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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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07NAIROBI4427KENYA ELECTIONS: Presidential Candidate Kalonzo Musyoka on the Elections
[...] (C) Summary. Kalonzo Musyoka, one of the three principal presidential candidates, recently laid out to the Ambassador his campaign strategy and views on the upcoming elections. The bottom line is that Musyoka realizes he has no chance to win the election this round and sees his campaign as a [...]
2007-11-13 14:43:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL
07NAIROBI4428KENYA ELECTIONS: Presidential Candidate Kalonzo Musyoka on the Elections
[...] (C) Summary. Kalonzo Musyoka, one of the three principal presidential candidates, recently laid out to the Ambassador his campaign strategy and views on the upcoming elections. The bottom line is that Musyoka realizes he has no chance to win the election this round and sees his campaign as a [...]
2007-11-13 14:43:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL
07NAIROBI4567Kenya Election: Western Province Primaries
[...] (SBU) The U.S. Mission sent 20 observation teams across Kenya to cover the party nomination process on November 16. To a team, our observers reported that all three major parties (ODM, PNU and ODM-K) often failed or refused to supply proper ballots or, often, any ballots at all. Reports of vo [...]
2007-11-26 14:18:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KE
07NAIROBI4647KENYA ELECTIONS: ANALYSIS OF PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Nearly ten percent of outgoing Members of Parliament (MPs) were eliminated in party nomination exercises while a further 25 percent lost major party nominations and took refuge with smaller parties where their prospects for reelection are exceedingly dim. President Kibaki's Pa [...]
2007-12-04 15:09:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4652Kenya Election: Role of Religious Institutions
[...] (SBU) Kenya's vibrant religious institutions play an active role in public life. They have figured prominently in the run up to the 2007 general elections. From sponsoring civic education efforts to backing certain candidates, religious leaders from the Christian and Muslim communities have u [...]
2007-12-05 10:58:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KE
07NAIROBI4759KENYA ELECTIONS: COUNTDOWN 4: 13 DAYS AWAY:
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Political Section compared notes with other well informed political observers on prominent government and opposition MPs likely to be defeated in the parliamentary contest. The results appear below. In total, we expect the defeat of 136 MPs out of a total of 210 (65 perc [...]
2007-12-17 03:39:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI4804MEDIA COVERAGE OF KENYAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN: REASONABLE
[...] Summary: A UNDP-funded, independent assessment of Kenyan mainstream media coverage in the run-up to the December 27 general election indicated that, from November 10 to December 10, media coverage was generally balanced and accurate, with a few notable exceptions. This coincided with US Embas [...]
2007-12-18 12:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM PREL OPRC PHUM KPAO KE
07NAIROBI4830 KENYA ON THE EVE OF NATIONAL ELECTIONS
[...] Summary: On balance, the Kenyan elections set for December 27 will likely be credible, but determining this will require careful reading of what is likely to be a messy process. Although President Kibaki and his Party of National Unity (PNU) could eek out victory, many observers see a win by o [...]
2007-12-24 11:12:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
07NAIROBI927KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF A/S
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...]
2007-02-27 11:49:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI973KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF S/WCI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...]
2007-03-01 06:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PREL KE
07PANAMA1102PANAMA POST: EDITION III
[...] (C) The following are the top stories for the third edition of the Panama Post: -- Attorney General names new acting head of FBI-equivalent; -- Fifth candidate announces run for presidency of governing Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD); -- Insights into why Panamanians join political par [...]
2007-06-29 20:30:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR SOCI PM
07PANAMA1898POTENTIAL SEISMIC RISKS MAY THREATEN PANAMA CANAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The historical view that Panama does not experience earthquakes was wrong, geological experts employed by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) told EmbOffs. These experts said emerging geologic research suggests that Central Panama -- including the Panama Canal and Panama City area -- [...]
2007-12-20 23:00:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALSENV AMER EWWT ELTN TPHY PM
07PARIS1418France Telecom's Transformational Strategy
[...] (SBU) On March 30, France Telecom (FT) executives told us that FT had to expand into new areas, both geographically and functionally, since telecom services were minimally profitable in France. FT emphasized that value-added services delivered through broadband and mobile telephony would be th [...]
2007-04-10 14:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ETRD FR
07PARIS2154France: Telecom and Information Technology Update
[...] (U) This update covers recent news in the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- Telecom Policy Gets a New Home (para 2) -- Fourth Mobile License (para 3) -- High Speed Internet Success in France (para 4) -- Alcatel-Luc [...]
2007-05-24 13:54:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ETRD FR
07PARIS261FRANCE: TSA BRIEFS DATA PRIVACY AUTHORITY ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: TSA provided an extensive briefing on U.S. aviation security arrangements to the French Data Privacy Authority (CNIL) in a meeting January 12. Because of the current risk that the CNIL may wish to review all U.S. airlines' aviation security practices regarding implementation of [...]
2007-01-23 11:42:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PTER FR
07PARIS805France: Telecom and Information Technology Update
[...] This update covers recent news in the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- Personnel Changes in ARCEP (paras 2-3),Ministry of Foreign Affairs (para 4) -- ARCEP President Says No to CSA-ARCEP Merger (para 5) -- Fourt [...]
2007-03-02 12:56:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ETRD FR
07PARIS809France: Telecom and Information Technology Update
[...] This update covers recent news in the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- Personnel Changes in ARCEP (paras 2-3),Ministry of Foreign Affairs (para 4) -- ARCEP President Says No to CSA-ARCEP Merger (para 5) -- Fourt [...]
2007-03-02 14:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ETRD FR
07PORTOFSPAIN393TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH
[...] Tobago Land License for Foreigners 2. Far East Co-operation in Trade & Investment 3. GOTT committed to FTAA 4. Fishy concerns 5. T&T gets Water Pollution Rules 6. U.S. company to build Caustic Soda plant 7. Essar Steel plant approved 8. T&T Bird Flu ready 9. VAT removed on [...]
2007-04-23 16:48:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAIR EFIN EIND EINV ETRD KFLU TD
07PRAGUE201PART II OF III: Seventh Annual Anti-Trafficking Report -
[...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified entire text; not for internet distribution. ---------- PREVENTION (ref Para 28 SECSTATE 202745) ---------- G) The First Deputy Minister of the Czech Interior Ministry has primary responsibility for the implementation of the National Strategy for the Fight A [...]
2007-02-28 13:44:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KRFD ASEC PREF ELAB EZ
07RABAT890S/CT DEPUTY COORDINATOR PALMER VISITS MOROCCO
[...] (C) Summary: During a May 8-10 visit, S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer and senior Moroccan officials discussed the GOM's holistic approach to combating terrorism and countering extremist ideology as well as ways to enhance CT efforts. The Moroccans welcomed Palmer's visit in the contex [...]
2007-05-18 16:30:00Embassy RabatSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL KISL ASEC MO
07RANGOON1014BURMA: REGIME ATTEMPTS TO SHIFT FOCUS BACK TO
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy Rangoon received a faxed letter from Acting PM Thein Sein addressed to Vice President Cheney, objecting to the UN PRST on Burma and declaring the regime intends to proceed with its seven step "roadmap to democracy." The regime's mass-member organization (USDA) continues [...]
2007-10-11 09:54:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM BM
07RANGOON901BURMESE PURCHASING POWER DECREASING AS PRICES RISE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The sudden increase of fuel prices in mid-August triggered an immediate increase in commodity and transportation costs. Although many of these prices have fallen since their initial hike, prices are still higher than pre-August 15 levels. Only a few companies increased wages f [...]
2007-09-19 05:06:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL BM
07RIYADH212SCENESETTER FOR APHSCT TOWNSEND VISIT TO SAUDI
[...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter and the entire US Mission in Saudi Arabia warmly welcome you back to Riyadh. As you have witnessed during the course of your many visits to the Kingdom, our bilateral relationship is developing into robust, multi-faceted cooperation. One indication of this was King [...]
2007-02-01 12:35:00Embassy RiyadhSECRET//NOFORNPREL EFIN CVIS KTFN PTER GCC SA
07SANSALVADOR105REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran soldiers and Ministry of Defense civilian employees for participation in the Combat Stress Mobile Education Team (MET),scheduled to take place in San S [...]
2007-01-22 20:15:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
07SANSALVADOR1342EL SALVADOR: VETTING OF SOLDIERS FOR IRAQ, TRANCHE 2
[...] This cable contains an action request; please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran soldiers from the Cuscatlan Battalion, who plan to depart for Iraq on August 1, 2007 for a six month tour of duty. This is the second of three cables an [...]
2007-07-11 22:41:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
07SAOPAULO161 CONSUL GENERAL VIIT TO THE PORT CITY OF SANTOS
[...] (U) ConsulGeneral (CG) and Econoff recently visited the port city of Santos, which lies 60 kilometers southwes of Sao Paulo across the Serra do Mar mountain rnge. Santos serves the industrial and agricultual trade needs of Sao Paulo and neighboring stats and is the most active port by volume [...]
2007-02-28 13:37:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT EINV ETRD ECON SENV OEXP BR ELTN SNAR
07SAOPAULO199MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: PRESIDENT BUSH IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-15 11:10:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO242 BRAZIL: USTR SCHWAB MEETINGS WITH BRAZILIAN INDUSTRY
[...] (SBU) Summary: USTR Ambassador Susan Schwab pointed out recently to leading Brazilian industrialists and agriculture sector representatives in Sao Paulo meetings the significance to Brazilian interests of the current Doha Round and affirmed that non-agricultural market access (NAMA) is key to [...]
2007-03-26 15:34:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD WTO BR
07SAOPAULO754BRAZIL'S RIBEIRAO PRETO: SUGAR AND ETHANOL BRING PROSPERITY
[...] (U) During an official visit to Ribeirao Preto, an agri-business center in northeastern Sao Paulo state, the Consul General visited a sugar mill and met with the Mayor and the President of the City Council. Once part of the state's coffee belt, the Ribeirao Preto area is now best known for it [...]
2007-09-11 19:04:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON PGOV ENRG ELTN BR
07SEOUL1230THE ENDURING LEGACY OF ADMIRAL YI
[...] (U) Koreans on April 28 will celebrate the 262nd anniversary of Admiral Yi Sun-shin's birthday. Admiral Yi is remembered for inventing the "turtle ship" -- which was the world's first metal-armored warship -- his brilliance as a strategist and, most of all, for his 16th century victories aga [...]
2007-04-27 09:02:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDJA KS PGOV PHUM PREL
07SEOUL333PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL CHUNG DONG-YOUNG: CONTENDER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the American model of celebrity turned politician, former news anchor Chung Dong-young enjoyed rising star status as one of the founders of the Uri Party, a close ally of Roh Moo-hyun, and a Minister of Unification who met with Kim Jong-il. Soon after Chung's histori [...]
2007-02-02 09:09:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDKS PGOV PINR PREL
07SINGAPORE469COMPETITION BODY FOCUSES ON AVIATION IN FIRST DECISIONS
[...] (U) Summary: Two recent decisions of the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) brought good news to Singapore's aviation sector. The CCS announced on February 13 that it did not object to the Joint Services Agreement (JSA) between Qantas Airways and British Airways and approved on March [...]
2007-03-08 09:33:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAIR ECON EINV SN
07STATE117348TFJM01 SITUATION REPORT NO. 004 AS OF 0845EDT
[...] NORAD does not expect hurricane force winds in any of the main tourist areas of the Yucatan (Cancun, Cozumel, or Merida). As of 0700 EDT, Consulate Merida and Embassy Belmopan report no visible damage and no reports of Amcit injuries. ------ MEXICO ------ 2. Consulate Merida reported [...]
2007-08-21 17:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS AEMR MARR CASC JM MX BH KHLS
07STATE94546POTENTIAL DPRK PURCHASE OF CURRENCY PRODUCTION
[...] (S) Action Request: Washington requests Post to draw from paras 7-12, as appropriate, in stressing to UK officials the U.S. warning that the DPRK may seek currency production equipment and technology from British companies for the production of U.S. counterfeit currency. Request that para 12 [...]
2007-07-06 20:24:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL KNNP MNUC KH KS UK
07STATE98429RESPONSE TO JAPANESE REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON
[...] (U) Action Request: Washington agencies request Embassy Tokyo to deliver the nonpaper in para 4 to Japanese MFA, METI, MOF, and NPA officials. Agencies would also appreciate embassy's efforts to follow up on NPA's offer to obtain information from Komori (ref A) and to reiterate our request (r [...]
2007-07-16 16:46:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL KNNP MNUC KN JA
07TAIPEI2130DUELING UN RALLIES: MOSTLY SMOKE, LITTLE FIRE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The DPP and KMT on September 15 hosted competing rallies in Kaohsiung and Taichung, respectively, that aimed to promote Taiwan's entry into the UN and their party's separate UN referenda. Led by all the DPP's top leaders, the party faithful turned out in moderate numbers to [...]
2007-09-17 10:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
07TAIPEI2498Taiwan Pharma: Patent Linkage Going Nowhere
[...] (SBU) Taiwan lacks a patent-linkage notification requirement and allows generic-drug licensing before patent expiry, practices that foreign pharmaceutical manufacturers claim allow local generic drug makers to infringe on patent-holders' rights and, in some cases, result in the Bureau of Nation [...]
2007-11-19 07:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR TW
07TASHKENT2162HIGH-LEVEL GOU ATTENDANCE AT BORDER SECURITY
[...] (U) Summary: On December 18, representatives of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC),Government of Uzbekistan (GOU),American and British Embassies, and the Asian Development Bank took part in a border project dedication ceremony at Hayraton checkpoint on the Uzbekistan-Afghan [...]
2007-12-26 12:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS PREL SNAR PTER AF UZ
07TASHKENT971YANUKOVYCH'S TASHKENT VISIT MARKS GRADUAL PROGRESS
[...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian Ambassador discussed with Charge and Poloff the recent visit to Tashkent of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. He characterized the Ukraine-Uzbekistan relationship as complicated, particularly since the Orange Revolution, and said that Ukraine is approachin [...]
2007-05-17 00:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PRGOV ECON PINR UP UZ
07TBILISI303OSCE PROVIDES SNAPSHOT OF SOUTH OSSETIA
[...] (C) OSCE officials shared with us several interesting bits of news and analysis about South Ossetia during a recent visit to Tskhinvali. Head of Mission (HOM) Roy Reeve said Russian officials had told him in Moscow that the South Ossetian decision to declare Georgian Deputy State Minister for [...]
2007-02-14 13:37:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID OSCE GG
07TBILISI304SPEAKER BURJANADZE ON RUSSIA, UKRAINE, REFORMS
[...] (C) Summary: During a February 9 meeting with Ambassador, Speaker Nino Burjanadze was positive on the recent rapprochement with the opposition (septel). She outlined steps the Parliament is planning to strengthen property rights and offer amnesty for privatization violations committed by ordi [...]
2007-02-14 13:43:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG
07TELAVIV1665DOE/NNSA/LLNL TEAM'S VISIT TO ISRAEL SEES PROGRESS
[...] (S) From March 13 through March 14, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Team comprised of officials from the DOE-affiliated National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) met with officials from the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC),Israel' [...]
2007-06-07 15:18:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL KNNP MNUC IR SY KN IS
07TELAVIV3187ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-02 13:02:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TOKYO1224COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CYNTHIA CARRAS, PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 21-June 20, 2007 TDY to Japan by Cynthia Carras, Presidential Management Fellow, Office of the Secretary of Defense. 2. (U) Point of contact is Political Officer Chris Gunning. He can be reached at: Embassy Main: (81-3)32 [...]
2007-03-20 02:28:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO1354COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MAJOR TREVOR ROSENBERG
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 15-May 7, 2007 TDY to Japan by MAJ Trevor Rosenberg. 2. (U) Point of contact is Political-Military Officer Chris Gunning. He can be reached at: Embassy Main: (81-3)3224-5000 (Operational 24/7) Office phone: (81-3)3224-53 [...]
2007-03-28 07:09:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO1355COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MAJOR TREVOR ROSENBERG
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 15-May 7, 2007 TDY to Japan by MAJ Trevor Rosenberg. 2. (U) Point of contact is Political-Military Officer Chris Gunning. He can be reached at: Embassy Main: (81-3)3224-5000 (Operational 24/7) Office phone: (81-3)3224-53 [...]
2007-03-28 07:25:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO1361COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL EOYANG AND
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 5 -7, 2007 visit to Japan by Staffdel Mieke Eoyang, Donald Viera, Fred Fleitz, and Laurence Hanauer. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Mary Wilson. She can be reached [...]
2007-03-28 08:51:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KS CH JA
07TOKYO1526COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PDASD JIM SHINN AND
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 10-13, 2007 visit to Japan by PDASD Jim Shinn, Suzanne Basalla, Jason Hamm, Rick Weir, and Jordan Winkler. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Xanthi Carras. She can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5344 H [...]
2007-04-06 09:11:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO1589COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PROFESSOR JAMES CLAD
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 13-17, 2007 visit to Japan by Professor Clad. 2. (U) Control Officer for your visit is Political-Military Officer Chris Gunning. He can be reached at: Embassy Main: (81-3)3224-5000 (Operational 24/7) Office phone: (81-3) [...]
2007-04-11 07:20:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO1645COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HUGH DESANTIS
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 24-29, 2007 visit to Japan by Mr. Hugh Desantis. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Mary Wilson. She can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5340 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6832 Mobile phone: 81-90-4168-4950 [...]
2007-04-13 08:54:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO1689JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/18/07
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-18 02:37:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
07TOKYO1793COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAS FRANK RUGGIERO AND
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 26-28, 2007 visit to Japan by DAS Frank Ruggiero and Katherine Baker (PM/WRA Policy Analyst). A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Keith Jordan. He can be reached at: [...]
2007-04-23 09:42:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA ASEC AFIN MARR PARM PREL KS JA
07TOKYO184COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. DELEGATION TO 1718
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 21-27, 2007 visit to Japan by the U.S. Delegation to the Trilateral 1718 Working Group and ASTOP. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Brett Blackshaw, Deputy, Politica [...]
2007-01-16 09:41:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM PREL JA
07TOKYO2081COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DASD THOMAS MAHNKEN AND
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the May 22-25, 2007 visit to Japan by DASD Thomas Mahnken, Paul Martin, Stephen Dinauer, and Suzanne Basalla. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Xanthi Carras. She can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5344 Home pho [...]
2007-05-10 04:50:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO210CORRECTED COPY: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TRILATERAL
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 21-27, 2007 visit to Japan by the U.S. Delegation to the Trilateral 1718 Working Group and ASTOP. Notional schedules for each event will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the delegation to the January 24 Tril [...]
2007-01-17 22:34:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP JA PARM PREL
07TOKYO2144COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OSD DASD JOHN HILL AND
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the May 15-19, 2007 visit to Japan by DASD John Hill, Maj. Jason Perry, and Maj. Leo Kosinski. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Trevor Rosenberg. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5338 Home phone: (81-3 [...]
2007-05-14 02:15:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO2171COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID SEDNEY
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the May 15-16, 2007 visit to Japan by David Sedney. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Cynthia Carras. She can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5344 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6837 Mobile phone: 81-90-5430-0384 F [...]
2007-05-15 02:02:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL CH TW JA
07TOKYO2451COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DASD BRIAN GREEN AND
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the June 4-8, 2007 visit to Japan by DASD Brian Green, LT COL Brian Bohannon, Suzanne Basalla, Steve Rosenkrantz, Michael Viland, Thomas J. Roth, Jeff Dillemuth and COL Sutton. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Xanthi Carras. [...]
2007-06-01 05:22:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO2505COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DASD JAMES C. CLAD
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the June 6-8, 2007 visit to Japan by DASD James C. Clad. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Chris Gunning. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5342 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6910 Mobile phone [...]
2007-06-05 08:25:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO2601The Japan Economic Scope - June 7, 2007 - Part 2
[...] (U) This cable contains part two of the Japan Economic Scope from June 7, 2007. 2.(SBU) Table of Contents 3. Northern Japan's Biotech Crops Regulatory Regime: an In- depth Look 4. KIAC Chairman Welcomes Asian Open Skies Policy of GOJ 5. KIX Criticizes JAL for Cancelling LA Routes [...]
2007-06-08 07:56:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR
07TOKYO2766COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WAE JAMES A. PIERCE
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for WAE James A. Pierce to Japan for TDY support to the Political Section from June 26-August 31, 2007. 2. (U) Point of contact will be Political Minister-Counselor Mike Meserve. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5330 Hom [...]
2007-06-19 08:31:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO2852JAPAN'S POLICE RESPONSE TO POTENTIAL DPRK INTEREST
[...] (S) FINATT, DHS/ICE, and LEGATT met with National Police Agency (NPA),Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Department, Assistant Director and Police Superintendent Tomoaki Onizuka June 21 to share ref C information. Onizuka confirmed that NPA was both able to access Interpol's June 2006 Orange A [...]
2007-06-25 02:33:00Embassy TokyoSECRETKNNP MNUC PARM PREL KH KS SZ JA
07TOKYO3312COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID HELVEY AND BRENDAN
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the July 29-August 1, 2007 visit to Japan by David Helvey and Brendan Kelly. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Chris Gunning. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5342 Home phone: (81-3)32 [...]
2007-07-19 08:18:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO3420COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JANE BRITTING, ANGELA ENG,
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the July 26-August 6, 2007 visit to Japan by Political Officers Jane C. Britting, Angela K.Eng, and Kristin R. Willey. 2. (U) Control officer for the Tokyo visit will be Political Officer Mary Wilson. She can be reached at Office ph [...]
2007-07-26 06:21:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA JA
07TOKYO3855COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN HILL AND JASON HAMM
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the August 22-24, 2007 visit to Japan by John Hill and Jason Hamm. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Simon Lee. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5337 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6881 Mobil [...]
2007-08-21 06:43:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO4010COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS SHUBERT
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the September 21-22, 2007 visit to Japan by Thomas Shubert. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Simon Lee. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5337 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6881 Mobile phone: [...]
2007-08-29 07:51:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO4167COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SUZANNE BASALLA
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the September 10-13, 2007 visit to Japan by Suzanne Basalla. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer John Nylin. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5344 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6817 Mobile phon [...]
2007-09-07 02:38:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO43COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TERRORIST INTERDICTION
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 18-20, 2007 visit to Japan by Robin Reichenbach, S/CT Terrorist Interdiction Program (TIP) representative. Post understands, per reftel, that no further assistance is required. 2. (U) Point of Contact for the Tokyo portio [...]
2007-01-09 05:18:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KFRD ASEC OTRA AEMR TH RP JA
07TOKYO4371COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LTCOL MARC CZAJA AND DAVID
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the September 21-26, 2007 visit to Japan by LTCOL Marc Czaja and David Schlaefer. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Chris Gunning. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5342 Home phone: (81 [...]
2007-09-19 06:16:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO456COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THY M. NGUYEN
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 06 - May 03, 2007 visit to Japan by Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation Foreign Affairs Officer Thy M. Nguyen. 2. (U) Embassy Point of Contact for the visit will be Geneve Menscher. She can be reached [...]
2007-02-01 03:52:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO458COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN HILL AND JOHN GEIS
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 02 -05, 2007, visit to Japan by OASD, East Asia John Hill and John Geis. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Geneve Menscher. She can be reached at: Office phone: [...]
2007-02-01 03:59:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO4599COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEAN VAUGHN AND KEFF CARTER
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the October 9-12, 2007 visit to Japan by Dean Vaughn and Keff Carter. 2. (U) Point of contact for the visit will be Political Officer John Nylin. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5344 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6817 [...]
2007-10-02 00:34:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO498COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JAMES ZUMWALT
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 11-19, 2007 visit to Japan by EAP/J Director James Zumwalt. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Geneve Menscher. She can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5 [...]
2007-02-02 08:37:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO5205COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JASON HAMM
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the November 12-17, 2007 visit to Japan by Jason Hamm. 2. (U) Point of contact for the visit will be Political Officer Simon Lee. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5337 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6815 Mobile phone: 81 [...]
2007-11-09 09:17:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO5487COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOINT GUAM PROGRAM OFFICE
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the December 8-10, 2007 visit to Japan by JGPO delegation members Lynn Hicks, James Cannon, Lou Cariello, Wesley Ishuhizu, John Gamez, Scott Forrest, William Taylor, David Demoske, Thomas Cole, Matthew Gagelin and David Bice. 2. (U) Co [...]
2007-12-07 04:50:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO5689The Japan Economic Scope--December 28, 2007
[...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from December 28, 2007. 2. (SBU) Table of Contents Japanese Government Moves 3. Personnel Shuffle at MOFA? 4. Reg Reform is Back 5. Japan Halts Plans to Start Hunting Humpback Whales Planes and Trains 5. Rail Improvement Cut in [...]
2007-12-31 01:20:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR
07TOKYO57COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GAO VISIT TO JAPAN
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 20-31, 2007 visit to Japan by Mr. Mark Little, Ms. Nelsie Alcoser, and Ms. Erika Prochaska. Post understands, per reftel, that no further assistance is required. 2. (U) Embassy Point of Contact for the Tokyo portion of [...]
2007-01-09 08:46:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAGAO OTRA KS JA
07TOKYO583COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DPRI DELEGATION
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 4 -17, 2007 visit to Japan by the DPRI Delegation. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Chris Gunning. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5342 Home ph [...]
2007-02-08 09:09:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO760COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SCOT A. MARCIEL
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 26-27, 2007 visit to Japan by Office Director Scot A. Marciel. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Mary Wilson. She can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5 [...]
2007-02-22 09:47:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL RP JA
07TOKYO761COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EAP/MLS DIRECTOR ROBERT
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 11-12, 2007 visit to Japan by EAP/MLS Director Robert Rapson. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Mary Wilson. She can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5340 H [...]
2007-02-22 09:48:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL TH BM LAS VM CBC KS JA
07TOKYO825COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROANE AND WIRKKALA
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 03-17, 2007 visit to Japan by INR/B Jamie Roane, Biographic Officer and Tiara Wirkkala, Political Officer. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Mary Wilson. She can be re [...]
2007-02-27 09:16:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PINR JA
07TOKYO855COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR G/SENK SENIOR ADVISOR WHITON
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 03-05, 2007 visit to Japan by Christian Whiton, Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Keith Jordan. He can [...]
2007-02-28 10:11:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PHUM JA
07USNATO324A/S FRIED BRIEFS NATO PERMREPS ON SECRETARY'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 16 Assistant Secretary Fried told NATO PermReps that US-Russian relations, Kosovo, and the internal Russian political climate were the principal subjects of the Secretary's discussions with President Putin, FM Lavrov, and others in Moscow. The Russians took on board the [...]
2007-05-23 06:44:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MARR XB
07USUNNEWYORK1172FIFTH COMMITTEE REACTS TO SOBERING MESSAGE ON THE
[...] Ambassador Mark Wallace addressed the Fifth Committee (Administration and Budget) during informal consultations on the proposed program budget (PPB) for the biennium 2008-2009 on December 10. Ambassador Wallace stated that the budget, in reality, is well beyond the Secretary General's initial [...]
2007-12-14 20:56:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UNGA
07USUNNEWYORK840UNGA 62 GENERAL DEBATE: SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from 191 member states spoke during the General Debate of the 62nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) from September 25 through October 3, 2007 and covered many themes in common. On Security Council Reform, many countries called for a more representative Co [...]
2007-10-09 23:58:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA
07VIENNA1996 LATEST TELECOM DEVELOPMENTS IN AUSTRIA
[...] After strong growth over the past 10 years, total telecom sales in Austria declined slightly in 2006 due to downward pressure on prices in the mobile phone sector and a significant drop in demand in the fixed-wire phone segment. Austrian mobile phone operators will implement the EU Roaming Re [...]
2007-07-27 08:48:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECPS ETRD USTR AU
07VIENNA2565AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 1, 2007
[...] After a week's hiatus, the Bawag trial will resume on Monday with more prominent politicians testifying. The first to testify is former Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, followed by former Vice-Governor of the National Bank, Gertrude Tumpl-Gugerell. On Wednesday, former Minister of Finance an [...]
2007-10-04 14:15:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KPAO AU
07VIENNA891AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 03, 2007
[...] Helmut Elsner, one of the chief suspects in the Bawag banking scandal, has begun rehabilitation treatment in a facility in the south of Austria after a heart bypass operation. The former CEO of Bawag is expected to remain in the clinic for at least four weeks, during which time Austrian justice [...]
2007-04-03 14:14:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC PAO AU
07VIENNA909AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 04, 2007
[...] Greens MP Werner Kogler says he believes a "network" connecting intermediaries and Austrian ministry officials was set up surrounding the Eurofighter purchase deal, citing specifically two members of the Defense Department's evaluation commission, who entertained close personal ties with interc [...]
2007-04-04 14:28:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC PAO AU
07VIENTIANE618DANCING WITH THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff accompanied Standing Deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad, along with a group of senior diplomats, on a 36-hour set-piece "study tour" of two districts in Sayabouri province. Thanks to a focus on export crops, primarily corn, the districts appear to be doing well [...]
2007-08-03 09:14:00Embassy VientianeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL EAID SENV LA
07VILNIUS340DAS DAVID KRAMER'S MAY 11 VISIT TO VILNIUS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 11, EUR DAS David Kramer provided the GOL an account of his recent visit to Belarus and delivered the message that the USG and its allies must keep pressure on Belarusian President Lukashenko until he takes concrete steps toward reform. His GOL interlocutors were skeptical [...]
2007-05-16 07:02:00Embassy VilniusCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LT BO UP
07WARSAW1786SCENE-SETTER FOR CONGRESSIONAL VISITS TO POLAND
[...] Your visits to Warsaw come at a somewhat turbulent political time in Poland, with the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party leadership having just dissolved a fractious coalition with two extremist junior partners and declared they will seek elections in the fall. The elections could be stave [...]
2007-08-17 14:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINR ECON MARR PL
07WARSAW2395POLAND'S PRACTICAL APPROACH TO RECONCILIATION WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: For practical reasons, the new Polish government is committed to improving relations with Russia (ref A) without abandoning core principles on democracy and energy security. Prime Minister Donald Tusk's decision to stop opposing Russian OECD membership was the first in a series o [...]
2007-12-19 10:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG ETRD KDEM PL RS
07YAOUNDE128U.S. INVESTMENT IN CAMEROON: MAJOR PROGRESS IN 2006
[...] (U) 2006 was an excellent year for U.S.-Cameroon commercial relations, and we enter 2007 with literally billions of dollars of pending U.S. investment on the table. In February we signed an Open Skies agreement; Geovic and Hydromine, two firms with large multi-year mining projects, made impor [...]
2007-01-30 13:49:00Embassy YaoundeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ETRD EMIN ECON KCOR EAIR EPET CM
07YEREVAN571VAYOTS DZOR REPUBLICANS STRONG FOR ELECTION DAY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An Embassy pre-election trip to the sparsely-populated Vayots Dzor province on 27 April found an electoral calm much attributed to the popularity of the Republican marzpet (governor) headquartered in Yeghanadzor and the relatively favorable image he exudes of the Republican Par [...]
2007-05-07 11:37:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM
08ABUJA1063NIGERIA: PRESIDENT'S CHIEF OF STAFF RESIGNS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Within days of the one year anniversary of President Yar'Adua's inauguration, the resignations of two of his key staff members, Chief of Staff General Abdullahi Mohammed and Principal Secretary to the President Steve Oransanye, were announced. Both men also served under former P [...]
2008-06-09 11:29:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL NI
08ABUJA2049DRL DAS KRILLA DISCUSSES VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLES WITH GON
[...] (SBU) Summary: DRL DAS Krilla met in Abuja with representatives of the offices of the President and Vice President and separately with international oil company (IOC) representatives to discuss the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the potential for their wider implementatio [...]
2008-10-17 06:44:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM EPET PGOV EINV PREL NI
08ACCRA1565GHANA OIL AND GAS PRIMER - UPSTREAM OVERVIEW
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Ghana's offshore oil discovery was among the largest worldwide in 2007. As a result of the 2007 find, Ghana attracted increased interest from international oil players seeking offshore concessions. As the latest potential oil producer on Africa's western coast, the Government of [...]
2008-12-16 07:41:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG ETRD PGOV GH
08ALGIERS1067WATER: SECURITY THAT OIL CANNOT BUY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria faces urgent challenges in managing its water resources and huge opportunities exist for U.S. companies in the sector, Minister of Water Resources Abdelmalek Sellal told the Ambassador on September 29. Sellal said he was satisfied with equipment, such as pumps, purchase [...]
2008-10-05 14:04:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALECON EAGR ETRD PGOV AG
08ALGIERS1148BLACK MARKET CURRENCY TRADE GAMES GLOBAL ECONOMIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: While key members of the Algerian government feel immune to the global economic crisis (reftel),Algeria's currency black market is integrated into the world economy in ways the state never has been. On October 13, black market currency traders suspended transactions across the en [...]
2008-10-22 16:15:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV AG
08ALGIERS1220MYSTIC SUFI: BOUTEFLIKA'S ISLAMIC GAMBIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As he did prior to his 2004 reelection, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has begun raising the profile of Algeria's Sufi religious schools -- the zaouias -- both as a tool for political mobilization and to counter Islamic extremism with a moderate, homegrown alternative. Within Isl [...]
2008-11-17 11:13:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL PREL AG
08ALGIERS1279NEW TELECOM MINISTER IDENTIFIES PRIORITIES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Post and Telecommunications Hamid Bessalah laid out for us an ambitious internet and telecom agenda that includes requests for U.S. engagement and assistance as well as opportunities for U.S. investment. Bessalah is a first-time minister who assumed his post in the Jun [...]
2008-12-07 07:39:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALECON PREL ETRD AG
08ALGIERS1282UNDER THE TLEMCEN SUN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A fertile farming region that is home to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and a disproportionate number of his ministers and advisers, the western wilaya (province) of Tlemcen appears at first glance to be a step ahead of other Algerian cities in reviving its economy and education [...]
2008-12-09 12:59:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV EAGR MO CN AG
08ALGIERS143STALE BUT NOT YET ROTTED: AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN
[...] SUMMARY: Algeria's agriculture sector has been stagnant for years because of a combination of factors that includes decades of Soviet-style government agrarian policies, underdeveloped industrial transportation systems, drought, and terrorist activity that disrupted business and distracted g [...]
2008-02-09 06:37:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL AG
08ALGIERS220ALGERIA FY 08 BFIF PROPOSAL
[...] SUMMARY AND JUSTIFICATION: Embassy Algiers submits the following request for FY 08 Business Facilitation Incentive Funds (BFIF) in support of commercial outreach outside of Algiers. The U.S.-Algeria commercial relationship has grown dramatically over the past 3 years -- from USD 11.5 billion [...]
2008-02-27 17:01:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDECON BEXP KIPR ETRD AG
08ALGIERS221CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] (C) Per reftel, Embassy Algiers has identified eleven critical infrastructure/key resource sites that if damaged or destroyed might negatively impact U.S. oil and gas supplies or U.S. military overflight and refueling. Algeria is a major source of oil and natural gas for the United States, se [...]
2008-02-27 17:18:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALASEC ECON PTER PGOV AG
08ALGIERS333JUST IN TIME FOR EASTER: TROUBLE WITH CHRISTIANS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The controversy surrounding Christians and alleged Evangelical Christian proselytizing in Algeria continues (refs A, B). In late February Hugh Johnson, a retired American Methodist minister who has lived and worked in Algeria for 45 years, was suddenly ordered to leave the count [...]
2008-03-20 09:35:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF CASC AG
08ALGIERS388ACCUSED JOURNALISTS SOBERED BUT UNBOWED BY
[...] (C) On March 26 Pol/Econ Chief and PAO visited the Algiers offices of the French-language daily El Watan to discuss the press defamation case against El Watan Director Omar Belhouchet and columnist Chawki Amari (ref A). Editor-in Chief Zine Cherfaoui and Amari told us that the paper was able [...]
