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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD 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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 06AMMAN7306 | MEDIA REACTION ON LEBANON, PALESTINIAN GOVERNANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-24 10:27:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR JO |
| 06AMMAN8312 | MEDIA REACTION ON SADDAM TRIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-07 13:42:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR JO |
| 06AMMAN8409 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION ON U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-14 08:44:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR JO |
| 06AMMAN873 | POST'S NOMINATIONS FOR THE "FY-06 MIDDLE EAST [...] THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS SECTION NOMINATES FIVE PRINCIPALS AND ONE ALTERNATE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT FOR SUBJECT PROGRAM. 2. THE CANDIDATES ARE MEMBERS OF THE KING ABDULLAH II FUND FOR DEVELOPMENT (KAFD). THE FUND WAS INITIATED BY HIS MAJESTY KING ABDULLAH II. IT AIMS TO COME UP WITH A MECHANIS [...] | 2006-02-07 10:42:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL JO |
| 06AMMAN8749 | Jordanian Cabinet Following the November 22 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-07 06:08:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON JO |
| 06AMMAN8754 | JORDANIAN CABINET FOLLOWING THE NOVEMBER 22 RESHUFFLE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-07 07:13:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON JO |
| 06AMMAN888 | MEDIA REACTION ON PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS AND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-07 14:20:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR JO |
| 06ANKARA1330 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-13 15:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 06ANKARA2100 | TURKISH TV AIRS FILM DEPICTING ARMENIAN "GENOCIDE" [...] A Turkish cable TV channel on April 13 broadcast, for the first time in Turkey, the 2002 movie "Ararat," a film by Canadian-Armenian director Atom Egoyan that promotes the idea that the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 constituted genocide. The ultra-nationalist station Kana [...] | 2006-04-17 14:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA2153 | TURKEY WORRIED ABOUT PKK'S SMUGGLING ARMS FROM IRAQ [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 7. 2. (S) Summary: MFA requests the USG investigate the loss of 617 handguns that were intended for Iraqi government use and that ended up in criminals' hands in Turkey. Two people have been killed with these weapons, including the Italian priest [...] | 2006-04-19 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PTER TU |
| 06ANKARA2596 | ACCUSATIONS OF GOT MEDDLING IN JUDICIARY RING [...] (U) Summary: Judicial officials and opposition politicians often accuse Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of stocking the judiciary with judges and prosecutors who share the party's Islam-oriented views. Most contacts, however, say the accusations are alarmist. They note tha [...] | 2006-05-09 14:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA2662 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-11 14:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 06ANKARA2667 | TURKISH COURT ACQUITS PROFESSORS ON SPEECH CHARGES [...] (U) An Ankara court on May 10 acquitted professors Baskin Oran and Ibrahim Kaboglu on charges of "inciting hatred and animosity" in a 2004 report on minorities in Turkey (reftel). The prosecutor at the May 10 hearing, the trial's third session, surprised the defense by stating that no crime ha [...] | 2006-05-11 15:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA3324 | TURKEY AND IRAQ FINALLY MEET ON REGIONAL WATER [...] (sbu) Summary: Tigris-Euphrates river flows and irrigation issues were the main subjects at an historic May 24 meeting in Ankara between Turkish and Iraqi water experts. Topics included use of "closed system" irrigation in Turkey and restoration efforts for the marshlands in Iraq. The Turki [...] | 2006-06-07 12:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENGR SENV EAGR TU IZ |
| 06ANKARA4448 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-02 14:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 06ANKARA5436 | TURKEY-CYPRUS-EU - EUR DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a 75-minute meeting with EUR DAS Matt Bryza September 11, Turkish MFA D/US (U/S equivalent) and GOT Cyprus pointman Ertugrul Apakan animatedly described the latest state of play from Ankara's point of view. Apakan stressed Turkey's preference for a comprehensive, UN-based sett [...] | 2006-09-18 13:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU CY UN EU |
| 06ANKARA5437 | EMBASSY ANKARA'S DELIVERY OF 2006 INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) On Saturday, September 16, Embassy Ankara's Human Rights Officer gave an oral summary of the 2006 International Religious Freedom (IRF) Report to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Human Rights Department Head Hasan Ulusoy. We delivered a hard copy to Ulusoy on Monday, September 18. Ulusoy expr [...] | 2006-09-18 14:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KIRF KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL OPRC TU |
| 06ANKARA5698 | 56 KURDISH MAYORS ON TRIAL FOR SUPPORTING ROJTV [...] (C) Summary: The trial of 56 popularly-elected Kurdish mayors in Diyarbakir began contentiously on September 26 but has been recessed until November 21. The mayors face up to 15 years of imprisonment each for allegedly supporting terrorism by signing a letter to Danish Prime Minister Rasmuss [...] | 2006-09-29 13:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA5734 | TURKEY'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY SMARTING FROM INCREASED [...] (SBU) Summary: While overall Turkish exports of textiles and apparel continue to increase slightly (3 percent to date in 2006 and 7.25 percent in 2005),government and industry officials present a bleak picture of the sectors' future. Most notably, Turkish exports to the U.S. fell by 23 perce [...] | 2006-10-02 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND KTEX ECON TU |
| 06ANKARA5817 | TURKEY AND GMF - SEEKING WIDER BLACK SEA WESTERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 10-11 in Ankara, The German Marshall Fund (GMF) organized a workshop on "Developing a Western Strategy towards the Wider Black Sea Region", attended by EUR DAS Matt Bryza. Participants sought to strike common ground and called for greater cooperation on security, [...] | 2006-10-05 13:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EPET MARR PREL NATO TU RS XH ZJ |
| 06ANKARA5976 | TURKS LOOKING FOR A WAY TO GET TO "YES" ON FINNS' [...] (C) Summary. The GOT understands that it must put its best foot forward with respect to the Finnish package proposal on Cyprus, MFA D/US Apakan told Ambassador and EUR/SE director Silliman October 12. The Turks are asking for more precision on questions such as what constitutes direct trade [...] | 2006-10-17 13:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU CY EU |
| 06ANKARA6294 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-06 13:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 06ANKARA6343 | FIERY RHETORIC OVERSHADOWS LOW TURNOUT AT HUMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-07 13:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 06ANKARA6730 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-22 12:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 06ANKARA68 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-05 15:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 06ANKARA703 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-15 15:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 06ANKARA786 | TURKISH PROFESSORS STAND TRIAL FOR REPORT ON [...] (C) Summary: Trial proceedings began February 15 in the case against two Turkish professors accused of inciting hatred and denigrating "Turkish identity" in a 2004 report on minorities. The report states that non-Muslims in Turkey have second-class status and calls on the state to recognize t [...] | 2006-02-17 15:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU |
| 06ANTANANARIVO569 | SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION IN COMOROS [...] (U) This cable is the first of a three-part cable; it describes the inauguration of Union of the Comoros President Sambi, attended by the U.S. Presidential Delegation. The second cable describes the Delegation's meetings with and assessment of the new government. The third cable provides su [...] | 2006-05-31 13:41:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM OVIP ECON CN |
| 06ASHGABAT1015 | U.S., UK, FRANCE AND OSCE UNITE BEHIND FREEDOM OF [...] (C) The U.S., United Kingdom, French and OSCE missions in Ashgabat have agreed to send Turkmenistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) individual diplomatic notes protesting a freedom of movement case in which the complainants, acting under the advice of the OSCE, have recently exhausted all [...] | 2006-09-29 13:00:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV TX |
| 06ASHGABAT1093 | PRESIDENT NIYAZOV BACKS AWAY FROM FORMAL DIVERT [...] (C) During a two-hour meeting October 18 with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) James MacDougall and NSC Director David Merkel, Turkmenistan's President Niyazov said that he was not prepared to sign a formal divert agreement allowing U.S. planes to make emergency landings at Mary I [...] | 2006-10-20 03:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR TX |
| 06ASHGABAT1142 | NIYAZOV'S GRIM FAIRY TALE - TURKMENISTAN AFTER 15 [...] (C) Amidst the fake joy and practiced pageantry that constituted Turkmenistan's celebration of its 15th year of independence, there was palpable fear and resignation throughout Ashgabat. Teachers took children out of school for two months preceding the events to rehearse for the stadium even [...] | 2006-11-03 13:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TX EPET |
| 06ASHGABAT1192 | TURKMENISTAN: A COMPETENT BUREAUCRAT REMAINS [...] (C) Newly appointed hakim (governor) of the oil-rich province Balkan Welayat, Orazmyrat Niyazlyev, impressed Charge with his competence, experience and confidence two weeks into his tenure. Although he has a background in the oil and gas industry, his foci for the future of Balkan is an exte [...] | 2006-11-17 07:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL TX |
| 06ASHGABAT1194 | A HORRIBLE HALLOWEEN AT THE TURKMENABAT AMERICAN CORNER [...] (U) Post received its second protest dipnote on November 13, part of a series of complaints from the host government about a children's Halloween party that the American Corner attempted to host in the city of Turkmenabat on October 30. While successful Halloween events took place at other Am [...] | 2006-11-17 11:01:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO SCUL SOCI TU TX |
| 06ASHGABAT1195 | OCTOBER TURKMENISTAN MEDIA COVERAGE POSITIVE AND ACCURATE [...] (U) State media coverage of mission events in October featured President George Bush's congratulatory messages on occasions of Oraza Bayram and Turkmenistan's Independence Day. However, BBC Monitoring Central Asia newswire mistranslated key parts of President Bush's message back into English. [...] | 2006-11-21 04:17:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV TX |
| 06ASHGABAT1220 | TURKMENISTAN'S UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS AN EXERCISE IN [...] (U) Since 1991 the number of students studying at higher educational institutions of Turkmenistan has decreased dramatically. In line with a 2006 presidential decree, only 3,175 students were accepted to Turkmenistan's universities for the session beginning September 2006, in comparison with a [...] | 2006-11-29 13:06:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO SCUL SOCI TU TX |
| 06ASHGABAT1222 | Niyazov Makes Massive Purges over Agriculture Fiasco; [...] (SBU) Turkmenistan's President Niyazov on November 27, conducted a massive purge of high-ranking officials, rivaling, if not surpassing, the oil and gas purge of December 2005 (ref a). Responding to allegations by Minister of Agriculture Esenmyrat Orazgeldiyev during an October 25 meeting (ref [...] | 2006-11-30 13:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM TX |
| 06ASHGABAT1285 | GOVERNMENT OF TURKMENISTAN'S FLEX OBSTRUCTION MORE [...] (U) This year Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) recruitment has encountered an unprecedented level of interference and disinformation from the Ministry of Education (MOE),despite official approval of the program and host government rhetoric that the problems will be resolved. As in past years, [...] | 2006-12-19 12:55:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL TX US |
| 06ASHGABAT1303 | DEATH OF NIYAZOV SITREP 004: 12/26/2006 [...] (C) Interim President Berdimuhammedov, for all intents and purposes, was elected president at the December 26 session of the People's Council. The actual election is February 11, but his competition of five low-level unknown bureaucrats is a joke, and Berdimuhammedov had to "fight back" the [...] | 2006-12-26 15:04:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TX US |
| 06ASHGABAT1313 | DEATH OF NIYAZOV SITREP 005: 12/27/2006 [...] (C) Turkmenistan remains calm. Peace Corps volunteers are returning to their assigned cities, and government institutions are continuing to function, albeit in some chaos. Charge met today with the head of the Americas section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss next steps, includ [...] | 2006-12-27 14:26:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | SECRET | PGOV PREL ASEC CASC TX |
| 06ASHGABAT1322 | NEW GOVERNMENT OF TURKMENISTAN REBUKES RUSSIA FOR [...] (U) Turkmenistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs on December 28 publicly denounced the Russian media for assertions that the recently announced February 11 election was a farce and that state services have broken down because of a power vacuum following Niyazov's death. Local media continues to [...] | 2006-12-29 13:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX |
| 06ASHGABAT138 | NIYAZOV ESTABLISHES NEW RESHUFFLE RECORD [...] (SBU) President Niyazov announced 23 new appointments and 18 dismissals in the course of three meetings on January 25. Former presidential favorite Aganiyaz Akyev was relieved as Chief of the Presidential Apparatus and appointed the new hakim (governor) of Dashoguz Welayat (province). Chie [...] | 2006-01-27 11:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON PINR EPET TX |
| 06ASHGABAT171 | NIYAZOV FORMALIZES DOWNGRADING OF THEORETICAL [...] (SBU) Upon his return from a rare trip to Moscow, Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov convened meetings in which he reshuffled the heads of major Turkmen educational institutions, appointed a new Minister of Education with little relevant experience, and issued pronouncements that threaten t [...] | 2006-02-03 10:22:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL PGOV SOCI PHUM EAGR ELAB KPAO TX |
| 06ASHGABAT209 | MESSAGE TO NIYAZOV ON TURKMEN GAS [...] ( SBU) Unfortunately, the reftel talking points arrived after Miller and his delegation did. It seemed unlikely we would be able to approach President Niyazov, who was fully engaged in opening ceremonies/speeches connected with the upcoming holiday. After the speech he delivered at the new [...] | 2006-02-17 07:47:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL RS TX UP |
| 06ASHGABAT308 | "BULLDOZER" HAKIM USES TEACHERS TO BEAUTIFY [...] (SBU) Appointed on July 8, 2005, Ashgabat Hakim (mayor) Orazmyrat Esenov has been conducting a series of city beautification projects, including the elimination of residential garages and private vegetable gardens. From March 4 until the Nowruz National Spring Holiday, March 20-22, teachers [...] | 2006-03-22 11:46:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON PINR EPET TX |
| 06ASHGABAT359 | OSCE CiO STANDS FIRM ON HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA [...] (SBU) Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel De Gucht, visited Turkmenistan on March 29. Ashgabat OSCE Center Human Dimensions Officer Benjamin Moreau told Pol/Econ Off on March 31 that De Gucht emphasized to both Pre [...] | 2006-04-06 12:31:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR TX |
| 06ASHGABAT532 | UKRAINE'S INTERBUDMONTAZH OPERATIONS IN [...] (SBU) GENERAL DIRECTOR OF UKRAINIAN COMPANY INTERBUDMONTAZH VADIM SULIM TOLD POL/ECON OFF ON MAY 11 THAT THE COMPANY HAD NO PART IN THE TURKMENISTAN-UKRAINE BARTER FOR GAS AGREEMENTS AND WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR, DESPITE MULTIPLE PRESS REPORTS TO THE CONTRARY. INTERBUDMONTAZH [...] | 2006-05-19 03:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EPET UP TX |
| 06ASHGABAT608 | TURKMENISTAN BURNS 1.7 TONS OF NARCOTICS [...] (SBU) On May 28, for the third time in a year, Turkmenistan invited personnel from diplomatic missions to observe the destruction of seized narcotics. For the first time, ambassadors and local and foreign media were also invited to attend the destruction. While claiming that it is not a tran [...] | 2006-06-09 12:02:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PINR PGOV PBTS TX |
| 06ASHGABAT652 | TURKMENISTAN IMPLICATES FRENCH EMBASSY, OSCE [...] (C) On June 19, Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov told Ambassador that French Charge Henri Tomasini was implicated in a scheme to foment political unrest in Turkmenistan. Meredov unveiled a complicated story involving a Turkmenistani dissident, foreign journalists, spy gear, &color8 revolutio [...] | 2006-06-20 12:56:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TX FR UK |
| 06ASHGABAT682 | AVIAN FLU: TURKMENISTAN SEEMINGLY ACTIVE ON AI [...] (U) DEPUTY HEALTH MINISTER ANNAMURAD ORAZOV, DEPUTY HEAD OF STATE VETERINARY SERVICE HUDAIBERDY MUHAMMEDOV AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE OF DESERTS UNDER THE MINISTRY OF NATURE PROTECTION REPRESENTED THE GOVERNMENT OF TURKMENISTAN AT THE JUNE 12-13 INTERNATIONAL AVIAN INFLUENZA CONFERE [...] | 2006-06-28 11:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV KFLU TX |
| 06ASHGABAT862 | LT GENERAL EIKENBERRY VISIT TO TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) Commander, CFC-A met with Minister of Defense, Chief of the State Border Service and Chief of State Civil Aviation Service. The Minister of Defense and Chief of the State Border Service provided a short summary of Turkmenistan support for Afghanistan and questioned why, after five years, [...] | 2006-08-11 09:13:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TX |
| 06ASMARA1015 | SAMARITAN'S PURSE,S DRIVERS ARRESTED AND VEHICLES [...] (U) Summary. On November 20, Samaritan's Purse (SP) attempted to transfer eight vehicles, including two trucks, to the Beja Relief Organization (BRO) in Telkuk in Eastern Sudan. During the transport, the police forced the drivers to return to Asmara. In Asmara, the drivers and the local sup [...] | 2006-11-30 12:40:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV EAID ER SU |
| 06ASMARA516 | Dire Economic Conditions Compel GSE to Court [...] (C) Summary: After two weeks of consultation, the IMF mission team presented a hopeful image for the future as GSE officials offered assurance of GSE interest and commitment to a staff monitored program(SMP) as the first step toward HIPC support for Eritrea. GSE interest is, of course, temper [...] | 2006-06-15 14:36:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN PREL ER |
| 06ASTANA22 | PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV CONVENES DEMOCRATIZATION COMMISSION [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 24, President Nazarbayev chaired the first meeting of the Democratization Commission in Astana. All registered political parties were invited to send representatives, except the recently-registered opposition party True Ak Zhol. Most opposition representatives did not atte [...] | 2006-03-29 12:52:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PGOV KZ ZK |
| 06ASTANA27 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIZATION COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 30, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call on State Secretary Oralbay Abdykarimov, who was recently named to run the new Democratization Commission ("the Commission") as deputy to President Nazarbayev. Abdykarimov, who will undertake the day-to-day operations of the commis [...] | 2006-04-11 09:33:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE PINR KZ |
| 06ASTANA927 | KAZAKHSTAN: SALE OF NATIONS ENERGY -- TO BE OR NOT TO BE? [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-26 09:07:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND ENRG EPET KZ |
| 06ATHENS1648 | AMNESTY INT'L PROTEST OVER DETAINEES TURNS INTO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Two representatives from Amnesty International Greece (AI) met with poloffs June 26 to deliver 1000 petitions addressed to President Bush which call for the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. After poloff delivered reftel talking points in response to criticisms [...] | 2006-06-27 13:27:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KPAO GR HRIGHTS |
| 06ATHENS1805 | HOW TO READ THE GREEK PRESS: A GUIDE FOR THE UNINITIATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At first glance, the Greek media may resemble the media in the U.S., with a mixture of broadsheets and tabloids, national and local television and radio stations, and constitutional guarantees guarding the freedom of the press. Closer inspection reveals a Greek media industry [...] | 2006-07-13 06:50:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO KMDR PREL OIIP OPRC GR |
| 06BAGHDAD1285 | IRAQ PRTS ASSESS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS - MAR 2006 [...] (U) INTRODUCTION. The Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Iraq report monthly the ability of the provincial level government to function effectively and the obstacles that prevent full self-governance. The PRTs assess provincial governments in the areas of governance, economic developme [...] | 2006-04-20 08:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON MOPS PREL IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD1918 | IRAQ PRTS ASSESS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS - APR 2006 [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION. The Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Iraq report monthly the ability of the provincial level government to function effectively and the obstacles that prevent full self- governance. The PRTs assess provincial governments in the areas of governance, economic deve [...] | 2006-06-07 10:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS PREL IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD2293 | AL-HILLAH 6/26/06 EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) NOTE: Due to technical problems at REO Al-Hillah, Embassy Baghdad is transmitting this cable. END NOTE. 2. (SBU) The Regional Coordinator (RC) convened the Core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on June 26 to discuss threat information related to REO Al-Hillah. In attendance were the [...] | 2006-06-30 13:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC AMER PTER IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD3045 | REPLACEMENT COR MEMBERS UPDATE: 15 OF 18 MEMBERS [...] (C) Using the flexibility granted by the Replacement Members Law, the political blocs have almost completed naming new Council of Representatives (CoR) members. Of the 18 members (all male) who resigned, 15 replacement members have been named and 14 sworn in. Of these fifteen, 6 are female, [...] | 2006-08-21 17:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD3224 | SPEAKER NOT OUT OF THE WOODS; REPORTEDLY CEDES [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Speaker of the Council of Representatives Mahmoud Al-Mashadani has reportedly ceded some of his authorities to Deputy Speaker Khalid Al-Attiyah as part of an agreement to try to preserve his position. While press speculation that he may be removed as Speaker has largely disap [...] | 2006-09-01 12:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD3545 | IRAQI OFFICIAL BETRAYS U.S. CONFIDENCE TO IRAN [...] (S/NOFORN) SUMMARY: It appears that Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials may be passing to Baghdad-based Iranian interlocutors' detailed and largely accurate accounts of conversations between U.S. diplomats and Iraqi Government officials. However, ORA cautions that insufficient evidenc [...] | 2006-09-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM PINS PREL IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD4055 | PRT ERBIL: DEPUTY KNA SPEAKER KAMAL KIRKUKI ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Kamal Kirkuki, Deputy Speaker of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) and member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) told Erbil IPAO at his office October 18 that KRG control of Kirkuk is essential fo [...] | 2006-10-30 06:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD4184 | SADDAM VERDICT AND APPELLATE TIMEFRAME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Saddam Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death in the Iraqi High Tribunal ("IHT"). Of the remaining seven defendants, 2 others received death sentences, one received a sentence of life imprisonment, three received sentences of 15 years impriso [...] | 2006-11-08 16:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD455 | COMMITTEE TO ADDRESS SUNNI HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS ? [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 7 Deputy Prime Minister Abid Mutlaq Hamud al-Jabburi told us that Prime Minister Jafari had given him oral instructions to form an investigative committee to address human rights issues and complaints lodged against the Iraqi security forces. The Prime Minister refe [...] | 2006-02-14 15:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD4654 | THE SECURITY SITUATION IN ANBAR: A YEAR-END REVIEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (S) Summary. The security situation in Anbar is typically described as "deteriorating," and there is little doubt that the enemy is deeply rooted here and ruthlessly pursues its goals. However, AQI is on the defensive. The organization may hav [...] | 2006-12-21 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS ASEC PHUM KDEM PINR IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD792 | IRAQ PRTS ASSESS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS - JAN [...] (U) INTRODUCTION. Each Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Iraq reports monthly the status of the provincial level government's ability to function effectively and the obstacles that prevent full self- governance. The PRTs assess provincial governments in the three areas (pillars) of gove [...] | 2006-03-12 14:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON MOPS PREL IZ |
| 06BAGHDAD797 | IRAQ PRTS ASSESS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS - FEB 2006 [...] (U) INTRODUCTION. The Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Iraq report monthly the ability of the provincial level government to function effectively and the obstacles that prevent full self-governance. The PRTs assess provincial governments in the areas of governance, economic developme [...] | 2006-03-13 03:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON MOPS PREL IZ |
| 06BAKU309 | AZERBAIJAN 2006 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (U) As per reftel, paragraph 3 below begins Embassy Baku's submission on status of action the GOAJ has taken on combating human trafficking. Answers are keyed to questions in reftel. 2. (SBU) In preparing this report, Post has undertaken extensive contacts with international organizations, [...] | 2006-02-28 08:52:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PREF PGOV PHUM KFRD ASEC ELAB |
| 06BAKU478 | AZERBAIJAN MAKING SOLID PROGRESS ON TIP COMMITMENTS [...] (SBU) The GOAJ has made substantial progress in the past several months to meet its trafficking in persons (TIP) commitments outlined in the USG's annual trafficking in persons report. In the two months since PolOff last visited the site of the victims' shelter, the GOAJ has transformed a bui [...] | 2006-03-29 09:36:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG EAID PGOV PREL AJ |
| 06BAKU701 | AZERBAIJAN'S RERUN ELECTIONS: CAMPAIGN QUIET, [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a May 10 briefing, ODIHR Election Observation Head of Mission Geert Aherns reported that the campaign period for ten parliamentary rerun elections to be held on May 13 appeared to be proceeding fairly well, in comparison with the November election. ODIHR,s assessment corre [...] | 2006-05-11 11:17:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV PREL AJ |
| 06BANGKOK115 | THAI TELECOM SECTOR REFORM: NTC ISSUES LICENSES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Thailand,s telecom sector has long been defined by the co-existence of its state owned enterprises TOT and CAT, and several private companies doing business under concessions granted by the state owned enterprises (SOEs). While the concessions brought competition into the Thai [...] | 2006-01-06 12:56:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECPS EINV ECON TH |
| 06BANGKOK1546 | DELPHIC ORACLES AND BLACK MAGIC - THAILAND UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: All TV stations, at the request of the Palace, ran film of the King's May 1992 meeting with General Suchinda and protest leader Chamlong, in which the King called on them to avoid confrontation and find a peaceful solution. In the wake of the Sunday evening broadcast, there have [...] | 2006-03-14 00:01:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC TH TRT |
| 06BANGKOK1970 | UNHCR DEPUTY HIGH COMMISSIONER MEETING WITH THAI [...] (C) Visiting UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Wendy Chamberlin briefed Ambassador on her March 31 meeting with Thai National Security Council chief General Winai Phattiyakul and MFA Permsec Krit Ganjana-Goonchorn regarding the missing Hmong minors. Following up on her March 29 meetings with Lao [...] | 2006-04-03 09:45:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PREF KCRM TH LA |
| 06BANGKOK2047 | AND NOW THE REAL FUN BEGINS - THAILAND POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Thaksin's decision to step down as Prime Minister is a major step toward resolving the current political crisis, but a host of technical obstacles still remain. These issues revolve primarily around the ability to seat a new House of Representatives. With Thaksin's departure, o [...] | 2006-04-05 11:49:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH |
| 06BANGKOK3180 | DAS ERIC JOHN MEETS THAKSIN,S ORACLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 22, EAP/DAS Eric John and the Ambassador visited caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin,s chief political advisor, Pansak Vinyaratn. Pansak railed against the Thai courts for their decision to annul the April elections. Pansak suggested that it was time for the USG to make a p [...] | 2006-05-26 01:51:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH |
| 06BANGKOK3202 | THAILAND IN 2006 - POLITICS AND THE SOUTH [...] (C) Summary: Political uncertainty will be the theme the rest of this year in Thailand as Thaksin and his political opponents gird for renewed conflict. US-Thai FTA negotiations can be expected to languish during this period. If the political instability becomes protracted a decline in fore [...] | 2006-05-26 06:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER TH |
| 06BANGKOK5263 | FOLLOW-UP ON ILC ELECTION DEMARCHE - THAI REACTION [...] (SBU) On August 29, 2006, post followed up on reftel B demarche with Ms. Oracha Tanakorn, Legal Officer at the Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs, Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Oracha explained that a committee consisting of representatives from each of the involved departm [...] | 2006-08-29 03:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA TH |
| 06BANGKOK538 | THAILAND'S DEAL OF THE CENTURY: TEMASEK BUYS OUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 23, 2006, Singapore,s Temasek Holdings announced the largest corporate takeover in Thailand,s history: the 73.3 billion baht (USD 3 billion) purchase of the 49.6 percent stake in Thailand,s Shin Corp Plc (Shin) held by members of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra,s f [...] | 2006-01-27 10:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECPS EINV ECON SN TH |
| 06BANGKOK7146 | ORANGUTAN ODYSSEYS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA [...] Summary: A new wildlife anti-trafficking law enforcement network, the ASEAN-Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN) established by ASEAN member countries in December 2005 shows that governments in Southeast Asia are beginning to pay more attention to the multi-billion dollar illegal wildlife [...] | 2006-11-29 07:19:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV AORC PREL XC |
| 06BANJUL612 | THE GAMBIA: DEMARCHE ON UNSC RACE [...] (C) Ambassador made ref a demarche October 2 to Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary William Joof (Deputy Formin equivalent),stressing that Venezuelan President Chavez's UNGA speech further demonstrated that Venezuela's election to the UNSC would seriously undercut its ability to address world [...] | 2006-10-02 15:29:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC GT VE GA |
| 06BASRAH123 | EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE- REO BASRAH 07/23/06 [...] (C) The Deputy Regional Coordinator (DRC) chaired a session of the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on July 23 to discuss the continued threat of sustained indirect fire (IDF) attacks and the lack of adequate hardened protection for all of the 419 personnel on the Regional Embassy Office (REO) [...] | 2006-07-24 10:12:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC AMGT PTER IZ |
| 06BASRAH126 | EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE - REO BASRAH 07/27/06 [...] (C) The Deputy Regional Coordinator (DRC) chaired a session of the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on July 27 to discuss plans to manage the continued threat of sustained indirect fire (IDF) attacks with the reduced number of personnel on the Regional Embassy Compound. Attending the meeting [...] | 2006-07-28 11:50:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC AMGT PTER IZ |
| 06BASRAH165 | REO BASRAH EAC MEETING ON 10/20/2006 [...] (C) The Regional Coordinator (RC) chaired a meeting of the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on October 20, 2006, to discuss moving to a minimized staffing level due to the severe IDF threat against the Regional Embassy Office (REO) and the general security situation. Attending the meeting wer [...] | 2006-10-21 15:51:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER AMGT IZ |
| 06BASRAH67 | BASRAH EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING 05/01/06 [...] (SBU) The Regional Coordinator for Regional Embassy Office Basrah (REO) chaired a meeting of the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on May 1 to discuss the security situation in Basrah. The Deputy Regional Coordinator, RSO, ORA, CPATT, Triple Canopy, POL/ECON Section, USAID, SCID and KBR manage [...] | 2006-05-05 12:00:00 | REO Basrah | SECRET | ASEC PTER IZ |
| 06BEIJING10507 | CULTURAL REVOLUTION REMEMBERED BY SOME, FORGOTTEN [...] (C) Chinese authorities are treading carefully around sensitive anniversaries this month related to the launch of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. The Propaganda Department has restricted media commemorations or commentary. Security officials have prevented some survivors of the tumult from [...] | 2006-05-26 12:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING22299 | CENTRAL CHINA EXPO 2006: RHETORIC BUT FEW RESULTS [...] (C) Central China Expo 2006, held in Changsha, Hunan Province in late September, officially launched the Central Government's Central China Rising initiative to balance geographical development by bolstering economic prospects in the region's six provinces. Although the Expo had high-level su [...] | 2006-10-20 08:32:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV ENRG CH HK |
| 06BEIJING24267 | NEW DOG RULES UNLEASH EMOTIONAL DEBATE IN BEIJING [...] (C) Debate about Beijing's new rules limiting households to one dog and outlawing "big and dangerous" breeds is raging as 2006, the Year of the Dog in the Chinese zodiac calendar, draws to a close. The crackdown on canines has touched off unusual demonstrations on the streets of the capital a [...] | 2006-12-04 09:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING5967 | JCCT: COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) On March 28, 2006 Vice Premier Wu Yi and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez met to discuss the seventeenth SIPDIS meeting of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) scheduled for April 11, 2006. While press representatives remained in the room, VP Wu Yi asked the Secretary wh [...] | 2006-03-30 10:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD KIPR BEXP EFIN PREL CH |
| 06BEIJING9041 | PACOM ADMIRAL FALLON'S DISCUSSION WITH CENTRAL [...] (C) During an extended discussion, Central Military Commission Vice Chairman and Defense Minister General Cao Gangchuan told PACOM Commander Admiral Fallon that the PLA sought more military exchanges with the United States; discussed the PLA's strategy and budget priorities; and repeated fami [...] | 2006-05-15 06:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS MOPS CH TN KN JP |
| 06BEIRUT1240 | MGLE01: SENATOR DODD'S APRIL 19 LUNCH WITH [...] (C) Senator Dodd's April 19 luncheon with Lebanese MPs Nayla Mouawad, Boutros Harb, and Jawad Boulos was dominated by a discussion of General Michel Aoun and his alliance with Hizballah. Mouawad and Harb characterized their rival for the presidency, Aoun, as a "Syrian agent" willing to sacri [...] | 2006-04-20 15:23:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV OREP SY LE |
| 06BEIRUT1495 | MGLE01: SPEAKER BERRI ON LABOR DEMONSTRATIONS, [...] (C) In a 5/11 meeting with the Ambassador, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri downplayed the importance of the 5/10 demonstrations led by Hizballah, Amal, and Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement (reftel). While Aoun may hope to topple the cabinet, Berri claimed credit for limiting Hizballah an [...] | 2006-05-11 14:57:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ELAB LE SY |
| 06BEIRUT1507 | MGLE01: TWO "MARCH 14" MINISTERS AND ONE AOUN MP [...] (C) Two of Prime Minister Siniora's "March 14" cabinet ministers criticized Hizballah's support for a anti-government demonstration on May 10, pointing at the incongruity of Hizballah supporting an effort to bring down a cabinet in which it participates. They were considerably more forgiving [...] | 2006-05-12 14:12:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ELAB KISL ASEC LE |
| 06BEIRUT1547 | MGLE01: KINDER, GENTLER SALLOUKH SEES FULL [...] (C) Summary: IO A/S Silverberg, Ambassador and emboff met with Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh on May 15 in the first official meeting of A/S Silverberg's Beirut schedule. During the QQ:R$o1QQ~impression that Prime Minister Siniora and his delegation (which included the FM) had made in Washi [...] | 2006-05-17 15:51:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IO KDEM LE PGOV PHUM SY IS |
| 06BEIRUT1892 | MGLE01: SLEIMAN FRANJIEH ANNOUNCES "MARADA," A [...] (C) Summary: On June 11, Sleiman Franjieh announced his new political party named "Marada." The announcement was made as Franjieh commemorated the anniversary of the murder, presumably by Lebanese Forces militia, of his family in June 1978. The party seems to be a personality cult that e [...] | 2006-06-12 15:02:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM SOCI PINS KISL LE SY |
| 06BEIRUT2034 | MGLE01: UNIIIC AND THE DEFENSE'S CASE FOR JAILED [...] (S) Reftel reports that UNIIIC Commissioner Serge Brammertz is deeply worried that the evidence against the four jailed Lebanese generals, suspected of complicity in the Hariri assassination, may not be strong enough to justify their continued detention. Release of the generals would have a [...] | 2006-06-20 12:44:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER KCRM PINR KISL ASEC LE SY UN |
| 06BEIRUT2087 | (S/NF) MGLE01: SINIORA PRESSES AHEAD ON ECONOMIC [...] (C) Ignoring an unseemly, ongoing food fight among Maronite politicians sparked by President Lahoud's non-invitation to the Francophone summit, Prime Minister Siniora used a 6/21 meeting with the Ambassador to portray his government as moving ahead on a number of fronts, including economic re [...] | 2006-06-22 12:56:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL EAID EAIR PTER KPAL KDEM BEXP LE |
| 06BEIRUT2292 | MGLE01: AOUN DISCUSSES SUMMER PLANS; PROMISES TO [...] (C/NF) In a July 7 meeting with the Ambassador and econoff, MP Michel Aoun was optimistic that his new television station would garner a strong sudience and earn a profit. Aoun, along with his adviser Gibran Bassil, commented on Suleiman Franjieh's controversial recent statements, saying th [...] | 2006-07-07 14:13:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CASC IS KDEM KPAL LE PGOV PTER |
| 06BEIRUT2403 | TFLE01: LARSEN TO PROPOSE HANDOVER OF ISRAELI [...] (C/NF) On July 16, the Ambassador and econoff had a late night meeting with UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen and UNSYG Personal Representative to Lebanon Geir Pederson. Larsen showed a draft proposal to the Ambassador, which Larsen said that he was drawing from orally but not providing to GOL officials. [...] | 2006-07-17 11:49:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | IS LE MOPS PGOV PREL PTER SY |
| 06BEIRUT2447 | TFLE01: MARONITE DOYEN WARNS: "THE WEST MUST WIN [...] (C/NF) On 7/22, Maronite doyen Sheikh Michel el Khoury (and son of Lebanon's first president) told the Ambassador that the West's hopes for democracy in the Middle East depend upon winning the current war against Hizballah and its Syrian and Iranian backers. Still, Sheikh Michel warned that with it [...] | 2006-07-23 18:22:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | IS LE MOPS PGOV PREL PTER SY |
| 06BEIRUT2526 | TFLE01: LEBANESE INDUSTRY HEADS CALL FOR BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Leading Lebanese business and industry associations have asked Embassy Beirut for the immediate establishment of safe commercial corridors for passage of imports and exports. Lebanese business leaders stressed the need for industry leaders to have "a sense that this war will never happen [...] | 2006-08-03 14:05:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IS LE MOPS PGOV PREL SY EFIN ECON ETRD EINV |
| 06BEIRUT3234 | LEBANON: LATEST AOUN STATEMENT THREATENING, [...] (C) MP and Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) Leader General Michel Aoun held a press conference in his Rabieh headquarters October 4 with a delegation of FPM area coordinators. Aoun continued his attack (following up on statements made in the FPM "Right of Return" conference September 30 and to A [...] | 2006-10-05 16:23:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
| 06BEIRUT3517 | RIZK BEWILDERED BY LAHOUD'S ATTACK ON TRIBUNAL, [...] (S) Over lunch with the Ambassador on 11/1, Minister of Justice Charles Rizk expressed bewilderment over the blistering attack his childhood friend (and Lebanese President) Emile Lahoud launched against him and the special Hariri tribunal on 10/30 and 10/31 (reftel). Rizk, who felt until La [...] | 2006-11-01 16:19:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | KCRM PREL PGOV PTER LE SY |
| 06BEIRUT3518 | LEBANON: AOUN "RIGHT-WINGER" ON HIZBALLAH, MONEY, [...] (S) A Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) contact claimed to us that he represents a less-vocal, less-visible wing of the party that is anti-Syrian, skeptical of Hizballah, and which seeks closer ties with the international community. He says that FPM leader Michel Aoun himself is worried about the [...] | 2006-11-01 16:54:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
| 06BEIRUT3606 | SINIORA DEFENDS CABINET, VOWS TO PASS TRIBUNAL [...] (S) Meeting with the Ambassador late on 11/12, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora projected serenity and strength, as lawyers, aides, and ministers whirled in and out of his office offering advice on transcending Lebanon's latest made-in-Damascus political crisis. Siniora provided a detailed chro [...] | 2006-11-13 09:19:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KCRM LE SY |
| 06BEIRUT3656 | CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR WANTS CASH UP FRONT, [...] (S) Central Bank of Lebanon (CBL) Governor Riad Salameh told the Ambassador in a 11/16 meeting that the IMF team currently in Beirut confirmed that GDP would have 0 percent growth in 2006, down from the 6 percent growth projected in June but considerably better than the 5 percent decline pre [...] | 2006-11-18 16:55:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL LE |
| 06BEIRUT3810 | HINTS OF A DEAL IN THE AIR, BUT MARCH 14 LEADERS [...] (C) Marwan Hamadeh told us today (12/11) that the rumors circulating in Beirut about an imminent Sudan or Arab League-brokered deal between March 14 and March 8-Aoun have no basis in fact. While March 14 leaders will try to work with Amr Moussa on an initiative, they do not believe that Hiz [...] | 2006-12-11 16:42:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY |
| 06BEIRUT3826 | JUMBLATT ON CURRENT SITUATION [...] (C) Walid Jumblatt told the Ambassador on 12/12 that the Siniora cabinet and March 14 should be credited for three major accomplishments during the current political crisis: 1) Standing firm, remaining united and in office. 2) Approving the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. 3) Bringing Nasra [...] | 2006-12-13 16:54:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY |
| 06BEIRUT579 | MGLE01: SAAD HARIRI TO HOLD JOINT PRESS [...] (S) Summary: In a 2/27 meeting with the Ambassador, Saad Hariri revealed that he would hold a join press conference with Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hizballah on 2/28. The press conference will come at the end of Hariri's private meeting with Hizballah and will cover three areas [...] | 2006-02-27 17:13:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | KDEM PTER KISL LE SY |
| 06BEIRUT581 | MGLE01: SAAD HARIRI TO HOLD JOINT PRESS [...] (S) Summary: In a 2/27 meeting with the Ambassador, Saad Hariri revealed that he would hold a join press conference with Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hizballah on 2/28. The press conference will come at the end of Hariri's private meeting with Hizballah and will cover three areas [...] | 2006-02-27 17:14:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | KDEM PTER KISL LE SY |
| 06BEIRUT613 | MGLE01: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DRUSE LEADER [...] (C) For better or worse, Walid Jumblatt may well be the single person most responsible for where we are in Lebanon today. He was a warlord in the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war and became a pillar of the post-Ta'if Agreement "pax Syriana." Lately, however, he has emerged as the most importan [...] | 2006-03-02 07:13:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
| 06BEIRUT922 | MGLEB01: POLITICAL ORGANIZING ON CAMPUS: A MIRROR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Student politics in Lebanon mirror the country's national political scene in intensity, organization and confessional breakdown. Highly structured partisan organizations with motivated and dedicated student members compete in time-consuming university elections to demonstrate [...] | 2006-03-23 13:45:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO KDEM KMPI SOCI SCUL LE |
| 06BELGRADE1258 | MOBI 63 SOLD FOR EUR 1.513 BILLION [...] On August 1, the largest Norwegian mobile operator Telenor signed the sales agreement with the Government of Serbia (GOS) to buy Serbian mobile operator Mobi 63 (former Mobtel) for EUR 1.513 billion. Telenor won the televised auction organized the day before, competing with Austrian Mobilkom [...] | 2006-08-09 11:08:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS EFIN PGOV BTIO KPRV SR |
| 06BELGRADE1681 | ICTY ACTION PLAN SCORECARD, OCTOBER 2006 [...] (c) SUMMARY: In July, the USG provided the GoS with eleven recommendations designed to advance the hunt for Ratko Mladic. Due primarily to the resistance of PM Kostunica himself, the GoS has not carried out in full a single one of our recommendations (two have been, arguably, partially initiated). [...] | 2006-10-17 06:20:00 | Embassy Belgrade | CONFIDENTIAL | ICTY PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM UNSC SR |
| 06BELGRADE176 | DEL PONTE CONFIDENT OF MLADIC HANDOVER [...] (c) Summary: Despite public criticism of SaM efforts to date on ICTY cooperation, del Ponte told assembled ambassadors she is convinced she will have Mladic in The Hague by the end of February - but only if the EU exerts maximum pressure on Kostunica by conditioning SAA talks on Mladic's be [...] | 2006-02-07 12:39:00 | Embassy Belgrade | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SR ICTY |
| 06BELGRADE220 | SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-14 15:14:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ETRD KTDB MW PGOV SR USTR |
| 06BELIZE211 | OPPOSITION DOMINATES BELIZE'S MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS [...] (U) The opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) dominated Belize's March 1 municipal elections. The UDP won eight of nine mayoral races, and garnered 56 of 58 councilor seats. Prior to the elections, the PUP controlled six of nine municipalities. Many races were close, and voter turnout ra [...] | 2006-03-03 16:34:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KWMN PINR BH |
| 06BELIZE282 | BELIZE: ALLEGATIONS MADE AGAINST FORMER BELIZE CITY [...] (U) The recently replaced mayor of Belize City faces allegations of financial improprieties during his final days in office. Separately, the new mayor of Orange Walk Town has announced a financial audit to clean house. The allegations of corruption come as no surprise in the wake of recent [...] | 2006-03-27 20:49:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI EFIN BH |
| 06BELIZE970 | BELIZEAN CHILDREN SEXUALLY EXPLOITED, ILO/IPEC SAYS [...] According to the National Committee for Families and Children (NCFC the results of its study on the commercial sexual exploitation of child and adolescents (CSEC) in Belize Q conducted in cooperation with the International Labour OfficeQs (ILO) International Programme on the Elimination of Chi [...] | 2006-11-01 21:05:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KOCI KCRM BH |
| 06BISHKEK1706 | KYRGYZ PROSECUTOR INVESTIGATING NDI, IRI, AND IFES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Procurator General's office separately summoned the National Democratic Institute (NDI),International Republican Institute (IRI) and IFES on November 15, 24, and 27, respectively, to discuss their programs, activities, funding, and relation with USAID. IRI and IFES were cal [...] | 2006-12-01 13:03:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KG |
| 06BOGOTA1054 | NEW COLOMBIAN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE [...] (U) Summary. On January 1 the new Colombian Criminal Procedure Code was introduced in 7 judicial districts: Bucaramanga, Buga, Cali, Medellin, San Gil, Santa Rosa and Tunja. These districts are added to the four which introduced the new Code in 2005: Armenia, Bogota, Manizales and Pereira. [...] | 2006-02-03 15:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | KJUS PGOV PREL CO JSRP LGAT |
| 06BOGOTA1145 | GUARANTORS ASK ELN FOR CEASE-FIRE, HOSTAGE [...] (C) GOC-ELN civil society guarantor Moritz Akerman said the guarantors sent the ELN a proposal February 2 that would require the guerrillas to "suspend definitively" all kidnappings and release all hostages within 90 days. In return, the proposal provides that the GOC would allow an ELN nego [...] | 2006-02-07 21:01:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER CO |
| 06BOGOTA1355 | GOC EXPLAINS JUSTICE AND PEACE LAW DECREE TO [...] (C) The Minister and Vice Minister of Interior and Justice briefed the diplomatic corps on January 13 on the implementing decree for the Justice and Peace law. They said the guiding principles in writing the implementing decree were "truth" and "reparations" and, as a result, the decree exten [...] | 2006-02-13 20:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER CO |
| 06BOGOTA144 | WHY JANUARY 2006 IS DIFFERENT FROM JANUARY 2005 IN [...] (C) President Uribe broke the political custom of decades by winning the right to run for re-election. But campaign dynamics are complicating some of his policies. Absent tragedy, we can look to four-and-a-half more years of partnership like the last three-and-a-half years. In the face of [...] | 2006-01-06 20:14:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR CO |
| 06BOGOTA1965 | GOC-ELN EXPLORATORY TALKS MAKE STEADY PROGRESS, [...] (C) The latest round of exploratory talks between the GOC and ELN ended February 28 in Havana. The GOC-ELN joint statement issued February 27 characterized the talks as "satisfactory" and said they would resume in early April, again in Havana. Other participants and observers told us the ta [...] | 2006-03-03 22:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL PINR CO |
| 06BOGOTA1976 | URIBE HAS CARDS TO PLAY IN MANAGING RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) The March 12 Congressional elections -- in which 166 Representatives and 102 Senators will be elected -- are uncharted political territory. Because there is no mid-term election for correction, the Congress elected next week will last through the almost certain second Uribe Administratio [...] | 2006-03-06 18:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON CO |
| 06BOGOTA2031 | COLOMBIA'S RISING YOUNG POLITICIANS ON MARCH 12 [...] (C) Over a dozen, up-and-coming political candidates from the Liberal, Conservative, Cambio Radical, Polo Democratico Alternativo (Polo),and the "U" parties shared their impressions with poloffs on the March 12 Congressional elections, the role of the paramilitaries, the future of the partie [...] | 2006-03-07 19:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CO |
| 06BOGOTA2202 | COLOMBIA'S SMALLER PARTIES NOT GAINING TRACTION [...] (C) Two popular former Bogota mayors, Enrique Penalosa and Antanas Mockus, are struggling to attract support for their newly-formed political parties in the run-up to the March 12 Congressional elections. As the figureheads of the political parties "Por el Pais que Sonamos" (Sonamos) and "Vis [...] | 2006-03-10 18:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CO |
| 06BOGOTA309 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT FOR [...] Below you will find AmEmbassy Bogota's submission for the 2005- 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report per Ref. I. Summary  [...] | 2006-01-13 20:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 06BOGOTA3617 | SENATE STAFFER RIESER DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS, SAN [...] (C) Senate Appropriations Committee staffer Tim Rieser met on April 20 with the Fiscalia's (Prosecutor General's office) new human rights unit chief, Leonardo Cabana, and human rights prosecutors. Rieser emphasized his support of the office. He asked about the trend of human rights violatio [...] | 2006-04-25 15:17:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV CO |
