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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

06PRISTINA1087	KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU CONSOLIDATES HOLD OVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the wake of its raucous convention ten days earlier, the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) General Council met on December 19 and swiftly (and peacefully) elected its 25-member party presidency. The body is comprised of solid supporters of President Fatmir Sejdiu, in [...]	2006-12-19 17:50:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1088	KOSOVO: 2006 ANNUAL TERRORISM UPDATE [...] (U) The following submission provides Post's contribution to the Department's "Country Reports on Terrorism 2006." BEGIN REPORT 2. (U) The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) continues to administer Kosovo pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1244, and K [...]	2006-12-20 09:01:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC KCRM PGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1095	KOSOVO: TRANSITION WORKING GROUPS BEGIN IN EARNEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a slow start, the five working groups on transition meeting since late November and bringing together representatives of UNMIK, the preparation team for the post-status International Civilian Office, U.S. representatives, and the Kosovo government have picked up their pace. [...]	2006-12-22 12:26:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
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
06PRISTINA1100	KOSOVO: PISG CLOSER TO COMPLETING REMAINING CG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) are very close to finishing the five remaining priorities for Standards implementation tasked by the Contact Group (CG) in June 2006. Two more standards -- reconstruction of the Serb village of Svinjare in south Mitrovi [...]	2006-12-22 17:30:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1118	KOSOVO: UN SAYS KPC AND KPS WILL REMOVE ILLEGAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: PD/SRSG Schook told us on December 28 that the illegal construction within the Decani Monastery's Special Zoning Area (SZA) will be taken down in a joint KPS/KPC operation within the next 36 hours. Fr. Sava, a moderate Orthodox monk who resides at the monastery, had sought our h [...]	2006-12-28 14:45:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI PGOV
06PRISTINA1121	KOSOVO AND MACEDONIA: THE WAY FORWARD ON BORDER [...] (U) The following is a joint cable from U.S. Office Pristina and Embassy Skopje. 2. (C) SUMMARY: When Macedonian FM Milososki visited Kosovo on November 23, he reiterated the GoM's position calling for inclusion of the demarcation of the Kosovo-Macedonia border in the UNSCR on Kosovo's fin [...]	2006-12-29 08:30:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS INR UNMIK YI KTIA
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
06PRISTINA229	KOSOVO: CEKU OFF TO GOOD START IN HIS FIRST DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his acceptance speech on March 10 and interviews over his first weekend as prime minister, former Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) commander General Agim Ceku stressed Kosovo's future as a multiethnic state, but affirmed there can be no solution for Kosovo other than independence [...]	2006-03-14 16:34:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA259	KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS TO TAKE ON GREATER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During their March 12-15 visit to Kosovo, Department representatives agreed to provide up to USD 110,000 in funding through the Slovene International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victim's Assistance (ITF) for badly-needed replacement equipment for the Kosovo Protection Corp [...]	2006-03-22 16:22:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS MARR PREL EAID PGOV UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA274	KOSOVO: POLICE TRYING TO CURB INTERETHNIC VANDALISM [...] (U) Since March 2004 no ethnic Serbs have returned to live in Zhiti/Zitinje, a village in multi-ethnic Viti/Vitina municipality in southeastern Kosovo. In September 2005 Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government completed the reconstruction of 33 houses in Zhiti/Zininje, 29 for eth [...]	2006-03-28 15:27:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA280	KOSOVO: SLOW GOING ON TRANSFER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: As evidenced by the fourth meeting of the stakeholders, UNMIK is in no hurry to transfer competency to the Kosovo government for law enforcement and the European Union is even less anxious to assume UNMIK's oversight role. Since the meeting, the PISG has named ministers of internal [...]	2006-03-29 13:44:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA302	NEW KOSOVO GOVERNMENT PUSHES STANDARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku has produced a 91 item "to do" list for the next three months on standards implementation. UNMIK's Office of the Strategy Coordinator has drafted a complementary list of 25 standards-related action items and tasked the Provisional Institutio [...]	2006-04-05 17:14:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA335	KOSOVO: A UNIFIED CONTACT GROUP PRESSES STANDARDS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives of the Contact Group (CG) visited Kosovo April 6-7 to highlight CG unity and deliver a focused message about the importance of the standards and elements of an eventual future status settlement; by prior agreement, the CG did not address the status outcome itself. [...]	2006-04-20 14:13:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA421	KOSOVO: UNMIK ISSUES GENERALLY FAVORABLE TECHNICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK's latest formal assessment of Kosovo Government efforts to implement the Standards for Kosovo program, covering the period ending April 30, is generally favorable. The report lauds the quick initial engagement of Kosovo's new government on Standards which will provide a ba [...]	2006-05-16 17:01:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA426	KOSOVO: FINAL THREE PERCENT OF MARCH 2004 [...] (SBU) Most reconstruction of homes damaged in the March 2004 violence has long since been completed, albeit with some complaints about the quality of construction and frictions about the terms of reconstruction of outbuildings. Most of what has not been rebuilt is in the historic center of [...]	2006-05-18 15:32:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI PREF
06PRISTINA427	KOSOVO: NON-SERB MINORITIES AMBIVALENT ABOUT [...] (SBU) Kosovo's non-Serb minority leaders are glad to be involved in the status negotiations in Vienna and generally pleased with the work of the Communities Consultative Council, but are concerned about what they see as Belgrade's efforts to manipulate non-Serb minority issues for its own adv [...]	2006-05-18 15:55:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA439	KOSOVO: COM WARNS AAK AND PDK ON INTERFERENCE IN [...] (C) Chief of Mission passed the messages contained in reftels separately to Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) president Ramush Haradinaj and Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) president Hashim Thaci on May 18. Haradinaj said that he had not heard of the presence of any Kosovo Albanian pol [...]	2006-05-19 17:08:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA449	KOSOVO: CHANGES IN HARADINAJ'S POLITICAL PARTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ramush Haradinaj was handily re-elected president of the party he founded, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK),during the party's May 20 convention. Other prominent AAK members lost votes as compared with their standing at the party's last convention in 2004, namely M [...]	2006-05-24 16:18:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA457	AMBASSADOR WISNER TELLS KOSOVO ALBANIANS THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a May 21-23 visit to Kosovo, Special Representative Frank Wisner starkly disabused Kosovo Albanian leaders of any notion that Kosovo independence can be considered a foregone conclusion. In plain-speaking meetings, Ambassador Wisner told the president, prime minister, and [...]	2006-05-26 15:32:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA481	KOSOVO: EU FINALLY GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Union has developed a draft discussion paper for an International Civilian Mission in Kosovo (ICM) that would form the basis for implementation of the final status settlement. The plan calls for a much smaller footprint than UNMIK's current presence, and places heav [...]	2006-06-06 13:23:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA484	KOSOVO SERB HARDLINERS CALL FOR SELF DEFENSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to the OSCE, 500-700 people participated in a June 5 demonstration in Zvecan against recent acts of violence against Kosovo Serbs. Local leaders announced a resolution by the Zvecan municipal assembly to end contact with the Kosovo government until the crimes are s [...]	2006-06-06 16:38:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA491	KOSOVO: PM CEKU ALREADY AT WORK ON CONTACT GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a June 8 meeting with Contact Group (CG) heads of mission in Pristina, Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku received the 13 points of priorities for standards implementation as something that will help the Kosovo government focus its current efforts, not as criticism of its e [...]	2006-06-08 16:59:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA493	KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY LEADERSHIP REVEALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Kosovo Assembly formally unveiled a new work plan on June 7 designed to improve procedural and budgetary transparency. International advisors, including USAID, have been very involved in the development of this plan and heads of diplomatic liaison offices, including COM, p [...]	2006-06-09 14:52:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA498	UNMIK HEAD OF MISSION RESIGNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Soren Jessen-Petersen has resigned as Kosovo's Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) and head of the U.N. Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK),effective June 30. Principal Deputy SRSG (PDSRSG) Steven Schook will become acting SRSG if a replacement is not in place by the e [...]	2006-06-12 17:08:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA506	KOSOVO: SPECIAL ENVOY AHTISAARI HOPES TO BEGIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Status Talks Martti Ahtisaari told Contact Group (CG) liaison office heads on June 10 that he expects to brief the UNSC in early July and then hopes to host the first direct talks between senior Pristina and Belgrade officials the week of July 17. He [...]	2006-06-13 15:26:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA507	KOSOVO: PROTOCOL ON RETURN WITH SERBIA SIGNED AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After almost two years of negotiations, the Provisional Institutions of Self Government in Kosovo (PISG),the Government of Serbia and UNMIK signed a Protocol on Voluntary and Sustainable Return on June 6, 2006. UNMIK pressed hard to get the protocol signed before SRSG Soren J [...]	2006-06-13 16:01:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PREL 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
06PRISTINA519	KOSOVO: KFOR RE-ESTABLISHES PERMANENT PRESENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 13 the French contingent in charge of Multi-National Task Force-North (MNTF-N) reactivated a former Belgian KFOR camp in the northern Kosovo municipality of Leposavic. The camp will be manned by different national contingents on two-week rotations, beginning with the Fren [...]	2006-06-16 17:34:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV 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
06PRISTINA531	KOSOVO: KOSOVO SERB MODERATES FLOAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moderate Kosovo Serb politicians, led by Oliver Ivanovic, are floating a decentralization plan calling for seven new Serb-majority municipalities and the enlargement of an eighth. Briefing Contact Group representatives on June 16, Ivanovic said his plan differs from the proposal [...]	2006-06-20 17:04:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA532	SALI BERISHA TELLS KOSOVO ALBANIANS TO RECONCILE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an emotional June 15-17 visit to Kosovo, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha reiterated his support for Kosovo's independence, voiced his confidence in Kosovo's current leadership and asked Kosovo Albanians to reconcile with Serbs. He also attempted to mend fences with [...]	2006-06-20 17:40:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA539	KOSOVO'S NEXT UN ADMINISTRATOR: THACI WEIGHS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Opposition party leader Hashim Thaci requested a meeting June 19 with COM to convey his concern that current UNMIK economic pillar head, Joachim Rucker, is rumored as a leading candidate to fill the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) position from which curren [...]	2006-06-22 17:01:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	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
06PRISTINA561	KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY AUDIT REVEALS FISCAL MALFEASANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. An external audit of the Kosovo Assembly's budget under former Speaker Nexhat Daci has revealed serious fiscal irregularities. The audit states that Daci and his Assembly staff used Assembly finances for expensive armored vehicles, a convention/conference center in a suburb of P [...]	2006-06-29 15:24:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA567	KOSOVO: PM CEKU UP-BEAT ON FULFILLMENT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Agim Ceku gave Contact Group representatives a largely positive interim report June 27 on progress on the 13 priorities for standards implementation delivered to Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Governance (PISG) on June 8 (reftel). While the report sho [...]	2006-06-30 17:03:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA576	KOSOVO: NEGOTIATION TEAM RECEPTIVE TO POST-UNMIK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to an invitation from President Fatmir Sejdiu, COM and Torbjorn Sohlstrom, the head of the EU mission in Kosovo, briefed the Kosovo negotiating team July 5 on initial thinking on a post-status, post-UNMIK international civilian mission. They stressed that any future [...]	2006-07-07 16:27:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA587	TENSIONS BUILDING OVER NORTHERN KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY. As all concerned enter the Kosovo final status home stretch, the north of Kosovo is increasingly coming into focus as the area where preferred status outcomes potentially collide. UNMIK officials say they have credible reports that Kosovo Serbs in the north are attempting to rei [...]	2006-07-12 18:32:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA598	NORTHERN KOSOVO SERB MAYORS NOT MASTERS OF THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The mayor of the Serb-majority northern Kosovo municipality of Zvecan insisted to USOP that his decision to cut ties with the Kosovo Government was a reasonable expression of frustration with the failure of the Kosovo police to solve crimes against Serbs. The mayors of the other [...]	2006-07-17 17:36:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA599	KOSOVO: ACTING SRSG PUSHES BELGRADE/WHO ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although medication is on hand, medical personnel have been trained, and construction of a clinic has been completed, treatment of Mitrovica-area Roma acutely ill with lead poisoning has not begun. The World Health Organization (WHO) has been waiting for more than three month [...]	2006-07-17 18:50:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI
06PRISTINA600	KOSOVO: PISG PROGRESS ON CG STANDARDS PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG) continue to make progress on fulfilling the Contact Group's 13 priorities for standards implementation. Prime Minister Agim Ceku announced July 11 that two of the 13 had already been fulfilled and the PISG completed ano [...]	2006-07-17 18:50:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
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
06PRISTINA611	KOSOVO: DETAILS OF SLKM PROPOSAL ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Oliver Ivanovic views his Serbian List for Kosovo and Metohija (SLKM) plan for seven new Serb-majority municipalities and the enlargement of an eight existing municipality (Novo Brdo) as a bridge between the current proposals on new municipalities by the Serbian and Kosovo gove [...]	2006-07-20 16:49:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA630	KOSOVO: PM CEKU VISITS THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 22 visit to majority ethnic Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo, Prime Minister Agim Ceku declared that northern Mitrovica "is and will always be a part of Kosovo." He also requested that KFOR and UNMIK "insulate this region politically and practically from Serb [...]	2006-07-28 15:42:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETTC UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA631	KOSOVO: PROTEST OVER VIENNA NEGOTIATIONS FIZZLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Only around 250-300 protesters showed up for a July 24 demonstration in Pristina called by Albin Kurti, the activist leader of the Self-Determination Movement (SDM),against participation by Kosovo government officials that same day in final status negotiations in Vienna with s [...]	2006-07-28 16:06:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA637	KOSOVO: UNMIK BELIEVES UK HOLDS INFORMATION TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: The UN in Kosovo believes that the British SIS has in its possession of 700-page report with information that could lead to the conviction of four suspects in the murder of Serb civilians in 2001. UNMIK,s Department of Justice has asked the UK Office to make the report availa [...]	2006-08-01 15:45:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	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
06PRISTINA645	KOSOVO: CONTACT GROUP MESSAGE TO PRISTINA WELL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Keeping to the language worked out in Contact Group capitals, COM led other CG representatives (along with the heads of the local EU and European Commission missions) in a demarche on the Kosovo negotiating team (the "Unity Team") on the results of the July 24 high-level meeting [...]	2006-08-04 13:44:00	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
06PRISTINA653	KOSOVO: SERB RELUCTANCE TO RETURN TO SVINJARE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The return of Serbs to the village of Svinjare is more complex than the rebuilding of houses destroyed and damaged by ethnic Albanians in the riots of March 2004. The rebuilding/repair effort is underway, though according to the UNMIK office that advises the Kosovo Protection [...]	2006-08-08 12:04:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PGOV PREL 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
06PRISTINA674	KOSOVO: PM CEKU UPBEAT ON COMPLETION OF CG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Agim Ceku told heads of mission from the Contact Group (CG),EU and EC liaison offices August 15 that the Kosovo government has completed five of the CG's 13 priorities for Standards implementation and is on track to finish the remaining eight by October. He asses [...]	2006-08-17 15:49:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA689	KOSOVO: COM URGES NORTHERN MAYORS TO STAY ENGAGED, [...] (C) Summary: COM travelled to northern Kosovo August 18 to meet with the mayors of the three predominantly Serb municipalities and utilize press opportunities to convey the benefits of the decentralization process to Serb residents of the north. All three mayors were definitive in rejecting a [...]	2006-08-22 12:42:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK DPKO YI
06PRISTINA709	KOSOVO: SWIFT RESPONSE BY UNMIK AND KFOR CALMS [...] (C) Summary: Swift action by UNMIK, KFOR, and the Kosovo Police Service prevented an escalation of violence following an August 26 grenade attack on a well-known cafe frequented by hard-line Serbs in north Mitrovica. Nine people sustained injuries, though none life-threatening, in the attack [...]	2006-08-29 18:35:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC KPKO PGOV PHUM KJUS PY
06PRISTINA725	KOSOVO: UNITY TEAM BRIEFS KOSOVO ASSEMBLY ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: Unity Team (UT) members briefed the Kosovo Assembly in an open, televised session on the ongoing final status negotiations. The presentation was generally well received by MPs, although some expressed opposition to negotiated independence. Late distribution of the UT's material [...]	2006-09-01 17:55:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA727	KOSOVO: EU RULE OF LAW PLANNING PROGRESSING, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Casper Klynge, head of the EU Planning Team (EUPT),told us recently he is grappling with mixed messages from Brussels and EU capitals on his follow-on rule of law mission's size and scope. Brussels favors a limited footprint, while capitals increasingly argue for a more operatio [...]	2006-09-02 10:32:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ETTC KCRM PREL YI UNMIK DPKO
06PRISTINA728	KOSOVO: UNMIK KPC COORDINATOR OFFERS THOUGHTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) Coordinator Major General Chris Steirn (UK) offered COM his thoughts on the future establishment of a Kosovo defense force in a meeting September 1. Not surprisingly, Steirn argued that a future Kosovo security force was needed, both to avoid [...]	2006-09-02 13:44:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA729	KOSOVO: CONSTITUTION DRAFTING AND ELECTIONS TIMING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Discussion has begun, both locally and in UNOSEK and Contact Group venues, on the important post-status issues of constitution drafting and timing of elections. UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari expressed to COM and EU reps in Pristina his view that the constitution must be drafted with [...]	2006-09-02 14:17:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA734	KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU NOMINATED FOR POSITION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a fast moving series of events over the Labor Day weekend, the influential presidency of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK),Kosovo's largest party, decided September 5 to nominate President Fatmir Sejdiu as its candidate for the position of party president. Sejdiu is [...]	2006-09-05 20:02:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA736	KOSOVO: INCREASED VOLUME OF ALBANIAN ATTACKS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent appearance of the Kosovo negotiating team before the Kosovo Assembly and public criticism of key elements of the final status talks have resulted in protests against decentralization in the affected municipalities, as well as attacks by political "pundits" in the media [...]	2006-09-06 17:38:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA748	KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 13-14 VISIT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the Unity Team still fractious and a growing tide of public criticism against the decentralization provisions of the UNOSEK plan, we are anticipating a rough political season in advance of the eventual status decision. What would normally have been a heated debate over the m [...]	2006-09-09 12:15:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA765	KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF AMBASSADOR AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo is in an important transition period with a decision on final status looming and the EU poised to assume UNMIK's Rule of Law (RoL) mission. Ambassador Williamson's September 15-17 visit offers a good opportunity to review current prosecution efforts and to shape the EU's a [...]	2006-09-12 16:53:00	Embassy Pristina	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA779	KOSOVO: STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION PROCEEDS, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo government claims to have fulfilled nine of the Contact Group's 13 priorities for Standards implementation. Our estimate is lower, though overall implementation has moved forward. We can expect that progress on the remaining outstanding priorities will be slower as t [...]	2006-09-16 09:49:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA780	KOSOVO: ORDINARY SERBS IN KOSOVO'S NORTH SAY THEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo,s Serbs face an existential question: stay on in post-status Kosovo or start over somewhere else. USOP officers traveled recently to Zvecan in northern Kosovo to try to gauge the views of ordinary Serbs. Most of our interlocutors predicted that Serbs would flee en masse i [...]	2006-09-16 09:57:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK 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
06PRISTINA788	KOSOVO: WHY A SPEEDY RESOLUTION OF STATUS MATTERS [...] (C) Having read Embassy Belgrade's excellent cable (reftel) on the compelling reasons to stick to the planned timetable for resolution of Kosovo's status, we wanted to offer a few thoughts from the Pristina perspective on why a status decision this year remains critical to our objectives of s [...]	2006-09-19 06:57:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA802	KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 26-28 VISIT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The successful September 20 Contact Group ministerial with Secretary Rice at the helm was viewed here as further indication that the U.S. government will press for a timetable that delivers a status determination by the end of 2006. This remains the sole and almost obsessive foc [...]	2006-09-22 11:53:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA804	KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY FINALLY PASSES TURKISH LANGUAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Kosovo Assembly passed an amendment to the Law on Languages making Turkish an official language in Prizren. After initially rejecting the measure on September 14 due to infighting within the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) party, the LDK got its house in order (at l [...]	2006-09-22 16:17:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID 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
06PRISTINA813	KOSOVO: AMB. WILLIAMSON URGES COOPERATION AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: In meetings with both international and Kosovar actors in the justice and political sectors, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson stressed the need for continued Kosovar and international focus on addressing outstanding war crimes cases. In a two-day visit [...]	2006-09-27 09:04:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA833	KOSOVO: A/S FRIED PRESSES KOSOVO LEADERS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina September 26-28, EUR A/S Fried met separately with PM Ceku, President Sejdiu and the Unity Team and assured them of the USG's seriousness in pursuing the status process to its logical end, but stressed that the Kosovar Albanian leadership must show itself worthy of in [...]	2006-10-02 18:29:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA836	KOSOVO: DACI CAMP CAMPAIGNING HARD FOR LDK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Kosovo Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci is waging an aggressive early campaign to become president of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). There are indications that Daci or his supporters may be using intimidation tactics to wrest control of the party at the grass roots lev [...]	2006-10-03 16:55:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCRM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA842	KOSOVO: COM TELLS GJILAN OFFICIALS TO END THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: COM condemned recent violence and urged support for decentralization in a meeting with Gjilan municipal officials from four political parties. She also delivered a message to the fractious ruling LDK party in Gjilan to stop its unhelpful (and violent) infighting. The Albanian [...]	2006-10-04 18:32:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA846	KOSOVO: PM CEKU "LOOKING TOWARDS STATUS" WHILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku briefed Pristina liaison office heads October 5 on his plans over the next several months for managing Kosovo Albanians' expectations for, and Kosovo Serbs' fear of, final status. Ceku said that implementation of Standards for Kosovo, particularly [...]	2006-10-06 16:07:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA847	KOSOVO: COM URGES CALM, CAUTION AMONG KOSOVAR [...] (C) With rumors swirling of a delay in the status process and statements by EU High Representative Solana and UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari appearing to confirm these speculations, COM counseled calm among Kosovar Albanian leaders the week of October 2. Meeting with the Prime Minister, the parl [...]	2006-10-08 11:27:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA854	KOSOVO: UNMIK STILL WAIVERING ON THREE-MONTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the October 4 meeting of the Steering Group for Future International Arrangements, UNMIK presented a "work in progress non-paper" (forwarded to EUR/SCE) with timelines for transition and identifying an action office for many of the items. According to various UNMIK representa [...]	2006-10-10 16:13:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA862	KOSOVO: SERB ORTHODOX BISHOP TEODOSIJE EXPRESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: COM met October 12 with Bishop Teodisije, the moderate Serb religious leader of Decani monastery, who feared that Kosovo Serbs in the enclaves in south were not prepared for final status. Teodosije asked that the international community do everything possible to encourage and en [...]	2006-10-13 17:07:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA863	KOSOVO: KOSOVO PROPERTY AGENCY BOARD MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At an October 10 meeting of the five-member supervisory board of the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA),which includes USOP, KPA head Knut Rosandhaug confirmed that the rental property scheme by which illegal Albanian occupants pay rent to Serb owners had begun on October 2. Rosand [...]	2006-10-13 17:14:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA881	SUPPORT FOR KOSOVO'S SOUTHERN SERBS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ensuring that the Serb community can remain and prosper in Kosovo is a key Mission goal and a vital test of Kosovo's commitment to multi-ethnic democracy. The Serb minority in Kosovo is not monolithic; those who live in the northern municipalities of Leposavic, Zubin Potok and [...]	2006-10-21 12:43:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID 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
06PRISTINA909	KOSOVO: EUR/SCE DIRECTOR HOH PRESSES KOSOVAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Visiting EUR/SCE Office Director Chris Hoh reassured anxious Kosovo Albanian leaders that the USG still supports resolution of Kosovo's final status by the end of the year, but asked them to help manage expectations within the population if Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari decides a [...]	2006-10-30 16:32:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL 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
06PRISTINA923	KOSOVO: KPC DEMINING CAPACITY IS IMPROVING, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There is room for optimism as the 2006 demining season draws to a close. Despite earlier criticism by the international de-mining NGO, HALO Trust, of the demining capabilities of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC),an August 2006 study by the International Centre for Humanitari [...]	2006-11-03 14:44:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA930	KOSOVO: LDK INTERNAL BATTLE PORTENDS CONTINUING [...] (C) Summary: The internal LDK struggle for power between two factions continues, with the process of party elections now in full swing. Though former Assembly speaker Nexhat Daci appeared to take the early momentum with low-level party victories in eastern Kosovo, the LDK "old guard" under K [...]	2006-11-06 12:34:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL 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
06PRISTINA947	KOSOVO: UNMIK GETTING OUT OF THE RETURNS BUSINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Unlike the rest of UNMIK, which is planning its departure without undue haste, the Office for Communities, Returns and Minorities (OCRM) hopes to transfer all of its competencies except for responsibility for forced returns by the end of the year, a very positive development in o [...]	2006-11-11 13:20:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV EAID PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA948	KOSOVO: PLANNING FOR POSSIBLE SERB REFUGEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the leak to Serbian media in May 2006 of UNHCR's draft contingency planning on possible population movements after a decision on Kosovo's final status, UNHCR has continued to refine its thinking. Planning assumptions vary wildly, with estimates ranging from 10,000 to 112,00 [...]	2006-11-11 13:24:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF EAID PREL 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
06PRISTINA965	KOSOVO: EVOLVING EU POLICE AND JUSTICE PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: The emerging outlines of the EU police and justice plan for post-status Kosovo make it apparent that security and law enforcement in Kosovo will be conducted on a fundamentally different basis after the settlement than under UNMIK administration. EU planning is painfully slow an [...]	2006-11-14 18:30:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA967	KOSOVO: SEJDIU AHEAD IN THE HOME STRETCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With all local branch elections now complete, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu has a comfortable majority of delegates to be elected president of the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). Sejdiu's chief rival, disgraced former Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci, trails by a wide m [...]	2006-11-14 18:46:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA971	KOSOVO: MAYORS PRESSED TO ACCEPT DECENTRALIZATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: COM hosted a November 14 meeting of her Contact Group colleagues, joined by EU and EC reps, with mayors of 10 major Kosovo cities to emphasize the centrality of decentralization in the final status settlement. She urged them as key players in this process to implement decentrali [...]	2006-11-15 18:10:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA972	KOSOVO: KICKING THE CONTACT GROUP'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The head of the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) gave us updated statistics on the KPA's rental property scheme and enforcement of property claims pending implementation -- two of the 13 Contact Group priority standards. Some 361 properties out of a total of approximately 5,400 admi [...]	2006-11-15 18:16:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA973	KOSOVO: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REMAINS A PROBLEM, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Trafficking in persons (TIP) continues to plague Kosovo, but UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) have taken some important steps to combat it, including undercover police operations, adoption of a two-year action plan to combat trafficking in human [...]	2006-11-16 06:33:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	GTIP KJUS KCRM PGOV UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA989	KOSOVO: CONTROVERSIAL AND WEALTHY EXPAT FORMS NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bexhet Pacolli's Alliance for a New Kosovo (AKR) recently held its first convention in Pristina, evolving from a U.S.-based lobbying group for Kosovo independence into a registered political party. Pacolli, a wealthy Kosovar Albanian who lives in Switzerland, has plastered the K [...]	2006-11-20 14:36:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM EAID KDEM INR YI

06QUITO2549	MINISTER OF ECONOMY RODAS RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Economy and Finance Armando Rodas submitted his resignation late on October 17. On October 18 President Palacio named Jose Jouvin as the new Minister of Economy, the fifth to occupy that position since Palacio became president in April 2005. While Rodas's resignati [...]	2006-10-18 22:14:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV PGOV PINR EC
06QUITO2732	TERRORIST FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Quito's Terrorist Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is DCM Jefferson Brown, telephone number 593-2-256-2890 ext. 4420. His unclassified email address is brownjt2@state.gov. The Deputy TFCO is Economic Officer Christian Bollinger, telephone number 593-2-256-28 [...]	2006-11-09 19:26:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN PTER EFIN ETTC KVPR PREL EC
06QUITO3047	ECUADOR'S OAS DEMOCRACY PRACTITIONERS [...] Per reftel request, Embassy and AmConGen Guayaquil have identified the following democracy activists we recommend be included in the OAS democracy practitioner registry. 2. Manuel Ignacio Gomez Lecaro is a public relations expert and respected weekly editorialist for Guayaquil's leading n [...]	2006-12-15 22:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC KSUM PHUM OAS
06QUITO3072	CORREA DEBT MANAGEMENT: ECUADORIAN OBSERVERS [...] (C) Summary. President-elect Correa and Economic Minister-designate Patino continue to talk about rescheduling Ecuador's external debt. However, former and current Ministry of Economy officials agree that Correa will be pragmatic and conclude that it is not in Ecuador's interest to default. [...]	2006-12-20 10:08:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV KBIO PINR EC
06RABAT1196	MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION BRIEFS PRIME [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 16, Prime Minister Driss Jettou met with Ambassador Riley and the visiting team from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to discuss the results of the MCC team's recent meetings with the Government of Morocco's (GOM) Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) team. The [...]	2006-06-19 18:40:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ECON SOCI KMCA MO
06RABAT1676	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE [...] Embassy Rabat warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Brian Levy, Magda Ismail, Steven Clarke, David Picha, Herve Plusquellec and Samuel Hobbs, of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to travel to Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Ourzazate, and Fes, Morocco September 13 - October 8, [...]	2006-09-08 17:01:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMCA KPAO AFIN EAID ECON OTRA
06RABAT1801	MOROCCO MACROECONOMIC UPDATE AND ECONOMIC [...] (U) This message provides an update on Morocco's macroeconomic situation, together with other highlights of recent economic developments, including: A. Altadis's purchase of the remaining 20 percent of the National Tobacco Monopoly. B. The creation of a new fund (Oleo Capital) to support t [...]	2006-09-27 15:34:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD ELAB EAIR EINT ECPS KTEX TS
06RABAT2222	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DRL/SEAS DAMON [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to DRL/SEAS Damon Stevens to travel to Rabat, Morocco, December 10-11, 2006 for the purpose of attending meetings with local and government officials, and Religious Leaders on the issue of anti-Semitism. 2. Control Officer for the visit is [...]	2006-12-07 09:42:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT2248	MOROCCAN PRO REFORM STIRS OPPOSITION [...] (U) Summary: A new Moroccan port reform law went into effect December 5, amidst strong opposition from stevedores (longshoremen). The new law, designed to increase port efficiency and competitiveness, divides the present Ports Authority (ODEP) into two entities: a National Ports Agency (ANP),[...]	2006-12-13 10:05:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EWWT MO
06RABAT527	MOROCCO PORT REFORM: EYE ON THE FTA [...] Summary: Morocco is making wide-ranging reforms to its port sector, a key piece of an economy which handles 98 percent of the country's of foreign trade. A law passed in December 2005 opens the sector to private operators, breaking the state's monopoly over commercial cargo services and cre [...]	2006-03-24 16:43:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EWWT ETRD MO
06RIGA775	LATVIA TO SUPPORT US CANDIDATE FOR IMSO DIRECTOR [...] Pol/Econ Off spoke with Aigars Krastins, Head of the Maritime Department in the Latvian Ministry of Transportation, on September 22 regarding our candidate for Director of the International Mobile Satellite Organization, Steven Lett. Krastins stated that he had received copies of the diplomati [...]	2006-09-25 05:14:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ECPS EU EWWT IMO INMARSAT KHLS LG
06RIYADH8718	TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATOR OFFICER [...] (C) Embassy Riyadh's Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officer (TFCO) is Robert Silverman, Economic Counselor, phone number (01) 488-3800, extension 4237 and email address RJSilverman@state.sgov.gov. The current Deputy TFCO is Lubaina Qaiyumi, Economic Officer, phone number (01) 488-3800, exte [...]	2006-11-06 09:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA
06RIYADH8921	THE NEW SUCCESSION LAW PRESERVES THE MONARCHY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A SUCCESSION STRUGGLE AMONG THE AL SAUD FAMILY HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS TO SAUDI ARABIA'S STABILITY. THE FIRST TWO SAUDI STATES COLLAPSED PARTIALLY AS A RESULT OF SUCCESSION PROBLEMS. FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF KING ABDULAZIZ IN 1953, A FIERCE POWER STRUGGLE AMON [...]	2006-11-22 04:02:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06ROME3040	SUBJECT: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER - [...] (C) Embassy Rome's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is Richard Boly, Deputy Economic Counselor; phone: 39-06-4674-2320; unclassified email: bolyrc@state.gov; and classified email: bolyrc@state.sgov.gov. 2. (C) Embassy Rome's Deputy TFCO is Kevin Brady, Economic Officer; ph [...]	2006-11-08 08:28:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER IT
06ROME771	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-13 10:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME827	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-16 11:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06SANAA2559	UNDER YEMEN'S NEW CHIEF JUSTICE, THE PEOPLE'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador met Yemen's Chief Justice Esam Abdul-Wahab al-Samawi for the first time on August 29, and discovered a youthful voice for reform and moderation. Samawi expressed the need for a clearer legal framework for trying suspected terrorists and would-be jihadis. As the newly a [...]	2006-09-03 10:49:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EAID KMCA KMPI YM
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
06SANTODOMINGO879	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: VISITING OAS SYG INSULZA [...] Summary: OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, in a visit to the Dominican Republic March 5-6, met with President Fernandez and Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso, spoke at the opening events of the 23d Model OAS (March 5) and the Regional Forum on Modernization of Legislatures and [...]	2006-03-10 21:13:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR PREL OAS
06SANTODOMINGO919	DOMINICAN PRESIDENT LEONEL FERNANDEZ'S INVITATION [...] (C) I consider that the invitation to a Central American/Caribbean summit on May 31 hosted by President Leonel Fernandez offers the President the opportunity of a high profile event that will strongly support regional democracy and free trade, just before the General Assembly of the Organizat [...]	2006-03-14 15:07:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	SECRET	DR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL
06SAOPAULO1054	EXPORTS, POPULISM AND OLD ALLIES: A TRIP TO PARANA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On a recent trip to the state of Parana just southwest of Sao Paulo, Consul General helped launch a Commerce Department initiative at the Port of Paranagua, which, according to Port officials and the state's governor, is being revitalized into a dynamic commercial sea link for [...]	2006-10-02 18:18:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD EWWT EINV SCUL KPAO BR
06SAOPAULO1197	AUSTR EISSENSTAT VISIT TO SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) Summary. Following their attendance at the Bilateral Consultative Mechanism Meeting in Brasilia on October 16 (Reftel B),AUSTR for Latin America Everett Eissenstat, AUSTR for Industry Meredith Broadbent, and USTR Brazil and Southern Cone Director Sue Cronin visited Sao Paulo. They met [...]	2006-11-16 17:52:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD ECON EINV KJUS BR
06SAOPAULO436	CODEL GRASSLEY: FRANK DISCUSSIONS ON TRADE IN SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During its recent visit to Sao Paulo, CODEL Grassley engaged in vigorous and sometimes contentious discussions with representatives of Brazil's private sector over U.S. and Brazilian trade policies and different approaches to bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations. Braz [...]	2006-04-25 18:18:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PGOV PREL ETRD EAGR ECON ENRG BR
06SAOPAULO675	COMMERCE SECRETARY PROMOTES U.S. EXPORTS, PUSHES [...] During his June 7-8 visit to Sao Paulo, Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez discussed intellectual property rights with the Governors of four states and attended a meeting of the Sao Paulo State Interagency Committee to Combat Piracy; met with leaders of major business and industrial gro [...]	2006-06-16 16:30:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	OVIP ETRD BEXP KIPR EINV PGOV EAGR ENRG BR
06SAOPAULO965	AMBASSADOR'S AUGUST 23-24 VISIT TO SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) Ambassador Clifford Sobel passed two eventful days in Sao Paulo August 23-24, beginning his visit with an appearance at the opening of a Calder exhibit at the Pinacoteca, one of the major art museums in Sao Paulo. The following day he met separately with the heads of the Brazilian subsi [...]	2006-09-05 16:57:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD BEXP KIPR BR
06SEOUL1035	U.S., CANADA, ROK ANTI-TIP GROUP RECONVENES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a 16-month hiatus, the ROK-U.S.-Canada Trilateral Working Group on anti-trafficking issues (TWG) met on March 22 to discuss the trafficking of women from Korea to the U.S. and elsewhere. While the group recognized the cooperation among the Embassy and local police to arr [...]	2006-03-29 22:58:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CVIS PHUM KS KCRIM SMIG PREL
06SEOUL1774	FOURTH ROUND OF USG-ROKG CONSULTATIONS ON NORTH [...] (C) Summary: DG Nam Gwan-pyo opened the 4th round of USG-ROKG consultations on North Korean asylum seekers on May 25 by commending the U.S. government on its endeavors to make the resettlement of North Korean asylum seekers in the U.S. possible, and saying that this consultation provides an o [...]	2006-05-25 11:27:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM KS KN
06SEOUL2095	U.S. BUSINESS REPS AND AMBASSADOR MEET PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) The Ambassador accompanied Citibank Chairman Bill Rhodes and other top representatives of the U.S.-Korea Business Council (USKBC) to their June 22 courtesy call on President Roh. The meeting focused on the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) and lasted a little over an hour. US [...]	2006-06-25 22:42:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PGOV KS
06SEOUL864	MARCH 2006 QUARTERLY TRADE MEETING: AGENDA-SETTING [...] (SBU) The first Quarterly Trade Meeting (QTM) for 2006 was held in Seoul on March 3. While there were no breakthroughs, the meeting was constructive and identified no new problems. The Korean government indicated a willingness to address USG concerns, including a potentially serious problem [...]	2006-03-16 08:45:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON KS
06SINGAPORE1379	SINGAPORE ELECTION: OPPOSITION TO MAKE A RACE OF IT [...] (C) Summary: For the first time since 1988, the opposition parties will contest more than half of the seats for parliament in the May 6 general election, denying the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) an automatic majority on nomination day. The economy and local issues will dominate the nine [...]	2006-04-27 09:46:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON SN
06STATE16185	THE SECRETARY'S JANUARY 24 MEETING WITH EAST [...] (U) Classified by EAP A/S Christopher R. Hill, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (U) January 24, 2006, 4:30-5:00 PM, Secretary's Outer Office. 3. (U) Participants: United States: -------------- The Secretary A/S Christopher R. Hill, EAP Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees III Executive Assist [...]	2006-01-31 23:08:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEAN PHUM PREL ID KEM KDEM UNSC KAWC PGOV
06STATE164524	THE SECRETARY'S SEPTEMBER 26 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Classified by: EAP Acting A/S Kathleen Stephens, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (U) September 26, 2006; 1:45 p.m.; Washington, DC. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Lynn Pascoe, Embassy Jakarta EAP A/S Christopher Hill PA A/S Sean McCormack Steve Beecroft (S Staff [...]	2006-09-29 21:31:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS UN ID
06STATE86867	CURRENT STATUS OF SMART [...] Please provide wide dissemination of the information in this telegram. 2. This message provides an update on the status of SMART, the State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset. SMART is designed to consolidate cables, e-mails, and memos on a single platform integrated with a centrali [...]	2006-05-30 15:56:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AINF AADP ACOA ASEC KRIM
06STATE91067	FISCAL DATA FOR USG SITE DEVELOPMENT IN EL [...] (U) An expanding U.S. Government presence in Darfur requires modest infrastructure development, including living and working facilities, to support U.S. personnel in the field. S/CRS and AF/EX have agreed to split the costs associated with refurbishing RSO-identified buildings in El Fasher (r [...]	2006-06-05 20:50:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRS PGOV SU
06SUVA364	PACIFIC FORUM POST-FORUM DIALOGUE - PROPOSAL FOR [...] (U) When EAP/ANP Director Steven McGann visited the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) Secretariat on Sept. 6, PIF Secretary General Greg Urwin elaborated on current plans for SIPDIS the annual Forum meetings, now to be held in Nadi, Fiji. The schedule has been condensed, with the Forum meetings t [...]	2006-09-07 00:34:00	Embassy Suva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC OVIP PIF XV
06SUVA452	PRC PROTESTS A/S HILL'S PLANNED MEETING WITH TAIWAN VICE [...] (SBU) Summary: China pressed on U.S. diplomats at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) summit in Nadi, Fiji, to cancel an informal encounter between Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill and Taiwan Vice Foreign Minister Chang Siao-Yue. Beijing's new special envoy for PIF affairs, Ambassador Wang Yon [...]	2006-10-24 23:52:00	Embassy Suva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV CH TW FJ
