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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
02COLOMBO1920	After surge in tension, situation in east seems [...] (C) The situation in the east seems to have calmed down after violence last week left at least ten Tamils dead. The cooling down process was given a critical boost via an announcement by Tiger leader Prabhakaran that he wanted the peace process to continue. Reinforcing the positive trend, Ti [...]	2002-10-15 12:35:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS PHUM MOPS CE LTTE

02COLOMBO1942	GSL plan to rein in executive powers in [...] (C) The GSL's proposed constitutional amendment reining in executive powers has run into a major roadblock. While not officially announced, the Supreme Court has reportedly decided that one part of the proposal is unconstitutional and the other subject to a referendum. This apparent decisio [...]	2002-10-17 06:38:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM CE
02COLOMBO1954	Maldives: President Goyoom announces cabinet [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) In an October 9 announcement, Maldivian President Maumoon Gayoom announced changes to his cabinet, and appointed new ambassadors to Sri Lanka and the UN. Please see Para four for a complete listing of the ne [...]	2002-10-18 05:54:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM MV UN
02COLOMBO1968	Tumult among small parties undermines [...] (C) SUMMARY: The governing United National Party is being buffeted by severe turbulence triggered by unhappy junior coalition partners. The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress is sharply divided over the peace process, for example, while the major party for tea estate Tamils is driving a hard bargain [...]	2002-10-20 07:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM PINR CE
02COLOMBO1969	GSL generally receptive to concerns raised by [...] (C) Summary: During an October 10 visit to Sri Lanka, DRL P/DAS Michael Parmly raised USG concerns regarding the upcoming session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission with Foreign Secretary Nihal Rodrigo. Rodrigo was generally receptive to the points raised. In a meeting with Atto [...]	2002-10-21 12:08:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV CE UNHRC
02COLOMBO1975	Adverse court ruling and coalition stresses [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a widely anticipated decision, Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has shot down the government's bid to rein in President Kumaratunga's powers. The government is still developing its reaction to the adverse ruling. On another front, the GSL continues to try to squelch a mutiny by a [...]	2002-10-22 06:42:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM PINR CE
02COLOMBO1982	Peace Process Update: Norwegian envoy visits; [...] (C) This update of Sri Lanka's peace process reviews the following: -- Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister visits north and south in run-up to second round of talks -- Senior Tiger negotiator Balasingham continues consultations with leadership -- New poll highlights strong support for pe [...]	2002-10-23 11:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS PHUM CE NO LTTE
02COLOMBO1989	In conversation with Ambassador, key ministers [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate conversations with the Ambassador, key ministers Peiris and Moragoda reviewed GSL thinking in the wake of the Supreme Court's rejection of the government's effort to rein in executive powers. In terms of next steps for the GSL, Peiris outlined five options, which in [...]	2002-10-24 11:30:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINS PHUM PINR CE
02COLOMBO1995	ENGAGING THE SRI LANKAN MILITARY AFTER DOD [...] (S) DOD has just completed three major assessments of the SL military. These assessments make plain that the Sri Lankan military forms a central component of the GSL's strategy to secure peace in the country after 20 years of civil war. The GSL needs the support of the military to make pea [...]	2002-10-25 04:36:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	MARR PREL MASS PGOV PTER PHUM CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2000	In meeting with SA DAS Camp, Prime Minister [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 24 meeting with SA DAS Camp and Ambassador Wills, PM Wickremesinghe was none too optimistic about the cohabitation situation, indicating that the GSL had tried to work with the president to no avail, so far. The PM did not show his cards on what the GSL planned to [...]	2002-10-25 00:42:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM PINR CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2003	SRI LANKA: DAS CAMP AFFIRMS U.S. SUPPORT FOR PEACE [...] (C) Summary: During his October 24-27 visit to Sri Lanka, South Asia Bureau DAS Donald Camp delivered a message of firm U.S. support for the peace process. At the same time, Camp encouraged both government and opposition leaders not to let cohabitation stresses threaten the progress made thus [...]	2002-10-28 10:22:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PINS EAID ELAB CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2007	Biographic sketches of new members of LTTE [...] (C) Para three contains brief biographic sketches of two new members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) negotiating team. (Note: The second round of peace talks between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government is scheduled to take place in Thailand from October 31 - November 3.) [...]	2002-10-28 11:35:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2032	Second round of GSL-LTTE talks slated to kick [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers are scheduled to kick off their second round of talks on October 31 in Thailand. The Norwegian-facilitated talks are slated to focus mainly on technical issues, including the modalities of forming a task force on humanitarian issue [...]	2002-10-30 11:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM EAID CE NO TH LTTE
02COLOMBO2046	Sri Lanka: Muslim-Sinhalese riot in Colombo [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) On the afternoon of October 30, a riot erupted in Maligawatte, a northern suburb of Colombo, between Sinhalese and Muslim residents. The initial dispute reportedly began when Sinhalese locals protested ag [...]	2002-10-31 11:14:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS ASEC CASC CE
02COLOMBO2055	GSL says court judgment convicting LTTE leader [...] (C) SUMMARY: A court has convicted LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran in absentia of planning a 1996 terrorist attack. The GSL has said the judgment will not affect the peace process. The LTTE has not yet formally reacted. The announcement came on the same day as GSL and LTTE negotiators sat down [...]	2002-11-01 06:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS PHUM CE NO TH LTTE
02COLOMBO2064	Second session of talks between the Sri Lankan [...] (C) SUMMARY: The second session of GSL-LTTE talks made significant progress, with the two sides agreeing to form sub-committees focusing on humanitarian, de- escalation, and political issues. The two sides also agreed to a meeting schedule stretching into March 2003. In another constructive [...]	2002-11-04 10:54:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID KPAO CE NO TH LTTE
02COLOMBO2080	Reviewing recent talks, Norwegian envoy upbeat, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 4 meeting with Ambassador Wills, Norwegian Ambassador Westborg was upbeat about the recently concluded second session of GSL-LTTE talks, but stressed that the process still had a long way to go. He took note of the LTTE's apparent downgrading of its long-standing [...]	2002-11-05 11:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID PINR CE NO TH LTTE
02COLOMBO2086	Peace talk reactions: Tamils optimistic; [...] (C) Summary: Reactions by Sri Lankans to the October 31 to November 3 peace talks in Thailand are generally positive. Muslim representatives raised some isolated issues, but were satisfied that their concerns were acknowledged during the second round of talks. The President's office claims [...]	2002-11-04 11:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2101	Voting with their feet on the peace process, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Returns of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to points of origin in Sri Lanka have surged, with a large percentage of the 213,000 total returns this year transiting in the past eight weeks alone. Most of the returns are to points in Jaffna, but many have returned to the Tiger [...]	2002-11-07 11:27:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PTER EAID CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2133	Tigers gradually expand network of control in [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Mission team visited Sri Lanka's Eastern Province on November 12. On the surface, the situation in Batticaloa and Ampara Districts seemed calm, with the ceasefire sparking increased business activity and civilian bustle. Amid this positive news, there were clear and troublin [...]	2002-11-14 11:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS ECON SOCI CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2142	In public statement, president's party flays [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kumaratunga's party, the People's Alliance, has issued a public statement excoriating the government's handling of the peace process. The statement was also critical of the Norwegian facilitation effort, and U.S. and UK participation in the Oslo conference. Somewhat a [...]	2002-11-16 07:34:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL KPAO EAID CE NO LTTE
02COLOMBO2149	High profile court case against former defense [...] (C) SUMMARY: Anuruddha Ratwatte, a former defense minister and relative of the president, was formally indicted on November 15 for the December 2001 murder of ten Muslim campaign workers. Observers portray the case as an example of the government's commitment to overcoming a history of impun [...]	2002-11-19 11:28:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR CE
02COLOMBO2160	Joint GSL-LTTE sub-committees on humanitarian [...] (C) SUMMARY: The joint GSL-LTTE sub-committees on humanitarian and de-escalation issues recently held their initial meetings. The humanitarian-focused meeting led to an agreement to form a secretariat. The de-escalation meeting led to the first ever face-to-face discussions between the GSL [...]	2002-11-20 11:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL MOPS EAID CE NO LTTE
02COLOMBO2163	WHAT THE PM WILL RAISE WITH YOU IN OSLO [...] (C) I saw PM Wickremesinghe three times this week, twice at social events and most recently today together with Deputy USTR Huntsman, who is here for the first official meeting on trade issues since the TIFA was signed in July. (Ambassador Huntsman's visit, by the way, is going extremely well [...]	2002-11-21 09:19:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2174	High hopes for Oslo conference, as Sri Lankans [...] (C) SUMMARY: Expectations in Sri Lanka are running high for the November 25 Oslo conference. Observers see the conference as a chance for the international community to send a strong signal of support for the peace effort. Amid this focus on a political message, expectations have been lowe [...]	2002-11-20 14:02:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAID CE NO LTTE
02COLOMBO2184	Meeting of Sri Lankan PM with LTTE nets heavy [...] (C) SUMMARY: The meeting between Prime Minister Wickremesinghe and LTTE negotiator Balasingham in Oslo on November 24 has received extensive press coverage in Sri Lanka. In other peace process developments, LTTE leader Prabhakaran is preparing to give his annual speech on November 27. Missi [...]	2002-11-25 10:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KPAO PHUM CE NO LTTE
02COLOMBO2195	OSLO MEETING REAPS LAVISH, UPBEAT PRESS COVERAGE; DEPUTY SECRETARYÂ´S REMARKS EARN PRAISE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Oslo meeting on the Sri Lankan peace process has received lavish, upbeat press coverage. Deputy Secretary ArmitageÂ´s remarks -- which were specifically highlighted in the press coverage -- earned special praise. President Kumaratunga has not yet issued a public statement on the [...]	2002-11-26 10:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID KPAO CE NO LTTE
02COLOMBO2204	Mission team journeys through LTTE controlled [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified, please handle accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Mission team successfully concluded its first journey through the Tiger controlled north since opening of the A-9 road in April 2002. Although the trip was uneventful in terms of LTTE actions, trave [...]	2002-11-27 10:56:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2206	LTTE leader Prabhakaran's annual hero's day [...] (C) On November 27 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran made his annual "Hero's Day" speech. The government of Sri Lanka has commented favorably on the speech, highlighting Prabhakaran's acceptance of regional autonomy instead of a separate state. Prabhakara [...]	2002-11-29 05:27:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS PHUM PREL CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2267	Just-concluded talks help peace process gain [...] (C) SUMMARY: The just-concluded third session of GSL-LTTE talks has helped the peace process pick up significant new traction. In particular, the LTTE's agreement to examine federalism as a potential solution to the conflict was a key shift by the group away from separatism or a confederal [...]	2002-12-09 10:58:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS PHUM CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2277	AS LEADERSHIP DISPUTE FLARES, SRI LANKA'S MAJOR MUSLIM PARTY MARGINALIZED IN PEACE PROCESS DEBATE [...] No summary [...]	2002-12-10 11:29:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS PHUM CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2285	Colombo, City of Lights [...] SUMMARY: Colombo is lit up this holiday season, with electric lights draped all over the city. The GSL is sponsoring the effort in a bid to increase the city's attractiveness. For Sri Lankans, it is the first time since the conflict began almost 20 years ago that they remember the city loo [...]	2002-12-11 11:02:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI CE
02COLOMBO2293	Sri Lanka: Muslim leader Rauf Hakeem's [...] (C) SUMMARY: With his party fragmenting around him, Rauf Hakeem of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) finds himself in a very precarious position. While he is respected in Colombo circles for his support of the peace process, Hakeem is considered a lightweight politician. The fact that h [...]	2002-12-12 10:59:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS CE
02COLOMBO2304	2002 International Narcotics Control Strategy [...] Please find attached Mission's 2002 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INSCR). Responses to Ref B queries re Sri Lanka are covered in Paragraph two and the Maldives in paragraph three. Information on money laundering requested in Ref A will be provided by Septel. ========= [...]	2002-12-13 06:02:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV PREL CE MV
02COLOMBO2312	GSL MINISTOR MORAGODA SAYS INDIANS MAD AT JAPANESE [...] (C) SUMMARY: GSL Minister Milinda Moragoda told me over the weekend that the Indians are "really mad" over the attempts by the Japanese to involve themselves in Sri Lanka's negotiation to end the war. Moragoda said Indian Foreign Secretary Sibal, who visited Colombo last week, was SIPDIS [...]	2002-12-16 09:55:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR PARM CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2314	2002 International Narcotics Control Strategy [...] Please find attached Mission's statistical update for the 2002 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INSCR). 2. Per instructions in Ref C, Mission is providing the following statistics for Section V of the 2002 INSCR. ((NOTE: The statistical information was not yet available [...]	2002-12-16 10:04:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV PREL CE
02COLOMBO2319	Tensions rise incrementally as LTTE demands [...] (C) SUMMARY: The last few weeks have seen continued tension between the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The tension was briefly highlighted when the LTTE stated that the EPDP must leave Jaffna. In return, the EPDP is accusing the LTTE o [...]	2002-12-17 11:22:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM CE LTTE
02COLOMBO2323	During Mission visit, Maldivian MFA says it is [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: During a December 17 meeting in Male, Polchief urged the Maldivian government to sign an ICC Article 98 agreement with the U.S. MFA Permanent Secretary Shaheed replied that the GoRM continued to SIPDIS review the proposal, which it viewed in a "favorable light." Shaheed [...]	2002-12-18 11:25:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER ECON MV KICC UN
02COLOMBO2329	Normally placid Maldivian political scene seems [...] (C) SUMMARY: The normally placid Maldivian political situation is stirring a bit with the approach of the 2003 presidential election. In December 16-17 meetings in Male, polchief was told that President Gayoom is expected to run and win the election. That said, there is some dissonance eme [...]	2002-12-19 10:09:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM SOCI MV
02COLOMBO2337	Import of radio equipment for Tamil Tigers sparks controversy for GSL and Norwegian facilitators Ref: Colombo 1891 (U) Classified by Lewis Amselem, Deputy Chief of Mission. Reasons 1.5 (b, d). [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent import of radio equipment for the LTTE has stirred controversy, with critics asserting that the government and the Norwegian facilitators have gone too far in pleasing the Tigers. In response, the GSL says it assisted in the import of the equipment in exchange for the LTTEÂ [...]	2002-12-20 06:16:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ECPS CE NO LTTE
02COLOMBO2341	Peace Process Update: Reports of ceasefire [...] (C) This update of Sri Lanka's peace process reviews the following: - Reports of ceasefire violations spike way down - Criticism of government and Norwegians over import of radio equipment for LTTE continues to flare - GSL-LTTE meeting in London canceled, but January talks in Bangkok s [...]	2002-12-23 10:18:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS PHUM EAID CE NO LTTE
02COLOMBO2355	President backs military on Jaffna security [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kumaratunga has come out strongly in favor of the Sri Lankan military's position on the need to maintain "high security zones" in Jaffna. For its part, the LTTE has announced that it wants to discuss the security zone issue at the next round of political-level talks. [...]	2002-12-30 10:08:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MOPS ECPS CE NO LTTE
02DAMASCUS625	ASAD WARNS THAT STRIKING IRAQ WOULD CREATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. IN A WIDE-RANGING INTERVIEW WITH ITALIAN DAILY CORRIERE DELLA SERA, BASHAR AL-ASAD WARNED THAT A STRIKE AGAINST IRAQ WOULD DESTABILIZE THE REGION. HE ALSO DENIED THAT SYRIAN OIL IMPORTS OF IRAQI OIL VIOLATED UNSCRS; REPEATED SYRIA'S COMMITMENT TO A COMPREHENSIVE PEACE; SAID THE [...]	2002-02-21 15:08:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS SY
02FRANKFURT10187	FOURTH REPORT ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM TRIAL IN [...] (SBU) Summary: This report summarizes the events at the Frankfurt terrorism trial from July to September 2002. Four Algerian and one Moroccan (listed below) are accused of planning an attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market in December 2000 and bomb building materials were found in their F [...]	2002-11-04 14:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINR PGOV AG GM
02FRANKFURT10188	HESSE SPD CHOOSES GERHARD BOEKEL TO CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hesse SPD voted overwhelmingly on October 19 for Gerhard Boekel to challenge Minister- President Roland Koch (CDU) in the February 2003 state elections. Boekel, a 56-year-old lawyer and former Hesse Interior Minister, is admired for his integrity and his good management a [...]	2002-11-04 14:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
02FRANKFURT10952	BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG GREEN PARTY EXPRESSES [...] (U) Summary: On November 23, the Baden-Wuerttemberg (B- W) Greens held their first state convention since the September national elections to discuss policy. Leading B-W party leaders such as caucus chief Winfried Kretschmann and Freiburg Lord Mayor Dieter Salomon are concerned about the via [...]	2002-11-26 16:24:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM
02FRANKFURT11411	SAARLAND MINISTER PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE [...] (U) Summary: On December 4, Consul General Peter Bodde met with Saarland Minister-President Peter Mueller (CDU) in Saarbruecken. Mueller is a moderate, up-and-coming CDU leader, and ally of Angela Merkel. Mueller said the auto industry has replaced coal and steel as the most important indus [...]	2002-12-10 13:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON ETRD BEXP GM
02FRANKFURT11732	FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLARES IMMIGRATION [...] (U) Summary: On December 18, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe declared unconstitutional the government's immigration law, which had been passed by the Bundesrat in March 2002 under controversial circumstances. With this decision, the Court accepted the challenge to the law by six [...]	2002-12-19 13:10:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM GM
02FRANKFURT11824	GERMANY'S OLDEST POWER PLANT, OBRIGHEIM TO SHUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Federal Environment Minister Juergen Trittin and Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg (ENBW, Germany's third largest energy supplier),have come to an agreement for the shutdown of Germany's oldest nuclear reactor Obrigheim on November 15, 2005. The 2003 shutdown of Obrigheim was part [...]	2002-12-20 15:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON SENV PGOV GM EUN
02FRANKFURT11843	HESSE ELECTIONS COUNTDOWN: CDU CONFIDENT, BUT WILL [...] (SBU) Summary. Hesse state elections will take place February 2, 2003. The current Christian Democratic Union (CDU)-Free Democratic Party (FDP) state coalition government is hoping the current voter mood against the national SPD- Green government will help it win votes. The CDU is optimist [...]	2002-12-23 09:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
02HANOI1124	JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER AFFIRMS COOPERATION IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. PRIME MINISTER JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI AFFIRMED JAPAN'S SUPPORT FOR BILATERAL COOPERATION IN SECURITY AS PART OF AN ENHANCED JAPAN-ASEAN RELATIONSHIP AND OFFERED NON-MILITARY COOPERATION ON COUNTERTERRORISM DURING AN APRIL 27-28 VISIT TO HANOI. PRIME MINISTER PHAN VAN KHAI ASKED F [...]	2002-05-06 10:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER ETRD EAID ECON PGOV JA VM CTERR
02HANOI1189	ARMY DAILY SEEKS TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS WITH U.S. [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE PEOPLE'S ARMY DAILY IS DETERMINED TO HELP STRENGTHEN BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH THE U.S. AND MIGHT BE WILLING TO USE PAS-PRODUCED MATERIALS, ITS EDITOR TOLD AMBASSADOR ON MAY 9. THE EDITOR EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT ANTI-SRV VIETNAMESE IN THE U.S. AND THE IMPACT OF THE VIETNAM H [...]	2002-05-13 10:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KPAO OIIP VM HUMANR
02HANOI1199	ELECTIONEERING IN THE PROVINCES [...] (U) SUMMARY. WELL-ORGANIZED CAMPAIGN RALLIES IN UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 01199 01 OF 03 140856Z PROVINCES DURING THE WEEK OF MAY 6 OFFERED CANDIDATES AN OPPORTUNITY TO STATE THEIR VIEWS TO VOTERS AND HEAR LOCAL VIEWS AND DESIRES. STABILITY, AGRICULTURAL [...]	2002-05-14 08:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI VM DPOL
02HANOI1222	RELIGIOUS REGULATION STRUCTURE IN VIETNAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: RELIGIOUS REGULATION IN VIETNAM IS CHARACTERIZED BY AN EVOLVING BUREAUCRATIC AND LEGALISTIC APPROACH. WHILE THE SRV CONSTITUTION PROTECTS RELIGIOUS BELIEF (AND NON-BELIEF),THE GVN THOROUGHLY REGULATES RELIGIOUS GROUPS AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE UNDER THE PREMISE OF MAINTAINING TH [...]	2002-05-15 10:42:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI VM HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI1279	BURMA AND VIETNAM: TRYING TO IMPROVE RELATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. THE VISIT BY PRESIDENT TRAN DUC LUONG TO BURMA UNDERSCORED A SHARED DETERMINATION TO ADVANCE THE MODEST TIES BETWEEN THESE TWO FELLOW ASEAN STATES. A MAJOR FOCUS WAS ON THE STILL LIMITED ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP; BILATERAL TRADE IS ONLY ABOUT USD 10 MILLION ANNUALLY. NARCOTICS [...]	2002-05-20 09:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PGOV ETRD BM VM ASEAN CTERR
02HANOI1286	ELECTION DAY IN HANOI [...] (U) SUMMARY. AIDED BY UNRELENTING GOVERNMENT UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 01286 01 OF 02 201032Z EXHORTATIONS, VOTER TURNOUTS IN HANOI AND ELSEWHERE IN VIETNAM FOR THE MAY 19 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION WERE ALMOST "PERFECT," HOWEVER IMPROBABLE THAT SEEMS TO [...]	2002-05-20 10:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI VM DPOL
02HANOI133	HA GIANG: SLEEPY BORDER PROVINCE TRYING TO [...] (U) SUMMARY. HA GIANG PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS ARE HOPEFUL THAT THE RECENTLY DECLARED "BORDER ECONOMIC ZONE" WILL STIMULATE DEVELOPMENT IN ONE OF NORTHERN VIETNAM'S POORER MOUNTAIN PROVINCES. THE DISTANCE AND DIFFICULTY IN TRAVELING TO HANOI AND OTHER LOWLAND PROVINCES REMAIN HINDRANCES TO ECO [...]	2002-01-18 10:14:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON PHUM PGOV VM
02HANOI1379	VIETNAM AND THE SPRATLYS: STRONG TALK, -- BUT PLAYING IT SAFE [...] (U) SUMMARY. GVN OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO TAKE A FIRM LINE CONCERNING VIETNAM'S SOVEREIGNTY CLAIMS OVER THE SPRATLY ISLANDS. PROVINCIAL CLAIMS CONCERNING CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE SPRATLYS APPEAR EXAGGERATED. VIETNAM CONTINUES TO SUPPORT A SOUTH CHINA SEA CODE OF CONDUCT (REFTEL),AN IM [...]	2002-05-30 09:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PINR VM CVR ASEAN
02HANOI1382	CODE OF CONDUCT FOR SOUTH CHINA SEA: [...] (SBU) AT A WORKING LUNCH ON MAY 30, MFA ASEAN DEPARTMENT DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL PHAM HUU CHI TOLD POL/C AND POLOFFS THAT HE RATED AGREEMENT AMONG ASEAN MEMBERS ON THE FINAL LANGUAGE OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT IN TIME FOR THE ASEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING IN JULY AS NO BETTER THAN "50-50." (SEPTEL W [...]	2002-05-30 10:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PINR VM ASEAN CVR
02HANOI1485	TWO CORRUPTION-TAINTED OFFICIALS SUSPENDED [...] (U) SUMMARY: TWO HIGH-RANKING GVN OFFICIALS, ONE THE NUMBER TWO PROSECUTOR AND ANOTHER A CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBER, HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT AND SOME PARTY POSITIONS FOR SUSPECTED COMPLICITY WITH AN ALLEGED MAJOR CRIMINAL FIGURE. THESE MOVES ARE EXPE [...]	2002-06-07 09:37:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS SOCI VM DPOL
02HANOI1571	CPV STILL DECIDING ON GVN LEADERSHIP SLOTS? [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POL/C SCOTT BELLARD, REASON: 1.5 (D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 01571 01 OF 02 191009Z 2. (C) SUMMARY. AN EXPECTED CPV PLENUM IN JULY SHOULD MAKE FINAL DECISIONS ON THE NEW GVN LEADERSHIP LINE-UP, AND MAY ALSO BLESS PUNISHMENTS AGAIN [...]	2002-06-19 10:08:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR VM DPOL
02HANOI1653	RESEARCHING RELIGION AT THE PARTY SCHOOL [...] (U) SUMMARY. A SEVEN YEAR-OLD CENTER AT THE MAIN PARTY SCHOOL FOCUSES ON THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN VIETNAMESE HISTORY AND PRESENT, AND HELPS TO EDUCATE UP-AND-COMING PARTY UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 01653 01 OF 02 011003Z MEMBERS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ABO [...]	2002-07-01 09:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PINS SOCI VM RELFREE DPOL HUMANR
02HANOI1666	PROSPECTS FOR LEADERSHIP STABILITY IN VIETNAM [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR RAYMOND BURGHARDT, REASON: 1.5 (D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 01666 020959Z 2. (C) SUMMARY. A PARTY PLENUM AND NEW NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WITHIN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WILL DECIDE ON SEVERAL NEW KEY LEADERS. WHILE SOME PERSONNEL JOC [...]	2002-07-02 10:01:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR VM DPOL
02HANOI1760	LEADERSHIP RUMBLINGS [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR RAYMOND BURGHARDT, REASON: 1.5 (D) 2. (C) SUMMARY. THE LEADERSHIP TURNOVER AT THE 11TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NA) COULD BE BROADER THAN EARLIER CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 01760 01 OF 02 120956Z EXPECTED AS THE PARTY SEEKS TO DEM [...]	2002-07-12 09:50:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS ECON PREL VM DPOL
02HANOI1780	11TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPENING [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE NEW NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WILL BEGIN MEETING ON JULY 17, BUT HAS YET NOT SCHEDULED THE VOTES ON THE NEW GVN AND NA LEADERSHIP (REF A). THE NEW NA IS NOT EXPECTED TO PASS ANY NEW LEGISLATION AT THIS INITIAL SESSION OTHER THAN THE BUDGET. IT REMAINS POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE CONT [...]	2002-07-15 10:47:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS VM DPOL
02HANOI1787	ACTIVIST CHARGED WITH "SPY ACTIVITIES" [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POL/C SCOTT BELLARD, REASON 1.5(D) 2. (C) THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (MFA) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 01787 01 OF 02 160910Z INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DEPARTMENT REPLIED BY FAX ON JULY 15 TO EMBASSY'S INFORMAL APRIL 3 REQUEST [...]	2002-07-16 08:59:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINS VM HUMANR
02HANOI1794	DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS SPEAK OUT [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POL/C SCOTT BELLARD; REASON 1.5(D) 2. (C) SUMMARY: VIETNAM'S DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS CONTINUE TO WRITE OPEN LETTERS TO THEIR COUNTRY'S LEADERSHIP AND TO ATTEMPT TO DISTRIBUTE THESE LETTERS OVERSEAS. A JULY 6 LETTER COMPLAINED THAT GVN "POLITICAL SECURITY FORCES" HAVE ACT [...]	2002-07-16 10:34:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PGOV SOCI VM DPOL HUMANR
02HANOI1795	CENTRAL COMMITTEE OUSTS TWO MEMBERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: AT THE CONCLUSION OF ITS SIXTH PLENUM ON JULY 15, THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM (CPV) CENTRAL UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 01795 161049Z COMMITTEE (CC) ANNOUNCED THE DISMISSAL OF TWO OF ITS MEMBERS -- VICE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY LIEUTENANT [...]	2002-07-16 10:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINS SOCI VM DPOL
02HANOI1990	GVN VIEWS 35TH ASEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING AS "VERY [...] (U) SUMMARY: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OFFICIALS CHARACTERIZED THE 35TH ASEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING IN BRUNEI AS "VERY SUCCESSFUL." HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED THE SIGNING OF A JOINT DECLARATION ON COUNTER TERRORISM BETWEEN ASEAN AND THE U.S., A POSITIVE MEETING BETWEEN FOREIGN MINISTER NGUYEN DY [...]	2002-08-09 10:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR PINR PTER VM ARF ASEAN CTERR
02HANOI2028	NGHE AN: DEVELOPING, BUT A LONG WAY TO GO [...] (U) SUMMARY. NGHE AN PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS ARE HOPEFUL THAT A STRATEGIC LOCATION AND IMPROVING (THOUGH STILL WEAK) INFRASTRUCTURE WILL IMPROVE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROVINCE'S ROLE AS AN OUTLET TO THE SEA FOR LAOS AND NORTHEASTERN THAILAND. THE GVN IS MOVING AHEAD WITH PLANS FOR A NEW NATIONA [...]	2002-08-16 08:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON PGOV PHUM VM
02HANOI2078	UPDATE ON DETAINED DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POL/C SCOTT BELLARD; REASON 1.5(D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 02078 230926Z 2. (C) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST -- SEE PARA 7. 3. (C) FOLLOWING THE EXPECTED JULY 27 EXPIRATION DATE OF A FOUR-MONTH DETENTION ORDER ON DEMOCRACY ACTIVIS [...]	2002-08-23 09:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PGOV SOCI VM HUMANR
02HANOI2079	BITTER AFTERLIFE OF GENERAL TRAN DO'S FUNERAL [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POL/C SCOTT BELLARD; REASON 1.5(D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 02079 230926Z 2. (C) IN TWO SEPARATE CONVERSATIONS ON AUGUST 20 AND 21, THREE OF HANOI'S LEADING DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS TOLD POLOFF THAT THEY VIEW GENERAL TRAN DO'S AUGUST 14 F [...]	2002-08-23 09:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PGOV SOCI VM DPOL
02HANOI2090	DAK LAK PROVINCE UPDATE ON RELIGIOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A PROTESTANT PASTOR FROM DAK LAK PROVINCE RECENTLY MET WITH CONGENOFFS TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT SITUATION THERE, WHICH HE CHARACTERIZED AS THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTING TO "ERADICATE" PROTESTANTISM. HE SAID PROTESTANT FAMILIES WERE NOW FORBIDDEN TO WORSHIP TOGETHER IN GRO [...]	2002-08-27 10:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREF PINS PREL KIRF SOCI VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI2255	CONGEN MEETING WITH THICH HUYEN QUANG [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY EMI L. YAMAUCHI, CG; REASON 1.5(B) 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: CONSUL GENERAL AND POLOFF VISITED THICH HUYEN THQ (THQ) AT THE PHUOC QUANG PAGODA IN QUANG NGAI PROVINCE ON SEPTEMBER 6. THQ WAS CANDID AND FEISTY IN DESCRIBING HIS HEALTH AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS CONFINEMENT. HE [...]	2002-09-17 08:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI2277	FEAR AND LOATHING AT MINISTRY OF DEFENSE [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR RAYMOND BURGHARDT, REASON: 1.5 (D) 2. (C) IN A DISCUSSION WITH AMBASSADOR AND POL/C ON SEPTEMBER 18, COLONEL TRAN NHUNG (PROTECT),DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF QUAN DOI NHAN DAN (THE "PEOPLE'S ARMY" NEWSPAPER),CONFIRMED REF A SPECULATION THAT MI [...]	2002-09-19 10:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS MARR VM
02HANOI2345	VIETNAM'S POLITICAL FUTURE [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR RAYMOND BURGHARDT, CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 02345 01 OF 04 270928Z REASON: 1.5 (D) 2. (C) SUMMARY. THE EXPANSION OF PERSONAL FREEDOMS AND DIMINISHMENT OF CPV AND STATE CONTROL OVER INDIVIDUAL LIVES HAVE BEEN WELCOME TREN [...]	2002-09-27 09:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL ECON SOCI PHUM VM DPOL HUMANR
02HANOI2598	ORGANIZING THE MASSES: WOMEN AND YOUTH [...] (U) SUMMARY. VIETNAMESE "MASS ORGANIZATIONS" FOR WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE INCREASINGLY CHANGING THEIR FOCUS AWAY FROM BEING ONE-WAY COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA TOOLS TO BECOMING MORE DYNAMIC INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 025 [...]	2002-10-28 09:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINS SOCI VM TIP
02HANOI2600	ADDITIONAL 2002 AMNESTIES [...] (U) ON OCTOBER 18, VIETNAMESE STATE PRESIDENT TRAN DUC LUONG OFFICIALLY GRANTED AMNESTY TO 3,069 INMATES FROM UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 02600 290339Z PRISONS UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF EITHER THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY OR THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. [...]	2002-10-29 03:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV SOCI VM
02HANOI2607	PRISON BEATINGS [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: ACCORDING TO UNUSUAL MEDIA REPORTS, HOANG TIEN PRISON IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCE OF HAI UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 02607 290740Z DUONG (WHICH EMBOFFS VISITED IN SEPTEMBER -- REF B),HAS EXPERIENCED THREE SERIOUS INCIDENTS INVOLVING GU [...]	2002-10-29 07:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV SOCI VM HUMANR
02HANOI2694	ETHNIC MINORITIES MINISTER ON LAND, US NGOS [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE MINISTER FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES DENIED HAVING SEEN ANY DRAFT BANNING US NGOS FROM THE CENTRAL HIGHLAND, BUT INDIRECTLY ADMITTED THAT THE GVN DID NOT AGREE UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 02694 01 OF 02 061042Z WITH SUCH ACTIVITIES, WHILE WELCOMI [...]	2002-11-06 10:28:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI VM ETMIN
02HANOI2845	SEX AND THE CITY -- HANOI STYLE [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM (CPV) AND GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN) ADMIT THAT PROSTITUTION IS A MAJOR PROBLEM FOR THE COUNTRY. DISCOS, KARAOKE BARS, MASSAGE PARLORS, AND OTHER "FUN" LOCATIONS EVEN IN STAID HANOI INCREASINGLY OFFER PROFESSIONAL OR SEMI-PROFESSIONAL [...]	2002-11-26 09:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI PGOV KHIV VM HIV AIDS TIP
02HANOI2871	HANOI'S VIEW OF CHINA'S 16TH PARTY CONGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. OBSERVERS IN HANOI ASSESSED THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY (CCP) 16TH PARTY CONGRESS AS "POSITIVE" AND PREDICTED THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM'S (CPV) LEADERSHIP WOULD CLOSELY STUDY ITS DECISIONS WHILE STEERING ITS OWN COURSE OVER THE NEXT DECADE. CPV OFFICI [...]	2002-12-02 09:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV CH VM CVR
02HANOI2885	EDUCATING ETHNIC MINORITY STUDENTS IN THE NORTH [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE GVN HAS MADE, AND CONTINUES TO MAKE, CONCERTED EFFORTS TO EXPAND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE NATION, NOT ONLY TO UNIVERSALIZE EVER-HIGHER UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 02885 01 OF 04 030745Z LEVELS OF EDUCATION BUT ALSO TO PROVID [...]	2002-12-03 07:17:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI PGOV PINS PHUM VM ETMIN
02HANOI2913	GOING AFTER MORE CORRUPT OFFICIALS [...] (U) SUMMARY. CONTINUING ITS EFFORTS TO DEMONSTRATE SERIOUSNESS IN AN ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE, THE GVN HAS FIRED A PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, AND MAY PROSECUTE A UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 02913 051026Z FORMER CHAIRMAN OF ANOTHER PROVINCE. A SENI [...]	2002-12-05 09:53:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI VM DPOL
02HANOI2951	LEADING JESUIT ASSESSES CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY CG EMI YAMAUCHI; REASON 1.5(D). 2. (C) SUMMARY. CONSUL GENERAL AND POLOFF RECENTLY MET CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 02951 01 OF 02 120440Z WITH FATHER TOAN, FATHER SUPERIOR OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, TO DISCUSS HIS VIEWS ON THE CURRENT STA [...]	2002-12-12 04:02:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI2969	UPDATE FROM GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE ON RELIGION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. GVN OFFICIALS CLAIMED THAT THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED NATIONAL BUDDHIST CONFERENCE WAS ENTIRELY INDEPENDENT OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL, BUT ADMITTED THAT THE GVN MUST APPROVE ITS CONVOCATION AND HAD FINAL SAY ON ITS ELECTED NEW LEADERS AND ORDINATIONS (OR PROMOTIONS) OF MONKS AND NUNS [...]	2002-12-13 06:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL VT VM HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI2975	WINNING THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE ETHNICS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. VIETNAM'S MULTI-ETHNIC SOCIETY REMAINS UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 02975 01 OF 04 160035Z HEAVILY DOMINATED BY THE MAJORITY ETHNIC KINH. ETHNIC MINORITIES ARE OFTEN LOCATED IN ECONOMICALLY MARGINAL PARTS OF VIETNAM, ESPECIALLY THE MOUNTAINOU [...]	2002-12-15 23:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PINS PGOV VM ETMIN
02HANOI3034	TRIAL OF ANOTHER ACTIVIST? [...] (U) IN RESPONSE TO MEDIA REPORTS THAT ACTIVIST NGUYEN KHAC TOAN WOULD GO ON TRIAL ON DECEMBER 20, EMBASSY FORMALLY REQUESTED PERMISSION ON DECEMBER 15 FOR AN OFFICER TO ATTEND UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 03034 200713Z THE TRIAL. (TOAN HAD BEEN ARRESTED IN JA [...]	2002-12-20 06:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINS PGOV VM HUMANR
02HANOI3037	WRAP-UP OF THE 11TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 2ND SESSION [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE 11TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NA) CONCLUDED ITS SECOND SESSION ON DECEMBER 16, HAVING BEGUN ITS USUAL UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 03037 01 OF 03 200759Z YEAR-END MEETING ON NOVEMBER 12. NA DELEGATES REVIEWED REPORTS OF THE GOVERNMENT ON SOCIO-EC [...]	2002-12-20 07:16:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON VM DPOL
02HANOI3046	TWELVE-YEAR SENTENCE FOR NGUYEN KHAC TOAN [...] (U) "NHAN DAN" NEWSPAPER ON DECEMBER 21 REPORTED THE PROSECUTION AND CONVICTION ON DECEMBER 20 UNDER ARTICLE 80, SECTION C, CLAUSE 1 OF THE SRV CRIMINAL CODE OF NGUYEN KHAC UNCLASSIFIED TOAN ON THE CHARGE OF "SPYING." THE HANOI PEOPLE'S COURT HANDED DOWN A TWELVE- [...]	2002-12-23 03:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINS PGOV VM HUMANR
02HANOI3055	THE DILEMMA OF THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS [...] (U) THIS IS A JOINT EMBASSY/CONGEN MESSAGE. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: THE REAL STORY OF THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS IS A LONG-TERM STRUGGLE FOR MODERNIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN A REGION DEFINED BY ETHNIC RESENTMENT, ECONOMIC IMBALANCE, POVERTY AND ISOLATION, LAND ISSUES, RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES, INTOLER [...]	2002-12-23 09:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PINS PREL SOCI VM HUMANR ETMIN RELFREE
02HANOI3099	ASSESSING NONG DUC MANH'S LEADERSHIP [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR RAYMOND BURGHARDT, REASON: 1.5 (D) 2. (C) SUMMARY. NONG DUC MANH IS PERHAPS THE MOST TELEGENIC VIETNAMESE LEADER SINCE HO CHI MINH. DESPITE CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 03099 01 OF 03 310253Z CONSTANT MEDIA EXPOSURE, LITTLE I [...]	2002-12-31 02:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL VM
02HANOI528	VIETNAM'S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: WHAT DID WE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DURING A 2.5-DAY VISIT TO DAK LAK, GIA LAI, AND KON TUM PROVINCES, CONGENOFFS MET WITH MONTAGNARD RETURNEES FROM CAMBODIA AND WITH PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S COMMITTEES. REFTELS A ARE THE DETAILED ACCOUNTS. THESE ARE OUR CONCLUSIONS. ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AND LAND DISPUTES SEEM TO BE [...]	2002-03-07 10:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL PGOV PINS SOCI VM CB ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI573	POVERTY AND REMINDERS OF WAR IN CENTRAL VIETNAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: DIVIDED BY THE OLD DMZ, QUANG TRI AND QUANG BINH ARE UNITED IN POVERTY NOT SO MUCH BECAUSE OF WAR'S DESTRUCTION, BUT BECAUSE OF UNFAVORABLE GEOGRAPHY. REMOTE AND WITH LITTLE SURVIVING PRE-WAR INFRASTRUCTURE, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS AND A GREAT DEAL OF HARD WORK ARE AS [...]	2002-03-14 04:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI ECON PHUM EAID PGOV VM
02HANOI579	HOW NOT TO MAKE FRIENDS [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY RAYMOND F. BURGHARDT, AMBASSADOR; REASON 1.5(D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 00579 01 OF 02 140555Z 2. (C) SUMMARY: GVN ACTIONS HINDERED CONTACT BETWEEN RELIGIOUS LEADERS IT DID NOT HAND PICK AND THE U.S. COMMISSION FOR INTERNATIONAL R [...]	2002-03-14 05:29:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI VM RELFREE HUMANR
02HANOI652	CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: NO PUNISHMENT FOR MOST [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY CONSUL GENERAL EMI LYNN YAMAUCHI, HO CHI MINH CITY, FOR REASONS 1.5 (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: A RELATIVELY MODERATE PASTOR FROM THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS SAID THE GVN IS WORKING TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES, ALTHOUGH PROBLEMS REMAIN. HE BELIEVES THE OVERWHELMING [...]	2002-03-20 11:16:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PGOV PINS SOCI PREL KIRF VM CB ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI899	THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER WILL BE . . . [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY SCOTT BELLARD, POL/C; REASON 1.5(D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 00899 01 OF 02 120749Z 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER NGUYEN TAN DUNG IS EXPECTED BY MANY OBSERVERS TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER AFTER THE MAY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELEC [...]	2002-04-12 07:09:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR VM DPOL
02HANOI931	SETTING VIETNAM'S IDEOLOGICAL COURSE [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POL/C SCOTT BELLARD, REASON: 1.5 (D) 2. (C) SUMMARY. THE CPV'S CENTRAL THEORETICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL IS STRUGGLING TO REDEFINE VIETNAMESE SOCIALISM IN THE FACE OF MARKET-DRIVEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION, AS WELL AS INTERNAL CONFIDENTIA [...]	2002-04-16 09:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL CH VM DPOL
02HARARE1019	POLITBURO MEMBERS QUIETLY CONSIDER POST-MUGABE ERA [...] (C) In an April 24 conversation with political section chief, ZANU-PF deputy political commissar Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said Politburo members are, for the first time, quietly discussing ways to ease President Mugabe out, but few are willing to confront the Zimbabwean President directly. According [...]	2002-04-26 08:17:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ZI ZANU PF

02HARARE104	ANOTHER BAD DAY FOR DEMOCRACY IN ZIMBABWE: [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A JANUARY 9 PRESS CONFERENCE, ZIMBABWE'S SECURITY CHIEFS SAID THEY WOULD NOT TOLERATE THE ASCENSION OF A PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT "OBSERVE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE." THE LENGTHY STATEMENT MARKED THE MOST DRAMATIC DEPARTURE OF ZIMBABWE'S MILITARY FROM ITS GENERA [...]	2002-01-10 12:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MARR ZI
02HARARE1042	ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT MAKES STATE VISIT TO ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa made a state visit to Zimbabwe April 25-28 as the guest of honor at Zimbabwe's International Trade Fair, an occasion he used in an apparent attempt to bolster President Mugabe's image at home and abroad. The first head of state to visit Zimbabwe since the [...]	2002-04-30 14:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAGR ASEC ZI ZA
02HARARE107	TRANSCRIPT OF THE JANUARY 9 PRESS BRIEF BY [...] OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN A MARKED INCREASE IN SPECULATIVE, IMAGINARY AND FALSE ARTICLES BY THE SO- CALLED INDEPENDENT MEDIA BOTH INTERNALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY, ON THE STATUS AND OPERATIONS OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS. THESE STATEMENTS HAVE CAUSED INSECURITY, UNCERTAIN [...]	2002-01-10 14:06:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL MARR ZI
02HARARE1136	ZANU-PF REQUESTS SUSPENSION OF PARTY TALKS [...] (U) ZANU-PF has requested suspension of the talks with the opposition MDC. In a letter dated May 9 (faxed to AF/S) to the Nigerian and South African facilitators, the leader of the ruling party's negotiating team -- Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa -- cited several reasons for the request. [...]	2002-05-10 11:38:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE1137	ASIAN/INDIAN COMMUNITY HAS A MUTED REACTION TO [...] (SBU) On April 24 the government press carried a statement by Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veteran's Association Director for Projects, Andrew Ndlovu, that attacked resident Indians and Asians, accusing them of economic sabotage, looting, and non-support of the Government's indigenization [...]	2002-05-10 11:39:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN KCRM PGOV ZI
02HARARE1151	MDC LEADER TSVANGIRAI ON THE WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai told us his party is pursuing a four-pronged strategy in the election aftermath: participating in the (now stalled) inter-party dialogue; challenging the election result in court; organizing mass action; and encouraging increased international pres [...]	2002-05-14 14:24:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC ZI MDC
02HARARE1183	ZCTU'S BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL AT THE UPCOMING ILO [...] (C) This is an action request -- see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary. LABOFF met May 15 with Wellington Chibebe of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). Chibebe expressed concern that the GOZ would use the upcoming ILO conference in Geneva as another forum in which to attack the legit [...]	2002-05-17 09:46:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
02HARARE1219	TSVANGIRAI VOWS MASS ACTION; MUGABE WARNS MDC [...] (C) The talks between ZANU-PF and the MDC have collapsed for now, as President Mugabe insisted the ruling party would not participate until after the courts rule on the opposition's legal challenge of the presidential election results. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai subsequently declared that [...]	2002-05-21 14:09:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC ZI
02HARARE1237	MAY 22 DISCUSSIONS WITH MDC MP DAVID COLTART [...] (c) Summary: Ambassador and DCM met with MDC MP and shadow justice minister David Coltart over breakfast on May 22. Coltart addressed his personal security and his upcoming trip abroad, then described developments in the MDC's legal challenge of the results of the March 2002 presidential [...]	2002-05-22 14:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAGR ECON PHUM ZI
02HARARE1270	MAY 23 U.N.-SPONSORED DIALOGUE WITH FINANCE [...] ON MAY 23, UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (UNDP) RESIDENT COORDINATOR (RESREP) J. VICTOR ANGELO HOSTED AN "INFORMAL" MEETING WITH SENIOR-LEVEL GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE (GOZ) OFFICIALS, REPRESENTATIVES OF MOST RESIDENT MISSIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD [...]	2002-05-28 14:51:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE1307	TSVANGIRAI DISCUSSES ZIMBABWE'S CHALLENGES WITH [...] (C) MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai told a visiting staffdel that the MDC was pursuing its legal challenge of the election result, had embarked on a campaign to sensitize African governments to the situation in Zimbabwe, and welcomed dialogue with ZANU-PF, so long as the ruling party did not ins [...]	2002-05-31 08:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC ZI
02HARARE1309	RESETTLEMENT ON THE FARMS: THE REALITY ON THE [...] (SBU) Summary: A visit to four farms in a prime agricultural area 2 hours from Harare reveals that chaos reigns, and productivity by the new settlers hovers barely above zero. There is no rhyme nor reason to the occupations, and the newly resettled show little desire or ability to carry out e [...]	2002-05-31 09:55:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE1376	USG ANTICORRUPTION EFFORTS IN ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) Corruption at the official level in Zimbabwe has increased markedly in the last several years as the Government has systematically undermined the rule of law to browbeat political opponents and the ruling party has expanded its already considerable system of patronage. Corruption, once [...]	2002-06-06 09:46:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM KSEP SOCI ZI
02HARARE1398	ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT HINDERING FOOD DELIVERIES IN [...] (C) Summary: Assertions of humanitarian food aid manipulation for political purposes have been increasingly frequent in recent weeks. Investigations have tended to indicate that such abuses are episodic rather than centrally manipulated. However, recent reports from the Matabeleland town of [...]	2002-06-11 06:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
02HARARE1418	ZIMBABWE: MULTIPLE REASONS BEHIND ARREST OF LAW [...] (C) Summary: On June 11, Law Society of Zimbabwe President Sternford Moyo described to poloff in detail his June 3-5 detention by Zimbabwe Republic Police and the farcical court proceedings that resulted in his release. The Law Society Secretary, Wilbert Mapombere, was also arrested and held [...]	2002-06-13 12:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
02HARARE1448	ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT, RUNNING SCARED, RENEWS [...] (C) Summary: In the last week, the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) has renewed its crackdown on the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC),which is still considering some sort of mass action to force the GOZ to rerun the flawed March presidential election. Police have arrested hundreds [...]	2002-06-18 14:09:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI MDC ZANU PF
02HARARE1453	ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT BANS SOUTH AFRICAN LAWYER FROM [...] (SBU) The June 19 edition of the independent "Daily News" reported that the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) has denied MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai's request to have renowned South African attorney Jeremy Gauntlett represent him in the MDC's legal challenge to the March presidential election. [...]	2002-06-19 12:15:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC EAID ZI