| 06BOGOTA3765 | SEN REED MEETS WITH NGO COLOMBIAN COMMISSION OF [...] (U) Senator Reed did not have an opportunity to clear this cable. 2. (U) Summary. On April 20 CODEL Reed met with Gustavo Gallon, Director of the NGO the Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ). Gallon said the Democratic Security policy targets only certain criminals and protects only certa [...] | 2006-04-27 23:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV CO |
| 06BOGOTA4059 | CIVIL SOCIETY GUARANTORS IN GOC-ELN PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Five of the six civil society guarantors in the GOC-ELN exploratory peace talks told Polcouns on May 5 they were preparing a proposal to present to the parties prior to the fourth round of talks, likely to take place after the May 28 presidential election. The proposal would be crafted as [...] | 2006-05-07 16:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL CO |
| 06BOGOTA6614 | COLMIL CASES TO BE GOVERNED BY CIVILIAN JUSTICE [...] (C) The GOC announced that all criminal cases involving COLMIL defendants will be reviewed by the civilian Prosecutor General's Office (Fiscalia) to decide jurisdiction (military vs. civilian) for prosecution and determination of guilt or innocence. Further, all investigations will be conduct [...] | 2006-07-24 16:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PJUS MARR CO |
| 06BOGOTA717 | COLOMBIA 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT [...] The Uribe administration stepped up the economic liberalization begun in the early 1990's and is committed to an open investment regime. Liberalization has progressed furthest in telecommunications, accounting/auditing, energy, and tourism and to a lesser extent, legal services, insurance, dis [...] | 2006-01-26 15:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON OPIC KTDB USTR CO |
| 06BOGOTA8028 | PROSECUTOR GENERAL HESITANT ON PROCEEDING WITH [...] (C) Prosecutor General Mario Iguaran told us on August 28 that the Fiscalia's Justice and Peace Unit would not be at full strength until paramilitaries confirmed their commitment and eligibility for JPL processing. In a separate meeting, JPL Specialized Unit Chief Luis Gonzalez said it had be [...] | 2006-08-31 22:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PINR PREL PTER CO |
| 06BRASILIA117 | CODEL MCCONNELL MEETS BRAZILIAN POLICYMAKERS [...] (SBU) Introduction. During a January 9 stop in Brasilia, a congressional delegation led by Senator Mitch McConnell met with Brazilian government leaders. The meetings were positive and covered a range of issues, including trade, the MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission to Haiti, Venezuela's entry i [...] | 2006-01-19 12:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD BR |
| 06BRASILIA1509 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 78 [...] The following is the seventy-eighth in 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 expr [...] | 2006-07-27 13:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 06BRASILIA1588 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CDC OFFICIALS JAMES [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for CDC Officials James Mendlein, Andrew Weathers, Michael Link, Douglas Hatch and Eduardo Simoes, itinerary as follows: James Mendlein, Scientific Research Expert, COGH, CDC, HHS: -- to Brasilia (Distrito Federal),Brazil, Aug 9 to Aug 19, 2006 [...] | 2006-08-07 19:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO CDC KSCA OTRA US BR |
| 06BRASILIA1865 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER MANTEGA [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Ambassador's August 18 initial call on Finance Minister Guido Mantega, the two discussed Brazil's economy, ethanol, and mechanisms for bilateral economic engagement, including the Treasury-Fazenda Group for Growth meetings. Mantega raised the USG's review of Generalized [...] | 2006-09-05 18:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EFIN EINV BR |
| 06BRASILIA2233 | THE AMBASSADOR'S SEPTEMBER 28 MEETING WITH BRAZILIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR SOBEL, ACCOMPANIED BY EMBASSY AGRICULTURAL AND ECONOMIC COUNSELORS, MET WITH MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE LUIS CARLOS PINTO GUEDES ON SEPTEMBER 28 TO DISCUSS GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ISSUES. DISCUSSION CENTERED ON BRAZIL'S RAPID RISE AS A WORLD AGRICULTURAL EXPORT POWER, U.S. [...] | 2006-10-25 19:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EINV ETRD ENRG PREL PGOV BR |
| 06BRASILIA2314 | The October 17 Meeting of the U.S.-Brazil Bilateral [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. On October 17, a USG delegation met with the Brazilian interagency economic players in a session of the two countries' Bilateral Consultative Mechanism (BCM) meeting. The wide-ranging agenda covered a variety of issues, including WTO matters (the Doha Round, [...] | 2006-11-05 12:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EINV ENRG WTRO BEXP BR |
| 06BRASILIA2425 | BRAZIL: DEMARCHE ON LEGACY PILOTS DELIVERED [...] (U) CG Henshaw delivered demarche per reftel instructions to Ministry of External Relations Director for the Department of Brazilian Overseas Communities, Ambassador Manoel Gomes Pereira on November 18. 2. (C) Ambassador Pereira said that he would pass our concerns to the appellate court re [...] | 2006-11-17 18:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC EAIR PREL BR |
| 06BRASILIA2433 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL GOODLATTE [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your planned November 26-28 visit to Rio de Janeiro. Deputy Chief of Mission Phil Chicola will greet you in Rio de Janeiro on November 26 prior to your scheduled meetings the next day. We are lining up for you meetings with U.S. agricu [...] | 2006-11-20 18:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON BR |
| 06BRASILIA2533 | TERROR FINANCE - BRAZIL ASKS FOR DELAY, COORDINATION ON [...] (S) Per reftel, Emboffs, ORA, Legatt and DEA delivered the TBA designations pre-notification to the Foreign Ministry, financial intelligence unit, Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) and law enforcement agency counterparts on November 30. 2. (S) In a follow-up meeting December 1, Foreign Mi [...] | 2006-12-01 19:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN EFIN PTER SNAR ETTC PREL BR |
| 06BRASILIA2583 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY MCMURRAY [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your planned December 12-13, 2006, visit to Brasilia. Counselor for Environment, Science, Technology and Health Patricia Norman and OES Advisor Lawrence Sperling will greet you upon your arrival in Brasilia December 12. You are scheduled [...] | 2006-12-11 17:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SENV BR |
| 06BRASILIA478 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL GRASSLEY [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your planned March 19-26 visit to Manaus, Santarem, Brasilia, Maringa, and Sao Paulo. I will, unfortunately, be out of the country at that time, but the Acting Deputy Chief of Mission will greet you in Manaus on Sunday evening, March 19 [...] | 2006-03-10 20:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV ECON BR |
| 06BRASILIA593 | NO BRAZILIAN BROADCASTS OF AL-MANAR [...] (S) Post delivered Ref A, paragraph 3 talking points to the Maria Luiza Lopes da Silva, the Foreign Ministry Deputy Coordinator for the Combat Against Illicit Transnational Activities, in a March 22 conversation. Silva had no substantive response. 2. (S) Alberto Milgewitz of the local Jewi [...] | 2006-03-23 17:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PTER ASEC ETTC KPAO BR |
| 06BRASILIA678 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL SPECTER [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your April 12-15, 2006 visit to Brasilia (DF) and Manaus (AM),Brazil. We look forward to your trip and are arranging meetings and events for you in Brasilia and Manaus. As the Charge d'Affaires, I will meet your party upon arrival and [...] | 2006-04-07 18:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AFIN AMGT ASEC PGOV ECON KSCA SENV OTRA DR CO |
| 06BRASILIA814 | BSC Chiefs of Mission Propose BSC Youth Ambassadors Program [...] SUMMARY: Recently the Counselors for Public Affairs from our five BSC embassies met for consultations in Santiago, Chile, to discuss common issues and to exchange best practices. All of us were impressed by reports on the success of Brazil's Youth Ambassador Program -- a one-country youth exch [...] | 2006-04-26 18:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC KPAO SCUL BR |
| 06BRATISLAVA621 | SLOVAKIA ECONOMIC ROUNDUP - JULY 28, 2006 [...] (U) The following are recent noteworthy events in the Slovak economy: PM'S ADVISOR: REALITY WILL DIFFER FROM ELECTION PLEDGES --------------------------------------------- ---------- 2. (SBU) In anticipation of the GOS release of its economic plan on August 1, Emboff spoke this week with [...] | 2006-07-31 06:11:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV LO |
| 06BRATISLAVA966 | AMBASSADOR'S DECEMBER 13 MEETING WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Fico told the Ambassador December 13 that: --he will travel to Afghanistan in January and announce that Slovak troops will move to Kandahar, --he is in firm control of the government; and coalition partners Meciar and Slota are just sideshows, and --he is determine [...] | 2006-12-14 17:12:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL POLG ECON ENRG AF LO |
| 06BRIDGETOWN100 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BARBADOS [...] (SBU) Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador John D. Rood to travel to Barbados on February 3-5, 2006. 2. (SBU) We understand that further Embassy assistance is not required. In case of emergency, please contact Post One through the Embassy general p [...] | 2006-01-17 20:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | APER OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1019 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO FRIEND FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Michael N. Friend to travel to Barbados June 19 - June 22, 2006. The purpose of this mission is to perform ADPE maintenance and upgrades to the TCSC server. 2. Embassy assistance is not required. Point of contact is CDR P. Kofi Aboagye, Chief, [...] | 2006-06-14 15:58:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR ASEC SNAR KRIM OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN103 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE officers Miguel Covarrubias and Glen Beck to escort criminal Oswald Jacob transiting through Barbados to Trinidad & Tobago, January 20, 2006. 2. Embassy RSO has notified Barbados authorities of the details of the transit visit. Understan [...] | 2006-01-18 11:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN104 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS DE [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Eduardo De La Cruz and Omar Gomez to escort criminal Enver Pemberton A096108478 to St. Kitts on January 18, 2006. RSO understands that escorting officers will return to U.S. on evening flight departing on January 18, 2006. 2. E [...] | 2006-01-18 11:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1066 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LORETTA MCNEIR FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Transporation Security Administration (TSA) Representative Loretta McNeir to travel to St. Lucia July 25-28, 2006. Ms. McNeir will participate in the airport assessment and she will meet with the Director of Civil Aviation or their de [...] | 2006-06-20 14:00:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1067 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO VERBRASKA AND MERRILL [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Transportation Security Administration Security Enforcement Academy employees Michael Verbraska and Frances Merrill for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis July 10-14, 2006. The travelers will be providing a National Program Development Workshop i [...] | 2006-06-20 14:26:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1069 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MARENGO AND [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Miami International Field Office (IFO) Aviation Safety Inspectors, Mel Marengo and Don Carnicella for travel to Antigua and Barbuda June 26-30, 2006. The travelers will perform re-certification inspectio [...] | 2006-06-20 18:17:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1078 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO RAFFAELE FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Herbert Raffaele, Chief of the Division of International Conservation, Fish and Wildlife Service, for travel to Dominica July 7-14, 2006. Mr. Raffaele will attend the Executive Board meeting of the Society for the Conservation and Study of C [...] | 2006-06-22 20:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SENV TBIO KSCA DO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1081 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO PUNTONET FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Federal Aviation Administration Safety Inspector Joaquin Puntonet for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis on June 28, 2006. Mr. Puntonet will perform "R" items from the inspectors' work program on air carrier Coastal Air Transport. 2. Per reft [...] | 2006-06-22 20:27:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1112 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LAGUNA AND OLESON FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Aviation Security Inspectors Diana M. Laguna and Jay D. Oleson for travel to St. Lucia from July 24-28, 2006. The travelers will conduct inspections of the air carrier stations at the Georg [...] | 2006-06-28 14:22:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1116 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CARVER AND RHEA FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Geophysicist David Carver and IT Specialist Susan Rhea to travel to St. George's, Grenada, from July 11-28, 2006, for the purpose of working with government officials on installing a seismic monitoring station in the co [...] | 2006-06-28 20:52:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA TPHY TBIO KSCA XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1129 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DIXON TO TRAVEL TO DOMINICA [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Ms. Sadie Dixon to travel to Dominica on or about July 15, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to assist with the Legal Drafting activity in Dominica. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact M [...] | 2006-07-03 11:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID DO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1130 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO PICK TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Billy Pick, HIV Technical Advisor, USAID to travel to Barbados on or about July 12, 2006 and to depart on/about July 22, 2006. The purpose of travel is to provide requested HIV prevention technical assistance to the Caribb [...] | 2006-07-03 11:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN114 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DENISE LAWRENCE [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Denise Lawrence, Program Development specialist USAID/Jamaica to travel to Antigua on January 25-26, 2006. 2. The purpose of this visit is to lead Public Information discussions on the all-hands Trade meeting and to provide feedback/input in [...] | 2006-01-19 13:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1161 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KAREN D. TURNER TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Ms. Karen D. Turner, USAID/J-Cars Mission Director to travel to Barbados on/about July 12, 2006 to August 13, 2006. The purpose of this TDY is to provide coverage to the Caribbean Regional Program satellite office in the absence of a USG represent [...] | 2006-07-06 21:17:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN118 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LINDA BROWN FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Linda Brown, Reports Officer for South America and Central America and the smaller Caribbean island states, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),to Barbados February 10 - 15, 2006. Ms. Brown will be assessing recent g [...] | 2006-01-19 14:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PHUM SMIG KCRM KWMN BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1206 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR WELCH TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Karen Welch to travel to Barbados on or about July 17- 23, 2006. The purpose of travel is to attend the USAID-funded workshop on Avian and Pandemic Flu Preparedness for the Caribbean. 2. Embassy point of contact is US [...] | 2006-07-12 19:46:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN121 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE ATTACHE [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Attach Michael P. Looney to travel to Bridgetown on January 19-21, 2006. The purpose of his visit is to meet with the Ambassador to discuss budget and MPP projections. 2. Post notes that ICE Attach Looney requires no further assistance [...] | 2006-01-19 18:34:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1223 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO COTTER FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Patrick Cotter, Environmental Protection Specialist, to travel to St. Lucia from July 23-29, 2006, for the purpose of attending a regional promotional workshop on LBS protocol for English speaking Caribbean countries and a sub-regional [...] | 2006-07-14 12:41:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY EPA ST BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1235 | EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE (EAC) MEETING, [...] (C) In response to reftel, Embassy convoked an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting on Friday, July 14, 2006, attended by Ambassador, A/DCM, P/E, RSO, DET CDR, LEGATT, DEA, IRS, CON, ORA, IPO, MLO, USAID, OFDA, PAS, OBO, and GSO. A/DCM explained the need to review the security posture of [...] | 2006-07-14 21:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC PTER BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1259 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LAGUNA AND OLESON FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Aviation Security Inspectors Diana M. Laguna and Jay D. Oleson to travel to St. Lucia, July 24-28, for the purpose of assessing security conditions, conducting U.S. air carrier station insp [...] | 2006-07-18 20:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1296 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR THE DELEGATION ON [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to DHS James Kidwell, CBP Charles Bartoldus, INL Sergio Garcia, and WHA/CAR Michael Fortin, to travel to Bridgetown, Barbados, from July 25-28, for the inaugural Cricket World Cup 2007 International Support and Advisory Group Conference. [...] | 2006-07-25 12:52:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1297 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HUNKER AND FELDSTEIN [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Paula A. Hunker and Steven J. Feldstein, special Assistants in the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, to travel to Bridgetown, Barbados, from July 28-29, for the purpose of attending the UN H [...] | 2006-07-25 12:57:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA UN ETRD ECON BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1305 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ANDERSON AND [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Donald Anderson and Mark Robertson, Contractor Field Engineers, to travel to Grenada from August 13-22, and to Mr. Robertson to travel to Barbados from August 22-29, 2006, for the purpose of installing a seismological station in both l [...] | 2006-07-26 18:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY OTRA KSCA TBIO BB GJ |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1306 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CIOMPERLIK FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Matthew Ciomperlik, USDA Entomologist, to travel to Barbados from September 24-October 7, 2006, for the purpose of conducting collaborative research on the Chilli Thrips and Giant African Snail. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands a [...] | 2006-07-27 15:41:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1307 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO STEVENS FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Timothy Stevens,USDA Plant Protection and Quarantine Service,to travel to Barbados from September 24-October 7, 2006, for the purpose of attending the Giant African Snail meeting. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is no [...] | 2006-07-27 15:41:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN131 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO TREASURY ADVISOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly grants country clearance to Treasury Advisor Charles K. Sciarini to travel to Antigua and Barbuda from January 22 - 30, 2006 and to Barbados from January 30 - 31, 2006. 2. Purpose of trip is to work with the Financial Investigation Unit (FIU)in Antigua and meet wi [...] | 2006-01-20 14:16:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA AC BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1336 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PEACE CORPS EXPERT CONSULTANT [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Frances Asturias to travel to St. Lucia arriving August 3, 2006 and departing September 8, 2006. The purpose is to serve as management advisor for Peace Corps staff. 2. Post understands that Peace Corps Eastern Caribbean b [...] | 2006-08-03 13:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1359 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KAREN WELCH TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. John Mason, Executive Associate to travel Barbados for the period August 19-25, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to conduct Evaluation Planning and Performance Management workshops. 2. No Embassy support assistance is r [...] | 2006-08-04 15:52:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1362 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Cynthia Warner, Lab Advisor, NCHSTP, CDC, HHS to travel to Barbados for the period September 2-10, 2006. 2. Embassy point of contact is Angela Davis, HIV/AIDS Technical Specialist, phone: 1(246) 228-8070, fax: 1(246)228-8589 [...] | 2006-08-04 16:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA XL BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1376 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MASON TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. John Mason, Executive Associate to travel Barbados for the period August 19-25, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to conduct Evaluation Planning and Performance Management workshops. 2. Embassy point of contact is USAID [...] | 2006-08-09 12:20:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1377 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WARNER TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Cynthia Warner, Lab Advisor, NCHSTP, CDC, HHS to travel to Barbados for the period September 2-10, 2006. 2. Embassy point of contact is Angela Davis, HIV/AIDS Technical Specialist, phone: 1(246) 228-8070, fax: 1(246)228-8589 [...] | 2006-08-09 13:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1389 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WARD FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to DOE Director of Policy and International Affairs Gary K. Ward, to travel to Bridgetown, Barbados, from August 10-11 to meet with Government of Barbados energy officials and private sector representatives to discuss the upcoming energy [...] | 2006-08-10 17:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN139 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO RENE RODRIQUEZ [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. Rene Rodriquez, for travel to Barbados March 24, 2006. Mr. Rodriquez will be replacing Mr. Michael Papale as the new OSTR. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is required. Point of contact is Mike Papale, OSTR, (246) 436-4950, ext 2407. He wi [...] | 2006-01-23 11:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1403 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MANHERTZ AND DEMERCADO TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Huntley Manhertz, Consultant Economist and Ms. Marlene Demercado, Program Officer, Development Associates Inc. to travel to Barbados for the period August 19-25, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to conduct a workshop with [...] | 2006-08-11 18:22:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1404 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO BESHAWRED TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Lily Beshawred, Deputy Program Director, Office of Program Development and Management USAID/Jamaica to travel to Barbados for the period August 21-27, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to assist in conducting the Performanc [...] | 2006-08-11 18:29:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1407 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WEAVER AND SCHENK FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to USGS Internal Program Specialist Jean Weaver and Supervisory Research Geologist Christopher Schenk for travel to Barbados from September 17-23. The purpose of the trip is to meet with Embassy officers to discuss regional energy issues, [...] | 2006-08-11 19:37:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY OTRA KSAC TBIO BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN141 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ROBERT DIGGS TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for OBO Fire Protection Specialist Robert Diggs to travel to Barbados on 9-15 February 2006. The purpose of this trip is to evaluate construction of the fire protection systems of the new embassy compound. Please be informed that safety shoes are re [...] | 2006-01-23 12:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN142 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE officers William Buonocore and John Reiter to escort criminal David Smith #A076582354 to Barbados on January 23-24, 2006. 2. Embassy RSO has notified Barbados authorities of the details of the visit. Understand that further Embassy ass [...] | 2006-01-23 13:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1422 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WISECARVER TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Steven Wisecarver to travel to Barbados on or about August 18 through November 18, 2006. The purpose of travel is to serve as interim Office Director for CRP satellite office. 2. Hotel reservations have been confirmed at [...] | 2006-08-15 12:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1423 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KING TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Hope King, Public Health Advisor, NCHSTP, CDC, HHS to travel to Barbados for the period August 20-21, 2006 and September 20-21, 2006. 2. Post notes that traveler will be staying at the Hilton Barbados Hotel, Bridgetown, Ba [...] | 2006-08-15 14:09:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN143 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE OFFICERS MILLER AND [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE officers Anne Miller and Bruce Wright to escort criminal Rashe Raphiel #A074853546 to St. Lucia on February 7-8, 2006. 2. Embassy RSO has notified St. Lucia authorities of the details of the visit. Understand that further Embassy assis [...] | 2006-01-23 14:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1452 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO EARLE TO TRANSIT BARBADOS TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Peter Earle, to travel to Antigua August 25, 2006 and to Dominica August 26, 2006. The purpose of this travel is to conduct training sessions for numerators for the baseline survey. 2. Please note that traveler will be stay [...] | 2006-08-18 16:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA AC DO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1467 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KENNETT AND MALONEY [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Alan Kennett and William Maloney to travel to St. Kitts/Nevis and Barbados from August 26-September 6, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to provide technical expertise related to the feasibility of converting the former St. Kitts sugar [...] | 2006-08-22 13:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAGR BB SC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1474 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO GONZALEZ AND GALLOGLY [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Omar Gonzales, Deputy Director, Caribbean Basin Agricultural Trade Office (CBATO),and Charlotte Gallogly, President of the World Trade Center Miami and of the IFE Americas Food & Beverage Show, to travel to Barbados from September 6-8. [...] | 2006-08-23 13:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAGR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1475 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JONES AND MORALES FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Dr. Eloisa Jones, Area Director for USDA APHIS, and Paula Morales, Agriculture Specialist, to travel to Barbados from September 5-12, 2006, for the purpose of attending meetings at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and with E [...] | 2006-08-23 13:26:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAGR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1495 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ADOLFO A. FRANCO TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. Adolfo A. Franco, Assistant Administrator, Latin America and the Caribbean, to travel to Barbados on or about September 25-27, 2006 to participate in the 2006 Chiefs of Mission HIV/AIDS Conference. 2. Embassy point of contact is USAID Office [...] | 2006-08-25 17:20:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN150 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ALDEN PROVOST FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologist, Alden Provost to travel to Barbados, February 27 - March 7, 2006. Mr. Provost has been invited to teach a training course on the use of U.S. Geological Survey ground-water modeling software saturated-unsat [...] | 2006-01-23 19:55:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY OTRA KSCA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1506 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HORNBECK FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to John F. Hornbeck, Library of Congress Specialist in International Trade and Finance, to travel to Barbados, from August 27 - September 3, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to conduct research and interviews with government and private [...] | 2006-08-28 11:29:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA BB GY |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1546 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KAREN TURNER TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Ms. Karen D. Turner, Mission Director USAID/Jamaica-Caribbean to travel to Barbados on or about September 24-30, 2006 to participate in the 2006 Chiefs of Mission HIV/AIDS Conference. 2. Embassy point of contact is USAID Officer Steven Wisecarve [...] | 2006-09-05 12:24:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1547 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO S. KEN YAMASHITA TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. S. Ken Yamashita, Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS to travel to Barbados on or about September 24-28, 2006 to participate in the 2006 Chiefs of Mission HIV/AIDS Conference. 2. Control officer is Martina Strong at Embassy Bridgetown Tel: 1 [...] | 2006-09-05 13:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1562 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CALLISON FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Dr. Scott Callison, to travel to Barbados, from September 10-13, 2006, for the purpose of facilitating U.S. government participation and leadership in the global effort to combat Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). 2. Per ref [...] | 2006-09-07 15:00:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAGR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1568 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CAMACHO FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Joaquin Camacho to travel to St. Kitts and Nevis on September 21, 2006, for the purpose of performing "en-route inspections to certificate holder Coastal Air as part of work program". 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not re [...] | 2006-09-08 11:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAIR SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1593 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CHU FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Chang-Chi Chu, to travel to Barbados from September 21-27, 2006, for the purpose of performing insecticide trials of chili thrips on pima cotton. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not required. 3. Embassy Bridge [...] | 2006-09-12 17:43:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAGR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1596 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO REESE AND DEPALMA FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to John Reese and Joseph Depalma to travel to Antigua and Barbuda from October 8-14, 2006, for the purpose of providing an international civil aviation national program development workshop. 2. Per reftel request, in order to make hotel reser [...] | 2006-09-12 19:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1622 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LYON AND SPRINGER FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Dr. Douglas Lyon and Mr. Dereck Springer to travel to Barbados from September 24-28, 2006, for the purpose of attending the Chiefs of Mission Conference on HIV/AIDS. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not required. [...] | 2006-09-14 20:20:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1624 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WIKLE FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to EconOff Paula Wikle to travel to Barbados from September 25-28, 2006, for the purpose of attending the Chiefs of Mission Conference on HIV/AIDS. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not required. 3. Entry/departure [...] | 2006-09-14 20:20:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA KHIV BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1637 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CASTILLO AND DAVY FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Maria Castillo and Chris Davy to travel to Barbados from September 24-28, 2006, for the purpose of attending the Chiefs of Mission Conference on HIV/AIDS. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not required. 3. Entr [...] | 2006-09-15 18:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT BB DR |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1638 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO GUIMOND FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to PAO Glenn Guimond to travel to Barbados from September 25-28, 2006, for the purpose of attending the Chiefs of Mission Conference on HIV/AIDS. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not required. 3. Entry/departure [...] | 2006-09-15 18:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1639 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MOLZON FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Justina Molzon, HHS/FDA Associate Director for International Programs, to travel to Barbados from September 17-20, 2006, for the purpose of participating in the meeting of regulation of pharmaceuticals. 2. Per reftel, Embassy under [...] | 2006-09-15 18:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TBIO KSCA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1673 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CLARK FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Kenneth Clark to travel to Barbados from October 9-15, 2006, for the purpose of performing routine maintenance of Aerological Soundings equipment. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not required. 3. Embassy Bridgetown [...] | 2006-09-20 18:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN168 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HUBBS AND LAVOIE [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for USSS employees Michael Hubbs and David Lavoie to come to Bridgetown between the dates January 31 - February 3, 2006. The purpose of their visit is to assist local law enforcement with counterfeit currency investigations and provide a counterfei [...] | 2006-01-26 12:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1684 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LIPMAN AND MULVIHILL [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to OPDAT Program Manager Robert Lipman and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Mulvihill to travel to Antigua and Barbuda, from October 1-6, 2006, for the purpose of conducting a financial crimes mentoring program. 2. Per reftel and subsequ [...] | 2006-09-21 17:22:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL KCRM AC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN171 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR LACY BRANCH TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for Project Developers Inc,(sub- contractors of Stronghold Engineering) personnel Lacy Branch. The purpose of this trip is to survey current construction operation during the period Feb. 06 - Feb.11, 2006. Please be informed that [...] | 2006-01-26 16:07:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1718 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HOGAN TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS, [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants country clearance to Patrick Hogan, Peace Corps Associate Director for Safety and Security, to travel to Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Dominica a/o October 1, 2006 and to depart a/o October 12, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to accompany Peace Co [...] | 2006-09-26 20:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB ST GJ DO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1719 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EDWARDS AND COVINGTON TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants country clearance to Michael Edwards, Director of IT Infrastructure, and Eric Covington, Lead IT Specialist to travel to St. Lucia from October 22-27, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to consult with Peace Corps staff to gather requirements for future I [...] | 2006-09-26 20:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN173 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PHAM, STRAWTER, [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for OIC Peter Pham, STS James Ellis, SEO Richard Strawter, STS William Kramer and SW1 Steven League to travel to Bridgetown on February 6-10, 2006 to provide technical security support. 2. Reservations have been arranged at the Hilton Barbados, [...] | 2006-01-26 16:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KSEO |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1730 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SHOUBA TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS, [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants country clearance to Peace Corps Safety and Security Officer Neil Shouba to travel to Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Kitts/Nevis, Grenada, and Antigua/Barbuda from o/a October 1-16, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to serve as the Technical Advisor [...] | 2006-09-27 17:06:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA ST DO SC GJ AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1761 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO STEELE FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Dr. Vernon Steele to travel to Dominica from October 11-13, 2006, for the purpose of participating in the Ross University School of Medicine Research Medical Symposium. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not requested. Visit [...] | 2006-10-04 19:33:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TBIO KSCA DO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN177 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR RICHARD [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Security Management Deputy Director Richard Colquhoun to visit Barbados on February 21-23, 2006. The purpose of this trip is to evaluate and review SSM's performance. Please be informed that safety shoes are required to gain access to the site. [...] | 2006-01-27 17:02:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1778 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FARMER TO TRAVEL TO SAINT [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to International Health Coordinator, William Farmer, who will meet with Peace Corps staff to perform an assessment of medical facilities. 2. Post understands that Peace Corps Eastern Caribbean based in St. Lucia will arrange [...] | 2006-10-06 21:09:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA ST DO SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1790 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR KIRK TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants country clearance for Matthew Kirk to travel to Barbados to attend the Cricket World Cup 2007 planning meetings to be held on October 11-12, 2006. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands arrival assistance is not needed. 3. Embassy point of contact is [...] | 2006-10-10 16:24:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1791 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BRANDON LEE TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants country clearance for Brandon Lee to travel to Barbados to attend the Cricket World Cup 2007 planning meetings to be held on October 11-12, 2006. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands arrival assistance is not needed. 3. Embassy point of contact is [...] | 2006-10-10 16:33:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1795 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR RODRIGUEZ TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants country clearance for Eric Rodriguez, BCBP, to travel to Barbados to attend the airlines CARICOM APIS briefing from scheduled from October 16-18, 2006. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands arrival assistance is not needed. 3. Embassy point of conta [...] | 2006-10-10 19:12:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1807 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO QUAIN TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Ms. Estelle Quain to travel to Bridgetown to participate as a presenter at the Caribbean Training Integration Workshop on or about November 12 - 18, 2006. 2. Embassy point of contact is USAID Representative/Barbados, James Goggin, Phone: 1(246) [...] | 2006-10-12 10:34:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1810 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LLOYD TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Ms. Ethleen Lloyd, Chief of Global AIDS Program, NCHSTP, HHS/CDC to travel to Barbados on or about November 11 - 18, 2006 to attend workshop with Caribbean HIV/AIDS training coordinators. 2. Post understands traveler has reservations at the Acc [...] | 2006-10-12 17:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KSCA OTRA ASEC BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1816 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LLOYD TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Ms. Ethleen Lloyd, Chief of Global AIDS Program, NCHSTP, HHS/CDC to travel to Barbados on or about November 11 - 18, 2006 to attend workshop with Caribbean HIV/AIDS training coordinators. 2. Post understands traveler has reservations at the Acc [...] | 2006-10-13 17:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KSCA OTRA ASEC BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1830 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO TRAVEL TO DOMINICA FOR DR. CHARLES [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Dr. Charles Barber, Environmental Advisor, to travel to Dominica for the period October 29 to November 5, 2006. 2. The purpose of the travel is for Dr. Barber to assist in the implementation of the USAID-funded project "Commercialization of Nut [...] | 2006-10-17 12:47:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1863 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JEAN SMITH TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Jean M. Smith to travel to Barbados from October 25-November 15, 2006, to assist with administrative support in the front office. 2. Housing has been arranged for Ms. Smith at Margate Apartments, unit #10, transportation from the airport [...] | 2006-10-23 18:47:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA BB CS |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1883 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PEACE CORPS IT SPECIALIST MR. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Adam McWilliams to travel to St. Lucia arriving o/a October 26, 2005. The purpose is to assist with a telecommunications project. 2. POC while in St. Lucia will be Ms. Kate Raftry, Peace Corps Eastern Caribbean Countr [...] | 2006-10-26 18:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1884 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PEACE CORPS IT SPECIALIST MR. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Domenico Palombo ams to travel to St. Lucia arriving o/a October 26, 2005. The purpose is to assist with a telecommunications project. 2. POC while in St. Lucia will be Ms. Kate Raftry, Peace Corps Eastern Caribbean C [...] | 2006-10-26 18:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1889 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ELIZABETH BUNKER AND CRIST [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Elizabeth A. Bunker and Crist Chensvold to travel to St. Lucia from November 5-22, 2006. From St. Lucia, Bunker and Chensvold will travel to Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and St. Vincent. The purpose of this trip is fo [...] | 2006-10-26 19:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1893 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO E. CALDEIRA TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Ellen Caldeira, HRSA, to travel to Barbados from November 13-18, 2006. The purpose of this trip is to participate in a panel discussion on Human Capacity Development at the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Center. 2. Embassy understa [...] | 2006-10-27 13:05:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN190 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR COLON TO TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to COL Wilfredo Colon, United States Army (USA) for travel to Barbados February 02 - 04, 2006. The purpose of this mission is to meet with Ambassador Kramer and USMILGRP Commander, CDR Peter Kilfoyle on the State Partnership Program. 2. Understan [...] | 2006-01-31 10:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN191 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Sherry Petronsky and John Langer to escort Fabian Gittens #A097410426 to Barbados, February 9-10, 2006. 2. Embassy RSO has notified Barbados authorities of the details of the visit. Understand that further Embassy assistance [...] | 2006-01-31 10:46:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1910 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO L. ELDRED TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Lois J. Eldred, Director Global AIDS Program, HRSA, to travel to Barbados from November 13-18, 2006. The purpose of this trip is to be a keynote speaker at a Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Center meeting. 2. Embassy understands th [...] | 2006-10-30 17:03:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV SENV OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1915 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO L. ELDRED TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Lois J. Eldred, Director Global AIDS Program, HRSA, to travel to Barbados from November 13-18, 2006. The purpose of this trip is to be a keynote speaker at a Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Center meeting. 2. Embassy understands th [...] | 2006-10-31 13:14:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV SENV OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1916 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO L. ELDRED TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Lois J. Eldred, Director Global AIDS Program, HRSA, to travel to Barbados from November 13-18, 2006. The purpose of this trip is to be a keynote speaker at a Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Center meeting. 2. Embassy understands th [...] | 2006-10-31 15:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV SENV OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN192 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Carlos Torres and Datza Valcarcel to escort Richard Elliott to Antigua, February 7-8, 2006 2. Embassy RSO has notified Antigua authorities of the details of the visit. Understand that further Embassy assistance is not required. [...] | 2006-01-31 10:47:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1928 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ALLEN, SMITH, AND [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to George Perez, Orville Smith, and Allen Hurr to travel to Dominica, from November 6-10, 2006 for the purpose of conducting air carrier station inspections and meet with airport officials. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is requ [...] | 2006-11-02 15:00:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA DO |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1929 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO BORAKOVE AND KELLEY [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Fred Borakove and Carol Kelley to travel to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, from November 27, 2006 to December 1, 2006 for the purpose of assisting the FIU. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not requested. 3. Embassy Bri [...] | 2006-11-02 15:00:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TBIO VC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1930 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO BORRI-DIAZ FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Veterinary Medical Officer Miguel Borri-Diaz to travel to Antigua and Barbuda from November 13-17, 2006 for the purpose of attending the 13th Caribbean Amblyomma Program Annual Meeting. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not [...] | 2006-11-02 17:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL EAGR AC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1951 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO GEORGE FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to John George, Entomologist, USDA/ARS/SPA, to travel to Antigua and Barbuda from November 13-18, 2006, for the purpose of participating in the 13th Meeting of the Amblyomma Programme Council (APC). 2. Per reftel, no further embassy assistanc [...] | 2006-11-06 19:22:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR OTRA AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN197 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SCOTT BAILEY TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for Stronghold Engineering personnel Scott Bailey. The purpose of this trip is to survey current construction operation during the period Feb. 08 2006 - Jul 31 2006. Please be informed that safety shoes are required to gain acces [...] | 2006-01-31 10:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1971 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO J. BROOKS TO TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Ms. Janna Brooks, Public Health Advisor, COGH, HHS/CDC, to travel to Barbados from November 12-18, 2006, to attend a workshop with Caribbean HIV/AIDS training coordinators. 2. Ms. Brooks has no access to classified material clearance. 3. [...] | 2006-11-09 20:27:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KSCA OTRA US BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN1972 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO RODRIGUEZ AND OCHOA [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Javier Rodriguez and Joaquin Ochoa to travel to Antigua and Barbuda from January 3-5, 2007, for the purpose of performing an IASA management evaluation of the British Virgin Islands. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not req [...] | 2006-11-09 21:30:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA PREL AC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN202 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR AVSED TO TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Lt CDR Kimberley J. Avsec, U.S Coast Guard, for travel to Barbados February 22 - 26, 2006 and to Antigua and Barbuda February 26 - 02 March, 2006. The purpose of these missions is to have bi-lateral port security discussions with port officials of [...] | 2006-01-31 10:55:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA AC BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN204 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JACK AMEN FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Jack Amen, Veterinary Attache, Embassy Santo Domingo, for travel to Barbados February 15 - 18, 2006, to discuss issues related to the Caribbean Amblyomma Program with Al Anzaldua, Labor/ESTH Officer, and/or John Ashworth, Economic Officer, t [...] | 2006-01-31 12:53:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN207 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TRAVEL TO BARBADOS AND [...] AmEmbassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to LTG H Steven Blum, Chief National Guard Bureau (CNGB),Dr. John Finney, POLAD to Chief NGB, Major Joseph Reale, Executive Officer and Aide to the Chief NGB, Major Philip Johnson, National Guard Bureau-J5/IA SOUTHCOM Desk Chief and Mrs. Susan Blu [...] | 2006-01-31 14:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2078 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ROBERTSON FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Mark Robertson to travel to Barbados from December 14-17, 2006 for the purpose of installation of a seismological station. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not required. 3. Embassy Bridgetown requests an outbr [...] | 2006-11-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSAC BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN208 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PEACE CORPS TDY [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Peace Corps TDY Judith Kerr to transit Barbados to St. Lucia from February 2 - 17, 2006. The purpose is to assist with administrative matters during the period in the absence of post's Administrative Officer. 2. Post un [...] | 2006-01-31 14:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2087 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ANDERSON FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Donald Anderson, Contractor for U.S. Geological Survey, to travel to Antigua and Barbuda from December 7-12, 2006, for the purpose of performing a site survey in anticipation of the installation of a seismological station in Barbuda. 2. Pe [...] | 2006-11-28 12:12:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY OTRA KSCA AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2096 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SWEET FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to William Sweet to travel to St. Lucia from December 4-13, 2006, for the purpose of providing international civil aviation training. 2. Per reftel and subsequent email, Embassy understands assistance is not required. 3. Embassy Bridgetow [...] | 2006-11-28 22:14:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA ST |
