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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD 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| 08SAOPAULO520 | GLOBAL ECONOMY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 11:21:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD XM XR BR |
| 08SAOPAULO56 | POOR SAO PAULO PRISON CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO POSE SERIOUS [...] (SBU) Although state authorities emphasize that they are working hard on introducing new plans to address deficiencies in Sao Paulo's penitentiaries, reputed to have Brazil's best-organized and well-run jails and detention centers, local prison watchers tell us that conditions are in an abysma [...] | 2008-02-08 10:46:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM SNAR ASEC BR |
| 08SAOPAULO602 | U.S. ELECTIONS AND G-20 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 16:11:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD XM XR BR |
| 08SAOPAULO87 | SAO PAULO STATE SLOWLY ADDRESSES PRISON CONDITIONS (3 OF 3) [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo State officials candidly admit that a host of challenges exist within the state penitentiary system but tell us they are working hard on addressing the prison network's shortcomings. According to state authorities, the cash-strapped Secretariat for Prison Administration (SAP) [...] | 2008-02-22 12:53:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI ASEC BR |
| 08SAPPORO32 | NOTES ON CURRENT JAPANESE POLITICS: LUNCH WITH LOWER HOUSE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 11:39:00 | Consulate Sapporo | CONFIDENTIAL | JA |
| 08SARAJEVO100 | BOSNIA: TIHIC AND THE SDA POWER STRUGGLE [...] (C) The Party for Democratic Action (SDA) is in the midst of an internal power struggle between Sulejman Tihic, the party president, and a faction led by Bakir Izetbegovic, the son of the party's late founder. Recently diagnosed with colon cancer, Tihic hopes to retain his position as party [...] | 2008-01-17 12:28:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1051 | BOSNIA - RESIGNATION PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO DODIK'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: In late May, a senior advisor to Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik resigned from her position as Chief of the Cabinet and turned in her party membership card. In a private exchange with us, Srebrenka Golic asserted that corruption and incompetence among Dodik's senior [...] | 2008-06-20 13:01:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1231 | BOSNIA - THE LONG, SAD SAGA OF BOSNIA'S HUMAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The appointment of a single state-level Ombudsman for human rights, a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) and Council of Europe post-accession requirement, remains incomplete almost two years after the Bosnian parliament adopted legislation mandating it. The initial att [...] | 2008-07-31 08:50:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM EAID BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1342 | BOSNIA - BIH CONSTITUTIONAL COURT: A DAYTON [...] (C) SUMMARY. The BiH Constitutional Court has played an important role in helping Bosnia become a stable, functional state, but is now widely perceived within the local and the international community as a Dayton Peace Process success story gone awry. The appointment process for judges has [...] | 2008-08-22 11:37:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1449 | BOSNIA -- A HOUSE DIVIDED: MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The campaign to register 1991 residents of Srebrenica to vote in municipal elections there has leveled the political playing field in the municipality for Bosniaks, whose demographic profile in Srebrenica reflects the genocide and ethnic cleansing that took place in and around the [...] | 2008-09-11 13:28:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KAWC KDEM BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1536 | BOSNIA - DODIK APPEARS TO STEP BACK FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 26, High Representative Lajcak issued a statement acknowledging written assurances from Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik that his government was willing to honor a subpoena presented by State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) in connection with an inves [...] | 2008-09-29 16:12:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KJUS KAWC BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1575 | BOSNIA - COUNCIL OF EUROPE REPORT PLAYS INTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on September 30 adopted a resolution on Bosnia that -- inter alia -- calls for a new constitution by October 2010 that: 1) reforms entity voting; 2) narrows the "vital national interest" protections; 3) allows "others" to [...] | 2008-10-07 13:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1599 | BOSNIA - PUBLIC BROADCAST REFORM: BAD NEWS [...] (C) Summary: Public Broadcast Reform, though a prerequisite for the signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA),remains incomplete, and recently suffered two notable setbacks. On September 17, Croat and Serb parliamentarians joined forces and passed over the objections of [...] | 2008-10-15 09:12:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM KPAO BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1664 | BOSNIA: VISIT OF AMB. CHRISTIAN KENNEDY [...] (SBU) Summary: The visit of Amb. Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, highlighted for Bosnian political and religious leaders the importance the United States attaches to restitution issues, including restitution of properties lost to victims of the Holocaust. Bosnian Jewis [...] | 2008-10-27 15:48:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1674 | 2008-2009 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA INCSR REPORT (PART I) [...] (U) Below follows the 2008-2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part One for Bosnia-Herzegovina. I. Summary Narcotics control capabilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina ("Bosnia") remain in a formative stage and have not kept pace with developments in other areas of l [...] | 2008-10-29 09:07:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SNAR KCRM BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1725 | BOSNIA: REPUBLIKA SRPSKA MOVES ON PROPERTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 4, the Republika Srpska National Assembly (RSNA) passed, on its first reading, a draft law on the restitution of property which would address outstanding property issues for victims of expropriation, nationalization, and forcible donation, including properties lost dur [...] | 2008-11-07 18:12:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF ECON PINR KJUS BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1847 | DCM's DECEMBER 3-4 VISIT TO BANJA LUKA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a two-day visit to Banja Luka on December 3 and 4, Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Judith Cefkin met with a series of key Republika Srpska (RS) political leaders on topics including the recent Prud/Odzak agreement, developments within in RS political parties, and the recent [...] | 2008-12-10 16:03:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF SCUL BK |
| 08SARAJEVO1869 | BOSNIA - PROGRESS ON PRUD AGREEMENT SLOW AND SHAKY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A month after the signing of the November 8 Prud Agreement (Ref A),the leaders of all three signatory parties continue to profess their support for the document. However, intra-party rifts, quibbling over details, continued concern over the element of the Agreement pertaining to [...] | 2008-12-15 16:55:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK |
| 08SARAJEVO191 | BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC AND AVAZ: TROUBLE IN PARADISE? [...] (C) Influential Bosniak daily Dnevni Avaz has recently featured a number of articles critical of Bosniak Presidency member Haris Silajdzic. The articles constitute a shift in the editorial stance of Avaz which had formerly been a staunch Silajdzic ally. Negative coverage of SBiH attempts to [...] | 2008-02-01 15:26:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR BK |
| 08SARAJEVO234 | BOSNIA - SREBRENICA MEMORIAL TRANSITION COULD [...] (C) Summary: Bosnian politicians seem poised to appropriate the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery to advance ethnic political interests. Serb politicians may be gearing up to oppose state oversight of an institution in the RS as an extension of the campaign to limit state competencie [...] | 2008-02-06 14:27:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK |
| 08SARAJEVO290 | BOSNIA - DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST VIOLENT CRIME [...] (U) The February 5 murder of a youth by other juveniles on a Sarajevo tram has focused popular attention on the perception of a growing problem with violent juvenile crime in Bosnia. The murder follows on the heels of other high profile crimes committed by minors including the deliberate immo [...] | 2008-02-13 17:03:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM BK |
| 08SARAJEVO349 | BOSNIA - PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS GOVERNMENT; DEBATES [...] (U) Bosnia's House of Representatives on February 20 confirmed all nominations for the Council of Ministers. The government had been in technical mandate since November 1 when Nikola Spiric, Chair of the Council of Ministers and Prime Minister, resigned in protest over the imposition of the [...] | 2008-02-21 17:44:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL BK |
| 08SARAJEVO350 | BOSNIA - ONE YEAR POST ICJ VERDICT, MUCH PROGRESS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In February 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict that genocide was committed in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 unleashed pent-up Bosniak anger about the 1992-1995 war. Bosniak political leaders exploited the verdict in order to advance their own narrow, nati [...] | 2008-02-21 18:32:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KAWC KDEM PHUM BK |
| 08SARAJEVO363 | BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM LAWS GENERATES CONTENTIOUS [...] (C) Summary: On February 14 the Council of Ministers (CoM),over Bosniak objections, adopted two draft laws which create the seven state level police bodies called for in the Sarajevo Action Plan and Mostar Declaration. (Ref A) On February 20 after a contentious debate, the State-level House [...] | 2008-02-22 20:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
| 08SARAJEVO494 | BOSNIA - BRAMMERTZ VISITS BOSNIA; RADMANOVIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: Serge Brammertz, the Chief International Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),visited Bosnia March 5-8. He met with key government leaders; representatives from the judicial and law enforcement services; representatives from internat [...] | 2008-03-14 17:16:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS BK |
| 08SARAJEVO608 | BOSNIA - PARLIAMENT FAILS TO PASS POLICE REFORM; [...] (C) SUMMARY: As anticipated, Parliament failed to pass police reform legislation at its April 2 session (Ref A). Party for BiH (SBiH),Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD),and Croatian Democratic Union-BiH (HDZ-BiH) each put forward its own version of the laws, but failed to negoti [...] | 2008-04-02 17:30:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
| 08SARAJEVO802 | BOSNIA - SPIRIC SEEKS DISMISSAL OF ALKALAJ, [...] (SBU) On April 24, the Bosnian Central Election Commission (BHEC) found three members of the Council of Ministers (CoM) -- Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj, Deputy Defense Minister Igor Crnadak, and Deputy Civil Affairs Ministers Senad Sepic -- in violation of the Law on Conflict of Interest in G [...] | 2008-05-05 15:51:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
| 08SARAJEVO816 | BOSNIA - PARLIAMENT ADOPTS SREBRENICA ELECTION LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 7, Bosnia's Parliamentary Assembly adopted an amendment to the BiH Election Law that will allow all 1991 residents of Srebrenica Municipality the option to vote there in the upcoming October 2008 municipal elections. The amendment was supported by every major political party [...] | 2008-05-07 17:02:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PHUM KDEM BK |
| 08SARAJEVO863 | BOSNIA - CHURCH AGREEMENT SPAT ALLOWS SERBS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 7, Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic's vetoed on legal grounds a bilateral agreement between Bosnia and the Serb Orthodox church. Since then, senior Republika Srpska (RS) leaders have gone on the offensive, defending the right of Serbs to practice their [...] | 2008-05-15 15:04:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR BK |
| 08SARAJEVO870 | BOSNIA - DISCUSSIONS WITH SDA LEADERSHIP ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 15, we met two senior officials from the Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) -- Federation Vice President Mirsad Kebo and state-level parliamentarian Bakir Izetbegovic -- to discuss the party's plans to the October municipal elections, particularly the steps SDA was t [...] | 2008-05-19 08:47:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM PHUM PTER IR BK |
| 08SARAJEVO871 | BOSNIA - DISCUSSIONS WITH SDA LEADERSHIP ON [...] (C) Summary: On May 15, we met two senior officials from the Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) -- Federation Vice President Mirsad Kebo and state-level parliamentarian Bakir Izetbegovic -- to discuss the party's plans for the October municipal elections, particularly the steps SDA was [...] | 2008-05-19 11:15:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM PHUM PTER IR BK |
| 08SARAJEVO910 | BOSNIA - DRAFT SALARY LAW THREATENS TO UNDERMINE [...] (U) SUMMARY: During its May 14 session, the House of Representatives postponed voting on a problematic draft law which, while intended to harmonize civil servant salaries, would also eliminate Bosnia's independent judicial salary structure and cause salaries for state law enforcement officers [...] | 2008-05-23 15:23:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI KJUS PREL PINR PTER KCRM KAWC |
| 08SARAJEVO953 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP LAJCAK USES BONN POWERS AGAINST [...] (U) See action request in paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. In coordination with the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes (ICTY),High Representative Miroslav Lajcak announced two seperate Bonn Powers decisions on May 30 targeting ICTY indictee Stojan Zupljanin. He ordered RS poli [...] | 2008-06-04 10:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM CVIS BK |
| 08SARAJEVO971 | BOSNIA - A GOOD DAY IN PARLIAMENT FOR RULE OF LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: During its June 4 session, the BiH House of Representatives (HoR) voted on three initiatives of interest to our rule of law and political-military agendas. It passed a Law on State Salaries that protected U.S. investments in state-level judicial and law enforcement institutions [...] | 2008-06-06 09:52:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI PREL PINR PTER KCRM KAWC KJUS |
| 08SECTIO01OF02JERUSALEM1847 | JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/07): PALESTINIANS NOT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 10:35:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
| 08SEOUL1 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S JANUARY 8 VISIT TO [...] (C) Madam Secretary, We at Embassy Seoul are delighted that you are able to make this visit. Foreign Minister Yu is eager to see you, especially as he had to cancel his visit to Washington last month due to key National Assembly hearings. President Lee Myung-bak wants to thank you and the Pre [...] | 2008-12-31 05:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1000 | POLITICAL PUNDIT ON PRESIDENT'S PLUMMETING POLLS [...] (C) Summary: At a meeting with a group of foreign diplomats, political consultant Park Sung-min provided his insights on the controversy surrounding the reopening of the Korean market to U.S. beef and his perspective on the recent precipitous drop in President Lee Myung-bak's approval ratings [...] | 2008-05-16 01:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1039 | SOUTH-NORTH STANDOFF WORRIES CONSERVATIVE ACADEMICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Conservative academics criticized former President Roh Moo-hyun's North Korea policy as too accommodating. Now they worry that President Lee Myung-bak's lack of dialogue with the North means that the ROK will lose its influence, while U.S.-DPRK relations improve. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2008-05-21 05:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS KN PGOV PREL |
| 08SEOUL1045 | LEE HOI-CHANG LOOKS FOR BEEF SOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador's May 20 lunch with three-time Presidential candidate Lee Hoi-chang focused primarily on possible solutions to the controversy surrounding the reopening of the Korean market to U.S. beef. Lee also talked about the "balancing and checking" role that his minority con [...] | 2008-05-22 00:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1086 | NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION RELUCTANTLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 28 meeting with POL M/C, National Human Rights Commission Commissioner Yoo Nam-young and colleagues explained that the Commission is complying with a Blue House request to complete a study of human rights conditions in North Korea by the end of the year, after largely ig [...] | 2008-05-28 23:52:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS KN PGOV PHUM |
| 08SEOUL1087 | LEE SANG-DEUK ON BEEF, PRESIDENT LEE'S MISSTEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over a lunch of U.S. beef, the Ambassador and Vice Speaker Lee, who is President Lee Myung-bak's elder brother, discussed solutions to the continuing controversy over the planned reopening of the Korean market to U.S. beef. Vice Speaker Lee and recently reelected lawmaker Chun Yu [...] | 2008-05-29 02:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL1107 | THE 2009 ROK DEFENSE BUDGET IMPLICATIONS FOR [...] (C) Summary. The Won 621 trillion (about USD 620 billion) plan to transform the South Korean defense establishment inked in 2005 is under intense pressure from President Lee Myung-bak,s austerity measures. Just as President Lee is trimming all spending, the economic forecasts completed in 200 [...] | 2008-05-30 06:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KS KN |
| 08SEOUL111 | WHAT TO EXPECT: HOW WILL PRESIDENT LEE CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: The Korean people have sky-high expectations for President-elect Lee Myung-bak. He will take office as the seventeenth president of Korea on February 25 and carries with him a long to-do list for his government and for the country. For insight on what Lee's administration will l [...] | 2008-01-18 07:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1120 | ROK'S 17TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WINDS DOWN: A ROUNDUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 17th National Assembly, which officially ended, was characterized by the prominent role of 386er representatives (those born in the 60s that led the democratization movement in the 80s),its left-leaning ideology, the increased number of women, and intense partisan politics. [...] | 2008-06-03 07:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL1122 | PROTESTS IN SEOUL BECOME MORE FLUID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Protestors turned out in force over the weekend following the announcement by the Agriculture Minister on the evening of May 29 that Korea would shortly resume quarantine inspections on U.S. beef as a first step to reopening the market. Although there had been a string of cand [...] | 2008-06-03 08:51:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD EAGR KS |
| 08SEOUL1174 | PROTESTS PAST PRIME? LEE VOWS "FRESH START" [...] (C) Summary: The June 10 anniversary of the 1987 pro-Democracy protests drew record numbers of crowds demanding a renegotiation of the agreement to lift the ban on imports of U.S. beef. The demonstrators remained peaceful, heeding the pleas of the ROKG and former Presidents Roh Moo-hyun and [...] | 2008-06-11 08:18:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL1204 | TURBULENT TIMES FOR PRESIDENT LEE: CAN HE RECOVER? [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lee Myung-bak is only four months into his five-year term in office and already he has hit historically low popularity ratings of around 10 percent. Lee's first 100 days have been a crash course in political reality. The public's disappointment with the new administrat [...] | 2008-06-16 10:04:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1244 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S JUNE 26-27 VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your visit to Korea comes at a particularly sensitive time in U.S.-ROK relations. Since your last visit in February, the optimism that accompanied President Lee Myung-bak's inauguration has been replaced by growing public discontent with the Lee Administration and its policies. [...] | 2008-06-23 08:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1248 | BLUE HOUSE LINEUP: EXPERIENCE IN, PROFESSORS OUT [...] (C) The June 22 changes to the Blue House Chief of Staff and senior secretaries indicate a perceived need by President Lee Myung-bak for professionalism and experience of his immediate staff. Compared to the previous line-up, the percentage of bureaucrats and politicians assigned to senior po [...] | 2008-06-24 05:38:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS PGOV PREL PINR |
| 08SEOUL126 | WHAT TO EXPECT: HOW WILL PRESIDENT LEE CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: If South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak has his way, his five-year term in office will see a dramatic increase in Korea's economic performance, international competitiveness, and cooperation in multinational fora. Lee intends to achieve these ambitious goals through even m [...] | 2008-01-22 07:53:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL127 | LEE MYUNG-BAK TRANSITION TEAM: ONE MONTH LEFT [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Lee Myung-bak's Transition Team has had a busy first month. Charged with laying the blueprint for Lee Myung-bak's presidential term, they are now submitting legislation to begin to "pull the weeds" from the Roh and Kim Dae-jung administrations. Lee brings a diffe [...] | 2008-01-22 07:59:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1273 | PARK JIN: BEEF PROTESTS A RESULT OF "TOO MUCH [...] (C) Summary: Grand National Party (GNP) Representative Park Jin spent most of his June 18 dinner with ASD James Shinn discussing domestic politics. Park described the current political situation as a "crisis," and said the Lee Myung-bak Administration would have to handle the upheaval very c [...] | 2008-06-26 05:20:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS |
| 08SEOUL1280 | UPDATE FOR THE SECRETARY'S JUNE 26-27 VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Developments on beef and North Korea issues create an opportunity to get the Koreans -- up until now completely paralyzed by the beef crisis -- to reengage on our bilateral and international agenda. This cable provides an update to our earlier scenesetter, and suggests some prio [...] | 2008-06-26 08:56:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1337 | PRESS BULLETIN - July 3, 2008 [...] Time for the President to Eat U.S. Beef (Chosun Ilbo, July 3, 2008, Page 27) 2. ROK-U.S. Summit; Breach of Diplomatic Protocol (Hankook Ilbo, July 3, 2008, Page 35) 3. Repeated U.S. Diplomatic Discourtesy (Hankyoreh Shinmun, July 3, 2008, Page 31) Features 4. Bush to Visit Seoul on [...] | 2008-07-03 05:25:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 08SEOUL1345 | PRESS BULLETIN - July 7, 2008 [...] We Have More Important Things to Worry About (Chosun Ilbo, July 7, 2008, Page 31) Features 2. U.S. "Condoned Summary Executions during Korean War" (Daily Chosun, July 7, 2008) 3 3. Foreign Students in the U.S. Can Work as Interns (Dong-a Ilbo, July 7, 2008, Page 13) 3 4. Majority of [...] | 2008-07-07 06:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 08SEOUL1370 | GNP, DP ELECT NEW LEADERSHIP, NA SET TO OPEN [...] (C) Summary: In early July both the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) and the main opposition party, the newly renamed Democratic Party (DP),selected their party leadership in a move that should end the stalemate over convening the National Assembly. The election of Park Hee-tae to lead th [...] | 2008-07-09 07:48:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL1480 | FSC CHAIRMAN ON LONE STAR, BANK PRIVATIZATION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Financial Services Commission (FSC) Chairman Jun Kwang-woo confirmed press reports earlier that day that the FSC was considering soon launching its review of Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)'s qualifications as majority share [...] | 2008-07-25 06:08:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ECON PREL PGOV KS |
| 08SEOUL1490 | GNP LEADERS REVIEW BEEF, FTA RATIFICATION, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 23 the Ambassador met with National Assembly Speaker Kim Hyung-oh and newly-elected Grand National Party (GNP) Chair Park Hee-tae. The amicable meetings focused on the beef issue and the KORUS FTA. Both Kim and Park expressed appreciation for U.S. efforts to defuse the [...] | 2008-07-29 03:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ETRD KN KS |
| 08SEOUL1524 | DP CHAIRMAN CHUNG SE-KYUN ON FTA, BEEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador made a July 23 courtesy call on newly elected Democratic Party (DP) Chairman Chung Se-kyun. During the cordial meeting, conducted entirely in English, the two discussed prospects for ratification of the KORUS FTA. Chung said the DP was prepared to support FTA rat [...] | 2008-08-01 07:07:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL1525 | DP CHAIRMAN CHUNG SE-KYUN ON FTA, BEEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador made a July 23 courtesy call on newly elected Democratic Party (DP) Chairman Chung Se-kyun. During the cordial meeting, conducted entirely in English, the two discussed prospects for ratification of the KORUS FTA. Chung said the DP was prepared to support FTA rat [...] | 2008-08-01 07:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL1526 | DP CHAIRMAN CHUNG SE-KYUN ON FTA, BEEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador made a July 23 courtesy call on newly elected Democratic Party (DP) Chairman Chung Se-kyun. During the cordial meeting, conducted entirely in English, the two discussed prospects for ratification of the KORUS FTA. Chung said the DP was prepared to support FTA rat [...] | 2008-08-01 07:48:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL1527 | FM YU PLEASED WITH SUMMIT PREP, SAYS "ALL'S WELL [...] (C) On July 31 Ambassador Vershbow paid an office call on Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan to confer on preparations for President Bush's August 5-6 visit to the Republic of Korea (ROK). During their meeting they agreed that plans for the visit were proceeding smoothly and reviewed the most lik [...] | 2008-08-01 08:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV MARR KS KN JA |
| 08SEOUL155 | LEE MYUNG-BAK ADVISERS DEFINE RECIPROCITY [...] (C) Summary: During a January 17 dinner with the Charge, Nam Sung-wook and Suh Jae-jean, two close advisers to President-elect Lee Myung-bak, commented on the incoming administration's reciprocity-based criteria for engaging the North and their dim outlook for progress in the Six-Party Talks. [...] | 2008-01-25 03:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1581 | BLUE HOUSE OFFICIAL HOPEFUL OF IMPROVED ROK-DPRK [...] (C) Assistant Secretary to the President for Unification Yu Joon-ha (protect) told poloff August 7 that the Lee administration is committed to improved ties with the DPRK, but does not expect any movement until next year. The ROKG is determined to establish reciprocity as part of the ROK-DP [...] | 2008-08-11 07:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KS KN |
| 08SEOUL162 | LIKELY MINISTERIAL APPOINTEES [...] (C) Summary: The Presidential Transition Committee is expected to announce the ministerial nominations as early as January 26 for discussion in the National Assembly session that starts January 28. Though speculation is rife, a few names have started to rise to the top. Han Seung-soo, Speci [...] | 2008-01-25 06:49:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1620 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: POLITICAL PARALYSIS PREVAILS [...] (C) Summary: Major South Korean political parties have yet to resolve differences over formation of the standing committees, a necessary step in order to get the National Assembly up and running for the start of the regular session in early September. An agreement was reached on August 11 o [...] | 2008-08-18 06:17:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1696 | KIM YOUNG-SAM PESSIMISTIC ON OUTLOOK FOR PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a farewell meeting with the Ambassador, former President Kim Young-sam freely voiced his opinions on the current administration's woes and on prospects for improved Korea-Japan relations; he was pessimistic about both. Kim said that current President Lee Myung-bak's problems [...] | 2008-08-27 05:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1710 | LEE MYUNG-BAK'S OLYMPIC MOJO: POLL INCREASES [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent opinion polls conducted by various ROK media agencies show that President Lee Myung-bak's approval rating is recovering, reaching between 24 to 31 percent in various polls taken from August 23. Pundits note that the recent increase was mainly due to Korea's success at [...] | 2008-08-28 06:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL176 | DASD SEDNEY MEETINGS WITH ROKG, PRESIDENT-ELECT'S [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia David Sedney, ROKG officials and members of President-elect Lee Myung-bak's Transition Team stressed that the ROK-U.S. Alliance was a top priority for the incoming government, asking for ideas on how to improve the l [...] | 2008-01-28 05:59:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MNUC PARM PREL KS |
| 08SEOUL178 | HAN SEUNG-SOO TAPPED AS LEE MYUNG-BAK'S FIRST [...] (SBU) Summary: President-elect Lee Myung-bak officially announced the nomination of Han Seung-soo, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, as the first Prime Minister for his government. Lee is said to have taken into account Han's extensive experience with state affairs and his credentials as a [...] | 2008-01-28 07:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL1808 | PRESS BULLETIN - September 11, 2008 [...] Preparing for a Post-Kim Jong-il North Korea (Dong-a Ilbo, September 11, 2008, Page 27) 2. A Sick State (JoongAng Ilbo, September 11, 2008, Page 30) 3. Talk of Kim Jong-il Being Ill Tests Our Crisis Management (Hankook Ilbo, September 11, 2008, Page 39) 4. Act, Don't Overreact, To Rumors a [...] | 2008-09-11 06:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 08SEOUL1845 | DASD SEDNEY MEETING WITH MOFAT NORTH AMERICA DG [...] (CO) SUMMARY: On September 11, DASD David Sedney and EAP/K Director Kurt Tong paid an office call on MOFAT North American Affairs DG Chang Ho-jin. They agreed that the September 10 Security Policy Initiative talks had gone well, but that several issues -- camp returns and the SMA burden-shar [...] | 2008-09-17 07:14:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PHSA PINS MARR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1946 | US-ROK CONSULTATIONS ON INTER-KOREAN POLICY AND DPRK CONDITIONS: NO DIALOGUE; KJI STILL IN CHARGE [...] (C) At the first of three scheduled consultation sessions between a U.S. delegation led by DAS Alex Arvizu and a ROKG delegation led by MOFAT DG for Korean Peninsula Peace Regime Huh Chul on September 24, Huh noted that the ROKG policy goal toward North Korea remained essentially the same as th [...] | 2008-10-06 03:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN |
| 08SEOUL1947 | US-ROK CONSULATIONS ON NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS: NO CHANGES IN DPRK, ROKG MORE ASSERTIVE [...] (C) In the third and final consultation session between delegations headed respectively by EAP DAS Alex Arvizu and MOFAT Director General for Korean Peninsula Peace Regime Huh Chul on September 25, ROK officials said that they discerned no significant improvement in the human rights situation i [...] | 2008-10-06 03:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 08SEOUL2029 | LEE STIRS [...] (C) Over the past few weeks, President Lee Myung-bak has taken action to try to improve his still lackluster popularity. At the cabinet meeting on October 7, the Lee Administration announced 100 policy priorities the government will seek to address in the coming years. On October 13, Lee he [...] | 2008-10-15 07:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL2034 | SCENESETTER FOR THE 40TH US-ROK SECURITY [...] (C) Since your June visit to Seoul, the South Korean domestic political scene has largely returned to normal. President Lee has escaped from the morass that was the beef controversy, but still has much work to do before his government regains the trust and support of the Korean public. The s [...] | 2008-10-15 08:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV PINS KS KN JA |
| 08SEOUL2082 | PATIENT LEE STILL STUCK ON THE RUNWAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Political consultant Park Sung-min told poloffs over a recent lunch that President Lee Myung-bak was in dire straits. Neither President Lee nor his staff understood the reasons behind Lee's flagging popularity (stuck around 25 percent in recent polls) and had no idea what to d [...] | 2008-10-23 06:57:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL2109 | AMBASSADOR AND FORMER PRESIDENT KIM DAE-JUNG [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 22 courtesy call by the Ambassador, former President Kim Dae-jung said that she had come to Korea at an important point in the relationship. Relations were good, but there was still much work to be done on North Korea. After recounting his meeting with Kim Jong-il [...] | 2008-10-28 04:56:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL2166 | ROK EMBRACES ITS ROLE AS CHAIR OF FIRST APDP SOM [...] (U) Summary: The Republic of Korea hosted and chaired the first Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM) of the Asia-Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP) in Seoul on October 31, 2008. Twelve countries participated: Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, New Zealand, the Philippines, the [...] | 2008-11-05 06:57:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PHUM KS |
| 08SEOUL2178 | LEAFLET DROPS IN NORTH KOREA TO CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary: Park Sang-hak, President of Fight for Free North Korea, an NGO active in promoting democracy and human rights for North Korea, said he had sent 1.8 million anti-Kim Jong-il (KJI) leaflets by balloon into North Korea this year and would not heed ROKG calls to stop. The DPRK has t [...] | 2008-11-07 04:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PROP PREL KS KN |
| 08SEOUL2203 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH GNP LEADER PARK GEUN-HYE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging conversation on Nov. 6, the Ambassador and GNP legislator Park Geun-hye discussed North Korea, the future of the U.S.-ROK relationship, domestic political trends in Korea, the FTA, and camp returns. Exchanges on policy issues were interwoven with historical ane [...] | 2008-11-13 06:17:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL2206 | ROKG'S CALM REACTION TO DPRK BORDER-RESTRICTION [...] (C) Summary: DPRK authorities announced on November 12 that "rigid limits and blockages" would be placed on land border crossings between South and North Korea as of December  [...] | 2008-11-13 09:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN |
| 08SEOUL2218 | ROK PM HAN: PREPARED TO WAIT ON FTA, INTERNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: ROK Prime Minister Han Seung-soo told the Ambassador during a courtesy call on November 13 that the ROKG was prepared to wait for the U.S. to take up the matter of its ratification of the KORUS FTA, but would encourage ratification of the accord by the National Assembly in the mea [...] | 2008-11-14 06:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EFIN ECON KS KN |
| 08SEOUL2270 | ROKG REACTION TO DPRK'S RATCHETING UP PRESSURE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: -- On November 24, the DPRK announced that it would further restrict South-North economic cooperation as of December 1 by stopping Kaesong City tours and reducing ROK managers entering the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) by half. -- A Foreign Ministry official said the ROKG, [...] | 2008-11-25 11:37:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN |
| 08SEOUL2279 | PRESS BULLETIN - November 26, 2008 [...] The ROK and the U.S. Agree to Transform Cash-based Financial Contribution for USFK Upkeep to a Goods Provision (Dong-a Ilbo, November 26, 2008, Page 8) 2. 37% of ROK Lawmakers: "The KORUS FTA Would be Revised" (Dong-a Ilbo, November 26, 2008, Pages 1 and 6) Top Headlines Chosun Ilbo, H [...] | 2008-11-26 07:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 08SEOUL2281 | AMBASSADOR MEETING WITH DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 24 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Yong-joon said with SMA negotiations concluded, he looked forward to making progress on USFK camp returns. Lee lamented that his goal of completing the return of nine facilities before the end of [...] | 2008-11-26 08:21:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AMGT KS |
| 08SEOUL2305 | HELP FOR NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS: PRIVATE CHARITY [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff visited two government supported and two private institutions for helping student-age North Korean defectors: Hanawon, the re-education center where all defectors spend two months on arrival; Hangyerae School, where 220 students live and study; the Heavenly Dream School, [...] | 2008-12-02 09:07:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV KS KN |
| 08SEOUL2307 | U.S.-ROK SMA (AD REF) AGREEMENT [...] (C) On November 19-20, U.S. and Republic of Korea delegations, led respectively by Ambassador Jackson McDonald and Ambassador Cho Byung-jae, met in Honolulu for the sixth and likely final round of this year's Special Measures Agreement (SMA) defense cost-sharing negotiation. The talks starte [...] | 2008-12-02 22:15:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS |
| 08SEOUL2340 | PRESIDENT LEE UNPOPULAR, OPPOSITION EVEN MORE SO [...] (C) Summary: President Lee Myung-bak is suffering from entrenched low popularity that is affecting his ability to govern effectively. Even some Blue House insiders worry that if he does not turn things around in 2009, he could spend the remainder of his term powerless, overshadowed by jockeyi [...] | 2008-12-08 07:28:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL2341 | PRESS BULLETIN - December 8, 2008 [...] U.S. Automakers' Blaming of the ROK Preposterous (Dong-a Ilbo, December 8, 2008, Page 27) 2. North Korea's Nuclear Verification Needs Patience (Hankook Ilbo, December 8, 2008, Page 39) Features 3. U.S. State Department Asks Ambassadors Overseas to Submit Resignations (Dong-a Ilbo, De [...] | 2008-12-08 07:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 08SEOUL2382 | NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR INTELLECTUAL SAYS ELITE KEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kim Heung-kwang of North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, a group of predominantly elite North Korean defectors formed in June, and North Korea Reform Radio Representative Kim Seung-chul met with poloff on December 3 to describe plans to target elite North Koreans with messages an [...] | 2008-12-12 06:45:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KS KN |
| 08SEOUL2401 | PRESS BULLETIN - December 15, 2008 [...] "Six-Party Process Reveals Its Fundamental Limitations" (JoongAng Ilbo, December 13, 2008, Page 26) 2. What the "Controversy over North Korea's Nuclear Status" Means (Chosun Ilbo, December 15, 2008, Page 35) 3. Obama's Way of Dealing with North Korea (Hankook Ilbo, December 15, 2008, Page 39 [...] | 2008-12-15 08:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 08SEOUL2403 | 2009 BUDGET PASSES NA; MORE CLASHES TO COME [...] (C) Summary: On December 13, the ruling GNP along with the conservative Liberty Forward Party (LFP) passed the annual budget bill while the opposition Democratic Party (DP) and Democratic Labor Party (DLP) members boycotted the vote. Most pundits and Assembly sources note that the ruling party [...] | 2008-12-15 08:28:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL2409 | ROKG TO MAINTAIN FIRM STANCE TOWARDS DPRK [...] (C) Summary. During a December 15 luncheon meeting with the DCM, Dr. Kim Tae-hyo, a principal advisor to ROK President Lee Myung-bak, indicated that President Lee would maintain his firm policy stance toward the DPRK despite internal politics. The DPRK is finding fewer friendly media outle [...] | 2008-12-16 06:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KN KS |
| 08SEOUL2423 | PRESS BULLETIN - December 17, 2008 [...] U.S. Congressional Delegation: "If the ROK Ratifies the KORUS FTA, the U.S. Congress Will Also Make Efforts to Do So" (JoongAng Ilbo, December 17, 2008, Page 6) 2. "Line" in Front of U.S. Embassy Has Disappeared, but No Tourism "Boom" Yet (Munhwa Ilbo, December 16, 2008, Page 10; Excerpts) [...] | 2008-12-17 06:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 08SEOUL2457 | BLUE HOUSE ADVISOR SAYS FTA, MAJOR LAWS WILL PASS [...] (C) Summary: Ze Seung-wan, advisor to President Lee for civil affairs, told poloff December 22 that the KORUS FTA, along with other major legislation currently on hold due to physical opposition from the Democratic Party (DP),would be passed during the current 30-day special session set to en [...] | 2008-12-22 07:49:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL2502 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S JANUARY 8 VISIT TO [...] (C) Madam Secretary, We at Embassy Seoul are delighted that you are able to make this visit. Foreign Minister Yu is eager to see you, especially as he had to cancel his visit to Washington last month due to key National Assembly hearings. President Lee Myung-bak wants to thank you and the Pre [...] | 2008-12-31 05:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KS KN |
| 08SEOUL262 | BLUE HOUSE SENIOR SECRETARIES ANNOUNCED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 10, the Presidential Transition Committee announced the lineup for the Blue House Senior Secretaries. Notably, GNP lawmaker Park Jae-wan was named SIPDIS Senior Presidential Secretary for Political Affairs, and Korea University Professor Kim Byung-kook Senior Secr [...] | 2008-02-11 07:14:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL297 | CABINET REFORM PLAN AT A STANDSTILL [...] With the Cabinet reform bill set to cut the number of ministries from 18 to 14 stalled at the National Assembly, the Transition Team and the GNP are planning to announce the Cabinet lineup February 15. The list is said to be almost final, although there may be some additions depending on how [...] | 2008-02-14 08:01:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL329 | SETTING THE RIGHT COURSE: TRANSITION TEAM [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 19, Transition Team Chairwoman Lee Kyung-sook and National Security Advisor-designate Kim Byung-kook met with the Ambassador to discuss preparations for the planned April U.S.-ROK summit, the Transition Team's performance, and the best way to kick off President-elect [...] | 2008-02-20 06:21:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL347 | COMPROMISE REACHED: GOVERNMENT DOWNSIZING BILL SET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 20 the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the Grand National Party (GNP) broke a month-long deadlock and came to a compromise on Lee Myung-bak's government reform plan. The compromise includes the survival of the Unification and Gender Equality Ministries. The refo [...] | 2008-02-21 07:52:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL365 | ROH MOO-HYUN'S TURBULENT TERM: HISTORIANS MAY BE [...] (C) Roh Moo-hyun ends his presidency a deeply disappointed man. According to Blue House contacts, Roh has been moody and morose since the presidential election in December which resulted in a lopsided victory for the conservative candidate Lee Myung-bak. Not helping Roh's mood is the piling [...] | 2008-02-25 08:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL392 | POLITICAL BATTLES CONTINUE, PRIME MINISTER NOT YET [...] (C) Summary: The Blue House and the National Assembly are in a staring match and it appears the UDP has no reason to blink. With nothing to lose, the UDP has delayed putting the PM-designate Han Seung-soo's nomination to a vote in the plenary and they have the necessary 150 votes (141 seats p [...] | 2008-02-27 08:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL454 | NEW MOU MINISTER KIM HA-JOONG: OLD MOFAT HAND, [...] (C) Kim Ha-joong, the current ROK Ambassador to China and a career diplomat, has been named Lee Myung-bak's first Unification Minister. Resistance to his nomination from the opposition United Democratic Party is unlikely to be strong; he was one of the architects of the Sunshine Policy when he [...] | 2008-03-07 10:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS KN PROG PREL PINR |
| 08SEOUL592 | SCENESETTER: MARCH 26 MEETING WITH ROK FOREIGN [...] (C) Madam Secretary, the main reason for Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan's March 26-27 visit to Washington is to set the stage for a successful April 18-19 summit meeting at Camp David between President Lee Myung-bak and the President. Since your meeting with FM Yu on February 25, political in [...] | 2008-03-25 05:56:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR MNUC KN KS OVIP |
| 08SEOUL616 | KIC EXPULSION SIGNALS DPRK DISCONTENT [...] (C) On March 27 at 1 a.m. Seoul time, 11 South Korean officials stationed at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) were expelled by the DPRK. According to the South Korean Ministry of Unification (MOU),the DPRK cited Unification Minister Kim Ha-joong's comments linking denuclearization with e [...] | 2008-03-27 09:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS KN PGOV PREL |
| 08SEOUL62 | CHUNG MONG-JOON: DELEGATION LEADER, PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 21-23 National Assembly member and presidential aspirant Chung Mong-joon will lead a Presidential Transition Committee delegation to Washington, DC. A similar delegation visited in 2003 on behalf of then President-elect Roh Moo-Hyun and met with the Secretary of State [...] | 2008-01-11 02:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
| 08SEOUL623 | ROKG DOWNPLAYS NORTH KOREAN STYX MISSILE TEST [...] (C) The Republic of Korea Ministry of National Defense (MND) has confirmed Korean media reports that the North Korean People's Army (KPA) test fired three Russian-made Styx anti-ship missiles into the West Sea (Yellow Sea) at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time on Friday March 28. (Note: Due [...] | 2008-03-28 07:19:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MNUC PINS PREL KN KS JA |
| 08SEOUL645 | CONGRESSMAN ROHRABACHER'S MEETINGS IN SEOUL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, met separately with ROK Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan and members of the National Assembly on March 25 to advocate several proposed initiatives. Foremost on the list was the Congressman's propos [...] | 2008-04-01 04:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR ENRG KNNP PHUM KS KN IRAQ |
| 08SEOUL707 | NSA KIM ON NORTH KOREA, SUMMIT AND ALLIANCE ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over an April 8, 2008 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, ROK National Security Advisor Kim Byung-kook said that President Lee's position on North Korea had not changed despite the heated rhetoric from Pyongyang. Lee wanted "sincere and substantive" dialogue with the North, d [...] | 2008-04-08 09:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL719 | APRIL 9 ROK NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS: GNP EKES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With 97 percent of votes counted, Lee Myung-bak's Grand National Party (GNP) won 151 of 299 seats, giving them a much slimmer majority than expected. The opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) did better than anticipated, winning 82 seats. Lee Hoi-chang's Liberal Forward Pa [...] | 2008-04-09 14:07:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL737 | FORMER FM FRETS: MB'S TEAM UP TO THE TASK? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a frank April 11 lunch meeting, former Foreign Minister Yoo Chong-ha gave poloffs his view of Lee Myung-bak and said he hoped Lee would play it safe during the April 18-19 summit with President Bush. Yoo said he would continue to advise President Lee whenever called, as he was [...] | 2008-04-11 07:31:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SEOUL774 | PRESIDENT LEE'S NORTH KOREA POLICY: ESTABLISHING [...] (C) Lee Myung-bak won the presidency on a conservative platform, emphasizing a new approach toward North Korea. Candidate Lee repeated over and over that ten years of Sunshine Policy had yielded nothing. During that time, the North, with newly acquired nuclear weapons, had become more dangero [...] | 2008-04-16 08:35:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KS KN PGOV EAID PREL |
| 08SEOUL776 | LEE MYUNG-BAK WEATHERS POLITICAL STORM; AWAITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Korea's political landscape is in transition -- in the last two months President Lee Myung-bak was inaugurated, a new National Assembly was elected, new parties were formed; in the coming two months leaders for the two main parties are set to change. The ruling Grand National Pa [...] | 2008-04-17 08:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KN KS |
| 08SEOUL80 | LEE KYUNG-SOOK DISCUSSES TRANSITION TEAM PRIORITIES [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with the Ambassador, Presidential Transition Committee Chair Lee Kyung-sook discussed the political realities of the transition team's agenda and President-elect Lee Myung-bak's personal management style. Lee Kyung-sook, who is clearly one of the president-elect [...] | 2008-01-15 00:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
| 08SEOUL853 | DASD SEDNEY'S ROKG MEETINGS: A STRONGER ALLIANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 7, visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for East Asia David Sedney and SIPDIS the Ambassador met with Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee in the lead up to the Security Policy Initiative (SPI)-17 talks. DASD Sedney also met separately with Blue House Deputy [...] | 2008-04-28 07:08:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PARM MASS KS |
| 08SEOUL856 | SPI 17: U.S.-ROK 17TH SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE [...] (S) The 17th Security Policy Initiative (SPI) talks were held in Seoul on April 8, 2008. The U.S. Delegation was headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for East Asia David Sedney, with Ministry of National Defense (MND) Deputy Minister of Defense for Policy Jeon Jei-guk leadin [...] | 2008-04-28 07:57:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | MARR MNUC PARM PREL KS KN |
| 08SEOUL857 | SPI 17: U.S.-ROK 17TH SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-28 07:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | MARR MNUC PARM PREL KS KN |
| 08SEOUL903 | SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MAY 7-8 [...] (C) Your visit to Korea falls between the April 18-19 Camp David Summit and the Secretary's expected stop in Seoul at the end of June. Secretary Gates will also be coming for the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) change-of-command ceremony on June 3. These visits will be followed by a second U.S.-ROK [...] | 2008-05-01 08:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL PGOV PINS KN KS CH JA |
| 08SHANGHAI144 | RURAL REFORM AND NGO ACTIVITIES IN ANHUI PROVINCE [...] (C) Summary: Poloff and political assistant traveled to Anhui Province on April 7-8 to meet with Zhang Deyuan, the deputy director of the China San Nong Problem Research Center at Anhui University in Hefei, and to observe a rural poverty alleviation project in Yuexi County sponsored by the NGO [...] | 2008-04-11 09:29:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAGR SOCI CH |
| 08SHANGHAI212 | SHANGHAI SCHOLARS ON CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. During a June 10 lunch for visiting former EAP DAS Randy Schriver, participating Shanghai academics were cautiously optimistic on near-term cross-Strait rapprochement. Despite general agreement that economic cooperation between China and Taiwan was achievable, there was little con [...] | 2008-06-12 06:52:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 08SHANGHAI384 | EAST CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ON IMPACT OF OLYMPICS AND [...] (C) Summary: Three East China human rights activists told Poloff on September 10 that their activities were tightly constrained during the recent Beijing Olympics with one of the activists prevented from traveling to the United States to attend a conference. Local security forces currently are [...] | 2008-09-11 07:40:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON ETRD KIRF PGOV PHUM |
| 08SHANGHAI407 | SHANGHAI CATHOLIC BISHOP JIN OPTIMISTIC ON RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Jin (JIN Luxian) told the Consul General that he is generally satisfied with the situation of Catholics in China, favorably contrasting present freedoms against the Mao Zedong era. The 92-year-old Bishop said he was unaware of any bishops presently incarcer [...] | 2008-09-22 07:38:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | CH KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI |
| 08SHANGHAI408 | SHANGHAI HOUSE CHURCH LEADER SAYS OLYMPIC CLAMPDOWN TO [...] (C) A prominent Shanghai house church leader said local police clamped down on house church activity during the Beijing Olympics, and the increased scrutiny has shown no signs of abating in the month since the Games concluded. The leader stated that he believes the local government fears the r [...] | 2008-09-22 07:44:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KIRF SOCI CH |
| 08SHANGHAI422 | SHANGHAI SCHOLARS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER DELAY IN SIX-PARTY [...] (S/NF) Summary: xxxxx are concerned about the current impasse in the Six-Party Talks, but each varies in his diagnosis of its causes and prescriptions for U.S. policy. xxxxx claims that a debate has emerged within the Chinese leadership over the merits of quick U.S. delisting, as a result of Pyongy [...] | 2008-09-26 06:40:00 | Consulate Shanghai | SECRET//NOFORN | CH KN PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 08SHANGHAI443 | EAST CHINA ACADEMICS ON CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS: ASO WILL BE [...] (C) Summary: Japan experts in Shanghai and Nanjing believe new Japanese Prime Minister Aso, consumed by domestic political and economic challenges, will adopt a pragmatic approach to China regardless of his past anti-China rhetoric. Aso will attend the ASEM meeting in China in late October, b [...] | 2008-10-17 06:42:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | CH JA PREL SOCI |
| 08SHANGHAI459 | READING PEARL BUCK IN ZHENJIANG [...] Summary: Zhenjiang, a city of one million at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal, proudly proclaims its connection to Pearl S. Buck, author of "The Good Earth" and 1938 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Once unwelcome in China, Buck is now praised as a bridge betwe [...] | 2008-10-28 06:45:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL KPAO OIIP PREL EAGR CH |
| 08SHANGHAI477 | SHANGHAI GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING FOLLOWS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) The CPC Central Committee and the State Council recently approved Shanghai's plan on restructuring municipal government agencies. The restructuring is in line with the Central Government's administrative reorganization in March 2008 at the National People's Congress, which also was known [...] | 2008-11-04 02:47:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ETRD EINV EAGR SENV CH |
| 08SHANGHAI580 | O HOLY NIGHT: FOREIGN PROTESTANTS PACK CHURCHES AT [...] (C) Foreign Protestants packed church services for Christmas celebrations in Shanghai, taking advantage of recent indications that the Municipal Government is willing to provide more opportunities for expatriate Protestants to meet corporately in the city. With the growing number of foreigners [...] | 2008-12-30 08:56:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KIRF SOCI CH |
| 08SHENYANG103 | PRC-DPRK BORDER TIGHTENS PRE-OLYMPICS: DPRK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local officials confirm they have taken measures to "strengthen control" of the PRC-DPRK border region during the Olympics. New checkpoints have been established outside some sensitive border cities. The PRC "through diplomatic channels" requested that the DPRK stem border-cross [...] | 2008-07-29 05:40:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV PREF ASEC KN CH |
| 08SHENYANG13 | PRC: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM A MIXED PICTURE IN YANBIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Religious freedom is enjoying modest improvement in a key ethnic minority enclave of Jilin Province, near the PRC-DPRK border. Christianity is making inroads among local Chinese, migrant workers, and North Korean border-crossers. "House churches," many with links to official chu [...] | 2008-01-24 01:25:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREF KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG173 | LIAONING'S ECONOMY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT [...] (C) Summary. Local leaders in three of the Liaoning Province's less well-off urban areas put a good front on this province's relative resiliency in the face of recession but privately conceded their worries. The most telling statistic is electricity demand, which was flat in October and dropp [...] | 2008-12-03 03:09:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAGR ECON EFIN ENRG PINR PREL |
| 08SHENYANG71 | PRC-DPRK: BORDER-CROSSERS, RELIGIOUS TROUBLES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC appears to have tightened internal security in the PRC-DPRK borderlands in recent months, though border-crossers continue to trickle into China. Border residents report increased official scrutiny of some religious activities. Yanji officials warned religious leaders that [...] | 2008-05-30 06:56:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV PREF PHUM KIRF KN KS CH |
| 08SINGAPORE1322 | REFORM PARTY RUDDERLESS WITHOUT JEYARETNAM STAR [...] (C) Summary. Iconic opposition leader and lawyer J.B. Jeyaretnam (JBJ) emerged from government-imposed bankruptcy earlier this year and co-founded the Reform Party. The press and public greeted the event as a dramatic comeback by a political figure long known for his defiance of the ruling [...] | 2008-12-19 07:49:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SN |
| 08SINGAPORE1339 | SINGAPORE EYEING NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR THE FUTURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Singapore supports the use of nuclear energy for electricity generation, but it currently lacks the land space and technological expertise within its workforce to safely build and operate a nuclear facility. The GOS and other local energy experts view nuclear power as a viable [...] | 2008-12-23 09:20:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ETRD ECON SN |
| 08SKOPJE120 | MACEDONIA: SECULARISM CALLED INTO QUESTION AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Controversial GOM decisions to use taxpayer money to fund the construction of an Orthodox church in the main city square of Skopje, and to reconstruct a mosque in Tetovo, have sparked political gamesmanship and debate on preserving state secularism. Concerns about the impact [...] | 2008-02-14 16:10:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MK |
| 08SKOPJE157 | MACEDONIA COMMITTED SUPPORTING ISAF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-27 14:10:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF MK |
| 08SKOPJE301 | MACEDONIA: CHARTER FLIGHT BARRED FROM GREEK [...] (SBU) On April 28, an Egypt-bound Macedonian Airlines (MAT) charter flight was denied overflight rights for Greece without any explanation. This first-ever denial of overflight rights, coupled with other irritants such as the lack of a Greek government reply to Macedonia's request to purchase [...] | 2008-05-02 14:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NATO EAIR MK GR |
| 08SKOPJE359 | MACEDONIA'S ELECTIONS: RULING PARTY WINS, COUNTRY [...] (SBU) Macedonia's June 1 snap parliamentary elections resulted in an expected victory and absolute majority for the ruling VMRO party. Despite numerous international community (IC) and media appeals for free and fair elections in the run-up to Election Day (reftel),voting was marred by numer [...] | 2008-06-02 17:06:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
| 08SOFIA192 | BULGARIA ROCKED BY INTERIOR MINISTRY SCANDAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bulgaria has been shaken by a snowballing Interior Ministry scandal that involves top Ministry officials and threatens to destabilize the Socialist-led government of PM Stanishev. The high-profile controversy has already led to the arrest of two top MOI officials and triggered [...] | 2008-04-01 15:42:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM KCOR BU |
| 08SOFIA229 | INTERIOR MINISTER RESIGNS UNDER MOUNTING PRESSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Stanishev forced Interior Minister Petkov,s hand into a resignation after two weeks of a deepening scandal that had trashed Bulgaria,s international image and fed domestic cynicism over government collusion with criminals. Intense international pressure made the difference i [...] | 2008-04-15 14:25:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KCRM KCOR BU |
| 08SOFIA255 | BULGARIAN ACTIVISM IN THE EU (C-RE8-00416) [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable is in response to REFTEL A questions posed by Washington Analysts regarding how the CE-10 are operating in the EU. Washington analysts may also refer to Embassy Sofia's previous cables on Bulgaria and the EU for additional information (REFTEL B, C, D, E). Post's r [...] | 2008-04-23 11:44:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR EUN PREL BU |
| 08SOFIA345 | MOI REFORM UPDATE: INITIAL CONSULTATIONS WITH SENIOR GOB [...] (SBU) Summary. In response to Prime Minister Stanishev's request for expert advice to reform the Ministry of Interior, International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) Senior Law Enforcement Advisor in Belgrade Gary Bennett consulted with lead Bulgarian officials May [...] | 2008-05-30 12:30:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCOR KCRCM BU |
| 08SOFIA443 | SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO SOFIA [...] (C) The Bulgarians are delighted to host you and bestow their highest honor, the Stara Planina award, for your help in freeing the Bulgarian nurses wrongly held by Libya for eight years. Public support for the nurses has faded since their emotional homecoming last July 24, and relations bet [...] | 2008-07-01 14:39:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL MARR BG |
| 08SOFIA512 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL BORDALLO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Delegate Bordallo, Representative Wilson and Representative Sanchez, Embassy Sofia warmly welcomes you and looks forward to a very successful visit. Your visit comes one month after Secretary Rice's consultations in Sofia and two months after Prime Minister Stanishev's meeting [...] | 2008-07-29 09:35:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP BG |
| 08SOFIA815 | OVERVIEW OF BULGARIA'S CIVIL NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM [...] (U) This is Embassy Sofia's response to Ref A Department of Commerce request for information on Bulgaria's civil nuclear energy program. OVERVIEW OF BULGARIA'S CIVIL NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAM --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (U) Bulgaria ratified the Statute of th [...] | 2008-12-29 13:41:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO BU |
| 08STATE103448 | CORAL TRIANGLE INITIATIVE: BACKGROUND & GUIDANCE [...] This is a joint State-USAID action request for Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Dili, Honiara, Port Moresby, Bangkok, and Canberra. See para 7. 2. Summary: Posts are requested to provide political and public diplomacy support to highlight USG involvement in the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) [...] | 2008-09-26 20:52:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID AORC EFIS KGHG BP ID PP RP TT XB XV |
| 08STATE110079 | PSI: WELCOMING BRUNEI,S COMMITMENT TO THE [...] (C) BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: On September 10, 2008, the Embassy of Brunei provided a diplomatic note to the Department conveying the official decision of its government to support the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Statement of Interdiction Principles. Brunei had waffled on its co [...] | 2008-10-15 14:16:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL BX |
| 08STATE112716 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: IRAQI PLEDGE FOR UNAMI COMPOUND [...] (C) This is an action request. The Department requests that Embassy approach the GOI at the most senior levels to urge GOI commitment to funding the costs of the new UNAMI compound in Baghdad. UN political leadership is still awaiting a response to letters sent by SYG Ban to PM Maliki, Presi [...] | 2008-10-22 22:38:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC AORC ACABQ IZ |
| 08STATE11545 | TFCD01: CHAD TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT NO. 9 [...] (SBU) Embassy N'Djamena reports looters ransacked all USG residences and many local businesses. Post notes no new major engagements between rebels and government forces, and adds most rebel forces remain in some disarray outside the city. Unconfirmed reports indicate Chadian forces expanded [...] | 2008-02-05 13:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT CD |
| 08STATE11586 | MIDDLE EAST MULTILATERAL WORKING GROUP ON WATER [...] This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. ------------------------ Summary and Introduction ------------------------ 2. (U) The Executive Council (ExCouns) of the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) held its twenty first meeting in Muscat, Oman [...] | 2008-02-05 14:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV XF MU IS JO JA KS NL QA KWBG |
| 08STATE116806 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Embassy's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050100840 for the export of C-130 spare parts to Jordan. Embassy is requested to complete t [...] | 2008-11-03 14:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC JO |
| 08STATE117478 | DIPLOMATIC SECURITY DAILY [...] (U) Diplomatic Security Daily, November 4, 2008 2. (U) Significant Events ) Paragraphs 7-22 3. (U) Key Concerns ) Paragraphs 23-36 4. (U) Threats & Analysis ) Paragraphs 37-50 5. (U) Cyber Threats ) Paragraphs 51-58 6. (U) Suspicious Activity Incidents ) Paragraphs 59-68 7. [...] | 2008-11-04 20:42:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC |
| 08STATE11870 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 11 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's Designated Minister [...] | 2008-02-06 15:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY AE |
| 08STATE121430 | SOMALIA PIRACY: DEMARCHE INSTRUCTIONS FOR UK AND [...] This is an action cable see paragraph 2. 2. Posts are requested to demarche host governments at the appropriate level to relay USG concerns about French and British edits to the draft UN Security Council resolution (UNSCR) on Somalia piracy. Post may draw from the background in paras 4 a [...] | 2008-11-15 00:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW |
| 08STATE122070 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2 - 4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050088569 for the export of cannons to Trinidad & Tobago. Post is requested to complete this B [...] | 2008-11-17 22:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TD |
| 08STATE123074 | IAEA REPORTS ON IRANIAN AND SYRIAN NUCLEAR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 7-8. 2. (C) OBJECTIVES: -- To note the 19 November 2008 release of reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the status of its respective investigations into the Iranian and Syrian nuclear programs. -- To urge ho [...] | 2008-11-20 00:19:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR TRGY |
| 08STATE125548 | UNSCR 1267: ENGAGING WITH ITALY, FRANCE, ALGERIA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4 through 6. ------------------------- BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES ------------------------- 2. (SBU) In July 2003, the USG co-sponsored a request by the Government of Italy to list under the UNSCR 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban sanctions) regime [...] | 2008-11-26 19:29:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC |
| 08STATE125736 | TRAVEL ALERT FOR INDIA [...] The Department of State warns U.S. citizens about heightened security concerns in India, and advises U.S. citizens traveling to or already in India to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness. This Travel Alert expires on December [...] | 2008-11-27 18:09:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ASEC PTER IN |
| 08STATE126128 | TRAVEL ALERT FOR INDIA [...] The Department of State warns U.S. citizens about heightened security concerns in India, and advises U.S. citizens traveling to or already in India to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness. This Travel Alert replaces the Travel [...] | 2008-11-29 22:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ASEC PTER IN |
| 08STATE127670 | 2008 ESTH CONFERENCE, CAIRO [...] From October 7-9, OES hosted a conference for Environment, Science and Technology, and Health (ESTH) officers and local hires from the Near East Affairs (NEA) and South and Central Asia (SCA) regions to discuss ways to advance U.S. foreign policy on such key issues as climate change, renewabl [...] | 2008-12-04 13:41:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO KSCA XD XF ZK |
| 08STATE128097 | TRAVEL ALERT-INDIA [...] The Department of State warns U.S. citizens about heightened security concerns in India, and advises U.S. citizens traveling to or already in India to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness. This replaces the Travel Alert issued o [...] | 2008-12-04 23:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PTER ASEC IN |
| 08STATE128957 | NEA MSP GUIDANCE 2011 [...] The following cable provides consolidated guidance from Washington to missions for the preparation of FY 2011 Mission Strategic Plans (MSP). This cable is divided into the following sections: Regional Bureau Guidance; Bureau of Resource Management (RM),Office of Strategic and Performance Pla [...] | 2008-12-08 20:12:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN AMGT KICA KSEP KSPR OTRA PREL XF |