02HARARE1455	Text of Letter from Zimbabwe Opposition Leader to [...] (SBU) On June 19, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) delivered to all G-8 embassies in Harare a letter from its president, Morgan Tsvangirai, to their respective heads of government. Below is the verbatim text of the letter addressed to President Bush. A copy of the origina [...]	2002-06-19 14:43:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ZI
02HARARE1463	OPPOSITION MAYORS OF HARARE AND CHITUNGWIZA FACE [...] No summary [...]	2002-06-24 11:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID ZI
02HARARE1507	ZIMBABWE: OPPOSITION MAYOR OF MASVINGO GAINING [...] (C) On June 27, poloff met in Harare with Alois Chaimiti, the MDC Mayor of Masvingo and the first opposition mayor in Zimbabwe's post-independence history. Chaimiti came into office in May 2001 after a typically violent election campaign. In the 13 months since his installation, Chaimiti ha [...]	2002-07-01 08:11:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC EAID ZI
02HARARE1604	MUGABE CONVEYS JULY 4 MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT BUSH [...] On July 5, post received a letter from President Mugabe to President Bush conveying the former's congratulations on the occasion of July 4th. The original letter has been forwarded by diplomatic pouch to AF/S. 2. The text of President Mugabe's letter is as follows: 27 June 2002 Mr. [...]	2002-07-09 08:27:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PGOV ZI
02HARARE161	VISIT TO MUTARE AND MANICALAND [...] C) SUMMARY: A BRIEF JANUARY 10-11 VISIT TO MUTARE IN MANICALAND PROVINCE CONFIRMED THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM THAT ZANU/PF IS FACING DIFFICULTIES IN THE CITY OF MUTARE AND SURROUNDING AREAS AND IS VULNERABLE IN ALL BUT THE MOST RURAL AREAS. THE AMBASSADOR MET WITH ACTING PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATOR [...]	2002-01-16 07:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ZI
02HARARE1610	THE TAKE FROM ZIMBABWE ON WORKING WITH UNSC 1373 [...] (C) Embassy Harare strongly endorses the use of SADC to bolster counterterrorism efforts in this region generally, and specifically in the Zimbabwe context. On the ground in Zimbabwe, we have enjoyed close, instantaneous and productive cooperation from the Zimbabwean security services, both [...]	2002-07-09 14:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV ZI
02HARARE1627	SEX SCANDAL IN ZIMBABWE REFUGEE CAMP [...] (U) The July 1 edition of the independent "Daily News" revealed that two aid workers in the Tongogara Refugee Camp in southern Zimbabwe had been suspended after refugees lobbed charges of sexual abuse against them. The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC),which operates the ca [...]	2002-07-12 06:21:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM EAID PGOV ASEC ZI
02HARARE1635	COMMERCIAL FARMERS CHARGED WITH CRIME OF FARMING [...] Summary: On July 4-5, 15 Chiredzi-area commercial sugar farmers were charged with violating section 8 of the Land Acquisition Act by continuing to farm past the government-mandated deadline for ceasing commercial farming activity. As of May 10, 2002 all farmers who fail to stop occupying, ho [...]	2002-07-15 13:26:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON PGOV ZI
02HARARE1637	ZANU-PF DISSATISFACTION WITH MUGABE GROWING [...] (C) Awareness appears to be growing among senior ruling party officials that they have dug Zimbabwe into a very deep hole, and that extricating themselves from it will be next to impossible so long as Robert Mugabe remains at the helm. They agree that an exit package for Mugabe would have to [...]	2002-07-16 06:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ZI ZANU PF
02HARARE1664	ZIMBABWE FINANCE MINISTER PROVIDES STARK ECONOMIC [...] (C) In a June 25 letter to the Cabinet's economic and finance committe, Finance Minister Simba Makoni provided a stark picture of Zimbabwe's economic crisis. According to Makoni, Zimbabwe has no foreign exchange reserves, which has prevented the Government from procuring even those products [...]	2002-07-19 08:33:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ETRD ZI
02HARARE1714	ZIMBABWE: FOOD DISTRIBUTION RESTARTS IN ONE [...] (C) Post has learned from Amcit Father Tom McQuillen that the Catholic Church has been permitted to restart food distribution in the beleaguered Binga district of Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe. War veterans, acting on the order of Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, forced t [...]	2002-07-25 08:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID ASEC ZI
02HARARE1720	GOZ ACCEPTS 18,000MT OF MAIZE FROM THE US [...] (U) On July 25, 2002, USAID met with the Minister of Public Service, Labor and Social Welfare, Mr. July Moyo, and with Mr. Lancester Museka, the Permanent Secretary, regarding the US humanitarian assistance program. 2. (U) During his July 21-24, 2002 visit to Zimbabwe, Mr. Roger Winter, U [...]	2002-07-26 04:52:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PGOV PREL ZI
02HARARE1737	BUDGET MEETING OF THE PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) USAID/Zimbabwe's Democracy and Governance Team Leader, Stephanie Funk, and Senior Democracy Advisor, Deprose Muchena, attended a budget meeting of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Lands and Agriculture. The Committee has oversight responsibility for two Ministries: the Ministry [...]	2002-07-29 05:03:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PGOV ZI
02HARARE1745	ZIMBABWE: MUGABE'S RECENT REMARKS TROUBLING - RULE [...] (C) Summary: On July 25, President Mugabe went on record saying that the State would defy court judgments with which it did not agree. He also said gays were worse than pigs and dogs, warning Parliament against recognizing homosexual marriages. In a previous July 23 speech at the opening of [...]	2002-07-30 10:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
02HARARE1766	ZANU-PF DECLARED WINNER OF KADOMA MAYORAL ELECTION [...] (c) Summary: ZANU-PF was declared the winner of the July 27-28 Kadoma mayoral election by a slim margin. The pre-election period was marred by incidents of sporadic violence and the mass arrest of prominent Kadoma MDC members two days before the vote. On the voting days themselves independ [...]	2002-08-01 14:33:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ZI
02HARARE1780	MEDIA REPORT TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS; HARARE [...] Under headline "Ban sanction campaigners" the government-controlled daily "Chronicle" dedicated its August 5 editorial to calling on the government of Zimbabwe to retaliate against the "smart sanctions" imposed by the European Union and the United States against Robert [...]	2002-08-05 10:12:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KPAO KMDR ZI
02HARARE1782	MEDIA REACTION EU TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS; HARARE [...] Stung by the recent detention and deportation of former Bulawayo mayor Joshua Malinga at Gatwick Airport (London) and Sweden's refusal of visas to four ZANU-PF women legislators, an editorial in the August 5 edition of the government-controlled daily "The Herald" calls [...]	2002-08-05 10:14:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PGOV PREL KPAO ZI
02HARARE1802	OFFICIAL GOZ FIGURES ON FOOD IMPORTS AND PROJECTED [...] (C) Summary. A senior Ministry of Finance official shared with Charge details on GOZ food imports, and the gap still to be filled. The GOZ has purchased nearly 1,000,000 metric tons (MT) of maize but, even with current projected donor contributions factored in, still faces a shortfall of app [...]	2002-08-06 09:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EAGR PREL PGOV EFIN ZI
02HARARE1806	MUGABE TURNS UP HEAT ON OPPOSITION [...] (C) The Zimbabwean government has stepped up its harassment of the MDC leadership, arresting the national treasurer in the hospital as he recuperated from major eye surgery, and raiding Morgan Tsvangirai's home in an alleged search for arms of war and subversive materials. In addition, the Ho [...]	2002-08-06 13:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE1812	MEDIA REACTION FOOD AID; HARARE [...] Under headline "Flush out rogue NGOs" the government- controlled daily "The Chronicle" dedicated its August 7 editorial to calling on the government to excommunicate all non-governmental organizations (NGOs) accused of "abusing the privilege" to hand out drought relief [...]	2002-08-08 05:55:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO ZI
02HARARE1819	GLOOMY COMMERCIAL FARMERS' UNION CONGRESS ADJOURNS [...] (C) Summary. The 59th annual Commercial Farmers, Union (CFU) Congress was a gloomy affair that took place under the pall of an August 8 deadline for the eviction of the majority of CFU members from their farms. There was unusual division within CFU ranks over whether or not to mount court ch [...]	2002-08-08 13:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAGR ECON ZI
02HARARE1820	AGREEMENT ON USE OF U.S. TITLE II MAIZE GRAIN IN [...] (U) SUMMARY OF AGREEMENT: VERBAL AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED AMONG USAID, WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (WFP) AND GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE (GOZ) ON AN ARRANGEMENT THAT WILL ALLOW ENTRY OF 17,500 MTS OF USG YELLOW WHOLE MAIZE GRAIN CURRENTLY STORED IN DURBAN, THAT MAY CONTAIN GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS [...]	2002-08-08 13:41:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE1822	COMMERCIAL FARMS APPEAR CALM AS INITIAL DEADLINE [...] (U) As the August 8 midnight deadline for commercial farmers to vacate their farms and homesteads came and went, there are no reports of violence or forcible evictions from the disputed property. Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) president David Hasluck reports that the situation countrywide is [...]	2002-08-09 07:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAGR ECON ZI
02HARARE1824	MEDIA REPORT GOZ TO CLAMP DOWN ON OPPOSITION; [...] Under headline "Signs of the end" the independent weekly "The Financial Gazette" dedicated its August 8 editorial to criticizing the government of Zimbabwe for mooting a plan to clamp down on opposition by withdrawing traveling documents from Zimbabweans opposed [...]	2002-08-09 09:57:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI
02HARARE1826	POSSIBLE TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR SOME COMMERCIAL [...] (C) The day before the August 8 deadline for designated farmers to leave their properties (reftel),a High Court judge issued a ruling that could give a temporary reprieve to affected farmers. Judge Charles Hungwe ruled that the government's acquisition of Tengwe Estates farm was "null and [...]	2002-08-09 10:59:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAGR ECON ZI
02HARARE1827	JUSTICE FOR AGRICULTURE -- TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE [...] (SBU) Summary. Laboff attended the inaugural meeting of the JAG on Tuesday, August 6. This group was formed by some of the more confrontational members of the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) in response to CFU members' perception that the organization was too conciliatory. The initial act of J [...]	2002-08-09 11:02:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAGR ECON ZI
02HARARE1830	FEW COMMERCIAL FARMERS EVICTED AS CFU PERCEIVES [...] (U) Summary. Pursuant to the August 9 deadline for the first wave of commercial farmers to abandon their homesteads, in one region police have confronted farmers on five separate properties, and in a second region another farmer faces forced eviction. Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) president [...]	2002-08-14 12:38:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAGR ECON ZI
02HARARE1831	ZIMBABWEAN DIPLOMATIC NOTE POSES MORE QUESTIONS [...] (U) Embassy received a diplomatic note and statement at COB on August 9, before the long Hero's Day weekend. Below is the entire text. Begin text of Diplomatic Note: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Zimbabwe presents its complements to the Embassy of the United States [...]	2002-08-14 12:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE1833	MUGABE VOWS TO STAY THE COURSE IN PUBLIC SPEECHES [...] (C) In his annual Heroes Day Speech on August 12, only sparsely attended by the diplomatic community, Mugabe showed no indication of veering from his current disastrous policy course. He vowed to continue with the fast track resettlement effort but said that "loyal" commercial farmers would b [...]	2002-08-14 14:15:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON ASEC ZI
02HARARE1859	MEDIA REACTION: LAND REFORM ZIMBABWE; HARARE [...] Under headline "Evict defiant farmers" the government- controlled daily "Chronicle" dedicated its August 15 editorial to encouraging the government of Zimbabwe to eject all "defiant farmers" from the designated commercial farms under the fast-trek land reform program. [...]	2002-08-15 14:18:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR PGOV KPAO KMDR ZI
02HARARE1870	NGO AGRICULTURAL RECOVERY [...] (SBU) Summary: US Embassy and USAID/Zimbabwe recommend OFDA approval of three non-food humanitarian assistance proposals submitted by CARE, CRS, and World Vision. Post does not believe that targeted beneficiaries - communal farmers - should be the primary focus of humanitarian assistance in [...]	2002-08-16 08:50:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PGOV ZI
02HARARE1871	NEW REPORTS OF FARM EVICTIONS [...] (SBU) Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) president David Hasluck called on Friday, August 16, to confirm several cases of farm eviction throughout the country. While the overall situation remains tense but superficially calm, there are scattered instances of official response to the farmers' refu [...]	2002-08-16 09:21:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE1872	STATUS OF FOOD RELIEF IN ZIMBABWE [...] (C) The Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ),WFP, U.S, UK, EU and other NGOs are undertaking separate food relief efforts in Zimbabwe. The targets of the WFP, U.S., UK, EU and NGO programs are the most vulnerable Zimbabweans. We have heard numerous reports that the GOZ distributes food to Zanu-PF s [...]	2002-08-16 09:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID ASEC ZI
02HARARE1882	MASS ARRESTS OF ZIMBABWEAN FARMERS WHO IGNORE [...] (C) Police have begun arresting commercial farmers -- and family members, in some cases -- who have failed to comply with the August 8 deadline to leave their properties. More than 140 people were arrested over the August 17-18 weekend, and 92 remained incarcerated on the morning of August 19. [...]	2002-08-19 12:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAGR ASEC ZI
02HARARE1900	COMMERCIAL FARMS: SITUATION REPORT [...] Summary: Arrests of farmers by the Zimbabwean authorities continue, with no break in the official party rationale and no indication of respite. Most farmers are being released on bail an receiving future court dates. There is little consistency throughout the various regions as to the condi [...]	2002-08-21 11:40:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE1901	UNDP-DONOR MEETING: MORE DOOM AND GLOOM [...] (SBU) Summary. UNDP Resrep (and newly-named UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator) to Zimbabwe Victor Angelo met with donors on August 20 in a refreshingly frank session. He listed upcoming events, including a proposed regional scientific conference on GMO issues, and detailed where food impor [...]	2002-08-21 12:10:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE1934	DISPLACED FARM WORKERS: UNADDRESSED HUMANITARIAN [...] (U) Summary: The arrests and evictions of commercial farmers continue, with most farmers being released on bail with varying conditions. Some farmers are having their Section 8 acquisition orders overturned on technicalities, but this seems to be a temporary reprieve at best. The fate of [...]	2002-08-23 09:42:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE1943	MUGABE'S CABINET RESHUFFLE REWARDS LOYALTY, NOT [...] (C) In a long-anticipated move, President Mugabe named a new Cabinet on August 24 that looks very much like the old one, albeit with some portfolios shifted around. Finance Minister Makoni and Health Minister Stamps were the only ones dismissed, while two new Ministers (former Ambassador to [...]	2002-08-26 13:06:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR ZI
02HARARE1982	ZIMBABWE CABINET BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION [...] (C) Reftel reported President Mugabe's August 24 cabinet reshuffle. As promised reftel, we provide below additional biographic information on the new appointees (we have not included cabinet members who retained the same portfolios): --------------------------------------------- ----------- [...]	2002-08-29 05:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI
02HARARE1992	NEW CABINET "ROTTEN TO THE CORE" [...] (C) In an August 26 meeting, Eddison Zvobgo, an elder statesman in ZANU-PF, provided insight into the Cabinet reshuffle and pressure points for the international community to pursue and he commented on the food situation, the Public Order and Security Act, and the likelihood of a new constit [...]	2002-08-29 13:28:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI
02HARARE200	OBASANJO SHUTTLES TO ZIMBABWE, MEETS BOTH [...] (C) NIGERIAN PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO MADE A WHIRLWIND VISIT TO ZIMBABWE, ARRIVING JANUARY 20 AT 8:00 P.M. AND DEPARTING AT 3:00 A.M. THE NEXT DAY. HE MET WITH BOTH PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE AND THE MDC'S MORGAN TSVANGIRAI. ACCORDING TO THE NIGERIAN EMBASSY, OBASANJO MET ALONE WITH MUGABE. [...]	2002-01-22 13:27:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI NI
02HARARE2002	INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDP) SITUATION [...] (C) Comprised mostly of workers and their families from commercial farms, the number of IDPs in Zimbabwe could surpass half a million in the coming months. While the GOZ has sought to deny the problem in the past, even accusing temporary squatter settlements of being opposition training camps [...]	2002-08-30 09:46:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PHUM PREL ECON ASEC ZI
02HARARE201	UNRESREP PAINTS BLEAK PICTURE OF THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. AT THE INVITATION OF UNDP RESREP VICTOR ANGELO, THE DONOR COMMUNITY HELD ITS FIRST COORDINATING MEETING OF 2002 AT THE UNDP OFFICES. ANGELO, WHO NORMALLY SEEKS TO INTERPRET EVENTS IN A POSITIVE LIGHT, WAS PARTICULARLY DOWNBEAT. ON ELECTIONS, HE SAID THAT THERE NO LONGER APPEA [...]	2002-01-22 13:32:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM EAGR EAID ZI
02HARARE2014	RULE OF LAW UNDER ATTACK - MAGISTRATES ASSAULTED [...] (C) A magistrate was severally beaten on August 16, another stabbed on August 28, both assaults allegedly motivated by the magistrates' rulings in favor of defendants who were MDC members. Justice Minister Chinamasa has refused a request by the Chief magistrate to condemn the attacks and ensu [...]	2002-09-03 14:14:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
02HARARE2021	ZIMBABWE'S BIOTECH BROUHAHA [...] (C) Summary. On 1 September, while attending the WSSD in South Africa, Lands, Agriculture, and Rural Resettlement Minister Joseph Made proclaimed that Zimbabwe would not accept food aid containing genetically modified organisms. He also said there was nothing to discuss with the U.S. since th [...]	2002-09-04 11:18:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL ZI
02HARARE204	LAST-MINUTE GOZ RESPONSE TO EU ULTIMATUM [...] (C) THE GOZ SUBMITTED A LETTER FROM FOREIGN MINISTER MUDENGE TO THE EU IN HARARE AT 8:00 P.M. ON JANUARY 18, JUST HOURS BEFORE EXPIRATION OF THE ONE-WEEK DEADLINE IMPOSED BY THE EU DURING ITS JANUARY 11 ARTICLE 96 CONSULTATIONS WITH A MUDENGE-LED GOZ DELEGATION. THE LETTER WAS NOT SIGNED BY [...]	2002-01-22 14:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ZI EU
02HARARE2060	POLICE, MILITARY ENFORCE NEW, UNOFFICIAL FARM [...] Summary. According to several reports received over the weekend, the GOZ has purportedly issued directives from "the highest levels" to both police and military to finalize the removal of commercial farmers. The Commercial Farmers Union (CFU),merely a shadow of its former presence, as well a [...]	2002-09-09 12:34:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE2073	SHOOTOUT ON COMMERCIAL FARM [...] (C) Late in the morning of September 10, commercial farmer Ian Cochrane reportedly engaged in a shootout with three men on his property near Karoi, some 250 km northwest of Harare. Miraculously, no one was hurt, and only a vehicle belonging to a nearby farmer who came to help was damaged. [...]	2002-09-10 12:38:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAGR PHUM ZI
02HARARE2086	UN FOOD SEIZED [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 7, Zimbabwe police and soldiers raided the UNICEF facilities and illegally seized food UNICEF had been storing for UN employees. After appealing to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UN received an apology from the guilty parties and expected to have the stolen fo [...]	2002-09-12 11:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID PGOV PREL
02HARARE2087	NATIONWIDE LOCAL ELECTIONS A DEMOCRATIC CHARADE [...] (U) Action request -- see para 10. Summary -------- 2. (C) Nationwide rural council elections are scheduled for September 28-29, and the Government of Zimbabwe has used all the means at its disposal to block genuine competition from the opposition MDC. Aspiring MDC candidates have be [...]	2002-09-12 14:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
02HARARE2102	FUEL SHORTAGE OR PANIC BUYING? -- FUEL QUEUES [...] Summary. Various sources suggest that a nation-wide fuel shortage is likely sooner rather than later (reftel). Even with continued financial support from Libya regarding the fuel itself, widely reported in recent press accounts, the GOZ is facing huge pressures to produce forex to get the fue [...]	2002-09-17 11:44:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EPET PGOV ZI
02HARARE211	MDC RALLY BROKEN UP BY POLICE AND ZANU-PF [...] (C) ON JANUARY 20, ZANU-PF MILITANTS WAITING IN AMBUSH AND POLICE USING TEARGAS BLOCKED A PLANNED MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) RALLY IN BULAWAYO. AT LEAST 20 PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN THE MELEE, AND SEVEN ARE REPORTED MISSING. THE DISRUPTION OCCURRED EVEN THOUGH THE MDC HAD APPLIED FOR [...]	2002-01-23 16:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI NI
02HARARE2122	DELTA CORPORATION: FINANCING ITS OWN INTERESTS [...] Summary. In a new development, local powerhouse Delta Corporation (which, coincidentally, owns several breweries) has reportedly announced a Zim $10 billion initiative (approximately US $14.5 million at the parallel rate) whereby it will loan inputs for the production of maize, sorghum and ma [...]	2002-09-19 10:13:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EFIN PGOV ZI
02HARARE2127	CORRUPTION IN LAND ACQUISITION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Zimbabwe executive office issued a directive, circulated as a diplomatic note on 13 September, putatively intended to rein in over-zealous government officials in their acquisition of land. An independent press report, supported by the diplomatic note, and comments by Speaker [...]	2002-09-23 10:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV ZI
02HARARE2128	PARLIAMENT AGENDA FOLLOWING ZANU-PF'S COURSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Parliament resumed September 10, after a 5-week adjournment, amid speculation that one of the top ZANU-PF priorities would be a bill to amend the constitutional requirement that presidential elections be held within 90 days after a president vacates office. ZANU-PF pushed through [...]	2002-09-23 10:35:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ZI
02HARARE2172	Zimbabwe's Economy: Hardly a Pulse [...] (SBU) Summary: Robert Mugabe's government continues an assault on macroeconomics and private property. Without credible monetary and exchange policy, the country will only plunge more deeply into recession. End Summary. 5 Years of Ruinous Policy ------------------------- 2. (U) Consider [...]	2002-09-27 08:07:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV ZI
02HARARE2181	LOCAL AUSTRALIAN TAKE ON ABUJA MEETING ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Australian High Commissioner to Harare Jonathan Brown gave us a readout of the Abuja meeting, which he attended. His account was largely consistent with reftel accounts so we will only report that which provides additional elaboration or contrast. Brown said that the three presidents had ag [...]	2002-09-30 09:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
02HARARE2192	ZIMBABWE: GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS [...] (U) The US Embassy, HHS/CDC and USAID have had a series of discussions on coordinating the US Government response to the HIV and AIDS crisis in Zimbabwe. One of the current discussions and concerns has been the use of Global Fund for AIDS, TB, and Malaria (GFATM) monies in Zimbabwe. 2. (U [...]	2002-10-01 11:36:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV TBIO SOCI PGOV ZI
02HARARE2193	ZANU-PF APPEARS HEADED FOR LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN [...] (C) Voter turnout was low in Zimbabwe's nationwide rural council elections September 28-29, and early returns suggest a likely landslide victory by the ruling ZANU-PF, not surprising given pre-election violence, intimidation, and electoral manipulation. The GOZ stepped up efforts to diminish [...]	2002-10-01 12:28:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI ZANU PF
02HARARE2256	MEETING WITH EDDISON ZVOBGO [...] (C) Summary: In an October 7 meeting, Eddison Zvobgo, provided insight into the upcoming Insiza by-election and the treason case against Morgan Tsvangirai. He also had many interesting things to say about the food situation and its likely affect on rural support for ZANU-PF. Zvobgo said ZAN [...]	2002-10-10 13:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI
02HARARE2265	PUBLIC OPINION POLL REVEALS SUPRISING PERCEPTIONS [...] A USAID-funded Post-Presidential Election Survey revealed some surprising results about the presidential election and the political environment. According to the poll, more than 72 percent of those surveyed said they voted, more than official numbers. Almost 40 percent of those surveyed woul [...]	2002-10-15 05:42:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
02HARARE2310	FARM WORKERS [...] THE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT MACROECONOMIC POLICIES INHIBITING CROP PRODUCTION, IMPORTS, AND EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING, COMBINED WITH LOWER THAN AVERAGE RAINFALL, HAVE RAISED THE SPECTER OF FAMINE IN ZIMBABWE. UP TO 1.5 MILLION EX-COMMERCIAL FARM WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE CURREN [...]	2002-10-21 11:35:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PGOV ZI
02HARARE2311	INTERNATIONAL FOOD AID SEIZURE [...] (U) SUMMARY. The seizure on Thursday, October 17 of 3 metric tons of food by ZANU-PF activists in Insiza was the first documented incident of international food aid theft and partisan redistribution. The Government has denied the allegations and tried to divert attention from ZANU-PF food aid [...]	2002-10-21 12:23:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV ZI
02HARARE2315	ZIMBABWE TEACHERS' STRIKE: GOZ RIDING ROUGHSHOD [...] (U) Summary: In events which have been monitored world-wide, the GOZ has cracked down on striking members of the Progressive Teachers, Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) with characteristic harshness. After GOZ responses which included PTUZ office raids, dubious arrests of PTUZ members, assault, thre [...]	2002-10-21 14:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE2318	Zimbabwe: Reports of involuntary relocation of [...] Summary: OFDA/Humanitarian Response Advisor in Zimbabwe has received unconfirmed but credible reports of forced relocations of a large group of ex-commercial farm workers. Post views this as an extremely serious development and is concerned that it may signal the beginning of a pattern of forc [...]	2002-10-22 07:20:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PGOV ZI
02HARARE2322	FORMER MDC SPOKESMAN FOUND DEAD IN PRISON [...] Former MDC spokesman and MP Learnmore Jongwe was found dead in his prison cell early in the morning of October 22. Jongwe was arrested in July for fatally stabbing his wife, and he subsequently confessed to the crime. Jongwe had been denied bail by both the High Court and Supreme Court, oste [...]	2002-10-22 14:30:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
02HARARE2336	PUBLIC OPINION POLL REVISITED [...] This cable is to provide clarification on the comparison of the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) poll and the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) results as described in REFTEL. ZESN election results are based on official Zimbabwe Registrar General election results. ZESN is not an i [...]	2002-10-24 08:13:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE2337	RULING PARTY STEPS UP ATTACKS AGAINST NGOS [...] (C) A recent ZANU-PF theft of WFP food in Nsiza and GOZ orders to halt NGO food distribution in Binga come amid a looming general GOZ crackdown on NGOs. In mid September the GOZ issued a notice for all NGOs to register with the Ministry of Social Welfare, or cease operations. It appears that [...]	2002-10-24 08:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON ASEC ZI ZANU PF
02HARARE2354	ZANU-PF WINS BY-ELECTION IN INSIZA [...] (C) The official media characterized Poloff's recent trip to the Insiza area ahead of by-elections there as "meddling". Able to concentrate its resources on one province, and through a campaign of vote-buying with food, violence, intimidation, restricting the movements of MDC officials, theft [...]	2002-10-28 15:05:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON ASEC ZI
02HARARE2368	MANIPULATION OF FOOD DELIVERIES: UNSC [...] (C) Summary: The MDC's Economic Affairs Secretary -- Eddie Cross -- expressed concern about the Government of Zimbabwe's manipulation of food deliveries and pressed for UN Security Council action on this as a major human rights issue. The Ambassador suggested that the food shortage and GOZ's [...]	2002-10-31 06:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
02HARARE2372	ZIMBABWE FACES MULTIPLE AND INTER-RELATED CRISES [...] No summary [...]	2002-10-31 13:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID ZI
02HARARE2378	EX-FINANCE CHIEF MAKONI'S DIM VIEW OF ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: Ex-Finance Minister Simba Makoni fears thousands of Zimbabweans will soon suffer worsening effects of malnutrition due to lack of food and adequate transport logistics. He feels that Zimbabwe would have to undergo change "from within or from outside" to get its economy back on tr [...]	2002-11-01 06:54:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ZI
02HARARE2381	AMBASSADOR'S DISCUSSION WITH MUGABE'S CHIEF OF [...] (C) In an October 30 conversation, the Ambassador and Charles Utete -- President Mugabe's Chief of Staff -- acknowledged the differences between our two governments but agreed on the importance of keeping communication channels open. The Ambassador urged Utete to implement the Cabinet's deci [...]	2002-11-01 08:11:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE2401	GOZ VIOLENCE AGAINST MDC TARGETS COUNCILORS [...] (C) Since the September 28 - 29 Rural District Council elections, ZANU-PF supporters have carried out a violent campaign of retribution against winning MDC councilors and MDC supporters in districts that elected MDC councilors. At least one MDC supporter was beaten to death. Winning (and los [...]	2002-11-04 14:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ASEC ZI MDC ZANU PF
02HARARE2437	COMMERCIAL FARMERS' LEADERSHIP IS THE VICTIM OF [...] (C) Summary: Both Colin Cloete, President, and David Hasluck, Director, of the Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) tendered their resignations on October 29 at the CFU's national council meeting. These resignations, both of which are effective within thirty days, highlight broad gulfs -- betwee [...]	2002-11-07 13:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV ZI
02HARARE2445	OFFICIAL JONGWE AUTOPSY RESULTS IDENTIFY POISONING [...] (U) Learnmore Jongwe, former MDC spokesman and MP from Kuwadzana, died from chloroquine poisoning, according to the state run newspaper, The Herald. Jongwe was found dead in his prison cell early in the morning of October 22 (See Reftel). The police autopsy was performed on October 24. The Jo [...]	2002-11-08 09:04:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ZI
02HARARE2446	NEW GOZ DIRECTIVE ON LAND ACQUISITION [...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent meeting with Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) personnel, laboff received a copy of a GOZ directive targeted at "cleaning up" the chaotic land redistribution exercise. This policy statement is directed to the ad-hoc decisions and dealmaking which have characteri [...]	2002-11-08 09:09:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE2455	Govt Postpones Tsvangirai Treason Trial [...] (U) Summary: Zimbabwe's High Court has put off the trial of opposition Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai on charges of treason until next February. We believe the postponement indicates the GoZ has been unable to build a strong case against its main political foe. E [...]	2002-11-12 04:23:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ZI
02HARARE2467	NEW NGOS STRUGGLE TO STAVE OFF FAMINE [...] SUMMARY: The mid-October accreditation of three additional NGOs to serve as WFP implementing partners by the Government of Zimbabwe is a welcome step but will do little to reduce the increasing levels of malnutrition in the country. Wasting among children under five was close to the upper lim [...]	2002-11-12 08:07:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV ZI
02HARARE2478	DEMOCRATIC SPACE FURTHER RESTRICTED [...] (C) The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) recently issued a report unusually critical of the GOZ, detailing a chronology of violence during the October by-election in Insiza. ZESN recommends that an Independent Electoral Commission be appointed by Parliament to conduct future elections [...]	2002-11-13 05:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON EFIN ASEC ZI
02HARARE2529	POLOFF AND UN OFFICER DETAINED, THREATENED BY WAR [...] (C) Self-described Zimbabwean war veterans detained Poloff on November 15, together with a UN Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer, a US Embassy driver, and a Zimbabwean citizen guide, for 45 minutes at a farm in Melfort (about 25 kms southeast of Harare). The war veterans beat the Zimbabwean [...]	2002-11-15 14:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ASEC ZI
02HARARE2545	GOZ TURNS UP HEAT ON NGOS, BANS VISITS OF SOME [...] (U) SUMMARY: Parliament resumed November 12 after a 3-week adjournment and Government ministers took advantage of the opportunity to turn up the heat on groups it accuses of supporting the opposition, such as Amani Trust and SW Radio Africa. The actions suggest ZANU-PF is forging ahead in its [...]	2002-11-18 08:31:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ZI
02HARARE2560	AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH MDC [...] (C) MDC Secretary-General Welshman Ncube told the Ambassador on November 15 that the treason case against him and his party compatriots has no legal merit, but it could be assigned to a judge who is inclined to give more weight to political considerations. He described growing resentment w [...]	2002-11-18 13:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC

02HARARE2574	SOUTH AFRICAN VIEW OF ITS BILATERAL COMMISSION [...] No summary [...]	2002-11-19 14:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ZI SF
02HARARE2620	MDC MASS ACTION: NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Gandi Mudzingwa, special advisor to MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, told polchief on November 20 that planning for mass action is consuming most of his time and attention. One element of the MDC's efforts on this front, he reported, had occurred on November 14, when groups of 20 women each [...]	2002-11-20 12:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ELAB ZI
02HARARE2625	IDPS--FEAR AND LOATHING IN ZIMBABWE [...] On November 13 - 15 together with UN Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer, Andrew Timpson, Poloff visited ex-commercial farm workers and their families in Tete province, Mozambique, northern Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe, and on a commercial farm near Harare. The lack of food securit [...]	2002-11-20 15:19:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON ASEC ZI
02HARARE268	ZIMBABWE PUBLIC ORDER AND SECURITY ACT GRANTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JANUARY 11, THE PARLIAMENT OF ZIMBABWE PASSED THE DRACONIAN PUBLIC ORDER AND SECURITY ACT (POSA),WHICH WAS GAZETTED AND WENT INTO EFFECT ON JANUARY 22. THE POSA REPLACES THE EQUALLY DRACONIAN LAW AND ORDER MAINTENANCE ACT (LOMA),LEGISLATION THAT WAS ORIGINALLY ENACTED BY TH [...]	2002-01-29 15:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE2700	ONLY 600 OF 4500 COMMERCIAL FARMERS STILL STANDING [...] Summary. Given the chaotic nature of President Mugabe's fast-track land reform, it is no easy task to quantify this program. Of 4,500 white-owned commercial farms, our best guess is that 3,900 have closed down and 4,275 have been slated for resettlement. Despite GOZ claims that the land re [...]	2002-11-26 05:34:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE2701	LAND REFORM DECIMATES CATTLE INDUSTRIES [...] Summary. In addition to crop farmers, cattle farmers have also succumbed to the pressures of the land reform program. Currently, commercial dairy farmers represent half of the remaining commercial farmers, while most commercial farmers continue to raise some beef cattle in addition to their [...]	2002-11-26 05:34:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE2715	GOZ IDENTIFIES SHOOTER IN GILMAN CASE [...] (C) In the police report, handed to the Ambassador by the MFA (Ref C),the police identified the shooter. For the most part, the report is consistent with A/RSO's observations and investigations in Mutare in the days following the Gilman murder. RSO learned that police inquiries have been ope [...]	2002-11-26 15:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL CASC ASEC
02HARARE2726	ZCTU LEADERSHIP GATHERING CONSENSUS FOR MASS ACTION [...] (C) Our main contact at the Solidarity Center has confirmed that the leaders of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) are seeking organizational consensus for support of a mass stayaway to be called on or around December 9 (reftel). According to this contact, the National Council of [...]	2002-11-27 14:27:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE2742	ZANU-PF CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary. The Zimbabwe ruling party,s annual conference has been scheduled for December 11-15 in Chinhoyi. No major changes in the ZANU-PF leadership or discussion of a Mugabe succession are expected to be announced, although the persistent rumor that ailing Vice President Simon Muzenda [...]	2002-12-02 15:28:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI ZANU PF
02HARARE2782	DEMONSTRATIONS INCREASE - NOT CRITICAL MASS YET [...] (U) On November 30 the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) staged demonstrations in five cities to pressure the GOZ for a more democratic constitution. Police arrested NCA staff members and demonstrators, seized demonstration materials and denied permission for the march in a sixth city. [...]	2002-12-09 15:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
02HARARE2784	ZCTU LEADERS ARRESTED IN ADVANCE OF FIZZLED [...] No summary [...]	2002-12-10 13:12:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE2803	ZIMBABWE PROMISES MORE OF THE SAME AT ZANU-PF [...] (C) ZANU-PF,s annual conference, concluded in Chinhoyi December 14, proved to be another platform from which the senior party leadership could blast their critics and blame others for the country,s economic woes. President Mugabe tacitly admitted that the land reform exercise had not gone we [...]	2002-12-16 14:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ZI ZANU PF
02HARARE2805	MDC UNHAPPINESS WITH SOUTH AFRICA GROWS [...] (C) Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) President Morgan Tsvangirai told a visiting staffdel that Zimbabwe needed a 12-18 month transitional period during which critical national issues must be resolved to lay the foundation for a new election and long-term political stability. He predicte [...]	2002-12-17 10:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC
02HARARE2829	TSVANGIRAI LEVELS ACCUSATIONS AGAINST BRITAIN AND [...] (C) In a move that could create quite a firestorm, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai issued a press statement on December 18 accusing the British and South African governments of working in cahoots with certain elements of ZANU-PF to maintain the ruling party's ho [...]	2002-12-18 14:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI MDC
02HARARE2838	MDC-ANC CONTACTS ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) According to a senior MDC parliamentarian, the ANC has agreed to a ZANU-PF plan for Zimbabwean Speaker of Parliament Emmerson Mnangagwa to replace Robert Mugabe, while offering token reprentation to the opposition. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai was briefed on this initiative, which likel [...]	2002-12-19 14:49:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE284	A/S CRANER MESSAGE TO ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT: YOU [...] (C) SUMMARY: BETWEEN JANUARY 15 AND 18, ASSISTANT SECRETARY LORNE CRANER AND HIS DELEGATION MET WITH A SIPDIS WIDE SAMPLING OF ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT, OPPOSITION AND CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES. A/S CRANER INFORMED TWO MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE (GOZ) THAT THE ZIMBABWE LEADERSHI [...]	2002-01-31 08:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE2852	DISCOVERY OF BODIES IN ABANDONED WELL [...] (C) Summary: On December 10 police in Nkayi District (in Matabeleland North Province) reportedly retrieved five skeletons from an abandoned well near the town of Lukona. A local war veteran, implicated in a previous case of murder by torture freely accompanied police when the bodies were ret [...]	2002-12-20 10:23:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
02HARARE2871	MATABELELAND: FOOD ACCESS REMAINS TENUOUS [...] SUMMARY: (U) Ambassador, USAID Officer, State Zimbabwe Desk Officer and Political Officer visited Matabeleland North province December 3 to December 6 to meet with people affected by the food and HIV/AIDS crises. Food issues dominated discussions as scarcities intensified across the country. [...]	2002-12-30 10:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAGR SOCI ZI
02HARARE315	MDC PLANNING FOR TRANSITION [...] (C) THE MDC HAS ESTABLISHED A FOUR-PERSON TEAM THAT IS QUIETLY WORKING ON THE TRANSITION PERIOD, DRAWING UP AN ACTION PLAN FOR THE FIRST 100 DAYS, AND DEVISING A LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR KEY POSITIONS. IF ELECTED, MDC PRESIDENT MORGAN TSVANGIRAI WOULD GIVE THE FINANCE MINISTRY PORTFOLIO TO PROM [...]	2002-02-05 14:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI MDC
02HARARE343	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION OBSERVATION, ELECTION [...] C) THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER TO ZIMBABWE, BRIAN DONNELLY, JOINED BY FCO DIRECTOR FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA ANDREW POCOCK AND IAN BAILEY FROM THE BRITISH CABINET OFFICE CALLED ON THE AMBASSADOR ON FEBRUARY 6. THE AMBASSADOR WAS ACCOMPANIED BY POLITICAL SECTION CHIEF. ELECTION OBSERVATION --- [...]	2002-02-07 14:11:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE345	ZIMBABWE ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT PLACES [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JANUARY 31, THE PARLIAMENT OF ZIMBABWE PASSED THE DECEPTIVELY-NAMED ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT AFTER THREE WEEKS OF DEBATE. THE ACT, WHICH HAS YET TO BE SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT AND GAZETTED INTO LAW, ESSENTIALLY PLACES ZIMBABWE'S INDEPENDENT JOURNALIS [...]	2002-02-07 14:27:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE38	LOSS OF TWO ZIMBABWE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE DECEMBER 27 DEATH OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SIMBARASHE MUCHECHETERE AND THE DECEMBER 31 RETIREMENT OF JUSTICE NICHOLAS MCNALLY BRINGS INTO QUESTION THE FUTURE ROLE OF WHAT HAS STOOD AS AN AFRICAN MODEL OF JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE. ONLY TWO OF THE SIX REMAINING MEMBERS CAN BE DES [...]	2002-01-04 08:33:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
02HARARE44	LIKELY SCENARIOS; POLICY TOOLS AND TIMING [...] No summary [...]	2002-01-07 04:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE50	ZIMBABWE: PROBLEMS ON LAND DISTRIBUTION AND [...] (C) WITH RESPECT TO PRESIDENT OBASANJO'S COMMENTS ON DEVELOPMENTS IN ZIMBABWE(REFTEL),WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS ON THE LAND DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM AND CALL ATTENTION TO THE INCREASED VIOLENCE, INTIMIDATION AND VIOLATION OF THE RULE OF LAW WHICH THREATEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE DEMOCRATIC PRO [...]	2002-01-07 10:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE555	ELECTION DAILY REPORT: POLICE AND SOLDIERS [...] (C) SHORTLY AFTER NOON ON FEBRUARY 28, POLICE RAIDED THE MDC HARARE PROVINCIAL HEADQUARTERS. PROVINCIAL ELECTION COORDINATOR DONALD CHIRUNGA TOLD US THAT A LARGE "LUNCH TIME MEETING" WAS CALLED IN THE INDUSTRIAL AREAS NEAR COKE CORNER OUTSIDE HARARE, WHERE MDC PRESIDENT MORGAN TSVANGIRAI SHO [...]	2002-03-02 06:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM ZI
02HARARE556	MORE ELECTORAL DEVELOPMENTS, MORE UNCERTAINTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. IN ADDITION TO THE SUPREME COURT DECISION STRIKING DOWN ELECTORAL LAW AMENDMENTS (REFTEL),THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF LEGAL AND OTHER ELECTORAL DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN THE PAST 48 HOURS. A HIGH COURT JUDGEMENT ON DUAL NATIONALITY AND A SUPREME COURT RULING ON VOTING BY CONSTITUENC [...]	2002-03-02 08:12:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM ZI
02HARARE561	MDC DIPLOMATIC CORPS BRIEFING ON TRANSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY. GOZ SECURITY OFFICIALS CUT SHORT A MARCH 4 MDC BRIEFING FOR THE DIPLOMATIC COMMUNITY ON THE GROUNDS THAT THIS WAS AN "ILLEGAL MEETING" UNDER THE PUBLIC ORDER AND SECURITY ACT (POSA). BEFORE THIS OCCURRED, MDC OFFICIALS HAD EXPRESSED A NEED FOR MASSIVE FOOD ASSISTANCE MAIZE AND [...]	2002-03-04 13:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ECON PHUM ZI
02HARARE565	SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE ON ZIMBABWE FROM [...] No summary [...]	2002-03-04 15:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ZI SF
02HARARE572	MORE ON TSVANGIRAI'S ALLEGED "PLOT" TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. THE GOZ FIRED ANOTHER OFF-TARGET SALVO IN ITS CONTINUING ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT MDC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MORGAN TSVANGIRAI THROUGH ACCUSATIONS THAT HE APPROACHED THE CANADIAN DICKENS AND CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HARARE 00572 01 OF 02 051236Z MAD [...]	2002-03-05 12:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ZI
02HARARE574	UNCERTAINTY HEADING INTO ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2002-03-05 12:57:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE588	REPORTED UNSYG CONSIDERATIONS RE ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2002-03-06 14:41:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE591	ZIMBABWEAN ELECTORAL SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE SETS [...] (C) SUMMARY. THE TWO TOP OFFICIALS OF ZIMBABWE'S ELECTORAL SUPERVISORY COMMISSION (ESC) BRIEFED INTERNATIONAL ELECTION OBSERVERS ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 6 ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE MARCH 9 AND 10 VOTE. IN A SURREAL NINETY-MINUTE SPEECH, THE RECENTLY APPOINTED NUMBER TWO OF THE ESC, A PRO-ZANU [...]	2002-03-06 15:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ZI
02HARARE61	ZIMBABWE: ZVOBGO PREDICTS MUGABE WILL LOSE THE [...] (C) IN A DECEMBER 20 LUNCH WITH AMBASSADOR SULLIVAN AND POLOFF, ZANU-PF MP AND MASVINGO "SUPREMO" EDDISON ZVOBGO RUMINATED ON REPRESSIVE LEGISLATION BEFORE PARLIAMENT (REPORTED REFTEL),MASVINGO POLITICS, AND THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. ZVOBGO HAD FEW KIND WORDS FOR HIS OLD BROTHER-I [...]	2002-01-08 09:35:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ZI
02HARARE611	DESPITE BEHIND THE SCENES SCHEMES, A PAN- [...] (C) WE HAVE PICKED UP A NUMBER OF REPORTS THAT THERE ARE MOVES AFOOT TO LINE UP AFRICAN ELECTION OBSERVATION DELEGATIONS TO AGREE TO A COMMON POST-ELECTORAL STATEMENT FAVORABLE TO ROBERT MUGABE. DEPUTY ELECTIONS SUPERVISION COMMISSIONER'S NYIKAYARAMBA INVITATION TO AFRICAN CHIEFS OF MISSION [...]	2002-03-07 15:00:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
02HARARE618	MARCH 7 MEETING WITH NIGERIAN ELECTION [...] (C) THE AMBASSADOR MET MARCH 8 WITH THE HEAD OF THE NIGERIAN ELECTION OBSERVER DELEGATION CHIEF CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HARARE 00618 081132Z SHONEKAN, THE NIGERIAN ELECTION COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVE AND HIGH COMMISSIONER JUTA. SHONEKAN HAD EARLIER BEEN PRESIDEN [...]	2002-03-08 11:24:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI NI
02HARARE620	OUR TAKE ON ELECTION OBSERVATION EFFORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. THE GOZ HAS TO A LARGE DEGREE SUCCEEDED IN ITS EFFORTS TO KEEP PRYING OUTSIDE EYES AWAY FROM THE PRE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN FIELD AND, IT NOW APPEARS, OUT OF THE POLLING STATIONS ON VOTING DAY. BY DERAILING THE EFFORTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION MISSION AND THE ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS SUPPORT [...]	2002-03-08 12:14:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM ZI
02HARARE640	ZIMBABWE: PRELIMINARY VOTING STATISTICS FAVOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. BASED ON OFFICIAL STATISTICS RELEASED THUS FAR (WHICH WE HAVE NO WAY TO VERIFY),WE EXPECT ZANU-PF TO CLAIM VICTORY IN THE 2002 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. TURNOUT TO DATE, EVEN IN AREAS WHERE VOTING HAS BEEN TRUNCATED, HAS EXCEEDED JUNE 2000 LEVELS IN ALL PROVINCES SAVE BULAWAYO. [...]	2002-03-11 12:57:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM ZI
02HARARE657	ZIMBABWE ELECTION: VOTE COUNTING UNDERWAY ON MARCH 12 [...] (C) POLLING STATIONS IN HARARE AND CHITUNGWIZA CLOSED AT 7:00 P.M. ON MARCH 11, LEAVING LONG LINES OF VOTERS IN SOME AREAS UNABLE TO CAST BALLOTS. THE VERIFICATION OF BALLOT BOXES BEGAN THE MORNING OF MARCH 12 AND VOTE-COUNTING AT MOST BALLOT CENTERS DID NOT BEGIN UNTIL EARLY AFTERNOON. GIVE [...]	2002-03-12 15:38:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
02HARARE661	MUGABE DECLARED WINNER OF ZIMBABWE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: REGISTRAR-GENERAL TOBAIWA MUDEDE HAS DECLARED PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE THE WINNER OF ZIMBABWE'S MARCH 9-11 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HE BEAT HIS STRONGEST CHALLENGER IN 22 YEARS BY 427,000 VOTES, OR 56 PERCENT TO 42 PERCENT. THE NATURE OF SOME OF THE RESULTS, ESPECIALLY EXTRAORDINA [...]	2002-03-13 12:51:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE665	SADC-PF ISSUES HARD-HITTING ASSESSMENT OF ZIMBABWEAN [...] (U) ON MARCH 13, THE SADC PARLIAMENTARY FORUM ISSUED A TOUGH CRITIQUE OF THE ZIMBABWEAN ELECTION PROCESS, SAYING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN WAS MARRED BY INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE IN ALL PROVINCES OF THE COUNTRY, PREDOMINANTLY AGAINST MDC SUPPORTERS. THE SADC-PF CONCLUDED THAT THE CLIMATE OF "INSECURI [...]	2002-03-13 16:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE678	COMMONWEALTH OBSERVER GROUP GIVES [...] (U) AFTER A ONE-HOUR DELAY, COMMONWEALTH OBSERVER GROUP (COG) HEAD OF MISSION ABDULSALAMI ABUBAKAR READ TO THE ASSEMBLED PRESS AND DIPLOMATIC CORPS IN INTERIM STATEMENT ON THE ZIMBABWEAN ELECTION THAT WAS SHORT BUT CERTAINLY NOT SWEET TO GOZ EARS. ABUBAKAR REMARKED ON THE COMMONWEALTH'S ENGA [...]	2002-03-14 12:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ZI
02HARARE693	ZIMBABWE'S PRE-ELECTION ENVIRONMENT DEEPLY FLAWED [...] (C) REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME, THE PERIOD PRECEDING ZIMBABWE'S MARCH 9-10 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HAS BEEN DEEPLY FLAWED. THE GOZ'S OPAQUE AND UNEVEN IMPLEMENATION OF ELECTORAL PROCEDURES GIVES MAXIMUM ADVANTAGE TO THE RULING ZANU-PF, BY MINIMIZING VOTER TURNOUT IN AREAS OF OPPOSITION STRENGTH A [...]	2002-03-15 10:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM ZI
02HARARE704	MUGABE INAUGURAL REMARKS PROMISE MORE OF THE SAME [...] (U) PRESIDENT MUGABE WAS SWORN IN FOR A FIFTH TERM ON MARCH 17, ONLY TWO DAYS AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE APPARENTLY HASTILY- ARRANGED INAUGURATION CEREMONY. FIVE AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE WERE IN ATTENDANCE -- TANZANIA'S BENJAMIN MKAPA; MOZAMBIQUE'S JOAQUIM CHISSANO; MALAWI'S BAKILI MULUZI; N [...]	2002-03-18 14:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
02HARARE713	ZIMBABWE: HOW MUGABE STOLE THE ELECTION; [...] (C) SUMMARY: A WIDE VARIETY OF REPORTS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS INDICATE THAT PRESIDENT MUGABE'S RULING PARTY ENGAGED IN MASSIVE FRAUD DURING THE MARCH 9-11 PRESIDENTIAL POLL, ENABLING HIM TO CLAIM VICTORY. MANY OF THE NUMBERS DO NOT ADD UP, AND INFLATED RESULTS IN THE MASHONALAND PROVINCE [...]	2002-03-19 11:49:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE721	PRESIDENTS MBEKI, OBASANJO PROPOSE STRUCTURED DIALOGUE [...] (C) PRESIDENTS MBEKI AND OBASANJO MET SEPARATELY ON MARCH 18 WITH PRESIDENT MUGABE AND MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) LEADER MORGAN TSVANGIRAI. ACCORDING TO TSVANGIRAI'S SPECIAL ADVISOR, GANDI MUDZINGWA, THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND NIGERIAN LEADERS DID NOT PRESS FOR FORMATION OF A GOVERNMENT [...]	2002-03-19 15:39:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE725	ZIMBABWE: REPRESSIVE MEDIA LEGISLATION GOES [...] (U) ON MARCH 15, PRESIDENT MUGABE SIGNED AND GAZETTED INTO LAW THE ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT, WHICH THE PARLIAMENT OF ZIMBABWE PASSED ON JANUARY 31 (REFTEL),AND WHICH PLACES SEVERE RESTRICTIONS ON THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA. THE GAZETTING OF THE ACT BRINGS IT INTO IMMED [...]	2002-03-20 06:57:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE731	MDC WILL ONLY TALK TRANSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE MDC SHARPLY DEFINED ITS WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE IN FACILITATED DIALOGUE WITH ZANU-PF AS LIMITED TO A TRANSITIONAL FORMULA TOWARD NEW ELECTIONS AND REJECTED A UNITY GOVERNMENT. THIS PUTS THEM ON A CONFLICTING COURSE WITH ZANU-PF WHICH SEEKS TO FORCE MDC AND THE NATION TO ACCEPT [...]	2002-03-20 13:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ZI MDC