| 06BRIDGETOWN212 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SUTHERLAND MILLER [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. Sutherland Miller, Legal and Regulatory Reform Specialist to travel to Barbados on February 8-11, 2006. 2. The purpose of this visit is to conduct work under Chemonics contract. 3. Mr. Miller has no access security clearance 4. [...] | 2006-01-31 20:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA AC BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN213 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MADELYN S. [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Madelyn S. Marchessault, (M/P) from February 20 - 22, 2006 who will be part of the group accompanying Under Secretary of State Fore on her trip to WHA posts. 2. Embassy point of contact is Management Counselor Leo F. Voyt [...] | 2006-01-31 21:23:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2157 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MERRILL AND SWEET FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Frances Barbara Merrill and William Joe Sweet to travel to Barbados from January 16-20, 2007, for the purpose of providing civil aviation crisis management training. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not required. Travele [...] | 2006-12-07 15:23:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAIR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN216 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KATHRYN DYE FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Kathryn Dye, International Trade Specialist, U.S. Department of Commerce, for travel to Barbados February 5 - 9, 2006, to provide support and counseling to Commercial Service clients visiting Barbados. 2. Per reftel, the traveler require [...] | 2006-02-01 17:48:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP OTRA BMGT ABUD AFIN BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2163 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MICHAEL DONALD TO TRAVEL TO [...] EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO MICHAEL DONALD, REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISOR FOR THE CARIBBEAN, TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS ON OR ABOUT DECEMBER 10-16, 2006. 2. EMBASSY POINT OF CONTACT IS USAID REPRESENTATIVE JAMES GOGGIN, TEL: 1(246) 228-8070, FAX: 1(246) 228-8589. MR. DONALD W [...] | 2006-12-08 17:24:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT EAID ASEC BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2195 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JEFFREY P. COHEN TO TRAVEL TO [...] EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO JEFFREY P. COHEN, PROGRAM OFFICER, TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS ON OR ABOUT JANUARY 2-6, 2007, TO PROVIDE MISSION ASSISTANCE WITH THE FY07 OPERATIONAL PLAN. 2. EMBASSY POINT OF CONTACT IS USAID REPRESENTATIVE JAMES GOGGIN, PHONE: 1(246) 228-8070, FAX [...] | 2006-12-14 17:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAID BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2198 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO TODD HAMNER TO TRAVEL TO [...] EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO TODD HAMNER, USAID AGRICULTURE AND TRADE ADVISOR, TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS ON OR ABOUT DECEMBER 17-22, 2006, TO PROVIDE MISSION ASSISTANCE WITH THE FY07 OPERATIONAL PLAN. 2. EMBASSY POINT OF CONTACT IS USAID REPRESENTATIVE JAMES GOGGIN, TEL: 1(246 [...] | 2006-12-15 17:07:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAID AMGT BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2214 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CHEN AND ZAIDI [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Mi Chen and Irum Zaidi, HHS/CDC Epidemiologists, to travel to Roseau, Dominica, from January 20-27, 2007, for the purpose of discussing HIV case surveillance-related issues. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands that no assistance is requeste [...] | 2006-12-18 18:03:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA KSCA KHIV DO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2232 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO RODRIGUEZ FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Javier Rodriguez to travel to Antigua and Barbuda from January 2-4, 2007, for the purpose of performing an IASA management evaluation. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not required. 3. Embassy Bridgetown requests an out [...] | 2006-12-22 17:18:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2235 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WESTFALL, [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Treasury Tax Advisors Larry Westfall, James Kopidlansky, Richard Voskuil and Treasury Program Officer Stephanie Fugate, to travel to Antigua and Barbuda from February 4-9, 2007, for the purpose of providing CARICOM/COTA regional management tr [...] | 2006-12-22 18:31:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EFIN AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2250 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GREEN TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Robert Green, IRM/TSI/Employee, to provide computer logistics during office move, travel to Barbados on or about January 9-16, 2007. 2. Reservations are confirmed at the South Beach Resort and Vacation Club, Rockley at Accra, Christ Church - Tel [...] | 2006-12-27 17:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA AMGT EAID OVIP BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2265 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRITTON TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Ms. Avril Britton, Financial Support Advisor USAID/Jamaica to travel to Barbados on or about January 2-4, 2007 for to perform Section 1311 and Accruals Review. 2. Reservations are confirmed at the Coral Sands Beach Resort, Worthing, Christ Chu [...] | 2006-12-29 22:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN2266 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MULLINGS FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Audrey Mullings, OFDA/IRG consultant to travel to Dominica on or about January 9-12, 2007 to Co-facilitate Technical Assistance in Shelters and Shelter Management and Damage Assessment and Needs Workshops. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is no [...] | 2006-12-29 22:02:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ASEC OTRA DO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN239 | CARIBBEAN POLITICS: AN INSIDER'S VIEW [...] (C) Summary: Caribbean political campaigns are awash with money from a variety of sources, particularly wealthy expatriates seeking to influence governments, according to regional political consultant Peter Wickham. The availability of money favors ruling parties and has dramatically changed [...] | 2006-02-03 20:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CPAS CVIS EINV OFDP PINR SNAR XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN288 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO VIRGINIA GIDI FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Virginia Gidi for travel to Barbados 22-23 February. She will meet with core team members. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands that no assistance is required. 3. Embassy Bridgetown requests an outbrief be provided to the Political-Eco [...] | 2006-02-13 19:11:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA SOCI KHIV BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN290 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR WAHLBERG, MOTES [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Debra Wahlberg, Preston Motes and Laura Vinoly to travel to Barbados on February 22-23, 2006. 2. The purpose of this visit is to attend meetings with USAID personnel and to train USAID staff to operate the DEVIS Management, Monitoring and Eval [...] | 2006-02-14 17:03:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN291 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GREENE TO TRAVEL TO [...] AmEmbassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Ms. Robin Greene, Logistics Management Specialist for travel to Barbados March 11 - 18, 2006. The purpose of this mission is to attend the RSS Security Cooperation Conference. 2. Embassy assistance is requested. Hotel and transportation arra [...] | 2006-02-14 19:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN292 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR WILCOX TO [...] AmEmbassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Ms. Cynthia M. Wilcox, Supply Analyst for travel to Barbados March 12 - 18, 2006. The purpose of this mission is to attend the RSS Security Cooperation Conference. 2. Embassy assistance is requested. Hotel and transportation arrangements are [...] | 2006-02-14 19:16:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN296 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SUSANNA AULBACH [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Susanna Aulbach to travel to Antigua for the period February 19-22 and 23-26, 2006 and Barbados for the period February 22-23, 2006 2. The purpose of this visit is to conduct training for the project office staff and USAID personnel in the us [...] | 2006-02-16 15:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN297 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS DE [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Eduardo De La Cruz and Jose Fuentes to escort criminal Valentine Graham #A037189311 to St. Kitts on February 23, 2006. RSO understands that escorting officers will be return to U.S. on evening flight departing on February 23, 2006. [...] | 2006-02-16 15:57:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB SC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN298 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Ivory Young and Luis Alonzo to escort criminal Mandy Poleon #A041791282 to St. Lucia on February 16, 2006. 2. Embassy RSO has notified St. Lucia authorities of the details of the visit. Understand that further Embassy assistan [...] | 2006-02-16 15:58:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN300 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HUBERT WRIGHT [...] AmEmbassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. Hubert D. Wright, Engineer for travel to Saint Lucia February 22 - 24, 2006. The purpose of this mission is to visit the Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) Warehouse sites and meet with Embassy and contractor personnel on changes and work [...] | 2006-02-16 16:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN304 | 2005 OSAC CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT (OCSR) FOR [...] CHIEF OF MISSION (COM) responsibility extends to seven (7) independent nations of the Eastern Caribbean including: -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Barbados -- Dominica -- Grenada -- St. Kitts and Nevis -- St. Lucia -- St. Vincent and the Grenadines CONSUL GENERAL (CG),Bridgetown provides c [...] | 2006-02-17 12:52:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC KCRM KSAC BB GJ XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN310 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO TIMOTHY STEVENS FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Timothy N. Stevens, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA, to travel to Barbados March 19 - 26, 2006. The purpose of Mr. Stevens' trip is to serve as a technical advisor for collaborative research [...] | 2006-02-17 17:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAGR BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN311 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KAZUKO SAKATA FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Dr. Kazuko Sakata, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD),to travel to Barbados February 19 - 25, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for Dr. Sakata to attend the Winter Conference on Neural Pla [...] | 2006-02-17 17:43:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OTRA KSCA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN316 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DAVID ROBINSON FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to David G. Robinson, National Malacologist, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA/APHIS, for travel to Barbados March 19 - 26, 2006. The purpose of Dr. Robinson's trip is to conduct collaborative re [...] | 2006-02-17 19:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR OTRA BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN317 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TREASURY [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. Sciarini and Mr. Davidson for travel to Antigua March 5- 10, 2006. The purpose of travel is to meet with the Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) and the Office of National Drug and Money Laundering Control Policy (ONDCP). 2. Mr [...] | 2006-02-21 12:48:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA SNAR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN318 | QUARTERLY STATUS REPORT FOR EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN [...] (U) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION: ---------------------------------- AMERICAN EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN located on Barbados is comprised of 8 resident agencies housed in four separate facilities; the Chancery, the Admin Annex, the Consular building and the warehouse. Construction on t [...] | 2006-02-21 12:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN322 | QUARTERLY STATUS REPORT FOR EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN [...] (U) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION: ---------------------------------- AMERICAN EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN located on Barbados is comprised of 8 resident agencies housed in four separate facilities; the Chancery, the Admin Annex, the Consular building and the warehouse. Construction on t [...] | 2006-02-21 15:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN336 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Daniel Henderson, Gilbert Garcia, and Joseph Verge to escort criminal Craig Warner A037189320 to St. Kitts on February 22, 2006. RSO understands that escorting officers will be return to U.S. on evening flight departing on February [...] | 2006-02-22 17:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN337 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO OMAR GONZALEZ FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Omar Gonzalez, Deputy Director in the Caribbean Basin Agricultural Trade Office (CBATO),to travel to Antigua and Barbuda February 27 - March 1, 2006. Mr. Gonzalez will be conducting trade servicing with importers and retailers of food produc [...] | 2006-02-22 18:17:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN339 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR COASTAL [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants country clearance for Coastal International employee David Mitchell to travel to Bridgetown on March 1, 2006 - 28 February 2007. The purpose of this trip is to provide Cleared American Guard (CAG) support to the OBO construction project. 2. Reservat [...] | 2006-02-22 19:57:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN341 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WAHLBERG AND DE [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Debra Wahlberg and Pieter De Jong to travel to Barbados February 28-March 2, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the CHAMP Thematic Cooperating Group on Hazard Mitigation Policy and Planning meeting and make a brief presentation at this m [...] | 2006-02-22 20:52:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN348 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Jean Elliott and Eric Pecoraro to escort deportee Wayne Semple A#036521594 through Barbados to Guyana on February 27 - March 1, 2006 2. Embassy RSO has notified Barbados authorities of the details of the visit. Understand that [...] | 2006-02-23 19:30:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN350 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ASSISTANT USTR FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Assistant USTR for Labor Lewis Karesh for travel to Barbados February 25-28 to speak at the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) regional conference on trade and labor issues. 2. Per reftel, no embassy assistance is requ [...] | 2006-02-23 21:55:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ETRD OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN353 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FLYNN, [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for Flynn Consultant LLC furniture installers Julie Flynn, Clark Mahlebashian, Michael Pfrang and Robert Hester. The purpose of this trip is to install furniture in the NEC for the period March 12 2006 - April 9 2006. Please be i [...] | 2006-02-24 11:48:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN354 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Kirk Heim and Joseph Cicatello to escort deportee Deoraj Persaud A#041929097 through Barbados to Guyana on March 6-7, 2006. 2. Embassy RSO has notified Barbados authorities of the details of the visit. Understand that further [...] | 2006-02-24 11:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN355 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS ORR [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Jerry Orr and Linda Ryder to escort deportee Reco Omar Grimes A#096416134 to Barbados on March 8-10, 2006. 2. Embassy RSO has notified Barbados authorities of the details of the visit. Understand that further Embassy assistanc [...] | 2006-02-24 11:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN356 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MARCUS SINGLETON [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Marcus Singleton to travel to Barbados on February 26, 2006 to conduct a physical security assessment for USAID. 2. Point of contact is Sean Hall at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) 228-8589. 3. Entry requirements: A valid U.S. passport is [...] | 2006-02-24 17:02:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN362 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICE OFFICERS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE Officers Scott Burnside and Terry Florian to escort deportee Fazak Karim A#036430057 through Barbados to Guyana on March 13-15, 2006. ICE Officers will transit Barbados with the criminal alien March 13, while enroute to Guyana. The ICE Off [...] | 2006-02-27 12:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN363 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ROBERT K. COLE [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for OBO Construction Analyst Robert K. Cole. The purpose of this visit is to assist the Project Director during the period February 28th - March 10th 2006. Please be informed that safety shoes are required to gain access to the site. 2. Reserva [...] | 2006-02-27 12:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMLB AMGT ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN369 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DON T. CONLEE FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Don T. Conlee, Chief Scientist, Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),National Weather Service (NWS),to travel to Barbados March 5-6, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to service the hurrican [...] | 2006-02-27 20:18:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY KSCA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN371 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CLARK AND WISSMAN FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Kenneth Clark and Alphonse Wissman, Technical Representatives, Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),National Weather Service (NWS),to travel to Barbados March 9 - 12, 2006. Mr. Clark and Mr. [...] | 2006-02-28 12:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN372 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO YOON FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Steven S. Yoon, Epidemiologist, CDC, to travel to Barbados on March 16, 2006. Mr. Yoon will be lodging at the Grand Barbados hotel between his morning flight from Georgetown, Guyana and his late afternoon flight home. 2. Per refte [...] | 2006-02-28 12:41:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN395 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KAREN D. TURNER TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Ms. Karen D. Turner, USAID/J-Cars Mission Director to travel to Barbados on March 5-11, 2006. The purpose of this visit is the Mission's Director's monthly visit to Barbados to meet with CRP staff, US Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission and o [...] | 2006-03-02 22:34:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN397 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KAY LOGAN FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Kay Logan, Agricultural Marketing Intern, Caribbean Basin Agricultural Trade Office (CBATO),to travel to Barbados March 5 - 8, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to conduct market research on the food processing industry in the Easter [...] | 2006-03-03 16:57:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN426 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SANDRA ROSEMBAUM [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Sandra Rosenbaum to travel to Barbados for the period March 20-21 2006, Antigua March 21- 15 and Dominica March 25-28, 2006. 2. The purpose of this visit is to review security/safety of all Chemonics personnel contracted under the Caribbean O [...] | 2006-03-08 12:48:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN430 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CHANG-CHI CHU FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Dr. Chang-Chi Chu, Plant Physiologist, USDA to visit Barbados (03/21/06 - 03/26/06) and St. Vincent and the Grenadines (03/26/06 - 04-01-06). Dr. Chu will be visiting both countries to monitor the Chili Thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis H [...] | 2006-03-08 19:41:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAGR BB VC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN431 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO TIM HOLTZ TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Tim Holtz, Medical Officer, NCHSTP, CDC, HHS to transit Barbados en route to Guyana for the period March 25-26, 2006. 2. Embassy point of contact is Angela Davis, HIV/AIDS Technical Specialist, phone: 1(246) 228-8070, f [...] | 2006-03-08 21:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA XL BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN432 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO STEVEN YOON TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Steven Yoon, Epidemiologist, NCHSTP, CDC, HHS to transit Barbados en route to Guyana on March 16, 2006. 2. Embassy point of contact is Angela Davis, HIV/AIDS Technical Specialist, phone: 1(246) 228-8070, fax: 1(246)228 [...] | 2006-03-08 21:18:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA ASEC XL BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN443 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HOWARD BARNUM FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Howard Barnum, National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Office of Defense Programs, for travel to Barbados March 12 - 20, 2006. Mr. Barnum will be attending a conference on "Representation of Theory in Quantum" and presenting [...] | 2006-03-10 16:35:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ENRG TRGY KSCA KNNP BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN481 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. Keith Ford to travel to Barbados March 19 - 22, 2006 to attend the Comprehensive Disaster Management Forum. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Sean Hall at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. [...] | 2006-03-17 11:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN501 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PEACE CORPS [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Frances Asturias to travel to St. Lucia arriving March 22 and departing June 1, 2006. The purpose is to serve as management advisor for Peace Corps staff. 2. Post understands that Peace Corps Eastern Caribbean based in St [...] | 2006-03-21 17:24:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN502 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EMILE CORNEILLE TO [...] AmEmbassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for OBO Regional Director Emile Corneille to perform a site review of the construction project at the NEC March 21 - 23 2006. Please be informed that safety shoes are required to gain access to the site. 2. Reservations have been confirmed for [...] | 2006-03-21 18:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMLB AMGT ASEC BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN503 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for Project Developers Inc, (sub- contractors of Stronghold Engineering) personnel Jose D. Escobar, Jorge E. Villa, Alan C. Biddle, Brian W. Colson, Billy S. Crutchfield, Michael T. Dahl, Tiran L. Moats, Michael L. Reese, Lacy B [...] | 2006-03-21 19:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN516 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DAWN VEATCH FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Dawn Veatch, Assistant Manager, Flight Standards Division, FAA, for travel to Barbados from April 4-8, 2006. Ms. Veatch will be attending the 12th Regional Aviation Safety Oversight System (RASOS) Meeting. 2. Per reftel, Embassy u [...] | 2006-03-23 12:47:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAIR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN522 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JELINSKI, CAPPELLE, [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Federal Aviation Administration Officials James R. Jelinski, Operations Supervisor; Michelle Cappelle, International Specialist-Caribbean; and Michael Flores, Manager, International Regulatory Affairs and Technical Agreements; for trav [...] | 2006-03-23 19:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAIR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN529 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FITZPATRICK AND [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Lisa Fitzpatrick, Director and Deputy Director Ken Hunt, of CDC Global AIDS program to travel to Barbados for the period March 27-29, 2006. 2. Embassy point of contact is Angela Davis, HIV/AIDS Technical Specialist, phone: [...] | 2006-03-24 13:09:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA XL BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN557 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO TOM LAND FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Official Tom Land, Office of Air and Radiation, to travel to St. Vincent and the Grenadines from April 23 - 28, 2006. Mr. Land will be attending the Meeting of the Ozone Officers of the English-speaking [...] | 2006-03-30 12:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SENV TPHY KSCA VC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN571 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SUTHERLAND MILLER [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. Sutherland Miller to travel to Grenada on April 19-20, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) 228-8589. 3. Entry requirements [...] | 2006-04-03 17:11:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN576 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SUTHERLAND MILLER [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. Sutherland Miller to travel to Grenada on April 19-20, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) 228-8589. 3. Entry requirements [...] | 2006-04-04 10:55:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN612 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HERMENCE [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Hermence Matsotsa to St. Lucia for TDY from April 18 to September 16, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to serve a five month HIV/AIDS related Crisis Corps assignment in St. Lucia. 2. Post understands that Peace Corps Ea [...] | 2006-04-07 20:09:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN616 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DR. CHEPELINSKY FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Dr. Ana Chepelinsky, Program Officer, Division of International Relations, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH),for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis from April 25-May 1, 2006. Dr. Chepelinsky will be attending the [...] | 2006-04-10 18:48:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OTRA SC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN617 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO PERSAUD AND HURR FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Julian Persaud, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Senior Aviation Security Inspector, and Allan Hurr, TSA Representative, to travel to St. Kitts and Nevis from April 25-30, 2006. Mr. Persaud and Mr. Hurr will conduct air carrier s [...] | 2006-04-10 18:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA SC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN618 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SINGH, SMITH, AND [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Loretta McNeir, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Representative, and Clarence Singh and Teena Smith, TSA Aviation Security Inspectors, to travel to Barbados April 18-25, 2006. The travelers will monitor and observe air car [...] | 2006-04-10 19:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN634 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DIONNE JONES FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Dr. Dionne Jones, Health Science Administrator, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health (NIH),for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis April 25-May 1, 2006. Dr. Jones will be attending the Caribbean Health Research Council [...] | 2006-04-12 17:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO OTRA KSCA SC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN642 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO BARBER TO TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Dr. Charles Barber to travel to Dominica April 30 - May 6, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) 228-8589. 3. Entry requirement [...] | 2006-04-13 14:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA EAID DO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN648 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MICHAEL MCGEE FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Commercial Counselor Michael L. McGee for travel to Barbados April 18-20, 2006. The purpose of Mr. McGee's trip is Embassy consultations and outreach. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is required for hotel reservation [...] | 2006-04-13 15:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA BEXP BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN655 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BOOTHE TO TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Mr. Peter Boothe, Voucher Examiner, USAID/Jamaica to travel to Barbados on April 24-28, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) 228-8 [...] | 2006-04-19 21:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC OTRA EAID BB GY XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN666 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR HUNT, LAMBERT [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Barbara Hunt, Clement Lambert and Jodi Grant to travel to St. Lucia from April 30 - May 8, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel: (246) 228-8070 of fax (246) 228 [...] | 2006-04-20 17:33:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN689 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR KAREN D. TURNER [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Ms. Karen D. Turner, USAID/J-Car Mission Director to travel to Barbados on/about May 7-13, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) 22 [...] | 2006-04-25 03:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN690 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR LILY BESHAWRED [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Ms. Lily Beshawred, Acting Office Director, Office of Program Development and Management to travel to Barbados on/about May 7-13, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer [...] | 2006-04-25 03:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN692 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DR. CHEPELINSKY FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Dr. Chepelinsky to travel to St. Kitts and Nevis on April 25-May 1, for the purpose of attending the Caribbean Health Research Council Meeting. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not required. 3. Embassy Bridgetown reques [...] | 2006-04-25 11:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA OTRA TBIO SC BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN702 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO TRAVEL TO BARBADOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Debra Wahlberg and Preston Motes to travel to Barbados on May 9-12, 2006. to attend meetings with USAID personnel. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-807 [...] | 2006-04-27 14:57:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN703 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO PEREZ FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to George Perez, Senior Aviation Security Inspector,Transportation Security Administration, for travel to St. Lucia May 3-7, 2006. Mr. Perez is conducting air carrier station inspections of U.S. air carriers, and monitoring and observin [...] | 2006-04-27 15:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN704 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO GUARDIA FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Victor Guardia, Transporation Security Administration Civil Aviation Security Representative, for travel to Barbados May 14-18, 2006. Mr. Guardia is attending a seminar hosted by the Airports Council International. 2. Per reftel, [...] | 2006-04-27 15:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAIR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN705 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CHU FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Chang-Chi Chu, Plant Physiologist, USDA, for travel to Barbados May 1-13, 2006. Mr. Chu will be attending the insecticide trial for Chili Thrips on Pima Cotton. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not needed. No hote [...] | 2006-04-27 17:31:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN761 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JACK AMEN FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Jack Amen, Veterinary Attache, Embassy Santo Domingo, to travel to Barbados, May 7-8, for a site visit. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands assistance is not needed. Per reftel, no hotel information was given. 3. Embassy Bridge [...] | 2006-05-04 16:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAGR BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN762 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JUDITH WILSON FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Judith Wilson, Chief, Environmental Complicance Unit, Minerals Management Service (MMS),Department of the Interior, to travel to St. Kitts and Nevis, May 22-26. The purpose of her trip is to participate as a U.S. delegate at the Scientific [...] | 2006-05-04 16:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY TSPL EPET SC |
| 06BRIDGETOWN763 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WILLIAM LANG FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Dr. William Lang, Program Director, Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE),National Science Foundation, for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis, May 23-26. Dr. Lang will attend the International Whaling Commission Workshop on Seismic and Marine Mammals. [...] | 2006-05-04 17:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA OTRA TBIO SC BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN772 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ANJABEBU ASRAT [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Anjabebu Asrat to travel to St. Lucia for TDY from May 8 to October 31, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to serve as six month HIV/AIDS related Crisis Corps assignment in St. Lucia. 2. Post understands that Peace Corps [...] | 2006-05-05 13:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN804 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JULIE CICCARONE [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Country Desk Officer Julie Ciccarone to travel to St. Lucia for TDY from May 22 to June 4, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the close of service conference for Peace Corps volunteers as well as attending training [...] | 2006-05-10 16:57:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN826 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR RICHARD PYLE TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Special Services Officer, Richard Pyle to travel to St. Lucia for TDY from May 11 to May 17, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet staff and volunteers in St. Kitts and St. Lucia. 2. Embassy Bridgetown would like to [...] | 2006-05-12 19:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA SC ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN841 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO TRAVEL TO GRENADA [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to the following persons for travel to Grenada on or about May 23, 2006. Nidhi Tandon Shannon Pritchard Hannah Dupal Anna Biroo Christine Wilson Catherine Ormond Mary Seraphin Julia Winston Dauphine Cato Ammorelle Edwards Joclyn Trumpet [...] | 2006-05-15 16:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA GJ XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN855 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MICHAEL TAYLOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to USAID personnel Michael Taylor for travel to Grenada on May 23 - 25, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend meetings related to the review and close out of GBAR SME activity at Belmont Estate. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not req [...] | 2006-05-16 21:03:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA GJ XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN860 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR KAREN D. TURNER [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Ms. Karen D. Turner, USAID/J-Cars Mission Director to travel to Barbados on/about June 5-8, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) 22 [...] | 2006-05-17 20:15:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN873 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ROBIDOUX AND PEOPLES [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to U.S. Treasury Advisors Alan Robidoux and Charles Peoples for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis May 20-24, 2006. Travelers will conduct a management training needs assessment for the Revenue Authority in response to a request submitted through CA [...] | 2006-05-19 18:05:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA OTRA TBIO SC BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN88 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE OFFICERS TO ESCORT [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for ICE officers Joseph Cicatello and Scott Wolfe to escort Jageshwar Ramnauth through Barbados to Guyana on January 16, 2005. RSO understands that the escorts will stay at Le Meridein Hotel located in Georgetown, Guyana. 2. Embassy RSO has no [...] | 2006-01-13 20:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN889 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CAMACHO FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),Aviation Safety Inspector Joaquin Camacho for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis on May 31, 2006. Mr. Camacho will perform en-route inspections to "certificate Holder Coastal Air as part of work program." [...] | 2006-05-23 17:23:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN890 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HALLDORSON, BACHMAN, [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to U.S. Treasury Advisors Marvin Halldorson, Shirley Bachman, and Rickey Hector for travel to Antigua and Barbuda June 4-30. Mr. Halldorson departs June 24. The Treasury Advisors will conduct a Gaming Course Phase I and Internet Gaming workshop [...] | 2006-05-23 19:22:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN OTRA AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN891 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO COTTER FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Offical, Office of International Affairs (OIA) Patrick Cotter to travel to Antigua and Barbuda from June 3-10, 2006. Mr. Cotter will attend the Third Caribbean Environmental Forum and Exhibition in colla [...] | 2006-05-24 19:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN896 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO NOAA EMPLOYEES FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) employees Jeffrey Breiwick, Robert Rownell, Phillip Clapham, Megan Dohahue, Douglas Demaster, Peggy Krahn, Rick Leduc, Da [...] | 2006-05-25 19:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY EFIS OTRA AMGT KSCA SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN899 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HAMILTON TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Mr. O'Neil Hamilton to travel to Antigua for the period May 30 to June 2, 2006 and to Dominica June 6-10, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to conduct four Public Outreach 101 training workshops. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not requir [...] | 2006-05-25 19:37:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA AC DO XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN906 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO BERNARD LINK FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Bernard E. Link, Regional Environmental Officer, for travel to Antigua and Barbuda June 4-10, 2006. Mr. Link will participate in the Third Caribbean Environmental Forum and Exhibition in collaboration with the 12th Annual Wider Caribbean Was [...] | 2006-05-26 15:32:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN913 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO RICHARD DAVIS FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Richard Davis, Management and Program Analyst, Center for Disease Control (CDC),for travel to Antigua and Barbuda June 4-11, 2006. Mr. Davis will participate in the Third Caribbean Environmental Forum and Exhibition and will present the PAH [...] | 2006-05-26 20:09:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA KSCA AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN924 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KRUSE AND HILLARY FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service employees Edward Kruse and Anne Hillary. Mr. Kruse will visit Antigua and Barbuda June 5-9, to meet with the Caribbean Health Institute and government representatives on [...] | 2006-05-30 18:22:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AC ST XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN936 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CIOMPERLIK FOR TRAVEL [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to Michael Ciomperlik, Entomologist, Plant Protection and Quarantine Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture for travel to Barbados July 13-21, 2006, and September 24-October 7, 2006. Mr. Ciompe [...] | 2006-05-31 21:09:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EAGR BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN937 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WACKOWSKI AND [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Stephen Wackowski, Professional Staff Member, Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee (SCOM) for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis June 14-21, 2006. Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Todd Bertoson, Senator Ted Ste [...] | 2006-05-31 21:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA OREP AFIN SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN944 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HURR AND VON GIEJER [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Representative Allan Hurr and TSA Senior Aviation Security Inspector Dan Von Giejer for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis June 5-9, 2006. The travelers will assess security conditions and inspect the [...] | 2006-06-01 20:31:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN951 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MCLANAHAN AND ALLAN [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Officials Elizabeth McLanahan, International Affairs Specialist, and Heather Allan, International Affairs Fellow, for travel to Antigua and Barbuda June 5-7, 2006. Travelers will attend [...] | 2006-06-02 18:18:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SENV AC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN952 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO OLTMANS AND JOHNSON [...] Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants clearance to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Officials Samuel J. Oltmans, Physicist, and Bryan J. Johnson, Chemist, for travel to Barbados June 25-30, 2006. Travelers will set up a surface ozone monitoring site and balloon oz [...] | 2006-06-02 18:18:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY SENV BB XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN953 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LISA ANDREWS FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Lisa Andrews, National Park Service, Outdoor/Educational Specialist, Big Cypress National Preserve, for travel to Grenada June 19 - July 1, 2006. Ms. Andrews will provide technical assistance to the Grenada Park Flight Project on behalf of t [...] | 2006-06-02 18:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA TPHY SCUL SENV KSCA GJ XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN963 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO U.S. IWC DELEGATION [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to members of the U.S. International Whaling Commission (IWC) Delegation for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis. Members of the delegation will begin arriving on/about June 7, and will depart o/a June 22. The delegation will attend the 58th Annual [...] | 2006-06-07 14:26:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA ETRD SENV EFIS KSCA SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN964 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JONATHAN [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Mr. Jonathan Schofield, Special Agent, to travel to Barbados June 10-15, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) 228-8589. 3. Ent [...] | 2006-06-07 14:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN965 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MICHAEL MAURY [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Mr. Michael Maury Cassell, Health Development Officer, USAID, to travel to Barbados July 12-21, 2006. 2. Hotel reservations have been made at the Coral Sands Hotel, Worthing, Christ Church, Tel (246)-435- 6617. Your confirmation number is [...] | 2006-06-07 15:23:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID OTRA BB |
| 06BRIDGETOWN966 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR KAREN D. TURNER [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance for Ms. Karen D. Turner, USAID/J-Cars Mission Director to travel to St. Kitts on/about June 20-22, 2006. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Rohrer at Tel.(246)228-8070 or Fax. (246) [...] | 2006-06-07 15:25:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN97 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LISA FITZPATRICK [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to Lisa Fitzpatrick, CDC Global AIDS program to travel to Barbados on January 18-19, 2006 to participate in CHART/I-TECH nursing working group meeting. 2. Understand Embassy assistance is not required. If you have any questions, please contact Se [...] | 2006-01-17 16:48:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA BB EAID |
| 06BRIDGETOWN993 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO WHALEY FOR TRAVEL TO [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to David Whaley, Professional Staff Member, House Resources Committee (HRESO),for travel to St. Kitts and Nevis from June 15-21, 2006. Mr. Whaley will attend the International Whaling Commission's 58th Annual Meeting as part of the U.S. Deleg [...] | 2006-06-09 20:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN OTRA SC XL |
| 06BRIDGETOWN997 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO USPS AND DOS [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Dennis Delehanty, Director of Postal Affairs, Bureau of International Organizations, U.S. Dept. of State; Michael Regan, Director, International Postal Affairs, U.S. Postal Service; Brian Hutchins, International Postal Affairs Specialist, U.S [...] | 2006-06-09 21:24:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AORC VC XL |
| 06BRUSSELS1095 | BELGIAN STEWPOT: March 17, 2006 [...] (U) Although Belgium has one of the highest per capita income levels of the EU ($35,749 in 2005),Belgian households still struggle to balance their budgets, due to high prices for some basics. Electricity prices, for example, are near 30 percent above those of France. A recent survey compa [...] | 2006-03-30 13:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EWWT EAIR BE |
| 06BRUSSELS2199 | BELGIAN STEWPOT: June 26, 2006 [...] (U) In May, EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding levied a general criticism at European countries for lagging behind on implementing fast new technologies. The commissioner lamented Europe's slow take-up of new high-speed communications technologies such as broadband internet, te [...] | 2006-06-27 13:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV EAID EWWT EAIR BE |
| 06BRUSSELS3529 | ORAL MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-17 15:42:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL |
| 06BUCHAREST1176 | YOUR JULY 27 MEETING WITH ROMANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. President Traian Basescu's July 27-28 trip to Washington, including his meeting with you at the White House, offers an opportunity to reaffirm U.S. appreciation for Romania's contributions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and more broadly the Global War on Terror. Basescu has anchored his [...] | 2006-07-24 16:29:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM ECON PINR IZ RO |
| 06BUCHAREST1298 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LANTOS VISIT TO ROMANIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Bucharest warmly welcomes your visit to Romania. Romania has been a staunch ally, providing troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Balkans. President Traian Basescu has championed a strong strategic partnership with the United States, maintaining an outward-looking tr [...] | 2006-08-18 17:10:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP PREL ECON RO |
| 06BUCHAREST1385 | ROMANIA: CODEL LANTOS DISCUSSIONS WITH ROMANIAN [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with the Romanian President, Prime Minister, and Foreign Minister August 31, Congressman Tom Lantos (D-California) expressed appreciation for Romania's military contributions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Balkans. He briefed on his recent visit to Lebanon, [...] | 2006-09-05 15:59:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OREP HU LE AF IZ IS RO |
| 06BUCHAREST1646 | FORMER PNL PRESIDENTS EXPELLED AS PARTY TURMOIL [...] (C) Summary: Internecine squabbling in the National Liberal Party (PNL) has claimed more prominent critics of Prime Minister Tariceanu. Two former PNL Presidents, Valeriu Stoica and Theodor Stolojan, are the biggest names in a long list of party leaders expelled in recent weeks. The two re [...] | 2006-10-26 16:02:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI RO |
| 06BUCHAREST1694 | RAFO REFINERY – A TROJAN HORSE FOR RUSSIAN MAFIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The RAFO oil refinery is embroiled in a web of corruption, money laundering, fraud and criminal charges involving shady entities in Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria. Russian-Israeli organized crime figures Mikhail Cernoy and Iakov Goldovskiy are believed to be behind the purchase [...] | 2006-11-07 15:37:00 | Embassy Bucharest | SECRET | ENRG ECON PREL RO |
| 06BUCHAREST1797 | ROMANIA - ENERGY SCANDAL UNFURLING, AMCIT HELD ON [...] (U) SUMMARY. An unfolding energy-related scandal is causing turmoil among Romania's political and economic elites, with allegations of corruption and influence peddling hitting two government ministers, among others. The accusations come with the approach of winter and amid political attacks [...] | 2006-11-29 16:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG PGOV KCOR CACS ECON PREL RO |
| 06BUCHAREST1810 | ROMANIAN PM TARICEANU UNDER FIRE AS PNL REVOLT [...] (C) Summary. A significant number of National Liberal Party (PNL) figures have joined Agriculture Minister Flutur in support of the rebel Stoica-Stolojan faction, handing Romanian Prime Minister Tariceanu his biggest Liberal Party leadership challenge to date. The breakaway faction has stren [...] | 2006-12-04 15:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI KCOR RO |
| 06BUCHAREST287 | ROMANIAN AND UKRAINIAN VIEWS ON PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Romanian MFA officials expressed cautious optimism that the new bilateral commission set up by President Traian Basescu and Ukrainian President Yushchenko could yield concrete results in resolving historic problems between the two countries such as competing territorial claims ove [...] | 2006-02-17 16:43:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PBTS MD UP RO |
