 1, 2008
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Cypriot economy continues to perform well within the Maastricht criteria, and the European Union is expected in June 2007 to invite Cyprus to adopt the Euro as its currency effective January 1, 2008. The European Commission, however, has criticized the GoC's technical pre [...]
2006-12-18 10:06:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EUN CY
06NICOSIA2049GREEK CYPRIOT ENCLAVES IN THE NORTH: HANGING BY A
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 14, political section staff joined United Nations civil affairs personnel on one of their weekly monitoring visits to the enclaved Greek Cypriot community on the Turkish Cypriot-administered Karpass peninsula. Embassy officers accompanied UNFICYP personnel on two h [...]
2006-12-20 15:44:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL UNFICYP PHUM PREF TU CY
06NICOSIA2051GREEK CYPRIOT ENCLAVES IN THE NORTH: HANGING BY A
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 14, political section staff joined United Nations civil affairs personnel on one of their weekly monitoring visits to the enclaved Greek Cypriot community on the Turkish Cypriot-administered Karpass peninsula. Embassy officers accompanied UNFICYP personnel on two h [...]
2006-12-20 15:49:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL UNFICYP PHUM PREF TU CY
06NICOSIA2055NEW ARCHBISHOP: WITH THRONE SECURED, MORE TOLERANT?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In his December 20 courtesy call on new Church of Cyprus Archbishop Chrysostomos II, the Ambassador was pleased to see the hard-line leader adopting a softer stance. Particularly noteworthy was the Archbishop's pledge to roll out the red carpet for his Turkish Cypriot counterpart [...]
2006-12-21 11:54:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CY GR
06NICOSIA256GOC RATTLING THE VETO SABER OVER ACCESS TO TURKISH
[...] (C) The Greek Cypriot political establishment is issuing thinly veiled threats against Turkey's EU accession course, following an unsuccessful February 22 attempt by a Cypriot-flagged container ship, the Able F, to dock at the Turkish port of Mersin. Government spokesman George Lillikas iss [...]
2006-02-23 15:35:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CY TU
06NICOSIA273CYPRUS REACTS TO EU AID PACKAGE FOR TURKISH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The EU's decision to approve its long-awaited 139 million euro aid package for the Turkish Cypriots has been welcomed as a triumph of diplomacy on the Greek Cypriot side. GOC contacts note that the shape of the aid package -- as well as the content of an accompanying declaratio [...]
2006-02-27 16:04:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UN EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA294GREEK CYPRIOTS "FULLY SATISFIED" WITH PARIS TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: The February 28 meeting between Cypriot President Papadopoulos and UN SYG Kofi Annan resulted in agreement on a "bottom up" approach to the Cyprus issue that would begin with technical-level talks aimed at preparing the ground for the resumption of negotiations on a comprehensiv [...]
2006-03-01 15:58:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CY
06NICOSIA318COORDINATOR OF THE CYPRUS NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON
[...] (C) In a February 27 meeting with Interior Ministry Permanent Secretary Lazaros Savvides, Polchief underscored our concern that the GOC had failed to take decisive action in implementing the National Action Plan on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) that the Council of Ministers approved last May. [...]
2006-03-02 14:19:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM CY
06NICOSIA352WHAT NEXT AFTER PARIS?
[...] (U) Action requested in para 11. 2. (C) Summary: One week after the Papadopoulos -Annan meeting in Paris, it is clear that the UN and UNFICYP have considerable fence-mending to do with Ankara and the Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish Cypriots -- still angry over the communique that seemed to [...]
2006-03-09 10:42:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UN CY
06NICOSIA380TURKISH CYPRIOTS STILL STEWING OVER PARIS
[...] (C) In a March 13 meeting with Ambassador Schlicher, "TRNC President" Talat's Under Secretary Rasit Pertev expressed continued bitterness over the joint communique issued after the Annan-Papadopoulos meeting in Paris on February 28 (ref a). Pertev stressed that both he and "President" Talat fe [...]
2006-03-14 15:46:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EUN UN TU CY
06NICOSIA447TALAT'S ILLNESS LEAVES TURKISH CYPRIOTS RUDDERLESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish Cypriots have been foundering in a political vacuum since "TRNC President" Mehmet Ali Talat's February bypass surgery. Subsequent political developments with regard to EU aid and UN-brokered talks have caught the Turkish Cypriots flatfooted, prompting muddled response [...]
2006-03-24 10:52:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA522SMOOTHING TURKEY'S EU PATH -- DG ENLARGEMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 6, visiting EC Director General for Enlargement Michael Leigh (accompanied by Georg Ziegler and Andrea Battista from the Commission's Cyprus team) briefed Ambassador Schlicher on implementation plans for the European Union's assistance package to the Turkish Cypriot commu [...]
2006-04-06 13:17:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA541CYPRUS WILL FOLLOW EU'S BURMA POLICY; EU BURMA
[...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel messages to Demetra Christodoulou in the MFA's Multilateral Affairs division and to Stelios Makriyiannis, who follows Asian issues in the division of bilateral affairs. Makriyiannis said that Cyprus supported EU policy on Burma and that it was very much in line w [...]
2006-04-12 13:40:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EU PREL PHUM PGOV PREF BM CY
06NICOSIA699EXBS: CYPRUS EXBS REPORTING CABLE - JANUARY - APRIL
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 1, the EXBS Resident Advisor Bob Granico left post and is not being replaced. The EXBS program remains fully operational through FY 07 and is led by the EXBS Program Coordinator under the supervision of the Economic Officer. Twenty-four Cypriot officials attended an A [...]
2006-05-12 04:46:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNPP CY
06NICOSIA74CYPRUS: UPDATE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA PREPAREDNESS
[...] (U) Summary: Because Cyprus is only 45 miles from the Turkish shore and on the flight path for thousands of migratory birds, Cypriot officials continue to believe that it is only a matter of time before Avian Influenza is found on the island. The outbreak in Turkey has redoubled efforts (and [...]
2006-01-23 14:11:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID KSCA TBIO KSTH WHO AMED PREL CY
06NICOSIA755CYPRUS 2006 SPECIAL 301 NOTIFICATION (INTELLECTUAL
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points to Commerce Ministry Permanent Secretary Andreas Petrondas on April 28. Ambassador Schlicher followed up with Minister of Commerce Yiorgos Lillikas on May 11. Both Petrondas and Lillikas stressed the importance the GoC places on this issue and noted their comm [...]
2006-05-19 13:36:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR CY
06NICOSIA790CYPRIOT AMBASSADOR IN WARSAW TO REPRESENT GOC AT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-26 12:49:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC KNNP PARM US PL CY
06NICOSIA918WHY CIVIL SOCIETY IN CYPRUS IS DYSFUNCTIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Civil society in Cyprus is fragmented, weak and riven by personal rivalries. The elephant in the living room -- the Cyprus issue -- further distorts the NGO scene in Nicosia and restricts opportunities for Cypriot activists and organizations to play a broader role on issues of mo [...]
2006-06-16 09:12:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL CY
06NICOSIA926FIRST KNOWN TURKISH CYPRIOT GRAVE SITE FOUND IN
[...] (C) Summary. A bicommunal team working under the Tripartite Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) has discovered human remains thought to be those of Turkish Cypriots missing since the intercommunal clashes of 1963 and 1964. If confirmed by DNA analysis, this would be the first case of a Turki [...]
2006-06-19 07:36:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPHUM UN TU CY PREL PGOV
06NICOSIA930BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEW ECONOMIC-RELATED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Reftel reported on the political implications of the June 8 government reshuffle. Among the economic-related ministers, only Communications and Works (Haris Thrassou) and Minister of Finance (Michalis Sarris) kept their jobs. This cable provides biographic information on the [...]
2006-06-19 11:45:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAGR PGOV CY
06NOUAKCHOTT285Mauritania: Input for the Annual AGOA Report
[...] Mauritania was one of the first 34 countries to be found eligible in 2000 for the trade benefits of AGOA. On December 22, 2005, however, President Bush terminated Mauritania's designation as of January 1, 2006, because Mauritania is not meeting the required criteria of making continual progre [...]
2006-03-09 14:20:00Embassy NouakchottUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PHUM MR
06NOUAKCHOTT321MAURITANIAN - BURKINABE RELATIONS WARMING
[...] (U) Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore arrived in Nouakchott March 16 for a two day "friendship and working" visit. Compaore, who had been invited to Mauritania by Colonel Fal, became the third West African head of state to visit the country since the August 3 coup. -------------------- [...]
2006-03-21 15:50:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06OSAKAKOBE351LIANCOURT SURVEY: ANOTHER FLASHPOINT IN THE JAPAN SEA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Observers in western Japan are making an unfortunate public linkage between the ROKG maritime survey in the disputed EEZ of the Liancourt Rocks and the DPRK's missile launches of July 5, local time. Whether or not the DPRK deliberately timed the launches to coincide with the ROK [...]
2006-07-07 06:38:00Consulate Osaka KobeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT PHSA PREL KS JA PBTS
06OSAKAKOBE496POLITICS SHAPE SHIP VISITS TO HIMEJI AND
[...] (SBU) Recent visits to Sakaiminato and Himeji by the USS John S. McCain (JSM) in July and August demonstrate the impact of the local political climate on the success and ease of planning of U.S. Navy ship visits in our district. The July 5th launches of ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japa [...]
2006-09-07 05:42:00Consulate Osaka KobeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PREL JA
06OSAKAKOBE588BID RIGGING IN JAPAN: A FEATURE, NOT A BUG
[...] (SBU) Bid rigging (dango in Japanese) is a common form of corruption in Japan, in which firms restrict open competition by coordinating their bids on procurement or public contracts. Although not unique to the Kansai area surrounding Osaka in western Japan, recently one example of bid rigging [...]
2006-10-16 10:40:00Consulate Osaka KobeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EINV ELAB JA
06OSLO101A/S FRIED´S VISIT: NORWAY AN ENERGY SECURITY PLAYER
[...] (C) Summary. A/S Fried met with Foreign Minister Jonas Stoere and continued our "High North Dialogue" with Deputy Foreign Minister Kjetil Skogrand during his January 26-27 visit to Oslo to participate in an E-PINE Political Directors meeting (reported septel). Stoere enthusiastically presented the [...]
2006-01-31 15:11:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL NO ENGR
06OSLO1185NORWAY ON UNHRC - AGREEMENT ACROSS THE BOARD, BUT
[...] (C) Director of the Human Rights Department in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tormod Endresen, stated that Norway is in strong agreement with the US on the areas of concern in reftel and the Government of Norway welcomes US engagement on the Human Rights Council (HRC). Pol/Econ cou [...]
2006-09-25 15:37:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN NO
06OSLO1359ENGAGING NORWAY ON PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 31, the DCM and Pol/Econ officers met with Tore Hattrem, Director General of the MFA's Peace and Reconciliation Section and other members of his team. The meeting began and intensified a dialogue on Norwegian peace efforts in several global hot spots: Sri Lanka, P [...]
2006-11-03 15:59:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF EAID CE SU CO HA RP SO NO
06OSLO1389 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT FOR NORWAY
[...] (SBU) Per Ref B request, the draft 2007 National Trade Estimate (NTE) Report for Norway follows in paragraph 2. The report was conveyed on November 7 to USTR in Microsoft Word format (Ref A). Post understands that USTR will fill in trade statistics when available. 2. Begin text of 2007 [...]
2006-11-09 09:05:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EFIN NO
06OSLO140HIGH NORTH ENERGY, IRAN INVESTMENTS, RUSSIAN
[...] (U) * Developing the Barents Sea as a new oil and gas province will be of global importance, underscored Statoil Chief Executive Helge Lund. Statoil's Snoehvit project is building a new energy bridge to the United States and Europe and bringing greater employment and prosperity to northern No [...]
2006-02-10 13:28:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIEDECON EPET ENRG EFIN ETRD SENV NO
06OSLO1416NORWEGIAN FM'S VISIT TO SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA STRIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: NORWEGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER JONAS GAHR STOERE RETURNED 8 NOVEMBER FROM A SCHEDULED VISIT TO DAMASCUS AND BEIRUT THAT INCLUDED A SURPRISE STOP IN THE GAZA STRIP AND ISRAEL. DURING HIS MEETING WITH STOERE, SYRIAN PRESIDENT AL-ASSAD EMPHASIZED HIS INTEREST IN DIALOGUE WITH THE U.S. A [...]
2006-11-16 15:19:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID LE MOPS NO PGOV PREL PTER IS
06OSLO184REASONS THE SECRETARY SHOULD VISIT NORTH NORWAY
[...] Summary (C) The time is ripe for you to come to Norway. In the wake of the Mohammed cartoons, your visit would be a tangible demonstration of our solidarity and friendship with Norway. Norway is becoming increasingly important as a reliable major energy supplier, particularly as energy resou [...]
2006-02-17 13:11:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG NO
06OSLO2NORWEGIAN ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS, NOVEMBER- DECEMBER 2005:
[...] (SBU) Summary of combined November-December monthly highlights: * The past year was an exceptionally good one for the Norwegian economy: mainland real GDP grew by 3.9 percent; offshore petroleum investments reached a record high; the value of exports soared on account of rising crude oil p [...]
2006-01-01 12:00:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ELAB EPET ETRD NO
06OSLO420ONE LESS KREKAR HURDLE: NORWEGIAN AMBO TO IRAQ
[...] (C) Norway now has an accredited Ambassador to Iraq. Ambassador Sverre Stub (resident in Amman) presented his credentials to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on April 3. This important step in formalizing relations between Norway and Iraq has been laying in abeyance for some time (over [...]
2006-04-04 12:46:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ASEC IZ NO
06OSLO44NORWAY'S OPPOSITION UNITES ON PRO-ISRAEL RESOLUTION
[...] (C) Norway's bitterly divided center-right parties came together on January 11 to table a Parliamentary proposition that would have given a clear "no" to any boycott of Israel. President of the Parliament Thorbjoern Jagland used the privilege of his position to stop the motion being brought to [...]
2006-01-11 16:07:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD IS NO
06OSLO551SRI LANKA CO-CHAIRS MEETING IN OSLO
[...] (C) Summary. Representatives of the Sri Lanka Co-Chairs ( Norway, Japan, the EU, and the U.S. ) met in Oslo on April 28 in an emergency session to discuss the deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka and plan for a follow-on meeting in Tokyo. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affa [...]
2006-05-03 09:26:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PHUM CE NO
06OSLO59AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FM STOERE
[...] (C) Summary. In the Ambassador's introductory call on Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere January 13, the FM said that maintaining close ties to the United States was a top priority and noted that the U.S. is "Norway's most important ally." FM Stoere is keen to promote even closer cooperatio [...]
2006-01-17 10:37:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR NO
06OSLO613SRI LANKA CO-CHAIRS MEETING IN OSLO
[...] (C) Summary. Representatives of the Sri Lanka Co-Chairs (Norway, Japan, the EU, and the U.S.) met in Oslo on April 28 in an emergency session to discuss the deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka and plan for a follow-on meeting in Tokyo. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affair [...]
2006-05-11 13:42:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PHUM CE NO
06OSLO615SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO OSLO, MAY 16-17
[...] (C) I very much look forward to welcoming you to Oslo. You will be the most senior U.S. administration official to visit Norway since the center-left government of Jens Stoltenberg came to power in October 2005, and your visit should help us in our efforts to bolster our dialogue with Norway [...]
2006-05-11 14:49:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL OVIP EAID ENRG NO
06OSLO627NORWAY WILL LOOK AGAIN AT ISAF CAVEATS
[...] (C) On May 11, we delivered reftel points to Leif Larsen, MFA Security Policy Section DAS, and to MOD USA Desk Officer Erling Alvestad. Larsen and Alvestad agreed to coordinate between their ministries and consider our request. The MOD noted that Norway's caveat was out of step with its pr [...]
2006-05-15 12:58:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO PREL PGOV AF NO
06OSLO72AMBASSADOR´S CALL ON DEVELOPMENT MINISTER SOLHEIM
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador made his introductory call on International Development Minister Erik Solheim January 19 and discussed Solheims upcoming trip to Sri Lanka, the state of play in Sudan, and the Ministers development priorities. Solheim stressed that he is eager to cooperate with the Unite [...]
2006-01-23 12:52:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR CE SU NO
06OTTAWA1029CANADA OUTLAWS LTTE/TAMIL TIGERS
[...] (C) Summary: Canada's Conservative-minority government domestically designated the LTTE/Tamil Tigers under Canada's Criminal Code on April 10, 2006. As a result of this listing, participating in Tiger activities (including fundraising) is a criminal offense and financial institutions must [...]
2006-04-10 21:21:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALCA EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER CE
06OTTAWA119CANADA: 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-13 21:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB CA KTDB PGOV NAFTA
06OTTAWA1322 HARPER GOVERNMENT'S FIRST BUDGET DELIVERS TAX
[...] Tax cuts for households and businesses, breaks for families with children, and investments in defense and security were the key features of the Harper government's first budget, which was unveiled in Parliament on May 2 and is widely viewed as targeting middle class voters. Crucially for this [...]
2006-05-03 17:17:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PGOV CA
06OTTAWA1323U/S DOBRIANSKY AND CEQ CHAIRMAN CONNAUGHTON
[...] (U) Summary: Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky and Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chairman Connaughton visited Ottawa April 24/25 at the direction of the President and at the request of the Canadian Government to discuss a number of significant environmen [...]
2006-05-03 17:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG TBIO CA
06OTTAWA154CANADIAN ELECTIONS: TRANSITION MECHANICS
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: On Monday, January 23, Canadians will go to the polls and elect a new Parliament and, presumably, a new Prime Minister. The likely Conservative minority government would bring the Tories to power for the first time in 13 years and so we can expect some hiccups along the transi [...]
2006-01-18 22:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV CA
06OTTAWA2484CANADA RESPONSE: DEMARCHE ON TOP U.S. TRADE,
[...] (U) Summary: On August 16, EMIN and Econoff met with Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) officials to discuss reftel, which had been provided to them in late July. DFAIT was represented by outgoing Deputy Director for APEC Christopher Burton, his replacement Karen [...]
2006-08-18 22:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALECON APECO CA
06OTTAWA3015CANADIAN VIEWS ON POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR
[...] (C) In the Ambassador's absence, A/DCM met on October 3 with Colleen Swords, Department of Foreign Affairs Political Director. Canada shares our outrage and concerns regarding North Korea's declaration that it planned to test a nuclear weapon. The Foreign Affairs spokesperson immediately de [...]
2006-10-04 22:16:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PARM KN CA
06OTTAWA3121CANADA REACTION TO NOTIFICATION OF U.S. ARMS
[...] (C) At an October 13 follow up meeting to our September 27 demarche (reftels),Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Export Controls Division (ECD) Deputy Director Steven Goodinson told us that arms transfers from Canada to Venezuela were infrequent, that his office was [...]
2006-10-13 20:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MASS PARM PREL OTRA VE CA
06OTTAWA3179SPECIAL 301 OUT-OF-CYCLE REVIEW: EMBASSY VIEWS ON
[...] (sbu) Summary: Canada is starting to take important steps toward improving protection for intellectual property rights since USTR kept Canada on the "Special 301" Watch List in April 2006. The new Conservative government is more receptive than its predecessor to U.S. concerns and on October [...]
2006-10-20 20:26:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA ECON ETRD KIPR
06OTTAWA3229218TH MEETING OF THE CANUS PERMANENT JOINT BOARD
[...] (SBU) On September 20-21, 2006, Canada and the U.S. convened the 218th meeting of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Ottawa. U.S. co-Chair George Nethercutt and Canadian co-Chair Rick Casson led the meeting. Overview/Opening Remark [...]
2006-10-25 20:48:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MX CA
06OTTAWA3264CANADA SEEKS AFGHANISTAN SUCCESS AT RIGA, GOC WITH
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Canadian thinking on NATO enlargement tracks with U.S. policy. The GOC will seek consultations in Washington in early-to-mid November to discuss the broad range of topics on the Riga Summit agenda, including enlargement. Canada will continue to press its NATO allies to burd [...]
2006-10-30 15:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR PREL CA
06OTTAWA3302CANADA SEEKS TO AMEND MONEY LAUNDERING,
[...] (U) Summary: The Harper Government has introduced a bill (C-25) in Parliament to amend the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act to ensure Canada's global leadership in combating organized crime and terrorist financing. In his introduction of the bill on October 5, [...]
2006-11-02 15:31:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PTER CA
06OTTAWA3333Income Trust Tax Loophole Closed
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a surprise move that sent Canada's financial markets reeling, the Canadian federal government announced on October 31 that it would start taxing income trusts as regular corporations. The GOC took the action to stem lost revenue as more Canadian companies threatened to restru [...]
2006-11-05 13:50:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ETRD ECON CA
06OTTAWA3423CANADA'S CLEAN AIR ACT FACES TOUGH SLEDDING
[...] (U) Summary: Less than two weeks after its introduction in the House of Commons the Tories' highly anticipated "made-in-Canada" environmental plan, the Clean Air Act, has been derailed from the standard parliamentary pathway. The bill will likely be subject to a massive redraft in an ad hoc " [...]
2006-11-16 22:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON CA
06OTTAWA3455Ottawa Studies Further International Aviation
[...] (U) Summary: The Conservative government is set to announce a new international air policy in early 2007 that aims to open Canada's skies to more foreign competition and will focus on an "Open Skies" model. Some observers think the move promises to benefit consumers, but not necessarily the co [...]
2006-11-24 16:35:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON EINV CA
06OTTAWA3487CANADA ANNOUNCES OVER C$40 MILLION IN MICROFINANCE
[...] (U) Summary: At the November 12 Global Microfinance Summit in Halifax, Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay and International Cooperation Minister Josee Verner announced that Canada will provide more than C$40 million to three Canadian NGOs to help poor people in developing countries get acc [...]
2006-11-28 20:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN CA
06OTTAWA3536CANADA'S RESPONSE TO THE LIBERTAD ACT
[...] (U) Post answers to reftel questions are based on information obtained from Daniel Daley and Louise Branch, the Director and Deputy Director, respectively, of the Caribbean, Central America and Andean Region Division, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) as well as reporting [...]
2006-12-05 21:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU CA
06OTTAWA3561NEW LIBERAL LEADER DION LIKELY TO PUSH
[...] (SBU) Summary. The victory of former Environment Minister Stephane Dion in the federal Liberal leadership battle seems certain to keep the environment and especially the Kyoto Protocol squarely in the center of domestic political discourse. As Environment Minister, Dion was closely identifie [...]
2006-12-08 12:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG PINR CA
06OTTAWA3564AFGHANISTAN: A/S BOUCHER'S DECEMBER 14-15 VISIT TO
[...] (C) Welcome to Ottawa. Your visit provides a great opportunity to reinforce the improved relationship we have developed with Canada since you were here earlier this year. It will be an excellent chance to take stock of what we are doing together in Afghanistan and elsewhere in South Asia, to [...]
2006-12-08 18:20:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR AF CA
06OTTAWA3566TERRORIST FINANCE: TERRORIST FACILITATORS AND
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-08 20:21:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KPAO CA
06OTTAWA3599CANADIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REGARDING OECD
[...] (U) On December 15, Economic Minister-Counselor delivered reftel demarche on the OECD Working Group on Bribery (WGB) to Mark Moher, Senior Coordinator, International Crime and Terrorism, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Moher promised to share its contents with L [...]
2006-12-15 19:34:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD OECD KCOR CA
06OTTAWA415CANADIAN VIEWS ON APEC 2006
[...] SUMMARY: Canadian priorities for APEC in 2006 share broad common ground with U.S. objectives described in ref.A. The GOC is focusing on health security, private-sector-led development, and continuing to use APEC leaders' statements to influence WTO negotiations. End Summary. End Summary. [...]
2006-02-17 21:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD APECO CA
06OTTAWA5392006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: CANADA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-02 12:23:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG ASEC ELAB CA
06OTTAWA5632006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: CANADA
[...] (SBU) The Government of Canada's (GOC) approach to Trafficking in Persons issues emphasizes a criminal justice and law enforcement perspective through the country's immigration framework, rather than seeking to provide basic, humanitarian assistance to trafficking victims. Individual provin [...]
2006-03-02 21:34:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG ASEC ELAB CA
06OTTAWA669CANADA NOT ABLE TO SUPPORT MARCH 31 WAR CRIMES
[...] (U) Post contacted Foreign Affairs Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency regarding reftel demarche. Canadian funding to the Balkans is declining, with the intention of winding up programs there by 2010. 2. (SBU) Though the new government's foreign policy priorities will n [...]
2006-03-10 17:42:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL BK CA
06OTTAWA936CANADA TO HAMAS: NO CONTACT, NO AID, NO JOKE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 29 Canada formally announced a policy of no contact and no aid to the newly installed Hamas-led Palestinian government. The decision was described by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Near East Division as being consistent with Canada's [...]
2006-03-31 21:03:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL KWHG CA XF
06OUAGADOUGOU420U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] (SBU) DCM presented demarche to Salifou Sawadogo, Chef de Cabinet of the Prime Minister. The President and Minister of Foreign Affairs are both out of the country, and the Prime Minister is unavailable until next week. Sawadogo took careful notes as DCM presented demarche, summarized the a [...]
2006-06-02 14:00:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL CH IR SG
06PANAMA10SCENESETTER: CODEL BURTON JANUARY 12-13 VISIT TO
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Embassy Panama extends its warmest welcome on your upcoming visit to Panama. You will have the opportunity to review a wide range of issues, including bilateral security and the economic/trade environment. [...]
2006-01-04 20:46:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP PGOV PREL AMGT ASEC ETRD PM CA GT ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
06PANAMA125PANAMANIAN PRESIDENT TORRIJOS AND REP DAN BURTON
[...] (SBU) Congressman Dan Burton (R-IND) and the Ambassador called on President Torrijos on January 12th to discuss on-going U.S./Panama FTA negotiations and Hugo Chavez's influence in the region. Torrijos reiterated GOP commitment to free trade and sought Burton's help in resolving a key obstacle to [...]
2006-01-20 20:18:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALBEXP ETRD OREP PM
06PANAMA1371NEW LAW BACKSLIDES ON ANTI‐CORRUPTION,
[...] (C) In a move contrary to his anti"corruption pledges, President Torrijos signed a law July 5 restoring some of the legislative immunities taken away by Panama's 2005 constitutional reforms. Attorney General Gomez may challenge the constitutionality of the new Law 25. One Supreme Court justice to [...]
2006-07-12 21:55:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PM
06PANAMA1586PANAMA ORDERS ARREST OF EX-NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT
[...] (SBU) Panamanian Judge Adolfo Mejia ordered on 11 August 2006, via Interpol, the arrest of former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman and three of his accomplices who were ordered to appear in court on 25 August 2006. Aleman is accused of laundering USD 58.2 million through Panamanian banks a [...]
2006-08-14 22:12:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PM PREL KJUS KCRM
06PANAMA1629SCENESETTER FOR FINCEN DIRECTOR WERNER VISIT
[...] (U) This message is confidential. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Panama, I would like to extend our warmest welcome on your upcoming visit to Panama. Your visit provides support for our Mission's anti-money laundering programs. Your dialogue with key anti-money laund [...]
2006-08-18 21:07:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL PTER SNAR PINR KCOR KCRM PM
06PANAMA1836GOP SLEIGHT OF HAND DEALING IN GAMING INDUSTRY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite overcoming two key bureaucratic hurdles, U.S.-based Merit Management continues to encounter what they believe to be high-level GOP obfuscation and delays in securing the license for its $8 million casino in Colon. Merit attributes its delay to financial incentives from the exi [...]
2006-09-19 20:15:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV KCOR PM
06PANAMA2018SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY FORE
[...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Panama, I would like to extend our warmest welcome on your upcoming visit to Panama. Your visit provides us with an excellent opportunity to share our transformational diplomacy agenda and to help advance U.S. interests. Your dialogue with our Mission and key govern [...]
2006-10-13 22:42:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALAMGT OVIP PGOV PREL ECON PM
06PANAMA206PANAMA: PORTOBELO - LANDMARK TOWN ONCE PLAGUED BY
[...] Portobelo is a small village of 7,000 people on Panama's Atlantic coast, located on a difficult road 40 kilometers east of Colon. Community leaders invited EmbOffs to visit and discussed their town's needs and their concerns about drug traffickers who transit the coastal waters. Portobelo c [...]
2006-02-03 21:47:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PM SNAR
06PANAMA2105LATIN AMERICA-CARIBBEAN BIOFUEL INITIATIVE
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Below is post's response to Reftel A. END SUMMARY. ---------------------------- ENERGY SECTOR - HYDROCARBONS ---------------------------- 2. (U) Panama's energy sector consists of the hydrocarbons industry and the electricity sector. Panama's hydrocarbons industry was 100 [...]
2006-10-26 15:30:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG PREL PGOV SENV PM
06PANAMA2272HEALTH MINISTER UNDER FIRE, BUT NOT (YET) OUT
[...] (SBU) Summary. The deaths of some 44 Panamanians from poisoned medications produced and distributed by the GOP's Social Security Fund (CSS) have prompted growing calls for the ouster of Minister of Health Camilo Alleyne and CSS Director Rene Luciani. Although several CSS employees and execut [...]
2006-11-24 15:57:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PGOV KSCA CDC PM
06PANAMA2303PANAMA: 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE
[...] The U.S. trade surplus with Panama was $1.84 billion in 2005, an increase of $334 million from $1.5 billion in 2004. This represented the U.S.'s seventh largest trade surplus world-wide. U.S. goods exports in 2005 were $2.17 billion, up 18.2 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. [...]
2006-12-01 14:20:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD
06PANAMA317RETIREES & INVESTORS FLOCK TO SUNNY, SAFE &
[...] SUMMARY. With an estimated 30 million Americans scheduled to retire in 2006 (and every year for the next 18),the race is on for affordable attractive property in mild climates. Panama is set to become the third most popular destination for American expatriates in the hemisphere following M [...]
2006-02-17 15:25:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV BTIO CASC CPAS CMGT KMRS
06PANAMA360 PANAMA - 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] The resolution of a number of investment dispute cases in recent years opened the way for the April 2004 start of bilateral negotiations for a free trade agreement between the United States and Panama. 2. Traditionally, Panama has maintained a rather liberal regime for foreign investment [...]
2006-02-24 20:39:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON EFIN ETRD OPIC KTDB USTR PM
06PANAMA543PANAMA BANANA WORKERS END STRIKE AT COSTA RICAN
[...] (SBU) In response to mediation and a grant from Minister of Labor Reynaldo Rivera, banana workers ended a peaceful strike March 18 that closed the Panama-Costa Rica border for three days. The laborers from Cooperativa de Servicios Multiples de Puerto Armuelles (Coosemupar) blocked trucks and [...]
2006-03-24 20:35:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL
06PANAMA544PANAMA BRACES FOR NORIEGA'S RETURN
[...] (SBU) On Thursday, March 16 Panamanian newspapers reported in banner headlines that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to release former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega on September 9, 2007, after 17 years in a Tampa, Florida prison, and that Noriega would return to Panama. [...]
2006-03-24 20:36:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR PM
06PANAMA723SCENESETTER: AMBASSADOR ARCOS APRIL 26-28 VISIT
[...] (U) This message is confidential. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Panama, I would like to extend our warmest welcome on your upcoming visit to Panama. We see your visit as a key element of our strategy to partner with Panama on its Secure Trade and Transportation [...]
2006-04-20 18:54:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALOVIP PGOV PM PREL
06PARAMARIBO141SURINAME'S STATE-OWNED ELECTRICITY COMPANY NEARING
[...] News that Suriname's state-owned electric utility company, EBS, will need to file for bankruptcy unless the Government of Suriname (GOS) quickly intervenes to prevent a shutdown has jostled Surinamers. The Minister of Natural Resources, Gregory Rusland, has asked the government's accounting o [...]