02HARARE748	MDC LEADER TSVANGIRAI FORMALLY CHARGED WITH TREASON [...] (U) MDC LEADER MORGAN TSVANGIRAI WAS CHARGED WITH TREASON ON MARCH 20 IN THE ALLEGED PLOT TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT MUGABE. TSVANGIRAI PRESENTED HIMSELF AT THE HARARE CENTRAL POLICE STATION SIPDIS FOR FINGERPRINTING, THEN APPEARED AT THE HARARE MAGISTRATE'S COURT, WHICH FORMALLY CHARGED HIM [...]	2002-03-21 13:38:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
02HARARE786	ZIMBABWE: MDC URGES USG TO LET SOUTH AFRICA AND NIGERIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITION MDC LEADERSHIP ARE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH PRESIDENT OBASANJO'S EFFORTS TO FACILITATE DIALOGUE WITH ZANU-PF THAN WITH PRESIDENT MBEKI'S. THE PARTY'S SECRETARY-GENERAL, WELSHMAN NCUBE, ADVISED THE USG AGAINST SIPDIS PRESSING PUBLICLY FOR A NEW ELECTION A [...]	2002-03-26 13:06:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
02HARARE809	SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2002-03-27 14:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SF NI ZI
02HARARE927	ZIMBABWE OPPOSITION FILES LEGAL CHALLENGE TO [...] (U) On April 12, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) filed with the High Court a 135- page legal challenge to President Mugabe's declared victory in the March presidential poll. The filing was made just before the 30-day deadline to submit electoral challenges elapsed. The l [...]	2002-04-16 07:56:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE939	COMMERCIAL FARMERS PESSIMISTIC RE: BOTH SHORT [...] (C) Summary: DCM and Laboff met with three representatives of the Commercial Farmers' Union (CMF) - David Hasluck, Director, Malcolm Voles, Deputy Director, and Colin Cloete, President, on April 11, 2002. The CFU had requested the meeting as a "reality check" on the post-election situation o [...]	2002-04-17 08:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE981	MADE'S STATEMENT RE: LAND REFORM: MORE OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a press statement on April 12, 2002, Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made clarified the GOZ's stance on the conduct of its land resettlement program. While much of the statement merely repeated the ruling party's rhetoric, portions revealed some of the GOZ's more subtle inten [...]	2002-04-23 14:18:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE998	ZIMBABWE: VIOLENCE OF RETRIBUTION CONTINUES; [...] (C) Summary: Ruling party militants continue their campaign of violent retribution against opposition supporters, six weeks after Zimbabwe's presidential election ended. Since March 11, at least 18 people have died in political violence, bringing the total for the year to at least 54. The n [...]	2002-04-24 15:23:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAGR ASEC ZI
02HOCHIMINHCITY1140	HOA HAO MONK DEFIES GOVERNMENT ORDER AND CLIMBS A [...] (SBU) ON NOVEMBER 7, CONTROVERSIAL HOA HAO MONK NAM UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HO CHI 01140 110628Z LIEM (VO THANH LIEM) CLIMBED A TREE INSIDE THE COMPOUND OF HIS PRIVATE PAGODA FOR THE THIRD TIME IN EIGHT YEARS (SEE REFTEL),AFTER LOCAL AUTHORITIES GAVE HIM THREE [...]	2002-11-11 03:15:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
02HOCHIMINHCITY117	HCMC OFFICIALS CAN NOW RUN THE CITY [...] SUMMARY: IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE A TEST CASE FOR VIETNAM'S MAJOR CITIES, THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT HAS DEVOLVED SOME SIGNIFICANT POWERS TO HO CHI MINH CITY WITH THE ISSUANCE OF "DECREE 93" BY THE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER. THIS DECREE PERMITS HCMC FOR THE FIRST UNCLASSI [...]	2002-02-05 07:38:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV SOCI ETRD VM
02HOCHIMINHCITY1270	CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR FREEDOM FROM IT, IN DAK LAK AND GIA LAI PROVINCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DURING A RECENT TRIP TO DAK LAK AND GIA LAI PROVINCES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, THE CONSUL GENERAL MET WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMITTEES ON RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS (CRA). IN THESE MEETINGS, CRA OFFICIALS DESCRIBED THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SOUTHERN EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF VIETNAM (SECV) IN [...]	2002-12-11 04:40:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREF SOCI KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
02HOCHIMINHCITY131	"DEGA PROTESTANTISM" AND THE U.S. CONNECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AN ETHNIC MINORITY LEADER FROM GIA UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HO CHI 00131 01 OF 02 080617Z LAI PROVINCE RECENTLY DESCRIBED TO POLOFF A COMPLEX WEB OF SHIFTING LOCAL ALLIANCES AMONG THE ETHNIC GROUPS IN VIETNAM'S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS. MIXING RELIGION W [...]	2002-02-08 05:38:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREF PREL PGOV SOCI VM CB ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
02HOCHIMINHCITY203	VIETNAM'S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: REFUGEES WHO [...] (U) SUMMARY: DURING A MARCH 1-3 TRIP TO THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, CONGENOFFS MET WITH VILLAGERS IN TWO DAK LAK COMMUNITIES AND VISITED A PROTESTANT WORSHIP HOUSE IN ONE OF THE COMMUNITIES. SEVERAL OF THE VILLAGERS WERE ETHNIC MINORITY VIETNAMESE RETURNEES FROM CAMBODIA -- TWO OF WHOM HAD RETURN [...]	2002-03-04 16:14:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF PGOV PINS SOCI PREL KIRF VM CB HUMANR ETMIN
02HOCHIMINHCITY336	ETHNIC MINORITY RETURNEES -- REALITY SETS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SIX WEEKS AFTER THEIR UNHCR REPATRIATION AND THE ONSET OF REALITY, ETHNIC MINORITY RETURNEES HAVE OPENLY ARTICULATED THEIR REASONS FOR LEAVING VIETNAM FOR CAMBODIA - LACK OF FARMLAND, AND TO A SOMEWHAT LESSER EXTENT, RELIGION. ALL SIX OF THE UNHCR RETURNEES WE SPOKE TO ON A RE [...]	2002-04-06 02:17:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PGOV PINS SOCI PREL KIRF VM CB HUMANR ETMIN
02HOCHIMINHCITY39	CHRISTMAS IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: TOLERANCE AND REPRESSION FOR ETHNIC MINORITY PROTESTANTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ACCORDING TO TWO ETHNIC MINORITY LEADERS, ETHNIC MINORITY PROTESTANTS IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS ENCOUNTERED A MIXTURE OF TOLERANCE AND REPRESSION BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES AT CHRISTMASTIME. THERE WERE ALLEGED INCIDENTS OF SEVERE POLICE ABUSE IN SOME VILLAGES, BUT IN OTHER VILLAGES, AU [...]	2002-01-15 14:16:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PGOV PINS SOCI PREL KIRF VM CB RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
02HOCHIMINHCITY390	CROSSES, CADRES, AND CONVERSATIONS IN THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PLAIN WHITE CROSSES DREW THE ATTENTION OF CONGEN OFFICERS AS WE DROVE THROUGH THE CENTRAL HIGHLAND PROVINCE OF DAK LAK. A COFFEE BREAK IN NHAN CO COMMUNE IN DAK LAP DISTRICT ALLOWED FOR CASUAL CONVERSATION WITH SEVERAL OF THE VILLAGERS. LOCAL SECURITY OFFICERS KEPT INSERTING T [...]	2002-04-16 08:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PREF SOCI VM CB ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
02HOCHIMINHCITY394	EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE IN THE CENTRAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AN EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE PACKED THE COMPOUND OF A 90-YEAR-OLD WOODEN CHURCH WITH THOUSANDS OF ETHNIC MINORITY CATHOLIC WORSHIPPERS FROM VILLAGES IN KON TUM PROVINCE IN VIETNAM'S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS. THE TWO-HOUR SERVICE, CONDUCTED ENTIRELY IN ETHNIC LANGUAGES, INCORPORATED TRIBAL [...]	2002-04-17 09:43:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PREF SOCI VM CB RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
02HOCHIMINHCITY728	NEW SECRETARY GENERAL OF CENTRAL FATHERLAND [...] ON JULY 2, MR. HUYNH DAM, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HO CHI 00728 221034Z HCMC PEOPLE'S COUNCIL AND DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE HCMC COMMUNIST PARTY COMMITTEE, TOOK OFFICE AS THE NEW SECRETARY GENERAL OF VIETNAM'S CENTRAL FATHERLAND FRONT SIPD [...]	2002-07-22 09:22:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR VM
02HOCHIMINHCITY966	POLICE QUESTION DR. NGUYEN DAN QUE [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST DR. NGUYEN DAN QUE VERBALLY SPARRED WITH POLICE AND OTHER SECURITY PERSONNEL FOR FOUR HOURS ON SEPTEMBER 20, WHEN THEY UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HO CHI 00966 01 OF 02 240817Z APPEARED AT HIS HOME IN AN ATTEMPT TO BRING [...]	2002-09-24 08:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM VM HUMANR
02ISTANBUL1933	ISTANBUL'S MARKET ANALYSTS COME TO TERMS WITH [...] (C) Summary: While much of Istanbul's secular establishment remains wary and suspicious of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development (AK) party, soundings among market insiders in Istanbul on the eve of Sunday's polls show a more nuanced view among the city's business elite. In contrast [...]	2002-11-01 16:04:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TU
02ISTANBUL2101	Istanbul Anti-War Protest [...] (U) Around 5,000 people in Istanbul protested against a possible U.S.-led operation against Iraq on Sunday. The anti-war demonstration was organized with the participation of more than 170 NGOs, including the country's three big unions: Turk-Is (the Confederation of Turkish Labor Unions),the [...]	2002-12-03 13:07:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU
02ISTANBUL2107	ANNAN CYPRUS PLAN: ISTANBUL COMMENTATORS [...] (C) Summary: Turks in Istanbul continue to debate the merits and drawbacks of a possible Cyprus settlement in the wake of Denktas's acceptance of the UN plan as a "basis for negotiations." Consensus among the experts with whom we have spoken in Istanbul (including Turkish Cypriots, journalist [...]	2002-12-04 10:00:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU GR CY UN
02ISTANBUL2195	LIMITED COPENHAGEN FALLOUT FAILS TO PROVIDE RELIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: The week after Copenhagen has been a tough one on Turkey's financial markets. The Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) has slumped dramatically, losing over 14 percent of its value, the Turkish lira has depreciated 7 percent, and interest rates on lira-denominated Treasury bills have [...]	2002-12-23 12:56:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN TU
02JAKARTA1407	EAST TIMOR: XANANA GUSMAO WINS PRESIDENCY; [...] SUMMARY. NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE HERO XANANA GUSMAO HAS WON A RESOUNDING VICTORY TO BECOME THE FIRST-EVER ELECTED PRESIDENT OF EAST TIMOR. XANANA WON 83 PERCENT OF ALL VALID VOTES CAST. XANANA, WHILE MINDFUL OF THE PRESIDENT'S CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS, INTENDS TO PLAY A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN [...]	2002-04-18 01:36:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV UN
02JAKARTA1853	RELIGOUS EXTREMISTS SEEKING "SHORTCUT TO [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POLOFF I. REED, REASON 1. 5 (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: COORDINATING PEOPLE'S WELFARE MINISTER JUSUF KALLA TOLD VISITING EAP A/S JAMES KELLY MAY 18 THAT ECONOMIC MARGINALIZATION OF LOCALS WAS THE ROOT CAUSE OF INDONESIA'S COMMUNAL AND SEPARATIST CONFLICTS. HE DOWNPLAYED THE IMP [...]	2002-05-22 05:41:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ID US
02JAKARTA685	EAST TIMOR: XANANA GUSMAO -- FINALLY -- DECLARES [...] SUMMARY. NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE HERO XANANA GUSMAO DECLARED HIS INTENT TO BECOME THE FIRST-EVER ELECTED PRESIDENT OF EAST TIMOR. WITH LESS THAN 90 MINUTES TO GO BEFORE THE FILING DEADLINE EXPIRED, GUSMAO ACCEPTED THE NOMINATION OF MINOR OPPOSITION PARTIES TO THE CHAGRIN OF THE MAJORITY PARTY [...]	2002-02-27 10:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV UN
02JAKARTA97	YUDHOYONO ASKS FOR U.S. HELP [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY CHARGE STEPHEN D. MULL FOR REASON 1.5(D). 2. (C) SUMMARY. COORDINATING MINISTER FOR POLITICAL AND SECURITY AFFAIRS YUDHOYONO TOLD CHARGE JANUARY 9 THAT THE GOI NOW HAS POLITICAL SPACE TO ACT FIRMLY AGAINST RADICAL GROUPS. YUDHOYONO ASKED THAT THE U.S. HELP IMPROVE THE ANTI [...]	2002-01-09 11:42:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV MASS ID
02JERUSALEM2756	FATAH LEADER ON HAMAS CELL IN JERUSALEM [...] (C) SUMMARY: A SENIOR FATAH OFFICIAL AND PLC MEMBER CRITICIZED HAMAS FOR CONDUCTING OPERATIONS IN JERUSALEM, SAYING THIS WAS PART OF A WIDER COMPETITION BETWEEN FATAH AND HAMAS OVER WHICH DIRECTION TO TAKE THE RESISTANCE. THE DISCOVERY OF A HAMAS CELL IN EAST JERUSALEM WILL COMPLICATE THE ONG [...]	2002-08-22 15:28:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL IS
02KATHMANDU1004	NEPAL POLICE CLAIM VICTORY AGAINST MAOIST VALLEY [...] (SBU) Speaking before a group of Nepal Police officers at an Embassy-sponsored presentation, police chief Rana claimed a victory over Maoist leadership in the Kathmandu Valley, stating police efforts had netted the valley bureau leaders. Afterwards, RSO queried Rana over the veracity of local [...]	2002-05-23 12:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU1005	PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED; ELECTIONS CALLED FOR [...] (C) Summary. Nepal's King on May 22 announced the dissolution of Parliament and called elections for November 13 after a faction of the ruling party refused to support Prime Minister Deuba's attempt to extend the state of emergency. The ruling party then kicked out the PM May 23. Three Minis [...]	2002-05-23 13:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER ASEC PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU1007	PM: "NO ALTERNATIVE" BUT TO DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT [...] (C) In a May 23 meeting with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Ambassador Malinowski and British Charge Andrew Mitchell emphasized that the dissolution of Parliament presents the PM with a rare opportunity to form a technocrat, reformist Cabinet that could re-institute good governance, elim [...]	2002-05-23 14:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
02KATHMANDU1008	KING'S VIEWS ON DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...]	2002-05-23 16:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
02KATHMANDU1009	KING'S VIEWS ON DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...]	2002-05-23 17:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
02KATHMANDU1036	FINANCE MINISTER RESIGNS IN ANGER, BUT HOPES TO [...] (C) Summary. Three Ministers resigned May 23 because the Prime Minister had not consulted them on the decision to suspend Parliament, Finance Minister Mahat told Ambassador May 24. Even so, Mahat said he was prepared to stay in the Cabinet under the right conditions. Mahat was especially bi [...]	2002-05-24 12:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU1037	KOIRALA CAMP CLAIMS CONSPIRACY IN DISSOLUTION OF [...] (C) Supporters of Nepali Congress Party President and former Prime Minister G.P. Koirala are, predictably enough, branding Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's unexpected decision to dissolve Parliament (Reftels) a threat to democracy. The Koirala camp obviously miscalculated the PM's likely [...]	2002-05-24 13:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1053	ARMY AND POLICE SUCCESSFULLY REPULSE ATTACK ON [...] Local papers report that the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) inflicted heavy casualties on Maoist insurgents who were attempting to overrun a security forces camp in Khara, Rukum (one of the five districts comprising the Maoist heartland). Maoists attacked the camp, garrisoned by approximately 50 RN [...]	2002-05-28 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV ASEC NP
02KATHMANDU1055	NEPALI CONGRESS PARTY REVOKES PM'S MEMBERSHIP; [...] (C) Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was expelled from the Nepali Congress Party for three years on May 26. As a counterattack, Deuba plans to call a party General Convention, with the possible aim of deposing Nepali Congress Party President G.P. Koirala from his post. On May 27 King Gyan [...]	2002-05-28 11:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1091	RECONCILIATION EFFORTS IN NEPALI CONGRESS PARTY [...] (C) Efforts to reconcile intra-party rivals Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister G.P. Koirala appear headed in the right direction. Koirala has directed party peacemakers to patch things up during his upcoming jaunt to China June 1. In a [...]	2002-05-31 12:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1105	MAOISTS KILL NGO WORKER; MORE WFP SUSPENSIONS [...] (SBU) The Plan International (PI) representative for western Nepal's Bajhang district, a Nepalese national, was tortured and killed by Maoist rebels May 31, the organization's country director confirmed. Two other men were also killed in related incidents, according to June 3 press reports. [...]	2002-06-04 12:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC EAID ELAB PHUM PINR NP
02KATHMANDU1119	REHABILITATING A CONTROVERSIAL CROWN PRINCE [...] (C/NF) Summary. Visiting USAID consultant Dr. Scott Palmer briefed Nepal's Crown Prince Paras May 30 on similarities between Nepal's Maoists and Peru's Shining Path. The meeting marked Paras' first formal contact with U.S. officials as Crown Prince. (Note: Nepal's Royal Palace has asked th [...]	2002-06-06 09:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU1146	DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT CHALLENGED IN SUPREME [...] (SBU) Four cases have been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the May 22 dissolution of the Lower House of Parliament (Reftel). The cases will be heard June 19. Two Constitutional experts believe that defendant Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has the stronger case. Both cautioned, ho [...]	2002-06-10 09:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1174	ARMY, MAOISTS BATTLE IN SOUTHWESTERN NEPAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Two Royal Nepal Army (RNA) platoons battled an estimated 100-200 Maoists the night of June 12 in a remote location in Salyan District, about 320 km west of Kathmandu. Preliminary casualty counts indicate from 3-8 RNA killed, 3 missing, and more than 20 wounded. The battle was [...]	2002-06-13 11:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MCAP PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU1191	SECURITY FORCES' PROGRESS AND PITFALLS EAST OF [...] (SBU) Government of Nepal (GON) security forces have made progress against Maoist insurgents over the last few months in the district directly east of Kathmandu, according to the Chief District Officer (CDO) and head of the local police. Maoist excesses, along with better cooperation between t [...]	2002-06-17 08:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS MOPS PHUM NP
02KATHMANDU1198	ARMY COUNTS VICTORY IN SALYAN WHILE MAOIST ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary. Nepal's army has confirmed that fifty-four Maoists and four Nepalese soldiers were killed during the June 12 clash in Salyan district (Ref A). One general ascribed the army's success to better weapons and training, although other military sources related that the Maoists' ambush [...]	2002-06-18 12:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ASEC PHUM PREL PINR NP
02KATHMANDU1199	RULING PARTY RUMBLE: NEPALI CONGRESS PARTY [...] (SBU) As predicted (Ref A),supporters of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba have called a General Convention of the Nepali Congress Party with the aim of deposing Party President and former PM Girija Prasad Koirala from his post. The motion to oust Koirala from the party leadership is expect [...]	2002-06-18 12:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1216	NEPAL'S KING HEADS TO INDIA AFTER COMPLETING FIRST [...] (C) Summary. The first trip abroad as monarch by Nepal's King Gyanendra will be a visit to India June 23-30. Gyanendra laid the groundwork for the trip in his first-ever interview with the foreign press, granted to a leading Indian daily, when he played to India's conservative government by e [...]	2002-06-20 12:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER NP
02KATHMANDU1255	NEPAL: IS THE STATE OF EMERGENCY NECESSARY? [...] (C) When Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba decided to dissolve Parliament, he cited MPs' refusal to extend the state of national emergency as a primary reason (Ref A). Legal experts and others, however, hold different opinions on the continued need of the state of emergency, as Parliament pas [...]	2002-06-26 10:40:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP GON
02KATHMANDU1284	Anti-Corruption Efforts in Nepal [...] (U) Ref A requested a brief summary of recent and notable anti-corruption efforts in Nepal by the government, civil society and the private sector. 2. (SBU) Corruption is a serious and pervasive problem in Nepal, and is being recognized increasingly by both donors and government leaders as [...]	2002-07-01 11:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PGOV SNAR PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU1285	NEPAL: PROSPECTS FOR ELECTIONS CLOUDED BY [...] (C) Despite Prime Minister Deuba's repeated assurances that the Government of Nepal will proceed with national elections on schedule, the Embassy finds increasing numbers of commentators who express significant concern that elections can be held as planned. Questions about the ability of t [...]	2002-07-01 13:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
02KATHMANDU1309	MAOIST PARTY PLENUM DECRIES ELECTIONS; CASTIGATES [...] (C) Summary: An undated Maoist press release, signed by Party President Prachanda, reported the successful conclusion of a Party plenum. The Nepali-language release outlines the contents of a "political and organizational proposal" presented by Prachanda which highlights a purported U.S. plo [...]	2002-07-05 10:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU1314	INDIA VISIT EXCEEDED EXPECTATIONS, NEPAL'S KING [...] (C) Summary. King Gyanendra's week-long visit to India in late June "exceeded his expectations," a businessman close to Nepal's monarch told the Ambassador July 3. In New Delhi the King received assurances of Indian support conditioned on the maintenance of Nepal's constitutional monarchy and [...]	2002-07-05 11:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR NP IN
02KATHMANDU1315	Bomb Explodes at PM's Party Headquarters [...] (U) A bomb exploded July 5 at the newly-opened Kathmandu office of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's faction of the Nepali Congress Party (NCP) around 10:45 a.m. local time. Police sources confirmed ten people injured and hospitalized. One remains in critical condition. Security forces im [...]	2002-07-05 11:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU1336	PRESS FREEDOM UNDER NEPAL'S STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the beginning of the State of Emergency in Nepal, 123 journalists have been arrested, with 35 still detained, three tortured, and one reportedly killed. Inaccuracy and partisanship in the press have led to government mistrust and restrictions on publications. Press reacti [...]	2002-07-10 03:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI PTER NP
02KATHMANDU1348	NEPAL'S ELECTION COMMISSION REQUESTS DONOR [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see Para 13. ------------- SUMMARY ------------- 2. (SBU) Summary: Despite growing concern that security considerations and other factors may force the cancellation of national elections planned for November 13 (reftel),the Government of Nepal [...]	2002-07-11 06:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID PREL NP GON

02KATHMANDU1371	LARGE GROUP OF NEPALI MAOISTS ATTACK VILLAGE, [...] (C) Summary. Several hundred Maoists attacked a village near western Nepal's largest city July 10, killing two mainstream party workers apparently in retaliation for cooperating with security forces. The attackers also brutalized other villagers and warned family members of the victims not t [...]	2002-07-15 11:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ASEC PHUM PREL NP
02KATHMANDU1372	NEPAL'S ARMY SETS UP HUMAN RIGHTS CELL [...] (C) Summary. Nepal's army has set up a cell to investigate reported human rights violations, the Defense Ministry announced July 10. A high-ranking officer agreed to consider offers of USG assistance for the newly-created office. The cell has reportedly been established because human rights [...]	2002-07-15 11:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL MARR NP
02KATHMANDU1373	Maoist Leader Calls September 16 General Strike, [...] (SBU) In a press release dated July 11, Prachanda, President of Nepal's Maoist Central Committee, called for a nation-wide general strike September 16. It would be the first such show of force since late April (Reftel). The release also charges "feudal elements" backed by "foreign imperialist [...]	2002-07-15 13:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU1387	Nepal's Local Officials Stay Home as PM Allows [...] (SBU) Summary. Nepal's government allowed the terms of local-level elected officials to lapse on July 16, a move affecting around 200,000 village-, municipality- and district-level politicians. Civil servants reportedly will be tasked with performing their functions. The terms expired after [...]	2002-07-17 13:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC PTER PREL PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU1407	Press Release Shows Maoists Feeling Heat [...] (SBU) In a July 18 press release, Prachanda, President of Nepal's Maoist Central Committee, called for a political solution to the present conflict in the form of a new interim government and expressed the Maoists' willingness to be flexible. Making what appears to be a pitch to mainstream po [...]	2002-07-19 11:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU1408	GROWING NEPAL-INDIA COOPERATION AGAINST MAOISTS [...] (C) Summary. The recent arrest of four Nepali Maoists in New Delhi and their immediate extradition to Nepal, confirmed by the Indian Embassy here, is one of many signs of growing Nepal-India cooperation on efforts against the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. The four were members of a Maoist-affi [...]	2002-07-19 11:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ASEC PGOV PHUM NP
02KATHMANDU1435	PM DEUBA SAYS LOCAL POLLS TO FOLLOW NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Nepal's Prime Minister Deuba briefed donors July 23 on preparations for upcoming elections and efforts to manage local-level government bodies in the absence of elected representatives. Deuba said rolling local elections into the national elections slated for November was imprac [...]	2002-07-24 11:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU1465	NEPAL'S NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION FLOUNDERS [...] (C) Summary: A founding member of Nepal's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) was suspended from the body on July 24 for "behavior unbecoming the glory of the post." The incident underlines serious flaws in the NHRC: members' strong political affiliations have led to a polarization of [...]	2002-07-29 01:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI PTER PREL NP
02KATHMANDU1478	NEPAL'S CROWN PRINCESS GIVES BIRTH TO SON [...] No summary [...]	2002-07-30 13:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR NP
02KATHMANDU1507	Recent Army Successes Against Maoists [...] (SBU) Summary. Fifteen Maoists were killed in Dolakha district August 3 after security forces, acting on a tip, intercepted them making the rounds of a bazaar to collect "donations," a Home Ministry official confirmed. Twelve others were killed August 1 after authorities learned of their pla [...]	2002-08-05 11:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU1515	Supreme Court Ruling Allows Dissolution of [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 6, Nepal's Supreme Court threw out four petitions challenging the Prime Minister's May decision to dissolve Parliament. The court's decision cleared the way for national elections to be held later this year. End Summary. Supreme Court Denies Request to Reinstate P [...]	2002-08-06 12:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU1532	Maoist Students Bomb Kathmandu School, Injuring [...] (SBU) Summary. Students shouting Maoist slogans set off a bomb at a private business college in Kathmandu August 8, injuring six. The school occupies a building owned by the King's Press Secretary, who lives next door and was not harmed. The motive for the attack is unclear as no large-scal [...]	2002-08-08 06:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU1590	Nepal's Forthcoming Elections: What the U.S. Can [...] Nepal is preparing to hold national elections beginning November 13, followed by local elections sometime around April, 2003. The ongoing violent Maoist insurgency will complicate security arrangements and increase expenditures at a time when economic conditions are deteriorating. Moreover, r [...]	2002-08-16 11:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EAID PREL PHUM NP GON
02KATHMANDU1616	SIGNING OF NEPAL-ILO AGREEMENT ON US-FUNDED [...] Nepal and the ILO signed an agreement August 20 on the implementation of an ILO/IPEC time-bound project to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. USDOL has funded the project with more than USD 5 Million. DCM and LabOff attended the signing ceremony. 2. Talks on the terms of the agreem [...]	2002-08-20 11:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EAID PGOV AORC NP
02KATHMANDU1618	Seventeen Nepalese Bureaucrats Arrested in Anti- [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 10. 2. (SBU) Summary. Seventeen Nepalese public officials have been arrested after the government body charged with investigating corruption raided the homes of 22 revenue officers on August 17. The houses of two joint secretaries were among [...]	2002-08-20 12:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM SNAR PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU1619	PROMINENT MAOIST SURRENDERS TO HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) On August 19 Mukti Pradhan, a member of the Maoist Joint Revolutionary Council on the Government of Nepal's most wanted list, surrendered to members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). In a press conference at NHRC, Pradhan said he had decided to turn himself in because he w [...]	2002-08-20 12:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU1626	NEPALI GOVERNMENT HANDS LOCAL GOVERNMENT OVER TO [...] (SBU) Having allowed the terms of all locally elected officials to expire as of July 16 (reftel),the Government of Nepal (GON) has announced plans to transfer local bodies' functions and authority to civil servants until elections can be held in April and new representatives installed in Jul [...]	2002-08-21 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID NP GON
02KATHMANDU1640	UPDATE ON MAOIST INSURGENCY: JULY-AUGUST 2002 [...] (U) This message highligts significant events in the Maoist insurgency since July. On August 21 the Royal Nepal Army (RNA) attacked a Maoist training camp in Rolpa, reportedly killing 30 insurgents. Maoists continue to attack civilians and rural infrastructure, but staged no large-scale atta [...]	2002-08-22 13:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV MCAP NP
02KATHMANDU1674	BOMB BLAST MARS LAPSE OF EMERGENCY IN NEPAL [...] (SBU) A mid-morning bomb blast in the heart of Kathmandu's commercial center marred the August 28 lapse of the state of national emergency. One person was injured in the blast, which is believed to have been set by Maoist insurgents. The explosion marked the second bombing in Kathmandu in [...]	2002-08-28 12:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV ASEC CASC NP
02KATHMANDU1693	MORE EXPLOSIONS IN KATHMANDU AS STRIKE DATE NEARS [...] (SBU) Maoist insurgents continued their campaign of bombings in urban areas of the Kathmandu Valley throughout a long holiday weekend August 30-September 1. The explosions targeted businesses in the city, although two armed invasions of the homes of prominent politicians were also reported. [...]	2002-09-03 11:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV ASEC CASC NP
02KATHMANDU1694	POLICE DISRUPT PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF TIBETAN [...] (U) On September 2 local police halted the Tibetan community's religious celebration of Tibet's "Democracy Day" and detained Office of Tibet Representative Wangchuk Tsering and another man for several hours. The celebration, which had been originally scheduled to be held on the grounds of th [...]	2002-09-03 12:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PHUM PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU1705	NEPAL'S PREPARATIONS FOR WTO WORKING PARTY MEETING [...] (SBU) Upcoming general elections on November 13 do not seem to have impeded preparations by the Government of Nepal (GON) for its second Working Party meeting on accession to the WTO September 12. Accession to the WTO has broad, multipartisan support, and the process is unlikely to be negati [...]	2002-09-04 11:20:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1741	MAOISTS STAGE MAJOR ATTACKS IN EAST AND WEST [...] (SBU) In their largest actions against the security forces since the onset of the monsoon in May, late September 7 Maoist insurgents attacked a police post in a remote area of eastern Sindhuli District, about 100 km southeast of Kathmandu, and the local government headquarters in Arghakanchi [...]	2002-09-09 13:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU1748	NEPAL: INFLUENTIAL MINISTER ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION [...] (U) Minister for Physical Planning Chiranjibi Wagle, a close confidante of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and perhaps the most influential member of his Cabinet, submitted his resignation from the Cabinet to the PM September 9. The resignation follows in-depth press coverage of Wagle's f [...]	2002-09-10 11:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1762	SPECULATON BUILDS FOR POSSIBLE ROYAL INTERVENTION [...] (C) The Embassy believes that King Gyanendra is now actively considering use of his Constitutional authority to dismiss the current government, appoint an interim government, and postpone general elections scheduled for November 13. The King's decision is likely shaped by numerous factors, i [...]	2002-09-11 10:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
02KATHMANDU1772	PM WORRIED ABOUT RUMORS OF KINGLY INTERVENTION [...] (C) In a September 12 meeting with the Ambassador and UK Ambassador Keith Bloomfield, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba seemed clearly distressed by rumors that King Gyanendra wants to postpone the November 13 national elections, "seize power" by invoking Clause 127 of the Constitution, and s [...]	2002-09-12 10:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
02KATHMANDU1774	NEPAL'S GOVERNMENT DISMISSES AS INSINCERE MAOIST [...] (U) On September 11 Maoist leader Prachanda issued a press statement calling for a ceasefire. The statement does not refer to the U.S. directly, but contains a general condemnation of the Government of Nepal (GON) "running to buy weapons to kill people." Should the GON proceed with its pla [...]	2002-09-12 11:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU1781	NEPAL'S KING SAYS NOT YET TIME TO INTERVENE [...] (C) In a September 12 meeting, King Gyanendra assured the Ambassador that he would not use his constitutional authority to intervene in the government unless he gains public national consensus on the move from all mainstream political parties and unless all other constitutional remedies were [...]	2002-09-12 08:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
02KATHMANDU1797	NEPAL: MAOIST STRIKE GENERALLY OBSERVED IN [...] (U) The general strike, or "bandh," called by Maoist insurgents nationwide for September 16 appeared to have been generally observed in the Kathmandu metropolitan area. Only about five percent of the shops along main thoroughfares in the city opened (although some along less-traveled side st [...]	2002-09-16 12:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU1811	NEPAL'S ELECTION COMMISSION RULES AGAINST PRIME [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 17 the Election Commission (EC) handed down what it described as a provisional decision that the faction of the Nepali Congress Party led by former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress Party President Girija Prasad Koirala has the right to use the party name, symbol [...]	2002-09-17 11:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1831	NEPAL'S NEW CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF, GENERAL PYAR JUNG [...] (U) General Pyar Jung Thapa (DPOB 15 September 1946; Siphal, Kathmandu, Nepal) was appointed Chief of Army Staff (COAS) by King Gyanendra on September 9, 2002. His previous position, held since 2001, was Chief of General Staff (CGS). 2. (U) Thapa has received extensive training from both th [...]	2002-09-19 12:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR MCAP PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU1853	NEPAL'S MAOISTS ANNOUNCE NEW PROGRAM OF AGITATION [...] (C) Maoist insurgents, apparently hoping to keep up the momentum from their successful September 16 general strike, have announced a fresh campaign of agitation, including a three-day general strike preceding scheduled national Parliamentary elections in November. The press release, dated S [...]	2002-09-23 09:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV CASC NP
02KATHMANDU1872	American Climbers Fired Upon Near Tibetan [...] (SBU) Summary. Two men wearing what appeared to be military uniforms and carrying automatic weapons fired a series of five shots at American climbers David Morton and Jeff Lamoureux in the Upper Solu Khumbu region near Nepal's border with Tibet, Morton reported to Post via e-mail. The incide [...]	2002-09-26 09:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PTER PGOV ASEC NP
02KATHMANDU1901	NEPAL: ALL-PARTY CONSENSUS TO POSTPONE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: On September 29 an all-party meeting recommended that national parliamentary elections, originally scheduled to begin November 13, be postponed. The recommendation--reached just one day after the Election Commission finally announced the long-awaited schedule for the polls--was [...]	2002-09-30 12:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1902	AMCIT CLIMBERS DISCUSS SHOOTING INCIDENT [...] (SBU) On September 20, American climbers David Morton and Jeff Lamoureaux were fired upon by two men wearing what they believe were Chinese military uniforms and one of whom stated that he belonged to the Chinese military (ref). Altitude readings taken by the climbers and landmarks near their [...]	2002-09-30 13:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PGOV ASEC NP CH
02KATHMANDU1903	CHINESE PRESSURE STIFLES TIBETANS IN NEPAL [...] (C) There have been increasing restrictions on the Tibetan refugee community in Nepal. Celebrations and cultural events have been canceled on short notice by government authorities, press conferences interrupted by police and the Office of Tibet Representative detained for a day. Although ma [...]	2002-10-01 01:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	CH NP PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
02KATHMANDU1925	NEPALI PM ASKS KING TO POSTPONE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Sources at the Palace have informed the Ambassador that on October 3 Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, citing the King's broadly worded authority under Clause 127 of the Constitution to remedy "difficulties" arising in the implementation of the Constitution, requested King Gyanendra to p [...]	2002-10-03 10:53:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1932	NEPAL'S KING ASSUMES EXECUTIVE POWERS, DISMISSES [...] (U) At approximately 11:00 p.m. local time on October 4, King Gyanendra announced on state-run television and radio that he had dismissed the government of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba because of its "incompetence" in being unable to hold mid-term elections, scheduled to begin November 1 [...]	2002-10-05 05:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1933	REFUGEES CONFIRM DETAILS OF SHOOTING INCIDENT AT [...] (C) PolOff met with UNHCR Protection Officer regarding a group of Tibetans involved in the incident near Nangpa-La in which two American climbers were fired upon by unknown individuals. Neither American was injured in the encounter (refs). Information related by the refugees is consistent wit [...]	2002-10-07 01:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	CH NP PGOV CASC ASEC
02KATHMANDU1938	NEPAL: REACTIONS TO KING'S ASSUMPTION OF [...] (C) After initially denouncing King Gyanendra's October 4 assumption of executive power (Ref A) as unconstitutional, leaders of most political parties are still coming to grips with--and trying to assess how best to turn to their advantage--the monarch's action. As of COB October 7, most pa [...]	2002-10-07 12:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1947	NEPAL: PARTIES SCRAMBLE FOR CONSENSUS AS DEADLINE [...] (C) As the deadline set by King Gyanendra for nominations to an interim Cabinet approaches, politicians are scrambling to patch together a consensus response to the monarch's dismissal of the government of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his assumption of executive power October 4 [...]	2002-10-08 12:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1955	NEPAL: PARTIES LOOKING FOR "FLEXIBILITY" FROM KING [...] (C) The October 9 deadline set by King Gyanendra for political parties to forward their nominations for the interim Cabinet (Reftel) appears ready to pass without any names having been submitted. A Palace source said the parties had so far sent no nominations to the King. The King, who does [...]	2002-10-10 00:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1964	NEPAL'S EX-PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES HIS OUSTER BY [...] (C) SUMMARY. IN A MEETING ON OCTOBER 7 WITH THE AMBASSADOR, SHER BAHADUR DEUBA DESCRIBED THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING HIS OCTOBER 4 DISMISSAL AS PRIME MINISTER BY KING GYANENDRA. CLEARLY STUNG BY THE KING'S PUBLIC CRITICISM OF HIS COMPETENCE, DEUBA SAID THAT HE HAD REJECTED ON CONSTITUTIONA [...]	2002-10-10 08:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1970	NEPALI MAOISTS ATTACK FOREIGN HYDRO PROJECT; [...] (C) On October 8 Maoist insurgents attacked a Norwegian hydropower project northeast of Kathmandu, cutting its power production in half. The motive for the attack, according to a Nepali employee of the company, was "out-and-out extortion," rather than anti-Western ideolgoy. The same day sus [...]	2002-10-10 10:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU1988	NEPAL KING NAMES NEW PM, MEMBERS OF CABINET [...] (C) On October 11 King Gyanendra appointed National Democratic Party Leader Lokendra Bahadur Chand as Prime Minister. Chand, who has been PM three times before, will head a caretaker government until national elections can be held on an unspecified date. Biographic information on Chand foll [...]	2002-10-11 12:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU2033	NEPAL SUPREME COURT REJECTS PETITION QUESTIONING [...] On October 23 the Supreme Court rejected a petition, filed by a private attorney, contesting King Gyanendra's action in forming an interim government (Reftels) as unconstitutional. According to the Supreme Court registrar, the Court threw out the case because the King's action was warranted [...]	2002-10-24 12:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2035	NEPAL: MAOIST ACTIVITIES CONTINUE DESPITE NEW [...] (SBU) This message updates Maoist activities since the October 11 appointment of Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand. Efforts by Chand's Cabinet to initiate dialogue with the insurgents have so far succeeded in lessening neither the Maoists' violent activities nor their anti-government rh [...]	2002-10-24 13:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PHUM NP
02KATHMANDU2044	NEPAL: SA DAS CAMP MEETINGS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) In October 23 meetings with Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs Donald Camp and the SIPDIS Ambassador, newly appointed Foreign Minister Narendra Bikram Shah and Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya both stressed that the change in government will not affect Nepal's inclin [...]	2002-10-25 11:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PINR NP IN LICC
02KATHMANDU2052	KATHMANDU VALLEY STRIKE OBSERVED; MAOISTS CLAIM [...] (SBU) Four people were slightly injured in a series of small explosions in the heart of Kathmandu--including two in or near the Thamel tourist district--October 27. The Maoists' October 28 strike in the Kathmandu Valley and October 27 strike in the southern Terai plains region bordering Indi [...]	2002-10-28 11:47:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PGOV CASC NP
02KATHMANDU2057	SA DAS CAMP MEETING WITH NEPAL'S CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF AND NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETARIAT C-TN2-00948 [...] (C) Summary. In two separate meetings on October 22 2002, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia, Donald A. Camp, accompanied by LTC James E Oxley IV, Defense Attache7 and MAJ Pete Fowler, Security Assistance Office, met with Royal Nepalese Army Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Pyar Jun [...]	2002-10-30 05:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV MARR MASS NP PREL
02KATHMANDU2060	NEPAL CORRUPTION AUTHORITY TAKES ON EX-MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Despite the recent change in government, the Commission for Investigation into the Abuse of Authority (CIAA),the autonomous constitutional body charged with prosecuting corruption, is continuing to pursue a number of high-profile cases against several former ministers and prominent civ [...]	2002-10-30 08:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM SNAR NP
02KATHMANDU2066	NEPAL: NEW FINANCE MINISTER OUTLINES PRIORITIES [...] (U) This cable contains business-sensitive information and should be handled accordingly. ------------ Summary ------------ 2. (SBU) Summary. On October 25, the Ambassador and USAID Director met with Nepal's newly appointed Finance Minister. The Finance Minister articulated the immediat [...]	2002-10-30 10:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV GON
02KATHMANDU2070	NEPAL: MAOISTS CONTINUE TO ROB FOREIGN TREKKERS [...] SUMMARY: In late September Maoist rebels attempted to extort money from a group of foreign climbers in far northeastern Nepal, forcing them to fly back to Kathmandu. This incident reflects no departure from a longstanding pattern of occasional robbery by Maoists of foreign trekkers and cli [...]	2002-10-30 11:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV CASC PTER ASEC NP
02KATHMANDU2091	TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN: THE NEPALI PARTIES' [...] (C) King Gyanendra's dismissal of the government of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and appointment of an interim government have spotlighted long-standing tensions--and mutual suspicions--between the political parties and the Palace. Conversations with leaders of the two largest po [...]	2002-11-01 13:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2152	NEPAL: UPDATE ON MAOIST ACTIVITIES, NOV 2-14 [...] Maoist bombs claimed the lives of at least two children during the last two weeks, adding to the more than 100 children reported killed by the ongoing violence. Among other incidents taking place during the same period, 50 Village Development Committee offices and at least 20 post offices wer [...]	2002-11-15 01:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	NP PGOV PTER PHUM CASC
02KATHMANDU2169	NEPAL: MAOISTS LAUNCH SIMULTANEOUS ATTACKS ON [...] (U) At about midnight November 15, Maoist insurgents launched an attack on the headquarters in Jumla District in northwestern Nepal. Communications with the headquarters were cut immediately after the attack, and accurate information remains difficult to obtain. Initial reports indicate tha [...]	2002-11-15 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2188	NEPAL: MAOIST SPOKESMAN PUSHES PARTY LINE ON CNN [...] Summary: Krishna Bahadur Mahara, one of the top leaders of Nepal's Maoist insurgency, granted an interview to CNN on November 14. Mahara, speaking in an open setting with no apparent fear of capture, unabashedly used the opportunity to spread misinformation and propaganda on the international [...]	2002-11-18 12:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	NP PGOV PTER PHUM IN PREL
02KATHMANDU2189	NEPAL: CABINET EXPANSION [...] (SBU) The interim Government of Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand announced an expansion of its 9-member Cabinet to 22 on November 18. The new names included no one from either of the two largest political parties, the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Le [...]	2002-11-18 12:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU2217	NEPAL'S MAOIST INSURGENCY UNDERMINES [...] SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: While the people of Nepal have borne the brunt of the brutal seven-year Maoist insurgency, which has claimed more than 7000 lives, the impact on Nepal's environment, natural resources and conservation efforts also has been severe. Maoist attacks on forest and park p [...]	2002-11-22 08:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PGOV ECON EAGR PTER EAID TBIO XD NP
02KATHMANDU2223	NEPAL: BRIGADE COMMANDER SAYS MAOISTS SLOWLY [...] (C) At a briefing at 3rd Brigade Headquarters in Pokhara November 20, Brig. Gen. Prakash Basnet told DATT and poloff he believes the Maoists are "slowly winning." After making significant inroads against the Maoists during the first three months of the state of emergency (late November-mid-F [...]	2002-11-22 09:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS MASS PGOV PTER NP
02KATHMANDU2228	NEPAL: UPDATE ON MAOIST ACTIVITIES, NOV 15-21 [...] (U) Summary: Nepal's Maoist insurgents continued their violence this week, killing at least fourteen civilians in brutal attacks around the country. Two children, aged fourteen and nine, were among the victims. In Kathmandu Valley, the rebels assassinated a police officer, burned a Village [...]	2002-11-22 10:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NP PGOV PTER PHUM CASC IN
02KATHMANDU2237	MAOIST IMPACT: NEPAL'S FORESTS UNDER SIEGE [...] SUMMARY: The impact of the Maoist insurgency has not been limited to Nepal's national parks and conservation areas (septel). The assault on the country's wildlife has been accompanied by a plundering of forest and other plant resources. Biodiversity resources of global significance are thre [...]	2002-11-25 08:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PGOV ECON EAGR PTER EAID TBIO XD NP
02KATHMANDU2264	NEPAL: ARMY PLAN TO INITIATE INDUSTRIAL SECURITY [...] (C) In a November 21 meeting with Ambassadors and Nepali business leaders, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen. Pyar Jung Thapa announced plans to form a 3,000-man "industrial security force" within the Royal Nepal Army (RNA). If approved by the Cabinet, this new force, which he expects to be ope [...]	2002-11-27 12:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS ECON PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2280	NEPAL: UPDATE ON MAOIST ACTIVITIES, NOV 22-29 [...] Summary: A year after Maoist insurgents unilaterally broke a four-month truce with the government, this week saw further reports of civilian deaths and widespread destruction of public facilities. As two United Nations agencies criticized the insurgency for exacerbating the already precarious [...]	2002-11-29 11:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	NP PGOV PTER PHUM CASC IN
02KATHMANDU2295	NEPALI CONGRESS STILL HOLDING HARD LINE AGAINST [...] (C) The polarization between the Palace-appointed interim government and mainstream political parties continues. Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister G.P. Koirala, who maintains that the previous Parliament should be reinstated, led a rally November 26 against the King's Octo [...]	2002-12-03 12:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP GON
02KATHMANDU2301	NEPAL: MAOISTS CALL INDEFINITE SCHOOL STRIKE [...] The Maoist student arm, All-Nepal National Free Student Union-Revolutionary, called for an indefinite school strike (or bandh) in Kathmandu Valley starting on December 9th. The Maoists are asking the Government of Nepal meet thirteen demands to avert the strike. The Government has neither made [...]	2002-12-04 11:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	NP PGOV PTER SOCI
02KATHMANDU2302	NEPAL: MAOISTS SEEKING DIALOGUE FOR TACTICAL ENDS [...] (C) A December 3 statement by Maoist leader Prachanda claimed that the insurgents are suspending violent attacks against infrastructure and against mainstream political party members in order to create a conducive environment for dialogue. Despite their frequent calls for dialogue with the [...]	2002-12-04 12:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2307	NEPAL: CHILDREN IN CONFLICT [...] Summary: Continued Maoist violence in Nepal has taken a severe toll on the country's children, both physically and mentally. More than 100 have been killed during the course of the "People's War," and an estimated 1500 orphans and 15,000 displaced children face an uncertain future. Death or [...]	2002-12-05 08:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PHUM SOCI PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2324	NEPAL: MAOIST PROMISES GO UP IN SMOKE [...] (U) Summary: Mere days after Maoist leaders called for peace talks with the Government of Nepal (GON) (ref A),three separate incidents raised serious questions about whether they would honor their promises to halt attacks on party workers and infrastructure. Maoists killed a Nepali Congress [...]	2002-12-06 11:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PHUM CASC PGOV IN NP