| 06BUCHAREST359 | TRANSYLVANIA REGIONAL GOVERNMENT, FOURTH QUARTER [...] (U) Summary: This cable summarizes recent newsworthy regional and local controversies in the last quarter of 2005. Common themes during this period included local government corruption and stormy relations between members of the governing alliance at the local level, sometimes counterbalance [...] | 2006-03-01 15:40:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV SOCI RO |
| 06BUCHAREST629 | ROMANIA: DAS KRAMER, AMBASSADOR HODGES - [...] (C) Summary: DAS David Kramer and Ambassador to Moldova Heather Hodges shared views with leading Romanian interlocutors on recent developments involving Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia during a visit to Bucharest on April 3-4. Although Romanian interlocutors described growing strains in [...] | 2006-04-18 07:57:00 | Embassy Bucharest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MD RS BO UP KDEM PHUM RO |
| 06BUDAPEST2004 | HUNGARY'S LOCAL ELECTIONS: OPPOSITION GAINS [...] (C) Summary: With voter turn-out at a record 53%, the opposition scored significant victories in local elections October 1, with FIDESZ-KDNP securing a majority in all but one of Hungary's 19 county assemblies and electing mayors in the majority of large cities throughout the country. The g [...] | 2006-10-03 15:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM HU |
| 06BUENOSAIRES2805 | ARGENTINA: STAFFDEL MEETING WITH MFA ON AMIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 19 DCM, Emboffs, and visiting Staffdel members met with Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Luis Cappagli to discuss the recent Interpol response to the AMIA case and tri-border issues. Staffdel members underlined the importance of responding to INTERPOL Secretary Gener [...] | 2006-12-21 18:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI |
| 06CAIRO1351 | NEXT STEPS FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: Sometime in the next six years, Egypt will undergo a leadership succession. The United States' goals for this succession should be to promote an opening to establish a representative government that will secure Egyptian stability, prosperity, and friendship for a gener [...] | 2006-03-06 12:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EG |
| 06CAIRO1636 | JERICHO PRISON CRISIS PROMPTS CANCELLATION OF [...] (C) Summary. Local sources confirm that the Jericho prison crisis in the West Bank has prompted the postponement of an expected visit to Israel by Egyptian Intelligence Minister Omar Soliman scheduled to begin March 15, as well as the postponement of travel to Egypt by Palestinian President [...] | 2006-03-15 14:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC KPAL EG IS |
| 06CAIRO258 | PRESIDENTIAL SPOKEMAN'S STATEMENT FOLLOWING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-18 11:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SY IZ IS IR EG UN IAEA |
| 06CAIRO358 | CODEL WOLF MEETINGS WITH GOE MINISTERS [...] (C) In January 15 meetings with the Ministers of Interior, Justice, and Trade-Industry, as well as with senior MFA officials, Congressman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) pressed the GOE on the Ayman Nour case, as well as religious freedom, support for the U.S. in international fora, and discussed regio [...] | 2006-01-23 11:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP KDEM PHUM KIRF EG IR MFA |
| 06CAIRO3704 | EGYPT: MAY 2006 MONTHLY ECONOMIC REPORT [...] In this edition: The People's Assembly passes new economic legislation, and reform of tax administration continues. Public sector wages are increased, as the GOE opens a debate on petroleum subsidies and the future of the petroleum sector. The GOE gets closer to settlement of some non-perfo [...] | 2006-06-14 08:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG EWWT SENV EG |
| 06CAIRO5028 | EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT REACTION TO UN SECURITY [...] (C) During an August 14 discussion of regional issues, MFA Assistant Minister for Arab Affairs Hany Khalaf shared with poloff the text (below) of an "oral message" from Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit that he said would be delivered in UN Security Council P-5 member state capitals and Israel. Th [...] | 2006-08-14 13:28:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER EG LE IS |
| 06CAIRO5779 | EGYPT: QUARTERLY ECONOMIC REPORT [...] In this edition: The Central Bank intervenes to raise interest rates, parliament decreases stamp taxes and considers a single Treasury account, while the GOE increases cooperation with China. Industry organizations sign a cooperative agreement with major banks to finance new factories. Egypt [...] | 2006-09-14 10:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG EWWT EG |
| 06CAIRO6035 | GOOGLE'S VIEWS ON EGYPT'S ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 14, Google,s Regional Manager for the Middle East and North Africa Sherif Iskander gave econoff an overview of Google,s business in the region and opined optimistically about the improvement of Egypt,s business environment and economy, though with some reservations [...] | 2006-09-26 08:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINT EINV ETRD KCOR KGIT PHUM EG CH |
| 06CAIRO6524 | EGYPT: MONTHLY ECONOMIC REPORT [...] (U) IN THIS EDITION: Ramadan begins, and consumer prices rise. Egypt's credit rating remains unchanged, but interest rates for farmers decrease. The Ministry of Investment drafts changes to the investment law, as on-line trading and a new stock index are launched. Egypt's Minister of Enviro [...] | 2006-10-23 16:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG EWWT EG |
| 06CAIRO6582 | SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS'S OCTOBER 21 MEETING WITH [...] (C) In an introductory meeting October 21, Intelligence Chief Omar Soliman reviewed Egyptian thinking on Sudan and Darfur with U.S. Presidential Envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios. Despite tense relations with Khartoum, Egypt is working to resolve the conflict in Darfur and to bolster the stabi [...] | 2006-10-29 14:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER EAID EG SU |
| 06CAIRO6748 | EGYPT: MINISTER OF ELECTRICITY ON NUCLEAR, CUTTING [...] (SBU) Minister of Electricity and Energy (MOE) Hassan Younes reported on November 2 that the GOE has not yet finally decided to pursue nuclear power development, but may do so following the presentation of an economic analysis to a PM-chaired Supreme Council on Energy meeting on November 7. Th [...] | 2006-11-07 09:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV TRGY KNNP IAEA EG |
| 06CAIRO6953 | EGYPT: BAHAI CASE POSTPONED UNTIL DECEMBER 2 [...] (SBU) As anticipated (reftel),on November 20 Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) again postponed the GOE's appeal of an April 4 decision by a lower administrative court, which had ruled that Egypt's Baha'is have the right to receive GOE identity cards. The SAC acknowledged receipt of [...] | 2006-11-22 11:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF EG |
| 06CAIRO7100 | (C) EGYPTIAN AND ARAB LEAGUE VIEWS ON SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary: Egypt, bilaterally and via its strong influence over the Arab League (AL),hopes to help stabilize Somalia and prevent Islamic extremists from taking over. Egypt appears to be hedging its bets with the powerful Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) in hopes of bolstering its more moder [...] | 2006-12-07 16:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC MARR EG ET SO |
| 06CAIRO7133 | OCTOBER - NOVEMBER ECONOMIC REPORT [...] IN THIS EDITION: MACROECONOMIC: 2. INFLATION: Highest rate in two years 3. MONETARY POLICY: Interest rate increase 4. FDI: $7.5-8b by year-end? 5. FDI: One-stop Shops 6. CAPITAL MARKETS: Enhanced regulatory regime 7. UNEMPLOYMENT: Survey shows unemployment down 8. MO [...] | 2006-12-13 14:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG EWWT EG |
| 06CAIRO7199 | SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE PRESSING FOR RESUMPTION OF [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel demarche with Arab League Secretariat African Affairs Office Director Samir Hosny on SIPDIS December 20, urging the League to use its contacts with Somali Islamic Courts (CIC) and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) figures to help avoid military clashes, to r [...] | 2006-12-20 12:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR ARABL EG SO |
| 06CAIRO73 | American Business Leadership Trainers Reach [...] SUMMARY: American business leadership trainers Kay Westerfield and Kathy Holland captivated audiences of Egyptian women entrepreneurs and other business people in workshops Dec. 8-15. The programs reached everyone from veteran businesswomen in Cairo and Alexandria to aspiring Minya entrepre [...] | 2006-01-04 14:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC OIIP EG |
| 06CAIRO971 | IRAQ: EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE WELCOME FINAL [...] (U) Following the public release February 17 of final election results by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI),both the Government of Egypt and Arab League publicly welcomed the conclusion of Iraq's electoral process and called for the rapid formation of a government of nation [...] | 2006-02-15 16:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER KPAO OPRC EG IZ |
| 06CALCUTTA442 | POVERTY IN THE EAST INDIAN STATE OF BIHAR FOSTERS INFECTIOUS [...] SUMMARY: September 6-7, ConGen visited the East Indian state of Bihar to assess its public health issues. Bihar, India's poorest state, presently has 19 polio infections this year, second only to its neighbor Uttar Pradesh (UP),which has 291 cases as of September 25. Local officials with t [...] | 2006-09-26 11:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON KHIV SOCI KGLB KSCI IN |
| 06CARACAS1426 | BCV'S ABILITY TO DEFEND BOLIVAR WEAKENED [...] (SBU) After delaying the issuance of its financial statements for a month, the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) finally published its March 2006 financial statement showing cumulative 2006 first quarter losses of USD 136 million. These losses are mainly due to the increasing cost of BCV's effo [...] | 2006-05-18 14:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ECON PGOV VE |
| 06CARACAS1789 | CHAVEZ AND THE RHETORIC OF HATE [...] (C) President Hugo Chavez has successfully filled the Venezuelan political lexicon with hate-inspiring concepts to create and enlarge fissures within Venezuelan society and cement his domestic support. Unfortunately, it is already changing the way average Venezuelans think and act. Since tak [...] | 2006-06-19 17:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM SCUL VE |
| 06CARACAS3347 | BRV: DEMARCHE ON CUBA AND THE IBERO-AMERICAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-08 14:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CU EU PHUM VZ |
| 06CARACAS3476 | CHAVEZ AND ROSALES MOBILIZE HUGE CROWDS IN FINAL [...] (C) Summary. Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales and President Chavez both held their last major campaign rallies in Caracas November 25 and 26, respectively. Rosales delivered a milestone stump speech November 25 to hundreds of thousands of supporters, easily his biggest campaign rally to d [...] | 2006-11-27 21:48:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
| 06CARACAS3507 | CHAVEZ DIRTY TRICKS, THE ROSALES "BUBBLE," AND THE [...] (C) Summary. Apart from a few rock-throwing attacks by Chavistas, the Rosales and Chavez campaigns have to date largely stayed away from each other. However, the December 3 presidential election will inevitably put ardent activists of both camps in close proximity. Both the Chavez and Rosale [...] | 2006-11-30 22:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ASEC VE |
| 06CARACAS3572 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: WINNERS AND LOSERS [...] (C) Summary. The National Electoral Council (CNE) officially declared President Chavez the winner of the December 3 election on December 5; he was re-elected for six more years. While the presidential election did not usher in any tectonic shifts, it did reveal some clear winners and losers. [...] | 2006-12-08 15:01:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL VE |
| 06CARACAS3604 | POST-ELECTION: CAN ROSALES STAY THE COURSE? [...] (C) SUMMARY Although he lost to President Chavez by a substantial margin on December 3, Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales emerged from the presidential election as Venezuela's preeminent opposition leader. It remains to be seen whether the momentum Rosales enjoyed as a candidate will continue. [...] | 2006-12-12 20:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL VE |
| 06CARACAS656 | CHAVEZ USES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY FOR EMBASSY [...] (C) An estimated 2,500 protesters, supported by prominent Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials, staged a demonstration at the Embassy on March 8 to protest the U.S. government's policies in Iraq. The group's leadership, National Assembly deputies Celia Flores and Desiree Santos, p [...] | 2006-03-10 18:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC VE |
| 06CARACAS698 | ANOTHER TRANSPORTISTA PROTEST OUTSIDE EMBASSY [...] (U) The transport workers held a small peaceful demonstration on March 15 outside the Embassy. This, like the February 23 demonstration (ref a),was likely organized by the BRV. At about 1 pm roughly two dozen almost empty buses arrived at the Embassy. The caravan had been driving around t [...] | 2006-03-16 11:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KDEM PGOV VE |
| 06CARACAS913 | BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: RUSSIAN CHOPPERS ARRIVE [...] (U) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presided over the formal handover of three Russian MI-17 helicopters to the Venezuelan Army's helicopter battalion in Yaracuy State on April 3. The three aircraft, which arrived in Venezuela unassembled on February 21, are part of a contract Chavez annou [...] | 2006-04-04 12:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MASS VE |
| 06CASABLANCA571 | Tsunami Destroys Casablanca - Next Thursday [...] (U) On Monday afternoon, May 22, 2006, hundreds of Moroccan children returned home from school with a dire prediction that a giant tsunami would strike Casablanca in a mere three days. Some schools threatened closures and word of the disaster washed over the city sending people scurrying to [...] | 2006-05-26 14:45:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CACS ZH ZT MO |
| 06CHENGDU1252 | HHS SECRETARY SEES SOUTHWEST CHINA HEALTH CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael O. Leavitt visited rural health-care providers in Sichuan Province and met with Central Government and Provincial health authorities on southwest China's health-care challenges. While touring the small village of Yujian, about tw [...] | 2006-12-12 11:18:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON ELAB PGOV SCUL SENV TBIO CH |
| 06CHENNAI393 | TAMIL NADU ELECTION: DRAMATIC CHANGES AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With Tamil Nadu state assembly elections slated for May 8, intense political activity is changing the shape of party alliances. Vaiko, an LTTE supporter (Reftel) and fiery orator, has led his party out of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) fold to join hands with his former fo [...] | 2006-03-06 11:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER IN |
| 06CHIANGMAI20 | ANGER OVER THAILAND'S EARLY HARVEST AGREEMENT FUELS FTA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-20 10:21:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN WTRO EAGR PGOV CH TH |
| 06COLOMBO759 | SRI LANKA: ICRC NOTES DISTURBING TRENDS SINCE [...] (C) In a May 9 meeting with poloff, ICRC Deputy Head of Mission Peter Krakolinig and Protection Coordinator Christoph Sutter said that they believed that their access to Government-held detainees is very good. Sutter estimated the number of detainees held under Emergency Regulations to whom [...] | 2006-05-10 12:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER PGOV CE |
| 06COLOMBO91 | BFIF FY06 PROPOSALS [...] US-MALDIVES FRIENDSHIP WEEK: (A) JUSTIFICATION: THE MALDIVES TRADE FAIR HAS SEEN CONSIDERABLE GROWTH OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS IN TERMS OF COMPANY PARTICIPATION, COVERAGE, AND SIGNIFICANCE IN THE MALDIVES COMMERCIAL CALENDAR (REF C). IT REMAINS THE PRIMARY MEANS THROUGH WHICH US COMPANIES CA [...] | 2006-01-13 06:15:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ECON EFIC ETRD CE MV |
| 06DAKAR1299 | SENEGALESE REACTION TO U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) On June 1, the Ambassador and DCM called on President Wade to deliver Ref A points orally, leaving him a copy of the transcript of the Secretary,s press conference. The Ambassador reminded Wade that they had discussed his planned visit to Iran when the Ambassador presented her credentials [...] | 2006-06-01 14:27:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH IR SG |
| 06DAKAR2030 | DIAS FATHER AND SON ARRESTED, QUESTIONED ABOUT [...] (U) Jean-Paul Dias, head of the center right party BCG, and his son, Barthelemy, leader of the "Socialist Vision" movement within the Socialist Party (PS),were both arrested last week in an unusual display of force. Jean-Paul Dias was detained in Rebeuss Prison until his health failed, at wh [...] | 2006-08-22 18:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CASC PINS KJUS SG |
| 06DAMASCUS1055 | SARG'S NEW VP SHAR'A: PROMOTED OR MOVED ASIDE, [...] (C) Summary: Observers here express uncertainty about the degree to which former FM Farouk al-Shara'a received a promotion when President Bashar al-Asad moved him from the Foreign Ministry to the Vice Presidency. One contact sees it as a SARG signal that it is ready to re-engage with the U.S [...] | 2006-03-09 14:21:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY |
| 06DAMASCUS141 | KHADDAM, UNIIIC, AND A POSSIBLE CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (C) Summary: Polchief met January 8 with XXXXXXXXXXXX, a long-standing Embassy contact, who described possible motives for the interviews being given by former Syrian VP Khaddam, as well as increased Alawite dissatisfaction with President Asad. XXXXXXXXXXXX also described a threatening outbu [...] | 2006-01-09 13:42:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY |
| 06DAMASCUS2685 | Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Cuba, Syria/Ukraine, [...] Summary: Papers reported that Deputy Foreign Minister Dr. Faysal Miqdad conveyed an oral massage from President Asad to President Fidel Castro of Cuba during his meeting with Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque. The message focused on recent political developments in the Middle East and [...] | 2006-06-08 12:55:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 06DAMASCUS2822 | Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/US, Syria/Venezuela, [...] Summary: Syrian papers reported that FM Walid al-Mouallem received James Abourezek, Chairman of the American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee and former US Senator, and that they talked about American-Syrian relations, the situation in Iraq, and the Arab-Israel conflict. In a statement to S [...] | 2006-06-14 09:08:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 06DAMASCUS2976 | HUMAN RIGHTS ROUND-UP: LABWANI TRIAL CONTINUES; [...] (C) LABWANI TRIAL CONTINUES: The trial of political activist Kamal Labwani continued June 19 at the Damascus Criminal Court, with numerous family members and Syrian activists present, as well as Poloff and a Finnish Embassy representative. Labwani, who faces charges of inciting a foreign p [...] | 2006-06-20 14:00:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SY |
| 06DAMASCUS3945 | Damascus Media Reaction: UNSC Resolution on Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers gave prominent coverage to the adoption of UNSC Resolution No. 1701, with detailed descriptions of its contents. Papers also reported a press statement by Lebanese Foreign Minister Salloukh praising the UN Human Rights Council's resolution condemning the Israeli aggress [...] | 2006-08-13 13:00:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 06DAMASCUS4609 | Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Iran, UNGA Session, [...] Summary: Syrian papers today reported the visit to Damascus of Ali Larijani, Head of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, and his meetings with President Asad and VP Shara, focusing on regional and international developments, especially in Iraq, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian [...] | 2006-09-21 13:13:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 06DAMASCUS5304 | Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Senegal, Syria/Oman, Syrian [...] Summary: Syrian papers today (Nov. 14) reported that President Abdullah Wad of Senegal received an oral message from President Asad on bilateral relations and regional and international developments. The message was conveyed by Minister of Information Dr. Mohsen Bilal. The Senegalese presi [...] | 2006-11-14 14:10:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
| 06DARESSALAAM1430 | TANZANIA'S FY06 BFIF PROGRAMS [...] (U) SUMMARY. FY 2006 funds from the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) enabled Post's participation in the 30th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF) and the International Franchise Expo (IFE) both held in June 2006. By exhibiting with the first-prize winning USA pavilion at t [...] | 2006-08-23 09:18:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN BEXP BTIO ECON EINV ETRD ADPM TZ |
| 06DHAKA1561 | FINAL APPEAL BY KIBRIAS REJECTED BY APELLATE COURT [...] On March 20, the Appellate Division of the High Court rejected the appeal of the Kibria family to re-open the investigation of the murder case. The judge ruled from the bench, affirming the earlier holding that only the trial court had the jurisdiction to determine whether or not a new invest [...] | 2006-03-21 10:28:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | BG KCRM PGOV PHUM |
| 06DHAKA6539 | KHALEDA ZIA ASSURES AMBASSADOR HER PARTY OPPOSES [...] (SBU) Late November 1, Ambassador and poloff (notetaker) called on former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia at her residence on the military cantonment. Morshed Khan, recently Foreign Minister, and Manan Bhuiyan, secretary general of her Bangladesh Nationalist Party, were also present. 2. (C) Amb [...] | 2006-11-02 09:23:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM BG |
| 06DILI213 | EAST TIMOR UPDATE: ARMY RETURNS TO BARRACKS AS GOET URGES [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy's current assessment is that the potential for politically motivated violence in East Timor in the near future appears to be de-escalating. Although the likelihood of imminent violence appears low, the ongoing political and constitutional crisis caused by Prime Minis [...] | 2006-05-05 15:36:00 | Embassy Dili | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT |
| 06DJIBOUTI341 | REQUEST FOR AGREMENT [...] (U) Ambassador passed reftel notice on March 13 to Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamoud Ali Youssuf. The Minister stated that he was certain Djibouti would grant agrement. Ambassador followed up March 16 in a phone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. We will continue to press [...] | 2006-03-17 05:57:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | APER |
| 06DJIBOUTI383 | DJIBOUTI RESPONSE ON SOMALI PIRACY SUSPECTS [...] (C) Ambassador met 3/26 with Acting Foreign Minister Badri Ali Bagoreh and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Bilateral Affairs Director Mohamed Ali Hassan as a follow up to reftel (B) request to the Government of Djibouti on the suspected Somali pirates. Bagoreh and Hassan advised Ambassador [...] | 2006-03-27 12:15:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHSA SO DJ |
| 06DJIBOUTI75 | FAX RECEIVED CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN [...] (C) On 01/16/2006 Post received a fax from Haji Abukar Cumar Cadaan concerning the relationship between U.S. Intelligence and Bashir Raage Shirar. Shirar is a known warlord in Mogadishu that the subject claims is receiving funding from Western intelligence groups, including the U.S. 2. (C) [...] | 2006-01-19 04:43:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PINR PTER DJ |
| 06DJIBOUTI82 | PII CASE # CT09-1205-191-1945 [...] (S) On 01/19/2006 at approximately 1030 hours, a man approached the Embassy requesting to speak with Michael Fogarty from the security office. ARSO was notified and identified the subject as Kader Dirar Ragueh reported in REFTEL. After careful screening the subject was escorted to a secured a [...] | 2006-01-20 05:41:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET | ASEC DJ PINR PTER |
| 06DUBAI4108 | IRAN SEES SPIES EVERYWHERE, INCLUDING IN JAHANBEGLOO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-03 14:44:00 | Consulate Dubai | SECRET//NOFORN | IR PREL PHUM PINR |
| 06DUBLIN1020 | EMERGING CONSTRAINTS ON U.S. MILITARY TRANSITS AT [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: Although supportive of continued U.S. military transits at Shannon Airport, the Irish Government has informally begun to place constraints on U.S. operations at the facility, mainly in response to public sensitivities ov [...] | 2006-09-05 14:45:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL EAIR PTER EI |
| 06DUBLIN226 | IRELAND: LOVE ULSTER RALLY PROVOKES DUBLIN RIOTS [...] Summary. On February 25, Dublin witnessed rioting on a scale not seen in the city in over 30 years. No deaths or serious injuries were reported, however. The riots effectively canceled a planned march organized by Northern Ireland Unionist groups to lobby against what they perceive as gove [...] | 2006-03-02 15:24:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PINR EI NIPP |
| 06DUBLIN555 | PUBLIC DEBATE ON RENDITION AND SHANNON CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: A May 9 seminar on rendition and torture hosted by Amnesty International Irish Section and the Irish Centre for Human Rights focused on the USG's use of Shannon Airport and the CIA's alleged practice of leasing civilian planes to circumvent authorities. Debate at the seminar hi [...] | 2006-05-18 17:08:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EUN EAIR KTIA EI MARR MOPS |
| 06DUBLIN562 | AFGHANIS ON HUNGER STRIKE IN IRISH CHURCH [...] Summary. According to official sources and press reports, 41 Afghani asylum seekers began a hunger/thirst strike in Dublin's historic St. Patrick's Cathedral to protest perceived pending deportations. Since the strike began on May 12, eight of the all male group have been admitted to a hosp [...] | 2006-05-19 17:14:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AF CVIS PHUM PREF PTER UNHCR PINS EI |
| 06DUSHANBE1013 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER ON TAJIK-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although they met ostensibly for Presidential Adviser Rahmatulloyev to give a read-out of the Putin-Rahmonov meeting in Sochi, Rahmatulloyev, clearly authorized by President Rahmonov, spent much of the 90-minute meeting laying out Tajikistan's exasperation with Russia and Uzbekis [...] | 2006-05-31 11:07:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON EINV ENRG UZ RS TI |
| 06DUSHANBE304 | BBC IN DUSHANBE: "DON'T DIS A SMALL COUNTRY AND YOU CAN GET [...] (C) In a surprisingly tough meeting February 14, the Ambassador joined his European and OSCE colleagues for what was supposed to have been a joint Western demarche about the BBC Tajik Service having lost its permission January 10 to broadcast on FM-106 in Dushanbe (reftel). French Ambassador [...] | 2006-02-15 05:54:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO UK TI |
| 06GENEVA1748 | ECOSOC 2006 SUBSTANTIVE SESSION: COORDINATION [...] (U) Summary: The Coordination Segment (CS) of ECOSOC's Substantive Session met July 6-10 and again on July 17 in Geneva. The Coordination Segment theme "Sustained economic growth for social development, including poverty eradication and hunger" had strong thematic links to the High Level Seg [...] | 2006-07-18 14:38:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ELAB KUNR TBIO |
| 06GEORGETOWN1058 | GUYANA ECONOMIC & COMMERCIAL ROUND-UP [...] Jagdeo Pursues Debt Relief, Treasury Ties in Singapore 2. Guyana-Suriname Maritime Boundary Dispute: Legal Teams to begin Oral Arguments on December 7 3. Russian Firm Interested in Linden Bauxite Operations 4. Cambior/IAMGOLD Merger Could Affect Guyanese Mining Operation 5. Stone Supply Sh [...] | 2006-10-10 20:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PBTS EMIN ETRD EFIN EINV ENRG GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN119 | VISAS VIPER: JANUARY 2006 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] Post's VISAS VIPER Committee met on February 1, 2006, covering the period January 5, 2006 to February 1, 2006. Conoff Wells chaired the meeting. DCM, ECON, POL, CONS, RSO, and MLO attended. Non-resident LEGATT was queried separately. 2. No VISAS VIPER telegrams were submitted during this [...] | 2006-02-02 21:03:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN137 | DEATH THREAT AGAINST U.S. AMBASSADOR AND PROMINENT [...] (S) Ambassador met with Major General (ret.) Norman McLean on February 8 at McLean's request. At the meeting, McLean handed Ambassador a sheet of paper listing information he had received from a policeman who has access to the Buxton area. This paper described a discussion regarding an operati [...] | 2006-02-08 23:27:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | ASEC PTER PGOV PREL SNAR GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN14 | VISAS VIPER: DECEMBER 2005 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] Post's VISAS VIPER Committee met on January 4, 2006, covering the period December 7, 2005 to January 4, 2006. Conoff Wells chaired the meeting. DCM, ECON, POL, CONS, RSO, and MLO attended. Non-resident LEGATT was queried separately. 2. No VISAS VIPER telegrams were submitted during this [...] | 2006-01-05 16:06:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KVPR CVIS PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN150 | EMBASSY GEORGETOWN NOMINATION FOR FY-06 ECA/A/E/USS [...] Embassy Georgetown nominates Ms. Geetangeli Geer to the U.S. Institute on U.S. Foreign Policy. Ms. Geer is the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and a lecturer at the University of Guyana. Ms. Geer lecturers on a international relations, conflict resolution. Her classes incl [...] | 2006-02-13 20:38:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL KPAO GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN175 | NOMINATION FOR PK 334, FSN SECRETARIAL [...] USAID/Guyana, hereby nominates Ms. Rita Mohabir, to attend the PK 334 FSN Secretarial Seminar at the Shultz Training Centre (FSI)from May 15 - 24, 2006. 2. Data on Ms. Mohabir are as follows: Name of Participant: Rita Mohabir Date of Birth: April 24, 1958 Nationality: Guyanese P [...] | 2006-02-22 21:08:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | APER AFSN AFSI AMGT KPAO ASEC EAID |
| 06GEORGETOWN195 | GUYANA INL CY-2005 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] Post's Military Liaison Office (MLO) provided a fast interceptor boat to the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard (GDFCG) in May 2005. Post did not provide any other new commodities or services to the GoG in CY-2005 under the international narcotics and crime program. ---------- Procedures - [...] | 2006-03-01 11:37:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN278 | SECRET TAPE, RAID ON DRUG LORD'S ASSETS ROCK GUYANA [...] (U) SUMMARY. Georgetown is flush with intrigue as a joint army/police team conducted raids March 19-20 on drug lord Shaheed "Roger" Khan's properties and, concurrently, a secret recording of Police Commissioner Winston Felix's phone conversations was anonymously and widely distributed to the [...] | 2006-03-23 20:33:00 | Embassy Georgetown | SECRET | SNAR PINS PGOV KCOR KCRM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN597 | GUYANA RESPONSE: UNHRC - ANTICIPATED OIC ASSAULT [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered points orally June 19 per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs, Jacqueline Hamer. She said that Guyana would not be represented at the UN Human Rights Council session. Nevertheless, she agreed in principle that the HRC [...] | 2006-06-20 17:50:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM GY |
| 06GEORGETOWN60 | FRAUD SUMMARY - GEORGETOWN, GUYANA [...] SUMMARY: Economic and cultural pressure to migrate continues to motivate all forms of immigration fraud in Guyana. Cooperation with elements of the Government of Guyana (GoG) and civil society enables post to detect and combat some types but corruption and cultural support for migration compl [...] | 2006-01-18 21:16:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM GY |
| 06GUANGZHOU11043 | Short March: Shantou -- Still in the Dark On IPR, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shantou officials state that despite its notoriety in the past as a haven for the production of counterfeit goods, the city has reformed dramatically in intellectual property rights (IPR). Through education, new laws, and law enforcement, Shantou is cracking down on producers [...] | 2006-04-10 05:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON SCUL EINV PHUM KPAO PINR CH |
| 06GUANGZHOU20753 | IPR Conference Highlights Local Issues; Guangdong [...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese and U.S. officials and companies discussed a range of IPR issues and generally agreed on the direction Guangdong must take on IPR matters at a recent conference co-hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Guangdong Provincial IP Office. The conference was part of [...] | 2006-07-03 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
| 06GUANGZHOU21212 | From Rural to Urban, Part 2: Qingyuan Villages Tap [...] (SBU) Summary: Qingyuan, Guangdong province's largest and fastest-growing prefecture, is riding a wave of industrialization that has brought rising incomes to its rural communities. Villages that used to live off their crops and government subsidies now rely on family members who work in citi [...] | 2006-07-13 06:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH |
| 06GUANGZHOU28065 | A/S McMurray Visits Sites Implementing P2E2 [...] (U) SUMMARY: OES A/S McMurray visited two sites in the Pearl River Delta where measures such as those being promoted by the Hong Kong-based pollution prevention and energy efficiency (P2E2) initiative have been implemented -- the Huangpu power plant operated by Guangdong Yuehua Power Company [...] | 2006-08-21 04:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG CH |
| 06GUANGZHOU30782 | Behind Everyday Low Prices - Consular Outreach to Wal-Mart [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Employees at Wal-Mart Global Procurement in Shenzhen China told Conoffs during an orientation trip that the company is pleased with how staff are treated when they apply for visas and that that they are interested in working with the consulate to facilitate and improve the workin [...] | 2006-09-26 08:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ECON ETRD CH |
| 06GUANGZHOU30810 | Microsoft Growing Rapidly in South China [...] (SBU) Summary: Microsoft representatives told the Consul General September 21 that with the company's rapid growth in Shenzhen and elsewhere, they expect sales in South China to surpass those in Hong Kong. Company representatives complained about weak copyright enforcement and asked the Consul [...] | 2006-09-27 06:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV KIPR CH |
| 06GUANGZHOU5378 | Progressive Magazine's 2005 Award Winners for [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Li Datong, the originator of the China Youth Daily's "Freezing Point" section, is the most prominent person named in the Nanfengchuang ("South Wind Window") list of 2005 annual award winners for acting "for the public good" -- the magazine's raison d'etre. Then agai [...] | 2006-02-27 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO OPRC OIIP PGOV PINR CH |
| 06GUATEMALA1150 | GUATEMALAN SOLDIERS ALLEGEDLY BEAT STREET KIDS [...] (U) Summary: Allegations surfaced that Guatemala's joint military-police patrols are not operating as designed. Guatemalan Army units are in some instances patrolling without their police counterparts and thus without any legal authority to conduct arrests or detentions. Worse, a respected N [...] | 2006-06-13 19:08:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KJUS MOPS PGOV EAID GT |
| 06GUATEMALA28 | GUATEMALAN EFFORTS TO SECURE UNSC SEAT [...] (C) Summary: Guatemala's efforts to secure a United Nations Security Council seat are well underway. Foreign Minister Jorge Briz welcomed USG support and looks forward to a visit by Department of State officials to coordinate lobbying activities. Within the hemisphere, Briz foresees the nee [...] | 2006-01-06 17:17:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GT UNSC |
| 06GUATEMALA440 | GUATEMALA'S CAFTA LABOR PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] As requested reftel, below please find six proposals for labor projects in CAFTA-DR countries. The proposals are not assigned to specific branches of the U.S. government as we hope the proposals will be discussed on their merits before any of them are linked to specific agencies or offices (a [...] | 2006-03-03 14:43:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAID ETRD GT |
| 06HALIFAX34 | ATLANTIC CANADA: REACTIONS TO THE NEW HARPER CABINET [...] SUMMARY: Prime Minister Harper's decision on who will be representing Atlantic Canada in his cabinet has generally received a positive reaction here. There have been many accolades for the three MPs the Prime Minister selected: Nova Scotia's Peter MacKay (Foreign Affairs),Greg Thompson of N [...] | 2006-02-10 19:22:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR EFIS PREL ENRG CA |
| 06HANOI1010 | VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY NICHOLSON MEETS MOLISA [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 28, 2006 Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Nicholson, met in separate meetings with Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) Nguyen Thi Hang and with the President of the Vietnam Association of Veterans (VAV),Lieutenant General (retired) Dang Quan Thu [...] | 2006-05-03 09:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF VM |
| 06HANOI1011 | VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY NICHOLSON MEETS [...] (U) Summary: Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Nicholson told Prime Minister Phan Van Khai during their April 28 meeting that the United States strongly supports Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and achievement of Permanent Normalized Trade Relations (PNTR). He emph [...] | 2006-05-03 09:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF VM |
| 06HANOI1112 | RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE NORTH PART I: POLOFF [...] (SBU) At the recommendation of Protestants in Hanoi, an Embassy team visited Lao Cai Province in the third week of April to investigate allegations of district-level abuse against Protestant groups. The team was able to discuss with officials several serious allegations made against Lao Cai p [...] | 2006-05-10 09:41:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KIRF PGOV SOCI PHUM VM |
| 06HANOI1320 | VIETNAMESE DISSIDENTS ANNOUNCING A NEW PARTY; [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, a meeting convened by prominent Hanoi dissident Hoang Minh Chinh to prepare documents in advance of a planned June 1 declaration of the re-establishment of the Democracy Party of Vietnam (DPV),was raided by police. A member of the new party called a public meeting wit [...] | 2006-05-30 11:59:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | HUMANR PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 06HANOI179 | Codel Gillmor Discusses WTO, Human Rights, Fullest [...] (U) Summary and Comment: Members of Codel Gillmor met January 17 with National Assembly (NA) Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Vu Mao, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan and National Assembly President Nguyen Van An to discuss bilateral relations, including Vietnam's WTO aspirations, trade relat [...] | 2006-01-20 10:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM ECON OVIP VM |
| 06HANOI2381 | PUBLIC SECURITY VICE MINISTER PROMISES PROGRESS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: IRF Ambassador John Hanford met Vice Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Huong August 18 to discuss the GVN's recent record on religious freedom and to urge the GVN to expedite further progress. Ambassador Hanford provided a list of ten short-term actions that the GVN could u [...] | 2006-09-19 04:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM |
| 06HANOI2420 | SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR HAGEL [...] (SBU) Senator Hagel: Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit will be an important step in strengthening our cooperative relationship with Vietnam while bringing into focus key issues, including those our two countries will need to address in the run-up to the President's [...] | 2006-09-21 06:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL OTRA VM |
| 06HANOI2538 | Ministry of Trade Conveys Oral Points on PNTR Deal re: [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 4, the Vice Minister of Trade Luong Van Tu called in the CDA to convey orally the contents of a draft letter from Minister of Trade Tuyen to Secretary Gutierrez and USTR Schwab protesting the "mechanism" on textiles and apparel outlined in their letter to Senators Dol [...] | 2006-10-04 12:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTRO VM |
| 06HANOI2608 | SENATOR HAGEL DISCUSSES TRADE, PEACE CORPS, HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On October 10, Senator Chuck Hagel discussed Vietnam's WTO accession, Human Rights and the Peace Corps with the GVN's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem. Khiem noted that the GVN is working to prepare for the President's upcoming visit by fulfilling its commitments [...] | 2006-10-12 03:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV OTRA ECON VM |
| 06HANOI670 | AMBASSADOR AND VFM LE VAN BANG DISCUSS WTO, HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador focused on Vietnam's WTO entry, practical developments in our human rights discussions, possible Congressional visits and developments in the bilateral relationship over the next six months during a March 21 lunch with Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang. VFM Bang [...] | 2006-03-22 23:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD APEC PHUM AMGT OVIP CVIS CASC VM |
| 06HANOI697 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEVELOPMENT IN HOA BINH AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On a recent visit to Hoa Binh and Son La provinces west of Hanoi, the Ambassador discussed economic and issues development local leaders. The Hoa Binh officials were notably progressive in their approach to development, which bodes well for their province. However, Son La's o [...] | 2006-03-27 08:06:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KIRF ETRD EINV ECON VM |
| 06HANOI770 | VIETNAM'S NOMINATION FOR FY06 OESI PROGRAM [...] (U) Mission Vietnam is pleased to submit a project proposal, developed by ESTHOff and Health Attache, for consideration under the FY06 funding for Oceans, Environment and Science Initiatives (OESI) program to promote democracy and good governance, leverage other funding, and advance U.S. nego [...] | 2006-04-04 05:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SENV VM |
| 06HANOI783 | SCENESETTER FOR SPEAKER HASTERT'S VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Mr. Speaker: Your visit to Vietnam comes at an important time in our bilateral relationship. Last year, the United States and Vietnam commemorated the tenth anniversary of normalized relations, the highlight of which was the very successful visit to the United States by Prime Minister [...] | 2006-04-05 08:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PHUM PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EFIN VM |
| 06HAVANA17683 | CUBAN FARINAS ENDS HUNGER STRIKE AFTER SEVEN MONTHS [...] (C) Summary: Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas ended his hunger strike August 31 after surviving on IV fluids for seven months in a campaign for internet access for all Cubans. The independent journalist decided to end the hunger strike following a joint appeal by three leading women dissiden [...] | 2006-09-01 18:55:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM SOCI CU |
| 06HILLAH37 | MOSQUE ORATORS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL IRAQ CALL FOR MUSLIM [...] (C) Summary: Sunni and Shi'a mosque preachers in Najaf, Babil, Wasit and Karbala called for the unity of all Muslims during Friday, March 3 prayers. A Babil Province Sadrist mosque orator blamed attempts to sow sectarian discord on the "occupiers," while a Sadrist preacher in Najaf claimed that [...] | 2006-03-05 18:25:00 | REO Hillah | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KISL PINR IZ |
| 06HILLAH39 | MEETING OF REO AL-HILLAH EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE (EAC) [...] (C) Summary: The REO Al-Hillah EAC was convened on 1 March 2006. It was chaired by the Regional Coordinator, and in attendance were representatives from RSO, POL, PRT, USAID, KBR, and ORA. The REOs US Army LNO and the 2/4 BCT S-9 were also present, and advised on the posture of Coalition f [...] | 2006-03-06 10:50:00 | REO Hillah | SECRET | ASEC AEMR AMGT IZ |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY1207 | SENATOR HAGEL VISITS HO CHI MINH CITY [...] During an October 4-5 visit to HCMC, Senator Chuck Hagel was officially welcomed by HCMC Party Secretary Le Thanh Hai, who said it was good have the Senator back in Vietnam after a seven-year absence. Hai said he was pleased that bilateral relations continued to improve and that President Bus [...] | 2006-10-20 11:09:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PHUM PREL SOCI ECON EFIN PGOV KIRF VM |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY1222 | PHU YEN PROVINCE: PROMISING OR PROBLEMATIC? [...] (SBU) Summary: Phu Yen province in Central Coastal Vietnam has promise -- especially in aquaculture, light industry and tourism -- but is being held back by a rigid and insular government. Despite the relatively orthodox approach to economic development, the province appears to be implementing [...] | 2006-10-25 09:37:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY1483 | HCMC REFUSES TO DISCUSS OR TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO ACTIVIST [...] (U) This is an action request: Please see Paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) On December 5, PolOff met with working-level HCMC External Relations officials to discuss the case of Bui Kim Thanh, a HCMC-based land rights activist involuntarily committed to the national mental hospital in neighboring Dong [...] | 2006-12-22 09:59:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY471 | VETERAN'S AFFAIRS SECRETARY NICHOLSON VISITS HCMC [...] (SBU) During a two day visit to HCMC, April 26-27, Secretary Nicholson called on key HCMC government and military leaders the Archbishop of HCMC and Cardinal Pham Minh Man. The Secretary also visited the fledgling HCMC stock exchange to discuss development in Vietnam's capital market and met [...] | 2006-05-08 12:34:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PHUM PREL SOCI ECON EFIN PGOV KIRF VM |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY588 | FIRST GVN OFFICIAL OUTREACH TO UNOFFICIAL RELIGIOUS GROUPS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 30 in HCMC, the central-level Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) held its first briefing on Vietnam's legal framework on religion to encourage unrecognized religious groups to legalize their status. Over 100 representatives attended from unregistered religious organ [...] | 2006-06-02 08:16:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KIRF SOCI PGOV VM |
| 06HONGKONG4473 | U.S. DELEGATION BRIEFS HKG ON PROPOSED HONG KONG [...] (C) Summary: Officials from the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Energy met with Hong Kong Government officials November 6 to explore Hong Kong's participation in the International Container Security Network (ICSN). Dave Huizenga, Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Material Pr [...] | 2006-11-16 04:30:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EWWT HK PREL |
| 06ISLAMABAD10539 | MUSHARRAF AND ADVISORS CONFER ON FATA PLAN [...] (C) In a May 6 conversation, National Security Advisor Tariq Aziz told the Ambassador that President Musharraf had convened a meeting of his senior advisors on May 5 to discuss next steps in implementing the government's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) strategy. The participants [...] | 2006-06-06 11:41:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PK PREL PGOV MARR |
| 06ISLAMABAD10608 | CORRECTED COPY: MUSHARRAF AND ADVISORS CONFER ON [...] (C) In a June 6 conversation, National Security Advisor Tariq Aziz told the Ambassador that President Musharraf had convened a meeting of his senior advisors on June 5 to discuss next steps in implementing the government's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) strategy. The participants [...] | 2006-06-07 03:29:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PK PREL PGOV MARR |
| 06ISLAMABAD10849 | BIO: NWFP GOVERNOR MUHAMMAD ALI JAN ORAKZAI [...] (SBU) Recently appointed the Governor of the New North West Frontier Province (NWFP),Lt. General (retired) Muhammad Ali Jan Orakzai is an Alikhel-Orakzai Pashtun from Orakzai Agency. The Alikhel is the largest tribe in Orakzai Agency. Born in December 1947, he previously served as Corps Com [...] | 2006-06-09 13:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PK PREL |
| 06ISLAMABAD12389 | FATA: TALKS AND TRUCES ON THE TABLE IN NORTH [...] (C) Summary. Militants in North Waziristan on June 25 offered a one-month "cease-fire" on their deadly attacks on security forces and pro-government elders, if the Government of Pakistan (GOP) acquiesces on five demands. North Waziristan tribal elders re-iterated these demands during a June 27 [...] | 2006-06-30 02:25:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PREL PGOV |
| 06ISLAMABAD12740 | PAKISTANI OFFICIALS, JOURNALISTS DISCUSS [...] (c) Summary: Visiting S/CT DAS Virginia Palmer, Chief S/CT Strategist David Kilcullen and SCA DAS John Gastright met June 22-24 in Islamabad and Peshawar with a range of officials and journalists to review developments in Pakistan's troubled tribal region. All interlocutors, whether civilian [...] | 2006-07-06 05:55:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PK PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD13677 | JIRGA CALLED TO NEGOTIATE PEACE IN WAZIRISTAN [...] (C) Summary. NWFP Governor Jan Mohammad Orakzai on July 16 announced the convening of a 45 member grand jirga to bring peace to Waziristan (and FATA at-large). The jirga of FATA notables--comprised of MNAs, Senators and mostly JUI-F local politicians from 6 of the 7 agencies--will be tasked wi [...] | 2006-07-18 02:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PREL PGOV |
| 06ISLAMABAD15543 | SOUTH WAZIRISTAN PARLIAMENTARIANS POSITIVE ON LOYA [...] (C) Two senior and well-connected participants in the North Waziristan jirga expect the assembly to succeed and to issue binding decisions within 10-15 days. While not divulging the details of each side's negotiating positions, they report that if the jirga is successful, it will result in t [...] | 2006-08-07 11:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PREL PTER PGOV |
| 06ISLAMABAD17766 | NORTH WAZIRISTAN PEACE ACCORD ANNOUNCED [...] (C) Summary: On September 5, the Government of Pakistan (GOP) and local tribal leaders announced that the 45-member Grand Jirga for North Waziristan Agency (NWA) had a peace agreement with the GOP. (Note: Consulate Peshawar has obtained a copy of the agreement and has translated the Urd [...] | 2006-09-06 14:36:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR MOPS PGOV PINR PK PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD17963 | NORTHERN WAZIRISTAN UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 8 [...] (S) Summary: While the September 5 agreement between the GOP and North Waziri leaders allows foreigners to remain in the North Waziristan Agency so long as they do not engage in attacks on or in Afghanistan, some foreigners reportedly are leaving NWA for neighboring areas, a development th [...] | 2006-09-08 13:39:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PK PREL MOPS UN MARR LE |
| 06ISLAMABAD19795 | AMBASSADOR'S OCT 5 MEETING WITH 11TH CORPS [...] (U) Ambassador met with 11th Corps Commander (Peshawar) LTG Mohammad Hamid Khan on October 5. ODRP Chief MG Helmly, Islamabad DATT, and Peshawar PO (notetaker) were also present. Meetings with NWFP Governor Orakzai and FATA Additional Chief Secretary Arbab reported septels. 2. (C) The 11t [...] | 2006-10-10 09:57:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PK PREL MOPS PTER AF |
| 06ISLAMABAD19796 | AMBASSADOR'S OCT 5 MEETING WITH NWFP GOV. ORAKZAI [...] (U) Ambassador met with North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai on October 5. Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Secretariat Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Shehzad Arbab, Secretary to the Governor Azmat Orakzai, ODRP Chief MG Helmly, Islamabad DATT, and [...] | 2006-10-10 10:00:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER EAID PINR PK PREL SNAR AF |
| 06ISLAMABAD19804 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FATA SECRETARIAT [...] (U) Ambassador met with Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Secretariat Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Shehzad Arbab on October 5. FATA Secretariat Secretary for Planning and Development Zafar Hassan, ODRP Chief MG Helmly, Islamabad DATT, Peshawar PO, USAID Officer (notetaker) were [...] | 2006-10-10 12:03:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ECON SOCI PK |
| 06ISLAMABAD20570 | FATA SECURITY UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 22-OCTOBER 12 [...] (SBU) Introduction: This cable reports on security developments in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) between September 22 and October 13, as culled from press reports and conversations with post's interlocutors. The cable also lists cross-border activity from FATA and N [...] | 2006-10-19 04:31:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PK PREL MOPS PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD20837 | PESHAWAR BOMBING UPDATE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The October 22 explosion in Peshawar's old city that killed at least seven people and wounded 40 others is a reminder that, while much of the world focuses on Pakistan's efforts to fight the export of terror, the GOP is also combating domestic terror and many other [...] | 2006-10-23 13:27:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PK PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD21073 | PAK-AFGHAN JIRGAS: THE VIEW FROM PAKISTAN [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: Pakistani officials have been tasked to coordinate a border region jirga to which Afghan President Karzai would be invited, but are proceeding at a measured pace. The Pakistan approach reflects a consensus that such an event must be organized with great care to [...] | 2006-10-27 14:53:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PK PREL PTER AF PGOV |
