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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
05SANAA1954	EMBASSY SANAA EAC MEETING - 7/17/05 [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-19 13:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC YM EAC

05SANAA196	YEMEN GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO CAPTURE TELCOM MARKET [...] (C) Summary: President Saleh's initiative to provide rural phone access through the use of CDMA technology expanded in 2004 to offer mobile phone service in Yemen. Yemen Mobile, though promoted as part of the rural access program, may serve to squeeze out its private sector GSM competitors, S [...]	2005-02-02 11:49:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN ECPS EIND EINV ETTC KMPI ECON COM
05SANAA1970	SANAA EAC MEETING 07/20/2005. [...] (S) BEGIN SUMMARY: The Charge convened two EAC meetings on July 20th, 2005, to discuss security concerns with regard to unrest in Sanaa as a result of the removing of subsidies for basic staples. Vandalism and rioting have broken out throughout the city and host government security forces a [...]	2005-07-21 12:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC
05SANAA1986	STANDOFF ENDS BETWEEN YEMENI MILITARY AND TRIBAL [...] (C) On 20 July 2005, 300 armed tribal members took up positions near a Jannah Hunt oil processing plant in the Helewah region of the Marib Governate with the intention of pressuring the government of Yemen to reinstate subsidies on oil and gas products. American and British citizens were amo [...]	2005-07-24 05:25:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER DOMESTIC POLITICS ENERGY
05SANAA1988	SANAA EAC MEETING 07/24/2005. [...] (S/NF) CDA convened an EAC as requested in reftel. POLM, OMC, DAO, POL/ECON, PD, AID, FPD and MO were represented. The EAC noted that the Yemeni government remains on a high state of alert as a result of last weekend's rioting and has still not lifted the ban on travel outside the city for t [...]	2005-07-25 03:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC
05SANAA2023	CHARGE DISCUSSES LIFTING OF SUBSIDIES, CABINET [...] (C) As riots were beginning to break out across the capital on July 19, CDA discussed pressing current issues with Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman, followed by a brief unscheduled meeting with Foreign Minister Abubakr Qirbi. Noman was critical of ROYG handling of the lifting of oil and [...]	2005-07-25 14:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PGOV OVIP ECON ENRG SOCI EAID KMCA KMPI YM KWAC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2094	EMBASSY SANAA EAC MEETING - 7/31/05 [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-01 12:39:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC YM EAC
05SANAA2115	YEMENIS REACT TO MOAYAD SENTENCING [...] (SBU) Summary. The July 28 sentencing of Shiekh Mohammed Ali Hassn al-Moayad has sparked heated reaction from the ROYG, the opposition Islah party and, according to the print media, the public. On the streets, however, there were no demonstrations and interlocutors state that, contrary to the [...]	2005-08-02 05:07:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV YM PTER
05SANAA2165	EMBASSY SANAA EAC MEETING - 8/7/05 [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-08 05:21:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC YM EAC
05SANAA2317	EXBS ADVISOR VISIT AND PROGRAM STRATEGY JULY, 2005 [...] (U) SUMMARY. During the period July 9-19, 2005, Export Controls and Related Border Security (EXBS) Advisor met with Yemeni officials and principal Embassy staff to discuss the current state of EXBS in Yemen. Advisor met with senior representatives of the Ministry of Interior, the Yemen and A [...]	2005-08-14 07:59:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP YM MARITIME SECURITY
05SANAA2320	EMBASSY SANAA EAC MEETING - 8/14/05 [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-14 14:05:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC YM EAC
05SANAA2376	MOD ON CONTROLLING SMALL ARMS AND EUCS [...] (C) Summary. On August 13, Ambassador introduced the new Office of Military Cooperation (OMC) Chief during a meeting with Minister of Defense MG Abdallah Ali Aleiwa. Ambassador used the opportunity to discuss the importance of providing a long-range strategic security plan in order to more ef [...]	2005-08-16 08:42:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS YM
05SANAA2377	DFM DISCUSSES SALEH VISIT WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. On August 14, Deputy Foreign Minister Mohiedeen Al-Dhabi and Ambassador discussed cooperation ahead of President Saleh's scheduled visit to Washington in November and current ROYG efforts to combat corruption. End Summary. ------------------------------ Saleh's Visit: What Ca [...]	2005-08-16 08:50:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ECON KAWC YM COUNTER TERRORISM COM
05SANAA2414	WHERE DOES ISLAH'S HEART LIE? [...] (C) Summary: With the 2006 Presidential and Local Council elections fast approaching, the Yemeni Congregation for Reform, or "Islah" is taking center stage in Yemeni politics. Islah is a coalition of northern tribal interests and the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood (YMB). The party boasts the hig [...]	2005-08-21 10:41:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER KISL KDEM KMPI KMCA YM
05SANAA2416	SANAA EAC MEETING 08/21/2005. [...] (S/NF) Embassy EAC was convened on 8/21/2005. EAC was chaired by the Ambassador and members in attendance were, DCM, POLE, POLM, RSO, CONS, PD, MGT, DAO, OMC, LEGATT, USAID, and CCE. 2. (S/NF) EAC discussed the security situation with regard to ongoing information received concerning the [...]	2005-08-21 14:10:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AADP AEMR AMGT CASC YM EAC
05SANAA2460	UNABATED POVERTY AND MALNUTRITION: YEMEN REQUESTS [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Sanaa seeks FY-2006 PL-480 Food for Progress commodities for rural agricultural development program assistance in counterterrorism, poverty alleviation, and critical water needs. Post requests assistance in the form of $4.4 million in concessional loans and $15.5 million [...]	2005-08-29 13:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID YM
05SANAA2463	THE CITY OF TAIZ: WILL THE PHOENIX RISE AGAIN? [...] Summary: DCM visited the city of Taiz, the third largest city in Yemen to open bids for the the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)-funded wastewater system project and to meet with civic, NGO, and business leaders on August 8. Taiz stand on the shoulders of trained and passionate NGO, [...]	2005-08-29 13:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV SOCI YM COM AORC
05SANAA2468	TRANSFER OF GITMO DETAINEE TO YEMEN [...] (S) At approximately 0930 local (0630Z) on 21 August 2005, Colonel Calvin T. Carlsen, Chief Office of Military Cooperation (OMC),Sana'a, Yemen, met the USAF C-17 at Sana'a International Airport, signed for GITMO detainee (Hamza, Karam Hamis Said (US9YM-000586DP)),and then handed Hamza and h [...]	2005-08-30 04:50:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PGOV PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2469	SANAA EAC MEETING 08/28/2005. [...] (S/NF) Embassy EAC was convened on 8/28/2005. EAC was chaired by the Ambassador and members in attendance were, DCM, RSO, POLM, POLE, CONS, PD, MGT, DAO, OMC, LEGATT, USAID, and CCE. 2. (S/NF) EAC reviewed the security situation in Sanaa and the provinces. Members reported no new inform [...]	2005-08-30 04:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC CASC AMGT YM EAC
05SANAA255	INVESTMENT CLIMATE 2005 [...] The following is posts' submission for the 2005 Investment Climate Statement: (Begin Text) Investment Climate 2005 for Yemen: Openness to Foreign Investment Conversion and Transfer Policies Expropriation and Compensation Dispute Settlement Performance Requir [...]	2005-02-07 11:03:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	OPIC KTDB USTR YM ECON COM
05SANAA2573	SANAA EAC MEETING 09/11/2005. [...] (S/NF) Embassy EAC was convened on 9/11/2005. EAC was chaired by the Ambassador and members in attendance were, DCM, RSO, POLM, POLE, CONS, PD, MGT, DAO, OMC, LEGATT, USAID, and CCE. 2. (S/NF) EAC reviewed the security situation in Sanaa and agreed that while there was no new threat info [...]	2005-09-11 14:50:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC CASC AMGT YM EAC
05SANAA268	SANAA EAC MEETING 02/06/2005 [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-08 14:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER YM EAC
05SANAA2778	SANAA EAC MEETING [...] (S/NF) On 09/18/05, EAC met to discuss RefTel's A and B. Members in attendance were AMB, DCM, RSO, POLM, OMC, DAO, MO, POLE, PD, CONS, LEGATT, AID, AND CCE. 2. (S/NF) Members discussed RefTel A, JEDDAH, Lessons Learned-Follow Up. RSO specifically addressed para 7, which directed RSO's to r [...]	2005-09-18 14:45:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC PTER AMGT YM EAC
05SANAA2782	IMI: INVITATION FOR BIDS - BID NO. EGS/05-14 FOR [...] The Groundwater & Soil Conservation Project of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation is inviting international companies for the procurement of the following heavy equipments: Bulldozers (220-240 HP) quantity 2 nos Wheel loaders (217-220 HP) quantity 2 nos Motor Graders with laser leve [...]	2005-09-19 13:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON YM COM
05SANAA2806	ROYG REQUESTS ZINDANI INFORMATION [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph seven. 2. (C) Summary: In a September 18 meeting with Ambassador, Foreign Minister Abubakr Qirbi provided a written request for detailed evidence on Abdul Majeed Zindani's financial support to terrorists groups (ref A). The letter states t [...]	2005-09-21 14:10:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN
05SANAA2867	TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-01 14:34:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER EFIN ETTC PREL KTFN KVPR YM TERFIN COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2882	SANAA EAC MEETING [...] (S/NF) On 10/03/05, EAC met to discuss RefTel's A and B. Members in attendance were AMB, MO, RSO, POLM, OMC, DAO, POLE, PD, CONS, LEGATT, AID, AND CCE. 2.(S/NF) ROYG Foreign Embassy Travel Policy: Ambassador advised the EAC that he had spoken to the Minister of Interior about the ROYG travel [...]	2005-10-03 14:04:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC PTER AMGT YM EAC
05SANAA2891	RAMADAN 2005 PD ACTIVITIES [...] SUMMARY: Ramadan celebrations in Yemen are typically hosted within families and, while Yemenis generally prefer to remain at home and close to family during the month, Embassy Sana'a has planned to participate in Ramadan in a variety of ways. End summary. 2. Ambassador will host well-posi [...]	2005-10-04 15:22:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF KPAO PREL COUNTER TERRORISM DOMESTIC POLITICS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA2897	YEMEN: COMBATING EXTREMISM [...] (U) Summary: The Government of the Republic of Yemen (ROYG) considers extremism a serious threat to the country's security and stability. Security and intelligence agencies routinely monitor mosques and religious institutions for extremist views. The ROYG regularly closes unlicensed religi [...]	2005-10-05 09:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI YM DOMESTIC POLITICS COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2945	FM QIRBI SAYS SALEH MAY "CHANGE HIS MIND" ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 10 meeting to review logistical arrangements for President Saleh's November visit to Washington, FonMin Abu Bakr al-Qirbi told Ambassador that Saleh was "nervous" about how a reversal of his announcement that he would not run for re-election in 2006 would be p [...]	2005-10-11 14:16:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM YE DOMESTIC POLITICS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA2956	CJTF HOA COMMANDER GHORMLEY VISITS ADEN [...] (U) Summary. On October 1, visiting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) Commander MG Timothy Ghormley and Ambassador traveled to Aden for meetings with the Governor of Aden, Yemen Coast Guard (YCG) and regional military commanders. MG Ghormley and Ambassador also participate [...]	2005-10-12 11:25:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS PARM YM MARITIME SECURITY
05SANAA2988	YEMEN-IRAQ: NO EVIDENCE OF AN EXTRADITION TREATY [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-17 05:34:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER CJAN IZ YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2996	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS ARMS BROKERS DEMARCHE [...] (S) Summary. On October 16, Ambassador, along with UK Ambassador Michael Gifford, delivered ref A demarche to Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Qirbi expressing concern over the continued use of Yemeni arms dealers to procure weapons on behalf of the Ministry of Defense (MOD). He noted that MOD appe [...]	2005-10-17 11:37:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PARM PTER ETTC MASS YM DEMARCHE COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2997	PROGRESS REPORT ON YEMEN'S COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (S) Summary. In July, Ambassador presented President Saleh with a white paper assessing the Republic of Yemen Government's (ROYG) level of counter-terrorism (CT) cooperation. The Ambassador shared USG concerns that Yemen's efforts to combat terrorism have been neither consistent nor aggressi [...]	2005-10-17 12:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM SA IZ YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA300	NOMINATING YEMEN TV TO UNDERTAKE A TV CO-OP PROJECT [...] SUMMARY: The US Embassy's Public Affairs Office, Sana'a, nominates Yemen TV to undertake a TV co-op project during FY2005. Two people from Yemen TV, a reporter and a cameraman, would participate. 2. The primary aim of the project is to focus on key aspects of US foreign policy objectives in [...]	2005-02-14 10:50:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO YM KSRE
05SANAA3009	THE ECHO CHAMBER IN YEMEN. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the past several weeks Post has initiated a dynamic series of programs in response to U/S Hughes' Echo Chamber cables. End Summary. 2. (U) IRAQ REFERENDUM (Echo Chamber dated October 13): Post has translated the text of U/S Hughes' Echo Chamber cable on the October 1 [...]	2005-10-18 07:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OIIP KMDR PHUM PTER KISL YM
05SANAA3018	DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR YEMEN -- QUARTERLY [...] (C) Summary: Post implemented the initial phase of Yemen's Democratic Reform Strategy with mixed results. (Ref A) This quarterly report demonstrates progress for women in political participation, and in the role of Parliament providing a check on the executive. (Ref B) The ROYG's Threshold Pr [...]	2005-10-18 12:10:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KMPI KMCA ECON PHUM YM DOMESTIC POLITICS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA3027	AMBASSADOR UPDATES MOI ON PISCES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador informed MinInt Rashad al-Alimi on October 17 that a team from Washington would visit Yemen in the next few weeks to update the ROYG's PISCES system, and that an FBI team would come to provide training and equipment for a national fingerprint database in the next sever [...]	2005-10-19 10:24:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ACOA KHLS YM
05SANAA3032	BOEING VS. AIRBUS: YEMENIA ATTRACTS SUITORS FOR [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Krajeski met with Captain Abdulhamid AlQadi, Chairman and CEO of Yemenia Airlines, the national airline of Yemen, on October 16 to discuss a 10-plane purchase they are planning. Both Airbus and Boeing have demonstrated significant outreach to Yemenia management for the [...]	2005-10-19 12:06:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON KTDB YM COM
05SANAA307	YEMENI VIEWS ON ELECTIONS AND THE FUTURE OF IRAQ [...] (SBU) Liberal elites, moderate Islamists, ROYG officials as well as civil society activists and journalists in Yemen are unanimous in considering the recent elections held in Iraq as a step in the right direction. All are equally unanimous, however, in expressing skepticism that these election [...]	2005-02-14 18:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KMDR KPAO IZ YM
05SANAA310	MEPI PROJECTS SHOWING RESULTS IN YEMEN [...] Summary. MEPI programs are making progress and solidifying MEPI's track record in Yemen. CHF's vocational training center, forming a new partnership with local NGO Girls World Communication Center (GWCC),opened classes beginning in February. IFES has begun implementation of the GIS Bounda [...]	2005-02-15 05:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KMCA KMPI YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA3103	BLUE LANTERN END-USE CHECK COMPLETED ON YEMEN AIR [...] Per ref A, Post contacted Yemeni Air Force to inquire if it has ordered U.S.-origin military aircraft spare parts from the firms Aston Aviation, Transworld Aviation, and Segers Aviation. Post made repeated inquiries though OMC in routine meetings and through diplomatic notes for several weeks. [...]	2005-10-25 13:29:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC YM
05SANAA3137	SALEH ACCEPTS GTMO DETAINEES, DOES NOT BACK DOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Saleh told Ambassador on October 25 that his government would accept all Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay, provided the USG passes all relevant information on their cases so that they can be charged and tried in local courts, as appropriate. Saleh agreed to crimin [...]	2005-10-26 13:41:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM KDEM YM COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA315	SANAA EAC MEETING 02/13/2005 [...] (S/NF) Begin Summary - The Ambassador convened an EAC meeting on February 13, 2005, to discuss a recent report about two individuals who are in custody after a belt laden with explosives, for placement around a persons waist, was turned in at a police station on Tuesday, 8 February 2005. EAC [...]	2005-02-15 12:33:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER YM EAC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3167	YEMEN AND AVIAN FLU - LONG ON STRATEGY - SHORT ON [...] SUMMARY: A/DCM Tom Burke, accompanied by USAID's Senior Health Advisor in Yemen, Dr. Ahmed Attieg, met with Yemeni Public Health Deputy Minister, Dr. Majid al-Gunaid at his request on 10/17/2005, at which he discussed Yemen state of preparations to respond to the Avian Flu Influenza. Deputy [...]	2005-10-30 14:16:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA KPAO EAGR ECON PREL SOCI YM WHO AID COM ENVIRONMENT
05SANAA3171	REACTIONS TO MEHLIS REPORT: MOSTLY NOT THERE [...] (U) Summary: Government newspapers took the lead, covering and commenting on the October 20 UN Mehlis report implicating Syrian and Lebanese security officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minster Rafiq Hariri. While op-eds in the official press took no stance on the report, t [...]	2005-10-31 14:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO YM SY UNSC
05SANAA3184	BREAKING FAST WITH FRIENDS IN SANAA [...] SUMMARY: Early in the month, Ambassador hosted an iftar for 120 key contacts and expressed his appreciation of Ramadan as a month of introspection. During the month, the Public Affairs section and a local non-governmental organization co-sponsored several iftars for a marginalized group of [...]	2005-11-01 11:11:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR PHUM PTER KISL YM
05SANAA3186	COMMERCIAL STRATEGIC PLAN FY-2006 [CORRECTED COPY] [...] Summary: Embassy Sanaa's commercial office is currently a Partner Post of the Foreign Commercial Service's Riyadh office, and has recently undergone a transition in locally- employed commercial staff. The new Commercial Specialist, Ammar Al-Anssi, was trained on U.S. Department of Commerce F [...]	2005-11-01 11:30:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECIN ECON KTDB YM COM
05SANAA3187	ASSAULT ON TWO JOURNALISTS: NEWEST CASE IN SPATE [...] (U) Summary: On October 29, Moujeeb Sweileh, a cameraman with the "Al-Arabiya" news channel, and Najib Al-Sharai, from "Al-Akhbariya," were assaulted by ROYG security forces while attempting to cover a strike at a textile factory in Sanaa. The attack is just one of a long string of physical and [...]	2005-11-01 12:35:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KMPI KMCA YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA3189	SANAA EAC MEETING [...] (S/NF) On 11/01/05, EAC met to discuss threat information contained in RefTel. Members in attendance were AMB, DCM, MO, RSO, POLM, OMC, DAO, POLE, PD, CONS, LEGATT, AID, FPD and CCE. 2.(S/NF) EAC discussed threat information received by SIMO of possible terrorist attacks in Aden during the [...]	2005-11-01 14:21:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC PTER AMGT YM EAC
05SANAA3206	MOPIC PLAYS SHELL GAME WITH USDA $60 MILLION [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Sofan on October 17, to convey USG's serious and growing concerns about the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food aid programs in Yemen. Ambassador told Sofan that USDA is sending a compliance team shortly to investigate and [...]	2005-11-02 12:57:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID YM ECON COM
05SANAA3225	SANAA EAC MEETING [...] (S/NF) On 11/12/05, EAC met to discuss security issues in light of the hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan. Members in attendance were CDA, RSO, POLM, OMC, DAO, POLE, PD, CONS, LEGATT, AID, FPD and CCE. 2.(S/NF) EAC was informed by the RSO and POLM that security was increased at hotels, popular [...]	2005-11-14 11:59:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC PTER AMGT YM EAC
05SANAA3227	PUBLIC AND OFFICIAL REACTION TO AMMAN BOMBINGS IS [...] Public and official reactions to the November 9 hotel bombings in Amman were uniformly expressions of the un-islamic nature of the attacks, and disgust for the perpetrators. According to Embassy local employees, some 150 people -- including men and women of several nationalities -- gathered [...]	2005-11-14 11:59:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL JO YM
05SANAA3231	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ABIZAID'S VISIT TO YEMEN [...] (C) Welcome back to Sanaa. Although Yemen remains an important regional partner in the GWOT with a post-9/11 string of CT successes, cooperation on this front has not been perfect -- a point that was made clear to President Saleh during his visit to Washington last week. You will be the fi [...]	2005-11-14 13:09:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PTER PREL MASS MARR OVIP YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3256	ROYG CLOSES DOWN HUNT OFFICES, AMERICANS TO LEAVE [...] (C) Summery: Early in the morning on November 15, representatives of the Ministry of Oil took over the Sanaa offices of Hunt Oil accompanied with security forces. Hunt responded by relocating employees from its Block 18 facility in Mareb to Sanaa, and is in the process of removing most of it [...]	2005-11-16 12:32:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV EPET YM ENERGY COM
05SANAA3257	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS IRAN RESOLUTION DEMARCHE [...] (C) On November 16, Ambassador raised reftel points with Deputy Foreign Minister Mohiedeen al Dhabi. Al Dhabi said he would discuss the points with the Foreign Minister, who had just returned from a two week visit to Japan, US, and France and was not available, and would pass any reaction d [...]	2005-11-16 14:05:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IR YM DEMARCHE
05SANAA335	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF U/S FOR GLOBAL AFFAIR [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the visit of Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula J. Dobriansky to Yemen February 23-25. You will meet with President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning International Cooperation Ahm [...]	2005-02-18 14:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	OVIP PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KMPI ECON EAID PREF PHUM GTIP COUNTER TERRORISM DEMOCRATIC REFORM COM TRAFFICKING PERSONS
05SANAA3378	SALEH TELLS GEN ABIZAID HE ACCEPTS WEAPONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a November 26 meeting with visiting CENTCOM Commander GEN John Abizaid, President Saleh accepted long-standing U.S. offers to create a weapons inventory system for the Yemeni Armed Forces. He claimed that Syrian President Bashar al-Asad had expressed willingness to cooperate [...]	2005-11-29 07:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PTER IZ SY YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3397	SANAA EAC MEETING [...] (S/NF) On 12/04/05, EAC convened to discuss security environment. Members in attendance were AMB, DCM, RSO, POLM, OMC, DAO, POLE, CONS, LEGATT, MO, FPD and CCE. 2. (S/NF) EAC members reported no new threats to Embassy personnel. EAC did note recent reports of minor conflicts in the north [...]	2005-12-04 13:33:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC PTER AMGT YM EAC
05SANAA3441	DCM REGISTERS CONCERN ABOUT ZINDANI TRAVEL AND [...] (C) In a December 11 meeting, DCM told Deputy FonMin Mohy al-Din al-Dhabi that the USG is very concerned that Abdul Majid al-Zindani had traveled outside of Yemen, in an apparent contravention of sanctions placed on him by the UN Security Council's 1267 Committee. DCM said that Embassy and W [...]	2005-12-12 04:16:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN
05SANAA3442	DCM PRESSES MFA ON GTMO DETAINEE TRANSFER AND [...] (C) DCM called on Deputy FonMin Mohy al-Din al-Dhabi on December 10 to press for an answer to Embassy's November 21 diplomatic note proposing the transfer of 13 Yemenis from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen (ref A). Al-Dhabi reiterated FonMin Qirbi's assurance to DAS Gordon Gray on December 3 that the [...]	2005-12-12 04:18:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PTER KAWC YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3460	SOMALI REFUGEES PROTEST UNHCR TREATMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 12. 2. (U) Summary. Since November 9, over 500 Somali refugees have been protesting in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) HQ in Sanaa. Encouraged by rumors that the USG soon will accept 70,000 Somali refug [...]	2005-12-12 14:21:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM YM SO GTIP
05SANAA3470	RESTORING ESF FUNDS IS A PRIORITY FOR THE GWOT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: If current budget allocations hold, Yemen will lose all but its military assistance funding for FY06. Economic Support Funds (ESF) have been reduced to zero, and Yemen's participation in the Millenium Challenge Account (MCA) Threshold Program was suspended. In addition, Yemen w [...]	2005-12-13 13:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EAID MASS YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3483	YEMEN: 2005 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Below is Embassy Sanaa's submission for the 2005 Country Report on Terrorism. A copy of this report has been forwarded to S/CT POCs via e-mail. 2. Begin text. In 2005, the Republic of Yemen continued to provide support for the global war on terrorism and took action against al-Qaida a [...]	2005-12-14 13:09:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL ASEC KTFN YM COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN
05SANAA3514	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TREASURY REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Mr. George Mullinax from o/a December 18, 2005 to o/a December 20, 2005 to provide assistance to the Central Bank of Yemen. Please make sure that Post has Mr. Mullinax's SSN and security clearance on file. 2. (SBU) Con [...]	2005-12-18 12:55:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV KMPI YM
05SANAA3527	YEMEN AVIAN INFLUENZA PREPARATIONS [...] Post has addressed ref A and implemented its recommendations to the maximum extent possible. Further avian influenza preparation measures will also be taken over the next month. Paragraph 2 provides a general assessment of avian influenza (AI) preparedness. Paragraph 3 details post's trip w [...]	2005-12-19 07:26:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR YM
05SANAA3532	CDA VISITS ADEN ON THE EVE OF THE GPC CONFERENCE [...] (U) Summary: On December 13-16, CDA visited an Aden saturated with political activists and senior ROYG officials in town for the seventh General People's Congress (GPC) convention. Before attending the ruling party convention, CDA participated in a local media conference on Arab-European dial [...]	2005-12-19 14:05:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KMPI KPAO CASC YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA3555	SANAA EAC MEETING [...] (S/NF) On 12/20/05, EAC met to review security procedures as required by RefTel A as well information in RefTel's C and D. Members in attendance were CDA, RSO, POLM, OMC, DAO, POLE, PD, CONS, LEGATT, AID, FPD and CCE. 2.(S/NF) RSO advised the EAC that appropriate security measures are in p [...]	2005-12-21 10:37:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC PTER CASC YM EAC
05SANAA3577	2005-2006 INSCR REPORT FOR YEMEN: FINANCIAL CRIMES [...] The following is the text of Embassy Sanaa's update to Part II of the 2005-2006 INSCR report on financial crimes and money laundering. ---------- Begin Text ---------- The Yemeni financial system is not yet well developed; thus, the extent of money laundering is not known. The prevalenc [...]	2005-12-26 11:27:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PTER KCRM KTFN YM TERFIN
05SANAA3588	ESTABLISHING A SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICER IN YEMEN [...] (C) Department of Defense (DOD) personnel posted in Yemen have been instrumental in supporting both the Department and post's goals of improving Yemen's capacity to combat terrorism. The combined use of diplomacy and military cooperation is a cornerstone of our engagement policy. Through the [...]	2005-12-27 10:30:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MASS YM
05SANAA36	GENERAL ABIZAID'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SALEH [...] (C) Summary. USCENTCOM Commander General Abizaid met with President Saleh on January 4. Discussions centered on Iraqi elections, regional security, and U.S.-Yemen cooperation in the GWOT. Both agreed that U.S.-Yemen joint security efforts should continue and increase in the new year, with Ab [...]	2005-01-06 10:16:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PTER MASS IZ YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA419	YEMEN TERROR TRIALS UPDATE: COLE DEATH SENTENCE [...] (C) Summary. On 2/26 the Sanaa Appellate Court commuted the death sentence of U.S.S. Cole defendant Jamal Badawi to 15 years in prison and upheld the death sentence for Abd al-Rahim Nashiri (ref a). On 2/27 Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Sharaf al-Mahbashi along with Lead Prosecutor Saeed [...]	2005-02-28 13:09:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL YM AESC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA420	CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS CALL ON U/S DOBRIANSKY FOR [...] Summary: On February 24, Undersecretary for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, explored at a roundtable with Yemeni NGOs areas where the U.S. can support Yemen's nascent civil society. Representatives from forty NGOs raised concerns over human rights abuses, women's access to political and eco [...]	2005-02-28 14:11:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KCOR KMCA KMPI YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
05SANAA460	U/S DOBRIANSKY'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SALEH [...] (C) Summary. Visiting Under Secretary for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky thanked Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on February 24 for Yemen's partnership in the GWOT. Praising Yemen's strong CT cooperation, U/S called on the ROYG to be more forthcoming on intelligence sharing. Discussions [...]	2005-03-04 13:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KMPI PTER PINR EAID ECON YM COUNTER TERRORISM DEMOCRATIC REFORM COM
05SANAA477	SALEH TELLS SYRIAN PRESIDENT TO WITHDRAW TROOPS [...] (U) President Saleh telephoned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad the evening of March 4, advising him to withdraw Syrian troops from Lebanon in accordance with the 1989 Taif Accord. This move followed Foreign Minister Qirbi's statement at the March 3 Arab League Ministerial declaring confiden [...]	2005-03-06 05:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE YE
05SANAA478	DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK IN YEMEN [...] This is an action request. See para. 5. 2. A dengue fever outbreak has afflicted the port cities of Hodeidah and Mokha on the western coast of Yemen and the surrounding coastal area beginning mid-January. Exact numbers are difficult to ascertain, and governmental, press, and WHO estimate [...]	2005-03-06 06:07:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED YM
05SANAA485	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNITED NATIONS GENERAL [...] Reftel demarche on the United Nations General Assembly Consideration of the Declaration on Human Cloning was delivered to Deputy Foreign Minister Mustapha Noman, on March 5. The ROYG has not yet shared its position with the Embassy on this matter. Khoury [...]	2005-03-06 06:52:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO YM UNGA KSCI DEMARCHE
05SANAA580	SALEH WISHES TO CONVEY HIS COMMITMENT ON SA/LW [...] (S) Following up on his 3/10 meeting with Ambassador and DCM, during which he made a pledge to ban once and for all the importation of weapons by independent arms dealers, President Saleh has requested a phone conversation with President Bush in order to personally convey to him his commitment [...]	2005-03-14 11:43:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PINR PREL PTER YE COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA589	CHILD MARRIAGE IN YEMEN: HALF THE CHILDREN ARE [...] This message is in response to reftel questions on child marriage in Yemen, see para. 4. 2. The legal age of marriage in Yemen is 15. UNICEF estimates that approximately 41 percent of Yemeni children under the age of 15 are married. According the USAID-funded Development and Health Survey [...]	2005-03-15 08:38:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN YM
05SANAA612	FINANCE MINISTER SALAMI PUTS A GOOD SPIN ON HIS [...] (C) Summary and comment: In a cordial and open meeting on March 13 with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alawi al-Salami, Ambassador highlighted U.S. efforts to support decentralization, urged the ROYG to take serious anti-corruption and transparency efforts and encouraged Yemen t [...]	2005-03-16 11:27:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PGOV ECON YM KMCC COM
05SANAA647	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR SOCCENT JCET IN [...] The following statement is provided to verify the human rights vetting process: at this date the Embassy verified that Post possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations by any members of the Yemen Special Operations Force (YSOF). 2. Additionally, the following human ri [...]	2005-03-19 06:21:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PHUM YM
05SANAA690	SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE [...] (S/NF) Demonstrations A. Are there any ethnic or religious communities in country that are capable of carrying out significant anti-American demonstrations? There are not organized, clearly defined communities as such, but ad hoc groupings of Yemeni fundamentalists and/or some members [...]	2005-03-23 11:22:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER
05SANAA695	SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS TAKE TO THE STREETS [...] (C) Summary: Many small business owners across Yemen closed their shops and took to the streets, March 13-18, in protest of ROYG plans to implement a general sales tax as part of its economic reform package. Demonstrations occurred in the cities of Hodeidah, Taiz, Sanaa and Aden, with a few d [...]	2005-03-23 13:48:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM YM ECON COM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA697	SHORT OUTBREAK OF FIGHTING IS SAADA [...] (U) Fighting broke out between ROYG security forces and members of the "Believing Youth" (Shabab al-Moumin) in the northern city of Saada March 19. Four supporters of the late anti-American Shi'ite Cleric al-Houthi were reportedly killed while attempting to flee police after a shoot out at the [...]	2005-03-23 15:05:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR YM DOMESTIC POLITICS COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA723	SANAA EAC MEETING - 27 MARCH 2005 [...] (S/NF) Summary: CDA Nabeel Khoury, convened an EAC meeting on March 27, 2005, to discuss a litany of recent security concerns to include security at the hotels in Aden, recent threats from Yemen citizens who have lost family members in Iraq, as well as a review of general security concerns [...]	2005-03-29 09:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER EAC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA76	CDA DELIVERS IRAQ ELECTIONS DEMARCHE, DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary. CDA delivered ref A demarche to Principle Deputy Foreign Minister al-Dhabbi on January 8. In addition to the Iraqi elections, discussions focused on relations between the ROYG and its opposition in Parliament and media, the al-Khaiwani case, proliferation of small arms and light [...]	2005-01-10 14:57:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV YM PARMS DEMARCHE COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA860	CORE EAC MEETING SANAA-02 APRIL 2005 [...] (S/NF) Summary: Ambassador convened a core EAC meeting on April 02, 2005, to review updates on recent incidents and threat reporting. EAC members were asked to make recommendations concerning the need to reduce the number of temporary personnel and other measures to reduce Embassy personnel's [...]	2005-04-04 05:40:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER EAC
05SANAA863	SANAA EAC MEETING - 03 APRIL 2005 [...] (S/NF) Summary: AMB convened an EAC on 03 April, 2005 to discuss recent security threats. RMAS briefed EAC on threat information of a sensitive nature involving an unidentified arab male in Sana,a who is apparently in the final stages of attack planning against " American leaders" in Yeme [...]	2005-04-04 13:25:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT PREL PTER EAC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA875	SANAA EAC MEETING 04/05/2005 [...] (S/NF) Ambassador Thomas Krajeski convened an EAC meeting on April 5, 2005, to discuss the possible threat and review security measures taken by the Embassy and community. The RSO briefed the EAC about another grenade attack in central Sanaa (see paragraph 5),earlier in the day, against a [...]	2005-04-06 13:26:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC
05SANAA876	SANAA EAC MEETING 04/06/2005 [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Charge d' Affaires (CDA) convened a core EAC meeting on April 06, 2005, to review updates on recent incidents and threat reporting. RMAS provided an update on the perceived threat followed by a show of hands by the EAC that determined current awareness and recommendations, [...]	2005-04-06 13:56:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC
05SANAA882	SANAA EAC MEETING 04/07/2005 [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Charge d' Affaires (CDA) convened a core EAC meeting at 1200 noon, on April 07, 2005, to review the current threat conditions at post. Following core EAC review, CDA decided to call an expanded EAC to decide upon further steps necessary to inform and protect the community. [...]	2005-04-07 19:24:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA891	SANAA EAC MEETING 04/09/2005 [...] (S/NF) Ambassador Thomas Krajeski convened an EAC meeting on April 5, 2005, to discuss the possible threat and review security measures taken by the Embassy and community. EAC members recommended continuation of security measures in line with those delineated in REFTEL B, to include a restr [...]	2005-04-10 10:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA894	SALEH DISCUSSES SECURITY CONCERNS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. President Saleh convoked Ambassador the morning of April 9 to discuss renewed fighting in Saada. Saleh immediately launched into requests for USG political and military support for ROYG efforts to defeat al-Houthi rebels in the north. Reiterating an argument he used during last [...]	2005-04-10 13:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER MASS KPAO YM COUNTER TERRORISM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA895	SANAA EAC MEETING 04/10/2005 [...] (S/NF) Ambassador Thomas Krajeski convened an EAC meeting on April 10, 2005, to review the current threat and security measures in light of that threat. The EAC agreed that current threat indicators now point to a mid to long term, not imminent, threat and recommendation of opening the Emb [...]	2005-04-10 13:56:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC
05SANAA906	GRENADE ATTACKS IN SANAA PERSIST AMID SAADA [...] (SBU) Summary. Amidst reports of escalating fighting in Saada, six grenade attacks against military personnel were reported in downtown Sanaa in the past ten days. Accounts of the attacks, which are sporadic and sometimes conflicting, indicate that this violence is Saada related, perpetrated [...]	2005-04-12 04:12:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PTER YM DOMESTIC POLITICS COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA912	SANAA EAC MEETING 04/11/2005 [...] (S/NF) Begin Summary: Ambassador convened an EAC meeting on April 11, 2005, to review the current threat, ongoing security measures and to discuss reverse trip wires. The EAC agreed that current threat indicators continue to point to a mid to long term threat for the community. The Ambass [...]	2005-04-12 11:03:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC
05SANAA923	SALEH ON KANAAN: WE'VE GOT HIM!! [...] (S) In a conference call with Ambassador and DCM, President Ali Abdallah Saleh informed us last night, Tuesday, April 12, that suspected terrorist Kanaan has been caught. Saleh began with, "You know this man Kanaan who has been threatening you and for whose sake you closed down your embassy? W [...]	2005-04-13 10:29:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PINR PREL PTER YE COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA935	SAADA-RELATED MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO CENTRAL [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: PRESIDENT SALIH URGENTLY REQUESTS MATERIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HIS SECURITY FORCES CURRENTLY ENGAGED WITH AL-HOUTHI INSURGENTS. THE LIST OF REQUIREMENTS PROVIDED BY MINISTER OF INTERIOR, MAJOR GENERAL ALIMI (SEPTEL) ON 9 APRIL 05 SHOULD BECOME THE STARTING POINT FOR YEMEN ASSISTAN [...]	2005-04-13 14:14:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER MARR MOPS PINR YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA951	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR SOCCENT JCET IN [...] The following statement is provided to verify the human rights vetting process: at this date the Embassy verified that Post possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations by any members of the Yemen CoastGuard (YCG). 2. Additionally, the following human rights vetting i [...]	2005-04-16 11:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PHUM YM MARITIME SECURITY HUMAN RIGHTS

05SANAA955	SANAA EAC MEETING 04/11/2005 [...] (S/NF) Begin Summary: The Ambassador convened an EAC meeting on April 13, 2005, to review the current threat, ongoing security measures and approve reverse trip wires. President Saleh informed the Ambassador that Kanaan had been captured along with several of his top associates and Yemen f [...]	2005-04-16 12:15:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA968	SANAA EAC MEETING 04/17/2005 [...] (S/NF) Begin Summary: The Ambassador convened a general EAC meeting on April 17, 2005, to review the current threat assessment and to consider changes to post travel restrictions. The EAC determined that the threat condition remains as described in reftel A, with no specific information sugg [...]	2005-04-18 11:30:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA998	SANAA EAC MEETING 20 APRIL 2005 [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-21 04:27:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	AMGT ASEC PREL PTER EAC COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANJOSE1627	PRIMER ON THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Summary: This cable briefly describes the organization, and procedures of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as well as the Court's relationship to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Reftel describes the progress of an actual recent case in the court brought against Venezue [...]	2005-07-18 13:24:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM CS
05SANJOSE1634	SAN JOSE FLASH REPORT - JULY 2005 [...] Embassy San Jose's cumulative allotments and obligations for current fiscal year INL funds are as follows: Project Number:011122101 Project Title: PD&S Cumulative Allotments: $21,384 Cumulative Obligations: $16,800 KAPLAN [...]	2005-07-18 22:12:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AFIN CS
05SANJOSE1904	COSTA RICA SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR ARLEN SPECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy San Jose warmly welcomes Senator Arlen Spector. Your trip comes in the heat of the campaign for the February 2006 general election. The political establishment is still struggling to recover from large scandals that resulted in two ex-Presidents awaiting trial under h [...]	2005-08-17 23:03:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CS ECON OVIP PGOV PREL VE
05SANJOSE1995	SENATOR SPECTER BRIEFED ON COUNTER-DRUG EFFORTS, [...] Summary: Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) visited the Guanacaste Province of Northern Costa Rica from August 18-20. The Charge and other Embassy Officers briefed the Senator in advance of a meeting with the Director of Costa Rica's Counter-Drug Police. On August 19, the Senator discussed NIH-fu [...]	2005-08-24 15:11:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SNAR CS
05SANJOSE2052	COSTA RICA'S PARTICIPATION IN THE CODEX TASK FORCE [...] On August 22, 2005 AgAtt conveyed reftel demarche to Isabel Cristina Araya, Technical Secretary of the National CODEX Committee. 2. By means of a letter dated August 29, 2005, Ms. Araya indicated that Costa Rica would not be represented at the CODEX Intergovernmental Task Force on Biotechno [...]	2005-09-02 13:42:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR CS ECON TBIO
05SANJOSE2068	COSTA RICA: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-02 21:27:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	KSUM ECON PGOV CS
05SANJOSE2096	HURRICANE KATRINA: CONDOLENCE LETTER FROM [...] On September 8, Embassy San Jose received a signed letter addressed to President Bush from President Pacheco extending his condolences to the Government and people of the United States and the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Informal Embassy translation of letter follows: San Jose, September [...]	2005-09-09 16:01:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC CS
05SANJOSE2186	GOCR REQUESTS AND EMBASSY SUPPORTS EXTENSION OF [...] Summary: Embassy supports GOCR request to extend project of U.S. Treasury Department Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) Tax Team beyond December 31, 2005 projected termination date. End summary. 2. Charge d'Affaires received the following letter from Minister of Finance on August 26, [...]	2005-09-19 22:16:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECPS ECON PREL PGOV SOCI CS
05SANJOSE2215	STUDENTS, LABOR UNIONS STAGE ANTI-CAFTA MARCHES [...] Summary: Labor unions and student groups took to the streets of San Jose on Tuesday, September 20, to protest the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR),as President Pacheco's "Commission of Eminent Persons" made the findings of its study on the agreement publ [...]	2005-09-22 21:00:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ETRD CS
05SANJOSE2410	REFUGEE REFERRAL: XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX [...] (C) Post wishes to refer Cuban national Dr. XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX for consideration under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Bio data based on Dr. XXXXXXXXXXXX passport is as follows: XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX, born in Granma, Cuba, on XXXXXXXXXXXX [...]	2005-10-14 22:07:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF CVIS CS CU
05SANJOSE2411	COSTA RICA REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR JUDGE THOMAS [...] Ref B reported Costa Rica's initial positive response to Judge Burgenthal's candidacy. Per Ref A instructions, PolOff followed up with the Foreign Ministry on October 6, and was reassured of Costa Rica's support. On October 12, Embassy San Jose received Costa Rican Diplomatic Note DGPE/DPM/AC [...]	2005-10-14 22:08:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV OPDC CS UNGA
05SANJOSE2413	COSTA RICA SUPPORTS USG CANDIDACY FOR SEAT ON [...] Per Ref A instructions, Post requested the GOCR's support for a seat on the World Heritage Committee via Diplomatic Note in July, 2005. 2. On October 12, Post received Costa Rican Diplomatic Note DGPE/DPM/AC 886/10/05, officially confirming that Costa Rica will support the U.S. bid. 3. [...]	2005-10-14 22:13:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PGOV CS UNESCO
05SANJOSE2435	ARMED ROBBERY AND SHOOTING AT SHOPPING CENTER NEAR [...] On 17 October at approximately 1300 hours, a hardware store employee waiting in a bank line to make a deposit of currency was shot in the leg while robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash. The location of the robbery is significant as it occurred at the Central Comercial Pavas Banco Nacional, [...]	2005-10-19 19:19:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC
05SANJOSE2532	COSTA RICA'S NOMINATION TO ATTEND ILEA CRIME SCENE [...] Per reftel, Post nominates the following Costa Rican police officers to attend the ILEA Course Crime Scene Management and Kidnapping in El Salvador from November 14 to 18, 2005. All nominated officers are Costa Rican nationals. Participants: Rigoberto Bogantes Vargas DOB: 09/02/1956 ID: [...]	2005-11-01 22:33:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KCRM KJUS CS KTLA
05SANJOSE2560	SAN JOSE ACTIVITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] On November 14, Post, in conjunction with Costa Rica's Binational Center, will host a "Study in the U.S. Symposium." This event will feature an introduction to International Education Week and its importance to the U.S. government by the CAO, a talk by the Binational Center's Educ [...]	2005-11-04 19:11:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP CS OEXC SCUL KPAO
05SANJOSE2565	HUMAN INTELLIGENCE THREAT REVIEW FOR U.S. EMBASSY [...] (S/NF) Per request in reftel, Charge chaired a meeting of the Counter Intelligence Working Group (CIWG) to review and discuss the Human Intelligence (HUMINT) threat level at Post. Attending the CIWG were Charge, A/DCM, RSO, DEA Country Attache, ODR Chief and SIMO Chief. CIWG agrees that the [...]	2005-11-04 19:23:00	Embassy San Jose	SECRET	ASEC
05SANJOSE2640	DEMARCHE RESPONSE - UN THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] Embassy delivered reftel talking points to Carlos Cordero, Deputy Chief for Multilateral Affairs, on November 8. In a follow-up conversation with Poloff on November 10, Cordero stated without reservation that Costa Rica would oppose any no-action motions raised with respect to the human rig [...]	2005-11-11 10:30:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL CS
05SANJOSE2641	DEMARCHE REQUEST - UN THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS, [...] Embassy delivered reftel talking points to Carlos Cordero, Deputy Chief for Multilateral Affairs, on November 8. In a follow-up conversation with Poloff on November 10, Cordero stated without reservation that Costa Rica would oppose any no-action motions raised with respect to the human rig [...]	2005-11-11 10:30:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL CS
05SANJOSE2642	HEALTH MINISTRY ORDERS ASSEMBLY TO COMPLY WITH [...] (U) Summary: The Health Ministry ordered the Legislative Assembly on November 7 to either make health and safety repairs in the buildings it occupies within the next two months or shut down various offices. President of the Legislative Assembly Gerardo Gonzalez reacted to the order by accusin [...]	2005-11-11 10:30:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ETRD CS
05SANJOSE2689	ANTI-CAFTA FORCES HEARTENED BY SUCCESSFUL PROTEST [...] On November 17, about 10,000 protesters participated in the first major demonstration to follow President Abel Pacheco's presentation of the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) to the Legislative Assembly. While the demonstration, organized by labor and stu [...]	2005-11-18 21:55:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ETRD PREL ELAB CS
05SANJOSE2692	SIGNIFICANT CRIMINAL INCIDENTS IN SAN JOSE [...] In the past several weeks, significant criminal acts have been committed near the Embassy or near areas where most Mission personnel live and work that merit reporting at this time. Following is a summary of recent events in San Jose: A. Armed robbery and shooting of Czech diplomat: On N [...]	2005-11-21 14:22:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC
05SANJOSE2717	COSTS OF NOT HAVING AN ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT ARE [...] (C) The GOCR, though not philosophically opposed to providing the United States with the protections contained in an Article 98 agreement, faces serious political and constitutional impediments, which have for the last two and a half years prevented an agreement from being concluded. Meanwhile [...]	2005-11-23 22:18:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS ETRD EAID CS KICC
05SANJOSE2718	COSTA RICA AND AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] The responses below key off reftel. A) PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION -- DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE A PREPAREDNESS PLAN/STRATEGY FOR PREVENTING AVIAN FLU FROM BECOMING A PANDEMIC AND CONTAINING A PANDEMIC ONCE IT OCCURS? IF THE COUNTRY HAS A STRATEGY, HOW CAPABLE IS IT OF IMPLEMENTING IT? PLEAS [...]	2005-11-23 22:37:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV EAGR EAID PREL CS
05SANJOSE2726	COSTA RICA MINI-DUBLIN GROUP REPORT [...] Summary, Post convened a mini-Dublin Group meeting on November 18, 2005 with representatives from the Embassies of Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The Spanish, French, and Canadian Embassies were unable to participate in the meeting but provided information related to their [...]	2005-11-25 17:12:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KJUS KCRM CS