2008-04-02 15:04:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KPAO PGOV AG
08ALGIERS434INTERIOR MINISTER CRITICIZES NGOS AS UNHELPFUL
[...] (C) Speaking during a parliamentary session held April 9, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni stated that "international NGOs coming to Algeria are neither helping nor building the country." He asked MPs why they would work with such NGOs since they only came to Algeria for money. Zer [...]
2008-04-20 16:16:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS449SECURITY UPDATE: AQIM NOT GETTING STRONGER IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to information collected from press reporting, the number of terrorist attacks remained approximately the same in March 2008 compared to previous months but there appear to have been fewer casualties. The majority of these March attacks have been attributed to Al-Qaeda [...]
2008-04-23 10:27:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETASEC PTER AG
08ALGIERS490RIOTING IN WESTERN ALGERIA - THE ANGRY YOUNG MEN
[...] (U) Algerian independent newspapers reported on April 28-29 that the city of Chlef, the capital of the province in western Algeria with the same name, suffered from two days of major rioting on April 27-28. According to these press reports, the trial of a community activist who had been fig [...]
2008-04-30 08:35:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPINS PGOV AG
08ALGIERS492MORE GOVERNMENT VENOM DIRECTED AT NGOS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Algerian political figures continue to attack foreign NGOs working in Algeria. The April 27 press featured the head of the government's Human Rights Commission blaming Al-Jazeera TV and foreign NGOs for "threatening the country's national reconciliation program." Meanwhile, rh [...]
2008-05-01 06:22:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS523PROFILES OF ALGERIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS
[...] SUMMARY: Since April 11, 2007, eleven suicide bombers have carried out attacks across Algeria. Through press reports, we have been able to piece together biographical vignettes of most of the bombers, which offer an insight into their motivations and socioeconomic circumstances. What stands o [...]
2008-05-08 10:23:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KISL AG
08ALGIERS625JUDGE DEFERS DECISION IN HIGH-PROFILE RELIGIOUS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 30 Habiba Kouider, an Algerian who converted to Christianity approximately four years ago, was charged in the western Algerian town of Tiaret with illegally practicing a non-Muslim religion. On May 27 the Tiaret court delayed giving a final verdict in the case, choosing [...]
2008-05-30 17:49:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF KDEM PGOV AG
08ALGIERS661MOUNTING SOCIAL DISCONTENT DRIVES LATE MAY STREET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's two biggest cities, Algiers and Oran, suffered prolonged street violence in late May at the hands of angry youths for whom disappointing soccer results were the final straw that pushed them into the streets. Parts of Algiers had to shut down each night May 20-22 due to [...]
2008-06-05 08:29:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI AG
08ALGIERS773ALGERIA FREES UP PUBLIC LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Algeria has moved to free up industrial and commercial property for private development by auctioning parcels of land in the growing community of Blida, near Algiers, a move Industry Minister Abdelhamid Temmar called a "micro-revolution." The newly-formed National Agency for Lan [...]
2008-07-08 15:38:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON AG
08ALGIERS787THE HARRAGA: GIVE ME DIGNITY OR GIVE ME DEATH
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On the desolate beach of Sidi Salem, in the eastern suburbs of Annaba, a dozen young Algerian males alternate between kicking a soccer ball and working on several small, unmarked wooden boats. Each week, several boats leave from this beach, filled with a cross-section of frustrated you [...]
2008-07-13 07:11:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON SOCI AG
08ALGIERS848BOUTEFLIKA LASHES OUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a speech to local officials on July 26, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stunned his audience by admitting that his government's economic policies have failed and blaming that failure on both foreign influence and mismanagement at all levels of government. The president scol [...]
2008-08-02 06:15:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ECON SOCI AG
08ALGIERS926THE TROUBLED MARRIAGE OF BOUTEFLIKA AND OUYAHIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The initial fanfare surrounding the June 23 return of Ahmed Ouyahia to the prime minister's chair has given way to a period of uncertainty and rumored tension between Ouyahia and President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The atmosphere has observers suggesting that Ouyahia was not Boutefl [...]
2008-08-21 10:50:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AG
08ALGIERS983REGIONALISM TRIUMPHS OVER LOGIC IN CHOICE OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 24 proclamation by Minister of Culture Khalida Toumi that Tlemcen will be the 2011 "Islamic Capital" was met with widespread cynicism, and appeared to continue a trend of western Algerian regionalism trumping common sense. Many were puzzled by the declaration, since al [...]
2008-09-12 10:38:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL SOCI AG
08AMMAN2490PLANS FOR INCREASING COMPETITION IN JORDAN'S MOBILE PHONE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The number of mobile phone subscribers in Jordan has risen to 4.8 million and represents an 84% penetration rate with possible room for growth. Jordan is currently served by four incumbent providers who view amenities as new ways to generate revenue. The Telecommunications Regu [...]
2008-08-26 08:09:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINV TINT JO
08AMMAN2782BROADBAND COMPETITION STILL SLUGGISH BUT FUTURE CAPACITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: An estimated 21% of Jordanians use the internet but only 3% of the population subscribes to an internet service. Jordan is currently served by 20 internet service providers (ISPs) which resell service from Jordan Telecom Group/Orange (JTG). Jordan's broadband service remains expe [...]
2008-10-05 05:18:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINT EINV TINT JO
08AMMAN3022Jordan 2009 National Trade Estimate
[...] Per reftel, below is the text of Jordan's 2009 National Trade Estimate, also sent, as requested, to USTR as a Microsoft Word document. 2. Begin Text: TRADE SUMMARY The U.S. goods trade deficit with Jordan was $261 million in the first 11 months of FY 08, a decrease of $248 million fr [...]
2008-11-05 13:09:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN JO
08AMMAN655DOMESTIC IT SECTOR GROWS DESPITE LURE OF DUBAI
[...] (U) Summary: The Jordanian information technology (IT) sector grew an estimated 25 percent in 2007, and is exploiting strong technical, entrepreneurial and Arabic cultural awareness skills. A growing mobile and broadband internet telecommunications sector is a strong complement, and the govern [...]
2008-03-02 06:23:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINT EINV TINT JO
08ANKARA1190TURKEY/CYPRUS: MFA TAKING WAIT AND SEE APPROACH ON
[...] (C) Summary and comment: In a June 27 meeting, MFA Cyprus Section Head Can Oztas told us the MFA remains supportive of current negotiations between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but has no plans to propose any concessions or gestures towards building momentum for a resolution. He rejected r [...]
2008-06-30 15:52:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR CY TU
08ANKARA1191TURKEY/CYPRUS: MFA TAKING WAIT AND SEE APPROACH ON
[...] (C) Summary and comment: In a June 27 meeting, MFA Cyprus Section Head Can Oztas told us the MFA remains supportive of current negotiations between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but has no plans to propose any concessions or gestures towards building momentum for a resolution. He rejected r [...]
2008-07-01 04:24:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR CY TU
08ANKARA1337ERGENEKON INDICTMENT STILL MURKY BUT PROCESS ALONE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Istanbul's Heavy Penal Court decided July 25 to accept the indictment filed in the Ergenekon case and proceed to prosecution (ref A). The 2,500 page indictment has clarified little about the case. Some Turks see the indictment as a courageous step toward bringing Turkey's stat [...]
2008-07-25 13:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL TU
08ANKARA1597TURKEY ENTHUSIASTIC ON EVE OF GUL VISIT TO ARMENIA
[...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: Turkey is abuzz only two days ahead of a now-confirmed visit by President Gul to Yerevan September 6 to attend a Turkey-Armenia World Cup qualifier. Viewing the visit as a powerful Turkish contribution to promoting peace and stability in the Caucasus and to solving the Na [...]
2008-09-04 14:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AM TU
08ANKARA1984TURKEY: MOVIE DEPICTING "REAL" ATATURK EVOKES
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey's current box-office leader "Mustafa" is stirring emotions due to its portrayal of the modern Turkish Republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as a lonely, hard-drinking man beset by doubts. After opening to sold out shows and rave reviews, hard-line Kemalist critics launc [...]
2008-11-14 15:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2005OBAMA SPELLS HOPE FOR TURKEY'S HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary and comment: An array of Turkey's most prominent human rights defenders hailed the election of Barack Obama as the beginning of a new era for the advancement of human rights in Turkey and the world. In the eyes of these activists, the European Union's ability to influence the GOT [...]
2008-11-19 15:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2086TURKEY: ERDOGAN SHIFTS INTO NATIONALIST GEAR
[...] (C) Summary: Islamist columnist Fehmi Koru's November 6 comment that Prime Minister Erdogan came to power in 2002 as an "Obama-like personality but came to resemble President Bush" drew an aggressive reaction from Erdogan and generated a groundswell of commentary. Many who had once supported [...]
2008-12-04 12:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2118TURKISH INTELLECTUALS APOLOGIZE TO ARMENIANS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: 275 intellectuals have signed a petition apologizing for the "great disaster" suffered by Armenians in 1915. The apology has prompted considerable debate in Turkey, with some criticizing the authors for not calling on the state to apologize and others arguing that the apology, w [...]
2008-12-16 10:02:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM AM TU
08ANKARA285TURKEY: ANKARA CONFERENCE DISCUSSES HOW TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-15 09:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA309ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-19 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA315TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR EXPANDED
[...] (C) Summary and comment. PM Erdogan and officials from the state-controlled "TRT" broadcasting network announced plans February 17 for TRT to dedicate a channel to broadcast an array of Kurdish language programs. The PM set no rollout date, but his statement provides the most specifics to dat [...]
2008-02-19 16:09:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA336BUSINESS GROUPS WARN GOT ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Three major business organizations warned the government on February 21 about rising unemployment and slowing industrial activity. The Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB),Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) and Turkish Clothing [...]
2008-02-22 15:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD TU
08ANKARA396LEAHY VETTING: REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF
[...] This is an action request. 2. Post has reviewed the following Turkish candidate for an International Military Education and Training (IMET) sponsored program. Action Request: Post requests that Department conduct a name check on this candidate in appropriate databases (DRL/PM/EUR/INR) and [...]
2008-02-29 11:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PREL PGOV TU
08ANKARA423ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-04 14:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA436TURKEY: KURDISH REACTIONS TO THE CROSS-BORDER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-06 05:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PTER OSCE TU IZ
08ANKARA503TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS CREEPS FORWARD
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkish academics and civil society activists are voicing frustration at the slow pace of EU membership-related reforms. They charge the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is putting its "pet projects," such as lifting the headscarf ban at universities, ahead [...]
2008-03-14 11:10:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA59TURKEY'S PLANS TO AMEND CONTROVERSIAL "ARTICLE
[...] (C) Summary: Divisions in Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have delayed plans by at least a week to introduce amendments to controversial Turkish Penal Code Article 301 (criminalizing insulting "Turkishness"). Four main amendments are under discussion: changing "insulting [...]
2008-01-11 12:08:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA714TURKEY: RULING PARTY STILL WORKING OUT "ARTICLE
[...] (C) Summary: As a bill to amend controversial Turkish Penal Code Article 301 (criminalizing insulting "Turkishness") inches its way toward the floor of Turkish Parliament, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) members remain divided on the key issue of who should review cases to [...]
2008-04-16 14:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA746TURKEY: CHP CONVENTION TO AFFIRM BAYKAL'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Few expect great change to come from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) regular general convention, April 26-27. Deniz Baykal's iron grip on internal party processes virtually assures his reinstatement as chairman, and any changes to the Administrative Board will lik [...]
2008-04-22 07:26:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA781ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-25 13:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA797ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-28 14:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA818TURKEY: CHP PARTY CONGRESS SERVES UP MORE OF SAME
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A predictable and lackluster Republican People's Party (CHP) convention April 26-27 re-elected Deniz Baykal as chairman and cleaned house of his opponents, further strengthening his sclerotic hold over a party that does not want him, but cannot fight him. The convention declarati [...]
2008-04-29 14:50:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA833TURKISH PARLIAMENT (FINALLY) AMENDS "ARTICLE 301"
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Following an all-night session and two years of heated debate, Turkey's parliament voted 250-65 to amend controversial Turkish Penal Code Article 301 (criminalizing "insulting Turkishness") at 5 am April 30. The bill, which requires that the Justice Minister authorize [...]
2008-04-30 11:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANTANANARIVO137COMOROS WAITS FOR ZUMA; ASSEMBLES HELICOPTERS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of the Union of the Comoros and the Moroni diplomatic corps await South African (RSA) Foreign Minister Dlamini-Zuma's decision regarding when an international delegation might deliver an ultimatum to renegade Colonel Mohamed Bacar of Anjouan. The Union has obtai [...]
2008-02-19 11:35:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS ASEC CN
08ASHGABAT429 TURKMENISTAN: THE FEMALE "STREET NINJAS" OF ASHGABAT
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Every day, an army of Turkmen women, in bright orange traffic vests and with their heads and faces wrapped in scarves, descend on the capital's streets and public sites to carefully sweep away Ashgabat's omnipresen [...]
2008-04-07 08:08:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ELAB SOCI SNAR KWMN TX
08BAGHDAD2724SINIORA/ABDULLAH: A TALE OF TWO VISITS
[...] (C) Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's August 20 visit to Baghdad ran longer than expected and focused on economic (trade, investment, and reduced-tariff oil sales) rather than political issues. Meeting with the Secretary on August 21, a clearly pleased Prime Minister Maliki praised th [...]
2008-08-25 06:50:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ
08BAKU38PRESIDENT ALIYEV DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY AND FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: During a January 9 meeting with Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL),President Aliyev said he was confident about winning the October Presidential election, due to his government's accomplishments and the opposition's inability to introduce fresh faces. Aliyev said Azerbaijan is [...]
2008-01-15 12:31:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ENRG EPET MARR MASS PTER KDEM AJ
08BAKU9AZERBAIJANI HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS ARGUE PRESSURE
[...] (C) Summary: During a December 28 meeting with the Ambassador, eight of Azerbaijan's leading human rights activists said GOAJ pressure against government critics is rising, with the GOAJ relying on political charges such as espionage, libel, and terrorism to silence or intimidate critics. T [...]
2008-01-04 11:19:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
08BAMAKO168MALI'S INPUT ON WEST AFRICA ICT CONFERENCE
[...] In response to reftel, Embassy discussed the upcoming West Africa ICT conference in Accra with Dr. Mamadou Diallo, Telecommunications Specialist at the Ministry of Communications, who also attended the last ICT conference in San Francisco. He stated that mobile phone technology is the fastes [...]
2008-02-19 07:49:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ECPS ECON ML
08BASRAH62IRANIAN COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY IN BASRAH
[...] (C/REL MCFI) SUMMARY: Iranian investment in Basrah province appears to be limited as Tehran focuses on influencing Basrah's political and security environment. Basrawis suspect Iranian front companies exist, but given their clandestine nature and the use of Iraqi intermediaries have difficulty [...]
2008-06-22 14:08:00REO BasrahCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ELTN ENRG EPET ETRD PARM PBTS PGOV
08BEIJING390WINTER STORM CONTINUES TO WREAK HAVOC; CENTER
[...] (C) China's worst snowstorm in 50 years continues to wreak havoc across southern and central parts of the country. Although some transportation networks over the past two days have started to return to normal, hundreds of thousands of travelers remain stranded and millions of residents face ha [...]
2008-02-01 11:27:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPGOV PROP ECON ELTN SOCI CH
08BEIRUT1582LEBANON: BOUTROS HARB URGES INDEPENDENT LIST, EVEN
[...] (C) March 14 MP Boutros Harb, on the eve of the U.S. presidential elections, expressed hope that the "Lebanese message" would be well-understood by the new U.S. administration. During his November 4 meeting with the Ambassador, Harb said March 14 had agreed to reach a unified position on cand [...]
2008-11-05 15:42:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR UNSC LE SY
08BEIRUT1615LEBANON: JUMBLATT AND HAMADEH ON INDEPENDENT BLOC
[...] (C) Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and March 14 MP Marwan Hamadeh discussed ongoing negotiations for election blocs and contentious cabinet atmospherics during dinner with the Ambassador on November 8. Jumblatt said he planned to offer his own national defense strategy during the next National D [...]
2008-11-10 19:35:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR UNSC LE SY
08BEIRUT407LEBANON: NOMINATIONS FOR MEPI STUDENT LEADERS PROGRAM
[...] (U) On March 7 and 10, a four-member Embassy panel conducted interviews with short-listed applicants for this summerQs MEPI Student Leaders Program. Ten principal candidates and four alternates were selected based on their qualifications for the program and interview performance. The ten pri [...]
2008-03-19 14:40:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMPI KPAO LE
08BEIRUT409LEBANON: NOMINATIONS FOR MEPI STUDENT LEADERS PROGRAM
[...] (U) On March 7 and 10, a four-member Embassy panel conducted interviews with short-listed applicants for this summerQs MEPI Student Leaders Program. Ten principal candidates and four alternates were selected based on their qualifications for the program and interview performance. The ten pri [...]
2008-03-20 09:19:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIEDKMPI KPAO PREL LE
08BEIRUT542LEBANON: TOUR OF THE BLUE LINE; UNIFIL COMMANDER'S
[...] (C) On April 19, Charge and Defense Attache toured the Blue Line in a UNIFIL helicopter, overflying Sheba'a farms and Ghajar and met at length with UNIFIL Commander Graziano. General Graziano continues to stress that Ghajar is his number one issue, predicting that this issue will lead to arm [...]
2008-04-21 17:19:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MASS MCAP PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR SY
08BEIRUT57LEBANON: UNDERSTANDING MICHEL AOUN'S POPULARITY
[...] (C) While his support has dropped since its 2005 peak, Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun remains the most popular Christian political leader in Lebanon. His polling numbers remain high in spite of actions that could have diminished his support, particularly among Lebanese Christians. [...]
2008-01-15 09:54:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM LE
08BEIRUT693LEBANON: FACEBOOK - YOUTH GO ONLINE TO OPPOSE
[...] Summary: Facebook, a social networking site, is one online medium Lebanese youth have used to react to the political instability and violence plaguing the country since May 7. Many have made their opinions public by posting comments on their profiles, changing their profile pictures to patrioti [...]
2008-05-15 12:19:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR OEXC SCUL AINT KPAO LE
08BELMOPAN103 BIO -- BELIZE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF
[...] Gaspar Vega was appointed by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to cabinet on Monday, February 11, 2008. Following is his biography. Address as: Minister Vega, Mr. Minister Full Title: The Honorable Gaspar Vega POB: San Estevan Village, Orange Walk District 2. Education: Vega graduated f [...]
2008-02-20 21:37:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPINR BH
08BELMOPAN188 BIO -- BELIZE: John Briceno,
[...] John Briceno was elected to be the Opposition Party Leader at the People's United Party (PUP) leadership convention on Sunday, March 30, 2008. Following is his biography. AKA: Johnny Briceno; or Juan Briceno Address as: Hon. John Briceno DOBP: July 17, 1960, Orange Walk Town, Belize [...]
2008-03-31 22:12:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPINR BH
08BELMOPAN505BELIZE: MINISTER OF NATURAL RESOURCES ON LAND TITLES AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Charge and POLOFF met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources Gaspar Vega on December 3, 2008. Vega said he was working hard to eliminate the backlog of over 5,000 land transfer and title cases inherited from the previous government. He estimated it will t [...]
2008-12-04 22:36:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EPET BH
08BELMOPAN63BELIZE: ELECTION COVERAGE PLAN
[...] Summary: Post has prepared a plan to cover 22 of the 31 constituencies in Belize for the general elections taking place this Thursday, February 7, 2008 (reftel A). In total, 16 election observers from U.S. Embassy Belmopan will travel throughout the country. Each observation team is expecte [...]
2008-02-06 19:29:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC BH
08BERLIN1006MERKEL TRIP COMMUNICATES STAUNCH OPPOSITION TO
[...] (C) Chancellor Merkel delivered a sobering message on MAP and an EU membership perspective for Ukraine during her July 21 visit to Kiev. According to Chancellery Russia and Eastern Europe Division chief Norman Walter. Merkel made clear that Germany supported Ukraine's eventual membership in [...]
2008-07-24 10:35:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR NATO EUN GM RS
08BERLIN1295GERMANY: COLLAPSE OF ORANGE COALITION PULLS MAP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Contacts at MFA and the Chancellery indicated that the collapse of the Orange Coalition in Ukraine makes MAP improbable in the near or medium term. POLOFF met with MFA Division Head for Russia and Ukraine Ernst Reichel September 19, who hoped that Germany and the U.S. would come [...]
2008-09-19 13:24:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR NATO EUN GM RS
08BOGOTA2064DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE'S JUNE 2 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with Uruguayan FM Gonzalo Fernandez June 2. The Deputy and Fernandez noted a "growing bilateral relationship" between the USG and GOU, due in part to recent bilateral economic and science and technology agreements. Fernandez discussed Uruguayan at [...]
2008-06-06 17:43:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL ECON SOCI EC UY CO
08BRASILIA1000USDA UNDER SECRETARY KEENUM CO-CHAIRS 3RD U.S.-BRAZIL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. Mark Keenum, USDA Under Secretary Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services co-chaired the 3rd U.S.-Brazil Consultative Committee on Agriculture in Brasilia May 19-20, 2008 which was successful in expanding bilateral dialogue and in nudging the agricultural trade agenda with Br [...]
2008-07-24 10:26:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD BR
08CHISINAU175MOLDOVA: EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (U) Responses are keyed to questions in ref A, which requests post's contribution to the eighth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. 2. (SBU) Summary: Anti-TIP efforts in the Republic of Moldova mostly were undertaken by NGOs and international organizations (IOs),primarily because [...]
2008-02-21 14:52:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD KCRM PREF MD
08CHISINAU730IRI/NDI CRITICIZED IN MOLDOVAN PRESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Government-controlled television and press gave long play July 3 and 4 to a story critical of IRI and NDI. In response to these articles, Embassy convened a meeting July 8 with representatives of both organizations. Embassy plans no public statement at this time, but IRI (whi [...]
2008-07-08 15:24:00Embassy ChisinauCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MD
08CONAKRY252EMBASSY CONAKRY - SITUATION REPORT 13
[...] (C) As of 14:00, Conakry remains quiet and calm. Embassy has received no reports of gunfire or criminal activity. Local businesses and gas stations remain closed. There is very little traffic on the roads. Earlier this morning, between 150 and 250 women were peacefully demonstrating in fro [...]
2008-05-30 12:38:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV PMIL ASEC KDEM GV
08DAKAR1432SENEGAL MEETS DEADLINE BUT PROBLEMS REMAIN AHEAD
[...] (C) Summary: Senegal's Finance Minister, Abdoulaye Diop, has been scrambling to meet the prior actions and find new financing to cover the country's internal debt in advance of the IMF Board's judgment on the country's Policy Support Instrument (PSI) second review, scheduled for December 19. [...]
2008-12-16 16:26:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EAID PGOV KCOR FR SG
08DAKAR588CORRUPTION AND MONEY LAUNDERING IN GOS SALE OF
[...] (S) Senior Senegalese and IMF officials have confidentially shared with us their concerns that the government, apparently with President Abdoulaye Wade's blessing, is preparing to enter into a privately negotiated, potentially corrupt deal to sell the government's holdings in Sonatel, Senegal [...]
2008-05-21 16:28:00Embassy DakarSECRETEFIN EINV KCOR PGOV PREL EAID SN
08DAKAR688SENEGAL: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN THE
[...] (U) The majority of working children can be found in agriculture, livestock herding, hunting, fishing, domestic service, sewing and weaving activities, transportation, construction, as well as in automobile repair shops, restaurants, and hotels. Children also work in hazardous conditions in ro [...]
2008-06-11 14:23:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EIND ETRD SOCI PHUM PGOV PINS KDEM SG
08DAKAR778 SUDATEL SHOULD BRING A NEW DYNAMIC TO SENEGAL'S ICT
[...] SUMMARY: According to sources from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Telecommunications, Sudanese telecommunications company Sudatel should begin its business operations and ICT infrastructure investment in Senegal in October 2008. Though Sudatel claims to be an independent, private firm, j [...]
2008-07-02 10:24:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EINV EFIN ECON PGOV SG
08DHAKA1298REFORM-MINDED GRANDEE OF FARIDPUR FACES TOUGH RACE
[...] (C) The race for the Parliament seat representing the Faridpur district capital is a showdown between three high-profile candidates in which party allegiance is being sorely tested. It pits a close in-law of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the Awami League candidate versus the Jamaat-e- [...]
2008-12-14 08:34:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM BG
08DHAKA1344CHITTAGONG GODFATHER FACES TOUGH RE-ELECTION
[...] (C) One of the earliest and biggest targets of the Caretaker Government's drive to clean up government is back on the campaign travel in a tough fight to hold onto his Parliament seat in Chittagong District. Salauddin Quader (SQ) Chowdhury, the parliamentary affairs adviser to former Prime Min [...]
2008-12-24 09:38:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM BG
08DHAKA348IN RURAL BANGLADESH, WHERE HAVE THE TERRORISTS
[...] (C) Summary: Islamic terrorists are visible no longer in a corner of western Bangladesh, where they initially were embraced as effective vigilantes against violent leftist gangs that preyed upon rural communities. The vehemence with which local people now denounce the Islamic extremists sugges [...]
2008-03-19 10:38:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALCT PINR PTER BG
08DJIBOUTI545DJIBOUTI STARTS PLANTING FOR "GREEN REVOLUTION"
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Faced with rising global food prices, a near-total dependence on imported food, and resulting high levels of malnutrition and food insecurity (reftel),the GODJ has recently encouraged creative small-scale agricultural projects as part of Djibouti's overall food security strategy [...]
2008-06-23 08:10:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON EAID SENV PGOV SOCI KPAO DJ
08DJIBOUTI953DJIBOUTI -- DAILY SUMMARY OF DJIBOUTI PRESS 11/30/08
[...] Djibouti delegation holds talks with President Rayaale, cabinet ministers (Turkish Weekly) 2. Urban farmers exporting fruit, vegetable to Djibouti (Walta Information Center, Ethiopia) 3. Yemen, Djibouti discuss coordinating efforts to combat piracy (Yemen News Agency) 4. Yemeni-Dji [...]
2008-11-30 13:45:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR PREL PGOV DJ XA
08DUBLIN51IRELAND -- INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2008
[...] Per reftel, the following is Embassy Dublin's 2008 Investment Climate Statement submission. 2. The text of the submission follows. BEGIN TEXT ---------- IRISH GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS FOREIGN INVESTMENT The Irish Government actively promotes foreign direct investment (FDI),[...]
2008-01-28 13:41:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PGOV OPIC KTDB USTR EI
08FREETOWN305 APC AND SLPP RE-LAUNCH UNITY RADIO
[...] SUMMARY: On June 12, Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma, of the All People's Congress (APC)-led government officially re-launched the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)) Unity Radio 94.9. The Ministry of Information and Communication had closed the radio station on May 8 (Ref [...]
2008-06-27 19:06:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINR SL
08GABORONE909BOTSWANA REAFFIRMS ITS COMMITMENT TO RIVER BASIN ACCORDS
[...] Summary: Botswana hosted September 15 a USAID-sponsored regional meeting under the aegis of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) on river basin organizations (RBOs) for relevant GOB ministries and departments, and representatives from the four RBOs of which Botswana is a member. At [...]
2008-10-15 12:13:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY SENV SOCI EAID BC
08HANOI1010QSCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE VISIT TO VIETNAM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-03 09:53:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER ECON ETRD VM
08HANOI1088THIRD ANNUAL JAC GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS
[...] (U) Summary. During the third annual Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) on Agent Orange/dioxin, JAC members reviewed U.S.-Vietnamese cooperation on Agent Orange-related issues over the past year, discussed ongoing remediation and health projects, and provided recommendations for future activities, [...]
2008-09-22 00:23:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV TBIO KPAO VM
08HANOI1120AMBASSADOR, HANOI ARCHBISHOP DISCUSS CHURCH LAND DISPUTES,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Meeting the Ambassador September 30, Hanoi Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet noted improvements in the Church's ability to recruit seminary students and assign priests, but voiced dismay over ongoing land disputes. The Ambassador assured the Archbishop of active U.S. support for [...]
2008-09-30 09:13:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
08HANOI1125SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY MARK KIMMITT AND THE
[...] (SBU) Embassy Hanoi looks forward to welcoming you to Vietnam. Your visit for the first-ever U.S.-Vietnam defense dialogue will be an important milestone in the growing U.S.-Vietnam relationship and will highlight a broad area of bilateral defense and security cooperation that has now begun to [...]
2008-10-01 10:10:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS PREL PGOV OTRA VM
08HANOI1162AGRICULTURAL ACCESS IS ENOUGH TO SWAY VIETNAM IN TRADE DEAL
[...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Vietnam and Japan broke an impasse in their free trade negotiations, with Japan yielding on some of Vietnam's demands for preferent [...]
2008-10-10 04:29:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON VM
08HANOI1173SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY FOR MANAGEMENT PATRICK
[...] (SBU) Under Secretary Kennedy: Ambassador Michalak and Mission Vietnam look forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit will be an important signal to the Vietnamese of the importance of our growing bilateral relationship, and the need to adequately support it with the construction of a New [...]
2008-10-15 06:34:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT ABLD VM
08HANOI1258SCENESETTER FOR VISIT BY OES ASSISTANT SECRETARY MCMURRAY
[...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho and Cat Tien National Park. Your visit will be an important signal to the Vietnamese of the importance of our growing bilateral environmental relationship, especially as we seek to build on the progress made duri [...]
2008-11-12 10:06:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO SOCI PREL ECON KFLU KHIV VM
08HANOI1332AGENT ORANGE: DESPITE OBSTACLES, BILATERAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the first meeting of the Environmental Task Force (ETF),set up under the U.S.-Vietnam Joint Advisory Committee on Agent Orange and its contaminant dioxin (JAC) (Reftel),the United States and Vietnam made substantial progress towards developing a remediation work plan for Da [...]
2008-12-08 11:18:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL SENV TBIO KPAO VM
08HANOI1342SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BAUCUS, DEC 16-20, 2008
[...] (SBU) Embassy Hanoi looks forward to welcoming you to Vietnam. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's June visit to Washington exemplifies a U.S.-Vietnam relationship that continues to broaden and mature, in the process spurring economic, social and technological development that has eased the path [...]
2008-12-09 10:30:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP EFIN EAID ECPS ECON ETRD VM
08HANOI1350CZECH REPUBLIC DETAILS DIOXIN CLEANUP EFFORTS AT FORMER
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 11 meeting with Emboffs, David Jarkulisch, Commercial and Development officer at the Embassy of the Czech Republic, detailed November meetings between Czech technical and development experts and their Government of Vietnam (GVN) counterparts to negotiate dioxin rem [...]
2008-12-12 08:14:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV TBIO KPAO VM
08HANOI1417AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MOD EXTERNAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Michalak met with Director of the External Relations Department at the Ministry of Defense (MOD),Lieutenant General Pham Thanh Lan, December 18 to discuss MIAs (both U.S. and Vietnamese),U.S. support for demining activities, Agent Orange remediation activities, and [...]
2008-12-31 07:18:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ETRD MARR VM
08HANOI147AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH US-VN DIALOGUE GROUP ON AGENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. On February 1, Ambassador Michalak met with the U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange-Dioxin (Dialogue Group). Formed by the Aspen Institute, with support from the Ford Foundation, the Dialogue Group made its second visit to Vietnam to observe containment measures at the [...]
2008-02-12 01:30:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV TBIO KPAO VM
08HANOI225SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL VISIT TO VIETNAM
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Hill: Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you back to Hanoi. Your visit is well timed to focus Vietnamese leaders on the importance we attach to strengthening and deepening our bilateral relationship in the year ahead, especially after bad weather in China forced the la [...]
2008-02-26 09:14:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OTRA ECON VM
08HANOI306VIETNAM SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND
[...] (U) Your visit is a good opportunity to encourage Vietnam to continue the process of opening to the world and reforming internally. Vietnam's national leadership remains eager to learn from the United States on economic and governance reform, and will be attentive to what you have to say. You [...]
2008-03-17 02:53:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA ECON ETRD EINV EFIN KIPR PREL PHUM KIRF EAIR
08HANOI33SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary Negroponte: Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit is well timed to focus Vietnamese leaders on the year ahead, which with focused effort should bring a further deepening in the bilateral relationship. While the relationship is broadening and [...]
2008-01-10 06:16:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OVIP VM
08HANOI37FORD FOUNDATION GRANTEES HOST AGENT ORANGE DISABILITY FORUM
[...] (U) Summary. On December 18, the Ford Foundation funded a national disabilities workshop focusing on Agent Orange (AO) and its contaminant dioxin. Various speakers highlighted the need for collective Government of Vietnam (GVN) and international support for the disabled suffering from war leg [...]
2008-01-10 10:08:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV TBIO KPAO VM
08HANOI370HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT: VIETNAM SCENESETTER, PART II OF III
[...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. It is for official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Secretary Leavitt, this cable supplements Ref A and highlights the overarching health-related challenges facing Vietnam. We are proud [...]
2008-04-01 01:12:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KPAO KFLU KHIV VM
08HANOI508DHHS SECRETARY LEAVITT FOCUSES ON PRODUCT SAFETY, INFLUENZA
[...] (SBU) Summary. During his visit to Hanoi, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt successfully advocated for the United States and Vietnam to draft a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on product safety in preparation for the upcoming visit to the United States by Vietnamese Pr [...]
2008-05-05 06:04:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KPAO KFLU KHIV VM
08HANOI535AMBASSADOR EXCHANGES VIEWS ON HUMAN RIGHTS, CHINA WITH
[...] (SBU) On May 2, CPV External Relations Commission (ERC) Chairman Tran Van Hang told the Ambassador the ERC welcomes the positive developments in U.S.-Vietnam relations, especially in trade, investment and education. He appealed for Vietnam to be granted GSP and agreed that many recently opened [...]
2008-05-08 09:44:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON PGOV KCOR KPAO SOCI PREL CM VM
08HANOI614SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE
[...] (SBU) Assistant Secretary Kramer: Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit is well timed to focus Vietnamese leaders on the importance we attach to human rights in strengthening and deepening our bilateral relationship in the year ahead. Overall, the U.S.-Vietnam re [...]
2008-05-23 10:11:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OTRA ECON VM
08HANOI677VIETNAM REQUESTS ENVIRONMENTAL DELIVERABLES FOR UPCOMING
[...] (SBU) Summary: In separate meetings, the Minister and Senior Vice-Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) detailed to the Ambassador priority issues for the Government of Vietnam (GVN) during the upcoming visit to Washington by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. Both officials high [...]
2008-06-09 02:39:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM
08HANOI731SCENESETTER FOR U.S. VISIT OF VIETNAM PRIME MINISTER DUNG
[...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's Prime Minister views his June 24 White House meeting as an opportunity to confirm to all -- including those who hate us -- that the United States will remain a big part of Vietnam's future. In particular, he will celebrate our remarkable economic partnership, built on [...]
2008-06-18 09:37:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA ECON ETRD EINV PREL PHUM KIRF EAIR VM
08HANOI934 SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY, AUG. 21 to 24, 2008
[...] (SBU) Embassy Hanoi looks forward to welcoming you to Vietnam. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's June visit to Washington exemplifies a U.S.-Vietnam relationship that continues to broaden and mature, in the process spurring economic, social and technological development that has eased the path [...]
2008-08-11 04:37:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP EFIN EAID ECPS ECON ETRD VM
08HANOI965SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR STEPHEN
[...] (SBU) Embassy Hanoi looks forward to welcoming you to Vietnam. Your visit will be an important contribution to the growing U.S.-Vietnam relationship and will highlight a broad area of bilateral defense and security cooperation that is gathering momentum in the wake of the Vietnamese Prime Minis [...]