| 06ISLAMABAD21223 | PAK-AFGHAN JIRGAS: PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) Summary and introduction: In a October 30 meeting, Presidential Chief of Staff Hamid Javaid shared with Ambassador a non-paper passed to Government of Pakistan (GOP) from the Government of Afghanistan (GOA) via the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Javaid noted that the GOP envisione [...] | 2006-10-31 10:09:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF PK PREL PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD21879 | PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF DETERMINED TO DEAL WITH BORDER [...] (S) Summary: In a November 7 meeting at his Army HQ office, President Musharraf told Asstsant Secretary Boucher that he would propose selective mining of the border with Afghanistan. Saying that it is too early to judge whether the North Waziristan jirga agreement is a success, the Preside [...] | 2006-11-08 08:46:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | AF EAID ECON ETRD IN MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD21882 | SUICIDE ATTACK IN MALAKAND AGENCY KILLS 35 [...] (U) This cable contains an action request; please see para. 9. 2. (C) Summary: At approximately 08:00 (local) November 8, a suicide attacker detonated a bomb at the front gate of Dargai Fort during morning exercises, killing himself and at least thirty five (35) Pakistani soldiers. Give [...] | 2006-11-08 11:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MOPS PK PTER PGOV |
| 06ISLAMABAD21946 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER'S NOVEMBER 6 MEETING [...] (C) Summary: On November 6, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Pakistani Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan. The two discussed the upcoming strategic dialogue, including the status of dialogues on energy, education, and science and technology [...] | 2006-11-13 02:05:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AF EAID ECON ENRG ETRD MNUC PARM PK PREL PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD21947 | BOUCHER AND KASURI COVER F-16S, JIRGAS, NORTH [...] (C) Summary: On November 6, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Foreign Minister Kasuri. In the meeting, Kasuri asked for consideration on F-16 payments and previewed Pakistani thoughts on the joint jirgas announced after President Musharraf and [...] | 2006-11-13 02:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AF MASS PGOV PK PREL PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD22023 | PAK-AFGHAN JIRGAS: PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) Summary and introduction: In a October 30 meeting, Presidential Chief of Staff Hamid Javaid shared with Ambassador a non-paper passed to Government of Pakistan (GOP) from the Government of Afghanistan (GOA) via the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Javaid noted that the GOP envisione [...] | 2006-11-16 10:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF PK PREL PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD22070 | TRIBAL AREAS: VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN THE [...] (S/NF) Summary: The jury is still out on the September 5 North Waziristan Agency (NWA) Jirga Agreement. Violations of the agreement continued during October 29 to November 12 period. However, cross-border attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan's Paktika province appear to have decre [...] | 2006-11-20 08:23:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD22251 | FOREIGN MINISTER DENIES PREDICTING NATO FAILURE IN [...] (U) Following a November 29 press account (reftel) that described Pakistani Foreign Minister Khushid Kasuri as privately telling visiting foreign ministers of NATO member states that the Taliban is winning in Afghanistan and advising NATO members from sending in more troops, the Ministry of [...] | 2006-11-30 12:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PK PREL NATO |
| 06ISLAMABAD22618 | FOREIGN MINISTER KASURI ON ANTI-PAKISTAN RHETORIC [...] (C) During a December 22 meeting following his return from Iran, Foreign Minister Kasuri speculated on the motives behind the verbal offensive that Afghan President Karzai and other senior Government of Afghanistan (GOA) officials launched against Pakistan only days after the Foreign Minister [...] | 2006-12-28 05:35:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | AF MOPS PK PREL PTER |
| 06ISLAMABAD7164 | A PRIMER ON PAKISTAN'S FEDERALLY ADMINISTERED [...] Summary. This cable is intended to serve as a basic primer on Pakistan,s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The seven tribal agencies that make up the FATA are administratively, legally, and politically distinct from the rest of Pakistan. This primer focuses on these unique features o [...] | 2006-04-24 11:17:00 | Embassy Islamabad | CONFIDENTIAL | PK PREL PGOV |
| 06ISLAMABAD7537 | BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST NOTIFICATION [...] (S) On April 28, 2005, MFA Disarmament Cell Director Muhammad Kamran Akhtar notified poloff that Pakistan would conduct a ballistic missile test on April 29-30 over the Arabian Sea. Akhtar said that the GOP has sent written notification to the Government of India regarding this missile test [...] | 2006-04-28 11:01:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | KNNP MCAP PK PREL |
| 06ISLAMABAD9336 | NSA TARIQ AZIZ READY TO REACH OUT TO AFGHAN [...] (S) During a May 22 conversation, National Security Advisor Tariq Aziz told Ambassador that Pakistan's senior leaders are increasingly concerned by both the security situation in Afghanistan and by public accusations by Afghanistan President Karzai and Foreign Minister Spanta blaming Pakista [...] | 2006-05-22 12:45:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PGOV PK PREL AF |
| 06ISLAMABAD9473 | EXPLAINING THE SECURITY FORCES IN THE FATA [...] (U) This cable provides an introduction to the myriad of security forces besides the regular Pakistani Army that operate in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and adjoining regions of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). 2. (U) Frontier Corps. The paramilitary Frontier Corp [...] | 2006-05-23 12:19:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PK MARR SNAR KCRM PTER EAID |
| 06ISLAMABAD9585 | FATA: MISSION PAKISTAN REPORTING AND ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Summary. This cable is intended to inform the inter-agency discussion on how to stimulate counterrorism progress, stability, and political change in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Mission Pakistan--in biweekly "Interagency FATA Working Group" meetings that include office [...] | 2006-05-24 12:07:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET | PL PREL PGOV |
| 06ISLAMABAD9704 | FREE, FAIR, AND ISI: THE PML ELECTION STRATEGY [...] (C/NF) Summary: According to PML Secretary General Mushahid Hussain, the party's goal in the upcoming elections is a plurality in the National Assembly. He identified urban areas in central Punjab (Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad) as the chief battlegrounds, predicted a strong PML victory in [...] | 2006-05-25 11:52:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL PTER MOPS PK AF IR |
| 06ISLAMABAD9706 | FATA: STRATEGIES AND REDLINES [...] (C//NF) Summary. The stabilization of Pakistan's Federally Administered Areas (FATA) and the acceleration of political and economic development in this troubled region is a complex task that will determine the success of USG and Government of Pakistan (GOP) counterterrorism efforts. Since 9/11, [...] | 2006-05-25 12:13:00 | Embassy Islamabad | SECRET//NOFORN | PK PREL PGOV PTER MARR MOPS EAID ECON |
| 06ISTANBUL172 | ARMENIAN CONFERENCE FALLOUT: TRIAL OF FIVE [...] (U) Summary: Nationalist tensions took center stage at the opening hearing of five Turkish journalists charged with insulting and seeking to influence the Turkish judiciary as a result of columns they wrote criticizing the court injunction that temporarily blocked last September's "Alternativ [...] | 2006-02-09 14:13:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM TU |
| 06ISTANBUL372 | ISTANBUL CONFERENCE TACKLES TURKEY'S "KURDISH [...] (C) Summary. A March 11-12 Istanbul conference on "Turkey's Kurdish Problem" brought together a range of leading figures from Turkey's Kurdish community with the ambitious goal of hammering out an alternative to the leadership of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Organizers argued that [...] | 2006-03-15 05:40:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TU |
| 06ISTANBUL476 | BUSINESS CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENT INTENSIFIES [...] (U) Summary: Business criticism of recent Turkish Government missteps on the economy has intensified in recent days, as business leaders have grown increasingly concerned about the potential impact of protracted uncertainty surrounding the leadership of the Turkish Central Bank. Former Chai [...] | 2006-03-30 13:32:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV TU |
| 06JAKARTA10563 | BA'ASYIR SPOUTS OFF ABOUT SHARIA`, JIHAD AND BALI [...] (C) SUMMARY. Abu Bakr Ba'asyir, the spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiyah and its political wing, the Majelis Mujahiddin Council (MMI),continues to speak publicly on a variety of topics following his release from prison on June 14, 2006. Most notably, Ba'asyir has pontificated about the need [...] | 2006-08-25 06:56:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KISL KJUS ASEC AS ID |
| 06JAKARTA11474 | DRAFT MOU ON ILLEGAL LOGGING - EMBASSY JAKARTA [...] (SBU). Embassy Jakarta supports the conclusion of a properly-structured MOU on illegal logging between the U.S. and Indonesia. Reducing widespread illegal logging is one of Indonesia's top development challenges, and the issue touches on several core areas of our assistance program, including [...] | 2006-09-15 10:47:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON ETRD PREL PGOV ID |
| 06JAKARTA12031 | EAST KALIMANTAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS [...] Summary: Economic and political leaders in East Kalimantan praised the Government of Indonesia's (GOI) decentralization policy during a four-day embassy trip through the resource-rich province on the Indonesian part of Borneo. However, the same leaders criticized strongly the execution of tha [...] | 2006-09-29 06:29:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EINV SENV PREL TBIO ID |
| 06JAKARTA12498 | SECRETARY'S INITIATIVE ON GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM -- [...] (U) Summary. Embassy Jakarta welcomes the Secretary's Global Internet Freedom Task Force Initiative (GIFT) and looks forward to contributing to its success. As requested in reftel, a list of USAID projects related to the GIFT is described below. USAID in Indonesia continues to place high p [...] | 2006-10-13 06:29:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS EINT EAID PHUM |
| 06JAKARTA12555 | US-ASEAN BUSINESS COUNCIL DELEGATION VISITS JAKARTA [...] (SBU) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) told a visiting U.S. ASEAN Business Council (USABC) delegation on October 12 that he remains optimistic about Indonesia's economic outlook and committed to economic reforms and the process of democratization. Vice President Jusuf Kalla [...] | 2006-10-16 05:38:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ENRG ETRD EFIN PGOV ID |
| 06JAKARTA13218 | INDONESIA BEGINS NEGOTIATIONS TOWARD BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Formal discussions between the Indonesian and U.S. governments on the future status of the Naval Medical Research Unit 2 (NAMRU-2) in Jakarta began on November 9. The Indonesians, fresh from high-level interagency discussions, came in with a set of six concerns which were mostly [...] | 2006-11-15 10:57:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL TBIO AMED AMGT KFLU KTIA ID |
| 06JAKARTA13422 | INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS - SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 2006 [...] Summary: On November 22, following three years of bilateral negotiations, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) welcomed home forty-eight orangutans from Thailand. Minister of Health Dr. Siti Fadilah Supari announced plans on November 13 to make Indonesian villages self sufficient in health care [...] | 2006-12-06 10:32:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TPHY TBIO EINV ETRD ID |
| 06JAKARTA5483 | MOUNT MERAPI ERUPTION PREPAREDNESS [...] Summary. Embassy held a meeting on May 1 to discuss preparedness for a possible eruption of Mount Merapi Volcano, 27 kilometers from the city of Yogyakarta in central Java. The volcano went on level 3 orange alert (ready to erupt) on April 12 and could threaten 200,000 people in the hazard z [...] | 2006-05-01 10:27:00 | Embassy Jakarta | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR ASEC CASC SENV PGOV ID |
| 06JERUSALEM585 | PALESTINE INVESTMENT FUND MOVED UNDER PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) President Abbas issued a presidential decree February 4, 2006, that named a new board of the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) and moved the PIF under the responsibility of the President and away from the PA cabinet. According to the presidential decree which the ConGen has seen, the cha [...] | 2006-02-08 14:56:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KBIO KWBG |
| 06JERUSALEM802 | FAYYAD AND AL-WAZIR ON PA'S CURRENT AND FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Salam Fayyad said February 22 he did not think a Hamas-led government would receive large amounts of external assistance. Fayyad said he thought the PA could manage to survive to May or mid-June but only by liquidating assets in the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF). PA Deputy Fi [...] | 2006-02-24 16:14:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID KWBG |
| 06JOHANNESBURG205 | SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER"THE ASSAY" - [...] (U) Introduction: The purpose of this monthly 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, chrom [...] | 2006-06-09 15:52:00 | Consulate Johannesburg | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN ENRG ECON ELAB SF ZI |
| 06KABUL2386 | BILATERAL DETAINEE AGREEMENTS WITH THE GOA [...] (C) Summary: Four nations ) Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the U.K. ) have signed bilateral agreements with the Government of Afghanistan concerning the transfer of detainees. With the exception of Denmark, these nations are already engaged in military action as part of OEF or are lo [...] | 2006-05-25 06:54:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PTER PREL AF |
| 06KABUL2802 | DRAFT AFGHAN LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR DETAINEE [...] (S) Summary: The Afghan National Security Council (ONSC),in consultation with relevant Ministries, the U.S. mission, and its own contracted legal expert, has developed a legal framework for Afghan detainee operations. The framework, as briefed to the polmiloff and representatives of CFC-A, a [...] | 2006-06-21 02:19:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM KWCR AF |
| 06KABUL3019 | LEAHY AMENDMENT GUIDANCE FOR POLICE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 5. 2. (SBU) As reported ref a, the recent list of 86 senior Afghan National Police officers, as promulgated by the GOA, contained the names of 14 individuals who did not successfully pass the MOI rank reform Selection Board review process. These name [...] | 2006-07-06 07:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC KCRS AF |
| 06KABUL3943 | PRT KHOST:KUCHI AGREEMENT STOPS VIOLENCE, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Provincial leaders are pleased with a July 31 agreement ending a violent land dispute between the Kuchi and Baker Khel tribes in Khost's Bak District. Although they have reason to celebrate the cooperation among traditional, provincial, and GOA leaders to broker the agreement, it [...] | 2006-09-04 10:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PREF AF |
| 06KABUL4326 | PRT/MEHTARLAM - THE AFGHAN NATIONAL POLICE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Afghan National Police (ANP) is the predominant Afghan government institution responsible for the security of Laghman province. Its recent performance has engendered mistrust by the local population and is in many cases directly responsible for the deterioration in security [...] | 2006-09-21 14:55:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PTER AF |
| 06KABUL4327 | PRT/MEHTARLAM - THE AFGHAN NATIONAL POLICE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Afghan National Police (ANP) is the predominant Afghan government institution responsible for the security of Laghman province. Its recent performance has engendered mistrust by the local population and is in many cases directly responsible for the deterioration in security [...] | 2006-09-21 14:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PTER AF |
| 06KABUL5387 | NSA HADLEY HEARS PRESIDENT KARZAI'S VIEWS ON THE [...] (S) President Karzai used his November 2 dinner with NSA Hadley to lay out his goals and plans for the cross-border jirgas agreed to at the September 27 trilateral dinner in Washington. Karzai confirmed that he hopes there will be two parallel events, each addressing the security issues in th [...] | 2006-11-07 04:14:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINR AF |
| 06KABUL5452 | PRESIDENT KARZAI WITH A/S BOUCHER ON SECURITY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher used his November 8 meeting with President Karzai to report on his discussions in Islamabad on the cross-border jirgas, and urged early direct discussions before differences on expectations and plans become s [...] | 2006-11-14 04:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 06KABUL5839 | AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN JIRGA DOCUMENTS [...] (C) As reported reftel, below are the GOA and GOP jirga documents provided to us by Foreign Minister Spanta. The documents have not been provided to other nations, nor to the UN, although many have been given oral briefings. 2. Text of Afghanistan Jirga Document: ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AF [...] | 2006-12-13 13:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 06KABUL5964 | THE AFGHAN PARLIAMENT AFTER ONE YEAR [...] (U) BEGIN SUMMARY: Celebrating it's first anniversary on December 19, the Afghan Parliament has established a strong foothold as a powerful force in Afghan politics. With members representing the last many decades of diverse philosophies and all sides of the various conflicts and coups which t [...] | 2006-12-27 10:45:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL AF |
| 06KATHMANDU743 | NEPAL DELEGATION TO USTDA TRANSPORTATION [...] (U) Embassy Kathmandu was pleased to have one of its Emboffs accompany a two-member government delegation from Nepal to the United States Trade and Development Agencies' (USTDA) "Transportation Solutions for South Asia Trade" conference held in Mumbai, India, March 7-9, which highlighted trans [...] | 2006-03-16 11:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAIR EINV ELTN NP |
| 06KATHMANDU992 | FUEL SHORTAGES AND INCREASE IN FOOD PRICES GROWING [...] (C) Fuel has become increasingly hard to find in Kathmandu and may reach a critical shortage within ten days due to the Maoist road closures (ref A). Ikshya Bikram Thapa, Manager of Nepal Oil Corporation's (NOC) fuel depot in Thankot (western Kathmandu Valley) explained to Emboff that no new [...] | 2006-04-17 13:35:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ECON AMGT NP |
| 06KHARTOUM2225 | DARFUR - SOUTH DARFUR SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) Though security in South Darfur remains relatively stable, humanitarian organizations are anxious about the potential for increased insecurity as the dry season approaches. Decreasing security and increased fighting in North Darfur may already be affecting South Darfur. Additionally, p [...] | 2006-09-14 13:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 06KHARTOUM700 | ACUTE WATERY DIARREHA AND OTHER POTENTIAL [...] From February 18 to March 3, 2006, a USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) Public Health Advisor traveled to Juba, Southern Sudan, to meet with USAID/OFDA health partners and assess the response to the Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) outbreak in Juba and surrounding areas. [...] | 2006-03-20 07:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU |
| 06KIEV1020 | UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: GOU BLAMES TIRASPOL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 15 briefing of OSCE member state reps, GOU officials accused Transnistrian authorities of purposefully engineering the ongoing border standoff and refusing GOU attempts to discuss the situation. GOU officials appealed to EU states to advise their shippers to avoid tra [...] | 2006-03-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINR OSCE |
| 06KIEV1022 | UKRAINE: PARTY OF REGIONS ELECTION STRATEGY: A NEW [...] (C) Summary: Ukrainians and outside observers are currently contemplating the increasing possibility that Party of Regions, led by Viktor Yanukovych, may return to power as part of a coalition emerging from the March 26 elections in which Regions will by all accounts win a plurality (an estim [...] | 2006-03-15 17:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM |
| 06KIEV1036 | UKRAINE: EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION BEFORE AND [...] (C) Summary: Various interlocutors assessed the prospects for Ukraine's drive toward NATO membership after the March 26 parliamentary elections during visits to Kiev by EUR DAS David Kramer's March 13 and by Project for Transitional Democracies head Bruce Jackson March 4-8. Deputy Foreign Mi [...] | 2006-03-16 15:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO UP |
| 06KIEV1055 | UKRAINE: ZAPORIZHZHYA PRE-ELECTION SNAPSHOT -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In 2004, the abuse of administrative resources by a coordinated "Blue" power "vertikal" and an extra 100,000 dead souls voting in the city of Melitopol delivered 70 percent of Zaporizhzhya oblast to Viktor Yanukovych. In 2006, the absence of administrative pressure from an "Or [...] | 2006-03-17 14:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KIEV1081 | UKRAINE: MOROZ AND THE SOCIALIST PARTY: ANOTHER [...] (C) Summary: Most of the attention on the failure of the "Maidan" coalition to form a coherent, effective government team in office in 2005 justifiably focused on the bitter falling out of the two main Orange parties, President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine and Yuliya Tymoshenko's eponymous bloc ( [...] | 2006-03-20 15:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ETRD PARM NATO |
| 06KIEV1082 | EXBS: Ukraine Advisor Monthly Reporting Cable [...] On October 1, 2004, ExBS Advisor requested that the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) de-obligate fiscal year 2004 ExBS operational funds for use in fiscal year 2005. Despite numerous written and oral requests since then, the funds remain unavaila [...] | 2006-03-21 08:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL |
| 06KIEV1083 | UKRAINE: PRE-ELECTION SNAPSHOT: LVIV AT SECOND [...] (SBU) Summary: A return visit to the western city of Lviv March 17-18 indicated that campaigning in city and surrounding areas has moved into a higher gear the final week before the March 26 parliamentary and local elections, as politicians scramble to maintain their base and win over the dwi [...] | 2006-03-21 09:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KIEV1108 | UKRAINE: POSSIBLE ELECTION DAY AND POST-ELECTION [...] (C) With Ukraine's pivotal March 26 parliamentary (and local) election day drawing closer, claims by all sides continue that their opponents are abusing or plan to abuse administrative resources to influence election results at various levels. NGOs and international election observation missi [...] | 2006-03-22 15:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI |
| 06KIEV1110 | UKRAINE: INTERIOR MINISTER ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: At a March 20 meeting, Minister of Interior (MVS) Yuri Lutsenko told DCM and former Ambassador to Ukraine Miller that the March 26 elections would go smoothly and election day would likely be calm, despite technical problems with election administration. His Ministry would not [...] | 2006-03-23 04:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM |
| 06KIEV1128 | UKRAINE: IN THIS CORNER! EX-CHAMPION KLYCHKO RUNS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 22 meeting with TDY PolOff, Volodymyr Bondarenko, head of Kiev mayoral candidate (and recent world boxing champion) Vitaliy Klychko's campaign, described campaign impediments including incumbent Mayor Omelchenko's use of administrative resources and biased media cove [...] | 2006-03-23 15:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI |
| 06KIEV1136 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO ON ELECTIONS, COALITIONS [...] (S) Summary: In a March 23 meeting with Ambassador, President Yushchenko expressed confidence that problems in staffing polling stations would be fixed in time for the March 26 elections, but said that he would not sign a Rada-passed bill allowing citizens to be added to the voter list on ele [...] | 2006-03-24 07:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM RU |
| 06KIEV1154 | UKRAINE: MARCH 26 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS -- CAN [...] (C) Summary: The March 26 parliamentary elections are lining up to be judged free and fair, despite flaws. The campaign was marred by none (or very, very few) of the Kuchma government behavior that seriously eroded confidence in how the fall 2004 presidential elections would be conducted. Ad [...] | 2006-03-24 14:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD |
| 06KIEV1157 | MANAFORT ON ELECTION PROBLEMS [...] (SBU)Summary: Party of Regions (PoR) political consultant Paul Manafort (AmCit, please protect) called on the Ambassador March 21 to express his continuing concern about the possible disenfranchisement of "hundreds of thousands" of Ukrainian voters unless President Yushchenko signed into law [...] | 2006-03-24 15:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PHUM |
| 06KIEV1159 | UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO RALLIES FAITHFUL ON THE MAIDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: During a rally March 23 on Kiev's Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti),the geographical and spiritual center of the late 2004 Orange Revolution, former PM Yuliya Tymoshenko strived to recreate the spirit of the November-December 2004 protests that broke the Kuchma regime [...] | 2006-03-24 15:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV1163 | UKRAINE: ELECTION DAY REPORT -- ORANGE MAJORITY [...] (C) Summary: Election day has proceeded without problems on a national scale that should affect the outcome of the vote, despite a variety of adminstrative deficiencies in many polling stations and allegations by all sides of wrongdoing by their opponents. Main concerns going in to election d [...] | 2006-03-26 20:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM |
| 06KIEV1169 | UKRAINE: ORANGE COALITION TALKS STALL [...] (C) Summary: On the basis of exit polls projecting a surprisingly strong second-place showing in the March 26 parliamentary elections for her eponymous bloc, Yuliya Tymoshenko is driving to close a deal that will reunite the original Orange coalition and return her to the PM slot. Oleksandr M [...] | 2006-03-27 10:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ETRD |
| 06KIEV1177 | UKRAINE: POST-ELECTION DAY DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Ballot counting for the March 26 national parliamentary vote (ref B) proceeded without significant incident throughout the night and into the morning of 27 March, with official results slowly coming in through the day and approaching the exit polling results by the national con [...] | 2006-03-27 14:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM RU |
| 06KIEV1192 | UKRAINE: IN ORANGE RIVNE OBLAST, TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) The March 26 elections in western Ukraine's Rivne Oblast were the cleanest in the region's post-independence history, according to NGO representatives, OSCE election monitors and local media reports. There were administrative glitches that lengthened both the voting and counting. The OSC [...] | 2006-03-28 15:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI |
| 06KIEV1194 | UKRAINE: RADA ELECTION TALLY AT 83 PERCENT; KIEV [...] (C) Summary: Official results continued to come in slowly but steadily through the day March 28, with relative percentages holding steady at Yanukovych 30, Tymoshenko 22 and Our Ukraine 15. Most parties have not voiced any significant complaints about the election, but Tymoshenko's bloc cont [...] | 2006-03-28 16:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM RU |
| 06KIEV1241 | UKRAINE: SOCIALIST MOROZ ON COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) leader Oleksandr Moroz told Ambassador and DCM March 29 that a reunited "Maidan" coalition of Our Ukraine, Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT),and the Socialists was the only feasible option, and that he had told this to President Yushchenko during the [...] | 2006-03-29 14:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM |
| 06KIEV1243 | UKRAINE: ELECTION RESULTS OVER 97 PERCENT; PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: With over 97 percent of the national parliamentary vote tallied by 6 pm March 29, opposition Party of Regions continued to lead with 31.8 percent of the vote, followed by Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT) at 22.4 percent, and President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine at 14.1 percent. Five [...] | 2006-03-29 15:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM RU |
| 06KIEV1247 | UKRAINE: ELECTION SNAPSHOT OF SEVERODONETSK, HOST [...] (SBU) Summary: We observed Ukraine's March 26 Rada and local elections in the city of Severodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast, site of the infamous November 28, 2004 separatist rally held at the height of the late 2004 Orange Revolution, at which then-PM Yanukovych, many Party of Regions backers from e [...] | 2006-03-29 16:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1261 | UKRAINE ELECTION 2006: WINNERS, LOSERS, TRENDS [...] (C) Summary: While the results of Ukraine's March 26 parliamentary and local elections are not yet final, and negotiations to form a majority Rada coalition have not yet concluded, it is already clear that the elections highlighted a number of winners and losers, as well as trends in Ukraine's deve [...] | 2006-03-30 14:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV1313 | UKRAINE ELECTION SNAPSHOT: IN TERNOPIL, TYMOSHENKO [...] (SBU) Summary: We observed Ukraine's March 26 Rada and local elections in Ternopil city, capitol of the eponymous western oblast that voted 96% for Viktor Yushchenko in Ukraine's 2004 presidential election and 69% for Our Ukraine in the 2002 parliamentary elections. In 2006 voting for the pa [...] | 2006-04-03 16:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1314 | UKRAINE: LOOKING TOWARD A RENEWED ORANGE COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Amid increasing signs that Ukraine might see a renewed Orange "Maidan" coalition in the wake of March 26 elections, there have been calls by some for a recount of the election results. Most of the pressure comes from a handful of parties that failed to reach the three-percent thr [...] | 2006-04-03 17:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM |
| 06KIEV1480 | UKRAINE: CODEL FRIST MEETING WITH YULIYA TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) In an April 13 meeting with CODEL Frist, former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko averred that Ukraine's March 26 elections showed the desire of the Ukrainian people for a renewed Orange coalition government. Thanking Senator Frist for encouraging Team Orange reconciliation, Tymoshenko str [...] | 2006-04-13 17:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI PREL ECON ETRD ENRG OREP |
| 06KIEV1481 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO AND CODEL FRIST DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko discussed Rada majority coalition possibilities, bilateral U.S.-Ukrainian issues, and his vision for Ukraine's future April 13 with a delegation led by Senator Majority leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and including Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Richard Burr (R-NC). [...] | 2006-04-13 17:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OREP PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1530 | UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH TO CODEL FRIST: ORANGE [...] (C) Summary: Former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych told CODEL Frist and Ambassador April 13 that the pro-presidential Our Ukraine (OU) bloc needed to form a coalition with his Party of Regions in order to overcome the east-west split within the country. A union of the previous ruling coalit [...] | 2006-04-14 14:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD NATO OREP PINR US UP |
| 06KIEV1531 | UKRAINE: INTERIOR MINISTER ORDERED TO ARREST [...] (C) Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko told Ambassador on April 14 that he had been ordered by the Prosecutor General (PG) to arrest senior Tymoshenko Bloc politicians Oleksandr Turchynov and Andriy Kozhemyakin for illegally destroying Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) files on the January gas deal w [...] | 2006-04-14 14:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV1540 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S PARTY "ENDORSES" PREVIOUS [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko's Hamlet-like dance over whether or when to endorse ex-Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko's claim on returning to her old job in the "Coalition of Democratic Forces" continued April 14 when the Executive Council of the People's Union Our Ukraine (PUOU) party's Politic [...] | 2006-04-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV1552 | UKRAINE: KERCH -- VERY LITTLE ORANGE IN THIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Kerch, one of the most ancient cities of Ukraine and a key industrial center for the Crimean peninsula during the Soviet period, now finds itself a remote backwater of independent Ukraine, famous recently only because in late 2003 a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia [...] | 2006-04-18 07:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SCUL UP |
| 06KIEV1587 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO'S OUR UKRAINE [...] (SBU) Summary. For several weeks in the wake of the March 26 elections in which it was soundly defeated by Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT),Our Ukraine (OU) bloc leaders offered primarily positive public commentary, with reservations, about the formation of an Orange Rada majority coalition a [...] | 2006-04-20 14:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV1639 | UKRAINE: DNSA CROUCH'S NATO-THEMED DINNER INCLUDES [...] (C) At an April 19 NATO-themed dinner in honor of Deputy National Security Adviser Crouch, Defense Minister Hrytsenko and Foreign Minister Tarasyuk politely disagreed over the attitudes toward NATO of PM-hopeful Yuliya Tymoshenko, the Socialist Party, and Party of Regions. They also disagreed [...] | 2006-04-26 08:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1662 | UKRAINE: RADA MAJORITY COALITION TALKS RESUME; [...] (C) Summary: After a ten-day hiatus, coalition negotiations between President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine, the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and the Socialists resumed April 25, deputy Socialist Party leader Iosyp Vinsky told Ambassador April 27. Our Ukraine's Roman Zvarych, Tymoshenko (standin [...] | 2006-04-27 16:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV1693 | UKRAINE: PARTY OF REGIONS LEADER YANUKOVYCH'S [...] (C) Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych told Ambassador April 27 that working-level negotiations with President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc continued. While many issues had been worked out, Yanukovych would need to meet with Yushchenko to resolve key issues. Yanukovych implied that R [...] | 2006-04-28 13:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG NATO EPET PINR ZK ZJ AJ BO |
| 06KIEV1698 | UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE'S ZVARYCH ON AGREEMENTS, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine legal department chief Roman Zvarych confirmed that, in ongoing Rada majority coalition negotiations between Our Ukraine (OU),Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT) and the Socialists, two documents had been signed April 25, one on co [...] | 2006-04-28 13:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM UP |
| 06KIEV1706 | UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE INSIDER POROSHENKO ON RADA [...] (C) During an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine (OU) insider Petro Poroshenko emphatically denied he was using his influence with the Prosecutor General to put pressure on Tymoshenko lieutenant Oleksandr Turchynov (refs A and B). Coalition talks with the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) were [...] | 2006-04-28 14:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV1711 | UKRAINE: SOMBER TYMOSHENKO DOWN ON ORANGE [...] (C) Summary: A subdued PM-hopeful Yuliya Tymoshenko told Ambassador April 28 that the scant progress in Orange coalition talks in recent days was much less significant than Our Ukraine efforts with Party of Regions to form local coalitions across the country. News during the meeting that Our [...] | 2006-04-28 15:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1773 | UKRAINE: WAITING FOR YUSHCHENKO: LACK OF COALITION [...] (C) Summary: While much of Ukraine takes off the first week in May between the May Day and Victory in Europe holidays, work on possible Rada majority coalition policy agreements inched forward, even as the question remained open as to which coalition, if any, would ultimately emerge. In May [...] | 2006-05-05 15:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1851 | UKRAINE: UPDATES FROM BEZSMERTNY AND TYMOSHENKO - [...] (C) Summary: A downbeat and cynical Roman Bezsmertny and a more relaxed Yuliya Tymoshenko separately assessed the current stated of play in coalition negotiations with Charge May 11-12; their characterizations largely tracked, though not completely. Both said that Yushchenko's attitude toward [...] | 2006-05-15 08:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KIEV1937 | UKRAINE: DEFENSE MINISTER ON COALITION TALKS, [...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Hrytsenko opined to Ambassador May 18 that Orange coalition prospects were growing as President Yushchenko was resigning himself to ex-Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko's return to the prime ministership. He agreed with Ambassador's listing of honest government o [...] | 2006-05-19 12:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM MARR NATO BO UP |
| 06KIEV1940 | UKRAINE: KINAKH AND FM TARASYUK ON COALITION [...] (C) Summary: In Ambassadorial farewell calls May 17 on outgoing National Security Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh and Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, Kinakh and Tarasyuk, both of whom lead minor parties that contested the March 26 elections as part of President Yushchenko's O [...] | 2006-05-19 12:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1992 | UKRAINE: FAREWELL CALL ON PM-HOPEFUL TYMOSHENKO ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid his farewell call on PM-aspirant Yuliya Tymoshenko May 24, the day prior to the opening of the new parliament (Rada) May 25. Tymoshenko said she and her team had stayed up "all night" analyzing the completely new coalition proposal Our Ukraine (OU) had sprung on [...] | 2006-05-24 14:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KIEV1994 | UKRAINE: KRAMER-WOOD 5/22 MEETING WITH FORMER [...] (C) In a May 22 meeting with visiting EUR DAS David Kramer, OVP Deputy NSA Joseph Wood, and Ambassador, former State Secretary Oleksandr Zinchenko stressed that Ukraine's next prime minister should be a politically independent technocrat -- not a politician. Zinchenko had advised President Yu [...] | 2006-05-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI ECON PREL UP RS |
| 06KIEV1996 | UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON EX-PM [...] (C) During Ambassador's May 23 farewell call, Party of Regions chief Viktor Yanukovych said he bore Ambassador "no ill will" over the events of the Orange Revolution, commenting that the two had "worked well together." Yanukovych spoke in great detail about his "problems with the law," explain [...] | 2006-05-24 15:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2038 | UKRAINE: EUR DAS KRAMER AND OVP DNSA WOOD'S 5/23 [...] (C) In a lengthy May 23 discussion with Ambassador, EUR DAS David Kramer, and OVP Deputy NSA Joseph Wood, Our Ukraine's (OU) lead negotiator in the coalition formation talks predicted that an "Orange variant" would soon prevail and that a new government would be in place by mid-July. The new [...] | 2006-05-26 08:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2039 | UKRAINE: DEFENSE MINISTER GETS AHEAD OF FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 22 meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said a meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus might be possible if Belarus were to make favorable decisions on issues of importance to Ukraine. Tarasyuk added that the Ukrainian government was preparing t [...] | 2006-05-26 08:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM EAID NATO MARR PINR BO UP |
| 06KIEV2166 | UKRAINE: CODEL BLUNT'S 5/29 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) During a May 29 meeting with CODEL Blunt, President Yushchenko characterized Ukraine's economic growth as "strong" and predicted that a new Orange coalition government would be formed "in a couple of days." Negotiations over top leadership positions had begun May 29 and should be complet [...] | 2006-06-05 09:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI PREL ECON CASC KOCI |
| 06KIEV2190 | UKRAINE: OPPOSITION CREATES TEMPEST OVER "SEA [...] (SBU) Summary: Anti-Orange Revolution forces are using the occasion of a joint U.S.-Ukraine mil-mil cooperative exercise in Crimea to stir up anti-NATO sentiment in the majority ethnic Russian peninsula and smear the Ukrainian government. Demonstrators outside GOU-administered compounds in t [...] | 2006-06-06 16:43:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO PINR RS UP |
| 06KIEV2208 | UKRAINE: RADA CONVENES, COALITION FORMATION GETS [...] (C) Nearly 11 weeks after national parliamentary and local elections, Ukraine remains without a Rada majority coalition. A June 7 Rada session opened and closed quickly, with 227 Orange MPs voting to adjourn until June 14. Deputies from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party stayed on t [...] | 2006-06-07 17:44:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2246 | UKRAINE: EXTRAORDINARY RADA SESSION UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) The Rada's five-member Provisional Presidium on June 8 voted down a motion by 176 opposition MPs to hold a special Rada session that would likely have focused on the situation in Crimea (reftels). The three "Orange" presidium members, who voted "no," dismissed the opposition's appeal as [...] | 2006-06-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2281 | UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO SAYS COALITION TALKS ARE [...] (C) Yuliya Tymoshenko told DCM on June 12 that talks on forming an Orange coalition were deadlocked over Socialist Party leader Oleksander Moroz' insistence on being made Rada Speaker. Tymoshenko had tried to reason with Moroz, but he was dug in, knowing that this would be his "political swan [...] | 2006-06-12 20:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREL RS UP |
| 06KIEV2296 | UKRAINE: WHAT MAY HAPPEN AT WEDNESDAY'S (JUNE 14) [...] (C) With no Orange coalition formed as of 1800 local time, two aides to senior Orange politicians have told us that the Party of Regions may essentially take charge of the coalition formation process at the June 14 Rada session. According to our interlocutors, Communist MP Martynyuk, who is sl [...] | 2006-06-13 16:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2297 | UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK ON COALITION NEGOTIATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's June 13 presentation of a copy of his credentials, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc could not accept Socialist Party of Ukraine leader Moroz as parliamentary speaker, despite Moroz' insistence that this was his condition f [...] | 2006-06-13 16:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AMGT PGOV PINR UP |
| 06KIEV2316 | UKRAINE: AT THE RADA, SIGNS OF AN ORANGE-BLUE [...] (C) At the June 14 parliament (Rada) session, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz attempted to revive talks to form an Orange coalition by dropping his demand to become Rada Speaker. In return, he asked Our Ukraine (OU) to divide all government posts, down to district chiefs, among the Ora [...] | 2006-06-14 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2329 | UKRAINE: AT THE RADA, PARTY OF REGIONS UPBEAT [...] (C) The action at the June 15 Rada session was not at the rostrum, but on the floor and in the hallways, where Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych shook hands, slapped backs and assured reporters that Regions would sign a coalition agreement on June 20 -- when the Rada reconvenes. Our U [...] | 2006-06-15 15:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2331 | UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE INSIDER ZVARYCH ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Our Ukraine (OU) negotiator Roman Zvarych updated DCM June 14 regarding ongoing OU-Party of Regions talks on forming a Rada (parliament) majority coalition, trying to put a positive spin on OU's possible about-face. An Orange-Blue coalition could be in place by June 20, since dif [...] | 2006-06-15 15:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SOCI MARR ETRD UP |
| 06KIEV2358 | UKRAINE/ROMANIA/BLACK SEA FORUM: FRIENDLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine and Romania have enjoyed markedly warmer relations post-Orange Revolution, according to Romanian Embassy counselor Stanciu, with Romanian President Basescu visiting Kiev three times. MFA Romania desk officer Popyk told us three areas continued to be irritants in the bi [...] | 2006-06-16 15:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ETRD SENV KDEM RO UP |
| 06KIEV2359 | UKRAINE: ORANGE-BLUE COALITION TALKS ALLEGEDLY [...] (C) A coalition agreement between the Party of Regions and Our Ukraine (OU) could be reached tonight (June 16),according to Regions MP and de facto shadow foreign minister Leonid Kozhara. In a conversation with DCM, Kozhara dismissed OU's public distinction between "consultations" and "negot [...] | 2006-06-16 16:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2403 | UKRAINE: ANOTHER RADA SESSION ENDS WITHOUT A [...] (C) The Rada (parliament) held two short sessions June 20 but adjourned until June 21 without forming a majority coalition. Before the morning session, Our Ukraine (OU) MP Roman Zvayrch claimed to us that talks with OU's Orange partners were deadlocked over Yuliya Tymoshenko's refusal to acce [...] | 2006-06-20 15:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2436 | UKRAINE: ORANGE COALITION DEAL "UNDER THREAT" - OR [...] (C) Ukraine's coalition drama continued June 21, inching closer to an Orange Coalition, but also featuring a potential obstacle -- Petro Poroshenko as Our Ukraine's Rada Speaker nominee -- that could possibly cause the deal to unravel or create discord in the months to come. The Rada met brief [...] | 2006-06-21 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2461 | UKRAINE: COALITION OF DEMOCRATIC FORCES FINALLY [...] (C) Nearly three months after the March 26 elections, Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT),Our Ukraine (OU),and the Socialist Party (SPU) finally created a parliamentary majority of the "Coalition of Democratic Forces" mid-day June 22 by presenting a coalition agreement with the signatures of 239 [...] | 2006-06-22 17:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2462 | UKRAINE: SPURNED REGIONS VOWS TO "PAINT FENCES" [...] (C) Following the June 22 formation of parliamentary majority of the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT),Our Ukraine (OU),and the Socialists, the direction of the spurned Party of Regions was being taken over by party "radicals," according to moderate Regions deputy leader Volodymyr Makeyenko. Bombastic [...] | 2006-06-22 17:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2500 | UKRAINE: REGIONS LEADER YANUKOVYCH ON NEW [...] (SBU) In a lengthy June 23 meeting with an American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych claimed that anti-Semitic violence was infrequent in Ukraine and repeated the Soviet-era canard that such violence primarily occurred in "radical" western oblasts. Y [...] | 2006-06-26 14:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KIRF UP |
| 06KIEV2526 | UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK ON COALITION AGREEMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 23 meeting with the American Jewish Committee (AJC),Acting Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said Ukraine would not join moves against Israel in the new UN Council for Human Rights and undertook to examine the possibility of withdrawing Ukrainian membership in the UN Committ [...] | 2006-06-29 13:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AORC KCRM PINR IZ UP |
| 06KIEV2530 | UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR TAYLOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH [...] (C) In his first meeting with Ambassador Taylor, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych criticized President Yushchenko for caving in to USG pressure to spurn Regions and bless the formation of an Orange coalition. The Orange team was deeply divided and may not even be able to get its cand [...] | 2006-06-29 17:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR ECON PREL RS UP |
| 06KIEV2590 | UKRAINE: ACTING NSDC SECRETARY ON ENERGY, RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: In a free-wheeling conversation during Ambassador's July 3 introductory call, Acting National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Volodomyr Horbulin focused on Russia and Russia's manifold impact on Ukraine. In contrast to its obvious behavior during the 2004 president [...] | 2006-07-05 15:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET ETRD MARR PGOV NATO RS UP |
| 06KIEV2651 | UKRAINE: MOROZ AS SPEAKER; [...] (SBU) Summary: In a maneuver which stunned Our Ukraine (OU) and Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) only hours after they had reached agreement with Party of Regions on a division of responsibilities between the majority and opposition forces in the Rada (parliament) to end Regions' 10-day blockade of the [...] | 2006-07-07 15:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV2678 | UKRAINE: ORANGE OPTIONS IN THE WAKE OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Presidential Chief of Staff Rybachuk, former PM Tymoshenko, Our Ukraine (OU) Party leaders Roman Bezsmertny and Roman Zvarych, and OU Political Council member and former National Security and Defense Council Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh July 8 and Acting Foreign M [...] | 2006-07-10 17:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KIEV2855 | UKRAINE: THE POLITICAL CHESS GAME: VIEWS FROM THE [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with key deputy party leaders from Our Ukraine (OU),Regions, and the Socialists over the week of July 17-21 revealed a complicated political chess game underway in Ukrainian politics. Regions' Volodymyr Makeyenko and Socialists Mykola Rudkovsky and Yaroslav Mendus [...] | 2006-07-21 15:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV2900 | UKRAINE: WAYS OUT OF THE POLITICAL IMPASSE: FOUR [...] (C) Summary: With the window for a Presidential decision to disband the Rada now open and the "Anti-Crisis Coalition" nomination of Viktor Yanukovych for PM on his desk, Yushchenko and Ukraine face four scenarios: accept Yanukovych as PM; reject Yanukovych's nomination but not dissolve the Rad [...] | 2006-07-25 15:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV3029 | UKRAINE: TALE OF TWO VIKTORS: YUSHCHENKO NOMINATES [...] (C) Summary. In another last minute decision crucial to the political future of Ukraine, President Viktor Yushchenko initiated the procedures required for dissolution of the Rada (parliament) August 2, only to agree in the middle of the night instead to endorse Regions' leader Viktor Yanukovyc [...] | 2006-08-04 06:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV3041 | UKRAINE: FOREIGN POLICY OF A REGIONS-LED GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: In an August 3 meeting, parliamentary deputy and Party of Regions foreign-policy expert Kozhara was sketchy on the details of how a Regions-led government might modify Ukraine's foreign policy approaches. He affirmed that Regions would work to pass WTO-related legislation, but al [...] | 2006-08-04 14:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD WTO NATO OREP PINR RS UP |
| 06KIEV3128 | UKRAINE: ENERGY MINISTERS ON NEW GOVERNMENT'S [...] (C) Summary. In August 10 meetings with Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kluyev and Minister of Fuels and Energy Yuriy Boyko made clear that the new GOU was determined to reach a good outcome in dealings with Russia and Turkmenistan on natural gas supplies. Boyko was confident that [...] | 2006-08-11 13:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL PGOV PBIO RS TX UP |
| 06KIEV3130 | UKRAINE: PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE? "ORANGE" MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary. Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko, who repeatedly vowed publicly in July that he would never serve under Viktor Yanukovych, revealed his continuing ambivalence in an August 11 press conference to explain why he had remained Interior Minister in Yanukovych's government, stating that [...] | 2006-08-11 14:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3185 | UKRAINE: POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNIFIL FACE [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Ukraine (GOU) is actively considering what contribution Ukraine might offer to the expanded UNIFIL mission and has conducted consultations in New York with UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Annabi but faces an August 17 deadline from UN [...] | 2006-08-16 14:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL LE UP |
| 06KIEV333 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DISCUSSES ENERGY, RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 23 meeting with EUR Assistant Secretary Fried, EB Assistant Secretary Wayne, Assistant SIPDIS Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy Flory, SIPDIS NSC Director Wilson, and Ambassador, President Yushchenko Yushchenko said energy issues were at the [...] | 2006-01-25 15:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET ETRD MARR MCAP RS UP |