| 08STATE129010 | FY 2011 MISSION STRATEGIC PLAN (MSP) GUIDANCE FOR IO MISSIONS [...] TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY - Para 2 BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS POLICY OVERVIEW AND GUIDANCE - Paras 3-9 MSP OVERVIEW AND GUIDANCE - Paras 10-32 FUNCTIONAL BUREAU GUIDANCE --Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) - Para 33 --Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Busi [...] | 2008-12-08 22:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AFIN KSPR ABUD UN |
| 08STATE130301 | CORRECTED COPY: CONSOLIDATED FY 2011 MISSION [...] Summary: The following cable provides consolidated guidance from Washington to missions for the preparation of FY 2011 Mission Strategic Plans (MSP). This cable is divided into the following sections: Regional Bureau Guidance; Bureau of Resource Management (RM),Office of Strategic and Perform [...] | 2008-12-11 19:27:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN AMGT EAID KICA KSEP KSPR PREL EAP |
| 08STATE13088 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2 - 4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on license 05-050081972 for the export of pistols and magazines to Thailand. Post is requested to complete [...] | 2008-02-07 21:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TH |
| 08STATE131277 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S DECEMBER 8 MEETING [...] (S) Summary: EUR Assistant Secretary Fried met December 8, 2008 with Turkish Undersecretary Apakan and a delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a two-hour discussion on European issues as part of the Shared Vision strategic dialogue. They covered U.S.-Turkish cooperation and share [...] | 2008-12-15 17:49:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PREL PGOV TU |
| 08STATE131885 | TERRORISM FINANCE: U.N. DESIGNATION OF FOUR [...] (U) This is an action cable; see para 3. 2. (SBU) Summary: On December 10, 2008, the UN Security Council's Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee (1267 Committee) approved the addition of four members of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) for targeted sanctions (including asset f [...] | 2008-12-16 23:06:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC PK |
| 08STATE132299 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON BELARUS [...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the December 18, 2008 Per1. Post is authorized to present the following statement at the Permanent Council in Vienna on December 18. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States takes note of the efforts of the governme [...] | 2008-12-17 22:42:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BY OSCE |
| 08STATE133176 | TRAVEL ALERT-INDIA [...] The Department of State warns U.S. citizens that there is a high threat of terrorism throughout India, and advises U.S. citizens traveling to or already in India to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness, especially during the end- [...] | 2008-12-19 22:53:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PTER ASEC IN |
| 08STATE134376 | TRAVEL ALERT-INDIA [...] The Department of State warns U.S. citizens that there is a high threat of terrorism throughout India, and advises U.S. citizens traveling to or already in India to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness, especially during the end- [...] | 2008-12-24 16:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PTER ASEC IN |
| 08STATE13442 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 5 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's Designated Minister- [...] | 2008-02-08 18:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY BH |
| 08STATE14169 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 5 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's Designated Minister- [...] | 2008-02-11 20:22:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY BH |
| 08STATE14252 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATION TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: Ambassador or appropriate senior officials at Embassy Kigali is requested to deliver the text in paragraph 5 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's Designated Minister-level head of offi [...] | 2008-02-11 22:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY RW |
| 08STATE14490 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 11 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's Designated Minister [...] | 2008-02-12 17:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY AJ |
| 08STATE14563 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: Ambassador or appropriate senior embassy official is requested to deliver the text in paragraph 4 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's designated Minister-level head of official delega [...] | 2008-02-12 19:44:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY TS |
| 08STATE14866 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: Consul General or appropriate senior consulate official is requested to deliver the text in paragraph 5 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the Palestinian Authority Foreign minister or, if known, the PA's designated Minister-level head of official delegatio [...] | 2008-02-13 17:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY KPAL |
| 08STATE1514 | U.S.-JAPAN-KOREA POLICY PLANNING TALKS - WELCOME [...] (SBU) Summary: Policy Planning Director David Gordon opened United States-Japan-Korea Policy Planning Talks by hosting Japanese Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Policy Chikao Kawai, and Korean Deputy Foreign Minister In-kook Park for a working dinner December 16, during which they exchanged [...] | 2008-01-07 17:12:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENIV ENRG KGHG PREL JA KS |
| 08STATE15502 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: OES apologizes for this short- fuse request. We have only just learned that the Maldives and Mauritania are interested in attending WIREC and given that the conference is now only two weeks away, and the delegates will need to make their travel arrangements urgently, we are [...] | 2008-02-14 20:12:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY MR |
| 08STATE17307 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATION TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: OES apologizes for this short- fuse request. We have only just learned that Monaco is interested in attending WIREC and given that the conference is now less than two weeks away, and the delegates will need to make their travel arrangements urgently, we are asking post to [...] | 2008-02-20 23:04:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY MN |
| 08STATE18041 | SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATION TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: OES apologizes for this short- fuse request. We have only just learned that Mongolia is interested in attending WIREC and given that the conference is now less than two weeks away, and the delegates will need to make their travel arrangements urgently, we are asking post t [...] | 2008-02-22 16:18:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY MG |
| 08STATE18141 | SUPPORTING THE USG'S PROPOSAL FOR CIVIL AVIATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-22 20:09:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO EAIR PREL AF |
| 08STATE18243 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: EXPEDITING THE INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C) This is an action request. Department requests post encourage the Dutch to expedite the permit process on the building set aside for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Demarche in para 2 below should be delivered to the Government of Netherlands office responsible for coordinating Dutch [...] | 2008-02-22 23:45:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PTER PREL LE SY |
| 08STATE18784 | BOSNIA - ONE YEAR POST ICJ VERDICT, MUCH PROGRESS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In February 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict that genocide was committed in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 unleashed pent-up Bosniak anger about the 1992-1995 war. Bosniak political leaders exploited the verdict in order to advance their own narrow, nati [...] | 2008-02-25 21:23:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KAWC KDEM PHUM BK |
| 08STATE18790 | COMPROMISE AFGHAN MOTION SETS END DATE IN 2011 [...] (SBU) Summary: In a new compromise motion, PM Harper acceded to the Liberals' call for a firm end date to the Afghan mission of Canadian Forces in Kandahar, with pull-outs beginning in July 2011 and ending by December 2011. The new language apparently draws heavily from the Liberals' amendmen [...] | 2008-02-25 22:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS AF CA |
| 08STATE19145 | LIBYA: DEMARCHE ON LIFTING HOLD ON PROPOSED UNSC [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph three. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (C) On February 13, USUN proposed listing four Syrian based AQI affiliated members pursuant to UNSC 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions). Libya placed a hold on the request. The Libyan Permane [...] | 2008-02-26 16:56:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC LY |
| 08STATE19438 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - FEBRUARY 13, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: Chairman of the Military Committee General Ray Henault briefed that ISAF is seeking to diversify its fuel supply away from reliance on Pakistani transit. SHAPE Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations MG Rudy Wright described a dramatic drop [...] | 2008-02-26 22:57:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08STATE19686 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Posts' assistance in conducting a post-shipment end-use check on license number 05-050031210 for the export of defense hardware to Singapore. Posts are request [...] | 2008-02-27 16:09:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC SF SN KOMC |
| 08STATE20234 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Posts' assistance in conducting a post-shipment end-use check on license number 05-050036317 for the export of defense hardware to Oman. Posts are requested to [...] | 2008-02-28 15:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC UK OM KOMC |
| 08STATE2033 | VISAS FOR WIREC 2008 DELEGATES [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs six and seven. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. Summary: The Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) will be held in Washington DC March 4 - 6. (See reftels D and E for background on WIREC 2008). The participatio [...] | 2008-01-08 20:41:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG |
| 08STATE22047 | UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' FEBRUARY 25 MEETING WITH [...] (S) Summary. Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister (AFM) He Yafei and Under Secretary Burns met February 25 immediately prior to the P5 1 Political Directors, meeting on Iran. AFM He highlighted U.S.-Chinese agreement on the strategic importance of diplomatic approaches to North Korea and Iran. [...] | 2008-03-04 17:27:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | BM CH ECON ENRG IR PGOV PREL XD |
| 08STATE24821 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECKS [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. (U) The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on applications 050091071 and 050091983 and a post-shipment check on licenses 050051410 and 05-917152 [...] | 2008-03-10 19:59:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC GR |
| 08STATE33290 | RIES REPORTS ECONOMIC PROGRESS, FACES HEADWINDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Amb. Charles Ries met with congressional staff, business representatives, international financial institution (IFI) staff, journalists, and others interested in Iraq's economic situation during his March 10-14 visit to Washington and New York. Amb. Ries's interlocutors generally [...] | 2008-04-01 14:58:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN IZ |
| 08STATE33478 | SECOND U.S.-EU HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a frank exchange on March 7, U.S. and European principals reviewed work on climate change under the Major Economies and UNFCCC Processes. U.S. principals secured EU Environment Commissioner Dimas' admission that current EU proposals will permit some EU Member States to reco [...] | 2008-04-01 18:52:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG SENV ENRG TRGY EUN |
| 08STATE34320 | SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: MARCH [...] (SBU) On March 27, refcord met with UNHCR Serbia Senior Program Coordinator Angelita Cecere to discuss country operations planning. Cecere told refcord UNHCR Serbia submitted a two year budget (2008-2009) plan in March 2007 and this year planned only a few revisions to the original submission [...] | 2008-04-03 03:15:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KV SR |
| 08STATE37244 | UNSC 4/14/08 CONSULTATIONS ON LIBERIA: GUIDANCE [...] (U) USUN may draw from the points from para 2 below during consultations on Liberia scheduled for April 14. 2. (U) Begin points: -- I would like to thank Ambassador Loj for her briefing, the first time she has addressed the Council since she took up her post in Monrovia in January. We [...] | 2008-04-09 22:25:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO LI |
| 08STATE37957 | POSSIBLE RELEASE OF A.Q. KHAN [...] (C) Washington is concerned that the government of Pakistan may release A.Q. Khan. Washington requests Post to please draw from points in para 4, as appropriate, with senior government officials including the Director General of Strategic Plans Division Lt. Gen (retd) Kidwai. End summary and actio [...] | 2008-04-10 22:26:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | KNNP MNUC PARM PK PREL |
| 08STATE40380 | DEMARCHE: US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. SUMMARY: Department requests action addressees to demarche respective Foreign Ministries to urge co-sponsorship of the attached country-neutral declaration on prisoners of conscience. END SUMMARY - - - - - Background - - - - - [...] | 2008-04-17 15:30:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL |
| 08STATE40386 | DEMARCHE: US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] (U) this is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. SUMMARY: Department requests action addressees to demarche respective Foreign Ministries to urge co-sponsorship of the attached country-neutral declaration on prisoners of conscience. END SUMMARY ---------- BACKGROUND 3. (C) [...] | 2008-04-17 15:33:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL |
| 08STATE42643 | GUIDANCE FOR APRIL 23 UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (SBU) Mission is instructed to draw from the points in para 2 below in discussing events in the Middle East during the briefing and consultations to be held Wednesday morning, April 23, in the UN Security Council. 2. (U) Begin points: Mr. President, given the importance of a peaceful r [...] | 2008-04-23 03:07:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAL LE IS UNSC |
| 08STATE43817 | SYRIA'S CLANDESTINE NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On September 6, 2007, Israel destroyed a nuclear reactor Syria was clandestinely constructing, we judge with North Korean assistance. The reactor site was in Syria's eastern desert region in a location [...] | 2008-04-25 01:01:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP DPRK SY IAEA PARM PREL |
| 08STATE44522 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on application 050099148 and a post shipment verification on license 050056149, both involve the export of C [...] | 2008-04-28 14:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC BE NI |
| 08STATE4482 | GUIDANCE FOR ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS FIRST [...] (U) The First Alliance of Civilizations (AOC) Annual Forum will be held in Madrid, January 15-16. According to organizers, this event will be action-driven and will provide participants with a unique international platform to develop joint initiatives and forge partnerships in the area of i [...] | 2008-01-15 17:25:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | UN KISL SP ODIP SCUL |
| 08STATE50705 | BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-6. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a pre-license check for the export of radiation tolerant DC/DC converters to Russia. Post is requested to complete this Blue La [...] | 2008-05-13 19:07:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | DA ETTC KOMC RS UK |
| 08STATE51536 | FOLLOW-UP MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN [...] (U) This is an action message; see paras 3-9. 2. (SBU) Per reftels, Embassies have been asked to undertake activities and encourage host governments and NGOs to undertake activities for a day of solidarity with the Cuban people on May 21. For post information only, President Bush is expec [...] | 2008-05-15 00:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI CU |
| 08STATE521 | FORMAL INVITATION FROM SECRETARY RICE [...] Action Requests: Ambassador or appropriate senior embassy official is requested to deliver the text in paragraph eight as a letter from Secretary Rice to either the host government's SIPDIS foreign minister or, if known, the host government's designated Minister-level head of official de [...] | 2008-01-03 17:07:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA |
| 08STATE52473 | INSTRUCTIONS TO SUBMIT LISTING PROPOSAL FOR 4 [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 4 and 5. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (U) Per ref A, the USG prenotified Security Council members, G-20, and Pakistan of our intention to request the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee to add the names of four operatives of Lashkar e-Tayyiba [...] | 2008-05-16 18:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC |
| 08STATE52863 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Posts' assistance in conducting a post-shipment inquiry on license numbers 05-050016544, 05-988470, and 05-990843 for the export of defense hardware to Indon [...] | 2008-05-19 12:03:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC ID SN |
| 08STATE55385 | DEMOCRACY STRATEGY AND GOALS: OMAN [...] (SBU) The Department approves Embassy Muscat,s proposed democracy strategy for the next twelve to eighteen months as discussed on May 6 via video conference. This cable summarizes the new strategy, which is an update to Embassy Muscat,s previous democracy strategy (ref A). ---------------- [...] | 2008-05-23 13:45:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM SCUL PGOV PREL MU |
| 08STATE559 | FORMAL INVITATION FROM SECRETARY RICE FOR NON-MEM [...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 11 as a letter from Secretary Rice to either the host government's foreign SIPDIS minister or, if known, the host government's designated Minister- [...] | 2008-01-03 18:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO |
| 08STATE563 | FORMAL INVITATION FROM SECRETARY RICE FOR NON-MEM [...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 11 as a letter from Secretary Rice to either the host government's foreign SIPDIS minister or, if known, the host government's designated Minister- [...] | 2008-01-03 18:47:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO |
| 08STATE56979 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO OSCE HEAD OF [...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the May 29, 2008 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ambassador Pryakhin, welcome back to the Permanent Council and thank you for your comprehensive report on the OSCE,s activities in Tajiki [...] | 2008-05-28 17:58:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL OSCE TJ |
| 08STATE5835 | DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING [...] Department requests that country team determine whether post has program or discretionary funds which may be used to help defray travel costs, including per diem, for appropriate member(s) of host country,s official delegation, sub national government representatives, or civil society whose p [...] | 2008-01-18 15:40:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XA |
| 08STATE5837 | DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING [...] Department requests that country team determine whether post has program or discretionary funds which may be used to help defray travel costs, including per diem, for appropriate member(s) of host country,s official delegation, sub national government representatives, or civil society whose p [...] | 2008-01-18 15:41:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XM |
| 08STATE5963 | DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING [...] Department requests that country team determine whether post has program or discretionary funds which may be used to STATE 00005963 002 OF 006 SUBJECT: DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING HOST COUNTRY ATTENDANCE AT WASHINGTON INTERNATION help defray travel costs, including per [...] | 2008-01-18 19:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XA |
| 08STATE60813 | UNSCR 1267-INSTRUCTIONS TO USUN TO SUBMIT ONE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3, 4 and 5. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (C) The United States on May 6, 2008 prenotified (Ref A) our intent to request the listing under UNSCR 1267 of the Kuwait-based international Islamic charity Revival of Islamic Heritage [...] | 2008-06-05 20:32:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL UNSC |
| 08STATE61194 | Walk-in Guidance for 2008: Administrative [...] (S/NF) Summary: The information in this telegram must be handled with utmost discretion and due diligence. This telegram contains updated guidance and procedures for handling foreign national walk-ins, defectors and asylum seekers at overseas posts. It describes procedures to be followed in re [...] | 2008-06-06 16:22:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CVIS PINR PREF |
| 08STATE62235 | BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a pre-license check for the export of power modules to Ukraine via Russia. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern chec [...] | 2008-06-10 14:15:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC FI KOMC RS UK UP |
| 08STATE64660 | 38TH OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY: COLOMBIA SCORES A WIN [...] (SBU) Summary. The 38th OAS Regular General Assembly, held June 1-3 in Medellin, Colombia, focused positive international attention on the Colombian Government's progress in restoring "Democratic Security" in previously-violent areas and helped promote regional support for Colombia's efforts [...] | 2008-06-16 18:58:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | OAS PREL PHUM ETRD CO |
| 08STATE64684 | 38TH OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY: COLOMBIA SCORES A WIN [...] (SBU) Summary. The 38th OAS Regular General Assembly, held June 1-3 in Medellin, Colombia, focused positive international attention on the Colombian Government's progress in restoring "Democratic Security" in previously-violent areas and helped promote regional support for Colombia's efforts a [...] | 2008-06-16 19:10:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | OAS PREL PHUM ETRD CO |
| 08STATE66299 | RESPONSE TO THE RECENTLY APPROVED TUNISIA [...] (S) SUMMARY: DRL understands Embassy Tunis,s concerns with the two Global Human Rights Defenders Fund (&Defenders Fund8) cases in Tunisia. We strongly weighed your concerns when we deliberated on these cases, and in paragraph 3, we explain why we decided to approve these cases. DRL also app [...] | 2008-06-19 20:36:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PHUM PREL TS |
| 08STATE71859 | BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON [...] This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-6. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a post-shipment check for the export of satellite and space-related components to Japan via the United Kingdom. Post is requeste [...] | 2008-07-03 18:07:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC JA KOMC UK |
| 08STATE74888 | U.S.-RUSSIA JDEC EXPERTS MEETINGS (SITE SECURITY [...] Mr. Brad Martin (Strategic Command - Head of Delegation) 2. Mr. Philip Jamison (Office of the Secretary of Defense - Policy Lead for JDEC) 3. Lt Col Steve Smiley (Air Force - Lead Military Service for JDEC) 4. Mr. Tracy Herbert (Defense Threat Reduction Agency/JSIVA - Physical Secur [...] | 2008-07-11 23:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PARM PREL RS |
| 08STATE7679 | APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE JANUARY 28- [...] (U) Classified by William Lucas, Office Director, EUR/ERA. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 15. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on January 28-2 [...] | 2008-01-24 23:34:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV KV IR IZ IS SU |
| 08STATE81382 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2 - 4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on license 050111178 for the export of firearms and magazines to Lebanon. Post is requested to complete thi [...] | 2008-07-29 14:19:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC PK |
| 08STATE82138 | SOMALIA UN AMB RESIDENCE [...] This is an action request. Please see para 2. 2. Reftel reports the request of the city of New Rochelle, New York (CNR) to &lift immunity8 from a dilapidated property owned by the Government of Somalia to mitigate public safety hazards on the premises. In view of previous unsuccessful at [...] | 2008-07-30 19:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP PREL SO |
| 08STATE83244 | URGING RUSSIA TO LIFT HOLDS IN THE UN 1518 [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) On October 22, 2007, pursuant to UNSCR 1483, we proposed for listing by the UN 1518 Committee 6 former regime elements (FRE) linked to Saddam Hussein. All 6 individuals (see para 3 for additional [...] | 2008-08-02 00:56:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC |
| 08STATE84105 | WMD COMMISSION: RUSSIA TRAVEL [...] This is an action cable - please see paragraph 8 for Embassy assistance requests. 2. Summary: The Commission on Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism will travel to Moscow, Russia during the period of September 22-26, 2008 to assess and update, as appropriate, the Department of Ene [...] | 2008-08-05 20:31:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP PARM PREL RS TRGY |
| 08STATE95622 | U.S.-ROK Strategic Consultations for Applied [...] (SBU) September 2, 2008, from 11:15 am to 12:15 pm, Washington, DC. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. Deputy Secretary Negroponte David Gordon, Director, Policy Planning A/S Mark Kimmitt, PM DASD David Sedney, DOD-OSD DAS Alex Arvizu, EAP Sung Kim, EAP Kurt Tong, EAP/K Kaye Lee, D Staff [...] | 2008-09-06 04:31:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | OVIP MARR PARM PREL KS |
| 08STATE96598 | APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Classified by Bill Lucas, Office Director, EUR/ERA. Reasons: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 14. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on September 15-1 [...] | 2008-09-10 02:34:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV ZL ZI SO YI TU GG RS |
| 08STOCKHOLM435 | SUB REGIONAL PROJECT - NORDIC BALTIC REGION [...] Embassy Stockholm requests that ECA/PE/V/R/E design a Sub-Regional Project on alternative energy for the Nordic-Baltic region. Renewable energy and energy security are already at the top of European public and governmental agendas. With the Bali roadmap to a post-Kyoto climate change regime cu [...] | 2008-06-16 13:20:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL SW |
| 08STOCKHOLM436 | STOCKHOLM: REGIONAL SCIENCE PROJECT - OPENING SESAME STILL [...] (U) Summary: On June 9 and 10, 2008, Sweden hosted the Twelfth Meeting of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) project. The main expected benefits are closer cooperation in the Middle East, advances in science geared toward regional issu [...] | 2008-06-16 13:21:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TSPL OSCI TNGD TPHY UNESCO SW |
| 08STOCKHOLM750 | BILDT VISITS OFFICIALS AND TROOPS AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Swedish FM Bildt paid his first visit to Afghanistan October 29-31, 2008. On this "fact-finding" mission, he met with all levels of government in Kabul, including Foreign Minister Spanta and Minister of Interior Atmar, and with Balkh Province Governor Atta when he visited Sweden's PRT in [...] | 2008-11-07 17:36:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR AF SW |
| 08SURABAYA129 | SURABAYA WELCOMES A NEW PRESIDENT IN EAST INDONESIA [...] (U) Summary: Consulate General Surabaya welcomed over 100 guests to the CG's residence November 5 to observe live results of the U.S. Presidential Election. Local government officials, NGOs, prominent academics, students, and many members of the media attended the event. The CG, other Consul [...] | 2008-11-06 10:42:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL OIIP ID |
| 08SURABAYA70 | NORTH MALUKU: GOLKAR, PRESIDENTIAL PROXY FIGHT OVER [...] Summary: (SBU) Violence has flared again between the supporters of candidates for North Maluku Governor. Local ethnic friction and Jakarta party politics have made this far flung governor's race drag on for almost six months now. The latest round of violence was reportedly triggered by the J [...] | 2008-06-10 01:02:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL KCOR ID |
| 08SURABAYA86 | EASTERN INDONESIA: RISING PRICES PUSH INDONESIANS TO REDUCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past three months, Eastern Indonesia's flour mills have witnessed a dramatic shift in domestic consumption of wheat products as food and energy prices rise. During recent visits by ConGen Surabaya Principal Officer to two of the world's largest flour mills, Bogosari in [...] | 2008-07-18 06:24:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD ID |
| 08SUVA147 | FIJI'S PREPARATIONS FOR THE PLANNED 2009 ELECTIONS [...] (C) While the Fiji Interim Government (IG) continues to give mixed signals about a March 2009 election, preparations are starting at a pace slower than donor countries would like. After months of delays, a New Zealand lawyer was named Supervisor of Elections April 17, to take up the job in e [...] | 2008-04-18 03:12:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM FJ |
| 08SUVA19 | FURTHER EVIDENCE OF POST-COUP PROBLEMS IN FIJI [...] (C) One of Fiji's best judges, Roger Coventry (protect) has resigned early because of intense frustration about how other judges have "hijacked" the judiciary to their personal agendas in support of the December 2006 coup. Coventry has confirmed to us a long series of affronts to justice that [...] | 2008-01-24 10:47:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ |
| 08SUVA247 | FIJI ELECTION PREPARATIONS WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE [...] (C) Summary: Evidence is mounting that Fiji's interim government is intentionally dragging its feet in preparing for the national elections it has promised to hold in early 2009. The Finance Ministry has not yet released funds needed to staff up the Elections Office or signed off on a New [...] | 2008-06-18 03:03:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FJ |
| 08SUVA400 | DON'T COME WITH ANY DEMANDS SAYS BAINIMARAMA [...] Summary: Having raised hopes by inviting members of Fiji's various political parties to a political dialogue on October 27, interim Prime Minister Bainimarama this week reverted to form, warning invitees not to demand elections in 2007 and advising them to read the recent High Court decision an [...] | 2008-10-23 04:33:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ |
| 08SUVA417 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES BAINIMARAMA FOR BENCHMARKS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 4, Ambassador McGann met one-on-one with Fiji's Interim Prime Minister Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama almost immediately after presenting his credentials to Fiji's President Iloilo. Ambassador pressed Bainimarama to set benchmarks and timelines for an early restoratio [...] | 2008-11-06 02:55:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AS FJ |
| 08SUVA64 | TONGA DEPLOYMENTS TO IRAQ; RELATED ISSUES [...] (C) During a meeting with Ambassador Dinger in Nuku'alofa Feb. 6, Tonga Foreign/Defense Minister Tu'a re-confirmed that, per reftel, if Tonga decides to continue deploying forces to Iraq into 2009, past the end of the current UN resolution, Tonga expects any such deployments to come under the [...] | 2008-02-13 16:33:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR CVIS SENV TN |
| 08SUVA89 | FIJI - BAINIMARAMA "NO" ON REEVES' DIALOGUE; [...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama has declined a proposal to meet with deposed PM Qarase and others, under the auspices of Commonwealth Secretariat envoy Sir Paul Reeves. Bainimarama said the Military Council objected, but Reeves reportedly puts the blame on interim Finance Minister [...] | 2008-03-06 14:18:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CJAN PHUM PINR MARR FJ |
| 08TAIPEI1042 | SOUTHERN TAIWAN KMT LEADERS POSITIONING THE PARTY - AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 9 luncheon with DIR Young, prominent local KMT leaders assessed the early stages of President Ma's administration and blamed Ma's lagging poll ratings on the declining stock market and rising prices. Participants hoped that Terry Gou's Hon Hai electronics' major inve [...] | 2008-07-16 04:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON TW |
| 08TAIPEI1209 | CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION LED BY REPRESENTATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Congressional delegation led by Representative Jerry Costello (D-IL) met with President Ma Ying-jeou at the Presidential Office on August 11. Ma noted the delegation was the largest to visit Taiwan in recent years, and said he hoped more Congressional and Staff delegations [...] | 2008-08-13 11:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR MARR US TW |
| 08TAIPEI1210 | DPP CHAIRPERSON TSAI ING-WEN ON TAIWAN POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on August 12 that her recent statements criticizing the KMT's cross-Strait policies reflected the views of party supporters and were necessary to placate their "anger." Tsai said her current priority is getting the DPP house in order [...] | 2008-08-13 11:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
| 08TAIPEI1270 | REPRESENTATIVE ENGEL MEETS TAIWAN OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary. Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY) discussed U.S.-Taiwan relations, cross-Strait relations, and Taiwan's foreign policy in separate meetings on August 19-20 with Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairperson Lai Hsin-yuan, Straits Exchan [...] | 2008-08-26 02:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH ECON MARR PGOV PREL TW |
| 08TAIPEI1539 | MAC CHAIR LAI SHIN-YUAN PREVIEWS UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary. On October 29, AIT Director Young met with the chairwoman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC),Lai Shin-yuan for a preview of the agenda and substance of the November 3-7 talks between the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations Across the T [...] | 2008-10-30 10:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAIR EWWT PGOV TW CH |
| 08TAIPEI1554 | PRC ARATS CHAIRMAN CHEN YUNLIN BEGINS HISTORIC [...] (C) Summary: PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin arrived in Taiwan on November 3 for an historic four-day visit. Chen will hold cross-Strait talks with Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P. K. Chiang on November 4, and the two sides will [...] | 2008-11-03 11:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
| 08TAIPEI1728 | DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: TAIWAN TO (AGAIN) SEEK [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's executive branch will request the Legislative Yuan to ratify the UN International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, despite Taiwan's lack of standing in the UN, President Ma Ying-jeou announced at a December 10 ceremony m [...] | 2008-12-15 06:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH PGOV PHUM PREL TW |