06TAIPEI1246	WHO DEMARCHE TO TAIWAN: SYMBOLISM VS PRACTICE [...] (C) Summary. Vice Foreign Minister Michael Kau told AIT Deputy Director that Taiwan intends to continue pushing WHO observership but pledged to give high priority to increasing Taiwan's "meaningful participation" in WHO activities. Kau specifically requested a U.S. statement of support for T [...]	2006-04-07 10:52:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO PREL WHO TW
06TAIPEI1398	CROSS-STRAIT TOURISM - EXPECTATIONS HIGH, PRESSURE [...] (SBU) Expectations are high that Taiwan and the PRC will lift remaining restrictions on PRC tourist travel to Taiwan. Estimates of the potential economic benefit range as high as 0.2 percent of GDP. One industry contact speculated that Taiwan could see 5 million PRC tourists per year within [...]	2006-04-21 08:25:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL CH TW
06TAIPEI1415	TAIWAN ON WHO: IHRS, TWO-BY-TWO, AND OBSTACLES TO [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan is considering making a unilateral pledge adhering to the WHO International Health Regulations (IHRs),though it has some questions about timing. No decision has been made yet on whether Taiwan will concur with a limited two-by-two debate in WHA Plenary Session and Gener [...]	2006-04-24 09:12:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO PREL PGOV WHO TW
06TAIPEI1454	TAIWAN HEALTH MINISTER: WHO, AVIAN FLU, AND 2G [...] (U) Summary: Minister of Health Hou Sheng-mou told AIT Director Young that preparing for Avian Influenza is the top priority of Taiwan's Department of Health (DOH). Taiwan is eager to participate meaningfully in WHO meetings and to work with the U.S. to respond to global health emergencies. [...]	2006-04-27 08:44:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON TW
06TAIPEI1536	DEMARCHE TO MOFA ON TAIWAN AND WHO: TAIWAN RAISES [...] (SBU) Summary. AIT presented Ref A demarche on Taiwan participation in WHO to Vice Foreign Minister Michael Kau, highlighting U.S. requests for Taiwan to unilaterally adhere to the IHR's and to agree to the "two-by-two" debate proposal. Kau responded that Taiwan is nearly ready to go forwar [...]	2006-05-04 01:32:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PGOV PREL WHO CN TW
06TAIPEI1582	AIT DIRECTOR CALLS ON MINISTER OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS [...] (SBU) Summary: During his May 1st introductory call on Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs (MOEA) Hwang Ing-san, Director Young raised upcoming consultations on bilateral trade issues under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA),noting that agricultural market access, IPR prote [...]	2006-05-09 09:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV TW
06TAIPEI1608	TAIWAN AGREES ON IHR ADHERENCE AND REQUESTS LETTER [...] (C) Summary. This is an action cable see para 7. DDIR presented demarche to VFM Michael Kau and TCDC Director Steve Kuo 5/10 at MOFA. DDIR stressed two issues: our strong support for Taiwan's unilateral adherence to the IHR and the importance of Taiwan's acceptance of the 2x2 debate on the [...]	2006-05-10 13:35:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	AMED SENV TBIO PREL TW
06TAIPEI1789	TAIWAN FINANCIAL SUPERVISORS ON INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Department of International Affairs Acting (DIA) Director General Mr. Andrea Lee told AIT on May 16 that former KMT Chair Lien Chan's trip to China in April had set the stage for improvements in cross-Strait economic issues, and he [...]	2006-05-25 08:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PINR EFIN TW
06TAIPEI1803	TAIWAN TIFA TALKS ON DOHA AND GPA - - AM, MAY 25, [...] (C) During the first morning of the fifth U.S.-Taiwan Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) joint council meeting in Taipei May 25-26, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (DUSTR) Ambassador Karan Bhatia communicated the USG's desire to strengthen the bilateral economic relationship wit [...]	2006-05-25 11:53:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON TW
06TAIPEI1837	DUSTR BHATIA'S MEETING WITH PREMIER SU TSENG-CHANG [...] (C) Summary. Deputy USTR Karan Bhatia called on Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang on May 26, the second day of the U.S.-Taiwan TIFA talks in Taipei. Stressing Taiwan's cooperation with the U.S. on export controls, pharmaceuticals, and other trade issues, Su urged the U.S. to consider a bilatera [...]	2006-05-29 22:46:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON TW
06TAIPEI1840	DEPUTY USTR BHATIA'S MEETING WITH TAIWAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: President Chen told DUSTR Bhatia that Taiwan is interested in an FTA for economic reasons and is prepared to take steps needed to further open its market. Bhatia stressed the difficulties in an FTA and explained that it would be more practical to negotiate agreements in specific [...]	2006-05-30 07:51:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL TW
06TAIPEI1843	DUSTR BHATIA'S MEETING WITH NSC SEC-GEN CHIOU [...] (C) Summary: National Security Council Secretary General Chiou I-jen told Deputy USTR Bhatia that President Chen values highly Taiwan's friendship and close economic partnership with the U.S. He is eager to put the recent transit problems behind him. Chiou said Taiwan's efforts to improve [...]	2006-05-31 23:36:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON TW
06TAIPEI189	TAIWAN BUDGET SIGNALS CONTINUED POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The Legislative Yuan (LY) significantly cut and froze Administration budget proposals on January 12 to signal its unhappiness with government ministers and programs in many areas. KMT legislators say they want respect and real information from government agencies and will hold t [...]	2006-01-19 09:01:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD ECON PREL TW
06TAIPEI1901	NEXT STEPS FOR TAIWAN TIFA [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: The fifth round of US-Taiwan Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks concluded in Taipei on May 26. Deputy USTR Karan Bhatia and Taiwan's Deputy Economic Minister Steve Chen jointly presided over the talks. Reftels report on each session of the [...]	2006-06-02 09:05:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EFIN EINV TW
06TAIPEI1918	Taipei Economic Brief for May [...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in May 2006: --TIFA talks --2006 economic growth --Cross-Strait cooperation --Taiwan IPR officials in Beijing --Taiwan relaxes PRC investment rules --Solar and biomass energy --Taiwan Sugar to produce bio-ethanol --Communic [...]	2006-06-06 00:43:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2376	CROSS-STRAIT CHARTER FLIGHTS - AIRLINES STILL [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan airlines have begun preparing for new cross-Strait charter flights announced June 14 but complain that the number of flights for the holiday charters is too small. China Airlines (CAL) hopes that it will be able to fly cargo charters as often as once a week, but EVA Air be [...]	2006-07-13 08:19:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PREL ECON CH TW
06TAIPEI2452	GPA/PVS DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO VP TSAI [...] (C) Summary: On July 19 Taiwan Vice Premier Tsai Ing-wen assured AIT Director that U.S. comments on the Fifth Price-Value Survey (PVS) would be welcome and given full consideration through September 15 and that the Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) would make no further announcements [...]	2006-07-20 22:00:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	WTO ETRD ECON PREL TW
06TAIPEI2634	Steve Chen Promoted to Economic Minister [...] On the afternoon of August 4, Premier Su Tseng-chang announced that Economic Minister Hwang Ing-san (Morgan) had resigned due to poor health and Vice Minister Chen Ruey-long (Steve) would be promoted to Economic Minister. A brief bio of Mr. Chen is as follows: 2. Steve Chen, 58, has been [...]	2006-08-04 09:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2783	New Senior Financial Officials [...] Summary: In early August, three new ministerial-level officials were inaugurated: Economic Minister Chen Ruey-long (Steve),Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Chairman Shih Jun-jih, and Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) Chairman Chen Shu (Gordon). Steve Chen replaced Hwang Ing-san (reftel). S [...]	2006-08-16 06:23:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2880	New Economic and Finance Vice Ministers [...] Summary: Following the promotion of Steve Chen from Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) Political Vice Minister to Minister (reftel),the Executive Yuan (EY) shifted Shih-Yen Shiang (Note: Shih-Yen is his family name.) from MOEA Administrative Vice Minister to MOEA Political Vice Minister and [...]	2006-08-21 01:46:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI2919	CROSS-STRAIT SEMICONDUCTOR INVESTMENT - BUMPY ROAD [...] (C) Summary: The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) announced in April that it would lift the ban on investment in semiconductor packaging and testing in the PRC. However, the only application for such investment to date was denied. Semiconductor manufacturers were also disappointed recently whe [...]	2006-08-23 09:09:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EIND ECON CH TW
06TAIPEI2923	TAIWAN REMAINS INTENT ON A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (U) Summary: Taiwan remains intent on securing U.S. concurrence to launch talks on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement. Taiwan officials at all levels took advantage of the August 17-21 trade talks in Taipei to raise the issue, emphasizing that an FTA is Taiwan's number one trade goal. Taiwan [...]	2006-08-24 02:31:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV TW
06TAIPEI2950	MAINLAND AFFAIRS COUNCIL PUTS POSITIVE SPIN ON [...] (C) Summary. According to Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman Joseph Wu, cross-Strait negotiations will not be derailed by Taiwan outrage over what it sees as PRC deviousness in disrupting Taiwan relations with Chad. That said, the pace of negotiations might slow down a bit. Expansion o [...]	2006-08-24 22:05:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON CH TW
06TAIPEI3288	TAIWAN SENIOR OFFICIALS DISCUSS TRADE ISSUES [...] Summary: (S/NF) AIT Director Young discussed current political and economic situations with Vice Premier TSAI Ing-wen and Minister of Economic Affairs Steve CHEN (Ruey-long). Tsai seemed mot to be preoccupied with the continuing drive to bring down President Chen, emphasizing that the gover [...]	2006-09-22 10:15:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	SECRET//NOFORN	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV TW
06TAIPEI3552	TAIWAN VICE PREMIER ON EXPORT CONTROLS [...] (C) Summary: On October 16, Taiwan Vice Premier TSAI Ing-wen assured AIT Director Young of full cooperation on export control issues, promised to look into the U.S.-EU proposal on advancing Taiwan's accession to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement and said she believes the Taiwan econom [...]	2006-10-17 10:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	SECRET	ETRD ECON PREL WTRO TW
06TAIPEI3926	IS CROSS-STRAIT SEMICONDUCTOR INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary: Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) and Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) officials last week said publicly that Taiwan was preparing to ease restrictions on semiconductor manufacturing investment in the PRC by the end of the year. However, Taiwan has previously made similar noises [...]	2006-11-22 06:26:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETTC PREL CH TW
06TAIPEI4004	Taipei Economic Brief for November 2006 [...] This cable summarizes selected November 2006 economic events in Taiwan: --Domestic Demand to Sustain 2007 Growth; --Foreign Direct Investment Quadruples; --Carlyle to Acquire World's Largest Chip Packaging Firm; --Long-term Goals and Medium-term Development Plan; --Overseas Taiwan Firms En [...]	2006-11-30 09:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06TAIPEI4063	MAC CHAIRMAN PREDICTS CROSS-STRAIT TOURISM [...] (C) Summary. MAC Chairman Wu told the Director December 5 that a cross-Strait agreement to further open Taiwan to PRC tourism would likely be concluded shortly after the December 9 Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral elections. He said charter flights will take longer, though he expects the Ministr [...]	2006-12-06 10:05:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINV EAIR ECON PGOV CH TW
06TAIPEI4079	AUSTR VISIT: TIFA, APEC, CHINESE GOODS, AND [...] (C) Summary: Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) Director General Franco Huang told AIT Econ Chief that he would try to provide AIT with "acceptable footnote language" for Taiwan's WTO GPA accession. It is not clear whether this signifies confusion or motion in Taiwan's position. His comments [...]	2006-12-08 05:52:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV APECO TW
06TAIPEI4164	CROSS-STRAIT INVESTMENT - ACTIVE MANAGEMENT AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 14, 2006, Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) announced a new, more rigorous approval process for major investment projects in the PRC. Major projects will be subject to review by a senior-level interagency taskforce. In addition, potential investors will [...]	2006-12-20 08:48:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EINV ETTC ECON PREL CH TW
06TAIPEI942	Taiwan Contemplates First WTO Safeguard Action Against [...] (U) Summary: For the first time since its accession to the WTO in 2002, Taiwan has initiated import relief and dumping investigations against the PRC. Taiwan's towel manufacturers have requested relief in the face of rising PRC imports and Taiwan's International Trade Commission (ITC) and Mini [...]	2006-03-21 08:46:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD TW
06TALLINN1000	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (U) Contact information for Embassy Tallinn TFCO: Jessica Adkins, Political/Economic Section Chief; Phone: 372 668-8230; Unclassified E-Mail: AdkinsJL@state.gov; Classified E-Mail: AdkinsJL@state.sgov.gov. 2. (U) Contact information for Embassy Tallinn Deputy TFCO: Rebecca Raman, Polit [...]	2006-11-08 12:24:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER
06TEGUCIGALPA2057	HONDURAN FOOD SAFETY LABS IN DISARRAY [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent USDA lab assessment mission determined that Honduras, food safety organization (Senasa) does not have labs sufficiently supplied or staffed to do even the most basic food safety testing. The assessment team visited animal health, plant health and pesticide detection lab [...]	2006-10-30 20:29:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID ETRD PGOV PREL HO
06TELAVIV1017	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-14 12:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV1191	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations --------------- Election polls: --------------- A Yediot/Mina Zemach (Dahaf Institute) poll held on Sunday: -"Were elections for the Knesset held today, for whom would you vote?" (Results in Knesset seats -- in brackets, results of Yediot's poll pub [...]	2006-03-27 13:35:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV1593	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- On Sunday, Yediot reported that on May 21, Ehud Olmert will pay his first visit to the United States as prime minister and will meet with President Bush. The newspaper sa [...]	2006-04-24 11:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV1887	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- On Sunday, Ha'aretz reported that Israel and the US are beginning discussions of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's convergence plan this week. The newspaper wrote that the working assumption a [...]	2006-05-15 11:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV2220	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Al-Zarqawi Assassination 2. Iran 3. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media (lead stories in Ha'aretz and Yediot) reported that last night in the southern Gaza Strip, Jamal Abu Samhadana, the commander of the [...]	2006-06-09 11:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV2307	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported on President Bush's surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday. Maariv cited a Pew poll held in various European and Muslim countries, according to which Fr [...]	2006-06-14 14:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV3703	ISRAEL WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR IMSO [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-18 07:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ECPS EU EWWT IMO INMARSAT KHLS IS
06TELAVIV407	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-30 12:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV4162	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. PM Olmert Visit to Russia ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz headlined that the US and Israel see eye to eye regarding the Syrian option and are both against opening a separate Israel-Syrian track. This tendency comes a [...]	2006-10-20 10:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR
06TELAVIV448	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program 3. Israel-U.S. Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that on Monday, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and UNSC member Germany decided to transfer [...]	2006-01-31 12:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV4662	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-29 11:08:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR
06TELAVIV700	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Muhammad Cartoon Controversy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported that Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz is expected to present to Acting PM Ehud Olmert today recommendations formulated by the defense establishment [...]	2006-02-17 11:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV751	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Muhammad Cartoon Controversy 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Israel's representative to the UN Danny Gillerman as warning at the UN Security Council Tuesday that an Iran-Syria-Hamas "terror ax [...]	2006-02-22 11:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV997	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- On Sunday, Ha'aretz reported that Acting PM Ehud Olmert briefed the US administration last week on the main thrust of his political plan before he delivered it to the loca [...]	2006-03-13 12:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06THEHAGUE1041	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) PRC Ambassador Xue Hanqin asked to meet with Amb. Javits on April 28 to discuss a number of issues. Xue raised the PRC request on the margins of last year's Conference of States Parties for bilateral discussions concerning issues ranging from destruction of abandoned CW to chemical indust [...]	2006-05-09 14:50:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC
06THEHAGUE1231	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center official Steven smith to travel to the Netherlands from June 6-7, 2006 to participate in European Space Agency Liaison Meetings in Noordwijk. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is ne [...]	2006-06-01 09:51:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE133	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA GODDARD SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center delegation consisting of Thomas Johnson, Scott Lambros, Kirk Rhee and Steven Scott to travel to the Netherlands from February 13-16, 2006 to attend the James Webb Space Telescope Near In [...]	2006-01-20 08:54:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA NL
06THEHAGUE1486	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Facilitator Maarten Lak (Netherlands) held two informal consultations on 23 and 26 June to discuss Executive Council 46 report language. On Monday, delegations were asked to choose between two texts, the draft EC-45 text and a new facilitator's proposal. Mexico intervened to relay its in [...]	2006-07-04 16:16:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC
06THEHAGUE1587	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center official Steven Smith to travel to the Netherlands from July 18-20, 2006 to attend and participate in European Space Agency Liaison Meetings. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is ne [...]	2006-07-20 14:20:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE1683	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center official Steven Smith to travel to the Netherlands from August 8-13, 2006 to attend and participate in European Space Agency Liaison Meetings in Noordwijk. 2. Embassy understands that no as [...]	2006-08-02 12:27:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE1696	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CDC OFFICIAL STEPHEN [...] Country clearance is granted for Steven Stewart, Health Communication specialist, NIP, CDC, HHS to layover in the Netherlands from August 19-20, 2006 on his way to Nairobi, Kenya to help facilitate, train and participate at a polio communications. 2. Embassy understands that no further as [...]	2006-08-03 09:17:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE1892	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA DRYDEN FLIGHT [...] Country clearance is granted for NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) delegation Andrew Holguin, David Neufeld, Clifford Nunnelee, Allen Parker, Van Tran, and Steve Thomas to travel to the Netherlands from September 12-23, 2006 to receive training on the new flight loads lab load control [...]	2006-08-29 12:35:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	NL OTRA TSPA
06THEHAGUE1935	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center official Steven Smith to travel to the Netherlands from September 6-7,2006,to attend and participate in European Space Agency Liaison meetings in Noordwijk. 2. Embassy understands that no a [...]	2006-09-05 07:43:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2041	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL SCIENCE [...] Country clearance is granted for September 28 - October 2, 2006 visit to The Netherlands of NSF official Dr. David Lightfoot, Assistant Director of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, who will consult with ESF standing committee for social sciences and conduct indep [...]	2006-09-19 13:46:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY OTRA KSCA NL
06THEHAGUE2077	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center official Steven Smith to travel to the Netherlands from October 4-5, 2006 to attend and participate in European Space Agency liaison meetings. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is n [...]	2006-09-22 11:02:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2113	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL SCIENCE [...] Country clearance is granted for September 28 - October 2, 2006 visit to The Netherlands of NSF official Dr. David Lightfoot, Assistant Director of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, who will consult with ESF standing committee for social sciences and conduct indep [...]	2006-09-27 11:28:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY OTRA KSCA NL
06THEHAGUE2219	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NATIONAL SCIENCE [...] Country clearance is granted for October 15-16, 2006 visit to The Netherlands of NSF official Dr. Jeanne Hudson, Program Director in the Office of International Science and Engineering, who is meeting with Dutch officials on collaboration in networking and in Materialsworldnet. 2. Embassy [...]	2006-10-12 09:11:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY OTRA KSCA NL
06THEHAGUE2253	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) Del reps met with South African delegate Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Oct. 13 to discuss the perceived need among delegations for an open discussion of the U.S. and Russian extension requests. Van Schalkwyk confirmed that although delegations have not voiced specific concerns, some have ap [...]	2006-10-18 10:11:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC
06THEHAGUE2255	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center official Steven Smith to travel to the Netherlands from October 24-25, 2006 to attend and participate in European Space Agency liaison meetings in Noordwijk. 2. Embassy understands that no [...]	2006-10-18 11:14:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE2261	DUTCH ON INVESTIGATION OF AMCITS IN YUKOS CASE [...] (C) Econoff delivered on October 10 reftel points regarding the GOR criminal investigation against the American and former Yukos executives Steven Theede, Bruce Misamore and David Godfrey to Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials Natascha Soons, Policy officer, Eastern Europe and C [...]	2006-10-18 12:44:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET RS NL
06THEHAGUE2289	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): SCENESETTER FOR [...] (U) If Iran elects to be reasonable and not block consensus, it should be possible to get agreement on three critical issues at EC-47: the U.S. extension request, the 2007 OPCW budget and the Director General's proposal for tenure reform. It will also be possible to approve a mechanism for p [...]	2006-10-23 10:24:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC

06THEHAGUE2367	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA GODDARD SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center delegation consisting of Douglas Campbell, Stuart Glazer, Matthew Greenhouse, Scott Lambros, Michael Menzel, Steven Scott, Rajeev Sharma, George Sonneborn, and Pamela Sullivan to travel to the Netherlands from December 3-13, 20 [...]	2006-11-03 12:25:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA NL
06THEHAGUE2429	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) On October 31, EC Vice Chair Alexander Petri (Germany) chaired a discussion of requests for extension of the deadline for completion of destruction of 100% of Category 1 CW. The meeting was very widely attended across all regional groups, and had to be moved to the much larger Ieper Room a [...]	2006-11-09 12:41:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC
06THEHAGUE2436	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA GODDARD SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center delegation consisting ofPamela Davila, William Eichhorn and Steven Graham to travel to the Netherlands from December 3-9, 2006 attend the James Webb Space Telescope Mid Infrared Instrument Critical Design Review to be held at E [...]	2006-11-13 15:33:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA NL
06THEHAGUE2445	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) It was not possible to reach agreement at EC-47 on the U.S. request for an extension of the 100% destruction deadline, as details could not be ironed out regarding visit to the U.S. and Russia in connection with both extension requests. There also was no agreement on the 2007 OPCW budget [...]	2006-11-15 09:44:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC
06THEHAGUE363	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CODEL STEVENS STAFF [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Jeff Bingham, Majority Staff Director of the Space and Science Subcommittee, U.S. Senate, to travel to the Netherlands from February 21-22, 2006 for consultations at the European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk. 2. [...]	2006-02-17 10:37:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NL
06THEHAGUE403	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FAA EASTERN REGION [...] Country clearance is granted for February 25 - March 2, 2006 visit to the Netherlands of Federal Aviation Administration Employees Steve Shataka and Michael Bulzomi to complete "R" items for Atlas Air. 2. Embassy understands that no further assistance is necessary. POST ACCESS: 3. [...]	2006-02-23 11:54:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA EAIR NL
06THEHAGUE534	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) Russia hosted a March 7 meeting of the P-5 ambassadors. The Director General made a presentation on universality-related efforts of the OPCW. He noted that much has been achieved, membership now stands at 178 states, and the organization rapidly is being faced with approaches to just th [...]	2006-03-13 12:07:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC
06THEHAGUE627	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE [...] Country clearance has been granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center official Steven Smith to travel to the Netherlands from March 28-31, 2006 to attend and participate in European Space Agency Liaison meetings in Noordwijk. 2. Embassy understands that [...]	2006-03-23 09:53:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE837	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE [...] Country clearance is granted for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center official Steven Smith to travel to the Netherlands from April 25-26, 2006 to attend and participate in European Space Agency Liaison meetings in Noordwijk. Noordwijk. 2. Embassy understan [...]	2006-04-18 08:32:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA NL
06THEHAGUE990	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA (JSC) JEFFERY [...] The Hague welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA's Johnson Space Center, Jeffery Davis and Steven Smith to travel to Noordwijk, Netherlands, to attend the European Space Agency Payload Manager's Review, May 13 thru 17, 2006. 2. Embassy understands that no further assistance is necess [...]	2006-05-03 13:59:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA NL
06TIRANA281	MAJOR LNG AND POWER PROJECT NEARER REALIZATION; [...] (C) SUMMARY: ASG Power, a U.S.-Swiss consortium, received GoA permission on March 13 to undertake final feasibility and environmental studies to build a 1.9 billion LNG re-gasification facility and 1200 megawatt power plant near Fier. Gas and electricity will mostly be exported to Italy, b [...]	2006-03-20 08:00:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ENRG EPET AL
06TIRANA358	ALBANIA'S CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR: MONEY LAUNDERING [...] (SBU) Albania's Central Bank Governor, Ardian Fullani, became the first high-ranking GoA official to state what many analysts have assumed for years: Albania's booming construction industry is driven, in part, by "dirty money." In his annual report to Parliament's Committee on the Economy, F [...]	2006-04-07 13:29:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV KCRM AL
06TIRANA455	ALBANIA WILL NOT SUPPORT IRAN BID FOR UN HUMAN [...] (C) PolEcon Chief raised Ref A pointS with M)moza Ko.do, Office Director for th% Americas, aNd Saimi2 Rapishti, Office Director for I.ternational OpGanizations at the MFA. RapiqHtI sa)d the assue had been raised at the "highest letElS qitQi. t`e anistry, and that it had bee decaded,QQGithouT [...]	2006-05-05 10:50:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL AL
06TIRANA628	SOCIALIST PARTY CONGRESS: RAMA'S REFORMS AND [...] (SBU) Albania's Socialist Party (SP) held its first Congress since its bitter defeat last July in Parliamentary elections and the ascendancy of Tirana Mayor Edi Rama to the Chairmanship of the party last fall. Former Chairman, and fallen PM, Fatos Nano, was nowhere to be seen and his suppor [...]	2006-06-12 13:12:00	Embassy Tirana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AL
06TOKYO1786	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04//06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-04 08:12:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO1801	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/05/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-05 02:39:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO2333	EAP/DAS KEITH'S MEETING WITH METI OFFICIALS ON PRC [...] (C) Summary: Questions from officials of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) focused on China's promises regarding exchange rate reform and intellectual property protection during an April 26 briefing on Chinese President Hu Jintao's recent U.S. visit by EAP Deputy Assis [...]	2006-04-28 06:43:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN ENRG APECO PREL CH JA
06TOKYO2637	S/P KRASNER'S MAY 10 MEETING WITH DFM NISHIDA [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Nishida told visiting S/P Director Stephen D. Krasner on May 10 that he was not hopeful for a short-term breakthrough in Japan's relations with South Korea. He argued that the Roh government's outlook, policies and low poll numbers explained much about t [...]	2006-05-15 03:18:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEAN CH KS JA
06TOKYO2655	S/P DIRECTOR KRASNER'S MAY 11 MEETING WITH ASIAN [...] (C) Summary: MOFA Asian Affairs DG Sasae told visiting S/P Director Stephen D. Krasner that: -- China is seeking to improve its relations with Japan; -- Japan's participation in Asian regional groupings can and will be consistent with U.S. and Japanese goals for APEC; -- Sasae per [...]	2006-05-15 07:21:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL APEC ARF CH KS IN JA
06TOKYO2664	U.S.-JAPAN-ROK POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION [...] (C) Summary: In Session 2 of the U.S.-Japan-ROK trilateral policy planning talks on May 12, S/P Director Stephen D. Krasner, Japanese Deputy Vice-Minister for Foreign Policy Masaharu Kohno and Korean Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations Park In-Kook outlined t [...]	2006-05-15 09:15:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL APEC ARF MARR CH KS JA
06TOKYO4966	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/30/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-30 08:05:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO5065	RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE FOR SUPPORT OF U.S. CANDIDATE [...] (C) REFTEL demarche was delivered to Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. NASA Attach met with Japan,s lead delegate to the International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO),Mr. Toru Nakaya, Director of the International Organizations Office, Telecommunications Bureau, Ministry of Internal [...]	2006-09-06 05:06:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	TSPA JA SENV
06TOKYO5744	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/03/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-03 00:56:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO5754	TOKYO EMBASSY POC FOR APEC FOOD DEFENSE RISK [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-03 06:32:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO PTER EAGR
06TOKYO5901	HOUSE OF COUNCILORS PRESIDENT PUSHES PARLIAMENTARY [...] (U) Japanese House of Councilors President Chikage Ogi, accompanied by House of Councilors International Affairs Department Director General Yoshiyuki Sadaoka and Secretarial Division Director Satoshi Fujukawa, called on Ambassador October 11 to press for the revitalization of U.S.-Japanese p [...]	2006-10-11 07:53:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL JA
06TOKYO6369	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U/S NICHOLAS BURNS AND [...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the November 5-6, 2006 visit to Japan by U/S Nicholas Burns, EAP/K Director Sung Kim, NSC Director Victor Cha and Steven Fagin. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Brett Blackshaw [...]	2006-11-06 00:13:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL JA
06TOKYO6566	TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] (U) Summary: Following is requested information on post's Terrorism Financing Coordinating Officer. End Summary. Terrorism Financing Coordinating Officer Contact Information --------------------------------------------- --------------- 2. (C) Contact information for TFCO: Maureen Grewe, [...]	2006-11-16 05:03:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER
06TOKYO657	JAPAN PROPOSES A "PATENT FTA" [...] (SBU) Summary: Building on earlier proposals for a "Patent Superhighway" Japan is now considering what it calls a "Patent Free Trade Agreement" (FTA) between the US and Japan. The plan calls for the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and US Patent Office (USPTO) to share the results of patent examin [...]	2006-02-07 01:06:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD ECON JP
06TOKYO6633	U/S BURNS MEETING WITH SPECIAL ADVISOR FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan welcomes the resumption of the Six-Party Talks, National Security Advisor Koike told U/S Burns November 6. The implementation of UNSC Resolution 1718, Japanese economic sanctions, and pressure from China led North Korea to return to the talks, Koike suggested. Burns and Ko [...]	2006-11-20 10:24:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR UNSC JA
06TOKYO6634	U/S BURNS NOVEMBER 6 MEETING WITH LDP DIET MEMBERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A group of ruling party Diet members expressed skepticism over North Korea's willingness to abandon its nuclear weapons program during a November 6 lunch with U/S Burns in Tokyo. Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba suggested that the recent agreement to restart Six-Party Talks [...]	2006-11-20 10:30:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV JA
06TOKYO6635	U/S BURNS MEETING WITH DFM NISHIDA ON IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan shares U.S. concerns about Russia's obstructionist role in Iran discussions and would like to play a part in pressuring Iran to abandon nuclear enrichment, Deputy Foreign Minister Nishida told U/S Burns on November 6. U/S Burns underscored U.S. concern about Iran's involveme [...]	2006-11-20 10:43:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL JA
06ULAANBAATAR628	Mongolia's Looming Mercury Pollution Crisis [...] Summary. The widespread use of mercury in the informal gold mining sector in Mongolia has produced a looming environmental crisis. As many as 100,000 "ninja" miners -- 15-20% of them children -- now work in the sector, a number that has sharply increased in the last five years. Illegal u [...]	2006-08-17 05:47:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PGOV EMIN SOCI ELAB PHUM MG
06ULAANBAATAR671	Codel Kolbe Advances U.S. Interests [...] (U) SUMMARY: During a September 1-3 visit, Codel Kolbe examined U.S. assistance programs in Mongolia, with a particular focus on the proposed Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program. The Codel stressed that qualifying for MCA is not enough, and that Mongolia will need to take the time and e [...]	2006-09-08 07:40:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OREP PGOV MARR EAID KMCA KPAO MG
06USUNNEWYORK1008	UN/IRAQ: S/I AMBASSADOR JEFFREY ON AN IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) Begin Summary. S/I Ambassador Jim Jeffrey briefed UN U/SYG Gambari and SRSG for Iraq Qazi May 9 on the proposal to develop an "Iraq Compact," whereby UNAMI would work closely with the newly elected Iraqi government to help al-Maliki's cabinet expand Iraq's partnership with the internation [...]	2006-05-18 09:45:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC PGOV IZ
06USUNNEWYORK1222	UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-16 18:47:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC AFIN UN
06USUNNEWYORK1534	UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $41 MILLION TO THE TRUST [...] USUN has faxed to IO/EX/OB-Alice Green and IO/S-Steven Johnston an official note and invoice requesting payment of $41,104,704.67 to the Trust Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MF),of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNE [...]	2006-08-14 13:42:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC AFIN UNEP
06USUNNEWYORK1717	AMB WOLFF AND UN U/SYG GAMBARI DISCUSS ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Summary: DPR Amb Wolff advised UN U/SYG Ibrahim Gambari August 31 that the USG is highly skeptical about a Security Council ministerial on the peace process at this time. Amb Wolff noted, moreover, that since the Arab League has been unable to explain the purpose of the meeting, has fail [...]	2006-09-01 22:34:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC
06USUNNEWYORK2144	UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $41 MILLION TO THE TRUST [...] USUN has faxed to EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green and IO/MPR-Steven Johnston an official note and invoice requesting payment of $41,104,704.67 to the Trust Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MF),of the United Nations Environment Programm [...]	2006-11-13 20:22:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC AFIN UNEP
06USUNNEWYORK2145	UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $4,175,735 TO THE TRUST [...] USUN has faxed to EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green and IO/MPR-Steven Johnston an official note and invoice requesting payment of $4,175,735 to the Trust Fund for the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MP),of the United Nation [...]	2006-11-13 20:22:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC AFIN UNEP
06USUNNEWYORK518	UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $63 MILLION FOR THE TRUST [...] USUN has faxed to IO/EX/OB-Alice Green and IO/S-Steven Johnston an official note and invoice requesting payment of $63,335,300.67 to the Trust Fund for the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MP),of the United Nations [...]	2006-03-16 18:11:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC AFIN UNEP
06USUNNEWYORK980	UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $60 MILLION TO THE TRUST [...] USUN has faxed to IO/EX/OB-Alice Green and IO/S-Steven Johnston an official note and invoice requesting payment of $60,175,600.67 to the Trust Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MF),of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNE [...]	2006-05-15 17:44:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC AFIN UNEP
06VIENNA2475	NABUCCO PIPELINE: AUSTRIA'S OMV CONSIDERS [...] (C) Summary. On August 10, State Department (S/P) Energy Advisor Steve Hellman, accompanied by Charge and Acting EconPolCouns, met with senior executives from Austria's main oil and gas company, OMV, to discuss the status of the Nabucco pipeline and ways to move the project forward. The dis [...]	2006-08-18 15:58:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL AZ AU
06VIENNA3208	STEVE HELLMAN'S DISCUSSIONS WITH OMV ON NABUCCO, [...] (C) During an October 23 meeting with Werner Auli, CEO of OMV Gas, and Reinhard Mitschek, Managing Director of Nabucco Gas Pipeline International, S/P Steve Hellman updated OMV on Russia's continuing pressure, via its gas exports, on Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey. Hellman noted that Russia' [...]	2006-11-02 10:28:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON EINV PREL AU
06VILNIUS727	LITHUANIA'S CHOICE: FIGHT OR SURRENDER ITS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Lithuania and its Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery need to decide how to proceed, now that an "accident" has resulted in a complete cutoff in the refinery's pipeline-delivered supply of Russian crude. State Department Advisor Steve Hellman framed this issue for the Lithuanians d [...]	2006-08-04 15:12:00	Embassy Vilnius	SECRET	ENRG ECON PREL LH XG VE LY
06VILNIUS801	MAZEIKIU NAFTA REFINERY LEARNING TO LIVE WITHOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery is operating at full capacity, despite the recent cutoff of its most economic source of crude, via pipeline from Russia (refs A and B). MN is currently using its Baltic Sea terminal at Butinge to offload its entire crude supply from t [...]	2006-08-25 14:16:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL XG VE
06WARSAW1592	DEPARTMENT ENERGY ADVISER HELLMAN'S ENERGY [...] (C) Economics Ministry State Secretary Piotr Naimski told visiting State Department Energy Advisor Steve Hellman August 1 that Poland is very concerned by the cut-off of Russian oil shipments to Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta refinery due to alleged 'accidents and technical difficulties.' The Pole [...]	2006-08-04 08:59:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET LH PL PREL
06WARSAW2008	POLAND'S PKN ORLEN DISCUSSES MAZEIKIU NAFTA, [...] (C) PKN Orlen's (PKNO) Deputy President Cezary Filipowicz requested information from the USG on whether Yukos International is considering a proposal to put the Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) refinery shares into escrow to further protect them from Yukos Finance. Poland is attempting to gain support fr [...]	2006-09-15 14:21:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON ETRD PL AJ KZ RS ES LG LH PREL
06WELLINGTON268	LABOUR'S NEW TALENT DEFICIT. [...] (SBU) Summary: After two full terms in power, PM Clark has failed to effectively rejuvenate her Labour Party's ranks. Labour's lack of recognizable next generation leadership could be a real handicap over the short to-medium term, especially as the opposition National Party has a number of cap [...]	2006-04-10 19:11:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
06WELLINGTON284	A/S HILL'S MEETINGS WITH NEW ZEALAND OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: During his March 19-20 visit to Wellington and Auckland, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher R. Hill met with GNZ officials from foreign affairs, defense, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies. All agreed that the United States and N [...]	2006-04-13 02:58:00	Embassy Wellington	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV XB NZ
06WELLINGTON521	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] Following instructions in reftel, post contacted Steven Johnson, director of Heli Cam Aviation Limited. Johnson confirmed that he has received an R44 Raven II helicopter, manufactured by Robinson Helicopter Company, with gyro stabilization equipment installed. 2. Johnson said that possessio [...]	2006-07-09 22:12:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC NZ
06WELLINGTON626	MESSAGE FOR EAP DAS DAVIES FROM AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Kia ora! New Zealand officials are very enthusiastic about your upcoming visit, which they see as the latest sign of our improving bilateral communication and cooperation. The officials plan to update you on New Zealand's activities in the Pacific and beyond. They also wish to contin [...]	2006-08-13 19:16:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON627	MESSAGE FOR EAP DAS DAVIES FROM AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Kia ora! New Zealand officials are very enthusiastic about your upcoming visit, which they see as the latest sign of our improving bilateral communication and cooperation. The officials plan to update you on New Zealand's activities in the Pacific and beyond. They also wish to contin [...]	2006-08-13 19:16:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON669	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANP DIRECTOR C. STEVEN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ANP Director C. Steven McGann and Economic Officer Alisa Wong to travel to New Zealand from September 9 - 14, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to meet with embassy and consulate staff and also New Zealand government officials. 2. ( [...]	2006-08-28 03:25:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PGOV PREL AS FJ NZ
06WELLINGTON732	EAP/ANP DIRECTOR MCGANN'S MEETINGS WITH GNZ: [...] (C) Summary: During September 13 meetings in Wellington, GNZ officials told EAP/ANP Director Steven McGann that PM Clark and NZ Ministers support greater US-NZ cooperation. McGann and his counterparts agreed that meetings over the coming months between both sides' leaders and senior officials [...]	2006-09-19 01:26:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ETRD NZ US
06WELLINGTON733	EAP/ANP DIRECTOR MCGANN'S VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND: [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. officials are interested in participating in a U.S. special session proposed by the Pacific Island Forum (PIF),EAP/ANP Director Steven McGann told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) at a September 12 meeting in Wellington. McGann and MFAT agreed the USG and G [...]	2006-09-19 01:27:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NZ XV US CH TW
06WELLINGTON736	GNZ THINKING ON ANTARCTIC COMMEMORATIONS, LOGISTICS [...] (SBU) GNZ officials welcome USG participation in and support for January events hosted by PM Clark to commemorate the International Polar year and the 50th anniversary of US-NZ cooperation in Antarctica. New Zealand may also host events in-country for official USG visitors, including those una [...]	2006-09-19 19:18:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SENV OTRA NZ US
06WELLINGTON771	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EPA OFFICIAL STEVEN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Economist Steven Rose to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 6-15, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report: Fourth Lead Author Meeting. 2. ( [...]	2006-10-02 01:31:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY NZ
06WELLINGTON799	BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] In response to reftel, Post contacted Skywork Helicopters Ltd. to ascertain the bona fides of the foreign end-user and whether the order for 100 Pynco NVIS filtered lamp assemblies (P/N 2654-73P) had in fact been ordered and received. Skywork Helicopters Ltd. is in fact a legitimate New Zealand [...]	2006-10-11 05:37:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC NZ
06WELLINGTON821	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. DELEGATION TO [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to the following U.S. Delegation members to APECTEL 34: Steven Olson, Anita Dey, Johindar Dhillon, Liesyl Franz, Ashley Heineman, George Tannahill, and Alan Vincent to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from October 22 - 28, 2006. The purpose [...]	2006-10-19 03:08:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
06WELLINGTON854	NEW ZEALAND TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (U) The following information is in response to reftel A. 2. (SBU) Embassy Wellington's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is: David J. Keegan Deputy Chief of Mission Tel: 64-4-462-6101 Unclassified e-mail: KeeganDJ@state.gov SIPDIS Classified e-mail: KeeganDJ@state.sgov [...]	2006-11-02 01:08:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER NZ
06WELLINGTON931	GNZ TOUGH BUT PESSIMISTIC ON FIJI'S BAINIMARAMA [...] (U) This is an action cable, see para 7. 2. (C) Summary: GNZ anticipates that Commodore Bainimarama will execute his plan to remove members of the government of Fiji on December 4 regardless of what he hears from foreign critics. New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters will meet with [...]	2006-11-26 18:33:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PREL PGOV FJ TN NZ
06YEREVAN1280	VIKTOR DALLAKIAN OUTLINES POLITICAL PREDICTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-14 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1365	LOCAL ACTIVISTS SKEPTICAL FOREIGN ASSISTANCE WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 26, donor organizations presented election assistance plans to a group of local NGO partners. The NGOs were pessimistic that technical assistance and training would make much difference to the conduct of the 2007 elections, believing the GOAM would pre-determine the [...]	2006-10-02 12:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PHUM KDEM KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1516	REVISED ELECTION CODE MOVING FORWARD, FINALLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenia passed its revised election code through its first reading October 26, a small positive step. The draft can still be modified before final passage. OSCE/ODIHR and the Council of Europe Venice Commission (CoE/VC) provided a detailed joint commentary on the draft bill. The [...]	2006-10-30 04:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM OSCE AM
06YEREVAN1565	USOSCE AMBASSADOR FINLEY PUSHES FAIR ELECTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Julie Finley, US Ambassador to the OSCE, visited Armenia October 17-19, and met a wide range of GOAM officials and non-governmental contacts. While they embraced her strong messages on free and fair elections, media freedom, trafficking in persons (TIP),and anti-corruption, offi [...]	2006-11-06 04:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE AM