05SANJOSE2751	Child Abduction Update- Kaitlyn Bravo [...] Summary. AmCit Kaitlyn Bravo was abducted in 2002 by her father and taken to Costa Rica. The father turned Kaitlyn over to a local caretaker, who now seeks legal custody. A Consular visit on 17 November was unsuccessful, and it appears the caretaker acted deliberately to deny access. The Con [...]	2005-12-01 19:01:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC CR
05SANJOSE2822	MODELING THE ELEPHANT: OECD/OAS GLOBAL FORUM ON [...] Summary: The OAS/OECD Global Forum on Trade session on Technical Assistance and Capacity Building for Trade and Environment was held in San Jose November 3-4. Panels addressed market access, needs and priorities, and other issues related to trade and environment capacity building. Common th [...]	2005-12-12 12:45:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ETRD EAID CS
05SANJOSE2850	SCENESETTER: CODEL BLUNT IN COSTA RICA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy San Jose warmly welcomes CODEL Blunt on its December 19 ) 20 visit to Costa Rica. The delegation's visit comes at a time when the main issue in the bilateral relationship is the Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). The debate [...]	2005-12-14 00:02:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN ECON ETRD CS
05SANJOSE2882	AMBASSADOR'S POST MEMORANDUM: SAN JOSE [...] (C) Relations between the United States and Costa Rica are very friendly. Our countries share a strong commitment to democracy and human rights. Costa Rica is the longest continuous democracy in Latin America and serves as an important example of how a long-term commitment to democracy benef [...]	2005-12-16 23:52:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	ASIG AMGT CS
05SANJOSE2908	CODEL BLUNT URGES PROMPT RATIFICATION OF CAFTA-DR [...] (SBU) In a meeting with Costa Rican legislators on December 19, the members of CODEL Blunt delivered a two-fold message: the United States will not renegotiate CAFTA-DR on a bilateral basis with Costa Rica; and the benefits Costa Rica now receives under the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) wil [...]	2005-12-22 10:31:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL ETRD CS
05SANJOSE2930	PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OTTON SOLIS RUNNING AGAINST [...] (C) Presidential candidate Otton Solis told Ambassador that CAFTA-DR "would place Costa Rica in the hands of the multinationals." He said the treaty was one-sided, opening the Costa Rican market to U.S. industrial power, against which Costa Rica cannot hope to compete, and in return providing [...]	2005-12-27 19:38:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON CS
05SANJOSE488	COSTA RICA'S 2004 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) Following is Embassy San Jose's submission for the 2004 annual anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) report. Responses are keyed to sections outlined in reftel, with the first paragraph beginning at 18A. Post's POC for the report is Political Officer Janae Cooley. Telephone number: (506) 5 [...]	2005-02-28 18:38:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PGOV SMIG KWMN KFRD KCRM PREL ELAB ASEC CS
05SANSALVADOR2033	EL SALVADOR: WILLING GLOBAL PEACE OPS INITIATIVE (GPOI) PARTNER [...] (SBU) Reftel demarche was delivered to Foreign Minister by Ambassador and to Minister of Defense (MOD) by MILGP Commander on July 13. On July 14, Ambassador also hand delivered to FM, who is in Washington with Ambassador for the Saca/Bush meeting, a non-paper summarizing Ref B background on G [...]	2005-07-15 18:30:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR MASS PREL ES UNGA
05SANSALVADOR2038	A WARNING NOTE ON VIGILANTE JUSTICE [...] (SBU) Summary: Two men who murdered three gang members who had killed their brother are in jail awaiting trial, in what is one of the first cases of open vigilante justice in response to the current elevated murder rates in El Salvador. The men confessed to the murders, and will likely be fou [...]	2005-07-15 20:58:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KJUS PGOV ES
05SANSALVADOR2126	EL SALVADORS'S EVOLVING FOREIGN POLICY - ARAB [...] (C) Summary: Following a July 20 visit by Morocco's Health Minister, leading daily "La Prensa Grafica" led July 25 with a 3-page spread detailing El Salvador's evolving political strategy and rapprochement with the Middle East. The article discussed El Salvador's hopes of gaining an ECOSOC, o [...]	2005-07-27 20:35:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS MO QA BA ES UNGA
05SANSALVADOR2172	EL SALVADOR: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to Mario Rivera, MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs on July 29. As in previous conversations, Rivera stated that El Salvador is committed to increasing the effectiveness of the UN on Human Rights issues through reform of the system, and is in favor of a [...]	2005-08-01 20:41:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA
05SANSALVADOR2220	EL SALVADOR: GITMO DETAINEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-10 11:49:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAO PREL ES
05SANSALVADOR2282	SALVADORAN DEL. TO 60TH UNGA HLE AND DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to MFA Officer in Charge of UN Affairs Felix Ulloa and to UN Special Advisor to the Foreign Minister Ambassador Marisol Argueta de Bariles on August 15. Poloff emphasized the importance of the Fund and stated that even a minimal donation would carry politi [...]	2005-08-16 20:38:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA
05SANSALVADOR2333	EL SALVADOR: DIALOGUE WITH TAIWAN ON PRC ACTIVITIES [...] (C) This cable is in response to questions posed in reftel C. Embassy will reply to reftel B request for information on Chinese activities septel. 2. (C) El Salvador is one of the 26 countries that maintain diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Both to nurture this relationship and to conti [...]	2005-08-22 12:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	SECRET	PREL ECON ES CH TW
05SANSALVADOR2356	EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in July 2005. Unless otherwise indicated, all statistics refer to the month of July 2005. ------- ILEA ------- 2. (U) The International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) began the presentation of its six-week core program on July 25. Th [...]	2005-08-23 20:47:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ELAB PHUM SNAR KCRM KJUS ES INL
05SANSALVADOR2392	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAQ CONTINGENT, COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ VISIT WITH PRESIDENT SACA [...] (C) Summary: During an August 26 courtesy call on President Saca, the Ambassador praised Saca's commitment to the Iraq effort by sending a fifth Salvadoran contingent, announced that Commerce Secretary Gutierrez would be coming to El Salvador October 21-22, and offered Embassy assistance to the G [...]	2005-08-26 20:53:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KMCA EAID ES
05SANSALVADOR2416	HAITI ELECTORAL OBSERVATION REQUEST: GOES FOREIGN [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-30 11:45:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID HA ES
05SANSALVADOR2425	CHAVEZ SOCIAL CHARTER EVENT (EL SALVADOR) [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-30 21:23:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KSUM SOCI ES
05SANSALVADOR2426	CHINESE ACTIVITIES IN EL SALVADOR [...] (U) The following is provided in response to Ref. B. Summary ------- 2. (C) El Salvador does not have diplomatic relations with China and instead has ties with Taiwan. As a result, official Salvadoran contact with the Chinese is limited. Trade and investment volumes are very low. However, [...]	2005-08-30 21:26:00	Embassy San Salvador	SECRET	ECON PREL ETRD ETTC EINV ENRG EAGR EFIN PHUM EMIN CH ES ESENV
05SANSALVADOR2429	SCENESETTER FOR ACTING U/S BEARDSWORTH VISIT TO EL [...] (SBU) Acting Under Secretary Beardsworth, I look forward to your delegation's visit to El Salvador from September 1 to 3 to meet with Salvadoran officials and attend the inaugural graduation of the ILEA. The following background information may be useful for your preparations. ------------ [...]	2005-08-31 17:08:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ES PGOV PREL
05SANSALVADOR2464	EL SALVADOR OFFERS SUPPORT IN HURRICANE KATRINA [...] During the Ambassador's and DCM's August 31 meeting with Foreign Minister Lainez, President Saca phoned to express his sympathy and solidarity, and to offer whatever assistance possible to the USG and/or affected states. Saca indicated that he would send letters the following day to President [...]	2005-09-06 21:05:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR EAID ES PGOV PREL US HURRICANE KATRINA
05SANSALVADOR2475	ACTING DHS U/S BEARDSWORTH MEETS WITH GOES [...] (C) Summary: On September 2, Acting DHS U/S Beardsworth and Minister of Governance Rene Figueroa met to discuss border and migration issues. The meeting focused on violent (mostly gang members) and non-violent (mostly immigration violators) deportees. GOES officials demanded more background [...]	2005-09-07 15:02:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PREL PTER SOCI KCRM KJUS ES
05SANSALVADOR2507	EL SALVADOR: SIX MONTHS FROM ELECTIONS, ARENA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six months away from March 12, 2006 municipal and Legislative Assembly elections and fifteen months into his five-year term, President Saca continues to enjoy high approval ratings unprecedented in El Salvador's postwar history. Recent polls rate Saca highest in infrastructure- [...]	2005-09-09 15:31:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PREL ELECTIONS
05SANSALVADOR2539	POST'S NOMINATIONS OF POLICE OFFICERS TO ATTEND [...] (U) Per Reftel, Post nominates the following Salvadoran police officers to attend ILEA course Tactical Safety and Survival Seminar at Laguna El Pino, Guatemala, from October 3 to 7, 2005. All officers have the rank of Agent (equivalent to corporal),are members of the Salvadoran Anti-Narcotic [...]	2005-09-13 18:47:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR ES INL
05SANSALVADOR2549	FINANCE VICE MINISTER SHARES U.S. VIEW ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-14 20:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN ES UNGA
05SANSALVADOR2635	EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in August 2005. Unless otherwise indicated, all statistics refer to the month of August 2005. ------- ILEA ------- 2. (U) On September 2, the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) concluded the presentation of its six-week cor [...]	2005-09-22 20:44:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ELAB PHUM SNAR KCRM KJUS ES INL
05SANSALVADOR2661	EL SALVADOR DECLINES REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE OF CERTAIN DETAINEES FROM GUANTANAMO [...] (C) After repeated Embassy attempts at various MFA levels, El Salvador replied on September 23 regarding the resettlement of the Uighur detainees from Guantanamo. The MFA officially replied that "at this time, it will not be possible to help with the referenced request". Butler [...]	2005-09-23 22:46:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PREL PHUM PREF PTER KAWC PINR
05SANSALVADOR2728	EL SALVADOR: NOMINATIONS TO ATTEND SESSION 40 AT [...] (U) Per Reftel, Embassy San Salvador nominates the following 14 police officers to attend session 40 of the Advanced Management Course presented at ILEA Roswell from October 31 to November 18, 2005. All nominees have been vetted locally. Post requests that INL and WHA also vet in accordance [...]	2005-10-04 18:39:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAID KCRM SNAR KJUS INL
05SANSALVADOR2771	GOES, EMBASSY HOLD FIRST DEPORTATION WORKING GROUP [...] (C) On October 6, the joint Embassy-GOES Working Group on Accelerated Deportations held its first meeting at the Ministry of Government (Gobernacion). The GOES delegation was headed by Vice-Government Minister Rodrigo Avila, and included MinGob Executive officer (and former Migration Directo [...]	2005-10-07 20:57:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SMIG ASEC ES
05SANSALVADOR2793	GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS VIDEO FOCUSES GOES ATTENTION [...] (U) On October 12, Economic Counselor and Agricultural Specialist showed ref a video to representatives of the trade policy offices of the Ministries of Agriculture and Economy, of the National Registry Center (CNR),and of the National Science and Technology Committee (CONACYT). Embassy staf [...]	2005-10-12 22:11:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD KIPR ES WTO
05SANSALVADOR2795	EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in September 2005. Unless otherwise indicated, all statistics refer to the month of September 2005. ------- ILEA ------- 2. (U) On September 20, Ambassador Barclay and Governance Minister Figueroa signed a bilateral agreement to estab [...]	2005-10-13 16:27:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ELAB PHUM SNAR KCRM KJUS ES INL
05SANSALVADOR2796	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATING OFFICER (TFCO) AND ACTION PLAN [...] Post is pleased to provide the following information, keyed to Ref. A requests, on coordination of efforts to combat terrorism financing: a. TFCO: Jessica Webster, Economic Counselor, 503-2501-2050, websterjm@state.gov; b. Deputy TFCO: David Krzywda, Economic Officer, 503-2501-2050, krzyw [...]	2005-10-13 16:39:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KTFN KVPR EFIN ETTC PREL ES
05SANSALVADOR2811	EL SALVADOR HOMICIDES EQUAL 2004 FIGURES/ FINGER POINTING AMONG JUSTICE SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: On October 14, the Salvadoran National Police released its September monthly homicide report, reflecting that El Salvador had, through the first nine months of this year, nearly equaled total homicide figures for 2004. The report also reflected that September was the second most viole [...]	2005-10-14 21:11:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR EL
05SANSALVADOR2818	MESSAGE FROM AMBASSADOR BARCLAY TO SECRETARY [...] (U) I am looking forward to your visit to El Salvador. Your pivotal role in securing U.S. Congressional approval of CAFTA-DR gives your visit a special significance; the Embassy and the Government of El Salvador also recognize that your making Central America the destination of your first overs [...]	2005-10-17 13:25:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD PREL OVIP ES
05SANSALVADOR2878	EL SALVADOR'S NOMINATIONS TO ATTEND ILEA CRIME SCENE MANAGEMENT TRAINING FROM NOV 14 TO 18, 2005 [...] (U) Per Reftel, Post nominates the following Salvadoran police officers to attend ILEA course Crime Scene Management and Kidnapping in El Salvador from November 14 to 18, 2005. All nominated officers were born in El Salvador. SubInp. XXXXXXXXXXXX DOB: 2/15/1972 POB: La Libertad SubInp. XXX [...]	2005-10-21 20:04:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KJUS ES KTLA INL
05SANSALVADOR2904	SECOND DEPORTATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING: [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 21, the joint Embassy-GOES Deportations Working Group met to review issues to be raised by a GOES delegation traveling to Washington to discuss accelerated deportations the week of October 24. The delegation will consist of Governance Vice-Minister Rodrigo Avila, Vice [...]	2005-10-25 15:06:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREF PREL PTER KCRM KJUS ES
05SANSALVADOR2913	AMBASSADOR SEEKS SALVADORAN SUPPORT FOR USG SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez on October 24 to enlist Salvadoran support for concluding an acceptable draft Declaration and Plan of Action for the Summit of the Americas. Ambassador also expressed disappointment over El Salvador's support for the Salaman [...]	2005-10-26 14:55:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV KSUM CU ES
05SANSALVADOR2930	EL SALVADOR'S COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, A WEAK [...] (C) Summary: El Salvador's supreme audit institution is the Comptroller,s Office (Corte de Cuentas). It is a nominally-independent body charged with reviewing fiscal spending by the public sector, and has been at the center of recent political scandals. The National Conciliation Party (PCN [...]	2005-10-27 20:12:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR ES
05SANSALVADOR2951	2005 El Salvador CBI Report for USTR [...] In response to reftel, please see the following Embassy El Salvador report for USTR on El Salvador's compliance with requirements under the Caribbean Basin Initiative. ----------------------------- Commitment to WTO Obligations ----------------------------- 2. El Salvador has committed [...]	2005-10-31 17:06:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD ES
05SANSALVADOR2964	AMBASSADOR RAISES SUMMIT, ETHICS DECREE, FDR [...] (C) Summary: On October 31, the Ambassador met with President Saca to review GOES support at the upcoming Summit of the Americas, the controversy regarding certification of the moderate left FDR Party, rumors of a new government ethics decree, and Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez recent visit [...]	2005-11-01 18:04:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KSUM KCOR EINV ETRD ES
05SANSALVADOR3034	SALVADORAN FOMIN DEBRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON SUMMIT [...] (C) On November 7, Salvadoran Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez (protect) briefed the Ambassador on events surrounding the Mar del Plata summit. According to Lainez, the Argentine government was prejudiced against the U.S. from the outset, and proof positive was that the GOA allowed Hugo Chave [...]	2005-11-08 22:59:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KSUM ES UNSC UNGA
05SANSALVADOR3222	SAN SALVADOR'S CLO REPORT FOR THE PERIOD OF [...] Co-CLO Coordinator Monique Reyes FP-6 and other Co-CLO position is currently vacant recruitment is in process; 25 hours per week each. 2. Additional staff: Part-time CLO Assistant Milagros Root FP-9, 20 hours per week. 3. Post Profile A. Agencies served: State (Public Diplomacy, H [...]	2005-11-15 19:25:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLO AMGT ES
05SANSALVADOR3224	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - TIP TIER 2 ACTION PLAN [...] (U) On November 9, 2005, PolOff delivered Reftel talking points to Jorge Santibanez, Director of Migration. Santibanez acknowledged the diffencies, and expressed a real desire to address them. He also noted that his government lacked the financial and manpower resources to fully implement all [...]	2005-11-15 20:16:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG ES
05SANSALVADOR3283	SECURING US BORDERS AGAINST SALVADORAN GANGS: [...] SUMMARY: Travel to the United States is now more difficult for members of Salvadoran-based gangs. Since June 2005, when the Departments of State and Homeland Security agreed that INA 212(a)(3)(A)(ii) renders members of Salvadoran street gangs ineligible for a visa, Post successfully used th [...]	2005-11-22 19:41:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KFRD PREL SNAR PTER KCRM SOCI KHLS PINS ES
05SANSALVADOR3285	DRAFT 2006 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Per reftel, following is Embassy San Salvador's submission for the 2006 National Trade Estimate Report. 2. Begin Text. EL SALVADOR TRADE SUMMARY [Note: This section to be prepared in Washington. End note.] IMPORT POLICIES Free Trade Agreement The United States concluded free [...]	2005-11-22 22:44:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN ES CAFTA
05SANSALVADOR3298	SCENESETTER FOR U/S HUGHES, VISIT TO EL SALVADOR, [...] Embassy San Salvador extends a warm welcome to you and your party on December 6, 2005. We expect your visit will underscore the U.S. commitment to the people of El Salvador in assisting their recovery from Hurricane Stan and the eruption of the Santa Ana volcano in early October. Combined, the [...]	2005-11-23 21:39:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO EAID PREL ECON ES OVIP
05SANSALVADOR3431	2005 INFLUENCE ANALYSIS: EL SALVADOR [...] SUMMARY: Given its relatively small size (6.7 million people in an area smaller than New Jersey),El Salvador has a relatively rich media environment and a fairly well- defined number of "players" jockeying for power and influence. Though their combined circulation is scarcely 300,000, newspa [...]	2005-12-07 22:21:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OIIP PREL ES
05SANSALVADOR3459	FY-2006 Consular Package Narrative for San [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-09 22:23:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT CVIS CASC KFRD AFSI ASIG ES
05SANSALVADOR3479	EL SALVADOR: INL MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR [...] (U) The following summarizes Embassy INL activities in November 2005. Unless otherwise indicated, all statistics refer to the month of November 2005. ------- ILEA ------- 2. (U) From November 14 to 18, FBI instructors taught Crime Scene Management techniques to 12 police officers each [...]	2005-12-15 13:40:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM KJUS ES INL
05SANSALVADOR3480	EL SALVADOR: 2005 TERRORISM REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-15 13:43:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN AA KHLS KPAO ES
05SANSALVADOR3485	OIG INSPECTION OF EMBASSY SAN SALVADOR - [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-15 15:28:00	Embassy San Salvador	SECRET	AMGT ASIG BBG
05SANSALVADOR3491	EL SALVADOR: FIRST DRAFT OF 2006 INCSR PART I [...] (U) Per Reftel, the following is Post's first draft of the 2006 INCSR Part I. Year-end statistics for CY-2005 are not yet available. Post will add these statistics in January 2006 and retransmit this report. Text follows. 2. (U) El Salvador I. Summary El Salvador is a transit count [...]	2005-12-15 19:15:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV PINR PINS PREL KCRM KJUS ES
05SANSALVADOR3567	CODEL BLUNT URGES PRESIDENT SACA TO RESOLVE [...] Summary: In a positive December 20 meeting with President Saca, a congressional delegation headed by Acting Majority Leader Roy Blunt (R-MO) acknowledged the efforts of the Salvadoran government in getting ready for CAFTA-DR implementation by January 1, and urged the President to resolve ou [...]	2005-12-23 20:15:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PREL ETRD ECON ES CAFTA
05SANTIAGO100	AMBASSADOR EXPLORES LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENDA WITH GOC [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador explored post's law enforcement agenda with Chile's Head of Intelligence and Chiefs of the uniformed police force and investigative police force on January 6. GOC authorities maintained that terrorist activity, including terrorism financing, is hard to confirm in Chile, [...]	2005-01-14 16:24:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PTER PHUM PREL CI
05SANTIAGO1044	CHILE'S PARTICIPATION IN TWO MAY 2005 APEC WORKING [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-12 13:31:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS OTRA CI
05SANTIAGO1057	CHILE SUPPORTS US APEC INITIATIVES ON NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) EconOff met yesterday with German King, Director, and Graciela Fernandez, Deputy Director, of the APEC Department of the Directorate of International Economic Relations (DIRECON) to discuss the GOC position on the APEC Radioactive Sources Initiative. King reiterated Chile's support for [...]	2005-05-13 16:31:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ETTC KSTC ETRD ECIN PARM CI APEC IAEA
05SANTIAGO1412	CHILE: 2005 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTE AND [...] This message transmits Post submission for the 2005 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims. 2. Embassy is not aware of any on-going investment dispute, involving U.S. citizens or corporations and the GOC, that meets the criteria outlined in Ref A. KELLY [...]	2005-06-29 12:31:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN CASC KIDE CI OPIC
05SANTIAGO1539	VICE-PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA'S "TELESUR" SPEAKS [...] (U) Summary: The executive vice-president of Venezuelan-Latin American TV Channel "Telesur," Aram Aharonian, visited Chile July 8-11 to promote Venezuela's regional TV project. Aharonian met with Minister-level government spokesman Osvaldo Puccio on July 8, and spoke to an audience of over 1 [...]	2005-07-15 20:46:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC PREL KMDR KPAO CI VE AR BR PE UY
05SANTIAGO1551	CHILE AND PERU RENEW "2 PLUS 2" TALKS [...] (SBU) On July 6 Chilean and Peruvian Defense and Foreign Ministers met for the second time in the "2 plus 2" process meant to build mutual confidence and military cooperation between the two countries. Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo was visibly supportive of the process, receiving the f [...]	2005-07-19 15:55:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PBTS PE CI
05SANTIAGO1677	MFA LEGAL ADVISOR ON PROSPECTS FOR LONG-TERM SOFA [...] (C) On August 4, E/POL Counselor spoke one-on-one with Foreign Ministry Legal Advisor Claudio Troncoso to follow up on our request for a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA),and to explore whether the GOC was ready to discuss specifics. Troncoso reiterated cautions we had heard before from MFA: a [...]	2005-08-09 17:56:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL CI SOFA
05SANTIAGO1678	CHILE TO SUPPORT BUERGENTHAL CANDIDACY FOR ICJ [...] On August 8, Embassy received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advising that Chile would support Thomas Buergenthal's candidacy for the International Court of Justice. Paragraph two contains an informal translation of the Note. 2. Begin text: REPUBLIC OF CHILE Min [...]	2005-08-09 21:01:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	CI UNSC UNGA
05SANTIAGO1679	OAS SPOKEPERSONS CONFERENCE [...] Summary: Action request in para 4. Embassy's information officer attended a meeting at the La Moneda Presidential Palace for a briefing on the August 17-18 seminar for OAS Spokespersons. The GOC delivered a draft schedule and requested the names of each country's participants by Friday, Aug [...]	2005-08-09 22:07:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PHUM KPAO CI
05SANTIAGO1686	CHILE'S MUSLIM COMMUNITY [...] (S) Chile's Muslim community is fractured and comprises less than one half of one percent of the country's population. The Palestinian community is relatively large (estimated at 350,000),mostly Christian, and fully assimilated. The small size of Chile,s Muslim community, together with its appar [...]	2005-08-10 18:06:00	Embassy Santiago	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV CI
05SANTIAGO1794	CHILE: INCREASING TIES WITH CHINA [...] (S/NF) Summary: Chile is trying to position itself as the business platform for Latin America. It is using China's interest in stable suppliers -- primarily for copper -- to increase ties with its second largest bilateral trading partner after the U.S. and with the Pacific Basin as a whole. Chile [...]	2005-08-29 11:29:00	Embassy Santiago	SECRET//NOFORN	EAGR ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD ETTC PHUM PREL SENV CH
05SANTIAGO1885	IN COMPLIANCE DIPLOMACY VISIT, A/S OF VERIFICATION [...] (SBU) Summary: As part of the ongoing Compliance Diplomacy initiative, A/S of Verification and Compliance (VC) Paula A. DeSutter emphasized the importance of Chile as a strategic partner with the capacity to influence key organizations and countries on current topics in arms control and nonpr [...]	2005-09-13 13:52:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PINR PINS PREL KNNP CI
05SANTIAGO1886	A/S GLASER TALKS MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST [...] (C) Summary: Department of Treasury A/S Glaser and a five-member delegation met with key Chilean counterparts in the financial sector to discuss terrorist finance and money laundering. A/S Glaser noted during his meetings that while Chile is a few steps ahead of its regional neighbors, Chile's [...]	2005-09-13 14:27:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV EFIN PTER CI TERRORISM
05SANTIAGO2042	TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] Per reftel, Embassy's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is Deputy Chief of Mission Emi Lynn Yamauchi (56-2-330-3337; YamauchiEmichan@state.gov; YamauchiEL@state.sgov.gov) and Deputy TFCO is EPOL Officer Stephanie Acosta-Mikulasek (56-2-330-3394; AcostaMSM@state.gov; MikulasekS@stat [...]	2005-10-05 13:04:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN PTER KVPR EFIN ETTC PREL CI
05SANTIAGO2131	CHILE: INCREASE IN RESIDENTIAL CRIME & ACTION REQUEST [...] SUMMARY. There has been a significant increase in residential crime and burglaries within the last 10 months in Santiago's metropolitan area. The Embassy leases or owns 45 residences in Lo Barnechea and La Dehesa. These are popular suburbs close to the American School and above Santiago's [...]	2005-10-18 20:35:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC ABLD CI
05SANTIAGO2271	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HARRY PONTING AND [...] Embassy Santiago welcomes and grants country clearance to Harry Ponting, RM/IRP, and Robert Sutter, Net-Centric Project, Embassy Asuncion, to travel to Chile from November 13-23, 2005 to assist in implementing Post's Net-Centric Diplomacy (NCD) biographic files project. Contact point for you [...]	2005-11-04 14:55:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	AINF PGOV PINR OTRA CI
05SANTIAGO2323	CHILE'S ELECTIONS: BACHELET SLIP IN POLLS [...] (C) Summary: Concertacion presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet's recent slip in the polls to 40 percent increases the likelihood that no candidate will win more than 50 percent on December 11 and a run-off election will be required. Bachelet's two main rivals -- the Independent Democratic Unio [...]	2005-11-14 21:13:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CI
05SANTIAGO2324	INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION CANDIDACY [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche November 14 to Ximena Verdugo at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Multilateral Candidacies office. Verduga said that Chile's votes at the IMO are coordinated through Veronica Rocha at the Chilean Embassy in London. Verdugo noted it should be possible to arr [...]	2005-11-15 10:22:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT PHSA KTIA AORC US CI IMO
05SANTIAGO2331	CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PRESIDENT ENVISIONS PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: Newly appointed Constitutional Court President Jose Luis Cea Egana called on the Ambassador on November 9. Cea expressed deep admiration and affection for the U.S. and said he would like to explore ways the Constitutional Court could work with the Embassy to promote democracy, f [...]	2005-11-15 20:54:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS SCUL KBIO ETRD MARR CI
05SANTIAGO2339	Santiago Grants Country Clearance for Donald D. [...] Embassy Santiago welcomes and grants country clearance for Donald D. Dossa, Department of Energy (DOE),National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA),from 12/01/2005 through 12/06/2005 as requested in reftel. The visit's purpose as is to examine current computing capabilities and evaluate [...]	2005-11-16 18:23:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER ENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA CI

05SANTIAGO2340	Santiago Grants Country Clearance for Dr. Mark [...] Embassy Santiago welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Mark Edward Huber, Co-Investigator, Department of Energy (DOE),National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA),from 11/24/2005 through 12/10/2005 as requested in reftel. The visit's purpose is to be part of the Supermacho Proje [...]	2005-11-16 18:28:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER ENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA CI
05SANTIAGO2350	MISSION PROMOTION OF IPR PROTECTION IN CHILE [...] (SBU) Summary. One of the Mission's top priorities in 2005 has been to focus attention in Chile on the continuing failure to implement full protection of intellectual property. The overall U.S.-Chile relationship, including the bilateral trade relationship, is better than ever, and the U.S.- [...]	2005-11-16 20:15:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV KIPR CI
05SANTIAGO2355	Santiago Grants Country Clearance to Graciano [...] Embassy Santiago welcomes and grants country clearance for Department of Treasury Financial Enforcement Intermittent Advisor, Graciano Velez, from 11/27/2005 through 12/02/2005 as requested in reftel. The visit's purpose is to update the 2003 assessment report and work plan and to discuss its [...]	2005-11-17 10:25:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER EFIN OTRA CI
05SANTIAGO2356	Santiago Grants Country Clearance to Charles A. [...] Embassy Santiago welcomes and grants country clearance for Department of Treasury advisors, Charles A. Correa, Manuel Godinez and Neil C. Rhoades, from 11/27/2005 through 12/03/2005 as requested in reftel. The visit's purpose is to update the 2003 assessment report and work plan and to discus [...]	2005-11-17 10:25:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER EFIN OTRA CI
05SANTIAGO2360	Santiago Grants Country Clearance to Laiza [...] Embassy Santiago welcomes and grants country clearance for Laiza Casas, Program Officer for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),from 12/07/2005 through 12/11/2005 as requested in reftel. The visit's purpose as reported in reftel is to review the counterna [...]	2005-11-17 14:59:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER SNAR OTRA CI
05SANTIAGO2368	CHILE'S ELECTIONS: FINAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE [...] (C) Summary: Chile's four presidential candidates participated in an uneventful and final televised debate on November 17, one day after the release of a poll showing that support for Concertacion candidate and front-runner Michelle Bachelet has dropped below 40 percent. National Renewal (RN) [...]	2005-11-17 20:39:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI EAID CI PE
05SANTIAGO2393	CHILE: PART I - AGRICULTURAL SECTOR PREPARATIONS [...] Summary: This cable outlines preparations in Chile's agricultural sector. An evaluation of the Chilean public health sector preparations with be reported septel. 2. Chile has experience with avian influenza (AI) issues due to a 2002 outbreak of the disease. The GOC demonstrated transparen [...]	2005-11-23 18:19:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON PREL SENV TBIO CI
05SANTIAGO2405	Santiago Grants Country Clearance for Claudia [...] Embassy Santiago welcomes and grants country clearance for Caludia Hosch, Environment Protection Agency Official, from 11/27/05 through 12/01/05 as requested in reftel. The visit's purpose is to attend a seminar, Elaboracion de una Estrategia Para el Desarrollo de las Exportaciones de Carne [...]	2005-11-25 18:36:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER KSCA OTRA TPHY EPA CI
05SANTIAGO2408	PROMOTION OF ENGLISH IN CHILE: ACHIEVEMENTS AND [...] Summary: Over the past two years, Embassy Santiago has made a substantial contribution to the advancement of English teaching in Chile. PA has initiated and implemented a variety of projects with the assistance of the Office of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and the Office of Interna [...]	2005-11-25 21:52:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC KPAO OIIP CI ESLCO
05SANTIAGO2423	AVIAN INFLUENZA - SANTIAGO, UPDATE ON SEC FOR USMC [...] SUMMARY: The DCM convened a meeting of the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at Embassy Santiago on 11/22/05 to discuss the Avian Influenza Trip wires for Chile. The EAC also reviewed final security preparations for the 230th USMC BAll. The meeting was chaired by the DCM with AMB, RAO, E/POL [...]	2005-11-28 15:53:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAGR EAID PREL SENV TBIO AVIAN FLU
05SANTIAGO2476	MDA: DEMARCHE TO VOTE YES [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-07 21:34:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC ICRC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ CI
05SANTIAGO2482	CHILE: 2005 INCSR PART I: NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Below is "Part I: "Drugs and Chemical Control" of the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) for Chile. Per instructions, Part II will be sent septel. I. Summary 2. While not a center of illicit narcotics production, Chile remains a transit country for cocaine and heroi [...]	2005-12-09 16:46:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CI
05SANTIAGO2494	Santiago Grants Country Clearance for Dr. Lee [...] Embassy Santiago welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Lee Eiden, Chief, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Regulation, National Institute of Mental Health, (NIH) and Dr. Peng Y. Loh, Senior Investigator, Doctor, NIH, from 01/6/2006 through 01/16/2006 as requested in reftel. The vi [...]	2005-12-12 19:28:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER KSCA TBIO OTRA CI
05SANTIAGO250	CHILE INSCR 2004 REPORT: CORRECTED COPY [...] The second section of the INSCR 2004 report was inadvertently excluded in the first submission. Please find this section at the end of the previously submitted INSCR 2004 report below. -------------------------------------------- Section I: International Crime and Narcotics --------------- [...]	2005-02-02 17:17:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CI
05SANTIAGO2522	CHILE: 2005 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Below is the 2005 Country Report on Terrorism for Chile. Embassy point of contact is Stephanie Acosta-Mikulasek (acostamsm@state.gov; mikulaseks@state.sgov.gov; 56-2-330-3394). GENERAL ASSESSMENT 2. The Government of Chile generally supports U.S. counterterrorism efforts. They have ta [...]	2005-12-16 20:13:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL PGOV ASEC CI
05SANTIAGO2539	CONSUL GENERAL'S MEETING WITH JUDGE INVESTIGATING [...] (U) The Consul General met December 19 with Judge Jorge Zepeda to discuss the investigation of the 1985 disappearance of American citizen Boris Weisfeiler, which is part of a broader investigation of human rights abuses and other criminal conduct at the German religious colony formerly known a [...]	2005-12-20 20:44:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC PHUM CI
05SANTIAGO2540	INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, CRIMINAL [...] In a December 19 meeting with Consul General to discuss the investigation of the 1985 disappearance of U.S. citizen Boris Weisfeiler, Judge Jorge Zepeda shared information about the broader aspects of his investigation of human rights abuses and criminal activity at the German religous colony [...]	2005-12-20 20:52:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PHUM CI
05SANTIAGO2559	AMBASSADOR RAISES ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL [...] The Ambassador raised the U.S. proposal that the U.S. and Chile conclude an exchange of diplomatic notes to cover Calendar Year 2006 military exercises with Deputy Foreign Ministry Cristian Barros on December 21. The Ambassador advised Barros that the Embassy had delivered a diplomatic note o [...]	2005-12-22 16:13:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL KTIA MOPS CI
05SANTIAGO2574	AMBASSADOR REITERATES USG REQUEST FOR CHILE TO [...] (C) The Ambassador reiterated the USG request (refs b-c) to resettle in Chile protected migrants from the Guantanamo Naval Base during a December 23meeting with Foreign Minister Walker. The Ambassador noted the Embassy had conveyed the requests to the Foreign Ministry in May (ref d) and again [...]	2005-12-27 14:36:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SMIG CU CI
05SANTIAGO2588	BLUE MARLIN AND SBX-1 TRANSIT UNEVENTFUL, CHILE [...] The Blue Marlin, carrying the SBX-1 radar array (ref D),cleared Chilean waters the morning of December 18. The passage was uneventful and occasioned no press coverage. On December 17, as it passed the Chilean port of Punta Arenas, the vessel offloaded the body of a Blue Marlin crewmember wh [...]	2005-12-29 11:30:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS PREL PHSA CI
05SANTIAGO2590	CHILE: POST TRIPWIRES FOR AVIAN FLU [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Santiago continues to develop preparedness measures against avian influenza (AI) through the Emergency Action Committee, chaired by the DCM and composed of the AMB, RAO, EPOL, RSO, DAO, MILGRP, DEA, LEGATT, APHIS, PAO, FCS, CONS, MGT and MSG. This plan includes a desc [...]	2005-12-29 13:17:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR CI
05SANTIAGO581	CHILE: 2004 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] An accounting of existing USG-supplied monitorable support provided under the International Narcotics Control Program as required by reftel is provided in paragraph 5. 2. Resources: In FY 2003 and FY 2004, Post did not receive any INL funding. Post has utilized the available remaining fu [...]	2005-03-16 20:46:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AFIN CI
05SANTIAGO615	INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION AND OUTREACH ON [...] In response to Reftel, Post submits the following information regarding maritime security and coordination. 2. Maritime security issues are handled by Economic Officer Stephanie Acosta-Mikulasek (tel: 56-2-330-3394). Depending on the maritime issue, other agencies at the embassy are ofte [...]	2005-03-21 20:53:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KSTC EWWT ECON ETRD PARM PHSA PREL PTER
05SANTODOMINGO1060	CSW AND WOMEN'S ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT: DOMINICAN [...] Embassy delivered reftel demarche and draft resolution to the Dominican Republic's MFA February 24. MFA director for women's and children's issues Luisa "Chiqui" Vicioso offered the following written comments on the U.S. draft CSW resolution on women's economic advancement (informal translati [...]	2005-02-28 14:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN EAID DR
05SANTODOMINGO1120	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ REPORTS TO THE NATION [...] In the traditional national day speech to the Dominican Congress President Leonel Fernandez claimed credit for successful economic stabilization in his first six months in office and sought to present himself as a knowledgeable leader with a vision for modernization and reform. He did not touc [...]	2005-03-01 17:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EFIN ECON ETRD ENRG DR
05SANTODOMINGO1147	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT APPROVES PROVIDING STAFF [...] (C) On Tuesday, February 17 President Leonel Fernandez accepted a proposal from Armed Forces Minister Sigfrido Pared Perez to send Dominican officers to help staff operations in Iraq and to provide support for the Iraqi Area of Operations at Central Command in Tampa, Florida. There will be no [...]	2005-03-02 13:12:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR DR
05SANTODOMINGO1257	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: FIFTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] The following is Embassy,s response to the questions raised in reftel. 2. 2005 Dominican Republic Trafficking in Persons Report I. OVERVIEW OF EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS A. The Dominican Republic is a country of origin, transit and destination for trafficking [...]	2005-03-04 21:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB DR
05SANTODOMINGO1366	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: TAIWAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan Foreign Minister Tan-Sun Chen visited the Dominican Republic February 24-25 to shore up bilateral relations in response to several recent visits by PRC officials. President Fernandez announced that he would visit Taiwan in April, signalling that he intends to maintain r [...]	2005-03-09 20:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EINV DR CH TW HA
05SANTODOMINGO1367	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: CHILD MARRIAGE [...] The following is Embassy Santo Domingo's response to reftel. A. According to the National Council for Adolescents and Children (CONANI),the agency charged with the protection of children, the legal age of marriage in the Dominican Republic is 18. Adolescents (defined as those between the [...]	2005-03-09 20:07:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM DR
05SANTODOMINGO1487	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CANDIDATE FOR OAS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] On March 8, Embassy received diplomatic note No. 5715 indicating that the Government of the Dominican Republic will present MFA Ambassador for Human Rights Rhadys Abreu de Polanco as a candidate for membership on the Interamerican Comission for Human Rights at the OAS. She will be a candidate [...]	2005-03-15 18:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM DR
05SANTODOMINGO1507	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC LISTENS ON UNCHR 61 AND DRAFT [...] (SBU) Poloffs delivered reftel A and B talking points and draft Cuba resolution to MFA Ambassador for UN/OAS Affairs Michelle Cohen and Counselor Johanna Calderon on March 15. Cohen said that the Dominican Republic "has not yet arrived at a position on these issues." According to Cohen, the D [...]	2005-03-16 15:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM CU DR
05SANTODOMINGO1557	DOMINICAN POLITICS #16: MEJIA'S FUTURE IN THE PRD [...] (SBU) This is # 16 in our current series on politics in the Dominican Republic: MEJIA'S FUTURE IN THE PRD Former President Meja last month declared the post-inaugural truce to be over, blasted President Fernndez,s economic policies, and called on his opposition PRD to take a more aggress [...]	2005-03-17 22:10:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
05SANTODOMINGO1558	HCOC - ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES TO [...] (SBU) Embassy officers delivered paras 4-7 reftel as a non-paper, as well as a Department-provided Spanish translation of the HCOC text, to MFA UN/OAS division director Michelle Cohen on March 15. 2. (SBU) She informed us that the Dominican Republic was considering subscribing to the Hague [...]	2005-03-17 22:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA DR
05SANTODOMINGO1559	U.S. EFFORTS TO SUPPORT EU-3 DIPLOMACY ON IRAN: [...] Embassy officers on March 15 delivered points and press release (paras 2-3 reftel) as a non-paper to MFA UN/OAS division director Michelle Cohen, and briefly explained the main points. She thanked us for the information and undertook to share it with her security affairs section and Middle E [...]	2005-03-18 12:11:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO IR DR
05SANTODOMINGO1570	DOMINICAN CONGRESS AND SUPREME COURT PUNISH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The ongoing battle against corruption in the Dominican Republic saw two important victories as Congress stripped the Constitutional immunity of convicted alien smuggler Guillermo Radhames Ramos Garcia and the Supreme Court rid the judiciary of two discredited judges, one of who [...]	2005-03-19 18:13:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KJUS KCOR PGOV SNAR DR
05SANTODOMINGO1603	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC--TERRORISM FINANCE: 2005 UPDATE [...] (U) The Dominican Republic has not frozen or seized any assets under UNSCR Resolutions 1267 and 1373. 2. (C) The Superintendent of Banks heads the government,s efforts to ensure that searches of banks are conducted in a timely manner. However, weak information systems and the high degree o [...]	2005-03-22 13:35:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO1778	DISASTER DECLARATION FOR DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] THE AMBASSADOR HAS DETERMINED THAT DAMAGE CAUSED TO GROUND COVER AS A RESULT OF WILD FIRES THAT AFFECTED THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN RANGE OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, IS OF SUFFICIENT MAGNITUDE TO WARRANT USG ASSISTANCE. THE CHIEF OF MISSION IS THEREFORE EXERCISING THE DISASTER ASSISTANCE AUTHORITY, [...]	2005-04-01 12:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT EAID DR SENV PGOV SOCI
05SANTODOMINGO1801	DOMINICAN POLITICS # 17: HELICOPTERS, FOREST [...] (SBU) This is #17 in our current series on politics in the Dominican Republic: HELICOPTERS, FOREST FIRES, HELP FROM ABROAD With forest fires continuing to burn along the mountaintops in the Dominican Republic, Hugo Chavez has won a lot of Dominican good will with his dramatic and largely u [...]	2005-04-01 21:33:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR DR
05SANTODOMINGO1833	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: CHILD MARRIAGE -- CORRECTED [...] The following is Embassy Santo Domingo's response to reftel. A. According to the Dominican Civil Code and associated legislation, both boys and girls can marry freely at the age of 18. Boys can marry at age 16 and and girls can marry at age 15 with the consent of the child's parents, survi [...]	2005-04-04 20:21:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM DR
05SANTODOMINGO1834	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: CHILD MARRIAGE -- CORRECTED [...] The following is Embassy Santo Domingo's response to reftel. A. According to the Dominican Civil Code and associated legislation, both boys and girls can marry freely at the age of 18. Boys can marry at age 16 and and girls can marry at age 15 with the consent of the child's parents, survi [...]	2005-04-04 20:44:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM DR
05SANTODOMINGO1836	DOMINICAN POLITICS #18: EMBASSY PUTS CAFTA-DR [...] (SBU) This is #18 in our current series on politics in the Dominican Republic: EMBASSY PUTS CAFTA-DR DEBATE CENTER STAGE WITH CHILEAN NEOGOTIATOR The Ambassador, USAID, and EcoPol arranged the three-day visit to the Dominican Republic of Amb. Osvaldo Rosales, currently Director of the Tra [...]	2005-04-04 21:33:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD DR
05SANTODOMINGO1861	CAFTA: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DELIVERS QUARTERLY [...] On April 4 the Dominican Minister of Industry and Commerce signed off on the January 2005 report on enforcement measures against broadcast piracy agreed in the side letter to the regional free trade agreement (CAFTA) and his staff delivered the text to the Embassy on April 5. Embassy is faxi [...]	2005-04-05 20:22:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ETRD KIPR
05SANTODOMINGO1897	DOMINICAN RESPONSE ON WIPO APRIL 11-13 SESSION ON [...] Head of the Dominican Intellectual Property Office Enrique Ramrez told EcoPol Counselor on April 6 that he had attended the WIPO General Assembly last October and voted with others, including the United States, to discuss the Brazilian and Arlgentine proposals, for which the Dominican Republi [...]	2005-04-06 20:51:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EAID ETRD KIPR
05SANTODOMINGO1971	NEW DOMINICAN EXTRADITION PROCESS RETURNS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Two fugitives have been returned to the United States under the new Dominican extradition process. The Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court issued lengthy opinions in both cases, setting non-binding but advisory precedents that bode well for future extradition cases. Additionally [...]	2005-04-08 20:00:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN KCRM SNAR KJUS PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO1999	DOMINICAN POLITICS #21: PROSPECTS FOR CAFTA [...] (SBU) Following is # 21 in our series on the politics of Leonel Fernandez's first year: Summary. The various players in the decision process for the CAFTA regional free trade agreement all know that ratification is necessary as soon as the U. S. Congress approves implementing legislation. [...]	2005-04-11 21:52:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PGOV PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO2005	EMBASSY SANTO DOMINGO HELPS MOVE CUBAN DISSIDENT [...] With the help of the International Organization for Migration (IOM),Embassy Santo Domingo facilitated the travel of Cuban dissident Mario Clavero through the Dominican Republic April 5-6 to Spain, which had agreed to grant him political asylum. 2. Clavero, a human rights advocate in Cuba [...]	2005-04-12 11:07:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF DR CU SP
05SANTODOMINGO2049	CHR 61: BELARUS RESOLUTION - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] (U) Embassy on April 12 delivered reftel demarche to MFA UN/OAS Division chief Michelle Cohen. She undertook to communicate our position on the anticipated no-action motion on the Belarus resolution to Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano, who would decide how the Dominican Republic wou [...]	2005-04-12 21:14:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO2058	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND CHR-61: EUROPEAN [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador approached both the French and the British ambassadors here about helping convince President Fernandez to cast the Dominican vote in favor of the draft resolution on Cuba in CHR-61. The Ambassador noted that, despite his repeated and extensive conversations with F [...]	2005-04-13 17:00:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CU BO DR
05SANTODOMINGO2080	CHR-61: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO VOTE WITH US ON [...] (C) Embassy delivered demarche (paras 5-6 Ref A) to MFA UN/OAS Division Chief Michelle Cohen on April 13, having received telephonic instructions (Ref B) that Santo Domingo had been inadvertently omitted from Ref A addressees. Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano informed us the same day [...]	2005-04-14 00:30:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BO DR
05SANTODOMINGO2111	DOMINICAN COURT DENIES EXTRADITION REQUEST [...] (U) SUMMARY. On April 8. 2005, the Penal Chamber of the Dominican Supreme Court denied the USG request for extradition for Frank Alvarez. The denial was based on lack of sufficient information to identify the fugitive in court as the person the USG believes to have committed the crime in t [...]	2005-04-14 19:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CJAN KJUS SNAR PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO2118	DOMINICAN FUGITIVE REQUESTED IN EXTRADITION [...] (U) This cable contains and action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (U) The Dominican National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) informed Embassy-Santo Domingo that fugitive Christian Toribio, ref A, wanted to stand trial in Kings County, New York on murder, assault and firearms charges, [...]	2005-04-14 20:53:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN KCRM SNAR DR
