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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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05NEWDELHI9750GOI TURNING PESSIMISTS ON NEPAL
[...] (C) Summary. GOI officials told us on December 27 that developments in Kathmandu since Foreign Secretary Saran's early December visit have made them less hopeful of a resolution any time soon to the continued political stalemate in Nepal. Hardening of the positions of both the Palace and th [...]
2005-12-27 12:21:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PTER MASS IN NP CH
05OTTAWA1368CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR LIBERIAN SECURITY REFORM
[...] (SBU) In response to ref a, poloff followed up with Andrew Armstrong, Manager of Fleet Policies and Standards at Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) Headquarters. Armstrong stated that he would advise CCG management of our interest in using these boats as part of a nascent Liberian Coast Guard, but a [...]
2005-05-06 12:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL MARR EAID LI CA FAC
05OTTAWA1475THE POLITICS OF CANADA'S DARFUR INVOLVEMENT
[...] (C/NF) Summary: In an effort to shore up support for his tottering minority government, PM Martin gave in to the demands of independent MP David Kilgour and accelerated the announcement of a major increase in aid for Darfur, to include CN $200 million and up to Canadian Forces technical advis [...]
2005-05-16 22:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCA PGOV EAID MARR MASS MOPS PREL SU
05OTTAWA1663DEMARCHE REQUEST TO ENCOURAGE NICARAGUA TO DESTROY
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Director Sarah Fountain-Smith in the Regional Security Section (IDC) of the International Security Bureau. She said that while our request comes under the purview of her bureau, Canadian MANPADS policy is handled by a range of offices [...]
2005-06-02 21:11:00Embassy OttawaSECRETMARR PARM PTER MASS CA
05OTTAWA1735DEMARCHE REQUEST TO ENCOURAGE NICARAGUA TO DESTROY
[...] (C) Following-up on reftels June 7, Regional Security Affairs (IDC) desk officer Anne-Marie Spain at Foreign Affairs Canada informed polmiloff that Canada believes that "all actors, not just the Government of Nicaragua" should be approached regarding MANPADS destruction. Spain said that while [...]
2005-06-08 17:27:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALMARR PARM PREL PTER MASS CA
05OTTAWA2071DEMARCHE: SECURITY SECTOR SUPPORT FOR THE
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points to the Regional Security and Peacekeeping Division (IDC) at Foreign Affairs Canada on June 30, just prior to the Canada Day long week-end. In a follow-up discussion on July 7, desk officer Emi Furuya informed polmiloff that a Canadian Coast Guard/RCMP team i [...]
2005-07-08 18:19:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL KWBG KPAL IS CA FAC
05OTTAWA2364INTERAGENCY DEFENSE OFFSETS TEAM INVITATION TO
[...] (SBU) Political section passed reftel to DAO and FCS offices in the Mission. 2. (SBU) Though post has no feedback to offer on the discussion questions at this time, we note that "Industrial Regional Benefits (IRBs)" (Canadian equivalent of "offsets") figure prominently in federal government [...]
2005-08-04 21:03:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON MASS CA
05OTTAWA2422CANADA: FOLLOW-UP TO SEA ISLAND ACTION PLAN
[...] (SBU) Following confirmation from the Italian Embassy that Italy's demarche on assistance to COESPU had been delivered, on August 4 polmiloff provided reftel points and web site information to Foreign Affairs (FAC) International Security Bureau (IDD) Director General Paul Chapin. An informatio [...]
2005-08-10 20:29:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO MASS MARR CA
05OTTAWA3173CANADA TO FOLD DART UNDER NATO UMBRELLA FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-24 16:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK CA NATO
05OTTAWA3450CANADA HOPING FOR USG SUPPORT OF MARSAF 2006
[...] This is an action message. See para 3. 2. (SBU) In the margins of another meeting, Foreign Affairs' newly installed Deputy Director for Regional Security (IDR),Christine Cadieux, inquired whether USG planned to support the 2006 Middle East Maritime Safety Colloquium (MARSAF). A confidenc [...]
2005-11-21 20:23:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR CA
05OTTAWA3611(C) CANADA SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT VENEZUELA ARMS
[...] (C) We delivered oral demarche points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Directors Christine Cadieux (Regional Security) and Harold Hickman (Andean Region),and National Defence Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs Col. Mike Hache, on November 18 and 21, respectively. FAC and DND officials acknowled [...]
2005-12-07 20:02:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM MARR MASS CA VE
05OTTAWA942CANADA INFORMED OF NEW SOUTH ASIA STRATEGY
[...] (SBU) As requested reftel, on March 29 polmiloff delivered the Fact Sheet on Broadening the U.S. strategic partnership with South Asia to Keith Fountain, Acting Director of the South Asia Division (PSA) at Foreign Affairs Canada. Fountain said that he normally handles Afghanistan policy and wo [...]
2005-03-31 18:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MASS PK IN CA PSA
05OTTAWA952CANADA: DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT FOR LIBERIAN MILITARY
[...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche concerning support for Liberian military reform to Louis Hamel, Director of the West/Central Africa Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),and Simon Snoxell, FAC Desk Officer for Liberia, on March 23. Snoxell subsequently advised poloff on March 31 that Lib [...]
2005-03-31 19:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MARR MASS PREL CA
05PANAMA1570PANAMA SUPPORTS OAS MANPADS GUIDELINES
[...] (S) Ministry of Government and Justice Security Advisor Severino Mejia told POLOFF on July 19 that Panama supports OAS Guidelines for Control of MANPADS. Importing or exporting this type of weapon into Panama is illegal. Mejia wants to work with the Embassy to reduce smuggling of weapons a [...]
2005-07-27 13:17:00Embassy PanamaSECRETPARM MASS EAIR ETTC PREL OAS LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
05PANAMA1577REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to E [...]
2005-07-27 18:17:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS
05PANAMA1578REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to E [...]
2005-07-27 18:17:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS
05PANAMA1595REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to E [...]
2005-07-28 21:35:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS
05PANAMA1596REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to E [...]
2005-07-28 21:35:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS
05PANAMA1597REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to E [...]
2005-07-28 22:39:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS
05PANAMA1604REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to E [...]
2005-07-29 21:55:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS
05PANAMA1633REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to E [...]
2005-08-04 16:08:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS
05PANAMA1652REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to E [...]
2005-08-08 19:12:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS
05PANAMA691REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to [...]
2005-03-28 21:20:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS
05PANAMA955REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, Embassy requests that Washington conduct soonest the required human rights review of the below listed Panamanian Public Force person(s) and/or unit(s) and that State Department transmit the results to [...]
2005-04-28 14:13:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS PREL PM POL OMS
05PARAMARIBO721SOFA WITH SURINAME IN FORCE
[...] On November 1, the Embassy received a diplomatic note dated October 20 from Suriname's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirming acceptance of the text of a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) proposed in the Embassy's note of April 11, 2005. The SOFA was approved by Suriname's Parliament on June 2 [...]
2005-11-04 18:19:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PGOV NS
05PARAMARIBO831SOUTHCOM VISIT SUCCESSFULLY FOSTERS CLOSER
[...] (U) Summary. General John Craddock, Combatant Commander of U.S. Southern Command, visited Suriname for six hours on December 16 and made office calls to President Ronald Venetiaan, Minister of Defense Ivan Fernald, and Commander of the Armed Forces Colonel Ernst Mercuur. He also had lunch wi [...]
2005-12-20 19:38:00Embassy ParamariboCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL PGOV EAID NS
05PARIS2270FRENCH VIEWS ON NEW U.S. SOUTH ASIA STRATEGY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-05 15:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS IN AF PK FR
05PARIS2349(S) FRENCH APPLAUD YEMENI STEPS TO CURB SA/LW
[...] (S) Reftel points were delivered to Small Arms/Light Weapons (SA/LW) action officer, Jean-Francois Guillaume in the MFA's Bureau of Strategic Affairs on April 4. In a follow-up conversation on April 6, Guillaume told poloff that France is glad to see that Yemen, a country notorious for its a [...]
2005-04-07 16:49:00Embassy ParisSECRETPARM PREL MASS ETTC FR YE
05PARIS2788ACOTA AFRICAN PEACEKEEPING TRAINING TEAM MEETS
[...] SUMMARY: On 18 April 2005, representatives of the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program office met with officials of the French Joint Staff at the Ministry of Defense to exchange views on our respective peacekeeping capacity enhancement efforts in Africa. Th [...]
2005-04-25 17:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS XA FR
05PARIS4661FRENCH RESPONSE TO NICARAGUAN MANPADS DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered demarche (ref A) June 20 to MFA desk officer for small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) Jean-Francois Guillaume and July 1 to MFA DAS-equivalent for Central America and the Caribbean Gilles Bienvenu. Guillaume indicated that the GOF is focused on the destruction of arms i [...]
2005-07-01 17:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR PARM PREL PTER MASS FR
05PARIS4947U.S./FRANCE: THE CASE FOR RENEWING AND
[...] THIS CABLE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST FOR PM AND EUR/RPM IN PARAGRAPH 7. 2.SUMMARY: WE CONTINUE TO COUNT ON FRENCH SUPPORT IN THE WAR AGAINST TERORISM, AND IN A VARIETY OF INTERNATIONAL FLASHPOINTS, INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN, AFRICA, THE BALKANS, THE MIDDLE EAST AND HAITI. IN A NUMBER OF CAS [...]
2005-07-18 13:43:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL ECIN FR
05PARIS5003U.S./FRANCE: THE CASE FOR RENEWING AND
[...] (U) THIS CABLE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST FOR PM AND EUR/RPM IN PARAGRAPH 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: WE CONTINUE TO COUNT ON FRENCH SUPPORT IN THE WAR AGAINST TERORISM, AND IN A VARIETY OF INTERNATIONAL FLASHPOINTS, INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN, AFRICA, THE BALKANS, THE MIDDLE EAST AND HAITI. IN A [...]
2005-07-19 14:42:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL ECIN FR
05PARIS5220UPDATE ON FRENCH TRAINING OFFERS FOR IRAQ,
[...] (C) Summary and comment: The French have begun contributing to the EU "JUSTLEX" program, with 40 Iraqi police officers now in France for a one-month rule of law training program, the first tranche of a group of 175 slated to receive such training. MFA contacts report less progress, however, [...]
2005-07-28 16:50:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PINS IZ FR
05PARIS5490FRENCH: COESPU SUPPORT WILL TAKE TIME
[...] SUMMARY. MFA contacts stress that the GoF needs time to consider the U.S.-Italian request for support to the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU). Local Italian embassy contacts do not expect a French contribution, but were encouraged that the GoF did not reject their req [...]
2005-08-12 16:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO MARR MASS FR
05PARIS7329NATO SUPPORT TO PAKISTAN - FRANCE ALSO
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-26 14:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR AEMR EAID MASS PREF FR EUN NATO
05PARIS7885FRENCH CONFLICTED ON ARMS SALES TO VENEZUELA, BUT
[...] (S) Summary: Pol/MC and PolOff delivered reftel A points November 16 to MFA A/S-equivalent Daniel Parfait, DAS-equivalent for South America Michel Pinard, and Venezuela desk officer Lionel Paradisi, and PolOff separately shared points with Admiral de Monval, responsible for Latin American iss [...]
2005-11-18 16:25:00Embassy ParisSECRETMARR MASS PARM FR VE
05PARIS8460FRENCH GUARDED ON RUMORS OF SUBMARINE SALES TO
[...] (S) Summary: In response to information indicating French-Venezuelan contacts to discuss potential arms sales, in particular the Scorpene submarine, DCM followed up on December 13 with the SGDN Deputy head Edouard Scott de Martinville, POL/MC with MFA A/S-equivalent Daniel Parfait, U/S Joseph [...]
2005-12-14 17:22:00Embassy ParisSECRETMARR MASS PARM FR VE
05PARIS8548 FRENCH NAVAL COURTSHIP CREATES DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOF, Thales, and state-owned shipbuilder DCN, have confirmed that the French defense electronics group has agreed to buy a 25% stake in DCN. Their messages echoed the widespread expectation that the Thales-DCN tie-in would be applauded by its architects as a first step towa [...]
2005-12-20 09:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND MARR MASS PARM ECON FR
05PRAGUE1004CZECHS REPORT RUSSIAN PROTEST OVER DONATION TO
[...] (U) Action request: see para 4. 2. (C) Czech MOD Director of Security Policy Borkovec told DATT on July 1 that the Russians had formally protested the planned Czech donation of small arms and grenades to the EUCOM-led Georgia Security and Stability Operations. The Russian MOD on June 30 c [...]
2005-07-01 14:47:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALMASS MOPS PREL EZ GG RU
05PRAGUE1008CZECH MOD STAFF CONFIRM PLANS FOR EXTENSION OF
[...] (C) Summary: Czech MOD senior officials offered assurances that plans for extension of the Czech military police trainers currently in Iraq are continuing, and that the contingent would remain in its current status, i.e., part of MNF-I, but with the hope that they would "eventually" be move [...]
2005-07-01 17:00:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS MASS IZ EZ
05PRAGUE1009CZECHS NOTIFIED OF 2005 COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-01 17:09:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PARM EZ
05PRAGUE1036CZECHS CONFIRM THEIR COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND
[...] (U) This is an action request; see action in para 2. 2. (U) In a meeting with DAO July 8, Czech MOD Director of Security Policy Zdenek Borkovec expressed the GOCR,s great appreciation for the $6 million in Coalition Solidarity Funds (CSF). He indicated the GOCR had not changed any of its pr [...]
2005-07-12 06:05:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PARM PREL MOPS EZ
05PRAGUE1058CZECH'S SOLIDARITY FUND REQUEST PROCUREMENT LIST
[...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) In response to the Department's request, Post is transmitting the text of the original Czech request for items under their $6 million Coalition Solidarity Fund (CSF) allocation. Per reftel, Czech MOD Director of Secur [...]
2005-07-14 16:06:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PARM PREL MOPS EZ
05PRAGUE1535CZECHS REVIEWING MI-17 PARTS REQUEST FOR PAKISTAN
[...] (U) Pol-mil Off delivered reftel points to Czech MFA Security Policy Deputy Director Vaclav Balek Oct 27. The Czechs do have MI-17s in their inventory. Balek had not heard Pakistan planned to ask NATO for MI-17 parts. He said the GOCR would examine the request carefully. CABANISS [...]
2005-10-27 11:23:00Embassy PragueSECRETAEMR ASEC EAID IN PGOV PK PREF MASS EZ NATO
05PRAGUE337 (C) RUSSIAN MISSILES FOR US NAVY COMING FROM
[...] (C) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 4. The US Navy has for some time been planning an open commercial purchase of 23 KH-31 (or MA-31) Russian sea-skimming missiles from a Czech arms dealer. It has come to our attention that the missiles are coming from Belarus, via a series of complicated [...]
2005-03-09 06:49:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL EZ UP BO RS
05PRAGUE356(C) US NAVY POTENTIAL PURCHASE OF RUSSIAN MISSILES
[...] (C) Poloff was shown March 10 the request for an export license filed by the Czech firm that is working to provide an initial shipment of 23 Russian-made sea-skimming missiles (KH-31) to the US Navy. The application showed the name and address of the firm in Minsk that was supplying the missiles, b [...]
2005-03-10 16:26:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL EZ BO RS UP
05PRAGUE470(C) CZECH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY SAYS NO TO SALE OF
[...] (C) The Czech government has formally denied the license request of a Czech arms dealer to broker the sale of Russian KH-31 missiles, now in the possession of a state-run firm in Belarus, to the U.S. Navy. Poloff was told April 1st that the MFA licensing office had on March 31 sent a formal letter [...]
2005-04-01 14:50:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL BO EZ RS
05PRAGUE514CZECH ENTER DEBATE ON EU CHINA ARMS EMBARGO
[...] (C) Summary. The Czech Republic is beginning to speak out against the immediate removal of the EU China arms embargo. Growing European debate over the timing and modalities of any removal of the embargo is allowing the Czechs to play a more active role in the debate and, the Czechs believe, s [...]
2005-04-11 16:43:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MASS CH EZ
05PRAGUE815TROUBLING SIGNALS IN LARGEST CZECH MILITARY
[...] (S) Summary: The current $1 billion Czech Army tender for armored vehicles -- the military's largest procurement to date -- is designed to avert past problems with transparency, with PriceWaterhouseCoopers engaged to run the tender instead of the MOD's Armaments Directorate. The two main decl [...]
2005-05-27 12:04:00Embassy PragueSECRETMASS PREL BEXP KCRM EZ
05PRETORIA4334SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION AND
[...] Embassy Pretoria has checked its files and finds no credible information regarding gross human rights abuses by any of the officers of the South African Air Force's 28th Squadron: - Captain Allan Daniel Delahay Price (South African ID number 7410135091084) - Captain Philip Renier Pretorius [...]
2005-10-26 13:32:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM SF
05PRETORIA4435SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION AND
[...] Embassy Pretoria has checked its files and finds no credible information regarding gross human rights abuses by any of the officers of the South African Air Force's 28th Squadron: - Sgt. Ayanda Moyo (South African ID number 7602065908085) - Sgt. Willem Abraham de Klerk (South African ID num [...]
2005-11-03 13:32:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM SF
05PRETORIA4497SOUTH AFRICA HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION AND
[...] Embassy verifies that, as of this date, the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations on the part of individuals or subordinate units, identified reftel, to participate in training scheduled for November 11-23, 2005. HARTLEY [...]
2005-11-09 08:25:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM SF
05PRETORIA4624SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION AND
[...] Embassy Pretoria has checked its files and finds no credible information regarding gross human rights abuses by any of the officers of the South African Air Force's 28th Squadron: - Col. Gabriel Stephanus Steenkamp (South African ID number 5308225085085) - Lt.Col. Hans Jurgens Prinsloo (So [...]
2005-11-21 14:30:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM SF
05PRETORIA4698SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION AND
[...] Embassy Pretoria verifies that, as of this date, the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations on the part of individuals identified reftel, to participate in training scheduled for December 1-10, 2005. TEITELBAUM [...]
2005-11-29 07:06:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM SF
05QUITO1024ECUADORIAN JOINT CHIEF VOWS CONTINUED U.S.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Positive atmospherics surrounded the Ambassador's initial call on new Ecuadorian Joint Forces Commander Admiral Manuel Zapater, the admiral recalling fondly their years-earlier meetings in Guayaquil. Zapater promised continued Ecuadorian security collaboration with the United S [...]
2005-05-04 22:55:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO1060MFA LEERY OF CEDING JURISDICTION OVER SMUGGLING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 10 call on Acting Foreign Minister Marcelo Fernandez, the Charge requested the GoE waive jurisdiction over the F/V Simon Bolivar, an Ecuador-flagged fishing vessel interdicted May 8 while smuggling four tons of cocaine. In his demarche, the Charge revealed the Bolivar [...]
2005-05-11 22:00:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO1098MFA REFUSES TO CEDE JURISDICTION OVER SMUGGLERS
[...] Via diplomatic note, the Foreign Ministry denied the USG's request to cede jurisdiction over the captain, crew, and cargo of the F/V Simon Bolivar, an Ecuador-flagged fishing vessel interdicted May 8 while carrying four tons of cocaine. Invoking Articles 4 and 17 of the 1988 UN Convention Ag [...]
2005-05-12 22:14:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC
05QUITO1169GOVERNMENT CHANGE FURTHER HINDERS ARTICLE 98
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With the rise to power of President Alfredo Palacio, Article 98's chances in Ecuador sunk from bad to worse. Palacio's right-hand man, Minister of Government Mauricio Gandara, laid down an early marker, claiming there would be "no immunity for U.S. soldiers" during this governm [...]
2005-05-18 23:02:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR SNAR PTER EC CO KICC
05QUITO1177ECUADOR: FM AND MINDEF MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met separately with FM Parra and MinDef Espinosa on May 19. Parra expressed hope for the strongest possible relations with the U.S., and pledged MFA support for successful FTA negotiations. He expressed GOE discomfort with language in the draft OAS resolution, sa [...]
2005-05-19 23:05:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS PINR SNAR EC
05QUITO120DEMINING: POLITICAL PROBLEMS THREATEN OPERATIONAL
[...] SUMMARY: Humanitarian demining (HD) continues apace in Ecuador, although political difficulties - both bilateral and multilateral - threaten future effectiveness. 2004 successes include the conclusion of mine clearance operations in El Oro, near-completion in Loja, and termination of mine im [...]
2005-01-19 20:04:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDKHDP PHUM MASS MOPS MARR EC PE
05QUITO1404WELCOME TO ECUADOR, GENERAL CRADDOCK
[...] (U) On behalf of Mission Ecuador, General, please accept a warm welcome on your second visit to this fascinating South American nation. Regrettably, your tight schedule forced an agenda trimming -- we initially had you traversing Ecuador's border with Colombia -- but we'll file that itinerary [...]
2005-06-16 13:39:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO1645STAFFDEL SEES CN, CT GAPS IN ECUADOR
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Use of Ecuadorian territory by narcotics and alien smugglers dominated discussions during Staffdel Walker, which visited Ecuador July 4-9. A DEA briefing revealed that agency,s eavesdropping weaknesses, exacerbated by Ecuadorian cellular carriers migration from analog to digita [...]
2005-07-14 15:49:00Embassy QuitoSECRETSNAR PTER MASS PGOV PREL EC CO
05QUITO2822ECUADOR-COLOMBIA TALKS ADVANCE ON BROAD RANGE OF
[...] (C) Summary: The meeting between FM Francisco Carrion and his Colombian counterpart Carolina Barco which took place here on December 7 is being touted by the GOE and the Colombian Embassy here as a success. Both governments committed to increasing security measures along the border region, [...]
2005-12-12 19:37:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS MASS SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO666CNIES UPDATE: ECUADOR DISMISSES STOCK TEXT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Attempting to dissipate confusion and spur movement on CNIES negotiations, Embassy officers called on Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) leaders March 22 and worked through the USG boilerplate line-by-line. The FAE remains convinced, however, that current agreement language does not re [...]
2005-03-23 22:41:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALSNAR MOPS MASS PREL EC EARI
05QUITO773WELCOME TO ECUADOR, GENERAL MYERS
[...] (U) On behalf of the Mission Ecuador team, General, please accept a hearty welcome to Ecuador. Into your three hour stop we have packed a bilat with GoE President Lucio Gutierrez, a press conference with your joint chief counterpart, and a working lunch with the Ecuadorian high command; the [...]
2005-04-07 22:17:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC
05QUITO789CJCS VISIT SUPPORTS DEMOCRACY, IMPROVED MIL-MIL
[...] (C) Summary: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Richard Myers' April 11 visit to Quito advanced bilateral relations with Ecuador by signaling our continued commitment to military cooperation, and supported our pro-democracy and pro-stability agenda at a sensitive moment. To President Gutierre [...]
2005-04-12 18:35:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO962DEFMIN FOCUSED ON GOVERNANCE AND HEALTH, NOT
[...] SUMMARY: The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on new Ecuadorian Defense Minister Solon Espinosa April 27. Avoiding mention of the security threats facing his nation, Espinosa instead trumpeted new President Alfredo Palacio's honesty and his administration's intention to raise health standards [...]
2005-04-28 19:08:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MARR MOPS MASS EC CO
05RABAT458NEXT SIX MONTHS IN MOROCCO
[...] (C) The last half of 2004 brought to fruition in several important ways the Principals, Committee decisions to intensify U.S. relations with Morocco and enhance Morocco,s ability to counter terrorism and extremism following the May 2003 terrorist bombings in Casablanca. This cable reviews pr [...]
2005-03-03 16:57:00Embassy RabatSECRETPREL PGOV EAID PTER MASS ASEC AMGT MO PDIP
05RANGOON1128RUSSIAN ARMS TRADER TO OPEN BURMA OFFICE
[...] (C) Summary: A Russian diplomat in Rangoon says that a major state-owned Russian arms dealer, Rosoboronexport State Corporation, will open an office in Burma as "a natural presence to support Russia's growing commercial military relationship" with the SPDC military regime. The diplomat also [...]
2005-10-05 10:36:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPARM MASS PREL BM RS
05ROME1391ITALY: POTENTIAL SALE TO SYRIA OF AIR DEFENSE
[...] (C) Prime Minister Berlusconi's diplomatic adviser, Giovanni Castellaneta, invited DCM and POL MC to his office April 22 to discuss Italian plans to sell an "Air Defense Integrated System" (ADIS) to Syria. Castellaneta said that the Italian firm Finmecannica (a defense industry conglomerate, 3 [...]
2005-04-22 16:31:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALIS IT MASS SY ETTC EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME2629ITALY SUPPORTS CONCEPT OF SEEBRIG DEPLOYMENT
[...] Summary. Italy confirms its support for the concept of a SEEBRIG deployment as described in reftels and will work with the U.S. on details of possible implementation. End Summary. 2. On August 4, DATT delivered Reftel A talking points to LTG Fabrizio Castegnetti, newly appointed chief of th [...]
2005-08-08 07:22:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO MARR MASS AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
05ROME3187LEHAY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING GUIDANCE/ACES
[...] The Italian military screens the criminal and security background of all persons who join the armed forces. Service members selected as candidates to U.S. sponsored training programs undergo a rigorous selection process. There is no credible evidence that the Italian military establishment ha [...]
2005-09-23 14:57:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR KSEP HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME3802GOI SIGNS BLANKET END-USE, RETRANSFER, AND
[...] (U) In May 2005, the Embassy delivered the USG verbal note transmitted in reftel to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). This note offered the GOI the opportunity to sign blanket end-use, retransfer, and security assurances for U.S.-origin defense articles, related training, or defense se [...]
2005-11-17 14:28:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDMASS IT EXPORT CONTROLS
05SANAA1036(U) AMEMBASSY CONOPS APPROVAL FOR YE2005JCET002N
[...] (S) AS REQUESTED IN REF A, AMEMBASSY SANA'A AND HOST NATION CONCUR WITH NSWU-3 CONCEPT FOR JCET YE2005JCET002N (REF A). 2. (S) AMEMBASSY SANA'A HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING MESSAGE WILL FOLLOW UNDER A SEPARATE MESSAGE.3. (OMC POC IS COLONEL MARK DEVLIN, COM 967-1-755-2079. [...]
2005-04-25 12:38:00Embassy SanaaSECRETMASS PHUM TC
05SANAA1301SALEH AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS KORAN DESECRATION
[...] (C) Summary. President Saleh convoked Ambassador for a brief meeting May 14. The President and Ambassador discussed the Koran desecration allegations, President Saleh's planned visit to Washington, and the status of ROYG requests for M-113 armored personnel carriers. True to his nature, Sale [...]
2005-05-15 13:48:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL MASS PTER KJUS YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA1500SCENESETTER FOR NAVCENT COMMANDER - VADM NICHOLS
[...] (S/NF) EMBASSY SANAA WARMLY WELCOMES THE VISIT OF NAVCENT COMMANDER, VADM NICHOLS, AND HIS STAFF JUNE 12-13. YOU WILL FIND THAT OPERATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM TRAINING AND MARITIME COOPERATION BETWEEN USG AND ROYG IS INCREASING. YOU WILL MEET WITH DEFENSE MINISTER, MAJOR GENERAL ABDULLAH ALI A [...]
2005-06-01 12:57:00Embassy SanaaSECRETMARR MASS MOPS YM COUNTER TERRORISM MARITIME SECURITY
05SANAA1534YEMEN: FUNDING FOR THE CSF-CTU
[...] (S) Summary. Post welcomes the opportunity to address the issue of including Yemen,s Central Security Force-Counter-Terrorism Unit (CSF-CTU) in Yemen,s FY 05, 06, and 07 Foreign Military Financing allocations. Post assesses that the inclusion of the CSF-CTU in FMF is an essential element in [...]
2005-06-07 10:12:00Embassy SanaaSECRETMASS PARM PREL YM YE COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA1587DFM NOMAN DISCUSSES ROYG PRESENCE IN BAGHDAD,
[...] (C) Summary. DCM met with Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman on June 12 to deliver ref A demarche on increasing ROYG diplomatic presence in Baghdad. Discussions also focused on proliferation of Yemen small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) and President Saleh's upcoming visit to Washington. E [...]
2005-06-14 06:10:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PARM MASS PTER IZ YM DEMARCHE COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA1688VADM NICHOLS MEETS WITH ROYG DEFENSE, INTERIOR
[...] (C) Summary. Visiting U.S. NAVCENT Commander Vice Admiral Nichols met with the Ministers of Defense and Interior and the Commander of the Yemen Coast Guard (YCG) on June 12, 2005. All three ROYG officials expressed their gratitude to the USG for its assistance in establishing and training th [...]
2005-06-18 13:39:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PARM MASS MCAP YM MARITIME SECURITY
05SANAA1868PRESIDENT SALEH REQUESTS MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-10 13:28:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALMASS PINR PREL YE
05SANAA2376MOD ON CONTROLLING SMALL ARMS AND EUCS
[...] (C) Summary. On August 13, Ambassador introduced the new Office of Military Cooperation (OMC) Chief during a meeting with Minister of Defense MG Abdallah Ali Aleiwa. Ambassador used the opportunity to discuss the importance of providing a long-range strategic security plan in order to more ef [...]
2005-08-16 08:42:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS YM
05SANAA2465CJTF HOA COMMANDER GHORMLEY VISITS MOD AND MOI
[...] (C) Summary. On August 23 Ambassador and visiting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) Commanding General, Major General (MGen) Timothy Ghormley met separately with Minister of Defense, Ali Abdullah Alewa, and Minister of Interior, Rashad al-Alimi. Both ministers commended the [...]
2005-08-29 14:39:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PTER PARM YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2487MOD DEMONSTRATES NEW FOUND COOPERATIVE SPIRIT IN
[...] (C) Summary. On August 28, Office of Military Cooperation (OMC) Chief met with Minister of Defense MG Abdallah Ali Aleiwa, Director of Military Intelligence BG Ali Ahmed Al-Sayyani, and Commander of the Yemen Special Operations Forces (YSOF) Colonel Ahmed Saleh. At the behest of President Sa [...]
2005-08-31 11:56:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MASS YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2507SALEH COOPERATIVE ON CT, LOOKS FOR ECONOMIC REWARDS
[...] (S) Summary: Ambassador met President Saleh September 4 in preparation for APHAS/CT Townsend's September 6 visit to Yemen, and Saleh's November trip to Washington. Ambassador said the highest priorities for discussion include CT and security cooperation, economic reform and development, and [...]
2005-09-05 12:26:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MASS ECON PARM YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2531DCM VISITS MUKALLA, ENCOURAGES SUPPORT FOR COAST
[...] (C) On August 30, DCM visited the eastern port city of Mukalla to encourage regional support for the planned expansion of the Yemeni Coast Guard (YCG). In meetings with the Hadramaut governor, MOI Chief of Security, and Eastern Military Region Deputy Commander, DCM stressed the importance of [...]
2005-09-07 14:53:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS ENRG YM MARITIME SECURITY
05SANAA2796AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO MUKALLA SPARKS REQUESTS FOR
[...] (C) Summary: On September 12-13, Ambassador visited the Hadramaut governorate capital and port city of Mukalla. In meetings with the Deputy Commander of the Eastern Military Region, university faculty, NGO activists and political and business leaders, Ambassador was repeatedly urged to increa [...]
2005-09-21 10:39:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS ENRG KMPI YM MARITIME SECURITY ECON COM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA2822ROYG PRESENTS DRAFT MEMORANDUM ON BI-LATERAL
[...] (C) Summary: During a September 18 meeting with Ambassador, Foreign Minister Abubakr Qirbi presented a draft "Memorandum of Intention" establishing a framework for future US-Yemen cooperation (reftel). The memorandum outlines broad guidelines for cooperation on counter-terrorism, political i [...]
2005-09-24 15:20:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PTER MASS YM COUNTER TERRORISM COM
05SANAA2912MOI ALIMI DISCUSSES OIL TERMINAL SECURITY AND
[...] (C) Summary: In a October 3 meeting with Ambassador and Office of Military Cooperation (OMC) Chief, Interior Minister Rashad Alimi discussed security arrangements for the Safer oil terminal and the transfer of protection duties to the Yemen Coast Guard (YCG). Alimi stated that the YCG, a M [...]
2005-10-09 13:11:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS YM MARITIME SECURITY ENERGY
05SANAA2956CJTF HOA COMMANDER GHORMLEY VISITS ADEN
[...] (U) Summary. On October 1, visiting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) Commander MG Timothy Ghormley and Ambassador traveled to Aden for meetings with the Governor of Aden, Yemen Coast Guard (YCG) and regional military commanders. MG Ghormley and Ambassador also participate [...]
2005-10-12 11:25:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS PARM YM MARITIME SECURITY
05SANAA2996AMBASSADOR DELIVERS ARMS BROKERS DEMARCHE
[...] (S) Summary. On October 16, Ambassador, along with UK Ambassador Michael Gifford, delivered ref A demarche to Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Qirbi expressing concern over the continued use of Yemeni arms dealers to procure weapons on behalf of the Ministry of Defense (MOD). He noted that MOD appe [...]
2005-10-17 11:37:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PARM PTER ETTC MASS YM DEMARCHE COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3136SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT SALEH'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary: President Ali Abdullah Saleh arrives in Washington looking for increased military support and economic deliverables for Yemen, while at home he has shown little willingness to make the tough decisions necessary for the future of his country. Yemen remains an important regional [...]
2005-10-26 13:41:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KDEM ECON EAID MASS MARR PINS YM COUNTER TERRORISM DOMESTIC POLITICS DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA3231SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ABIZAID'S VISIT TO YEMEN
[...] (C) Welcome back to Sanaa. Although Yemen remains an important regional partner in the GWOT with a post-9/11 string of CT successes, cooperation on this front has not been perfect -- a point that was made clear to President Saleh during his visit to Washington last week. You will be the fi [...]
2005-11-14 13:09:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPTER PREL MASS MARR OVIP YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3233SCENESETTER FOR LTG WHITCOMB'S VISIT TO SANAA
[...] (C) Welcome to Sanaa. We have requested meetings for you with Minister of Defense MG Abdullah Ali Aliwa, Minister of Interior Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi, and Commander of the Yemeni Special Operations Forces (YSOF) Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh. Chief of Staff MG Mohammed al-Qassemi is currently in [...]
2005-11-14 13:39:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MARR MASS YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3430LTG WHITCOMB DISCUSSES MILITARY COOPERATION WITH
[...] (C). Summary. Visiting U.S. ARCENT Commander LTG Whitcomb met with the Ministers of Defense and Interior on November 29. Both Ministers expressed their gratitude for USG assistance in strengthening Yemen's ability to combat terrorism. LTG Whitcomb thanked the ROYG for its support in the GW [...]
2005-12-10 07:52:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3470RESTORING ESF FUNDS IS A PRIORITY FOR THE GWOT IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: If current budget allocations hold, Yemen will lose all but its military assistance funding for FY06. Economic Support Funds (ESF) have been reduced to zero, and Yemen's participation in the Millenium Challenge Account (MCA) Threshold Program was suspended. In addition, Yemen w [...]
2005-12-13 13:00:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAID MASS YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3588ESTABLISHING A SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICER IN YEMEN
[...] (C) Department of Defense (DOD) personnel posted in Yemen have been instrumental in supporting both the Department and post's goals of improving Yemen's capacity to combat terrorism. The combined use of diplomacy and military cooperation is a cornerstone of our engagement policy. Through the [...]
2005-12-27 10:30:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPTER MASS YM
05SANAA36GENERAL ABIZAID'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SALEH
[...] (C) Summary. USCENTCOM Commander General Abizaid met with President Saleh on January 4. Discussions centered on Iraqi elections, regional security, and U.S.-Yemen cooperation in the GWOT. Both agreed that U.S.-Yemen joint security efforts should continue and increase in the new year, with Ab [...]
2005-01-06 10:16:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PTER MASS IZ YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA894SALEH DISCUSSES SECURITY CONCERNS WITH AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) Summary. President Saleh convoked Ambassador the morning of April 9 to discuss renewed fighting in Saada. Saleh immediately launched into requests for USG political and military support for ROYG efforts to defeat al-Houthi rebels in the north. Reiterating an argument he used during last [...]
2005-04-10 13:46:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MASS KPAO YM COUNTER TERRORISM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA917AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TERRORIST THREAT, SAADA WITH
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador and Foreign Minister Qirbi met on April 9 to discuss the current threat environment for Americans in Sanaa as well as the situation in Saada. Following up on Ambassador's meeting with President Saleh earlier the same day, the FM listed needed USG assistance in combatin [...]
2005-04-12 13:16:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PTER MASS YM COUNTER TERRORISM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA99GENERAL ABIZAID MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary. General Abizaid met with Minister of Defense Alaiwa and Chief of Staff Qassemi on January 4. Abizaid briefed Alaiwa on current USG priorities in the region: The political transition in Iraq, continued worldwide pressure on al-Qaida, and resumption of the Peace Process. Alaiwa rai [...]
2005-01-16 10:57:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL MASS MCAP PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANJOSE2106ARTICLE 98 WORRIES REKINDLED IN COSTA RICA
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Tovar told Charge that an Article 98 agreement would not be approved in Costa Rica. He was concerned, however, about the impact of the American Servicemembers' Protection Act (ASPA) and the Nethercutt Amendment on important U.S. assistance that Costa Rica had been receivi [...]
2005-09-09 23:40:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MASS CS KICC
05SANJOSE2717COSTS OF NOT HAVING AN ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT ARE
[...] (C) The GOCR, though not philosophically opposed to providing the United States with the protections contained in an Article 98 agreement, faces serious political and constitutional impediments, which have for the last two and a half years prevented an agreement from being concluded. Meanwhile [...]
2005-11-23 22:18:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS ETRD EAID CS KICC
05SANSALVADOR2033EL SALVADOR: WILLING GLOBAL PEACE OPS INITIATIVE (GPOI) PARTNER
[...] (SBU) Reftel demarche was delivered to Foreign Minister by Ambassador and to Minister of Defense (MOD) by MILGP Commander on July 13. On July 14, Ambassador also hand delivered to FM, who is in Washington with Ambassador for the Saca/Bush meeting, a non-paper summarizing Ref B background on G [...]
2005-07-15 18:30:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO MARR MASS PREL ES UNGA
05SANSALVADOR3537REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN FORCES PARTICIPATING IN TRAINING
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates: Name: XXXXXXXXXXXX Date of Birth: 11 February 1959 Place of Birth: San Salvador 3. Post has reviewed avail [...]
2005-12-21 17:14:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
05SANSALVADOR3539REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. Please review the following list; Post included name, date and place of birth for your reference. All individuals are male. X [...]
2005-12-21 18:55:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
05SANTIAGO2349AMBASSADOR INFORMS SENIOR FOREIGN MINISTRY
[...] (S) The Ambassador met with Foreign Ministry Director General for External Affairs Carlos Portales on November 16 to deliver reftel points. The Ambassador noted the U.S. continued to be concerned about the destabilizing effect Venezuela's arms acquisitions could have on the region. As a resu [...]
2005-11-16 20:04:00Embassy SantiagoSECRETMARR MASS PARM VE CI
05SANTIAGO2573PRESIDENT LAGOS ASKS U.S AND CHILE TO EXPEDITE
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 12. 2. (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Walker conveyed to the Ambassador on December 23 President Lagos' desire for the U.S. and Chile to find a satisfactory solution that would avoid a cut-off of aid under ASPA when Chile ratifies the ICC. Walker sai [...]
2005-12-23 18:46:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL PGOV CI
05SANTODOMINGO3898MANPADS CONTROL AND SECURITY GUIDELINES -
[...] (S/NF) Summary: There are no MANPADS in the weapons inventories of the armed forces of the Dominican Republic, nor are any known to exist within the country. The Dominican Government does have import)export controls on arms purchases, but high levels of corruption call into question the effe [...]
2005-08-05 12:34:00Embassy Santo DomingoSECRET//NOFORNPARM MASS EAIR ETTC PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO4794MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS:
[...] Embassy has received a diplomatic note dated October 21 from the Dominican Republic's MFA accepting the proposed language change to the 1974 bilateral agreement on net proceeds from sales of items provided under grant military assistance, to conform to Section 505(f) of the Foreign Assistance [...]
2005-10-27 14:04:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR DR KTIA PGOV
05SINGAPORE178SFA: AMB LAVIN CALLS ON DEFENSE MINISTER TEO
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Lavin reviewed with Defense Minister Teo Chee Hean progress to date in negotiations on the U.S.-Singapore Strategic Framework Agreement, in a meeting December 30. The Ambassador expressed the frustration the U.S. government felt at the current stage of discussions, in [...]