2006-03-07 19:16:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON TRGY KTDB NS
06PARAMARIBO214STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY: DVC SPARKS DISCUSSION ON
[...] (U) Embassy Paramaribo held a Digital Video Conference (DVC) titled "Preparing for Elections, It's Never too Early to Start" on April 7 to stimulate discussion between U.S. and Surinamese election experts on improving electoral systems in Suriname. Over the last decade, democracy has taken ho [...]
2006-04-13 20:19:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI ECON NS
06PARAMARIBO272PARTICULARS CONCERNING SEPTEMBER REGIONAL
[...] (U) As noted in reftel, the Government of Suriname will host an international anti-narcotics conference from 7-8 September 2006 in Paramaribo. The Minister of Justice and Police Chandrikapersad Santokhi has now formally invited representatives of the U.S. Government to attend the conference vi [...]
2006-05-10 14:40:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM PGOV PREL NS
06PARAMARIBO415SUMMARY OF SURINAMESE PRESS COVERAGE OF ROGER KHAN
[...] The deportation of Roger Khan from Suriname and speculation of possible U.S. involvement dominated the news on Thursday and Friday (June 29-30). (See Reftel). All electronic media and print covered the story extensively. Radio and TV broadcasts focused on a chaotic parliamentary meeting Thursd [...]
2006-06-30 19:53:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM PREL PGOV KPAO NS
06PARAMARIBO416ASSET FORFEITURE AND FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Assistant U.S. attorney Leslie Westphal and FBI special agent Joseph Boyer conducted an intensive three-day workshop on utilizing asset forfeiture and preparing financial prosecutions with Surinamese prosecutors, investigators, and a legislative expert from May 22-24. The works [...]
2006-06-30 19:55:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM SNAR ECON PGOV PREL NS
06PARAMARIBO723SURINAME: 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] Post presents its 2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT (INCSR),Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control. Suriname I. Summary Suriname is a transit point for South American cocaine en route to Europe and, to a lesser extent, the United States, and has been a transit country [...]
2006-11-09 18:38:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM NS
06PARIS1006 UNESCO: INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE CONVENTION
[...] SUMMARY: On February 9, 2006 UNESCO hosted an information session for member states on the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Director General (DG),Matsuura and Assistant Director General (ADG) for Culture, Bouchenaki outlined the next steps for the impleme [...]
2006-02-16 15:48:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL AORC UNESCO
06PARIS1036DEBY BETTER OFF AFTER TRIPOLI. UN DROPPING THE
[...] (C) Summary: The French Presidency is relieved at the outcome of the Tripoli summit, which has significantly defused tensions between Sudan and Chad. Elysee Africa Cell Deputy Labriolle reported that Libya was pleased to have demonstrated its diplomatic credibility and had laid the groundwo [...]
2006-02-17 16:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM IV SU CD FR
06PARIS104MFA, PRESIDENCY ADDRESS UPCOMING MORALES VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 5 discussion of ref A demarche, an MFA official indicated that President Chirac would urge Bolivian president-elect Morales January 7 to govern responsibly and inclusively. Chirac will counsel prudence in moving forward with stated plans to nationalize the natural g [...]
2006-01-06 18:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV FR BO CO
06PARIS1068MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Transatlantic Relations -
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-21 11:18:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1106 IPDC BUREAU UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Oliver spoke with the Ambassador of the Netherlands on February 17, 2006 and confirmed that the Dutch Ambassador still plans to run for the Group I seat on the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) Bureau. In the meantime, the Greek Amb [...]
2006-02-23 06:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC EAID UNESCO
06PARIS1113UDF LEADER FRANCOIS BAYROU REVIEWS HIS CENTRIST
[...] (C) Summary: At a meeting with Ambassador Stapleton on February 16, Union for French Democracy (UDF) leader Francois Bayrou reaffirmed "that France needs a centrist alternative" (ref B). He admitted, however, that the French persist in thinking in terms of "right and left," making it unlikely [...]
2006-02-23 12:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS1130GOF REAFFIRMS QUARTET CONDITIONS, NO-CONTACT WITH
[...] (C) Summary: MFA and Elysee contacts continue to reiterate GoF attachment to the Quartet conditions and that the GoF has no intention of seeking contacts with Hamas. At the same time, GOF contacts remain reluctant to prejudge the consequences of Hamas refusal to meet Quartet conditions on EU [...]
2006-02-23 17:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL IS PTER EUN FR
06PARIS12362/21 STAFFDEL TALWAR VISIT: IRAN, IRAQ,
[...] (C) Summary: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staff Members Puneet Talwar and Tomicah Tilleman met a series of senior French officials February 21, in discussions that addressed Iran, Iraq, Syria/Lebanon, NATO/Darfur, Hamas, regional reform, and counterterrorism. On Iran, Chirac's Mi [...]
2006-02-28 11:43:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL IR PARM IZ SY LE KPAL IS KDEM PTER SU
06PARIS1264MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush to India
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-01 11:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1282SUDAN -- URGENT DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF ARAB LEAGUE
[...] (C) Pol/MC discussed AMIS re-hatting (ref) with MFA Africa Bureau PDAS Elisabeth Barbier March 1. Barbier fully concurred with our analysis of the current situation, and undertook to review what the French might be able to do in support of the demarches we are making in Tripoli, Cairo and e [...]
2006-03-01 13:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU KPKO FR
06PARIS1289FRENCH DONATIONS TO IRAQI AND AFGHAN SECURITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post delivered reftel points to various MFA and MOD officials responsible for Iraq, Afghanistan and NATO. On Iraq, the regional bureau described itself as "not opposed" to providing assistance but adduced a number of preconditions to be fulfilled that make assistance unlikely. [...]
2006-03-01 16:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL
06PARIS1296(C) MFA RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE TO EU-3 ON
[...] (C) Summary: In a preliminary reaction to the U.S. white paper on Syria/Lebanon (ref A),MFA A/S-equivalent for NEA Thibault sought to emphasize the positive, while offering a variety of legalistic arguments on why EU sanctions on Syria were inadvisable or unachievable at this juncture. Thiba [...]
2006-03-01 18:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL SY LE FR
06PARIS1304PARIS CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE FINANCING FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Chirac can call his "Conference on Innovative Financing for Development" a success, at least by the standards the GOF had very likely set at the outset: during the Conference, eleven countries announced their intention to follow the French example and institute a tax [...]
2006-03-02 10:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN EIND FR
06PARIS1330CHIRAC VISIT TO INDIA: FOCUS ON BUSINESS, NUCLEAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA India desk officer told us February 28 that Chirac's February 19-21 visit to India focused primarily on further improving business relations and exploring French-Indian nuclear cooperation; other issues included military and space cooperation. While the two countries deliv [...]
2006-03-02 17:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP IN IR FR
06PARIS1352AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. DROC 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. SENEGAL 5. BURUNDI 6. MAURITANIA 7. UGANDA 8. KENYA 9. ZIMBABWE 10. NIGERIA Â [...]
2006-03-03 15:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS1410FRANCE NOT KEEN ON NORWEGIAN PROPOSAL FOR SECURITY
[...] (C) Per reftel, on March 6 we informed the MFA of Norway's interest in initiating a broad security dialog with Iran and U.S. reaction against the initiative at this time. Nicolas Roche, who works on Iran-EU3 negotiations in the MFA's Strategic Affairs bureau, said the Norwegians had also share [...]
2006-03-06 17:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU NO FR
06PARIS1428PARIS-BASED HARIRI ADVISOR ON LEBANON INTERNAL
[...] (C) Summary: During a recent discussion, Basile Yared, a leading Paris-based advisor to Sa'ad Hariri, praised the Secretary for delivering the right message in Beirut on the SIPDIS need for a peaceful, constitutional presidential transition in Lebanon. Yared speculated that it would take t [...]
2006-03-07 10:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SY LE EG SA FR
06PARIS1486CHIRAC VISIT TO INDIA: FOCUS ON BUSINESS, NUCLEAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA India desk officer told us February 28 that Chirac's February 19-21 visit to India focused primarily on further improving business relations and exploring French-Indian nuclear cooperation; other issues included military and space cooperation. While the two countries deliv [...]
2006-03-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP IN IR FR
06PARIS1488SUPPORTING THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Reftel points were delivered to French officials at the MFA and CEA (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique) who recommended to USG attention French President Chirac's immediate public statement in support of the U.S.-India agreement as well as his own visit to India a week prior to [...]
2006-03-08 17:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKSCA KNNP PREL ENRG PARM ETTC IN FR
06PARIS1568PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the March 7 Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed on an approach for dealing with Angola's arrears to the Club, consistent with US objectives. The Secretariat will call on Angola to resume payments to Paris Club creditors in excess of scheduled debt service, such that arrears are redu [...]
2006-03-13 10:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS1719(C) FRENCH MFA ON POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS WITH
[...] (C) On the margins of a March 15 discussion on human rights in Syria (reftel),MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herve Besancenot commented briefly on March 8-9 political consultations in Cairo between France and Egypt, for which the French delegation was led by MFA Political Director Stanis [...]
2006-03-17 15:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL LE SY EG KISL UNSC FR
06PARIS1720FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER RICHARD: INSIGHTS ON EU
[...] (C) In a meeting March 9, Ambassador Stapleton and former defense minister Alain Richard exchanged views on the roles of NATO and the ESDP, on the steady continuity in France's defense policies under Richard's successor (current Defense Minister Michele Aliot-Marie),and on French domestic pol [...]
2006-03-17 15:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON MARR
06PARIS1776FRENCH AF DAS DISCUSSES SUDAN (AMIS/UN),DJIBOUTI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Helen Le Gal, MFA DAS-equivalent for East and Central Africa, on March 20 said that France would take a low-key approach to lobbying Africans on the AMIS/UN issue, to avoid exacerbating anti-Western phobias. She stressed the importance of progress in the Abuja talks. An offici [...]
2006-03-20 16:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID SU DJ CG FR
06PARIS1817Ambassador Harty learns France will produce e passport
[...] Summary: Assistant Secretary Maura Harty, accompanied by Paris Deputy Chief of Mission Karl Hofmann and Consul General Donald E. Wells met on March 10 with Claude Gueant, the Cabinet Director at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to discuss the French government's progress in developing an electro [...]
2006-03-21 16:22:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT CVIS FR
06PARIS1851FRANCE: DEMARCHE ON SUDAN/AMIS/UN MISSION
[...] (C) Per ref A, we provided on March 22 ref A talking points on Sudan and the AMIS/UN issue to MFA DAS-equivalent for Central and East Africa Helene Le Gal. In a follow-up discussion the same day, Le Gal said she considered the approach the U.S. intended to take with Arab states at the Arab [...]
2006-03-22 15:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ SU FR
06PARIS1891MEDIA REACTION REPORT - ETA Cease-Fire
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-24 11:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1919MEETING WITH GILCHRIST OLYMPIO: "I'M READY TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Gilchrist Olympio, Paris-based UFC chief and opposition leader, told us March 23 that he was prepared to engage in national dialogue with the Faure regime but asserted that the regime was blocking the dialogue by not agreeing on the naming of a mediator/facilitator of the talks [...]
2006-03-24 16:18:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV PREF PINR TO FR
06PARIS1920DONOR RESPONSE TO AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN
[...] On March 21, ESTH Counselor and Science Affairs Specialist delivered reftel demarche to the French MFA Burma/Thailand desk officer Franck Vermeulen and Ambassador for Avian Influenza Preparedness Jean Garbe. Vermeulen stated that France has no bilateral assistance programs with Burma and it [...]
2006-03-24 16:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO EAGR EAID FR MBM
06PARIS1967FRANCE BRACES FOR ANOTHER DAY OF PROTESTS, AS
[...] (SBU) The weeks of protest (ref A) against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) could well peak tomorrow, March 28. Leftist student associations, backed by the full organizational weight of France's major trade union federations and the center left Socialist Party (PS),h [...]
2006-03-27 18:05:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS2007 UNESCO COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Communication and Information (C and I) Sector of UNESCO held two program council meetings last week - the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) Council and the Information for All Programme (IFAP) Council. IPDC members elected a new chair [...]
2006-03-29 06:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC EAID UNESCO
06PARIS2048AFTERMATH OF MARCH 28 PROTESTS: PRESSURE TO DEFUSE
[...] (SBU) Following March 28's sizable demonstrations against the Villepin government's First Employment Contract (CPE) (refs A and B),there is a growing sense among both the French public and political class that leadership on both sides of the issue should find a way to defuse the burgeoning [...]
2006-03-29 19:47:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC EU FR PINR SOCI ECON
06PARIS2086SUBURBAN UNREST AND STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS: HOW
[...] (C) Summary: Unlike the anarchic violence of November, the current demonstrations by students and organized labor against the First Employment Contract (CPE) have largely proceeded peacefully despite violent acts by bands of underclass suburban youths directed against police and demonstrator [...]
2006-03-30 16:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB ECON FR PINR CASC SOCI
06PARIS2187MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Moussaoui Trial
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-04 11:32:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2259FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL AFRICA ADVISOR OFFERS OVERVIEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor for Africa Jacques Champagne de Labriolle on April 3 provided a broad overview of French Africa policy during a meeting with AF/W Director Phillip Carter. He made the following observations: -- Chad and Cote d'Ivoire were France's main concerns at prese [...]
2006-04-06 12:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL XA IV FR
06PARIS2267MFA OUTLINES FRENCH POSITIONS IN LATIN AMERICA
[...] (C) Summary: MFA A/S-equivalent for WHA Daniel Parfait provided visiting EUR/WE Director Kathy Allegrone with a candid assessment of French positions on Latin American issues April 5, touching on Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, and Haiti. Parfait acknowledged the close relationship Hugo Chavez sha [...]
2006-04-06 15:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV FR VE BO CU HA
06PARIS2300AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. FAMINE IN AFRICA 3. SENEGAL 4. TAYLOR 5. DROC 6. COTE D'IVOIRE Â [...]
2006-04-07 14:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS2318SEEKING FRENCH CONTRIBUTION FOR POLICE TRAINERS AT
[...] (C) Summary and comment: We received mixed initial responses to our appeals to GoF officials to consider contributing police instructors to the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC). GoF Inter-ministerial Coordinator for Iraq Reconstruction Jean-Pierre Guinhut, in a preliminary [...]
2006-04-07 16:49:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM KJUS MARR MCAP MOPS EAID EFIN IZ FR
06PARIS2348TOGO: APRIL 5 MEETING WITH EX-MINISTER BOKO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's ex-Interior Minister Francois Boko said during an April 5 meeting that the regime in Togo feared active U.S. intervention in Togo's affairs and that the U.S. could readily influence events in Togo if it chose to do so, and even compel the leadership to step down, as in Ha [...]
2006-04-10 14:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM TO FR
06PARIS2358FRENCH MFA URGES CLOSE CONSULTATION ON HUMAN
[...] Summary: (C) IO DAS-Equivalent Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen on April 7 regretted that the Human Rights Council (HRC) would be a less credible institution without USG participation. However, she admitted that she herself had urged the MFA not to seek an HRC seat in 2006, but to wait until 2007 [...]
2006-04-11 07:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKUNR PREL PHUM UNGA FR
06PARIS2406MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Oil For Food Iran
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-12 11:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2426 COMMERCIAL ADVOCACY SUCCESS STORY -- GENERAL
[...] (SBU) After two and a half years of advocacy by Embassy Paris, and considerable efforts on the part of Embassy Rome, General Electric (GE) has finally signed a contract to supply propulsion systems to the Franco-Italian Multi- Mission Frigate (FREMM) program. Letters from President Bush, Sec [...]
2006-04-12 16:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP EIND EINV FR IT ETRA
06PARIS2499CHAD: FORMER PM ALINGUE PREDICTS "WAR" IF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Prime Minister of Chad Jean-Bawoyeu Alingue called on us April 12 to discuss events in Chad and report on his activities in Paris. Alingue said he had met last week with Presidential AF Advisor Michel de Bonnecorse and MFA AF A/S-equivalent Bruno Joubert in Paris, but cl [...]
2006-04-14 13:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PINS CD FR
06PARIS2593FRENCH CONDEMN TEL AVIV SUICIDE ATTACK, WITHOUT
[...] (C) Summary: MFA officials offered a disappointing response to reftel points seeking GoF condemnation of the Hamas justification of the April 17 Tel Aviv suicide attack, stressing that the GoF had chosen to "regret" Hamas' reaction rather than condemn Hamas, whom they did not hold responsible [...]
2006-04-19 17:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV PREL KPAL IS PTER FR
06PARIS2610 COUNCIL OF EUROPE: PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary: A somewhat subdued Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE),meeting in Strasbourg April 10-14, continued to wrestle with its overlap with other EU institutions. The PACE dodged a potential minefield when Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) representati [...]
2006-04-20 15:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL COE
06PARIS2713 USUNESCO: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE
[...] C) This cable is classified by DCM Andrew Koss, for reason: 1.4 d. 2. (C) Summary and guidance request. The Director General (DG) sent the Deputy Director General, Marcio Barbosa, to see Ambassador Oliver on April 24 to pass the message that he has chosen Francoise Riviere, the DG's "Che [...]
2006-04-25 13:45:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALSCUL ECON UNESCO
06PARIS2750MFA PERPLEXED AT CONTINUED SNAGS ON UNOCI
[...] (SBU) Summary: French MFA officials reacted with consternation at the formal U.S. request to revisit the French draft resolution to authorize additional UNOCI reinforcements (reftel). IO DAS-Equivalent Simon-Michel and AF DAS-Equivalent Foucher both told poloff on April 25 that they hoped AF [...]
2006-04-26 15:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM FR
06PARIS2774 UNESCO: 174th EXECUTIVE BOARD HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES FOR
[...] Summary: The 174th Executive Board highlighted two major challenges that UNESCO faces in the Natural Sciences Sector. Firstly, the Secretariat needs to define a strategy for UNESCO's category two centers. Secondly, the Secretariat must respond to the demand from member states for cross-secto [...]
2006-04-27 11:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO AORC TSPL EAID SENV KSCI
06PARIS2786 USUNESCO-- IPDC Donors Group Meeting
[...] Summary: A fund raising kick-off meeting of donor states for the International Program for the Development of Communication (IPDC) program was held at UNESCO on April 24 to announce pledges already made by member states and to encourage new pledges for the IPDC "Special Account" fund. The go [...]
2006-04-27 15:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO SCUL UNESCO
06PARIS2889MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Middle East Bolivia -
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-03 14:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3049MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran America's Darfur
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-10 09:51:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3101 REPLY TO BEYOND THE EXECUTIVE BOARD QUESTIONS
[...] The following items respond to Department's questions in reftels. 2. Next steps on Education for All Global Action Plan: Peter Smith, UNESCO's Assistant Director General for Education, was in New York City on April 27 for consultations on the EFA Global Action Plan. He and his UNESCO coll [...]
2006-05-10 15:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO
06PARIS3167SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY SHINER'S VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Embassy Paris and the U.S. Mission to the OECD welcome Undersecretary Shiner's visit to Paris. The largest component of her visit will be with the head of Agence Francaise de Developpement, AFD, Jean-Michel Severino to discuss UN reform in the areas of development policy and humanitari [...]
2006-05-12 15:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREL FR
06PARIS329 UNESCO: GUIDANCE REQUEST ON FUNDING
[...] AS INSTRUCTED REF A, POST INFORMED BOTH UNESCO SECRETARIAT AND ICSU DEPUTY DIRECTOR THAT UNESCO FUNDS SIPDIS PROVIDED TO THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE (ICSU) CAN NOT/NOT BE EXONERATED FROM RESTRICTIONS REGARDING THE USE OF USG FUNDS IN SUPPORT OF ACTIVITIES IN LIBYA, IRAN, CUBA, BUR [...]
2006-01-18 15:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDABUD UNESCO KSI
06PARIS332FRANCE 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Investment Climate Statement Contents A. French Investment Regime A1. Openness to Foreign Investment A2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A3. Expropriation and Compensation A4. Dispute Settlement A5. Performance Requirements and Incentives A6. Right to Private Ownership and Establis [...]
2006-01-18 17:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB FR OPIC USTR
06PARIS3322WSIS - MULTI-LINGUALISM AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is a joint U.S. Mission to UNESCO and U.S. Mission Geneva cable. A joint ITU/UNESCO symposium on "Multi-lingualism in the Internet" was held in Geneva from May 9 to 11, 2006 followed by a UNESCO Meeting on Cultural Diversity (WSIS Action Line C8) and the Internet on May 1 [...]
2006-05-18 11:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO EAID ECON UNESCO
06PARIS3366GOF INCLINED TO SUPPORT UN DECLARATION ON THE
[...] (C) Responding to a May 13 demarche by Australian, U.S., and New Zealand emboffs on the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP),MFA PDAS-equivalent for IO/UN Affairs Jean-Pierre La Croix described the GoF as inclined towards supporting the draft text, despite reservati [...]
2006-05-19 08:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM AORC UN FR
06PARIS3368GOF INCLINED TO SUPPORT UN DECLARATION ON THE
[...] (C) Responding to a May 18 demarche by Australian, U.S., and New Zealand emboffs on the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP),MFA PDAS-equivalent for IO/UN Affairs Jean-Pierre La Croix described the GoF as inclined towards supporting the draft text, despite reservati [...]
2006-05-19 10:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM AORC UN FR
06PARIS3450 UNESCO REFORM: NEW STRATEGY UNVEILED ON VOLUNTARY
[...] This is a Guidance Request, see para 4. 2. Summary and Comment: UNESCO Extrabudgetary Funding Director Moller briefed Geneva Group members on the Director general's plans for a more strategic approach to extra-budgetary resources; these now account for more than half of UNESCO's funding. T [...]
2006-05-22 16:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EAID KSCA SOCI UNESCO
06PARIS3471U.S.-FRENCH CONSULTATIONS ON UN ISSUES: UN REFORM,
[...] (C) Summary: IO PDAS Jim Warlick's May 19 meeting with MFA IO A/S-equivalent Sylvie Bermann focused primarily on UN reform issues -- namely the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC),Human Rights Council (HRC),and management reform -- with SYG elections, Darfur, Cote d'Ivoire, and UNSC elections dis [...]
2006-05-23 13:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA UNSC AORC SU IV FR
06PARIS351MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Ivory Coast -
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-19 11:31:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3611FRENCH URGE FURTHER GROUNDWORK ON BURMA DRAFT
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy reviewed the draft resolution and talking points with French MFA, which confirmed its backing for the USG initiative to raise Burma within the Security Council (Ref A). IO DAS-Equivalent Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel observed May 26 that it was imperative to capitalize on the [...]
2006-05-31 10:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM FR
06PARIS3722MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Palestine - Hamas -
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-05 11:00:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3919 FRANCE: CHARLES DE GAULLE AND WASHINGTON-DULLES AIRPORTS
[...] (SBU) Post wishes to highlight an innovative proposed "sister-airport" link between Paris' Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport and Washington-Dulles airport. The idea -- for a limited information and "best practices" exchange -- was originally formulated in November 2005 by Dulles security offici [...]
2006-06-09 15:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PTER FR
06PARIS3927AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. CHAD 3. SENEGAL 4. MALI 5. COTE 6. MAURITANIA 7. SOMALIA 8. SUDAN 9. NIGERIA Â [...]
2006-06-12 08:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS396 UNESCO: AMBASSADOR GROSS MEETS ADG KHAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Ambassador David A. Gross met with the UNESCO Assistant Director General for Communication and Information, Abdul Waheed Khan and Director of the Informatio [...]
2006-01-20 14:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC EAID UNESCO
06PARIS404 USUNESCO GUIDANCE REQUEST: TRANSFORMATIONAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUEST: The UNESCO International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC),a UNESCO program established by the United States in the early 1980s to support the free flow of information in developing countries, will hold elections to its bureau in Ma [...]
2006-01-20 17:15:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC EAID UNESCO
06PARIS406CHIRAC UPDATES FRENCH NUCLEAR DEFENSE DOCTRINE TO
[...] (C) Summary and comment: In a January 19 speech before an audience of MPs and military personnel at the L'ile Longue submarine base in Brittany, French President Chirac expanded on France's nuclear defense doctrine, last enunciated in 2001, suggesting the possibility of a nuclear response to t [...]
2006-01-20 17:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC PARM PTER FR
06PARIS4080NUDGING DEBY ON DIALOGUE. MFA REMARKS ON CHAD,
[...] (C) Summary: French Minister of Cooperation Girardin will deliver a clear message to President Deby in Chad this week on the necessity for national dialogue, according to MFA AF DAS-Equivalent Foucher. The unusual presence of French Presidential Africa Adviser Bonnecorse on Girardin's trip [...]
2006-06-15 14:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR IV CT TO CD FR
06PARIS4176 FRENCH TV TF-1 REQUEST TO INTERVIEW POTUS
[...] SUMMARY. France's leading private television station has contacted the Ambassador to request an interview with President Bush in advance of the G-8 meetings. We strongly endorse this request and ask (para 6) Department concurrence and support in securing White House approval. END SUMMARY. [...]
2006-06-19 07:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PREL FR
06PARIS4183MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. Diplomacy - Iran
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-19 12:42:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4225(C) PESSIMISTIC ELYSEE LINE ON LEBANON/SYRIA
[...] (C) Summary: Chirac's Middle East advisor Dominique Boche recently shared a pessimistic assessment of Lebanon/Syria developments, criticizing UNSYG Annan's passivity on the issue, and citing the potential for the Lebanese government to collapse, amid internal divisions and active undermining [...]
2006-06-20 10:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL LE SY IR PTER FR
06PARIS4243 MISSION FRANCE'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE AMERICAN PRESENCE
[...] (SBU) American Presence Posts (APP),active in France since 1999, play a key role in this mission's transformational diplomacy efforts. The concept is replicable in other countries, but Missions need to remain flexible as they adapt the APP concept to local conditions. Key factors to consi [...]
2006-06-20 16:15:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ADIP AMGT ASEC BEXP CASC SCUL FR
06PARIS4258UNESCO: MEETINGS ON MIGRATION, "RIGHT TO THE CITY," AND THE
[...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. On June 14 DCM and HHS Attache met with members of the UNESCO secretariat to discuss UNESCO's Migration without Borders and the Right to the City programs. Paul de Guchteneire, Chief of the International Migration Section, and Wataru Iwamoto, Director of Social Scie [...]
2006-06-21 11:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG UNESCO UN IOM
06PARIS431 UNESCO AMBASSADORS ON POST WSIS SCENE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communication and Information Policy and U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO Louise V. Oliver met with a select group of UNESCO Ambassadors, including members of the Information for All Programme Council, to exchange view [...]
2006-01-24 06:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC UNESCO
06PARIS4360(C) MFA OFFICIAL ASSAILS EU LACK OF SOLIDARITY ON
[...] (C) Summary and comment: MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herve Besancenot (protect throughout),during a June 22 farewell chat with poloff, criticized other EU members -- Spain and Austria in particular -- for going soft on Syria, and offered similar criticism of the Elysee for its more a [...]
2006-06-23 14:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL SY IS PGOV FR
06PARIS4386DEPARTING MFA NEA A/S-EQUIVALENT JEAN-FRANCOIS
[...] (U) Post offers the following biographic report on Jean-Francois Thibault, newly named French Ambassador to Rabat, who leaves his current position as MFA A/S-equivalent for North Africa/Middle East on June 27, 2006 and is expected to arrive in Rabat shortly thereafter. His MFA successor has n [...]
2006-06-26 13:43:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPINR XF MO FR
06PARIS4443FRENCH CONFERENCE ON WMD PROLIFERATION FINANCING
[...] (C/REL France, UK, Germany, Italy) SUMMARY: At a cordial, exploratory conference hosted by France on June 20, French, German, Italian, UK, and US participants committed to work together to implement the G8 Gleaneagles Statement to identify, track and freeze WMD proliferation-related assets and [...]
2006-06-27 15:51:00Embassy ParisSECRETEFIN PREL KNNP ETTC PARM FR
06PARIS4511UNESCO: STRIVING FOR RESULTS BASED MANAGEMENT AT THE WORLD
[...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On May 30, 2006, consultant Bruno Lefevre gave a presentation about his work to institute Results Based Management (RBM) at the World Heritage (WH) Center. He was one of two consultants hired to examine the RBM framework and World Heritage System model, and propose [...]
2006-06-30 08:54:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDAORC SCUL KSCA SENV UNESCO
06PARIS4549 THE SPIRALING PUBLIC DEBT, Part I
[...] SUMMARY. A government-commissioned report has warned that the current financial situation could spiral out of control unless a freeze is put on government spending over the next five years. The report recommendations are likely to become an issue leading up to the 2007 presidential elections. [...]
2006-06-30 16:05:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON PGOV FR
06PARIS4586FRENCH ADOPT NUCLEAR WASTE LAW -- DECISIVE STEP TOWARDS
[...] Summary: In June, on time and non-confrontationally, the French Parliament adopted a key law to regulate nuclear materials and waste well into the future. The legislation confirms reversible, deep geological disposal as the reference solution for high-level, long-lived waste (HLLLW),with 201 [...]
2006-07-05 07:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TSPL TPHY KSCA FR KNUC
06PARIS4628MEDIA REACTION REPORT - North Korea Missile Tests
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-06 11:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4650CAUTIOUS FRENCH INTEREST IN PARNERSHIP FOR BETTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Policy Planning (S/P) Director Dr. Stephen Krasner met with French officials and MFA consultants June 23-24 to discuss the nascent initiative for a "Partnership for Better Governance Group" (PBGG). Krasner explained the PBGG would be a multilateral effort with interested deve [...]
2006-07-07 09:27:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM EAID UNGA FR
06PARIS4673 UNESCO REFORM: GENEVA GROUP TO TACKLE UN "COHERENCE"
[...] This is a Guidance Request, see para 3. 2. At its July 12 meeting, the UNESCO Geneva Group of donor member states will focus on the ongoing exercise to enhance UN system-wide coherence in the areas of humanitarian assistance, the environment and development. The meeting will start with a [...]
2006-07-07 15:43:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EAID KSCA SOCI UNESCO
06PARIS4674 UNESCO: BRIEFING ON EDUCATION SECTOR REFORM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Peter Smith, UNESCO's Assistant Director General for Education, briefed representatives from the Executive Board's Group I countries on his plans for reform of UNESCO's Education Sector, July 6 at UNESCO headquarters. Smith announced that he has put the plan into action as of [...]
2006-07-07 15:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSCUL UNESCO
06PARIS4812FRENCH ATTENDANCE AT MTCR SMALL GROUP
[...] (C) On July 10, we delivered to the MFA ref A invitation (and conference information) to attend the MTCR Small Group Consultations on the UAV/Cruise Missile proposal. On July 13, the MFA officer covering MTCR issues, David Bertolotti, provided the following list of French participants -- Da [...]
2006-07-13 14:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM MTCR MNUC ETTC FR
06PARIS4864MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Iran -G8 Summit
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-18 10:47:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4944MEDIA REACTION REPORT -
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-20 10:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4955UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' JULY 13 MEETING WITH INDIAN
[...] (U) July 13, 2006; 10:30AM - 2:45PM; Paris, FRANCE 2. (U) Participants: U.S. U/S Nicolas Burns Anja Manuel, P Staff Political Officer Greg D'Elia, U.S. Embassy, Paris Political Officer Leslie Ordeman, U.S. Embassy, Paris (notetaker) India: Foreign Minister Saran S. Jaishankar, H [...]
2006-07-20 16:45:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL BM NP CE IR IZ VE GT CU FR
06PARIS4967AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. NOTE 3. AFRICA: CULTURE, ART, DIVERSIONS 4. RWANDA 5. AFRICAN CONTINENT 6. WEST AFRICA 7. ANGOLA 8. COTE D'IVOIRE 9. BURKINA FASO Â [...]