2008-08-18 09:21:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS PREL PGOV OTRA VM
08HARARE366COCA COLA, HAMMERED BUT IN ZIMBABWE TO STAY
[...] (U) Coca Cola is in Zimbabwe for the long haul, but the company and its bottlers are plagued by the problems of labor retention, access to foreign exchange, sugar procurement, punitive price controls, and power and water outages. A senior executive believed that the technical state of the bot [...]
2008-04-24 12:27:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ASEC ZI
08HOCHIMINHCITY136TWO DISSIDENTS SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS IN PRISON, POSSIBLE
[...] (SBU) Political dissidents Truong Quoc Huy and Hang Tan Phat were both sentenced to six years in prison and three years probation for "propagandizing against the Government" on January 29, 2008. Huy, a member of Bloc 8406, has been in custody since his August 2006 arrest during the height of t [...]
2008-02-01 06:52:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM VM
08HOCHIMINHCITY689SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COSTELLO
[...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Ho Chi Minh City. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's June visit to Washington exemplifies a U.S.-Vietnam relationship that continues to broaden and mature, in the process spurring economic, social and technological development that has ease [...]
2008-07-28 10:07:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAIR ELTN VM
08HOCHIMINHCITY692SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COSTELLO
[...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Ho Chi Minh City. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's June visit to Washington exemplifies a U.S.-Vietnam relationship that continues to broaden and mature, in the process spurring economic, social and technological development that has ease [...]
2008-07-29 09:09:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PREL ECON EAIR ELTN VM
08HONGKONG1221PANDEMIC PLANNING: HONG KONG RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) Consulate General Hong Kong appreciates the updated pandemic planning guidance and clarifications in reftel A, and submits the following response regarding Hong Kong and Macau preparedness and pandemic planning. Post is taking/has taken the following actions: 2. (SBU) Consulate Emplo [...]
2008-07-07 01:13:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU EAGR PINR CH HK
08ISTANBUL487GULEN MOVEMENT AFFILIATES PLAN TURKISH-ARMENIAN
[...] Summary. Gulen-affiliated organizations are planning a multi-cultural event April 2-5, 2009, in Costa Mesa, California, titled "Anatolian Cultures & Food Festival/ Discovering Turkey." The festival will inform the local community about Anatolian Culture and the contributions to it of (among o [...]
2008-09-10 13:52:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI TU AM GR
08JAKARTA1243INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS: MAY 2008
[...] According to Tri Widayati, Director of Ozone Protection of the State Ministry of Environment (MOE),most operators of industrial-size chilling/air-conditioning units will have replaced those units with new ones that use environmentally friendly Freon, such as hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) 123 [...]
2008-06-26 01:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID
08JAKARTA1380INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS: JUNE 2008
[...] On June 7, Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation released 25 orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Bukit Batikap protected forest, Murung Raya Regency, Central Kalimantan. According to BOS, the orangutans were victims of palm oil plantation expansion. BOS Communication Manager Nina Nuraisyah st [...]
2008-07-17 09:19:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID
08JAKARTA2181INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS: OCTOBER 2008
[...] The Deputy Minister for Research Science and Technology Development officially inaugurated two biodiesel plants in South Sumatra and South Kalimantan on October 27. The combined production capacity of the two plants is 12,000 liters per day. The State Ministry for Research and Technology has [...]
2008-12-01 04:23:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID
08JAKARTA2182INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS: OCTOBER 2008
[...] The Deputy Minister for Research Science and Technology Development officially inaugurated two biodiesel plants in South Sumatra and South Kalimantan on October 27. The combined production capacity of the two plants is 12,000 liters per day. The State Ministry for Research and Technology has [...]
2008-12-01 04:24:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID
08JAKARTA307PROPOSED NORTHERN TRANS-KALIMANTAN HIGHWAY UNDERMINES USG
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post has strong reservations about a proposed Northern Trans-Kalimantan Highway (NTKH),which is the focus of an AsDB technical assistance grant for a pre-feasibility study. The economic rationale for the road is weak, and we support the USG decision to express several reservat [...]
2008-02-14 10:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID KGHG ECON PREL ID
08JAKARTA548ENVIRONMENTAL OUTREACH WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
[...] (U) Summary: Embassy Jakarta co-hosted a reception on March 14 with National Geographic (NG) and Indonesian television network ANTV at the Ambassador's residence. More than 200 guests from the media, government, civil society, and the private sector attended. The event, titled "Celebrate Indo [...]
2008-03-17 10:38:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO SENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ID
08JAKARTA566INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS: FEBRUARY 2008
[...] Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) praised Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the January 30 Congressional Record for his engagement on forestry and orangutan protection. President Yudhoyono highlighted the link between orangutan protection, forest conservation, and the reduction of gre [...]
2008-03-19 00:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID
08JAKARTA664THOMAS FRIEDMAN EXPLORES PRIVATE SECTOR ROLE IN
[...] (U) Summary: On a visit to Indonesia in late March to conduct research for his upcoming book, author Thomas Friedman traveled to North Sumatra to look at efforts to protect the environment (reftel). Accompanied by the Ambassador, USAID officers, NGO representatives and the owner of a local en [...]
2008-04-03 00:40:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV KGHG ECON PGOV ID
08JAKARTA890INDONESIA'S SINAR MAS FORESTRY GROUP ON NGO PARTNERSHIPS,
[...] (SBU) Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and its Indonesian fiber supplier, Sinar Mas Forestry (SMF) wants to collaborate with environmental NGOs to improve the management and conservation value of its concessions, according to Fergus MacDonald, General Manager of Conservation Management. He points out t [...]
2008-05-06 01:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID KGHG ECON PGOV ID
08JAKARTA90INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2007
[...] Three Jakarta junior high school students won a video news competition on November 22 with a five-minute documentary on a mangrove forest in Pulau Rambut, Kepulauan Seribu Regency. The short film focused on the forest as a wildlife habitat and protector against coastal erosion. The competiti [...]
2008-01-16 05:55:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID
08JERUSALEM546SETTLERS RETURN TO HOMESH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On a March 26 visit PolOff verified that settlers maintain a presence at Homesh settlement, which was evacuated in 2005. PolOff met 5 youths and a rabbi at Homesh who said they had re-established the yeshiva there. PolOff saw no IDF presence at the settlement. END SUMMARY 2 [...]
2008-03-27 16:48:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKWBG PBTS PREL PHUM IS
08JERUSALEM689SETTLERS CONFIRM PLAN TO BUILD NEW UNITS IN ELKANA
[...] (SBU) Responding to press reports of new construction planned in Elkana and Ariel, YESHA contacts said the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) approved tenders on April 17 for 52 units in Elkana and 48 in Ariel. These contacts said the Elkana development involves converting 52 "cubiot" caravans [...]
2008-04-21 12:17:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG PREL PBTS IS
08KABUL566KUNDUZ DAIRY FACTORY LOOKS FOR BUYER
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Kunduz dairy factory, the largest example of private investment in the city since the fall of the Taliban, is contemplating a sale to a local investor. The USD 8 million factory has never been used due to high input costs, low market price for dairy products and limited dema [...]
2008-03-05 10:00:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON AF
08KAMPALA19UGANDA'S BORDER FEELS IMPACT OF KENYA'S UNREST
[...] Summary: EconOff traveled to Malaba, Tororo District and to Busia, Busia District on January 3 to monitor border developments and to potentially assist Amcits seeking shelter in Uganda. Immigration and customs officers reported no violent disturbances along the border, but noted that hundred [...]
2008-01-07 04:11:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM PREL UG
08KAMPALA58 UPDF ACTIVITY IN KENYA HIGHLY UNLIKELY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU has strongly rejected press reports and Orange Democratic Movement allegations that Ugandan forces are active in Kenya. The US Mission in Uganda has seen no evidence of any GOU involvement in western Kenya; to the contrary, the GOU appears to be treating border issues [...]
2008-01-15 12:25:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PBTS PGOV UG
08KARACHI627ETHNIC VIOLENCE SHAKES KARACHI
[...] (C) Summary: Up to 50 people have been killed in violent ethnic riots between Pashtuns and Mohajirs since November 27. While the specific action that sparked sporadic attacks is unclear, the ruling Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) movement has been warning for months of the increased 'taliba [...]
2008-12-03 14:10:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER SOCI PK
08KINSHASA758 Chairman's summary of September 1, 2008 Special
[...] Introduction Representatives of the signatories of the Nairobi Communique of 9 November 2007 met on 1 September 2008 in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to assess progress made in the implementation of the Communique. This was the fifth meeting at Special Envoy level [...]
2008-09-13 14:06:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
08KOLKATA99A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT - CONNECTING BURMA AND INDIA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport Project linking the landlocked states in Northeast India with Sittwe port in Myanmar holds the promise of making Mizoram an economic gateway, and providing India with access to international trade routes via the Bay of Bengal. The tentative ste [...]
2008-03-19 12:02:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON SENV PGOV ETRD EWWT EPET IN BM BG
08KUALALUMPUR774 MALAYSIA'S 2009 BUDGET: CARING FOR THE POOR AND THE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 29 Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi unveiled to Parliament a populist expansionary 2009 budget proposal designed to garner public support for the ruling coalition government. Billed as a "caring" budget during hard economic times, it increases the government's opera [...]
2008-09-03 08:46:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV MY
08KYIV1047UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF COMMERCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Ukraine comes as the fragile two-vote majority coalition struggles to move ahead with an ambitious agenda as dissension between the two parties increases. All eyes are on whether Prime Minister Tymoshenko and President Yushchenko can work together better than they [...]
2008-05-29 15:56:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL PGOV EINV UP
08KYIV109UKRAINE: PM TYMOSHENKO TO LEAD DELEGATION FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Yushchenko has asked Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to lead the Ukrainian delegation for the January 20 inauguration of Georgian President Elect Mikhail Saakashvili. Although some here were surprised that Yushchenko was not attending himself, both he and Tymoshenko [...]
2008-01-18 13:23:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALUP PGOV PREL GG
08KYIV1144UKRAINE: NATO INFORMATION CAMPAIGN GAINS MOMENTUM
[...] (SBU) Summary. There has been no official launching ceremony, but a combination of recent NATO-related Presidential decrees, Cabinet adoption of a multi-year Euroatlantic information campaign, and passage of amendments to the 2008 state budget have given critical mass to Ukraine's NATO informa [...]
2008-06-11 15:58:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALNATO PGOV PREL UP
08KYIV1461UKRAINE: GOU SIGNALS INTEREST IN TRILATERAL BYPASS PIPELINE
[...] (SBU) Deputy Energy Minister Volodymyr Makukha signaled interest to DAS Matthew Bryza on July 24 in a possible EU/USG/GOU project to boost gas transit capacity through Ukraine in exchange for increased transparency in Ukraine's energy sector by constructing the Bohorodchany-Uzhgorod bypass pipe [...]
2008-07-30 12:25:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET EFIN ECON ENRG PREL UP
08KYIV1630UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO POISONING REMAINS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko,s 2004 poisoning has resurfaced as a major issue being examined both at at the Prosecutor General,s Office (PGO) and in the press, with many seeing the Presidential apparatus working the issue as a potential vote getter in the upcoming presidential campaign. [...]
2008-08-18 13:55:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PHUM UP
08KYIV1672UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT ALLEGES
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: On August 19, Deputy Presidential Secretariat Head Andriy Kyslynskiy publicly accused PM Tymoshenko of colluding with Russia in exchange for Moscow's support of her expected run for the presidency in 2009/2010. On August 21, acting head of the Security Service of Ukr [...]
2008-08-23 10:02:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM UP
08KYIV1804ORANGE COALITION CRISIS: NO SIGN OF RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) The Orange coalition has shown no movement toward reconciliation since the September 2 vote by President Yushchenko's "Our Ukraine" party to withdraw. PM Tymoshenko, reportedly surprised by Our Ukraine's sudden exit, expressed willingness to meet with Yushchenko to try and work out a deal [...]
2008-09-11 17:17:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1860ORANGE COALITION ENDS; CLOCK STARTS ON NEW
[...] (C) As expected, on September 16 Rada Speaker Yatsenyuk announced the termination of the Orange Coalition, starting the 30-day clock on formation of a new coalition and, failing that, providing the option for President Yushchenko to call new elections. With parties continuing to jockey for ad [...]
2008-09-17 15:10:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV192UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO PUSHES AHEAD WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko is moving forward with his plans to further amend the constitution in an effort to clarify poorly written articles, but constitutional experts are not convinced that this process will succeed. Yushchenko issued a decree in late December 2007 forming the Nat [...]
2008-01-29 12:02:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV194UKRAINE: SENATOR LUGAR HEARS THAT ENERGY ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: In Kyiv meetings with Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) January 15-16, President Yushchenko, PM Tymoshenko, opposition representatives and local business leaders all discussed the importance of energy issues for Ukraine. President Yushchenko talked in detail about ways to transport Cen [...]
2008-01-29 13:42:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ECON PGOV UP
08KYIV1943RADA UPDATE: COALITION TALKS INCONCLUSIVE; DROP
[...] (C) Negotiations continue between President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) to re-form the Orange coalition in conjunction with potential new partner, the Lytvyn Bloc. This would avoid early elections, a goal PM Tymoshenko appears st [...]
2008-09-29 15:26:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV1966TYMOSHENKO CALLS YUSHCHENKO'S BLUFF
[...] (C) On October 1, PM Tymoshenko announced that her BYuT faction would accept all Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) ultimatums and conditions in order to form a three-party coalition, keep orange forces together, and avoid early elections. At the same time, Tymoshenko predicted Yushc [...]
2008-10-02 15:10:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV200UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED HEARS ABOUT FRAGILE
[...] (C) Summary. In A/S Fried's meetings with top Ukrainian leaders, all dominated by discussions about Ukraine's pending request for a NATO MAP (septel),the internal political subtext was fragility, distrust, and creeping dissatisfaction from all parties about the current government and its pos [...]
2008-01-31 06:00:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV2024PARTY OF REGIONS APPEARS UNITED FOR EARLY ELECTION
[...] (C) The Party of Regions appears united around the upcoming election challenge. Fundraising and organizing for the pre-term election started in early September. Deputies will soon start heading to the oblasts for campaigning. Regions expects to increase its share of Rada seats by focusing i [...]
2008-10-10 15:11:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2112TYMOSHENKO BLOC IN EFFORT TO REUNITE ORANGE CAMP;
[...] (C) President Yushchenko announced on October 20 the suspension of his decree dissolving the parliament, but still called for early parliamentary elections December 14. Yushchenko also called on the Rada to pass a package of legislation to combat the worsening economic situation and to amend t [...]
2008-10-21 15:34:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2166ANTI-CRISIS LEGISLATION PASSES FIRST READING;
[...] (C) Rada faction leaders on October 29 broke a legislative impasse by agreeing to consider IMF required anti-crisis legislation before President Yushchenko's early election amendments package. The anti-crisis package passed, drawing unanimous support from the Prime Minister and President's bl [...]
2008-10-29 16:43:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2174SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CORKER VISIT TO KYIV
[...] (SBU) Your November 8-10 visit to Ukraine comes during an unfolding domestic economic crisis and an ongoing struggle between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko over whether to hold snap parliamentary elections. Yushchenko on October 8 dissolved Ukraine's parliament (the Rada) a [...]
2008-10-30 15:33:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PGOV PHUM PREL UP
08KYIV2188UKRAINE: U.S. AMBASSADOR VISITS SUMY IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Taylor on September 25 became the first U.S. Ambassador to officially visit the Sumy Oblast (region) in northeastern Ukraine. The Ambassador met with the Governor and the Mayor of the city of Sumy before attending Sumy's International Economic Forum. He also spoke [...]
2008-11-03 15:06:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR ECON UP
08KYIV2191RADA PASSES FINAL ANTI-CRISIS LEGISLATION:
[...] (C) On October 31 the Rada passed compromise anti-crisis legislation, a critical step towards Ukraine's receipt of a $16.5 billion IMF assistance package (Ref A). PM Yuliya Tymoshenko's BYuT and Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) voted with a majority of Lytvyn Bloc MPs to pass the le [...]
2008-11-03 16:41:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ETRD EFIN UP
08KYIV2211TYMOSHENKO CONTINUES TO PUSH ORANGE COALITION
[...] (C) Prime Minister Tymoshenko continues to push for a renewed Orange coalition. She believes President Yushchenko will block any new coalition and maintain his pursuit of early parliamentary elections in the hope of reaching a deal with the Party of Regions (Regions) to secure a second term i [...]
2008-11-07 07:26:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2289SCENESETTER FOR ADMINISTRATOR FORE'S VISIT TO KYIV
[...] (SBU) Your November 22-23 visit to Kyiv will be an important sign of continuing USG support for international recognition of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933, which has been a top priority for President Yushchenko. Your visit will come at a time of an unfolding economic crisis and [...]
2008-11-20 17:05:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PGOV PHUM PREL UP
08KYIV2354 UKRAINE'S MEDIA MONITORS DECRY CURRENT STATE OF MEDIA IN
[...] Summary: At a November 20 luncheon hosted by Ambassador Taylor, ten Ukrainian media monitors and observers shared their views on the current state of media in Ukraine. Participants agreed that, despite great expectations, Ukraine's media development had been disappointingly slow in the years s [...]
2008-12-02 05:22:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PBTS PINR PINS PNAT PGOV KPAI KPAO RS UP
08KYIV2414UKRAINE: FIRTASH MAKES HIS CASE TO THE USG
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-10 07:52:00Embassy KyivSECRETEINV ENRG EPET PINR PREL POL UP
08KYIV2440PARTY OF REGIONS GEARS UP TO OPPOSE NEW COALITION
[...] (C) Opposition Party of Regions appears resigned to the new three faction coalition led by PM Tymoshenko's bloc, announced December 9. Regions contacts note that even if the parties are able to sign a coalition agreement, they lack a solid voting majority in the Rada. Regions MPs expressed l [...]
2008-12-12 17:04:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
08KYIV2464UKRAINIAN HRYVNIA IN FREEFALL AS NBU BOTCHES POLICY
[...] (SBU) Summary. A casualty of the worsening financial crisis, Ukraine's currency has lost another 12 percent of its value in recent days. Following an interim visit by the IMF to monitor GOU progress in implementing the $16.4 billion Stand-By Arrangement (SBA),the National Bank of Ukraine (N [...]
2008-12-18 13:57:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ETRD PREL PGOV XH UP
08KYIV2538 UKRAINE PRESIDENT AND PM APPEAL TO IMF
[...] (SBU) Summary. In an unusual display of cooperation, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sent a joint letter (full text below) to IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on December 30, confirming their intention to adhere to IMF conditionalities. S [...]
2008-12-31 10:48:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EREL ECON ETRD PGOV PREL XH UP
08KYIV299UKRAINE: READY TO WORK WITH FINLAND AS OSCE
[...] (C) Summary: Unlike their Spanish predecessors, the Finns appear ready to take on the problem of Russia in the OSCE context, judging by Finnish Foreign Minister Kanerva's January 15-16 visit to Kyiv in his capacity as OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO). Kanerva met with President Yushchenko, FM O [...]
2008-02-07 05:45:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PBTS OSCE RS UP
08KYIV303UKRAINE: PM TYMOSHENKO MAKES THE PITCH FOR MAP AT
[...] (C) Summary: PM Tymoshenko made a more convincing case for her personal commitment to Ukraine's request for a MAP at Bucharest during a February 5 meeting with visiting HFAC Europe Subcommittee Chairman Wexler (D-FL). She told Wexler that the letter requesting MAP signed by the President, PM [...]
2008-02-07 12:56:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UP
08KYIV334UKRAINE: DEFENSE MINISTER YEKHANUROV PICKS UP THE
[...] (C - REL NATO) Summary: New Defense Minister, and former Prime Minister, Yuriy Yekhanurov is an experienced bureaucratic insider with close ties to President Yushchenko who will be an ardent supporter of Ukraine's request for a NATO MAP and movement toward European standards and interoperabili [...]
2008-02-13 10:47:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALMCAP MARR PREL MOPS NATO KPKO PINR UP
08KYIV386UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO CONFIDENT ABOUT MAP AND
[...] (C) Summary: During a February 18 meeting with the Ambassador, President Yushchenko made the case that Ukrainians are ready for MAP and closer ties with NATO, providing polling data showing that only a small portion of the population wanted a referendum on membership in NATO now. In response [...]
2008-02-19 10:15:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UP
08KYIV408UKRAINE: REGIONS PROPOSES PACKAGE TO UNBLOCK RADA,
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Rada failed to open as scheduled on February 21 with Regions continuing to blockade the rostrum. However, opposition leader Yanukovych proposed an end to the blockade in exchange for positive Rada consideration of ten legislative initiatives. A parliamentary rou [...]
2008-02-21 13:39:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL UP
08KYIV453UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH PUSHING FOR NEW COALITION,
[...] (C) Summary. During a February 25 meeting, Party of Regions leader Yanukovych reiterated to the Ambassador all his old points about Ukraine's relations with NATO not requiring a MAP at this juncture, then proceeded to lay out three scenarios for the Rada, all of which would change the current [...]
2008-02-27 12:27:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV527UKRAINE: PM TYMOSHENKO READY TO DO EVERYTHING IN
[...] (C) Summary: PM Tymoshenko told the Ambassador that she would do "everything in her power" to get a MAP for Ukraine at Bucharest, during a 90-minute March 13 meeting. Tymoshenko said that she understood that it was important that her statements about wanting something positive at Bucharest not [...]
2008-03-13 11:56:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NATO UP
08KYIV606UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF THE
[...] (C) Summary. Your visit to Kyiv provides a historic opportunity to acknowledge the democratic transformation that has occurred in Ukraine since the Orange Revolution and to encourage further steps to consolidate reform and bring Ukraine fully into Europe. You will encounter intense interest i [...]
2008-03-21 13:27:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM OVIP UP
08KYIV756UKRAINE: NO SPLIT IN PARTY OF REGIONS EXPECTED -
[...] (C) Summary. Although tensions exist between the Akhmetov and Yanukovych wings of the Party of Regions, the party shows no immediate signs of splitting. Moreover, by taking a stand against a NATO MAP for Ukraine at the Bucharest Summit and playing on rumors of possible Rada elections in late [...]
2008-04-15 07:58:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV771UKRAINE: CRACKS IN THE COALITION
[...] (C) Summary. Although the President, Prime Minister, OU-PSD, and BYuT all say they want the democratic coalition to last, public infighting, growing distrust, and mutual recriminations are making the tenuous majority even shakier. An April 16 spat erupted over the vote for the President's law [...]
2008-04-16 12:53:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV832UKRAINE: KYIV MAYOR'S RACE HEATS UP
[...] (C) Summary. With early Kyiv mayor and city council elections scheduled for May 25, and 150 candidates already declared, the race to control the capital city is being seen as an early showdown in the run-up to the presidential elections in late 2009/early 2010. Prime Minister Tymoshenko's BY [...]
2008-04-25 12:58:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV873UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL GAME HEATS UP
[...] (C) Summary. Rada Speaker Yatsenyuk and adviser to the Prime Minister Zadorozhniy separately described to the Ambassador that BYuT-Regions collaboration on a new constitution was a reality that would move along quickly and that cooperation between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymo [...]
2008-05-07 14:29:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV902UKRAINE: COALITION TEETERING, BUT ALTERNATIVES
[...] (C) Summary. Cracks in the coalition appeared to widen May 12-13 as the two sides faced off in the Rada and in public comments from President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko. Privately, Tymoshenko told the Ambassador that coalition was de facto dead, because the President had set hi [...]
2008-05-13 16:46:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV951UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY BOYDEN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Your visit to Ukraine comes as the fragile two-vote majority coalition struggles to move ahead with an ambitious agenda as dissension between the two parties increases. All eyes are on whether Prime Minister Tymoshenko and President Yushchenko can work together better than they [...]
2008-05-19 16:01:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET EINV ENRG PGOV UP
08KYIV954UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO GETS HIS CABMIN LAW
[...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko won a tactical victory on May 16, when Prime Minister Tymoshenko's faction in the parliament backed down after a week's stand-off and agreed to vote for the new law on the Cabinet of Ministers, which the President has been pushing for since December. Yushchen [...]
2008-05-20 11:11:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV960UKRAINE: COALITION TOGETHER FOR NOW, BUT
[...] (C) Summary. For now, Ukraine's fragile coalition is holding itself together -- barely-- for a variety of reasons and in spite of the public bickering and threats, and could continue to muddle along for weeks or months. All parties are reluctant to return to expensive and time-consuming new [...]
2008-05-21 13:33:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08KYIV97UKRAINE: SENATOR LUGAR MEETS NEW GOVERNMENT;
[...] (C) Summary. Ukraine's plan to request a MAP at the April NATO Bucharest Summit dominated discussion during visiting Senator Richard Lugar's January 15 meetings with President Yushchenko, PM Tymoshenko and opposition representatives. Yushchenko expressed the strong hope that Ukraine's request [...]
2008-01-16 13:06:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UP
08KYIV975UKRAINE: KYIV MAYORAL ELECTION REMAIQHIGHLY
[...] (C) Summary. With the May 25 elections for the Kyiv mayor's office and city council drawing nearer, heated accusations of cheating and sabotage among the major players are increasing as all prepare for the vote, the outcome of which is still unpredictable. Also troubling, a majority of mem [...]
2008-05-23 14:55:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
08LAPAZ1322BOLIVIAN MINING: COOPERATIVE CHALLENGES
[...] Summary: On May 29 and 30 Emboff traveled with representatives of mining cooperatives, at their invitation, to visit cooperative mines and separation plants in north Potosi (note: As of June 9, this region is impassable due to road blockades by cooperatives, private miners, and treatment facil [...]
2008-06-11 20:01:00Embassy La PazUNCLASSIFIEDECON EMIN EINV ELAB BO
08LAPAZ661BOLIVIAN MINING: CONFLICTIVE "COOPERATIVES"
[...] (SBU) Summary: As high world mineral prices encourage the re-opening of areas previously considered "mined out", Bolivia's cooperative miners have regained political street power. Various estimates suggest that up to 100,000 miners work in cooperatives, semi-socialist organizations that are [...]
2008-03-25 20:58:00Embassy La PazUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EMIN EINV ELAB BL
08LJUBLJANA23EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS TROIKA MEETING FINDS COMMON
[...] (C) At the January 11 U.S. - EU Troika meeting, A/S Fried and EU Presidency, Council, and Commission representatives generally found common ground on Afghanistan, Ukraine, Belarus, and Burma. On Iran, the EU advised that even a weak UNSCR would help pave the way for stronger EU sanctions. The [...]
2008-01-18 08:09:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV IR IS BM SY ECON ENRG SI
08MADRID1351SPAIN: IPR PIRACY GETTING MORE ATTENTION
[...] (SBU) In addition to IPR-related developments reported in ref A, the Ministry of Culture recently unveiled a new IPR enforcement manual, prepared in concert with law enforcement agencies and rights-holders' organizations. Meanwhile, the country's largest copyright management society has come [...]
2008-12-22 16:29:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KCRM KIPR SP
08MADRID137SPAIN: CHARGE DISCUSSES IPR, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM,
[...] (C) In a February 7 meeting with Spanish Secretary of State for Justice Julio Perez-Hernandez (Deputy Justice Minister equivalent) that focused primarily on our pending request to extradite alleged Syrian arms dealer Monzer Al-Kassar (SEPTEL),the Charge also raised USG concerns on intellectua [...]
2008-02-11 08:46:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KOCI KIPR ETRD ECON KIRF KJAN CVIS
08MADRID212MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - FEBRUARY
[...] (U) Second Vice President and Economy Minister Pedro Solbes debated Madrid PP parliamentary candidate Manuel Pizarro, who has the prestigious position of being number two on the Madrid list behind party leader Mariano Rajoy, on 2/21/08 on the Antenna 3 TV station. The debate lasted an hour an [...]
2008-02-25 17:57:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON ECPS EFIN EFIS EIND EINV ENRG SENV
08MADRID407MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL UPDATE APRIL 5-11
[...] ECON/PGOV: Zapatero Announces Economic Measures During Investiture Debate 3. ECON: IMF, BBVA Revise Growth Projections Down, Economy Top Concern. 4. ECON/EFIN: Housing Downturn Continues to Hit Construction, Real Estate 5. ECON: Per Capita GDP Still Below Italy's After All 6. ECON/ELTN: [...]
2008-04-11 14:04:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ELTN PGOV SENV SP
08MADRID659SPANISH POLICE ARREST EIGHT INDIVIDUALS ALLEGEDLY
[...] (U) According to the website of the Spanish Interior Ministry and press reports, Spanish National Police on the morning of June 10 arrested eight individuals in Barcelona, Castellon, and Pamplona during an operation aimed at an alleged Islamic terrorist cell that reportedly had been recruiting [...]
2008-06-10 15:50:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PGOV PREL SP
08MADRID879MADRID ECONOMIC/COMMERCIAL WEEKLY AUGUST 4-8
[...] (U) Spain,s National Institute of Statistics (INE) released data August 5 showing that industrial output (mining and manufacturing) for the month of June was down by 9 percent from June 2007. This data is compounded by additional unfavorable economic news including unemployment increases for [...]
2008-08-08 11:47:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECPS EFIN EINV ELAB PGOV PTER SP
08MANAGUA1315NICARAGUA'S MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS - HOW THE
[...] (C) Summary. Despite growing political violence, significant institutional hurdles, and an aggressive FSLN campaign machine working against them, Nicaragua's democratic opposition may well score several key victories in the municipal election on November 9. Polls continue to point to unusual [...]
2008-10-27 20:17:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM NU
08MANAGUA989REPORTER INJURED IN POLITICAL SCUFFLE:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Partisan violence erupted on the afternoon of July 30, 2008 resulting in gunshots and a wound to the leg of pro-Sandinista Channel 4 News reporter, Antenor Pena Solano. Edgardo Cuarzema, the local-level Political Secretary for the Sandinista national Liberation Front (FSLN) and [...]
2008-07-31 23:29:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PGOV ASEC NU
08MASERU41LESOTHO SHIELDED FROM SA ELECTRICITY CRISIS, BUT ENERGY
[...] Summary: Unlike many countries in the region, Lesotho's domestic hydropower capacity and low energy needs shield much of the nation from the effects of South Africa's current electricity crisis. The Lesotho Electricity Corporation (LEC) feels confident that it can continue a steady power sup [...]
2008-02-13 14:55:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG PGOV LT
08MEXICO2692MX #2008-250, NAS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from NAS, on Crisis Management Course, September 19, 2008. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below and [...]
2008-09-04 20:40:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR MX
08MOSCOW1513RUSSIAN OPPOSITION GRAPPLES WITH AUTHORITARIAN
[...] (C) Summary: Carnegie analyst Masha Lipman argues that the success of Putin's authoritarian model of development has challenged Russian liberal assumptions that more democracy and better civil society are the engines of future growth. Based on recent conversations, many in the traditional l [...]
2008-05-30 03:25:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ECON RS
08MOSCOW1516RUSSIAN OPPOSITION GRAPPLES WITH AUTHORITARIAN
[...] (C) Summary: Carnegie analyst Masha Lipman argues that the success of Putin's authoritarian model of development has challenged Russian liberal assumptions that more democracy and better civil society are the engines of future growth. Based on recent conversations, many in the traditional l [...]
2008-05-30 03:29:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ECON RS
08MOSCOW1705EXPERTS ON MEDVEDEV'S PRESIDENCY, ONE MONTH ON
[...] (C) One month into the job, Medvedev has fulfilled all of the essential functions as president: he has initiated legislation, signed laws, engaged with foreign leaders, and traveled to regional stops to promote his policies. Although most analysts here see Putin as still "large, and in charge, [...]
2008-06-16 11:36:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI RS
08MOSCOW2170NASHI SUMMER CAMP 2008: SEX, THUGS, AND THE ROC ON
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Kremlin-sponsored Nashi youth group may not enjoy the same prominence under Medvedev, but its fourth annual summer conference at Lake Seliger in Tver Oblast reinforced continued and significant Kremlin and Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) sponsorship. Billed as an "Innovation F [...]
2008-07-28 11:59:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RS
08MOSCOW2261UNORTHODOX POLITICS CONTRIBUTE TO MOSCOW-KIEV
[...] (C) Summary. While newly arrived Ukrainian Amb Konstyantyn Gryshchenko told Charge on August 1 that relations with Russia were serious, MFA Director for the Second Department of the CIS Countries (Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine) Sorokin told us on August 1 that Yushchenko was responsible for [...]
2008-08-04 14:02:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL RS UP CASC KIRF SOCI
08MOSCOW2308WHAT DOES THE MECHEL INCIDENT MEAN?
[...] (C) The Mechel incident (Ref A) has been a sobering initial test of the new administration's management of the economy. On the heels of the TNK-BP dispute, Mechel unleashed precipitous stock market losses and struck a blow to previously bullish sentiment on Russia's investment climate. Opti [...]
2008-08-08 08:09:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN RS
08MOSCOW2655RUSSIA: MIXED MESSAGES ON UKRAINE; IRE OVER
[...] (C) Summary: Russian officials have sent mixed signals regarding their commitment to Ukraine's territorial integrity and the future of Russian-Ukrainian relations. While Putin reassured the international community that Russia had no intention of redefining borders with Ukraine, Medvedev po [...]
2008-09-04 14:54:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON RS UP GG
08MOSCOW339LOWER PROFILE FOR KREMLIN YOUTH GROUP
[...] (C) Summary: Recent Kremlin steps to rein in the United Russia-affiliated youth movement Nashi suggest that GOR neuralgia about a possible Orange Revolution has faded. With the Kremlin now confident that operation successor has been successfully launched and will encounter no opposition, Nas [...]
2008-02-08 13:13:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS
08MOSCOW3546SCENARIOS FOR RUSSIAN POLITICS IN ECONOMIC CRISIS
[...] (C) Summary. An INDEM survey of top analysts suggests that the economic crisis has shifted elite opinion on Russia's course over the coming year, with a growing expectation that the Medvedev-Putin tandem will either muddle through or accelerate existing trends toward a "Pinochet" model - a d [...]
2008-12-08 13:08:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI EFIN
08MOSCOW3657FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS SEEK COVER AS GOR DITHERS ON
[...] (C) Summary: Despite the looming January 1, 2009 deadline for the possible end of a tax exemption for recipients of some grants from foreign non-commercial organizations, the GOR has yet to come up with the criteria and procedures for such donors to apply for inclusion on the list of foreign [...]
2008-12-17 13:52:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR EAID RS
08MOSCOW3775Medvedev's Anti-Corruption Package: Two Views
[...] (SBU) Summary: Transparency International Director Yelena Panfilova praised President Medvedev's anti-corruption bill that was signed into law on December 25 as an "extremely valuable" first step, while recognizing the deep flaws in its content and how it was promulgated. Arguing that waiti [...]
2008-12-31 11:38:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PINR SOCI EAID RS
08MOSCOW378PUTIN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISER ON "FROZEN"
[...] (C) Summary: In her February 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Putin's human rights adviser, Ella Pamfilova said the Duma elections had been a "turning point," leading her to "divorce" herself from GOR actions and adopt a low public profile. While she welcomed FM Lavrov's engagement with the [...]
2008-02-12 15:08:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR RS
08MOSCOW587RUSSIA-UKRAINE RELATIONS: YUSHCHENKO AND
[...] (C) Summary. After many last-minute changes and rescheduling involving Tymoshenko's visit, the February 12-13 Putin-Yushchenko Intergovernmental Commission (IGC) convened without Tymoshenko's participation. GOR officials expressed dismay at the complicated dynamics between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko [...]
2008-03-01 13:32:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON UP RS
08MOSCOW603MOSCOW'S REACTION TO POLITICAL UNREST IN ARMENIA
[...] (C) Summary. The MFA issued a statement on March 3, expressing regret for the unrest in Armenia and support for Kocharian's efforts to reach a peaceful settlement. MFA officials characterized the February 19 presidential elections as free and fair, and told us that although Russia would con [...]