| 08TAIPEI176 | Taipei Economic Brief for January 2008 [...] (U) Summary. Here are the highlights of January 2008 economic events in Taiwan. Taiwan's economy outperformed expectations in 2007, with capital outflow partly offsetting inflationary pressure.... Taiwan's 2008 economic outlook less optimistic.... Initial public offerings in 2007 set a thre [...] | 2008-02-05 03:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON SENV TW |
| 08TAIPEI37 | PRESIDENT CHEN RAISES FTA, F-16S, AND REFERENDA [...] (SBU) Summary. President Chen Shui-bian urged visiting Congressmen Steve Chabot and Solomon Ortiz to support a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Taiwan and, pointing to the missile build-up across the Taiwan Strait, the sale of F-16 C/D fighters. He insisted to the congressmen that the UN ref [...] | 2008-01-09 10:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TW |
| 08TAIPEI473 | VP-ELECT VINCENT SIEW AND CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT [...] (C) Summary: Vice President-elect Vincent Siew told Chairman Burghardt and DDIR Wang on March 28 that the Ma administration will end the current price freezes on oil and electricity, as well as take other steps to deregulate Taiwan's economy and lower barriers to investment in the PRC. The ne [...] | 2008-04-01 07:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR ETRD CH TW |
| 08TAIPEI481 | KMT VICE CHAIRMAN CHAN CHUEN-PO ON CHEN-MA [...] (C) Summary: KMT Vice Chairman Chan Chuen-po told the Deputy Director on April 3 that the meeting between President Chen and President-elect Ma Ying-jeou on April 1 was cordial and upbeat. In addition to debating the "92 consensus," Chen assured Ma his most important task in the next two mon [...] | 2008-04-03 10:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 08TAIPEI727 | FOREIGN MINISTER OU AND ACTING DIRECTOR DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: During an introductory call by A/DIR on May 23, Foreign Minister Francisco Ou expressed appreciation to the U.S. for sending Special Envoy Andrew Card to attend President Ma Ying-jeou's inauguration. The Ma administration wants to rebuild the mutual trust with the U.S. that was [...] | 2008-05-27 11:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD TW |
| 08TALLINN395 | ESTONIAN VISA WAIVER AND ESTA OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Tallinn has embarked on a long-term commitment to educate Estonian travelers on the intricacies of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The Embassy has organized a variety of outreach activities, including numerous press interviews, presentations to travel professionals and a [...] | 2008-11-10 15:31:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CMGT PREL KPAO KHLS EN |
| 08TALLINN64 | ESTONIA: CLOSE TO AGREEMENT ON VWP MOU [...] (SBU) Estonian negotiators from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, and Justice reached near agreement with DHS and Department negotiators on the language of a Visa Waiver Program memorandum of understanding. Final agreement awaits completion of text revisions and then approval from t [...] | 2008-02-14 09:31:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD PREL EN |
| 08TASHKENT1085 | PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS TIP CRIMINAL CODE [...] (U) Summary: On September 16 President Islam Karimov signed long-awaited criminal code amendments into law specifically criminalizing trafficking in persons and outlining stricter punishments of up to 12 years in prison for convicted traffickers. In adopting the amendments, the Government of [...] | 2008-09-19 11:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM KWMN PHUM UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1167 | TASHKENT TIDBITS OCTOBER 14, 2008 [...] (U) This is the first edition a new weekly product from Embassy Tashkent intended to provide a space for a broader range of noteworthy developments from Uzbekistan that may not ordinarily be the subject of front channel reporting. Uzbek FM Extols Virtues of Economic Model ------------------- [...] | 2008-10-14 10:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1225 | UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIALS CITE AREAS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: During a six-day visit to Uzbekistan, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rachel Waldstein met on September 22 with the Human Rights Ombudsman, the National Human Rights Center director, and Ministry of Interior officials. The officials emphasized legal reforms the government had undert [...] | 2008-10-24 03:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT127 | ACTIVISTS RECEIVE PERMISSION TO VISIT JUMAEV IN [...] (C) Summary: Two members of the Rapid Reaction Group have received written permission from the Bukhara province Ministry of Internal Affairs to visit imprisoned dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev, who has been accused of striking a policeman with his car during a protest in December. Meanwhile, the [...] | 2008-01-31 06:03:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ICRC PGOV UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1299 | UZBEKISTAN: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AGENCY WILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Technology Transfer Agency (TTA) of Uzbekistan will be the implementing partner for the U.S. Department of Energy's (USDOE) and Carnegie Institute's "School-in-a-Box" renewable energy pilot project in Tashkent, with the first workshop scheduled to take place November 10-15. [...] | 2008-11-12 11:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1379 | UZBEKISTAN: NEW LEGAL CLINICS TO OPEN, BUT BAR ASSOCIATION [...] (C) Summary: The Tashkent Legal Clinic Director reported that authorities have approved the opening of three new legal clinics in Uzbekistan and have granted a six-month Uzbek visa to the AmCit American Bar Association (ABA) office director in Almaty, who is currently in Uzbekistan attending tr [...] | 2008-11-26 12:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT142 | WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER OPENS IN BUKHARA WITH [...] (C) Summary: During a visit to Bukhara province on January 10 and 11, the Ambassador visited the "Oydin Nuri" ("Moonlight") Women's Crisis Center for victims of domestic violence, which recently opened in November 2007 with support from an Embassy Democracy Commission grant. During his visit [...] | 2008-02-01 13:49:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KWMN PGOV SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1454 | UZBEKISTAN: ATMOSPHERE SLOWLY IMPROVING FOR ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: In the past weeks, independent human rights activists have held two human-rights related events attended by government officials. On November 28, the independent Ezgulik human rights group held a conference evaluating the government's recent legal reforms with several other indepen [...] | 2008-12-12 06:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1471 | UZBEKISTAN: BORDER SECURITY ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Summary. Several U.S. programs--including the Export Control and Related Border Security program, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement program, and others sponsored by the Department of Defense and Department of Energy--have contributed to enhancing the security of Uzbekistan's b [...] | 2008-12-17 08:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC ECON MASS PGOV PINS KNNP PREL UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1472 | UZBEKISTAN: STAFFDEL MEETS WITH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary:During a meeting with Colonel Rustamov of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Defense on December 15, House Foreign Affairs Committee staffers discussed a range of defense and security issues.Rustamov voiced support ofinternational efforts to promote stability in Afghanistan and was pleased th [...] | 2008-12-17 09:59:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ASEC MASS PINS PTER PHUM SNAR UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1474 | PRESIDENT KARIMOV'S CONSTITUTION DAY SPEECH - "DON'T DESTROY THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 5th 2008, Uzbek President Islom Karimov delivered a speech commemorating the 16th anniversary of the adoption of Uzbekistan's constitution and ushering in 2009 as the "Year of Rural Development and Improvement of the Countryside". Of note in a generally unremarkable s [...] | 2008-12-18 04:51:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UZ |
| 08TASHKENT157 | STATE-CONTROLLED PAPER RUNS FULL-PAGE HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 1 a full-page article highlighting trafficking-in-persons appeared in the Pravda Vostoka, one of three major newspapers in Uzbekistan. The prominent placement and lengthy detail of the article in a widely circulated, state-controlled publication is noteworthy and a [...] | 2008-02-06 05:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN AE UZ |
| 08TASHKENT168 | UPDATE ON EUROPEAN BORDER SECURITY EFFORTS IN [...] (C) Summary: In a January 29 meeting with Emboffs, former Chief Technical Advisor for the Border Management in Central Asia Program, Pierre-Paul Antheunissens, provided an update on the program's border security efforts in Uzbekistan. The Border Management in Central Asia Program completed and [...] | 2008-02-07 08:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV ASEC UZ |
| 08TASHKENT270 | UZBEKISTAN: SUBMISSION FOR EIGHTH ANNUAL [...] (SBU) Post,s submission for the eighth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report begins in paragraph 4. Per reftel, this information covers the period from April 2007 to March 2008. The information provided in the report has been gathered from numerous sources, including the Government of U [...] | 2008-02-29 13:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB UZ |
| 08TASHKENT300 | HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER IN UZBEKISTAN DESCRIBES [...] (C) Summary: In between sessions of an international human rights conference in Tashkent devoted to Uzbekistan's abolishment of the death penalty and adoption of what is referred to as the "habeas corpus" law, the Ambassador met with the Swiss Ambassador and a local human rights lawyer, who d [...] | 2008-03-10 12:08:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
| 08TASHKENT314 | PARLIAMENTARIAN RESIGNS AMIDST HUMAN TRAFFICKING [...] (C) On March 10 an article on the news website centrasia.ru reported that Ms. Matlyuba Burxanova, a member of the Oliy Majlis, the lower house of Parliament, resigned over allegations of human trafficking. Embassy LES Political Assistant confirmed this information with Marifdjon Usmanov (plea [...] | 2008-03-13 12:42:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM KCOR UZ |
| 08TASHKENT351 | LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT PASSES ANTI-TRAFFICKING [...] (C) Summary: On March 18 the Oliy Majlis, the lower house of the Uzbek parliament, passed a draft anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) law on the third and final reading. The next step is for the Senate to approve the law, which is listed as the number one agenda item for the upcoming March 27 p [...] | 2008-03-20 12:01:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM KCOR UZ |
| 08TASHKENT365 | UZBEK LOWER HOUSE ADOPTS INTERNATIONAL LABOR [...] (C) Summary: On March 13, a state-controlled website reported that the lower house of Uzbekistan's Parliament adopted International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 138 (Minimum Age for Employment) and ILO Convention 182 (Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labor). In separate conversation [...] | 2008-03-26 13:19:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT388 | UZBEKISTAN - WORLD TB DAY ACTIVITIES [...] (U) Per reftel, to mark World TB Day, Post devoted a session of its weekly Chay Chat Conversation Club to the topic of Tuberculosis and the challenge that it presents in Uzbekistan and around the world. On March 14, Dr. Benjamin Mills of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) hi [...] | 2008-04-01 06:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PREL KPAO UZ |
| 08TASHKENT441 | UZBEKISTAN: SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OFFER THE [...] (C) Summary: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) Pamela Spratlen, Ambassador Norland and Emboffs participated in a series of meetings with high-ranking Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials March 28-31 in Tashkent and Bukhara. GOU authorities agreed to all requested meetings [...] | 2008-04-16 05:02:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI ECON UZ |
| 08TASHKENT442 | PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS LAW RATIFYING ILO [...] (C) On April 8 President Karimov signed the law ratifying the International Labor Organization's (ILO) Convention 182 on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor. The information appeared in state-controlled press on April 14 and was also posted on official government websites. As r [...] | 2008-04-16 05:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT452 | UZBEKISTAN: ENCOURAGING EFFORT TO FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: During her March 29 - March 30 visit to Bukhara, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) for South and Central Asia and Public Diplomacy Pamela Spratlen held meetings with a diverse array of civil society representatives, including U.S. Government-sponsored exchange pr [...] | 2008-04-16 13:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KWMN KCRM OEXC EAID UZ |
| 08TASHKENT463 | DISSIDENT POET JUMAEV SENTENCED TO INTERNAL EXILE [...] (C) On April 15 Reuters reported that dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev was found guilty in a Bukhara court of discrediting the authorities, resisting arrest, and harming a police officer. The charges stem from a December incident in which Jumaev, who was protesting his son's arrest, allegedly drove [...] | 2008-04-18 12:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV UZ |
| 08TASHKENT469 | SAMARQAND GOVERNOR THE LATEST TO GET SACKED AS [...] (C) Summary: State-controlled press reported on April 16 that President Karimov traveled to Samarqand, where he relieved Provincial Governor (Hokim) Azamkhon Bakhromov of his duties, appointing the Bukharan-born Uktam Barnoev in his place. This is the fourth provincial governor to be fired s [...] | 2008-04-21 11:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PINR UZ |
| 08TASHKENT500 | JEHOVAH'S WITNESS SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS' [...] (C) Summary: On April 25, the Samarkand City Criminal Court sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses congregant Olim Turayev to four years' imprisonment on charges of illegally teaching religion and organizing a religious organization. Poloff was able to observe the trial. The Jehovah's Witnesses plan [...] | 2008-04-28 12:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV UZ |
| 08TASHKENT507 | FORENSIC LABORATORY PROJECT IMPROVES CAPACITY AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: An ongoing project to upgrade the Main Forensic Laboratory of the Ministry of Health, funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) with implementing support from the Department of Justice Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICI [...] | 2008-04-29 11:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR ASEC PHUM PREL KCOR KCRM UZ |
| 08TASHKENT580 | INTERNATIONAL ANTI-TIP WORKSHOP IN TASHKENT SETS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) co-sponsored a major international anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) workshop on May 14-15 in Tashkent. Visiting American participants included a Congression [...] | 2008-05-21 09:42:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT629 | ANTI-TIP MOMENTUM CONTINUES WITH WORKSHOP IN [...] (U) Summary: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office for Central Asia sponsored an anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) workshop on May 30-31 in Tashkent, following up on a UNODC anti-TIP workshop co- sponsored with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Eur [...] | 2008-06-05 12:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT722 | SURKHANDARYA PROVINCE ACTIVIST REPORTS [...] (C) Summary: On June 20, human rights activist Fakhriddin Tilloev reported to poloffs the torture and imprisonment of four alleged Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) members in Surkhandarya province. According to Tilloev, all four were allegedly linked to a Tajik HT leader named "Norillov," who invited the [...] | 2008-06-24 09:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL TI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT769 | UZBEK PARLIAMENT RATIFIES UNITED NATIONS TIP [...] (U) On June 23 the lower house of the Uzbek Parliament (Oliy Majlis) adopted a draft law on ratification of the November 2000 United Nations Protocol on Trafficking in Persons (TIP). The Senate followed suit just four days later, on June 27, thereby completing the Parliamentary steps and pavi [...] | 2008-07-02 11:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM UNCRIME KWMN KCRM UZ |
| 08TASHKENT777 | FERGHANA VALLEY ACTIVISTS AND IMAMS REPORT LESS [...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff met with several human rights activists and religious leaders who reported that religious extremist organizations like Hizb ut-Tahrir have become less active (or at least less visible) in recent years. While [...] | 2008-07-03 11:22:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT786 | UZBEKISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR NEW DEMOCRACIES FINALLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Justice chose the symbolic date of July 4 to announce the formal registration of the USAID-supported Institute for New Democracies (IND) in Uzbekistan. Although IND has successfully functioned in a difficult environment for the past two years without registrati [...] | 2008-07-08 11:02:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID PINR UZ |
| 08TASHKENT792 | UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES MOVING TO DEPORT [...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff visited Birlik opposition political party Deputy Chairman Pulat Akhunov, who returned to Uzbekistan from exile in Sweden in March 2007 to renew his passport, at his family's estate in Andijon province. Akhunov [...] | 2008-07-09 12:59:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT80 | AMBASSADOR RECEIVES WARM WELCOME IN CHILLY BUKHARA [...] (C) Summary: Despite frigid temperatures outside, the Ambassador was warmly received by the hokim (governor) of Bukhara province during a trip to the province on January 10 and 11. The Ambassador also visited the Naqshbandi Sufi Shrine and met with Bukharan Jewish community leaders at a local [...] | 2008-01-22 12:58:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB KIRF PHUM PINR SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT802 | UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON EXPLOSIONS NEAR BUKHARA [...] (SBU) Summary: As the day progresses, more reports have come in from Embassy contacts and local and international news sources regarding the series of explosions which occurred during the morning of July 10 in the town of Kagan, approximately 15 kilometers from Bukhara (reftel). All reports i [...] | 2008-07-10 13:14:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC PINR PREL PTER UZ |
| 08TASHKENT879 | DAS KROL MEETS UZBEK FOREIGN MINISTER NOROV IN [...] (C) Summary: On July 25 Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia George Krol met with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov in Tashkent. The atmosphere was warm and cordial, and Norov framed his remarks in the context of President Karimov's positive July 22 meeting with the A [...] | 2008-07-30 03:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM KCOR PINR KTER ENRG UZ |
| 08TASHKENT88 | HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CLAIMS VICTORY OVER KHALILOV [...] (C) Summary: According to government sources, Parliament Speaker Erkin Khalilov has been replaced by Dilorom Toshmuhammadova, the leader of the pro-government Adolat Social-Democratic party and one of the four officially-recognized presidential candidates who participated in the December 2007 [...] | 2008-01-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWMN PHUM PINR UZ |
| 08TASHKENT91 | PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER REPLACED BY FEMALE [...] (C) Summary: According to government sources, Parliament Speaker Erkin Khalilov has been replaced by Dilorom Toshmuhammadova, the leader of the pro-government Adolat Social-Democratic party and one of the four officially-recognized presidential candidates who participated in the December 2007 [...] | 2008-01-23 14:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KWMN PHUM PINR UZ |
| 08TASHKENT924 | FREEDOM HOUSE TRIES TO UNITE LAWYERS AND HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: On July 26-29, poloff observed an offshore Freedom House training conference for Uzbek human rights activists and state-licensed defense lawyers in Istanbul, the first to be conducted under Freedom House's new USAID grant. The conference sought to encourage greater cooperation bet [...] | 2008-08-11 12:55:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI TU UZ |
| 08TASHKENT926 | UZBEKISTAN: PUBLIC DEFENDER CENTERS IN NEED OF [...] (C) Summary: During a July 26-29 Freedom House conference in Istanbul for Uzbek human rights activists and state-licensed defense lawyers (septel),poloff had the opportunity to meet with several lawyers who work at Public Defender Centers supported by the American Bar Association Rule of Law [...] | 2008-08-12 08:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KJUS PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
| 08TBILISI1217 | FREEDOM HOUSE NATIONS IN TRANSIT REPORT: GEORGIAN [...] (U) Summary and Comment: Freedom House's 2007 Nations in Transit report released on June 24 covering the period of January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007, gives Georgia a "Democracy Score" of 4.79, down from the previous year's score of 4.68. The study describes Georgia's hybrid system of dem [...] | 2008-07-15 13:22:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM GG |
| 08TBILISI1412 | GEORGIA: SITREP 16: LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF A RUSSIAN [...] (U) Summary. As of mid-day, there were no definite sign of a Russian withdrawal from Georgia, but OSCE reported columns of Russian vehicles lining up in Gori and Kashuri on August 21. On the other hand, there also continue to be reports of erecting fortifications and the continued demoliti [...] | 2008-08-22 10:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
| 08TBILISI1437 | GEORGIA: SITREP 18: ALL EYES ON AKHALGORI [...] (C) Summary. The situation remains tense in Akhalgori, with South Ossetian militia in an apparent standoff with Georgian police and interior forces; the Georgian government considers the location a potential flashpoint. The Russian presence in the west continues, maintaining a level of ten [...] | 2008-08-25 12:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
| 08TBILISI1527 | GEORGIA: SITREP 26: STORIES ABOUND IN ABKHAZIA, [...] (SBU) Summary. Stories persist of Abkhaz plans to construct a wall along the border, but UNOMIG observers have discovered only limited evidence. Villagers are also reporting rumors of Abkhaz plans for Russian passports, conscription, and compulsory use of the Abkhaz language in schools. Th [...] | 2008-09-08 13:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
| 08TBILISI1596 | GEORGIA: SITREP 32: RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS [...] (C) Summary. UNOMIG observers reported a Russian propaganda campaign in Abkhazia. OSCE observers said that they have access to the Russian "buffer zone," but still have no access beyond the former administrative border into South Ossetia (with the exception of Mission Head Hakala's Septembe [...] | 2008-09-16 15:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
| 08TBILISI1888 | GEORGIA: EU OBSERVER MISSION DISCUSSES POST [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: European Monitoring Mission Head (EUMM) Hansjoerg Haber briefed Ambassadors on October 9 that Russian forces had withdrawn to positions outsid of Georgia proper. Several controversial observation posts remain, with competing claims regarding in which territor [...] | 2008-10-10 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RU GG |
| 08TBILISI2053 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA: VIOLENCE CONTINUES, TROOPS DIG [...] (C) Summary and comment. Two disturbing trends have emerged in Abkhazia in recent weeks. Abkhaz and Russian forces have taken steps to establish firmer control over the administrative boundary, such as reducing crossing points, extending trenches and limiting cooperation with UNOMIG. De fac [...] | 2008-11-04 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS GG |
| 08TBILISI207 | SCENESETTER FOR GEO MINDEF DAVIT KEZERASHVILI [...] (C//NF) Summary: Continued U.S. support for Georgia's NATO aspirations and mil-mil cooperation will likely dominate your meeting with Minister of Defense Kezerashvili. The development and reform of the Georgian Armed Forces into a NATO interoperable force is part of the foundation for a Geo [...] | 2008-02-08 04:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL RU GG |
| 08TBILISI2117 | GEORGIA: EFFECTS OF WAR CHALLENGE PROGRESS IN [...] (C) Begin Summary: Following November 3 elections for the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara in southwestern Georgia (ref A),Poloff met local officials and the Turkish Consul. The region was recovering from lost tourism revenues as a result of the August war with Russia. L [...] | 2008-11-13 13:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU GG |
| 08TBILISI2269 | GEORGIA: IMPOSSIBLE TO GOVERN WITHOUT GOD AND BIBLE [...] (C) Summary: The Georgian Orthodox Church is a inherent part of Georgian society and for many, defines what it is to be Georgian. For those who are not ethnic Georgian, this close association threatens disenfranchisement. Most Georgians, even if not fervent parishioners, would not openly [...] | 2008-12-08 13:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV RU GG |
| 08TBILISI2302 | GEORGIA: MOIA UPDATES IDP HOUSING STATUS [...] (C) Begin Summary: On December 9, Minister of Internal Affairs (MOIA) Vano Merabishvili briefed members of the diplomatic community that internally displaced ersons (IDP) from South Ossetia and the Upper Kodori in Abkhazia would have homes or will receive compensation to repair existing home [...] | 2008-12-09 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV GG |
| 08TBILISI2420 | GEORGIA: PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE PREVIEWS FINDINGS [...] (C) Summary: The Chairman of the ad-hoc of the Parliamentary Commission ("Commission") to look into events during and preceding the August war between Georgia and Russia, Paata Davitaia (Leader of "We Ourselves" Parliamentary Opposition),briefed the Diplomatic Corps December 17 on the upcom [...] | 2008-12-18 12:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
| 08TBILISI2492 | IMPACT OF CLOSING THE OSCE MISSION TO GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. The OSCE Mission to Georgia offers the international community several unique tools in monitoring and facilitating Georgia's democratic, secure and prosperous development. As a monitoring mission, it provides information on the situation on the ground, with a special [...] | 2008-12-30 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS EAID ECON SNAR KBTS RU GG |
| 08TBILISI346 | CODEL PRICE MEETS GEORGIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS, [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 23-24 members of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) visited Tbilisi to support democratic reform and fair elections. CODEL Price met with ruling National Movement MPs and Parliament staff over dinner and, on February 24, met with opposition leaders fr [...] | 2008-02-29 14:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM OVIP KDEM GG |
| 08TBILISI495 | FUTURE OF IMEDI TELEVISION IS CLOUDY [...] (U) The GOG's forcible closure of Imedi Television on November 7 was a serious setback on Georgia's path to democracy that drew international opprobrium at the time. The GOG allowed Imedi to return to the air on December 12. The station again ceased broadcasting on December 26, this time becau [...] | 2008-03-21 13:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EINV GG |
| 08TBILISI922 | BUILDING DEMOCRATIC CULTURE THROUGH SUPPORT OF GEORGIA'S [...] Summary and Context: The Public Affairs Section (PAS) in Tbilisi developed and executed a robust public diplomacy strategy to support Georgia's parliamentary elections on May 21, taking into account the challenging political environment with powerful domestic political tensions and a looming [...] | 2008-06-02 12:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP SCUL KPAO GG |
| 08TBILISI963 | GEORGIAN OPPOSITION, BURJANADZE REPORTEDLY [...] (C) Summary: As the first meeting of Georgia's next Parliament nears on June 10, the Joint Opposition and the Labor Party continue to talk about boycotting the new Parliament and even blocking access to the building, to reinforce their position that the May 21 election was invalidated by fraud [...] | 2008-06-09 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
| 08TBILISI970 | GEORGIA PREPARES TO OFFICIALLY CALL FOR [...] (C) Summary: Georgian Foreign Minister Tkeshalashvili provided the Ambassador on June 9 with a non-paper outlining the steps the Georgian government plans to take to replace the (all-Russian) CIS peacekeepers currently stationed in Abkhazia with an international police force. The paper state [...] | 2008-06-10 14:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
| 08TEGUCIGALPA438 | PROSECUTORS, STRIKE REACHES 33 DAYS: CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary. The prosecutors' strike has now reached day 33 (ref a). It has become clear that the strikers (with the support of President Manuel Zelaya) are not negotiating in good faith, as they reject every proposal and make new demands. Even Zelaya has been publicly accused of this after [...] | 2008-05-09 15:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM MARR PHUM PREL SOCI HO |
| 08TEGUCIGALPA477 | TEGUCIGALPA RESPONSE TO UN DRIP FOLLOW-UP AND OAS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Honduras voted in favor of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (DRIP) but does not appear to be doing anything to implement the provisions of the declaration. Post is unaware of any indigenous groups taking any action under the declaration, [...] | 2008-05-20 18:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OAS PGOV PREL |
| 08TEGUCIGALPA570 | THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S BREAKFAST ON THE RULE OF [...] (C) Summary: On June 4, the Deputy Secretary held a breakfast conversation on rule of law issues with Vilma Morales, the Chief Justice of the Honduran Supreme Court, and Leonidas Rosa Bautista, the Attorney General of Honduras. Both Honduran officials, who represent the National Party, empha [...] | 2008-06-16 22:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP KCRM KDEM KJUS SNAR PGOV PREL HO |
| 08TEGUCIGALPA795 | HONDURAS THE MORNING AFTER ALBA: THE POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Hondurans were largely offended by the tone and language of the ALBA signing ceremony, especially in Hugo Chavez' speech. President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya has reacted to the public, media and private sector response with his own angry comments, while attempting to mend fences wit [...] | 2008-08-28 18:50:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD HO KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL |
| 08TEGUCIGALPA866 | PRESIDENT ACCEPTS COPIES OF CREDENTIALS [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador's credentials were received by President Zelaya in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace September 19, followed by a meeting with the President and his ministers, a private meeting between the President and Ambassador, and then remarks to the press by the Ambassador [...] | 2008-09-20 03:22:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HO PGOV |
| 08TEGUCIGALPA905 | AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Llorens paid a courtesy call on Foreign Minister Edmundo "Mundo" Orellana, whom he knew from his previous posting, on September 30. Orellana confirmed his stance against ALBA and Chavez, and his belief that Honduras' relationship with the United States is paramount. H [...] | 2008-10-07 18:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS PINS HO |
| 08TELAVIV1010 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Israel's 60th Independence Day 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media, except the ultra-Orthodox papers, prominently and extensively covered, and commented on, events related to Israel's Memorial Day and 60th Independence D [...] | 2008-05-07 10:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1021 | THE TALANSKY AFFAIR: JUST ANOTHER OLMERT [...] (C) Summary: PM Olmert held a late night press conference on May 8 to deny allegations of unlawful activity in accepting political contributions from an American fund-raiser, Morris Talansky. Allegations surfaced in the media that Olmert received illicit funds from Talansky over the course o [...] | 2008-05-09 16:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS IS |
| 08TELAVIV1025 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 05:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1036 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 09:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1038 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 08:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1040 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-16 08:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1051 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-19 10:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1053 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that the Gaza cease-fire (tahdiya) deal is expected to take effect in a couple of days. Maariv reported that Defense Minister Barak durin [...] | 2008-05-20 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1070 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading electronic media reported that today Israeli and Syrian representatives announced in Jerusalem, Damascus, and Ankara that their countries were engaged in indirect p [...] | 2008-05-21 10:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1081 | MOUNTING TENSIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL'S ARAB AND JEWISH CITIZENS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Over the past few years, Israel has witnessed a slow but steady worsening of relations between its Jewish and Arab citizens. Populist and in some cases extremist rhetoric from leaders in both communities has inflamed passions and become an increasingly acceptable d [...] | 2008-05-22 08:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI IS |