06YEREVAN1616	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (S) The following information is provided in response to reftel. (a) TFCO: Anthony Godfrey, Charge d'Affairs Phone: (37410) 464-700 ext. 4599 Tie Line: 996 0000 UNCLASS E-Mail: GodfreyAF@state.gov SIPDIS CLASNET/SIPRNET: Godfreyaf@state.sgov.gov (b) Deputy TFCO: Elizabeth Pelletr [...]	2006-11-16 11:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER AM
06YEREVAN1674	DE FACTO N-K AUTHORITIES INVITE U.S. TO OBSERVE [...] (C) The Yerevan representative office of the self-declared "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (NKR) asked post to convey a letter to EUR DAS Matt Bryza, in his capacity as Minsk Group co-chair, advising him of an NKR referendum December 10 and inviting him to observe the proceedings. Full text of the [...]	2006-12-04 16:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS AM AJ
06YEREVAN1685	NDI PRESIDENT'S VISIT SPEAKS TO ARMENIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-06 14:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1735	KOCHARIAN LAYS DOWN HIS MARKERS ON ELECTION PERIOD [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian delivered a nationally-televised interview December 15, laying out his expectations for the campaign season and May 2007 parliamentary elections. Kocharian called for elections to be free and fair, placing the onus on election commissions and political parti [...]	2006-12-19 14:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM
06YEREVAN238	ARMENIAN FM OSKANIAN REFLECTS ON RAMBOUILLET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Oskanian was not as pessimistic about the results of Rambouillet as we had anticipated when we heard him reflect on the event and on his views of the way ahead February 15. Although agreement eluded the two presidents at Paris, it was Oskanian's view that many is [...]	2006-02-16 04:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM AJ OSCE
06YEREVAN395	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION ON FRIED VISIT [...] Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried, accompanied by Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Eurasian Conflicts Steven Mann, visited Armenia March 15-16. As part of his visit, Fried held a press conference on March 16 that received broad coverage from the print and broadcast media. [...]	2006-03-20 08:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN432	EUR A/S FRIED DISCUSSES N-K, ENERGY SECURITY AND [...] (C) During an informal dinner March 15 with a group of Armenian political leaders, visiting EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried underlined the USG's policy that strong democracies were better equipped to solve the region's most pressing problems, especially the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and [...]	2006-03-27 09:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IR AM RU
06ZAGREB1385	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO): [...] (SBU) The Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) for Embassy Zagreb is Econ Section Chief Nicholas Berliner, tel: 385-1-661-2229, email: berlinernr@state.gov. TFCO Deputy is Marlene Nice, Economic Officer, tel: 385-1-661-2225, email: nicemm@state.gov. 2. (SBU) Small countries wit [...]	2006-11-20 12:30:00	Embassy Zagreb	SECRET//NOFORN	KTFN KVPR EFIN ETTC PREL PTER HR
07ABIDJAN298	COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE ON BUILDING SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) EmbOff demarched Ambassador Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, Director of the MFA Office of UN and International Organizations, on U.S. concerns related to the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe as described in reftel. Ambassador Boutchoue and the Ivorian government were well aware of the situat [...]	2007-03-20 19:08:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ZI IV
07ABIDJAN305	COTE D'IVOIRE - MFA TO MOVE CAUTIOUSLY AGAINST [...] (C) Ivorian Ambassador Bernard Tanoh Boutchoue, Director of the Office of UN and International Organizations, called EmbOff March 21 to inform that the Minister of Foreign Affairs had agreed that the situations in both Sudan and Zimbabwe were shocking, and that Africa collectively must act. [...]	2007-03-22 10:46:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO PHUM ZI CT CD IV
07ABUDHABI1273	UAE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HAZZA DISCUSSES [...] (S/NF) Summary: On July 29, UAE National Security Advisor Sheikh Hazza and USSC LtG Dayton discussed efforts to support the Palestinian Authority. USSC Dayton urged the UAE to coordinate its security assistance efforts with the USG and stated that he would be coordinating Palestinian security [...]	2007-07-30 10:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	KPAL MASS MARR PTER IS IR AE
07ABUDHABI1388	U/S LEVEY TALKS IRAN WITH UAEG [...] (S/NF) Summary: On August 13, UAE Central Bank Governor Al-Suwaidi told U/S Levey the Central Bank had seen an increase in outflows from Iran in April and May and then a drop. He stated that this movement appeared to reflect capital flight from ordinary business people and not government fun [...]	2007-08-19 12:19:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC KTFN PARM PREL ECON PTER AE IR
07ABUDHABI1389	(S//NF) IN TOUR OF THE HORIZON WITH U/S LEVEY, UAE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-19 13:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PARM AE IR
07ABUDHABI1699	SCENE SETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS' OCTOBER VISIT TO UAE [...] (S) General Petraeus: Embassy Abu Dhabi and Consulate General Dubai welcome your visit to the UAE, where we look forward to supporting your media appearances and meetings with senior Emirati officials. Our most valuable senior interlocutor on defense issues and regional security is Abu Dhabi [...]	2007-10-10 14:16:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MARR IR IZ AF LE AE
07ABUDHABI302	UAE ACTIONS ON 1737 ENFORCEMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On February 19, MFA Acting U/S Tariq Al-Haidan told Ambassador that Director Dubai General Department of State Security (and Chair of the UAE's non proliferation and commodity control committees) BG Mohammed Al-Qamzi had chaired a UN [...]	2007-02-21 13:34:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL MNUC IR AE
07ABUDHABI387	UAE OFFICIALS DISCUSS GCC MONETARY UNION WITH [...] (C) Summary. On January 21 and 22, UAEG officials and local economists discussed perspective on challenges to the planned 2010 GCC currency union and the peg to the dollar. UAEG officials, while acknowledging the difficulties facing the currency union argued that its benefits outweighed the c [...]	2007-03-08 10:42:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ETRD ECON AE
07ABUDHABI547	USG CONCERNS ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747 [...] (S) On April 1, Econchief discussed the UAE's implementation of UNSCR 1747 with regard to Bank Sepah with Ahmed Al-Qamzi, Head of the UAE Anti Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit's (AMLSCU) International Division, and passed him information that we had on reported Bank Sepah corresponde [...]	2007-04-02 09:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	KNNP EFIN PARM IR AE
07ABUDHABI590	UAE CENTRAL BANK ACTIONS WITH REGARDS TO BANK SEPAH [...] (S//NF) On April 11, 2007 Ahmed Al-Qamzi, Head of the UAE Anti Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit's (AMLSCU) International Division (protect) told OFAC Attach that UAE Banks had frozen &many accounts8 in response to the Central Bank's UNSCR 1747 search and freeze order. In particular, [...]	2007-04-11 11:20:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN KNNP PARM IR AE
07ADANA86	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 22, 2007 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 22, 2007. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL: 2. BOLGE / EKSPRES: CHP National L [...]	2007-06-22 11:45:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
07ADDISABABA2825	Codel Jackson-Lee Advocates Agricultural Technology and [...] Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee advocated for U.S. Technology as well as the need for Ethiopia to adopt land reform and liberalization of the fertilizer and seed markets to help Ethiopia's farmers enhance agricultural yields during a very cordial meeting with Prime Minister Meles on August 31. [...]	2007-09-18 06:12:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAGR PHUM ET SO
07ADDISABABA979	NO-FLY WAIVER OR FEDERAL ESCORT REQUESTED FOR AMIR [...] (C) Per CA/OCS SOP ref A and 7 FAM 194.4, Post requests a high level review of the no fly case of American citizen Amir Meshal. 2. (S/NF) American citizen Amir Meshal was captured by Kenyan authorities leaving Somalia following the Ethiopian military action against the Islamic Court governm [...]	2007-04-02 13:09:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET//NOFORN	CASC EAIR PTER KHLS ET
07AITTAIPEI1018	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-JAPAN SECURITY MEETING, [...] Summary: Almost all major Chinese-language papers in Taiwan gave front-page coverage to New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-ming, who is listed by "Time Magazine" as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. The English-language dailies, however, all gave front-page coverage to AIT [...]	2007-05-06 22:22:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
07AITTAIPEI1092	TIFA - LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A DATE, NOT SO SURE [...] (SBU) Minister of Economic Affairs Steven Chen confirmed the dates of July 10-11 for the TIFA Council Talks and urged both sides to consult extensively over the next few weeks. On Tyco, he noted that the Ministry of Finance preferred that the case be resolved in the courts, but offered to sug [...]	2007-05-15 08:57:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV KIPR TW
07AITTAIPEI1203	TAIWAN VICE PREMIER ON THE CABINET CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: AIT Director Young called on newly installed Vice Premier Chiou Yi-jen. Chiou reiterated Taiwan's desire for quick and successful trade negotiations under TIFA and noted Taiwan's business community remains concerned about the potential impact of the South Korean-US Free Trade Agr [...]	2007-05-31 09:28:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	SECRET	ETRD ECON PREL WTRO TW
07AITTAIPEI1419	AIT CHAIRMAN AND AUSTR STRATFORD HEAR AMCHAM [...] (SBU) Summary. At an Amcham breakfast in honor of visiting AIT Chairman Ray Burghardt, which was also joined by AIT Director Steve Young and Assistant USTR Tim Stratford, Amcham leadership stated its firm support for bilateral agreements on tax, investment and government procurement. Callin [...]	2007-06-22 04:59:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV KIPR TW
07AITTAIPEI1501	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, U.S.-ROK FTA [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage June 30-July 2 on the 2008 presidential election; on Hong Kong's commemorating a decade of Chinese rule; on the island-wide university entrance exam; and on a Taiwan High Court ruling last Friday, which handed down the deat [...]	2007-07-02 22:53:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
07AITTAIPEI1512	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-03 09:02:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
07AITTAIPEI2494	ENVIRONMENTAL MINISTER WINSTON DANG ON TAIWAN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency (TEPA) Minister Winston Dang told the Director on November 14 that President Chen Shui-bian's outspokenness on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) issues has caused problems for both the party and presidential candidate Frank Hsieh. Dang sa [...]	2007-11-16 09:36:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV CH TW
07AITTAIPEI2585	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage December 8-10 on the removal of the old inscription and the debut of the new inscription -- "Liberty Square" -- on the main arch of the Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall (formerly known as the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall) ov [...]	2007-12-10 09:19:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
07ALGIERS1581	(MICRO)SOFT DIPLOMACY, VERSION 1.0 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer paid a brief visit to Algeria in a trip touted as an opportunity for Microsoft to help the GOA expand Algeria's information and communications technology (ICT) sector and enhance its education system. Ballmer said he was inspired by the GOA's commitmen [...]	2007-10-30 06:07:00	Embassy Algiers	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD KIPR AG
07AMMAN1508	KING AND SENIOR OFFICIALS GREET [...] (C) Summary: The King and senior GOJ officials told a Jordanian-sponsored staffdel that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the core issue in the Middle East. They described the burden large numbers of Iraqis impose on Jordan. The Minister of Labor explained the GOJ's plan to address repo [...]	2007-04-09 14:22:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL ELAB IS JO IZ IR SY
07AMMAN3159	PETRA'S VICTORY AS NEW WORLD WONDER CAPTIVATES A NATION, [...] (U) Summary: Petra's candidacy and victory as one of seven "New Wonders of the World" have dominated the news and attention of Jordan since mid-June. Tourism has been growing in Jordan in spite of regional instability, and officials are optimistic that Petra's new designation will cause the t [...]	2007-07-25 14:09:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SCUL JO
07AMMAN3355	Country Clearance for Mr. Steven Welker [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman grants country clearance for the August 8 - 12, 2007 travel to Jordan of Mr. Steven Walker, Agricultural PRT Advisor in Iraq, to attend a meeting in Amman with New Mexico State University representatives. The traveler should carefully review this message, especially the thr [...]	2007-08-08 13:54:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR OTRA JO
07AMMAN3654	E-GOVERNMENT: LOTS OF POTENTIAL BUT LITTLE ACTUAL [...] (U) Summary: After years of effort with few results, Jordan launched several e-government projects this summer, including those that will allow businesses to check their tax records online and citizens to review draft legislation. Among the projects in development are an online business tradem [...]	2007-08-30 10:05:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINT PGOV TINT KMPI JO
07AMMAN4732	KING ABDULLAH UPDATES CODEL INOUYE ON SYRIAN [...] (S) CODEL Inouye accompanied by Ambassador met with King Abdullah on November 28 and discussed developments in Iraq, the Annapolis meeting and a potential opportunity to change Syrian behavior. End Summary. 2. (U) Senators Daniel Inouye and Ted Stevens, Ambassador, and Minority Staff Direc [...]	2007-11-29 15:43:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET	PREL SY JO

07AMMAN4764	JORDANIANS ON ANNAPOLIS: WE WANT TO BELIEVE [...] (C) Jordanian reaction to Annapolis has been marked by the same mix of positive official comments and private cynicism and hope that was on display in the run-up to the conference (ref a). 2. (C) Public, official commentary has been positive, reflecting King Abdullah's strong public support [...]	2007-12-03 15:05:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS JO
07AMMAN4790	JORDAN REQUESTS $1.9 BILLION IN ECONOMIC AND [...] In his first meeting with the Ambassador on November 27, new Prime Minister Nader Dahabi said that Jordan sought an immediate increase of ESF for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. Chief of the Royal Court Bassem Awadallah subsequently conveyed a more detailed funding proposal through letters dated [...]	2007-12-05 16:48:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN PREF JO
07ANKARA1207	TURKEY ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE ON TURKMEN GAS [...] (C) Summary: MFA U/S Apakan expressed concern about the Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan-Russia gas deal and told Ambassador that Turkey wants closer collaboration with the US on access to Turkmen gas. Ambassador offered to provide what information we have about the Russian agreement and encouraged Ap [...]	2007-05-18 14:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECIN PREL AJ TX KZ RS TU
07ANKARA1286	TURKEY - PUSHING ON THE SOUTHERN GAS CORRIDOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish officials express concern about the announced Russia-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan gas agreement, worried that momentum is shifting away from the "southern gas corridor" and Turkey's transit role. Turkish officials want to redouble efforts to work with Turkmenistan, Iraq, Aze [...]	2007-05-25 11:20:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU AJ RS IZ TX KZ
07ANKARA1412	TURKEY-IRAN ADVANCE ENERGY DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although negotiations have been long and difficult, Turkey continues to dally with Iran on energy cooperation. The visit of the Iranian Energy Minister (who is responsible for energy and electricity, but not oil and gas, issues) and a possible reciprocating visit by Guler to Ira [...]	2007-06-06 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU IR
07ANKARA1499	Conference Supports Innovation in Turkey [...] (SBU) Summary. An AmCham-organized, Embassy-supported conference on "Innovation" highlighted to Turkish business and policy leaders how business-friendly policies can promote economic development and job creation. The conference completes one of the actions agreed to during the February mee [...]	2007-06-13 08:08:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR KPAO TU
07ANKARA1809	IRAN-TURKEY NATURAL GAS MOU [...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA officials MFA confirm that Energy Minister Hilmi Guler signed a preliminary MOU with Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Variri-Hamaneh that, after further study, may involve (1) construction of pipelines and the transit of gas from Turkmenistan through Iran to Turkey, (2) devel [...]	2007-07-16 16:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU IR
07ANKARA1850	TURKEY-IRAN GAS MOU: AMBASSADOR RAISES U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador conveyed Washington's serious concern over the Turkey-Iran gas MOU with MFA U/S Apakan (D equivalent) on July 18. Apakan urged the U.S. not to over-interpret, saying there is a real question whether the MOU will be implemented and stressing that Turkey's Iran policy h [...]	2007-07-19 14:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU IR
07ANKARA2273	REGIONAL ENERGY CHIEFS OF MISSION CONFERENCE - [...] This message grants country clearance and provides an update on administrative and logistical arrangements for the Regional Energy Chiefs of Mission Conference to be held at the Conrad Hilton hotel in Istanbul September 20-22, 2007. Attendees will receive a notional schedule via email in comin [...]	2007-09-06 07:56:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG TU
07ANKARA2350	TURKEY'S INCONSISTENT IRAN POLICY (PART I): ENERGY [...] (U) This is the first of a two-part cable on Turkey's Iran policy. Please see part II, septel. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Through a string of recent energy deals with Turkey, Iran is demonstrating a continued capacity to conduct business in the international arena. Turkey has been all too accommo [...]	2007-09-17 11:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MNUC ENRG ETRD ECON IR TU
07ANKARA2351	TURKEY'S INCONSISTENT IRAN POLICY (PART II): SOME [...] (U) This is the second of a two-part cable on Turkey's Iran policy. Please see part I, septel. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Energy needs notwithstanding, deepening commercial ties, and Iranian military action against PKK-affiliated targets in northern Iraq, are further bolstering Turkish [...]	2007-09-17 11:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS MNUC ENRG ETRD ECON IR TU
07ANKARA2401	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-24 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
07ANKARA56	U/S BURNS VISIT TO TURKEY JANUARY 18-19 [...] (S) Your visit comes at the start of a pivotal year for Turkey. Presidential and parliamentary elections will intensify internal political competition and aggravate nationalism at a time when Turkey finds itself more uncertain about its future -- both domestically and externally -- than any t [...]	2007-01-11 15:14:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV TU
07ANKARA658	TURKEY: WILL GO WITH THE EU FLOW ON ZIMBABWE, BUT [...] (C) We delivered ref a points March 19 to MFA Africa Department Head Raif Karaca. Karaca asked for time to discuss the issue internally and came back to us March 21. Karaca noted that Turkey, as an EU accession candidate country, associates itself routinely with EU statements on Zimbabwe and [...]	2007-03-22 16:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ZI TU
07ANKARA803	TURKEY-IRAN: ENERGY PARTNERS OR WARY NEIGHBORS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Turkish press reports April 6 that the GOT is moving forward on energy cooperation with Iran, including investment in it upstream energy production. Ambassador delivered a strong warning on Iran to the Energy Minister last month, just after the visit of the Iranian Foreign Mi [...]	2007-04-06 16:28:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU IR
07ANTANANARIVO895	FRAUDULENT "BAHAMAS" RECRUITER CONS MALAGASY [...] (U) SUMMARY: A scam promising jobs in the Bahamas took in reportedly thousands of Malagasy job seekers before the Government of Madagascar (GOM) exposed the fraud. Gateway Global Consultants, posing as recruiters for West Palm Textiles and Apparel, took USD 50 fees for a promise of possible e [...]	2007-09-05 12:52:00	Embassy Antananarivo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB ETRD PREL MA BF
07ASHGABAT1083	TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA UNSURE OF ITSELF WHILE THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. State media gave minor coverage to the U.S. CENTCOM visit, headed by the Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff, September 27-28. However, it had been believed that the visit would not be covered at all, according to working level sta [...]	2007-10-09 03:42:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP TX
07ASHGABAT1108	TURKMENISTAN: MORE OPEN STATE MEDIA REFLECT GOVERNMMENT'S [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Post has observed steps towards a more open and informative state news media in Turkmenistan. Since the death of former President Niyazov, state media have slowly become more open to coverage of U.S. Government vis [...]	2007-10-15 10:30:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPAO TX
07ASHGABAT1257	TURKEMNISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMEDOV AND SCA [...] (U) U.S. PARTICIPANTS: SCA PDAS Steven Mann Charge d,affaires Richard Hoagland TURKMENISTAN PARTICIPANTS: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov 2. (C) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov continues to ask for cooperation in educati [...]	2007-11-21 10:11:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AMGT SCUL TX
07ASHGABAT1258	TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMEDOV AND SCA [...] (U) U.S. PARTICIPANTS: SCA PDAS Steven Mann Charge d,affaires Richard Hoagland TURKMENISTAN PARTICIPANTS: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a nearly 90-minute meeting on November 16 with SCA PDAS Steve [...]	2007-11-21 10:11:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EPET EINV RS TK AJ KZ TX
07ASHGABAT1259	TURKMENISTAN: UNUSUALLY OUTGOING DEPUTY PREMIER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 16 meeting with Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann, Turkmenistan's Deputy Chairman of the SIPDIS Cabinet of Ministers for hydrocarbon issues, Tachberdi Tagiyev, was unusually forthcoming, even acknowledg [...]	2007-11-21 10:11:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET TX
07ASHGABAT1269	TURKMENISTAN: ENERGY SECRETARY BODMAN WARMLY COVERED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman's November 14-15 visit to Turkmenistan received broad coverage in both state and international media. Bodman's remarks at Turkmenistan's International Oil and Gas Exhibition conference (TIOGE),and his meetings with Turkmenistan's preside [...]	2007-11-23 11:54:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO OIIP TX
07ASHGABAT1297	TURKMENISTAN/RUSSIA: BERDIMUHAMEDOV AGREES TO NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a hardcore blitz campaign by Russia and Gazprom, headed by Russia's Prime Minister Victor Zubkov and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, President Berdimuhamedov agreed on November 23 to move up the timeline for construction of a Caspian littoral pipeline to Russia, and to sign a [...]	2007-11-28 14:05:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ETRD RU TX
07ASHGABAT1307	TURKMENISTAN: "THE DOOR IS OPEN, BUT WE FOLLOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging discussion with SCA PDAS Mann on November 16, Foreign Minister Meredov: -- reaffirmed Turkmenistan welcomes proposals from world-class energy companies; -- agreed more work needs to be done to reform the economy and improve the business climate; -- tout [...]	2007-12-01 08:58:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EPET ETRD SOCI TX
07ASHGABAT230	BERDIMUHAMMEDOV APPOINTS TOP OIL/GAS DEPUTY [...] (SBU) The first, mild surprise in the formation of Turkmenistan,s new government is a positive one: the appointment of Tachberdy Tagiyev as Deputy Chairman with the oil/gas portfolio of the Council of the Cabinet of Ministers. Another February 22 personnel decision from Berdimuhammedov qui [...]	2007-02-23 13:27:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV PREL TX
07ASHGABAT259	PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMMEDOV RECEPTIVE TO PIPELINE [...] (C) President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov showed sincere interest in Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann's detailed March 5 presentation of SIPDIS alternative paths to developing the country's energy sector. In the context of stressing his concern for development [...]	2007-03-05 13:23:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG PGOV AF KZ TX US UZ TI IR
07ASHGABAT260	PRIVATE SECTOR OIL AND GAS TELLS PDAS MANN MORE FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Private sector oil and gas representatives told visiting PDAS Steven Mann during a March 4 lunch that the primary inhibition to the further (and long-term) development of Turkmenistan's oil and gas sector was lack of foreign direct investment (FDI). They also believed that a corollary t [...]	2007-03-05 13:40:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PREL SOCI EAID AF TX US
07ASHGABAT261	MEREDOV: TURKMENISTAN READY TO EXPLORE PIPELINE [...] (C) During a March 5 meeting with SCA PDAS Steven Mann, Turkmenistan Foreign Affairs Deputy Chairman/Minister Rashit Meredov stated that Turkmenistan was reexamining its gas pipeline options and was ready to move forward with new gas relationships. He and Mann agreed to hold expert-level bil [...]	2007-03-05 13:53:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PHUM PREL TX US
07ASHGABAT302	MEDIA COVERAGE OF DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MANN'S [...] (U) Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann's March 3-6 visit to Turkmenistan received wide and generally positive coverage in state media. State media only gave coverage of Mann's March 5 meeting with President Berdimuhammedov and omitted his meetings with other government officials [...]	2007-03-16 12:36:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX
07ASHGABAT408	RUSSIA FIGHTS BACK: TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMMEDOV [...] (C) President Berdimuhammedov's upcoming April 23-24 visit to Moscow, reported yesterday in Russian press, comes amidst growing signs that Russia is pushing hard to preserve its influence -* politically, economically, and in the cultural sphere -* in post-Niyazov Turkmenistan. Berdimuhammedov [...]	2007-04-20 14:24:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PINR PREL RS TX US
07ASHGABAT491	TURKMENISTAN MEDIA SHOWS UNPRECEDENTED WARMTH TO POST IN [...] (U) State media coverage of post events in March was generally full and positive, with some key exceptions. Statements by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann during his March 3-6 visit received full but inaccurate coverage. Coverage of Peace Corps Day, the signing of an agreement [...]	2007-05-15 12:19:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX
07ASHGABAT550	TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMMEDOV PROMISES [...] (C) Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhammedov offered PDAS Mann and a high-level USG delegation on May 31 a mix of openness and old thinking. After hearing detailed USG proposals for technical assistance, feasibility studies and experts' exchanges -- all contributing to making Turkmenistan a [...]	2007-06-01 13:54:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PGOV PREL TX US
07ASHGABAT559	HEAD OF TURKMENISTAN'S GAS "COMPETENT BODY" TELLS [...] (SBU) Bayrammyrat Myradov, the recently appointed Executive Director of Turkmenistan's Executive Administration of the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources, told the members of the delegation led by SCA PDAS Steven Mann on June 1 that his agency was in charge, from sta [...]	2007-06-05 13:31:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PINR PREL TX US
07ASHGABAT587	POSITIVE MEDIA COVERAGE OF PDAS MANN'S MAY VISIT TO [...] (U) Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann's May 30-June 1 visit to Turkmenistan, at the head of a high-level energy delegation, received wide and positive coverage in state media. The delegation included Regional Director for Europe and Asia of the U.S. Agency for Trade and Develop [...]	2007-06-13 03:22:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX
07ASHGABAT592	PDAS MANN BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE: UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD HURTS [...] (SBU) During a May 30 roundtable with SCA PDAS Steve Mann, a varied group of expatriate business leaders broadly agreed that there had been very little change in the foreign business climate in Turkmenistan since the December death of President Niyazov. All noted that the Government of Turkme [...]	2007-06-14 13:10:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD TX
07ASHGABAT598	SCA PDAS MANN MEETS WITH BRIDAS CEO DURING VISIT [...] (C) During a May 31 meeting, the CEO of Argentine energy firm Bridas, Carlos Bulgheroni, told SCA PDAS Steven Mann that he was nearing resolution on a deal to recover the $1 billion in arbitration awards owed his company by the Government of Turkmenistan for nationalization of Brida's Turkmen [...]	2007-06-15 13:37:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET AR TX
07ASHGABAT619	FOREIGN MINISTER MEREDOV TELLS DAS FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum's two and a half hour meeting with Foreign Affairs Deputy Chairman Rashit Meredov covered a wide range of issues in a friendly and cooperative atmosphere. At times, Meredov added humor to the discussion. Meredov responded favorably to the invit [...]	2007-06-26 15:16:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC ENRG AF TX
07ASHGABAT690	TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: MONOSYLLABLES FROM DEPUTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After many postponements, SCA PDAS Steven Mann, EUR DAS Matt Bryza, and EEB Rob Garverick met late in the day July 11 with Tachberdi Tagyev, the Government of Turkmenistan's Deputy Chairman for Gas and Oil. In contrast to other productive meetings during this visit (septels) [...]	2007-07-13 09:34:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ENRG EPET CH TX
07ASHGABAT695	TURKMENISTAN MEDIA REACTION IN APRIL-MAY [...] (U) Media reaction to post events in April and May were overall very accurate and positive to major visitors and events, but the state media continued to ignore smaller security and cultural programs. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann (Ref D) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of S [...]	2007-07-13 10:46:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV PHUM TX
07ASHGABAT697	PIPELINES DOMINATE FEIGENBAUM PRESS COVERAGE [...] (U) Despite Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan A. Feigenbaum's emphasis on developing a multidimensional relationship with Turkmenistan, media mostly focused on the single dimension of gas pipelines. Most media headlines, including pro-Government of Turkmenistan sites, contained the words "Trans [...]	2007-07-13 11:48:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PINR PREL PGOV TX US AF
07ASHGABAT699	TURKEMISTAN ENERGY: FM MEREDOV SAYS U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: SCA PDAS Steve Mann met for nearly two hours on July 11 with Turkmenistan's Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashit Meredov. Meredov: -- insisted Turkmenistan has significant gas deposits in its off-shore Caspian blocks that are open [...]	2007-07-16 12:43:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET EINV RS CH AZ
07ASHGABAT728	TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: MYRADOV AVERS AMU DARYA BASIN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: At an hour-long meeting on July 12 with Executive Director of Turkmenistan's State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources Bayrammyrat Myradov, SCA Principal Deputy Secretary Steven R. Mann, EUR DA [...]	2007-07-23 11:48:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM EPET EINV RS CH AZ TX
07ASHGABAT729	TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE GAZPROMISTAN" [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a lively exchange of views between USDEL and First Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance Jeparov, the U.S. side championed multiple export routes for Turkmenistan,s hydrocarbon resources, explained the economi [...]	2007-07-23 12:02:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV TX RU
07ASHGABAT734	SUSTAINED MEDIA COVERAGE IN JUNE; GREATER ACCURACY IN STATE [...] (SBU) State media gave thorough, positive coverage on all high-level U.S. visits, but as usual ignored smaller programs or events. International media drew heavily from Turkmenistan state media sources for their own reporting in June, but provided different interpretations of the same informa [...]	2007-07-24 11:51:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR ENRG TX
07ASHGABAT742	U.S. SUPPORT FOR STEVE CARR'S CANDIDACY TO THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-25 12:34:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PINR PREL PGOV TX US AF
07ASHGABAT825	TURKMENISTAN'S OIL AND GAS AGENCIES NOT YET READY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Minister of Oil and Gas Baramgeldy Nedirov, pinch-hitting for the Minister of Oil and Gas and other key oil sector officials who were in Kazakhstan, listened to an August 6 presentation by U.S. Trade Development Agency (USTDA) Regional Director Dan Stein and Contractor [...]	2007-08-09 12:11:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG PGOV TX
07ASHGABAT853	TURKMENISTAN ENERGY: SEANA ENERGY ENTERS THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A curious player has emerged in the current Klondikeskyy race to develop Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon wealth -- Seana Energy, a Singapore-registered, Ankara-based consortium of international private investors that purportedly includes significant U.S. private-sector participation. [...]	2007-08-22 05:58:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV EPET AJ KZ TU TX
07ASHGABAT941	TURKMENISTAN NOMINATIONS FOR U.S. BASED TRAINING PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Post is nominating two (2) educational advisers from Turkmenistan to the U.S. based training program to be held May-June 2008. End Summary. NOMINATION ---------- 2. NAME OF NOMINEE: MRS. AFANASYEVA NINA V. D. NATIONALITY, DATE OF BIRTH, PASSPORT NUMBER: Turkmenistan, August 15, 19 [...]	2007-09-11 03:54:00	Embassy Ashgabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OIIP OEXC SCUL KPAO TX
07ASHGABAT999	TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER MEREDOV TELLS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhamedov continues to say publicly that the option of a Trans-Caspian pipeline (TCP) remains on the table, both Deputy Chairman/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov and Executive Director of the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbo [...]	2007-09-21 12:28:00	Embassy Ashgabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PREL PGOV TX AJ
07ASTANA3153	UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES SEES POSITIVE [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-19 12:04:00	Embassy Astana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KZ
07ASTANA3187	PM MASIMOV DISCUSSES PUBLIC PRIVATE ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: During a November 20 meeting, Prime Minister Karim Masimov and SCA DAS Feigenbaum discussed the Public Private Economic Partnership Initiative (PPPI),Kashagan, Afghanistan, the Cooperative Threat Reduction Umbrella Agreement (CTR UA),and the Bota Foundation. Masimov said he ho [...]	2007-11-26 06:30:00	Embassy Astana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KNNP KZ AF
07ASTANA3317	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO KAZAKHSTAN - MISSING AMCIT [...] (S) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche on missing Amcit Robert Levinson to MFA America's Desk Director Talgat Kaliyev on December 14. Per demarche instructions, he requested that Kazakhstan make inquiries to Iran about Levinson and press Iran to cooperate with Levinson's family, share r [...]	2007-12-14 07:55:00	Embassy Astana	SECRET	PREL CASC KJUS IR KZ
07ASTANA460	KAZAKHSTAN: A/S SULLIVAN DISCUSSES ENERGY, [...] (C) Summary: In February 4-6 meetings in Astana with Prime Minister Masimov and GOK cabinet members, A/S Sullivan and delegation communicated strong USG support for multiple oil and gas export routes (including potential Trans-Caspian pipelines),Kazakhstan's efforts to diversify its economy, [...]	2007-02-22 08:13:00	Embassy Astana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG EPET KZ PGOV PREL
07ATHENS1531	99TH U.S.-GREEK JOINT COMMISSION: MEETING SUMMARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On July 23, the 99th meeting of the U.S.-Greek Joint Commission dealing with bilateral political-military issues, particularly the relationship between Souda Bay Naval Support Activity (NSA) and the Government of Greece, was held at Souda Bay NSA on the island of Cre [...]	2007-07-31 13:27:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL GR
07ATHENS2026	CYPRUS ARMS: GREEK COMPLIANCE WITH AGREEMENT -- [...] (U) This message contains an action request -- see para 4. ---------------------- SUMMARY/ACTION REQUEST ---------------------- 2. (C) An interagency team visited Cyprus October 2 - 4 to review initial steps taken by Greece to comply with U.S. law regarding the transfer of U.S.-origi [...]	2007-10-11 08:57:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL MASS NATO GR CY
07ATHENS2280	GREEK MEDIA WELCOME PAROLED SPY STEVEN LALAS AS HERO [...] (U) Summary and Comment: A major news story over the weekend of November 24-25 in Greece, the return of former Foreign Service communicator and convicted spy Steven Lalas on Sunday afternoon was covered live on Greek television, and featured prominently in the evening's prime-time broadcasts. [...]	2007-11-28 10:41:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PREL ASEC KPAO GR
07ATHENS496	98TH U.S.-GREECE JOINT COMMISSION: MEETING SUMMARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The 98th session of the U.S.-Greek Joint Commission dealing with bilateral political-military issues, particularly relations between the U.S. Souda Naval Support Activity (NSA) in Crete and the Government of Greece (GoG),was held in Athens on February 28 and made p [...]	2007-03-08 14:56:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL GR
07ATHENS625	SEA CHANGE AT SOUDA BAY: NEW LOCAL POLITICIANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a March 22 visit to Crete to attend the retirement ceremony for departing Captain Sale, Ambassador met local mayors and the new nomarch (governor) of Chania. The positive reception Ambassador received was markedly different from his very frosty meetings with the old left [...]	2007-03-27 08:18:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL GR
07ATHENS630	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. CFE TEAM [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of Karin Look, Jennifer Laurendeau and LTC Steve Olejasz, to travel to Athens, Greece, March 28- 30, 2007 to consult with GOG officials on CFE entitlement exchanges. Embassy point of contact is Dr. Paul Carter, who can be reac [...]	2007-03-27 13:17:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED	GR NATO
07BAGHDAD1149	: PRT TIKRIT: DEPUTY GOVERNOR ABDULLAH AJBARAH -- [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Politically savvy, tribally connected, well-educated, and a former General, Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein Mohammed Ajbarah al Jabouri is Salah ad Din's powerbroker. He is pro-USG and Coalition Forces (CF),but does not have [...]	2007-04-03 15:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR ECON KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD1362	PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORTIVE OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The Salah ad Din provincial leadership, including the former Baathist Deputy Governor, has stated its support for the draft debaathification reform law, as agreed upon by President Talabani and Prime Minister al Maliki (reftel). [...]	2007-04-21 17:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM IZ
07BAGHDAD1426	PRT TIKRIT: SALAH AD DIN DESPERATE FOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Salah ad Din (SaD) is desperate for reconciliation, especially debaathification reform and reintegration of the former Iraqi Army (IA). In the new PRT Team Leader's round of introductory calls on the Governor, Deputy Governor, [...]	2007-04-26 12:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD1437	PRT TIKRIT: TRIBES SUBORDINATE TO PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In Salah ad Din (SaD),the provincial government is clearly the leader in policy and security, and the tribal sheikhs follow the government's lead. Representative of this relationship, ranking tribal authority and Sheikhs' Counc [...]	2007-04-28 16:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD1507	PRT TIRKRIT: SALAD AD DIN HAS NO CONFIDENCE IN PM [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In recent meetings with Salah ad Din (SaD) provincial government leaders, politicians, tribal sheikhs, and local imams, all say that meaningful reconciliation is not possible under the al Maliki administration. With their ident [...]	2007-05-06 14:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD1544	PRT TIKRIT: INCREASED ATTACKS IN SALAH AD DIN WITH [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. It has been cleared by the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division (3/82) Brigade Combat Team (BCT),which is the Coalition Forces (CF) task force with responsibility for the province of Salah ad Din (SaD). 2. (S) Since the early February sta [...]	2007-05-10 08:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET	PGOV MCAP PINR PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD1571	PRT TIKRIT: SAMARRA'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. It has been cleared by the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division (3/82) Brigade Combat Team (BCT),which is the Coalition Forces (CF) task force with responsibility for the province of Salah ad Din (SaD). 2. (C) SUMMARY. Amidst a deteriora [...]	2007-05-13 17:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PTER KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD1632	PRT TIKRIT: DEPUTY GOVERNOR CALLS FOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din (SaD) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Salah ad Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah H. M. Ajabarah al Jabouri called for the GOI to commit to a "reconciliation timeline" in a May 16 meeting with MNC-I CG LTG Odierno and MNF-I Deputy CG LTG Lamb. Saying "the GOI [...]	2007-05-20 08:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR IZ
07BAGHDAD1754	PRT TIKRIT: TRIBAL SHEIKHS DISCUSS RECONCILIATION; [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C //REL TO USA, ACGU) SUMMARY. At a May 23 Salah ad Din (SaD) Sheikhs' Council meeting, the thirty plus assembled tribal sheikhs discussed the lack of tangible progress on national reconciliation, recommended a national conference for triba [...]	2007-05-27 13:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD2155	PRT TIKRIT: TRIBES FORM SALAH AD DIN SUPPORT [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C//REL TO USA, ACGU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. In its June 13 meeting, the Salah ad Din (SaD) Sheikhs' Council established the Salah ad Din Support Council to act as a liaison between the tribes and the provincial government on local security is [...]	2007-06-30 12:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR MCAP PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD2156	PRT TIKRIT: SUNNI SAMARRA SECURITY CZAR REPLACED [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) In the wake of the June 13 bombing of the Golden Dome Mosque (AKA Ali al Hadi Shrine, al Askariya Shrine),Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki fired Samarra security czar General Adnan Thabit, a Sunni native of the Sunni city of Samarra, at a [...]	2007-06-30 12:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PTER IZ
07BAGHDAD2241	PRT TIKRIT: BEHIND THE SCENES OF BUDGET EXECUTION [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. While much work still remains in building transparency and accountability in Salah ad Din's (SaD) budget execution procedures, the provincial government has made significant advances in 2007. The provincial government is slowly [...]	2007-07-06 10:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV ECON KCOR PINR IZ
07BAGHDAD2345	PRT TIKRIT: PC BEGINS BUDGET OVERSIGHT, WORKS ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. After noting the Salah ad Din (SaD) Provincial Council's (PC) shortcomings and questionable legitimacy in the province in a July 2 meeting, Acting PC Chair Nabeel Ismael has reinvigorated the PC. In the PC's first real demonst [...]	2007-07-15 12:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR KDEM IZ
07BAGHDAD2453	CODEL BURGESS MEETING WITH MINISTER OF OIL HUSAYN [...] (C). SUMMARY. On July 22, Congressmen Michael Burgess (R-TX),Steve King (R-IA),Jim Jordan (R-OH),John Carter (R-TX),Kevin Brady (R-TX),and David Davis (R-TN) met with Minister of Oil Husayn al-Shahristani to discuss issues related to the state of Iraq,s petroleum infrastructure, plans [...]	2007-07-25 05:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG IZ PREL
07BAGHDAD2499	PRT TIKRIT: CORRUPTED FUEL DISTRIBUTION PROCESS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. A corrupted refined fuel distribution process in Salah ad Din (SaD) guarantees severe shortages across a large swathe of the southern area of the province, including strategic cities such as Samarra, Balad, and Ad Du [...]	2007-07-29 07:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG EPET IZ KCOR
07BAGHDAD2752	PRT TIKRIT: CHAIRMAN OF OIL MINISTRY IRAQ-CHINA [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. During an August 6 meeting in Bayji, Abdel Khader Sabah, the chairman of the Iraq-China Committee for the Ministry of Oil (MoO),claimed that the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) is reneging on agreements made in earlier [...]	2007-08-19 05:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENGR EPET KCOR EIND IZ CH
07BAGHDAD3124	PRT TIKRIT: MAJOR CRIMES COURT OPEN FOR BUSINESS [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (U) Summary. On September 9, the Salah ad Din Province Major Crimes Court (MCC) was opened pursuant to an order signed by the Chief Justice of Iraq. The key question is whether local judges will effectively carry out their duties or if inti [...]	2007-09-17 10:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRS KJUS IZ
07BAGHDAD3158	PRT TIKRIT: NOTES FROM VILLAGE OF TUZ [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In a recent visit to ethnically-mixed Tuz, PRTOFF found a community increasingly distant both psychologically and politically from the Provincial Government in Salah ad Din. END SUMMARY. Where are the PC Members? ----------- [...]	2007-09-20 05:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD3598	PRT TIKRIT: SALAH AD DIN APPROVES 2008 PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY. With an enthusiasm and pride not normally seen at its meetings, the Salah ad din Provincial Council (PC) approved its 2008 budget and toasted this achievement as a group after its meeting. END SUMMARY. ------------------------ [...]	2007-10-30 07:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV KCRS IZ
07BAGHDAD3671	PRT TIKRIT: PROVINCIAL BUDGET EXECUTION - SLOGGING [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Uneven management skill among provincial and local Directors General (DGs),lack of qualified contractors, and a complex bureaucracy are among the key factors inhibiting the province from spending its capital budget allocations [...]	2007-11-06 03:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD3881	BARHAM SALIH ON CORRUPTION, IRAQI UNITY [...] (C) Senators Inouye and Stevens met on 26 November with Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih to discuss GOI corruption and the future of the U.S. presence in Iraq. Salih acknowledged serious institutionalized corruption, but said the GOI was working to establish effective oversight mechanisms [...]	2007-11-29 09:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GPGOV PINS PINR IZ
07BAGHDAD4070	PRT SALAH AD DIN: GOI AND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT [...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Salah ad Din Provincial government officials tell PRTOffs that on every issue that is important to them - from provincial powers, to De-Baathification and institutionalizing arrangements made on the tribal se [...]	2007-12-15 13:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
07BAGHDAD741	CODEL DICKS PRESSES IRAQI LEADERS ON SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 23 Minister of Defense Abdul Qader Mohammad al-Ubaydi met CODEL Dicks, which expressed the importance of quickly improving Iraq's security situation. Minister Abdul Qader agreed, asserting that the revised Baghdad Security Plan has already succeeded in significantly re [...]	2007-02-28 15:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINS PNAT MOPS DA IZ
07BAKU1006	PRESIDENT ALIYEV SAYS USG, AZERBAIJAN ALIGNED ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 2 meeting with DAS Bryza, President Aliyev said that USG and GOAJ energy policies were "perfectly aligned." Azerbaijan had just that day signed an Energy MOU with Greece. The GOAJ was increasing gas production, and ready to negotiate with British Petroleum (BP) ab [...]	2007-08-10 12:21:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ETRN TX AJ RS
07BAKU1007	PRESIDENT ALIYEV SAYS USG, AZERBAIJAN ALIGNED ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 2 meeting with DS Bryza, President Aliyev said that USG and GOAJenergy policies were "perfectly aligned." Azerbajan had just that day signed an Energy MOU with reece. The GOAJ was increasing gas production, nd ready to negotiate with British Petroleum (BP) about p [...]	2007-08-10 12:21:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ETRN TX AJ RS
07BAKU1396	AZERBAIJAN: SOCAR DOES "RECON MISSION" TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Vice President Elshad Nasirov traveled to Ashgabat for the November 14-15 Turkmenistan International Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference, meeting with his GOTX counterparts on possible new energy cooperation. Having consulted with President Aliye [...]	2007-11-21 09:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG TX AJ