2006-07-21 11:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS5020MEDIA REACTION REPORT -
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-25 11:33:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5028 UNESCO ETHICS PROGRAMS, THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
[...] Summary and comment. The World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) held an "extraordinary" session in Paris on June 27-28, 2006. This meeting was held to brief members on current activities and to obtain recommendations on next steps in three areas of "et [...]
2006-07-25 13:15:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO TBIO
06PARIS5051BEATING THE HEAT: GOF ON ALERT
[...] Soaring temperatures in France since mid-July are considered responsible for the death of at least 30 people. Anxious to avoid a repeat of the 2003 heat wave catastrophe (15,000 deaths, reftel),the GOF recently implemented an updated heat wave plan (Plan National contre la Canicule, or PNC). [...]
2006-07-25 15:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TSPA TSPL KSCA FR
06PARIS5057(S) NIAG 6104: PAKISTANI NUCLEAR-RELATED PROCUREMENT IN FRANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-25 16:19:00Embassy ParisSECRETETTC FR KNNP MNUC PARM PK PREL
06PARIS5078FRENCH RESPONSE TO INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE
[...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche on July 26 to Natalie Morro in the MFA Archives Office and Claude Chavance in MFA Legal Affairs. Both interlocutors confirmed that the GoF did not anticipate any major obstacles to the ratification of the amendments. They noted the ratification of the text by [...]
2006-07-26 17:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KNAR FR
06PARIS5182TOGO: MEETING WITH GILCHRIST OLYMPIO: UPBEAT BUT
[...] (U) This is an action message: See para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Togolese opposition leader and UFC chief Gilchrist Olympio told us on July 27 that he agreed to the naming of Burkina Faso President Campaore as facilitator for political dialogue between the GOT and opposition political grou [...]
2006-08-01 09:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TO FR
06PARIS5238FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES COTE D'IVOIRE AND
[...] (C) In an August 2 meeting on Chad and Sudan (septel),MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher offered brief comments on Cote d'Ivoire and Togo. 2. (C) On Cote d'Ivoire, Foucher expressed strong dismay at the lack of progress in the identification, disarmament, demobilization, [...]
2006-08-02 16:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM CI TO FR
06PARIS5276 U.S. DELEGATION REPORT: 30TH SESSION OF THE WORLD HERITAGE
[...] Summary: The World Heritage Committee, the 21-nation governing body of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention, held its 30th Session in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8-16, 2006. The Committee added eighteen cultural and natural sites to the prestigious World Heritage List and also decided to rem [...]
2006-08-03 16:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL UNESCO LH
06PARIS5309PKK IN EUROPE: GOF ON SUSTAINING MOMENTUM
[...] (S) Poloff followed up informally August 4 with MFA Turkey Desk Officer Pascal Schuster to discuss potential French interest in a trilateral working group concept as brainstormed in REF A. 2. (S) Schuster explained that, to his knowledge, the French embassy in Ankara had not yet reported [...]
2006-08-07 10:26:00Embassy ParisSECRETPTER KFTN TU GM FR UK
06PARIS5341USG Delegation Report on 17th Meeting of the UNESCO
[...] A US delegation participated in the 17th meeting of the UNESCO International Hydrology Program (IHP) Intergovernmental Council (IGC) at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, July 3-7, 2006. The delegation consisted of: Mathew C. Larsen, U.S. Geological Survey (head of delegation),Verne R. Sch [...]
2006-08-07 16:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO KS AORC TSPL EAID KSCI SENV SOCI
06PARIS537 UNESCO: ROLLS OUT EDUCATION SECTOR REFORM TO
[...] Summary. UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education, Peter Smith, held an information meeting regarding Education Sector reform on January 13, 2006. The purpose of the meeting was to get buy-in for proposed Education Sector reforms from Member State Delegations. Unfortunately, the meet [...]
2006-01-26 18:19:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL KPAO UNESCO
06PARIS5383UNESCO: MEETINGS ON MIGRATION, "RIGHT TO THE CITY," AND THE
[...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. On June 14 DCM and Health Attache met with members of the UNESCO secretariat to discuss UNESCO's Migration without Borders and the Right to the City programs. Paul de Guchteneire, Chief of the International Migration Section, and Wataru Iwamoto, Director of Social S [...]
2006-08-08 16:28:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SMIG UN IOM
06PARIS5461UNESCO STAFF SEE WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY AS EXPANSION OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: John Van Oudenaren, Senior Advisor for the Library of Congress (LOC) World Digital Library Initiative (WDL),held an informational meeting with working level UNESCO staff and two separate meetings on June 20 and 21 with staff from the UNESCO Director-General's (DG) office. Eliz [...]
2006-08-11 15:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO AINF APER BBSR SCUL AINT EINT TINT KPAO
06PARIS553LONG ARM OF FRENCH LAW: INVESTIGATIONS IN AFRICA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-27 15:18:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM TO DJ CI RW FR
06PARIS5595MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - Cease-Fire Violation -
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-21 10:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5653 UNESCO: LEBANON UPDATE
[...] Charge spoke August 23 with Lebanese Charge Salim Baddoura for an update on UNESCO?s involvement with Lebanon. Baddoura said that a UNESCO team arrived in Lebanon on August 22 and has already met with the Minister of Culture and will be meeting shortly with the Ministry of Education. The cu [...]
2006-08-23 15:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCUL LE IS
06PARIS5697FRENCH SHARE CONCERNS ON HRC; NOTE NOMINATION FOR
[...] (C) Acting Polcouns shared ref A points August 21 with newly arrived MFA DAS-equivalent for UN Human Rights Affairs Jacques Pellet and discussed ref A demarche with him August 24, highlighting growing U.S. concerns with the Council's lack of balance and objectivity, particularly as demonstrate [...]
2006-08-24 17:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNHRC FR
06PARIS5713MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon - France's Commitment
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-25 12:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5733CHINA IN AFRICA: FRENCH ARE WATCHING CLOSELY AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: French observers believe China's growing presence in Africa reflects a strategic decision by the PRC to exploit a resource-rich continent susceptible to an aggressive Chinese approach. French contacts express apprehension at Chinese inroads into areas of Africa onc [...]
2006-08-25 15:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ECON EAID ETRD CH XA FR
06PARIS574 USUNESCO GUIDANCE REQUEST: NEW INFORMATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUEST: Mission has obtained new information on possible Dutch and Greek candidacies for the International Program for the Development of Communication Bureau (IPDC). Mission has learned that although the Dutch have given 2 million USD to the program over the pa [...]
2006-01-30 12:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC EAID UNESCO
06PARIS5768 (U) UNESCO: LEBANON RESOLUTION UPDATE II
[...] (U) Classified by Andrew Koss, Deputy Chief of Mission, reason 1.4. (D) 2. (C) Summary. Though the resolution tabled by Lebanon and Morocco on Lebanese reconstruction to be discussed at the next UNESCO Executive Board (EB) (Sept. 26 - Oct. 12) remains just a place-holder and has yet to be [...]
2006-08-29 09:34:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNESCO SCUL UNSC AL
06PARIS5815MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Lebanon
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-30 10:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5848FRANCE/BURUNDI: AMBASSADOR MOLLER'S AUGUST 22
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA and MOD officials expressed views on Burundi and the Great Lakes region similar to those of the U.S. during August 22 discussions with visiting U.S. Ambassador to Burundi Patricia Moller. MFA officials expressed concern about the recent arrests in Burundi in connect [...]
2006-08-31 10:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM BY FR
06PARIS5944FRANCE OFFERS UNEQUIVOCAL SUPPORT FOR PUTTING
[...] (C) We delivered reftel point on September 5 to Jeremie Petit, the Burma desk officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In response, he reiterated France's staunch support for putting Burma on the U.N. Security Council's agenda. Petit said France is very concerned about Burma's ongoing conte [...]
2006-09-05 16:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM FR
06PARIS6048BIRMA/UNSC AGENDA: FRANCE CONFIRMS SUPPORT
[...] In response to reftel demarche, MFA IO DAS-equivalent for political affairs Jean-Hughues Simon-Michel indicated to Deputy PolCouns September 8 that France continues to support inscribing Burma formally onto the UNSC agenda. He was gratified to learn that the U.S. now believes it has ten vote [...]
2006-09-11 08:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNSC BM FR
06PARIS6075TSA & FRENCH CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY ON AVIATION
[...] (SBU). In a detailed September 5 discussion, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Kip Hawley and France DGAC Director General Michel Wachenheim discussed aircraft security in the wake of the recent foiled plot in the UK. [...]
2006-09-11 15:31:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON PTER ASEC FR
06PARIS6095MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush - 9/11 - Iraq Middle
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-12 11:00:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6172FRENCH COMMEMORATIONS OF 9/11 5TH ANNIVERSARY
[...] On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of September 11th, Post engaged a number of French institutions and government representatives to help commemorate this significant date. Below is a listing of the events in Paris and the provinces. Ceremonies included: a religious service at the Ameri [...]
2006-09-14 11:01:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO FR
06PARIS6178MFA COMMENTS ON COTE D'IVOIRE, TOGO AND CHAD
[...] Summary: MFA AF DAS-Equivalent Bruno Foucher on September 12 said President Chirac would call attention to the financial cost of French support for Operation Licorne in Cote d'Ivoire in upcoming UN meetings and indicate the possibility of an adjustment to French force deployment if the peac [...]
2006-09-14 14:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC CD TO IV FR
06PARIS6189FRANCE WANTS MORE CONCRETE MEASURES TO GIVE TEETH
[...] (C) Summary: MFA nonproliferation office, while reiterating France's steadfast support for international efforts to constrain North Korea's weapons program and enforce UNSCR 1695, expressed some concern about a perceived lack of concrete mechanisms -- whether in the Proliferation Security Init [...]
2006-09-14 16:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP MNUC WMD CT PTER KN KS FR
06PARIS6195UNGA: FRENCH PARTICIPATION IN HAITI KEY PLAYERS
[...] In response to reftel invitation, MFA Americas Bureau PDAS-equivalent Jean-Marc Laforet told us September 14 that France would be keenly interested in attending such a meeting. 2. On September 15, Laforet's office indicated that France would be represented by IO Assistant Secretary equival [...]
2006-09-15 10:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC UNGA HA FR
06PARIS6225 BRAZIL FIELD OFFICE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Efforts by Brazil's ambassador to UNESCO to convince the US to have the Executive Board abandon its inquiries into alleged irregularities at the Brasilia field office did not go as planned, and could give new momentum to push the investigation further. End summary. 2. (SBU) [...]
2006-09-15 15:32:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNESCO SCUL BR
06PARIS6244FRANCE/DARFUR: MFA CURBS MOVEMENT OF DARFUR
[...] (C) JEM leader and Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) rejectionist Khalil Ibrahim is effectively grounded on European territory (Schengen Zone),after the French MFA intervened in August with national civil authorities to block renewal of his laissez-passer, AF DAS-Equivlalent Helen Le Gal informed [...]
2006-09-18 14:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ETTC CD SU FR
06PARIS6251 UNESCO -- A NEW VIEW ON ITS EXTRA-BUDGETARY FUTURE
[...] Summary: A day long debate at UNESCO raised the profile on the growing importance of extra-budgetary funding for the organization, and the associated challenges and problems that come with such voluntary contributions. Craig Kennedy, President of the US German Marshall Fund, was among the best [...]
2006-09-18 16:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCUL
06PARIS630France: Telecom and Information Technology Update
[...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- France Telecom preparing for difficult 2006 (para 2) -- Bad results followed by management shake-up (para 3) -- ARCEP raps Fra [...]
2006-01-31 16:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ETRD FR
06PARIS6323PARIS CLUB - SEPTEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the September 13 meeting of the Paris Club, Xavier Musca, the Chairman of the Paris Club, reported that Angolan Finance Minister de Morais had told him the previous week that Angola is still considering a precautionary Stand-By Arrangement with the IMF, with the understanding that th [...]
2006-09-20 15:01:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS6338FRANCE URGES COLLABORATION TO INSURE WIDESPREAD
[...] (C). This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: The MFA's IO bureau, while reiterating France's support for a UN Security Council resolution on Burma, cautioned against moving too quickly absent sufficient support and given the possibility of a Chinese veto. IO Office Dire [...]
2006-09-21 11:45:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM
06PARIS6390GOF TAKE ON IRAN SANCTIONS
[...] (C) Daniel Parfait, A/S-equivalent for the Americas Bureau at the MFA, assured a visiting California State Senate delegation on September 21 that France and the USG are in complete agreement on the way forward with Iran. He said President Chirac,s determination to prevent Iran from acquiring [...]
2006-09-25 15:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL EFIN ETTC KTFN KNNP IR FR
06PARIS6498FRANCE OPPOSES VENEZUELA UNSC SEAT BUT RELUCTANT
[...] (C) In a September 27 meeting with poloff on other issues (prior to reception of ref A),MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini commented that Venezuela would do great harm to Security Council credibility, if elected. That said, Giacomini thought it significant that Venezuela had come up shor [...]
2006-09-28 13:15:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL VE UNSC FR MARR MASS
06PARIS655 USUNESCO: AMBASSADOR GROSS MEETS DIRECTOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO, Louise V. Oliver met with UNESCO's Director General Koichiro Matsuura and Assistant Director Gener [...]
2006-02-01 12:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON KPAO ECPS ETRD EINT ETTC EAID UNESCO
06PARIS6614 UNESCO REFORM: F/A EXPERTS MEETING HIGHLIGHTS BRASILIA
[...] Summary and INTRODUCTION: At the September 27-29 meeting of UNESCO's Financial and Administrative (f/A) experts' group, the U.S, delegation: raised questions on the legal risks posed by the Brasilia office, underlining the Executive board's fiduciary responsibilities and urging that Brasilia [...]
2006-10-04 15:05:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO AORC EAID
06PARIS6721 FRANCE: R/V CORWITH CRAMER RESEARCH CLEARANCE REQUEST:
[...] (U) Embassy received research clearance for the subject vessel (Reftel A) from the MFA under cover of diplomatic note number 1202/AME dated 11 October 2006. The note states that the French authorities have no objection to the research campaign of the Corwith Cramer in the French waters of th [...]
2006-10-12 10:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY KRVC EWWT FR
06PARIS6752BERNARD KOUCHNER'S CANDIDACY FOR DIRECTOR GENERAL
[...] (SBU) Bernard Kouchner met with the Ambassador October 12 to lobby for his candidacy as Director General of the World Health Organization. His purpose was not to seek outright U.S. support for his candidacy, but rather support for including him on the short list of final candidates. Kouchner [...]
2006-10-13 11:00:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFR PGOV WHO
06PARIS6835 UNESCO: PHILANTHROPY EXPERT SPEAKS ON PRIVATE SECTOR
[...] SUMMARY: On September 14, 2006 Craig Kennedy, President of the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States, participated in UNESCO's Day of Reflection and Dialogue on Extrabudgetary Activities where he emphasized the need for UNESCO to develop more effective ways to build private-sector p [...]
2006-10-17 11:17:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO UNESCO
06PARIS6842MFA DISCUSSES COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (S) Summary: In a meeting on October 16, MFA DAS-equivalent for Security in the Bureau of Strategic Affairs, Pierre Thenard, outlined generally positive French views on the Terrorist Inciters/Facilitators Initiative. Thenard inquired about [...]
2006-10-17 13:35:00Embassy ParisSECRETPTER PGOV PREL FR
06PARIS6845CHIRAC'S AFRICA ADVISER ON UNSC ELECTIONS, DARFUR
[...] (C) Summary: DCM met with Presidential African Affairs Counselor Michel de Bonnecorse on October 12 to follow up on French advocacy with Francophone sub-Saharan Africans to bolster the Security Council candidacy of Guatemala. Bonnecorse confirmed his intervention with the AU President and wi [...]
2006-10-17 14:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC SU IV FR
06PARIS685MEDIA REACTION REPORT - State of the Union
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-02 12:05:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6946MFA A/S-EQUIVALENT PESSIMISTIC ON TURKEY-EU TRAIN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA A/S-equivalent for European Union affairs Gilles Briatta told us October 20 that Turkey understood that the French National Assembly's passage of legislation criminalizing denial of the Armenian "genocide" was only a first parliamentary step, and that Turkey had managed the [...]
2006-10-23 06:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EU TU CY PGOV RS ENRG ETRD
06PARIS7024SCENESETTER FOR NSA HADLEY'S NOVEMBER 3-4 VISIT TO
[...] (C) When you meet him, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne's focus will be on some of the same subjects that are currently preoccupying us: Iran, Syria/Lebanon and NATO (global partnerships, Afghanistan.) We would expect MGM to be in his usual cooperative, problem-solving mode on the first two, wher [...]
2006-10-25 17:34:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL FR NATO KNNP IR IZ LE SY IS RS GG
06PARIS7057EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Visiting EUR DAS Bryza and EUR/CARC Conflicts Advisor Crosby met with newly arrived MFA Deputy Political Director and A/S-equivalent for non-EU Europe October 24 to exchange views -- in advance of Georgian FM Bezhuashvili's November 7 visit to Paris -- on next steps on Russia-Ge [...]
2006-10-27 08:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR GG RS NATO EU KDEM MARR
06PARIS706SCENESETTER FOR PARIS VISIT HHS DEPUTY SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) I warmly welcome you to Paris to meet with Health Minister Bertrand and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the President of Institut Pasteur, Professor Alice Dautry. The Embassy works closely with the Ministry of Health on a range of matters, including avian flu, AIDS and the Global [...]
2006-02-02 14:45:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO PREL ECON SOCI FR
06PARIS7084THE FUSE AND THE POWDER KEG: FRANCE ONE YEAR AFTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One year after violent unrest lit up France's underclass suburbs for three weeks, the country's poor suburban neighborhoods remain troubled. Religious identity in these largely Muslim areas was not a significant causal factor then, nor has it become one now. Instead, failure [...]
2006-10-27 15:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM SOCI ELAB FR PGOV
06PARIS7090 MEDIA WRAP-UP: SUBURBAN UNREST; IRAN'S REACH INTO SHIITE
[...] (SBU) A number of media outlets commented on recent vandalism and violence in the Paris suburbs in conjunction with the anniversary of last year's suburban unrest and discussed the undercurrents of lingering tensions. Commentators analyzed the situation in the light of a confidential intellige [...]
2006-10-27 16:17:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO OPRC FR
06PARIS7101FRANCE CONFIRMS TO S/CRS HERBST THAT IT HAS NO
[...] (C) Summary: October 19, visiting S/CRS Ambassador John Herbst met with both working and senior-level French counterparts to share the USG experience in establishing a central coordinating office for reconstruction and stabilization activities and to encourage creation of a similar structure [...]
2006-10-30 09:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS FR
06PARIS7109FRANCE: WHA DAS MADISON DISCUSSES CUBA
[...] (C) Summary: In October 18-19 meetings with WHA DAS Kirsten Madison, MFA A/S-equivalent for WHA affairs Parfait agreed that Cuba was likely entering a period of transition and needed international support in evolving toward democratic governance, while cautioning against interference in Cuban [...]
2006-10-30 13:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV CU FR NU VE EAID ETTC PHUM PREL
06PARIS715EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMON DEFENSE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-03 07:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDFR MARR MCAP PREL
06PARIS7153 TOGO: GILCHRIST OLYMPIO'S OCTOBER 23 MEETING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: UFC leader Gilchrist Olympio on October 23 told visiting U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn that the UFC would be willing to participate in Togo's government of national unity under certain conditions, such as naming a UFC member to head a notional new ministry charged with over [...]
2006-11-02 07:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR TO FR
06PARIS7178FRANCE PROMISES VIGILANCE TOWARD KOMID AND OTHER
[...] (C) This is an action message; see paragraph 3. Poloff called November 2 upon Arnaud Mentre, desk officer for non-proliferation in the MFA's bureau of strategic affairs, to deliver demarche (reftel A). Mentre said France is aware of the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation (KOMID) and [...]
2006-11-02 15:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM FR MNUC KNNP KN
06PARIS718EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT
[...] (U) Summary: This telegram constitutes Embassy Paris's country submission for the 2005/2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense (requested Ref A). We report on developments that took place during calendar years 2004 and 2005 and offer cost sharing information fo [...]
2006-02-03 10:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MCAP FR
06PARIS7182TOGO: FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR'S OCTOBER 26
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Africa Advisor Michel de Bonnecorse on October 26 said that the recently announced Togolese government was a "reasonable formula," in a meeting with transiting Ambassador David Dunn. He characterized Gilchrist Olympio, his UFC associates, and other non-participant [...]
2006-11-03 07:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR TO FR
06PARIS720EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-03 10:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MCAP FR
06PARIS7200TOGO/FRENCH MFA: AMBASSADOR DUNN'S OCTOBER 24
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 24 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn, MFA DAS-equivalent Bruno Foucher said that Togo was evolving well. He complained that German caution was impeding the unblocking of EU funding for Togo; resuming economic assistance rapidly would help prevent To [...]
2006-11-03 13:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR TO FR
06PARIS7202TOGO/FRENCH MOD: AMBASSADOR DUNN'S OCTOBER 24
[...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn met with French Ministry of Defense officials on August 24. The discussion focused on Togo's military and how to decrease its involvement in internal security affairs, which should be handled by the police and gendarmerie. However, defining a [...]
2006-11-03 13:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR MARR TO FR
06PARIS7206 UNESCO - MUSEUM PROGRAMS UPDATE
[...] The Ambassador met on 3 November with Laurent Levi-Strauss, Director of UNESCO's Museums Section. Levi-Strauss also provided us with a memo (which will be forwarded separately by e-mail) detailing the current status of UNESCO's museum pilot program. 2. Levi-Strauss described the 11 pilot pr [...]
2006-11-03 15:01:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCUL
06PARIS7243UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) In a November 3 meeting, Aurelia Bouchez, MFA DAS equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, expressed general support for the U.S.-led UNGA resolution on the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. Bouchez expressed surprise, however, that the U.S. had already sent a demarche t [...]
2006-11-06 16:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KTIA UN FR
06PARIS7251DAILY NEWSPAPERS: FIRST IN A SERIES ON THE FRENCH MEDIA
[...] (SBU) Embassy Paris has been reviewing and recalibrating its media strategy for the 2006-2007 to determine the appropriate attention to keep on traditional print media while pivoting to expand our efforts with radio and TV media, as well as with the new Internet media. This analysis of French [...]
2006-11-06 16:40:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO OPRC FR
06PARIS7256UNESCO - PILOT PORTAL PROJECT PROPOSAL ON RECOGNIZED HIGHER
[...] Summary. On November 13-14, 2006, UNESCO is hosting a meeting of the pilot project steering committee for the UNESCO portal on recognized higher education institutions. Judith Eaton, President of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, is the designated US steering committee member. [...]
2006-11-07 11:17:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCUL
06PARIS7284 USUNESCO - FULBRIGHT SYMPOSIUM
[...] SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Dina Habib Powell, gave remarks at the Closing Plenary Session of the Fulbright New Century Scholar (NCS) Symposium in at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on October 24, 2006. The Director General of UNESCO Koichiro Matsu [...]
2006-11-08 09:43:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO KPAO SCUL EAID
06PARIS7318INTERNATIONAL UNION'S LUNG CONFERENCE - PUNCHING ABOVE ITS
[...] SUMMARY: The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease convened the 37th Union World Conference on Lung Health from October 31 to November 4, 2006 in Paris, France. The Union's annual conference is the world's premier meeting of tuberculosis and public health experts dedicate [...]
2006-11-09 10:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KHIV KFLU FR
06PARIS7325U.S. Organics Program Presented to French Audiences
[...] Summary: On October 26, Katherine DiMatteo, representing the U.S. Organic Trade Association (OTA),met with two French agricultural journalists and participated in a round table with 20 people from the French organic industry and regulatory services. In these events, organized by FAS and PAO [...]
2006-11-09 13:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD EU FR
06PARIS7327VIOLENCE ESCALATES AROUND BIOTECH CORN
[...] Summary: On November 4, anti biotech activists, including Jose Bove, damaged 2,000 MT of GM corn worth at least 365,000 Euros at a farm near Bordeaux. The concerned farmer reacted by firing shots in the air and using his vehicle to damage demonstrators' vehicles. While the police briefly det [...]
2006-11-09 13:42:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD EU FR
06PARIS7335TOGO: MEETING WITH ERIC AMERDING (UFC)
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Senior UFC member Eric Amerding on November 8 said that he had discussed Togo with EU Commission members on November 7, in response to an EU request for UFC views on developments in Togo. Amerding told the EU representatives that the Faure regime was not acting in [...]
2006-11-09 16:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR TO FR
06PARIS7340FRENCH AGREE ON IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTING REFORM
[...] (C) French DAS-equivalent for Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, Aurelia Bouchez, confirmed on November 3 that France would continue strongly to support reform efforts in the Ukraine, particularly in the defense field. Bouchez noted that although France in theory was in favor of a NATO m [...]
2006-11-09 16:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS UP FR
06PARIS738S/CRS DELEGATION FINDS FRENCH IN LISTENING MODE
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: French interlocutors were in active listening mode during 24-25 January briefings by Acting Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) Marcia Wong and NSC Director for Stabilization Clint Williamson. Wong and Williamson invited feedback on the non-pa [...]
2006-02-03 14:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UNGA CT FR
06PARIS7439 MEDIA WRAP-UP: U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS/ MIDDLE EAST
[...] (SBU) The U.S. mid-term election results fueled speculation about a possible shift in U.S. Middle East policy beyond Iraq. Commentators used the occasion of the Israeli Prime Minister's visit to Washington and the Beit Hanoun incident to discuss Washington's support to Israel in the context of [...]
2006-11-17 16:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO OPRC FR
06PARIS7444IRAN'S PROPOSED IAEA TECHNICAL COOPERATION
[...] (C) David Bertolloti, office director in the MFA's Bureau of Disarmament and Non-proliferation, said the GoF "completely subscribes" to the U.S. approach toward Iran's proposed IAEA technical cooperation proposals (ref A). He said that the MFA also regards the Arak heavy water research reacto [...]
2006-11-17 16:46:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM MNUC FR
06PARIS7446UNESCO-MEETING ON PROMOTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN
[...] Summary. A two-day workshop, "Re-engineering Development: Engendering ICT" was held November 13-14 at UNESCO. Though sponsored by UNESCO, the event was organized by the Centers for Women and Information Technology; Women in Global Science and Technology; and the European Association of Women [...]
2006-11-20 07:18:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCI TNGD PHUM
06PARIS7450UNESCO GENEVA GROUP UPDATE
[...] UNESCO's Geneva Group met November 15, and was briefed by two senior UNESCO staff members on the status of the drafting of the 34 C/4 Medium Term Strategy (MTS) and 34 C/5 Program and Budget documents which will provide the foundations for the direction and funding of the organization during th [...]
2006-11-20 11:03:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCUL UNGA EUN
06PARIS7451UNESCO: MAN AND BIOSPHERE COORDINATING COUNCIL PONDERS
[...] Summary. The 19th session of the MAB Coordinating Council focused on the need to define the program's future, particularly in the context of the formulation of the new UNESCO Medium-Term Strategy for 2008-2013. Issues debated included: the need to devise an appropriate approach to identifying t [...]
2006-11-20 11:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCI SENV EAID SP
06PARIS7455 UNESCO: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE
[...] Summary: The November 7 meeting of the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee focused on the agenda for the Committee's June 23-July 2, 2007 meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Bureau heard progress reports from the WH Secretariat on a policy paper on the effects of climate change on Wor [...]
2006-11-20 11:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDAORC SCUL MEPP UNESCO
06PARIS7483URBAN VIOLENCE TAKES A DOWNTURN; POLICE
[...] (C) Summary: Violence in France's suburban ghettos, perpetrated primarily by marginalized and underprivileged youth (often but not exclusively of Muslim origin),continues to simmer despite the current calm. A recent downturn in violence appears attributable to widespread shock and horror fol [...]
2006-11-21 14:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER FR
06PARIS7485URBAN VIOLENCE TAKES A DOWNTURN; POLICE
[...] (C) Summary: Violence in France's suburban ghettos, perpetrated primarily by marginalized and underprivileged youth (often but not exclusively of Muslim origin),continues to simmer despite the current calm. A recent downturn in violence appears attributable to widespread shock and horror fol [...]
2006-11-21 14:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER FR
06PARIS7508APPROACHING FRANCE ON TURKEY-EU
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION RECOMMENDATION: Widespread public opposition to Turkish EU membership in the run-up to France's presidential elections severely limits the GOF's flexibility in dealing with the Turkey-Cyprus issue, notwithstanding Chirac's foreign policy prerogatives and his long-standi [...]
2006-11-22 13:49:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN NATO TU CY UNO
06PARIS754CONTROVERSY OVER MUHAMMAD CARICATURES CONTINUES IN
[...] (C) Summary: France has joined Denmark, but to a lesser degree, as a target of ire in Muslim countries following a French daily's February 1 publication of Danish-origin Muhammad caricatures (ref A),which have since appeared in other French media. Palestinian militants threw a grenade at the [...]
2006-02-06 13:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL KPAL XF FR
06PARIS7541FRENCH STRESS REGIONAL FALL-OUT OF DARFUR, PLEAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Envoy for Sudan Natsios and Ambassador Stapleton met on November 18 with French Presidential Africa Counselor Bonnecorse and MFA/AF A/S-Equivalent de Gliniasty Bonnecorse stressed French concern at the regional fallout of the Darfur catastrophe. The Sudanese program of [...]
2006-11-27 08:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KPKO PINR CD CT SU FR
06PARIS7549RWANDA/FRANCE: "WE'RE BACK TO ZERO"
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-27 15:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR RW FR
06PARIS7580COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PARIS RSI PARTICIPANTS
[...] Embassy Paris warmly welcomes and provides country clearance for visiting USG officials participating in the Western Mediterranean Regional Strategic Initiative Chiefs of Mission Conference to travel to Paris, France from December 4 to December 8, 2006. The RSI conference will bring together [...]
2006-11-29 11:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPTER FR
06PARIS762FRENCH PROPOSALS FOR AN EU ENERGY POLICY
[...] (U) As part of an on-going EU debate on an integrated energy policy, France recently presented a memorandum highlighting the contribution of nuclear power to the security of supply and the fight against climate change. France also stressed the importance of energy-saving initiatives and grea [...]
2006-02-06 15:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET SENV EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR
06PARIS7623IVLP ALUMNI BREAKFAST DISCUSSES DIVERSITY IN FRANCE
[...] SUMMARY: The Ambassador recently hosted a breakfast discussion for IVLP returnees, the eighth in a series that has now become an established routine here. This latest event brought together eight recent IVLP and VolVis alumni - including government officials, researchers, entrepreneurs, and NG [...]
2006-12-01 11:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC PGOV KPAO FR
06PARIS7684DOD U/S EDELMAN'S DECEMBER 1 MEETING WITH CHIRAC'S
[...] (S) Summary: In a December 1 meeting with DoD U/S Edelman devoted primarily to Syria/Lebanon, French NSA-equivalent Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) assessed that Syria was the weakest link in the Hizballah-Syria-Iran axis and wondered whether Israel could apply more pressure on Syria, a questi [...]
2006-12-06 13:08:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR IS KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY
06PARIS7714FRANCE PROPOSES INTELLIGENCE-SHARING CONTACT GROUP
[...] Summary: (C) According to the MFA non-proliferatio officer, France shares the U.S.'s conviction that financial and transportation networks that facilitate North Korea's proliferation activities must be curbed. To that end, the GoF believes there is room for more coordination and intelligence [...]
2006-12-08 09:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP PREL PGOV KN FR
06PARIS7724Widespread interest in US crop insurance programs
[...] Summary: James Callan, Associate Administrator, Risk Management Agency, USDA, visited Paris November 13 and 14 and met with representatives from various agricultural sectors and French parliamentarians to discuss the US crop insurance program. All interlocutors expressed strong interest in US [...]