2005-01-19 10:04:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS SN
05SOFIA1808BULGARIA CONFIRMS MANPADS COMPONENTS SHIPPED,
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The GOB confirmed that 50 MANPADS components were shipped to Egypt after the conclusion of a U.S.-Bulgarian bilateral agreement intended to take Bulgaria out of the commercial MANPADS business. The GOB maintains it never committed to preventing this sale and claims a misunderstan [...]
2005-10-20 06:52:00Embassy SofiaSECRETPARM PREL MASS MARR BG
05SOFIA1858BULGARIA NARROWS ITS MILITARY PRIORITIES, BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The MOD has finally managed to narrow from eleven to three its list of top-priority modernization projects. Multi-role fighters are not among them. The decision reflects belated acceptance by the MOD of the Finance Minister's argument that there is not enough money in next year' [...]
2005-10-28 14:00:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL BU NATO
05SOFIA187BULGARIAN DEFENSE MINISTER SIGNS SUSPECT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite a letter from the Ambassador questioning the adequacy of the process used to select the winning bidder, Defense Minister Svinarov signed January 28 a deal worth up to USD 400 million for the purchase of 18 Cougar and Panther helicopters from EADS. Sikorsky Helicopter was [...]
2005-01-31 15:53:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL BEXP ETRD KCOR BU NATO
05SOFIA27BULGARIA PUSHES FOR MILITARY SALES TO IRAQ
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In another sign that Bulgarian political leaders are agressively looking for concrete benefits from their military participation in Iraq, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Lydia Shuleva met with Ambassador and the Iraqi Ambassador to Bulgaria, Hayder Al Barrack, on Jan [...]
2005-01-05 15:31:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV PL IZ BU
05SOFIA677BULGARIA OFFERS TO PROVIDE DEFENSE ARTICLES TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the past year, Bulgarian political leaders have aggressively looked for concrete benefits from their military participation in Iraq. Most recently, the Prime Minister raised the issue with Deputy Secretary Zoellick (ref A). Post has noted that contracts and subcontracts awarded [...]
2005-04-08 14:24:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV PL IZ BU
05STATE131486LEAHY VETTING GUIDANCE/ACES UP AND RUNNING
[...] Summary: The Abuse Case Evaluation System (ACES),which is the Department's new software application to compile and track human rights abuses worldwide, is now operational. ACES is a clearinghouse of human rights- related reporting, which will facilitate the management of human rights abuse a [...]
2005-07-14 23:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKSEP MASS PINR PREL AADP
05STATE225765POSTING OF LEAHY VETTING GUIDE
[...] The Deparment is pleased to announce that a new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on Leahy Vetting is now posted on the Abuse Case Evaluation System (ACES) website at http://aces.state.sgov.gov/. This document serves as a practical user's guide for implementation of the Leahy Law at posts an [...]
2005-12-15 21:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PINR PINS PREL MASS KCRM SNAR
05TAIPEI1026 DEFENSE PROCUREMENT SPECIAL BUDGET: PREPPING FOR
[...] (C) Summary. The revised Defense Procurement Special Budget is still under discussion within the Executive Yuan (EY) in preparation for formal submission to the Legislative Yuan (LY). The Special Budget proposal that the Ministry of National Defense (MND) sent to the EY in February reduced [...]
2005-03-09 09:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS TW
05TAIPEI1112SPECIAL BUDGET POLITICS: NO PLAN TO SPLIT PACKAGE
[...] (C) Summary: National Security Council (NSC) officials denied March 11 press reports that the Ministry of National Defense (MND) is preparing to remove PAC-III anti-air systems from the special defense procurement budget package awaiting approval by the Legislative Yuan (LY). The Chen adminis [...]
2005-03-15 12:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR PGOV CH TW
05TAIPEI1201SPECIAL DEFENSE BUDGET FACING POLITICAL MINEFIELD
[...] (C) Summary: A Pan-Blue leadership vacuum, political posturing by key legislators, and a hostile media environment may pose major barriers to early legislative action on the government's proposed special defense procurement budget. The Executive Yuan (EY) on March 16 slashed the funding reques [...]
2005-03-21 10:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR CH TW
05TAIPEI1514SPECIAL DEFENSE BUDGET REMAINS STUCK IN PROCEDURE
[...] (C) Summary: The KMT and People First Party (PFP) rejected the government's request to place the special defense procurement budget on the Legislative Yuan (LY) calendar during a March 29 meeting of the Procedure Committee. This was the second week in a row that the committee refused to place [...]
2005-03-29 11:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV TW
05TAIPEI1803SPECIAL BUDGET REMAINS IN POLITICAL LIMBO
[...] (C) Summary. Rising political discord among Taiwan political parties is complicating prospects for passage of the Defense Procurement Special Budget in the Legislative Yuan (LY). The political parties are largely focused inward on the domestic political debate and jockeying for short-term p [...]
2005-04-15 09:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR TW
05TAIPEI1849SOONG ON SPECIAL BUDGET AND UPCOMING PRC VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 19 meeting with the AIT Director, People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong said his party would allow the USD 18 billion Special Defense Budget to pass at the end of the current Legislative Yuan session in late May/early June despite lingering doubts over portion [...]
2005-04-20 08:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PGOV PREL TW
05TAIPEI1872KMT CHAIRMAN ON SPECIAL BUDGET AND PRC TRIP
[...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Lien Chan told the AIT Director on April 21 that the KMT's support for passage of the Special Defense Budget at a reduced funding level remained unchanged from what he pledged to the Director during their January 12 meeting. Lien said, however, that all negotiations [...]
2005-04-21 10:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PGOV PREL TW
05TAIPEI1892KMT MAINLAND AFFAIRS CHIEF ON LIEN'S PRC TRIP
[...] (C) Summary: KMT Mainland Affairs Director Chang Jung-kung told AIT on April 21 that the primary purpose of KMT Chairman Lien Chan's upcoming PRC visit was to reach a cross-Strait peace consensus rather than to talk about trade liberalization. Chang pointed out that economic issues had alrea [...]
2005-04-22 09:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PGOV PINR PREL TW
05TAIPEI2554Congressman Kennedy Urges LY Chairman Wang Jin-pyng
[...] (SBU) Summary: Congressman Mark Kennedy (R-MN) met with Taiwanese Legislative Yuan Chairman Wang Jin-pyng on June 4, 2005. Wang expressed his hopes for a U.S.-Taiwan free trade agreement (FTA) and asked the Congressman for his support. Congressman Kennedy, in turn, raised concerns over the S [...]
2005-06-10 07:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PINS PREL MASS ETRD CH TW
05TAIPEI2555President Chen Tells Congressman Mark Kennedy He
[...] (SBU) Congressman Mark Kennedy from Minnesota's Sixth District met with Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian June 5 during a two-day trip to Taiwan. Kennedy praised Taiwan opening its beef market to U.S. imports and progress on the protection of intellectual property. He recommended relaxation of [...]
2005-06-10 07:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PINS PREL MASS ETRD EINV CH TW
05TAIPEI2556Congressman Mark Kennedy and Foreign Minister Chen
[...] (SBU) Congressman Mark Kennedy from Minnesota's Sixth District met with Taiwan Foreign Minister Mark Chen (Chen Tan-sun) June 5 during a two-day trip to Taiwan, covering many of the same issues he discussed with President Chen and Legislative Yuan Chairman Wang Jin-pyng (reported septels). Con [...]
2005-06-10 07:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PINS PREL MASS ETRD EINV CH TW
05TAIPEI3551DEFENSE PROCUREMENT SPECIAL BUDGET: A PRIMER ON
[...] (C) Summary. A reduced and reconfigured Defense Procurement Special Budget will be re-introduced in the regular Legislative Yuan (LY) session that begins September 13. The Presidential office informed AIT yesterday, August 24, that President Chen personally was responsible for the decision [...]
2005-08-25 09:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MASS MARR TW
05TAIPEI4415 DEFENSE SPECIAL BUDGET: OPTIONS FOR RECONFIGURA-
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Defense Procurement Special Budget is stuck in legislative limbo until at least the December 3 Taiwan local elections. Government and opposition leaders offer varying explanations about what changes are, or are not, possible. As the U.S. seeks to understand and influence [...]
2005-11-01 09:09:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MASS MARR TW
05TAIPEI4598TAIWAN'S DEFENSE BUDGET AND ELECTION POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary. The cancellation last week of funding for PAC-III missiles and of preparatory funds for the Defense Special Budget was in part a product of the increasingly contentious political campaign for Taiwan's December 3 elections. There is still scattered talk of possible forward movem [...]
2005-11-16 09:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS TW
05TAIPEI4920 TAIWAN DEFENSE PROCUREMENT AFTER THE KMT ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary. In the aftermath of the landslide KMT victory in local elections on December 3, tentative efforts have emerged to move forward Taiwan's long-stalled Defense Special Budget. Some KMT legislators have indicated a willingness to reconsider the Special Budget weapons systems (P-3C s [...]
2005-12-20 03:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MASS MARR PINR TW
05TAIPEI4926SURPRISE DPP LEGISLATIVE ATTACK MOVES DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took advantage of a temporary majority in the Legislative Yuan (LY) on December 20 to put the Defense Procurement Special Budget on the LY agenda after sixteen months of gridlock. Opposition Pan-Blue parties reacted in shock and ang [...]
2005-12-20 09:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR MASS TW
05TAIPEI4961 STATUS QUO ANTE: TAIWAN LEGISLATURE RETURNS
[...] (C) Summary. In a straight Blue-Green coalition vote on December 23, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (LY) returned the Defense Procurement Special Budget to the LY Procedure Committee where it had languished for the preceding sixteen months. The Ministry of National Defense (MND) has indicated wi [...]
2005-12-23 08:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MASS MARR TW
05TEGUCIGALPA1181MEDIA REACTION ON JOINT U.S.-HONDURAN MILITARY BASE
[...] On 05/29 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Habencio Varela Montoya entitled "Important for Hondurans." "Brothers in pain and misery, to take decisions at the national level must be our alternative in light of the precarious economic situation in our countr [...]
2005-06-02 16:05:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAIR EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1291MEDIA REACTION ON MCC, BOLIVIA AND ECUADOR, JUNE
[...] On 06/14 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "The fringe of risk." "We've been insisting that if we do not take care of the roots of these ungovernability crises in these countries. The hemisphere's democracy will experience serious backslidings suc [...]
2005-06-17 13:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1292MEDIA REACTION ON MCC, JUNE 15, 2005
[...] The San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an editorial entitled "Compensation?" "New reports have been flooding in and reactions towards them have multiplied, bringing about an optimistic ambience that could deviate attention on fundamental problems and wrap us up in an ill [...]
2005-06-17 13:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1311MEDIA REACTION ON MCC AND G-8, JUNE 17, 2005
[...] Op-ed by Tulio Mariano Gonzales Garcia in San Pedro Sula- based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 6/17, entitled "From Debt Relief to Development." "The verbal campaign for relieving the suffering of the poor moves forward while, at the same time, achieving the goal of the Millennium to reduce extreme [...]
2005-06-20 20:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1326MEDIA REACTION ON G-8 DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 21,
[...] On 6/21 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an editorial entitled "Politicians and Debt Forgiveness." "The debt forgiveness issue has already entered political campaigns." "The two candidates of the traditional parties have already talked about multilateral organiza [...]
2005-06-21 22:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1327MEDIA REACTION ON MCC AND G-8, JUNE 20, 2005
[...] On 06/14 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Juan Mendingo entitled "The true external debt." "It's a good thing that our government got debt forgiveness from Paris Club and now from the G-8, composed of the most powerful nations of the world." "From what [...]
2005-06-22 13:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1332MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 22, 2005
[...] On 6/21 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an editorial entitled "External debt forgiveness." "In the last few days the country has accomplished a great triumph. The annual payments that the country had with international organizations and countries will substantiall [...]
2005-06-22 19:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1372MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 27, 2005
[...] On 6/27 an op-ed by Mario R. Alvarado in Tegucigalpa- based moderate daily "El Heraldo," titled "Debt Forgiveness." "Putting into practice the partial and generous debt forgiveness of the heavily indebted poor countries means a sure loss of our state's businesses and our natural resources tha [...]
2005-06-28 15:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1380MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 28, 2005
[...] The Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Juan Ramon Martinez entitled "Debt Forgiveness and Wealth Creation." "Debt forgiveness is a governmental and legislative success but has been received by some in a strange way." "It was during Carlos Roberto Reina's gove [...]
2005-06-29 14:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1384MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JUNE 29, 2005
[...] The Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Rene Duron Escoto entitled "Debt Forgiveness or Condemnation." "When the agricultural workers and farmers talked about the government's debt forgiveness I warned many of them that DEBT FORGIVENESS is a CONDEMNATION and it [...]
2005-06-29 18:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1423MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS AND IMF, JULY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-06 20:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1447MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 11, 2005
[...] On 07/09 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried an editorial entitled "Successful Summit." "The shadow of the terrorist attacks in London couldn't dull the historical results of the G-8 summit in which the debt forgiveness was ratified and $50 million in aid was promised to [...]
2005-07-12 15:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1462GHOSTS OF HONDURAS' PAST; MANPADS AND THE OAS
[...] (S) Honduras does not/not possess any MANPADS. Please remove Honduras from the list. During the last two years, the Honduran military has discovered two MANPADS left from the 1980s in comprehensive inventory exercises. There was no prior knowledge of their existence. When cleaning out the [...]
2005-07-13 19:58:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPARM MASS EAIR ETTC PREL HO OAS
05TEGUCIGALPA1470MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, ENEE AND MCC,
[...] On 07/14 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried an editorial entitled "Reactions on Debt Forgiveness." "Even though there is still a lot to clarify about real amounts, terms and new debts, the external debt forgiveness has brought hope again to the country and gave it the b [...]
2005-07-15 14:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1472MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 13, 2005
[...] On 07/13 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an op-ed by Amilcar Santamaria, educational and diplomatic journalist, entitled "The Debt Forgiveness Party." "While the citizenry is anguished by the announcement of a new increase in transport prices and the poor begin to l [...]
2005-07-15 14:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1473MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, NICARAGUA AND
[...] On 07/12 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried an op-ed by Gaspar Vallecillo Molina entitled "Debt Forgiveness and Poverty." "Since an important debt forgiveness has been talked about an infinity of opinions arose." "If we don't have enough to pay off the debt how are we [...]
2005-07-15 14:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1498MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 15, 2005
[...] On 07/15, the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" published an editorial entitled "Consultation." "President Maduro has begun a consultative process to find out how the 4 billion Lempiras received through the cancellation of our multilateral debt will be used next year. It's already b [...]
2005-07-19 14:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1499MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 18, 2005
[...] On 7/17 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an op-ed by Anibal Delgado entitled "Debt Forgiveness Funds." "To use debt forgiveness' freed funds correctly is a great challenge for Hondurans. Among all the accumulated problems of the last 50 years, which should be taken [...]
2005-07-19 14:23:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1521MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 21, 2005
[...] On 07/21 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled "Beginning When?" "Because some government people are taking all the credit for debt forgiveness and also have an attitude that denies past governments' recognition on the matter and blaming it for `brea [...]
2005-07-22 22:45:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1525MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 25, 2005
[...] On 07/25 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Oscar Lanza Rosales entitled "Debt Relief needs to benefit the Poorest of the Poor" "The rich countries that make up the G-8 have forgiven the debt of Honduras, approximately 60% of the foreign debt and equivale [...]
2005-07-26 19:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1554MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 26, 2005
[...] On 07/26 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Orlando Henriquez entitled "Funds." "According to newspapers and President Maduro `the electoral period presents a danger to the funds available under debt relief.' The newspapers are concerned that much of the [...]
2005-07-29 14:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1555MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 27, 2005
[...] On 07/27 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Gustavo Adolfo Aguilar, former UNAH professor and member of AUNA (Unity for our America Association) entitled "Debt Forgiveness and the Fight against Poverty." "Only recently, and with the help of the World Bank [...]
2005-07-29 14:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1556MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 26, 2005
[...] On 07/26 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Orlando Henriquez entitled "Funds." "According to newspapers and President Maduro `the electoral period presents a danger to the funds available under debt relief.' The newspapers are concerned that much of the [...]
2005-07-29 14:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1563MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 25, 2005
[...] On 07/25 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Oscar Lanza Rosales entitled "Debt Relief Needs to Benefit the Poorest of the Poor." "The rich countries that make up the G-8 have forgiven the debt of Honduras, approximately 60% of the foreign debt, equivalent [...]
2005-07-29 17:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1564MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, JULY 28, 2005
[...] On 07/28 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" carried an op-ed by Dr. Nicolas Odeh-Nasrala entitled "Debt Forgiveness and Poverty Reduction." "In a television forum on the use of debt relief funds, the president of BCH (Honduran Central Bank),Gustavo Alfaro, representatives of F [...]
2005-07-29 17:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1575HONDURAS READY AND WILLING FOR GLOBAL PEACE
[...] (SBU) Acting PolChief demarched MFA Acting Director General (A/DG) of Foreign Relations Alan Javier Oviedo Garcia July 19 and delivered ref A talking points on the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI). A/DG Oviedo asked if the U.S. Government was demarching any other countries in the C [...]
2005-07-27 18:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALKPKO MARR MASS PREL PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1632MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, AUGUST 1JULY
[...] On 08/01 The San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" published an op-ed by Eduardo David Ardon entitled "How to Utilize Debt Relief." "President Ricardo Maduro, industrialists, labor organizations, political parties, and all of Honduran society continue to express their opinions on the wa [...]
2005-08-04 22:43:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1684MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, AUGUST 9, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-12 17:28:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1693SEND LAWYERS, FUNDS AND GUNNY: SA/LW DESTRUCTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Department of State Small Arms and Light Weapons (SA/LW) program officer (PM/WRA) and Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) ordnance destruction team visited Honduras August 1-5 to review possible future technical assistance. Team and PolMilOff met with Vice Minis [...]
2005-08-12 23:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PARM PREL PTER MOPS SNAR KLIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1746MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, AUGUST 22, 2005
[...] On 08/22 the Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" ran an op-ed by Juan Carlos Elvir, mayor of Santa Rosa de Copan, entitled "Keys for the Future of Honduras." "There is no doubt that the subject of the moment is the external debt relief which creates a lot of expectations about our fu [...]
2005-08-22 23:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1753HONDURAN MOD REQUESTS SA/LW DTRA SEMINARS FROM
[...] (SBU) This is an Action request for PM/WRA and DTRA: Post requests that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) provide the Government of Honduras (GOH) with Physical Security and Stockpile Management Program (PSSMP) seminars. Post received a formal request from Minister of Defense Federic [...]
2005-08-23 22:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL MARR MASS PTER MOPS SNAR KLIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1773MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, AUGUST 23, 2005
[...] On 07/26 the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily, "La Tribuna," published an op-ed by Oscar Antonio Oyuela entitled "I Can't!" "We are an undeveloped country because we have a `negativism syndrome' and prejudices such as: `I'm embarrassed to do that' or `I can't.' If we don't change our mentalit [...]
2005-08-25 22:16:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1884MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE: ARTICLE 505 EXCHANGE OF
[...] (SBU) On August 12, PolMilOff and MILGP Commander briefed Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (VMFA) Juan Alberto Lara Bueso, a member of the Honduran Armed Forces (HOAF) - representing both the HOAF and the Ministry of Defense (MOD),and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General of [...]
2005-09-13 22:50:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PGOV KTIA PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2249HONDURAN MOD REQUESTS SA/LW DESTRUCTION AND
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-02 19:48:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MASS PREL MARR PTER MOPS SNAR KLIG HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2495MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, DECEMBER 13,
[...] On 12/13 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an op-ed by Hernando Carcamo entitled "Debt Forgiveness." "Something that our leaders should be clear on is that if we got debt forgiveness it was to relieve the burden of annual payments. It is necessary to make decisions [...]
2005-12-13 20:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2575MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, DECEMBER 22,
[...] On 12/22 an editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo," titled "Debt Forgiveness and our Future." "The main success of the outgoing government is the forgiveness of our external debt as a result of the great sacrifices made by the majority of the people to achieve an agreement [...]
2005-12-23 15:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2585MEDIA REACTION ON DEBT FORGIVENESS, DECEMBER 27,
[...] On 12/27 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "La Prensa" published an editorial entitled "Debt Forgiveness." "Debt relief is forgiving, it isn't a synonym for repatriating money, having more loans, or for the government to use it freely." "In this debt forgiveness lottery we are not inclu [...]
2005-12-27 21:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAID HO
05TEGUCIGALPA996MEDIA REACTION ON JOINT U.S.-HONDURAN MILITARY BASE
[...] On 05/09, the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" carried an editorial entitled "Palmerola." "For many years Comayagua's agricultural workers have asked the government to use the military airport of Palmerola for transporting their goods to the U.S. and other markets, in order to save [...]
2005-05-11 13:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO PGOV MASS EAIR EAID HO
05TELAVIV1814ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER CAUTIONS ARMS INDUSTRY ON
[...] (S) Israeli Defense Ministry Director General Amos Yaron told the Ambassador on March 24 that Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz had strongly cautioned representatives from Israeli defense firms about ties with China. According to Yaron, Mofaz said that senior MOD approval is required before Israel [...]
2005-03-24 14:46:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL MCAP MASS CH IS MILITARY RELATIONS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV45(C) PM'S ADVISOR ON RENEWED REPARATIONS CLAIMS
[...] (C) Summary: A GOI working group charged with developing a five-year plan on Holocaust-era reparations, pensions and restitution is considering a recommendation that the GOI ask Germany for about $500 million -- possibly in the form of new German-made submarines -- in compensation for what the GOI [...]
2005-01-04 14:07:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALECON PREL MASS PL IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV5137A/S WELCH'S MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOD'S GILAD
[...] (S) Israeli Defense Ministry Political Security Director Amos Gilad confirmed to visiting NEA A/S Welch and Ambassador Kurtzer August 16 that Egypt and Israel had reached a general agreement on the deployment of 750 Egyptian Border Guards along the Egypt-Gaza border. Israeli DefMin Mofaz is e [...]
2005-08-19 11:05:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL MARR MASS PARM KPAL KWBG PGOV PINR EG IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5794NEA DAS DIBBLE'S 9/20 MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOD'S
[...] (S) Israeli MOD Political-Military Affairs Bureau Chief Amos Gilad told NEA DAS Elizabeth Dibble September 19 that the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) is a pillar of the recently-concluded Egypt-Israel agreement on the Egypt-Gaza border and performs a vital role monitoring changes alon [...]
2005-09-21 03:53:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PINR MARR MASS PARM KPAL PGOV IS EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5864AMB. JONES' 9/26 MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOD'S GILAD
[...] (S/NF) In a September 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Israeli MOD Political-Military Bureau Chief Amos Gilad indicated that his September 25 meetings in Egypt to discuss the Rafah passage on the Egypt-Gaza border yielded no breakthroughs. Gilad said the Israelis prefer to open Rafah passage a [...]
2005-09-27 16:56:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR MASS KPAL KWBG EG IS GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV6397MOD'S AMOS GILAD SAYS HE WILL PUSH TO GET GAZAN
[...] (C) Israeli MOD POL-MIL Bureau Director Amos Gilad told the Ambassador November 8 that (a) he will work vigorously to ensure that this year's harvest from Gaza is allowed to pass through the Qarni crossing between Gaza and Israel so that it can be distributed to markets beyond; and (b) he will [...]
2005-11-08 16:14:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV KPAL KWBG MARR MASS EG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV6751SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR BROOKS' DECEMBER 6-9
[...] (C) Mr. Ambassador: Your visit to Israel will be taking place at a time when Israel's domestic political situation is in flux and progress is being made on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Anxiety in Israel is high about Iran and its nuclear weapons program, political instability in Syria and [...]
2005-12-02 12:38:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV PTER EAID ENRG ETTC MASS OTRA PARM TRGY TSPL GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV6798ISRAELI MOD DG TOREN ON NOVEMBER 14 AGREEMENT
[...] (C) Israeli MOD Director General Jacob Toren told the Ambassador December 5, only hours after the deadly Netanya suicide bombing, that his people are sparing no effort to implement their undertakings vis-a-vis the Palestinians per the November 14 agreement brokered by Secretary Rice. Toren co [...]
2005-12-06 17:18:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PARM MARR MASS KPAL KWBG ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV7002ISRAELI PM'S MILITARY ADVISER REVIEWS REGION,
[...] (S) Major General Gadi Shamni -- Israeli PM Sharon's military adviser -- told the Ambassador that the U.S. should continue to lead the international community to diplomatically pressure Iran to abandon its program. If a military solution were required, Shamni said he believes the U.S. could d [...]
2005-12-19 12:38:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PINR PARM MARR MASS MNUC KPAL SY EG LE IR GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05THEHAGUE1925PALESTINIAN SECURITY/NETHERLANDS: DUTCH DONATION
[...] (SBU) Acting POLCOUNS and Poloff discussed reftel demarche with the MFA on June 30 and July 7. Astrid Zonneveld (MFA Action Officer for security policy) told A/POLCOUNS that the GoNL would provide up to 500,000 euro to support the Ward Mission, drawing on the Security Policy Bureau's discre [...]
2005-07-07 13:30:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL KWBG IS NL PKPAL
05THEHAGUE2665NETHERLANDS: ENCOURAGING UKRAINE TO RATIFY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-04 14:58:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MASS UP NL NATO
05THEHAGUE2860NETHERLANDS: NATO SUPPORT TO PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE
[...] (C) National Security Advisor Rob Swartbol said October 21 that the Dutch are considering deploying a field hospital in conjunction with the Czechs as part of the international assistance relief efforts. The deployment could happen in "about a week" once the Dutch and Czechs finalize plans, he [...]
2005-10-21 13:38:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK NL NATO
05THEHAGUE2934NETHERLANDS: NO MI-17 HELICOPTERS, EXPERTISE
[...] (C) DAO contacts confirm that the Netherlands does not have any MI-17s, spare parts or relevant maintenance expertise on this type of Russian helicopter, and will be unable to provide assistance with regard to Pakistan's request. SCHOFER [...]
2005-10-28 08:08:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC EAID IN PGOV PK PREF MASS NL NATO
05THEHAGUE2973NETHERLANDS/AFRICA: DASD WHELAN'S VISIT TO THE
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On October 14, DASD for African Affairs Theresa Whelan met with several representatives of the Dutch MFA and MOD. Discussion during the two meetings included GONL and USG involvement in SSR and DDR initiatives in South Africa, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC, as well as mutua [...]
2005-11-01 12:49:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP NL XA MASS MARR PGOV
05THEHAGUE3112NETHERLANDS/VENEZUELA: SEEKING PARITY TO OUR
[...] (S) On November 16, Polcouns shared reftel concerns of Venezuelan arms acquisitions with Robert de Groot (Head of the Office of Security Policy, MFA). De Groot said the Dutch understood U.S. concerns and were also troubled by Venezuelan activities. He added that the Dutch would continue to lo [...]
2005-11-17 14:49:00Embassy The HagueSECRETPREL PARM MARR MASS NL VE
05THEHAGUE3141NETHERLANDS/SOUTH AFRICA: READOUT OF DAVID
[...] (C) Summary: DOD Regional Director for Southern Africa David Radcliffe's November 10 visit to The Hague successfully followed up DASD Whelan's earlier meetings here by capitalizing on renewed Dutch interest in South Africa. Radcliffe's discussions with Dutch MFA and MOD interlocutors spurred [...]
2005-11-22 11:13:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP NL MASS XA
05TUNIS864TUNISIA: MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE: LEGAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-26 15:21:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PGOV KTIA TS
05VIENNA2647SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL EXPORT CONTROL CONFERENCE:
[...] Post sent reftel letter of invitation and draft schedule for the Seventh Annual International Export Control Conference to Helmut Krehlik from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor and to Franz Kocian from the Ministry of Interior, Federal Agency for the Protection of the Constitution a [...]
2005-08-05 14:22:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL KSTC MASS ETTC AU
05VIENNA3324ENCOURAGING UKRAINE TO RATIFY NATO-PFP TRUST FUND
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-07 14:40:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL MASS UP AU NATO
05VIENNA3427DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: NATO SUPPORT TO PAKISTAN
[...] (U) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on October 21 to Thomas Hajnoczi, the Austrian MFA's assistant secretary level Director for Political Military Affairs. 2. (C) Hajnoczi said Austria had reached the limits of its capabilities in deploying 60 troops from the elite NBC unit to the [...]
2005-10-21 15:41:00Embassy ViennaCONFIDENTIALASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK AU AMEMR NATO
05VILNIUS1050GOL WILL PRESS UKRAINE ON NATO MUNITIONS PROJECT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-03 14:59:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MASS UP LH
05VILNIUS1136GOL CONSIDERS ADDITIONAL AID TO PAKISTAN VIA NATO
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-21 15:58:00Embassy VilniusCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL LH
05VILNIUS253Lithuania Needs Night Vision Devices
[...] I would like to appeal for your assistance in taking a look at a policy that is effectively denying one of our staunchest allies in Iraq and Afghanistan the ability to fully realize its potential in supporting our interests. Lithuania has been seeking for several months the transfer of Night [...]
2005-03-10 15:52:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL LH
05VILNIUS313 Government of Lithuania request to purchase Dual
[...] Summary: The GOL requested an amendment to an existing contract for the Stinger missile system on 23 March 2005 in order to enhance NATO interoperability and realize a long- term cost savings over the life of the modified contract. Lithuania is requesting the purchase of eight Dual Mounted [...]
2005-03-23 14:31:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MCAP MASS LH
05VILNIUS429 Government of Lithuania request Requests for
[...] Summary: The GOL recently provided us with a formal request requested that the USG provide Generation III Night Vision Devices (NVDs) for their its troops deploying in support of a Provincial Reconstruction Tteam in Afghanistan and SOF troops preparing to support NATO NATO Reaction Forces -5 [...]
2005-04-25 09:42:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL LH
05VILNIUS498LITHUANIAN RESPONSE TO NIGHT VISION DEVICES ROADMAP
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-12 14:51:00Embassy VilniusCONFIDENTIALMASS ETTC MARR PREL LH
05VILNIUS5Lithuania's Acquisition of Night Vision Devices:
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. A U.S. vendor of advanced Night Vision Devices (NVDs) recently advised the Lithuanian government that its acquisition contravenes de facto USG policy. The apparent policy to deny new NATO members these devic [...]
2005-01-04 06:52:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL LH
05VILNIUS693LITHUANIA GRATEFUL FOR COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND
[...] The Ambassador informed GOL officials on June 30 of the decision to allocate USD 8 million in Coalition Solidarity Funds to Lithuania. In separate conversations, the Ambassador spoke with Minister of Defense Gediminas Kirkilas, Director of the MFA's America, Africa, Asia and Oceania Departme [...]
2005-07-01 12:47:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL PARM LH
05VILNIUS704GOL PROVIDES COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND WISH LIST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL provided us on July 5 an updated list of equipment it hopes to purchase with the USD $8 million in Coalition Solidarity Funds that Congress allocated to Lithuania. The GOL plans to use the money to bolster its force leading the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in A [...]
2005-07-07 13:57:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PARM LH
05WARSAW1521POLISH HELICOPTERS YET AGAIN
[...] (C) Summary. The Polish state-owned holding company, Bumar, continues to work with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense on helicopter contracts. Bumar understands that the contracts were amended at the insistence of U.S. military advisors, who Bumar believes were pressured to do so by American and [...]
2005-03-17 13:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MCAP PARM ECON IZ PL
05WARSAW2598ENGAGING THE IRAQ COALITION: NO CHANGE IN POLISH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland plans to reduce its military contingent in Iraq by roughly 300 for its fifth rotation that will begin in mid-July 2005, leaving approximately 1,400 Polish troops in the Multinational Division Center South (MND-CS). These troops will increasingly focus on training missions [...]
2005-06-17 13:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL IZ PL
05WARSAW3410POLISH RESPONSE REGARDING WEAPONS SALES TO
[...] (S) SUMMARY. Embassy delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Economy (MOE) and MFA officials responsible for export controls. Both ministries confirmed that there was an agreement with Indonesia for sale of the Kobra air defense system to Indonesia, but there were as yet no applications for [...]
2005-09-19 13:03:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MASS PL LY IN
05WARSAW3545TIME TO THINK SOFA FOR POLAND
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Warsaw recommends that the USG begin negotiations for a bilateral Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Poland as soon as possible. In the context of both NATO obligations and bilateral programs, U.S. military per [...]
2005-10-05 07:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKTIA MARR PREL MASS PL NATO
05WARSAW3615POLISH PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE EMPHASIZES DESIRE
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met for about 30 minutes October 14 with Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Law and Justice's (PiS) candidate for prime minister. Marcinkiewicz emphasized the importance PiS and its coalition partner Civic Platform (PO) attached to the U.S. relationship, raised offsets and mili [...]
2005-10-17 15:40:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR PL
05WARSAW3794NEW POLISH DEFMIN SIKORSKI HOPES TO VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In his introductory meeting with Ambassador Ashe, new Defense Minister Radek Sikorski expressed his desire to visit Washington during the week of November 28 for official meetings with Secretary Rumsfeld and other senior officials. In a focused half-hour discussion, Sikorski also [...]
2005-11-09 15:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS PL
05WARSAW3825POLISH MILITARY PREPARES TO REMAIN IN IRAQ, BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During the November 8-9 Force Generation Conference in Warsaw for the sixth rotation of the Multinational Division Center-South (MND-CS) in Iraq, the Chief of Strategic Planning for the Polish General Staff outlined plans for a continued, albeit reduced Polish presence in Iraq. [...]
2005-11-14 15:38:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PL
05WELLINGTON848NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE TO APPEAL FOR PAKISTAN
[...] (U) Post on October 25 delivered the ref A demarche -- seeking New Zealand's contribution to earthquake relief and rehabilitation in Pakistan -- to the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID). Jane Coster of NZAID reported October 28 that New Zealand had contributed NZ $1.5 m [...]
2005-10-28 02:23:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALEAID AEMR ASEC MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK NZ NATO
05WELLINGTON884NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE TO MESSAGE ON NATO SUPPORT
[...] (C) Post's defense attache on October 28 delivered the ref C demarche -- encouraging New Zealand's contribution to the NATO relief effort in Pakistan -- to Air Vice-Marshal David Bamfield, vice chief of the New Zealand Defense Force (ref A). In a letter dated November 2, Air Marshal Bruce Fer [...]
2005-11-14 03:24:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALEAID AEMR ASEC MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK NZ NATO
05YEREVAN1717DETAILS OF SHOOTING INCIDENT ON LINE OF CONTACT
[...] (C) The September 20 shooting incident on the line of contact seemed clearly directed to disrupt N-K negotiations and will certainly be raised at the OSCE Permanent Council. While there is no way to determine which side fired, the round -- which impacted about 20 meters from an international [...]
2005-09-23 11:35:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MASS AJ AM OSCE
05YEREVAN1885ARMENIA: NONCOMMITTAL ON SUPPORT FOR NATO
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-21 12:07:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK AM NATO
05YEREVAN1911DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIAN SUPPORT FOR PAK
[...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding Pakistan's MI-17 helicopter operations to Deputy Minister of Defense General-Lieutenant Artur Aghabekyan. Aghabekyan contacted Chief Military Inspector General-Lieutenant Alik Mirzabekyan, who said that Armenia does not/not have MI-17 helicopters in it [...]
2005-10-27 12:09:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC EAID IN PGOV PK PREF MASS AM NATO
05YEREVAN2022ARMENIA: LACK OF SUPPORT FOR PAKISTAN RELIEF
[...] (C) On multiple occasions since October 21, Armenian Defense and Foreign Affairs officials have not responded to our calls for military and other assistance -- which we think they are capable of rendering -- to the Pakistan relief effort. Early promises to answer requests for assistance (reft [...]
2005-11-17 13:35:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC EAID PGOV PREF MASS AM IN PK NATO
05ZAGREB183ADRIATIC CHARTER DEFENSE MINISTERIAL BILATERAL
[...] (SBU) The U.S. delegation to the Adriatic Charter (A3) Defense Ministerial, led by Ambassador Frank, met with the State Secretary of the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 24 January 2005 and the Minister of Defense of Croatia on 25 January 2005. Mr. Alan Van Egmond, OSD Director of Balk [...]
2005-02-07 06:36:00Embassy ZagrebCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS HR NATO
05ZAGREB204MOD REPLACES ASSISTANT MINISTER WHO SIGNED EUCOM
[...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Ministry of Defense (MOD) has relieved Dr. Jelena Grcic-Polic from her duties as Assistant Minister of Defense for Defense Policy. She has been replaced by Igor Pokaz, the head of international defense cooperation under Grcic-Polic. While the MOD has reported the mo [...]
2005-02-10 06:34:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS HR NATO
05ZAGREB369CROATIA DELIVERS WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT ASSURANCES
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (C) On March 4 State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Hidajet Biscevic delivered the diplomatic note (para 3) to Ambassador Frank in response to our demarche per reftels on support for Croatia's Wassenaar Arrangement Membership. Request Depart [...]
2005-03-08 11:48:00Embassy ZagrebCONFIDENTIALETTC PARM PREL MASS HR
06ABIDJAN606COTE D'IVOIRE: ACOTA COORDINATOR VISIT SUMMARY
[...] (U) Summary: ACOTA Program and Policy Coordinator, Chip Beck (Coordinator),visited Abidjan 13-14 May 2006 for a visit to, and an exchange of information with, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Headquarters Staff. He received a general briefing from the Senior [...]
2006-06-07 14:46:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MASS IV
06ABUDHABI1797SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILLEN'S VISIT
[...] (S) Summary: Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to welcoming you to the UAE on May 15-16. Your visit will be an opportunity to build on recent Iran discussions between U.S. and UAE officials, particularly Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Joseph's April 8 meeting with U [...]
2006-05-03 11:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPREL MCAP MARR MASS MNUC IR AE
06ABUDHABI2129ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE FAVORS GULF SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting May 17 with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ),a DOD-State-NSC-USCENTCOM delegation headed by Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ryan Henry and Political-Military Affairs Bur [...]
2006-05-23 08:13:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETMCAP MASS PREL PARM ENRG ETTC IR AE
06ABUDHABI2324UAE ARMED FORCES COS ON IRAN, MISSILE DEFENSE,
[...] (S) Summary: During a June 6 meeting with Ambassador, UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. General Hamad Mohamed Thani al-Rumaithy sought broader engagement on the Gulf Security Dialogue, particularly given the escalating tension surrounding Iran. Al-Rumaithy, who requested the meeting, charac [...]
2006-06-06 13:12:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL PARM MARR MASS MCAP IR IZ AF AE
06ABUDHABI2882005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED
[...] (U) The UAE in 2004 and 2005 continued its outstanding record as a valuable strategic partner in the Global War on Terrorism and in supporting key U.S. regional strategic policy goals. Among the highlights of the UAE's contributions to the common defense are: -- (C) Providing basing for USA [...]
2006-01-29 13:19:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MARR MASS AE
06ABUDHABI2930SCENESETTER FOR GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH UAE
[...] (S) Summary: Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to the June 27 Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) as an opportunity to clarify key areas of potential cooperation with the UAE, particularly vis-a-vis the very real threat that the Emirates feels from Iran. The UAE is also likely to want to expand the a [...]
2006-07-17 14:35:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS KNNP IR IZ AE
06ABUDHABI3027SCENESETTER FOR SCA A/S AMB BOUCHER TO UAE
[...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Boucher, Embassy Abu Dhabi welcomes your visit to discuss support for Afghanistan with the UAE leadership. We have requested a meeting with a senior member of the ruling family (the Crown Prince or Foreign Minister). We recommend that you acknowledge the UAE contrib [...]
2006-07-25 14:51:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL PTER MOPS MASS EINV AF PK AE
06ABUDHABI316TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT THE UAE DCA
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Embassy wishes to raise with the Department a proposed way forward to address longstanding concerns over the UAE Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) (refs A-D). We recommend reviving regular meetings of the U.S.-UAE Joint Committee on the DCA. That committee has not convened [...]
2006-01-31 12:56:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNMARR MASS PREL AE
06ABUDHABI3403SECURITY ASSISTANCE FOR LEBANON
[...] (C) CDA delivered reftel points August 23 to MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al Haidan who said he appreciated the U.S. message and indicated that the UAE was "doing a lot for Lebanon and prepared to do even more," including assistance for the Lebanese army and internal security forces. Al Haidan, who a [...]