07BAKU1490	SCA PDAS MANN AND FM MAMMADYAROV DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting with the Ambassador and PDAS Steven Mann, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Mammadyarov was downbeat on prospects for Turkmenistan moving quickly to send Turkmen gas to Azerbaijan or to resolve the Caspian delimitation issue. Mammadyarov said he was encourag [...]	2007-12-17 04:33:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG TX AJ PHUM
07BAKU173	AZERBAIJAN: SOCAR SAYS USG MUST HELP WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 25 meeting with the Ambassador, SOCAR President Rovnaq Abdullayev defended the recent rise in energy prices, saying that energy could not be sold below cost and that prices had to be normalized. The GOAJ was keeping the public in the dark about the "huge expense" of [...]	2007-02-07 12:35:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG AJ TU GA PREL PGOV
07BAKU235	PRESIDENT ALIYEV MEETS US EPC DELEGATION, WELCOMES [...] (C) Summary: During a February 6 meeting with members of the US Economic Partnership Commission (EPC) delegation, President Aliyev said that he welcomes the new EPC structure because it presents a new opportunity to address a broad range of economic and commercial issues. Aliyev underscored [...]	2007-02-22 14:13:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EAID PREL PGOV AJ
07BAKU26	AZERBAIJAN: CONOCO-PHILLIPS TERMINATES UMID BABEK [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-05 13:15:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG AJ PGOV PREL
07BAKU98	AZERBAJAIN'S FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES ECONOMIC [...] (C) This contains an action request; see paras 17 and 18. 2. (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Mammadyarov underscored to the Ambassador on January 18 GOAJ interest in a formal memorandum launching the February 7 Economic Partnership Commission (EPC),echoing Finance Minister Sharifov's reque [...]	2007-01-22 11:37:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD ENRG EPET AJ
07BANGKOK1652	RTG RESPONSE TO BUILDING SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY IN [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Tomwit Jarnson, Director of the Africa Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He expressed RTG concerns with the ongoing situation in Zimbabwe, but said no official statement had been issued at this point. Jarnson said he would discuss possible support [...]	2007-03-20 09:37:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ZI TH
07BANGKOK2854	A/S HILL'S MEETING WITH MOD PERMANENT SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary. In a May 22 meeting with Thai Ministry of Defense Permanent Secretary GEN Winai Phattiyakul, A/S Hill urged the Royal Thai Government to fulfill its commitment to hold elections by year's end and return to parliamentary democracy. Winai, who is also Secretary General of the ru [...]	2007-05-23 04:05:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR TH
07BANGKOK3380	THAIS UNENTHUSIASTIC ON ZIMBABWE TRAVEL [...] (C) On June 18 Poloff and representatives from the Australian, UK, Canadian, and New Zealand Embassies delivered reftel demarche to the Thai MFA and urged the RTG to implement travel restrictions against some Zimbabwean officials. At a meeting attended by Ministry of Foreign Affairs South Asi [...]	2007-06-18 09:40:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI TH
07BEIJING2178	XIAN AIRCRAFT CORPORATION VISITED BY EMBASSY [...] (S) Embassy Export Control Officer (ECO) visited Xian Aircraft Industry (Group) Ltd., a/k/a Xian Aircraft Corporation (XAC) on November 24, 2006, at the invitation of the Boeing Corporation (STRICTLY PROTECT) and under the direction of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). The purpose of [...]	2007-04-03 06:35:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	BEXP CH ETRD ETTC PREL
07BEIJING4871	XINJIANG: AMCIT REPORTS HAJJ RESTRICTIONS, [...] (C) Chinese authorities have increased restrictions on Xinjiang's Uighur population by collecting Uighurs' passports to prevent unauthorized Hajj travel, according to an American citizen businessman in Xinjiang and other Embassy contacts. A low-ranking PLA officer reportedly told the businessma [...]	2007-07-25 23:25:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIF KISL SOCI CASC CH PK SA
07BEIJING523	A/S HILL MEETS WITH HE YAFEI, RAISES BILATERAL, [...] (C) Relations between the United States and China advanced significantly in 2006 and both sides should work together to take advantage of more challenges and opportunities in 2007, Assistant Foreign Minister (AFM) He Yafei told EAP Assistant Secretary (A/S) Christopher Hill January 21. On th [...]	2007-01-24 08:28:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EAGR CH BM HA IR KS KN
07BEIJING5387	EAP A/S HILL'S AUGUST 14 MEETING WITH AFM HE [...] (C) EAP Assistant Secretary Hill raised U.S. concerns on Iran and Darfur with Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei on August 14. AFM He stated that although our approaches often differ, China wants to cooperate with the United States on both issues. AFM He conveyed China's concern ove [...]	2007-08-16 03:03:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MARR ETRD CH IR SU TW
07BEIJING7192	CHINA/IPR: AMBASSADOR'S SIXTH IPR ROUNDTABLE [...] (SBU) On October 23-24, the China Mission held Ambassador Clark T. Randt, Jr.'s Sixth Annual Roundtable Discussion on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in China, with the theme "IPR Protection on the Ground - What the United States Embassy is Doing to Support Rights Holders in China, and What [...]	2007-11-21 06:42:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON WTRO PGOV CH
07BEIJING792	CHINA/IPR: AMBASSADOR'S SIXTH IPR ROUNDTABLE [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-21 06:42:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON WTRO PGOV CH
07BEIRUT1456	LEBANON: PHALANGE LEADER SAYS MARCH 14 WILL FIGHT [...] (C) In a September 20 condolence call on Phalange party leader Amine Gemayel following the September 19 assassination of March 14 Phalange MP Antoine Ghanem, the former President said March 14 will continue to fight back politically, despite the "apocalypse of Sin el-Fil". Gemayel stressed the [...]	2007-09-21 14:04:00	Embassy Beirut	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE

07BEIRUT1546	LEBANON: TELECOM SECTOR -- AS CONFUSING AS EVER [...] (C) Both Telecom Minister Hamadeh and Transportation Regulatory Authority (TRA) Chairman Shehadi are optimistic about the launch of the mobile telecom sale, but Shehadi appears to be struggling to get the TRA up and running. In earlier meetings with USG officials, Hamadeh appeared to support [...]	2007-10-04 08:15:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	ENIV PGOV PREL PTER LE
07BELGRADE1079	SERBIA UNDECIDED ON CARR CANDIDACY [...] (U) On July 31, 2007, poloff met with representatives of the Serbian MFA to request Serbian support for the candidacy of Steve Carr to the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, per reftel request. Serbia is unable to give an answer at this time, but wi [...]	2007-07-31 11:07:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EUN PREF PREL PRM PHUM ICRC
07BELGRADE111	K+1: ROLLING OUT THE SERBIAN BENEFITS PACKAGE [...] (C) As we approach the endgame in the Kosovo status process, this Mission is preparing to activate the third phase of our K 1 strategy, the rollout of the Serbian benefits package, to demonstrate the continued U.S. commitment to Serbia's future beyond Kosovo. This rollout would involve the in [...]	2007-01-24 16:35:00	Embassy Belgrade	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL SR
07BERLIN317	BUNDESTAG INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE SEEKS USG [...] (U) On February 9, 2007 Ambassador Timken received a letter from the chairman of the Bundestag committee investigating the detention in Guantanamo of the German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz. In the letter, Chairman Siegfried Kauder asks whether the USG would be willing to allow an Amer [...]	2007-02-15 15:36:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	GM KJUS KLIG PGOV PINS PREL
07BERLIN524	MURAT KURNAZ: ANOTHER BUNDESTAG REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) On March 2, 2007 Ambassador Timken received another letter from the chairman of the Bundestag's Committee of Inquiry looking into allegations of renditions, the activities of the German intelligence services related to the war in Iraq, and the detention in Guantanamo of the German-born T [...]	2007-03-15 11:14:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS KLIG PREL GM
07BERLIN563	GERMAN VIEWS ON ZIMBABWE: AT ODDS WITH SOME EU [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on March 20 to Dr. Rolf Krause, Head of Division for Pan-African and Southern African Affairs at the German MFA. Krause agreed that the situation in Zimbabwe is very concerning and deserves close attention by the international community. Krause said that [...]	2007-03-20 17:18:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ZI GM
07BERLIN806	REPORT OF SECOND G-8 LYON-ROMA MEETING OF GERMAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The second meeting of the G-8 Lyon-Roma Anti-Crime and Terrorism Group (LR/ACT) under the German Presidency was held in Berlin from April 16-19, 2007. The U.S. delegation was co-chaired by INL DAS Elizabeth Verville and S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer and included repr [...]	2007-04-20 10:27:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KJUS OTRA PTER SNAR UNGA GM AF
07BISHKEK1328	Kyrgyz Consular Update: US Contractors, Kazakhstan and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: On October 10, Kyrgyz MFA Consular Affairs Director Beshymbiev told Con Chief there is legislation pending before the Kyrgyz and Kazakh parliaments that would allow bearers of valid Kyrgyz visas to enter Kazakhstan without obtaining a Kazakh visa. Beshymbiev a [...]	2007-10-29 11:25:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC KG KZ CVIS PGOV PREL
07BOGOTA1232	A/S SHANNON MEETS WITH DEFENSE MINISTER SANTOS ON [...] (C) Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told WHA A/S Thomas Shannon and INL A/S Anne Patterson the U.S. and Colombia should develop a coordinated message on Plan Colombia's successes, a message he would take with him to Washington when he met with Secretary of Defense Gates. Santos urged the U [...]	2007-02-21 23:31:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR CO
07BOGOTA670	WHA A/S SHANNON AND FM ARAUJO DISCUSS PLAN [...] (C) In a one-hour meeting with Foreign Minister Maria Consuelo Araujo on January 29, WHA A/S Thomas Shannon welcomed the GOC's Plan Colombia consolidation proposal. Araujo said the proposal assigns new resources to human rights, social development, displaced people, and Afro-Colombian and ind [...]	2007-01-31 12:58:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SNAR EC CO
07BOGOTA8651	COUNSELOR COHEN'S DECEMBER 20 MEETING WITH [...] (C) President Uribe told Counselor Eliot Cohen on December 20 of his growing concern over Venezuelan President Chavez and suggested that the USG and GOC hold "strategic consultations" on Venezuela. Uribe said the GOC's immediate priorities remain U.S. congressional approval of the Colombia T [...]	2007-12-21 22:25:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PTER ECON CO VZ
07BRASILIA1535	BRAZIL: GOVERNMENT REQUESTS REVIVAL OF FRAMEWORK SPACE [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) THIS CABLE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 7 BELOW. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) contacted Post to express interest in reviving the bilateral "f [...]	2007-08-10 12:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA KTIA TPHY TRGY TSPL BR
07BRASILIA1743	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR NSF OFFICIAL NOTMAN [...] Mission welcomes and grants country clearance for Evan Notman, Assistant Program Officer in the Division of International Science Engineer (OISE),to Sao Paulo(SP),Manaus (AM),and Brasilia(DF),Brazil, from September 17 to September 26, 2007, to participate in the discussion of cooperative pr [...]	2007-09-13 16:30:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TPHY NSF OTRA BR
07BRASILIA2084	BRAZIL: TRAINING BY USG EXPERTS BRINGS TO LIFE PROMISE OF [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Seminars put on in mid-October by U.S. water resource management experts have served to implement recommendations developed by the bilateral water technical working group created under the C [...]	2007-11-01 19:39:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KSCA BR
07BRASILIA2131	BRAZIL: COMMANDER OF U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. During his visit to Brazil October 1-5, LTG Robert Van Antwerp, Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE),and his delegation met on October 3 with civilian Brazilian counterpart [...]	2007-11-10 18:01:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KSCA ECON EINV BR
07BRATISLAVA561	SOLVING TRANSPETROL WITHOUT THE RUSSIANS [...] (C) Summary - The August 15 sale of Yukos Finance to an American investment group, Monte Valle, has reduced Russia's role in the future of the Transpetrol oil pipeline, leaving the Slovak government without its preferred partner. Economy Minister Jahnatek remains confident that any future buye [...]	2007-10-10 13:41:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RU
07BRATISLAVA7	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (SBU) Terrorist Finance Coordinating Officer is: Lawrence Silverman Deputy Chief of Mission Ph: 421-2-5922-3323 E-mail: silvermanlr@state.gov Deputy Terrorist Finance Coordinating Officer is: James Potts Economic Officer Ph: 421-2-592-3278 E-mail: pottsjh@state.gov 2. (SBU) Regar [...]	2007-01-04 14:12:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN EFIN PTER LO
07BRIDGETOWN1372	DOMINICAN CABINET RESHUFFLE TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit reshuffled his cabinet October 16, taking the Foreign Minister portfolio himself and shifting previous Foreign Minister Charles Savarin to Public Utilities and Energy. According to one official, this will separate Housing from Public Util [...]	2007-10-30 18:18:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ENGR EPET XL DO
07BRIDGETOWN347	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DEMOCRACY IN ZIMBABWE [...] Per reftel instructions, demarche was delivered by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua #0233, Barbados #0234, Dominica #0235, St. Kitts #0236, St. Lucia #0237, St. Vincent #0238, and Grenada #0239) on March 19, 2007. The original Diplomatic Notes were also mailed on this date. 2. [...]	2007-03-20 19:55:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KISL KPAL KWBG XL
07BRIDGETOWN435	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KUNZE, SCHMID, [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Steven P. Kunze, Claudia Schmid, Claude F. Lumpkin, Derrick P. Snowden, and Daniel E. Wolfe, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to travel to Barbados from April 22-May 31, 2007. The purpose of the trip is to participate in th [...]	2007-04-13 15:06:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TPHY SENV KSCA BB
07BRIDGETOWN606	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO RODRIGUEZ PLUS FIFTEEN FOR [...] Embassy Bridgetown grants country clearance to the following USSOUTHCOM J5 personnel for travel, Antigua and Barbuda on the below-mentioned dates. The purpose of this mission is to attend the Caribbean Nations Security Conference (CANSEC) 2007. Major Heidi Rodriguez, USA, 16 May - 25 May, 20 [...]	2007-05-15 21:26:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC OTRA AC XL
07BRIDGETOWN717	DEMARCHE ON THE GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to six countries in the Eastern Caribbean. Officials of all six countries expressed concern about the growing ties between Venezuela and Iran, but as is typical for the Eastern Caribbean, they refused to commit to speaking out or taking action in international [...]	2007-06-06 13:15:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE IR XL
07BRIDGETOWN801	2007 EXPROPRIATION REPORT: ST. KITTS AND NEVIS [...] (SBU) The United States Government is aware of one (1) outstanding and eight (8) new claims of United States persons against the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (GOSKN). End Summary. Claimant Designation -------------------- 2. (U) Claimant A Date of Expropriation ---------------- [...]	2007-06-18 21:00:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV
07BRIDGETOWN912	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STEVEN HORTON AND GUY HARRIS [...] EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN WARMLY WELCOMES AND GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO JIATF PERSONNEL FROM JULY 23-24, 2007. THE PURPOSE OF THIS VISIT IS TO PROVIDE TECHINICAL SUPPORT FOR A LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION. 2. EMBASSY POINT OF CONTACT IS DEA SPECIAL AGENT RONALD O. MORRISON TELEPHONE NUMBER 246-22 [...]	2007-07-17 21:34:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC OTRA GJ XL
07BRIDGETOWN993	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CIOMPERLIK, ROBINSON, [...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Matthew Ciomperlik, David Robinson, and Timothy Stevens from September 16-29, 2007, for the purpose of conducting collaborative research on molluscicides to control Giant African Snail in nurseries with the Barbados Ministry of Agriculture a [...]	2007-08-09 19:47:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA BB
07BRUSSELS1048	ASKING BELGIUM TO TAKE GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (C/NF) CDA IMBRIE DISCUSSED REF REQUEST FOR BELGIUM TO ACCEPT NON-BELGIAN DETAINEES AND TO ENCOURAGE OTHER COUNTRIES TO ACCEPT THEM WITH FM KAREL DE GUCHT ON 3/28/2007. HE OFFERED A FULLER BRIEFING (TO BE DRAWN FROM REFTELS AND DETAINEE INFORMATION FROM THE DEPARTMENT) AS DESIRED. 2. (C/NF [...]	2007-03-28 11:50:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER PINR KAWC BE
07BRUSSELS1164	REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT OF TWO ADDITIONAL [...] (C/NF) CHARGE DISCUSSED ISSUE OF BELGIUM ACCEPTING GUANTANAMO DETAINEES WITH MFA DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF WALTER STEVENS ON 4/3/2007. 2. (C/NF) STEVENS ADVISED THAT THE INTERMINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY (MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, JUSTICE, INTERIOR, AND DEFENSE) DI [...]	2007-04-05 09:25:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER KAWC BE
07BRUSSELS1198	PROGRESS IN DISCUSSIONS WITH EU ON LEGAL ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with Legal Advisers from the 27 EU countries on March 21, State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger and the EU presidency chair, German Foreign Ministry Legal Adviser Georg Witschel, developed increasing consensus around two fundamental U.S. legal positions t [...]	2007-04-10 10:57:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EUN
07BRUSSELS142	CODEL WEXLER MEETING WITH FM DE GUCHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ON JANUARY 16, CONGRESSMAN ROBERT WEXLER IN HIS ROLE AS INCOMING HFRC EUROPEAN SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR MET WITH BELGIAN FM KAREL DE GUCHT. WEXLER AND DE GUCHT DISCUSSED HOW CLOSE THE U.S. AND EU ARE ON MOST FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES. DE GUCHT ENCOURAGED THE U.S. TO ENGAGE ON THE MIDDLE [...]	2007-01-17 14:18:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL BE
07BRUSSELS1871	AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETINGS WITH PM VERHOFSTADT [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN AN HOUR-LONG MEETING, AMBASSADOR REVIEWED WITH PM VERHOFSTADT KEY ISSUES IN THE U.S.-BELGIAN RELATIONSHIP INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT'S CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE, TROOPS FOR AFGHANISTAN, AND RECONSTRUCTION AID AND DEBT RELIEF FOR IRAQ. PM REVIEWED PROSPECTS FOR THE FEDERAL ELECTIO [...]	2007-06-07 11:39:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MILI CG BE
07BRUSSELS3138	BELGIANS SUPPORT AUTONOMOUS SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN [...] (C) The Belgian government fully supports the idea of imposing autonomous EU sanctions on Iran, according to Walter Stevens, FM De Gucht's Chief of Staff. Charge relayed relevant points of reftel demarche to Stevens during a conversation on October 12, 2007. Although pressed specifically abo [...]	2007-10-12 15:58:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV
07BRUSSELS318	DEPSEC KIMMITT VISIT: MEETING WITH HIGH REP SOLANA [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-30 15:41:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON EAID EFIN EUN ETRD PARM IR IZ NK
07BRUSSELS772	LEGAL ADVISER BELLINGER'S MEETING WITH BELGIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Legal Adviser John Bellinger met with representatives of Belgium's Ministry of Justice and Foreign Ministry to discuss legal issues arising from the global fight against terrorism and ways to further transatlantic cooperation and partnership against terrorism. Bellinger reiterat [...]	2007-03-08 11:30:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER BE
07BRUSSELS810	DISCUSISONS WITH THE EU AND NATO ON LEGAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. John Bellinger, Legal Adviser at the State Department, and Joshua Dorosin, Assistant Legal Adviser for Political and Military Affairs, met February 27 with their counterparts from the 27 EU Member States and representatives from the Council and Commission Secretariat. The major [...]	2007-03-12 06:17:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EUN
07BRUSSELS917	EU VIEWS SADC AS BEST VEHICLE TO PRESSURE ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 16:52:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHCR ZI EUN BE
07BRUSSELS995	BELGIUM: DEMARCHE TO SUPPORT UN KOSOVO PROPOSALS [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-26 14:36:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU BE
07BUENOSAIRES1369	APACHE ENERGY EXPANDS ARGENTINE HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION AND [...] (SBU) Apache Energy is expanding exploration and development activities in Argentina's southern most Tierra del Fuego province, with $100 million invested in new production in 2006 and an additional $150 million budgeted in 2007. This expansion comes despite shrinking profit margins caused by [...]	2007-07-18 13:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EPET ENRG ECON AR
07BUENOSAIRES1445	ARGENTINA: DOHA NAMA TEXT UNACCEPTABLE AS BASIS FOR [...] (SBU) The GoA views the current Doha Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) Modalities text presented by NAMA Committee Chair Stevenson wholly "unacceptable as a basis for negotiations" according to senior Argentine trade officials. They argue it fails to reflect the views of the NAMA 11, a dev [...]	2007-07-26 14:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES1632	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: ICRC STANDING COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-21 16:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC AR
07BUENOSAIRES224	MEDIA REACTION; UPCOMING TRIP OF U/S NICHOLAS BURNS TO [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Major newspapers report on US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and US Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon's upcoming trip to Buenos Aires. Other international leading stories include the report from London-based International Institute for Strategic Studie [...]	2007-02-06 09:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
07BUENOSAIRES2291	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SAIEGH CASE WITH [...] (C) Summary. On November 29, the Ambassador met with Secretary for Human Rights Eduardo Luis Duhalde to raise the SIPDIS case of Argentine citizen Eduardo Saeigh, a Jewish Argentine citizen who in 1980 was kidnapped, tortured and dispossessed of a bank he owned during Argentina's 1976-83 [...]	2007-12-04 19:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM AR
07BUENOSAIRES2313	Argentina Imposes New Mining Export Tax [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The GOA has imposed a comprehensive 5-10% tax on mineral exports as one of a number of recent measures designed to boost Argentina's primary fiscal surplus. The measure represents a significant departure from Argentina's 1993-era mining law, which includes provisions for royalt [...]	2007-12-10 12:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PGOV ENRG AR
07BUENOSAIRES430	MEDIA REACTION; BUSH SPEECH, CHAVEZ IN ARGENTINA, 03/06/07; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's stories focus on the mostly negative repercussions of President Bush's speech at the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce yesterday, three days before leaving on his Latam tour. 2. OPINION PIECES - "Bush's Concern, Too Late" Hugo Alconada Mon, daily-of-record "La [...]	2007-03-07 10:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
07CAIRO3562	MUBARAK SPEAKS OUT AGAINST SYRIA IN LEBANON [...] (C) Egyptian FM Aboul Gheit emphasized to Ambassador and a visiting Congressional delegation led by Senator Voinovich December 31 that Egypt was taking a firm public stance supporting election of a Lebanese president. Aboul Gheit cited Mubarak's December 30 joint press conference with French [...]	2007-12-31 16:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY LE EG
07CHENNAI50	PDAS Mann in Chennai: Visas, Refugees and Politics [...] (SBU) Summary: During his December 16-17 visit to Chennai, SCA bureau Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann met with visa staff and viewed visa processing, had talks with Sri Lankan refugee leaders and discussed politics and Indo-U.S. relations with journalist-insider Malini Parthasa [...]	2007-01-19 10:28:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM CMGT IN CE
07CHENNAI518	CODEL ENSIGN EXPERIENCES SOUTH INDIA'S HIGH-TECH SECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senator John Ensign (R-NV) made his first visit to Bangalore August 5-8 to see South India's info-tech boomtown firsthand. He met with top executives from several companies, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),Infosys, General Electric (GE),Brickwork, Texas Instruments [...]	2007-08-22 06:58:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP ECON EINV PGOV PREL SCUL CVIS IN
07CHIANGMAI188	FREE BURMA RANGERS: PROVIDING HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; NOT [...] (C) The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) provide humanitarian assistance and do not funnel weapons to armed groups that oppose the Burmese regime, FBR contacts told us in separate meetings on November 6 and 7. FBR's main mission is to provide assistance to civilians in conflict areas, they emphasized [...]	2007-11-26 09:22:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM MOPS BM TH
07COLOMBO1067	SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON AMERICAN RED CROSS [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-01 10:14:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC CE
07COLOMBO1225	HUMAN RIGHTS IN SRI LANKA: SOME IMPROVEMENT BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The period April-June 2007 showed a decline relative to the beginning of the year in Colombo and some other parts of Sri Lanka in certain categories of human rights abuses, such as abductions. However, the overall level of human rights violations compared to 2002-2005 remains e [...]	2007-09-06 11:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
07COLOMBO1266	SRI LANKA: RESPONSE ON PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador, Embassy staff, and Washington-based officials have made a consistent, intensive effort over the past year to engage the Sri Lankan government on improving its human rights record, and to support and defend human rights advocates in the country. Sri Lanka has recen [...]	2007-09-13 03:56:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
07COLOMBO1284	BUILDING A SOUTH ASIA COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Chiefs of Mission and other Embassy representatives from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan met under the auspices of the Regional Security Initiative (RSI) in Colombo on September 7 to discuss regional counterterrorism strategy with the Coordinator for Counterte [...]	2007-09-17 11:13:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS CE
07COLOMBO411	SRI LANKA: PDAS MANN'S MEETING WITH FINANCE SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary: SCA PDAS Steven Mann raised the Millennium Challenge Account, the payment dispute between Sri Lanka and U.S. power producer AES, and prospects for offshore oil exploration with Finance Secretary P.B. Jayasundera March 8. Jayasundera remains optimistic about the health of the Sri [...]	2007-03-14 03:14:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EINV ETRD PREL CE
07COLOMBO413	SRI LANKA: PDAS MANN PRESSES PRESIDENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Rajapaksa told visiting PDAS for South and Central Asia Steven Mann that the Sri Lankan Freedom Party would present its proposals for devolution by March 14. He outlined a multi-tiered process for reconciling this with proposals of other parties, submitting the proposal [...]	2007-03-14 03:57:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
07COLOMBO416	SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY OUTLINES SIX-MONTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa told visiting SCA PDAS Steven Mann that the government was certain that the LTTE was not interested in a political solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. Nevertheless, he said, the government would try to reach out to the Tamil populations, [...]	2007-03-14 05:42:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE
07COLOMBO511	SRI LANKA: FOREIGN MINISTER PROMISES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Bogollagama called in Ambassador on March 29 to request Embassy cooperation in overcoming human rights-based concerns about Sri Lanka's eligibility for a Millennium Challenge Compact. Ambassador explained that MCC eligibility is based on a country's governance r [...]	2007-03-30 05:25:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PHUM PGOV PTER MOPS CE
07COLOMBO728	SRI LANKA: GSL COMPLICITY IN PARAMILITARY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Allegations of government complicity in crimes committed by organized paramilitary groups have mounted in the last year. Paramilitaries such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)-breakaway Karuna group and Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) have helped the Government of Sr [...]	2007-05-18 09:22:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
07COTONOU136	BENIN: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Per reftel, below is the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Benin. 2. Investment Climate Statement A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment Beninese law guarantees the right to own and transfer private property. The government of Benin officially favors and encourages foreign investment. [...]	2007-02-20 12:59:00	Embassy Cotonou	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON ETRD EFIN ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR PGOV BN
07COTONOU657	PORT OF COTONOU: UPDATE ON DEMARCHE CONCERNING ISPS CODE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Based on an August 21, 2007 inspection of the Port of Cotonou, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Commander Adam Shaw and Lt. Commander Robert Keith, presented to the Government of Benin (GOB) on August 22 a USCG Headquarters cleared-document stating their recommendation for a USCG determin [...]	2007-08-24 07:46:00	Embassy Cotonou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EINV ETRD EWWT PGOV KHLS PTER PINR BN
07DAKAR1572	DEMARCHE TO SUPPORT STEVE CARR FOR THE STANDING [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-27 13:24:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF OVIP PHUM ICRC SG
07DAKAR777	TSCTP/RSI CONFERENCE: LESS COUNTERTERRORISM, MORE [...] (S) SUMMARY: To succeed in the medium- and long-term against terrorism in the Trans-Sahara region, the USG must help countries address fundamental social, economic, and political problems that undermine their stability, concluded Ambassadors at the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership ( [...]	2007-04-10 11:51:00	Embassy Dakar	SECRET	PTER EAID MASS PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI SG
07DAMASCUS409	ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT MEETING: SPIELBERG DESIGNATED [...] (U) Summary. The semi-annual meeting of the Arab League Boycott group was held April 23-26 in Damascus. Participation and results followed expectations and closely paralleled last November,s gathering (reftel). No companies were dropped; the one announced addition to the blacklist of entities is fi [...]	2007-04-30 10:58:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KBCT PHUM SY
07DAMASCUS410	ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT MEETING: SPIELBERG DESIGNATED [...] (U) Summary. The semi-annual meeting of the Arab League Boycott group was held April 23-26 in Damascus. Participation and results followed expectations and closely paralleled last November,s gathering (reftel). No companies were dropped; the one announced addition to the blacklist of entitie [...]	2007-04-30 10:59:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KBCT PHUM SY
07DARESSALAAM1183	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS UPDATE FOR TANZANIA [...] (U) The Government of Tanzania (GOT),International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGOs are addressing trafficking in persons (TIP) on a number of fronts. The Ministry of Health is working with IOM to increase awareness of TIP and IOM is finalizing the report of its 2006 research asses [...]	2007-08-21 14:23:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HSTC SOCI EAID PREF PGOV KWMN SMIG KCRM
07DARESSALAAM637	FALSE HOPE AND TOUGH TALK; REFUGEE UPDATE FROM [...] (U) SUMMARY: As the UNHCR consolidates and closes refugee camps in western Tanzania, requests for assistance in host areas and in closed camps are increasing. Repatriation to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is on the upswing, while repatriation to Burundi has come to a halt, with pe [...]	2007-05-02 12:44:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PHUM TZ
07DHAKA1219	CHEVRON'S ARBITRATION ORDERED STAYED BY BANGLADESHI COURT [...] SUMMARY. Chevron Bangladesh, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chevron USA, was recently ordered by a local court in Bangladesh to halt international arbitration against the GOB stemming from a gas pipeline dispute with Petrobangla, a GOB corporation charged with oil, gas & minerals exploration an [...]	2007-07-26 09:08:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EPET PREL BTIO BG
07DHAKA1265	CHEVRON'S INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Chevron Bangladesh filed for international arbitration of a dispute with Petrobangla pursuant to their contracts and treaties signed by Bangladesh. In response, Petrobangla filed a local case in Bangladesh seeking to stay that arbitration and recently received a court order gran [...]	2007-08-06 02:14:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON ETRD EPET PREL KTIA BG
07DHAKA1349	ACTION REQUEST IN CHEVRON / PETROBANGLA ARBITRATION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 8 and 9. 2. SUMMARY. (C) Petrobangla finds itself between a rock and a hard place with respect to its upcoming arbitration hearing with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) scheduled for August 20 in [...]	2007-08-16 08:31:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON ETRD EPET PREL KTIA BG
07DHAKA299	CODEL CHABOT MEETS WITH HASINA AND ZIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia reiterated to Congressman Chabot their desire for prompt elections, supported anti-corruption in principle but objected to the mechanics of the current campaign, complained the government ignores them, maintained party reform is already underway, and [...]	2007-02-25 08:17:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BG
07DHAKA305	CONGRESSMAN CHABOT CALLS ON ACTING FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (C) Summary. The acting Foreign Affairs adviser told Congressman Chabot that the government is committed to early elections once the proper environment is in place, assured him that journalist Shoaib Chowdhury would receive fair treatment, and hoped that new visa requirements for visitors in B [...]	2007-02-26 00:51:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CVIS CASC BG
07DHAKA656	HOME SECRETARY ON SHEIKH HASINA, KHALEDA ZIA, AND [...] (C) On the heels of a brief April 18 introductory call by the New Delhi based Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Legal Attache, the Home Secretary touched on Sheikh Hasina,s imminent return, rumors about Khaleda Zia,s imminent departure and continuing allegations of death and abuse attribut [...]	2007-04-19 11:09:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PREL KCRM PGOV BG
07DILI124	PRESIDENT SIGNS ELECTION LAW AMENDMENT, BUT TIME RUNNING [...] (SBU) Summary: President Xanana Gusmao March 26 signed into law the controversial election law amendment, paving the way for ballot printing to start later this week. The amendment addressed several key legislative problems identified by the UN Election Certification Team (UNECT) and had thre [...]	2007-03-27 10:32:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UN TT
07DJIBOUTI425	EAST AFRICA REGIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVE (RSI), [...] (S) Summary: East African regional ambassadors and interagency representatives agreed to institutionalize the East African RSI by requesting dedicated, line-item FY09 regional funding for East Africa, along the lines of the Trans-Sahara Counter Terrorist Partnership. In this second RSI (th [...]	2007-04-10 13:38:00	Embassy Djibouti	SECRET	PTER PREL PINR KPAO PGOV EAID XW YM
07DOHA1054	DEMARCHE ON QATAR'S HOLD ON UNSCR 1267 TERRORIST [...] (C) Econoff and British Political Secretary James Lynch delivered Ref A demarche November 8 to Adel Al-Khal, Director of International Organizations, Conferences and Treaties at the MFA. Al-Khal explained that at the time of the UN 1267 Committee meeting, the Qatari mission at the United Nati [...]	2007-11-08 14:44:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ETTC KTFN UNSC QA IZ
07DUBAI333	RAS AL KHAIMA TO CONFISCATE ABANDONED VIKTOR BOUT AIRCRAFT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-16 14:40:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR ETTC PGOV PINS SOCI KCRM LI AE
07DUBAI394	FORMER DUBAI DIAMOND EXCHANGE CEO ALLEGES SLACK CONTROLS ON [...] This is an action request for EB/ESC, see paragraph 14. 2. (S) SUMMARY: The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE),Noora Jamsheer, expressed concern to ConGenoff about the integrity of the UAE's adherence to the Kimberly Process (KP) to stem the trade in co [...]	2007-06-20 10:08:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN EMIN PTER ETTC KCRM VE IR AE
07DUSHANBE1157	TAJIKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON PROMOTION OF STANDING COMMITTEE [...] PolOff informed Ismatullo Nasreddinov, Head of the North America and Europe Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on August 10 of the U.S. support for Steve Carr's candidacy to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's Standing Commission. Post also delivered a formal diploma [...]	2007-08-14 21:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC
07EFTOATHENS299	DESIGNATION OF CONTINENTAL AIRWAYS FOR NEW YORK [...] On February 2nd Post sent a diplomatic note to the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Designating Continental Airlines to Operate on U.S. Route A from New York (Newark). We are sending copies of the diplomatic note to EB/TRA/AN J. Reifman and DOT S. Hatley as requested reftel. RIES [...]	2007-02-09 13:54:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR GR KTIA
07FRANKFURT2892	Moncrief Sues BASF Over Gazprom Gasfield Contracts [...] SUMMARY: U.S.-based Moncrief Oil International has filed suit against German chemical giant BASF in a German regional court seeking EUR 6.3 billion in compensation for BASF's alleged role in a cancelled Gazprom concession. Moncrief signed a contract with Gazprom in 1997 to exploit 40 percent o [...]	2007-06-20 05:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EINV GM RS
07FREETOWN153	CHINA INFLUENCE INCREASING IN SIERRA LEONE [...] (C) China continues to expand its presence and influence in Sierra Leone as it looks to exploit the country's vast mineral wealth and fishing resources. Sierra Leone and China have enjoyed diplomatic relations since 1971. GOSL officials traveled to China last year for the China-Africa Summit [...]	2007-03-05 19:23:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EFIN ENRG CH ECON SL
07FREETOWN223	SIERRA LEONE RESPONSE: BUILDING INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-05 08:42:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ZI SL
07FREETOWN436	BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON SIERRA LEONEAN PRESIDENTIAL AND [...] (U) The National Electoral Commission has announced that seven political parties are registered to participate in the presidential election on August 11. The following is biographic information on the presidential and vice presidential candidates from the three main political parties, the Sierr [...]	2007-07-23 16:09:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR SL
07FREETOWN477	SIERRA LEONE: PROMOTION OF STANDING COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-10 12:18:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC SL
07FREETOWN689	BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEW SIERRA LEONEAN [...] The initial group of cabinet Ministers in the new government has been announced by President Koroma. The process of confirmation by parliament has been completed for most nominees. Three Ministers were confirmed on October 19, and 12 more confirmed on October 24. Biographic information for 15 [...]	2007-11-19 17:17:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN754	FREETOWN MEDIA PLACEMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 2007 [...] Summary: Embassy Freetown's outreach in November 2007 included articles surrounding A/S Frazer's attendance at the inauguration of President Koroma, newly-arrived Ambassador Perry's courtesy calls on Ministers, the opening of two new American Shelves in Freetown, and the Embassy's commemoratio [...]	2007-12-21 13:43:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO SL
07GENEVA1478	ILO - BURMA: CONFERENCE SEES MINIMAL STEPS BUT LITTLE REAL [...] SUMMARY. The ILO Committee on the Application of Standards considered the situation of forced labor in Burma in its special sitting during the 96th International Labor Conference, June 4, 2007. The Burmese ambassador said nothing about real steps in ending forced labor. He focused solely o [...]	2007-06-07 11:03:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM PREL ILO
07GENEVA525	VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY - STAKEHOLDER [...] Summary. Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula J. Dobriansky visited Geneva February 28 as head of the U.S. delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation on Polio Eradication, resulting in continued global commitment to eradication and establishment of miles [...]	2007-03-06 10:41:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO WHO
07GEORGETOWN295	EAB REPORT ON 2006 ELECTIONS: FREE AND FAIR, BUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: More than six months after election day, the local Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) released its Final Report on Guyana's 2006 National and Regional Elections. The EAB declared the elections "free and fair" and found the Final Declaration of Results was "largely representative o [...]	2007-03-23 12:27:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM OAS GY
07GEORGETOWN607	GOVERNMENT THREATENED BY ANOTHER DRUG SCANDAL; [...] (C) The GoG is threatened with yet another narco-trafficking scandal. An anonymous letter to the Commissioner of Police threatens to release audio and video surveillance recordings that link government and PPP figures to cocaine trafficking unless the Commissioner removes a corrupt senior pol [...]	2007-06-19 16:36:00	Embassy Georgetown	SECRET	SNAR PGOV PREL MARR PINR KCRM KCOR GY
07HALIFAX59	CAPTURING ASIAN CONTAINER TRAFFIC: INVESTORS PROMOTE NEW [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Protect Accordingly 2. (U) SUMMARY: A team of local Nova Scotia investors confirmed that they have the financial backing and the right partners to build a new world-class container handling facility in the Strait of Canso at Melford. With Asian trade volumes [...]	2007-08-21 18:00:00	Consulate Halifax	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT ELTN ETRD EINV ECON CA
07HANOI1329	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. SUPPORT FOR ICRC STANDING [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-27 14:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL ICRC PHUM VM
07HANOI898	AMBASSADOR AND VFM BANG DISCUSS TRIET VISIT, HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: At a May 15 dinner with Vice Foreign Minister (VFM) Le Van Bang and other MFA officials, the Ambassador stressed that time is short for the two sides to reach agreements on potential deliverables to ensure a successful visit by President Nguyen Minh Triet. The two sides discusse [...]	2007-05-16 11:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KIRF OVIP PGOV PHUM PREL VM
07HANOI945	MICROSOFT SIGNS LANDMARK SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 21, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung witnessed the signing of a multi-faceted agreement committing all GVN agencies to use licensed software. For its part, Microsoft will increase its investment to develop Vietnam's information a [...]	2007-05-22 10:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD ECPS VM
07HARARE1002	BFIF FUNDING ONCE AGAIN CATALYZES PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) On October 2, for the second consecutive year, the American Business Association of Zimbabwe (ABAZ),generously supported by the Business Facilitation and Incentive Fund (BFIF) and the private secto [...]	2007-11-07 14:48:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV ZI
07HARARE552	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 18 - ANOTHER GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Parliament is due to debate the proposed Constitutional Amendment 18 when it re-opens in late July. The Amendment Bill has provisions for holding simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections in March 2008; it strengthens the Executive's control over Parliament by substantially inc [...]	2007-06-21 14:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC SADC KDEM ZI
07HELSINKI187	FINLAND: MISSILE DEFENSE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY OUTREACH [...] (C) The public reaction in Finland to US missile defense plans in Eastern Europe and Russian misrepresentations of them have been largely muted. Several editorials and comments from leading politicians appeared in the immediate aftermath of Putin's Munich speech, but very few of these directl [...]	2007-03-15 16:00:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL EZ RU FI
07HOCHIMINHCITY1107	PEPFAR SPENDING IN HCMC MONEY WELL-SPENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations staff members Shannon Smith and Jennifer Simon concluded their President's Emergency Plan for AIDs Relief (PEPFAR) assessment visit to Vietnam with a stop in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) on October 11-12. HCMC officials, medical staff, and [...]	2007-10-29 12:46:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KHIV TBIO PREL PGOV SOCI OTRA OVIP VM
07HONGKONG218	HONG KONG'S WAIT AND SEE APPROACH ON ACTA: [...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong government (HKG) officials expressed initial reticence about joining the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) during a digital video conference (DVC) held on January 12. The HKG queried officials from the USTR and the United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) [...]	2007-01-23 06:44:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CH ECON ETRD HK KIPR TW
07ISLAMABAD1631	CODEL LOWEY MEETS WITH PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-12 12:44:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	ASEC PGOV PHUM PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD2979	BIOSECURITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM HELPS STRENGTHEN S&T [...] (SBU) Summary: The Biosecurity Engagement Program team's second visit to Pakistan June 12-23 further strengthened the collaboration on the Science and Technology Agreement, part of the Strategic Dialogue between Pakistan and the U.S. The team met with high-level GOP officials and various membe [...]	2007-07-09 11:35:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PTER TSPL ETTC PK
07JAKARTA2025	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROMOTION OF STANDING [...] We discussed reftel candidacy of Steve Carr for the ICRC Standing Committee with Harry Purwanto, Director for North American Affairs at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs. We appealed for Indonesia's support of Carr's candidacy and provided a nonpaper with relevant information. Purw [...]	2007-07-26 10:12:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC ID

07JAKARTA2504	STATUS OF INDONESIAN WORKERS REPORTEDLY IN IRAQ [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary. Laboff met with the Department of Foreign Affairs' Director of Overseas Indonesian Workers Protection September 7, who gave us the names of 72 Indonesians reportedly working in Iraq, asking for consular access and t [...]	2007-09-10 10:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ID IZ
07JAKARTA3162	JAKARTA - DS/ATA AND SPECIAL DETACHMENT 88 [...] (U) Begin Summary. Post appreciated the visit of DS/ATA Director Steve Brunette and DS/ATA Desk Officer Steve Hargrove. In addition to signing the Memorandum of Intent between the Embassy and the Indonesian National Police (INP),the visit provided useful ideas on improving the already suc [...]	2007-11-15 04:40:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	ASEC PTER EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA790	INDONESIA - ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS FEBRUARY [...] Summary. Despite economic disruption due to severe flooding in Jakarta February 2-11, month-on-month (MoM) consumer price inflation in Indonesia rose modestly by 0.6% in February 2007, or 6.3% year-on-year (YoY). In response, Bank Indonesia (BI) cut its benchmark 30-day BI Certificate (SBI) i [...]	2007-03-21 03:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
07JAKARTA978	INDONESIA'S INSURANCE SECTOR STILL STRUGGLING [...] (SBU) Summary. A decade after the financial crisis, Indonesia's small insurance sector continues to suffer from weak regulation and poor enforcement, inadequate training, low professional standards, and insufficient capital. A few players dominate the sector, and some small, non-transparent f [...]	2007-04-05 01:13:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV KCOR ID
07JERUSALEM1429	PM FAYYAD LAYS OUT SECURITY/DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary. At a July 5 meeting in Ramallah, PM Salam Fayyad told Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) that the PA must make immediate progress--including a political track with Israel--because this government is probably Palestinians' last chance. PM Fayyad said security is his government's pr [...]	2007-07-10 09:54:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS OREP EAID PGOV ECON
07KABUL439	STATE OF PLAY AND ACTION REQUESTS ON UPCOMING [...] (SBU) Embassy is working with the GOA to set dates and fix the agenda for upcoming working-level and senior-level Strategic Partnership meetings. We are in direct contact with our GOA counterparts for each working group. The MFA is responsible for overall organization of the Strategic Partne [...]	2007-02-09 05:16:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MASS ECON EAID SNAR AF
07KABUL839	KARZAI DESCRIBES "TERRIBLE" RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 8 meeting with Governors Tim Pawlenty (R-MN),Janet Napolitanto (R-AZ),and Brad Henry (D-OK),Lisa Marie Cheney, Lt. Gen. Steven Blum (Chief, National Guard Bureau),and Charge, President Karzai described Afghanistan's current relationship with Pakistan as "terrib [...]	2007-03-13 02:57:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF
07KAMPALA1351	NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (AUG 11 - AUG 24, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provides information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...]	2007-08-24 09:39:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU
07KAMPALA1449	UGANDA: A/S FRAZER DISCUSSES LRA, CONGO, AND [...] (C) Summary: Africa Bureau Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on September 5 to discuss current developments in the negotiations with the Lord,s Resistance Army (LRA),developments in eastern Congo, and stabilizing Somalia. President Museveni, similarly to [...]	2007-09-14 09:01:00	Embassy Kampala	SECRET	PGOV PREL UG SU CG SO
07KAMPALA1853	NORTHERN UGANDA NOTES (November 3-30, 2007) [...] (U) Summary: The following Northern Uganda Notes provide information on the situation on the ground and USG activities aimed at meeting Mission's objectives in northern Uganda. These objectives include promoting regional stability through peace and security, good governance, access to social [...]	2007-12-07 08:30:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF ASEC EAID UG SU CG
07KAMPALA780	UGANDA TO VOTE FOR SLOVENIA'S UNHRC MEMBERSHIP [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 06:50:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC UG
07KATHMANDU1458	DEMARCHE ON PROMOTION OF STANDING COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-31 11:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC NP
07KATHMANDU580	DEMARCHE ON INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY IN [...] (C) EmbOff expressed serious U.S. concern March 20 over the recent barbaric events in Zimbabwe to Dinesh Bhattarai, Joint Secretary for UN Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urging Nepal to issue a statement of public condemnation. Considering Nepal's own traumatic human rights expe [...]	2007-03-20 11:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ZI NP
07KHARTOUM1197	MEDIA REACTION: UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] (U) SUMMARY. Most papers prominently featured news of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769, but focused mainly on its details, and the reaction of the Sudanese Ambassador to the UN who stated that the resolution has "many positive aspects." On August 1, there were a limited numbe [...]	2007-08-01 12:42:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UN KPAO SU
07KHARTOUM1372	CODEL JACKSON-LEE'S MEETING WITH SUDANESE FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 28 courtesy call, Codel Jackson-Lee briefed Sudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol on their visit to Darfur. The delegation also urged the expeditious implementation of UNSCR 1769, full implementation of the CPA, unfettered access for humanitarian NGOs, expedited [...]	2007-08-30 15:52:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AU UN SU
07KHARTOUM2024	HORN OF AFRICA MANPADS STRATEGY [...] (S/NF) Following consultations among the relevant agencies at post, Embassy Khartoum has determined that the Government of Sudan is unlikely to be receptive to cooperation with the USG on the threat of MANPADS at this time. Addressing the issue at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is likely to r [...]	2007-12-18 09:48:00	Embassy Khartoum	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR MASS PARM SU
07KHARTOUM782	REQUEST FOR SECURITY WAIVER AND EXCEPTIONS - JUBA, [...] (U) Summary: Post requests expedited consideration of the following waiver request, for an interim, unclassified U.S. Government facility in Juba, Southern Sudan. Charge signed COM statement on May 17, 2007. The package, including attachments, will be forwarded via DHL. End Summary. 2. (S [...]	2007-05-20 11:54:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC AMGT EAID SU
07KHARTOUM939	OFFER TO SELL RADIOACTIVE URANIUM [...] (Secret) On May 31, 2007, ARSO Bleu Lawless was contacted by a Sudanese-American, identified as Abuobaida A. Mohed, who claimed to have access to radioactive uranium. During a subsequent interview conducted by ARSO Lawless and SIMO representatives, Mohed claimed that his uncle, who is a Sudane [...]	2007-06-14 07:12:00	Embassy Khartoum	SECRET	ASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER
07KIGALI1131	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Per Leahy Amendment human rights vetting requirements, please screen the following individuals scheduled to receive IMET Training. Last Name First Name Rank DOB Training Dates --------- ---------- ---- --- -------------- [...]	2007-12-18 15:53:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS PREL RW
07KIGALI461	OPIC TO ADDRESS AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN KIGALI [...] SUMMARY. The City of Kigali, in conjunction with the U.S. Embassy, hosted an affordable housing workshop with subsequent side meetings to explore affordable housing issues in Kigali. With the goals of assisting the City of Kigali to address their housing challenges and to find opportunities f [...]	2007-05-16 05:59:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETRD EAID ECON PREL MCAP RW
07KINGSTON1089	JAMAICA'S TOURISM BOOM [...] Summary: Tourism figures for 2006 show tourists flocking to Jamaica in record numbers. Visitor arrivals for 2006 broke the psychological three million barrier for the first time, while earnings of USD 1.9 billion also soared to new heights. The diversion of a number of visitors from Cancun fo [...]	2007-07-13 11:55:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ECON EFIN EINV SOCI JM
07KINGSTON1288	JAMAICA: ELECTION CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP NUMBER 5 [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-23 20:00:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SOCI ECON ASEC SNAR KCOR JM XL
07KINGSTON1306	JAMAICA: THIRTEEN (13) REQUESTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following thirteen (13) candidates of the Jamaican Defense Force (JDF) who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. The proposed gr [...]	2007-08-29 17:14:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM JM
07KINGSTON560	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US IMET IS [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Jamaican Organized Crime Fugitive Team and Special Branch who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2 [...]	2007-04-18 15:32:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM NAS USMS JM
07KOLKATA367	RAMSEY CLARK AND HUMAN RIGHTS TEAM VISIT NANDIGRAM, [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 30, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark led a three-member delegation to visit villages in West Bengal's Nandigram district. Clark and his team came for an on-the-spot assessment of human rights violations by Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) activists a [...]	2007-11-30 09:23:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM IN
07KOLKATA86	ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS RETAIN THE SCARS OF THE 2004 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. March 2-7, ConGen visited the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to assess recovery from the December 2004 tsunami and related issues such as the environment, economic conditions and strategic concerns. Two years after the tsunami devastated parts of the island [...]	2007-03-13 12:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID SENV PHUM ECON MARR IN BM TH ID
07KUALALUMPUR1199	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-26 00:57:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC MY
07KUALALUMPUR1732	JUDICIAL REFORM ELUSIVE, DESPITE ROYAL COMMISSION [...] (C) Following months of inconclusive investigations into a major judge-fixing scandal (ref A),Malaysia's King confirmed on December 12 the government's appointment of a royal commission of inquiry. The King tasked the royal commission to investigate the origin and veracity of the now infamous [...]	2007-12-21 00:30:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR352	PAS AND UMNO EYE KELANTAN ELECTION; KEDAH AND [...] (C) The Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) and the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) in PAS-controlled Kelantan state are positioning themselves for a tough fight in the next national election. During polchief's February 5-9 visit to the northern Malaysian states, PAS leaders in Kelant [...]	2007-02-23 08:42:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KISL MY
07KUALALUMPUR575	PETRONAS ON CASPIAN GAS; PM ABDULLAH TO VISIT KABUL [...] (U) Summary: Petronas, CEO Tan Sri Hassan Merican said Malaysia,s national oil company has not yet decided on an export route for Livanov gas and is willing to consider all possible export routes for Caspian oil and gas, including a westward one. In response to PDAS Mann's suggestion that gas [...]	2007-03-28 09:14:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG PREL ECIN EPET MY TX
07KUWAIT12	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR U/S [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for U/S Dobriansky and a thirty-one member U.S. delegation,including TDY support, to visit Kuwait from Thursday, January 4, 2007, to Friday, January 12, 2007, to participate in and support the Conference of Women Leaders in Science, [...]	2007-01-06 13:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC SENV AMGT APER AA KWMN OTRA TSPL KU
07KUWAIT1313	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TREASURY OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Treasury Assistant Secretary Ahmed Saeed, and accompanying delegation of Robert Kaproth and Matthew Turner, to travel to Kuwait September 16-17 to meet with Kuwaiti government officials to discuss the region's sovereign we [...]	2007-08-29 12:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU OTRA AMGT EFIN ASEC PREL COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT1314	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DOE A/S KEVIN [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for DOE A/S Kevin Kolevar, and DOE employees Sarah K. Magruder and Patrick A. Willging to travel to Kuwait September 6-9 to meet with Kuwaiti Energy Officials. 2. (U) This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; [...]	2007-08-31 13:25:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	SA KU KCIP OTRA PTER ASEC ENGR PREL
07KUWAIT1333	AMENDED COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TREASURY [...] (SBU) This is an amended cable to include Matthew Epstein, who was omitted from REFTEL country clearance. Please provide Mr. Epstein's itinerary to the Point of Contact listed in paragraph three. Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Treasury Assistant Secretary Ah [...]	2007-09-03 13:11:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU OTRA AMGT EFIN ASEC COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT1524	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Department of Energy NNSA employee Jimmie Collins to travel to Kuwait October 20-23 to participate in the Border Standards Workshop for Iraq and its neighbors. Embassy requests an outbrief from Mr. Collins following the w [...]	2007-10-17 08:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KNNP ENRG PARM OTRA PREL APER AMGT IZ
07KUWAIT1574	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR LOVE + 1(THE [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Robert E. Love, SES, Director of Operations for the Task Force to Support Business and Stability Operations in Iraq, and Courtney Vicario, Project Support Specialist, to travel to Kuwait November 2-4 to attend the 2nd Inter [...]	2007-11-01 14:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER KU OTRA PREL COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT235	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DOE/NNSA [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Keith Koji Nakanishi, Rengin M. Gok, and Arthur James Rodgers Jr., of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation to travel to post o/a March 23-28, 2007 to attend the Gulf Seismic Fo [...]	2007-02-18 14:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG PARM OTRA KNNP COUNTRY CLEARANCE
07KUWAIT281	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED: KUWAIT CRITICAL [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for the following Kuwait Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection Survey Team (ATA 6156) members traveling to Kuwait from March 13-21, 2007: Richard Soler - DS/T/ATA; Kevin Maloy - DS/T/ATA; Patrick Willging - U.S. Dept. of Energy; [...]	2007-02-27 10:48:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU QA KCIP ASEC ENRG OTRA PTER
07KUWAIT449	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR AMBASSADOR [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Amb. David A. Gross. U.S. Coordinator for International Communications & Information Policy and Alan Gibbs, State/EEB/CIP, to travel to Kuwait City. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for I [...]	2007-03-28 14:47:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN ECON ECPS EINT EINV ETTC AMGT APER OTRA
07KUWAIT746	HUMANTIARIAN OPERATIONS CENTER - HERE TO HELP [...] SUMMARY: Kuwait's Humanitarian Operations Center (HOC) can assist NGOs with shipping of their supplies (even free shipping) to Iraq, obtaining Kuwait and Iraq customs clearances, and Kuwait entry visas for medical cases granted treatment in Kuwait or abroad. The HOC desires to increase human [...]	2007-05-13 06:39:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI KCRS IZ KU
07KUWAIT871	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CEIP TEAM: [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for S/CT Senior Coordinator Bruce A. Averill, DS/ATA officer Kevin A. Maloy, Sandia National Laboratory employee Byron H. Gardner, and USCG CAPT Donald C. Grant to travel to Kuwait June 11-15 to discuss Critical Energy Infras [...]	2007-06-04 13:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT ASEC KCIP KU OTRA PREL PTER ENRG
07KUWAIT873	U.S.-KUWAIT GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE TALKS (MAY [...] (S/NF) Summary: Discussion on Iran and Iraq dominated the May 22 U.S.-Kuwait Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD). Both countries agreed on the threat from Iran, but GOK officials expressed concern about Kuwait's vulnerability to Iranian retaliation (conventional and asymmetric) and the perceived am [...]	2007-06-05 06:45:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MARR MCAP MASS KCIP EPET ASEC IZ
07KUWAIT930	KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JUNE 23-24 [...] (SBU) Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for NEA/ARP Regional Economic Officer Ashley Bagwell to travel to Kuwait June 23-24 for consultations and regional familiarization. 2. (U) This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clea [...]	2007-06-16 12:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU SA BA OTRA AMGT ECON PREL APR
07KYIV125	UKRAINE: SCUD INVENTORY UPDATE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (S) During a January 17 meeting, Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko expressed optimism to visiting EUR/PRA Director Anita Friedt, PM/WRA Deputy Director Steven Costner, and DOD and Embassy Kyiv representatives that the Ukrainian government wo [...]	2007-01-19 09:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP
07KYIV126	UKRAINE: BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION WORKING GROUP [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. 2 (S) Summary: We delivered draft agenda contained ref A to MFA Director Belashov January 17. His specific comments on the agenda contained below in para 4. Belashov also complained that USG suspicions about possible transfer cases were often ba [...]	2007-01-19 09:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC PHSA PINR CA UK PL UP
07KYIV1299	UKRAINE: MANPADS FOR DESTRUCTION AND [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko told visiting PM/WRA Deputy Director Steven Costner May 16 that the Ukrainian offer to provide 2,101 Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) missiles and 582 gripstocks (ref E) for the NATO PfP Trust Fund destruction project had been made in [...]	2007-05-25 14:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
07KYIV1450	UKRAINE: IPR ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION GROUP [...] Summary: GOU, Embassy, and industry representatives discussed the destruction of IPR-infringing material at a June 5 Enforcement Cooperation Group (ECG) meeting. GOU reps reviewed recently-passed legislation that provides the authority for destruction and said that implementation will be a ch [...]	2007-06-12 13:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV1452	UKRAINE: WORKSHOP ENCOURAGES JUDGES, PROSECUTORS, [...] Summary: Post, in coordination with U.S., UK, and Ukrainian institutions, held an IPR enforcement workshop in Kyiv June 5-7. Ukrainian judges, prosecutors, police, and IP inspectors participated in the workshop, which focused on court proceedings for IPR-related cases. Discussions revealed s [...]	2007-06-13 06:22:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR ECON UP
07KYIV163	UKRAINE: MANPADS ACQUISITION AND THE NATO PFP [...] (S) Summary: As a result of a January 17 meeting with Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko on the proposals regarding man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) contained ref A, PM/WRA will work with the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA) to develop an amendment to the NATO/PfP Trust F [...]	2007-01-22 12:57:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP
07LAGOS571	DOE A/S HARBERT'S DAY IN LAGOS: GAS, OIL, POWER, [...] (C) Summary: On July 18, Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs Karen Harbert SIPDIS met with Lagos business representatives from the power, gas, oil, and oil services sectors to assess the situation and hear energy companies' concerns. International [...]	2007-08-14 11:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL NI
07LAPAZ1666	BOLIVIA: EITI RESPONSE PENDING [...] (SBU) The DFID letter referred to in ref A was delivered June 12; the GOB has not yet responded. The British DCM told Emboffs on June 13 that he does not expect the GOB to prioritize the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI),but hopes to encourage steps toward membership throu [...]	2007-06-15 16:26:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EMIN ENRG EPET BL
07LAPAZ2103	BOLIVIA AND EITI: LITTLE PROGRESS [...] (SBU) British DCM Steve Townsend informed Emboff on July 31 that the GOB has finally responded to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) letter, which had been delivered on June 12th. The GOB requested more information on the EITI, which Townsend provided. EITI has clearly [...]	2007-08-01 19:12:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EMIN ENRG EINV EPET BL
07LAPAZ2758	POTOSI: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE PERIPHERY [...] (U) Potosi, Bolivia's south-western department (or state),with Argentina to the south and Chile to the west, is focused on mining and tourism as its best options for escaping the poverty that afflicts most of its population. Despite the historic wealth of the mining sector in Potosi, prospec [...]	2007-10-15 15:04:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN EINV EIND PINR PGOV KCRM KIPR BL
07LILONGWE194	ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE BITES THE DUST [...] (SBU) Summary: With raw Malawian power politics on full display, Parliament rejected the President's nominee for Auditor General on March 13. The rejection, the latest in a string of high profile presidential nominees to be refused, comes as a result of government's inept management of parlia [...]	2007-03-14 13:13:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCOR MI
07LILONGWE253	DEMARCHE: EXTRAORDINARY SADC HEADS OF STATE SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Ambassador Eastham spoke with President Mutharika regarding the situation in Zimbabwe on March 19, as reported in reftel B. FM Banda is with the President in Tanzania, and all other senior MFA officials are currently away from Lilongwe in southern Malawi for a bilateral summit with Moza [...]	2007-03-29 07:37:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM
07LIMA1734	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EX-IM BANK PERSONNEL: MASUD [...] (U) The Embassy grants country clearance for the visit to Peru of Sr. Environmental Engineer Masud Hasan, and Environmental Specialist, Steve Parsons, Sr., from May 19-30, 2007. The purpose of this trip is to visit the component sites of the Peru LNG project, including Pisco, Ayacucho and Ch [...]	2007-05-14 19:46:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC BEXP EFIN OTRA ETRD SENV EXIM PE
07LIMA4	IDENTIFICATION OF OAS DEMOCRACY PRACTITIONERS [...] Post provides the following information to identify "democracy practitioners" in Peru. Diego Garcia Sayan, justice reform, political analysis. Garcia Sayan was the Peruvian Minister of Justice from November 2000 to July 2001 and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Peru from July 2001 to July 20 [...]	2007-01-03 16:02:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KSUM HUM PREL XL XK XM XR XS OAS PE
07LIMA672	FIRST AMAZON BASIN CONSERVATION INITIATIVE PARTNERS [...] SUMMARY: USAID held the first Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative (ABCI) partners meeting from February 5-8 to lay the foundation for developing detailed work plans to implement this regional, five-year, $65 million dollar program. Over seventy participants from the six partner consortia, U [...]	2007-03-07 13:19:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID EAGR PE
07LISBON1854	A/S FRIED WITH PORTUGUESE DEFENSE STATESEC JOAO [...] (C) Summary. Portuguese State Secretary for Defense Mira Gomes told A/S Fried that his ministry is considering a plan to lead an Operational Mentoring Liaison Team in Afghanistan in addition to Portugal's current military contributions there, although budgetary and political considerations may [...]	2007-07-18 14:39:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PO AF RS EUN
07LISBON3114	NOVEMBER US-EU COTER MEETING ENHANCES DISCUSSION [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. and EU counterterrorism (CT) experts shared their assessments, concerns, and cooperation agendas at the November 29 working group meeting on terrorism (COTER). In response to the U.S. briefing on the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TS/CTP),the Portuguese presid [...]	2007-12-07 16:08:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EUN PO
07LJUBLJANA18	TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] (SBU) At Embassy Ljubljana the following people are the Terrorism Finance Coordination Officers (TFCOs): Terrorism Financing Coordinating Officer (TFCO): Maryruth Coleman, Deputy Chief of Mission Office number: 01-200-5588 Unclassified email: colemanMX@state.gov Cla [...]	2007-01-12 14:25:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER SI
07LONDON1047	ACCREDITATION - IMO - 34TH SESSION OF THE [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from March 26 - 30, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization's Thirty-fourth Session of the Committee on Facilitation: Howard L. Hime, Representative Jaideep Si [...]	2007-03-19 14:10:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ASEC IMO UK
07LONDON1279	ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS REVIEWS AFGHAN AND OTHER CN ISSUES WITH UK [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-04 14:08:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR AF UK
07LONDON2318	UK CALLS ON EU TO INVESTIGATE U.S. BIODIESEL SUBSIDIES [...] Summary: The UK Government has associated itself with its biodiesel industry in asking the EU to investigate whether US subsidies on biodiesel are trade distorting and should give rise to countervailing duties. HMG has "no appetite for a fight" about this, and wants to continue importing bio [...]	2007-06-15 14:57:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ENRG EAGR UK
07LONDON2534	(U) BROWN'S GOVERNMENT IN PLACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Gordon Brown has moved fast to put his stamp on the UK Government and the results have been positive for his poll ratings and media coverage. The latest Guardian/ICM poll gives Labour the lead (39 percent to 35 percent) over the Conservatives, Labour's first le [...]	2007-07-02 16:01:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV UK
07LONDON4311	POSSIBLE NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/OFFER OF [...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in and possible offer of nuclear and/or radiological materials. This report came to post's attention via call-in and email. Inform [...]	2007-11-21 08:54:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER UK
07LUANDA652	ANGOLAN IMMIGRATION SERVICE DELAYS IN PROCESSING WORK VISA [...] SUMMARY: AS MANY AS 200 AMERICAN CITIZENS IN ANGOLA HAVE NOW BEEN WITHOUT THEIR PASSPORTS FOR AT LEAST FOUR WEEKS AND MANY FOR AS LONG AS EIGHT WEEKS AS THEY AWAIT WORK VISA RENEWAL PROCESSING BY THE ANGOLAN IMMIGRATION SERVICES. THESE DELAYS ARE CAUSING HAVOC WITH 28-DAY WORK ROTATIONS USED BY [...]	2007-06-28 12:36:00	Embassy Luanda	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC MGT AFSN APER CMGT PGOV EPET AO
07LUANDA692	EMBASSY LUANDA DESTROYS "MILLIONTH WEAPON" [...] (U) Summary: Angolan police, government officials, military and representatives from the diplomatic and NGO communities applauded as Embassy Luanda,s Charge d, Affaires and an Angolan Armed Forces General destroyed the symbolic "Millionth Weapon" during Embassy Luanda,s commemoration of Intern [...]	2007-07-10 16:44:00	Embassy Luanda	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PARM KHDP AO
07LUXEMBOURG110	LUXEMBOURG PRESSED TO REIN IN ITS FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Following up to ref A, Embassy translated and sent to EUR/UBI the text of a statement by Foreign Minister Asselborn made March 13 before the Chamber of Deputies explaining his public comments crticizing the planned European missile defense system (MDS)(ref B). Embassy believes that the st [...]	2007-03-15 16:34:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL NATO MARR PL EZ RU LU
07LUXEMBOURG12	AMBASSADOR WAGNER PRESSES AFGHANISTAN AND MIDDLE [...] (C) On January 8, Ambassador Wagner met with Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn. She outlined four priorities for the USG in the Middle East: success in Iraq; the MEPP; stability in Lebanon; and Iran. She noted that the U.S. would vigorously support creation of an independent Palest [...]	2007-01-09 07:14:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PGOV PREL LU
07LUXEMBOURG154	LUXEMBOURG ON NEW WAY FORWARD IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-27 12:58:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER LU
07LUXEMBOURG170	LUXEMBOURG CONCERNED ABOUT CUBA'S LACK OF PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Luxembourg is concerned about the EU's lack of progress with Cuba on the subject of human rights but still favors an "open, constructive and comprehensive dialogue" with Cuba. In the past, Luxembourg has played a constructive role within the EU in finding compromises but it does [...]	2007-05-08 10:19:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM CU LU EU
07LUXEMBOURG222	LUXEMBOURG TO CHAIR EXTRAORDINARY CFE TREATY [...] (C) Pol/Econ officer discussed points contained reftel as well as the point-by-point response to Russian concerns with the Luxembourg MFA. The MFA was particularly appreciative of the information as Luxembourg was notified last week by the Netherlands that Luxembourg would be chairing this ex [...]	2007-06-05 15:55:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE NATO PARM PREL LU RU
07LUXEMBOURG225	LUXEMBOURG TO JOIN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (C) The MFA informed us on 29 May that Luxembourg had tentatively agreed to join the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terror (reftel). The MFA had prepared a briefing paper making this recommendation which the FM was going to present to a Government Cabinet meeting "in the near future." W [...]	2007-06-05 15:59:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KNNP MCAP PREL PARM LU
07LUXEMBOURG24	LUXEMBOURG ON IRAN CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel information on U.S. democratization initiatives for Iran to Luxembourg's Cooperation and Development Director Marc Bichler January 16. Bichler welcomed the information and confirmed that Luxembourg has no programs of any type in Iran. 2. (U) As a matter of national [...]	2007-01-16 15:35:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IR EUN LU
07LUXEMBOURG366	VISAS VIPER: LUXEMBOURG VIPER REPORT FOR AUGUST [...] (U) Post convened its monthly Visas Viper Committee on 15 August 2007. No Visas Viper submissions were presented at that time. 2. (U) The Visas Viper Committee held an ad hoc meeting on 07 September 2007. The following submission was presented: Name: Sulejman ((KOJIC)) aka Kojic ((S [...]	2007-09-07 15:03:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	CMGT CVIS KVPR ASEC PTER PING LU
07LUXEMBOURG42	LUXEMBOURG URGED TO INCREASE ITS SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Ambassador Wagner met with Defense Minister Jean-Louis Schiltz January 23 to encourage increased Luxembourg support for Afghanistan. Offering the Minister an overview of U.S. policy in the Middle East including Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and the Middle East Peace Plan (MEPP),the Ambassa [...]	2007-01-24 16:11:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS AF LU
07LUXEMBOURG465	TREASURY OFFICIALS MEET WITH GOL AND CLEARSTREAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On 8 November 2007, the U.S. Department of Treasury held consultations in Luxembourg with the Government of Luxembourg (GOL) and private sector as part of ongoing USG outreach highlighting the danger of doing business with Iran. The Treasury delegation met with senior Ministry of [...]	2007-11-16 14:50:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	TTFN EFIN PARM MNUC PREL KCRM ECON LU IR
07LUXEMBOURG489	LUXEMBOURG'S NEW MFA SECRETARY-GENERAL ON IRAN [...] (C) Ambassador received new MFA Secretary-General Paul Duhr for a courtesy call on 12 December and delivered reftel points on Iran and our recent NIE. Duhr commented that EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, a noted physicist, had briefed EU members on the latest intelligence on Iran, and [...]	2007-12-12 16:11:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IR PARM PREL LU
07LUXEMBOURG490	LUXEMBOURG'S NEW MFA SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSES [...] (C) Ambassador received new MFA Secretary-General Paul Duhr on 12 December and delivered points on Kosovo contained in reftel. Without directly addressing the intransigence of any individual member states, Duhr speculated that the EU would eventually release a statement on its position on a [...]	2007-12-12 16:19:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI LU
07LUXEMBOURG491	LUXEMBOURG: OSLO PROCESS WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and DCM discussed points contained Ref A with Paul Duhr, Secretary General of the Luxembourg MFA on 12 December. Duhr made it clear that he understood the U.S.' position on the Oslo Process and cluster munitions and assured the Ambassador that whatever the outcome of [...]	2007-12-13 13:18:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM PREL NATO NAMSA LU
07LUXEMBOURG494	LUXEMBOURG APPROVES COMPREHENSIVE MILITARY REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Luxembourg Parliament passed a long-anticipated military reform package on 19 December 2007 without objection. Key provisions include the creation of "Available Operational Units" (or UDO in French) which are available for service abroad, expanding the size of the army by nea [...]	2007-12-20 15:49:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV NATO MOPS PREL EU LU
07LUXEMBOURG68	LUXEMBOURG PREVIEWS UPCOMING GAERC [...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche points February 9 to MFA Deputy Political Director Stephan Muller. He previewed the GAERC agenda and provided the following comments. ------ Kosovo ------ 2. (C) Discussion on the status of Kososvo will be the most important issue addressed by the min [...]	2007-02-09 16:40:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EUN LU
07LUXEMBOURG79	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO RUSSIAN THREATS [...] (SBU) Acting Pol/Econ chief delivered reftel demarche February 22 to Veronique Dockendorf, MFA senior transatlantic affairs officer and Mike Hentges, the Prime Minister's diplomatic advisor. Neither had any immediate comment, but both undertook to present the demarche at the earliest opportun [...]	2007-02-23 10:06:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV LU RS
07LUXEMBOURG91	LUXEMBOURG ON MARCH GAERC: MOSTLY PREP FOR COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to Deputy MFA Political Director Stephan Muller, Luxembourg does not have high expectations for the 5-6 March GAERC meetings in terms of outcomes. Rather, Luxembourg expects the focus of the meeting to be preparing for the European Council meetings on 8-9 March. Luxembo [...]	2007-03-03 08:38:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EUN ENRG LU SU UZ
07MADRID1228	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employees: Victoria Cox, Sabrna Saunders-Hodge, Steven Lang, Paul Krois, Barry Scott, Klein Alexander, Stephanie Lucien Mondoloni, Almira Ramadani Williams, William Colon Johnson, Olga Prinzo, Joseph Celio, Brian Simmons, Elida Smith, Daniel Murphy, Ger [...]	2007-06-20 06:45:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1229	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employees: Carey Fagan, Nazzareno Henry Spurio, Richard Jehlen, Diana Liang, Steven William Bradford, and Lourdes Maurice to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about June 24 to July 7. The purpose of this visit is to attend the FAA/European Organization f [...]	2007-06-20 07:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1256	SPAIN/VENEZUELA: PRESSING MFA ON NAVAL SHIP SALE [...] (C) USCIS Director Emilio Gonzalez met with MFA Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Bernardino Leon June 21 to compare notes the major immigration issues affecting both countries. In the context of Leon's discussion of increased migration to Spain through West Africa, the DCM suggested tha [...]	2007-06-25 11:14:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR VZ SP
07MADRID1756	SPAIN WOULD LIKE MORE INFO ON STANDING COMMISSION [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-10 17:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC SP
07MADRID1854	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. HOLLAND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Steven Holland, Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, to travel to Malaga, Spain on or about September 26 to September 30. The purpose of the visit is to serve as part of the facult [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1894	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA STEVEN MURAWSKI [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Steven Murawski, NOAA Scientist to travel to Alicante, Spain on or about September 25 to September 28. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Marine Protected Area meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminde [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1909	SPAIN: UPDATE ON MEGAPORTS NON-PROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 17-18, representatives from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) visited Spain to assess the implementation of the Megaports program at the Port of Algeciras and negotiate a cost-sharing expansion to Spain's other leading ports: Barcelona and Valenci [...]	2007-10-01 17:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EWWT ENRG PARM PREL SP
07MADRID277	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Steven Dazeley and Robert Svoboda to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 2 to March 11. The purpose of this visit is to attend collaboration meetings at CIEMAT-Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales. 2. Post understands tha [...]	2007-02-15 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID36	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH: DR. STEVEN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Alasdair Steven, Chief, Laboratory of Structural Biology Research, NIH to travel to Palma de Majorca on January 22 to January 26. The purpose of this visit is to present at the Twenty-Third International Papilloma Conference. 2. Post understands th [...]	2007-01-10 14:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID512	SPAIN: MISSILE DEFENSE OUTREACH [...] (C) Post is engaging the GOS on missile defense as requested in ref A. DCM raised the issue with MFA political director Dezcallar on March 2, as described in ref B. Dezcallar said that Spain has no objection to the program but expressed concern that Russia had not been sufficiently consulted [...]	2007-03-19 14:02:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR SP
07MADRID535	SPAIN WILL STICK TO EU APPROACH ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Poloff presented ref. A demarche to Antonio Sanchez-Benedito Gaspar, Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa, on March 22. Consistent with ref. B, Sanchez-Benedito said that Spain is in agreement with the U.S., is very concerned at the current state of affairs in Zimba [...]	2007-03-22 14:45:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SP ZI
07MADRID686	SPAIN APPRECIATIVE OF MISSILE DEFENSE BRIEFING [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of ongoing USG efforts to engage the Spanish government on missile defense, Missile Defense Agency deputy director Brigadier General Patrick O'Reilly met with MOD and MFA officials, as well as opinion leaders and an influential opposition member of Parliament, on March 30. [...]	2007-04-13 10:17:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR SP
07MADRID731	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GAO: JAYETTA HECKER, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to GAO personnel; Steven Cohen and Matthew Rosenberg, (the others are listed in case of substitution) to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about April 23 to April 27. The purpose of this visit is to conduct a review of public-private partnerships in the constructi [...]	2007-04-20 09:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID964	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA STEVEN GENDEL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Steven Gendel, Microbiology and Stephano Luccioli, Medical Officer Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA, HHS to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about May 28 to May 31. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the Approaches to Risks [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MANAGUA2212	NICARAGUA: TEXTILE/APPAREL UPDATE [...] (SBU) The textile and apparel sector continues to grow in Nicaragua as firms take advantage of CAFTA-DR market access, relatively low wages, and geographic proximity to the United States. The sector added 6,000 new jobs in 2006, and exports to the United States grew from $525 million to $697 [...]	2007-09-26 23:18:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KTEX PREL NU

07MANAMA1083	CODEL MORAN MEETINGS WITH PM AND CENTRAL BANK [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 11:13:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN EPET BA
07MANAMA169	BAHRAIN: BFIF FY07 PROPOSAL [...] Embassy Manama welcomes EB's offer to provide BFIF funding to enhance commercial advocacy efforts. In view of the August 2006 implementation of the U.S. - Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA),Post emphasizes the importance of commercial training, providing commercial services to businesses se [...]	2007-02-22 13:30:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ABUD AMGT BTIO ECON EINV ETRD BA
07MANILA2343	PHILIPPINES: FOREIGN LABOR TRENDS REPORT [...] (U) MissionQs Foreign Labor Trends Report follows below. Per reftel guidance, the report is divided into four sections: I) Summary; II) Foreign Investment Potential; III) Directory of Labor Contacts; and IV) Key Sources. Points of contact on labor issues are Labor Attache Mario Fernandez ( [...]	2007-07-11 08:57:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM RP
07MANILA2857	PHILIPPINES ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR STANDING [...] (C) As requested (reftel),post met with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to convey U.S. support for Steve Carr's candidacy to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's Standing Commission, and urged Philippine support for his election. 2. (C) Leah Ruiz, Director for [...]	2007-08-22 10:05:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC RP
07MANILA3307	SOME MINDANAO BUSINESSES BOOM DESPITE DANGERS [...] (U) Summary: The DCM led an Embassy team to General Santos City on September 21 to focus attention on U.S. support for commerce in Mindanao. The DCM delivered the keynote address at a 500-strong gathering of the region's chambers of commerce. He told leaders that the recently announced $190 [...]	2007-10-03 07:49:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RP ECON BEXP
07MANILA560	CONGRESS PASSES MAJOR COUNTER-TERRORISM LEGISLATION [...] (U) In a special session called by President Arroyo, the House of Representatives on February 19 approved the bicameral conference version of the Human Security Act of 2007, major counter-terrorism legislation that gives the Philippine government greater ability to investigate and prosecute t [...]	2007-02-20 09:23:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL KCRM RP
07MANILA608	CONGRESSMAN CHABOT HELPS KICK OFF BALIKATAN 07 [...] (U) Summary. During his February 18-20 visit to the Philippines, U.S. Congressman Steve Chabot (R-OH) joined Ambassador, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Ebdane, and high ranking U.S. and Philippine military officials at the Opening Ceremony of Balikatan 2007, the annual U.S.-Philip [...]	2007-02-23 06:34:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP EINV BEXP PREL MCAP RP
07MANILA781	TERRORISM FINANCE: PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT READY TO [...] (U) This is an action message -- see para 8. 2. (S) SUMMARY. The Philippine government is ready to move soon on listing the Rajah Solaiman Movement and a selected number of its members with the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee. The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency has prepared a sepa [...]	2007-03-09 08:25:00	Embassy Manila	SECRET	PTER EFIN ETTC PREL KTFN RP
07MAPUTO869	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STEVEN SMITH AND [...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for Steven Smith and Nathan Bayer to travel to Mozambique, from July 24, 2007 through July 26, 2007. The purpose of this travel is to conduct site visit to the following projects: Central African Railway, Corredor do Norte, Jopa Villas, and [...]	2007-07-23 14:09:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV OTRA OPIC MI KE MZ
07MAPUTO935	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STEVEN FELDSTEIN TO [...] Embassy Maputo welcomes and grants country clearance for Mr. Steven Feldstein (STAFFDEL),Majority Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC),to travel to Mozambique, from August 16, 2007 through August 21, 2007. The purpose of this travel is to assess impact and eff [...]	2007-08-08 12:55:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KE SF ET GM NL MZ
07MAPUTO950	STAFFDEL FELDSTEIN: ESTIMATED COSTS AND [...] Following are the estimated costs for Mr. Steven Feldstein and Mr. Mark ClackQs visit to Mozambique August 16 Q August 21. Post requests authorization for expenditure items as outlined below based on EmbassyQs proposed itinerary. These estimates are subject to change based upon Staffdel req [...]	2007-08-13 08:22:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN MZ
07MASERU168	LESOTHO: ZIMBABWE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points to Acting Foreign Minister Dr. Phooko March 20 and reviewed with him the Secretary's statement as well as the spokesman's remarks on the SIPDIS issue. We also went through key points related to the treatment of the opposition by the Mugabe government, [...]	2007-03-20 15:57:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ZI LT
07MASERU231	LESOTHO: VISIT OF MCC MANAGING DIRECTOR DARIUS MANS AND MCC [...] (SBU) As the potential signing of a Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) compact draws nearer, MCC Managing Director for Anglophone and Lusophone Africa, Dr. Darius Mans, visited Lesotho on March 15-16, 2007, for a series of meetings with GOL officials and other stakeholders. Prior to Dr. Mans [...]	2007-04-19 16:12:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMCA EAID ECON PGOV PREL LT
07MASERU642	LESOTHO: SPEAKER PROGRAM EVALUATION - DR. STEVEN LIVINGSTON [...] SUMMARY: From December 10-15, Embassy Maseru hosted media and public affairs expert Dr. Steven Livingston, a professor of Political Communication at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA),for a series of workshops with Government of Lesotho officials, journa [...]	2007-12-27 10:59:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KDEM LT
07MEXICO2719	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES + 3, [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Erica Barks-Ruggles, Ms. Laura Jordan, Mr. Douglas Rohn, and Mr. Stevel Hill for travel to Mexico City from 28-30 May for trilateral meetings. 2. Post control officer for the visit is Political Officer Pris [...]	2007-05-25 18:43:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	CA MX OTRA PREL US
07MEXICO2886	HUMAN RIGHTS TALKS REVEAL AREAS OF AGREEMENT, [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials held trilateral talks in Mexico City on human rights cooperation. This is the first of two cables summarizing the talks, and will focus on issues relating to the upcoming OAS General Assembly (OASGA); issues relating to the UN Hum [...]	2007-06-04 18:35:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC MX OAS HUMAN
07MEXICO3304	MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS - PART 2 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:23:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
07MEXICO3305	MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS - PART 2 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:24:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
07MEXICO3306	MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS - PART 2 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:32:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
07MEXICO3308	MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS - PART 2 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:32:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
07MEXICO379	BRIDGES THAT DIVIDE US: FACILITATING US-MEXICO [...] (SBU) The overall message conveyed to Assistant Secretary of Commerce David Bohigian during his three-day, SIPDIS three-state tour of the U.S.-Mexican border was that there is much that the two federal governments can do to help improve cross-border commerce, to the benefit of consumers, b [...]	2007-01-25 16:58:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ECON ELTN ETRD MX
07MEXICO4340	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROMOTION OF STANDING [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-14 20:21:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC
07MINSK142	BELARUS' NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF COURAGE [...] (U) Post has the honor to nominate Irina Kozulina for the Secretary of State's first International Women of Courage Award for SIPDIS her work on behalf of political prisoners and her promotion of breast cancer awareness in Belarus. She stands as a vital national figure representing both hu [...]	2007-02-14 15:36:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO BO
07MONROVIA1297	LIBERIA PLANS TO INCREASE MANO RIVER UNION COOPERATION [...] SUMMARY: Liberia has assumed the chairmanship of the Mano River Union (MRU) and will promote economic integration in addition to the traditional focus on security. The GOL plans to encourage Cote d'Ivoire to become a full member of the union, and will propose a free trade zone along the MRU bo [...]	2007-10-29 16:58:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON LI
07MONROVIA1359	LIBERIA: GOL AND UNMIL RESPOND QUICKLY TO LAC [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Executive Mansion has called the murder of Liberian Agriculture Company (LAC) General Manager Michael Bruno "unacceptable" and vowed to find and prosecute the perpetrators as soon as possible in order to protect Liberia's investment climate. The Mansion also expressed concer [...]	2007-11-21 15:35:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC AMGT EAGR PTER LI
07MONROVIA610	SHIP "STOLEN" FROM LIBERIAN WATERS NOT AN [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 11, unknown assailants "stole" the Saint Vincent-flagged M/V "Tahoma Reefer" from its anchorage in Liberian waters and proceeded to tow the vessel towards the Ivory Coast. United Nations Police (UNPOL) and the Liberian National Police (LNP) arrested two individuals (one o [...]	2007-05-23 09:56:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EWWT LI PGOV PHSA
07MONROVIA623	LIBERIA: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION MOVES [...] (C) Summary. Over the past two months, the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been working with the international community to put policies and practices in place that will instill donor confidence and permit resumption of funding of the TRC's activities. Many strides have [...]	2007-05-24 17:11:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID LI
07MOSCOW1696	U.S.-RUSSIA WILDLIFE DISEASE CONFERENCE - BIRD FLU [...] SUMMARY: A full-day session on avian influenza drew a large and lively audience during the recent 2nd U.S.-Russia Conference on Wildlife Diseases, held in Moscow. The conference featured a 17-member USG delegation, whose presenters underscored the vital interactions between human health, wi [...]	2007-04-13 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR TBIO KFLU RS
07MOSCOW1718	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Tactica Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on B [...]	2007-04-16 11:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1719	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Tactica Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on B [...]	2007-04-16 11:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1720	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Tactica Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on B [...]	2007-04-16 11:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW2195	MANAGING POLAR BEARS: IT TAKES A VILLAGE [...] SUMMARY: A project aimed at alleviating the pressure of growing human-polar bear interaction has produced promising results in the village of Vankarem, in Siberia's far northeastern district of Chukotka. Concerted local leadership action, with support from World Wildlife Fund (WWF),has led [...]	2007-05-11 13:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2206	RUSSIA: COMMUNICATIONS SECTOR AT A CROSSROADS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The information and communications technology sector is the most vibrant in the Russian economy, demonstrating double digit growth year to year since 2000 and contributing more than five percent to total GDP in 2006. Despite the prospect of surging expansion of the IT sector base [...]	2007-05-14 03:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECPS ECON EFIN EINT ETTC PGOV PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW2462	RUSSIA BILATERAL CIVAIR NEGOTIATIONS: FRUITFUL [...] (C) The U.S. and Russian civil aviation delegations had productive discussions May 16-17 on updates to the Annexes of our 1994 Bilateral Air Transport Agreement, but no deal was reached. On overflights, the GOR continues to bar any use of the Trans-Siberian routes without a commercial agreemen [...]	2007-05-25 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW3716	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROMOTION OF AMERICAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-30 13:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC RS