2006-12-08 14:56:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD EU FR
06PARIS7731FRANCE/GAERC: AGREEMENT ON MOST ISSUES EXCEPT
[...] (U) We shared refs A and B points December 5 with MFA CFSP Unit Deputy (DAS-equivalent) Emmanuel Cohet (all points),DAS-equivalent for industrial questions and sensitive exports Marc Abensour (China embargo),DAS-equivalent for the Levant Herve Besancenot (Israel-Palestinian conflict and Leb [...]
2006-12-08 16:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN PGOV PHUM UN YI SR BK IS LE IR
06PARIS7755A/S FRIED AND FRENCH NSA-EQUIVALENT
[...] (S) SUMMARY: EUR A/S Dan Fried's December 7 meeting with presidential diplomatic advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) focused largely on Russia, with France in a defensive posture. MGM raised the aborted Putin-Chirac dinner on the margins of the NATO Riga Summit, saying it had been instigated b [...]
2006-12-12 13:05:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL FR EUN NATO RS UNO SR YI TU CY
06PARIS7756AMBASSADOR GODEC'S DECEMBER 7 MEETINGS IN PARIS
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Robert Godec held bilateral meetings on December 7 with Christian Testo, MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa, and Jean-Pierre Filiu, Associate Professor at Sciences Po and former French DCM in Tunis. Testo and Filiu each described their Tunisian interlo [...]
2006-12-12 13:43:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALFR KDEM PGOV PREL TS
06PARIS7780FRANCE SUPPORTS PASSING UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA
[...] (SBU) We delivered December 13 reftel demarche to Fabrice Mauries, DAS-equivalent for Southeast Asia at the MFA. Mauries said France fully supports a UNSC resolution on Burma and agrees with the U.S. assessment that like-minded members of the Security Council must move forward to pass the res [...]
2006-12-14 07:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM FR
06PARIS7781FRANCE AVAILABLE FOR BILATERAL MEETINGS AT WILTON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-14 07:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT FR
06PARIS7795ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S MEETING WITH JACQUES
[...] (C) Assistant Secretary Fried met with recognized intellectual and long-time Segolene Royal confidant Jacques Attali on December 6. Attali underlined that Royal, even though she is a leading contender for France's presidency in next spring's elections, has had very little experience making and [...]
2006-12-14 13:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB EUN PINR SOCI ECON PREL FR
06PARIS7796USUNESCO - BRASILIA OFFICE UPDATE
[...] (U) Classified by USUNESCO DCM Andrew Koss, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) During a meeting on 6 December by Mission Political Assistant with Mrs. Lamia Salman-el Madini, Director of UNESCO's Bureau of Field Coordination, the subject of the Brasilia field office was raised, as she had [...]
2006-12-14 14:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALSCUL UNESCO BR
06PARIS7805USUNESCO: THIRD WORKING GROUP SESSION ON THE RIGHT TO THE
[...] Summary: Participants in the Third Working Group Session on the "Right to the City," a joint project between UNESCO and UN Habitat, developed a project plan for the next two years leading up to the Nanjing, China World Urban Forum in 2008. Participants agreed to undertake regional inventories [...]
2006-12-15 09:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO SCUL KPAO
06PARIS7873UPDATE ON DEPLOYMENT OF FRENCH UAVS TO LEBANON
[...] (C) On December 20, we met with Alexandra Novosseloff, desk officer in the MOD's Crisis Management bureau, to clarify the status of France's deployment of reconnaissance drones (SDTI) to Lebanon (reftels). She noted that, contrary to press reports, the drones have not yet been deployed in Leb [...]
2006-12-20 15:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL LE FR
06PARIS7882FRANCE'S NEW SCIENTIFIC/INNOVATION SYSTEM
[...] Summary: In the past two years France has undertaken remarkable reforms in its scientific/innovation system. These include the creation of a High Council for Science and Technology, a National Research Agency, and numerous 'competitiveness clusters,' among other structures. The government has [...]
2006-12-21 12:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDTSPL PGOV FR
06PARIS7885FRENCH AND AFGHAN FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS
[...] (C) Summary: Afghan Foreign Minister Ranjeen Dadfar Spanta reacted skeptically to the French proposal for an Afghanistan Contact Group during a meeting December 14 with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy. Although Douste-Blazy tried to sell the group as an opportunity to rationaliz [...]
2006-12-21 15:34:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL AF FR
06PARIS7904S/CT CRUMPTON MEETS RUSSIAN COUNTERPART TO EXTEND
[...] (S) Summary: In an amicable December 7 dinner meeting with Ambassador-at-Large Henry Crumpton, Russian Special Presidential Representative Anatoliy Safonov agreed to move forward with several proposals that expand U.S./Russian counter-terrorism (CT) cooperation. These include: --Engaging the Americ [...]
2006-12-26 11:45:00Embassy ParisSECRETPARM FR
06PARIS850 UNESCO: MARTI PRIZE
[...] (C) As a result of Mission inquiries, additional information has been obtained about the chicanery behind the awarding of the Marti prize to Hugo Chavez. It has become clear that it was deliberately orchestrated slap at the United States by individuals in the UNESCO secretariat working in cah [...]
2006-02-09 17:00:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALCU VE UNESCO
06PARIS891 UNESCO MARTI PRIZE, REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE
[...] (U) This is a request for guidance?see para. 4. 2. (C) Though the newly arrived Brazilian ambassador has told Ambassador Oliver that he wants to put the negative atmosphere of the cultural diversity convention behind us and work with USDEL, his nomination of Hugo Chavez for the Marti prize [...]
2006-02-10 16:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALVE CU UNESCO
06PARIS892U.S.-FRENCH GLOBAL NUCLEAR ENERGY PARTNERSHIP
[...] (U) Summary: U.S. and French delegations met to discuss the U.S. proposal for a Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). Both sides made presentations on their R&D agendas on closing the fuel cycle. The French side expressed strong support for the direction of the U.S. GNEP proposal, and a [...]
2006-02-10 17:48:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG TRGY FR
06PARIS937 PRESIDENT CHIRAC SPURS MICROCREDIT DEVELOPMENT
[...] SUMMARY: As another way to quiet the unrest in French suburbs, President Chirac personally turned his attention to the development of micro-credit, notably in disadvantaged areas. At a recent roundtable, Chirac proposed giving more money to the social cohesion fund ("Fonds de Cohesion Sociale [...]
2006-02-14 14:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON PGOV FR
06PARIS963SUDAN/AMIS RE-HATTING: FRENCH ON BOARD, YET FACE
[...] (C) Summary: Visiting IO/PSC Director Anderson and Embassy Africa Watcher shared the non-paper on AMIS re-hatting with the French Presidency and the MFA, encouraging France to engage in a complementary effort with AU partners (reftel). Presidential Advisor Labriolle maintained France was on [...]
2006-02-14 18:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SU FR
06PARIS98 USUNESCO - DG'S SURPRISE CHRISTMAS SHAKE-UP
[...] Just before UNESCO closed for the Christmas holidays, Director General Matsuura, on December 23, issued an internal memorandum shaking up parts of both the education and social science sectors. In a surprise move, the DG reassigned Wataru Iwamoto (Japan),the head of the Education Sector's S [...]
2006-01-06 14:51:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL FR UNESCO
06PARIS99 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] This is part 1 of the INCSR submission for France. A section on the French Caribbean and French Guiana follows at the end of this message. I. SUMMARY: France is a transshipment point for drugs moving into, from and within Europe. Given France's shared borders with trafficking conduit [...]
2006-01-06 14:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR FR
06PESHAWAR108ANP CHIEF SCANS THE HORIZON
[...] (C) Awami National Party (ANP) Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan would actively support President Musharraf's government, if the GOP embraced three key ANP initiatives: (1) provincial autonomy in health, local government, education, and agriculture; (2) changing the name of the Northwest Frontier Pro [...]
2006-03-06 15:21:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL PTER KDEM PK
06PESHAWAR255NEW FRONTIER GOVERNOR ON THE WAY
[...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Khalil ur-Rehman recently confided that Lt. General (retired) Ali Mohammed Jan Orakzai will soon replace him. Embittered by his premature removal, Rehman castigated his replacement, claiming Orakzai was not aggressive enough in 2003-04 tribal op [...]
2006-05-23 07:35:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV PTER PK
06PESHAWAR77AWAMI NATIONAL PARTY ON TRIBAL AREAS: DEMOCRACY NOW, TALIBAN
[...] (SBU) On February 11, the Pashtun-based progressive Awami National Party (ANP) convened a conference of tribal elders in Peshawar to assess the situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). ANP National President Asfandyar Wali Khan urged tribal people to rise up against gueri [...]
2006-02-16 10:32:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL PTER KDEM PK AF
06PESHAWAR79THE POLITICS OF UNREST IN PESHAWAR
[...] (C) Summary. The anti-cartoon protests in Peshawar and the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) on February 15 resulted in three deaths (including a child),60 injured, and widespread looting and destruction of businesses. The extensive rioting appears to have been ignited by religious fervor [...]
2006-02-16 14:30:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL CASC PK
06PESHAWAR94OPPOSITION LEADER ON DEMOCRACY
[...] (C) National Assembly Opposition Leader Maulana Fazlur Rahman recently told us he supports giving the GOP a list of names for the permanent head of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) -- but only if (1) the GOP publicly solicits nominations from all political parties and (2) the GOP includin [...]
2006-02-23 12:40:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PK
06PESHAWAR99NEW FRONTIER GOVERNOR TO BE NAMED
[...] (C) In the shadow of President Bush's imminent arrival, GOP sources have leaked President Musharraf's decision to replace Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Khalil ur-Rehman in the next few days, according to local press reports. Rumors regarding Rehman's departure have been rampant [...]
2006-03-01 12:14:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR PREL PTER PK
06PHNOMPENH1050CAMBODIA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO ANNOUNCE FORMATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. Recent meetings with members of the National Assembly's Commission on Foreign Affairs suggests the Cambodian body is prepared to announce in early September the formation of a Burma Caucus comprised of MPs from the ruling CPP, FUNCINPEC and opposition Sam Rainsy Party. As a [...]
2006-06-02 10:54:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL CB
06PHNOMPENH1084CAMBODIA: UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-09 09:47:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC PHUM CB
06PHNOMPENH1088CAMBODIA: ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS HIGHLIGHT TOP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Environmental leaders cited land degradation and encroachment on protected areas as Cambodia's most pressing environmental concerns during a June 7 roundtable discussion. Wildlife traffickers seem to operate in small, decentralized networks with Vietnam as either a destinati [...]
2006-06-09 10:36:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PGOV PHUM ECON CB VN CN
06PHNOMPENH1163DRUGS IN CAMBODIA: DONORS COMPARE NOTES ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Donors highlighted Cambodia's porous borders, rising rates of drug use, limited rehabilitation facilities, and limited government capacity during a June 20 roundtable discussion about Cambodia's drug problem. Several donor nations provide small-scale counternarcotics assistanc [...]
2006-06-22 08:18:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV CB
06PHNOMPENH1169GARMENT SECTOR WORRIES TARNISH GOVERNMENT-PRIVATE
[...] SUMMARY. Business leaders and government officials touted recent accomplishments in promoting economic development during the Private Sector Forum, held June 21. Despite predictions of 2.5% economic growth in 2005, Cambodia's GDP actually grew by 13.4%, thanks to a bumper rice crop and stron [...]
2006-06-23 08:50:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELAB KTEX EAIR PHUM CB
06PHNOMPENH1176CAMBODIA: GARMENT MANUFACTURERS BLAME UNIONS FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a June 23 meeting, Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) leaders acknowledged that garment factories sometimes fail to comply with the Labor Law, but blamed unions' rush to strike for much of the labor unrest in Cambodia's garment sector. This increased [...]
2006-06-27 00:21:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KTEX ECON CB
06PHNOMPENH1374REACTION TO KHMER ROUGE LEADER'S DEATH
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ung Choeun, widely known as Ta Mok, age 82, passed away on July 21 at a military hospital where he had been hospitalized since June 29. Since his passing, government officials, the media, and civil society leaders have discussed the impact of his death on the proceedings of t [...]
2006-07-31 06:55:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KJUS PREL CB
06PHNOMPENH1400CAMBODIA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO INAUGURATE BURMA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Cambodia's National Assembly will launch its Burma Caucus on August 25, with 25 parliamentarians from the three political parties as members, according to organizing MP Son Chhay of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP). Other AIPMC (ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus) [...]
2006-08-03 10:40:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL CB
06PHNOMPENH1461RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN LEADING CAMBODIAN UNION
[...] (SBU) Summary. Several significant events related to the Free Trade Union (FTU),Cambodia's most important pro-opposition union, occurred during the month-long hiatus in minimum wage negotiations between unions and garment manufacturers. The FTU formed a new confederation with long-time par [...]
2006-08-17 08:53:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM CB
06PHNOMPENH1534CAMBODIA'S LEGISLATURE LAUNCHES BURMA CAUCUS
[...] (SBU) Summary. On August 25, Cambodia's National Assembly launched its Burma Caucus, which includes 26 members from Cambodia's three political parties. Members of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC),diplomats, and NGOs participated in the inauguration ceremony, as did mem [...]
2006-08-28 09:56:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIEDAORC PREL KDEM CB
06PHNOMPENH1755CAMBODIA: WORST DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK SINCE 1998
[...] Summary. Cambodia is in the midst of its worst dengue outbreak since 1998, with 10,000 Cambodian children already infected this year. Phnom Penh's SOS Clinic, a popular choice among the expatriate community, reports 47 dengue cases so far this year, in contrast to 45 during all of 2005. Th [...]
2006-09-27 08:50:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI AMED CB
06PHNOMPENH1871CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT AND NGOS BEGIN EFFORT TO FORM
[...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Hun Sen opened a two-day meeting in Siem Riep September 26-27 by asking NGOs to draft legislation to create a national human rights commission in one year. Members of civil society, Cambodian lawmakers, government officials and foreign observers participated in [...]
2006-10-16 06:33:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL CB
06PHNOMPENH1908A/S LOWENKRON DISCUSSES BURMA, NORTH KOREA AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron met separately with Cambodian PM Hun Sen and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong during an October 14-17 visit to Cambodia. The PM reassured the USG of Cambodia's decision to back Guatemala for the rotational Latin American UNSC seat. Lowenkron thanked Hun [...]
2006-10-20 11:32:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL CB
06PHNOMPENH1965 CAMBODIA INCSR PART I SUBMISSION
[...] The following is Embassy Phnom Penh's submission for the narcotics section of the 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report as requested reftel. 2. Begin text: Cambodia I. Summary The number of drug-related investigations, arrests and seizures in Cambodia continued to [...]
2006-11-01 09:21:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR CB
06PHNOMPENH2046ECCC ISSUES DRAFT INTERNAL RULES
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Khmer Rouge Tribunal's (ECCC) Rules Committee released the draft internal rules for public comment on November 3, providing two weeks for civil society and others to give feedback on the proposed rules. Informal soundings from sources within the ECCC, the diplomatic comm [...]
2006-11-16 11:24:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KJUS EAID CB
06PHNOMPENH2048CAMBODIAN MFA OFFICIAL ON HR RESOLUTIONS
[...] (C) On November 16, P/E Chief met with Sun Suon, Director of the MFA's International Organizations Department that handles UN affairs, to provide demarche points concerning the proposed Belarus resolutions (reftel a). Suon noted that normal practice is for the Cambodian Permrep in New York [...]
2006-11-17 07:54:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNGA CB
06PHNOMPENH2096CAMBODIAN VIEW OF ASEAN-CHINA COMMEMORATIVE SUMMIT
[...] (C) Summary. According to a senior MFA official, the ASEAN-China Commemorative Summit held in Nanning, China on October 30 underscored ASEAN's desire for greater Chinese trade and development assistance. However, ASEAN reportedly remains unimpressed with the level of assistance/loans offer [...]
2006-11-28 11:06:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEAN EAID CB CH
06PHNOMPENH2138DRUG PRECURSORS AND DEFORESTATION IN CAMBODIA'S
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In addition to being home to a multitude of endangered and threatened flora and fauna, the Cardamom Mountains in southwestern Cambodia also contain aromatic trees being harvested and processed illegally to produce high quality sassafras oil, a substance used to produce methamp [...]
2006-12-05 04:39:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALSNAR ESTH PGOV CB VN
06PHNOMPENH2144 NRP Approved; Ranariddh Loses Assembly Seat
[...] (U) Summary. The MOI formally recognized the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) on November 28. With approval for the Prince to form his own party, FUNCINPEC expelled Ranariddh from the royalist party, which means the loss of Ranariddh's National Assembly seat and parliamentary immunity. The Pr [...]
2006-12-05 10:11:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KDEM CB
06PHNOMPENH2229CAMBODIA AND DRAFT UNSCR ON BURMA
[...] (C) On December 27, the Ambassador and Pol/Econ Chief met with MFA Secretary of State Ouch Borith regarding reftel demarche. (Note: P/E Chief had met separately on December 15 with MFA Deputy Director for International Organizations So Soeung Ha and delivered reftel demarche points. At the [...]
2006-12-27 09:19:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNSC CB
06PHNOMPENH2241 CAMBODIA CHILD LABOR REPORT UPDATE 2006
[...] Please find below post's update of the child labor report for Cambodia. An electronic version of the report, including updated footnotes listing sources, will be emailed to Tina McCarter. Begin Text: Cambodia Incidence and Nature of Child Labor Forty-five percent of children ages 5 [...]
2006-12-28 06:26:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIEDELAB CB
06PHNOMPENH348CAMBODIAN LAND DISPUTES MORE FREQUENT, MORE VIOLENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Land disputes--which often pit poor villagers against the powerful and wealthy--have affected 12% of Cambodians and are on the rise. The disputes take many shapes, including large economic land concessions on land claimed by indigenous groups in the northeast and a plethora of [...]
2006-02-22 11:21:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SENV ECON CB
06PHNOMPENH361CAMBODIA'S PRIME MINISTER: WORKING FOR THE
[...] (C) Summary. During an hour and one-half February 23 meeting with Staffdel Grove, PM Hun Sen outlined his vision for moving Cambodia forward along the path to democratic reform in concert with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and civil society, claiming that his dramatic turnaround was [...]
2006-02-24 04:39:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL CB
06PHNOMPENH428 CAMBODIAN PM DISMISSES TWO CO-MINISTERS;
[...] (SBU) Summary: Citing the need for greater efficiency in Cambodia's bloated bureaucracy, Prime Minister Hun Sen removed two FUNCINPEC officials as co- ministers of Defense and Interior on March 2. (Since 1993, the PM's Cambodian People's Party and the Royalist FUNCNPEC party have shared co [...]
2006-03-03 11:32:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KDEM CB
06PHNOMPENH442CAMBODIAN OPPOSITION ON STATUS OF TALKS WITH
[...] (C) Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) MP (and Sam Rainsy spouse) Saumura Tioulong -- please protect -- told us March 6 that PM Hun Sen recently offered to take opposition leader Sam Rainsy into the government as a deputy prime minister, possibly with broad authority over various ministries. Rainsy repo [...]
2006-03-06 11:39:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL CB
06PHNOMPENH501 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR CAMBODIA
[...] The following is Embassy Phnom Penh's contribution towards the preparation of the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report for Cambodia, covering the period March 2005 - March 2006. Responses follow the questions outlined in reftel. The entire report is classified sensitive but unclassified (SBU) [...]
2006-03-15 08:51:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB SMIG KCRM KWMN KFRD CB
06PHNOMPENH514CAMBODIA'S PM MEETS WITH NGOS TO DISCUSS LAND,
[...] (SBU) Summary. On March 15, PM Hun Sen met with representatives of 10 NGOs to discuss land disputes and women's issues. NGO oncerns regarding land issues centered on illegal government concessions of large tracts of land, lack of local community involvement in land development, slowness in [...]
2006-03-17 08:27:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KJUS CB
06PHNOMPENH642POSSIBLE CAMBODIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION ON
[...] (SBU) Summary. Opposition parliamentarian Son Chhay, soon to be designated as the Chairman of the National Assembly's Commission on Foreign Affairs, is prepared to promote a resolution on Burma in the National Assembly. Such a resolution would be in keeping with -- but a little more forwar [...]
2006-04-05 11:45:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM CB
06PHNOMPENH643CAMBODIA'S FM ON APEC, BURMA, AND
[...] (C) Summary. During Ambassador's April 5 meeting with FM Hor Namhong, the FM raised the prospect of APEC membership, PM Hun Sen's desire to participate in the November APEC Summit meeting in Hanoi as part of the ASEAN leaders' meeting with President Bush, and the FM's interest in meeting wi [...]
2006-04-05 11:51:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC PHUM CB
06PHNOMPENH665CAMBODIAN THOUGHTS ON UPCOMING ASEAN FM MEETING
[...] (C) Summary. According to MFA Secretary of State for ASEAN affairs Kao Kim Hourn, ASEAN has several options for moving foward on Burma: a visit to Burma by the Eminent Persons Group (EPG),a visit by the ASEAN Troika, or an invitation from the Philippines President to Than Shwe to attend t [...]
2006-04-10 07:58:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL CB
06PHNOMPENH700CAMBODIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ON HUN SEN'S RECENT
[...] (C) Summary. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy told the Ambassador on April 12 that he remains encouraged by his interactions with Hun Sen on land issues and opposition inclusion in the National Electoral Commission, but the key test of the PM's willingness to implement meaningful reforms will b [...]
2006-04-13 05:24:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KCOR CB
06PHNOMPENH742SCENESETTER FOR DAS ERIC JOHN'S APRIL 30-MAY 2
[...] (SBU) Your visit will come at a time when things are looking better for Cambodia than they have in a long time and at a time when Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party are feeling comfortable about their performance. The political environment has turned around dramatically, the economy is up [...]
2006-04-21 10:09:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM CB
06PHNOMPENH894CAMBODIA: DAS JOHN'S REINFORCES BILATERAL
[...] (C) Summary. In a May 4 discussion with visiting DAS Eric John, FM Hor Namhong lauded US-Cambodia bilateral relations and said Cambodia would seriously consider DAS John's request that the RGC support Guatemala's candidacy for the UNSC. The FM was open on Burma and prospects for democratic [...]
2006-05-10 02:32:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KJUS PHUM EAID CB
06PHNOMPENH977 REGIONAL PROGRESS ON COMMIT PROCESS
[...] SUMMARY: The Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) held the Fourth Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM 4) on human trafficking in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on May 10-12, 2006. Over thirty senior government officials from the six Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) Governm [...]
2006-05-23 06:55:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KWMN CB
06PHNOMPENH982UN HIGH COMMISSIONER: HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRAL TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. During her May 13-19 visit to Cambodia, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour's agenda focused on the consolidation of democracy and rule of law, as well as the independence of the judiciary. She defended the work of UNSYG Special Representative (SRSG) Yash Gha [...]
2006-05-23 11:48:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KJUS CB
06PHNOMPENH983CAMBODIA: DRUG SEIZURES AND ARRESTS UP
[...] (U) SUMMARY: May 19 and 20 arrests of two Taiwanese nationals attempting to smuggle a total of nearly 7 kg of heroin to Taiwan highlight increased drug arrests and seizures in Cambodia. The quantity of heroin seized during the weekend airport busts is large by Cambodian standards--authoriti [...]
2006-05-23 11:49:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSNAR PGOV CB TW
06PORTAUPRINCE101HAITI ELECTIONS: OAS DISTRIBUTES OVER 60 PERCENT
[...] According to OAS electoral chief Elizabeth Spehar, the OAS has received all 3.5 million ID cards and had distributed 2,070,369 or 59 percent as of their most recent reports from the field on January 11. Taking into account delayed reporting of distribution outside of Port-au-Prince, Spehar es [...]
2006-01-13 19:18:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1213NOT QUITE READY FOR PRIME TIME? THE PREVAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-07 18:06:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1214HAITI: LAVALAS PARTISANS SEEK RE-EMPLOYMENT
[...] (U) This document is sensitive but unclassified - protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. According to press reports, militant Lavalas partisans have threatened to recommence armed violence after July 9 if the Preval government does not reinstate them to jobs in government ministries and pub [...]
2006-07-07 19:00:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KHLS SMIG HA
06PORTAUPRINCE124HAITI ELECTIONS: FEBRUARY 7 ON TRACK, WITH BUMPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: MINUSTAH and OAS officials in a January 13 meeting with donors explained that while some significant problems need to be resolved, the February 7 first round is technically possible. Political party complaints about the number of voting centers and voting center assignments have [...]
2006-01-18 20:00:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1241HAITIAN OFFICIALS COMMENT ON QUIET SECURITY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-10 20:03:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC HA
06PORTAUPRINCE125PREVAL'S CAMPAIGN OFFICE BURNED IN ST. MARC
[...] (U) According to Radio Metropole, unidentified individuals burned the campaign office of L,Espwa presidential candidate Rene Preval in St. Marc (lower-Artibonite) on January 18. The demonstrators also reportedly burned a vehicle and a large poster of Preval and placed flaming barricades and [...]
2006-01-18 20:47:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1267IMF: HAITI URGENTLY NEEDS 06-07 BUDGET SUPPORT
[...] Summary: Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Ugo Fasano raised a red flag concerning Haiti's fiscal year 2006-2007 financing gap. If the GOH cannot find budget support for the estimated USD 45 to 60 million deficit that will not be covered by multilateral pledges [...]
2006-07-13 17:36:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1311MINISTER REPORTS THREATS ON PUBLIC PROJECTS,
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Minister of Public Works, Transportation and Communication, Frantz Verella, told Ambassador July 17 that his public works projects in Port-au-Prince are threatened regularly by bandits demanding [...]
2006-07-20 11:52:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID ENRG PGOV HA
06PORTAUPRINCE136HAITI ELECTIONS: USG-FUNDED NGO ACTIVITIES UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary: Representatives from four USG-funded NGOs (UNOPS, IRI, NDI, and IFES) met with USAID project manager and poloff to review status and activities of election support projects. The meeting, held weekly, serves to ensure coordination and information sharing between projects funded [...]
2006-01-20 13:52:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1377PETROCARIBE GAS ON THE MARKET
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The PetroCaribe petroleum delivered to Haiti on May 14, the day of President Rene Preval's inauguration, has finally hit the local market. The Haitian Government (GOH) is selling the entire shipment, inc [...]
2006-07-28 18:43:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ECON EAID HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1407HAITI: A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH MINUSTAH SRSG
[...] (C) Summary: UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Edmond Mulet warned A/S Shannon on July 25 that provocations by former president Aristide and his supporters could erode Haiti's post-electoral stability. Mulet said that President Preval's public silence about security pro [...]
2006-08-02 19:01:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS EAID HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1417IMPASSE AT MALPASSE: HAITIAN-DR BORDER STRIKE
[...] This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly 2. (SBU) Summary: A transport workers' strike has disrupted commercial traffic and general transit at the Haitian-Dominican border crossing at Malpasse since July 10. Most recently, the workers perpetrated violence on [...]
2006-08-04 13:49:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PGOV PINS HA
06PORTAUPRINCE142OAS ESTIMATES 80 PERCENT OF HAITIAN ELECTORAL IDS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-20 20:02:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1483GOH BUDGET UPDATE: MOVING FORWARD WITH
[...] (C) Summary: President Rene Preval's economic advisor Gabriel Verret told econoff August 8 that the new budget is almost complete and will move forward to parliament, maybe by tomorrow (August 11). Concerning the financing gap for FY06 (USD 18.5 million) and FY07 (USD 15 - 25 million),govern [...]
2006-08-10 19:07:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALECON EAID ENRG PGOV PINS HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1543PREVAL REVIVES DDR
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Preval has asked MINUSTAH to develop and prepare to implement a Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration ((DDR) plan to serve as the carrot in his "carrot and stick" policy to combat Port-au-Prince's armed gangs (reftel). MINUSTAH's DDR department is preparing [...]
2006-08-21 12:26:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS MARR ASEC KCRM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE169OAS ESTIMATES 88 PERCENT OF HAITIAN IDS DISTRIBUTED
[...] The OAS reported January 23 that it has distributed 2,846,793 or 81 percent of the 3.5 million Haitian ID cards. However, taking into account delayed reporting (most of the OAS figures date from January 18 - 20) the OAS estimated it had actually distributed over 3.1 million or 88 percent of th [...]
2006-01-24 18:53:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1690SUB-CABINET SHAKEUP
[...] (U) Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis on September 7 announced the replacement of 10 of 18 directors general (DGs) in cabinet ministries and four of nine DGs in government agencies. DGs are third in the bureaucratic hierarchy, serve as chief operating officers, and traditionally manage pe [...]
2006-09-11 17:51:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALHA PGOV PINR
06PORTAUPRINCE2065STUDENT PROTEST CALLS FOR THE DEPARTURE OF MINUSTAH
[...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (U) Approximately 75 students from the State University of Haiti School of Human Sciences protested the &occupation of MINUSTAH8 on October 24, the day commemorating the 61st anniversary of the United Nations. The stud [...]
2006-10-27 16:45:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2122CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES UNABLE TO OBTAIN QUORUM
[...] (U) In the past three weeks, the chamber of deputies has found it difficult to obtain a quorum often enough to act on proposed legislation. President Preval on October 3 called an extraordinary session of the chamber of deputies to consider legislation on the structure of the judiciary, the n [...]
2006-11-07 12:38:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HA
06PORTAUPRINCE217HAITI ELECTION DAY PROCESS AND PLANS
[...] Introduction: This cable outlines the process for election day including: opening and closing of voting centers; public transportation; the steps to casting a vote; transporting the results to Port-au-Prince for tabulation; and releasing the results to the public. End Introduction. 2. Sche [...]
2006-01-30 17:28:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2171ELECTIONS UPDATE
[...] Summary. Elections preparations are on track and the Provisionary Electoral Council (CEP) is completing its checklist of remaining tasks, according to CEP Director General Jacques Bernard. CEP has taken over the primary role of implementing the elections but remain in daily contact with MINU [...]
2006-11-13 14:48:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2187JUDICIAL/POLICE BATTLE RAGES
[...] (C) Summary. Judge Napela Saintil on November 11 recused himself in the case against the Michael Lucius, the third-ranking member of the Haitian National Police (HNP) and director of its investigative unit (DCPJ). Port-au-Prince prosecutor Claudy Gassant (ref B) on November 13 subsequently a [...]
2006-11-14 19:52:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM SNAR PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2202MARTISSANT VIOLENT, BUT NOT "OPERATION BAGHDAD"
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Gang violence has increased in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Martissant during recent weeks, and local radio has given a forum to gang members who claim they are launching "Operation Baghdad II," [...]
2006-11-15 17:54:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC HA KCRM MARR
06PORTAUPRINCE221LAVALAS DEPUTIES GEAR UP FOR ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Former Fanmi Lavalas (FL) Deputy Franky Exius and Rogavil Boisguene, both current Lavalas candidates for the Haitian Parliament's lower house Chamber of Deputies, met with poloff to assert that the issue of security as a bar to elections is a "faux" problem and to voice concerns [...]
2006-01-30 20:05:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2277HAITI'S LOCAL ELECTIONS ON TRACK FOR DECEMBER 3
[...] Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and representatives of the UN mission to Haiti (Minustah) reported that elections preparations are in the final stages, with no unscheduled loose ends remaining. In preparation for post-electoral disputes, Director General of the CEP Jacques B [...]
2006-11-29 18:50:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2306ELECTIONS TAKE PLACE IN RELATIVE CALM
[...] (U) Summary: Voting for municipal and local candidates proceeded smoothly with a few hiccups. Political party observers outnumbered the electorate in many voting centers and a small number of voters were turned away from the polling stations because their names did not appear on the voter reg [...]