| 08TELAVIV1084 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Israel-Syria Talks 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The top story in all of the major media outlets was the announcement of indirect peace talks with Syria. Most media linked the timing of the announcement with the lifting of the [...] | 2008-05-22 10:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1092 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-23 10:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1114 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 11:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1123 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-28 11:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1133 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] PM Olmert's Alleged Corruption Affair 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with Defense Minister Barak's call for PM Olmert to "detach himself from the day-to-day leadership of the country." Media reported that Barak [...] | 2008-05-29 10:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV114 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-14 12:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1144 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 10:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1161 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that Israel has denied that Hizbullah's handover of the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in the Second Lebanon War was part of a prisoner exchange deal. The Prime Mini [...] | 2008-06-02 10:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1170 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz quoted associates of PM Ehud Olmert as justifying his trip to Washington in spite of the political crisis, by saying that the security dialogue began by President [...] | 2008-06-03 10:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1185 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast 3. Muslims in European Society ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that PM Ehud Olmert addressed the AIPAC conference yesterday and focused on Iran, saying that it must be stopped by all possible m [...] | 2008-06-04 10:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1197 | NETANYAHU OUTLINES LIKUD'S APPROACH TO PEACE WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 14:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON OVIP IS |
| 08TELAVIV1199 | BARAK REQUESTS ADDITIONAL DEFENSE SUPPORT FROM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 14:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER OVIP IS |
| 08TELAVIV1207 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Both Yediot and Maariv led with statements by senior current and past Israeli defense sources that Israel will have to attack Iran. In an interview with Yediot, Transportation [...] | 2008-06-06 08:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1214 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that PM Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are scheduled to meet today to discuss a proposed Egyptian-bro [...] | 2008-06-10 10:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1226 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-11 10:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1258 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-13 10:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV127 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 11:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1272 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 05:35:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1273 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 05:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1292 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended her sixth trip to the region this year, with no sign of progress on the Israeli-Palestinian track The paper quoted Israeli [...] | 2008-06-17 10:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1304 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that Egypt and Hamas announced on Tuesday that a cease-fire (tahdiya) between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip will go into eff [...] | 2008-06-18 10:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1314 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-19 09:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1326 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-20 10:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV133 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 10:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1334 | NEAR-TERM KNESSET DISSOLUTION UNLIKELY [...] (C) Summary: The Knesset is scheduled to hold its first vote on Likud MK Silvan Shalom's bill to dissolve the Knesset on June 25. Labor and Shas party leaders have indicated that their parties will vote in favor of this preliminary reading of Shalom's bill, but most political observers think [...] | 2008-06-20 16:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1337 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-23 10:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1346 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported (lead stories in the three main Hebrew-language stories) that the chief military rabbi, Brig. Gen. Avihai Ronsky, began deliberations yesterday on whether the soldiers ki [...] | 2008-06-24 10:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1359 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-25 09:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1370 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-26 10:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1383 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-27 10:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1390 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Darfur ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that the Israeli reservists held by Hizbullah, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, are set to be released after the cabinet approved an exchange deal yesterday. After fiv [...] | 2008-06-30 10:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1403 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-01 10:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1411 | MFA REPORTS REVISED TERROR FINANCE LAW SOON TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the MFA,s Deputy Director for Counterterrorism on June 23, econoff was reassured that the new amendment to Israel,s dated Prohibition on Terrorist Financing law would come into effect within a few weeks. Previously, the GOI has only had the authority to design [...] | 2008-07-02 08:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN KTFN IS |
| 08TELAVIV1413 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The electronic media reported that at noon today, a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in Jerusalem traffic and plowed his vehicle into cars and a crowded public bus near the old Central Bu [...] | 2008-07-02 10:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1421 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with yesterday's bulldozer rampage in Jerusalem. The media reported that three were killed and 80 injured. The media highlighted the fate of a baby whose mother was crushed [...] | 2008-07-03 10:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV144 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Israeli Politics ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media continued to lead with the situation in and around Gaza. The media reported that on Wednesday over 50 Qassam rockets and at least a dozen mortar shells landed in Sdero [...] | 2008-01-17 11:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1442 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported that preparations for the prisoner swap with Hizbullah continue. The radio also reported today that the family of policeman Eliyahu Shahar, a victim of Samir Kuntar, w [...] | 2008-07-07 11:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1456 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz and other media reported that Israel has signed a prisoner exchange agreement with Hizbullah, according to a statement released yesterday by the Prime Minster's Bureau. The media [...] | 2008-07-08 10:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1470 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media (lead stories in The Jerusalem Post and Makor Rishon-Hatzofe) reported that yesterday the Water Authority unveiled an emergency plan to combat the "worst water cr [...] | 2008-07-09 10:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1483 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The three major Hebrew-language dailies and Israel Hayom led with the Morris Talansky affair and PM Ehud Olmert's political future. Maariv quoted an Israeli law-enforcement official as sayi [...] | 2008-07-10 10:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1503 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast 3. U.S. Presidential Elections ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media highlighted the renewed questioning by the police of PM Ehud Olmert today about the hundreds of thousands of dollars he allegedly received [...] | 2008-07-11 10:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1512 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] PM Olmert's Legal Entanglement 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend all media reported on new police accusations against PM Ehud Olmert that 12 of his trips received multiple funding -- one trip was allegedly funde [...] | 2008-07-14 10:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1523 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported on the "handshake that wasn't" between PM Ehud Olmert and Syrian President Bashar Assad at the Bastille Day ceremony in Paris. Makor Rishon-Hatzofe quoted Likud MK Yuv [...] | 2008-07-15 09:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1531 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-16 10:45:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1543 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 10:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1560 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that Israel and Hamas have not yet agreed to renew negotiations over Gilad Shalit's release, despite the completion of the Hizbullah prisoner swap and the relative quiet o [...] | 2008-07-18 09:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV157 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-18 12:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1570 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Today most media focused on the third day of Morris Talansky's cross-examination by PM Ehud Olmert's lawyers. Leading media reported that Talansky could not remember details of cash transf [...] | 2008-07-21 12:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1574 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media (lead story in The Jerusalem Post) reported that PM Ehud Olmert will be replaced as Kadima leader in mid-September, barring unforeseen circumstances, after the Kadima council re [...] | 2008-07-22 10:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1585 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that a Palestinian terrorist from East Jerusalem, Ghassan Abu-Tir, went on a rampage with a bulldozer in central Jerusalem. One of his relatives is senior Hamas member M [...] | 2008-07-23 10:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1591 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 10:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1607 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-25 10:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1617 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 10:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1624 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Global War on Terror 2. Lebanon 3. Israel: Governance ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that diplomatic officials told the newspaper yesterday that while acknowledging that an agreement with the Palestinian [...] | 2008-07-29 09:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1635 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Muslim-Jewish Interfaith Dialogue ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All major media covered Defense Minister Ehud Barak's visit to the U.S. Barak was quoted as saying that Defense Secretary Robert Gates promised that the U.S. w [...] | 2008-07-30 11:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1646 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 09:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1657 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-01 09:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1690 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All major media reported that Israel admitted 188 Fatah-aligned Palestinians who fled Gaza after intense fighting with Hamas. The media reported that PA President Mahmoud Abbas refused to [...] | 2008-08-04 09:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1700 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz quoted senior PA officials as saying that a victory by Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz in next month's Kadima Party leadership race would be a disaster for the peace process. [...] | 2008-08-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1706 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-07 10:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1743 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. China Olympics ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that a top Israeli defense official has told the daily that if Russia goes through with the sale of its most advanced anti-aircraft missile system to I [...] | 2008-08-08 09:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1754 | READOUT OF 14TH QUARTERLY MEETING OF ISRAEL/EGYPT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Israeli and Egyptian trade officials met on Sunday, August 10 in Jerusalem for the quarterly meeting of the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ). Egypt requested Israeli assistance (and a possible joint delegation visit to Washington) to promote Upper Egypt's inclusion in the QIZ a [...] | 2008-08-11 11:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON IS EG |
| 08TELAVIV1755 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Fighting in Georgia 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend almost all media led with the fighting in Georgia. Today Yediot bannered: "Russia's Iron Fist." Ha'aretz quoted Foreign Ministry officials as saying that Is [...] | 2008-08-11 12:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1763 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 3. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that PM Ehud Olmert has presented Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with a detailed proposal for an agreement in principle on borders, refugees, and security arrangement [...] | 2008-08-12 14:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1770 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that the U.S. administration has rejected an Israeli request for military equipment and support that would improve Israel's ability to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. A [...] | 2008-08-13 10:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV178 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-22 11:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1792 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media repotted that yesterday Defense Minister Ehud Barak unleashed a fierce attacks against FM Tzipi Livni. He was quoted as saying: "The Foreign Minister, with her background as it i [...] | 2008-08-14 10:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1806 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Georgia ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted UNIFIL Force Commander Maj. Gen. Claudio Graziano as saying that Israel violated UN Security Council Resolution 1701 in at least three areas: overflights of Lebanon; [...] | 2008-08-15 11:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1814 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yesterday Maariv listed security arrangements that Israel has drafted for any future final status arrangement with the Palestinians. The Israelis would like to submit this list and to hav [...] | 2008-08-18 10:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1831 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that PM Ehud Olmert is considering firing Defense Minister Ehud Barak for opposing the budget draft. Ha'aretz reported that clashes over the budget could bring down the [...] | 2008-08-19 10:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1837 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Israel: Governance 2. Pakistan: Musharraf Resignation ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported that PM Olmert sent a stern warning to Beirut yesterday, pledging that Israel would not restrain itself if Lebanon sanctioned a ne [...] | 2008-08-20 10:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1844 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Islamic Extremism ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that in an atmosphere of heightened tensions, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called PM Ehud Olmert yesterday to affirm the ties between the two c [...] | 2008-08-21 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV186 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. World Financial Crunch ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that according to defense sources, Israel intends to keep the crossings into the Gaza Strip permanently closed and will only allow emergency humanitaria [...] | 2008-01-23 13:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1870 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-22 10:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV19 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-03 11:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1933 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-26 05:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1954 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 2. Muslims in European Society ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media quoted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as saying during a press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah yesterd [...] | 2008-08-27 11:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1961 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz cited a Reuters report of a Russian diplomat as saying that the Russian navy will make more use of Syrian ports as part of an increased military presence in the Mediterranean. The [...] | 2008-08-28 11:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV197 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-24 12:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV1990 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-02 10:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2002 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 10:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2007 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 10:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2020 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 10:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2040 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ------------ Summary: -------- Diplomatic correspondent Ben Caspit wrote on page one of the popular, pluralist Maariv: "[The Americans] want to promote [some kind of agreement with the Palestinians] with the Israeli government, but where is the Israeli government? There is no I [...] | 2008-09-08 10:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2043 | ISRAELI AND JORDANIAN VIEWS ON DETERIORATING [...] (C) Summary: PolOff met with Jordanian PolOff Asem Ababneh (please protect) September 2 to discuss the rising tensions between Jordan and Israel. Ababneh complained that Israel is taking Jordan for granted and is no longer acting in good faith on a range of issues, including the peace proces [...] | 2008-09-08 12:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL KISL JO IS |
| 08TELAVIV2057 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] PM Olmert's Legal Entanglement 2. Global War on Terror ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz quoted a police source as saying yesterday that there is a good chance that PM Ehud Olmert could be convicted of money laundering, a crime wh [...] | 2008-09-09 10:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2084 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. 9/11 Anniversary ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the killing of two IAF airmen yesterday evening when their Cobra attack helicopter crashed in the Galilee, apparently due to a technical failure. Ha'aretz [...] | 2008-09-11 10:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2096 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 09:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2106 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. 9/11 Anniversary ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that until a few months ago back-channel talks took place in Turkey, London, and Israel/the occupied territories between Israelis, headed by journalist Yit [...] | 2008-09-15 10:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV211 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-25 11:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2114 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-16 10:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2124 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] World Financial Crisis 2. Mideast 3. U.S./India Nuclear Agreement ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The headlines in today's media were split between the world financial crisis, the Kadima primaries, and Iran's nuclear threat. The m [...] | 2008-09-17 09:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2132 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ------------ Summary: -------- Diplomatic correspondent Aluf Benn wrote in the independent, left-leaning Ha'aretz: "Whoever succeeds Olmert will ... have to choose among less than stellar options.... There is no reason to be jealous of the winner." Veteran journalist Hemmi S [...] | 2008-09-18 10:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2139 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-19 09:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2153 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that yesterday PM Ehud Olmert tendered his resignation to President Shimon Peres. Ha'aretz reported that in private conversations yesterday, FM Tzipi Livni said that if [...] | 2008-09-22 10:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2162 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Jerusalem's Vehicle Terror Incident 2. Tzipi Livni's efforts to Form a Government PLEASE NOTE: Block Quotes only, Tuesday, September 23, 2008. -------------------------------------- Â [...] | 2008-09-23 15:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2175 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media quoted Defense Minister Ehud Barak as saying yesterday that the Labor Party will make every effort to form a national unity government with Kadima leader Tzipi Livn. Ha'aretz quo [...] | 2008-09-24 10:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2204 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported that yesterday President Shimon Peres told the UN General Assembly that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech on Tuesday constituted the "darkest anti-Semitic [...] | 2008-09-25 11:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV221 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-28 11:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2217 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Attack on Professor Sternhell 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that the chances of new Kadima leader Tzipi Livni quickly forming a coalition took a hit on Thursday when talks broke down in a secret chan [...] | 2008-09-26 10:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2246 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The most important interview that PM Ehud Olmert granted the pre- Jewish New Year Holiday media is the one with Yediot, in which he declared that Israel must withdraw from [...] | 2008-09-29 10:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2250 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-02 11:45:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2255 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that the index of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange dropped by 4.5% yesterday. Both Yediot and Maariv listed the losses sustained by the richest Israelis. Maariv bannered: QT [...] | 2008-10-03 10:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2271 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that yesterday the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange fell to its lowest level since September 2006. The blue-chip TA-25 index lost 6.3 percent to fall below 800 for the first time [...] | 2008-10-06 12:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2282 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 10:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2308 | MFA CONFERENCE PROVIDES PLATFORM FOR LIVNI [...] (SBU) Summary. Foreign Minister Livni used the MFA's first annual policy and strategy conference as a platform to elucidate her cautious approach to peace negotiations, stressing her views that negotiations must be grounded in political reality, should not be accelerated to accommodate polit [...] | 2008-10-08 11:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KNNP IR KPAL IS |
| 08TELAVIV2311 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-08 12:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2315 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 10:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV232 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Final Winograd Report 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All major media led with the political situation on the eve of the publication of the final Winograd report. Ha'aretz and other media quoted associates of PM Ehud Olmert a [...] | 2008-01-29 11:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2326 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz and The Jerusalem Post quoted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as saying yesterday that she would leave "no stone unturned" in order to reach an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal b [...] | 2008-10-15 12:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2337 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that PM-designate Tzipi Livni was supposed to meet with Shas Chairman Eli Yishai last night, but the meeting was canceled. A statement released jointly by their bureaus s [...] | 2008-10-16 13:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2342 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported that the global financial crisis is sparking a local job market crunch, with Maariv predicting that up to 55,000 Israelis would lose their jobs. (Yesterday the Israel E [...] | 2008-10-17 10:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2360 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-20 10:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2368 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz reported that a senior Islamic Republic official told foreign diplomats two weeks ago in London that senior Tehran officials are recommending a pr [...] | 2008-10-22 10:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2374 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global War on Terror ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- While Yediot reported that PM-designate Tzipi Livni has offered Shas 1 billion shekels (around $ 260 million),Maariv reported that Livni signaled to Shas that she can no lo [...] | 2008-10-23 10:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2384 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S. Elections ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported this morning that Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef held a telephone consultation with the Council of Torah Sages and nixed the partyQs entrance into [...] | 2008-10-24 10:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2400 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Israeli Politics 2. U.S. Operation against Syria ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that yesterday PM-designate Tzipi Livni told President Shimon Peres that she has exhausted all options of forming a government. Peres is [...] | 2008-10-27 10:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2402 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media quoted PM Ehud Olmert as saying that he would remain caretaker until the formation of a new government early next year. HaQaretz quoted police sources as saying on Monday that e [...] | 2008-10-28 10:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV241 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Final Winograd Report 2. Mideast 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the final Winograd report, which will be made public this afternoon after 17 months of work. Banners: in Yediot: "The Mome [...] | 2008-01-30 11:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2419 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 13:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2427 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] U.S. Elections 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post cited a Post/ Smith Research poll, which found that the Rightist bloc led by Likud will defeat the Left, led by Kadima and Labor, by eight Knesset seats (see be [...] | 2008-10-31 10:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2446 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. U.S. Elections ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin warned at yesterday's cabinet meeting that a government decision to evacuate more territory m [...] | 2008-11-03 11:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2468 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] U.S. Elections 2. Middle East ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media covered the last day of the U.S. electoral campaign. The printed media predicted that Sen. Barack Obama would clinch the presidency. This morning the electronic me [...] | 2008-11-05 11:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2479 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 06:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV249 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-31 10:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2500 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 11:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2509 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-12 12:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2520 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on a wave of layoffs in Israel, and quoted Finance Minister Roni Bar-On as saying that Qthe man in the street wonQt pay for the tycoonsQ ills. The media reported that [...] | 2008-11-13 11:35:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2544 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz reported that DM Ehud Barak has approved dozens of construction projects in the West Bank in recent months, contradicting Israel's commitments under t [...] | 2008-11-14 12:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2553 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-17 11:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2568 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz reported that senior American officials fear that opening a U.S. interests section in Tehran could strengthen President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and help him win the pr [...] | 2008-11-18 11:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2571 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] U.S.-Israel Relations 2. Iran 3. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz quoted President Shimon Peres as saying in London yesterday that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed himself Qvery impressed with the Arab Le [...] | 2008-11-19 12:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2576 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-20 11:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2582 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-21 13:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2592 | BARAK DEFERS EVACUATION OF HEBRON HOUSE FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Defense (MOD) Barak on November 20 balked at forcibly removing nine settler families from a house in Hebron after the High Court of Justice ordered their evacuation, and clashes erupted between the settlers and Israeli forces. Ministry of Defense officials in recent [...] | 2008-11-21 16:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG |
| 08TELAVIV2598 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-24 12:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV262 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 11:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2623 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported that yesterday in Washington PM Ehud Olmert asked the U.S. administration to speed up the diplomatic process with the Palestinians. He was quoted as saying that President-e [...] | 2008-11-25 11:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2634 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 12:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2644 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Mumbai Terror Attacks ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the past two days all media highlighted the multiple terror attacks in Mumbai, in particular on the cityQs Chabad Hasidic headquarters, where up to 20 Israelis are bei [...] | 2008-11-28 14:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2663 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Aftermath of Mumbai Terror Attacks 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that an IDF soldier lost a leg on Friday in a mortar attack from Gaza on his base. The Jerusalem Post reported that he is no longer at risk [...] | 2008-12-01 11:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2677 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global War on Terror ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on the return of the remains of the Israeli victims of MumbaiQs terror attacks. The Jerusalem Post reported that yesterday senior Foreign Ministry offici [...] | 2008-12-03 05:35:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2696 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran: --------- Summary: -------- The conservative, independent Jerusalem Post editorialized: QThe best place to hit-the-ground-running is on the Iranian issue.... If Iran gets the bomb, Hamas and Hizbullah will be emboldened and Muslim moderates throughout the world will be marginalize [...] | 2008-12-03 12:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2711 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-04 12:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2720 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Hebron Violence 2. Obama Administration 3. Global Economy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that the IDF and police are preparing for a wave of violence by extremist West Bank settlers against Palestinians after yes [...] | 2008-12-05 11:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2728 | BROAD POLITICAL SUPPORT FOR BARAK'S FIRM HAND [...] (C) Summary: The Israeli Defense Forces and Border Police evacuated more than 100 right-wing settlers and their supporters from the disputed "House of Contention" in Hebron on December 4 in a lightning operation that took just 36 minutes to complete (reftel). Although PM Olmert and Public S [...] | 2008-12-05 17:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KWBG PINS IS |
| 08TELAVIV2733 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The headlines of major media (lead story in HaQaretz) quoted President-elect Barack Obama as saying yesterday on NBCQs QMeet the PressQ program that the West must engage in "tough but direc [...] | 2008-12-08 11:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2739 | CORPORATE BONDS: ISRAEL'S "SUBPRIME CRISIS" [...] (SBU) Gil Buffman, the Chief Economist at Bank Leumi, says that the GOI is only now waking up to the trouble in the Israeli corporate bond market. The problems were brought on by deregulation and the import of the global financial criQQQ 1QQQQQavings funds have been rather mild, he nonetheles [...] | 2008-12-08 13:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV IS |