07MOSCOW5173	(C) YUKOS FINANCE BUYER: NO PRE-ARRANGED DEAL WITH [...] (C) One of the major investors behind the August 15 purchase of Yukos Finance assets at auction told us October 23 that the investors hoped to "unwind" the various lawsuits and other claims against the company. They planned to use the $1.5 billion in cash assets and the 49% stake in Slovakia' [...]	2007-10-26 13:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5350	THE END OF YUKOS [...] (SBU) In a November 7th meeting, Yukos receiver Eduard Rebgun told us the company will cease to exist as soon as the court acknowledges receipt of his final report, which he submitted November 2nd. Rebgun asserted that he had merely performed a professional duty to carry out a Russian court d [...]	2007-11-09 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5845	ROSNEFT'S LEADERSHIP RUMORS [...] (C) Summary: A recent shuffle in the top ranks of Rosneft, rumored to have been engineered by its Chairman Igor Sechin, has spurred speculation that CEO Sergey Bogdanchikov may be on his way out. If true, the company's plans and future may depend as much on politics as the company's plans an [...]	2007-12-18 13:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5884	THE RUSSIAN NGO LAW ONE YEAR LATER [...] (SBU) More than year after the implementation of controversial amendments with tougher reporting requirements for Russian non-governmental organizations, the fears of extensive, politically-motivated NGO closures have not materialized. A USAID-funded study, civil society assessments and Emba [...]	2007-12-20 09:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW695	NGOS: SILVER LINING BUT A LOOMING DARK CLOUD [...] (C) SUMMARY: After initial difficulties in getting re-registered, our U.S. and foreign NGO contacts have resumed normal activities and express little concern over the follow-on reporting requirements. The Federal Registration Service (FRS) surprisingly has even expressed interest in working [...]	2007-02-16 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM EAID RS
07MUSCAT1091	OMANI COMMERCE MINISTER TALKS UP FTA BENEFITS WITH [...] (SBU) Oman's Commerce and Industry Minister spoke highly of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement's (FTA) potential to strengthen bilateral economic relations during a November 26 visit to Muscat by a U.S. Congressional delegation. The Agreement, according to the Minister, would assist government [...]	2007-12-04 07:39:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL MU
07MUSCAT1096	CODEL MORAN MEETING WITH OMANI DEPUTY PRIME [...] (C) In an October 26 meeting with a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation, the Omani Deputy Prime Minister praised U.S.-Oman relations and welcomed U.S. engagement in the region. He characterized Iran as a country determined to win respect from the international community and discounted inf [...]	2007-12-05 06:31:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP KPAL ECON ENRG IR MU
07MUSCAT784	MUSCAT COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR STEPHEN COCHI [...] Embassy Muscat grants country clearance to Steven Cochi, Senior Advisor, CCIS/NCIRD, CDC, HHS to travel to Muscat from September 29 - October 3, 2007. The purpose of travel is to participate in the Global Measles Management Meeting. Please note action items in paragraphs five and eight. [...]	2007-08-15 11:56:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA SWHO ASEC CDC MU
07NAHA89	FIRST USN CIVILIAN PORT CALL IN OKINAWA A SUCCESS [...] (S) The mine countermeasures ships USS Guardian (MCM 5) and USS Patriot (MCM 7) conducted the first USN call on a civilian port in Okinawa Prefecture since Okinawa's 1972 reversion to Japan, successfully visiting Sonai Port on Yonaguni Island June 24-26. This port call to Japan's westernmost [...]	2007-06-27 11:29:00	Consulate Naha	SECRET	MARR PGOV PREL PINS JA
07NAIROBI4567	Kenya Election: Western Province Primaries [...] (SBU) The U.S. Mission sent 20 observation teams across Kenya to cover the party nomination process on November 16. To a team, our observers reported that all three major parties (ODM, PNU and ODM-K) often failed or refused to supply proper ballots or, often, any ballots at all. Reports of vo [...]	2007-11-26 14:18:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KE
07NDJAMENA807	CHAD: NO PROGRESS ON DETAINED AMCIT [...] (SBU) No progress has been made in the more than five days of contacts between members of the Chadian Tubu community and the MDJT rebel group currently holding Amcit Steve Godbolt in Zoumri, northern Chad. The local Radio France International (RFI) reporter had agreed to temporarily hold off [...]	2007-10-17 15:37:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PGOV PTER PREL CD LY
07NDJAMENA822	CHAD REBEL GROUP ISSUES PRESS RELEASE CONCERNING SEIZED [...] The Paris-based Chad opposition web site "Al-Wihda" (alwihdainfo.com) has carried a number of postings concerning American Cash Steven Godbold, seized by the MDJT on October 12 in Zoumri, Chad, including one by the group which claims to have seized him. We cannot attest to the authenticity of [...]	2007-10-23 11:06:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL CASC CD LY
07NDJAMENA823	CHAD: 10/23 UPDATE ON GODBOLD SEIZURE [...] (SBU) According to colleagues of seized Amcit Cash Steven Godbold, Godbold has been moved some 12-15 kilometers away from the town of Zoumri. Chadian Tubus have reported to Godbold's N'Djamena colleagues that the MDJT guards with Godbold are standing watch in shifts, and are concerned that a [...]	2007-10-23 15:37:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER CASC CD LY
07NDJAMENA825	CHAD AMCIT CASE: REPORTED MDJT REQUEST [...] (SBU) CDA and other Emboffs met with Mr. Hadir Adji, President of the Associations Friends of the Tibesti and two of his colleagues on October 19 to pass on the message that the case of seized American Cash Steven Godbold was being followed with a great deal of interest and concern in Washingt [...]	2007-10-24 11:40:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PTER CD LY
07NDJAMENA832	GOC OFFICIAL SAYS BE PATIENT ON GODBOLD CASE [...] (SBU) CDA met with the Secretary of State for the Interior Djasnabaille on October 25 to discuss the situation of seized Amcit Cash Steve Godbold. Djasnabaille said that the Government of Chad (GOC) strongly condemned the act. He said that they were in touch with Tubu "notables" from Bardai [...]	2007-10-25 13:59:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER CASC CD LY
07NDJAMENA849	CHAD: GODBOLD UPDATE 10/30 [...] (SBU) Summary: Seized Amcit Cash Steve Godbold has been moved to a location deeper in the heart of the Tibesti, but his colleagues in N'Djamena are still confident that he is in good health and being well treated. The Red Cross has been contacted and is ready to facilitate his release, but t [...]	2007-10-31 18:14:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PTER LY CD
07NDJAMENA856	GODBOLD CASE: RED CROSS REPORTS LIKELY RELEASE [...] (SBU) International Red Cross Deputy Director Nikolai Panke contacted Charge D'Affaires on November 5 to inform her that he had spoken with MDJT splinter group leader Choa Dazi by phone. Dazi told him that Amcit Cash Steven Godbold would be released in the next couple of days. Dazi called Godb [...]	2007-11-05 11:51:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PTER CD LY
07NDJAMENA886	CHAD: MIXED SIGNALS ON GODBOLD CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite indications that he might be released shortly, seized American missionary Steve Godbold is still in the hands of MDJT rebels in the Tibesti region of Chad. End summary. 2. (SBU) On November 8 the Al-Wihda website announced that the MDJT splinter group claiming to ho [...]	2007-11-15 15:50:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PTER CD LY
07NEWDELHI1676	CODEL LOWEY DISCUSSES 123 AGREEMENT, CONGRESSIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a joint meeting with Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and Special Envoy to the Prime Minister Shyam Saran, Codel Lowey outlined their concerns on the civil-nuclear agreement, including fears that the Government of India (GOI) had come to the conclusion that the U.S. Congre [...]	2007-04-09 14:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI2830	AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR 123 CONCLUSION, SIGHTS ON [...] (C) Summary. In a June 15 meeting with National Security Advisor MK Narayanan, the Ambassador: -- pressed for the earliest possible conclusion to 123 Agreement negotiations and pressed the Indian to clarify their notion of a stand-alone fully safeguarded reprocessing facility; -- urged for [...]	2007-06-18 10:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KNNP TSPA SENV SCUL IN EAGR
07NEWDELHI3528	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 30 - August 3, 2007. Contains Business Proprietary information. TATA RUNS INTO TROUBLE IN TAMIL NADU --------------- 2. (SBU) Tata Steel's $620 million project proposed Tamil Nadu titanium d [...]	2007-08-03 12:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG SENV IN
07NEWDELHI3664	HAL CHIEF ASSERTS U.S. LICENSING, VISA PROCEDURES [...] (C) This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary. Charge agreed to meet with the Chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at the latter's request on the margins of a visit to Bangalore to accompany U.S. Senator John Ensign. After briefing Cha [...]	2007-08-13 06:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ETRD CVIS IN
07NEWDELHI3668	LIEBERMAN ENGAGES INDIA ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Senator Joseph Lieberman met on August 10 in New Delhi with Dr. Leena Srivastava, Deputy Director, Ambassador Chandrashekher Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, Dr. Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, and other senior staff of The Energy and [...]	2007-08-13 09:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID KGHG ECON TSPL TRGY EFIN BEXP IN
07NEWDELHI3844	DELHI DIARY, AUG 04-22 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for August 4-22, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Opens a 22-year-old "Rulebook" to Keep Other Government Entities Out of Foreign Affairs -- Indo-Pak Border to Open for Trade October [...]	2007-08-22 12:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR KISL KWBG KPAL ELTN AS
07NEWDELHI4659	HIGHLIGHTS OF NIH DIRECTOR'S OCTOBER VISIT TO INDIA [...] (U) Summary: The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni and his delegation came at an opportune time to India as India announced plans to establish a new Department of Health Research within the Ministry of Health and [...]	2007-10-19 04:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA IN
07NEWDELHI5327	INDIAN DEFENSE SECRETARY TO GC HAYNES: TIES [...] (C) Summary. In a December 14 meeting among Department of Defense General Counsel William J. Haynes, Indian Defense Secretary Vijay Singh, and Integrated Defense Staff Chief SIPDIS General Hardev Singh Lidder, Singh and Lidder: -- Accepted responsibility on India for failure to complete [...]	2007-12-17 10:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR IN
07NEWDELHI5335	MENON ND CHAVAN ASSURE U.S. FIRMS OF NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan assured a visiting trade mission of nuclear-related firms December 10-11 that India would purchase U.S. reactors. Menon recognized that a "letter of intent" would help the [...]	2007-12-17 12:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY BEXP EINV
07NEWDELHI5418	SCENESETTER PART I: THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary Leavitt, your visit to India comes at a difficult juncture in what has been a time of deep transformation in Indo-U.S. relations. Just as we were poised to accelerate and expand ties between our two democracies into a more comprehensive relationship, the ruling coalit [...]	2007-12-28 10:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA IN
07NEWDELHI786	INDIA APPEASES LEFT AND MUSLIMS WITH TEHRAN VISIT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: "Times of India" diplomatic correspondent Indrani Bagchi, who accompanied Foreign Minister Mukherjee on his visit to Tehran February 6-7, told Deputy PolCouns that the visit had been an exercise by the government of India (GOI) to garner headlines that would please the Indian Mus [...]	2007-02-15 13:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET PARM KNNP IR PK IN
07NICOSIA781	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JEFFREY HOVENIER AND [...] Embassy Nicosia grants country clearance for the visit of Jeffrey M. Hovenier and Steve Boukedes for travel to Cyprus from October 2 - 4, 2007 as stated in reftel. Control Officer for traveler is Political Chief Greg Macris reachable at tel: 357-22393524, email: MacrisGP@state.gov. 2. Rese [...]	2007-09-26 11:09:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA CY
07NICOSIA797	"TRNC" ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING: THERE'S SOME WILL, BUT THEY [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-28 13:27:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV ETER CY
07NOUAKCHOTT334	MAURITANIA SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION [...] (C) After almost 30 years of military rule, Mauritania's first credibly elected president since independence will be sworn in on April 19. The U.S., in cooperation with its international partners and the Mauritanian transitional government, worked actively to bring about this historic transit [...]	2007-04-05 18:55:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA MARR MASS ASEC
07NOUAKCHOTT357	PRESIDENT-ELECT: THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE THE FUTURE [...] (U) President-elect Sidi Mohamed Cheikh Ould Abdallahi, in an interview with the Algerian newspaper "Al-Khabar Al-Jazaaaeri published April 8, is quoted as saying "the last word on (Mauritanian-Israeli) relations belongs to the Mauritanian people." He added, "the reality is that there is an I [...]	2007-04-10 14:57:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS MR
07NOUAKCHOTT400	PARLIAMENT CONVENES, ELECTS ITS LEADERSHIP [...] (U) The new parliament met for the first time April 26, in the final step to the return to constitutional order. The Military Council for Justice and Democracy following the August 3, 2005 coup dissolved parliament and suspended the part of the constitution requiring parliamentary decision, a [...]	2007-04-27 13:46:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM PINR MR
07NOUAKCHOTT407	NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ -- MAURITANIA [...] (C) Mauritania lacks the capability to provide military contribution to the Coalition at this time. Mauritania has a small contingent n the AMIS peacekeeping forces in Sudan (a 20-memer liaison unit). We have proposed that Mauritani join the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISM),but have [...]	2007-04-30 18:39:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS PTER IZ MR
07NOUAKCHOTT43	VALL SEES EVENTS IN SOMALIA AS POSITIVE [...] (C) Former AF A/S Herman J. Cohen briefed Charge January 10 on his meeting with CMJD President Vall earlier that day. Vall spoke positively of the recent events in Somalia, noting that the Islamist movement is more a threat to Muslims than to anyone else. He appeared supportive of Ethiopia's e [...]	2007-01-11 18:30:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	AU KPKO PREL SO MR
07NOUAKCHOTT487	CHARGE,S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE CHARGE PAID AN INTRODUCTORY CALL MAY 22 TO THE NEWLY APPOINTED MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND COOPERATION MOHAMED SALECK OULD MOHAMED LEMINE. THE MINISTER SAID U.S.-MAURITANIAN RELATIONS WERE "IMBALANCED" TOWARD POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT AND HOPED THAT THE USG COULD PROVIDE COMMEN [...]	2007-05-29 12:04:00	Embassy Nouakchott	SECRET	IS MARR MR PGOV PHUM PREL
07NOUAKCHOTT566	FOREIGN MINISTRY REFUTES ALLEGATIONS OF SECRET CIA [...] (U) This an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) A spokesman from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation has categorically denied what he called "baseless" allegations, published in the New Yorker, that the government of Colonel Ely Vall had allowed the creation of secre [...]	2007-06-21 17:36:00	Embassy Nouakchott	SECRET//NOFORN	MR PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
07NOUAKCHOTT584	CHARGE MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER ZEINE OULD [...] (C) Summary: In a tour d'horizon meeting June 21, Prime Minister Zeine Ould Zeidane assured Charge that Mauritania would continue to work closely with the United States on counter-terrorism despite the recent release of suspects thought to pose a threat to United States interests. He indicated [...]	2007-06-26 14:56:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ETRD MR PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
07NOUAKCHOTT683	EMBASSY NOUAKCHOTT CONCURRENCE ON FY08 REQUEST FOR [...] (C/rel NACT) The US European Command J2, in conjunction with the Defense Attache Office at U.S. Embassy Nouakchott, has developed a request for funding under section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act entitled &Improve Partner Nation Intelligence.8 The Chief of Mission strongly s [...]	2007-08-01 11:09:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PINR MR
07NOUAKCHOTT700	COURT SENTENCES FIVE FOR TERROR RELATED CRIMES [...] (U) The trial of the remaining 14 detainees accused of belonging to "Al Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb," formerly the Groupe Salafist pour la Predication et le Combat(GSPC) (reftel),concluded on July 31 with five convictions and nine acquittals. 2. (U) The Criminal Court condemn [...]	2007-08-02 17:08:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CASC MR
07NOUAKCHOTT710	EXPANSION OF OEF-TS ACTIVITIES IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) With the successful deployment August 1 of the first JCET in Mauritania since 2005, we have re-established our military-to-military re-engagement, suspended following the August 2005 coup d'etat. The new government welcomes this engagement and encourages our continued military training and [...]	2007-08-07 18:05:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL AMGT MR
07NOUAKCHOTT712	ABDALLAHI PROMISES CONTINUED CT AND CN COOPERATION [...] Summary: President Abdallahi stressed his government's determination to continue close cooperation with the United States on Counter Terrorism and Counter Narcotics. He expressed his disappointment in the outcome of the recent terrorist trials, and explained his government's decision to reco [...]	2007-08-08 07:15:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS ECON PHUM MR
07OSLO248	NORWAY: MISSLE DEFENSE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND OUTREACH [...] (C) Summary: As reported in ref b and c, Norway,s government remains opposed in principle to missile defenses writ large and skeptical of U.S. plans to base missile installations in Central Europe. Embassy Oslo continues to engage with media, government and think tank researchers to present the fac [...]	2007-03-13 16:18:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR
07OSLO268	NORWEGIANS SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 16:12:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL ZI NO
07OTTAWA266	PSI: CANADIAN FOLLOW-UP ON ATTEMPT TO SHIP [...] Action request: See para 3. 2. (SBU) Responding to refs A and C, on February 9 Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Export Controls Division Deputy Director Steven Goodinson conveyed to us the points below regarding the attempted shipment of U.S.-origin test eq [...]	2007-02-09 19:52:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KNNP MNUC ETTC PREL SY CA
07PANAMA1007	ACE NOMINATION - MANZANILLO INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: I am pleased to nominate Manzanillo International Terminal Panama-S.A. (MIT) as Embassy Panama's multinational enterprise candidate for the Secretary of State's 2007 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). MIT is a joint venture between Carrix, Inc., headquartered in Seattle, Washi [...]	2007-06-14 20:22:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON AID BEXP ELAB ETRD PM SENV
07PANAMA307	PANAMA 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The resolution of a number of investment dispute cases in recent years opened the way for the April 2004 start of bilateral negotiations for a free trade agreement between the United States and Panama. The negotiations concluded successfully in December 2006. As of early 2007, the re-named [...]	2007-03-01 22:42:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON EFIN ETRD OPIC KTDB USTR
07PARAMARIBO146	ZIMBABWE: SURINAMESE MFA NOT FOLLOWING ISSUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff spoke with three officials at the Surinamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about Zimbabwe (ref A),all of whom admitted not following the issue. All accepted further information on the issue, and one said that Suriname would like to support a UN Human Rights Council stanc [...]	2007-03-23 20:06:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NS ZI UNHRC PHUM
07PARAMARIBO404	SURINAME VOICES TENTATIVE SUPPORT FOR US RED CROSS [...] Per reftel, post delivered demarche to Nalinie Sewpersadsingh, Head of International Orgnaizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Suriname (GOS). Sewpersadsingh showed interest, mentioned that the GOS has supported U.S. candidates in international forums in the past, [...]	2007-08-02 19:27:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ICRC NS
07PARAMARIBO609	SUGGESTED INFO MEMO ON BOUTERSE TRIAL [...] (U) The following is suggested text for an info memo on the "December Process" (Bouterse trial) in Suriname. 2. (C) The trial of Desi Bouterse and 24 co-defendants for the December 1982 murder of fifteen political opponents will begin on Friday, November 30. Bouterse is expected by many [...]	2007-11-29 15:08:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASIC SNAR NS
07PARIS2939	OECD -- GUIDANCE REQUEST -- ESTABLISHING OECD SUPPORT UNIT [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 12 Council will be asked to take a decision on establishing a Support Unit for the Heiligendamm Dialogue Process (HDP) agreed at the G-8 Summit. Although the Germans, as G-8 President, are pushing for a quick decision in order to initiate the process in the fall, they [...]	2007-07-06 15:51:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON ETRD OECD
07PARIS3014	OECD: PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE PDG)- COUNCIL [...] (SBU) The OECD Council on July 12 agreed to the establishment at the OECD of an Advisory Unit (AU) for the proposed Partnership for Democratic Governance (PDG) The decision was taken as an "A" point - consensus having been reached prior to the Council meeting, with no discussion by Permanent [...]	2007-07-12 11:17:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON ETRD OECD
07PARIS306	ENGAGEMENT WITH MUSLIM COMMUNITIES - FRANCE [...] Summary: The Ambassador and all of Mission France support a sustained and focused effort to engage France's Muslim minorities, recognizing that organizing and executing such an effort will continue to require considerable discretion, sensitivity and tact on our part. Although there is some ev [...]	2007-01-25 17:30:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC PREL PHUM KPAO KISL FR XG
07PARIS3808	A/S FRIED CFE TALKS WITH RUSSIA IN FRANCE [...] (C) Summary. EUR Assistant Secretary Dan Fried and an interagency team met with Russian DFM Kislyak September 11 in Paris to discuss next steps on the U.S. parallel actions plan for ending the current deadlock on fulfillment of Istanbul commitments by Russia and ratification of Adapted CFE by [...]	2007-09-13 14:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR NATO KFCE FR GG RU MD
07PARIS461	DOD DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN EUROSATORY 2008 [...] IN ANTICIPATION OF JUNE 2008 EUROSATORY, U.S. EMBASSY PARIS STRONGLY SUPPORTS AND ENCOURAGES DIRECT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PARTICIPATION IN THIS IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL EVENT. 2. THE WORLD LARGEST LAND AND AIR DEFENSE ARMAMENT TRADE SHOW, SCHEDULED FOR 16-20 JUNE 2008, PROVIDES AN UNEQUAL [...]	2007-02-06 14:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MILI PINS ETRD MARR FR
07PARIS480	FRANCE?S AVIAN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC PLANNING: [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. --------------------------------------------- ------ Paris Eager For Collaboration With U.S. Authorities --------------------------------------------- ------ 2. (U) Embassy ESTH officers recently met with Ministry of Health officials, who expr [...]	2007-02-07 15:46:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU FR AIAG
07PARIS741	YOUR MEETING WITH FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT VALERY [...] (C) Steve, Thank you for agreeing to a brief meeting with former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing. The historical perspective Giscard brings to his assessment of international developments are unmatched. I believe you will also find his views on the current French presidential elec [...]	2007-02-27 12:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR PINR SOCI ECON EU
07PHNOMPENH765	EAP/MLS DEPUTY DIRECTOR NAGY MEETS POLITICAL PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary. Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) Secretary General Mu Sochua told visiting EAP/MLS Deputy Director Eleanor Nagy that 2007 commune council election flaws are a preview of problems likely to arise during the 2008 national elections. Sochua expressed hope for a U.S. delegation visit to Camb [...]	2007-06-06 10:00:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KWMN KDEM CB
07PORTAUPRINCE531	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DEMOCRACY IN ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-19 20:15:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL ZI HA
07PORTAUPRINCE817	VETTING REQUEST: FOURTH (4TH) SUBMISSION OF 50 HAITIAN [...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of the following 50 HNP cadets among the approximately 655 recruited for training of the 19th Promotion. 3. We received comments regarding one name following the consular section's NIK process. 4. [...]	2007-05-03 19:07:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR MARR MASS PGOV RHUM HA
07PORTAUPRINCE833	TENSION BEHIND THE SCENES AT ALBA [...] (C) Summary: Senate President Joseph Lambert described a "very tense" atmosphere behind the scenes of the ALBA summit between President Preval and President Chavez in a meeting with Embassy staff on May 4. According to Lambert, Preval refused to join ALBA and told Chavez that if ALBA membersh [...]	2007-05-07 15:28:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HA VE
07PORTAUPRINCE883	LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: SEVEN (7TH) SUBMISSION OF 50 HAITIAN [...] This is an action request for WHA/CAR. 2. Post requests Department initiate review of the following 50 HNP cadets among the 654 recruited for training of the 19th Promotion. The 19th class is scheduled for graduation on August 7, 2007, and therefore, the vetting process must be completed w [...]	2007-05-14 18:36:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR MARR MASS PGOV RHUM HA
07PORTMORESBY226	MCGANN MAKES WAVES IN PORT MORESBY [...] (U) Summary: EAP/ANP Office Director Steven McGann met with PNG Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Permanent Secretary Lucy Bogari, heads of diplomatic missions, Australian SIPDIS High Commission officers, and several other government officials. He also attended a reception wit [...]	2007-06-26 06:48:00	Embassy Port Moresby	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PP
07PORTOFSPAIN1154	CABLE TV PIRACY ENDS (ALMOST) IN TRINIDAD [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) With the signing of a content agreement October 30, Trinidad's main cable company Flow and HBO-Latin America ended years of controversy about cable TV piracy in Trinidad. Starting December 1, Flow will pay for HBO-LA programming and discontinue unlicensed premium movie broadcast [...]	2007-11-27 11:56:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR TD XL

07PORTOFSPAIN1156	TRINIDAD REQUESTS USG HELP WITH CABLE TV PROVIDERS [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. With the successful conclusion of licensing negotiations between Trinidad's main cable TV company Flow and U.S. company HBO-LA (reftel),the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) has asked Flow to conclude licensing [...]	2007-11-27 19:58:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR TD
07PORTOFSPAIN277	DEMARCHE: BUILDING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY IN [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 18:46:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ZI TD
07PORTOFSPAIN554	TRINIDAD'S CABLE TV PIRACY DISPUTE HEATS UP [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) In the latest skirmish in the long-standing Trinidad and Tobago cable TV piracy wars, HBO-Latin America launched a media blitz May 9 accusing Trinidad's cable provider Flow of ongoing cable piracy and failing to negotiate in good faith to purchase cable feeds legally. Flow respo [...]	2007-06-06 18:06:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR TD XL
07PRETORIA1206	SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY [...] (U). Summary: This is the first issue for 2007 of the South African Environment, Science and Technology newsletter, January to March Volume 1, Number 6, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa. Topics of the newsletter: -- SA Leads an Afro-Euro Team to Prestigious EU Science [...]	2007-04-04 15:02:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ETRD SF
07PRETORIA1207	SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY [...] (U). Summary: This is the first issue for 2007 of the South African Environment, Science and Technology newsletter, January to March Volume 1, Number 6, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa. Topics of the newsletter: -- SA Leads an Afro-Euro Team to Prestigious EU Science [...]	2007-04-04 15:02:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ETRD SF
07PRETORIA1385	SOUTH AFRICAS NATIONAL POLICY ON AGING [...] (U) South Africa shares mortality risks and aging challenges similar to many developing countries. According to South Africa's 2001 census, South Africa had 2.2 million people aged 65 years or older, representing 4.9 percent of the total population. There is a significant non-communicable o [...]	2007-04-20 15:37:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SOCI SF
07PRETORIA1965	HEALTH MINISTER'S RETURN RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT [...] (C) Controversial and ailing Minister of Health Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang received a successful liver transplant in March. For the last several weeks, there have been reports about the return of Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang to her duties as Minister of Health. Most of the South African healt [...]	2007-05-31 11:53:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SOCI PGOV PREL SF
07PRETORIA2106	SHE,S BACK - HEALTH MINISTER MANTO [...] (U) South Africa's Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang resumed 100 percent of her duties as Health Minister on June 6, 2007 following a three-month absence to recover from a liver transplant. Her first action was to decline participation in the 3rd Annual South African Aids Conference in Durban (Ju [...]	2007-06-12 13:30:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SOCI PGOV PREL SF
07PRETORIA2352	SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY MONTHLY [...] (U) Summary: This is the South African Environment, Science and Technology Monthly Briefings newsletter, June 2007, Volume 2, Number 3, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa. Topics of the newsletter: -- USTDA AND RAND WATER SYSTEMS FORM CAPACITY-BUILIDING PARTNERSHIP -- GREE [...]	2007-07-03 04:11:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ETRD SF
07PRETORIA3029	SECRETARY LEAVITT CONCLUDES SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO [...] (U) U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael O. Leavitt completed a successful visit to South Africa August 18-21, 2007. The Secretary and his delegation visited four sites in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces funded by the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief to dem [...]	2007-08-30 04:37:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SOCI PGOV PREL SF
07PRETORIA317	WESTINGHOUSE PURSUES SOUTH AFRICAN NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] (U) Summary. Westinghouse and Areva will compete fiercely for construction of one, and possibly more, conventional nuclear reactors to help South Africa meet its growing energy needs. Energy supplier Eskom will make a February 2007 fact-finding trip to Westinghouse headquarters in the U.S. a [...]	2007-01-29 06:27:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY IAEA SF
07PRETORIA3183	JAPAN PASSIVE ON ADVOCATING WESTINGHOUSE'S SOUTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Japan is unable to manifest overt support for the Westinghouse bid for building new nuclear plants in South Africa. Toshiba acquired Westinghouse in October of last year, but Mitsubishi also has a commercial relationship with competitor French Areva. The GOJ [...]	2007-09-07 15:31:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG BEXP TRGY PREL IAEA EINV ECON SF JA
07PRETORIA3673	BIO NOTES ON DA LEADER HELEN ZILLE [...] (C) Paul Boughey, Chief of Staff for Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille, talked to PolOffs on 26 September about the first few months working for Zille. Boughey, who used to work for former DA Leader Tony Leon, admitted that working for Zille has been challenging, but not necessarily [...]	2007-10-18 12:39:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SF
07PRETORIA3902	SCENESETTER FOR USG VISITORS TO THE CORPORATE [...] (SBU) You are visiting South Africa at a particularly interesting time, only weeks before the African National Congress (ANC) elects its new leadership. Because the ANC has overwhelming support in the country (70 percent in the last election),the person who wins the ANC election in December [...]	2007-11-07 16:12:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL PGOV SF
07PRISTINA104	KOSOVO: AMB. WISNER DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: USG Special Envoy for Kosovo Status Amb. Frank Wisner, in Pristina February 4-5, told the Kosovo Albanian leadership, Kosovo Serb leaders, Assembly MPs, and the media that the Ahtisaari final status package is good for Kosovo and should be strongly supported. He received a posit [...]	2007-02-07 14:56:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA108	KOSOVO: DELEGATION FOR EXBS CONFERENCE IN [...] (SBU) Kosovo will send a delegation to the Eighth International Export Control Conference in Bucharest March 6-8, 2006. Given Kosovo's unique status as a UN-administered territory, the delegation will be led by an international United Nations Interim Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) representative, [...]	2007-02-09 14:34:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KSTC PARM PREL RO PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID
07PRISTINA112	KOSOVO: "SELF-DETERMINATION MOVEMENT" PROTEST [...] (C) Summary: A planned protest by radical "Self-Determination" Movement members in Pristina February 10 turned deadly when two protestors were killed as a result of police efforts to block demonstrators from reaching and ransacking key Kosovo government buildings. Order was restored within [...]	2007-02-12 10:41:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA113	KOSOVO: FOLLOW-ON RULE OF LAW MISSION TAKING SHAPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU Planning Team (EUPT) continues to develop plans for the ESDP follow-on rule of law mission in Kosovo. Team leader Casper Klynge told us recently he is confident that the transition will be relatively smooth on the policing side and that the mission will be at authorized s [...]	2007-02-12 11:01:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA115	KOSOVO: THE IMPORTANCE OF OPEN VOTING IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: As we have seen in recent high-profile Kosovo Assembly deliberations, the use of secret ballots combined with weak party discipline and back-bencher discontent has greatly complicated our ability to get key legislation passed. Working with the leadership of the Assembly and oth [...]	2007-02-12 12:34:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA141	KOSOVO: DACI CONVENES "DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The break-away faction of the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) held its first political convention on February 17, endorsing ex-Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci as its leader and approving his hand-picked slate of deputy presidents. The party chose the name "Democratic League [...]	2007-02-26 14:49:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA142	KOSOVO: UNMIK POLICE APPLY LESSONS LEARNED IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent USOP conversations with top UNMIK police leaders reveal that UNMIK plans to use the same overall approach toward the planned March 3 demonstration of the extremist Self-Determination Movement (SDM) that it used during the violent SDM protest on February 10. That is, a fir [...]	2007-02-26 17:40:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM KDEM MOPS UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA150	KOSOVO: SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post's submission for the Seventh Annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report follows. Kosovo is administered by the United Nations Interim Administrative Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1244, which was adopted in 1999 following the NA [...]	2007-02-28 13:55:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF PGOV KJUS
07PRISTINA151	KOSOVO: USOP HELPS BUILD KOSOVO SPECIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite initial hurdles, the Kosovo Special Prosecutors' Office (KSPO) is taking shape under USOP leadership and will help fill a gap in prosecutions for sensitive cases. One special prosecutor started work in January, three others transferred on February 28, and a fifth was s [...]	2007-02-28 15:06:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA159	KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF A/S FRIED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Status fever continues to grip all residents of Kosovo, with ethnic Albanians focused on the conclusion of the Ahtisaari process and Serbs grimly wondering how they will cope once the outcome is clear. With careful management and assiduous courting of both Albanian and Serb leade [...]	2007-03-01 18:08:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA161	KOSOVO: MEDIA CAMPAIGN/PUBLIC OUTREACH ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since President Ahtisaari's February 2 presentation of the final status settlement package for Kosovo, efforts to explain the package to both Kosovar Albanians and Serbs include a USAID-funded media campaign, televised educational programs, radio call-in shows, community round [...]	2007-03-02 16:18:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI KPAO
07PRISTINA163	UPDATE ON KOSOVO PRIORITY STANDARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) are finding it difficult to close the book on the remaining Contact Group (CG) Priorities for Standards. We believe all CG offices here would agree that at least nine of the 13 Priorities are complete and that the onl [...]	2007-03-02 16:58:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA164	KOSOVO: CASE EMERGING AGAINST ALBIN KURTI FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 13, following the violent February 10 protest led by the Self-Determination Movement (SDM),in which two people were killed and approximately 80 injured, Kosovo Police Service (KPS) detained SDM leader Albin Kurti for 30 days based on the ruling of an international pr [...]	2007-03-02 17:07:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA168	KOSOVO: SDM MARCH 3 PROTEST PEACEFUL, RESULT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Self-Determination Movement (SDM),virulently opposed to President Ahtisaari's final status package for Kosovo and continued UNMIK presence, held a peaceful protest March 3 in the center of Pristina that attracted fewer than 3000 participants. No serious incidents, injuries [...]	2007-03-05 12:14:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA180	KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY INVESTIGATES FORMER SPEAKER DACI, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo Assembly's ad-hoc Investigative Committee presented its report on financial wrongdoing to the full Assembly, which dutifully adopted it on February 22. The report was essentially a watered-down version of the Auditor General's earlier findings, and was even less firm in [...]	2007-03-08 08:11:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA181	KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY INVESTIGATES FORMER SPEAKER DACI, [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-08 08:12:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA186	KOSOVO: ON THE HUSTINGS FOR THE PACKAGE: ALL [...] (C) Summary: USOP outreach efforts to encourage understanding of the Ahtisaari package have uncovered some interesting trends, particularly with regard to Kosovar Albanian perceptions of the document. By far, decentralization as it affects southern Kosovo has proven to be the most contentio [...]	2007-03-12 11:37:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI
07PRISTINA188	KOSOVO: VILLAGE LEADERS WILLING TO DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A March 7 visit by the USKFOR Polad to Debelde, a town affected by the 2001 border agreement between Macedonia and the then-FRY, suggests that village leaders there talk a tough game on not giving up their land, but are actually quite willing to discuss compensation. Indeed, thes [...]	2007-03-12 12:42:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA19	KOSOVO: KILLING OF POLICE OFFICER AND SUBSEQUENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo Police Service (KPS) officer Avni Kosumi was shot and killed on January 3 near the Serb village of Babin Most in Vushtrri municipality, 10 miles north of Pristina. Since the shot may have come from the direction of the village, the KPS searched homes in the area, once by [...]	2007-01-10 16:09:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA194	KOSOVO: A/S FRIED TELLS SERBS AND ALBANIANS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his March 6-8 visit to Kosovo, EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried warned both Albanians and Serbs to make sure that extremists from both sides do not raise tensions in the run up to the decision on Kosovo's final status. Serb leaders from the north were resolute in thei [...]	2007-03-13 11:46:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA200	KOSOVO: DISCIPLINED ASSEMBLY SUPPORTS AHTISAARI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In contrast to its February 9 marathon session that ended in only half-hearted support for the Ahtisaari proposal and the work of the Kosovo negotiating team (the "Unity Team"),the Assembly on March 14 warmly received the report of three Unity Team members on the last "elephan [...]	2007-03-14 18:07:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA206	KOSOVO: NEW POLICE COMMISSIONER INTENDS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: New UNMIK Police Commissioner Richard Monk told COM March 14 that he will work to maintain UNMIK Civpol's strength throughout the transition period to the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) rule of law mission. The same day, EU Planning Team Head Casper Klynge said the [...]	2007-03-16 15:44:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA21	KOSOVO: UNMIK CUSTOMS ASSISTS IN SEIZURE OF OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK Customs Service became suspicious when a truck later found to contain about 430 kilograms of cocaine entered Kosovo from Montenegro. They held the truck overnight in Peja, and escorted it to the Macedonian border January 8, where Macedonian authorities discovered the cocai [...]	2007-01-10 17:00:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA214	USOP'S FIRST VISIT TO THE NEWLY RE-ACCREDITED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari,s proposal for Kosovo,s final status calls for the regularization of the university in north Mitrovica as a Kosovar institution of higher learning. On March 11 UNMIK quietly and temporarily extended accreditation to the university. In a March 15 me [...]	2007-03-20 11:36:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PGOV PREL EAID SOCI SCUL
07PRISTINA237	KOSOVO: THE NORTH'S ALBANIAN MINORITY WORRIED [...] (C) Summary: Albanian residents of two communities north of Kosovo's Ibar River were highly supportive of the Ahtisaari proposal and grateful for USG assistance. Residents told us they generally feel secure in their villages and in their travels to the southern part of Kosovo. They have not [...]	2007-03-28 16:09:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO PHUM EAID YI
07PRISTINA259	KOSOVO: RECENTLY LAUNCHED PILOT KPC REINTEGRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UK's Ministry of Defence (UKMOD) launched a pilot reintegration program for 80 separated Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) members in January 2007. The program, which the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is managing, assists participants with finding new jobs or [...]	2007-04-04 09:53:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA261	KOSOVO: UNIFIED ASSEMBLY DECLARES OVERWHELMING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a show of overwhelming unity, the Kosovo Assembly declared its support April 5 for UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's report, committed to implement fully its provisions, and welcomed without reservation the international civilian and security presence that will be established in Ko [...]	2007-04-05 12:51:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA264	KOSOVO: ANOTHER PRIORITY STANDARD FULFILLED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 4, Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government approved a report requested by Prime Minister Agim Ceku evaluating the costs to repair 23 commercial properties (18 owned by Serbs or other minorities and 5 owned by Albanians) damaged during the March 2004 anti-S [...]	2007-04-06 16:40:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA27	KOSOVO: PUBLIC OUTREACH WORKING GROUP PREPARES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Working Group on Public Outreach, chaired by OSCE Ambassador Wnendt and supported by USOP, has agreed to a two-phased approach in relation to UN Envoy Ahtisaari's presentation of the final status package: an initial, "simple message" campaign -- via billboards and PSAs -- [...]	2007-01-12 14:13:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI PGOV
07PRISTINA273	KOSOVO: TRANSITION WORKING GROUPS MOVE FORWARD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The nine transition working groups set up by UNMIK, the core team for the post-UNMIK International Civilian Office, USOP, and the Kosovo government have focused attention on necessary actions required to be taken by the Kosovo government in time for UNMIK's departure. The first [...]	2007-04-11 15:43:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA277	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DARREL HART AND LEON [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to ICITAP Albania Program Manager Darrel Hart and Leon Strigotte, ICITAP Advisor to visit Pristina April 12 - April 15, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to review the Police Inspectorate Program that was developed and implemented in 20 [...]	2007-04-12 06:39:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA AMGT
07PRISTINA281	KOSOVO: GROWING PRESSURE ON AND FROM KOSOVO SERBS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent instances in which Kosovo Serb officials have refused to accept U.S. assistance if Kosovo Albanians are involved in the projects or in the provision of USOP/USAID security suggest that these communities are coming under increased and deliberate pressure from Belgrade and t [...]	2007-04-12 08:01:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA29	KOSOVO: DACI AND HIS SUPPORTERS CREATE A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former Kosovo Assembly president Nexhat Daci and his supporters announced January 12 the creation of a new political "entity" called the Democratic League (LD). Daci told reporters the Democratic League will be "a continuation of the party created and run by former President Ib [...]	2007-01-12 17:54:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCRM KJUS UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA293	KOSOVO: UNMIK REQUEST FOR USG ASSISTANCE IN [...] (C) UNMIK CivPol Commissioner Richard Monk has asked USOP for assistance in persuading the governments of Denmark and Norway to extend the tours of two civilian police officers deemed mission-essential. We concur with Monk that the extension of these two officers, and possibly additional pers [...]	2007-04-13 12:57:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA303	KOSOVO: CODEL ROHRABACHER SUPPORTS AHTISAARI, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Kosovo April 14-15, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) conveyed a strong message of support for UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's package, saying it was past time for Kosovo's status to be resolved. In meetings with Kosovo officials, UNMIK, OSCE and US KFOR, Rohrabacher also stressed th [...]	2007-04-18 11:03:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA304	KOSOVO DELEGATION PRAISES EXPORT CONTROL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNMIK Customs Directors Malcolm Brown and Ekrem Hajdari, upon return from their highly rewarding participation in a U.S.-funded conference, queried us on the status of what they described as an EXBS offer to provide Kosovo with a mobile scanner in 2007. They were delighted wi [...]	2007-04-18 11:08:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA32	KOSOVO SEEKS TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM IN DEVELOPING [...] (SBU) Summary. The Kosovo/World Bank energy sector development project, known as the Lignite Power Technical Assistance Project (LPTAP),has made some progress, but ensuring coordination between UNMIK/PISG and the international community on the way to move forward remains a challenge. The PI [...]	2007-01-17 11:44:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EMIN ENRG PGOV PREL YI
07PRISTINA331	KOSOVO: NEW APPROACH NEEDED TO HELP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A year after the opening of Osterode camp, a USG-funded medical treatment facility for lead-poisoned Roma in northern Mitrovica, 134 Roma ) including 69 children ) still live in the highly contaminated Cesmin Lug camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Thirty-one children [...]	2007-04-26 15:41:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PREF SENV YI KCRS UNMIK
07PRISTINA336	KOSOVO: SECURITY COUNCIL VISIT TO KOSOVO LEAVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Whatever Russian hopes may have been for an April 27-28 UN Security Council trip that would leave permreps more sympathetic to the plight of Kosovo Serbs and hostile to the prospect of Kosovo independence, it appears that goal was not achieved; instead, delegation members appear [...]	2007-04-30 09:52:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK UNSC YI