2006-12-03 22:38:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2427PREVAL: MINUSTAH MUST ACT NOW
[...] (C) Summary. I met with President Preval on the evening of December 21 to discuss the current security environment, the political machinations underway in Parliament and the Primature, and Haiti's continuing dispute with China. Preval also shared with me frank details of his health (reported [...]
2006-12-21 17:40:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC ECON EAID HA UN
06PORTAUPRINCE2433HIGH ANXIETY OVER SECURITY
[...] (C) The recent spate of high-profile kidnappings and the GoH's stumbling response has become the singular issue in Haitian politics and public discourse. While panic has not yet set in, the Port-au-Prince population has begun to alter their work and private routines and much of daily life aga [...]
2006-12-21 20:13:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS MARR ASEC KCRM KJUS HA
06PORTAUPRINCE246HAITI: FATHER JEAN-JUSTE FLIES TO MIAMI FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The Haitian Court of Appeals issued an order on January 29 authorizing Father Gerard Jean-Juste to fly to Miami to seek treatment for leukemia. Initially, the IGOH attempted to let the case wind its way through the Haitian judicial system, but eventually bowed to weeks of pressure [...]
2006-02-02 19:55:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2472MINUSTAH CONTINUES CITE SOLEIL OPERATIONS
[...] (C) MINUSTAH and the Haitian National Police (HNP) ran their second joint operation in the early morning of December 28 targeting gang members, specifically Belony, residing in the Bois Neuf area of the Port-au-Prince slum, Cite Soleil. According to MINUSTAH's A/Deputy Commissioner for OPS Nei [...]
2006-12-29 12:32:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPINS PGOV KPKO MOPS HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2477NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT REFLECTS ON THE 48TH
[...] (SBU) Summary: The first session of the 48th Legislature concluded on December 28. National Assembly President Joseph Lambert believes that the legislators laid the foundation for a stronger democratic institution with the prospect of greater productivity in the future despite the paucity of [...]
2006-12-29 15:21:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE251OAS REPORTS 89 PERCENT BUT ESTIMATES 94 PERCENT OF
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-02 21:03:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE252HAITIAN ELECTIONS TECHNICALLY READY, BUT POLITICAL
[...] Introduction: In a meeting with the donors and international elections partners February 1, Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General gave a readout from the January 29 elections simulation. The simulation tested distribution of materials, the status of the Voting Centers (VC),and [...]
2006-02-03 18:23:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE283HAITI ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY A SUCCESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: From all accounts, Haitian Election Day concluded successfully on February 7. Few Bureaux de vote (BVs) opened on schedule but once voting began and after the initial rush into the Voting Centers, the majority of the crowds assumed orderly lines and displayed remarkable patie [...]
2006-02-08 20:34:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE31HAITI ELECTIONS: MINUSTAH LOGISTICS IN PLACE,
[...] (C) Summary: The MINUSTAH head of elections operations and logistics reported that MINUSTAH will be prepared logistically to administer elections, but that Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) must take some policy decisions to avoid additional delays. MINUSTAH is ready to begin training poll [...]
2006-01-06 12:45:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE311PREVAL LEADS, BUT UNLIKELY TO EXCEED 50 PERCENT
[...] (S) Summary: Rene Preval continues to lead the Haitian race for president with 48.73 percent of the vote. As of 6:30 a.m. February 13, the CEP had entered 8281 of the 9208 or 89 percent of the proces verbaux (PV) into its database. The remaining roughly 1000 are either being examined before t [...]
2006-02-13 20:12:00Embassy Port Au PrinceSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE312PRO-PREVAL DEMONSTRATIONS COVER PORT-AU-PRINCE
[...] (C) Summary: Preval supporters are staging demonstrations as small as 50 people and as large as 4000-5000 at the SONAPI Voting Tabulation Center. The demonstrators are chanting in support of Preval and are calling for the announcement of a first-round victory. Post is concerned that demons [...]
2006-02-13 20:13:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE314HAITI ELECTIONS: WHY UNDERVOTES COUNT, WHY THE NDI
[...] Article 185 of the Haitian electoral law, created by Presidential decree on February 11, 2005 in consultation with the international community, stipulates that any ballot that is either properly filled out or left blank must be counted as a vote once placed in a ballot box. This stipulation [...]
2006-02-14 18:20:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE315HAITI ELECTIONS: WHY UNDERVOTES COUNT, WHY THE NDI
[...] Article 185 of the Haitian electoral law, created by Presidential decree on February 11, 2005 in consultation with the international community, stipulates that any ballot that is either properly filled out or left blank must be counted as a vote once placed in a ballot box. This stipulation [...]
2006-02-14 18:24:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA
06PORTAUPRINCE321HAITI ELECTIONS IMPASSE
[...] (C) Summary: Ninety-two percent of the vote tally sheets (Proces Verbaux or PVs) had been recorded before the CEP ordered counting stopped February 14. Based on internal projections, MINUSTAH officials do not believe that the uncounted PVs would push Rene Preval over the fifty percent mark [...]
2006-02-15 20:22:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALKDEM PREL HA
06PORTAUPRINCE335Haiti: Anti-TIP Proposal for INCLE Funds, FY 2006
[...] Please find a proposal submitted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for anti-trafficking in persons INCLE funding for FY 2006. Post fully supports this proposal as the submission best tailored to combat trafficking in persons in Haiti from a law enforce [...]
2006-02-17 20:17:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN KCRM PHUM ELAB PREL SMIG ASEC
06PORTAUPRINCE467HAITI ELECTIONS: DONORS PUSH FOR EARLY SECOND
[...] Summary: Donors met March 7 with CEP and Minustah representatives to urge that the calendar for the second round legislative elections be established as soon as possible. Minustah and the CEP discussed a possible timeline for completion of the contestation process and necessary logistical p [...]
2006-03-09 18:07:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA
06PORTAUPRINCE479HAITI: FORMER PM YVON NEPTUNE SIGNALS WILLINGNESS
[...] (C) Summary: Former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune appears ready to negotiate a humanitarian release with the IGOH, after months of numerous attempts by emboffs and other representatives of the international community. During a visit by poloff on March 9, Neptune enumerated three conditions fo [...]
2006-03-12 17:47:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL HA
06PORTAUPRINCE543HAITI ELECTION NEWS ROUND-UP
[...] (C) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is completing review of claims arising from the February 7 General Election and should finalize candidate lists for second round Senate and Chamber of Deputy candidates by March 20. According to CEP Director General Jacques Bernard, at l [...]
2006-03-23 19:50:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA
06PORTAUPRINCE559PREVAL IN WASHINGTON: SEEKING STATUS
[...] (C) President elect Rene Garcia Preval's goal for his visit to the White House and State Department is to send an unequivocal message to Haitians at home and observers abroad that the USG is fully committed to supporting his government. He believes that a meeting with President Bush (and the [...]
2006-03-26 16:19:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE595USAID-MINUSTAH PARTNERSHIP ADVANCES PEACE IN
[...] This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary. This message summarizes the Haiti Transition Initiative (HTI),the USAID sponsored program to reduce violence and restore stability in Port au Prince's most volatile slums. USAID's Office of Transition [...]
2006-04-03 14:12:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PKAO MARR ASEC HA
06PORTAUPRINCE669HAITI: NEPTUNE CASE STALEMATED
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy reports indicate that the health of former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune continues to decline as both he and Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue remain locked in a stalemate. The interim government is willing to broker a humanitarian release deal, provided that the gover [...]
2006-04-12 15:46:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL HA
06PORTAUPRINCE720HAITI ELECTIONS: ORDERLY WITH LIGHT TURNOUT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Voting for the second round of parliamentary elections is proceeding smoothly with light turnout as of 1330. Estimates range from 10 to 20 percent participation so far. The CEP has taken to the airwaves to encourage voting, emphasizing better organization at voting centers and [...]
2006-04-21 19:13:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE900HAITI ELECTIONS: WHERE ARE WE AND WHAT NEXT
[...] (C) Summary: With the successful presidential inauguration and nearly 90 percent of legislators seated, Haiti's electoral process is almost completed. Municipal (mayoral) and local elections remain requiring only a relative majority and therefore just one round. Additionally, three remaini [...]
2006-05-19 18:51:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAID HA
06PORTAUPRINCE931HAITI ELECTIONS: FINAL CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES LIST
[...] Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Reftel reported final results of Haitian April 21 legislative elections and included the names of the 27 Senators elected. Below are the names of the 88/88 Deputies elected with available biographic information. The pending [...]
2006-05-24 16:55:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR HA
06PORTAUPRINCE983NEW SRSG STIRS POT ON JUDICIAL REFORM
[...] (SBU) Summary. Remarks by the incoming SRSG, Guatemalan Edmond Mulet, suggesting he favored integrating foreign judges in Haiti's judiciary to implement judicial reform have caused a nationalist backlash. Leaders from the political, judicial, and human rights communities have protested against [...]
2006-06-02 18:13:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL HA
06PORTLOUIS210UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - AFRICAN CANDIDACIES
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-14 07:57:00Embassy Port LouisUNCLASSIFIEDKUNR PHUM OPDC PREL UNGA UNCHR UN MP
06PORTLOUIS598MAURITIAN PRIME MINISTER ON BILATERAL RELATIONS,
[...] (C) Summary: Mauritian Prime Minister told Charge October 6 that he has no particular problem with U.S. foreign policy, despite comments to the contrary broadcast on Mauritian radio. Ramgoolam emphasized that he has tried hard to maintain consistent principles in foreign affairs and denounced [...]
2006-10-06 13:42:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER VE GT MP
06PORTLOUIS722MAURITIUS - NOVEMBER ECONOMIC ROUNDUP
[...] Mauritius joined the East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy),the fiber-optic undersea cable which will connect more than 20 African nations from South Africa to Sudan, as part of a wider plan to turn the country into a key Indian Ocean IT hub. The GOM Minister of Information Technology and [...]
2006-11-29 13:09:00Embassy Port LouisUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EFIN EINT EINV PINR MP
06PORTMORESBY126MCC - LEVERAGE ON GOVERNANCE IN PNG
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-22 06:43:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PP
06PORTMORESBY169POLITICAL RIOT IN SOLOMON ISLANDS
[...] (U) Summary: A riot has been instigated in Honiara by the losing side following the selection of a new prime minister. Youths have burned vehicles around parliament and have moved into the downtown area, attempting to trash businesses with Taiwanese affiliations. Police are now moving in. We ha [...]
2006-04-18 06:18:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPGOV INR CASC BP
06PORTMORESBY170VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN HONIARA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-19 00:39:00Embassy Port MoresbySECRETPGOV PINR CASC BP
06PORTMORESBY175HONIARA STABILIZED - SOLOMON ISLANDS STILL A MESS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-20 06:56:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CASC BP
06PORTMORESBY203SOLOMON ISLANDS - TOUGHER TIMES FOR AUSTRALIA AND RAMSI
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-08 03:11:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BP
06PORTMORESBY338SOLOMON ISLANDS - RAMSI FACES A BLEAK TIME
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-22 06:28:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL BP
06PORTMORESBY353SOLOMON ISLANDS - RIOT, ARSON, NOW MURDER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-30 01:39:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR BP
06PORTMORESBY368VANUATU REMAINS SUPPORTIVE ON UNSC SEAT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-06 01:24:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC NH
06PORTMORESBY479PAPUA NEW GUINEA PRIME MINISTER ON MOTI AND BILATERAL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador made her introductory office call on Prime Minister (PM) Sir Michael Somare on November 27. Somare said that he has instructed Foreign Minister Paul Tiensten to meet with Australia Foreign Minister Downer next week to resolve the current stalemate over the Moti affair [...]
2006-11-30 08:11:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PP
06PORTOFSPAIN1040MANNING CRITICIZES USG FOR IGNORING CARIBBEAN
[...] (U) GOTT Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday criticized the USG for ignoring the Caribbean region in general and its security, counter narcotics and trade needs in particular. Speaking at a September 5 luncheon before an audience largely comprising energy industry executives and members [...]
2006-09-07 16:04:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM SNAR TD
06PORTOFSPAIN1080 T&T HOMICIDE BUREAU CHIEF: DEPORTEES NOT MAJOR CRIME
[...] In an extended interview with the daily Trinidad Guardian newspaper on September 12, Head of the Homicide Bureau, Assistant Commissioner of Police Maurice Piggott discussed many of the current shortfalls in T&T's policing efforts and the steps that the police force is taking to rectify the sit [...]
2006-09-15 20:11:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM TD
06PORTOFSPAIN1123THE DELAWARE/T&T PARTNERSHIP: TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY IN
[...] SUMMARY: Delaware Governor Ruth Minner's recent visit to T&T under the auspices of DOD's State Partnership Program was extraordinarily successful. The Delaware/T&T partnership should serve as a model not only for expanding military to military relationships but for effecting transformational [...]
2006-09-22 20:49:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV MARR PINR TD
06PORTOFSPAIN1126PM MANNING FRUSTRATED OVER CARICOM RESPONSE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 8 meeting with DOE A/S Karen Harbert and WHA DAS Patrick Duddy, PM Manning voiced frustration with CARICOM colleagues over their stance on Petrocaribe but at the same time said he would go along with a "CARICOM decision" to support Venezuela's bid for a UNSC seat. [...]
2006-09-22 21:14:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALEPET UNSC PREL PGOV VE TD
06PORTOFSPAIN1273T&T TO USOAS AMBASSADOR MAISTO: BRING ON THE SOA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: USOAS Permanent Representative Maisto met with T&T PM Manning and FM Piggott on October 20 to discuss the 2009 Summit of the Americas. Manning signaled that the country will be ready for the summit, and hopes to have a successful event that highlights the Caribbean as well as T [...]
2006-11-06 17:13:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD TD
06PORTOFSPAIN1319T&T'S PRE-ELECTION POLITICS WARMING UP
[...] SUMMARY: A number of recent polls as well as statements by Prime Minister Patrick Manning indicate that Winston Dookeran and his newly-formed Congress of the People should be regarded as serious new actors on the country's political stage. It now seems that the Prime Minister may have decided [...]
2006-11-15 19:23:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM TD
06PORTOFSPAIN1349SECRETARY AND CARICOM: BROAD DIALOGUE NEEDED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Secretary Chertoff,s October 26 meeting with CARICOM representatives highlighted the potential for greater cooperation building on existing structures for Cricket World Cup 2007. CARICOM is happy to receive assistance for Cricket World Cup, and further collaboration on interdic [...]
2006-11-24 10:31:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAID XL TD
06PORTOFSPAIN1358TRINIDAD ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS - NOVEMBER PT 1
[...] Farewell BWIA, welcome Caribbean Airlines 2. Inflation - who's to blame? 3. Crushing blow to music pirates 4. Telecom - Digicel goes to court; Paltel drops out 5. HBO to plug Flow 6. T&T/India to sign BIT 7. U.S. consultants derailed 8. GOTT convenes smelter symposium, but... [...]
2006-11-28 14:22:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON ECPS EFIN EINV ELNT ETRD KIRP TD
06PORTOFSPAIN405 AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH DOOKERAN ON CRIME,
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-31 16:29:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM TD
06PORTOFSPAIN406 100 MURDERS IN 85 DAYS: T&T POLICE CANNOT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One hundred murders have been committed in Trinidad and Tobago in the first 85 days of 2006. Police officers attribute the problem to a combination of guns, drugs and gangs. Additionally, a track record of police incompetence and fears of repercussions keep civilians from wo [...]
2006-03-31 18:33:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM SNAR TD
06PORTOFSPAIN462DHS CWC ASSESSMENT TEAM JUMP-STARTS T&T
[...] (C) The Department of Homeland Security-funded Cricket World Cup assessment TEAM highlighted the need for the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (GOTT) to coordinate better with the International Cricket Council (ICC) in the form of its Local Organizing Committee (LOC). Fortunately, this trip [...]
2006-04-13 17:29:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM SNAR TD
06PORTOFSPAIN602 PASTOR HINN'S SECOND COMING TESTS T&T'S
[...] SUMMARY: Controversial Pentecostal Pastor Benny Hinn is scheduled for a second trip to Trinidad and Tobago in May. His "Miracle Mission" has occasioned significant dispute in the press, with Hindu leader Sat Maharaj using his media outlets to question Hinn's ministry as a sort of revenge fo [...]
2006-05-15 18:41:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KIRF TD
06PORTOFSPAIN671OAS: HELMS-BURTON RESOLUTION AND SANTO DOMINGO
[...] (SBU) A/DCM made reftel demarche early on June 1 with Kathleen Seenarine, MFA Americas Department acting director. Seenarine said she was familiar with both issues, having prepared the briefing book for Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift. She committed to convey our request at once via email to t [...]
2006-06-02 13:53:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL XL TD MX
06PORTOFSPAIN672OAS: HELMS-BURTON RESOLUTION AND SANTO DOMINGO
[...] (SBU) A/DCM made reftel demarche early on June 1 with Kathleen Seenarine, MFA Americas Department acting director. Seenarine said she was familiar with both issues, having prepared the briefing book for Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift. She committed to convey our request at once via email to t [...]
2006-06-02 13:53:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL XL TD MX
06PORTOFSPAIN74T&T MINISTRY OF LABOR ON OSHA REVISIONS AND
[...] (SBU) Poloff met with Mr. Devnath Roopnarine, Chief Inspector of the Occupational Health and Safety Division in the Ministry of Labor to discuss the implementation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). Roopnarine explained that the OSHA has had a long history under three differen [...]
2006-01-13 19:54:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV TD
06PORTOFSPAIN809EXTRAORDINARY COOPERATION FROM T&T ON MOVING
[...] (C) On June 29, Suriname expelled Guyanese national Roger Shaheed Khan from prison. Suriname arrested Khan for drug and weapons charges, but determined to expel him from the country after determining that he was in the country illegally and that their case against him was "insufficient." Th [...]
2006-07-06 15:32:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALPREL SNAR KCRM TD
06PORTOFSPAIN920 SCENESETTER FOR DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S VISIT TO T&T
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Secretary Chertoff, my team and I look forward to welcoming you to Trinidad and Tobago. T&T is a major political and economic player in the region, and your visit will help underscore the importance we plac [...]
2006-08-03 18:18:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER OVIP ASEC CARICOM TD
06PRAGUE1032CZECH POLITICS: CSSD DUMPS ODS AT THE ALTAR AND
[...] SUMMARY. (SBU) Talks between the leaders of the two main Czech political parties, the Civic Democrats (ODS) and the Social Democrats (CSSD),broke down August 24, hours after both sides had publicly stated that an agreement was in sight and expected within days. Immediately after outgoing Prim [...]
2006-08-25 16:21:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE1053CZECHS SUPPORT INDEPENDENCE FOR KOSOVO, EU
[...] (C) Summary. The Czechs agree with the U.S. position on Kosovo and Serbia on every material point. While the Czechs support the status talks, they are pessimistic about the outcome: Serbs will never willingly agree to an independent Kosovo. Czech MFA officials plan a visit to the Balkans the w [...]
2006-08-30 12:34:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL UNAUS UNMIK PGOV YI EU EZ
06PRAGUE1142CZECH PARLIAMENT MAKES COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS, AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Nearly 15 weeks after the June 2-3 general election, the Czech parliament has finalized committee assignments. The Social Democrats (CSSD),which came in second in the election behind the Civic Democrats (ODS) arguably took the best assignments. The smaller parties have fewer c [...]
2006-09-15 13:51:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE1217CZECHS ON THE SECOND SESSION OF THE UNHRC
[...] (C) Polec Counselor and Poloff met with MFA Human Rights Department Director Veronika Stromsikova on September 29 to discuss priorities for the second session of the UNHRC, and to deliver Reftel talking points. Stromsikova had just returned from UNHRC meetings in Geneva and offered her assessm [...]
2006-10-03 14:43:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM UN EZ
06PRAGUE1227U.S.-CZECH S&T AGREEMENT: TIME TO COME TO CLOSURE
[...] This is an action request, see para 4. 2. The U.S. and the Czech Republic have been negotiating a new Science and Technology Agreement since 2003. The sole unresolved issue is language covering taxation of assistance funds. EU regulations do not permit the Czechs to conclude an agreemen [...]
2006-10-04 13:18:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDKTIA KSCA PREL EZ
06PRAGUE1230CZECHS TRANSFERING PNR DATA UNDER LEGAL LIMBO
[...] Despite the passing of the European Court of Justice September 30 deadline for the nullification of the U.S. - E.U. passenger name record (PNR) agreement, the Czech national airline, CSA, continues to transfer passenger records to U.S. authorities but without the consent and legal cover of the [...]
2006-10-04 14:31:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR PTER CAIO EZ
06PRAGUE1308CZECH RESPONSE TO UNGA ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: The Czechs generally support USG priorities for UNGA. They support tough sanctions on Iran and North Korea. They continue to support Guatemala for the UNSC seat, although they believe that there is now little that countries outside of Latin America can do to influence the outcom [...]
2006-10-20 11:34:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNGA EZ
06PRAGUE1340AMBASSADOR GRABER'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON PRIME
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's October 23 introductory call, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (ODS) expressed his satisfaction with bilateral cooperation in the fields of security and democracy promotion, his concern about energy security in Europe, and his hope that the Ambassador w [...]
2006-10-26 14:39:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE1349PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN CLOSED SOCIETIES: LESSONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Czechs are well-known for their spirited and effective promotion of democracy and human rights in closed societies, such as Belarus, Cuba, Burma, Iraq, and elsewhere. This cable highlights examples of Czech public diplomacy efforts in these countries. The goal of these Czech [...]
2006-10-30 11:31:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM EZ
06PRAGUE1373CZECH REPUBLIC: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON
[...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's November 3 courtesy call on Czech Foreign Minister Alexandr (Sasha) Vondra, the primary topics were visa waiver and missile defense. FM Vondra expressed skepticism for the visa roadmap, but agreed to co-host the next Bilateral Consular Working Group (BCWG) [...]
2006-11-06 08:57:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV CVIS EZ
06PRAGUE1376CZECH REPUBLIC: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALLS ON
[...] SUMMARY. (SBU) Ambassador Graber paid courtesy calls on the heads of the upper and lower chambers of the Czech legislature on November 1. The two men, through from rival political parties on opposite sides of the political spectrum, shared similar views on foreign policy issues of interest to [...]
2006-11-06 13:38:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV MARR CVIS PREL EZ
06PRAGUE1402CZECH ENERGY SECURITY: MODERATE BUT INCREASING
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Czech Republic is moderately dependent on Russian oil and gas compared to other former Soviet bloc countries, thanks to its domestic coal production supplying over 50% of domestic energy needs, its position as a major electricity exporter in Europe, and diversified [...]
2006-11-09 12:51:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV EZ
06PRAGUE1430CZECH REPUBLIC: TOPOLANEK GETS A QUALIFIED OK FOR
[...] (SBU)SUMMARY. The Civic Democrats (ODS) held their annual party Congress November 17-18, and gave Party Chair Mirek Topolanek the support he was looking for to begin negotiations with the party's main rival, the left-of-center Social Democrats (CSSD),on a coalition that would also include one [...]
2006-11-20 15:25:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EZ
06PRAGUE1450SCENESETTER FOR U/S DOBRIANSKY'S VISIT TO PRAGUE
[...] (C) Summary: Czechs marked the 17th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in November. As you will see during your visit, the country has embraced a pro-transatlantic foreign policy, with the Czech government and NGOs playing a significant role in efforts to promote democratic transformation in [...]
2006-11-29 15:23:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EZ
06PRAGUE1529CZECH POLITICS: DEJA VU AS TOPOLANEK READIES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The meandering and unpredictable negotiations on the formation of a new Czech government took another strange turn December 14 when nearly completed talks on a partnership between the Civic Democrats (ODS) and Social Democrats (CSSD) collapsed. Prime Minister-designate Mirek Top [...]
2006-12-18 16:02:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE284CZECH GREENS: A REFRESHING CHANGE FROM THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent weeks the Czech Green Party has, for the first time ever, jumped above 5% in opinion polls, indicating that the party could enter parliament in the June 2-3 general election. A fifth party in the new parliament would change the calculations for the forming a new gover [...]
2006-03-17 16:02:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE295CZECHS EXPRESS CONCERN FOR FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY IN
[...] Summary ---------- (C) On March 16, WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro met with representatives of Czech NGO People in Need (PIN),parliamentarians, MFA officials, and private citizens actively engaged in democracy promotion in Cuba. The Czechs expressed their commitment to Cuba and Latin America gene [...]
2006-03-22 14:54:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM CU VE XM EZ
06PRAGUE427 MARTIN BURSIK, MEAN GREEN CHAMELEON, POSSIBLE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. It looks increasingly likely that the Czech Green Party will cross the 5% threshold in the June 2-3 parliamentary elections, and have a say in the formation of the next coalition government. Martin Bursik, who became Chairman of the party six months ago, and who is given credit [...]
2006-04-25 10:46:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEZ PGOV PINR PREL
06PRAGUE46CZECHS IN ASIA: CONTINUED FOCUS ON CHINA, BUT
[...] (C) Summary. The Czech Republic plans active engagement with East and South Asia in the first half of 2006, with most attention focused on China. During a visit to Prague in December, the Chinese PM closed an investment agreement that, according to critics, noticeably favors Chinese interests [...]
2006-01-13 18:04:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL EINV EZ CH BM IN PK AF VM CB
06PRAGUE498CZECHS EXPAND DEMOCRACY PROMOTION EFFORTS IN
[...] (C) Summary. Promoting democracy and human rights in Belarus remains a top foreign policy priority for the Czech government. Following the fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus in March 2006, the Czech Parliament voted to increase funding to support democracy promotion in Belarus from $ [...]
2006-05-10 15:46:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM BO EZ
06PRAGUE506CZECHS SUPPORT CUBA DEMOCRACY FUND; SEARCH FOR
[...] (C) Summary. Gretchen Birkle, DRL/FO Senior Coordinator for Global Democracy Strategies, and Paul Bonicelli, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, met with Czech MFA officials and Czech NGO representatives April 10. They discus [...]
2006-05-11 14:54:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM CU EZ
06PRAGUE58CZECHS EMBRACE TRANSFORMATION DIPLOMACY AND
[...] (U) Summary and comment. Democracy promotion is at the heart of Czech foreign policy. Because GOCR efforts complement U.S. transformational diplomacy efforts, the Czechs are natural partners for cooperation in countries such as Cuba, Belarus, and Iraq. January 25-27, 2006, Gabriela Dlouha, Dir [...]
2006-01-23 06:50:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM EZ
06PRAGUE591CZECH ELECTIONS: THE SHORT, BRUTISH, NASTY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the June 2-3 election only a day away, political pundits are still waffling on their predictions and a significant number of voters remain uninspired and unsure of whom to support. The choices made by this large block of still undecided voters, as high as 25% according to s [...]
2006-06-01 10:11:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE607CZECH ELECTION RESULTS: TOTAL STALEMATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The June 2-3 Czech general elections ended in a dramatic stalemate, with the left and the right camp each receiving 100 seats in the 200-seat Chamber of Deputies, and Prime Minster Paroubek threatening to file a complaint with the courts to have the results annulled. An obvious [...]
2006-06-04 16:59:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EZ
06PRAGUE636TALKS ON ODS MINORITY COALITION CONTINUE: CHANCES
[...] SUMMARY. The Civic Democrat party (ODS),which won the largest number of votes in the June 2 - 3 elections, is pushing forward with its plan to form an ODS-led minority government with the Christian Democrats and the Green Party, although the Greens do not yet seem fully on board. Meanwhile, [...]
2006-06-09 16:14:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE662NEW CZECH PARLIAMENT: FRESHMEN DOMINATE MAIN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. One half of the next Czech parliament, chosen in the June 2-3 general election, will be new members. The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committees lost more than half of their members, including some very experienced politicians. The parliament will have more representation by the two [...]
2006-06-15 16:13:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EZ
06PRAGUE665CZECHS AGREE PROCEDURAL ISSUES SHOULD BE FOCUS OF
[...] (C) Summary. The Czech MFA Director of Human Rights said the Czechs plan to make procedural reform the focus of their one-year term on the Council, and further agree that the focus of the first UNHRC session should be procedural issues. However, they are open to discussing specific country issu [...]
2006-06-15 16:40:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL EZ
06PRAGUE666SEPTEMBER 2006: EUR ENTRY LEVEL CONFERENCE IN
[...] (U) Embassy Prague is pleased to announce it will host an Entry Level (EL) Conference September 6-8, 2006. The Conference will focus on transformational diplomacy tradecraft and career development. All EL generalists and specialists from EUR are welcome and encouraged to attend, especially ELs [...]
2006-06-15 16:52:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER OTRA AFSI EZ
06PRAGUE667SEPTEMBER 2006: EUR ENTRY LEVEL CONFERENCE IN
[...] (U) Embassy Prague is pleased to announce it will host an Entry Level (EL) Conference September 6-8, 2006. The Conference will focus on transformational diplomacy tradecraft and career development. All EL generalists and specialists from EUR are welcome and encouraged to attend, especially ELs [...]
2006-06-16 06:00:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER OTRA AFSI EZ
06PRAGUE674RESPONSE FROM CZECH REPUBLIC ON REACH: IT IS TOO
[...] SUMMARY: The Czech government was receptive to USG concerns on the pending EU Chemicals Directive (REACH),but indicated that changes are not likely as it is now a choice between the Council,s and the Parliament,s versions. Given the history of GOCR active engagement and pragmatism on REACH (r [...]
2006-06-16 13:56:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDETRD BEXP SENV EUN EZ
06PRAGUE692CZECHS SUPPORT EU CRITICISM OF VENEZUELAN NGO LAW,
[...] (C) Poloff met with Petr Janousek, Czech MFA Desk Officer of the Americas Department, June 19 to discuss Venezuela's draft NGO law. Janousek said a delegation of EU Ambassadors in Caracas met in early June with Saul Ortega, President of the Permanent Commission for External Policies in the Ven [...]
2006-06-21 12:56:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV VE EAID EZ
06PRAGUE719CZECH REPUBLIC: COALITION AGREEMENT REACHED
[...] (U) The Civic Democrats (ODS),Christian Democrats (KDU- CSL),and the Green Party (SZ) signed a coalition agreement and finalized ministerial nominations late June 23. ODS, which won the largest number of votes in the June 2 - 3 election, will hold 10 posts including that of the Prime Minist [...]
2006-06-26 14:36:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE723CZECH NGO STAGES RALLY TO GAIN SUPPORT FOR UNSC
[...] (U) Poloff met Maria Perinova, Senior Program Director for Czech NGO People in Need (PIN),to discuss a rally on Burma organized by PIN in Prague on June 19 (the birthday of the Burmese democratic leader Aung San Syi Kyi). Perinova said the peaceful rally was to urge UNSC members to approve a [...]
2006-06-28 06:33:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PHUM PREL BM EZ
06PRAGUE737CZECH REPUBLIC: IMPLICATIONS OF NEW GOVERNMENT FOR
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The center-right coalition that will take office perhaps as early as next week, pending resolution of Lower House leadership negotiations, will be generally positive for U.S. interests in the Czech Republic. Although the date of a vote of confidence in the Topolanek [...]
2006-06-28 15:52:00Embassy PragueSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE744CZECHS SEE EYE-TO-EYE WITH U.S. ON KOSOVO STATUS
[...] (C) Summary. Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo and Kosovo Desk Officer Joshua Black visited Prague May 23-24 to meet with Czech government officials to discuss the status of Kosovo. The Czech MFA predicts an independent Kosovo (but ackno [...]
2006-07-01 09:00:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM YI ZL EZ
06PRAGUE85CZECH DEMOCRACY PROMOTION: BURMA AND NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Summary. This is the fourth in a series of cables highlighting Czech democracy promotion efforts. The Czechs plan to launch new Czech democracy promotion projects in Burma and North Korea in 2006. These projects are motivated by the GOCR's interest in helping these countries peacefully ove [...]