02KATHMANDU2326	NEPAL: UPDATE ON MAOIST ACTIVITIES, NOV 30-DEC 06 [...] (U) Summary: This week in Nepal, armed assailants attacked a Joint Secretary at a public event in Kathmandu; the army blamed political appointees for poor intelligence capabilities; Maoists destroyed three Village Development Committee buildings in Gulmi district, leaving only seven intact; a [...]	2002-12-06 11:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM CASC PGOV IN NP
02KATHMANDU2369	NEPAL: UPDATE ON MAOIST ACTIVITIES, DEC 07-13 [...] (U) Summary: While the Government of Nepal explored opportunities for peace talks this week, Maoist attacks on passenger buses, schools and other non-military targets continued to kill and injure civilians. Violence and extortion prompted hundreds of additional Nepalis to join the thousands [...]	2002-12-13 11:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM CASC PGOV IN NP
02KATHMANDU2393	CODEL ACKERMAN MEETINGS WITH MUBARAK, SULEIMAN, [...] (C) Summary: In separate June 28 meetings with President Hosni Mubarak, EGIS Director Omar Suleiman, and FM Ahmed Aboul Gheit, CODEL Ackerman and the Ambassador discussed Israeli-Palestinian developments (focusing on Egypt's goals for building upon the current "calming period"),Egypt's region [...]	2002-12-16 12:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU2442	NEPAL'S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM DEVASTATED BY MAOISTS [...] Summary: The Nepali education system has suffered tremendously in the country's nearly seven years of ongoing Maoist insurgency. Private schools have been shut down by the insurgents and teachers afraid of Maoist violence have abandoned their posts. Public schools that are open often are cro [...]	2002-12-20 09:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PHUM SOCI PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2443	NEPAL: UPDATE ON MAOIST ACTIVITIES, DEC 14-DEC 20 [...] On December 18 the European Union issued a statement calling for the Government of Nepal (GON) and Maoist insurgents to move ahead toward negotiations. A December 19 report by Amnesty International found human rights abuses in Nepal at an unprecedented high. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan' [...]	2002-12-20 09:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER CASC PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2456	NEPAL: MAOIST STUDENT UNION SUSPENDS STRIKE [...] (U) On December 22 the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal National Independent Students Union - Revolutionary (ANNISU-R) ended its strike against private schools in the Kathmandu Valley after the schools' directors agreed to cut tuition up to 25 percent. The strike, which began on December 9, had f [...]	2002-12-23 11:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2484	NEPAL: UPDATE ON MAOIST ACTIVITIES, DEC 21-DEC 27 [...] The Centre For Economic and Social Development released a study on December 24 that showed an overwhelming majority of Nepalis, particularly those in Maoist infested areas, support a multi-party democracy. The local press reported that India has tightened security along its northern borders [...]	2002-12-27 08:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER CASC PGOV NP IN
02KATHMANDU2490	NEPAL: MAOISTS BOMB SCHOOL DORMITORY, SEVEN INJURED [...] Summary: Five children, a teacher and a secondary school principal were injured when Maoists bombed an occupied school dormitory in Kathmandu on the evening of December 27. The attack was apparently aimed at the home of the Minister of Education, and the local group of insurgents has apologize [...]	2002-12-30 09:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PHUM PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2492	KATHMANDU VALLEY STRIKE SHUTS DOWN BUSINESS, HALTS [...] The December 29-30 general strike ("bandh") called by the Maoists in the Narayani and Bagmati zones, the latter of which includes the Kathmandu Valley (Reftel),was generally well observed throughout the city. The roads were empty of most public and private transportation both days, with the [...]	2002-12-30 11:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV CASC NP
02KATHMANDU2502	NEPAL: MILITARY AID RUNS AGROUND ON THE SHOALS OF [...] (C) Summary: Delivery of M16A2 rifles for the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA),already two months later than scheduled, was delayed again on December 24 when the Government of India (GOI) denied overflight permission for the transport plane. The delay makes the US arms shipment the third in a string [...]	2002-12-31 11:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	IN NP PGOV PTER RU
02KATHMANDU255	ICRC RESUMES VISITS TO KATHMANDU JAILS [...] (SBU) According to International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head Delegate Jean-Jacques Bovay, on January 30 the Government of Nepal (GON) began allowing ICRC access to prisoners for the first time since the November 26 imposition of a state of national emergency. Bovay said that his o [...]	2002-02-04 09:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM NP
02KATHMANDU278	MAOISTS KILL 16 POLICE; CALL FOR NATIONWIDE [...] (SBU) Maoist insurgents continued their attacks against police with a deadly assault on a police post in Kavre District the morning of February 5. On February 4 Maoists also attacked an airport and guest house in the popular tourist area of Lukla, Solukhumbu District, causing property damage [...]	2002-02-05 13:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NP PTER PGOV CASC ASEC
02KATHMANDU333	NEPALI PARLIAMENT CONVENES FOR WINTER SESSION [...] (SBU) The Winter Session of Parliament convened Feb. 10 amid widespread expectations that the Lower House will ratify the state of national emergency declared November 26, allowing its continuation for another three months. A vote on the emergency must take place before Feb. 22. Preoccupati [...]	2002-02-11 11:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NP PGOV SOCI
02KATHMANDU340	MAOISTS PAMPHLETEER, PREPARE FOR STRIKE IN [...] (U) Maoist insurgents continue to publicize a nationwide strike called for Feb. 22-23 in commemoration of the seventh anniversary of the insurgency and had some success enforcing a local strike in the mid-western and western regions Feb. 10. Security forces have increased checkpoints along c [...]	2002-02-12 09:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC NP
02KATHMANDU363	NEPALI GOVERNMENT MOVES TO REGULATE MADRASAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A notice from the Home Ministry announcing that private Muslim schools must register with local authorities has drawn criticism from the Muslim community. Some Muslim leaders view the measure as an empty gesture, probably performed at the behest of the Indian government, that [...]	2002-02-14 12:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF SOCI NP
02KATHMANDU371	FY 02-03 SA BUREAU ESF FOR REGIONAL INITIATIVES [...] Regional Environment Office (REO) for South Asia, based at Embassy Kathmandu, would like to propose several projects for FY 02 and FY 03 funding via South Asia Bureau regional Economic Support Funds (ESF). While all of the proposals have an environmental dimension, they are cross- cutting, m [...]	2002-02-15 09:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID PGOV IN PK NP BD AF REO
02KATHMANDU376	ONE FEARED DEAD IN BOMB EXPLOSION, ARSON AT [...] (U) Suspected Maoists set fire to files and set off a timed explosive device at a Kathmandu Land Revenue Office a little after 10:00 a.m. on February 15. Four people, including a police officer attempting to extinguish the fire were injured. Embassy has heard unconfirmed reports that at lea [...]	2002-02-17 12:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU377	179 REPORTEDLY KILLED AS MAOISTS OVERRUN DISTRICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Maoist insurgents attacked an airport, a district police office, and an army barracks in Achham District in western Nepal shortly after midnight February 17. Initial reports indicate 48 soldiers, at least 76 policemen, and 55 civilians, including the Chief District Officer and [...]	2002-02-17 14:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PINS NP
02KATHMANDU379	REVISED CASUALTY ESTIMATES FOR ACHHAM AS [...] (SBU) Revised casualty estimates for the Maoists' Feb. 17 attacks on an airport and district headquarters in Achham indicate that nearly 130 were killed, most of them security forces. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was expected to address Parliament the morning of Feb. 18, beginning debat [...]	2002-02-18 10:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU380	PM URGES RATIFICATION OF EMERGENCY IN SHADOW OF [...] Parliament reconvened in the late afternoon of Feb. 18 after angry Opposition MPs had disrupted an earlier session, demanding Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, rather than the Home Minister, take the podium to report on the Maoist attacks in Achham (Ref A) the previous day. In his address t [...]	2002-02-19 11:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER NP
02KATHMANDU390	NEPAL'S MAIN OPPOSITION PARTIES MERGE, BUT REMAIN [...] (U) Nepal's main opposition party, the Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist and Leninist (UML),merged February 15 with a smaller former offshoot, the Communist Party of Nepal - Marxist-Leninist (ML). (Note: The combined parties will continue to use the UML name. Although communist by na [...]	2002-02-20 11:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR NP
02KATHMANDU402	FOREIGN SECRETARY APPEALS FOR IMMEDIATE AID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Feb. 21 Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya called the Ambassador to the Foreign Ministry to appeal directly for immediate assistance in the wake of the Maoist attacks on Achham (Ref B). He said the Ministry hopes to send a delegation, at the secretary level, to Washingt [...]	2002-02-21 11:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID PGOV ETRD NP
02KATHMANDU410	NATIONWIDE STRIKE BRINGS SCATTERED VIOLENCE, [...] (SBU) Summary. Insurgents attacked a remote police post in Salyan district, killing 34 policemen, on the eve of a strike called by the Maoists for February 22 and 23. Scattered bombings were reported throughout the country in the run-up to the strike, including a fatal incident along a major [...]	2002-02-22 10:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM PREL PINR NP
02KATHMANDU412	OPPOSITION SUPPORTS GOVERNMENT IN RATIFYING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Lower House of Parliament ratified the state of national emergency by well over the two-thirds majority necessary to continue the emergency for another three months. The three largest Opposition parties voted with the ruling Nepali Congress Party for ratification after Co [...]	2002-02-22 11:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER NP
02KATHMANDU439	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH INSPECTOR GENERAL OF [...] No summary [...]	2002-02-27 11:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV EAID ASEC NP
02KATHMANDU481	MAOIST STUDENTS SHUT DOWN KATHMANDU SCHOOLS FOR [...] (SBU) Facing the threat of violence, most educational institutions in Kathmandu remained closed March 4 and 5 after Maoist-affiliated students called a "school strike." Exceptions included the Embassy-supported Lincoln School, the British school, and a boarding school run by the Royal Nepalese [...]	2002-03-06 12:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER CASC ASEC PHUM NP
02KATHMANDU485	PROMISES MADE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT: [...] (C) In the days since Opposition parties, along with former Prime Minister and current Nepali Congress Party President Girija Prasad Koirala, decided to vote with or support the Government of Nepal (GON) to ratify the state of emergency (Ref A),Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is finding o [...]	2002-03-07 12:20:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP
02KATHMANDU496	LIVING IN TERROR IN WESTERN NEPAL'S PLAINS [...] (SBU) Summary. Violence increased in two western Nepal districts bordering India following the end of the Maoist- government cease-fire in late November, 2001, but western Nepal's largest city remained calm. Ambassador had visited the area February 22 to 24 and Poloff revisited the region in [...]	2002-03-08 11:47:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR NP
02KATHMANDU497	UPDATE ON TIBETAN REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: A UNHCR monitoring visit to the Tibet border was postponed after a promised Home Ministry permit failed to materialize. The Australian Embassy has expressed an interest in helping to coordinate representations on Tibetan refugee issues. One of ten Tibetan refugees in custody on [...]	2002-03-08 11:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PHUM PREL NP
02KATHMANDU498	NATIONAL PARK CLOSED TO ALL BUT TOURISTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Deteriorating security conditions have all but closed Royal Bardiya National Park in western Nepal to researchers and conservationists and have disrupted some development projects. Tourists still have access to the park, but the local economy has taken a deep hit from the dras [...]	2002-03-08 12:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID ASEC CASC SOCI NP
02KATHMANDU507	TIBETANS MARK MARCH 10 WITH PEACEFUL CEREMONY; [...] (C) Authorities in Nepal allowed the Tibetan community to mark the forty-third anniversary of the March 10 uprising in Tibet with a public ceremony at Kathmandu's Bouddha stupa. A full procession paraded the Dalai Lama's portrait around the square and a school band played the national anthems [...]	2002-03-11 11:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL PGOV NP

02KATHMANDU509	MAOIST AMBUSH MARS ANNUAL RHINO RELOCATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Maoist insurgents killed two Royal Nepalese Army soldiers near Royal Chitwan National Park on March 10 just hours after the start of the annual relocation of rhinos from Chitwan to Royal Bardiya National Park. The subsequent army cordoning of the area forced four trucks carryi [...]	2002-03-11 13:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV PTER EAID ASEC SOCI NP
02KATHMANDU510	NEPAL ARMY CHIEFS DISCUSS ROLE OF THE ARMY AND [...] (C) RNA Chief General Rana and his deputy, Lt. General Thapa, went out of their way to underline their support for democracy at a February 28 dinner with emboffs. Rana stated unequivocally that a coup by the RNA was "out of the question." According to Rana, the RNA's role is to quell the [...]	2002-03-11 13:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP NP PGOV MASS
02KATHMANDU515	HUMANITARIAN COSTS OF MAOIST INSURGENCY [...] Since early 1996, Maoist insurgents have been waging an increasingly bloody "People's War" aimed at toppling the constitutional monarchy and democratically elected government of Nepal. Although initially centered in impoverished, underdeveloped districts of the west and mid-west regions, the [...]	2002-03-12 10:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU520	TIMBER! TOP BRANCHES OF FORESTRY MINISTRY FELLED [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 11 Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Gopal Man Shrestha and Minister of State for Forest and Soil Conservation Surendra Hamal resigned from their posts after trading charges of corruption and abuse of power. The resignations come less than ten days after Prime [...]	2002-03-13 01:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SENV NP
02KATHMANDU529	MAOISTS AMBUSH VIP SECURITY DETAIL ON MAJOR [...] (SBU) Maoists ambushed a police security team in Sindupalchowk district March 13, killing six officers and seriously injuring six others, police sources confirmed. Press reports state that the insurgents electronically detonated explosives laid in the road. The attack occurred on the Arniko H [...]	2002-03-13 11:47:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC PHUM PREL PINR NP
02KATHMANDU555	PARLIAMENT PASSES WOMEN'S RIGHTS BILL GRANTING [...] Summary. Nepal's lower house of Parliament passed a bill March 14 granting women more equitable property rights, legalizing abortion under certain conditions and dictating stricter penalties for child marriage, polygamy and rape. Although the law failed to pass the upper house in late 2001, [...]	2002-03-15 12:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KWMN PHUM SMIG NP
02KATHMANDU568	MAOIST STATEMENT THREATENS TOURISM INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) For the first time, a leader of Nepal's Maoist insurgency has issued explicit threats against Nepal's tourism industry. Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai issued the statement March 15. (Text of statement follows as paragraph 4.) The statement called for the cadres to "smash" hotels and [...]	2002-03-18 13:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC CASC PTER PHUM PREL PINR NP
02KATHMANDU570	NEPALESE ARMY ROUTS MAOIST TRAINING CAMP; BANDH [...] (C) Sixty-five Maoist insurgents were killed in a joint Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) and Armed Police Force (APF) operation March 17 against a suspected Maoist training camp in Gumsa, Rolpa district, about 300 miles northwest of Kathmandu, the head of the APF confirmed to Post March 19. No prison [...]	2002-03-19 12:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ASEC PHUM PREL PINR NP
02KATHMANDU592	MAOISTS TARGET GOVERNMENT VEHICLES, OFFICES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of weekend attacks within the capital and its environs, Maoist insurgents bombed Government of Nepal (GON) vehicles and offices, including telecommunications facilities and the office of the state-owned press. The attacks come as the Maoists attempt to marshal popul [...]	2002-03-25 10:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU613	PM DEUBA'S TRIP TO INDIA [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs meetings offering a read-out of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's March 20-25 visit to India revealed no specifics of any assistance the Indians may have offered their smaller neighbor in its effort to contain a Maoist insurgency. Despite the apparent absence [...]	2002-03-27 12:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP IN CH
02KATHMANDU615	TERROR, TRADE AND AID: FORSEC VISIT TO DC [...] (SBU) Summary: Nepal's Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya will use his April 2-5 visit to Washington to urge quick delivery of additional security and development aid to Nepal, to discuss cooperation in the fight against terrorism, and to press for more favorable trade terms for Nepali pro [...]	2002-03-27 12:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER EAID ETRD PHUM PGOV PINR NP
02KATHMANDU616	HUMAN RIGHTS: AN UPDATE ON DETENTIONS AFTER FOUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite the Prime Minister's assurances to donors and the general public that the curtailment of human rights under the state of emergency is directed only against Maoists and their supporters (Ref A),the security forces appear to be casting their nets more broadly, detaining a [...]	2002-03-28 07:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU632	SECURITY INCIDENTS IN RUN-UP TO NEPAL BANDH [...] (U) A bomb exploded in the middle of a small bridge west of Kathmandu's historic Durbar Square March 29 at approximately 8:45 a.m. At least 26 people were injured in the blast, including four school children who were transiting the area, two of whom sustained serious injuries. There were no [...]	2002-03-29 12:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PINS NP
02KATHMANDU633	MAOIST ATROCITIES AGAINST CIVILIANS ON THE INCREASE [...] (U) MAOIST ACTIVITIES HAVE TAKEN A MORE VIOLENT TURN, WITH ATROCITIES PERPETRATED AGAINST HELPLESS CIVILIANS ESCALATING BOTH IN NUMBER AND SEVERITY. REPORTS OF THE MAOISTS DECAPITATING VICTIMS OR TORTURING THEM TO DEATH WITH KNIVES IN DISTRICTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE BECOME A HEART-RENDING CO [...]	2002-03-29 12:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PTER PGOV PINR NP
02KATHMANDU634	SUSPECTED TORTURE, EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING BY ROYAL [...] (S) Summary. Evidence that Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) personnel brutalized and killed one man they suspected of being a Maoist has spurred private investigations into the army's alleged practice of covering up the deaths of detainees. Military attaches from the U.S. and U.K. Embassies viewed [...]	2002-03-29 12:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PTER MARR ASEC PREL PINR NP
02KATHMANDU655	WEAVING TERROR: MAOIST ATTACKS ON CARPET INDUSTRY [...] (C) Summary. For five minutes on the evening of March 25, forty to fifty suspected Maoist youths terrorized a carpet business at the edge of Nepal's capital city, setting fires and causing extensive property damage. No one was injured. Now fearful and discouraged, the owner of the business e [...]	2002-04-01 11:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ELAB ECON ASEC CASC PREF PHUM NP
02KATHMANDU657	MAOISTS REPORTEDLY POSTPONE FIVE-DAY STRIKE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Late in the morning of April 1, the Embassy began to receive reports from usually reliable press and human rights sources that the Maoists have decided to postpone the five-day general strike, or "bandh," called for April 2-6, to April 23-27, in response to broad-based public [...]	2002-04-01 13:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV CASC PTER NP
02KATHMANDU672	PM DEUBA FACES DOWN MOUNTING OPPOSITION, CRITICISM [...] (C) Ever-present rumors that former Prime Minister and ruling Nepali Congress Party President Girija Prasad Koirala continues to plot the political downfall of sitting PM Sher Bahadur Deuba have increased in virulence after a three-day Opposition boycott of Parliament and multi-partisan disc [...]	2002-04-03 12:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU695	STATE OF EMERGENCY RELAXED; ANTI-TERRORISM BILL [...] (SBU) Summary. Nepal's King on April 4 approved five directives from the Cabinet easing restrictions on civil liberties imposed under the state of emergency. The directives allow criticism - so long as it is not "demoralizing" - of the security forces; restore press freedoms, but not in the [...]	2002-04-05 13:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU696	NEW MAOIST TACTIC: ATTACK INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (SBU) Summary. In an apparent change of tactics, Nepal's Maoist insurgents have begun a systematic campaign of attacks against the kingdom's infrastructure. In recent days the Maoists have hit bridges - including one in the capital - telephone repeater towers, hydropower stations, electricit [...]	2002-04-05 13:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU701	AMBUSH KILLS FIVE SOLDIERS; ABORTED GENERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Maoists attacked an army convoy in a remote western district April 6, killing five, including the Major in command of the local detachment. Army personnel immediately launched a counter-attack that reportedly killed thirteen insurgents. The attack occurred less than a mile fr [...]	2002-04-08 11:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU710	KOIRALA COMEBACK? IMPLICATIONS OF (YET ANOTHER) [...] (C) SUMMARY: Refs A and B reported apparent efforts by former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress Party President Girija Prasad Koirala to oust current Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and regain the post of prime minister--which he has held five times in Nepal's twelve years of democracy--ye [...]	2002-04-11 04:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PGOV PTER NP GON
02KATHMANDU731	PM DEUBA ON THE CURRENT CRISIS: WORRIED, BUT [...] (S) Summary. Prime Minister Deuba expressed gratitude for international assistance to Nepal during an April 12 meeting with U.S. and U.K. Ambassadors. To continue recent "positive steps," Deuba was hopeful that a White House meeting could be arranged during his upcoming visit to the U.S. Rev [...]	2002-04-12 09:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR NP
02KATHMANDU735	INDIA TURNS OVER EIGHT MAOISTS TO NEPAL [...] (S) India turned over eight suspected Maoists to Nepal April 10, Prime Minister Deuba confirmed to Ambassador April 12 (Reftel). The PM claimed that the suspects - who he described as "low-level" - had been apprehended based on intelligence provided by the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA). RNA Chie [...]	2002-04-12 11:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC PHUM PINR NP
02KATHMANDU737	50 REPORTED DEAD IN MAOIST ATTACKS ON POLICE POSTS [...] (SBU) At least 50 people are reported dead after Maoist insurgents attacked a civilian police post and an Armed Police Force (APF) post in the western district of Dang about 30 km from the Indian border late April 11. The insurgents are reported to have looted armories at both posts, making o [...]	2002-04-12 11:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV CASC NP
02KATHMANDU741	50 REPORTED DEAD IN MAOIST ATTACKS ON POLICE POSTS [...] (SBU) At least 50 people are reported dead after Maoist insurgents attacked a civilian police post and an Armed Police Force (APF) post in the western district of Dang about 30 km from the Indian border late April 11. The insurgents are reported to have looted armories at both posts, making o [...]	2002-04-13 08:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV CASC NP
02KATHMANDU747	MAOIST CASUALTIES IN DANG REPORTEDLY HIGH; [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chief District Officer (CDO) in Dang told the Embassy that he has seen "hundreds" of bodies of Maoist dead in shallow graves in the vicinity of the April 11 attacks on police and Armed Police Force posts (Ref A). According to local press reports, some of those dead may be [...]	2002-04-15 12:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV CASC NP
02KATHMANDU753	MAOIST LEADERS ARRESTED IN KATHMANDU [...] (C) Summary. At least two important Maoist leaders have been detained by security forces in recent days, police sources told us. Leading female cadre Rekha Sharma and her husband were picked up in Kathmandu April 13. The Inspector General of Police (IGP) confirmed the arrests April 16, but [...]	2002-04-16 12:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ASEC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU768	ATTEMPTS TO OUST PM APPARENTLY ON HOLD [...] (C) Ongoing attempts by former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress Party President Girija Prasad Koirala to topple the current Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, appear to be on hold for the time being. According to the Indian Ambassador, PM Vajpayee, Minister for External Affairs Singh, Hom [...]	2002-04-18 10:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
02KATHMANDU771	TWO DEAD IN RASH OF CAPITAL BOMBINGS; MAOISTS [...] (SBU) Summary. A string of seven Maoist attacks across the Kathmandu valley April 17-18 killed two and wounded eight. Maoists attacked three street-side police posts, in one case killing one officer and one civilian by- stander. Attacks on government offices and the home of an advisor to th [...]	2002-04-18 11:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC PHUM PINR NP
02KATHMANDU778	MAOISTS DISRUPT BUSY INTERSECTION WITH FOUR [...] At approximately 1508 (local) area residents in the Gyaneshwor section of Kathmandu reported seeing several individuals leave improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in one of the city's busiest intersections. Police detailed to the American Center, located about 400 meters from this junction, r [...]	2002-04-19 11:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC CASC PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU787	INTO THE MAOIST HEARTLAND - COUNTERINSURGENCY BY [...] (S) Summary. Emboffs joined Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) Western Division Commander on an inspection tour of newly established garrisons in Rolpa district, considered the Maoist heartland. The tour coincided with the deployment of the PACOM assessment team to the Rolpa battalion headquarters. [...]	2002-04-22 11:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PGOV PTER PREL PHUM ASEC NP
02KATHMANDU795	FIRST DAY OF MAOIST STRIKE QUIET [...] (SBU) Summary: The streets of Kathmandu were comparatively quiet during the first day of the five-day general strike called by Maoist insurgents April 23-27. Most city shops remained closed, and public transportation was sparse. Most vehicles on the road bore either diplomatic plates or Go [...]	2002-04-23 12:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC CASC PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU800	Parliament Adjourns With Passage of Anti- [...] (SBU) Summary. Parliament adjourned April 17 after passing four anti-corruption bills. Legislators will return in May for a budget session and to consider further extending the state of emergency in effect since November 2001. The four new anti-corruption measures provide for punishments f [...]	2002-04-24 11:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM SNAR PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU804	MORE TRAFFIC MOVING, BUSINESSES OPEN IN STRIKE'S [...] (SBU) Summary: More traffic was moving and shops open on the second day of the general strike called by Maoist insurgents April 23-27. One mini-bus was torched inside Kathmandu after a crowd attacked it; no injuries were reported. In districts outside Kathmandu Maoists hijacked four ambula [...]	2002-04-24 12:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PGOV CASC NP
02KATHMANDU813	QUIET REIGNS ON STRIKE'S THIRD DAY [...] (SBU) Summary. The third day of a Maoist-declared general strike passed relatively quietly, with ever more businesses and vehicles daring to risk retaliation from the insurgents. Three bomb blasts were reported in the capital - including a petrol bomb attack on a motorcyclist who broke the s [...]	2002-04-25 11:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PGOV CASC NP
02KATHMANDU828	MAOISTS ATTACK CIVILIAN VEHICLES AS COMPLIANCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Kathmandu continued to move toward normalcy on the fourth day of the Maoists' five-day general strike with traffic even heavier than yesterday. A bomb went off April 26 injuring two on a bus about one kilometer from the Embassy, while on April 25 Maoists bombed a private reside [...]	2002-04-26 11:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PGOV CASC NP
02KATHMANDU837	GON PROPOSES BILATERAL CONSULTATIONS MECHANISM [...] This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. The Embassy has received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs proposing the establishment of regular bilateral consultations, a topic raised by Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya during his April 3 meetings in SIPDIS [...]	2002-04-29 11:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU838	NORMALCY RETURNS AFTER FIVE-DAY STRIKE; MAOISTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Normalcy returned to Nepal's capital April 28 after a five-day general strike called by Maoist insurgents ended the day before. On the strike's last day scattered violent incidents were reported in the Kathmandu Valley, including the deaths of three Maoists who had tried to st [...]	2002-04-29 12:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV ASEC CASC NP
02KATHMANDU872	MAOIST STATEMENT "WELCOMES" DIALOGUE; ARMY HITS [...] (SBU) In its fourth public statement in less than a week, the Maoist leadership said it would "welcome" any initiative to resume dialogue. Interspersed with the usual bromides against "foreign interference," the statement indicates that local press reports--both accurate and inaccurate-- of [...]	2002-05-03 12:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU882	ARMY SCORES INTELLIGENCE, PR VICTORY IN ATTACK ON [...] (C) Royal Nepal Army (RNA) troops have been engaged since late May 2 in an attack on what may be a major Maoist logistics base in Lisne Lek, Rolpa District in western Nepal. According to the RNA, the Maoists, who have sustained at least 100 casualties, are attempting to withdraw from the are [...]	2002-05-06 12:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MCAP PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU892	NEPAL'S ECONOMIC GROWTH: ANOTHER CASUALTY OF THE [...] (SBU) The economy of Nepal, already one of the poorest countries in the world, is in crisis, struggling under the combined squeeze of escalating expenditures, primarily related to the six-year-old Maoist insurgency, and plummeting revenues. Government development funds are already being div [...]	2002-05-07 12:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU893	MAOISTS SEND LETTER TO AMERICANS ON PM'S VISIT [...] Local media outlets received by e-mail the afternoon of May 7 a letter from the International Department of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) addressed "To Our Friends in America." A copy of the letter has been faxed to SA/INS. 2. The three-page letter, written in turgid but grammat [...]	2002-05-07 13:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV OVIP PREL NP
02KATHMANDU906	MAOISTS ATTACK OUTPOSTS IN ROLPA AND SANKHUWASABHA [...] (SBU) Summary: On the night of May 7 Maoist insurgents attacked a combined Royal Nepal Army (RNA) and police outpost in Gam, Rolpa in western Nepal. The attack in Rolpa follows the RNA's routing of a Maoist camp at another location in the same district (Refs B and C). The RNA has lost cont [...]	2002-05-08 10:20:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER MCAP PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU915	PRACHANDA DECLARES A CEASEFIRE AFTER ATTACK IN [...] (SBU) An e-mail to evening newspapers purportedly from Maoist supremo Prachanda unilaterally declared a one-month ceasefire starting June 15. There has been no official reaction yet from the Government of Nepal (GON) to the offer. Security forces continue to search for survivors of the May [...]	2002-05-09 13:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER MCAP PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU921	Tibetan Refugees Hard Hit by Maoist Insurgency [...] (SBU) Summary. Nepal's Tibetan refugee community has been seriously affected by the violent Maoist insurgency, most directly by a recent string of bombings at Tibetan- owned carpet businesses and threats to Tibetan-run tourist facilities. Tibetans have made a significant contribution to Nepa [...]	2002-05-10 10:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PTER PGOV KCRM PHUM SMIG NP
02KATHMANDU924	Maoist Cease-Fire Claimed as Hoax; All-Party [...] (SBU) Two e-mails sent to local media outlets May 10 claimed that the previous day's announcement (Reftel) of a unilateral cease-fire by Maoist leader "Prachanda" was a hoax. Writing Nepali in the Roman script, the author, self-identified only as "Bikram," said he had intended the hoax to tea [...]	2002-05-10 12:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV ASEC CASC NP
02KATHMANDU925	Child Victims of Maoist Insurgency [...] Summary. At least eighty-five children have been killed during the six-year-long Maoists insurgency and many others wounded or pressed into service, according to a recent report by a local child-welfare NGO. The conflict will take a heavy psychological toll on Nepal's children, the report co [...]	2002-05-10 13:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC PHUM KWMN PINR NP
02KATHMANDU933	Maoists Attack Remote University [...] (U) Approximately 300 Maoist insurgents attacked a university in the remote southwestern district of Dang late on May 11, according to the Chief District Officer (CDO) for the area. The insurgents set fire to offices at Mahendra Sanskrit University, approximately 300 kilometers west of Kathma [...]	2002-05-13 11:28:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC PHUM NP
02KATHMANDU937	NIV FRAUD RING DUPES WORKERS SEEKING US [...] SUMMARY: Post uncovered information about a ring of con artists claiming to provide nonimmigrant visas for approximately 6500 USD when Gobin Karki, a victim of the scheme, appeared at the Embassy to collect the visa for which he believed he had paid. The ring, with possible ties to Darjeeli [...]	2002-05-14 10:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KFRD PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU953	CHINA'S AMBASSADOR CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. "International cooperation" was needed to deal with Nepal's Maoist insurgency, China's Ambassador to Nepal told Ambassador at a May 8 dinner. China would provide moral support and assistance in this effort, Ambassador Wu Congyong said, but consistent with its policy of non-inter [...]	2002-05-16 10:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM PINR NP CH
02KATHMANDU968	Maoist Leader Calls For Talks; King Calls in [...] (SBU) Summary. A Maoist leader sent a letter to Nepal's main political parties May 14 calling for talks with the government. The Prime Minister's political advisor called the offer a ploy to allow the insurgents to regroup. The opposition echoed the same sentiment, adding that the Maoists w [...]	2002-05-17 13:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU977	Maoists Attack Orphan School [...] (U) Insurgents set off a bomb at a well-known INGO- funded orphanage and boarding school in Surkhet district 400 km west of Kathmandu late on May 17. No one was injured in the blast, caused by a pressure cooker bomb placed in the window of the principal's residence. The event garnered wide p [...]	2002-05-20 11:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC PINR NP
02KATHMANDU985	LEFTISTS LAMBASTE MAOIST VIOLENCE; PRACHANDA [...] (SBU) In a joint public statement May 20, nine left-wing opposition parties criticized Maoist tactics and called for the insurgents to "reinstate their credibility" by initiating a unilateral ceasefire. Eight of the parties--only three of which have Members in Parliament--asked Opposition Lea [...]	2002-05-21 13:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU990	VISIT WITH JAILED BHUTANESE REFUGEE S.K. PRADHAN [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with Embassy visitors to his jail in southeastern Nepal, prominent Bhutanese refugee and human rights activist S.K. Pradhan protested his innocence in the case of another refugee leader's murder. Pradhan said he had nothing to gain from the man's death and did not u [...]	2002-05-22 09:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL EAID AORC NP
02KATHMANDU995	PM'S PARTY REVOLTS ON EMERGENCY VOTE [...] (C) At a May 22 Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting, members of the ruling Nepali Congress voted to direct Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to withdraw his proposal for a six-month extension of the state of national emergency (Reftel). At COB the CWC decision was being debated in a Parl [...]	2002-05-22 14:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU996	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) In a May 23 meeting with Ambassador Malinowski and British Charge Mitchell, Opposition Leader and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist SIPDIS Leninist (UML) Madhav Nepal said that he is is prepared to go along with the dissolution of Parliament and to par [...]	2002-05-23 09:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KINSHASA2321	KABILA ASSASSINATION TRIAL CONTINUES, HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE TRIAL OF THOSE ACCUSED OF KILLING LAURENT KABILA REOPENED TO THE PUBLIC WITHOUT FANFARE AT THE END OF AUGUST. CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE EXPECTED SOON. CLEAR BIAS, A MULTIPLICITY OF PROCEDURAL ERRORS AND LACK OF EVIDENCE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE VERDICT WHICH MAY HAVE BEE [...]	2002-09-19 11:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV CG
02KINSHASA673	THE KABILA GOVERNMENT: THESE ARE TOUGH TIMES [...] (C) THE GOVERNMENT OF JOSEPH KABILA FEELS MUCH PUT UPON THESE DAYS AND FRUSTRATED THAT IT HAS FEW OPTIONS TO EXERCISE IN TERMS OF SHAPING THE WORLD AROUND IT. IT IS FEELING THE PRESSURE OF OTHER ELEMENTS IN THE INTER-CONGOLESE DIALOG (ICD) FOR WHICH IT WAS ILL PREPARED, IT HAS BEEN HUMILIATE [...]	2002-03-19 16:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RW
02KINSHASA793	LAURENT D. KABILA ASSASSINATION TRIAL SCENESETTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE LONG-AWAITED TRIAL OF THE 116 SUSPECTS IN THE ASSASSINATION OF THE LATE PRESIDENT LAURENT DESIRE KABILA BEGAN ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 3. ON MARCH 20, THE GENERAL PROSECUTOR PUBLICLY READ THE CHARGES (IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DEFENDANTS, THEIR LAWYERS, AND THE PUBLIC) AT MAK [...]	2002-04-03 15:09:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM PREL
02KINSHASA876	UPDATE ON LAURENT KABILA ASSASSINATION TRIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE LAURENT KABILA ASSASSINATION TRIAL BEFORE A MILITARY TRIBUNAL BEGAN APRIL 3 IN A PUBLIC COURTROOM. CURRENTLY, THE WITNESSES AND SOME DEFENDANTS (SUCH AS EDDY KAPEND, FORMER AIDE-DE-CAMP TO KABILA AND ALLEGED COUP-PLOTTER) ARE TESTIFYING ON THEIR ROLES IN THE EVENTS IMMEDIATELY [...]	2002-04-12 14:54:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS CG
02KUWAIT5166	(U) CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP AT STATE SECURITY [...] (U) Kuwait's Assistant Under Secretary for State Security Affairs (i.e. head of Kuwait State Security, KSS) Shaykh Mishaal al-Jarrah al-Sabah was not renewed in his position when his term expired November 17. He has been replaced on an acting basis by Major General Abdallah Abdul-Rahman al-Fa [...]	2002-11-27 10:21:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PTER PINR KU
02KUWAIT5179	(SBU) BANKRUPT BY 2026: KUWAIT'S LOOMING SOCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Important enough to disrupt the opening of the National Assembly, a draft amendment to the Social Securities law is the subject of hot debate between Government ministers and MPs. Kuwait's liberal retirement policies have created a sense of entitlement which may soon be betrayed [...]	2002-12-01 11:33:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN ECON KU
02KUWAIT5241	(U) CODEL ISSA MEETS KUWAITI NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary: Codel Issa met with the Speaker of Kuwait's National Assembly, Mr. Jassem Al-Khorafi, and other MP's on November 25, 2002. Among the topics discussed were Kuwait's concerns over the U.S.-Saudi relationship, a post-Saddam Iraq and the impact of U.S. policies in Israel and the terri [...]	2002-12-04 11:28:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KU OREP PGOV PREL US
02KUWAIT5296	QATAR GAS TO KUWAIT [...] No summary [...]	2002-12-10 06:28:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET	PREL PGOV ENRG ECON KU SA
02LAGOS146	SOUTHERN SECESSION UNLIKELY DESPITE TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary. While electoral divisions are under growing media scrutiny, most southern political analysts privately acknowledge that fears of imminent secessionism are unfounded at present. Though some disgruntled groups demand the creation of their own state within the federation, most do no [...]	2002-12-07 11:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF KDEM ECON PINR NI
02LAGOS2044	NIGERIA: A TRIP TO IBADAN IN OYO STATE [...] (C) Summary. A trip to Ibadan in Oyo State shows residents of the southwest are already revving up for the elections in 2003. Dr. Omulolu Olunloyo, who was governor of Oyo State more than a decade ago, has decided to come out of semi-retirement to run again for that office "for the good of th [...]	2002-10-15 13:00:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR NI
02LAGOS76	SOUTHERN SECESSION UNLIKELY DESPITE TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary. While electoral divisions are under growing media scrutiny, most southern political analysts privately acknowledge that fears of imminent secessionism are unfounded at present. Though some disgruntled groups demand the creation of their own state within the federation, most do no [...]	2002-12-07 11:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON NI PBTS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
02LONDON8320	UNITED KINGDOM: 2002 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) THIS TELEGRAM CONTAINS EMBASSY LONDON'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 2002 "PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM" REPORT. EMBASSY INPUT IS KEYED TO REFTEL QUESTIONS. 2. (U) SIGNIFICANT ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE UK TO SUPPORT THE GLOBAL COALITION AGAINST TERRORISM, PARTICULARLY LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS TAKEN [...]	2002-11-25 10:59:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	EI PGOV PINR PREL PTER UK
02MILAN338	QADHAFI'S SON ON ITALY-LIBYA RELATIONS [...] SUMMARY: SEIF QADHAFI, SON OF LIBYAN LEADER MUAMMOR QADHAFI, SPOKE AT ISPI (INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS) IN MILAN, JUNE 10 ON "LIBYA AND ITALY: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ISSUES WITHIN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA." SEIF QADHAFI, WHO WAS INTRODUCED AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE "LIBYAN [...]	2002-06-12 15:05:00	Consulate Milan	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PINS PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ECON
02RANGOON1159	NLD "UNCLES" APPRECIATE CONTINUED U.S. SUPPORT [...] (C) National League for Democracy Central Executive Committee members ("the uncles") told Chief of Mission on September 9 that they appreciate continued U.S. support for their party and encourage increased pressure on the regime for democratic change. COM Martinez agreed with the uncles that [...]	2002-09-10 07:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
02RANGOON1167	PATRIOT DAY IN RANGOON [...] (U) Some 325 invited guests, including high-ranking GOB military and civilian officials, Aung San Suu Kyi and the senior NLD leadership, Muslim representatives, ethnic leaders, and about 100 resident American citizens gathered September 11 in downtown Rangoon to observe Patriot Day. COM Marti [...]	2002-09-12 05:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO BM ASSK NLD
02RANGOON1218	RUMORED PROMOTIONS IN THE SPDC [...] (C) Summary: News services are reporting that the State Peace and Development Council has promoted some of its top generals. Although the SPDC has not officially announced the promotions, rumors in Rangoon appear to indicate that at least four of the top Generals may have been promoted. If [...]	2002-09-20 10:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BM
02RANGOON1250	REGIME FEEDS ON ITS OWN [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 26, the regime sentenced ex-dictator General Ne Win's son-in-law and three grandsons to death by hanging for attempted treason. The son-in-law, one of the grandsons, and some business associates were also sentenced to varying lengths of hard labor for economic cri [...]	2002-09-27 08:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINS BM
02RANGOON1254	STRONG ETHNIC SHOWING AT NLD'S 14TH ANNIVERSARY [...] (SBU) Summary: Amidst strong support from Western diplomats and ethnic representatives the NLD celebrated its 14th anniversary on September 27 in downtown Rangoon. NLD leaders called for the SPDC to enter into dialogue without delay for the benefit of the country. An array of leaders from e [...]	2002-09-27 10:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
02RANGOON1277	UPDATE ON RECENT ARRESTS IN RANGOON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: THIRTY PEOPLE, INCLUDING SEVERAL RELATIVELY WELL-KNOWN POLITICAL ACTIVISTS AND AT LEAST ONE FORMER NLD MEMBER, WERE ARRESTED IN RANGOON ON SEPTEMBER 25. IT IS NOT CLEAR YET WHAT CHARGES HAVE BEEN BROUGHT AGAINST THE THIRTY. THERE ARE HINTS, HOWEVER, THAT THESE ARRESTS MAY BE P [...]	2002-10-02 04:55:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINS BM
02RANGOON1310	ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANIZATION CONTACTS [...] (C) Summary: Under pressure from Bangladesh, the Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) contacted the Karenni National Progressive Party in late August 2002 regarding the possibility of relocating its bases to KNPP-controlled territory on the border between Thailand and Burma. According [...]	2002-10-10 05:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS PGOV PREL BG TH BM
02RANGOON1387	NLD EXPANDS RESIDUAL PARLIAMENTARY BODY [...] (SBU) On October 23 the Committee Representing the Peoples, Parliament (CRPP) announced that it was appointing four new ethnic members and inviting other political parties to join. The CRPP was created by the NLD and ethnic parties in September 1998 to represent the Parliament that was elect [...]	2002-10-29 08:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
02RANGOON1418	NLD STATUS REPORT: SIX MONTHS AFTER ASSK'S RELEASE [...] (SBU) Summary: Almost six months after her release from house detention, ASSK continues with a disciplined, non-confrontational strategy to rebuild her political forces while attempting to draw the regime into dialogue on national reconciliation. She has succeeded in reviving NLD leadership [...]	2002-11-04 09:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM ASSK NLD
02RANGOON1479	RAZALI: CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD CASE [...] (C) Summary: Razali told diplomats at an early evening briefing today that the dialog between the NLD and the SPDC appeared to be stalled as much by a personality conflict between Aung San Suu Kyi and Than Shwe as anything else. Each one is imperious in his own way and neither is ready to comp [...]	2002-11-15 12:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
02RANGOON1510	GOB RELEASES 115 POLITICAL PRISONERS [...] (C) Summary: The GOB released another 115 political prisoners on November 21. The NLD has received the names of 50 NLD members who were released as well as one other who military intelligence mistakenly identified as an NLD member. ICRC received all 115 names. This brings the total number [...]	2002-11-22 08:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BM NLD
02RANGOON1555	EX-STRONGMAN NE WIN DIES WHILE UNDER DETENTION [...] (C) Summary: Ne Win is dead. The news has not yet hit the streets in Rangoon, but Ne Win's son told the DCM that reports of his father's death were true. Ne Win's death is likely to have little political impact. However, many in Burma will have trouble believing that "the old man" is fina [...]	2002-12-05 09:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BM
02RANGOON1558	DING DONG NE WIN IS DEAD.....FINALLY! [...] (U) The regime confirmed ex-dictator Ne Win's death with a brief obituary from the family buried on the second to the last page of today's State-controlled newspapers. Tucked between the weather forecast and television schedule, the obituary was a brief statement that Ne Win died at 7:30 in [...]	2002-12-06 07:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV BM
02RANGOON1587	USDA TO IMPLEMENT SENIOR GENERAL,S PLAN [...] Summary: The Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA) finally held its annual general meeting on November 15, about two months after it was initially expected. Apparently Senior General Than Shwe had to overcome resistence by some members before the event could be staged. The strong rh [...]	2002-12-12 09:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINS BM
02RANGOON1633	AUTHORITIES ATTEMPT TO BLOCK ASSK IN RAKHINE STATE [...] (C) Summary: Authorities have attempted to block citizens from greeting Aung San Suu Kyi over the last four days as she toured Rakhine State in western Burma. ASSK has commended those who have turned out for their bravery and scolded authorities for threatening instead of serving the people [...]	2002-12-20 09:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM ASSK
02RANGOON1663	ASSK HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE; CONDEMNS HARASSMENT [...] (C) Summary: At a press conference December 31, Aung San Suu Kyi continued to express "cautious optimism" about the possibility of political change in Burma in 2003, but complained about harassment during her recent trip to Rakhine State. Post recommends that the Department support her comme [...]	2002-12-31 08:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM ASSK
02RANGOON1664	BURMESE FOREIGN MINISTER ON GOB COUNTERNARCOTICSS [...] (SBU) Summary: Taking the opportunity of remarks before the assembled Rangoon diplomatic corps on New Year's Eve, the Burmese Foreign Minister digressed for ten minutes from his set speech to make very reasoned comments on the GOB's desire to prove the credibility of its efforts against narc [...]	2002-12-31 09:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SNAR BM
02ROME1015	EX-KING DETERMINED TO GO HOME, BUT CONCERNED ABOUT ARRANGEMENTS [...] (S) SUMMARY: SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY KHALILZAD CALLED ON FORMER KING OF AFGHANISTAN ZAHIR SHAH FEBRUARY 25. FOR MOST OF THE SESSION, GENERAL WALI, ROYAL SON MIR WAIS, GRANDSON MUSTAPHA, SULTAN GHAZI AND HAMID SIDDIQ JOINED. ZAHIR WAS IN GOOD SPIRITS AND APPARENT GOOD HEALTH, JOKING WITH [...]	2002-02-27 05:54:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL PGOV AF IT IR AFGHANISTAN
02ROME1233	MINISTER MARZANO VISITS IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR SEMBLER ENGAGED THE MINISTER OF PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES ON IRAN, UNDERSCORING OUR CONCERNS WITH IRANIAN BEHAVIOR. MARZANO'S RELATIVE UNFAMILIARITY WITH OUR OBJECTIONS OR WITH THE DIVISION BETWEEN THE OFFICIAL AND SHADOW GOVERNMENTS IN CONTROLLING IRAN SHOWS THE NECESSI [...]	2002-03-08 16:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD IR IT
02ROME1239	JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER: STRENGTHENING THE THIRD LEG [...] (C) VARIOUS PLAYERS IN THE DECISION FOR ITALY TO BECOME A PARTNER IN THE JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER HAVE PREVENTED U.S. INDUSTRY FROM BUILDING THE TRI-PARTITE COALITION NECESSARY TO SIGN ON TO JSF. WHILE WE HAVE BEEN TOLD REPEATEDLY THAT SIGNING JSF IS A 'DONE DEAL', WE BELIEVE THAT ONLY TWO OF TH [...]	2002-03-11 07:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS EIND ETRD IT AVIATION
02ROME1511	ITALY ON ZIMBABWE: PEER PRESSURE BEST HOPE FOR [...] (C) MFA'S OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR SOUTHERN AFRICAN AFFAIRS REPLIED TO OUR RECENT DEMARCHE AND LETTER ON ZIMBABWE. THE GOI SHARES THE EU POINT OF VIEW THAT CONDEMNATIONS AND SANCTIONS ARE NECESSARY. HOWEVER, MARINI BELIEVES THAT THEY WILL PROBABLY PROVE INSUFFICIENT TO FORCE CHANGE. THE ROLE [...]	2002-03-25 15:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ETTC OPDC SA ZI IT SADC