2006-08-23 13:32:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALMASS EAID PREL AE
06ABUDHABI3632LEBANON A KEY TOPIC IN A/S HILLEN DISCUSSION WITH
[...] (S) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs John Hillen and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) met on September 11 and discussed the Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD),Qatar and Lebanon. MbZ welcomed the GSD scheduled for October 19 and reiterat [...]
2006-09-14 11:11:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETMASS PREL EAID LE QA IZ SY IR AE
06ABUDHABI3686LEBANON: SECURITY ASSISTANCE COORDINATION WITH UAE
[...] (C) Following up on a request by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) to A/S Hillen to coordinate security assistance for Lebanon, Post shared the following with MbZ's International Affairs Advisor Youssef Al-Otaiba on September 17: 1) list of items noted in ref C paragr [...]
2006-09-18 13:40:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL EAID LE AE
06ABUDHABI3851UAE DEFENSE SPENDING
[...] (C) Estimates of the cumulative value of defense procurements by the UAE in recent decades reach well over 20 billion dollars (although the UAE does not publish its overall defense and security expenditures). Funded essentially by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, that money has been spent on sophis [...]
2006-10-02 14:40:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALMCAPS PREL MASS MOPS BEXP AE
06ABUDHABI4213UAE ASSISTANCE TO LEBANESE INTERNAL SECURITY FORCES
[...] (C) On November 3, International Affairs Director Yousef Al-Otaiba from the office of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) gave Ambassador a list of UAE security assistance contributions to Lebanon. The list is focused on Internal Security Forces (ISF) and police requirements only; [...]
2006-11-06 14:18:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL EIAD LE AE
06ABUDHABI4239UAE SECURITY ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON
[...] (C) DATT and USLO Chief discussed UAE security assistance to Lebanon November 7 with International Affairs Director Yousef Al-Otaiba from the office of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ),who said the list of contributions provided earlier (ref B) constituted the core of the UAE's [...]
2006-11-08 15:04:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL EAID LE AE
06ABUDHABI4263FURTHER BACKGROUND ON UAE SECURITY ASSISTANCE TO
[...] (C) DATT and USLO Chief discussed UAE security assistance to Lebanon November 9 with UAE Armed Forces Director of Logistics MG Obaid Al-Heri Salem Al-Ketbi, following up on prior conversations with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed's International Affairs Director Yousef Al-Otaiba (ref A). Al-K [...]
2006-11-09 14:12:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETMASS PREL EAID LE AE
06ABUDHABI4302GSD ISSUES REVIEWED AT JMC WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
[...] (C) Working groups following up on the June, 2006 Joint Military Commission (JMC) met November 14 in Abu Dhabi, reviewing action items and charting a path towards deeper U.S.-UAE military cooperation. The thoroughness of UAE engagement on a number of items discussed, including topics which a [...]
2006-11-16 11:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETMCAP PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS IR AF AE
06ABUDHABI627UAE DIPLOMATIC NOTE TO INFORM EMBASSY OF
[...] (S) Embassy has received diplomatic note N1/3/7-A.S-11 dated February 14, 2006 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United Arab Emirates. 2. (S) Begin text (translation from Arabic): Top Secret (United Arab Emirates classification equivalent to Secret) SIPDIS The United Arab Em [...]
2006-02-21 14:18:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETMARR MASS PREL AE
06ABUJA1218SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL ULRICH'S MAY 2006 VISIT TO
[...] (U) Your visit to Nigeria comes at a critical time in the country's political evolution. Increasing instability in the lower Niger River Delta threatens the nation's oil production, the government's primary source of income; continuing outbreaks of avian influenza threaten the nation's poult [...]
2006-05-23 15:31:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KDEM MASS NI
06ABUJA2226SCENESETTER FOR RADM GREENE'S AUGUST 2006 VISIT TO
[...] (U) Your visit to Nigeria comes at a critical time in the country's political evolution. Increasing instability in the lower Niger River Delta threatens the nation's oil production, the government's primary source of income; continuing outbreaks of avian influenza threaten the nation's poult [...]
2006-08-25 11:26:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON MASS KDEM PREL NI
06ABUJA2315NIGERIA:ACOTA HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] Post human rights vetting for the ECOWAS Task Force Headquarters (TFHQ) and its commander, BG Hassan Lai, and for the below listed Nigerian military personnel identified to participate in the ACOTA ESF Headquarters staff training exercise to be held 2-15 September 2006 in Ghana found no evide [...]
2006-09-05 15:54:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PHUM NI XY
06ABUJA2948SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD'S NOVEMBER 2006 VISIT
[...] (C) Your visit to Nigeria comes at a critical, though tumultuous time in the country's political evolution. Increasing instability in the Niger Delta threatens the nation's oil production, the government's primary source of income; continuing outbreaks of avian influenza threaten the nation's [...]
2006-11-13 12:17:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL ECON MASS KDEM NI
06ABUJA689AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW DES-PADS
[...] Ambassador called on the Colonel Mahamane Toure, the new Deputy Executive Secretary for Political Affairs, Defense, and Security at ECOWAS. Also in attendance were the DATT, PolMilOff, and a EUCOM J5 officer. 2. The cordial meeting offered the Ambassador an opportunity to express the imp [...]
2006-03-28 10:09:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS KPKO NI XY ECOWAS
06ADDISABABA2775AFRICAN UNION DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON SUPPORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. African Union Commission Deputy Chairperson Patrick Mazimhaka underscored the need for a robust U.N. mandate for peacekeeping in Sudan, noting that the AU lacked the resources to sustain an operation in Darfur and therefore sought to transfer responsibility to the international [...]
2006-10-13 15:42:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO MASS AU SO SU ET ER
06ADDISABABA2921PUNTLAND VICE PRESIDENT URGES SUPPORT FOR SOMALI
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Puntland Vice President Hassan Dahir Mahamud blamed Islamic extremists in Somalia's Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) for fanning Ethio-Somali tensions in order to destabilize Somalia's Transitional Federal Government. He claimed that the current (EPRDF) GOE had done much to reduce [...]
2006-11-02 13:00:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS MOPS MASS KPKO ET ER SO
06ADDISABABA304DARFUR: AU SITREP 1 FEBRUARY 2006
[...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union (AU) is working with partners in a technical committee to implement December joint assessment mission recommendations to improve AMIS performance, but this committee is not empowered to consider steps necessary to effect a transition to a UN mission. The AU f [...]
2006-02-02 06:53:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS KPKO SU AU
06ALGIERS499NEA A/S WELCH TELLS MFA SECRETARY GENERAL WE STILL
[...] (C) In a March 14 discussion with MFA Secretary General Lamamra on other issues, NEA A/S Welch raised continuing U.S. interest in concluding a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Algeria. Such a step made sense in the context of our growing bilateral cooperation and would enable the further [...]
2006-03-21 07:24:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL AG
06ALMATY1956KAZAKHSTAN: DISCUSSIONS ON THE TRANSFER OF SA-16
[...] (S) Summary: Poloff met with Kazakhstani MFA official Sergey Savelyev to discuss the transfer of SA-14 and SA-16 MANPADS. Savelyev asked if the U.S. is interested in the rockets or the whole systems, if the U.S. wanted to purchase the items, and if the U.S. had made a similar request to Ukra [...]
2006-06-02 09:46:00US Office AlmatySECRETPARM PREL PTER MASS MARR NATO KZ
06ALMATY2871KAZAKHSTAN: DISCUSSIONS ON THE TRANSFER OF MANPADS
[...] (S) Summary: Poloff met with Kazakhstani MFA official Sergey Savelyev to discuss the transfer of SA-14 and SA-16 MANPADS. Savelyev said that his office had given its opinion that the weapons systems should not be transferred, but should be destroyed. This is not the MFA's final decision, bu [...]
2006-08-09 11:28:00US Office AlmatySECRETPARM PREL PTER MASS MARR NATO KZ
06ALMATY3080(S) KAZAKHSTAN UNABLE TO TRANSFER MANPADS
[...] (S) In an August 28 meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov informed the Ambassador that Kazakhstan would not be able to turn over MANPADS slated for destruction in the NATO Trust Fund project to the U.S. as requested (reftel). Abdrakhmanov said that several bilateral agreements [...]
2006-08-31 10:44:00US Office AlmatySECRETPARM PREL PTER MASS MARR NATO KZ
06ALMATY541EUCOM DCDR GENERAL CHARLES WALD DISCUSSES SECURITY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Deputy Commander of the US European Command (EUCOM) General Charles F. Wald had separate meetings on January 20 with Minister of Defense General Mukhtar Altynbayev and Lieutenant General Bolat Zakiyev, Director of the Border Guards (BG) Service. At the Ministry of Defense (MOD) [...]
2006-02-09 19:15:00US Office AlmatyCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS POLITICAL
06ALMATY895KAZAKHSTAN: REQUEST FOR TRANSFER OF SA-16 AND
[...] (S) On February 28, Poff delivered ref B demarche immediately following the delivery of Ref C demarche to Gaukhar Biseyeva, Head of the Office of European Security in the Kazakhstani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and her assistant Yerzhan Zhukenov. Biseyeva appeared cautiously optimistic abo [...]
2006-03-09 07:07:00US Office AlmatySECRETPARM PREL PTER MASS MARR KZ POLITICAL
06AMMAN1059EXBS-JORDAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE JANAURY 2006
[...] On January 4-6, EXBS Advisor completed a program Consultation Visit to Washington D.C. to discuss country and regional plans with representatives of the EXBS interagency working group. The following is a summary of discussions and EXBS events: A. Wednesday January 4, 2006. Â [...]
2006-02-14 07:05:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL MASS KSTC KNNP JO
06AMMAN1214INVITATION FOR DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Embassy Amman invites the Defense Threat Reduction Agency International Counterproliferation Program to begin a partnership with the Government of Jordan. Post will coordinate program events with other USG assistance. END SUMMARY. 2. INVITATION. A. (SBU) Embassy Amman is p [...]
2006-02-21 11:10:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC MNUC PARM PREL MASS KSTC KNNP JO
06AMMAN1315CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-22 16:02:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS KTIA JO
06AMMAN1500UPDATE ON DEMINING IN JORDAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prince Mired bin Ra,ad, Chairman of Jordan,s National Committee on Demining and Rehabilitation (NCDR),updated the Ambassador February 21 on demining efforts since the launching of the Mine Action Plan in June 2005 (reftel). He also discussed Jordan,s strategy for meeting the Ma [...]
2006-03-01 15:08:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR MASS KHPD JO
06AMMAN1606DIPLOMATIC NOTE REGARDING USE OF KASOTC DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-06 13:41:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PREL PM JO
06AMMAN1788EXBS-JORDAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE FEBRUARY
[...] On February 13, the EXBS Advisor participated in a telephone conference with EXBS program managers from DOS and DOC to discuss future DOC EXBS events in Jordan. Scheduling training in legal infrastructure, licensing, enforcement and presentation of the DOC automated Product Identification Trai [...]
2006-03-09 16:03:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL MASS KSTC KNNP JO
06AMMAN1789EXBS-JORDAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE FEBRUARY
[...] On February 13, the EXBS Advisor participated in a telephone conference with EXBS program managers from DOS and DOC to discuss future DOC EXBS events in Jordan. Scheduling training in legal infrastructure, licensing, enforcement and presentation of the DOC automated Product Identification Trai [...]
2006-03-09 16:08:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL MASS KSTC KNNP JO
06AMMAN179VETTING FOR JORDANIAN COESPU STUDENTS COMPLETED
[...] Post possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by any of the Jordanian police listed below. They have been nominated for training at the Center of Excellance for Stability Police Units (COESPU) in Vincenza, Italy. Name: Captain Ramadan Al Battah DOB: 03/01/1962 [...]
2006-01-09 16:25:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS PHUM MASS IT JO
06AMMAN2367JORDAN APPLIES FOR HUMANITARIAN DEMINING GRANT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-03 12:19:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDMARR KHPD MASS PGOV JO
06AMMAN2378JORDAN APPLIES FOR HUMANITARIAN DEMINING GRANT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-04 07:40:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDMARR KHPD MASS PGOV JO
06AMMAN2403GOJ AGREES TO KASOTC ARRANGEMENT
[...] (SBU) Post received a diplomatic note dated April 2 from the Foreign Ministry accepting ref A proposals regarding the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC). 2. (SBU) The substantive portion of the note's text follows: With reference to the Embassy's diplomatic note no. [...]
2006-04-05 06:37:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PREL JO
06AMMAN2506EXBS-JORDAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE MARCH 2006
[...] On March 5, the EXBS Advisor participated in meetings with representatives of Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) to discuss border security ideas of benefit to Jordan. SNL offered to fund a small group of Jordanian experts to come to Albuquerque to work jointly for about a month with SNL scien [...]
2006-04-10 09:02:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL MASS KSTC KNNP JO
06AMMAN2854SCENESETTER FOR A/S HILLEN
[...] (C) Embassy Amman and the Jordanian government look forward to your visit April 30 to May 3. Jordan is a key partner for U.S. efforts in Iraq, the war against terrorism, regional reform and promotion of moderate Islam, and Israel-Palestinian peace. You are scheduled for an audience with King [...]
2006-04-24 06:15:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL PARM MASS MARR JO
06AMMAN8529U.S.-JORDAN JOINT MILITARY COMMITTEE MEETS
[...] (S) The U.S. and Jordan held their annual bilateral Joint Military Committee (JMC) meetings in Amman, Jordan (reftel) November 8 and 9. The session, co-chaired by the Jordan Chairman of Defense Gen. Khaled al-Saraireh and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter [...]
2006-11-21 10:03:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL MARR MASS JO
06AMMAN8549U.S.-JORDAN JOINT MILITARY COMMITTEE MEETS
[...] (S) The U.S. and Jordan held their annual bilateral Joint Military Committee (JMC) meetings in Amman, Jordan (reftel) November 8 and 9. The session, co-chaired by the Jordan Chairman of Defense Gen. Khaled al-Saraireh and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter [...]
2006-11-22 09:07:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL MARR MASS JO
06AMMAN8785U.S. GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS INITIATIVE:
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-10 07:55:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO MARR MASS JO
06ANKARA1400TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, February 2006
[...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its first meeting of 2006 on February 23. Turkey-Iran relations, February 4 IAEA decision on Iran's nuclear program, and Turkey's foreign assistance policy topped the agenda. Turkish media coverage of the meeting was wider than other months. The [...]
2006-03-16 09:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL TU UP KS TC PK SU IR AL RU
06ANKARA141TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, DECEMBER 2005
[...] (U) Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) - convened under PM Tayyip Erdogan on December 1 - assessed war readiness of the TAF (Turkish Armed Forces) and major modernization projects, discussed recent developments in the Middle East, assessed fight against separatism, reactionism and separat [...]
2006-01-16 14:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL PGOV TU
06ANKARA1410SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 22-23 VISIT OF CODEL WARNER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your March 22-23 visit comes at a time when Turkey is attempting to balance its commitments to the West against its desire to maintain harmonious relations with its neighbors and to play a constructive role with other Muslim countries. Turkey remains a significant contributor to [...]
2006-03-16 14:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR MASS TU IZ AF IR IS
06ANKARA1468SCENESETTER FOR THE 23-26 MARCH VISIT OF CHAIRMAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Your March 23-26 visit comes at a time when progress has been made in improving the character of US-Turkish relations that frayed badly in 2003-2005. Senior level dialogue, including on the military-to-military side, has resumed; Turkey has downplayed its whining about the PDD and [...]
2006-03-21 08:27:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNMARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AF RU
06ANKARA1513DECLINE IN TURKISH-AMERICAN DEFENSE INDUSTRY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense industrial cooperation, historically the strongest area of US-Turkish bilateral relationship, has deteriorated in recent years. No US firm has won a direct commercial sale (DCS) since 2002 and post-contract negotiations hamper the few US direct sale and FMS projects that [...]
2006-03-22 17:34:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS TU
06ANKARA1575SCENESETTER FOR THE MARCH 31-APRIL 1 VISIT OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when Turkey is trying to balance its role as regional good neighbor with its responsibilities as a NATO member and EU candidate. The Government of Turkey (GOT) counsels engagement over isolation in dealing with countries like Iran and has presented itsel [...]
2006-03-24 14:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS TU IZ IR
06ANKARA1697THE CAUCASUS WORKING GROUP: NEXT STEPS
[...] (C) The Caucasus Working Group began in 1999 as a bilateral mechanism for the United States and Turkey to coordinate on security assistance to the South Caucasus (except Armenia). It has since expanded to cover Kazakhstan. CWG has developed into a "political-military" discussion of the regio [...]
2006-03-30 12:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS TU AJ AM GG KZ RS
06ANKARA1897TURKEY: PKK VIOLENCE CONTINUES, CASUALTIES RISE,
[...] (U) SUMMARY: PKK-related attacks continue both inside and outside of Turkey. The Turkish Freedom Falcons (TAK) have taken credit for several Istanbul attacks and warned of further violence against the government. In the face of escalating casualites, the government has publicly stated its re [...]
2006-04-07 13:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR MASS TU IZ
06ANKARA2010TURKISH ECONOMY MINISTER ON EU PROCESS, CONTINUED
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish Minister of Economy and EU Accession lead negotiator Babacan described to the Ambassador on April 7 a fast-paced EU screening process that he expects to be completed by October, at the same time recognizing the political difficulties inherent in actual chapter negotiations [...]
2006-04-13 04:18:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALEFIN MASS PREL EUN TU
06ANKARA2083TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, March 2006
[...] Chief of the Turkish General Staff (CHOD) General Hilmi Ozkok gave his annual speech to the Istanbul War Academy on March 16. He noted the importance of a cohesive domestic government in the international place of a country; underlined the importance of a sound security strategy based on a st [...]
2006-04-17 12:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL TU UP KS TC PK SU IR AL RU
06ANKARA2488TURKEY/IRAQ: TURKEY PREPARED TO ENGAGE NEW IRAQI
[...] (C) Turkish Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol told Ambassador May 4 that Turkey has invited Iraqi PM al-Maliki to visit, will invite other ministers once named, and is prepared to send FM Gul to Baghdad as well. Turkey is prepared to offer Iraq additional border gates, USD 2 million in military [...]
2006-05-05 12:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS EAID IZ TU
06ANKARA2509GPOI SECTION 505 AGREEMENT: HELD UP IN TGS
[...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para. 3. 2. (C) We delivered reftel demarche upon receipt and have followed up numerous times with the Turkish MFA, who never responded substantively. Finally, on May 4, MFA Deputy Director General for Security Policy Serdar Kilic told us that th [...]
2006-05-05 16:01:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKTIA MARR MASS PREL PGOV KPKO TU IT GR
06ANKARA2923AEGEAN: TURKISH AND GREEK WARPLANES COLLIDE
[...] (C) Summary: A Greek F16 and Turkish F16 collided in midair in international waters near the Greek island of Karpatos at mid-day May 23. The Turkish pilot was rescued; it appears the Greek pilot died. Turkish FonMin Gul called Greek FonMin Bokayannis to express regret over the incident and c [...]
2006-05-23 15:01:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMOPS MASS PREL TU GR NATO
06ANKARA294TURKEY PROVIDES THIRD-PARTY TRANSFER ASSURANCES
[...] This is an action request -- see para. 4. 2. Embassy received MFA Diplomatic Note no. 2005/ALGY/534937, dated Jan. 26, 2006, which provides the third-party transfer assurances of the Ministry of Defense, on behalf of the Government of Turkey, for the depot structural and electronic Mid-Li [...]
2006-01-26 14:04:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV JO TU
06ANKARA3267TURKISH DEFMIN HINTS AT FLEXIBILITY ON DEFENSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul hinted at flexibility but revealed little movement on defense industry issues in his May 24 meeting with the Ambassador. He had structured his May 22 reply to the Ambassador's March 24 letter on US industry problems with recent defense tenders to "mai [...]
2006-06-05 14:30:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL MARR TU
06ANKARA331SCENE-SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT GENERAL HAGEE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 13:38:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AF RU
06ANKARA3593R&D HIGHLIGHTS THE 18TH TURKISH/AMERICAN DEFENSE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 18th Defense Industrial Cooperation (DIC) meeting and subsequent Defense Industry Day on May 23-24 underscored a continued impasse over the barriers to US defense industry participation in Turkish defense contracts but highlighted R&D as a potential area for closer coopera [...]
2006-06-19 10:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MCAP PREL TU
06ANKARA386AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH THE TURKISH GENERAL STAFF: IRAQ, PKK, IRAN AND DEFENSE PROCUREMENT
[...] (S) Summary: During separate meetings with Turkish General Staff (TGS) Chief GEN Hilmi Ozkok, TGS Deputy Chief GEN Isik Kosaner, and Turkish Land Forces (TLFC) Commander GEN Yasar Buyukanit January 26 and 27, the Ambassador asserted that Turkey should do nothing to disrupt the fragile situat [...]
2006-02-01 12:49:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR PTER MASS TU IZ IR
06ANKARA4129TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, June 2006
[...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its bi-monthly meeting on June 22. National and international security issues and the fight against terrorism topped the agenda of the meeting. Palestinian governance, the Israeli general election, the EU accession process and the Single European S [...]
2006-07-14 14:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL TU AS PK AL CG AJ KZ IT
06ANKARA4796TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, July 2006
[...] Over 10,000 individuals from Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Moldova, Germany, Canada, USA, Australia, Lebanon, France and other countries were evacuated from Lebanon via Turkey. Close to 1,700 US Citizens were flown to the US on contract aircraft out of Incirlik Air Base. The evacuation o [...]
2006-08-17 13:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL TU PK AU IS SU GR
06ANKARA502BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK OF
[...] Begin Summary: We met twice in January 2006 with officials from Turkey's Mechanical and Chemical Industries Corporation (MKEK) to discuss order/contract number 03361, per reftel, and confirmed that MKEK's intended purchase of approximately 200 handguns from Smith and Wesson appears to be a stan [...]
2006-02-07 12:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC MASS TU
06ANKARA5521TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, August 2006
[...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its bi-monthly meeting on August 21. National security issue and the fight against terrorism topped the agenda of the meeting. Recent developments in the Middle East, humanitarian assistance to Lebanon and Palestine, Turkey's policy on Black Sea s [...]
2006-09-21 10:20:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL TU AF BK
06ANKARA623DEFENSE PROCUREMENT ISSUES DOMINATE AMBASSADOR'S
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish Air Forces (TUAF) Commander Comert, launched his initial meeting Feb. 1 with the Ambassador by laying out a series of defense equipment issues currently frustrating TUAF training and programs. Ambassador countered with USG and US industry concerns that strict Terms and C [...]
2006-02-13 06:02:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS MASS PREL PGOV TU RU IR
06ANKARA6451TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, October 2006
[...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its bi-monthly meeting on October 31. Internal and external developments affecting Turkey's national security topped the agenda of the meeting. Negotiations on Iran's nuclear program after the UN Security Council resolution of July 31 were discusse [...]
2006-11-20 09:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL UY CH GR AM AF LE TU
06ANKARA6703TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, November 2006
[...] The second annual meeting of Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) convened under PM Tayyip Erdogan on November 30 to assess external threats, recent developments in the region, the ongoing fight against the PKK terrorist organization, military policies and modernization needs of the military [...]
2006-12-20 13:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL FR GR IS RS FI PL GG RO BU PK TU
06ANKARA693TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, January 2006
[...] The Turkish government's Defense Industry Executive Committee, consisting of PM Tayyip Erdogan, Chief of the Turkish General Staff (CHOD) GEN Hilmi Ozkok and Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul, will convene on February 17 to evaluate the procurement of air defense systems to prepare against a possib [...]
2006-02-15 14:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL TU
06ANKARA945TURKEY'S PROCUREMENT CHIEF COMPLAINS ABOUT USG
[...] (C) Summary: U/S for Defense Industries Murad Bayar complained to the Ambassador March 22 about American companies' unwillingness to compete in Turkish defense tenders. He reserved his harshest criticism for -- USG restrictions on technology transfer, citing specifically Sikorsky's Black Ha [...]
2006-02-24 15:26:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL PGOV TU
06ASHGABAT107TURKMENISTAN'S MI-8 DOWN IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) The GOTX fumbled for three days -- January 21-23 -- before it could come up with a formal request for Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) Coalition Forces' assistance in a search for a GOTX relief helicopter -- probably crashed with seven crewmembers in the mountains in Afghanistan -- which [...]
2006-01-23 13:33:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALMASS MOPS PREL AF PK TX
06ASHGABAT219 EMBASSY ASHGABAT'S COUNTERNARCOTICS PRIORITIES
[...] Per ref A, as the Department of Defense (DOD) takes on a more substantial role in providing counternarcotics (CN) assistance to Central Asia, Embassy Ashgabat is providing a prioritized list of prospective DOD-funded CN projects in Turkmenistan. 2. Border Crossing Checkpoint Upgrades: $ [...]
2006-02-22 09:08:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDMASS SNAR TX
06ASTANA669KAZAKHSTAN: INITIAL INTEREST IN GPOI
[...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief conveyed reftel points and fact sheet to Murat Tashibayev, director of the MFA's Department of International Organizations and Security Issues, on November 2. Olzhas Togyzbayev from the Security Affairs office also participated in the meeting. Tashibayev expressed interest [...]
2006-11-27 05:21:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO MARR MASS KZ
06ASUNCION1020PARAGUAY REJECTS IMMUNITIES FOR U.S. MILITARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. FM Ruben Ramirez confirmed October 2 press reports that Paraguay had decided to reject A&T status for U.S. participants in military exercises proposed for 2007. He told the Ambassador that the decision had been made on the basis of legal and political considerations. The Ambass [...]
2006-10-05 21:07:00Embassy AsuncionSECRETPREL MASS KICCPUR PTER PINR BR VZ AR PA
06ASUNCION1023PARAGUAY SEEKS TO CLARIFY POSTURE ON IMMUNITIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Ramirez told the Ambassador October 6 President Duarte had decided to terminate the extension of immunities to U.S. participants in military exercises after 2006 but conveyed openness to finding a way to continue extending immunities for participants in Medical Readiness Exer [...]
2006-10-06 19:18:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS KICC PTER PINR VZ BR AR PA
06ASUNCION1077PARAGUAY: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CONCERN OVER BOLIVIA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca visited Paraguay October 19-21 to address concerns about Bolivia's military agreement with Venezuela to build new military bases and increase weapons sales. The Duarte Administration maintains it is satisfied with the Bolivian explana [...]
2006-10-26 14:03:00Embassy AsuncionSECRETPREL PBTS PGOV PINS PNAT MASS MCAP PA BO VE
06ASUNCION1158PARAGUAY PERHAPS RETHINKS MILITARY IMMUNITIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since officially informing the Embassy in early October that that the Paraguayan government does not intend to renew immunities for US military exercises, domestic criticism of that decision has mounted, spurred by proximity to local elections and concerns re Venezuelan and Boliv [...]
2006-11-16 18:17:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR KICC PTER PINR BR VZ AR PA
06ASUNCION1195PARAGUAY CONTINUES TO WAFFLE ON WAY AHEAD ON
[...] Action Request. See paras. 5. 2. (C) The Ambassador impressed upon Vice President Castiglioni November 27 the need for a GOP decision on the way ahead on military cooperation as regards immunities for U.S. participants. The U.S. had approved $1.1 million in GPOI funds and another $3.5 i [...]
2006-11-30 21:06:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PTER PA
06ASUNCION182PARAGUAY: UPDATE ON LEFTIST PATRIA LIBRE ARRESTS
[...] SUMMARY: (S//NF) Police officials transferred the six members of the leftist Patria Libre Party, who were arrested on February 5 in connection to the recent seizure of a truck containing weapons and explosives, to Emboscada High Security Prison. Separately, they discovered letters declaring t [...]
2006-02-17 15:53:00Embassy AsuncionSECRETPTER PREL PINR PGOV ASEC SNAR MARR MASS KCRM
06ASUNCION210PARAGUAY: UPDATE ON LEFTIST ACTIVITY IN CONCEPCION
[...] (U) Summary: Patria Libre Party (PPL) militants blamed for the February 6 murder of a policeman in the Department of Concepcion (ref A) reportedly siphoned off funds transferred from bank accounts in Europe to legitimate campesino organizations. Brazilian authorities provided Paraguayan autho [...]
2006-02-27 11:09:00Embassy AsuncionSECRETPTER PINR PREL PGOV ASEC SNAR MARR MASS KCRM
06ASUNCION294PARAGUAY: DEMARCHE ON OAS COUNTERTERRORISM
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-17 16:58:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL ECON MARR MASS CVIS OAS PA VE
06ASUNCION503PARAGUAY'S INCIPIENT INSURGENCY: A KEY MOMENT FOR
[...] (C) The involvement of militant members of the leftist Free Fatherland Party (Partido Patria Libre, or PPL) in two high-profile kidnappings (refs D and E),the murders of two policemen (refs C and F),and an assault on a rural police station (ref A) are evidence of a small militant leftist mov [...]
2006-05-12 14:28:00Embassy AsuncionSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PINR MARR MASS PA CO VE CU
06ASUNCION590PARAGUAY: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL BANTZ CRADDOCK
[...] (C) General Craddock, Embassy Asuncion warmly welcomes your visit as an opportunity to promote U.S. interests in military, counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism cooperation with Paraguay. You come at a particularly sensitive time as we prepare to submit a new request to the GOP to establish [...]
2006-06-07 17:07:00Embassy AsuncionSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MARR MASS SNAR PA
06ASUNCION683PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-05 18:54:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA
06ASUNCION684PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR
[...] Bruno Socrates Monges Asuncin 19-Apr-71 Gomez 2. Ismael Alcides Romero Yabebyry 3-Aug-77 3. Alfirio Romero Muoz Laureles 3-Nov-79 4. Didilfo Vazquez Alfonso Cnel Martnez 9-Dec-66 5. Carlos Rey Cardozo Paraguar 6-Jan-73 6. Edgar Isabelino [...]
2006-07-05 18:55:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA
06ASUNCION689PARAGUAY: SOUTHCOM COMMANDER CRADDOCK SUPPORTS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Southcom Commander General Bantz Craddock visited Paraguay 6/26-6/29, ostensibly to observe the Fuerzas Commando competition for anti-terror units from 14 countries including the U.S., but took advantage of the trip to meet with Paraguay's Vice-President, Minister of Defense, [...]
2006-07-06 15:22:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KCRM MASS PA
06ASUNCION750PARAGUAY: SCENESETTER FOR BRIGADIER GENERAL OLIVER
[...] (C) Brigadier General Oliver J. Mason, Embassy Asuncion warmly welcomes your visit as an opportunity to promote U.S. interests in military, emergency management, social reforms and other areas of cooperation with Paraguay. You come at a particularly sensitive time, with press and political a [...]
2006-07-21 13:43:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MARR MASS SNAR PA
06ASUNCION804PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE, JULY 29 -
[...] (U) SUMMARY: -- USAID Project Yields Positive Results -- CAPSTONE Visits Paraguay -- Dirty Paraguayan Deputy on the Defensive -- Police, Drugs Involved in Kidnapping ------------------------------------- USAID Project Yields Positive results ------------------------------------- 2. ( [...]
2006-08-07 20:33:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM SNAR MASS MCA PA
06ASUNCION869PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE, AUGUST 19
[...] (U) Summary -- AMISRAEL March for Peace -- ODC Sponsors Boston Trip -- DCM Visits Yacyreta Dam and Military ------------------------ AMISRAEL March for Peace ------------------------ 2. (U) AMISRAEL Paraguay, an NGO that supports Israel and peace in the Middle East, held a march for [...]
2006-08-25 18:23:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM MASS PY
06ASUNCION871PARAGUAY: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR
[...] Miguel Angel Martinez 29 Sep 1952 Horqueta 2. Graciano Federico Antunez Barrios 28 Oct 1959 Asuncion 3. Jose Domingo Lezcano Chavez 19 Mar 1966 Asuncion SOUTHCOM 2006 Military Justice Reform Conference in Miami, FL 4. Emiliano Rojas Ramos 06 Oct 1967 Bo [...]
2006-08-28 20:17:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV MASS MOPS PA
06ASUNCION986PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE, SEPTEMBER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-26 18:46:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ECON SNAR KCRM MASS BO PA
06ASUNCION999PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE, SEPTEMBER
[...] (U) SUMMARY -- If you Fail To Compete... -- Try a Winning Formula -- MANG Commander Visits Paraguay -- Paraguay Signs INL Amendment IF YOU FAIL TO COMPETE... 2. (U) Paraguay fares among the worst in the world - ranking 106th in a list of 125 countries surveyed (in 2005 Paraguay was [...]
2006-09-28 21:49:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON SNAR MASS PA
06ATHENS2031ARMS PROCUREMENT PLAN 2006-2010 APPROVED
[...] (U) Summary: On July 25, the GoG announced plans to spend an estimated EUR 27 billion for arms procurement over the next decade. The first five-year leg of the program does not include appropriations for a new fighter in an apparent effort by the Karamanlis administration to relieve political [...]
2006-08-03 08:25:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MCAP MASS NATO PREL PINR TU GR
06ATHENS430GREEK DONATIONS TO IRAQI AND AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES
[...] (C) Greece has contributed and transported to the Iraqi armed forces significant amounts of equipment from the NTECG inventory of hardware needed. In 2005, Greece donated 36 extensively refurbished BMP-1 armored personnel carriers, 1000 AK-47s, and more than one million rounds of ammunition [...]
2006-02-15 11:35:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL AF IZ GR IRAQ
06BAGHDAD1146SOUTH AFRICAN ARMORED VEHICLES FOR IRAQI SECURITY
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST; PLEASE SEE PARA 6. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (C) A South African company -- Integrated Convoy Protection, Ltd. (ICP) -- entered into a contract on September 16, 2005, with Joint Contracting Command - Iraq (JCC-I) to supply 85 REVA armored perso [...]
2006-04-06 18:46:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ SF
06BAGHDAD2114MCNS - MUTHANNA, BASRAH, AND BAGHDAD
[...] (S//REL GBR AUS JAPAN) SUMMARY: On June 18, the Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met to discuss security issues in Muthanna, Basrah, and Baghdad. It was decided to announce the transfer of security responsibility for Muthanna from the Coalition to the GOI on June 19. The Ba [...]
2006-06-21 02:31:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETPGOV CIA IZ MASS MCAP MOPS NATO PINR PREL
06BAGHDAD2135MCNS - UPDATE ON BAGHDAD SECURITY
[...] (S//REL GBR AUS) SUMMARY: On June 20, the Ministerial Committee for National Security (MCNS) met to review progress on the Baghdad security plan. Iraqi Army (IA) and Iraqi National Police (INP) leadership, supported by Multi-National Division-Baghdad(MND-B) Commanding General (CG),highlighte [...]
2006-06-22 02:44:00Embassy BaghdadSECRETMASS CIA IZ MCAP MOPS NATO PGOV PINR PREL
06BAGHDAD2842DEMARCHE TO IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTER ON SITE 4
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 31 Embassy Rule of Law (ROL) Coordinator asked Iraqi Minister of Interior Bolani when he would authorize the execution of the arrest orders issued in connection with the abuses committed at the Ministry of Interior detention facility known as Site 4. ROL Coordinator also [...]
2006-08-07 12:44:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINS PGOV MASS KJUS IZ
06BAKU1001AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON MINISTER OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's July 7 introductory call, Minister of Defense General-Colonel Safar Abiyev stressed that the U.S.-Azerbaijani relationship is both strategic and special and that U.S. assistance has allowed Azerbaijan to integrate closer with the West. The Minister was p [...]
2006-07-11 13:39:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS PINR AM AJ
06BAKU1530NEA PDAS JEFFREY DISCUSSES IRAN WITH DEPUTY
[...] (S) Summary: In a 12 October call on Deputy Foreign Minister Khalafov, NEA PDAS Jeffrey, accompanied by the Ambassador, discussed Iran and sought support for a unified international front in response to Iranian nuclear ambitions. DFM Khalafov, responsible for Azerbaijan's Iran policy and ser [...]
2006-10-20 05:49:00Embassy BakuSECRETPREL KDEM PINR KNNP MASS MCAP MNUC PARM IR AJ
06BAKU1533NEA PDAS JEFFREY DISCUSSES IRAN WITH PRESIDENT
[...] (S) Summary: During his 12 October call on President Aliyev, NEA PDAS Jeffrey, accompanied by the Ambassador, encouraged Azerbaijan to support a unified international front in response to Iranian nuclear ambitions. Reviewing recent U.S. efforts to counter the Iranian nuclear threat, PDAS Je [...]
2006-10-20 12:43:00Embassy BakuSECRETPREL KDEM KNNP MASS MCAP MNUC PARM PINR IR AJ
06BAKU1540ISRAEL ENHANCING MILITARY RELATIONSHIP WITH
[...] (U) This is an action request; see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: According to Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Arthur Lenk, Israeli MOD DG for Political-Military Affairs Amos Gilad will visit Baku in late October to sign a new bilateral defense cooperation agreement. Admitting that the agreem [...]
2006-10-21 08:57:00Embassy BakuSECRETPGOV PREL MARR MASS IR IS AJ
06BAKU1541ISRAEL ENHANCING MILITARY RELATIONSHIP WITH
[...] (U) This is an action request; see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: According to Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Arthur Lenk, Israeli MOD DG for Political-Military Affairs Amos Gilad will visit Baku in late October to sign a new bilateral defense cooperation agreement. Admitting that the agreem [...]
2006-10-21 08:59:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS IR IS AJ
06BAKU1709ISRAELI READOUT ON MOD GILAD'S VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN
[...] (C) Summary: According to Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Arthur Lenk, Israeli MOD DG for Political-Military Affairs Amos Gilad's October 30-31 visit to Azerbaijan was low-profile and short on substance. Gilad engaged Azerbaijani Minister of Defense Abiyev in a detailed discussion of Iran' [...]
2006-11-24 13:22:00Embassy BakuSECRETPREL PGOV ETTC MASS IR IS AJ
06BAKU1753UPDATE ON AZERBAIJAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY CONCEPT
[...] (U) This is an action request, see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: Azerbaijan is continuing to move forward in its efforts to finalize its National Security Concept (NSC). Retired UK General Sir Garry Johnson, who as part of the foreign experts advisory group has been advising the GOAJ on the NS [...]
2006-12-01 15:29:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PBTS MARR MASS AJ
06BAKU1837DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER AZIMOV SIGNALS DESIRE TO
[...] (U) This is an action request; see para 3. 2. (C) In a December 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov requested that the USG engage in government-to-government consultations on the drafting of Azerbaijan's Military Doctrine and Foreign Policy Strategy. Azimov [...]
2006-12-20 11:45:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS AJ
06BAKU348AZERBAIJAN'S RESPONSE TO U.S.-PROPOSED AGENDA FOR
[...] (SBU) As requested reftel, pol/econ chief extended PM A/S Hillen's invitation to the 2006 session of the U.S.-Azerbaijan Political-Military Consultations to Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov. Azimov was already aware of the planned March 29 talks and expressed his confidence that the talks [...]
2006-03-03 14:41:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS PARM PGOG AJ
06BAKU446 AZERBAIJAN: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR
[...] On March 16 post received a request for Human Rights Vetting approval for members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to participate in Crime Scene Photography and Crime Scene Investigation training programs. The participants would attend Forensics Training in Baku, 3 April thru 12 May 2006. [...]
2006-03-22 13:39:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV MARR MASS AJ
06BAKU452SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 29 US-AZERBAIJAN
[...] (S) Summary: The March 29 political-military consultations are an important opportunity to broaden our strong security relationship. Strategically located in the heart of the Greater Middle East, Azerbaijan provides excellent cooperation on security issues and looks for opportunities to do [...]
2006-03-23 12:15:00Embassy BakuSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PARM MARR MASS MOPS PBTS AJ
06BAKU467 AZERBAIJAN: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR
[...] On March 27 post received a request for Human Rights Vetting approval for members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' participation in the Basic Firearms and Explosives Course in Budapest. The participants would attend the training in Budapest on 10-14 April 2006. The participants are: [...]
2006-03-27 11:32:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV MARR MASS AJ
06BAKU512 AZERBAIJAN: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR
[...] On March 27 post received a request for Human Rights Vetting approval for members of the Ministry of Interiors participation in a Senior Level Leadership Training Course. The participants would attend the Senior Level Leadership Training Course in Baku, 17-28 April 2006. The participants are [...]
2006-04-04 09:18:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV MARR MASS AJ
06BAMAKO914AN ISLAMIC LEADER'S VIEW OF THE U.S., THE ALGIERS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-22 16:19:00Embassy BamakoCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PINS MASS PARM ML
06BANGKOK1041THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) DEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individuals listed below who will be attending a DEA sponsored training initia [...]