| 06KIEV3332 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH [...] (C) Summary. During subdued Independence Day celebrations August 24, President Yushchenko stressed that the western-focussed policies adopted after the Orange Revolution (i.e., pursuing EU and NATO membership) would be continued by Ukraine's new government led by Viktor Yanukovych that he des [...] | 2006-08-29 10:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM MARR UP |
| 06KIEV3371 | UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED'S SEPT 6-7 [...] (C) Summary: Your visit comes at a critical moment in Ukraine's post-Orange Revolution political development. While the primary gains of the Orange Revolution in societal attitudes, freedom of the press, and foreign and security policy remain, the orange-dominated political season is definiti [...] | 2006-08-31 15:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ETRD ENRG UP |
| 06KIEV3425 | UKRAINE: ORANGE VS BLUE CASE STUDY: THE STRUGGLE [...] (C) Summary. The political struggle between Orange and Blue to define policy and make decisions in a government of uneasy cohabitation will unfold in the coming weeks and months on an issue by issue basis, particularly in areas and ministries currently controlled by "Orange" Ministers loyal t [...] | 2006-09-06 12:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3464 | UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED VISIT: THE FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: While acknowledging PM Yanukovych's inevitable influence in shaping Ukrainian foreign policy, FM Tarasyuk asserted to EUR A/S Fried during their September 6 dinner that President Yushchenko could still maintain his primacy on foreign policy, as established in the Constitution, b [...] | 2006-09-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MD GG PL UP |
| 06KIEV3553 | UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED'S NATO-RELATED DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine-NATO relations was a primary theme in EUR Assistant Secretary Fried's meetings September 6-7 with FM Borys Tarasyuk, Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko, and PM Viktor Yanukovych. Holdover "orange" Ministers Tarasyuk and Hrytsenko have been the two staunchest advocates [...] | 2006-09-18 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV367 | UKRAINE: WHO ARE THE PEACEMAKERS? BUILDING [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The public political posturing about potential post-election coalitions kicked off in earnest January 24 with President Yushchenko's party Our Ukraine releasing a letter calling for the forces of the Maidan -- Our Ukraine, Tymoshenko's bloc (BYuT),Moroz' Socialists [...] | 2006-01-27 17:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UP |
| 06KIEV3674 | UKRAINE: NEW PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF READY TO [...] (C) Summary: Newly-appointed head of the Presidential Administration Viktor Baloha told the Ambassador September 19 that he was ready to engage with the U.S. to ensure that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Anti-Corruption Project was a success and was eager to get started [...] | 2006-09-22 14:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UP |
| 06KIEV3755 | UKRAINE: ENGAGING THE NEW UKRAINIAN REALITY AFTER [...] (SBU) Note: In preparation for senior-level consideration of our Ukraine policy, this cable assesses the political and economic developments under the new government. 2. (C) Summary. 50 days after Viktor Yanukovych returned to the premiership he vacated in December 2004 in the wake of the [...] | 2006-09-28 14:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ETRD KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV380 | UKRAINE: PRIME MINISTER YEKHANUROV WARNS RUSSIANS [...] (S) Summary: Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov told Ambassador on January 28 that Russia was threatening to cut off shipments of Turkmen gas to Ukraine as early as February 1 because of the GOU's delay in implementing the January 4 agreement between Russia's GazProm and Ukraine's Naft [...] | 2006-01-30 14:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | EPET ENRG PGOV PREL RS UP |
| 06KIEV384 | UKRAINE: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] Below is text requested reftel of the 2006 Investment Climate Statement for Ukraine. Begin Text: Investment Climate Statement 2006 -- Ukraine A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS FOREIGN INVESTMENT When President Yushchenko took office in January 2005, he [...] | 2006-01-30 15:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV3866 | UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE MOVES INTO OPPOSITION - OR NOT [...] (C) Summary: After months of negotiations over whether or not to enter the governing coalition, President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine coalition announced October 4 that it would not join the coalition, but would formally join the opposition in parliament. OU's Roman Bezsmertniy told the press [...] | 2006-10-05 12:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV3906 | UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH ECONOMIC POLICY RECORD MIXED [...] (C) Summary: After eight weeks in power, the Yanukovych government's record on economic policy in a number of areas has not been as bad as some expected, nor as good as others hoped. The conventional wisdom among the foreign business community has swung from "let's give them a chance" to "dej [...] | 2006-10-10 16:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV POL PREL UP |
| 06KIEV3919 | UKRAINE: OVERHAULING THE PRESIDENT'S MEN - [...] (C) Summary. With the appointment of Industrial Union of the Donbas (IUD) executive Vitaly Haiduk as National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary October 10, the overhaul of President Yushchenko's team which started September 16 with the appointment of Viktor Baloha as Presidential [...] | 2006-10-11 15:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV3923 | UKRAINE: WHAT IF FOREIGN MINISTER TARASYUK GOES? [...] (C) Summary: With rumors rife that Foreign Minister Tarasyuk will leave the Cabinet -- either by resigning with his Our Ukraine colleagues or being voted out of his job by the Rada, pundits tout current Presidential Secretariat Deputy Chief of Staff for foreign policy Oleksandr Chaliy as the l [...] | 2006-10-12 14:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO PINR UP |
| 06KIEV3936 | UKRAINE: ORANGE MINISTERS FATE UNDECIDED [...] (SBU) Summary: Rumors continue to swirl in Kiev as to the fate of the "orange" ministers in the Ukrainian Government. On October 11, an aide to Our Ukraine's Roman Bezsmertniy told us that all "orange" ministers in the Cabinet had submitted letters of resignation, later confirmed publicly by [...] | 2006-10-13 14:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KIEV400 | UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER SEES POSSIBILITIES [...] (C) Summary: During a January 31 conversation with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies President Bruce Jackson and PolOff, Presidential Security Policy Adviser and National Security Institute Chairman Volodymyr Horbulin said the electoral list of ex-PM Yanukovych's Party of Regions, [...] | 2006-01-31 16:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV406 | UKRAINE: INL-Funded TIP Training Seminar [...] Summary: On January 23-25, Embassy Kiev and the Prosecutors' Academy of Ukraine co-sponsored a first ever training seminar on trafficking in persons (TIP) that brought more than 70 members of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO),both prosecutors and investigators, as well as local [...] | 2006-02-01 11:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KCRM SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB KWMN UP |
| 06KIEV408 | UKRAINE: SHIFTING SANDS AND POST-ELECTION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Conversations with Media watchdog-turned-PORA politician Serhiy Taran, website editor-turned-Tymoshenko Bloc PR director Oleh Medvedev, and independent-minded Regions MP Volodymyr Makeyenko January 25-27 provided three views on the shifting ground in Ukrainian politic [...] | 2006-02-01 12:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 06KIEV459 | UKRAINE: EX-ORANGE COALITION TALKING DEAL, BUT [...] (C) Summary: In a February 1 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine legal department head and ex-Minister of Justice Roman Zvarych indicated that President Yushchenko's party was doing increasingly well in the polls, which were showing 20-percent support for Our Ukraine, as opposed to 12-13 per [...] | 2006-02-02 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV471 | UKRAINE: MOROSE MOROZ: SOCIALIST LEADER UNHAPPY [...] (C) Summary: Socialist Party Leader Olexander Moroz vented frustration with the gas deal with Russia, President Yushchenko, ex-PM Yuliya Tymoshenko, and a perceived lack of recent U.S. attention to the Socialist Party February 1 to Bruce Jackson, President, Project for Transitional Democracie [...] | 2006-02-03 12:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV473 | UKRAINE: EXTREME MAKEOVER FOR THE PARTY OF REGIONS? [...] (C) As part of an effort to transform itself its image into that of a democratic political force, Ukraine's Party of Regions -- long a haven for Donetsk-based mobsters and oligarchs -- is in the midst of an "extreme makeover." The effort enlists the help and advice of veteran K Street politic [...] | 2006-02-03 12:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV481 | UKRAINE: THIRD ELECTION ROUNDTABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: At an Ambassador-hosted roundtable discussion January 25, NGO representatives felt that the recent gas and government crises could hurt ex-PM Tymoshenko in the elections. One observer expressed doubt that a Rada majority coalition would be formed after the March 26 elections, [...] | 2006-02-03 16:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV |
| 06KIEV483 | UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: TKACH ON CUSTOMS [...] (C) Summary: In a February 3 briefing, Ukrainian Special Envoy Tkach said the February 1 Ukraine-Moldova meeting had failed to make progress, but a second round would occur at the level of Ministers of Economy in the hope of resolving Ukraine's objections to Moldovan government registration p [...] | 2006-02-03 17:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCI OSCE |
| 06KIEV520 | UKRAINE: LOOKING TOWARD AND BEYOND THE MARCH [...] (C) Summary: A majority in the new Rada elected by the March 26 parliamentary elections will select a new Prime Minister, who will take the lead on forming a new Cabinet (with the exception of Defense and Foreign Ministers). Poll results have for months consistently suggested that at least t [...] | 2006-02-07 15:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV553 | UKRAINE: YOU TAKE THE LOW ROAD AND I'LL TAKE THE [...] (C) Summary: Circus-like farce impinged on serious statecraft at the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) the morning of February 9. President Yushchenko delivered an hour-long "State of the Nation" address to the Rada, reviewing the accomplishments of the past year since his inauguration an [...] | 2006-02-09 16:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV |
| 06KIEV578 | UKRAINE: ODESA CATHOLICS CONTEMPLATING HUNGER [...] (C) The Roman Catholic Bishop of the Odesa-Simferopol diocese, Bronislav Bernatsky, told us February 8 that "hundreds" of his parishioners will begin a hunger strike March 1 to protest what he described as "the strangulation of the Catholic Church" by the Odesa city government. The bishop cla [...] | 2006-02-13 15:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM |
| 06KIEV579 | UKRAINE: SOCIALIST LEADER MOROZ ON ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In a February 13 meeting with Ambassador, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz opined that new Constitutional Court judges would not be selected until after the March 26 parliamentary elections because of concerns that the court would otherwise revisit constitutional reform. Mo [...] | 2006-02-13 15:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV583 | UKRAINE: IN THE MIDDLE OF ODESA, A PRESBYTERIAN [...] (C) Two leaders of Odesa's small Presbyterian community asserted to us February 8 that the local actors guild had enlisted political help in an effort to seize the city's historic Presbyterian church. The actors wanted to turn the church, which has just gone through a 1.2 million USD renovati [...] | 2006-02-14 07:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM |
| 06KIEV589 | UKRAINE: PRE-ELECTION PROVINCIAL SNAPSHOT: [...] (SBU) Summary: The north-central province of Chernihiv offers a snapshot of the changed Ukraine and of the fluid political dynamics between the 2004 Presidential contest and the upcoming March parliamentary (Rada) and local elections. In 2004, Chernihiv witnessed heavy administrative resource [...] | 2006-02-14 13:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV |
| 06KIEV604 | UKRAINE ON THE ROAD TO NATO: A STATUS REPORT [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution revitalized Ukraine's aspirations to join Euro-Atlantic institutions such as NATO and the EU, but significant challenges in transforming the institutions, conditions, and mentalities inherited from the Soviet Union at independence in 1991 remain. [...] | 2006-02-15 13:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PREL NATO |
| 06KIEV641 | UKRAINE: REGIONS' BOSS YANUKOVYCH ON WTO, ELECTION [...] (C) Party of Regions' leader Viktor Yanukovych told Ambassador on February 15 that Ukraine had to coordinate its WTO entry with Russia and said that President Yushchenko would be making a "huge mistake" if he formed an "Orange Coalition" with ex-PM Yuliya Tymoshenko before or after the March p [...] | 2006-02-16 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON |
| 06KIEV656 | UKRAINE: FOURTH ELECTION ROUNDTABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: At an Ambassador-hosted roundtable on the March 26 Rada (Parliament) and local government elections February 14, NGO representatives felt that while most voters were aware of the shift to elections based on party lists, this awareness dropped off significantly in rural areas. N [...] | 2006-02-17 14:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM |
| 06KIEV713 | UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH STILL BITTER ABOUT THE [...] (C) As of December 2005, Yanukovych still expressed bitterness about what he saw as the December 2004 "putsch" denying him the Presidency, according to Lithuanian Embassy Political Counselor Darius Vitkauskas. Vitkauskas told us February 21 that when the Lithuanian Ambassador saw Yanukovych i [...] | 2006-02-21 14:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 06KIEV738 | UKRAINE: TALES OF SEVASTOPOL, A HERO CITY [...] (C) Summary: The presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet pervades the historic Crimean city of Sevastopol, which is one of two municipalities in Ukraine directly administered by the central government. Relations between President Yushchenko-appointed city administrator Serhiy Ivanov and the [...] | 2006-02-23 13:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RS UP |
| 06KIEV781 | UKRAINE: EX-PM TYMOSHENKO ON DOMESTIC POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met ex-PM Yuliya Tymoshenko February 26 to deliver concerns about her comments on a contract by U.S. company Holtec to build a nuclear waste storage facility in Ukraine (septel). The conversation turned to domestic politics and the natural gas supply/transit deal with [...] | 2006-02-27 15:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP |
| 06KIEV869 | Ukraine: Submission for the 2006 TIP Report [...] (U) Embassy Kiev's responses to the 2006 TIP report questionnaire are presented below. Answers are keyed to questions in ref A. Overview (Ref A Para 21) ------------------------ 2. (SBU) (21A) Ukraine is a country of origin for internationally trafficked men, women and children. The p [...] | 2006-03-06 15:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN |
| 06KIEV936 | UKRAINE: REGIONS' CONSULTANTS WARN DEFICIENCIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Party of Regions' U.S. campaign consultants Paul Manafort, Phil Griffin, and Catherine Barnes called on DCM and poloff March 10 to share Regions' concerns about election organizational problems that they feared could call the legitimacy of the March 26 election into question. M [...] | 2006-03-10 17:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KIEV947 | Ukraine: International Anticorruption and [...] (SBU) In 2004, the Ukrainian people radically changed Ukraine's political landscape by standing up for their rights and successfully demanding that the results of the Presidential election reflect their will in what was known as the "Orange Revolution." In a watershed decision that demonstrate [...] | 2006-03-13 09:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM |
| 06KIEV987 | UKRAINE: RADA ADDRESSES ELECTION-RELATED CONCERNS, [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 14, the Rada (parliament) addressed election-related concerns about deficiencies in Polling Station Commission (PSC) staffing and in the voters' lists voiced by Central Election Commission Chair Davydovych, NGOs, and political parties in recent days (refs A-B) by passi [...] | 2006-03-14 17:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KINGSTON1286 | CEMENT CRISIS TRIGGERS SHOCKWAVES IN JAMAICA [...] Summary: An ongoing cement shortage has caused immense social and economic fallout, with potential negative implications for Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's fledgling administration. In 2004, despite strong opposition from interest groups, the GOJ yielded to pressure from the Caribbean [...] | 2006-06-29 13:03:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EIND JM |
| 06KINSHASA1182 | Palm Oil Making a Comeback in the DRC [...] (U) Summary: Industrial palm oil harvesting and processing is reviving in a once agriculturally-productive region of the DRC. Emboffs visited a rehabilitated palm oil plantation near Lisala, Equateur province that has begun producing palm oil again after nearly 10 years of inactivity. Other cro [...] | 2006-07-25 14:42:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD CG |
| 06KINSHASA1211 | DRC ELECTIONS SITREP 3: SMOOTH OPERATIONS [...] By late afternoon, most areas of the country have reported large but orderly numbers of voters, competent poll workers, and helpful police. Report after report has described patient lines of Congolese voters, some dressed in their Sunday best, but devoting this particular Sunday to participa [...] | 2006-07-30 14:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS |
| 06KINSHASA1391 | NO SIGNS OF MINING ACTIVITY AT SHINKOLOBWE [...] (C) Summary. In the course of investigating ongoing rumors and press reports of a DRC-Iranian enriched uranium link, EconOff visited DRC's Shinkolobwe uranium mine August 9, but found no evidence of any mining. Neither visual nor scientific evidence at or around Shinkolobwe indicates mining oc [...] | 2006-09-05 08:10:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EMIN KGIT ETRD PREL PGOV IAEA CG IR |
| 06KINSHASA593 | POLITICAL PLURALISM ON DISPLAY IN NORTH KIVU [...] (C) During an April 12-17 visit to North Kivu, PolCouns visited and passed through villages small and large in Rutshuru and Masisi territories. Even in the smallest villages -- in some cases comprising only a few families and about 30 people -- the flags of various political parties were on di [...] | 2006-04-17 08:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CG |
| 06KIRKUK145 | (C) KRG MINISTER OF JUSTICE ON REGIONAL AUTHORITY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-22 07:50:00 | REO Kirkuk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PNAT PREF PREL PTER KDEM IZ |
| 06KIRKUK27 | (S) KURDISH IA UNIT SPLITS OVER DEPLOYING OUT OF KIRKUK [...] (S) The 101st tells REO that the MOD ordered the 4th BN, 2nd BDE, 4th Iraqi Army DIV to deploy from Kirkuk outside of Kirkuk province to Bayji. We understand this IA unit is composed of Kurds, but was not a former Peshmerga unit. After the order was given, about half (50%) of the unit deser [...] | 2006-02-05 06:40:00 | REO Kirkuk | SECRET | MOPS PGOV KDEM PINS IZ |
| 06KIRKUK44 | (S) SAMARRA BOMBINGS APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN PLANNED IN ADVANCE [...] (U) This is a SET Tikrit cable. 2. (S) Intelligence reporting about people and tribes in the Samarra area suggests plans to destroy the Golden Mosque were made as early as a year ago. HUMINT reporting in April 2005 points to plans by Samarra AQIZ members to destroy the mosque. Those AQIZ m [...] | 2006-02-24 10:21:00 | REO Kirkuk | SECRET | PINS PGOV PTER KISL PINR IZ |
| 06KIRKUK45 | (C) SAMARRA UPDATE, 1900 2-23-06 [...] (U) This is a SET Tikrit cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Mostly peaceful protests occurred in Samarra on the first day after the Golden Mosque was bombed. The entire province was calm. END SUMMARY. 3. (C) At approximately 9:20 AM, the Iraqi Police (IP) guarding the ruins of the Golden Mosque o [...] | 2006-02-24 10:26:00 | REO Kirkuk | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PTER KISL IZ |
| 06KIRKUK73 | KRG UNIFICATION: PLOTTING A PATH [...] (C) SUMMARY. KRG PM Barzani told RC(A) March 29 that that each of the dual Erbil and Sulaymaniyah KRG ministries would form a committee to consider who should get the top jobs in the unified ministry and to find new jobs for redundant incumbents. No one would suffer a pay cut. The PUK has [...] | 2006-03-31 07:49:00 | REO Kirkuk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINS PHUM MCAP KCOR IZ |
| 06KIRKUK92 | STREET TALKS BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN A KURDISH [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. On a visit to Ankawa District in Erbil City, business owners told IPAO an influx of migrants was pushing up real estate prices. The owners complained about inflation, fuel prices, and how winning contracts required party membership. Ankawa is a middle-class, pre [...] | 2006-04-14 09:10:00 | REO Kirkuk | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV KDEM KCOR IZ |
| 06KUALALUMPUR1835 | HEART OF BORNEO: PROTECTING THE WORLD'S OLDEST [...] (U) Portions of this message are sensitive but unclassified. SIPDIS 2. (U) Summary: Malaysian support for the Heart of Borneo (HOB) conservation initiative is solidifying at all levels. WWF, which is actively promoting the initiative, expects the leaders of Malaysia, Indonesia and Bru [...] | 2006-09-30 01:01:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO MY BX ID |
| 06KUALALUMPUR930 | THE BUMIPUTERA POLICY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FTA [...] (C) Summary: Malaysia's bumiputera policy provides socioeconomic support for ethnic Malays and other indigenous groups with the goal of raising the "bumi" share of national equity ownership to 30% from the current official figure of around 19%. Over the 35 years of its existence, the policy has evo [...] | 2006-05-22 09:47:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON EINV EFIN MY |
| 06KUWAIT1521 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR GCC INFORMAL SUMMIT; [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah on May 2. The Ambassador placed special emphasis on the need for the GCC to embrace the new Iraqi government in both political and economic terms and thus act as a magnet countering [...] | 2006-05-02 14:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM WE IS XF KU |
| 06KUWAIT1614 | PSI ENDORSEMENT AND EXERCISES: POLISH EMBASSY AND [...] (C) Polish Ambassador to Kuwait Kazimierz Romanski called on the Ambassador on May 7 to seek U.S. support for a joint demarche to the Government of Kuwait encouraging endorsement of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and participation in a June 23 High Level Meeting in Warsaw. Roman [...] | 2006-05-07 13:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PTER PREL PGOV KU |
| 06KUWAIT1642 | FREEDOM AGENDA: KUWAITIS RALLY ON CONSTITUENCY [...] (U) Approximately 150 Kuwaitis staged a rally on May 5 in support of electoral constituency reform (ref b). Wearing orange and white, carrying signs that read "five for the sake of Kuwait," and exchanging "high five's," they protested for over two hours across the street from Seif Palace whe [...] | 2006-05-09 13:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
| 06KUWAIT1744 | FREEDOM AGENDA: KUWAIT'S ORANGE REVOLUTION: [...] (U) In a much-anticipated May 15 Parliament session, the Government introduced a bill to reduce the number of electoral constituencies from 25 to ten. Members of the Independent (pro-Government) bloc then submitted a motion to refer the bill to the Constitutional Court to examine its constit [...] | 2006-05-15 14:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KU FREEDOM AGENGA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
| 06KUWAIT1833 | KUWAITI AMIR DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT; NEW ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary and comment: On May 21, the Amir issued decree 146 exercising his constitutional power to dissolve Parliament after weeks of contentious debate on reducing the number of electoral constituencies reached an impasse with 29 Members of Parliament (MPs) intent on "grilling" the Prime [...] | 2006-05-21 19:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
| 06KUWAIT185 | AFGHAN AMBASSADOR TO KUWAIT ON LONDON CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a January 21 meeting with the Ambassador on GOK assistance and labor issues, Afghan Ambassador to Kuwait Yussuf Samad praised the USG for its ongoing support to Afghanistan; pointed to GOK unwillingness to re-start assistance absent a solution to old GOA arrears; acknowl [...] | 2006-01-21 16:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ELAB PGOV PREL PINR AF XD KU |
| 06KUWAIT1980 | SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 2-3 VISIT TO KUWAIT OF NEA [...] (SBU) Welcome to Kuwait. Your June 2-3 visit follows the recent productive visits of other Department principals -- Under Secretary Joseph, Assistant Secretary Hillen, Counselor Zelikow, and Assistant Secretary Wayne. You will meet with Amir Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Post [...] | 2006-05-30 11:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KU |
| 06KUWAIT2116 | FACE OFF--AMERICAN AND KUWAITI WOMEN MEET ON THE BASKETBALL [...] Summary: Embassy Kuwait arranged a rematch between Camp Arifjan's American military women's basketball team and Kuwait's Al-Fatat Sports Club women's team on Thursday, April 27, 2006. The American team defeated the Kuwaiti team on its home court in this second in a series of friendship games, [...] | 2006-06-06 16:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL KISL PHUM KMDR ZP KU ISLAMISTS |
| 06KUWAIT2148 | FREEDOM AGENDA AND JUNE 29 ELECTIONS: PROGRESS ON [...] (S/NF) Summary and comment: The June 29 Kuwaiti parliamentary election campaign has commenced. Some observers will be tempted to use votes for women and reform candidates as a litmus test for the pace and success of political reform in the Gulf region. A more nuanced view is required. The [...] | 2006-06-07 17:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
| 06KUWAIT2150 | FREEDOM AGENDA: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM BLOSSOMS IN [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment: Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Kuwait's recent "orange revolution" is the role played by the ad hoc coalition of pro-reform youth organizations known as the "orange movement." These youth organizations, which include both liberals and Islamists and were not [...] | 2006-06-07 17:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
| 06KUWAIT2239 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - ELECTORAL SLOGANS, ALLIANCES, AND WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-12 16:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO PREL KDEM PGOV KU |
| 06KUWAIT2271 | THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND: SUPPORT FOR [...] (C/NF) Summary: An emerging consensus between ideologically opposite political blocs on the need for political reform in Kuwait has led to the formation of a number of unprecedented alliances in advance of the June 29 parliamentary elections. Some Islamist groups, like the Islamic Constituti [...] | 2006-06-13 15:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
| 06KUWAIT2393 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - ELECTIONS: ISLAMISTS WELCOME YOUTH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-19 14:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO KDEM PGOV KU MEDIA REACTION |
| 06KUWAIT2394 | FREEDOM AGENDA: IMPLICATIONS OF ISLAMIST GAINS IN [...] (S/NF) Summary: There is a strong possibility that the Kuwaiti Parliament elected on June 29 will include more Islamist members than the previous one. Islamists are well-organized and poised to capitalize on the women's vote. While there are legitimate concerns about the impact this would ha [...] | 2006-06-19 14:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM KISL KU FREEDOM AGENDA ISLAMISTS |
| 06KUWAIT2447 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - ELECTIONS: REDISTRICTING, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-21 15:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO KDEM PGOV KU MEDIA REACTION |
| 06KUWAIT2448 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL DISTRICTS, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-22 18:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO KDEM PGOV KU MEDIA REACTION |
| 06KUWAIT2568 | ELECTION COUNTDOWN: YOUTH ACTIVISTS HIGHLIGHT [...] (C/NF) In a June 26 meeting with Poloff, "orange movement" (ref B) leaders Kahled Al-Fadhalah, Jassem Al-Maqamis, and Dana Al-Salem shared their views on the upcoming elections. All three studied in the U.S. and were active in the U.S. branch of the National Union of Kuwait Students (NUKS). [...] | 2006-06-27 14:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
| 06KUWAIT2593 | ELECTION COUNTDOWN: KUWAITI CANDIDATES REPRESENT [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Two hundred and fifty-two candidates will compete in Kuwait's National Assembly elections on June 29. Over 340,000 voters will go to 91 polling stations between 8:00 am and 8:00 pm to elect two representatives from each of 25 electoral districts. Fifty-seven percen [...] | 2006-06-28 14:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
| 06KUWAIT2600 | FREEDOM AGENDA: KUWAITI WOMEN NOT REPRESENTED IN [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Kuwaiti women voted and ran for office for the first time on June 29. While initial reports indicate only 35% of registered women voted, EmbOffs who visited polling stations saw crowds of women taking part in the electoral process in both urban and tribal areas. [...] | 2006-06-30 12:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
| 06KUWAIT2601 | KUWAIT MEDIA ELECTION DAY COVERAGE - JUNE 30 [...] (U) Summary and comment: International broadcast coverage of the June 29 Kuwait National Assembly elections ran the gamut from near full-time coverage on Al-Arabiya to a brief mention late in the evening on BBC World. CNN, France 2, the New York Times and the Washington Post were among the m [...] | 2006-06-30 12:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC KMDR KPAO KDEM PGOV KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
| 06KUWAIT2671 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - ELECTION RESULTS AND FORMATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-03 15:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO KDEM PGOV KU MEDIA REACTION |
| 06KUWAIT2673 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNDERCUTTING IRAN'S [...] (C) PolChief delivered July 3 reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Asia and Africa Ambassador Abdul Mohsen Al-Haroun. Al-Haroun said the GOK was aware of the proposed July 8 meeting, but he could not confirm whether the Kuwaiti officials had received an official invit [...] | 2006-07-04 10:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL IR KU |
| 06KUWAIT2751 | FREEDOM AGENDA: POST HOSTS YOUNG DEMOCRATIC [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-09 13:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM KU FREEDOM AGENDA |
| 06KUWAIT2821 | FREEDOM AGENDA: CABINET APPROVES FIVE CONSTITUENCY [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment: The new Cabinet approved July 11 a draft electoral reform bill and a draft bill to write off the interest on retirees' loans. Many saw the measures as a conciliatory move by the Government to repair relations with Parliament. Jassem Al-Khorafi was re-elected as Sp [...] | 2006-07-12 15:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KU FREEDOM AGENDA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
| 06KUWAIT4315 | IRAQ COMPACT: TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETING [...] (C) Summary: Treasury D/S Kimmitt met with Iraqi NSA Rubaie in Kuwait City on November 1, the day following the Preparatory Group meeting on the International Compact for Iraq (ICI). They had a wide ranging discussion regarding the ICI, Iraq-Saudi relations, the Iraqi insurgency and Iraq's [...] | 2006-11-03 11:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EFIN ETRD EINV LE IZ KU |
| 06KUWAIT4622 | INDEPENDENT/LIBERAL TELLS PDAS KUWAITI DEMOCRACY [...] (C/NF) PDAS James Jeffrey met with liberal/independent MP Mohammad Jassem Al-Sager, head of the National Assembly's Foreign Relations Committee on December 9. In addition to discussing regional security issues (septel),Al-Sager gave his assessment of the recent tension between the Governmen [...] | 2006-12-11 14:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KU |
| 06KUWAIT749 | GUANTANAMO DETAINEES RELEASED ON BAIL [...] (U) On March 5, only hours after Kuwait's Court of First Instance heard opening arguments in the case charging five Kuwaitis formerly held at Guantanamo with membership in Al-Qaeda, the court abruptly issued an oral decision to release four of the five men from prison on 500 dinar bail (appro [...] | 2006-03-05 15:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PGOV PHUM PREL PTER KU TERRORISM |
| 06KUWAIT913 | REGIONAL CT STRATEGY FOR IRAQ AND ITS NEIGHBORS: [...] (S REL AUS UK) Summary: U.S. Chiefs of Mission and Embassy representatives from Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey met in Kuwait, March 7-8, as a first step to develop a regional counterterrorism strategy. Ambassador for Counterterrorism Henry Crumpton and U.S. interagency repres [...] | 2006-03-18 04:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PTER PREL IZ KU SY JO TU SA |
| 06KYIV4021 | UKRAINE: WHO WERE THE FATHERLAND'S DEFENDERS? THE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Orthodox feast day of Pokrova (October 14),marked for centuries to honor defenders of the fatherland, occasioned three dueling marches in downtown Kyiv between elderly veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and nationalist supporters on the one hand and Communists [...] | 2006-10-18 10:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ASEC UP |
| 06KYIV4156 | UKRAINE REMAINS DOUBTFUL THAT KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Ambassador and FM Tarasyuk discussed Transnistria and Kosovo, among other issues, October 31 (septel to follow). Tarasyuk, hewing to the line he has maintained since December 2005 (ref B),said the U.S. line on Kosovo independence not being a precedent for frozen conflicts such as Transnist [...] | 2006-11-01 17:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SR UP |
| 06KYIV4175 | UKRAINE: TARASYUK ON COORDINATING FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary. A tired FM Borys Tarasyuk saw Ambassador late October 31 after returning from Estonia and Finland. He diagrammed the current players in Ukrainian foreign policy formulation, stating that his role as the fulcrum was to prevent encroachment by PM Yanukovych's team onto Presidenti [...] | 2006-11-03 14:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KYIV4251 | UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH LAYS MARKERS FOR COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. During a long Sunday afternoon lunch with Ambassador November 12, Prime Minister Yanukovych said that while President Yushchenko held up general, vague concepts like the guarantee of Ukrainian independence as the benchmark for cooperation with the Yanukovych government, the Prime [...] | 2006-11-13 15:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4285 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO, YANUKOVYCH MAKE ONE MORE TRY [...] (C) Summary. The Rada's November 15 decision not to vote for now on dismissing Foreign Affairs Minister Tarasyuk and Defense Minister Hrytsenko following an 8-hour marathon meeting between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych November 13 suggests the two sides are still making a [...] | 2006-11-15 16:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4290 | UKRAINE: THE LONG ROAD TO REFORMING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Constitutional reform bill 4180 (now known by its Ministry of Justice number 2222) shifting powers from the President to the Prime Minister-led Cabinet of Ministers and Rada majority was adopted December 8, 2004 as part of the package to solve the political crisis ensuing from t [...] | 2006-11-17 07:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4295 | UKRAINE: EMBATTLED FM SUPPORTS ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: "Orange" and embattled Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk told visiting EUR A/S Fried that the U.S. approach to PM Yanukovych and the Party of Regions coalition was correct, arguing that Yanukovych had changed for the better. He noted that the PM's upcoming U.S. visit, and his des [...] | 2006-11-17 12:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4298 | UKRAINE: DEFMIN HRYTSENKO ON YUSHCHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Hrytsenko told visiting EUR A/S Fried and Ambassador November 16 that President Yushchenko's remote style interfered with his effectiveness, that PM Yanukovych was the most reasonable of the Regions' team in office and that the U.S. was right to seek to work with [...] | 2006-11-17 15:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KYIV4301 | UKRAINE: HIGH-PROFILE RUSSIANS BANNED ENTRY INTO [...] (SBU) Chief of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Ihor Drizhchany told journalists November 6 that the SBU had blacklisted 131 foreigners thus far in 2006 for "activities damaging national security interests." When we inquired, an SBU official advised that the SBU does not release names of [...] | 2006-11-17 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PINR RS UP |
| 06KYIV4302 | UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH TELLS A/S FRIED: UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. PM Yanukovych told visiting EUR A/S Fried and Ambassador November 16 that he was determined to bring Ukraine to Europe, meaning the WTO soon, and eventually into the EU and NATO. The latter would take time, both to change currently ambivalent public opinion and also to strengthe [...] | 2006-11-17 16:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4313 | UKRAINE: ENGAGING YANUKOVYCH, THE MAN OF THE MOMENT [...] (C) Summary. Love him or hate him, the Ukrainian political elite and intelligentsia agree that Prime Minister Yanukovych is the man to deal with right now. Four months ago Yanukovych was painted variously as a puppet of oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, the Party of Regions, or the Kremlin, but he ha [...] | 2006-11-20 15:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4362 | UKRAINE: "ORANGE" RIFTS DEEPENING TWO YEARS AFTER [...] (C) Summary. On the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution, November 22, a crowd of 500 or so gathered on the Maidan to commemorate the rise of democracy in Ukraine. Few leaders of the Maidan were there to share in the event. Disheartened by the failure to form a new "orange" government [...] | 2006-11-22 16:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4383 | UKRAINE: VOTERS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy, representatives from several USG-funded NGO's (NDI, IRI, Freedom House and IOM) and monitors from ENEMO (European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations) observed four repeat mayoral elections this month, all in the central Ukraine heartland which gave plural [...] | 2006-11-29 09:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4407 | UKRAINE/POLAND: PM KACZYNSKI'S VISIT SIGNALS [...] (C) Summary: Both the Ukrainian and Polish sides hailed the November 15 visit of Polish PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski to Kyiv as a solid sign of continuity in Poland's working relationship with the government of Ukrainian PM Yanukovych. During his one-day visit, Kaczynski met with Yanukovych, Preside [...] | 2006-11-30 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG PL UP |
| 06KYIV4413 | UKRAINE: INFORMAL POLITICAL DIRECTORS' MEETING - [...] (C) Summary: In what the Ukrainian MFA would like to see morph into a regular informal gathering, political directors from select EU countries and countries of the "Baltic-Black-Caspian seas" region, along with EUR A/S Fried, discussed Ukraine's relationship with the EU and NATO and exchanged [...] | 2006-11-30 15:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO EUN XH ZB ZK UP |
| 06KYIV4414 | UKRAINE: THE HOLODOMOR AND THE POLITICS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In the aftermath of moving commemorations November 25 of the 73rd anniversary of the holodomor ("Great Famine"),Stalin's man-made famine 1932-33 that led to the death of an estimated 5-10 million Ukrainians in Ukraine and the Russian Kuban region, the Rada passed in a single rea [...] | 2006-11-30 16:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4425 | UKRAINE/RUSSIA: DEFENDING NATIONAL INTERESTS [...] (C) Summary/comment: PM Yanukovych came to office on a campaign promise to improve relations with Russia, but, although he has toned down the rhetoric towards Russia, like his predecessors, he must find the right balance between close ties to Moscow and protecting Ukrainian sovereignty. While [...] | 2006-12-01 14:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PBTS PINR RS UP |
| 06KYIV4432 | UKRAINE: ADDITIONAL MANPADS AND SCUDS INVENTORY: [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Tereshchenko told us November 22 that Ukraine would be willing to provide an additional 1,713 MANPADS, a mix of SA-7s and SA-14s, for destruction in the NATO PfP Trust Fund project. An official notification of this offer was under preparation and [...] | 2006-12-01 16:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP |
| 06KYIV4489 | UKRAINE: THE RUSSIA FACTOR IN CRIMEA - UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. Discussions with a wide range of contacts in Crimea November 20-22 and officials in Kyiv discounted recent speculation that a return of pro-Russian separatism in Crimea, which posed a real threat to Ukrainian territorial integrity in 1994-95, could be in the cards. However, nearl [...] | 2006-12-07 15:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RU UP |
| 06KYIV4558 | UKRAINE: LAND, POWER, AND CRIMINALITY IN CRIMEA [...] (C) Summary. Land issues dominate the Autonomous Republic of Crimea's local agenda, according to a wide range of Crimean officials, journalists, and community leaders we talked to November 20-22 in the Crimean capitol of Simferopol, the separately administered city of Sevastopol, and Bakhchis [...] | 2006-12-14 09:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4600 | UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE REGROUPING [...] (C) Summary. The People's Union Our Ukraine (PUOU) party, the dominant party inside the Our Ukraine bloc, is cleaning house in a move to reenergize itself, bring the party back under the President's wing, and possibly to regroup for new elections. The biggest shake-ups came in the party leade [...] | 2006-12-22 07:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4660 | UKRAINE: MR. PUTIN COMES TO KYIV [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a compressed one-day visit to Kyiv December 22, his first since March 2005 and the second since Ukraine's November-December 2004 Orange Revolution. Putin and Yushchenko met for two-and-a-half hours alone, without notetakers. After the for [...] | 2006-12-27 16:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU UP |
| 06KYIV4681 | UKRAINE: CONFRONTATION AND COMPROMISE--A TALE OF [...] (C) Summary. Two years after the Orange Revolution and Yushchenko's election victory and almost five months into the prime ministership that has marked Yanukovych's triumphant return to the political center stage, the relationship between the two Viktors is rocky and full of mistrust. Althoug [...] | 2006-12-29 13:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 06LAGOS35 | PENSION REFORM--A MONEYMAKING SCHEME FOR POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Nigeria's pension reforms face numerous legal, infrastructural and accountability challenges that have not been properly addressed. Nigeria's National Pension Commission (PenCom) recently granted licenses to seven Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs),one Closed Pension Fund Admin [...] | 2006-01-12 16:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV PREL PGOV NI |
| 06LAGOS54 | OIL WORKER HOSTAGE UPDATE SITREP #5 [...] (C) Post confirmed additional attacks against Shell and AGIP perpetrated since January 11. A military intelligence source confirmed an attack against Shell's Ogbotobo flow station on January 16 with an unconfirmed number of casualties. Agip also reported other attacks on January 11, one ag [...] | 2006-01-17 15:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | EPET PGOV ASEC PTER KHLS PINR ETRD CASC NI |
| 06LILONGWE953 | BINGU DUMPS TWO TOP MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Mutharika fired the Ministers of Agriculture and Economic Planning and Development on October 26, primarily for political reasons. Mutharika has taken over as minister of both portfolios for the time being. The dismissals come as Malawi's political class begins to loo [...] | 2006-11-02 13:19:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM MI |
| 06LIMA2173 | PERU: 2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] a. Claimant A b. 1999 c. Claimant A's Peruvian subsidiary was a major purchaser of Peruvian gold in the late 1990's. In 1999, the GOP issued a decree that made the final purchaser of gold responsible for verifying the legality of the supply chain from m [...] | 2006-06-01 16:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV PE |
| 06LIMA4570 | PERU: PRESIDENT GARCIA'S EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL [...] (S) This message is in response to reftel request for information on the emotional and physical health of President Alan Garcia. Our responses are slugged to the questions in reftel paragraphs. We do not always have first-hand information on the questions asked, a fact reflected in some of our answ [...] | 2006-12-04 22:44:00 | Embassy Lima | SECRET | PINR PGOV PE |
| 06LIMA748 | MONTESINOS LEGAL REQUEST FOR EMBASSY FILES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Post has received a four-inch thick legal assistance request from the lawyer representing Vladimiro Montesinos, convicted, ex-intelligence advisor for former President Alberto Fujimori. The 110 page cover letter, also sent [...] | 2006-02-27 13:14:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PE |
| 06LIMA759 | ELECTION UPDATE: ALAN GARCIA AND HIS APRA PARTY [...] (U) The latest national poll by the Apoyo consultancy, taken 2/22-24, showed center-right Unidad Nacional candidate Lourdes Flores holding on to first place, although her support fell two points to 33 percent; ultra-nationalist Union por el Peru candidate Ollanta Humala remaining in second a [...] | 2006-02-27 21:29:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PINS PE |
| 06LJUBLJANA329 | SUCCESSFUL U.S.-SLOVENIA POL-MIL TALKS HELD MAY [...] (S) The first joint State-DOD pol-mil talks with Slovenia took place at the Slovenian MFA May 12. Highlights included: -- SLOVENE CONTRIBUTIONS TO GWOT (paras 3-5): The Slovenes said they are increasingly willing to share the collective burden and that they intend to maintain their particip [...] | 2006-05-25 06:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | MARR NATO PGOV PREL SI |
| 06LONDON5547 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO, or "the Organization") held meetings in London from June 13 through June 23, 2006, consisting of the Technical Co-operation Committee's fifty-sixth session (TCC56) and the Council's ninety-sixth session (C96). Significant agenda items dur [...] | 2006-07-28 15:46:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHSA EWWT ECPS MOPS AORC IMO KTIA US UK KE XA |
| 06MADRID3078 | SPAIN/HSPD-6: MOVING AHEAD ON IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] (SBU) The DCM and Embassy officers met with Eugenio Pereiro, Director of Spain's "National Center for Antiterrorist Coordination" (CNCA) on December 19 to discuss a broad range of security cooperation issues. Much of the discussion focused on the establishment of a mechanism to share terroris [...] | 2006-12-20 14:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER CVIS PGOV PREL SP |
| 06MADRID3111 | SPAIN: CAR BOMB DETONATES AT MADRID AIRPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. A car bomb detonated at 9 a.m. Madrid local time on December 30 in a public parking garage outside of Terminal 4 at Madrid's Barajas International Airport. Minister of Interior Rubalcaba said that one person is missing and several were lightly injured. Rubalcaba expressed his c [...] | 2006-12-30 14:15:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC CASC PGOV SP |
| 06MANAGUA1003 | NICARAGUA'S MOST WANTED PART II: THE CRIMES OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-05 17:17:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KCRM SOCI ECON EAID NU |
| 06MANAGUA1511 | PROFESSIONALIZING NICARAGUA'S FOREIGN SERVICE [...] (U) On June 29, TDY Foreign Affairs Officer represented the Embassy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' induction ceremony for the successful candidates of the second public competitive examination for entrance to the nation's diplomatic service. Of the ten candidates selected, nine were wom [...] | 2006-07-10 20:36:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL NU KCRM KDEM KWMN |
| 06MANAGUA2546 | SIT REP 8 - NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: The deadline for political parties to submit formal complaints regarding the vote count has passed. The OAS has noted some anomalies in the National Assembly race, but claims they were mostly resolved. According to an analysis of the election observation effort presented by the [...] | 2006-11-20 23:27:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU |
| 06MANAGUA780 | NICARAGUAN TRADE IN LARGE NUMBERS OF UNDERSIZED [...] (SBU) Summary: In the past month, Nicaraguan law enforcement has seized a total of 10,000 illegal undersized lobsters from two tanker trucks. Yet another vehicle, thought to contain thousands more, managed to slip past the police. While officials are confident that they will obtain convictio [...] | 2006-04-07 19:38:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS PHSA SENV NU |
| 06MANAMA797 | BAHRAIN: MAY 6 GCC HEADS OF STATE CONSULTATIVE [...] (S) In a meeting covering several subjects (septels),the Ambassador May 6 delivered Ref A letter from the President and Ref B demarche on the GCC heads of state Consultative Meeting to Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa a few hours before the Minister and King Hamad departed [...] | 2006-05-07 13:46:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS BA REGION BILAT OFFICIALS |
| 06MANAMA891 | BAHRAINI POLITICAL SCENE PART I: GOVERNMENT [...] (S) The forced departure of NDI's project director on May 12 is just one example of actions taken by elements within the government and ruling family to exert increased control over the political environment in the run-up to parliamentary and municipal council elections later this year. Accor [...] | 2006-05-22 14:03:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM KMPI BA BILAT POL REFORM |
| 06MANILA1746 | MALACANANG SUFFERS SETBACK AT HANDS OF SUPREME [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Court ruled April 20 that key sections of E.O. 464, which required Malacanang concurrence before executive branch members could testify in Congress, were unconstitutional. Malacanang said it would file a motion for reconsideration. The Opposition hailed the ruling [...] | 2006-04-21 06:44:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS RP |
| 06MANILA1886 | PEACEFUL MAY DAY RALLIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Rallies in Manila and elsewhere in the Philippines were moderate in size and largely peaceful on the national labor day holiday of May 1. The largest rallies, which leftist groups organized, took place in Manila, but mainstream opposition parties also put on at least one othe [...] | 2006-05-02 09:18:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS ASEC RP |
| 06MANILA3321 | MINDANAO'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OPPOSE BANGSAMORO [...] (C) Summary. Leaders and representatives of indigenous peoples (Lumads) from throughout Mindanao gathered in Bukidnon Province July 24-26 to proclaim strong opposition to the inclusion of their ancestral lands in a Bangsamoro Juridical Entity. This stance will further complicate the already [...] | 2006-08-08 01:13:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS KISL RP |
| 06MANILA3565 | 2006 ARROYO IMPEACHMENT DEAD; MOVING FORWARD ON A [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 24, the House of Representatives voted 173-32 to uphold its own justice committee report recommending the dismissal of this year's impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Most politicians and observers had long viewed the outcome as a forego [...] | 2006-08-25 09:15:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PHUM RP |
| 06MANILA4257 | MARINE CASE: VERDICT PLANNED FOR NOVEMBER 27 [...] The Prosecution announced in a brief hearing on October 5 that it will not after all present rebuttal evidence before the court in the case of the four Marines accused of raping a Filipino woman. At the hearing, Judge Benjamin Pozon gave the Prosecution and Defense 30 days to file Memoranda o [...] | 2006-10-06 06:22:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP |
| 06MANILA4953 | FURTHER DELAY IN MARINE CASE CUSTODY HEARING [...] (U) At a hearing on December 11, Makati City Regional Trial Court Judge Pozon heard oral arguments from the Department of Justice about why the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) authorizes that the U.S. should retain custody of Lance Corporal Smith during the ongoing judicial proceedings. When [...] | 2006-12-11 09:40:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR CASC RP |
| 06MANILA711 | MALACANANG MODIFIES RESTRICTION AND ALLOWS SENIOR [...] (C) Summary: On February 11, Malacanang modified an executive order (E.O. 464) in effect since September 2005 and allowed senior officials to attend budget and other hearings in the House and Senate. In taking the step, Malacanang was responding to criticism that E.O. 464 encroached on the [...] | 2006-02-16 08:12:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR RP |