02ROME1589	BALKANS: GOI ON ASSISTANCE FOR BOSNIAN MILITARY [...] (C) GUIDANCE REQUEST. SEE PARA 3. 2. (C) THE MFA'S BALKANS OFFICE DIRECTOR, MAURIZIO MASSARI, TOLD POLOFF ON MARCH 27 THAT THE GOI WILL MAKE A FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION'S PROGRAM TO HELP REINTEGRATE THE 10,000 BIH SOLDIERS TO BE DISCHARGED B [...]	2002-03-28 17:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN
02ROME1610	AMBASSADOR TOUR D'HORIZON WITH EU AFFAIRS MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: DURING A MARCH 26 COURTESY CALL ON EU AFFAIRS MINISTER ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE, THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSED THE EU CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AND THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES SURROUNDING EU ENLARGEMENT. THE AMBASSADOR ALSO ASKED ABOUT THE MINISTER'S RECENT UNHELPFUL COMMENTS ON IRAQ, [...]	2002-03-29 12:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV IT EUN
02ROME1644	AFGHANISTAN: ZAHIR SHAH'S FUTURE PLANS, CLOSING [...] (C) ON A MARCH 11-12 VISIT TO ROME, SA/PAB DEPUTY DIRECTOR STEVE MCGANN MET WITH MFA OFFICIALS, REPRESENTATIVES OF FORMER AFGHAN KING ZAHIR SHAH, AND ZAHIR SHAH HIMSELF. MCGANN AND SA/PD DEPUTY DIRECTOR SUSAN HOVANEC CLOSED OUT AN ESF GRANT OFFERED TO THE KING'S ASSOCIATION TO PROMOTE THE EM [...]	2002-04-03 06:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV EAID AF IT AFGHANISTAN
02ROME1744	TWO DEMONSTRATIONS DOWN, ONE GENERAL STRIKE TO GO [...] STRIKES AND LABOR DEMONSTRATIONS IN ITALY ARE MOUNTING. WORKING HOURS LOST TO STRIKES IN JANUARY-FEBRUARY WERE NEARLY 1,500 PERCENT HIGHER THAN IN COMPARABLE MONTHS OF 2001. TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION CGIL ORGANIZED A RECORD MILLION- PLUS ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST IN ROME 3/23, FOLLOWED 3/26 BY [...]	2002-04-08 13:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV IT
02ROME2216	MILITARY BASES IN ITALY: CGIL AND UGL [...] (C) IN MEETINGS WITH THE AMBASSADOR APRIL 22 AND 26 (REFTEL),CGIL AND UGL LEADERS BOTH REFERRED TO U.S. FORCE POLICY THAT EXCLUDES THESE TRADE UNION CONFEDERATIONS FROM REPRESENTING DIRECT-HIRE WORKERS AT BASES IN ITALY. WHILE CHARACTERIZING THE UNION'S RELATIONS WITH THE EMBASSY AS "EXCELL [...]	2002-05-07 14:19:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL MARR IT FORCES IN ITALY
02ROME2340	NORTH AFRICA: OUTLOOK FOR DEMOCRACY SUBJECT OF [...] SUMMARY: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA PRESENTED A CONFERENCE MAY 3-4 ON STRATEGIES FOR A PLURALISTIC FUTURE IN NORTH AFRICA. ACADEMICIANS AND PRACTITIONERS FROM THE UNITED STATES, EUROPE, AND NORTH AFRICA PRESENTED THE HISTORICAL AND PRESENT-DAY CONTEXT IN WHICH DEM [...]	2002-05-14 09:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM EAID XI IT UN
02ROME241	BERLUSCONI,S FOREIGN POLICY ADDRESS: ITALY REMAINS STRONGLY IN EUROPE, BUT THINKS OF NATIONAL INTERESTS [...] (C) IN HIS JANUARY 14 FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH BEFORE PARLIAMENT, PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI AGAIN EMPHASIZED ITALY'S SOLID SUPPORT FOR AND COMMITMENT TO REMAIN WITHIN EUROPE. HE COMMENDED THE EURO AND REAFFIRMED THAT ITALY'S FOREIGN POLICY WOULD NOT EXPERIENCE A SEA CHANGE DURING HIS TIME AT T [...]	2002-01-15 17:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EU IT ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME2628	ITALYS LOCAL ELECTION SNOOZE [...] CONSULATES NAPLES, MILAN, AND FLORENCE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS CABLE. 2. SUMMARY: ITALYS LOCAL ELECTIONS WERE OVERSHADOWED BY UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 ROME 02628 310712Z ATTENTION TO THE NATO-RUSSIA SUMMIT IN ROME. ELECTIONS WENT SMOOTHLY, WITH INCUMBENTS OR I [...]	2002-05-31 07:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV IT EUN
02ROME2660	POSSIBLE ITALIAN INDICTMENT OF MONTENEGRIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE APPARENT INTENTION OF THE INDEPENDENT CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 02660 01 OF 02 311621Z ANTI-MAFIA PROSECUTOR TO PROCEED WITH AN INVESTIGATION OF PRESIDENT DJUKANOVIC IS A NOT UNEXPECTED RESULT OF A YEARS-LONG PROBE, AND A MASSIVE ONGOING TRIA [...]	2002-05-31 16:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT MW OPRC PGOV SR SRIT EUN

02ROME2729	MFA VIEW ON POSSIBLE INDICTMENT OF DJUKANOVIC [...] (C) AS PROMISED REF A, POLOFF FOLLOWED UP WITH THE DIRECTOR OF THE MFA'S BALKAN OFFICE, MARIZIO MASSARI, TO CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 02729 061321Z REGISTER THE MINISTRY'S VIEWS ON THE NEW INVESTIGATION AND POSSIBLE INDICTMENT OF MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT DJUKAN [...]	2002-06-06 13:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OPRC PGOV IT MW SR EUN
02ROME274	MFA VIEW ON FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF RUGGIERO'S DEPARTURE AND THE GOI'S ROLE IN EU REFORM AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE MFA'S DIRECTOR FOR EU INSTITUTIONAL AND JUDICIAL AFFAIRS, GIUSEPPE BUCCINO, REITERATED TO POLOFF THAT THERE WILL BE NO/NO MAJOR CHANGES IN ITALY'S EUROPEAN POLICY. PM BERLUSCONI SEES NO CONTRADICTION IN PROTECTING AND ADVANCING BOTH NATIONAL AND COMMON EUROPEAN INTERESTS. T [...]	2002-01-17 15:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EU IT PGOV PINR PREL
02ROME2794	BERLUSCONI'S FIRST YEAR ECONOMIC SCORECARD [...] (U) SUMMARY. TWELVE MONTHS AGO, PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI TOOK OFFICE WITH A PROMISE TO JUMPSTART THE FALTERING ITALIAN ECONOMY. A MUCH-HERALDED 100-DAY ECONOMIC PLAN WAS DESIGNED AS AN INITIAL STIMULUS, TO BE FOLLOWED BY MORE FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC REFORMS. AFTER A YEAR IN OFFICE, THE PRIME MIN [...]	2002-06-10 17:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT
02ROME3031	WOMAN IN DEFENSE: ITALY'S EXPERIENCE AFTER TWO [...] SUMMARY. AS THE GOI ATTEMPTS TO RESTRUCTURE AND "PROFESSIONALIZE" THE MILITARY SERVICE, BRINGING FEMALES IN IS VIEWED AS ONE WAY TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE ARMED FORCES. ITALIAN WOMEN, WHETHER FOR ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 ROME 03031 221235 [...]	2002-06-20 14:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV IT NATO
02ROME3213	"BANANA PEEL POLITICS" IN ITALY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN AN EMBARRASSING, INDELICATE, AND BADLY-TIMED SLIP, INTERIOR MINISTER SCAJOLA SEEMS TO HAVE CALLED THE RECENTLY MURDERED LABOR MINISTRY ADVISER, MARCO BIAGI, ROUGHLY A "PAIN IN THE ASS." THE REACTION WAS VINTAGE ITALIAN POLITICS -- OPPOSITION CALLS FOR HIS [...]	2002-07-02 07:01:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME3328	ITALY NOT READY TO RECOGNIZE RAVALOMANANA AS [...] (C) SUMMARY. IN RESPONSE TO OUR JUNE 27 DEMARCHE ASKING CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 03328 090150Z THAT ITALY ACCEPT RAVALOMANANA AS PRESIDENT OF MADAGASCAR, THE GOI PROVIDED A NUANCED STATEMENT INDICATING THAT IT IS NOT YET CONVINCED THAT RAVALOMANANA CAN BE [...]	2002-07-08 10:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MA IT UN
02ROME3639	BOSSI ON ITALIAN POLITICS, DEVOLUTION, IMMIGRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NORTHERN LEAGUE LEADER (AND MINISTER FOR REFORM AND DEVOLUTION) BOSSI MET WITH THE AMBASSADOR JULY 17 FOR A WIDE-RANGING DISCUSSION OF ISSUES, INCLUDING DOMESTIC POLITICS, DEVOLUTION, IMMIGRATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE EU. RELAXED AND STRAIGHTFORWARD, BOSSI EXPLAINED NEXT STEPS IN [...]	2002-07-23 16:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR ELAB IT EUN ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME3652	THE ECB, NATIONAL CENTRAL BANKS AND THE BANK [...] (SBU) THE BANK OF ITALY (BOI),LONG A CORNERSTONE OF THE ITALIAN ECONOMY, FACES CHANGED RESPONSIBILITIES AND ROLES. WITH THE ADVENT OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK, THE BOI IS ONE OF THIRTEEN NATIONAL CENTRAL BANKS WITH A VOICE IN THE SINGLE ECB MONETARY POLICY. THE ECB IS ORGANIZED WITH "CENT [...]	2002-07-24 09:39:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV ECON IT EUN
02ROME3680	PM BERLUSCONI WILL ALSO REMAIN FM BERLUSCONI "FOR [...] (SBU) DESPITE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MUSINGS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES IN THE GOI (REPORTED REFTELS),PM BERLUSCONI WILL NOT RELINQUISH HIS POST AS INTERIM FOREIGN MINISTER ANY TIME UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 ROME 03680 251544Z SOON. REFTELS REPORTED THAT THE PM WAS LIKEL [...]	2002-07-25 15:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME4238	ARTICLE 98 AND AFGHANISTAN DEPLOYMENT: [...] (C) CHARGE FOLLOWED UP ARTICLE 98 DEMARCHE (REFS) IN HIS INITIAL CALL ON PRIME (AND FOREIGN) MINISTER BERLUSCONI'S DIPLOMATIC ADVISER, GIANNI CASTELLANETA, AUGUST 30. CASTELLANETA EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR THE INFORMATION ALREADY PROVIDED, FROM WHICH HE HAD DRAWN IN WORKING OUT THE GOI'S APPR [...]	2002-08-30 16:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EU IT MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL KICC AFGHANISTAN
02ROME4625	PRESIDENT OF GOI'S PARLIAMENT'S DEFENSE COMMITTEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON SEPTEMBER 23, PARLIAMENTARY DEFENSE CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 04625 241753Z COMMITTEE PRESIDENT LUIGI RAMPONI TOLD DCM THAT HE WAS CONFIDENT THAT UNSC MANDATED USE OF FORCE IN IRAQ WOULD HAVE STRONG, ACROSS THE BOARD SUPPORT IN THE CHAMBER. [...]	2002-09-24 16:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR AF IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
02ROME4668	ITALIAN PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE ON IRAQ: BERLUSCONI [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN HIS PRESENTATIONS BEFORE PARLIAMENT, ITALY'S PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI FOCUSED ON THE NEED TO SUPPORT THE UNITED STATES, UNDERSCORED THE THREAT FROM IRAQ'S WEAPONS CAPABILITIES, AND NOTED THAT MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS MUST BE EFFECTIVE IN ORDER TO KEEP INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES [...]	2002-09-25 17:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
02ROME4807	ITALIAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES ITALY'S TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT GAVE SUBSTANTIAL -- IF REDUCED FROM LAST NOVEMBER'S VOTE FOR THE ORIGINAL DEPLOYMENT -- SUPPORT TO THE GOI PROPOSAL TO SEND UP TO 1,000 ALPINI GROUND TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN FOR OPERATION ENDURING CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 0 [...]	2002-10-03 15:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR AF IT IRAQI FREEDOM
02ROME4963	CROATIA/ICTY: GOI SUPPORTS STRONG PRIVATE, NUANCED [...] (C) DRAWING ON POINTS REFTEL, POL MC ON OCTOBER 4 UNDERLINED TO DIRECTOR OF MFA BALKANS OFFICE MAURIZIO MASSARI USG'S VIEW THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF CROATIA SHOULD COMPLY IMMEDIATELY AND IN FULL WITH THE INDICTMENT BY THE ICTY OF GENERAL BOBETKO. HE UNDERSCORED THE SERIOUS RAMIFICATIONS OF NON [...]	2002-10-11 07:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC KJUS PREL PGOV HR IT UN EUN
02ROME5049	THE 2003 BUDGET (PART I): A TIGHTROPE WALK [...] (U) THIS IS THE FIRST OF A TWO-PART SERIES ON THE ITALIAN BUDGET. 2. (C) SUMMARY: A DIVIDED ITALIAN CABINET, AFTER AN ALL-NIGHT DEBATE, HAS AGREED UPON AND SENT TO PARLIAMENT THE HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL 2003 BUDGET. THE BERLUSCONI GOVERNMENT'S BUDGET IS AN ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH AN [...]	2002-10-17 07:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV EUN
02ROME5131	OCTOBER 18 ITALIAN GENERAL STRIKE GENERATES [...] NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) ILLUSTRATING BOTH ITS REACH AND DEPTH AS ITALY'S LARGEST TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION, CGIL (THE GENERAL CONFEDERATION OF ITALIAN WORKERS) BROUGHT MUCH OF ITALY TO A CRAWL, IF NOT A COMPLETE HALT, DURING ITS ONE-DAY STRIKE OCTOBER 18. THE EIGHT-HOUR ACT [...]	2002-10-22 04:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV IT
02ROME5139	FIAT IN CRISIS: GOI BETWEEN A ROCK ANDA HARD PLACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FIAT, ITALY'S LARGET CORPORATION AND NATIONAL ICON, IS IN THE MIDSTOF A POTENTIALLY DEVASTATING CRISIS AS ITS SUBSIDIARY, FIAT AUTO, FACES TH CONSEQUENCES OF DECADES OF MOUNTING LOSSES AND EBT. THE CRISIS OF FIAT AUTO CRISIS IS HITTING IALY HARD ECONOMICALLY AND POLITICALLY. LAB [...]	2002-10-22 10:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV EIND IT EIN
02ROME5430	ITALY'S DEFENSE BUDGET - SPARED FOR NOW [...] (C) DESPITE INTENSIFYING BUDGET PRESSURES, DEFENSE SPENDING FOR 2003 WILL NOT BE CUT, FRANCESCO TRUPIANO, DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR TO DEFENSE MINISTER MARTINO, TOLD ACTING ECONOMIC COUNSELOR ON OCTOBER 31. TRUPIANO CONFIRMED THAT ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI HAS REJECTED FINANCE MINISTER TREMON [...]	2002-11-07 10:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IT PGOV ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME5595	IMMIGRATION: EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN INTERIOR [...] NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2.(U) INTERIOR MINISTERS FOR THE "ADRIATIC-IONIAN" REGION ANNOUNCED A NEW ACTION PLAN TO COMBAT CLANDESTINE IMMIGRATION AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING AT THE END OF A ONE-DAY MINISTERIAL IN LECCE NOVEMBER 13. THE ACTION PLAN WAS SIGNED BY MINISTERS FROM ITALY, ALBANIA [...]	2002-11-18 14:19:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SMIG ELAB PGOV IT
02ROME5697	REENGAGING PM BERLUSCONI ON BIOTECH [...] (C) JOINED BY AMBASSADORS HALL AND NICHOLSON I HAD DINNER NOVEMBER 12 WITH PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI, HIS PRINCIPAL ADVISOR GIANNI LETTA, AND SEVERAL OTHERS. WE USED THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPRESS UPON THE PM THE NEGATIVE EFFECT EU POLICY WAS HAVING ON THE WILLINGNESS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO DIST [...]	2002-11-25 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ETRD IT PGOV TBIO EUN
02ROME5750	FIAT: WORKER PROTESTS CONTINUE; SICILIAN SOLUTION IN SIGHT? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FIAT AUTO, TRADE UNIONS AND THE BERLUSCONI GOVERNMENT CONTINUE THEIR POSTURING AROUND THE AUTOMAKER'S PLAN TO CUT COSTS BY IDLING THREE PLANTS AND LAYING OFF OVER 8,000 EMPLOYEES. ALTHOUGH FIAT'S LENDERS APPEAR TO BE THE ONLY ONES CONTENT WITH THE PLAN AS CONCEIVED, WORKER ACTI [...]	2002-11-27 11:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI IT
02ROME5832	NIGERIA, ZIMBABWE, COTE D'IVOIRE: ITALY, EU [...] (C) SUMMARY. AFRICA DG CABRAS REQUESTED A MEETING WITH POLMINCOUNS TO GET U.S. VIEWS ON THE CRISIS IN NIGERIA AND REVIEW OTHER TIMELY ISSUES. SOME ITALIAN NGOS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE APPLICATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN NIGERIA, BUT CABRAS AGREED THAT THE GOI'S FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITY MUST [...]	2002-12-04 05:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CI ZI NI IT
02ROME6062	FINI AND FRATTINI ON THE EU CONVENTION [...] SUMMARY: ITALIAN DEPUTY PM AND GOI REPRESENTATIVE TO THE EU CONVENTION GIANFRANCO FINI AND FM FRANCO FRATTINI TOLD PARLIAMENT THAT POSITIONS WITHIN THE EU CONVENTION ARE STILL DISTANT AND THE CONVENTION WILL PROBABLY TRANSMIT "DIVERGENT" PROPOSALS TO THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE (IGC). [...]	2002-12-19 13:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IT EUR EUN
02ROME610	RUTELLI STILL "LEADER" OF ITALY,S CENTER-LEFT -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AFTER PUBLIC SQUABBLING WHICH CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 00610 01 OF 02 071804Z UNDERSCORED THE DISARRAY IN ITALY'S CENTER LEFT, PRESIDENT OF THE DAISY ALLIANCE FRANCESCO RUTELLI REMAINS LEADER OF THE CENTER-LEFT OLIVE TREE COALITION, AT LEAS [...]	2002-02-07 17:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME6137	WHY PM BERLUSCONI WON'T MOVE FORWARD ON BIOTECH [...] (C) SUMMARY. AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR OF HIGH-LEVEL AND INTENSIVE EMBASSY WORK WITH THE PRIME MINISTER AND HIS GOVERNMENT, A COORDINATED, ITALIAN NATIONAL POLICY ON BIOTECHNOLOGY REMAINS ELUSIVE. MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE ALEMANNO CONTINUES TO PRESS THE ANTI-GMO CASE BY ARGUING FOR A "ZERO-TOLERA [...]	2002-12-27 09:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ETRD TBIO KSCA TSPL PGOV IT EUN
02ROME6149	MOD WHITE PAPER: DEFENSE INDUSTRY OVERVIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY. ITALY'S 2002 DEFENSE WHITE PAPER (WP) PRESENTS THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR AS A PILLAR OF ITALIAN NATIONAL SECURITY. THE NATIONAL ARMAMENTS DIRECTOR HAS OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEFENSE PROCUREMENT AND NEGOTIATING INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION ACCORDS. STATE [...]	2002-12-27 17:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MCAP MOPS IT NATO
02ROME620	JSF/ITALY: POSITIVE OUTLOOK FOR MOU BUT ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: WHILE PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI IS LIKELY TO SIGN ITALY UP FOR THE JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER (JSF) PROGRAM, THE PERCEPTION IN NON-DEFENSE MINISTRIES IS OF AN UNEQUAL AGREEMENT, WITH INSUFFICIENT ECONOMIC/INDUSTRIAL BENEFITS FOR ITALY. ACCORDING TO MINISTRY OF PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES AE [...]	2002-02-08 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR EAIR PGOV PREL IT
02ROME639	ITALIAN SUPPORT FOR SOMALI PEACE INITIATIVES [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: BECAUSE OF ITALY'S HISTORIC TIES WITH SOMALIA AND ETHIOPIA, THE GOI IS PLAYING A STRONG ROLE IN THE SOMALI PEACE PROCESS. IT APPEARS TO SEE ITS ROLE AS BOTH ENCOURAGING ALLIED STATES TO SUPPORT THE MOI-LED RECONCILIATION EFFORT AND RECONCILING SOMALI-ETHIOPIAN [...]	2002-02-08 16:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SO ET IT UN
02ROME67	THERE HE GOES AGAIN: WHITHER RUGGIERO, II? [...] (C) SUMMARY: ITALY'S FOREIGN MINISTER HAS AGAIN GENERATED TURMOIL BY PUBLICLY CHASTISING HIS FELLOW CABINET PAGE 02 ROME 00067 070638Z MEMBERS -- AND SOME SUGGEST EVEN HIS PRIME MINISTER -- FOR FAILING TO BE SUFFICIENTLY VOCAL IN THEIR SUPPORT OF THE LAUNCH OF THE EURO. IS RUGG [...]	2002-01-07 06:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU IT ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME73	RUGGIERO'S DEPARTURE DOES NOT EQUATE TO EUROPE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: MEDIA ANALYSIS TO THE CONTRARY, THE WEEKEND "RESIGNATION" (UNDER DURESS) OF FM RENATO RUGGIERO DOES NOT EQUATE TO AN ABOUT-FACE IN ITALY'S PRO-EUROPEAN STANCE. ITALY WILL REMAIN SOLIDLY IN EUROPE -- AND IN NATO, AND A SOLID PARTNER OF THE U.S. RUGGIERO'S DEPARTURE [...]	2002-01-07 13:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IT EU ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME81	AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF RUGGIERO'S SACKING [...] (C) ON 7 JANUARY, THE HEAD OF THE MFA'S BALKAN OFFICE, MAURIZIO MASSARI (STRICTLY PROTECT) TOLD POLOFF THAT HE WAS "NOT SORRY TO SEE FORMER FM RUGGIERO GO," AND THAT THIS VIEW WAS SHARED BE MANY AT HIS LEVEL (ROUGHLY, THE EQUIVALENT OF OFFICE DIRECTOR IN THE DOS). MASSARI SAID THAT THERE WAS [...]	2002-01-08 06:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EU IT PGOV PREL ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME860	PROPOSED ECONOMIC/FINANCIAL SYSTEM REGULATORY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT IS CONSIDERING DRAFT LEGISLATION TO CHANGE THE NATURE OF ITALY'S INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITIES. WHILE ONLY IN ITS EARLIEST STAGES WITHIN THE PARLIAMENT, THE PROPOSAL WOULD TURN THE BANK OF ITALY (ITALY'S CENTRAL BANK) INTO A RESEARCH INSTITUTION [...]	2002-02-21 06:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV ECON IT ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME966	ITALIAN DEFMIN'S COMMENTS SPARK ANOTHER ROUND OF [...] ITALIAN DEFENSE MINISTER ANTONIO MARTINO REVIVED OPPOSITION PARTY ACCUSATIONS THAT HE IS A "EURO-SKEPTIC" BY SUGGESTING THAT THE EU HAD RUSHED INTO CREATING ITS OWN MILITARY IDENTITY WITHOUT THINKING IT THROUGH. THE NUMBER OF TASKS APPROPRIATE FOR THE EU'S RAPID REACTION FORCE (RRF) SHOULD B [...]	2002-02-25 17:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MASS EU IT EUN
02SANAA3591	USS COLE: INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION [...] (S/NOFORN) BEGIN SUMMARY: THE YEMENI GOVERNMENT IS MOVING TOWARDS KEY DECISIONS REGARDING THE USS COLE INVESTIGATION, AND THE SUSPECTS IT HOLDS FALL INTO FOUR CATEGORIES: A) THOSE WHO WILL FACE TRIAL SOON; B) THOSE WHOSE TRIAL WILL CONTINUE TO BE HELD IN ABEYANCE AT U.S. REQUEST; C) THOSE WH [...]	2002-10-20 10:09:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PINS YM US
02TEGUCIGALPA1780	CERRO LA MOLE RADAR--THE UNREQUITED PACT [...] (U) Summary: In 1993, the U.S. entered into an agreement with GOH regarding the maintenance of the radar located at Cerro La Mole. The U.S. agreed to pay 75% of all maintenance costs up to a limit of $400,000 per year, while the GOH agreed to pay 25% of the maintenance costs, in addition to [...]	2002-06-18 20:19:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA1927	ANTICORRUPTION EFFORTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN HONDURAS [...] This cable responds to the action requested in Reftel. 2. SUMMARY: Over the course of the last three years, there has been considerable activity in the battle against corruption in Honduras, in which the government of Honduras (GOH),civil society and the private sector have been involv [...]	2002-07-02 15:01:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS KCRM KSEP PGOV EAID HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2472	HONDURAS LIKELY TO CONCLUDE ART. 98 AGREEMENT, [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) During his August 28 meeting with Honduran Foreign Minister Guillermo Perez-Cadalso, WHA A/S Otto Reich reviewed the importance of an ICC Article 98 bilateral agreement to the U.S. and reviewed the draft model text f [...]	2002-08-30 20:16:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIA PGOV HO KICC UNGA
02TEGUCIGALPA2494	Honduras Asks for Help on Paris Club and HIPC [...] (U) Summary and Action Request. The Honduran government has requested support of the USG (and other donors) to extend to June 2003 in its Paris Club debt service deferral and changes in the methodology used for HIPC and Paris Club debt relief and funding of the GOH's Poverty Reduction Strateg [...]	2002-09-05 15:07:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID EINV ETRD PGOV SENV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2530	A/S REICH DISCUSSES TRADE AND INVESTMENT WITH THE [...] Summary. WHA A/S Otto Reich, accompanied by WHA/CEN Director Paul Trivelli, Ambassador, DCM, USAID Director and EconCouns, discussed trade and investment issues over lunch with Honduran government officials and private sector leaders on August 28. Both A/S Reich and the Honduran participant [...]	2002-09-10 16:51:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN EIND PREL PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2531	A/S REICH ADDRESSES MILITARY ISSUES AND PROMOTES [...] (C) Summary: On August 28 WHA Assistant Secretary Otto Reich visited with Honduran Minister of Defense Federico Breve Travieso and Chief of the Joint Staff General Jose Isaias Barahona. The meeting covered a variety of topics, including the Cerro La Mole radar, border conflicts with Nicaragua [...]	2002-09-10 16:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MCAP PHUM KJUS SNAR PBTS PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2534	A/S REICH MEETS WITH HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO; DISCUSSION FOCUSES ON BORDER/TARIFF DISPUTE WITH NICARAGUA [...] No summary [...]	2002-09-10 17:00:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ETRD ECON KJUS HO UNGA
02TEGUCIGALPA2555	HONDURAS TO INVESTIGATE NACO ARMS THEFT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 28, the Honduran Armed Forces (HOAF) designated Army Auditor General Colonel Rodolfo Reyes Argueta to investigate the alleged robbery of 230 of 790 AKMS-type assault rifles from the arms cache in Naco. The weapons were stored under court injunction in a Honduran milit [...]	2002-08-09 16:51:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MCAP PARM PGOV PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2556	TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL RATES HONDURAS AMONG [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 29, Transparency International released its 2002 Corruption Perceptions Index ranking Honduras 71 of 102 countries analyzed. Honduras scored 2.7 on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being a perfect score) - the same score it received in 2001. The CPI highlighted the fact t [...]	2002-09-11 21:33:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS KDEM PGOV ECON PHUM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2660	HONDURAN ECON HIGHLIGHTS: SEPTEMBER 2002 [...] The Ministry of Finance projects that the GDP will grow by 2.5 percent in 2002 (most likely overstated) and that the central government's fiscal deficit as a percent of GDP will be 5.9 percent. This is higher than the GOH's earlier estimate of 5.6 percent of GDP and far higher than its targe [...]	2002-09-20 22:28:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAIR ELTN PGOV PREL KPRV KTDB KPWR HO ENGR
02TEGUCIGALPA2730	HONDURAS FACES SOME GRIEF OVER ICC ARTICLE 98 [...] No summary [...]	2002-09-27 22:56:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIA PGOV MOPS HO KICC
02TEGUCIGALPA2746	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY POWELL'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, only in office since January, faces numerous challenges in one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. His Administration has been stalled on its domestic agenda since June as it tries to reconcile its ambitious goal [...]	2002-09-30 17:59:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PGOV ETRD PTER SNAR PHUM ELAB HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2814	TRADE MINISTER RESIGNS [...] (SBU) Minister of Industry and Trade Juliet Handal resigned on Friday, October 5. In announcing her resignation, Handal mentioned that she was interested in devoting more time to her family and pursuing her business interests. She also pledged support for President Maduro as a private busin [...]	2002-10-07 23:02:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2829	NEW LAND CASE IN ROATAN GOOD TEST FOR GOH RESOLVE [...] (SBU) Summary. American citizens Jean and Roger Moore were suddenly and forcefully evicted from their Roatan home in August of this year when the Melvyn McNab family presented (and local judicial officials accepted) unsubstantiated arguments that they had claim to this land. A recently done ca [...]	2002-10-09 20:11:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EAID EAGR PGOV AMGT HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2833	CORRECTED COPY - NEW LAND CASE IN ROATAN GOOD TEST [...] (SBU) Summary. American citizens Jean and Roger Moore were suddenly and forcefully evicted from their Roatan home in August of this year when the Melvyn McNab family presented (and local judicial officials accepted) unsubstantiated arguments that they had claim to this land. A recently done ca [...]	2002-10-09 22:43:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EAID EAGR PGOV AMGT HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2893	FIDE CHIEF NORMAN GARCIA TO BE NEW TRADE MINISTER [...] (SBU) President Maduro has tapped Norman Garcia, Executive Director of the investment and export promotion NGO, FIDE, to be the new Minister of Industry and Trade, replacing Juliet Handal. He will be sworn in on October 17 by Acting President Vicente Williams. The GOH is also creating a cab [...]	2002-10-17 15:05:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2928	PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION PROTESTS COLUMBUS DAY, [...] (U) On October 11 approximately 100 peaceful demonstrators protested outside Embassy Tegucigalpa. The protesters included representatives of the Convergence of Movements of the Peoples of America (COMPA),the public university worker's union (SITRAUNAH),the Civil Council of Indigenous and Po [...]	2002-10-22 23:05:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PREL PTER ETRD PHUM SOCI HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2967	GOH POSITIVE INITIATIVES TO RESOLVE OUTSTANDING [...] (SBU) Summary. Clear property ownership is important to improving the well-being of the Honduran urban and rural poor, as well as to the resolution of outstanding Amcit investment disputes. Although the GOH has not formed a small Commission to address the outstanding Amcit disputes as Embass [...]	2002-10-28 16:40:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EAID EAGR PGOV AMGT HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2981	HONDURAS ISSUES 2001 CENSUS FIGURES; POPULATION [...] (U) On October 18, National Institute of Statistics (INE) Director Magdalena Garcia presented the numbers from the 2001 census to Acting President Vicente Williams. The last census in Honduras was conducted in 1988 and INE utilized the 1988 statistics during the presentation as a reference poi [...]	2002-10-29 20:40:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB ECON SOCI PHUM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2987	POPULAR BLOCK AND TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE VIOLENTLY [...] (U) On October 24-25 several thousand demonstrators that included the loose political alliance known as the Popular Block, the labor union SITRASANAA, secondary teachers (COPEMH),and three Democratic Unification Party (UD) congressmen clashed with police in violent demonstrations that include [...]	2002-10-29 23:44:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ELAB ETRD PHUM PTER SOCI ASEC HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2996	RENEWED DEBATE ON DOLLARIZATION IN HONDURAS, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Liberal Party congressman and businessman Jaime Rosenthal Olivia and banker Jorge Bueso Arias have renewed their appeals for dollarization in recent weeks. The two bankers argue that replacement of the lempira with the dollar would help increase capital investment and lower in [...]	2002-10-30 18:28:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV PGOV HO ETRDECD ETRD
02TEGUCIGALPA3004	GOH Faces Unpalatable Choices on Increasing [...] (SBU) A new IDB-sponsored diagnosis of structural problems in Honduras's tax policy documents the failure of the GOH to raise sufficient revenues to fund vital state functions, resulting in steady growth in the central government's fiscal deficit. The authors recommend an immediate repeal of [...]	2002-10-31 16:54:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3012	AMBITIOUS NEW GUN CONTROLS IN EFFECT--BUT WILL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 12, a new Honduran gun control law went into effect, requiring registration of all pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns with the National Criminal Investigation Division (DGIC) of the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS). The new law requires registration by both ind [...]	2002-10-31 20:55:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV KCRM HO ASEC
02TEGUCIGALPA3023	Upcoming IMF Mission: Civil Service Reform is [...] (SBU) The long awaited IMF mission (originally planned for February 2002 and delayed several times to give the Maduro team time to understand the inherited fiscal problems and develop plans to address them) will arrive on November 4. The mission is scheduled to conduct an Article IV review a [...]	2002-11-01 19:35:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3076	(S) CUBAN NOMINEE FOR AMBASSADOR TO HONDURAS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 9. 2. (S) Summary: A Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs official has told the Embassy that the GOH has accepted the Cuban nomination of Dr. Elis Alberto Gonzalez Polanco, Chief of the Cuban Medical Brigades in Honduras, as the first Cuban [...]	2002-11-07 23:28:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PREL PGOV ETTC PINR PTER ASEC EAID HO CU
02TEGUCIGALPA3132	(S) HONDURAS HAS MANY CUBAN DOCTORS; MADURO [...] (S) Summary: There are approximately 100-225 Cuban doctors and nurses in Honduras. A bilateral treaty between the GOH and the GOC governs the program. In addition, there are approximately 500 Hondurans studying medicine in Cuba on GOC scholarships. President Ricardo Maduro told Ambassador [...]	2002-11-15 21:16:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR SMIG ASEC HO CU
02TEGUCIGALPA3142	HONDURAS SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. POSITION ON VENEZUELAN [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on Venezuelan democracy November 18 to MFA DG for Foreign Policy AMB Mario Fortin. Fortin told PolOff that the GOH did not have any response to the demarche, other than to note that the GOH supported the USG's position on Venezuelan democracy outlined in t [...]	2002-11-19 14:20:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HO VE
02TEGUCIGALPA3145	(S) HONDURAS HAS MANY CUBAN DOCTORS; MADURO [...] (S) Summary: There are approximately 100-225 Cuban doctors and nurses in Honduras. A bilateral treaty between the GOH and the GOC governs the program. In addition, there are approximately 500 Hondurans studying medicine in Cuba on GOC scholarships. President Ricardo Maduro told Ambassador [...]	2002-11-19 14:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR SMIG ASEC HO CU
02TEGUCIGALPA3149	HONDURAS: IMF PROGRAM NEGOTIATIONS DELAYED UNTIL [...] (C) As expected, the IMF mission did not/not reach agreement with the GOH on draft terms of a three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Program (PRGF) during its November 4-15 visit to Honduras. In consultations with the IMF mission, the GOH developed a plan to improve the fiscal situa [...]	2002-11-19 17:07:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EAID ETRD ELAB PGOV PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3196	THE LATEST CHAPTER IN THE JUDICIAL TALE: A NEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 5, the Supreme Court of Honduras named a new panel of Court of Appeals magistrates, after having ousted the entire court on October 23 in the midst of allegations of corruption and impropriety. We are providing biographic summaries on the newly appointed Court of Appe [...]	2002-11-07 21:29:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PREL PINR PGOV PHUM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3204	HONDURAS PLEDGES TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF OAS SYG [...] No summary [...]	2002-11-22 23:07:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HO VE
02TEGUCIGALPA3206	HONDURAN FM TELLS AMBASSADOR GOH HAS ACCEPTED [...] (C) Ambassador met with Honduran Foreign Minister Guillermo Perez-Cadalso Arias November 21 at Perez-Cadalso's request. FM Perez-Cadalso told Ambassador that the GOH had decided to accept the Cuban nomination of Dr. Elis Alberto Gonzalez Polanco, Chief of the Cuban Medical Brigade, as the fir [...]	2002-11-22 23:10:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR ASEC HO CU
02TEGUCIGALPA3276	LABOR PROBLEMS AT CHIQUITA: MANAGEMENT BEGINS [...] (SBU) Summary: Chiquita and its union have begun case-by-case discussions over the contentious issue of alleged absenteeism by a high percentage of its workforce. EmbOffs recently toured Chiquita's plantation and met with both management and labor. EmbOffs urged them to continue dialogue. B [...]	2002-12-03 23:04:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EINV EAGR ETRD PGOV PHUM HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3349	BATTLE OVER CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION RAGES [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 4, the Supreme Court took the first step in analyzing constitutional amendments proposed by Congress that would give Congress unfettered power to interpret the constitutionality of laws they pass. The Constitutional Chamber of the Court asked Congress to explain why [...]	2002-12-12 19:43:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3350	CERRO LA MOLE RADAR--STILL AN UNREQUITED PACT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post reiterates the U.S. national interests in fulfilling its obligations under the 1993 agreement with the GOH regarding the maintenance of the radar located at Cerro La Mole. The U.S. agreed to pay 75% of all maintenance costs up to a limit of $400,000 per year, while the GOH [...]	2002-12-12 20:28:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS MARR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3362	HONDURAS: NAMES, TITLES, AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post is submitting an update of the contact information for senior GOH officials: A. Post: Tegucigalpa, Honduras Date of submission: December 13, 2002 B. Head of Government: Ricardo Maduro Joest Title: President of the Republic of Honduras Office telephone num [...]	2002-12-13 21:45:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3365	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL HILL'S VISIT TO HONDURAS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, in office since January, faces numerous challenges in one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the Western Hemisphere. His Administration has been stalled on its domestic agenda since June as it tries to reconcile its ambitious goals to [...]	2002-12-13 22:05:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV SNAR ECON HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3402	HONDURAS ESTIMATES 700,000 PEOPLE HAVE IMMIGRATED [...] According to the Honduran National Institute of Statistics (INE),more than 700,000 Hondurans have immigrated to the United States from 1970-2000. Others have estimated that between 600,000 - 800,000 Hondurans are in the U.S. illegally with another 100,000 in the U.S. legally. INE estimates t [...]	2002-12-19 21:42:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ELAB CVIS PHUM ECON PINR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3407	POSSIBLE CABINET SHAKEUP IN HONDURAS AS MADURO [...] (C) SUMMARY: As President Ricardo Maduro staggers to his first anniversary in office, there are emerging signs that he will make some changes in his Cabinet in an effort to recapture the political initiative in the country. One rumored change is a new Foreign Minister. Other more probable t [...]	2002-12-19 23:38:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3434	CRIME IN HONDURAS VICTIMIZES POLICE AS WELL AS [...] Napoleon Nazar Herrera, head of the Honduran General Administration for Criminal Investigation (DGIC - investigative police under the Public Ministry),recently told reporters that gang members have killed at least 10 police officers this year. An increasingly typical killing occurred Novembe [...]	2002-12-24 15:33:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC PHUM KJUS KCRM SNAR PINR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3463	ESTABLISHMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (U) SUMMARY: Per reftel, Post has established a Homeland Security Working Group (HSWG) in order to focus on and support "homeland security abroad" in Honduras. Post will incorporate its HSWG responsibilities into the existing work of its Counternarcotics/Law Enforcement Committee (CNLE). EN [...]	2002-12-27 21:03:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER CVIS PREL PGOV APER KCRM SNAR HO
02TEGUCIGALPA3491	BANCO CAPITAL LIQUIDATED; SOGERIN TO BE SOLD [...] (SBU) Summary. The National Banking and Insurance Commission announced on December 20 the forced liquidation of Banco Capital, which had been under government supervision since May 17. Banco Ficohsa acquired the deposits worth approximately USD 43 million. The GOH authorized the transfer of [...]	2002-12-31 17:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV HO
02VATICAN1179	BIWEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT FEBRUARY 15-MARCH 1 [...] (C) THIS CABLE REPORTS ON EMBASSY VATICAN'S BIWEEKLY ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERIOD FEBRUARY 14-MARCH 1, 2002. IT IS INTENDED TO SUMMARIZE, BUT NOT EXHAUSTIVELY REPORT, OUR ACTIVITIES DURING THE PREVIOUS TWO WEEKS. COVERED IN THIS CABLE ARE: CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 [...]	2002-03-06 15:36:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAGR KIRF VT
02VATICAN1921	VATICAN CLUELESS ON MADAGASCAR [...] (C) PER REFTELCON, POLOFF MET MORNING OF MONDAY, APRIL 15 WITH VATICAN DESK OFFICER FOR MADAGASCAR AFFAIRS MONS. LUIGI CAVALIERE. (NOTE: CAVALIERE, AN "OLD SCHOOL" VATICAN DIPLOMAT WHO ALSO COVERS AUSTRIA, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND AND SEVERAL OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES, HAD -- LIKE POLO [...]	2002-04-18 05:02:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MA VT
02VATICAN1975	ENGAGING CATHOLIC CHURCH IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) PER REFTEL, AMBASSADOR MET WITH VATICAN FM EQUIVALENT ARCHBISHOP JEAN LOUIS TAURAN EVENING OF APRIL 19 TO URGE THE HOLY SEE TO TAKE AN ACTIVE AND APPROPRIATE ROLE IN SUPPORT OF VENEZUELAN DEMOCRACY. TAURAN WAS WELL BRIEFED ON THE SITUATION IN VENEZUELA. AS USUAL, HE REFERRED TO THE POPE' [...]	2002-04-22 15:14:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE VT
02VATICAN2146	BIWEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT APRIL 1-15. [...] (C) THIS CABLE REPORTS ON EMBASSY VATICAN'S ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERIOD APRIL 1-15, 2002. IT IS INTENDED TO SUMMARIZE, BUT NOT EXHAUSTIVELY REPORT, OUR ACTIVITIES DURING THE MONTH. COVERED IN THIS CABLE ARE: -- AMBASSADOR DELIVERS GLOBALIZATION SPEECH -- AMBASSADOR/FM TAURAN ON MEPP -- PR [...]	2002-05-03 14:00:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN EAGR VT VTPREL
02VATICAN2238	BIWEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR APRIL 16-30, 2002 [...] (C) THIS CABLE REPORTS ON EMBASSY VATICAN'S ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERIOD APRIL 16-30, 2002. IT IS INTENDED TO SUMMARIZE, BUT NOT EXHAUSTIVELY REPORT, OUR ACTIVITIES DURING THE PERIOD. COVERED IN THIS CABLE ARE: -- AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENTIAL PRE-ADVANCE -- AMBASSADOR/FM TAURAN ON VEN [...]	2002-05-08 14:18:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN EAID VT EAGER VTPREL
02VATICAN2291	RUSSIANS IN ROME SAY ORTHODOX/VATICAN TENSIONS ARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW WEEKS, DCM MET SEPARATELY WITH FATHER MARCEL GUARNIZO, PRESIDENT OF THE AID TO THE CHURCH IN RUSSIA, FATHER FILIPP OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN ROME, AND DIMITRI SHTODIN, DCM AT THE CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 VATIC [...]	2002-05-10 14:42:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF IT VT RU
02VATICAN2292	ISRAELI EMBASSY READOUT OF MAY 10 [...] (S) ZWI TAL(PROTECT),DCM OF THE ISRAELI EMBASSY TO THE HOLY SEE, GAVE DCM HIS EMBASSY'S PERSPECTIVE OF THE MAY 10 MEETING AMONG ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER PERES, VATICAN FOREIGN MINISTER-EQUIVALENT TAURAN, AND VATICAN PRIME MINISTER-EQUIVALENT SODANO. TAL'S VIEWS ARE BASED ON A READ-OUT OF THE [...]	2002-05-10 14:42:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	IS IT PGOV PHUM PREL VT
02VATICAN25	VENEZUELAN AMBASSADOR TO RETURN TO CARACAS [...] (C) IQNACIO QUINTANA, THE VENEZUELAN AMBASSADOR TO THE HOLY SEE, HOSTED A DINER IN HONOR OF VATICAN PRIME MINISTER-EQUIVALENT CARDINAL SODANO ON DECEMBER 27. IN ADDITION TO AMBASSADOR NICHOLSON, THE TWELVE QUESTS INCLUDED FOREIQN MINISTER- EQUIVALENT ARCHBISHOP TAURAN, AND PREFECT OF THE P [...]	2002-01-02 16:23:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR VT PGOV VE
02VATICAN3492	VATICAN CONCERNED BY DRAFT RUSSIAN VISA RULES [...] (C) SUMMARY: VATICAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MIGLIORE TOLD DCM JULY 12 THAT A NEW RUSSIAN DRAFT LAW ON RELIGIOUS WORKER VISAS COULD HAVE A DEVASTATING IMPACT ON THE CHURCH'S ABILITY TO OPERATE IN RUSSIA. FOR EXAMPLE, MIGLIORE INDICATED THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S OPERATIONS IN IRKUTSK WOULD [...]	2002-07-15 12:48:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM VT RU
02VATICAN3503	(C) VATICAN SEES ARAFAT'S MARGINALIZATION AS ROAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: VATICAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MIGLIORE TOLD DCM JULY 12 THAT USG MARGINALIZATION OF ARAFAT WILL LIKELY EMPOWER HAMAS AND THEREBY JUSTIFY ISRAEL PM SHARON'S PLAN TO SEEK A MILITARY SOLUTION. THE VATICAN BELIEVES CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 VATICA 0350 [...]	2002-07-15 15:01:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	IS PGOV PHUM PREL VT
02VATICAN3575	VATICAN COMMENTS ON IRF BEIJING VISIT [...] (C) IN THE ABSENCE OF ARCHBISHOP CLAUDIO MARIA CELLI, THE VATICAN'S MAIN CHINA HAND, POLOFFS ON 07/19 MET TO DISCUSS REFEMAIL POINTS WITH VATICAN CHINA DESKOFF, MSGR. GIANFRANCO ROTA-GRAZIOSI. ROTA-GRAZIOSI RECOMMENDED THREE POSSIBLE APPROACHES FOR AMBASSADOR HANFORD TO PUT FORWARD TO HELP [...]	2002-07-19 14:43:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF CH VT
02VATICAN3633	WORKING WITH THE HOLY SEE IN INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: THE HOLY SEE ACTIVELY SEEKS TO INFLUENCE UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 VATICA 03633 01 OF 03 231457Z THE POLICIES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS AND PARTICIPATES INTENSELY IN THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE TO PROMOTE ITS OWN AGENDA, PARTICU [...]	2002-07-23 14:56:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AORC VT UN VTPREL
02VATICAN3636	THE LIMITS OF VATICAN PERSUASION ON BISHOPS' [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DESPITE THE PERCEPTION OF THE HOLY SEE AS A HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION, IT RARELY GIVES "MARCHING ORDERS" TO CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON SECULAR POLITICAL MATTERS. IN THE RARE CASES WHEN IT DOES DECIDE TO PRESS ITS POLITICAL VIEWS, IT IS LARGELY LIMITED TO THE POWER OF PAPAL PERSUASION [...]	2002-07-23 15:00:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL VT
02VATICAN3637	AID AND ADVOCACY FOR NORTH KOREA - VATICAN AGENCY [...] (SBU) CATHOLIC CHURCH AID AGENCY CONFEDERATION CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS (CI) REPORTS NORTH KOREA'S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS CONTINUES WITH MORE THAN SIX MILLION PEOPLE FACING ACUTE SHORTAGES OF FOOD, MEDICINES, AND DRINKING WATER (REFTEL). CI IS SEEKING WAYS TO ATTRACT MORE DONORS AS PLEDGES FROM [...]	2002-07-23 15:01:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID KN KS VT
02VATICAN3638	CHURCH IN AFRICA: CONFRONTING FUNDAMENTALISM; [...] (C) SUMMARY: SECRETARY FOR THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELIZATION OF PEOPLES ARCHBISHOP ROBERT SARAH OFFERED DCM A TOUR D'HORIZON OF THE CHURCH'S CONCERNS IN AFRICA DURING A JULY 23 CALL. SARAH FOCUSED ON THE "NEW" CHALLENGE FROM FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM, CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE GREAT LAKES [...]	2002-07-23 15:10:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF VT VTPREL
02VATICAN3692	EASTERN CHURCHES UNDER STRESS WHERE CHURCH/STATE SEPARATION IS WEAK [...] (C) SUMMARY: SECRETARY OF THE CONGREGATION FOR EASTERN CHURCHES, ARCHBISHOP ANTONIO VEGLIO, TOLD CHARGE THAT THE EASTERN CHURCHES -- THE 22 CHRISTIAN RITES THAT ARE NOT ROMAN CATHOLIC BUT ARE IN COMMUNION WITH ROME -- FACE A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES THAT CAST LONG SHADOWS OVER THEIR FUTURE. BOTH C [...]	2002-07-26 10:54:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF RS IN IS UP VT VTPREL
02VATICAN3717	HOLY SEE SIGNS ACCORD WITH CZECH REPUBLIC [...] (SBU) THE HOLY SEE SIGNED A JURIDICAL ACCORD WITH THE CZECH REPUBLIC JULY 25 REGULATING THE STATUS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE AGREEMENT, REACHED AFTER THREE YEARS OF OCCASIONALLY DIFFICULT NEGOTIATIONS, GUARANTEES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FREEDOM TO CONDUCT ITS ACTIVITIES, IN [...]	2002-07-29 14:50:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PL RO LO BU EZ VT
02VATICAN3823	FOREIGN MINISTER TAURAN ON MIDDLE EAST AND RUSSIA: [...] SUMMARY: (C) VATICAN FOREIGN MINISTER ARCHBISHOP JEAN-LOUIS TAURAN TOLD CHARGE JULY 25 THAT THE HOLY SEE REMAINS SKEPTICAL OF PRIME MINISTER SHARON'S WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT A POLITICAL SOLUTION, AND VIEWS THE JULY 22 ISRAELI ACTION IN GAZA AS EVIDENCE OF SHARON'S PREFERENCE FOR A MILITARY SOL [...]	2002-08-02 14:09:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	IS PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF RS VT VTIS
02VATICAN4376	BURUNDI: PRESIDENT BUYOYA SEEKS STEPPED UP U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: BURUNDI PRESIDENT BUYOYA, ATTENDING A SANT'EGIDIO CONFERENCE IN PALERMO ON CONFLICT AND DIALOGUE, REQUESTED A MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR NICHOLSON SEPTEMBER 1 TO REINFORCE HIS INTEREST IN STEPPED UP U.S. AND TANZANIAN PRESSURE ON THE CNDD FACTION OF THE FDD. MEETING AT THE SUGGESTI [...]	2002-09-09 15:36:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	BY MOPS PGOV PREF PREL SF TZ TZBY
02VATICAN4398	ONE YEAR AFTER SEPTEMBER 11: HOLY SEE FM WELCOMES [...] (U) SUMMARY: IN AN INTERVIEW PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 10, VATICAN FOREIGN MINISTER JEAN LOUIS TAURAN PRAISED THE UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION OF TERRORISM THAT HAS FOLLOWED SEPTEMBER 11, WHILE CAUTIONING THAT ANY DECISION TO USE FORCE AGAINST IRAQ MUST BE TAKEN WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE UNITED NATIONS [...]	2002-09-10 16:38:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM IZ IS
02VATICAN4470	VATICAN IRE AT NEW RUSSIAN "NYET" TO ITS CLERGY [...] THE VATICAN HAS SHARPLY CRITICIZED THE RECENT EXPULSION OF TWO POLISH PRIESTS FROM RUSSIA. THIS BRINGS TO FIVE THE NUMBER OF CATHOLIC CLERGY EXPELLED FROM RUSSIA THIS YEAR, INCLUDING BISHOP JERZY MAZUR OF THE SIBERIAN DIOCESE OF ST. JOSEPH. A TERSE STATEMENT ISSUED SEPTEMBER 9 BY VATICAN S [...]	2002-09-13 12:42:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KIRF SOCI PL RS VT
02VATICAN4742	HOLY SEE TO TAKE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM CONCERNS TO [...] (C) FOLLOWING THE HOLY SEE'S REBUKE OF RUSSIA BEFORE OSCE CHIEFS OF MISSION TO THE HOLY SEE FOR ITS SERIES OF EXPULSIONS AND VISA DENIALS TO CATHOLIC CLERGY (REF A),VATICAN OSCE DESK OFFICER TOLD POLOFF SEPTEMBER 30 THAT THE HOLY SEE PLANS TO SEEK REDRESS WITHIN THE OSCE FOR THE CANCELLATION [...]	2002-10-01 11:28:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF SOCI PL RS VT
02VATICAN5167	VATICAN BACKS U.S. BISHOPS' SEXUAL ABUSE POLICY, [...] (U) IN AN OCTOBER 18 LETTER TO THE U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, THE HOLY SEE CONVEYED ITS SUPPORT FOR THE U.S. BISHOPS' EFFORTS TO ADDRESS SEXUAL ABUSE ISSUES, BUT UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 VATICA 05167 01 OF 02 231022Z ALSO INDICATED ITS DESIRE FOR REVISI [...]	2002-10-23 09:34:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI VT
02VATICAN5471	HOLY SEE CAUTIOUS ON CUBAN DISSIDENTS [...] (C) HOLY SEE DIRECTOR OF CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS PAINTED A CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 VATICA 05471 01 OF 02 080949Z PICTURE OF A DEFENSIVE CUBAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN A NOVEMBER 6 MEETING WITH POLOFFS TO DISCUSS CUBA AND VENEZUELA (VENEZUELA REPORTED SEPTEL). MSGR. GIORGIO [...]	2002-11-08 08:39:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CU VT VTPREL

02VATICAN5545	HOLY SEE EFFORTS TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE [...] (C) POPE JOHN PAUL II HAS SPOKEN OUT FORCEFULLY AND CONSISTENTLY AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE AND AGAINST SPECIFIC ANTI-SEMITIC ACTS. HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM -- IN PART BASED ON THE CHURCH'S SELF-ACKNOWLEDGED HISTORICAL &SIN8 OF [...]	2002-11-14 13:56:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV VT IS
02VATICAN5607	HOLY SEE URGES CHURCH TO PROMOTE VENEZUELAN DIALOGUE, AVOID POLITICAL ACTIVISM [...] (C) THE HOLY SEE IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF CIVIL VIOLENCE IN VENEZUELA IN THE COMING MONTHS, AND THE POPE HIMSELF HAS URGED THE VENEZUELAN BISHOPS TO "COOL IT" ON POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND INSTEAD TO ENCOURAGE DIALOGUE. THE HOLY SEE VIEWED THE BISHOPS' OCTOBER LETTER ENCOURAGING DIALOGU [...]	2002-11-19 09:35:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM VT VE
02VATICAN57	SANT'EGIDIO/UNITA TALKING PEACE [...] (C) IN AN ASIDE TO POLOFF BEFORE A 12/20/01 MEETING WITH S/E DANFORTH TO DISCUSS SUDAN PEACE INITIATIVES (REPORTED SEPTEL),SANT'EGIDIO SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR AND AFRICA HAND DON MATTEO ZUPPI RELATED HIS RECENT CONVERSATIONS WITH UNITA LEADER SAVIMBI AND LOCAL UNITA REP. ZUPPI, A FLUENT [...]	2002-01-04 10:57:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AN VT
02VATICAN5753	THE HOLY SEE AND THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION: [...] (SBU) ALTHOUGH THE HOLY SEE IS PRESSING HARD FOR THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION TO RECOGNIZE THE CONTINENT'S CHRISTIAN HERITAGE, THIS DRIVE IS IN NO WAY INTENDED TO SUGGEST HOLY SEE OPPOSITION TO TURKEY'S EU MEMBERSHIP. ON THE CONTRARY, THIS EFFORT PREDATES THE CURRENT DEBATE OVER TURKEY, AND THE [...]	2002-11-27 13:53:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PINS EU PGOV VT
02VATICAN784	BIWEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT JANUARY 14-25, 2002 [...] (C) THIS CABLE REPORTS ON EMBASSY VATICAN'S BIWEEKLY ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY 30-FEBRUARY 14, 2002. IT IS INTENDED TO SUMMARIZE, BUT NOT EXHAUSTIVELY REPORT, OUR ACTIVITIES DURING THE PREVIOUS TWO WEEKS. COVERED IN THIS CABLE ARE: -- AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES COMMERCIAL ADVOCACY WITH [...]	2002-02-15 13:47:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN VT
03ABUDHABI1032	DESPITE WIDESPREAD PUBLIC OPPOSITION [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Despite widespread public opposition to a U.S.-led war on Iraq, the UAE "street" has been quiet thus far. Other than a few very well- organized and very small demonstrations, there have been no other public gat [...]	2003-03-02 14:28:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1086	(C) ABU DHABI OVERPRODUCING QUOTA BY 200,000 B/PD, [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) A western oil executive in an excellent position to know told Econchief March 5 that he believes that the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is overproducing the UAE's 2.14 million barrel per day (bpd) OPE [...]	2003-03-05 13:06:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON TC