05SANTODOMINGO2209	THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND HUGO CHAVEZ OF VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Venezuela and the Dominican Republic have close historical ties; during Trujillo's dictatorship, many Dominicans got help from Venezuela or lived there in political exile. Hugo Chavez has been in active contact with the Dominican Republic, agreeing to concessional financing for [...]	2005-04-20 17:37:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PINR PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO2250	COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] Embassy delivered reftel points April 18 and, after daily followups, obtained response April 21. Vice Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano will represent the Dominican Republic at the Community of Democracies Ministerial in Santiago, since Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso plans to be in [...]	2005-04-21 21:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO2425	DOMINICAN FUGITIVE WOUNDS OFFICER AND IS SHOT DEAD [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) On April 24, 2005, Dominican extradition fugitive Jose Pimentel opened fire on agents from the Dominican National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) attempting to arrest him pursuant to an arrest order issued based o [...]	2005-04-28 20:14:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CJAN KCRM KJUS SNAR DR
05SANTODOMINGO2456	BAN ON LIGHTERS DEMARCHE DELIVERED - DOMINICAN [...] On March 10, Embassy delivered guidelines on ban of lighters on flights to, from and within the U.S. to the Director General of Civil Aviation, the Director of Airports, the head of Dominican airport security and the managers of all international airports in the Dominican Republic. 2. San [...]	2005-04-29 19:55:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PTER DR
05SANTODOMINGO2576	POLICY POINTS; WASHINGTON VISIT OF DOMINICAN [...] (C) Dominican President Leonel Fernandez travels May 11-12 to Washington for the first time since his August 2004 inauguration. The USG and regional focus of the event is the CAFTA free trade agreement now under consideration in the U.S. Congress. For Fernandez, however, the visit is much more: [...]	2005-05-06 15:27:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP ETRD DR
05SANTODOMINGO2579	SANTO DOMINGO 2005 IPR PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR [...] Santo Domingo requests USD 6,500funding to bring two IPR enforcement experts to the Dominican Republic for separate two-day training sessions for enforcement authorities charged with combating television broadcast piracy and pharmaceutical patent piracy. These experts would also be used for o [...]	2005-05-06 17:20:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ECON EFIN DR
05SANTODOMINGO2614	OAS WORKING GROUP ON RACISM - FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) On April 5 the Ambassador discussed with Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso U.S. views (reftel) on proposals for an Inter-American Convention on Racism. Morales Troncoso agreed there was no reason to negotiate an additional instrument on racism and said he would speak with his MFA [...]	2005-05-06 20:53:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL AORC DR
05SANTODOMINGO2615	ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR IRAQ TRANSITIONAL [...] (SBU) Embassy on April 29 provided reftel talking points as a non-paper to MFA Africa-Middle East Director Jose Juan Hernandez Cimadevilla and on May 3 emphasized our request that the Dominican Republic, as a member of the coalition, issue a statement of support for the Iraq Transitional Gove [...]	2005-05-06 21:25:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL DR IZ
05SANTODOMINGO2622	DOMINICAN SENATE AND AGRICULTURE GROUP ASK [...] On May 6, 20 of the 32 Dominican senators voted and published a resolution declaring the urgent need to pass legislation granting local industry assistance to compensate for expected losses to help compete under the CAFTA, a regional free trade agreement with the United States. The resolutio [...]	2005-05-09 20:33:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETRD PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO2636	DOMINICAN POLITICS #25: FERNANDEZ'S SPECIAL [...] (SBU) Following is #25 in our series on the first year of the Fernandez administration: Fernandez's Special Briefing Before Visiting the United States - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Last week U.S. academic Howard Wiarda of the University of Georgia became Leonel Ferna [...]	2005-05-10 11:12:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO2648	DOMINICAN SENATE AND AGRICULTURE GROUP ASK [...] On May 6, 20 of the 32 Dominican senators voted and published a resolution declaring the urgent need to pass legislation granting local industry assistance to compensate for expected losses to help compete under the CAFTA, a regional free trade agreement with the United States. The resolutio [...]	2005-05-10 15:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETRD PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO2751	DOMINICAN POLITICS #26: CHANGE IN THE WIND FOR [...] (SBU) Following is number 26 in our series on Leonel Fernandez's first year in office: Change in the Wind for CAFTA - DR - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For the first time Leonel Fernandez,s administration appears to be moving to take an active hand in shaping public [...]	2005-05-13 21:58:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PREL PGOV DR
05SANTODOMINGO2752	DOMINICAN FUGITIVE WAIVES EXTRADITION RIGHTS, [...] (U) On May 14, 2005, fugitive Ramon Cabral Veras was returned to the United States' territory of Puerto Rico in the company of a U.S. Marshal. Cabral Veras is wanted by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to stand trial on charges of embezzlement. He is charged in three separate complaints of [...]	2005-05-16 12:48:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CJAN KCRM SNAR
05SANTODOMINGO2819	DOMINICAN REPATRIATIONS TO HAITI HAVE ENDED [...] (U) Summary. The Dominican government has suspended the rounding up and deportation of undocumented Haitian immigrants from the northern border area, following conflicts and threats of mob action in the town of Hatillo Mayor, Montecristi Province. Operations were carried out under supervis [...]	2005-05-19 11:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM PGOV DR HA
05SANTODOMINGO285	DOMINICAN FM RESPONSE ON PROPOSED ANNOUNCEMENT OF [...] In response to Charge's telephone call on USG intentions to announce support for the OAS SYGEN candidacy of Francisco Flores, Dominican Foreign Minister Morales Troncoso confirmed Dominican support for Flores. He has asked for the date of the proposed announcement at the OAS by A/S Noriega an [...]	2005-01-19 19:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC DR
05SANTODOMINGO2938	OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY: COMPOSITION OF DELEGATIONS - [...] In response to Embassy's inquiries per reftel, the MFA on May 18 informed us of the principals who will comprise the Dominican Republic's delegation to the OASGA in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, June 5-7. MFA indicated there might be later additions to this list and also promised to provide the delegat [...]	2005-05-24 21:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PREL DR OAS
05SANTODOMINGO2972	ILO FISCAL RESTRAINT, CUBAN CANDIDACY - DOMINICAN [...] Embassy on May 25 provided Ref A-B talking points in Spanish to MFA UN-OAS Director Michelle Cohen, emphasizing the importance of fiscal restraint in the proposed ILO budget for 2006-2007 and U.S. preference for Barbados over Cuba as the Caribbean candidate for the ILO Governing Body. The same [...]	2005-05-25 22:12:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB DR AORC PREL CU BB
05SANTODOMINGO2973	UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY NEGOTIATIONS - DOMINICAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-25 22:17:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD DR SCUL
05SANTODOMINGO3004	DOMINICAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTS ON [...] (C) The DCM and econ officer called on Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano in her office, May 23 and discussed the selection of a Deputy Secretary General at the Organization of American States SIPDIS (OAS),repatriations of Haitians, anti-terrorism conventions, racial discrimination [...]	2005-06-01 15:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV DR PTER HA OAS
05SANTODOMINGO3089	DOMINICAN SUPPORT AT WORLD CUSTOMS ORGANIZATION [...] Dominican Customs Director General Miguel Cocco received EcoPol counselor on June 7 for a wide-ranging discussion of customs cooperation and said that he would be issuing explicit directions to Dominican ambassador in Brussels Federico Cuello to support U.S. initiatives at the June meeting of [...]	2005-06-08 17:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD DR AORC
05SANTODOMINGO3121	DOMINICAN POLITICS #28: VENEZUELA CHANGES TERMS ON [...] (SBU) This is #28 in our series of political reports on Leonel Fernandez's first year in office. Bolivarian Oil Dealing Gets Expensive - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Venezuela has abruptly demanded that the Dominican Republic agree to deliveries of petroleum on Venezuelan ships. T [...]	2005-06-09 19:22:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ETRD PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO3147	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CONVICTS TRAFFICKING FELONS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant Attorney General Frank Soto, who coordinates the Dominican Government's anti-TIP efforts, provided details of the Dominican Republic's first convictions of traffickers under a 2003 anti-TIP law, in a May 20 court decision published June 2. Soto expressed disappointme [...]	2005-06-10 16:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM DR KWMN SMIG PREL
05SANTODOMINGO3158	DOMINICAN DEPORTATIONS OF HAITIANS - DEEPLY ROOTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Repatriations of Haitians ceased after the May 9-12 round-ups and expulsion of about 1800 persons from the northwestern border areas, but conditions there remain largely unchanged. On June 6 vengeful Dominicans attacked sleeping Haitians in the same area, prompting further pa [...]	2005-06-10 20:55:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV DR HA
05SANTODOMINGO3161	CUBA: REVIEW OF SUSPENSION OF LIBERTAD ACT TITLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Subsequent to the inauguration of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez last year, the Dominican Republic shifted its vote on the Cuba resolution at the annual UN Human Rights Committee meeting from "yes" (with the United States) in 2004 to "abstain" in 2005. However [...]	2005-06-13 11:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	CU ETTC DR PREL SMIG EINV ETRD
05SANTODOMINGO3177	DOMINICANS KEYED UP ABOUT QUIRINO NARCOTRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) The following report was posted on our SIPRNET site on June 13. QUIRINO - THE CASE THAT KEEPS ON GIVING (SBU) The two Assistant U.S. Attorneys prosecuting the Quirino Paulino Castillo (Quirino) narcotics trafficking case in the Southern District of New York spent two and a half da [...]	2005-06-14 15:27:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	CJAN PGOV KCRM SNAR DR
05SANTODOMINGO3228	DOMINICAN POLITICS #29: OPPOSITION PRD PICKS NEW [...] (SBU) This is #29 in our series of reports on political events of Leonel Fernandez's first year in office. PRD Picks New President, Secretary General, and other Leadership Posts - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The main opposition Dominican Rev [...]	2005-06-16 22:23:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
05SANTODOMINGO3350	MDA DEMARCHE: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WILL SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-23 20:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC IS SZ PREL PREF PHUM
05SANTODOMINGO3363	UNESCO BIOETHICS DECLARATION: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] Embassy delivered reftel demarche twice to the MFA's UN/OAS division, on June 10 and 15. After repeated followup, we were told on June 22 the U.S. views had been communicated to the appropriate authorities. However, as of June 24 the division had no substantive response; Embassy believes th [...]	2005-06-24 19:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO DR
05SANTODOMINGO3364	U.S. CANDIDACY FOR THE WHO EXECUTIVE BOARD: [...] Embassy delivered reftel diplomatic note to the MFA on June 20-21. On June 22 (and again on June 24),UN/OAS affairs deputy division chief Rhadys Abreu de Polanco informed us that she had requested the views of the Dominican Republic's health authorities. We will follow up, emphasize the im [...]	2005-06-24 19:42:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC DR PREL
05SANTODOMINGO3365	UNSCR 1540 - DEMARCHE TO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] Santo Domingo Embassy on June 20 and again on June 15 delivered reftel demarche to MFA's UN/OAS affairs division. We inquired about the reasons for the Dominican Republic's delay in delivering its report under the resolution and asked whether the government might require technical assistance [...]	2005-06-24 19:43:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO3369	DOMINICAN POLITICS #31: POSITIONING TO RATIFY [...] (SBU) This is #31 in our series of political reports on Leonel Fernandez's first year in office. Positioning to Ratify CAFTA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The question is no longer whether the Dominicans will ratify the free trade agreement, but when -- whether they can manage to do so whi [...]	2005-06-24 22:24:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ETRD PREL DR CAFTA
05SANTODOMINGO3370	U.S. TAXPAYERS WILL LOSE MONEY IN DOMINICAN AFPS [...] (SBU) The USG should not invest in Dominican pension funds (AFPs - Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones) because the likelihood of losing the funds due to fraud and corruption is extremely high. Based on the current state of affairs in the Dominican Republic, Embassy Santo Domingo strongl [...]	2005-06-27 11:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT KJUS PGOV DR
05SANTODOMINGO3446	FAO/WHO CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION - U.S. [...] Embassy officer delivered reftel demarche and curriculum vitae of the U.S. candidate for vice-chair of the Codex Alimentarius Commission to MFA UN/OAS affairs division chief Michelle Cohen on July 1, pointing out that the election will occur during the July 4-9 meeting. Cohen undertook to pr [...]	2005-07-04 17:46:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD AORC
05SANTODOMINGO3447	FOOD AID AND THE WTO: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] Embassy on July 1 delivered reftel demarche to MFA UN/OAS division chief Michelle Cohen and counselor for OAS affairs Johanna Mendelson and left para 8 points as a non-paper, in Spanish translation. Cohen undertook to inform the ministries of industry and commerce -- which is involved in WTO [...]	2005-07-05 11:17:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR ETRD DR
05SANTODOMINGO3524	DOMINICAN POLITICS #33: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC -- AS A [...] (SBU) The following is number 33 in our series on the first year of Leonel Fernandez's administration. Does the sum of the parts add up? Or has the journal "Foreign Policy" lost its mind? A comment from an Embassy colleague, July 5: I arrived home last night after two weeks of leave. O [...]	2005-07-07 18:49:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO3545	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PUBLIC SECTOR DOCTORS ANNOUNCE [...] SUMMARY. The public-sector doctors' union announced last week a plan to go on strike, demanding a 100 percent salary increases from the government. The strike, scheduled to take place July 11-15, will make number 15 for the union since January 2004. But the authorities are prepared to stand [...]	2005-07-08 15:43:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV DR PREL
05SANTODOMINGO355	PROJECT PROPOSAL - ANTI-TIP POLICE DEPARTMENT [...] SUMMARY. The Dominican Republic was placed on the Tier 2 Watchlist in the Department's 2004 TIP report. Among the principal shortcomings cited was that the government "lacks effective law enforcement" to combat TIP. The Embassy has consistently sought to increase the government's capacity to [...]	2005-01-26 14:21:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PHUM DR
05SANTODOMINGO3556	CORRECTED COPY: DOMINICAN POLITICS #33: DOMINICAN [...] (SBU) The following is number 33 in our series on the first year of Leonel Fernandez's administration. Does the sum of the parts add up? Or has the journal "Foreign Policy" lost its mind? A comment from an Embassy colleague, July 5: I arrived home last night after two weeks of leave. O [...]	2005-07-11 13:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO370	DOMINICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL JAILS [...] Dominican Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito had accused alien smuggler Congressman Guillermo Radhames Ramos Garcia arrested at 7 a.m. on January 13, the first day that the House was no longer in session. Bailiffs delivered him to Najayo jail on January 13 to await his next trial date, [...]	2005-01-26 17:21:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PGOV DR
05SANTODOMINGO3721	DOMINICAN BANKING SERIES # 8 - DOMINICAN FAILED [...] (U) This is number 8 in a series of cables on the Dominican bank failures of 2003. This cable contains an action request, please see paragraphs 7 and 12. Baninter, Banco Mercantil and Bancredito - legal case status on the banks that broke the Dominican Republic 2. For the first time i [...]	2005-07-21 20:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EFIN KJUS PGOV PREL
05SANTODOMINGO3722	NOMINATION TO REGIONAL WORKER RIGHTS SEMINAR [...] Embassy nominates Neda Brown, a political officer with labor reporting responsibilities, and Bolivar Abreu, Economic-Political Section assistant, to attend the WHA Regional Worker Rights Seminar to be held in Lima, Peru on 8-9 September 2005. 2. Neda Brown began a one year rotational assign [...]	2005-07-22 12:23:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB OTRA DR
05SANTODOMINGO3723	CORRECTED COPY DOMINICAN BANKING SERIES # 8 - [...] (U) This is number 8 in a series of cables on the Dominican bank failures of 2003. This cable contains an action request, please see paragraphs 7 and 12. Sensitive but unclassified, entire text. Baninter, Banco Mercantil and Bancredito - legal case status on the banks that broke the Dom [...]	2005-07-22 14:58:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR EFIN KJUS PGOV PREL
05SANTODOMINGO3827	G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] (SBU) Embassy provided Ref A talking points to MFA UN/OAS division chief Michelle Cohen on July 27, on defeating the G-4 framework resolution on UN reform. She has informed us that there has been a "new element" since the previous Embassy discussion of the issue with the MFA on July 8 (Ref B). [...]	2005-08-01 12:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL DR UNGA
05SANTODOMINGO3828	UN REFORM: DEMARCHES TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-01 12:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KUNR PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO3878	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: GAINING SUPPORT FOR USG [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-03 22:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM DR PREL UNGA
05SANTODOMINGO3898	MANPADS CONTROL AND SECURITY GUIDELINES - [...] (S/NF) Summary: There are no MANPADS in the weapons inventories of the armed forces of the Dominican Republic, nor are any known to exist within the country. The Dominican Government does have import)export controls on arms purchases, but high levels of corruption call into question the effe [...]	2005-08-05 12:34:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM MASS EAIR ETTC PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO3930	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 2005 INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] This cable provides the 2005 Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims Report for the Dominican Republic. 2. The United States Government is presently aware of 18 claims (including 5 new ones for 2005) by U.S. persons/entities against the Government of the Dominican Republic (GODR). The [...]	2005-08-08 19:27:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC DR EFIN KIDE PGOV EINV
05SANTODOMINGO3938	ORGANIC MOVEMENT ATTRACTS COFFEE PRODUCERS [...] (U) The following was posted on the Embassy's classified website on June 21: Organic Movement Attracts Coffee Producers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hoy newspaper carried in its weekly economic section on June 12 the title "More Coffeegrowers Join the Boom, in Organic Coffee [...]	2005-08-09 18:50:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ECON EAGR
05SANTODOMINGO3941	REGISTRATION FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-09 19:30:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR OTRA PHUM

05SANTODOMINGO3946	DOMINICAN POLITICS #35: PRD OUTLINES THE FUTURE [...] (SBU) Following is number 35 in our series on Leonel Fernandez's first year in office: PRD Decision Makers Outline the Future Senate vice president Cesar "Yayo" Matias and three of his senatorial colleagues invited the political officer to lunch on August 5, along with PRD student leader [...]	2005-08-09 20:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR ETRD PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO3978	DOMINICAN TAX REFORM DRAWS NEAR [...] (U) The Dominican Technical Secretary,s office announced yesterday that government and industry has reached preliminary agreement on a fiscal reform package, tied to ratification of DR-CAFTA. If accurate, this clears the way for Congress to consider and approve both pieces of legislation as e [...]	2005-08-11 21:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EFIN ETRD PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO4041	DOMINICANS INVITED TO SIGN PETROCARIBE ACCORD BY [...] (U) Venezuelan ambassador Francisco Belisario Landis told the press on August 16 that he had delivered to the Dominican MFA copies in English and Spanish of the "Petrocaribe" agreement, with an invitation to come to Caracas by August 23 for a signing ceremony. He was emphatic about Venezuel [...]	2005-08-19 21:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PREL DR EFIN
05SANTODOMINGO4104	SANTO DOMINGO: CHINESE ACTIVITIES IN DOMINICAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-26 13:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL ETRD ETTC EINV ENRG EAGR EFIN PHUM EMIN CH
05SANTODOMINGO4145	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC UPDATE ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD [...] This cable is in response to ref A request for an update on worst forms of child labor in the Dominican Republic. The 2004 Child Labor Information Update from Santo Domingo (ref B) remains current, with the following additional information. 2. On October 17, 2004, the new Code for Protect [...]	2005-08-30 19:47:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI DR
05SANTODOMINGO4175	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ON HIGH-LEVEL TRAVEL TO UNGA [...] MFA Director for International Affairs Amb. Michele Cohen told EcoPol counselor and poloff on August 31 that President Fernandez will speak at the UNGA on September 16. Embassy has just received a diplomatic note announcing that Fernandez and Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade are inviting U [...]	2005-09-01 15:29:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO4196	DOMINICAN PROGRESS ON IMF STAND-BY [...] (SBU) Summary: IMF Regional Director Guy Meredith and Resrep Ousmene Mandeng told DCM and staff on August 24 that things are going generally well for the Dominicans on the macroeconomic side and they foresee no obstacles to completing the combined first and second reviews of the standby. This [...]	2005-09-02 20:43:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EFIN DR
05SANTODOMINGO4210	DOMINICAN PROJECTS CONSIDERED BY EXIM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Just less than one year after their last visit, Export Import Bank (ExIm) Senior Vice Presidents Jeffrey Miller and John McAdams traveled to Santo Domingo to review debt collection and new projects. Prepared for positive news by optimistic economic reporting in the internation [...]	2005-09-06 20:19:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ECON EFIN
05SANTODOMINGO4211	DOMINICAN COPYRIGHT OFFICE TALKS TOUGH [...] In April Embassy Santo Domingo reported a raid by the District Attorney's Office on the headquarters of the aptly named Dominican television station "Virus." Virus had been guilty of broadcasting pirated material and officials confiscated equipment from the station, leaving it temporarily una [...]	2005-09-06 20:19:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD EINV DR
05SANTODOMINGO4215	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC RATIFIES DR-CAFTA [...] (U) Summary: The Dominican Republic on September 6, in a vote in the lower house of Congress, ratified DR-CAFTA. All that remains are steps expected to occur promptly: A "protocolary act" to be signed by President Fernandez and publication of the DR-CAFTA text in the Official Gazette. The [...]	2005-09-07 11:00:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PREL DR PGOV CAFTA
05SANTODOMINGO4224	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: CENTRAL BANK SAYS NO PRC [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-08 11:01:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD ETTC PREL EFIN XM DR
05SANTODOMINGO4226	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TIP ACTION PLAN DELIVERED [...] On Wednesday August 24, the Charge hosted, at the Embassy, a roundtable discussion on trafficking in persons. The twenty two government and non-government participants included the MFA Ambassador for Women's and Children's Affairs, the Chief of Naval Intelligence, the Assistant Attorney Gener [...]	2005-09-08 19:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG DR
05SANTODOMINGO4268	DECLARATION ON INNOVATIVE SOURCES OF FINANCING FOR [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-09 22:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN EAID DR EFIN EAIR
05SANTODOMINGO4276	SANTO DOMINGO: AVIATION AND MARITIME OFFICER [...] Embassy econ officer responsible for aviation and/or maritime issues, including transportation security, is Jehan Jones. Her office phone number is 809-731-4469; fax number is 809-686-4038; email address is jonesjs2@state.gov for unclassified emails and jonesjs@state.sgov.gov for classified [...]	2005-09-13 12:58:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON
05SANTODOMINGO4277	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): THE DOMINICAN [...] EcoPol counselor and poloff raised the topic of ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention in call August 31 on MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Amb. Michelle Cohen, when urging ratification of various treaties, including several on terrorism and on intellectual proper [...]	2005-09-13 13:18:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR PARM ABUD PTER KTIA
05SANTODOMINGO434	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] The following is the Embassy response to reftel. Overview of Human Rights and Democracy in the Dominican Republic and U.S. Strategy 2. The Dominican Republic enjoys a democratically elected government and a robust, multi-party system. Freedom of the press and religion are largely respect [...]	2005-01-28 22:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KDEM ELAB KPAO DR
05SANTODOMINGO4378	CIVAIR: MONTREAL CONVENTION - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] On September 9 EcoPol counselor delivered reftel talking points to MFA international organizations director Michelle Cohen and urged that the Dominican Republic ratify the Montreal Convention. Embassy sent a diplomatic note containing the same request on September 13. 2. On September 16 [...]	2005-09-21 22:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON DR
05SANTODOMINGO4386	DOMINICAN CUSTOMS SUSPENDS EXPRESS CLEARANCES FOR [...] Summary. A Dominican government initiative to reform customs handling and to institute closer controls against fraud briefly disrupted express courier services to and from the Dominican Republic September 15-20. After exchanging with the government formal commitments to cooperate, three in [...]	2005-09-23 11:18:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV BEXP EFIN KCOR DR
05SANTODOMINGO4387	DOMINICAN POLICE COMMAND AND TRAINING CLOUDED BY [...] (C) Summary: Deputy police chief Brig. Gen. Guzman Fermin (protect source) told DCM on September 19 that Interior and Police Minister Franklin Almeyda is undermining the authority of recently named police chief Gen. Rafael Santana Perez. Guzman warned of problems in the chain of command. Guzma [...]	2005-09-23 11:19:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR VE CU SNAR PGOV KCOR PHUM PREL
05SANTODOMINGO4449	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST - COM CONFERENCE [...] Embassy Santo Domingo requests country clearance for Ms. Jehan Jones to travel to Nassau, The Bahamas from 2-5 October 2005. The purpose of travel is to accompany Ambassador Hans H. Hertell to the Caribbean Regional Chiefs of Mission Conference on HIV/AIDS. Please meet and assist at airport [...]	2005-09-28 19:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT DR OTRA
05SANTODOMINGO4473	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING - DR NAVY PATROL BOATS [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-30 18:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EFIN PHUM EXIM
05SANTODOMINGO4479	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: TEXTILE AND APPAREL SECTOR [...] Summary: Textile and apparel production represents an important part of the Dominican Republic's economy. Half of all companies in the Dominican Free Trade Zones (FTZs) are textile and apparel related companies and 98% of all Dominican textile and apparel companies are from the FTZs. In 200 [...]	2005-09-30 20:58:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KTEX ECON ETRD DR
05SANTODOMINGO4481	TWO CHINAS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: TAIWAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-03 11:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR TW CH PREL ETRD EINV
05SANTODOMINGO4496	CHALLENGING CUBA'S CANDIDACY ON ECOSOC - DOMINICAN [...] (C) Ambassador delivered demarche para 4 reftel to Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso on September 28, urging the Dominican Republic to become a candidate for election to ECOSOC in October. Morales said that the Dominican Republic has registered to run for ECOSOC membership in 2007. Thi [...]	2005-10-03 22:24:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	CU DR PREL PHUM
05SANTODOMINGO4498	INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] In response to Ref A demarche, delivered September 12 (Ref B),Embassy received September 30 a diplomatic note from the Foreign Ministry with the following text (informal translation from Spanish): "(Complimentary opening),in view of the traditional ties of cooperation between both our coun [...]	2005-10-03 23:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO EAGR ECON PREL SOCI
05SANTODOMINGO456	DOMINICAN TECHNICAL SECRETARY OPTIMISTIC ON CAFTA [...] (SBU) Summary: Dominican Technical Secretary Temistocles Montas told the DCM January 28 that President Fernandez will present the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) for ratification during the annual presidential address to Congress on February 27, saying that that agreement is [...]	2005-01-31 20:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EFIN KIPR PREL
05SANTODOMINGO4567	DOMINICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL PUSHES CAREER TRACK FOR [...] (U) Summary. On September 28, General Secretaries of the three dominant political parties in the Dominican Republic met publicly to respond to Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito's draft document calling for political agreement on the implementation of a career track within the Public P [...]	2005-10-07 11:29:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM KCOR
05SANTODOMINGO4606	DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGY - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] (SBU) Embassy Santo Domingo's response on our democracy promotion strategy for the Dominican Republic is keyed to lettered sub-ticks in para 6 reftel: A. Most important outcomes of the Democracy and Governance reform agenda for the Dominican Republic 1) Government develops, approves an [...]	2005-10-12 14:19:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO4620	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: SENATE PRESIDENT VOWS TO BLOCK [...] Summary: Senate President Andres Bautista told the DCM on October 11 that he will not put onto the Senate agenda a legislative proposal inimical to patent and trademark law submitted in August by the president of the Senate Commission on Industry, Commerce and Free Trade Zones Alejandro Santo [...]	2005-10-13 11:11:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ETRD KIPR PGOV IPR
05SANTODOMINGO4650	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-14 20:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR PTER KTFN KVPR EFIN ETTC PREL
05SANTODOMINGO4652	UNSTRAW - PEDOPHILIA CERTIFICATION [...] INSTRAW is an unfunded UN-affiliated research organization that has loose connections with 19 NGOs. The embassy is familiar with several of the NGOs and none is known to have the mission of promoting pedophilia. Political officer conducted a review of NGOs affiliated with INSTRAW and found [...]	2005-10-14 20:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PHUM SOCI
05SANTODOMINGO4653	DOMINICAN POLITICS II #1: LEONEL'S GRAND NATIONAL [...] This is the first in a series of political reporting on the second year of the administration of Dominican president Leonel Fernandez. LEONEL'S GRAND NATIONAL CONSULTATION Over the weekend of October 9-10, with a hastily organized grand national seminar Dominican President Leonel Fernndez [...]	2005-10-14 20:30:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD DR EPET EFIN ENRG PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO4670	GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS IN WTO - DOMINICAN [...] (SBU) DCM on October 4 delivered Ref A talking points to Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano. She had no immediate response, but promised to pass the information to the appropriate Dominican Government officials. Based on our prior contacts (Ref B),Embassy understands that the Dominic [...]	2005-10-18 12:47:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR KIPR DR ECON
05SANTODOMINGO4671	RESETTLEMENT OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES: DOMINICAN [...] (S) Drawing on reftel talking points, DCM on October 4 raised with Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano our request that the Dominican Republic consider assisting in resettlement of the 15 Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity who have been approved for release from detention at Guantanam [...]	2005-10-18 12:47:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	SECRET	MOPS PREL DR PTER PHUM PREF PINR
05SANTODOMINGO471	DOMINICAN INTERIOR MINISTER SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH [...] (C) Summary: Dominican Interior Secretary Franklin Almeyda, meeting with the Ambassador, Embassy staff, and City of New York Police Department (NYPD) officials January 27, expressed his intention to work with the Embassy and U.S. police advisers to fight corruption and boost efficiency in the [...]	2005-02-01 18:31:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	CJAN KJUS SNAR KCOR PTER EFIN PGOV PREL BEXP ASEC DR
05SANTODOMINGO4724	ISRAEL AT UNGA I & II - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] Embassy on October 20 delivered reftel demarches on Israel at the 60th UNGA (Holocaust Remembrance Resolution and opposing anti-Israel bias) to MFA UN affairs director Michelle Cohen. We thanked her for the Dominican Republic's offer to co-sponsor the Holocaust Resolution. We also urged that [...]	2005-10-21 13:17:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	IS DR PREL
05SANTODOMINGO4744	DOMINICANS STEP UP ENFORCEMENT OF BROADCAST PIRACY [...] Summary: The Dominican Telecommunications Authority (INDOTEL) submitted to the Embassy on October 5 the third quarterly television broadcast piracy report for 2005. The Dominican government is punctually meeting the reporting deadlines and taking action to address the problem of broadcast pi [...]	2005-10-21 14:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ETRD KIPR PGOV IPR
05SANTODOMINGO4759	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: CBI BENEFITS FOR THE 2005 [...] The Following information is keyed to reftel questions. ------------------------------------------- WTO and Free Trade Commitments ------------------------------------------ 2. The Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) with the United States on Augus [...]	2005-10-24 13:42:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON DR ETRD
05SANTODOMINGO4778	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: EL PASO SETTLES DISPUTE WITH [...] U.S. firm El Paso International recently resolved the dispute in which Dominican firm Carib Consult was petitioning the Dominican Supreme Court to ignore international arbitration rulings and to uphold a lower court judgement against El Paso. The Embassy has been actively involved in the case [...]	2005-10-26 13:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EFIN ENRG EINV BEXP
05SANTODOMINGO4794	MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS: [...] Embassy has received a diplomatic note dated October 21 from the Dominican Republic's MFA accepting the proposed language change to the 1974 bilateral agreement on net proceeds from sales of items provided under grant military assistance, to conform to Section 505(f) of the Foreign Assistance [...]	2005-10-27 14:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR DR KTIA PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO4815	RECOMMENDATION AGAINST FINANCING PATROL BOATS FOR [...] Following ref inquiry from Exim concerning the uses for the 4 Swiftship patrol boats proposed for Eximbank financing, Embassy Santo Domingo has reviewed relevant information, including the text of the letter provided by Secretary of Armed Forces Sigfrido Pared Perez. The Embassy has no knowle [...]	2005-10-28 17:33:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP EFIN SNAR MARR DR
05SANTODOMINGO4868	2005 WHA ECONOMIC OFFICERS' CONFERENCE [...] Embassy Santo Domingo will send EcoPol counselor Michael Meigs to the Econ Officers' conference. He is scheduled to attend the CCAA so he expects to arrive at the Doubletree on December 7 PM. KUBISKE [...]	2005-11-02 13:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ETRD EFIN EAID
05SANTODOMINGO4890	ICJ ELECTIONS FOLLOW-UP: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC LIKELY [...] Embassy o/a October 3 delivered a diplomatic note requesting the support of the Dominican Republic for Thomas Buergenthal's re-election to the International Court of Justice. On November 2, MFA deputy director for UN affairs Rhadys Abreu de Polanco informed us that, of the three candidates f [...]	2005-11-02 22:00:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR
05SANTODOMINGO4891	FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER DICUSSES [...] (U) SUMMARY. On October 17, 2005, FBI Director Mueller made a series of courtesy calls on senior Dominican justice and intelligence officials, several of whom participated in a same-day working lunch hosted by President Fernandez (SEPTEL). Attorney General Dominguez Brito, Chief of the Natio [...]	2005-11-03 11:10:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS KPAO PINR PREL SNAR DR CU
05SANTODOMINGO4941	DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN EXTREMISM - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered para 4 reftel demarche via non-paper to MFA Africa and Middle East Affairs director Jose Juan Hernandez Cimadevilla on November 2, emphasizing our request that the Dominican Republic issue a statement rejecting President Ahmadi-Nejad's recent inflammatory rhetoric again [...]	2005-11-07 19:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL IR PTER PHUM DR
05SANTODOMINGO4946	DOMINICAN POLITICS II #6: HAITIAN MIGRANT [...] (SBU) This is the sixth in a series on political events in the second year of the administration of Leonel Fernandez. Haitian Migrant Regularization "Under the Radar" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - While a recent migration-related decision of the Inter-American Court of Hu [...]	2005-11-07 19:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG DR HA
05SANTODOMINGO5004	DOMINICAN INDUSTRIAL DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN [...] (SBU) Summary. The intentional gas release by the National Refinery (REFIDOMSA) on October 24 revealed how poorly the Dominican petrochemical industry regulates itself. It also revealed how ill prepared the city of Santo Domingo and the Dominican government are in preparing for or responding [...]	2005-11-10 20:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR ECON ETRD TBIO
05SANTODOMINGO5038	FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER MEETS WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. President Fernandez told FBI Director Robert Mueller III during his October 24 visit to Santo Domingo that Venezuelan drug trade via the Dominican Republic to the United States was a "crime against humanity." The Ambassador,s suggestion that a high-level Dominican government tea [...]	2005-11-15 17:12:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR PREL SNAR KJUS KPAO PINR CU VE HA CH CO
05SANTODOMINGO5050	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT [...] The following interim assessement for trafficking in persons (TIP) addresses the questions in paragraph 6(I) of reftel. 2. The Government of the Dominican Republic emphasizes TIP issues in public communications and has made some progress in enforcement. Institutional changes include the c [...]	2005-11-15 20:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KCRM KWMN DR
05SANTODOMINGO5111	WTO MINISTERIAL ALERT - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DEMARCHE [...] Ambassador delivered reftel talking points to Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso on November 16, and urged that the Dominican Republic speak up in support of the U.S. agriculture proposal in WTO meetings and with EU member governments. We also left those points and similar points in pre [...]	2005-11-18 21:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD DR PREL KIRF KPAO ECON PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO5112	SEEKING SUPPORT FOR OAS MISSION IN COLOMBIA - [...] (SBU) Ambassador on November 16 delivered reftel talking points to Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso, emphasized what is at stake, and urged the Dominican Republic to consider a contribution to the OAS mission in Colombia. We left the basic talking points as a non-paper. Morales seemed [...]	2005-11-18 21:55:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PTER CO DR
05SANTODOMINGO5113	UN THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS - DEMARCHE TO [...] (C) Embassy on November 8 delivered Ref A para 5 talking points on U.S. voting priorities in the UN Third Committee to MFA UN affairs director Michelle Cohen as a non-paper, and emphasized in conversation with her that approval of the Iran resolution was our top priority and that the Dominican [...]	2005-11-18 21:56:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM DR PREL
05SANTODOMINGO5127	COMPLIANCE WITH OIG RECOMMENDATIONS, 2005 [...] Following reports on follow-up actions taken to comply with the formal recommendations made by the OIG team that inspected Embassy Santo Domingo this year. 2. Recommendation 1: Embassy Santo Domingo should develop a strategy for implementing a program to eliminate or reduce the discrimin [...]	2005-11-22 12:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ASIG DR
05SANTODOMINGO5156	HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2005 - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] Following is Embassy's response to action requests in paras 5-6 reftel: 2. Quotations on the meaning of human rights and freedom: Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez, First Lady of the Dominican Republic: (Begin original Spanish text, as published on http://www.primeradama.gov.do/ver discurs [...]	2005-11-25 13:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL DR KPAO ODIP PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO5157	ISRAEL AT UNGA: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS - [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-25 13:58:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	IS PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO5187	AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] Embassy's answers to country-specific questions about avian and pandemic influenza (AI) follow and are keyed to the subheads and ticks in para 4 reftel: A. Preparedness/communication: -- The country does not yet have a plan orstrategy for preventing avian influenza from becoming a pandemi [...]	2005-11-29 19:43:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV DR ECON EAGR EAID PREL
05SANTODOMINGO5202	DOMINICAN BANKING #13: MORE FRAUD FOUND AT PROGRESO [...] (U) This is number 13 in a series of cables on the Dominican banking sector. (C) Summary. Investigators have discovered a new additional hole of 7 billion pesos ($220 million) in phony assets at Banco de Progreso, in addition to the 8 billion peso unfunded liability for commercial paper at [...]	2005-11-30 20:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR EFIN KJUS PGOV PREL
05SANTODOMINGO5213	DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT PUSHES HARD FOR CAFTA [...] (U) Summary: Aiming for a January 1 implementation date for CAFTA, the Dominican Republic is working quickly to meet requirements. The Fernandez administration recently created a task force made up of public and private sector trade experts, many of whom have CAFTA negotiating experience, to [...]	2005-12-01 17:40:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PGOV PREL DR CAFTA
05SANTODOMINGO5339	ENGAGING THE REGION ON BOLIVIA: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] (C) Embassy on December 7 delivered reftel talking points to MFA South America director Juany Mejia de Gil, requesting the Dominican Republic's collaboration with the international effort to ensure free and fair elections in Bolivia and democratic stability for that nation. 2. (C) On Decemb [...]	2005-12-10 18:00:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	BO PGOV PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO5340	ANTI-ISRAEL BODIES AT THE UN: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] Embassy on December 7 delivered reftel talking points to MFA UN director Michelle Cohen, emphasizing U.S. disappointment over the Dominican Republic's change of its vote from "abstain" in previous years to "yes" on the resolution regarding the Division for Palestinian Rights. Political officer [...]	2005-12-10 18:24:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IS DO UNGA
05SANTODOMINGO5388	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC RE-ELECTION TO THE UNHRC [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-16 12:37:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ECON PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO5389	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CANDIDACY TO THE COUNCIL OF [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-16 12:37:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR ECON PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO5395	LETTER FROM MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AMILCAR [...] SUMMARY: ON JULY 26, 2005, ACTING AGRICULTURAL COUNSELOR PAUL HOFFMAN AND SENIOR AGRICULTURAL SPECIALIST CARLOS SUAREZ MET WITH THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AMILCAR ROMERO, TO DISCUSS ONGOING CONCERNS ABOUT AVOCADOS AND THE DOMINICAN REQUES [...]	2005-12-16 20:11:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR DR
05SANTODOMINGO5409	CUBA: REVIEW OF LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III SUSPENSION [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable responds to Ref A tasking and updates the information provided in our last report six months ago (Ref B). President Fernandez in the second year of his administration has made no significant change in his low-profile approach to Cuban issues. As in previous years, t [...]	2005-12-16 21:23:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CU ETRD ETTC PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO5411	Draft Dominican Republic International Narcotics [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-19 12:11:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR DR
05SANTODOMINGO542	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT REPLIES TO AMBASSADOR ON [...] (C) Summary. Dominican President Leonel Fernandez confirmed to the Ambassador on January 27 that he had been helping mediate between the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela, and he found both interested in lowering tensions. He remained concerned that the candidacy for OAS SYGEN Francisco [...]	2005-02-04 12:13:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CO DR
05SANTODOMINGO556	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT OUTLINES TO DAS SHAPIRO [...] (SBU) Summary. Dominican President Leonel Fernandez spoke at length with visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary Charles Shapiro on January 14 on Dominican concerns about Haiti, Haitian reconstruction, and cross-border security issues. Fernandez and his administration will engage closely with t [...]	2005-02-04 19:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN BEXP ENRG PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO559	DOMINICANS RESPOND TO TELEVISION BROADCAST PIRACY [...] Summary: During the Embassy's January 31 demarche on television broadcast piracy (ref a),Under Secretary of Industry and Commerce Marcelo Puello told DCM that his Ministry took the requirement of stopping television broadcast piracy seriously and had sent the report to USTR on January 7 wit [...]	2005-02-04 20:27:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR EINV DR
05SANTODOMINGO579	PRC PRESSES DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO RECOGNIZE BEIJING [...] (C) SUMMARY. A Chinese Communist Party delegation met with members of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and other Dominican political parties from January 24-27, seeking to strengthen ties to the Dominican Republic and pressing for formal diplomatic recognition. The delegation call [...]	2005-02-07 21:28:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EINV DR CH TW
05SANTODOMINGO612	AMERICAN AIRLINES DISPUTE WITH DOMINICAN AIRPORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and Embassy officers have raised with Dominican authorities the American Airlines (AA) notification that it will end ground-handling services for all other carriers at Santo Domingo Las Americas Airport (AILA) and will assume self-handling of its flights on April [...]	2005-02-09 17:40:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON KTIA PREL DR CA
05SANTODOMINGO614	DOMINICAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON HAITI, CAFTA, [...] (C) Summary: Haiti, CAFTA, extraditions, and compliance with the new IMF agreement dominated the February 7 bilateral breakfast meeting between the Ambassador and Dominican Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso. The Foreign Minister told the Ambassador that the Dominican ambassador to Hait [...]	2005-02-09 18:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CJAN ETRD EFIN KJUS DR HA
05SANTODOMINGO691	TWO DOMINICANS WAIVE EXTRADITION HEARINGS - RETURN [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (U) On February 11, 2005, two fugitives were returned from the Dominican Republic to the United States in the company of a U.S. Marshal. Denny Alberto Sandoval, reftel A, is wanted to stand trial in the Southern District o [...]	2005-02-11 19:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN SNAR KJUS PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO709	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT ON BROADCAST PIRACY, LAW [...] (C) Summary. Dominican President Leonel Fernandez discussed the Dominican economy, CAFTA, broadcast piracy, Haiti and police and intelligence reform during a February 2 meeting with the Ambassador. Fernandez believes the new IMF Standby Agreement is as important for creating confidence as it is [...]	2005-02-11 23:11:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	SECRET	EFIN KIPR ETRD DR
05SANTODOMINGO754	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ARGENTINE PRELIMIINARY PAPER [...] Embassy officer followed up our fax to the MFA of reftel non-paper and annex in a meeting with MFA director for UN, OAS, and international organization affairs Michelle Cohen. She expressed appreciation for the information and indicated the MFA had received the Argentine preliminary paper on t [...]	2005-02-15 16:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON ELAB ETRD KSUM AR DR
05SANTODOMINGO758	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE ON MEXICO HUMAN [...] (SBU) Embassy officer delivered talking points in paras 5-6 reftel to MFA director for UN affairs Michelle Cohen and separately to deputy director Rhadys Abreu de Polanco, who will go to Geneva for the annual UN Human Rights Committee meeting. Embassy expressed particular appreciation for the [...]	2005-02-15 16:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL CU MX DR
05SANTODOMINGO759	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: CONSOLIDATING SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered Haiti policy points (para 6 ref A) to MFA director for UN, OAS, and international organization affairs Michelle Cohen and OAS affairs coordinator Johanna Calderon on February 11. They expressed appreciation for the information, underscored the Dominican Republic's parti [...]	2005-02-15 16:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HA DR
05SANTODOMINGO777	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PREPARATIONS FOR CICTE MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-15 20:55:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL AORC DR
05SANTODOMINGO799	DOMINICAN POLITICS #12: NARCOTICS EXTRADITION TESTS SYSTEM, WORRIES MILITARY & POLITICIANS [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-16 18:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	CJAN CO DR HA KJUS MARR PGOV PREL SNAR
05SANTODOMINGO899	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EXTRADITES PAULINO CASTILLO TO [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (U) On February 19, 2005, Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo was extradited from the Dominican Republic to the United States in the company of a U.S. Marshal. Paulino Castillo, reftels A and B, is wanted to stand trial in th [...]	2005-02-22 14:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN KCRM SNAR KJUS PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO923	2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT- DOMINICAN [...] Following is the Investment Climate Statement for the Dominican Republic, chapter 6 of the Country Commercial Guide. (begin text) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE UPDATE A.1. Openness to foreign investment The Dominican government welcomes foreign investment. However, some [...]	2005-02-23 13:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR KTDB EINV ETRD