2006-02-22 02:30:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK1042THAILAND: DEMARCHE ON EQUIPMENT TO
[...] (C) On February 21, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Counselor for American and South Pacific Affairs Paisit Boonparlit. Paisit promised to advise the Embassy if the RTG has any defense articles it wishes to donate to Afghanistan or Iraq. BOYCE [...]
2006-02-22 02:43:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL AF IZ TH
06BANGKOK1281THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Mr. Apichart OBOONSAKUL, Office of the National Security Council, who has [...]
2006-03-02 07:18:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK1282THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) DAO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individuals listed below to participate in the Comprehensive Security Response [...]
2006-03-02 07:19:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK1490THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1Lt. Wasun SANGTHONG, Air Defense Artillery Division who has been selected [...]
2006-03-10 03:47:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK1491THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Wg.Cdr. Nuttawoot ACHALABOON, Wing 1, 2nd Air Division, Air Combat Command [...]
2006-03-10 03:47:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK1492THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Gp.Capt. Morakot THONGSUK, Directorate of Intelligence, Royal Thai Air For [...]
2006-03-10 03:48:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK1493THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1Lt. Jun MONGKONSAP, Cavalry School, Army Training Command, Royal Thai Arm [...]
2006-03-10 03:48:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK1494THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Wallop MAINAPIANG, Artillery School, Royal Thai Army who has been sel [...]
2006-03-10 03:49:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK1581THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Wg.Cdr. Nuttawoot ACHALABOON, Wing 1, 2nd Air Division, Air Combat Command [...]
2006-03-15 05:58:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK1582THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Flt.Lt. Pichead BUANLEE, Win 1, 2nd Air Division, Air Combat Command, Roya [...]
2006-03-15 05:59:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK1583THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Gp.Capt. Morakot THONGSUK, Directorate of Intelligence at Royal Thai Air F [...]
2006-03-15 05:59:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK1678THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Maj. Chavalit PRADITNAWAKUL, Command and General Staff College, Royal Thai [...]
2006-03-20 03:46:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK1679THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for FS1 Watcharin SAI-IN, Directorate of Armament, Air Support Command, Royal [...]
2006-03-20 03:47:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK1893THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Captain Sanit MOTHINA, Institute of Advance Naval Studies, who has been se [...]
2006-03-30 02:55:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK1894THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Duangsuda SUKSAWAD, Counterterrorism Operations Center (CTOC),who ha [...]
2006-03-30 02:55:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK1895THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Tibordee AMPUNAN, Directorate of Intelligence, Royal Thai Army, who h [...]
2006-03-30 02:56:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK1896THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1Lt. Jirat TANE-NGIW, Army Military Intelligence Command, Royal Thai Army, [...]
2006-03-30 02:56:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK2084THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Kanid UTITSARN, The Institute of Advance Military Studies, Royal Thai [...]
2006-04-10 02:40:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK2085THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JIATF-WEST in conjunction with DEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request by May 4, 2006 for individuals listed below who are fro [...]
2006-04-10 02:41:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK2133THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for LCdr. Chalit UTTISEN, 8th Battalion, 3rd Regiment, Marine Division, Royal [...]
2006-04-12 03:14:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK2134THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) LEGATT has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Chuvit CHUVEJ, Royal Thai Police Captain, who has been selected to attend the 2 [...]
2006-04-12 03:14:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2169THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Sirapope KAEWCHANID, Ranger Battalion, Royal Thai Army, who has been [...]
2006-04-12 11:07:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK2170THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) ILEA in conjunction with DEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individuals listed below from the Thai Crime Suppress [...]
2006-04-12 11:53:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2459THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Preecha CHUMPRADIT, Institute of Advanced Military Studies, who has b [...]
2006-04-28 06:17:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2460THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Surasant KONGSIRI, Supreme Command, Royal Thai Armed Forces, who has been [...]
2006-04-28 06:18:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2461THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1Lt. Intrayuth CHAROENTHAIPANICH, 1st Special Forces Battalion, 1st Special Forces Regiment, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) l [...]
2006-04-28 06:18:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2462THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Maj. Jarunee ROOPNGAM, Army Training Command , Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no cred [...]
2006-04-28 06:19:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2463THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt. Pisit JINTAGOSONWIT, Marine Division, Royal Thai Marine Corps, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no [...]
2006-04-28 06:19:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2464THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Phairote PRASAT 1st Air Mobile Company, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credi [...]
2006-04-28 06:20:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2465THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Flg. Off. Borwonsak VISESROJANA, Directorate of Aeronautical Engineering, Logistics Support Group, Royal Thai Airforce, who has been selected to attend c [...]
2006-04-28 06:20:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2466THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Flg. Off. Ronarong ARIYA, Security Force Command, Air Combat Command, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Emb [...]
2006-04-28 06:21:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2468THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt.JG. Mana SAWATRAT, Naval Special Warfare Group, Royal Thai Navy, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no [...]
2006-04-28 07:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2469THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Gp. Capt. Somchai PONGPRATANEE, Security Force Command, Air Combat Command, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. [...]
2006-04-28 07:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2484SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF THE VICE CHAIRMAN OF
[...] (C) Summary. Admiral Giambastiani, your trip to Bangkok will take place as Thailand recovers from its most serious political upheaval in over a decade. We are asking all U.S. visitors meeting with Thai officials to encourage continued respect for the democratic process. Your visit is also a [...]
2006-04-28 08:07:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV MARR MASS TH
06BANGKOK2493THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JIATF-WEST/JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend Exercise FUSION TORCH (FT) 06-1 and Exercise FUSION TORCH (FT) 06-2. Embassy Bangk [...]
2006-04-28 08:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2494THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) DAO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the SE Asia Regional Center for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT) Course sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Cente [...]
2006-04-28 08:57:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2585THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 2Lt. Parnthong INTRATAT, 1st Special Forces Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Regiment, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed bel [...]
2006-05-03 08:52:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2587THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Jom RATTAPONG, 11th Infantry Regiment, King's Guard, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok posse [...]
2006-05-03 08:53:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2588THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Kitisak KANCHANAVASITA, Artillery Battalion, Artillery Center, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Ban [...]
2006-05-03 08:53:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2589THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Phawadee DEEPHUENGTON, Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangk [...]
2006-05-03 08:53:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2590THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 2Lt. Pongwaran NAKCHATTRE, Quartermaster Department, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses [...]
2006-05-03 08:54:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2591THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Parskorn YASAWUTE, 7th Air Defense Artillery Battalion, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok po [...]
2006-05-03 08:54:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2592THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1Lt. Wipaporn DUANGJARAT, Chemical Department, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no cred [...]
2006-05-03 08:54:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2593THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt. Narupon JOYTONGMOOL, Judge Advocate Division, Administration Department, Royal Thai Navy, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Em [...]
2006-05-03 08:54:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2594THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Capt. Jitsiri SUKOMORN, The Adjutant General's Department, Supreme Command Headquarters, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy [...]
2006-05-03 08:54:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2595THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Thoetsak JAIAREE, Royal Thai Supreme Command, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information [...]
2006-05-03 08:55:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2624THAILAND: THE ANDAMAN SEA MARITIME SECURITY
[...] (C) Post has proposed and the Royal Thai Supreme Command and Royal Thai Navy (RTN) have endorsed a U.S. funded initiative to secure Thai territorial waters in the Andaman Sea which would also provide radar coverage of the northern entrance to the Strait of Malacca. The proposed initiative w [...]
2006-05-04 07:41:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MARR MASS TH POL MIL
06BANGKOK2625THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Eng. Sararat CHANKLIN, Royal Thai Navy Language Center, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible in [...]
2006-05-04 07:41:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2643SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF PACOM ADM FALLON
[...] (C) Summary. Fox, I'm looking forward to your visit and hope to host you and Mary for lunch while you are here. While things have settled down for the moment on the domestic political front, a great deal of uncertainty remains over who the next Prime Minister will be and the makeup of the new [...]
2006-05-04 10:01:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV MASS MARR TH
06BANGKOK2644SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF USARPAC LTG JOHN M.
[...] (C) Summary. John, we are looking forward to your visit and appreciate USARPAC's support of Cobra Gold. We are pleased that Cobra Gold this year includes the active participation of Japan, Singapore and Indonesia. We are working closely with your staff to make Cobra Gold a capstone event f [...]
2006-05-04 10:05:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV MASS MARR TH
06BANGKOK2760THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Sqn. Ldr. Nantiya PAIBOON (WRTAF),Directorate of Education and Training, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. [...]
2006-05-11 01:46:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2761THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt. Kamon SIRILAI, Royal Thai Navy Dockyard, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information o [...]
2006-05-11 01:47:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2762THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for FS1 Warawute PRATOMSAOWANEE, Directorate of Air Operation Control, Air Combat Command, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) li [...]
2006-05-11 01:47:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2763THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for FS1 Pudit THONGSUMRIT, Directorate of Electronics, Air Support Command, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Em [...]
2006-05-11 01:48:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2764THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Flt. Lt. Apirat SALEE, Security Force Command, Air Combat Command, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy [...]
2006-05-11 01:48:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2770THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) ILEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for following individuals, who has been selected to attend the course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violations of hum [...]
2006-05-11 04:24:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK2786THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR: ROGER MORAN AND
[...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Roger Moran and Amon Killeen from May 15 - May 27, 2006. 2. Hotel reservations and transportation were coordinated with PACOM and no action taken by Embassy. 3. Embassy point of contact is: Mark B. Lambert Work phone: (66-2) 205- [...]
2006-05-11 07:47:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT MASS TH
06BANGKOK2826SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF EAP A/S HILL
[...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. Chris, we're looking forward to your upcoming visit to participate in the ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue. I am also planning to host a dinner in your honor with former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun. Anand is thoughtful and I think you'll enjoy hearing his views on s [...]
2006-05-11 09:45:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALOVIP MARR MASS PREL PGOV TH
06BANGKOK3084THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Chanon WACHAKAMA Construction and Development Dept. Sattahip Naval Base, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possess [...]
2006-05-23 04:10:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3085THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for LTC Parichat CHANGKARNDEE, Directorate of Joint Logistics, J-4, Supreme Command HQ, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bang [...]
2006-05-23 04:10:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3086THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for LTJG Mongkot PODANG, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violations of hu [...]
2006-05-23 04:10:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3087THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: ATA 5399 -
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) RSO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-mentioned co [...]
2006-05-23 04:10:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3088THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: ATA 5322 -
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) RSO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individual listed below, who has been selected to attend the above-mentioned cour [...]
2006-05-23 04:11:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3089THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: ATA 5322 -
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) RSO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-mentioned co [...]
2006-05-23 04:11:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3090THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violations [...]
2006-05-23 04:11:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK310THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1LT. Sittichai AUTTISILWAT, Post Engineer Department, Royal Thai Army, wh [...]
2006-01-18 06:12:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3100THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: NAS SPONSORED
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) DEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-mentioned co [...]
2006-05-23 06:05:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK311THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1Lt. Putthipong CHANKAN, 3rd Air Mobile Company, Aviation, Royal Thai Arm [...]
2006-01-18 06:12:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3111THAILAND-WASHINGTON STATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM ON
[...] Summary. The State Partnership Program (SPP) between the Washington State National Guard and the Royal Thai Armed Forces has evolved from humble beginnings addressing "niche" disaster response/consequence management areas to become an invaluable Embassy tool allowing us to advance objectives [...]
2006-05-24 00:31:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS TH POL MIL
06BANGKOK312THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Buncha BUNPAMEE, Office of the Army Comptroller, Royal Thai Army, wh [...]
2006-01-18 06:12:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3211THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Miss, Manthana MASMALAI, Office of the National Security Council who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no cre [...]
2006-05-26 07:54:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK3212THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Dusdee INDRAPOL, Royal Thai Supreme Command who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible informati [...]
2006-05-26 07:55:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK3238THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: MAJOR CASE
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) RSO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-mentioned co [...]
2006-05-30 07:52:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3262THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below who has been selected to attend course mentioned above. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violations o [...]
2006-05-31 02:44:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK336THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Capt. Somchai KAWINFUANGFUKUL, Naval Special Warfare Group, Royal Thai Na [...]
2006-01-19 07:53:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK337THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cdr. Thanasawat CHAIYAKUL, Support Regiment, Air and Coastal Defence Comm [...]
2006-01-19 07:54:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK3382THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Plt.Off. Satit PROMPUNJAI, Directorate of Air Operations Control, Air Combat Command, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) lis [...]
2006-06-06 05:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3383THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for LCdr. Kittisak DEETHONGKUM, Naval Logistic Dept., Royal Thai Navy who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no cr [...]
2006-06-06 05:26:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3384THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Songpol RATTANAKOSATE, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information o [...]
2006-06-06 05:26:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3385THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Flg. Off. Akrapat PHOSREELAP, Wing 41, 3rd Air Division, Air Combat Command, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below [...]
2006-06-06 05:26:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3386THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Ft.Lt. Pathira KETKLADYOO, Office of the Defence Budget, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible i [...]
2006-06-06 05:26:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3396ASEAN-U.S. DIALOGUE HELD IN BANGKOK MAY 23
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During the May 23 ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue, ASEAN members and the United States expressed confidence that a joint Plan of Action to implement the ASEAN-U.S. Enhanced Partnership would be ready for the Secretary and Foreign Ministers to approve during the ASEAN Ministers meeting in [...]
2006-06-06 07:10:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR MASS TH
06BANGKOK3413THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt.JG. Samarn CHAIPIM of 9th Infantry Battalion, Royal Guard, 3rd Infantry Regiment, Marine Division, Royal Thai Marine Corps who has been selected to at [...]
2006-06-07 02:44:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3418THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: ILEA -
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) ILEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-mentioned c [...]
2006-06-07 04:14:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3442THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Pradit PHOSRI, Directorate of Intelligence, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible informati [...]
2006-06-08 04:39:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3443THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Special Group Captain Suchin WANNAROJ, Royal Thai Air Force, Special Operations Regiment, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embass [...]
2006-06-08 06:18:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3444THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Ltc. Permsak PRASETSRI, 4th Infantry Regiment, Jirawat Camp, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok po [...]
2006-06-08 06:18:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3445THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Ltc. Narongrit PANIGABUTR, 3rd Infantry Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Emba [...]
2006-06-08 06:18:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3446THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: ATA - 5415
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) RSO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-mentioned c [...]
2006-06-08 06:18:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK3838THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Kullajit SORNKHUM, Intelligence School, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credi [...]
2006-06-29 03:43:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK3839THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Cpt. Penpim THALAWONG The Institute of Advance Military Studies, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangko [...]
2006-06-29 03:43:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4061THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for LtJg. Thaweesin KONGPRASERT, Naval Supply Department, Royal Thai Navy, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses [...]
2006-07-10 04:02:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4137THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below has been selected to attend the course listed above. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violations of h [...]
2006-07-12 09:33:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4140THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 2Lt. Chutiphan SANTASONGKRAW, Joint and Combined Planning Exercise Office, Director of Joint Operation, Royal Thai Supreme Command who has been selected [...]
2006-07-12 09:34:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4309THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Ltc. Worawech WANAMONGKOL, Artillery School, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credi [...]
2006-07-19 08:55:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4310THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Sqn.Ldr. Venika BOONMA-KLEE (WRTAF),Directorate of Intelligence, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy [...]
2006-07-19 08:55:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4311THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Wg.Cdr. Siripun RUANCAJORN, WRTAF, Directorate of Education and Training, Royal Thai Air Force, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. [...]
2006-07-19 08:55:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4314THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Komkai NUKUNKIT, Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credibl [...]
2006-07-19 08:55:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4315THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Kijkong RITTIKACHORN, Royal Thai Supreme Command, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible inf [...]
2006-07-19 08:55:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4475THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1LT Piti EKSITIKUL, Directorate of Intelligence, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible informati [...]
2006-07-25 07:32:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4476THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1LT Kamolsiri WONSRICHANALAI, Office of the Army Comptroller, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credi [...]
2006-07-25 07:33:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4537THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Suvaree WUTHIKORN, SQN.LDR,Royal Thai Air Force, Special Operations Regiment, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok po [...]
2006-07-27 03:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4538THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for COL. Apichai HONGTHONG, HQ 4th Army Area - Director of Operations, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no c [...]
2006-07-27 03:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4539THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for WG.CDR. Somporn ROMPAYOM, Director of Operations - RTAF, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible i [...]
2006-07-27 03:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4540THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Plt.Off. Tanaphon CHANHOM, Air Combat Command, (RTF),who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible info [...]
2006-07-27 03:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4610MORE ON MILITARY RESHUFFLE -- THAI ARMY PUTS
[...] (C) Summary. Thai Army officers, civilian defense analysts and other observers almost uniformly view the July 17 Army reshuffle as a deft move by Royal Thai Army (RTA) CINC GEN Sonthi Boonyaratglin to ensure that key battalion-level commanders and their subordinates in the capital environs [...]
2006-07-28 09:55:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS TH
06BANGKOK4708THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Soontorn PISPUNT - Aviation Police Division, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information o [...]
2006-08-03 08:24:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK4991THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Col. Chatchwahn PAYOONGWONG, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violatio [...]
2006-08-16 08:36:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5035THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Pol. Capt. Pongpol IEMVIJARN, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violati [...]
2006-08-17 09:09:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5036THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Pol. Capt. Nuntapoom RUENGRUNG, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross viola [...]
2006-08-17 09:09:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK507THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) RSO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individuals who have been selected to attend the course mentioned above. Emba [...]
2006-01-27 01:20:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK508THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) ILEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below to attend the Police Executive Role in Combating Terrori [...]
2006-01-27 01:20:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK509THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) ILEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individuals listed below, who has been selected to attend the Computer Facil [...]
2006-01-27 01:20:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK510THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Capt. Wichan WANTANEEYAKUL, Coast Guard, Royal Thai Navy, who has been se [...]
2006-01-27 01:20:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK511THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) NAS has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Pol.Capt. Thatchapong SARAWANANGKOOL, Economic Crime Investigation Division, Royal [...]
2006-01-27 01:21:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5312THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1Lt. Mongkol THUPCHAI, 2nd Infantry Battalion, 19st Inf. Regiment, Royal Thai Army, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bang [...]
2006-08-30 05:55:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5635THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for GpCapt. Chatree PROMPUNTHAGORN (DPOB: 15 July 1963, Bangkok, Thailand),Royal Thai Air Force Institute of Higher Education, Air Education and Training C [...]
2006-09-13 08:38:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5636THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for PolLtCol. Prathueang SRILAMONTRI (DPOB: 24 Sept. 1973, Bangkok, Thailand) Thai Marine Police, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. E [...]
2006-09-13 08:38:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5637THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAGTHAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for 1Lt. Bunnarasi SIRIRAM (DPOB: 4 JUNE 1975, Saraburi, Thailand),Directorate of Joint Civil Affairs L(J-5),who has been selected to attend course(s) list [...]
2006-09-13 08:38:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5638THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt Pamorn PUTTHANIMON, HTMS Putthaloetlanapalai, Frigate Squadron One, Sattahip, Cholburi, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embas [...]
2006-09-13 08:38:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5639THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt. Kedsada ONCOMPA (DPOB: 20 Sept. 1974, Prachinburi, Thailand) HTMS Naresuan, Frigate Squadron Two, Sattahip, Cholburi, who has been selected to atten [...]
2006-09-13 08:38:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5700THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Gp.Capt. Noppadol VERAYANGKURA, (DPOB: 17 Jan 1960, Bangkok, Th),Directorate of Medical Services, Logistics Support Group, Royal Thai Air Force, who ha [...]
2006-09-15 09:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5748THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: ILEA -
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) ILEA has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below, who have been selected to attend the above-mentioned c [...]
2006-09-18 11:02:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK5799THAILAND COUP: IMPLEMENTING SANCTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. The September 19 military coup in Thailand clearly appears to mandate implementation of sanctions under Section 508 of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act. Subject to legal exemptions for programs such as the Peace Corps, or those aimed at providing disaster assistance, H [...]
2006-09-20 10:35:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS EAID KDEM PHUM TH
06BANGKOK6095THAILAND: CHINESE REACTION TO THE COUP
[...] (C) Summary. Although surprised by the coup, Chinese Embassy officials in Bangkok are confident that Sino-Thai relations will continue to thrive under the new Thai government and see opportunities for expanding influence while the United States imposes sanctions. Likely Chinese responses t [...]
2006-10-05 08:14:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS TH CH
06BANGKOK6243THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals listed below who have been selected to participate in Balance Torch 07-1. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violati [...]
2006-10-12 03:01:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK6270OCTOBER 12 UPDATE: NEW LEGISLATURE NAMED
[...] (C) Summary. The King approved the appointment of 242 persons to the interim National Legislative Assembly. The legislators come from a cross-section of Thai society and include 35 active duty military. The military permitted a small pro-democracy gathering in Bangkok. Soldiers remain po [...]
2006-10-12 23:37:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MARR MASS TH
06BANGKOK6324THAILAND: AMBASSADOR URGES GEN SONTHI TO LIFT
[...] (C) Summary. I met with Council for National Security (CNS) chief GEN Sonthi Boonyaratglin on October 16 to express our continued concern over the coup and the suspension of civil liberties. Reminding him that we have already suspended almost 24 million dollars in assistance, I informed Son [...]
2006-10-16 10:08:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MASS MARR TH
06BANGKOK6369THAILAND: POST SEEKS GUIDANCE ON MILITARY FMS
[...] (C) Post appreciates policy guidance contained in Reftel regarding implementation of sanctions against the interim Thai government. Reftel instructions advise us that USG licensing and transfers of defense articles and services funded with national funds should be considered on a case-by-ca [...]
2006-10-18 10:07:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS TH
06BANGKOK662THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt. Smitnat KUNNAVATANA, HTMS Taksin Frigate Squadron 2, Royal Thai Fleet, [...]
2006-02-03 08:24:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK663THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Lt.JG Niran KONGNAN, Diving and ECOD Unit, Naval Ordnance Department, Roya [...]
2006-02-03 08:24:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK664THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Wg.Cdr. Alongkot TAMPRASERT, RTAF Institute of Higher Education, Air Educa [...]
2006-02-03 08:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK665THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for Sqn. Ldr. Patinya IDTIPONG, Directorate of Aeronautical Engineering, Logis [...]
2006-02-03 08:25:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK6654ANTI-COUP SUICIDE FOLLOWED BY SMALL PROTEST IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 31, a taxi driver who made headlines earlier by ramming his taxi into a tank, committed suicide by hanging himself. In a note left near his body, Nuamthong Phaiwan claimed that he took his life as a form of protest against coup. On the evening of November 1, a about [...]
2006-11-03 00:33:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM MARR MASS TH
06BANGKOK6702 THAILAND'S TRADE WITH NORTH KOREA: DOING BUSINESS WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: U.N. economic sanctions against North Korea have met with high-level acceptance from Thai authorities who are moving toward implementing the Security Council resolution. Thailand's unusual position as a top trading partner of North Korea gives it a potentially large role in he [...]
2006-11-06 09:31:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PINR MARR MASS KN TH
06BANGKOK6757THAILAND'S BURMA POLICY: SUBTLE BUT IMPORTANT
[...] (C) Summary: Following the appointment of Gen Surayud Chulanont as interim PM, many observers anticipated a clear shift in Thailand's policy toward Burma. One month into the interim administration, it appears that, with a few exceptions, revisions in policy will be manifest in subtle, yet no [...]
2006-11-08 23:47:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS TH BM
06BANGKOK6987THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) DAO has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the following individual, who has been selected to attend course(s) listed above. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violations of human [...]
2006-11-20 08:38:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK7182THAILAND: POST SEEKS PERMISSION TO PROCEED WITH
[...] (C) Post seeks Washington approval to proceed with the planning conferences for three military exercises: Cope Tiger, Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT),and Cobra Gold. In light of several events since the September 19 coup, including establishment of a civilian government, [...]
2006-11-30 08:29:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS TH
06BANGKOK7386THAILAND: MOVING FORWARD WITH THE COPE TIGER
[...] (C) I was surprised to learn today that Vice-Chairman Giambastiani has canceled the planned U.S. participation in Exercise COPE TIGER's Final Coordination Conference and Command Post Exercise and ordered the U.S. team now in Singapore to return to its home station. Since this conference is [...]
2006-12-13 10:01:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS TH
06BANGKOK7544THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) Legatt has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individual listed below who has been selected to attend the above course(s). Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violations of hum [...]
2006-12-21 07:50:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK7545THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) LEGATT has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individual listed below who has been selected to attend the above course(s). Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violations of hum [...]
2006-12-21 07:50:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK7548THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This is an action request. 2. (U) JUSMAG/THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the individual(s) who has been selected to attend course(s) listed below. Embassy Bangkok possesses no credible information of gross violations of human [...]
2006-12-21 08:34:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGKOK7584THAILAND: MOVING FORWARD WITH THE COPE TIGER
[...] (C) The annual COPE TIGER flight training exercise among the United States, Thailand and Singapore is scheduled to run from January 29 until February 9 in Thailand. More than 800 U.S. service members together with U.S. transport, tanker, fighter and ground support aircraft are planning to p [...]
2006-12-26 02:10:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS TH
06BANGKOK795THAILAND EMBASSY/STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) JUSMAG THAI has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for the US Federal Air Marshal Train-the-Trainer Program from February 27 - Ma [...]
2006-02-10 02:00:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
06BANGKOK962THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR: TRAINING ON
[...] (U) This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see Para. 2. 2. (U) NAS has requested that the Embassy/State Department complete human rights vetting request for individuals from the Dept. of Special Investigations (Thai FBI),Ministry of Just [...]
2006-02-16 10:52:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PHUM TH
06BANGUI157CAR: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING
[...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights as of this date by the following individual nominated for IMET English Language Course (WCN 1210@, MASL B177009, 11/1/2006) and Infantry basic officer training (WCN 1210A, MASL B [...]
2006-10-19 13:58:00Embassy BanguiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ASEC MASS PREL PINR PINS CD
06BANJUL215THE GAMBIA: SUDAN -- LEVERAGING UN TROOP
[...] (SBU) Ambassador made ref a demarche April 6 to Permanent Secretary of Defense, Joseph Jassey, noting The Gambia's SIPDIS status as a troop contributing country and urging GOTG support for an expanded and enhanced UN peacekeeping operation in Darfur. Ambassador said that we expected the UN [...]
2006-04-07 10:52:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KPKO MASS SU GA
06BANJUL33THE GAMBIA: EXPANSION OF CIVPOL CONTINGENT IN
[...] (U) Interior Minister informed us that the GOTG has expanded its civpol contingent in Darfur from 29 to 96 persons, reporting that the additional 67 police officers departed for Sudan in recent days. Besides the civpol contribution, the Gambian contingent in Darfur includes 196 troops and a h [...]
2006-01-17 15:10:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MASS MARR KPKO SU GA
06BANJUL367THE GAMBIA: FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON PRESSING AU TO
[...] (C) In recent discussion with Ambassador, the senior Presidential adviser, Secretary General Mambury Njie, raised our previous demarche to urge President Jammeh's intervention with AU Commission Chairman Konare and/or PSC Chair Djinnit on behalf of AU's expeditious acceptance of NATO's offer of [...]
2006-06-09 16:53:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MASS PGOV AU SU GA
06BANJUL368THE GAMBIA: FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON PRESSING AU TO
[...] (C) In recent discussion with Ambassador, the senior Presidential adviser, Secretary General Mambury Njie, raised our previous demarche to urge President Jammeh's intervention with AU Commission Chairman Konare and/or PSC Chair Djinnit on behalf of AU's expeditious acceptance of NATO's offer of [...]
2006-06-09 16:58:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MASS PGOV AU SU GA
06BANJUL396THE GAMBIA: SCENE-SETTER FOR VCI PDAS FORD'S AND
[...] (C) VCI PDAS Ford and AF DAS Thomas-Greenfield will visit The Gambia against the backdrop of the AU Summit -- for which the GOTG is feverishly preparing -- but also against the backdrop of markedly negative human rights trend in this country, as highlighted by abuses following the coup plot t [...]
2006-06-22 09:47:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID MASS KMCA PTER PINS EINV ETRD
06BANJUL764THE GAMBIA: REPORT OF PRESIDENT'S MILITIA, IRANIAN
[...] (C) In recent conversation with Ambassador, Pap Saine (protect) the well-connected chief editor of the private daily, "The Point," asserted that, nine months after the abortive coup plot in March, President Jammeh remained deeply concerned about another possible plot. According to Saine, Jam [...]
2006-12-21 15:25:00Embassy BanjulSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PINS MASS PREL GA IR
06BEIJING5919HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PACIFIC AREA SPECIAL
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 4. 2. THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS ARE SCHEDULED TO TAKE PART IN PASOC 2006, 3-8 APRIL 2006. 3. THE NAMES AND DATES OF BIRTH OF THE OFFICIALS ARE AS FOLLOWS: SENIOR COLONEL ((ZHANG)) GUANGBIN, STAFF OFFICER, MILITARY TRAINING DEPARTMENT, GENERAL STAFF [...]
2006-03-30 08:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MARR MASS PREL BG
06BEIRUT1310MGLE01: SCENESETTER FOR MAY 3-5 VISIT OF PM A/S
[...] (C) During his recent visit to Washington, Prime Minister Siniora expressed confidence about Lebanon's ability to tackle critical problems through a process of national dialogue. Of these problems, the two most prominent are the fate of President Lahoud, who remains in place through a Syrian [...]
2006-04-27 15:54:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PTER KPKO OTRA LE
06BEIRUT1424MGLE01: A/S HILLEN MEETS WITH PM SINIORA
[...] (C) Pol-Mil A/S Hillen informed Lebanon's PM Siniora that the final approvals were in the works for what we hope will be USD 10 million grant (Section 1206) for immediate equipment and training needs of the Lebanese Armed Forces. Expressing deep appreciation to the President and Secretary, P [...]
2006-05-08 09:12:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL CASC MASS KDEM LE IS SY
06BEIRUT1461MGLE01: A/S HILLEN MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: The normally taciturn Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh was almost buoyant in his May 5 meeting with PM A/S Hillen. A/S Hillen accompanied by the Ambassador spoke with Salloukh about U.S. assistance to Lebanon, and U.S. commitment to Lebanon in the wake of PM Sinora's A [...]
2006-05-10 05:25:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS ASEC SNAR PTER LE
06BEIRUT1462MGLE01: A/S HILLEN MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-10 05:26:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS ASEC SNAR PTER LE
06BEIRUT1464MGLE01: PM A/S HILLEN MEETS DEPUTY PM AND DEFENSE
[...] (S) In a 5/4 dinner meeting with the Ambassador and PM A/S Hillen, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias al-Murr said that enhanced U.S. security assistance would boost morale in the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and make his job easier in soliciting equipment donations from Gulf cou [...]
2006-05-10 06:45:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPREL MASS ASEC SNAR PTER LE SY
06BEIRUT1465MGLE01: A/S HILLEN MEETS WITH UN REPRESENTATIVE
[...] (C) UN Representative Geir Pedersen believes the events of the past few months have greatly changed the political situation in Lebanon, particularly concerning Hizballah. Whereas before, Hizballah essentially had a free pass on its arms and political objectives, now the terrorist organization [...]
2006-05-10 06:47:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS ASEC SNAR PTER LE SY IS
06BEIRUT1466MGLE01: A/S HILLEN'S MEETING WITH ISF GENERAL RIFI
[...] (C) A/S Hillen met with ISF General Ashraf Rifi at the ISF headquarters in Beirut to discuss U.S. - Lebanese cooperation on security assistance programs. Rifi thanked A/S Hillen and the U.S. for our assistance, and said he looked forward to a long partnership with the United States. Rifi sai [...]
2006-05-10 07:16:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS ASEC SNAR PTER CASC LE
06BEIRUT1467MGLE01: A/S HILLEN MEETS WITH LAF COMMANDER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 4, Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Hillen, accompanied by Ambassador, DATT, and ODC Chief, met with Lebanese Armed Forces Commander Michel Suleiman at the Lebanese Armed Forces Headquarters at the Ministry of Defense. Suleiman welcomed the prospect of g [...]
2006-05-10 07:24:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS ASEC SNAR PTER PBTS LE SY
06BEIRUT1508MGLE01: DEFENSE AND ACTING INTERIOR MINISTERS
[...] (C) In a May 11 meeting with acting Interior Minister Ahmad Fatfat (other issues discussed are reported in reftel),the Ambassador raised the subject of the Secretary of Defense's coming invitation to Fatfat and Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias al-Murr to visit Washington. Fa [...]
2006-05-15 05:51:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL OVIP ASEC MASS PTER KCRM LE
06BEIRUT1675MGLE01: S/CT COORDINATOR CRUMPTON HEARS STRAIGHT
[...] (S) Visiting S/CT Coordinator Crumpton had a long 5/22 conversation with Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias al-Murr, and Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh -- three men convinced they have been, or will be, targeted for assassination by the S [...]
2006-05-30 11:00:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPREL ASEC MASS PTER KCRM KISL LE
06BEIRUT1682MGLE01: S/CT CRUMPTON MEETING WITH INTERIOR
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In a May 23 meeting, Acting Interior Minister Ahmad Fatfat, accompanied by Internal Securtity Forces Director General Ashraf Rifi, told Counterterrorism Coordinator Crumpton, the Ambassador, and emboff that his highest priority regarding counterterrorism in Lebanon was reconstruc [...]
2006-05-30 13:02:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPTER MASS PREL PGOV LE
06BEIRUT2256MGLE01: SCENESETTER FOR ELIAS MURR'S JULY 16-19
[...] (S/NF) Just over a year since surviving what is thought to have been a Syrian-ordered assassination attempt, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias Murr heads to Washington July 16-19. The scion of a powerful and wealthy Greek Orthodox family closely linked to Syria, Murr has forg [...]
2006-07-05 14:21:00Embassy BeirutSECRET//NOFORNPREL PARM PTER PGOV MASS LE SY
06BEIRUT2912LEBANON: REQUEST FOR AMMUNITION FROM GCC COUNTRIES
[...] (U) This cable includes an action request in Paragraph 7. 2. (S/NF) Through our discussions with contacts in the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and political leadership, it is clear there remains a critical need -- as expressed in reftel A -- to immediately equip the LAF to empower it to dep [...]
2006-09-08 14:49:00Embassy BeirutSECRET//NOFORNMASS EAID PREL QA SA AE KU LE PARM
06BEIRUT2935LEBANON: SINIORA UNCONCERNED BY AOUNIST THREAT
[...] (C) During a September 11 meeting with the Ambassador and poloff at the Grand Serail, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora reviewed his recent visit to Saudi Arabia as well as British Prime Minister Tony Blair's stop in Beirut. On the reconstruction effort, Siniora provided a clearer picture [...]
2006-09-12 10:36:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MASS LE SY
06BEIRUT3002LEBANON: MISSING U.S.-ORIGIN WEAPONRY POSSIBLY
[...] (C) The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) have a demonstrated good record of maintaining controls over U.S.-origin weapons and ammunition. The Department of Defense has conducted several assessments over the years, and found that there have been only a few instances -- all during the chaotic years [...]
2006-09-15 12:45:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALMASS PARM LE IS
06BEIRUT3159LEBANON: DEFMIN ELIAS MURR SEEKS FURTHER U.S.
[...] (S/NF) On September 26, the Ambassador and poloff met with the Deputy Prime Minister/Defense Minister Elias Murr. Murr reinforced his commitment to cooperation with the U.S. on defense reform and modernization for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). He favored U.S. efforts over the European Uni [...]
2006-09-29 16:00:00Embassy BeirutSECRET//NOFORNLE PGOV PREL MASS
06BEIRUT3225LEBANON: DEFENSE MINISTER POSITIVE ON UNIFIL,
[...] (S) Defense Minister Murr is positive on the deployment of and cooperation between the LAF and UNIFIL. On the political scene, Murr is pessimistic about potential future Hizballah and FPM demonstrations. Deeply worried about Shia-Sunni tensions that he fears Internal Security Forces could in [...]
2006-10-05 11:28:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPGOV PREL MASS LE SY IS
06BELGRADE1117Successful Step in Improving Military Cooperation
[...] (U) Summary: The visit of two USAF F-16s on June 22 and 23 marked a new high point in the military relationship between the US and Serbia. The extensive and overwhelmingly positive media coverage made the operation a success and demonstrates the effect that military cooperation can have on [...]
2006-07-11 15:18:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MARR MASS SR
06BELGRADE1824BELGRADE - REQUEST FOR IMET FUNDING
[...] (SBU) In the wake of the President's decision to waive ASPA conditionality from IMET eligibility for a number of countries, including Serbia, Embassy requests IMET funding in the amount of $500,000 for the current fiscal year. Such funding would support resident courses, Distinguished Orienta [...]
2006-11-07 16:34:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PREL SR
06BELGRADE1986SERBIA MINT ACCEPTS INVITATION FOR TRAINING AT
[...] (U) The Ministry of Interior has accepted a joint US- Italian invitation to participate in training at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) located in Vicenza, Italy and proposed eight candidates for participation in the six week middle management course that is schedul [...]
2006-12-11 05:42:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV IT NI SR
06BELGRADE2016 VETTING FOR PROPOSED PARTICIPANTS FOR
[...] The following candidates from Serbia are presented as nominees for attendance in the January 2007 training course at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) in Vincenza, Italy. Consistent with Department Policy as it relates to Leahy Amendment Human Rights Vetting, these [...]
2006-12-15 16:06:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDMASS KCRM PREL IT SR
06BELGRADE547SAM SIGNS WMD AGREEMENT
[...] (u) SaM Defense Minister Zoran Stankovic and the Ambassador signed reftel WMD text on April 5, 2006. Signed original was faxed to the treaty office and transmitted to L/T per reftel instructions on April 5. POLT [...]
2006-04-07 10:36:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PARM PREL SR
06BELGRADE611Defense Agreements with SaM - Next Steps
[...] (sbu) The visits of Senator Voinovich on March 23-24 and General Wald on March 27-28 provided excellent opportunities to push the GoSaM and GoS to do more on our defense agreements. With the WMD now signed and awaiting parliamentary ratification in SaM, the MoD here is keen to push through [...]
2006-04-19 09:52:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL SR
06BELIZE248BELIZE RESPONSE US-CARICOM MINISTERIAL INITATIVE ON
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, post passed non-paper and draft Initiative concerning the U.S.-CARICOM Initiative to Combat Illicit Trafficking in Arms (CITIA) to CEO Lawrence Sylvester of the Belize Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and to North American Desk Officer Aisha Borland. 2. (SBU) Borland no [...]
2006-03-17 20:43:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PARM PREL MASS OAS XL BH
06BELIZE250BELIZE WILL NOT ATTEND OAS CICTE VI
[...] (U) Per reftel A, in response to post's inquiry, the Government of Belize (GOB) indicates that it will not send a delegation to the Sixth Regular Session of CICTE in Bogota, Columbia. GOB did send Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ministry of Home Affairs Alan Usher to the conference last [...]
2006-03-17 20:55:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL ECON MARR MASS CVIS OAS VE BH
06BERLIN2828GERMANY SHARES U.S. CONCERNS ON ARMS TRANSFERS TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Emboffs delivered ref A demarche September 22 to MFA Arms Export Control Division Desk Officer Jan Freigang and Venezuela Desk Officer Achim Troester. Freigang said Germany closely evaluates all export license applications involving [...]
2006-09-25 16:10:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PARM PREL ETTC VE GM
06BERLIN3093U.S. OFFICIALS INSPECT SUSPECTED STOLEN U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: USG and German Customs officials inspected the German auto dealer Eble 4X4 Restaurationen, located in Lahr, Germany, on October 4, 2006, on suspicions that Eble planned to export stolen U.S. military HMMWVs (reftel) from Germany. Although the USG officials continued to harbor su [...]
2006-10-25 09:57:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC MASS PARM GM
06BERLIN3325GERMANY DENIES EXPORT LICENSE FOR SUSPECTED STOLEN
[...] (U) Please see action request in paragraph 4. 2. (C) Global Affairs officer met German MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Andreas Kauke November 14 to discuss ref case of two German auto dealers trying to export suspected stolen U.S. military HMMWVs. As noted in ref B, Eble 4X4 Resta [...]