2006-01-26 16:36:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM BM KN EZ
06PRAGUE893CZECHS SAY NOT TO WORRY: ASEM WILL FOCUS ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-02 15:58:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM FI BU EUN EZ
06PRAGUE925CZECH REPUBLIC: GOVERNMENT WITH TWO BIG PARTIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two months after winning the June 2-3 general elections and unsuccessfully trying to form a new government with a three-party right-of-center coalition that holds exactly half of the seats in Parliament, the Civic Democrats (ODS) have finally declared the coalition dead [...]
2006-08-09 10:29:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS EZ
06PRAGUE934CZECH PUBLIC DEBATE ON MISSILE DEFENSE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Since reftel report on July 19, Czech media coverage has intensified, with a steady stream of editorials and news coverage about a potential siting of a U.S. missile defense facility in the Czech Republic. Pro-MD commentators continue to make the arguments that an MD [...]
2006-08-11 08:44:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS PREL PGOV EZ
06PRAGUE97CZECH DEMOCRACY PROMOTION: IRAQ
[...] (U) Summary and comment. This cable, the fifth in a series highlighting Czech transformational diplomacy, describes Czech democracy promotion projects in Iraq. These projects are motivated by the Czech interest in rebuilding Iraq, and promoting democracy and regional stability throughout the M [...]
2006-01-27 17:57:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM IZ EZ
06PRETORIA1052 SOUTH AFRICAN HIV/AIDS SPENDING IN 2006 BUDGET
[...] Summary. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel presented South Africa's 2006 Budget, highlighting the South African government's planned expenditures and revenues over the following three years. Expenditures on social development constitute over half of total expenditures. Spending on health and [...]
2006-03-14 11:48:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA1158SOUTH AFRICA: MOELETSI MBEKI SAYS DONORS HOLD THE
[...] (U) Summary. Donors hold the key to economic reform in Africa, says Moeletsi Mbeki, businessman, political analyst, and brother of South African President Thabo Mbeki. In a recent address, Mbeki said that donors leverage more power than Africa's military or political elite. Mbeki explained t [...]
2006-03-22 10:27:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN PGOV EAID PINR SF
06PRETORIA1195 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 24 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-03-24 11:18:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA1196SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MARCH 24 2006
[...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Construction, Property BEE Charters Signed; - BE [...]
2006-03-24 11:18:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1397 SOUTH AFRICA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified; Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Welcome to South Africa. In the twelve years since the end of apartheid, the South African government (SAG) has taken major steps toward establishing a democracy and market-based economy. Despite problems of income [...]
2006-04-07 04:38:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL EFIN EINV ETRD ECON KHIV SF
06PRETORIA1415 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH April 7 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-04-07 12:42:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA142 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH JANUARY 13 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-01-13 12:06:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA1548SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER APRIL 13 2006
[...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Interest Rates Unchanged; - Manufacturing Produc [...]
2006-04-13 14:02:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1657 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH April 21 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-04-21 13:51:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA1709SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER APRIL 28 2006
[...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - March Inflation Slows; - Producer Prices Slow Th [...]
2006-04-26 14:09:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA171SOUTH AFRICA: 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE
[...] (U) In response to Ref A, this cable presents post's 2006 Investment Climate Statement for South Africa. This is also Chapter 6 of the 2006 Country Commercial Guide for South Africa. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT Chapter 6 Investment Climate Statement FY 2006 6.1 Openness to Foreign Investment [...]
2006-01-17 14:42:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC USTR PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1811SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MAY 5 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Trade Deficits Point to Possible Rand Weakness and [...]
2006-05-05 07:51:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1821 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH May 4 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-05-05 10:43:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA1943SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MAY 12 2006
[...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Manufacturing Production Recovers in March; - Re [...]
2006-05-12 10:03:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2065 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH May 19 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-05-19 07:58:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA2122POLITICAL ANALYST WEIGHS IN ON ZUMA, ANC
[...] (C) Summary: The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is currently in turmoil due to the ongoing battles between opponents and supporters of President Thabo Mbeki, according to noted political analyst Aubrey Matshiqi. Party deputy president Jacob Zuma's acquittal on rape charges and the su [...]
2006-05-24 10:28:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SF
06PRETORIA2182SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MAY 26 2006
[...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - April Consumer Prices Lower Than Expectations; - [...]
2006-05-30 12:18:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2249 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH June 2 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-06-01 14:44:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA2261SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JUNE 2 2006
[...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - First Quarter GDP Growth Accelerates; - April Cr [...]
2006-06-02 08:37:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA227SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JANUARY 20 2006
[...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Consumer Confidence Up; - Manufacturing Activity [...]
2006-01-20 10:48:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2328SOUTH AFRICA: SKILLS, THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT
[...] (U) Summary. In March, President Thabo Mbeki and Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka announced the Joint Initiative on Priority Skills Acquisition (JIPSA) as an integral part of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (ASGISA). JIPSA is a attempt to rectify the grow [...]
2006-06-06 14:35:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EINV PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2395Central Bank Unexpectedly Raises Interest
[...] (U) Summary. Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni announced June 8 an increase of 50 basis points to 7.5 percent in the central bank's repurchase (repo) rate. In its statement, the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) cited deterioration in the inflation outlook, continued growth i [...]
2006-06-09 14:56:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV SF
06PRETORIA2508SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JUNE 15 2006
[...] Summary. Once every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Raises Int [...]
2006-06-20 04:33:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2665SOUTH AFRICA: BANK FEES UNDER FIRE
[...] (SBU) Summary. As the result of a recent report, South Africa's Competition Commission launched a public inquiry into the amount of income the banking industry generates from transaction fees. The banking industry earned R29 billion ($4.1 billion) in transaction fee revenue and an estimated [...]
2006-06-30 08:46:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2781SOUTH AFRICA: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF BEE
[...] Summary. (C) Black Economic Empowerment (BEE),embodied in the proposed Codes of Good Practice, is the government's policy initiative to redress the economic legacies of apartheid. While endorsing the goals of BEE, U.S. companies believe that the codes' unintended consequences will undermine t [...]
2006-07-07 14:22:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALEINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF
06PRETORIA2831SOUTH AFRICA: CREDIT ACT PROTECTS CONSUMERS
[...] (SBU) Summary. South Africa's National Credit Act came into effect on June 1, replacing weak and outdated legislation. This Act seeks to protect primarily poor South Africans, who have endured exorbitant interest rates, lender exploitation, and rising personal debt. The previously-named Mic [...]
2006-07-11 14:51:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2860SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JULY 13 2006
[...] (U) Summary. Once every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Government to simplify BEE codes; - Sec [...]
2006-07-13 13:01:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2873 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ACOTA - WILLIAM G. (CHIP)
[...] Embassy Pretoria welcomes and grants country clearance to ACOTA Coordinator William G. (Chip) Beck and John Sevold from July 15-22, 2006. The purpose of the visit is follow-up on the JUN DEFCOM meeting requirements and for a site visit to Bloemfontein Mission Readiness Training center and ot [...]
2006-07-14 04:35:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA PREL MARR ASEC SF TZ
06PRETORIA320 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH JANUARY 27 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-01-27 12:17:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA3295SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER AUGUST 11, 2006 ISSUE
[...] (U) Summary. Once every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Reserve Bank raises interest rates 50 basi [...]
2006-08-14 05:08:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA330SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JANUARY 27 2006
[...] (U) Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - December Consumer Prices Higher; - Producer [...]
2006-01-27 13:37:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA3339SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR OBAMA'S VISIT TO SOUTH
[...] (SBU) Welcome to South Africa, an anchor country in our Africa policy. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC)-led South African Government (SAG) has made major progress toward establishing a vibrant democracy and market-based economy. The SAG has focused on p [...]
2006-08-15 14:57:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV ECON KHIV SF
06PRETORIA3420BURUNDI SUMMIT POSSIBLE IN LATE AUGUST
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Regional leaders may convene a high-level Burundi summit August 29 or 30 in Dar es Salaam to witness the signature of an FNL-GOB cease fire agreement, according to ISS Analyst Jan van Eck. Van Eck, a long-time Burundi watcher with close connections to the FNL, says that the FNL [...]
2006-08-18 14:43:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL BU
06PRETORIA3422 ENTICED BY AFRICA'S MANIFOLD RICHES, AMERICANS AND CHINESE
[...] (SBU) Summary: About 30 government, academic and business leaders -- including several former senior State Department officials -- held a groundbreaking dialogue to explore how China and the U.S. could work with Africa to spur development on the continent. Discussions centered on energy, trade [...]
2006-08-21 08:34:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN EINV EAID EIND KDEM CH XA SF
06PRETORIA347SOUTH AFRICA: HOUSING AND SERVICE DELIVERY WOES
[...] (SBU) Summary. Since mid-2004, South Africa has seen several protests in disadvantaged communities, ostensibly against poor public service delivery, lack of adequate housing, and corruption. These protests have intensified in the run up to the March 1 local elections, suggesting that there ar [...]
2006-01-30 07:39:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN EINV EAID SF
06PRETORIA3889SOUTH AFRICA MEDIATOR VISITING BURUNDI AND TANZANIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The South African Facilitator of the Burundi Peace Process, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula, will travel to Burundi and Tanzania September 19-20 to "remove obstacles" to the implementation of the September 7 FNL peace agreement. Nqakula will seek international donor [...]
2006-09-18 16:17:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL SF BU
06PRETORIA3952(C) DFA OFFICIAL SUGGESTS SUDAN UNLIKELY TO AGREE
[...] (C) Sudan is unlikely to agree to a UN force in Darfur, suggested Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Horn of Africa Director Graham Maitland (protect). Maitland told PolOff September 21 that the working levels of DFA are discussing the possibility of a "greatly enhanced" AMIS operation if Kh [...]
2006-09-22 09:45:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MOPS KPKO KDEM SU SF
06PRETORIA3965(C) SOUTH AFRICA OFFERS TO ASSIST LRA MEDIATION
[...] (C) South Africa has offered to serve as a "friend of the mediator" in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)-Government of Uganda peace process, according to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Horn of Africa Director Graham Maitland and East Africa Director Rasheeda Adam. Maitland and Adam sepera [...]
2006-09-22 12:43:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM UG SF
06PRETORIA432SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 3 2006
[...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Interest Rates Remain Unchanged; - December's Tr [...]
2006-02-03 10:43:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA4598NEC MEMBER EBRAHIM SAYS TOO EARLY TO SPECULATE ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: This is the second in a series of cables on the strengths and weaknesses of the emerging candidates for the ANC and national presidencies in South Africa (Ref A). This messages presents the view of Ebrahim Ebrahim, ANC National Executive Council member and forme [...]
2006-11-06 14:46:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SF
06PRETORIA4726VAN ECK SAYS FNL LOSING FAITH IN CEASEFIRE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. ISS Burundi Analyst Jan van Eck says the Palipehutu-FNL is losing faith in the Burundi peace process and is "at the point of declaring the ceasefire agreement dead." At an ISS seminar in Pretoria November 14, van Eck outlined the FNL's major concerns: problems with the immunity [...]
2006-11-15 14:17:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL BU SF
06PRETORIA4790SOUTH AFRICA'S UN SECURITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES
[...] (C) Post-apartheid South Africa begins its first stint as a non-permanent UNSC member on 01 January with an ambitious agenda. The SAG naturally will promote its "Africa agenda" and will seek to keep the Council focused on efforts to resolve the continent's conflicts. But, South Africa also c [...]
2006-11-21 15:54:00Embassy PretoriaSECRET//NOFORNPREL UNSC SF
06PRETORIA5017SOUTH AFRICA TO PROVIDE MILITARY TRAINING IN CAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: South Africa plans to provide military training and technical assistance to the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR). Minister of Defense Lekota traveled to Bangui December 8 to discuss the possible military training program. A SANDF military team departed for CAR D [...]
2006-12-14 04:31:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR CT SF
06PRETORIA5039SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 15,
[...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 6, issue 27 of US Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News weekly newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - DTI rolls out B-BBEE Scorecard; - SARB Governor complains about credit madness; - South Africa's technological innovation; - The Compet [...]
2006-12-15 13:53:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET BEXP KTDB SENV PGOV
06PRETORIA600SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 10 2006
[...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - December Manufacturing Resumes Growth; - Survey [...]
2006-02-10 12:46:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA603 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH FEBRUARY 10 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-02-10 13:26:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA618SOUTH AFRICA: KOEBERG POWER PLANT EXPERIENCING
[...] (U) Summary. Eskom is racing against the clock to repair the generator connected to one of two nuclear reactors at its Koeberg power plant located north of Cape Town. Eskom shut down the Koeberg 1 reactor following damage to its dedicated generator reportedly caused when a maintenance team i [...]
2006-02-13 13:24:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY SF
06PRETORIA640SOUTH AFRICA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PELOSI VISIT
[...] (SBU) Welcome to South Africa, an anchor country in our Africa policy. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC)-led South African Government (SAG) has made major progress toward establishing a vibrant democracy and market-based economy. The SAG has focused on [...]
2006-02-15 07:35:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PREL ECON MARR KHIV SF
06PRETORIA698SOUTH AFRICA: MBEKI ANNOUNCES THE ACCELERATED AND
[...] (U) Summary. In his State of the Nation address on February 3, President Thabo Mbeki spent considerable time introducing what he termed the "Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa" (ASGISA),which he described as a limited set of interventions designed to halve unemployment [...]
2006-02-17 14:38:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN PGOV SF
06PRETORIA790 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH FEBRUARY 24 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-02-24 11:09:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA816ANC CONFIDENT OF CONTINUED STRENGTH IN NORTHERN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The ANC heads into local elections in the Northern Cape?s main urban area confident of another overwhelming showing. Some progress in expanding service delivery and a weak and fractured opposition are the basis for that optimism. Nonetheless, persistent unhappiness over service [...]
2006-02-27 12:58:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN EINV EAID SF KDEM
06PRETORIA844SOUTH AFRICA: ANC WILL DOMINATE LIMPOPO DESPITE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The residents of Waterberg and Vhembe District Municipalities in Limpopo live with high levels of unemployment, poverty, and limited access to public services. Despite frustrations, the electorate stands behind the ANC and will vote overwhelming for them in the March 1 local el [...]
2006-03-01 08:15:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EFIN EINV EAID SF
06PRETORIA889SOUTH AFRICA: INFORMATION ABOUT PROPOSED
[...] (SBU) Summary. Econoff met with Department of Minerals and Energy and Department of Trade and Industry officials to deliver reftel points. In both instances, officials confirmed that they had not notified the WTO Secretariat of the revised regulations gazetted on January 13, and seemed unsure [...]
2006-03-03 12:25:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ENRG SENV SF
06PRETORIA942SOUTH AFRICA'S 2006 BUDGET
[...] Summary. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel outlined South Africa's planned expenditures and revenues over the next three years in the Budget 2006. Few finance ministers have the luxury of dispensing an unplanned $6.9 billion in revenue, and having close to a balanced budget. Strong growth and [...]
2006-03-08 06:52:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA960SOUTH AFRICA: PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. The United States and South Africa have made significant progress in implementing the June 10, 2005 Presidential Joint Statement. The two countries signed the ACOTA agreement in August 2005 to enhance South Africa's peacekeeping capacity, and training programs will begin this [...]
2006-03-08 13:02:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD MASS PHUM SF
06PRETORIA990 SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 10 2006 ISSUE
[...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]
2006-03-10 07:59:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRISTINA1121KOSOVO AND MACEDONIA: THE WAY FORWARD ON BORDER
[...] (U) The following is a joint cable from U.S. Office Pristina and Embassy Skopje. 2. (C) SUMMARY: When Macedonian FM Milososki visited Kosovo on November 23, he reiterated the GoM's position calling for inclusion of the demarcation of the Kosovo-Macedonia border in the UNSCR on Kosovo's fin [...]
2006-12-29 08:30:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS INR UNMIK YI KTIA
06PRISTINA229KOSOVO: CEKU OFF TO GOOD START IN HIS FIRST DAYS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his acceptance speech on March 10 and interviews over his first weekend as prime minister, former Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) commander General Agim Ceku stressed Kosovo's future as a multiethnic state, but affirmed there can be no solution for Kosovo other than independence [...]
2006-03-14 16:34:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA282RETURNS AND MISSING PERSONS FOREVER LINKED IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Many ethnic Albanians from parts of Kosovo that were subjected to violent ethnic cleansing during the war do not give much thought to the return of their ethnic Serb neighbors, and they doubt that any of the Serbs want to come back. For these Albanians any reconciliation with [...]
2006-03-29 14:52:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYICTY KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PREF PREL SI YI
06PRISTINA299KOSOVO STANDARDS DELIVERABLE: PROPERTY RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG) have created the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) as a quasi-judicial forum for resolution of private real estate disputes. The KPA will replace the Housing and Property Directorate (HPD),the independent agency that [...]
2006-04-04 15:14:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA310SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 14-15 VISIT OF SPECIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Coming on the heels of the April 6-7 visit of the Contact Group and the April 3 Vienna meeting on decentralization, Ambassador Wisner's April 14-15 visit presents an opportunity to push Kosovo Albanian leaders to come to closure on some decentralization issues (municipal partnersh [...]
2006-04-10 10:40:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA336AMBASSADOR WISNER URGES KOSOVARS TO BEAR DOWN ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During an April 14-16 visit to Kosovo, U.S. Special Representative Frank Wisner congratulated the revamped Kosovo Albanian leadership team for its serious engagement in the Vienna final status process and for its outreach to the Kosovo Serb community. He urged the team to build [...]
2006-04-20 14:44:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA352KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU CONTINUES MINORITY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the first ever visit by a Kosovo President to Decani Monastery, President Fatmir Sejdiu toured the grounds and church on Orthodox Easter Sunday, and then discussed the protection of Kosovo's Serbian Orthodox heritage sites with Bishop Teodosije in Serbian. Other visitors in [...]
2006-04-26 13:08:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK
06PRISTINA421KOSOVO: UNMIK ISSUES GENERALLY FAVORABLE TECHNICAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK's latest formal assessment of Kosovo Government efforts to implement the Standards for Kosovo program, covering the period ending April 30, is generally favorable. The report lauds the quick initial engagement of Kosovo's new government on Standards which will provide a ba [...]
2006-05-16 17:01:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA426KOSOVO: FINAL THREE PERCENT OF MARCH 2004
[...] (SBU) Most reconstruction of homes damaged in the March 2004 violence has long since been completed, albeit with some complaints about the quality of construction and frictions about the terms of reconstruction of outbuildings. Most of what has not been rebuilt is in the historic center of [...]
2006-05-18 15:32:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI PREF
06PRISTINA480FUNDING FOR MISSING PERSONS AND FORENSICS IN KOSOVO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As the recent confrontation between police and families of the missing in Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa demonstrates, missing persons remains a volatile issue in Kosovo (Ref A). The USG has helped fund both UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) and the Kosovo oper [...]
2006-06-05 16:45:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA495RIFT WIDENS BETWEEN HARD-LINE AND MODERATE SERBIAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ever since moderate Bishop Teodosije welcomed Kosovo President Sejdiu to Decani Monastery on Orthodox Easter, the rift between Teodosije and hard-line Bishop Artemije has widened. After the visit, Artemije blasted Teodosije in the media, and the hardline Serbian National Coun [...]
2006-06-09 17:07:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PGOV PINR SOCI KIRF KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA545KOSOVO: PISG AND WORLD BANK AGREE ON A WAY FORWARD
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Provisional Institutions of Self- Government (PISG) and the international community, led by the World Bank, have reached agreement on a way forward for development of Kosovo's energy sector. The parties have resolv [...]
2006-06-23 09:55:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON EFIN EINV PREL YI
06PRISTINA554KOSOVO: CONTROVERSY CONTINUES OVER ICTY VISIT;
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Several widows from the Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa massacre say they first assisted a visiting UN convoy on May 25, but then grew suspicious when the convoy showed interest in the local Serb graveyard and the homes of former Serb residents. One widow expressed no remorse over [...]
2006-06-27 16:03:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK
06PRISTINA575NORTH MITROVICA LEADERS CLARIFY MUNICIPAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Two influential Kosovo Serbs from north Mitrovica clarified recent declarations issued by Kosovo's three northern Serb-majority municipalities and the Mitrovica advisory board ostensibly cutting off ties with the government in Pristina. UNMIK representatives say the declarati [...]
2006-07-07 13:55:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PREF
06PRISTINA608KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS FORENSICS HAMPERED BY LACK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is faces severe staffing and funding shortages which are hampering its ability to resolve cases of missing persons. Despite fewer leads on potential new grave sites, OMPF is still very busy with a few ongoing exhumations [...]
2006-07-19 18:00:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID
06PRISTINA653KOSOVO: SERB RELUCTANCE TO RETURN TO SVINJARE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The return of Serbs to the village of Svinjare is more complex than the rebuilding of houses destroyed and damaged by ethnic Albanians in the riots of March 2004. The rebuilding/repair effort is underway, though according to the UNMIK office that advises the Kosovo Protection [...]
2006-08-08 12:04:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA728KOSOVO: UNMIK KPC COORDINATOR OFFERS THOUGHTS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) Coordinator Major General Chris Steirn (UK) offered COM his thoughts on the future establishment of a Kosovo defense force in a meeting September 1. Not surprisingly, Steirn argued that a future Kosovo security force was needed, both to avoid [...]
2006-09-02 13:44:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA779KOSOVO: STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION PROCEEDS, BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo government claims to have fulfilled nine of the Contact Group's 13 priorities for Standards implementation. Our estimate is lower, though overall implementation has moved forward. We can expect that progress on the remaining outstanding priorities will be slower as t [...]
2006-09-16 09:49:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA781KOSOVO: TURKISH LANGUAGE LAW MOTION REJECTED BY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A motion to make Turkish an official language of Prizren municipality and change the population requirement for official languages from 6% to 5% was rejected September 14 in a 48-41 vote of the Kosovo Assembly. Though Assembly votes are anonymous, all signs indicate the majority [...]
2006-09-16 15:44:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA802KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 26-28 VISIT OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The successful September 20 Contact Group ministerial with Secretary Rice at the helm was viewed here as further indication that the U.S. government will press for a timetable that delivers a status determination by the end of 2006. This remains the sole and almost obsessive foc [...]
2006-09-22 11:53:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA833KOSOVO: A/S FRIED PRESSES KOSOVO LEADERS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina September 26-28, EUR A/S Fried met separately with PM Ceku, President Sejdiu and the Unity Team and assured them of the USG's seriousness in pursuing the status process to its logical end, but stressed that the Kosovar Albanian leadership must show itself worthy of in [...]
2006-10-02 18:29:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA933KOSOVO: OPPOSITION RETURNS TO ASSEMBLY AFTER AUDIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After repeated intercession by USOP, the opposition returned to the Kosovo Assembly after a one-week boycott, as the ruling LDK party finally got its house in order and agreed to discuss the Auditor General's fact-finding report on mismanagement under former Assembly Speaker Nexh [...]
2006-11-06 16:27:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA948KOSOVO: PLANNING FOR POSSIBLE SERB REFUGEE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the leak to Serbian media in May 2006 of UNHCR's draft contingency planning on possible population movements after a decision on Kosovo's final status, UNHCR has continued to refine its thinking. Planning assumptions vary wildly, with estimates ranging from 10,000 to 112,00 [...]
2006-11-11 13:24:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA965KOSOVO: EVOLVING EU POLICE AND JUSTICE PLANNING
[...] (C) Summary: The emerging outlines of the EU police and justice plan for post-status Kosovo make it apparent that security and law enforcement in Kosovo will be conducted on a fundamentally different basis after the settlement than under UNMIK administration. EU planning is painfully slow an [...]
2006-11-14 18:30:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06QUEBEC24QUEBEC BUREAUCRATS UPBEAT ABOUT HARPER GOVERNMENT
[...] (c) Summary: CG hosted a lunch for Quebec Ministry of International Relations (MRI) Deputy Minister Denis Bedard and other MRI officials February 22, one month following the election of Stephen Harper's Conservatives in Ottawa. Ministry officials were upbeat about the Tory victory, heralded b [...]
2006-02-23 22:20:00Consulate QuebecCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CA ECON
06QUEBEC34CHAREST THRONE SPEECH GIVES NO LIFT TO HIS GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Quebec Premier Jean Charest kicked off a new session at the National Assembly March 14 with a 90 minute Throne Speech (the first since he took office in 2003) that set the tone for the looming electoral campaign. Charest's main focus for the coming year will be the reduction of [...]
2006-03-16 16:09:00Consulate QuebecCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CA
06QUITO125NEW ECUADORIAN FINANCE MINISTER PLEDGES FISCAL
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador, new Ecuadorian Minister of Finance Diego Borja affirmed his commitment to responsible fiscal policy and expressed his interest in promoting microfinance. The Ambassador expressed U.S. support for holding the spending line in a difficult elector [...]
2006-01-17 22:42:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALEFIN EPET PGOV EINV EC
06QUITO1284AMBASSADOR PROMOTES SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador visited the remote Carchi province on May 18 to highlight USG investment in security and development on Ecuador's northern border with Colombia. While there, the Ambassador met with military and police officials, toured a customs and immigration post, hosted a lu [...]
2006-05-24 21:07:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO1438ECUADOR SOLICITS OIL HELP FROM ABROAD
[...] (C) Summary. There are nearly daily press reports that the GOE is about to get assistance from a variety of countries to manage or invest in Ecuador's oil sector, especially the fields previously managed by Occidental Petroleum. Private reports we have received indicate the rush to invest in [...]
2006-06-12 21:31:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALEPET EINV ECON PREL EC
06QUITO1470CAN LEADERS MEET IN QUITO
[...] (U) Summary: Presidents from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia met at the Andean Community (CAN) conference in Quito on June 13 to publicly demonstrate their commitment to the troubled regional organization, discuss areas for cooperation with the European Union (EU),and to issue a joint let [...]
2006-06-14 22:21:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1477CAN LEADERS MEET IN QUITO
[...] (U) Summary: Presidents from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia met at the Andean Community (CAN) conference in Quito on June 13 to publicly demonstrate their commitment to the troubled regional organization, discuss areas for cooperation with the European Union (EU),and to issue a joint let [...]
2006-06-15 15:45:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1549MIGRATION: ECUADORIANS STILL LOOKING NORTH
[...] (U) Summary: At least since the severe economic crisis in 1999, the two certainties in Ecuador have been death and emigration. A steady stream of 30,000 to 40,000 undocumented migrants takes to the sea and skies annually from Ecuador in pursuit of their own American dreams. Periodic reports [...]
2006-06-23 19:30:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSMIG PHUM PREL EC
06QUITO1578ECUADOR: ASIAN DIPLOMATS EAGER FOR DIALOGUE
[...] (C) Summary: Our recent outreach to diplomatic counterparts from China, Japan and Korea found them highly aware of USG coordination efforts (described RefTel),and eager to engage in dialogue about the political and economic situation in Ecuador and the region. In deference to USG concerns [...]
2006-06-27 21:11:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON LA CH JA KS EC
06QUITO1588INDIGENOUS HEARTLAND DIVIDED ON ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The indigenous heartland provinces of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi are predominantly indigenous strongholds of the Pachakutik Movement. Despite Pachakutik's dominance, the indigenous movement is fractured internally over whether to run its own candidate or support Rafael Correa, an [...]
2006-06-28 16:19:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1722REGULATION FOR HYDROCARBONS REFORM REVISED
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Palacio issued a decree July 11 correcting the implementing Regulation of the April Hydrocarbons Law that had been published in the Official Register on June 29. The previous regulation offered potentially important opportunities for companies to mitigate the law's m [...]
2006-07-14 18:28:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EPET EINV
06QUITO1735LEGISLATION TO REFORM ECUADOR'S ELECTRICITY SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Palacio submitted to Congress July 10 legislation to reform Ecuador's electricity sector that would represent a significant advance if passed and implemented as proposed. The legislation would make it a crime to steal electricity, recognize almost $1 billion owed by [...]
2006-07-17 20:07:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV
06QUITO1803ECUADOR,S NEW ECONOMIC CZAR: SCUFFED GOODS,
[...] (C) Summary: New Ecuadorian Economy Minister Armando Rodas recently presented a sober six-month economic plan, lending a technocratic polish to an appointment painted in politics. End summary. 2. (C) On July 17, Ecuadorian Minister of Economy and Finance Armando Rodas (for biodata, see reft [...]
2006-07-21 17:57:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALECON EC EFIN ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV PINR PREL
06QUITO1867ELECTIONS UPDATE: CANDIDATE POSITION PROFILE
[...] (U) Summary: In Ecuador,s presidential race, only two of the four front runners have concrete political platforms. Leon Roldos and Rafael Correa present well-defined stances on the issues. Correa,s stance is particularly anti-U.S. Cynthia Viteri and the PRIAN/PRI alliance have not yet defi [...]
2006-07-31 19:48:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1920PETROECUADOR - A CRUMBLING GIANT
[...] (C) Summary. Petroecuador, Ecuador's state-owned oil company, has sole responsibility over the country's most lucrative resource, yet is suffering from a severe financial crisis, a steady decline in production, and a terribly inefficient and inadequate refining capacity. Graft permeates all [...]
2006-08-03 22:45:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON
06QUITO2064ECUADOR ELECTION: THEN THERE WERE SEVENTEEN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The registration period for all candidates running for office in October 15 elections closed on August 15, attracting an unprecedented seventeen presidential aspirants. Eccentric billionaire candidate Alvaro Noboa announced his reentry, oddly declaring himself "a hero of God w [...]
2006-08-16 21:14:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EC
06QUITO2138A THOUSAND CHARIOTS IN THE FIELDS: CHINESE PLAYERS
[...] (C) Summary: With their $1.4 billion acquisition of Canadian EnCana, China's state oil companies announced their entrance as major players in Ecuador's and the region's petroleum industry. Now with active participation in at least five of Ecuador's petroleum blocks, and with further investmen [...]
2006-08-25 12:31:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALECON EPET PINR PREL ETRD EC CN
06QUITO2309ELECTION UPDATE: CORREA MOVES INTO SECOND PLACE
[...] (C) Summary: Radical populist candidate Rafael Correa surged ahead of Social Christian candidate Cynthia Viteri in recent polls, moving into second place after front-runner Leon Roldos. With first round presidential elections just a month away on October 15, undecided voters have declined to [...]
2006-09-15 20:17:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKDEM PGOV PREL MARR EC
06QUITO2384ECUADOR-COLOMBIA BORDER PROGRESS REPORT -
[...] (C) Summary: The following report provides a quarterly update of developments along Ecuador's northern border with Colombia. Highlights include the Ambassador's travel to Esmeraldas province, progress disrupting narco-trafficking, a change of Defense Minister, and renewed diplomatic tension [...]
2006-09-26 21:15:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2386ECUADOR EVALUATES HURRIED CONCESSION OF
[...] (C) Summary: Ecuador's Hydrocarbons Vice-Minister reports that Chinese company Sinopec has made a strong offer to develop Ecuador's large ITT oil fields and the GOE is considering soliciting bids for the field before the Palacio government leaves in January. Post and industry insiders view [...]
2006-09-27 15:55:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALECON EPET EINV
06QUITO2497OF PIPELINES AND LIFELINES: PETROECUADOR AND THE
[...] (U) Summary: On August 19 a story broke in the Ecuadorian media about a pipeline leak and oil spill near the environmentally sensitive Cuyabeno Animal Reserve in Ecuador's Amazon region. In extensive coverage, the media has speculated on the causes and environmental effects of the spill. The [...]
2006-10-11 21:29:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALSENV EPET ECON EAGR EAID PGOV SOCI EC
06QUITO259 UNREALISTIC HUAORANI CONFRONT LOGGING AND
[...] Summary: With an agenda focusing on illegal logging, their relationship with the petroleum industry, and institutional corruption, the Huaorani indigenous group held a general assembly in the jungle community of Nemonpari. While laudable in its effort to tackle these pressing issues, the new [...]