03ABUDHABI1088	UAE OIL OFFICIAL'S VIEWS ON IRAQ AND THE OIL [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's (ADNOC) Deputy CEO, Abdullah Bin Nasser Al-Suwaidi does not believe that the oil market would collapse following a military conflict with Iraq and removal of Saddam Hussein fro [...]	2003-03-05 13:58:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC
03ABUDHABI1090	UAE LABOR UNIONS WILL BE "FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL" [...] (U) An editorial published on March 3 by a well-regarded economic commentator lauded the recent Ministry of Labour draft proposal to formally establish labor unions (reftel). Salah Al Halyan, managing director of Gulf Insurance Consulting and an editorial columnist for the Gulf News, wrote tha [...]	2003-03-05 14:20:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI1091	UAE: USG HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY [...] This cable has been coordinated with Congen Dubai. 2. We offer the following comments in response to reftel request for a summary of Post's actions in 2002 to encourage respect for human rights in the United Arab Emirates. 3. Since its independence in 1971, the United Arab Emirates h [...]	2003-03-05 14:27:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KEM KSEP TC
03ABUDHABI1100	ABU DHABI ALUMINUM SMELTING PROJECT FOR OMAN [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b and d). 2. (C) The UAE Offsets Group (UOG) has under the aegis of de facto Defense Minister Muhammad bin Zayid Al-Nahyan (MBZ) become Abu Dhabi Emirate's strategic business development platform, responsible for many innovat [...]	2003-03-08 09:08:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV ETRD OM TC
03ABUDHABI1123	UAE POSTPONES HAWALA CONFERENCE [...] CLASSIFIED BY DCM RICHARD A.ALBRIGHT FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (C) In a meeting with Econchief 3/8 (other topics septel, notal),UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan bin Nasser Al-Suweidi stated that the planned Second International Conference on Hawala, scheduled for April 2-3 in Abu Dhabi, [...]	2003-03-09 13:08:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN ETTC PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1128	NEED TO RESOLVE ARBIFT ISSUE SOONEST [...] CLASSIFIED BY AMBASADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: That OFAC continues to hold more than than 120 million USD which belongs to the UAE is a matter which we need to resolve soon. De facto Foreign Minister Hamdan bin Zayid raised the matter in th [...]	2003-03-10 08:55:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC PREL PGOV LY TC
03ABUDHABI1137	DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTER TO GO [...] CLASSIFIED BY DCM RICHARD A. ALBRIGHT FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (C) UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan bin Nasser Al-Suweidi told Econchief March 8 that the long- anticipated Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC -- a much-publicized plan to create a state of the art financial service [...]	2003-03-10 10:53:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC EINV PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1138	ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY (ADNOC): TOUGH NUT [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2.(C) Summary and comment: Aspiring participants in the UAE oil market -- including American oil companies -- continue to find it difficult to get a foot in the door at ADNOC, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. ADNOC of [...]	2003-03-10 10:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC
03ABUDHABI114	UAE TO TIGHTEN SECURITY FOR AIRCRAFT [...] (U) Classified by Marcella M. Wahba, Ambassador, reason 1.5 (b) and (d). SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) A quiet heads-up on 1/7 to UAE authorities regarding consideration of laying on modest additional security measures to help ensure the safety of Afghan Hajj flights became slightly garbled wi [...]	2003-01-08 14:08:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER EAIR ASEC PREL PGOV MOPS AF TC
03ABUDHABI1204	WILDCAT STRIKE RESOLVED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE [...] (U) Local press prominently reported the resolution of a strike by forty laborers against a contracting firm on March 11. The employees stopped working for a week to protest the decision of the firm to pay them daily instead of monthly (why daily payments were perceived as pernicious by the wor [...]	2003-03-12 13:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI1240	ANOTHER STRIKE MEDIATED AND RESOLVED BY THE [...] (U) Seventy five expatriate workers went on strike and refused to return to work until they were paid, reported the local press on March 13. The laborers accused a contracting firm of failing to pay their salaries for three months. The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs investigated the al [...]	2003-03-15 14:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI1285	PEACEFUL MARCHES IN PROTEST OF THE IMPENDING [...] (U) The local press reported that students at the UAE University in Al-Ain participated in a peaceful anti-war demonstration on March 15. (Note: The UAE University, with some 14,000 students, is the largest in the UAE. End note.) The march was organized by the Emirates National Students' Unio [...]	2003-03-17 13:10:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAL PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1337	(C) WESTERN OIL EXEC CLARIFIES COMMENTS REGARDING [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C/NF) A western oil executive previously commented to Econchief that the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is producing about 10 percent or 200,000 barrels per day (b/d) over its current OPEC quota of 2. [...]	2003-03-19 12:41:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC
03ABUDHABI1340	STRATEGIC DIALOGUE FOLLOW-UP: OPIC COVERAGE [...] (SBU) In a meeting with Finance Minstate Dr. Muhammad Khalfan bin Khirbash (the de facto Finance Minister) on March 18, the Ambassador followed-up on the issue of OPIC coverage for the UAE, first raised by the UAEG last Fall in the context of the bilateral Strategic Dialogue meetings in Washin [...]	2003-03-19 12:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EINV PREL PHUM PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1344	(C) TFIZ01: UAE AIRSPACE TO STAY OPEN, [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b, d). IRAQ WAR WON'T CLOSE UAE AIRSPACE --------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Muhammad Al-Ghaith, the head of the UAE's federal civil aviation authority, told Econchief 3/19 that he had just signed a circular orderi [...]	2003-03-19 14:08:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR MOPS ASEC PREL EAID PGOV AS TC
03ABUDHABI1348	UAEG NOTIFIED OF NOTAM/NOTMAR [...] No summary [...]	2003-03-20 08:19:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR MOPS MARR EWWT PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1365	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 3, MARCH 22 [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2. (U) COM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 1000 local time, 3/22. 3. (C) Embassy Abu Dhabi is open 3/22 with ful [...]	2003-03-22 12:05:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1381	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 4, MARCH 23 [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2. (U) COM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 1000 local time, 3/23. Embassy Abu Dhabi, FCS (located outside of the Emb [...]	2003-03-23 12:56:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1382	(S) UAE TO KEEP IRAQI MISSIONS OPEN, BUT [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (S) AMBASSADOR DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE ON THE AFTERNOON OF 3/23 TO MFA MINSTATE SHAYKH HAMDAN BIN ZAYID (OTHER TOPICS SEPTEL, NOTAL). SHAYKH HAMDAN REPEATED WHAT HE HAS TOLD US BEFORE -- NAMELY, THAT THE UAEG IS R [...]	2003-03-23 13:32:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1383	MFA MINSTATE: ARAB LEAGUE COMMUNIQUE FAR [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (C) AMBASSADOR DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE ON THE AFTERNOON OF 3/23 TO MFA MINSTATE SHAYKH HAMDAN BIN ZAYID (OTHER TOPICS SEPTEL, NOTAL). SHAYKH HAMDAN NOTED THAT NOT MUCH COULD BE EXPECTED FROM THE ARAB LEAGUE SESSIO [...]	2003-03-23 13:32:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ QA TC
03ABUDHABI1384	(S) JORDANIAN OIL NEEDS: UAE READY TO [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (S) IN THE COURSE OF A MEETING ON THE AFTERNOON OF 3/23, MFA MINSTATE SHAYKH HAMDAN BIN ZAYID STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN CALLED BY JORDANIAN FM MUASHER THE PREVIOUS EVENING, WHO HAD TOLD HIM THAT IRAQ HAD CUT ITS OIL P [...]	2003-03-23 13:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL EPET EAID PGOV JO SA KU TC
03ABUDHABI1397	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 5, MARCH 24 [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2. (U) COM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 1000 local time, 3/24. Embassy Abu Dhabi, FCS (located outside of the Emb [...]	2003-03-24 10:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1399	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 5, MARCH 24 [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2. (U) COM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 1000 local time, 3/24. Embassy Abu Dhabi, FCS (located outside of the Emb [...]	2003-03-24 11:31:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1437	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 6, MARCH 25 [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2. (U) COM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 1000 local time, 3/25. Embassy Abu Dhabi, FCS (located outside of the Emb [...]	2003-03-25 12:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1439	TFIZ01: UAE POISED TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary and comment: Under the aegis of the government-run Red Crescent Authority (RCA),the UAE is gearing up to provide significant humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people. In addition to direct contri [...]	2003-03-25 13:03:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG TC
03ABUDHABI1461	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 7, MARCH 26 [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2. (U) COM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/Core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 1000 local time, Wednesday 3/26. Embassy Abu Dhabi, FCS (located outside [...]	2003-03-26 11:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV KPAO TC
03ABUDHABI1467	TFIZ01: PUBLIC OPINION WRAP-UP: [...] (U) Six days into Operation Iraqi Freedom, even our closest and most westernized Emirati contacts are disturbed by the coverage they are seeing of the Iraq war. The emotional impact of the images of civilian casualties and the negative spin being imparted by the vast bulk of the Arab media [...]	2003-03-26 12:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1471	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 8, MARCH 28 [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2. (S/NF) COM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 1000 local time, 3/28 to review recent threat reporting that potential [...]	2003-03-28 09:23:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1480	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 9, MARCH 29 [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2. (U) COM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 1000 local time, 3/29. Embassy Abu Dhabi, FCS (located outside of the Emb [...]	2003-03-29 10:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1512	TFIZ01: UAE RED CRESCENT SOCIETY HAS AN [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Alright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary: Red Crescent Authority (RCA) Secretary General San'a Al-Kitbi confirmed to SIPDIS Econchief on March 29 that RCA had sent three delegations to Iraq during the last two months, the most recent of whic [...]	2003-03-30 13:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1513	(C) DOLPHIN GAS PROJECT: STILL NO GAS SALES AGREEMENTS AS UAE SHAYKHS WRANGLE OVER PRICING [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Almost one year after the selection of U.S. firm Occidental Petroleum to assume a 24.5 percent stake in the Dolphin project to pump natural gas from Qatar to the UAE, actual gas pu [...]	2003-03-30 13:20:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EPET PGOV ENRG ECON EINV IR TC
03ABUDHABI1571	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 12, APRIL [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2. (U) COM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/Core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 1000 local time, Tuesday 4/1. Embassy Abu Dhabi, FCS (located outside of [...]	2003-04-01 13:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1602	TFIZ01: IRAQIS REFUSE PERMISSION TO UAE RED [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Sana'a Al-Kitbi (strictly protect),Secretary- General of the UAE Red Crescent Authority, told us on the afternoon of April 2 that all UAE Red Crescent humanitarian relief activities in Iraq are on hold. The re [...]	2003-04-02 13:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PHUM PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1623	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 14, APRIL 5 [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2.(U) DCM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 1000 local time, 4/05. Embassy Abu Dhabi, FCS (located outside of the Embas [...]	2003-04-05 13:15:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1624	IRAQI EXPATS URGE COALITION TO STAY [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard Albright, for Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (SBU) We recently met with two well-placed Iraqi expats who expressed gratitude for coalition efforts to rid Iraq of WMD and change the regime. Describing President Bush as a "savior," they advised us not to pay too m [...]	2003-04-05 13:21:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV PREL IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1634	UAE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL WORKERS FAILS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UAEG's much-hyped amnesty program has thus far not been as successful as government officials had predicted. The amnesty, which began on January 1, 2003, and will terminate on April 30, 2003, will exempt workers from payment of fines or other legal liabilities related to the [...]	2003-04-06 10:43:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI1661	TFIZ01: FRUSTRATED BY ICRC IDLENESS, UAE RED [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary and comment: The UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) hosted on 4/6 in Abu Dhabi a forum of international aid organizations to discuss the humanitarian situation in Iraq. This was the first major meeting o [...]	2003-04-07 12:56:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1663	ADGAS ADMITS QATAR UNDERCUTTING LNG MARKET; PLANS [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ABU DHABI CONCEDES LNG MARKET TO QATAR -------------------------------------- 2. (C) The managing director of the Abu Dhabi Gas Liquification Company (ADGAS),Hassan Al-Marzooki, told Econchief April 2 that his fir [...]	2003-04-07 13:00:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC
03ABUDHABI1669	HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CD-ROM RECALL CREATES [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: The recall of CD-ROMs containing a draft Human Rights Report on the Occupied Territories caused a flurry of activity in the UAE. After reading an Arabic-language newspaper article that implied mi [...]	2003-04-07 14:32:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KEM KSEP TC
03ABUDHABI1716	TFIZ01: UAE RESPONDS TO APPEAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AID [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary and comment: Post has engaged UAE officials at all levels of government regarding humanitarian assistance since the onset of war in Iraq began. In line with the UAEG's preference to provide assistance-i [...]	2003-04-09 09:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG TC
03ABUDHABI1730	AN UPBEAT HAMDAN ASSURES THAT UAEG [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) The Ambassador contacted an extremely upbeat MFA Minstate Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayid Al-Nahyan on 4/9 to convey reftel talking points. Hamdan was not at all worried, noting that the UAE diplomatic staff in Bag [...]	2003-04-09 13:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV MOP IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1750	IRAQI EXPATS IN UAE CONVEY MESSAGE TO [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) This cable contains an action request, please see paragraph 7. 3. (C) SUMMARY: Polchief -- after securing agreement from the organizers that she would be in listening mode only -- accepted an invitation t [...]	2003-04-12 13:37:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS KPAO KDEM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1754	LABOR ATTACHES PAINT A RELATIVELY ROSY [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: In conversations with the Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Filipino Labor Attaches, Econoff was repeatedly told that the vast majority of labor disputes in the UAE between foreign nationals and Emirati businesses and institutions are generally handled on an inform [...]	2003-04-13 10:04:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI1758	TFIZ01 (EAC): ABU DHABI SITREP NO. 17, APRIL 13 [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ---------------- General Overview ---------------- 2. (U) COM convened Abu Dhabi's Iraq Task Force/core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) at 0915 local time, 4/13. Embassy Abu Dhabi, FCS (located outside of th [...]	2003-04-13 11:53:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT KHLS PTER PREL EAID PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI1763	CT TRAINING STRATEGY FOR UAEG: STRATEGIC [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for Reasons 1.5 (B, D). 2. (C) As a "next steps" follow-up to the U.S.-UAE Strategic Dialogue (see ref A),we have met with UAEG officials and identified UAE law enforcement training needs in counter-terrorism cooperation. Training needs in [...]	2003-04-13 12:53:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EIAR ELTN ETCC PARM PBTS PGOV PREL PTER TC
03ABUDHABI1766	SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE TO GCC FM'S DELIVERED TO MFA MINSTATE HAMDAN [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) The Ambassador delivered reftel oral message to MFA Minstate Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayid Al-Nahyan on 4/13. Hamdan said his attendance at the 4/15 GCC Foreign Ministerial depended on the timing of a visit the s [...]	2003-04-13 13:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PREF GCC IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1769	TFIZ01: UAEG OFFERS MEDICAL TREATMENT TO [...] The Office of the Chairman of the General Health Authority for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Hamed bin Zayid Al-Nahyan publicly announced on April 13 that the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) has been authorized to transport wounded Iraqi civilians to the UAE for medical treatment. The spokesman [...]	2003-04-14 05:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1789	TFIZ01: UAEG OFFERS MEDICAL TREATMENT TO [...] The Office of the Chairman of the General Health Authority for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Hamed bin Zayid Al-Nahyan publicly announced on April 13 that the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) has been authorized to transport wounded Iraqi civilians to the UAE for medical treatment. The spokesman [...]	2003-04-14 12:50:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1791	TFIZ01: UAE RED CRESCENT SHIP FINALLY [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary and comment: The UAE's much-heralded shipment of 700 tons of humanitarian supplies arrived at Umm Qasr on April 11 -- the first water shipment to arrive via civilian vessel into that port since the war [...]	2003-04-14 13:06:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1794	UAE INCREASES THE NUMBER OF WORK VISAS [...] (U) Local press reported on April 13 that the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs issued more than 32,000 employee labor cards and 12,000 work permits to companies last month. Approximately 60% of the cards were new and there was also a "sizeable increase" in the issuance of group visas. T [...]	2003-04-14 13:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI1813	MFA MINSTATE HAMDAN BIN ZAYID ON [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) During a 4/13 meeting, the Ambassador asked for MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid's opinion on Dubai's recent decision to establish elected district councils. Hamdan briefed that de facto Dubai Ruler Shaykh Muh [...]	2003-04-15 10:48:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TC
03ABUDHABI1826	UAE SIGNS UP FOR CORE GROUP ON IRAQ [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (S) MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid told the Ambassador 4/16 that the Cabinet had approved UAE participation in the "core group" for Iraq stabilization and reconstruction outlined ref b. Shaykh Hamdan noted that the [...]	2003-04-15 11:34:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EAID EFIN PREL ECON PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1827	TFIZ01: UAE PRESIDENT ISSUES [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) In his first public statement since the outbreak of Iraq hostilities, UAE President Shaykh Zayid bin Sultan Al-Nahyan declared the UAE's commitment to and solidarity with the people of Iraq in remarks carrie [...]	2003-04-15 12:31:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1828	TFIZ01: UAE TO DEPLOY LARGE MILITARY FIELD [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) This is an action message -- please see paragraph five. 3. (C) UAE Chief of Staff (and de facto Defense Minister) Shaykh Muhammad bin Zayid (MBZ) called the Ambassador 4/14 to relate that the UAEG planned [...]	2003-04-15 12:44:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PHUM MARR MOPS EAID PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1876	DEMARCHING THE ARAB MULTILATERAL AID [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY DCM RICHARD A. ALBRIGHT FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (C) ECONCHIEF RAISED REF A DEMARCHE APRIL 19 WITH FINANCE MINISTRY UNDERSECRETARY KHALID AL- BUSTANI. AL-BUSTANI SAID THAT THE UAE WOULD BE FAVORABLY DISPOSED TOWARDS CONSIDERATION OF WAYS IN WHICH THE ARAB FUND FOR ECO [...]	2003-04-19 12:50:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV IZ KU TC
03ABUDHABI1878	SHIKHMURADOV DEPORTATION [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Upon notification Polchief engaged with multiple layers of the UAEG on the Boris Shikhmuradov case. The Ambassador followed-up with MFA Assistant U/S for Political Affairs Abdullah Rashid. We are pleased t [...]	2003-04-19 13:37:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TX TC
03ABUDHABI1901	TFIZ01: UAEG OFFERS TO EQUIP IRAQI HOSPITALS [...] UAE President Shaykh Zayid publicly announced on 4/20 that the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) would fully equip six Iraqi hospitals with all necessary medical supplies and equipment, and donate 12 ambulances to the Iraqi health sector. The RCA aid delegation that arrived in Iraq on 4/11 (se [...]	2003-04-21 11:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1902	UAE CREATES NEW LABOR INSPECTION PLAN OF [...] (U) Local press reported on April 18 that the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has developed a new inspection and training plan centered on improving the quality of labor inspection. The objective of the program is to create safer and more secure working conditions by encouraging companie [...]	2003-04-21 11:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI1931	TFIZ01: UAEG OFFERS TO BUILD DESAL PLANT FOR [...] UAE President Shaykh Zayid Al-Nayhan ordered the UAE Armed Forces on 4/21 to immediately provide potable water to the Iraqi city of Basra. Press reports confirm that the UAE Armed Forces are planning to build a desalination plant on the Shatt Al-Arab with a capacity of 250,000 gallons a day. [...]	2003-04-22 10:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1935	UAE HOPES TO IMPLEMENT LABOR UNION LAW BY [...] (SBU) UAE Labor Minister Matar Al-Tayer informed DCM on April 21 that the final draft of the new UAE labor law which permits the creation of formal labor associations/unions, would be sent to the inter- ministerial review committee by the end of the week. (See reftel). The proposed legislatio [...]	2003-04-22 13:27:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI1938	TFIZ01: NEXT STEPS FOR UAE FIELD HOSPITAL [...] (C) Summary: The UAEG has decided to support an existing medical facility in Baghdad - the Olympic Hospital -- instead of deploying a stand-alone field hospital. A UAE delegation, accompanied by USLO representative, traveled to Baghdad on 4/21 to assess the health needs of the city and selec [...]	2003-04-22 14:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1946	UAEG OFFICIALS OFFER PERSPECTIVES ON WHY THE [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) In a conversation with the DCM on April 21, UAE Labor Minister Matar Humaid Al-Tayer noted that the final number of amnesty seekers would be approximately 50,000 -- significantly lower than the expected 200,000-250,0 [...]	2003-04-23 11:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI1952	UAE ON BOARD FOR GCC OBSERVER ATTENDANCE [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (S) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche April 23 to MFA Minstate Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayed. Shaykh Hamdan said he had already heard from the Qataris on the issue of GCC representation at the April 28 meeting in [...]	2003-04-23 12:44:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV MOPS GCC IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1978	TFIZ01: UAE RED CRESCENT: READY TO DO MORE [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) In a 4/26 meeting with Econchief, UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) Secretary General San'a Al- Kitbi confirmed press reports that an RCA ship loaded with 700 tons of food and medicine and 12 ambulances left th [...]	2003-04-26 12:45:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI1983	UAEG REACTS -- AND OVERREACTS - TO SARS [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) The UAE Ministry of Health will install thermal scanners at Dubai and Abu Dhabi airports to check the temperatures of airline passengers as a defense against SARS. Passengers traveling from SARS infected countries w [...]	2003-04-28 06:15:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI TC
03ABUDHABI2016	UAE ROLE IN INFORMAL INTERNATIONAL CONTACT [...] (U) Classified by Marcelle M. Wahba, Ambassador, reason 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) DCM delivered reftel points April 27 on UAE participation in the Informal International Contact Group for Iraq to MFA A/USEC for Political Affairs Abdullah Rashed al Nuaimi, noting that the UAE's regional per [...]	2003-04-29 09:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PREL PGOV EFIN TC
03ABUDHABI2081	UAEG WILL ATTEND GLOBAL FORUM ON FIGHTING CORRUPTION [...] (U) Classified by Econchief Tom Williams, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Post confirmed 4/30 that the UAE Ministry of Justice will participate in the "Global Forum On Fighting Corruption" to be held 5/29-31 in Seoul, Korea. The Ministry of Justice has not yet selected its represent [...]	2003-04-30 10:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV EAID EINV ECON ETRD TC
03ABUDHABI2082	SECRETARY OF DEFENSE RUMSFELD MEETING [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) SUMMARY: SecDef met with UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff LTG Muhammad bin Zayid Al-Nahyan (MbZ) on April 27 in Abu Dhabi. After congratulating SecDef on Operation Iraqi Freedom, MbZ made the following point [...]	2003-04-30 10:51:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC AF IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2083	ANOTHER STRIKE MEDIATED AND RESOLVED BY THE [...] (U) The local press reported that three hundred expatriate workers at an Abu Dhabi-based construction company gathered at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs on April 28 to protest their employer's failure to pay salaries for more than three months. The Minister of Labor Matar Humaid Al-T [...]	2003-04-30 10:51:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI2161	UAEG SIGNS DOUBLE TAXATION AGREEMENTS WITH 65 [...] (U) ADDRESSING A SEMINAR ON LEGAL AND TAX ISSUES RELATING TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ON 5/4, UAE MINISTRY OF FINANCE UNDERSECRETARY FOR BUDGET AND REVENUE KHALID AL- BUSTANI CONFIRMED THAT THE UAEG HAS SIGNED BILATERAL AGREEMENTS WITH 65 COUNTRIES ON AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND INCOME TAX. T [...]	2003-05-04 09:34:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN EFIN ELAB ETTC PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2169	UAE RED CRESCENT BEGINS AIRLIFTS TO BAGHDAD [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Heralding a new phase of UAE Red Crescent operations in Iraq, the UAE Air Force today facilitated the first of four airlifts to Baghdad International Airport on behalf of the Red Crescent Authority (RCA). RCA [...]	2003-05-04 09:57:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2175	UAE EXTENDS AMNESTY [...] (U) The UAEG announced that it has extended the amnesty period for illegal aliens to depart the country without penalty an additional month. (See ref A). The four month amnesty period was scheduled to end on April 30, but officials have given illegal aliens until May 31 to leave the UAE. The [...]	2003-05-05 10:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI2176	UAE FORMALLY ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO ASSUME [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY DCM RICHARD A. ALBRIGHT FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (C) The UAE last week moved one step closer to its goal of assuming total managerial control of the Arab Bank for Investment and Foreign Trade (ARBIFT) by announcing at the annual general meeting (AGM) in Abu Dhabi its f [...]	2003-05-05 10:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC PREL PGOV LY TC
03ABUDHABI2178	STRANDED IRAQIS IN THE UAE: NEED FOR POLICY [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) This is an action message -- please see paragraph five. 3. (C) MFA Minstate Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayid has now engaged on the issue of the approximately 1,000 Iraqis stranded in the northern Emirates, pr [...]	2003-05-05 13:04:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MARR MOPS EAID IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2236	UAE LEADERSHIP RESPONDS TO AMBASSADOR'S URGING OF [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: As a result of the Ambassador's interventions with the UAE leadership, the Zayid Center for Coordination and Follow-up (ZCCF),a UAEG-funded institution which has drawn fire for its sometimes noxio [...]	2003-05-08 12:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2274	(SBU) INHERENT CONTRADICTIONS OF THE UAE [...] (SBU) In a recent address to the Indian Business and Professional Group, UAE Labor Undersecretary Khalid Al-Khazraji said all the right things. First, he confirmed that the UAE will continue to import multiethnic labor, primarily from the Indian subcontinent (something that no doubt went down [...]	2003-05-10 13:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI2275	UAEG ADMINISTERING RAFIDAIN BANK; NO PLANS TO [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires Richard Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) The UAEG confirmed in a May 6 conference call of the informal contact group on Iraq reconstruction that the UAE Central Bank is now managing the day-to-day operations of the single branch of Rafidain [...]	2003-05-10 13:09:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2292	APPROACHING UAEG ON FUNDS FOR ABORTED [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY CHARGE RICHARD A. ALBRIGHT FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (S) The sensitivity of reftel demarche, particularly the involvement of the prominent Lootah family (whether knowingly or otherwise) in the matter, will require that we engage at the highest levels of the UAEG. Since [...]	2003-05-11 11:41:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2296	(S//NF) C-NE3-00449: UAE POISED FOR IRAQ [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (S//NF) The following answers are keyed to questions in ref D regarding Gulf countries' views and intentions on Iraqi reconstruction posed by Washington analysts: A. Not applicable, although we wo [...]	2003-05-11 13:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2303	UAE ARMED FORCES CHIEF OF STAFF VISITS UAE [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (b)(c)(d). 2. (C) Summary: UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff Shaykh Muhammad bin Zayid Al-Nahyan (MbZ) visited May 10 the newly refurbished Shaykh Zayid Hospital in Baghdad (formerly the Olympic Hospital) which opened [...]	2003-05-12 06:10:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2305	SCENESETTER FOR UAE AIR FORCE [...] (U) Classified by Charge Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) UAE Air Force Commander Major General Khaled Abdullah Al-Buainnan will visit the U.S. May 12-22. Al-Buainnan's visit presents a good opportunity for us to review our strong bilateral Air Force-to-Air Force rel [...]	2003-05-12 07:22:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC TC
03ABUDHABI2323	LABOR MINISTRY MEDIATES STRIKE IN DUBAI [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-12 10:45:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI2326	UAE SENDING IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION TEAM TO [...] (U) Classified by Charge Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) This is an action message -- please see paragraph five. 3. (C) At the initiative of MFA Minstate Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayied, the UAE is sending a nine-member delegation to Washington during the week of Ma [...]	2003-05-12 11:18:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2351	REORGANIZATION OF THE IRAQI MFA AND RECALL [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-14 11:55:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER TC
03ABUDHABI2369	UAEG DOWNGRADES REPRESENTATION TO THE THIRD GLOBAL FORUM DUE TO SARS; NOTIFIED OF U.S. PARTICIPATION [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Despite earlier indications to the contrary (ref A),the UAE Justice Ministry notified Post 5/14 that the Minister and his staff would not/not attend the Third Global Forum on Fighting Corruption. [...]	2003-05-17 12:06:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV EAID EINV ECON ETRD TC
03ABUDHABI237	S/P DIRECTOR HAASS AND CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) SUMMARY: Policy Planning Director Ambassador Richard Haass, Ambassador Wahba and Armed Forces Chief of Staff LTG Shaykh Muhammad Bin Zayid Al-Nahyan (MBZ) had a lively exchange on Iraq, Iran and Saudi-US relatio [...]	2003-01-15 10:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PTER IR IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2370	UAEG CONSIDERING RATIFICATION OF OPTIONAL [...] (U) Classified by Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Thomas E. Williams for Reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) On 17 March, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Legal Affairs Deputy Director Yacub Al-Hosani and encouraged the UAEG to consider ratifying the two Optional Protocols to the Rights [...]	2003-05-17 12:09:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2381	UAEG SUPPORT FOR IRAQ'S MINISTRIES [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Post delivered ref A talking points to the Office of MFA Assistant Undersecretary Abdullah Rashid Al-Nuami, who is heading a delegation to Washington this week to discuss Iraq reconstruction oppor [...]	2003-05-18 09:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2403	GREATER TRANSPARENCY FOR THE UAE BUDGET IN-LINE [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) UAE Minister of State for Finance Dr. Mohammed Khalfan Khirbash forwarded the 2003-2005 federal budgets to the UAE Cabinet for approval 5/18, and announced that future budgets would be based on int [...]	2003-05-19 12:46:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2404	EXPAT SHI'A DELIVER THANK-YOU FOR IRAQ LIBERATION [...] Two expat Iraqi Shi'a professionals (both long resident in the UAE) called on A/DCM May 19 to deliver a letter of thanks from their community here for the liberation of Iraq. 84 self- styled "Iraqi Shi'a intellectuals" (mostly doctors and engineers) signed a letter (text in para three) expres [...]	2003-05-20 09:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2451	UAE: A MODEL FOR IRAQ? [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary and comment: The UAE is eager to see the swift reintegration of Iraq into the international trade and investment system, and the emergence of Baghdad as an economic counterweight to Riyad [...]	2003-05-25 12:44:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG TC
03ABUDHABI2452	(S) UAEG FINDS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY CHARGE RICHARD ALBRIGHT FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (S) A/DCM conveyed reftel concerns May 21 to UAE Central Bank Financial Intelligence Unit Chief Abdul-Rahim Sinkais Al-Awadhi. A/DCM noted that we had a single, uncorroborated report that as much as one billion USD in ca [...]	2003-05-25 12:44:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EFIN ECON PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2454	UAEG CONFIRMS ITS DELEGATION TO THE THIRD GLOBAL [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed via diplomatic note May 25 that the following will represent the UAE at the Third Global Forum on Fighting Corruption: -- Ministry of Foreign Affair [...]	2003-05-25 13:06:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV EAID EINV ECON ETRD TC

03ABUDHABI2487	OIC FOREIGN MINISTERS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-27 06:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2488	UAEG MEDEVACS WOUNDED IRAQIS FOR MEDICAL [...] (U) Summary and comment: The UAE Red Crescent Authority facilitated 5/21 the medical evacuation from Kuwait of more than two dozen wounded and sick Iraqi civilians and their parental guardians. This was the largest medical airlift of its kind of Iraqi wounded, and fulfilled a long-standing p [...]	2003-05-27 09:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2528	SUCCESS IN IRAQ PLAYS WELL WITH ONE SENIOR UAE [...] (U) Classified by Deputy Chief of Mission Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) Deputy Managing Director Khalifa Al-Kindi queried DCM during a 5/19 courtesy call about the future of Iraq and the roadmap for peace between Israel and t [...]	2003-05-28 11:19:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2529	WORRIED IRAQIS APPROACH THE EMBASSY [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) This is an action request, please see para 4. 3. (C) The Embassy has received calls in the last two days from a number of Iraqi citizens resident in the UAE requesting urgent information on how they should g [...]	2003-05-28 11:19:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2599	PACHACHI PRAISES U.S. ROLE IN IRAQ; [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid, in a 5/31 meeting with the Ambassador (other topics covered septel),provided a brief readout on an earlier meeting between former Iraqi Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi and UAE [...]	2003-06-02 10:27:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2600	ABORTED IRAQI ARMS DEAL [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) The Ambassador, accompanied by Polchief, presented Ref A demarche and background paper to MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid Al-Nahyan on 5/31. Hamdan was not aware of the issue, but promised to bring it to the a [...]	2003-06-02 10:27:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2602	UAEG DISAPPOINTED WITH OIC MINISTERIAL [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) During the course of a 5/31 meeting with the Ambassador (other topics covered septel),MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid noted UAE disappointment with the statement produced at last week's OIC meeting in Tehran. [...]	2003-06-02 11:04:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IR IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2603	AMBASSADOR RAISES MLAT AND TIP WITH [...] MLAT: The Ambassador, accompanied by Polchief and POL FSN, met 5/31 with UAE Minister of Justice, Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Muhammad Nakhira Al- Dhaheri. The Ambassador engaged Al-Dhaheri on the draft Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, noting that, following the exchange of proposed changes, th [...]	2003-06-02 11:05:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN KTIA PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2607	GULF AIR LOBBIES EMBASSY ABU DHABI TO RESUME [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary: On the heels of a 5/27 meeting between Ambassador Neumann and Gulf Air CEO Jim Hogan (reftel),a representative from the Abu Dhabi Department of Civil Aviation (ADDCA) visited Acting DCM 5/31 to p [...]	2003-06-02 11:18:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAIR PGOV ECON IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2641	UAE TO SUPPORT JORDAN OIL NEEDS FOR [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid contacted the Ambassador on June 2 to convey information about the UAEG's ongoing assistance to Jordan and Morocco. With regard to Jordan, Hamdan reported that the UAE has agreed to co [...]	2003-06-03 12:50:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET EAID PGOV JO MO SA KU TC
03ABUDHABI2654	(S/NF) INFORMATION ON IRAQI SUNNI [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S/NF) Post provides the following information, gleaned from conversations with resident Iraqis and Emirati leaders and academics on Iraqi Sunni cleric Ahmed Al-Kubaysi. It is by no means comprehensive and we a [...]	2003-06-04 10:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	KPRP PINR PGOV PINS PNAT PREL IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2670	THREE MORE LABOR STRIKES RESOLVED [...] (U) In the last week, the local English dailies reported on three labor strikes, two in Dubai and one in Abu Dhabi. All three labor stoppages involved the nonpayment of wages by contracting firms and resulted in the intervention of the UAE Labor Ministry to mediate a resolution between the par [...]	2003-06-07 05:28:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI2715	UAE FIRST LADY SPEARHEADS CAMPAIGN TO CLEAN [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: UAE First Lady Shaykha Fatima Bint Mubarak briefed the Ambassador on her personally- designed campaign to literally and figuratively clean up the UAE's many mosques. With her customary extraordi [...]	2003-06-07 11:38:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2761	UAEG PREDICTS NO MAJOR MOVEMENT AT THE JUNE [...] (U) Classified by Acting DCM Thomas E. Williams, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) UAE Ministry of Petroleum Director of Economic Affairs and OPEC delegate Hamdan Al-Akbari told Acting DCM June 9 that he believes oil market supply and demand are balanced, current pricing is "adequate," [...]	2003-06-09 11:32:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC
03ABUDHABI2798	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL FRANKS' [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) General Franks: Your Emirati friends and the U.S. mission to the UAE are looking forward to your valedictory visit. As always, UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff LTG Shaykh Muhammad bin Zayid Al-Nahyan (MbZ) [...]	2003-06-11 10:05:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2854	(S) UAE ASKS IF FORMER IRAQI INFO MINISTER [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B, D). 2. (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph four. 3. (S) MFA Minstate Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayid (HBZ) contacted the Ambassador 6/13 to say that the UAEG had received a request from former Iraqi Info [...]	2003-06-14 11:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV OTRA IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2855	(S) UAE CENTRAL BANK WILL SEEK [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (S) The Ambassador told MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid June 10 that the authorities in Dubai had confirmed that the 43.5 million USD in illicit Iraqi missile money had been released by the Dubai court several months p [...]	2003-06-14 11:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2861	SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) Secretary Bolton: Your visit to the UAE will provide an excellent opportunity to discuss our concerns about Iran with the UAEG. We have secured a meeting with de facto Foreign Minister, Shaykh Hamdan bin Z [...]	2003-06-14 12:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PARM ETTC IR TC
03ABUDHABI2877	UAE RED CRESCENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO IRAQ TOTAL MORE [...] (U) Summary and comment. UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) Secretary General Sana'a Al-Kitbi forwarded to Econoff 6/15 a SIPDIS retrospective on the RCA's work in Iraq from the present until shortly before the war began. The RCA has contributed more than USD $18 million in humanitarian sup [...]	2003-06-15 12:53:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2895	AMBASSADOR PRESSES UAEG ON ZAYID [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador has repeatedly engaged the senior UAEG leadership on the need to make substantive changes at the controversial Abu Dhabi-based, Arab League-affiliated and UAEG-funded Zayid Center fo [...]	2003-06-16 13:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2946	UAE ATTENDANCE AT WEF 6/23 BREAKFAST [...] (U) This message contains an action request; please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Post delivered 6/14 the Secretary's message regarding the WEF working breakfast (see ref) to de facto UAE Foreign Minister Hamdan bin Zayid. Hamdan's Office Director informed Polchief 6/17 that Dubai Crown Pri [...]	2003-06-18 12:26:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OPDC PGOV JO TC
03ABUDHABI2962	U/S BOLTON ENCOURAGES EARLY SIGNING OF AN [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) In the course of a June 18 meeting in Abu Dhabi with MFA Minister of State Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayid Al-Nahyan, Under Secretary for Under Secretary for Arms Control and International SIPDIS Security Assista [...]	2003-06-21 12:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM TC
03ABUDHABI2966	AMBASSADOR PRESSES UAEG ON ZAYID [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador has repeatedly engaged the senior UAEG leadership on the need to make substantive changes at the controversial Abu Dhabi-based, Arab League-affiliated and UAEG-funded Zayid Center fo [...]	2003-06-22 10:10:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI2969	UAE AMNESTY FAILS [...] (SBU) Summary: The UAEG's amnesty program failed to significantly reduce the number of illegal laborers in the UAE. Only 60,000 illegals have left the country, far less than the hoped for 250,000-300,000. Though the amnesty may continue on indefinitely, it failed because illegal workers do not [...]	2003-06-22 12:43:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI2984	UAEG SEEKS CONFIRMATION ON IRAQI MFA [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) This is an action request; see para 5. 3. (C) UAE MFA Assistant U/S for Political Affairs Abdullah Rashid Al-Nuaimi contacted the Ambassador June 21 seeking confirmation on a fax sent to the Iraqi "embass [...]	2003-06-23 11:43:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI2985	ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE BURNISHES [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). SUMMARY AND COMMENT ------------------- 2. (C) Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince (and de facto Ruler),Shaykh Khalifa bin Zayid Al-Nahyan, made unusually high-profile visits to the U.K. and France earlier this month in a [...]	2003-06-23 12:12:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TC
03ABUDHABI2988	U/S BOLTON DISCUSSES NORTH KOREAN AND IRANIAN NUCLEAR THREAT WITH MFA MINSTATE HAMDAN BIN ZAYID [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) SUMMARY: Conveying a message from President Bush, U/S Bolton laid out USG concerns on the nuclear weapons programs of both North Korea and Iran in a June 18 meeting with MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid. In t [...]	2003-06-23 12:26:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PARM ETTC IR NK TC
03ABUDHABI3037	UAE MEPI COUNTRY STRATEGY [...] SUMMARY: Following is the UAE's country strategy for MEPI, which has been developed by PA and coordinated with POL and ECON. This includes long-term goals, specific objectives, suggested mechanisms by which goals could be realized, and a request for funding for two UAE-specific projects. END SU [...]	2003-06-25 10:50:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO ETRD SOCI SCUL BTIO EAID PGOV
03ABUDHABI3039	SHAYKH ZAYID BESTOWS THE EMIRATES' [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (SBU) UAE President Shaykh Zayid bin Sultan Al- Nahyan conferred upon CENTCOM Commander General Tommy R. Franks the Emirates Military Order of First Class in a meeting on June 24 at Al-Bahr Palace in Abu Dhabi. [...]	2003-06-25 11:03:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3069	PROSPECTS FOR GREATER POLITICAL [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: The collapse of Saddam's regime and an avowed U.S. policy of encouraging greater political participation and economic reform across the region in the post 9/11 environment have increased expectation [...]	2003-06-29 12:28:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM TC
03ABUDHABI309	ILL-TIMED MOVE: UAE ALLOWS IRAQ TO [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) The Ambassador met with MFA Minstate Hamdan Bin Zayid Al-Nahyan 1/19 to seek an explanation for the decision (reported in the UAE press) by the UAEG to allow Iraq to upgrade its diplomatic ties here to the level [...]	2003-01-20 15:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI310	SCENESETTER FOR A/S BURNS 1/21-22 [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) Assistant Secretary Burns: I look forward to welcoming you back to the UAE. Your schedule is taking shape, with meetings requested with President Zayid Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan and Chi [...]	2003-01-20 15:38:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PTER IR IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3146	ZAYID CENTER TO GET MORE OVERSIGHT, NEW [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: The controversial Abu Dhabi-based, Arab League-affiliated and UAEG-funded Zayid Center for Coordination and Follow-Up (ZCCF) will cease temporarily all of its activities this summer, and will have a [...]	2003-07-06 13:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3178	UAEG LARGEST AID DONOR TO THE PALESTINIANS [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary and comment: Despite ongoing humanitarian assistance activities in Afghanistan and now Iraq, the UAEG is continuing its robust aid programs to the Palestinians. The UAEG already has channeled nearly [...]	2003-07-07 13:02:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG TC
03ABUDHABI3200	UAE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGES [...] (U) In a newspaper interview with a local English daily, the UAE Labor Undersecretary Dr. Khalid Al- Khazraji declared, in response to a question about the legality of strikes in the UAE, "The UAE labour law has not forbidden strikes. It has not mentioned them as it has a system for labourers [...]	2003-07-08 12:58:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI3201	UAE CONTINUES AMNESTY [...] (U) Classified by A/DCM Katherine Van de Vate for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) The UAEG officially claimed that 100,000 illegal immigrants "benefited" from the amnesty which began January 1, 2003, and that 40,000 illegals have been arrested over the past few months. The Labor Ministry i [...]	2003-07-08 12:58:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI3202	UAE APPROVES ILO BIO-HAZARD RULES [...] (U) The UAE approved the recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on ccupational health and safety. The ILO agreed, in a conference last month, to new standards for the prevention of biological hazards in the workplace, calling for action to reduce the number of deaths, [...]	2003-07-08 13:24:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI3208	ABU DHABI'S NEXUS OF ECONOMIC POWER, PART II: THE [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (C) This is the second cable in a series that focuses on the informal, and less visible, power structure of Abu Dhabi emirate and -- through the power of the purse st [...]	2003-07-09 13:32:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EFIN EINV EPET PINS PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3209	NUMBER OF UAE WOMEN DIPLOMATS ON THE RISE [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The UAE female diplomatic corps increased to 16 yesterday with the swearing in of 8 more women diplomats. An initiative of MFA MinState Shaykh Hamdan, the MFA began accrediting women as diplomats, with the ability to serve in embassies overseas, in 2001. The Ambassador [...]	2003-07-09 13:37:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM PGOV SCUL PREL TC