| 06MANILA914 | SITREP 17: SENAT CONDEMNS GRP ACTIONS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclasified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU)Summary: The Senate has adopted a resolution conemning GRP actions (pressure on media, arrests) uner the State of Emergency (Proclamation 1017). similar resolution filed by Opposition members s under co [...] | 2006-02-28 09:09:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS ASEC ECON RP |
| 06MASERU345 | STREET VENDORS RIOT OVER CITY COUNCIL CLEANUP [...] SUMMARY: Street vendors on the old Maseru Bus stop staged a demonstration against the City Council on July 13, to protest against the removal of their tables and food from the area overnight. The group forced shop owners, who are mostly Chinese to close down their shops, and hurled barricade [...] | 2006-07-25 10:31:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI ASEC LT |
| 06MASERU503 | LESOTHO CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Amidst a rush of enthusiastic patriotism and against the backdrop of a new national flag, Lesotho celebrated the 40th anniversary of its independence during three days of celebrations that culminated on October 4. The ceremonies were attended by a number of foreign dignitaries- [...] | 2006-10-10 15:47:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PNAT LT |
| 06MEXICO2759 | MEXICANS FAVOR IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF INDIGENOUS [...] (SBU) As instructed reftel PolMinCouns joined Amb. George Troup of New Zealand and Australian First Secretary Jessica Lucas to demarche Foreign Relations (SRE) officials 5/19 regarding the proposed Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Ambassador Troup presented reftel points ora [...] | 2006-05-23 19:00:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM MX |
| 06MEXICO3148 | PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: CALDERON ON POINTS, AMLO ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the second and final of the presidential debates, front-running candidates Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party (PAN) and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) of the Party of the Democratic Revolution were widely perceived to have debated to a near draw. The debate f [...] | 2006-06-07 23:19:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO6481 | PRESIDENT FOX'S POLITICAL, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND [...] (SBU) This is the fourth in a series of four cables assessing President Fox's legacy. In the political area, Fox's greatest achievements were overseeing Mexico's first true political opening, which included a strengthening of the separation of powers and respect for limits on the president's [...] | 2006-11-15 17:51:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MX |
| 06MEXICO6933 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, DECEMBER 7 Q DECEMBER 13 [...] (U) The first budget from the Calderon Administration, for fiscal year 2007 (ref A) was met by loud protests over proposed funding levels for education and infrastructure, as well as an increase in the tax for soft drinks. A detailed cable regarding contentious parts of the budget will follo [...] | 2006-12-14 23:14:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ELAB EFIN PGOV PREL MX |
| 06MEXICO6972 | POST'S NOMINEES AS OAS DEMOCRACY PRACTITIONERS [...] Per reftel, post would like to nominate the following persons for selection as "OAS Democracy Practitioners." 2. Name: Jose WOLDENBERG Karakowsky Bio: Woldenberg, 54, holds a Bachelor's degree in sociology, a Master's degree in Latin American studies, and a Doctorate in political scie [...] | 2006-12-15 23:16:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MX OAS KSUM PHUM |
| 06MEXICO953 | CANDIDATES AND THEIR OWN REFORMS [...] On the campaign trail the week of February 14, Felipe Calderon and Roberto Madrazo spoke on their reform priorities while Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced his "new" agenda, which centers around the idea that no "so-called structural reforms" are needed. Calderon continued promotin [...] | 2006-02-22 15:46:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR MX |
| 06MINSK173 | STATE MEDIA VILIFIES AMERICA, OFTEN [...] (C) Summary: In recent months Belarusian state media has become increasingly venomous in its daily attacks against the U.S. and the West. Common themes include charges of espionage, of Western attempts to destabilize the country, and of attempts to overthrow the government in a forced "color" [...] | 2006-02-16 14:45:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BO |
| 06MINSK282 | Milinkevich Campaign Manager Discusses Last-Minute [...] (C) Summary: On March 15, Sergey Kalyakin, campaign manager for Ten Plus Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, provided Pol/Econ Chief an assessment of the candidate's campaign rallies leading up to the March 19 elections. Kalyakin stressed Milinkevich and the campaign team [...] | 2006-03-17 07:56:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BO |
| 06MINSK285 | Lukashenko Leads February Poll [...] (SBU) Summary: In a poll conducted just before the presidential campaign began, Lukashenko dominated the field and most Belarusians relied on state media for information. Still, despite lack of access and constant pro- Lukashenko/anti-opposition propaganda, pro-democracy candidate Milinkevich [...] | 2006-03-17 08:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO |
| 06MINSK286 | Independent News Does Make a Difference [...] (C) Under the auspices of a DRL Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF) small grant (reftel),the IISEPS polling service conducted the second of six opinion polls in mid-February (septel). IISEPS conducted the first such grant in early December, and plans to conduct the third in April. [Note: [...] | 2006-03-17 08:46:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM BO |
| 06MINSK531 | DESPITE RHETORIC, MOSCOW NOT TO PUSH MINSK HARD [...] (C) During a recent conversation with Pol/Econ Chief, Vladimir Pavlenko, Counselor for Internal Political Affairs in the Russian Embassy, noted that despite strong statements from Gazprom, the Kremlin would not allow gas prices to stand in the way of an "extremely close alliance with Belarus." [...] | 2006-05-22 07:47:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG BO |
| 06MINSK56 | Jeans Campaign: Youth Try To Unite Through Denim [...] (C) Summary: The human rights NGO Charter97 recently reported that on January 16 the Free Belarus Coalition launched the "jeans campaign." The youth-driven jeans campaign, which grew out of the Day of Solidarity nonviolent resistance campaign, aims to provide Belarusians a safe way to expre [...] | 2006-01-24 08:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR BO |
| 06MINSK580 | Opposition Activist Convicted of Sedition [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 25, a Milinkevich campaign worker, Sergei Lyashkevich, was tried in Shchuchin regional court on charges of inciting mass disorder. The prosecution's evidence included seized electronic media, written testimony, and oral testimony by two dubious witnesses. Following the [...] | 2006-06-02 10:13:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
| 06MINSK794 | PRESSURES ON LUKASHENKO: CURRENT STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Summary: Although Lukashenko secured a third term in office through rigged March presidential elections, the regime is grappling with unprecedented political and economic pressure from the East and the West, and to a limited extent, from within. Belarusians interpret Gazprom's plans to q [...] | 2006-07-31 13:09:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO |
| 06MINSK964 | CHARGE'S PRESS CONFERENCE ELICITS INTEREST OF [...] (U) On August 31, Charge hosted a press conference with members of the Belarusian independent media and local representatives of various international media outlets. After delivering a brief opening statement, Charge and journalists engaged in a spirited hour-long question-and-answer session [...] | 2006-09-05 12:52:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BO |
| 06MOSCOW10227 | BREAKFAST WITH ROGOZIN: TALES OF A KREMLIN PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary: As the political season commences, the rise and fall of former Rodina Party Chairman Dmitry Rogozin is a cautionary tale for other politicians seeking poster-boy status in Kremlin electoral projects and a timely reminder of the ability of the Presidential Administration to int [...] | 2006-09-13 15:06:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RS |
| 06MOSCOW105 | WIDENING PROBLEMS FOR RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY. The North Caucasus is a crucible in which the weakness of the Russian state and its ambivalence about how to overcome that weakness are compounded. In part thanks to its failed policy there, the challenge for Russia in the North Caucasus has changed over the last ten years. Jus [...] | 2006-01-11 15:03:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM EAID PREL RS |
| 06MOSCOW1171 | RUSSIA COMFORTABLE WITH STATUS QUO IN BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: The MFA's official stance on Belarus seems to have shifted from resigned noninterference to passive support for Lukashenko and the status quo. However, Russian activists and leaders of the Belarusian opposition based in Moscow have not given up hope that determined resistance wi [...] | 2006-02-08 08:53:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR BO RS |
| 06MOSCOW12666 | RUSSIA'S APPROACH TO POST-ORANGE UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary: Russia has reinvigorated its engagement with Ukraine, focusing on practical cooperation. Last month's Fradkov-Yanukovich meeting, which yielded a gas deal, set the stage for the December 23 Putin-Yushchenko Summit. Russian attitudes, however, still seem to lack an appreciation [...] | 2006-11-28 16:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP RS |
| 06MOSCOW12709 | A GUIDE TO RUSSIAN POLITICAL YOUTH GROUPS: PART 1 [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is part one of a two-part message describing Russian political youth groups. This cable contains a summary of the major political youth movements in Russia. Russian political youth groups can be broadly divided into two categories: grassroots organizations driven by idealis [...] | 2006-11-30 13:46:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL RS |
| 06MOSCOW12717 | RUSSIAN YOUTH POLITICS, OR LACK THEREOF: PART 2 OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is the second part of a two-part message describing Russian political youth groups. Russia's youth is overwhelmingly apolitical, and youth groups in general have very little impact on political life in Russia. The small bit of political life that does exist is restricted to t [...] | 2006-11-30 17:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR RS |
| 06MOSCOW12916 | KASPAROV'S UNITED CIVIC FRONT OFFICES SEARCHED BY [...] (C) On December 13, United Civic Front Chairman Garry Kasparov confirmed press accounts that police had searched his organization's offices the afternoon of December 12. Kasparov told us he thought that "intimidation" was the purpose of the search, which the police for their part described to [...] | 2006-12-13 16:12:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR RS |
| 06MOSCOW12981 | THREE DEMONSTRATIONS AND A CONVENTION [...] (C) Political groupings of all stripes made their presence known in Moscow over the December 16-17 weekend: -- "Other Russia" staged its "March of the Discontented." About 2,500 participants from a hodgepodge of groups, united only by their opposition to the current government and rejection [...] | 2006-12-19 14:04:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS |
| 06MOSCOW1324 | PRESSING RUSSIA FOR RESTRAINT ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: In a February 9 meeting with Chief of Defense General Baluyevskiy, Ambassador Burns urged that Russia exercise restraint in its dealings with Georgia. Baluyevksiy was blunt in complaining about Georgian demands to withdraw peacekeepers from Georgia and charged Tbilisi with inte [...] | 2006-02-11 14:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PBTS GG RS |
| 06MOSCOW1435 | GEORGIA-RUSSIA: EXPECT SHARP RUSSIAN REACTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the absence of DFM Karasin from Moscow, A/DCM spoke with MFA 4th CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin to emphasize the efforts the USG has been making to moderate Georgian parliamentary action on CIS peacekeepers in South Ossetia (per ref e-mail request). Kelin took careful no [...] | 2006-02-14 15:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG |
| 06MOSCOW3202 | AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH RUSSIAN DFM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Burns met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin March 29 to discuss the outcomes of the Belarusian and Ukrainian elections and recent developments in Moldova, Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. Karasin was sanguine about the March 26 Ukrainian parliamenta [...] | 2006-03-29 14:33:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD BO UP GG MD RS |
| 06MOSCOW3218 | THE "FEBRUARY THESES": SURKOV'S PRIMER ON PUTINISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. A February speech by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov to a United Russia conference sketched out "basic ideological theses" of the Putin Administration. While not attempting to break new ground or crystallize a doctrine of "Putinism," the speech p [...] | 2006-03-30 10:24:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS |
| 06MOSCOW3388 | RUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION LEADER BORIS NEMTSOV [...] (C) In a March 27 meeting with the Ambassador, democratic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov: -- Strongly condemned the falsified election results in Belarus, where the people faced a "catastrophic situation"; -- Suggested that negotiations to form a new government in Ukraine would be prolon [...] | 2006-03-31 13:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS |
| 06MOSCOW3510 | RUSSIAN VIEWS ON POST-ELECTION UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. A week after the Ukrainian election results were announced, reactions in Russia vary widely. Officially, Moscow has been neutral, while the media has buzzed with speculation about the new government's formation and especially Tymoshenko's possible role. Russian pundits are con [...] | 2006-04-04 10:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP |
| 06MOSCOW7385 | RUSSIA'S GEORGIA POLICY: "THE CAUCASUS BENEATH ME" [...] (C) Russia's policies towards Georgia are the product of three factors: anger unleashed by perceptions of betrayal and disrespect, fear of encirclement by a West intent on dismembering Russia's conception of the "Post-Soviet space," and solidarity with the separatist Abkhaz and South Ossetian [...] | 2006-07-12 11:08:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS GG RS |
| 06MOSCOW9018 | RUSSIA AND UKRAINE: TWO CHEERS FOR YANU? [...] (C) Summary: Moscow was pleased that new Ukrainian PM Viktor Yanukovich made his first foreign trip to Russia to meet with President Putin and PM Fradkov in Sochi. Observers here expect that the tone of the relationship will improve, but on substance, few saw Yanukovich as a pushover. On t [...] | 2006-08-18 14:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD UP RS |
| 06MOSCOW921 | CIVIL SOCIETY COUNCIL CHAIR PAMFILOVA: "WE'LL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting with visiting DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron, the Ambassador and EUR DAS Kramer, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Presidential body that oversees civil society issues, said she had strongly opposed the controversial NGO legislation and had weighed in with President Pu [...] | 2006-01-30 12:56:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS |
| 06MOSCOW930 | MOSCOW COMFORTABLE WITH UKRAINIAN DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moscow continues to tell itself that it got the best of Kiev in the year-end negotiations on gas supply, according to the Russian MFA and a number of Embassy contacts. As they see it, the gas deal was an economic boon for Gazprom and the GOR, despite allegations of corruption a [...] | 2006-01-30 13:57:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP |
| 06MUMBAI1266 | FARMER SUICIDES PROMPT PM SINGH TO ANNOUNCE AGRICULTURAL [...] (U) Over 1,600 farmers in eastern Maharashtra's drought-affected cotton belt in the Vidarbha region have committed suicide in the past five years. The GOI has cited crop failure, depressed cotton prices and spiraling debt as the chief reasons for the suicides. During his June 30-July 1 visit [...] | 2006-07-07 06:45:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EAID PREL IN |
| 06MUSCAT1509 | BIG PLANS AHEAD FOR MUSCAT'S TOURISM INDUSTRY [...] (U) The Ministry of Tourism and government-owned Oman Tourism Development Company (OTDC) are moving forward on ambitious plans to develop tourism-related projects in the Muscat metropolitan area. The government envisions the construction of 16 hotels and a convention center within the next fi [...] | 2006-10-22 10:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL MU |
| 06MUSCAT1510 | SALALAH PINS ECONOMIC HOPES ON PORT, FREE ZONE, [...] (U) The city of Salalah is banking on the growth of its port, free zone, and tourism industries in ongoing efforts to develop its economy. Government and private sector officials express confidence that proposed investments in these sectors will reshape Salalah by 2010 and position the region [...] | 2006-10-22 10:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND EWWT PREL MU |
| 06MUSCAT1658 | OMAN COMMITS TO INTERNATIONAL CONTAINER SCANNING [...] (SBU) On December 3, Brigadier General Mahmood al-Kiyumi, Director General of Customs, Royal Oman Police (ROP),gave oral approval for Oman's public participation in the International Container Scanning Network (ICSN). Contacts at the ROP assured Post that the General's statement is sufficien [...] | 2006-12-04 13:29:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL EWWT ASEC KHLS ECON MU |
| 06NAHA238 | OKINAWA GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN: POSTER SPOT REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Okinawa Prefecture gubernatorial race remains too close to call, and the two major candidates are engaged in a technically illegal unofficial poster campaign. The reformist parties backing the woman running as their unified candidate seem torn between self-promotion and gett [...] | 2006-11-08 03:11:00 | Consulate Naha | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR JA KN |
| 06NAIROBI1023 | PUBLIC AND POLITICIANS DEMAND EXPLANATION FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the furor over the government's assault on media freedom grew into a several thousand strong protest march, further details of the raid against the Standard Media Group suggest it was part of a much deeper effort to help the increasingly paranoid government cling to power. Alt [...] | 2006-03-07 12:33:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KDEM PGOV PREL ASEC KE |
| 06NAIROBI1077 | MUSYOKA: LIES, LOVERS, AND MERCENARIES IN KENYA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition politician Kalonzo Musyoka privately sees sabotage by supporters of a fellow presidential aspirant as behind the false story suggesting he was cutting a political deal with President Kibaki. The reason for the Government's own visceral reaction to this story (and raiding th [...] | 2006-03-09 01:02:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR KE |
| 06NAIROBI1114 | AN UNSETTLED KENYA AWAITS NEXT SHOE TO DROP [...] (S) SUMMARY: President Kibaki publicly stands firm behind the Kenyan Police raid on the Standard Media Group. Meanwhile, Standard journalists and others privately say the raids were prompted by a State House belief that the paper possesses documents implicating the President's family in grand [...] | 2006-03-10 12:48:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | PINS SNAR ASEC ECON PREL KCOR KDEM KE |
| 06NAIROBI1154 | KENYAN GOVERNMENT FUMBLES, OPPOSITION BENEFITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: With Parliament set to reconvene March 21, Kenya's "ODM" opposition is armed with a number of issues over which to take on the government. Buoyed by the government's recent media crack-down gaffe, ODM leaders have publicly recommitted themselves to cooperation. Their united ext [...] | 2006-03-15 02:25:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KE |
| 06NAIROBI1262 | POLITICAL INTRIGUES TO ENGENDER FURTHER [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a four-month hiatus, Kenya's Parliament faces daunting challenges when it reconvenes March 21. Despite the importance of pending legislation, including the creation of a parliamentary budget office, the sharply polarized climate -- equal parts partisan and personal -- coup [...] | 2006-03-20 15:40:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KE |
| 06NAIROBI1348 | PARLIAMENT ALREADY FLIRTING WITH A STALEMATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Kibaki kicked off the re-opening of the long-suspended Parliament March 21 by highlighting the government,s economic successes and glossing over or completely ignoring issues potentially damaging to the government. As expected, the opposition was quick to criticize the [...] | 2006-03-24 14:04:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KE |
| 06NAIROBI1761 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR [...] Country clearance is hereby granted for the visit of AA/AFR/EA Lloyd Pierson from o/a April 30 to o/a May 3, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to visit USAID Staff and Programs. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed travel. Per reftel [...] | 2006-04-25 14:10:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KE |
| 06NAIROBI1789 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WEIS SHERDEL [...] USAID/REDSO grants country clearance for the visit of Weis Sherdel from June 18 to July 21, 2006 to provide Phoenix 6.0 training and support services. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed travel. Per reftel, visitor has secret security [...] | 2006-04-26 08:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KE OTRA |
| 06NAIROBI182 | GOVERNMENT SPINNING ITS WHEELS WITH ALL EYES ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The first meeting of the new cabinet on January 6 indicated the Kenyan government may finally be ready to get back to the business of governing. Political maneuvering and whining, nevertheless, continued, with a singular focus on the next election in 2007. Despite cabinet takin [...] | 2006-01-13 07:27:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM KE |
| 06NAIROBI1939 | MEASLES AND POLIO INCIDENCE AND RESPONSE IN [...] Since 2005, isolated measles and polio cases surfaced in drought-affected Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Increased migration by pastoralists during the drought has raised concerns of a widespread, regional outbreak. In response, the U.N. Children?s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization [...] | 2006-05-04 10:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SO KE ET |
| 06NAIROBI1968 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA staff, Ms. Andrea Tracy to Nairobi, Kenya o/a June 10- 13, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to consult with and support OFDA/ECARO Office on Burundi programming issues. 3. Hotel accommodation has been arranged at the Mayfair Hotel. H [...] | 2006-05-05 09:01:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI1987 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA Drought Assessment Team Member, Ms. Ngoc Clark to Nairobi, Kenya o/a May 14, 2006 to June 30, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to assess drought and humanitarian conditions in drought-stricken districts in Northeast Kenya; provide rapid as [...] | 2006-05-08 10:50:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI2009 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA GIS [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA GIS Officer, Eric Sawyer to Nairobi, Kenya o/a May 12-16, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to provide global information systems support in the Horn of Africa. Mr. Sawyer will meet with representatives of the U.N. and NGOs to discuss informa [...] | 2006-05-09 11:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI2053 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA Health Officer, Ms. Zeline Pritchard to Nairobi, Kenya o/a May 13-26, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to provide health and nutrition support in the Horn of Africa. Ms. Pritchard will assess health and nutrition programming. 3. Hote [...] | 2006-05-11 11:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI2054 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA Overseas Admin Team Leader, Sydel Maher to Nairobi, Kenya o/a May 25-30, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to discuss with the USAID/OFDA staff and RFMC administrative and finance issues. 3. Hotel accommodation has been arranged at the [...] | 2006-05-11 11:45:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI2068 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR M/OAA GRANTS.GOV [...] USAID grants country clearance for the visit of M/AAO Grants.gov Team, Alvin Phillip, Sebrina Robinson, Steve Fitzgerald, Steve Tashjian, and Hung Vu from o/a June 2, 2006 to o/a June 12, 2006 to travel to Kenya to provide Grants.gov training. Country clearance is granted subject to the actu [...] | 2006-05-12 03:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI2175 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MALIK M. CHAKA, [...] Country clearance is hereby granted for the visit of Malik M. Chaka, Director, Threshold Program, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) from o/a May 23 to o/a May 26, 2006 and a one night layover on May 29, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to assess progress in the Threshold Program, meet [...] | 2006-05-18 06:48:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KE |
| 06NAIROBI2178 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] USAID grants country clearance for the visit of IRG training facilitators, Jenna Luche-Thayer and John Taber, o/a June 10, 2006 to o/a June 24, 2006 to travel to Kenya to provide CTO training. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed trave [...] | 2006-05-18 07:46:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI2203 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARIE-CLAIRE SOW [...] USAID grants country clearance for the visit of Marie-Claire Sow, Senior Acquisition & Assistance Specialist from May 24th to 26th, 2006 to perform Acquisition and Assistance services for USAID/Uganda. USAID switchboard number is 254-2-8622000 and after- hour telephone number is 254-2-856-2 [...] | 2006-05-19 07:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTR |
| 06NAIROBI2219 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR M/OAA GRANTS.GOV [...] USAID grants country clearance for the visit of M/AAO Grants.gov Team member, Betty Chung from o/a June 2, 2006 to o/a June 24, 2006 to travel to Kenya to provide Grants.gov training. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed travel. Per r [...] | 2006-05-22 03:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI2348 | COTU Convention Generates Plenty of Public [...] (SBU) Summary: The Central Organization of Trade Unions - Kenya (COTU) election convention was unusually calm and well-organized, partially because there was no challenger to Secretary General Francis Atwoli and his Executive Board. Presidential contender and local hero MP Raila Odinga delive [...] | 2006-05-30 03:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EINV ECON ETRD PHUM KE |
| 06NAIROBI2397 | KENYAN REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE WITH INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Action request - para 3. 2. (SBU) Kenyan Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Moses Wetangula requested a May 26 meeting with Ambassador Bellamy to discuss the case of two Kenyan telecommunication engineers possibly abducted in Baghdad. Wetangula presented the Ambassador with a lette [...] | 2006-05-31 14:32:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KE |
| 06NAIROBI2443 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA/OD IO/NGO Donor Coordinator Miriam Lutz to Nairobi, Kenya o/a June 08-23, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to consult with implementing partners working on Somalia and to attend the Biennial Conference of the Active Learning Network for A [...] | 2006-06-05 11:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI2793 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA/DRM Director, Antoinette Ferrara to Nairobi, Kenya o/a July 10-13, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to meet with OFDA/ECARO staff and REDSO Mission staff. 3. Hotel accommodation has been arranged at the Intercontinental Hotel. The Ho [...] | 2006-06-27 06:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI2794 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA Field Officer, Ms. Nazik Salih to Nairobi, Kenya o/a July 12-15, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to provide support to USAID/DCHA/OFDA humanitarian activities in response to the Horn of Africa drought in the region. 3. Hotel accommod [...] | 2006-06-27 06:25:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI2924 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA staff, Mr. Richard Quinby to Nairobi, Kenya o/a July 8- 10, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to meet with OFDA Principal Regional Advisor to discuss strategy and planning for USAID/OFDA activities in Northern Uganda. 3. Hotel accommod [...] | 2006-07-05 13:31:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI3153 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA Field Officer, Ronald E. Libby to travel to Nairobi, Kenya o/a July 27, 2006 through August 2, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to debrief the OFDA/ECARO after 3 months in Ethiopia. 3. Hotel accommodation has been arranged at the Norf [...] | 2006-07-19 12:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI3220 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA [...] USAID grants country clearance for USAID/DCHA/OFDA Health Officer, Ms. Zeline Pritchard to Nairobi, Kenya o/a July 30, 2006. 2. The purpose of travel is to transit through Nairobi on her way to Washington. 3. Hotel accommodation has been arranged at the Intercontinental Hotel. Hotel t [...] | 2006-07-26 05:59:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI3733 | QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI [...] (U) Summary. The following report replies to Ref F reinstitution of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications as well as cases of American [...] | 2006-08-25 07:07:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE |
| 06NAIROBI3778 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA [...] Embassy grants country clearance for the visit of USAID/DCHA/OFDA Overseas Admin Leader, Sydel Maher and Support Coordinator, Sarah Potts from o/a September 19- 26, 2006 to discuss outstanding administrative issues with OFDA and USAID Mission staff. Country clearance is granted subject to th [...] | 2006-08-29 08:18:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI3974 | OBAMA DISCUSSES CORRUPTION AND TRIBAL POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: During an August 25 meeting with Senator Obama, Official Leader of the Opposition Uhuru Kenyatta predicted that ethnicity would dominate the 2007 national elections. While he stressed that his party, KANU, would strive to move beyond ethnic politics, he feared that the electora [...] | 2006-09-13 12:17:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM KE |
| 06NAIROBI416 | U.S.-CAPTURED SOMALI PIRATES NOW IN KENYAN CUSTODY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ten Somali pirates captured by the U.S. Navy for high-seas piracy of an Indian vessel have been turned over to Kenyan authorities. Absent interventions by U.S. or Indian authorities to assert jurisdiction, Kenyan police are proceeding full steam to prosecute domestically. END S [...] | 2006-01-30 12:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHSA MOPS EAID ASEC PTER PREL SO KE |
| 06NAIROBI4263 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RICHARD QUINBY, [...] Embassy grants country clearance for the visit of USAID/DCHA/OFDA Program Officer, Richard Quinby from o/a October 5-11, 2006 for consultations with USAID/OFDA Senior Regional Advisor in Nairobi. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed tr [...] | 2006-10-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI4414 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USAID/DCHA/OFDA [...] Embassy grants country clearance for the visit of USAID/DCHA/OFDA Program Officer, John Augsburger from o/a October 18-25, 2006 for meetings with OFDA Regional Office, to include planning of program strategy for FY 2007. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at [...] | 2006-10-13 08:40:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI4470 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR VICTOR [...] Embassy grants country clearance for the visit of, Victor Bushamuka, OFDA Program Officer from o/a October 24-28, 2006 to meet with OFDA/ECARO to discuss technical and administrative assistance for OFDA/Kinshasa. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the ti [...] | 2006-10-16 13:47:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI4629 | TWO MEETINGS WITH UHURU KENYATTA [...] (C) Summary: Gliding over the faults of the previous KANU government, KANU political party leader Uhuru Kenyatta sees a political landscape marred by the destruction of party discipline, with ethnic politics an increasingly attractive and dangerous option for some. The current opposition squa [...] | 2006-10-27 12:13:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KE CH |
| 06NAIROBI4631 | AG Wako sends Anglo-Leasing Files Back to KACC; Shell Game [...] (C) Summary: As predicted in reftel, Kenya Attorney-General Amos Wako sent the files of 12 prominent people recommended for prosecution back to the Kenya Anti-Corruption (KACC),saying they were inadequate to ensure successful prosecutions in court. The latest developments indicate that Anglo- [...] | 2006-10-27 14:04:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KCRM PREL ECON EFIN KE |
| 06NAIROBI4902 | ARMENIAN THUG RETURNS TO KENYA? THE LATEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition leader and presidential hopeful Raila Odinga claims there is a plot to assassinate him involving one of the Armenian "mercenaries," who is back in Kenya. Odinga's outrageous claims have proven at least partly true in the past. The Armenian may be back, but we trust t [...] | 2006-11-17 08:56:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV KE |
| 06NAIROBI5099 | WHEELING AND DEALING AS KENYA'S OLDEST PARTY SPLITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The brewing split in Kenya's KANU party boiled over on November 28 when party leaders elected from a rival faction were officially registered, ousting Chairman Uhuru Kenyatta from the party's top seat. The registration of Biwott as Chairman leaves Kenyatta legally no longer Lead [...] | 2006-11-29 14:41:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV KCOR KE |
| 06NAIROBI5177 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CHRISTINE [...] Embassy grants country clearance for the visit of, Christine Gottschalk, OFDA Regional Coordinator from o/a December 9-12, 2006 to meet with the OFDA/ECARO Principal Regional Advisor, partners and other USG officials and meet with UN organizations regarding Northern Uganda, the Horn of Africa [...] | 2006-12-06 12:55:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI5231 | KENYA POLL RESULTS: KIBAKI'S RATING UP, BUT NOT A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent national opinion poll shows that more Kenyans approve of President Kibaki than earlier in the year. However, although Kibaki came out far in front of a field of six leading opposition candidates, he did not fare as well in head-to-head races, in particular against pro [...] | 2006-12-11 13:46:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV KCOR KE |
| 06NAIROBI525 | STORMY PARTY POLITICS COMPOUND KIBAKI'S WOES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Under mounting pressure to effectively respond to a massive corruption scandal, President Kibaki is also facing the disintegration of his governing "NARC" coalition, as parties and politicians calculate their strategy for the 2007 general election. Kenyans are fired up and fed u [...] | 2006-02-06 11:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV KCOR PREL KE |
| 06NAIROBI5375 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TOM ROGERS, [...] Embassy grants country clearance for the visit of, Tom Rogers, OFDA Field Officer from o/a January 8 - March 8, 2007 to provide support to USAID/DCHA/OFDA Humanitarian activities in the region. 2. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of propos [...] | 2006-12-28 10:10:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI5378 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TIARE CROSS, [...] Embassy grants country clearance for the visit of, Tiare Cross, OFDA Information Officer from o/a January 3- February 15, 2007 to provide support to USAID/DCHA/OFDA Humanitarian activities. 2. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed tr [...] | 2006-12-28 10:24:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AO KE |
| 06NAIROBI973 | KENYAN MEDIA CRACKDOWN: PUBLIC OUTRAGED, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Public fury and disgust mounted with official confirmation that Kenyan police conducted the March 2 raids against the Standard Media Group. Senior government officials are split in their reactions, ranging from condemnation to brashly unapologetic. The flimsy official explanati [...] | 2006-03-03 12:01:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC KE |
| 06NAIROBI988 | MICHUKI UNBOWED, BUT OPPOSITION GROWS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Security Minister Michuki remains unbowed in his conviction that the police actions against independent media were fully legal and justified in the name of national security. Civil society, the media and opposition parliamentarians plan a day of peaceful protest against what many [...] | 2006-03-06 11:54:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC KE |
| 06NASSAU1096 | BAHAMAS STRENGTHENS DIPLOMATIC TIES TO CUBA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bahamas opened an embassy in Cuba July 17. This expansion of diplomatic ties appears driven by a pragmatic goal of addressing chronic Cuban migration issues. However, as a result of embarrassing incidents involving Cuban migrants, The Bahamas' vote for Cuba on the United Na [...] | 2006-07-19 20:57:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CU BF |
| 06NASSAU1239 | BAHAMAS UNGA REPRESENTATION AND RELATED QUESTIONS [...] (U) This is in response to reftel request. The Bahamas will be represented at UNGA by Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell, Bahamas Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dr. Paulette Bethel, and a junior officer to be determined. Prime Minister Christie will not attend. ---- [...] | 2006-08-15 21:13:00 | Embassy Nassau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR UN BF |
| 06NDJAMENA1327 | CHAD IMPOSES STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) Summary. The Chadian Government has imposed a State of Emergency on eastern, southern, and northern provinces, reportedly to combat rebel activity and to quell inter-ethnic violence. Two ministers were given extraordinary powers at the regional level to control the GOC response to rebel [...] | 2006-11-14 18:20:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF CD |
| 06NDJAMENA1348 | ESSO'S CONCERNS ON CHAD SECURITY, CONVENTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Esso-led oil consortium has formally notified the GOC that it will not re-negotiate its existing convention with the Government, but will consider new agreements that would allow the GOC to have a role in the country's oil production at new sites. While the government has [...] | 2006-11-22 13:33:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN ENRG PGOV EPET CD |
| 06NDJAMENA460 | CHAD: DEMARCHE ON CHARLES TAYLOR [...] (SBU) Emboff met acting MFA Europe-America officer Kama Dounia March 28 to make delivery (orally in French, written in English) of ref demarche urging Chad not to accept Charles Taylor if he attempted to flee to Chad, to cooperate fully with the UN and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and t [...] | 2006-03-28 16:00:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UNSC CD LI NI KAWC XA XY |
| 06NDJAMENA604 | DAS YAMAMOTO VISIT TO CHAD APRIL 24-25 [...] (C) Summary: During his April 24-25 visit to Chad, DAS Yamamoto conveyed to President Deby a message from the Secretary calling for postponement of the May 3 election and SIPDIS initiation of constructive political dialogue. Deby refused to postpone the election, citing a constitutional v [...] | 2006-04-26 17:16:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM CD SU |
| 06NEWDELHI1559 | NEW DELHI-BASED CHIEFS OF MISSION BRIEFED ON [...] (U) Drawing from reftel, DCM briefed New Delhi-based Chiefs of Mission and senior officers from key Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) and IAEA member countries on March 3, including Israel and Pakistan, regarding the March 2 announcement that President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Singh had reac [...] | 2006-03-06 11:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL ENRG ETTC KSCA KNNP IN IAEA |
| 06NEWDELHI3583 | CONGRESS FARES BADLY IN SPECIAL SESSION OF [...] (C) Summary. Congress ineptitude and a predilection for scoring "own goals" on domestic policy turned what should have been a routine wrap-up session of Parliament into an embarrassment for the UPA that has left the Prime Minister's political stock in the doldrums. Congress convened the May [...] | 2006-05-23 13:06:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PARM MNUC ENRG PINR MARR IN |
| 06NEWDELHI4255 | FOLLOW-UP WITH CERT-IN: COOPERATIVE APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff on June 6 revisited India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) for the third time, with SciCouns and EconOff accompanying. CERT-In is pursuing a multi-platform outreach program to cybersecurity experts in the public, private, and academic sectors. Although last [...] | 2006-06-16 12:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCIP TINT PINR IN |
| 06NEWDELHI8387 | INDIAN COUNTERTERRORISM EXPERTS URGE GREATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: "Stay the course in Afghanistan," urged Indian counterterrorism experts in Dec. 7 meetings with visiting S/CT Deputy Director Virginia Palmer. Describing a need for the Karzai government to extend its writ beyond Kabul, for a national identity to improve morale, and for greater unity f [...] | 2006-12-18 06:11:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS KISL PK AF IN |
| 06NEWDELHI8419 | HINDI BELT MUSLIMS EAGER TO COMBAT POLIO BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The persistence of polio in Western Uttar Pradesh (UP) has been the subject of considerable media speculation and analysis, with much of the focus on the Muslim community. Poloff and POL FSN traveled to the area December 11-13 to gauge Muslim views on the subject. The near-u [...] | 2006-12-19 11:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI KISL IN |
| 06NIAMEY788 | GON FIRES TEACHERS AS NIGERIEN SCHOOLS FAIL A [...] Following the country's worst ever academic exam results (reftel),the Government of Niger's (GON) Council of Ministers announced on July 14 the firing without pension of 19 tenured high school teachers and the termination of one contract teacher, in connection with alleged fraud in the admin [...] | 2006-07-26 16:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KPAO NG |
| 06NICOSIA1505 | CYPRUS PROPERTY: ORAMS RULING A SETBACK FOR GREEK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Greek Cypriot plaintiffs owning land in north Cyprus have suffered a high-profile legal setback in the landmark "Orams" property case. On September 6, a UK judge ruled that an ROC court's cease-and-desist judgment against a British couple (who had built a home on Greek Cypriot l [...] | 2006-09-08 06:59:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EUN TU CY |
| 06NICOSIA1842 | UN, FINNS OFFER UPDATES ON THEIR RESPECTIVE EFFORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Top UNFICYP officials privately outlined for us the UN's latest plan to unblock the current deadlock in the Gambari Process. A last-minute snag over procedure threatens to delay the start of work by the technical and substantive committees, however, and UN officials privately wo [...] | 2006-10-27 16:48:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNFICYP TU EUN CY |
| 06NICOSIA313 | REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS: SIXTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified--not/not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the March 2005-March 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy point of contact is Bridget Alway, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-3545, Fax (3 [...] | 2006-03-02 12:34:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CY ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG |
| 06NICOSIA977 | TURKISH CYPRIOT OWN GOAL: TRADE IN POTATOES [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 9. Summary and Comment ------------------- 2. (SBU) Turkish Cypriot authorities and Turkey intervened June 23 (two days before important local elections) to kill a USAID contractor-facilitated deal that would have sent 2,000 t [...] | 2006-06-27 08:47:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAID PREL PGOV ECON CY |
| 06OSLO181 | DIALOGUE WITH BELARUSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador brought together visiting Belarusian human rights activist Aliaksandr Bialiatski, Norwegian government officials and NGOs on February 16. Bialiatski greatly appreciated us hosting him and stressed the key role of the international community providing political and [...] | 2006-02-16 14:04:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BO NO |
| 06PARIS1006 | UNESCO: INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE CONVENTION [...] SUMMARY: On February 9, 2006 UNESCO hosted an information session for member states on the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Director General (DG),Matsuura and Assistant Director General (ADG) for Culture, Bouchenaki outlined the next steps for the impleme [...] | 2006-02-16 15:48:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL AORC UNESCO |
| 06PARIS1487 | SHUTTING DOWN THE PKK IN FRANCE AND GERMANY: [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-08 17:15:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER EFIN KCRM PINR PREL TU GM FR |
| 06PARIS1893 | UPDATE ON "SHUTTING DOWN THE PKK IN FRANCE" [...] (S/NF) Per reftels, following is an update to actions taken by post regarding the presence of the PKK on French soil. 2. (S/NF) DCM met with Turkish DCM Suleyman Ozyildiz to review our approaches. Ozyildiz traced the history of French openness to Turkish exiles and tendency to view more l [...] | 2006-03-24 13:33:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER EFIN KCRM PINR PREL TU FR |
| 06PARIS1938 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Los Angeles Demonstrations - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-27 11:21:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 06PARIS2252 | A/S FRIED DISCUSSES NATO AND FORMER SOVIET SPACE [...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/S Fried met with French MFA officials to discuss NATO partnerships, Georgia, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Belarus, Russia and Darfur. Fried pressed French officials to remain open to offering Georgia a NATO Membership Action Plan, and noted that French and U.S. analy [...] | 2006-04-06 10:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR RU BE MO |
| 06PARIS2450 | FRENCH IN AGREEMENT ON BELARUS SANCTIONS [...] (C) Summary: DAS Kramer met April 11 with interlocutors from the MFA and Treasury to discuss next steps on Belarus. The French agreed on the utility and necessity of targeted financial sanctions against key members of the Belarusian regime and believed that the EU would come to consensus on th [...] | 2006-04-13 13:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR BO RU |
| 06PARIS2723 | MFA DEMARCHE ON BADGES FOR FRENCH EMBASSY STAFF IN [...] This message contains an action request for Washington in para 5. 2. (C) On April 25, MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq/Iran/Arabian Gulf affairs Antoine Sivan called poloff to deliver an oral demarche on issue of DoD-issued badges for staff of the French embassy in Baghdad (reftels). Sivan exp [...] | 2006-04-25 17:45:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ FR |
| 06PARIS2796 | USUNESCO: MEDIA FREEDOM - DANISH CARTOONS [...] (C) Classified by: PAO Caitlin Bergin for reasons 1.4; B/D 2. (C) SUMMARY: Executive Board Agenda Item 46, Title, was renegotiated by a working group during the Executive Board to address concerns about respect for culture and religion raised by the Danish cartoons of Mohammed published in [...] | 2006-04-27 16:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PREL ECON UNESCO |
| 06PARIS2837 | AVIAN INFLUENZA FRANCE UPDATE - 4/28/06 [...] On April 24, Minister of Health Bertrand announced France's new public awareness campaign to minimize the impact of a potential avian influenza pandemic. The campaign called, "Adoptons les gestes qui nous protegent," translated as, "Taking the steps that will protect us," will debut in May. [...] | 2006-04-28 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO CASC AMGT FR |
| 06PARIS3049 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran America's Darfur [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-10 09:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 06PARIS3322 | WSIS - MULTI-LINGUALISM AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is a joint U.S. Mission to UNESCO and U.S. Mission Geneva cable. A joint ITU/UNESCO symposium on "Multi-lingualism in the Internet" was held in Geneva from May 9 to 11, 2006 followed by a UNESCO Meeting on Cultural Diversity (WSIS Action Line C8) and the Internet on May 1 [...] | 2006-05-18 11:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO EAID ECON UNESCO |
| 06PARIS3613 | France: Telecom and Information Technology Update [...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- France Telecom is Europe's largest single broadband provider (para 2); -- FT seeking revision of E.U. regulations (para 3); - [...] | 2006-05-31 14:03:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR |
| 06PARIS3843 | FRENCH MFA CFSP CHIEFS ON EU DYNAMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 6 meeting, the MFA's CFSP chiefs lamented a certain absence of political will in the EU, but argued that the EU had largely succeeded, through an increase in ESDP operations, in recapturing some momentum following rejection of the EU constitutional treaty. They indicat [...] | 2006-06-07 12:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN COE KPAL CY TU |
| 06PARIS4218 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: 2006 INFORMATION EXCHANGE (IE) [...] (C) The following describes highlights of the Information Exchange (IE) portion of the annual meeting of the Australia Group (AG),which met in Paris, June 12-15, 2006 (Report on AG Plenary provided septel). The IE included 48 presentations by 13 AG member states, and 2 presentations were pr [...] | 2006-06-20 08:43:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PARM ETTC AS FR CBW |
| 06PARIS4248 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Afghanistan [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-21 09:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 06PARIS4256 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Afghanistan U.S. - EU Summit [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-21 11:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 06PARIS4381 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - CIA - Terrorist Finance Tracking [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-26 11:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
| 06PARIS4407 | EXECUTIVE BOARD EARLY PREVIEW [...] Summary: Executive Board Secretary Parsuramen met with Ambassador Oliver to review preparations for the 175th Executive Board. Deadline for new agenda items for the 175th Executive Board is 22 July. End summary. 2. Ambassador Oliver met on Thursday, 22 June, with the Secretary of the [...] | 2006-06-26 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL CU CH UNESCO |
| 06PARIS4411 | FORMER PRIME MINISTER RAFFARIN: CHIRAC SHOULD REIN [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin confided to Ambassador Stapleton during a June 15 lunch that he was worried by President Chirac's waning authority. Raffarin said he had advised the president on the importance of restoring the respective roles of the presidency, prime minister an [...] | 2006-06-26 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EU FR PINR SOCI ECON |
| 06PARIS4659 | UNESCO: N. SCOTT MOMADAY DISCUSSES CULTURAL PRESERVATION [...] SUMMARY. UNESCO's Social and Human Sciences Division of Foresight, Philosophy and Human Sciences hastily organized a June 22 symposium on human dignity and art with N. Scott Momaday, UNESCO Artist for Peace and Native American poet, novelist, painter, and story-teller, which focused on the im [...] | 2006-07-07 12:16:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNESCO OEXC SCUL |
| 06PARIS5051 | BEATING THE HEAT: GOF ON ALERT [...] Soaring temperatures in France since mid-July are considered responsible for the death of at least 30 people. Anxious to avoid a repeat of the 2003 heat wave catastrophe (15,000 deaths, reftel),the GOF recently implemented an updated heat wave plan (Plan National contre la Canicule, or PNC). [...] | 2006-07-25 15:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TPHY TSPA TSPL KSCA FR |
| 06PARIS6046 | SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 08:12:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IZ PREL |
| 06PARIS630 | France: Telecom and Information Technology Update [...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- France Telecom preparing for difficult 2006 (para 2) -- Bad results followed by management shake-up (para 3) -- ARCEP raps Fra [...] | 2006-01-31 16:55:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD FR |
| 06PARIS6576 | FRENCH FARMERS AND RESEARCHERS DEMONSTRATE IN FAVOR OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-03 14:52:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
| 06PARIS6837 | UNESCO: BRASILIA FIELD OFFICE INVESTIGATION NOW OF [...] (C) This is an action request; please see para. 6. 2. (C) Summary. On Friday, October 13, the U.S. Mission was discreetly provided a copy of a letter addressed to UNESCO Director-General Matsuura signed by two Brazilian Federal Prosecutors who informed the D-G that the previously civil inv [...] | 2006-10-17 12:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | UNESCO SCUL BR |