2008-03-03 15:58:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AM RS
08MOSCOW813YOUNG RUSSIA TAKES AIM AT CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite a ruling by the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that the GOR should "correct" the situation faced by the un-registered Moscow branch of the Church of Scientology in Russia (COS),the COS has been under investigation by the Ministry of Internal Af [...]
2008-03-25 12:10:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PINR SOCI RS
08NAIROBI1 U.S. Government Statement on Kenyan Elections
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-01 07:37:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PREL KE
08NAIROBI1019KENYA'S MUSLIM GROUPS COMPETE FOR INFLUENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Now that the dust is starting to settle from December's presidential election, Muslim advocacy groups in Kenya are trying to maximize their influence with the new coalition government and with Kenya's traditionally fractured Muslim community. The upstart National Muslim Leaders' [...]
2008-04-16 13:57:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KE
08NAIROBI1041KENYA'S CABINET SWORN IN: AN OVERVIEW
[...] (U) Ending weeks of contentious in-fighting between President Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) and Prime Minister Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM),Kenya's expanded cabinet was sworn in today, April 17, with much pomp and ceremony. As announced by the President on April 13 (see [...]
2008-04-18 10:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1170UPDATE ON COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO POST-ELECTION
[...] As a result of the Kofi Annan-led mediation efforts to end Kenya's post-election crisis, Kenya's political leaders agreed to form a Commission of Inquiry on Post-Election Violence (Violence Commission) and a Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC). The Violence Commission is pre [...]
2008-05-07 06:39:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1227EXPANDED KENYAN CABINET MIGHT COST EXTRA $600 MILLION A
[...] (SBU) The new 92-person Kenyan Cabinet represents 42% of Parliament and is the largest, most expensive in Kenya's history. The Grand Coalition Cabinet and government could cost Kenyan taxpayers up to $5.82 billion/year, about $594 million more than the previous one. This extra cost is probably [...]
2008-05-13 07:45:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV ELAB KE
08NAIROBI126NAIROBI JANUARY 11 EAC MEETING AND SECURITY WRAP-UP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Nairobi's Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) convened Post's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on 11 January 2008 to review and discuss Post's security posture in the aftermath of the announcement on December 30 of the results of a "seriously flawed" presidential election. Trip [...]
2008-01-11 15:42:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALASEC CASC KE
08NAIROBI13KENYAN ELECTIONS - WORKING FOR A POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. The electoral process in Kenya turned violent in recent days following the Electoral Commission's December 30 declaration of President Kibaki as the winner despite very serious irregularities in the vote tabulation process. Despite intense electoral observation by the U.S. and o [...]
2008-01-02 21:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ASEC KE
08NAIROBI1301INDEPENDENT REVIEW COMMISSION CHAIR PUZZLED BY
[...] (C) The Ambassador and Emboffs recently met with Independent Review Commission (IREC) Chairman Judge Johann Kriegler to discuss IREC's top-to-bottom review of Kenya's electoral system and the bungled 2007 presidential elections (ref A). The Commission has a two-part mandate: (1) to assess and [...]
2008-05-21 10:49:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1320 PM ODINGA RECEIVES HERO'S WELCOME IN HOMECOMING - BUT
[...] Prime Minister Raila Odinga received a hero's welcome from a crowd of over 300,000 at a home coming in his native Nyanza province. American flags were spotted amidst the excited crowd. He had a difficult time convincing his supporters that his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party was an equal [...]
2008-05-23 05:31:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1384KENYA BRACES FOR PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTIONS ON
[...] (C) Kenya will hold parliamentary by-elections on June 11 to fill five of six vacant parliamentary seats. The largest parliamentary blocs, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and the Party of National Unity (PNU),hope to gain seats, but each of the races is tight. The results are unlikely [...]
2008-06-05 15:01:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1422ODM MINISTER AND ASSISTANT MINISTER KILLED IN
[...] On June 10 at approximately 1400, Minister of Roads Kipkalya Kones and Assistant Minister for Home Affairs in the Office of the Vice-President Lorna Laboso, were killed when their light aircraft crashed into the side of a hill near Narok (Rift Valley Province) during bad weather. Two other peo [...]
2008-06-11 11:43:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAIR KE
08NAIROBI1461KENYA: SCENESETTER FOR PM ODINGA'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary. The June 16-19 visit of Prime Minister Odinga will highlight U.S. support for the coalition government, bolster the authority of the office of the Prime Minister to supervise and coordinate the government, and provide us an important opportunity to press for results on institutiona [...]
2008-06-16 07:51:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KE US
08NAIROBI1500COALITION GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES VISION 2030 MEDIUM
[...] On June 10, President Kibaki, Prime Minister Odinga, and Vice President Musyoka launched the Medium Term Plan (2008-2012) of Vision 2030, Kenya's ambitious development blueprint outlining economic, political, and social reforms and goals. Although it was drafted well before the post- electio [...]
2008-06-19 10:22:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1579SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE
[...] (C) Summary: Welcome to Kenya. Your visit comes six months after the disputed December 2007 general elections, when the controversial announcement of the victory of incumbent President Kibaki led to widespread violence, the deaths of 1,500 people and displacement 600,000 Kenyans. Kenya now st [...]
2008-06-27 12:30:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALOREP PREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1692MINISTER OF FINANCE RESIGNS IN CORRUPTION SCANDAL
[...] (C) Minister of Finance Amos Kimunya resigned on July 8, capping a week of intense speculation about his political future stemming from his role in the cut-rate sale of the Grand Regency Hotel in Nairobi. The hotel, built with proceeds from the 1990s Goldenberg corruption scandal, had become [...]
2008-07-09 16:30:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM EFIN KCOR KE LY
08NAIROBI1698GOK BILL OUTLINES ROADMAP TO NEW CONSTITUTION
[...] The Ministry of Justice recently published the Constitution of Kenya Review Bill of 2008, outlining the process for writing and adopting a new constitution. The new constitution could take as long as 24 months to enter into force, not the 12 months agreed at the Kofi Annan-led mediation eff [...]
2008-07-11 04:47:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI1725Prime Minister's Visit Advances U.S. Policy
[...] (U) Prime Minister Odinga's June 16-19 visit to the U.S. was a huge success and advanced U.S. policy to support the coalition government, to bolster the PM's role to supervise and coordinate the functions of government, to press for institutional reforms, and to highlight the U.S.-Kenyan partne [...]
2008-07-14 14:58:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KE ZI
08NAIROBI1726Text of PM Odinga's CSIS Speech
[...] (U) Below is the text of Prime Minster Odinga's June 17 speech at the Center for Strategic International Studies. The speech was delivered at CSIS' Statesman's Forum during Odinga's June visit to Washington. End summary. 2. (U) Begin Text. PRIME MINISTER RAILA ODINGA: Thank you. Thank y [...]
2008-07-14 14:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KE
08NAIROBI1815PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER TELL CODEL PRICE
[...] (U) CODEL Price has cleared on this cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) In separate meetings held on July 3, CODEL Price heard from both President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga that constitutional reform is one of the Grand Coalition Government's top priorities. Prime M [...]
2008-07-28 13:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KBIO KE ZI
08NAIROBI185PARLIAMENT ELECTS SPEAKER--A GOOD DAY FOR KENYA
[...] On January 15 Kenya's Tenth Parliament sat for its first session. In a boisterous but mostly civil session, Parliament elected the Orange Democratic Movement's (ODM) Kenneth Marende as Speaker. ODM's candidate for Deputy Speaker was also elected, again beating a PNU candidate. This event has [...]
2008-01-17 04:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
08NAIROBI186PARLIAMENT ELECTS SPEAKER--A GOOD DAY FOR KENYA
[...] On January 15 Kenya's Tenth Parliament sat for its first session. In a boisterous but mostly civil session, Parliament elected the Orange Democratic Movement's (ODM) Kenneth Marende as Speaker. ODM's candidate for Deputy Speaker was also elected, again beating a PNU candidate. This event has [...]
2008-01-17 04:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
08NAIROBI1961SCENESETTER FOR CODEL THOMPSON
[...] (C) Summary: Welcome to Kenya. Your visit comes eight months after the disputed December 2007 general elections, when the controversial announcement of the victory of incumbent President Kibaki led to widespread violence, the deaths of 1,500 people and displacement of 600,000 Kenyans. Kenya h [...]
2008-08-14 12:54:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALOREP PREL PGOV KDEM PTER KE
08NAIROBI198KENYA ELECTIONS: PARLIAMENT COMPOSITION - A
[...] (SBU) Unlike Kenya's contentious presidential election, the parliamentary elections proceeded relatively smoothly and with a clear and credible outcome. With 207 of 210 constituencies reporting (3 constituencies will be re-run),Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) won 99 of the 207 [...]
2008-01-17 16:21:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI199KENYA: DID KIBAKI REALLY STEAL THE ELECTION?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya's hotly contested December 27 presidential election has been controversial on a number of levels, and many observers still question who actually won. When we looked at any and all available data to try to answer that question, we found evidence of rigging on both sides an [...]
2008-01-17 17:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCOR PREL KE
08NAIROBI200KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: WORKING FOR A SOLUTION
[...] (C) Summary. With strong support through the Secretary's calls and A/S Frazer,s recent visit, we are continuing intensive efforts to facilitate dialogue between President Kibaki and Raila Odinga in order to achieve a political resolution of the post-electoral crisis. If achieved, this will b [...]
2008-01-17 19:12:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KE
08NAIROBI235KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS - THE SPEAKER OF
[...] (C) I met with the new Speaker of the Parliament, Kenneth Marende, on January 18 to congratulate him on his election and to discuss the role he can play to help resolve the election crisis. 2. (C) I briefed Marende on U.S. efforts to assist in resolution of the crisis. Marende noted that i [...]
2008-01-22 16:51:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI239KENYA,S ELECTORAL CRISIS -- PUSHING KIBAKI-ODINGA
[...] (C) Summary. In the lead-up to Kofi Annan,s expected arrival January 22, we have continued to press for President Kibaki and Raila Odinga to use that opportunity for a face-to-face meeting and to launch a meaningful political dialogue. Achieving that would go a long way towards calming tensio [...]
2008-01-22 17:36:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2551POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE COMMISSION REPORT:
[...] (U) Two weeks after release of the Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV) report (refs A and B),Kenya's political leaders continue to publicly grapple with fallout. Of particular contention is whether to implement the report's recommendations for a special tribunal to try [...]
2008-11-04 14:09:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2696PARTIES SCRAMBLE TO COMPLY WITH POLITICAL PARTIES
[...] Kenya's notoriously disorganized political parties are scrambling to comply with a series of administrative, organizational, and financial requirements imposed by the Political Parties Act (the Act) before the December 31 deadline. The Act aims to bring much-needed order to Kenya's party sys [...]
2008-12-02 09:32:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2710GOK EFFORT TO PRESERVE VITAL FOREST HITS POLITICAL
[...] The Kenyan government's (GOK) attempt to preserve and restore the environmentally and economically important Mau Forest Complex (the Mau Forest) by evicting legal and illegal settlers (reftel) has caused political problems within Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) p [...]
2008-12-04 06:36:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG SENV SOCI KE
08NAIROBI2747GOK PREPARES TO OUST ELECTORAL COMMISSION
[...] On November 27, the Cabinet approved a draft constitutional amendment which will disband the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and remove all 22 current ECK commissioners. If, as expected, Parliament approves the measure before it recesses on December 18, the ECK will be replaced by an Int [...]
2008-12-10 12:38:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI2768PRESIDENT SIGNS TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND RECONCILIATION
[...] On November 28, President Mwai Kibaki signed into law the Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Act (the Act). The Act creates a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) to establish a complete record of violation of human and economic rights from the time of Kenya's independence in [...]
2008-12-11 14:47:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM KCRM KE
08NAIROBI277KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS - INTERNATIONAL HUMAN
[...] Summary: The post-election violence that has killed over 700 people and displaced an estimated 250,000 more has drawn the attention of international human rights groups and institutions. Human Rights Watch currently has a research team in country to collect information and analyze events and [...]
2008-01-25 09:15:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL KE
08NAIROBI278KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: ODM HOLDS MOSTLY
[...] The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) on January 23 held public funerals in Nairobi, Kisumu (Nyanza Province),and Kakamega (Western Province) for victims of Kenya's post-election violence. These deaths were all alleged by ODM to be the result of police action, and not civilian on civilian vi [...]
2008-01-25 09:25:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
08NAIROBI309KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: ODM MP SLAIN - VIOLENCE
[...] (U) The opposition Orange Democratic Movement MP for Embakasi (Nairobi),Melitus Were, was murdered by two gunmen as he was driving up to his home just after midnight on January 29. In the current crisis, the perception that this is a politically-motivated killing has taken hold. Were was a L [...]
2008-01-29 13:26:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI310KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: EXPLAINING RIFT VALLEY
[...] The central region of Kenya's Rift Valley Province, known as "Kalenjin land" after its indigenous inhabitants, is the scene of the worst violence since the election crisis began in late December. Kenya's history of ethnic politics, land pressures, and shifting political alliances explain the [...]
2008-01-29 13:43:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI312KENYA: A/S FRAZER,S MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENT KIBAKI
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Frazer, joined by Ambassador Ranneberger, met with President Mwai Kibaki on January 5 and January 7 to seek a path towards ending the political crisis stemming from the disputed December 27 presidential election results. She carried with her Secretary Rice's [...]
2008-01-29 14:47:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI331 KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: AMBASSADOR'S LETTER TO MINISTER
[...] On January 30, the Ambassador sent the following letter to the Minister of Internal Security and the Orange Democratic Movement's Secretary General. Begin text. SIPDIS Hon. Prof. George Saitoti Minister of Internal Security Hon. Prof. Anyang Nyong'o ODM Secretary General Dear Sirs: [...]
2008-01-30 13:24:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI339KENYA - JANUARY 31 SITREP
[...] (SBU) POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS: Orange Democratic Movement (ODM - opposition) Member of Parliament for Ainamoi (Kericho District) David Kimutai Too (ethnic Kalenjin) was shot dead in Eldoret by Police Constable Andrew Moache (ethnic Kissi). Moache was arrested and will be transferred to Nakuru [...]
2008-01-31 13:41:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AMGT CASC PGOV EAID ECON PHUM PREL KE
08NAIROBI356KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: SECOND OPPOSITION MP
[...] On January 31, Orange Democratic Movement (ODM-opposition) Member of Parliament for Ainamoi (Kericho District, Rift Valley) David Kimutai Too (ethnic Kalenjin) was shot dead in Eldoret by Police Constable Andrew Moache (ethnic Kisii). The police maintain this was a "crime of passion," with C [...]
2008-02-01 13:25:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI370KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: PNU AND
[...] Summary: The Party of National Unity (PNU) and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) agreed a framework for further negotiations to resolve Kenya's electoral crisis. The parties signed several documents, all of which were witnessed by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in his capacity as [...]
2008-02-05 08:29:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI384KENYA - FEBRUARY 6 SITREP
[...] (SBU) POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS: As noted in ref C, the Kofi Annan-lead negotiations entered their most critical and difficult phase today as the parties began talks on power-sharing. The parties begin these discussions far apart and continued interference by hardliners from each camp threaten to [...]
2008-02-06 13:21:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AMGT CASC PGOV EAID ECON PHUM PREL KE
08NAIROBI495KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: KOFI ANNAN PRESS
[...] At a press conference held on February 15, Kofi Annan, as expected, put a positive spin on the negotiations. However the agreement signed restates progress made to date, but makes clear that there is no real progress on the core issue of power-sharing. 2. To follow is the text of an agree [...]
2008-02-15 17:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI496KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS: KOFI ANNAN PRESS
[...] At a press conference held on February 15, Kofi Annan, as expected, put a positive spin on the negotiations. However the agreement signed restates progress made to date, but makes clear that there is no real progress on the core issue of power-sharing. 2. To follow is the text of an agree [...]
2008-02-15 17:39:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI518DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. DECISION TO RECOGNIZE
[...] (C) On February 21, the Ambassador raised the issue of Kosovo's independence directly to Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula. He urged Wetangula to recognize Kosovo's independence as quickly as possible. 2. (C) Wetangula and other Government ministers remain deeply engaged in negotiations wit [...]
2008-02-21 09:22:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KE
08NAIROBI547KENYA'S ELECTORAL CRISIS - KOFI ANNAN'S FEBRUARY
[...] On February 25, Kofi Annan issued the following press statement after meeting with both Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki. Begin Text. KENYA NATIONAL DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION Press Statement By Kofi Annan After four hours of intense negoti [...]
2008-02-26 05:53:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI574KENYA: BEHIND A CALM FACADE, HARDLINERS PREPARE FOR MORE VIOLENCE
[...] (C) Summary: Kenya has been tense but remarkably calm since the end of January, thanks in large part to the progress being made in the Kofi Annan-mediated peace talks and the visit of the Secretary. Tensions remain very high, however, and behind this calm facade lurks the potential for more fer [...]
2008-02-27 10:32:00Embassy NairobiSECRETASEC PGOV KE
08NAIROBI585KENYA'S POLITICAL CRISIS: ODM CALLS OFF
[...] (U) The opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) announced that it was calling off nationwide demonstrations planned for February 28 to protest the lack of progress in the negotiations to resolve Kenya's ongoing political crisis. The announcement was made by ODM leader Raila Odinga after h [...]
2008-02-28 06:41:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI598Kenya's Mayoral Elections Show ODM Strength,
[...] Summary: On February 25, Kenyan city councils nationwide held mayoral elections. Comporting with the sordid tradition of such elections in Kenya, tales of blatant vote-buying and graft abounded on all sides. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) won a plurality of council seats nationwide du [...]
2008-02-28 13:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI601KENYA'S POLITICAL CRISIS: TEXT OF FEBRUARY 28
[...] On February 28, President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga signed a much awaited power-sharing agreement in Nairobi, paving the way for a coalition government. The text of the agreement and its proposed companion legislation, which will be considered by Parliament when it conve [...]
2008-02-28 18:27:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI682CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT FOR PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE
[...] On March 6, the Kenya Gazette Supplement published the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill of 2008. This proposed constitutional amendment will be debated by Parliament at its next session on March 11. Begin text. THE CONSTITUTION OF KENYA (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2008 A Bill for an Act of [...]
2008-03-10 15:39:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI693TEXT OF NATIONAL ACCORD AND RECONCILIATION BILL
[...] On March 6, the Kenya Gazette Supplement published the National Accord and Reconciliation Bill of 2008. This Bill will be debated by Parliament at its next session on March 11. Begin text. A Bill for An Act of Parliament to give effect to the Agreement on the Principles of Partnership of [...]
2008-03-11 10:37:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
08NAIROBI706MOUNT ELGON CLASHES: KENYA'S ARMY STEPS IN
[...] (C) Summary: On March 10, Kenya's military deployed to Mount Elgon, which has been the center of a violent land dispute since 2006. Previous efforts by the police to quell the violence have been unsuccessful. The settlement of the post-election political dispute between President Kibaki and [...]
2008-03-12 13:55:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS KE
08NAIROBI762KENYA: SAFARICOM IPO GETS GREEN LIGHT
[...] (SBU) Summary: With all elements of the new Kenyan coalition government in agreement, Kenya's Minister of Finance has given the green light for the launch on March 28 of the largest initial public offering (IPO) in the country's history. The government will sell to the public $770 million in [...]
2008-03-18 13:40:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS EFIN PGOV KE
08NAIROBI786KENYA'S PARLIAMENT AMENDS CONSTITUTION AND ADOPTS
[...] Kenya's grand coalition government is now a legal reality. On March 18, Kenya's parliament adopted the Constitutional Amendment Bill and the National Accord and Reconciliation Bill (reftels a and c),which create a prime minister position and further secure the power-sharing agreement betwee [...]
2008-03-19 15:21:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KE
08NAIROBI824FORMING KENYA'S CABINET PREDICTABLY CONTENTIOUS
[...] (SBU) Disagreement over the size and composition of President Kibaki's cabinet has delayed the final step needed to form Kenya's coalition government. Forming a cabinet was never expected to be a neat or easy exercise, according to our political contacts, so this delay comes as no surprise. [...]
2008-03-26 10:13:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI869INDEPENDENT REVIEW COMMISSION SET TO BEGIN REVIEW
[...] As part of their historic February 28 power-sharing deal, the Party of National Unity (PNU) and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) agreed to form an Independent Review Committee (IREC) to undertake a top-to-bottom review of Kenya's flawed 2007 elections. Commissioners and a Chair, South African [...]
2008-03-31 13:16:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI893COALITION CABINET STILL NOT FORMED
[...] (C) Summary. The failure of the two sides thus far to reach agreement on composition of a coalition cabinet threatens momentum to resolve the Kenya post-elections crisis. We have been working intensively with both sides to press for rapid agreement (see ref A which lays out U.S. engagement) [...]
2008-04-03 09:56:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NAIROBI906MT. ELGON: MILITANT LEADERS ARRESTED
[...] (C) Summary: In the early morning hours of March 30, police arrested the 80-year-old traditional spiritual leader for the Soy subclan, Jason Psongoywo, in Eldoret. Psongoywo is reportedly one of the top leaders of the Sabaot Land Defense Force (SLDF),the Mt. Elgon-based militant group agains [...]
2008-04-07 08:54:00Embassy NairobiSECRETMOPS PHUM ASEC KE
08NAIROBI960RESOLVING KENYA'S CABINET IMBROGLIO
[...] (C) Summary. President Kibaki and PM-designate Odinga have still not reached agreement on composition of a coalition cabinet. The difference between them is over 2-3 ministries. The impasse has heightened tensions. There was sporadic violence April 8 and 9, but the country is now calm. H [...]
2008-04-09 18:11:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
08NEWDELHI2137INDIA WELCOMES BHUTANESE PM ON FIRST TRIP ABROAD
[...] (U) Summary. Bhutan's first democratically elected Prime Minister (PM) Jigmi Y. Thinley visited India July 14 - 17. The four-day visit to Delhi marked Thinley's first trip abroad after assuming power in April. Thinley met with Indian PM Manmohan Singh and other officials to continue the dialo [...]
2008-08-05 12:58:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM IN BT INR ENRG
08NEWDELHI314CONTRACT FARMING HAS LIMITED USE THUS FAR FOR ORGANIZED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Contract farming offers farmers a stable and profitable way to sell to agro-businesses, and is gaining popularity as a means of cutting out middlemen in the agricultural supply chain. A number of companies are successfully sourcing agricultural products directly from farmers f [...]
2008-01-31 05:55:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBTIO EAGR ECON EINV IN ETRD EFIN PREL
08NICOSIA146TURKISH CYPRIOT BUSINESS; ISOLATION OR
[...] (SBU) For decades, maintaining the global (except for Turkey) non-recognition of the "TRNC" has been among the ROC's top foreign policy goals. This, of course, is the inverse of a key objective of the "TRNC;" to achieve even incremental international recognition for its "institutions." There i [...]
2008-02-28 14:36:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PREL CY
08NICOSIA224CYPRUS: WATER SUPPLY APPROACHING CRITICAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Cyprus is in for a long, hot, and, worst of all, very dry summer. On March 24, the GOC announced emergency measures to deal with a dwindling water supply. A shortfall of around 16.7 million tons of water over the next year is expected to be made up through a combination of me [...]
2008-04-07 12:34:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD SENV CY
08NICOSIA264RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY
[...] (SBU) Following is our response on the impact of rising food/agricultural commodity prices in Cyprus, keyed to Ref A questions. DEMAND: Cyprus has an open, prosperous economy and continues to enjoy an abundance of imported foods and agricultural commodities sufficient for the needs of both [...]
2008-04-23 08:50:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL CY
08OTTAWA1341LIBERAL PARTY WOES
[...] (C) Summary. The predicted resignation of Liberal leader Stephane Dion, perhaps very soon, will not solve the party's problems, which are financial, geographic, substantive, and perhaps generational. The likely continued disarray within the party -- even with possible a new leader -- must [...]
2008-10-17 20:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
08OTTAWA635THEMES FROM THE 10TH CROSS-BORDER CRIME FORUM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the 10th Cross-Border Crime Forum, 120 participants led by the U.S. Attorney General and the Canadian Ministers of Public Safety and Justice reviewed progress in eight areas, received a threat assessment, and discussed lessons learned from three case studies. From Mission Ca [...]
2008-05-08 11:53:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KJUS KCRM CA
08PANAMA119PANAMA POST: 5TH EDITION -- THE POST-CARNIVAL
[...] (C) Panama's four-day Carnival celebration may have turned most of Panama City into a ghost town as Panamanians headed to the interior, the beaches, or Transismica, one of the city's main thoroughfares, to celebrate, but politics did not stop. The Panama Post was able to button hole one Pan [...]
2008-02-08 18:36:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
08PARIS406FRANCE: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] After mission-wide consultation, Embassy Paris did not identify any physical infrastructure or resources in France whose loss would immediately affect the security, national economic security, and/or national public health or safety of the United States. Our CI/KR report is therefore negative. [...]
2008-03-06 10:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ECON PTER PREL PGOV ETTC EAID EAGER EFIN
08PARIS92CONCURRENCE FOR INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE - ICE
[...] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requests the assistance of the Regional Security Offices in Accra, Ghana and Lome, Togo in support of a Human Trafficking / Forced Child Labor investigation involving young females trafficked to the U.S. from Togo and Ghana. Three targets have be [...]
2008-01-17 16:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CVIS PHUM FR XY
08PRETORIA1000MBEKI AND ADVISORS REVEAL BIAS AGAINST MDC (AND
[...] (C) British diplomat Marianne Young (protect) told PolOff on 09 May that President Mbeki's chief strategist, Joel Netshitenzhe, has bought Mugabe's argument that the MDC is a western puppet "hook, line, and sinker." Young had just returned from a meeting with an unnamed source in the presiden [...]
2008-05-09 15:38:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KHUM KDEM SF ZI
08PRETORIA2576ANC USING MULTIPLE MEANS TO STALL OPPOSITION
[...] (C) The African National Congress (ANC) is undertaking several steps to stall the opposition ahead of the election next year. Although the ANC's efforts to maintain its two-thirds majority in Parliament appear organized and extensive, there are few signs of a coherent strategy for countering [...]
2008-11-25 15:24:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKJUS PGOV KDEM SF
08PRETORIA2707 READOUT OF MADAGASCAR AND MOZAMBIQUE BIOTECHNOLOGY
[...] SUMMARY: From August 20 - 27, 2008, Dr. C.S. Prakash, Professor of Plant Molecular Genetics, Tuskegee University, and Dr. Martin Lema, Advisor to the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture and Professor of Biotechnology, Quilmes University, travelled to Madagascar and Mozambique to lead two agricul [...]
2008-12-12 12:04:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD KPAO PREL SENV SF TBIO
08PRETORIA2738SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 19,
[...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 8, issue 51 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Inflation Lower - Residential Building Continues to Slow - Bill Simplifies Registration Process for New Drugs - Intelsat to Launch $250 [...]
2008-12-19 08:01:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
08PRETORIA724South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" -
[...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...]
2008-04-07 15:43:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF
08RABAT496ALGERIAN AMBASSDOR BELIEVES MOROCCO,S
[...] (C) Summary: During a two-hour exchange the Algerian Ambassador declined to identify what he referred to as many specific issues that prevent good relations between Algeria and Morocco. He opined, however, that the Moroccan proposal to re-open the border was designed to curry favor with the [...]
2008-05-30 13:33:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN PBTS AG MO
08RANGOON342BURMA: FOOD PRICES CONTINUE TO RISE, FUEL PRICES DECREASE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Despite government efforts to reopen supply roads into Rangoon, food supplies remain limited, resulting in skyrocketing prices. Rice stocks throughout the city are almost depleted, and the few traders who still have rice sell it for approximately 40,000 kyat ($36) a bag, 67 pe [...]
2008-05-08 11:24:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON809ECONOMY OF MANDALAY, BURMA'S SECOND LARGEST CITY
[...] (SBU) Mandalay, Burma's second largest city, is home to approximately one million people and more than 20,000 registered businesses. It is a vibrant, bustling city, and Chinese influence is readily apparent at every turn. Mandalay is a trading center and transshipment point for jade, gems, [...]
2008-10-17 06:09:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN PREL BM
08RIYADH1630ARAB LEAGUE CONVENES FIRST CONSUMER AND BRAND
[...] (C) Summary: Members of the Arab League convened the first "Arab Consumer and Brand Protection Forum" October 19-21 in Jeddah. Over 500 attendees from both the public and private sector heard speakers on topics such as: combating counterfeit production and trade; increasing criminal prosecut [...]
2008-10-29 13:40:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALECON KIPR KPAO ETRD EINV PGOV EU AL SA
08SANAA610ROYG SUPPRESSES DEMONSTRATIONS WITH TANKS AND
[...] (C) The ROYG used military force including tanks, other armored vehicles and aircraft to suppress demonstrations in southern Yemen on April 1. The protests, which stemmed from an incident where military applicants from Dhale were refused enlistment, continued today, with many demonstrators arr [...]
2008-04-02 14:43:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL YM
08SANJOSE160COSTA RICA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL COSTELLO
[...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to the Congressional Delegation led by Congressman Jerry F. Costello. The other members of the delegation are: Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR); Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL); Rep. Henry E. Brown (R-SC); Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA); Rep. Mazie Hirono [...]
2008-02-28 14:30:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDOREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON CS
08SANJOSE475REQUEST TO END FOOD STAPLE EXPORT RESTRICTIONS:
[...] SUMMARY: Costa Rica,s rising food prices have had minimal political impact to date. From 2006 to 2007, wage increases kept pace with food price increases. Over the past year, that relationship changed with food price increases easily eclipsing wage increases (Ref B). Although domestic foo [...]
2008-06-05 00:33:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDCS EAGR ECON ETRD PREL TBIO
08SANJOSE519COSTA RICA RESPONSE: FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN THE
[...] SUMMARY: In response to Ref A, the Costa Rican Ministry of Labor, UN agencies and NGOs reported no new information regarding exploitative child labor (Ref B) and only sparse, anecdotal information regarding forced labor in the production of goods. Agricultural production on family farms and sma [...]
2008-06-16 22:15:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI ILO CS
08SANSALVADOR1333PORT DEVELOPMENT DELAYED AS CONSTRUCTION OF LA UNION PORT NEARS COMPLETION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-03 15:38:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ES EWWT
08SANTIAGO1015 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - NOVEMBER 18
[...] The Association of Public Employees (ANEFE) rejected the government's salary adjustment and extended the strike for another day; The Minister of Public Works suspended six ministry officials in the VI Region for alleged bribery. U.S. Related News ---------------------- 2. Representatives f [...]
2008-11-18 15:47:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC PREL SNAR CI
08SANTIAGO114CHILE ANNOUNCES MARKET ACCESS FOR U.S. POULTRY
[...] SUMMARY: On January 31, Chile opened its market to imports of U.S. chicken and turkey. In a meeting that day with the Ambassador, Minister of Agriculture Hornkohl made the announcement official. The Ambassador and Hornkohl agreed on the importance of continuing to open bilateral markets, not [...]
2008-02-05 20:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON ENRG PREL SENV CI
08SANTODOMINGO1023AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FERNANDEZ: CHEVRON,
[...] (C) Summary: In the Ambassador's June 19 meeting with the President, Fernandez agreed to intervene in Chevron's investment dispute to prevent violence, but not to settle the dispute itself, stating that -- despite the contract -- there had to be a negotiated settlement. The President describe [...]
2008-06-25 13:32:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PBIO ECON ENRG EAID EAGR CACS HA DR
08SAOPAULO227SOARING FOOD PRICES WOLDWIDE AND FOOD INFLATION IN BRAZIL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Brazil has suffered less from skyrocketing world food prices than other emerging markets. As a net global food supplier, Brazil's agricultural exports earnings are climbing. However, rising global inflation - particularly higher oil prices, which affect both the cost of fertili [...]
2008-05-09 09:17:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB EIND EAGR ENRG KTDD EINV BR
08SAOPAULO248MST "RED APRIL" SHOWS DECLINE IN ACTIVITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) is facing a significant change in its organization. The number of its members is slowly decreasing, as is the number of land invasions it carries out. Some observers cite President Lula's "Bolsa Familia" cash transfer program for the p [...]
2008-05-16 09:18:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ELAB PHUM PINS EINV PGOV SOCI ASEC BR
08SEOUL1570VISIT TO RURAL DPRK: AGRARIAN, ORDERLY, QUIET
[...] (C) During a June 30-July 5 visit to North Korea to evaluate the beginnings of the U.S. food aid program (ref A),Poloff and USAID officers spent three days in Pyongyang and also traveled to two port cities to the southwest--Nampo and Songrim--and four agricultural towns farther north--Hyangsan [...]
2008-08-10 23:37:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKN EAGR ECON PGOV PINR SOCI ELTN MARR
08STATE25656BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-12 12:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC KS
08STATE78036BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK
[...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Embassy's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 05-050097262 for the export of Rafael aircraft engine spare parts and related technical data [...]
2008-07-21 14:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
08STATE93970LIFELINES FOR IPCC WORKING GROUP ELECTION
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Summary. Missions should be prepared to assist the U.S. Delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its efforts to secure a positive outcome to elections for working group co-chair positions at the IPCC Plenar [...]
2008-09-02 23:30:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALSENV PREL UNEP WMO KGHG IR ML AR MA MO
08STATE9486TALKING POINTS FOR DPA BRIEFING ON KENYA
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the January 30 DPA briefing on the situation in Kenya: Begin points: -- The United States would like to thank Under Secretary-General Pascoe (or other DPA briefer) for their SIPDIS briefing today on the situation in Keny [...]
2008-01-30 16:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM
08TAIPEI1748MA TO CODEL ISSA: CROSS-STRAIT TIES ON RIGHT
[...] (C) Summary. As the new U.S. administration reviews its approach on trade issues, Taiwan hopes to work with the U.S. to put in place the building blocks for an eventual bilateral FTA, Taiwan President Ma told Congressman Darrell Issa during a December 17 meeting. Taiwan appreciates U.S. securi [...]
2008-12-18 08:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCH EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD INT PGOV PINR PREL TW
08TAIPEI248 Taiwan IPR: 2008 301 Watch List Submission
[...] (SBU) In 2007, Taiwan continued to take measures to reduce intellectual property right (IPR) infringement and strengthen its IPR regime. AIT notes several positive developments over the past year, most importantly the June passage by the Legislative Yuan (LY) of a new law aimed at ending illeg [...]
2008-02-24 04:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR TW
08TAIPEI249 Taiwan IPR: 2008 301 Watch List Submission
[...] (SBU) In 2007, Taiwan continued to take measures to reduce intellectual property right (IPR) infringement and strengthen its IPR regime. AIT notes several positive developments over the past year, most importantly the June passage by the Legislative Yuan (LY) of a new law aimed at ending illeg [...]
2008-02-24 04:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR TW
08TALLINN403ESTONIA'S NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS(C-RE8-00759)
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Estonia's post-Soviet political landscape has been characterized by youthful leadership. Beginning with the first post-independence Estonian government of Mart Laar in 1992 to the current Andrus Ansip government elected in 2007, young and influential decision makers have been a c [...]
2008-11-25 14:01:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR EN
08TELAVIV2555BARAK APPROVES NEW SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense (MOD) Barak since April 2008, has approved dozens of construction permits for residential and municipal projects in the major settlement blocs and in a number of smaller settlements. This construction, if completed, will pave the way for continued population [...]
2008-11-17 13:33:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV274ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-04 15:01:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
08TELAVIV2860ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that dozens of rockets and mortar shells fell on southern Israel from Gaza over the weekend. The media reported that the attacks have sparked a heated debate in Israel o [...]
