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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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08TASHKENT765UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a Marshall Center-sponsored event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany September 10-17. P [...]
2008-07-01 13:01:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT767UZBEKISTAN: HEALTH CONDITION OF RELEASED HUMAN
[...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff visited human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva at a private clinic in Margilan, where she has been receiving treatment since being released from prison on medical grounds on June 2. Tojiboyeva explained that [...]
2008-07-02 06:46:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ICRC KWMN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT769UZBEK PARLIAMENT RATIFIES UNITED NATIONS TIP
[...] (U) On June 23 the lower house of the Uzbek Parliament (Oliy Majlis) adopted a draft law on ratification of the November 2000 United Nations Protocol on Trafficking in Persons (TIP). The Senate followed suit just four days later, on June 27, thereby completing the Parliamentary steps and pavi [...]
2008-07-02 11:52:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM UNCRIME KWMN KCRM UZ
08TASHKENT771UZBEKISTAN: SPECTER OF CORRUPTION STIFLES
[...] (C) Summary: On July 1 poloff met with an affluent, well-connected young acquaintance from Bukhara whose extended family has successfully established a syringe-making factory. The family is also planning to diversify and start another factory to manufacture diapers. The young man wants to st [...]
2008-07-03 08:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCOR ECON BTIO EPET SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT772REQUEST COUNTERNARCOTICS FUNDING FOR PATROL BOAT
[...] (U) This is an action request for CCJ3 CENTCOM. Please see paragraphs 3-5. 2. (U) The Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) purchased 19 riverine patrol boats from the United States in 2004 for the purpose of drug interdiction along the portion of the Amu Darya River which constitutes Uzbekistan's [...]
2008-07-03 10:05:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDMASS ASEC PBTS UZ
08TASHKENT777FERGHANA VALLEY ACTIVISTS AND IMAMS REPORT LESS
[...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff met with several human rights activists and religious leaders who reported that religious extremist organizations like Hizb ut-Tahrir have become less active (or at least less visible) in recent years. While [...]
2008-07-03 11:22:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT778UZBEKISTAN: UAE TO BUILD CULTURAL-RELIGIOUS CENTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with an Economic Specialist of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Consulate General in Tashkent on July 2 to discuss the recent conclusion of several investment-related agreeements between the UAE and Uzbekistan. To date, the Government of Uzbekistan has approved 21 UAE i [...]
2008-07-07 04:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EINV ETRD KISL KTIA UZ
08TASHKENT779UZBEKISTAN: FORENSIC LABORATORY ENHANCEMENT
[...] (U) As part of an ongoing assistance project funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),a team of forensic experts from the Department of Justice International Criminal Investigative and Training Assistance Program (DOJ/ICITAP) traveled to Uzbekistan in [...]
2008-07-07 06:39:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM EAID UZ
08TASHKENT780UZBEKISTAN TERRORISM FINANCE: REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-07 08:21:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KU UZ
08TASHKENT782UZBEKISTAN SIGNS UP TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-07 11:13:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGIT KNNP PTER UZ
08TASHKENT783UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-07 11:14:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT786UZBEKISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR NEW DEMOCRACIES FINALLY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Justice chose the symbolic date of July 4 to announce the formal registration of the USAID-supported Institute for New Democracies (IND) in Uzbekistan. Although IND has successfully functioned in a difficult environment for the past two years without registrati [...]
2008-07-08 11:02:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID PINR UZ
08TASHKENT787UZBEK GOVERNMENT REPORTS CONVICTION IN TRAFFICKING
[...] (U) A major state-run newspaper, Xalq Sozi (People's Word),ran a prominent 800-word article on July 1 reporting that a ring of Uzbek nationals was arrested for trafficking at least two Uzbek women to China with false employment offers. An Uzbek national, Aleksandr Rudenko, who worked in Chin [...]
2008-07-08 11:04:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT79OPEN DIALOGUE PROJECT TO CO-SPONSOR HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary: On January 16, poloff met with the directors of the Open Dialogue Project (ODP) and National Democratic Institute (NDI),who talked about their recent activities and plans. ODP Director Mjusa Sever described her organization's plans to co-sponsor a March conference on law enforcem [...]
2008-01-22 12:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EUN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT792UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES MOVING TO DEPORT
[...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff visited Birlik opposition political party Deputy Chairman Pulat Akhunov, who returned to Uzbekistan from exile in Sweden in March 2007 to renew his passport, at his family's estate in Andijon province. Akhunov [...]
2008-07-09 12:59:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT793UZBEK AUTHORITIES DEVELOP PLAN TO IMPLEMENT CHILD
[...] (C) On July 8, International Labor Organization (ILO) representative Svetlana Rakhimova (protect) provided poloff with a copy of the government's draft national action plan on implementing ILO child labor Conventions 182 (Worst Forms of Child Labor) and 138 (Minimum Age of Employment),which th [...]
2008-07-09 13:10:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT794UZBEKISTAN: LARGE EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN TOWN NEAR
[...] (SBU) Several Embassy contacts reported a series of explosions occurring in or near the town of Kagan, about 15 kilometers away from Bukhara, during the early morning of July 10. Preliminary reports are sketchy, but it appears that some type of accident occurred at an army depot used to store [...]
2008-07-10 05:18:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT797ACTIVIST REPORTS MISTREATMENT AT NAVOI PSYCHIATRIC
[...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 12. 2. (C) Summary: On July 2, Bukhara-based human rights activist Shukhrat Ganiev reported visiting a psychiatric hospital in Navoi province and discovering that 12 teenagers, approximately between the ages of 13 and 16 years, were at the hospi [...]
2008-07-10 08:30:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ELAB OEXC PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT8UZBEK ELECTRICAL GENERATION AND EXPORT PROSPECTS,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met with Botir Teshaboev, the Chairman of state-owned Uzbekenergo, on December 21, to discuss domestic electricity generation, infrastructure and export. Uzbekenergo is modernizing many of its generation facilities, most of which are natural gas fired, increasing effici [...]
2008-01-03 14:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EPET EAID PGOV PREL ZK AF UZ
08TASHKENT80AMBASSADOR RECEIVES WARM WELCOME IN CHILLY BUKHARA
[...] (C) Summary: Despite frigid temperatures outside, the Ambassador was warmly received by the hokim (governor) of Bukhara province during a trip to the province on January 10 and 11. The Ambassador also visited the Naqshbandi Sufi Shrine and met with Bukharan Jewish community leaders at a local [...]
2008-01-22 12:58:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON ELAB KIRF PHUM PINR SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT802UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON EXPLOSIONS NEAR BUKHARA
[...] (SBU) Summary: As the day progresses, more reports have come in from Embassy contacts and local and international news sources regarding the series of explosions which occurred during the morning of July 10 in the town of Kagan, approximately 15 kilometers from Bukhara (reftel). All reports i [...]
2008-07-10 13:14:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC PINR PREL PTER UZ
08TASHKENT803UZBEKISTAN: WHAT'S GOOD FOR GENERAL MOTORS IS GOOD
[...] (C) SUMMARY. General Motors (GM) is poised for a dramatic expansion of its operations in Uzbekistan with the building of casting and engine plants. Negotiations with the GOU are proceeding well, and there is hope that final agreement will be reached before the end of the summer. END SUMMARY [...]
2008-07-10 13:24:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT807UZBEKISTAN: KAGAN EXPLOSIONS: DAY TWO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Later in the day and evening of July 10, the state-controlled media carried several stories on the series of explosions which occurred early that morning at an army depot in the town of Kagan, near Bukhara (reftels),reporting "preliminary data" as showing that 3 individuals wer [...]
2008-07-11 13:22:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC PINR PREL PTER UZ
08TASHKENT81DEEP FREEZE (LITERALLY) PERSISTS IN UZBEKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Unusually cold, sub-zero temperatures persist throughout Central Asia (reftel) and, while most people in Tashkent report barely adequate heat in their homes, there are press reports indicating that up to 300 people protested insufficient heating gas in Ferghana (uznews.net). This follow [...]
2008-01-22 13:38:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON ENRG UZ
08TASHKENT818OSCE NOTES ON KARIMOV MEETING OFFER INSIGHTS INTO
[...] (C) Summary: On July 3 Bernard Rouault, Senior Project Officer at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordination Office in Tashkent, provided poloff with notes from the June 4 meeting between Alexander Stubb, visiting Chairman in Office of the OSCE and Fin [...]
2008-07-14 12:21:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL OSCE PHUM PINR AF KZ UZ
08TASHKENT819UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST CHARGED IN
[...] (C) Summary: On July 13, the Voice of Freedom website reported that human rights activist and opposition party member Azam Turgunov was detained by police in the town of Mangit in the Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic on July 11. According to Human Rights Watch director Igor Vorontsov, Turgu [...]
2008-07-14 13:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT82SENSITIVE INVESTIGATIVE UNIT STILL FUNCTIONING AND
[...] (C) Summary: On January 17 poloff visited the Sensitive Investigative Unit (SIU) within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was established with the assistance of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) expertise and funds as well as funds from the Bureau of International Narcotics and [...]
2008-01-22 14:21:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM EAID UZ
08TASHKENT821UZBEK AUTHORITIES REJECT CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
[...] (C) Summary: On July 8, the Ambassador and DCM met with Bible Society Director Sergei Mitin, who reported that Uzbek authorities ordered the return of a large shipment of Christian literature that the Bible Society attempted to import into Uzbekistan in May. The authorities did not provide a [...]
2008-07-15 08:16:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT835UZBEKISTAN: SIX MONTH SCORECARD ON HABEAS CORPUS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The USAID-funded Institute for New Democracies (IND) co-sponsored a workshop in Tashkent on July 9-10 to examine efforts to implement a law with habeas corpus elements that took effect in January 2008. There was high-level participation by the Government of Uzbekistan, includi [...]
2008-07-16 11:48:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM PHUM EAID UZ
08TASHKENT836OFFICIAL HINTS AT GREATER ROLE FOR WESTERN NON
[...] (C) Summary: Furqat Sidikov, an Uzbek diplomat who previously served in Washington and now works at the government-sponsored International Center for Strategic Studies, sought out poloff at a July 15 reception to discuss the future role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Uzbekistan. [...]
2008-07-17 11:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID PINR UZ
08TASHKENT838BUKHARA PANICS AS KAGAN IS EVACUATED AGAIN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 16, authorities again evacuated Kagan, a town near Bukhara that was the scene of a series of explosions at a nearby army munitions depot on July 10 (reftels). An official told poloff that authorities planned to divert a nearby canal to flood the munitions depot, which w [...]
2008-07-17 13:27:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC PINR PREL PTER UZ
08TASHKENT843YUSUF JUMAEV MOVED TO HIGH-SECURITY PRISON IN
[...] (C) During a two-day trip to Bukhara on July 15-16, poloff met with the daughter of Yusuf Jumaev, a dissident poet who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in April for resisting arrest and harming a police officer (ref A). The daughter, Feruza, explained that Jumaev was recently moved f [...]
2008-07-18 11:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT845UZBEKISTAN: BUREAUCRATIC WRANGLING STALLS
[...] (C) Summary: On July 10, Poloff met with the Chairman of the Disabled People's Society of Uzbekistan to discuss Uzbekistan's efforts to ratify the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Despite most ministries' endorsement of the Convention, the Ministries o [...]
2008-07-18 12:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT846UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OSCE HUMAN
[...] (U) On July 18 the Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Norov and, per request in reftel, delivered the demarche on the agenda for the upcoming OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. The Ambassador noted that the balanced points illustrate how we can have a productive dialogue on human [...]
2008-07-21 09:33:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE UZ
08TASHKENT854HEALTH OF IMPRISONED OPPOSITIONIST REPORTEDLY
[...] (C) On July 22, Free Farmers opposition party leader and Sunshine Coalition member Nigara Khidoyatova reported that the health of imprisoned Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov has deteriorated again. She reported that Umarov's son Arslan has traveled to Uzbekistan from the United States [...]
2008-07-22 12:17:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT860UZBEKISTAN EAGER FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE TO SECURE
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Action requested is in paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: On July 22 the Ambassador met with President Islam Karimov, who expressed appreciation for and accepted the offer of U.S. assistance in securing unexploded ordnance following the explosion of a munitions depo [...]
2008-07-23 12:42:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MASS MARR EAID PINS UZ
08TASHKENT862CHARGE D'AFFAIRES DECLARES KAGAN EXPLOSION SITE A
[...] (U) U.S. Charge d'Affaires, ad interim Duane Butcher, in agreement with Ambassador Richard Norland, declared the area including and surrounding the Kagan Ammunition Depot in Bukhara Province a disaster area. Per reftels the Government of Uzbekistan has accepted our offer of assistance in the [...]
2008-07-24 04:36:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MARR MASS EAID UZ
08TASHKENT863(S) UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FLIGHT OF
[...] (S) On July 24 poloff delivered demarche per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to promptly pass this time-sensitive information to the appropriate authorities within the Government of Uzbekistan. BUTCHER [...]
2008-07-24 12:06:00Embassy TashkentSECRETMNUC PARM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT865AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH RELIGIOUS LEADERS,
[...] (C) Summary: During a visit to Uzbekistan on May 29 - 30, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met with a variety of religious leaders, scholars, and human rights activists. On May 30, Hanford met a local Jehovah's Witnesses community representative, historian a [...]
2008-07-25 07:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT866AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH ICRC REPRESENTATIVE
[...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Uzbekistan, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met on May 30 with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Deputy Director Raffaello Muller, who reported on prison conditions for individuals convicted of religious [...]
2008-07-25 07:53:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ICRC KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT867UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PREVENTING
[...] (SBU) On July 24 poloff delivered the demarche per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to pass the information to the appropriate officials. BUTCHER [...]
2008-07-25 12:29:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC PARM TRGY ENRG EMIN ETTC KNNP UZ
08TASHKENT876UZBEK DOCUMENTARY ATTACKS UZBEK RFE/RL JOURNALISTS
[...] (U) This cable provides background information useful for understanding reftels. 2. (SBU) Summary: In mid June a state-produced documentary bashing RFE/RL's Radio Ozodlik service aired on state TV in two regions and nationwide on nominally independent TV stations. The documentary challenged [...]
2008-07-29 08:16:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM KPAO UZ
08TASHKENT878BUKHARA ACTIVIST: BETTER-TRAINED IMAMS FENDING OFF
[...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Bukhara on July 15 - 16, poloff discussed the current state of the region's Muslim community with a prominent local human rights activist and imams at Sunni and Shiite mosques. The activist, Shukhrat Ganiev, observed that that Muslim religiosity, especia [...]
2008-07-29 12:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL SOCI EG SA RS UZ
08TASHKENT879DAS KROL MEETS UZBEK FOREIGN MINISTER NOROV IN
[...] (C) Summary: On July 25 Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia George Krol met with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov in Tashkent. The atmosphere was warm and cordial, and Norov framed his remarks in the context of President Karimov's positive July 22 meeting with the A [...]
2008-07-30 03:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SOCI PHUM KCOR PINR KTER ENRG UZ
08TASHKENT88HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CLAIMS VICTORY OVER KHALILOV
[...] (C) Summary: According to government sources, Parliament Speaker Erkin Khalilov has been replaced by Dilorom Toshmuhammadova, the leader of the pro-government Adolat Social-Democratic party and one of the four officially-recognized presidential candidates who participated in the December 2007 [...]
2008-01-23 14:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV KWMN PHUM PINR UZ
08TASHKENT889UZBEKISTAN AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO THE GLOBAL
[...] (SBU) On July 30, Charge d'Affaires Butcher, Poloff, Russian Charge d'Affaires Vazykh Serazev, and Russian Second Secretary Kirill Belikov jointly demarched officials from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) per reftel, welcoming Uzbekistan to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear [...]
2008-08-01 05:29:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP UZ
08TASHKENT890UZBEKISTAN: DAS KROL MEETS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY
[...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Uzbekistan on July 24 - 25, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia George Krol participated in an Embassy roundtable with human rights activists and the Director of the Bible Society of Uzbekistan, and had separate meetings with two human r [...]
2008-08-01 05:29:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON ELAB KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT891DAS KROL'S MEETING WITH UZBEK NATIONAL SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary: On July 25 visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia George Krol met with National Security Council (NSC) Secretary Murod Ataev in Tashkent. Ataev spoke at length about the recent munitions depot explosion in Kagan, thanking the U.S. government for [...]
2008-08-01 05:53:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SOCI PHUM KCOR MARR PINR UZ
08TASHKENT892UZBEKISTAN: SCO DEMARCHE DELIVERED, OFFICIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-01 12:38:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPREL MARR MOPS PGOV AFIN UZ
08TASHKENT893UZBEKISTAN: TWO MORE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IMPRISONED
[...] (C) Summary: On July 29, the Forum 18 website reported that two Jehovah's Witnesses in Margilan were convicted of teaching religion illegally on July 23 and imprisoned. On August 1, two Jehovah's Witness representatives confirmed the Forum 18 article with poloff and noted observing several ir [...]
2008-08-01 13:00:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT898UZBEKISTAN: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON EXTRADITION OF
[...] (C) In a diplomatic note dated July 14 (but handed to poloff in late July),the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) responded to a diplomatic note the Embassy sent to the MFA over Erkin Halikov, an Uzbek asylum seeker who was imprisoned in Kyrgyzstan and extradited to Uzbekistan in May (reftels). [...]
2008-08-04 12:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ICRC KIRF PGOV PREF PREL KG UZ
08TASHKENT899SOUTH KOREA PLAYS ALONG WITH UZBEK DREAMS OF AIR
[...] (C) Summary: Surprised by the front page coverage of the Ambassador's July 22 meeting with President Karimov, the South Korean Embassy sent Second Secretary See-Hong Pak to call on poloff on July 29 for a readout of evolving U.S.-Uzbek relations. Pak noted that it appears Russia's influence [...]
2008-08-04 14:00:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KCOR ETRD KS UZ
08TASHKENT900UZBEKISTAN ADOPTS TIP NATIONAL ACTION PLAN
[...] (U) Summary: On July 8 President Karimov issued a resolution adopting an anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) National Action Plan, thereby fulfilling a key requirement of the comprehensive anti-TIP law passed in March. The National Action Plan officially establishes a National Inter-agency Com [...]
2008-08-04 14:04:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT901UZBEKISTAN WANTS TECHNICAL, NOT PERSONNEL HELP
[...] (C) Summary: On August 4 Charge d'Affaires, U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) experts, and representatives from the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs met with Deputy Minister of Defense Rustam Niyazov and other officers from the Uzbek Ministries of Defense and Emergency Situation [...]
2008-08-04 14:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR EAID PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT905UZBEKISTAN: AFGHAN POWER TRANSMISSION LINE TALKS
[...] (C) According to a working-level source in Uzbekenergo, talks on the contract to build a 43 km power line from the Surkhan substation to the Afghan border are continuing longer than expected. The Afghan team that arrived in Tashkent the week before last is still here, and talks have gone on so [...]
2008-08-05 11:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECIN ECON ENRG UZ
08TASHKENT91PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER REPLACED BY FEMALE
[...] (C) Summary: According to government sources, Parliament Speaker Erkin Khalilov has been replaced by Dilorom Toshmuhammadova, the leader of the pro-government Adolat Social-Democratic party and one of the four officially-recognized presidential candidates who participated in the December 2007 [...]
2008-01-23 14:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV KWMN PHUM PINR UZ
08TASHKENT912UZBEKISTAN: PRESIDENTIAL DECREES ON SENIOR
[...] (C) An Embassy contact recently provided us with excerpts from a publication entitled "Official Bulletin of the Oliy Majlis (Parliament),2008," which include several Presidential decrees on appointments and dismissals of senior-level government officials. 2. (C) According to Presidential d [...]
2008-08-06 11:13:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR UZ
08TASHKENT913LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR EXBS-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for three Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend an Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS)-funded export control training ev [...]
2008-08-06 11:57:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT917UZBEK DEFENSE MINISTER LEADS TOUR OF KAGAN
[...] (C) Summary: On August 5 emboffs, visiting U.S. Army experts, and representatives of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs met with Uzbek Minister of Defense Ruslan Mirzayev in Bukhara Province to tour the disaster site and discuss details of a U.S. military assistance package. Mirzayev ex [...]
2008-08-07 12:16:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR EAID PHUM PINR UZ
08TASHKENT920LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR EXBS-SPONSORED TRAINING,
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two additional Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend an Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS)-funded export control t [...]
2008-08-08 09:44:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT921UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON USG NOMINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-08 09:44:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AORC KSCA UZ
08TASHKENT922UZBEKISTAN FORENSIC LAB EXPERTS VISIT USA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),with the support of the Department of Justice Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP),arranged for the participation of Uzbek forensic experts in the 18th International Association of Fo [...]
2008-08-11 04:09:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC PREL KCOR KCRM UZ
08TASHKENT923UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for a Government of Uzbekistan official nominated to participate in the Executive-level Program on Advanced Security Studies (EPASS 08-7). The traini [...]
2008-08-11 12:36:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT924FREEDOM HOUSE TRIES TO UNITE LAWYERS AND HUMAN
[...] (C) Summary: On July 26-29, poloff observed an offshore Freedom House training conference for Uzbek human rights activists and state-licensed defense lawyers in Istanbul, the first to be conducted under Freedom House's new USAID grant. The conference sought to encourage greater cooperation bet [...]
2008-08-11 12:55:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI TU UZ
08TASHKENT926UZBEKISTAN: PUBLIC DEFENDER CENTERS IN NEED OF
[...] (C) Summary: During a July 26-29 Freedom House conference in Istanbul for Uzbek human rights activists and state-licensed defense lawyers (septel),poloff had the opportunity to meet with several lawyers who work at Public Defender Centers supported by the American Bar Association Rule of Law [...]
2008-08-12 08:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID KJUS PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT927EMBASSY TASHKENT HOSTS ROUNDTABLE ON IMPRISONED
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 6, poloff hosted an informal roundtable at the Embassy with Arslan Umarov, the son of imprisoned Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov. The roundtable was attended by the Charge, the Swiss Ambassador, the French and Italian DCMs, and officers from the German and Bri [...]
2008-08-12 08:51:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM KPAO ICRC PGOV PINR PREL UZ
08TASHKENT928UZBEKISTAN: OPPOSITION LEADER FORCIBLY DEPORTED TO
[...] (C) On August 12, Birlik opposition party General Secretary Vasila Inoyatova (who is also head of the Ezgulik human rights group) reported to poloff that Birlik Deputy Chairman Pulat Akhunov, who returned to Uzbekistan from exile in Sweden in March 2007 to renew his passport (reftel),was forc [...]
2008-08-12 12:21:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL KG UZ
08TASHKENT929UZBEKISTAN: CLOSELY STUDYING RUSSIA-GEORGIA
[...] (C) On August 12, Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev told Poloff that he had spoken with officials from MFA's Commonwealth of Independent States Department regarding the Russia-Georgia conflict. Fayzullaev emphasized that the Government of Uzbe [...]
2008-08-12 12:40:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV PINS UZ
08TASHKENT930UZBEKISTAN: EMBASSY TASHKENT'S PROPOSAL FOR POST
[...] POST: Embassy Tashkent 2. NAME OF POST LANGUAGE OFFICERS: Steven Prohaska, P/E Officer, prohaskasn@state.gov; Sean O'Hara, Consular Section, o'harasp@state.gov; and Tim Buckley, P/E Officer, buckleytp@state.gov. 3. POINT OF CONTACT FOR POST LANGUAGE DIRECT FUNDING PROPOSAL: Steven Proha [...]