| 06PARIS7199 | France: Telecom and Information Technology Update [...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- SFR takes over Tele2 and becomes the second fully integrated operator after France Telecom (FT)(para 2) -- Neuf Cegetel acquir [...] | 2006-11-03 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD FR |
| 06PARIS7325 | U.S. Organics Program Presented to French Audiences [...] Summary: On October 26, Katherine DiMatteo, representing the U.S. Organic Trade Association (OTA),met with two French agricultural journalists and participated in a round table with 20 people from the French organic industry and regulatory services. In these events, organized by FAS and PAO [...] | 2006-11-09 13:02:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
| 06PARIS7327 | VIOLENCE ESCALATES AROUND BIOTECH CORN [...] Summary: On November 4, anti biotech activists, including Jose Bove, damaged 2,000 MT of GM corn worth at least 365,000 Euros at a farm near Bordeaux. The concerned farmer reacted by firing shots in the air and using his vehicle to damage demonstrators' vehicles. While the police briefly det [...] | 2006-11-09 13:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EU FR |
| 06PARIS7698 | LEBANESE DIPLOMAT THINKS HIZBALLAH HAS THE UPPER [...] (C) SUMMARY: LEBANESE A/DCM GHADY EL-KHOURY TOLD US DECEMBER 6 HE BELIEVED HIZBALLAH HAD THE UPPER HAND IN THE CURRENT CRISIS IN LEBANON THANKS IN LARGE PART TO ITS DOMINATION OF LEBANON'S SHI'A COMMUNITY. EL-KHOURY ASSESSED THAT MANY LEBANESE SHIITES WITH NO LOVE OF NASRALLAH'S IDEOLOGY -- IN [...] | 2006-12-07 11:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY |
| 06PESHAWAR255 | NEW FRONTIER GOVERNOR ON THE WAY [...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Khalil ur-Rehman recently confided that Lt. General (retired) Ali Mohammed Jan Orakzai will soon replace him. Embittered by his premature removal, Rehman castigated his replacement, claiming Orakzai was not aggressive enough in 2003-04 tribal op [...] | 2006-05-23 07:35:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV PTER PK |
| 06PESHAWAR346 | PML-Q FACTIONS CLASH [...] (SBU) A June 29 clash between two factions of the Northwest Frontier Province's (NWFP) Pakistan Muslim League - Q (PML-Q) exposed deep fissures in the party's provincial leadership. A forward bloc supported by Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Relations Salim Saifullah Khan scheduled a pr [...] | 2006-07-06 06:02:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM SOCI PK |
| 06PESHAWAR360 | CORPS COMMANDER AND NWFP GOVERNOR ON FATA ISSUES [...] (C) On July 10, 11th Corps Commander Lt. General Hamid Khan told the Ambassador the Pakistan Army will maintain its involvement in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) development, chiefly due to the Governor's lack of civilian capacity. The Army is the only entity with a comprehensive [...] | 2006-07-13 03:57:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR EAID PK AF |
| 06PESHAWAR413 | 11TH CORPS COMMANDER DISCUSSES JIRGA, DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND NWFP POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: 11th Corps Commander Lt. General Hamid Khan expressed optimism that the jirga organized by the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Ali Jan Orakzai will be successful. If not, he plans to "hammer" the militants into submission. Khan does not plan to negotiate with foreig [...] | 2006-08-02 12:12:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK AF |
| 06PESHAWAR66 | SECTARIAN VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN THE SOUTH [...] (SBU) After a relatively quiet five years, the Northwest Frontier Province's (NWFP) southern district of Hangu erupted in sectarian violence on February 9, the tenth day of Muharram. Two bomb blasts, reportedly caused by suicide bombers, shattered a Shi'a procession around noon, killing thirt [...] | 2006-02-10 08:35:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KISL PK |
| 06PESHAWAR99 | NEW FRONTIER GOVERNOR TO BE NAMED [...] (C) In the shadow of President Bush's imminent arrival, GOP sources have leaked President Musharraf's decision to replace Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Khalil ur-Rehman in the next few days, according to local press reports. Rumors regarding Rehman's departure have been rampant [...] | 2006-03-01 12:14:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PREL PTER PK |
| 06PORTMORESBY185 | SOLOMON ISLANDS REMAINS TENSE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-24 07:04:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CASC BP |
| 06PORTOFSPAIN445 | EMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN REVIEW OF CRICKET SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Trinidad and Tobago is starting to seriously prepare for the 2007 Cricket World Cup (CWC). Although we would like to assist, post operates in a complex assistance environment. The government is wealthy enough to purchase technology, but needs to invest further in its human reso [...] | 2006-04-10 19:54:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR KCRM TD |
| 06PRAGUE284 | CZECH GREENS: A REFRESHING CHANGE FROM THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent weeks the Czech Green Party has, for the first time ever, jumped above 5% in opinion polls, indicating that the party could enter parliament in the June 2-3 general election. A fifth party in the new parliament would change the calculations for the forming a new gover [...] | 2006-03-17 16:02:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
| 06PRETORIA1324 | SOUTH AFRICA: AFRICA'S BIOTECH POWERHOUSE [...] (U) Summary. South Africa leads the African continent in the adoption, acceptance and advancement of biotech knowledge. It has a vibrant and productive biotech community that produces far more scientific articles and patents than any other Africa country. Funding for biotech grew 360% betwe [...] | 2006-04-03 12:24:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD SENV TBIO TSPL SF |
| 06PRETORIA2781 | SOUTH AFRICA: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF BEE [...] Summary. (C) Black Economic Empowerment (BEE),embodied in the proposed Codes of Good Practice, is the government's policy initiative to redress the economic legacies of apartheid. While endorsing the goals of BEE, U.S. companies believe that the codes' unintended consequences will undermine t [...] | 2006-07-07 14:22:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF |
| 06PRETORIA320 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH JANUARY 27 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-01-27 12:17:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
| 06PRETORIA790 | SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH FEBRUARY 24 2006 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...] | 2006-02-24 11:09:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF |
| 06PRETORIA960 | SOUTH AFRICA: PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The United States and South Africa have made significant progress in implementing the June 10, 2005 Presidential Joint Statement. The two countries signed the ACOTA agreement in August 2005 to enhance South Africa's peacekeeping capacity, and training programs will begin this [...] | 2006-03-08 13:02:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD MASS PHUM SF |
| 06PRISTINA1057 | KOSOVO: RESPONSE TO NARCOTICS AND CHEMICAL [...] (U) Following is the submission from U.S. Office in Pristina for the narcotics and chemical control sections of this year's INSCR report. 2. (U) Summary. Kosovo is primarily a transit point for heroin originating in Turkey and Afghanistan and destined for Western European countries, but i [...] | 2006-12-11 10:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1075 | KOSOVO: ACHIEVING CONSENSUS ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo will hold central and local elections next fall under a new post-status electoral system. Results of our initial canvassing of Kosovo's political parties, elections experts and public opinion polling reveal a general consensus on the need for open lists, retention of a gen [...] | 2006-12-15 17:35:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV EAID UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1091 | KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS: OMPF REQUESTS USG FUNDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) has asked the USG to pay the salaries up to three forensic specialists to assist with ongoing exhumations, autopsies and identifications of war victims. OMPF is very concerned about the lack of local capacity to carry out [...] | 2006-12-20 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK SOCI |
| 06PRISTINA1096 | KOSOVO: WORKING GROUP ON PUBLIC OUTREACH HOLDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USOP called and hosted the organizing meeting of a new Working Group on Public Outreach, created under the ICO/UNMIK/U.S./PISG transitional framework now in place. (Note: Progress on overall transition efforts are reported septel.) Representatives from the Unity Team, govern [...] | 2006-12-22 13:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA216 | KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER; [...] (U) The Kosovo Assembly approved outgoing Kosovo Protection Corps commander General Agim Ceku as Kosovo's new Prime Minister and his slate of ministers with 65 votes in favor; 33 opposed and 5 abstentions. The vote followed along party lines with coalition members Democratic League of Kosovo [...] | 2006-03-10 17:21:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA218 | KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER; [...] (U) The Kosovo Assembly approved outgoing Kosovo Protection Corps commander General Agim Ceku as Kosovo's new Prime Minister and his slate of ministers with 65 votes in favor; 33 opposed and 5 abstentions. The vote followed along party lines with coalition members Democratic League of Kosovo [...] | 2006-03-10 17:21:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA285 | KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU REACHES OUT TO MINORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Fatmir Sejdiu visited Dragas/Dragash and Orahovac/Rahovec municipalities and discussed (in Serbian) standards implementation, freedom of movement, inter-ethnic relations and economic development in public meetings with minorities. He plans to make more outreach trip [...] | 2006-03-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA290 | KOSOVO SERB PUBLIC SERVANTS FORCED TO CHOOSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 21, Belgrade-based chief of the Kosovo Coordination Center (CCK) Sanda Raskovic-Ivic told public sector Kosovo Serbs that Serbia will no longer pay salaries to employees who also receive salaries from Pristina. Many Kosovo Serbs believe that if they choose Pristina, [...] | 2006-03-31 16:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA310 | SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 14-15 VISIT OF SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Coming on the heels of the April 6-7 visit of the Contact Group and the April 3 Vienna meeting on decentralization, Ambassador Wisner's April 14-15 visit presents an opportunity to push Kosovo Albanian leaders to come to closure on some decentralization issues (municipal partnersh [...] | 2006-04-10 10:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA333 | VISIT OF SENATOR VOINOVICH TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In meetings with Prime Minister Agim Ceku and President Fatmir Sejdiu during his March 24 visit to Kosovo, Senator George Voinovich urged the new leaders to reach out to Kosovo Serbs and to show them and leaders in Belgrade that Kosovo's government is serious about creating a K [...] | 2006-04-19 15:23:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA336 | AMBASSADOR WISNER URGES KOSOVARS TO BEAR DOWN ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. During an April 14-16 visit to Kosovo, U.S. Special Representative Frank Wisner congratulated the revamped Kosovo Albanian leadership team for its serious engagement in the Vienna final status process and for its outreach to the Kosovo Serb community. He urged the team to build [...] | 2006-04-20 14:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA352 | KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU CONTINUES MINORITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the first ever visit by a Kosovo President to Decani Monastery, President Fatmir Sejdiu toured the grounds and church on Orthodox Easter Sunday, and then discussed the protection of Kosovo's Serbian Orthodox heritage sites with Bishop Teodosije in Serbian. Other visitors in [...] | 2006-04-26 13:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK |
| 06PRISTINA364 | UNMIK LOOKING FOR ELUSIVE CONSENSUS ON MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The SRSG and the OSCE head of office hosted an April 27 meeting of Kosovo political party representatives and interested international parties, including COM, to discuss whether Kosovo's municipal elections should take place in October 2006 as scheduled. Most political party p [...] | 2006-04-28 14:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA365 | BERISHA LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT BALANCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his first several weeks as president of Kosovo's Assembly, Kole Berisha has made great progress in making it more fiscally and procedurally democratic and less autocratic. Berisha has taken public steps to distance himself from the questionable fiscal practices and domineeri [...] | 2006-04-28 14:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA480 | FUNDING FOR MISSING PERSONS AND FORENSICS IN KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As the recent confrontation between police and families of the missing in Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa demonstrates, missing persons remains a volatile issue in Kosovo (Ref A). The USG has helped fund both UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) and the Kosovo oper [...] | 2006-06-05 16:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA513 | KOSOVO: THACI OK WITH ELECTION DELAY IF HIS PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Hashim Thaci, the head of the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK),met on June 9 with heads of Contact Group diplomatic liaison offices in Pristina. He outlined his thoughts on what he called the failure of the current government to accomplish its domestic tasks, in part [...] | 2006-06-15 15:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA520 | KOSOVO: BAD POLL NUMBERS FOR THACI SIGNAL REQUEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A new public opinion poll of non-Serb Kosovars suggests plummeting popularity for opposition leaders Hashim Thaci and his Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). The poll, taken by a nominally apolitical local consulting company, was issued days before Thaci made a rare request for [...] | 2006-06-16 17:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA525 | KOSOVO: UNMIK POSTPONES MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Outgoing SRSG Soren Jessen-Petersen announced June 17 his decision to postpone municipal elections scheduled for this autumn for a period not to exceed twelve months. Jessen-Petersen's decision provides that elections cannot be held earlier than three months or later than six [...] | 2006-06-19 13:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA554 | KOSOVO: CONTROVERSY CONTINUES OVER ICTY VISIT; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Several widows from the Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa massacre say they first assisted a visiting UN convoy on May 25, but then grew suspicious when the convoy showed interest in the local Serb graveyard and the homes of former Serb residents. One widow expressed no remorse over [...] | 2006-06-27 16:03:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK |
| 06PRISTINA584 | SERBIA REPATRIATES FINAL SETS OF HUMAN REMAINS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an emotional handover on June 30, Serbia repatriated to Kosovo the final sets of human remains found in known mass grave sites in Serbia. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is now working to perform autopsies on the remains and return the few that were i [...] | 2006-07-11 17:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID |
| 06PRISTINA608 | KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS FORENSICS HAMPERED BY LACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is faces severe staffing and funding shortages which are hampering its ability to resolve cases of missing persons. Despite fewer leads on potential new grave sites, OMPF is still very busy with a few ongoing exhumations [...] | 2006-07-19 18:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID |
| 06PRISTINA609 | KOSOVO: REVIEWS OF PM CEKU'S FIRST 100 DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The first 100 days of the government of Kosovo Prime Minister Ceku have been on balance very successful. Ceku has focused his personal attention on Standards-related portfolios -- outreach to minorities, minority-focused legislation, property rights, security -- given priority [...] | 2006-07-19 18:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA640 | WISNER TO KOSOVARS: SIX WEEKS TO COME TO CLOSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on July 27 with President Fatmir Sejdiu and the entire Kosovo negotiating team, U.S. Special Representative for the Kosovo Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner stressed the need to stay unified and to use the next six weeks to bring Kosovar Albanian negotiati [...] | 2006-08-02 16:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA648 | KOSOVO: CHIEF OF MISSION STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In her initial calls on Kosovo's leaders, COM urged them to stay united and not let personal differences interfere with their seriousness of purpose in the Vienna status negotiations. President Fatmir Sejdiu vented his frustration at the antics of opposition leaders on the negot [...] | 2006-08-04 16:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA661 | KOSOVO: LDK ASSERTS PRIMARY POSITION IN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. A July 6 letter sent by the LDK party presidency to Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku continues to make news over a week after its existence was leaked to the press. The key issues in the letter were the assertion by the LDK that the party -- and not Ceku -- would have authority o [...] | 2006-08-10 09:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA664 | KOSOVO: COM TO UNITY TEAM MEMBERS: TIME'S UP [...] (C) Summary: COM met individually with members of Kosovo's Unity Team (UT) August 9-11 to lay down a direct and unambiguous marker: the time is now to come to closure with UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Marti Ahtisaari on the issues of decentralization and minority rights. COM underscored USG [...] | 2006-08-11 15:51:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK DPKO YI |
| 06PRISTINA781 | KOSOVO: TURKISH LANGUAGE LAW MOTION REJECTED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A motion to make Turkish an official language of Prizren municipality and change the population requirement for official languages from 6% to 5% was rejected September 14 in a 48-41 vote of the Kosovo Assembly. Though Assembly votes are anonymous, all signs indicate the majority [...] | 2006-09-16 15:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA808 | KOSOVO: DAS DICARLO AND EU REP LEHNE BRIEF ON ICO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina September 12-14, EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo and EU rep Stefan Lehne briefed Kosovo Albanian and Serb leaders on the International Civilian Office (ICO) that will be established to supervise implementation of the status settlement. DiCarlo and Lehne underscored that plann [...] | 2006-09-26 08:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA905 | KOSOVO: REFERENDUM ON SERB CONSTITUTION PROCEEDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Polling in the October 28-29 referendum on the new Serbian constitution proceeded peacefully throughout Kosovo. The Belgrade-based Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) reported after the polls closed that 90,036 voters in Kosovo (90.1 percent of the estimated 101,546 [...] | 2006-10-30 11:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA906 | KOSOVO: LDK REFUSAL TO DEBATE ASSEMBLY AUDIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling LDK party's refusal on October 27 to discuss an audit report highly critical of former Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci caused the opposition to walk out of the Assembly and boycott further participation until the issue was resolved. The problem started when LDK Assembly c [...] | 2006-10-30 14:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA921 | KOSOVO: AMB. WISNER REAFFIRMS U.S. RESOLVE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Kosovo October 24-26, U.S. Special Envoy Ambassador Frank Wisner delivered a three-part message to the top political leadership: maintain unity through and beyond final status; let the Kosovar people know now what lies ahead; and make certain the machinery of government is in [...] | 2006-11-03 07:11:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA933 | KOSOVO: OPPOSITION RETURNS TO ASSEMBLY AFTER AUDIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: After repeated intercession by USOP, the opposition returned to the Kosovo Assembly after a one-week boycott, as the ruling LDK party finally got its house in order and agreed to discuss the Auditor General's fact-finding report on mismanagement under former Assembly Speaker Nexh [...] | 2006-11-06 16:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA952 | KOSOVO: KOSOVAR ALBANIAN LEADERSHIP ACCEPTS DELAY [...] (C) Summary: Though apprehensive about the political repercussions of a delay in the status process, Kosovar Albanian leaders represented in the Unity Team (the negotiating team participating in Vienna negotiations) uniformly accepted the announcement by UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari that his p [...] | 2006-11-13 10:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06QUITO1919 | ECUADORIAN PRISONS IN CRISIS, PART II: CONDITIONS [...] Summary: An Ecuadorian prison system plagued by overpopulation and a lack of resources has led to riots, worker strikes, and a state of emergency. A slow justice system characterized by long sentences, appeals that take up to four years, harsher drug laws, the elimination of shortened sente [...] | 2006-08-03 22:45:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EC |
| 06RABAT1631 | MOROCCAN MFA OFFERS OFFICIAL VERSION OF TERROR [...] (C) Summary: A senior MFA official invited in the Ambassador on September 1 to give him the GOM's formal version of the ongoing investigation of the Ansar El-Mahdi terrorist cell. Most of the briefing consisted of a summary of basic facts of the case already in the public domain. The officia [...] | 2006-09-01 18:44:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KISL MO |
| 06RABAT326 | WESTERN SAHARA: MOROCCO SEEKS US INTERVENTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOM has asked at the highest levels that the U.S. demarche Algeria to help prevent a march of Sahrawi and European civilians across the berm in the Western Sahara, and the heavily land-mined area adjacent to the berm, reportedly planned by the Polisario to occur in conjuncti [...] | 2006-02-24 14:53:00 | Embassy Rabat | SECRET | AG KPKO MO PARM PBTS PINR PREL |
| 06RABAT567 | THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART II: ERFOUD AND RISSANI [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of cables drawn from a combined outreach and reporting trip by Poloff and PAO to the anti-Atlas from March 10-17. Erfoud is a medium-sized town, which is quickly becoming a tourist hub for the region, whereas Rissani is a small town on the road sou [...] | 2006-03-30 17:01:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | MO PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL |
| 06RABAT615 | THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART III: ASSOCIATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: This cable is the third in a series of cables from a combined outreach and reporting trip by Poloff and PAO to the anti-Atlas (south side of the Atlas Mountains) from March 10-17. The area discussed is part of the Meknes-Tafilalt region (reftels) and, like the Erfoud area, it [...] | 2006-04-06 16:29:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL MO |
| 06RABAT676 | IS THERE AN AMAZIGH (BERBER) IDENTITY IN MOROCCO? [...] (C) Summary: While the constitution of Morocco recognizes ethnic and religious diversity, it is also clear that citizens are to think of themselves as Moroccan, not as members of separate ethnic or religious groups. Recent Amazigh history in Morocco (reftel A),however, points to the perse [...] | 2006-04-14 16:33:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MO |
| 06RABAT968 | MOURAD EL HAMYANI DEPORTATION [...] (S) Embassy Rabat provides the following background concerning the possible deportation of Moroccan terrorist suspect Mourad El Hamyani to Morocco. The Moroccan police have an arrest warrant for El Hamyani for criminal activity, including armed robbery with the intent to use the profits to f [...] | 2006-05-19 16:20:00 | Embassy Rabat | SECRET | MO PHUM PREL PTER |
| 06RANGOON289 | IN MANDALAY, TRADE UP AND TOURISM DOWN [...] (U) Summary: Enough people make money from trade with China to keep upscale retailers busy in Mandalay, Burma's second largest city. However, due to rising prices and the poor state of the economy, residents are increasingly price sensitive, making it tougher to prosper there. Europeans, the [...] | 2006-03-03 06:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV BM |
| 06RANGOON368 | BURMESE FUTURE LOOKING DIRE [...] (C) Summary: Leon de Riedmattan, outgoing head of the Swiss NGO Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Burma, hosted a lunch March 15 for western Ambassadors. De Riedmattan, whose visa has been halted after nine years of efforts to promote national reconciliation, offered a grim assessment of th [...] | 2006-03-19 23:35:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ELAB BM |
| 06RIGA870 | TRUTH TO POWER: KALVITIS SPEAKS BLUNTLY TO PUTIN [...] (C/NF) Summary: According to the Latvians, PM Kalvitis got to the heart of the matter with Russian President Putin at the EU dinner in Lahti on October 20, asking why, if energy was not a political tool, there is no Russian oil in the Latvian port of Ventspils and the Lithuanian facility of Ma [...] | 2006-10-23 15:09:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ENRG RS LG |
| 06RIYADH2544 | Cultural Norms and Non-Transparency Hamstring [...] (SBU) Summary: Meetings with public health officials during the visit of regional ESTH officer to Saudi Arabia provided a snapshot of Saudi health issues: a population increasingly afflicted with costly illnesses of the wealthy - obesity, diabetes, and heart disease - and a health system tha [...] | 2006-04-10 04:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KHIV SA |
| 06RIYADH9173 | ENTHUSIASTIC SHOURA COUNCIL ASKS SENATOR NELSON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Enthusiastic Majlis Al Shoura members acknowledged the positive U.S. - Saudi bilateral relationship but asked Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) during a meeting on December 17 for increased engagement by members of Congress with the Council. Meeting participants agreed that any enhance [...] | 2006-12-26 11:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KISL IZ SA |
| 06ROME1996 | ARMS SALES TO VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary. A/ECMIN met July 7 with Simone Bemporad, Finmeccanica's Senior Vice President for Media Relations and International Affairs, and Camillo Pirozzi, Head of Public Affairs and Institutional Relations, to discuss Finmeccanica's proposed sale of naval guns to the Venezuelan navy. A/ [...] | 2006-07-13 09:20:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ETTC PARM SP VE IT |
| 06ROME2034 | FINMECCANICA STILL PURSUING RADIO CONTRACT WITH [...] (C) Summary. Finmeccanica contacted Embassy officials July 14 to inform us they intend to bid on a contract to provide TETRA radios to two municipal police forces in Iran. Finmeccanica's decision is reportedly driven solely by business considerations, and was taken after delivery of Ref A ta [...] | 2006-07-18 05:29:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETTC PARM PREL IR IT |
| 06SANAA1223 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NEA/PI OFFICERS, [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of NEA/PI Regional Coordinator David Mulenex; NEA/PI Economic Officer Briana Meacham; NEA/PI Political Pillar Manager Owen Kirby; Management Systems International Consultants Jacqueline Vavra and Andrew Griminger; DCHA/DG Specialis [...] | 2006-05-03 08:40:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ECON KMPI KPAO OTRA PREL YM |
| 06SANAA1282 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BENJAMIN D. HARMON [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Benjamin D. Harmon from May 15 to 18, 2006. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be James Jmerson who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) (1) 755-2276 cell p [...] | 2006-05-09 09:38:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | ACOA AMGT ANET ASEC OTRA |
| 06SANAA1312 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BOOZ/ALLEN/HAMILTON [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Mr. John Adams and Ms. Deena El Ataar from May 15 to 26, 2006. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Susan Plott who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) (1 [...] | 2006-05-14 05:14:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT KMPI OTRA |
| 06SANAA1320 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JILL BURKHOLDER [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Ms. Jill Burkholder, from May 14 to 17, 2006. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be James Jamerson, who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) (1) 755-2276 ce [...] | 2006-05-14 11:32:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA |
| 06SANAA1387 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR EXBS PROGRAM [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of EXBS Program Manager Varvara Psaros, June 9 - 12. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Melissa Cline who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) (1) 755-2156 [...] | 2006-05-25 10:50:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA KNNP YM |
| 06SANAA1723 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MICHAEL LOTZE FROM [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Michael Lotz, program officer for Partners for Democratic Change from June 16 to 21, 2006. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Faris Asad who can be contacted at all times thr [...] | 2006-06-11 11:36:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA PREL KMPI |
| 06SANAA1756 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JACQUELYN JOHNSTONE [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Jacquelyn Johnstone from June 25 to 27, 2006, to attend the Democracy Assistance Dialogue conference. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Faris Asad who can be contacted at all [...] | 2006-06-13 08:06:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA PREL KMPI KDEM |
| 06SANAA1757 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR LAURA SHULZ FROM [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Laura Shulz from 19 June to 1 July 2006.. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Joey Hood who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) (1) 755-2236 cell phone [...] | 2006-06-13 08:12:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA KMPI PREL |
| 06SANAA1769 | (SBU) COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR INTERAGENCY [...] (SBU) Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of S. Witten, C. Camponovo, S. Walker, A. Liotta and T. Monheim from 16 to 19 June. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. (SBU) Control Officer for the visit will be Joey Hood who can be contacted at all times th [...] | 2006-06-14 12:50:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT OTRA |
| 06SANAA1770 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JEFFREY KLANG FROM [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Jeffrey Klang, June 17 to 20, 2006, to attend Civial Aviation Internation conference. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Noah Siegel who can be contacted at all times through [...] | 2006-06-14 12:50:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA EAIR |
| 06SANAA1787 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NEA DAS SCOTT [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of DAS Carpenter and Mr. Thorkelson. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Noah Siegel who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) (1) 755-2152; cell phone (967 [...] | 2006-06-19 09:19:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA PREL KMPI KDEM ECON |
| 06SANAA1888 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR OREST MELNYX AND [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Orest Melnyx and Drusilla Menaker from MEPI/IREX to travel to Aden from July 9 to July 16, 2006. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Faris Asad who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) (1) 755-2398 [...] | 2006-07-02 04:52:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT KDEM KMPI OTRA PREL |
| 06SANAA1939 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JEFFREY WILBURN [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Jeffrey Wilburn. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be James Jamerson who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) (1) 755-2276; cell phone (967) 1-73323-2207. [...] | 2006-07-05 12:39:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ACOA ANET ASEC |
| 06SANAA2369 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STAFFDEL MAGUIRE [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of John Maguire, Todd Rosenblum, John Dickas, and Lt. Josh Wellner from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Security Clearance information is on file. Information on in-country schedule will be sent via separate channels. [...] | 2006-08-12 12:38:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA YM |
| 06SANAA2485 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JIM FLOWERS FROM [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Jim Flowers for personal tourism from August 24 to 27th, 2006 . Please provide Security Clearance information for our file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Joey Hood who can be contacted at all times through the Emb [...] | 2006-08-22 05:15:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA |
| 06SANAA2495 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CONSUL GENERAL [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Con/Gen Tatiana Gfoeller from August 27 to 29, 2006. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Joey Hood who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) (1) 755-2236; [...] | 2006-08-22 14:21:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA |
| 06SANAA2504 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PM/WRA OFFICE [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of PM/WRA Office Director Richard Kidd and SA/LW Expert Eric Arnett from August 26 to September 1, 2006. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Melissa Cline who can be contacted at [...] | 2006-08-23 11:46:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA YM |
| 06SANAA3076 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STEFANIK AND [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Evan Stefanik and Carol Kalinoski from November 10 to 15 to conduct an Introductory Legal and Regulatory Workshop for Yemeni government officials as part of the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program. 2. C [...] | 2006-11-08 09:50:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KNNP ETTC YM |
| 06SANAA539 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR WILLIAM W. WENG [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of William W. Weng from 23-30 March 2006. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Troy Fontenot who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) (1) 755-2249 cell phone [...] | 2006-03-05 10:34:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA YM |
| 06SANAA816 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JAMES DELNIGRO AND [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Mr. John LaPlume and James DelNigro from March 27 to ca. April 3, 2006 to provide technical support to TIP/PISCES server in Yemen. Please forward Security Clearance information for RSO files. 2. Control Officer for the visit [...] | 2006-03-21 12:53:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC KFRD OTRA PTER |
| 06SANAA820 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MEPI ECON/EDUCATION [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of MEPI Econ/Education Specialist Mu'ayyad Mehyar, from March 25 to 30, 2006, to review progress and determine next steps for two MEPI funded projects. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. Control Officer for the vis [...] | 2006-03-22 08:16:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT KMPI KPAO OTRA |
| 06SANAA884 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SANJEEV AGGARWAL, [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Sanjeev Aggarwal, from o/a April 4 to o/a April 12, 2006. Posts requests Security Clearance for RSO files. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Noah Siegel who can be contacted at all times through the Embassy at (967) [...] | 2006-03-29 11:21:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA ENIV OPIC |
| 06SANAA885 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SEAN CUMMINGS TO [...] Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Sean Cummings from March 29 to April 6, 2006 to provide technical support to PISCES server. Please forward Securiy Clearance information for RSO files. 2. Control Officer for the visit will be Melissa Cline, who can be con [...] | 2006-03-29 11:23:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC KFRD OTRA PTER |
| 06SANAA888 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FR DOUGLAS PURCIFULL [...] Embassy Sanaa grants cuntry clearance and welcomes the visit of Dougla Purcifull from March 31 to April 4, 2006. Securty Clearance information is on file. 2. Contro Officer for the visit will be Charles Barrington who can be contacted at all times through the Embasy at (967) (1) 755-2249. [...] | 2006-04-01 08:48:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA |
| 06SANJOSE1017 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USAID PARTICIPANTS [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Democracy and Governance Team Jose Garzon, Ana Klenicki, CAtie Lott, Marie Jude Delatour and Maricela RamirezLeader who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from May 9 to May 13. The purpose of this visit is to attend and represent USAID [...] | 2006-05-12 18:12:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE1060 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRIAN STAURSETH [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to TSA International Brian Staurseth who will be in Costa Rica SIPDIS on assignment from May 31 to June 9. The purpose of this visit is to assist the American Aviation Safety Agency (ACSA) in producing technical guidance material or civ [...] | 2006-05-16 19:41:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE1061 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMEETA PATEL [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to OPIC Investment funds analyst, Ameeta Patel who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from May 16 to May 21. The purpose of this visit is to attend an Advisory Board Meeting for OPIC's investment fund Paladin Realty Funds a local portfoli [...] | 2006-05-16 19:42:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE1124 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BENJAMIN GARRIDO-GODOY AND [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to FAA Aviation Safety Inspectors Benjamin Garrido- Godoy and Donald Carnicella who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from June 6 to June 16. The purpose of this visit is to conduct initial certification of Helicorp SA and certification [...] | 2006-05-23 20:48:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE1216 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TREASURY ADVISOR ERNEST [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Treasury Advisor, Ernest Valverde who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from June 11 to June 17. The purpose of this visit is to work with the Minister of Finance on an ongoing tax administration project. 2. Post understands no as [...] | 2006-06-02 22:26:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE1217 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TREASURY ADVISOR JOE DALTON [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Treasury Advisor, Joe Dalton Hook, who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from June 12 to June 24. The purpose of this visit is to work with the Minister of Finance on an ongoing tax administration project. 2. Post understands no a [...] | 2006-06-02 22:27:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE1235 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TREASURY ADVISOR ROBERT [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Treasury Advisor, Robert Klayman, who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from June 18 to June 24. The purpose of this visit is to work with the Minister of Finance on an ongoing tax administration project. 2. Post understands no as [...] | 2006-06-06 10:32:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE1281 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USAID DR. LUCRECIA CASTILLO [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Technical Projects Officer Lucrecia Castillo who will be on assignment from June 13 to June 14. The purpose of this visit is to meet the Costa Rican Vice-Minister of Health as well as with PASCA and CDC-CAP personnel. 2. Post would [...] | 2006-06-09 21:51:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE1299 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CAROLINE BREARLEY AND LARRY [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Caroline Brearley and Larry Brady, USAID Mission in San Salvador, Officials to travel to Costa Rica O/A 06/27- 28/2006. Purpose of the visit: is to iIntroduce the Rregional tTrade pProgram to the U.S. Embassy and to counterparts in th [...] | 2006-06-13 16:34:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV OTRA EAID ES CS |
| 06SANJOSE1390 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OAS IICA MEETING STACY [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Stacy Williams, USOAS representative who will be on assignment from June 14 to June 17. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Special Advisory Committee on Management Issues meeting at the Inter American Institute for Coop [...] | 2006-06-19 22:06:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA OAS CS |
| 06SANJOSE1409 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TREASURY ADVISOR LARRY [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Treasury Advisors, Larry Westfall, Shirley Bachman, Richard Voskuil,and Marvin Halldorson who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from June 28 to August 23 for Westfall; July 4 to July 19 for Voskuil; July 9 to July 19 for Hallsdorson; J [...] | 2006-06-22 16:33:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE1410 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA INSPECTOR DARRELL TED [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grants ex post facto country clearance to FAA Aviation Safety Inspector Darrell Ted Webb who was in Costa Rica on assignment on June 20. The purpose of the visit was to perform operations a procedure/performance inspection on Tradewinds Airlines, Inc. conducted [...] | 2006-06-22 19:42:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE1513 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TONY CAMBAS [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Tony Cambas from Booz Allen, Hamilton,Inc. who will be in Costa Rica from July 16-27, 2006. The purpose of this trip is to implement the second phase of the risk management training under FASTrade's CAFTA-DR Action Plan. 2. Control [...] | 2006-07-07 19:12:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE2800 | BELIZE: TROPICAL FOREST CONSERVATION ACT OVERSIGHT BOARD [...] SUMMARY. REO attended the November 2, 2006 meeting of the Belize Tropical Forest Conservation Act Oversight Committee in remote Punta Gorda. The meeting provided an opportunity to review 2006 NGO reports, which focused on community outreach and enforcement activities, and approve 2007 workpl [...] | 2006-12-21 16:33:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON PGOV EAGR SOCI BH |
| 06SANJOSE354 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR THE U.S. DELEGATION [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to the following members of the U.S. delegation to the CITEL Assembly: Marian Gordon EB/CIP/MA, Cecily Holiday EB/CIP/MA, Amal Abdallah FCC, Cathy Handley Commerce/NTIA, Vernita Harris Commerce/NTIA, Daniel Martinez WH [...] | 2006-02-16 15:35:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ECPS CITEL CR |
| 06SANJOSE443 | BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON OSCAR ARIAS [...] (U) Oscar Arias Sanchez was elected on February 5, 2006, as the first repeat president in Costa Rica since 1970. Winning by a 1.12 percent margin (18,000 votes out of 1.62 million cast),Arias comes to office without the sweeping mandate he expected. He was permitted to run for president beca [...] | 2006-02-24 20:58:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL CS |
| 06SANJOSE478 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR POLITICAL OFFICER, JENNIFER [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Jennifer Isakoff, who will be in Costa Rica from March 10-14, 2006. The purpose of this trip is for consultations with Embassy officials. 2. Control Officer: POC is Robert Copley, Political Officer, who can be reached at the offic [...] | 2006-03-01 22:38:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE538 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FOUR U.S.DOL OFFICIALS AND [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Dr. Eilenn Muirragi, Supervisory International Relations Officer; Ms. Sharon Heller Jordan, International Relations Officer; Ms. Rachel E Spring, Analyst; Dr. Donna E Chung, Analyst; Ms. Ruth Anne Mota, Consultant; Ms. Paula Thompson Wo [...] | 2006-03-08 14:24:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE567 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CYNTHIA HOSTETLER, JAMES [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to OPICs VP for Investment Funds Cynthia Hostetler, Investment Funds Director James F. Hansley and Investment Funds Financial Officer Jennifer Renee Doherty who will be in Costa Rica on TDY assignment from March 25 to March 30. The purpos [...] | 2006-03-10 15:02:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA |
| 06SANJOSE589 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LARRY WESTFALL AND GENARO [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Larry Westfall and Genaro Martinez, Treasury Advisors who will be in Costa Rica on TDY assignment from March 26 to April 8. The purpose of this visit is to work with officials from the Ministry of Finance on the Tax Administration Proj [...] | 2006-03-14 17:32:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA |
| 06SANJOSE628 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CAROLYN HEALY, MOLLY [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Federal Reserve Staff Carolyn Healy, Assistant Vice President, Molly Willison, Director, and Roxana Maneiro, Foreign Banking Analyst who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from March 27 to March 29. The purpose of this visit is to con [...] | 2006-03-21 16:51:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA |
| 06SANJOSE789 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TREASURY ADVISORS [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technical Assistance Policy, Larry McDonald and Tax Advisors, Richard Voskuil and Carmen Garcia-Salgado who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from April 23 to May 1. The purpose of this visit is to meet [...] | 2006-04-10 21:56:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA |
| 06SANJOSE790 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TREASURY ADVISORS [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Alphonso Correa, Financial Enforcement Advisor and Intermittent Financial Enforcement Advisor James Parrott who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from April 19 to April 22. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Embassy personnel [...] | 2006-04-10 21:56:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EFIN CS |
| 06SANJOSE812 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARIA SOSA [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to contractor Maria Sosa from Booz Allen Hamilton who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from April 17 to April 19. The purpose of this visit is to attend a meeting of the regional technical commision on valuation to review the FASTrade [...] | 2006-04-12 20:30:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE826 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARIA SOSA [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to contractor Maria Sosa from Booz Allen Hamilton who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from April 26 to April 29. The purpose of this visit is to attend a regional Customs Directors Meeting. 2. Post understands assistance is not nec [...] | 2006-04-19 22:21:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE875 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CAROLINE BREARLEY [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Caroline Brearley, USAID Economic Growth office who will be in Costa Rica on TDY assignment from May 3 to May 5. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Vice Presidents of all Latin American AMCHAMS about CAFTA implementation and Emba [...] | 2006-04-25 22:42:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE876 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR POITIER & KOODIE [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to FAA Aviation Inspectors Harcourt Poitier, and Teeluckdarie Koodie who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from May 8 to May 12. The purpose of this visit is to review compliance of regulations during certification inspection. 2. Tra [...] | 2006-04-25 22:42:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE896 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SILVIA ANZOLA [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Silvia Anzola form Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from April 26 to April 29. The purpose of this visit is to attend a custom's directors meeting to review draft legislation of CAFTA advance ruling com [...] | 2006-04-26 22:36:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE991 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STEVEN HENDRIX [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Steven Hendrix, USAID Representative Steven Hendrix who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from May 9 to May 13. The purpose of this visit is to participate in working level meetings of the Latin American Public Opinion Project, a reg [...] | 2006-05-10 20:41:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE992 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WILLIAM SASSAMAN [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Federal Aviation Administation employee William Sassaman who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from May 17. The purpose of this visit is to perform a flight deck observation in San Jose. 2. Post understands no assistance is requir [...] | 2006-05-10 20:41:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE993 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOSE GARZON [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Jose Garzon, Democracy and Governance Team Leader who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from May 10 to May 13. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Latin American Public Opinion Project Workshop to be held in San Jose, in coord [...] | 2006-05-10 20:42:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA CS |
| 06SANJOSE994 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TREASURY ADVISOR RICHARD [...] Embassy San Jose is pleased to grant country clearance to Treasury Advisor, Richard Bartholomew who will be in Costa Rica on assignment from May 14 to May 20. The purpose of this visit is to participate in an assessment at the Ministry of Finance. 2. Post understands no assistance is requi [...] | 2006-05-10 20:43:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA CS |
| 06SANSALVADOR142 | INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE AECA SECTION 3 VIOLATION [...] (S) Summary. Salvadoran Minister of Defense Otto Romero told Charge on December 2, 2005, that the arms seized in Honduras in April 2005 were likely lost by the Salvadoran Armed Forces (ESAF) to guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation front (FMLN) during El Salvador's 1980-1992 ci [...] | 2006-01-19 14:44:00 | Embassy San Salvador | SECRET | ETTC KOMC ES |
| 06SANSALVADOR1864 | 61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) On July 20, Poloff spoke with Protocol Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Herbert Caceres. Caceres indicated that the Salvadoran delegation plans to arrive September 18 and depart September 23. They will travel via Taca Airlines and the port of entry will be John F. Kenn [...] | 2006-07-25 15:42:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSEP PREL OTRA OVIP ES |
| 06SANSALVADOR2900 | EL SALVADOR TO ACCEPT E TRAVEL DOC, STILL UNSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 4 the Ambassador, accompanied by poloff notetaker, met with Foreign Minister Lainez to follow up on the two major proposals the USG has presented to the GOES on the issue of the deportation of Salvadoran criminals. Lainez agreed orally to accept the ICE-E Travel Docum [...] | 2006-12-05 20:33:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS CASC KHLS |
| 06SANSALVADOR548 | EL SALVADOR PRIORITIES FOR LABOR PROJECTS THAT [...] Summary: Per reftel, this cable provides Post priorities for CAFTA-DR labor-related trade capacity building (TCB) activities for FY 2006. The proposals described here build upon a consultative process that began almost six months ago and reflect a consensus view on El Salvador's key labor [...] | 2006-03-06 22:10:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ETRD LAB SENV ES |
| 06SANSALVADOR636 | CORRECTED COPY - EL SALVADOR PRIORITIES FOR LABOR [...] Summary: Per reftel, this cable provides Post priorities for CAFTA-DR labor-related trade capacity building (TCB) activities for FY 2006. The proposals described here build upon a consultative process that began almost six months ago and reflect a consensus view on El Salvador's key labor [...] | 2006-03-08 20:38:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ETRD LAB SENV ES CAFTA |