2006-11-16 16:13:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC MASS PARM GM
06BERN593SWISS ADOPT RESTRICTIONS ON DISPOSAL OF EXCESS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-21 10:39:00Embassy BernCONFIDENTIALMASS MOPS PREL IZ SZ
06BOGOTA3156INDUMIL STRUTS CONTROLS IN PREP FOR DDTC LICENSE
[...] (C) Embassy officers visited Colombian parastatal weapons importer and manufacturer Industrias Militares (INDUMIL) and verified that the plant meets Department criteria for inventory controls. However, there is no statutory framework in place to ensure continued compliance. At this upstream s [...]
2006-04-10 14:20:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL MASS MOPS CO KOMC ETTC OTRA PARM
06BOGOTA7397INDUMIL DOWNSTREAM: TIGHTER CONTROLS, FEW LEAKS
[...] (S) Responding to possible weapons leakage to terrorist groups from state weapons manufacturer INDUMIL, econ/poloffs went beyond a routine factory licensing review (reftel C) to investigate inventory controls in the later stages of storage, transport, and retail sales. INDUMIL outlined compr [...]
2006-08-14 17:42:00Embassy BogotaSECRETPGOV PREL MASS MOPS CO KOMC ETTC OTRA PARM
06BOGOTA766MFA VICE MINISTER REYES ON ARMS SALES TO
[...] (C) Summary. Polcouns met with MFA Vice Minister Camilo Reyes on January 20 to continue discussions on arms sales to Venezuela and UN reform. Reyes said the GOC shares U.S. concerns about sales of arms to Venezuela and has raised this at high levels with both Russia and Spain. Reyes said he [...]
2006-01-27 17:05:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PARM KUNR UN CO
06BRASILIA1365BRAZIL REJECTS SOFA REQUEST FOR BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE ANNUAL
[...] Poloff delivered reftel's talking points and draft dip notes, July 5, to Virginia Toniatti, the MFA's General Coordinator Against Transnational Crime (COCIT). In response to the draft note and Poloff's assertion that the USG would like to conclude a long-term SOFA agreement with Brazil, Toniat [...]
2006-07-06 18:51:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS MASS KTIA US BR
06BRATISLAVA51SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUNDUP JANUARY 20, 2006
[...] (U) Only one passenger out of 43 survived when a Slovak Air Force An-24 crashed January 19 into the side of a snow-covered mountain in northeastern Hungary, three kilometers from the Slovak border. The flight was returning from Kosovo with 28 members of Slovakia's KFOR peacekeeping continge [...]
2006-01-20 16:04:00Embassy BratislavaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR MASS SOCI AF LO
06BRATISLAVA550PARLIAMENTARY FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN THINKS
[...] (C) We pass along the following not as a definitive state of play in the Fico government's thinking on a withdrawal from Iraq (which is not clear yet--),but as an indication of the internal debate that has been joined since he took power (reftel). Ruling Smer Party MP and newly-appointed Chai [...]
2006-07-07 14:25:00Embassy BratislavaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS KPAO MOPS IZ LO
06BRIDGETOWN489DELIVERED: POTENTIAL US-CARICOM MINISTERIAL
[...] Embassy Bridgetown delivered the demarche on the US-CARICOM Ministerial Initiative on Combatting Illicit Arms Trafficking to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Governments of Antigua and Barbuda (Diplomatic Note No. 317),Barbados (Diplomatic Note No. 318),Dominica (Diplomatic Note No. [...]
2006-03-20 13:50:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PARM PREL MASS AC BB DO GJ SC ST VC XL
06BRUSSELS3278DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELA'S ARMS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-29 04:58:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PARM PREL VE BE
06BRUSSELS4158AFGHANISTAN: EUR A/S FRIED AND SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM
[...] (C) IN A MEETING REQUESTED BY THE AFGHAN SIDE ON THE MARGINS OF THE OSCE MINISTERIAL IN BRUSSELS, EUR A/S DANIEL FRIED AND SCA DAS EVAN FEIGENBAUM TOLD DAVOOD MORADIAN, AFGHAN SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR TO FM SPANTA, THAT WHILE THE USG WOULD CONTINUE TO WORK CLOSELY WITH PARTNERS AND DONORS, THE [...]
2006-12-15 16:48:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MASS MOPS PREF PGOV AF
06BUCHAREST1219ROMANIAN LIMITS IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS,
[...] (C) Summary. Despite popular sentiment in Romania that it is already stretched thin in contributing to peacekeeping operations overseas, decision makers appear cautiously optimistic that Romania would contribute to an international peace keeping force, should there be an UN mandate to stabili [...]
2006-07-31 16:03:00Embassy BucharestCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL IS LE RO
06BUCHAREST1223ROMANIAN WEAPONS PURCHASE AND POTENTIAL MANPADS
[...] (S) On July 20, PolOff delivered to Dan Neculaescu, MFA Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, reftel demarche regarding GOR's weapons systems purchase and possible cooperation on surplus MANPADS destruction. On July 21 PolOffs delivered the same demarche to MOD Director for Internat [...]
2006-08-01 14:06:00Embassy BucharestSECRETPREL MASS RO
06BUCHAREST1767ROMANIA SEEKS ENTRY-INTO-FORCE ALTERATION TO
[...] (U) This is a request for Guidance; see para 3. 2. (SBU) POLMILOFF on November 7, met with MFA Director for Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Combating Terrorism Dan Neculaescu, whose office has the lead on the Blanket End-Use Assurances agreement. Neculaescu explained that Romania has [...]
2006-11-22 15:19:00Embassy BucharestUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS PGOV RO
06BUCHAREST635ROMANIA: F-16 AIRCRAFT TRANSFER OFFER
[...] (C/NF) It is Embassy's understanding, further to discussions with senior MOD officials, that the GOR has not made up its mind regarding the procurement source of F-16 aircraft. Although President Basescu ruled out that possibility in a March conversation with the Ambassador (Ref B),it is st [...]
2006-04-18 15:39:00Embassy BucharestCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MASS PGOV PREL RO IS
06BUENOSAIRES1004ARGENTINA PROPOSES FUNCTIONAL IMMUNITIES FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Paulo Cavalleri, an official in the MFA's Office of International Security (DIGAN),called POLOFF April 26 regarding our proposal (ref A) to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) for the November 2006 UNITAS Atlantic Pha [...]
2006-05-04 15:24:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALAR KTIA MARR MOPS MASS
06BUENOSAIRES1005ARGENTINA PROPOSES FUNCTIONAL IMMUNITIES FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Paulo Cavalleri, an official in the MFA's Office of International Security (DIGAN),called POLOFF April 26 regarding our proposal (ref A) to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) for the November 2006 UNITAS Atlantic Pha [...]
2006-05-04 15:29:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALAR KTIA MARR MOPS MASS
06BUENOSAIRES1006ARGENTINA PROPOSES FUNCTIONAL IMMUNITIES FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Paulo Cavalleri, an official in the MFA's Office of International Security (DIGAN),called POLOFF April 26 regarding our proposal (ref A) to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) for the November 2006 UNITAS Atlantic Pha [...]
2006-05-04 15:32:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALAR KTIA MARR MOPS MASS
06BUENOSAIRES1791STORY OF RUSSIAN ARMS SALES OVERBLOWN
[...] (C) On August 9, The Washington Times ran a story regarding potential Russian arms sales to Argentina (local daily "La Nacion" ran the story last week). The source for the WT story, from which the article quotes liberally, is a standard MOD press release following Minister Garre's meetings w [...]
2006-08-09 21:06:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPARM MARR MASS PREL VZ RS AR
06BUENOSAIRES798ARGENTINA: NEGOTIATING A STATUS OF FORCES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) POLOFF met April 4 with Minister Ricardo Boccalandro and Counselor Paulo Cavalleri in the MFA's Office of International Security (DIGAN) to discuss the text of the draft diplomatic note (ref. A) on a short-term Status of Forces [...]
2006-04-07 21:28:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALAR KTIA MARR MOPS MASS
06CAIRO1295DISCUSSION OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER WITH
[...] (C) The Ambassador met on February 26 with Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi in advance of Tantawi's March 5-10 trip to the U.S. and raised Egypt's potential violation of the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 through the treatment of third country patients at the International Medical C [...]
2006-03-01 14:19:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS EG
06CAIRO1297SCENESETTER FOR DEFENSE MINISTER TANTAWI'S VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: During his March 5-10 visit to Washington, Defense Minister Tantawi will seek Administration support for the current level of FMF funding. Tantawi feels that any USG concerns about the pace of democratic reform should be kept distinct from the mil-mil relationship, which he con [...]
2006-03-01 14:38:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS IS EG
06CAIRO1678EGYPT POSSIBLE UNAUTHORIZED END-USE: METROLOGY
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7 below. 2. (C) Summary: The Office of Military Cooperation, Egypt (OMC-E) has discovered that the GOE is possibly engaging in an unauthorized end-use of FMF-purchased equipment at the Metrology Engineering Calibration Center (MECC) [...]
2006-03-16 15:47:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS EG
06CAIRO1737AMBASSADOR AND DEFMIN TANTAWI DISCUSS
[...] (C) The Ambassador and Defense Minister Tantawi discussed the International Medical Center's treatment of third country nationals during their March 19 meeting (septel). Tantawi's senior advisor, MG Fouad Abdel Halim, told the Ambassador and Field Marshal that the MoD understands that State [...]
2006-03-20 15:11:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS EG
06CAIRO1811SCENESETTER FOR GEN ABIZAID'S VISIT TO CAIRO
[...] (C) GEN Abizaid, Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit as an opportunity to review our agenda on regional security and the future of our FMF assistance to Egypt. President Mubarak believes, and the MoD's senior leadership will reiterate, that our mil-mil relationship is the cornerstone of [...]
2006-03-23 17:29:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS IS IZ IR EG SU KPAL KNNP
06CAIRO2100DEFMIN TANTAWI WITH GEN ABIZAID ON IRAQ, HAMAS,
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 29 meeting CENTCOM Commander GEN Abizaid and Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi, joined by DCM Jones, discussed regional affairs, terrorism, military cooperation, and the International Medical Center (IMC). Tantawi (1) stressed the importance of a strong Sunni [...]
2006-04-05 14:25:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS IS IZ LE EG SY KPAL
06CAIRO2475SCENESETTER FOR A/S HILLEN'S VISIT TO CAIRO
[...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit and the opportunity to discuss security assistance, border security, regional cooperation, and the MFO with the GOE. The Defense and Foreign Ministers will likely press you for further assurance of the Administration's support for the current lev [...]
2006-04-27 14:00:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS MOPS KMFO EG IR IS KNNP KPAL
06CAIRO2648PM A/S HILLEN DISCUSSES FMF, SINAI SECURITY, IRAN,
[...] (C) Visiting PM A/S Hillen, joined by the Ambassador, discussed Darfur, security assistance, Sinai security and regional cooperation with FM Aboul Gheit and Defense Minister Tantawi April 30. On Sudan, Aboul Gheit said that Egypt would only send more forces to Sudan with Khartoum's full suppo [...]
2006-05-07 15:06:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MASS UN EG IS IR SU KPAL KNNP KMFO
06CAIRO3128POTENTIAL IMPACT OF A REDUCTION OF EGYPT'S FMF
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph two. 2. (U) During a recent meeting with Office of Military Cooperation-Egypt Chief MG Byron Bagby, Congressman Kolbe requested an outline of the potential impact of a reduction or reprogramming of Egypt's Foreign Military Financing. P [...]
2006-05-25 11:15:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MASS MOPS EG
06CAIRO3282SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL GRIFFIN'S JUNE VISIT TO
[...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit and the opportunity to discuss with you ways in which we might bolster our military cooperation with Egypt. The U.S.-Egyptian military partnership is the cornerstone of our strategic relationship. While both nations benefit from the relationship [...]
2006-05-31 09:59:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL MASS MOPS EG KPAL IS IZ SU
06CAIRO5748DEFMIN TANTAWI AND GENERAL ABIZAID: STRENGTHEN
[...] (C) In his August 30 meeting with CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid, Egypt's Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi inquired about the possibility of sending U.S.-origin Egyptian armaments to support the Lebanese Army, which he characterized as very weak. General Abizaid agreed, and promi [...]
2006-09-13 14:57:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PTER KPAL PHUM KNNP LE EG IR
06CANBERRA1940AUSTRALIA DECLINES FIJI'S REQUEST FOR MILITARY
[...] (C) Australia declined a request by Fijian Prime Minister Qarase for Australian military intervention to prevent a coup by the RFMF Commander Bainimarama. In reaction to events, the Australian Foreign Minister announced December 5 Australia would suspend defense ties with Fiji, including impo [...]
2006-12-05 06:44:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR MASS AS FJ NZ
06CARACAS211US SUPPORT REQUESTED FOR VENEZUELAN DISASTER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 16:25:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALPGOV MASS VE
06CARACAS220US SUPPORT REQUESTED FOR VENEZUELAN DISASTER
[...] (C) Post strongly endorses the fulfillment of a Venezuelan Government request for Southcom to help update its disaster prevention operations center, a project that would cost about USD 170,000. In addition to its value in humanitarian terms, the project would serve as a timely contrast of U [...]
2006-01-30 19:59:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALPGOV MASS VE
06CARACAS2852DIPLOMATIC CARGO IMPOUNDED
[...] (C) The Venezuelan National Guard (GN) seized and opened part of an inbound U.S. Military Group (MILGP) shipment on August 23. The seized cargo consists of household effects (HHE) and commissary rations. A shipment of FMS materials ordered and purchased by the BRV and consisting of ejection [...]
2006-09-18 21:30:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALADPM MARR MASS PGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS661TAMPING DOWN IRANIAN URANIUM RUMORS IN VENEZUELA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-13 11:04:00Embassy CaracasSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MASS PARM VE IR
06CARACAS776CARRIER VISIT TO BENEFIT US POLICY TOWARD VENEZUELA
[...] (U) See Ambassador's comment para 9. 2. (S) Post supports Southcom's planned "Partnership of the Americas" maritime surge to the Caribbean to be led by the aircraft carrier U.S.S. George Washington. The deployment will help us to counter President Hugo Chavez' courtship of Caribbean co [...]
2006-03-23 19:26:00Embassy CaracasSECRETPGOV MOPS MASS VE
06CARACAS913BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: RUSSIAN CHOPPERS ARRIVE
[...] (U) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presided over the formal handover of three Russian MI-17 helicopters to the Venezuelan Army's helicopter battalion in Yaracuy State on April 3. The three aircraft, which arrived in Venezuela unassembled on February 21, are part of a contract Chavez annou [...]
2006-04-04 12:12:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALPGOV MASS VE
06CARACAS958EXPLAINING VENEZUELA'S COZINESS WITH IRAN,
[...] (S//NF) Manifest in the public rhetoric of both countries, a shared hatred for the USG is the driving factor in the budding relationship between Iran and Venezuela. The BRV is favoring Iran with petroleum deals and other contracts that appear to make little commercial sense. Although rumors of [...]
2006-04-07 20:19:00Embassy CaracasSECRET//NOFORNPGOV MASS PARM VE
06COLOMBO1762SRI LANKA: GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS INITIATIVE
[...] (SBU) Pol Chief and PolOff presented the offer for a Global Peace Operations Initiative Partnership with Sri Lanka (ref a) to MFA Additional Secretary for Multilateral Affairs Maduwedegera on October 25. Maduwedegera appeared interested and asked several questions for clarification. He under [...]
2006-10-25 11:20:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO MARR MASS CE
06COLOMBO2067SRI LANKA TO PROCEED WITH GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS
[...] (SBU) Following up on ref B, Defense Attache passed information to Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa during a previously scheduled meeting on November 3. DATT later received a call back from Defense Ministry expressing interest and asking for more information. Pol Chief received a reque [...]
2006-12-14 09:54:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO MARR PREL MASS KSEP CE
06CONAKRY101GUINEAN MILITARY SEES BROAD SECURITY MANDATE;
[...] (S) On January 24, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) Theresa Whelan met with Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and then with senior military officers to discuss regional stability and bilateral military cooperation. 2. (S) DASD Whelan delivered a strong message to Guinean m [...]
2006-01-30 12:55:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPREL PGOV MASS KDEM GV
06CONAKRY93DASD WHELAN SCORES RARE ENCOUNTER WITH GUINEAN
[...] (S) SUMMARY. In a surprise development, Guinean President Lansana Conte received Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Theresa Whelan at the Presidential Palace on January 25. Plagued by poor health, Conte has not to our knowledge held any meetings with persons outside h [...]
2006-01-27 12:58:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPGOV PREL MASS KDEM PINS GV
06CONAKRY94GUINEAN MILITARY SEES BROAD SECURITY MANDATE;
[...] (S) On January 24, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) Theresa Whelan met with Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and then with senior military officers to discuss regional stability and bilateral military cooperation. 2. (S) DASD Whelan delivered a strong message to Guinean m [...]
2006-01-27 12:59:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPREL KDEM PGOV MASS GV
06COTONOU1107SCENE SETTER FOR GULF OF GUINEA MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post welcomes your participation in the Government of Benin (GOB)-ACSS hosted Gulf of Guinea Ministerial Conference on Maritime Security in Cotonou, November 13-14, 2006. Your visit highlights USG support for security and safety initiatives in the Gulf of Guinea. The conference [...]
2006-11-07 14:04:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT MARR MASS PREL PGOV PINR CASC BN
06COTONOU1118BENIN: SCENE SETTER FOR EUCOM AND NAVEUR PARTICIPATION IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post welcomes your participation in the NAVEUR/ACSS-sponsored Gulf of Guinea Maritime Safety and Security (MSS) Ministerial Conference hosted by the Government of Benin (GOB) in Cotonou, November 13-15, 2006. Your visit highlights USG support for safety and security and initiati [...]
2006-11-09 08:01:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT MARR MASS PREL PGOV PINR BN
06COTONOU1149BENIN: MARITIME SAFETY AND SECURITY MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE A SUCCESS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Benin hosted a ministerial conference on "Maritime Safety and Security in the Gulf of Guinea" in Cotonou on November 13-15. The conference, sponsored by NAVEUR, and organized by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS),involved ministerial delegations from [...]
2006-11-21 15:46:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS ETRD ECON MARR KMCA PGOV PREL BN EWWT
06COTONOU1175SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT BONI YAYI OF BENIN'S USA VISIT,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Benin's new pro-American President Boni Yayi welcomes his December 13-16, 2006, USA visit to meet with President George W. Bush, and other USG, IFI and private sector officials. President Yayi likely will express his appreciation for the US support to Benin via its $307 million M [...]
2006-11-30 16:02:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EWWT EAID MARR PGOV EFIN PINR CASC MASS PHUM
06DAKAR1623SENEGAL: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in prom [...]
2006-07-07 15:22:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP ECON PHUM EAID MASS PGOV PREL SOCI KMCA
06DARESSALAAM1109DIPLOMATIC NOTE RECEIVED: ACOTA, 505 AGREEMENT
[...] (U) The Embassy received diplomatic note CKB 162/664/01 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on June 29, 2006. This note is in response to the request in reftel A for an agreement, by exchange of notes, regarding the use, transfer, sale and security of defense [...]
2006-07-05 13:32:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDMASS KPKO KTIA TZ
06DARESSALAAM1564ACOTA: TANZANIA EAGER FOR TRAINING CONFERENCE AND
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Tanzania is eager to move ahead to the first substantive step in the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) partnership, the Training Strategy Conference (TSC). The Tanzania People's Defence Forces (TPDF) suggested an early November time frame for the T [...]
2006-09-19 15:20:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALMASS KPKO KTIA TZ
06DARESSALAAM1730TANZANIA UNDERLINES INTEREST IN DEPLOYING
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Tanzania's Defense Minister has warmly welcomed recent developments in the U.S.-Tanzania mil-to-mil relationship, including the latest timeline for ACOTA training, deployment of a CJTF-HOA civil affairs team to Tanzania, the reintroduction of IMET training, and the offer of sever [...]
2006-10-23 04:59:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PREL PGOV TZ
06DARESSALAAM606 ACOTA OFFERED, WELL-RECEIVED IN TANZANIA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Meetings of the ACOTA (African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance) and Embassy team with officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Defense and National Service (MOD) were positive and produced a way forward to bringing Tanzania into the [...]
2006-04-13 03:21:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR MOPS PREL PGOV ETTC TZ
06DARESSALAAM889TANZANIA: ACOTA/505 AGREEMENT DIPLOMATIC NOTE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-31 14:29:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDMASS KPKO KTIA TZ
06DHAKA1364HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR BALANCE BUFFALO 06-2
[...] This is an action request. See Paragraph 4. 2. The following units are scheduled to take part in Exercise Balance Buffalo 06-2 initiating deployment in MAY 2006: Bangladesh Army: 1st Para Commando Battalion. Bangladesh Air Force: Commandos from 101 Special Flying Unit, (Tpt Wing). [...]
2006-03-14 09:26:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MARR MASS PREL BG
06DHAKA5434HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR "ATA-6001 - PREVENTING
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para three. 2. (SBU) The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Diplomatic Security Anti-Terrorism Assistance Preventing Attacks Against Soft Targets (PAAST) course from September 16-23, 2006 in Washington, D.C. Post vetting was [...]
2006-08-27 05:48:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PHUM BG MASS MARR PREL KCRM
06DJIBOUTI338DJIBOUTI AND FRANCE FORMALLY RENEW TIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Djibouti and France have signed a bilateral agreement through 2010, which includes a 76 million Euro aid package for Djibouti. This agreement was signed during the recent visit of Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to Paris. Both sides have agreed to conduct more hig [...]
2006-03-15 17:12:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID MARR MASS FR DJ
06DOHA1737QATAR WILL CONSIDER DEPOSIT IN LEBANON'S CENTRAL
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador discussed the crisis in Lebanon with Minister of State Ahmed Al-Mahmoud (number two in the Qatari MFA) December 13. Al-Mahmoud said that Lebanon's Ambassador in Qatar had recently requested that Qatar act as a mediator between the Lebanese government and oppostion facti [...]
2006-12-13 14:35:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID EFIN MASS LE QA
06DUBAI6926AIR FORCE SECRETARY WYNNE DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH UAE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-13 14:32:00Consulate DubaiSECRETPREL PARM MOPS MASS KNNP IR IZ AF LE AE
06DUSHANBE2223INITIAL MEETING WITH NEW TAJIK BORDER GUARDS CHIEF
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The newly appointed head of the Tajik Border Forces within the State Committee on National Security, General-Major (US 1-star equivalent) Mirzoev, invited representatives from the U.S. Embassy and other donor countries and implementing agencies to an introductory meeting. General [...]
2006-12-18 06:43:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SNAR MASS TI
06DUSHANBE776INDIA LOOKS TO REVIVE SILK ROAD HERITAGE, NOT GREAT GAME
[...] (SBU) In an April 26 meeting with U.S. DCM, Indian Deputy Chief of Mission Govinda Khampa took great pains to explain India's priorities in Tajikistan. Far from extending India's "strategic reach," the repair of the Ayni Airfield outside of Dushanbe is part of India's Technical Economic Coope [...]
2006-04-26 09:57:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR MASS ECON ETRD TI
06DUSSELDORF48GERMAN COURT CONVICTS TWO IN ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE TO IRAN
[...] (U) In a December 15 decision, the Duesseldorf Regional Court convicted two defendants on charges of illegally exporting sensitive technology to Iran. The first defendant, Ali Mobaraki, an Iranian businessman resident in Duesseldorf, was sentenced to two years and two months in prison. The [...]
2006-12-20 08:15:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MASS KOMC ETTC IR GM
06GEORGETOWN1218GUYANA ENDORSES U.S.-CARICOM INITIATIVE TO COMBAT ILLICIT
[...] Ambassador met with Guyana Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on November 14 and delivered the joint U.S.-CARICOM Agreement on Illicit Trafficking in Arms. Rohee said that Guyana endorses the statement and that he will raise the matter with FonMin Insanally and President Jagdeo. Ambassador [...]
2006-11-16 20:27:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MASS PARM PREL CARICOM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN258DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S.-CARICOM INITIATIVE TO
[...] DCM delivered demarche per reftel March 17 to Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General. Harper was receptive to the concept of the initiative to Combat Illicit Trafficking In Arms. She recognized the proposal as a step towards moving the U.S.-CARICOM dialogue [...]
2006-03-17 20:25:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MASS PARM PREL XL GY CARICOM
06GUATEMALA128URIBE'S VISIT TO GUATEMALA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Colombia's President Uribe paid a highly successful visit to Guatemala January 19-20. He publicly committed to support Guatemala's bid for the UNSC, to provide counter-narcotics cooperation and to conclude a free trade agreement. Uribe's address to the Guatemalan Congress was [...]
2006-01-24 21:00:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SNAR MASS PHUM ETRD CO GT UNSC
06GUATEMALA1313SPANISH JUDGE DEPARTS GUATEMALA EMPTY-HANDED
[...] Summary: Spanish judicial personnel departed Guatemala without having obtained any official testimony regarding the 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy and the deaths of two Spanish citizens. They did, however, draw international attention to the lack of activity by the Guatemalan authorities [...]
2006-07-07 12:44:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KJUS MASS GT
06GUATEMALA1526GUATEMALA: SECOND REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT GUIDANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-07 21:25:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS GT JM
06GUATEMALA1831GUATEMALA: END-USE ASSURANCES FOR TRANSFER OF UH-1
[...] On September 11, post received a diplomatic note from the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry that provided end-use, retransfer, and security assurances for the transfer of one U.S.-origin UH-1 helicopter frame and 261 lines of spare parts from Jamaica. The text of the diplomatic note is unchanged f [...]
2006-09-14 20:45:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS GT JM
06GUATEMALA195GUATEMALA: REACTION TO DEATH OF PEACEKEEPERS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The deaths of eight Guatemalan peacekeepers in the Congo has provoked some criticism of Guatemalan participation in international peacekeeping. The Guatemalan President praised the dead peacekeepers as heroes and reiterated his government's continued commitment to UN peacekeep [...]
2006-02-01 13:31:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PREL KPKO PHUM MASS GT CG UG SU UN
06GUATEMALA2485GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-21 22:00:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
06GUATEMALA2504GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-26 18:03:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL PHUM PINS GT
06GUATEMALA2505GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-26 18:27:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL PHUM PINS GT
06GUATEMALA428GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT WRITES TO PRESIDENT BUSH ON
[...] At a February 28 meeting with the Ambassador and DCM (septel),Guatemalan President Berger handed over a letter to President Bush and asked that it be forwarded to the White House. The Embassy is sending the original to WHA/CEN by pouch but provides text of the letter in para 2. 2. Embas [...]
2006-03-01 17:25:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPDC CVIS SMIG EAID PREF ETRD MASS SNAR GT
06GUATEMALA429GOG WEAKNESSES AND U.S. SUPPORT
[...] (C) Summary: The February 23 announcement that TPS (Temporary Protected Status) has been extended for citizens of El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua prompted immediate critical reaction from President Berger, Vice President Stein and Foreign Minister Briz, culminating in a reproachful meet [...]
2006-03-01 19:05:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SMIG CVIS ETRD MASS SNAR GT
06GUATEMALA986UPDATE ON GUATEMALA'S NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
[...] (SBU) We would like to provide an update on the status of the National Security Strategy (NSS) project for Guatemala, and confirm our and the Government of Guatemala's (GOG) strong interest in pushing this project forward as the basis for developing an integrated approach to the country's d [...]
2006-05-18 22:30:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM SOCI MASS SNAR EAID GT
06ISLAMABAD11164POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR COUNTERPART VISIT BY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-13 14:40:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPK PREL PGOV MASS MCAP EAID
06ISLAMABAD11740POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR DOD U/S RYAN HENRY'S
[...] (S) Embassy Islamabad welcomes your June 25-28 visit to Islamabad. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan toward Musharraf's goal of "enlightened moderation." Both viewed President Bush,s March vis [...]
2006-06-21 08:22:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPK PREL PGOV MASS
06ISLAMABAD12689PAKISTAN MANPADS COLLECTION PROGRAM: JULY 3 FIELD
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request: please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) On July 3, 2006, poloff and PM/WRA Kabul-based EOD contractor Drew Prater flew to Quetta, Balochistan to assist Government of Pakistan (GOP) Ministry of Interior (MOI) program manager COL Abbas and field manager [...]
2006-07-05 13:34:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPK PREL PGOV MASS
06ISLAMABAD140PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART UPDATE ON
[...] Effective information management, implemented from the earliest stages of a natural disaster, can improve the quality of the humanitarian response. In the Pakistan earthquake, the UN introduced the cluster system without providing supporting documentation or comprehensive terms of reference a [...]
2006-01-05 09:01:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
06ISLAMABAD143PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART UPDATE ON
[...] Effective information management, implemented from the earliest stages of a natural disaster, can improve the quality of the humanitarian response. In the Pakistan earthquake, the UN introduced the cluster system without providing supporting documentation or comprehensive terms of reference a [...]
2006-01-05 09:21:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
06ISLAMABAD147PAKISTAN - EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART UPDATE ON INFORMATION MANA
[...] Effective information management, implemented from the earliest st ------------------------------------ Importance of Information Management ------------------------------------ 2. Effective information management during disasters is achieved by u 3. One essential component of informat [...]
2006-01-05 09:37:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PRE
06ISLAMABAD15977GOP SIGNS CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS MAINTENANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-11 15:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETRD ETTC LY MASS MCAP PINR PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD16266AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BALOCHISTAN SECURITY ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador,s August 10-11 visit to Balochistan, Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani said that Pakistan,s anti-Taliban efforts is currently focused on expelling undocumented Afghans, but that there is no long-term plan for dealing with the Afghan population. Ghani believes th [...]
2006-08-17 13:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK MOPS AF MASS MCAP PTER
06ISLAMABAD17992EMBASSY RECOMMENDATION ON ENGAGING GOP ON F-16 SALE
[...] (C) Summary: Post requests senior officials from SCA, PM, H, and OSD convene Pakistani Ambassador Durrani and reinforce the importance of the September 15 Offer Expiration Date (OED) for signing the F-16 Letter of Acceptance(LOA.) End Summary 2. (C) Over the weekend, Ambassador Crocker enga [...]
2006-09-11 11:05:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPK PREL MASS
06ISLAMABAD18708EMBASSY ISLAMABAD-EMBASSY KABUL-CFC-A
[...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Islamabad-Embassy Kabul-CFC-A cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary. On September 12, select Embassy Islamabad, Embassy Kabul and CFC-A personnel met to discuss the security situation in the border areas and ways to improve the political, economic and social ties between Af [...]
2006-09-21 13:12:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON PREF PTER EAID MASS PINR AF
06ISLAMABAD19208F-16 LOA SIGNED AT LAST.
[...] (C) MG Tariq Salim Malik, Additional Secretary of Ministry of Defense Production (MODP),signed the Letter of Acceptance (LOA) to purchase 18 F-16s Saturday evening, September 30. Following the private signing ceremony, MODP presented to Office of Defense Representative Pakistan a side mem [...]
2006-10-02 10:31:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMASS MCAP PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD21931THE RIGA SUMMIT AND PAKISTAN
[...] (C) During Assistant Secretary Boucher's November 6-7 visit to Islamabad, post was struck by senior Pakistani officials' and politicians' pessimism over Afghanistan. Interlocutors repeatedly expressed concerns that the U.S. and NATO were not in Afghanistan for the long-haul. While we know t [...]
2006-11-09 12:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALAF MASS MOPS PK PNAT PREL
06ISLAMABAD21947BOUCHER AND KASURI COVER F-16S, JIRGAS, NORTH
[...] (C) Summary: On November 6, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Foreign Minister Kasuri. In the meeting, Kasuri asked for consideration on F-16 payments and previewed Pakistani thoughts on the joint jirgas announced after President Musharraf and [...]
2006-11-13 02:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALAF MASS PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD21948THE RIGA SUMMIT AND PAKISTAN -- CORRECTED COPY,
[...] (C) AmEmbassy Kabul concurs with this telegram. 2. (C) During Assistant Secretary Boucher's November 6-7 visit to Islamabad, post was struck by senior Pakistani officials' and politicians' pessimism over Afghanistan. Interlocutors repeatedly expressed concerns that the U.S. and NATO wer [...]
2006-11-13 02:12:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALAF MASS MOPS PK PNAT PREL
06ISLAMABAD22237PAKISTAN KEEN ON GPOI, SEEKS MORE INFO
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request -- please see para 6. 2. (SBU) On November 28, PolOff met MFA Director (UN I) Haider Shah to follow up on reftel USG proposal for Pakistan to participate in the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI). Shah said that Pakistan is amenable to takin [...]
2006-11-30 05:07:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO MARR MASS PK
06ISLAMABAD22317GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS INITIATIVE: PAKISTAN'S
[...] This cable contains an action request -- please see para 3. 2. On December 4, MFA Director (UN I) Haider Shah delivered to Poloff the Government of Pakistan's written response to the U.S. proposal for Pakistan to participate in the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) (ref B). Pakistan [...]
2006-12-06 09:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO MARR MASS PK
06ISLAMABAD22385FIGHTING GWOT: IMPROVING FMF, FMS, AND OTHER
[...] (S) As we enter the sixth year of this long war, it is increasingly clear that our Foreign Military Funding/Foreign Military Sales (FMF/FMS) programs, unchanged since 9/11, are not suited to the needs of GWOT allies like Pakistan. Difficulties we have encountered with some security assistanc [...]
2006-12-09 04:13:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNAF MASS MOPS PK PNAT PREL
06ISLAMABAD354215TH PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN-U.S. TRIPARTITE MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: The 15th U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan Tripartite Commission meeting, held at Bagram on February 25, was characterized by frank discussion between the Afghan and Pakistani delegations. The agenda focused on cross-border issues, intelligence sharing, steps to counter IEDs, and the lin [...]
2006-03-03 02:00:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETAF MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD3807POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR PM - A/S JOHN HILLEN
[...] (S) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your planned March 15 - 18 visit to Pakistan. As demonstrated during President Bush's recent visit to Islamabad, both President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan to [...]
2006-03-08 14:31:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETKDEM MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD4761VICE CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF WANTS ANA TO JOIN
[...] (C) During a March 17 conversation with PM - A/S Hillen, Pakistan's Vice Chief of Army Staff GEN Ahsan Saleem Hyat said that he would welcome the expanding a joint exercise between the U.S. and Pakistan military schedule for later this spring to include a unit from the Afghan National Army ( [...]
2006-03-22 02:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL MOPS MASS AF
06ISLAMABAD5123A/S HILLEN VISIT TO PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Introduction: On his March 15-18 visit to Pakistan, A/S John Hillen and PM/RSAT Tom Canahuate met with senior Government of Pakistan (GOP) officials, as well as Pakistan's top military leadership. Describing his role in soliciting support for USG security assistance to Pakistan from the U [...]
2006-03-28 08:54:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPK PTER MOPS MASS MCAP PREL
06ISLAMABAD5358END-USE, RETRANSFER AND SECURITY ASSURANCES FROM
[...] This message contains an action request; please see para. 6. 2. By letter dated 18 March 2006, CAPT Muhammad Tahir, Pakistan Navy, forwarded to the Office of Defense Representative - Pakistan (ODRP) an original End User Certificate (EUC),serial number 71/2006, signed by BG Khan Azam Kh [...]
2006-03-30 12:47:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PK TU
06ISLAMABAD5537POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR HAGEL
[...] (S) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your planned April 12-15 visit to Pakistan. As demonstrated during President Bush's recent visit to Islamabad, both President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan towa [...]
2006-04-03 06:07:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETEAID MASS MOPS OVIP PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD5931DEMARCHE DELIVERED: POSSIBLE GOP TROOP
[...] (C) On April 5, poloff presented reftel demarche points to MFA (UN) Director Imran Siddiqui. Siddiqui said that the Government of Pakistan (GOP) was aware of the text of UNSCR 1663, but had not yet received a request from UN/DPKO to contribute troops or logistical support for a Darfur peacek [...]
2006-04-07 04:59:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PK KPKO UN MASS
06ISLAMABAD7564SCENESETTER FOR S/CT AMBASSADOR CRUMPTON
[...] (S) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your planned May 3-4 visit to Pakistan. As demonstrated during President Bush's visit to Islamabad, both President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan toward Musharra [...]
2006-04-28 15:13:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PK PGOV MASS MOPS PTER MCAP
06ISLAMABAD7629POLITICAL AND SECURITY ASSISTANCE SCENESETTER FOR
[...] (U) In anticipation of the U.S.-Pakistan Defense Consultative Group (DCG) meetings in Washingont May 1-5, Embassy Islamabad offers the following snapshots of political and security assistance developments in Pakistan. U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Partnership ----------------------------------- [...]
2006-05-01 11:45:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETMASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD7780SCENESETTER FOR U.S. CENTRAL AIR FORCES COMMANDER
[...] (S) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your May visit to Pakistan. As demonstrated during President Bush's visit to Islamabad, both President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan toward Musharraf's goal of [...]
2006-05-02 12:20:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETMASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD8829S/CT AMB CRUMPTON ENCOURAGES ROBUST GOP
[...] (C) Introduction and summary: Visiting Islamabad on May 3-4, S/CT Ambassador Henry Crumpton and S/CT Senior Advisor Michael Hurley engaged political, diplomatic and military interlocutors on Pakistan's counterterrorim (CT) strategies and policies. Calling on National Security Advisor Tariq [...]
2006-05-16 02:07:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETMASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD9772UK FACILITATES TRANSIT OF DANISH CARGO
[...] (C) In response to inquiries via State and Defense Department channels (Reftel),post has confirmed through the British High Commmision (BHC) and Danish Defense Command Representatives that Danish military cargo transiting Pakistan en route to Afghanistan was successfully offloaded at Karach [...]
2006-05-26 11:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PGOV PK PREL
06JAKARTA10136ILLICIT ARMS CACHE ACTIVATES INDONESIAN RUMOR MILL
[...] (C) Summary: On August 9 the Indonesian Army,s National Military Police announced the results of its investigation into the 185 guns and other weaponry discovered by authorities in Brigadier General Koesmayadi,s homes and office following his June 25 death of natural causes. TNI Commander D [...]
2006-08-11 13:26:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA11214KEITH LUSE'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN MOD DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary: Senate SFRC Senior Professional Staff Member Keith Luse met with Indonesian Defense Ministry Director General for Defense Strategy Major General Dadi Susanto on August 28 in Jakarta. Susanto characterized U.S.-Indonesian relations and military cooperation as positive. Susanto w [...]
2006-09-11 10:01:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PGOV PHUM ID
06JAKARTA11377U.S.-INDONESIA BILATERAL DEFENSE DIALOGUE AGREES
[...] (U) Summary: The sixth annual meeting of the U.S.-Indonesia Dialogue (USIBDD) in Jakarta on August 29-31, 2006 the two sides agreed to 138 military-to-military events for 2007. USPACOM and the Indonesian military (TNI ) also signed a Terms of Reference (TOR) formalizing the annual meeting pr [...]
2006-09-13 09:01:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL ID
06JAKARTA11482THE VISIT OF VP KALLA: ENGAGING ON THE ECONOMY
[...] (C) Summary. Vice President Jusuf Kalla,s September 23-28 visit to the U.S. offers an excellent opportunity to deliver a message on the need to accelerate economic reforms to one of Indonesia,s most influential officials. Although deeply involved in economic policy issues, Kalla is a relucta [...]
2006-09-18 06:13:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA12162NECESSARY ASSURANCES FOR TRANSFER OF C-130 SPARES
[...] We delivered ref A text of proposed assurances to the North America desk of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on October 3. We asked for confirmation that the GOI in fact wanted the spare parts in question. We also advised that the GOI consider offering blanket assurances [...]
2006-10-03 12:14:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS AS ID
06JAKARTA12546INDONESIA SEEKS GPOI FUNDING FOR PLANNED
[...] (C) Summary: Officials at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs have confirmed Indonesia's interest in participating in the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) and have asked whether GPOI funding could be used to support a national PKO center Indonesia is creating to train its mi [...]
2006-10-13 10:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKPKO PREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA12547U.S.-INDONESIA SOFA TALKS LAY BASIS FOR POSSIBLE
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. delegation's exploratory talks with the Indonesian government on October 5 in Jakarta made considerable headway in establishing a basis of understanding for possible formal negotiation of a bilateral Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Embassy shared a draft template text (r [...]