2006-02-01 13:30:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID SOCI EPET ECON PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO2616THE HUNT FOR RAUL REYES ANGERS GOE
[...] (S) Summary: Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's public declaration that FARC leader Raul Reyes is hiding in Ecuador has sparked a media frenzy in Quito, heightening bilateral tensions. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion demanded evidence of Reyes' presence, and asked the Ambassado [...]
2006-10-27 18:05:00Embassy QuitoSECRETPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2705ECUADOR 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT
[...] Below is Embassy Quito's submission for the 2007 National Trade Estimate Report. A copy of the report has been provided to USTR's Michelle Carrillo via email. The report was a collaborative effort between State, the Commercial Service, the Foreign Agricultural Service, and AID. TRADE SUMM [...]
2006-11-08 17:20:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN EC
06QUITO2714FEAR AND LOATHING IN ECUADOR: NERVOUS APPLAUSE FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Substantial media attention given to the Department's approval of a 212(f) visa revocation for corruption of a prominent Ecuadorian politician, Xavier Neira, has elicited broad approval from opinion makers and the general populace. The impetus for the revocations, Neira,s corrupt [...]
2006-11-08 20:55:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV KIPR CVIS PINR ETRD EINV EC
06QUITO2832UN: ECUADOR FOR BALANCE IN BEIT HANOUN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE will vote in favor of the Beit Hanoun resolutions in NY and Geneva, in favor of the Burma country resolution, against Iran's retaliatory Canada resolution, and seeks to shift GRULAC consensus from abstention on Belarus' retaliatory resolutions against the U.S. to a 'no [...]
2006-11-17 21:13:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UN BO EC
06QUITO2838ELECTION: TSE TIES UP LOOSE ENDS, BIELSA TO RETURN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on November 20 announced plans to use a combination of exit polling and civil society and media quick count reporting to tally unofficial presidential results. With a week to go before elections on November 26, the TSE also froze both candi [...]
2006-11-20 22:42:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM EC
06QUITO2898ELECTION: CORREA WINS BIG, NOBOA FIZZLES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Leftist candidate Rafael Correa (representing the Proud and Sovereign Fatherland Movement-PAIS and Socialist Party) won the runoff round of presidential voting decisively over rival candidate Alvaro Noboa (PRIAN) on November 26, according to most exit polls and quick count res [...]
2006-11-27 03:26:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM EC
06QUITO321ECUADOR: PDAS SHAPIRO PROMOTES DEMOCRACY, TRADE
[...] (C) Summary: WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro visited Quito January 18-20, meeting with President Alfredo Palacio, Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion, business leaders, the editorial board of Quito,s daily of record, members of the political elite and civil society leaders. He also met with Governo [...]
2006-02-07 22:02:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD KDEM EC
06QUITO374WELCOME BACK, GENERAL CRADDOCK
[...] (C) Summary: Please accept my warm welcome on your return visit to Ecuador, General Craddock. This mission is mobilized to ensure a successful visit. Your visit comes at a sensitive time. We hope to use it to help defuse the inflamed dialogue with Colombia, advance information sharing with [...]
2006-02-10 19:53:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO403ECUADOR LOOKING TO CONCLUDE FTA
[...] (C) Summary: According to the Ecuadorian Minister of Trade, Ecuador is ready for a final FTA round. He hopes USTR will schedule such a round for the near future. Ecuador is ready to be flexible on agriculture, as well as other outstanding issues. He said he did not want to hold a partial [...]
2006-02-13 21:30:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PREL EC
06QUITO535IRAN/IAEA: GOE REAFFIRMS SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) PolChief presented suggested RefTel points for Board member statements at the March 6 IAEA Board of Governors meeting to MFA U/S Mauricio Montalvo on March 3. Montalvo indicated GOE agreement that the DG report met conditions in the Board's earlier resolution to refer Iran to the UNSC, [...]
2006-03-03 23:26:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP PREL IAEA IR EU AORC EC
06QUITO889ECUADORIAN LAW VIOLATES CONTRACTS OF OIL COMPANIES
[...] (C) Summary: President Palacio's partial veto of new hydrocarbons legislation makes passage of very bad legislation inevitable. Within thirty days, and more likely within two weeks, the legislation will come into force, violating the contracts of two U.S. oil companies (and four companies f [...]
2006-04-10 22:52:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALENRG EINV EC
06RABAT1000MOROCCO: URGING SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION OF THE
[...] (SBU) On April 27, poloff discussed ref (a) request for countries to sign and ratify the 2005 SUA protocols with MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita. Polcouns followed up with Bourita on May 24. Bourita told Polcouns that the GOM was supportive of the US [...]
2006-05-24 15:43:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT MO
06RABAT104FY06 BFIF PROPOSAL - MOROCCO
[...] Embassy Rabat seeks to use $11,000 of Business Facilitation Incentive Funds (BFIF) funding to support the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that was implemented on January 1, 2006. This funding leverages funding from the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Morocco. This is the fir [...]
2006-01-20 18:15:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDETRD BEXP MO
06RABAT1063INCREASING FOCUS ON PRISON REFORM
[...] (C) Summary: A number of activities are coming together in Morocco to give impetus to prison reform, an area for improvement which is highlighted in the annual human rights report. The Government of Morocco (GOM) through the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),Directorate of Prisons, recognizes the ma [...]
2006-06-02 16:18:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMO PHUM PREL
06RABAT1184COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DR. KROTOSKI
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for Dr. Danuta Krotoski, Health Scientist Administrator, national Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH to travel to Rabat, Morocco, June 17-22, 2006 for the purpose of meeting with Health Officials. 2. Post understands that [...]
2006-06-16 14:14:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT1185COUNTRY CLEARANCE AMENDMENT FOR JOSEPH MULINARE
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for Joseph Mulinare to travel to Rabat, Morocco, June 18-30, 2006 for the purpose of providing technical assistance to the nutrition program with a particular focus on issues related to birth defects and the impact of flour fortification. [...]
2006-06-16 14:21:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT1206COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NEA DAS GORDON GRAY
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for NEA DAS Gordon Gray to travel to Rabat, Morocco, June 28-30, 2006 for the purpose of meeting with government officials. 2. Control Officer for the visit is Political Officer Cherie Lenzen who can be reached at: Phone: (212) 37-76-22-65 [...]
2006-06-20 15:16:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT1249COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MR. BRYAN BANDONG
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for Mr. Bryan Bandong of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to travel to Rabat, Morocco, June 30 - July 9, 2006 for the purpose of meetings with officials of the National Center for Energy, Science and Nuclear Technology of Morocco. [...]
2006-06-27 12:18:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT1251UPDATED COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for MCC travelers listed in reftel to travel to Morocco June 25 to July 14, 2006 for the purpose of conducting site visits and meetings with local officials. 2. Post has made transportation arrangements and hotel reservations at the Sofite [...]
2006-06-28 13:42:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT13Family Code Implementation: Are Judges Resisting
[...] The Casablanca Regional Bureau of the Hassanian Judges' Association organized a December 15 meeting between female parliamentarians and judges entitled "Judges and the Application of the Moudawana (family code)." The meeting was also attended by members of civil society and human rights acti [...]
2006-01-04 14:50:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDKMPI PHUM PREL PGOV MO
06RABAT1309COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR OES/STC R. SENSENEY
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for Robert Senseney to travel to Rabat, Morocco, July 13-22, 2006 for the purpose of meeting with government officials regarding the US-Morocco Science and Technology agreement. 2. Per reftel hotel reservations have been made at the Tour H [...]
2006-07-11 11:39:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT1373COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA/GSFC: DAVILA,
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for Drs. Joseph Davila and Barbara Thompson from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Dr. Umran Inan from Stanford University to travel to Rabat, Morocco between July 26 and July 29, for the purpose of installing very low fr [...]
2006-07-20 12:03:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ASEC MO OTRA SENV TSPA
06RABAT1374MINISTRY OF INTERIOR'S SECRET PLAN FOR MOROCCO'S
[...] (U) Summary: French language weekly, Le Journal Hebdomaire (July 15),reported on the Moroccan Ministry of Interior (MOI)'s projections on the 2007 legislative elections. The projections confirmed the preeminence of the Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD),the strong position of [...]
2006-07-20 14:45:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR MO
06RABAT1378COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USPTO: POGODA AND
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to US Patent and Trademark Office Attorney, Darren Pogoda and US District Judge James Rosenbaum to travel to Rabat, Morocco, July 22-25, 2006 to organize and host the USPTO-Middle East Partnership Initiative two day conference on Intellectual [...]
2006-07-20 17:00:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA TSPA MO
06RABAT1380COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MICHAEL ZOLENSKY
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to Michael Zolensky from NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) to travel to Casablanca, Morocco, August 1-6, 2006 to attend the workshop - Desert Meteorites- recovery, documentation of meteorites, funds and future prospects of research. 2. Pos [...]
2006-07-21 10:07:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA TSPA MO
06RABAT1392MISSION PLAN FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN
[...] (U) Per ref A Action Request, Post submits the following quarterly assessment of its Democratic Reform Strategy as outlined in ref B. Our report is keyed to the Milestones (M) and Tactics (T) outlined in our strategy and provides an update through June 30, 2006. Update narratives contain both [...]
2006-07-21 19:07:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID ECON KDEM PGOV SCUL KMPI MO
06RABAT1407COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MATTHEW SZYMANSKI,
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to Matthew Szymanski, Chief of Staff, House Small Business Committee, Sean Deverey, Professional Staff, House Small Business Committee, and Brian Jaskot Professional Staff, House Small Business Committee to travel to Casablanca and Rabat, Mor [...]
2006-07-26 08:36:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT1429HHS/CDC COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DAVID BULL
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to David Bull to travel to Rabat, Morocco, August 1-5, 2006 for the purpose of providing guidance to Morocco Ministry of Health officials in pandemic influenza planning. 2. Post understands that the traveler is staying at the Sofitel and r [...]
2006-07-28 09:56:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OTRA
06RABAT1456COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR AMBASSADOR ZALMAY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-31 16:49:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALJO TU IZ AMGT OTRA ASEC FR MO
06RABAT1535UNHCR ENCOURAGES REFUGEE SELF-RELIANCE AND GOM
[...] (C) Summary: On August 10, A/Polcouns met with Johannes van der Klaauw, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) office in Rabat to discuss the July 24 to 27 sit-ins in front of his office and recent developments relating to the Western Sahara. Van der Klaauw empha [...]
2006-08-14 15:40:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPBTS PGOV PREL MO
06RABAT1579A TERRORIST PLOT: EXPOSURE AND DISCUSSION
[...] (C) Summary: On August 8, security forces reported in the press that forty-four (44) suspected terrorists were arrested in July and accused of preparing to conduct terrorist attacks. Five of the arrested are Moroccan soldiers specializing in explosives. The terrorists have been widely critic [...]
2006-08-23 15:59:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER PGOV PREL PINR MO
06RABAT1640COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NIH/FIC DR. HARFORD
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to Dr. Joe Harford, Director, Office of International Affairs, National Cancer Institute (NCI),NIH to travel to Casablanca, Morocco, September 14-17, 2006 to participate in a Conference on Cervical Cancer. 2. Point of contact for the vis [...]
2006-09-05 16:11:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA KSCA TBIO MO
06RABAT1643FURTHER ON MOROCCO'S NUCLEAR ENERGY PLANS
[...] (C) Summary: Economic and Commercial Counselors called on National Electricity Office (ONE) Chairman Younes Maamur on August 18 in Casablanca to learn more about ONE's plans to develop nuclear energy to help meet Morocco's burgeoning demand for electricity, a program in which he had earlier t [...]
2006-09-06 10:56:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON SENV MO
06RABAT1676COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
[...] Embassy Rabat warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Brian Levy, Magda Ismail, Steven Clarke, David Picha, Herve Plusquellec and Samuel Hobbs, of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to travel to Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Ourzazate, and Fes, Morocco September 13 - October 8, [...]
2006-09-08 17:01:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDKMCA KPAO AFIN EAID ECON OTRA
06RABAT1720MOROCCO AT THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[...] (SBU) Embassy Rabat has conveyed to senior levels of the GOM the U.S. invitation for Morocco to participate with President Bush in a roundtable discussion on democracy on the margins of UNGA, September 19 (ref B). Morocco will be represented in the discussion by Prime Minister Jettou. 2. ( [...]
2006-09-14 15:50:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MO
06RABAT176WORLD BANK PROGRAMS IN MOROCCO
[...] (SBU) Summary. The World Bank (WB) is one of the longest serving development assistance programs in Morocco and currently has 16 outstanding loans to the GOM worth a total of approximately $500 million. It seeks to help modernize Moroccan institutions through technical analysis and lending [...]
2006-02-03 07:57:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN KMCA MO
06RABAT1925UNGA ISSUES
[...] (C) On October 13, Poloff met with Nasser Bourita, Director of United Nations and International Organizations, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss the issues raised in reftel A and to emphasize the US' denial of Venezuela's election to the Security Council, reftels A and B. [...]
2006-10-13 15:36:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM UNGA MO
06RABAT1933COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVE
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism advance team members Megan Dieter, David Weekman, and James Warden to travel to Rabat, Morocco, October 22 to November 1, 2006. 2. POC is Political Officer Marcel Martinez who can be reached [...]
2006-10-16 14:42:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDWMDT OTRA MO
06RABAT197WESTERN SAHARA: MFA REVIEWS PARTY LINE, COMMENTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On January 23, 2006 visiting NEA/MAG Morocco Desk Officer Robert Ewing and Poloff paid a courtesy call on MFA Director for UN Affairs Nasser Bourita. Bourita said he had to "correct some misunderstandings" concerning the Western Sahara and undertook a long argument ba [...]
2006-02-07 16:20:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALKPKO PBTS PGOV PREL MO
06RABAT1986SCENESETTER FOR U/S JOSEPH'S VISIT TO MOROCCO
[...] (C) The U.S. Mission warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Morocco. Your visit as co-chair of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) comes as the U.S. and the Moroccan government are further energizing our bilateral relations. Since the May 2003 terrorist attacks in Casabla [...]
2006-10-23 16:09:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKGIC EAID ECON KPAO PGOV PREL PTER MCAP MO
06RABAT1998COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVE
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, Robert G. Joseph and delegation listed in reftel, for the purpose of attending the first Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism meeting in Rabat, Morocco, October 29 to Novemb [...]
2006-10-27 10:07:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDWMDT OTRA MO
06RABAT2087MOROCCAN APPROACH ON UNGA 3RD COMMITTEE
[...] (C) Due to limitations of availability, Polcounselor raised ref A demarche with MFA IO/UN Director (A/S equivalent) Nasser Bourita early November 9, highlighting the importance of a strong stand on human rights against these major violators. Bourita thanked us for the information received in [...]
2006-11-09 15:58:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALMO
06RABAT2103MOROCCAN CONCERNS ABOUT IRANIAN AND ALGERIAN
[...] (C) Summary: T Senior Advisor Jim Timbie met with Nasser Bourita, Morocco's top International Organizations official, on October 31, to convey USG concerns about Iran and other items on the international non proliferation agenda. Bourita advised that the GOM shares the USG's concerns and said [...]
2006-11-14 08:50:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALAORC IAEA KNNP PREL MO IR
06RABAT2172COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DRL/SEAS SPECIAL
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to DRL/SEAS Special Envoy Dr. Gregg Rickman, to travel to Casablanca and Rabat, Morocco, December 10-11 , 2006 for the purpose conducting meetings with local and government officials, and Religious Leaders on the issue of anti-Semitism. 2 [...]
2006-11-27 13:10:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT22MISSION PLAN FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN MOROCCO: STATUS REPORT #3
[...] (U) Per ref A Action Request, Post submits the following quarterly assessment of its Democratic Reform Strategy as outlined in ref B. Our report is keyed to the Milestones (M) and Tactics (T) outlined in our strategy and provides an update through December 31, 2005. Update narratives contain [...]
2006-01-05 14:43:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON KDEM PGOV SCUL KMPI MO
06RABAT2201COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/CT PATRICK WORMAN
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to S/CT regional officer Patrick Worman to travel to Rabat, Morocco, October 22 to November 1, 2006 for the purpose of orientation and consultations with GOM and Embassy officials. 2. POC is Political Officer Ian McCary who can be reached a [...]
2006-12-01 14:45:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT2203COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/CT PATRICK WORMAN
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to S/CT regional officer Patrick Worman to travel to Rabat, Morocco, December 14 - 15, 2006 for the purpose of orientation and consultations with GOM and Embassy officials. 2. POC is Political Officer Ian McCary who can be reached at: Phon [...]
2006-12-01 16:31:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT2222COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DRL/SEAS DAMON
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to DRL/SEAS Damon Stevens to travel to Rabat, Morocco, December 10-11, 2006 for the purpose of attending meetings with local and government officials, and Religious Leaders on the issue of anti-Semitism. 2. Control Officer for the visit is [...]
2006-12-07 09:42:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA MO
06RABAT2282HHS/CDC COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR JOSEPH
[...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to Joseph Mulinare, Medical Officer, DBDDD, CDC, HHS to travel to Rabat, Morocco January 15-27, 2007 for the purpose of providing technical assistance, and to participate in a mission in order to provided technical assistance to the nutrition [...]
2006-12-18 13:53:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA OTRA MO CDC
06RABAT2344MINISTER OF INTERIOR TOUGH ON PRESS REFORM AND
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Riley raised freedom of expression issues, the Western Sahara and elections with Interior Minister Benmoussa December 27. Following up on earlier senior contacts, Ambassador argued for liberalization of the press code and against the new draft law on polling. Repeatedl [...]
2006-12-28 15:19:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPBTS PHUM PGOV MO
06RABAT24MOROCCO'S EQUITY AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
[...] (C) Summary: The Equity and Reconciliation Commission's (IER) mandate ended November 30, bringing to a close the IER's almost two-year investigation into human rights abuses in Morocco between 1956 and 1999. The IER's final report was submitted to King Mohammed VI on December 1. On Decembe [...]
2006-01-05 18:50:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MO
06RABAT385GROWTH CONSTRAINTS -- APPLYING RODRIK'S MODEL TO
[...] (C) Summary and introduction: When judged against traditional "Washington Consensus" criteria (e.g. fiscal discipline, liberalization, privatization, and openness to investment) Morocco receives consistently high grades from international financial institutions and credit rating agencies. [...]
2006-03-02 11:28:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID MO
06RABAT386GROWTH CONSTRAINTS -- APPLYING RODRIK'S MODEL TO
[...] (C) Summary and introduction: When judged against traditional "Washington Consensus" criteria (e.g. fiscal discipline, liberalization, privatization, and openness to investment) Morocco receives consistently high grades from international financial institutions and credit rating agencies. [...]
2006-03-02 11:28:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID MO
06RABAT389WESTERN SAHARA: PREPARING THE GOM FOR AUTONOMY
[...] (C) Summary: In meetings with the MOI and MFA on February 17 in Rabat, and reiterated during the embassy's February 22 meeting with MFA SecGen Omar Hilale, visiting NEA/MAG Office Director William Jordan urged GOM officials to be expansive in their thinking on autonomy to make it real and cred [...]
2006-03-02 14:27:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALMO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT516OFFICIAL MOROCCAN VIEWS ON REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT,
[...] (C) Summary: Cairo-based Regional Refugee Coordinator Gerard Cheyne met with GOM officials during his March 3-10 visit to Morocco and Western Sahara to discuss the possibility of launching a limited resettlement program and the CBM family visit exchanges occurring in the Western Sahara. Chey [...]
2006-03-23 10:28:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREF PBTS PREL PHUM UNHCR PGOV MO EG
06RABAT565MOROCCO'S POLITICAL PARTIES: LAPDOGS OR DEMOCRATS?
[...] (C) Summary: The series of splits, mergers, and coups that have dotted Morocco's already fractured political landscape since November 2005 attest to the fact that posturing for the 2007 parliamentary elections is in full swing. They also speak volumes about the force that King Mohammed VI's [...]
2006-03-30 16:41:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MO
06RABAT668MISSION PLAN FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN
[...] (U) Per ref A Action Request, Post submits the following quarterly assessment of its Democratic Reform Strategy as outlined in ref B. Our report is keyed to the Milestones (M) and Tactics (T) outlined in our strategy and provides an update through March 31, 2006. Update narratives contain bot [...]
2006-04-14 11:24:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON KDEM PGOV SCUL KMPI MO
06RABAT728AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ARAB MAGHREB UNION SECRETARY
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met April 19 with Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) Secretary General Habib Ben Yahia to discuss the AMU's role in regional integration, the Western Sahara, counterterrorism and human rights. Ben Yahia explained that the AMU works well at the ministerial and technical levels wh [...]
2006-04-20 17:51:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALECON MO PBTS PGOV PREL
06RABAT73MOROCCO 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-18 07:44:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ETRD EFIN ELAB OPIC KTDB PGOV MO
06RABAT730MONEY LAUNDERING BILL PASSES COUNCIL OF
[...] (U) On April 19, Morocco's long awaited draft Anti- Money Laundering (AML) bill was approved the Moroccan Council of Government (the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Driss Jettou). After clearing the Council of Government, a Ministerial Council, presided over by King Mohammed VI, will then [...]
2006-04-21 08:46:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER PGOV MO
06RANGOON1010FEAR AND INTIMIDATION AT WORK IN BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: The Charge met with Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu on July 18 to determine whether there was genuine regime interest in re-engaging with the international community as UN U/SYG Gambari had indicated. Kyaw did not respond directly, but made it clear that his ability to meet wit [...]
2006-07-20 06:01:00Embassy RangoonSECRETPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1012PROGRESS ON TRANSNATIONAL TIP SLOWING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-20 07:14:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KWMN KCRM PREL BM
06RANGOON1014BURMA,S NGOS OPERATING IN AN UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-20 08:56:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON EAID PREL BM
06RANGOON1017BURMA'S BUDGET, FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB published its 2006-07 budget, as well as 2005-06 supplemental expenditures in the minimally distributed Burma Gazette. Although accurate amounts and totals are impossible to determine, categories with the largest expenditures in both years are clear: state-owned enterpr [...]
2006-07-21 03:47:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV BM
06RANGOON1036IN BURMA, SMALL NGO EFFORTS SCORE BIG IMPACT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While international NGOs and organizations in Burma face increasing pressure on their activities (reftel),local initiatives to improve health and educational and meet other basic development needs are growing. These projects, often organized by NLD-affiliated civic leaders and [...]
2006-07-21 09:33:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON1042KAYAH STATE - BURMANS IN AND KARENNIS OUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Catholic Bishop Sotero Phamo of Loikaw, the capitol of Kayah State, briefed Charg on July 21 on daily life in his diocese. Ethnic Burmans have taken over leadership of the state and businesses, backed by nearly a dozen Burmese Army battalions. Kayah residents, predominately ethn [...]
2006-07-24 10:01:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON PREF PINS BM
06RANGOON1050BURMA: MANUVEURING FOR CHANGE
[...] (S) Summary: Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) doctor met with Charge July 20 to discuss recent developments. He has not seen her since June 10 when she was ill, but expects to see her again by early August. He indicated that plans to use Martyr's Day, July 19, to launch public protests against the [...]
2006-07-25 05:59:00Embassy RangoonSECRETPGOV PHUM BM
06RANGOON1057INSPIRING THOSE WHO SEEK CHANGE IN BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: Ludu Sein Win shows what can be done in Burma today, contradicting the many who have concluded that nothing can be done. He defied his police monitors to write a well-articulated plea for change that appeared May 23 in the International Herald Tribune. Increasing desperation has [...]
2006-07-25 10:07:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM BM
06RANGOON1061JOHNNY COMES MARCHING "HOME" TO BURMA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOB confirmed rumors that Johnny Htoo, former child soldier and co-leader of Karen rebel faction "God's Army," surrendered to the SPDC with eight others on July 19. Along with his twin brother Luther, he briefly led local Karen compatriots to resist the Burmese Army in the la [...]
2006-07-26 08:46:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS BM
06RANGOON1065DISCORD AMONG BURMA'S KAREN INSURGENTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The power vacuum created by the grave illness of Karen National Union (KNU) leader General Bo Mya has opened a serious split between the KNU and its armed faction, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). While the KNU feels pressured by exile groups to continue the fight, the [...]
2006-07-27 10:30:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS ASEC BM
06RANGOON1075BURMA'S WOMEN'S AFFAIRS FEDERATION TOUTS ITSELF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the Myanmar Women's Affairs Federation (MWAF),an organization closely linked to the GOB, claims to prevent human trafficking and assist victims, its primary focus seems more geared to propaganda. Its small operating budget limits its effectiveness. The organization has [...]
2006-07-31 09:42:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EAID KWMN BM
06RANGOON1076CHINA WORRIED ABOUT DRUGS FROM BURMA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China's Political Section chief in Rangoon told emboffs that China does not consider trafficking in persons (TIP) between China and Burma to be a serious issue, but she called drug trafficking China's "number one headache," and indicated that illegal logging complicated bilateral [...]
2006-07-31 10:27:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON SENV SNAR PREL BM
06RANGOON1077MIN KO NAING TRIES TO UNIFY BURMA'S OPPOSITION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Min Ko Naing, former political prisoner and leader of the "88 Generation Students," used the July 19 Martyrs' Day holiday to show support for the NLD in an ongoing effort to mend the fractured relationship between the NLD and student groups. Min Ko Naing is taking on a more act [...]
2006-07-31 10:57:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1097BURMA: THE REGIME HARDENS ITS POSITION ON ASEAN,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Burma's ruling Generals are the hardest of the hardliners. They have made decisions to harden their positions on ASEAN, the democratic opposition, and the ethnic minorities. Only high-ranking UN representatives may be allowed access to Aung San Suu Kyi; visiting ASEAN representa [...]
2006-08-02 11:16:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON1098IMF TEAM VISITS BURMA FOR ARTICLE IV CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team visited Burma July 10-21 for annual Article IV consultations. Charge met with them privately during their visit plus hosted a separate roundtable for the team with Burmese private sector business and economic observers. The IMF team re [...]
2006-08-03 03:38:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV IMF BM
06RANGOON1115A BURMESE GENERAL GETS HIS COMEUPPANCE
[...] (C) Summary: Charge and DATT met with LTG Myint Swe August 2 to see what kind of dialogue we could maintain. It became clear that Myint Swe's previously expansive view of his areas of authority (reftels) has been considerably reduced. Now he's just a general responsible for embassy security [...]
2006-08-08 03:36:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1123STUDENT ACTIVISTS COMMEMORATE THE 1988 UPRISING
[...] (C) Summary: Over 500 democracy activists and supporters gathered in Rangoon on August 8, the 17th anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, to commemorate their fallen comrades in a religious ceremony held at Thaikpan Monastery in Rangoon. The event, organized by the 88 Generation Stude [...]
2006-08-08 11:15:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON1124BURMA: CHARGE MEETS WITH MINISTER FOR HOME AFFAIRS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After several requests and cancellations, Charge finally met with Minister for Home Affairs Maung Oo to stress the importance of meaningful progress toward democracy, the release of political prisoners, and greater access to Burma for journalists. The Minister lamented the West [...]
2006-08-08 11:20:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON1136WA TURNING TO CHINA RATHER THAN BURMA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Wa are rapidly being pulled into China's orbit and will resist any new concessions to the Burmese regime that would restrict their current relative autonomy. While they will talk with the Burmese, the Wa have no intention of ever giving up their arms. The ban on opium cul [...]
2006-08-10 07:40:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR PREL BM
06RANGOON1170BURMA: 11 AIDS ACTIVISTS AND 20 MONKS ARRESTED
[...] (C) Summary: Eleven HIV/AIDS activists close to the 88 Students Generation Group were arrested August 13 for not properly registering to spend the night at a monastery where they were preparing a ceremony for HIV/AIDS victims. Members of Min Ko Naing's Students Group and the NLD gathered at t [...]
2006-08-14 10:34:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KHIV PREL BM
06RANGOON1182BURMA'S REPRESENTATIVES TO UNGA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-16 08:39:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OTRA OVIP UNGA BM
06RANGOON1195THREE DISEASES FUND DONORS MOVE AHEAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The new Three Diseases (3D) Fund in Burma should become operational by December 2006. The UN is recruiting Fund staff and the UK just announced a $38 million funding commitment to the 3D Fund, while the Netherlands committed one million euros. The six donor nations -- UK, EC, [...]
2006-08-18 14:16:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID SOCI KHIV BM
06RANGOON1196BURMESE HARASSMENT CONTINUES PAST DEATH
[...] (U) On August 12, ex-political prisoner and NLD member Ko Than Lwin died of complications related to HIV/AIDS. Ko Than Lwin had contracted HIV/AIDS in jail after being arrested in 1998 and sentenced to 14 years in prison for distributing copies of the opposition journal "New Era." He was rele [...]
2006-08-18 14:16:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM KHIV
06RANGOON1208ADDITIONS TO BURMA'S REPRESENTATIVES TO UNGA
[...] The GOB sent us 2 additional names for their representation at the 61st UN General Assembly. They are: His Excellency U Kyi Thein, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Delhi Member Daw Myat Myat So, Director, Foreign Economic Relations Department, Ministry of National Plann [...]
2006-08-22 03:16:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OTRA OVIP UNGA BM
06RANGOON1216LOOKING FOR RICE IN BURMA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB closely monitors rising rice prices to avoid social unrest if Rangoon residents can't find, or can't afford, enough rice - Burma's staple food. Recent official efforts to control rice prices include a virtual ban on rice exports from May through July of this year and the [...]
2006-08-23 02:56:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON124TECHNOCRATS WILLING TO ENGAGE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA
[...] (C) Summary: The first visit of USAID's Regional Infectious Diseases Advisor based in Bangkok, prompted a rare level of access and engagement by GOB counterparts. Eager for information as well as support, experts at the Ministries of Health and, especially, Livestock and Fisheries discussed [...]
2006-01-31 01:12:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALEAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON1240FEW TAKERS FOR LAND IN BURMA'S NEW CAPITAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 20, the Naypyitaw City Development Committee (NCDC) announced that it will accept applications to buy residential plots and small business sites in Burma's new capital. By tightly regulating private development in the new capital, the GOB aims to provide services to t [...]
2006-08-30 08:35:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1241RESPONSES ON KARENNI NATIONAL DEFENCE ARMY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Little information is available about the Karenni National Defence Army (KNDA) outside of open sources. Post has no information or evidence that the KNDA has engaged in any activities that are considered acts of terrorism, nor has it posed any threat to U.S. national security or [...]
2006-08-30 09:34:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS PREF PTER BM
06RANGOON1249BURMA: AI UPDATE - AUGUST 30, 2006
[...] (SBU) Summary: Burma has reported no new cases of Avian Influenza (AI) since a February/March 2006 poultry outbreak, which was contained in April. Donors, including USAID, support targeted WHO and FAO activities to improve local capacity to address AI. Although the GOB continues to cooperate [...]
2006-08-31 08:04:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON1269AUNG SAN SUU KYI IN GOOD HEALTH, BUT NOT FREE
[...] (C) Summary: Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) had another meeting with her doctor on August 24, two and half months after she last saw him. According to Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas),she remains in good health and keeps busy with meditation, listening to the radio, and walking around her compound. H [...]
2006-09-06 08:04:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1287RESPONSES ON CHIN NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has no evidence that Chin National League for Democracy (CNLD) has ever planned or engaged in violence to achieve its objectives, nor that it poses any threat to the United States. The CNLD is an ethnic political party with no armed faction. The CNLD has held discussions wi [...]