03ABUDHABI3249	UAE READY FOR MLAT VIDEO CONFERENCE JULY 15 [...] (U) Classified by A/DCM Katherine Van De Vate, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) This is an Action request. Please see para 5. 3. (C) The Ambassador Met with UAE Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Awqaf Mohamed Nakhera Al-Daheri on July 13, 2003. The Minister said that of th [...]	2003-07-13 13:06:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	CJAN PREL ASEC ETTC KCRM PGOV KTIA
03ABUDHABI3251	UAEG WANTS ARTICLE 98 DVC ON JULY 16 [...] (U) Classified by A/DCM Katherine Van De Vate, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary and Action Request: The UAE Ministry of Justice is eager to hold a digital videoconference on the U.S.-UAE Article 98 agreement and is proposing July 16 for the date. The relevant Ministry of Just [...]	2003-07-14 10:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIA KICC PGOV PARM TC
03ABUDHABI3410	UAE SUPREME COURT RULES SPONSORS CANNOT [...] (U) Local papers reported on July 17 that the Federal Supreme Court ruled sponsors cannot withhold the passports of their employees -- a common practice among employers in the UAE. The Court held that a passport is a personal document, granted by a government to its citizens to travel. A pas [...]	2003-07-22 11:37:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI3416	CPA Senior Advisor Slocombe Meets UAE Chief of Staff [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-23 09:45:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3423	UAE CONTRIBUTIONS TO IRAQ TOTAL USD $50 [...] (U) UAE Chief of Staff, and de facto Defense Minister, Shaykh Muhammad Bin Zayid Al-Nahyan (MbZ) told the Ambassador on July 20 that UAE assistance to Iraq already totals USD $50 million. This contribution includes Red Crescent medical and food supplies, hospital and medical equipment, contin [...]	2003-07-23 13:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3476	TAKING STOCK OF UAE ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (U) Summary. UAE assistance to Iraq -- both pledged and delivered -- has been significant. UAE Chief of Staff Shaykh Muhammad bin Zayid Al-Nahyan (MbZ) confirmed to the Ambassador in July that total UAE ass [...]	2003-07-27 13:15:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3496	UAE QUIETLY SUPPORTS THE IRAQ GOVERNING COUNCIL [...] (U) Classified by A/DCM Katherine Van De Vate for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) The Ambassador met with both Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Minister Of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan to urge that the UAEG support the Iraq Governing Council. B [...]	2003-07-28 12:55:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNSC KPAO IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3587	UAEG BLACKLISTS FIRMS FOR VIOLATING LABOR LAWS [...] (U) Local press reported that the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs blacklisted 375 companies in Abu Dhabi and 549 in Dubai and the Northern Emirates between January 1 and June 30 for violating labor laws. The Ministry inspected over 10,000 businesses in Dubai and the Northern Emirates dur [...]	2003-08-02 17:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI3591	UAEG REQUESTS LIST OF U.S. DELEGATES TO THE [...] POST RECEIVED A DIPLOMATIC NOTE FROM THE UAE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS FORMALLY REQUESTING THE NAME OF THE HEAD OF THE U.S. DELEGATION TO THE SEPTEMBER 23-24 IMF/WORLD BANK MEETINGS IN DUBAI, AS WELL AS A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF OUR DELEGATION PARTICIPATING IN THE MEETINGS. [...]	2003-08-03 11:43:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3593	UAE RANKS FIFTH AMONG ARAB FARM EXPORTERS -- [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) Local press reported last week that the UAE ranks fifth among Arab farm exporters according to figures released by the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD). The UAE exported products total [...]	2003-08-03 13:00:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV PREL SENV ECON TC
03ABUDHABI3682	UAEG REQUESTS GUIDANCE ON RAFIDAIN BANK [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 4. 3. (C) The UAE Central Bank forwarded a copy to Post of a July 26 letter to Treasury Secretary Snow seeking guidance on the liquidation of Raf [...]	2003-08-10 13:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3683	UAEG TO TRANSFER FROZEN ASSETS TO THE DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 5. 3. (C) The UAE Central Bank forwarded a copy to Post of a July 26 letter responding to Treasury Secretary Snow's written request for the UAEG [...]	2003-08-10 13:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3721	UAE MAY CUT OIL PRODUCTION LATER THIS YEAR [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires, a.i., Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) acknowledged publicly on August 10 that it will cut oil production in the last quarter of 2003 to undertake major repair work in the Lower Zakum a [...]	2003-08-12 13:30:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC
03ABUDHABI3722	(C) UAE LETTER CONFIRMS ZAYED CENTER CHANGES [...] (U) Classified by CDA Richard A. Albright, for reason 1.5 (D). 2. (C) Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Director General, Office of His Highness the President sent the following letter dated August 6 (received at Embassy August 12, 2003) to Ambassador Wahba in response to the her letter of July [...]	2003-08-12 13:38:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3817	AS ZAYED CENTER FLAP GROWS, UAEG WANTS USG TO [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires, a.i., Richard Albright, for Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary: In very frank terms during a meeting with the Charge and Polchief on August 19, UAE Information Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan said President Sheikh Zayed "went the extra mile" w [...]	2003-08-19 15:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3828	ZAYED CENTER WEB SITE CLOSED [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires, a.i., Richard Albright, for Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) The Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up (ZCCF) Web site has been closed, the first tangible, public action by the UAEG against the Center. "This Site has been Stopped," reads the messag [...]	2003-08-20 11:28:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3856	UAEG DENIES BANKROLLING IRAQI SUNNI [...] (U) Classified by Richard A. Albright, Charge d'Affaires, a.i., for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) UAE Information Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan denied that his government was financing Iraqi Sunni cleric Ahmed Al-Kubaysi. In an August 19 meeting with Charge and Polchief, [...]	2003-08-23 11:38:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KPRP PINR PGOV PINS PNAT PREL IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3896	UAE CIVAIR AUTHORITIES RECEIVE NOTAM TO OVERFLY [...] Post delivered 8/23 reftel information regarding applications to overfly Iraq to Director General of the UAE Civil Aviation Authority Mohamed Al-Ghaith and Ministry of Communications Assistant Undersecretary for Civil Aviation Mohamed Al-Suweidi. Econoff also forwarded the NOTAM to the offic [...]	2003-08-25 13:32:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAIR PGOV ECON IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3939	MISSION SEEKS BILATERALS WITH US OFFICIALS ON THE [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST; PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 3. 2. (U) AS A MAJOR DONOR TO THE RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS IN BOTH AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ AND A STEADFAST PARTNER IN OUR EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORIST FINANCING, THE UAEG HAS DEMONSTRATED IT IS WILLING TO GO THE DISTANCE TO SUPPORT U.S. POLICI [...]	2003-08-27 11:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ECIN EFIN EINV OVIP PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI3940	UAE aid to Afghanistan totals more than USD [...] (U) Summary and comment: As the World Bank considers approaching the UAEG to co-host an Afghan donors conference on the margins of the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Dubai in September, Post was reminded recently by one of our MFA contacts that the UAE has provided millions of dollars in [...]	2003-08-27 11:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EAID MARR MASS PREL PGOV OHIP AF TC
03ABUDHABI3993	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL BUCHANAN'S [...] (U) Classified by Richard A. Albright, Charge d'Affaires, a.i., for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) General Buchanan: On behalf of Ambassador Wahba, who is out of country until September 4, I would like to welcome you to the UAE. Your visit comes at a time of unprecedented Emirati cooper [...]	2003-09-02 12:28:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC AF IZ TC
03ABUDHABI3994	BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD FACE: AL ARABIYA CHANGES ITS [...] (C) Summary: During an August 9th broadcast, Arabic Satellite News Channel al Arabiya aired videos of militant organizations urging Iraqis and Arabs to target "Occupation" forces. Again on August 28th, the station broadcast footage of similarly hooded men threatening to kill Iraqi Governing Co [...]	2003-09-02 12:37:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL KMDR ECON PGOV ZP
03ABUDHABI3995	TRADE BANK OF IRAQ DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO THE UAEG [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires, a.i. Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary. Charge D'Affaires passed reftel points and non-paper 8/31 to UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs Assistant Undersecretary for Political Affairs Abdullah Rashid Al-Nuami, and Econoff se [...]	2003-09-02 12:37:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECIN ECON EFIN PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI4135	SCENESETTER FOR VICE ADMIRAL KEATING'S VISIT TO [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, Reasons 1.5(b) and (d). 2. (S) Vice Admiral Keating: I look forward to welcoming you back to the UAE in a few days. The staff at the Embassy in Abu Dhabi and Consulate General in Dubai are making all the arrangements to ensure your visit to [...]	2003-09-10 14:04:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PARM MOPS TC
03ABUDHABI415	A/S BURNS AND MFA MINSTATE HAMDAN BIN [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Visiting NEA A/S Burns and MFA Minstate Hamdan Bin Zayid Al-Nahyan discussed next steps in the U.S.-UAE Bilateral Dialogue during a 1/22 meeting. Burns praised Hamdan's handling of the UAEG delegatio [...]	2003-01-26 13:15:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PARM TC
03ABUDHABI4202	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY SNOW AND THE U.S. [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Secretary Snow: I would like to welcome you to the UAE as you prepare for the 2003 annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) in Dubai. Dubai's leadership has investe [...]	2003-09-15 13:27:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC ECIN EFIN EINV OVIP PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI4253	EXPATRIATES TO GET ACCESS TO NATIONAL LABOR [...] (U) Local press reported that the UAE Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has drafted a law that will establish a national labor union which expatriates will have access to via their own representatives. The UAEG will likely enact the law in 2004, after the Federal Cabinet and the President a [...]	2003-09-17 09:21:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS
03ABUDHABI4294	U.S.-UAE Strategic Partnership, Oct. 5-6: [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary and Action request: We have reached agreement with the UAEG on the topics and format for the October 5-6 U.S.-UAE Strategic Partnership in Abu Dhabi. October 5 will be the substantive, working day [...]	2003-09-21 10:34:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER CVIS CASC ETRD EFIN TC
03ABUDHABI4314	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ABIZAID'S [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) General Abizaid: I would like to welcome you back to the UAE for your full introductory visit. You will be calling on Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and have an opportunity for f [...]	2003-09-22 10:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC IZ TC
03ABUDHABI4361	UAE'S REPRESENTATIVE TO OPEC "SURPRISED" BY [...] (U) Classified by Economic Section Chief Oliver B. John, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) In a 9/28 meeting with Econ Chief, UAE Ministry of Petroleum Director of Economic Affairs and OPEC delegate Hamdan Al-Akbari said he was "a little bit surprised" by the organization's decision las [...]	2003-09-28 09:49:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC
03ABUDHABI4371	NAVCENT COMMANDER'S FAREWELL CALL IN [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary: USNAVCENT Commander Vice Admiral Timothy J. Keating made a visit to the UAE on September 13-14. In Abu Dhabi, he called on UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff LTG Sheikh Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (M [...]	2003-09-29 10:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER AF IZ TC
03ABUDHABI4402	SCENESETTER FOR THE FIRST ECONOMIC BUSINESSWOMEN'S [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (U) DAS Cheney and Senior Coordinator Ponticelli: I would like to welcome you to the UAE to attend the First Economic Businesswomen's Forum in Abu Dhabi, October 7-10. The UAEG has invested a tremendous amount [...]	2003-09-30 10:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KWMN OVIP PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI442	SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR AWAY: [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) In the course of a 1/22 meeting with visiting NEA A/S Burns, MFA Minstate Hamdan Bin Zayid Al- Nahyan briefed on the difficulties he is encountering sealing a deal with Iran on Abu Musa, one of three Gulf islan [...]	2003-01-27 13:27:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR IR TC
03ABUDHABI4428	SCENESETTER FOR A/S BURNS' VISIT TO [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Burns: I look forward to welcoming you back to the UAE for your October 5 visit. Your Emirati interlocutors are eager to see you. We have requested meetings for you with MFA Mins [...]	2003-10-02 08:31:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV AF IR IS IZ TC
03ABUDHABI4508	NEW IRAQI ECONOMIC PACKAGE AND DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b and d). 2. (C) Econchief and econoff discussed Iraqi economic reforms and the Madrid donors' conference with Ministry of Finance Assistant Undersecretary for Revenue and Budget Khalid Al-Bustani (protect). Al-Bustani said that i [...]	2003-10-07 11:26:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI4597	UAE HOSTS FIRST ECONOMIC BUSINESSWOMEN'S FORUM [...] Summary: A U.S. delegation from the Embassy and the Department attended the First Economic Businesswomen's Forum, held in Abu Dhabi, October 7-10, under the patronage of Shaykha Fatima bint Mubarak, wife of UAE President Shaykh Zayed bin Sultan. Shaykha Fatima did not attend the forum. Toute [...]	2003-10-14 13:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL PGOV KWMN KPAO KMPI TC
03ABUDHABI4612	UAE OFFICIAL ADVISES USG TO ALLOW IRAQ GOVERNING [...] (C) Summary: MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Political Affairs Abdullah Rashid Al-Noaimi stressed to Charge that it was in the best interests of the USG if the Iraq Governing Council (IGC) was allowed to assume more authority. He expressed his concern that the Iraq Governing Council (IGC) was [...]	2003-10-15 13:58:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TC
03ABUDHABI4671	UAE PRESIDENT SHEIKH ZAYED: HEALTH UPDATE [...] (S) The Ambassador learned from MinState for Foreign Affairs and (newly appointed) Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan that his father, President Zayed, had an operation the morning of October 19 and was resting comfortably in a private wing of a UAE hospital in London. Pr [...]	2003-10-20 13:44:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR TC
03ABUDHABI4694	UAE: DOLPHIN SIGNS MAJOR GAS SUPPLY AGREEMENTS [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Ambassador met with Occidental Petroleum CEO Dr. Ray Irani 10/21 -- days after Dolphin Energy Limited (DEL) signed two long-term supply agreements with the UAE's major power and water companies. DEL, in which Oxy maintains 24.5 percent equity, intends to begin pum [...]	2003-10-21 13:50:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC
03ABUDHABI4695	UAE: ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT UPDATE [...] (C) The Ambassador briefed Deputy Prime Minister and MinState for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (HBZ) October 19 on the status of our Article 98 agreement with the Emiratis. She said the UAE inter-agency panel appeared to be stuck on the "where it is appropriate" language [...]	2003-10-22 04:54:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM TC
03ABUDHABI4748	UAE AND OPIC -- PERFECT TOGETHER [...] This is an action request; please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Summary and comment: Post believes the time is ripe for a dialogue between the UAEG and OPIC about reinstating OPIC programs in the UAE. The suspension of OPIC coverage has become an irritant in the UAE-U.S. Strategic Partnersh [...]	2003-10-26 13:08:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS GTIP TC
03ABUDHABI4764	UAE, OMAN FORMALIZE BORDER PACT [...] (U) Summary: The historical dispute between the UAE and Oman over their common international border appears to be over. On October 11, the two neighbors exchanged authenticated documents on the agreement reached on the common border from east of Al Aqeedat to Al Daar in the north on the Arabi [...]	2003-10-27 11:53:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR QA SA IR MU TC
03ABUDHABI4835	IRAQI EXPATS: U.S. NEEDS TO LISTEN TO [...] (C) Summary: We recently met with two prominent Iraqi expats in the UAE. They recommended that the Coalition move quickly to establish an Iraqi satellite TV station to beam more balanced coverage of Iraqi developments to the Arab world. They wanted a new UN resolution that would solve the i [...]	2003-11-02 12:13:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV PREL IZ TC
03ABUDHABI4869	DONOR STRATEGY - AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Post understands that, in meetings last week with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (HbZ),Treasury Secretary Snow and Defense Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz urged SIPDIS HbZ to expedite disbursal of pledged UAE assistance to A [...]	2003-11-04 12:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL AF TC
03ABUDHABI5062	CLASSIFIED ANNEX TO UAE 2003 ANNUAL [...] (U) Classified by Richard A. Albright, Charg d'Affaires, a.i., Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (SBU) Post provides additional responses to complement the unclassified portion of the 2003 annual terrorism report. The information included in this classified annex is considered highly sensitive [...]	2003-11-23 12:18:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI5076	UAE: TALK ABOUT TOWN [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) This is the first in a series of "Talk About Town" cables that the U.S. Mission in Abu Dhabi and Dubai hopes to provide on a periodic basis. These cables will report on local business atmospheric [...]	2003-11-23 14:03:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAIR ECON EPET PGOV PREL SOCI TC
03ABUDHABI5095	UAE: 2003 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] The following information is keyed to reftel section two. (A separate complementary classified cable will follow with additional information.) A) In 2003 the UAE continued to provide outstanding assistance and cooperation in the Global War on Terrorism. The UAE played a critical role in as [...]	2003-11-29 12:22:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL PGOV ASEC TC
03ABUDHABI5132	UAEG, Iraqi expats, welcome visiting Iraq [...] (U) The UAE leadership once again put out the welcome mat for members of the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) during their visit to Abu Dhabi last week. President Shaykh Zayed told the delegation November 26 that the UAE would always support the Iraqi people and called on Iraqis to work together [...]	2003-12-01 12:23:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV PREL IZ TC
03ABUDHABI5133	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ABIZAID'S VISIT TO THE [...] (U) Classified by Richard A. Albright, Chargi d'Affaires, a.i., for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) General Abizaid: I would like to welcome you back to the UAE. The highlight of December in the UAE will be the 2003 Dubai Air Show, the third largest air show in the world and the premier a [...]	2003-12-01 12:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC IZ TC
03ABUDHABI5134	SHAYKH ZAYED CLARIFIES UAE [...] (C) UAE President Shaykh Zayed on November 30 appointed his third eldest son, Armed Forces Chief of Staff LTG Shaykh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ),as Deputy Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi The Emiri decree stated that MbZ would assume the position of Crown Prince once that position becomes vacant. Wh [...]	2003-12-01 12:46:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TC
03ABUDHABI5138	SCENESETTER FOR AIR FORCE LEADERSHIP VISITS TO [...] (U) Classified by Richard A. Albright, Chargi d'Affaires, a.i., for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) I would like to welcome you to the UAE. The highlight of December in the UAE will be the 2003 Dubai Air Show, the third largest air show in the world and the premier aviation and air industr [...]	2003-12-01 15:18:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC IZ TC
03ABUDHABI526	SHOW ME THE MONEY: INSIGHTS INTO THE UAE BUDGET [...] No summary [...]	2003-02-02 05:05:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI5295	SCENESETTER FOR CSAF VISIT TO THE UAE, DECEMBER [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) General Jumper: I would like to welcome you back to the UAE. The highlight of December in the UAE has been the 2003 Dubai Air Show, the third largest air show in the world and the premier aviation and air indus [...]	2003-12-15 13:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC IZ TC
03ABUDHABI5297	UAE, OMAN DISCUSS COMMON SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: UAE Deputy Prime Minister and MFA Minstate Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayed (HbZ) briefed the Ambassador December 14 on his talks with Sultan Qaboos in Oman. HbZ said the talks centered on regional security, Saudi Arabia's internal unrest, and UAE financial assistance for a regional road [...]	2003-12-15 14:48:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV GCC TC
03ABUDHABI552	THE MONEY PIT: FISCAL IRREGULARITIES IN THE UAE [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires Tom Williams for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (U) The UAE federal government's top financial control body -- the Abu Dhabi Audit Department -- announced publicly on February 1 that the federal coffers had received only USD $107,000 of the USD $9 million [...]	2003-02-02 13:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI562	CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR CONFIRMS STATUS OF RAFIDAIN BANK IN UAE [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires Thomas Williams for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) In a meeting with Charge on February 3, UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan Al- Suweidi confirmed that a single branch of Rafidain Bank operates in Abu Dhabi, but its activities are very limited and close [...]	2003-02-03 12:50:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI619	UAE CENTRAL BANK ANNOUNCES SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires Thomas Williams for reasons 1.5 (B) and (C). 2. (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 5. 3. (C) On the heels of the very successful May 2002 Hawala Conference in Abu Dhabi (reftel),UAE Central Bank Governor Sultan Al-Suweidi officiall [...]	2003-02-05 13:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN ETTC PREL PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI628	UAE GETS SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE TO GCC [...] (U) Classified by Charge D'Affaires Thomas Williams for reason 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (S) Charge delivered reftel oral message to MFA A/USEC for Political Affairs Abdullah Rashid Al-Nuaimi, February 6. Abdullah Rashid indicated that his father, nominal UAE Foreign Minister Rashid Abdullah Al- [...]	2003-02-06 09:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS IZ TC
03ABUDHABI723	UAEG and Iraq ferry operator submit [...] No summary [...]	2003-02-09 13:12:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL PGOV EWWT MOPS IZ TC
03ABUDHABI727	UAEG and Iraq ferry operator submit [...] (U) Classified by Charge Thomas E. Williams for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) UK DCM contacted Charge 2/8 to inquire into USG representations to the UAE on the issue of the Iraq ferries. The UK diplomat noted that the UAEG was claiming in New York to have the support of the U.S. Embass [...]	2003-02-11 04:36:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL PGOV EWWT MOPS IZ TC
03ABUDHABI734	UAE PREPARES ROBUST FORCE DEPLOYMENT TO [...] (U) Classified by Charge Thomas E. Williams for reasons 1.5 (b,d). 2. (C) The UAEG is prepared to begin deploying a brigade-plus military force to Kuwait by as early as February 16, but is waiting for clearance from the GOK with regard to acceptance of forces and basing/logistical arrang [...]	2003-02-12 13:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS GCC KU TC

03ABUDHABI773	(S) UAEG FINANCIALLY OVEREXTENDED [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). SUMMARY AND COMMENT ------------------- 2. (S/NF) Senior UAEG officials have told the Ambassador on several occasions recently that the UAE is facing serious cash-flow problems. The basic problem is that the UAE has [...]	2003-02-17 14:45:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN MARR MOPS PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI843	UAEG ASSURES ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) During a 19 February meeting with the Ambassador, MFA Asst U/S Abdullah Rashid Al-Nuaimi provided a candid readout on the Arab League Extraordinary Ministerial held in Cairo 15-16 February. Noting that he [...]	2003-02-19 13:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AL TC
03ABUDHABI870	UAEG WILL CONSIDER MULTILATERAL OPEN SKIES REGIME [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Econchief delivered reftel demarche on the benefits of joining a multilateral open skies aviation regime on 2/22 to UAE Ministry of Communications Assistant Undersecretary for Civil Aviation Mohamed Yahya Al-Suweidi [...]	2003-02-22 14:00:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAIR PGOV ECON MU QA BA TC
03ABUDHABI936	THE DIFFICULTIES OF DOING BUSINESS IN ABU DHABI [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) In a 2/19 meeting with Econ FSN, an Emirati businessman from one of Abu Dhabi's lesser families harshly criticized the local business climate, particularly in contrast with the relative simplicity and openness of Dub [...]	2003-02-26 06:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EINV TC
03ABUDHABI941	UAE DRAFTS LABOR UNION REGULATIONS [...] (U) The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs completed the final draft of a proposal permitting the creation of full-fledged labor unions, on 2/24. The plan will be reviewed by the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Awqaf before a final proposal is submitted to [...]	2003-02-26 08:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI CVIS TC
03ABUDHABI978	MOVING FORWARD WITH EXBS TRAINING FOR THE [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE -- PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH FOUR. 3. (C) The Dubai Ports and Customs Authority (DPA),which oversees Jebel Ali and Port Rashid (together the 12th largest port in the world),has on se [...]	2003-03-01 07:10:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EXBS PARM PREL PGOV ETTC TC
03ABUJA1012	NIGERIA: MEETING WITH MINISTER OF JUSTICE [...] (C) Summary: During a May 2 meeting to deliver the non-paper on narcotics and law enforcement certification to the Minister of Justice Kanu Agabi (Reftel),Ambassador Jeter took the opportunity to discuss the April elections with the Minister. The blunt, straight-talking Agabi decried the man [...]	2003-06-09 19:42:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCRM PREL NI
03ABUJA1025	NIGERIA: FORMER MOD DANJUMA ON ART. 98, BENUE AND [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: June 7 DCM paid a farewell call on former Minister of Defense LTG (ret.) T.Y. Danjuma. Danjuma did not expect the GON to conclude an Article 98 agreement and doubted the Commission of Inquiry's report on the October 2001 Benue massacre would satisfy the U.S. Congress since the [...]	2003-06-11 14:03:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	MASS PREL KTIA PGOV MARR MOPS NI KICC
03ABUJA1033	NIGERIA: OBASANJO SAYS HE WANTS ARTICLE 98 [...] (C) During a June 11 meeting with President Obasanjo on Article 98 and security assistance issues (SEPTEL),Ambassador Jeter explained the ramifications of not concluding an Article 98 agreement by the July 1 deadline. Obasanjo said he was in favor of Article 98. He thought such agreements w [...]	2003-06-12 14:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KTIA NI KICC
03ABUJA1034	NIGERIA: BENUE REPORT INDICTS NO ONE; OBASANJO [...] (C) During a June 11 meeting, President Obasanjo and Ambassador discussed GON efforts to address U.S. concerns over the October 2001 Benue incident. Ambassador Jeter noted that Nigeria had lost USD 12.8 million in "opportunity" bilateral security assistance because of Congressional sanctions [...]	2003-06-12 14:27:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV MOPS PINS NI
03ABUJA104	NIGERIA: UPDATE FROM NLC PRESIDENT OSHIOMHOLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a late 2002 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole discussed talks he held with World Bank and IMF representatives on poverty reduction and worker rights. Oshiomhole revealed to the Ambassador an ambitious policy agenda, in [...]	2003-01-16 14:19:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EFIN PGOV NI
03ABUJA1047	NIGERIA - RECENT EVENTS IN ZIMBABWE UNDERMINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent surge in political tension in Zimbabwe seems to have erased the progress President Obasanjo believed was achieved by his May visit to Harare. Obasanjo thought he and President Mbeki made headway moving the GOZ and MDC toward resuming their political negotiations. Howe [...]	2003-06-13 10:23:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ZI NI
03ABUJA1049	NIGERIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP JUNE 13 [...] (U) THIS PERIODIC JOINT POLITICAL REPORT FROM ABUJA AND LAGOS INCLUDES: 2. --ELECTION TRIBUNALS UPDATE --WABARA FOR SENATE PRESIDENT --VIOLENCE-FREE INAUGURATION --DO THE JUNE 20 ELECTIONS MATTER? --VIOLENCE IN ADAMAWA STATE ------------------------- ELECTION TRIBUNALS UPDATE ------- [...]	2003-06-13 13:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1091	NIGERIA: FUEL PRICE INCREASE MAY TRIGGER VIOLENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 20, the GON announced a 65 percent fuel price hike, increasing consumer prices from 26 naira to 40 naira per liter. Most Nigerians expected a rise in costs, but did not expect the announcement to come so quickly nor probably did not expect its magnitude. The move however [...]	2003-06-20 17:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ELAB PINS PGOV NI
03ABUJA1096	NIGERIA: ARTILCE 98 PROSPECTS LOOKING UP BUT IT'S [...] (C) The ad-hoc inter-ministerial committee tasked by President Obasanjo to review our proposed Article 98 agreement met Tuesday, June 17. According to a source from the Foreign Ministry who attended the session, committee members decided to recommend to President Obasanjo that Nigeria conclu [...]	2003-06-24 15:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KTIA NI KICC
03ABUJA1102	NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO AUTHORIZES SIGNING OF [...] No summary [...]	2003-06-25 16:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KTIA NI KICC
03ABUJA1107	NIGERIA: NLC THREATENS GENERAL STRIKE OVER FUEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) called on June 24 for a nationwide strike beginning Monday June 30 to protest the GON's fuel price hike. Some in the NLC leadership were lukewarm about a strike; however, the decision was no surprise. The Union's long standing and perhaps its m [...]	2003-06-26 15:08:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ELAB PINS PGOV NI
03ABUJA1113	NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT DEFENDS IMPORT BANS [...] In June 9 and 10 meetings with Nigerian officials, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa Florie Liser and USTR Director for African Affairs Patrick Coleman highlighted U.S. concern with the expansion of Nigeria's import bans and its frequently changing tariff schedules. With the excep [...]	2003-06-27 13:59:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PGOV PREL NI USTR
03ABUJA1134	NIGERIA SIGNS ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT [...] (U) On June 30, during a private signing ceremony at the Ministry of Justice, Solicitor-General I.A. Ayua signed the Article 98 Agreement on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Ambassador Jeter signed on behalf of the United States. Signed original has been sent to L/T via registered [...]	2003-06-30 19:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KTIA NI KICC
03ABUJA1135	NIGERIA: FUEL STRIKE SLOWS COUNTRY [...] (U) Summary: The promised nation-wide strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over fuel price increases began June 30. While the strike did not completely shut down the country or any of its major cities, streets throughout Nigeria were less busy than normal, as many workers stayed home. A [...]	2003-06-30 19:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PINS EPET ENRG ASEC CASC PGOV NI
03ABUJA1137	NIGERIA: PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION AT THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Against the backdrop of significant opposition criticism of the April 19 elections and vague threats of &mass action8 against the new Administration, President Obasanjo held a triumphal inaugural on May 29. Security was tight but the events of inauguration week were well organized [...]	2003-07-01 11:16:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM OVIP NI
03ABUJA1138	NIGERIA: OIL COMPANIES COURT DELTA MILITANTS [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-01 12:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET PREL PGOV PINS NI
03ABUJA1147	NIGERIA: POLICE KILL FOUR DEMONSTRATORS; STRIKE [...] (U) Summary: The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) strike entered its second day with reports of sporadic violence, including four people apparently killed near Abuja. Nevertheless, the general mood is less tense than it was during the strike's first day. Some domestic flights resumed today, and [...]	2003-07-01 17:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV ASEC CASC NI
03ABUJA1148	NIGERIA: HOSTAGE-TAKING IN THE DELTA [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-01 18:10:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ASEC PINS PGOV NI
03ABUJA1150	NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO PROPOSES REFORMS TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Obasanjo appears committed to using the first months of his new Administration to introduce key political and economic reforms. On June 18, Obasanjo proposed significant changes to the federal government system and the conduct of elections. The two most salient are: (1) [...]	2003-07-02 11:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1157	NIGERIA: GON AND LABOR REMAIN AT LOGGERHEADS AS [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria has entered the third day of a national strike, with no agreement in sight between the National Labour Congress (NLC) and the Obasanjo Administration over fuel prices. Tensions in Abuja rose today as police clashed with NLC leaders and demonstrators. Street clashes conti [...]	2003-07-02 17:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV ASEC CASC NI
03ABUJA1162	NIGERIA: STRIKE CONTINUES TO HOLD FOR FOURTH DAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: July 3 was relatively quiet in Abuja. Vehicular traffic was light, gas lines were growing and most offices and businesses had skeletal staffing. Indicating that the political opposition may be looking for ways to exploit the strike, the Embassy experienced a peaceful demonstratio [...]	2003-07-03 18:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV ASEC CASC NI
03ABUJA1168	NIGERIA: STRIKE SITREP DAY 5 - 1200 JULY 4 [...] (U) Summary: The strike continued for a fifth day. Thus far, Abuja is quiet but there is a possibility of demonstrations after Juma,at prayers this afternoon )- not only in Abuja but in other Northern cities as well. There were no demonstrations in Abuja yesterday, but peaceful demonstration [...]	2003-07-04 12:23:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV ASEC CASC NI
03ABUJA1172	NIGERIA: STRIKE ENTERS SECOND WEEK [...] (U) Summary: The labor strike entered its second week today, as the GON and NLC failed to reach a compromise on the extent of the fuel price increase. Information from labor sources was conflicting, with some insiders forecasting an imminent settlement and others predicting an extended strike. [...]	2003-07-07 17:42:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC NI
03ABUJA1195	NIGERIA: FUEL STRIKE ENDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) accepted the GON's 34 naira (23 cents) fuel price offer early this morning. With this, Labor's eight-day strike has ended, one day after the most violent twenty-four hours of the strike. Five to ten demonstrators were reportedly killed in Lagos y [...]	2003-07-08 17:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC NI
03ABUJA12	NIGERIA: PDP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARIES [...] (U) The People's Democratic Party (PDP) held its so- called primaries during Christmas week 2002, producing few surprises. The selection of delegates to the state-by- state caucuses was designed to give maximum authority to incumbent governors in controlling the selection process. As expect [...]	2003-01-02 16:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI NI
03ABUJA1202	NIGERIA -- PRESIDENT OBASANJO CONFIRMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 5 afternoon meeting with Ambassador Jeter, President Obasanjo stated that, despite the concerns of his security staff, he was committed to travelling to Monrovia to confer with Charles Taylor. He saw Taylor's extraction from Monrovia as an essential cog in the evolvi [...]	2003-07-09 15:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV MASS MOPS LI
03ABUJA1206	NIGERIA: APGA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OJUKWU MEETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, APGA's Presidential candidate in the recent elections and leader of Biafra's failed secession in the sixties, met Ambassador Jeter at his residence on June 25 to discuss the Nigeria's elections, his observations on Obasanjo, and the way forward for Nigeria. [...]	2003-07-10 10:27:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA123	NIGERIA: UPDATE FROM NLC PRESIDENT OSHIOMHOLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a late 2002 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole discussed talks he held with World Bank and IMF representatives on poverty reduction and worker rights. Oshiomhole revealed to the Ambassador an ambitious policy agenda, in [...]	2003-01-21 16:43:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EFIN PGOV NI
03ABUJA1230	NIGERIA'S INITIAL RESPONSE TO COUP IN SAO [...] (C) Ambassador Jeter talked separately to Sao Tomean President de Menezes and new Nigerian Foreign Minister Adeniji July 16. According to both sources, President Obasanjo has been in direct communication with the coup leaders, telling them to stand down and return power to the country's const [...]	2003-07-17 19:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MOPS PINS EPET PGOV NI TP
03ABUJA1239	NIGERIA: GON THINKS SAO TOMEAN COUP LEADERS WILL [...] (C) MFA Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Daniel Hart and Nigerian Ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe Saidu Pindar discussed the Sao Tomean coup with A/DCM Brian Browne on July 18. Hart and Pindar stated that the proximate cause of the putsch was sustained frustration over de Menezes' foot dr [...]	2003-07-19 11:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MOPS PINS EPET PGOV TP NI
03ABUJA1248	NIGERIA: TRIBUNALS UPDATE [...] (C) Begin Summary: State election tribunals have been rendering decisions for one month. Three elections have been overturned, but the majority of the petitions have been thrown out on procedural grounds. The proclivity of the tribunals to avoid the substantive merits of many of these cases [...]	2003-07-22 16:55:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1285	NIGERIA: BUHARI STILL STANDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met General Muhammadu Buhari, ANPP presidential candidate, to discuss his assessment of Nigeria and his future plans. Buhari commented that he had no faith in Obasanjo because the "four failed years has only emboldened him." Buhari criticized the electoral tribunals fo [...]	2003-07-29 14:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA1286	NIGERIA: CLOSER DIALOGUE WITH THE OIL COMPANIES [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-29 15:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PHUM PGOV PINS NI
03ABUJA1300	NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH LAGOS [...] SUMMARY. Recently re-elected Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu continues to push his three-part plan for improving the state through privatization, housing construction and environmental clean-up. In meetings July 23 with senior Mission officials, Tinubu outlined new road rehabilitation and t [...]	2003-07-30 15:37:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EAID ECON SENV NI
03ABUJA1302	NIGERIA: VETTING OF NIGERIAN BATTALIONS FOR [...] (U) Post has requested the name of the current commander of the 26th Infantry battalion as well as other key officers in the battalion. The Nigerian military has yet to respond to the request, thus we have not been able to vet the names of the battalion commander and his core officers. Howe [...]	2003-07-30 17:20:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL MARR MASS SL NI
03ABUJA1314	NIGERIA: AID ASST. ADMINISTRATOR'S DELTA VISIT [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-31 16:17:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PINS EPET PREL PHUM NI
03ABUJA1325	KIDNAPPING OF NIGERIAN CHEVRON WORKER [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-01 15:43:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET PINS PGOV NI
03ABUJA1327	NIGERIA: OBASANJO'S LIBERIA POLICY GETS MIXED [...] (S) President Obasanjo's policy of active diplomatic engagement on and military troop deployment to Liberia has the support of the many Nigerians who believe that their country's status as the sub- regional power requires an activist foreign policy. However, most Nigerians probably either oppo [...]	2003-08-01 17:14:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MASS MOPS LI NI
03ABUJA1328	RENEWED WARRI VIOLENCE A CAUSE FOR CONCERN [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-04 14:36:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET PINS ASEC PREL PGOV NI
03ABUJA1329	NIGERIA: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MEMBERS OF THE [...] (C) On 18 July, President Obasanjo swore in 38 of 40 new Ministers and deputies and confirmed their various portfolios. In a novel twist, Obasanjo had forwarded the roster to the National Assembly without matching the prospective Ministers to any portfolios. He only designated the portfolios [...]	2003-08-04 15:08:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA1331	NIGERIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP AUGUST 6 [...] (U) THIS PERIODIC JOINT POLITICAL REPORT FROM ABUJA INCLUDES: --Obasanjo Chooses Special Advisors --Obasanjo Submits List of Ministers --Electoral Conference ) INEC Admits Problems --Opposition Book Launch --Court Case on the Presidential Election --Probe of Inspector General of Polic [...]	2003-08-06 13:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1333	OBASANJO TALKS TOUGH ON OIL THEFT AND WARRI CRISIS [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-06 16:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PINS PGOV ASEC NI
03ABUJA1338	NIGERIA: RESTARTING OIL PRODUCTION IN WARRI [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-06 18:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PINS ASEC PGOV NI
03ABUJA1340	NIGERIA: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MEMBERS OF THE [...] (C) This is the second of Post,s biographic cables on newly appointed GON ministers. This cable focuses on the President,s new economic team. According to Embassy sources and press reports, President Obasanjo is promoting his economic team as a new generation of internationally respected tec [...]	2003-08-07 09:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL KISL NI
03ABUJA1347	NIGERIA: DEMONSTRATION AT EMBASSY; ATTACK ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: About 50 men and women assembled at the Embassy on July 3 to peacefully protest the April elections and the visit of the President Bush to see President Obasanjo. After departing peacefully, at least 30 of the demonstrators were detained for about ten days, we learned. While [...]	2003-08-07 17:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC NI
03ABUJA1354	ANTICIPATED MILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE DELTA [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-08 17:03:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PINS PGOV ASEC NI
03ABUJA1357	CODEM ADVOCACY EFFORT STIFLED BY ALLEGED [...] (SBU) Summary. Since spring 2003 Mission Nigeria has heen pursuing advocacy in behalf of CODEM Systems, Inc., a New Hampshire-based telecommunications firm. CODEM has tendered bids on three separate contracts, the aggregate value of which approximates $80 million. Its proposal to Nigeria's Min [...]	2003-08-08 18:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP ECPS ETRD PGOV NI
03ABUJA1372	ADVANCING THE VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLES IN NIGERIA: USE [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-12 14:06:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EPET KCRM PHUM SNAR NI
03ABUJA1373	NIGERIA: GON CALLS ARTICLE 98 AN EXECUTIVE [...] (U) The Nigerian Solicitor-General (the highest ranking civil servant in the Ministry of Justice and the official who executed the Article 98 Agreement on behalf of the GON) I.A. Ayua indicated in a July 14 letter to Ambassador Jeter that the GON has deemed the Article 98 agreement an executi [...]	2003-08-12 14:34:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KTIA NI KICC
03ABUJA1374	NIGERIA: TAYLOR ARRIVES [...] (C) Former President Charles Taylor arrived in Abuja Monday evening August 11 at 2125 local time. He traveled with President Kufuor of Ghana and President Chissano of Mozambique, and was greeted by President Obasanjo. After spending several hours in Abuja, he and his entire contingent conti [...]	2003-08-12 17:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM LI
03ABUJA1379	WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 13AUG03 [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-13 16:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PINS ASEC PGOV PHUM NI
03ABUJA1385	MOGEROA - ENTERING A SEASON OF POLITICAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: Politically, Nigeria is tense and this probably will not significantly abate in the near future. Opposition politicians and much of the general populace remain disenchanted with the results of the April elections and the irregularities that attended them. Many opposition figu [...]	2003-08-14 15:03:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS NI
03ABUJA1386	CODEM PROVIDES FURTHER INDICATIONS OF [...] (C) Summary. On August 12 CODEM's Nigeria-based representative gave us further documentation that suggests that the Ministry of Communications is grossly understating the bid of CODEM's competitor for the $35 million contract mentioned in reftel. From the Ministry's understatement, as well a [...]	2003-08-14 16:27:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP ECPS ETRD PGOV NI
03ABUJA1387	WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 14AUG03 [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-14 17:44:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV ASEC PINS NI
03ABUJA1394	MILITARY/POLICE CONFRONTATION IN ABUJA [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires a.i. Rick Roberts for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (SBU) In the early evening August 14 Air Force and Air Force and police personnel had a brief shootout in the Asokoro district of Abuja. Military and police sources tell us plainclothes Air Force securi [...]	2003-08-15 12:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MOPS NI
03ABUJA1408	WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 18AUG03 [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-18 16:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PINS PGOV PHUM NI
03ABUJA1410	ECOWAS 505 FAA AGREEMENT FOR LIBERIA [...] (U) Post transmitted reftel Note to ECOWAS on July 30 and received in reply a Note of agreement dated August 4. Text of ECOWAS Note is as follows: (BEGIN TEXT) The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United [...]	2003-08-19 17:29:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL NI
03ABUJA1411	WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 20AUG03 [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-20 15:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PINS ASEC PGOV PHUM NI
03ABUJA1430	WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 21AUG03 [...] (U) Classified by Counselor James Maxstadt for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (SBU) Warri remained calm overnight August 20-21 and through the day August 21 with a large Nigerian Army force observed throughout the town, according to a Warri-based worker for U.S. NGO "IFESH." Local press and [...]	2003-08-21 17:38:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET PGOV PINS ASEC PHUM NI
03ABUJA1432	NIGERIA: USCIRF VISIT [...] The ten-day USCIRF visit to Nigeria provided an in-depth opportunity to discuss many perspectives on intercommunal conflicts in Nigeria and the impact of Shari'a implementation on minorities in the northern part of the country. The delegation traveled extensively, finding in many instances, t [...]	2003-08-21 17:38:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA1441	WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 22AUG03 [...] (U) Classified by Counselor James Maxstadt for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (SBU) Warri town remains calm, reports the Warri office of U.S. NGO "IFESH" and Police Commissioner Charles Akaya. Shell's Warri office reopened the afternoon of August 21 with a "skeleton staff," according to Shel [...]	2003-08-22 16:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS EPET PGOV ASEC PHUM NI
03ABUJA1455	NIGERIA: APPEALS COURT JUDGES SUMMONED BY OBASANJO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three members of Nigeria's Federal Appeals Court were summoned to meet with President Obasanjo hours after the court issued a preliminary ruling in favor of his ANPP Presidential opponent Buhari. One of the judges claimed to Poloff that Obasanjo had "threatened" the judges and [...]	2003-08-26 09:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
03ABUJA1467	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TIDBITS [...] (U) The Amina Lawal case is to appear again before the Katsina State Shari'a Court of Appeal on Wednesday August 27. Hearings have been delayed three times before for various reasons. Meanwhile, the Jigawa State Shari'a Court of Appeal dismissed charges of rape (with a penalty of death by s [...]	2003-08-27 08:23:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KIRF PHUM PREL NI
03ABUJA1468	NEW INEC COMMISSIONERS [...] (U) Summary: President Obasanjo submitted names of ten new national Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),along with the names of two currently serving Commissioners and the national Chairman, to the Senate for confirmation. After a walkout by opposition sena [...]	2003-08-27 09:05:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1473	FOLLOW-UP ON APRIL 2003 TRANSOCEAN HOSTAGE TAKING [...] No summary [...]	2003-08-27 15:35:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ASEC PGOV NI PLAB
03ABUJA1496	BOOK LAUNCH FOR BABANGIDA'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) CDA was invited to an August 27 event "launching a book by ex-Minister of the Interior John Shagaya." There was a book, but the affair was clearly more intended to help launch the candidacy of former President Babangida in 2007. 2. (SBU) 2003 and potential 2007 candidate Mohammedu B [...]	2003-08-29 18:31:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NI
03ABUJA15	NIGERIAN RULING PARTY CONVENTION SURPRISE [...] (C ) Summary: President Obasanjo's renomination is highly probable but not certain. The 3,349 delegates to the ruling PDP's national convention began voting around sundown, but the process could drag into Monday morning. On convention eve, the President's renomination seemed assured (Ref A) [...]	2003-01-06 07:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
03ABUJA1515	GON REMOVES POLICE PROTECTION FROM OFFICIALS [...] (U) The Inspector General of Police's Office announced August 21 that, on orders from the Presidency, it would greatly reduce the use of police as bodyguards. Bodyguards have been limited to the President, Vice President, Ministers and Ministers of State, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, S [...]	2003-09-04 12:23:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1529	NIGERIA SUFFERING CONTINUED BUDGET SHORTFALLS [...] (U) Nigeria continues to suffer from budgetary shortfalls to fund current expenditures, severely limiting government operations. According to the Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, the GON had only Naira 145.9 billion available for its August obligations totaling Naira 183.1 billi [...]	2003-09-05 10:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV NI