2006-10-13 11:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PREL ID
06JAKARTA12660ACEHNESE VILLAGERS EXHUMING CONFLICT VICTIMS'
[...] (C) Summary. Acehnese villagers are exhuming the graves of persons executed during the conflict between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian government, Georges Paclisanu (strictly protect),Head of Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),told us recently. Ba [...]
2006-10-18 04:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA12732EAP DAS ERIC JOHN'S MEETING WITH BG DADI SUSANTO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Indonesian Director General for Defense Strategy Susanto on October 18, EAP DAS Eric John raised U.S. human rights concerns, the need for continued military vetting and accountability for past abuses, the importance of a SOFA in underpinning bilateral cooperatio [...]
2006-10-19 10:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM MASS MOPS ID
06JAKARTA13193YOUR VISIT TO INDONESIA
[...] (S) Summary: Mr. President: Your visit to Indonesia provides an excellent opportunity to consolidate recent gains in U.S.- Indonesian relations and showcase the success of our core political values ) freedom, democracy, and economic development ) in this, the world,s largest Muslim-majority [...]
2006-11-13 10:11:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA13308GPOI FUNDING: INDONESIAN PLANS FOR A TRAINING
[...] (C) Poloff and ODC Chief met with Department of Foreign Affairs officer for International Security and Disarmament Yonatri Rilmania on November 14 to learn more about a planned Indonesian center for peacekeeping training and to explain U.S. funding possibilities for this and other potential ne [...]
2006-11-27 10:37:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKPKO MARR MASS PREL ID
06JAKARTA13498YUDHOYONO'S VISIT TO RUSSIA: DEFENSE COOPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesia and Russia signed a range of intergovernmental and other agreements during the visit of Indonesian President Yudhoyono to Russia November 29-December  [...]
2006-12-15 10:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR EINV EIND ENRG SOCI ID RS
06JAKARTA1817INDONESIA: A/S HILLEN'S MEETING WITH DEPARTMENT OF
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Imron Cotan February 1 expressed to SIPDIS Assistant Secretary John Hillen his great pleasure that the U.S. had taken steps to end the "embargo" on military-to-military cooperation and suggested that the countries nee [...]
2006-02-10 11:49:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA1818INDONESIA: A/S HILLEN'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary John Hillen February 1 described to Indonesian Defense Minister the "great anticipation" in the U.S. regarding Indonesia and the U.S. desired a robust relationship with Indonesia. Juwono told A/S Hillen he would do whatever necessary to strengthen this relat [...]
2006-02-10 11:58:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA1819INDONESIA-U.S. POLITICA-MILITARY TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. and Indonesian delegations held a day of political-military talks February 1 to explore expanded bilateral cooperation following the U.S. decision in November to end restrictions on military-to-military relations. The U.S. delegation, led by Dr. John Hillen, Assistant Secre [...]
2006-02-10 12:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2032INDONESIA: SBY USES INVESTITURE OF NEW TNI CHIEF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesian President Yudhoyono February 13 swore in Chief Air Marshal Djoko Suyanto as the new commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) to replace General Endriartono Sutarto. Air Marshal Suyanto, the first Air Force Officer to hold the position, will assume command of [...]
2006-02-15 12:29:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2110INDONESIA: POLAND PLANS DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL
[...] (C) Polish Ambassador Tomasz Lukaszuk previewed with the Ambassador February 16 the upcoming visit to Jakarta of Polish Minister of National Defense Radoslaw Sikorski. Lukaszuk noted that NATO Ambassadors in Jakarta had agreed in 2000 to cooperate on defense matters and inform counterparts of [...]
2006-02-16 11:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2744ADMIRAL FALLON'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: PACOM Commander Admiral Fallon February 23 discussed with Indonesian Minister of Defense Juwono Sudarsono difficulties budget shortfalls caused for TNI's ability to respond to "natural and man-made disasters" and the GOI's procurement focus on transportation assets, which could [...]
2006-03-02 07:24:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2819ADMIRAL FALLON CALLS ON PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO
[...] (C) PACOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon called on President Yudhoyono (SBY) Feb. 23. SBY emphasized the importance of bilateral cooperation in multiple areas. He spoke of the progress in implementing peace in Aceh, and judged that in his view the situation will be fully settled within [...]
2006-03-02 13:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PTER KN BM ID MASS PGOV
06JAKARTA2820ADMIRAL FALLON'S MEETING WITH MINISTER WIDODO
[...] (C) Summary. Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral William J. Fallon, met with Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Widodo A.S. on February 23. He emphasized the importance to the United States of restored mil-mil relations with Indonesia. Both le [...]
2006-03-03 02:34:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ID
06JAKARTA2914INDONESIA: ADMIRAL FALLON'S MEETING WITH NEW TNI
[...] (C) Summary: Air Chief Marshall Djoko Suyanto was upbeat in his assessment of U.S.-Indonesian military-to-military relations with PACOM Commander Admiral Fallon February 23. Suyanto described the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) internal reforms as &ongoing8 but cautioned that changing TNI,s cul [...]
2006-03-06 10:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA2917YOUR VISIT TO INDONESIA: MOVING OUR RENEWED
[...] (U) Madame Secretary: Your team in Jakarta warmly welcomes your March 14-15 visit to Indonesia, the most senior USG visit since Secretary Powell's of January 4-6, 2005. We have underway preparations to ensure a visit high in substance and symbolism. Introduction ------------ 2. (C) Su [...]
2006-03-06 13:35:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA3344A/S HILL'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesian President Yudhoyono March 3 described to EAP Assistant Secretary Chris Hill his plans to press the Burmese junta to reform. During his visit to Rangoon March 2, the President said he had urged General Than Shwe to make progress on the national constitution, national [...]
2006-03-15 09:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA3483INDONESIA: CODEL FEINGOLD'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesian Defense Minister told visiting Senator Russell Feingold that progress in the counterterrorism fight by Indonesian law enforcement authorities had disrupted terrorist groups in the country. Terror groups had financial difficulties, were less able to mount attacks and [...]
2006-03-17 12:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA4466INDONESIA CONSIDERING DARFUR PKO ISSUES
[...] (C) We delivered on April 4 the points contained reftel to the Director for International Security and Disarmament Affairs at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs, Hassan Kleib, to urge Indonesian support for re-hatting as a UN PKO the African Union Mission in Sudan. We also pressed [...]
2006-04-06 10:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL KPKO ID SU
06JAKARTA5789ASD RODMAN'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN FOREIGN
[...] (C) Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter Rodman met Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Imron Cotan on April 12. Both expressed strong interest in expanding military ties. Imron pressed for USG training for Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus); [...]
2006-05-09 06:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MASS MARR PHUM KDEM KAWC TT BM TW
06JAKARTA59YOUR VISIT TO INDONESIA: LAUNCHING A RENEWED
[...] (U) Madame Secretary: Your team in Jakarta warmly welcomes your January 8-10 visit to Indonesia, the most senior USG visit since Secretary Powell's of January 4-6, 2005. We have underway preparations to ensure a visit high in substance and symbolism. Introduction ------------ 2. (C) [...]
2006-01-03 11:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL ID
06JAKARTA6433APCSS SUPPORT FOR NSC SEMINAR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-22 06:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA6493SCENESETTER: SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S VISIT TO JAKARTA
[...] (C) Summary: Mr. Secretary: Your strong support for the Administration's decision to move quickly in November to normalize military-to-military ties with Indonesia has given a new, more cooperative quality to bilateral relations across the range of our interests. You will have the opportuni [...]
2006-05-22 09:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA7561INDONESIA: SIX MONTHS OF NORMALIZED MIL-MIL
[...] (C) Summary: A bit over six months after the Administration moved to normalize military relations with Indonesia the U.S. has gained traction on a broad range of issues in ways we previously found impossible. No aspect of our bilateral relationship has experienced more pronounced change tha [...]
2006-06-15 04:02:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA8179INDONESIA RESPONSIVE TO GPOI PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL
[...] (C) Indonesia's coordinator for peacekeeping activities, Dr. Hassan Kleib, warmly received our offer for Indonesia to participate in the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI)(reftel). Kleib, who is Director for Security and Disarmament Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) [...]
2006-06-29 11:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKPKO PREL MASS MARR ID
06JEDDAH481AMCIT REITERATES CONCERNS ABOUT SAUDI DEFENSE
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: A U.S. citizen, who promotes American defense interests in the Kingdom, reported on a meeting he held with his SAG contact who participated in the SAG-French meeting in June about upcoming defense contracts. The AmCit told the Consul General on July 9 that the French are using [...]
2006-07-16 13:18:00Consulate JeddahSECRET//NOFORNMARR MASS MCAP KCOR PGOV PINR
06KABUL2841ASSESSING THE PASHTUN BELT
[...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Kabul-Embassy Islamabad-CFC cable. 2. (C) Summary: On June 7, Ambassador Neumann, Ambassador Crocker, CFC Commanding General Eikenberry, and their senior staffs met at Embassy Kabul for the first of a series of planned periodic inter-Embassy meetings prompte [...]
2006-06-24 02:52:00Embassy KabulSECRETPREL PGOV ECON PREF PTER USAID MASS PINR AF
06KABUL4232AFGHAN POLICE REFORM: CIVIL ORDER MAINTENANCE -
[...] (C/REL CAN) Summary: Ongoing Afghan National Police (ANP) reform efforts are focused on removing corrupt/incompetent leadership, increasing the quality of training and equipment, and "rebalancing"/augmenting the force in favor of provinces with the greatest security needs. As important as the [...]
2006-09-18 11:40:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PGOV AF
06KABUL5012EQUIPPING THE ANSF: SEIZING THE MOMENTUM OF
[...] (U) This is an Action Request, see paragraph 10. 2. (C/REL ISAF) Summary: The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) are at a critical point in their development and require dependable ammunition, weapons, and other equipment. The North Atlantic Council's (NAC) September 27 decision (refte [...]
2006-10-15 06:21:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMASS PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL5397COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THE VISIT OF PM/WRA
[...] (U) Embassy Kabul warmly welcomes PM/WRA Policy Advisor Eric Patterson and Technical Advisor Eric Arnett and grants country clearance for the visit from November 15 to November 18,2006. 2. (U) Control officer for the visit is Political-Military Affairs Officer Todd Bullock. Mr. Bullock's co [...]
2006-11-07 12:29:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA PARM PREL MARR MASS ASEC AF
06KABUL5499STABILITY AT STAKE IN ZABUL: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and Embassy officers visited the Romanian Forward Operating Base (FOB) and the U.S. run Qalat Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Zabul province November 6, where they attended security briefings on Taliban activity and redeployment of artillery assets as well [...]
2006-11-15 09:19:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER MASS AF
06KABUL5504 DEPUTY FINANCE MINISTER SHAHRANI - BUDGET ON TRACK BUT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-15 09:35:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON MASS MARR PGOV AF
06KABUL5549PROVINCIAL RECONSTRUCTION TEAMS MAKING A DIFFERENCE ON THE GROUND IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] State Department officers and USAID representatives are working with military counterparts at Italian, Canadian, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, New Zealand, Icelandic, German, British and Lithuanian as well as U.S.-led PRTs. The difficult and often dangerous environment in which they work, coupl [...]
2006-11-21 01:40:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PTER EAID NATO PREF MASS AF
06KATHMANDU1128CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF SEEKS U.S. ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) In a May 2 meeting with SCA Assistant Secretary Boucher, NSC Senior Director Millard and the Ambassador, Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa stressed that the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) would welcome, and work with, a civilian, democratically-elected government. General Thapa said [...]
2006-05-04 08:55:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALMASS PGOV PTER MCAP NP
06KATHMANDU1185JUBILANT POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS STILL WORRIED
[...] (C) During separate May 2 discussions with SCA Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher, NSC Senior Director Elisabeth SIPDIS Millard, and the Ambassador, political party leaders explained that the government was taking preliminary shape and moving toward constituent assembly elections. CPN-UML [...]
2006-05-09 02:09:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL EAID MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1195PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA ON THE WAY AHEAD
[...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala appealed May 10 to the Ambassador for assistance in gaining Indian support for a third party witness for negotiations with the Maoists and for international monitors of the cease-fire. Koirala liked the suggestion of having two witnesses - perhaps an Indian and an o [...]
2006-05-10 11:57:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PTER PREL MASS PINR IN NP
06KATHMANDU1196NEW MINISTERS REQUEST U.S. ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) Fourth-time Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat and Minister for Physical Planning and Works Gopal Man Shrestha both separately asked the Ambassador for U.S. support in May 9 meetings. The Ambassador agreed it was important the government show it could deliver services to the people and sho [...]
2006-05-10 12:01:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV EAID PREF MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1267POWER PLAY TO WATER DOWN PROCLAMATION FAILS
[...] (C) Just a few hours before the Prime Minister's planned May 18 3:00 pm proclamation to limit the King's power and place the army under civilian control, rumors swirled around Kathmandu that the Army and the King were planning a preemptive coup. The leaders of two of Nepal's biggest parties, [...]
2006-05-18 11:49:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1268PARLIAMENT ASSERTS SUPREMACY
[...] (U) Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala presented the much-awaited Declaration limiting the power of the King to the House of Representatives on May 18. Despite rumors that the language would be muted (ref A),the Declaration stated that Nepal was now a secular state, with the Parliament hav [...]
2006-05-18 12:42:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1281NEPAL: SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR
[...] (C) I believe we have a four-six month window to use our assistance to consolidate recent gains in democracy in Nepal. While some argue that development and governance should take a back seat to peace, I disagree. We need to help the government show it is making a difference in people's lives [...]
2006-05-19 11:35:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1284PRIME MINISTER APPROVES USG PROVIDING TRAINING TO
[...] (C) On May 19, Dr. Suresh C. Chalise, the Prime Minister's External Affairs Advisor, told us that the Prime Minister had approved all the courses, seminars, and conferences we had planned as part of our FY 06 security assistance program. He indicated that we should take a quiet approach. He s [...]
2006-05-19 12:32:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1426LEAHY VETTING OF NEPALI UNDERGOING TRAINING IN THE
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see para. 7. Summary ------- 2. (C) Post recently determined that a Nepalese Army officer, who had undergone Leahy vetting (refs B-D) and who is currently in the U.S. for training, served - and continues to serve - in a unit alleged to have been invo [...]
2006-06-05 11:04:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1435PM'S NEW MILITARY ADVISOR REQUESTS HELP FOR
[...] (C) Newly-appointed Military Advisor to the Prime Minister Ramesh Jung Thapa explained to the Ambassador and Pol/Econ chief that, in his position as the Prime Minister's Military Advisor, he would act as "coordinator" between the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Defense and the Nepalese Army [...]
2006-06-06 02:45:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1504CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF ON HUMAN RIGHTS; MAOISTS
[...] (C) On June 12, the Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by A/DCM and ODC Chief, met with Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa to inform him of the USG decision to return Captain Indiver Rana to Nepal from U.S-based training due to our concerns that he was serving in a unit currently facing s [...]
2006-06-12 11:08:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1522HOPE AND CONCERN IN WESTERN NEPAL
[...] (C) During a June 6-7 trip to Western Nepal, civil servants, political and business leaders, military officials, and human rights workers all expressed to the Ambassador their continued concern about Maoist activities; their concern was tempered with hope for peace. Surprisingly, and perhaps [...]
2006-06-14 04:27:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER EAID MASS MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU1578NEPAL ARMY SHARES ITS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL REPORT
[...] (C) The Nepal Army (NA) will present its human rights report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva during the upcoming session. The Army is aware that it has problems with human rights abuse and alternates between trying to explain the reasons for violations and trying to addr [...]
2006-06-19 13:35:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV MASS NP
06KATHMANDU213HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION FOR RNA COL.
[...] Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by Colonel Sudhir Shrestha of the Royal Nepalese Army, as of this date. Post has notified requesting agency. MORIARTY [...]
2006-01-20 09:33:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU214HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION FOR RNA COL.
[...] Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by Colonel Pramod Kumar Lama of the Royal Nepalese Army, as of this date. Post has notified requesting agency. MORIARTY [...]
2006-01-20 09:34:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU215HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION FOR LTC HIRA
[...] Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by Lieutenant Colonel Hira Lal Joshi of the Royal Nepalese Army, or Senior Superintendent of Armed Police Lakshmi Prasad Bashyal, as of this date. Post has notified requesting a [...]
2006-01-20 09:35:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2589SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ASSERTS MINISTRY'S CONTROL OF
[...] (C) Ministry of Defense Secretary Upreti invited Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief to a meeting on September 18 to learn more about U.S.- Nepal security assistance and agreements. ODC Chief emphasized U.S. security assistance hinged on the promotion of human rights. He asked if the M [...]
2006-09-22 11:39:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PGOV PHUM PINS NP
06KATHMANDU2673LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION: BRIGADIER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-10 09:37:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU2799REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING: CRITICAL
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates, who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. These candidates are scheduled to participate in Diplomatic Security's Critical Incident Management Course f [...]
2006-10-20 11:58:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2800REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING: CSTR
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates, who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. The candidates are scheduled to participate in Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism (CSTR) training [...]
2006-10-20 11:58:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2801LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: SSTR
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates, who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. The candidates are scheduled to participate in Stability Security, Transition and Reconstruction (SSTR) trai [...]
2006-10-20 11:58:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2807LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING: NESA
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate, who has been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. The candidate is scheduled to participate in a Near East and South Asia (NESA) course from November 29 to Dece [...]
2006-10-25 02:00:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2974LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: COMBINED
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening Lieutenant Colonel Santosh Kumar Dhakal, who has been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. The candidate has been nominated for a one-year0 posting as the Combined Planning Group Strate [...]
2006-11-07 01:58:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2975LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: CSTR TRAINING
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Kishor Kumar Lama, who has been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. The candidate is scheduled to participate in Comprehensive Security Responses t [...]
2006-11-07 01:58:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2976LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: NESA
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates, who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. These candidates are scheduled to participate in the Near East and South Asia (NESA) course in Washing [...]
2006-11-07 01:58:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2997MAOISTS RUNNING THE SHOW IN BIRATNAGAR AND
[...] (C) Recent visits to two towns on Nepal's southern border with India revealed a sharp deterioration in law and order with Maoist extortion, opportunistic violence, and intimidation interrupting the local economies while government security forces stood idly by. The South and Central Asia Bure [...]
2006-11-07 11:22:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALMASS PHUM PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2999LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION: CRITICAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-07 11:38:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3001LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION: CSTR,
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-07 11:52:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3022NEPAL ARMY: IMPROVING NEPAL'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD
[...] (C) In a meeting on November 6 with Ramesh Jung Thapa, Defense Advisor to the Prime Minister, and Bishnu Uprety, Defense Secretary, the DCM delivered ref A talking points, strongly urging the Government of Nepal (GON) to take action on human rights abuses in the Nepal Army (NA). The DCM made [...]
2006-11-09 11:59:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3032MAOISTS KIDNAP AND TORTURE MP'S BROTHER
[...] (C) A Nepali Congress (NC) Member of Parliament representing Bajhang District told us recently about the kidnapping of Malla's younger brother October 29 by the Maoists. Suresh Malla, who leads a faction of 15-20 anti-Maoist MPs, told Emboff that his brother had been tortured for three days a [...]
2006-11-13 10:11:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3055LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-17 01:45:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU3076LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION: COMBINED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-21 09:17:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3077LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION: CSTR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-21 09:21:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3078LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION: NESA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-21 09:24:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3086BOUCHER DISCUSSES THE FUTURE OF THE NEPAL ARMY
[...] (C/NF) In a November 16 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, Ramesh Jung Thapa, Defense Advisor to the Prime Minister, and Bishnu Uprety, Defense Secretary, described an improving relationship between the Nepal Army and the civilian leadership. [...]
2006-11-22 07:43:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PTER PREL MASS NP
06KATHMANDU345ADMIRAL FALLON TELLS NEPAL ARMY U.S. ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) On February 1, Admiral William J. Fallon, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, stressed to the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) Chief of Army Staff (COAS),General Pyar Jung Thapa, that the U.S. military could not fully resume military assistance to Nepal absent movement toward representative g [...]
2006-02-06 12:24:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINS MASS NP
06KATHMANDU583CRITICAL AMMUNITION SHORTAGE
[...] (S) Royal Nepal Army (RNA) Master General of Ordnance Major General Prakash Bahadur Basnyat told Emboff on February 28 that the RNA was running critically low on almost all types of ammunition. The RNA had 16,800 rounds of M-16 ammunition remaining in the depots for its 16,000 M-16s. In othe [...]
2006-02-28 12:11:00Embassy KathmanduSECRETPREL MOPS MASS PTER NP
06KATHMANDU624CHINA CONFIRMS NO LARGE-SCALE MILITARY SALES
[...] (C) In a March 6 discussion, Chinese Ambassador Sun again stressed that China had decided not to proceed with large-scale lethal security assistance/sales to Nepal because India was "so sensitive" about it. Sun added that the utility of providing the lethal equipment was unclear, in light of [...]
2006-03-06 12:38:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PTER NP
06KATHMANDU663FINANCE MINISTER TELLS AMBASSADOR FUNDING NEEDED
[...] (C) In a March 7 meeting, Minister of State for Finance Roop Jyoti told the Ambassador that Nepal needed external funding to support additional security costs. (Note: For FY 2004-2005 Nepal's security budget was 17.2 percent of the total government budget.) Jyoti noted that security in the [...]
2006-03-10 11:18:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALMASS EFIN PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU830RNA HUMAN RIGHTS CELL WORKING
[...] (C) In a March 24 meeting, Col. Dharma Baniya, head of the Human Rights Cell of the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA),and Brig. Gen. B.A. Kumar Sharma, Judge Advocate General, told Emboffs that the RNA was working hard to improve its human rights record. Baniya gave a point by point reply to the U.S. [...]
2006-03-28 11:34:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER MASS NP
06KATHMANDU838UPBEAT CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF SEES POSSIBILITY FOR
[...] (C) In a March 28 meeting, Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa told the Ambassador that he thought Nepal could successfully address the Maoist insurgency if enough military, diplomatic, political and economic pressure could be brought to bear on the Maoists. He cited a number of recen [...]
2006-03-29 11:24:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM MASS MOPS MARR NP
06KATHMANDU910SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 12-14 VISIT OF CODEL HASTERT
[...] (SBU) I warmly welcome your upcoming visit to Kathmandu. Your visit here should help further our two principle objectives in Nepal: restoring multi-party democracy and dealing with the Maoist insurgency. The King's takeover of February 1, 2005 was a step back for both of these goals. Since th [...]
2006-04-05 15:35:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PREL PHUM PTER PREF MASS NP
06KHARTOUM364SLA COMANDERS CALL FOR A SINGLE LEADER
[...] (C) (Note: this is a re-transmission of 05 Khartoum 01654 to reflect redrafting and reclassification of para 4 per AF/SPG request. End note.) Summary: The lack of a clearly defined leader at the top of the SLA has left field commanders with divided loyalties, hungry forces, and time on the [...]
2006-02-14 15:18:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALMASS MCAP PREL SU
06KHARTOUM572MOD RESTRUCTURES; FIRES 400, HIRES 600
[...] (C) The Ministry of Defense has undergone a re-structuring and a blood-letting of 400 serving officers. Almost simultaneously, 600 officers from the South Sudan Defense Forces will be integrated into the Sudanese Armed Forces. Retired officers say that those officers who have been cashiered a [...]
2006-03-06 15:08:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALMOPS MASS PGOV SU
06KHARTOUM573GOS MOBILIZES PDF
[...] (C) Local Arabic language press reported that the Ministry of the Interior had mobilized the Popular Defense Forces across Darfur in order to "confront foreign intervention." The move can be seen as a continuation of the full court press put on by the NCP against blue-hatting the African Union [...]
2006-03-06 15:13:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALMOPS MASS PGOV SU
06KHARTOUM627SSDF UNIT ATTACKS SPLA NEAR ABYEI
[...] (C) According to multiple sources, a Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) patrol moving between camps was attacked on March 8 leaving at least ten SPLA fighters dead. SPLM (Northern Sector) Political Secretary Agok Makur said that an SPLA patrol made up of integrated former South Sudan Defens [...]
2006-03-09 15:50:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALMOPS MASS SU
06KHARTOUM685SLA INFIGHTING SPREADS
[...] (C) SLA (Minawi) forces attacked Korma, a town under the control of SLA (Wahid),and drove Wahid's forces out on March 15. An SLA (Minawi) defector told AMIS that Minawi had planned the attack for months. Wahid's forces plan to counter-attack to regain Korma. This may be part of a land-grab [...]
2006-03-17 10:20:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALMOPS MASS AU SU
06KHARTOUM711IMAT UPDATE
[...] (U) This is an action request ) see para 11. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Troika Plus representatives met in Khartoum on March 19 to discuss the current status of the International Military Advisory Team (IMAT). The UK Ministry of Defense is considering bilateral military advising to [...]
2006-03-20 13:42:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR MOPS SU
06KHARTOUM712ABYEI MILITIA CLASH REMAINS CLOUDED
[...] (C) The clash near Abyei on March 8 (reftel) between units of the South Sudan Defense Force (SSDF) remains contentious and unclear. PolMil officer and Defense Liaison Officer spoke to United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Force Commander (FC) LTG Lidder on March 18 to discuss (inter alia) t [...]
2006-03-20 13:48:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALMOPS MASS PGOV UN SU
06KHARTOUM778GHAZI SULEIMAN: SAF SHAKE-UP ISOLATES VP TAHA
[...] (C) In a meeting with POLOFF on March 21, well-known human rights lawyer and SPLM advisor Ghazi Suleiman explained that the recent shake-up in the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) was a move by President Bashir to further isolate Vice President Ali Osman Taha. According to Suleiman, Taha is now c [...]
2006-03-28 09:24:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS MASS PINR SU
06KHARTOUM925CHAD-SUDAN BORDER QUIET, TENSE
[...] (C) The situation along the Chad-Sudan border was reported quiet on April 16 and 17. Chadian opposition forces are reported on both sides of the border, with those inside Sudan reportedly receiving ammunition and vehicle re-supply from the Government of Sudan. From all appearances, Government [...]
2006-04-17 10:12:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS MASS PHUM PINR CD AU SU
06KHARTOUM936SUDAN/CHAD: SOME FIGHTING IN BORDER AREA; MORE
[...] (C) Some small-scale attacks took place along the Chad-Sudan border on April 16 and 17, perhaps by Sudanese Arab militias. Chadian rebels surrounding Adre returned to Sudan on April 17, apparently to rearm. The SAF is moving large quantities of what appear to be weapons, uniforms, and ammuni [...]
2006-04-18 15:31:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS MASS CD AU SU
06KIEV3751UKRAINE: POTENTIAL SALE OF CIVIL AIRCRAFT TO
[...] (C) On September 28, we met with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director General Volodymyr Belashov and Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oles Belakoles at Belashov's request. Belashov thanked us for the briefing on USG policy on arms transfers to Venezuela (ref A). H [...]
2006-09-28 13:31:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MARR MASS ETTC VE UP
06KIGALI607ACOTA PROGRAM MOVES FORWARD IN RWANDA
[...] SUMMARY. During 21-23 July 2006, representatives of the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) Program and the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) collaborated on plans for near-term pre-deployment peace support operations (PSO) training for RDF battalions preparing to deploy t [...]
2006-06-26 12:24:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO MARR MASS PGOV PREL RW SU ACOTA ET
06KIGALI945RWANDA DECIDES NOT TO ROTATE TROOPS TO DARFUR
[...] (SBU) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Rosemary Museminali called Ambassador the afternoon of September 28 to convey the Rwandan cabinet's decision that its troops currently in Darfur will remain for three months (until December 31); they will not/not rotate before then. There may be a [...]
2006-10-02 05:48:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MASS RW
06KINGSTON405FOLLOW-UP ON ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENTS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Following several unavoidably aborted meetings, Pol/EconCouns met on February 23 with Michelle Walker, Chief Legal Counsel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) and Ambassador Vilma McNish, Director of the MFAF [...]
2006-02-27 23:51:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL PARM JM
06KINGSTON558DEMARCHE FORWARDED: OAS COUNTERTERRORISM
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-20 20:43:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER ECON MARR MASS CVIS OAS VE JM
06KINGSTON563GOJ'S RESPONSE TO POTENTIAL US-CARICOM MINISTERIAL
[...] (SBU) March 16, Poloff delivered reftel talking points via facsimile to Joy Wheeler, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. On March 20, Poloff received a response from Karl Hamilton, Ministry of National Security, through Claudette Francis, Ministry of Foreign Affairs [...]
2006-03-21 14:55:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC MASS OAS PARM PREL XL JM
06KINSHASA100GUATEMALAN PEACEKEEPERS KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT WITH
[...] (U) MONUC Director of Information Kemal Saiki confirmed to PAO that eight Guatemalan peacekeepers were killed on January 23 in an operation against Lord's Resistance Army forces in Garamba National Park near the Sudanese border. An additional fourteen peacekeepers were injured, and have been [...]
2006-01-23 14:20:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS KPKO PREL CG UG GT
06KUALALUMPUR1752MALAYSIA'S AGREEMENT TO 505 TEXT
[...] Post provided reftel text regarding an agreement on end-use, security and retransfer assurances for defense articles to Malaysia's Foreign Ministry on March 3, 2006, via diplomatic note no. 252. Following internal Malaysian government consultations involving the Defense Ministry and the Atto [...]
2006-09-19 03:08:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL KTIA MY
06KUALALUMPUR1874INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION KUALA LUMPUR MEETING ON
[...] Malaysia hosted the second International Maritime Organization (IMO)-sponsored meeting on "The Straits of Malacca and Singapore: Enhancing Safety, Security and Environmental Protection," held September 18-20, 2006, in Kuala Lumpur. Delegations from the three littoral States (Indonesia, Malays [...]
2006-10-06 06:16:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER MARR MASS EWWT IMO MY
06KUALALUMPUR1898INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION KUALA LUMPUR MEETING ON
[...] Summary: This cable conveys the full texts of four U.S. statements presented during the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Meeting on the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, September 18-20, 2006, in Kuala Lumpur. Reftel contains a summary report on the conference and the text of the fo [...]
2006-10-12 06:05:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER MARR MASS EWWT IMO MY
06KUALALUMPUR2041SCENE SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (C) Malaysian-American relations rest on an impressive range of economic exchanges and have improved significantly in other areas as well over the three years of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's tenure. This moderate Muslim-majority state is our tenth-largest trading partner worldwide. Althou [...]
2006-11-01 08:38:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETMARR MASS MCAP MOPS OVIP PREL PTER MY
06KUALALUMPUR2089SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF PACOM COMMANDER
[...] (C) Admiral Fallon, we welcome your visit to Malaysia for the Ninth Chiefs of Defense Conference, November 13-15. Malaysian-American relations rest on a range of common interests and have improved in the three years since Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's took the helm. This moderate Muslim-m [...]
2006-11-08 08:21:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETMARR MASS MCAP MOPS OVIP PREL PTER MY
06KUALALUMPUR459MALAYSIA WILL NOT PROVIDE END-USE ASSURANCES FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-16 09:28:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDMASS GM MY
06KUALALUMPUR705SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE DR. RONALD SEGA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Malaysian-American relations are good and improving; on March 8 we notified Congress of our intention to conclude a Free Trade Agreement with Malaysia. This moderate Muslim-majority state is our tenth-largest trading partner worldwide, and we have robust military-military cooper [...]
2006-04-18 08:45:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR PTER ECON MY
06KUALALUMPUR832SCENESETTER FOR PACFLEET COMMANDER ADMIRAL ROUGHEAD
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Malaysian-American relations are good and improving; on March 8 we notified Congress of our intention to conclude a Free Trade Agreement with Malaysia. This moderate, Muslim-majority state is our tenth-largest trading partner worldwide, and we have robust military-military coope [...]
2006-05-08 09:06:00Embassy Kuala LumpurSECRETPREL MARR MASS PTER ECON MY
06KUWAIT3442KUWAITI RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR SECURITY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-23 11:00:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MASS EAID LE KU DEMARCHE
06KYIV4196UKRAINE: POTENTIAL SALE OF CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) We provided ref A talking points November 6 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Igor Kyzym, who said the information was timely since he would be able to relay the USG position to the interagency Pres [...]
2006-11-06 16:27:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC EAIR ETRD PARM MARR MASS VE UP
06LAPAZ2246MANPADS: EX-PRESIDENT RODRIGUEZ ON THE DEFENSIVE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Congress will soon decide whether to approve criminal charges against ex-President Rodriguez for the transfer of MANPADS to the United States for destruction in October 2005. Given the upcoming vote, Rodriguez is ramping up his rhetoric, again denying that he approved the tran [...]
2006-08-21 18:48:00Embassy La PazSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PARM MASS MARR BL
06LAPAZ2756FIRST MEETING ON NEW SOFA AGREEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy officials met with Bolivian Minister of Defense Walker San Miguel October 10 regarding the Embassy's pending request for return of the F-10 counterterrorism equipment and the need for an updated SOFA agreement (reftels). San Miguel expressed concern about the continuing M [...]
2006-10-13 21:56:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPARM PGOV MARR MASS MCAP PREL KTIA MOPS BL
06LAPAZ2946AMBASSADOR, MOD DISCUSS WAY FORWARD
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Minister of Defense Walker San Miguel October 30, discussing a wide range of military issues. San Miguel told the Ambassador that the F-10 weapons have been moved to the army depository in La Paz, and that his ministry would coordinate with [...]
2006-10-30 22:16:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALKTIA MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PARM PGOV PREL SNAR
06LAPAZ3107AMBASSADOR AND SENATE PRESIDENT DISCUSS BILATERAL
[...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on November 15, Senate President Santos Ramirez stated his support for the passage of money laundering legislation, but made it clear that his focus is on the rapid passage of an anti-corruption bill. The Ambassador explained the humanitarian goals of the [...]
2006-11-20 14:54:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON MASS MCAP KTIA MOPS BL
06LAPAZ3222SENATE APPROVES VENEZUELAN MILITARY COOPERATION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-29 19:26:00Embassy La PazUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PGOV PREL KTIA BL
06LILONGWE1040IMET Students: Post Human Rights Certification
[...] Lt. Ngatwali MWANJA, Service no. 0952, Second BN Malawi Rifles Unit, Military police, International Student Detachment School, Ft. Leonard wood MO11 Dec 2006 Q 11 May 2007 2. Lt. Mjanike NUNDWE, Service no. 0945, Cobbe Barracks, Military police, International Student Detachment School, Ft. L [...]
2006-11-30 06:05:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MASS MI
06LILONGWE1076IMET Students: Human Rights Certification and vetting
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-13 07:54:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM MI
06LILONGWE1101IMET Students: Post Human Rights Certification
[...] 2LT Alexious F. KACHENJE, Service number 0988, Cobbe Barracks unit, Air Traffic Controller course, Keesler AFB, MS, 29 Dec 06 - 16 Apr 07 2. Lt. Thokozani Andrew CHAZEMA, Service number 0859, Military Intelligence unit, Combined strategic Intelligence course, Defense Intelligence Agency, W [...]
2006-12-22 05:23:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MASS MI
06LILONGWE114IMET Students: Post Human Rights Certification
[...] SGT Trecefory Aaron KALIMBA, Service No. 11838, Marine Unit, Patro OPS River Environment Course, Stennis Space Center MS 39529-7099, Feb April 27, 2006 2. LCPL Hilton Francis TENGULA, Service No. 13010, Marine Unit, Patro Craft prop sys OVH Course, Stennis Space Center MS 39529-7099, Feb. 1 [...]
2006-02-07 11:12:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MASS MI
06LILONGWE120Country Clearance granted
[...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Major Andrew Overfield to Malawi for the purpose of facilitating EUCOM Acquisition Cross Servicing Agreement negotiations and to observe ACOTA PSO field training from February 12-18, 2006. Control Officer for the visi [...]
2006-02-08 11:54:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
06LILONGWE121Country Clearance granted
[...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of LTC. Leon Mitchell Grube and Mr. Gunter Dieter Filippucci to Malawi for the purpose of conducting EUCOM Acquisition Cross Servicing Agreement briefings, discussions and negotiations from February 13-17, 2006. Control [...]
2006-02-08 12:54:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
06LILONGWE142IMET Students: Human Rights Certification and vetting
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-13 16:43:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM MI
06LILONGWE177Country Clearance granted - Wyatt
[...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Major William M. Wyatt, from February 24- March 6, 2006 to Malawi for a DIA Hart trip. Control Officer for the visit will be the Political Officer Tyler Sparks, office telephone number 265-1-773-166, ext. 3463; cell ph [...]
2006-02-22 16:57:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
06LILONGWE566IMET Students: Post Human Rights Certification
[...] Capt. Brightie Stegs Winston Mkomba, Service No. 0871, Moyale Barr Chaplain Officer Basic Course, US Army Chaplain Center and School, 10 Hamptom Parkway, Ft. Jacson SC 29207-7025, July 3-September 8, 2006 Post requests that the department issue similar clearance. EASTHAM [...]
2006-06-30 08:17:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MASS MI
06LILONGWE585IMET Students: Post Human Rights Certification
[...] Lt. Victor Wilson Moyo, Service No. 0951, Combat Support BN, Small Arms/Towed Artillery Course, Mechanical Maintenance Ordinance S 4313 Boothby Hill Avenue MD 21005-5299, July 25 October 27, 2006 Post requests that the department issue similar clearance. EASTHAM [...]
2006-07-11 10:53:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MASS MI
06LILONGWE64NECESSARY END-USE ASSURANCES FOR TRANSFER OF UH-1H
[...] The GOM has presented post with the End-Use Agreement request for four UH-1H helicopters from Taiwan, as outlined in reftel. Post has forwarded a copy of the agreement request to RM/RSAT, and awaits further instructions on how to proceed. EASTHAM [...]
2006-01-24 14:51:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDMASS
06LILONGWE653IMET Students: Post Human Rights Certification
[...] Capt. Richard Chidzungu, Service No. 0750, Administration Unit, Budget Prep Exec and Accounting Course, DRMI NPS, Monterey CA 93943, August 5 August 16, 2006 2. Sgt. Masauko D. Makuluni, Service No. 10894, Parachute BN Unit, SNCO Career Course USMC, Staff NCO Academy, Camp Lejeune NC 28542 [...]
2006-08-01 14:45:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MASS MI
06LILONGWE731Country Clearance Request - Malawi
[...] Countries visited: Botswana 2. Personnel traveling: Tyler Sparks, Pol/Mil Officer, and Kalezi Zimba, Military Program Assistant. 3. Dates of Travel and itinerary: Arrive Aug 22, Depart Aug 25, 2006 A. Flight information: Arrive SA1767 182022 Aug 06 Depart SA1762 072025 Aug 06 B. [...]
2006-08-18 10:38:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
06LILONGWE890DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SECTION 505 ASSURANCES FOR
[...] Reftel Diplomatic Note was delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with carbon copy sent to Ministry of Defense and the Malawi Defense Force. Scanned copies have been sent to the department, as well as a certified copy to L/T, as requested. GILMOUR [...]
2006-10-10 13:36:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDKTIA MARR MASS PREL
06LILONGWE915Country Clearance granted
[...] American Embassy Lilongwe grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of LTC Pak Hon S, from October 28 November 2, 2006 to Malawi to attend a conference at Baylor ChildrenQs Foundation to speak and show how telemedicine could be used to better manage patients with HIV disease in Malawi. C [...]
2006-10-19 09:52:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL OTRA MI
06LISBON2265PORTUGAL REJECTS EDA FRIGATES
[...] In a letter from Vice Admiral Viegas Filipe, Director General for Weapons and Defense Procurement, to Embassy Lisbon's Office for Defense Cooperation, the Government of Portugal formally renounced any claim to the two Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates offered through the Excess Defense Arti [...]
2006-10-12 13:41:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PGOV PREL MASS PO
06LJUBLJANA108SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DONATIONS TO IRAQI
[...] (U) PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche on February 16 to MFA Security Policy Counselor Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek. Cimpersek did not have any immediate reaction to the demarche, other than to say that the MFA would consider our request. ROBERTSON [...]
2006-02-17 05:48:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL
06LJUBLJANA743GOS HEARS PITCH ON BLANKET END USE RETRANSFER AND
[...] (U) Embassy Ljubljana delivered reftel diplomatic note asking the Government of Slovenia to consider joining the USG's blanket end use retransfer and security assurance program. A copy of the diplomatic note will be faxed to PM/RSAT on November 16. 2. (C) PolMilOff followed up on the diplo [...]