| 08TELAVIV274 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-04 15:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2741 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-08 14:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2750 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Islamic Extremism ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on the Likud primaries. According to the electronic media MK Gideon Saar came in first, followed by Gilad Erdan, Reuven Rivlin, Benny Begin, Mo [...] | 2008-12-09 11:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2757 | SHAS: YES WE CAN? [...] (C) Summary: The Sephardi ultra-orthodox Shas party, which officially launched its election campaign at a rally on December 3, has adopted President-elect Obama's campaign slogan, "Yes We Can," in attempt to capitalize on a political moment when minorities feel empowered by Obama,s victory in [...] | 2008-12-09 14:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS |
| 08TELAVIV2763 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-10 11:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2774 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast 3. Human Rights ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz reported that Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu told the newspaper that Likud is behind him and far-right-winger Moshe Feiglin will soon disappear. The Jerusal [...] | 2008-12-11 12:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV279 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media bannered Monday's suicide bombing in Dimona, in which a woman was killed and 48 others wounded. The media reported that the IDF fears that the terrorists may hav [...] | 2008-02-06 05:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2790 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-12 18:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2793 | LABOR PRIMARIES BENEFIT BARAK WHILE LIKUD PARTY [...] (C) Summary: The Labor and Likud primaries are over, and the results provide some insight into what the two historic, mainstream Israeli parties may look like, as those on the rank-ordered slate will become members of the Knesset depending on the percentage of the popular vote that the party [...] | 2008-12-12 18:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2816 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as saying that important progress had been made in the talks between Israel and the Palestinians even though the goal of an agreement [...] | 2008-12-16 11:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2822 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 11:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2833 | ISRAELI ECONOMIC CRISIS PLANS [...] The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has recently come out with several plans to deal with a serious economic slowdown in Israel caused by the global financial crisis. The first plan introduced by the MOF is aimed at accelerating economic growth, with a primary emphasis on investment in infrastructur [...] | 2008-12-17 15:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV ELAB IS |
| 08TELAVIV2854 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media quoted PM Olmert as saying yesterday in London that he hopes for peace with Syria. Media reported that on Monday he will travel to Ankara for a meeting with Turkish PM Recep [...] | 2008-12-19 11:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2860 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that dozens of rockets and mortar shells fell on southern Israel from Gaza over the weekend. The media reported that the attacks have sparked a heated debate in Israel o [...] | 2008-12-22 11:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2865 | ISRAEL: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] The following is Post's submission for the 2008 Country Report on Terrorism for Israel. Embassy Tel Aviv's point of contact for this report is: Jason Grubb, Political-Military Officer, Tel: 972-3-519-7460; e-mail: GrubbJB@State.gov. 2. Begin Text: Israel Twenty-four Israeli civilians [...] | 2008-12-22 16:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC IS |
| 08TELAVIV2882 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. FAA Downgrading of Israeli Aviation Status ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media quoted Syrian President Bashar Assad as saying yesterday, following PM Ehud OlmertQs talks in Ankara, that he believes direct peace talks wit [...] | 2008-12-23 11:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2887 | ISRAEL: DAS HALE'S DECEMBER 17 DISCUSSION WITH BG [...] (S) Summary: NEA DAS Hale met with IDF Strategic Division Head Brigadier General Yossi Heimann on December 17. DAS Hale gave a brief update of USG discussions regarding a Third Party Mechanism (TPM) in the Palestinian territories within the context of a two-state solution, noting the USG has [...] | 2008-12-24 05:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER MOPS KWBG IS |
| 08TELAVIV2893 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media led with a possible resumption of the cease-fire with Hamas. HaQaretz quoted a senior Hamas official as saying in a published interview that his organization would be willing t [...] | 2008-12-24 11:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV290 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Chad ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that in response to the Hamas suicide bombing in Dimona, Israel killed nine Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians in turn fired heavy barrages of rockets at so [...] | 2008-02-06 11:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2903 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Gaza Operation 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend all media led with the IAF strikes in Gaza, which have killed over 300 Palestinians since Saturday (QOperation Cast LeadQ). The latest developments on Sunday wer [...] | 2008-12-29 11:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2906 | GAZA SITUATION REPORT, DECEMBER 29, 18:00 [...] (C) Summary: The IDF continued its deployment of ground forces around the Gaza periphery on December 29, with elements of at least three armored and two infatry brigades taking up positions opposite Gaza City and Beit Hanoun. Air strikes against strategic and tactical targets continued throug [...] | 2008-12-29 16:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET//NOFORN | KWBG MOPS PREL PTER PINR EAID EFIN IS |
| 08TELAVIV2918 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-30 10:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2928 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ------------ Summary: -------- Senior Middle East affairs analyst Zvi Bar'el wrote in the independent, left-leaning Ha'aretz: QHamas can rack up its first victory, as several European countries are already talking about a QhumanitarianQ cease-fire, and Egypt has been fixed in t [...] | 2008-12-31 11:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV2930 | GAZA SITUATION REPORT, DECEMBER 31, 14:30 [...] (S) SUMMARY: While IDF troops remained on hold but still poised for a ground attack, rocket fire continues into Israel from Gaza, including increased attacks beyond 30km, and the first hit in the city of Be'er Sheva. Israeli airstrikes are ongoing, although at a slowed tempo, with attacks rep [...] | 2008-12-31 13:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET//NOFORN | KWBG MOPS PREL PTER PINR EAID EFIN IS |
| 08TELAVIV296 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Aftermath of Final Winograd Report 2. Mideast 3. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz and other media quoted Dr. Abu-Osama Abed Al-Makati, Hamas's representative in Iran, as saying on Wednesday that Israel can expect a wave [...] | 2008-02-07 11:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV316 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that last night Israel cut power supply to Gaza by less than 1%. The media reported that Israel will eventually lower the amount of electricity it s [...] | 2008-02-08 11:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV325 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-11 11:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV343 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Islam and Democracy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday that one of Israel's goals in the Gaza Strip is to [...] | 2008-02-12 11:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV357 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio and other media quoted Hizbullah as saying that Imad Mughniyah, the senior Hizbullah military leader believed to be the mastermind behind the attack against a [...] | 2008-02-13 11:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV367 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-14 11:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV388 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Imad Mughniyah's Assassination 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that in a recorded video message at Imad Mughniyah's funeral in Beirut on Thursday, Hizbullah Secretary-General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah vowed to [...] | 2008-02-15 13:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV39 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-07 12:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV394 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Kosovo ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Most media highlighted the issue of negotiations with the PA over Jerusalem. Ha'aretz reported that PM Ehud Olmert and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed to defer talks on Jerusa [...] | 2008-02-19 11:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV412 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-20 11:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV426 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised on Wednesday to respond "firmly" to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's verbal attacks [...] | 2008-02-21 12:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV437 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Kosovo 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported that preparations are well underway for President Bush's "farewell" visit to Israel in May. Ha'aretz reported that PM Ehud Olmert will meet [...] | 2008-02-22 11:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV441 | AFRICAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS LIVING IN DEPLORABLE [...] (SBU) Summary. UNHCR reported February 7 that African asylum-seekers in Israel now number nearly 7,000 and continue arriving at a rate of roughly 200 per week. Without asylum laws or regulations, the GOI's capacity to respond to the growing number is severely limited. Meanwhile, African mi [...] | 2008-02-25 11:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG SU ER IV NI GH |
| 08TELAVIV442 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ------------ Summary: -------- Senior columnist Nahum Barnea wrote on page one of the mass-circulation, pluralist Yediot Aharonot: "When the malice of Hamas meets the confusion of an Israeli government that has no solution to the Qassam rocket fire, the outcome means playing wi [...] | 2008-02-25 11:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV448 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Islamic Extremism ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz's web site quoted PM Ehud Olmert as saying today before a business conference in Tokyo that he is not certain that Israel and the PA will be able to reach a peace agreeme [...] | 2008-02-26 11:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV453 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that both PM Ehud Olmert in Tokyo and FM Tzipi Livni in Jerusalem voiced skepticism publicly for the first time on Tuesday about concluding a pe [...] | 2008-02-27 10:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV460 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. U.S.-Israel Relations 4. DPRK ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that on Wednesday afternoon a student at the Sapir College near Sderot was killed by a Qassam rocket and that Grad-style Katyus [...] | 2008-02-28 11:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV475 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported that Vice President Dick Cheney will arrive in Israel in late March for a farewell visit and to pay tribute to Israel's 60th anniversary. A few media (ba [...] | 2008-02-29 11:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV489 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Ahmadinejad in Baghdad ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- This morning the electronic media reported that the IDF's "Operation Hot Winter" in Gaza has come to an end. The pull out of Infantry and armored forces was completed in [...] | 2008-03-03 11:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV5 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-02 11:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV500 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran-Iraq Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that the prevalent feeling in Jerusalem is that despite the recent flare-up in Gaza, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's discussions in Cairo wi [...] | 2008-03-04 12:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV518 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 11:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV524 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-07 11:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV545 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-10 11:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV548 | EMBASSY TEL AVIV RESPONSE FOR TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-10 13:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ELAB IS KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG |
| 08TELAVIV570 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz quoted Palestinian sources as saying on Tuesday that Israel, Egypt, and Hamas are close to a deal to deploy PA President Mahmoud Abbas's troops at the Gaza crossings. According to [...] | 2008-03-12 10:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV602 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-14 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV61 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-08 12:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV620 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-17 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV629 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Global Stock Market 2. U.S.-Israel Relations 3. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media, except The Jerusalem Post, led with the financial crisis on Wall Street and all capital markets, including Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, whic [...] | 2008-03-18 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV641 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Israel-Germany Relations 3. Global Stock Exchange ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that Israel and Egypt are conducting intensive negotiations in an effort to reach a long-term cease-fire in the Gaza Stri [...] | 2008-03-19 10:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV653 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast 3. Global Stock Market --------- Â [...] | 2008-03-20 10:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV675 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-24 06:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV691 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that Vice President Dick Cheney's second meeting with PM Ehud Olmert on Monday morning, like their first meeting on Saturday night, was shrouded [...] | 2008-03-25 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV701 | MARCH SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES [...] (C) The following paragraphs seek to capture Israeli settlement activity in March, and where possible, provide GOI clarification or confirmation to reports of approved or planned GOI settlement construction. -------------------------- MOD Moves Against Outposts -------------------------- [...] | 2008-03-26 06:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG |
| 08TELAVIV707 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-26 10:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV724 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Intellectual Property Rights ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post and Israel Radio reported that at a press conference with the foreign media last night, PM Ehud Olmert hinted at the prospect of secret talks with [...] | 2008-03-27 12:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV738 | CODEL BOEHNER'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER OLMERT [...] (S) Summary. CODEL Boehner met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert March 23. They discussed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and Olmert's concerns about Hamas-Fatah discussions in Yemen, Vice President Cheney's visit and the Iranian nuclear threat, the possibility of Israel negotiating wi [...] | 2008-03-28 11:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER IR SY KWBG XG IS |
| 08TELAVIV742 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 06:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV757 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Dutch Film on Islam ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post and other media reported that PM Ehud Olmert told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as well as his Kadima faction on SIPDIS Monday that he would conti [...] | 2008-04-01 10:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV776 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-02 11:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV78 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 04:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV785 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Zimbabwe Elections ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported that senior advisers of President Bush (headed by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley) and PM Ehud Olmert (Yoram Turbowicz and Shalom Turgeman) met over t [...] | 2008-04-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV790 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media continued to report on Syrian military movements, which intelligence officials attributed "more to nervousness than a likelihood of conflict" (The Jerusalem Post) [...] | 2008-04-04 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV792 | BLUE LANTERN FOLLOW UP ON RDT EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS [...] (SBU) On April 3, emboffs met with RDT Equipment and Systems (RDT) executives to follow up on questions regarding the company's possession and transfer of a USML-controlled FLIR camera. Operations Manager Noam Sarfati acknowledged that the FLIR camera in RDT's possession was left with Fibrote [...] | 2008-04-04 12:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IS |
| 08TELAVIV805 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 11:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV812 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that PM Ehud Olmert and PA President Mahmoud Abbas have decided to meet every two weeks until the November 4 deadline for striking a deal, regardless of developments on t [...] | 2008-04-08 10:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV824 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-09 11:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV830 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz quoted U.S. sources as saying yesterday that President George Bush is likely to visit Masada during his visit to Israel next month. The newspaper reported that PM [...] | 2008-04-10 10:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV835 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that PM Olmert has called on IDF commanders in the West Bank to understand that the roadblocks are causing suffering to the Palestinians, whose needs should be taken into [...] | 2008-04-11 10:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV84 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 11:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV868 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was quoted as saying in an interview with Ha'aretz on Sunday that peace cannot be achieved without talking to all the relevant people and that he intends [...] | 2008-04-15 11:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV881 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that three IDF soldiers were killed in a Hamas ambush in Gaza and four others were injured. The radio quoted Palestinian sources as saying that four Hamas activists [...] | 2008-04-16 14:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV906 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai asked former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Monday to tell Hamas leaders, including Khaled Mashal, that he would like to meet in orde [...] | 2008-04-18 10:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV912 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ------------ Summary: -------- Editor-in-Chief Amos Regev wrote on page one of the independent Israel Hayom: "Israel must now remove the constraints it placed on itself.... The target should be the elimination of Hamas as a fighting force." Senior Middle East affairs analyst [...] | 2008-04-21 10:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV916 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-22 10:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV924 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading electronic media cited a report published today by the Syrian news agency Sham-Press that PM Ehud Olmert has relayed messages to Syrian President Bashar Assad affir [...] | 2008-04-23 10:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV935 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Syria 2. Mideast 3. Ben-Ami Kadish Affair ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media cited The Los Angeles Times as saying yesterday that Congress will hear from the CIA that the facility destroyed in the IAF attack on Syria was a nu [...] | 2008-04-24 10:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV944 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Syria 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Most media featured the intelligence briefings yesterday to Congress on the alleged Syria - North Korea nuclear connection. The media quoted senior Bush administration members as saying [...] | 2008-04-25 11:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV954 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-28 10:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV961 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Syria ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Most media highlighted the IDF's version of the deaths of a mother and her four small children in Beit Hanun, northern Gaza, yesterday: The army maintains that the deaths occurred when two [...] | 2008-04-29 10:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV967 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV969 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-01 10:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV973 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 11:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV978 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-05 05:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08TELAVIV996 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 10:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 08THEHAGUE368 | NETHERLANDS/BLUE LANTERN CHECK ON APPLICATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Emboffs conducted a site visit per reftel of Applied Research Laboratory Europe BV (ARLE) on April 18. Although a sole proprietorship, ARLE appears to be a bona fide intermediary. ARLE stores items in a safe drilled into the concrete floor of a garage which is connected to a ho [...] | 2008-04-28 12:12:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC NL JO |
| 08THEHAGUE38 | NETHERLANDS/WIREC: DUTCH FORMING DELEGATION [...] Post forwarded on January 7 ref A letter for the Dutch to attend WIREC to Minister of Economic Affairs Maria van der Hoeven. Post also received and delivered on January 8 ref B invitation for van der Hoeven to serve on WIREC's Bioenergy Feedstocks Panel. 2. On January 10, Econoff spoke w [...] | 2008-01-14 15:51:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA KPAO ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KGHG |
| 08THEHAGUE425 | CWC REVIEW CONFERENCE PART II: EVENTS AND [...] (U) This cable is part of a series on the Second Chemical Weapons Convention Review Conference (RevCon) April 7-18, 2008. It follows the initial report at the end of the Conference (ref a),and the opening plenary sessions of the Conference and the general debate (ref b). Other cables will f [...] | 2008-05-19 15:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL CWC |
| 08THEHAGUE571 | DUTCH PARLIAMENT RATIFIES U.S.-EU EXTRADITION AND MLAT [...] On July 1, the First Chamber (Upper House) adopted the ratification package for the U.S.-EU extradition and MLAT treaties without any debate. This means that, since the package was already approved by the Second Chamber (Lower House) on June 5, the ratification process has now been completed. [...] | 2008-07-07 14:35:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN CJUS KCRM PGOV PREL NL |
| 08THEHAGUE597 | NETHERLANDS: LISBON TREATY RATIFIED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-16 06:20:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NL EU |
| 08THEHAGUE600 | NETHERLANDS: LISBON TREATY RATIFIED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 10:55:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NL EU |
| 08THEHAGUE776 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR SEPTEMBER 8-12, 2008 [...] (SBU) Budget negotiations began in earnest September 8 and a consultation on the External Auditor's Report was held on September 10. The Western European and Others Group (WEOG) met twice, once for its regular weekly discussion and again on September 11 as the "WEOG PLUS" (including non-WEOG [...] | 2008-09-22 10:35:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 08THEHAGUE984 | CWC: SCENESETTER FOR THE CONFERENCE OF THE STATES [...] (U) Meetings continued apace in anticipation of the Conference of the States Parties (CSP),without any significant progress on the budget or other CSP issues. The budget consultations remain in the same deadlock reached at the Executive Council (EC) in October, with the key difference remain [...] | 2008-11-26 09:16:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
| 08THESSALONIKI1 | NORTHERN NOTES DECEMBER 2007 [...] Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan visited Komotini in Thrace on December 6, following a two-day official visit to Athens (Reftel.) The government of Greece tried to downplay the visit and present it as private, but local media reported extensively and negatively on Babacan's activities in [...] | 2008-01-02 09:36:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM SMIG ECON TU BU GR |
| 08THESSALONIKI48 | THESSALONIKI: KIDNAPPING OF PROMINENT INDUSTRIALIST STUNS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 09, three gunmen abducted the chairman of the Federation of Northern Greek Industries and CEO of Alumil S.A. Giorgos Milonas outside his home in Thessaloniki. Media have reported that the family has received a ransom demand for 30 million Euros. The victim is a prominen [...] | 2008-06-11 16:04:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PTER ASEC GR |
| 08THESSALONIKI53 | NORTHERN NOTES - JUNE 2008 [...] (SBU) On June 23, the chairman of the Federation of Northern Greek Industries and CEO of Alumil S.A. Giorgos Milonas was released after being held hostage for 13 days (Reftel A). The industrialist appeared before the national media shortly afterward, looking remarkably relaxed, stating that h [...] | 2008-07-09 12:21:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR SOCI SMIG CH HK |
| 08THESSALONIKI81 | HOLY MOUNTAIN" MONASTERY REAL ESTATE SCANDAL TARNISHES IMAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The scandal involving land exchanges between Vatopedi Monastery and the Greek government (reftels) has led to the resignation of two high-profile ministers and shaken public confidence in the Greek Orthodox Church. The GoG and Vatopedi have tried to limit damage by proposing me [...] | 2008-11-10 12:37:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL SOCI GR |
| 08TIRANA119 | HONORING ALBANIA'S RECORD OF RESCUING JEWS DURING THE [...] SUMMARY: Warren Miller, Chairman of the U.S Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, visited Tirana January 27-29 to take part in the country's first official ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. Miller's visit included addressing a plenary session of Parliament, p [...] | 2008-02-16 10:09:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO PHUM PGOV AL |
| 08TIRANA353 | THIS WEEK IN ALBANIA, APRIL 26-MAY 2, 2008 [...] (U) The following is a weekly report prepared by Embassy Tirana's local staff to provide political and economic context and insight into developments in Albania. ---------------------- POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS ---------------------- 2. (U) ANNUAL FREEDOM HOUSE RESULTS: Albania scored a [...] | 2008-05-02 14:51:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON AL |
| 08TIRANA369 | REPORT OF SUSPECTED ASYLUM FRAUD: NDOJ, GJIN (A# [...] SUMMARY. Evidence revealed during a Visas 92 interview at embassy Tirana indicates that the I-589 asylee statement of Gjin NDOJ (DPOB 17 SEP 1960),ALBANIA, (A# 99-432-645) contains falsified material information. END SUMMARY. 2. Gjin Ndoj was granted asylum in New York, New York on May [...] | 2008-05-09 14:30:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREF PHUM KFRD AL |
| 08TIRANA378 | ALBANIA: FORMER INTELLIGENCE SERVICE DIRECTOR, NOW [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Berisha has refused to dismiss a senior government official facing criminal investigation. The General Director of Tax Administration, Arben Sefgjini, was formally charged by the Prosecutor's office for kidnapping and torture with grave consequences during his previous se [...] | 2008-05-13 18:03:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PINR PGOV AL |
| 08TIRANA382 | ALBANIA, SCENESETTER FOR HENRIETTA FORE, ADMINISTRATOR OF [...] (SBU) Henrietta Fore, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development and Director of United States Foreign Assistance will visit Albania from May 17-19, 2008. Administrator Fore's purpose in visiting Albania is to convey to the Government of Albania (GoA),judicial officials, busines [...] | 2008-05-15 08:55:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID AL |
| 08TIRANA411 | UIGHURS (AND OTHERS) IN ALBANIA [...] (SBU) The Government of Albania accepted eight former Guantanamo detainees as refugees -- five Uighurs, and one each Algerian, Egyptian, and Uzbek. All the refugees now live outside Albania's Babrru Refugee Center in apartments rented for them by the GOA. The GOA is providing language and [...] | 2008-06-02 08:59:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL AL |
| 08TIRANA416 | POSTCARDS FROM ALBANIA: ALBANIA'S 21ST CENTURY GOLD RUSH [...] (U) This cable is part of an occasional series entitled "Postcards from Albania." These cables are prepared by our locally engaged staff to provide analysis, opinions and commentary on Albanian reality from an Albanian perspective. This cable was contributed by a member of the Pol-Econ staf [...] | 2008-06-03 14:37:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI ECON PGOV AL |
| 08TIRANA71 | THIS WEEK IN ALBANIA, JANUARY 28 - FEBRUARY 1 [...] (U) The following is a weekly report prepared by Embassy Tirana's local staff to provide political and economic context and insight into developments in Albania. These updates will supplement post's DAR reports and reporting cables. --------------------- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS ------------ [...] | 2008-02-01 14:20:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL AL |
| 08TIRANA797 | DAS JONES MEETING WITH PM BERISHA [...] (C) Summary: In an October 29 meeting with DAS Jones, a tired and unhealthy-looking PM Sali Berisha offered both effusive praise for the U.S., as well as a rambling but spirited denial that he or the GOA were trying to undermine independent institutions, especially the judiciary. Berisha outl [...] | 2008-11-05 13:34:00 | Embassy Tirana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM AL |
| 08TOKYO1008 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-11 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO101 | The Japan Economic Scope--January 10, 2008 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from January 10, 2008 2. (SBU) Table of Contents Planes, Trains and Automobiles 3. Japan's Auto Sales Hit 25-year Low in a Shrinking Domestic Market 4. Aviation--A Change of Pressure? 5. Local Governments Accept Change in Itami Airp [...] | 2008-01-11 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 08TOKYO1010 | DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF JAPAN ENGAGES EMBASSY ON [...] (SBU) The Democratic Party of Japan's (DPJ) Pandemic Influenza Project Team invited econoff to brief them April 10 on the U.S. National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan. The Team, chaired by Lower House Diet Member Masahiko Yamada and including staffers as well as parlia [...] | 2008-04-11 08:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO PREL PARM PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO1014 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-14 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1020 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-14 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1024 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-15 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO103 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/11/08 [...] A bill becomes a law on passage by both Houses, except as otherwise provided by the Constitution. 2. A bill which is passed by the House of Representatives, and upon which the House of Councillors makes a decision different from that of the House of Representatives, becomes a law when passed a [...] | 2008-01-11 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1030 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-15 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1032 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-16 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1043 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-16 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1048 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-17 00:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1051 | DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF JAPAN GROUPS AND THEIR [...] (C) The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ),Japan's largest opposition party and controller of the Diet's Upper House, until recently had only one party grouping that was considered effective and influential: DPJ head Ichiro Ozawa's inner circle. Over the past several months, however, other DPJ [...] | 2008-04-17 04:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO106 | SCENESETTER FOR PACOM COMMANDER KEATING'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Your visit to Japan occurs in the immediate aftermath of Diet passage of legislation allowing the Japan Maritime Self Defense Forces (JMSDF) to resume refueling operations in the Indian Ocean in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's unprecedented decis [...] | 2008-01-11 09:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR JA |