2008-12-22 11:39:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
08THEHAGUE576NETHERLANDS: NAMES/TITLES OF LEADING DUTCH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-08 12:39:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL NL
08TIRANA414THIS WEEK IN ALBANIA, MAY 24-30, 2008: THE MEDIA ISSUE
[...] (U) The following is a weekly report prepared by Embassy Tirana's local staff to provide political and economic context and insight into developments in Albania. With the death of one of Albania's most powerful media moguls, this week's issue focuses on the media. ------------------ MEDIA [...]
2008-06-02 13:36:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL AL
08TOKYO1199FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN JAPAN: DIFFERENT REGIONAL APPROACHES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Japanese regional authorities' attitudes toward foreign direct investment are largely positive, but when it comes to attracting foreign investors, while some are aggressive, others are ineffective or downright clueless. Limited authority to offer tax or other incentives to pote [...]
2008-05-02 01:09:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV PREL ECON OECD JA
08TOKYO1247COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN C. GEIS
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the May 13-23, 2008 visit to Japan by John C. Geis. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Dan Cintron. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5558 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6972 Mobile phone: (81- [...]
2008-05-08 06:43:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO1278COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DASD BRIAN GREEN AND BRIAN
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of DASD Brian Green and Brian Bohannon to Japan from May 13-16, 2008. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Dan Cintron. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5558 Home phone: (81-3)3 [...]
2008-05-12 03:40:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO1379 DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/20/08
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-20 08:26:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
08TOKYO1564COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the June 14-18, 2008 visit to Japan by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian-Pacific Security Affairs, James Shinn, Col. Buhl, Suzanne Basalla, and LtCol. Marc Czaja. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Da [...]
2008-06-09 04:15:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO162COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAS PATRICK MOON AND MR.
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 3-7, 2008 visit to Japan by Deputy Assistant Secretary Patrick Moon and Mr. Neil Kromash. SIPDIS 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Evan Reade. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3 [...]
2008-01-22 08:30:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL AF JA
08TOKYO1880COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LTCOL MARC CZAJA
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the July 22-31, 2008 visit to Japan by LTCOL Marc Czaja. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Chris Gunninig. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5342 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6910 Mobile phon [...]
2008-07-08 08:42:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO2032COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OSD/APSA PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the July 29-31, 2008 visit to Japan by OSD/APSA Principal Director for East Asia John Hill, OSD/APSA Country Director for Japan John Geis, and Joint Staff/J5 LtCol Leonard Kosinski. 2. (U) Control Officer for the Okinawa portion of the [...]
2008-07-23 23:16:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO2076JAPAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID HELVEY, ABRAHAM
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the August 26-29, 2008, visit to Japan by USD Director for China, Mongolia and Taiwan David Helvey, USD Country Director for China Affairs Abraham Denmark, and USD Country Director for Japan Jason Hamm. 2. (U) Control Officer for the v [...]
2008-07-30 02:13:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO249COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. JCMB DELEGATION TO JAPAN
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 03-08, 2008, visit to Japan by the U.S. JCMB Delegation led by Ambassador Christopher W. Dell. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Evan Reade. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5 [...]
2008-01-30 23:41:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO2627COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SUZANNE BASALLA
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the September 24--October 9, 2008, visit to Japan by Suzanne Basalla. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer John Nylin. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5344 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6859 M [...]
2008-09-23 23:57:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO2741COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DASD DAVID SEDNEY TO VISIT
[...] (U) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the October 5-8, 2008, visit to Japan by DASD David Sedney, Mr. John C. Geis, LtCol Leonard J. Kosinski, and Mr. Patrick W. Graff. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Sangmin "Simon" Lee. He can be re [...]
2008-10-01 08:09:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO300COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CHRISTINE CHAN-DOWNER
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 28 - March 1, 2008, visit to Japan by Christine Chan-Downer for TIP-related meetings. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Scott Hansen. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5559 Ho [...]
2008-02-05 07:00:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO3137JAPAN -- 2009 DRAFT NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATES REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-11 08:42:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS EFIN EINV ETRD JA KIPR
08TOKYO3277COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DASD DAVID SEDNEY, SUZANNE
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the December 2008, visit to Japan by DASD Sedney (8-10 Dec),Suzanne Basalla (4-11 Dec),and Marc Czaja (4-11 Dec). 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Wilson C. Ruark. He can be reached at: Office phone: [...]
2008-12-01 22:58:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO3303COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RUSSELL C. BILLS TO VISIT
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the December 3-6, 2008, visit to Japan by Russell C. Bills. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Wilson C. Ruark. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5373 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6968 Mobile [...]
2008-12-03 23:00:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO3351COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KATHERINE WARD + 5 TO VISIT
[...] (U) Embassy grants country clearance for the December 4-20, 2008, visit to Japan of the following DoD civilian/military personnel. Jeffrey M. Avery, 14-19 December Timothy B. Baltz, 7-19 December Troy Mueller, 15-19 December Lee A. Nickel, 14-19 December George G. Vergos, 4-20 December K [...]
2008-12-10 06:47:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO35 DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/07/08
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-07 08:14:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
08TOKYO382COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN HILL AND MARC CZAJA
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 19-22, 2008 visit to Japan by John Hill and Marc Czaja. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Dan Cintron. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5558 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6972 M [...]
2008-02-13 07:12:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO425COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VICTORIA SEGAL
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 20-21, 2008, visit to Japan by Interpreter Victoria Segal. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Scott Hansen. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5559 Home phone: (81-3)3224-685 [...]
2008-02-19 05:43:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO441Country Clearance for Steven Tepp, U.S. Copyright
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for Steven Tepp, Policy Planning Advisor, U.S. Copyright Office for February 26 through March 1, 2008. 2. (U) Embassy point of contact for this visit is Economic Officer Scott A. Smith. He can be reached at any time through the embassy switch [...]
2008-02-20 07:25:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR OTRA JA
08TOKYO492ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARRIVES IN TOKYO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Tokyo February 25 to begin a four day visit to Japan. Accompanied by a 24-member business delegation, a main priority of the visit will be to bolster bilateral economic ties. In addition to bilateral ties, regional issues such as the [...]
2008-02-25 09:00:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD IS JA
08TOKYO603COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL FARKAS (MAR 22-25,
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 22-25, 2008 visit to Japan by Staffdel Farkas. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Christopher Gunning. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5342 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6910 Mobile [...]
2008-03-07 01:58:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO776COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR POL M/C AUBREY CARLSON
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 25-30, 2008 visit to Japan by Political Minister Counselor Aubrey Carlson. 2. (U) Point of contact for the visit will be Joyce Ogier. She can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5332 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6970 Mo [...]
2008-03-21 05:38:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO862COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN D. HILL DELEGATION
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 31-April 3, 2008 visit to Japan by John D. Hill, Suzanne Basalla, Leo Kosinski, Wesley Ishizu, David Bice, Lynn Hicks and David Spasojevich. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Chris Gunning. He ca [...]
2008-03-31 04:22:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO863COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RAYMOND D. RICHHART
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 31-April 4, 2008 visit to Japan by Raymond D. Richhart. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Chris Gunning. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5342 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6910 M [...]
2008-03-31 04:22:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO927COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EAP/J POL-MIL OFFICER DAVID
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 7-13, 2008 visit to Japan by David A. Schlaefer. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Simon Lee. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5337 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6815 Mobile phone: [...]
2008-04-04 06:24:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08TOKYO942COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DASD DAVID SEDNEY AND
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the April 6-11, 2008 visit to Japan by DASD David Sedney, Suzanne Basalla, Patrick Graff, and LtCol Richard Weir. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Dan Cintron. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3 [...]
2008-04-07 06:24:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
08UNVIEVIENNA634 GETTING THE MOST OUT OF PARIS PACT
[...] (SBU) The upcoming December 15-16 annual meeting of the Paris Pact Consultative Group is a venue for USDEL to advance USG counternarcotics objectives in Afghanistan by expressing support the UNODC's "Rainbow Strategy." Specifically, the U.S. can use this forum to encourage donor contribution t [...]
2008-12-02 15:43:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM PREL AF IR CA PK UN
08USNATO244UKRAINIAN DEPUTY PM NEMYRIA STRIKES THE RIGHT NOTE
[...] (C) Summary: In a thoughtful and articulate presentation, Ukrainian Deputy PM Hryhoriy Nemyria briefed the NATO Ukraine Commission on his new role in coordinating his government,s cooperation with NATO, and the political situation in Kyiv. Allies offered encouragement, but those that would like [...]
2008-07-11 10:21:00Mission USNATOCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO UP
08VALLETTA211MALTESE FIRM REQUESTS GUIDANCE ON BUSINESS
[...] (C) As reported reftels, Malta's Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has been quick to recognize the risks that financial transactions with Iranian banks pose to Malta's reputation. In that context, MFSA Director General Andre Camilleri contacted post regarding a Maltese businessman, Mark Ca [...]
2008-05-21 05:27:00Embassy VallettaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKTFN PTER EFIN PARM PGOV ETRD MT
08VIENNA969 FOOD PRICES - BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR AUSTRIAN CONSUMER
[...] Food prices are a continued concern in Austria and will remain high on the agenda of Austria's new government, to be elected in September 2008. The May 2008 inflation rate of 3.7% was the highest monthly rate in fifteen years, food price inflation was 7.2%. Food prices (excluding VAT) in Aus [...]
2008-07-07 16:20:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD ECON PGOV PREL AU
08WARSAW277SCENESETTER FOR YOUR MEETING MARCH 10 WITH POLISH
[...] (C) Mr. President, your meeting on March 10 with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will underscore Poland's importance as a key ally of the United States, one which has stood shoulder to shoulder with us in Iraq, is stepping up its commitments in Afghanistan, and is the potential host for mis [...]
2008-03-03 16:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS OVIP PL
08WARSAW512POLAND: U/S DOBRIANSKY MEETING WITH MFA SIKORSKI
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Foreign Affairs Radek Sikorski told Under Secretary for Global Affairs Dobriansky that Poland has selected a head for the Secretariat of the Community of Democracies, although the name is not yet public. Minister Sikorski believes the U.S. should do more to support [...]
2008-04-23 08:39:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV KDEM PL
08WELLINGTON183NEW ZEALAND THANKS ITS VIETNAM VETS, AND ALSO
[...] (U) Summary. The New Zealand government sponsored a series of events called "Tribute 08" over the May 31-June 2 three-day weekend to honor and thank NZ veterans who served and died in the Vietnam War, and to apologize to survivors and their families for not recognizing their service until n [...]
2008-06-11 03:57:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV NZ
08WINDHOEK314NAMIBIA'S INFRASTRUCTURE: USITC RESPONSE
[...] (U) This cable is in response to reftel request from the U.S. International Trade Commission for information on infrastructure conditions that effect export competitiveness. 2. (SBU) Compared to other Sub-Saharan African countries, Namibia has fairly well developed and maintained infras [...]
2008-10-03 08:50:00Embassy WindhoekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD OTRA ASEC WA
08YAOUNDE416CAMEROON UPDATE: AMBASSADOR MEETS PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) Summary: On April 24, Ambassador met with Philemon Yang, Minister Assistant Secretary General at the Presidency. He defended President Biya's decision to change the constitution, said Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) would be established by June and strongly suggested that Biya would not ru [...]
2008-04-25 11:12:00Embassy YaoundeCONFIDENTIALCM ECON KCOR PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
08YEREVAN117LIKELIHOOD OF STREET PROTESTS, POSSIBLE VIOLENCE,
[...] (C) The Armenian political scene is growing more, rather than less, unpredictable as Election Day draws near. It is clear to us that both ex- President Levon Ter-Petrossian's (LTP) and PM Serzh Sargsian's camps are each "all in" on this election outcome. Neither will be prepared to accept a [...]
2008-02-13 15:17:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC AM
08YEREVAN214THE UGLY--AND UNUSUAL--SPECTER OF ANTI-SEMITISM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenia's presidential election period bizarrely featured an unwelcome guest: anti-Semitism. A government-affiliated national television network aired a despicable, hour-long "documentary" of hate speech, that labeled the leading opposition candidate a "Zionist Jew" in cahoots wi [...]
2008-03-12 13:15:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF KDEM AM
08YEREVAN854EUR A/S FRIED DISCUSSES TURKEY, KARABAKH AND
[...] (C) During A/S Daniel Fried's October 17-18 visit to Armenia, opposition and civil society figures complained about political rights and authorities' failure to heal the wounds from the flawed presidential election and March 1 unrest. While supportive of GOAM efforts on rapprochement with Tur [...]
2008-10-24 09:41:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM AM
08YEREVAN932AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY COURTESY CALL ON
[...] (C) During an introductory meeting November 10 with Minister of Transport and Communication Gurgen Sargsian, Sargsian expressed appreciation for USG assistance and cooperation on transportation projects and noted the value that the GOAM places on the MCC Compact. Ambassador applauded the GOAM [...]
2008-11-18 14:14:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID ELTN ECON TU AM
09ABIDJAN229CREDIT HARD TO OBTAIN IN COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] Summary. The Ivoirian banking sector is made up of 18 banks, approximately half of which are undercapitalized. Banks here play a relatively small role in the economy, even when compared with banks in other low-income countries. The lack of credit is an element that impedes the expansion of th [...]
2009-04-08 10:06:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON IV
09ABUJA2009 ENERGY SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF COORDINATOR FOR
[...] (SBU) The oil and gas industry in Nigeria accounts for 92 percent of export earnings and 85 percent of GON revenues, according to the World Bank. Nigeria is the 12th largest producer of crude in the world, the 8th largest exporter, and is the world's 10th largest crude oil reserves at 36.2 bi [...]
2009-11-03 07:07:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET EINV ELTN NI
09ABUJA313NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR AND BENUE GOVERNOR DISCUSS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Benue Governor Gabriel Suswam (People's Democratic Party - PDP) at Government House in Makurdi on February 12 (PolOff notetaker). The discussion focused primarily on agricultural collaboration and partnerships, but also touched upon the pote [...]
2009-02-20 14:41:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAGR ETRD EINV NI
09ABUJA673NIGERIA: MINISTER OF FINANCE ON EVE OF BANK/FUND
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador conveyed invitations from Treasury Secretary Geithner and other senior Treasury and State Department officials during meeting with GON Finance Minister Mansur Muhtar on April 17. Muhtar told the Ambassador that he appreciated efforts by the U.S. and U.K. governments t [...]
2009-04-20 17:07:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD EAGR NI
09ADDISABABA1770MELES: ETHIOPIA FOLLOWING DIFFERENT "DEMOCRATIC"
[...] (S) Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassador Yamamoto on July 23 that Ethiopia is pursuing a "democratic" paradigm fundamentally different from that accepted by the United States. Meles stated that he rejects President Obama's assertion -- as posed in the President's July 11 speech in Ghan [...]
2009-07-27 06:51:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETPREL PGOV KDEM ET
09ADDISABABA2155POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS OF THE AFAR REGION
[...] (C) A visit by PolOff to eastern Amhara and southwest Afar regions in late August sheds light on the political and economic dynamics of this geographically important region bordering Djibouti. Opposition political parties reported multiple cases of harassment and intimidation, and are cynical [...]
2009-09-03 14:03:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM PREL EAGR ET
09ADDISABABA2208DO NOT INTERVENT IN OUR AFFAIRS: GOE LAYS DOWN A MARKER
[...] (SBU) Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Mike Gonzales and Public Affairs Officer Alyson Grunder met with the Director of the Office of Government Communications Affairs, Minister Bereket Simon, on September 4 to discuss two opinion pieces published in the state-owned Amharic language Addis Zemen n [...]
2009-09-14 08:34:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID KDEM ET
09ALGIERS1071DRUG TRAFFICKING IN ALGERIA
[...] (U) Algeria serves as a transit point for drug trafficking, both for cannabis and cannabis resin from Morocco, and increasingly for South American-origin cocaine and heroin, which both transit Algeria to Europe. Algeria's long, remote and difficult-to-secure borders facilitate the drug trade [...]
2009-12-02 11:54:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALAG PGOV PINS SNAR
09ALGIERS113ALGERIAN MEDIA REACTION TO BREAKING SCANDAL - JANUARY 31,
[...] SUMMARY: Press reports of the CIA station chief in Algiers accused of raping two Algerian women, which broke on ABC News on the evening of January 28, were splashed across the front pages of almost every Algerian newspaper on January 31. The extensive reporting was largely a translation of the [...]
2009-02-01 06:43:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PBTS PTER AG
09ALGIERS224ALGIERS: SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE
[...] DEMONSTRATIONS A. ARE THERE ANY ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN COUNTRY CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT SIGNIFICANT ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS? (SBU) Algeria is a nominally secular state with a 99-percent Muslim population. There are no identifiable ethnic or religious communities that har [...]
2009-03-03 18:18:00Embassy AlgiersSECRET//NOFORNASEC PTER AG
09ALGIERS302E-BARBARY COAST: PROFITS AND PIRACY IN THE
[...] THIS CABLE CONTAINS BUSINESS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria was the second-leading growth market for Microsoft in 2008, and even as the global recession appears to be dampening sales, it might maintain its position relative to other marke [...]
2009-03-29 16:33:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR EINV ECON TSPL AG
09ALGIERS308GUANTANAMO: FORMER DETAINEE ALLEGEDLY ENCOURAGED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A letter received by the Embassy on March 25 accuses the spouse of former Algerian Guantanamo detainee Sofiane Abar Houari of encouraging her husband to attack the U.S. Embassy in Algiers. The letter, written in mediocre French, purports to be from a concerned citizen presumably [...]
2009-03-31 09:21:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL AG
09ALGIERS415ALGERIA AND MEPI - MOVING FORWARD
[...] (U) MEPI remains a valuable tool in Algeria, both to continue existing programming and to focus future programming on new opportunities we identify. In response to refs A and B, this cable outlines what programs work in Algeria, today and tomorrow, and why. MEPI programs support USG goals of [...]
2009-04-26 12:35:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALKMPI PREL KPAO KDEM AG
09ALGIERS492DESPERATELY LOOKING NORTH: THE MIGRANTS OF THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The cities of Tamanrasset and Djanet in the Algerian south have become extended transit hubs for thousands of illegal migrants from sub Saharan Africa who are looking north to seek opportunity. With 130,000 residents, Tamanrasset is the largest population center in southern Alger [...]
2009-05-20 18:57:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER PINR PINS SOCI ML NG AG
09ALGIERS496GO WEST! AMBASSADOR REACHES OUT BEYOND ALGIERS
[...] (U) THIS CABLE CONTAINS BUSINESS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION AND IS INTENDED FOR GOVERNMENT USE ONLY. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ON THE INTERNET. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's recent trip to Oran (Algeria's second largest city) and Tlemcen provided him an excellent platform to highlight existing coo [...]
2009-05-26 13:00:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO PREL PGOV EINV ECON OEXC OIIP SCUL PINR AG
09ALGIERS543ALGERIAN MEDIA REACTION TO PRESIDENT'S CAIRO SPEECH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 17:12:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KISL SOCI AG
09ALGIERS66ISLAMOFEMINISM: FINDING A FEMINIST AUDIENCE IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two recent American Bar Association (ABA) seminars on sharia law held in Algiers and Oran featured lectures using the theological tenets of Islam to support arguments in favor of gender equality. The lectures, by Islamic feminist scholar and Richmond University law professor Ha [...]
2009-01-21 16:34:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KWMN KISL SOCI SCUL AG
09ALGIERS717ALGERIA: ENGAGEMENT FOLLOWING PRESIDENT'S CAIRO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The President's June 4 speech in Cairo was closely watched by a generally receptive Algerian public, as was his July speech in Ghana. Our Algerian contacts appreciated the President's effort at Muslim outreach -- epitomized by opening the speech with "assalaamu alaykum" -- and [...]
2009-07-28 17:38:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL OEXC ECON EINV SCUL SENV SOCI TSPL KISL
09ALGIERS842ALGERIA: FINANCE LAW HAMPERS FOREIGN INVESTMENT,
[...] (SBU) A "complementary finance law" (CFL) adopted by presidential decree on 22 July imposes new restrictions on foreign investment, import companies, and domestic consumer credit. It grew out of government preoccupation with lowering Algeria's growing import bill and more tightly controlling [...]
2009-09-23 07:25:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEINV EFIN ETRD ECON AG
09ALGIERS96U.S. COAST GUARD GIVES ALGERIAN PORTS HIGH MARKS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A delegation of four International Port Security Specialists from the U.S. Coast Guard visited the ports of Arzew and Algiers from January 10-14, marking the second visit by the Coast Guard since the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) [...]
2009-01-27 17:49:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALETRD EWWT AG
09AMMAN2306JORDAN'S INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECTOR HOPES TO BE
[...] (C) Summary: Yahoo's recent acquisition of the Jordanian internet portal company Maktoob has focused media and government attention on the technology sector and generated considerable excitement about Jordan's future as a regional IT hub. Recent meetings with industry and government officials [...]
2009-10-15 14:09:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALECON EINT TINT PGOV JO
09AMMAN2596Jordan 2010 National Trade Estimate
[...] Per reftel, below is the text of Embassy Amman's 2010 National Trade Estimate report, also e-mailed as requested to USTR as a Microsoft Word document. 2. Begin Text: TRADE SUMMARY The U.S. goods trade with Jordan achieved a surplus of $154.5 million in the first nine months of FY 09 [...]
2009-12-02 14:25:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN JO
09AMMAN75JORDAN: JANUARY 8 MEDIA REACTION TO GAZA SITUATION
[...] SUMMARY: Beneath photos of Palestinian family members grieving over civilians killed in Gaza, Jordan's major media outlets led today's coverage with news of the Israeli security cabinet's decision to extend its military offensive into urban areas. Inside papers were also choked with paid adve [...]
2009-01-11 05:45:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KPAO KMDR JO
09AMMAN833GROWING INTERNET COMPETITION AND LAUNCH OF A 3G TENDER IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to ref A, this cable provides an update on Jordan's initiatives and strong government commitment to improve telecommunications and Internet connectivity. Such efforts led to an increase in Jordan's rank to 44 out of 134 countries in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) 2 [...]
2009-04-07 12:16:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINT EINV TINT JO
09ANKARA1647TURKISH MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-17 11:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO
09ANKARA166TURKEY: "I APOLOGIZE" CAMPAIGN CATHARTIC, BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The number of signatures attached to the on-line campaign apologizing for the "great disaster" suffered by Ottoman Armenians in 1915 has begun to taper off after reaching 30,000 -- a figure far exceeding the organizers' expectations. While criticized strongly by retired diplomat [...]
2009-02-03 14:48:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM AM TU
09ANKARA176TURKEY: WALKING BACK THE GAZA RHETORIC
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan has begun to modify his politically charged Gaza rhetoric, responding to growing concerns in the Turkish Jewish community, moderate Arab capitals, American Jewish groups, and among GOT officials. Since Davos, Erdogan has repeatedly emphasized that his state [...]
2009-02-04 15:18:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ANKARA925TURKEY: ADANA'S WILY OLD FOX ON THE ART OF POLITICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey's longest-serving big-city mayor, Aytac Durak in Adana, proved unusually talkative in recent meetings with us. He highlighted service, independence, and being able to turn tables on one's opponents as keys to his success in the Turkish political game. Durak's career und [...]
2009-07-01 08:28:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ANTANANARIVO468MADAGASCAR: PERIODIC SECURITY UPDATE JUNE 23
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daily "Legalist" protests continue at Magro. An undetonated artisanal bomb was discovered and defused by security forces. Additional, but still sketchy information on the "Vigimada" security plan for June 26 National Day has been released. Otherwise, a general calm prevails in [...]
2009-06-24 10:58:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC CASC MA MP PGOV PREL PTER
09ANTANANARIVO651RUSSIAN BUSINESS PRACTICES IN MADAGASCAR
[...] (C) Summary: This cable responds to the questions raised in reftel regarding Russian business practices in Madagascar. The answers are keyed to the questions below. End summary. A. (U) IS THERE A RUSSIAN TRADE REPRESENTATION IN YOUR COUNTRY? There is no Russian trade representation in M [...]
2009-09-14 13:04:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD MA RS
09ANTANANARIVO779ANTANANARIVO POL/ECON WEEKLY UPDATE (13-NOV-2009)
[...] (U) SUMMARY: This is U.S. Embassy Antananarivo's Weekly Update for November 2-13, an unclassified review of major political, economic, and commercial events and information from the U.S. Mission to Madagascar and the Comoros. POLITICS (Paragraphs 2-4) - Transition Government: Still a Work in [...]
2009-11-13 12:29:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ECPS EINV MA
09ASHGABAT1104TURKMENISTAN: RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE LIMITED,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Although Ukraine and Turkmenistan no longer see eye-to-eye on political priorities, Ukrainian companies are still active in Turkmenistan, especially in the construction sector. However, restrictions on civic organizations have isolated expat Ukrainians and those who now come to [...]
2009-09-01 09:39:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD TX UP
09ASHGABAT720 TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA REACTION ON MAY POST EVENTS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat maintained a high profile in state media during the month of May. Post organized events such as USAID's 15th anniversary celebration of partnership with Turkmenistan in early May, a one-week tour [...]
2009-06-09 09:29:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
09ASMARA25MASSAWA'S ECONOMY DWINDLES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Emboffs traveled to Massawa January 14-15 for a Public Diplomacy engagement (septel) and observed a more hollow, destitute city than we saw in April 2008. Although the city's vice mayor remained optimistic about the city's situation, the evidence on the ground suggested a more b [...]
2009-01-21 10:47:00Embassy AsmaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SOCI PGOV ER
09ASMARA66MEETINGS WITH SHEIKH AWEYS
[...] (C) AWEYS MEETS WITH DIPLOMATS ------------------------------------ In recent weeks Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, leader of the hard-line faction of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia based in Asmara, has met with diplomats from a number of countries, including Canada, Egypt, Libya, [...]
2009-02-23 13:47:00Embassy AsmaraSECRETPREL PTER ASEC ER SO
09ASTANA348KAZAKHSTAN: CHINESE AMBASSADOR DENIES ANY CHINESE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese Ambassador to Kazakhstan Cheng Guoping told the Ambassador on February 24 that he expects China will agree to participate in the Northern Distribution Network (NDN) for commercial shipment of non-lethal supplies to Afghanistan. He described China's principal objective in [...]
2009-02-25 08:18:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MARR CH AF RS KG UP KZ
09ASTANA620 KAZAKHSTAN: LIFE ON THE STEPPE, APRIL 4-10
[...] This is another in a series of weekly cables drawn mostly from public media, as well as think-tank, NGO, and opposition web-sites, selected to show the diversity of life in Kazakhstan, and information about it available to citizens of Kazakhstan. Our goal is to choose what might interest and [...]
2009-04-10 12:49:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SENV KCRM KZ
09ATHENS1619Greece Remains Wedded to EC position on Doha, Geographical
[...] (SBU) Following the October 23 demarche delivery to the MFA, EconOff re-delivered reftel demarche on November 10 to Tassos Protopappas, Director for International Trade Policy, and Nikos Georgopoulos, Director General for International Economic Relations, with the Directorate for International [...]
2009-11-12 16:09:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EUN KIPR GR
09BAMAKO405Mali Telecoms Company Privatization In Limbo
[...] Summary: The long-awaited privatization of Mali's telecommunications company, Sotelma, seemed nearly complete in February when the Malian government announced that Maroc Telecom was the highest bidder. Since then, the process has been at a standstill. The Malian government claims that the CF [...]
2009-06-22 12:17:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID ETRD ML
09BANGKOK931 RURAL "SUFFICIENCY ECONOMY" VILLAGES OFFER ALTERNATIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Thailand's emergence in recent years as a major trading economy in Asia, the King's encouragement of a self-reliant "sufficiency economy" has attracted support in the countryside. Government programs support village recycling and low-carbon impact agricultural practice [...]
2009-04-09 05:38:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ETRD EAGR ECON TH
09BEIJING2656EU ON TIRES CASE; CHINESE REACTIONS DAY TWO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EU Commission officials told Econ M/C September 16 their Chinese interlocutors on trade had not raised the tires issue in meetings earlier this week, though PRC Commerce Minister Chen Deming had been very tough on the subject when he met EU Commissioner Ashton in New Delhi two [...]
2009-09-16 09:10:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EFIN ECON PREL WTRO CH
09BEIRUT1107INCREASED BANK DEPOSITS: BLESSING OR CURSE? (ECONOMIC WEEK
[...] (U) As Lebanon reports a $14 billion increase in bank deposits in the first eight months of 2009, prominent local economists have publicly characterized increased deposits as a double-edged sword for local banks. Head of Research at Byblos Bank Nassib Ghobril noted that since depositors contin [...]
2009-10-08 07:55:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS EFIN EIND PGOV LE
09BEIRUT272LEBANON: IMF SAYS GOL MET 2008 TARGETS BUT 2009 WILL BE
[...] (SBU) On March 3, IMF Resident Rep Edward Gardner told EconOff the GOL could have implemented more reforms, even in the difficult political context, but instead used politics as an excuse for delay. "They constantly say the situation is too bad, but the reality is that it is always bad," he si [...]
2009-03-10 10:48:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL PGOV LE
09BELFAST50NORTHERN IRELAND DEVOLUTION DELAYED BUT ON TRACK
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Northern Ireland's political leaders, together with HMG's Northern Ireland Office, are united in their conviction to move forward on the devolution of policing and justice. An attempt by hard-line unionist Jim Allister to siphon off support from First Minister Peter Robinson's [...]
2009-07-10 11:25:00Consulate BelfastCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV SOCI UK EI
09BELFAST88NORTHERN IRELAND FIRST MINISTER ROBINSON AND DEPUTY FIRST
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Despite strong complaints regarding the behavior of the other and their respective parties, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness both agree that the financial piece of devolving policing and justice powers is complete, and a [...]
2009-11-03 17:12:00Consulate BelfastCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR UK EI
09BELMOPAN111BELMOPAN - ANNUAL OSAC CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT
[...] (U) Overall Crime and Safety Situation Crime throughout Belize continues to remain a problem and has steadily risen over the past two years. Major crimes in Belize (defined as murder, rape, robbery, burglary, theft and carnal knowledge) increased in 2008 by 8.1% from 2007. Most disturbing [...]
2009-03-20 21:13:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDASEC BH
09BELMOPAN164 BELIZE: EAC PREPARATION AND STATUS UPDATE FOR H1N1 FLU -
[...] Summary: The EAC convened on April 28 to review the information known about the H1N1 flu virus outbreak, and to review post's Tripwires for Pandemic Flu. The EAC decided to restrict travel of American personnel and their families to neighboring Mexico and Guatemala until further notice as a [...]
2009-04-30 17:47:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR KFLU ASEC CASC AMGT BH
09BELMOPAN298 DENGUE OUTBREAK
[...] Summary: Belize is experiencing an upsurge in cases of dengue fever with about 200 clinically-diagnosed cases in the last two months. The health authorities in the adjacent Mexican state of Quintana Roo (QR) are providing the GOB assistance to control the outbreak. End Summary. 2. The [...]
2009-07-31 21:50:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI BH
09BELMOPAN314CITRUS GREENING THREATENS BELIZE'S CITRUS INDUSTRY
[...] In May 2009, the Belize Agricultural Health Authority (BAHA) confirmed the presence of citrus greening in Belize. This disease represents a serious threat to an industry which significantly contributes to the Belizean economy in terms of foreign exchange earnings and employment in the rural s [...]
2009-08-11 20:22:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDECON BEXP EAGR PGOV BH
09BELMOPAN320EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT FUND ACTIVITIES IN BELIZE: SUGAR, BANANAS AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
[...] Ambassador Marco Mazzocchi Alemanni, the Head of the European Commission's (EC) Delegation to Belize, visited Belize from 20th to 24th July 2009 to promote several European Development Fund initiatives. More than Euro 46 million has been allocated to assist rural Belizean agricultural communi [...]
2009-08-21 16:50:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDEUN BH PGOV PREL
09BELMOPAN370 THE BELIZE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM
[...] Summary. In Belize, mental health services are provided to citizens and residents through the Belize Mental Health Program (BMHP),which is coordinated and supervised by the Ministry of Health. The system is newly emerging, serves approximately 15,000 patients, and had its own approved, gover [...]
2009-10-06 17:22:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR BH
09BELMOPAN407 SHAKE UP IN THE PEOPLE'S UNITED PARTY
[...] John Briceo, leader of the People's United Party (PUP) has recently proposed changes to Senators representing the opposition and to the party's executive committee. The expanded membership has been justified as a measure to bridge the division that has permeated the party since his assumption [...]
2009-11-05 16:25:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL BH
09BELMOPAN87 LOW VOTER TURNOUT AS BELIZEANS GO TO THE POLLS FOR
[...] Summary. Embassy observers visited the Belize City, Orange Walk, and Belmopan districts to observe the municipal elections today. These district elections were generally well-organized and calm, and media reports indicate the mood was similar throughout the country. Voter turnout has been e [...]
2009-03-04 22:44:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC SOCI BH
09BELMOPAN88 BELIZEAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: LOW VOTER TURNOUT FAVORED
[...] Belize's March 4th municipal election resulted in another landslide victory for the incumbent United Democratic Party (UDP). The UDP won 61 of 64 contested seats. All elected mayors were from the UDP party, including in the Toledo District where the previous mayor was from the People's United [...]
2009-03-05 22:23:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC SOCI
09BERLIN379GERMANY: DOWNBEAT ABOUT PROSPECTS IN UKRAINE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Germany views Ukraine as a significant partner, but Berlin is frustrated with the continued inability of President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko to work together. Contacts hope that the current economic crisis will force the two to stop "squabbling" and focus on the [...]
2009-03-31 15:09:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR NATO EUN GM UP
09BISHKEK113NATO COMS UNANIMOUS: NEGOTIATE FOR MANAS!
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met separately with the three NATO COMs resident in Bishkek February 5 to discuss the proposed Manas Base closing. Uncannily playing to their national stereotypes, they were nevertheless unanimous in their advice to negotiate hard with the Kyrgyz to keep the Base open [...]
2009-02-06 11:04:00Embassy BishkekCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR KG
09BRASILIA1129BRAZIL: SCENE SETTER, USTR AMBASSADOR RON KIRK VISIT TO SAO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is productive and broad-based, with growing economic and trade ties. Excellent opportunities for increased bilateral trade cooperation exist, including issues raised in the recent CEO Forum. Brazil has also prioritized concl [...]
2009-09-11 10:31:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIRP ECON EFIN EINV EAGR BR
09BRASILIA1254BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is productive and broad-based. There exists a solid foundation of scientific and technological (S&T) ties, which offers excellent opportunities for increasing bilateral - and possible trilateral - cooperation. The bilatera [...]
2009-10-22 18:57:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA EAGR EAID SENV TBIO BR
09BRASILIA1261BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR OCTOBER 27-30 VISIT OF SPECIAL REP
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The visit of the Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Ambassador Susan Burk, comes at an important time. Brazil is reviving its long dormant civilian and military nuclear energy programs. It closed down its nuclear weapons program in 1990 and j [...]
2009-10-23 18:54:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP IAEA ENRG ETTC BR
09BRASILIA1321SCENESETTER FOR THE U.S.-BRAZIL JOINT COMMISSION MEETING ON
[...] SUMMARY: Brazil - the giant of South America - has stepped on to the world stage as a major economic power and is a key player in regional and multilateral matters. What has been less noticeable is that Brazil has put itself on a track to eventually become a global scientific and technologic [...]
2009-11-16 14:28:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKSCA EAGR EAID SENV TBIO NSF BR
09BRASILIA1385BRAZIL: SCENE SETTER, USTR/MRE BCM DECEMBER 9
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is productive and broad-based, with growing economic and trade ties. The visit provides an important opportunity to highlight the potential for increased bilateral cooperation, emphasizing that specific trade disputes need n [...]