05SANTODOMINGO970	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC YEAR 2005 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy recommends maintaining the Dominican Republic on the Special 301 Watchlist. IPR infringement problems remain at levels similar to those of last year, with some call for optimism in the area of television broadcast piracy, a long-term problem. A broadcast piracy court [...]	2005-02-24 12:44:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD EINV DR
05SANTODOMINGO971	DOMINICANS OUTLINE APPROACH TO HAITI, CAFTA, U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Haiti, bilateral relations with the United States, CAFTA ratification, promoting consensus on a new OAS secretary general, more active participation in regional and SIPDIS multilateral diplomacy, foreign investment and technology are priorities for the Dominican administration [...]	2005-02-24 15:11:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD KIPR EFIN EPET CJAN PHUM PGOV DR HA CU MX XM
05SAOPAULO1110	WORKERS PARTY ELECTIONS FIRST ROUND RESULTS [...] (U) Summary: On September 27, the Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) released the final results of its September 18 internal election. In the race for national party president, Ricardo Berzoini, candidate of President Lula's moderate majority faction (Campo Majoritario - CM) gar [...]	2005-09-29 14:50:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PGOV ELAB BR
05SAOPAULO1158	CONVERSATION WITH JOSE DIRCEU, OCTOBER 9, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: While transiting through Sao Paulo, Brasilia TDY poloff attended an October 9 lunch with friends at which Federal Deputy and former Lula Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu was present. During their 30-minute conversation, Dirceu shared his views on the political crisis, the future of the [...]	2005-10-13 19:58:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV BR
05SAOPAULO1372	ELDER STATESMAN DELFIM NETTO DISCUSSES PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: PMDB Congressman and elder statesman Antonio Delfim Netto told CG that while President Lula remains personally popular, he needs to start courting the PMDB and the smaller &left light8 parties if he hopes to get re-elected in next October,s elections. Netto said the PSDB/PFL elec [...]	2005-12-15 13:18:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR BR
05SAOPAULO1376	PT Criticism Creates Dilemma for President Lula [...] Sensitive But Unclassified. Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: A senior PT advisor told CG that the party leadership made a mistake in issuing a recent resolution publicly criticizing President Lula's economic policies. The advisor attributed this political blunder to long- standing int [...]	2005-12-16 13:09:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR ELAB BR
05SAOPAULO283	THE TIP REPORT [...] (U) This is version II of the Brazil TIP report, incorporating answers to questions raised by version I, and additional information. This report was a coordinated effort between Sao Paulo and Embassy Brasilia, which supplied much of the new information. 2. (SBU) Begin Summary: Brazil conti [...]	2005-03-11 10:25:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF TIP
05SINGAPORE178	SFA: AMB LAVIN CALLS ON DEFENSE MINISTER TEO [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Lavin reviewed with Defense Minister Teo Chee Hean progress to date in negotiations on the U.S.-Singapore Strategic Framework Agreement, in a meeting December 30. The Ambassador expressed the frustration the U.S. government felt at the current stage of discussions, in [...]	2005-01-19 10:04:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MASS SN
05SINGAPORE1788	DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK'S MAY 10 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Classified by: Ambassador Franklin L. Lavin. Reason 1.4(d) 2. (U) Date Time and Place: May 10, 2005, 12:30PM, Istana, Singapore 3. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Franklin Lavin DAS Marie Huhtala, EAP D Executive Assistant Ross Wilson Chris Kava [...]	2005-06-07 08:35:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PGOV ECON SN
05SINGAPORE1790	DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK'S MAY 10 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Classified by: Ambassador Franklin L. Lavin. Reason 1.4(d) 2. (U) Date Time and Place: May 10, 2005, 11:30AM, Istana, Singapore 3. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Franklin Lavin DAS Marie Huhtala, EAP D Executive Secretary Ross Wilson Deputy Spo [...]	2005-06-07 08:39:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PGOV ECON ETRD SN
05SINGAPORE2501	UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPH PRESSES SINGAPORE ON [...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph visited Singapore August 15 and 16 to attend the opening ceremony of the Singapore-hosted Proliferation Security Initiative exercise, Deep Sabre. The Under Secretary engaged his hosts in bilateral discussio [...]	2005-08-19 08:47:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETTC KNNP MNUC KN IR MTCRE
05SINGAPORE2524	FLU PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS -- SINGAPORE INPUT [...] (U) SUMMARY. Post is satisfied that the Government of Singapore (GOS) would rapidly respond to halt the spread of an influenza pandemic within Singapore. The Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) has developed an "Influenza Pandemic Readiness and Response Plan" that is available for public view [...]	2005-08-22 09:50:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR SOCI TBIO ECON KHIV EAGR ETRD SN
05SINGAPORE2894	ALL SMILES, LITTLE SUCCESS IN WU YI VISIT TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: Singapore's ties with China remain strained, despite the favorable press coverage of Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi's September 19-21 visit to Singapore. In a frankly negative read-out, the PRC Embassy told us many Chinese officials still do not trust Singapore and complained that [...]	2005-09-29 09:30:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL SN CH
05SINGAPORE2971	SINGAPORE SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR CRUMPTON [...] (C) We look forward to your visit to Singapore from October 19-20. This will be an excellent opportunity to thank Singapore for its close counterterrorism cooperation and identify ways in which we can expand the relationship. Sense of Vulnerability ---------------------- 2. (C) Singapor [...]	2005-10-07 07:08:00	Embassy Singapore	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV KTFN ETTC ECON SN
05SINGAPORE3017	UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY'S OCTOBER 12 VISIT TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky focused on Singapore's influenza preparedness, its leadership role in the region on this emerging disease, and the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza (IPAPI) during a busy half-day visit to Si [...]	2005-10-14 07:25:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TBIO KHIV EAGR ECON SN
05SINGAPORE3118	SINGAPORE INPUT -- OIL SUPPLY VULNERABILITY [...] (S/NF) Post believes that the Government of Singapore (GOS) is taking reasonable measures to ensure the physical security of its oil refining complex on Jurong Island. GOS officials consider terrorist threats the most likely source of disruption to the supply of crude oil reaching Singapore a [...]	2005-10-24 23:53:00	Embassy Singapore	SECRET//NOFORN	EPET ETRD EWWT PTER PINR ASEC KHLS SN
05SINGAPORE3160	U.S.-SINGAPORE PROLIFERATION TALKS IDENTIFY FUTURE [...] (S/NF) Summary: On October 17-18, the U.S. held productive talks with Singapore on a broad range of nonproliferation and counterproliferation issues. The U.S. delegation, co-led by ISN/MTR Director Van Diepen and OSD/ISP/NPP Director David Cooper, was impressed by the level of preparedness and [...]	2005-10-28 10:00:00	Embassy Singapore	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM MNUC KNNP ETTC SN
05SINGAPORE3375	SINGAPORE: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Please find below Embassy Singapore's submission for the 2005 Country Reports on Terrorism. Embassy POC is Senior Political Officer Christopher Kavanagh, email: KavanaghCR@state.gov. 2. Begin Text of Draft Report: Singapore continued to oppose terrorism strongly and worked vigorously to [...]	2005-11-28 05:21:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC SN
05SINGAPORE3469	SINGAPORE 2005 INCSR REPORT PART I -- DRUG AND [...] Paragraph 2 contains Embassy Singapore's submission for the 2005-2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report Part I - Drug and Chemical Control. Part II will be submitted septel. 2. Begin Text: I. Summary The Government of Singapore (GOS) effectively enforces its stringen [...]	2005-12-11 23:59:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM SNAR SN
05SINGAPORE3516	U.S.-SINGAPORE MLAT DISCUSSIONS [...] This is an action request. Please see para 17. 2. Summary: On December 7, 2005, Singapore and U.S. delegations met in Singapore to continue discussions related to a possible bilateral Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT). Negotiators had met twice before, in discussions in April 2004 a [...]	2005-12-15 09:45:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KTIA KJUS KCRM PGOV SN

05SINGAPORE370	USTR CONCLUDES FIRST REVIEW OF U.S.-SINGAPORE FTA [...] (SBU) Summary: In their first annual review of the U.S.- Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA) held February 2, representatives from the USG and GOS expressed general satisfaction with implementation of the FTA during its first year. AUSTR Barbara Weisel noted Singapore's recent efforts to e [...]	2005-02-11 01:46:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EFIN ECPS EINV KIPR EAGR SENV SN
05SINGAPORE740	SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL TIP [...] (U) This is first of four messages relaying Embassy Singapore's 2005 TIP submission. The Embassy point of contact for this report is Colin Willett: phone (65) 6476-9492, fax (65) 6476-9389, email willettc@state.gov. Due to the length of our submission, we have split it into four cables. P [...]	2005-03-14 08:29:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN
05SINGAPORE742	SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL TIP [...] (U) This is the second of four messages relaying Embassy Singapore's 2005 TIP submission. Para 2 covers the questions on investigations and prosecutions, and para 3 answers the questions on protection and victim assistance. Investigations and Prosecutions ------------------------------- [...]	2005-03-14 08:35:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN
05SINGAPORE743	SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL TIP [...] (U) This is the third of four messages relaying Embassy Singapore's 2005 TIP submission. It details all the sources Emboffs used in compiling the submission. -------------------------- Diplomatic Representatives -------------------------- 2. (SBU/NF) Embassy maintains contact with con [...]	2005-03-14 08:42:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN
05SINGAPORE744	SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL TIP [...] This is the fourth of four messages relaying Embassy Singapore,s 2005 TIP submission. It covers Embassy's nomination of Singapore's Ministry of Manpower, Foreign Manpower Management Division for Best Practices in combating trafficking in persons. 2. The two populations most vulnerable to [...]	2005-03-14 08:46:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN
05SINGAPORE820	SINGAPORE TIP UPDATE: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON [...] (C) On March 16, the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs provided us with full-year 2004 numbers on detentions, arrests, and prosecutions for offenses related to sex-trafficking, as well as additional information on Singapore's law enforcement efforts. Please note that the MHA provided this in [...]	2005-03-17 09:08:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN
05SOFIA1110	BULGARIA REQUESTS ASSISTANCE IN SETTING UP [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 3. 2. (C) Bulgaria's Ambassador designate to Iraq, Col. Valeri Rachev, requested USG assistance in securing an office in the Green Zone for a temporary Bulgarian Embassy to Iraq during a meeting with Ambassador on June 21. Rachev said the GOB [...]	2005-06-22 13:53:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ BU
05SOFIA1207	(U) BULGARIAN ORGANIZED CRIME (C-CN5-00054) [...] (U) This cable is in response to ref A request for information about organized crime in Bulgaria and the Balkans. Where direct sources are not cited, connections are largely based on information from operational contacts and open-source publications. ----------------------- OVERVIEW AND ACTIVITIES [...]	2005-07-07 07:59:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR KCRM PGOV EINV ECON KCOR BU
05SOFIA1239	BULGARIA: EXTREME NATIONALIST PARTY ENTERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The extreme nationalist political group Ataka (Attack) won 8.7 percent of the vote in June's general election and became the fourth largest political party in the new parliament which commenced in Sofia July 11. If, as expected, the first three parties form a coalition governme [...]	2005-07-12 12:29:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BU
05SOFIA1280	PUTTING OUT BRUSHFIRES: FRANCE AND ISLAMIC [...] (C) Summary: Through surveillance, arrests and other methods, the GOF prevents or puts out brushfires of Islamic extremism on an almost daily basis, and has been doing so for decades. According to recent press reports, the RG, France's police intelligence service, estimates that 6 million Musli [...]	2005-07-15 16:37:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BU
05SOFIA1329	BULGARIAN SOCIALISTS PRESENT MINORITY GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Socialist PM-designate Sergei Stanishev presented his cabinet choices July 24, drawing candidates from his own party as well as his coalition partner, the mainly ethnic-Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, and outside technocrats. The proposed list seeks to garner public [...]	2005-07-25 16:02:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BU
05SOFIA137	O/I DAVIES Q KUNEVA TALKING POINTS [...] (C) The following text is sent as an O/I to EUR/SCE because Embassy Sofia's classified e-mail system is not working. DAS Glyn Davies meeting with Bulgarian Minister for European Affairs Meglena Kuneva on Jan 24 CONTEXT Bulgaria's next step in the process towards EU accession (planned for [...]	2005-01-21 16:34:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT BU
05SOFIA1450	PARLIAMENT APPROVES BULGARIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Action request Para 7 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At an extraordinary session of parliament on August 16, the largest coalition in Bulgaria's post-communist history approved the nomination of Socialist leader Sergei Stanishev as prime minister. Stanishev was backed by MPs from a three-party coalitio [...]	2005-08-17 14:18:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BU
05SOFIA1477	NEW BULGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES IRAQ, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin told Charge' August 22 that Bulgaria would not follow the "Spanish model" in its withdrawal from Iraq. Instead, the Bulgarian departure, planned to take place before the end of the year, will be done in close consultation with the U.S. and other Coa [...]	2005-08-23 15:12:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR EINV ETTC OVIP LY IZ BG
05SOFIA1504	BULGARIA: MEDIA AND POLITICIANS FAN ANTI-ROMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The emergence of the extreme nationalist party Ataka has paralleled a surge in anti-Roma reporting that is adding to a troubling increase in ethnic tension. Ataka won a surprisingly high nine percent of the national vote in June and continues to fan negative attitudes towards R [...]	2005-08-26 14:15:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KTIA BU
05SOFIA1527	BULGARIA ISSUES STATEMENTS SUPPORTING IRAQI [...] (SBU) In response to reftel points delivered by DCM to Deputy Foreign Minister Lyubomir Kyuchukov and Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Zlatin Trupkov August 29, President Purvanov's office and the MFA released the following supportive statements (informal translation provided by Embassy So [...]	2005-08-31 12:13:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL IZ BU
05SOFIA1545	BULGARIA: AS FLOOD WATERS FALL, EXTENSIVE COSTS [...] SUMMARY: Though government officials are still completing on-site damage assessments, their preliminary estimate of flood losses stands at one billion leva (USD 625 million) and 10 deaths. A recent USDA report shows the agricultural sector has sustained substantial damage, estimated at USD [...]	2005-09-02 09:26:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL ASEC BU
05SOFIA1548	BULGARIAN PM CONFIRMS INTENTION TO REMAIN ENGAGED [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a weekly parliamentary question and answer session, Prime Minister Stanishev confirmed his government's intention to remain engaged in Iraq despite the withdrawal of its military contingent by the end of 2005. Stanishev added that an interagency commission will suggest possible [...]	2005-09-02 13:04:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ BU
05SOFIA1554	BULGARIANS FOCUSING ON IRAQI FOLLOW-ON MISSION [...] (C) Summary: In their Sept. 7 introductory meeting, new Bulgarian FM Kalfin told Ambassador Beyrle that Bulgaria considers it very important to be "loyal, predictable and remain involved in Iraq," and hopes to have its position regarding follow-on Iraqi military participation ready for disc [...]	2005-09-07 13:26:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	BU IZ MARR MOPS NATO
05SOFIA1561	SENATOR HAGEL MEETS NEW BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Hagel was the first Washington official to meet the new government after the June elections. He stressed energy and investment issues, Bulgaria's strategic importance as an ally in the region that extends eastward, and Bulgaria's need to improve its investment climate by [...]	2005-09-08 16:31:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV OVIP PREL OREP ENRG MARR EINV LY BU
05SOFIA1565	BULGARIA REQUEST FOR FY06 USDA PL-480 TITLE I [...] Name and Address of Applicant Government of Bulgaria Contacts: Brian Goggin Agricultural Attache Sofia Bulgaria Telephone: (3592) 939-5704 Email: Brian.goggin@usda.gov 2. Country of Donation Bulgaria 3. and 4. Kind and Quantity of Commodities Requeste [...]	2005-09-09 12:42:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR EAID BU
05SOFIA1618	BULGARIAN INTERIOR MINISTER DEFENDS CONTROVERSIAL [...] (S) SUMMARY. Interior Minister Rumen Petkov argued in his first meeting with Ambassador Beyrle for both deeper and more formal cooperation on intelligence and law enforcement matters. He called for the signing of a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) or a memorandum of understanding on law [...]	2005-09-19 14:14:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET	PREL PGOV ASEC KCRM PINR BG
05SOFIA1681	COMBATING EXTREMISM IN BULGARIA [...] (S) SUMMARY: Bulgaria,s Muslim minority has been a target for recruitment by foreign extremist groups since the early 1990s, and local media have reported sensational accounts of purported radical Islamic activity. Despite these reports, the vast majority of Bulgaria,s roughly 13 percent Muslim min [...]	2005-09-30 12:49:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO KMPI EAID BU
05SOFIA1683	BULGARIA WANTS TO CONSULT WITH EU BEFORE COMMITING [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Off and Agricultural attache delivered the talking points regarding the International Partnership on Avian Influenza and upcoming Senior Officials meeting to the Ministry of Health and Agriculture Ministry respectively. Dr. Angal Kunchev, the head epidemiologist at MOH, and Rado [...]	2005-09-30 14:04:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ECON PREL SOCI BG KSTH WHO
05SOFIA1685	BULGARIAN INTERIOR MINISTER SAYS HE WILL DISBAND [...] (S) SUMMARY: Interior Minister Rumen Petkov's appointment of a "Citizen's Advisory Council" consisting largely of retired Communist-era security officials has caused a domestic political uproar in Bulgaria that has forced the Socialist-led government into some quick backtracking. Petkov told A [...]	2005-09-30 15:34:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET	PREL PGOV ASEC KCRM BG
05SOFIA1729	ISLAM AND ISLAMIC EXTREMISM IN BULGARIA [...] (S) SUMMARY: Bulgaria's large Muslim community is predominantly moderate and traditional, though both foreign and indigenous Islamic extremists are active in the country. Bulgaria's government is officially tolerant, but Muslim minorities and their problems are often ignored by central authori [...]	2005-10-11 14:08:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PGOV ASEC SOCI PINR BU
05SOFIA1795	DEMOCRACY BUILDING: SUCCESS STORIES AND BEST [...] Democracy building in Bulgaria has been a lengthy process with multiple dimensions. The USG has been actively involved with different aspects of the reform efforts and can claim excellent results and success in many areas. There are two areas where the USG is a pioneer in terms of providing [...]	2005-10-17 13:35:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM BU
05SOFIA1796	PROGRESS ON U.S. MILITARY ACCESS, BUT TOUGH ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: A negotiating team led by Ambassador Robert Loftis made significant progress toward concluding a supplemental Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the GOB during talks in Sofia October 6-7. Significant work remains to be done, however, in the areas of freedom of movement and c [...]	2005-10-17 14:11:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL BU
05SOFIA1808	BULGARIA CONFIRMS MANPADS COMPONENTS SHIPPED, [...] (S) SUMMARY: The GOB confirmed that 50 MANPADS components were shipped to Egypt after the conclusion of a U.S.-Bulgarian bilateral agreement intended to take Bulgaria out of the commercial MANPADS business. The GOB maintains it never committed to preventing this sale and claims a misunderstan [...]	2005-10-20 06:52:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET	PARM PREL MASS MARR BG
05SOFIA1860	BULGARIAN FOREIGN MINSTER DISCUSSES LIBYA, IRAQ, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Kalfin told the Ambassador October 27 that Bulgaria would be ready "soon" to continue discussions regarding a follow-on mission for Bulgarian soldiers in Iraq. We will follow up with the MFA the week of October 31. On the fate of the Bulgarian nurses sentenced t [...]	2005-10-28 15:01:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KCRM LY IZ BU
05SOFIA187	BULGARIAN DEFENSE MINISTER SIGNS SUSPECT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite a letter from the Ambassador questioning the adequacy of the process used to select the winning bidder, Defense Minister Svinarov signed January 28 a deal worth up to USD 400 million for the purchase of 18 Cougar and Panther helicopters from EADS. Sikorsky Helicopter was [...]	2005-01-31 15:53:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL BEXP ETRD KCOR BU NATO
05SOFIA1874	FY 2006 PROPOSALS FOR INL-MANAGED SEED FUNDED [...] SUMMARY: Post herein submits proposals to continue four INL-managed projects using FY 2006 funding: Resident Legal Advisor (RLA); Forensics Laboratories Project; the Criminal Law Liaison (CLL); and Embassy Rule of Law Assistant. Post also proposes transforming the Regional Criminal Justice [...]	2005-11-02 04:44:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID ASEC PGOV BU
05SOFIA1881	BULGARIA DENIES ENTRY TO REV. MOON [...] SUMMARY: Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon was denied permission to enter Bulgaria on October 26 after the MOI deemed his presence "undesirable," citing inability to provide security following the shooting of high-profile banker Emil Kyulev. 2. (SBU) Moon had planned to arrive on Oct [...]	2005-11-02 15:25:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SCUL KIRF BU
05SOFIA1916	BULGARIAN REACTION TO IP ACTION PLAN; NEXT STEPS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Bulgarian government's reaction to our proposed intellectual property (IP) action plan (REF A) has been generally favorable. More than ever, the GOB appears eager to demonstrate progress on IP issues largely because the EU has identified it as a key area of concern. Despi [...]	2005-11-10 14:16:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR ASEC BU
05SOFIA1950	2006 NTE UPDATE FOR BULGARIA [...] The following is Embassy's input for the 2006 National Trade Estimate (NTE) report for Bulgaria. The text -- including the ranking of barriers -- has been sent electronically to USTR and State (EB). RANKING OF BARRIERS: The following are general range estimates of what the increase in U.S. e [...]	2005-11-21 14:47:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EFIN ECON KIPR BEXP EAGR PGOV BU
05SOFIA2025	BULGARIA'S "ATAKA" PARTY BECOMING INCREASINGLY ANTI- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The rhetoric of the extreme nationalist party Ataka has become increasingly anti-American in recent weeks, with much of the party's wrath focused on proposed joint military facilities and Bulgaria's participation in the Iraq coalition. Neither high-profile infighting in Ataka' [...]	2005-12-09 14:34:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR PINR SOCI BU RU
05SOFIA2026	GOVERNMENT FINALIZES DEAL WITH AES ON MARITSA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Representatives of the Bulgarian government signed December 7 the underlying financial agreements with AES and four financial institutions to construct a new 670 MW coal-fired power plant. The financial agreements represent the biggest ever greenfield investment in the Bulgaria [...]	2005-12-09 14:44:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG PREL ETRD PGOV BU
05SOFIA2051	BULGARIA: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] The following submission provides Post's contributions to the Department's "Country Reports on Terrorism 2005" report. 2. Bulgaria remains a steadfast member of the global coalition against terrorism. No significant acts of terrorism occurred in Bulgaria in 2005. Bulgaria is not a sp [...]	2005-12-14 04:02:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC BU
05SOFIA2055	Entertainment Recruiter's Likely Ties to Visa Fraud [...] We have noted a pattern of visa abuse that strongly implicates Magic Star Entertainment (MSE) -- 142 Estates Circle, Lake Mary, FL 32746, phones (407) 322-9211 and (407) 322-9322, email Kristo500@aol.com, website www.magic- star.com -- in alien smuggling, using the P1 visa category. MSE's pres [...]	2005-12-14 13:15:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KFRD ASEC BU
05SOFIA2063	RUSSIA PLAYING ENERGY HARDBALL WITH BULGARIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Stanishev's Foreign Policy Advisor, Valentin Radomirski, told the Ambassador December 12 that a Gazprom representative gave Stanishev "an ultimatum" to either renegotiate the current agreement on the purchase of natural gas or face a cutoff. In face-to-face meeti [...]	2005-12-15 15:52:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG MARR BU RU
05SOFIA2076	BULGARIA HAILS SUCCESSFUL IRAQI VOTE, PLEDGES COOPERATION [...] Bulgaria's government congratulated the Iraqi people on the successful conduct of the December 15 parliamentary elections and said it was ready to continue its cooperation with the new Iraqi leadership. In a special public statement issued December 16, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Dimiter Tsanch [...]	2005-12-19 15:15:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER KPAO IZ BU
05SOFIA2123	BULGARIA: BASING PROSPECTS ON TRACK DESPITE PUBLIC [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-30 10:31:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL KPAO BU RU
05SOFIA242	BULGARIA RULING PARTY SEALS DEAL TO AVERT POLITICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria's ruling coalition signed February 7 a cooperation agreement with the New Time (NT) party that secured majority support for Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha's government in the upcoming no-confidence vote. Under the deal, the ruling party, its junior coalition partner, and the [...]	2005-02-07 15:31:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL BU
05SOFIA283	BULGARIAN DEFENSE EQUIPMENT SALES TO IRAQ AND [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: We continue to support procurement of military equipment for the security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan as a major USG priority, but aspects of this process at the local level have raised concerns about potential weapons diversion. Embassy has encountered at least one case wh [...]	2005-02-11 12:55:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PGOV ETTC IZ AF BU
05SOFIA345	2005 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW - BULGARIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Based on the amount of pirated goods flowing through Bulgaria and the lack of necessary government action despite repeated prodding by all levels of the embassy and industry, we feel that this government lacks seriousness in addressing intellectual property rights (IPR) violati [...]	2005-02-23 14:24:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR BU
05SOFIA423	BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES ANGLO-AMERICAN SCHOOL [...] After months of intensive lobbying by Embassy Sofia, the Parliament ratified with an overwhelming majority March 1 the U.S.-Bulgarian agreement defining the legal status of the Anglo-American School (AAS) in Sofia. With its status defined in law, AAS can now begin construction of a new camp [...]	2005-03-04 14:21:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	ASCH PREL KTIA BU
05SOFIA508	BULGARIA LOOKING TO SELL ELECTRICITY TO IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Bulgaria's new Minister of Energy, Miroslav Sevlievski, asked March 15 for U.S. assistance in facilitating a deal that would provide Bulgarian electricity to Iraq through Turkey. In a meeting with the DCM, he suggested that the deal would provide up to 300 MW to the Bosporus g [...]	2005-03-17 04:33:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PREL ETRD PGOV IZ TU BU
05SOFIA626	BULGARIA: NEXT STEP ON NEGOTIATING A DOUBLE [...] SUMMARY. Bulgarian tax authorities will meet with officials from U.S. Treasury in Washington on April 19-20 to review technical issues and determine when formal negotiations of a Treaty for the Avoidance of Double Taxation (DTT) should begin. Deputy Secretary Zoellick lent his support to a [...]	2005-04-04 10:32:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PREL BU
05SOFIA766	CONTINUED CRIMINAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE FOR [...] SUMMARY: Bulgarian criminal activity already has a direct and increasing impact on the United States, which is likely to continue even after Bulgaria's planned EU entry in 2007. Embassy Sofia requests continued U.S. criminal justice assistance following SEED graduation in FY06. Current U.S [...]	2005-04-21 14:02:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID ASEC PREL BU
05SOFIA922	BULGARIA: PRESIDENT PURVANOV CONFIRMS TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary: President Georgi Purvanov will travel to Libya later this month to raise the case of the Bulgarian medics. According to his staff, the President has tentatively scheduled the trip for May 27-28. During the visit, Purvanov plans to meet with Qadhafi and the medics in Tripoli [...]	2005-05-20 12:45:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	BU LY OPDC PREL EUN
05STATE107000	NET-CENTRIC DIPLOMACY DEPLOYS TO 50 MORE POSTS [...] During the remainder of the 2005 calendar year, up to 50 more posts will be provided assistance to add content to their classified homepages on SIPRNet through the Net- Centric Diplomacy program. Assistance to selected posts will include a scanner, software, training, and temporary staff augme [...]	2005-06-08 20:14:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	AADP AMGT AINF PREL ECON CMGT ACOA KPAO OIIP
05STATE149626	STAUNCHING THE FLOW OF SAUDI SUICIDE BOMBERS TO [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 3-10. SUMMARY 2. (S) The Saudis have been aggressive in their public condemnation of the 7/7 London bombings, the murder of the Egyptian diplomat in Baghdad, and the Sharm al-Shaykh attacks. We should urge the Saudis to sustain the public [...]	2005-08-12 15:20:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	PGOV PTER PREL UK JO GCCC
05STATE226504	GUIDANCE ON THE USE OF NEW SIPRNET DISTRIBUTION [...] The Department has established a new distribution caption, SIPDIS (5FAH-2 H-440),to facilitate inter-agency information sharing via post classified homepages on the US Government Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet). At present 180 posts and bureaus have classified homepages on [...]	2005-12-16 20:48:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ACOA AOMS PINR KCCP SIPDIS GUIDANCE
05TAIPEI315	TAIWAN LOSING CARIBBEAN TO PRC CHECK BOOK DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary. Beijing's efforts in the Caribbean resulted in another victory in the check-book diplomacy battle on Thursday January 20, when the PRC announced it had established diplomatic relations with Grenada. While Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) officials say they have not offi [...]	2005-01-25 23:23:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW
05TAIPEI3262	CHINA OUTMANEUVERING TAIWAN IN AFRICA [...] (C) Summary: The PRC is promoting an economic and political campaign in Africa to expand its regional influence, secure natural resources, and pressure Taiwan's diplomatic partners. Taiwan officials and African diplomats resident in Taipei state Beijing is offering economic incentives to gove [...]	2005-08-08 01:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC TW
05TAIPEI3712	RESPONDING TO CHINESE BAN ON TAIWAN PARTICIPATION [...] (C) AIT Taipei received word from Taiwan Ministry of Justice on September 6 that the application for a Hong Kong visa for Prosecutor Sun Chih-yuan had been denied by the Hong Kong authorities. The MOJ requested assistance from AIT. Shortly thereafter, we received word from the Taiwan Intelle [...]	2005-09-08 09:59:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	KIPR TW IPR
05TASHKENT572	SKYTEL SCANDAL: FIASCO IN THE MAKING [...] (C) Summary: NCI Projects International, a U.S. firm that invested in Uzbek cellular company Skytel, claims that President Karimov's daughter, Gulnora Karimova, is attempting to take over Skytel. The GOU officially stated that the "primary operator" of Skytel's frequency is causing interferenc [...]	2005-02-24 09:35:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PINR UZ
05TBILISI2937	GEORGIAN TV CREWS COVER KATRINA IN LOUISIANNA [...] SUMMARY: Georgian media gave intensive coverage to Hurricane Katrina in prime time newscasts and lead newspaper stories. However, the coverage was based on international wire and news agency reports, such as AP and Reuters. The exceptions were Rustavi-2 and Imedi TV. Both television station [...]	2005-11-10 03:24:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC OIIP
05TBILISI3200	GEORGIA'S FINANCIAL POLICE: THE IRS WITH GUNS? [...] Summary. Recent business establishment closings by the Financial Police (FP) have prompted a renewed effort by local business and NGO leaders to encourage the Georgian Government to be transparent in their tax collection and enforcement efforts. Many in the business and NGO communities conten [...]	2005-12-08 12:58:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EFIN EINV KCRM GG
05TBILISI3215	GEORGIA'S PARTICIPATION IN WORLD BANK DEVELOPMENT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-09 13:17:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV GG
05TEGUCIGALPA1041	Scenesetter for CoDel Nelson May 29-30 Visit to [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Nelson to Honduras May 29-30. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, over three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. There will be national el [...]	2005-05-16 23:21:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1227	MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, VISA REVOCATION AND [...] On 06/07, the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled, "Another one falls." "We had already anticipated where Bolivia's chaotic situation would lead. A profound political and social crisis pushes it towards ungovernability." "Everything happens in front [...]	2005-06-09 16:44:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1247	MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 09, 2005 [...] On 06/09, the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled, "Funeral March" "As seen in Bolivia, once you enter a crisis it can set of a chain reaction in several directions with unpredictable results. Today this country is on the verge of a civil war because th [...]	2005-06-10 16:18:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1274	MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS AND BOLIVIA, JUNE 13, [...] On 6/11, the Tegucigalpa-based moderate paper "El Heraldo" published an editorial entitled "Bolivia: Limits to Patience." "The fact that Bolivia will have its 3rd president in 3 years, without breaking constitutional order, demonstrates the crisis created by a political and economic model that [...]	2005-06-14 21:03:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1297	BLOQUE POPULAR TO PRESIDENT BUSH: KEEP LUIS POSADA [...] SUMMARY: Bloque Popular, a leftist political party and alliance of social organizations, delivered a letter to post Monday, June 13, 2005, demanding that Luis Posada Carriles not be returned to Honduras and that he be extradited to Venezuela. The Bloque Popular letter, addressed to President [...]	2005-06-17 17:21:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER SNAR PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS SMIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1317	HONDURAN STEEL: A FRONT FOR CUBAN MONEY TRANSFERS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 5, 2005, Mr. Antonio Kattn, owner of Honduran steel company Aceros Alfa, told ECONOFFS that he is facing unfair competition from Cuban government-owned competitor, Aceros Centro Caribe. According to Mr. Kattan, Aceros Centro Caribe is importing production inputs (steel bi [...]	2005-06-21 16:36:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KJUS PINR ETRD CU CO HO MONY NT
05TEGUCIGALPA1331	MEDIA REACTION ON OAS AND NICARAGUA, JUNE 21, 2005 [...] Op-ed in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 6/21, titled "OAS in Nicaragua." "The Secretary General of the OAS, Jose Miguel Insulza, returned to Washington from Managua without being able to do anything special to resolve the conflict between the executive and the judicial branches [...]	2005-06-22 15:33:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1343	MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 23, 2005 [...] The Tegucigalpa-based moderate paper "El Heraldo" published an editorial entitled "Bad Politicians and Underdevelopment" "The partisan manipulation of institutions upon which depends the good management of political, social, and economic issues of a country is, unfortunately, a characteristic [...]	2005-06-23 17:15:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1349	THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: HONDURAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM [...] (C) SUMMARY: It is possible that the National Congress may remove the Attorney General (AG) Ovidio Navarro and Deputy AG Yuri Melara in the next 2-4 weeks. Last week's indictment of the outgoing Government and Justice Minister and the revelation of U.S. revocation of the Deputy AG's visa are [...]	2005-06-24 14:09:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KJUS PHUM PINR ASEC EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1376	ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: HONDURAN MINISTER OF [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-28 20:59:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KJUS PHUM PGOV PREL PINR HO KPOA
05TEGUCIGALPA1513	NEW HONDURAN FOREIGN MINISTER SENDS LETTER TO [...] Honduran Foreign Minister Mario Fortin, under cover of a July 11 diplomatic note, sent the Embassy a letter dated July 6 to Secretary Rice. The letter was sent by the MFA prior to the July 14 delivery of the July 12 letter from the Secretary (reftel) under cover letter from the Ambassador. [...]	2005-07-21 17:36:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OPDC PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1548	HONDURAS NOT SURE IT WANTS A PIECE OF UN [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-27 22:49:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KUNR KPKO HO UNSC UNGA ECOSOC
05TEGUCIGALPA1575	HONDURAS READY AND WILLING FOR GLOBAL PEACE [...] (SBU) Acting PolChief demarched MFA Acting Director General (A/DG) of Foreign Relations Alan Javier Oviedo Garcia July 19 and delivered ref A talking points on the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI). A/DG Oviedo asked if the U.S. Government was demarching any other countries in the C [...]	2005-07-27 18:14:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MARR MASS PREL PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1580	ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AND MURDER OF DEA AGENT [...] Summary. On July 27, 2005, at approximately 1100 hours local time, DEA Agent Timothy Markey, vacationing in Honduras, was shot and killed while visiting the Suyapa Cathedral in Tegucigalpa. Two individuals now in custody appear to be responsible for the shooting/death of Agent Markey. Local au [...]	2005-08-01 20:29:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	KSAC ASEC CASC KCRM PREL PGOV KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1614	MUSICAL CHAIRS: WHO'S IN AND WHO'S OUT IN HONDURAN [...] (SBU) Summary: With Honduran national elections approaching on November 27, the Maduro administration has been shaken up in recent months by a number of high-level cabinet changes. Turn-around in cabinet positions, whether due to scandal or less scintillating circumstances, will affect the [...]	2005-08-03 22:26:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ETRD KCRM PHUM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1641	HONDURAN ATTENDANCE AT UNGA TBD; 9/11-15 PACKED [...] PolChief discussed Honduran attendance at the upcoming UN General Assembly (UNGA) with Honduran Foreign Minister Mario Fortin August 4. The discussion followed Acting PolChief's demarche on the same subject with MFA Acting Director General (A/DG) of Foreign Relations Alan Javier Oviedo Garcia [...]	2005-08-05 22:36:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP HO UNGA
05TEGUCIGALPA1643	REQUEST FOR USD 1.6 MILLION IN FY05 ESF FOR [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA/PPC. Please see para. 9. 2. (U) Summary: On November 27, 2005, Honduras will elect a new president, national congress, and mayors in the first national general election under the new electoral reforms. The new 2004 Electoral Law substantially reduce [...]	2005-08-08 16:05:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1644	DOLE FILES $137 MILLION SUIT AGAINST HONDURAS [...] (U) This is an action request for EB/IFD and L/CID -- please see paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: Following the rejection of its two appeals of a recent $137 million tax judgment against it by the GOH revenue authority, Dole sees little choice but to challenge the administrative ruling in cou [...]	2005-08-08 16:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EFIN PGOV KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1691	CURRENT DIALOGUE WITH TAIWANESE REPS IN HONDURAS [...] (S) In response to reftel, here are Post's answers: - The Embassy currently has mainly limited contact with Taiwanese representatives, usually friendly interaction at events where the diplomatic corps is invited to attend. Taiwanese Ambassador You Tien-der is a regular attendee of these events [...]	2005-08-12 23:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PREL ECON ETRD ETTC PHUM TW CH HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1726	HONDURAN IMMIGRATION DIRECTOR RAMON ROMERO [...] (C) Summary. Former Honduran Immigration Director Ramon Romero, arrested May 1 in the corruption/fraud scandal at Honduran Immigration, was released on bail August 18 in a judicial decision that appears to have been made due to corrupt influence. Romero's attorney previously admitted that Ro [...]	2005-08-19 22:14:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	SMIG PGOV KJUS KCRM PTER SNAR PREL ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1728	HONDURAS: NEW WORLD BANK RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) Summary: Recently-arrived World Bank Resident Representative Adrian Fozzard highlighted the Bank's current foci in Honduras, including closer coordination with other donors, encouraging GOH civil service reform and an orderly transition following the November 27 elections, and the product [...]	2005-08-22 14:06:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1790	HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO MEETS WITH CHARGE ON [...] (C) Summary: On August 27, Honduran President Ricardo Maduro invited the Charge (CDA) to lunch to discuss various issues, including the president's personal reputation amid corruption charges within the Honduran government. Maduro lamented what he called a needless distancing in the bilate [...]	2005-08-30 20:55:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SMIG PINS KCRM KJUS SNAR PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1791	HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO WILL ATTEND 9/14 [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-30 22:03:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM OVIP KDEM HO UNGA
05TEGUCIGALPA1802	HONDURAN IMMIGRATION SCANDAL: ROMERO ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary. The Honduran Immigration scandal continues to be a hot topic. Former Immigration Director Ramon Romero filed a legal complaint August 29 against EmbOffs, in an apparent attempt to distract attention from his own legal problems. The Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime appeal [...]	2005-08-31 23:15:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	SMIG PGOV KJUS KCRM PTER SNAR PREL ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1821	HONDURAN IMMIGRATION SCANDAL: ROMERO LOSES APPEAL [...] (C) Summary. The Tegucigalpa Appeals Court ruled 2-1 late August 31 in favor of the Public Ministry's appeal of the August 18 decision by a lower court to grant bail to former Honduran Immigration Director Ramon Romero on the charge of abuse of authority. Post's initial assessment is that Ro [...]	2005-09-02 22:03:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	SMIG PGOV KCRM PTER SNAR PREL ASEC KLIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1837	RAISING FUEL COSTS LEADS TO TRANSPORTATION STRIKE [...] (U) Summary. On Tuesday, September 6, 2005, both taxi and bus drivers blocked intersections and several main arteries leading in and out of Tegucigalpa to protest the raising cost of gasoline in Honduras. There have been unconfirmed reports of violence, including rocks being thrown at vehicles [...]	2005-09-07 18:28:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC EPET ECON ELAB PGOV CASC KSAC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1859	HONDURAN GAS PRICE PROTESTS RATTLE PRESIDENT [...] (C) A harried Honduran President Ricardo Maduro telephoned the Charge late on September 7, saying that he might declare a "State of Siege" to deal with the crisis on the streets. The president bitterly charged Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya with inciting insurrection [...]	2005-09-09 00:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EPET ELAB PHUM CASC ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1884	MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE: ARTICLE 505 EXCHANGE OF [...] (SBU) On August 12, PolMilOff and MILGP Commander briefed Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (VMFA) Juan Alberto Lara Bueso, a member of the Honduran Armed Forces (HOAF) - representing both the HOAF and the Ministry of Defense (MOD),and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General of [...]	2005-09-13 22:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS MARR PGOV KTIA PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1936	A DISTURBING TREND OF U.S. CRIMINALS OBTAINING [...] (SBU) Summary: In the month of September RSO and the Consular section's Anti-Fraud unit (AFU) have has tracked two separate cases of U.S. felons/fugitives who have obtained a valid Honduran passport under fraudulent means. RSO is also aware of one other case where a Salvadoran gang member was [...]	2005-09-21 16:47:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV SNAR PTER CPAS KCRM KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1938	SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (U) The following responses are keyed to the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire (ref A). --------------------------------- POLITICAL VIOLENCE --------------------------------- Â [...]	2005-09-21 17:27:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC HO KSAC
05TEGUCIGALPA1950	HONDURAN LABOR LEADER IS MURDERED ON MAJOR HIGHWAY; NO [...] Francisco Cruz Galeano, a 44 year-old General Confederation of Workers (CGT) labor leader and coordinator for the regions of Comayagua, Intibuca and La Paz, was shot to death on September 11 in Ojo de Agua, on the road from Comayagua to Siguatepeque. Darwing Roberto Maradiaga, who was traveling [...]	2005-09-22 16:49:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1954	A DISTURBING TREND OF U.S. CRIMINALS OBTAINING [...] (SBU) Summary: In the month of September RSO and the Consular section's Anti-Fraud unit (AFU) have has tracked two separate cases of U.S. felons/fugitives who have obtained a valid Honduran passport under fraudulent means. RSO is also aware of one other case where a Salvadoran gang member was [...]	2005-09-22 18:48:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV SNAR PTER CPAS KCRM KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1987	USAID Assistance to Honduran Elections: Primary [...] This is an action request for WHA/PCC. Please see para. 6. 2. During the February 2005 Honduran primaries, USAID provided more than $1.4 million in funding, which supported: - $65,000 (DCHA) for technical assistance to the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to provide election expe [...]	2005-09-27 20:34:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EAID PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1992	HONDURAN MINISTERS DEMARCHED ON DEPORTATION PLAN; [...] (SBU) Charge, Acting DCM, Consul General, and PolChief met September 26 with Minister of the Presidency Ramon Medina Luna, Minister of Government and Justice Jose Pacheco, Acting Foreign Minister Juan Alberto Lara Bueso, and Commissioner for Hondurans Overseas AMB Rene Becerra to deliver ref A [...]	2005-09-27 22:48:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SMIG ASEC PGOV KCRM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2038	DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGIES FOR HONDURAS: [...] (C) Post is providing suggested democracy promotion strategies for the next six to eight months, keyed to questions in ref A. Post emphasizes the importance of the November 27 general elections and January 2006 transition to a new president/vice president, congress, and municipal governments. [...]	2005-09-30 22:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2086	Scenesetter for Secretary Gutierrez Visit to [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of Secretary Gutierrez to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on October 18-20. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, with less than four months remaining in his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries [...]	2005-10-07 20:13:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL ETRD ECON PGOV SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2092	HONDURAS GIVEN SECRETARY'S LETTER ON UNESCO [...] This is an action cable for IO/UNESCO and IO/T. Please see paragraph 4. 2. PolChief delivered ref A letter from Secretary Rice (under cover letter from the Charge) and demarche/non-paper on the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Expressions to Acting Foreign Minister Juan Alberto Lara Bueso the [...]	2005-10-11 14:48:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD SCUL SOCI AORC KJUS HO UNESCO UN
05TEGUCIGALPA2172	CHILD LABOR IN HONDURAS: INFORMATION FOR THE TRADE [...] Summary. Over the past several months, EmbOffs have spoken with government officials, private sector, labor unions, non-governmental organizations, and child advocates regarding the situation of child labor in Honduras. The Embassy has been active in promoting an agenda to support the eradic [...]	2005-10-21 21:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2179	HONDURAS: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATOR OFFICER [...] (U) Post provides the following information in response to ref A. Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer for Tegucigalpa is DCM James Williard, phone (504) 236 9320 x4768, unclassified e-mail WilliardJG@state.gov, classified e-mail WilliardJG@state.sgov.gov. TFCO Deputy is Econ Officer Mart [...]	2005-10-25 17:05:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET//NOFORN	KTFN KVPR EFIN PTER ETTC PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA218	HONDURAS REQUEST FOR INCLE ANTI-TIP FUNDS - [...] Summary: We request that G/TIP allocate INCLE funds totaling $129,500 to one Honduran project that will strengthen the capacity of the National Preventive Police and the Public Ministry to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children. The project will be implemented jointly [...]	2005-02-01 11:43:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG ELAB EAID ASEC HO