2006-09-08 06:40:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PTER BM
06RANGOON1288RESPONSES ON THE ARAKAN LIBERATION PARTY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has no information that the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) has engaged in any activities that are considered acts of terrorism, nor do we have any information that it poses any threat to U.S. national security or to the security of U.S. nationals or allies. Little information [...]
2006-09-08 06:50:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PINS PTER BM
06RANGOON1323UNFPA PROPOSES TO EXPAND ITS BURMA PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) Summary: At its September 13 Executive Board meeting in New York, UNFPA plans to propose a new four-year program for assistance in Burma that expands its current projects into new areas, including emergency obstetric care and expanded HIV/AIDs prevention, according to UNFPA's representa [...]
2006-09-13 07:50:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1327PREPARING GAMBARI FOR HIS NEXT VISIT TO BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: Post supports U/SYG Gambari's efforts to foster dialogue in Burma, but another trip stage-managed by the regime would be counterproductive. The regime's extension of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest shortly after Gambari's last visit was a slap in the face of the UN. Gambari nee [...]
2006-09-13 10:39:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON1346NGOS IN BURMA TRY TO STAY FREE OF INTERFERENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Seven months after the GOB issued new guidelines designed to regulate international and local NGOs operating in Burma, no one is sure which rules apply to which NGOs, but most organizations continue to face increased scrutiny and restrictions on their activities. Lack of coordi [...]
2006-09-18 06:46:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV EAID BM
06RANGOON1354CHINESE IN RANGOON NOT EAGER TO MOVE NORTH
[...] (SBU) Summary: the Charge d'Affaires a.i. and the Political Counselor of the Chinese Embassy told DCM on September 15 that China has no plans to move its embassy from Rangoon to Burma's isolated new capital. They believe that the Russians may take advantage of an upcoming visit by Russia's D [...]
2006-09-18 09:50:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH BM
06RANGOON136YAWN: BURMESE REGIME RECESSES NATIONAL CONVENTION
[...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime recessed its National Convention (NC) on January 31, ending the third session of an indefinite process to produce a new constitution that accords the military preeminent governing powers. The GOB did not announce a date to reconvene the NC, although a senior g [...]
2006-02-01 09:07:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1360CHALLENGES IN REMOTE SOUTHERN CHIN STATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: One visit to Mindat District in southern Chin State is enough to confirm it is one of the least developed areas in Burma. The impoverished majority Christian population faces widespread officially sanctioned religious discrimination. Lack of employment options remains a major [...]
2006-09-19 05:10:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EAID ECON BM
06RANGOON1361SPDC AND UNICEF DISCUSS CHILD SOLDIERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: SPDC Secretary-1 Lt. Gen. Thein Sein recently told UNICEF that Burma is making progress on reducing child soldiers in its military, although UNICEF admits it has no mechanism to verify these claims. The regime continues to refuse UNICEF's request for regular, unannounced visits to [...]
2006-09-19 05:48:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KOCI BM
06RANGOON1363RESPONSES ON KAYAN NEW LAND PARTY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has no information or evidence that the Kayan New Land Party (KNLP) has engaged in any activities that are considered acts of terrorism, nor has it posed any threat to U.S. national security or to the security of U.S. nationals or allies. The KNLP was a founding member of the [...]
2006-09-19 08:51:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS PREF PTER BM
06RANGOON1375BURMA'S FORMER POLITICAL PRISONERS PERSEVERE
[...] (C) Summary: Years in Burmese prisons have not dampened the will of many political prisoners to work within the country to promote change. Despite a tough adjustment period to life on the outside, former prisoners once active in the pro-democracy movement still hold tightly to their beliefs. [...]
2006-09-20 09:32:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID KPAO BM
06RANGOON1376LITTLE PROGRESS ON FORCED LABOR IN BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: ILO Burma Liaison Officer Richard Horsey said the GOB is making slow progress on the two outstanding issues raised at the June International Labor Conference (ILC): a moratorium on prosecutions of forced labor complainants, and agreement on a mechanism to handle forced labor compl [...]
2006-09-20 10:32:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALELAB PHUM PGOV BM
06RANGOON1377OPPOSITION ELATED BY UNSC ATTENTION TO BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: The UNSC's decision to place Burma on its September agenda was greeted warmly by leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD),student activists, and ethnic parties in Burma. The regime reacted by praising China, Russia, and other countries who opposed UNSC action and blast [...]
2006-09-20 10:42:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON138BURMA: WORLD VISION MOVES FORWARD AGAIN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Six months ago, the future of World Vision International (WVI) aid programs in Burma looked bleak. The GOB had ordered WVI to close some projects and restricted expatriate staff from conducting field visits. In the past three months, however, the GOB's cooperation has measurably [...]
2006-02-02 05:45:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON140BURMESE AND SHAN FORCES FIGHT IT OUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent GOB "news" conference announced the surrender of elements of the insurgent Shan State Army - South in northern Shan State. However, the GOB neglected to mention that the surrender followed a serious battle, in which a DEA source claims the Shan killed dozens of Burmese A [...]
2006-02-02 07:29:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM
06RANGOON1417NO MOVEMENT AT THE TOP IN BURMA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 22, Agence France-Press (AFP) wire service reported that the regime's top two generals planned to hand over their military roles to subordinates. The report has so far proved to be groundless. GOB controlled media continue to show both commanders in uniform performin [...]
2006-09-26 00:33:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV BM
06RANGOON1432BURMA: TOP OPPOSITION LEADERS DETAINED BY REGIME
[...] (C) Summary: At 6:30 a.m. on September 27, Police Special Branch officers came to the homes of the leaders of the 88 Generation Students -- Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi and Htay Kway -- and NLD MP elect U Hla Theing, and took all four to separate locations for questioning. SB questioned U Hla [...]
2006-09-27 09:47:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1436BURMA: REGIME CONTINUES TO DETAIN OPPOSITION
[...] (C) Summary: 88 Generation Student leaders Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, and Htay Kywe remain in detention today at a Police Special Branch office in Rangoon. Min Ko Naing has been in contact with members of his group and communicated that he is being pressured to sign statements about the regime [...]
2006-09-28 08:19:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON146ILO REP PUSHING FOR GOB ACTION TO MATCH PROMISES
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Burma has reacted to international concern over their 2005 treatment of the ILO Liaison Officer (ref B),swiftly approving his latest request for in-country travel to look at forced labor issues and taking his personal security seriously for the first time. On th [...]
2006-02-03 04:57:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
06RANGOON1461(C) REGIME DETAINS TWO MORE PRO-DEMOCRACY LEADERS;
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 30 the GOB detained two more leaders of the 88 Generation Students pro-democracy group. In a meeting with emboffs shortly before his arrest, 88 Generation leader Pyone Cho said their organization is preparing for the potential long-term detention or arrest of sever [...]
2006-10-02 09:41:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1466REGIME MAKES IT HARDER TO DO BUSINESS IN BURMA
[...] (U) Summary: Traders who still try to do business in Burma now face additional headaches from long customs clearance delays, visa uncertainties, and unpredictable new policies. The regime's surprise June crackdown on corruption within the Customs Department froze trans-border trade briefly and [...]
2006-10-03 08:22:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1471BURMA'S TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR: SMALL AND
[...] Summary: Employment levels and company profits in the Burmese garment and textile sector decreased steadily over the past three years, and accounted for less than five percent of total trade earnings in 2005. Since most garment exports are produced using imported goods, the chief economic im [...]
2006-10-04 07:22:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KTEX BM
06RANGOON1472FATF TEAM INSPECTS GOB FINANCIAL SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: USG members of a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) team visiting Burma last week confirmed FATF will recommend that Burma be dropped from the Non Compliant Countries and Territories (NCCT) list at the upcoming FATF Vancouver plenary on October 12-13. FATF inspectors said GOB [...]
2006-10-04 09:42:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV PTER ETTC KTFN BM
06RANGOON1474UN REMAINS CAUTIOUS IN BURMA
[...] (C) Summary. The UN Resident Coordinator (UNRC) in Burma shared with us yesterday an internal UN report on U/SYG Gambari's Friday September 29 UNSC briefing, which indicates that Gambari's next visit to Burma may focus more on continuing a dialogue with the ruling military regime than pushin [...]
2006-10-04 10:54:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1475BURMA REGIME PRESSURES CEASE-FIRE GROUPS TO OPPOSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Official GOB media is publishing daily notices by ethnic cease-fire groups that condemn the UNSC decision to place Burma on its agenda. Several cease-fire groups told us privately that they issued the notices under pressure and privately thanked the United States for its initiati [...]
2006-10-04 14:58:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1485BURMA: UPDATE ON DETAINED PRO-DEMOCRACY LEADERS
[...] (C) Summary: Nine days after the detention of Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, and Htay Kywe and five days after the arrest of Pyone Cho and Min Zeya, the regime is taking a harder line, while public frustration is rising. Articles appearing today in the regime's mouthpiece daily paper indicate the [...]
2006-10-05 10:04:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON15INDEPENDENCE DAY: REGIME SUBDUED, OPPOSITION BUOYED
[...] (C) Summary: The Burmese military regime and the democratic opposition commemorated Burma's independence anniversary on January 4 with sharply contrasting and separate events. The SPDC focused on criticizing those who oppose the regime and on heralding its own achievements since assuming powe [...]
2006-01-05 10:52:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ECON PINS ASEC BM
06RANGOON1503AI RESPONSE IN BURMA REMAINS A WORK IN PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),together with the Burmese Ministry of Health (MOH) and Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD) hosted donor and training workshops in Rangoon on September 28-29. U reps used the donor me [...]
2006-10-11 01:48:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID AMED PGOV CASC TBIO KLFU BM
06RANGOON1512KACHINS BET ON THE NATIONAL CONVENTION PROCESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kachin Independence Organization's (KIO) delegate to the National Convention believes the ethnics must try to strike the best possible deal with the regime via the National Convention and try to amend the constitution later, following a period of confidence building. He thinks [...]
2006-10-13 04:17:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1518DEADLINE LOOMS FOR GOB ACTION ON FORCED LABOR
[...] (C) Summary: ILO Liaison Officer Richard Horsey has been able to maintain regular contact with the Ministry of Labor over the past three months and has begun discussions on a mechanism to address forced labor charges in Burma. Horsey said the GOB's reaction to the draft text has been generally [...]
2006-10-13 09:08:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALELAB ECON PGOV PHUM BM
06RANGOON1519BURMA: MFA DEMARCHES CHARGE ON UNSC DISCUSSION
[...] (U) On October 10, Deputy Director General of the MFA's International Organizations Division, U Hla Myint, called in the Charge d'Affaires to deliver a lackluster protest against U.S. comments during the September 29 UNSC discussion on Burma. Noting that the Foreign Minister had instructed h [...]
2006-10-13 09:41:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON152GOB PLANS DRACONIAN REGULATIONS FOR UN/NGOS
[...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime plans invasive new guidelines increasing its control over UN agencies and NGOs and further restricting the delivery of international assistance. If implemented, the draconian regulations would assign GOB ministries sweeping authority, including oversight of all [...]
2006-02-06 10:02:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM
06RANGOON1520KAYAH: A VIEW OF BURMA'S SMALLEST STATE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite obstacles to travel, emboffs made a rare visit to Loikaw, capital of Kayah State, on September 26-29. Local businesspersons, religious leaders, and humanitarian workers described the very rigid controls by authorities on their movements and activities. Tourism is non-exi [...]
2006-10-13 10:25:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS EAID BM
06RANGOON1521A WHITE REVOLUTION IN BURMA?
[...] (C) Summary: Detained pro-democracy leaders Min Ko Naing, Htay Kywe, and Ko Ko Gyi contacted members of their organization via cell phone on October 12, instructing them to begin demanding that the GOB release them. Meanwhile, the 88 Generation Students have obtained over 210,000 signatures [...]
2006-10-13 10:39:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1536KNU AND SPDC RE-ESTABLISH COMMUNICATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent visit to Rangoon by a team representing the Karen National Union (KNU) was not to negotiate a cease-fire agreement, but to re-establish communication links for future negotiations with the regime. The KNU representatives said they would return in two to three weeks, but [...]
2006-10-17 09:56:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM
06RANGOON154GOB PLANS DRACONIAN REGULATIONS FOR UN/NGOS
[...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime plans invasive new guidelines increasing its control over UN agencies and NGOs and further restricting the delivery of international assistance. If implemented, the draconian regulations would assign GOB ministries sweeping authority, including oversight of all [...]
2006-02-07 00:58:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM
06RANGOON1542THE DRY ZONE SPILLS OVER: FLOODS, AIDS AND TIP
[...] (C) Summary: Recent heavy rains created havoc across Burma's central Dry Zone. Dams burst, Mandalay airport's main access road flooded, and many other roads washed away, leaving dozens of villagers drowned and transportation crippled. Excessive rains severely damaged peanut crops, a primary [...]
2006-10-18 06:22:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON PGOV PHUM PREL GTIP SOCI BM
06RANGOON155YAWN: BURMESE REGIME RECESSES NATIONAL CONVENTION
[...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime recessed its National Convention (NC) on January 31, ending the third session of an indefinite process to produce a new constitution that accords the military preeminent governing powers. The GOB did not announce a date to reconvene the NC, although a senior g [...]
2006-02-07 01:20:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1559LETTER FROM NLD TO GAMBARI
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Chairman and Secretary of the National League of Democracy (NLD) asked the Embassy to pass copies to Secretary Rice and Ambassador Bolton of a letter they sent to SIPDIS Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General at the United Nations. We have abridged the text to focus on [...]
2006-10-20 08:15:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON156BURMESE AND SHAN FORCES FIGHT IT OUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent GOB "news" conference announced the surrender of elements of the insurgent Shan State Army - South in northern Shan State. However, the GOB neglected to mention that the surrender followed a serious battle, in which a DEA source claims the Shan killed dozens of Burmese A [...]
2006-02-07 01:21:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM
06RANGOON157AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE GLOBAL FUND IN BURMA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Six Western donor countries seek to establish a new fund addressing Burma's "Three Diseases" of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB. A "formulation team" of consultants will visit Burma for three weeks in February to establish the parameters for the program, which the UN Office for Project [...]
2006-02-07 02:58:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PHUM SOCI KHIV BM
06RANGOON1571GOB DEFENDS ITS GUIDELINES ON HUMANITARIAN AID
[...] (SBU) Summary: GAO Senior Analysts met with Burmese government officials during their 10-day visit to discuss the GOB's new guidelines for humanitarian assistance issued last February. The guidelines have caused confusion and apprehension in the IO/INGO/NGO community. The Director General of [...]
2006-10-25 05:49:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EAID PREL BM
06RANGOON1572MIN KO NAING MARKS HIS BIRTHDAY IN JAIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Min Ko Naing's family marked his October 18 birthday in Rangoon while he and four other 88 Generation Student leaders remained in regime detention. GOB media railed against the 88 Generation Students "wear white" campaign protesting the detentions, while Mandalay authorities rush [...]
2006-10-25 06:01:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1588ILO SPECIAL ADVISOR DEPARTS BURMA EMPTY HANDED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ILO Special Advisor Francis Maupain briefed us on his unsuccessful negotiations with GOB officials on October 20-21 to try to establish a credible mechanism for ILO investigations of forced labor complaints. After reaching tentative agreement with the GOB permitting the ILO unfet [...]
2006-10-25 08:38:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALELAB ECON PGOV PHUM BM
06RANGOON1609TRYING TO GET A POLITICAL DIALOGUE GOING IN BURMA
[...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) confidants have proposed a means to resume a political dialogue, which UN U/SYG Gambari might suggest to Than Shwe when they next meet in Burma. Apparently ASSK wrote a letter to Than Shwe in 2004 proposing a way forward whereby she would step back from the NLD party [...]
2006-10-30 08:42:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV BM UN
06RANGOON1615WFP'S NEW PROGRAM FOCUSES ON BURMA'S NEEDIEST
[...] (SBU) Summary: Under a new Country Director, the World Food Program (WFP) will continue to supply food to three of Burma's most vulnerable regions in Shan and Rakhine States, and Magwe Division. WFP plans to consolidate these three programs and expand operations slightly to include selected v [...]
2006-10-31 10:56:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1622BURMA TIGHTENS THE NOOSE ON ICRC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Shortly after the arrival of a new head of delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),the GOB informed the INGO that it could no longer work to support detainees in Burma directly, warned ICRC to stay away from border areas, and ordered two ICRC field offi [...]
2006-11-03 05:28:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1624PRAYING FOR CHANGE IN BURMA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The 88 Generation Students began a weeklong prayer campaign on October 29, calling on Burmese of all faiths to pray for the release of all political prisoners, as well as for flood victims in central Burma and for peaceful national reconciliation. The prayer campaign culminates on [...]
2006-11-03 11:55:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1633BURMA: 2006-2007 INCSR PART II
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-06 09:49:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON KCRM KTFN BM
06RANGOON1670BURMESE REGIME FILES CHARGES AGAINST OPPOSITION
[...] (C) Summary: Reliable Embassy sources have told us that on November 6 the regime charged Min Ko Naing and the four other detained 88 Generation Student (88GS) leaders under the 1950 Emergency Provision Act, a catch-all law the regime uses to prosecute most political prisoners. The UN has not y [...]
2006-11-09 10:33:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1678GAMBARI FINDS LITTLE GIVE IN BURMESE GENERALS
[...] (C) Summary: UN Under Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari made a second visit to Burma November 9-12 to try to get a political dialogue going and increase the space for humanitarian assistance. It does not appear at this time that he made much, if any, progress. He met with Burma's senior mili [...]
2006-11-13 10:01:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1679BURMA: AI UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary: GOB authorities have not reported any new cases of Avian Influenza in Burma since the outbreak in poultry in Mandalay and Sagaing Divisions was contained in April 2006. On October 30, the government imposed a ban on the import and use of AI vaccine, as well as on animal bones and [...]
2006-11-13 10:15:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON1686CI TO PROTECT BURMESE TURTLES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Burma's unpredictable environment for NGO activities, Conservation International (CI) recently received provisional GOB approval for two major projects to address threats to a number of animal species in Burma, including the critically endangered Burmese Star Tortoise and [...]
2006-11-15 10:02:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1701GAMBARI'S MEETINGS IN BURMA - UNCENSORED
[...] (C) Summary: UN U/SYG Gambari delivered a strong message to Burma's senior generals that the regime must choose between taking concrete steps toward democracy or face further action in the UNSC, according to UN Resrep Charles Petrie. General Than Shwe angrily denied that there was a humanitar [...]
2006-11-16 11:23:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1704EYES ON BURMA'S PRIZE: NATURAL GAS
[...] (SBU) Summary: New oil and gas discoveries off Burma's northwestern coast have prompted intense international maneuvering as representatives from India, China, Thailand and South Korea vie for investment options, production contracts and purchasing rights to the resources. Although the GOB has [...]
2006-11-17 02:49:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON171GOB SENDS MIXED MESSAGES ON UN/NGO RESTRICTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: On February 7, the GOB issued new guidelines to UN agencies and INGOs regarding the delivery of international assistance in Burma. In contrast to a draft version of draconian new requirements issued a few days ago, the new guidelines appear "vague, redundant, and fairly non-contr [...]
2006-02-07 10:34:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM
06RANGOON1711CHINESE AMBASSADOR SPEAKS OUT ON BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: During a long exchange with the Chinese Ambassador, Charge d'Affaires emphasized that the U.S. and China should use their cooperative and constructive relationship to work together to find mutually acceptable ways to promote change in Burma. The Chinese Ambassador emphasized Chi [...]
2006-11-17 11:29:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1713GOB TRIES TO SQUEEZE TAXPAYERS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Eager to squeeze out more revenues, Burma's military regime has pushed tax officials to clamp down on tax evaders. Government efforts to increase tax collection have increased revenues somewhat, but many still bribe their way out of payments. End Summary. Salaries Rise, Taxe [...]
2006-11-20 06:18:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV BM
06RANGOON1717BURMA: NLD REACTS TO GAMBARI VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: During a short meeting with U/SYG Gambari during his November 9-12 visit to Burma, the NLD "Uncles" repeated their desire for a genuine dialogue with the regime. They told us Gambari seemed better briefed on the political situation in Burma this visit, in contrast to their meeti [...]
2006-11-21 02:19:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1722A TALE OF TWO SITTWES: BURMA'S ETHNIC TENSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Non-Buddhist ethnic minorities in Burma's Rakhine State face the worst of times, with a flat economy, no citizenship rights, and no freedom to seek better opportunities elsewhere. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),World Food Program (WFP),UN High Commission on [...]
2006-11-27 09:51:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV EAID BM
06RANGOON1727ILO TAKES A HARD LINE ON BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: ILO Liaison Officer Richard Horsey said the ILO Director General would deliver a letter on November 24 to SYG Annan and U/SYG Gambari, summarizing Burma's lack of progress on forced labor. The letter will state that Burma is not cooperating to find a mechanism to address forced [...]
2006-11-27 11:50:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ELAB BM
06RANGOON1741THAIS LOOKING FOR NEW DIRECTIONS IN BURMA
[...] (C) Pol/econ chief met with Thai Embassy poloff Pornpan Mah November 28 to discuss Thai PM Surayud Chulamont's visit to Burma. Pornpan said Thailand is no longer willing to be on the front-line defending the regime's actions to the international community, but will in the future carefully co [...]
2006-11-29 11:01:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1743ICRC WON'T GIVE UP ON BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: The recent announcement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that the GOB was forcing them to close their five field offices in Burma was not timed to coincide with Gambari's briefing to the UN Security Council, ICRC officials insist. They issued the statement [...]
2006-11-30 10:02:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID BM
06RANGOON1762THE GOB'S LONG-WINDED DEFENSE AGAINST UNSC ACTION
[...] (U) Summary: the GOB called a last-minute press conference in Nay Pyi Taw on November 29 to try to refute UNSC discussion of the regional threat Burma poses through the spread of refugees, diseases and narcotics to neighboring states. Two Cabinet Ministers, joined by a Deputy Minister and the [...]
2006-12-01 11:21:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SOCI SNAR BM
06RANGOON1766AUNG SAN SUU KYI FINALLY SEES HER DOCTOR
[...] (C) Summary: Dr. Tin Myo Win, aka Douglas, met with his most famous patient, Aung San Suu Kyi, on November 16, almost three months after his last visit August 24. He expects to see her again on December 21. He found her in good health, confirmed by an ultrasound examination. Douglas also re [...]
2006-12-04 10:17:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1767BURMA REGIME AND KAREN MISTRUST CONTINUES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent discussion between Karen delegates to the National Convention (NC) reveals that the ruling regime mistrusts both the Karen National Union (KNU) and the proxy army it created to fight the KNU, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA). The KNU reportedly has invited the DKB [...]
2006-12-04 10:38:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS BM
06RANGOON1769BURMA AI UPDATE - DECEMBER 5
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-05 05:43:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON1776BURMA AI UPDATE - DECEMBER 5
[...] (SBU) Summary: Burma has not reported any new cases of AI since it contained the March - April 2006 poultry outbreak through extensive culling. The GOB continues to work with donors to improve its surveillance, reporting, and response capabilities. David Castellan, a short-term advisor to FAO [...]
2006-12-07 02:10:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON1777BURMA: OPPOSITION WINS HEARTS ON WORLD AIDS DAY
[...] SUMMARY: The National League for Democracy (NLD) and members of the 88 Generation Students (88GS) used World AIDS Day to show compassion and care for HIV/AIDS victims and their families and to help raise greater awareness among the public. The NLD honored over 100 HIV/AIDS health workers and [...]
2006-12-07 10:20:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SOCI KHIV BM
06RANGOON1783GOB TRIES TO WHITEWASH EXTENSIVE FLOOD DAMAGE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Closely-held GOB reports confirm that severe flash floods in central Burma in October damaged over 200,000 acres in Mandalay and Sagaing Divisions and Shan State. Despite unofficial reports of significant human deaths and crop losses, the GOB has not officially acknowledged tha [...]
2006-12-08 08:57:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EAGR BM
06RANGOON1785BURMA: THE REGIME FINDS ITS OWN "88 GENERATION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-08 09:15:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON179BURMESE PRIME MINISTER'S AGENDA IN CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: Burmese Prime Minister General Soe Win will make his first bilateral visit to China February 14-18 where he will seek to maintain mutually beneficial economic relations; tap PRC largesse for more grants and loans; and flaunt the legitimacy that the relationship provides the regime [...]
2006-02-09 09:33:00Embassy RangoonSECRETPREL ECON CH BM
06RANGOON1794BURMA: ICRC UPDATE
[...] (C) ICRC Head of Delegation Pierre-Andre Conod told us today that, during a December 8 meeting in Nay Pyi Taw with the Minister of Home Affairs, he obtained permission to keep ICRC's five field offices open in Kyengtung, Taunggyi, Hpa-an, Moulmein, and Mandalay, but did not obtain permission [...]
2006-12-12 10:56:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1803BURMA'S BUSINESS ENVIRONEMNT: "BETTER THAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB's economic mismanagement continues to erode Burma's business environment. The regime makes unreasonable and arbitrary decisions with little thought of the economic consequences. For example, all business transactions must be conducted in the remote new capital of Nay [...]
2006-12-18 06:50:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1807BURMA'S RICE SUPPLY SHRINKS AFTER OCTOBER FLOODS
[...] (U) Rumors are have circulated around Rangoon about an impending rice shortage as Burmese officials move rice stocks to provinces in central Burma hit by severe flooding in October. In addition, smuggling, inflated production estimates, poor storage, and inadequate buffer stocks exacerbate th [...]
2006-12-18 10:05:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EAGR EAID BM
06RANGOON1812OPPOSITION LEADER MISSES ANOTHER BIRTHDAY PARTY
[...] (U) Summary: On December 18, friends and relatives marked the 45th birthday of Ko Ko Gyi, detained 88 Generation Students (88GS) leader, at a Rangoon monastery, making offerings to the monks and feeding approximately 800 supporters who participated. Military Intelligence monitored the event, [...]
2006-12-19 08:21:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1818BURMA PUMPS OIL AND GAS POTENTIAL FOR CASH NOW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Development of Burma's oil and gas reserves continues apace, from existing facilities upgrades to new exploration deals. The government needs hard currency and correctly sees the sector as its best source of revenue. End Summary. Upgrades of Existing Facilities ------------ [...]
2006-12-22 06:37:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV ENRG BM
06RANGOON1828BURMA: THE KNU AFTER GENERAL BO MYA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The death of Karen insurgent leader General Bo Mya did not come as a surprise, but leaves the Karen National Union (KNU) without a strong, charismatic leader. Sidelined by poor health in recent years, Bo Mya continued to influence KNU leaders and policy. It is uncertain if the re [...]
2006-12-27 04:27:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS BM
06RANGOON1829BURMA: THREE ETHNIC TRAFFICKING VICTIMS RETURN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The recent case of three Kachin women who were trafficked to China to be brides for Chinese men illustrates how the lack economic opportunity for Burma's ethnic minorities makes them increasingly vulnerable to human traffickers. After being lured to the Chinese border by an acqua [...]
2006-12-27 04:46:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALKCRM KWMN PHUM BM
06RANGOON206BURMESE PM GOES TO CHINA WITH A LONG SHOPPING LIST
[...] (C) Summary: When he makes his first bilateral visit to China on February 14-18, Burmese Prime Minster Soe Win will seek an agreement on closer cooperation on drug trafficking, a donation of 100 used train cars, and Chinese views on the GOB's draft industrial zone law. These agenda items are in [...]
2006-02-13 10:15:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CH BM
06RANGOON207NLD SHOWS UNITY WITH ETHNICS ON UNION DAY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: At ceremonies marking Burma's 59th Union Day, the NLD quietly unveiled a new plan for national reconciliation. NLD Chairman U Aung Shwe said that the NLD would endorse the ruling SPDC (the State Peace and Development Committee) as a legitimate interim government if the SPDC agree [...]
2006-02-13 10:50:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON213REQUEST TO SEE AUNG SAN SUU KYI DENIED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Min Lwin, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) Americas Division, told the Embassy on February 13 that the Charge would not be allowed to meet with imprisoned NLD Secretary General Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) "at this moment" because she remains "under restriction." Min [...]
2006-02-14 07:35:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON214U.S. DOLLAR MOVES UNDERGROUND IN BURMA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Banks in China, Japan and Singapore are now refusing to handle Burma's government and commercial dollar-denominated business, forcing many companies to transfer their business transactions to their personal offshore accounts to keep cash flowing. Meanwhile, the ruling regime is [...]
2006-02-14 07:40:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON223BURMA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER WANTS TO TALK
[...] (C) Summary: Charge met February 14 with Deputy Foreign Minster Kyaw Thu at his request. Repeatedly emphasizing his interest in assisting Charge feel comfortable in Burma, he leisurely addressed a wide range of topics, including the problems of inadequate food and slow construction in Pyinman [...]
2006-02-16 05:38:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC PREL BM
06RANGOON235BURMA'S VAST INTERNMENT CAMP: NORTHERN RAKHINE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a country where everyone is oppressed by the military, some are treated worse than others. In general, the ethnic minorities are treated worse than the ethnic Burman majority, and non-Buddhists face more restrictions on their religious practices. Charge visited Northern [...]
2006-02-17 09:23:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL EAID BM
06RANGOON244BURMA'S INADEQUATE IPR REGIME
[...] (U) Burma is, and should remain, on the 2006 Special Mention List for Special 301 Review. Following is an update on the current IPR protection situation in Burma. Overview --------- 2. (U) Burma does not have adequate IPR protection. Patent, trademark, and copyright laws and regulations a [...]
2006-02-22 05:57:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR PGOV SNAR BM
06RANGOON246NLD'S FLEXIBLE OFFER TO THE BURMESE REGIME
[...] (C) SUMMARY: NLD leaders have low expectations that the Burmese regime will respond favorably to their February 12 proposal to convene the Parliament elected in 1990 in return for the opposition's recognition of the ruling regime as a transitional government. The NLD is nonetheless encouraged [...]
2006-02-22 07:09:00Embassy RangoonSECRETPGOV PHUM PREL BM NLD
06RANGOON248COMMUNAL RIOTS IN MAGWAY DIVISION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Communal rioting erupted between Buddhist and Muslim communities in central Burma on February 16. Sources report that three people died and ten others sustained injuries as Buddhist Burmans attacked Muslim and Indian shops, homes, and mosques. Authorities imposed a news blackou [...]
2006-02-22 09:02:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS PREL ECON KISL BM
06RANGOON249MORE FROM BURMA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu requested Charge meet with him again February 22 - alone. He apparently wants to continue a dialogue (ref A),made more difficult by his move to Pyinmana and difficult to do by phone because, he said, others could be listening in. Again referrin [...]
2006-02-22 23:33:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON253AMERICAN CENTER HELPING NLD EDUCATE ACTIVISTS AND
[...] (C) Summary: our American Center (AC) in Rangoon has attracted extra attention from both pro-democracy activists and the ruling regime as our programs reach more people. Representatives from Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD) contact the AC daily and regularly use our Information Re [...]
2006-02-23 23:40:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KPAO BM NLD
06RANGOON257BURMA COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TERRENCE MARKIN
[...] Embassy Rangoon grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Mr. Terrence C. Markin, Political Officer, to Burma March 15-17, 2006 for consultations. 2. Control officer for this visit is Timothy Arnts, Regional Affairs Chief, phone: (95) (1) 379-880 ext. 4219. Additional point of c [...]
2006-02-24 08:32:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA BM
06RANGOON258BURMA COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL HONNOLD
[...] Embassy Rangoon grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Mr. Michael J. Honnold, Refugee Coordinator for Southeast Asia, to Burma March 8-10, 2006 for consultations. 2. Control officer for this visit is D. Dean Tidwell, phone: (95) (1) 379-880 ext. 4259, or email at TidwellDD@sta [...]
2006-02-24 09:53:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA BM
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