2008-08-12 12:41:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDAFSI AFIN AMGT KFLO UZ
08TASHKENT937UZBEKISTAN: KEY OFFICIALS CONFIDENT THAT
[...] (C) Summary: On August 7 Charge Butcher and emboffs met with Ravshan Gulyamov, Executive Director of the Uzbekistan Fund for Reconstruction and Development, and Alisher Akmalov, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank, to discuss Uzbekistan's preparations for a September assessment of its anti-mon [...]
2008-08-13 05:27:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM EFIN ECON PINR UZ
08TASHKENT938UZBEKISTAN: PRESIDENTIAL RESOLUTION ESTABLISHES
[...] (U) Summary: On June 23 President Karimov issued the latest in a series of decrees on legal reform initiatives, this one establishing a research center in the Supreme Court and promoting the "independence of the judicial system." The resolution envisions the new judicial research center will [...]
2008-08-13 05:29:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCRM PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT944UZBEKISTAN: MINISTRY OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
[...] (C) On August 12, Acting Defense Threat Reduction Office Chief and Poloff provided Uzbekistan's Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS) with 15 DTRA-funded radioisotope identification devices (RIIDs). Deputy Minister Lt. Col. Abdulazizov, Chief of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Safety Lt [...]
2008-08-13 12:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPBTS ASEC PREL PGOV PTER KNNP UZ
08TASHKENT945UZBEKISTAN: AGREEMENT TO HELP SECURE UZBEKISTAN'S
[...] (C) Summary: On August 5-8, representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory met with representatives from Uzbekistan's Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) to negotiate a contract on maintenance of the radiat [...]
2008-08-14 09:23:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALKNNP ASEC PREL UZ
08TASHKENT947JOURNALIST, ACTIVIST, AND PROTESTANT FACE TRIAL IN
[...] (C) Summary: During a one-day visit to Uzbekistan's Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan on August 7, poloff met with acquaintances of journalist Salidjahon Abdurakhmanov (ref A),human rights activist Akzam Turgunov (ref B),and Protestant Aimurat Khayburahmanov (ref C),all of whom remain i [...]
2008-08-14 10:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT948UNODC REPORTS FIRST PRECURSOR SEIZURE IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met on August 8 with Mark Colhoun, Senior Regional Law Enforcement Advisor at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office in Central Asia, which is based in Tashkent. Colhoun said the recently conducted Operation Tarcet netted 1.6 tons of acetic [...]
2008-08-14 12:21:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM KG AF IR UZ
08TASHKENT949EMBASSY TASHKENT HOSTS CHILD LABOR ROUNDTABLE
[...] (U) Summary: On August 11, poloff hosted an informal roundtable at the Embassy on child labor in Uzbekistan in conjunction with representatives from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labor Organization (ILO). The roundtable was also attended by the Charge, the [...]
2008-08-15 09:00:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON ELAB KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT951UZBEKISTAN: COST OF LIVING SOARS,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Official GOU figures continue to show robust macroeconomic growth, but the benefits of this growth are slow to be seen in the economic lives of Uzbek citizens. Although gross national income per capita is growing, the official consumer price index of 6.5 percent stands in sha [...]
2008-08-18 07:47:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID EINV KCRM SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT958UPDATE ON USG MILITARY ASSISTANCE FOR UZBEKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Per reftels the Government of Uzbekistan accepted the USG offer to provide assistance in the aftermath of powerful explosions at the munitions depot in Kagan, Bukhara Province. As of August 19 the Defense Attache Office (DATT) confirmed that 187 detection devices and 6 underwater detect [...]
2008-08-19 11:25:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MARR EAID UZ
08TASHKENT959UZBEKISTAN: KARIMOV TO ATTEND SCO SUMMIT AFTER ALL?
[...] (S) On August 19, Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev confirmed for Poloff that the information in reftel A demarche was delivered to the appropriate authorities in the Government of Uzbekistan, and indicated that President Karimov will in fact be attending the [...]
2008-08-19 12:40:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPREL PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT964UZBEKISTAN: PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS LAW RATIFYING
[...] (U) On June 27 the Senate followed the lower chamber (Oliy Majlis) in adopting a law to ratify the UN Convention Against Corruption. President Karimov then signed the law on July 7, completing the Government of Uzbekistan's ratification steps. The Head of the International Organizations Depar [...]
2008-08-20 10:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCOR PHUM KCRM UZ
08TASHKENT966UZBEKISTAN: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON HAKIMBOY
[...] (C) On August 1, 2008, President Karimov appointed Hakimboy Ashirovich Halimov as Deputy Procurator General of Uzbekistan. Halimov was born in 1954, in the Amurdaryo District of Karakalpakstan. In 1977, after graduation from the Law Department of Tashkent State University, he began his caree [...]
2008-08-20 12:35:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR UZ
08TASHKENT97UZBEKISTAN: NO COMMENT ON DELIVERED KOSOVO POINTS
[...] (C) On January 18, Ambassador delivered reftel points on resolving Kosovo's status to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Americas Division Chief Mamajanov. Mamajanov received them without comment. Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov would not meet Ambassador earlier, despite Post's repeated requ [...]
2008-01-24 12:11:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNMIK UNAUS YI EU UZ
08TASHKENT971UZBEKISTAN: USG MILITARY ASSISTANCE FOR MUNITIONS
[...] (SBU) At 1700 local time on August 21, Air Attache confirmed that the plane carrying USG-provided equipment and the five-person team of U.S. Army experts to assist Government of Uzbekistan clean-up efforts in Kagan, Bukhara Province, had arrived in Bukhara from Bagram. The equipment includes [...]
2008-08-21 12:58:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MARR EAID UZ
08TASHKENT972UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for one Government of Uzbekistan official nominated to participate in the Program for Advanced Security Studies (PTSS) 08-7 at the Marshall Center in [...]
2008-08-22 08:25:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT973UZBEKISTAN: NO OFFICIAL COMMENT ON RUSSIA-GEORGIA
[...] (C) The Government of Uzbekistan has yet to announce an official position on the Russia-Georgia conflict, but an Embassy contact and local press reports have provided hints that Tashkent may be quietly siding with Moscow on this issue. According to a Regional Security Office contact in the Mi [...]
2008-08-22 08:35:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC MOPS UZ
08TASHKENT974UZBEKISTAN: AFGHAN POWER TRANSMISSION LINE
[...] (C) Afghan Ambassador Baraki told us by cell phone that as of this afternoon, August 22, talks held in Tashkent this week on the contract to build a 43 km power line from the Surkhan substation to the Afghan border had concluded successfully. According to Baraki, the final agreed construction [...]
2008-08-22 10:40:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECIN ECON ENRG KPWR UZ AF
08TASHKENT976UZBEKISTAN: AT HOME ON THE FAZENDA?
[...] (U) Uzbek media has widely reported the visit by Brazil's Ambassador to Russia Carlos Antonio da Rocha Paranhos. Appointed on February 13 as Brazil's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Uzbekistan based in the Russian Federation, Paranhos was expected to deliver his [...]
2008-08-25 05:44:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV BR UZ
08TASHKENT977UZBEKISTAN: POLITICAL INTRIGUE, CONCERN ABOUT A
[...] (S/NF) According to an Embassy contact speaking in early August, Maruf Shakirovich Usmanov was Director of Uzbekistan's Civil Society Institute (CSI). While CSI's nominal purpose is to promote civil society, it is actually a branch of the National Security Service (NSS) and its true purpose i [...]
2008-08-25 06:30:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PINR UZ
08TASHKENT979UZBEKISTAN: DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-25 09:47:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN UZ
08TASHKENT984UZBEKISTAN: INTERIM DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON GSP
[...] (SBU) On August 22 Econoff delivered the interim Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) demarche per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to pass the information to the appropriate officials. On child labor, Fayzullaev repeated the Uzbek co [...]
2008-08-26 06:25:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON ETRD PGOV KIPR UZ
08TASHKENT985UZBEKISTAN: TWELVE CONVICTED OF ALLEGED HIZB
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff met on August 22 with Akhmadjon Madmarov, a Margilan-based human rights activist whose two sons and two nephews are incarcerated for alleged membership in extremist organizations. He reported that his son Habibullah was convicted on August 15 along with 11 fellow inmates [...]
2008-08-26 06:29:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KTER UZ
08TASHKENT987UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN TRAFFICKING A HOT TOPIC IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan is off to a fast start in implementing its new anti-trafficking national action plan as five of 12 provinces plus Tashkent City have already formed and convened mandated local inter-agency committees to discuss prevention and protection measures. Th [...]
2008-08-26 08:57:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN UZ
08TASHKENT988UZBEKISTAN: U.S.-FUNDED X-RAY VAN REPAIR IMPROVES
[...] (SBU) On August 20, Poloff and Embassy LES visited Tashkent International Airport, where representatives of the U.S.-based Allied Technical Services had completed repairs of an X-ray van for Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee (SCC) under the auspices of the Export Control and Related Border [...]
2008-08-26 10:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS ASEC PGOV KZ UZ
08TASHKENT991UZBEKISTAN: EXPECTING RUSSIAN PRESSURE ON
[...] (C) On August 25, Charge d'Affaires met with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Department Chief Takhir Mamadjanov to urge the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) to press Russia not to recognize the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and to convey the other points in [...]
2008-08-26 12:50:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR ASEC EAID GG RS UZ
08TASHKENT993UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for three Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a State Department-sponsored biosafety/biosecurity legislative seminar on September 8- [...]
2008-08-27 10:38:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT994KARAKALPAKSTAN CASES AGAINST ACTIVISTS MOVING
[...] (C) Summary: On August 25 the trial against prominent human rights activist Akzam Turgunov started in Mangit but was immediately postponed after the judge decided that the attorneys required interpreters, a move described as "very surprising" by Dilorom Ishakova of the opposition Erk Party. I [...]
2008-08-27 12:17:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM UZ
08THEHAGUE855NETHERLANDS/GAERC: PUSHING HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dutch will push human rights during the October 13-14 GAERC discussions on Uzbekistan, Belarus, and Zimbabwe, and a deliberate approach to reviewing Moldova's relations with the EU. The Dutch are blocking consensus on Uzbekistan. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Poloff shared reft [...]
2008-10-10 12:24:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV NL UZ MD ZI BO
08USNATO380NATO ENGAGES IN NEW FORUM ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an effort to facilitate increased regional dialogue on Afghanistan, Secretary General (SYG) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer presided over the first meeting of NATO Permanent Representatives with the NATO representatives from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan a [...]
2008-10-17 13:12:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO PGOV PREL AF KZ KG TI TX UZ
08USNATO423VETTING REQUEST FOR PARTICIPANTS OF THE
[...] (SBU) This is an action request cable. See paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) NATO's International Staff has provided the list below of Central Asian and Afghan participants for the NATO-Russia counter-narcotics training to be held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on November 17-28. No USG trainers will be pa [...]
2008-11-12 10:17:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC NATO SNAR TX RS AF KG KZ TI UZ
08VIENNA1508AUSTRIAN VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE OCTOBER 13 GAERC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 14:12:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN PGOV PHUM PREL BO GG RS UZ ZI AU
08VILNIUS843GAERC: LITHUANIA WORRIED DRAFT LANGUAGE NOT STRONG
[...] (C) MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy Head Egidijus Navikas told Post October 8 that Lithuania is concerned that current GAERC draft language "welcoming the progress of withdrawal" by the Russians in Georgia implies Russia is close to completing the commitments it made August 12 and Septe [...]
2008-10-09 09:33:00Embassy VilniusCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PHUM GG BO UZ ZI LH
08WARSAW1188GAERC - POLISH VIEWS ON OCTOBER 13 EU FOREIGN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA European Correspondent Cyryl Kozaczewski told us October 9 that while Belarusian elections were flawed and there has been no significant improvement in terms of democracy and human rights, Poland will support a temporary suspension of the travel ban. The ban should be lifted, [...]
2008-10-10 06:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EUN BO GC RS UZ ZI PL
09ASHGABAT1130TURKMENISTAN: UZBEKISTAN TRYING TO BROADEN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Uzbekistan is making every effort to expand its relations with Turkmenistan, both politically and commerically. They are looking for new opportunities for investment and trying to promote tourism to Uzbekistan. Despite their efforts, and the cultural ties between Uzbeks and Turkm [...]
2009-09-04 13:03:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL TX UZ
09ASHGABAT1646TURKMENISTAN: CHANGE IN VISA REGIME WITH
[...] (SBU) On December 13, the day before the opening of the Turkmenistan-China pipeline, President Karimov of Uzbekistan had official meetings with Turkmenistan President Berdimuhamedov in Ashgabat. The presidents signed four documents, including a joint communiqu and a cooperation agreement betw [...]
2009-12-22 14:35:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL UZ TX
09ASHGABAT179UZBEK DIPLOMAT EXPLORES U.S. BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
[...] (C) Uzbek Embassy Consul, Abdulmajid Dusimov (please protect),said in a meeting on February 3 that Uzbek Embassies are looking for successful examples of international investments, and that he wanted to discuss with Economic Officer the U.S. experience in Turkmenistan. Further clarification [...]
2009-02-04 11:34:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EIND CVIS TX UZ
09ASHGABAT268TURKMENISTAN: CASE NEW HOLLAND DISCUSSES
[...] (C) Case New Holland's Business Director for Central Asia, Tom Davies (please protect),said in a meeting on February 10 that the company is planning to open a representative office in Ashgabat this year. He also confirmed that the contract decision-making process is taking longer and longer [...]
2009-02-27 12:14:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL EIND TX UZ
09ASHGABAT338TURKMENISTAN: UNODC SEEKING U.S. SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Project Coordinator for Turkmenistan, Ercan Saka, met with Politial Officer yesterday seeking financial support from INL for a proposed project at Farap, on the Uzbek border. Under the proposal, which has a budget of one million USD and is divided [...]
2009-03-13 15:21:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALSNAR UZ PGOV PREL TX
09ASTANA1015SUMMER WORK AND TRAVEL: VIEWS FROM CENTRAL ASIA
[...] SUMMARY. The Summer Work and Travel (SWT) programs of Central Asia are all tiny compared to our neighbor to the north. Nonetheless, the countries of Central Asia each have interesting insights into the program. There are few commonalities among SWT experiences in the region, which is not surpr [...]
2009-06-15 08:52:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS KFRD KZ KG TJ UZ TX
09ASTANA12 KAZAKHSTAN: SECURITY SERVICES QUESTION CDC/USAID
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In December 2006, the Kazakhstani Ministry of Health (MoH) requested the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Central Asia Region, Almaty (CDC/CAR-Almaty) conduct an epidemiological investigation relating to a pediatric HIV outbreak in Shymkent (southern Kazakhstan). Two [...]
2009-01-06 11:06:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ASEC TBIO UZ KZ
09ASTANA1423 KAZAKHSTAN: USCENTCOM CDR GENERAL PETRAEUS'
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: During an August 13 meeting in Astana, USCENTCOM CDR General Petraeus and Security Council Chairman Suleymenov discussed potential Kazakhstani noncombatant military and other assistance to support U.S. policy in Afghanistan, including the possibility of Kazakhstan hosting a l [...]
2009-08-20 07:05:00Embassy AstanaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MARR RS AF KG TI UZ KZ
09ASTANA165 KAZAKHSTAN: MEDIA REPORTS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES FOR
[...] SUMMARY: The following is a summary of local media reports on human trafficking cases in Kazakhstan from July to December 2008. END SUMMARY. LABOR EXPLOITATION 2. December 2, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda: In October, an oblast-level court in Karaganda increased a lower court's sentence from [...]
2009-01-28 10:36:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SOCI KCRM RU UZ KZ
09ASTANA1772 KAZAKHSTAN: FM SAUDABAYEV ON IRAN, OSCE SUMMIT,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting with the Ambassador on October 5, State Secretary and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev: -- reaffirmed that Kazakhstan fully supports the U.S. position on Iran and reported that he personally had made the case to Foreign Minister Manoucher Motakki -- "based on [...]
2009-10-05 08:52:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PARM MNUC MARR KNNP OSCE UZ KZ
09ASTANA1914 KAZAKHSTAN: "BIG FRIEND" MEDDLES AGAINST U.S.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Umarov suggested on October 21 that disinformation from Russian intelligence played a role in Yevgeniy Zhovtis' conviction and prison sentence being upheld. He also said that Russian intelligence is getting the word to President Nazarbayev that th [...]
2009-10-22 07:07:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM MARR KDEM OSCE RS UZ KZ
09ASTANA1977 KAZAKHSTAN: MEDIA REPORTS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES
[...] The following is a summary of local media reports of human trafficking cases in Kazakhstan February-April 2009. Septel will summarize media May-July 2009. TRAFFICKING IN CHILDREN 2. February 2, Interfax; February 3, "Liter," February 5 Novosti, February 6 "Kazpravda": A 28-year-old Ru [...]
2009-11-06 09:34:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ELAB SMIG SOCI KCRM KTIP UZ KZ
09ASTANA2050 KAZAKHSTAN: PREPARATIONS FOR DFM UMAROV'S VISIT --
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 12. 2. (S) SUMMARY: At the request of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),PolOff met on November 13 with the Director of the Multilateral Cooperation Department, Barlybai Sadykov, whose Department is responsible for all non- [...]
2009-11-17 11:10:00Embassy AstanaSECRETPARM PGOV PINR PREL KNNP START IR RS UP UZ KZ
09ASTANA2066 KAZAKHSTAN: DEPUTY SECRETARY OF NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] (S) SUMMARY: On November 12, Deputy Director of the Marshall Center, Dr. James MacDougall, met with Kazakhstan's Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council (NSC),Marat Shaikhutdinov, to discuss continued support for participation in Marshall Center programs. Shaikhutdinov -- and form [...]
2009-11-19 10:29:00Embassy AstanaSECRETPGOV PREL PINR MARR CH RS UZ KZ
09ASTANA2143 KAZAKHSTAN: MFA DIPNOTE ON CDC "ILLEGAL SMUGGLING"
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Embassy Astana has received the following diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning a criminal case involving alleged 2006 "illegal smuggling" of HIV-infected blood samples from Kazakhstan to the Unite [...]
2009-12-14 08:40:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KHIV SENV KG KZ UZ
09ASTANA2204 KAZAKHSTAN: TERRORISM AND SECURITY CONCERNS INFLUENCE
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On December 22, the Ambassador and Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Umarov met to discuss outstanding U.S. requests to amend the 2001 overflight and 2009 Northern Distribution Network (NDN) agreements (refs A, B). Umarov told the Ambassador that 10 Kazakhstani government agenci [...]
2009-12-23 09:37:00Embassy AstanaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR MARR AF RS UZ KZ
09ASTANA2272 KAZAKHSTAN SEEKS NEW OVERFLIGHT AGREEMENT
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On December 30, the Ambassador and Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Umarov met again to discuss outstanding U.S. requests to amend the 2001 overflight and 2009 Northern Distribution Network (NDN) agreements (reftel). Umarov told the Ambassador that Kazakhstani government agenci [...]
2009-12-31 05:32:00Embassy AstanaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR MARR AF RS UZ KZ
09ASTANA280 ENGLISH LANGUAGE FELLOWS IN CENTRAL ASIA: SURVIVING AND
[...] (U) English Language Fellows across Central Asia are making solid contributions to English departments and communities despite the multiple challenges of living and working in Central Asia. Having visited all the Fellows at their sites during the past 18 months, the Regional English Language [...]
2009-02-17 10:27:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL KPAO PGOV SOCI KZ TI UZ TX KG
09ASTANA359 KAZAKHSTAN: MEDIA REPORTS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES FOR
[...] The following is a summary of local media reports of human trafficking cases in Kazakhstan for January 2009. UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS 2. January 27, Interfax, Aikyn: Two businesswomen attempting to recruit women from Kyzylorda to work as prostitutes in Astana were arrested by undercover po [...]
2009-02-27 09:50:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ELAB SMIG SOCI KCRM KTIP UZ KZ
09ASTANA368 KAZAKHSTAN: MEDIA REPORTS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES FOR
[...] The following is a summary of local media reports of human trafficking cases in Kazakhstan for January 2009. UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS 2. January 27, Interfax, Aikyn: Two businesswomen attempting to recruit women from Kyzylorda to work as prostitutes in Astana were arrested by undercover po [...]
2009-02-27 09:59:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ELAB SMIG SOCI KCRM KTIP UZ KZ
09ASTANA479 KAZAKHSTAN: SMOOTH OPERATOR
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 13, the Ambassador had lunch with Nurbakh Rustemov, the Chairman of the International Affairs, Defense, and Security Committee of the Mazhilis (the lower house of the parliament),and Romin Madinov, the C [...]
2009-03-17 09:23:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAGR SOCI KNNP UZ KG KZ
09ASTANA957KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON LETHAL TRANSIT
[...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on June 5 to Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Kairat Sarybai. 2. (C) The Ambassador explained that the initiative for the possible transit of lethal materiel across Russian territory came from President Medvedev, and he told Sarybai that he want [...]
2009-06-05 11:15:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR RSZ TI TX UZ KG KZ
09BEIJING1663JUNE 18 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN, SUB COLLISION, GREEN DAM,
[...] Key points at the June 18 MFA press briefing: -- MFA Spokesman Qin Gang stated that China "respected the choice of the Iranian people" in recent elections. -- Despite controversy over the "Green Dam" internet filtering software China had a responsibility to protect Chinese youth from "bad [...]
2009-06-18 23:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EINT CH CN KN KS TX UZ IR IN
09BISHKEK1300KYRGYZ FOREIGN MINISTER PROTESTS "FAILED STATE"
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Sarbayev called in the Ambassador to complain about the December 16 VOA article that said Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan could be considered "failed states." Sarbayev, armed with a copy of DAS Krol's testimony and a translation of the Q&A, peppered the Ambassador with [...]
2009-12-18 08:13:00Embassy BishkekCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KG AF UZ TI
09DUSHANBE1215TAJIKISTAN WARNS IT WILL CUT WATER SUPPLY TO UZBEKISTAN IN
[...] (U) This is an Action Request - Please see Paragraph 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: With Uzbekistan leaving the Central Asian power system, the Government of Tajikistan is threatening to cut water supplies to Uzbekistan next summer if Uzbekistan does not allow transit of energy from Turkmenistan th [...]
2009-11-10 12:15:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAGR UZ TI
09DUSHANBE157ENERGY SITUATION WORSENS IN TAJIKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: Sanat Rahimov, the new chair of the national electricity company Barqi Tojik, dismissed as ridiculous the notion that Tajikistan either could or should hold back water in the spring to replenish its hydroelectric reservoirs. He said Tajikistan must "live within its energy means" a [...]
2009-02-10 10:35:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALENRG PGOV ECON PREL UZ TI
09DUSHANBE224A SLIGHT WARMING IN TAJIK-UZBEK RELATIONS?
[...] (C) Summary: The meeting of an Uzbek-Tajik intergovernmental commission appears to have been a qualified success, with agreements on some of the power and water issues that have been dividing the two countries. This should pave the way for renewed transit of Turkmen electricity to Dushanbe. Bu [...]
2009-02-23 13:01:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL UZ TI
09DUSHANBE510DEPUTY ASST US TRADE REP FINDS TAJIK GOVT MORE INTERESTED IN
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for South and Central Asia Claudio Lilienfeld visited Dushanbe April 21-22 to review U.S.-Tajik trade relations and the status of the U.S.-Central Asian Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). Matlubkhon Davlatov, the P [...]