2009-12-01 15:37:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIRP ECON EFIN EINV EAGR BR
09BRASILIA1412Brazil: Scenesetter - Economic Partnership Dialogue December
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-04 22:20:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EAGR EFIN BR
09BRASILIA1498BRAZIL: USTR/MRE BCM POSITIVE AND PRODUCTIVE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 9, Assistant United States Trade Representative (AUSTR) for the Americas Everett Eissenstat, accompanied by Director for Brazil and Southern Cone Katherine Kalutkiewicz, led the U.S. delegation during a positive and productive meeting of the Bilateral Consultative M [...]
2009-12-21 18:52:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON EFIN EINV EAGR BR
09BRASILIA178SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 117
[...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...]
2009-02-12 13:59:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
09BRASILIA397BRAZIL SCENESETTER: CODEL HOYER APRIL 8-10
[...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when the relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as ever, with a strong bilateral relationship and important economic ties. Brazi [...]
2009-03-31 20:06:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA398BRAZIL SCENESETTER: CODEL HOYER APRIL 8-10
[...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when the relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as ever, with a strong bilateral relationship and important economic ties. Brazi [...]
2009-03-31 20:14:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA405BRAZIL SCENESETTER: CODEL PASTOR APRIL 4-10
[...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when the relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as ever, with a strong bilateral relationship and important economic ties. Brazi [...]
2009-03-31 21:30:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA671BRAZIL SCENESETTER: CODEL THOMPSON MAY 27-28
[...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Your visit comes at a time when the relationship between the United States and Brazil is accelerating and being given added weight with the rapid growth of Brazil's regional and global eco [...]
2009-05-27 15:19:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP PTER KCRM SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN
09BRASILIA766BRAZIL SCENESETTER: DR. MICHAEL FROMAN, DEPUTY NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is productive and broad-based, with growing economic ties. Through the financial crisis, Brazil has played a constructive role in the G20 and has also prioritized concluding the Doha round of World Trade Organization (WTO) n [...]
2009-06-17 18:16:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA946BRAZIL SCENESETTER: DR. TODD STERN, SPECIAL ENVOY FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In spite of its relatively clean energy matrix, Brazil is a major greenhouse gas emitter primarily due to massive, ongoing deforestation. The Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) has pursued a cautious, defensive approach in international climate change negotiations, steering [...]
2009-07-31 10:45:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA960BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 4-6 VISIT OF
[...] (C) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it has ever been in recent decades, the result of the cordial personal connection already established between President Obama and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, which is building on [...]
2009-08-04 12:21:00Embassy BrasiliaSECRET//NOFORNPREL BR
09BRUSSELS269GUANTANAMO: AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON CONFERS WITH EU
[...] (C) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Clint Williamson and European Union (EU) Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove discussed de Kerchove's upcoming whitepaper for the EU Council on detainee issues and its relevance for developing a common EU position on the topic. The two also spoke about whic [...]
2009-02-25 18:46:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL KAWK KISL PTER EUN
09BUDAPEST302HUNGARY - NEW GOVERNMENT, NEW MINISTERS
[...] During remarks to Parliament prior to his election as the new Hungarian Prime Minister (reftel),Gordon Bajnai announced six new Heads of Ministries and two additional minister-level appointments. Short bios of the new ministers follow: - Minister of Foreign Affairs: Peter Balazs (replacin [...]
2009-04-16 15:36:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINS HU
09BUENOSAIRES1147ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR ENCOUNTERS PROTESTERS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: During her first trip outside of Buenos Aires, Ambassador Martinez was forced to change the location of a speech at the National University of Cuyo due to disorderly protests by far-left groups on October 15. Public reaction has been mostly sympathetic to the Ambassador and critical [...]
2009-10-21 14:34:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAO ASEC PHUM SOCI KDEM AR
09BUENOSAIRES1148ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR ENCOUNTERS PROTESTERS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: During her first trip outside of Buenos Aires, Ambassador Martinez was forced to change the location of a speech at the National University of Cuyo due to disorderly protests by far-left groups on October 15. Public reaction has been mostly sympathetic to the Ambassador and cri [...]
2009-10-21 15:31:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAO ASEC PHUM SOCI KDEM AR
09BUENOSAIRES328HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-20 19:29:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES647HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-03 17:38:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES912HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-07 20:41:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUJUMBURA302NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/PORTAL DETECTION AT BUJUMBURA REF: STATE 030541 Classified By: CDA JoAnne Wagner for reasons 1.4 (b) (d).
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-02 12:28:00Embassy BujumburaSECRETASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PINR PREL PTER
09BUJUMBURA689NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/PORTAL DETECTION AT
[...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reference A that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in nuclear and/or radiological materials. The report was generated by the Defense Attache (DATT) after a walk-in, Nawab Chakaa [...]
2009-12-17 10:43:00Embassy BujumburaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC BY KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PINR PTER
09CAIRO107NORTH SINAI REACTION TO GAZA CONFLICT
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a trip to the North Sinai Governorate on January 19-20, we met with local leaders and discussed the recent fighting in Gaza, and its effect on the neighboring communities in Egypt. All the leaders, with whom we met, noted that the local population--which is a mixture of [...]
2009-01-22 14:15:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL PREF EAID PHUM KISL ECON IS EG
09CAIRO2103EGYPT: MINISTRY OF HEALTH REVIEWS CURRENT INFLUENZA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-05 15:12:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV EAGR CASC PREL EAID EG
09CAPETOWN90NORTHERN CAPE OFFERS CHANCES FOR OPPOSITION
[...] (C) Support for South Africa's political opposition appears strong in the sparsely populated, but geographically huge, Northern Cape province, and opposition parties could see their best provincial showing there outside the Western Cape. As elsewhere, the ruling African National Congress's tr [...]
2009-04-20 13:53:00Consulate Cape TownCONFIDENTIALSF PGOV KDEM
09CARACAS1344RUSSIA HAS NO PLANS TO BUILD NUCLEAR REACTORS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 15 initial courtesy call with Ambassador Duddy, Russian Ambassador Zaemsky denied reports that Russia would help Venezuela build nuclear reactors, saying that its nuclear cooperation with Venezuela was limited to the medical field and food controls. With respect [...]
2009-10-19 12:14:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET KNNP PREL RU VE
09CARACAS824HIV/AIDS IN VENEZUELA
[...] (C) Summary. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) does not publish statistics on the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Venezuela. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and a local HIV/AIDS non-governmental organization (NGO) estimate that approximately 130,00 [...]
2009-07-01 16:27:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALECON SOCI PREL PGOV TBIO VE
09CASABLANCA26MOROCCO-RUSSIA ECONOMIC RELATIONS: ENERGY,
[...] (SBU) Morocco's economic relationship with Russia, initially concentrated almost exclusively in the energy sector, has widened dramatically in recent years. Bilateral trade is flourishing in the agriculture and phosphate sectors, joining longstanding Moroccan reliance on Russia for petroleum [...]
2009-02-12 13:44:00Consulate CasablancaCONFIDENTIALAG ECON EIND ETRD MO PGOV PREL RS
09CHENGDU181TIBETAN SURVIVAL IN SHANGRI-LA: TOURISM, BUDDHISM, AND
[...] (C) Summary: A recent visit to Shangri-la by CG and ConGen staff found a booming tourism industry that some say threatens the local Tibetan Buddhist landscape, though the local Party Secretary asserts that it benefits religious life, bringing necessary financial support. New high-end, Tibetan- [...]
2009-09-03 01:25:00Consulate ChengduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU289RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN CHINA: CASE STUDY OF RURAL JINTANG
[...] (U) This message is contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Sichuan's rural Jintang County has a small Protestant community of 1000 persons organized under one "patriotic" church (a legally registered religious venue),with [...]
2009-12-07 08:49:00Consulate ChengduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
09CHISINAU614PRESIDENT VORONIN ACCEPTS THE IDEA OF
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 4 meeting, a tired- looking and somber President Voronin did not appear to have a clear vision for how the PCRM would move forward in thepost-elections political environment. On the on hand he told the Ambassador that he was ready fo the PCRM to go into opposition, [...]
2009-08-05 16:42:00Embassy ChisinauCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MD
09COLOMBO1076 SRI LANKA: 2010 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT
[...] The following is in response to Ref A's request for information on the National Trade Estimate in Sri Lanka. Ref B includes information for the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) and Standards Related Foreign Barriers to trade in Sri Lanka, submitted November 4, 2009 (and also included here). [...]
2009-11-27 07:01:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN CE
09COLOMBO1121 SRI LANKA: 2010 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT (Resubmit)
[...] The following is in response to Ref A's request for information on the National Trade Estimate in Sri Lanka. Ref B includes information for the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) and Standards Related Foreign Barriers to trade in Sri Lanka, submitted November 4, 2009 (and also included here). [...]
2009-12-07 07:51:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN CE
09COLOMBO56BFIF FY09 PROPOSALS
[...] Post extends its appreciation for continued support of commercial activities in Sri Lanka and Maldives and proposes BFIF funding for a U.S. Trade Fair in Maldives for FY09. Points below are keyed to reftel request for information. (a) Justification ------------------ 2. The U.S. Trade [...]
2009-01-16 06:40:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ECON EFIC ETRD CE MV
09COLOMBO878SRI LANKA REMAINS FOCUSED ON FOOD SECURITY; WILL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: EconOff delivered REF points to Ms. Janaki Kuruppu, the President's top food security advisor. Kuruppu outlined a number of actions items the GoSL has taken since the food crisis of 2008 and expressed interest in participating in the Secretary's upcoming food security meeting in [...]
2009-09-11 06:53:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDCE EAGR EAID ETRD PREL UNGA
09COLOMBO985 Sri Lanka TIFA Talks Take Incremental Steps Toward
[...] (SBU) The United States and Sri Lanka held their seventh annual Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks in Colombo on October 15, which resulted in incremental advances but no breakthroughs. The TIFA talks covered agricultural and government procurement issues, progress in the D [...]
2009-10-23 05:42:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAGR EINV ELAB KIPR KTEX CE
09CONAKRY327CNDD PRESIDENT DEMANDS "DONATIONS" FROM BUSINESSES
[...] (U) Summary: CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara held a mandatory meeting for all large businesses operating in Guinea at the Palais du People on Saturday, June 6, to solicit "donations" for Guinea,s water and electricity sector. The President gave businesses 72 hours to commit direct funding [...]
2009-06-10 16:12:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY388GUINEA'S BANDWIDTH WOES
[...] (U) Summary. Guinea,s telecom infrastructure is one of the least developed in the world. With no fiber optic bandwidth capabilities, there are only two satellites that provide bandwidth capabilities for the country. A symbol of the GOG,s highly centralized nature, bandwidth is only broadcast [...]
2009-07-02 11:11:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PGOV ECON PREL EINT ECPS GV
09CONAKRY645PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF POST-SEPTEMBER 28 ATTACKS
[...] (S) A close Embassy contact visited EconOff at her house October 8 to discuss what he described as ethnically-based violence that took place on Tuesday, September 29 in Conakry. Source also provided photographic evidence of the violence, and Embassy is in possession of these photographs. Source [...]
2009-10-09 12:14:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPHUM PGOV PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY92MIDDLE GUINEA - AN ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT
[...] (U) SUMMARY. A recent trip into Guinea's mountainous central province revealed an impoverished economy dominated by subsistence agriculture, low-value-added artisanship, and imported consumer goods. Banks almost exclusively offer only short-term credit at interest rates over 21%. Chronic lack [...]
2009-02-05 09:43:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR EAID ELTN EIND ENRG ECPS GV
09DAKAR215SENEGAL: INFORMATION ON THE USE OF CHILD LABOR
[...] (SBU) Responses are keyed to questions in reftel. Begin report: 2. (SBU) Senegalese law prohibits forced or compulsory labor, including by children; however, such practices were widespread in 2008. The law bans the exploitation of child labor, and there are regulations on child labor th [...]
2009-02-23 07:46:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EIND ETRD SOCI PHUM PGOV PINS KDEM SG
09DAMASCUS349JORDANIAN KING ABDULLAH DROPS INTO DAMASCUS
[...] (C) The brief and short-notice May 11 visit of Jordan's King Abdullah II to Damascus concluded successfully according to Syrian press and the Jordanian Consul, Anas Oran. Though King Abdullah was only on the ground for three hours, the visit was constructive, with the King meeting privately wi [...]
2009-05-17 14:14:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG IS JO SY
09DAMASCUS357JORDANIAN KING ABDULLAH DROPS INTO DAMASCUS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-19 07:26:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG IS JO SY
09DUBLIN45IRISH GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS FOREIGN INVESTMENT
[...] The Irish Government actively promotes foreign direct investment (FDI),a strategy that has fueled robust economic growth since the "Celtic Tiger" period of the late 1990s. Ireland's pro-investment climate saw total FDI stock grow from euro 53 billion in 1998 to euro 131 billion in 2007. Trad [...]
2009-01-30 13:58:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC KTDB USTR EI
09GENEVA448BRIDGING WEATHER TO CLIMATE - OES DAS REIFSNYDER MEETINGS
[...] SUMMARY: Dan Reifsnyder, OES Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Sustainable Development, met with the World Meteorology Organization's (WMO) Secretary General Michel Jarraud to discuss progress on the upcoming World Climate Conference 3 (WCC3). In a far-reaching conversation Jarrau [...]
2009-06-10 16:02:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV WMO
09GUATEMALA336 GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST -
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-07 22:10:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
09HANOI1020FOURTH ANNUAL JAC: STRONG PROGRESS ON THE ENVIRONMENT, LESS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-28 09:02:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SENV TBIO KPAO VM
09HANOI1098Ambassador Visits Father Ly in Prison
[...] (SBU) SUMMMARY: Meeting with the Ambassador October 14, jailed political dissident Father Nguyen Van Ly reported that that he was "95 percent recovered" from his July 12 stroke. Ly said he remains isolated from other inmates but receives daily medical check-ups from prison physicians and main [...]
2009-10-16 07:48:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI1202OOG Minister Phuc and Ambassador Discuss Human Rights,
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador expressed concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in an October 23 meeting with Minister Chairman of the Office of the Government (OOG) Phuc, but also noted positive areas of the bilateral relationship. The Ambassador urged the GVN to remove mandat [...]
2009-11-07 11:21:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM TBIO EAGR ENRG SENV CVIS ASEAN VM
09HANOI1426Setting the scene for CODEL Faleomavaega's visit to Vietnam
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their most productive since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third-largest trading partner, and one of its largest foreign invest [...]
2009-12-29 08:27:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV PHUM MARR ECON SENV VM
09HANOI297SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCAIN'S VISIT TO VIETNAM
[...] (SBU) Your April 6-8 visit to Vietnam comes at an opportune moment. Our bilateral relationship with Vietnam has progressed much since your last visit to Hanoi in April 2000 and is arguably at its highest point since relations were normalized in 1995. Propelled by a series of senior bilateral [...]
2009-03-31 07:58:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM
09HANOI336CODEL McCain Visit to Vietnam
[...] (SBU) Summary: In their April 6-8 visit to Vietnam, CODEL McCain covered a wide range of issues with the Vietnamese leadership, including the recent DPRK missile test, the need for a new bilateral agreement on adoptions, the GVN's desire for market economy status and the need for greater respec [...]
2009-04-13 10:09:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL ECON ETRD SENV PHUM CASC VM
09HANOI368VIETNAM ON NORTH KOREA'S MISSILE LAUNCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 17 conversation with PolCouns, the MFA's DG for MFA International Organizations Director General, Le Hoai Trung, described Vietnam's efforts to urge the DPRK to "show restraint" and remain engaged in the Six-Party Talks. Prior to the April 5 missile launch, Vietnam's [...]
2009-04-21 05:43:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV VM
09HANOI500USCIRF Meets Imprisoned Dissidents Father Nguyen Van Ly and
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom delegation led by Vice Chairman Cromartie, accompanied by PolOff, met with two of Vietnam's most prominent political prisoners, dissident attorney Nguyen Van Dai and Father Nguyen Van Ly, on May 13 at Nam Ha Prison. Both ap [...]
2009-06-02 02:50:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI639THE CASE FOR INCREASED EPA ENGAGEMENT IN VIETNAM
[...] (U) Summary: Over the past several years, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) experts have provided critical assistance to U.S.-Vietnamese cooperation on Agent Orange/dioxin legacy issues and to the development of Vietnamese capacity to manage growing industrial pollution. Increased EPA [...]
2009-07-09 10:17:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO ECON SOCI VM
09HANOI740SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR WEBB'S AUGUST VISIT TO VIETNAM
[...] (SBU) Senator Webb: Your return to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City comes at an important moment in the U.S.-Vietnam relationship. Overall, bilateral ties have advanced significantly over the past two-three years, and are arguably at their highest point since relations were reestablished in 1995. Th [...]
2009-08-06 09:28:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM
09HANOI773AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH POLITBURO MEMBER AND PARTY CHIEF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a warm and cordial meeting August 13, Hanoi Party Secretary Pham Quang Nghi and the Ambassador expressed mutual support for strong bilateral relations. Nghi, who sits on the Politburo, assured the Ambassador that whatever personnel changes occur at the next Party Congress in 2 [...]
2009-08-14 09:07:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON SENV VM
09HANOI803SENATOR WEBB'S AUGUST 19-20 MEETINGS IN HANOI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a short, but substantively very productive set of meetings in Hanoi, August 19-20, Senator Jim Webb emphasized the need to continue building on the remarkable progress that the two countries had made since the Senator first re-engaged with Vietnam as a civilian in 1991. The [...]
2009-08-27 09:38:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KIRF ECON ETRD BM VM
09HANOI846SETTING THE SCENE FOR U.S.-VIETNAM POLICY PLANNING TALKS,
[...] (SBU) Director Slaughter: Your Policy Planning Talks with the Vietnamese, the second since discussions were inaugurated last October, comes at an important moment in the bilateral relationship. Overall, ties between our two countries have advanced significantly over the past two-three years, and [...]
2009-08-26 06:18:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM
09HANOI848President Triet Assures Ambassador that Relations Good,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a cordial meeting August 18, State President Nguyen Minh Triet assured the Ambassador that Vietnam's leadership remained committed to deepening reform and viewed its relationship with the United States as positive and improving. Noting that Vietnam would chair ASEAN in 2010, [...]
2009-08-26 06:38:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD BM VM
09HANOI895Deputy Secretary Steinberg's September 27, 2009 Conversation
[...] (SBU) September 27, 2009; 9:30 a.m.; Ministry of Defense, Hanoi, Vietnam. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michael Michalak, U.S. Embassy Hanoi Joseph Donovan, Principal Deputy Assistance Secretary, EAP Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant [...]
2009-11-10 04:25:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV MARR MASS VM
09HANOI978Setting the Scene for Deputy Secretary Steinberg's September
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their highest point since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third-largest trading partner, and one of its largest foreign investor [...]
2009-09-18 10:33:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD KIRF SENV MARR KHIV KHDP BM
09HARARE333COMMERCIAL FARMERS IN ZIMBABWE SEEK COMPENSATION
[...] (C) Trevor Gifford, president of the Commercial Farmer's Union (CFU),met with the Ambassador on April 15 to discuss a shift in strategy his organization is adopting regarding seized and threatened commercial farms in Zimbabwe. The CFU's new position is to seek compensation of up to US$20 bi [...]
2009-04-21 13:22:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAGR PHUM ASEC ZI
09HARARE430AMCIT INVOLVED IN VIOLENT ZIMBABWEAN FARM INVASION
[...] (SBU) The Zimbabwean President of the Senate, Edna Madzongwe, is carrying out a violent farm invasion of a commercial citrus farm with an annual estimated export crop worth US$4 million. The invasion and ejection of the title holder appear to violate local law, as the Zimbabwean High Court ha [...]
2009-05-21 15:42:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM EAGR CASC ZI
09HARARE734PEACE (BUT NOT PROSPERITY) RETURNS TO MAZOWE CENTRAL
[...] (SBU) During election violence that stretched across Zimbabwe in 2008, few areas were hit harder than the Mazowe Central constituency in the heartland of Mashonaland Central province. We recently went to the rural area to visit a site for a proposed project for the Ambassador's Self Help fund. [...]
2009-09-16 10:55:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM ASEC PGOV PREL ZI
09HILLAH23TAKING STEPS TO UPROOT THE STATIST LEGACY IN BABIL'S
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although agriculture is almost certainly the largest employer in Babil Province, a long history of central planning has undermined its competitiveness and long-term sustainability. As the owner of around 70 percent agricultural land in the province, the government micromanages w [...]
2009-04-05 11:32:00REO HillahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON EINV IZ
09HILLAH24TAKING STEPS TO UPROOT THE STATIST LEGACY IN BABIL'S
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although agriculture is almost certainly the largest employer in Babil Province, a long history of central planning has undermined its competitiveness and long-term sustainability. As the owner of around 70 percent agricultural land in the province, the government micromanages w [...]
2009-04-05 11:32:00REO HillahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON EINV IZ
09HOCHIMINHCITY584BIG IPR BUST SUGGESTS PROGRESS, BUT POLITICS ALSO PLAYED A
[...] (SBU) Summary: An interagency team charged with enforcing intellectual property rights (IPR) raided a factory and a private house in Ho Chi Minh City last month, confiscating close to 100 boxes of pirated CDs and DVDs as well as the industrial-scale equipment used to manufacture them. The agg [...]
2009-08-21 03:10:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIPR EAID ETRD VM
09ISTANBUL133PREMIER WATER FORUM UNITES EXPERTS, LOCAL, AND
[...] (U) Over 25,000 people, including more that 100 ministers and several heads-of-state, attended the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul, March 16-22. The U.S. delegation to the Forum was led by USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and included 70 technical experts from more than 10 U.S. a [...]
2009-04-01 16:25:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENIV ENRG PHUM PREL SENV TU UNDP UNEF
09JAKARTA573LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS -- COURT ALLOWS "QUICK
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Ten days before the April 9 legislative elections, the Constitutional Court has decided to allow pollsters to announce "quick count" results on election day. With the GOI set to announce final results only [...]
2009-03-31 09:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ID
09JAKARTA765The EPA in Indonesia: Growing Partnership Opportunities
[...] (U) Summary: A recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) visit to Indonesia has highlighted clear opportunities for environmental cooperation. Indonesian officials appreciated USEPA reengagement, and are eager to participate in the Methane-to-Markets program. The Indonesian Steerin [...]
2009-04-30 10:25:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KGHG ENRG PREL ID
09JERUSALEM1711PALTEL EXECUTIVES ON GAZA OPERATIONS, WATANIYA,
[...] (C) Summary. Acting PalTel CEO Kamal Abu Khadijeh and Vice President Kamal Husseini claimed in a September 17 meeting that PalTel, the monopoly fixed-line and mobile provider in the West Bank and Gaza, faces several challenges, including a stalled merger between its mobile operator and Zain J [...]
2009-09-22 13:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON KPAL KWBG IS GZ PGOV
09JERUSALEM1936JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/23): Palestinian press leads
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-23 05:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
09JERUSALEM2325UPDATE ON HEBRON'S OLD CITY
[...] (C) Summary. In recent visits to Hebron's "H2" district, the impact of Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) movement restrictions on Palestinian residents remains apparent in high Palestinian unemployment, a shrinking Palestinian population, and derelict storefronts in what was once Hebron's commerc [...]
2009-01-01 15:45:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM386WATANIYA MOBILE PHONE LAUNCH DELAYED INDEFINITELY
[...] (C) Summary: Wataniya Palestine CEO Allan Richardson told Econoffs that the failure of the GOI to allocate sufficient frequency for Wataniya, as required by a July 2008 agreement, has now indefinitely postponed the launch of the service. In addition, as of March 4, the majority of equipment i [...]
2009-03-06 08:45:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECPS ECON BEXP EINV KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM49AS IDF MOVES IN, GAZA CONTACTS EXPRESS ANGER AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. A wide range of ConGen Gaza contacts showed signs of increased trauma as they recounted a night of heavy IDF bombardment, an attempt by militants to fire rockets from civilian areas, and shortages of essential materials, including food, water, and fuel. Contacts expressed mount [...]
2009-01-06 18:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON IS KWBG MOPS PHUM
09KABUL1591THE SIKHS OF AFGHANISTAN - A VANISHING COMMUNITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Upper House MP Awtar Singh Khalsa, the only Sikh or Hindu member of the Afghan parliament, said the Sikh and Hindu community had dwindled from approximately 50,000 families before the jihad against the Soviets, to approximately 6,000 people at present. He attributed the populati [...]
2009-06-21 17:21:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDKIRF PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL2748IEC RELEASES RESULTS WITH QUESTIONABLE BALLOTS;
[...] (S) Summary: Following the Independent Election Commission's (IEC) reported internal decision on September 7 to allow some suspect polling stations to be included in the vote count, the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) voted the next day to order "an audit and recount of the ballots ca [...]
2009-09-08 14:32:00Embassy KabulSECRETKDEM PGOV PREL AF
09KAMPALA77SUBJECT: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-16 05:29:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR UG
09KARACHI138SINDH - THE GANGS OF KARACHI
[...] (S) Summary: The police in Karachi are only one of several armed groups in the city, and they are probably not the most numerous or best equipped. Many neighborhoods are considered by the police to be no-go zones in which even the intelligence services have a difficult time operating. Very f [...]
2009-04-22 11:52:00Consulate KarachiSECRETPTER ASEC PGOV PK
09KARACHI152 SINDH - ETHNIC VIOLENCE ESCALATES
[...] (SBU) Ethnic violence erupted again in Karachi and has left at least 30 people dead and more than 50 injured. The fighting between the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP) has sent tremors throughout the city as more violence is anticipated. Schools remained closed o [...]
2009-05-01 05:35:00Consulate KarachiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PK
09KARACHI397MUHARRAM VIOLENCE IN KARACHI
[...] (C) Summary: Three days of Muharram procession violence in Karachi culminated on December 28 with a suicide bombing that killed at least 43 people and sparked rioting leading to extensive property damage. Political leaders urged calm, but tensions remain high throughout the city. End summary [...]
2009-12-29 12:28:00Consulate KarachiCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PTER PK
09KARACHI67SINDH - KARACHI POLICE OFFICERS KILLED IN
[...] (C) Summary: Security forces in Karachi suffered casualties during a botched operation against a criminal gang in the Sohrab Goth area of the city. Different Pakistani officials have made different claims as to the reason for, and results of, the operation ) including a claim that the gang p [...]
2009-02-27 10:09:00Consulate KarachiSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER PK
09KINGSTON223JAMAICA: BUSINESS LEADERS DISCUSS WEAKENED STATE OF
[...] (SBU) On March 18, Charge James Heg hosted a group of Jamaican business leaders at a lunch to discuss the state of the local economy. The discussions also covered the political dynamics following the decision by the Jamaican Supreme Court on the dual citizenship case. The business leaders wer [...]
2009-03-23 20:06:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD TRYS ENRG SOCI EFIN EINV EAIR IADB IBRD
09KINGSTON490JAMAICA: JLP WINS BIG IN NORTH EAST ST. CATHERINE BY
[...] (U) Gregory Mair, the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament (MP),won handily a court-ordered by-election over the opposition People's National Party's (PNP) candidate, Granville Valentine on June 15. Mair almost tripled his margin of victory in the 2007 general election and p [...]
2009-06-18 19:00:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON SOCI JM XL
09KINGSTON514JAMAICA: FRUSTRATION GROWS OVER FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT,
[...] (U) As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) prepares for its July 2 summit in Guyana, the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) finds itself increasingly frustrated and at odds with its partners in the 36 year old organization, especially the regional economic powerhouse of Trinidad and Tobago. Particula [...]
2009-06-30 16:24:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN ECON EIND PBTS PREL EINV EPET ETRD SMIG MIC
09KINGSTON712JAMAICA: PEOPLE'S NATIONAL PARTY SHOWS NEW ENERGY AND UNITY
[...] (U) A seemingly rejuvenated and energized People's National Party (PNP) held its annual conference in Kingston over the weekend, at which party President and former Prime Minister (PM) Portia Simpson Miller (PSM) assailed the current Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) -led Government of Jamaica (GOJ) [...]
2009-09-22 19:45:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL ASEC SNAR KCOR KCRM JM XL ECON EFIN
09KUALALUMPUR102MALAYSIA'S NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Malaysia made some progress in addressing the challenges associated with trafficking in persons during this reporting period, building incrementally on the advances it made last year. Malaysia began implementing and enforcing its comprehensive anti-trafficking law, which went [...]
2009-02-13 09:30:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF ELAB SMIG KCRM KWMN KFRD KTIP
09KUALALUMPUR1024BABY TRAFFICKERS CHARGED UNDER MALAYSIA'S ANTI-TIP
[...] (SBU) Summary: In recent weeks, Malaysian police have investigated what has been described as a "baby-factory" in Selangor. The police arrested 22 people in connection with this large-scale, family-run, baby-trafficking syndicate and rescued 10 young children. The syndicate allegedly paid for [...]
2009-12-30 00:28:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG MY
09KUALALUMPUR42BY-ELECTION SETBACK FOR UMNO, BOOST FOR OPPOSITION
[...] (C) The ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) party suffered its latest setback when it lost a January 17 parliamentary by-election in Terengganu state to the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS),supported by its opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) partners, in a contest billed as [...]
2009-01-22 10:32:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM MY
09KUWAIT265IRAN REGIONAL PRESENCE OFFICE - WINDOW ON IRAN - MARCH 25,
[...] [S/NF] Qalibaf Planning to Deliver US Goods in Time for Election?: The Tehran Municipality's interest in US agricultural trade continues, but now appears driven by a more overtly political agenda. IRPO Officer and Dubai-based regional Ag Attache met for a second time with two UAE-based Irania [...]
2009-03-19 13:35:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPREL PGOV KU IZ
09KYIV1204FORMER FM TARASYUK ON RUSSIA, POLITICS
[...] (C) Former Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, like other Western oriented Ukrainians, is looking for further reassurance that the "re-set" of relations with Russia will not come at Ukraine's expense. Tarasyuk regards Medvedev's security proposal as an effort to divide Europe from the US. He see [...]
2009-07-17 16:08:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
09KYIV1264SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BOEHNER'S VISIT TO UKRAINE
[...] (SBU) Your August 6-8 visit to Kyiv follows by two weeks that of the Vice President, who reassured Ukrainians that the "reset" of U.S. relations with Russia would not come at Ukraine's expense. The Vice President also called on Ukraine's leaders to put their antagonisms aside and move forward [...]
2009-07-30 14:56:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PREL RS UP
09KYIV1727YATSENYUK: LOSING MOMENTUM IN PRESIDENTIAL BID
[...] (C) Summary. Presidential contender Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who saw a surge in popular support in the spring, now appears to be losing ground in the pre-election environment in Ukraine. Latest public opinion polls move him squarely to third place from the statistical tie he held for second place [...]
2009-10-05 15:47:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
09KYIV1728ASD VERSHBOW IN KYIV: UKRAINIANS CONCERNED ABOUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, led the U.S. delegation to the U.S.-Ukraine Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC) in Kyiv September 28-29. In a series of bilateral meetings and engagements with media and academic [...]
2009-10-05 16:14:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR UP
09KYIV1784CHERKASY: WOULD-BE SWING OBLAST LEANS TOWARD
[...] (C) Cherkasy, an oblast located in the center of Ukraine, has yet to be fully drawn into the presidential campaign. However, local experts speculate that Cherkasy voters will support Prime Minister Tymoshenko -- as they have in the past two Rada elections. Local observers express concerns that [...]
2009-10-16 16:04:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
09KYIV1818UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF
[...] (C) With the start of the Ukrainian Presidential campaign, opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Tymoshenko are clearly in the lead to enter the second round. Arseniy Yatsenyuk remains the lone second-tier candidate in the race, although his slumping poll numbers, down more [...]
2009-10-19 17:37:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RS UP
09KYIV1873YANUKOVYCH EMPHASIZES SOCIAL SPENDING, TIES WITH
[...] (C) Opposition leader Yanukovych was nominated as the Party of Regions presidential candidate in Kyiv on October 22 at a made-for-television party congress. The congress, broadcast live in Eastern Ukraine, featured a key policy speech by Yanukovych, and three additional speakers--including o [...]
2009-10-26 15:46:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
09KYIV1874 TYMOSHENKO APPEALS TO EMOTIONS, PATRIOTISM IN HER
[...] (C) Before an estimated 150,000 followers and spectators, Prime Minister Tymoshenko accepted on October 24 her party's nomination for president. The event was a four-hour, highly staged, nationally televised extravaganza on Independence Square (the site of the 2004 Orange Revolution) featuring [...]
2009-10-26 17:07:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UP
09KYIV1991LUKASHENKO VISIT TO UKRAINE
[...] (C... C O N F I D E N T I A L KYIV 001991 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/11/2019 TAGS: PREL PBTS ENRG BO UP Â [...]
2009-11-13 15:42:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS ENRG BO UP
09KYIV2054A YANUKOVYCH FOREIGN POLICY
[...] (C) If Regions Party leader, and Orange Revolution foil, Viktor Yanukovych wins the January/February 2010 Presidential election, main elements of his foreign policy would include: --A reset in relations with Russia, generally deferring to Russia's red lines; --Non-bloc status and an end to [...]
2009-11-25 09:54:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP RS
09KYIV2056UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO AND YANUKOVYCH FIND COMMON
[...] (C) During an hour-long speech November 23 to kick off his re-election campaign, President Viktor Yushchenko outlined his vision of a Ukraine that would be "free, fair and strong" with him at the helm for another five years. He appealed to western-minded Ukrainians by promising EU membership, [...]
2009-11-25 12:27:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UP
09KYIV2069RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The status of the Russian language in linguistically divided Ukraine has thus far featured less in the current Presidential election campaign than it did in 2004. The Regions party (PoR),which calls for Russian to become a second state language, has chosen instead to concentr [...]
2009-11-30 13:44:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL RS UP
09KYIV208UKRAINE-RUSSIA: POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE GAS CRISIS REF: KYIV 204 Classified By: Ambassador William Taylor. Reasons: 1.4 (b,d).
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-30 14:03:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG EPET PGOV PINR UP RU EU
09KYIV2126YUSHCHENKO ACCUSES PM, LAW ENFORCEMENT OF
[...] (C) In a meeting with law enforcement heads to mark the December 9 "National Day of Fighting Corruption," President Yushchenko accused Prime Minister Tymoshenko of misappropriating billions of hryvnias in state funds and bribing local officials to manipulate the January 17 presidential electio [...]
2009-12-10 14:38:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
09KYIV2127CHERNIVTSI AND THE 2010 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS:
[...] (C) The presidential race in Chernivtsi Oblast, as in Ukraine as a whole, is boiling down to a contest between PM Yuliya Tymoshenko and front-runner Viktor Yanokovych of the Party of Regions (PoR). Despite the oblast's traditional "orange" orientation, the main concerns of voters -- the stat [...]
2009-12-10 14:58:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP RO
09KYIV2138TYMOSHENKO'S UPHILL BATTLE
[...] (C) PM Yuliya Tymoshenko continues to lag behind Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych in opinion polls for the January/February Presidential election -- and the gap, ten points or more, may be widening. President Yushchenko's daily attacks on Tymoshenko are hurting her with her base in [...]
2009-12-15 18:38:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UP
09KYIV2140DPM NEMYRIA'S CASE FOR UKRAINE IMF TRANCHE
[...] (C) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Nemyria made a strong pitch to the Ambassador for the disbursement of a fourth IMF loan tranche to Ukraine. He talked of unreasonable IMF demands for the passage of a 2010 budget, explained why the central bank could not monetize for budget and gas payments [...]
2009-12-16 13:24:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALEFIN EREL ETRD PGOV PINR UP XH
09KYIV2165UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO RUNS ON POPULIST ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Summary. Although the presumed heir of the Orange Revolution's reform banner, Prime Minister Tymoshenko has not made a liberal economic platform a part of her current campaign for Ukraine's presidency. Instead, her platform promises a strong role for the state, both in the social secto [...]