05TEGUCIGALPA2185	OPIC-BACKED U.S. INVESTOR'S USD 11 MILLION HOUSIN [...] (C) Summary: The OPIC-supported Altos de Zambrano housing project has been stalled for nearly six months in SERNA. Post does not find Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources' (SERNA) justifications for the delay credible, and fears that political pressures and/or personal interests of [...]	2005-10-26 22:45:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD SENV ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2195	Honduras: Readout of Secretary Gutierrez [...] Summary: During an October 19 meeting in San Pedro Sula, Commerce Secretary Gutierrez and Honduran Trade Minister Guerrero concurred that Honduras is well on its way towards CAFTA implementation, having passed several key laws and proposed others. IPR protections remain a source of concern fo [...]	2005-10-27 18:01:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ETRD EINV EIND KTEX PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2207	COUNTERNARCOTICS BATTLE IN HONDURAS: GOH POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent maritime interdictions, air radar tracks, and drug seizures, along with corroborated source information, indicate that Honduras has become a significant transit point for narcotics destined for the United States. There is evidence of the existence of an illicit trade in [...]	2005-10-28 18:40:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL KCRM PTER EFIN MOPS PGOV PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2217	Honduras: Readout of Secretary Gutierrez [...] Summary: On October 19, Secretary Gutierrez met with President Ricardo Maduro in a closed session. The Secretary encouraged Maduro to attend the Summit of the Americas, and to quickly comply with any outstanding CAFTA requirements to expedite entry into force. Maduro welcomed the Secretary' [...]	2005-10-31 22:34:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ETRD EINV EIND KTEX PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA223	Honduras: Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: [...] The following is Post's submission for the "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2004-5" for Honduras. 2. Begin Text Honduras' constitutional government is headed by President Ricardo Maduro, elected in November 2001 in elections that domestic and international observe [...]	2005-02-01 11:49:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SMIG EAID KDEM KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2237	Honduras 2005 BFIF Program Summary [...] This is a summary on programmatic outcomes of Honduras' use of 2005 BFIF program funds. 2. Embassy Honduras would like to thank EB/CBA for continued financial support of our joint Commercial-Economic outreach initiatives. Post worked closely with the Honduran-American Chamber of Commerce ( [...]	2005-11-01 23:08:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EINV ECON HO BFIF
05TEGUCIGALPA2252	HONDURAN CAMPAIGN FINANCE 1: SMALL PARTIES DECLARE [...] This cable is the first in an occasional series on the important, but difficult to cover, issue of campaign financing leading up to the November 27 national elections. CNA Requests TSE Enforcement of Campaign Finance Rules --------------------------------------------- --------- 2. The Nat [...]	2005-11-02 23:03:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA23	Scenesetter for CoDel Weller's January 16-18 Visit [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Weller to Honduras January 16-18. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, almost three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there were [...]	2005-01-04 18:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2347	10 DAYS TO HONDURAN ELECTIONS A FAIRLY CONFIDENT [...] (C) Summary. Ten days before the November 27 general elections, National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo has a slight lead over Liberal Party presidential candidate Mel Zelaya in all non-Liberal Party polls, leading by 3 percent in probably the most accurate poll. Ambassador [...]	2005-11-18 14:56:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2372	FEMINISM, CRONYISM, AND HONDURAN ELECTIONS: THE [...] SUMMARY: With Honduran national elections taking place November 27, polls are beginning to flesh out what shape the 128-seat Honduran legislature will likely take. While it is uncertain if the 2004 Electoral Law mandating a quota at least 30 percent female participation will prove to be the [...]	2005-11-23 00:53:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KCOR KWMN PINR ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2391	FIST STRONGER THAN AN OPEN HAND - 2 DAYS TO [...] (C) Summary. Three days before the November 27 general elections and National Party Presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo still holds a slight lead over Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya - leading by nearly 3 percent in all major cities, according to most recent p [...]	2005-11-25 23:54:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2393	ELECTION SURPRISE IN HONDURAS WITH ZELAYA BEATING [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately an hour after the polls officially closed in Honduras on November 27, Ingenieria Gerencial announced the results of their national exit polls: Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya has decisively beaten National Party presidential candidate Porf [...]	2005-11-28 05:51:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2411	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL HORSERACE OVER: SOMEONE [...] (C) Summary. Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya continues to wait to claim victory in spite of several independent sources that show that he won by over 5 percent over National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo. Formal, public recognition of a Zelaya victo [...]	2005-11-29 21:20:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2414	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS TROT TO THE FINISH [...] (C) Summary. Progress remains slow with the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal's (TSE) official tabulation of the November 27 national elections. Honduras remains quiet, though anxious, about the ongoing political stalemate. In the hopes of generating further progress, and as discussed with [...]	2005-11-30 00:17:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2421	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS DAY 4 - STILL NOT [...] (C) Summary: While progress with the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal's (TSE) official tabulation of the November 27 national elections remains slower than all observers would like, all reports show that counting continues around the clock and without incident. Honduras remains calm. The [...]	2005-11-30 19:13:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2425	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS DAY 4 - AFTERNOON [...] (C) Summary: Tabulations from the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal's (TSE) official count of the November 27 national elections continue to trickle in. The votes that have been tabulated are concurrent with the TSE's Quick Count, showing a likely Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel [...]	2005-11-30 23:35:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2429	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS DAY 5 - LOBO [...] (C) Summary: The Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal's (TSE) official count of the November 27 national elections continues with significant progress having been made in the last 12 hours with the gap between Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and National Party presidenti [...]	2005-12-01 20:10:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2430	VIRTUAL CONSULATE SAN PEDRO SULA [...] Per the reference and in accordance with 2 FAM 131, Post has initiated planning efforts to establish a Virtual Presence Post, to be called United States Virtual Consulate San Pedro Sula (VC SPS). It is anticipated that in February 2006, the Chief of Mission will formally launch VC SPS as par [...]	2005-12-01 20:54:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	AINF AINT AMGT CMGT OIIP KRIM KGIT APER PREL AFSI KWWW KPAO AADP HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2438	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DAY 6 - CIRCLING [...] (C) National Party candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo called Ambassador the late afternoon of December 2 to inform the Ambassador that he will not concede today, and explain that he did not concede December 1 at the request of his party who allege widespread irregularities in the electoral table vo [...]	2005-12-03 02:49:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2442	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WEEKEND UPDATE: [...] (C) Summary: While no official statements were made over the weekend declaring a President-elect, conversations did take place that initially led Post to believe that a concession by National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo would be forthcoming later today, December 5. Furthe [...]	2005-12-05 23:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2453	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AT DAY 9 LIKE THE [...] (C) Summary: Although it has been nine days since the Honduran National Elections ended November 27, it feels like it is day 90. The vote count tabulation is stalling at approximately 90 percent completion and National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo still has not officially [...]	2005-12-06 20:44:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2492	A ZELAYA ADMINISTRATION - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR [...] (C) Summary: In somewhat surprising election results, Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya is now the President-elect. While Zelaya is viewed as a friend of the USG, his personality, administration, and likely "government plans" could make working with him an interesting c [...]	2005-12-13 14:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2499	HONDURAS INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Summary Efforts by the GOH have directly addressed the current drug trafficking routes including air, land, and maritime trans-shipments of cocaine through Honduras. Seizures have been reduced and are at lower quantities due to more enforcement of maritime and other drug trafficking movements [...]	2005-12-13 22:28:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2516	ATTEMPTED INTRUSION INTO USAID BUILDING TEGUCIGALPA [...] (SBU) Summary: At approximately 1710 hours on 12/14/2005, RSO was notified by the Local Guard Force (LGF) that an unknown Honduran male entered the USAID building through the main pedestrian exit. The intruder, who was unarmed but acting in an irrational and paranoid manner, was handcuffed [...]	2005-12-15 22:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC
05TEGUCIGALPA2519	EMBASSY AND ZELAYA TRANSITION TEAM PREPARE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador, DCM, PolChief and EconChief met December 14 with key members of the transition team/new cabinet of President-elect Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, led by Hugo Noe Pino, the head of the transition and future Minister of Finance. Noe Pino confirmed that Zelaya had postponed [...]	2005-12-16 20:05:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KJUS PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2558	TEGUCIGALPA EAC MEETING - DECEMBER 2005 - HOLIDAY [...] (U) Classified by Acting RSO Robert A. Rentz; Reason 1.4 (C,D) 2. (SBU) Per reftel A, Post convened a meeting of the Mission EAC in order to review the security posture of both American and Mission community interests during the upcoming holiday season. The EAC members also discussed pot [...]	2005-12-21 20:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC CASC HO PTER
05TEGUCIGALPA2573	Honduran President-Elect Zelaya's Letter To [...] Ambassador Roberto Flores Bermudez, General Coordinator of the Honduran Presidential Inauguration, under cover of a December 21 circular note to the diplomatic community, sent the Embassy a September 21 letter from President-elect Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales to President Bush. The letter [...]	2005-12-22 22:21:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OPDC PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA273	HONDURAN RESPONSE TO G-8 FM'S LETTER ON IAEA [...] As reported ref A, Embassy delivered the G-8 Foreign Ministers' letter on the IAEA Comprehensive Safeguard Agreements and the Additional Protocol in English (ref C) and Spanish (ref B),under cover letter from the Ambassador, to Minister of Foreign Affairs Leonidas Rosa Bautista in December 20 [...]	2005-02-07 17:00:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP TRGY PREL AORC PARM OPDC HO IAEA
05TEGUCIGALPA347	REQUEST FOR DELETION FROM CLASS [...] VISAS CLOK DELETION - TGG000016C00 2. NAME: CUSTODIO LOPEZ, RAMON, DATE OF BIRTH: 11DEC1930, GENDER: M, COUNTRY OF BIRTH: HOND, NATIONALITY: HOND, CASE NUMBER: 0001034327. 3. CLASS HITS FOR CUSTODIO LOPEZ, RAMON CUSTODIO LOPEZ, RAMON ABAD 11-DEC-1930 HOND P2C WAS 01-JUL-1983 UID: [...]	2005-02-11 20:51:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS PHUM CLOK
05TEGUCIGALPA366	HONDURAS: POST SUPPORTS CUSTOMS SERVICE REQUEST [...] This is an action request; please see para 3. 2. On February 10, Post received a written request, dated January 31, 2005, from Customs Director Arquimedez Jimenez for technical assistance to improve various facets of the Honduran Customs Service. Jimenez specifically cites CAFTA implementa [...]	2005-02-15 13:59:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON KCOR ETRD PGOV PINR KMCA KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA390	Scenesetter for CoDel Taylor's February 22-24 Visit [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Taylor to Honduras February 22-24. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there were sever [...]	2005-02-17 12:06:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA393	HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES: LOBO SET TO BEAT [...] (SBU) Summary: With only days remaining before the February 20 national primary elections, and the official campaigns closed, President of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo leads Tegucigalpa Mayor Miguel Pastor by eight to 18 percent in four February national polls, the most recent taken during t [...]	2005-02-17 17:29:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA404	HONDURAS: 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-18 20:43:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV HO OPIC USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA417	HONDURAS: INPUT FOR 2005 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: There have been no significant moves in the past year by the GOH to either strengthen or weaken the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Honduras. Honduran legislation regarding IPR is largely in compliance with the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspect [...]	2005-02-22 20:44:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD HO
05TEGUCIGALPA47	SEIZURE OF $51,620 U.S. CURRENCY AND THE ARREST OF SIX INDIVIDUALS TI-05-0002/UEZ1I;COLMER-LACAYO,EDUARDO CCX:GFTI-05-9276/OEZ1I; MONEY LAUNDERING GFAN-04-8002; OPERATION KNIGHT MOVES GFTI-98-8001/WEC1F; OPERATION WAHOO GFTI-05-9154; HONDURAS [...] SUMMARY CASE FILE DEFENDANTS Name:FAGOT-Jardines, Edison David DPOB:43 YOA- UNKNOWN Gender: Male Name: BOLANOS, Cibio Misael DPOB: 36 YOA-UNKNOWN Gender: Male COLOMER-Lacayo, Eduardo Age: 40 [...]	2005-01-07 20:01:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	HO NOTAG
05TEGUCIGALPA482	MEDIA REACTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT, MARCH 3, 2005 [...] On 3/2, the evening television newscast "Abriendo Brecha" on Channel 7 broadcast a statement by Aida Romero, Human Rights Attorney, who said she would ask the U.S. Embassy for the results of its investigation on summary executions, and she complained her office didn't have the assistance of a s [...]	2005-03-03 20:20:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PHUM PREL KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA516	EMBASSY REQUEST FOR 2005 BFIF FUNDS [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Tegucigalpa requests a total of USD 7,300 in BFIF funds for training and travel to promote US exports to Honduras. This request consists of the following three components: commercial training for economic/commercial officer; commercial outreach in major cities outside [...]	2005-03-07 20:51:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EINV ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA540	CY-2004 END USER MONITORING REPORT FOR [...] The INL Section has been managing and providing support to INL funded counternarcotics (CN) projects in Honduras. On January 6, 2005, a new law enforcement advisor arrived to assist the POL/INL section in developing more focused support for INL projects. Current operational projects are: � [...]	2005-03-10 12:55:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL KCRM EAID PHUM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA557	A COALITION OF GROUPS PROTEST AGAINST HONDURAN [...] Summary - On March 8, several groups protested against the CAFTA resolution which was passed by the Honduran congress on March 3. The protesters blocked roads in various locations outside of the capital. At approximately 1645 hours, more than 800 demonstrators protested in front of the Congres [...]	2005-03-11 20:41:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV ETRD ELAB PREL HO KSAC
05TEGUCIGALPA586	GANGS IN HONDURAS (C-CN5-00136) - RESPONSES TO [...] (SBU) This cable responds to questions raised in ref A: A. (SBU) The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board, released March 2, specifically states that "In countries in Central America, many youth gangs have become involved in violent crime and drug trafficking." See ht [...]	2005-03-16 20:40:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PINR PGOV SNAR SOCI PHUM SMIG ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA623	HONDURAS: MARITIME SECURITY COORDINATION RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Post maintains extensive contacts with the GOH and the private sector on all issues relating to maritime security and the efficient and safe functioning of Honduras' ports. Coordination at Post among agencies is excellent and is conducted on an as-needed basis. The GOH has demo [...]	2005-03-21 12:43:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT ETRD PGOV KSTC PARM PREL PTER ASEC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA646	EMBASSY SUPPORTS CSI FOR HONDURAS [...] Post strongly supports the Government of Honduras, request to be included in the next tranche of countries invited to join the Container Security Initiative (CSI). The GOH has shown an awareness of the importance of maritime security and demonstrated the political will to take the necessary s [...]	2005-03-28 12:36:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA698	Scenesetter for CoDel Kolbe April 14-16 Visit to [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Kolbe to Honduras April 14-16. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there were several p [...]	2005-04-01 15:15:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA727	HONDURAN CARDINAL OSCAR RODRIGUEZ - A WORTHY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga is likely to be a formidable force during the conclave to select the next Pope. He is a savvy political player and accomplished media communicator, whose moral compass has repeatedly guided his public policy interventions in Hon [...]	2005-04-05 20:09:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF PHUM ETRD KCRM SOCI HO VA
05TEGUCIGALPA752	HONDURAN PRIMARIES: LOBO AND ZELAYA'S TICKETS [...] (U) With vote counting (and re-counting) over, the official results are now final: President of Congress Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo Sosa won the February 20 Nationalist Party primary, beating his chief opponent, Mayor of Tegucigalpa Miguel Pastor 62.3 to 34.9 percent. Liberal Party candidate Mel Ze [...]	2005-04-07 22:09:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA765	Congressional Staffers Visit Honduras, Question [...] (SBU) Summary: Five U.S. Congressional staffers, representing House Democrats, visited Honduras in late March, on a trip aimed at building support for CAFTA-DR among undecided U.S. Congressmen. The visit, which was organized by the GOH and funded by the Honduran private sector, involved visit [...]	2005-04-08 22:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PGOV ELAB EAGR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA774	HONDURAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTER ON MINING: SLOW [...] (SBU) Summary: EmbOffs and USAIDOffs met with the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Patricia Panting, on April 6 to discuss mining issues, specifically a ban that has been in place since June 2004 on the granting of any new mining concessions in Honduras. Minister Panting defende [...]	2005-04-12 18:33:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN SENV EINV ECON PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA805	20 GTMO CUBANS RESETTLED IN HONDURAS: ONLY 3 [...] (U) This is an action request for PRM. Please see para. 7. 2. (SBU) PolOff met April 13 with International Organization of Migration (IOM) Tegucigalpa to discuss questions raised in reftel regarding the 20 Cubans resettled by IOM from Guantanamo to Tegucigalpa. According to the IOM, out of [...]	2005-04-15 18:06:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL SMIG PHUM CU HO
05TEGUCIGALPA826	Stop Illegal Aliens Before They Reach The [...] This is an action request. Please see para. 13. 2. Summary: Post believes reinstating funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Program for the Return of Third Country National (TCN) Migrants Intercepted in the Latin America & [...]	2005-04-21 15:18:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG KJUS PTER PHUM SNAR PINS PGOV PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA845	MEDIA REACTION REMOVAL OF ECUADOREAN PRESIDENT, [...] On 4/21, the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "The Bed:" "There are no more `coup d'etats' in Latin America. Popular discontent begins with protests and demonstrations, a political crisis is produced, the country becomes ungovernable, and from that [...]	2005-04-21 21:37:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM EC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA866	2005 EXPROPRIATION REPORT: HONDURAS [...] (U) HONDURAS The United States Government (USG) is aware of thirteen (13) claims of United States businesses or nationals that may be outstanding against the Government of Honduras (GOH). The USG is also aware of numerous other investment disputes involving U.S. investors, the major [...]	2005-04-23 00:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN PGOV KIDE KSPR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA871	NSDD 38 - MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION [...] Ambassador Palmer approves reftel request for the Millenium Challenge Corporation to establish a presence in Tegucigalpa, Honduras consisting of 1 USDH Director, 2 USDH or USPSC program managers and up to 4 Locally Employeed Staff, contigent upon satisfactory clarification of the following sub [...]	2005-04-25 20:42:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	AODE AMGT KMRS ABLD ASEC EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA875	MEDIA REACTION REMOVAL OF ECUADOREAN PRESIDENT, [...] On 4/22 an editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo", titled "Ecuadorian Lesson." "The fall of Lucio Gutierrez in Ecuador is another example that many Latin Americans are not willing to respect presidential terms if the governors are incapable to fulfill their promises and act [...]	2005-04-26 16:10:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM EC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA887	MEDIA REACTION REMOVAL OF ECUADOREAN PRESIDENT, [...] On 4/22 an editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo", titled "Ecuadorian Lesson." "The fall of Lucio Gutierrez in Ecuador is another example that many Latin Americans are not willing to respect presidential terms if the governors are incapable to fulfill their promises and act [...]	2005-04-26 21:22:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO PHUM PREL KDEM EC HO
05TEGUCIGALPA900	CORRUPTION SCANDAL AT HONDURAN IMMIGRATION: US ASSISTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: State sections, with DS agents in the lead, and other U.S. agencies have assisted the Government of Honduras's (GOH) investigation of the GOH Immigration Service. Post received information from various sources indicating that the GOH Immigration Service is rife with corruption. [...]	2005-04-28 00:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SMIG ASEC PGOV KJUS PTER SNAR PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA978	HONDURAN DELEGATION TO OAS GA TO BE LED BY FM; GOH [...] Honduran MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs Irena Cardona told Acting PolCouns PolOff that the Honduran delegation to the OAS General Assembly will be led by Foreign Minister Leonidas Rosa Bautista, and will include Honduran OAS PermRep Salvador Rodezno, Director of Foreign Policy Alan Ovied [...]	2005-05-06 21:52:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM XM HO OAS
05TEGUCIGALPA996	MEDIA REACTION ON JOINT U.S.-HONDURAN MILITARY BASE [...] On 05/09, the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" carried an editorial entitled "Palmerola." "For many years Comayagua's agricultural workers have asked the government to use the military airport of Palmerola for transporting their goods to the U.S. and other markets, in order to save [...]	2005-05-11 13:40:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAIR EAID HO
05TELAVIV1013	ISRAELIS BRIEF U/S LEVEY ON TERROR FINANCE STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli National Security Council Counterterrorism Director General Danny Arditi met with Treasury U/S Stuart Levey and his delegation on February 14 in Ramat Hasharon, near Tel Aviv. Arditi said that the GOI has recently switched the focus of its terrorism finance efforts from [...]	2005-02-18 10:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN KPAL KWBG IS COUNTERTERRORISM ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1019	DEPUTY BUDGET DIRECTOR: GOI TO FORMULATE U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Budget Director Yossi Gordon informed Deputy Economic Counselor February 17 that the Ministry of Finance was going to develop a request for U.S. assistance to help pay for the military aspects of disengagement over the next two weeks to one month. He also said that the G [...]	2005-02-18 14:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV102	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: WITH NEW GOVERNMENT, SHARON TO [...] (C) Summary: The three-month trial period for which the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party has agreed to enter a coalition with Likud and Labor gives Prime Minister Sharon the time -- and majorities in the relevant bodies -- to : -- establish a 66-MK majority government, probably as early as [...]	2005-01-06 15:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV1026	SENATOR ALLEN'S FEBRUARY 13 MEETING WITH MFA [...] (C) On February 13 Senator George Allen and Ambassador Kurtzer met with MFA North American Deputy Yoram Ben Ze'ev and Head of the Research Department Harry Kney'tal. They discussed developments in Europe relating to the designation of Hizbollah as a terrorist organization, and political deve [...]	2005-02-18 14:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL OVIP IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1027	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: CABINET POISED TO APPROVE [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Sharon is poised to obtain decided Cabinet majorities in two historic votes scheduled for February 20: to approve the "Amended Disengagement Plan -- Evacuation of Settlements and Territories" (the Amended Plan) and to approve a revised route of the separation barrier arou [...]	2005-02-18 15:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1028	WB/G SITREP: IDF ARRESTS SIX PALESTINIANS IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: One Palestinian was lightly injured by IDF riot gas inhalation in the West Bank during a protest against the separation barrier and six Palestinians were arrested by the IDF in the West Bank February 17. Two shooting incidents occurred near Rafah overnight February 17-18, but n [...]	2005-02-18 16:35:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV103	WB/G SITREP: TWO GUNMEN KILLED IN ATTACK ON THE [...] (SBU) Summary: The body of second Palestinian gunman was found late on January 5 near the Erez Crossing, both men having been shot and killed after they succeeded in approaching the crossing overnight January 4-5 along with a group of pilgrims leaving to go on the Hajj. The militants used sm [...]	2005-01-06 16:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV1062	NIRIT'S RESIDENTS HAVE A LONG DAY IN COURT AND [...] (C) Summary: Dror Ginatt, secretary general of the Israeli town of Nirit on the west side of the Green Line, described Nirit's hearing in the High Court to stop construction of Nof HaSharon as arduous but felt that Nirit got a fair trial. He explained that the three judges, among them Aharo [...]	2005-02-22 13:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1064	GAZANS TORN OVER DUBAI INVESTOR'S PROPOSED [...] Israeli media reported that Dubai businessman Mohammed Alabbar recently visited Israel and the Palestinian territories with an offer to purchase settler homes intact, saving the GOI the need to demolish them. Previously, NSC advisor Gabi Blum told EconCouns that Alabbar's visit had been spon [...]	2005-02-22 15:08:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EAID KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV1078	ACTING COORDINATOR POPE DISCUSSES COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings February 9-12, Israeli officials told Acting Counterterrorism Coordinator William Pope that Hizballah is the GOI's top CT priority. They requested USG assistance to convince President Chirac that the group should be placed on the EU's list of terrorist org [...]	2005-02-23 10:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL KPAL KWBG IS COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1085	GAZANS, FOR VARYING REASONS, FAVOR PA CABINET OF [...] (C) Summary: Prominent Gazans expressed, for varying reasons, a strong preference for a cabinet of technocrats in conversations with Poloff February 22-23. Minister of Justice candidate and prominent Gaza attorney Sharhabeel al-Za'eem said that Gazans view new faces in the ministries as a c [...]	2005-02-23 14:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1110	ICRC OFFICIAL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT IMPROVED RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Visiting ICRC Delegate-General for the Middle East and North Africa Balthasar Stahelin told the DCM February 18 that he believes that progress in the peace process could help pave the way for the adoption of a Third Additional Protocol that would facilitate full ICRC membership f [...]	2005-02-24 14:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV1117	MFA OFFICIAL SAYS GOI "ADAMANT" ABOUT GAINING MDA [...] (C) The GOI is "adamant" about bringing to closure in 2005 the issue of Magen David Adom (MDA) membership in the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, MFA Deputy Director General (A/S-equivalent) for International Organization Affairs Roni Ya'ar told poloff on February 23. He reported [...]	2005-02-24 16:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV1121	ISRAELI TOURISM MINISTER REQUESTS CHANGE IN U.S. [...] (C) Summary. During a February 23 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Tourism Abraham Hirchson stressed the GOI's hope that the USG would change the travel warning regarding travel to Israel. The Ambassador replied that the USG reviewed such warnings on a regular basis, but noted that t [...]	2005-02-25 07:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PREL IS ISRAEL RELATIONS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1124	BEDOUIN OF THE NEGEV'S ILLEGAL VILLAGES LIVE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met February 17 with Bedouin community representatives in two Negev desert Bedouin villages not legally recognized by the GOI to discuss issues affecting their lives and possible PD small grants assistance to educational programs. The Bedouin in these two unrecognized [...]	2005-02-25 11:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1125	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on, and Maariv bannered, an "inciting gathering" held last night in Jerusalem by the "hard-core, extremist opponents to disengagement" (according to Ha' [...]	2005-02-25 11:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1150	PA SECURITY REFORM -- WHERE DOES NORWAY FIT? [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 24 meeting with Embassy and USAID officers, Norwegian police advisor Arnstein Overkil identified reconstruction of the PA's police forensic lab and training in crime scene investigation techniques as two possible areas where Norway might undertake programs to ass [...]	2005-02-25 16:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID KWBG KPAL NO IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1170	WB/G SITREP: FEBRUARY 28, 2005 (1200 HOURS LOCAL) [...] (SBU) Summary: A suicide bomber affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad detonated an explosive device outside a Tel Aviv nightclub at 2320 hours February 25, killing four people and injuring another 55 Israeli civilians, five of them severely and eight moderately. A fifth victim died of he [...]	2005-02-28 10:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV1173	(C) ISRAELI POLITICAL-MILITARY BRIEFING ON [...] (C) Ambassadors from countries on the UN Security Council and of European Union were summoned to the Foreign Ministry February 28 for a political-military briefing on the February 25 terrorist attack in Tel Aviv that killed 5 Israelis and wounded more than 50. MFA Director General Ron Prosor [...]	2005-02-28 13:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL PREL PTER COUNTERTERRORISM ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1208	YONATAN BASSEY ON THE CHALLENGES OF DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Yonatan Bassey, head of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),reported on February 23 that a few settlers are beginning to make preparations for disengagement. He explained that SELA has final contracts with about 63 families and is negotiating with many others. Unfortunately, s [...]	2005-03-01 15:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV1210	WB/G SITREP: MARCH 1, 2005 (1300 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian landowners and Israeli and Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli Border Police during a protest against the construction of the separation barrier near the village of Bayt Surik, west of Jerusalem. One Border Police officer was injured. In Jerusalem, at le [...]	2005-03-01 17:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV1211	DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY U/S LEVEY'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. During their February 14 discussions, Under Secretary of Treasury Stuart Levey and GOI MFA officials SIPDIS focused on the possible designation of Hizbollah as a terrorist group during the EU Clearinghouse meeting on February 16. The GOI has been working proactively to obtain [...]	2005-03-02 04:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1243	WB/G SITREP: PA INTERIOR MINISTER FIRES JENIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian Authority (PA) Interior Minister Nasir Yusif replaced all the PA security chiefs and deputies in Jenin during a March 1 visit to inspect the overall security situation in the city. The dismissals followed a confrontation that included a brief exchange of gunfire be [...]	2005-03-02 14:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV1246	POST'S SUBMISSION SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: ISRAEL [...] (SBU) Summary. The attached evaluation of protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Israel focuses on areas of specific concern as detailed in reftel B. Post's policy recommendation is being transmitted septel. End Summary. -------------------- Optical Media Piracy ----------- [...]	2005-03-02 15:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE LABOR COMMERCE ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV1270	"TECHNOCRAT" PRESIDENT RUNS INTO TROUBLE AT [...] (C) Summary: An angry mob of students, reportedly stirred up by remnants of the previous, Arafat-appointed administration, chased the new al-Azhar University president, Dr. Hani al-Nijim, from his campus office February 28 in response to al-Nijim's announced plan to uphold long-ignored univer [...]	2005-03-03 12:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1271	(C) IPR: ISRAEL TO PURSUE LEGISLATION ON PATENTS [...] (C) Minister of Industry and Trade Ehud Olmert called the Ambassador March 3 to say that the government will push ahead with pending legislation on patents and IPR. Since the legislation is attached to the budget bill, Olmert expected it to be adopted on March 16. In conveying this message, [...]	2005-03-03 13:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD IS KIPR ECONOMY AND FINANCE LABOR COMMERCE ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV1276	WB/G SITREP: IDF RAIDS WB QASSAM ROCKET WORKSHOP; [...] (SBU) Summary: A car bomb exploded without causing injuries March 3 near IDF soldiers patrolling in the vicinity of Joseph,s Tomb in Nablus. Jewish worshippers were near the area at the time of the explosion. In addition, two explosive devices detonated without causing injury near IDF soldi [...]	2005-03-03 15:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV1277	LIKUD REFERENDUM DECISION STILL LEAVES SHARON [...] (C) Summary: Several Likud MKs demanding that Prime Minister Sharon call a referendum on disengagement told poloff that the widely anticipated March 3 Likud Central Committee (LCC) vote to promote legislation needed to enable a referendum is not sufficient to secure their budget votes. They s [...]	2005-03-03 18:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1306	WB/G SITREP: THREE PALESTINIANS LIGHTLY INJURED [...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinians clashed with the IDF on March 3 in areas near Jerusalem and Hebron to protest construction of the separation barrier. Three Palestinians were injured and seven others were arrested in the West Bank March 3-4. Palestinians shot at IDF soldiers in Gaza March 3, but n [...]	2005-03-04 15:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV131	WB/G SITREP: FATAL ATTACK ON SETTLER NEAR NABLUS; [...] (SBU) Summary: Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for an attack on a settler car near Nablus January 7 that left one settler dead. A five-year-old Palestinian boy was accidentally killed in the West Bank January 6 when an IDF jeep ran him over. In Gaza, one Palestinian was kil [...]	2005-01-07 15:10:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV1335	RAJOUB REPORTEDLY CLAIMING BROAD POWERS, SUCCESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Track II activists Boaz Karni and Dov Sedaka recounted to the Ambassador March 2 claims by recent PA National Security Advisor Jibril Rajoub of his own pivotal role and organizational successes within the Palestinian government and security operations. Karni said that in a lengt [...]	2005-03-07 15:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1336	ISRAEL: FIFTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) This cable is the first part of a three-part message in response to reftel. Embassy point of contact is poloff Jenifer Joyce, telephone number (972) (3) 519-7437. Fax number (972)(3) 519-7484. Poloff spent approximately 80 hours in preparation of the report. Deputy polcouns spent app [...]	2005-03-07 15:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1337	ISRAEL: FIFTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-07 15:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1338	ISRAEL: FIFTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) This is the third part of a three-part message responding to reftel. Embassy point of contact is Jenifer Joyce, telephone number (972)(3) 519-7437, fax number (972)(3) 519-7484. ------------------------------------ Protection and Assistance to Victims ------------------------------- [...]	2005-03-07 15:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1340	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT WATER ISSUES: STILL MUCH WORK [...] (C) Summary: Although Israeli and Palestinian water officials have generally displayed relatively close cooperation, they have not worked out specific arrangements pertaining to Israel's disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank. The Israeli Water Commissioner reported that Israel h [...]	2005-03-07 16:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IS KWBG PREL SENV GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV1352	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Democracy in Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio and other media reported that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz are supposed to sign an agreement tonight regarding the transfer of se [...]	2005-03-08 11:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1361	DAHLAN PROMISES IMPROVEMENTS, COUNSELS GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Pepsi bottler and leading Gaza businessman, Muhammad Yazgi, told Poloff March 3 that Muhammad Dahlan had promised Gaza businessmen recently that conditions at Gaza's border crossings into Israel would improve in two to three weeks, and asked that Yazgi and other businessmen "have [...]	2005-03-08 15:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1362	NETANYAHU MAY CAVE TO SHAS BUDGET DEMANDS; SHINUI [...] (C) As they scramble for votes ahead of the March 17 budget vote, Prime Minister Sharon and Finance Minister Netanyahu appear ready -- albeit tentatively -- to make budget concessions to Shas, rather than take Shinui back into the coalition. Sharon needs a simple Knesset majority for budget [...]	2005-03-08 15:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV1363	(C) OTTE SAYS HE'S PRESSING PA FOR SECURITY [...] (C) In a March 7 meeting with the Ambassador, EU Middle East envoy Marc Otte said he would press the PA, during his visit this week, on the need for security service reform, while focusing in his GOI meetings on Israeli-Palestinian economic cooperation. He reported that World Bank President W [...]	2005-03-08 15:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS EU EG LE SY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1386	MARCH REVENUE TRANSFER REDUCED BECAUSE OF PA [...] (C) Summary. The GOI released a total of NIS 188 million in funds to the PA in early March. This is made up of NIS 138 million from the regular monthly revenue transfer plus NIS 50 million in previously attached revenues. The regular transfer of NIS 138 million is significantly below the no [...]	2005-03-09 07:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV1395	ICRC REP ON POST-THREAT ACTIONS [...] (C) ICRC Head of Delegation Francois Bellon and Deputy Head Carlos Batallas met March 1 with Polcouns, Legatt and Poloff to review details and follow-up of a reported potential threat to ICRC members inside the Gaza Strip. Legatt had conveyed to the ICRC February 26 a non-specific report he h [...]	2005-03-09 12:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1404	MOSSI RAZ ON THE UNOFFICIAL APPROVAL PROCESS FOR [...] (C) Summary: Mossi Raz, a former Meretz MK, provided a brief history of the growth of settlements, and outlined the hidden support that the Israeli government has given to settlers over the past 13 years. Settlers focused on expanding existing settlements between 1992 and 1996 because Prime [...]	2005-03-09 14:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1420	MFA OFFICIAL ON GOI-PA DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director General for Economic Affairs Yossi Gal told Ambassador Kurtzer that the PA should promptly seize the opportunity to coordinate with Israel on the economic and civil aspects of the disengagement plan via joint GOI-PA working groups on trade, settlement assets, [...]	2005-03-10 12:44:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KWBG KPAL PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS

05TELAVIV1424	TECHNICAL TALKS ON POSSIBLE RETURN OF U.S.-ORIGIN [...] (C) Summary: A joint DOE/State technical team led by Kasia Mendelsohn from DOE's Office of Global Nuclear Material Threat Reduction met with officials from the Israeli Atomic Energy Agency (IAEC) on January 12-13 to discuss possible Israeli participation in the Foreign Research Reactor (FRR) S [...]	2005-03-10 14:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG TRGY PREL IS ISRAEL RELATIONS COUNTERTERRORISM ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV1429	(C) GOI MOVING AHEAD WITH DATA EXCLUSIVITY [...] (C) This is an action request message. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Post has received a clear message from Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor (MOITL) that the GOI intends to move ahead this week to have the Knesset consider the data exclusivity legislation as pa [...]	2005-03-10 15:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KIPR IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE LABOR COMMERCE ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV1430	TALIA SASSON'S "EXPLOSIVE" REPORT ON ILLEGAL [...] (U) Summary and Comment: Attorney Talia Sasson on March 8 submitted a report on illegal settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The report has been characterized as a "powerful bombshell" and "explosive on an international level." In the d [...]	2005-03-10 17:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1446	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Lebanon and Syria 3. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv reported that associates of PM Sharon ordered five different public opinion polls to try to predict the results of elections held after a p [...]	2005-03-11 12:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1454	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR URGES RESTRAINT IN PRESSING ABU [...] (C) Russian Ambassador Gennady Tarasov and the Ambassador reviewed Israeli-Palestinian progress in implementing the Sharm al-Sheikh commitments and Syria-Lebanon developments during a March 11 conversation. In response to the Ambassador's question about whether Russian Middle East envoy Kalug [...]	2005-03-11 14:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS LE SY GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1455	(S) ISRAELI VIEWS ON PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI SECURITY [...] (S) On instructions from Defense Minister Mofaz, BG Eitan Dangott briefed the Ambassador March 11 on the status of Israeli-Palestinian security negotiations and other issues discussed in the Sharm el-Sheik summit. Dangott said that Mofaz and the Israeli security establishment are becoming i [...]	2005-03-11 14:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	IS KPAL PREL XF ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1456	MOST KNESSET MEMBERS, PUNDITS PREDICT BUDGET WILL [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Sharon postponed the final votes on the 2005 budget, originally scheduled for March 17, counting on the fact that parties and MKs that could provide the crucial votes will not show their cards until they are pressed against the March 31 deadline -- and facing the p [...]	2005-03-11 14:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV1457	(S) ISRAELI READOUT ON MUBARAK-MOFAZ MEETING IN [...] (S) BG Eitan Dangott, Military Secretary of Defense Minister Mofaz, briefed the Ambassador March 11 on the meeting held the previous day in Sharm between Mofaz and Egyptian President Mubarak, with the participation of Defense Minister Tantawi and Intelligence Chief Sulayman. Dangott said th [...]	2005-03-11 14:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	IS KPAL PREL XF GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1524	CABINET DECIDES TO REMOVE 24 OUTPOSTS BUT DOESN'T [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Cabinet on March 13 decided to remove the 24 post-March 2001 outposts mentioned in Talia Sasson's report, but not until after implementation of the disengagement plan. Israeli officials said that the GOI is "busy" with disengagement and tha [...]	2005-03-14 15:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1525	WB/G SITREP: ONE PALESTINIAN WOUNDED BY IDF FIRE [...] (SBU) Summary: One Palestinian was wounded in the West Bank by IDF fire and, according to UNRWA, two Palestinians were wounded in IDF-initiated shootings in Gaza. The IDF, however, says that only one Palestinian was wounded in the same incident. Thousands of Gazans turned out March 12 to pe [...]	2005-03-14 15:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV1534	PERES MEETS TELLS CODEL CORZINE "WE ARE STILL [...] (C) Summary. In a March 13 meeting with Senator Corzine and the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said there are three crucial events in the next several months: the passage of the budget, the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in July, and the evacuation from Gaza, also s [...]	2005-03-15 11:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG OREP PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV1538	WB/G SITREP:7,000 FATAH SUPORTERS RALLY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The IDF arrested two Palestinians March 14 when the men tried to infiltrate the border fence into Israel east of Dayr al-Balah. The men reportedly intended to enter Israel in search of work. Fatah organized a rally of some 7,000 people March 14 in Jabaliya in honor of "Pales [...]	2005-03-15 15:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG PTER ASEC PHUM CASC KPAL
05TELAVIV1549	ISRAEL'S CONSTRUCTIVE NO-CONFIDENCE MECHANISM: [...] (C) Summary: The 2003 revision of Israel's no-confidence vote mechanism to require that all Knesset members voting no-confidence pre-designate a single candidate to form a new government was designed to keep government opponents from resorting too frequently to time-consuming no-confidence mo [...]	2005-03-16 10:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL IS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1561	WB/G SITREP: ONE ISRAELI SETTLER AND ONE [...] (SBU) Summary: One Israeli settler was injured in a shooting incident perpetrated by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, and one Palestinian was injured by IDF fire in the West Bank March 15-16. Gaza was quiet, except for one mortar shell explosion near Neve Dekalim, but no injuries resulted. End [...]	2005-03-16 14:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV1580	MOSSAD CHIEF TO CODEL CORZINE: SOME FOREIGN [...] (S) Summary: Mossad Chief Meir Dagan told CODEL Corzine March 13 that Israeli and U.S. thinking on Iran largely tracks, adding that he believes the EU dialogue with Iran will ultimately fail. Dagan said that Israel has evidence that some foreign fighters have returned home from Iraq, perhaps indica [...]	2005-03-17 10:32:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PGOV PREL KWBG IR IS COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1585	WB/G SITREP: AT LEAST SIX PALESTINIANS WOUNDED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Two Palestinian youths were wounded by IDF gunfire in Tulkarm after they threw a firebomb at an IDF jeep on March 16, and at least six Palestinians were wounded by rubber-coated bullets and tear gas during a protest against the construction of the separation barrier in Safa and [...]	2005-03-17 11:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV1588	LABOR MK SNEH TELLS SENATOR CORZINE ISRAEL CANNOT [...] (C) Summary: Labor MK Ephraim Sneh told visiting Senator Jon Corzine and the Ambassador March 14 that he sees military action against Iran's nuclear program as only a last resort. Sneh advocated external support for popular efforts for regime change in Iran, but stressed that the change has to [...]	2005-03-17 12:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PGOV PINR PREL KPAL MNUC IS IR GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1589	CHILD MARRIAGE IN ISRAEL [...] (SBU) Available evidence indicates that child marriage is infrequent in the general Israeli population, and is confined almost exclusively to specific minority populations. Post gathered information for this report from the Israel National Council for the Child (NCC),the foremost NGO on chil [...]	2005-03-17 12:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN IS ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV1593	C-NE4-01083: ISRAELI INTENTIONS REGARDING THE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Israel sees Iran as the primary threat to its security and sees the enrichment cycle as the "point of no return" for Tehran's nuclear weapons program. The GOI believes that diplomatic pressure with teeth, such as sanctions, can affect Iranian behavior, and is lobbying the EU-3 a [...]	2005-03-17 14:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC KNNP EU IR IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1594	NSC CHIEF SAYS PASSING THE BUDGET IS GOI CHALLENGE [...] (C) Summary: Israeli NSC Director Giora Eiland told CODEL Corzine March 13 that passing the budget is the GOI's biggest disengagement-related hurdle and that all other issues are operational and will be resolved. The GOI's worst-case scenario is Palestinians attacking Israelis in Gaza while [...]	2005-03-17 15:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG GZ IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV163	IDF CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES PALESTINIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Chief of Staff LtG Moshe Ya'alon told CoDel Kyl January 7 that recent events have ushered in "an era of strategic opportunity" in the Middle East. He said that Israel is facilitating Palestinian elections and believes that Abu Mazen is strong enough to [...]	2005-01-10 13:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1633	TERRORISM FINANCE: 2005 UPDATE NO. 2 [...] (U) No assets connected to the Taliban have been found in Israel. No assets related to Usama bin Laden or the Al-Qaida organization, and individuals or entities associated with them, have been detected in Israel. 2. (U) There are no impediments for more robust cooperation with the GOI on [...]	2005-03-18 13:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER ETTC KTFN IS COUNTERTERRORISM ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV1634	IN SHINUI, DISSENSION PERCOLATES OVER BUDGET [...] (C) Divisions have widened within Shinui between those who advocate withholding party support for the 2005 budget and those who advocate supporting the budget to save the government and the disengagement plan. The pro-budget group has also split over how long party chief Tommy Lapid should s [...]	2005-03-18 14:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV1635	SENATOR CORZINE'S MARCH 14 MEETING WITH VICE PM [...] (C) Summary. Senator Corzine and Ambassador Kurtzer met March 14 with Vice Prime Minister, and Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Ehud Olmert. The meeting focused on recent USG initiatives on intellectual property rights, Gaza disengagement, and the future of GOI interaction with the PA. [...]	2005-03-18 15:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1636	WB/G SITREP: FIVE PALESTINIANS AND ONE ISRAELI [...] (SBU) Summary: West Bank settlers wounded five Palestinian workers were wounded in an attack in Nahliel and an Israeli woman was lightly wounded by a metal object thrown at her car in the West Bank March 18. Palestinians launched two rockets in the Gaza strip March 17, but no injuries occurr [...]	2005-03-18 15:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV1637	ISRAEL AT THE CENTER OF MAJOR MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (U) Summary: Recently, Israel has been the nexus of several high profile money laundering cases. The cases illustrate a continuing need for effective bank supervision and the ongoing level of money laundering associated with criminal activity. On March 6, The International Crimes Unit (ICU [...]	2005-03-18 15:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER EFIN ECONOMY AND FINANCE COUNTERTERRORISM