2006-11-16 12:50:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALMASS SI
06LJUBLJANA758ITF AND DONOR COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO ALLEGATIONS OF
[...] (S) On November 22, COM attended the International Trust Fund (ITF) Advisory Board of Donors meeting in Ljubljana. Before the meeting COM delivered the points from reftel A to Slovenian ITF Director Goran Gacnik sharing, in a side conversation, USG concerns about allegations of corruption and [...]
2006-11-28 11:44:00Embassy LjubljanaSECRETMASS MOPS PGOV PREL SI
06LJUBLJANA786SLOVENIAN CHIEF OF DEFENSE TACKLES HOST OF HOT
[...] (C) Summary. Slovenian Defense Chief Gutman told COM the MoD is working to lift caveats, eager to take on troop deployment in Kosovo, enthusiastic about USG military education programs, and committed to realizing its spending target of 2% of GDP soon. Gutman shied away from discussing defense [...]
2006-12-07 12:56:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PGOV PINR PREL SI
06MADRID2421SPANISH MOD ON US ARMS TRANSFER POLICY TO VENEZUELA
[...] (C) DCM discussed reftel demarche with MOD Policy Director Admiral Francisco Torrente and Director General for Defense Policy General Benito Raggio on September 25. DCM emphasized that while the USG and the GOS have discussed arms sales to Venezuela many times over the past year, US policy on t [...]
2006-09-26 13:03:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS SP
06MANAGUA590MANAGUA'S LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING PROCEDURES
[...] Embassy Managua's Political Section has developed a system to coordinate Leahy Amendment vetting. All candidates for USG-funded travel, training (military or civilian),or material assistance -- in-country or in the United States -- must be vetted on human rights, corruption, narcotics, or c [...]
2006-03-15 19:03:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDAADP MARR MASS SNAR PINS PREL PHUM PINR NU
06MANAGUA624NICARAGUA: FOLLOW UP CICTE DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELAN
[...] (SBU) In response to ref A, poloff met with Myriam Vasquez, the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Vice Director for Sovereignty, Territory and International Legal Issues. (Note: Vasquez is the Ministry's terrorism guru. The Ministry recently decided that she will head Nicaragua's CICTE [...]
2006-03-20 23:00:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL ECON MARR MASS OAS NU
06MANAGUA95AMENDING THE 505 AGREEMENT FOR GPOI AND OTHER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-18 17:07:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PGOV KTIA NU
06MANAMA1645GCC SECURITY ASSISTANCE FOR LEBANON: BAHRAIN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-10 14:04:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALMASS EAID PREL BA LE REGION
06MANAMA165BAHRAIN: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION HOST COUNTRY
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief February 6 delivered reftel demarche and non-paper concerning finalizing a host country agreement (HCA) on Chemical Weapons Convention challenge inspections to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho recognized that there had been no pro [...]
2006-02-06 10:03:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS KTIA PREL BA BILAT
06MANAMA1782SCENESETTER FOR OCTOBER 18-19 VISIT OF THE GULF
[...] (C) We warmly welcome the October 18-19 visit to Bahrain of the interagency Gulf Security Dialogue delegation led by PM Assistant Secretary Hillen and DOD Assistant Secretary for International Security Rodman. Your trip follows on the heels of the October 11 visit of CENTCOM Commander General [...]
2006-10-12 14:24:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL MARR MOPS MASS BA IR REGION BILAT
06MANAMA1806DEFENSE MINISTER AND GENERAL ABIZAID DISCUSS
[...] (C) CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid October 11 met with Defense Minister GEN Shaikh Khalifa and discussed Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, bilateral military cooperation, and counter-terrorism. Shaikh Khalifa said that Iran's behavior in the region is growing worse and Iran's nuclear program must [...]
2006-10-19 10:15:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS MASS BA IR IZ REGION BILAT
06MANAMA1828CROWN PRINCE OUTLINES REGIONAL CHALLENGES WITH
[...] (C) CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid October 11 met with Crown Prince Shaikh Salman and discussed Iraq, Iran, the war of ideas in the Middle East, and Bahrain's upcoming elections. On Iraq, the CP said that the United States should adopt a "less forward-leaning position" and allow Iraqi for [...]
2006-10-24 11:33:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS MASS BA IR IZ REGION BILAT
06MANAMA1924BAHRAIN: UPDATE ON ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 4. 2. (C) Pol/Econ Chief November 13 requested an update on the status of Bahraini assistance for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) from MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shai [...]
2006-11-14 13:37:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS EAID BA LE REGION
06MANAMA692CWC HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT WITH BAHRAIN
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief April 22 delivered Ref A talking points, non-paper, and revised Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a Chemical Weapons Convention Host Country Agreement (HCA) to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho was pleased that the United Stat [...]
2006-04-23 08:04:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MARR MASS BA BILAT
06MANAMA898INTERAGENCY DELEGATION DISCUSSES GULF SECURITY
[...] (C) An interagency delegation led by Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Henry and Assistant Secretary of State Hillen met with MFA Assistant Under Secretary Shaikh Abdul Aziz May 14 and discussed the Gulf Security Dialogue, Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI),the Iranian challen [...]
2006-05-23 09:09:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL PARM MARR MASS KDEM KMPI BA IR REGION
06MANAMA899INTERAGENCY DELEGATION DISCUSSES GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH CROWN PRINCE SALMAN
[...] (C) An interagency delegation led by Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Henry and Assistant Secretary of State Hillen met with Crown Prince Salman May 14 and discussed the Gulf Security Dialogue, the threat posed by Iran, direct contacts between the U.S. and Iran, a declaratory secur [...]
2006-05-23 09:09:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MARR MASS KDEM KMPI BA REGION IR
06MANILA2308MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE: LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
[...] (U) Post received the following diplomatic note from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in response to reftel's proposed amendment to the 1974 Exchange of Notes governing the 505 Agreement between the United States and Republic of the Philippines. While agreeing to the U.S. proposal, the [...]
2006-06-02 08:18:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PGOV KTIA RP
06MANILA3852SMALL ARMS/LIGHT WEAPONS DESTRUCTION PROJECT IN
[...] (U) In response to reftel, Joint U.S. Military Assistance Group-Philippines (JUSMAG) representatives have reached agreement with their Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) counterparts that only captured/surrendered weapons will be destroyed under the Small Arms/Light Weapons Destruction Pr [...]
2006-09-12 08:06:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PARM PREL PTER RP
06MANILA4150 REGIONAL MARITIME SECURITY 1206 PROPOSAL FOR SOUTH AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Chiefs of Mission from Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Colombo fully support the regional maritime security proposal to be submitted by U.S Pacific Command (PACOM) under the FY07 authority granted by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2006. The proposal -- th [...]
2006-10-01 23:57:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PINS PREL PBTS SNAR MASS MARR TH CE ID MY RP
06MANILA4151 REGIONAL MARITIME SECURITY 1206 PROPOSAL FOR SOUTH AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Chiefs of Mission from Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Colombo fully support the regional maritime security proposal to be submitted by U.S Pacific Command (PACOM) under the FY07 authority granted by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2006. The proposal -- th [...]
2006-10-01 23:57:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PINS PREL PBTS SNAR MASS MARR TH CE ID MY RP
06MANILA4522SCENE SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) John, a warm welcome to the Philippines! I am looking forward to seeing you. We have a packed program ready for you, including meetings with Foreign Secretary Romulo, Secretary of National Defense Cruz, and Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Esperon and a trip to Jolo to see first-ha [...]
2006-10-30 06:58:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL OVIP HILLEN RP
06MANILA4660NOVEMBER 9 UPDATE ON JOLO OPERATIONS
[...] (C/REL AUS) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) operation to capture or kill the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leadership on the island of Jolo is ending its 15th week. Khadaffy Janjalani, Abu Solaiman, Dulmatin, and Umar Patek are believed to have split up into smal [...]
2006-11-09 09:02:00Embassy ManilaSECRETPTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL
06MANILA4734NOVEMBER 17 UPDATE ON JOLO OPERATIONS
[...] (C/REL AUS) The ongoing Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) operation to capture or kill the Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) leadership on the southern Mindanao island of Jolo is ending its 16th week. Khadaffy Janjalani, Dulmatin, and Umar Patek are now believed in the northeast [...]
2006-11-17 08:08:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL RP
06MANILA4805ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILLEN SEES FIRST-HAND HOW THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On a November 11 trip to Jolo Island in the Sulu Archipelago, Political-Military Affairs Assistant Secretary Hillen witnessed the transformational programs SIPDIS underway with collaboration among the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the U.S. Joint Special Operations Task Fo [...]
2006-11-22 10:10:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL RP
06MANILA4861NOVEMBER 30 UPDATE ON JOLO OPERATIONS
[...] (C/REL AUS) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is now ending its 18th week of operations against the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah leadership on the southern Mindanao island of Jolo. It has suffered 22 killed and 103 wounded since the August 1 onset of "Operation Ultimatum," and show [...]
2006-11-30 09:06:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL RP
06MANILA4977BAGUIO WELCOMES US AID, INVESTMENT, AND INTEREST DURING
[...] SUMMARY: The signing of a USAID-funded healthcare grant and a speech at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) anchored the Ambassador's fourth visit to Baguio, the former summer capital of the Philippines under U.S. administration. Visits to a local American company and conversations with lo [...]
2006-12-13 08:45:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON ETRD EINV EAID PGOV CVIS MASS SCUL KPAO
06MANILA5017DECEMBER 15 UPDATE ON JOLO OPERATIONS
[...] (C/REL AUS) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) continues its pursuit of senior Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists on the island of Jolo. Fresh troops from the Lanao del Sur-based 2nd Marine Brigade have arrived in order to sustain the operational tempo, which includes an [...]
2006-12-15 10:40:00Embassy ManilaSECRETPTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL RP
06MAPUTO14MOZAMBIQUE: ACOTA HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-05 07:05:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PGOV MZ
06MAPUTO812MOZAMBIQUE: ACOTA HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING COMPLETED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-06 15:24:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PGOV MZ
06MAPUTO841MOZAMBIQUE: ACOTA HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-11 14:39:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PGOV MZ
06MEXICO1462MEXICO: SRE DOES NOT SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Marta Vasquez, Assistant Director for International Cooperation Against Narcotics-trafficking and Corruption, at Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Vasquez and Director General for Global Themes, Ernesto Cespedes, are the SRE's lead officials [...]
2006-03-17 20:50:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER MARR MASS CVIS OAS MX
06MEXICO1889SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE RUMSFELD'S
[...] (C) Summary: Mexico is the essential partner in U.S. homeland defense, and while the Mexican Navy (Marina) has been an enthusiastic player, the Mexican military (SEDENA) has only recently begun to acknowledge the benefits of cooperation. This visit marks the opportunity to realign our ow [...]
2006-04-10 19:22:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL MX
06MONTEVIDEO1122URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON GPOI/CFAC PARTICIPATION
[...] On November 17, PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Director for Mulilateral Affairs Beatriz Nunez. The Charge also raised the issue with the MFA's Director General Jose Luis Cancela on November 21. Both officials responded favorably to the proposals for sending at least one Uruguay [...]
2006-11-27 20:01:00Embassy MontevideoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL GT CI AR UY
06MONTEVIDEO196URUGUAY ON DONATIONS TO IRAQI AND AFGHAN SECURITY
[...] (S/NF) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Director General for Political Affairs Ambassador Bruno Faraone on February 24. After discussing some of the items on the list, Faraone said weapons donations were not possible, but that he would look into the ""feasibility"" of donating [...]
2006-03-01 12:55:00Embassy MontevideoSECRET//NOFORNMARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL AF IZ UY
06MOSCOW13171RUSSIA AND IRAN: AFTER THE SANCTIONS RESOLUTION
[...] (C) Summary: Russia has repeatedly told us that when it comes to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, it shares our strategic goal but differs with us over tactics. Moscow's reluctance to agree to coercive measures was on full display during consideration of UNSCR 1737, but in th [...]
2006-12-29 12:42:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ETRD KNNP MASS IR RS
06MOSCOW1324PRESSING RUSSIA FOR RESTRAINT ON GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary: In a February 9 meeting with Chief of Defense General Baluyevskiy, Ambassador Burns urged that Russia exercise restraint in its dealings with Georgia. Baluyevksiy was blunt in complaining about Georgian demands to withdraw peacekeepers from Georgia and charged Tbilisi with inte [...]
2006-02-11 14:37:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PBTS GG RS
06MUSCAT1222005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED
[...] (SBU) ECONOMIC/POLITICAL FACTORS: There have been no major policy changes since the 2004 report (ref B). Oman remains a stalwart ally in the global war on terrorism and key Arab proponent of regional stability, including USG stabilization efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Long-standing milita [...]
2006-01-31 06:48:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MASS MARR MU
06MUSCAT1337URGING SUPPORT FOR LEBANON: OMAN
[...] (C) Pol/Econ chief delivered ref A and B demarches September 11 to Humaid Maani, Deputy Director of the Office of MFA Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi. Echoing earlier comments to the Ambassador by Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi (ref C),Maani responded that O [...]
2006-09-11 13:50:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS EAID LE MU
06MUSCAT1600SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL JOHN P.
[...] (S) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Oman remains a strong friend and ally in the Global War on Terrorism, but prefers to maintain a low profile and is reluctant to deploy its forces in support of OIF or OEF. Our continued engagement with the Omani security forces cont [...]
2006-11-15 14:11:00Embassy MuscatSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP
06MUSCAT982MINISTER OF AWQAF APPRECIATES OUTREACH, SEEKS
[...] (U) Oman's Minister of Awqaf expressed his appreciation for recent U.S. military outreach efforts involving an exchange of visits. He noted that such cultural dialogue benefits both countries and advances mutual goals of promoting tolerance. In the context of Muscat as "Cultural Capital of t [...]
2006-06-18 12:43:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KISL SOCI MASS KIRF SCUL MU
06NAIROBI157FOREIGN MINISTER TUJU COMMITS ON ISSUES OF U.S.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Tuju told Ambassador January 11 that Kenya will now proceed, in coordination with the U.S. and UK governments, with the prompt establishment of the long-stalled Joint Terrorism Task Force. Given the government's multiple and unfulfilled previous pledges, Tuju set [...]
2006-01-12 13:01:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER SNAR EAID ASEC MASS KCOR KE
06NAIROBI1573KENYAN MILITARY AIRCRAFT CRASHES IN MARSABIT
[...] (SBU) A Kenyan military Y-12 aircraft crashed and caught on fire in Marsabit town (Eastern Province, north-central Kenya) at approximately 10:00 a.m., April 10 due to poor weather conditions and ground obstruction near the airfield. According to Defense Minister Njenga Karume, the plane was c [...]
2006-04-10 14:37:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR MASS PREL ASEC KE
06NAIROBI1600FIVE KENYAN PARLIAMENTARIANS KILLED IN CRASH
[...] (U) The April 10 crash of a Kenyan Air Force Y-12 plane in Marsabit, north-central Kenya (reftel),claimed the lives of 14 of 17 passengers, including five sitting members of Parliament. Announcing the names of the deceased and injured, President Kibaki declared three days of national mourni [...]
2006-04-11 14:55:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR MASS PREL ASEC KE
06NAIROBI1874LAMU LEADERS GIVE U.S. EFFORTS MIXED REVIEWS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Poloffs addressed a Town Hall meeting of the Lamu County Council, and responded to community,s concerns about USG policies, military presence in Lamu and various assistance programs. The tone of the meeting was cordial, although several participants expressed resentment over perc [...]
2006-05-02 12:18:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPINR PINS PREL PTER MASS MOPS KISL KPAO KE SO
06NAIROBI2757A/S FRAZER MEETS KENYA FM TUJU
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 21 meeting with Kenya' s Foreign Minister Raf ael Tuju, Assistant Secretary Frazer END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Assistant Secretary Frazer noted that she came to Kenya at the s pecific direction of Secretary Rice to consult with our Kenyan allies on Somali a. A/S Frazer e [...]
2006-06-25 12:05:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MASS KISL SO
06NAIROBI2760ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER'S MEETING WITH SOMALI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 21 meeting with Somali Prime Minister Gedi, Assistant Secretary Frazer outlined U.S. priorities for Somalia and solicited Gedi's thoughts on the most appropriate role for the U.S. at this time. Gedi identified security needs as the top priority to enable other activitie [...]
2006-06-26 03:16:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MASS EAID SO
06NAIROBI2761ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER'S MEETING WITH SOMALI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 21 meeting with Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, Assistant Secretary Frazer spelled out the U.S. priorities of support to the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs) and the people of Somalia, enhancing regional stability, and countering terrorism. Frazer and Yusuf di [...]
2006-06-26 03:16:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MASS KISL SO
06NAIROBI2842LEAHY HR VETTING FOR NEXT GENERATION LEADERS
[...] Post requests Department's assistance in screening the following two candidates of the Kenyan Army, nominated to participate in a Next Generation African Military Leaders Course to be held July 10 to August 4, 2006 in Washington, D.C., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Pos [...]
2006-06-29 04:45:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR KE
06NAIROBI327NAIROBI BUILDING COLLAPSE: US ASSISTANCE UNDERWAY
[...] SUMMARY: A four-story building under construction in central Nairobi collapsed mid-day January 23, injuring 105, and killing 20, with an unknown number unaccounted for, according to on-site press reports as of January 24 afternoon. Responding to the Kenyan government's request for assistance [...]
2006-01-24 13:06:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MASS PREL AMGT KE
06NAIROBI3392KENYA COAST: FAILING TO GET OUR MESSAGE OUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloff traveled to Mombasa and Lamu to assess the impact of our outreach efforts to this marginalized region. From conversations with a variety of contacts who have worked with us over the past few years, one theme dominated: the message of our contributions to promote develop [...]
2006-08-04 07:36:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPINR PINS PREL PTER MASS MOPS KISL KPAO EAID
06NAIROBI342UPDATE: NAIROBI BUILDING COLLAPSE
[...] SUMMARY: Rescue efforts at the scene of the collapsed multi-story building in central Nairobi continue, with 14 confirmed deaths, 107 injured, and an unknown number missing. While the government announced there is little hope of finding more survivors, and that the Israeli rescue team will co [...]
2006-01-25 12:53:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MASS PREL AMGT ASEC KE
06NAIROBI393NAIROBI BUILDING COLLAPSE: RESCUE MISSION
[...] SUMMARY: As U.S., Israeli and British rescue teams wrapped-up their much-appreciated operations on January 26, the Kenyan government transitioned the rescue operation to recovery, with a reported three more bodies pulled from the rubble overnight. At a January 26 remembrance ceremony held at [...]
2006-01-27 08:01:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MASS PREL AMGT ASEC KE
06NAIROBI4348LEAHY HR VETTING FOR INSTRUCTOR DEVELOPMENT COURSE
[...] Post requests Department's assistance in screening the following 13 candidates of the Kenyan security forces nominated to participate in an ATA-sponsored Instructor Development course to be held October 24 to November 3, 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance [...]
2006-10-06 09:53:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR KE
06NAIROBI566(S/NF) NEW DEFENSE MINISTER WELCOMES U.S.
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's initial courtesy call, Kenya's new Defense Minister asked the Ambassador to help find a way out of the Article 98 impasse and for approval of Kenya's plan to purchase Saudi F5s. Minister Karume was appreciative of U.S. efforts to stop piracy of Somalia [...]
2006-02-08 12:34:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNMOPS PREL MASS PTER KE SO
06NASSAU1616RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD PARTNERSHIP FORGES
[...] Since its inception in December 2005, the Bahamas-Rhode Island National Guard State Partnership Program (SPP) has helped forge new avenues of cooperation between the United States and the Bahamas. These SPP initiatives have supplemented Embassy efforts to build local capacity and have helped [...]
2006-10-24 21:29:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS PHUM BF
06NDJAMENA699HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CHADIAN PARTICIPANTS IN
[...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals nominated for the Special Operations Forces conference in Stuttgart from May 21-25 as of this date. --Abdallah Idriss Amir, DPOB 1 January 1966, [...]
2006-05-17 07:57:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS PREL PINS PINR KSEP CD
06NDJAMENA935 CHAD: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ATA TRAINING
[...] A search of Embassy biographic and human rights files found no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights as of this date by the following individuals nominated for "ATA-5933 Chad: Integrating Counterterrorism Strategies at the National level" training. 2. For training in ATA-593 [...]
2006-07-11 17:23:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ASEC MASS MOPS PREL PINR PINS CD
06NEWDELHI1169NEW INDIAN MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS BACKS
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with newly appointed Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on February 14 to review plans for the President's visit, push for an Indian reply on our proposal for a democracy initiative (Ref B) and present the US appeal for further Indian assistance equ [...]
2006-02-15 12:50:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM UNSC PHUM PTER MARR MASS MOPS KNNP
06NEWDELHI1171AFGHAN MILITARY DONATIONS: GOI READY BUT NEEDS A
[...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Ambassador presented reftel appeal for assistance to the ANA to Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on February 14 (septel),noting India's generous contribution of vehicles for the ANA and suggesting that New Delhi [...]
2006-02-15 13:02:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALMASS PREL MARR MOPS PINS IN AF
06NEWDELHI1174PRESIDENT KALAM LOOKS FARTHER EAST FOR NEW
[...] (C) Summary: Giving new reach to India's "Look East" policy, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's January 31 to February 9 visit to Singapore, the Philippines and South Korea produced new education, defense and economic initiatives in a region whose importance to the GOI is growing steadily. Durin [...]
2006-02-15 14:27:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEAN ENRG KNNP ETRD ECON SOCI SCUL MASS
06NEWDELHI1320INDIA AND THE US ON NEPAL: STILL NO DAYLIGHT, WE
[...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran sought reassurance on February 22 that India and the US were still reading off the same page on Nepal policy, and underlined that India still sees the Maoist insurgency as the principle problem in Nepal. He requested USG action to convinc [...]
2006-02-22 14:01:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS IN NP PK
06NEWDELHI1321CHIRAC VISIT PUSHES US AGENDA ON CIVIL NUCLEAR
[...] (C) Summary: President Chirac's February 19-21 trip to New Delhi, which focused on political, economic, defense and energy cooperation, served as a preview for President Bush's upcoming visit. In a program and agenda very similar to our President's, the GOF made progress on "soft power" issue [...]
2006-02-22 14:35:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP FR IN
06NEWDELHI1653GOI COMPARES NOTES ON NEPAL WITH PDAS CAMP
[...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran told visiting SCA PDAS Don Camp on March 7 that the GOI was not worried about the RNA's ammunition supplies (Refs A and B). New Delhi is "revisiting" its policies toward Nepal, but continues to stand by supporting the seven-party alliance [...]
2006-03-09 12:16:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PTER IN NP
06NEWDELHI1854SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BOND
[...] (SBU) Senator Bond, your delegation's 22-23 March visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating India-US relationship on the heels of President Bush's historic summit and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After forty years of mutual indiffe [...]
2006-03-17 14:25:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM INCB IN
06NEWDELHI1974RUSSIAN PM,S VISIT UNLIKELY TO REVIVE DECLINING
[...] (C) Summary: Russian Premier Mikhail Fradkov's visit to New Delhi (March 16-17) was intended to reinvigorate the declining India/Russia relationship, but there is little indication that the visit broadened Indo-Russian relations or injected much forward momentum. The delegation included the [...]
2006-03-22 12:18:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPOV ETRD PGOV PREL TSPA MASS TRGY EPET ENRG
06NEWDELHI20SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTERT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Speaker Hastert, your delegation's upcoming visit to India on January 10-13 provides a significant opportunity to advance the burgeoning India/US relationship. After forty years of drift during the Cold War, the US and India are making up for lost time. Thanks to the energy a [...]
2006-01-03 12:49:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM PK INCB IR
06NEWDELHI2060CODEL BOND, NSA NARAYANAN FOCUS ON AREAS OF
[...] (C) Summary: In his March 22 meeting with Senator Kit Bond (R-Missouri),National Security Advisor MK Narayanan reiterated the GOI's commitment to the transformed US-India relationship, and stressed the common ground India shares with the US. Narayanan responded positively to Senator Bond's c [...]
2006-03-24 12:54:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPINR PTER ECIN ENRG MARR MASS OREP EAGR US IN
06NEWDELHI2231SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HAGEL
[...] (SBU) Senator Hagel, your delegation's 8-12 April visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating transformation of the India-US relationship following President Bush's historic March 1-3 meeting and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After fo [...]
2006-03-31 15:07:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM INCB PTER
06NEWDELHI2255SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTERT
[...] (SBU) Speaker Hastert, your delegation's 9-12 April visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating transformation of the US-India relationship following President Bush's historic March 1-3 meeting and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After [...]
2006-04-03 13:18:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM PTER ECON
06NEWDELHI2587SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 19 US-INDIA CT JOINT WORKING
[...] (C) Summary: The US-India counterterrorism dialogue reflects our shared values and encompasses the range of CT issues in South Asia. New Delhi focuses on combating jihadi terrorism launched from Pakistan, which complicates USG efforts to engage Delhi in a more vibrant intelligence dialogue without [...]
2006-04-18 07:08:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPTER PGOV PINR PREL PINS MASS KJUS KTIA TBIO
06NEWDELHI2603GOI REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO AFGHANISTAN DURING
[...] (C) Summary: During President Hamid Karzai's April 9-13 visit to India, the GOI reinforced its substantial support for Afghanistan with the announcement of an additional USD 50 million in assistance, the signing of three MoUs, and positive statements from both sides about their bilateral part [...]
2006-04-18 13:33:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID PTER MASS IN AF
06NEWDELHI27GOI DECLINES A MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN SRI LANKAN
[...] (C) Summary: Mahinda Rajapakse's December 27-30 trip to India stimulated the public debate about the Sri Lankan President's call for a more active Indian role in the peace process, but did not yield any major new Indian initiatives. The GOI told President Rajapakse, who encouraged greater Indian i [...]
2006-01-04 04:51:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MASS CE IN
06NEWDELHI2703INDIA CONFIRMS DETAILS FOR PEACEKEEPING JWG,
[...] (U) MEA Under Secretary (UN Political) Manish confirmed to Poloff on April 17 that India would participate in the next round of the bilateral Peacekeeping Joint Working Group (PKJWG) proposed for May 11-12 in Washington. MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Sanjiv Arora would lead the SIPDIS [...]
2006-04-21 12:18:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO MOPS PHUM KDEM MASS IN
06NEWDELHI3048BOUCHER AND INDIAN OFFICIALS AGREE ON NEPAL
[...] (C) Summary: Having just returned from Kathmandu, Assistant Secretary Boucher related to MEA Joint Secretaries Pankaj Saran (Nepal) and S. Jaishankar (Americas) that the political parties intended to show progress. The U.S. would wait for the civilian government to issue a formal request for [...]
2006-05-04 07:16:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PGOV IN NP PTER
06NEWDELHI318SUCCESS OF US-INDIA MISSILE DEFENSE PLANEX CALLS
[...] (C) Summary: The U.S.-India Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Planning Exercise (Planex) held January 11-12, 2006 in Hyderabad sparked lively discussions on virtual threat depictions, MD designs and operational challenges related to ballistic MD execution. The Planex players successfully complet [...]
2006-01-17 14:54:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALMASS TSPL KSTC PREL MOPS IN
06NEWDELHI3266SRI LANKAN ENVOY URGES INDIAN ENGAGEMENT, BUT
[...] (C) Summary: Sri Lanka's visiting Foreign Minister has requested India's help to resume peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),while concurrently seeking India's assistance to choke LTTE's financial and logistical resources. Despite Sri Lanka's request, domestic politic [...]
2006-05-11 12:12:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV MASS IN
06NEWDELHI3270INDIA SKEPTICAL OF SCO AS SECURITY FORUM
[...] (C) Summary: PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to MEA Joint Secretary for Eurasia Bhagwati on May 10 seeking India's help to prevent the inclusion of anti-US language at the upcoming SCO meeting in Shanghai. Bhagwati stated clearly that as an observer to SCO, India has no role in drafting th [...]
2006-05-11 13:56:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV MASS PTER SNAR SCUL ETRD ENRG IN
06NEWDELHI3382GOI FAVORS NEPAL CEASE-FIRE MONITORING UNDER UN
[...] (C) Summary: Noting that that India does not want to be unilaterally involved in maintaining the peace in Nepal, MEA Under Secretary (Nepal) Manish Gupta indicated on May 16 that the GOI would not oppose UN involvement in monitoring the cease-fire between the Maoists and Government of Nepal. [...]
2006-05-16 12:04:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER AORC ECON EPET MASS KDEM IN NP
06NEWDELHI3433POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT TO NEPAL VITAL,
[...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for G, IO and USUN. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) Summary: The international community needs to provide full diplomatic and political support to the Government of Nepal (GON) and be ready to provide aid when requested, MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Sa [...]
2006-05-18 06:46:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER AORC ECON EPET MASS KDEM IN NP
06NEWDELHI4169FS SARAN BRIEFS ON NEPAL PM VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: The most important outcome from the June 5-9 visit of Nepalese Prime Minister G.P. Koirala to New Delhi was the GOI's expression of unconditional political support for the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the announcement of an economic aid package worth USD 210 million, in finite t [...]
2006-06-14 11:45:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO ECON ENRG MASS IN NP
06NEWDELHI4729GOI PRESSING MAOISTS TO FOREGO VIOLENCE, OPPOSES
[...] (C) On July 5 Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran agreed with the Ambassador's assertion that the UN needs to play a role in Maoist disarmament and welcomed the Government of Nepal's (GON's) dispatch of a letter to this effect. Saran underlined the need for the Maoists to disarm. In a separate Ju [...]
2006-07-06 11:17:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO ECON ENRG MASS IN NP
06NEWDELHI550GOI STUMPED ON ITS NEPAL POLICY
[...] (C) Summary: New Delhi is trying to decide its next steps on Nepal, and hopes for more "clarity" in a few days, Joint Secretary Pankaj Saran said in a January 25 meeting with SIPDIS PolCouns and Poloffs. The GOI is committed to maintaining its current pro-democracy position (including the [...]
2006-01-25 13:00:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM MASS PTER ASEC IN NP
06NEWDELHI583GOI PROMISES MILITARY SUPPORT TO SRI LANKA AND
[...] (C) Summary: During U/S Burns' January 21 consultations on regional issues, the GOI relayed its concerns over the increasingly possible return to war in Sri Lanka and the conflict between the need for Iranian gas and the looming crisis over Tehran's nuclear program. Indian Foreign Secretary [...]
2006-01-27 08:41:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MOPS ENRG EPET IR CE IN
06NEWDELHI6086PROGRESS ON MISSILE DEFENSE COOPERATION WITH GOI;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 30 meeting the GOI revealed that it currently has no Missile Defense capabilities - at least none it is willing to share - yet wants to pursue further R&D cooperation with the U.S. India will participate in the September 18-19 multinational BMD conference in London, [...]
2006-08-31 12:53:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV PINR PINS MARR MASS MCAP KSTC IN
06NEWDELHI657UPA CABINET SHUFFLE GOOD FOR AMERICA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 13:24:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL ECON ENRG EPET EMIN EAID MASS
06NEWDELHI6913THE COMMUNISTS AND CONGRESS SPAR OVER THE INDO/US
[...] (C) In its September 12-13 Central Committee meeting the CPI(M) leadership assailed the UPA government's relationship with the US, accusing it of sacrificing Indian autonomy and taking dictation from Washington on foreign policy and economic issues. The CPI(M) pledged to continue agitating [...]
2006-10-05 12:26:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON ENRG EPET MARR MASS PGOV PREL IN PK
06NEWDELHI699INDIANS SEEK FRENCH CIVIL NUCLEAR DEAL, BUT THE
[...] (C) Summary: As part of the preparations for Jacques Chirac's February 19-20 trip to India, Special Representative of the President Maurice Gourdault-Montagne visited New Delhi on January 27 for the fifteenth round of strategic dialogue focused on fleshing out the details of a France-India Civ [...]
2006-01-31 13:04:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP MNUC ENRG MASS FR IN
06NEWDELHI7118FY07 SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL: NEW DELHI RECOMMENDS
[...] (SBU) Embassy New Delhi's Political, Defense Attache, and Defense Cooperation offices evaluated reftel request for FY07 Section 1206 proposals and concur that the USG should not transfer assistance to India at this time. This evaluation is made in the context of India's current military capab [...]
2006-10-16 11:48:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MASS IN
06NEWDELHI7274INDIA'S LATEST DEFENSE SCANDAL: FEW LONG-TERM
[...] (C) Summary. Former NDA Defense Minister George Fernandes was accused on October 10 of receiving bribes in a 2000 defense procurement contract for Barak missiles from Israel. The scandal revived memories of last year's Denel affair, where a South African company was blacklisted and all outsta [...]
2006-10-20 13:02:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS KCRM ECON IN
06NEWDELHI7884U/S EDELMAN INFORMS DEFENSE SECRETARY DUTT AESA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-21 12:03:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP KSTC KOMC IN
06NEWDELHI7885U/S EDELMAN AND DEFMIN ANTONY AGREE ON POSITIVE
[...] (C) Summary. Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony told Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that his ministry assessed that the Defense Policy Group meeting had been a success, and that he anticipated further U.S.-India cooperation in the future, adding that on the whole the milit [...]
2006-11-21 12:04:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP KSTC KOMC IN
06NEWDELHI7886BOTH SIDES BULLISH ON U.S.-INDIA MIL-MIL TIES
[...] (C) Summary. U.S.-India military-to-military ties - already growing rapidly - were given a fresh boost in back-to-back Defense Procurement and Production Group (DPPG) and Defense Policy Group (DPG) meetings in New Delhi during the week of November 12. In addition to the high-level networking [...]
2006-11-21 12:07:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS ETTC KSTC KOMC IN
06NEWDELHI8017U/S EDELMAN INFORMS DEFENSE SECRETARY DUTT AESA
[...] (U) This cable replaces New Delhi 7884, to reflect changes made in the clearance process not included in the original. 2. (C) Summary. Undersecretary Eric Edelman told Indian Defense Secretary Shekhar Dutt that the Department of Defense has concluded that the U.S. would be prepared to make [...]
2006-11-29 03:08:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP KSTC KOMC IN
06NEWDELHI8100INDIAN INTELLIGENTSIA IN A SEASON OF CRITICIZING
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Indian intelligentsia has been harshly critical of late of the efficacy of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO),the organization responsible for designing and developing India's weapons systems. Government officials have chimed in, blaming the agency for [...]
2006-12-01 12:21:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PARM IN
06NEWDELHI8156RUMORS ABOUT BANGLADESH; MEA CONTINUES TO DENY AID
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Joint Secretary (Bangladesh, Burma Sri Lanka, Maldives) Mohan Kumar informed PolCouns that rumors are rife in Dhaka that the U.S. wants neither Sheikh Hasina, leader of the Awami League (AL),nor Khaleda Zia, head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),to win January's s [...]
2006-12-05 12:54:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MASS PTER KISL IN BG
06NEWDELHI8277JAISHANKAR'S POST GAME ANALYSIS OF U/S EDELMAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with the DCM, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Jaishankar provided his analysis of SIPDIS Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman's November visit. Agreeing that substantive developments occurred and the ability of both sides to work collaborati [...]
2006-12-11 13:02:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS ETTC KSTC KOMC IN
06NEWDELHI8373MOVING THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP FORWARD: PDAS MANN AND JOINT SECRETARIES JAISHANKAR AND KUMAR
[...] (S) Summary: On December 13, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Steven Mann met SIPDIS with out-going MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Jaishankar and his designated replacement Ms. Gyatri Kumar to follow-up on the progress made during Under Secretary Burns' [...]
2006-12-15 08:40:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PINR EAGR MASS IN
06NIAMEY1008NIGER: REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ACOTA
[...] Post requests human rights certification for the following Nigerien military personnel to participate in the ACOTA ECOWAS Stand by Force (ESF) Headquarters Staff Training Exercise to be held from September 2 - 25 in Accra, Ghana: Major Chaibou Idrissa, Chief of Communications, Army Staff [...]
2006-09-08 12:33:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PHUM NG
06NIAMEY1009NIGER: REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CCMR
[...] Post requests human rights certification for the following Nigerien military personnel to participate in the CCMR Resident Training Course to be held from September 11--22 in Monterey, California: Lieutenant Colonel Morou Seydou, Chief of Operations, Army Staff 2. Post's files contain [...]
2006-09-08 12:34:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PHUM NG
06OSLO348AMBASSADOR PRESSES CONCERNS ON IPR, JOINT STRIKE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In his initial call on Norwegian Trade and Industry Minister Odd Eriksen on March 17, the Ambassador raised concerns about weak "process" patent protections for pharmaceuticals and urged that Norwegian industry aggressively seek Joint Strike Fighter program contracts. Eriksen [...]
2006-03-22 09:01:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR MARR MASS EFIS PREL NO
06OSLO690C-RE6-00473; NORWAY, ISAF AND THE FARYAB PRT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-26 16:20:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPINR MASS MOPS PTER AF NO
06OTTAWA3121CANADA REACTION TO NOTIFICATION OF U.S. ARMS
[...] (C) At an October 13 follow up meeting to our September 27 demarche (reftels),Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Export Controls Division (ECD) Deputy Director Steven Goodinson told us that arms transfers from Canada to Venezuela were infrequent, that his office was [...]
2006-10-13 20:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MASS PARM PREL OTRA VE CA
06PANAMA1868PANAMA'S LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING PROCEDURES
[...] Embassy Panama's Political Section has developed a system to coordinate Leahy Amendment vetting. All candidates for USG-funded travel, training (military or civilian),or material assistance -- in-country or in the United States -- must be vetted on human rights, corruption, narcotics, or cr [...]
2006-09-22 16:06:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDAADP MARR MASS SNAR PINS PREL PHUM PINR PM
06PANAMA473OAS CICTE VI DELEGATION PREPARATION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-15 18:46:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL ECON MARR MASS CVIS OAS VE
06PARIS1289FRENCH DONATIONS TO IRAQI AND AFGHAN SECURITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post delivered reftel points to various MFA and MOD officials responsible for Iraq, Afghanistan and NATO. On Iraq, the regional bureau described itself as "not opposed" to providing assistance but adduced a number of preconditions to be fulfilled that make assistance unlikely. [...]
2006-03-01 16:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL
06PARIS131MFA OFFICIAL DOWNPLAYS U.S. CONCERNS REGARDING
[...] (C) In a January 5 meeting with Deputy Political Counselor and PolOff (discussion of Bolivia and Colombia ref B),DAS-equivalent for Latin America Michel Pinard downplayed U.S. concerns about rumored discussions regarding the sale of Scorpene submarines to Venezuela. While acknowledging that [...]
2006-01-09 18:02:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PARM FR VE
06PARIS1330CHIRAC VISIT TO INDIA: FOCUS ON BUSINESS, NUCLEAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA India desk officer told us February 28 that Chirac's February 19-21 visit to India focused primarily on further improving business relations and exploring French-Indian nuclear cooperation; other issues included military and space cooperation. While the two countries deliv [...]
2006-03-02 17:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP IN IR FR
06PARIS1486CHIRAC VISIT TO INDIA: FOCUS ON BUSINESS, NUCLEAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA India desk officer told us February 28 that Chirac's February 19-21 visit to India focused primarily on further improving business relations and exploring French-Indian nuclear cooperation; other issues included military and space cooperation. While the two countries deliv [...]
2006-03-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP IN IR FR
06PARIS6498FRANCE OPPOSES VENEZUELA UNSC SEAT BUT RELUCTANT
[...] (C) In a September 27 meeting with poloff on other issues (prior to reception of ref A),MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini commented that Venezuela would do great harm to Security Council credibility, if elected. That said, Giacomini thought it significant that Venezuela had come up shor [...]
2006-09-28 13:15:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL VE UNSC FR MARR MASS
06PORTAUPRINCE1070VETTING REQUEST: PSU USG EQUIPMENT HANDLING
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Palace Security Unit for credible information of gross human rights violations. T [...]
2006-06-16 18:38:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1203UN SRSG MULLET ON MINUSTAH, SECURITY AND HAITI
[...] (S) Summary. I met with UN SRSG Edmond Mullet July 2 to discuss his views of Haiti, the security environment and other issues. Mullet said that MINUSTAH is prepared to take "decisive action" against the gangs when/if President Preval agrees. He reports that an unknown quantity of automatic w [...]
2006-07-06 20:03:00Embassy Port Au PrinceSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV MASS UN HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1340 GOH CONSIDERS FORMING A GENDARMERIE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On the eve of his visit to Paris June 29-30, President Preval publicly floated the idea of creating a Gendarmerie in Haiti, and reuested French assistance with this project. The GOH wants to create a new force that could assume some of the security functions currently performe [...]