2009-12-17 15:31:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV ENGR PREL EFIN UP
09KYIV228TYMOSHENKO ASKS FOR USG ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS
[...] (C) Summary and action request: Prime Minister Tymoshenko during a February 2 meeting with the Ambassador asked for both economic and political support as she grapples with Ukraine,s current crisis. She asked specifically for: 1) a USG bilateral budget support loan to help Ukraine address [...]
2009-02-02 16:38:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALEFIN ENRG EU PGOV PREL PU UP
09KYIV38GAS CRISIS: ORANGE RIVALS APPEAR UNITED
[...] (C) Thus far at least, Orange rivals PM Tymoshenko and President Yushchenko have shown a unified front in the face of the gas crisis with Russia. They signed off on a joint statement January 1 and sent a unified team, with a pre-agreed upon position, to Brussels January 8 for talks with Gazpr [...]
2009-01-08 16:59:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD RS UP
09KYIV399UKRAINE IPR: 2009 SPECIAL 301 -- POST INPUT
[...] (SBU) Summary and Recommendation: Embassy recommends that Ukraine remain on the Special 301 Watch List. Ukraine has continued to make progress on IPR enforcement and therefore does not warrant a return to the Priority Watch List, but the GOU still has work to do before we should consider remo [...]
2009-03-02 11:08:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON UP
09KYIV590TERNOPIL OBLAST ELECTION A BLOW TO TYMOSHENKO
[...] (C) In a March 15 election in the western Ukrainian region of Ternopil, Oleg Tyahnybok's nationalist "Svoboda" party soundly defeated PM Tymoshenko's BYuT and a fractured Our Ukraine (OU) party. BYuT and OU had together controlled 102 of 120 council seats -- following the election they contro [...]
2009-04-02 15:00:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
09KYIV692SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) Your April 26-28 visit to Kyiv comes in the midst of Ukraine's unfolding economic and financial crisis. The IMF has recently concluded its mission review, recommending disbursement of a second loan tranche that had been delayed for two months. The agreement with the IMF is a major acc [...]
2009-04-22 13:22:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PGOV ECON PREL UP
09KYIV694TYMOSHENKO MULLS COALITION WITH REGIONS,
[...] (C) In recent meetings, PM Tymoshenko told the Ambassador that her BYuT faction is in negotiations with Party of Regions over the possible creation of a broad new Rada coalition. Such a coalition, if it were to take shape, would work to change the constitution ahead of presidential elections [...]
2009-04-22 17:23:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
09KYIV858CHERNOMYRDIN TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (C) The Ambassador met on May 19 with Russian Ambassador Viktor Chernomyrdin. Discussion focused on domestic Ukrainian politics, with Chernomyrdin regretting the "lost years" brought about by the conflict between President Yushchenko and PM Tymoshenko. He expressed irritation at the EU and Y [...]
2009-05-21 09:40:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL UP
09KYIV864PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT CHIEF QUITS, DENOUNCES
[...] (C) Presidential Secretariat head Viktor Baloha, famous for vitriolic condemnations of PM Tymoshenko which included charges of treason, announced his resignation on May 16. On May 19 Baloha turned his attacks on President Yushchenko, saying he had betrayed the promises of the Orange Revolutio [...]
2009-05-21 15:59:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
09KYIV91GAS CRISIS: RADA WEIGHS IN
[...] (C) On January 13 the Rada created an investigative commission to examine the causes of Ukraine's gas dispute with Russia. The commission, led by Party of Regions, is likely to investigate allegations linking President Yushchenko to corruption in the energy sphere. Rada contacts accused the [...]
2009-01-15 17:03:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP RS
09KYIV924RADA OUTLOOK: POSITIONING FOR PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) After a week's recess, the Rada will start its next plenary on June 2 amidst continued rumors that PM Tymoshenko's BYuT faction and opposition Party of Regions (Regions) are close to forming a coalition. A BYuT-Regions coalition would have more than the 300 MPs necessary to enact constitu [...]
2009-05-28 15:25:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR UP
09KYIV950BYUT-REGIONS CLOSE TO FORMING BROAD COALITION
[...] (C) While PM Tymoshenko's BYuT faction and opposition Party of Regions (Regions) have yet to announce their possible broad Rada coalition, Rada contacts from both factions confirmed that negotiations are ongoing and that the two sides are close to inking a deal (Reftel). Rank and file Deputie [...]
2009-06-03 14:33:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
09KYIV96 2009 ANNUAL OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL (OSAC)
[...] (SBU) The following information is provided in response to REF: --------------------------------------- I. Overall Crime and Safety Situation: --------------------------------------- A. Crime Threat: Crime remains a concern in Ukraine. Ukraine's expatriate community - including A [...]
2009-01-16 14:00:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDASEC UA
09MADRID1052ZAPATERO PROMISES ACTION TO COMBAT INTERNET PIRACY
[...] (SBU) In an October 21 speech to the American Business Council, President Zapatero addressed internet piracy in public for the first time, acknowledging that deficiencies in IPR protection in Spain are a source of concern to the USG and the GOS. Zapatero pointed to the October 9 creation by t [...]
2009-10-28 15:29:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR EINV ECPS KCRM SP
09MADRID1149MISSION SPAIN NOMINATIONS FOR PRESIDENTIAL
[...] In response to taskings set out in reftel, Post's Muslim Engagement Working Group canvassed a wide range of contacts to solicit qualified nominees for the Entrepreneurship Summit. The Working Group was enlarged to include representatives of PAS, ECON, POL, the U.S. Foreign Commercial Service ( [...]
2009-12-01 15:03:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIAD PREL SOCI XF XI ZR ZP CN PU MV SO SP
09MADRID1161SPAIN: GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSED ANTI-INTERNET PIRACY
[...] (U) On November 27, Spain's Council of Ministers approved for submission to Congress a draft Law for a Sustainable Economy (LES),designed to modernize and restructure the economy to make it more competitive. Septel will address the law's scope and major provisions. One aspect of the draft [...]
2009-12-04 16:44:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR PGOV SP
09MADRID224SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: SPAIN
[...] (SBU) Spain was placed on the Special 301 Watch List in April 2008 primarily due to the government's failure to take specific, concrete measures to address a growing Internet piracy problem. One year later, Internet piracy continues to grow. The government is attempting to address the proble [...]
2009-03-02 14:32:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD ECON SP
09MADRID417INTERNET PIRACY IN SPAIN: SUSPENSION OF
[...] (SBU) On April 17, negotiations between the association of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ("Redtel") and the Coalition of Creators and Content Industries ("Coalition") were suspended. The parties had been meeting regularly for almost a year in an attempt to negotiate an agreement on comba [...]
2009-04-28 06:33:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR ECPS SP
09MANAGUA1077Ortega's Judicial Coup: Legal Experts Denounce Court's
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the weeks after the Supreme Court's (CSJ) decision to allow President Daniel Ortega to run for re-election in 2011, legal experts have denounced the judicial ruling as "illegal," "unconstitutional", and "invalid." Experts describe the ruling as such for technical/administra [...]
2009-11-09 22:36:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM NU
09MAPUTO276FOOD INSECURITY ALERT FOR CENTRAL MOZAMBIQUE
[...] SUMMARY: The LATE ARRIVAL OF RAIN THIS YEAR IN CENTRAL MOZAMBIQUE, FOLLOWING TWO POOR SEASONS OF RAINFALL, HAS LED TO POOR HARVEST YIELDS THAT ARE AFFECTING THE FOOD SECURITY OF 97,000 IN TETE PROVINCE, 14,500 IN NORTHERN MANICA, AND 58,000 IN SOFALA. A USAID ASSESSMENT TRIP IN DECEMBER 2008 [...]
2009-02-19 10:57:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN AMGT MZ
09MAPUTO54MAPUTO'S PROPOSAL FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY FUNDS
[...] Summary: Embassy Maputo requests funding from the FY 2009 Biotechnology Outreach Strategy Fund to bring two subject matter experts to Mozambique to meet with regulators, academia, consumers, and legislators on currently relevant topics such as risk assessments, field trial management, labeli [...]
2009-01-21 11:39:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD SENV TBIO KPAO MZ
09MELBOURNE123GROWING TIES IN AUSTRALIAN-U.S. WATER COLLABORATION
[...] Australia and the United States face many similar challenges in managing drought and bringing water to growing urban populations. Federal, state-to-state and commercial ties already exist between the two countries, but as Australia braces for another year of dry conditions, opportunities abound [...]
2009-11-18 23:47:00Consulate MelbourneUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EIND ECON AS
09MEXICO1025MX 2009-140, NAS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from NAS, on Document Fraud, Oaxaca, Mexico, April 24, 2009. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below an [...]
2009-04-08 20:02:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR MX
09MEXICO1269 SITREP 14 - H1N1 FLU OUTBREAK IN MEXICO CITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- The GOM announced that the number of confirmed H1N1 cases now stands at 1,204 including 44 fatalities. The two additional fatalities were from analysis of backlogged samples. Mexico City reduced its alert level from orange to yellow which means that normal busines [...]
2009-05-08 13:29:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO2410MX 2009-364, NAS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days (August 28, 2009) per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from NAS on Basic Investigators Course, in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, beginning August 31, 2009. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violation [...]
2009-08-14 14:06:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR ASEC MX
09MEXICO2449MX 2009-369, NAS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days (September 1, 2009) per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from NAS on Document Fraud, in Oaxaca, Mexico, beginning September 7, 2009. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human right [...]
2009-08-18 18:27:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR ASEC MX
09MEXICO2455MX 2009-368, NAS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days (September 1, 2009) per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from NAS on Basic Investigations Course, in Mexico, beginning September 7, 2009. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human [...]
2009-08-18 23:36:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR ASEC MX
09MEXICO2565MX 2009-400, NAS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days September 14, 2009 per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from NAS on Criminal Investigation, in Oaxaca, Oax., beginning September 21, 2009. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human [...]
2009-08-28 17:12:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR ASEC MX
09MEXICO2584MX 2009-398, DEA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days September 15, 2009 per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from DEA on Meth and Clandestine Labs, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, beginning September 21, 2009. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross viol [...]
2009-08-31 22:32:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR ASEC MX
09MEXICO278MX #2009 - 031, DEA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] Action request. Post requests a response within 10 business days per WHA/MEX guidelines for this Leahy vetting request from DEA, on Drug and Criminal Investigation, in Chiapas, Mexico, February 18, 2009. 2. Post possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the i [...]
2009-02-03 19:49:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR MX
09MEXICO3173VERACRUZ: ALL EYES ON 2010 ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff traveled to Veracruz State in early October to meet with state officials, opposition politicians, and civil society representatives to discuss local conditions in the run-up to state governor and local congressional elections next year. The major parties are already in ful [...]
2009-11-09 17:11:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PINR MX
09MONROVIA698LIBERIA's OIL PROSPECTS INCREASE FOLLOWING DISCOVERY IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An oil discovery September 16 at a deepwater exploration site in Sierra Leone along the Liberian border increases the prospects of unearthing oil along Liberia's geologically similar coast. The highly-publicized find coincides with the National Oil Company of Liberia's (NOCAL [...]
2009-09-30 07:50:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENGR LI
09MONROVIA802 52ND LIBERIAN LEGISLATURE CONCLUDES FOURTH SESSION
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The 52nd National Legislature has concluded its fourth session, recessing until the fifth session begins in January 2010. Despite the fact that several key laws were passed and concession agreements ratified, the Legislature failed to pass crucial measures related to meeting Lib [...]
2009-10-30 09:55:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI LI
09MONROVIA93LIBERIA: DISASTER DECLARATION ON MOTH AND CATERPILLAR
[...] This is an action request. Please See para 14. 2. Summary: This is a disaster declaration cable to request assistance from OFDA for immediate humanitarian relief related to the impact on water supply, sanitation, health and livelihoods related to widespread infestation of crops by caterpi [...]
2009-01-29 19:10:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL WFP PHUM LI
09MOSCOW2294SENATOR MARGELOV ON COOPERATING, IRAN,
[...] (C) Summary. In a September 2 meeting with Ambassador Beyrle, Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mikhail Margelov said Russia is hesitant to work outside the P5 plus 1 format when discussing possible sanctions against Iran. Margelov invited Ambassador Beyrle to present U.S. [...]
2009-09-04 05:23:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNAORC IR MARR PARM PGOV PREL RS SU UP
09MOSCOW2954FEW LEADS ON NEVSKIY EXPRESS BOMBING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over one week after the reported November 27 bombing of the business class Nevskiy Express train from Moscow to St. Petersburg in which 27 people died and almost 100 others were injured, Russian authorities are still searching leads in the case. The neo-Nazi group Combat 18 w [...]
2009-12-08 10:25:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PHUM PINR RS
09MOSCOW324EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: LINK EXPRESS,
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Link Express, Kiev, Ukraine. The company is listed on BIS lic [...]
2009-02-11 07:49:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW897GOR CONCERNED ABOUT MOLDOVA RIOTS; DUMA COMPARES
[...] (SBU) Summary: While the GOR is concerned about the unrest in Moldova, and the MFA alluded to possible Romanian connections of the protesters, it has not made as direct accusations as Duma members have, who freely compared the riots to a new "color revolution." Experts do not think the West [...]
2009-04-08 14:22:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS MD
09NAIROBI108President Signs Communications Amendments Act
[...] (U) Summary: A recent political firestorm over the Kenya Communications Amendment Act of 2008 (the Act),while containing some trouble spots, in essence provided a positive opportunity in which Kenyans once again demonstrated their democratic credentials. President Mwai Kibaki signed the Act i [...]
2009-01-20 12:16:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPAO KMDR KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1080A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin met with President Mwai Kibaki and several high-ranking GOK officials on May 12. A/S Carson told Kibaki that his visit was meant to underscore the en [...]
2009-06-02 15:20:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM PINR PGOV KE
09NAIROBI1083A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin met with Minister of Agriculture and senior Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader William Ruto on May 12. A/S Carson and Gavin expressed de [...]
2009-06-03 04:57:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1113COALITION GOVERNMENT FINDS COMMON GROUND ON
[...] On June 3, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings Philip Alston presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council his final report on his recent visit to Kenya. The report concluded that extrajudicial killings by police were systematic, widespread, and carefully planned. It also dec [...]
2009-06-05 06:42:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1168KEY PARLIAMENTARIAN PESSIMISTIC ON REFORMS, SEEKS
[...] (C) Poloff met on June 2 with Dr. Boni Khalwale, the Chair of the Kenyan Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC),a key watchdog committee. Khalwale has used his position as a bully pulpit, asking tough questions of the Grand Coalition government and gaining a measure of popularity in t [...]
2009-06-11 11:54:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1256COALITION AGREES ON NEW MEMBERSHIP OF
[...] On June 17 Parliament finally agreed on new membership to 27 parliamentary committees. The decision had been held up by a conflict between the main coalition parties, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and the Party of National Unity (PNU),over each party's share of membership and the le [...]
2009-06-23 09:47:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1266 Ambassador's Remarks upon receiving Honorary Doctorate
[...] On May 29 Africa Nazarene University awarded the Ambassador an honorary doctorate for his efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. The Ambassador used the occasion for public outreach in support of the reform agenda and reconciliation efforts. 2. Begin text of remarks. I accept this [...]
2009-06-24 13:58:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KE
09NAIROBI1293THE REFORM AGENDA - KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON KIBAKI
[...] (C) The reform agenda will only be implemented if President Kibaki and PM Odinga exert strong leadership to make this happen. We must continue to make clear to them the importance the U.S. at the highest levels attaches to this (which complements domestic-driven pressure for reform). I recen [...]
2009-06-26 10:47:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1295 The Reform Agenda - Energizing Youth and Public Support
[...] Summary. The Ambassador and members of the Mission team used a late May visit to Eldoret and Kisumu to support grassroots youth organizations to press peacefully for implementation of the reform agenda, and to energize other public support for this. The three-day trip included inauguration of [...]
2009-06-26 12:11:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1296UHURU KENYATTA - PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS AND THE
[...] (C) Uhuru Kenyatta appears to be working towards a presidential run in 2012. While many have pointed out that replacing President Kibaki, a Kikuyu, by another Kikuyu, would be unlikely due to anti-Kikuyu sentiments prevalent across much of Kenyan society, Kenyatta may be encouraged to attempt [...]
2009-06-26 12:13:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1811Pushing the Reform Process - Follow-up to the Secretary's
[...] (S/NF) Summary. In the wake of the Secretary's high impact visit, we are moving quickly to sustain pressure for implementation of the reform agenda. In concert with Washington, we are engaging intensively with key political leaders, while working to energize civil society, the private sector, [...]
2009-08-26 12:36:00Embassy NairobiSECRETPREL PGOV KDEM US KE
09NAIROBI1829VISAS DONKEY: CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA DENIAL
[...] (C) Embassy is seeking a security advisory opinion under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA),Proclamation 7750, precluding the entry into the United States of Henry Kiprono Kosgey and his family. Kosgey was born in Nandi district, Rift Valley Province, Kenya on July 14, 194 [...]
2009-09-01 08:58:00Embassy NairobiSECRETCVIS KCOR KCRM PGOV PREL ECON KE
09NAIROBI1846CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW CHAIR CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador recently met with Nzamba Kitonga, Chairman of the Committee of Experts on the Constitution, to discuss the current status of the constitutional review process. Acutely aware that his committee is working under intense political and public scrutiny, Kitonga is never [...]
2009-09-02 14:07:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KJUS KE
09NAIROBI1855KENYA: BY-ELECTIONS FIRST TEST FOR IIEC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 27 the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) held two by-elections for vacant parliamentary seats. The elections in Bomachoge (Nyanza Province) and Shinyalu (Western Province) were an important first test of the IIEC's capacity to organize an election and cu [...]
2009-09-04 08:10:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM PGOV KCOR KE
09NAIROBI2184KENYA: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW 2010
[...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Country: Kenya 3. Current Status: Eligible 4. Country Background Summary: The population of Kenya is 38.6 million (mid 2008 estimate),estimated 2008 GDP is $30.4 billion, and per capita income is $770. An estimated 54% of the [...]
2009-10-16 08:07:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ECON ETRD EINV ENRG ELAB AGOA PGOV PREL
09NAIROBI2410 Outreach to Propel the Reform Process
[...] Summary. This message summarizes recent travel throughout Kenya as part of continuing and intensified outreach efforts aimed at encouraging domestic-driven peaceful pressure for implementation of the reform agenda. End summary. 2. The Mission remains engaged in intense outreach to all regi [...]
2009-11-25 11:22:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI2477Former Members of Congress engage the Reform Agenda
[...] (U) Summary: From November 23 to 28, Embassy Nairobi hosted Kenya's first-ever "EXDEL," a delegation of former Members of Congress who spent a week representing the Congressional House Democracy Partnership as they engaged political leaders and civil society to advance the reform agenda. End S [...]
2009-12-10 13:14:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL OTRA OVIP OREP KDEM KE
09NAIROBI2531Constitutional Debate 2 - PNU seeks Strong Presidency,
[...] (U) Summary. This cable is part two of a five part series on the contentious issues and political landscape surrounding the debate on Kenya's Harmonized Draft Constitution. Cable one provided a snapshot of the outstanding contentious issues in the draft constitution: executive authority, devo [...]
2009-12-22 14:41:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KJUS KE
09NAIROBI2533Constitutional Debate 3: ODM Defending Current Draft
[...] Summary: This cable is part three of a five part series on the contentious issues and political landscape surrounding the debate on Kenya's Harmonized Draft Constitution. Cable one provided a snapshot of the outstanding contentious issues in the draft constitution: executive authority, devolu [...]
2009-12-22 14:47:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS KDEM KE
09NAIROBI2539Constitutional Debate 4: Prospects for Compromise
[...] (C) Summary: This cable is part four of a five part series on the contentious issues and political landscape surrounding the debate on Kenya's Harmonized Draft Constitution. Cable one provided a snapshot of the outstanding contentious issues in the draft constitution: executive authority, dev [...]
2009-12-23 13:29:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI2656Kenya's Media: Part III- Media Houses and Cross Ownership
[...] (U) Summary. This is the third part of a four-part report on the state of the Kenyan Media. The parts are: 1) Overview and the new media law; 2) Radio Stations; 3) Media Houses and Cross Ownership; and 4) Role of the media and New Trends. A handful of media houses dominate and even manipula [...]
2009-12-22 10:20:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPRC KPAO KMDR KE
09NAIROBI2666Constitutional Debate 1: A Primer on the Contentious Issues
[...] (U) Summary: This cable is part one of a five part series on the contentious issues and political landscape surrounding the debate on Kenya's Harmonized Draft Constitution. This cable provides a snapshot of the outstanding contentious issues in the draft constitution: executive authority, devo [...]
2009-12-22 14:08:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KJUS PREL KE
09NAIROBI391 The Watershed Crisis and Fundamental Reform
[...] (U) NOTE: This cable was prepared by the Ambassador in mid-November 2008 but was inadvertently not/not transmitted. However, we are sending it now for the record because it should be read in conjunction with Septel, which follows on U.S. policy and the current status of Kenya's reform efforts. [...]
2009-02-26 13:46:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI643THE REFORM PROCESS IN KENYA: PRIME MINISTER'S
[...] (C) Summary. On March 27 Prime Minister Odinga delivered a speech which he had been billed as a major address on the reform process and corruption. The speech was delivered at a time when Kenyans have become increasingly frustrated with lack of action to tackle the longstanding culture of im [...]
2009-04-01 14:22:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI644KENYA: ANNAN FOUNDATION CONFERENCE IN GENEVA
[...] (C) Summary. Kofi Annan used his Annan Foundation to hold a two-day conference in Geneva focused on &The Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation: One Year Later,8 which I attended. His purpose was to push implementation of the reforms agreed to by the coalition government in February, 200 [...]
2009-04-01 14:51:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKDEM PREL PGOV PHUM KE
09NAIROBI715KIBAKI TOURS THE COUNTRY
[...] (C) Since mid-March President Mwai Kibaki has been visiting different areas of the country. This appears to be an effort to enhance the President's credibility with the Kenyan people, given polls showing substantial dissatisfaction with the performance of the coalition government in implement [...]
2009-04-08 12:54:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI744 A Troubled Coalition, the Reform Process, and U.S. Policy
[...] (C) Summary. Following a honeymoon period during its first six months in office, the coalition government emerged as an embattled marriage early this year. Disagreements between the two principal coalition government partners, President Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) and Prime Minister [...]
2009-04-14 15:28:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KE
09NAIROBI807SELECTION OF NEW ELECTORAL BODY MOVING AHEAD
[...] The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) has settled on a Chair and 8 Commissioners for the Independent Interim Electoral Commission (IIEC). The IIEC is a temporary body that was formed in December 2008 to replace the discredited Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) (Reftel). It is tasked wit [...]
2009-04-24 11:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI823 Crisis in Coalition Government
[...] (C) Summary: Although in mid-April meetings between President Kibaki, Prime Minister Odinga, and their teams held out prospects to resolve differences which had troubled the coalition, another serious crisis threatens its existence. The crisis developed at the end of last week when Prime Mini [...]
2009-04-27 15:31:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI848 Parliament Speaker's Ruling Averts Crisis
[...] (C) Summary. Speaker of Parliament's solomonic ruling on April 28 has averted a crisis within the coalition government. The ruling potentially paves the way for Parliament to focus on implementation of the reform agenda. However, the continuing differences between President Kibaki and Prime M [...]
2009-04-29 15:05:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI876MUTULA KILONZO NAMED MINISTER OF JUSTICE
[...] The government announced on May 4 that Mutula Kilonzo has been named Minister of Justice, National Cohesion, and Constitutional Affairs (Minister of Justice). Until his appointment as Minister of Justice, Kilonzo had been serving as the Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development. He is k [...]
2009-05-05 13:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NEWDELHI933BHARAT BALLOT 09: BATTLEFIELD BULANDSHAHR -- TAKE
[...] (SBU) Summary: This is the third in a series of cables on Bulandshahr, a rural market town of 175,000 two hours southeast of Delhi in the state of Uttar Pradesh. On May 5th, two days before its parliamentary district went to the polls, PolOff and PolFSN ventured back to Bulandshahr to see how [...]
2009-05-08 10:31:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI988BHARAT BALLOT 2009: MUSLIM VOTE DIVIDED IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff and PolFSN traveled to western UP to visit five parliamentary districts where Muslims make up a large minority, and in some cases, the majority, of voters. These five districts voted on May 13, the final phase of the election for the Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliamen [...]
2009-05-15 11:15:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NIAMEY943Niger: Poor, but not too Poor for Cell Phones
[...] Summary: Cell Phone usage is Niger is expanding rapidly, despite high costs to users with very limited means. With four service providers, cell phone growth has left landlines far behind. A Government of Niger (GON) survey indicates that men are twice as likely as women to have a cell phone, [...]
2009-11-28 11:10:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ECON SOCI PGOV KWIR NG
09NOUAKCHOTT635MAURITANIA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROUNDUP FOR
[...] (C) Summary: In the month of September, the International Contact Group visited Mauritania to take stock of the post-election political situation. Delegations from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank also visited and renewed programs with Mauritania. President Aziz travel [...]
2009-10-01 12:22:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PTER MR KDEM
09PARIS290FRANCE: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] Embassy Paris notes no significant developments since last year with respect to GOF actions to protect critical infrastructure. After mission-wide consultation, Embassy Paris did not identify any physical infrastructure or resources in France whose loss would immediately affect the security, [...]
2009-02-27 16:00:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PGOV PINS ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP FR
09PARTO31925(U) SECRETARY CLINTON'S MARCH 5, 2009
[...] (U) Classified by: Kenneth Merten, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) March 5, 2009; 3:30 p.m.; Brussels, Belgium. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Kurt Volker A/S Dan Fried, EUR Anne-Marie Slaughter, S/P Spokesman Robert [...]
2009-03-19 02:48:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNOVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL NATO UP RS
09PORTAUPRINCE503HAITIAN PRESIDENT TOURS FLOODED AREAS
[...] (U) Summary. Even before the official June 1 start date of the 2009 hurricane season, heavy rains have already caused 11 deaths and some damage across the country. Haiti?s Civil Protection Department has declared an orange alert across the country. President Preval is attempting to get ahead [...]
2009-05-26 10:51:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID HA
09PORTOFSPAIN67SHRIMP-TURTLE: TRINIDAD & TOBAGO NOT RECERTIFIED UNDER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During their January 7-9 visit, OES and NOAA officials found that T&T continues to fall short of certification requirements for the Turtle Regulatory and Conservation Program. USG officers cited three reasons for their decision: use of Turtle Exclusion Devices (TEDs) is not unifo [...]
2009-02-19 19:03:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS SENV ETRD TD
09PRAGUE160CZECH SOCIAL DEMOCRATS OFFER FEW SURPRISES AT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The March 20-22 congress of the Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) was relatively uneventful, despite the charged political atmosphere before the planned March 24 vote of no confidence. All but one candidate for the party's top posts ran unopposed and were elected, although CSSD cha [...]
2009-03-24 09:55:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ
09PRETORIA1145FREE STATE STRUGGLES WITH GOLD GEOLOGY AND ILLEGAL MINERS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Gold-mining in the Free State Province is emblematic of broad challenges in profitably mining gold in South Africa. Controlling costs, managing labor, assuring safety and power, and exploiting remaining low-grade deposits are difficulties that have caused South Africa's product [...]
2009-06-08 10:31:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN ELAB ENRG KHIV SF
09PRETORIA1914South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" -
[...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...]
2009-09-17 14:45:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF
09PRETORIA596South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" -
[...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...]
2009-03-27 11:52:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF
09PRETORIA664PART 1 OF 3: SCENESETTER FOR SOUTH AFRICA'S APRIL
[...] (C) South Africa on April 22 will hold its fourth national election since the end of apartheid in 1994. From all indications, the government and its institutions are ready for this poll, and turnout is expected to be the highest since former President Nelson Mandela's victory 15 years ago. [...]
2009-04-03 14:51:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL SF
09PRETORIA666ZUMA CONTINUES HARD PRESS FOR AFRIKANER SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) One of the more interesting trends to emerge during this election season is the intense focus by Jacob Zuma and the African National Congress (ANC) in lobbying the Afrikaner vote ahead of the election. Many pundits and political analysts have speculated that the Afrikaner vote would go [...]
2009-04-03 15:06:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV PREL SF
09PRETORIA872SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY MONTHLY
[...] (U) Summary: This is the South African Environment, Science and Technology Monthly Briefings Newsletter, April 2009, Volume 4, Number 4, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa. Topics of the newsletter: -- ANC OFFICIAL ARRESTED IN ABALONE BUST -- SADC SKIPPER FINED R1.5M FO [...]
2009-04-30 10:45:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV SOCI ETRD SF
09QUITO455ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT MAKES ACCUSATIONS ABOUT U.S. TELECOMS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the May 30 presentation of his weekly radio address, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa sharply criticized U.S. telecommunications companies ATT, MCI, and Sprint, accusing them of "swindling" Ecuador out of millions of dollars of long-distance fees. ATT maintains that the ac [...]
2009-06-15 18:56:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EINT ETRD EC
09RABAT499MOROCCO TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATEFOR UN ICSC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-12 15:37:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PREL UNA MO
09RPODUBAI140IRAN REGIONAL PRESENCE OFFICE - WINDOW ON IRAN - MARCH 25,
[...] [S/NF] Qalibaf Planning to Deliver US Goods in Time for Election?: The Tehran Municipality's interest in US agricultural trade continues, but now appears driven by a more overtly political agenda. IRPO Officer and Dubai-based regional Ag Attache met for a second time with two UAE-based Irania [...]
2009-03-25 12:33:00Iran RPO DubaiSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL KHUM EAGR IR
09RPODUBAI141IRAN REGIONAL PRESENCE OFFICE - WINDOW ON IRAN - MARCH 25,
[...] [S/NF] Qalibaf Planning to Deliver US Goods in Time for Election?: The Tehran Municipality's interest in US agricultural trade continues, but now appears driven by a more overtly political agenda. IRPO Officer and Dubai-based regional Ag Attache met for a second time with two UAE-based Irania [...]
2009-03-25 12:55:00Iran RPO DubaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PROP EAGR
09SANJOSE615COSTA RICA'S ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE - OPPORTUNITIES AND
[...] (U) SUMMARY: U.S. investors identify physical infrastructure challenges as the key hurdle for Costa Rica's development and modernization, according to the Costa Rican-U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Costa Rica provides a sometimes reliable electric power supply to over 97 percent of the country. Its [...]
2009-07-23 19:03:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON ETRD EIND SENV EFIN EINV PREL
09SANJOSE758U.S. BIENNIAL CARIBBEAN BASIN INVESTMENT SURVEY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: With Entry Into Force (EIF) of the Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) on January 1st 2009, the reporting period 2007-2008 is the last in which the Caribbean Basin trade programs (CBI/CBERA/CBTPA) figure among Costa Rica's trade benefits. Textile [...]
2009-09-02 15:14:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ECON ETRD OTRA XL EFIN CS
09SANTIAGO1 Fifth Annual Meeting of U.S. - Chile Free Trade
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The fifth annual U.S.-Chile Free Trade Commission (FTC) met December 12 in Santiago, Chile. The FTC discussed: 1) the effects of the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on trade and investment between the two countries, 2) the FTA institutional framework, 3) FTA implementati [...]
2009-01-02 11:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN ETRD KIPR EFTA CI
09SANTIAGO297 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MARCH 31
[...] There was extensive coverage on the scandal caused by the revelation that Chile's most prominent pharmacy chains Ahumada, Salcobrand, and Cruz Verde, colluded to hike prices on more than 200 products since 2005. The National Economic Attorneys' Office is investigating the alleged collusion. [...]
2009-03-31 18:45:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO306 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 1
[...] The national unemployment rate for the December-February period reached 8.5 percent, which is 1.2 percent higher than in 2008. Chile plays Uruguay this evening and could qualify for the 2010 World Soccer Cup if it wins. U.S.-Related Articles --------------------- 2. Minister Counselor Ca [...]
2009-04-01 21:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO342 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 13
[...] Final figures are not yet in, but Holy Week holiday is expected to leave close to US$200 million in profits for the tourism industry. Market analysts say that Chile's forestry and retailing sectors are most vulnerable to the economic crisis. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Editor [...]
2009-04-13 21:17:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO354 CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 15
[...] Presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera, who sought to console the family of a 16-year old girl who died from a gunshot wound, was told to leave a wake by the girl's relatives; they accused the candidate of using the event for political gain. Dailies also reported Congressmen contend the US$1 [...]
2009-04-15 20:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO492 CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- MAY 26
[...] A 27-year old anarchist died when an explosive device in his backpack detonated. Dailies ran extensive coverage of the incident itself, the funeral, and the investigation opened by the police on the possible ties with terrorist organizations abroad. Dailies also report that Health Authorities [...]
2009-05-26 19:21:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO856CHILE: TRILATERAL COOPERATION BEGINS WITH CAFTA-DR COUNTRIES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USDA sponsored 18 delegates from Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in a study tour of Chilean agricultural inspection and quarantine facilities August 31-September 4. Post proposed the visit, in keeping with the commitment made by Preside [...]
2009-09-11 17:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD ECIN PREL CI
09SANTIAGO894CHILE: TRILATERAL COOPERATION BEGINS WITH CAFTA-DR COUNTRIES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USDA and USAID sponsored 18 delegates from Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in a study tour of Chilean agricultural inspection and quarantine facilities August 31-September 4. Post proposed the visit, in keeping with the commitment made [...]
2009-09-22 18:24:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD ECIN PREL CI
09SANTODOMINGO1196LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - NAS A.P. ANTI-NARC. (4
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (U) Post requests Department's assistance in processing Leahy human rights vetting for the following 4 NAS sponsored individuals who have been selected for Airport Anti-Narcotics training, scheduled to start 18 October 2009. Post has no disqual [...]
2009-10-08 19:42:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MARR PGOV DR
09SANTODOMINGO1197LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - NAS A.P. ANTI-NARC. (4
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (U) Post requests Department's assistance in processing Leahy human rights vetting for the following 4 NAS sponsored individuals who have been selected for Airport Anti-Narcotics training, scheduled to start 18 October 2009. Post has no disqual [...]
2009-10-08 19:58:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MARR PGOV DR
09SEOUL1254SEOUL ESTH UPDATE - JUNE-JULY 2009
[...] In conjunction with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's summit with President Obama in Washington DC in mid-June, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Korean Minister of Knowledge Economy (MKE) Lee Yoon-ho signed a Statement of Intent on June 16 to begin cooperation on research and development in [...]
2009-08-10 03:46:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ELTN ENRG PREL TBIO TPHY TRGY KGHG KFLU KS
09SHENYANG141PRC-DPRK BORDER: DPRK ECONOMY ROBUST, UNSC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sources agree that the North Korean economy appears to be the strongest it has been in recent memory. Chinese officials may be enforcing UNSC 1874 (Ref A, B) and financial sanctions through stepped-up inspections at the PRC-DPRK border, but there is local skepticism about the abil [...]
2009-08-13 04:02:00Consulate ShenyangSECRETCH ECON KN KS PREL RS
09SINGAPORE420 SINGAPORE: NO H1N1 CASES; NEW VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There are no confirmed cases of H1N1 type A influenza in Singapore, but the Ministry of Health (MOH) raised its alert level on May 1 from yellow to orange, indicating a potentially greater risk of human-to-human transmission but without declaring a pandemic. The GOS has institu [...]
2009-05-06 01:16:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU EAGR EAIR CASC ECON SN
09SINGAPORE445 SINGAPORE: NO H1N1 CASES; NO MORE VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There are no confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza in Singapore and the Ministry of Health (MOH) lowered its alert level from orange to yellow on May 11. The GOS lifted its visa requirement for Mexican citizens on May 12, but seven-day quarantine requirements for people with recent [...]