05TELAVIV1679	TRAFFICKING NGOS WEIGH IN ON WHERE THE SYSTEM IS [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of Israeli NGOs against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) say that the GOI, while inflicting stricter sentencing of traffickers and implementing other improvements, still falls short in some areas in its efforts to combat TIP. NGO representatives charge that: -- [...]	2005-03-21 07:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KWMN KCRM SMIG EG IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV1682	IVANOV TELLS ISRAELIS THAT RUSSIAN FUEL DELIVERY [...] (C) According to Israeli officials, Russian National Security Adviser Igor Ivanov and MINATOM staff told the GOI on March 15 that Russian fuel could be delivered to Bushehr "as early as the end of 2005," although the Russians noted that a more likely date would be June 2006. Ariel "Eli" Levit [...]	2005-03-21 11:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM IR IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1684	EMBLEM: GOI OFFICIAL REPORTS IFRC READY TO [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for International Organizations Roni Ya'ar told poloff late March 18 that he had just learned during a visit to Geneva and Bern that IFRC will shortly announce its intention to convene an international conference, for late September or early October, to amend th [...]	2005-03-21 12:16:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS PREF PREL ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1729	APPROVAL PROCESS FOR 3,650 UNITS IN MA'ALE ADUMIM [...] (U) Israeli press reported yesterday that the GOI has launched two plans, which together are termed either E1 or A1, to build 3,650 housing units between Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem. These housing units would connect the settlement with the city, creating geographical continuity between the [...]	2005-03-22 15:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1730	SHARON CAUTIONS CODEL REID ON PROVIDING DIRECT [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Sharon emphasized to Codel Reid March 21 that ensuring Israel's security against terrorism is his primary objective, although he is optimistic about the opportunities created by Arafat's death and the new Palestinian leadership. Codel Reid and Sharon discussed how [...]	2005-03-22 16:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PGOV PTER KWBG MNUC IS IR SY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1731	SHIMON PERES TELLS CODEL REID TO LOOK AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on March 20, Codel Reid and Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres discussed the economic future of Israel and post-disengagement Gaza, the U.S. position on Syria and Iran, the impact of the separation barrier on the lives of Palestinians, the run-up to the budget vote in [...]	2005-03-22 16:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IS MNUC OREP PGOV PREF PTER SY GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV1805	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-24 12:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1814	ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER CAUTIONS ARMS INDUSTRY ON [...] (S) Israeli Defense Ministry Director General Amos Yaron told the Ambassador on March 24 that Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz had strongly cautioned representatives from Israeli defense firms about ties with China. According to Yaron, Mofaz said that senior MOD approval is required before Israel [...]	2005-03-24 14:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL MCAP MASS CH IS MILITARY RELATIONS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1833	ISRAELI DEFMIN DISCUSSES PA SECURITY PERFORMANCE [...] (C) Summary: On March 23, 2005, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams and the Ambassador that arms smuggling continues into both Gaza and the West Bank. Despite success by Palestinian Authority (PA) secur [...]	2005-03-25 08:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MARR KWBG KPAL EG SY IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1842	REFERENDUM BILL EXPECTED TO FAIL, BUT SHARON STILL [...] (C) The ongoing political machinations leading up to next week's Knesset votes on the 2005 budget and disengagement referendum legislation, do not change Embassy's expectations that Prime Minister Sharon will muster a Knesset majority for the 2005 budget and that a majority will defeat the re [...]	2005-03-25 12:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWBG ECON IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV1844	(C) OTTE LAMENTS WEAK PA COORDINATION ON [...] (C) In a March 23 meeting with Deputy APNSA Abrams, NEA A/S Welch, and the Ambassador, EU Middle East envoy Marc Otte recounted that President Abbas had been vague in describing his next steps in discussions with EU officials at the Arab League summit in Algiers. Otte said Solana pressed Abbas [...]	2005-03-25 12:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS EU GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1847	SHIMON PERES ON DISENGAGEMENT, PALESTINIAN SOCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres told NSC director Elliott Abrams, NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch, and the Ambassador March 23 that the economic needs of the Gaza Strip and West Bank are immediate and pressing, while solutions are slow in coming. In his view, the PA is torn [...]	2005-03-25 13:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PREL EFIN EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1853	SASSON: OUTPOST PICTURE "SO HORRIBLE, I DIDN'T [...] (C) Summary: Talia Sasson told emboffs that she encountered significant resistance to her information requests from government ministries when doing research for her report on unauthorized outposts. She explained on March 16 that the Settlements Division of the World Zionist Organization re [...]	2005-03-25 15:35:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1854	PRIME MINISTER SHARON ON PRESIDENT ABBAS' EFFORTS, [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told CoDel Pelosi March 21 that disengagement is a "pre-roadmap" step, and that real progress will depend on the ability of President Abbas and the PA to dismantle terrorist infrastructure. In his view, this has not yet happened, although Abbas has d [...]	2005-03-25 15:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG PTER IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1888	(C) MOFAZ ACCUSES PA MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OF [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-28 14:10:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL PREL XF ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV1890	WB/G SITREP: SETTLERS BEAT AND INJURE PALESTINIANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The IDF reported no security incidents in the Gaza Strip between March 25-28. UNRWA reported that Palestinian militants fired small arms at Gadid settlement and fired a mortar shell at Netzarim settlement, causing no injuries. Israeli media reported that anti-disengagement "s [...]	2005-03-28 14:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PTER ASEC PHUM CASC KPAL
05TELAVIV1896	SHINUI DECISION VIRTUALLY ASSURES PASSAGE OF 2005 [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Sharon appears to have finally secured passage of the 2005 budget. On Saturday March 26, PM Sharon and Shinui Knesset members Yosef (Tommy) Lapid and Avraham Poraz reached agreement that Shinui would support the second and third readings of the 2005 budget in the [...]	2005-03-28 15:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1898	DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL SECURITY EILAND PRESENTS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on March 23, Director of National Security Giora Eiland presented Codel Pelosi with his view of the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the political and security situations in the region. Attempting to balance what he surmised was Vice Prime Minister Per [...]	2005-03-29 05:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG OREP PGOV PREL IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV1899	VICE PRIME MINISTER SHIMON PERES CONSIDERS "THE [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on March 23, Codel Pelosi and Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres discussed the political atmosphere surrounding Israel's disengagement from Gaza; the economic forecast for Gaza the "day after" disengagement; the steps that the international community can take to ensure [...]	2005-03-29 05:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG OREP PGOV PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1917	WB/G SITREP: ISRAELI FORCES SHOOT AND INJURE THREE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian-made bomb detonated in the car of a prominent Gaza lawyer, injuring him lightly. Gazan militants fired on IDF positions, causing no injuries. In the West Bank, Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians near Hebron and Nablus. Shots we [...]	2005-03-29 12:04:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PTER ASEC PHUM CASC KPAL
05TELAVIV1918	CODEL PELOSI URGES FM SHALOM NOT TO ALLOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 21 meeting with Codel Pelosi, Foreign Minister Shalom spoke positively about the direction of Israeli relations with the PA and other Arab neighbors. While lauding some of President Abbas's steps, he said the PA had failed so far to resolve to dismantle terrorist infras [...]	2005-03-29 12:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG OREP IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1927	REFERENDUM BILL FAILS, BUT VOTE LEAVES LIKUD BADLY [...] (C) The landslide defeat of the disengagement referendum bill in a 72-39 Knesset vote March 28 was achieved mainly with the help of opposition parties, whose votes countered the 27 Likud MKs who broke with Prime Minister Sharon and supported the bill. The split in Likud poses no threat to Sh [...]	2005-03-29 15:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV1928	ISRAELI MFA OFFICIALS WILL HOLD COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) Israeli MFA Director General Ron Prosor, Deputy Director General for Strategic Affairs Jeremy Issacharoff, and Director for Arms Control Alon Bar will travel to China for meetings with Chinese officials on April 4-5. According to Bar, the purpose of the trip is to discuss counterterrorism [...]	2005-03-29 16:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PARM CH IS COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV1956	WB/G SITREP: EIGHT PALESTINIANS AND THREE PA [...] (SBU) Summary: The IDF arrested eight Palestinians and three uniformed PA policemen in the West Bank March 29. Palestinians shot at IDF soldiers east of Netzarim and near Rafah March 29 in the Gaza strip, but no injuries occurred. End Summary. --------- West Bank --------- 2. (SBU) A [...]	2005-03-30 14:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV198	DESPITE UNITY GOVERNMENT, SHARON STILL STRAINING [...] (C) A division among the 13 Likud disengagement foes in the Knesset may prompt several to give Prime Minister Sharon the eight or so votes he needs to ensure first-reading passage of the 2005 budget. The 13, known as "the rebels," have threatened to vote against the budget -- as they did aga [...]	2005-01-11 11:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV2009	WB/G SITREP:GAZA QUIET; IDF INJURES THREE [...] (SBU) Summary: The IDF shot and injured three Palestinians and arrested two others March 31 in the West Bank. Gaza remained quiet April 1, without incident. End Summary. --------- West Bank --------- 2. (SBU) ATTACKS/SECURITY: -- Deaths: Nil. -- Injuries: The IDF shot and i [...]	2005-04-01 12:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2010	GILAD TO CODEL PLATTS: THE SECRETARY'S MESSAGE [...] (C) Amos Gilad, director of the Political-Security Bureau at the Defense Ministry, told Codel Platts that Secretary Rice's recent statement on expanding settlements is "clear," and he is sure the "policy will be implemented in the most efficient way." Gilad had praise for PA President Abbas, b [...]	2005-04-01 12:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG OREP PGOV IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV2015	SHALOM TOURGEMAN ON DISENGAGEMENT, ABBAS'S [...] (C) Summary: Shalom Tourgeman, foreign policy advisor to the Prime Minister, spoke with CoDel Dreier March 29 about Israel's preparations for disengagement. He noted that while the GOI expects two thirds of the Gaza settlers to depart prior to withdrawal, the ranks of the resisters may swell [...]	2005-04-01 13:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2030	CODEL DREIER'S MEETINGS WITH KNESSET MEMBERS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 28 meeting immediately following the Knesset vote against a referendum on disengagement, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, a disengagement opponent, told Codel Dreier and the Ambassador that a divided Likud is in a state of "crisis." He lamented that disengagement could [...]	2005-04-01 14:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PGOV KWBG PREF PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV2053	SHIMON PERES DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a one-hour meeting in Tel Aviv on March 31, Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres told Senator Carl Levin, accompanied by Senate staff and a delegation from the Michigan Fund, that he and Prime Minister Sharon have similar thoughts on continuing disengagement in the West Bank, b [...]	2005-04-04 12:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL ECON KWBG OREP IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2054	FM SHALOM TO CODEL DREIER ON THE PALESTINIANS, [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told CODEL Dreier that the situation is better than 3-4 months ago because Mahmud Abbas is more moderate than Yasir Arafat. He also opined that "something is happening" in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, and Lebanon, and concluded that these countries want [...]	2005-04-04 13:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PREL PGOV IS GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV2077	FM SHALOM EXPRESSES SKEPTICISM TO CODEL SAXTON ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 30 meeting with Codel Saxton and the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shalom expressed dissatisfaction with what he called Palestinian President Abbas's lack of effort to dismantle terrorist groups and the recent turn of roadmap discussions toward final status issues. He [...]	2005-04-05 07:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG OREP IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM
05TELAVIV2098	"REALITY BITES" ABBAS, BRIG. GEN. KUPPERWASSER [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on March 31, Brigadier General Yossi Kupperwasser described for CODEL Saxton the changing mission of Israeli intelligence-gathering and presented his analysis of the current developments in the Palestinian Authority. Kupperwasser also discussed the battle for hearts [...]	2005-04-05 14:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG OREP PGOV IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV2125	(S) DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TO CODEL LEVIN: [...] (S) A senior defense intelligence (DMI) officer told Senator Levin March 31 that pre-OIF Israeli intelligence estimates of Iraqi WMD were nearly as wrong as those of the USG. GOI analysts, prior to the war, "knew" that Saddam's regime would never support al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organi [...]	2005-04-06 13:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PINR PREL PTER OREP IS IZ GOI EXTERNAL MILITARY RELATIONS
05TELAVIV2135	GWOT ASSESSMENT: FIGHTING TERROR AND BUILDING [...] (S) SUMMARY: Counterterrorism is central to Israel's national security priorities and is a key component of Embassy Tel Aviv's Mission Program Plan. It also plays a key role in the progress -- or lack thereof -- of the peace process. A main requirement for moving this agenda forward is fund [...]	2005-04-06 15:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PTER PREL IS COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2138	(C) EILAND OUTLINES STEPS TO PREVENT [...] (S) In a March 23 meeting with Deputy APNSA Abrams, A/S Welch, and the Ambassador, National Security Advisor Eiland sketched out "preliminary" GOI thinking about the future of Lebanon after a Syrian withdrawal. He described three scenarios for post-Syria Lebanon: democratic stability; a retur [...]	2005-04-07 05:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER KWBG IS LE SY COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV2167	RAMON UNIT BORDER POLICE -- FIGHTING HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Ramon Unit of the Border Police has interdicted weapons, human beings and drugs being smuggled across the Egyptian-Israeli border since its establishment in March 2003. Its commander told Poloff that the unit has intercepted 36 women being trafficked into Israel in each of t [...]	2005-04-08 06:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PHUM SMIG ELAB PTER KWMN EG IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV2169	UZI LANDAU TO CODEL SAXTON: DISENGAGEMENT WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Knesset member and former Minister of Internal Security Uzi Landau told Codel Saxton that disengagement will allow al-Qaeda to move into Gaza. Landau proposed a joint working group between Congress and the Knesset to devise ways to combat international terrorism while still main [...]	2005-04-08 06:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG OREP PGOV IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT COUNTERTERRORISM ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2194	FATAH ELECTION PREP IN GAZA - IS THE MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary: Fatah's poor showing in Bar Association elections in Gaza April 2 is an indication that, despite some efforts, the party does not appear to be "getting the message" in Gaza. Fatah Central Committee member Abdullah Efrangi, now the newly-appointed Fatah chief in Gaza, described [...]	2005-04-08 12:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2205	JEWISH AND PALESTINIAN AMERICANS OFFER FUND FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 1, Senator Carl Levin and Michigan State community leaders met with several Palestinian business leaders to discuss investment opportunities in Gaza. Senator Levin told the group that the aim of his proposed Michigan Fund for Peace and Development, which totals 200,000 U [...]	2005-04-08 13:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV2207	DETAILS OF SETTLEMENT ASSETS IN THE GAZA STRIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Isaac Gurvich, Economic Advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres, provided Embassy with a CD-ROM containing data on settlement assets in the Gaza Strip. The CD documents eight agricultural settlements, eight community settlements, and one urban/suburban settlement with abou [...]	2005-04-08 14:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG SENV IS SETTLEMENTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2236	WB/G SITREP: IDF KILLS THREE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA, [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli police on April 10 arrested 31 Israeli right-wing protesters during a demonstration in the Old City of Jerusalem. Israeli police also arrested eight Palestinians during clashes in the vicinity of the Lion,s Gate entrance to the Old City the same day. Israeli police on [...]	2005-04-11 14:32:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2255	WB/G SITREP: NINE PALESTINIANS INJURED IN WEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinians in Nablus on April 11 clashed with IDF soldiers conducting arrest operations in the city, resulting in light injuries to nine Palestinians. Palestinian gunmen on April 11 opened fire and threw stones at a Palestinian Authority (PA) police station in Hebron, followi [...]	2005-04-12 10:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2260	YOSSI BEILIN DESCRIBES USG ROLE TO CODEL LEVIN: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Carl Levin and his delegation met on March 31 with Yahad Party Chairman Yossi Beilin. With polite frustration, Beilin repeatedly and in detail expressed his view that the U.S. is not doing enough to advance a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Beilin said [...]	2005-04-12 12:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KWBG OREP PGOV PREL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2265	SUPREME COURT BROADENS ACCEPTABLE CONVERSIONS FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Supreme Court further chipped away at the Orthodox rabbinate's monopoly over conversions to Judaism in its March 31 ruling that the GOI must recognize the non-Orthodox conversions of 15 non-citizen legal residents of Israel that were begun in Israel but formalized abroad, and [...]	2005-04-12 13:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV227	(C) SHARON TO CODELS: KEY TO PROGRESS WITH PALESTINIANS IS SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Senators Kyl, Martinez, Murkowski, Sununu, and Biden, and Congressman Adam Smith January 9 and with Senator Kerry January 10, Prime Minister Sharon emphasized that progress with Palestinians depends fundamentally on whether terrorism, violence and inci [...]	2005-01-12 14:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS XF ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV2284	GAZAN CROSSINGS, PERMITS, AND ACCESS ISSUES: [...] (C) Summary: Since the February 8 Sharm el Sheikh summit between PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, the GOI has made several improvements in the Gazan crossings regime, and the IDF has increased its willingness to coordinate with the international community and the TFPI o [...]	2005-04-13 07:40:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KWBG PREL ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV229	MINISTER SHARANSKY: PA ELECTIONS A GOOD START, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Minister Natan Sharansky told the Ambassador January 10 that the Palestinian elections were important in that they have led to new leadership and opportunities. He added, however, that he could not refer to the elections as "free or democratic" given the "fear" that exists in Pa [...]	2005-01-12 15:04:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2310	WB/G SITREP: TWO PALESTINIAN YOUTHS INJURED IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: One Palestinian youth was injured critically when a stray bullet hit him in the chest in Tulkarm in the West Bank April 12. Another Palestinian youth was injured in the Balatah refugee camp in Nablus when an explosive device detonated in his hands April 12. Two mortar shells [...]	2005-04-13 15:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2329	ISRAEL-PRC STRATEGIC DIALOGUE FOCUSSES ON IRAN AND [...] (C) Summary: Israeli MFA Director General Ron Proser (D-equivalent) led a GOI team to China April 3-5 for a strategic dialogue on arms control and terrorism issues. MFA Arms Control Director Alon Bar briefed poloff on the talks after the team's return to Israel. Bar's assessment, which track [...]	2005-04-14 10:45:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KNNP CH IS IR IN GOI EXTERNAL MILITARY RELATIONS COUNTERTERRORISM
05TELAVIV233	HAMAS "THE LEAST OF WORRIES" ACCORDING TO ABU [...] (C) Summary: Senior Abu Mazen confidants in the Gaza Strip Marwan Kanafani, Marwan Abdul-Hamid, and Abdullah Effrangi told Poloff January 11 that Abu Mazen is determined to bring the numerous militant splinter groups "back into the Fatah fold," but, to do so, must first provide both physical [...]	2005-01-12 16:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM GZ IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2338	GOI TO MOVE FORWARD WITH PATENT TERM EXTENSION [...] (C) Summary. On April 13 local research-based pharmaceutical representatives expressed concern about GOI intentions on the issue of patent term extension legislation. The representatives said that they considered the patent-term extension (PTE) roll-back as direct compensation to the generi [...]	2005-04-14 12:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD KIPR IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE LABOR COMMERCE ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV2341	PEACE NOW DISCUSSES SUPPORT TO THE SETTLEMENTS, [...] (C) Summary: Yariv Oppenheimer, General Director of Peace Now, told Embassy econoffs that there are four possible ways for the GOI to fund settlements. These include support through the Defense Ministry for infrastructure, transferring funds to the local councils, funding specific projects, [...]	2005-04-14 12:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV2362	WB/G SITREP: IDF KILLS AL-AQSA MILITANT IN NABLUS, [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, the IDF on April 14 shot and killed an al-Aqsa Martyrs, Brigades militant during an arrest operation in the Balatah refugee camp in Nablus, according to Israeli media reports. Palestinian sources, however, have termed the incident a targeted killing by the ID [...]	2005-04-14 15:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2367	EGYPT/ISRAEL GAS DEAL TO BE SIGNED IN EARLY MAY [...] (C) Summary: Egypt and Israel appear to be coming closer to signing a gas deal that has been in the negotiations for years. The GOI says that the governments are ready to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) by early May. In addition, the two companies involved, Israel Electric Corporat [...]	2005-04-15 07:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG IS EG GOI EXTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE LABOR COMMERCE
05TELAVIV2421	WB/G SITREP: SETTLERS INJURE THREE PALESTINIANS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Four Palestinians were injured and one Hamas activist was arrested in the West Bank April 14. In the Gaza Strip, Palestinians fired five rockets, two at Neve Dekalim and three at Netzarim, but no injuries resulted, according to UNRWA. The IDF reported that Palestinians shot [...]	2005-04-18 12:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2427	PERES ADVISOR, NSC ADVISOR DISCUSS DAHLAN'S [...] (C) Summary: Einat Wilf, foreign policy advisor to Vice PM Shimon Peres, and Gabi Blum, NSC advisor, briefed EconCouns on the recent Aspen Institute conference; the potential for U.S. involvement in Negev/Galilee development; and PA Civil Affairs Minister Muhammad Dahlan's progress on negotia [...]	2005-04-18 14:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL EAID ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2428	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT UPDATE #2 [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of updates on GOI, donor community, and Post preparations for Israeli withdrawal and the post-disengagement Gazan economic and security situation. -- Developments in security coordination have focused on activities of U.S. Security Coordination Mi [...]	2005-04-18 14:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV EAID ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2436	GENERAL WARD AND ISRAELI DEFMIN DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: Lieutenant General Ward and the Charge met with Defense Minister Mofaz in Tel Aviv on April 13, 2005, to review the current security situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories. General Ward said he sees the lack of trust and partnership on both sides as contributing to a ne [...]	2005-04-18 14:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV ASEC KPAL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2439	GOI ISSUES TENDERS FOR 50 HOUSING UNITS IN ELKANA, [...] (C) Summary: Press reported on April 18 that the Israel Lands Authority issued a tender for 50 plots to build private, single-family houses in the Elkana settlement of the West Bank. According to the tender, these plots will be available for sale between May 6 and June 16. Press reports in [...]	2005-04-19 14:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV2479	SIKSEK ON SECURITY STAFFING, PROGRESS [...] (C) ConGen Jerusalem cleared this message. ----------- Summary ----------- 2. (C) In conversations over several days in early April, Brigadier General Samir Siksek told Pol/C and poloff that the U.S. should keep steady pressure on Minister of Interior Nasir Yusif to carry out reforms, [...]	2005-04-20 12:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2486	LEGAL OPINION REQUESTED ON ISRAELI GARBAGE DUMPING [...] (C) Summary: Media reports of plans for large-scale dumping of Israeli garbage on the West Bank have raised questions about the legality of such waste sites under both Israeli and international law. The Palestinian Environmental Quality Authority will ask that the issue be placed on the agen [...]	2005-04-20 13:08:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL SENV KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2506	NEA ADVISOR DISCUSSES ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Environment Shalom Simhon and Finnish Embassy Counselor Matti Tulonen expressed their support for Israeli-Palestinian cooperation on environmental issues in meetings with NEA Senior S&T Advisor Charles Lawson. The GOI Ministry of Environment is proposing that the Isr [...]	2005-04-21 08:45:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EAID PREL PGOV KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2521	ISRAELI COURT RULES TO EXTRADITE ROSENSTEIN; GOI [...] (U) The Jerusalem District Court ruled on April 19 that Ze'ev Rosenstein can be extradited to the United States to stand trial on drug trafficking charges. Rosenstein's lawyers have been contesting the extradition and want their client to be tried in Israel. Rosenstein has been in GOI custod [...]	2005-04-22 04:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KJUS PREL SNAR CJAN IS ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV2528	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-22 09:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2532	MEPP ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: RENEWED [...] (C) Summary: NEA Senior S&T Advisor Charles Lawson discussed renewed Japanese interest in leading the Multilateral Peace Process Environment Working Group with Japanese DCM, GOI Minister of Environment, and GOI MFA Director for Multilateral Peace Talks Coordination. Lawson suggested re-engag [...]	2005-04-22 13:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PREL EAID KPAL IS JA ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV2533	ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN COOPERATION ON WATER ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: At Trilateral Water Talks in Tel Aviv April 7 Israeli and Palestinian water officials agreed to coordinate on water-related aspects of Gaza disengagement. Israeli Water Commissioner, Shimon Tal, and Palestinian Water Authority Chairman, Fadel Ka'wash, agreed to begin working on a [...]	2005-04-22 13:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EAID PREL KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2537	THE GOI'S ECONOMIC PLAN FOR THE NEGEV AND GALILEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice Premier Shimon Peres is leading the GOI effort to consolidate a series of public- and private-sector development initiatives for the Galilee and Negev regions, which the GOI will push forward in tandem with disengagement. To date there remains no comprehensive planning docum [...]	2005-04-22 14:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL SENV IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV2538	BASSEY SUGGESTS POSTPONING DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Yonatan Bassey of the Disengagement Authority (SELA) said on April 18 that it was his idea to postpone disengagement until after Tisha B'Av because the timing would be better for religious reasons. He noted that the settlers have been more responsive to SELA in the past two or [...]	2005-04-22 14:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2540	ARAB-ISRAELI REACTIONS TO GOI'S NEGEV AND GALILEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In April Econoff met with several Israeli-Arab advocacy groups who expressed concern over the GOI's economic development plan for the Galilee and the Negev, which the GOI is pushing forward in tandem with disengagement. Citing historical disenfranchisement of Israeli Arabs in imp [...]	2005-04-22 14:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV2567	WB/G SITREP: IDF SOLDIER STABBED IN WEST BANK [...] (SBU) Summary: An IDF soldier sustained moderate injuries after he was stabbed in the neck April 23 near Ganim settlement, east of Jenin. The IDF closed the area while in pursuit of the assailant, but no arrests have been made in connection with this attack. In the Old City of Hebron, settl [...]	2005-04-25 15:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2607	WB/G SITREP: ONE IDF SOLDIER KILLED IN THE WEST [...] (SBU) Summary: An IDF soldier died April 25 near Halhoul village, north of Hebron, after being run over by a Palestinian motorist. Other IDF soldiers at the roadblock opened fire, killing the driver, identified as Iyad al-Duwaik. An IDF investigation is ongoing; PA security sources said tha [...]	2005-04-27 05:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2639	DEFMIN MOFAZ DISCUSSES ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams, Lieutenant General William Ward and the Charge on April 21, Israel's Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said the GOI is taking steps to strengthen Palestinian Authority President Mahm [...]	2005-04-28 07:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KPAL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS MILITARY RELATIONS
05TELAVIV2647	TIME TO RESTART GAZA WATER PROJECTS? [...] (U) This joint message from Embassy Tel Aviv and ConGen Jerusalem is an action message; please see paragraph 12. ------------------- Summary and Comment ------------------- 2. (C) Following the October 2003 roadside bombing that claimed the lives of three USG personnel in Gaza, we dis [...]	2005-04-28 12:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV ASEC KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT HUMANITARIAN AID

05TELAVIV2654	PLANNING FOR MA'ALE ADUMIM/E1 REPORTEDLY CONTINUES [...] (S) Summary: The GOI continues its planning for the E1 region of the Ma'ale Adumim settlement in the West Bank. Brigadier General (res) Baruch Spiegel, Ministry of Defense Advisor, in an aside told the DCM on April 20 that "there are very strong interests here in Israel" to move forward with [...]	2005-04-28 14:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PBTS KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV2655	WB/G SITREP: ONE IDF SOLDIER INJURED IN GUSH KATIF [...] (SBU) Summary: IDF troops arrested two Palestinian minors at the Jalama checkpoint, east of Jenin, April 27, whom the troops claimed were planning to carry out an attack inside Israel. Two bags loaded with explosives were found with the two youths, one of whom claimed that he was dispatched b [...]	2005-04-28 16:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2698	WB/G SITREP: 28 PALESTINIANS, INCLUDING AN [...] (SBU) Summary: Some 28 Palestinians were lightly to moderately injured in the village of Bil,in, west of Ramallah, during clashes with the IDF that erupted April 28 during protests against the construction of the separation barrier on lands belonging to village residents. Among those injured [...]	2005-04-29 16:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2722	PERES DESCRIBES POSITIVE CHANGE IN QURAYA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice Premier Peres told A/S Welch and Charge April 27 that Palestinian PM Quraya', in an April 21 meeting with Peres, showed a positive change of attitude toward disengagement coordination. Peres said he cautioned Quraya' not to push for final status talks after disengagement; doi [...]	2005-05-02 11:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PREL ECON PGOV EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2729	SHARANSKY'S RESIGNATION OVER DISENGAGEMENT LEAVES [...] (C) The long-expected May 2 resignation of Minister-without-Porfolio Natan Sharansky was an act of political symbolism by a disengagement opponent that comes too late to affect the course of disengagement. In announcing that he is resigning over his opposition to disengagement, Sharansky sai [...]	2005-05-02 13:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KNAR IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV274	EILAND ASSESSES THE CHALLENGES FACING SHARON AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Security Advisor Giora Eiland highlighted the following points in a January 9 meeting with Codel Kerry: -- Israel faces three main challenges in implementing disengagement: a fragile domestic political situation, operational difficulties to evacuate thousands of settle [...]	2005-01-14 13:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2749	LABELING SETTLEMENT GOODS: NOT ALL IS SETTLED [...] (C) Summary. The agreement between the EU and the GOI on labeling requirements for goods produced outside of Green Line Israel came into force on February 1, 2005. The agreement calls for identification on customs shipping documents of the city of origin for all products shipped from Israel [...]	2005-05-03 11:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	ECON ETRD IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV2761	SHARON TO CODELS: WE NEED TO BUILD IN THE [...] (C) During a May 2 meeting with Senator Bill Frist and Senator Joseph Lieberman, Prime Minister Sharon described in familiar terms his concerns about the failure of the Palestinian Authority to dismantle terrorist infrastructure. Sharon said that he personally remains committed to all that h [...]	2005-05-03 13:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL OREP PREL XF SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV2762	NOF HASHARON SETTLEMENT MAY GET BUYERS: [...] (C) Summary: Dror Ginatt, Secretary General of the Israeli community of Nirit, told econoff that the town chairman of the settlement of Homesh recently visited him to inquire about moving Homesh's settlers to Nirit after disengagement. Ginatt informed him that there are no vacancies in Niri [...]	2005-05-03 15:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV277	(C) SHARON AND WEISSGLAS ON KARNI TERRORIST [...] (C) I called Dov Weissglas this afternoon and he reported on his conversation earlier today with Saeb Erekat. Weissglas told Erekat: -- All passages in and out of Gaza have been closed indefinitely. -- Without visible and serious action by the PA, all contacts between Israeli and PA offi [...]	2005-01-14 14:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL PREL PTER ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT COUNTERTERRORISM
05TELAVIV2803	MFA NORTH AMERICA DIRECTOR DISCUSSES REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director General for North American Affairs Yoram Ben Zeev met with NEA DAS Liz Dibble to discuss the future of Hizballah following the partial withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon; the upcoming Quartet meeting in Moscow; GOI internal disengagement politics; and P [...]	2005-05-05 08:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2841	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-06 10:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV285	NSC'S GABI BLUM ON WORLD BANK PROCESS, PERES, [...] (C) Summary: NSC strategic advisor Dr. Gabi Blum met with EconCouns January 13 to discuss movement on the World Bank process, Shimon Peres' projected role in disengagement planning, and potential GOI dialogue with the PA on settlement assets and other economic aspects of withdrawal. On the Wo [...]	2005-01-14 16:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG ECON PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV2855	MOSSAD DIRECTOR MEIR DAGAN TELLS CODEL LIEBERMAN [...] (C) Summary: In his meeting with CODEL Lieberman on May 2, Meir Dagan, Director of Mossad, laid out steps that he said the United States should take to block Iran's efforts at acquiring and producing nuclear weapons. Dagan also presented his assessments of Iran's support for Hizballah and Pal [...]	2005-05-06 14:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	OREP PREL KWBG IS GOI EXTERNAL ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV286	BASSEY UPDATES ON DISENGAGEMENT LEGISLATION, [...] (C) Summary. Yonatan Bassey, director of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),provided Economic Counselor and Economic Officer on January 12 with updates on disengagement planning. Bassey reported that the evacuation legislation should go to its third reading in the Knesset in late January o [...]	2005-01-14 16:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV2899	WB/G SITREP: AL-AQSA MILITANTS AND PA POLICE CLASH [...] (SBU) Summary: Exchanges of gunfire erupted between al-Aqsa gunmen and PA police May 9 in Jenin, after the police opened fire on an al-Aqsa leader's car when he refused to stop at a PA police checkpoint, according to PA security sources. As of 1300 hours, community leaders were working to co [...]	2005-05-09 14:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV290	FOREIGN MINISTER SHALOM EXPRESSES SKEPTICISM ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: In separate January 10 meetings with Codels Kerry and Kyl, both joined by the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shalom articulated Israel's cautious readiness to work with Palestinian President-elect Abu Mazen. Shalom emphasized that Israel will measure Abu Mazen by his performance in [...]	2005-01-18 08:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV2924	MKS TO CODEL FRIST: SKEPTICISM ABOUNDS [...] (C) Summary: Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin and Chairman of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee Yuval Steinetz told Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist May 2 that PM Sharon would be "making a mistake" if he allows Egyptian troops to deploy along the Gaza-Egypt and the Israel-Egypt borders. [...]	2005-05-10 12:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2925	CODEL FRIST'S MEETING WITH VICE PM SHIMON PERES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 1, CODEL Frist met with Vice PM Shimon Peres where discussions surrounded the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, Jordan's economic growth and its contribution to the economy in the Palestinian territories, Iran's push to develop nuclear weapons and recent democratic election [...]	2005-05-10 12:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON IS XF GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV293	NETANYAHU TO CODEL KYL ON ECONOMIC REFORMS, [...] (C) Summary: Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu outlined for CODEL Kyl and the Ambassador in a January 9 meeting the economic reforms he has undertaken during his tenure. The reforms include cutting government expenses, reducing taxes, privatizing some state-owned enterprises, and fixing t [...]	2005-01-18 11:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV2936	SENATOR LIEBERMAN'S MAY 2 MEETING WITH GENERAL [...] (C) Summary. Senator Lieberman and Ambassador Kurtzer met on May 2 with the Israeli Defense Forces' Chief of Military Intelligence Production Division, General Kupperwasser. The discussion focused on the Palestinian security situation, including the PA's dismantling of terror networks and p [...]	2005-05-10 14:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS MILITARY RELATIONS
05TELAVIV2938	WB/G SITREP: THREE MORTAR SHELLS FIRED IN GAZA; [...] (SBU) Summary: A Palestinian man was killed in Yatta village, near Hebron, on May 9, according to Palestinian sources, but the killers and motive remain unknown. PA police said that the man's death appeared to have resulted from a criminal act, but added that they are also investigating whet [...]	2005-05-10 14:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2939	CODEL FRIST'S MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 2, Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined to CODEL Frist the economic evolution in Israel since he became finance minister in 2003. Netanyahu said he had increased taxes, reduced government expenditures, while simultaneously combating welfare fraud, challengin [...]	2005-05-10 15:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS XF ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV2940	FINANCE MINISTRY DIRECTOR GENERAL TELLS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met May 9 with Finance Ministry DG Yossi Bachar to discuss a full range of bilateral economic issues, including Israel's request for U.S. assistance to promote Negev/Galilee development, an overview of the recently-concluded Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG) [...]	2005-05-10 15:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAEL RELATIONS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2947	SETTLER SPOKESMAN: WE WILL FIGHT DISENGAGEMENT TO [...] (C) Summary: Eran Sternberg, Gush Katif Spokesman, told econoff on May 4 that, although some settlers are negotiating with the GOI on disengagement planning, the majority favor a continued struggle against the evacuation. He said the GOI is not ready with a solution for relocation, and the s [...]	2005-05-11 08:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV2955	FINANCE MINISTRY CONFIRMS GOI DISENGAGEMENT LAW [...] (C) Finance Ministry staff informed Mission May 11 that GOI disengagement legislation specifies a 3.4% deficit target, including disengagement expenditures, for 2005 only. This corrects statements made by Finance DG Bachar and by other Israeli officials during the Joint Economic Development G [...]	2005-05-11 12:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2967	WB/G SITREP: SETTLERS INJURE PALESTINIAN GIRL IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Settlers in Hebron beat and lightly injured a Palestinian girl May 10. Also on May 10, the IDF arrested three Fatah activists in Zawata village, near Qalqiliya, and four Palestinians in Yatta, south of Hebron. Israeli police shut down two PA election registration centers in Ea [...]	2005-05-11 15:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2985	KNESSET FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR BRIEFS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. Knesset Finance Committee chair Yaakov Litzman discussed Israeli economic and political developments with the Ambassador May 9. Litzman highlighted the difficult budgetary situation created by disengagement, noting that his committee had failed to agree that day on approving le [...]	2005-05-13 10:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV2988	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-13 12:44:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2996	WB/G SITREP: THREE KATYUSHA ROCKETS LAND IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli settlers beat and lightly injured an elderly Palestinian man working in fields near Salem village on May 12, and IDF soldiers arrested 22 settlers for entering Palestinian villages near Nablus the same day for a demonstration and refusing IDF orders to leave. The arres [...]	2005-05-13 14:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV2999	PERES ADVISOR AND NSC ADVISOR CITE "SLOWDOWN" IN [...] (C) Vice PM Peres advisor Einat Wilf and NSC advisor Gabi Blum told EconCouns in separate meetings that a "slowdown" is taking place in joint GOI-PA technical negotiations, in part because of a proposed 70-point agenda the PA orally presented to the GOI that touches on "final status" issues su [...]	2005-05-16 13:40:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV3000	SOME GAZANS QUESTION THE NEED FOR SETTLEMENT [...] (C) Summary and comment: Some elements within the Gazan business community have questioned the importance of intact transfer of the settlement greenhouses following Israeli withdrawal, suggesting that the GOI, the donor community, and the PA have done insufficient work convincing the private [...]	2005-05-16 13:44:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID KWBG PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV3001	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program 3. Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Danny Ayalon ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- This morning, Israel Radio reported that FM Silvan Shalom has decided to cut short the term of Ambassador to the U.S. Danny [...]	2005-05-16 14:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3057	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-19 11:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3098	GOI OFFICIALS GIVE READOUT OF RAMON-DAHLAN [...] (C) Summary: Several GOI officials shared their views on Tuesday,s meeting between GOI Minister Without Portfolio Haim Ramon and PA Civil Affairs Minister Mohammed Dahlan, with most interlocutors emphasizing that the Palestinians continue to focus on sensitive political issues that slow progr [...]	2005-05-20 14:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PREL ECON IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV3127	WB/G SITREP: EIGHT PALESTINIANS INJURED IN WB [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, eight Palestinians protesting against the construction of the separation barrier were wounded by the IDF near the village of Bil'in, near Ramallah, May 20, and a 14-year-old Palestinian was wounded by an explosion as he was playing in a valley near the East Je [...]	2005-05-23 14:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV3151	GOI MOVES AHEAD ON STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE NEGEV [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI is moving ahead to prepare a comprehensive strategy to develop the Negev and Galilee regions, a plan which has as one of its objectives the reduction of public opposition to and concern over the disengagement. Two private consulting firms Daroma and Mckinsey have been con [...]	2005-05-24 15:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL SENV IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV3152	WB/G SITREP: FATAH ACTIVISTS CLASH WITH PA [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 300 Fatah activists the evening of May 23 attempted to enter the Muqata'a in Ramallah in order to visit former Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Arafat's gravesite. Clashes erupted as PA security forces blocked their entrance into the compound. The Fatah activ [...]	2005-05-24 15:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV3172	WB/G SITREP: TWO WB BANK TEENS ARRESTED WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The IDF on May 24 arrested a Palestinian teenager carrying two pipe bombs in a bag as he attempted to pass through the Huwwara checkpoint, south of Nablus. Israeli sappers later blew up the bag containing the bombs. This arrest follows a similar occurrence May 22, when a Palest [...]	2005-05-25 14:04:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV3188	ISRAEL: MODERATING FIRST QUARTER GROWTH POSES [...] (U) Israeli growth moderated in the first quarter of 2005 to 2.9%, following four quarters of growth in 2004 between 3.5 to 4.4%. Business sector GDP grew by 3.4%, which was also lower than any quarter in 2004. The overall deceleration reflected moderating growth of both exports and imports [...]	2005-05-26 10:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV3189	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S. Nuclear Policy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported that over 1,000 families (60 percent of the settlers) from the Katif Bloc (Gush Katif) have signed a letter that will be sent to the High Court of Justice to [...]	2005-05-26 10:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3204	WB/G SITREP: PA POLICE OFFICIAL AMBUSHED IN GAZA [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Gaza Strip, Egyptian mediators failed to resolve the conflict between Fatah and Hamas over municipal election results in several Gaza municipalities. Armed militants ambushed the convoy of PA anti-riot police chief BG Abdullah Khalil, wounding his bodyguard on the evenin [...]	2005-05-26 14:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV3205	COURT RULING FAVORS FATAH IN GAZA ELECTION DISPUTE [...] (C) Summary: In response to Fatah allegations of Hamas fraud, a PA appeals court in Khan Yunis invalidated in rulings May 18 and 20 results from the May 5 municipal elections affecting some 46,000 voters in Rafah, al-Bureij, and Bayt Lahiya, and ordered new elections in the affected polling s [...]	2005-05-26 16:04:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV3223	ISRAEL POLICE TALK POLICY AND TACTICS TO COMBAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: An Israel National Police (INP) official outlined the GOI's fight against money-laundering and other offenses during the DEA Asset Forfeiture Seminar held May 15 to 19 in Tel Aviv. The official described methods used by criminals to transfer illicit profits, and how the GOI's p [...]	2005-05-27 10:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EFIN GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE COUNTERTERRORISM