07PRISTINA348	KOSOVO: BALKAN WATCHERS' CONFERENCE BRINGS USG [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Belgrade-US Office Pristina message. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 16-18, Balkans watchers from Embassies Berlin, Paris, Rome, Skopje, USEU, and USNATO participated in familiarization visits to both Belgrade and Pristina. Co-hosted by Embassy Belgrade and US Office [...]	2007-05-03 15:16:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA349	KOSOVO: 3,000 RALLY IN PRISTINA FOR FORMER PM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: An estimated 3,000 people rallied peacefully in Pristina during lunch hour on May 2 in support of ICTY indictee and former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. Some high-level officials of Haradinaj's Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) party participated, as well as prominent m [...]	2007-05-03 16:01:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA362	KOSOVO: FUTURE STAND-UP OF MINISTRY OF FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has the lead and has made progress on plans to stand up a new Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) after the status decision is made. Budget, organizational structure, and necessary legislation have already been drafted as part of the [...]	2007-05-07 15:29:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA380	KOSOVO: UNITY TEAM SET TO APPROVE INTERIM PASSPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: After much prodding from UNMIK and USOP, the Kosovo government has scrapped plans to produce an expensive biometric passport in favor of an interim solution, far more practical, that essentially represents a revision of the current UNMIK travel document. UNMIK sources tell us the [...]	2007-05-15 15:46:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA392	KOSOVO: KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS (KPC) COORDINATOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) held a May 10 briefing in Pristina on what it said was an "urgent requirement" to fund the Office of the Kosovo Protection Corps Coordinator (OKPCC),an UNMIK organization, for one year after status. KPC Coordinator Major General Syk [...]	2007-05-18 16:11:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MASS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA404	KOSOVO: SERB RETURNS HAMPERED BY A COMPLEX MIX OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: There have been 16,458 cases of known minority returns to Kosovo since the 1999 conflict out of an estimated population of 230,000 displaced persons. Current impediments include most prominently lack of employment opportunities, concerns (real and exaggerated) over security, poo [...]	2007-05-22 14:49:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREF UNMIK EAID YI
07PRISTINA405	KOSOVO: POOR POE BOARD NOMINATIONS RAISE CONCERNS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-22 15:21:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KPRV ENRG PGOV PREL YI
07PRISTINA407	THE ROAD AND THE WALL: GETTING THE GOVERNMENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two issues that have seen recent negative developments -- plans to construct a road near the Decani Monastery, linking western Kosovo to Montenegro, and controversy over the building of a security wall around the Pec Patriarchate -- foreshadow the difficulties regarding implement [...]	2007-05-22 15:47:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA413	KOSOVO SERB AND ALBANIAN FAMILIES OF THE MISSING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For the first time in over a year, family members of missing Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo Albanians met jointly with representatives of the Government of Serbia, the PISG, and UNMIK at a May 16-17 conference in Macedonia, organized by the International Commission on Missing Persons [...]	2007-05-25 09:56:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA414	KOSOVO: REAL WORK ON NOVEMBER ELECTIONS NEEDS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Transition Working Group on Elections has finished work and submitted a report of its four months of deliberations at the May 21 meeting of the Strategic Group on Transition, headed by UNMIK SRSG Joachim Ruecker. While there was early agreement on proportional voting based on [...]	2007-05-28 15:37:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EAID UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA428	KOSOVO: POST-INDEPENDENCE SERB-RELATED CHALLENGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The eventual declaration of Kosovo's independence, as we have always anticipated, will pose a number of challenges on the ground given continuing Belgrade and Kosovo Serb refusal to countenance any settlement based on the Ahtisaari plan or to accept the end of Serbian sovereignt [...]	2007-06-01 16:47:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK UNSC YI
07PRISTINA444	KOSOVO: FIVE TRAFFICKING SUSPECTS RECEIVE A TOTAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo media reported on May 29 that the Pristina Regional Court sentenced five people accused of trafficking in persons (TIP) to a total of 19 years in prison, ranging from 7.6 years for the group's ringleader to 2 years for a Moldovan woman whom the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) [...]	2007-06-05 17:06:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	GTIP KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA453	KOSOVO: ALBIN KURTI INDICTED FOR FEBRUARY 10 RIOT, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An international prosecutor filed an indictment against Vetevendosje/Self-Determination Movement (SDM) leader Albin Kurti in the Pristina District Court on June 4, 2007 for crimes related to the violent February 10 SDM demonstration in Pristina. Although the indictment recomme [...]	2007-06-08 17:19:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA469	KOSOVO: WORLD BANK'S IFC INVOLVEMENT IN KOSOVO C [...] (C) Summary. The proposal from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) to take a 10 percent equity stake in one of the consortia short-listed to compete for the Kosovo C energy sector development tender has raised concerns within UNMIK, the PISG and USOP about the fairness, i [...]	2007-06-14 15:33:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ENRG ECON PGOV PREL AID YI
07PRISTINA477	KOSOVO FINAL STATUS: SPECIAL ENVOY WISNER FINDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina June 14-17, USG Special Envoy for Kosovo Amb. Frank Wisner delivered a message to Kosovo Albanian national and local political leaders, businesspeople, media, academics, and religious figures that the quality of Kosovo's independence is as important as the speed at whi [...]	2007-06-19 14:28:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA489	KOSOVO: EUPT PROPOSES BROAD TRAINING CONCEPT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent weeklong course in Finland for candidates for the anticipated Kosovo European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) mission covered ESDP concepts, the goals of the Kosovo ESDP mission, an overview of rule of law sectors in Kosovo, Kosovo-specific case studies, and the missi [...]	2007-06-22 13:07:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KCRM KJUS PGOV PINS YI UNMIK KCRS
07PRISTINA492	KOSOVO: KFOR AND UNMIK POLICE BRIEF ON READINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The KFOR commander and UNMIK police commissioner recently provided updates on their readiness posture as the status process moves into July and beyond. Both have focused on immediate challenges, including the June 23-28 presence in Kosovo of "marchers" from Serbia who will culmin [...]	2007-06-25 07:50:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA502	KOSOVO: UNMIK SEEKS SUPPORT FOR OBSERVER STATUS TO [...] (U) Acting DSRSG Paul Acda wrote to COM June 21 asking for United States Customs Service's support for UNMIK's request for observer status to the Brussels-based World Customs Organization. 2. (U) The text of Acda's direct request to WCO General Director Michel Danet follows. BEGIN TEXT: [...]	2007-06-29 09:45:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KHLS UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA503	KOSOVO: CONSTITUTIONAL DRAFTING CONFERENCE FOCUSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presentations by U.S. experts at a June 13-16 meeting in Skopje of the expanded pre-constitution working group organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and supported by USAID/Kosovo (and attended by, among others, representatives of Kosovo's Serb community) have sparked discussion [...]	2007-06-29 10:10:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA504	KOSOVO: ALBANIAN TEEN ATTACK ON ELDERLY KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 12, an eighteen-year old Albanian punched his elderly Kosovo Serb neighbor in the face, breaking her nose. Police arrested the perpetrator the same day, but released him less than 72 hours later since the municipal public prosecutor did not seek detention on remand. Th [...]	2007-06-29 14:49:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM KDEM PHUM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA506	KOSOVO: FAST-TRACKING PLAN UNDERWAY FOR TRANSITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Under the Ahtisaari Plan, the Kosovo Assembly must pass a number of laws during the established 120-day transition period. The Assembly's normal pace of doing business is inadequate to do this, so the OSCE, EAR, and NDI, working together as the Assembly Support Initiative (ASI [...]	2007-06-29 15:05:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA51	KOSOVO: PUBLIC OUTREACH CAMPAIGN ON AHTISAARI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In its work to garner public support for the final status package in advance of the expected February 2 visit of UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari, the Public Outreach Working Group, composed of OSCE, USOP/USAID, UNMIK, ICO, the Kosovo government and governing and opposition political [...]	2007-01-19 17:49:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA520	KOSOVO: SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF SERBS RETURN TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A total of 82 Serb villagers from Srpski Babush, located in Ferizaj/Urosevac municipality, returned to their recently-reconstructed homes on Saturday, June 23. Greeted warmly by Ferizaj Mayor Faik Grainca, most returnees told us they are happy with their homes, but some unresol [...]	2007-07-06 12:04:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREF PRM YI
07PRISTINA525	KOSOVO: REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO SHARE ARMY ROTC [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (U) For the last two years, the American University of Kosovo (AUK) has been running a Reserve Office Training Corps (ROTC)-type program in conjunction with the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC). AUK is affiliated with the Rochester Institute of T [...]	2007-07-09 08:54:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MOPS MASS UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA534	KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BEAN [...] (U) Your visit to Kosovo comes at the final phase of a prolonged period of negotiation over Kosovo's status, a process led by UN Special Envoy and former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari. The status negotiation process began in January 2006 with the articulation of basic principles by the [...]	2007-07-10 16:54:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL UNMIK UNSC YI
07PRISTINA536	KOSOVO: EXBS ADVISOR FOR KOSOVO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) USOP concurs with ISN/ECC's selection and assignment of Robert Burright to the position of Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program advisor in Kosovo. USOP also concurs with the plan to hire Burright as a pers [...]	2007-07-11 14:17:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA542	KOSOVO: ABNORMALLY WARM AND DRY WINTER EXPOSES [...] (U) Summary. Many regions of Kosovo suffer from water scarcity, poor drinking water quality, and absence of waste water treatment. An unusually mild and dry winter has halved fresh water inflow into artificial lakes and reservoirs in most of Kosovo, and led to widespread water cut-offs. Sever [...]	2007-07-13 09:30:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR EAID PGOV UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA543	KOSOVO: OKPCC, EUPT AND ICO AGREE TO SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: USOP delivered reftel non-paper on building an effective security sector to contacts at the Office of the Kosovo Protection Corps Coordinator (OKPCC),the European Union Planning Team for Kosovo (EUPT) and the International Civilian Office (ICO). All agreed in principle to par [...]	2007-07-13 09:34:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA544	KOSOVO: SECURITY WORKING GROUPS SLOWLY LEAVE THE [...] (C) Summary: The sub-Working Groups on Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) Issues and Security Institutions, two of the six sub-Working Groups (sub-WGs) created by the Working Group on Security (WGS) to carry out its mandate to plan for implementation of Annex VIII of the Ahtisaari final status pac [...]	2007-07-13 09:47:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS MARR PGOV PINS PREL YI KCRS UNMIK
07PRISTINA557	KOSOVO FINAL STATUS: A/S FRIED DISCUSSES NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina July 9-10, EUR A/S Fried reassured Kosovo's restive Unity Team, made up of the main governing and opposition leaders, that the U.S. would neither abandon Kosovo nor weaken in support for Kosovo's independence, and briefed them on the details of a new "minimalist" UNSC [...]	2007-07-16 12:26:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA56	KOSOVO: KOSOVARS FULFILL ANOTHER STANDARD BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local Contact Group (CG) representatives agreed that the PISG has met the standard on reconstructing Serb houses in Svinjare destroyed in the March 2004 violence. At a joint meeting between the Contact Group and Serb representatives, Russian COM told the Zvecan mayor, northern K [...]	2007-01-23 12:05:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA577	KOSOVO: NORTH MITROVICA KPS CHIEF EVINCES GUARDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Mitrovica Kosovo Police Service (KPS) Commander Milija Milosevic, speaking for the first time directly with USOP on July 18, maintained that his officers would continue to do their job regardless of the outcome of Kosovo status. Eager to show goodwill, he asserted that, at [...]	2007-07-26 11:13:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA591	KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY FINAL STATUS DEBATE ENDS WITHOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo Assembly held a marathon July 31 session to hear an update on final status from Kosovo's Unity Team (UT) upon the latter's return from Washington. Speaking of the expected 120-day period of further talks between Belgrade and Pristina, President Sejdiu said the UT would [...]	2007-07-31 14:44:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA594	KOSOVO: AT DONOR URGING, UNMIK COMMITS TO CLOSING [...] (C) Summary: UNMIK committed to closing the Cesmin Lug Roma camp, which CDC has consistently maintained is unsafe for human habitation. In a July 23 meeting with UN, USOP and donor representatives, PDSRSG Schook gave the instruction that alternative sites be found for the current Cesmin Lug [...]	2007-07-31 15:54:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV EAID KCRS YI KV UNMIK SENV PHUM
07PRISTINA611	KOSOVO: PDK HANGS TOGETHER DESPITE DIFFERENCES, [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: As a possible election season approaches, the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) is hanging together despite internal fault lines. PDK MPs are frustrated with the Unity Team and have criticized party president Hashim Thaci's leadership. Thaci himself is reportedly b [...]	2007-08-08 05:44:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM UNMIK KV YI
07PRISTINA621	KOSOVO: AUDITOR'S REPORT ON ASSEMBLY SEES IMPROVED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Kosovo Assembly has shifted from lavish misuse of government funds in 2005 to less glaring weaknesses in procedural controls in 2006, according to an independent audit released August 9. Although the Auditor General was not satisfied with the Assembly's fiscal management in [...]	2007-08-13 15:54:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID KDEM UNMIK YI KV
07PRISTINA622	KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU PUSHES BACK ON TWO TROIKA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local Troika representatives delivered the oral message to the PISG as requested by the Troika principals. UT Coordinator Blerim Shala pushed back on two points, saying that the Kosovo side had already made substantial and painful concessions and that security in Kosovo was the [...]	2007-08-13 16:06:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA636	KOSOVO: FAMILIES OF MISSING PERSONS ASK TROIKA TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 20 families of Kosovo Albanians missing since the 1998-99 conflict asked local Troika representatives, made up of Charge, Russian Charge Kurbatskiy, and ICOPT head Jonsson, to pressure Belgrade to unlock its files and reveal the fate of their relatives. The Troika assur [...]	2007-08-21 13:17:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID UNMIK YI KV
07PRISTINA640	KOSOVO: SEVEN OF KOSOVO'S MOST DANGEROUS PRISONERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Seven of Kosovo's most notorious and dangerous criminals escaped from the Kosovo Corrections Service (KCS)-run Dubrava Prison at approximately 4:15 p.m. on August 18. The prisoners, convicted of crimes ranging from murdering an international police officer to committing terroris [...]	2007-08-23 12:28:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM PINR EAID KDEM UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA643	KOSOVO: PROGRESS STALLED ON CRITICAL VETTING [...] (C) Summary. Competencies with national security implications are slowly being transferred from UNMIK to the Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG),making it critical that the legal framework and implementing mechanisms are in place for the PISG to vet personnel, classify informat [...]	2007-08-24 13:27:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA644	KOSOVO: MAIN OPPOSITION LEADER THACI WANTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Main opposition leader Hashim Thaci reiterated to us August 23 his position that elections had to happen during their constitutionally-mandated timeframe and noted that Kosovo's Unity Team (UT) had already agreed to holding them by the third week of November. Thaci promised that [...]	2007-08-24 14:14:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA668	KOSOVO: CENTRAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS SET FOR [...] (C) Summary. On August 31, UN SRSG Ruecker announced that elections will be held in Kosovo on November 17. Three ballots will be cast by voters for the central Assembly, the Municipal Assemblies, and for the first time, direct election of mayors. Additionally, Ruecker announced a five percen [...]	2007-09-06 15:42:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KV
07PRISTINA669	KOSOVO: DEMINING REPORT RECOMMENDS MORE CLEARANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) published a report in July 2007 on landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination in Kosovo and the local capacity to address it. The report, the result of a February GICHD mission to Kosovo to review prog [...]	2007-09-06 15:52:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA671	KOSOVO: SPECIAL PROSECUTORS' OFFICE MAKES PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo Special Prosecutors' Office (KSPO) now has six prosecutors pursuing complex cases and beginning to file indictments in serious cases; however, it is facing significant obstacles that threaten its future viability. Among these are a lack of resources and unhelpful atti [...]	2007-09-06 15:55:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI KV
07PRISTINA68	KOSOVO: HARADINAJ TRIAL TO COMMENCE IN MARCH IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced on January 24 that the war crimes trial of former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander and former Kosovo PM Ramush Haradinaj and his subordinates, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, will commence on March [...]	2007-01-25 18:09:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK ICTY YI
07PRISTINA683	KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU ON TROIKA TALKS, ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a September 11 meeting with COM, President Sejdiu agreed that the Kosovar side had to "do better" in the ongoing Troika-led talks and would submit on paper a "Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia" at the September 19 meeting in London, as well as an a [...]	2007-09-12 12:33:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA685	KOSOVO: IDENTIFING "CREDIBLE VOICES" IN THE MUSLIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post identifies Kosovo Islamic Community (KIC) leader Mufti Naim Ternava as a credible voice rejecting violence, along with his chief of staff, Ejup Ramadani, and his chief of media relations, Qemajl Morina. The below information is keyed to reftel A. END SUMMARY. INFLUENCE, B [...]	2007-09-14 09:58:00	Embassy Pristina	SECRET//NOFORN	KPAO KV YI

07PRISTINA687	KOSOVO ELECTIONS: 64 PARTIES, INCLUDING SOME SMALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: After extending the deadline twice, the Central Elections Commission (CEC) received applications late September 12 from 64 political parties, coalitions, citizens' initiatives and independent candidates for the November 17 elections at the central and municipal levels. Albanian p [...]	2007-09-14 14:40:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UNMIK YI KV
07PRISTINA697	KOSOVO: TREPCA AND THE NEED FOR SOUND ECONOMIC AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In August, the Kosovo Assembly was poised to pass an ill-advised resolution mandating that the debt-ridden Trepca mining and minerals company be designated a publicly-owned enterprise (POE) rather than a socially-owned enterprise (SOE). The move would have been a disastrous one, [...]	2007-09-21 14:28:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID ECON KDEM UNMIK YI KV
07PRISTINA698	KOSOVO: MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS SLOWLY TAKES [...] (C) Summary: Operating for more than a year, the embryonic Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is gradually taking over the law enforcement competencies of UNMIK, starting with civil status and registration, production of documents, emergency management, and vehicle registration. Those remaini [...]	2007-09-21 14:41:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA705	KOSOVO: KURTI TRIAL OPENS BEFORE PACKED COURTROOM, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 19, Self-Determination Movement (SDM) leader Albin Kurti's trial began in a circus-like atmosphere before an international three-judge panel and a packed courtroom on charges stemming from his instigation of violence at the February 10 SDM demonstration that left two [...]	2007-09-26 08:15:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA706	KOSOVO: KURTI TRIAL OPENS BEFORE PACKED COURTROOM, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 19, Self-Determination Movement (SDM) leader Albin Kurti's trial began in a circus-like atmosphere before an international three-judge panel and a packed courtroom on charges stemming from his instigation of violence at the February 10 SDM demonstration that left two [...]	2007-09-26 08:15:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA711	KOSOVO: VIOLENCE OVER PROPERTY SALES LEAVE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The multiethnic north Mitrovica neighborhood of Little Bosnia, or Bosniak Mahalla, is on edge as a result of a series of recent criminal incidents, including explosions, an arson attack and newly-planted unexploded ordnance (UXO). The incidents date back to January 2007 and appe [...]	2007-10-01 14:04:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA723	KOSOVO: ELECTIONS PLANNING GAINS TRACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: An approaching November 17 elections date and clear signals from UNMIK, OSCE and others to get to work have compelled Kosovar politicians and election officials to focus more energy on necessary organizational issues and less on public grandstanding about the alleged deficiencies [...]	2007-10-04 15:16:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KV
07PRISTINA734	KOSOVO: ROMA CAMPS CONTINUE TO BE PROBLEMATIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The lead-contaminated Roma IDP camp Cesmin Lug remains open more than three months after UNMIK committed to closing it (reftel). Funding is running out at Osterode, the alternate and safer camp, for services essential to preserving the health of Roma children vis-a-vis their lead [...]	2007-10-09 08:50:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID KDEM UNMIK YI KZ
07PRISTINA74	KOSOVO: KOSOVARS ANXIOUS AND EXPECTANT, BUT CALM, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovar Albanians eagerly anticipate the upcoming Feb. 2 visit by UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari, believing that his arrival will mark the final phase in the status determination process. The Kosovar Albanian "Unity Team" of negotiators from the major political pa [...]	2007-01-27 16:55:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA756	KOSOVO: K-ALBANIAN PARTIES PREPARE FOR ELECTIONS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The six Kosovar Albanian political parties with a realistic chance of passing the five-percent parliamentary threshold are scrambling to prepare for the coming election campaign, which formally begins on October 26. The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) hopes to remain the larg [...]	2007-10-25 17:16:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UNMIK YI KV
07PRISTINA757	POSSIBLE SCENARIOS IF BELGRADE DISCONNECTS KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Various scenarios exist if Serbia, in response to a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo, chooses to disconnect Kosovo from its energy grid. Our USAID energy experts tell us that the most likely scenario would have Kosovo muddling through, but only if both its aging l [...]	2007-10-26 15:05:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA768	KOSOVO: RESPONSE TO NARCOTICS AND CHEMICAL CONTROL [...] (U) Following is the submission from U.S. Office in Pristina for the narcotics and chemical control sections of this year's INCSR report. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Kosovo is primarily a transit point for heroin originating in Turkey and Afghanistan and destined for Western European countries, but it [...]	2007-11-05 16:35:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA775	KOSOVO: HOW TO VOTE ON NOVEMBER 17 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovars will head to the polls on November 17 for the first election in three years. An unofficial NGO parallel count might provide results within hours of polls closing, and thus lead to immediate coalition discussions. The Council of Europe (CoE) has 150 short term observers on [...]	2007-11-09 16:21:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KV UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA778	KOSOVO: EU PLANS FOR THE PENITENTIARY SYSTEM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the August 2007 escape of seven of Kosovo's most dangerous criminals from Dubrava Prison (reftel),which highlighted security problems in Kosovo's penitentiary system, the European Union Planning Team for Kosovo (EUPT) shared with USOP its assessment of Kosovo's prisons [...]	2007-11-14 15:53:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA782	KOSOVO: CALM CAMPAIGN CLOSES WITHOUT PROVOCATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The three-week campaign period ended on November 15 with most talk of Kosovo's status being successfully kept out of the fray. The pre-election deal struck among the main K-Albanian parties held and kept the tone of discussion of non-status issues positive for much of the campaig [...]	2007-11-16 17:11:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UNMIK YI KV
07PRISTINA783	KOSOVO ELECTIONS PROCEED CALMLY: PDK WINS BIG, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovars went to the polls on November 17 to elect their central and local assemblies, as well as mayors in Kosovo's 30 municipalities. USOP observer teams, plus the Council of Europe mission and local NGOs, all reported technically sound balloting. KFOR, UNMIK and the Kosovo P [...]	2007-11-19 11:59:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM
07PRISTINA786	KOSOVO ENERGY: PLANNING FOR A POTENTIAL BELGRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Planning for the potential of Belgrade disconnecting Kosovo from its energy grid, Kosovo energy transmission experts have begun quiet talks with their Macedonian, Albanian and Greek counterparts to coordinate action to preserve the stability of the regional energy system. In oth [...]	2007-11-20 16:22:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA793	KOSOVO: ALBIN KURTI'S TRIAL RESUMES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vetevendosje/Self-Determination Movement (SDM) leader Albin Kurti's trial resumed on November 15. The atmosphere, again, was circus-like, with Kurti trying to make political statements and the presiding judge repeatedly yelling at him to "get to the point" and "move on." It star [...]	2007-11-26 13:43:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA806	KOSOVO: PROGRESS ON MISSING PERSONS AND FORENSICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presenting a unified front, USOP, the EU Rule of Law planning team (EUPT),UNMIK's Department of Justice (DOJ),UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF),and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) together persuaded the Ministry of Justice to scrap its [...]	2007-12-06 17:05:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID UNMIK YI KV
07PRISTINA81	KOSOVO: BREAK-AWAY "DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE" FAILS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the creation of the break-away Democratic League (LD) on January 12, LD leader and former Assembly speaker Nexhat Daci and his allies have tried to portray the party as a significant force that has hived off a good portion of the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). Ho [...]	2007-01-29 15:45:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA810	KOSOVO: EFFECTS OF POSSIBLE SERBIA ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite negative consequences for its own economy, Serbia appears determined to implement an economic blockade against Kosovo when independence is declared. While the length and degree of a blockade is impossible to predict, complete closure of every Serbia-Kosovo checkpoint to a [...]	2007-12-07 17:53:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
07PRISTINA811	KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY ELECTION RESULTS BRING IMPORTANT [...] (C) SUMMARY: SRSG Ruecker certified the results of the November 17 Kosovo Assembly election on December 5. Among the Albanian parties, seat distribution of the 120-seat Assembly comprises the following (previous number of seats in parentheses): Hashim Thaci's PDK 37 (30),President Sejdiu's L [...]	2007-12-07 18:10:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UNMIK YI KV
07PRISTINA813	KOSOVO ELECTIONS: PDK WINS MORE MAYORSHIPS, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to preliminary results issued December 9 by the OSCE, Hashim Thaci's PDK party won 14 of the 23 municipalities up for grabs in the December 8 mayoral run-offs in Kosovo. President Sejdiu's LDK party won 6 -- including Pristina -- while Ramush Haradinaj's AAK party won [...]	2007-12-10 15:06:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV
07PRISTINA829	KOSOVO'S WATER SYSTEM: INTERDEPENDENCE OF NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gazivoda reservoir, located in the northern Serb-majority municipality of Zubin Potok, is Kosovo's largest body of water and a vital resource for both Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb communities. The lake supplies drinking water to areas of northern Kosovo and essential cooling [...]	2007-12-20 16:34:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK
07PRISTINA93	KOSOVO: UNMIK CIVPOL'S TRANSITION TO AN EU-LED [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK CivPol and the EU Planning Team (EUPT) continue to cooperate on planning for the eventual transfer of the international civilian police mission in Kosovo. UNMIK intends to maintain its authorized CivPol strength of 1,565 until the beginning of the transition, and the EUPT a [...]	2007-02-02 18:28:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA96	KOSOVO: POSITIVE KOSOVAR ALBANIAN REACTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reaction by Kosovo Albanian leaders and the media to the final status package, as presented in Pristina by UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari on February 2, has been positive. The Unity Team welcomed the package and issued a statement saying they were committed to continuing the process [...]	2007-02-05 16:42:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07QUITO2650	CANADIAN-US COMPANY PURSUING MAJOR PETROLEUM [...] (C) Summary: Ivanhoe Energy, a Canadian firm with substantial U.S. investment, is pursuing oilfield development in Ecuador that would use its proprietary technology to develop and upgrade super-heavy oil. President Correa is reportedly supportive and wants to move quickly to sign a contract [...]	2007-12-17 12:59:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON PREL EC
07QUITO520	GOE ACTUALLY DOES WANT SOME IDB MONEY [...] (SBU) Summary. After initially telling the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) that it wanted to limit its borrowing from the IDB to the bare minimum, the Correa administration has now indicated that it wants to sign two previously approved budget support loans worth $80 million and guarant [...]	2007-03-06 16:17:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EAID ECON EC
07QUITO768	PRIVATE SECTOR RESPONSE TO PERCEIVED CORREA THREAT [...] (C) Summary. The usually fractious Ecuadorian private sector has begun to develop what could become a cohesive response to what it perceives as threats from the Correa administration. This effort, led by Guayaquil-based figures and supported by the leading business chambers, has two main el [...]	2007-03-30 22:15:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EC
07QUITO956	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO REMOTE ARMY POST ON COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador visited a remote Ecuadorian military post located in Puerto El Carmen, Sucumbios province, on April 23. While there, she discussed illegal armed group activity with Ecuadorian military officials, viewed USG funded military projects, and met with the beneficiarie [...]	2007-04-26 22:04:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
07QXICO3307	MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS - PART 2 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:32:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
07RABAT1860	ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS NOV-DEC 2007 [...] Included in this round up: Royal Air Maroc loses control of Air Senegal. Moroccan trade deficit continues to grow. Timely rains usher-in the planting season. Casablanca remains plagued by inefficiencies. Moroccans don't need a visa to visit TGI Friday's. --------------------------------- [...]	2007-12-19 12:08:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EAIR EAGR MO
07RABAT781	MOROCCAN ROAD REFORM LOST IN RHETHORIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The appalling death toll on Moroccan roads is being overshadowed by uninformed and politically inspired rhetoric against the proposed new road reform law under debate in Parliament, according to the law's principal champion, Transport Minister Karim Ghellab. Moroccan roads are [...]	2007-04-30 10:06:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELTN ECON ELAB MO
07RABAT784	MOROCCAN ROAD REFORM LOST IN RHETORIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The appalling death toll on Moroccan roads is being overshadowed by uninformed and politically inspired rhetoric against the proposed new road reform law under debate in Parliament, according to the law's principal champion, Transport Minister Karim Ghellab. Moroccan roads are [...]	2007-04-30 12:42:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELTN ECON ELAB MO
07RANGOON1042	ILO SEEKS TO STRENGTHEN LABOR MECHANISM [...] (C) Summary. While the GOB has made some progress this year in addressing forced labor claims, it still drags its feet when investigating cases involving the military, ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall emphasized. Since signing the GOB-ILO Forced Labor Mechanism Agreement in February, the GO [...]	2007-10-22 10:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
07RANGOON1076	BURMA SANCTIONS HITTING THE REGIME WHERE IT HURTS [...] (C) Summary. The Burmese regime, concerned about the latest U.S. economic sanctions, called several key businessmen to Nai Pyi Taw, including Tay Za and Steven Law, to discuss how best to deal with the sanctions. According to business contacts, the senior generals, unhappy with Tay Za for " [...]	2007-10-31 11:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON FIN PGOV PREL BM
07RANGOON1083	BURMA PREPARES FOR THE NOVEMBER ILO GOVERNING BODY [...] (C) Summary: The ILO representative in Burma provided an update of labor issues in Burma. This included the progress he has been able to make working with the Minister for Relations (and now Minister of Labor),Aung Kyi. He warned Aung Kyi that the long prison sentences to labor activists [...]	2007-11-02 05:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
07RANGOON1090	BURMA: A TALE OF TWO CRONIES [...] (C) Summary. Despite being the senior generals' two favorite cronies, Steven Law and Tay Za could not be more different. Steven Law, the son of a known drug smuggler, keeps a low profile and conducts his business with little fanfare. Known as a consummate businessman, Law is lauded for his [...]	2007-11-06 09:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
07RANGOON1091	BURMA: A TALE OF TWO CRONIES [...] (C) Summary. Despite being the senior generals' two favorite cronies, Steven Law and Tay Za could not be more different. Steven Law, the son of a known drug smuggler, keeps a low profile and conducts his business with little fanfare. Known as a consummate businessman, Law is lauded for his [...]	2007-11-06 09:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
07RANGOON1107	ZAW ZAW: A CRONY ON THE RISE [...] (C) While Tay Za and Steven Law remain the regime's favorite cronies, Zaw Zaw, Managing Director of construction company Max Myanmar and Chairman of the Myanmar Football Federation, is an up and coming crony. Zaw Zaw actively seeks favor with the senior generals, and competes with Tay Za fo [...]	2007-11-15 05:09:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
07RANGOON1113	EDEN GROUP PROSPERING DUE TO REGIME CONNECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Chit Khaing, owner and Managing Director of Eden Group and an up and coming crony, has parlayed his regime connections to amass great wealth, while most Burmese struggle to survive. A prominent construction company, Eden Group received a six-year contract to construct government [...]	2007-11-16 05:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
07RANGOON1143	BURMA: UNICEF AND ILO ON CHILD SOLDIERS [...] (C) Summary. UNICEF and ILO representatives in Burma told Poloff they believed the use of child soldiers to be an ongoing problem, but had no way to accurately measure its scope. Current estimates were based almost entirely on anecdotal evidence, so could be misleading, they said. UNICEF de [...]	2007-11-26 10:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
07RANGOON1203	WIN AUNG - A RISING CRONY WITH CONNECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Win Aung, owner of Dagon International Construction Company and Dagon Timber Ltd., and his family continue to use their close connections with the Burmese regime to amass great wealth. Although Dagon International specializes in the construction of luxury housing projects, it [...]	2007-12-26 08:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
07RANGOON1211	DROPPING THE HAMMER ON CRONY STEVEN LAW [...] (C) Summary. Tun Myint Naing, a.k.a. Steven Law, is known among Burma's business circles as the regime's top crony. He is known to be close with both Senior General Than Shwe and Vice Senior General Maung Aye. In addition to owning Asia World Co. Ltd., one of Burma's most successful constr [...]	2007-12-28 08:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
07RANGOON645	BURMA: KEY REGIME CRONY LIKELY TO BUILD DEEP SEA [...] (C) Summary: Tun Myint Naing aka Steven Law of Asia World Co. Ltd. has emerged as a key regime crony running one of Burma's most powerful business conglomerates. Local reports that Asia World has won the right to build a deep sea port at Kyauk Phyu in Rakhine State appear premature. However, As [...]	2007-07-12 05:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV BM
07RANGOON683	NEW ILO REP CAUTIOUSLY OPTAMISTIC ABOUT LABOR [...] (C) Summary: New ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall was cautiously optimistic about the GOB's willingness to address its commitments under the 2007 ILO-GOB mechanism to address forced labor. The GOB has begun to set up local committees to address forced labor cases referred by the ILO and r [...]	2007-07-26 01:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	BM ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM
07RANGOON706	WILL CHINA OR THE U.S. DEVELOP BURMA'S OIL AND [...] (C) Summary: Well-connected businessman Moe Myint, who is heavily involved in the Burmese oil and gas sector, emphatically denies rumors that the GOB has an agreement to sell Shwe gas to the Chinese. Moe Myint claims the Korean company Daewoo has rights to develop the Shwe gas field and ref [...]	2007-08-02 11:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET BM
07RANGOON721	ILO FOLLOWING BURMA LABOR ACTIVISTS' TRIAL [...] (C) Summary. Upon hearing of the secret trial of six labor activists, four of whom were arrested on May 1 outside of the American Center, new ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall relayed concerns that the GOB is unfairly targeting these individuals, not because they attempted to form a labor u [...]	2007-08-09 11:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
07RANGOON722	POSITIVE STEPS IN ILO-BURMA COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. Despite the GOB's lack of transparency on the trial of six labor activists (Ref A),ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall is pleased in general with the GOB's cooperation on labor practices. The GOB, implementing the 2007 ILO-GOB mechanism to address forced labor, recently approve [...]	2007-08-10 01:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
07RANGOON840	ILO DISMISSES FOUR FORCED LABOR CASES [...] (C) Summary. For the first time since the ILO has been in Burma, the ILO and Burmese Government conducted joint investigations into four forced labor cases. ILO Liaison officer Steve Marshall, accompanied by Ministry of Labor officials, traveled to Southern Rakhine State August 27-30 to foll [...]	2007-09-07 09:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
07RANGOON897	GOB DEFENDS PUNISHMENT OF SIX LABOR ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall, the Minister of Labor defended the September 7 conviction of six labor activists for their affiliation with a May 1 labor workshop at the American Center. He denounced claims that the six were being punished for filing forc [...]	2007-09-18 09:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
07RANGOON904	ILO DISCUSSES GOB ACTION ON FORCED LABOR [...] (C) Summary. Since the February signing of the GOB-ILO Forced Labor Mechanism Agreement, the Burmese Government has investigated 10 cases of forced labor involving the military, resolving five of them. According to the ILO, the GOB resolved the cases involving children first, but has yet to [...]	2007-09-19 08:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
07REYKJAVIK99	Iceland: Pressing for movement on air defense radar issues [...] (SBU) Summary: The Icelandic Government is sending ever-clearer messages that it wants visible progress in U.S.-Iceland discussions on the NATO-owned Iceland Air Defense System (IADS) radar sites, for which U.S. funding expires in August 2007. In a March 30 meeting with the Ambassador, Jon E [...]	2007-04-04 16:32:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL NATO IC
07RIGA56	LATVIA IN 2007, KEEPING THE RELATIONSHIP STRONG [...] (C) Summary: As we begin 2007, Latvia is in a different place than last year. The NATO summit, which kept Riga on allies' lips for a year, is over and President Vike-Freiberga, who almost single-handedly put Latvia back on the world map, is leaving office in July. Yet, the US maintains impor [...]	2007-01-22 06:55:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM ECON KPAO CVIS LG
07RIGA578	LATVIA: POINTS ON US CANDIDATE FOR STANDING COMMISSION OF [...] PolEconOff delivered reftel points July 31 to Liga Rozeniece, Head of the MFA's International Organizations Division, and urged the GOL to look favorably on Steve Carr's candidacy for the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Rozeniece responded that the [...]	2007-07-31 14:37:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC LG
07ROME1722	RED CROSS: ITALY NONCOMMITTAL ON STANDING [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-09 14:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC IT
07ROME1885	ITALIAN EXPORT CREDIT AGENCY WILL LITIGATE TO [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (U) Econoff and Econ Specialist delivered reftel information on recovery of debt owed the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) by the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) to Michal Ron, Head of Claims and International Agreement [...]	2007-09-06 11:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETRD EXIM PREL IT ZI
07ROME346	ITALY LIKELY TO SUPPORT RESTORING IMF VOTING [...] (SBU) EconCouns met February 20 with Vincenzo Zezza, Ministry of Finance (MOF) Director for IMF Coordination, and Francesca Manno, MOF Development Banking Director, to discuss reftel points. EconCouns urged our GOI counterparts to consider pressing Zimbabwe to enact the necessary economic a [...]	2007-02-21 12:02:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN IMF PREL ZI IT
07ROME564	ITALY WILL WORK WITHIN EU ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Poloff delivered Reftel A and B demarches to Laura Carpini, MFA Human Rights Office Director, March 19, and to Umberto Malnati, MFA Southern Africa Office Director, March 20, emphasizing U.S. concern for the grave situation in Zimbabwe and requesting Italy's support in speaking out against [...]	2007-03-21 17:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL UNHRC ZI EUN IT
07SANAA2055	EXPLOSION OF OIL PIPELINE NEAR MARIB [...] (C) An oil pipeline explosion occurred at approximately 0500 AM on November 5 in the Watada area, southwest of Sirwah Disrict in the area bordering al-Kholan and al-Bida tribal areas in the Ma'rib Governorate (ref A). According to media reports, there were no casualties. The explosion shut [...]	2007-11-06 12:44:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV PREL PTER YM
07SANAA852	JEWISH COMMUNITY'S SECURITY PERCEPTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 30 - May 1 Damon Stevens, from the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, conducted separate meetings with members of the Jewish communities from Saada and Reyda, who expressed serious concern about the deteriorating security situation in norther [...]	2007-05-08 09:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PREF IS YM
07SANAA905	MINISTER PREACHES RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE, SHEIKH [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On May 1, the CDA, accompanied by poloff and Damon Stevens from the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, met with Minister of Religious Affairs Judge Hamoud al-Hitar to discuss tolerance and dialogue between faith [...]	2007-05-16 14:33:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER YM
07SANJOSE1963	COSTA RICA RESPONSE TO USTR REQUEST FOR INFO ON [...] The following is Post's response to Reftel's enquiries. Questions can be directed to Econoff Steven Bitner, (506) 519-2502, Fax (506) 519-2364, bitnesr@state.gov. 2. Costa Rica Population: 4,299,234 (Dec 2006) Per Capita GDP: $5,050 (2006) Department of Commerce Trade Statistics (2006) [...]	2007-11-07 22:35:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL PGOV CS
07SANJOSE572	COSTA RICA: ZIMBABWE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] On March 19, Poloff sent information detailing the U.S. government's concerns about the recent events in Zimbabwe as well as Secretary Rice's statement calling for the immediate release of the imprisoned Zimbabwean opposition leaders to Alejandro Solano Ortiz, deputy foreign policy director at [...]	2007-03-23 15:53:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM CS
07SANSALVADOR490	SAN SALVADOR COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAS DANIEL REIFSNYDER [...] Post grants country clearance to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State/OES Dan Reifsnyder and delegation members Rob Wing, Rachel Kastenberg, Andrea Borel, Jun Bando, Jerry Bisson, John Garrison, Odalis Perez, Jill Kelley, Leslie Marbury, Steve Fondriest and Michael Donald to travel to San Salva [...]	2007-03-14 22:29:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ASEC OTRA SENV ES
07SANTODOMINGO1069	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC'S VIEW ON TREE SPECIES PROPOSAL [...] Summary. Per reftel, emboff met with officials from the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources SIPDIS (SEMARENA) to discuss the upcoming CITES conference and the status of conservation of and trade in all species of the genus Cedrela. The species Dalbergia Retusa and Dalberg [...]	2007-05-04 20:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ETRD KSCA EUN DR
07SANTODOMINGO1899	DEMARCHE ON PROMOTION OF ICRC STANDING COMMITTEE [...] POLOFF delivered Reftel demarche on the candidacy of Steve Carr for election to the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Pedro Blandino, the Assistant Secretary for international organizations, took our vie [...]	2007-08-14 21:50:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA DR
07SANTODOMINGO2260	BLOWBACK PREDICTED IF DOMINICAN EXTRADITION [...] Summary. Accused cop-killer and top-wanted Dominican fugitive Jeffry Alejandro Pena Bencosme remains in custody in New York while fighting extradition to the Dominican Republic. A combination of legal maneuvering and doubts about the Dominican claims have caused the hearing to morph into a " [...]	2007-10-05 15:24:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL CJAN KCRM KPAO KJUS DR
07SAOPAULO71	RIO GRANDE DO SUL: AN ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT [...] (U) Summary: Econoff and Econ Specialist traveled recently to Rio Grande do Sul (RGS),the southernmost state in Brazil located approximately 1100 km south of Sao Paulo. The state, which borders both Argentina and Uruguay, has a population of 10.3 million inhabitants, which represents 5.1 pe [...]	2007-01-30 19:08:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND EINV EWWT EAGR ELAB KIPR ETRD ECON ECIN SOCI
07SARAJEVO1471	BOSNIA: EAGLE BASE TRANSFER CEREMONY MARKS NEW ERA [...] (SBU) Summary. The return of Eagle Base in Tuzla to the authority of Bosnia-Herzegovina was marked in a poignant ceremony at the facility on June 30. The ceremony focused on the essential contributions to peace and security of the approximately 100,000 U.S. servicemen and women who served in [...]	2007-07-03 16:12:00	Embassy Sarajevo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO319	BOSNIA: THE NEW COUNCIL OF MINISTERS [...] (U) Following is biographic information on the new BiH Council of Ministers, confirmed by the BiH House of Representatives on February 9. Details of the parliamentary session will be reported septel. MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SVEN ALKALAJ (Sven AL-ka-lye),SBiH ---------------------- [...]	2007-02-13 09:05:00	Embassy Sarajevo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BK
07SARAJEVO36	BOSNIA: SILAJDZIC AND TIHIC AGREE DEFENSE REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with Charge January 5 and 8, Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic of the Party for BiH (SBiH) and Party of Democratic Action (SDA) President Sulejman Tihic both made clear that defense reform will continue to be a high priority for the new governing co [...]	2007-01-09 11:21:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BK