03ABUJA1557	DISGRUNTLEMENT IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Growing National Assembly discontent over recent moves by President Obasanjo led to a quickly suppressed and publicly denied, August 21 attempt to impeach House Speaker Aminu Bello Masari. Obasanjo had installed Masari and the Senate President, then forced his own selections for committ [...]	2003-09-05 14:08:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1558	MFA MINISTER OF STATE ON TRADE AND LIBERIA [...] (U) When then CDA Roberts delivered the Najaf demarche (REF B) to MFA Minister of State Samaila on September 2, the MinState raised agricultural subsidies and Liberia. The Najaf part of the conversation was reported Ref A. --------------------------------------------- ------------ U.S./EU [...]	2003-09-05 15:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MARR ETRD ECON
03ABUJA1559	PUBLIC REACTION TO TAYLOR ASYLUM AND LIBERIA [...] (U) The Nigerian press headlined President Bush's recent commendation of President Obasanjo's efforts in Liberia, and the Nigerian President, received a heroic welcome in Liberia early this week. Nevertheless, Obasanjo is still facing criticism at home for granting political asylum to Charle [...]	2003-09-05 16:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MARR LI NI
03ABUJA1560	NIGERIA: RULING PARTY COHESION (C-AL3-00674) [...] (S) Responses to specific reftel questions are below. They are based on the assumption that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains the ruling party after the various legal challenges to the 2003 elections. BACKGROUND 2. (C) The PDP was founded in the wake of Abacha's death [...]	2003-09-05 16:54:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PGOV PINS NI KPRP
03ABUJA1575	WEEKEND DISASTERS RESULT IN DEATH AND DISPLACEMENT [...] Two major vehicle accidents with several fatalities occurred on Nigeria's poorly maintained roads over the weekend. In Bauchi State, a bus flipped off the highway killing 23 of its 24 passengers on September 6. Then on September 7, a four-vehicle pileup south of Abuja including more than one [...]	2003-09-09 17:20:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV NI
03ABUJA1576	MFA PERMSEC ON TAYLOR'S EXILE [...] (C) I took the opportunity of a September 9 courtesy call on Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Permanent Secretary Amb. Daniel Hart to convey USG concerns regarding Taylor's exile per reftel. I conveyed appreciation for Nigeria's leadership role to find a solution to the Liberian crisis, but o [...]	2003-09-09 17:42:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LI NI
03ABUJA16	NIGERIA: PDP NATIONAL CONVENTION SELECTS OBASANJO [...] (U) In a repeat of the ruling PDP's 1999 convention, Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo defeated Alex Ekwueme to become its presidential candidate, receiving 2,642 of an estimated 3,579 votes cast (74 percent) in the first round. The former Vice President came in a distant second with 661 vo [...]	2003-01-06 13:25:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINS PREL NI
03ABUJA1629	LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM, PART 2 [...] (U) The Technical Review Committee on Local Government Reform has resumed work this week after receiving a new chairman, Malam Liman Ciroma, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). The Committee's work had stalled two weeks ago after the death of the Etsu Nupe, a tradition [...]	2003-09-19 07:09:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1635	OBASANJO VISITS WARRI; HOLDS MEETING WITH WARRING [...] (SBU) According to press reports and Warri contacts, President Obasanjo traveled to Warri the morning of September 19 for an aerial tour of the violence-affected areas in the Warri creeks and a meeting with elders and youth leaders of the three ethnic groups in the area. 2. (SBU) Corporat [...]	2003-09-19 17:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EPET PINS NI
03ABUJA1636	IBB'S DAUGHTER WEDS; THE NATION TURNS OUT [...] (U) The thirty-three year old daughter of former Nigerian head of state Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) tied the knot on September 6 with Bashir Lado Garba, a nephew of the deceased former head of state Gen. Sani Abacha who had driven IBB from office. Abacha's eldest surviving son, Mohammed, was best [...]	2003-09-19 17:14:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI
03ABUJA1638	A VIEW TO A SPILL: SHELL IN THE SPOTLIGHT [...] (SBU) During an early August visit to Port Harcourt, CRO met with the Center for Social and Corporate Responsibility (CSCR),a Port Harcourt-based NGO operating on a grant from Catholic Relief Services, to discuss CSCR's investigation into the major October 2002 oil spill at a Shell trunk line [...]	2003-09-19 17:23:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET SENV EWWT PHUM PGOV NI
03ABUJA1639	ECOWAS EXECSEC CHAMBAS ON GUINEA BISSAU [...] (C) CDA called on ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohammed Ibn Chambas on September 19 to deliver demarche (REF B). Chambas shared his thoughts on recent developments in Guinea-Bissau and Liberia (reported septel). Characterizing GEN Seabra's September 14 takeover as a coup d'etat, Chambas said EC [...]	2003-09-19 17:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NI PGOV PHUM PINR PREL XY GZ
03ABUJA1649	CHAMBAS: BLUE HAT ECOMIL; MODEL COOPERATING; [...] (C) SUMMARY: ECOWAS ExecSec Chambas advocated to the Charge September 19 and in a meeting of COMs September 22 that ECOMIL should become part of the UN's peacekeeping force after the October 1 handover. Chambas also commented that recent conversations with MODEL leaders led him to believe the [...]	2003-09-23 16:22:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LI NI
03ABUJA1656	SHELL RESUMES LIMITED PRODUCTION IN WARRI; [...] (C) During a September 23 phone conversation with CRO, Shell's Security Manager for the Warri area, Tony Obuaya, confirmed that three Shell flow stations in the Warri Southwest Local Government Area (LGA) have been reopened, with one additional site reoccupied and scheduled to resume productio [...]	2003-09-24 15:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ASEC PINS PGOV NI
03ABUJA1667	AMINA LAWAL - CONVICTION OVERTURNED [...] (SBU) In a four to one majority decision, the Katsina State Shari'a Court of Appeal overturned Amina Lawal's March 2002 adultery conviction and sentence of stoning to death, on the grounds that the conviction had been reached through bad court procedure. A copy of the decision, which was annou [...]	2003-09-25 15:25:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL NI
03ABUJA1668	VP CANDIDATE AND FORMER SENATE PRESIDENT OKADIGBO [...] (U) Embassy learned early September 26 that former Senate President and ANPP Vice Presidential candidate Chuba Okadigbo passed away in the early morning hours. No official announcement has been made as of mid-morning September 26. 2. (U) In spite of rumors already beginning to circulate, [...]	2003-09-26 10:22:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM NI
03ABUJA1670	BUHARI AND ANPP HOLD MAJOR RALLY IN KANO [...] Thousands of ANPP supporters converged on Kano September 23 to attend a rally for its Presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari. ANPP Chairman Don Etiebet, Vice Presidential candidate Chuba Okadigbo and Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau were in attendance along with dozens of ANPP candidat [...]	2003-09-26 13:00:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV NI KDEM
03ABUJA1684	WARRI UPDATE: REPORTED MILITARY CLASHES WITH IJAW [...] (C/NF) The September 29 Nigerian newspaper "The Vanguard" reported that a military unit of the Joint Task Force fought with Ijaw youth at Jones Creek Island over the weekend, leaving four people dead and several others injured. Ijaw NGO activist Joel Bisina told CRO September 29 that on Septe [...]	2003-09-29 17:29:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PINS PGOV MOPS PHUM NI
03ABUJA1700	NIGERIA: FUEL PRICES HIKED BY FIAT [...] (C) This morning Nigerians returned to work after yesterday's public holiday and learned from the media that the GON had deregulated the downstream oil sector. According to a fuel marketer, the notification came in a letter on September 29 which said that the GON would not subsidize fuel af [...]	2003-10-02 15:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC NI
03ABUJA1707	BUHARI GETS HIS (FIRST) DAY IN COURT [...] (C) Summary: The first day of substantive arguments at the Federal Appeals Court in losing ANPP presidential candidate Buhari's suit against the April 19 elections did not go well for the President's and election commission's attorneys. The Chairman of the tribunal explained away a visit of [...]	2003-10-06 06:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA1720	NIGERIA: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] To answer any questions that might arise from the Ref C submission, the Mission provides the following supplementary discussion. --------------------------------------------- ---- Economic policies: improvement, for the most part --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. [...]	2003-10-07 18:13:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON ELAB PGOV NI
03ABUJA1724	VISIT TO KWARA STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Governing Kwara State, like some other states, is a family affair. Governor Bukola Saraki's father is the political kingmaker in Kwara, having handpicked the previous two governors and arranged for his daughter to be elected to the Senate in the same April elections that sent [...]	2003-10-08 06:46:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
03ABUJA1731	GAS STRIKE: HEARTBURN TO BEGIN OCTOBER 9 [...] (SBU) It seems certain that a strike and/or demonstrations will start in at least some parts of Nigeria October 9, led by a coalition of unions and NGOs protesting President Obasanjo's September 30 deregulation of gasoline prices. Violence could easily erupt, although the Nigeria Labor Congres [...]	2003-10-08 17:37:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS EPET ECON NI
03ABUJA1735	OBASANJO CRITICIZES NLC IN NATIONAL SPEECH JUST [...] (U) On the evening of October 8 President Obasanjo delivered a nationally televised speech sharply criticizing the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). Obasanjo bitterly denounced the NLC's strike threat, but also called on the NLC to reach an agreement with the oil marketers (including the GON-ow [...]	2003-10-09 16:39:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINS EPET ECON NI
03ABUJA1737	STRIKE IS OFF, DEREGULATION MAY STILL BE ON [...] (U) After a "Stakeholders' Forum" October 8, mediating Governor Bola Tinubu announced a four-point agreement between them on behalf of the GON's oil company, oil marketers and the unions: -- The GON-owned NigeriaN National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will maintain the present price on gas [...]	2003-10-09 17:23:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS EPET ECON NI

03ABUJA1761	SIGNS OF RENEWED FIGHTING IN WARRI [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Indications from various sources in the Warri area suggest strongly that the relative peace seen in the region for the past seven weeks is about to break. Reports of a recent Ijaw attack on a boat of unarmed Itsekiri villagers attempting to return to villages destroyed by Ijaw [...]	2003-10-10 16:51:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PINS PGOV PTER EPET PHUM NI
03ABUJA1762	GAS PRICES THE MORNING AFTER [...] (SBU) Touring Abuja city, the Abuja Federal Capital Territory, and neighboring state Niger on October 10, it is clear the end of the proposed October 9 strike had an effect on the gasoline retail market, but not what was agreed (Refs A and B). Virtually all Abuja city gasoline stations were o [...]	2003-10-10 16:51:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EPET PINS ELAB NI
03ABUJA1787	NIGERIA: POLICE ARREST LABOR OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: Nigerian Police arrested six Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) leaders Monday in an apparent move by the GON to hinder Labor's efforts to monitor a 34 naira per liter cap on fuel prices and blunt a possible NLC nationwide strike. Abuja's Magistrate Court refused bail yesterday for the [...]	2003-10-15 15:30:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EPET PGOV PHUM NI
03ABUJA1864	SENATE BRIBERY SCANDAL FOLLOW-UP [...] (SBU) On October 9, 68 members present of the 109-member Senate unanimously voted to drop consideration of bribery accusations by FCT Minister Malam El-Rufai against Deputy Senate President Ibrahim Mantu and Majority Leader Jonathan Zwingina. The vote came after receipt of the report on the p [...]	2003-10-29 11:57:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
03ABUJA1868	BABANGIDA POSITIONING FOR 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: While he had been seen by some as a potential challenger for the 2003 elections, former military Head-of-State Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) faded during the party conventions. Apparently he is now maneuvering for a political comeback in 2007, and "IBB For President" organizations a [...]	2003-10-30 07:12:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
03ABUJA1872	QADHAFI RETALIATES AGAINST SPANISH EXPULSIONS [...] (C) LIBYA MAY 12 RESPONDED TO FRIDAY'S EXPULSION OF ITS CONSUL GENERAL, CHARGED WITH PASSING FUNDS TO A SPANISH ARMY COLONEL ON THE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC RIGHT, BY PNG'ING THE SPANISH COMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL COUNSELORS IN TRIPOLI. MFA'S SUBDIRECTOR GENERAL FOR NORTH AFRICA TELLS US THAT THE GOS WI [...]	2003-10-30 13:07:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM NI
03ABUJA1891	PDP: CONVENTION IN DECEMBER, DISCORD IN THE RANKS [...] (SBU) The ruling PDP held a special national caucus October 22, to be attended by the President, Vice President, members of the PDP National Executive Committee, PDP Governors, and the National Assembly PDP leadership. The caucus met and agreed to hold the party's national convention December [...]	2003-10-31 11:18:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
03ABUJA1908	OIL COMPANIES DIFFER ON RESTARTING WARRI [...] (C/NF) Summary: Shell's October resumption of oil production in Warri has highlighted a widening split between the Anglo-Dutch oil firm and Chevron on how to manage relations with local Ijaw and Itsekiri communities, and how to maintain security. Shell put its money into increasing the Niger [...]	2003-11-03 14:27:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV EPET PINS NI
03ABUJA1909	NIGERIA: NO POLITICAL SETTLEMENT IN WARRI YET [...] (C) Summary: While sporadic fighting among the Ijaw, Uhrobo and Itsekiri continues in the creeks of Warri, the debate is intensifying among Nigerians over how to resolve political grievances underlying the Warri crisis. Ijaw and Itsekiri leaders -- each backing rival policies -- are putting [...]	2003-11-03 14:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NI
03ABUJA1937	TAYLOR TO SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT STRATEGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GON believes it has performed a major service by taking a leadership role in arranging Taylor's departure from Liberia, and committing its own troops to participate in needed related follow-up peacekeeping efforts. Both have involved significant domestic political risk. Niger [...]	2003-11-12 05:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LI NI
03ABUJA1974	AMINA LAWAL: THE JUDGMENT [...] Summary: Amina Lawal's conviction for Zina (adultery) was overturned by the Katsina State Shari'a Court of Appeal on September 25. The decision by four appeals judges to one on the panel agreed with the defense on several counts and found no evidence for the prosecution. Post presents the tr [...]	2003-11-19 13:56:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KIRF NI
03ABUJA1975	"INDEPENDENT" NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION [...] (SBU) In August, the ruling PDP rammed 10 new Commissioners through the Senate despite a walkout by all of the opposition, and even some members from the ruling PDP, who complained the new majority among the 12 Commissioners would be partisans of the President (Ref A). The complaints fell on [...]	2003-11-19 13:56:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
03ABUJA1976	AMINA LAWAL: OUTCOMES FOR SHARI'A IN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) The overturning on appeal September 25 of Amina Lawal's Shari'a court adultery verdict will have different, though minor, effects on the various Nigerians supporting the application of Shari'a in criminal law. Opportunist Muslim politicos and Islamist demogogues are still using Shari'a t [...]	2003-11-19 14:00:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF NI
03ABUJA2029	ANPP CHAIRMAN ETIEBET ON THE PAST ELECTION, [...] (C) Don Etiebet, Chairman of Nigeria's main opposition party, the ANPP, met with PolOff on the margins of a hearing at the election tribunal of ANPP presidential candidate Buhari's appeal against the April 2003 elections. Etiebet commented that the case was going well but that he remained con [...]	2003-11-26 14:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI OVIP
03ABUJA2046	REVIEW OF INEC'S PERFORMANCE DURING AND SINCE THE [...] (C) Summary: Six months after the April elections, Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is rather less Independent, and its actions during the 2003 elections and since raise difficult democracy and rule of law questions. While the elections were less violent than many e [...]	2003-11-28 13:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID KDEM PGOV NI
03ABUJA205	NIGERIA: UPDATE ON BENUE COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Secretary of the Judicial Commission investigating the Zaki-Biam killings January 16 told PolCouns that while the Commission had completed the fact- finding part of its mission, its final report would not be ready until March. Sufi confirmed that the Commission's report woul [...]	2003-01-30 15:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV MOPS PINS NI
03ABUJA2067	ADAMAWA STATE: END OF YEAR SNAPSHOT [...] (U) Adamawa State, located on Nigeria's border with Cameroon, is a key battleground for control of Nigeria's political scene. Many important Nigerians hail from Adamawa, including Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and it is the base from which he and others launched on the national scene. Atiku [...]	2003-12-04 08:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA2068	Religious Conflict in Jigawa State [...] Summary: After a blasphemous remark by a Christian student in the preceding month, local youths in Jigawa State started a protest that led to the burning of several religious structures. Only the quick involvement of local leaders prevented the situation from getting completely out of control [...]	2003-12-04 10:41:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF PHUM NI
03ABUJA2080	SCORE ONE FOR REFORM: LABOR MINISTER SACKED FOR [...] (SBU) The Obasanjo Administration scored its first major anti-corruption coup when the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC) on December 3 announced its arrest and detention of seven persons, including current Minister of Labor Hussaini Zannuwa Akwanga, in [...]	2003-12-08 05:11:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA2085	WARRI FORUM ON PEACE PROJECT [...] The Warri Forum on Peace, Security and Human Rights is an important project of our Mission in Nigeria, and it has already achieved some successes. One month later than the original approved proposal, and reported in several e-mails to DRL, the Field Research and Writing of the Working Paper [...]	2003-12-09 11:09:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM NI
03ABUJA2132	BUHARI TRIAL ADJOURNED UNTIL JANUARY 19 [...] (SBU) : The ANPP/Buhari suit continues at its slow pace. The complainant ANPP continues to score points with its evidence, and the defense (Obasanjo) attempts to delay the process through objections to virtually every witness and document. The "Independent" National Electoral Commission (INE [...]	2003-12-12 11:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA2133	NIGERIA ESTABLISHES NEPAD COUNTRY REPORT MECHANISM [...] (C) On November 14 President Obasanjo inaugurated Nigeria's Country Review team, the first step for countries that have acceded to the African Union's NEPAD peer review process. The team, made up wholly of Obasanjo supporters, was enjoined to submit a report on Nigeria's compliance with NEPAD [...]	2003-12-12 12:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON NI
03ABUJA2150	Electoral Reform and the INEC Seminar [...] (SBU) Summary: The INEC Seminar November 27-28 (septel) highlighted important divisions on possible electoral reforms. There were several less-than- serious ideas bruited, but the more important reform proposals basically present a choice for the future between the Independent National Electo [...]	2003-12-15 13:25:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
03ABUJA2154	SWING THROUGH THE EAST [...] No summary [...]	2003-12-16 09:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NI PGOV PREL
03ABUJA2158	NIGERIA'S INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL [...] Summary: Nigeria's National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted a widely-publicized INEC-Civil Society Forum on November 27-28, 2003, the first of its kind, to elicit input on the direction of electoral reform leading up to the country's next Presidential and National Assembly elections, s [...]	2003-12-16 12:32:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
03ABUJA216	NIGERIA: DIFFERENT INSIDER VIEWS ON THE PDP [...] (C) Summary: The PDP convention was a study of rough-hewn politics. All participants agree the convention was not for the faint-hearted; but they also give differing, sometimes conflicting, versions of what happened. We probably will never fully know the complete truth because so much was blu [...]	2003-01-31 13:20:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA2183	NOT SO INSTANT REPLAYS - THREE BY-ELECTIONS TO [...] Summary: Six months after Nigeria's April/May elections for President/VP, National Assembly, Governors and State Assemblies, three races will be re-run on December 20 by order of election tribunals or the Court of Appeals. A recent State Assembly by-election caused by death of an office holde [...]	2003-12-19 11:23:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA2195	Abuja By-Election Results - ANPP Concedes [...] After the by-election for the only Abuja Senate seat conducted on December 20, PDP Senator Isa Maina retained his seat with an overall victory margin of 1,416 votes (less than one percent of the total). Maina's original victory margin in April over ANPP candidate Ireti Kingibe was 1,208 votes. [...]	2003-12-23 05:31:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
03ABUJA2205	NIGERIA,S MOOD REMAINS SOUR [...] (C) Nigerians remain in the same funk as in August (Ref A). Throughout the country the loudest sound is that of grumbling, both stomachs and mouths. While the economy continues to fester, President Obasanjo's policies -- whether reform or asserting his authority -- stoke the coals of discont [...]	2003-12-24 07:39:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM NI
03ABUJA2215	VISIT TO NASARAWA STATE [...] (U) Summary: Nasarawa has only been a state for seven years, and the governor is working to create a state identity and legacy for himself. Poloff traveled to the capital, Lafia, to visit the PDP Governor, the Nasarawa ANPP chairman and journalists; the meetings all implied that disputes over [...]	2003-12-26 07:36:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
03ABUJA2231	NIGERIA: SPECIAL ASSISTANT EZEKWESILI'S [...] (C) Summary: President Obasanjo's Senior Special Assistant and Head of the Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit, Oby Ezekwesili, told us December 23 that she thought her transparency presentation at the AGOA Forum was important because it put the anti-corruption issue into the trade [...]	2003-12-31 07:59:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR ETRD NI AGOA
03ABUJA233	NIGERIA: THE ALEX EKWUEME FACTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an extensive January 9 conversation with Ambassador Jeter, defeated PDP contestant Alex Ekwueme did not "recognize" Obasanjo's convention victory. Ekwueme contended that Obasanjo's victory was the result of bribes, political threats and chicanery regarding the actual delega [...]	2003-02-03 17:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA236	NIGERIA: NAVY MINISTER: NOTHING WILL HAPPEN ON [...] (C) During a January 23 conversation with Ambassador Jeter, Minister of State for Defense (Navy) Chris Agbobu commented on the October 2001 Benue massacre. Agbobu did not expect anyone to be held accountable. Agbobu said while "everyone knows what happened (at Benue)" nothing would come of t [...]	2003-02-04 12:32:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV MOPS PINS NI
03ABUJA256	NIGERIA: UWECHUE SEES SMOOTH SAILING AHEAD FOR [...] No summary [...]	2003-02-06 10:43:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA257	NIGERIA: AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT HITS THE MEDIA; [...] (SBU) Summary. The Auditor General of the Federation (AGF),akin to an Inspector General in the USG, has recently released the Audit Report for Calendar Year 2001 (Part One). Citing malfeasance in all tiers of government, the report has gained notoriety in the media and spawned calls from the [...]	2003-02-06 11:57:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON NI
03ABUJA27	Why Nigeria's PDP Governors Could Not Lose [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PDP's national convention (Refs C and D) was more competitive than caucuses that renominated every PDP governor regardless of his popularity or lack of it. However, this praise is faint indeed, as the gubernatorial caucuses were blatantly rigged while the national convention [...]	2003-01-06 16:16:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM NI
03ABUJA276	NIGERIA: FRIENDS OF NIGERIA MEETING ON ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ambassador convened a meeting of the Friends of Nigeria January 14. The British High Commissioner, Canadian High Commissioner and German Ambassador attended. The discussion focused on the presidential conventions of the major political parties, the second round of voter regist [...]	2003-02-07 09:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA278	NIGERIA: ELECTORAL COMMISSION CONTINUES TO FACE [...] (C) Summary: During a January 12 conversation with Ambassador Jeter, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Abel Guobadia said INEC would hold elections as scheduled provided the FY 03 budget allocation was received in time. Guobadia continued to blame current logistical b [...]	2003-02-07 12:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
03ABUJA279	NIGERIA: JANUARY 25 MEETING WITH OBASANJO [...] (C) Summary: During a one-hour January 25 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, President Obasanjo spoke optimistically, though briefly, about his electoral chances. In the lead- up to the election, the President predicted his opponents would try to exploit Iraq and the perception of the USG as ant [...]	2003-02-07 12:14:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM MASS IV NI
03ABUJA280	NIGERIA: LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR TINUBU RECAPS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador accompanied by Consul General and Staff Assistant (note-taker) met a politically confident and relaxed Lagos State Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on January 24. Despite the allegations being tossed at him, Tinubu appeared self-assured and convinced of his political lo [...]	2003-02-07 12:39:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS NI
03ABUJA283	NIGERIA: MEETING ON DEPLOYMENT OF ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Embassy convened a meeting with U.S. NGOs and others on January 30 to discuss numbers and deployments of election monitors for Nigeria's April national elections. Given the size of Nigeria and the number of polling stations, the international monitor presence will be relative [...]	2003-02-10 07:34:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL EAID NI
03ABUJA284	NIGERIA: TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXPANSION A SUCCESS [...] Summary: While there is still a long way to go to bridge the telecommunications divide between Nigeria and the developed world -- or even between Nigeria and the rest of Africa -- the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has made a promising start. Quiet support from USAID/Nigeria, the L [...]	2003-02-10 09:28:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECPS ECON PGOV NI
03ABUJA291	NIGERIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FEBRUARY 10 [...] (U) This periodic joint political report from Abuja and Lagos includes: --Second Round of Voter Registration --New PDP Gubernatorial Caucuses --Potential Party Coalition vs. Obasanjo --Will AD Support Obasanjo? --Counterfeit Voter Cards in Lagos --Igbo Group Chooses Presidential Candidate - [...]	2003-02-10 13:15:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA328	NIGERIA: ARTICLE 98 DEMARCHE ON NIGERIA'S [...] Ambassador and Regional Narcotics and Law Enforcement Officer (RNLEO) met with Attorney General Kanu Agabi on 31 January 2003. In addition to formally introducing the new RNLEO to the Attorney General, the Ambassador delivered a letter on Article 98 Agreements. The AG said he would pass it [...]	2003-02-13 14:58:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS SNAR KCRM PGOV NI
03ABUJA366	NIGERIA: READOUT ON MPCI REBELS' REGIONAL [...] (C) Cote d'Ivoire's rebel MPCI representatives met with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo February 14 and 15 as Part of a regional tour which took the group to Nigeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. After a four hour meeting past midnight on The evening of February 14, the group returned [...]	2003-02-20 13:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IV NI ECOWAS
03ABUJA382	USG HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY IN NIGERIA [...] With the unprecedented 2001 level of communal violence and impending 2003 elections at all levels, in 2002 the U.S. Mission operated several programs addressing the institutional and legal shortcomings that lead to abuse of human rights in Nigeria. 2. USAID implemented a wide range of pro [...]	2003-02-21 14:13:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM NI
03ABUJA386	NIGERIA: VP ON CURRENT POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's Vice President claims his earlier flirtation with running for President was a ruse to distract IBB. According to Atiku, the ambitious former military ruler is now effectively sidelined for 2003. Buhari's base in the North is narrower than most observers believe, Atiku [...]	2003-02-21 16:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR NI
03ABUJA400	NIGERIA: BATAGARAWA REFUSES TO COMMENT ON BENUE [...] (C) During a February 20 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Minister of State for Defense (Army) Lawal Batagarawa refused to comment on the veracity of GON claims that officers associated with the October 2001 Benue massacre were transferred, retired or otherwise relieved. When the Ambassador tr [...]	2003-02-25 09:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV MOPS PINS NI
03ABUJA401	NIGERIA: DID VP ATIKU OUTFOX BABANGIDA AND [...] (C) Summary: During a late January conversation with Ambassador Jeter and PolCouns, Lagos-based businessman Leno Adesanya contended that VP Atiku finessed both President Obasanjo and former Head of State Ibrahim Babangida during the PDP convention in early January. Prior to the convention, Ati [...]	2003-02-25 12:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR NI
03ABUJA403	NIGERIA: BATAGARAWA ON MPRI; C-130 SPARE PARTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 20 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Minister of State for Defense (Army) Lawal Batagarawa promised to discuss funding problems for MPRI and the shipment of U.S. donated C-130 spare parts with Minister of Finance Adamu Ciroma. Turning to the upcoming elections, Ba [...]	2003-02-25 12:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL PGOV KDEM NI
03ABUJA404	NIGERIA: ANPP/PDP FUELED VIOLENCE IN KWARA STATE [...] (U) Kwara state is located on Nigeria's ethnic and religious divide and its divisive politics provide a study of the difficulties facing Nigerian politics in general. Until the Islamic Jihad in the early 19th century, Ilorin, the modern capital of Kwara state, was a part of the Oyo (Yoruba) [...]	2003-02-25 15:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI NI
03ABUJA418	NIGERIA: BUHARI ON INTER-COMMUNAL VIOLENCE, THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a lengthy January 30 meeting with the Ambassador, ANPP Presidential candidate Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Muhammadu Buhari shared his plans for winning the April election and elaborated on the reported rapprochement between him and former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida. Buhari gave [...]	2003-02-28 15:12:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PINS EFIN KDEM NI
03ABUJA419	NIGERIA: BUHARI SAYS NIGERIA NEEDS DISCIPLINE, WANTS [...] (U) This message contains a recommendation. See para 5. ------------ INTRODUCTION ------------ 2. (U) DCM January 31 met with ANPP Presidential candidate Mohammadu Buhari and two associates (Bello Abubakar, an aide when Buhari was Head of State previously) and Mouftah Baba- Ahmed [...]	2003-02-28 17:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PINS EFIN KDEM NI
03ABUJA420	NIGERIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FEBRUARY 28 [...] (U) This periodic joint political report from Abuja and Lagos includes: --Political Violence Update --Potential Party Coalition --Will AD Support Obasanjo? --ID Card Registration --Sharia Amputation in Jigawa --Traditional Ruler to be Prosecuted ------------------------- Political Viol [...]	2003-02-28 18:14:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PHUM NI
03ABUJA440	NIGERIA: SLOW GOING AT THE MINISTRY OF AVIATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Jeter, accompanied by Econoff and USTDA representatives Steingass and Hardy, met with Minister of Aviation Chikwe in late January. Despite Nigerian participation at a November 2002 Air Cargo Roundtable in Washington, the Minister showed little interest in expanding a [...]	2003-03-06 09:43:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR BEXP PGOV NI
03ABUJA448	NIGERIA: LEADING OPPOSITION POLITICIAN KILLED [...] (U) Leading Nigerian opposition politician Marshall Harry was killed in the early morning hours of March 5. Marshall was a founding member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) but split from the group over disputes with President Olusegun Obasanjo and Rivers state Governor Peter Odi [...]	2003-03-06 16:40:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC KDEM NI
03ABUJA457	POSSIBLE CONFLICT OVER BUHARI'S CAMPAIGN LAUNCHING [...] (C) According to retired Air Vice Marshal Moukhtar Mohammed, one of the close advisers to ANPP Presidential Candidate Muhammadu Buhari, Buhari plans go ahead with the launching of his campaign in Port Harcourt on March 8. The campaign team plans to travel to the area with the body of Marsha [...]	2003-03-10 06:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC KDEM NI
03ABUJA495	NIGERIA: ECONOMIC ROUNDUP MARCH 13 [...] This periodic economic report from Abuja and Lagos includes: --GON Bans Import of Toothpicks, Water, Biscuits, Spaghetti, and Noodles --Obasanjo Sacks Author of Controversial Audit Report --Central Bank Warns of Excess Liquidity --Nigerian Customs Posts Banner Year --GON to Sell Steel Rollin [...]	2003-03-13 15:34:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KCRM EINV BEXP EFIN ETRD KPRV ECON NI
03ABUJA502	NIGERIA: INADEQUACIES OF THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After three months delay, INEC published some voter lists week of March 3. With national elections just six weeks away, INEC has missed a key legal deadline. Challenges are almost certain. INEC,s performance remains erratic, and non-transparent. INEC will have to work efficie [...]	2003-03-14 13:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA503	NIGERIA: RELOCATING LIBERIAN REFUGEES [...] I.A.D. Nuhu of MFA's Department of Consular and Legal Affairs March 6 confirmed to Poloff that he had met often with UNHCR representative Eusebe Hounsokou and that the GON was interested in accepting refugees from Cote D,Ivoire. 2. Nuhu referred to Nigeria,s existing refugee camps, poin [...]	2003-03-14 13:52:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PGOV NI IV LI
03ABUJA526	MEETING WITH ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN [...] (U) On March 6, Justice Mustapha Akanbi, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Commission, (ICPC) paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Jeter. Akanbi thanked the Embassy for supporting the ICPC and briefed us on the Senate proceedings underway to amend the law [...]	2003-03-19 13:50:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM PGOV EAID NI MMAR
03ABUJA554	NIGERIA: VIOLENCE ESCALATES IN ESCRAVOS [...] (U) Proprietary information in paragraphs 3-4. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Escalating violence between Ijaws and Itsekiris have combined with security inadequacies to force ChevronTexaco and Shell to halt some operations, reducing Nigeria's crude production by 350,00 [...]	2003-03-22 19:22:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET CASC PINS ASEC PREF PGOV PHUM NI
03ABUJA555	NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO'S STRATEGY FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Ijaw militants in the Delta who instigated this latest round of communal violence are surprisingly well armed, according to President Obasanjo. In order to avoid a potentially bloody confrontation, Obasanjo has opted for a strategy of attrition and containment instead of direc [...]	2003-03-22 19:27:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ASEC CASC PGOV PINS NI
03ABUJA566	NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO DISAVOWS HIS MINISTER'S [...] (C) Summary: During a midnight March 21 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, President Obasanjo distanced the GON from Minister of State Onyia's accusation that the U.S. had cut military assistance because of Nigeria's position on Iraq. Obasanjo also expressed surprise at Washington's negative react [...]	2003-03-25 17:43:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM SF SG IZ NI
03ABUJA576	NIGERIA: CLEAR SKIES AHEAD FOR WORLD AIRWAYS? [...] (SBU) Summary: World Airways' troubles securing landing rights from the Ministry of Aviation for charter service between Lagos, New York, and Atlanta could soon be over. On March 21, Minister of Aviation Kema Chikwe signed a memo approving World Airways' application and forwarded it to Presiden [...]	2003-03-26 15:42:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PREL PGOV NI
03ABUJA582	NIGERIA: HEADCOUNT OF POLITICALLY MOTIVATED [...] (SBU) Violence is an integral part of the Nigerian electoral scene. In recent weeks, the pace has picked up, with confirmed incidents of violence occurring in at least 24 of Nigeria's 36 states. The incidents range from rock-throwing at the motorcades of elected officials to midnight assa [...]	2003-03-27 09:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA638	NIGERIA: ECOWAS EXEC SEC CHAMBAS SAYS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: During a hurried April 3 dinner at the Ambassador's residence, ECOWAS Executive Secretary Chambas said he was accompanying President Obasanjo to Cote d' Ivoire for the coalition government's Council of State meeting April 4. Obasanjo hopes that his attendance, along with President [...]	2003-04-04 18:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MASS PGOV IV NI
03ABUJA650	NIGERIA - OPPOSITION PARTIES IN MARCH MEETING [...] (C) Begin Summary: During a March 10 meeting with numerous opposition political party leaders, Ambassador implored the group to do their utmost to conduct fair and credible elections in April, to eschew violence, and not to condemn and compromise the process before it is started. He cautioned [...]	2003-04-07 23:07:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL EAID NI
03ABUJA653	NIGERIA: DELTA OIL CRISIS MAY PINCH THE ECONOMY [...] News that Chevron returned to Escravos to gradually resume oil production is encouraging. Shell also may soon return. However, armed local groups remain a wild card. Their ability to foil resumption of oil production is all too real as evidenced by the April 6 pipeline disruption only a few day [...]	2003-04-08 09:33:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL NI
03ABUJA658	NIGERIA: ELECTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN SAYS [...] (C) Summary: During a March 12 meeting, Independent National Election Commission (INEC) Chairman Abel Guobadia told Ambassador Jeter that INEC preparations were on schedule; INEC would be ready to conduct elections in April and a postponement was not contemplated. To demonstrate INEC's readin [...]	2003-04-09 16:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL EAID NI
03ABUJA659	NIGERIA: NAVY MINISTER SAYS MILITARY MUST TAKE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 27 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Minister of State for Defense (Navy) Chris Agbobu discussed the recent violence in Delta State. He attributed the fighting to political power struggles between the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups, Ijaw dissatisfaction with Delta S [...]	2003-04-09 18:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV MOPS EPET ASEC CASC PINS NI
03ABUJA660	NIGERIA: A SWING THROUGH THE NORTHWEST [...] (C) Poloff completed a pre-election trip toigeria's northeast region, the home of incumbent Vice President Atiku Abubakar and a key to President Obasanjo's re- election bidPoloff found crumbling infrastructure, pessimism about the elections and worried Obasanjo-Atiku campaign officials. Pol [...]	2003-04-09 18:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA661	NIGERIA: SPECTRE OF VIOLENCE OVER PLATEAU ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Residents in Plateau State are fearful that April 12 and 19 elections will generate violence. Disappointed with incumbent PDP Governor Joshua Dariye, many are looking to the ANPP and AD candidates for a change. The local elite, political power brokers, workers and a disaffec [...]	2003-04-09 19:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA665	NIGERIA: ANPP AND BUHARI FIGHT THE PARTY'S [...] (C) The ANPP, Nigeria's second largest party in the 1999 elections, has survived its subordinate status for the past four years and remains the strongest opposition party. With its power base in the North, the ANPP also has produced the staunchest presidential challenger to President Obasanjo [...]	2003-04-10 18:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA666	RIVERS STATE VIOLENCE COULD IMPACT OIL [...] No summary [...]	2003-04-10 18:55:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EPET NI
03ABUJA668	NIGERIA: VISIT TO KWARA STATE [...] (U) Summary: Poloff traveled to the Kwara State capital of Ilorin on March 17 and met with officials from the People's Democratic Party and with the National Democratic Party gubernatorial Candidate. End Summary. 2. (C) The political situation in Kwara has been extremely tense in recent [...]	2003-04-11 12:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA669	NIGERIA: MEETING WITH PDP CHAIRMAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with People's Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman Audu Ogbeh on Wednesday April 9. The two discussed the upcoming elections and the ruling party's prospects, as well as the anti- violence Code of Conduct for the parties and INEC's preparedness. Ogbeh ag [...]	2003-04-11 12:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA671	NIGERIA: INEC - LESSONS IN FUZZY MATH [...] (SBU) We have reported extensively on the troubles that have hampered the Independent National Election Commission's conduct of voter registration for the April elections. One of the major factors contributing to the public consternation has been INEC's frequently inconsistent statements an [...]	2003-04-11 17:19:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA674	NIGERIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS ON APRIL 12 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The April 12 National Assembly elections will demonstrate if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was right when it said it was ready to hold these and the April 19 gubernatorial and presidential polls. In addition to being a logistical "dry run" for the April 1 [...]	2003-04-11 19:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA675	NIGERIA: ELECTION UPDATE - WILL THEY BE READY? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The April 12 National Assembly elections, to a significant degree, will be a dry-run for the presidential election one week later. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) claims it is ready to conduct the election. This cable provides an overview of INEC's preparat [...]	2003-04-11 20:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA681	NIGERIA: INEC UNREADY AS BUHARI AND OBASANJO [...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF visited local party officials, domestic and international election monitors, academics, and local INEC officials during an April 3- 4 trip to Benue State. Most believed violence is likely if electoral manipulation is obvious. Only a few people believed INEC is prepared f [...]	2003-04-14 17:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
03ABUJA682	NIGERIA: MOTOROLA'S SUCCESS MARKS MAJOR [...] (C) On March 31, the GON awarded Motorola a $49.9 million contract to expand Nigerian Telecommunications' (NITEL) cellular telephone network. This award is a major advocacy victory for the Mission as well as an important landmark on Nigeria's road to greater transparency. It is the most sign [...]	2003-04-14 17:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP EINV ECPS ETRD ECON PGOV NI
03ABUJA683	NIGERIA: CONDUCT OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POLLS [...] (C) SUMMARY: This preliminary report on Nigeria's April 12 National Assembly elections provides an overview of Nigeria on election day. More detailed observations and analysis will be provided septel. The elections held in a relatively calm atmosphere. Turnout was fair in most of the area [...]	2003-04-14 18:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA697	NIGERIA: LEGISLATIVE RESULTS AND REACTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has posted results from about 80 percent of the Senate and House races around the country. Registering over 50 percent of the vote nationwide, the ruling PDP will retain its majority in both chambers unless there is a radical [...]	2003-04-16 19:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA713	DECLARATION OF DISASTER: DISPLACEMENT OF ITSEKIRI [...] The Ambassador hereby declares the situation in the Warri North, Warri South, and Warri Southwest Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Delta State as a man-made disaster. In accordance with USAID/DCHA Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance guidance, the Ambassador requests immediate OFDA supp [...]	2003-04-17 17:27:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM PGOV NI
03ABUJA715	NOT A GOOD TIME TO BE THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: The United States-Nigeria bilateral relationship recently has experienced more friction than has been noted for months. A confluence of foreign policy differences, bilateral concerns, and Nigeria's domestic politics produced this strain. Disagreement over Iraq and our suspension [...]	2003-04-17 20:42:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS NI
03ABUJA716	NIGERIA -- SSS DIRECTOR PREDICTS ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. During an April 11 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, the Director General of the State Security Service, Kayode Are, (SSS) predicted a post- election "enforcement action" against Ijaw militants in the Warri area. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Are contended there was more to the current [...]	2003-04-17 20:42:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PREL PGOV EPET MOPS NI
03ABUJA717	NIGERIA: SNAPSHOT OF NORTHERN GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As with the Presidential contest, most Northern gubernatorial elections will be fought between the two major parties in Nigeria, the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Nigerians Peoples Party (ANPP). Overall, ANPP candidates are expected to benefit from the popu [...]	2003-04-17 21:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA718	NIGERIA: WARRI CRISIS COMING TO A HEAD [...] No summary [...]	2003-04-17 22:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS EPET NI
03ABUJA719	NIGERIA: TENSIONS MOUNT LEADING TO THE APRIL 19 [...] (C) Summary: Despite a crowded house of 19 Presidential candidates, the April 19 contest boils down to President Obasanjo and ANPP candidate Muhammadu Buhari. Holding the ace of incumbency, Obasanjo is the likely, but not guaranteed, victor. He has been put on the defensive by recent events [...]	2003-04-17 23:20:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS KDEM NI ELECTIONS
03ABUJA720	NIGERIA: POLICY CONSIDERATIONS IN THE [...] (C) Summary. The April 19 election will test the tensile strength of Nigerian democracy and its supporting institutions. While many will play important roles in this national drama, the primary antagonists are President Obasanjo and Muhammed Buhari. Not only is this election a litmus test of [...]	2003-04-18 14:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM EFIN ECON PINS PTER PHUM PGOV NI
03ABUJA727	NIGERIA ELECTIONS -- THE VIEW FROM THE QUEUE [...] Winding down Shehu Shagari Way in Abuja to an AP station opposite the Hilton is a fuel queue that varies between 300 and 1700 meters. Motorists favor this queue because the AP station often has fuel and because the gentle slope of the final 900 meters means no need to start engines. On Mond [...]	2003-04-22 20:21:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SOCI NI
03ABUJA739	NIGERIA: GON SAYS NEPAD PEER REVIEW MECHANISM ON [...] Summary. A GON official says Heads of State at a March meeting of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) had concluded negotiations on a Memorandum of Understanding of the African Peer Review Mechanism. The official said the review would be conducted by independent experts and fo [...]	2003-04-24 13:22:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN PHUM EAID PREL PGOV NI
03ABUJA746	NIGERIA: OVERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the ruling PDP the major victor in the April 19 and April 12 elections. However, echoing reports of several observers, President Obasanjo's political opponents allege massive irregularities. The GON is striking back wit [...]	2003-04-24 17:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM PREL NI US EU XA
03ABUJA749	NIGERIA: MOD DANJUMA SAYS PDP WILL HANDLE BUHARI [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a hurried April 24 meeting, Minister of Defense T.Y. Danjuma and Ambassador Jeter discussed the fallout of the April 19 Presidential and Gubernatorial elections and April 12 National Assembly elections. Danjuma expressed concern about ANPP Presidential candidate Mohammadu [...]	2003-04-24 20:19:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA768	NIGERIA: DISGRUNTLED OIL WORKERS HOLD [...] Summary: Since April 16, disgruntled Nigerian oil service workers have held hostage as many as 97 expatriates, including 23 U.S.-citizens on four offshore oil rigs beyond the eastern Niger Delta. Transocean Sedco Forex, a Houston-based, Cayman Island-registered oil service company, operates th [...]	2003-04-29 21:00:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC ASEC EPET ENRG ECON PINS PGOV NI
03ABUJA803	NIGERIA: ARMY MINISTER DISMISSES OPPOSITION [...] (C) During an April 28 meeting, Ambassador Jeter and Minister of State for Defense (Army) Lawal Batagarawa discussed the recent Presidential elections. Batagarawa thought opposition candidate Mohammadu Buhari's calls to reject President Olusegun Obasanjo's electoral victory would be ineffect [...]	2003-04-30 19:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA805	NIGERIA: ANPP CHAIRMAN SAYS PARTY WILL SEEK [...] (C) During an April 30 meeting with DCM, All Nigerian People's Party (ANPP) Chairman Chief Don Etiebet expressed anger with ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) manipulation of the recent Presidential, Gubernatorial and National Assembly elections. Citing numerous examples of PDP misconduc [...]	2003-04-30 19:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA806	NIGERIA: NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE FOR RELEASE OF 17 [...] (C) Transocean Sedco Forex Managing Director Ian Clark told the Ambassador April 30 that the 273 hostages, including 96 expatriates of whom 17 are U.S. citizens, are in good health--despite contrary press reports. However, food and water stocks may be running low. President Obasanjo offered to [...]	2003-04-30 20:07:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC ASEC EPET ENRG ECON PINS PGOV NI
03ABUJA807	NIGERIA: HOSTAGE CRISIS CONTINUES, MILITARY GETS [...] (C) Transocean Sedco Forex officials confirm that striking oil workers still hold 273 hostages--including 17 U.S. citizens and 79 other expatriates--on four rigs off Port Harcourt. The company's Managing Director Ian Clark says the platforms have been re-supplied with sufficient quantities of [...]	2003-05-01 16:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC ASEC EPET ENRG ECON PINS PGOV NI

03ABUJA808	NIGERIA: BUHARI NOT READY TO CONCEDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a late night meeting with Ambassador on April 23, ANPP Presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari restated his rejection of the just completed Presidential, Gubernatorial and National Assembly elections. He said he lost because the PDP stole the election. He reiterated his po [...]	2003-05-01 17:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI

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