05TELAVIV3226	WB/G SITREP: PA SECURITY OFFICERS AND CIVIL POLICE [...] (SBU) Summary: Officers from the Palestinian Authority (PA) Preventive Security Organization (PSO) and the PA civil police clashed in Ramallah on the evening of May 26 following a dispute between a PSO officer and members of the civil police. At least three civil police sustained injuries in [...]	2005-05-27 14:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV3227	GAZA DAIRY FARMER WANTS INTACT TRANSFER, DESCRIBE [...] (C) Summary and comment: Amidst halting progress on GOI-PA negotiations regarding the disposition of settlement assets, some settlement farmers are making independent attempts to secure the continuity of enterprises in which they have invested significant resources. The CEO of Omer Cattle M [...]	2005-05-27 14:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG EAID ECON IS SETTLEMENTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV3244	STAFFDEL TALWAR DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Talwar discussed the disengagement process with high-ranking Israeli military and foreign affairs officials, minister without portfolio Matan Vilnai, senior members of Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres' staff, and an opposition leader during a visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusal [...]	2005-05-31 06:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KPAL KWBG OREP EG SY IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV3246	(S) CODEL KOLBE: SHARON DISSATISFIED WITH U.S. [...] (S) During a 75-minute meeting May 30 with Codel Kolbe, attended also by the Ambassador, Prime Minister Sharon described several reasons why he is not happy with current developments. In familiar terms, Sharon said that his and Israel's willingness to move forward in the peace process after [...]	2005-05-31 09:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	IS KPAL OREP PREL XF GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV3256	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-31 11:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV331	WB/G SITREP: ONE ISRAELI SHIN BET OFFICER AND [...] (SBU) Summary: As newly elected PA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas met with leaders of several armed militant factions in the Gaza Strip on January 18 at Gush Katif junction, a suicide bomber detonated explosives, killing one Shin Bet officer and wounding eight other Israelis. Hamas claimed cre [...]	2005-01-19 14:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV3415	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-03 13:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV346	SNAPSHOT OF A WEST BANK AMCIT SETTLER [...] (SBU) On 12 Jan 2004 Conoff spoke with an American citizen resident of the West Bank settlement Neve Tsuf, also known as Halamish. The applicant was making an inquiry regarding the report of birth of her American citizen child but was willing to discuss the broader subject of life in a West [...]	2005-01-20 10:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC SOCI KWBG IS ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV3477	WB/G SITREP: SENIOR FATAH OFFICIAL KILLED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, the family of an alleged Israeli collaborator reportedly killed a senior Fatah official and his brother in Nablus, sparking demonstrations at the Muqata,a in Ramallah. An IDF soldier and two foreign national protesters were injured near Salfit in clashes bet [...]	2005-06-06 13:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG PTER ASEC PHUM CASC KPAL
05TELAVIV350	PERES ON INNOVATIVE ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS FOR PA [...] (C) Summary: Deputy PM Shimon Peres met with the Ambassador recently and discussed prospects for renewed peace process negotiations with the PA, as well as his new role in coordinating economic aspects of the disengagement plan and development of the Negev and Galilee. Peres was skeptical t [...]	2005-01-20 11:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG ECON EFIN PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV3505	POLITICS AND BUREAUCRACY SLOW DISENGAGEMENT [...] (S) Summary: GOI contacts recently described bureaucratic and political obstacles to disengagement planning and GOI-PA coordination on the transfer of settlement assets, upgrades at the border crossings, and water talks. NSC advisor Gaby Blum characterized the MoD's takeover of leadership on [...]	2005-06-07 07:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL KWBG ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV3524	(C) ISRAELI PRIME MINISTRY AND DEFENSE MINISTRY [...] (C) BG Eitan Dangott, Defense Minister Mofaz's Military Secretary, told the Ambassador late afternoon June 7 that the SIPDIS IDF is on alert and will act immediately if Palestinians are seen preparing further mortar or Qassam attacks in Gaza. Dangott hinted, but would not be pinned down, t [...]	2005-06-07 14:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL PREL XF ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV3526	WB/G SITREP: THREE QASSAMS FALL ON SDEROT, TWO [...] (SBU) Summary: Hamas militants fired five Qassam rockets into Israel the morning of June 7, three of which landed in the town of Sderot. No injuries were reported, but three Israelis were treated for shock. Also on June 7, Islamic Jihad and, according to some reports, Hamas, claimed respons [...]	2005-06-07 15:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV355	WB/G SITREP: A TOTAL OF FIVE PALESTINIANS KILLED [...] (SBU) Summary: Two IDF soldiers were wounded January 19 southeast of the Erez Crossing, near Nissanit, when Palestinian militants fired an anti-tank missile at a bulldozer they were operating. A total of five Palestinians were killed and another six were injured January 19-20 in Gaza clashes [...]	2005-01-20 14:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV3560	WB/G SITREP: MORTAR AND ROCKET FIRE CONTINUES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The IDF on June 7 clashed with demonstrators protesting the construction of the separation barrier near the village of al-Ramadin, southwest of Hebron. Two protesters sustained light injuries during the protest. PA President Mahmud Abbas is scheduled on June 8 to travel to the [...]	2005-06-08 15:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV3561	MOD DG AMOS YARON ON PASSAGES, THE BARRIER, AND [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Ministry of Defense (MOD) Director General Amos Yaron recently to discuss the status of the seamline barrier around major settlement blocs. Yaron said that the idea of building a wall in Hebron has been turned down by the Attorney General. Yaron noted th [...]	2005-06-09 04:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS MILITARY RELATIONS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV3594	WB/G SITREP: TWO IDF SOLDIERS AND ONE PALESTINIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian militants fired some 17 mortar rounds and rockets on Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip overnight June 8-9. Two IDF soldiers were lightly injured when a mortar struck near their outpost in the vicinity of Neve Dekalim. The barrage followed an IAF missile strike [...]	2005-06-09 14:45:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV363	FINANCE MINISTRY DG ON U.S. ASSISTANCE, BUDGET AND [...] (C) Summary. Economic Counselor and Deputy held a wide-ranging meeting with Finance Ministry DG Yossi Bachar on January 18. Bachar discussed the Cabinet's January 16 decision to name him chair of a committee coordinating all assistance requests to the USG. He believes this would give coher [...]	2005-01-21 07:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAEL RELATIONS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV3672	CODEL KOLBE MEETINGS WITH ISRAEL'S FOREIGN [...] THIS IS A JOINT MESSAGE FROM EMBASSY TEL AVIV AND CONGEN JERUSALEM. 2. (U) SUMMARY: DURING A MAY 29-31 VISIT TO ISRAEL AND THE WEST BANK, CODEL KOLBE MET WITH ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER SHALOM AND ISRAELI VICE PREMIER PERES, AMONG OTHERS. MINISTER SHALOM SPOKE ABOUT THE RECENT ELECTORAL S [...]	2005-06-14 05:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PREL EAID IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV370	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Prospect For Second Bush Administration 2. Mideast 3. Proposed Russia-Syria Arms Deal ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media underscored Thursday's inauguration of President Bush in Washington. The three national TV stations bro [...]	2005-01-21 11:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3749	SHARON WINS NO-CONFIDENCE MOTIONS WITH NO EFFORT; [...] (C) Heavy media coverage of the Knesset's three failed no-confidence motions June 14 -- and their incorrect depiction as "defeats" for Prime Minister Sharon -- reflect a slow news week, opportunistic efforts by disengagement opponents to sow doubts with misleading data, and a prime minister s [...]	2005-06-15 12:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV379	FM DEFENDS BREAK WITH PA, DENOUNCES IRAN AND SYRIA [...] (C) Summary: At a political/diplomatic briefing for foreign ambassadors, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom defended Prime Minister Sharon's decision to suspend contacts with the Palestinian Authority until the PA takes action against terrorist infrastructure in the territories. Shalom said that [...]	2005-01-21 14:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL PREL GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV380	GAZAN ECONOMY DISRUPTED BY KARNI CLOSURE [...] (SBU) Summary: The closure at Karni terminal, which has been in effect since the January 13 attack that killed six Israeli employees, has caused the agriculture, furniture, and garment sectors within Gaza to lose some USD four million and to lay off over 1,000 workers. In the Gazan marketpla [...]	2005-01-21 15:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG ECON ETRD IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV381	PA SECURITY FORCES BEGIN DEPLOYING IN NORTHERN GAZA [...] (C) Summary: A force of some 2,000 PA security personnel began deploying in the northeastern Gaza Strip, near Bayt Hanoun and Bayt Lahiya January 21 in an agreed-upon effort between the IDF and Gaza security chief Mousa Arafat aimed at preventing rocket fire at Israeli towns. Observers on th [...]	2005-01-21 15:32:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV382	WB/G SITREP: IDF TROOPS KILL THREE PALESTINIANS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including one 12-year-old boy on January 21. The IDF also shot and injured three other Palestinians in the Gaza strip January 21. End Summary. ---- Gaza ---- (SBU) ATTACKS: -- Death: Israeli media rep [...]	2005-01-21 15:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV389	2004-2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Israel is not a significant producer or trafficking point for drugs. The Israeli National Police (INP),however, reports that during the year 2004, the Israeli drug market continued to be characterized by high demand in nearly all sectors of society and a high availability of drugs including [...]	2005-01-24 08:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KSEP IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV3891	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: RIBBONS SHOW ISRAELIS' TRUE [...] (SBU) In recent months, some Israeli motorists who oppose Prime Minister Sharon's disengagement plan have taken to tying orange ribbons on their vehicles to denote their opposition. Up until about a week ago, orange was the only color streaming from car -- and truck -- antennas, bumpers and [...]	2005-06-21 13:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWBG SOCI IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV3893	WB/G SITREP: IDF SWEEP ARRESTS 52 PIJ MILITANTS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The IDF arrested 52 PIJ activists in the West Bank on June 20, including 25 in Bethlehem and a senior PIJ leader, Ra'id al-Hijawi, in Jenin, according to PA security sources. Eight Palestinians were injured in clashes with the IDF near Yatta village, south of Hebron, in anti-b [...]	2005-06-21 15:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV3894	LABOR PARTY PRIMARIES APPROACHING THE STARTING [...] (C) Summary: The Labor Party's 82-year old interim chairman, Vice Premier Shimon Peres, is currently favored to garner the highest -- but not an outright winning -- vote total among the five contenders in Labor's June 28 party-wide primaries, a so-far lackluster race that could nonetheless de [...]	2005-06-21 16:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV3951	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-23 11:10:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3955	WB/G SITREP: IDF ARRESTS AT LEAST 11 WEST BANK [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, the IDF arrested five alleged PIJ activists June 22 in and around Jenin, and six Palestinians and one foreign peace activist in anti-barrier protests in Bili'in, near Ramallah, the same day. PA security forces entered the Amari refugee camp to arrest several [...]	2005-06-23 13:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV3956	FM SHALOM'S BRIEFING TO DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom summoned Chiefs of Mission to Jerusalem June 22 to give an update on disengagement from Gaza and related issues. Clarifying PM Sharon's previous comments concerning disengagement under fire, he said that extremist attacks would halt disengagement only long enoug [...]	2005-06-23 13:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV3970	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Africa: International Aid ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All major newspapers, except Jerusalem Post, led with a leaked report that the IDF and police have decided to raid the Maoz Hayam Hotel in the Gaza Strip settlement o [...]	2005-06-24 10:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3971	NEW BOI GOVERNOR FISCHER OPTIMISTIC ON ISRAELI [...] (C) New BOI Governor Stanley Fischer expressed optimism about the Israeli economy in a courtesy call by the Ambassador. Referring to the first-quarter slowdown in GDP growth, Fischer said he had to be a bit circumspect in his views. He nonetheless felt the recent drop of unemployment to 9.1 [...]	2005-06-24 11:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV3973	GOI VISION FOR GALILEE AND THE NEGEV, A TRIP BACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the GOI moves to develop its strategic policy plans for the Negev and the Galilee a closer look at the failures of the past efforts is instructive. The three plans - the National Outline Plan 31 (1990) which served to find ways to absorb immigration from Soviet Union and Et [...]	2005-06-24 12:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL SENV IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV3987	MINISTRY OF DEFENSE ADVISOR, BRIGADIER GENERAL [...] (S) IN A 24 JUNE MEETING, MINISTRY OF DEFENSE ADVISOR, BRIGADIER GENERAL (RES.) BARUCH SPIEGEL PROVIDED ECONOMIC COUNSELOR CLARIFICATION ON A PRESS REPORT INDICATING THAT PLANS WERE UNDERWAY TO EXPAND SETTLEMENTS IN THE JORDAN VALLEY. AS MUCH OF THE RURAL LANDS IN THE JORDAN VALLEY FALL UNDER [...]	2005-06-24 13:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV3991	TAX PLAN APPROVED BY THE GOI [...] (C) Summary. The GOI approved a multi-year tax plan on June 5, prepared by the tax authority and the State Revenues Administration of the Ministry of Finance. The plan focuses on enabling Israel to become a more attractive and competitive location for investors while reducing income tax rat [...]	2005-06-24 14:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV3992	WB/G SITREP: AL-AQSA GUNMEN KILL ONE PA POLICEMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades gunmen killed one PA police officer, Ziad al-Bzur, during an assault on Jenin,s main police station June 23, according to PA security sources. The tension between al-Aqsa gunmen and PA police began when police arrested an al-Aqsa member for attacking [...]	2005-06-24 14:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4029	LABOR PARTY PRIMARIES POSTPONED, PERHAPS TO [...] (C) The Labor Party Central Committee's June 26 decision to postpone party chairmanship primaries -- originally scheduled for June 28 -- until after an open-ended investigation into party registration irregularities, could delay the primaries until after disengagement and possibly until Novem [...]	2005-06-27 10:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV4030	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] U.S.-Israel Security Exports Crisis 2. Iran: Presidential Election 3. Democracy in Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- On Sunday, Ha'aretz reported that during her visit to Jerusalem last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Ric [...]	2005-06-27 11:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4035	BASSEY UPDATE ON DISENGAGEMENT PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Yonatan Bassey, Director of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),told Economic Counselor on June 14 that although only 300 families have applied for financial compensation, he expects a flood within the next two weeks. He said that 450 mobile homes will be ready in Nitzanim two [...]	2005-06-27 11:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAGR KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4059	AMOS GILAD ON PA POLITICS, DISENGAGEMENT PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Defense Political-Military bureau head Maj. Gen. Amos Gilad told EconCouns that the high level of USG and international community actors involved in disengagement planning -- including Quartet Special Envoy (QSE) Wolfensohn, Security Coordinator Gen. Ward, and A/S We [...]	2005-06-28 11:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG PTER EAID IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4063	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH JAPANESE MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Japanese Special Envoy Tatsuo Arima and Japanese Ambassador to Israel Jun Yokota met with Ambassador Kurtzer on June 28 to share assessments of the current state of Palestian-Israeli issues. Arima said he had never seen Dov Weissglas, PM Sharon's Senior Advisor, so pessimistic, and that [...]	2005-06-28 12:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG JA IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4066	THREE BEDOUIN MOSQUES IN THE NEGEV ORDERED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has served demolition orders for three mosques built in Bedouin unrecognized villages in the Negev. The regional council for the Bedouin, an Israeli-Arab NGO, is taking action to publicize the threat to these mosques as a means of pressuring the GOI to back off on the dem [...]	2005-06-28 13:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL IS PHUM ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV4097	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Guantanamo Detainees 4. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with disengagement-related issues. Ha'aretz reported that the army will soon declare the Gaza Strip a closed militar [...]	2005-06-29 10:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4107	MOSSAD CHIEF ON WEAKNESS OF SYRIA, PREDICTS NO [...] (C) Summary: Mossad Chief Meir Dagan told NEA A/S David Welch, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams, and the Ambassador June 17 that, despite the weakness of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, he is unlikely to be replaced any time soon. Syria,s neighbors prefer to keep Assad in pow [...]	2005-06-29 13:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV PTER MNUC IR SY IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV4110	GILAD AND EILAND ON DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION AND [...] (C) Summary: In separate June 17 meetings with NEA A/S Welch, DNSA Abrams, and the Ambassador, Israeli NSC Director Eiland and MoD Political-Military Director Amos Gilad both blamed PA failure to act against rocket and mortar attacks on Israel and Israeli settlements on the PA's overall weakne [...]	2005-06-29 13:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV KPAL KWBG GZ EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4112	MFA DEMANDS EGYPT DO MORE TO PREVENT SMUGGLING [...] (C) Summary: Israeli MFA Director General Ron Prosor stressed to visiting NEA A/S Welch, DNSA Elliott Abrams, and the Ambassador June 17 that Egypt is doing "less than the minimum necessary" to stop smuggling along the Egyptian-Gaza border. Prosor floated the idea of allowing the Badr Brigade [...]	2005-06-29 13:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PTER KWBG EG JO IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV4118	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: KNESSET FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (C) Attorney General Menachem Mazuz is to decide in the coming weeks whether allowing the Egyptians to deploy 750 border police along the Gaza-Egyptian border as a security measure associated with implementing the disengagement plan is a material change to the 1973 Israeli-Egyptian Peace Trea [...]	2005-06-30 10:45:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV4142	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Aftermath of U.S.-Israel Security Exports Crisis ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media highlighted the evacuation by the IDF and police on Thursday of the residents of the Maoz Hayam Hotel at the Neve Dekalim settlement in [...]	2005-07-01 11:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4145	U.S. TREASURY RECEIVES GOI BRIEF ON MONEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli officials briefed U.S. Treasury advisor Szubin and Econoff on GOI efforts against money laundering and terror finance. The police officials cited successes in fighting money launderers, seizing millions of dollars, but also noted difficulties in cooperation and informati [...]	2005-07-01 12:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER EFIN COUNTERTERRORISM
05TELAVIV4149	ISRAELI LEFT-WING LEADERS UNCERTAIN OF WHAT WILL [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a June 29 dinner hosted by the Ambassador, leaders of the Labor and Yahad-Meretz parties could not agree on what steps the GOI will -- or even should -- take following disengagement. The group had divergent views on whether and to what degree Prime Minister Sharon [...]	2005-07-01 12:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4183	WB/G SITREP: CLASHES BETWEEN FATAH AND HAMAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli Press reported that six Palestinians were injured July 4 in clashes between Fatah and Hamas activists in Bani Suhelia, east of Khan Yunis. Hamas leaders Mahmoud al-Zahar and Mushir al-Masri rejected PA Prime Minister Abu Ala'a's call to form a national unity government [...]	2005-07-05 13:40:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4194	GOI OFFICIAL REAFFIRMS POLICY ON GAZA HOUSES, [...] (C) Shalom Turgeman, Prime Minister Sharon's foreign policy advisor, told the Ambassador early July 6 that the GOI's policy with respect to Gaza houses remains as conveyed to the Secretary, namely, the GOI will destroy the Gaza houses during the evacuation of the settlements, the Palestinia [...]	2005-07-06 06:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL PREL XF GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4198	GAZAN DISENGAGEMENT-RELATED AGRICULTURE [...] (C) Summary and comment: A series of discussions with GOI, PA, and Gazan private sector contacts June 27-29 has underscored the pressing need for agreement between the two sides on crossings and the transfer of settlement assets. On crossings, GOI representatives said that Karni terminal will [...]	2005-07-06 08:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PREL EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4199	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: VOTE ON DOOMED DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Yisrael Maimon, Cabinet Secretary, told Poloff July 4 that the Likud rebels decided late afternoon July 4 to postpone for two weeks a preliminary vote on a bill that would delay implementation of the disengagement plan by one year. The bill's sponsor, right-wing National Religious Party [...]	2005-07-06 08:44:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL

05TELAVIV4207	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: ATTORNEY GENERAL MAZUZ [...] (C) Attorney General Menachem Mazuz told Ministry of Justice Liaison to the Knesset Paz Barnett July 5 to convey directly to Poloff who was waiting in the adjoining office that he is about to announce his decision that an agreement between Israel and Egypt allowing Egypt to place some 750 bor [...]	2005-07-06 12:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL
05TELAVIV4213	WB/G SITREP: SETTLERS INJURE TEN PALESTINIANS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, the IDF arrested two youths July 5 on suspicion of throwing a firebomb at an Israeli car near Nilli settlement, east of Highway 443. IDF forces demolished 17 structures in the West Bank villages of Beit Furik and Ein al-Bida, both in the Jordan valley, on Jul [...]	2005-07-06 14:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4238	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- At midday, Israel Radio reported on a series of explosions in London, and that Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was supposed to participate in a conference [...]	2005-07-07 11:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4244	WB/G SITREP: ONE PALESTINIAN DEAD, FOUR INJURED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: IDF troops shot and killed 17-year-old al-Aqsa Brigades member Ahmad Masimi and lightly injured an accomplice, Ahmad Sanakreh, on July 6 in Nablus. According to Israeli security sources, the IDF returned fire after shots were fired at several busloads of settlers who had enter [...]	2005-07-07 13:44:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4246	(C) ISRAEL WILL NOT SUBMIT REVISED OFFER FOR [...] (C) Econoff delivered reftels to Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor staff. Yoram Zara (Director Multilateral Agreements Division); Yair Shiran (Director International Agreements and Trade Policy) and Ami Levin (Multilateral Trade Division, and POC for North America) all stated that Israel [...]	2005-07-07 14:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV4255	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] July 7 London Bombings 2. Israel-China Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with, and extensively reported on, Thursday's terror bombings in London, in which at least 37 people were killed and 700 others were wounded. [...]	2005-07-08 10:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4264	ISRAELI PROFESSOR HOPES GOI DEVELOPMENT PLANS WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Ben Gurion University professor working closely with the Bedouin community in the Negev discussed the GOI development initiative for the Negev, still a concern for the Bedouin. The professor said he is putting together a plan which will bring the GOI and the Bedouin leadership [...]	2005-07-08 13:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL IS ISRAELI SOCIETY ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV4267	WB/G SITREP: 19 PALESTINIANS INJURED IN WEST BANK [...] (SBU) Summary: A total of 19 Palestinians were lightly injured on July 7 during stone throwing clashes that erupted with the IDF during a protest against the separation barrier in the village of Immatin, near Nablus. Also in the West Bank, the IDF arrested seven PIJ militants on July 7 during [...]	2005-07-08 14:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4269	FINAL DECISION ON ARIEL SECURITY FENCE LIKELY NOT [...] (C) Ambassador asked MOD Director General Amos Yaron July 7 about press reports that the Israeli cabinet might decide a new route for the separation barrier around the Ariel bloc of settlements. Yaron responded that Prime Minister Sharon is very unlikely to bring this issue to the cabinet [...]	2005-07-08 16:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL PREL XF ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV4281	NGO'S HOPE GOI PLANS FOR NEGEV AND GALILEE WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli and Israeli-Arab NGO's have expressed growing concern about GOI plans for economic development in the Galilee and Negev. The Chairman of the Arab Center for Alternative Planning (ACAP) stated that the core goal of the government's plan is to give land to the Jewish popul [...]	2005-07-11 12:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL SENV PGOV PHUM EFIN IS ISRAELI SOCIETY ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV4284	ISRAELI HOUSING MINISTER DISCUSSES SETTLEMENTS AND [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Talwar met with Minister of Housing Isaac Herzog on July 6 at the Knesset to discuss Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the disengagement process. Herzog said that he had stopped all new residential construction beyond the green line, but intends to eventually appro [...]	2005-07-11 12:32:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV4294	HOUSING MINISTRY DETAILS MEASURES TO HALT [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Chaim Fialkoff, Senior Deputy Director General for Planning and Coordination at the Ministry of Construction and Housing (MOCH) provided details on MOCH,s reported halt in settler construction in the West Bank. According to Fialkoff, the MOCH halted 51 settler construction pr [...]	2005-07-11 14:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV43	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-04 12:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV430	JUSTICE MINISTRY DG PROVIDES DISENGAGEMENT UPDATE [...] (C) Looking visibly tired, Justice Ministry DG Aaron Abramovich updated Economic Counselor and Deputy on the "hectic" period ahead on disengagement. He said he and his team were about to embark on a week of intensive consultations with the Finance Committee Disengagement Subcommittee prior to [...]	2005-01-25 14:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4304	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. London Bombings ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that on Monday, the delegation of senior Israeli officials to Washington officially presented Israel's disengagement-related aid request to the U.S. admini [...]	2005-07-12 11:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4321	ISRAELI OFFICIALS TRAVEL TO CAIRO TO WORK ON [...] (C) Summary: During a July 10 trip to Cairo, two senior MFA officials were unable to reach agreement with the Egyptians on an MOU to establish a bilateral committee. The GOI is waiting for an Egyptian reply to an Israeli letter proposing biannual meetings of the foreign ministers and ad-hoc s [...]	2005-07-13 07:10:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV4335	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: SHARON INDICATES HE WILL SEEK [...] (C) Prime Minister Sharon indicated to the press July 12 that he will seek Knesset approval of an Israeli-Egyptian agreement -- that has not yet been finalized -- allowing some 750 Egyptian border guard soldiers to secure the Egyptian-Gaza border as part of implementing the disengagement plan [...]	2005-07-13 13:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV4387	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global War on Terrorism ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that on Thursday afternoon, a 22- year-old Israeli woman was killed and her boyfriend was slightly injured in a shelling attack on Moshav Netiv Ha'asa [...]	2005-07-15 10:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4402	(C) GOI OFFICIALS ARE TALKING TO HAMAS MAYORS [...] (C) Summary: Israeli Defense Force officers are communicating with Hamas mayors in the Palestinian territories on routine matters, although it is unclear whether these contacts are direct or through other Palestinian intermediaries. Post has asked the Ministry of Justice whether the GOI has a [...]	2005-07-15 15:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL ECON IS
05TELAVIV4403	ISRAELI MOD DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT AND GROWING NUMBER OF TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-15 15:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL KWBG KPAL PTER IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4405	IDF DEPUTY COS KAPLINSKY BRIEFS A/S WELCH ON LATEST VIOLENCE, IDF-PA SECURITY COORDINATION [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-15 17:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL KWBG PTER IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4417	EIVAL GILADY'S VISION OF POST-DISENGAGEMENT GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Brigadier General (res) Eival Gilady, a special advisor to PM Sharon on disengagement, met with Assistant Secretary Welch, Ambassador Kurtzer, and Lt. General Ward to discuss post-disengagement Gaza and future relations between Israel and Gaza. Gilady said that Israel will not tr [...]	2005-07-18 14:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4418	WB/G SITREP: MORTAR, ROCKET FIRE CONTINUE IN GAZA; [...] (SBU) Summary: Intense mortar and Qassam fire from Gaza continued through the weekend of July 16-17, easing up somewhat on July 18. On July 17, the IDF killed the Hamas military commander in Khan Yunis in a targeted killing and also killed, in a separate incident, a PIJ militant who was prep [...]	2005-07-18 16:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4419	RAMON DESCRIBES DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION [...] (C) Summary: In a July 14 meeting, Minister without Portfolio Haim Ramon described disengagement coordination priorities for Assistant Secretary Welch, Ambassador Kurtzer, and Lt. General Ward. Ramon expressed his desire to coordinate $50 million in USG assistance for improving passages with [...]	2005-07-19 04:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAID ETRD KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4420	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-19 05:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4471	PEACE NOW,S PETITION AGAINST AMONA OUTPOST [...] (C) Summary: On July 4, the NGO Peace Now filed the first petition to Israel,s High Court of Justice against illegal outpost construction. The petition argues that nine houses at the Amona outpost-as well as the outpost itself-were built without permits on Palestinian-owned land, making the [...]	2005-07-19 09:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV4482	WB/G SITERP: PA-HAMAS CLASH IN GAZA AS [...] (U) This is a joint ConGen Jerusalem/Embassy Tel Aviv cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Up to twelve Palestinians were injured in an extended PA-Hamas clash in the Gaza Strip on July 19. One Palestinian was reported dead due to IDF warning fire when a car tried to force its way through a closed Is [...]	2005-07-19 16:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV45	(C) PM'S ADVISOR ON RENEWED REPARATIONS CLAIMS [...] (C) Summary: A GOI working group charged with developing a five-year plan on Holocaust-era reparations, pensions and restitution is considering a recommendation that the GOI ask Germany for about $500 million -- possibly in the form of new German-made submarines -- in compensation for what the GOI [...]	2005-01-04 14:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL MASS PL IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV452	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-26 11:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4523	WB/G SITREP: PA-HAMAS CLASH IN GAZA CITY FOLLOWS [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite an 0100 July 20 announcement from Fatah and Hamas that they had agreed to end clashes between their forces, Hamas gunmen exchanged fire with PSO forces in Gaza City at about 0200 on July 20. Four Hamas men and one PSO officer were reported injured. Mortar, rocket and [...]	2005-07-20 12:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4538	ISRAELI ARABS: GOI NOT AT FAULT FOR ALL PROBLEMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leaders in Israel's Bedouin and Israeli-Arab communities acknowledge that not all of their problems can blamed on government policies and programs. Leadership and good governance are needed within these communities if they are to overcome current and future challenges. END SUMMA [...]	2005-07-21 07:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL IS ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV4613	WB/G SITREP: GAZA BOY KILLED BY ROCKET THAT FELL [...] (SBU) Summary: A homemade rocket launched at a Gaza settlement failed to hit its intended target on July 21, killing instead a Palestinian boy in Khan Yunis and wounding his brother. Only one other incident of rocket fire and only one incident of mortar fire were reported from Gaza. PA secu [...]	2005-07-22 14:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4619	STAFFDEL TALWAR DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT AND [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Talwar met with Histadrut labor federation leader and candidate for head of the Labor Party Amir Peretz on July 11 to discuss disengagement, the peace process and Israeli politics. Peretz expressed support for disengagement, but was suspicious that the GOI is intentional [...]	2005-07-25 07:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ELAB ECON EAID KWBG KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV4621	CHIEF DISENGAGEMENT AUTHORITY BASSEY DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Talwar met with Yonatan Bassey, Director of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),on July 11 to discuss Israel,s ongoing preparations for the upcoming evacuation of 17 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the northern West Bank under Prime Minister Ariel S [...]	2005-07-25 07:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4653	ECF: SEPTEMBER COMPLETION OF JERUSALEM ENVELOPE [...] (C) Summary: Colonel (ret.) Shaul Arieli, consultant at the Economic Cooperation Foundation and advisor to the High Court on the routing of the separation barrier, told economic officer that it is unlikely that Israel will complete construction of the Jerusalem envelope--the Jerusalem section [...]	2005-07-26 13:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV4655	MK OMRI SHARON NEARS POSSIBLE PLEA BARGAIN AS NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Sharon's son Omri, a Likud MK since 2003, is nearing a plea bargain with Attorney General Menachem Mazuz over charges related to his role in the alleged illegal financing of Prime Minister Sharon's 1999 leadership campaign for the Likud Party. A political and lega [...]	2005-07-26 15:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV4694	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: FINAL VOTES STILL TO COME ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Sharon still faces two GOI votes related to his disengagement plan. The first, a Cabinet vote authorizing the evacuation of settlers, must take place before disengagement implementation begins on August 17. Still to be determined is whether the Cabinet will stick [...]	2005-07-27 15:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV4709	HOPE FLOWERS SCHOOL NOT THREATENED BY SEPARATION [...] (C) Summary: On 20 July, Hope Flowers School Co-director Ibrahim Issa met with Ministry of Defense Advisor Brigadier General (res.) Baruch Spiegel and officers from the West Bank District Coordination Offices (DCO) to discuss demolition orders issued against the school's cafeteria. Spiegel to [...]	2005-07-28 12:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV4711	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Security Exports Crisis ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All major newspapers, except Yediot, led with PM Sharon's ongoing cordial visit to France. Maariv bannered: "Embrace From France." Ha'aretz and Israel Radi [...]	2005-07-28 12:45:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4715	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT UPDATE, JULY 28, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: This is the first in a series of regular reports tracking progress on disengagement coordination between the GOI and the PA. On the six priority areas outlined by Quartet Special Envoy (QSE) Wolfensohn, Ministers Mofaz and Dahlan agreed that door-to-door movement of goods shoul [...]	2005-07-28 15:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4727	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] U.S.-Israel Relations 2. Democracy in Mideast 3. Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv quoted people who attended Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's meeting with Defense Minister Shaul M [...]	2005-07-29 11:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4728	(C) ISRAEL CONSIDERS WITHDRAWING FROM GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor (MOITL) is considering withdrawing from the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) if the GOI is unable to maintain offsets at the current level. MOITL staff claim that economic analysis and industry advocacy have made it clear that cost [...]	2005-07-29 13:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON ETRD IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV4729	KNESSET ADOPTS BACHAR CAPITAL MARKET REFORMS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Bachar capital market reforms won Knesset approval on Monday, July 25 by of vote of 62-1-1 (in favor, opposed, abstention). The Bachar reforms force banks to sell off their Kupot Gemel (provident funds) and mutual funds. However, lobbying by the banking industry succeeded [...]	2005-07-29 14:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV4755	WB/G SITREP: EREZ CROSSING AND INDUSTRIAL ZONE [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 31 the GOI opened the Erez Crossing for Palestinian merchants and the Erez Industrial Zone for Palestinian laborers, both for the first time since the July 12 suicide bombing in Netanya. Two UNDP consultants were kidnapped July 29 by a Gaza clan whose members hoped to [...]	2005-08-01 15:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4766	Gaza's moderate Islamists muse on "after [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A trio of Islamic scholars from Al Azhar University, like many Gazan interlocutors, on 28 July cited freedom of movement for Gazans and their goods as the test of disengagement. Recently returned from an International Visitors program, the leaders also spoke favorably of relig [...]	2005-08-02 09:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	GZ PREL KPAO OEXC SCUL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4775	GAZAN BUSINESS STRUGGLES WITH DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Gazan private sector contacts are on edge over current GOI-PA negotiations regarding the post-disengagement border crossings, arguing that without freedom of movement at Karni, Erez, and Rafah terminals, the Gazan economy will not survive Israel's withdrawal. Business leaders b [...]	2005-08-02 13:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KWBG EAID PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4780	WB/G SITREP: GUNMEN KILL PA POLICEMAN, WOUND THREE [...] (SBU) Summary: Armed men in Gaza killed a PA police officer August 1 during an apparent kidnapping attempt. Gunmen also wounded three PA intelligence officers in Gaza City on August 1. A Palestinian died and five were wounded when an explosive device detonated overnight August 1-2 in a villa [...]	2005-08-02 15:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4799	SHARON AND CHIRAC'S PARIS HONEYMOON: DOWNPLAYING [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an August 2 meeting, French Charge d'Affaires Christophe Bigot told the DCM that Prime Minister Sharon and French President Jacques Chirac agreed in advance to downplay their differences on peace-process issues and instead focus on enhancing bilateral relations during Sharon' [...]	2005-08-03 11:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MNUC FR IR IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV4800	REVISED ISRAELI TEXT OF UNGA HOLOCAUST RESOLUTION [...] (C) MFA Director for UN Political Affairs Rony Adam discussed the GOI's draft resolution on Holocaust remembrance with poloff on August 2. Adam provided a copy of the revised text (attached),which has minor changes to preliminary paragraphs four (removing the word "unique" to describe World [...]	2005-08-03 11:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV4804	WB/G SITREP: PALESTINIAN CHILD KILLED BY QASSAM IN [...] (SBU) Summary: One child was killed and up to eleven other Palestinians injured when a Qassam aimed at Sderot landed in Beit Hanoun. Elsewhere in Gaza, former Palestinian prisoners occupied two Palestinian Authority (PA) buildings in Rafah. In the West Bank, Israeli authorities arrested 25 [...]	2005-08-03 14:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4815	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All major media reported that police last night halted thousands of anti-disengagement activists at the Peduim junction two km west of Ofakim after the demonstration departed the Negev tow [...]	2005-08-04 10:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4819	DISENGAGEMENT COORDINATION: THE CUSTOMS UNION [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-04 11:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	ECON ETRD EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV4820	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT UPDATE, AUGUST 4, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of regular reports tracking progress on disengagement coordination between the GOI and the PA. The IDF will open Karni and Erez terminals two days a week for Gazans during "lockdown;" the GOI is considering a trilateral meeting on the passages; VP [...]	2005-08-04 11:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4829	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: ISRAELI CABINET SET TO VOTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Cabinet is scheduled to vote August 7 on the evacuation of at least one of the four groups of settlements slated to be evacuated beginning August 17 pursuant to Prime Minister Sharon's disengagement plan. The vote will take place at the end of a week during which tens of tho [...]	2005-08-04 14:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV4830	ISRAELI HOUSING MINISTER ISSUES TENDERS FOR NEW [...] (C) Summary: Israeli press reported today, August 4, that the Ministry of Construction and Housing (MOCH) published notices for two tenders for the sale of a total of 72 residential units, plus commercial space, in Beitar Illit, a settlement southwest of Jerusalem. Housing Minister Isaac He [...]	2005-08-04 14:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV4831	WB/G SITREP: THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS RALLY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The IDF reported one mortar attack and five shooting incidents in Gaza overnight with no injuries. Israeli police and army units arrested up to 200 protesters attempting to infiltrate into Gaza. According to UNRWA, some 15,000 Palestinians held a rally outside the Palestinian [...]	2005-08-04 16:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG KPAL PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4838	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-05 09:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4842	ISRAELI-ARAB LEADERS BLAME JEWISH EXTREMIST'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI quickly spun into action to contain a potentially volatile atmosphere in Israeli-Arab communities after the August 4 shooting attack by an extremist Jewish settler on a bus in the Arab city of Shfaram that killed four Israeli Arabs. Prime Minister Sharon called the attack [...]	2005-08-05 12:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER IS ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV4861	WB/G SITREP: IDF SOLDIER KILLS FIVE ISRAELI ARABS [...] (SBU) Summary: A religious, right-wing IDF soldier, who had been AWOL for a month, killed four Israeli Arabs on a bus in the north of Israel on August 4, before a crowd killed him (septel). IDF soldiers overnight killed three Palestinians who approached the Gush Katif settlement, reportedly w [...]	2005-08-05 15:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV4862	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT UPDATE, AUGUST 5, 2005 [...] (C) This report summarizes current GOI views on the progress of disengagement coordination between the GOI and the PA and updates from the Quartet Special Envoy's (QSE) staff. The August 4 trilateral held under QSE Wolfensohn auspices generated concurrence on how to organize upcoming GOI-PA [...]	2005-08-05 15:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID KWBG KPAL PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4879	NETANYAHU BECOMES SPOILER WITHOUT SPOILS AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's dramatic August 7 resignation from government will not affect implementation of the disengagement plan starting August 17. It will also not bring down Prime Minister Sharon's government since the opposition is not sufficiently united to must [...]	2005-08-08 12:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4880	FINANCE MINISTER NETANYAHU RESIGNS: ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Benyamin Netanyahu resigned on Sunday, August 7th during the Cabinet session in which the implementation of the first stage of disengagement was approved. Within hours of Netanyahu's resignation the stock market in Israel lost 5.3% of its value. Late Sunday n [...]	2005-08-08 12:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL ELAB EAIR IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4883	CODEL KING'S MEETING WITH GOI SECURITY MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Codel King met with Minister of Public Security Gideon Ezra where discussions focused on disengagement, anti-disengagement protests, and related security concerns. Ezra stressed the importance of intelligence gathering and sharing as a necessary tool in combating terrorism, both [...]	2005-08-08 14:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV ECON IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV4894	IDF CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS DISENGAGEMENT HAS NOT [...] (S) SUMMARY. In an August 3 meeting with Deputy National Security Adviser Abrams, the Ambassador and Gen. Ward, the IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, said that disengagement has not harmed the IDF as an institution. It has, however, created problems, particularly in the area [...]	2005-08-09 08:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	MOPS PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV4896	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global War on Terror 3. Iran: Nuclear Program 4. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media (banners in Ha'aretz and Yediot, and Hatzofe -- "Deportation Order") reported that, according to a [...]	2005-08-09 11:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4946	NETANYAHU SUPPORTERS SEEK EARLY LIKUD PRIMARIES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Supporters of Likud MK and party leadership contender Binyamin Netanyahu who are moving to compel early party primaries received a morale boost with the publication this week of poll results showing Netanyahu with a first-time-ever lead over Prime Minister Sharon in support from [...]	2005-08-10 14:16:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV4948	ROADS LEADING TO NEGEV DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Public sector, NGO and academic leaders indicate that success of the GOI's economic development initiative for the Negev is contingent upon a fair, inclusive and robust plan. In their view, that plan should address, among other things, the historical land dispute between the sta [...]	2005-08-11 08:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV4974	GAZA CONTACT SEES IMPROVED SECURITY, DIMINISHED [...] (C) Longtime Gaza contact and PA Interior Ministry civil servant Abdul Samia Efrangi told DCM and POL/C August 10 that Nasser Yusif's consolidation of security services and improvements on the street have Gazans feeling better about security and diminishing their view of Hamas, even though Fa [...]	2005-08-11 14:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV IS EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4979	BUDGET BATTLE BEGINS [...] (C) Summary: At approximately 0100 on August 10, the Israeli Cabinet approved the draft 2006 Budget by a vote of 12-8. Negotiations over budget cuts in the wake of former Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's August 7 resignation took longer than expected. The two main changes to expenditure [...]	2005-08-11 14:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV EAIR IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV498	(C) RELIGIOUS LEADERS WEIGH MEASURES TO GENERATE [...] (U) This message was coordinated with and cleared by ConGen Jerusalem. 2. (C) Summary: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious leaders of the Permanent Follow-up Committee for the Implementation of the Alexandria Declaration ("the Alexandria Group") met in East Jerusalem January 24 to revi [...]	2005-01-28 09:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF KPAO EAID IS KPAL ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV499	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program 3. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will leave next week for a tour of Europe and the Middle East, which will include nine countrie [...]	2005-01-28 10:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV501	SHARON BANKING ON SHAS, DISENGAGEMENT SUPPORTERS, [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Sharon's travails to gain a Knesset majority for the 2005 budget before the March 31 deadline continue to center on bringing Shas into the coalition. Two weeks of fruitless negotiations between Likud and Shas could come to a head January 30, when Sharon plans to m [...]	2005-01-28 10:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5013	LIKUD INTERNAL STORM POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-12 13:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5014	YONATAN BASSEY: "WE'VE SEEN A REGRESSION IN [...] (C) Summary: Yonatan Bassey, Director of the Disengagement Authority (SELA),told Economic Counselor on August 9 that approximately 700 settler families are unprepared for the evacuations slated to begin early next week. He blamed the settlers' rabbis and community leaders for misleading th [...]	2005-08-12 14:32:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV5019	GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: GEN. DANGOTT UPDATES [...] (C) DEFMIN Mofaz's Military Adviser, General Eitan Dangott, updated Ambassador August 12 on status of ongoing GOI-Palestinian negotiations on post-disengagement issues, including the disposition of settler housing, the degree of authority for Gaza, improvement in passages, the Gaza disputed bo [...]	2005-08-12 16:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID KWBG KPAL PREL MARR PTER IS EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5021	ISRAEL AND EGYPT REPORTEDLY REACH FINAL AGREEMENT [...] (C) Ministry of Defense Deputy Director General Amos Gilad called the Ambassador August 15 to report that Israel and Egypt had reached agreement overnight on the principles and details for the deployment of Egyptian border guards on the Gaza-Egypt border. Gilad said the final touches on the a [...]	2005-08-15 06:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR EG IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5022	SHARON: DISENGAGEMENT IS "COMPLICATED, PAINFUL AND [...] Prime Minister Sharon met August 14 with an AIPAC-sponsored Congressional delegation headed by Congressman Steny Hoyer and comprised of 10 Democratic Members of the House. AIPAC board members and staffers attended. Ambassador Kurtzer also joined the meeting. Sharon was relaxed and voluble, [...]	2005-08-15 07:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IS KPAL PREL XF GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL PEACE PROCESS