2006-07-24 18:00:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINS MOPS MASS HA FR
06PORTAUPRINCE1464VETTING REQUEST: HNP MOTORCYCLE TRAINING
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police (HNP) for credible information of gross human rights violations. These ind [...]
2006-08-09 13:54:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE170VETTING REQUEST: UDMO WEAPONS TRAINING NO. 2 FEB
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-01-24 19:15:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE173VETTING REQUEST: PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY UNIT
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police's Presidential Security Unit for credible information of gross human rights [...]
2006-01-24 20:16:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1785VETTING REQUEST: ANTI KIDNAPPING UNIT - HAITIAN
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-09-21 12:25:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1786VETTING REQUEST: CIMO UNIT - HAITIAN NATIONAL
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-09-21 12:26:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE1964VETTING REQUEST: PALACE SECURITY UNIT (PSU)
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-10-13 18:37:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2025VETTING REQUEST: HAITIAN COAST GUARD PERSONNEL
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-10-23 15:48:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2026VETTING REQUEST: HAITIAN COAST GUARD PERSONNEL
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-10-23 15:57:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2067VETTING REQUEST: HAITIAN COAST GUARD PERSONNEL
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-10-27 17:26:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2125VETTING REQUEST: SUB REGIONAL SECURITY COOPERATION
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See paragraphs 2-3. 2. Post requests that the Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following individual for credible information of gross human rights violations. This individual is being vetted [...]
2006-11-07 18:55:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2185VETTING REQUEST: HAITIAN COAST GUARD PERSONNEL
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. Post requests that the Department initiates review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian Coast Guard for credible information of gross human rights violations. Thes [...]
2006-11-14 18:51:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2226VETTING- HAITIAN GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See paragraphs 2-3. 2. Post requests that the Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following individual of the Haitian Government for credible information of gross human rights violations. This [...]
2006-11-20 16:38:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE2305VETTING REQUEST: HAITIAN NATIONAL POLICE
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-3. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-12-01 21:25:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE338VETTING REQUEST: PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY UNIT
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police's Presidential Security Unit for credible information of gross human rights [...]
2006-02-18 19:04:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM ASEC PTER HA
06PORTAUPRINCE43VETTING REQUEST: LESS-THAN-LETHAL TRAINING NO. 3
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-4. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-01-09 20:20:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE538VETTING REQUEST: HNP TRAINING FOR JACMEL
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-03-22 12:49:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTAUPRINCE707VETTING REQUEST: TRAINING FOR HNP SWAT TEAM
[...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. See para 2-5. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of available human rights reports/files and other sources for the following members of the Haitian National Police for credible information of gross human rights violations. These individua [...]
2006-04-20 19:03:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PGOV PHUM HA
06PORTLOUIS720AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS IN SEYCHELLES
[...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Cesar Cabrera presented his credentials to Seychelles President James Michel on November 21. During his visit the Ambassador had productive meetings with the President, Vice-President, and Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Health. He visited two CJTF-HOA construction pr [...]
2006-11-28 13:14:00Embassy Port LouisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYODIP PREL CJAN CASC CVIS MASS SE
06PORTOFSPAIN356T&T FRUSTRATED BY VENEZUELA BREAKING CICTE
[...] (S) Ambassador delivered talking points contained reftel to Minister of National Security Martin Joseph. Joseph is the outgoing chair of CICTE, and head of Trinidad and Tobago's CICTE delegation to the upcoming Bogota talks. Joseph (protect) spoke very candidly and expressed his extreme frus [...]
2006-03-20 20:56:00Embassy Port Of SpainSECRETPTER PREL ECON MARR MASS OAS TD
06PRAGUE1350U.S. COMPANY BUYS MANUFACTURER OF VERA-E PASSIVE
[...] (U) This cable contains sensitive business information. Please protect accordingly. 2. (C/NF) Summary: Representatives of Rannoch Corporation, a Virginia-based company specializing in air traffic control (ATC) technology, purchased Czech company ERA A.S. on October 26. The new owners plan [...]
2006-10-30 12:26:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL EZ MARR MASS MCAP
06PRAGUE1398CZECH MFA SOLICITS INFORMAL U.S. OPINION ON FOUR
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The Czech Government is considering granting permission for Czech export companies to begin to negotiate sales of several radar and similar systems to Indonesia, Ecuador, Nigeria, and Vietnam. If future applications are made for export licenses for the VERA, the Czech MFA inten [...]
2006-11-09 12:04:00Embassy PragueSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL EZ MARR MASS MCAP NI EC ID VM
06PRAGUE1466PLANNED CZECH MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS FOR 2007
[...] (U) Summary: The Czech Chamber of Deputies will vote in December on a bill authorizing proposed foreign military deployments for 2007. The bill is likely to pass without serious opposition. Increased numbers of troops are planned for Afghanistan and the Balkans, while Iraq troop levels will re [...]
2006-12-01 13:15:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ MARR MASS IZ AF YI BK LE
06PRAGUE1487CZECH PARLIAMENT APPROVES MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS FOR
[...] On November 5th the Czech Chamber of Deputies approved a bill authorizing proposed foreign military deployments for 2007 (Note: Reftel provided full details of the plan. End note). The legislation now goes to the President for signature. 2. The bill approved by the lower chamber, and previo [...]
2006-12-06 15:34:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EZ MARR MASS IZ AF YI BK LE
06PRAGUE1505CZECHS PLAN INCREASED SUPPORT FOR ISAF: MILITARY
[...] (C/NF) Summary: On December 20 the Czech government is likely to formally adopt a plan to create a Czech PRT at Pol-e-Khomri, Afghanistan, to take over from Hungary in 2008. Many of the details such as civilian component, financing, and partners still need to be worked-out, but the Czechs will [...]
2006-12-13 11:32:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL EZ MARR MASS AF NATO
06PRAGUE1539LEBANESE ISF DISCUSSING ASSISTANCE WITH CZECHS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Lebanese Internal Security Force is discussing training and equipment needs with the Czechs. Following a visit to Prague this month, the GOCR is waiting for the GOL to provide a list of requirements, and will then determine what can be provided within the context of Czech a [...]
2006-12-21 15:26:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MASS KDEM LE EZ
06PRAGUE1543CZECH CONTRIBUTIONS TO IRAQ
[...] Summary. This is the first in a series of cables summarizing significant Czech contributions (military, security, democracy promotion, development assistance, and humanitarian aid) in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. The Czech Republic has maintained troops in Iraq since 2003 and provided tr [...]
2006-12-22 08:27:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID MASS IZ EZ
06PRAGUE283CZECH DEFENSE MINISTER ON VERA-E, AFGHAN PRT, AND
[...] (S) Summary: Ambassador met March 14 with Czech Defense Minister Karel Kuehnl to present the letter from SECDEF Rumsfeld on the positive results of U.S. testing of the VERA-E passive surveillance detection system. Afghanistan and missile defense were also discussed. Kuehnl welcomed the SECDEF' [...]
2006-03-17 15:51:00Embassy PragueSECRETAF EZ NATO PARM PREL PTER ETTC KSTC MASS
06PRAGUE411CZECH GOVERNMENT TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE
[...] (S) Poloff and ARMA April 20 delivered reftel demarche on possible Venezuelan production of the Czech CZ-75 pistol to Petr Kaiser, Director of the MFA's CFSP Department. Kaiser, who is responsible for all arms licensing decisions made by the MFA, promised he would request an immediate investiga [...]
2006-04-20 15:36:00Embassy PragueSECRETMARR MASS PARM VE EZ
06PRAGUE823AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CZECH PM ON MISSILE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The Ambassador met July 20 with Czech PM Jiri Paroubek to discuss the Czech candidacy to host a U.S. missile defense (MD) site. Paroubek was well prepared, sharing his opinion that the fall Senate and mayoral elections would make political handling of the MD issue more difficu [...]
2006-07-20 12:21:00Embassy PragueSECRET//NOFORNMARR PREL MASS MARS EZ
06PRAGUE828CZECHS DISCUSS STRATEGY WITH U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Senior Czech officials July 19 hosted a joint OSD-Missile Defense Agency (MDA) policy team led by DASD Brian Green. Discussions were positive, with Czech questions focusing on information that could be used to manage the domestic political and public affairs dynamics of the Cz [...]
2006-07-21 10:03:00Embassy PragueSECRET//NOFORNMARR PREL MASS MARS EZ
06PRAGUE925CZECH REPUBLIC: GOVERNMENT WITH TWO BIG PARTIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two months after winning the June 2-3 general elections and unsuccessfully trying to form a new government with a three-party right-of-center coalition that holds exactly half of the seats in Parliament, the Civic Democrats (ODS) have finally declared the coalition dead [...]
2006-08-09 10:29:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS EZ
06PRETORIA960SOUTH AFRICA: PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. The United States and South Africa have made significant progress in implementing the June 10, 2005 Presidential Joint Statement. The two countries signed the ACOTA agreement in August 2005 to enhance South Africa's peacekeeping capacity, and training programs will begin this [...]
2006-03-08 13:02:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD MASS PHUM SF
06PRISTINA259KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS TO TAKE ON GREATER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During their March 12-15 visit to Kosovo, Department representatives agreed to provide up to USD 110,000 in funding through the Slovene International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victim's Assistance (ITF) for badly-needed replacement equipment for the Kosovo Protection Corp [...]
2006-03-22 16:22:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PREL EAID PGOV UNMIK YI
06QUITO1284AMBASSADOR PROMOTES SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador visited the remote Carchi province on May 18 to highlight USG investment in security and development on Ecuador's northern border with Colombia. While there, the Ambassador met with military and police officials, toured a customs and immigration post, hosted a lu [...]
2006-05-24 21:07:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO1400ECUADOR-COLOMBIA BORDER PROGRESS REPORT - JAN-MAY
[...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian northern border military and anti-drug police units scored several successes against narco-terrorists in the first half of 2006. The Ecuadorian military made multiple FARC camp busts, seizing arms, communication devices, and military equipment, as well as capturing tw [...]
2006-06-07 22:12:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO1910WELCOME BACK, GENERAL CRADDOCK
[...] (C) Summary: Please accept my warm welcome on your final visit to Ecuador, General Craddock. It has been a pleasure and privilege for all of us at U.S. Mission Ecuador to work with you to cement and deepen productive U.S.-Ecuador military relations. Your visit comes at a time when U.S.-Ecu [...]
2006-08-02 23:15:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC
06QUITO2082NEW COLOMBIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ECUADOR
[...] (U) Summary: Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Araujo made her first official visit to Ecuador on August 16. In meetings with Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion and Vice President Alejandro Serrano she discussed the need for safeguarding bilateral relations in the face of problems along the c [...]
2006-08-17 22:49:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2148COLOMBIAN SHOTS LEAVE ECUADORIANS WOUNDED
[...] (SBU) Colombian military units and FARC rebels exchanged heavy gunfire late in the evening on August 23 in the southern Colombian border town of Tetye, Putumayo. Ecuadorian 19th Jungle Brigade Commander (based in Lago Agrio, Sucumbios province) Colonel Ramiro Caceres confirmed the live fire i [...]
2006-08-25 18:47:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2151NEW DEFENSE POLICY ADDRESSES NARCOTICS THREAT
[...] (U) Summary: Since taking office in August 2005, Defense Minister Oswaldo Jarrin has attempted to shift the focus of Ecuador's defense posture away from its traditional rivalry with Peru towards more current national security threats, including that of narco-terror on Ecuador's northern border [...]
2006-08-28 19:53:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2152COLOMBIAN SHOTS LEAVE ECUADORIANS WOUNDED
[...] (SBU) Colombian military units and FARC rebels exchanged heavy gunfire late in the evening on August 23 in the southern Colombian border town of Tetye, Putumayo. Ecuadorian 19th Jungle Brigade Commander (based in Lago Agrio, Sucumbios province) Colonel Ramiro Caceres confirmed the live fire i [...]
2006-08-28 19:55:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2173MINDEF'S RESIGNATION SURPRISES MANY
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense Oswaldo Jarrin resigned on August 28, citing disagreement with unspecified aspects of relations with Colombia and defending Ecuadorian military participation in the anti-narcotics fight. Jarrin's surprise departure has generated much speculation about the rea [...]
2006-08-30 19:41:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2185GOE SIGNS MLE; NAVY STRONG U.S. PARTNER IN DRUG
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Wayne Justice and Ecuadorian Rear Admiral Eduardo Navas signed a Maritime Law Enforcement Agreement (MLE) in Quito on August 30. The MLE standardizes a series of operational procedures for the interdiction and boarding of suspect Ecuadorian vessels, [...]
2006-08-31 21:30:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2289MINDEF COMMITS TO NARCOTICS AGENDA, DISSES MANTA
[...] (C) Summary: In her initial call on newly appointed Minister of Defense Marcelo Delgado on September 8, the Ambassador stressed the importance of continued USG-GOE counter-narcotics and northern border cooperation and urged progress on security reforms initiated under Delgado's predecessor. [...]
2006-09-13 21:54:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2384ECUADOR-COLOMBIA BORDER PROGRESS REPORT -
[...] (C) Summary: The following report provides a quarterly update of developments along Ecuador's northern border with Colombia. Highlights include the Ambassador's travel to Esmeraldas province, progress disrupting narco-trafficking, a change of Defense Minister, and renewed diplomatic tension [...]
2006-09-26 21:15:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2498CORREA'S FARC COMMENTS SPARK EXCHANGE WITH GOC
[...] (C) Reaction to presidential front-runner Rafael Correa's recent declaration that he does not consider the FARC a terrorist organization has drawn in the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry and the Colombian government. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe did not respond to Correa's comments directly, [...]
2006-10-11 22:15:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2557COLOMBIAN MILITARY FIRE LEAVES TWO DEAD
[...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian military officials on October 19 confirmed that two Ecuadorian civilians were killed by Colombian military gunfire on October 15 while traveling in a canoe with FARC rebels on the San Miguel River. Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion publicly criticized the Colombian m [...]
2006-10-19 20:57:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2616THE HUNT FOR RAUL REYES ANGERS GOE
[...] (S) Summary: Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's public declaration that FARC leader Raul Reyes is hiding in Ecuador has sparked a media frenzy in Quito, heightening bilateral tensions. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion demanded evidence of Reyes' presence, and asked the Ambassado [...]
2006-10-27 18:05:00Embassy QuitoSECRETPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2809LAB BUSTS MARK ECUADOR'S MOVE FROM TRANSIT TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ecuadorian National Police (ENP),working with Peruvian anti-drug authorities and the DEA, uncovered and dismantled three cocaine processing labs in southern Ecuador. The ENP arrested 45 individuals - including Colombian fugitive Juan Solarte Mora, and seized vehicles, boa [...]
2006-11-15 22:23:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS SNAR PTER EC CO PE
06QUITO3020GOE PROTESTS RESUMPTION OF COLOMBIAN SPRAYING NEAR
[...] (C) Colombia's resumption of aerial fumigation along the Ecuador-Colombia border has sparked a formal GOE protest and strong reaction from president-elect Correa. Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion called Colombia's decision an act of "hostility" and warned of a possible cooling in bilateral [...]
2006-12-14 19:03:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO374WELCOME BACK, GENERAL CRADDOCK
[...] (C) Summary: Please accept my warm welcome on your return visit to Ecuador, General Craddock. This mission is mobilized to ensure a successful visit. Your visit comes at a sensitive time. We hope to use it to help defuse the inflamed dialogue with Colombia, advance information sharing with [...]
2006-02-10 19:53:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO638GOE "STUDIES" ALLEGED GOC AIRSPACE VIOLATION
[...] (U) Two Colombian military aircraft reportedly entered Ecuadorian airspace in pursuit of FARC rebels in the border town of Puerto Nuevo, Sucumbios province on March 11. Representatives from the Colombian and Ecuadorian defense ministries met on March 14 on the border to exchange information o [...]
2006-03-15 22:15:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO87 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-13 12:46:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV EFIN MOPS MASS KJUS KCRM EC
06QUITO89 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-13 12:46:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV EFIN MOPS MASS KJUS KCRM EC
06QUITO90 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-13 12:46:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV EFIN MOPS MASS KJUS KCRM EC
06RABAT1427DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMENDING THE 505 AGREEMENT
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per reftel, Poloffs met July 27 with MFA Bilateral Affairs and Counterterrorism officer Karim Halim to encourage the Government of Morocco (GOM) to replace its existing 505 agreement with the text of a new [...]
2006-07-27 17:04:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIA MARR MASS PGOV MO XA
06RABAT1514REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following candidate who is designated to attend the University of California Institute on GCC from August 20-24, 2006. Rank: Commissaire Name: NIFAOUI, Mohamed DOB: 22, Februa [...]
2006-08-10 08:55:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT1558REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following candidate who is designated to attend the Supply Officers course at Naval Supply Corps, Athens, GA from September 13 - November 18, 2006 Rank: O-4 Name: EL ARABI, Abdel [...]
2006-08-17 11:53:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT1559REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following candidate who is designated to attend the Advanced Management Program at Ft. McNair, Washington DC from September 9 to December 15, 2006 Rank: O-4 Name: BENKHADDA, Hass [...]
2006-08-17 11:54:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT1560REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following candidate who is designated to attend the USMC C4 Planner Course at Quantico, VA 8/31/06-11/21/06 Rank: O-3 Name: AMINE, Karim DOB: May 13, 1975 POB: Casablanca, Moroc [...]
2006-08-17 11:55:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT1567REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following candidate who is designated to attend the Senior Executive Seminar 06-6 at Garmish, Germany from August 25-September 8, 2006 Rank: O-6 (Commandant of the Gendarmerie) N [...]
2006-08-18 15:50:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT1754REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following Moroccan national: Name: Haddouch, Zouhair DOB: March 3, 1966 POB: Meknes, Morocco CIN#: D 318616 Rank: O-4 Unit: 37 BIS/Zone Sud Purpose: To attend the Specialized [...]
2006-09-21 14:12:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT1755REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following Moroccan nationals: Name: Hafidi, Charif DOB: May 3, 1966 POB: Meknes, Morocco CIN#: P 53480 Rank: O-4 Unit: GEI, Ouezzane Purpose: To attend the International Def [...]
2006-09-21 14:16:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT1758REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following Moroccan national: Name: Said Alaoui, Moulay Abdellah DOB: January 3, 1959 POB: Fes, Morocco CIN#: B 612134 Rank: O-5 Unit: Military Hospital - Rabat Purpose: To a [...]
2006-09-21 14:23:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT1761REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following Moroccan national: Name: Toumi, Abdelghani DOB: March 6, 1966 POB: Taounate, Morocco CIN#: G 201681 Rank: 0-4 Unit: 1 Base - Sale Purpose: To attend the Logistics Re [...]
2006-09-21 14:25:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT2015REALLOCATIONS OF GWOT FUNDS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-31 12:57:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PARM MO
06RABAT2073REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following Moroccan national: Name: IHOURANE, Abdendi DOB: May 12, 1970 POB: Khemisset, Morocco CIN#: E 410016 Rank: O-3 Unit: 1 Base - Sale Purpose: To attend the Legal Aspe [...]
2006-11-07 16:58:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT2095REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following Moroccan national: Name: BENMOUSSA, Brahim DOB: November 14, 1976 POB: Rabat, Morocco CIN#: BK 150820 Rank: Civilian Unit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Rabat Purp [...]
2006-11-10 14:22:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT2096REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following Moroccan national: Name: FIZAZI, Ahmed DOB: July 22, 1963 POB: Oujda, Morocco CIN#: D 179002 Rank: O-4 Unit: Army HQ - Rabat Purpose: To attend the Infantry Office [...]
2006-11-10 14:22:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT2168REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following candidate(s): Name: NAGUIME, Samir DOB: February 8, 1970 POB: Meknes Morocco CIN#: D 403735 Rank: O-3 Unit: Forces Auxiliaries HQ's - Rabat Purpose: To attend th [...]
2006-11-24 09:44:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT2183DIPLOMATICNOTE RECEIVED: AMENDING THE 505
[...] (U) Thiscable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Post received Diplomatc Note 003685 from the Ministry of Foreign Affais November 28, 2006 in response to reftel A and . The Note was transmited in both Arabic and Eglish. In the following note, the Moroccan [...]
2006-11-29 15:14:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIA MARR MASS PGOV MO XA
06RABAT2327REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following candidate(s): Name: EL QORCHI, Driss DOB: 19 October 1965 POB: Rabat, Morocco CIN#: A 252614 Rank: O-4 Unit: Gendarmeri HQs Rabat Purpose: to attend the Marshall [...]
2006-12-26 11:57:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT2328REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following candidate(s): Name: EL KHABBAZ, Abdellah DOB: December 31, 1962 POB: Douar Jarf, Morocco CIN#: G 121751 Rank: E-9 Unit: 2 Base - Meknes Purpose: to attend the Ad [...]
2006-12-26 11:59:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT2329REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the following candidate(s): Name: OUHDIF, Aziz DOB: 1973 POB: Khenifra, Morocco CIN#: I 300059 Rank: O-3 Unit: 2 Base - Meknes Purpose: to attend the Squadron Officer School a [...]
2006-12-26 12:02:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMO MASS MARR MOPS PHUM
06RABAT315MOROCCO ON DONATIONS TO IRAQI AND AFGHAN SECURITY
[...] (S) DCM met February 22 with newly appointed Director General for Multilateral Affairs and Director for Arab and Islamic Affairs Mohamed Azeroual to discuss reftel requirements regarding potential Moroccan donations for Iraqi and Afghan security forces. Azeroual asserted that the Iraqis would [...]
2006-02-23 17:13:00Embassy RabatSECRETAF IZ MARR MO MOPS PINS PREL PTER MASS
06RABAT322REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the Moroccan nationals listed below who are scheduled for training starting on March 5, 2006 for two weeks in Atlanta, GA: Name: 0-4 Kharchafi, Aziz DOB: 8 December 1966 POB: Casabl [...]
2006-02-24 13:22:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR MOPS MO
06RABAT327REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the Moroccan nationals listed below who are scheduled for training starting on April 2, 2006 for one week in Washington, DC: Name: 0-5 Boui, Mohamed DOB: 1959 POB: Taounate, Morocco [...]
2006-02-24 15:12:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR MOPS MO
06RABAT328REQUEST FOR VETTING UNDER LEAHY AMENDMENT OF
[...] This is an action request. This cable requests the Department of State to initiate a Departmental review of the Moroccan nationals listed below who are scheduled to attend the "Intelligence in Combat Terrorism" course at Ft. Huachuca, AZ from April 3-22, 2006: Name: 0-4 Kazouz, Anas DOB: 2 [...]
2006-02-24 15:20:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR MOPS MO
06RANGOON602RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR: "WE SEEK CLOSER TIES TO BURMA"
[...] (C) Summary: The Russian Ambassador, a four-year veteran in Rangoon, described Russia and Burma as at the "beginning of a new stage in bilateral cooperation." The two countries recently exchanged senior level visitors "to reinvigorate relations." The Ambassador described sanctions as counte [...]
2006-05-04 08:49:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MASS PHUM PGOV BM RS
06REYKJAVIK118ICELAND: 3/30-3/31 TALKS SET STAGE FOR NEW
[...] (C) Summary: A U.S. interagency delegation met in Reykjavik 3/30-31 with senior Icelandic officials to describe the operational framework for the defense of Iceland following the upcoming realignment of Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF). The Icelandic delegation expressed keen interest in [...]
2006-03-31 18:22:00Embassy ReykjavikCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS IC
06REYKJAVIK140APRIL 2006 DEFENSE DISCUSSIONS: ICELAND'S RED
[...] (C) Summary: Recent discussions with Icelandic Government personnel and the first three meetings of a bilateral working group managing base closure issues offer indications of GOI expectations for the EUCOM briefing 4/26 in Reykjavik. Although the Icelandic leadership understands the classifie [...]
2006-04-24 11:28:00Embassy ReykjavikCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR MARR MASS IC
06REYKJAVIK1504/26-27 DEFENSE TALKS: ICELAND LOOKS FOR
[...] (C) Summary: EUCOM briefed Iceland Chief Defense Negotiator Albert Jonsson 4/26 on the Draft Concept Plan (the Conplan) for the Defense of Iceland. Jonsson responded 4/27 that the Conplan was fundamentally acceptable as a plan but did not go far enough toward meeting Iceland's political nee [...]
2006-04-27 19:43:00Embassy ReykjavikCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS NATO IC
06REYKJAVIK364ICELAND DEFENSE: TECHNICAL AGREEMENT TO CLOSE U.S. BASE SIGNED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Iceland's Foreign Minister signed the bilateral "Technical Agreement" on the closure of Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF),as well as an agreement amending the classified annexes to the 1951 U.S.-Iceland defense agreement, at 1236 GMT on 29 September. The last U.S. military p [...]
2006-09-29 16:56:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PREL EAIR MASS IC
06REYKJAVIK98ICELAND: JUSTICE MINISTER FRUSTRATED -- AND
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with the Icelandic Justice Minister 3/22 as part of post's roll-out of the U.S. decision to remove fighter aircraft and CSAR helicopters from Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF). The Minister expressed deep disappointment at the "unilateral" decision and listed [...]
2006-03-22 16:01:00Embassy ReykjavikCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MASS IC
06RIGA832LATVIAN VIEWS ON GAERC - FOCUSED ON GEORGIA
[...] (C) Pol/econ chief delivered reftel demarche to Veronika Erte, A/S-level official responsible for EU issues at the MFA, on October 12. The GOL adopted its GAERC positions in cabinet on October 10. Latvia will be represented at the GAERC by its Ambassador to the EU. 2. (C) Georgia - Althou [...]
2006-10-12 14:04:00Embassy RigaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS EUN GG RU LE LG
06RIYADH1542POST-ABQAIQ MINISTER OF INTERIOR FORMALLY REQUESTS
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (S) Summary and Action Request: Post requests Department's prompt review and guidance in responding to the Saudi government's formal request for helicopter support and security consultations, for the security of oil facilities in the Kingdom. Foreign Mini [...]
2006-03-12 15:23:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETPTER MASS MARR ASEC PREL EPET ETRD SA
06RIYADH2146SAUDI LEADERS UPBEAT ON U.S.-SAUDI MILITARY
[...] (S) Summary and Comment: During separate meetings on March 22 with visiting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace, Saudi leaders spoke favorably of the U.S.-Saudi military relationship. King Abdullah, although deeply unhappy about Iraq and the issue of helicopter support fo [...]
2006-03-29 14:32:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETMARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL PTER SA
06RIYADH4719LEAHY VETTING FOR LIEUTENANT COLONEL MOHAMED MUTLK
[...] Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Mutlk G. Al Dhafari, who has been identified to participate in DOD training. The course in which Lt Col Al Dhafari will participate is the National [...]
2006-06-13 05:26:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PHUM PINR PREL SA
06RIYADH5042USD EDELMAN'S MEETINGS WITH THE KING AND CROWN
[...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed the U.S.-Saudi defense relationship, regional security, helicopters, Iran, Iraq, and visas during separate meetings with King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan on June 6. Both the King and Crown Prince were supportive of [...]
2006-06-24 14:03:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETMARR MASS MCAP SA PTER PREL PARM PINR
06RIYADH5082U/S EDELMAN'S MEETING WITH ASST MINISTER OF
[...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed the U.S.-Saudi defense relationship, Iran, and regional security during his June 6 meeting with Prince Khalid bin Sultan, Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation for Security Affairs. The overall tone of the meeting [...]
2006-06-25 08:36:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETMARR MASS MCAP MOPS PARM PGOV PREL PINR PTER
06RIYADH5907CROWN PRINCE SIGNS TWO DEFENSE AGREEMENTS IN
[...] (C) Crown Prince Sultan, who is also the Saudi Minister of Defense and Aviation, reportedly signed two defense agreements with France during his July 20 visit to Paris. Media reports have suggested that these agreements could lead to Saudi purchase of French tanker aircraft, helicopters, and [...]
2006-07-25 12:18:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETMARR MASS BEXP SA
06ROME2873ITALY DISCUSSING TIGHTENING OF VENEZUELA ARMS SALES
[...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with Francesco Talo, MFA South America Office Director, and Paolo Campanini, South America Office, September 21 to inform Italy of the U.S. arms transfer policy to Venezuela, per Ref A, urging Italy to adopt similar measures. Talo noted that arms sales to Venezuela wer [...]
2006-10-13 15:57:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PARM VE PREL OTRA IT
06ROME343GOI SEEKS MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK FROM SHRINKING
[...] (U) Summary: Facing budget cuts and a stagnant economy, the Government of Italy (GOI) will seek to leverage its defense spending to continue to gain access to cutting edge technologies as part of a broad effort to revive the Italian economy. The amount of technology transfer and job creatio [...]
2006-02-06 11:27:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PGOV EFIN IT
06ROME494ITALY, VENEZUELA NOT NEGOTIATING NAVAL VESSEL SALE
[...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero February 15. He noted public statements by the GOV defense minister suggesting that Venezuela might look to Italy.for submarines, urged the GOI not to contemplate such sales, and reviewed USG [...]
2006-02-17 12:13:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL PARM VE IT EXPORT CONTROLS
06ROME607IRAQ: ITALIANS FAVOR EXPANDED NATO TRAINING ROLE
[...] (C) Summary. Italy strongly supports an expanded NATO training role in Iraq, which it believes will help both to increase the political legitimacy of international efforts in Iraq and to encourage broader participation in those efforts. With Italian elections in April and a tight budget, Ital [...]
2006-02-28 08:23:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MARR MASS MOPS PINS IZ IT
06ROME666WFP'S INTERIM RESPONSE TO UNHAS NEEDS IN PAKISTAN
[...] As per ref A),USMISSION UN ROME shared with the UN World Food Program (WFP) issues of concern that: continued support for the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) is not critical to ongoing humanitarian relief efforts beyond March 31, 2006; both UNHAS and the UN Joint Logistics Center (UNJLC) [...]
2006-03-03 13:01:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON PGOV PREL PK WFP
06SANAA1341HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR SOCCENT JCET IN
[...] The following statement is provided to verify the human rights vetting process: at this time the Embassy verified that Post possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations by any members of the Yemen Special Operations Force (YSOF) or the Yemen Coast Guard (YCG). 2. Addi [...]
2006-05-16 11:41:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS PHUM MASS YM
06SANAA1373HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR MAJOR TAWFIK
[...] The following statement is provided to verify the human rights vetting process: at this time the Embassy verified that Post possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations by Major Tawfik Nagi Kaid Al-Bawah of the Yemen Coast Guard (YCG). 2. Additionally the following hu [...]
2006-05-23 09:07:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS PHUM MASS YM
06SANAA1490HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR SOCCENT JCET IN
[...] The following statement is provided to verify the human rights vetting process: at this time the Embassy verified that Post possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations by any members of the Yemen Special Operations Force (YSOF) or Yemen Central Security Force, Counter Te [...]
2006-05-30 11:36:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS PHUM MASS YM
06SANAA167BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN: MOD CHIEF OF STAFF
[...] (C) Summary. During a January 18 meeting with OMC Chief, MG Mohammed Ali Al-Qassimi, Chief of Staff for the Armed Forces, expressed his appreciation to the USG for granting him access to Bethesda Naval Hospital (ref A). Qassimi, who returned to Yemen in December after six months of cancer t [...]
2006-01-30 03:42:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MASS YM COUNTER TERRORISM
06SANAA2003HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR AL-SUBHI AND
[...] The following statement is provided to verify the human rights vetting process: at this time the Embassy verified that Post possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations by Colonel Ali Mohammed al-Subhi, Deputy Chairman, Yemen Coast Guard and Brigadier General Taher Ali al [...]
2006-07-12 14:02:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS PHUM MASS YM
06SANAA233ARMED FORCES CHIEF REQUESTS ACCESS TO BETHESDA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-01 13:39:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS YM
06SANAA234APPROVAL OF OFFICE OF MILITARY COOPERATION CHIEF
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-01 13:39:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS YM
06SANAA2564HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR SALEH, AL-NONO,
[...] The following statement is provided to verify the human rights vetting process: at this time the Embassy verified that Post possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations by: Captain Nabil Abdullah Ahmed al-Rassas, Yemen Coast Guard Major Khalid Ali Mohammed Saleh, Yemen [...]
2006-09-04 09:53:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS PHUM MOPS YM
06SANAA385AL-QA'IDA ESCAPE: COORDINATING MARITIME EFFORTS
[...] (C) Summary: On February 11, Office of Military Cooperation (OMC) Chief and NAVCENT Liaison Officer (LNO) met with Yemeni military and coast guard officials to discuss maritime cooperation to capture 23 escaped al Qa'ida prisoners (ref A). Led by the Chief of Staff for the Yemeni Armed For [...]
2006-02-15 11:05:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PTER PHSA YM MARITIME SECURITY
06SANAA972AMBASSADOR VISITS PORT OF HODEIDA AND THE HISTORIC
[...] Summary. On April 4, Ambassador visited the Red Sea port of Hodeida, located in the governorate of the same name, for meetings with local officials and to tour a USDA-funded hospital project. During a meeting with the Governor, Ambassador discussed USG development assistance and the importa [...]
2006-04-11 06:26:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MASS ECON YM
06SANJOSE127COSTA RICA SEEKS TO AVOID CONSEQUENCES OF NOT
[...] (C) President Pacheco on January 11 convoked his ministers of foreign affairs, foreign trade, and labor and the Costa Rican Ambassador to the U.S. to discuss with Ambassador and Polcouns the ramifications of the Nethercutt Amendment for Costa Rica. The GOCR officials were specifically concer [...]
2006-01-19 14:10:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS ETRD EAID CS KICC
06SANJOSE2735SOUTHERN COMMAND'S HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE;
[...] SUMMARY: The U.S. Southern Command, as part of its Human Rights Initiative (HRI),sponsored a human rights conference in Costa Rica for 77 personnel, mainly from the public security force, November 28-December 1. Building on the work of an initial conference in August, this event sought to [...]
2006-12-08 00:13:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MASS XM CS
06SANJOSE344DONATION TO IRAQI AND AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES:
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-14 21:01:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL AF IZ CS
06SANJOSE444"MORAL POWER:" ARIAS AND NATIONAL SECURITY
[...] (C) National security in an Oscar Arias administration will be pursued at three levels: (1) Internationally, Arias will use his prestige as a Nobel laureate to be an advocate for multilateralism, international law, and disarmament. (2) At home the principal external security issues will be [...]
2006-02-24 21:13:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALPINS PREL MASS SNAR SMIG SOCI PBTS NI CS
06SANSALVADOR1014REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, Date of Birth: 20 Oct 1977, Place of Birth: Chalatenango, Male. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above individual has not [...]
2006-04-20 13:58:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1047REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidate. Name: XXXXXXXXXXXX DOB: 15 Nov 1968 POB: San Salvador Male 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above [...]
2006-04-21 19:36:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1048REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidate. NAME: XXXXXXXXXXXX DOB: 26 Oct 1964 POB: San Salvador Male 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the ab [...]
2006-04-21 19:50:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1049REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. Name: XXXXXXXXXXXX DOB: 20 May 1961 POB: Usulutan Male Name: XXXXXXXXXXXX DOB: 21 Jul 1964 POB: La Union Male N [...]
2006-04-21 19:51:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1224REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX San Salvador 24 Aug 1960 Male XXXXXXXXXXXX San Salvador 26 Apr 1962 Female XXXXXXXXXXXX San Salvador [...]
2006-05-10 13:14:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1278REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, Date of Birth - 20 July 1953, Place of Birth - Cojutepeque, Male. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; none of the above individua [...]
2006-05-12 19:20:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1312REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX 28 Jul 1968 San Miguel Male Resource Management Course Start Date: 22 May 2006 XXXXXXXXXXXX 13 Jun 1965 [...]
2006-05-17 13:58:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1403REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, San Salvador, 17 Nov 1966, Male. Major XXXXXXXXXXXX currently serves with the Military Doctrine Command Unit. 3. Post has reviewed available hu [...]
2006-05-30 16:13:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1404REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. All candidates are male and serve with the Ilopango Air Force Unit. XXXXXXXXXXXX San Vicente 08 JUL 1975 XXXXXXXXXXXX C [...]
2006-05-30 16:14:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1413REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights record of XXXXXXXXXXXX March, 23 JUL 1964, San Salvador, Male. Major XXXXXXXXXXXX is a member of the Second Air Force Brigade. 3. Post has reviewed available human righ [...]
2006-05-30 19:13:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1414REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX Chalatenango 28 Aug 1962 Male Military Police Unit XXXXXXXXXXXX San Miguel 09 Nov 1962 Male 3rd Infantr [...]
2006-05-30 19:14:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1415REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX Rank: Major Ministry of Defense Office Chalatenango 07 May 1969 Male XXXXXXXXXXXX Rank: Major Military D [...]
2006-05-30 19:15:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1501REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 29 Oct 1971, San Salvador, Male, Naval Headquarters Unit. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; none of the above individuals has b [...]
2006-06-07 19:47:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1502REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX 18 Jun 1971 Male San Salvador Ilopango Air Force Base XXXXXXXXXXXX 03 Dec 1972 Male El Transito Ilopang [...]
2006-06-07 19:47:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1503REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 23 April 1964, Male, Santa Ana, Salvadoran Military Academy. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above individual has not bee [...]
2006-06-07 19:51:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR158REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN FORCES PARTICIPATING IN OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following members of Battalion Cuscatlan, who will be participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The Battalion is scheduled to depart between February 8 and February 11, under the command of XXXXXXXXXXXX. The names of the officers of t [...]
2006-01-20 21:53:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1600REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. XXXXXXXXXXXX 06 Feb 1963 San Salvador Male Naval Headquarters XXXXXXXXXXXX 09 July 1963 Cojutepeque Male Armed Force [...]
2006-06-20 19:45:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1709REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 7 Oct 1969, Sonsonate, El Salvador, Male. XXXXXXXXXXXX currently serves at the Salvadoran Armed Forces Headquarters. 3. Post has reviewed avail [...]
2006-07-05 14:02:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1783REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following training candidates. Please review the following list; Post included name, date and place of birth for your reference. All individuals are male. X [...]
2006-07-13 13:59:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1847REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following member of Battalion Cuscatlan, who will be participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The Battalion is scheduled to depart between August 7 and August 11, under the command of XXXXXXXXXXXX. All available records at pos [...]
2006-07-21 16:33:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1848REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following members of Battalion Cuscatlan, who will be participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The Battalion is scheduled to depart between August 7 and August 11, under the command of XXXXXXXXXXXX . The names and date and pla [...]
2006-07-21 16:34:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1899REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 27SEP1959, Cojutepeque, El Salvador, Male. XXXXXXXXXXXX currently serves at the Engineer Command Group. 3. Post has reviewed available human ri [...]
2006-07-31 19:52:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1921REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following individuals: XXXXXXXXXXXX San Pedro Perulapan 11-Feb-1959 Colonel 4th Infantry Brigade Male XXXXXXXXXXXX La Union 22-Dec-1958 Colonel 4t [...]
2006-08-07 19:16:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1932REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, born December 2, 1978 in San Salvador, male, Research Director for the National Council of Public Security. 3. The named individual will partici [...]
2006-08-07 21:08:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1990REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 14 October 1967, Santa Ana, Male, Military Industry Unit, Lieutenant Commander. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above ind [...]
2006-08-11 18:36:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1991REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 29 Mar 1970, Sonsonate, Male, Police Counternarcotic and Counterterrorism Unit, Technician. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; th [...]
2006-08-11 18:37:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1992REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 08 Mar 1977, San Miguel, Transmissions Command, First Lieutenant. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above individual has no [...]
2006-08-11 18:37:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1993REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following individuals: XXXXXXXXXXXX 03-July-1977 La Paz Second Air Brigade Seargent XXXXXXXXXXXX 21 Jun 1978 San Vicente Second Air Brigade Seargent [...]
2006-08-11 18:38:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1994REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 19 Nov 1976, San Salvador, Engineering Command, First Lieutenant. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; the above individual has no [...]
2006-08-11 18:38:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1995REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of the following individuals: XXXXXXXXXXXX 03 Feb 1963 Chalchuapa BESM unit Major XXXXXXXXXXXX 14 Mar 1965 Chalatenango Special Forces Sergent Major 3 [...]
2006-08-11 18:39:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
06SANSALVADOR1996REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requires Department review of human rights records of XXXXXXXXXXXX, 06 Dec 1970, San Salvador, Male, Naval Headquarters, Lieutenant. 3. Post has reviewed available human rights files; none of the above individual [...]
2006-08-11 18:39:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
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