07SEOUL1852	SPI 13: U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE TALKS [...] (C) Summary. The thirteenth U.S.-ROK Security Policy Initiative talks (SPI 13) took place June 8, 2007 in Seoul. Topics addressed included the transition of wartime operational command (OPCON),UNC Armistice maintenance responsibilities, airspace management, security cooperation in Afghanista [...]	2007-06-19 08:22:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS MARR MNUC PARM PREL KN
07SEOUL2556	REPORT ON 14TH U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE [...] (S) SUMMARY: The 14th Security Policy Initiative meeting (SPI-14) was held on July 27 in Hawaii. OSD/APSA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense James Shinn headed the U.S. delegation. The Korean delegation was led by Dr. Jeon Jei Guk, Deputy Minister of Defense for Policy, Ministr [...]	2007-08-24 05:02:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	PGOV PREL MARR KS
07SEOUL659	SPI 11: U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE TALKS [...] (C) The eleventh U.S.-ROK Security Policy Initiative talks (SPI 11) took place February 7-8, 2007 in Seoul. Topics addressed included the transfer of wartime operational command (OPCON),the transition of Armistice Maintenance Responsibilities (AMRs),USFK camp returns, the status of the Yong [...]	2007-03-06 08:34:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS MARR MNUC PARM PREL KN
07SEOUL808	ROKG MULLING EVENTS IN ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 07:52:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHCR KS ZI
07SHANGHAI6	CODEL BARTLETT'S VISIT TO SHANGHAI: JANUARY 1-2 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 1 meeting with Zhou Muyao, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, CODEL Bartlett discussed China's efforts to address energy issues, especially in the rural sector. Zhou highlighted the strong ties between the United States and Shanghai and gave [...]	2007-01-04 03:16:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL ENRG CH
07SKOPJE251	MACEDONIA WILL FOLLOW EU LEAD ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-28 16:14:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL ZI MK
07SKOPJE737	MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR STANDING [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-11 08:35:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC MK
07SOFIA1364	RESULTS OF SOFIA REGIONAL ENERGY OFFICERS TRAINING [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 6-7, 37 USG energy officers from more than 30 posts and agencies gathered in Sofia for a training session on midstream economics and pipeline projects. On December 6 outside speakers from industry, thank tanks and the European Commission briefed on pipeline projec [...]	2007-12-11 15:17:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET BU
07SOFIA377	BULGARIA: MISSILE DEFENSE PD STRATEGY [...] (U) Per Ref A request, Post has designated DCM Alexander Karagiannis as the POC for public diplomacy and outreach efforts on missile defense. 2. (U) During the Sofia visit of Admiral Harry Ulrich, CINCUSNAVEUR, the Admiral briefed the Sofia and Varna press corps in appearances on February 2 [...]	2007-03-21 13:25:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KPAO PL EZ RU BU
07SOFIA492	PDAS VOLKER'S MEETING WITH THE "VILNIUS 10" NATO [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-17 15:57:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL BU
07SOFIA500	PDAS VOLKER'S MEETING WITH THE "VILNIUS 10" NATO [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-20 14:35:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL BU
07SOFIA505	PDAS VOLKER'S MEETING WITH THE "VILNIUS 10" NATO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a V-10 meeting with EUR PDAS Kurt Volker, allies were in agreement on key issues, including NATO enlargement, the Kosovo Status process, missile defense, and energy security. All believed strongly about the need for further NATO enlargement and insisted that it be based on rea [...]	2007-04-23 16:44:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL BU
07STATE103230	SECRETARY RICE MEETS INDIAN NATIONAL [...] (U) July 17, 2007, 9:45 a.m. in Washington. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Under Secretary Burns Assistant Secretary Boucher Ambassador David Mulford P Staff Alyssa Ayres Michael Newbill (Notetaker) India National Security Advisor Narayanan Foreign Secretary Shivshankar M [...]	2007-07-25 17:55:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PGOV PREL IN
07STATE131603	THE SECRETARY'S SEPTEMBER 14 MEETING WITH [...] (U) Participants: U.S. ---- The Secretary EUR A/S Daniel Fried PA A/S Sean McCormack Steve Beecroft Marc Nordberg, EUR note taker Hungary ------- FM Kinga Goncz Appointed Ambassador Ferenc Somogyi State Secretary Laszlo Varkonyi Acting Chief of Cabinet Gyorgy Varga DCM Viktor Sz [...]	2007-09-18 23:28:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HU
07STATE147332	RESPONSE TO SARG "DEAL" RE DHS REFUGEE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paras 2-4. 2. (C) Department appreciates Post's engagement with the SARG on the important subject of allowing resumption of DHS/USCIS interviews of Iraqi refugees in Syria. The "deal" proposed by the SARG is clearly unacceptable and we find it hard to b [...]	2007-10-22 23:18:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PHUM PREF PREL SY
07STATE150674	SECRETARY'S 10/29 MEETING WITH SPANISH FM [...] (U) October 29, 2007, 10:00 a.m., Secretary's Office 2. (U) Participants: United States The Secretary EUR A/S Daniel Fried PA A/S Sean McCormack Steve Beecroft EUR Elaine Samson (Notetaker) Spain Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos Ambassador Carlos Westendorp Chief of Staf [...]	2007-10-30 22:29:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE KCFE SP KV RU KZ MD
07STATE151188	(S/NF) SUBJECT: PUBLIC AFFAIRS GUIDANCE FOR [...] (S/NF) Over the next few weeks, DOD and State will jointly visit Botswana, Gabon, and Liberia to discuss security cooperation with host countries in the context of AFRICOM. Visiting teams will also collect data on security and infrastructure parameters relevant to siting an AFRICOM element. P [...]	2007-10-31 21:24:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	MARR PREL BC GB LI
07STATE156111	PSI OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP MEETING IN RHODES, [...] The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts Group (OEG) meeting took place in Rhodes, Greece on October 2-4, 2007. Information contained in this cable is provided for Posts' information and is not to be passed to non-OEG participant governments. A follow-on cable will pro [...]	2007-11-14 16:30:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC GR PARM PREL
07STATE156113	PSI OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP MEETING IN RHODES, [...] The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts Group (OEG) meeting took place in Rhodes, Greece on October 2-4, 2007. Information contained in this cable is provided for Posts' information and is not to be passed to non-OEG participant governments. A follow-on cable will pro [...]	2007-11-14 16:32:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC GR PARM PREL
07STATE81232	EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INSURGENCY OPENS DIALOGUE; [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) SUMMARY: As part of the U.S. Government Interagency Counterinsurgency Initiative, the State Department collaborated with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to deliver a European conference on [...]	2007-06-11 23:00:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS EAID EUN PGOV PINS PREL PTER PROP
07TAIPEI1077	CABINET SHAKE-UP UNDERSCORES CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S [...] (C) Summary: President Chen, who has accepted Premier Su Tseng-chang's resignation, named Straits Exchange Foundation SIPDIS (SEF) Chairman Chang Chun-hsiung to succeed Su as Premier on May 14. Chang's reappointment -- he was previously premier from 2000 to 2002 -- marks the sixth cabinet [...]	2007-05-14 11:00:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TW
07TAIPEI124	DAUSTR STRATFORD DISCUSSES TIFA & FTA WITH TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan reiterated its strong desire to enter into an FTA with the U.S. Senior economic officials indicated they are prepared to work diligently on the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) agenda, including the bilateral investment and tax agreements, the Consultative [...]	2007-01-17 09:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL TW
07TAIPEI1363	EAP/ANP DIRECTOR MCGANN'S JUNE 9-11 VISIT TO TAIPEI [...] (C) Summary: During his June 8-11 visit to Taipei, EAP/ANP Office Director C. Steven McGann commended Taiwan for its significant contributions to the South Pacific region and urged Taipei to conduct its foreign assistance and other activities in an open and transparent manner that promotes [...]	2007-06-15 08:48:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TW
07TAIPEI1385	AUSTR STRATFORD OUTLINES TRADE AGENDA WITH [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-18 09:35:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON ECIN EINV EAGR TW
07TAIPEI1420	AUSTR STRATFORD MEETING WITH VICE PREMIER CHIOU [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-22 06:15:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON ECIN TW
07TAIPEI1440	TAIWAN EPA: FOCUS ON EIA AND CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. USEPA Associate Program Manager for China/East Asia Kelly McAskill visited Taiwan on June 11-15 to discuss ongoing programs with Taiwan and to plan for the next Conference on Issues of Common Concern, which is planned for August 13-16 in Hawaii and will address transboundary p [...]	2007-06-25 06:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI1575	Taipei Economic Brief for June 2007 [...] This cable summarizes selected June 2007 economic events in Taiwan: --Taiwan's Economic Performance Improved --Taiwan Approves IC Packing Firms' China Investment --Taiwan Passes 2007 Central Budget --Individual Debt Resolution Law --Incentives for Biotech Industry --Retiree Service Market t [...]	2007-07-15 23:29:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
07TAIPEI1711	KMT CHAIRMAN WU ON PRESIDENTIAL RACE, UN [...] (C) Summary: DPP vice-presidential hopefuls Yeh Chu-lan and Su Tseng-chang are both formidable opponents, and either would help DPP presidential candidate close the gap with KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou, KMT Chairman Wu Po-hsiung told the Director on July 27. However, the KMT is m [...]	2007-08-01 07:02:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW

07TAIPEI179	TAIWAN FINANCE MINISTER ON FINANCIAL REFORM [...] (C) Summary: In a January 22 conversation with AIT Director Young, Minister of Finance Ho Chih-ching claimed Taiwan's budget remains a victim of the political confrontation. He said Taiwan's financial stability is sound and that the bank run has not spread beyond Chinese Bank. Ho views the [...]	2007-01-24 03:25:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON TW
07TAIPEI2193	KMT VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OUTLINES ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a September 26 meeting with the Director, KMT Vice Presidential candidate Vincent Siew (Hsiao Wan-chang) previewed his October 3-5 visit to Washington, where he will articlulate KMT plans for Taiwan to play a "moderate and positive" regional role if they return to power next y [...]	2007-09-26 23:08:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EFIN PINR TW CH
07TAIPEI227	TAIWAN ECONOMIC MINISTER OPTIMISTIC ON TIFA AND [...] (C) Minister of Economic Affairs Steve Chen reminded AIT Director January 26 his major goal is a bilateral FTA, but he is more than willing to pursue a robust TIFA agenda in the nearer term. He promised some points on the Bilateral Investment Agreement in a few days, welcomed our decision to [...]	2007-01-30 09:44:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD KIPR TW EINV
07TAIPEI2301	Ma Ying-jeou's "Long Stay" Campaign in Southern Taiwan: [...] (U) Summary: KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou's "long stay" campaign strategy appears to be having a positive effect in south Taiwan, as indicated by recent opinion polls showing his approval rating increased by 5 percent following his recent long stay effort. Southern DPP party operat [...]	2007-10-09 02:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL TW
07TAIPEI2382	USTR/USDA BEEF DELEGATION PRESSES TAIWAN ON BEEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During October 17-19 meetings with a range of senior Taiwan officials and industry representatives, a USTR/USDA beef trade delegation led by USTR Special Envoy Ambassador Richard Crowder stressed the importance of rapid Taiwan action in following the science-based guidelines of [...]	2007-10-23 08:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON PGOV PREL TW
07TAIPEI2407	MA ECONOMIC ADVISOR TOUTS OPENNESS AND "PRAGMATIC" [...] (U) This cable is one in a series on the Taiwan presidential candidates' policies and advisors. 2. (C) SUMMARY. During an October 25 meeting, Ma Ying-jeou economic policy advisor Steve Hsieh (Xiang-chuan) cited jobs as Taiwan voters' single biggest concern, especially in the South, and advo [...]	2007-10-26 09:31:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL PINR TW
07TAIPEI2430	Taipei Economic Brief for October 2007 [...] Summary. This cable summarizes selected October 2007 economic events in Taiwan. Taiwan enjoyed economic expansion, increased investment, but faced inflationary pressure...Export orders moving to new high in 2007... Taiwan's semiconductor sector passes U.S. in production capacity...Non-electr [...]	2007-11-01 07:19:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
07TAIPEI2492	KMT VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VINCENT SIEW ON [...] (C) Summary: KMT vice presidential candidate Vincent Siew told the Director November 9 the KMT presidential campaign strategy is to try to neutralize the "Taiwan identity" issue by convincing voters that the KMT has embraced it to the same extent as the DPP. The hope is that voters will then d [...]	2007-11-15 09:59:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
07TAIPEI2516	KMT LY SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: KMT LY Speaker Wang Jin-pyng told the Director on November 20 that the KMT has almost completely absorbed its Pan-Blue ally, the PFP, which will have only three candidates under its banner in the next LY election. Wang seemed neither pleased nor surprised by his number-one spot o [...]	2007-11-21 10:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
07TAIPEI253	Taipei Economic Brief for January 2007 [...] This cable summarizes selected January 2007 economic events in Taiwan: --Economic Performance in 2006; --Science-based Industrial Parks; --PRC Tourists to Taiwan's High-Tech Centers; --Major Investment Projects; --China Rebar Pacific Group Collapse; --Problem Banks Taken Over; --Transfer o [...]	2007-02-01 08:51:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
07TAIPEI2558	Taipei Economic Brief for November 2007 [...] Summary. This cable summarizes selected November 2007 economic events in Taiwan. Unexpected export boom raises Taiwan's 2007 real GDP growth forecast by nearly 1%....Less optimism for growth in 2008.... Blame typhoons for pushing inflation to a temporary 14-year high....Taiwan sets a goal to [...]	2007-12-04 07:05:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON SENV TW
07TAIPEI2626	TAIWAN: AIT DIRECTOR MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary. During a December 18 meeting with Minister of Economic Affairs Steve Chen, the Director raised the U.S. proposal calling on Taiwan to lift all remaining restrictions on beef. He noted that in recent discussions with the Vice Premier, he had received indications that Taiwan may [...]	2007-12-19 10:17:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR ETRD EFIN PREL TW
07TAIPEI413	CODEL CHABOT TAIWAN VISIT: MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. In his meetings with Taiwan leaders on February 21, Congressman Steve Chabot urged Taiwan to approve its 2007 defense budget as soon as possible and pledged the U.S. will continue to be a strong friend of Taiwan. President Chen Shui-bian, Premier Su Tseng-chang, and Mainland A [...]	2007-02-23 08:06:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAIR CH TW
07TAIPEI490	TAIWAN PETROCHEMICAL INVESTMENT PLANS FOR PRC [...] (C) Summary: After seventeen years of planning, Formosa Plastics Corporation (FPC) is still waiting for Taiwan to lift restrictions on naptha cracker investment in the PRC. FPC's Chairman told AIT that its plan to build a naphtha cracker complex near Shanghai is necessary to compete in the ra [...]	2007-03-05 02:46:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON ETRD EPET CH TW
07TAIPEI545	Another Taiwan Firm to Drop "China" from Name [...] Summary: Another Taiwan firm has moved to drop references to China from its name. China Steel follows China Petroleum, China Shipbuilding and Chunghwa Post, which all changed names last month. China Steel's situation is more complicated because it has been privatized, and the Taiwan authoritie [...]	2007-03-09 07:13:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI547	TAIWAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MA YING-JEOU: [...] (C) Summary. KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou told AIT Director March 8 that he is optimistic about his nomination and election chances. While noticeably more relaxed than in earlier meetings, Ma did express concern and uncertainty over how his indictment for misuse of funds will pla [...]	2007-03-09 09:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MASS MCAP CH TW
07TAIPEI597	FOREIGN MINISTER HUANG ON LATIN AMERICA, AFRICA, [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan Foreign Minister James Huang told the Director on March 15 that Taiwan-Nicaragua ties remain good four months into the presidency of Daniel Ortega. Huang noted that Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Santos will be traveling to Taipei sometime between March 26-28 to conclude a [...]	2007-03-15 09:39:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TW
07TAIPEI672	AIT DIRECTOR REVIEWS TIFA AGENDA WITH ECON [...] (SBU) On March 21, AIT Director called on Minister of Economic Affairs Steve Chen to review the bilateral trade relationship and the TIFA agenda. Chen gave a positive assessment of the state of the relationship, but reiterated Taiwan's goal of signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U [...]	2007-03-23 09:05:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV KIPR TW
07TAIPEI862	KMT CHAIRMAN WU ON DEFENSE BUDGET, PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: On April 16 the Director met with recently-elected KMT Chairman Wu Po-hsiung to urge rapid progress on the defense budget and to discuss the KMT's strategy in advance of upcoming legislative and presidential elections. Wu said the KMT is committed to passing a responsible defense [...]	2007-04-17 08:52:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
07TAIPEI908	TAIWAN VICE PREMIER GETS TOUGH ON TRADE AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: In a somewhat surprising turn, Vice Premier Tsai Ing-wen complained to AIT Director April 24 that Taiwan SIPDIS believes there has been a serious loss of balance in the U.S.-Taiwan bilateral trade relationship. Delivering a written demarche, Tsai argued that the TIFA agenda ne [...]	2007-04-24 09:26:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL TW
07TALLINN165	ESTONIA: MISSLE DEFENSE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND [...] (U) As requested Ref A, Post has designated Acting DCM Eric Johnson as the POC for public diplomacy and outreach efforts on missile defense. 2. (C) As reported Ref B, Estonia agrees with the USG position on the Russian response to U.S. missile defense plans. We do not expect any wavering o [...]	2007-03-13 09:07:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL EZ RU EN
07TALLINN508	ESTONIA CONSIDERING CARR CANDIDACY FOR STANDING [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-01 07:51:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC
07TASHKENT1661	HIGH PRICES, RATIONING OF STAPLES IN THE FERGHANA [...] (C) Summary: On September 12-13, poloffs visited the Ferghana Valley provinces of Namangan and Ferghana. Whether meeting with human rights contacts or sellers at the bazaar, the main topic of conversation was invariably peoples' frustration at price hikes for basic staples, especially for fl [...]	2007-09-19 10:16:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI UZ
07TASHKENT1663	BUSINESS ENTERPRISES IN THE FERGHANA VALLEY [...] (C) Summary: During a visit to the Ferghana Valley on September 12-13, poloffs met with two former recipients of USAID grants, the Namangan Credit Union and the Ferghana-based Unicons consulting firm. These enterprises show that some of the Uzbek people's traditional entrepreneurial spirit p [...]	2007-09-19 10:20:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON SOCI UZ
07TASHKENT1665	GOU SETS ELECTION, CAMPAIGN DATES [...] (C) Summary: The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on September 18 that Uzbekistan will hold a presidential election on December 23 and the campaigning will begin on September 21. The GOU intends to invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Mos [...]	2007-09-19 11:09:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UZ
07TASHKENT1679	FERGHANA VALLEY COTTON HARVEST IN FULL SWING [...] (C) Summary: The cotton harvest is in full swing in the Ferghana Valley. A deputy hokim (mayor) in the Ferghana town of Oltiaryq told poloffs on September 12 that he expected the cotton harvest in his region to exceed the previous two years. However, despite the deputy hokim's rosy outlook, [...]	2007-09-24 09:21:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON ELAB EAGR SOCI UZ
07TASHKENT1699	BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON ALISHER ANVAROVICH [...] (U) Summary: On August 25, 2007, the Senate of the Republic of Uzbekistan appointed Alisher Anvarovich Kurmanov as the country's first Ambassador to Singapore. Post has obtained biographical information on Kurmanov. 2. (C) Alisher Anvarovich Kurmanov, an ethnic Tatar (officially Uzbek),w [...]	2007-09-27 10:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV UZ SN
07TASHKENT1732	REGISTERED PARTIES NOMINATING PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: The Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan nominated President Karimov as its candidate for the December presidential election at an October 4 plenary session. The four other political parties represented in parliament, all compliant and largely pro-government, have also begun no [...]	2007-10-04 11:10:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM RS UZ
07TASHKENT1768	EU-UNDP HOSTS CONFERENCE ON CENTRAL ASIAN BORDER [...] (C) Summary: The Border Management in Central Asia and Central Asia Drug Action programs (BOMCA/CADAP) hosted a donors conference in Tashkent on October 5 to coordinate national and organizational projects related to border security and trade facilitation in Central Asia. BOMCA/CADAP is an EU [...]	2007-10-16 04:35:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV PREL AF UZ KG
07TASHKENT1810	UZBEKISTAN-CONTROLLED MEDIA ELECTION COVERAGE [...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks, Uzbek media coverage and official statements have extolled democratic principles while the election field has grown to an unprecedented six candidates that include Uzbekistan's first female and "independent" presidential candidates, though we doubt that President [...]	2007-10-19 10:13:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL UZ
07TASHKENT1827	TASHKENT "KREMLINOLOGY": UZBEK OFFICIAL MEDIA SHOW [...] (C) Summary: Uzbekistan's official media has shown a very troubled, aged President Karimov at the October summits of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO),CIS, and EURASEC in Dushanbe. This differs dramatically from previous coverage, which has generally shown an upbeat, more you [...]	2007-10-23 10:50:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RS UZ
07TASHKENT1894	CROSSING THE UZBEKISTAN-KAZAKHSTAN BORDER A SLOW [...] (C) Summary: During a recent unofficial trip from Uzbekistan to southern Kazakhstan, poloffs observed a relatively inefficient, poorly equipped Uzbek border crossing port. Poloffs also observed a much greater flow of people from Uzbekistan into Kazakhstan, perhaps reflecting the continuing re [...]	2007-10-31 11:20:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KZ UZ
07TASHKENT1989	NATO PURSUING LIMITED REENGAGEMENT WITH UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: NATO Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons reported that his meetings with Foreign Minister Norov and Defense Minister Mirzayev on November 12 were substantive and he had been well-received. Uzbekistan has resumed participation in Euro-Atlantic Pa [...]	2007-11-16 10:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL NATO UZ AF
07TASHKENT1997	WORLD BANK OFFICIAL ON UZBEKISTAN'S ECONOMIC BOOM, [...] (U) Summary: During Ambassador's meeting with World Bank Regional Director Loup Brefort on November 14, Brefort said Uzbekistan's economic growth stems mainly from rising prices of raw materials, exports of capital goods, and remittances from abroad. This has done little to reduce the 26 perce [...]	2007-11-19 11:01:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SOCI EMIN EPET UZ
07TASHKENT1998	DEPUTY HOKIM OF UZBEKISTAN'S KHOREZM PROVINCE: [...] (U) Summary: On November 5, Poloff met with Usmonboy Jumagaldiyev, the Deputy Hokim (Deputy Governor) for Economic and Public Development Issues in Uzbekistan's Khorezm province. He painted a very rosy picture of economic development and political stability in Khorezm. While some of his clai [...]	2007-11-20 07:53:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV ECON ECIN EAGR PTER SOCI UZ
07TASHKENT2023	GOU CONTINUES TO EXPAND CONTROLLED ACCESS TO U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Embassy personnel, and in particular Ambassador Norland, have been afforded expanded, though carefully controlled, access to GOU officials. Over the past several weeks, Ambassador Norland has met twice with President Karimov, and once each with National Security Service Chairman [...]	2007-11-23 13:50:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL ECON ECIN EAGR KPAO OEXC PGOV PTER SCUL
07TASHKENT2024	MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS DISCUSSES PRIORITIES, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Minister of Internal Affairs Bakhodir Matlyubov on November 22. Matlyubov cited counterterrorism and counternarcotics as key priorities, and repeatedly noted Uzbekistan's cooperation with a variety of other countries on these issues. He was also [...]	2007-11-23 14:12:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PBTS PREL SNAR SOCI UZ
07TASHKENT2063	WMD PORTAL DETECTION IN UZBEKISTAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-03 11:05:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	MNUC KNNP PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR KZ KG UZ
07TASHKENT2064	GOU INTERNAL SECURITY CAPABILITIES AND PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: Uzbekistan's vast internal security apparatus would play a critical role in any GOU efforts to deter or respond to civil disturbances. Security forces have trained to improve interoperability and to overcome potential breakdowns in command and control since 2005. We are not awar [...]	2007-12-03 11:48:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PBTS MCAP SOCI PHUM ECON UZ
07TASHKENT2081	UPDATE ON WMD PORTAL DETECTION IN UZBEKISTAN REF: A. STATE 163194 B. TASHKENT 2063 Classified By: DTRA Fred Carter and Poloff Steven Prohaska for reasons 1.4 (b, d). [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 11:17:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	MNUC KNNP PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR KZ KG UZ
07TASHKENT2089	GOU'S ELECTION SURVEY SHOWS HUGE KARIMOV LEAD [...] (C) Summary: A document outlining the results of an October 22-27, 2007 public poll--sponsored by Uzbekistan's Center for the Study of Public Opinion--found that 92.7 percent of those planning to vote will vote for President Karimov this December. None of his unwilling opponents received more [...]	2007-12-06 12:48:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI UZ
07TASHKENT2090	MFA PLEDGES TO FOLLOW UP ON WMD PORTAL DETECTION [...] (S/NF) Charge met with First Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov on December 6 to discuss the WMD portal detection incident of November 30 in Uzbekistan (reftels B and C). He delivered a diplomatic note and questionnaire requesting additional information about the detection. Nematov explained th [...]	2007-12-06 13:03:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	MNUC KNNP PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR KZ KG UZ
07TASHKENT2091	NIE ON IRAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Charge December 6 delivered reftel demarche to First Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov, leaving the two non-papers with Embassy's informal Russian translations. Nematov sighed loudly upon hearing that Iran probably would be capable of producing enough HEU for a weapon sometime during the 20 [...]	2007-12-06 13:20:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC KNNP PARM IR UZ
07TASHKENT2108	KARIMOV CALLS FOR COOPERATION WITH WEST IN [...] (C) Summary: President Karimov's Constitution Day speech, in which he calls for stronger ties with the United States and Europe, may reflect a desire to receive positive election coverage or diversify his foreign policy or both. He appears to have cited Russia--without explicitly naming it--as [...]	2007-12-11 13:11:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UZ US RS
07TASHKENT2115	OSCE/ODIHR OFFICIAL DISCUSSES PLANS FOR UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Walter Siegl, Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission, met with foreign diplomats on December 12 to discuss Uzbekistan's upcoming Presidential Elections. The mission is here to evaluate how the elections are conducted and will make recommendations i [...]	2007-12-13 13:20:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UZ US
07TASHKENT2121	AUSTRALIAN BUSINESSMAN PRESENTS DUBIOUS IL-76 [...] (C) Summary: An Australian named Frederick Darby in November approached Post with a plan to provide the Australian military with leased IL-76 cargo aircraft assembled in Tashkent. Darby claimed the deal could help sink Russia's plans to bring Tashkent's Chkalov Aircraft Factory (a.k.a TAPOiCh [...]	2007-12-14 13:05:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MARR PGOV PREL EAIR EIND MCAP NATO EUN
07TASHKENT2162	HIGH-LEVEL GOU ATTENDANCE AT BORDER SECURITY [...] (U) Summary: On December 18, representatives of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC),Government of Uzbekistan (GOU),American and British Embassies, and the Asian Development Bank took part in a border project dedication ceremony at Hayraton checkpoint on the Uzbekistan-Afghan [...]	2007-12-26 12:44:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS PREL SNAR PTER AF UZ
07TASHKENT2171	WMD PORTAL DETECTION UPDATE: LEGAL RESTRICTIONS ON OPENING THE RAIL CAR REF: A. STATE 163194 B. TASHKENT 2063 C. TASHKENT 2081 D. TASHKENT 2090 Classified By: DTRO Chief Fred Carter and Poloff Steven Prohaska for re asons 1.4 (b, d). [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-27 11:42:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	MNUC KNNP PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR KZ KG UZ
07TASHKENT2177	INL EQUIPMENT BOLSTERS CUSTOMS OFFICERS IN BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs traveled to Termez, a strategic city on the Uzbek-Afghan border, from December 17-19 and presented INL-funded equipment to the Surkhandaryo Province's Customs Chief Shavkat Mukhamadeev. He was grateful for the USG assistance, which was based on a needs assessment visit by [...]	2007-12-27 13:19:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM EAID SNAR AF UZ
07TASHKENT2178	INL EQUIPMENT BOLSTERS CUSTOMS OFFICERS IN BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs traveled to Termez, a strategic city on the Uzbek-Afghan border, from December 17-19 and presented INL-funded equipment to the Surkhandaryo Province's Customs Chief Shavkat Mukhamadeev. He was grateful for the USG assistance, which was based on a needs assessment visit by [...]	2007-12-27 13:30:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM EAID SNAR AF UZ
07TBILISI1624	GEORGIA-CHINA: TRADE AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. On June 28, press reports announced that Chinese buyers purchased Tbilisi's central supermarket. The news sparked mild protests by some Georgians who feel threatened by increasing Chinese immigration and investment in Georgia, which is a natural outgrowth of Georgia's efforts to [...]	2007-07-10 07:09:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETRD PREL GG
07TBILISI2076	GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE AUGUST 17 [...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of August 4-17. Saakashvili Visits Upper Abkhazia --------------------------------- 2. On August 11, President Saakashvili visited the Upper Kodori Gorge (or Upper Abkhazia) fo [...]	2007-08-17 13:41:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ENRG GG
07TELAVIV1143	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Secretary Gates to Israel, April 18-19, 2007 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post prominently covered the visit of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to Israel. Yediot and Maariv did not report on th [...]	2007-04-19 08:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1644	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. G-8 Summit, June 6-8 ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the possibility that a military confrontation with Syria might break out this summer. The media reported that this morning the security cabinet will hold [...]	2007-06-06 10:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1665	DOE/NNSA/LLNL TEAM'S VISIT TO ISRAEL SEES PROGRESS [...] (S) From March 13 through March 14, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Team comprised of officials from the DOE-affiliated National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) met with officials from the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC),Israel' [...]	2007-06-07 15:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL KNNP MNUC IR SY KN IS
07TELAVIV2112	CODEL ISRAEL'S MEETING WITH AMOS GILAD: REGIONAL [...] (S) SUMMARY. CODEL Israel on July 5 discussed with the MOD's political-military bureau chief MG (Ret) Amos Gilad the evolving relationship between Iran, Syria, and Hizballah, Egypt's role in working to broker the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, and curbing weapons smuggling [...]	2007-07-10 11:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER KNNP MNUC EG IS SY
07TELAVIV2410	DEMARCHE TO GOI ON SUDANESE REFUGEES [...] (C) (Summary) On July 30, Acting Regional Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) informed UNHCR/Israel's Head of Office and Honorary Liaison of the Department's wish to see UNHCR/Geneva take the lead in coordinating a response to the issue of Sudanese and other asylum seekers entering into Israel fro [...]	2007-08-07 11:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM IS EG SU
07TELAVIV2557	U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER LIVNI [...] (S) Summary. In their August 16 meeting, U/S Nicholas Burns and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni discussed the just-signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on U.S. Foreign Military Financing (FMF) assistance to Israel and arms sales to the Gulf states, Iran, the situation in Gaza, Lebanon, and A [...]	2007-08-23 09:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MASS IR LE KPAL IS
07TELAVIV2579	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-24 11:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2692	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-06 10:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2738	ISRAELI LEADERSHIP STILL SILENT ABOUT ALLEGED IAF [...] (U) Much to the consternation of the Israeli media and punditocracy, the Israeli civilian and military leadership are continuing to maintain strict silence about the mysterious Israeli Air Force operation deep into Syrian territory early in the morning of September 6. Israeli media reports o [...]	2007-09-11 10:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS ASEC SY IS
07TELAVIV2815	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that on Thursday PM Ehud Olmert told a gathering of Kadima that "there is a partner for dialogue in the PA." Media quoted Olmert as saying that he wil [...]	2007-09-21 10:08:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV3444	INITIAL ISRAELI REACTION TO RELEASE OF NIE [...] (S) As of the writing of this cable, the GOI has not yet released an official reaction to the publication of the judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran's nuclear capabilities and intentions. Media citations of PM Olmert and DefMin Barak suggest that the GOI is unfazed [...]	2007-12-04 15:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL MNUC KNNP PARM IR IS
07TELAVIV559	CODEL KYL MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER LIVNI [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Livni echoed Prime Minister Olmert February 19 by telling CODEL Kyl that despite Israeli "disappointment" with Abu Mazen in the wake of the Mecca Agreement, contacts would continue, although she also cautioned that Abu Mazen needed to understand that he had "los [...]	2007-02-22 08:10:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS IR
07TELAVIV704	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. North Korea ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv reported that PM Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas will meet next week, probably at Olmert's official residence in Jerusalem. The newspaper r [...]	2007-03-06 09:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV739	IRAN: CODEL KYL AND HARMAN'S BREAKFAST WITH [...] (U) During the visit of CODELs Kyl and Harman to Israel, February 18-20, the two CODELs -- led by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) -- held a series of meetings with GOI officials and Knesset members according to a program drawn up by Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz, th [...]	2007-03-08 14:40:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MASS KPAL KWBG IR SY IS
07TELAVIV740	CODEL KYL AND HARMAN'S LUNCH WITH KNESSET MEMBERS [...] (S) 1. (C) During the visit of CODELs Kyl and Harman to Israel, February 18-20, the two CODELs -- led by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) -- held a series of meetings with GOI officials and Knesset members according to a program drawn up by Knesset Member Yuval Stei [...]	2007-03-08 14:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PINR PTER KPAL KWBG MASS IR SY LE IS
07TELAVIV741	IRAN: CODEL KYL AND HARMAN'S DINNER WITH SHARANSKY [...] (C) During the visit of CODELs Kyl and Harman to Israel, February 18-20, the two CODELs -- led by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) -- held a series of meetings with GOI officials and Knesset members according to a program drawn up by Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz, th [...]	2007-03-08 15:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MNUC KNNP KPAL KWBG IR IS
07THEHAGUE1662	NETHERLANDS: CODEL PASTOR FOCUSES ON ENERGY [...] SUMMARY. The August 23-26 visit of a delegation led by Arizona Representative Ed Pastor highlighted Dutch efforts to tackle issues related to increasing energy efficiency, utilizing alternative energy resources, and identifying new water management/climate adaptation strategies. Visits to t [...]	2007-09-11 13:56:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG ETRD EINV BEXP NL
07THEHAGUE1851	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) ACTION ITEMS -- see paragraphs 31 and 69. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Executive Council 50 approved the OPCW's zero nominal growth budget for 2008, in a newly productive spirit of getting things done after the large agenda of unfinished business it inherited from the previous s [...]	2007-10-04 16:27:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL CWC
07THEHAGUE949	ONDCP DIRECTOR'S MAY 7-8 VISIT TO THE NETHERLANDS [...] (C) Summary. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director John Walters visited The Hague May 7-8. In meetings with the Foreign, Justice, and Health Ministries, Walters thanked the Dutch for their cooperation on a range of counter-narcotics issues from improved police-to [...]	2007-05-18 16:59:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM PINR NL
07TOKYO1051	UNSCR 1718 IMPLEMENTATION: JAPAN CAUTIOUS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S., Japanese and Australian delegates to the Trilateral Working Group (WG) on Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1718 met in Tokyo January 24 to continue discussions on 1718 implementation including resolving outstanding legal and policy concerns over sanctions en [...]	2007-03-12 05:53:00	Embassy Tokyo	SECRET	PREL MARR UNSC AS JA
07TOKYO1528	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/06/07 [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-08 22:54:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
07TOKYO1701	JAPAN ECONOMIC SCOPE - APRIL 13, 2007 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope for April 13, 2007. 2. (U) Table of Contents ------------------------- 3. GOJ for Joint Study for a U.S.-Japan Free Trade Agreement? 4. U.S. Chamber Chief Cites FTA and Autos as Key Issues 5. Has Reg Reform "Peaked Out?" 6. Gov [...]	2007-04-18 05:06:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR ZO JA
07TOKYO184	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. DELEGATION TO 1718 [...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 21-27, 2007 visit to Japan by the U.S. Delegation to the Trilateral 1718 Working Group and ASTOP. A notional schedule will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Brett Blackshaw, Deputy, Politica [...]	2007-01-16 09:41:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM PREL JA
07TOKYO210	CORRECTED COPY: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TRILATERAL [...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 21-27, 2007 visit to Japan by the U.S. Delegation to the Trilateral 1718 Working Group and ASTOP. Notional schedules for each event will follow separately. 2. (U) Control Officer for the delegation to the January 24 Tril [...]	2007-01-17 22:34:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP JA PARM PREL
07TOKYO2451	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DASD BRIAN GREEN AND [...] (U) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance for the June 4-8, 2007 visit to Japan by DASD Brian Green, LT COL Brian Bohannon, Suzanne Basalla, Steve Rosenkrantz, Michael Viland, Thomas J. Roth, Jeff Dillemuth and COL Sutton. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Xanthi Carras. [...]	2007-06-01 05:22:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL JA
07TOKYO2721	The Japan Economic Scope - June 14, 2007 Part 2 [...] (U) This cable contains part two the Japan Economic Scope from June 14, 2007. 2.(SBU) Table of Contents 3. Citigroup Assumes Full Control of Nikko Cordial Brokerage 4. New Earthquake Insurance Policy Process Raises Concern among U.S. 5. MLIT Postpones Downgrade of Itami Airport 6. [...]	2007-06-15 08:15:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR
07TOKYO3567	JAPAN FAVORABLE ABOUT CARR FOR RED CROSS STANDING [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-03 07:48:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC JA
07TOKYO3922	The Japan Economic Scope--August 23, 2007 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from August 23, 2007. 2.(SBU) Table of Contents Political Moves 3. Official Discusses Japan's "Confused" Political Situation, East China Sea and More 4. WTO Talks Set to Resume as Japanese Negotiators Face Cabinet Reshuffle 5. Abe V [...]	2007-08-24 07:10:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR
07TOKYO3969	ABE CABINET, LDP EXECUTIVE LINE-UP [...] (SBU) Summary. This cable outlines the backgrounds of Japan's new cabinet and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership line-up announced on August 27, 2007. New appointees and posts are: LDP Secretary-General -- Taro ASO LDP General Affairs Council Chairman -- Toshihiro NIKAI LDP Policy [...]	2007-08-27 14:09:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JA
07TOKYO3970	ABE CABINET, LDP EXECUTIVE LINE-UP [...] (SBU) Summary. (This is a corrected copy amending paragraph 16.) This cable outlines the backgrounds of Japan's new cabinet and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership line-up announced on August 27, 2007. New appointees and posts are: LDP Secretary-General -- Taro ASO LDP General Affa [...]	2007-08-27 14:17:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JA
07TOKYO4397	DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/20/07 [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-20 22:46:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
07TOKYO4442	U.S./JAPAN DISCUSSIONS ON PHYSICAL PROTECTION AND [...] (SBU) A U.S. delegation led by DOE Deputy Under Secretary for Counterterrorism Steven Aoki, met July 18-19 with a Japanese interagency group headed by Takeshi Nakane, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director General, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department. The Japanese side consis [...]	2007-09-25 08:55:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP KHLS TRGY JA
07TOKYO558	FEBRUARY 25-26, 2007 ASTOP IV MEETING [...] SUMMARY: On February 25-26, 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the Fourth Asian Senior-Level Talks on Non-Proliferation (ASTOP IV) in Tokyo. Senior-level government officials in charge of non-proliferation policies from the ASEAN member countries, Australia, Brunei Darussala [...]	2007-02-07 23:27:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV JA
07TOKYO617	JANUARY 25-26, 2007 ASTOP IV MEETING [...] SUMMARY: On January 25-26, 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the Fourth Asian Senior-Level Talks on Non-Proliferation (ASTOP IV) in Tokyo. Senior-level government officials in charge of non-proliferation policies from the ASEAN member countries (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, [...]	2007-02-13 06:41:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM JA ENRG
07TORONTO139	UPDATE ON TORONTO TERRORISM SUSPECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since June 2, 2006, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has arrested 18 men with suspected connections to a Toronto-based terrorist group. The terrorist group is most notorious for its plot to behead the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Currently, 14 adults and 3 youths [...]	2007-04-02 20:48:00	Consulate Toronto	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PTER CVIS CA
07TORONTO440	TORONTO TERROR PLOT BAIL HEARINGS RESUME, NEW CHARGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an unusual move, Canadian prosecutors terminated preliminary hearings in September and decided to move the defendants in the 2006 Ottawa and Toronto terrorism plots directly to trial. Ontario courts will now revisit the confinement conditions of each of the suspected terrori [...]	2007-11-02 19:43:00	Consulate Toronto	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER CA
07TORONTO470	WHIT: ONTARIO UNVEILS NEW SECURE DRIVERS LICENSE, [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The new Ontario Drivers License, while incorporating new, badly needed security features, is unlikely to meet the threshold for use as a WHTI-approved passport alternative. Recently appointed Minster of Transportation Jim Bradley, has announced that he will begin discussions [...]	2007-12-10 19:39:00	Consulate Toronto	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PBTS PREL CPAS CA
07TRIPOLI1030	SUDANESE DIPLOMAT ALLEGES LIBYAN OFFICIALS' COMPLICITY IN [...] (C) The long-serving Sudanese DCM in Tripoli, Isaac Kenti, told CDA in a recent meeting that Sudanese criminal networks freely operate migration smuggling rings from Libya to Europe with the complicity of some Libyan officials. According to Kenti, while the GOL provides border guards and pol [...]	2007-12-12 07:46:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIP SOCI PGOV LY
07TRIPOLI1032	LIBYA CLOSES BORDER WITH EGYPT TO NON-EGYPTIAN IMPORTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-12 07:56:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL PGOV LY EG JO SY TU
07TRIPOLI1033	QADHAFI'S TRAVEL TO SPAIN [...] (C) Summary: Planning for Leader Muammar al-Qadhafi's upcoming visit to Spain has been complicated by contradictory GOL requests for meetings and content. After initially saying the Leader did not want to sign bilateral agreements during his visit, the GOL has reversed course and the two sides are [...]	2007-12-12 14:07:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LY SP
07TRIPOLI1038	LIBYAN EPSA GAS BIDDING ROUND: INTERNATIONAL MAJORS' [...] (C) Summary: Four companies won exploration and production rights for gas in the recently concluded fourth round of Libya's Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) mechanism. Winning bids featured low production sharing percentages for the international oil companies (IOC's),but i [...]	2007-12-13 16:18:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET BTIO ECON EINV ENRG LY
07TRIPOLI1039	LIBYA: FOLLOW-UP ON ACCESS TO RETURNED GTMO DETAINEES REF: A) STATE 165729, B) STATE 127608, C) TRIPOLI 723, D) TRIPOLI 797 CLASSIFIED BY: Chris Stevens, DCM, Embassy Tripoli, Department of State. REASON: 1.4 (b),(d) [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 16:50:00	Embassy Tripoli	SECRET	KDRG PTER PREL PHUM PINR PINS LY
07TRIPOLI1040	GOL FURTHER PROTESTS PLANNED TRANSFER OF LIBYAN DETAINEE AT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 17:07:00	Embassy Tripoli	SECRET	KDRG PTER PREL PHUM LY
07TRIPOLI1053	U.S. COMPANIES WIN $2 BILLION WORTH OF INFRASTRUCTURE CONTRACTS AS REWARD FOR POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP REF: TRIPOLI 1023 TRIPOLI 00001053 001.2 OF 003 CLASSIFIED BY: Chris Stevens, CDA, Embassy Tripoli, State. REASON: 1.4 (b),(d) [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-18 08:55:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	BTIO ECON EIND EINV PREL PGOV LY
07TRIPOLI1055	LIBYA: SECTION 565 WAIVER OF PROHIBITION AGAINST CONTRACTING [...] (SBU) The Government of Libya (GOL) does not maintain diplomatic relations with Israel. Local firms are required by national law to comply with the boycott, and would therefore not be able to sign the required U.S. certification without exposing themselves to civil and/or criminal penalties. [...]	2007-12-23 09:34:00	Embassy Tripoli	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KBCT PHUM AL ABLD ECON AMGT ASUP AFIN PREL LY
07TRIPOLI1056	LIBYA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: EXPERIENCING GROWING [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-23 09:56:00	Embassy Tripoli	SECRET	PGOV PREL KBIO PINR LY
07TRIPOLI1058	UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-23 12:22:00	Embassy Tripoli	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN
07TRIPOLI1063	CORRECTED COPY - LIBYA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: [...] (S/NF) Summary: Libya's newly-constituted National Security Council continues to experience growing pains. A shortage of skilled staff, questions about its mandate, and friction between National Security Adviser Mutassim al-Qadhafi and some senior GOL officials have limited the NSC's organizat [...]	2007-12-27 15:50:00	Embassy Tripoli	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KBIO PINR LY

07TRIPOLI1065	CORRECTED COPY - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY TEAM FINALIZES HEU-LEU [...] (SBU) Summary: A visiting team of experts from the Department of Energy (DOE) finalized language for a government-to-government agreement providing for the return of highly-enriched uranium to Russia under the rubric of the tri-lateral agreement (TSCC) announced December 19, 2003 with the U.S. [...]	2007-12-28 10:07:00	Embassy Tripoli	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL TRGY KNNP IAEA PINR TSPL TPHY TNGD MCAP

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