| 08TOKYO1061 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-17 08:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1065 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-18 01:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO107 | FUKUDA FORCES PASSAGE OF NEW TERROR LAW; OEF [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda carried through on his promise to the international community on January 11, forcing passage of new anti-terror legislation through the Diet over the objections of the opposition-controlled Upper House. Passage of the new law will enable Japan to resum [...] | 2008-01-14 22:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO1072 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-18 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1076 | PM FUKUDA FACES KEY HURDLES OVER NEXT TWO WEEKS [...] (C) Summary. The Prime Ministership of Yasuo Fukuda is coming under increasing pressure. While polls show that fewer than a quarter of the public think Fukuda should resign, Embassy Diet and media contacts are expressing increasing concern about the longevity of his administration. Among th [...] | 2008-04-18 10:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN JA |
| 08TOKYO108 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/15/08 [...] On the high seas (Indian Ocean including the Persian Gulf) 2. Territories of other countries (limited to cases where there are concurrences of countries concerned regarding Japan's refueling support activities) TOKYO 00000108 012 OF 015 Definitions  [...] | 2008-01-15 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1082 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-21 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1096 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-21 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1101 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-22 06:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1109 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-22 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1111 | KOMEITO SOLIDLY BEHIND FUKUDA, AGAINST EARLY [...] (C) Summary. Komeito Election Strategy Chief Yosuke Takagi emphasized his party's commitment to the ruling coalition with the LDP, in a recent meeting with the Embassy, and confirmed that Komeito will stand by Prime Minister Fukuda on use of a second vote in the Lower House to re-instate the [...] | 2008-04-22 08:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO1115 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 01:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1122 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1124 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-24 01:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1133 | NEW THINKING ON STEMMING JAPAN'S AID DECLINE? [...] (SBU) Summary: While Japanese legislators would like to stem the decline in Japan's overseas development assistance (ODA),attempting to do so using the GOJ's current revenue base is not prudent politically, according to a Japanese Upper House Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) member. Consequen [...] | 2008-04-24 07:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL EFIN JA |
| 08TOKYO1134 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-24 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1136 | CONGRESSMAN ROHRABACHER'S MEETINGS IN TOKYO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ranking Member of the International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight Subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and senior member on the House Committee on Science and Technology, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, met with senior Japanese government members and [...] | 2008-04-24 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP PGOV PINR PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO1143 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-25 01:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1148 | JAPAN: YAMAGUCHI BY-ELECTION CLOSE BUT LDP [...] (C) The April 27 by-election in Yamaguchi District 2 is shaping up to be a major test of the strengths of Japan,s two main parties. Taking place just three days before the ruling coalition's probable use of its supermajority to override opposition objections to the controversial gas tax, each [...] | 2008-04-25 04:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO1153 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-25 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1159 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-28 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO116 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1170 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-28 08:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1177 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 07:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1182 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1185 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-01 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1190 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-01 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1193 | CONSUMERS CALM AS FUKUDA REINSTATES THE GAS TAX [...] (C) Gas prices are going back up in Japan after the government re-instated the gasoline and other road-related taxes April 30, despite the predicted opposition from the Democratic Party of Japan. Attention now turns to a vote on May 12 or 13 to pass legislation governing earmarks on the rei [...] | 2008-05-01 10:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO1197 | YAMAGUCHI ELECTION FAILS TO SHAKE FUKUDA'S RESOLVE [...] (C) Summary. The April 27 Lower House by-election to fill a vacant seat in the Yamaguchi 2 district, once widely touted as a bellwether for the future of the Fukuda administration, has failed to live up to its advance billing. With so much of the campaigning focused on national issues, such a [...] | 2008-05-01 22:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN JA |
| 08TOKYO120 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 01:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1200 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1207 | BMENA FORUM FOR THE FUTURE PLANNING MEETING IN [...] SUMMARY. At the Forum for the Future planning meeting in Tokyo on April 24-25, participants discussed political reform and sustainable development as the two thematic pillars for the 2008 Forum. The Forum subministerial will be held on June 9 in Dubai, followed by a senior officials planning [...] | 2008-05-02 05:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM KMPI PHUM XF JA |
| 08TOKYO1212 | CLUSTER MUNITIONS: JAPAN STILL WORKING CCW AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: An Oslo Process agreement that criminalizes the possession of cluster munitions (CM) and/or penalizes countries that support states that possess CM could block future peacekeeping operations (PKO) and embarrass Japan during the July G-8 Hokkaido Summit, PM Deputy Assistant Secreta [...] | 2008-05-02 07:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL MOPS PARM JA NATO |
| 08TOKYO1216 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1226 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-07 04:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1230 | SCENESETTER FOR G-8 LABOR MINISTERS' MEETING MAY [...] (SBU) Japan's economy is in its longest postwar expansion, but for many it does not feel that way. Japanese consumers are pinched by rising commodity prices and stagnant wages, and the country is facing long-term fiscal and demographic challenges. Reform, particularly in the labor market, wou [...] | 2008-05-07 07:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV OVIP JA |
| 08TOKYO1233 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-07 08:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1238 | SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MAY 08-11 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-08 05:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | ECON EFIN JA IZ KN KGHG PGOV PREL |
| 08TOKYO1241 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-08 05:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1252 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/08/08 [...] The governments of Japan and China (hereinafter called "both sides") recognized the need to make efforts together hand-in-hand and to cooperate on climate change, a common threat facing human beings. 2. Both sides confirmed the goals and the principles promised in the "United Nations Framew [...] | 2008-05-09 02:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1253 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-09 02:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1264 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-09 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO127 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 08:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1272 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S DINNER WITH JAPANESE DIET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six Party Talks, the abductees problem, China, Afghanistan, and Iraq were the focus of discussions over dinner between Deputy Secretary Negroponte and a cross section of Japanese Diet members May 9 in Tokyo. Diet members underscored the political importance of addressing the ab [...] | 2008-05-10 07:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA KN CH AF IZ MOPPS |
| 08TOKYO128 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-17 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1280 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-12 07:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1288 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-12 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1296 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 00:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1308 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 08:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1311 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 01:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1317 | FUKUDA OVERRIDES OPPOSITION AGAIN; CENSURE THREAT [...] (C) Summary. The Lower House has overruled the opposition-controlled Upper House for the third time in less than four months, passing a bill on May 13 to restore earmarks allocating certain road-related taxes to road construction for the next 10 years. However, Prime Minister Fukuda and his [...] | 2008-05-14 05:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN JA |
| 08TOKYO1321 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 08:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1324 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1335 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO134 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-17 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1342 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-16 01:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1348 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-16 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO135 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-18 01:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1354 | CLUSTER MUNITIONS: JAPAN PREVIEWS DUBLIN MEETING [...] (S) SUMMARY: Japan remains committed to handling cluster munitions (CM) in the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) but will likely join an expected consensus reached at the Dublin meeting of the Oslo Process, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director-General Masatoshi Shimbo told Embassy [...] | 2008-05-16 10:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL MOPS PARM JA NATO |
| 08TOKYO1357 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-19 01:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1362 | JAPAN LEANING TOWARD DEPLOYING TROOPS TO UNMIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan will send a survey team to Sudan in the near future to explore the feasibility of dispatching Japanese Self Defense Force (SDF) personnel to join UNMIS, according to MOFA Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama. Nakayama, who led Japan's delegation to the Thi [...] | 2008-05-19 06:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EAID KPKO SU JA |
| 08TOKYO1364 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-19 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1367 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-20 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1373 | THE FIFTH ASIAN SENIOR-TALKS ON NONPROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ISN Deputy Assistant Secretary Mary Alice Hayward and ISN Counterproliferation Director Tony Foley represented the U.S. at the fifth Asian Senior-Level Talks on Nonproliferation (ASTOP V) in Tokyo April 25, 2008. Recent news on North Korea's proliferation activities conducted [...] | 2008-05-20 07:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM ENRG ETTC PREL KNNP MNUC JA |
| 08TOKYO1375 | FUKUDA NEPHEW ON HIS UNCLE, RECENT POLITICAL [...] (C) Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Diet representative -- and PM Fukuda's nephew -- Takao Ochi spoke candidly about his uncle's short-comings, particularly his inability to handle the media well and his failure to better explain controversial tax and other measures in a recent meeting with Emb [...] | 2008-05-20 07:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO1379 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-20 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1386 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 02:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1398 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 21:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1402 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-22 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1409 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-22 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO141 | FOCUS SHIFTS TO DOMESTIC ISSUES, AS DIVIDED DIET [...] (C) Summary. The Diet opened on January 18, with the division between the ruling party-controlled Lower House and the opposition-controlled Upper House remaining as the Legislature's organizing principle. The session opens just three days after the close of the especially contentious extraor [...] | 2008-01-18 07:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO1419 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-23 01:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO142 | FOCUS SHIFTS TO DOMESTIC ISSUES, AS DIVIDED DIET [...] (C) Summary. The Diet opened on January 18, with the division between the ruling party-controlled Lower House and the opposition-controlled Upper House remaining as the Legislature's organizing principle. The session opens just three days after the close of the especially contentious extraor [...] | 2008-01-18 07:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO1434 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-23 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1438 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 01:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1447 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 22:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO145 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-18 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1451 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-28 01:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1463 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-28 08:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1464 | (S/NF) JAPAN PLANS IRAQ WITHDRAWAL, EXPANDED [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Japanese government is actively planning to terminate the C-130 support mission in Iraq by the end of the year while expanding its activities in Afghanistan, according to MOFA National Security Division Director Takeo Mori. Mori said that these decisions are driven by the [...] | 2008-05-28 08:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR PGOV AF IZ JA |
| 08TOKYO1471 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-29 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1474 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-29 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1479 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1492 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 07:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1497 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-02 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1504 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-02 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1505 | G8 ENERGY MINISTERIAL -- JAPANESE GOALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The agenda for the June 8 Aomori G-8 Energy Ministerial includes the world oil and gas markets and the energy investment climate. Much of the press and public focus in Japan, however, will be on climate change and the steps Japan and other economies will take to reduce greenhous [...] | 2008-06-02 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KGHG AADP OVIP JA |
| 08TOKYO1513 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1516 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1519 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 02:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO152 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-22 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1526 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1532 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-05 01:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1538 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-05 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1540 | DPJ TO THROW UP CENSURE MOTION AT THE BUZZER [...] (C) Summary. The leadership of the opposition DPJ has reportedly decided to submit concurrently a censure motion in the Upper House and a no confidence motion in the Lower House against Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda before the current Diet session ends on June 15. The impetus for the censure mo [...] | 2008-06-05 09:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON JA |
| 08TOKYO1543 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-06 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1555 | SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' VISIT TO [...] (S) While your upcoming visit to Tokyo will focus primarily on multilateral and G-8 issues, the Mission would like to share with you some background on where our relations with Japan now stand. Your meetings with Vice Foreign Minister Yabunaka and your host, Deputy Foreign Minister Sasae, w [...] | 2008-06-08 23:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO1558 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-09 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1573 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-09 22:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1574 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-10 06:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1583 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-10 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1588 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-11 01:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1593 | (S/REL NATO) PROSPECTS FOR EXPANDED JAPANESE [...] (S/REL NATO) Summary: Japan continues to review options for a new operation in Afghanistan to "off-set" the planned termination of its current Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) logistics effort in Kuwait/Iraq. The Japanese government remains focused on such options as dispatching C-130s for logis [...] | 2008-06-11 07:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL MARR PGOV IZ AF JA |
| 08TOKYO1595 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-11 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1600 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 01:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1607 | IRAQ POST-UNSCR: JAPANESE RESPONSES ON TIMING FOR [...] (C) This is an ACTION REQUEST. See paragraph 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Workinglevel contacts tell us that Japan has made no decision yet on what type of arrangements it plans to pursue with regard to the presence of its Air Self Defense Forces (ASDF) operating in Kuwait and Iraq following the exp [...] | 2008-06-12 07:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL IZ JA |
| 08TOKYO1608 | CENSURE MOTION PASSES; FUKUDA STANDS FIRM [...] (C) Summary. The opposition followed through on its threat to pass a largely symbolic censure motion against Prime Minister Fukuda on June 11 over his handling of the new medical insurance program for the elderly and other domestic issues. The response, thus far, has been underwhelming. Pass [...] | 2008-06-12 07:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO1609 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO161 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-22 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1613 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-13 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1620 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-13 07:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1628 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1638 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1641 | INITIAL REACTION TO DPRK DEAL MOSTLY POSITIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. Reaction to the announcement that Japan will partially lift its unilateral sanctions on North Korea, in return for a reinvestigation into the abductions issue and cooperation on repatriating four 1970's-era Japanese hijackers, dominated the news over the weekend. Media attenti [...] | 2008-06-16 09:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO1643 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-17 01:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1653 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-17 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1657 | SHAPING JAPAN'S AFGHAN DEPLOYMENT DECISIONS [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Japanese government is struggling to find a strategy to terminate its C-130 mission to Iraq and start a new deployment to Afghanistan to ""off-set"" its decision to opt-out of the Iraq coalition. The U.S. political calendar appears to weigh heavily on Japanese deliberation [...] | 2008-06-17 09:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR PGOV IZ AF JA |
| 08TOKYO166 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-23 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1667 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-18 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1675 | LDP LEADER YAMASAKI AND DIET GROUP SUPPORT LIFTING [...] (C) Summary: Japan should lift sanctions and provide immediate energy assistance in exchange for the DPRK reopening its inquiry into the abduction issue, senior LDP Lower House member Taku Yamasaki has told the Embassy. However, Yamasaki and his 40-member supra-partisan group of Diet members [...] | 2008-06-18 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO1679 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-18 08:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1683 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-19 01:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1694 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-19 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1699 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-20 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1705 | CABINET TO REVIEW AFGHAN OPTIONS BEFORE G-8 [...] (S/NF) Summary: Key ministers will seek a consensus on a possible new mission to Afghanistan before the June 26-27 G-8 Foreign Ministerial meeting in Kyoto, according to MOFA National Security Division Director Takeo Mori. Mori said that the survey team dispatched to Afghanistan and neighbori [...] | 2008-06-20 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL MARR PGOV AF IZ JA |
| 08TOKYO1707 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-20 08:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1717 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-23 04:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1719 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-23 08:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO172 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-23 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1726 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-24 01:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1735 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-25 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1746 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-25 08:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1753 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-26 02:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1755 | ABE, YAMASAKI SPAR OVER DPRK POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The war of words between rival Diet groups on both sides of the DPRK issue is heating up again. Former LDP Vice President Taku Yamasaki is pitted against former Prime Minister Abe; both are joined by several dozen like-minded Diet members. Days after the June 13 announcement that [...] | 2008-06-26 04:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KN JA |
| 08TOKYO1763 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-26 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1772 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-27 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1774 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-27 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1778 | FUKUDA ATTEMPTS DAMAGE CONTROL AS PRESS CRITICIZE [...] (C) Summary: Public statements from senior Japanese officials to the decision to delist the DPRK as a state sponsor of terrorism have been largely positive, tempering negative media editorial opinion. Prime Minister Fukuda and other senior officials have assured the public that Japan and the [...] | 2008-06-27 08:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV JA KN |
| 08TOKYO1783 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-30 06:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1791 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-30 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1795 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-01 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO180 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-24 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1802 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-01 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1808 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-02 01:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1817 | TOKYO SCENESETTER FOR USTR SCHWAB [...] (C) Our economic engagement with Japan remains less than it should be given that Japan is our fourth largest trading partner with over USD 700 million in goods and services trade flowing each day between our two countries. However, while "trade disputes" may no longer be the first phrase th [...] | 2008-07-02 09:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO1821 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-02 22:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1824 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07//08 [...] Japan and the United States last held a meeting of their leaders when Fukuda visited the United States last November. This is the second time for Fukuda and Bush to meet. Wilder indicated that Japan and the United States would confirm cooperation within the framework of the six-party talks i [...] | 2008-07-03 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1828 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-03 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1844 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 03:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1859 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 08:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1864 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-08 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1878 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-08 07:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1882 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-09 01:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1887 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-09 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO189 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-24 08:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1895 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-10 01:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO19 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-03 07:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1909 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-10 22:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO191 | JAPAN: ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT, G8 PROMINENT IN PM [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda launched Japan's 2008 spring Diet session January 18 with a policy speech focused on livelihood and environmental issues. Laying out five policy principles, Fukuda stressed a "people first" agenda, including creation of a new Minister for Consumer Affairs and [...] | 2008-01-24 09:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV SENV JA |
| 08TOKYO1915 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-11 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO193 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-25 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1934 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-11 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1942 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-15 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1952 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-15 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1963 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-16 01:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1971 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-16 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1978 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1988 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO1991 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 02:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2000 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 08:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2006 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-22 00:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2008 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - CHINA-TIBET TALKS [...] LEAD STORIES: Front-page items on Tuesday morning included the explosions on two public buses in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, on Monday that killed at least two people and wounded 14 others. 2. "Meaningful Results Produced at China-Tibet Talks?" The moderate Yomiuri editorialized (7/22) [...] | 2008-07-22 01:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2018 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-22 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2021 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 06:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO203 | CODEL TAUSCHER MEETS WITH DEFMIN ISHIBA, TALKS [...] (S) Summary: U.S.-Japan cooperation on Ballistic Missile Defense was the focus of meetings between Japanese Minister of Defense Ishiba and a Congressional Delegation led by Rep. Ellen Tauscher. In light of the recent successful test of a Japanese AEGIS system aboard the Kongo, Minister Ishiba [...] | 2008-01-25 06:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | OVIP PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO2030 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 22:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2036 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 01:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2045 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 22:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2047 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-25 03:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2054 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-26 11:40:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2058 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO206 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-25 09:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2065 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 07:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2067 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-29 01:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2071 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-29 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2075 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 01:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2085 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2089 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO21 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-04 03:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2107 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/31/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 07:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2112 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-01 01:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2120 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-01 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2122 | JAPANESE CABINET RESHUFFLED: PLAYING IT SAFE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda August 1 announced a new cabinet and a new leadership lineup for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The new cabinet reflects a cautious balance of party factions that may strengthen Fukuda's base within the ruling coalition but will likely do [...] | 2008-08-03 22:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR JA |
| 08TOKYO2123 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-04 01:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2129 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-04 07:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2134 | JAPAN APPROVES RESTRICTIVE BUDGET REQUEST [...] (C) Summary. Prior to reshuffling, the Fukuda Cabinet completed the first major phase of the fiscal year 2009 budget process July 29 by setting restrictive guidelines for budget requests from individual ministries and agencies. Under the guidelines, ministerial budget spending is estimate [...] | 2008-08-05 00:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN JA PGOV PREL |
| 08TOKYO2135 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-05 01:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO214 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-28 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2144 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-05 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2148 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and, to a lesser extent, Central Asia are all actively on the Japanese radar screen. We are very glad you were able to reschedule your visit to Tokyo to discuss these pressing issues with your Japanese counterparts. On Afghanistan, you will find a g [...] | 2008-08-05 22:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL KNNP XD ZK JA |