2009-05-13 10:05:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU EAGR EAIR CASC ECON SN
09SINGAPORE495 SINGAPORE: FIRST H1N1 CASE CONFIRMED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Singapore confirmed its first case of H1N1 Influenza in a 22-year-old woman who returned from a visit to New York on May 26. The Ministry of Health continues to investigate other suspect cases and has instituted Home Quarantine Orders for people found to have had close contact w [...]
2009-05-27 10:50:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU EAGR EAIR CASC ETRD ECON SN
09STATE125902LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BELGRADE 1326 )
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the IMET Command General Staff College course. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory info [...]
2009-12-09 15:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EINV SR
09STATE129520(U) Secretary Clinton's December 9, 2009
[...] Classified by EUR Assistant Secretary Philip Gordon - Reasons: 1.4 (b) and (d) 2. (U) December 9; 1:15 p.m.; Washington DC; U.S.A 3. (U) Participants: U.S. Secretary Clinton Assistant Secretary Phil Gordon, EUR Ambassador Richard Morningstar, S/EEE Ian Kelly, PA Kristina Kvien, [...]
2009-12-18 18:58:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ENRG UP MD
09STATE18520EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE,
[...] This is an action cable (please see para 10.) 2. Summary: The Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science (OES),in cooperation with the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP),Embassy Jakarta, and the Regional Environmental Offices (REO) in Bangkok and Suva, announces its biennial co [...]
2009-02-27 15:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID EFIS ENRG KGCC KSCA TBIO TPHY TSPL XB
09STATE23815USUN INSTRUCTION: LIBERIA SANCTIONS COMM ARMS
[...] This is an action request. USUN is requested to seek from the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia an advance approval in connection with the arms embargo on Liberia established by the Security Council. 2. BEGIN LETTER TO THE CHAIR OF THE 1521 (LIBERIA [...]
2009-03-12 22:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN LI PREL PTER UNSC
09STATE28850GUIDANCE: MIDDLE EAST CONSULTATIONS, MARCH 25
[...] (SBU) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to draw from the elements in paras 2 and 4 below as a basis for its participation in Security Council consultations on the Middle East scheduled for March 25, and for its public statements on the consultation. 2. (U) Elements for presenta [...]
2009-03-25 20:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL IS LE SY KPAL
09STATE49967ILMS WORKSHOP FOR IRM PROGRAM PROPERTY USERS
[...] SUMMARY: The Office of Logistics Management is pleased to announce two workshops for the Integrated Logistics Management System (ILMS) for IRM Program Property users. Current WPAS users (see para three) are invited to participate in one of the two-day workshops. Attendance at one of these wor [...]
2009-05-15 15:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAADP AMGT ACOA
09STATE52639A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR AFRICA DIRECTOR GAVIN
[...] (SBU) On May 19, senior U.S. and UK Africa representatives participated in a secure video teleconference (SVTC) focused on Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Somalia. All expressed mutual interest in holding a regular dialogue via SVTC, and agreed to meet during Wood's June 9-10 trip to Washington. U.S. pa [...]
2009-05-22 12:36:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS KE SO UK XA ZI
09STATE83866BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON
[...] This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a post-shipment check for the export of chemical warfare agent and radiation detectors to Egypt. Post is requested to complete [...]
2009-08-12 15:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEG ETTC KOMC
09TAIPEI588TFFLU01: MAY 15 H1N1 VIRUS UPDATE FOR TAIWAN
[...] Taiwan continues to have close calls with the H1N1 virus from arriving airline passengers who have been in proximity to H1N1 carriers on their journey. As of noon, May 15, however, there are still no confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in Taiwan. At the CKS International Airport May 12, seven [...]
2009-05-15 09:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLU TBIO TW CH KFLO
09TELAVIV1342ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran Block Quotes Only: ------------------- Â [...]
2009-06-22 12:52:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV2479ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations 3. Muslim-Americans ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- HaQaretz published the results of a survey conducted over the past days among Israelis by Dialog: - The majority of the public -- 57% -- supports t [...]
2009-11-13 11:07:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV682ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend all media reported that on Saturday night police sappers disarmed a powerful 100-kg bomb in a car outside HaifaQs Lev Hamifratz shopping mall, thwarting a potential terrori [...]
2009-03-23 10:52:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
09TIRANA149 Will the Real John Withers Please Stand Up?
[...] SUMMARY: Embassy Tirana has receivd extremely positive feedback regarding Ambassador Withers' appearance on the high-viewership variety/comedy show "Portokalli" (Orange) on March 1. The Ambassador's appearance on this type of TV show is the latest example of the Mission's innovative PD program [...]
2009-03-06 11:12:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO SCUL AL
09TIRANA150 Will the Real John Withers Please Stand Up?
[...] SUMMARY: Embassy Tirana has received extremely positive feedback regarding Ambassador Withers' appearance on the high-viewership variety/comedy show "Portokalli" (Orange) on March 1. The Ambassador's appearance on this type of TV show is the latest example of the Mission's innovative PD progra [...]
2009-03-06 11:19:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO SCUL AL
09TIRANA408ALBANIA'S REMITTANCES
[...] (SBU) Albania's economy and its domestic population of about 3.2 million rely on remittances from roughly one million Albanians working abroad. Although remittances have fallen from an estimated 947 million euro in 2007 to 800 million euro in 2008, there are signs the decline is abating and re [...]
2009-06-23 09:53:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV ELAB AL
09TOKYO1194STAFFDEL SHELLY HAN VISIT TO JAPAN FROM 9-12 JUNE
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes the visit of Ms. Shelly Han to Japan from June 9-12, 2009. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer John Nylin. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5344 Home phone: (81-3)3224-6859 Mobile phone: (81-80)1202-8406 Fax: [...]
2009-05-27 06:12:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
09TOKYO1197COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OTTAWAY + 8 TO VISIT JAPAN
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Elizabeth Ottaway, Leslie Maher, Richard Love, Samuel Howerton, Kenneth Cole, Bruce Bennett, Donald Romberger, Jonathan Newmark, and Douglas Lyons for their May 24-29 visit to Japan. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Politica [...]
2009-05-27 07:03:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL JA
09TOKYO1367 DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/17/09
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-17 21:56:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
09TOKYO2055JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/08/09
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-08 00:02:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
09TOKYO2391AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH AFGHAN AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) Summary: Afghan Ambassador to Japan Eklil Ahmad Hakimi met October 15 with the Ambassador and DCM to discuss cooperation in dealing with the GOJ, the Indian Ocean Refueling mission, future GOJ assistance to Afghanistan, Japanese Foreign Minister Okada's recent visit to Kabul, and a Diet-l [...]
2009-10-16 07:07:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF JA
09TOKYO2441AMBASSADOR MEETS OZAWA
[...] (C) Summary: DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa stressed several times to the Ambassador October 21 that his focus is on politics and elections, and that he cannot discuss policy. That said, he underlined the importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship and assured the Ambassador that the Hatoyam [...]
2009-10-22 07:40:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV JA
09TOKYO2813JAPAN - 2010 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATES REPORT
[...] Per reftel instructions, post submits it draft chapter on Japan for the 2010 National Trade Estimate Report. We assume Washington agencies will update the trade and investment data in the first five paragraphs of the report as they have done in the past. Additionally, we have excluded the midd [...]
2009-12-09 08:12:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EINV KIPR ECPS SN
09TOKYO365COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR REPRESENTATIVE DANA
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 20-21, 2009, visit to Japan by Congressional Representative Dana Rohrabacher and Mr. Paul Berkowitz (February 19-21). 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Keith Jordan. He can be reached at: O [...]
2009-02-18 04:41:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT PREL JA
09TOKYO564COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN GEIS +2 TO VISIT JAPAN
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 15-29, 2009, visit to Japan by John C. Geis, Graham Gilmer, and Nicholas T. Wzientek. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Dan Cintron. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5558 Home p [...]
2009-03-13 07:45:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA PREL JA
09TOKYO851STAFFDEL JANNUZI VISIT TO TOKYO, 18-19 APRIL 2009
[...] (U) Embassy welcomes the April 18-19 visit of Mr. Frank Jannuzi, Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 2. (U) Embassy point of contact for the visit will be Political Officer Sangmin "Simon" Lee. He can be reached at: Office phone: (81-3)3224-5337 Home phone: [...]
2009-04-14 07:47:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN CH KS RS JP
09TOKYO942JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/23/09
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-23 01:00:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
09TOKYO986JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/29/09
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-29 01:07:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
09USOSCE98CFE IMPASSE: HOW DID WE GET WHERE WE ARE?
[...] (C) Summary: At the London Summit, Presidents Obama and Medvedev pledged to explore a comprehensive dialogue on strengthening Euro-Atlantic and European security. The CFE agreement has long been considered a "cornerstone" of Euro-Atlantic security, and at Strasbourg-Kehl, NATO reaffirmed the [...]
2009-04-15 07:36:00Mission USOSCECONFIDENTIALKCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
09VLADIVOSTOK50YOUTHS DANCE, SEVEN PROTESTERS DETAINED AT VLADIVOSTOK
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-13 07:34:00Consulate VladivostokUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV RS
09WARSAW1112POLES FATALISTIC ABOUT UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland shares our desire to integrate Ukraine into Western institutions, but many in the GoP view the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election in zero-sum terms: a likely victory for Russia and loss for Poland -- no matter which candidate wins. Many Poles believe that for five ye [...]
2009-11-02 16:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL UP RS
09YAOUNDE407CAMEROON PLANS TO OPEN TELCOM SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Cameroon's National Assembly will vote later this year on a law to reform Cameroon's telecom sector, making it more open to competition, according to Edouard Ebah Abada, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MINPOSTEL). In a recent meeting with [...]
2009-05-07 11:53:00Embassy YaoundeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV ECPS KCOR CM
09YAOUNDE769CAMEROON'S COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH FRANCE
[...] (C) Summary: Cameroon has a complex relationship with France. The two countries share historical, linguistic and cultural ties and many Cameroonian elites have studied and lived in France. Cameroon is France's largest recipient of foreign assistance and one of its biggest trading partners [...]
2009-09-10 15:42:00Embassy YaoundeCONFIDENTIALCM ECON FR PGOV PINR PREL
09YEKATERINBURG60SIBERIAN OASIS BALANCES DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION
[...] (SBU) Begin summary. Sustainable economic development, environmental protection, and preservation indigenous northern cultures were the main themes of Consul General's visit to Khanty-Mansiysk September 14-16. The city of 70,000, which is about 650 km northeast of Yekaterinburg and could be d [...]
2009-09-19 08:15:00Consulate YekaterinburgUNCLASSIFIEDECON EPET SENV SCUL PGOV RS
09YEREVAN226 SHIFTS AMONG LARGEST TAXPAYERS FOR 2008
[...] (SBU) The list of Armenia's 300 largest corporate taxpayers for 2008 provides an early indication of the impact of the global financial crisis, with the industrial firms previously at the top of the list displaced by three service companies. Tax payments by the banking sector increased, and t [...]
2009-03-30 03:25:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD AM
09YEREVAN333GOVERNMENT COMPLAINTS FOLLOW MEDIA FUROR OVER U.S.
[...] (C) Repeating Diaspora lobby group talking points, Armenian media have produced a barrage of stories lambasting the alleged 38 percent cut in U.S. assistance to Armenia for FY 2010, and noting that the Administration requested more military assistance funding for Azerbaijan than for Armenia. S [...]
2009-05-15 16:34:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PGOV KPAO KMDR AJ AM
09YEREVAN66ARMENIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2008
[...] Following is Embassy Yerevan's submission per reftel request for the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Armenia. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- 2. While Armenia's government officially welcomes foreign investment and the country has received respectable rankings on some global indi [...]
2009-02-04 04:16:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR AM
10ALGIERS105 November 2009 SUMMARY OF TERRORIST AND
[...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major security-related activities, terrorist threats, and incidents for Algeria during the month of November 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news reports, and RSO police contacts. Press-based information should not be taken [...]
2010-02-07 08:06:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PINS ASEC PGOV SNAR AG
10ALGIERS121 DECEMBER 2009 SUMMARY OF TERRORIST AND SIGNIFICANT
[...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: This cable is a summary of major security-related activities, terrorist threats, and incidents for Algeria during the month of December 2009. The information was obtained from open sources, news reports, and RSO police contacts. Press-based information should not be taken [...]
2010-02-11 11:44:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PINS ASEC PGOV SNAR AG
10ALGIERS157OIL COMPANIES WORRIED ABOUT ALGERIA'S ENERGY FUTURE
[...] (C/NF) Leading foreign oil companies (FOCs) are concerned that the corruption investigation into Algeria's national oil company Sonatrach (reftel) has paralyzed company decision-making and could slow ongoing projects. Unless Sonatrach consolidates under new management and resumes normal contr [...]
2010-02-21 17:06:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV EPET ENRG ECON ETRD KCOR PREL PINS AG
10BERLIN170MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, UKRAINE, EU;BERLIN
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (Iran) Nuclear Program, Opposition 3. (Ukraine) Outcome of Elections 4. (EU) Deficit Worries  [...]
2010-02-09 17:14:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IR UP EU
10BERLIN64MEDIA REACTION: HAITI EARTHQUAKE, OBAMA PRESIDENCY,
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. Haiti Earthquake 3. Obama Presidency -- One Year On 4. Afghanistan -- New Ministers, Attack on Government Quarter 5. Ukraine elections  [...]
2010-01-19 14:22:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDPTER SENV ASEC KMDR AF US HA UP
10BRASILIA16Brazil: Scenesetter - DHS Deputy Secretary Lute visit
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-06 13:55:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ASEC BR
10CARACAS167View from the Countryside: The Government Is Taking Over
[...] (C) Summary: Government control is wide and deep in the agricultural state of Yaracuy, located in the northwest part of Venezuela. Business leaders described constant attacks on the private sector through land invasions and expropriations, subsidized agricultural imports, and government indif [...]
2010-02-11 16:22:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAGR VE
10CHENGDU46YUNNAN'S BORDER TRADE: HEKOU AND MOHAN GEAR UP FOR INCREASED
[...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (U) Summary: Yunnan's main land ports with Vietnam and Laos -- Hekou and Mohan -- are both preparing for significant increases in trade and travel flows with the January 1, 2010 entry- [...]
2010-02-26 08:08:00Consulate ChengduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PREL KTIP CH VM LA BM
10COLOMBO41BFIF FY10 PROPOSAL FOR MALDIVES
[...] Post greatly appreciates continued BFIF support for commercial activities in Sri Lanka and Maldives and proposes BFIF funding for a U.S. Trade Fair in Maldives for FY10. The points below are keyed to reftel request for information. (A) Justification ------------------ 2. The U.S. Trade [...]
2010-01-21 08:18:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ECON EFIC ETRD CE MV
10COLOMBO8CAMPAIGN STRATEGIST SAYS FONSEKA WANTS TRUTH AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Ambassador, chief opposition campaign strategist and one-time Rajapaksa confidante Mangala Samaraweera said he was "pleasantly surprised" that General Fonseka believed accountability was important for Sri Lanka, that he agreed with Samaraweera that the country ne [...]
2010-01-06 11:54:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
10DARESSALAAM26OVERCROWDING CRITICAL CHALLENGE FOR TANZANIAN PRISONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Severe overcrowding produces poor living conditions in Dar es Salaam's prisons. Our observations indicate food supplies are sufficient, while sanitary and sleeping facilities are clearly inadequate. Remand prisoners at the Segerea Prison, who may wait up to five years for a tr [...]
2010-01-14 12:52:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CASC PGOV PHUM TZ
10DUBAI34U.S. Companies Seek Overdue Payment in Dubai
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following months of advocacy by the Consul General and FCS, some Dubai government-linked companies have begun initial steps to address outstanding payments owed to U.S. companies that provided services and delivered on projects during Dubai's property boom. Dubai Holding, a co [...]
2010-01-26 09:19:00Consulate DubaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD ECON PGOV AE
10GUATEMALA166GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 138
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 16:56:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA330GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 150
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 16:24:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10HANOI124Codel Faleomavaega Touts Engagement during January 4-5 Visit
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-02 03:51:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PHUM PGOV PREL VM
10HANOI18SETTING THE SCENE FOR CODEL BOND VISIT TO VIETNAM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their most productive since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third- largest trading partner, and one of its largest fore [...]
2010-01-06 10:29:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV PHUM MARR ECON SENV VM
10HANOI218SCENESETTER FOR VISIT BY OES ASSISTANT SECRETARY JONES TO
[...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit will be an important signal to the Vietnamese of continued U.S. engagement on health and environmental issues. Your meetings with the Government of Vietnam (GVN),the United Nations (UN),and the European Union will allo [...]
2010-02-24 10:38:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO SOCI PREL ECON KGHG KHIV VM
10HANOI4Setting the Scene for CODEL Bond Visit to Vietnam
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their most productive since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third-largest trading partner, and one of its largest foreign invest [...]
2010-01-05 10:11:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV PHUM MARR ECON SENV VM
10ISLAMABAD39ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH MONTHLY - DEC
[...] (U) Summary: Environment, Science, Technology and Health Monthly Update for December 2009, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Islamabad, Pakistan. Topics covered: -- Low HPV Prevalence among Karachi Women -- AIDS Therapy Centers in Pakistan -- Pakistan to Formally Enter Antar [...]
2010-01-11 04:18:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDSENV SOCI ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL PK
10JAKARTA134POTUS Indonesia Climate Initiative: from Science to
[...] (SBU) Embassy Jakarta suggests the framework below as a way to carry a POTUS message on climate change and environment during his upcoming visit to Indonesia. SOLUSI is the Indonesian word for "solution" and could be the name of an Obama climate and environment initiative. SOLUSI -- Science, [...]
2010-01-29 10:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID KGHG SENV KMCA MCC PREL ID
10KYIV104UKRAINE: CANDIDATES VIE FOR VOTERS AS THE RUNOFF
[...] (SBU) The two candidates who will compete in the February 7 runoff for the presidency, Party of Regions (Regions) candidate Viktor Yanukovych and PM Yuliya Tymoshenko, kicked-off their campaigns as expected, appealing to the voters who supported second-tier candidates during the first round. [...]
2010-01-21 16:18:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
10KYIV107POSSIBLE NEW UKRAINIAN PM TIHIPKO CASTS SELF AS
[...] (C) Summary. Serhiy Tihipko may accept the position of Prime Minister of Ukraine, but only if he is guaranteed support from the new President and the Rada (parliament) to tackle economic and administrative reforms, and only after the presidential race concludes. Having just finished third i [...]
2010-01-22 13:48:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETRD PGOV PINR PREL UP XH EREL
10KYIV168UKRAINE: LOW PROFILE FOR SECURITY ISSUES IN THE
[...] (C) Summary. In contrast to the 2004 elections, issues of national security and defense remain notable by their absence in this year's presidential campaign. Ukrainians are focused on the economic crisis and the election's potential for reconfiguring Ukraine's political power relationships. All can [...]
2010-01-29 13:06:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR UP
10KYIV170ONE WEEK TO ELECTION: YANUKOVYCH CAMP CONFIDENT
[...] (C) Even allies of PM Tymoshenko concede to us that Regions Party candidate Viktor Yanukovych is holding on to his lead in advance of the February 7 Presidential runoff. Tymoshenko must mobilize greater numbers of "Orange" voters over the next week or face defeat. If Yanukovych wins, members [...]
2010-01-29 16:26:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
10KYIV186TERNOPIL: FEARS OF FRAUD NOT BORNE OUT IN FIRST
[...] (C) During a recent visit to Ternopil Oblast in west-central Ukraine, campaign officials, NGOs and journalists told us that they were concerned about vote buying in the oblast during the presidential elections. PM Yuliya Tymoshenko and Party of Regions candidate Viktor Yanukovych's campaign d [...]
2010-02-02 16:19:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UP
10KYIV190FORMER PRESIDENT KUCHMA ON UKRAINIAN ELECTION,
[...] (C) Former Ukrainian President Kuchma had no kind words for the current "orange" government, accusing it of ruining the economy and the country's international reputation, and of deepening Ukraine's internal divisions. While he endorsed his former PM, Viktor Yanukovych, he characterized the Februar [...]
2010-02-03 15:06:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG MARR UP RS
10KYIV192TYMOSHENKO CONDEMNS ELECTION LAW CHANGES; INVOKES
[...] (C) A [...]
2010-02-04 14:12:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV UP
10KYIV208TYMOSHENKO SURGE: APPEAL OF "THE LESSER EVIL"
[...] (C) The late surge in support for PM Tymoshenko, which made the February 7 second round presidential election results closer than many observers expected, reflected more an anti-Yanukovych vote than a pro-Tymoshenko one. Yanukovych's refusal to debate Tymoshenko, over confidence among his supp [...]
2010-02-09 19:40:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV UP
10KYIV246AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FM POROSHENKO
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Poroshenko embraced President-elect Yanukovych and distanced himself from PM Tymoshenko in a February 12 meeting with the Ambassador. Poroshenko criticized Tymoshenko's unwillingness to concede the election and her denigration of the work of international election observe [...]
2010-02-17 16:00:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UP
10KYIV59EU-UKRAINE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT: LONG WAY STILL
[...] (C) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Poroshenko has declared the signing of an Association Agreement with the EU in 2010 to be one of Ukraine's top two foreign policy goals. At the same time, tough EU criticism of Ukraine's reforms stole the show at the December 4 Ukraine-EU Summit. GOU negotiator [...]
2010-01-14 10:13:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL UP EU
10KYIV64CAMPAIGNS PREPARED FOR POST-ELECTION COURT BATTLES
[...] (C) Amendments to Ukraine's presidential election law in August 2009 granted the Administrative Courts sole jurisdiction to hear election related cases. However, confusion over who currently heads the High Administrative Court means that this court's role as the final arbiter of election dis [...]
2010-01-15 11:01:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
10KYIV67PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: RHETORIC HEATS UP; RACE
[...] (C) PM Tymoshenko, trailing Party of Regions leader Yanukovych in advance of the January 17 Presidential election, used a three-hour press event January 14 to hammer the message that Yanukovych is a criminal and front man for rapacious oligarchic interests, whose election would be a humiliatio [...]
2010-01-15 13:29:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM UP
10KYIV72PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FIRST ROUND: YANUKOVYCH
[...] (SBU) Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has held on to his ten point lead over PM Yuliya Tymoshenko with almost 99% of votes counted in the January 17 presidential election. Observers have called the election generally free and fair. The OSCE ODIHR mission called the election "high quality," [...]
2010-01-18 17:53:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UP
10KYIV8CAN TYMOSHENKO MAINTAIN BALANCE AS THE ELECTIONS
[...] (C) During a December 31 introductory call, PM Tymoshenko discussed with Ambassador Tefft her efforts earlier that day to convince National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Chairman Stelmakh to disburse $2 billion in reserves so that the government can make its scheduled January gas payment. Tymoshenko [...]
2010-01-04 17:03:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN PREL UP
10KYIV92PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: TOUGH MATH FOR TYMOSHENKO
[...] (C) Runoff candidates Viktor Yanukovych and PM Yuliya Tymoshenko are reaching out to second-tier candidates and their constituencies for support in the February 7 second round of presidential voting, following the January 17 first round. Yanukovych expressed his willingness to incorporate th [...]
2010-01-19 18:25:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UP
10LIMA222January Trade and Investment Brief
[...] This is an update on the following trade and investment news from Peru: Trade -- Peru's Free Trade Agreement with S. Korea -- Entry into Force of Peru-China Agreement Delayed -- The Peru-EU Negotiations -- Negotiations with Japan Remain Complicated -- India and Peru Talk Pos [...]
2010-02-02 19:59:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV ECON EFIN USTR PE
10MANAGUA184(U) NICARAGUA 1/TVPRA - Goods produced by Child Labor
[...] (U) The following is US Embassy Managua's submission regarding the Department of Labor request for information on forced labor and child labor in the production of goods for mandatory congressional reporting requirements as outlined in State 131995 and 131997. 2. (U) As reported prev [...]
2010-02-02 14:14:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM PGOV SOCI NU
10MOSCOW140RUSSIAN INTELLECTUALS PRESENT BEARISH OUTLOOK TO U/S BURNS
[...] (C) During a January 13 discussion with U/S Burns, four prominent Russian intellectuals agreed the current Russian leadership is not successfully tackling the immense economic and social challenges facing the country. Despite Medvedev's progressive "modernization" rhetoric, vested interests t [...]
2010-01-21 14:53:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS
10MOSCOW184THE EVOLVING ROLE AND INFLUENCE OF VLADISLAV SURKOV
[...] (C) Summary: First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration (PA) Vladislav Surkov remains one of Russia's most influential political officials, but his influence and authority have recently taken a few hits. His focus, moreover, has evolved into protecting the political system he help [...]
2010-01-27 07:35:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON KDEM RS
10MOSCOW304HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS QUESTION THE RESET
[...] (C) Summary: A group of civil society leaders told Senior Russia NSC Director Michael McFaul January 14 that they were disappointed with the perceived U.S. retreat on support of human rights in Russia. While they cautioned against returning to what they called the "aggressive" style of the Bu [...]
2010-02-11 07:20:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
10MOSCOW315RUSSIAN PUBLIC REACTIONS TO UKRAINE ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Russian press and analysts in public statements overwhelmingly welcomed Viktor Yanukovych's victory in the February 7 presidential run-off elections in Ukraine, although they do not expect Yanukovych to be a pro-Russian push-over. Some see his victory as the end of Orange [...]
2010-02-12 13:52:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UP RS
10NAIROBI29Constitutional Debate 5: Power to the People
[...] (C) Summary: This cable is part five in a five part series on the contentious issues and political landscape surrounding the debate on Kenya's Harmonized Draft Constitution. Cable one (Ref A) provided a snapshot of the outstanding contentious issues in the draft constitution: executive [...]
2010-01-08 12:56:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE
10NAIROBI73Parliamentary Caucus on Reforms Delegation to the U.S.
[...] This is an action request; please see paragraph 8 for meeting requests. 2. Summary: At the invitation of the House Democracy Partnership and with post's support, Kenya's Parliament is sending a delegation of six leaders of the recently-formed Parliamentary Caucus on Reforms (see paragra [...]
2010-01-21 09:31:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM KE
10OSLO92OSLO MUSLIMS PROTEST DAGBLADET'S PUBLISHING OF A PROPHET
[...] (U) Summary: Norwegian left-leaning daily Dagbladet's published a front-page photo February 3 of suspected terrorist Arfan Bhatti pointing out that a Prophet Mohammad caricature was available through a link on the Police Security Services' (PST) Facebook page. The fact that the caricature co [...]
2010-02-18 15:34:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PHUM NO
10PORTAUPRINCE106TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: As a sign of confidence in Haiti's recovery, the Vietnamese phone company Vietel reaffirmed its offer to purchase Teleco, Haiti's national telephone company. The Haitian Chamber of Commerce recommended establishment of a Building and Housing Reconstruction Fund to build [...]
2010-01-30 00:52:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTLOUIS35CORRECTED MAURITIUS: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Per reftel request, Post submits the following 2010 Investment Climate Statement for Mauritius. Please note that the exchange rate used throughout the report is (i) 2007: USD 1 = MRs 32, (ii) 2008: USD 1 = MRs 29, and (iii) 2009: USD 1 = MRs 32.50. (Mauritius Rupees = MRs). --------------- [...]
2010-02-04 12:30:00Embassy Port LouisUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ECON ELAB KTDB KIDE PGOV OPIC USTR
10QUITO154Ecuador Economic News February 1 - February 8, 2010
[...] (U) The following is a periodic economic update for Ecuador that reports notable developments that are not reported by individual cables. This document is sensitive but unclassified. It should not be disseminated outside of USG channels and should not be posted on the Internet. ----------- [...]
2010-02-08 22:48:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EFIN SENV EC
10RIYADH69HUMAN RIGHTS NGO SENDS OPEN LETTER TO SAUDI KING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 28, 2009 the unlicensed Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) appealed to King Abdullah in an open letter to order the release from prison of 73-year old, well-known Human Rights activist, Suliman Al-Reshoudi. The letter claimed that Al-Reshoudi, a former j [...]
2010-01-12 14:43:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KISL PGOV KDEM OPDC SA
10SEOUL207DANISH EMBASSY ON FOOD SHORTAGES, CURRENCY CHAOS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Danish Embassy Political Counselor Mette Ekeroth told us that, during a late January visit to North Korea, food was hard to find -- even for diplomats. Ordinary people, even in the capital, were clearly having a difficult time getting enough to eat. Senior regime officials were [...]
2010-02-10 08:53:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV PINR ECON SOCI KN KS CH
10SEOUL52SEOUL ESTH UPDATE - DECEMBER 2009
[...] President Lee witnessed the signing of a contract December 27 that will award USD 20 billion to a South Korean consortium led by the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) to supply four 1400 megawatt light water nuclear reactors and design and build four nuclear power plants in the United A [...]
2010-01-14 00:53:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EAGR ECON EIND PREL SENV TBIO TPHY KGHG KHIV
10STATE12095GULF REGION COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE 2010 UPDATE
[...] This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. SUMMARY. Reftel announced a by-invitation-only Gulf Region Communications Conference (GRCC) in Amman, Jordan, 21-23 February 2010, co-hosted by United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) and the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF). Reftel requested pos [...]
2010-02-05 18:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ECPS EINT MARR MCAP PREL XF
10STATE2607INSTRUCTION FOR USUN TO REQUEST UN 1267 LISTING
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. SUMMARY: The U.S. prenotified (ref A) its intention to request on December 18, 2009, that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee add the names of Yemen-based al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and two of its leaders, Nasir al-Wah [...]
2010-01-12 00:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KN KS KTFN PREL PTER SA YM UNSC
10TAIPEI178 Taiwan IPR: 2010 301 Watch List Submission
[...] (SBU) The Taiwan authorities continued to strengthen intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement over the past 12 months. The specialized IP Court, which began accepting cases in July 2008, adjudicated 1007 cases in 2009. The Legislative Yuan (LY) passed ISP-related amendments to the Copyri [...]
2010-02-22 10:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR TW
10TOKYO251TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - U.S-CHINA RELATIONS,
[...] LEAD STORIES: There were no papers on Monday morning because of a press holiday. Top stories covered by broadcasters included reports on Japan Airlines' intention to maintain its alliance with American Airlines. 2. "Chinese Wary about Criticism of Beijing as Weak- Kneed" On China's strong [...]
2010-02-08 06:21:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO JA
10TOKYO262TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - G-7 AND UKRAINE
[...] LEAD STORIES: Top stories on Tuesday morning included Prime Minister Hatoyama's meeting with DPJ Secretary General Ozawa on Monday, during which the premier reportedly approved Ozawa's decision to remain in his post. 2. "Role of G-7 to Remain Important" The moderate Yomiuri editorialized ( [...]
2010-02-09 04:39:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO JA
10TOKYO286 JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/12/10
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-12 07:57:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
10TUNIS104TUNISIA: COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES MINISTER
[...] (SBU) In a February 5 courtesy call by the Ambassador, Minister of Communication Technologies Mohamed Naceur Ammar explained the central role of information and communications technology (ICT) in Tunisia's development strategy. The Minister made a pitch for greater U.S. investment in Tunisia' [...]
2010-02-09 16:13:00Embassy TunisCONFIDENTIALECPS PREL PINR TS
10TUNIS152TUNISIA-CHINA RELATIONS MODEST, BUT TRADE TIES
[...] (C) Chinese engagement in Tunisia is broad but not deep. Chinese assistance to Tunisia includes infrastructure projects and some training grants. The commercial relationship is growing but is not yet large. The last high level meeting we know of took place in November, 2009 when Zhai Jun, C [...]
2010-02-25 15:54:00Embassy TunisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ETRD MASS TS CN
10TUNIS37TUNISIA: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 17:44:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD OPIC KTDB USTR TS
10TUNIS51REVISED TUNISIA: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-22 13:14:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD OPIC KTDB USTR TS
10WARSAW65POLISH MFA ON UKRAINIAN ELECTION: MIXED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A Polish MFA official assessed the first round of Ukraine's presidential election as a "stunning success," but emphasized that Tymoshenko and Yanukovych must still be pressed to "respect the democratic process" in the second round. She also criticized Ukrainian President Yushchenk [...]
2010-02-01 07:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PL PREL UP
10WINDHOEK21Namibia: Still Bullish on Fishing
[...] (SBU) Fishing is one of Namibia's top industries, contributing between three and seven percent of GDP since 1990, and about 20 percent of export earnings. The fishing industry is trying to diversify both its markets and its products. The Namibian government (GRN) has been largely successful i [...]
2010-02-04 15:44:00Embassy WindhoekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON FWS NMFS WA
10YEREVAN38ARMENIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2010
[...] Following is Embassy Yerevan's submission per ref A request for the 2010 Investment Climate Statement for Armenia. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- 2. While the Armenian government (GOAM) officially welcomes foreign investment and the country has received respectable rankings on some gl [...]
2010-01-26 06:53:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR AM
10YEREVAN52COMPETITION LIFTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR, BUT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-02 11:00:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINT EAID AM
10YEREVAN73NEW TELECOM ENTRANT IN ARMENIA BRINGS FIBER TO THE
[...] (C) The development of Armenia's information, communications and technology (ICT) sector promises another advancement with the introduction of "triple play" service and fiber to the home. U-Com, a new entrant in the Armenian ICT sector, plans to launch this convergent service. Customer trials [...]
2010-02-11 07:49:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALECON EINT EINV AM TU
88TUNIS5278 RAMADAN IN TUNISIA: OBSERVANCE AND
[...] C O N F I D E N T I A L -- ENTIRE TEXT. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. IN ITS FIRST RAMADAN SINCE COMING TO POWER LAST FALL, THE NEW GOVERNMENT HAS BROKEN WITH THE SECULARISM OF THE PREVIOUS REGIME AND ACTIVELY PROMOTED RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES. IN DOING SO, HOWEVER, IT HAS ENCOURAGED TOLERA [...]
1988-05-19 13:17:00Embassy TunisCONFIDENTIALPGOV TS
89BANDARSERIBEGAWAN1285THE SULTAN'S NAME
[...] (LOU) EMBASSY HAS NOTED THAT IN A NUMBER OF RECENT FORMAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE DEPARTMENT TO THE SULTAN, INCLUDING THE AMBASSADOR'S CREDENTIALS, HIS NAME HAS BEEN SHORTENED IN A FASHION WHICH, IN BRUNEI, WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTABLE. THE MOST ABBREVIATED FORM OF THE SULTAN'S NAME WHICH IS ACCE [...]
1989-12-18 06:41:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL BX
96BANJUL2256CHAIRMAN JAMMEH RETIRES FROM THE ARMY -
[...] No summary [...]
1996-09-13 13:35:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV GA
97ALGIERS734 ALGERIA'S HAMAS PARTY: A WINNING ORGANIZATION?
[...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR RONALD NEUMANN, AMEMBASSY ALGIERS, REASON 1.5 D. 2. (C) SUMMARY: IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, THE FOCUS IN ISLAMIST POLITICS HERE HAS SHIFTED TO THE LEGAL ISLAMIC PARTY HAMAS (N0 RELATION TO PALESTINIAN HAMAS) AWAY FROM THE BANNED ISLAMIC SALVATI0N FRONT (FIS). [...]
1997-02-25 12:57:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL AG
97HAVANA4970 CASTRO: STILL NOT DEAD AND LOVING IT
[...] (C) IN AN EFFORT TO DEFINITIVELY LAY TO REST RECENT RUMORS ABOUT THE DEATH OF FIDEL CASTRO, USINT OFFERS SOME ITEMS THAT MAY HELP DISPEL THE ALLEGATIONS. CONG. CAMPBELL: FIDEL CASTRO APPEARED FIT ------------------------------------------ 2. (C) FIDEL CASTRO WAS PRESENT FOR SOME TW [...]
1997-08-29 21:17:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CU
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