05TELAVIV5051	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 15, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: The first day of disengagement proceeded as planned with minimal violence well within anticipated parameters. The message below outlines the dissemination of eviction notices to settlers; the overall security situation in Gaza, including the kidnapping of a French journalist b [...]	2005-08-15 16:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5055	SPIEGEL UPDATES AMBASSADOR ON BORDER CROSSINGS AND [...] (C) Summary: Brigadier General (res.) Baruch Spiegel, Ministry of Defense (MOD) advisor, told the Ambassador on August 12 that the MOD continues to work with the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to agree on the definition and number of roadblocks in the West Bank (WB). [...]	2005-08-16 10:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5077	SECOND MEETING OF THE EGYPT-ISRAEL QIZ COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary: The second meeting of the Egypt-Israel Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZ) committee met on August 14 in Jerusalem. The GOE claimed that more than USD 61 million worth of QIZ products have been sent to the U.S. during the period under review, consisting of at least USD 8.6 million [...]	2005-08-16 15:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV5078	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 16, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the second day of disengagement, Neve Dekalim settlement remained a stronghold of resistance to evacuation. Settlers and thousands of anti-disengagement activists blocked IDF troops from entering to distribute eviction notices, although the IDF was able to negotiate and br [...]	2005-08-16 15:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5082	NSA EILAND SAYS DISENGAGEMENT GOING WELL, BUT [...] (C) Summary: In an August 15 meeting with NEA A/S Welch and the Ambassador, Israeli NSC Director Giora Eiland and Deputy Director Eran Etzion assessed that it seems disengagement "is going to be easier than expected." The majority of the discussion centered on what would happen after diseng [...]	2005-08-17 04:40:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV5093	KNESSET MEMBERS VISIT GAZA SETTLEMENTS, SOME [...] (C) Knesset members who support disengagement as well as those who oppose it have been visiting the Gaza settlements since the disengagement process began August 15. Some have gone to show support for the settlers, while others have gone to show sensitivity to the settlers, but also to suppor [...]	2005-08-17 12:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV5099	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 17, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the third day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police began to evacuate several settlements by force, meeting almost exclusively non-violent resistance. While most settlers continued to leave their homes either voluntarily or after brief non-violent refusal, Israeli Polic [...]	2005-08-17 15:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV51	WB/G SITREP: SEVEN DEAD, SIX WOUNDED IN BAYT [...] (SBU) Summary: IDF tank fire killed at least seven Palestinians and injured six more January 5 in Bayt Lahiya, as IDF soldiers attempted to target militants launching rockets at Israeli settler targets. One Israeli child was lightly wounded January 4 when Palestinian militants fired mortars [...]	2005-01-04 16:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV5103	(S) ISRAELI MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF: GOI [...] (S) Summary: Chief of Israeli Military Intelligence Aharon Ze'evi Farkash told A/S Welch and Ambassador Kurtzer August 16 that he was surprised by U.S. media reports on a U.S. National Intelligence Estimate that Iran could build its first nuclear weapon only by 2015. He noted that recent U.S. [...]	2005-08-18 07:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	KPAL KWBG PREF PTER EG IR IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL MILITARY RELATIONS
05TELAVIV5104	A/S WELCH DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT AND GAZA [...] (C) Summary: A/S Welch, Ambassador Kurtzer and General Ward met with Minister of Defense Mofaz and his key staff on August 16 to review the status of settler evacuation from Gaza, and to discuss the status of an Israel-Egyptian protocol on troop deployments along Egypt's border with Gaza. A/ [...]	2005-08-18 07:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS ASEC KWBG KPAL PINS ETRD IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5105	EIVAL GILADY ON GAZA DISENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Brigadier General (res) Eival Gilady, a special advisor to PM Sharon on disengagement, met August 16 with Assistant Secretary (A/S) Welch and Ambassador Kurtzer to discuss progress in Gaza disengagement. Gilady said that the Prime Minister's disengagement plan was proceeding more [...]	2005-08-18 07:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL ETRD EG IS KBTS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV511	NEW SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES AT NOF [...] (C) Summary: Israel is permitting construction to continue at the new northern West Bank settlement of Nof HaSharon (reftel). Residents of Nirit, an adjacent Israeli town west of the Green Line that opposes the establishment of the new settlement, and the private contractor developing the si [...]	2005-01-28 12:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5124	THE ISRAELI TOURISM SECTOR, JANUARY TO JUNE 2005 [...] (U) Summary: The number of tourist entries from January to June 2005 increased 27.3 percent year-on-year. The Bank of Israel (BOI) is forecasting a total of 1.9 million visitors this year contributing to a 0.2 percent increase in GDP. The BOI and Bank Leumi are citing a calmer security situ [...]	2005-08-18 14:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV5132	CORRECTED COPY: DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, [...] (SBU) Summary: On the fourth day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police focused on evacuating Kfar Darom, Kfar Yam, and Neve Dekalim. The security forces encountered some resistance in these settlements, particularly from young infiltrators from outside of the Gaza Strip who barricaded t [...]	2005-08-18 16:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5133	SHINUI LIKELY TO SUPPORT EGYPTIAN BORDER [...] (C) A recently-finalized agreement between Israel and Egypt allowing some 750 Egyptian border guards to secure the Egyptian-Gaza border after disengagement is likely to receive Knesset approval with the support of Shinui. Shinui MKs Ilan Leibovitch, Eti Livni, and Ilan Shalgi, told Poloff Aug [...]	2005-08-18 16:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5137	A/S WELCH'S MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOD'S GILAD [...] (S) Israeli Defense Ministry Political Security Director Amos Gilad confirmed to visiting NEA A/S Welch and Ambassador Kurtzer August 16 that Egypt and Israel had reached a general agreement on the deployment of 750 Egyptian Border Guards along the Egypt-Gaza border. Israeli DefMin Mofaz is e [...]	2005-08-19 11:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL MARR MASS PARM KPAL KWBG PGOV PINR EG IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5138	NEA A/S WELCH'S AUGUST 16, 2005 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Israeli MOD Director General Amos Yaron updated NEA A/S Welch, Ambassador Kurtzer and General Ward August 16 on the status of post-Gaza disengagement issues. On the disposition of settler housing, Yaron asked the USG to continue its efforts to identify a program manager to oversee removal [...]	2005-08-19 11:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG PGOV IS EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5154	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 19, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the fifth day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police focused on evacuating the settlement of Gadid. At the beginning of the day, ten families and over 300 infiltrators remained, but the evacuation was complete by around 1500 hours. The GOI also began demolishing homes i [...]	2005-08-19 14:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5155	FM SHALOM TELLS A/S WELCH THAT ISRAELIS MUST SEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 17 meeting, FM Silvan Shalom told Assistant Secretary Welch and the Ambassador that disengagement is proceeding better than expected, but still carries a heavy price for Likud politicians. Shalom expressed concern that Palestinian extremists could launch attacks agai [...]	2005-08-21 17:16:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS UNGA GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5157	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 21, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the seventh day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police focused on evacuating the remaining southern Gaza Strip settlements of Katif and Atzmona and some remaining families in Shelo/Shalev/Slav -- after a day (August 20) of inaction due to the Sabbath. The Israeli cabinet [...]	2005-08-21 17:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV518	GOI LAWYERS ON ABSENTEE PROPERTY LAW: HA'ARETZ [...] (C) Summary: GOI lawyers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) told Deputy Economic Counselor on January 26 and 27 that recent changes to the Absentee Property Law (APL) are not aimed at large-scale expropriations of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem a [...]	2005-01-28 13:35:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KWBG IS JE GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5186	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 22, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the eighth day of disengagement, the evacuation of the Gaza Strip settlers concluded without incident. The evacuation proceeded smoothly with little of the protest that marked the evacuations of Kfar Darom or Atzmona. Removal and relocation of agricultural equipment from G [...]	2005-08-22 15:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5213	SPIEGEL AND OCHA DISCUSS LOCATIONS TO EASE [...] (SBU) Summary: Brigadier General (res.) Baruch Spiegel, Israeli Ministry of Defense (MOD) advisor, and David Shearer, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),on August 17 discussed the progress made by their technical teams on bridging the gap between the tw [...]	2005-08-23 14:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL

05TELAVIV5219	IDF DEPUTY COS KAPLINSKY UPDATES A/S WELCH ON [...] (C) Summary: In an August 22 meeting, IDF Deputy Chief of Staff MG Moshe Kaplinsky told Assistant Secretary Welch, the Ambassador, and Security Coordinator General Ward that disengagement is proceeding ahead of schedule. Kaplinsky praised ongoing GOI-PA security coordination and expressed hop [...]	2005-08-24 05:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS KWBG KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5224	SHARON TO CONGRESSIONAL GROUP: ABBAS MUST ASSURE [...] Prime Minister Sharon met for 45 minutes August 22 with an AIPAC-sponsored Republican congressional delegation led by Rep. Roy Blunt. Rep. Blunt began the meeting by congratulating Sharon on the success to date of the disengagement plan, and he asked Sharon to explain Israel's thinking regar [...]	2005-08-24 09:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IS KPAL OREP PREL XF ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5227	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-24 13:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5233	GOI'S EFFORTS AGAINST TERROR FINANCE IN GAZA; GOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA and NSC officials briefed econoff and poloff August 11 on the GOI's post-disengagement efforts against terror finance in Gaza. An Israeli National Security Council official said an alternative to the Hamas social service network in Gaza, operated by the Palestinian Authority [...]	2005-08-24 14:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KTFN EFIN PREL COUNTERTERRORISM ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5239	SHARON EMBARKS ON THE ROAD TO RE-ELECTION [...] (C) Ariel Sharon's ability to hold on to the Likud leadership and win re-election as the only prime minister ever to evacuate settlements and settlers will depend on his ability to extend the honeymoon with the Left and Center created by his successful disengagement, deal with critical budget [...]	2005-08-24 14:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KWBG GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5257	PLAN FOR POLICE STATION IN E-1 IS READY FOR [...] (C) Israeli press reported today, August 25, that the plans for the new Judea and Samaria Police Headquarters, which will be relocated from Ras al-Amud to the E-1 neighborhood of Ma'ale Adumim, are complete and awaiting approval from the Planning Council. Col. Oded Herman of the Ministry of [...]	2005-08-25 14:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5258	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 25, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli disengagement is proceeding, with demolition of remaining settlements underway. Israeli focus has now turned to the situation of evacuees in Israel, and on political maneuvering post-disengagement. A gun battle that ensued during an Israeli operation near Tulkarm overn [...]	2005-08-25 14:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5261	DETAILS OF CANCER LAWSUITS RELATED TO ISRAELI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Officials at the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) confirmed to emboffs on August 24 that four former employees have filed lawsuits charging that they developed cancer as a result of exposure to radiation in the Dimona and Soreq nuclear facilities. The IAEC provided to embof [...]	2005-08-26 06:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR MNUC TRGY IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5265	ISRAEL'S ARAB SECTOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Israel's Arab population significantly lags behind the Jewish population in income, level of education, level of health care, and employment rate. This message provides an overview of the vital economic statistics of the Israeli-Arab sector, which comprises approximately 20 perce [...]	2005-08-26 07:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV SOCI PREL EFIN ELAB EIND IS ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV5279	AVIAN FLU PREPAREDNESS IN ISRAEL - A MAJOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI is putting together plans for dealing with a possible outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI) and will share those with Embassy once available. The Ministry of Health has purchased USD 10 million worth of the Tamiflu vaccine and has been in contact with international agencies [...]	2005-08-26 13:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ECON PREL SOCI EAGR IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV5285	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 26, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Israeli cabinet is expected to approve on August 28 an agreement with Egypt allowing Egypt to post 750 Border Guards on the Egypt-Gaza border. Meanwhile, Israeli pundits and the weekend press ponder the impact of disengagement. The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronot reported A [...]	2005-08-26 15:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5308	MINISTER RAMON TELLS A/S WELCH USG MUST KEEP [...] (C) Summary: On August 21 Minister without Portfolio Haim Ramon updated A/S Welch, Ambassador Kurtzer, Acting AID Mission Director Harden and Econoff on the GOI's position on Gaza crossings, particularly the impasse over Rafah. Ramon stressed that Minister of Defense Mofaz remains "totally [...]	2005-08-29 13:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KPAL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV531	PALESTINIAN INVESTMENT FUND EARNINGS MAY SEED GAZA [...] (C) Summary: The Palestinian Investment Fund (PIF) will vote February 10-12 on whether to cash out on over USD 300 million of capital gains made on worldwide investments. Board members are split over the vote, reportedly fearing that PA MinFin Salaam Fayyad will appropriate earnings for his o [...]	2005-01-31 05:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EAID ECON KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5324	LIKUD PRIMARIES NOT A FAIT ACCOMPLI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 29 decision by a Likud Party internal "court" has kicked off a process that could result in early party primaries, but -- press reports notwithstanding -- does not compel them to be held. The court decision validates a petition by supporters of Bibi Netanyahu demandin [...]	2005-08-30 13:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV534	ASSISTANT SECRETARY BURNS MEETING WITH DEPUTY [...] (S) Summary: In a January 25 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary Burns and the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister SIPDIS Peres outlined GOI efforts to revitalize the Palestinian economy. Noting the unexpected success of PA Prime Minister Abu Mazen's steps toward improving the security situa [...]	2005-01-31 08:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	ECON PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5343	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 30, 2005 [...] (SBU) The IDF continues to make steady progress in implementing the GOI disengagement. Hamas and Fatah personnel clashed near Rafah. Otherwise few notable security incidents took place in the last twenty-four hours. The GOI appears to have agreed to a phased handover of settlement areas i [...]	2005-08-30 14:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV535	OLMERT TELLS A/S BURNS TO TIE PALESTINIANS TO [...] (C) Summary: Deputy PM Ehud Olmert urged NEA A/S Burns and the USG to use creative means of engagement such as developing QIZs when assisting the Palestinians so as to tie Palestinian economic fortunes to continued good relations with Israel. Despite advocating such ties, Olmert rejected any [...]	2005-01-31 08:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ECON KWBG EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV5359	EU HIGHREP SOLANA PRAISES DISENGAGEMENT, BUT [...] (C) Summary: According to the MFA and the EC delegation, High Representative Javier Solana's discussions with Israeli officials on August 28-30 focused on using the success of disengagement to foster movement on the roadmap. Despite a generally positive atmosphere, Solana made little progress [...]	2005-08-31 14:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL EU IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT COUNTERTERRORISM ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5360	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 31, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: The Knesset approved (58-23) the Israeli agreement with Egypt allowing Egypt to post 750 Border Guards on the Egypt-Gaza border, and the GOI plans to sign the agreement on September 1. Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman briefed General Ward on his August 31 meeting with P [...]	2005-08-31 16:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5375	DRUZE LEADER FROM GALILEE SAYS ECONOMIC AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Unemployment and education are key concerns of the Druze community in Northern Israel according to a Druze business and community leader. He indicated that the Druze want a successful and strong Israel and have contributed by serving in Israel's military which is the only signif [...]	2005-09-01 13:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV5426	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Hurricane Katrina 2. U.S.-Israel Relations 3. Syrian-Lebanese Track 4. Israeli Arabs ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz notes that the international community is putting pressure on Israel to allow the Palestinians freedo [...]	2005-09-06 11:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV544	DOE DELEGATION DISCUSSES EXPORT CONTROLS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli officials briefed a visiting DOE delegation on nuclear export-control measures during meetings in Tel Aviv on January 18-20. In recognition of their adherence to the NSG Guidelines and promulgation of new export control legislation, the Israelis requested U.S. help in obt [...]	2005-01-31 10:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	KNNP MNUC PARM IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV5452	SPIEGEL: TALK OF EXPANDING ARIEL AND MA'ALE [...] (C) Israeli and Palestinian media reported today, September 6, that Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz approved the construction of 3,000 housing units in Ariel. Israeli officials were quoted as saying that the 3,000 units would be built over the next ten years, and that the population of Ariel wo [...]	2005-09-06 14:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV5458	ASHKELON DESALINATION PLANT OPEN FOR BUSINESS [...] (U) Summary: The Ashkelon desalination plant began providing potable water for the Israeli national water grid in mid-August, according to Gustavo Kronenberg, general manager of the private consortium that built and is operating the plant. By the end of this year, Ashkelon, the largest reve [...]	2005-09-07 07:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PREL KPAL KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV5515	DISENGAGEMENT: GAZA BUSINESSMEN BOTH HOPEFUL AND [...] (C) Summary: In an August 24 meeting with the Ambassador, nine businessmen from the Gaza Strip stressed that freedom of movement for people and goods was essential to achieving economic prosperity after disengagement. They claimed that the GOI's proposal for a trilateral border crossing at Ke [...]	2005-09-07 10:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KPAL EINV EAID IS PTER GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5518	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Hurricane Katrina 3. Egypt ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that PM Sharon and his senior ministers decided this morning that the IDF would withdraw from the Gaza Strip on September 12 through 15. [...]	2005-09-07 11:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5575	ORGANIZED CRIME AND NARCOTICS TRADE IN ISRAEL [...] (U) SUMMARY: According to an Israeli law enforcement official, all categories of criminal activity are on the rise. The illegal drug trade, organized crime, murder, and extortion present major challenges to the Israeli police. While countries in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and South Americ [...]	2005-09-09 13:35:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PREL PTER EFIN ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV5581	PEACE NOW ANALYZES THE DISENGAGEMENT PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: Yariv Oppenheimer, Secretary General of Peace Now, said that the disengagement from the Gaza Strip had gone very well, and in particular praised the IDF soldiers and the police for the way in which they negotiated with settlers throughout the evacuations. He said that he had fa [...]	2005-09-09 14:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5597	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] IDF Withdrawal From Gaza 2. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina 3. Global War on Terror ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The IDF withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, after 38 years of Israeli military rule, dominated the headlines during the w [...]	2005-09-12 11:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV561	MFA LEGAL ADVISOR REAFFIRMS GOI POLICY NOT TO [...] (C) Summary. Following up on a January 30 Ha'aretz article implying that the GOI intended to utilize the amended Absentee Property Law (APL) to make large-scale seizures of Palestinian property, MFA Legal Advisor Ehud Kanaan restated the GOI's intention not to do so. Unfortunately, the addit [...]	2005-01-31 13:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KWBG IS JE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5614	LABOR'S LEADERSHIP RACE CONTINUES TO FIZZLE AS [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak's September 11 withdrawal from the Labor Party leadership race further consolidates support for Shimon Peres in party primaries to be held either November 8 or 9, with the final date still to be determined. Polls, including on September 9, consistently sh [...]	2005-09-13 11:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5641	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the disorder in the PA and along the Philadelphi route. While some media, like Jerusalem Post (banner: "Egypt, PA Vow to Stop Gaza Infiltrator [...]	2005-09-14 09:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5663	TERMINAL CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY AT QALANDIYA [...] (C) Summary: Embassy and Consulate General officers visited the Qalandiya crossing on August 31 and September 7 to observe the ongoing construction taking place at the long-existing and always much-contended checkpoint there. Brigadier General (res.) Baruch Spiegel, Ministry of Defense advis [...]	2005-09-14 14:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS
05TELAVIV5698	ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERTS [...] (C/NF) Summary: Officials from the MFA, Environment Ministry, and Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) plan to meet post-disengagement to discuss whether and how to go forward with the Environmental Experts Committee (EEC). Progress on restarting the EEC, suspended [...]	2005-09-16 10:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV570	ISRAEL'S COMMITMENTS TO THE USG AND THE WORLD BANK [...] (S) Summary. As of the end of January 2005, the GOI had shown various levels of commitment to fulfilling its "Weissglas" commitments to the USG. It is following through more consistently on its promise to engage on the World Bank process dedicated to facilitating a viable, post-disengagement [...]	2005-01-31 15:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL ECON KWBG IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAEL RELATIONS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5703	MFA SEEKS WAY TO HELP LUTHERAN HOSPITAL TO STAY [...] (C) MFA Director of the Division for Religious Affairs Zvi Tal (protect) told Embassy Poloffs and visiting NEA/IPA Poloff September 14 that the GOI wishes to find a "discreet way" to ensure that the Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem, run by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF),remains in [...]	2005-09-16 10:45:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRC ECON IS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5705	IRAN-IAEA: ISRAELI ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION [...] (S) Senior Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) officials Gideon Frank and Eli Levite told the Ambassador September 8 that a renewed international push on Iran, including referral to the UN Security Council, is necessary, because, based on the response to date of the international community [...]	2005-09-16 11:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL KNNP AORC TRGY ENRG PARM IR IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV5708	ECF UPDATES ON BARRIER AND DESCRIBES MAJOR [...] (S) Summary and Comment: Sounding an alarmist note regarding GOI settlement plans in a September 1 meeting with econoff, Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF) officials (protect) urged the USG to intervene to prevent the building of the police station in E-1 and said that a planned "new Jewi [...]	2005-09-16 11:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV571	WB/G SITREP: IDF ARRESTS FIVE PALESTINIANS IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the absence of incursions or demolitions in the Gaza strip, the IDF accidentally shot and killed a 10 year-old girl and wounded another 7 year-old Palestinian child in Rafah January 31. As many as 32 Palestinians, including passersby, were injured in violent clashes th [...]	2005-01-31 17:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS
05TELAVIV5716	GAZA: SECURITY DETERIORATES, PA HESITATES BUT [...] (C) Summary: A Norwegian diplomat who has covered the Gaza Strip for the past two years sees the security situation deteriorating even further in the coming months. He believes that a variety of armed groups, including factions within Fatah, will continue to seek illicit financial and politi [...]	2005-09-16 13:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL ECON EAID KDEM KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5723	GAZA STRIP: EUPHORIA OR ANARCHY? [...] (SBU) A PA Ministry of Interior contact told poloff September 16 that the situation in Rafah remains "a big mess," with movement of Egyptians and Palestinians across the border through up to seven openings. The MOI contact, who visited Rafah on September 15 and remained in touch with his cont [...]	2005-09-16 15:08:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5740	SHARON ENERGIZES ON NECK-AND-NECK LIKUD PRIMARIES [...] (C) With polls showing him either barely winning or barely losing the fight over whether to hold early Likud leadership primaries, Prime Minister Sharon returned from his successful United Nations visit to engage in an unprecedented flurry of internal party lobbying to staunch the efforts of [...]	2005-09-20 14:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV575	ISRAELI BUSINESS LEADER ENVISIONS A [...] (C) Summary: Dov Lautman, chairman of the board of the Israeli textile giant Delta, talked to EconCouns January 23 about economic prospects for a post-disengagement Gaza Strip. Emphasizing that it is impossible to "predict the future" of security and politics, Lautman argued that donors must [...]	2005-02-01 06:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV5779	FM SHALOM MEETING WITH CODEL DAVIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom briefed CODEL Davis August 31 on the Government of Israel's Disengagement Plan, and anticipated costs associated with moving military forces and with developing the Negev and the Galilee. Asked about post-Disengagement scenarios and PM Sharon's d [...]	2005-09-22 09:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAL EAID KWBG PREF IS IR LE EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5794	NEA DAS DIBBLE'S 9/20 MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOD'S [...] (S) Israeli MOD Political-Military Affairs Bureau Chief Amos Gilad told NEA DAS Elizabeth Dibble September 19 that the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) is a pillar of the recently-concluded Egypt-Israel agreement on the Egypt-Gaza border and performs a vital role monitoring changes alon [...]	2005-09-21 03:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PINR MARR MASS PARM KPAL PGOV IS EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5796	EILAND REQUESTS USG PRESSURE TO STOP RUSSIA-SYRIA [...] (S) National Security Advisor Giora Eiland contacted the Ambassador September 23 to seek USG pressure on the Russian government to stop what he said is a possibly imminent agreement to sell Pantsir ground-to-air missiles to Syria. Eiland said the deal could be signed as early as next week dur [...]	2005-09-23 15:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PARM SY IS GOI EXTERNAL MILITARY RELATIONS
05TELAVIV5797	GAZA CROSSINGS: GOI TIGHTENS INSPECTIONS OF GOODS [...] (U) This cable was cleared with ConGen Jerusalem 2. (SBU) Summary: In response to last week's unrestricted flow of people and goods through the Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border, the GOI recently implemented additional measures regulating the flow of goods through the Karni crossin [...]	2005-09-23 15:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELTN ETRD PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5798	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In their introductory meeting September 25, Foreign Minister Shalom told Ambassador Jones that the United States remains Israel's best friend and that he hopes for continued USG support to expand Israel's ties to the Arab world, an area on which he has focused. He offered no pre [...]	2005-09-25 12:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS ISRAEL RELATIONS GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV5799	MOFAZ: CALM ALLOWS GOI TO HOLD OFF GAZA ACTION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Ambassador Jones September 25 that the day's calm, after some than 36 hours of Qassam rocket launches and IDF counterattacks, is allowing the GOI to stand back and avoid any further strikes on Palestinian targets. He said any possible ground forc [...]	2005-09-25 16:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5800	NSA EILAND ON POST-DISENGAGEMENT STEPS FOR MOVING [...] (C) Summary: Israeli National Security Advisor Giora Eiland briefed NEA DAS Elizabeth Dibble September 21 on steps Israel and the Palestinians can take over the coming year to build on the success of Israeli disengagement. DAS Dibble raised the situation at Rafah, and Eiland cited major poin [...]	2005-09-26 05:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL PINS PGOV KDEM IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV583	WB/G SITREP: MILITANTS FIRE 12 MORTAR SHELLS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the Gaza Strip, IDF fire reportedly injured one Palestinian in the Rafah refugee camp. According to the IDF, Hamas militants fired 12 mortar shells at various locations throughout the Strip in response to the January 31 shooting of a Palestinian girl in Rafah, an incidicent [...]	2005-02-01 10:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG PTER ASEC PHUM CASC KPAL
05TELAVIV5849	GAZA: COMBATING EXTREMISM [...] (C) Gaza, the stronghold of the radical Islamist terrorist organization HAMAS, presents exceptional challenges for USG efforts to combat violent extremism. Our strategic approach is to promote Palestinian democracy, strengthen the rule of law, reform the security sector, offer economic alter [...]	2005-09-27 08:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM
05TELAVIV5853	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with PM Sharon's surprise victory at the Likud Central Committee last night. The proposal to move up the party primaries was rejected, 1433 votes to 1329 (5 [...]	2005-09-27 10:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5863	SHARON PUSHES BACK CONTENDERS, KEEPING PRIMARIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Sharon's victory in the September 27 Likud Central Committee vote over early party primaries staunches for now the efforts of leadership contender Bibi Netanyahu and his anti-disengagement cohorts, allowing Sharon to move ahead with his political agenda -- and the [...]	2005-09-27 16:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5864	AMB. JONES' 9/26 MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOD'S GILAD [...] (S/NF) In a September 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Israeli MOD Political-Military Bureau Chief Amos Gilad indicated that his September 25 meetings in Egypt to discuss the Rafah passage on the Egypt-Gaza border yielded no breakthroughs. Gilad said the Israelis prefer to open Rafah passage a [...]	2005-09-27 16:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR MASS KPAL KWBG EG IS GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5866	POSSIBLE POST-DISENGAGEMENT SCENARIOS [...] (SBU) Summary: Predictions about the universe of post-disengagement possibilities can be grouped into three possible scenarios and two remote options, according to a range of Israeli observers. The first scenario -- the roadmap scenario -- is the official position of the Government of Israel [...]	2005-09-28 06:04:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KWBG KPAL PINS PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5900	NEA DAS DIBBLE'S 9/21 MEETING WITH MFA HEAD OF UN [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General and Head of the UN and International Organizations Division Aharon Leshno Yaar told NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Elizabeth Dibble September 21 that the GOI plans to ignore Palestinian efforts to prevent adoption of a new symbol of the International Committee [...]	2005-09-29 12:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IS LE GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5903	NEA DAS DIBBLE'S 9/21 MEETING WITH MFA MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Israeli MFA Deputy Director General for Middle East Affairs Jacob Keidar told Deputy Assistant Secretary Elizabeth Dibble September 21 that the GOI hopes, SIPDIS in the aftermath of disengagement from the Gaza Strip, to improve its relations with Arab states in the Gulf and North Africa [...]	2005-09-29 12:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS MO SENV TS LE BU MU RS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV5905	SHARON ADVISOR TOURGEMAN ON CONTACTS WITH THE PA [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with the Ambassador on September 27, Prime Minister Sharon's foreign policy adviser, Shalom Tourgeman, stressed the importance of the political process with the Palestinians. He said the GOI is preparing a list of possible steps to assist PA President Mahmud Abba [...]	2005-09-30 03:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL PTER IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5913	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-30 10:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5932	THREAT OF LEGAL APPEAL, PUBLIC CRITICISM COMPEL AG [...] (C) Summary: Israeli-Arab political and advocacy leaders reacted with cautious optimism -- and some suspicion -- to the Justice Ministry Police Investigative Department's (PID) September 28 announcement that it will re-examine the investigation of police officers involved in the October 2000 k [...]	2005-09-30 14:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV594	ISRAELI PRESS REPORTS CLAIM ATTORNEY GENERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Both Ha'aretz and radio station Kol Israel report Tuesday February 1 that Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has "instructed the government to immediately halt" applying the Absentee Property Law in East Jerusalem. Mazuz is reported to have done this through a letter to Finance [...]	2005-02-01 14:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KWBG IS JE GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5941	ISRAEL/WBG: EU OFFICIAL OUTLINES EXPANDED POLICE [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with the Ambassador on September 30, EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process Marc Otte outlined EU plans to expand its police program in the West Bank and Gaza and EU preparations for a possible third-party role at the Rafah crossing. Otte al [...]	2005-10-03 08:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU KWBG KPAL IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5945	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-03 11:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV595	HAMAS WINS BIG IN GAZA ON "CLEAN GOVERNMENT" [...] (C) Summary: The Hamas sweep in the local-level Gazan elections of January 27 does not indicate a mandate for Hamas overall or broad-based support for continued armed struggle against Israel, according to numerous Embassy contacts. While Fatah compiled a list of candidates perceived as corrup [...]	2005-02-01 14:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5951	MINISTRY OF FINANCE DG BACHAR CREDITS U.S. LOAN [...] (C) In a September 29 meeting with Ambassador Jones, Minister of Finance Director General Joseph Bachar, was very upbeat about the prospects for the Israeli economy. While cautious about predicting that the good times would continue, he noted the positive effect of the calm of the past year, [...]	2005-10-03 13:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	EAID ECON IS PREL ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV5956	PA-HAMAS CONFRONTATION IN GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Clashes took place in Gaza City on October 2 between Palestinian Authority (PA) policemen and Hamas gunmen. Three Palestinians were killed -- a senior police officer and two civilians -- while at least 51 were wounded, many of whom were bystanders. Two police stations in Gaza Ci [...]	2005-10-03 14:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KWBG KPAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5983	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Syrian Track 3. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that PM Sharon and PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas are slated to meet on Tuesday, October 11. The meeting was organized under the auspices of [...]	2005-10-06 10:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6006	ISRAEL MOVES AHEAD WITH PATENT TERM EXTENSION [...] (C) Summary. The proposed Patent Term Extension (PTE) Revision which passed an initial reading in the Knesset in July 2005, could become law as early as November 2005 and is almost certainly assured a quick approval. Debate is expected to resume in the Knesset Judicial Committee on October 1 [...]	2005-10-07 08:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KIPR IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV6010	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] President Bush's Address to the National Endowment for Democracy 2. U.S.-Israel Relations 3. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media (lead story in Hatzofe) reported that, addressing the National Endowment for Democracy [...]	2005-10-07 12:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6020	WATER OFFICIALS DISCUSS COOPERATION FOLLOWING [...] (C) Summary: At Trilateral Water Talks in Tel Aviv September 22 Israeli and Palestinian water officials agreed to discuss possible new water supplies for Gaza, including the purchase of water from the Israeli grid for the former settlement areas and the possibility of larger quantities from t [...]	2005-10-07 14:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EAID PREL KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV6021	SASSON CALLS FOR U.S. TO "SAVE ISRAEL FROM [...] (C) Summary: EconCouns met with Talia Sasson (strictly protect) on September 28 to discuss implementation of her recommendations on curbing illegal settlement activities in the West Bank. Sasson reported a lack of progress in the inter-ministerial committee charged with implementing her rec [...]	2005-10-07 15:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV6022	MOD ADVISOR SPIEGEL SAYS HE HAS NO PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary: Brigadier General (ret.) Baruch Spiegel, Ministry of Defense (MOD) advisor, told Ambassador Jones on September 27 that one of the most difficult problems in dealing with the passages is the lack of a Palestinian Authority (PA) counterpart with whom to coordinate technical matter [...]	2005-10-07 15:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV6084	KIDNAPPING OF KNIGHT RIDDER JOURNALISTS [...] (C) The October 12 kidnapping of an American reporter, Dion Nissenbaum, and a British photographer, Adam Pletts, near Khan Yunis is symptomatic of the lawlessness that prevails in the Gaza Strip, according to Embassy Fatah contacts in Gaza. An influential Fatah-affiliated lawyer in Gaza City [...]	2005-10-14 16:16:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL PGOV PINS PTER US UK GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV6124	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global Economy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas is expected to demand U.S. intervention in halting Israeli construction and dismantling illegal outposts in the West [...]	2005-10-19 11:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6127	PM OFFICE DG SAYS RETURN TO ROADMAP VITAL TO [...] (C) In an October 6 meeting with Ambassador Jones, Ilan Cohen, the Director General of the PM,s Office, said that Israeli society needed to heal the serious rifts that had been opened by the disengagement from Gaza. On the peace process, he said that there would be no West Bank disengagemen [...]	2005-10-19 13:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS PREL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV6133	ISRAELI COUNTER-TERRORISM OFFICIALS MEET WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli MFA and NSC officials briefed staffers from the U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the GOI's efforts against terrorism and terrorism finance. MFA officials stressed the importance of the U.S. role in urging European nations to designate Hizballah [...]	2005-10-20 04:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN KTFN PREL COUNTERTERRORISM
05TELAVIV6160	ISRAEL SEEKING REGIONAL COORDINATION ON AVIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI is hoping to use an existing health grouping to pull together a meeting of health ministers to coordinate regional preparations on avian influenza. The Turkish Health Minister reportedly has agreed to host such a gathering. GOI officials hope that there can be some US [...]	2005-10-20 13:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO EAGR PREL IS CY EG JO KPAL KWBG TU ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV6170	ISRAELI NGO PROPOSING TO TRACK INFECTED MIGRATORY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel is making a proposal to the GOI Ministries of Agriculture and Health to set up a surveillance system focused on migratory water fowl which are more likely than over migratory birds to be carriers of the H5N1 strain of avian influ [...]	2005-10-21 12:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR PREL ECON IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV6171	EMBLEM: GOI DOES NOT ENDORSE MAGEN DAVID ADOM [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION RECOMMENDATION: Israeli MFA Director for international organizations and human rights Daniel Meron informed post that the Government of Israel (GOI) does not endorse the September 27 declaration by Dr. Noam Yifrach, chairman of the MDA executive committee, which the Swi [...]	2005-10-21 14:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS SZ ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV6176	PERES: GAZA DISENGAGEMENT INCOMPLETE [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with the Ambassador, Vice Premier Peres said that advancing the peace process and combating poverty in Israel would be the most important issues in the lead up to elections late next year. He stated that the GOI's disengagement from the Gaza Strip would be i [...]	2005-10-24 09:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV6196	BAHA'I LEADERS DESCRIBE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 19 meeting, the two highest-ranking officers of the Baha'i International Community, Secretary-General Albert Lincoln and Deputy Secretary-General Murray R. Smith, told the Ambassador that SIPDIS the Government of Iran still persecutes members of the Baha'i faith, [...]	2005-10-27 08:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF IR IS TU AE ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV6197	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-27 12:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6221	ISRAELI-ARAB LEADERS CALL ISRAEL HOME, BUT WANT [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli-Arab speakers at an October 20 roundtable with the diplomatic community underscored their solidarity with West Bank and Gazan Palestinians, but stressed that most Israeli Arabs would prefer to remain in Israel -- but with equal rights -- rather than join any future Pal [...]	2005-10-28 11:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM IS ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV6228	SHARON STAYS HIS COURSE FOLLOWING HADERA BOMBING [...] (C) Summary: The October 26 suicide bombing of the Hadera market by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) that claimed the lives of five Israelis and wounded 20 has resulted in a cycle of violence that -- barring significant additional casualties -- experience indicates will be short-term. As it h [...]	2005-10-28 17:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV6238	AVIAN INFLUENZA: GOI ASSISTING PA; GROUPS FEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli officials are in daily contact with their counterparts from the Palestinian Authority and have been testing birds on behalf of the PA. GOI veterinary officials have provided their Palestinian counterparts with antigens to detect avian influenza. GOI and PA veterinary o [...]	2005-10-31 09:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO EAGR PREL ECON KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV6246	STAFFDEL ZWEIG/ADAMS-GOI DISCUSSIONS ON HAMAS, [...] (C) Summary: HIRC professional staff members Matthew Zweig and David Adams discussed Hamas and PLC elections, progress on the Wolfensohn agenda, Israeli relations with Muslim states, and UN issues with Israelis, the Wolfensohn team, and USG officials during a visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on [...]	2005-10-31 16:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OREP IS EG ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL COUNTERTERRORISM GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV6247	SHARON POSTPONES PROBLEMATIC KNESSET VOTE ON [...] (C) Summary: With only hours to go before an October 31 Knesset vote on -- and possible defeat of -- his Cabinet nominations of three Likud loyalists, including Ehud Olmert as finance minister, Prime Minister Sharon postponed the vote by a week in order to rally support and gauge his next step [...]	2005-10-31 17:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS KDEM ELECTIONS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV6250	GOI LARGELY PLEASED WITH SWISS VISIT ON MDA [...] (C) MFA DDG for International Organizations Affairs Roni Ya'ar told the Ambassador October 31 that GOI meetings with visiting Swiss FM Calmy-Rey were productive and remained focused entirely on MDA issues. Ya'ar said that Calmy Rey was on "good behavior" during her visit and did not expand h [...]	2005-10-31 17:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL SZ GOI EXTERNAL HUMANITARIAN AID ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV6262	UNTSO HEAD MGEN LILLEY SAYS PKO CAN LEAVE WHEN [...] (C) United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) Chief of Staff Major General (MGEN) Clive Lilley briefed Ambassador Jones October 27 on UNTSO's mission in Israel and the region, noting how it supports UN peacekeeping operations in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and Syria (UNDOF),and that its missi [...]	2005-11-01 14:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MARR PGOV PTER LE SY EG IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV6263	SPIEGEL WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD ON EASING MOVEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Defense (MOD) advisor Brigadier General (res.) Baruch Spiegel told the Ambassador in a recent meeting that terrorists had taken advantage of the removal of some obstacles to movement in Gush Etzion to perpetrate the October 16 deadly shooting attack against Israeli se [...]	2005-11-01 15:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV6264	EC DEL HEAD IN ISRAEL SAYS EU IS AIMING FOR 11/15 [...] (C) In an October 26 meeting at the European Commission Delegation's office in Tel Aviv, EC Delegation Head Ambassador Ramiro Cibrian-Uzal told Ambassador Jones that the EU's objective is to have the Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border opened by November 15. Cibrian-Uzal said his EC Dele [...]	2005-11-01 15:08:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG EG IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV6266	AMBASSADOR'S IFTAR CELEBRATES RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Jones hosted over 80 Muslim, Christian and Jewish guests for an interfaith Iftar dinner on October 27 to break the fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Iftar brought together Israeli-Arab leaders from the political, business and social-action arenas. At [...]	2005-11-01 15:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KDEM KMPI KPAO IS ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV6270	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Syria 2. Mideast 3. International Holocaust Commemoration Day ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Staff Sgt. Yonatan Evron was killed early this morning during an arrest operation in the village of Mirka near [...]	2005-11-02 11:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6279	VPM OLMERT PREDICTS HIS OWN POLITICAL FUTURE, AND [...] (C) Summary: During an October 31 introductory meeting Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (who also is acting Minister of Finance and Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor) told the Ambassador that the Israeli economy was performing well, and that his challenge was to figure out how to spend a r [...]	2005-11-03 07:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN KIPR IS ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV633	NEW DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT FUELS DISENGAGEMENT DEBATE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: A recent study claiming that the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza is overestimated by up to 1.5 million people has made headlines in Israel and provided ammunition to opponents of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan. The new numbers, howev [...]	2005-02-02 12:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV6332	SHIMON PERES ASKS ADMINISTRATOR JOHNSON FOR EPA [...] Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres has written to USEPA Administrator Johnson requesting that a team of 2-3 EPA experts visit Israel for one week to advise on sustainable solutions for the Ramat Hovav chemical industry and hazardous waste disposal site located in the Negev. Embassy has provide [...]	2005-11-03 15:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PREL EIND KSCA PGOV IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV6333	EMBLEM: GOI REJECTS MDA STATEMENT BUT WILL NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Israeli MFA Director for International Organizations and Human Rights Daniel Meron told poloff November 1 that the Government of Israel (GOI) has made clear to the Swiss its rejection of the widely disseminated oral statement by MDA Chairman Noam Yifrach, but has not [...]	2005-11-03 16:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL KPAL IS SZ GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY HUMANITARIAN AID
05TELAVIV6337	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] 10th Anniversary of Rabin Assassination 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may arrive in Israel as early as the beginning of next week. The Jerusalem Post led with Defense [...]	2005-11-04 10:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6353	PERES MAY NEED SECOND ROUND VOTE TO TAKE LABOR [...] (C) Summary: A November 3 poll and Labor Party sources indicate that Shimon Peres' anticipated first-round victory over contender Amir Peretz in the November 9 Labor Party primaries could be in jeopardy absent a high voter turnout and the withdrawal of the two other contenders. Rattled by Pe [...]	2005-11-04 14:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL

05TELAVIV6355	ISRAEL SUPPORTS U.S. APPROACH TO CSD ENERGY ROUND [...] (U) The Ministry of Environment shares U.S. views on the recent Water Round of the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and looks forward to working closely with the U.S. and other like-minded parties in the Energy Round. MOE officials have made the following points to ESTH officer [...]	2005-11-04 14:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON ENRG EAID AORC IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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