2009-04-27 12:50:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PREL UZ TI
09DUSHANBE702NEW RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR PROPOSES CLOSER COOPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: In a courtesy call on the Ambassador, the newly arrived Russian Ambassador said Russia's chief interest in Tajikistan was maintaining stability and asked about Tajik and U.S. concerns about possibly greater activity of the Taliban in the north. He proposed greater coordination and [...]
2009-06-05 12:03:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ENRG TI RU UZ
09DUSSELDORF10IJU/"SAUERLAND CELL" TERRORISM TRIAL OPENS IN DUESSELDORF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The trial of the "Sauerland Cell" charged with membership in the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) and planning terrorist attacks in Germany against American and other targets began on April 22 amidst strict security and enormous media attention at the High Security Court in Duesseldorf [...]
2009-04-22 17:46:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KISL PGOV KCRM KZ PK UZ GM
09DUSSELDORF30U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL IN GERMANY WERE PRIME TARGETS, IJU
[...] (U) Summary: The leader of the "Islamic Jihad Union" (IJU) Sauerland cell, Fritz Gelowicz (29),made a full confession in the ongoing terrorist trial at the Duesseldorf Higher Regional Court (reftels) on August 10, confirming that U.S. military personnel in Germany were the primary target for [...]
2009-08-12 15:44:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PGOV PREL KISL KCRM PK UZ GM
09DUSSELDORF35ATTACK ON RAMSTEIN AFB PLANNED FOR ITS SYMBOLIC VALUE,
[...] (U) Daniel Schneider, one of the defendants in the ongoing terrorist trial of the "Islamic Jihad Union" (IJU) Sauerland cell (reftel),testified before the Duesseldorf Higher Regional Court on September 15 that the group considered attacking the U.S. Air Force Base in Ramstein for its symbolic [...]
2009-09-21 07:57:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PGOV PREL KISL KCRM PK UZ GM
09ISTANBUL398USAID AND TIKA PUSH FOR TRILATERAL COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 6 meeting on the sidelines of the IMF/WB summit with the leadership of Turkey's aid and development organization, TIKA, the members of the USAID delegation discussed food security in Central Asia and Africa. They also discussed opportunities for trilateral coopera [...]
2009-10-16 13:34:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU UZ
09KABUL11JUNBESH LOOKS AHEAD TO LIFE AFTER DOSTUM
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Junbesh-e-Milli leaders are scrambling to lead the party in a new direction following Gen. Dostum's exit from Afghanistan. Junbesh, the country's largest ethnic Uzbek political organization, receives the bulk of its funding from foreign governments, which also influence the [...]
2009-01-04 09:47:00Embassy KabulSECRETKDEM PREL PGOV AF TU UZ
09MUMBAI89WOMEN IN INDIA: UZBEK SEX WORKERS IN MUMBAI
[...] (U) Summary: In February, Congenoffs met with two Russian-speaking women from Uzbekistan who had been detained by the police for prostitution and brought to a local shelter. The two women said they came to India to make money to pay for family medical expenses in Uzbekistan. One admitted to [...]
2009-03-03 07:48:00Consulate MumbaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM IN UZ SMIG
09MUSCAT1096OMAN FM RAISES UZBEK 6+3 PROPOSAL ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) At the end of a separate meeting on November 2 (reftel) Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdulla ( YbA),raised the Uzbek 6 plus 3 proposal involving Afghanistan and its neighbors. The Uzbek proposal is to convene this group - comprising Afghanistan's 6 neighbors, along with th [...]
2009-11-04 13:29:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AF UZ MU
09NEWDELHI2395New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of
[...] Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of November 23-27, 2009, including the following: -- Industrial Growth on Path to Recovery -- RBI Warns Banks Dealing with Iran, Pakistan, and Others -- FATF Mutual Evaluation Spurs Tougher AML Regulations I [...]
2009-11-27 10:31:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ECIN EIND PK IR UZ TU TP IN
09PARIS1427FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR OCTOBER 26-27 GAERC
[...] (SBU) On October 23, Mathieu Carmona, Deputy Director for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, provided the following preview for the October 26-27 GAERC meeting of EU foreign ministers: ---- IRAN ---- 2. (C) Carmona said much of an October 26 dinner would be devoted to a discussion [...]
2009-10-23 12:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN IR BK AL MK GR AF PK GV CE MD UZ
09RIGA257TRANSCOM COMMANDER'S VISIT TO RIGA CONFIRMS STRONG
[...] (C) Summary: The May 5 - 6 visit of TRANSCOM Commander General Duncan McNabb provided an opportunity to thank the Latvians for their support for the Northern Distribution Network (NDN). McNabb assured the Latvians that all arrangements in Latvia are fine; any potential choke points would like [...]
2009-05-08 11:19:00Embassy RigaCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL AF UZ LG
09SEOUL1435ROK RELATIONS WITH UZBEKISTAN: BLOOD, GAS, GOLD
[...] (C) Uzbek Embassy DCM Alisher Okhunjonov gave us an upbeat assessment of bilateral ties with South Korea, which is now Uzbekistan's number one East Asian investor and one of its top trade partners. Using Uzbekistan's large ethnic Korean community as a bridge, the Korea Gas Corporation, the Kor [...]
2009-09-08 07:39:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PINR PGOV ECON EINV KS UZ
09SEOUL753ROKG, KOREAN COMPANIES REACHING OUT TO CENTRAL ASIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ROK President Lee Myung-bak will be visiting Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan May 10-14. His meeting with Uzbek President Islam Karimov will be his third in 15 months, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Eurasia Division Director Lim Soo-suk told Poloffs on May 7. Seoul is in [...]
2009-05-12 01:07:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EAID EAIR EINV ENRG EPET KS UZ KZ
09STATE100928UZBEKISTAN: TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST ACTION PLAN
[...] This is an action request (see paras 2-4). 2. Begin action request: Drawing from points in para 8, Post is requested to approach appropriate host government officials to highlight the United States' strong commitment to continue to work with the Government of Uzbekistan to help strengthe [...]
2009-09-28 19:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG KTIP UZ
09STATE114330SCA: INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-05 19:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG AJ BG CE IN PK TI UZ
09STATE117491LETTER FROM U/S BURNS TO PRESIDENT KARIMOV
[...] (U) Please deliver the following letter from Under Secretary Burns to President Karimov at the earliest opportunity. There will be no signed original. 2. (SBU) Begin text: Dear Mr. President: I was heartened by the news that Dr. Sanjar Umarov had been released from prison as a result [...]
2009-11-13 19:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL PGOV UZ
09STATE24316U.S. RESPONSE TO LATEST VERSION OF DRAFT TRANSIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable provides formal guidance to Embassy Tashkent in response to the Government of Uzbekistan,s latest draft of the exchange of letters dated March 3, 2009 (Ref. D). It is the position of the Department of Defense and Department of State that the U.S. Government can acce [...]
2009-03-13 20:36:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR UZ
09STATE31078INSTRUCTIONS TO SIGN TRANSIT ARRANGEMENT WITH THE
[...] (SBU) Embassy Tashkent is instructed to deliver the proposed exchange of letters in paragraph 3 to the Government of Uzbekistan. The U.S. Government has agreed to all of the Government of Uzbekistan's proposed changes found in reftel C. If the transit arrangement is acceptable to the Gove [...]
2009-03-31 21:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR NATO PREL UZ
09STATE54767INFORMING THE CENTRAL ASIANS ON LETHAL TRANSIT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-28 18:39:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL RS TI TX UZ KG KZ
09STATE60641UZBEKISTAN--2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS GUIDANCE AND
[...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...]
2009-06-12 01:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KPAO KTIP UZ
09STATE62443TRAVEL WARNING - UZBEKISTAN
[...] The Department of State warns U.S. citizens that the potential for a terrorist attack or localized civil disturbance still exists in Uzbekistan. The Department of State continues to urge Americans in Uzbekistan to exercise caution when traveling in the region. This supersedes the Travel War [...]
2009-06-17 05:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC PTER ASEC UZ
09STATE62666OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO OSCE PROJECT
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the June 18, 2009, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Madame Chairperson. We welcome you, Ambassador Venczel, to the Permanent Council and thank you for your comprehensive report on OSCE activit [...]
2009-06-17 16:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE UZ
09STATE6369UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR COMMODITY
[...] (U) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of 1/23/2009 it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officer(s) listed below: Name: Shukrullo Lutpullaev Passport: CA 0643605 DOB: 8 June 1971 Agency: State Customs Commi [...]
2009-01-23 20:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PHUM PREL UZ
09STATE71043(U) KUDOS FOR BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING ON
[...] (C) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS COMMEND POST FOR ITS BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING ON UZBEKISTANI OFFICIALS. REFS A-J REPRESENT THE TYPE OF REPORTING ON WHICH ANALYSTS RELY IN PULLING TOGETHER BIOGRAPHIC REPORTS FOR USE BY US POLICYMAKERS IN WASHINGTON. A. (C) REF A (&UZBEKISTAN: MFA DISCUSSES REGIONAL [...]
2009-07-09 15:18:00Secretary of StateSECRETPINR UZ
09STATE74733(S) KUDOS FOR REPORTING ON JUNE 2009 SCO SUMMIT
[...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE REF REPORTS, INSIGHTS ON THE OUTCOME OF THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (SCO) SUMMIT IN YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA. CHINA'S ECONOMIC OUTREACH IN CENTRAL ASIA CONTINUES TO ATTRACT CONSIDERABLE SENIOR POLICYMAKER INTEREST, AND ANY FURTHER REPORTI [...]
2009-07-17 17:05:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPINR ETRD KSUM PREL CH KG KZ RS TI TX UZ
09STATE76452(S) CHINA'S ASSESSMENT OF THE JUNE 2009 SCO
[...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS ARE VERY INTERESTED IN CHINA'S ASSESSMENT OF THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (SCO) SUMMIT HELD IN JUNE 2009 IN YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA. CHINA'S ECONOMIC OUTREACH IN CENTRAL ASIA IS OF POLICYMAKER INTEREST, AND ANY FURTHER REPORTING POST CAN PROVIDE, TIME AND RE [...]
2009-07-22 15:46:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPINR ETRD KSUM PREL CH KG KZ RS TI TX UZ
09STATE76696(S) CHINA'S ASSESSMENT OF THE JUNE 2009 SCO
[...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS ARE VERY INTERESTED IN CHINA'S ASSESSMENT OF THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (SCO) SUMMIT HELD IN JUNE 2009 IN YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA. CHINA'S ECONOMIC OUTREACH IN CENTRAL ASIA IS OF POLICYMAKER INTEREST, AND ANY FURTHER REPORTING POST CAN PROVIDE, TIME AND RE [...]
2009-07-22 20:51:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPINR ETRD KSUM PREL CH KG KZ RS TI TX UZ
09STATE84124UZBEKISTAN GSP INTERIM DEMARCHE REQUEST
[...] This is an action request; Please see paragraph 7. 2. Summary. As part of the USG's review of Uzbekistan's eligibility for benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP),Post is requested to meet Government of Uzbekistan officials at the highest appropriate level to call atten [...]
2009-08-12 22:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ELAB ECON PHUM UZ ETRD
09STATE91696OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: THE SENTENCING OF UZBEK
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the September 3 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States expresses its concern following the sentencing to twelve-and-one-half years' incarceration of the Uzbekistan journ [...]
2009-09-02 21:54:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OSCE KPAO PHUM PREL UZ
09STATE96402OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the September 17 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. The United States is pleased to take note of the recent comments by the distinguished Director of ODIHR Ambassador Janez Lenarcic o [...]
2009-09-16 19:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OSCE KPAO PHUM PREL UZ
09TASHKENT100UZBEKISTAN: NEW STUDY ON LABOR MIGRATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: In December, the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) office in Tashkent published a new study on labor migration from Uzbekistan based on surveys conducted in 2006 and 2007. While the study does not reflect the impact of the current financial crisis upon labor migratio [...]
2009-01-23 11:48:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON KIRF KTIP PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS KZ UZ
09TASHKENT1011UZBEKISTAN: OFF-SHORE DEA COUNTRY ATTACHE FINALLY GRANTED
[...] (U) Summary: On June 15, the Embassy was informed orally by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the accreditation request for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Country Attache has been approved. This is a major step forward and should usher in a new era of enhanced counternarcotics c [...]
2009-06-18 10:57:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SNAR KCRM EAID UZ
09TASHKENT1013UZBEKISTAN: NEW IOM REGIONAL HEAD OPTIMISTIC ABOUT FORMAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16, poloffs met with regional officials from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and a prominent Uzbek anti-trafficking NGO to discuss the organization's status. A new IOM regional coordinator will cover all of Central Asia for IOM, and he is confident th [...]
2009-06-18 11:10:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB KTIP EAID UZ
09TASHKENT1023UZBEKISTAN: SWISS CONCLUDE DRUG HARM REDUCTION PROJECT AT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Swiss Embassy in Tashkent marked the end of what it saw as a successful six-year drug harm reduction project, which included provision of clean needles and condoms to thousands of drug users in Uzbekistan with the goal of stopping the spread of disease, particularly HIV and [...]
2009-06-19 10:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KHIV SNAR SZ DEA UZ
09TASHKENT1025UZBEKISTAN: SANJAR UMAROV'S HEALTH CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE
[...] (C) Summary: On June 17, emboffs met with members of the Sunshine Coalition, who reported that their imprisoned leader, Sanjar Umarov, was suffering severe mental illness in prison. On June 18, the Ambassador met with Umarov's son Arslan, who just finished a four-day visit in the prison with [...]
2009-06-19 10:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1027UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF MAY SEEK TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM
[...] (C) On June 17, Matthew Taylor, the Public Relations Officer at UNICEF's Uzbekistan office, told poloff that the organization will be "changing tack" to take a harder line in its dealings with the Government of Uzbekistan. Taylor said that a coalition of NGOs, led by Human Rights Watch, [...]
2009-06-19 10:33:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM UNICEF ELAB PGOV PREL KTIP UZ
09TASHKENT1029UZBEKISTAN: REMITTANCES 2009 -- DROP NOT AS BAD AS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Remittances are an important source of external financing for the Uzbek economy, accounting for 10 percent or more of the national GDP. With the downturn in the world economy, many feared a dramatic drop in remittances to Uzbekistan followed by ballooning unemployment and poss [...]
2009-06-19 10:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT103UZBEKISTAN ROLLS OUT RED CARPET FOR DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As part of the continuing effort to establish a Northern Distribution Network (NDN) to support U.S. forces in Afghanistan, a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) delegation visited Tashkent on January 13-15 to look at opportunities for local procurement. Local procurement is something [...]
2009-01-26 00:46:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD KCRM SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT1035UZBEKISTAN: IRENA TALKING POINTS DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel talking points regarding U.S. views on the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the request that the points also be passed to the Scientific Association "Physics Sun" of the Institute of Material Sciences of th [...]
2009-06-19 12:40:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV UZ
09TASHKENT1037Uzbekistan Pledges Support for U.S. ICSC Candidate
[...] (SBU) On June 19, Bakhrom Babayev of the UN and International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Poloff that Uzbekistan will support U.S. candidate Lucretia Myers for the UN International Civil Service Commission. He indicated that MFA had sent a diplomatic not [...]
2009-06-22 06:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR UNGA PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1049UZBEKISTAN: IMF STATEMENT BY DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN
[...] (U) Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),issued the following statement in Tashkent on June 18 at the conclusion of his visit to the Republic of Uzbekistan: BEGIN IMF STATEMENT I am very satisfied with my first visit to the Republic of U [...]
2009-06-22 07:49:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT105UZBEKISTAN: JAPANESE OFFICIALS COMMENT ON BILATERAL
[...] (S) Summary: Japanese engagement in Uzbekistan appears to be on the rise, judging from recent comments from Japanese diplomats and consultants in Tashkent as well as press reporting. In addition to high-level Uzbek and Japanese visits in Tokyo and Tashkent in 2008, a "Central Asia Plus Japan" [...]
2009-01-27 04:44:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPREL ECIN PGOV PBTS EAID UZ
09TASHKENT1053Visit of CODEL Faleomavaega to Uzbekistan
[...] (SBU) Embassy Tashkent warmly welcomes CODEL Faleomavaega's visit to Uzbekistan. Post's point of contact for assistance with the trip is Political Officer Steven Prohaska, whose contact information is as follows: office telephone: 998-71-120-5450, ext. 2113, cell phone: 998-71-370-1466, unclas [...]
2009-06-22 11:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN UZ
09TASHKENT108Medvedev's Visit to Uzbekistan
[...] (C) Summary: Official Tashkent is still parsing the January 22-23 visit of Russian President Medvedev. Discussions here with contacts, including the Russian Embassy, have brought several key themes to the fore: -- Regional Water Issues: In a major victory for the Uzbeks in the perennial tug [...]
2009-01-27 14:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ENRG RS UZ
09TASHKENT1095Uzbekistan: Human Rights Round Table
[...] (C) Summary: Local human rights activists and members of the diplomatic corps attended a round table discussion at the Embassy on June 23, 2009. Among the attendees was Elena Urlaeva, who reported she is doing fine after having been roughed last week by hooligans while doing activist wo [...]
2009-06-26 10:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1097Uzbekistan: Embassy Input for OSCE Human Dimension Meeting
[...] (SBU) Summary: Per reftel request on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw (scheduled for September 28-October 9),we are providing the following input for the pre-HDIM demarche to the Uzbek government. We w [...]
2009-06-26 12:38:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL UZ OSCE KDEM
09TASHKENT110UZBEKISTAN: INSPECTION OF BORDER CROSSING POINTS IN ANDIJON
[...] (C) On January 20, Poloff and Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Assistant traveled to the Ferghana Valley to inspect EXBS and International Naroctics and Law Enforcement (INL) Program-funded equipment provided to the Border Guards of the National Security Service. The equipment [...]
2009-01-28 12:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPBTS ASEC PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1121UZBEKISTAN: EXIM SUPPORT FOR TASHKENT AVIATION PRODUCTION
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) Embassy Tashkent received an inquiry from Uzbek Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Ulugbek Rozukulov regarding ExIm financing feasibility for the Tashkent Aviation Production Association (TAPOiCh). TAPOiCh manufact [...]
2009-07-01 13:32:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN UZ
09TASHKENT1123Uzbekistan: Post Concerns over GSP-related Proposed Actions
[...] (C) As part of the review of Uzbekistan for the Generalized Systems of Preferences (GSP),the Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) have proposed to withdraw or limit GSP benefits if the GOU does not take certain actions related to child labor in the cotton se [...]
2009-07-01 13:34:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL ELAB USTR UZ
09TASHKENT1125SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY BURNS TO
[...] (C) Embassy Tashkent warmly welcomes the visit of Under Secretary Burns and delegation. This visit comes at a pivotal moment as we seek to rebuild a relationship with the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) that has been foundering on the shoals of mutual mistrust for the past four years. Despite th [...]
2009-07-02 08:54:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1135Security Forces Disrupt American University Event
[...] (C) The Uzbek National Security Service (NSS) interrupted the American University of Central Asia's (AUCA) entrance exams in Tashkent on June 27, confiscating all exam materials and interrogating students and administrators. According to personnel at the International Business School, where t [...]
2009-07-02 12:14:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAO OEXC SCUL UZ
09TASHKENT114UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL CENTER
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for three Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to participate in the Program in Advanced Security Studies (PASS 09-5) at the Marshall Center in [...]
2009-01-29 13:12:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
09TASHKENT1151UZBEKISTAN: S&T IN UZBEKISTAN AND PROGRESS ON A U.S.-UZBEK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. OES/STC Officer Michael C. Schena (ESToff) visited Uzbekistan from June 1 through July 6 to discuss Uzbek Science and Technology (S&T) infrastructure and to continue negotiations on a U.S.-Uzbek S&T Cooperation Agreement. Uzbek science officials expressed a strong desire to co [...]
2009-07-06 10:31:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL TSPL ETTC KTIA KIPR KSTC UZ
09TASHKENT1161Uzbekistan: INP Representatives Highlight Radiation
[...] (SBU) On June 30, Post handed over some 290,000 USD in equipment-including a handheld radiation monitor, a Yantar-1U detection system, and video monitoring sets-donated by the Department of Energy's Second Line of Defense program to representatives from Uzbekistan's Institute of Nuclear Physics [...]
2009-07-06 13:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPBTS KNNP PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1181Uzbekistan: UNSCR 1874 Demarches Delivered
[...] (SBU) On July 8, Poloff delivered reftel demarches on implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1874 to Nurillo Abdullaev of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk. Post will report any substantive response. NORLAND [...]
2009-07-09 11:33:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MNUC ECON PREL PGOV MTCRE EFIN KN UZ
09TASHKENT1199UZBEKISTAN: INL PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In June, 2009 there was a major breakthrough in the counternarcotics situation in Uzbekistan when the host government finally accredited a DEA Country Attache, which presents an opportunity to pursue an important mutual interest. The strawman exercise resulted in limited fundin [...]
2009-07-13 10:53:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SNAR EAID UZ
09TASHKENT1201Uzbekistan: U.S.-Uzbekistan Working Group Discusses
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S.-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group (JWG) met on June 24 for an update on the implementation of 38 projects funded by U.S. Food for Progress programs. Despite the apparent benefits that these jointly-agreed projects on irrigation, improving agricultural productivity, and enh [...]
2009-07-13 12:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ECIN SOCI PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1217Uzbekistan: Demarche on Deterring Uranium-Related Business
[...] (C) On July 15, Poloff met with Nurillo Abdullaev, Uzbekistan's Acting Americas Desk Chief at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to deliver reftel demarche discouraging the sale or transfer of uranium to Iran. Abdullaev stated that Uzbekistan is committed to nuclear non-proliferation, citing Uzb [...]
2009-07-15 12:58:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALMNUC PARM IR KNNP PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1219Uzbekistan: Demarche on Results of U.S.-Russia Presidential
[...] (C) On July 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the results of the U.S.-Russia presidential summit to Nurillo Abdullaev, Acting Americas Desk Chief at Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Abdullaev thanked Poloff for the detailed information. He remarked that Uzbekistan has been follo [...]
2009-07-15 13:02:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS UZ
09TASHKENT1243Uzbekistan: U/S Burns Meets FM Norov
[...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Burns led an inter-agency delegation to Tashkent on July 12-13 that included NSC Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia Michael McFaul, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East and South Asia David Sedney. Burns used the occasion of a July 12 m [...]
2009-07-17 04:51:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF UZ
09TASHKENT1245UZBEKISTAN: USCENTCOM ON THE EVE OF CONSTRUCTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Major General (MG) Kenneth Dowd, CENTCOM's Director of Logistics, had productive meetings on transit and local sourcing opportunities during his recent visit to Uzbekistan from June 22 through 26. In meetings at the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relatio [...]
2009-07-17 09:46:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PREL EIND MARR AF UZ
09TASHKENT1255UZBEKISTAN: ADB SIGNS MOU ON AFGHAN RAILWAY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Hong Wang, the ADB's visiting Director for Transport and Communications, told us on July 16 that he expected to sign an MOU with the GOU to build a rail link from Hayraton to Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan. He said construction would begin this October, and an ambitious timetabl [...]
2009-07-20 10:11:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDMARR ETRD ECON PREL AF UZ
09TASHKENT1259Uzbekistan: GOU Officials Shut Down Embassy Outreach Event
[...] (C) On July 16, Government of Uzbekistan officials shut down an educational outreach event conducted by Post's Public Affairs Section (PAS) Education Advisor (a Foreign Service National) and Summer Intern at a Samarkand language center. The "English for You" language center (an officially regi [...]
2009-07-20 13:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALOEXC KPAO PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1265UZBEKISTAN: EXIM SUPPORT FOR TAPOICH, PART II
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Embassy Tashkent thanks ExIm for its response to reftel. Based on this response, Post has prepared a non-paper for transmission to GOU officials outlining the possibilities for ExIm financing support for purchase of U.S.-manufactured [...]
2009-07-22 05:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN UZ
09TASHKENT1269Uzbekistan: U/S Burns Meeting with Uzbekistan Civil Society
[...] (C) Summary: On July 12, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns and a delegation of U.S. officials met with five Uzbek civil society activists. The group explained that during the years since the 2005 Andijon events, civil society had been all but decimated. They we [...]
2009-07-22 09:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1271Uzbekistan: Under Secretary Burns' July 13 Meeting with
[...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging meeting that lasted over three hours, President Karimov affirmed to Under Secretary Burns his desire to turn the page on U.S.-Uzbek relations and work together to restore trust based on mutual interests and mutual respect. Citing Afghanistan as Uzbekistan [...]
2009-07-22 09:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PHUM RS AF UZ
09TASHKENT1273Uzbekistan: Former K2 Employee Describes Conditions in
[...] (C) During a personal trip to Karshi on July 18-19, Poloff met with Furkat Tulqin, who worked at the U.S.'s Karshi-Khanabad (K2) Airbase as a procurement officer and interpreter between 2003 and 2005. Tulqin said that some 2,000 Uzbek citizens-mainly from Kashkadarya Province but also from ot [...]
2009-07-22 09:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECON MARR PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1279Uzbekistan Responds to Afghanistan Demarche
[...] (C) On July 22, Charge d'Affaires and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on assistance to Afghanistan to Uzbekistan's new MFA Americas Department Chief Bakhtiyor Ibragimov and Acting MFA USA Desk Chief Nurillo Abdullaev. Charge asked Uzbekistan to provide Post with a document outlining Uzbekista [...]
2009-07-22 12:59:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS MARR PGOV AF UZ
09TASHKENT128Uzbek Foreign Minister on Medvedev Visit
[...] (C) Summary: Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov met with the Ambassador for over ninety minutes on January 29 for a wide ranging discussion that included Russian President Medvedev's visit to Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, NDN, relations with Tajikistan and regional issues. Norov expressed satisfaction wi [...]
2009-02-02 13:23:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR ENRG ECON TI RS UZ
09TASHKENT1281Uzbekistan: Foreign Minister Likely to Participate at UNGA
[...] (SBU) Charge d'Affaires and Poloff delivered reftel demarche requesting information on host country participation at the upcoming 64th UN General Assembly General Debate to MFA's Americas Department on July 22. New Chief of the Americas Department Bakhtiyor Ibragimov indicated that Foreign Min [...]
2009-07-22 13:00:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OTRA OVIP CVIS UNGA PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT129 UZBEKISTAN: A POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD FOR DEA'S RETURN
[...] (C) Summary: On January 27-28, Visiting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Country Attache Chris Melink and Emboffs met with representatives from the Government of Uzbekistan to discuss further bilateral counternarcotics cooperation and the possibility of DEA's return to Uzbekistan. M [...]
2009-02-02 15:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM PGOV PBTS UZ
09TASHKENT1299UZBEKISTAN: FOLLOW UP TO CAIRO SPEECH
[...] SUMMARY: Post initiated the consultative process on the Presidents strategy to engage Muslim communities by leading a discussion with foreign assistance partners. Drawing from the three areas of engagement suggested in reftel (which coincide with posts foreign assistance priorities),post l [...]
2009-07-23 12:54:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID OEXC UZ
09TASHKENT13BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEWLY APPOINTED HOKIM OF TASHKENT
[...] (SBU) On December 16, 2008, President Islam Karimov appointed Rustam Kurbonnazarovich Holmatov as Hokim of Tashkent Province. (Note: This administrative region does not include the City of Tashkent itself, which is governed separately, but includes the populous territory surrounding the capi [...]
2009-01-06 12:58:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR UZ
09TASHKENT1315Uzbekistan: New MFA Americas Department Officials Proactive,
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with us on July 22, new MFA Americas Department officials Bakhtiyor Ibragimov and Nurillo Abdullaev discussed a wide range of issues and showed themselves to be highly proactive, cooperative, and interested in addressing problems in our bilateral relationship. Ibragi [...]
2009-07-27 09:53:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS KPAO ECON UZ
09TASHKENT132UZBEKISTAN EXCITED ABOUT S&T AGREEMENT, PRESENTS A DRAFT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Dr. Shavkat Salikhov, Chairman of the Committee for Coordination of Science and Technology Development at the Cabinet of Ministers, told us in unequivocal terms on January 29 that Uzbekistan is very interested in negotiating a Science and Technology (S&T) cooperation agreement [...]
2009-02-03 08:46:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL TSPL ETTC KTIA KIPR KSTC UZ
09TASHKENT1329UZBEK S&T: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. OES/STC Officer Michael C. Schena (ESToff) visited Uzbekistan from June 1 through July 6 to discuss Uzbek Science and Technology (S&T) infrastructure and to continue negotiations on a U.S.-Uzbek S&T Cooperation Agreement (reftel). This cable focuses on biotechnology and agricult [...]
2009-07-28 12:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL TSPL ETTC KTIA KIPR KSTC UZ
09TASHKENT135UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING FOR NATO-RUSSIA COUNTERNARCOTICS
[...] (SBU) Post has conducted an internal review of its files and has found no credible evidence that Uzbek individuals in reftel are responsible for committing gross violations of human rights. NORLAND To view the entire SMART message, go to URL http://repository.state.sgov.gov/_layouts/OSS Searc [...]
2009-02-03 12:07:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL MARR ASEC NATO SNAR RS UZ
09TASHKENT1357Uzbekistan: Rumors of Succession Planning, Government
[...] (S/NF) Summary: On July 28, a member of the Government of Uzbekistan relayed to us a number of discussions taking place within Uzbekistan's Presidential Apparat about succession planning and government reshuffling. Some members of the Apparat believe that Gulnora Karimova will become President [...]
2009-07-31 05:39:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR AORC RS UZ
09TASHKENT136RFG: Uzbekistan Transit Next Steps
[...] (U) This message contains a request for guidance at para 4. 2. (C) The diplomatic note containing the GOU's latest proposed agreement on transit (ref a) that was given to us on January 29 by Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov was confirmation that the GOU wants an agreement above and beyond a [...]
2009-02-03 12:19:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1371Uzbekistan: Leahy Vetting Request for Marshall
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to participate in the Senior Executive Seminar (SES 09-9) at the George C. Marshall Center in [...]
2009-08-03 07:29:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
09TASHKENT1383UZBEK S&T: PHYSICS, ENERGY, AND HIGHER EDUCATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. OES/STC Officer Michael C. Schena (ESToff) visited Uzbekistan from June 1 through July 6 to discuss Uzbek Science and Technology (S&T) infrastructure and to continue negotiations on a U.S.-Uzbek S&T Cooperation Agreement (reftel). This cable -- one of a series on the state of Uz [...]
2009-08-03 13:15:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL TSPL ETTC KTIA KIPR KSTC UZ
09TASHKENT1385UZBEK S&T: STATUS OF STCU AND ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. OES/STC Officer Michael C. Schena (ESToff) visited Uzbekistan from June 1 through July 6 to discuss Uzbek Science and Technology (S&T) infrastructure and to continue negotiations on a U.S.-Uzbek S&T Cooperation Agreement (reftel). This cable briefly comments on the status of the [...]
2009-08-03 13:16:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL TSPL ETTC KTIA KIPR KSTC UZ
09TASHKENT14UZBEKISTAN: STATE-RUN PRESS SAYS PUBLIC VIEWS GAZA CONFLICT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-06 18:39:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS UZ
09TASHKENT141Manas May Raise Base Issue for Uzbekistan-and for U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: The announcement in Moscow by Kyrgyz President Bakiyev that his government would close Manas air base has piqued interest in Tashkent, with the Uzbek MFA convoking the Ambassador today to inquire further. Although the Uzbeks said nothing to indicate that they wish to explore the p [...]
2009-02-04 15:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR UZ
09TASHKENT1421Uzbekistan: Mixed Messages on Child Labor in the Cotton
[...] (C) Summary: In conversations in the last few weeks with poloff, UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef and Child Protection Officer Siyma Barkin have expressed their frustration with the GOU and its efforts to address child labor. Neither Shareef nor Barkin expected an inde [...]
2009-08-05 10:15:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL ELAB KTIP UZ
09TASHKENT1423Uzbekistan: Tashkent Tidbits August 5, 2009
[...] (C) On July 29, Center for Strategic and International Studies representatives Andy Kuchins and Tom Sanderson met with us to give us a read-out of their meetings with various Government of Uzbekistan officials. Across the board, GOU officials appeared very enthusiastic about improving relation [...]
2009-08-05 11:30:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC MOPS ECON PBTS PINR KJUS UZ
09TASHKENT143CONCURRENCE FOR EXBS UZBEKISTAN FY 2008 PROGRAM PLAN
[...] (SBU) Post confirms its concurrence with the Export Control and Related Border Security program plan in paragraph 6 of reftel. The Government of Uzbekistan also has demonstrated receptivity to engagement with the EXBS program and shown interest in participating in several of these activities. [...]
2009-02-06 05:50:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KNNP KSTC PBTS PREL MNUC PARM UZ
09TASHKENT1431Uzbekistan: UNICEF: Rags to Riches
[...] (C) In a "rags to riches" meeting between UNICEF representative Siyma Barkin and the Minister of Labor today, Minister Aktam Ahmatovich Haritov told Barkin that the GOU would like to implement all of the items in the UNICEF Work Plan, which was agreed to by the GOU last January. In fac [...]
2009-08-06 12:38:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL ELAB UZ
09TASHKENT1435Uzbekistan: ICRC Prison Monitoring Program Extended
[...] (SBU) Rafaello Muller, Deputy Head of the International Committee for the Red Cross's (ICRC) Regional Delegation, informed poloff today that the GOU agreed on Wednesday, August 5, 2009, to extend last year's six-month pilot program allowing ICRC to enter and evaluate prisons. Prison visi [...]
2009-08-07 12:45:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1437UZBEKISTAN: Human Rights Update
[...] (C) Summary: Although Post was happy to report the continuation of a prison monitoring program by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),the human rights climate in Uzbekistan remains difficult, at best. The recent sentencing of journalist Dilmurod Sayyidov to twelve years [...]
2009-08-10 12:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL ELAB UZ
09TASHKENT1441Uzbekistan: Boosting Economic Ties with Brazil
[...] (S/NF) On July 28, an official in Uzbekistan's Oliy Majlis provided Embassy's FSN Political Assistant with a readout of President Karimov's May trip to Brazil. (Note: The Uzbekistan National News Agency Online reported on May 28 that both sides signed agreements on technical cooperation; on e [...]
2009-08-14 04:17:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNEAGR ECON ECIN PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1443Uzbekistan: Leahy Vetting Request for Marshall Center
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for one Government of Uzbekistan official scheduled to participate in a Senior Executive Seminar (SES 09-0) at the George C. Marshall Center in Gar [...]
2009-08-14 04:18:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
09TASHKENT1445Uzbekistan: GICNT Demarche Delivered
[...] (SBU) On August 13, Post delivered reftel demarche to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Post will report any response septel. NORLAND [...]
2009-08-14 06:24:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC UZ
09TASHKENT1447Uzbekistan: Scenesetter for the Visit of General Petraeus
[...] (S) Summary: Your second visit to Uzbekistan comes at a pivotal moment in the U.S.-Uzbek relationship and will build upon the July 12-13 visit of Under Secretary of State Bill Burns during which we proposed to the Uzbeks the establishment of a structured bilateral dialogue. The Uzbek leadershi [...]
2009-08-14 11:52:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPREL PGOV MARR AF UZ
09TASHKENT1451AFGHANISTAN - MANAGING THE NEIGHBORS: UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) We have urged the Uzbeks to play a constructive role as the Afghan elections unfold. Ambassador discussed reftel points with Deputy FM Karamatov on Aug. 17, and CENTCOM Commanding General Petraeus delivered the message in his meetings with President Karimov, the Uzbek Foreign and Defense M [...]
2009-08-19 09:30:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UZ AF
09TASHKENT1453Uzbekistan: PSI Exercise Demarche Delivered
[...] (SBU) On August 18, Post delivered reftel demarche on PSI Exercise Leading Edge 2010 to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Post will report any substantive response septel. NORLAND [...]
2009-08-19 11:09:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC PARM PREL KNNP UZ
09TASHKENT1455Uzbekistan: Officials Preview Parliamentary Changes,
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan, in collaboration with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),hosted a conference dedicated to parliamentary systems and political parties in Tashkent on July 1-2. GOU representatives responded favorably to presentations from a [...]
2009-08-19 11:28:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1459Uzbekistan: UNICEF Visitor: Child Labor Assessment Not
[...] (C) Summary: UNICEF visiting Senior Child Protection Advisor Joanne Dunn met with DCM and poloff Monday, August 17 to discuss child labor and the upcoming cotton harvest. Dunn stated that it is "way too late" for an assessment to be planned and implemented during this year's cotton harv [...]
2009-08-20 08:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1463UZBEKISTAN: MINISTER GANIEV TO ATTEND TIFA COUNCIL
[...] (SBU) Post sent the proposed TIFA Council agenda (reftel) to the MFA by diplomatic note on July 30 with the request that it be forwarded to the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investment, and Trade (MFERIT). The note further requested a meeting with MFERIT Minister Elyor Ganiev to disc [...]
2009-08-27 12:54:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD EINV ECON UZ
09TASHKENT1469DETAILS OF TASHKENT SHOOT-OUT MURKY; GOU TYPICALLY MUM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Uzbek law enforcement officers engaged in a "shoot-out" with a group of armed men in a downtown neighborhood of Tashkent on Saturday, August 29, at approximately 18:00 local time. The identities and affiliations of the armed men have not been confirmed. Contacts in the Ministr [...]
2009-09-03 13:25:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KCRM UZ
09TASHKENT147UZBEKISTAN: FERGHANA LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS PUTTING
[...] (C) On January 21, Poloff and Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program Assistant visited Ferghana Province's Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). Emboffs conducted end-use monitoring of counternarcotics equipment that the International Narc [...]
2009-02-06 10:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM PREL PGOV PBTS UZ
09TASHKENT1473TASHKENT SHOOT-OUT ATTRIBUTED TO UZBEK EXTREMIST GROUP
[...] (SBU) Summary: An official press release from the Uzbek Attorney General's Office published September 4 reported that the shoot-out which took place on Saturday (reftel) was part of a special operation directed at a group of Islamic terrorists. The armed men were believed to be members of an [...]
2009-09-04 13:22:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KCRM UZ
09TASHKENT1475RECALL 09 TASHKENT 1475
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-09 06:02:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1479Uzbekistan: Amnesty Decree Announced, Human Rights Activist
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan announced an amnesty resolution last week, through which some prisoners and criminal defendants may apply to the court for clemency. The resolution includes several restrictions, which may serve to limit the number of political and religious p [...]
2009-09-09 16:16:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT148UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING FOR NATO-RUSSIA CN TRAINING IN
[...] (SBU) Embassy has conducted a review of its files and verifies that it does not possess credible information of gross violations of human rights by the Uzbek security officers identified in reftel. NORLAND To view the entire SMART message, go to URL http://repository.state.sgov.gov/_layouts/ [...]
2009-02-06 11:15:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC NATO SNAR UZ
09TASHKENT1481Uzbekistan: Update on Trial of Journalist Dilmurod Sayid
[...] (U) Summary: The Samarkand Regional Criminal Court commenced a hearing for journalist Dilmurod Sayid (aka Sayyidov) in Samarkand Province on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, to consider his harsh prison sentence and various procedural irregularities during his trial. Midway through the heari [...]
2009-09-11 08:30:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT1483UPDATE ON UZBEKISTAN'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFGHAN
[...] (U) Summary: Following recent discussions on the subject, the MFA of Uzbekistan provided the Embassy with an update on their involvement in the socio-economic reconstruction of Afghanistan. The contributions of the GOU have been primarily in the area of restoring and rebuilding infrast [...]
2009-09-11 11:08:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL NATO ELTN AF UZ
09TASHKENT1487UZBEKISTAN EAGER TO INCREASE BORDER SECURITY COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: GOU Customs and Border Security Officials seemed eager to get down to business during a meeting with Regional Export Control and Border Security (EXBS) Advisor and poloff. Uzbek officials recalled successful joint projects which took place in 2001 and expressed their desire to [...]
2009-09-16 07:15:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS KNNP PREL ETTC MNUC PARM KSTC UZ
09TASHKENT1489Uzbekistan: Notes from the Northwest
[...] (SBU) Summary: Hayitbay Yakirboy, a human rights activist from Khorezm, met with poloff on August 12, 2009 to discuss issues facing northwestern Uzbekistan. Yakirboy addressed labor trafficking problems and discontent in the semiautonomous region of Karakalpakstan and the northwest province o [...]
2009-09-16 11:46:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1491Uzbekistan: Activists in Samarkand Making a Difference
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 8, Poloff met with ten human rights activists from "Ezgulik," the only registered human rights organization in Uzbekistan. They discussed their observations of trends in the areas of child labor and religious freedom, but most of them focus their attention on the [...]
2009-09-16 12:35:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1493Tashkent Tidbits September 17, 2009
[...] (C) A Brazilian coach for Uzbekistan's premiere team, Bunyodkor, recently told PE Chief of an incident following a match against Bunyodkor's poor rival Pakhtakor (the cotton pickers)in which Bunyodkor lost 1-0 when most of its Brazilian star power got red cards in the first 10 minutes of play. [...]
2009-09-17 11:20:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KCOR UZ
09TASHKENT1496UZBEKISTAN PREPARES FOR DECEMBER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
[...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan slated for December 2009 are likely to result in minimal changes to the overall structure of decision-making in the country; however, what may define the development of governmen [...]
2009-08-17 06:15:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID KDEM UZ
09TASHKENT1499Uzbekistan: Update on Trial of Journalist Dilmurod Sayid
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Regional Samarkand Court on September 11 upheld the 12.5 year sentence of independent journalist and human rights activist Dilmurod Sayid on charges of extortion and bribery. (See reftel.) Sayid's attorney will appeal this decision to the Chairman of the Regional Court, and [...]
2009-09-18 08:47:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT150UZBEKISTAN INTERESTED IN RESUMING COOPERATION ON COMMODITY
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan has demonstrated interest in resuming cooperation on International Nonproliferation Export Control Program (INECP) activities sponsored by the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program. These activities are intended to improve the abili [...]
2009-02-09 11:32:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALASEC KNNP PBTS PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1501Uzbekistan: Hidirova Describes Her Imprisonment
[...] (SBU) Post reported earlier this summer on the arrest and release of Jizzakh farmer and human rights activist Oyazimhon Hidirova (aka Khidirova),who spent roughly five weeks in jail after being arrested on charges of hooliganism. (See reftels.) Hidirova and her public defender Ziyodullo [...]
2009-09-18 08:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1505Uzbekistan: UNICEF Representative Discusses Child Labor
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 16, Ambassador Norland met with UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef to discuss child labor in the cotton fields. Shareef discussed a recent high-level meeting with the GOU, and discussed his ideas for short- and long-term solutions to the child [...]
2009-09-18 12:02:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1507Uzbekistan: Suspected Case of Anthrax Puts USG-Funded
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the month of August, media in Uzbekistan reported a suspected case of Anthrax in the Toytepi region near Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The man suspected with Anthrax was believed to have been exposed during the slaughtering of his cows. The Biological Threat Reduction Program labora [...]
2009-09-18 12:18:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV TBIO TSPL CDC UZ
09TASHKENT151UZBEKISTAN GRANTS STCU AN EXTENSION, BUT PROBLEMS PERSIST
[...] (C) The Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) continues to face accreditation problems in Uzbekistan, though the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) has given STCU until the end of 2009 to complete active projects. (Note: The STCU, which works to combat proliferation by diverting the effo [...]
2009-02-09 11:42:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP UZ
09TASHKENT1511Uzbekistan: UNICEF Representative Discusses Child Labor
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 16, Ambassador Norland met with UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef to discuss child labor in the cotton fields. Shareef discussed a recent high-level meeting with the GOU, and discussed his ideas for short- and long-term solutions to the child [...]
2009-09-22 06:18:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1513Afghan Transboundary Water Training - Include the Neighbors
[...] (C) We were intrigued by reftel's proposal to initiate capacity building for Afghan officials to develop their ability to negotiate with neighbors, including Uzbekistan, on future trans-boundary water sharing arrangements. The cable quite rightly points out that this issue is a tough one for [...]
2009-09-23 07:20:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALENRG EAID SENV ECON PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1515Ambassador's Sept 23 Meeting with Uzbek FM Norov
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador, Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov expressed appreciation for the Eid message from the Secretary and said he looked forward to meetings on the margins of the UNGA next week. Commenting on the draft agenda for the Annual Bilateral Consultations (ABC),he [...]
2009-09-23 12:32:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SCUL ECON UZ
09TASHKENT1519Uzbekistan: Baptist Leader Faces Criminal Charges
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-24 12:15:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1523Bukharan Jews Cite Religious Tolerance in Uzbekistan
[...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief joined members of one of Tashkent's Bukharan Jewish Synagogues on September 25 for their celebration of the beginning of the upcoming Yom Kippur holiday and their (delayed because of Ramadan) celebration of Uzbek Independence Day. Unlike other minority religious communities [...]
2009-09-30 06:23:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI KIRF UZ
09TASHKENT1531POLITICAL PARTIES IN UZBEKISTAN: MUCH PAGEANTRY AND SOME
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives of Uzbekistan's four political parties gathered with a number of international observers and "experts" to discuss political parties and elections. Discussion was lively, but the "round table" was quite literally split down the middle, with local politicians on [...]
2009-10-14 08:16:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UZ
09TASHKENT1535Managing Uzbek Redlines in Bilateral Consultations
[...] (C) Summary: Prior to the arrival in Tashkent of Assistant Secretary Blake, Foreign Minister Norov summoned the Ambassador for a meeting in which he reviewed the agenda for the visit and delivered the GOU's response to the U.S. draft agenda for the Annual Bilateral Consultations (ABC) (REF. B). [...]
2009-10-15 11:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UZ
09TASHKENT1543Uzbekistan: A/S Blake Meets with Civil Society
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14, A/S Blake met with civil society representative Sukhrobjon Ismoilov in Tashkent. Ismoilov warned of a growing Islamist agenda amongst Uzbek exiles living in Europe - a particularly disturbing thought. He also addressed agricultural reform, advocating for [...]
2009-10-16 12:52:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1545Uzbekistan: A/S Blake Meets with Leaders of Uzbek Parliament
[...] (SBU) Summary: During his three-day visit to Tashkent, A/S Blake met with the leaders of both houses of the Uzbek parliament: the Speaker of the Oliy Majlis (the lower house),and the President of the Senate. Both seemed interested in developing greater ties with their counterparts in [...]
2009-10-16 13:27:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV OREP UZ
09TASHKENT1547BUSINESS AS USUAL AT UZBEK COTTON FAIR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Fifth International Uzbek Cotton Fair took place in Tashkent on October 14-15, 2009. This event showcased Uzbekistan as a leading producer and exporter of quality cotton and highlighted recent efforts by the Government of Uzbekistan to strengthen its internal textile industry [...]
2009-10-19 10:40:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDECON SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT1548UZBEKISTAN PREPARES FOR DECEMBER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
[...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan slated for December 2009 are likely to result in minimal changes to the overall structure of decision-making in the country; however, what may define the development of governme [...]
2009-08-25 12:19:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID KDEM UZ
09TASHKENT1549Uzbekistan: UNICEF Brainstorming Session on Child Labor:
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 8, UNICEF hosted a brainstorming session for members of the international community to discuss the issue of child labor in the cotton sector. Although the failure of Uzbekistan to invite the International Labor Organization (ILO) to do an assessment this year wa [...]
2009-10-22 12:27:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UN UZ
09TASHKENT1551Uzbekistan: Tashkent Tidbits - October 26, 2009
[...] (C) According to both EU Embassy diplomatic contacts in Tashkent and press reporting, the EU looks set to lift its arms embargo on Uzbekistan, the last of the Andijon-related sanctions that remains since Brussels lifted the visa and travel ban in 2008. Although there apparently is not unanimity [...]
2009-10-27 06:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON UZ
09TASHKENT1555A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: SHOULD THE OSCE MONITOR ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) officials face a difficult decision as they consider whether to send a team to monitor Uzbekistan's parliamentary elections, slated to take place on Decemb [...]
2009-10-27 14:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALAORC KDEM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1559UZBEKISTAN DELIEVERED NONPAPER ON US REPORTABLE FOOD
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Reportable Food Registry to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 28, 2009. Post will report any responses septel. NORLAND [...]
2009-10-29 12:59:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON UZ
09TASHKENT156UZBEKISTAN: PLIGHT OF AFGHAN REFUGEES WORSENING
[...] (C) The newly arrived head of the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) Refugee Support Unit in Tashkent, Ustina Kupreychik, reported that the situation for Afghan refugees in Uzbekistan has worsened since the fall (ref A). According to Kupreychik, 67 Afghan refugees have been forcibly [...]
2009-02-10 05:15:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UNDP UNHCR AF UZ
09TASHKENT1563Uzbekistan: 64th UN General Assembly, Third Committee, 2009
[...] (U) In response to reftel, Post delivered the demarche requesting Uzbekistan's support for postponing the Defamation of Religions resolution in this year's UNGA Third Committee. Post determined that delivering the information on the remaining human rights priorities would be counterprodu [...]
2009-10-29 12:59:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UZ
09TASHKENT1567UZBEKISTAN'S COTTON SECTOR STILL A BASTION OF THE COMMAND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) continues to control the "commanding heights" of the cotton sector, exercising strict control over all aspects of cotton production and sale, from setting planting and harvest quotas to negotiating all ginning and export contracts on behalf of f [...]
2009-11-03 12:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDECON SOCI PHUM UZ
09TASHKENT1571Uzbekistan Amnesties Sanjar Umarov
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Norov told us that Sanjar Umarov will be released today (Nov. 5). Please note action request at para 6 (contingency press guidance). End Summary. 2. (C) Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov convoked the Ambassador today to inform us that jailed businessman and oppos [...]
2009-11-05 08:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UZ
09TASHKENT1573Uzbekistan: The Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 26, poloff met with Chairman of Uzbekistan's Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) to discuss concerns of various religious minority groups in the country. In preparation for the meeting and in the days that followed, poloff met with representatives from the Uz [...]
2009-11-09 12:11:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KIRF UZ
09TASHKENT1575Sanjar Umarov Released on November 7
[...] (C) Opposition leader Sanjar Umarov was released from prison on November 7. The next day, he came to the Embassy for a conversation with Ambassador Norland and Embassy staffers. Still in disbelief over the events of the previous two days, he expressed his gratitude for everyone's effort [...]
2009-11-09 12:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1577UZBEK RAIL: RED HOT WHEELS TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Railroad engineer Michael Klaus (protect) told us that Uzbekistan Railroads is having difficulty operating freight trains on its new Karshi-Termez line. Obsolete locomotives with inadequate brakes result in multiple delays and wheels that glow red hot by the time a train has comp [...]
2009-11-12 04:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECON EAID ECIN ELTN PREL AF UZ
09TASHKENT1578UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON U.S.-UZBEK S&T AGREEMENT
[...] (SBU) OES/STC Officer Michael C. Schena visited Uzbekistan in June to further negotiations on a proposed U.S.-Uzbek Science and Technology (S&T) Cooperation Agreement (reftel). At the time of ESToff's departure, the S&T Agreement was going through the GOU's interagency approval process. 2. [...]
2009-08-28 12:19:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL TSPL ETTC KTIA KIPR KSTC UZ
09TASHKENT1579Uzbekistan: The Cotton Harvest in Jizzakh
[...] (C) Summary: On November 6, 2009, poloff met with human rights activists and a representative of the leading anti-trafficking NGO in Jizzakh, a city of roughly 150,000 people in a largely agricultural region about three hours southwest of Tashkent. Human rights activists spoke about seve [...]
2009-11-13 12:03:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT158TASHKENT TIDBITS FEBRUARY 10, 2008
[...] (SBU) Post has updated its cost of living analysis for Uzbekistan through the end of 2008. At 21.6 percent, the cost of living grew more slowly in 2008 than in 2007, when it increased by 29.2 percent. The cost of foodstuffs increased by only 17.0 percent as contrasted with a 29.1 percent rise [...]
2009-02-11 04:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KIRF SOCI PHUM KISL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT1585Uzbekistan: Human Rights Activist Beaten
[...] (C) Summary: Human rights activist Bahtiyor Hamroev, a good contact of the Embassy from Jizzakh province, reported he was beaten by law enforcement on Wednesday, November 11, when he tried to meet recently returned opposition figure Bahodir Choriev in a Jizzakh cafC). A second activist, [...]
2009-11-13 13:49:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1589Uzbekistan: TIP Interim Assessment
[...] (U) In response to reftel, post submits the following information for the TIP Interim Assessment on Uzbekistan. A. Substantive Action to End the Use of Forced Labor During the Cotton Harvest --------------------------------------------- ---------------------- -------------- [...]
2009-11-17 13:45:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KCRM KTIP KWMN SMIG UZ
09TASHKENT1591SCA DAS Krol's Meetings with Uzbek FM Norov and NSC Sec
[...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol in Tashkent on November 19, Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov and National Security Council Secretary Murat Atayev expressed satisfaction with improving U.S.-Uzbek bilateral relations and the Annual Bilateral [...]
2009-11-23 12:52:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPREL PTER EINV ENRG MASS AF UZ
09TASHKENT1593Uzbekistan: Human Rights Activists and Religious Figures
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-24 07:18:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KCRM UZ
09TASHKENT1595UZBEKISTAN: SCA DAS KROL'S MEETINGS ON ECONOMIC AND ENERGY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On November 19 and 20, DAS for South and Central Asian Affairs George Krol had a series of meetings on economic, trade, and energy issues in Tashkent. Meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investment, and Trade and at the Uzbek Chamber of Commerce revolved prima [...]
2009-11-24 13:50:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON EINV EPET ENRG PREL BEXP UZ
09TASHKENT1597Uzbekistan: SCA DAS Krol Meets with Civil Society
[...] (SBU) Summary: During his visit to Tashkent on November 18-21, DAS for South and Central Asian Affairs George Krol reached out to civil society representatives, GOU officials, and journalists to discuss human rights and other broad issues facing Uzbekistan. (Please see reftels for a rea [...]
2009-11-25 07:41:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1599Uzbekistan and Human Rights: The Lessons of Sanjar Umarov's
[...] (C) Summary: The release from prison on November 7 of jailed businessman and opposition figure Sanjar Umarov was the most important step the GOU has taken on human rights this year. Umarov's release came about as the result of principled engagement and quiet, behind-the-scenes diplomacy. It wa [...]
2009-11-30 06:24:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT16UZBEKISTAN: STATE-RUN PRESS SAYS PUBLIC VIEWS GAZA CONFLICT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-07 05:24:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS UZ
09TASHKENT1603Uzbekistan: TIP Update: Trends and Tactics
[...] (SBU) Summary: From early October to mid-November, poloff has had several meetings with government officials, NGO leaders, and representatives from the human rights community to discuss trends in trafficking, as well as anti-trafficking efforts. The GOU continues to prioritize tradition [...]
2009-12-01 11:53:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KTIP UZ
09TASHKENT1604UZBEKISTAN TURNS TO DEBIT CARDS IN INFLATION BATTLE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an effort to control inflation by limiting the amount of cash in circulation, the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) has begun to mandate the use of debit cards. However, Uzbekistan remains a cash economy and although the debit cards can be used for payment in a limited number of [...]
2009-09-14 05:57:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT1609Uzbekistan: Human Rights Update
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post continues to follow the cases of imprisoned journalist Dilmurod Sayyid (aka Saidov) and poet Yusuf Juma, two Uzbek citizens convicted of charges widely believed to be politically motivated. Family members of both Sayyid and Juma report the two men to be in bad health [...]
2009-12-04 07:28:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1611Karimov speech spells out priorities for 2010
[...] (U) President Islom Karimov invited the Diplomatic Corps and an array of local dignitaries to the annual commemoration of Uzbekistan's Constitution Day December 5th at the impressive new white marble "Palace of Forums" on Amir Timur Square. These speeches are generally a review of the last ca [...]
2009-12-07 10:13:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID UZ
09TASHKENT162Uzbekistan Scenesetter for General Petraeus
[...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Uzbekistan is the first by a senior U.S. official since the new Administration took office and comes at a pivotal moment in regional politics. In Tashkent, as elsewhere in the region, there is concern about the course of events in Afghanistan and doubts as to whether [...]
2009-02-11 12:38:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1621Uzbekistan: Suspending GSP Counterproductive
[...] (C) Post understands that the inter-agency is preparing to discuss the issue of suspension of Uzbekistan's GSP benefits based on petitions related to child labor and intellectual property rights. A decision to suspend or revoke GSP for Uzbekistan would be counterproductive - it would do little [...]
2009-12-09 11:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ELAB PHUM ECON SOCI KIPR UZ
09TASHKENT1627Uzbekistan: GOU Takes Small Steps on Child Labor
[...] (SBU) Summary: Uzbekistan recently announced two initiatives to address child labor in the country: the first is a legislative change that reportedly will hold individuals responsible for using children to work under hazardous conditions; the second is the dedication of 2010 to youth de [...]
2009-12-15 12:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT163UZBEKISTAN: CUSTOMS OFFICIALS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT FLETC
[...] (SBU) On February 4, Emboffs met with five representatives of the State Customs Committee to discuss the development of cooperation between Customs and the U.S. Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). EXBS Advisor proposed that two Customs officers travel to the center for a one-week [...]
2009-02-11 13:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPBTS PREL ASEC SNAR KNNP UZ
09TASHKENT1631Uzbekistan: The Saga of Bahodir Choriev
[...] (U) Summary: Uzbekistan officials forcibly returned Bahadir Choriev, leader of the Birdamlik opposition party, to the United States on the morning of December 11. Choriev's presence had prompted much attention from law enforcement officials, and rights activists are in many ways relie [...]
2009-12-16 12:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT1633Uzbeks Looking for Assistance on Security for Afghan Rail
[...] (C) Former Ambassador Joe Presel, in Tashkent on private business, gave Charge a readout of a meeting with the Chairman of the Uzbek National Security Service, Rustam Innoyatov. Confirming reports from other sources (Ref A),Innoyatov said the GOU is very concerned about the security of i [...]
2009-12-17 11:53:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEAID PTER PREL AF UZ
09TASHKENT1637UZBEKISTAN: TASHKENT TIDBITS DECEMBER 18, 2009
[...] (SBU) Dilmurod Sayyid, who was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison last June, was transferred December 15 from Navoi Prison to Sangorod, the Tashkent-based prison hospital. Embassy contact Abdurahmon Tashanov, who attended Sayyid's trial, told the Embassy that he was turned away from v [...]
2009-12-18 12:30:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI EINV ETRD UZ
09TASHKENT1639UZBEKISTAN: GOU PROPOSAL ON TERMEZ
[...] (C) Summary. An apparent Uzbek offer of troop transit to Afghanistan via Termez warrants close attention. It is not inconsistent with the gradual improvement in relations across the board, including on human rights, outlined in last week's political consultations with Foreign Minister Norov [...]
2009-12-23 12:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR UZ
09TASHKENT1641UZBEKISTAN: FM NOROV "CLARIFIES" TERMEZ OFFER
[...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador Norland on another issue on December 24, FM Norov provided us with further information regarding the apparent Uzbek offer of troop transit to Afghanistan via Termez (reftel). The diplomatic note passed to the State Department on Dec. 21 described a trilateral U [...]
2009-12-24 10:02:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR UZ
09TASHKENT1651PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN UZBEKISTAN: NOTHING WRONG BUT THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Elections for Uzbekistan's lower house of Parliament took place on Sunday, December 27. Five election observation teams from the Embassy visited 33 polling stations in Tashkent and the neighboring regions, and concluded that although the elections were not free and fair (no opp [...]
2009-12-30 11:55:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UZ
09TASHKENT177UZBEKISTAN: REPORTS OF CRACKDOWN ON "NUR" RELIGIOUS GROUP
[...] (C) Summary: Uzbek authorities appear to be significantly ratcheting up the pressure on suspected members of the banned Nur (or "Nurcilar") religious organization, which is associated with the conservative (but not extremist) religious teachings and Pan-Turkish ideology of Turkish scholar Feth [...]
2009-02-13 09:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL SOCI TU UZ
09TASHKENT1816UZBEKISTAN TO AMEND IPR LAWS IN RESPONSE TO IIPA PETITION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 5 we met with GOU officials to discuss intellectual property rights (IPR) points raised in the interim General System of Preferences (GSP) demarche (Ref A). Significantly, we learned that Uzbekistan is preparing to remove its reservations to Article 18 of the Berne [...]
2009-10-16 05:44:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR UZ
09TASHKENT182UZBEKISTAN: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON MINISTRY OF INTERNAL
[...] (SBU) In January 2009, Lieutenant-Colonel Abdulkhamid Habirovich Hakimov was appointed as Chief of the Information Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan. 2. (SBU) Abdulkhamid Habirovich Hakimov, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1967. In 1993, after graduation [...]
2009-02-13 12:24:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR UZ
09TASHKENT183UZBEKISTAN: ENGAGING STATES ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION
[...] (C) Post advises against an additional demarche to the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) urging it to recognize Kosovo at this time. Despite multiple demarches over the past year, the GOU has refused to recognize Kosovo and we do not believe it is likely to do so in the near future. The Ministry [...]
2009-02-13 12:42:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC KV ICJ UZ
09TASHKENT1850Uzbekistan: Media Reaction to Assistant Secretary Blake's
[...] (U) Summary: Media coverage of A/S Blake's visit to Uzbekistan was primarily factual and positive. Numerous articles noted U.S. appreciation for Uzbekistan's support of international efforts in Afghanistan. The existence of other shared interests was also noted by both state and unofficial medi [...]
2009-10-23 03:50:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT1904UZBEKISTAN IN OR OUT OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN ENERGY GRID?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent weeks GOU officials have sent frightening signals to Uzbekistan's neighbors by saying that the country cannot guarantee reliable transit of power, wants payments for power overflows, and may even withdraw from the United Central Asia Power System (CAPS). Now nearly en [...]
2009-10-28 12:42:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG KPWR UZ
09TASHKENT1926Uzbekistan: GOU Demonstrates its Commitment to Education
[...] (U) SUMMARY. With over 60% of its population under the age of 25, Uzbekistan has made a significant commitment in the last few years to improve its education system and to transition from a Soviet-era model to one that is consistent with internationally accepted requirements. The Government of [...]
2009-10-30 06:52:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SOCI OEXC ECON UZ
09TASHKENT193UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVISTS SEEK TO BRIDGE GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador recently met with activists from the independent Rapid Reaction human rights group (RRG),who described their plans for the upcoming year, including applying for official registration and setting up a "think-tank" with like-minded activists and defense attorneys to [...]
2009-02-19 10:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID ECON KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT194UZBEKISTAN: AFGHAN REFUGEES DESCRIBE HARRASSMENT;
[...] (C) Summary: On February 12, poloff met with 25 Afghan refugees at the office of a Tashkent-based NGO which provides humanitarian assistance to refugees. The Afghans alleged widespread harassment by government officials, and some refugees experienced forced deportation back to Afghanistan. T [...]
2009-02-19 10:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREF KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UNDP UNHCR AF UZ
09TASHKENT1948THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN UZBEKISTAN: IS SECULARISM STRONGER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Gender issues in Uzbekistan continue to be a complicated matter. De jure, women in this secular, former Soviet society enjoy protections from discrimination, with relatively modern legislation and government policies pushing society towards greater gender equality. De fa [...]
2009-11-02 11:10:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KWMN KISL UZ
09TASHKENT1956UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON THE GOLDSTONE REPORT
[...] (U) DCM delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Director Bakhtiyar Ibragimov. Post will report any substantive response septel. NORLAND [...]
2009-11-03 11:50:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PTER UZ
09TASHKENT1958UZBEKISTAN: DRAFT 2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Uzbekistan is a geographically strategic crossroads between South Asia and Europe. It is primarily a transit country for opiates originating in Afghanistan, with an estimated 95 tons of Afghan opiates passing through Central Asia each year. Well-established trade routes fac [...]
2009-11-03 14:23:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT1960UZBEKISTAN: SMEs - ARE THEY ALL THEY'RE CRACKED UP TO BE?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Small businesses play an important role in the economy of Uzbekistan, a country with the largest labor resources in Central Asia, but the degree to which small to medium enterprises (SMEs) drive the Uzbek economy is not clear. GOU officials repeatedly trumpet the growing role o [...]
2009-11-04 06:51:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINT UZ
09TASHKENT1964Uzbekistan: Leahy Vetting Request for Marshal Center Program
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (SBU) Post has been provided with names of 2 GOU officials nominated to participate in the Faculty Exchange Program at the Marshal Center during November 12 - December 2,2009 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The nom [...]
2009-11-04 12:06:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR ASEC PINR UZ
09TASHKENT1966UZBEKISTAN: STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING THE USE OF CHILD LABOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This USAID-drafted cable examines strategies for addressing the problem of child labor in the cotton sector in Uzbekistan. (Please see Ref A for an analysis of the cotton sector overall and a specific look at this year's harvest.) Uzbekistan's cotton economy remains state-driven [...]
2009-11-05 10:32:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PHUM SOCI SENV UZ
09TASHKENT197Uzbekistan Still Seems on Track with Money Laundering
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan is currently in the midst of a process to enact legislative changes that would bring its anti-money laundering and countering the finance of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime into compliance with international standards. The Uzbeks are likely on track to f [...]
2009-02-19 12:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EFIN ECON KCRM PINR UZ
09TASHKENT2UZBEKISTAN: STAFFDEL DISCUSSES COUNTERTERRORISM WITH MVD
[...] (C) Summary: On December 15, House Foreign Affairs Committee staffers and Emboffs discussed counterterrorism with several officials from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). The MVD officials held that Uzbekistan is stable and a system of information-sharing with other ministries an [...]
2009-01-05 11:04:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPTER SOCI PGOV PREL PINS UZ
09TASHKENT2006UZBEKISTAN: STCU RELUCTANTLY PROPOSES TO SUSPEND OPERATIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a November 3 e-mail, STCU Executive Director Andrew Hood informed us that the STCU Board of Governors meeting on November 19 in Kyiv is likely to decide to close the STCU Information Center in Tashkent. He said that no 2010 budget would be allocated for Uzbekistan and that S [...]
2009-11-10 12:13:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL TSPL UZ
09TASHKENT2008UZBEKISTAN: PRESIDENTIAL ENTREPRENEURIAL SUMMIT -- INITIAL
[...] (SBU) Embassy Tashkent staff met on November 4 to discuss steps needed to implement reftel actions. USAID Country Director will chair Post's interagency working group on expanding economic opportunity and will coordinate activities associated with the Embassy-sponsored roundtable on entrepren [...]
2009-11-10 12:16:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT2018Leahy Vetting for River Port Termez Unit, UNODC J-49
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (U) GOU officials nominated the River Port Termez Unit under the Surhandarya Customs and Border Committee for UNODC training course J-49 Targeting and Risk Management, to take place November 16-20. The training wi [...]
2009-11-11 02:23:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL SNAR ASEC UZ
09TASHKENT206SUSPECTED AMCIT MISSIONARIES TOLD TO LEAVE UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: Authorities have told three AmCits associated with the New Hope faith-based humanitarian assistance NGO, which provides medical assistance to disabled persons in Tashkent, that they must depart Uzbekistan by February 25. Emboffs met with the AmCits, who plan to depart Uzbekistan [...]
2009-02-23 13:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALCASC EAID KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT208UZBEK WORKSHOP FOR IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1540 -- A REGIONAL
[...] (U) Summary: On February 10-11 a workshop on implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 was jointly sponsored in Tashkent by the Export and Related Border Security (EXBS) program and the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This cable addresses broader region [...]
2009-02-24 08:27:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KNNP AORC OSCE UNSC UZ
09TASHKENT209UZBEKISTAN: EYE ON 21ST CENTURY FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Khakim Mukhitdinov, First Deputy General Director of the Information and Communication Agency of Uzbekistan, described for us the state of telecommunications in Uzbekistan, current projects, and future plans. According to him Uzbekistan is well connected to the world through fo [...]
2009-02-24 08:33:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINT SOCI KPRV UZ
09TASHKENT2098UZBEKISTAN: AUTOMOTIVE POWERHOUSE OF CENTRAL ASIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. 2009 has proved to be one of the most difficult in the history of the U.S. auto industry, but in Uzbekistan business is booming as consumers rush to buy new vehicles and traffic has become noticeably heavier. GM-Uzbekistan announced a $124.5 million USD project to produce the n [...]
2009-11-30 11:40:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EIND EINV ELTN BEXP UZ
09TASHKENT2102EXBS: POST RESPONSE TO FY 2010 EXBS PROGRAM PLAN FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-01 07:02:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM KSTC KNNP UZ
09TASHKENT2110Uzbekistan: Media Reaction to DAS Krol's Visit to Tashkent
[...] (U) Summary: Local media reports on DAS Krol's visit to Uzbekistan were found only online. Of these, only two were by state media outlets. State media reported on the visit in the context of the adoption of the Annual Bilateral Consultations (ABCs). Such reports were neutral in tone. Independen [...]
2009-12-01 10:37:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT2168UZBEKISTAN: WEATHER, CLIMATE, AND HYDROLOGY WORKSHOP GIVES
[...] (SBU). SUMMARY: On November 10-12 the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) hosted a Regional Workshop on Improving Weather, Climate, and Hydrological Service Delivery and Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters. The workshop's purpose was to discuss weather, climate, and hydrological service delivery [...]
2009-12-04 13:01:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL SENV TSPL UZ
09TASHKENT217UZBEKISTAN: JOURNALIST REPORTEDLY ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF
[...] (U) In an announcement on its website, the Ezgulik human rights group reported that independent journalist and human rights defender Dilurod Sayyidov was arrested in Tashkent on February 22 and handed over to authorities from Samarkand province on February 23. After his arrest, Sayyidov repo [...]
2009-02-25 10:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT2194UZBEKISTAN 2009 INCSR REPORT - PART II: FINANCIAL CRIMES AND
[...] Uzbekistan is not an important regional financial center and does not have a well-developed financial system. Corruption, narcotics trafficking and smuggling generate the majority of illicit proceeds. Local and regional drug-trafficking and other organized crime organizations control narcotics [...]
2009-12-11 08:13:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR UZ
09TASHKENT22UZBEKISTAN: TIP PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN CONTINUES;
[...] (U) Summary: In the past few months, the government has continued a wide-ranging public awareness campaign on trafficking-in-persons (TIP) in the government-controlled mass media (ref A and B). Conducting a relatively non-extensive survey, poloff uncovered more than 70 separate TIP-related st [...]
2009-01-07 12:07:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ECON ELAB KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI KZ RS UZ
09TASHKENT220UZBEKISTAN: 2008 INL END USE MONITORING REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-26 05:32:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL ASEC AFIN EAID UZ
09TASHKENT221UZBEKISTAN: ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMS THAT WORK
[...] (SBU) Summary: English language programming is a bright spot in Embassy Tashkents public diplomacy programming. With tight GOU control over most PD functions, English language programs provide an opportunity to establish and nurture relationships with students, educators, and university admi [...]
2009-02-26 12:46:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT223UZBEKISTAN: IV ALUMNUS AND DISABLED RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRESTED
[...] (C) Summary: On January 21 an independent news website reported that Chairman of the Uzbek Society of the Disabled (and International Visitor Leadership Program [IVLP] alumnus) Oybek Isoqov had been arrested on charges of bribery. When CAO met with him on February 13, Isoqov denied all wrong [...]
2009-02-26 13:13:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT2242UZBEKISTAN: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) In Uzbekistan, widespread poverty and pockets of discontent with the social and political situation create conditions that religious extremists could exploit. Despite potential threats, the government of Uzbekistan (GOU) maintained tight control over the security situation within Uzbek [...]
2009-12-22 12:19:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR UZ
09TASHKENT226Uzbekistan: State-run Shelter for TIP Victims Nears
[...] (C) Summary: Officials from the Ministries of Internal Affairs and Justice told poloff in separate meetings on February 11 that, pursuant to President Karimov's decree in November and the country's new anti-TIP law, the first state-run shelter for TIP victims is nearing completion and will off [...]
2009-02-27 11:14:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV KTIP PHUM PREL KWMN SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT227UZBEKISTAN: MEDIA REACTION TO GENERAL PETRAEUS'S VISIT
[...] (U) Summary: CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus's February 16-17 visit to Tashkent received broad media coverage in the local, state-run press, the international media and wire services, and on GOU-controlled and independent news websites. There was much speculation that his trip was link [...]
2009-02-27 12:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT228Passage of Request For Uzbek Support to Judge Painter
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 12:35:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR UNGA UZ
09TASHKENT229TASHKENT SECURITY ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE -
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 12:56:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNASEC UZ PTER
09TASHKENT2292Uzbekistan: Media Reports on Parliamentary Elections
[...] (U) Summary: In the run up to the elections, minor differences among parties were covered by both state and independent media to an extent never seen before. Coverage of the election results dominated media reports following the elections. State media highlighted high turnout among voters, whi [...]
2009-12-30 13:11:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT23Uzbeks Skeptical on Afghanistan but Back Their Man in the
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador, Uzbek Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia Anvar Salikhbaev commented on the situation in Afghanistan, including the future of Gen. Dostum. The Uzbeks acknowledge his flaws but still support Dostum. They continue to fault Karzai for Afghanistan's problems [...]
2009-01-07 14:11:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AF UZ
09TASHKENT231Tashkent Tidbits - March 2, 2009
[...] (SBU) A successful ongoing INL-sponsored forensic laboratory improvement program implemented by DOJ-ICITAP suffered a mild setback when the Government of Uzbekistan delivered a diplomatic note on February 17 denying a proposal to send an Uzbek forensic scientist to the Harris County Medical Exa [...]
2009-03-02 06:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EFIN ICRC KCOR ECON KCRM UZ
09TASHKENT235UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL 301 REVIEW RECOMMENDATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Uzbekistan made little noticeable progress in development and enforcement of IPR legislation in 2008. It is difficult for a consumer to find music, video, and software products that can with confidence be identified as licensed; pirated versions are still the norm. We are enc [...]
2009-03-02 08:39:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR UZ
09TASHKENT242Uzbekistan: Yusuf Jumaev Allegedly Mistreated in Jaslyk
[...] (C) On February 27 poloff met with Feruza Yusufjon Kizi, the daughter of dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev, who is serving a five-year sentence at the Jaslyk prison in the remote northwest province of Karakalpakstan (ref B). Yusufjon Kizi was accompanied on the unscheduled visit to the Embassy by Ba [...]
2009-03-03 08:29:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT244UZBEKISTAN, OSCE, AND WATER: CONVERSATION WITH OSCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting with the Ambassador, OSCE Conflict Center Director Herbert Salber said he saw a slight opening in Uzbekistan's willingness to accept third party assistance to solve increasing water tensions in Central Asia. Uzbek officials do not exhibit the same confidence when dis [...]
2009-03-03 10:25:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON SENV PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT246Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan Rediscover Friendship of Peoples
[...] (C) Summary: The Uzbeks pulled out all the stops for the February 24-25 visit of Turkmen President Berdymuhamedov to Tashkent, evidence that these two countries are rapidly developing a "special relationship." In addition to cultural and historical ties, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have common [...]
2009-03-03 13:25:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG EPET TX UZ
09TASHKENT248How the Kagan Munitions Explosions Saved a Neighborhood and
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff met informally in Tashkent with two English language professors from Bukhara State University on several social occasions between February 27 - March 1. Both are talented and highly motivated teachers who have a good pulse on community life from their vantage point in Bukh [...]
2009-03-04 07:04:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON KCOR PINR UZ
09TASHKENT249Activist: Andijon Province Has Become a Mini-Turkmenistan
[...] (C) On March 3 well-known human rights activist and long-time Embassy contact Saidjahon Zaynabiddinov visited the Embassy and talked to poloff about current conditions in Andijon Province. He previously reported that, unusually, the province was being administered almost entirely by outsiders [...]
2009-03-04 12:46:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI ECON PREL UZ
09TASHKENT250HOKIM OF JIZZAKH PROVINCE QUIETLY REPLACED
[...] (SBU) On February 18, Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev went to Jizzakh and, according to a presidential decree, released Musa Anarbaev of his duties as Hokim of Jizzakh Province. Mirziyaev appointed Makhmud Parsamatovich Holbutayev to take his place. Before this assignment Holbutayev used to [...]
2009-03-04 12:57:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR UZ
09TASHKENT255A MICHIGAN BOOST TO FOOD SAFETY IN UZBEKISTAN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On February 12-26 the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Cochran Program sponsored a food safety training tour in the U.S. for Uzbek, Tajik, and Armenian specialists. The program took place primarily at Michigan State University and included both workshops and site visits. Part [...]
2009-03-06 11:54:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAGR ECON SENV UZ
09TASHKENT257Former Acting Governor of Samarkand Province Sentenced To 15
[...] (SBU) In April 2008 the state-controlled press reported that the Acting Hokim (Governor) of Samarkand Province, Azamkhon Bakhromov, was relieved of his duties and there were reports at that time that he was subsequently placed under house arrest (reftel). On March 3, sources told our Political [...]
2009-03-06 13:01:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR PTER PINR ZJ UZ
09TASHKENT268Discussion With Uzbek FM on Afghanistan Transit: Defining
[...] (U) This message contains a request for guidance at paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: Talks with the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) on the exchange of letters for the transit of non-lethal cargo to Afghanistan have come very close to success, but we are not there yet. Politically, the GOU is [...]
2009-03-11 13:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR UZ
09TASHKENT270Uzbekistan: Global Initiative Demarche Delivered
[...] (SBU) This is an action request (see para 3) and response to State 18574. 2. (C) On March 11, Poloff, the Russian Embassy's Senior Counselor Alexey Mochulsky, and the Korean Embassy's Third Secretary Kwon O Yul jointly delivered reftel demarche to Uzbek First Secretary Oybek Abdiev of the M [...]
2009-03-12 11:01:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALMNUC PARM KGIC PTER PGOV PREL KS RS UZ
09TASHKENT271Uzbekistan: Institute for New Democracies Director Denied
[...] (C) Summary: On March 5 the recently arrived AmCit Country Director of the U.S. Government-funded NGO Institute for New Democracies (IND) was denied accreditation by the Uzbek Government. This is a surprising and disappointing event which, as usual, has not yet been explained (Ambassador is wr [...]
2009-03-12 11:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID PINR UZ
09TASHKENT277UZBEKISTAN: "NUR" RELIGIOUS GROUP CRACKDOWN CONTINUES
[...] (C) Summary: Authorities are continuing a widespread crackdown on suspected members of "Nur," a banned conservative (but not extremist) religious organization associated with Turkish scholar Fethullah Gullen (ref A). According to reports from independent and state-controlled media, at least 1 [...]
2009-03-13 12:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL SOCI TU UZ
09TASHKENT279UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON THREE CASES INVOLVING JOURNALISTS
[...] (U) Summary: This cable provides updates on the cases of three journalists who have recently been imprisoned or charged with various crimes: Salidjahon Abdurakhmanov, a journalist from Uzbekistan's Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic who was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on politically-mo [...]
2009-03-13 12:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KPAO OSCE PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT281MFA Drubbing Over Tadjibayeva Award
[...] (C) Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov convoked the Ambassador on March 13 to convey GOU displeasure over the March 11 International Women of Courage Award for Mutabar Tadjibayeva. Delivering in an icy tone a message that likely came on instruction from President Karimov, Norov said that giv [...]
2009-03-13 12:46:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UZ
09TASHKENT285UZBEKISTAN: THE IMPOSSIBLE IPR DREAM?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 10 Ibragim Amanbaev, Acting Director of the Uzbek Copyright Agency, brought us up to date on the current status of IPR legislation and enforcement in Uzbekistan. The picture he painted was one of an underfunded, understaffed agency in which a total of four IPR inspec [...]
2009-03-16 06:18:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR UZ
09TASHKENT289UZBEKISTAN: UN CONVENTION ON DISABLED PERSONS ADOPTED;
[...] (U) On March 2, the state-controlled UzReport.com website reported that new Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan to the United Nations in New York Murad Askarov signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol on February 27. The article noted tha [...]
2009-03-16 08:22:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT29UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL CENTER
[...] (U) This is an action request please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS) 09-3 at the Marshall Center in Garmis [...]
2009-01-08 12:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
09TASHKENT291UZBEKISTAN: INL SPONSORS FORENSIC DELEGATION VISIT TO USA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),with the support of the Department of Justice Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP),arranged as a part of a successful ongoing project the participation of Uzbek forensic experts in th [...]
2009-03-16 08:33:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC PHUM PREL KCOR KCRM UZ
09TASHKENT323At Times Angry Karimov Says Afghan Transit Can Continue,
[...] (S) Summary. President Karimov told the Ambassador March 18 that his earlier understanding with General Petraeus regarding commercial transit of non-lethal cargo through Uzbekistan to Afghanistan remains in place, despite Karimov's evident embarrassment at the public recognition accorded hum [...]
2009-03-18 14:38:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPREL MARR PGOV PHUM PINR UZ
09TASHKENT327UZBEKISTAN: EDUCATION MINISTRY ON ANTI-CHILD LABOR EFFORTS;
[...] (U) Summary: During a meeting on February 23, Ministry of Public Education officials discussed their efforts to combat child labor during the cotton harvest season. They reported that Uzbekistan's transition from 9-year to 12-year mandatory free secondary education, a major reform, would be f [...]
2009-03-19 13:01:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON ELAB KCRM PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT331UZBEKISTAN'S SYSTEM OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION AT A
[...] (SBU) Summary: A contact recently provided a copy of a government document entitled "Index of the Ministry of Public Education for the 2007-2008 Academic Year," which provides a useful snapshot of the country's primary and secondary education system. The document shows that few students study [...]
2009-03-19 13:10:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ECON ELAB KPAO OEXC PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT343IOM Predicts Slim Pickings for Uzbek Migrants and Increase
[...] (SBU) Summary: International Organization for Migration (IOM) Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Country Director Mahmoud Naderi told poloff on February 10 that he expects the going to get tougher for Uzbek labor migrants and that he foresees an increase in TIP cases as desperate would-be workers seek [...]
2009-03-23 11:19:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL KTIP ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PINR KCOR RS KZ UZ
09TASHKENT345Uzbekistan: Timing is Not Conducive for Demarche on
[...] (C) Post determined that it would be counterproductive to deliver ref A demarche to the Government of Uzbekistan encouraging it to resist signs of de facto recognition for Abkhazia or South Ossetia. Uzbekistan has to date consistently resisted strong Russian pressure to recognize both breakawa [...]
2009-03-23 11:19:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG UZ
09TASHKENT361UZBEKISTAN: RECENT ALLEGATIONS OF PRISONER ABUSE AND DEATHS
[...] (C) Summary: In the past few months, independent human rights activists and websites have reported on several serious human rights issues at Uzbek prisons, including deaths in custody. Activists also provided updates on the condition of political prisoners Alisher Karamatov and Sanjar Umarov. [...]
2009-03-26 08:42:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ICRC KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT363UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR EXBS-SPONSORED
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for eleven Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to participate in Export Control and Related Border Security Program-sponsored International Bo [...]
2009-03-26 08:44:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
09TASHKENT375Uzbekistan: Spring Road Woes Further Isolate Ferghana
[...] (U) Summary: Poloff made an overland trip to the Ferghana Valley on March 20-22 and encountered poor road conditions on the only link between Tashkent Province and the three populous provinces on the other side of a high mountain range. The poor conditions may be a temporary result of heavy w [...]
2009-03-26 12:37:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON SOCI MARR PINR UZ
09TASHKENT395UZBEKISTAN INDICATES AREAS WHERE HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS IS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a report of Uzbekistan's recent Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC),Uzbek officials agreed to several substantive recommendations from other member states on how to improve its human rights record. Uzbek officials also anno [...]
2009-03-30 04:23:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ELAB KIRF KPAO KTIP PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT399Uzbekistan to Participate in April Global Initiative Events
[...] (C) On March 26, First Secretary Oybek Abdiev of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs United Nations and International Organizations Department informed Poloff that he will represent the Government of Uzbekistan at the April 14-15 Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism workshop and A [...]
2009-03-30 05:18:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPARM KGIC PGOV PREL PINR PINS PTER UZ
09TASHKENT4UZBEKISTAN: DELIVERY OF TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE REGARDING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-05 12:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KNNP PARM IR UZ
09TASHKENT41UZBEKISTAN: 11TH HOUR AGREEMENT ON GAS TO KYRGYZSTAN AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 31 Uzbekistan concluded agreements with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to supply natural gas at a price of $240 USD per thousand cubic meters in 2009. A feared New Years cutoff of Uzbek natural gas to its neighbors appears to have been averted. END SUMMARY 2. (SBU) [...]
2009-01-09 09:20:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECIN ENRG EPET KPWR UZ
09TASHKENT415UZBEKISTAN: UNIVERSITIES NOT MEETING DEMAND FOR HIGHER
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent Embassy-sponsored Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) alumni reunion, one alumnus, a lecturer at a private university, revealed that the growth of the higher education system in Uzbekistan is not keeping pace with demand. Uzbekistan also lags behind its Centra [...]
2009-03-31 10:30:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOEXC ECON KPAO PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT423Uzbekistan: MFA Discusses Regional Security, Economic Issues
[...] (C) Summary: Uzbekistan's Acting Americas Department Chief at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shared his views of a wide range of regional security and economic issues in a recent meeting with us. His remarks tracked closely with comments we have recently heard from GOU officials--Uzbekistan re [...]
2009-04-01 09:11:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC ENRG PTER PINS ECON SENV KTIA UZ
09TASHKENT425UZBEKISTAN: JFDP ALUMNA OPENS DOORS TO EMBASSY IN URGENCH
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 10 and 11 Public Affairs Section (PAS) staff successfully held English language training workshops in Urgench and discussed several upcoming projects with the rector of Urgench State University (UrSU). The rector was surprisingly candid and open to future collaboratio [...]
2009-04-01 09:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON KPAO OEXC PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT437Uzbekistan: Counternarcotics Meetings for CENTCOM and DEA
[...] (C) Summary: Experts in counternarcotics, engineering, and contracting from the U.S. Army's Central Command (CENTCOM) as well as the visiting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Ankara-based Country Attache participated in meetings with a wide range of law enforcement and military representa [...]
2009-04-03 08:25:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC SNAR KCRM MASS EAID PINR TI AF UZ
09TASHKENT441Uzbekistan: World Bank Official Discusses Economic
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 24 meeting with us, a World Bank economist discussed Uzbekistan's economy and the effects of the global financial crisis on it. Despite the limited exposure of Uzbekistan's financial sector to global markets, the slow-down in construction abroad (particularly in Russia) [...]
2009-04-03 10:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECON ELAB EFIN ENRG EPET EINV PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT443Uzbekistan: Report on Fiscal Transparency
[...] (SBU) The following is Post's response to reftel. A. Is the central government expected to receive or is it already receiving U.S. foreign assistance funded using FY 09 funds? Yes. Multiple programs funded by U.S. agencies including USAID and State provide technical assistance, but not dir [...]
2009-04-03 11:00:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL UZ
09TASHKENT449UZBEKISTAN: SECURITY SERVICES SEEKING TO ENTRAP HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The National Security Service (NSS) appears to be attempting to entrap the Embassy's Human Rights Officer by arranging meetings for him outside the Embassy on sensitive topics that could then be taped. On at least three separate occasions over the past month, we have strong re [...]
2009-04-06 06:26:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNPHUM KDEM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT453UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVISTS REPORTING UNRELIABLE CHILD LABOR DATA
[...] (C) Summary: On March 30, the independent Ezgulik human rights group released its report on child labor practices during the 2008 fall cotton harvest at a roundtable hosted by the British Embassy. While Ezgulik announced that nearly a million Uzbek children participated in the cotton harvest, [...]
2009-04-06 12:55:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON ELAB KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT46UZBEKISTAN: 11TH HOUR AGREEMENT ON GAS TO KYRGYZSTAN AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 31 Uzbekistan concluded agreements with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to supply natural gas at a price of $240 USD per thousand cubic meters in 2009. A feared New Years cutoff of Uzbek natural gas to its neighbors appears to have been averted. END SUMMARY 2. (SBU) [...]
2009-01-09 13:42:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECIN ENRG EPET KPWR UZ
09TASHKENT463UZBEK ASYLUM-SEEKER EXTRADITED FROM KYRGYZSTAN RECEIVES
[...] (C) On March 30, independent human rights activist Ismoil Adilov provided poloff with court documents regarding the case of Haitjon Juraboev, a religious extremist suspect who was extradited by Kyrgyz authorities to Uzbekistan in September 2008 (reftel). According to the documents, on February [...]
2009-04-07 06:59:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UNHCR KG UZ
09TASHKENT467Uzbekistan Parliament Passes Law Reestablishing an
[...] (C) Summary: A Department of Justice (DOJ) expert traveled to Tashkent March 30 - April 2 to provide technical assistance to Uzbekistan regarding its draft anti-money laundering and countering the finance of terrorism (AML/CTF) legislation. Surprisingly, the Uzbek Senate passed the legislatio [...]
2009-04-07 09:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EFIN KCRM ECON ECIN PINR UZ
09TASHKENT469Uzbekistan: DTRA and Uzbek Officials Review Biological
[...] (C) Summary: A Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) delegation met with officials from the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) in mid-March to discuss cooperation under the framework of the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP). The GOU showed up in force and at a high level--with many Deput [...]
2009-04-07 11:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALTBIO TSPL PTER PINS PGOV PBTS PREL ASEC SENV UZ
09TASHKENT481GENERAL TERRORISM THREAT ASSESSMENT IN UZBEKISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-08 04:34:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNPTER ASEC UZ
09TASHKENT483UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF SIGNS NEW AGREEMENT ON CHILD LABOR WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 6, the Ambassador met with a visiting UNICEF representative from Geneva, who reported that UNICEF would sign a new Annual Work Plan with the government that fleshes out several key points from the September 2008 National Action Plan (NAP) on the elimination of child lab [...]
2009-04-10 09:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI TX UZ
09TASHKENT497UZBEKISTAN: RECENT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM
[...] (C) Summary: During a meeting at the Embassy on March 30, independent human rights activist Ismoil Adilov handed over to poloff a collection of court documents from recent trials he had monitored involving suspected religious extremists. The documents demonstrate that at least six women were [...]
2009-04-13 15:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT51UZBEKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN AGREE ON 2009 ELECTRICITY PRICE
[...] (SBU) Afghan Charge d'Affairs Mohammad Essa Mesbah met with us on January 12 and gave us an upbeat assessment of Uzbek-Afghan talks on electricity pricing held last week between Afghan Minister of Economics Shams and Uzbek Deputy Prime Minister Azimov. (Shams met separately to discuss technic [...]
2009-01-12 13:53:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN ECON ENRG KPWR UZ AF
09TASHKENT511Uzbekistan: Anti-Corruption Workshop Launches UN Convention
[...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),with funding support from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),conducted a workshop on March 31 - April 1 on implementation of the UN Convention Against Corruption. International experts, [...]
2009-04-14 13:13:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID EFIN KCOR SOCI PHUM LG UZ
09TASHKENT519Uzbekistan: Host Government Practices on Information
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Post has not observed any change in the status quo since its last cable on this issue. BUTCHER [...]
2009-04-15 12:37:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KVPR CVIS PGOV PBTS PREL KHLS ASEC UZ
09TASHKENT531Uzbekistan: New Hokims Elected to Senate Committees
[...] (SBU) On March 27-28, 2009, Uzbekistan's Senate of the Oliy Majlis (parliament) held its eighteenth plenary session. Consistent with Article 77 of Uzbekistan's Constitution, recently-appointed hokims of Surkhandarya, Samarkand, Tashkent, Navoi, and Khorezm Provinces had been elected senators by [...]
2009-04-16 10:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR UZ
09TASHKENT533UZBEKISTAN BELATEDLY APPROVES MOST OSCE PROJECTS
[...] (C) Summary: Bernard Rouault, an official at the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordination Office in Tashkent, told poloff on April 14 that the Government of Uzbekistan had finally approved most of the projects proposed on its 2009 submission after a prolon [...]
2009-04-16 17:40:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL OSCE PINR UZ
09TASHKENT537UZBEKISTAN: AIRPORT CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
[...] (U) In response to ref A, Post has neither observed nor received any information concerning discrimination against U.S. products, suppliers, or bidders in airport construction projects funded by the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU). Post is not aware of any instances in which fair market oppor [...]
2009-04-17 08:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EFIN PREL UZ
09TASHKENT545Uzbekistan on Afghanistan Contributions
[...] (C) Charge and P-E Chief delivered points on Afghanistan contributions to Uzbek MFA Americas head Tahir Mamadjanov on April 20: Electrical Transmission: Mamadjanov noted that electricity supply to Afghanistan is proceeding without any problems. (Note: Uzbekistan currently supplies 75 MW [...]
2009-04-20 12:17:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MARR AF UZ
09TASHKENT55UZBEKISTAN: ANATOMY OF A HIZB UT-TAHRIR CASE
[...] (C) Summary: This cable examines in depth a recent Hizb ut-Tahrir case reported by state-controlled and independent media and a local human rights activist. While the case highlights on-going abuses in the government's campaign against suspected religious extremists, it also demonstrates how [...]
2009-01-13 10:49:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT555UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-21 11:12:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT559TASHKENT TIDBITS APRIL 22, 2009
[...] (SBU) We attended a roundtable on transboundary water issues at the Oliy Majlis on March 4. The two hour session was chaired by Sadyk Safaev, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and former Ambassador to the U.S. The roundtable produced nothing new in terms of policy; all speakers [...]
2009-04-22 10:10:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON KIRF SOCI PHUM KISL KPAO UZ
09TASHKENT563UZBEKISTAN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PRESS BLITZ CONTINUES
[...] (U) Summary: Regular trafficking in persons (TIP) articles continue to be published in the state-controlled press, and public service announcements are prevalent in all forms of mass media. Uzbekistan's extensive efforts on raising public awareness and highlighting its powerful new criminal c [...]
2009-04-22 13:04:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN UZ
09TASHKENT565Uzbekistan: Leahy Vetting Request for EXBS-Sponsored
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for twenty Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to participate in WMD Commodity Identification Training under the auspices of t [...]
2009-04-22 13:05:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
09TASHKENT57UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR COMMODITY
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to take part in discussions related to Commodity Identification Training with Department of Energy [...]
2009-01-13 12:02:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
09TASHKENT575UZBEKISTAN: SCENE SETTER FOR US TRANSCOM COMMANDER GENERAL
[...] (C) Summary: In the context of the roll out of the new strategy for Afghanistan and the signing of the exchange of letters on transit, your visit is an opportunity to reinforce the message that Afghanistan is a common endeavor in which the United States and Uzbekistan are partners. Although the [...]
2009-04-24 13:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT581UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST REPORTS ATTACKS ON HERSELF AND ADOPTED
[...] (C) Summary: On April 23, poloff met with Human Rights Alliance activist Elena Urlaeva, who reported being attacked by two unknown assailants on April 15 after receiving threatening phone calls for weeks demanding that she leave Uzbekistan. She also reported that her adopted 5-year old son wa [...]
2009-04-27 10:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREF PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT585UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST ACCUSES OPPOSITIONISTS OF EMBEZZLING
[...] (C) Summary: During an April 23 meeting with poloff, Human Rights Alliance activist Elena Urlaeva, who was attacked by unknown assailants on April 15 (septel),accused Free Farmers Party leader Nigara Khidoyatova and Gulam Umarov, the son of imprisoned Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, [...]
2009-04-27 12:42:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT59UZBEKISTAN: UZBEK SINGER NOT ARRESTED
[...] (U) Reports in the press that popular Uzbek singer Yulduz Usmanova was arrested on January 10 appear to be false. Reported yesterday by the independent Voice of Freedom website and then picked up by Kyrgyz News Agency AKIPress, the story claims that she was arrested during a wedding performan [...]
2009-01-14 12:31:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV KPAO SCUL UZ
09TASHKENT593Uzbekistan: Kosovo Demarche Inadvisable at this Time
[...] (C) Post continues to advise against an additional demarche to the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) urging it to recognize Kosovo at this time. The GOU has made it clear that "third party" involvement in this issue is not welcome, and further discussions of this with the GOU could be count [...]
2009-04-28 06:32:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL KV UZ
09TASHKENT597Uzbekistan: Global Initiative Demarche Delivered, Russians
[...] (C) On April 24, Poloff and two Russian Embassy officials-Senior Counselor Alexey Mochulsky and Third Secretary Ekaterina Lazareva-jointly delivered reftel demarche on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism plenary session to First Secretary Oybek Abdiev of Uzbekistan's Ministr [...]
2009-04-28 08:21:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP PREL PGOV KGIC PTER MNUC RS UZ
09TASHKENT601UZBEKISTAN: NARCOTICS SEIZURES NOW REGULARLY HIGHLIGHTED IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: This is the first of planned regular updates about narcotics seizures publicized in the Uzbek state-controlled mass media. Emboffs have noted a substantial increase recently in the number of articles and television news reports highlighting narcotics-related arrests and seizure [...]
2009-04-29 04:52:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SNAR KCRM PHUM KCOR ASEC TI UZ
09TASHKENT611UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL 301 POINTS DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points on the 2009 Special 301 results for Uzbekistan to Umid Shadiev in the MFA's North American Department. Shadiev received the points without comment and said he would forward the information to the relevant departments in the GOU. 2. (SBU) On Tuesday, Apr [...]
2009-04-30 13:33:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR UZ
09TASHKENT615Uzbekistan: Ambassador Delivers Asian Development Bank
[...] (SBU) On April 28, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on U.S. support for Asia with an Asian Development Bank (ADB) General Capital Increase to Uzbekistan's First Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Rustam Azimov. Azimov said that Uzbekistan will support the capital increase and that [...]
2009-05-01 10:00:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ETRD ECON EAID ADB UZ
09TASHKENT617Uzbekistan: Ambassador Delivers Economic Cooperation
[...] (SBU) On April 28, Ambassador delivered talking points on the May 13-14 Islamabad Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan to Uzbekistan's Deputy Prime Minister Aripov and First Deputy Prime Minister Azimov. Post delivered a diplomatic note with additional details to Uzbek [...]
2009-05-01 10:05:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG ETRD EAGR KPWR EAID BEXP PREL AF UZ
09TASHKENT647UZBEKISTAN: SIX MORE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS CONVICTIONS
[...] (U) Summary: Convictions of six more trafficking offenders were reported in separate articles in the state-controlled press on April 30 - May 1, the latest examples of Uzbekistan's aggressive enforcement of its 2008 law and criminal code amendments. The Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs report [...]
2009-05-06 10:19:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KTIP UZ
09TASHKENT649Uzbekistan: Short but Positive Meeting on Nuclear Forensics
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a short but positive meeting at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) on April 21, INP officials signaled their receptivity to cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on nuclear forensics. (Note: Nuclear forensic [...]
2009-05-06 12:45:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL KNNP PREL PGOV PBTS UZ
09TASHKENT67Financial Crisis: Uzbekistan in the Tail of the Storm
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although spared from the initial fall out of the global financial crisis by its isolation, Uzbekistan could face growing economic difficulties in the second half of 2009. Uzbekistan is vulnerable on three fronts: 1) reduced remittances and increased unemployment among the ranks o [...]
2009-01-15 12:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT685Uzbekistan: Upcoming Conference on Stability and
[...] (U) Summary: Uzbekistan's Foundation for Regional Policy and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies are organizing an international conference entitled "Afghanistan: Issues and Prospects of Stabilization and Reconstruction," to be held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan June 17-19, 20 [...]
2009-05-08 06:45:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS ASEC PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT703UZBEKISTAN: LONG-TIME MINISTER OF HEALTH SACKED
[...] (C) Summary: On April 23, President Karimov relieved long-time Minister of Health Feruz Nazirov from his duties and appointed Adkham Ilkhamovich Ikramov, who had been serving as First Deputy Minister of Health, as his replacement. Reportedly, Nazirov was fired due to unsatisfactory work [...]
2009-05-11 12:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SOCI KCOR UZ
09TASHKENT705UZBEKISTAN: ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK'S STOCK RISES WITH
[...] (C) Summary: On May 3 Deputy Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Tashkent office, Kiyoshy Tamaguchi, told poloff that ADB recently completed a favorable assessment of Uzbekistan for its 2009-2010 cycle, which cleared the way for a substantial increase in loans from USD 170 million to [...]
2009-05-11 12:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON UZ
09TASHKENT707NDN Shipments Moving Under Uzbekistan Agreement
[...] (C) The Uzbek Ministry of Defense issued approvals on May 6 for the first rail shipments on the Northern Distribution Network (NDN) following the signing of the Exchange of Letters on April 3. Approval for seven shipments came (just) within the 30-day window foreseen by the agreement. The firs [...]
2009-05-11 13:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR ELTN UZ
09TASHKENT709RECALL 09 TASHKENT 709
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-11 22:55:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR ELTN UZ
09TASHKENT71UZBEKISTAN'S RESPONSE TO NONPROLIFERATION SANCTIONS AGAINST
[...] (C) On January 15, Poloff briefed Dr. Bakhrom Babayev, United Nations Desk Chief in the UN and International Organizations Department of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the imposition of sanctions on individuals and companies associated with the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation netw [...]
2009-01-15 12:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALMNUC KNNP PREL PARM EFIN UZ
09TASHKENT711Uzbekistan Confirms Participation in Economic Cooperation
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-12 06:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG ETRD EAGR KPWR EAID BEXP PREL PGOV AF UZ
09TASHKENT715ACTIVIST SHARES VIEWS ON TRENDS IN UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: On May 7, the Ambassador met with Bukhara-based human rights activist Shukhrat Ganiev, who argued that the recent government crackdown on independent groups over the past few months was largely driven by worries over presidential succession and the upcoming December 2009 Parliament [...]
2009-05-12 11:58:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT717The Path to the Sea - The Larger Implications of NDN for
[...] (C) Summary: The establishment of the Northern Distribution Network (NDN) connecting Central Asia and Afghanistan has the potential to transform regional commerce and transportation. Uzbekistan and some of the other Central Asian states have relatively well-developed rail networks that, as leg [...]
2009-05-12 11:58:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALELTN MARR PREL AF UZ ZK
09TASHKENT723UZBEKISTAN: PORK BAN POINTS DELIVERED
[...] (U) We delivered reftel points in person on May 7 to Nurillo Abdullaev of the MFA's North America Desk. Without comment, he assured us he would send them on the appropriate agencies in the GOU. 2. (U) On April 28 the GOU imposed a ban on import of meat, pork, and live animals from vari [...]
2009-05-12 12:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD UZ
09TASHKENT727UZBEKISTAN: COMMENTS ON UNFPA PROGRAM
[...] (U) Per request in reftel, post has reviewed the draft UN Population Fund country program for Uzbekistan and has the following suggestions: --The Uzbekistan Reproductive Health Association should be a key partner in the NGO sector. --The term "nurses" should be replaced with "nurse [...]
2009-05-13 09:35:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SOCI EAID UZ
09TASHKENT751UZBEKISTAN: AGRICULTURE, BORDERS, AND ISLAM IN THE FERGHANA
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff visited the Ferghana Valley on May 5-6, traveling through Fergana and Andijon Provinces en route to Kyrgyzstan. The overland trip was a good opportunity to take the pulse of this unique and populous area of the country. The land border crossing with Kyrgyzstan between And [...]
2009-05-13 10:24:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KTIP SOCI EAGR KISL ASEC KG UZ
09TASHKENT765UZBEKISTAN: COUNTERNARCOTICS MEETINGS INDICATE ENGAGEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: On May 7, the Ankara-based Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Country Attache and poloff accepted an invitation to tour the National Canine Center, which is operated by the State Customs Committee. On May 8 meetings were held with representatives of the Ministry of Internal Af [...]
2009-05-14 13:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR KCRM PINR AF UZ
09TASHKENT767UZBEKISTAN: UNODC HOSTS OPERATION TARCET PRECURSOR
[...] (U) Summary: On May 12-13, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office in Central Asia hosted a policy planning session in Tashkent in preparation for the second year of Operation TARCET, which is focused on interdicting precursor chemicals en route to Afghanistan. Th [...]
2009-05-14 13:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR KCRM ASEC UZ AF ZK IR
09TASHKENT769UZBEKISTAN: ANDIJON COMMEMMORATION BROKEN UP IN TASHKENT
[...] (C) On May 13, a small group of human rights activists attempted to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the tragic events in Andijon by laying a wreath at the monument of courage in central Tashkent, according to the independent website Uznews.net. Poloff spoke with Dilorom Ishakova on May 1 [...]
2009-05-14 13:17:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT771UZBEKISTAN: GOU TO DAUSTR LILIENFELD: ROSES FOR A TIFA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (DAUSTR) Claudio Lilienfeld visited Tashkent on April 28-29 to discuss U.S.-Uzbek trade relations and the future of the U.S.-Central Asia Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). In meetings with GOU officials, the business commun [...]
2009-05-14 13:30:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PREL UZ
09TASHKENT785Uzbekistan: Customs Officials Pleased with Commodity
[...] (C) Summary: U.S., Kazakh, and Uzbek instructors jointly conducted a Weapons of Mass Destruction Commodity Identification Training (WMD CIT) workshop for Uzbekistan's Customs officials at the Higher Military Customs Institute in Tashkent on May 6-8. The workshop marked a further step in re-eng [...]
2009-05-18 10:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPBTS KNNP ASEC PREL PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT795Uzbekistan: Korean Ambassador Shares Views of Cooperation
[...] (C) Summary: On May 15, Korean Ambassador Jea-min Kyun gave the Ambassador a read-out of Korean President Lee Myung-bak's visit to Uzbekistan earlier that week. An energetic President Karimov had accompanied Lee for virtually the entire duration of the three-day visit, and over the course of v [...]
2009-05-18 12:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN PGOV ENRG ETRD BEXP EAID EINV EMIN KS UZ
09TASHKENT811UNSC 1718 COMMITTEE DESIGNATION OF DPRK ENTITIES SUBJECT TO
[...] (SBU) On May 20th, Post delivered ref information regarding sanctions against North Korea following the April 2009 launch of the Taepo Dong-II (TD2) ballistic missile to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) Americas Desk via dipnote. Post does not expect to receive any substantive response [...]
2009-05-22 06:59:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDETTC EFIN PREL PARM ZO KN UZ
09TASHKENT823Apparent Terrorist Attacks in Eastern Uzbekistan
[...] (C) Several years of relative calm was broken in Uzbekistan's Andijon province on May 26 when a group of assailants armed with AK-47s attacked security force installations in the town of Khanabad on the border with Kyrgyzstan. Information on the attack and ensuing firefight is sketchy. An of [...]
2009-05-27 12:11:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPTER PGOV PREL UZ
09TASHKENT825Asian Development Bank Eager to Move on Afghan Rail Line to
[...] (SBU) On the margins of a May 22 economic conference in Tashkent devoted to President Karimov's approach to the global economic crisis, attended by numerous representatives of international financial institutions, the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Director General for Central and West Asia, Ju [...]
2009-05-27 12:21:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREL PGOV PHUM ELTN UZ
09TASHKENT83UZBEKISTAN: COMMENT ON DOL DRAFT LIST FOR TVPRA
[...] Per ref A, Embassy Tashkent appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. We recognize that child labor continues to be [...]
2009-01-21 08:22:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ECON ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT831UZBEKISTAN: POST STRONGLY SUPPORTS UNICEF DRAFT COUNTRY
[...] (C) Summary: On May 27, the Ambassador met with UNICEF Country Representative Mahboob Shareef, who reviewed elements of the draft 2010 - 2015 country program for Uzbekistan and (protect) quietly encouraged the U.S. to vote in favor of the document at the upcoming June 10 board meeting. Sharee [...]
2009-05-28 06:20:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KOCI ELAB UN SOCI ECON UZ
09TASHKENT855Uzbekistan: Kosovo's World Bank Membership Demarche
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-29 11:46:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL KV PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT857UZBEKISTAN ON LETHAL TRANSIT NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-29 12:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL RS UZ
09TASHKENT859Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on New Olympic Committee
[...] (SBU) On May 13, 2009, the General Assembly of the National Olympic Committee of Uzbekistan elected Malik Babaev Chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Uzbekistan. He replaced Rustam Kurbanov, who was appointed to this position in March 2009 immediately after being relieved of his posit [...]
2009-05-29 12:49:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR UZ
09TASHKENT885Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on New Samarkand Police
[...] (SBU) In May 2008, Minister of Internal Affairs Bohodir Matlyubov appointed Colonel Hudayberdi Faizievich Pardaev as Chief of Samarkand City's Department of Internal Affairs. Pardaev, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1962. In 1984, after graduation from the Samarkand State University, he began hi [...]
2009-06-03 08:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR UZ
09TASHKENT887Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on New Navoi Police Chief
[...] (SBU) In May 2008, Uzbekistan's Minister of Internal Affairs Bohodir Matlyubov appointed Major Feruz Uchkunovich Djuraev as Chief of Navoi City's Department of Internal Affairs. Djuraev, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1976. In 1997, after graduation from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) [...]
2009-06-03 08:35:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR UZ
09TASHKENT889Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on Termez Railway Station
[...] (SBU) In May 2008, Minister of Internal Affairs Bohodir Matlyubov appointed Major Ravshan Nematovich Ismatov as Chief of the Transportation Section of Internal Affairs (Transportation Police) at Termez Railway Station in Surkhandarya Province. Ismatov, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1963. He gra [...]
2009-06-03 08:36:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR UZ
09TASHKENT913UZBEKISTAN WILL PARTICIPATE IN ILO CONFERENCE IN GENEVA
[...] (U) Per reftel, UNICEF Representative in Tashkent Mahboob Shareef previously told emboffs that Uzbekistan had agreed to participate in the upcoming International Labor Organization (ILO) conference, which is set to begin on June 8 in Geneva. On June 5, we learned that Uzbekistan had not regist [...]
2009-06-05 11:22:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ILO UN ELAB KOCI UZ
09TASHKENT915UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON TRIAL OF JOURNALIST DILMUROD SAYYIDOV
[...] (C) Summary: On June 1, the trial of journalist and Ezgulik member Dilmurod Sayyidov commenced near Samarkand. Ezgulik activist Abdurakhmon Tashanov, who is monitoring the trial, reported that there is some cause for "cautious optimism" after a motion was approved to include discussion of a p [...]
2009-06-05 12:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
09TASHKENT917UZBEKISTAN: NGO COUNTERPART INTERNATIONAL SEEKS FORMAL
[...] (C) Summary: On June 2, DCM and emboffs met with visiting representatives from Counterpart International, who are quietly exploring legal avenues for seeking formal registration in Uzbekistan. While humanitarian assistance programs have continued on a small scale since the Government of Uzbek [...]
2009-06-05 12:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM SOCI PREL UZ
09TASHKENT919Uzbekistan Gives Mixed Review of SCO Activities
[...] (C) Summary: During a discussion of Uzbekistan's views of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on June 3, a representative of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that President Karimov will attend the SCO heads of state summit in Yekaterinburg June 15-16, immediately after [...]
2009-06-05 12:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC ECIN PGOV ECON PINS PTER UZ
09TASHKENT921UZBEKISTAN: DESPITE CLAIMS, ECONOMIC CRISIS HITS HOME
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. First quarter macroeconomic results show that the real sectors of the Uzbek economy are already facing serious problems created by the downturn in the world economy. Despite GOU claims to the contrary, analysis of official statistics indicates that total exports in the first [...]
2009-06-05 13:29:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT9272009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CASES:
[...] (U) The United States Government is aware of six (6) claims of United States persons against the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU). 2. (U) a. Claimant A b. 2002 c. Claimant A was the chief operator of a soft drink manufacturing plant in Uzbekistan after its independence in 1991. Howe [...]
2009-06-08 08:20:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDCASC EINV KIDE OPIC UZ
09TASHKENT929UZBEKISTAN: OSCE SPONSORS HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION WORKSHOPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 4 in Tashkent the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sponsored a workshop on education efforts to promote awareness on human rights, which attracted several high-profile government officials and several international experts. A separate June 5 eve [...]
2009-06-08 09:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE UZ
09TASHKENT939Uzbekistan: Diplomatic Note on INP Participation at
[...] (U) On June 3, Poloff delivered reftel diplomatic note on the participation of two Uzbek researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Tenth International Conference on Applications of Nuclear Techniques 14-20 June in Crete, Greece to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As of [...]
2009-06-08 12:40:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP PARM OTRA UZ
09TASHKENT941Uzbekistan: Border Security Training Courses at Termez
[...] (C) Summary: From April 5 through April 17, U.S. Customs and Border Protection trainers conducted border interdiction and rail interdiction training courses for Government of Uzbekistan officials at Uzbekistan's border with Afghanistan. Uzbek participants actively participated in the training [...]
2009-06-08 12:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPBTS PREL PGOV KNNP PHUM ASEC UZ
09TASHKENT947UZBEKISTAN: APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE
[...] (U) Post knows of no recent events that would impact on the proposed project (reftel) to remodel Malika Hotels Khiva, Khorezm, and Khevak. Despite the global economic downturn, the tourism sector in Uzbekistan is still strong, fueled largely by European retirees. 2. (U) Post has no inform [...]
2009-06-09 09:47:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN UZ
09TASHKENT951Advancing Religious Freedom: Ambassador's Meeting with Uzbek
[...] (C) The Ambassador met on June 10 with First Deputy Foreign Minister Hamidulla Karamatov to discuss reftel points and ways forward on the religious freedom issue. Karamatov said that he understood the importance of the issue and the need to work together to find mutually acceptable langua [...]
2009-06-10 10:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KIRF UZ
09TASHKENT955Uzbekistan: Leahy Vetting Request for EXBS-Sponsored
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for one Government of Uzbekistan official scheduled to participate in the Tenth International Export Control Conference in Istanbul, Turkey June 25 [...]
2009-06-10 12:31:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
09TASHKENT959UZBEKISTAN: NEW ATTORNEY LICENSING EXAMINATION REDUCES
[...] (C) Summary: The newly-established Uzbekistan Chamber of Lawyers, which supplanted the Bar Association, is conducting its first round of mandatory new licensing examinations for all defense attorneys who actively practice in courts of law. Several attorneys have complained that the testing pr [...]
2009-06-11 08:34:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI KCOR UZ
09TASHKENT961UZBEKISTAN: ANDIJON ACTIVIST OFFERS CONSPIRACY THEORIES
[...] Summary: On June 9, emboffs met with Saidjahon Zaynabiddinov, a well-known human rights activist based in Andijon and a frequent contact for independent websites and the Embassy alike. Zaynabiddinov reported that his youngest son was arrested for a double murder and, although his son confessed [...]
2009-06-11 08:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
09TASHKENT963UZBEKISTAN: PORK IMPORT BAN CONTINUES
[...] (U) We delivered Ref A points to the MFA on May 7. These were received without comment (Ref B),but on June 3 we received diplomatic note No. 20/16277 from the MFA confirming that a ban on pork imports is still in effect. An unofficial translation follows below. BEGIN TRANSLATION The [...]
2009-06-11 09:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD UZ
09TASHKENT997UZBEKISTAN: HEAD OF ODIHR QUIETLY PLANNING VISIT AND
[...] (C) Summary: The Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ambassador in Uzbekistan, Istvan Venczel, told us that the Director of ODIHR is quietly planning to visit Tashkent and meet with high-ranking officials in July. The visit could set the stage for OSCE election monitorin [...]
2009-06-16 12:19:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM OSCE PGOV UZ
09TELAVIV466EMBASSY TEL AVIV'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 12:48:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CE CH EG EI ELAB IN IS KCRM KFRD KPAL KTIP KWMN MD NP PHUM PREF RO RP RS SMIG TH TU UK UP UZ
09USOSCE281UZBEK CHARGE AT OSCE MEETS WITH USOSCE CHARGE
[...] (C) In a December 14 meeting, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Ravshanbek Duschanov of the Uzbek Mission to the OSCE, said the small size of his delegation meant Uzbek diplomats could not always engage on some OSCE matters. He defended Uzbekistan's role as spoiler of the Media Freedom decision at the [...]
2009-12-16 07:15:00Mission USOSCECONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UZ
10ASTANA158 KAZAKHSTAN: MINISTRY OF JUSTICE AND AN NGO JOIN FORCES TO
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Prior to a February 3 press conference to discuss joint Kazakshtan-U.S. efforts to combat trafficking-in-persons (TIP),Charge and INL Officer visited the newly-opened, government-funded TIP shelter operated by lo [...]
2010-02-05 10:14:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB SMIG SOCI KCRM KTIP UZ KZ
10ASTANA2 KAZAKHSTAN EXPRESSES PIQUE OVER HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a December 31 meeting (reftel),Kazakhstan's Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Umarov raised concerns about the human-rights certification process. He told the Ambassador that Kazakhstan is ready to refuse al [...]
2010-01-05 06:37:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID UZ KZ
10ASTANA260 KAZAKHSTAN: TRANSCRIPT OF S/SRAP HOLBROOKE'S FEBRUARY 21
[...] Following his meeting with State Secretary-Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Richard Holbrooke met briefly with the media. Transcript follows. 2. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT: Ambassador Holbrooke: We've just completed some excellent [...]
2010-02-23 06:50:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MARR KPAO GG UZ KG AF KZ
10ASTANA45 KAZAKHSTAN: MEDIA REPORTS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES
[...] The following is a summary of local media reports of human trafficking cases in Kazakhstan May-August 2009. SEXUAL EXPLOTATION 2. May 6, "Interfax," "Zakon.kz": Two women were arrested in Petropavlovsk for pimping and trafficking in persons. The North-Kazakhstan Oblast Department of I [...]
2010-01-19 05:52:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ELAB SMIG SOCI KCRM KTIP UZ KZ
10ASTANA51 KAZAKHSTAN: MEDIA REPORTS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES
[...] The following is a summary of local media reports of human trafficking cases in Kazakhstan September-December 2009. ANTI-TRAFFICKING OPERATIONS 2. December 14, "Interfax": During a nationwide anti-trafficking operation, December 7-11, police arrested 55 pimps and two traffickers and reg [...]
2010-01-20 03:54:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ELAB SMIG SOCI KCRM KTIP UZ KZ
10ASTANA52 KAZAKHSTAN: OVERFLIGHTS AND NORTHERN DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
[...] (S/NF) This is an action request (see para 8). 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY: Kazakhstan continues to be an important partner for the U.S. government mission to stabilize Afghanistan. Under the 2001 overflight agreement, the United States has completed more than 8000 overflights. In addition, the U [...]
2010-01-20 07:50:00Embassy AstanaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR MARR AF RS UZ KZ
10ASTANA67 KAZAKSTAN: CHINA PRAISES ASTANA'S FOREIGN POLICY, WORRIES
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In his farewell courtesy call with the Ambassador on January 22, China's Ambassador to Kazakhstan Cheng Guoping (please protect) highly praised Kazakhstan's skillful balancing of the "great powers." Repeatedly emphasizing the personal nature of the conversation, Cheng highlig [...]
2010-01-25 06:35:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR EPET ECON NATO CH RU UZ KZ
10ASTANA74 KAZAKHSTAN: CHINA PRAISES ASTANA'S FOREIGN POLICY, WORRIES
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In his farewell courtesy call with the Ambassador on January 22, China's Ambassador to Kazakhstan Cheng Guoping (please protect) highly praised Kazakhstan's skillful balancing of the "great powers." Repeatedly emphasizing the personal nature of the conversation, Cheng highlig [...]
2010-01-25 09:22:00Embassy AstanaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR EPET ECON NATO CH RU UZ KZ
10DUSHANBE107UZBEK-TAJIK TRANSPORT -- OFF THE RAILS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A tit-for-tat over rail shipments highlights the Tajik rail system's dependence on Uzbekistan for its international transport. After Uzbekistan delayed Tajik railcars carrying construction materials for hydroelectric projects, Tajikistan responded by holding up Uzbek trains. Tas [...]
2010-01-25 11:55:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALELTN PREL ETRD UZ TI
10DUSHANBE223SRAP HOLBROOKE'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT RAHMON
[...] (C) Summary: In a one hour forty five minute meeting on February 20, President Rahmon reiterated his commitment to supporting U.S.-led efforts in Afghanistan and complained at length about Uzbek efforts to obstruct regional cooperation. Ambassador Holbrooke urged Rahmon to work with President [...]
2010-02-26 08:43:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ETRD EINV AF PK UZ TI
10MOSCOW337RUSSIAN RELATIONS WITH AN ASSERTIVE UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings, MFA and Uzbek Embassy officials stressed the positive aspects of Russian-Uzbek relations, including bilateral trade and Uzbek migrant workers in Russia. Uzbek President Karimov is due to visit Moscow in April following intergovernmental talks. Meanwhile, Russian off [...]
2010-02-17 17:42:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UZ RS
10SEOUL314MOFAT AND UZBEK AMBASSADOR ON KARIMOV VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: The MOFAT DDG who covers Central Asia told us that during the February 11 summit between Presidents Lee and Karimov, the Uzbek leader pressed MB to hire Korean-speaking Uzbek laborers and engineers to work on the ROK's 40 billion USD nuclear power plant project in the UAE. Lee as [...]
2010-02-25 02:28:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG KNNP KS UZ
10STATE13583(C) KUDOS FOR REPORTING ON NEW RUSSIAN
[...] (C) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS ARE PLEASED TO COMMEND POST FOR NOTABLE BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING. INFORMATION FROM POST IS A KEY RESOURCE FOR BIOGRAPHIC REPORTS WE PREPARE FOR SENIOR POLICYMAKERS. BELOW WE HIGHLIGHT ESPECIALLY VALUABLE ASPECTS OF POST'S REPORTING. 2. (C) REFTEL PROVIDES EXTREMELY [...]
2010-02-16 19:50:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPINR PREL RS UZ
10STATE18599SUBJECT: (U) KUDOS FOR UZBEKISTAN REPORTING
[...] (C) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE RECENT REFS PERTAINING TO UZBEKISTAN'S SUPPORT OF THE NORTHERN DISTRIBUTION NETWORK AND COALITION OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN. ANALYSTS FOUND THE REFS BOTH TIMELY AND INSIGHTFUL AND HAVE USED THE INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE ANALYTIC PRODUCTS TO INFORM PO [...]
2010-02-28 04:06:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPINR MARR PGOV PREL UZ
10TASHKENT100UZBEK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: FINAL WRAP-UP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After the second round of parliamentary elections took place in 39 constituencies on January 10, Uzbekistan's Liberal-Democratic Party emerged with over 35% of the seats in the Lower House of Parliament, the Oliy Majlis. Relative party percentages remain almost unchanged [...]
2010-01-25 09:26:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UZ
10TASHKENT101THE OSCE IN UZBEKISTAN: HARD TO TELL WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador Norland on February 18, Ambassador Venczel, head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Uzbekistan, said that Uzbekistan's "lack of trust" makes it very difficult for the OSCE to implement many of its local [...]
2010-02-26 10:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OSCE UZ
10TASHKENT103Uzbekistan: HIV/AIDS Activist Sentenced to Seven Years in
[...] (SBU) Summary: It is emerging that a Tashkent Criminal Court last year sentenced Maksim Popov, a psychologist and HIV/AIDS activist, to seven years in prison on charges related to an HIV/AIDS prevention booklet that his NGO distributed, as well as financial improprieties related to gran [...]
2010-02-26 13:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV AID UZ
10TASHKENT144UZBEKISTAN: MAKING GOOD ON AML PROMISES
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Uzbekistan's Ministry of Justice recently approved regulations that strengthen the Central Bank's ability to hold individual commercial banks, credit unions, and pawnshops accountable for anti-money laundering through their operations. This change comes just weeks before the [...]
2010-01-27 10:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDECON KTFN KCRM UZ
10TASHKENT148Uzbekistan: Leahy Vetting Request for GOU MVD Forensic
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph three. 2. Post is inviting representatives of the Uzbekistan Forensic laboratories to attend the American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting that will be held in Seattle, Washington, from Feb 22-27, 2010. 3. Action request: Post [...]
2010-01-28 05:46:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR UZ
10TASHKENT150Uzbekistan: Leahy Vetting Request for Participants in the
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. Post has been provided with the names of two GOU officials nominated to participate in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Comprehensive Crisis Management course (CCM) on February 18 - March 19, 2010 in Honolulu, [...]
2010-01-28 05:47:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR ASEC UZ
10TASHKENT154UZBEKISTAN: REMITTANCES DOWN, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS EXPECTED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Initial estimates from Western Union and other sources indicate that the picture surrounding remittances to Uzbekistan from citizens working abroad in 2009 remains mixed. Official remittances to Uzbekistan (e.g., remittances processed through the formal banking system) weak [...]
2010-01-28 09:48:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN SOCI UZ
10TASHKENT160UZBEKISTAN: SLOW APPROACH TO COPENHAGEN ACCORD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Overall, Uzbekistan supports the Copenhagen Accord but doubts it can meet the January 31 deadline for notification of its wish to associate itself with the Accord. Uzbekistan's position is that it must finalize its nationally appropriate mitigation actions prior to official asso [...]
2010-01-29 11:58:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KGHG ENRG TSPL SENV UZ
10TASHKENT162UZBEKISTAN AND INTERNET FREEDOM: QUESTIONS ABOUT THE IMPACT
[...] (U) Summary: On January 25, 2010, Inson va Qonum (Humankind and Law),a newspaper owned by the Ministry of Justice, published an article entitled "Can You Live Without a TV? And Without Internet?" (Note: Inson va Qonum is published exclusively in Uzbek and has a circulation of 21,300. End Note. [...]
2010-01-29 12:18:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
10TASHKENT178Uzbekistan: Energy Officer Community Point of Contact
[...] (U) Per reftel A, Post provides the following information for Post officers and personnel with responsibility for energy issues. 2. (SBU) These individuals include: - Nicholas Berliner, Political/Economic Section Chief; IVG (+793) 2115; Fax +998 (71) 120-6335 [...]
2010-02-02 09:35:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON EPET UZ
10TASHKENT186UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING DELIVERED
[...] (U) On January 27, Post delivered reftel information on distracted driving issues to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and requested the information be shared with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which has responsibility for enforcing driver safety. Post will report substantive responses [...]
2010-02-03 06:44:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDECON SOCI UZ
10TASHKENT19Uzbekistan: GOU Proposals for ABC Follow-on
[...] (C) Summary: The Uzbek MFA provided the Embassy with the GOU's proposed follow-on to the Annual Bilateral Consultations (ABC) on January 12. Although there are several differences in their document (particularly in the Human Dimension),it represents a serious response conveyed with the message [...]
2010-01-14 13:10:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR UZ
10TASHKENT204Uzbekistan: Expedited Leahy Vetting Request for GOU
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. The GOU has provided post with the names of four officials nominated to participate in the Marshall Regional Conference on Border Management and Security of Central Asian States, February 9-11, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The nominate [...]
2010-02-04 12:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL SNAR ASEC UZ
10TASHKENT242UZBEKISTAN: FOOD FOR PROGRESS JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On February 9 the Regional Agricultural Counselor met with the Deputy Minister of Finance to review progress on projects implemented within the framework of Food for Progress (FFP). Although progress had been negligible over the 2006-09 period, it became apparent at this meetin [...]
2010-02-11 12:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON UZ
10TASHKENT27Uzbekistan: From A to Zeromax \
[...] (SBU) Summary. Zeromax Gmbh (Zeromax) is a privately- owned, \ Swiss-registered company that operates in Uzbekistan through a \ series of joint ventures and investments in the oil and gas, \ mining, agriculture, textile, logistics and banking sectors. The \ company keeps a tight lid on all financia [...]
2010-01-20 11:23:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECON EPET UZ
10TASHKENT29Uzbekistan: Feedback from the Embassy-hosted MLK Day
[...] (U) Summary: On January 19, Post used a reception at Ambassador Norland's residence to commemorate the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., and at the same time reach out to civil society and the human rights community regarding the Secretary's December 14 Georgetown message. Parti [...]
2010-01-21 11:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV KPAO UZ
10TASHKENT3UZBEKISTAN: RESPONSE TO ATTACK ON BROTHER-IN-LAW OF
[...] (C) According to Internet reports, the brother-in-law of opposition Birdamlik movement leader Bahodir Choriev was severely beaten in an incident that took place between Christmas and New Years. Post has confirmed these reports in conversations with Choriev's father and sister. In response, th [...]
2010-01-06 09:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
10TASHKENT310UZBEKISTAN: MEDIA REACTION TO SRAP HOLBROOKE VISIT
[...] (U) Summary: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) Holbrooke's February 19th visit to Tashkent received prominent and concise coverage in the local media. One official article on the visit was published and then republished in several state media outlets. The visit was the [...]
2010-02-24 10:27:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
10TASHKENT312UZBEKISTAN: REMOTE VILLAGE BIO-GAS DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The remote mountain village of Khumsan has a bio-gas demonstration project, using primitive technology that converts livestock manure into bio-gas and provides four participating families with electricity, heat, and gas. It is designed to last ten years without repairs or spare pa [...]
2010-02-24 12:38:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SENV EAID UZ
10TASHKENT314UZBEKISTAN: UNDP ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The United Nations Development Programme, one of the largest and most trusted donors in Uzbekistan, has a number of environmental and energy projects, including: building ecosystem stability on degraded land in Karakalpakstan and the Kyzylkum desert; capacity building for a clean [...]
2010-02-24 12:42:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SENV EAID UZ
10TASHKENT34UZBEKISTAN: GOU INOCULATES INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS AGAINST
[...] (SBU) Summary: At least six independent journalists were informally summoned to the Prosecutor's Office on January 7 for interviews. The journalists who responded were questioned about their professional activities, their views of the regime, their connection to other independent journalists, a [...]
2010-01-11 10:44:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
10TASHKENT37CORRECTED COPY: PUNCTUATION MALFUNCTION: UZBEK PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After the second round of parliamentary elections took place in 39 constituencies on January 10, Uzbekistan's Liberal-Democratic Party emerged with over 35% of the seats in the Lower House of Parliament, the Oliy Majlis. Relative party percentages remain almost unchanged from the [...]
2010-01-25 12:53:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UZ
10TASHKENT45Uzbek Deputy FM Kamilov Urges Progress in Key Areas
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid a courtesy call on newly-installed First Deputy Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov on January 28. Kamilov assessed the climate in the bilateral relationship as very favorable, noting a recent decree from President Karimov on strengthening relations with the U.S. tha [...]
2010-01-28 13:24:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UZ
10TASHKENT47Uzbekistan: Freedom of Expression under Strain \
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post continues to follow three cases \ involving constraints on freedom of expression. The defamation \ case against photographer Umida Ahmedova continues, with the latest \ information that she has refused an offer for amnesty in exchange \ for a guilty plea. Authorities hav [...]
2010-01-28 13:35:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
10TASHKENT49Bible Society of Uzbekistan faces Uncertain Future
[...] (C) Summary: Sergei Mitin, Chairperson of the Bible Society of Uzbekistan, spoke to poloff on January 22 to discuss continued problems with fulfilling its mission in Uzbekistan. Although Mitin is not yet ready to throw in the towel, he and others in the World Congress of United Bible Soc [...]
2010-01-29 09:45:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KIRF UZ
10TASHKENT5Uzbekistan: Response to Ambassador's Letter on Activist's
[...] (U) The Uzbek Foreign Ministry sent the Embassy a diplomatic note on January 7, responding to the Ambassador's letter to Foreign Minister Norov of January 6 concerning the beating of the brother-in-law of Birdamlik leader Bakhodir Choriev (Ref A). 2. (C) Comment: The Uzbek response to our le [...]
2010-01-08 09:46:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV UZ
10TASHKENT50INL UZBEKISTAN: NEW COMPUTER NETWORK SUPPORTS FORENSIC
[...] SUMMARY: A secure wireless computer network was installed at the Main Forensic Bureau of the Uzbek Ministry of Health with assistance from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and the Department of Justice International Criminal Investigative Training Assista [...]
2010-01-12 11:07:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC PREL KCOR KCRM UZ
10TASHKENT54Uzbekistan: Positive Signals on IPR
[...] (SBU) Summary: A reliable contact responsible for Intellectual Property (IPR) issues in the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan reported on January 11 that the Uzbek Copyright Agency (UCA) plans to introduce a draft law on removal of Uzbekistan's reservation to Article 18 of Bern Convention in [...]
2010-01-13 06:42:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINT KIPR UZ
10TASHKENT55Uzbekistan: Karimov Decree Offers Opportunities, But
[...] (C) Summary: Uzbek President Karimov signed a decree on January 11 calling for strengthened bilateral cooperation with the U.S. following the ABC meetings in Washington. The decree, which has since leaked to the press, tasks all Uzbek government entities with facilitating the implementation of [...]
2010-02-01 13:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AORC UZ
10TASHKENT59Uzbekistan: Response to DOL Request for Information on Child
[...] (U) Per Ref A request, post provides the following update on child labor and forced labor in Uzbekistan. TASKING 1/TVPRA ------------------------- 2. (U) Per instructions that post should only report on the use of child labor and forced labor during the production of [...]
2010-02-02 11:35:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
10TASHKENT65Uzbekistan: Ambassador Meets with Bible Society
[...] (U) Ambassador Norland met with Bible Society of Uzbekistan (BSU) Chairman Sergei Mitin on February 1 to discuss recent difficulties the BSU has faced in carrying out its activities. (See reftel.) 2. (SBU) The BSU has three ongoing issues: a shipment of Uzbek-, Karakalpak- [...]
2010-02-04 10:22:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
10TASHKENT67Uzbekistan: Photographer Akhmedova Convicted and Amnestied
[...] (SBU) Summary: Photographer Umida Akhmedova stood trial in Tashkent this week on charges of defaming and insulting the people of Uzbekistan through a book of photographs and a documentary film. (See reftels.) After one full day of trial, the court found her guilty of the charges, but e [...]
2010-02-11 14:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KPAO UZ
10TASHKENT69Uzbekistan: Urgent Leahy Vetting Request for GOU
[...] This is an request. Please see paragraph four. 2. Post has been provided with the name of one GOU official nominated to participate in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Comprehensive Crisis Management Course (CCM) on February 18 - March 19, 2010, in Honol [...]
2010-02-12 10:54:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV SNAR ASEC UZ
10TASHKENT7Uzbekistan: Fiscal Transparency
[...] (SBU) Uzbekistan took a major step towards budget transparency at the beginning of this year (2010) when the state budget was posted on an official internet site. The site is a reference for all laws and regulations passed by the parliament (Oliy Majlis) and, by the standards of Uzbekistan, re [...]
2010-01-11 13:12:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV ECON PREL UZ
10TASHKENT87UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL 301 REVIEW RECOMMENDATION (2010)
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The GOU's interagency working group charged with drafting new IPR legislation and implementing IPR reform made rapid progress in 2009. A measure to remove Uzbekistan's caveat to Article 18 of the Berne Convention has passed Uzbek interagency review and can be expected to be intro [...]
2010-02-22 11:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR UZ
10TASHKENT89Action Request: Renewing the NDN Agreement with Uzbekistan
[...] (C) The exchange of letters establishing the current framework for NDN in Uzbekistan is set to expire on April 3, 2010, the anniversary of its signing. Post understands that Washington is considering seeking specific enhancements to NDN with the Government of Uzbekistan and that General P [...]
2010-02-22 12:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR UZ
10TASHKENT9Uzbekistan: Strengthening Laws On Child Labor
[...] (U) Summary: At the end of December, President Karimov strengthened Uzbekistan's legal framework against child labor by signing into law amendments that increase penalties on public officials for using child labor, impose penalties on private individuals using child labor, and do away wi [...]
2010-01-14 05:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UN KTIP UZ
10TASHKENT90UZBEKISTAN: GOU PROMOTES "UZBEK" VALUES AMONG YOUTH
[...] (U) Summary: Several articles on the development of Uzbek "spiritual values" have been published in Uzbekistan's state media over the past few months. One such article, entitled "Spirituality: We are Responsible for Our Children," was published recently by government-owned Narodnoye Slovo follo [...]
2010-01-20 09:47:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO UZ
10TASHKENT91UZBEKISTAN: PRESIDENT KARIMOV APPOINTS SENATORS WITH AN EYE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During the last weeks of January, the 100 Senators of Uzbekistan's parliament, the Oliy Majlis, were chosen-sixteen appointed by President Karimov, and the remaining 84 selected by the regional councils from their own ranks. The Senate is intended to be Uzbekistan's "chamb [...]
2010-02-23 11:20:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM UZ
10TASHKENT92FORENSIC SCIENCE IN UZBEKISTAN: THE SUBTLE APPROACH TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Forensic Laboratory Improvement Project sponsored by the State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),with assistance from the Department of Justice International Criminal Investigative Training and Assistance Program (ICITAP),cont [...]
2010-01-20 09:51:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID SNAR ASEC KCRM UZ
10TASHKENT93UZBEKS ASK FOR SUBSTANCE ON SWG AND PETRAEUS VISIT
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel points on the Special Working Group (SWG) to MFA Americas Director Bakhtiyor Ibragimov on February 23. Ibragimov welcomed the news of the SWG's proposed visit, but suggested that the March 1-5 dates are probably too early for the GOU to fully prepare. The MFA will cons [...]
2010-02-23 13:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS UZ
10TASHKENT97Uzbekistan: Submission for 10th Annual Trafficking in
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-25 09:11:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KTIP KMCA UZ
10TASHKENT98UZBEKISTAN: 2010 BUSINESS FACILITATION INCENTIVE FUND (BFIF)
[...] (U) Brief Justification for Project -- Trade Show. Embassy Tashkent is requesting funding to recruit and send a delegation of Uzbek businesspeople to the May 3-6, 2010, Offshore Technology Conference (Energy/Oil) in the U.S. (NOTE: Although this conference contains the word "offshore" in the [...]
2010-01-22 11:33:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ECON EINV ETRD BTIO UZ
10TASHKENT99Uzbekistan: Follow up on DOL Request for Information on
[...] (U) Post submitted its response to DOL's request for information on child labor and forced labor in Ref A. DOL requested follow up information in Ref B regarding the use of adult labor in the production of goods, pursuant to Task 1 under the TVPRA. 2. (U) Adult forced labo [...]
2010-02-26 10:24:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
10TBILISI146GEORGIA: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON
[...] (S/NF) In response to ref A the following is further information regarding the Northern Distribution Network in Georgia. A. (C) PLEASE DESCRIBE THE HOST COUNTRY LEADER VIEWS ON THE US MILITARY LOCAL PURCHASE PLAN'S PROGRESS AND ANY BENEFIT TO THE HOST COUNTRY'S ECONOMY. HOW SATISFIED AR [...]
2010-02-02 14:42:00Embassy TbilisiSECRETPGOV PREL PINR MOPS KG KZ TI TX UZ GG
10USOSCE15OSCE CENTRAL ASIAN MISSION HEADS STRIVING TO
[...] (SBU) In a series of meetings on January 12 and 13 with OSCE Heads of Mission from four Central Asian States (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan),all four struck similar themes on Afghanistan, radicalization, border security, and Kazakhstan's proposal for a summit. On Afghan [...]
2010-01-21 09:40:00Mission USOSCECONFIDENTIALOSCE PTER PREL ZK AF KZ KG TI TX UZ
10USOSCE22PERSPECTIVES ON KAZAKHSTAN,S OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP IS
[...] (C) Summary: The visit of Embassy Astana DCM Pamela Spratlen to Vienna January 20-22 helped promote useful exchanges of views on Kazakhstan's Chairmanship, facilitated discussion of OSCE engagement in Afghanistan, and provided an opportunity to promote further interaction among Central Asian P [...]
2010-01-29 07:36:00Mission USOSCECONFIDENTIALOSCE PREL KZ KG TI TX UZ AF
97TASHKENT2034 UZBEK ISLAMIC MILITANT SURFACES IN PESHAWAR?
[...] CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR ESCUDERO. REASON: 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) ACCORDING TO BBC CORRESPONDENT MONICA WHITLOCK (PLEASE PROTECT),UZBEK ISLAMIC MILITANT "TAKHIRJON" HAS SURFACED IN PESHAWAR. TAKHIRJON LED THE 1991 "ADOLAT" UPRISING WHICH BRIEFLY TOOK OVER THE HOKIMIATE OFFICES IN NAMA [...]
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