| 08TOKYO2149 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-06 01:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO215 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-28 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2159 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-06 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO216 | PERMANENT DISPATCH LAW: POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) The government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party continue to lay the groundwork for passing a Permanent Dispatch Law that would allow Japan to send Self-Defense Forces units overseas in support of peacekeeping operations, according to Ambassador Toshiro Ozawa, head of Japan's Internation [...] | 2008-01-28 09:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS UN JA |
| 08TOKYO2163 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-07 01:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO217 | DAS MARCIEL ENGAGES JAPANESE INTERLOCUTORS ON SE [...] (C) Summary: Japanese government officials and Diet members discussed Japan's relations with Southeast Asia and told DAS Marciel that Japan and the United States need to continue to work closely together to coordinate on aid and other projects; Cambodia needs to take more of an "ownership rol [...] | 2008-01-28 09:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID JA |
| 08TOKYO2176 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-07 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2179 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 02:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2185 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 07:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2196 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 01:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2201 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2209 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 01:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2215 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 07:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO222 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-29 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2221 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 00:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2225 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2229 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 00:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2231 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - NORTH KOREA [...] LEAD STORIES: Front-page items on Thursday morning included a White House statement urging Russia to cease its military operations in Georgia. 2. "Gesture Alone Will Not Be Accepted" The liberal Asahi editorialized (8/14): "The governments of Japan and the DPRK reached an agreement to reinv [...] | 2008-08-14 02:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2238 | JAPAN: CABINET SHUFFLE NOT ABOUT ECONOMICS, SAYS [...] (C) Prime Minster Fukuda's cabinet shuffle was about politics, not economics, foreign and domestic business interlocutors told Emboffs in a series of meetings. In shoring up the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for the next Lower House election, PM Fukuda concentrated on balancing party [...] | 2008-08-14 08:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO2242 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 22:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2244 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 06:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2259 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-17 22:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2264 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 00:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2273 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 07:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2277 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-19 00:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2281 | RIGHT-WING VISIT TO DPRK CITED AS SIGN OF WARMING [...] (C) Summary: Just prior to Japan's talks with the DPRK in June, North Korea granted permission for representatives of a Japanese right-wing group to make an unusual - perhaps unprecedented - visit to the DPRK for discussions on collecting and repatriating the remains of Japanese veterans from [...] | 2008-08-19 05:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV JA KN |
| 08TOKYO2285 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-19 07:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2287 | AMBASSADOR AND VFM YABUNAKA ON AFGHANISTAN, NORTH [...] (S) Japan's failure to extend its Indian Ocean refueling operations in support of OEF would be a shock to the United States and others in the coalition whose forces are in harm's way in Afghanistan, and would marginalize Japan internationally, the Ambassador told Vice Foreign Minister Yabunaka [...] | 2008-08-19 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS PINR ETRD EAID EAGR RU IN GG |
| 08TOKYO2288 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-20 00:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO229 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-29 08:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2293 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-20 07:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2301 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-21 00:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2307 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-21 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2308 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-22 00:39:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2316 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-22 07:40:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO232 | JAPAN PM FUKUDA SHIFTING "SLIGHTLY" ON ABDUCTION [...] (C) Summary. The newly-established LDP Subcommittee on Korean Peninsula Issues, created by senior LDP members Taku Yamasaki at the behest of Prime Minister Fukuda, reflects the PM,s "slight" shift to a dialogue-oriented approach to resolving the nuclear, missile, and abduction issues, Diet co [...] | 2008-01-29 08:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV JA KN |
| 08TOKYO2323 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-25 00:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2330 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-25 07:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2332 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-26 01:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2339 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-26 07:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2342 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-27 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO235 | RULING COALITION FLOATS TEMPORARY GAS TAX EXTENSION [...] (C) Summary: The ruling coalition has decided to submit a bill to extend temporarily the controversial provisional gasoline tax for two months, over the strong objections of the opposition. At this point, the opposition DPJ appears ready to hold budget-related legislation, including the gaso [...] | 2008-01-29 22:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN JA |
| 08TOKYO2351 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-27 07:40:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2357 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-28 05:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO236 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-30 01:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2361 | CHARGE TALKS BEEF, SELF SUFFICIENCY AND WTO WITH [...] (U) Summary: Charge D'Affaires Zumwalt met on August 27 with Mr. Yoshio Yatsu, a senior Diet Member in the House of Representatives and key member of the agricultural caucus. Mr. Yatsu reiterated the GOJ position on beef and conveyed his view that the WTO discussions must resume quickly in ord [...] | 2008-08-28 06:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON JA |
| 08TOKYO2364 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-28 07:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2369 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2376 | PRO-TAIWAN DIET GROUPS [...] (C) Japan's "unofficial" relationship with Taiwan has managed to thrive in the three decades since Japan's normalization with the Mainland thanks in large measure to frequent and long-standing contact between the Japanese Diet members and their counterparts in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan. Five p [...] | 2008-08-29 07:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW JA |
| 08TOKYO2378 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 07:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2380 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-02 03:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2381 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - FUKUDA RESIGNATION [...] LEAD STORIES: Prime Minister Fukuda's sudden resignation dominated Japanese newspaper coverage on Monday morning. 2. "Irresponsible Surrender of Premiership" The liberal Mainichi editorialized (9/2): "It is quite unusual that two Japanese prime ministers in a row, each of whom was in offic [...] | 2008-09-02 03:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2392 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-02 08:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2400 | FUKUDA RESIGNS, WITH CONSEQUENCES FOR OEF, DIET, [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Fukuda surprised the nation on September 1 by unexpectedly announcing his intention to resign in a hastily-arranged, late-evening news conference. Ruling party executives have moved quickly to set in motion plans for a new LDP presidential election, likely in the S [...] | 2008-09-02 09:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON JA |
| 08TOKYO2405 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2415 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 08:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2418 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO242 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - STATE OF UNION ADDRESS [...] LEAD STORIES: All Wednesday morning papers gave top play to the ruling coalition's submission to the Lower House of a bill to extend by two months the provisional gasoline tax. 2. "How to Deal with Remaining Fissures" The liberal Asahi editorialized (1/30): "...There were no sincere words [...] | 2008-01-30 05:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2428 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2431 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 03:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2442 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2443 | LDP SENSES OPPORTUNITY: YOSANO MAY CHALLENGE ASO [...] (C) Summary. In the aftermath of Prime Minister Fukuda's surprise resignation, there is cautious optimism in the LDP that their political fortunes may be improving. In contrast, there are worries in the DPJ that the LDP will use the September 22 LDP presidential election to cast the DPJ's "o [...] | 2008-09-05 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON JA |
| 08TOKYO2451 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-08 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2457 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2460 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-09 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO247 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/30/08 [...] Submit an independent, lawmaker-sponsored bill on matters pertaining to national and local tax revenues for road projects. 2. The legislative branch will finish thoroughly discussing the fiscal 2008 budget bill, the government-sponsored tax bills, and the lawmaker-sponsored bill at the same ti [...] | 2008-01-30 22:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2474 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-09 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2476 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-10 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2495 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-10 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2499 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-11 01:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO250 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-31 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2505 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-11 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2507 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 01:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2508 | DASD SEDNEY'S AUG 27-28 MEETINGS WITH JAPANESE [...] (C) In August 27-28 meetings with former and current Japanese government officials and influential Diet members from both the ruling and opposition parties, visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD)/East Asia David Sedney emphasized the importance of implementing as agreed the bil [...] | 2008-09-12 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR JA |
| 08TOKYO2523 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/16/08-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-16 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2531 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-16 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2538 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-17 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO255 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/31/08 [...] In examining a total budget bill and an annual revenue bill, in-depth discussion, including holding public hearings and question-and-answer sessions involving unsworn witnesses, should be held, and both sides should reach a certain degree of conclusion before the end of this fiscal year. 2. R [...] | 2008-01-31 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2555 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-17 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2558 | Japan's Response to Lehman and AIG Development [...] (SBU) Tokyo markets fell sharply September 16 following news of Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, only to rebound September 17 upon news of the Federal Reserve Board's authorization of an $85 billion loan to American International Group (AIG). After falling 5 percent September 16, the Nikkei Stock A [...] | 2008-09-17 21:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ASEAN EFIN ETRD EINV FRB JP |
| 08TOKYO256 | BISTF PLENARY FOCUSES ON COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND [...] (S) The January 16 plenary meeting of the DAS-level U.S.-Japan Bilateral Information Security Task Force (BISTF) and preparatory Director-level meetings focused on the status of long-term milestones from the annex to the BISTF Terms of Reference (TOR) and broader Japanese government participat [...] | 2008-01-31 08:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR MARR JA |
| 08TOKYO2563 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - U.S. FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] LEAD STORIES: Thursday morning's Asahi led with the informal agreement between the ruling LDP and its junior partner New Komeito to dissolve the Lower House in early October for a snap election on October 26. 2. "Public Fund Used This Time around" On the USG decision to bail out insurance f [...] | 2008-09-18 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2564 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-18 01:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2576 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-18 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2581 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-19 03:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2594 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-19 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2596 | "TAINTED RICE" SCANDAL REVERBERATES THROUGH JAPAN [...] (U) Summary: Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) Minister Seiichi Ota's resignation on September 19 marks the latest casualty from Japan's "tainted rice" scandal, following the ouster of his deputy, Vice Minister Toshiro Shirasu, on September 18. Both Ota and Shirasa have been widely [...] | 2008-09-21 22:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON SENV JA |
| 08TOKYO26 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-06 05:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2601 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2612 | ASO WINS LDP PRESIDENCY; WILL BE ELECTED PM ON [...] (C) Summary. Taro Aso overwhelmed four other candidates in the September 22 ruling LDP presidential election, taking 351 of 527 votes. Aso succeeds Prime Minister Fukuda as LDP President effective immediately. He will replace Fukuda as Head of Government and name a new Cabinet on September 24 [...] | 2008-09-22 10:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO2613 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 22:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2614 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-23 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO262 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 01:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2620 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-23 07:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2629 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-24 01:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2638 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-24 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2639 | ASO ELECTED PM; CABINET PICKS AIMED AT SOLIDIFYING [...] (C) Former LDP Secretary General Taro Aso was elected Prime Minister of Japan on September 24, succeeding Yasuo Fukuda, who announced his intention to resign on September 1. Aso announced his new Cabinet the same day, re-appointing just five of 17 ministers from the recently reshuffled Fukuda [...] | 2008-09-24 11:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD SENV JA |
| 08TOKYO2646 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-25 01:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2653 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/25/08 [...] Voting on Oct. 26 if talks between both camps collapse before start of deliberations If the new cabinet receives high public support and sees the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and other opposition parties unwilling to cooperate in enacting the extra budget bill, the government would dissol [...] | 2008-09-25 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2655 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-26 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2678 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-26 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2682 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-29 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2708 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-29 23:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO271 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 07:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2711 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2727 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2729 | ASO'S ECONOMIC POLICY: STIMULATE THE ECONOMY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Taro Aso's campaign pledges and initial policy speech have focused on an economic stimulus policy that appeals to Japanese voters concerned about their pocketbooks and the direction of Japan's economy. Aso's short-term electoral focus is not to launch a return to t [...] | 2008-09-30 08:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO2732 | JAPAN'S CABINET APPROVES FY2008 SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET [...] (SBU) Summary: Just one month after the Government of Japan,s August 29 announcement of an economic policy package (reftel),the Cabinet Office approved September 29 the first supplemental budget for FY2008 to fund a portion of the spending promised under the package, and submitted it immediat [...] | 2008-09-30 22:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON JA EFIN |
| 08TOKYO2733 | JAPANESE ATTITUDES ON BUSINESS WITH RUSSIA REMAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese business sentiment toward economic opportunities in Russia remains cautious. Japanese business and government interests note concerns about the risks of doing business in Russia, continued uncertainty following Russia's invasion of Georgia, problems with the transport of [...] | 2008-09-30 22:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV ENRG PREL RU JA |
| 08TOKYO2735 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-01 01:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2737 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - U.S. BAILOUT PLAN [...] LEAD STORIES: All Wednesday morning papers led with the worldwide stock plunge on Tuesday and President Bush's statement on Tuesday urging Congress to take action. 2. "U.S Should Realize Its Responsibility to The World" The liberal Asahi editorialized (10/1): "...If the U.S. kills the bail [...] | 2008-10-01 02:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2742 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-01 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2745 | SCENESETTER FOR PACOM COMMANDER ADM KEATING'S OCT [...] (C) You will arrive in Japan in the wake of a dramatic leadership change. Newly-elected Prime Minister Taro Aso is regarded as a strong supporter of the U.S.-Japan Alliance, who we expect will try hard to maintain course for our important bilateral initiatives, including the realignment of U [...] | 2008-10-01 09:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR JA |
| 08TOKYO2747 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-02 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO275 | WIREC -- PROPOSED SUBNATIONAL PANELISTS FROM JAPAN [...] (SBU) In response to request in ref A, propose the following individuals as potential panelists for the WIREC 2008 Subnational Sessions: Dr. Hideaki YUKAWA Director, Microbiology Research Group Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) Visiting Professor, University [...] | 2008-02-01 09:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV TRGY ECON SOCI JA |
| 08TOKYO2754 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-02 07:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2760 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-03 01:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2771 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-03 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2775 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-06 01:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2779 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-06 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO278 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-04 01:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2785 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 01:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2798 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO28 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-07 01:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2802 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-08 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2810 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-08 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2813 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-09 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2817 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-09 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2824 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 01:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2834 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2843 | CITING FINANCIAL TURMOIL, UNIONS SEEK HIGHER WAGES [...] (C) Financial turmoil in the United States is exacerbating the downturn in Japan's real economy, a top trade union official told Emboffs, and the effects are likely to continue to put downward pressure on the Japanese economy into 2009. In response to workers' subsequent feelings of economic i [...] | 2008-10-10 09:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EFIN PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO2845 | SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR HAGEL'S OCT 15-17 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) The situation you will find in Japan is one of continued political uncertainty, despite the recent election of a new government. Newly-elected Prime Minister Taro Aso is a strong supporter of the U.S.-Japan Alliance and appears to favor a more robust Japanese contribution to internation [...] | 2008-10-10 10:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PARM OVIP JA PINR |
| 08TOKYO2849 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/14/08-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-14 06:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2859 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/14/08-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-14 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2869 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 01:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO287 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-04 22:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2875 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 22:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2877 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 01:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2879 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2882 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ABDUCTEES' FAMILIES [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met October 16 with two prominent representatives of the abductees' family association -- Chairman Shigeo Iizuka and Shigeru Yokota (the father of Megumi Yokota, the best known abductee) -- to discuss the recent delisting of the DPRK as a state sponsor of terror. [...] | 2008-10-16 09:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KN JA |
| 08TOKYO2885 | JAPANESE FOLLOW UP ON G-7 ACTION PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Finance Minister and Financial Services Minister Shoichi Nakagawa released a statement October 14 outlining Japan's follow-up policies to its October 10 G-7 Action Plan. The Plan calls for relaxing rules on corporate stock buy-backs, greater transparency in selling short, and te [...] | 2008-10-16 09:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN JA |
| 08TOKYO2890 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 03:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2896 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2904 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-20 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO291 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-05 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2920 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-20 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2924 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-21 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2932 | Japan Economic Scope for October 20, 2008 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope for October 20, 2008. Environment and Energy ---------------------- 2. (SBU) Japan And U.K. Sign Statement Of Cooperation on Carbon Footprints And Offsets The Ministry of Environment (MOE) published a Japan-U.K. statement of cooperation [...] | 2008-10-21 06:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR PREL SENV JA |
| 08TOKYO2934 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-21 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2938 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-22 01:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2953 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-22 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2956 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-23 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2963 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-23 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2969 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-24 04:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2976 | ASO STILL UNDECIDED, AS UNCERTAINTY OVER NOVEMBER [...] (C) Summary. Embassy contacts from both the ruling and opposition parties remain unanimous that the chances for an election before the end of this year remain no better than 50/50. They are also in agreement that PM Aso has yet to make up his mind on the timing, and is still in the process o [...] | 2008-10-24 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON JA |
| 08TOKYO2978 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-24 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2983 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 01:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2993 | MP CRITICIZES JAPANESE NUCLEAR PLANS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ENRG TRGY NRR MNUC PUNE JA |
| 08TOKYO2997 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 22:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3000 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-28 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3008 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-28 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3010 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3018 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 22:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3023 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 05:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3028 | Japan Economic Scope for October 27, 2008 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope for October 27, 2008. Business -------- 2. (SBU) Japan to Start Voluntary Carbon Footprint Labeling with Domestic Companies The Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) plans to start an experimental voluntary carbon footprint labe [...] | 2008-10-30 08:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR PREL SENV JA |
| 08TOKYO3033 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 22:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3035 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/31/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 01:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO304 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-05 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3051 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/31/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3065 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-04 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3068 | POVERTY, INEQUALITY TRENDS TAP ECONOMIC ANXIETY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Japan has the fourth-highest poverty rate among the 30 OECD members, with poverty among the elderly roughly 50 percent above the OECD average, according to a report issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). However, according to a Japanese ex [...] | 2008-11-04 07:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI JA |
| 08TOKYO3069 | ASO MOVES DECISIVELY TO LIMIT FALL-OUT FROM ASDF [...] (C) Summary: "To say our country was an aggressor nation in World War II is a false accusation," Air Self Defense Force Chief Toshio Tamogami concluded in a prize winning essay made public on October 31. Already a delicate time politically, the government took steps to control the fallout, a [...] | 2008-11-04 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO3070 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-04 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO308 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-06 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3080 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 07:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3083 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3085 | DPJ RAMPS UP ATTACK, AS MOD TAKES HIT FOR TAMOGAMI [...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Hamada and three other parliamentarians have taken voluntary pay cuts and three senior MOD bureaucrats have been disciplined as the government continues to manage the controversy over an essay published by former ASDF Chief Tamogami. The country's most senior m [...] | 2008-11-05 09:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO3088 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3090 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3094 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3099 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3109 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-10 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3114 | U.S. - JAPAN - KOREA TRILATERAL POLICY PLANNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Trilateral Policy Planning talks were held in Tokyo October 28-29 by S/P Director David Gordon and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts, Deputy Vice Foreign Minister for Foreign Policy Koro Bessho, and Deputy Minister for Planning and Coordination Lim Dae-Hong. Main topics [...] | 2008-11-10 06:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EAID SENV KGHG KSCA KDEM XE |
| 08TOKYO3115 | S/P GORDON'S TRILATERAL POLICY TALKS WITH JAPAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korea was a major topic of discussion at Trilateral Policy Planning talks held in Tokyo October 28-29 by S/P Director David Gordon and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts, Deputy Vice Foreign Minister for Foreign Policy Koro Bessho, and Deputy Minister for Planning and [...] | 2008-11-10 06:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KS KN JA |
| 08TOKYO3124 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-11 00:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3126 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-11 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3138 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-11 23:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3139 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/13/08 [...] International cooperation to overcome financial crisis ? Various countries properly implement macroeconomic policies, including fiscal disbursement (Japan has compiled a package of additional economic pump-priming measures worth approximately 27 trillion yen) 2. Mid- to long-term internatio [...] | 2008-11-12 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3142 | JAPAN REFUELING MISSION TO CONTINUE, ANTI-TERROR [...] (C) The bill extending the Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law will clear the Diet on November 20, according to Embassy Tokyo contacts in the Diet and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Upper House Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will vote on the bill on November 18 and then send it to an U [...] | 2008-11-12 07:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINR PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO3143 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-12 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3146 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3150 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3155 | TAMOGAMI REPURCUSSIONS CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary: Ousted Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) Chief Toshio Tamogami has continued to make headlines, most recently in Diet testimony where he refused to apologize for his revisionist historical views published in an essay and resulting in his removal as ASDF chief (ref A). Prime Minister [...] | 2008-11-13 08:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINR PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO3164 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-16 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3166 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-17 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3175 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-17 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3180 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-18 01:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |