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09KYIV924	RADA OUTLOOK: POSITIONING FOR PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) After a week's recess, the Rada will start its next plenary on June 2 amidst continued rumors that PM Tymoshenko's BYuT faction and opposition Party of Regions (Regions) are close to forming a coalition. A BYuT-Regions coalition would have more than the 300 MPs necessary to enact constitu [...]	2009-05-28 15:25:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR UP

09KYIV955	UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ'S FINANCIAL HOUSE OF CARDS [...] (SBU) Naftohaz's ability to pay its gas bill has become a monthly guessing game since the January 2009 gas crisis. While Ukraine has managed to pay its gas bill for the first four months of the year, it will face increasing difficulties to do so through the summer as it pumps gas into undergrou [...]	2009-06-03 15:51:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET ECON PINR PREL RU UP
09LAGOS138	NIGERIA: DELTA STATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM CLAIMS [...] (C) Summary: Gary Akpobire, Director of the Delta State Integrated Development Agency (DIDA) told Pol-Econ Chief on February 17 that Delta State's development plans are proceeding apace. The state plans four new gas-fired power plants to drive industry, but Akpobire seemed unaware of problems [...]	2009-03-18 08:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM EPET ECON KDEM NI
09LAGOS142	NIGERIA: DOCUMENTARY HIGHLIGHTS RISING SEA LEVELS, [...] (U) Summary: Nigerian film director Desmond Majekodunmi, with funding from the Heinrich Boll Foundation, produced "Global Warming: Nigeria Under Attack", a documentary screened in Lagos on November 19. The 40 minute-long film documents the threat of rising seas levels on recent developments o [...]	2009-03-19 05:52:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI PGOV ECON NI
09LAGOS144	NIGERIA: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS GOVERNOR ALAO-AKALA'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Federal Appeals Court has upheld the April 14, 2007 election of Oyo State Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala (People's Democratic Party),and dismissed an appeal filed by All Nigerian Peoples Party Governorship (ANPP) candidate Abiola Ajimobi. The ruling has put an end to weeks of [...]	2009-03-20 12:22:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
09LAGOS165	FRAUD SUMMARY - LAGOS [...] Background: Nigeria covers 356,669 sq miles and has a population of approximately 145 million. The major languages are English (official),Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa. Approximately 60% of the population is below the poverty line for Nigeria. The current GDP is 1,500 dollars, and the inflation [...]	2009-04-02 06:06:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC NI
09LAGOS182	NIGERIA: CONSUL GENERAL MEETS WITH UNITED NIGER [...] (U) Summary: On March 17, Consul General met with Tony Uranta (protect),Executive Director for the new United Niger Delta Energy, Development and Security Strategy (UNDEDSS) organization. Uranta, who coordinated the 2007 African Democratic Congress (ADC) party presidential campaign of Patrick [...]	2009-04-09 14:48:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM EPET ECON KDEM NI
09LAGOS184	NIGERIA: BAYELSA STATE FACING FINANCIAL [...] (C) Summary. The Director General of the E-Government and Due Process Bureau of Bayelsa State, Dimieari Von Kemedi, told PolOff on March 19 that Bayelsa State passed a completely unrealistic budget and was on the brink of insolvency unless oil prices increased. Bayelsa is addressing this finan [...]	2009-04-14 06:25:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KCRM NI
09LAGOS191	NIGERIA: LEADING NIGER DELTA ACTIVIST BRIEFS [...] (C) Summary: Patrick Utomi, Director of the Center for Applied Economics at the Lagos Business School (LBS) and 2007 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Party (ADP),and originally from Delta State, told Ambassador, while she was in Lagos on March 23, that he is working, as Chair o [...]	2009-04-17 12:10:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM EPET ECON KDEM NI
09LAGOS193	NIGERIA: EKITI STATE ELECTION RERUN: POTENTIAL FOR [...] (C) Summary: In March 2 meetings in Ekiti State, political party representatives, journalists and civil society leaders told Poloff that the upcoming rerun election for governor has little to do with real issues, but displays the typical power politics of the People,s Democratic Party (PDP) i [...]	2009-04-17 12:12:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI
09LAGOS2	NIGERIA: BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON UPDATE FOR DECEMBER [...] (u) The following is a joint Embassy Abuja, ConGen Lagos compilation of December 15-31 political/economic highlights, which did not feature in other reporting, covering: -- Delta Security Incidents -- Political News -- Oil and Gas -- Other Economic News Delta Security Incidents; No Ameri [...]	2009-01-06 09:26:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM ECON EPET ETRD KJUS KCOR NI
09LAGOS215	NIGERIA: EKITI RETURNS TO NORMALCY AS AC PREPARES [...] (C) Summary: On May 6, following the May 5 announcement of the victory of Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Segun Oni in the contested Ekiti State gubernatorial rerun election, Ado-Ekiti broke out into violent demonstrations, as protesters clashed with police. The Action Congress (AC) [...]	2009-05-11 07:20:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
09LAGOS227	NIGERIA: EDO STATE EMPOWERING THE ELECTORATE WITH [...] (C) Summary. On April 28, officials of the new Action Congress (AC) administration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole in Edo State outlined to PolOff and PolSpec the initiatives of the new government to reduce costs and fraud while increasing revenue and efficiency. Officials welcomed the dramatic [...]	2009-05-14 15:16:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR ECON NI
09LAGOS239	NIGERIA: JTF, MILITANTS BELIEVED PREPARING FOR [...] (C) Summary: Industry and security contacts operating in the Niger Delta report that the JTF may be preparing to expand its campaign against militants, while militants are leaving their camps and taking refuge in more populated villages and cities to avoid being targeted. A oil company secur [...]	2009-06-01 07:02:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS MOPS EPET NI
09LAGOS253	Nigeria's Developers Return to Basics After High-End [...] (U) Summary: The precipitous fall in high-end housing prices in Lagos over the past several months has prompted real estate developers to shift focus to medium and lower-end accommodations where demand is strong and, while margins tend to be less, prices have exhibited a steady climb. Executi [...]	2009-06-09 15:07:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV NI
09LAGOS264	NIGERIA: PDP BEGINS PUSH FOR SOUTH EAST IN 2011 [...] Summary: (C) Political maneuvering in advance of the 2011 national elections has begun in the South East political zone. A Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) official told Poloff on June 8 that the party is focusing on recapturing the governorships of Imo and Anambra States. The Imo State govern [...]	2009-06-15 07:02:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
09LAGOS279	NIGERIA: ONDO STATE GOV CONFRONTS OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: Governor Olusegun Mimiko's (Labour Party - LP) four months in office have been a mixed bag of accomplishments and political intrigues. His supporters claimed he has in four months accomplished more than his predecessor achieved in two years. Opponents argue that his government [...]	2009-07-06 15:33:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
09LAGOS285	NIGERIA: EDO STATE REFORMS ON TRACK [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 18 PolOff met with senior officials of Edo State Government in Benin City to discuss progress on the reforms initiated by the Governor Adams Oshiomhole (Action Congress - AC) since he took office following an Appeals Court decision in his favor in November 2008. The sta [...]	2009-07-08 07:33:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON KCOR NI
09LAGOS307	NIGERIA: CALL ON ONDO GOVERNOR AND VISIT TO USG FOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6, Ambassador made a call on Governor Olusegun Mimiko and his cabinet at the Governor's House, following a tour of the Matna Foods Cassava Processing Facility in Akure, Ondo State. Ambassador made introductory comments to the Governor's cabinet, highlighting the U.S. Mis [...]	2009-07-20 07:58:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
09LAGOS310	NIGERIA: INCREASED VIOLENCE IN THE SOUTH EAST - [...] (C) Summary: Recent cases of kidnappings, hijackings and armed robberies in the South East have been increasingly attributed to "militants" or other criminal elements coming in from the South South or Delta region blaming it on the military putting pressure on them in that area. Roadways bet [...]	2009-07-21 06:50:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC KCRM NI
09LAGOS315	NIGERIA: IMO STATE GOVERNOR TO SWITCH TO PDP ON JULY 25 [...] (SBU) Summary: After weeks of speculation and denial, Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim of the Progressive Peoples' Alliance (PPA) has now finalized his plan to switch to the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP). PPA leaders have threatened to drag him to the Supreme Court if he leaves the party. H [...]	2009-07-24 06:46:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM NI
09LAGOS320	NIGERIA: LAGOS BUS RAPID TRANSIT TWO YEARS AFTER [...] (U) Summary: Two years after the introduction of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) program in Lagos, more Lagos car owners are leaving their cars for faster bus rides into Lagos's business districts. Lagos Bus Asset Management Company (LAGBUS),one of two companies running the service, has covered ab [...]	2009-07-29 11:45:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELTN EINV ETRD PGOV NI
09LAGOS358	NIGERIA'S CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON THE DEFENSIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Governor Sanusi of Nigeria's Central Bank (CBN) has been defending himself in National Assembly Committees. At issue is the legality of his sacking of five bank Managing Directors (MD). Sanusi contends that his actions were legal, while members of the National Assembly want to [...]	2009-09-09 07:15:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN NI PGOV
09LAGOS359	NIGERIA'S CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON THE DEFENSIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Governor Sanusi of Nigeria's Central Bank (CBN) has been defending himself in the National Assembly over his sacking of five Managing Directors. National Assembly members questioned Sanusi's use of CBN funds to prop up the five banks, and expressed a desire to be more involved i [...]	2009-09-10 16:49:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV NI
09LAGOS361	WHERE DOES ALL THAT MONEY GO? THE MOVE TOWARD [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 27-28, the Senate Appropriations Committee held a zonal consultative meeting on inclusive budgeting in Osun state, inviting state governments, civil society organizations, and media from the southwest to provide input into the 2010 federal budget. The federal governm [...]	2009-09-15 15:41:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EFIN KDEM SOCI NI
09LAGOS473	THE TRUE SCALE OF THE NIGERIAN BANKING CRISIS [...] (SBU) Former and current employees of Citibank participated in a November 13 discussion on the banking sector and ongoing reforms. They see green shoots of recovery on the horizon, but banking leaders in Nigeria took part in outright stealing. The end result could be 1.8 trillion naira (USD [...]	2009-12-08 15:31:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV NI
09LAGOS482	CHANGING CHARACTER OF KIDNAPPING IN NIGERIA [...] (C) Kidnapping in Nigeria is increasing in frequency, expanding in scope and changing in character. This seriously under-reported crime may be occurring as frequently as 40 times a week, and targets are increasingly ordinary Nigerians. Incidents are no longer geographically concentrated in [...]	2009-12-18 13:34:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KCRM ASEC NI
09LAGOS483	FEDERAL COURT DISMISSES CHARGES AGAINST IBORI [...] (SBU) A Federal High Court in Asaba absolved former Delta State Governor James Ibori of any wrong-doing on December 17 in the 170-count, money-laundering case brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC vowed to challenge the ruling at the Federal Cour [...]	2009-12-18 14:39:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR KDEM NI
09LAGOS490	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FIRSTBANK IN LAGOS [...] (C) FirstBank new CEO Onasanya briefed U.S. Mission on December 21 on the outcomes of the recent Central Bank retreat on banking and economic growth issues. With the audits completed, the banks are now focusing on consolidations and mergers with an emphasis on encouraging foreign banks to i [...]	2009-12-30 06:45:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV NI
09LAGOS77	NIGERIA: ELECTION TRIBUNALS UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: The Appeals Court in Kwara State, on February 17 overturned the decision of the electoral tribunal affirming the election of Ekiti State Governor, Segun Oni (PDP) and ordered new elections in 10 of the state's 16 local government areas. (Comment: After 21 months in power, it is lik [...]	2009-02-24 14:33:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
09LAGOS98	NIGERIA: SOUTH-EAST GOVERNORS BRING LIMITED CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings through January, contacts in Anambra, Ebonyi, and Abia states told Poloff that after being marginalized by the federal government for years, the states are now using their own resources to improve infrastructure and industry. On Poloff's road trips through [...]	2009-03-03 16:26:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV NI
09LAGOS99	NIGERIA: NEW BAKASSI LOCAL GOVERNMENT: WHERE ARE [...] (C) Summary: During a January 12-14 trip to Cross River State, Poloffs, visit to the New Bakassi Local Government Area indicated that most, if not all, of the Nigerian citizen Bakassi residents who returned to Nigeria were temporarily housed for one to two months, and then sent away to other [...]	2009-03-04 14:51:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF NI
09LAHORE110	JUD CHIEF ORDERED RELEASED [...] (SBU) After more than five months of house arrest, the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the release of Jammat-ud-Dawa (JUD) Chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who had been placed in preventive detention since the Mumbai attacks. After a series of delays, a full bench of the LHC heard a habeaus corpus [...]	2009-06-02 13:23:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PK
09LAHORE116	PUNJAB SUPPORTS IDP EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN Human Rights Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has registered 54,396 individuals in Punjab as of June 6, the majority of whom have taken refuge in private residences, but UNHCR expects many more have arrived in the province. The Punjab Government, Governor and other politi [...]	2009-06-16 02:28:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PK
09LAHORE133	CHRISTIANS ATTACKED IN KASUR [...] (SBU) Summary: A drunken fistfight erupted into an alleged incident of blasphemy, which sparked a mob attack on a Christian community in rural Punjab, prompting 700 people to flee their homes June 30. Federal Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti offered compensation to the affected [...]	2009-07-13 06:07:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PK
09LAHORE154	ICE MAY HAVE CRACKED, BUT SHARIFS STILL DISTRUST IN ZARDARI [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-24 12:45:00	Consulate Lahore	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV PHUM PK
09LAHORE200	RAMADAN CHARITABLE EVENTS WELL RECEIVED IN LAHORE [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the holy month of Ramadan Consulate Lahore distributed gift bags containing school supplies, juice, and a snack to over 1,000 children from four madrassahs and three orphanages. We also provided a package of basic food stuffs to 150 underprivileged families. Major Urdu [...]	2009-10-19 08:25:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL PK
09LAHORE205	ATTACK ON ISLAMABAD ISLAMIC SCHOOL SHOCKS PUNJABIS, CLOSES [...] (C) Summary. On October 21, the Punjab provincial government called for all educational facilities in the province to close until further notice. Immediately after the October 15 attacks on three security installations in Lahore, some public and private schools closed for a few days while th [...]	2009-10-21 13:37:00	Consulate Lahore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PK
09LAHORE215	NOVEMBER 10 VISIT TO MUKHTAR MAI AND SECURITY ASSESSMENT [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST IN PARAGRAPH 8. After the leadership of a local non-governmental organization (NGO) contacted Department of State personnel regarding terrorist threats, ConGen Lahore spoke with NGO staff and relevant security organizations. Police told us they recently contacted staff of Mu [...]	2009-11-19 08:23:00	Consulate Lahore	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PK
09LAHORE27	BLAST IN DERA GHAZI KHAN LINKED TO SECTARIAN CONFLICT [...] (SBU) An alleged suicide attacker killed 33 people in the southwestern Punjab district of Dera Ghazi Khan February 5. According to press and consulate contacts, the blast targeted a Shia procession converging on the imambargah, or house of worship, in the middle of Dera Ghazi Khan city. "It is [...]	2009-02-06 14:48:00	Consulate Lahore	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS PGOV PK
09LAHORE35	PUNJAB GOVERNOR TAKES OVER WHILE PROTESTS CONTINUE [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-27 04:20:00	Consulate Lahore	SECRET	MOPS PGOV PK PTER
09LAHORE50	GOVERNOR RESISTS COMPROMISE IN PUNJAB [...] (C) Summary: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer told Principal Officer (PO) March 14 that the best solution to stabilize the provincial government continues to rely on a tie-up between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) with a PPP Chief Minister at the helm. He d [...]	2009-03-14 12:06:00	Consulate Lahore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PK
09LAHORE87	PUNJAB WHEAT HARVEST JEOPARDIZED BY CORRUPTION AND LACK OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Corruption and inadequate storage facilities have hindered the Punjab government's ability to take full advantage of a bumper crop of wheat. Many farmers, faced with transportation and bureaucratic hurdles, have chosen to sell their wheat to middlemen, who have pocketed the diff [...]	2009-05-07 06:30:00	Consulate Lahore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PREL PK
09LAPAZ1256	BOLIVIAN JUDICIARY CRUMPLES UNDER MAS ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: Through a series of judicial maneuvers and pressure tactics reminiscent of their 2007 dismantling of the country's Constitutional Tribunal, Bolivian President Evo Morales and his ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party appear to be set on shutting down the Supreme Court until [...]	2009-08-31 20:15:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR BL
09LAPAZ1285	BATTLE LINES DRAWN FOR DECEMBER ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: With the passage of the September 7 filing deadline, eight parties have registered to contest the December 6 elections for Bolivia's presidency and Plurinational Assembly (Congress). Three parties are set to split the bulk of the opposition vote, greatly strengthening Presiden [...]	2009-09-09 21:51:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM INR PHUM BL
09LAPAZ1425	POLLS: MAS TO SWEEP, MAY WIN TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY [...] (C) Summary: Three recently-published polls -- including an unreleased, privately-commissioned poll by Stanley Greenberg's firm -- confirm President Evo Morales and his ruling Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS) are well positioned to sweep the December 6 elections. Morales is favored to wi [...]	2009-10-07 19:44:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR BL
09LAPAZ156	BOLIVIA: MURDER AND SCANDAL [...] Summary: Bolivian headlines announced "murder", "torture", and "conspiracy" in the days following a brutal murder and robbery which may have ties to powerful politicians. An investigation into the January 27 murder and theft of $450,000 has raised suspicions of corruption within the state hy [...]	2009-01-29 21:33:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR ASEC BL
09LAPAZ1585	BOLIVIA: FINAL PRE-ELECTION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: With days remaining before the December 6 presidential and legislative elections, polls report President Morales and his ruling Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS) have widened their lead, with an outside chance at reaching an overall two-thirds majority in the Plurinational Ass [...]	2009-12-02 20:12:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR BL
09LAPAZ1589	MORALES, MAS WIN RESOUNDING ELECTION VICTORY [...] Summary: President Evo Morales and his ruling Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS) won a resounding victory in national elections on December 6. Parallel vote counts show Morales won re-election with approximately 63 percent of the vote and that the MAS won at least 24 of 36 Senate seats. L [...]	2009-12-07 19:29:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR BL
09LAPAZ1642	BOLIVIAN NOMINATION: THE 2010 SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] Per REFTEL, Embassy La Paz nominates Dr. Marina Flores Villena for the 2010 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Through her work as a lawyer and public prosecutor, Marina has dedicated herself professionally and personally to positively impacting the lives of hundreds o [...]	2009-11-30 21:25:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KWMN PREL KPAO BL
09LAPAZ194	LOWER HOUSE PRESIDENT ENLISTS SELF AS BILAT ALLY [...] (C) Summary: Lower House President Edmundo Novillo told Charge' February 3 that, in order for bilateral relations to move forward, both sides would need to identify common ground and establish some "essential points" for engagement. He added the United States would need to acknowledge the his [...]	2009-02-06 14:58:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SNAR BL
09LAPAZ270	PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIAN CONGRESS'S FOREIGN RELATIONS [...] (C) In a February 18 call on the Charge d'Affaires, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies (lower house of congress) Michiatki Nagatani portrayed himself as a personal messenger from Minister of Foreign Affairs David Choquehuanca. He said Choquehuanca had asked [...]	2009-02-19 14:56:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR BL
09LAPAZ294	EVO BLAMES CIA FOR YPFB SCANDAL; POLICE'S MILGP BAN [...] (C) Summary: Despite overtures to the Obama Administration in general, President Morales and Government Minister Rada continued the GOB's now familiar barrage of U.S.-blaming and blasting February 20-21. This time the target was the CIA, blamed for the corruption and murder scandal involving [...]	2009-02-26 14:57:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR PROP EAID EPET MARR OFDP
09LAPAZ374	MAS MOB TAKE HOUSE, BEAT FAMILY OF FORMER VP [...] (C) Summary: Apparently induced by agitators, protesters from one Lake Titicaca region ransacked the house and attacked the family of former Vice-President and current presidential candidate Victor Hugo Cardenas on March 7. Although the government has launched an investigation, officials inclu [...]	2009-03-09 21:17:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL PTER PINR BL
09LAPAZ381	MFA PLUGS HIGH-LEVEL MEETING, APPLAUDS IRAQ PLANS [...] (C) Summary: Post delivered demarche on Iraq (reftel A) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and received a generally positive response. Conversation turned quickly to recent House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearings on bilateral relations, which MFA representatives used to ask again for a m [...]	2009-03-11 18:29:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ MOPS PREL KDEM PINR ENVR ASEC BL
09LAPAZ386	"COMMUNITARIAN JUSTICE" SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL? [...] (C) Summary: Following the March 7 ransacking of former Vice President Victor Hugo Cardenas' home and attack on his wife and family (reftel),provincial community leaders declared March 10 they would formally expropriate the property and claimed the new constitution explicitly justified their [...]	2009-03-12 20:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR ENVR ASEC PTER BL
09LAPAZ409	GOB RHETORIC MAY SET STAGE FOR FURTHER EXPULSIONS [...] (C) Summary: Following the March 9 expulsion of Embassy officer Frank Martinez (Reftels B, C) and subsequent government accusations March 12 of more CIA activity in the country (Reftel A),President Evo Morales charged March 13 and 14 that "foreign agents" were "buying the loyalty" of Bolivia [...]	2009-03-16 15:59:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR ENVR ASEC BL
09LAPAZ412	BOLIVIAN CORRUPTION: MORE SCANDALS LIKELY [...] (C) As the Bolivian state extends its participation in the economy well beyond its capacity, corruption scandals are likely to surface across any number of the poorly managed and highly politicized state enterprises. The state hydrocarbon company (YPFB) is far and away the largest of these c [...]	2009-03-17 18:16:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ENRG EPET EINV BL EFIN PINR
09LAPAZ469	MAS TRAMPLES CONSTITUTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: President Evo Morales, his ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, and affiliated social groups continue to use authoritarian measures to implement a so-called "democratic revolution," including the initiation of legal proceedings against Supreme Court President Eddy Ferna [...]	2009-03-26 16:27:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR ENVR ASEC BL
09LAPAZ501	SANTA CRUZ LEADERS ALARMED BY EROSION OF [...] (C) Summary: During several recent trips by embassy officials to Santa Cruz, leaders and common citizens alike have expressed concern over the growing anti-democratic tendencies of the Morales government. Issues such as the continued imprisonment of Pando Prefect Leopoldo Fernandez, the self [...]	2009-03-31 21:23:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM PHUM SNAR ASEC BL
09LAPAZ555	MR. OBAMA, TEAR DOWN THIS EMBARGO: BOLIVIA'S BIG [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a press conference at the presidential palace April 8, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) will meet prior to the Summit of the Americas to discuss a Bolivian proposal to lift the United States' embargo on Cuba. The group [...]	2009-04-09 19:48:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM PREL PHUM PINR BL CU
09LAPAZ557	STARVING DEMOCRACY: ELECTORAL LAW IMPASSE [...] (C) Summary: As of 2:00pm April 9, President Evo Morales and his ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party has been unable to break a legislative deadlock with the opposition over passage of the constitutionally-mandated Electoral Transition Law (ETL),which will govern all aspects of upco [...]	2009-04-09 20:41:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR ENVR ASEC BL
09LAPAZ593	GOVERNMENT CLAIMS INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS ARE IN [...] (C) Summary: Early April 16, a Bolivian National Police (BNP) SWAT team raided the ExpoCruz fairgrounds in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, reportedly discovering arms and ammunition. Police also raided a downtown hotel, engaging in a firefight and ultimately killing three individuals (reportedly includin [...]	2009-04-16 22:14:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PTER PREL BL
09LAPAZ6	FEARS OF CLOSING CONGRESS FOR EARLY ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Opposition Alternate Senator Rafael Loayza (Podemos, La Paz) told PolOff he anticipated Bolivian President Evo Morales would shut down Congress sometime before mid-summer. Loayza argued that Morales will use the "inevitable" approval of a constitutional referendum January 25 to j [...]	2009-01-05 19:19:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM BL
09LAPAZ600	GOB BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON "TERRORIST CELL" [...] (C) Summary: Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and other senior administration members, during an address to the diplomatic corps on April 21, underscored the seriousness of what they labeled a series of three terrorist attacks and the presence of a terrorist cell with at least ten [...]	2009-04-23 11:06:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR ENVR ASEC BL PTER
09LAPAZ62	BOLIVIA: EVO WARNS HE WILL RULE BY DECREE [...] (U) At the January 11 conference of the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, President Evo Morales called on his followers to perpetuate MAS power "forever." Morales assured his listeners that he was confident the new constitution would pass in the January 25 referendum, allowing for [...]	2009-01-13 21:40:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR BL
09LAPAZ659	GOB IMPLICATES SANTA CRUZ LEADERS IN "TERRORISM" [...] (S) Summary: The government prosecutor has implicated a dozen top Santa Cruz leaders in supporting a "terrorist cell" aiming to divide the country. A former public defender for one of the Hungarian defendants told us the government had informants within the group and a great deal of evidence t [...]	2009-05-06 15:17:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV KJUS PHUM ASEC BL
09LAPAZ67	LA PAZ - ANNUAL OSAC CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT - 2009 [...] ROAD CONDITIONS IN BOLIVIA Outside the major cities, road conditions are quite poor. Of the 42,815 Km. of roads in Bolivia, less than five percent are paved. Of the remainder, one third is topped with gravel, and the rest (approximately 60% of all the roads in country) are poorly maintained [...]	2009-01-15 11:13:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC AMGT APER BL
09LAPAZ715	SUPREME COURT HALTED, JUDICIARY DISMANTLED [...] (C) Summary: The Bolivian Congress' lower house narrowly voted on May 14 to impeach Supreme Court President Eddy Fernandez, and the opposition-controlled Senate will begin a "trial of responsibilities" within two weeks. The ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party's main charge against F [...]	2009-05-15 20:11:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR ENVR ASEC BL
09LAPAZ750	LAWYER: GOB INVOLVED IN TERROR, PANDO, YPFB CASES [...] (S) Summary: A Bolivian government lawyer who worked closely on the Santa Cruz terrorism case, the investigation into the September 2008 Pando conflict, and the YPFB (state oil company) murder and corruption case provided new information on GOB involvement in all three incidents. In the alleg [...]	2009-05-26 19:45:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR ENVR ASEC PTER BL
09LAPAZ844	HOW GOB COULD BLAME US FOR ALLEGED TERROR CELL [...] (S) Summary: The USG has not yet been directly accused of involvement with an alleged terrorist cell in Santa Cruz. However, there are several factors that could induce the GOB to connect us to suspected extremist groups in Santa Cruz: the petition of political asylum from alleged terrorist Hug [...]	2009-06-08 20:52:00	Embassy La Paz	SECRET	ASEC PGOV PREL PTER PINR BL
09LAPAZ94	SENATE MURDER PLOT TURNS INTO PANDO "TELL ALL" [...] (C) Summary: Bolivian television networks aired testimony January 19 from the supposed organizer of the pro-government, September 11, 2008 campesino (peasant farmer) march in Pando Department that accuses Presidency Minister Juan Ramon Quintana of arming the group with the purpose of violently [...]	2009-01-22 22:26:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR VN BL
09LIBREVILLE288	GABON: DYNAMICS OF OMAR BONGO'S FUNERAL [...] (C) President Omar Bongo's funeral was a solemn event marked by the presence of fourteen African heads of state and French President Sarkozy. In separate meetings with Interim President Rose Rogombe and Defense Minister Ali Bongo, the U.S. Presidential delegation emphasized the importance of [...]	2009-06-17 18:25:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL GB FR
09LIBREVILLE48	ECHOES OF WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS SOUND IN GABON [...] SUMMARY: With an economy almost entirely dependent on the export of raw materials -- mainly petroleum, manganese, and timber -- Gabon has experienced significant recessionary effects linked to the current international economic crisis. Private sector decision-makers are taking a cautious appro [...]	2009-02-06 09:35:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EPET EMIN EAGR GB
09LILONGWE241	MALAWI ELECTIONS: WHAT'S AT STAKE? [...] (C) Summary: A presidential victory by either President Mutharika or MCP leader John Tembo in Malawi's May 19 presidential race would pose its own challenges and opportunities. A Mutharika victory would favor the continuity of key U.S. development initiatives including an MCC Compact, the new [...]	2009-05-08 09:25:00	Embassy Lilongwe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM MI
09LILONGWE27	MALAWI: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The government encourages both domestic and foreign investment in most sectors of the economy without restrictions on ownership, size of investment, source of funds, and destination of final product. There is no government screening of foreign investment in Malawi. Apart from the privatization [...]	2009-01-20 14:48:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC MI
09LILONGWE626	MALAWI: OPPOSITION LEADER VOTE HIGHLIGHTS SPLIT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an unorthodox move, Malawi's DPP dominated parliament amended its standing orders to allow the entire membership of the house, including both opposition and government members, to vote in the election of the leader of the opposition. This change set-up an election between MCP [...]	2009-11-20 12:26:00	Embassy Lilongwe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM MI
09LILONGWE707	MALAWI HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) The following is a compilation of recent highlights in Malawi. MULUZI RETIRES - JUMBE TO LEAD UDF ---------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Former Malawian President and United Democratic Front (UDF) leader Bakili Muluzu has announced his retirement from politics. Famous for defea [...]	2009-12-24 09:20:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EINV AU MI
09LIMA1258	CODEL PRICE: HDAC INAUGURATES RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (U) Summary: The August 15-19 visit to Peru of Codel Price -- representing the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) -- inaugurated formal legislative to legislative relations between the U.S. and Peruvian Congresses. Codel discussions focused on four topics: representation (constitue [...]	2009-08-27 20:03:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PTER PE
09LIMA54	CORRECTED: ANNUAL OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL (OSAC) CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT. [...] Overall crime and safety situation: A. An OSAC member traveling to Peru (as with any overseas travel) should take certain precautions to ensure their safety and security. Doing so will allow them and other American business people living and conducting operations in Peru to successfully naviga [...]	2009-01-15 13:52:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER ASEC PE
09LISBON101	PORTUGAL: NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] The Monitoring Center for Trafficking in Persons; 2. The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF); 3. The High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI); 4. The Portuguese Association for Victim Support (APAV); 5. The International Organization for Migration (IOM); 6. The [...]	2009-02-17 16:22:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD KTIP ASEC PREF ELAB
09LISBON144	IF YOU WANT A FRIEND IN WASHINGTON, GET A WATER DOG [...] SUMMARY. Media reports that the Obama family may be interested in acquiring a Portuguese Water Dog have excited the press and the dog-loving Portuguese public. Some two months ago, the regional tourism authority in southern Portugal offered a Water Dog to the First Family, and representativ [...]	2009-03-10 14:14:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OFDP OPRC PO
09LISBON376	US, PORTUGAL RESOLVE LAJES WAGE DISPUTE [...] (SBU) On July 11, 2009 Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado signed agreements for a new wage increase procedure for Portuguese employees at Lajes Air Base in the Azores, resolving one of our most difficult bilateral issues. Although the economic [...]	2009-07-15 15:00:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV OVIP PO
09LISBON540	UPDATE ON DAILY ROUTINES OF TWO GUANTANAMO [...] (C/NF) Further to information provided reftel regarding the two Syrians transfered from Guantanamo to Portugal on August 28, at our request the Portuguese Immigration and Border Service (SEF),which adminsters the resettlement, has provided further details on the transferees' daily routines. [...]	2009-10-15 12:23:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER MARR PO
09LISBON584	PORTUGAL LAUNCHES GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK [...] Summary: In observance of Global Entrepreneurship Week (reftel),the Portuguese Association of Business Angels (APBA) and the Association for Social and Economic Development (SEDES) organized a series of events to promote entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation. Emboffs participated in t [...]	2009-11-20 14:08:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PGOV PO
09LISBON621	PORTUGAL: GROWING TENSION IN PARLIAMENT TESTS [...] (SBU) In September elections, Socialist PM Socrates lost the absolute majority in Parliament he had enjoyed for four years. The Socialists now have 97 seats in the 230-seat Parliament, but have chosen to govern as a minority rather than enter into a coalition with the opposition. Two months [...]	2009-12-15 12:23:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN SOCI PO
09LJUBLJANA196	SLOVENIA WORKING TO ADDRESS FINNISH ALLEGATIONS IN [...] (C) After discussions with Slovenia's Minister of Justice and Chief Prosecutor-General about Finnish allegations circulated at the June OECD Working Group on Bribery, post expects Finland and Slovenia will clear up the misunderstandings that gave rise to the allegations in September - before t [...]	2009-07-16 14:59:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON OECD EFIN SI
09LJUBLJANA21	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALLS: U.S.-EUROPEAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In farewell calls on Slovenian President Daniel Turk and National Assembly speaker Pavel Gantar, Ambassador Ghafari: highlighted the importance of U.S.-European partnership; stressed the need for prompt parliamentary ratification of Croatia's membership in NATO; and urged Sloven [...]	2009-01-23 14:05:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO EUN MARR HR SI
09LJUBLJANA332	SLOVENIA: NO EASY SOLUTION FOR GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-21 05:51:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PREF PHUM SI
09LJUBLJANA38	SLOVENIA: 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] The answers provided below are keyed to the questions asked reftel regarding Slovenia's TIP Situation. 2. Slovenia's TIP Situation --------------------------- A. The Government of Slovenia (GoS) provides information on trafficking in persons through its national coordinator for and thr [...]	2009-02-13 17:02:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09LJUBLJANA40	SLOVENIA/CROATIA: THE NATO REFERENDUM NOBODY WANTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Marjan Podobnik, a one-time agrarian politician and head of a patriotic NGO called the June 25th Institute, formally submitted more than 5,300 signatures to parliament on February 16 to initiate a request for a referendum on Croatia's NATO accession protocol. Unless a compromise [...]	2009-02-17 18:13:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO HR SI
09LJUBLJANA59	PRIME MINISTER SAYS NATO RATIFICATION PROCEDURE [...] (C) Clearly anticipating the subject of our conversation, Prime Minister Pahor pre-empted CDA's delivery of reftel's points on March 5 by opening with the news that the government believed it had the legal means to cut short the seven-day follow-up for submission of signatures in favor of a re [...]	2009-03-06 16:20:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR NATO KTIA PREL HR SI
09LJUBLJANA61	SLOVENIAN ECONOMY DOWN, BUT NOT OUT [...] (C) Slovenia is facing the most severe economic times in its eighteen-year history. A director of the Government Institute of Economic Analysis and Development (IMAD) said at a press conference on that the first quarter of 2009 will be the worst since independence and that Slovenia has not yet [...]	2009-03-09 17:07:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PREL SI
09LOME408	TOGO: CONSULAR FRAUD SUMMARY [...] SUMMARY: The following is the Consular Fraud Summary update for the period of April to September 2009. END SUMMARY. 2. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: The international donor community has slowly returned to assist Togo to emerge from years of economic stagnation. However, the local economy has been hi [...]	2009-11-02 16:04:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM CASC TO
09LONDON1037	UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO STAFFDEL FRANTZ [...] Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to Douglas Frantz to visit London May 7 - May 10, 2009,for consultations. ------------- 2. Visit Officer ------------- Chris Palmer, Political Officer Embassy phone is (44) 20-7894-0123 or IVG 492-0123 Fax (44) 20-7894-0117 [...]	2009-05-01 11:07:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA OSCE AMGT ASEC AFIN UK
09LONDON1049	HOUSING MARKET GREEN SHOOTS COULD SUFFER "RENEWED [...] (SBU) Summary: The UK is beginning to see positive signs in the housing market, but recovery is fragile and in its early stages. Adrian Coles, director-general of the Building Societies Association (BSA),told us a microscope is necessary to see the green shoots, but house prices may be botto [...]	2009-05-05 14:57:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EINV UK
09LONDON1064	UK POLITICAL SNAPSHOT: A â€œRESILIENTâ€ GORDON BROWN [...] (C/NF) Key points: -- Westminster seethed with rumors over the May 2-4 holiday weekend that one or more members of Gordon Brown's cabinet were preparing to unseat him as Prime Minister/Labour Party leader following a disastrous two-week period (Ref A). By the evening of May 4, however, all of the p [...]	2009-05-06 10:34:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL UK
09LONDON109	2009 UK INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] In response to reftel, the following is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for the United Kingdom. The information is updated as of January 1, 2009. 2. Much of the data supplied in this report is from 2007, since end-of-year 2008 figures are not yet available. Given the economic down [...]	2009-01-15 13:20:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV OPIC USTR KTDB UK
09LONDON1226	LIBERTAD ACT: INPUT FOR UK [...] (C) Summary. Further to reftel, Poloff met with Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officers May 21 to seek updated information about HMG actions and policies concerning Cuba. HMG remains committed to promoting the development of democratic institutions and human rights in Cuba and is disa [...]	2009-05-22 11:37:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD ETTC PHUM CU UK

09LONDON1321	UK ANALYST SEES LATVIAN DEVALUATION AS UNAVOIDABLE [...] (U) Summary: The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) foresees the devaluation of the Latvian currency as inevitable. RBS' Head of Central and Eastern Europe Middle East and Africa Research, Timothy Ash, told us on June 3 there is no way back for Latvia on the currency front. Ash maintained a move to [...]	2009-06-03 17:13:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON XH UK
09LONDON1385	COMMMONWEALTH ON FIJI, SRI LANKA, NIGERIA, QUEEN'S [...] (C) Summary. During a June 11 discussion with Poloff, Commonwealth Political Director Amitav Banerji offered electoral commission capacity-building as an area where the USG and Commonwealth could be strategic partners; said a Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) would soon discuss and [...]	2009-06-11 15:32:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PHUM PINR NI CE FJ NZ CA MY UK
09LONDON1516	ZIMBABWE: TSVANGIRAI'S VISIT - FURTHER SUPPORT [...] (C/NF) Summary. During Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's June 19-24 visit to London, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Foreign Office Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown, and Development Secretary Douglas Alexander communicated the message that f [...]	2009-06-30 15:06:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EAID PHUM ZI UK
09LONDON1605	EMBASSY LONDON AND THE "NEXT BIG THING" ON CLEAN [...] (U) Summary: Embassy London will propose septel a major U.S./UK initiative to accelerate technical progress on climate change and clean energy technologies. We will outline a strategy to quickly build on U.S./UK cooperation to achieve economically viable technical solutions in the near to m [...]	2009-07-10 12:54:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ENRG KGHG KPAO SENV UK
09LONDON1628	HMG DEFENDS AFGHANISTAN MISSION AS BRITAIN'S DEATH [...] (SBU) Summary. In the past week, Prime Minister Brown, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, and Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth have unequivocally and publicly reaffirmed Britain's commitment to its mission in Afghanistan. "This is a very hard summer, it's not over, but it's vital that the inte [...]	2009-07-13 17:06:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS MASS UK AF
09LONDON1652	BRITAIN'S COMMITMENT IN AFGHANISTAN REMAINS FIRM [...] (C/NF) Summary. HMG remains firmly committed to its mission in Afghanistan despite a spate of intense media coverage of British casualties there and political debate about whether Prime Minister Brown's government has provided a sufficient number of troops on the ground and helicopters in [...]	2009-07-16 18:09:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS KDEM AF UK IZ
09LONDON1708	HMG ACCELERATES MEASURES TO COMBAT H1N1 VIRUS; [...] (SBU) Summary. HMG is preparing for the worst case scenario that one third of the UK population could become infected by the H1N1 virus, with potential deaths ranging from 19,000 to 65,000. HMG's National Pandemic Flu Service website became operational on July 23 and within minutes of its l [...]	2009-07-24 16:55:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU ECON AMGT AMED SOCI CASC EAGR UK
09LONDON1760	UK HOUSING MARKET SHOWS SIGNS OF RECOVERY BUT LONG-TERM [...] (SBU) Summary: UK housing prices showed a slight increase in June and July, and mortgage lending was also up. Despite these signs of recovery, the market outlook remains uncertain. Market prices are still down, year-on-year, 6.2 percent over the past 12 months as reported by Nationwide Build [...]	2009-07-31 14:37:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV UK
09LONDON1788	UK CALLING FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN [...] (C/NF) Summary: The UK is not planning to increase its development funding for Afghanistan beyond the GBP 510 million it has committed through 2013, but will channel an increasing amount of resources through the Afghan Government and redirect its efforts to focus more clearly on discrete areas [...]	2009-08-05 10:28:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	AF EAID ECON PGOV PK UK
09LONDON1797	EMBASSY LONDON WELCOMES CODEL COCHRAN/LEAHY [...] Embassy London is pleased to welcome CODEL Cochran/Leahy to London September 1 - September 6, 2009, to participate in the British-American Parliamentary Group (BAPG) Conference. 2. ---------------- Visit Officer ---------------- Daniel McNicholas, Political Officer Emba [...]	2009-08-05 15:10:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT OVIP OREP ASEC AFIN UK
09LONDON1886	VIEWS ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FROM LONDON-BASED [...] (SBU) Summary. London-based bank and development analysts are seeing positive signs emerging in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) economies, after months of negative news, but remain cautious in their near-term outlook for the region. While prospects for the global economy are improving and ther [...]	2009-08-13 16:13:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN KE LT NI SF UG UK XA ZA
09LONDON1911	EFFECT OF THE RECESSION ON UK REMITTANCES TO [...] (SBU) Summary. UK remittances to Pakistan have continued to increase in 2009, according to official data, but experts are skeptical that the trend will continue. Unlike remittances from other parts of the world, which experts speculate are being boosted in the short term by the return of the [...]	2009-08-19 16:29:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD PK SA UK XC
09LONDON2178	IRAN: HMG "WILL DISCUSS" RAISING CASES OF MISSING/DETAINED AMERICANS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Helen Teasdale of the Foreign Office's Iran Bilateral Affairs desk September 16. Her initial reaction to the request was that given the low ebb of relations between Iran and the UK -- which is still very concerned about the welfare of its local embassy staff [...]	2009-09-18 15:08:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER UK
09LONDON2186	DEFENCE SECRETARY AINSWORTH OUTLINES TOP [...] (C/NF). Summary. In a September 24 initial call by the Ambassador, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth expressed his firm commitment to the international mission in Afghanistan, describing success there as his top priority as Defence Secretary. Ainsworth stressed the importance of demonstrating to [...]	2009-09-21 13:20:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS MCAP PINR UK AF
09LONDON2225	CHANCELLOR DARLING ON BANKERSâ€™ BONUSES, UK [...] (C/NF) Summary: Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling told the Ambassador during his September 23 introductory meeting that G20 governments must continue to implement stimulus packages and avoid complacency. Darling warned that if banks paid out large bonuses in 2010, they could provoke a po [...]	2009-09-24 16:16:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EINV PGOV AGMT UK
09LONDON2230	CASPIAN ENERGY: UK TELLS AMB MORNINGSTAR THEY ARE [...] (C/NF) Summary: Ambassador Richard Morningstar, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy, and UK government and private officials agreed on the need for continued engagement with Caspian governments on energy issues, while encouraging Europe to increase both its outreach to the region and intern [...]	2009-09-28 11:41:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON UK
09LONDON229	BRITISH LONG VIEW ON CASPIAN GAS: BALL IS IN [...] (C/NF) Summary: HMG officials are working with Brussels and other Member States to leverage the Ukraine-Russian gas crisis into an ambitious program to address Europe's deficient internal energy market. While the UK is hopeful of success in the March European Council - which will focus in par [...]	2009-01-26 18:17:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG EPET UK
09LONDON2346	BROWN'S PROMISE TO SEND AN ADDITIONAL 500 TROOPS [...] (C//NF) Summary. Prime Minister Brown announced October 14 that he is prepared to deploy an additional 500 troops to Afghanistan provided three key conditions are met: the Afghan security forces must do a better job, and be willing to fight alongside and be trained by British forces; British troo [...]	2009-10-15 16:40:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AF PK UK PGOV PREL MARR MOPS MCAP PTER
09LONDON2425	UK ELECTIONS: HUNG PARLIAMENTS, MINORITY [...] (SBU) Summary. With domestic political opinion polls fluctuating in the run-up to the UK's general elections, which must occur before June 3, 2010, political pundits are speculating that it is unlikely that the Labour Party will continue to hold a majority in Parliament but that it is far fro [...]	2009-10-26 17:20:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM UK
09LONDON2427	UK STILL IN RECESSION AND FACING SLOW, VOLATILE RECOVERY [...] (SBU) Summary: The UK economy is still in recession and faces a slow, patchy recovery. According to official data released October 23, output in the third quarter was significantly weaker than expected. Economists at Oxford Economics and Morgan Stanley expect the UK to emerge from recession [...]	2009-10-27 09:47:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
09LONDON2478	UK GOVERNMENT GETS TOUGH ON BANK BONUSES; DEBATES CURBS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The UK government is getting tough on compensation for bankers. On January 1, a code of practice for compensation requiring large firms to report in detail their company's policies will come into effect. UK-based U.S. firms joined British banks in signing this code of conduct, [...]	2009-11-03 15:52:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
09LONDON2485	IRAN: SUPPORTERS OF THE GREEN MOVEMENT PRESENT [...] (U) On November 4, about 10 self-identified supporters of the Green Movement of Iran delivered a letter (text below) and a commemorative plaque expressing regret for the take-over of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. London Iran Watcher accepted the items on behalf of the embassy. A few m [...]	2009-11-04 15:58:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PGOV UK IR
09LONDON2492	CONSERVATIVE PARTY PLANS TO ABOLISH THE UK [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-05 12:12:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON ENRG UK
09LONDON2523	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON LORD SPEAKER: [...] (C/NF) Lord Speaker of the House of Lords Baroness Hayman told the Ambassador during a November 6 meeting that in the run-up to the general elections, party politics are beginning to play a role in the House of Lords, especially the public debate over the UK's role in Afghanistan. She said the exp [...]	2009-11-09 11:28:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR UK
09LONDON2543	BRITISH SUPPORT FOR AFGHANISTAN WAR DROPS ON EVE [...] (U) Summary: The murder of five British police trainers by a rogue Afghan officer, the unsatisfying conclusion to the Afghan election, public challenges to UK policy by leading politicians, and a wave of wrenching television interviews with grieving family members this week combined to dampen [...]	2009-11-10 16:56:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPAO MARR MOPS SOCI ECON UK AF
09LONDON2567	AMBASSADOR MCELDOWNEY'S BILATERAL MEETINGS IN [...] (C/NF) Summary and Introduction. During her November 9-11 visit to London, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Nancy McEldowney discussed a range of issues in bilateral meetings with UK officials. Julian Miller, Deputy Head of the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat at the Cabinet [...]	2009-11-16 15:51:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MOPS SOCI ECON PK AF OSCE NATO EU
09LONDON2582	ANTI-BRIBERY BILL HEADS TO PARLIAMENT, BUT PASSAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The UK government included anti-bribery legislation among its priorities in the Queen's Speech on November 18, 2009, at the State opening of Parliament. While this indicates HMG commitment to meet OECD and other global anti-bribery standards, some observers doubt, however, that [...]	2009-11-18 15:36:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EU OECD PREL PGOV KCRM UK
09LONDON261	CAMERON SHUFFLES CONSERVATIVE'S FRONT-BENCH, [...] (C/NF) Summary. Conservative Leader David Cameron shook up his party with a shadow cabinet reshuffle on January 19. Cameron wanted to strengthen his front-bench team and sharpen its attacks on the Labour Government, as well address a Labour argument that still has traction with UK voters -- th [...]	2009-01-29 12:45:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL EU UK
09LONDON2623	BARONESS CATHERINE ASHTON UNEXPECTED CHOICE FOR EU [...] (U) This is an Embassy London and U.S. Mission to the European Union joint cable. 2. (SBU) Summary. Baroness Catherine Margaret Ashton was nominated as the first EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on November 19. She is a British Labour politician who is also cur [...]	2009-11-20 17:17:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ETRD EUN UK
09LONDON2690	HMG PRAISES U.S. AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN STRATEGY, PREPARES FOR JANUARY CONFERENCE [...] (C/NF) Summary. Prime Minister Brown was "very pleased" by President Obama's December 1 speech describing the way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and HMG would like U.S. and UK public statements to remain in synch, Philip Barton, Director, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the Cabinet Office's Fore [...]	2009-12-02 17:40:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS PTER AF PK UK
09LONDON271	(C/NF)SHRITI VADERA - BROWN'S OUTSPOKEN CONFIDANT [...] (C/NF) Summary: Shriti Vadera, junior minister at the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR),catapulted into the spotlight on January 14 with a roundly-criticized comment that she saw potential "green shoots" of economic recovery. The comments sparked a series of pr [...]	2009-01-29 18:25:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON PGOV PINR UK
09LONDON2723	AFRICA: NEW AFRICA MINISTER FOCUS ON TRADITIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-04 15:32:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PINR SENV EAID XA EU UK
09LONDON2768	SHADOW DEFENSE MINISTER FOX PLEDGES CLOSE U.S.-UK [...] (C/NF) Summary. During a December 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Shadow Secretary of State for Defense Liam Fox affirmed his desire to work closely with the U.S. if the Conservative Party wins power in next year's general election. He highlighted the importance of the U.S.-UK Defense Trade and Coop [...]	2009-12-10 16:48:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR AF UK PK IR IN CH RS
09LONDON2769	ECOWAS: CHAMBAS' DEC 7 VISIT TO LONDON [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-10 17:11:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MASS PGOV PINR EAID NI NG GV GA XY UK
09LONDON2816	PM BROWN OUTLINES PLANS FOR JANUARY 28 LONDON AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE REF: LONDON 2774 (NOTAL) [...] (C/NF) Summary. In December 14 remarks to the House of Commons, Prime Minister Brown outlined HMG's plans for the January 28 London Conference on Afghanistan. A key Conference goal is to "set out an outline program for the transfer of lead responsibility from Coalition to Afghan forces." The Confer [...]	2009-12-15 14:34:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL SOCI MARR MOPS AF PK UK SNAR NATO
09LONDON2819	(C/NF) COMMONWEALTH TACKLES CLIMATE CHANGE, MOSTLY STEERS CLEAR OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES REF: A. PORT OF SPAIN 00482 B. LONDON 2743 C. LONDON 2769 [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-15 16:47:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM TSPL KSUM KGHG TD RW ZI GA UG FJ
09LONDON305	Wildcat Strikes Hit UK Energy Plants In Response To Foreign [...] (SBU) Summary: Workers at the UK's third largest oil refinery went on strike January 28 in protest at the use of foreign labor for a new construction project. A wave of wildcat strikes across the UK followed, with workers demonstrating support for those at French oil company Total's refinery [...]	2009-02-04 12:01:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB ETRD EINV UK
09LONDON333	UK VIEWS ON AVIATION EMISSIONS TRADING AND OPEN SKIES STAGE II [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-06 13:05:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAIR ECON ETRD SENV EU UK
09LONDON338	MPs Examine Role of Media in Economic Crisis [...] (SBU) As part of its enquiry into the banking crisis, the House of Commons' Treasury Committee looked at the role of the media in financial stability and whether financial journalists should operate under reporting restrictions during banking crises. A committee specialist told the Embassy th [...]	2009-02-06 15:18:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
09LONDON339	AFRICA: U.S. VERSUS UK PRIORITIES, LONDON THINK [...] (SBU/NF) Summary. During the transition to the Obama Administration, London think tanks have been active in discussing USG and HMG priorities in Africa. Poloff took the opportunity to poll opinions among Africa specialists at Chatham House, RUSI, the Royal Africa Society, Africa Confidential, the C [...]	2009-02-06 16:25:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EAID MASS KISL ZI SO NI SU SF XA UK
09LONDON348	THE BRITISH ASK, IS OUR SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP STILL [...] (C/NF) Summary. Secretary Clinton's public praise for the U.S.-UK special relationship following her February 3 meeting with Foreign Secretary Miliband, coming on the heels of the President's January 26 phone call with Prime Minister Brown, has gone a long way to calm what has been a stronger than [...]	2009-02-09 15:08:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MCAP EUN PINS UK
09LONDON444	"LIFTING THE NUCLEAR SHADOW:" HMG WANTS TO [...] (C/NF) Summary. In the lead up to the April-May 2010 NPT Review Conference (RevCon),HMG will seek to cooperate closely with the U.S. at both the policy and experts level and will welcome United States leadership to reinvigorate the NPT (ref A). HMG seeks a reenergized and reinforced global [...]	2009-02-19 16:25:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA IR UK
09LONDON461	HEATHROW EXPANSION GETS LIFTOFF, EXPECT TURBULENCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Heathrow's expansion is a major economic, political and environmental hot-button issue, creating unusual alliances among its supporters and opponents, and will likely become a key electoral issue. On January 16, Transport Minister Geoff Hoon announced HMG plans to build a th [...]	2009-02-20 17:53:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAIR ECON EIND ETRD PGOV UK
09LONDON478	MPs Examine Banking Remuneration As Prime Minister [...] (U) Banking remuneration structures have become hotly debated in the UK following the part-nationalization of some of the country's largest banks. RBS in particular caused a media outcry when it announced it planned to pay GBP 1 billion in bonuses for 2008, despite share prices falling 90 per [...]	2009-02-24 15:34:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
09LONDON557	S/CT AMBASSADOR DAILEY'S MEETINGS WITH UK OFFICIALS [...] (S/NF) Summary. Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Dell Dailey met with UK officials from the Cabinet Office and the FCO February 26 to review our CT operations and policies in South Asia and East Africa. Dailey: -- briefed HMG on the trilateral meetings in Washington with Afghani [...]	2009-03-03 13:07:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER MOPS MARR UK SO PK IN AF YM
09LONDON604	LIBERAL DEMOCRATS LOOK AHEAD TO THEIR ELECTION [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment: Emboffs attending the Liberal Democrats' (Lib Dems) Spring Conference heard much in corridor conversations about the Party's strategy for the next general election (which must occur no later than June 2010) and whether participation in an electoral coalition made strateg [...]	2009-03-09 15:22:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON PINR UK
09LONDON617	UK ANNOUNCES IT WILL REENGAGE WITH HIZBALLAH, BUT [...] (C/NF) Summary. HMG's decision to publicly announce that it is reestablishing ties with Hizballah was based on domestic considerations, and was not meant to surprise the USG or other allies, FCO and Cabinet Office officials told us March 10. UK officials made the decision to reengage with H [...]	2009-03-10 16:04:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER LE SY UK
09LONDON811	TURKISH PM ERDOGAN ON ECONOMY AND POLITICS [...] (SBU) Turkish PM Erdogan spoke at a Chatham House event April 3, in which he commented on the accomplishments of the London Economic Summit, Turkey's economic progress, and his party's recent election "success." In response to questions from the audience, he was vague on Turkey's relations wi [...]	2009-04-03 16:34:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS EU NATO TY DA FR RS IZ IS AJ JA
09LONDON871	FAILED BOND AUCTION RAISED CONCERN OVER UK'S BORROWING [...] (SBU) The UK is borrowing its way out of recession. HMG aims to sell a record GBP 146.4 billion of debt this fiscal year and as much as GBP 147.9 billion in 2010 to pull the UK out of its worst recession since 1980. An undersubscribed gilt auction on March 25 triggered great concern in the go [...]	2009-04-14 14:39:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
09LONDON903	"NOT QUITE READY YET"-- UK RESPONSE TO USG [...] (U) Foreign Office officials in April 15 and 16 discussions with Polcouns clarified that: -- UK internal procedures for entry into force of the Instrument to the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty and Instrument to the Extradition Treaty (MLA and Extradition Instruments) discussed ref A have not [...]	2009-04-16 14:42:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN KTIA UK
09LONDON970	KURDISH LEADER DISCUSSES RECENT TURKISH ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-27 11:43:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PTER FR IZ IR SP TU UK
09LUANDA232	ASSESSMENT OF FLOODING IN CUNENE AND CUANDO,CUBANGO [...] Response to date: At a meeting with donors and the humanitarian community on March 30, the GOA CP reported it had spent $8 million on emergency response to date. The head of CP stated that it welcomes international support, but will not issue a formal declaration of emergency, as the GOA is c [...]	2009-04-06 16:14:00	Embassy Luanda	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AO
09LUANDA257	ELECTIONS IN 2009 UNLIKELY [...] (C) Summary. Staffdel Marsh's conversations with parliamentary, ruling party, and opposition figures suggest presidential elections in 2009 are highly unlikely. Constitutional reform, which President dos Santos has said must precede these elections, is progressing slowly, with even the most o [...]	2009-04-16 15:15:00	Embassy Luanda	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AO
09LUANDA272	STAFFDEL MARSH ENGAGES ON POLITICAL, SOCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary. During an April 9-12 visit, Staffdel Marsh met with top government officials, including Foreign Minister Assuncao Afonso dos Anjos, Secretary General of the MPLA Dino Matross, and Acting President of the National Assembly Joana Lina Ramos. Marsh participated in discussions with [...]	2009-04-22 15:22:00	Embassy Luanda	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAID KDEM PHUM OVIP AO
09LUANDA353	ANGOLAN PRESS COVERS OBAMA MIDDLE EAST OUTREACH SPEECH A [...] Summary: Angolan media extensively covered President Obama's June 4, 2009 Cairo speech entitled "A New Beginning." The headlines generally focused on the reconciliatory tone of his comments and the sincerity of his desire to reach out to the Middle East and Muslims around the world. A round u [...]	2009-06-09 07:14:00	Embassy Luanda	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR AO
09LUANDA785	ANGOLA'S OPPOSITION: WEAK PILLAR IN THE DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) Summary. While Angola's political opposition faces many institutional obstacles, considerable internal weaknesses also prevent it from playing fully its role in a democratic system. Whereas the ruling MPLA, albeit with all the advantages of decades of incumbency, is well organized, unite [...]	2009-12-29 09:55:00	Embassy Luanda	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AO
09LUSAKA208	BIOTECH: PRESIDENT OPENS A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY [...] (C) Summary and Action Request. Over the past three months, numerous Zambian Government (GRZ) officials -- beginning with President Banda -- have privately expressed some openness to loosening Zambia's restrictions on biotechnology. Agriculture Minister Chituwo said the President had ordere [...]	2009-03-26 13:16:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR TBIO ZA
09LUSAKA220	ZAMBIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. Communications and Transport Minister Dora Siliya is embroiled in a public tribunal launched by former Communications Minister William Harrington and members of civil society. The Zambian Government (GRZ) continues to support Siliya, who is alleged to have circumvented tender [...]	2009-03-31 09:25:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ZA
09LUSAKA295	BANDA GOVERNMENT: RESIGNED TO CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: Communications and Transport Minister Dora Siliya resigned from office shortly after a tribunal published the findings of its corruption probe. Although discredited, Siliya is far from disgraced. The recalcitrant and impenitent minister has announced her intention to appeal th [...]	2009-04-30 08:28:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PGOV ZA
09LUSAKA322	Zambia's Tourism Sector [...] (SBU) Summary: The global economic downturn and the subsequent drop in commodity prices, particularly copper, have forced the Government of Zambia (GRZ) to re-examine one of its most neglected economic sectors, tourism. Despite Zambia's natural wonder - Victoria Falls - and abundant wild game [...]	2009-05-11 14:24:00	Embassy Lusaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ZA
09LUSAKA367	CORRUPTION SCANDALS TURN OFF DONORS (AND SOME [...] (C) Summary. The governments of Sweden and the Netherlands froze their development assistance to Zambia's health sector following reports of serious fraud at the Ministry of Health (MoH). Their course of action reflects mounting donor anxiety, not so much at corruption itself as at the Zamb [...]	2009-05-28 15:25:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KCOR PGOV PREL ZA
09LUSAKA417	PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKES FEED ON LARGER FRUSTRATION [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Zambia (GRZ) is struggling to respond as strikes by rural teachers and nurses begun in late May have spread nationwide and now involve workers in the Ministries of Health, Education, Agriculture, Lands, Mines, and Energy. Originally an expression of outrage at [...]	2009-06-11 11:46:00	Embassy Lusaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB KCOR ZA
09LUSAKA426	COMESA LAUNCHES CUSTOMS UNION, PURSUES BROAD AND AMBITIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. Leaders from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) launched a customs union and a regional payment and settlement system during the recent COMESA Summit in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Eight of COMESA's 19 Member States are disposed to join the Customs Union, [...]	2009-06-16 14:27:00	Embassy Lusaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECIN ETRD PREL SENV XW XA ZU
09LUSAKA57	PERSPECTIVES FROM ZAMBIA ON ZIMBABWE SITUATION [...] (C) Summary: In various conversations over the past week, President Banda, COMESA Secretary General Ngwenya, and Patriotic Front Deputy Leader Scott have all suggested to us or the UK High Commission that a direct high level U.S. or UK approach to Mugabe is needed to break the political impass [...]	2009-01-28 07:40:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ZI ZA
09LUSAKA637	ZAMBIA PREPARED TO BREAK WITH TRADITION AT UN [...] (C) Summary. A senior Zambian Foreign Ministry official, Winnie Chibesekunda, is predisposed to breaking with NAM, AU, and SADC ranks at UN fora in order to address issues individually and on their own merit. In response to the reftel demarche, she expressed some willingness to support coun [...]	2009-09-15 09:27:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN UNHRC ZI ZA
09LUSAKA648	LAUNCH OF MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE - ZAMBIA [...] President Banda and the Ambassador launched September 11 the Millennium Challenge Account - Zambia (MCA-Z) initiative at State House, kicking off the long process to develop Zambia's MCC Compact. 2. In his remarks, the Ambassador delivered a strong statement emphasizing the necessity of m [...]	2009-09-22 04:56:00	Embassy Lusaka	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ZA
09LUSAKA654	GOVERNMENT INTENT ON SINKING ITS FLAGSHIP [...] (C) Summary. According to press comments by Zambian Vice President and Justice Minister George Kunda, the Zambian Government (GRZ) will not appeal the recent acquittal of former President Frederick Chiluba (Ref A),whom the GRZ had been prosecuting for the embezzlement of USD 500,000. He ma [...]	2009-09-28 14:02:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PGOV ZA
09LUSAKA694	GRZ DRAWS A LINE UNDER ROW WITH DIPLOATS... IN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Zambian Foreign Minister Kabinga Pande told Charge October 7 that the media tempest surrounding diplomats and their roles and responsibilities (ref D) was sparked by some (unnamed) diplomats speaking out against the Government of Zambia (GRZ) rather than using [...]	2009-10-07 16:05:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCOR
09LUSAKA72	COMESA PREPARES TO HARMONIZE BIOTECH POLICY, [...] (SBU) Summary. The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat intends to launch a high-level outreach program on biotechnology that is geared to COMESA heads of state as well as agriculture and trade ministers. Although the primary objective of the program is to arri [...]	2009-02-03 08:59:00	Embassy Lusaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR TBIO ETRD PREL
09LUSAKA730	ZAMBIAN BY-ELECTION MARRED BY VIOLENCE AND FRAUD [...] (C) The October 15 Kasama Central Member of Parliament by-election in Zambia's Northern Province was marred by Electoral Code of Conduct violations, violence, and rampant fraud. Although opposition Patriotic Front (PF) candidate Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba won in the heavily PF district by a wide [...]	2009-10-19 15:02:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR PHUM ZA
09LUXEMBOURG11	LUXEMBOURG INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] The following is Luxembourg's submission for the 2009 Investment Climate Statement: A. Openness to Foreign Investment ---------------------------------- The Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg offers a very favorable and welcoming attitude toward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). FDI reflects how [...]	2009-01-13 12:27:00	Embassy Luxembourg	UNCLASSIFIED	OPIC KTDB USTR LU
09LUXEMBOURG209	LUXEMBOURG - BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEW COALITION [...] (SBU) Biographic and background information on Luxembourg's new coalition government announced July 20 follows. Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has been in office since 1982, providing an extraordinary degree of foreign policy consistency and assurance to the US-GOL bilateral relationship. [...]	2009-08-11 06:55:00	Embassy Luxembourg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL ECON LU
09LUXEMBOURG288	LUXEMBOURG: SEPTEMBER ISSUE - "DISPATCHES FROM THE [...] (SBU) Embassy Luxembourg presents the September "Dispatches from the Duchy" to capture highlights from the local press, diplomatic and international community, and news not otherwise reported during the month. 2. (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn joined Charge d'affaires for [...]	2009-10-06 14:52:00	Embassy Luxembourg	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO PINR PGOV EU LU
09LUXEMBOURG313	LUXEMBOURG: DISPATCHES FROM THE DUCHY-OCTOBER 2009 [...] (U) Embassy Luxembourg is pleased to present the October 2009 edition of "Dispatches from the Duchy" to capture highlights from the local press, diplomatic and international communities, and news not otherwise reported during the month. Prepared by (acting) POL/ECON Chief Adam Center. This m [...]	2009-11-03 13:27:00	Embassy Luxembourg	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ELAB PGOV EAGR EFIN PHUM LU
09MADRID1052	ZAPATERO PROMISES ACTION TO COMBAT INTERNET PIRACY [...] (SBU) In an October 21 speech to the American Business Council, President Zapatero addressed internet piracy in public for the first time, acknowledging that deficiencies in IPR protection in Spain are a source of concern to the USG and the GOS. Zapatero pointed to the October 9 creation by t [...]	2009-10-28 15:29:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR EINV ECPS KCRM SP
09MADRID1121	SPAIN/CUBA: TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) Per request in reftel A, Post provides the following for use in assessing whether to recommend that the President continue to suspend Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Solidarity (Libertad) Act. The information in this message is keyed to questions posed in reftel A, paragraph 4 and updates in [...]	2009-11-23 10:31:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	CU ETRD ETTC PREL SP
09MADRID1144	MISSION SPAIN ON "THE PRESIDENTIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT [...] SUMMARY: In response to taskings set out in reftel, Post's Muslim Engagement Working Group canvassed a wide range of contacts to solicit qualified nominees for the Entrepreneurship Summit. In addition, the Public Affairs Section (PAS) has widely publicized the event. The Working Group has m [...]	2009-12-01 07:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIAD PREL SOCI XF XI ZR ZP CN PU MV SO SP
09MADRID1152	MADRID IPR CONFERENCE: GOS MOVES TOWARDS [...] (U) As part of FICOD 2009 (see ref A),on November 18 the Spanish government hosted a Conference on IPR in the Digital Environment. The Conference featured several speeches and a series of roundtables on different aspects of online IPR protection. Michele Woods of the U.S Copyright Office was [...]	2009-12-02 12:00:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD ECPS SP
09MADRID1161	SPAIN: GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSED ANTI-INTERNET PIRACY [...] (U) On November 27, Spain's Council of Ministers approved for submission to Congress a draft Law for a Sustainable Economy (LES),designed to modernize and restructure the economy to make it more competitive. Septel will address the law's scope and major provisions. One aspect of the draft [...]	2009-12-04 16:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR PGOV SP
09MADRID1165	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR MORNINGSTAR'S VISIT TO [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-07 15:41:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL EINV SP
09MADRID1210	SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S MADRID ENERGY SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-23 16:08:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ENRG EU RU SP UK
09MADRID485	UPDATE ON SPAIN'S INFORMATION COLLECTION, [...] (SBU) In response to REFTEL A, Embassy Madrid offers the following update to responses on Spain's information collection, screening and sharing practices for terrorist screening purposes. For ease of reading, Post has rewritten the questions in each of the eight categories. REFTEL B, which p [...]	2009-05-19 14:56:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV CVIS ASEC KHLS SP
09MADRID517	SPAIN'S MULTI-PRONGED EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM, [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A who's who of senior GOS officials on May 21-22 outlined Madrid's multi-faceted approach to combating security challenges - particularly terrorism and organized crime - during a private seminar organized by the Mexican Embassy and the Ibero-American General Secretari [...]	2009-05-29 16:27:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PINR PREL PTER KCRM KJUS KHLS KSPR SNAR
09MADRID67	SCENESETTER FOR MADRID HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON FOOD [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. This meeting is of great importance to Spanish President Zapatero. It is also very important for our bilateral relationship, as it is the first high-level engagement since our change of government, which the GOS hopes will [...]	2009-01-21 10:08:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID KMCA SMIG SOCI SP
09MADRID71	SPAIN: DEPARTING AMBASSADOR'S INSIGHTS ON ENGAGING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Aguirre conducted a series of farewell calls on key GOS officials in the weeks before departing Post on January 20. Those meetings contributed to the information in this cable, which offers the Ambassador's final thoughts on how the Obama Administration might best engage key [...]	2009-01-21 17:13:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	OVIP PINS PREL PTER OFDP SP PGOV
09MADRID732	INTERIM REPORT: SPAIN'S ATTENDEES FOR 64TH GENERAL [...] Poloff submitted reftel request to Minister Moratinos'International Affairs Advisor Victoria Ortega on July 16. As of today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not yet have definite itineraries for UNGA participants. The following information, however, has been confirmed. A. Attendance o [...]	2009-07-21 15:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP CVIS UNGA SP
09MADRID869	UPDATES IN SPAINâ€™S INVESTIGATIONS OF RUSSIAN MAFIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. This cable, which should be read in conjunction with Septel analysis, details updates over the past year in Spain's two major operations - codenamed Troika (2008-09) and Avispa (2005-07) - to combat "Russian" organized crime in Spain. In Spain, the term "Russian mafia" usually applies [...]	2009-08-31 14:49:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KCRM KCOR KJUS SP RS GG UP
09MADRID970	CONSULTATIVE PROCESS FOR MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT - MADRID [...] SUMMARY: Following the President's Cairo speech to Muslims around the world, U.S. Mission Spain continues to engage Muslims as part of our outreach to Spain's growing and increasingly diverse immigrant and minority communities. Our objective is to create a vision of mutual respect, advanceme [...]	2009-09-29 05:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON OEXC OSCI PREL SCUL SENV SOCI TNGD SP
09MADRID981	SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-SPAIN FORUM, OCT 9-11 IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-06 15:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV PGOV PREL SP
09MALABO27	EQUATORIAL GUINEA RAW, PAPER 4: THE BUSINESS OF CORRUPTION [...] (U) Triggered by changes underway in Washington D.C., upcoming personnel rotations in Embassy Malabo and animated by the recent attack on the capital, this is the fourth in a series of cables intended to update our perspective on Equatorial Guinea, and to provide a ground-level view of one of t [...]	2009-03-12 10:40:00	Embassy Malabo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECIN ECON EFIN PGOV EPET ENRG KCOR PINR
09MANAGUA1152	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: OCTOBER 2009 [...] In October 2009, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) reported the resolution of four Embassy registered property claims. To date, the overwhelming majority of resolutions have involved compensation via government-issued indemnification bonds ("bonos de pago de indemnizacion" or BPIs). As of Oct [...]	2009-11-12 18:17:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON KIDE NU
09MANAGUA1296	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: NOVEMBER 2009 [...] In November 2009, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) reported the resolution of 32 Embassy registered property claims. Twenty-eight of these claims were properties under the control of the Nicaraguan Army. One property was under the control of National Corporations of the Public Sector (CORNAP [...]	2009-12-07 23:12:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON KIDE CASC NU
09MANAGUA323	CODEL ENGEL VISITS NICARAGUA [...] (C) On February 18-20, Rep. Elliot Engel, Chair of the House Western Hemisphere Sub-Committee visited Nicaragua for meetings with the Nicaraguan government, opposition and civil society leaders, and to visit USAID assistance projects. Engel was accompanied by Representatives Jean Schmidt, Virg [...]	2009-03-26 17:59:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM NU
09MANAGUA354	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: MARCH 2009 [...] In March 2009, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) reported the resolution of seven Embassy registered property claims, including one claim previously dismissed under Decree 38 (1979). One claimant recovered her property through the courts and one claimant signed a leasing agreement with the Nic [...]	2009-04-02 17:52:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
09MANAGUA358	CPC DEATH THREATS TO HUMAN & LABOR RIGHTS DEFENDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 26, Human Rights Defender and Labor Activist Alvaro Leiva Sanchez received a hand-written death threat signed by the Citizen Power Council (CPC) allegedly from Masaya. The note was addressed to Mr. Leiva's mother-in-law, but the death threat was directed against Mr. Leiv [...]	2009-04-03 16:42:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NU
09MANAGUA416	NICARAGUA: REAL ESTATE: DEMAND FOR HOUSING DECLINES IN 2008 [...] (SBU) Housing developers and real estate brokers estimate that demand for residential housing not related to the tourism sector fell an estimated 35-50% in 2008, as compared to 2007. The primary reason behind the fall in demand for residential housing has been the tightening of local credit m [...]	2009-04-21 17:32:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND EINV ECON NU
09MANAGUA552	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: MAY 2009 [...] In May 2009, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) reported the resolution of seven Embassy registered property claims. There remain 592 unresolved registered property claims belonging to 284 U.S. citizens in the Embassy's database. To date, the overwhelming majority of resolutions have involved [...]	2009-06-03 16:58:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
09MANAGUA680	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: JUNE 2009 [...] In June 2009, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) reported the resolution of nine Embassy registered property claims. A U.S. citizen claimant also withdrew one claim because he did not have sufficient documents to support his case. There remain 582 unresolved registered property claims belonging [...]	2009-07-09 22:06:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
09MANAGUA694	NICARAGUA SECTION 527 WAIVER OBSERVATIONS [...] (U) This cable contains an action request in Paragraph 23. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post recommends that the Secretary issue an annual waiver to Section 527 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1994/1995 for the Government of Nicaragua (GON). Between August 1, 2008, and June 30 [...]	2009-07-14 20:06:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
09MANAGUA723	NICARAGUA: GON RESOLVES PROPERTY CASE FOR LIANA WOYWOD [...] (SBU) On July 17, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) reported that U.S. citizen claimant Liana Woywod recovered her property confiscated by the GON in 1979. The recovery of confiscated property by the original owner is a rare accomplishment in Nicaragua. Including Mrs. Woywod's claim, the GON [...]	2009-07-23 17:38:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV NU

09MANAGUA797	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: JULY 2009 [...] In July 2009, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) reported the resolution of five Embassy registered property claims. These five claims were counted during the 2008-2009 Section 527 waiver period. To date, the overwhelming majority of resolutions have involved compensation via government-issued [...]	2009-08-12 20:23:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
09MANAGUA976	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: SEPTEMBER [...] In September 2009, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) reported the resolution of five Embassy registered property claims. Three claimants also withdrew a total of six claims from the Embassy's database. To date, the overwhelming majority of resolutions have involved compensation via government [...]	2009-10-08 20:25:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
09MANAMA23	BAHRAINI PARLIAMENT'S SYMBOLIC VOTE AGAINST U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Reflecting Bahrainis' strong feelings over Gaza, the elected chamber of Bahrain's parliament called on other Arab parliaments to work together to close all U.S. military bases in the region. End summary. 2. (SBU) Members of Bahrain's elected lower house of parliament, usual [...]	2009-01-14 13:14:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KWBG BA
09MANAMA236	SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY MITCHELL [...] (SBU) Bahrain is eager to see the Obama administration,s peacemaking efforts succeed, and your visit April 20 will be big news here. King Hamad will receive you at his palace in Safariyah, joined by Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad bin Mohammad, and others. Ambassador Ereli, who is nearing [...]	2009-04-17 16:10:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL KWBG KPAL TU IS BA
09MANAMA241	SUNNI EXTREMIST PARDONED [...] (C) Summary: The King's April 11 mass pardon of security detainees (ref A) included a Sunni extremist who was five weeks from the end of his sentence. It was apparently a gesture toward restive Sunnis backers of the government. End Summary. 2. (C) Shura Council member Faisal Fulad confirm [...]	2009-04-20 09:29:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ASEC PHUM BA
09MANAMA342	SHIA WIFAQ PARTY BEGINS TO FOCUS ON 2010 [...] (C) Summary: The Shia Wifaq party is beginning to organize itself for the Fall 2010 parliamentary elections. One leading Wifaqi says the party will aim to win just one additional seat in the lower, elected, house. This would leave Wifaq in the minority, suggesting a quiet understanding with [...]	2009-06-08 13:35:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BA
09MANAMA354	BANK DEFAULT CAUSES RIPPLES IN BAHRAINI BANKING [...] (C) Summary: The financial dispute between the Saad group controlled by Saudi billionaire Ma'an Al Sanea and the Al Ghosabi company (reftel) is affecting a number of Bahrain-based financial institutions. End Summary. 2. (C) The Central Bank of Bahrain was apparently taken by surprise by th [...]	2009-06-11 13:48:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN SA BA
09MANAMA383	THE BAHRAIN BANKING SECTOR 2009: A PRIMER [...] Summary: Bahrain hosts 412 diverse financial institutions ranging from local lenders to large-scale project finance investment banks. Supported mostly on the back of petrodollars, this sector has grown to become the largest contributor to the Bahraini economy. This cable outlines the banking [...]	2009-06-25 10:39:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN BA
09MANAMA49	WEBSITES BLOCKED AS NEW MINISTER ASSERTS AUTHORITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The government blocked a number of political and commercial websites under an order from the new Minister of Culture and Information. Political societies and human rights activists criticized the move. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On January 14, newly-appointed Minister of Culture [...]	2009-01-26 11:50:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SCUL BA
09MANAMA52	BAHRAIN: PROGRESS ON COMPREHENSIVE SAFEGUARDS [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-27 13:26:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PGOV BA
09MANAMA529	BAHRAIN'S GULF AIR RETURNS TO IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-03 10:54:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON PREL IZ BA
09MANAMA542	CROWN PRINCE RAISING PROFILE WITH RAMADAN VISITS [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-09 07:33:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SCUL BA
09MANAMA55	BAHRAIN INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2009 [...] Summary: The following is Post's submission of its Investment Climate Statement for 2009. Each paragraph is keyed to the format provided reftel. End Summary. 2. Bahrain Investment Climate Statement 2009 A.1 Openness to Foreign Investment ----------------------------------- The Governmen [...]	2009-02-01 04:28:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON OPIC KTDB USTR BA
09MANAMA587	BAHRAINI CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-06 11:59:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PINR BA
09MANAMA596	A/USTR-LABOR VISIT TO BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-12 14:08:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PHUM BA
09MANAMA628	BAHRAINI MPS PASS RESOLUTION AGAINST CONTACT WITH [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-28 15:13:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAL IS BA
09MANAMA639	OPPOSITION PROTEST HIGHLIGHTS "POLITICAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-02 12:33:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PGOV KDEM KISL AF PK BA
09MANAMA652	BAHRAIN: INTERIM REPORT ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) Following is Embassy Manama's submission for the required interim report on human trafficking, and addresses the specific areas of focus outlined in reftel paragraph 6B. ----------------------------- Investigation and Prosecution ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) Bahrain's las [...]	2009-11-16 09:52:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KWMN KCRM BA
09MANAMA660	GRADING BAHRAIN'S PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-18 13:54:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM BA
09MANAMA668	BAHRAIN CENTRAL BANK CRITICIZED FOR FINANCIAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-24 12:21:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN BA
09MANAMA679	SCENESETTER FOR MANAMA DIALOGUE, DECEMBER 11-13 [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-02 13:05:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	OVIP PGOV PREL KDEM MARR BA
09MANAMA680	SCENESETTER FOR MANAMA DIALOGUE, DECEMBER 11-13REF: A. MANAMA 660 B. MANAMA 628 C. MANAMA 651 [...] (C) Jeff, you will arrive in Bahrain at a time of introspection for the Bahraini regime as this year's IISS Manama Dialogue coincides with the tenth anniversary of King Hamad's accession to the throne, on December 17, 1999. During those ten years, the political and security situation has improved c [...]	2009-12-02 13:18:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	OVIP PGOV PREL KDEM MARR BA
09MANAMA691	SCENESETTER FOR MANAMA DIALOGUE, DECEMBER 11-13 [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-03 14:00:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	OVIP PGOV PREL KDEM MARR BA
09MANILA102	CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT [...] SUMMARY: This cable provides input requested for the Secretary of Labor's annual report to Congress on the implementation of commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, (Ref A). It updates information provided by Post in 2007, (Ref B),regarding child labor laws and regulations [...]	2009-01-15 08:39:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID RP
09MANILA1207	POLITICAL MANEUVERS SHIFT ELECTION LANDSCAPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With time dwindling to line up funding and party support, presidential hopefuls increased efforts to break away from the pack, or undermine their rivals. The hasty merger of parties loyal to President Arroyo and former President Ramos appeared to bolster Malacanang Palace's king [...]	2009-06-05 07:53:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RP
09MANILA1269	SECURITY FORCES CAPTURE KEY TERRORIST IN MINDANAO [...] (C) In a significant counterterrorism success, elements of the Philippine Army and the Philippine National Police (PNP) June 11 captured Ansar Bernardino Venancio, a known Moro Islamic Liberation Front Special Operations Group (MILF-SOG) member and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) associate, in Marawi C [...]	2009-06-15 07:44:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MAS MCAP PINR PREL RP
09MANILA128	ARROYO CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT OBAMA, PRAISES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a remarkable, heartfelt speech on the morning of President Obama's inauguration, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo warmly welcomed the new American President to the world stage, praising the "special relationship" between the Philippines and the U.S. and recalling the deep hi [...]	2009-01-21 10:36:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RP
09MANILA1323	PHILIPPINE WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER EDUCATES CHILDREN ON [...] SUMMARY: Inspired by the Department-produced message by Jane Goodall to stem the illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products, Mission Manila invited Filipino youth to the Wildlife Rescue Center to hear about the U.S. and Philippine anti-wildlife trafficking initiatives. To celebrate Worl [...]	2009-06-23 07:00:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SENV KSCA TSPL EAID RP
09MANILA1338	Philippines' First A(H1N1) Influenza Death [...] (U) Summary: The Philippine Department of Health has confirmed the country's first death related to Influenza A(H1N1): a 49-year-old woman employee of the Philippine House of Representatives with a history of heart disease. The death and a growing number of confirmed cases (near 500) prompte [...]	2009-06-24 08:53:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09MANILA1350	PHILIPPINES REACTS TO IRANIAN ELECTION VIOLENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Allegations of electoral fraud and violent supression of public protest in Iran have sparked widespread condemnation among Philippine government officials, media, and the general public. Beyond concern for the fate of pro-democracy activists as well as approximately 8,000 Overs [...]	2009-06-26 06:24:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL IR RP
09MANILA1414	IN POOR HEALTH, FORMER PRESIDENT CORY AQUINO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino is in serious medical condition after a 15-month battle against cancer. Prospects for her recovery are dim. Family members rushed Aquino to Makati Medical Center nine days ago after she lost her appetite for food, and she has not eaten [...]	2009-07-02 07:47:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV RP
09MANILA1441	TERRORIST BOMBINGS STRIKE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Beginning Saturday, July 4, widely dispersed bombings in the southern Philippines have claimed the lives of at least 8 persons, and wounded nearly 100 more. As the investigation continues, initial analysis suggests the recent bombings in Central Mindanao and Jolo Island may be [...]	2009-07-08 10:52:00	Embassy Manila	SECRET	PARM PGOV PREL PTER RP
09MANILA1500	MALACANANG: NO AMNESTY FOR TERRORISTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Malacanang Palace and numerous legislative leaders have rejected a July 14 suggestion by Philippine National Red Cross Chairman Senator Richard Gordon that the government grant amnesty to Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) terrorists who kidnapped three International Committee of the Red Cro [...]	2009-07-17 04:22:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PREL PTER RP
09MANILA1568	SUSPENSION OF MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST ROGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a demonstration of resolve to pursue peace with Muslim separatists during her final 10 months in office, President Arroyo on July 23 announced the suspension of offensive military operations against rogue Muslim rebels in central Mindanao, setting her administration down an amb [...]	2009-07-24 08:52:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID RP
09MANILA1569	AMCIT RETURNS TO PHILIPPINES TO TESTIFY ON ALLEGED [...] (C) SUMMARY: AmCit social activist Melissa Roxas returned to the Philippines this week to participate in hearings at the Commission on Human Rights and Court of Appeals on her alleged May abduction and torture in Tarlac Province by persons she believed to be government security forces. The [...]	2009-07-24 09:04:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PHUM PTER RP
09MANILA1586	THE BEST DEFENSE: IN FINAL ADDRESS TO THE NATION, ARROYO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In her ninth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) July 27, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo confidently touted a seemingly endless list of economic achievements: the country's resilience in the face of the global financial crisis; its successful welfare, social, and infr [...]	2009-07-28 10:22:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINS PINR SOCI PTER ECON KPAO ASEC RP
09MANILA1617	"ICON OF DEMOCRACY" PRESIDENT CORY AQUINO PASSES AWAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, cherished as "President Cory" by the people of the Philippines, passed away August 1 at Makati Medical Center surrounded by family and friends. Hospitalized for her deteriorating health since late June (reftel),Aquino succumbed to hea [...]	2009-08-01 11:43:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL RP
09MANILA1618	"ICON OF DEMOCRACY" PRESIDENT CORY AQUINO PASSES AWAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, cherished as "President Cory" by the people of the Philippines, passed away August 1 at Makati Medical Center surrounded by family and friends. Hospitalized for her deteriorating health since late June (reftel),Aquino succumbed to hea [...]	2009-08-01 11:44:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL RP
09MANILA1650	AMBASSADOR SHOWCASES U.S. ROLE IN CREATING A PEACEFUL, [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Ambassador traveled July 17-18 to Davao City on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, underscoring the continuing U.S. commitment to the economic and social development of the region. The trip included the Ambassador's keynote address at a conference for graduat [...]	2009-08-04 10:16:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KISL KPAO EAID RP
09MANILA1679	Philippine Export Controls Update [...] (SBU) Summary: The Philippines has made notable progress towards creating an export control regime. Draft legislation regulating transfers of strategic goods has been introduced in both Houses of the Philippine Congress. In support of the legislation, the Embassy's Export Control and Relate [...]	2009-08-07 10:53:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETTC PARM PREL KSTC RP
09MANILA1711	PHILIPPINE OUTRAGE OVER AUNG SAN SUU KYI VERDICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 12 private breakfast with the Ambassador, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo expressed outrage over the guilty verdict rendered in the case of detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, while frankly admitting his frustration in searching for a [...]	2009-08-12 10:31:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
09MANILA1712	FOREIGN SECRETARY ROMULO ON OVAL OFFICE, BURMA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a private August 12 breakfast meeting with the Ambassador, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo expressed heartfelt appreciation for the warm reception President Arroyo's party received at the Oval Office on July 30, and for the highly successful cabinet-level meetings [...]	2009-08-12 10:31:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM KN
09MANILA1716	MELISSA ROXAS CASE UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Melissa Roxas, the 31-year-old Filipino-American community activist who alleges she was abducted and tortured in May by individuals she believed to be Philippine security forces, returned to the Philippines July 21. She has since offered testimony to the Philippine Commission o [...]	2009-08-13 09:10:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PTER RP
09MANILA1843	CONTENTIOUS VFA HEARING REVIVES CRITICISM OF U.S. [...] (C) Critics of the U.S.-Philippine Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) turned out in force for an August 27 oversight hearing chaired by one of the Philippines most strident and thorny politicians, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. The hearing came in response to a New York Times article that sta [...]	2009-08-28 09:51:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS RP
09MANILA1901	SENATOR AQUINO DECLARES PRESIDENTIAL BID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Appearing more confident and self-assured after a week of introspection, Senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino announced September 9 his intention to run as the Liberal Party candidate for president in the May 2010 election. Aquino, son of late President Corazon Aquino and assassinate [...]	2009-09-09 10:23:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RP
09MANILA2002	PHILIPPINES PREPARES FOR ILO HIGH-LEVEL MISSION ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Philippine government is prepared to welcome and provide its full support to next week's High-Level Mission from the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) Geneva headquarters to investigate allegations of labor rights abuses as well as eight ongoing complaints filed wit [...]	2009-09-18 10:25:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM PGOV RP
09MANILA2199	POLITICAL CONCERNS IN ILOCOS NORTE [...] (C) Ilocos Norte, the birthplace of former President Ferdinand Marcos, is one of the Philippines' northernmost provinces, home to over 500,000 residents. The Marcos family remains influential there; Ferdinand Marcos Jr. holds one of the province's two seats in the House of Representatives, and [...]	2009-10-19 09:44:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON RP CH
09MANILA2231	PHILIPPINES RETHINKS DISASTER STRATEGY AS TYPHOON NEARS [...] (SBU) Summary. Threatened by a third typhoon in four weeks, the Philippine government has prepositioned emergency supplies, equipment and personnel in northern Luzon in the event Typhoon Ramil (international name Lupit) makes landfall there this weekend. U.S. military forces and equipment fro [...]	2009-10-23 09:25:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SOCI PREL KPAO SENV EAGR RP
09MANILA2290	SENATOR VILLAR GOES ON THE OFFENSIVE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a private breakfast with the Ambassador October 28, a relaxed and confident Senator Manuel "Manny" Villar said he would focus his presidential campaign message on the need for an accomplished, pragmatic leader in Malacanang, and criticized his opponents as inexperienced, behol [...]	2009-11-03 07:55:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RP
09MANILA2327	Philippines: Intellectual Property Rights Updates for [...] Summary. The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced in April 2009 that the Philippines would remain on the intellectual property rights (IPR) Special 301 Watch List, but that USTR would conduct an Out-of-Cycle Review (OCR) to gauge progress on key issues. While progress is being made in ju [...]	2009-11-06 06:53:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON RP
09MANILA2458	REP. FILNER'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ARROYO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a November 23 meeting at Malacanang Palace, President Arroyo thanked Representative Bob Filner for his successful effort to secure additional benefits for an expanded group of Filipino and Filipino-American veterans. The Congressman and the President also discussed how the [...]	2009-11-25 04:19:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OREP OVIP VA RP
09MANILA2490	100 PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS, BUT ONLY FOUR REAL [...] (C) After a final flurry of filings December 1, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) closed out its election registration period by announcing it had received 98 applications from presidential candidates. Of course the number of credible presidential aspirants amounts to a mere handful of ca [...]	2009-12-02 08:16:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KJUS RP
09MANILA2499	CODEL FILNER VISIT TO THE PHILIPPINES [...] (U) SUMMARY. The week-long visit to Manila by Representative Bob Filner, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, underscored the close ties between the United States and the Philippines, and highlighted the care that the USG continues to provide for Philippine W.W.II Veterans who [...]	2009-12-04 08:48:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OREP OVIP VA RP
09MANILA2502	PRESIDENT IMPOSES MARTIAL LAW IN MAGUINDANAO TO [...] (C) For only the third time since Philippine independence, President Arroyo imposed martial law December 5 in parts of Maguindanao province, site of a bloody election-related massacre that left 57 dead (ref D). The move followed discoveries of major arms caches held by the Ampatuan clan, wide [...]	2009-12-07 09:27:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM KDEM KJUS MOPS ASEC CVIS CASC
09MANILA2527	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MARTIAL LAW, MILF, MCC WITH [...] (C) Presidential Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita told the Ambassador December 10 that he expected the congress would not override President Arroyo on the imposition of martial law in parts of Maguindanao province. He reassured the Ambassador the government was respecting human rights while [...]	2009-12-10 09:12:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINS KJUS KDEM RP
09MANILA2548	PRESIDENT ENDS MARTIAL LAW IN MAGUINDANAO, CLAIMS [...] (C) President Arroyo on December 12 lifted martial law in Maguindanao province. The government announced the eight-day period of martial law had achieved its objectives after the government arrested suspects in the November 23 massacre and disarmed the Ampatuan clan's well-armed private army. [...]	2009-12-14 07:18:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS MOPS KDEM KJUS KCRM ASEC RP
09MANILA444	PHILIPPINES: INPUT FOR THE 2009 TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) This cable includes the Mission's input for the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The information and statistics cover the period from March 2008 to February 2009, unless otherwise noted. The Mission's TIP point of contact is Political Officer Michael Pignatello, PignatelloMX@stat [...]	2009-03-02 08:30:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG RP
09MANILA505	Philippines: 2009 Special 301 Report [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy recommends retaining the Philippines on the Special 301 Watch List. Improvements to intellectual property protection over the past year include an executive order creating intellectual property units in law enforcement agencies, increasing seizures by the Optical Media [...]	2009-03-09 23:21:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON RP
09MANILA563	BRUTAL MURDER INVESTIGATED AS EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The brutal murder of a young school teacher has spurred the Philippine government and human rights groups to investigate whether military or law enforcement members were involved in the crime. Rebelyn Pitao, the 20-year-old daughter of New People's Army (NPA) insurgent leader Le [...]	2009-03-13 09:46:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM RP
09MANILA631	EMBASSY PRESSES MARINE CASE AT HIGHEST LEVELS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The public about-face by the accuser in the rape case against Marine Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith has created a public furor. The sworn affidavit by Smith's accuser, Suzette Nicolas, raising doubts whether any rape took place in November 2005, has caused the Philippine public [...]	2009-03-20 09:41:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
09MANILA714	Assistant USTR Weisel Reviews Intellectual Property and [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 23-24, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Barbara Weisel visited Manila for regular consultations with Philippine government officials. During the visit, she discussed developments in intellectual property protection over the past year, the Arroyo Administration's pro [...]	2009-04-02 04:28:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON EAGR RP
09MANILA739	PHILIPPINES WEIGHING RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-07 08:08:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV PREL KNNP KN RP
09MANILA833	FOREIGN SECRETARY ON ASEAN, BURMA, AND UPCOMING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a candid and free-ranging April 17 private discussion over breakfast with the Ambassador, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo expressed disappointment that recent ASEAN meetings in Thailand had to be canceled due to antigovernment protests, and he underscored Presiden [...]	2009-04-20 08:23:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL RP BM
09MANILA920	FOREIGN SECRETARY ON PEACE PROCESS, ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (C) During an April 27 private breakfast with the Ambassador, Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo underscored President Arroyo's strong interest in meeting President Obama to discuss ongoing environmental programs like the Coral Triangle Initiative, strengthening ASEAN, supporting change in Burma [...]	2009-04-29 08:08:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SENV RP
09MANILA924	CANDIDATES BEGIN JOCKEYING FOR 2010 PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: With a general election slated for May 2010, self-declared candidates across the country have begun vigorously campaigning for almost 18,000 local, provincial, regional, and national positions at stake, including successors to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Vice President N [...]	2009-04-29 08:59:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RP
09MANILA999	PHILIPPINES HITS HOME RUN WITH FIRST-EVER REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Philippines hosted the first-ever ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) field exercise May 4-8, a voluntary disaster relief demonstration, which involved 25 of 26 ARF nations and the European Union. The week-long event was an unqualified success. The primary goal of the civilian-led [...]	2009-05-08 08:26:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PINR PREL PHUM KISL RP
09MAPUTO10	A/S FRAZER IN MAPUTO: MESSAGE ZIMBABWE DELIVERED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In December 18 meetings with President Guebuza and Foreign Minister Baloi, Assistant Secretary Frazer pressed the Government of Mozambique (GRM) to take stronger action on Zimbabwe, delivering tough messages about the need for regime change in Zimbabwe, particularly in light of [...]	2009-01-06 12:12:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MZ ZI
09MAPUTO1145	AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - MOZAMBIQUE [...] Per REFTEL, Embassy Maputo submits the following updated AGOA eligibility information. 2. Country: MOZAMBIQUE Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: Between October 2008 and October 2009 the Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM) continued efforts to establis [...]	2009-10-22 14:53:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ELAB ETRD MZ PGOV PREL PTER
09MAPUTO1403	INTERNATIONAL INDICES SHOW LITTLE PROGRESS, SOME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A survey of respected international indices confirms that Mozambique, still one of the world's poorest countries, continues to advance economically but performs poorly in broader measures of democracy, governance, and human development. END SUMMARY. ------------------------ [...]	2009-12-29 12:52:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON EAID SOCI KCOR MZ
09MAPUTO608	OPPOSITION LEADER SIMANGO READIES PRESIDENTIAL BID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Daviz Simango, leader of new opposition party Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM),is readying a public announcement to run for president in October 28 national elections. In a meeting with the Charge, he described the mechanics of how MDM is organizing its campaign, and di [...]	2009-05-28 13:05:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MZ
09MAPUTO609	OPPOSITION LEADER SIMANGO READIES PRESIDENTIAL BID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Daviz Simango, leader of new opposition party Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM),is readying a public announcement to run for president in October 28 national elections. In a meeting with the Charge, he described the mechanics of how MDM is organizing its campaign, and di [...]	2009-05-28 13:06:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MZ
09MAPUTO968	ILLICIT DIAMOND TRADE: FROM ZIMBABWE TO MOZAMBIQUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloffs traveled to Manica to investigate rumors of rampant diamond smuggling from Zimbabwe. Open borders and corrupt government officials make trafficking in goods and people easy, and poloffs found evidence of both. In response to Ref A, Charge met with Minister of Natural Re [...]	2009-08-31 12:12:00	Embassy Maputo	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON EMIN PREF PHUM SMIG MZ ZI
09MASERU165	ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: MEDIA REVIEW [...] In the May 14-20 issue of "The Monitor" weekly newspaper, a well-respected local columnist asks the question: "Is Lesotho a fertile breeding ground for international terrorism?" His points echo some of the Embassy's own concerns about security in the country, most forcefully brought to light [...]	2009-05-22 19:33:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC LT
09MASERU251	OPPOSITION PARTY REQUESTS USG INTERVENTION TO RESOLVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA met with the leader of opposition party Marematlou Freedom party (MFP),Senator Vincent Malebo, on July 22, 2009. After discussing the governing party's manipulation of the electoral model in the 2007 national elections and the stay away planned to start August 3, Malebo cal [...]	2009-07-27 08:27:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV LT
09MASERU330	FOREIGN MINISTER'S TOUR D'HORIZON DOES NOT INCLUDE AU CHAIR [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Rob Nolan was invited by Foreign Minister Kenneth Tsekoa to a meeting which resulted in a tour d'horizon discussion of the key issues in Lesotho's current political arena. Tsekoa stated that the government of Lesotho (GOL) is bringing together a commission of internati [...]	2009-09-14 15:32:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD LT
09MASERU361	LESOTHO: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] Per reftel's request, post submits the following information for the annual AGOA eligibility review. 2. Country: Lesotho Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: The Kingdom of Lesotho is a landlocked Southern African nation with a population of approximately [...]	2009-10-09 09:16:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON ENRG ETRD PHUM LT
09MASERU402	NSDD-38 U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STAFFING [...] Embassy Maseru approves in principle and welcomes the addition of three United States Agency for International Development Health Positions in Lesotho as detailed in the NSDD-38 request. Post is pleased to provide the following with respect to the USAID NSDD-38 request to place this additiona [...]	2009-11-12 17:59:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	AODE AMGT KMRS LT
09MBABANE273	SWAZILAND 2009 AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] Country Background Summary: Swaziland is a small, land-locked country with one of the most limited economies in southern Africa. Its predominately young and rural population is beset by many challenges; foremost among them are widespread poverty and unemployment, along with one of the highest [...]	2009-10-13 04:30:00	Embassy Mbabane	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON ENRG ETRD PHUM WZ
09MBABANE313	SWAZILAND 2009 INTERIM TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] SUMMARY: Since the June 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, the Government of Swaziland has made substantial progress in addressing human trafficking. GKOS has acknowledged it did not take TIP seriously until this year, and therefore many initiatives to prosecute and punish traffickers [...]	2009-11-16 12:58:00	Embassy Mbabane	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG WZ
09MBABANE314	SWAZILAND PASSES COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING LAW [...] SUMMARY: Capping months of meetings and focus on trafficking in persons, King Mswati III has assented to the 2009 People Trafficking and People Smuggling Prohibition Act, passed by the Senate and House in October. The law is expected to be published in the government gazette within the next f [...]	2009-11-16 13:04:00	Embassy Mbabane	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP PGOV PHUM WZ
09MBABANE337	HOUSE SPEAKER EMPHASIZES NEED FOR STRONG PARLIAMENT, ASKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Speaker of the House of Assembly Prince Guduza Dlamini stressed the need for a strong parliament in Swaziland and asked for assistance in strengthening capacity for members of parliament and staff in a December 10 meeting with the Ambassador and PolOff. Prince Guduza, who also [...]	2009-12-11 10:20:00	Embassy Mbabane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR WZ
09MBABANE81	SADC POISED TO SUSPEND MADAGASCAR AT MARCH 30 [...] SUMMARY: According to Dr. John Kunene, Swazi Principal Secretary (PS) at Ministry of Defense and SADC negotiator, SADC Heads of State are poised to take the first step in seeking a constitutionally-based resolution to the change of power in Madagascar, by suspending that nation from the orga [...]	2009-03-27 10:15:00	Embassy Mbabane	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MA WZ
09MELBOURNE119	AUSTRALIAN VA MINISTER TO MEET U.S. COUNTERPART [...] (SBU) Alan Griffin, Australia's Minister for Veterans' Affairs, informed us that he is planning to meet U.S. Secretary for Veterans' Affairs Shinseki in New Zealand in February 2010 along with the VA ministers from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada. We provide bio notes on this left- [...]	2009-11-12 23:46:00	Consulate Melbourne	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PREL PGOV AS
09MELBOURNE135	RECOVERY BEGINS FOR AUSTRALIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) General Motors (GM),Ford and Toyota, Australia's three remaining automobile manufacturers, have survived one of the toughest years in recent memory. Despite abysmal sales volumes, sagging consumer confidence and the specter of auto import tariffs dropping from 10 to 5 percent in early [...]	2009-12-16 22:45:00	Consulate Melbourne	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND ECON ETRD AS
09MELBOURNE23	FIRES CONTINUE AS 60 U.S. FIRE EXPERTS PREPARE FOR [...] (SBU) The impact of Australia's deadliest natural disaster continues to be felt as the death toll from Saturday's inferno climbs to 181 with more victims expected to be discovered. Twenty-three major fires remain burning, but no new deaths have been reported. The Victorian government has reque [...]	2009-02-11 05:34:00	Consulate Melbourne	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV CASC AS
09MELBOURNE24	FAVORABLE WEATHER AIDS FIREFIGHTERS [...] (SBU) Fire crews are making progress against the 20 active blazes in Victoria, though they expect less favorable weather by February 18. The death toll for Saturday's blazes stands at 181. Post has not received reports of any U.S. citizens injured or killed in the fires. While some parts of [...]	2009-02-12 05:38:00	Consulate Melbourne	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV CASC AS
09MELBOURNE28	US WILDFIRE EXPERTS ARRIVE IN MELBOURNE [...] (SBU) A team of 60 U.S. wild fire personnel arrived in Melbourne on February 15 and were met by Consul General and Victorian officials. The arrival received wide media coverage. Six large fires continue to burn, and while they have not crossed containment lines, the blazes continue to threate [...]	2009-02-17 05:53:00	Consulate Melbourne	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV CASC AS
09MELBOURNE34	VICTORIA BRACES FOR MORE FIRES [...] (SBU) Hot weather and high winds on February 27 threaten to spread the five major ongoing fires facing emergency personnel in Victoria. The state is taking precautionary measures by advising against unnecessary travel and closing schools. Charge visited the Emergency Coordination Center (ECC) [...]	2009-02-27 02:14:00	Consulate Melbourne	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV CASC AS
09MELBOURNE37	COSTELLO AND OTHERS ON NEXT STEPS FOR [...] (C/NF) Consul General hosted former Treasurer Peter Costello and other prominent Victorians at the first of a series of focus group lunches on the future of U.S./Australian relations. Participants agreed that the United States' credentials as a center for world finance had been damaged and th [...]	2009-03-09 21:55:00	Consulate Melbourne	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON AS
09MELBOURNE69	BIOGRAPHY - BILL SHORTEN MP [...] (C/NF) Consul General met with Melbourne-based Member of Parliament Bill Shorten, Australia's Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction. Widely touted as a future Prime Minister, we provide bio notes on this young, ambitious Parliamentarian. End summary. [...]	2009-06-12 05:08:00	Consulate Melbourne	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PREL PGOV AS
09MELBOURNE8	Desalination Plant Approved as Drought Continues [...] (SBU) The Victorian government has given the green light to a controversial desalination plant that will help alleviate the effects of a decade-long drought and furnish about one-third of Melbourne's water needs by 2011. Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has not yet granted the projec [...]	2009-01-13 23:12:00	Consulate Melbourne	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND ECON SENV KGHG AS
09MELBOURNE87	BIO NOTES - RICHARD MARLES, MP [...] (SBU) Consul General met with Richard Marles, federal Member for Corio and Australia's new Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry on July 13. A rising star in the Australian Labor Party (ALP),we provide bio notes on this recently promoted Parliamentarian. End summary. Bio Not [...]	2009-07-27 03:53:00	Consulate Melbourne	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PREL PGOV AS
09MELBOURNE97	BUSHFIRE ROYAL COMMISSION INTERIM REPORT RELEASED [...] (SBU) A Royal Commission into the deadly February 7 wild fires which cost 173 lives released its interim report on August 17. We provide a snapshot of key recommendations. The Victorian government has informed post that it will likely ask for another U.S. wild fire liaison officer to facilita [...]	2009-08-19 01:08:00	Consulate Melbourne	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV CASC AS
09MERIDA30	2009 YUCATAN OSAC CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT [...] (U) Overall Crime and Safety Situation: Crime Threats The Yucatan Peninsula has not suffered the same level of escalating violence seen in other parts of Mexico. However in 2008 there were some high profile criminal acts that served as a reminder that the Yucatan is part of the nationwide n [...]	2009-01-30 11:22:00	Consulate Merida	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CASC MX
09MEXICO1020	THREE CONGRESSIONAL CHAIRMAN BRING MESSAGE OF [...] (C) Summary: Rep. Silvestre Reyes, Chair of the House Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence (HPSCI),joined by Rep. Ike Skelton, Chair of the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Howard Berman, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, visited Mexico March 26-27 to convey a message of supp [...]	2009-04-08 13:55:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR MX
09MEXICO1197	POTUS CODEL, ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE EXCHANGE [...] (U) Summary. Representatives from the Mexican Attorney General's (PGR) Office met with a group of U.S. Congressional members traveling with POTUS April 16 to discuss challenges in the GOM's efforts to combat organized crime. They stressed the importance of trust between the U.S. and Mexico [...]	2009-04-29 16:36:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR KJUS MX
09MEXICO1202	PRI PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC FOR PARTY'S FUTURE [...] (C) Summary. CDA met with PRI President Beatriz Paredes for an April 24 breakfast. Discussion ranged from President Obama's recent visit to the PRI's prospects in the July legislative elections. Overall, Paredes was optimistic about the party's chances in the upcoming votes, as well as the 2 [...]	2009-04-29 19:53:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KCRM SNAR MX
09MEXICO1307	TOUGHER MEXICO ANTITRUST LAW IN THE WORKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Mexico has one of Latin America's most open economies, its tenacious monopolies and weak regulation reduce consumer choice, boost the cost of doing business, and hamper Mexico's economic growth. Last month, influential PAN Senator Santiago Creel introduced a bill to amend [...]	2009-05-12 20:38:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PINR PGOV PREL MX
09MEXICO1312	TOUGHER MEXICO ANTITRUST LAW IN THE WORKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Mexico has one of Latin America's most open economies, its tenacious monopolies and weak regulation reduce consumer choice, boost the cost of doing business, and hamper Mexico's economic growth. Last month, influential PAN Senator Santiago Creel introduced a bill to amend [...]	2009-05-13 14:32:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PINR PGOV PREL MX
09MEXICO1630	PAN NARROWS GAP BUT STILL TRAILS PRI [...] (U) Summary. Mexico's governing National Action Party (PAN) has long trailed the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in polls tracking voters' preferences for the upcoming July 5 mid-term elections. More recently, though, polls have shown PAN narrowing the gap to 3-4 points with PAN's o [...]	2009-06-10 20:30:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR MX

09MEXICO1669	Mexico Economic Weekly - June 12 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...]	2009-06-12 22:55:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX
09MEXICO195	Mexico Economic Weekly - January 23 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements individual reporting from the Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...]	2009-01-23 23:49:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX
09MEXICO1971	NODEL KIRK TAKES UP SECURITY ISSUES AND VISA [...] (C) Summary: Representative Mark Kirk (R-IL) and two staff members discussed the Merida Initiative (MI),law enforcement efforts, and human rights with President Felipe Calderon and Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna during their visit to Guadalajara and Mexico City June 29-July 2, 2009. [...]	2009-07-07 13:15:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM SMIG CVIS MX
09MEXICO20	MEXICO ESTABLISHES DAILY MINIMUM WAGE FOR 2009 [...] SUMMARY: On December 18, 2008 Mexico,s government announced the establishment of the country,s daily minimum wage for 2009. Mexico,s minimum wage is set annually by a Commission under the auspices of the GOM,s Labor Secretariat at the end of each calendar year. This year the Commission propo [...]	2009-01-06 18:20:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI PINR MX
09MEXICO2018	POTENTIAL EFFECT OF ELECTIONS ON MEXICO'S ECONOMIC AGENDA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The worse-than-expected congressional election defeat for Calderon, giving the PRI a near majority in the House of Deputies, will now afford the PRI the opportunity to assume greater initiative and certainly assert greater leverage in debates over the economic reform agenda. P [...]	2009-07-10 00:12:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PINR PGOV PREL MX
09MEXICO2025	GUERRERO: INCREASINGLY HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FOR [...] (C) Summary. At the invitation of the Peace Brigade International (PBI) and joined by representatives of the Canadian embassy, poloffs recently visited the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. Poloffs spoke with indigenous rights groups and the State Human Rights Commission about what t [...]	2009-07-10 17:45:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	MX PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
09MEXICO2070	MEXICO'S PRD LOOKING FOR UNITY, DIRECTION IN WAKE [...] (C) Summary: The Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) is trying to recover from serious losses in the July 5 midterm elections. Winning only 12 percent of the national vote, the party lost a high percentage of Federal Deputies and some traditional strongholds, including Guerrero and parts of [...]	2009-07-16 13:38:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
09MEXICO2071	MUCH FINGER POINTING OVER PAN'S LOSS [...] (U) Summary. The governing National Action Party (PAN) suffered an unexpectedly tough loss in Mexico's July 5 mid-term elections, losing not only its plurality in the House of Deputies to its rival, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),but also two key governorships it had previously [...]	2009-07-16 13:38:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR ECON MX
09MEXICO2093	LA FAMILIA CONTINUES RAMPAGE IN MICHOACAN [...] (C) Summary: The Michoacan-based crime syndicate, "La Familia", has launched a sustained and deadly reprisal campaign against Mexican Law enforcement, unprecedented in its brutality. Per reftel, the attacks commenced in retaliation for the arrest of high ranking La Familia member Arnoldo Rued [...]	2009-07-17 19:46:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KCRM SNAR MX
09MEXICO2234	POOR PERFORMANCE OF PT MEANS LUCIA MORETT FACES [...] (SBU) Summary. Wanted by Colombia and Ecuador for her connections to the FARC, Lucia Morett, a Mexican student from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),did not win a plurinominal seat for the Chamber of Deputies and therefore will not have immunity to protect her from extrad [...]	2009-07-29 20:40:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	MX PGOV PINR PREL
09MEXICO2239	GREEN PARTY LOOKS TO CONSOLIDATE ELECTORAL GAINS [...] (C) Summary: The Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) will look to consolidate significant gains it made in the July 5 midterm elections in a bid to expand its reach in 2012. Over the next three years in Congress, the party will endeavor to implement its campaign promises and push environmental legi [...]	2009-07-29 23:10:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
09MEXICO2244	MEXICO 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] a. Claimants A b. 1975 c. The Claimants signed a profit-sharing contract with a sulfur company controlled by the GOM. The investors were to have received payments for the life of the contract, but, in fact, received nothing. In 1975, the sulfur company offered to settle the dispute. [...]	2009-07-30 16:19:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
09MEXICO2461	WITH MERIDA HELP, MEXICAN CUSTOMS CLEANS HOUSE [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 15 the Government of Mexico announced that Mexican Customs (Aduanas) would not renew the expiring contract of its Fiscales (the armed enforcement element of Aduanas). Backed by a temporary deployment of Mexican military personnel, 722 members of the Fiscales (the ent [...]	2009-08-19 21:05:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SNAR MX
09MEXICO2537	MEXICO FACES BUDGET CHALLENGE; TAX HIKES, [...] (U) The Calderon administration faces a formidable challenge in preparing its 2010 budget. GDP contracted 10.3% in the second quarter of this year, the fourth consecutive quarter of decline. Weak tax collection, the recession, and low oil production, prices, and exports has created a 2.7% of [...]	2009-08-26 23:18:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
09MEXICO2556	MEXICO'S ATTORNEY GENERAL MAY BE ON HIS WAY OUT [...] (C) Attorney General (PGR) Eduardo Medina Mora, oft-rumored to be up for replacement, appears to be on his way out of PGR. Marisela Morales Ibanez, head of the PGR's anti-organized crime unit, SIEDO, told a DOJ, ATF, and ICE delegation that the GOM will announce the change the week of August [...]	2009-08-28 16:17:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MX
09MEXICO2579	CDA'S MEETING WITH MEXICO STATE GOVERNOR ENRIQUE [...] (C) CDA met on August 21 with Mexico State Governor Enrique Pena Nieto, from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),who is clearly looking for greater interaction between his administration and the United States. The meeting, which followed a visa appointment for his two children, came [...]	2009-08-31 19:39:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MX
09MEXICO2637	MEXICO: BUDGET, ECONOMIC ISSUES LIKELY TO DOMINATE [...] (C) Summary. The Mexican legislative session opened on September 1 with new players and a dramatically changed political landscape, following the July midterm elections. With the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) now the largest party in the lower house -- the PRI has 237 sea [...]	2009-09-04 13:13:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MX
09MEXICO2701	MEXICO: CALDERON MEETS PRI RESISTANCE ON [...] (c) Summary: Following up his bold state of the Union message ref A),President Calderon announced several expected Cabinet changes, eliminated a number of government secretariats, and recommended a series of economic measures that presaged an imminent tough battle on the budget (septel). Whi [...]	2009-09-15 13:21:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON EINT EPET MX PGOV PINR PREL
09MEXICO2709	GOM PROPOSES 2010 ECONOMIC PLAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 8, the GOM submitted its 2010 budget and fiscal reform proposals to Congress following weeks of market speculation about what the GOM would propose. The speculation follows looming risk of Mexico's possible credit downgrade. Plunging revenues (due to falling oil p [...]	2009-09-15 21:37:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX
09MEXICO2746	Mexico Economic Weekly - September 18 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...]	2009-09-18 22:34:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX
09MEXICO2845	EXPANDING IPR AWARENESS AMONG MEXICAN JUDGES [...] (SBU) The Embassy and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO),in coordination with the National College of Magistrates and Judges (Colegio Nacional),held a four-day workshop on intellectual property civil and criminal cases for Mexican judges in Mexico City from September 21-24. [...]	2009-10-01 14:19:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON SNAR MX
09MEXICO288	OBAMA-CALDERON MEETING RAISES EVENTUAL POSSIBILITY [...] Summary: As noted in reftel, the January 12 meeting between then President-elect Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon generated extensive coverage and commentary in Mexico,s national media. A significant portion of this media coverage focused on NAFTA and President Calderon,s oppositi [...]	2009-02-04 18:02:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB SENV PGOV PINR CEC KSTT MX
09MEXICO3079	MEXICO: ATTORNEY GENERAL OVERTURNS FLAWED [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent favorable ruling by Mexican legal authorities on an appeal by an indigenous woman, sentenced for allegedly kidnapping six armed federal police agents in March 2006, is another hopeful sign that the Attorney General's office (PGR) is willing to overturn flawed decisions [...]	2009-10-27 00:17:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR UN MX
09MEXICO3092	MEXICO: THE LEGACY OF PGR'S MEDINA MORA [...] (C) Summary. With his resignation on September 8, Mexican Attorney General (AG) Eduardo Medina Mora Icaza leaves a two-fold legacy. His tenure in office was very positive for the USG, as he forged a solid relationship with us, offered full support on high-level extradition cases, and laid the [...]	2009-10-27 22:20:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINR UN MX
09MEXICO3094	Mexico Economic Weekly - October 23 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...]	2009-10-27 23:10:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX
09MEXICO3110	SENATE TAKES UP 2010, WITH SENATORS DIVIDED OVER PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Summary. As rating companies quietly consider downgrading Mexican debt, the Senate has now noisily taken up the Revenue Bill that the Chamber of Deputies amended and approved October 20. The Chamber had watered down the GOM's original proposal of modifying tax rates and tax laws design [...]	2009-10-29 00:11:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX
09MEXICO3121	MEXICO: DF MAYOR'S GREEN TIPS AND CRIME BLUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City, underscored for the Ambassador on October 23 his top priorities for the city: security, public transportation, waste-control, climate change, solar energy and other renewables, and health care. Ebrard highlighted the city's efforts to inc [...]	2009-10-30 17:32:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MX PGOV PINR PREL
09MEXICO3173	VERACRUZ: ALL EYES ON 2010 ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff traveled to Veracruz State in early October to meet with state officials, opposition politicians, and civil society representatives to discuss local conditions in the run-up to state governor and local congressional elections next year. The major parties are already in ful [...]	2009-11-09 17:11:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR MX
09MEXICO3174	OAXACA: STATE ELECTORAL POLITICS WITH NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloffs traveled to Oaxaca State October 14-16 to meet with a variety of local political leaders, government officials, and civil society representatives. Local elections in Oaxaca next year have caught the attention of national party leadership, with more at stake than the gov [...]	2009-11-09 18:08:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR MX
09MEXICO3260	DRUGS AND DOWNTURN ON THE BORDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with the governors of Baja California and Chihuahua, the mayors of Matamoros, Tijuana, and Ciudad Juarez, military and civil security force commanders, maquila managers, non-governmental organizations, community activists, drug clinic doctors, renewable energy [...]	2009-11-17 23:12:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR ECON KCRM MX
09MEXICO3382	CONGRESS APPROVES 2010 SPENDING LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 17, the Mexican Congress approved the 2010 budget, voting 437-25 to pass the spending bill, which includes MX$3.18 trillion (US$244 billion) in outlays. The budget for 2010 implies a deficit of 0.75% of GDP excluding debt from state oil monopoly Pemex, but with Pe [...]	2009-12-01 20:02:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX
09MEXICO3573	MEXICAN NAVY OPERATION NETS DRUG KINGPIN ARTURO [...] (S) Summary. Mexican Navy forces acting on U.S. information killed Arturo Beltran Leyva in an operation on December 16, the highest-level takedown of a cartel figure under the Calderon administration. The operation is a clear victory for the Mexican Government and an example of excellent USG-GOM co [...]	2009-12-17 20:42:00	Embassy Mexico	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR MX
09MEXICO3596	MEXICO: PRESIDENT CALDERONQS BOLD [...] (SBU) Summary: President Calderon's proposal for amending the Mexican Constitution with a far-reaching political initiative would have far reaching consequences for implementing badly needed reform. In addition to allowing for direct reelection of Senators, Deputies and local officials, the pr [...]	2009-12-21 22:33:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR MASS ECON ETRD MX
09MEXICO45	CALDERON ANNOUNCES MORE MEASURES TO STIMULATE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Calderon announced on January 7 a new set of measures to help offset the impact of the global financial and economic crisis and stimulate the economy. "The National Accord in Favor of the Families' Economy and Employment" is the third economic program announced by the [...]	2009-01-08 22:28:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV MX
09MEXICO459	MEXICO ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] Deputy PolCouns approached Julian Juarez Cardenas, the Deputy Director General for UN-Related Security and Legal Issues at the Foreign Ministry, to urge Mexico to consider recognizing Kosovo. Juarez responded that Mexico's position on Kosovo had not changed. Mexico assigned great importance [...]	2009-02-20 00:16:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC ICJ KV MX
09MEXICO472	CODEL ENGEL DISCUSSES SECURITY ISSUES WITH [...] Unclassified - entire text. 2. Summary: During a February 17 lunch with Mexican Senators, Representative Eliot Engel and members of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Sub-committee discussed the growing economic and security challenges facing both the U.S. and Mexico. Chairm [...]	2009-02-20 22:13:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
09MEXICO486	VIOLENCE ESCALATES, CARTELS TAKE A STAND AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. After the close of Mexico's bloodiest year on record (see MEXICO 193),drug related violence shows no signs of subsiding in 2009 and in fact has increased along Mexico's northern border with the U.S. Several high-profile incidents in recent weeks ) including shootouts with Mexican [...]	2009-02-23 13:27:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
09MEXICO601	MISSION INPUT ON 2009 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW - MEXICO [...] (SBU) Summary: The US Embassy recommends that Mexico remain on the Special 301 Watch List for 2009. The Mexican government continues to make significant advances in areas of concern highlighted in last year's report, but this is offset by little or no progress on others. The Calderon adminis [...]	2009-03-02 23:07:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD MX
09MEXICO604	IMPACT OF A PRI CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY: THE MATH, [...] (C) Summary. The PRI appears to be on the ascendant, and talk in local press and political circles suggests that more observers are willing to discuss the prospect of a PRI majority in the Chamber of Deputies after July's legislative elections. The vote is still more than four months away, an [...]	2009-03-03 13:27:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
09MEXICO680	MEXICO PASSES LEGISLATION TO CONTROL CHEMICAL [...] (C) Summary: Mexico's Lower House passed a bill February 24 to control chemical substances that could be used in chemical weapons, paving the way for signature by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and publication in the Diario Oficial. The law, which will be administered by Mexico's High-Lev [...]	2009-03-09 17:46:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ETRD MARR PREL PTER SNAR PARM ECON KCRM
09MEXICO685	CODEL ENGEL DISCUSS SECURITY ISSUES WITH MEDINA [...] (U) Summary. On February 16, Attorney General (AG) Eduardo Medina Mora received U.S. Representative Eliot Engel and members of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Sub-committee. The AG was accompanied by Attorney General's Office (PGR) Special Advisor Oscar Rocha, Deputy Attorney G [...]	2009-03-10 13:54:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
09MEXICO826	MEXICO VIEWS TIMING OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FIRST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reaction to the announcement of President Barack Obama's first official visit to Mexico scheduled for April 16-17 has been generally positive. Media commentators expect Obama's meeting with President Felipe Calderon to focus on shared efforts to confront organized crime, econom [...]	2009-03-20 20:43:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR ECON MX
09MEXICO873	MEXICO'S FEDERAL POLICE MERGER MAY BE DEAD [...] (C) Summary. President Calderon has reportedly dropped plans to reorganize the country's federal police forces by merging the some 4,700 members of the PGR's Federal Investigative Agency (AFI) with the Secretariat for Public Security's (SSP) Federal Preventative Police (PFP). President Caldero [...]	2009-03-25 13:29:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
09MEXICO982	MEXICAN SENATE AGREES ON ASSET FORFEITURE LAW [...] (C) Summary. The Senate plenary unanimously approved on Thursday the asset forfeiture law, known in Mexico as "extincion de dominio," which has been languishing in Congress since it was proposed early last session. The bill is intended to enhance the government's ability to target the financ [...]	2009-04-03 22:09:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
09MINSK100	BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MARCH 27, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - March 25 Protest Passes Without Violence (para. 2) - Military Court Dismisses Forced Conscription Appeal (para. 3) - Opposition Youth Leader Fined (para. 4) - Convicte [...]	2009-03-26 18:47:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
09MINSK131	BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - APRIL 24, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Lukashenka Delivers Annual Address to Nation and Parliament (para. 2) - An Opposition Youth Activist Wanted (para. 3) - Malady Front Member Jailed (para. 4) - Human R [...]	2009-04-24 15:09:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
09MINSK22	BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JANUARY 16, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Independent Newspaper Denied Print, Distribution, then Fined (para. 2) - Grodno Activists Detained and Searched (para. 3) - Brest Activists Detained (para. 4) - Local [...]	2009-01-16 17:21:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
09MINSK228	BELARUS POL/ECON REPORT - JULY 10, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Investigation Against Volkovysk Activists Extended (para. 2) - Jailed Volkovysk Activist's Associate and Employer Detained (para. 3) - Opposition Youth Fined (para. [...]	2009-07-10 15:13:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
09MINSK248	BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JULY 24, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Another Opposition Activist From the 14 Is Amnestied (para. 2) - The Only Jailed Member of the 14 Stops His Hunger Strike (para. 3) - Jailed Volkovysk Activist Charge [...]	2009-07-24 14:57:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
09MINSK274	BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - AUGUST 14, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Supreme Court Denies Registration Appeal of Human Rights NGO (para. 2) - Religious Groups Complain GOB Is Trying to Limit Their Ability to Have Houses of Worship (para [...]	2009-08-17 14:34:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
09MINSK287	BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - AUGUST 21, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Yuri Leonov Attributes His Release to High Attention of Media and Foreign Embassies (para. 2) - "For Freedom" Activist in Gomel Fined For White-Red-White, EU Flags and [...]	2009-08-21 16:16:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
09MINSK297	BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - United Democratic Forces Finalized Procedures for Nominating Democratic Presidential Candidate (para. 2) - Supreme Court Upheld Registration Denial to the Party of Fre [...]	2009-09-04 18:04:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
09MINSK317	BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 [...] (U) The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - GOB Continues to Use a Heavy Hand in Dispersing Opposition Demonstrations, Big or Small (para. 2) - GOB May No Longer Classify Unregistered NGOs and Political Part [...]	2009-09-16 15:47:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
09MINSK357	IN BELARUS THE JUDICIARY IS JUST ONE MORE TOOL OF CONTROL [...] (SBU) Summary. Two of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee's (BHC) most prominent human rights leaders, Harry Pogonyailo and Oleg Gulak, told Post that the Belarusian judicial system remains under the control of the Presidential Administration (PA) and the Justice Ministry (MOJ). According to t [...]	2009-10-21 08:01:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BO
09MINSK385	BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - NOVEMBER 20, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-24 17:39:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
09MINSK413	BELARUS BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - DECEMBER 18, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Christian Democracy Party Denied Registration, Members Harassed and Discredited (para. 2) - State TV Criticizes Opposition Activists over Abduction Allegations (para. [...]	2009-12-18 17:10:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EFIN ETRD EINV BO
09MINSK92	BELARUS WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MARCH 20, 2009 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Youth Demonstrate on Solidarity Day (para. 2) - Unregistered Union of Poles Member Fined (para. 3) - Gomel Belarusian Christian Democrats Fined (para. 4) - [...]	2009-03-19 15:16:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
09MONROVIA102	LIBERIA: GENERAL AUDITING COMMISSION REAFFIRMS [...] (U) Summary: During an introductory call by the Ambassador, Auditor General (AG) John Morlu II praised President Sirleaf's commitment to anti-corruption and reaffirmed his support for her efforts to improve transparency and accountability in government in the face of frequent resistance. Morl [...]	2009-02-02 17:02:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EAID ECON PINR LI
09MONROVIA142	LIBERIA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH JEWEL HOWARD TAYLOR [...] (C) The Ambassador met with former First Lady and current Senior Senator from Bong County Jewel Howard Taylor February 10, at the Senator's request. Taylor remarked that she has not been invited to the Embassy since 2000 or 2001 because of her inclusion on the UN Travel Ban List, and said she [...]	2009-02-18 16:54:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID LI
09MONROVIA242	LIBERIA: AMBASSADOR DEDICATES USPS-DONATED POST OFFICE [...] Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield formally dedicated over 2,000 post office boxes and other postal equipment at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) on March 27. The post office boxes and postal equipment were donated by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and delivered March 2008 as [...]	2009-04-03 10:05:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS EAID ECON LI
09MONROVIA487	LIBERIAN PRESIDENT NAMED IN TRC REPORT FOR HER ASSOCIATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Reaction to the of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report of the Liberian civil crisis is mixed but steadily growing several days after its June 30 release. The GOL did not publically respond to the report's recommendation that President Sirleaf be banned from pu [...]	2009-07-08 15:58:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PREL KDEM PINR EAID ASEC LI
09MONROVIA524	LIBERIA'S FINAL BUDGET A STUDY IN WISHFUL THINKING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the midst of anemic commodity prices, flagging interest from would-be concessionaires and reduced growth forecasts, Liberia's National Legislature has approved an amended budget for 2009-2010, adding almost $25 million in expenditures to the Ministry of Finance's proposed $34 [...]	2009-07-20 11:03:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN LI
09MONROVIA532	REACTION TO THE TRC REPORT -- A CALMER TONE [...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the TRC report was released public opinion still does not appear to be fully informed of the content of the report. Debate centers around the most publicized aspects of the report, the banning of President Sirleaf from future public office and discussion of who was [...]	2009-07-21 14:58:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PREL KDEM PINR EAID ASEC LI
09MONROVIA540	UNSC LIBERIA SANCTIONS COMMITTEE: INFO REPSONSE [...] In response to our request, the MFA provided the following information on Martin George: Name: Martin O. N. George Date of Birth: August 3, 1947 Place of Birth: Buchanan, Grand Bassa County Passport No.: Not available Parents: Rev. Coker A. J. George, Sr. (Deceased) Mrs. Etta Russel [...]	2009-07-24 10:52:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC LI
09MONROVIA569	LIBERIA: NO TARGETING OF CHUCKIE TAYLOR SUPPORTERS [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see paragraph 7. 2. SUMMARY. Embassy requests that DRL transmit the following information to Department of Homeland Security (DHS). There have been no reports of threats or intimidation against former President Charles Taylor, his son "Chuckie" Taylor, thei [...]	2009-08-05 17:28:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM KDEM LI
09MONROVIA602	TRANSITION FROM TRC TO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has kicked off the establishment of Liberia's Independent National Human Rights Commission (INHRC) by handing the Senate a list of commissioner nominees for approval. This newest human rights commission iteration is the latest attempt by successive [...]	2009-08-20 14:10:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM LI
09MONROVIA612	LOCKHEED MARTIN INKS MANAGEMENT DEAL FOR LIBERIA'S AIRPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Lockheed Martin has signed a limited-liability six-month contract with the Ministry of Transport to manage Roberts International Airport (RIA),enhance safety and security procedures, and develop ancillary revenue streams. While the existing agreement promises limited profits fo [...]	2009-08-25 13:49:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR LI
09MONROVIA618	CODEL BUTTERFIELD MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SIRLEAF [...] (U) August 17, 2009; Monrovia, Liberia. 2. (U) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. Charge d'Affaires, a.i. Brooks Robinson Representative G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) Representative Lacy Clay (D-MO) Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI) Representative Steven Cohen (D-TN) [...]	2009-08-27 17:34:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON LI OVIP EINV ETRD EAIR EAGR EWWT
09MONROVIA628	LIBERIA PASSES LONG-AWAITED PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ACT [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-28 13:46:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EFIN LI
09MONROVIA662	LIBERIA: PRESIDENT DISMISSES OIL COMPANY HEAD AMID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf dismissed the head of the state-owned Liberia Petroleum Refining Corporation (LPRC) on September 5, following a Ministry of Justice probe into the alleged acceptance of bribes in exchange for a USD 24.8 million concession. Sirleaf's sacking of a lo [...]	2009-09-11 13:02:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENGR LI
09MONROVIA695	SIRLEAF VETO PUSHES THRESHOLD BILL BACK TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 17, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf exercised her line-item veto authority to reject the Threshold Bill segment guaranteeing each county a minimum of two seats in the House of Representatives. This followed a determination by the Solicitor General confirming the t [...]	2009-09-29 10:17:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EAID LI
09MONROVIA698	LIBERIA's OIL PROSPECTS INCREASE FOLLOWING DISCOVERY IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An oil discovery September 16 at a deepwater exploration site in Sierra Leone along the Liberian border increases the prospects of unearthing oil along Liberia's geologically similar coast. The highly-publicized find coincides with the National Oil Company of Liberia's (NOCAL [...]	2009-09-30 07:50:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENGR LI
09MONROVIA70	LIBERIA: A NEW, ASSERTIVE BUREAU OF MARITIME AFFAIRS [...] (SBU) Summary: Recently appointed Liberian Bureau of Maritime Affairs (BMA) Commissioner Binyah Kesselly is seeking to assert tighter control over the country's outsourced shipping registry and has embarked on an ambitious program to transform Liberia into a "maritime nation" by expanding BMA [...]	2009-01-21 10:03:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EWWT EFIS PHSA SENV LI
09MONROVIA776	MONTSERRADO SENATE BY-ELECTION A PRECURSOR TO 2011 VOTE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The National Elections Commission (NEC) will conduct a by-election on November 10 to elect a replacement for Montserrado Senator Hannah Brent who died on August 3. The official campaign period is October 14-18. Ten candidates have been approved and one disqualified. The by-el [...]	2009-10-21 08:53:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI LI
09MONROVIA786	FLAWED TIMBER CONCESSIONS PASS LEGISLATURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Legislature ratified four new Forest Management Contracts (FMCs) in a closed-door session September 23, despite civil society objections and a ruling from the Public Procurement and Concession Commission (PPCC) overturning the concessions on technical grounds. Polit [...]	2009-10-26 08:28:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR LI
09MONROVIA802	52ND LIBERIAN LEGISLATURE CONCLUDES FOURTH SESSION [...] (U) SUMMARY. The 52nd National Legislature has concluded its fourth session, recessing until the fifth session begins in January 2010. Despite the fact that several key laws were passed and concession agreements ratified, the Legislature failed to pass crucial measures related to meeting Lib [...]	2009-10-30 09:55:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI LI
09MONROVIA809	HEAD OF CONCESSIONS COMMISSION MURDERED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Keith Jubah, chairman of the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission and President of the Rubber Planters Association, was shot to death November 1 outside his home at the Morris Farm near Kakata. Although police have identified three suspects, reports against them remain [...]	2009-11-03 16:09:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR CASC ASEC KCRM PREL PGOV LI
09MONROVIA822	GOL AGREES TO FURTHER DISCUSSION ON ACCEPTING DEPORTEES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a productive meeting on October 27, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice confirmed that the GOL is prepared to receive 28 deportees in January 2010, and agreed to the drafting a Memorandum of Understanding with the USG outlining procedures for the return of deporte [...]	2009-11-12 07:25:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM LI
09MONROVIA838	FISCAL SQUEEZE SPARKS CALLS FOR BUDGET TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While the global downturn could be expected to impose some constraints on Liberia's 2009-2010 budget, the Ministry of Finance's admission that revenue collection fell a full 25 percent short of planned expenditures in the first quarter alone has raised questions about the efficac [...]	2009-11-18 17:28:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN LI
09MONROVIA841	LIBERIA - LARGEST PARTIES PREPARE FOR RUN-OFF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador called on Montserrado County Senate run-off candidates in separate November 18 meetings where she encouraged the Congress for Democratic Change's (CDC) Geraldine Doe Sheriff and Unity Party's (UP) to prevent the inciting of voters in the final November 24 round of the [...]	2009-11-20 12:42:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM LI
09MONTERREY110	PAN AND PRI RESORT TO OLD TACTICS IN NUEVO LEON GOVERNOR'S [...] (U) Summary. Despite earlier promises to hold primaries, the Nuevo Leon PAN and PRI parties both chose their candidates by direct designation, reflecting the parties' desire to control the process. The PAN selected Fernando Elizondo Barragan to be their candidate for governor and the PRI chos [...]	2009-03-17 15:25:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON KCRM KCOR MX
09MONTERREY137	MONTERREY: MONEY LAUNDERING MOVES FROM BANKS TO CASH [...] (SBU) Summary. Monterrey is a major destination for illegal bulk money transfers and money laundering from the United States. Although Mexico only intermittently prosecutes money launderers, our industry contacts believe that due to corporate self regulation and Mexican laws, money launderin [...]	2009-04-08 19:05:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EIND EINV ETRD PGOV MX
09MONTERREY175	BORDER STATES CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP AND MEXICO'S CLIMATE [...] Summary. The Mexican state and federal governments reaffirmed their commitment to combating climate change at the Border States Climate Change Workshop held April 22-23 in Monterrey, Mexico. The conference, sponsored by the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC),was the first ever [...]	2009-05-14 15:52:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG EPET ECIN ECON PGOV MX
09MONTERREY210	NUEVO LEON STATE PUBLIC SECURITY SECRETARY SEES A MIXED [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 17:37:00	Consulate Monterrey	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM ASEC SNAR CASC PGOV MX
09MONTERREY250	MEXICAN MILITARY CONTINUING TO ARREST LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS [...] (SBU) Summary. In the last four weeks the Mexican military has stepped up their operations in Nuevo Leon resulting in high profile arrests of corrupt police officers and large seizures. While the military operations coincide with stronger rhetoric from President Calderon and there are allegati [...]	2009-06-25 21:55:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC SNAR CASC KCRM PHUM KIPR PGOV MX
09MONTERREY284	MILITARY PRESENCE NO PANACEA FOR NUEVO LEON [...] (C) Summary. Drug traffickers are continuing their campaign of intimidation against the publishers and staff of Northern Mexico's leading dealing newspaper - El Norte. El Norte leadership has reached out to local army commanders as the threats come in, but as the military is not set up to p [...]	2009-07-27 13:55:00	Consulate Monterrey	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM CASC PHUM PINS SNAR ASEC PGOV MX
09MONTERREY32	NUEVO LEON'S COLLABORATIVE MODEL FOR BUILDING ITS BIOTECH [...] Summary. The State of Nuevo Leon has identified the biotechnology industry as one of five key sectors for potential growth, building on its comparative advantages of strong universities, a business friendly climate and a tradition of public/private partnerships. The state and its private sec [...]	2009-01-29 01:53:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR TBIO ECON EINV KIPR PGOV MX
09MONTERREY33	NUEVO LEON'S COLLABORATIVE MODEL FOR BUILDING ITS BIOTECH [...] Summary. The State of Nuevo Leon has identified the biotechnology industry as one of five key sectors for potential growth, building on its comparative advantages of strong universities, a business friendly climate and a tradition of public/private partnerships. The state and its private sec [...]	2009-01-29 01:53:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR TBIO ECON EINV KIPR PGOV MX
09MONTERREY379	NARCO THREATS TO SAN PEDRO MAYOR-ELECT [...] (C) Summary. On the evening of October 9, CG and RSO relayed to San Pedro Mayor-elect Mauricio Fernandez credible DEA information indicating a potential drug cartel attempt to assassinate him. During the session, and the day after as well, RSO briefed Fernandez on measures he might conside [...]	2009-10-15 13:48:00	Consulate Monterrey	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PINS SNAR PHUM ASEC MX
09MONTERREY411	OUTGOING MAYORS SPEAK ON THREATS FROM ORGANIZED CRIME; [...] (C) Summary: During separate conversations with Consul General, two outgoing Mayors briefed us on threats they had received from narcotraffickers during their tenure. The worst instance involved armed sicarios who stormed into one mayor's city hall office and demanded that he stop resisting [...]	2009-10-30 18:29:00	Consulate Monterrey	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KCOR ASEC SNAR PHUM PGOV MX
09MONTERREY412	SAN PEDRO'S NEW MAYOR: BOTH FRIEND AND FOE OF ORGANIZED [...] (C) Summary. In his October 31 inauguration address, San Pedro Mayor (and former PAN federal Senator) Mauricio Fernandez lauded the execution of four suspected narco-traffickers -- four hours prior to the discovery of their bodies in the Mexico's Federal District. Fernandez's revelation, [...]	2009-11-03 19:38:00	Consulate Monterrey	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PHUM PINS SNAR ASEC PGOV MX
09MONTERREY415	KILLING OF POLICE CHIEF LATEST IN CARTEL VIOLENCE, [...] (C) Summary: On November 4, gunmen ambushed and killed the police chief of the Monterrey suburb of Garcia. Unconfirmed DEA sources identified at least one of the attackers as a member of Los Zetas. This is the latest in the drug cartels' endemic intimidation and violence campaign against [...]	2009-11-06 22:20:00	Consulate Monterrey	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PINS SNAR ASEC PGOV PTER SOCI MX
09MONTERREY89	MEXICAN ECONOMISTS EXPECT DISMAL ECONOMY THROUGH 2010 [...] (U) Summary. Macroeconomics has become a hot topic among Monterrey businessmen as they try to determine the length and depth of the U.S. recession and its impact on Mexico. The Mexican economy is closely linked to the United States, and the U.S. recession has been transmitted to Mexico [...]	2009-02-23 19:45:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD MX
09MONTEVIDEO105	CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT LAYS OUT GOU'S ECONOMIC POLICY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Central Bank President Mario Bergara told the Charge d'Affaires that Uruguay remains relatively well-positioned to confront the worldwide economic slowdown -- its banking sector remains healthy, consumer spending is solid, and its fiscal house is in order. While some in the bu [...]	2009-02-20 16:44:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN UY
09MONTEVIDEO249	Uruguay Elections - Majority of Cabinet Likely to Seek [...] As the election season moves into higher gear, President Vazquez informed the members of his cabinet that any individuals who wish to campaign in October's general election will need to resign their positions after the June 28 primaries. It seems likely that the majority of the cabinet will do [...]	2009-05-06 17:07:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UY
09MONTEVIDEO250	URUGUAY: UN REPORT PUTS PRISON REFORM ON FRONT BURNER [...] A March report by UN Special Rapporteur for Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Manfred Nowak provoked a swift remedial action from the GOU. The prison system had been a long standing concern in Uruguay and Nowak, a highly experienced Human Rights expert invi [...]	2009-05-06 18:25:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM UY
09MONTEVIDEO381	URUGUAYAN NATIONAL HERO JOSE ARTIGAS RETURNS TO THE POLITICAL SCENE [...] (SBU) Each year on June 19, Uruguayans of all political stripes celebrate the birthday of national hero Jose Artigas. Over the past three years, President Tabare Vazquez and his Frente Amplio (FA) coalition have changed this traditionally apolitical holiday into a joint celebration of Uruguayan in [...]	2009-07-01 12:32:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UY
09MONTEVIDEO536	FIFTY NGOS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS COME [...] Embassy Montevideo held its first ever Civil Society Summit on August 28. The event was a huge success, bringing together more than 80 community activists and government officials from 50 organizations. Post used the event to explain to eager but inexperienced local NGOs how best to pursue [...]	2009-09-17 16:53:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UY
09MONTEVIDEO592	URUGUAY: BORDABERRY: LOOKING FAR BEYOND OCTOBER 25 [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. SUMMARY - - - - 2. (U) With the electoral coverage mostly focused on frontrunners Luis Alberto Lacalle and Jose Mujica, the presidential electionQs third place contender, Colorado Party candidate Pedro B [...]	2009-10-21 09:16:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON UY
09MONTEVIDEO608	URUGUAYAN ELECTIONS: MUJICA ON TOP WITH TOUGH RUNOFF [...] (U) Jose Mujica of the ruling Frente Amplio coalition (FA) and Luis Alberto Lacalle of the National Party (Blancos) will face off for the presidency in a November 29 runoff, after neither candidate was able to capture 50 percent of the vote in national elections October 25. With 98.5 percent o [...]	2009-10-26 18:03:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON UY

09MONTEVIDEO621	Uruguay: A Race to the Runoff [...] (U) Uruguay's presidential runoff campaign is in full swing. Although both contenders are struggling to build on the October 25 elections, polls give ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition candidate Jose Mujica a significant lead (48 percent to 40 percent) for the November 29 run-off. As the Octo [...]	2009-11-12 19:40:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UY
09MONTEVIDEO641	Uruguay: A/S Valenzuela's December 16-17 Visit [...] (C) During A/S Valenzuela's December 16-17 visit to Uruguay, he met with Uruguayan President-elect Jose "Pepe" Mujica, Foreign Minister Pedro Vaz along with five other ranking Uruguayan career diplomats, and with Minister of Defense (and former foreign minister) Gonzalo Fernandez. Mujica t [...]	2009-12-31 13:16:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UY
09MONTEVIDEO758	Uruguay: President-Elect Mujica's Cabinet Taking Shape [...] (U) President elect Jose Mujica has buckled down to the business of appointing his cabinet. Mujica's selection process was complicated slightly by internal unrest within factions of the ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition, but those problems were resolved quickly. Although the announcement of [...]	2009-12-21 14:18:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UY
09MONTEVIDEO89	URUGUAY 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] SUMMARY: There is a relatively low incidence of trafficking in persons in Uruguay but the government is nonetheless undertaking robust efforts to improve public consciousness, detection, prosecution and protection of victims, to the extent possible with existing resources. These efforts to ta [...]	2009-02-13 16:55:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG UY
09MONTREAL115	RESULTS OF ICAO'S TWENTIETH AVIATION SECURITY PANEL MEETING [...] Summary. Transportation Security Administration officials led the U.S. delegation to the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) Twentieth Aviation Security Panel of Experts (AVSECP) meeting and presented two U.S. working paper proposals and an information paper on the supply chain [...]	2009-04-07 18:47:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON PREL PTER ICAO XX
09MOSCOW11	ARMENIA: STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFY GAPS IN REFUGEE PROTECTION, [...] (U) Summary: A draft UNHCR Armenia conference report on November 2008 stakeholders' consultations identifies significant legal, economic, and social challenges to refugees' integration in the impoverished former Soviet republic. While it makes dozens of recommendations for strengthening prote [...]	2009-01-07 14:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM PREL SMIG AM
09MOSCOW1119	MEDVEDEV'S LIBERAL GESTURES AND PUTIN DYNAMICS [...] (C) Summary: A series of liberal political gestures by Medvedev have excited speculation about dynamics within the political tandem, with a couple of analysts going so far as to predict Putin's imminent demise. However, well-connected political observers argue against over-interpreting these [...]	2009-04-30 13:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR PREL RS
09MOSCOW1139	MOSCOW ON ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER LIEBERMAN [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials look forward to working with Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman, who they believe may be more pragmatic on the peace process than his typically harsh rhetoric suggests. They remain unsure, however, just how large a role he will have in formulating key policy decisio [...]	2009-05-05 04:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OFDP IS RS
09MOSCOW1174	TUVA: LONELY REPUBLIC SEEKS STABLE RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent trip to the remote Siberian republic of Tuva revealed overwhelming support for the ruling United Russia party, but social and economic isolation from the rest of the country. The capital of Tuva trumpeted no major businesses and relied on government allocations, small [...]	2009-05-07 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1177	MORE JOURNALISTS BEATEN AS FREEDOM HOUSE PANS [...] (C) Summary: On May 3, the U.S.-based NGO Freedom House released its report on freedom of speech worldwide in 2008, ranking Russia 174th out of 195 countries and designating Russia's media environment as "Not Free." The report pointed to government pressure on journalists, a large proportion o [...]	2009-05-08 11:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1182	RUSSIAN BANKING SECTOR'S SECOND CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. Russia's banking sector is preparing for a second wave of the financial crisis. Banks have been setting aside a higher-than-required share of in-house resources as provisions against an anticipated rise in non-peforming loans (NPLs). Some observers, including Sberbank President [...]	2009-05-08 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
09MOSCOW1225	RUSSIA'S HARDENING VIEWS ON SPHERE OF INFLUENCE [...] (C) As the Kremlin's new national security strategy (septel) reasserts the priority of strengthening Russian influence in the CIS, well-connected Russian analysts and government-supported institutniki increasingly call for "positive neutrality" or the "Finlandization" of Russia's neighbors. [...]	2009-05-14 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ECON NATO OSCE RS
09MOSCOW1238	RUSSIA: UPDATES ON COLLECTION, SCREENING, AND [...] (C) Post responses are keyed to reftel questions. Please note that the working relationship between the USG and the Russian Federation is difficult and there is little information sharing outside of specific cases. Much of the information that follows is anecdotal, based on the Embassy's ex [...]	2009-05-15 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV CVIS ASEC KHLS RS
09MOSCOW1259	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATIONS A & B: FSUE FEA [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the foreign purchaser, FSUE FEA Radioexport, Moscow, Russia. The company is [...]	2009-05-19 07:37:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1389	MOSCOW RULES CONSTRAIN NIKITA BELYKH'S "LIBERAL [...] (C) Summary: Our May 20-21 visit to Kirov, one week after President Medvedev's own visit, revealed tight Moscow limits on the ambitions of Governor Nikita Belykh, a former opposition leader who assumed office in January 2009. Unable to implement political or mass media reforms, Belykh has tur [...]	2009-05-28 17:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1436	THE MAN WHO WRITES PUTIN'S FOREIGN POLICY BRIEFING [...] (C) Summary: Putin has assembled for himself a small foreign policy team after moving from the Kremlin to the Russian White House, according to Yuri Kholkhov, a former MFA official who now prepares briefing papers for the Prime Minister. Russian prime ministers did not previously have a fore [...]	2009-06-02 06:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL RS
09MOSCOW153	GAS CRISIS RESOLUTION LEAVES ROOM FOR FUTURE [...] (C) Summary. Confirming press reports, Gazprom told us January 21 that supplies to Europe and Ukraine had been restored "in full." An EU representative told us January 22 that monitors have confirmed flows are "on track" and have reported no problems. As has been widely reported, the gas fl [...]	2009-01-23 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS UP
09MOSCOW1538	RUSSIA'S WTO ACCESSION: ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Although U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Kirk's June 4-6 visit to St. Petersburg seemed to make progress on Russia's WTO accession in bilateral meetings with senior Russian economic officials, including First DPM Shuvalov, this progress proved illusory: PM Putin announced Jun [...]	2009-06-11 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW155	MOSCOW GOVERNMENT COPES WITH THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: According to Moscow city officials, the global economic crisis has not affected the average Muscovite to the same degree that it is impacting the capital's more affluent residents. In order to mitigate its effects and maintain a stable political climate in Moscow, the city gover [...]	2009-01-23 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON RS
09MOSCOW1591	IMPLICATIONS OF REARMING GEORGIA FOR U.S.-RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: A decision to move towards a more robust military relationship with Georgia will imperil our efforts to re-start relations with Russia, if it is not carefully calibrated and deployed. While Medvedev understands the strategic and personal benefits of crafting a productive partnersh [...]	2009-06-17 14:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW1603	"PIKALEVO SYNDROME:" NOT A PANDEMIC, BUT STILL [...] (C) Government officials, business leaders, and economists have become fascinated over the past couple weeks with the potential spread of "Pikalevo syndrome" and the repetition in other single company towns of this month's highly publicized demonstration outside St. Petersburg. As expected, th [...]	2009-06-18 11:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1609	DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. DOE Deputy Secretary Poneman and DOE Moscow representatives met with Russian Federation Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko on June 10, 2009 in Moscow to discuss future cooperation in areas of mutual interest to include energy and climate change. During the ninety-minute meeting, Shmatk [...]	2009-06-19 05:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP PREL PTER RS
09MOSCOW1625	LOOKING FOR A "NO" FROM WTO ON CUSTOMS UNION [...] (C) Summary. Following Putin's surprise announcement that Russia intends to accede to the WTO as part of a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russian officials are still trying to figure out how best to proceed. Intensive consultations are underway, with Minister Nabiullina reported [...]	2009-06-19 13:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD RS WTO
09MOSCOW176	KREMLIN DIRECTS UNITED RUSSIA TO "SPIN" CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: At the instruction of Kremlin officials, United Russia is taking a more active visible role in defending Russian government actions to the Russian public. Countering the anti-import duty protests and messages which have resonated in political and media circles for weeks, United Ru [...]	2009-01-27 10:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON RS
09MOSCOW1780	CODEL BERMAN MEETS WITH CARNEGIE CENTER AND AMCHAM [...] (SBU) Summary: In separate meetings June 30, Codel Berman met with Carnegie Center experts and AmCham members. Carnegie's Trenin told the Codel that missile defense was the "make-or-break" issue for Russia's post-START treaty posture. Russia benefited from U.S. tensions with Iran, although i [...]	2009-07-10 10:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON RS
09MOSCOW1781	U.S. HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MEETS WITH DUMA [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Representatives of the House Foreign Affairs Committee met with Duma deputies June 29 to discuss an array of issues affecting U.S.-Russia relations. Economic topics included Russia's WTO membership aspirations, IPR, corruption, and energy, while the discussion of internal i [...]	2009-07-10 10:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR ECON RS
09MOSCOW180	MOSCOW MULLS SOCIAL UNREST AFTER VLADIVOSTOK [...] (SBU) Summary: The scope and spontaneity of protests last December against the regime's anti-crisis policies sparked speculation about the potential for unrest and political crisis in the coming year. Opponents of the regime and even some loyalists seized upon the protests as a sign of broader [...]	2009-01-27 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
09MOSCOW1835	DFM RYABKOV TAKES STOCK FOLLOWING "VERY GOOD" [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told the Ambassador July 16 that the Russian government viewed the Obama-Medvedev summit as a "very good visit," and said the MFA was preparing next steps for post-START negotiations, the ballistic missile joint threat assessment, and the bilateral [...]	2009-07-17 10:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR MARR MNUC PARM IR RS
09MOSCOW1917	RUSSIAN ANTI-CRISIS MEASURES AND POST-CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. In a July 21 meeting characterized by wide-ranging and spirited interchange, Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko provided the Ambassador with his vision of Russia's anti-crisis measures and post-crisis reform. Khristenko noted that the crisis hit Russia hard [...]	2009-07-27 05:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON RS
09MOSCOW1939	RUSSIA'S WTO ACCESSION: ON AGAIN? [...] (C) Summary: Recent discussions with senior advisers to President Medvedev and PM Putin indicate that Russia is again prepared to pursue accession to WTO on its own, reversing the course seemingly set by Putin,s June 9 statement that Russia would accede only together with Belarus and Kazakhst [...]	2009-07-29 13:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON EAGR RS
09MOSCOW1958	SECRETARY OF COMMERCE LOCKE'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a meeting with Russian Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina on July 7 in Moscow, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke stressed U.S. support for continued Russian integration into the world economy, including WTO accession, and raised several trade issues. Minis [...]	2009-07-30 11:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2000	RUSSIA: WTO AND CUSTOMS UNION "IN PARALLEL" [...] (C) Summary. Following President Medvedev's announcement that Russia will continue its individual WTO accession process "in parallel" with formation of a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russian officials are now scrambling to find a way to move forward with the WTO without contradic [...]	2009-08-05 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL RS WTO
09MOSCOW2061	IPR: RUSSIA ACCREDITS ROYALTIES COLLECTING SOCIETY [...] (C) Summary: On August 6, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Law Observance in Cultural Heritage Protection (ROK) granted All-Russia Organization for Intellectual Property (VOIS) accreditation as Russia's sole royalty collecting society in both the performer and phonogram producer [...]	2009-08-12 08:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KIPR KCRM RS WTO
09MOSCOW2204	THE CUSTOMS UNION IS GOING TO GENEVA - TO SEE WHAT [...] (C) Summary: During the August 12 Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan Customs Union (RBKCU) Summit, the members agreed to negotiate WTO accession using a joint negotiating team headed by Maxim Medvedkov, Russia's lead WTO negotiator. Medvedkov and his new tri-country team will go to Geneva in early Se [...]	2009-08-27 05:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL RS WTO KZ BO
09MOSCOW2295	UKRAINIAN ECONOMIC COUNSELOR DISCUSSES RUSSIA [...] (C) On August 13, econoff paid a courtesy call on Ukrainian Trade and Economic Counselor in Moscow Vladimir Zaritsky. During the meeting, Zaritsky became voluble on the matter of Russia and its "growing impunity in the region," especially as its economic power increases. He expressed concern [...]	2009-09-04 06:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EPET RS WTO UA
09MOSCOW230	MEDVEDEV CALLS BACK NEW LAW ON TREASON FOR [...] (C) Summary: On January 27 Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev ordered his administration to rework legislation submitted by the White House on December 12 containing amendments to the sections of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedures Codes before the State Duma and Federation Council could [...]	2009-01-30 15:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
09MOSCOW2340	MOSCOW CITY DUMA ELECTIONS: STILL EARLY, BUT [...] (C) Summary: On October 11 candidates will compete in elections for all 35 seats in the Moscow City Duma. August 26 was the deadline for submitting signatures, and over the following week the electoral committee proceeded to deny registration to 23 candidates of the 141 candidates competing [...]	2009-09-11 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2366	RUSSIAN ILLEGAL LOGGING -- AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The USG has an opportunity to work with Russia to combat illegal logging, and increasing reasons to do so. Russia contains more of the world's forested area than any other country -- approximately 20 percent -- and between 10 and 30 percent of wood is harvested illegally. Illeg [...]	2009-09-15 11:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR KGHG EAID KCRM SOCI PREL RS
09MOSCOW2369	PUTIN ADVISOR USHAKOV: FIND WAYS TO ENGAGE PUTIN [...] (C) Summary: In a brief meeting cut shorter when Ushakov was called away, Prime Minister Putin's foreign policy advisor Ambassador Yuriy Ushakov kept his cards close to his vest on Putin's views about U.S.-Russian relations and issues having a direct impact on those ties, including cooperation [...]	2009-09-16 04:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON RS
09MOSCOW2372	ASSISTANT SECRETARY GORDON'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov met with A/S Gordon and the Ambassador on September 9 to discuss bilateral economic cooperation in advance of his trip later this month to Washington and the Pittsburgh G-20 Summit. Shuvalov agreed that the July Summit and the Bilateral Presidentia [...]	2009-09-16 07:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL RS WTO
09MOSCOW239	RUSSIA WELCOMES PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary. Russia will not change its foreign policy goals because of the financial crisis or difficulties in relations with the West and neighbors, according to FM Lavrov in his annual press conference on January 16. Blaming the conflicts in 2008 mostly on the West, Lavrov nonetheless e [...]	2009-02-02 09:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2416	"RUSSIA, FORWARD!" 10 DAYS LATER: TANDEM [...] (C) Summary: Debate over President Medvedev's "Russia, Forward!" article continues unabated, though focus has turned from content and prospects for realizing his vision to consequences for the tandem. Medvedev's defense of his presidential authority in interviews with foreign correspondents - [...]	2009-09-22 09:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2448	PUTIN'S YAMAL MEETING WITH INTERNATIONAL ENERGY [...] (C) Lack of GOR coordination with Gazprom reportedly preceded PM Putin's September 25 meeting in Yamal with executives from eleven global energy giants. Press reports, industry newsletters and postings on the PM's website provide only general information on the meeting's outcomes without stat [...]	2009-09-25 12:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2586	ACTIVISTS ON PODRABINEK AND WHERE THE FAULT LINES [...] (C) Summary: At a roundtable gathering at Spaso House, a group of leading activists told the Ambassador that they continued to face an uphill battle in their work to promote civic freedoms. They said that their relationship with conservatives inside and outside of the GOR remained adversarial [...]	2009-10-15 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2603	Ambassador and NASA Administrator Attend Launch and Docking [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From September 28 through October 3, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden traveled to Russia and Kazakhstan for the first time as the NASA Administrator to participate in the launch and docking activities for the Soyuz 20S (TMA-16) flight to the International Space Station (ISS). [...]	2009-10-19 04:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA KNNP ENGR TSPL SENV PREL KZ RS
09MOSCOW268	WHY MEDVEDEV MATTERS [...] (C) Summary: While Prime Minister Putin remains the linchpin within the Russian leadership, it is President Medvedev whose success as a political leader can tip the balance of power towards the elite faction that supports Russia's political and economic modernization. A series of crises hav [...]	2009-02-04 08:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS SOCI
09MOSCOW2696	U.S.-RUSSIA ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Russia Binational Commission's Arms Control and International Security Working Group, held October 12 in Moscow, U/S Tauscher and Russian D/FM Ryabkov reviewed Missile Defense, nonproliferation issues, CFE, and START. Lt General O'Reilly of th [...]	2009-10-30 16:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE KNNP KTIA PARM PREL START RS US
09MOSCOW2779	UNITED RUSSIA'S NEXT STEPS AFTER TAINTED REGIONAL ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-12 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW278	RUSSIA WELCOMES PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary. Russia will not change its foreign policy goals because of the financial crisis or difficulties in relations with the West and neighbors, according to FM Lavrov in his annual press conference on January 16. Blaming the conflicts in 2008 mostly on the West, Lavrov nonetheless e [...]	2009-02-05 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EFIN RS
09MOSCOW291	AMBASSADOR'S FEBRUARY 6 MEETING WITH DFM [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Alexey Borodavkin told Ambassador February 6 that Russia was prepared to cooperate with the U.S. to "assure American success" in Afghanistan, citing economic and humanitarian assistance, the NATO transit agreement, planned SCO conference in March, infrastructure pr [...]	2009-02-06 16:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KG AF IR KS KN RS
09MOSCOW2912	Russia Adopts Law on Energy Savings and Energy Efficiency [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-30 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	RS EAID ECON ENRG KGHG OTRA PARM PGOV SENV TSPL
09MOSCOW2947	PUTIN WAXES ELOQUENT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES [...] (SBU) In his annual live Q&A session with the nation, Prime Minister Putin spent longer on economic and socio-economic issues (65 minutes) than on any other topic. He praised the government,s efficiency during the crisis, comparing it favorably with the 1998 crisis. He echoed President Mede [...]	2009-12-04 17:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN ENRG RS
09MOSCOW295	RUSSIA'S RELIGIOUS LEADERS CONSIDER KIRILL A [...] (SBU) Summary. At a February 4 ecumenical lunch hosted by Ambassador and Appeal of Conscience Foundation Director Rabbi Arthur Schneier, high level officials in Russia's Orthodox (ROC),Muslim, Protestant, and Jewish communities gathered to discuss religious freedom in Russia and honor Patri [...]	2009-02-09 08:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI
09MOSCOW2984	CADRE RESERVE LISTS HAVE LITTLE RELEVANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: Ten months after its publication, the presidential cadre reserve list (reftel) and the ongoing compilation of a United Russia cadre reserve list remain more of a PR tactic than a systemic attempt to modernize the bureaucracy or strengthen President Medvedev's control over it. [...]	2009-12-10 13:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON KDEM RS
09MOSCOW3050	U/S HORMATS MEETINGS ON RUSSIAN BILATERAL ECONOMIC [...] (C) Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Robert Hormats visited Moscow from 1-3 December, conducting meetings with a wide variety of audiences, including the Russian Presidential Administration, Russian Foreign Ministry and Economic Development Ministry offic [...]	2009-12-18 15:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW3053	UNDER SECRETARY HORMATS MEETINGS WITH RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Robert Hormats visited Moscow from 1-3 December, conducting meetings with a wide variety of audiences, including the Russian Presidential Administration, Russian Foreign Ministry and Economic Development Ministry off [...]	2009-12-18 16:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW3082	WHAT RUSSIA'S TRADE NEGOTIATORS ACCOMPLISHED IN [...] (U) Introduction: This cable is the first in a three-part series presenting major features of the Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan Customs Union (RBKCU),which was finalized on November 27 with the signing of most binding agreements. This cable covers the major structure and decision-making proces [...]	2009-12-23 04:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON PREL RS WTO KZ BO
09MOSCOW3083	THE CUSTOMS UNION AND TRADE- HARMONIZED TARIFFS [...] (U) Introduction: This cable is the second in a three-part series presenting major features of the Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan Customs Union (RBKCU),finalized on November 27 with the signing of most binding agreements. This cable reviews the principal points regarding tariffs and non-tariff [...]	2009-12-23 09:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON PREL RS WTO KZ BO
09MOSCOW3104	CONSTITUTION'S 15TH BIRTHDAY MORE OF A FUNERAL [...] (C) Summary: The Russian Constitution's fifteenth anniversary passed on December 12 with little fanfare. A VTsIOM poll showed that only 16 percent of respondents had read the Constitution and knew its contents. Many of the Constitution's authors feel disillusioned, noting that its provision [...]	2009-12-24 08:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW3105	LIEBERMAN DISCUSSES TRADE AND IRAN IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: In Moscow for the Russia-Israel Intergovernmental Commission's first session in three years, FM Lieberman had discussions with Russian counterparts on economic and trade issues. This meeting is further evidence that the bilateral relationship continues its upward trend. Most an [...]	2009-12-24 08:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RS IS
09MOSCOW3123	CHANGING ROLES IN THE TANDEM LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Recent changes in the public messages and actions of President Medvedev have led to increased uncertainty among regional authorities and bureaucrats. Medvedev's recent decisions to dismiss officials in response to public outcries over the Perm nightclub tragedy and remove prison officials [...]	2009-12-28 14:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW3147	EXBS: RUSSIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - DECEMBER [...] Begin summary: BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS: Planning with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs proceeds on the reinstituted Program Review and Export Licensing Exchange scheduled for February 2010. EXBS has submitted data on training conducted through the program for th [...]	2009-12-30 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP UP RS
09MOSCOW396	AG MINISTER SENT TO PASTURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russian President Medvedev recently removed long-serving Minister of Agriculture Aleksey Gordeyev from his post, nominating him to be governor of Voronezh Oblast as part of a larger shake-up of regional governors. While this action represents a significant demotion for Gordeye [...]	2009-02-18 12:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW416	U.S.-RUSSIA CONSULTATIONS ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Russia expressed strong support for U.S. and NATO efforts to stabilize Afghanistan and offered practical steps to expand Russian assistance during the February 10-11 U.S.-Russia consultations on Afghanistan. The U.S. delegation, headed by SCA DAS Moon and accompanied by the Amba [...]	2009-02-19 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER EAID ETRD MARR SNAR NATO AF RS
09MOSCOW508	HIGH-LEVEL GOR PERSONNEL MOVES: SHELL GAME OR [...] (C) Summary: Blessed by the Kremlin, a list of 100 names of potential presidential appointees reflects compromises between elite groups loyal to Medvedev and Putin. While the list pleased some interested in greater transparency in personnel policy, the revised version that includes the son of [...]	2009-03-02 15:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW528	RUSSIA/CHINA OIL DEAL: CLEAR AS MUD [...] (C) Following months of negotiations, Russian and Chinese state-owned corporations recently concluded a $25 billion loans-for-oil deal. The China Development Bank will provide Rosneft with $15 billion and Transneft with $10 billion at a relatively low interest rate, while the two Russian compa [...]	2009-03-04 13:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW532	QUESTIONING PUTIN'S WORK ETHIC [...] (C) Summary. Rumors about Prime Minister Putin's disengagement from his duties have proliferated in Moscow, suggesting that he has lost his "edge" in making critical decisions on measures linked to the economic crisis. Putin has reportedly been "working from home" on many issues, leaving much of th [...]	2009-03-04 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
09MOSCOW535	INFORMATION REQUST IN ADVANCE OF G-20 MEETINGS [...] (SBU) Russia's economic downturn appears to be accelerating. Oil and gas revenues have plummeted; industrial production has fallen by 16 percent. Growth is forecast at negative 2.2 percent his year but will likely be even worse as the economy has been contracting at close to 10 percent in re [...]	2009-03-04 16:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW746	MEDVEDEV APPROVES EXPANDED COOPERATION ON [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev has approved a proposal by FM Lavrov to expand Russian cooperation with the U.S. and NATO to stabilize Afghanistan. Lavrov made the formal proposal to Medvedev following his successful first meeting with Secretary Clinton, drawing the suggested areas for cooper [...]	2009-03-25 12:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR AF RS
09MOSCOW879	RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH HOLDS ALL CARDS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent trip to the Russian "Golden Ring" cities of Sergiyev Posad, Suzdal, and Vladimir indicated that despite the existence of four official Russian religions (Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism),the country's traditional religious center is firmly Russian Orthodox. Whil [...]	2009-04-06 13:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI KIRF RS
09MOSCOW896	DFM SALTANOV ON MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS, NEW [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Beyrle on April 8 conveyed to Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov and North Americas Department Director Igor Neverov Washington's preference not to link the proposed Moscow conference on the Middle East with President Obama's July visit to Russia. Saltanov in [...]	2009-04-08 14:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS IS
09MUMBAI139	BHARAT BALLOT 09: SHIV SENA HEADS TO LOK SABHA, STATE [...] (U) The durable Hindu chauvinist political party, the Shiv Sena is at a crucial point in its 43-year history. Founded originally by the charismatic Bal Thackeray as an anti-migrant and pro-Marathi party, it has evolved into one of the anchors of the Hindu right. Through a combination of demo [...]	2009-04-01 09:47:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL IN
09MUMBAI170	MUMBAI MASALA: CORPORATE BONDS, SOLAR ENERGY, AND RETAIL [...] (U) Table of Contents: - Capital Market Regulator talks about the Corporate Bond Market and the Financial Crisis - Ispat Energy Plans 500 MW Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy Project in Gujarat - Wal-Mart Expands its Indian Footprint while Other Big Retailers Pause to Regroup [...]	2009-04-24 12:39:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG IN
09MUMBAI187	BHARAT BALLOT 09: POLLING IN MADHYA PRADESH GENERATES HEAT, [...] (U) Summary: As Madhya Pradesh went to the polls in two phases in April, observers described the campaigns as lackluster, with little drama and few issues to excite the voters. The state, one of the poorest in India, has been ruled at the state level by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since [...]	2009-05-12 08:45:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM IN PINR
09MUMBAI195	BHARAT BALLOT 09: WILL POWER SECTOR POLITICS IN MAHARASHTRA [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-15 12:04:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG EPET PGOV IN
09MUMBAI272	IRAN WINNING THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF MUMBAI'S MUSLIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (GoIRI) is making a concerted effort to increase its outreach towards Mumbai's Sunni Muslim intellectual community. On June 12 and June 24, ConGenOff met with a group of Mumbai's Muslim intellectuals (strictly protect),mostly Sunni, [...]	2009-06-29 03:59:00	Consulate Mumbai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL IN IR
09MUMBAI320	SPECIAL ENVOY STERN HEARS THAT INDIAN INDUSTRY IS READY TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern met with several leading private Indian businessmen to ascertain their views on mitigating climate change. He found that India's private sector is actively engaged in clean technology investment, particularly for renewable energy. [...]	2009-08-05 07:38:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY ETRD IN
09MUMBAI364	MAHARASHTRA GOES TO THE POLLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Maharashtra, India's second most populous and most industrialized state, will go to the polls on October 13 to elect a new state legislature. The incumbent Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) coalition government has ruled for the past ten years. Voter satisfaction with [...]	2009-09-04 13:00:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI ECON IN
09MUMBAI397	MAHARASHTRA ELECTIONS: EASY RIDE FOR INCUMBENTS WILL LIKELY [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Maharashtra state elections October 13, the incumbent Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Democratic Front (DF) alliance appears poised to return to power despite lackluster governance, according to interlocutors and pollsters. The main reasons are the splintering [...]	2009-10-14 12:36:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAGR IN
09MUMBAI406	CONGRESS-LED COALITION WINS AGAIN IN MAHARASHTRA, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Democratic Front (DF) alliance returned to power a third time, reaching the half-way mark in a 288 member house. The Congress emerged clearly as the strongest party in the state parliament, continuing to ride the wave of national pr [...]	2009-10-23 16:53:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN
09MUMBAI440	26/11 ONE YEAR LATER: CAN MUMBAI BE MADE SAFE? [...] (SBU) Summary: One year after the tragic terrorist attacks of November 26, 2008, Maharashtra's leaders have introduced modest improvements in Mumbai's security. Maharashtra's administration and security officials appear sincere in their desire to make Mumbai and Maharashtra safer, and to pro [...]	2009-11-23 13:19:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL PTER ASEC IN
09MUMBAI443	MUMBAI'S JEWISH COMMUNITY - SECURITY A NEW CONCERN A YEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the 26/11 terrorist attacks, security awareness has risen within the dwindling Indian Jewish community. The attacks drew unwelcome attention to the community, and while no specific security threats have emerged, some Jewish leaders have requested increased police security [...]	2009-11-25 11:52:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ASEC PTER KIRF IN
09MUMBAI479	INDIAN NUCLEAR ESTABLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS REPROCESSING AND [...] (U) Summary: The U.S.-India Business Council's delegation of U.S. commercial nuclear energy vendors engaged with the Indian nuclear energy establishment in Mumbai to discuss the role of U.S. companies in augmenting India's nuclear energy capacity. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India, the go [...]	2009-12-17 07:41:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG KNNP ETRD IN
09MUNICH19	MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE OVERVIEW (FEBRUARY 6-8, [...] (U) SUMMARY: The mood at the end of the 45th Munich Security Conference (MSC) was upbeat, welcoming that the U.S. is "back at the table." Vice President Biden took the stage to extended, warm applause. Reflecting the content and tone of President Obama's inauguration speech, the Vice Preside [...]	2009-02-10 15:20:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV NATO GM
09MUNICH197	REGIONAL BAVARIAN VIEWS ON A GERMAN CREDIT CRUNCH [...] (SBU) With a persistent focus among media and business leaders on the question of whether Germany is caught in a credit crunch, ConGen Munich surveyed local finance and business leaders to understand what is happening in Bavaria, one of Europe's largest economies. There is a liquidity supply [...]	2009-07-31 05:47:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL GM
09MUNICH20	MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE - FOCUS ON ARMS CONTROL [...] (U) Flanked by well-received calls for a renewed push for arms control and disarmament by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and U.S. Representative Ellen Tauscher, German FM Steinmeier used the Munich Security Conference (MSC) as a platform to reiterate his arms control agenda and to em [...]	2009-02-10 15:21:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV NATO GM
09MUNICH22	MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE - FOCUS ON IRAN [...] (U) In remarks at the Munich Security Conference (MSC),February 6-8, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani repeatedly emphasized that the West -- and the U.S. in particular -- has been applying a double standard towards Iran since the Iranian revolution. He argued that it is up to th [...]	2009-02-10 16:36:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV NATO GM
09MUNICH24	MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE - FOCUS ON [...] (SBU) Afghanistan was a primary focus of the February 6-8 Munich Security Conference (MSC). Criticism of Afghan President Karzai was a major theme in the statements and questions of conference participants. For his part, Karzai put a positive spin on developments in Afghanistan and ascribed th [...]	2009-02-11 15:10:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV NATO GM AF
09MUNICH307	GERMANY/MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE: SCENE SETTER [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. The 46th annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) runs from Friday afternoon, February 5, 2010 to mid-day Sunday, February 7, 2010, at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich. The draft agenda, which follows at paragraph 9 (NOTE: please [...]	2009-12-17 06:53:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR NATO EUN PARM PGOV ASEC RS AF ZL
09MUSCAT1001	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS' VISIT TO OMAN [...] (U) Embassy Muscat warmly welcomes you on your return to Oman. Below is an update on events since your last visit. 2. (C) Base Access Agreement: The renewal negotiations, in scheduling stage during your last visit, are now set to begin in Muscat in mid-December 2009. We do not see signi [...]	2009-11-04 14:01:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PREL MOPS MASS MU
09MUSCAT1027	SULTAN QABOOS DELIVERS UPBEAT SPEECH AT OPENING OF MAJILS [...] (U) In keeping with tradition, Sultan Qaboos bin Said presided over the ceremonial opening session of the Majlis Oman on November 16, at Hisn al Shomoukn in the wilayat of Manah (near Nizwa). The annual event was attended by royal family members, members of the Majlis al-Dawla (appointed upper [...]	2009-11-18 12:39:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN MU
09MUSCAT1035	OMAN TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) This message is in response to Ref A. Answers are keyed to section G of Ref A. 2. (SBU) Please summarize the progress the Government of Oman has made in the following areas: (a) increasing investigations and prosecutions of trafficking crimes and convictions and punishment of traffic [...]	2009-11-18 14:51:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIP MU
09MUSCAT11	OMAN HAILS FREE TRADE AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTATION [...] (U) The U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) officially entered into force on January 1, 2009 after an exchange of diplomatic notes in Washington, D.C. and the signing of a corresponding proclamation by the President. Ratified in 2006, the agreement has been hailed by Oman's public and priva [...]	2009-01-05 15:46:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON ETRD EFIN MU
09MUSCAT152	Labor Attach??s Discuss TIP in Oman [...] (C) Summary: On February 16, emboffs met with labor attachC)s from the Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi and Philippine embassies in Muscat for a roundtable discussion on trafficking in persons (TIP) in Oman. Labor attachC)s said that most TIP-related problems in Oman concerned empl [...]	2009-03-02 10:57:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIP MU ELAB
09MUSCAT251	EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR REVIEWS PRESIDENT MUBARAK'S MARCH 18-22 [...] (C) Summary: In his March 18-22 visit to Muscat, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Sultan Qaboos: -- shared their optimism about the new U.S. administration; -- agreed that continuing divisions among the Palestinians, compounded by Iranian interference and unhelpful Qatari and [...]	2009-03-30 05:59:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EG QA IR MU
09MUSCAT253	EMBASSY MUSCAT INPUT TO THE 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) This report covers anti-trafficking efforts by the Government of Oman (GOO) from April 2008 to March 2009. Paragraph three begins text. Compiling the report required 48 hours at the FS-04 level, 3 hours at the FSN-09 level, 6 hours at the FS-02 level, 3 hours at the FS-01 level, and 3 hou [...]	2009-03-30 12:15:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PREF SMIG ASEC MU
09MUSCAT273	SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-OMAN JOINT MILITARY COMMISSION [...] (C) Security and military cooperation between the U.S. and Oman, as well as the overall bilateral relationship, remains strong. Oman's strategic location makes it a highly valued partner for the support of U.S. military operations across a wide area. While sharing U.S. concerns on Iran's nucl [...]	2009-04-01 14:51:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PREL PTER MASS MOPS MU
09MUSCAT383	OMANI ENVOY SAYS IRAN READY FOR DIALOG WITH THE U.S., [...] (C)Sultan Qaboos' Special Envoy to Iran and Advisor for Cultural Affairs, Abdul `Aziz al Rowas, told the Ambassador April 25 that Iran is ready to begin a quiet dialog "at a lower level" with the U.S. Al Rowas advised the U.S. that as we advance in our efforts to engage with Iran, we remember [...]	2009-04-27 04:54:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR MU
09MUSCAT403	SENIOR OMANIS CONFIRM CARECENTERS FOR TIP VICTIMS [...] (C) The Ambassador addressed the issue of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) during his farewell calls with Royal Oman Police (ROP) Inspector General (IG) Lieutenant General Malik bin Suleiman al-Ma'amari on May 4 and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Secretary General Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al Busai [...]	2009-05-06 14:25:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KTIP MU
09MUSCAT7	OMAN MEDIA REACTION: GAZA, DISUNITY, AND AGGRESSION [...] SUMMARY: This week, Omani dailies remained fixed on the Gaza crisis, condemning Israel and calling for Arab unity. Columnists used the beginning of 2009 to reflect on general factors leading to the current violence. Government daily "Oman" said 2008 saw an important decline in Arab unity, af [...]	2009-01-05 12:23:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU

09MUSCAT759	SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL MULLEN'S VISIT TO OMAN (JULY 18) [...] (C) Embassy Muscat warmly welcomes you to Oman for your visit. You have a brief meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Sultan's Armed Forces (COSSAF),H.E. Lt. Gen. (Fareeq in Arabic) Ahmed bin Harith al Nabhani, which is primarily a courtesy call. Nabhani is unlikely to broach significant iss [...]	2009-07-14 10:41:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL MASS MOPS IR PK AF MU
09MUSCAT84	FTA HIGH ON OMANI AGENDA, BUT MORE U.S. ASSISTANCE NEEDED [...] (SBU) Since its January 1 implementation, the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) continues to capture the attention of the regional business community as well as the Omani government. Post has experienced a significant increase in outside inquiries and comments regarding both the FTA and ne [...]	2009-02-01 12:43:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KMPI MU
09MUSCAT851	OMAN, INC.: BUSINESS OLIGARCHS AND GOVERNMENT IN OMAN'S [...] (C) Oman's business landscape remains dominated by a handful of local families who work either in tandem with, or in the shadow of, government-run enterprises. As the Sultanate's economy diversifies away from petroleum into fields such as industrial production and tourism, these families have [...]	2009-08-16 11:37:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ENRG ETRD PINR MU
09MUSCAT879	Bouyed by Increase in Oil Revenue and Sound Fiscal Policy, [...] (U) SUMMARY. Regional and national dailies reported that the GoO will post a budget surplus for the year. Although the economy has rebounded from a forecasted decrease in GDP, its performance is, as always, linked to the price of oil. The slowing inflation rate is traceable to the economic dow [...]	2009-09-01 06:56:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL MU
09NAHA63	POST-ELECTION MANEUVERING IN OKINAWA OVER FRF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Okinawa's newly elected Diet delegation, encouraged by the local media, is seeking to present a united front in calling for the new government to revise the 2006 agreement to relocate MCAS Futenma to Camp Schwab. While the local chapters of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) [...]	2009-09-09 02:05:00	Consulate Naha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS JA
09NAHA77	TOKYO'S INDECISION FUELS OKINAWAN RALLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November 8 rally to oppose the Futenma Relocation Facility (FRF) was directed as much at Tokyo's inability to take a clear policy position on Okinawa as it was on the merits of the realignment plan. Beyond the normal politics of Futenma relocation, the rally showcased growin [...]	2009-11-12 10:29:00	Consulate Naha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS JA
09NAIROBI1053	SOMALIA - Political Tensions in Somaliland [...] (SBU) Political tensions in Somaliland are high as preparations for the presidential election, which should have taken place in March 2008, are at a standstill. The elections have been rescheduled four times and with a political impasse among stakeholders, we are pressuring Somaliland stakeho [...]	2009-05-28 07:12:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SO
09NAIROBI1078	A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin met with the Speaker of the Kenyan Parliament, Peter Marende, on May 12. A/S Carson told Marende that his visit was meant to underscore the enormous [...]	2009-06-02 14:51:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM PINR PGOV KE
09NAIROBI1080	A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin met with President Mwai Kibaki and several high-ranking GOK officials on May 12. A/S Carson told Kibaki that his visit was meant to underscore the en [...]	2009-06-02 15:20:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM PINR PGOV KE
09NAIROBI1083	A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (A/S) Johnnie Carson and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Africa Michelle Gavin met with Minister of Agriculture and senior Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader William Ruto on May 12. A/S Carson and Gavin expressed de [...]	2009-06-03 04:57:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1102	KENYA: POLICE REFORM [...] (C) Summary. A combination of domestic-driven and international pressure, particularly from the U.S., may bring about some police reform by the fall. The recently-appointed Task Force on Police reform, which was initially greeted with skepticism, is led by a reputable former judge intent on p [...]	2009-06-03 14:35:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC PINS SOCI PINR KE
09NAIROBI1139	KENYA REAFFIRMS AGOA PROGRAM [...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary: At the June 4 meeting of the AGOA Main Preparatory Committee, the Chair reaffirmed the Government of Kenya's (GOK) commitment to the US-Africa Ministerial Program and strongly discouraged any further changes. The GOK has schedu [...]	2009-06-09 10:35:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1256	COALITION AGREES ON NEW MEMBERSHIP OF [...] On June 17 Parliament finally agreed on new membership to 27 parliamentary committees. The decision had been held up by a conflict between the main coalition parties, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and the Party of National Unity (PNU),over each party's share of membership and the le [...]	2009-06-23 09:47:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1263	SPEAKER MARENDE TO VISIT U.S. JULY 12-18 [...] This is an action cable; see paragraph 4. 2. Post has learned that the Speaker of the Kenyan Parliament, Kenneth Marende, will visit Washington DC from July 12-18. The Speaker will be traveling with delegation of four Kenyan parliamentarians on a visit sponsored by the United States Hous [...]	2009-06-24 10:31:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM KE
09NAIROBI1278	KENYA AGOA PREPARATIONS INTENSIFY [...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Summary: At the June 18 meeting of the AGOA Main Preparatory Committee, the Government of Kenya (GOK) confirmed there would be no changes to the US-Africa Ministerial Program contrary to the suggested changes of the African diplomatic co [...]	2009-06-25 15:05:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC AMGT ECON ETRD AGOA PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1296	UHURU KENYATTA - PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS AND THE [...] (C) Uhuru Kenyatta appears to be working towards a presidential run in 2012. While many have pointed out that replacing President Kibaki, a Kikuyu, by another Kikuyu, would be unlikely due to anti-Kikuyu sentiments prevalent across much of Kenyan society, Kenyatta may be encouraged to attempt [...]	2009-06-26 12:13:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1409	SOMALIA - Women, the Victims of Violence [...] (SBU) Escalating violence in the past two months has claimed the lives of an estimated 250 Somalis, has injured more than 1500, and has driven thousands from their homes. Increasingly, women are being directly targeted and are bearing the brunt of the conflict's devastating consequences. Som [...]	2009-07-07 07:10:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL ECON KWMN SOCI KCUL SO
09NAIROBI1527	UPDATE ON KENYAN PIRACY PROSECUTIONS [...] Summary: There are currently 100 Somali piracy suspects being held in Kenya, including nine delivered by the Italian Navy on June 26. The manner of delivery and quality of evidence, as much as the number of transfers, has dampened Kenya's enthusiasm for piracy cases. A few cases were delivered [...]	2009-07-16 07:54:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM EWWT MOPS SO EU IT
09NAIROBI1539	SOMALIA - Crackdown on Somaliland Media [...] (SBU) The already-browbeaten media in Somaliland this week suffered two serious setbacks, both apparently orchestrated by the Somaliland government in an effort to temper reporting about ongoing inter-clan conflicts. Two reporters from independent Radio Horyaal were arrested on July 13 and rem [...]	2009-07-17 09:44:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM KPAO SO
09NAIROBI1670	SOMALIA - ENTRENCHED SOMALILAND PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Somaliland President Riyale, during a July 31 phone call with Somalia Unit Counselor, signaled unwillingness to reconsider his decision to abandon the international community-funded voter registration list. Somaliland's opposition parties are threatening to boycott the elections [...]	2009-08-03 14:25:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI PHUM SO
09NAIROBI1685	SOMALIA - SOMALILAND OPPOSITION RECOMMENDS [...] (C) Summary. Somaliland opposition leaders are outraged at President Dahir Riyale's recent rejection of a voter registration list in advance of previously postponed elections now scheduled for September 27 (refs a and b). They suggested the president was out of touch with public opinion, and [...]	2009-08-07 12:24:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM SO DJ ET XG
09NAIROBI1709	SOMALIA - Somaliland Political Crisis Deepens [...] (SBU) Since the July 27 announcement by the National Electoral Committee (NEC) that it will throw out the voter registration list and proceed with elections in a traditional manner, Somaliland's political crisis has deepened. The two opposition parties Kulmiye and UCID announced they would bo [...]	2009-08-12 16:05:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SO
09NAIROBI1729	SOMALIA - Somaliland Stalemate Continues as Riyale Shuffles [...] (SBU) On August 15, Somaliland President Riyale reshuffled his Cabinet to remove two outspoken opposition ministers and attempt to gain favor with the clan of leading opposition candidate Silanyo. The National Electoral Commission and President Riyale continue to ignore parliamentary, oppositio [...]	2009-08-17 15:37:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SO
09NAIROBI1772	SOMALIA - Peaceful Protests Across Somaliland [...] (SBU) As Somaliland's political crisis continues, on August 20 the two opposition parties protested peacefully in all six regions of the self-declared republic. Although police tried to block demonstrations in public areas, thousands of protestors took to the streets. Opposition party leader [...]	2009-08-20 15:03:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SO
09NAIROBI1834	SOMALIA - Somaliland Parliament Disrupted Amid Increased [...] (SBU) On August 29, on orders from the Minister of Interior, police took control of the parliament building in Hargeisa. The police commander on the scene dismissed the usual security at the parliament and the Speaker's bodyguards. The police then escorted into parliament six MPs from the pr [...]	2009-09-01 13:58:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SO ET UK
09NAIROBI1886	POLICE COMMISSIONER OUSTED, POTENTIAL OPENING FOR REFORM [...] (C) Summary: On September 8, the Office of the President announced the reassignment of former Police Commissioner Mohammed Hussein Ali and new appointments in a number of senior positions within the Kenya Police Service (KPS),effective immediately. We have long advocated for the removal of Al [...]	2009-09-09 04:13:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET	ASEC KJUS KCRM PGOV PTER KE
09NAIROBI1895	SOMALIA - Somaliland Elections Postponed as Parliament [...] (SBU) For the fourth time, Somaliland's National Electoral Commission announced on September 6 that presidential elections would be postponed. On September 5, 43 legislators from Somaliland's two opposition parties tabled a motion in the House of Representatives to impeach the President and Vi [...]	2009-09-10 05:25:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SO
09NAIROBI1896	SOMALIA - Somaliland Elections Postponed as Parliament [...] (SBU) For the fourth time, Somaliland's National Electoral Commission announced on September 6 that presidential elections would be postponed. On September 5, 43 legislators from Somaliland's two opposition parties tabled a motion in the House of Representatives to impeach the President and Vi [...]	2009-09-10 05:26:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SO
09NAIROBI1926	SOMALIA - Somaliland Crisis Turns Violent as Police Kill [...] (SBU) Summary: In a violent escalation of Somaliland's political crisis, on September 12, police opened fire during a peaceful demonstration near the House of Representatives in Hargeisa. Four people were killed, including a 15-year-old boy, and several more were injured. Possibly over 100 p [...]	2009-09-14 15:23:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM SO
09NAIROBI1938	VISAS DONKEY: CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA DENIAL [...] (C) Embassy is seeking a security advisory opinion under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Proclamation 7750, suspending the entry into the United States of Aaron Gitonga Ringera and members of his family. Ringera was born in Meru, Kenya on June 20, 1950. Post strongly believes [...]	2009-09-16 09:24:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET	CVIS ECON KCRM KE PGOV PREL KCOR
09NAIROBI2009	SOMALIA - NEXT STEPS FOR SOMALILAND [...] (C) Summary: Since the July 27 decision by the National Electoral Commission and President Riyale to throw out the voter registration list, Somaliland has been embroiled in a political crisis. In recent weeks, this crisis has escalated into violent confrontation between a presidential admin [...]	2009-09-23 16:29:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EAID SO
09NAIROBI2010	SOMALIA - SOMALILAND INTER-PARTY AGREEMENT NOT [...] (C) Summary: September 24 telephone conversations with the Somaliland Foreign Minister, the leader of one of Somaliland's two opposition parties, and the Speaker suggest that disagreements over the way forward have crystallized in an effort by the presidential party-dominated Council of Elder [...]	2009-09-24 10:45:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI SO
09NAIROBI2030	SOMALIA - Somaliland Averts Crisis [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 25, Somaliland averted what appeared to be an imminent political crisis when its Guurti (House of Elders) agreed that all parties must adhere to the six-point framework agreement that had been endorsed by all sides. (A day earlier, on September 24, most observers [...]	2009-09-28 10:34:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SO
09NAIROBI2163	SOMALIA - SOMALILAND UCID CHAIRMAN ATTEMPTING TO [...] (C) Summary: Somaliland UCID Party Chairman Warabe on October 14 updated Somaila Unit Poloff on the Somaliand political situation. (Note: In advance of the conversation, Somaliland President Riyale, in a likely attempt to delay naming his own nominees, rejected two opposition party nominatio [...]	2009-10-14 13:46:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SO
09NAIROBI2184	KENYA: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW 2010 [...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Country: Kenya 3. Current Status: Eligible 4. Country Background Summary: The population of Kenya is 38.6 million (mid 2008 estimate),estimated 2008 GDP is $30.4 billion, and per capita income is $770. An estimated 54% of the [...]	2009-10-16 08:07:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON ETRD EINV ENRG ELAB AGOA PGOV PREL
09NAIROBI2252	MINISTER MAPS OUT POLICE REFORM AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: Following the removal of former Police Commissioner Ali and a major reshuffle in the senior ranks of the Kenya Police Service (see ref A),Ambassador Ranneberger, accompanied by a mission team, called on Minister of State for Internal Security and Provincial Administration George [...]	2009-10-29 11:43:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV KCRM KCOR KJUS KE
09NAIROBI2339	THE REFORM PROCESS: ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary. The visa ban we issued against Attorney General Amos Wako, who is a linchpin in the culture of impunity, has contributed to a groundswell of pressure for his removal. We are hearing that his days may be numbered. His departure will be a significant symbolic step in pushing for ch [...]	2009-11-10 14:07:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV KCOR PREL KE
09NAIROBI2341	SOMALIA - AMISOM COMMANDER COMMENTS ON TFG SECURITY SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 6 the Africa Mission to Somalia's (AMISOM) new Deputy Force Commander detailed AMISOM's recent support to the TFG's effort to stand up a national army. He said the TFG lacks the capacity and funds to sufficiently house, feed, water, equip and pay newly trained and [...]	2009-11-10 15:11:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL PGOV SO
09NAIROBI2400	SOMALIA - PRESIDENT SHARIF CRITICIZES ASWJ [...] (C) Summary: Congressman Donald Payne met with President Sharif in Nairobi on November 13. Sharif said he feared an upcoming IGAD conference would force the TFG into closer cooperation with Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama'a (ASWJ),an organization he thought might be positioning itself to challenge th [...]	2009-11-25 04:14:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR PTER SO ET
09NAIROBI2477	Former Members of Congress engage the Reform Agenda [...] (U) Summary: From November 23 to 28, Embassy Nairobi hosted Kenya's first-ever "EXDEL," a delegation of former Members of Congress who spent a week representing the Congressional House Democracy Partnership as they engaged political leaders and civil society to advance the reform agenda. End S [...]	2009-12-10 13:14:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL OTRA OVIP OREP KDEM KE
09NAIROBI2514	Draft Constitution Includes Powerful Prime Minister, [...] Summary: The Harmonized Draft Constitution proposes significant changes to executive powers, installs accountability mechanisms throughout government, ushers in a new house of parliament, reshapes the judiciary, and devolves power and some budgetary control to local governments. The document s [...]	2009-12-10 13:58:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS KISL KDEM PHUM KE
09NAIROBI2640	Kenya's Media: Part I - Overview and the New Media Law [...] (SBU) Summary. This is the first part of a four-part report on the state of the Kenyan Media. The parts are: 1) Overview and the new media law; 2) Radio Stations; 3) Media Houses and Cross Ownership; and 4) Role of the media and New Trends. Since the liberalization of the media industry in [...]	2009-12-21 11:28:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC KPAO KMDR KE
09NAIROBI2656	Kenya's Media: Part III- Media Houses and Cross Ownership [...] (U) Summary. This is the third part of a four-part report on the state of the Kenyan Media. The parts are: 1) Overview and the new media law; 2) Radio Stations; 3) Media Houses and Cross Ownership; and 4) Role of the media and New Trends. A handful of media houses dominate and even manipula [...]	2009-12-22 10:20:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC KPAO KMDR KE
09NAIROBI458	TWO HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MURDERED IN APPARENT [...] (C) On March 5 the Executive Director and Communications Director of the Oscar Foundation, a well-known human rights organization, were murdered in an apparent assassination. The Oscar Foundation had criticized police for killing youth suspected of being members of the outlawed Mungiki sect. I [...]	2009-03-06 16:59:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV ASEC KCRM KE
09NAIROBI525	THREATS TO HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS INCREASING [...] (C) Following the March 5 murder of two human rights activists from the Oscar Foundation NGO in Nairobi (Reftel A),an increasing number of human rights activists have been subjected to threats, mainly through text messages. Several leading human rights activists have temporarily fled Kenya in [...]	2009-03-16 05:54:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KE
09NAIROBI540	THE REFORM AGENDA IN KENYA: PRESSURE THROUGH [...] Septels have reported extensively on Mission efforts to press the coalition government to implement the reform agenda. Energizing civil society, the private sector, religious groups, and the media are essential. We are also carrying out vigorous public diplomacy. 2. During February the A [...]	2009-03-17 12:22:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KDEM PHUM PGOV KE
09NAIROBI641	AUSTR LISER URGES KENYA TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AGOA [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant United States Trade Representative Florizelle Liser encouraged Kenyan Trade Minister Amos Kimunya on March 16 to take full advantage of the AGOA framework to seek greater exports to the United States. She also underscored that progress on Kenya's reform agenda is fund [...]	2009-04-01 09:29:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAIR ECON ETEX ETRD AGOA PGOV KCOR KE
09NAIROBI645	SOMALIA - DATE OF SOMALILAND PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: An on-again, off-again dispute over the date of the Somaliland presidential elections, which had most recently been tentatively scheduled for May 31, gathered steam on March 28, when a special session of the Guurti (House of Elders) voted to extend incumbent President Riyale's [...]	2009-04-01 15:46:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI SO
09NAIROBI662	SOMALIA - TOUGH MONTH FOR JOURNALISTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Somali journalists encounted more problems in the second half of March, with new arrests in Somaliland and Puntland. The Puntland arrest has resulted in a long jail sentence. Embassy has registered its concern in the Puntland case with recently-elected President Faroole. End s [...]	2009-04-03 15:00:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM EAID PHUM KPAO SO
09NAIROBI7	SOMALIA - PUNTLAND PARLIAMENT SEATED, YUSUF NEUTRAL [...] Summary: The semi-automous region of Puntland's 66 new legislators were sworn in on January 1 in Garowe. They will spend the next week being courted by candidates for the presidency of Puntland. The MPs are scheduled to elect a President on January 8. Recently-resigned Transitional Federa [...]	2009-01-02 14:13:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR SO
09NAIROBI715	KIBAKI TOURS THE COUNTRY [...] (C) Since mid-March President Mwai Kibaki has been visiting different areas of the country. This appears to be an effort to enhance the President's credibility with the Kenyan people, given polls showing substantial dissatisfaction with the performance of the coalition government in implement [...]	2009-04-08 12:54:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI719	SOMALIA - Somaliland Sets Election Date Amid Protest [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 6, Somaliland's National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced September 27 as the new date for presidential elections citing technical and legal reasons for postponing the date from May 31. Although the voter registration law requires the NEC to make decisions regardi [...]	2009-04-08 17:36:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SO
09NAIROBI780	CONTROVERSIAL JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS HIGHLIGHT NEED [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 2, seven new judicial appointments became official as judges were sworn in by Chief Justice Evans Gicheru. The seven appointments included the elevation of two judges from the High Court to the Court of Appeal, as well as the appointment of five judges to the High Court. [...]	2009-04-21 08:19:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KE
09NAIROBI809	KIBAKI ADDRESSES OPENING OF PARLIAMENT [...] Summary: At the April 21 opening of the third session of Parliament, 199 of 222 members of Parliament (MPs) attended and listened attentively to the President's and Speaker's speeches. In their opening prayers, religious leaders called for peace, unity, and strength even as the country was goin [...]	2009-04-24 12:05:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAGR SENV KE UG
09NAIROBI823	Crisis in Coalition Government [...] (C) Summary: Although in mid-April meetings between President Kibaki, Prime Minister Odinga, and their teams held out prospects to resolve differences which had troubled the coalition, another serious crisis threatens its existence. The crisis developed at the end of last week when Prime Mini [...]	2009-04-27 15:31:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NAIROBI832	SOMALIA - Attack on Parliament [...] On April 25 a mortar attack against the Somali parliament killed at least eight people and wounded fifteen others. There were no causalities among the lawmakers. The temporary house of the Somali parliament, located at the former police transport headquarters in Mogadishu, was attacked with [...]	2009-04-28 13:31:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SO
09NAIROBI848	Parliament Speaker's Ruling Averts Crisis [...] (C) Summary. Speaker of Parliament's solomonic ruling on April 28 has averted a crisis within the coalition government. The ruling potentially paves the way for Parliament to focus on implementation of the reform agenda. However, the continuing differences between President Kibaki and Prime M [...]	2009-04-29 15:05:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KE
09NASSAU133	NASSAU MONTHLY - FEBRUARY 2009 [...] This is a monthly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. -------------------------------- FOOTBALL AND PAGEANTRY = TOURISM -------------------------------- 2. On March 2 Prime Minister Ingraham announced that the 2009 Miss Universe Pageant wil [...]	2009-03-04 18:24:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL BF
09NASSAU141	OPPOSITION DECRIES MEDIA BIAS, SUPPORTS LEADER - [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fallout from the alleged Travolta extortion case has sparked a new round of media commentary and speculation about the prospects of the opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and its longtime leader Perry Christie. PLP officials uniformly accuse the media of pro-government b [...]	2009-03-06 18:38:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PHUM BF
09NASSAU247	CODEL IMPRESSED BY OPBAT, STRONG BILATERAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CODEL Conyers visited The Bahamas April 7-9 to review OPBAT operations and assess current drug and migrant challenges. GCOB officials led by Prime Minister Ingraham described the negative impact of the situation in Haiti on both OPBAT and The Bahamas. PM Ingraham stressed th [...]	2009-04-20 20:14:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV HA BF
09NASSAU349	UK DIRECT RULE COMING SOON TO TURKS AND CAICOS [...] (SBU/NF) SUMMARY: The UK is set to introduce direct rule in the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) to address evidence of official corruption and financial mismanagement as the protests of the embattled ex-Premier and his successor fall on deaf ears. Domestic op [...]	2009-06-03 15:09:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SMIG PHUM ECON ETRD EFIN BF TK UK
09NASSAU357	PARLIAMENT FRACAS DERAILS BUDGET DEBATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Parliamentary debate on the government's annual budget never got underway June 3 after the House of Assembly degenerated into chaos upon the suspension of the opposition whip for procedural infractions. Opposition deputies failed to force the issue after a day's adjournment, ins [...]	2009-06-04 22:36:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BF
09NASSAU388	NURSES SICK OVER BUDGET CUTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Nurses have ended a two-week, mass sick-out over proposed budget cuts, but talks continue on resolving their dispute with the GCOB. Nurses protested the GCOB's elimination of an annual salary increase and promised health insurance plan and threatened to strike. The GCOB refused [...]	2009-06-24 19:48:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV BF
09NASSAU487	PLP SLAMS FNM OVER SERVICE CUTS AS BUDGET DEBATE RAGES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 2009 GCOB budget was issued on June 8 and addressed the severe lack of government resources. The Prime Minister announced major budget cuts in nearly all ministries, cancelled programs and put a stop to all conference-related travel. In response, the PLP opposition party sla [...]	2009-08-18 14:40:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ECON BF
09NASSAU520	U.K. TAKES TURKS AND CAICOS GOV'T BACK [...] (U) The Constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) was suspended for two years on August 14th following a decision by the Court of Appeal in London. The House of Assembly was dissolved and governance of the island nation transferred to Governor Gordon Wetherell. Senior civil servant [...]	2009-09-01 16:56:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON POL PGOV BF
09NASSAU526	CHINA CHAIRMAN BANGGUO TO VISIT; SIGN MAJOR [...] (U) China,s Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People,s Congress and the country,s second-highest ranking party officer, Wu Bangguo, will make an official visit to The Bahamas September 3-6 to sign three major trade and investment agreements with the GCOB. These agreements incl [...]	2009-09-02 19:19:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	BF ECON EFIN ETRD
09NASSAU64	POLICE RESTRUCTURING SIGNALS STRONG GCOB REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GCOB carried out a consolidation of the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) hierarchy January 11, retaining the Acting Police Commissioner while promoting two up-and-coming yet rival officers to the next most responsible positions. At least 15 high-ranking policemen, including [...]	2009-02-02 19:38:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BF
09NASSAU684	Nassau--October Monthly [...] This is a monthly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. -- Ambassador Avant Arrives to Warm Welcome -- Surprise Announcement At Opposition Political Convention Triggers Travolta Mistrial -- Massive Roundup of Illegal Immigrants Announced [...]	2009-11-03 22:02:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM BF
09NASSAU73	PM INGRAHAM'S ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE NATION - [...] (SBU) Summry: Prime Minister Ingraham gave his annual addess to the nation on January 29, presenting a hopeful message in the wake of an economic downturn that hit The Bahamas especially hard the last three months of 2008. Ingraham pointed to an increase in foreign direct investment in 2008, [...]	2009-02-04 15:52:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB PGOV PREL BF
09NASSAU740	BAHAMAS NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARD [...] The GCOB nominates The Honorable Janet G. Bostwick, former Minister of Justice and Immigration, Attorney-General and Minister of Foreign Affairs, for the International Women of Courage Award. 2. Bostwick was born October 20, 1939 in Nassau. She was the first woman to be elected as a Mem [...]	2009-12-08 16:15:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN BF
09NASSAU83	THE BAHAMAS 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Openness to Foreign Investment: The Bahamian Government generally encourages and offers incentives for foreign investment in all sectors of the economy except those the Government reserves exclusively to Bahamian citizens. Reserved businesses include: wholesale and retail operations; commiss [...]	2009-02-05 17:53:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR BF
09NDJAMENA115	CHAD'S PUBLIC FINANCES (II): SEARCHING FOR [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 11 below. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Finance Minister Gata Ngoulou told Ambassador and DCM March 30 that Chad's public finances were in serious disarray, but that the budget picture was not yet "disastrous." Ngoulou pointed out that Ch [...]	2009-04-02 11:19:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EPET EFIN IMF IBRD CDB EAID PREL
09NDJAMENA287	FOR FORMIN FAKI MTGS: ADDITIONAL INPUT [...] (SBU) This message offers information and views that might be helpful to the Department in preparing for Chad FORMIN Faki's meetings in Washington, in addition to reftel. ----------------------- CHAD-SUDAN AND CHAD/JEM ----------------------- 2. (SBU) Faki told us July 9 that President [...]	2009-07-14 13:44:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA338	CHAD AND ESSO/CHAD: PROTECTING A SIGNIFICANT AMERICAN [...] (SBU) OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS, AMBASSADOR NIGRO WORKED WITH ESSO/CHAD HEAD STEPHANE DE MAHIEU IN WHAT THEY BELIEVE WAS A SUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO PROTECT THE MOSTLY U.S.-OWNED PETROLEUM PRODUCTION AND PIPELINE PROJECT FROM UNCOORDINATED GOC ACTIONS AND AT THE SAME TIME, TO PROTECT THE GOC FROM ITS [...]	2009-08-13 09:54:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EINV PGOV PREL FR CD
09NDJAMENA380	DEBY'S BEST BOYS: CHADIAN PRIME MINISTERS SINCE 1992 [...] (SBU) Idriss Deby took power by a coup d'etat in December of 1990, after which he ruled for several years through a number of "revolutionary councils" staffed by his supporters. Since Deby "regularized" his government in 1992, some ten men have served as Prime Minister, one of them twice. T [...]	2009-09-04 10:18:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PINR SU LY CD
09NDJAMENA409	CHAD MEDIA PROFILE [...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY ------------------------ Reftel discussed in general terms problems facing the media in Chad and initiatives being taken by media organizations to improve the situation. This message establishes a baseline by which to measure, quantitatively and qualitatively, me [...]	2009-09-22 12:07:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OIIP CD
09NDJAMENA507	CHAD: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH RECENTLY HARASSED [...] (U) Ambassador and POLOFF met October 30 with two human rights activists whose harassment by unknown men last week made the local press. The two men, Massalabaye Tenebaye, President of the Chadian Human Rights League, and Michel Barka, President of the main labor confederation, the Chadian La [...]	2009-11-03 10:52:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL PREF CD
09NDJAMENA510	CHAD HUMANITARIAN UPDATE [...] (U) The following is an update of N'Djamena and Accra RefCoords' activities for the period of 26 - 30 OCT, 2009. ------------------------------- REFCOORD AND RSO EASTERN CHAD SECURITY FAMILIARIZATION VISIT ------------------------------- 2. (SBU) N'Djamena and Accra RefCoords and N'dja [...]	2009-11-03 12:36:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF ASEC PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA511	EASTERN CHAD: SECURITY FAMILIARIZATION VISIT TO ABECHE -- [...] (SBU) Post's current security practices for travelers to Abeche and eastern Chad under Chief of Mission authority are largely adequate within the security context. These practices are based on the operating rule that travelers will be under the protection of, and will abide by, the practices a [...]	2009-11-03 13:24:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PREF PREL PHUM SU CD
09NDJAMENA542	IOM/Chad: Tonneau meetings with Chadian Officials; [...] (SBU) Michele Tonneau, Geneva-based Chief of Movement Management Division, Operations Support Department for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) visited Chad from November 2-6 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Chad on behalf of IOM. Due to the unexpec [...]	2009-11-18 12:37:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL PGOV CD
09NEWDELHI1007	URGING AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S RELEASE [...] (C) In a May 15 meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, Ambassador Burleigh urged the Indian government to press Burma's government to release Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. Noting reports of the bizarre incident involving an American citizen who tried to meet with AS [...]	2009-05-18 13:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BM IN
09NEWDELHI1008	APPROPRIATE TIMING FOR A PRESIDENTIAL PHONE CALL [...] (SBU) Embassy recommends an early telephone call from President Obama to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulating India on its historic elections and the Congress Party's decisive mandate. We suggest this call take place soon after the Indian President invites Manmohan Singh to form the n [...]	2009-05-18 13:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM EAGR ECON IN
09NEWDELHI1030	REFORM PROSPECTS IN NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: More than 400 million Indians cast their vote in India's national parliamentary elections this past month and seem to have decisively signaled that they want stability and continuity in the national government, handing Congress an 18-year best performance of more than 200 seats [...]	2009-05-20 12:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAGR PREL PGOV PTER IN
09NEWDELHI105	DELHI DIARY, JANUARY 12-16, 2009 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for January 12-16, 2009, that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Budget Session February 12-26 -- April-May Schedule Expected for Parliamentary Elections -- Jharkhand Chief Minister Steps Down [...]	2009-01-16 12:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PTER IN EAGR
09NEWDELHI1052	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR UPDATES ON INFORMATION ON [...] (SBU) The following information is provided in response to reftel request for details of India,s immigration and border controls. A. (SBU) Immigration Data Bases and Traveler Information Collection: -- What computerized immigration databases are used to track entries and exits? Foreigners Re [...]	2009-05-22 12:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER PK IN
09NEWDELHI1084	FIRST SESSION OF INDIAN PARLIAMENT: POMP AND [...] (SBU) Summary: After an unexpectedly strong performance in the parliamentary elections, the Congress Party and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government it leads will convene both houses of the Indian Parliament from June 1-9. The highlight of the short session will be President Patil,s [...]	2009-05-28 15:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1099	GOVERNMENT SIGNALS PERFORMANCE IS PARAMOUNT IN KEY ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary. The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) announced the remainder of its 79-member council of ministers on May 28, who join the earlier round of ministers announced on May 22 (see reftel). The week-long process of selection seems to have placed more weight on capable [...]	2009-05-29 14:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAGR PREL PGOV PTER IN
09NEWDELHI1128	INDIA REACTS VOCIFEROUSLY TO RELEASE OF LET LEADERS; HOPES TO PROCEED WITH TRILATERAL MUMBAI INVESTIGATOR'S MEETING IN U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Indian Foreign Secretary Menon expressed dismay about the release of Jamaat-ud-Dawa Chief Hafiz Saeed to Charge Burleigh on June 2, noting that the Government of India's plan to provide wheat shipments to aid internally displaced people in the SWAT Valley was now threatened. The Minist [...]	2009-06-02 14:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER PK IN
09NEWDELHI115	SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENTIAL [...] SUMMARY: The Indian media reported and commented widely on the incoming and outgoing Presidents. Reports said President Bush on Monday made a round of farewell phone calls to world leaders, while President-elect Obama and his wife Michelle attended the Lincoln Memorial inaugural concert in Wa [...]	2009-01-20 11:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI1226	INDIAN "YOUTH WAVE": NEW STARS IN THE PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Media coverage of the 2009 parliamentary election highlighted the possible emergence of a generational change in Indian politics, with the spotlight on Rahul Gandhi as well as a large contingent of young contestants vying for seats in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliament) [...]	2009-06-12 15:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1229	INDIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS: RELEASE AUNG SAN SUU KYI, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Indian press reported June 11 that a group of Indian parliamentarians had submitted an appeal to Prime Minister Singh to ask Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi and to hold elections. Member of Parliament Sharad Joshi, a leader of the previously defunct Indian Parliamentarians' F [...]	2009-06-15 04:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI1237	INVESTOR APPETITE FOR INDIA RETURNING BUT GOVT BETTER NOT [...] (SBU) Summary. Econoff and ConGenoffs met with Mumbai contacts on June 1 and 2 to gauge investor reaction to the elections and signs of recovery in the Indian economy. In contrast to reports at the beginning of 2009 that investors were waiting for political uncertainty to end with the May el [...]	2009-06-16 03:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAGR PREL PGOV PTER IN
09NEWDELHI1278	BJP IMPLOSION OR REINVENTION? [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's (UPA) unexpectedly decisive victory in India's general election has left the country's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in disarray. The fallout of this drubbing has shattered the image of the BJP a [...]	2009-06-18 14:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI128	SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENTIAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-21 12:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI1285	MANMOHAN SINGH: GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian Parliament) on June 9, reaffirming the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's agenda and goals as mentioned in President Prathiba Patil's parliamentary address one week before. PM Singh em [...]	2009-06-19 13:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1319	CONGRESS PARTY LEVERAGES ELECTORAL WIN TO EMPOWER [...] (SBU) Summary. Following an impressive win in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government demonstrated the value it places on female constituents by introducing a cachet of women's empowerment initiatives. President Patil's outline of her gover [...]	2009-06-25 12:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1328	WOMEN IN THE LOK SABHA: IS IT A CHAMPAGNE MOMENT? [...] SUMMARY: The 2009 parliamentary election highlighted the possible emergence of women leaders in Indian politics, with the focus on Meira Kumar as the speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) along with a contingent of influential women leaders vying for parliamentary seats. Fi [...]	2009-06-26 12:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1329	BJP: NOT THERE YET [...] (U) The BJP,s two-day national executive meeting held in Lucknow was expected to be a fire-works show, complete with stinging accusations and counter charges. Embassy contacts and media report that passions ran high, and the meeting lived up to its controversial billing. In the aftermath [...]	2009-06-26 13:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI137	MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA INAUGURATION; NEW DELHI. [...] "DREAM AND REALITY," editorial in 21 Jan centrist NAVBHARAT TIMES Hindi daily: "Despite its openness, American society is very conservative when it comes to gender and racial equality. When you see how difficult it is for women and non-whites to make it big, then you know the significance of B [...]	2009-01-22 11:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI1433	New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 6-10, 2009, including the following: -- Sharma Sees Recovery Signs in Exports -- Update on India's Balance of Payments -- Price Rise for Petrol and Diesel -- Lower House of Parliament Passes Railwa [...]	2009-07-10 13:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD

09NEWDELHI1464	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Madame Secretary: Mission India warmly welcomes you to India. This is an opportune moment in the relationship between the world's largest democracies. The Congress Party's strong showing in the April elections allowed formation of a new and strong Indian government--freed from the constrain [...]	2009-07-15 12:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET//NOFORN	EAGR EAID ECIN EFIN EINT EINV ENRG ETRD ETTC
09NEWDELHI147	MEDIA REACTION: CORONATION OF OBAMA; NEW DELHI. [...] "BIRTH OF A NEW DREAM," editorial in January 22 centrist NAVBHARAT TIMES Hindi daily: "In the U.S., thousands will attend a rock concert, but it gets tough to get even a hundred people to a political gathering. But they came for Obama -- in thousands, braving the numbing cold. So, what made th [...]	2009-01-23 10:34:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI1486	MEIRA KUMAR: INDIA'S FIRST FEMALE PARLIAMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 15th Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) elected Meira Kumar the first female Parliament Speaker on June 3, 2009. The former Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment is largely viewed as a safe, consensus choice. As a woman and a Dalit (former untouchable),Kumar's sel [...]	2009-07-19 13:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1488	NIRUPAMA RAO: A POISED NEW FOREIGN SECRETARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Indian President Patil appointed Nirupama Rao as India,s second female Foreign Secretary. She will take office at the end of the month. A trusted East Asia hand, Rao is a veteran diplomat, known for her poised demeanor; she most recently served as Indian Ambassador to China. [...]	2009-07-20 01:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1572	CONGRESS WALKS A FINE LINE IN UTTAR PRADESH [...] (SBU) Three weeks before Uttar Pradesh,s (U.P.) state assembly by-elections, the Congress Party,s state unit chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi kicked up a political dust storm with an incendiary comment about U.P. Chief Minister Kumari Mayawati. The party now finds itself having to weather this storm [...]	2009-07-28 14:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1583	MEDIA REACTION: INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS, [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-29 12:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI1620	PM SINGH DEFENDS FOREIGN POLICY IN PARLIAMENT (CORRECTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Singh defended his government's handling of foreign policy before the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) on July 29, addressing head-on opposition criticism of the joint statement with Pakistani Prime Minister Gillani at Sharm el-Sheikh, and ancillary gripes ab [...]	2009-08-03 11:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER MASS KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1625	KASHMIR: CHIEF MINISTER OMAR ABDULLAH'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a raucous Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state assembly session on July 28, Chief Minister (CM) Omar Abdullah resigned after an opposition party member accused him of involvement in a 2006 sex scandal. Even though the Home Ministry issued a statement later that day exonerating [...]	2009-08-03 14:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1677	NSA NARAYANAN ON CIV-NUKE IMPLEMENTATION, CT/INTEL [...] (C) Summary: Indian NSA M.K. Narayanan stressed a desire to work closely to develop a ambitious agenda for PM Singh's November visit to Washington and flagged his decisive role in pushing through End-Use Monitoring Agreement (EUM) and directing Indian foreign policy, during an August 10 introducto [...]	2009-08-11 13:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP ENRG PK KN IN
09NEWDELHI1678	INDIA LIKELY TO ENDORSE INTERNATIONAL PIRACY COURT [...] (SBU) Sanjay Rana, MEA Deputy Secretary for UN Political Affairs, told us August 10 that the GOI is unlikely to oppose an effort by the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) to set up an international tribunal to prosecute pirates. Rana expressed little enthusiasm for the o [...]	2009-08-11 14:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL IN
09NEWDELHI1766	New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 17-21, 2009, including the following: -- Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Reconstituted -- Dr. Subir Gokran Likely to be Next RBI Deputy Governor -- Ministry of Finance Releases Direct T [...]	2009-08-21 13:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID ECIN ECPS EINT EAGR EFIN EINV ENRG EPET
09NEWDELHI1769	HARYANA: DODGING DROUGHT, RIDING WAVES [...] (U) Summary: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of the Congress Party announced on August 21 that he has recommended dissolution of the state legislature and early elections to the state assembly. The state Governor must accept his recommendation. Originally scheduled for February [...]	2009-08-21 15:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1778	MEA JOINT SECRETARY RAGHAVAN CALLS MEETING FOR AN [...] (C)Summary: Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, T.C.A. Raghavan called an ""urgent briefing"" on August 18 for representatives of countries whose nationals were killed in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Raghavan provided a dossier on Hafiz Saeed, [...]	2009-08-24 14:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PK IN
09NEWDELHI1812	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Mission India warmly welcomes you to New Delhi. This is an opportune moment as we seek a truly global partnership with India and build upon the Secretary's highly successful July visit (Ref). Secretary Clinton and her counterpart, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, formally launche [...]	2009-08-31 14:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET//NOFORN	OVIP LEW PREL EAGR EAID IN
09NEWDELHI1861	New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 31 - September 4, 2009, including the following: -- India Hosts WTO Mini-Ministerial to Re-energize Doha -- India's Own Trade Continues to Plunge -- More Investment Options for Foreign Venture Cap [...]	2009-09-08 03:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAIR EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD BEXP PHUM PINR
09NEWDELHI1872	MEDIA REACTION: INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS, [...] "FIRE ON BOTH SIDES...," editorial in September 7 right-of-center Urdu daily HINDUSTAN EXPRESS: "U.S lawmaker Edward Markey, founder of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation has written a letter to the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton that both India and Pakistan are trying to [...]	2009-09-08 13:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI195	JAMMU AND KASHMIR: INDIAN ANXIETY OVER NEW [...] (C) Summary: There is uncertainty and anxiety within the Indian foreign policy establishment over the direction the new U.S. administration might take on its India policy. The principal areas of Indian concern are: -- renewed U.S. activism on Kashmir; -- replacement of the stand-alone bil [...]	2009-01-30 14:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PINR KISL PK IN
09NEWDELHI1973	MEDIA REACTION: CHINA, PAKISTAN, CLIMATE [...] "What is meant by democracy?" editorial in September 23 Kolkata Bengali independent, ANANDABAZAR PATRIKA: "It is virtually impossible for any individual creativity to flourish in countries where the Communist leadership imposes political and social autocracy. In such an environment, talented a [...]	2009-09-23 11:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI1983	MEDIA REACTION: NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IN SOUTH [...] "YOUR ATOM BOMB AND MINE," editorial in September 23 right-of-center Urdu daily, HINDUSTAN EXPRESS: "When Pakistan was producing nuclear weapons of mass destruction, America not only turned its back on Pakistan, it often extended its full cooperation. No doubt, it was a part of its gameplan in [...]	2009-09-24 11:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI2008	MEDIA REACTION: G20 MEETING, NPT ISSUES, [...] "EXPANDING HORIZONS: GROWING FROM 8 TO 20," editorial in September 28 centrist Marathi daily, SAKAAL: "Rather late in the day but the G8 nations, including the U.S., have ultimately realized the need to bring developing nations like India to the negotiating table. Following the G20 official a [...]	2009-09-29 11:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI2043	FOREIGN SECRETARY RAO ON PAKISTAN, IRAN, AND [...] (C) Summary: Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told the Ambassador on September 30 that recent GOI-Pakistan talks in New York were detailed and "useful," observing that the Pakistan side "seemed to realize that terrorism is as much a threat to them as it is to us." Noting that Pakistani a [...]	2009-10-05 08:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP ETTC TRGY IN AF PA
09NEWDELHI2044	MEDIA REACTION: INDIA-CHINA, KASHMIR, [...] "CHINA'S TOUGH CHALLENGE," editorial in Oct 3 right- of-center Hindi daily, DAINIK JAGRAN: "India-China tensions have been in the news lately. The difference between India and China is clearly reflected in the attitude of the two countries toward hosting international games. While China saw an [...]	2009-10-05 11:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI2069	The UPA's Austerity Drive: Cynical or Brilliant? [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Congress Party has committed to an "austerity drive" as a gesture of solidarity with India's "aam admi" or the common man. VIPS are traveling in economy class on trains and aircraft, foregoing chartered helicopters or private planes. Critics attack these gestures as pur [...]	2009-10-08 10:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI2078	MEDIA REACTION: POTUS VISIT, [...] "OBAMA TURNS HIS BACK TO INDIA," editorial in October 9 centrist Marathi daily, NAVSHAKTI: "U.S. President Obama has often shown high regard for India, Indian culture and values. In his presidential election campaign, he often mentioned the image of the Hindu god Lord Hanuman that is close to [...]	2009-10-09 10:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI214	MEDIA REACTION: AFGHANISTAN, PALESTINE / GAZA [...] "OBAMA'S AFGHANISTAN POLICY," editorial in January 23 centrist Cuttack Oriya daily SAMAJA. "President Obama's plan to deploy 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to intensify the war on terror has received only lukewarm response from the European nations. At the upcoming April 3 NATO Summit Obama wi [...]	2009-02-04 10:34:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI2155	JAMMU AND KASHMIR: INDIA MOVES AHEAD WITH CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES [...] (C) Summary: In yet another signal that it is not waiting for the Delhi-Islamabad composite dialogue process to resume, the GOI unveiled further steps to strengthen its reconciliation efforts in Kashmir. Besides announcing a dialogue with separatists (Ref A),Home Minister P.C. Chidambaram on Octob [...]	2009-10-22 14:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI2164	New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of October 16-22, 2009, including the following: -- India to Launch Satellites to Monitor Climate Change -- New Secretaries for Space and Atomic Energy -- India's Outward FDI Declines, while FDI Inflows still Ro [...]	2009-10-23 12:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD ECPS BEXP PHUM PINR TSPA
09NEWDELHI2265	India Reporting Workshop Puts Strategic Dialogue in [...] (SBU) The Ambassador enthusiastically welcomed more than 80 participants from throughout India and neighboring Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and China to an October 5-6 India Reporting Workshop in New Delhi. SCA Assistant Secretary (A/S) Blake, addressing the group via DVC, underscored the valu [...]	2009-11-09 12:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON POL AMGT IN
09NEWDELHI230	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of February 2-6, 2009, including the following: -- India Largest Recipient of Worker Remittances -- Government Anticipates 1.5 million Job-loss by March Due to Global Downturn -- India's FY2008 Investment [...]	2009-02-06 10:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD
09NEWDELHI2330	MAYAWATI STRONG IN U.P. BY-ELECTIONS, BUT CONGRESS [...] (U) Summary. In Uttar Pradesh (U.P.),Chief Minister Kumari Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) swept the November 7 by-elections, winning nine out of eleven Assembly seats and consolidating further its hold of the state legislature. The by-elections were equally dramatic for the Samajwadi [...]	2009-11-18 14:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI2354	TURBULENCE IN PARLIAMENT AWAITS PRIME MINISTER ON RETURN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The winter session of Parliament kicked off on a stormy note on November 19 as the opposition parties brought parliament and the capital to a halt over the issue of sugarcane prices to farmers. The Opposition effectively mobilized over 25,000 farmers from western Uttar Pradesh to [...]	2009-11-20 13:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM EAGR IN
09NEWDELHI2355	JAMMU AND KASHMIR: GOVERNMENT TALKS TO SEPARATISTS [...] (C) Summary: Following up announcements by the Prime Minister and the Home Minister last month (ref a-c),the GOI and the Mirwaiz Omar Farooq-led separatists have publicly acknowledged that they are engaged in closed door talks. The separatists have indicated to Embassy that they intend to en [...]	2009-11-20 13:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PINR IN
09NEWDELHI2357	INDIA PROVIDES PART 810 ASSURANCES ON NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) conveyed by diplomatic note November 20 a document entitled "Assurances by the Government of India to the Government of the United States on Nuclear Technology Transfers" in reply to reftel demarches. These "Part 810" assurances constituted a key r [...]	2009-11-20 14:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PARM KNNP ENRG IN
09NEWDELHI2391	LIBERHAN LEAK STEALS REPORT'S THUNDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The list of political scandals awaiting Prime Minister Singh upon his return from Washington has grown with the release of the Liberhan Commission report. Bowing to immense pressure from the Opposition, Home Minister F.M. Chidambaram presented the report in the lower and upper [...]	2009-11-25 13:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI2492	INDIA: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. India has made continuing progress since April 2009 in combating human trafficking. The Ministry of Home Affairs has designated trafficking in persons a top priority and demonstrated renewed efforts in tackling the problem. India enhanced efforts to expand law enforcement capac [...]	2009-12-14 12:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SOCI KTIP IN
09NEWDELHI2494	INDIAN POLITICAL THEATER: THE LIBERHAN REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Parliamentary debate on the Liberhan Commission,s report (Ref B) on the destruction of a mosque 17 years ago caused disruption and drama. Both houses of Parliament engaged in hearty mud slinging across party lines, while ignoring more pressing issues, such as the rising price o [...]	2009-12-14 13:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC IN PGOV PREL KDEM PINR
09NEWDELHI25	MEDIA REACTION: INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS, [...] "THE CRAFTY MOVES OF PAKISTANI ARMY" editorial in the January 7, 2009, Mumbai edition of centrist Marathi daily SAKAAL. "It would be naove to conclude that Pakistan- based terrorist outfits were the sole engineers of the Mumbai terror attacks. It is as naove as the assumption that a singular a [...]	2009-01-07 10:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI2515	High Food Inflation Eclipses Economic Recovery [...] SUMMARY: Despite a promising overall economic outlook, rising food price inflation continues to pose a serious challenge to the Government of India (GOI). Food prices increased by a staggering 19.95 percent for the week ending on December 5, the fastest pace in eleven years. Causes of the ris [...]	2009-12-17 13:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON EAID EFIN ECIN EINV SENV PGOV IN
09NEWDELHI2529	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL GREGG [...] (SBU) Senator Gregg and Delegation: Mission India warmly welcomes you. Following soon after Prime Minister Singh's historic official state visit to Washington, your visit coincides with a rapid expansion in the U.S.-India partnership, encompassing everything from agriculture to defense coop [...]	2009-12-18 15:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER OVIP AF PK IN
09NEWDELHI2543	WINTER SESSION OF PARLIAMENT ENDS WITHOUT CIVIL [...] (C) Summary: The lack-luster winter session of Parliament came to an end without passage of the Civil Nuclear Liabilities legislation. Despite assurances from the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government that it intended to push the legislation through, we did not see any signs of Congr [...]	2009-12-21 13:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI2544	AMBASSADOR VISITS PARLIAMENT, CALLS ON SPEAKER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a December 16 meeting with the Ambassador, Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) Speaker Meira Kumar expressed an interest in meeting Speaker Pelosi in the United States. Kumar wants to increase exchanges between Indian and United States legislators. The Ambassador and Spe [...]	2009-12-21 13:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC IN PGOV PREL KDEM PINR
09NEWDELHI2545	ADVANI MOVES UPSTAIRS, HANDS OVER REINS TO THE NEXT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: India's principal opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),implemented a generational change at the top when its leading stalwart, former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, stepped down from his position of Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, India's lower hou [...]	2009-12-21 14:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI266	MEDIA REACTION: INDO - PAK RELATIONS, WAR [...] "PAKISTAN'S MANEUVER," editorial in the February 11 DAINIK JAGRAN Hindi daily: "Pakistan's demand for more information to complete its probe into the Mumbai terror attacks shows that it is simply misleading the world and killing time. But, for how long will the Indian government tolerate Pakis [...]	2009-02-12 11:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI268	INDIA SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) We welcome your visit to New Delhi as India begins to gear up for parliamentary elections likely to be held in April-May. While popular anger over the November Mumbai attacks has cooled slightly, Indian officials continue to demand that Pakistan respond to Delhi's demands for action against the [...]	2009-02-12 12:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER ECON AF PK IN
09NEWDELHI269	INDIA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LEWIS AND BACHUS [...] (SBU) We welcome your upcoming visit as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's historic journey to India in February-March 1959. The inspiration which Dr. King and other leaders of the American civil rights movement drew from Mahatma Gandhi is well known in [...]	2009-02-12 12:51:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI288	INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY: â€œHUGE STAKEâ€ IN SPECIAL [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting between Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and Special Representative Richard Holbrooke on February 16, Menon: -- stated that India "has a huge stake" in the Special Representative's success in his new role and promised to support Holbrooke's efforts publicly to al [...]	2009-02-17 08:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IN
09NEWDELHI328	DELHI DIARY, FEBRUARY 16-20, 2009 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for February 16-20, 2009, that did not feature in our other reporting: -- Congress Reshuffles Ahead of Elections -- NC-Congress Sweep J&K Rajya Sabha Elections -- More Jobs if BJP Elected Congress Reshuffles Ahead [...]	2009-02-20 13:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PTER IN EAGR
09NEWDELHI367	DELHI DIARY, FEBRUARY 14-27, 2009 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for February 14-27, 2009, that did not feature in our other reporting: -- 14th Lok Sabha Ends Respectfully, But No Election Dates Yet -- Parliamentary Committee Calls for Better Military/Intel Coordination [...]	2009-02-27 11:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KISL PINR PTER MOPS IN
09NEWDELHI368	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 23 TO FEBRUARY 27, 2009 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of February 23-27, 2009, including the following: -- UPA Government's Last Relief Package to Exporters -- UPA Sneaks in Another Last Minute Vote Sweetener -- Government Attempts Clarification of FDI Policy [...]	2009-02-27 12:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD
09NEWDELHI378	MEDIA REACTION: BANGLADESH, US [...] "DISTURBED NEIGHBORHOOD," editorial in February 28 right-of-center DAINIK JAGRAN Hindi daily: "It is easy for India to explain away the disturbed situation in neighboring Bangladesh as that country's own problem. But is it right for India to shirk its responsibility? Being the biggest country [...]	2009-03-02 11:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI379	BHARAT BALLOT 09: NATIONAL ELECTION DATES ANNOUNCED [...] (U) India will go to the polls between April 16 and May 13 to elect a new parliament and put in place a new government. The announcement was made on March 2 by the Indian Election Commission which released an election schedule with voting occurring in five phases beginning on April 16 and endin [...]	2009-03-02 11:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI403	BHARAT BALLOT 09: NATIONAL ELECTION PRIMER [...] (U) Summary: India will hold national elections in five stages from April 16 to May 13. Results will be announced on May 16. With an electorate of 714 million, the election will be the largest democratic undertaking in world history. Neither of the two largest parties, the currently ruling [...]	2009-03-04 12:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI435	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 2-6, 2009, including the following: -- India Continues to Slow Down -- Inflation Declines to 7-Year Low; RBI Moves -- FDI Clarifications Just Cloud the Issue -- FATF Gives Go Ahead for India Mutual [...]	2009-03-06 09:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD
09NEWDELHI442	CORRECTED COPY: BHARAT BALLOT: NATIONAL ELECTION [...] (U) Corrected Copy: To revise seat distribution in paragraph 5. 2. (U) Summary: India will hold national elections in five stages from April 16 to May 13. Results will be announced on May 16. With an electorate of 714 million, the election will be the largest democratic undertaking [...]	2009-03-09 05:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI453	OES ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY HARNISH ENGAGES GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Oceans, Environment and Sciences Bureau (OES) OES Acting Assistant Secretary Reno Harnish lead a multi-stakeholder delegation to New Delhi to engage GOI ministries on the lessons learned from the 2008 Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) in order to suppor [...]	2009-03-11 06:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG PREL TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG BEXP IN
09NEWDELHI533	NEW DELHI WEEKLY EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Environment, Science, and Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 16 - 20, 2009, including the following: -- Haryana State Forest Department Goes After High Profile Development and Mining Interests -- Forest Fires In National Parks Cau [...]	2009-03-20 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TBIO KGHG TRGY NASA TSPA TNGD IN
09NEWDELHI563	BHARAT BALLOT 09: INDIA PREMIER LEAGUE CRICKET [...] (SBU) Summary. Next month's Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament will be held in South Africa after the league's organizers failed to secure Government of India approval for the matches to go ahead in India. The tournament - scheduled to begin on April 10 - clashes with the upcomin [...]	2009-03-25 09:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ECON IN
09NEWDELHI6	MEDIA REACTION: INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS, [...] "SOFTENING OR ACTING?" editorial in January 1 nationalist RASHTRIYA SAHARA Hindi daily: "Pakistan's National Security Advisor Durrani's not ruling out that captured Mumbai militant Kasab is a Pakistani national indicates a softening in Pakistan's attitude. But, that's not without reason. Besid [...]	2009-01-02 10:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI665	BHARAT BALLOT 09: MOHAN BHAGWAT NEW RSS CHIEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) selected 59-year old Mohan Bhagwat as its new leader, replacing the 78-year old K.S. Sudarshan who stepped down citing health problems. Bhagwat is the youngest chief in RSS history and represents a "generational change" in the organizatio [...]	2009-04-03 13:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM KIRF IN
09NEWDELHI686	BHARAT BALLOT 09: A MATTER OF COALITIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The fragmentation of political power away from Delhi and the national parties to the states and regional parties means that no single party is capable of forming a national government by itself in India. With little more than a week to go before the start of the polling cycle [...]	2009-04-07 14:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI699	INDIA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BERMAN [...] (SBU) Dear Chairman Berman and Delegation: Embassy New Delhi warmly welcomes you to India. Your visit coincides with a historically unprecedented level of U.S.-India collaboration encompassing everything from defense cooperation to agriculture and reflecting widespread support in both countr [...]	2009-04-09 11:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI728	MEDIA REACTION: UNREST IN THAILAND, [...] "UNREST IN THAILAND" editorial in April 14 independent Bengali daily ANANDABAZAR PATRIKA: "The cancellation of the ASEAN summit in Thailand due to anti-government unrest is unparalleled, even in the entire South East Asia... It will affect Thailand's credibility as a safe investment destinatio [...]	2009-04-14 12:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI745	SPECIAL MEDIA REPORT: INDIAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF [...] Following is the full text of another report in April 8 independent, centrist Eastern India based English language daily THE TELEGRAPH by Washington correspondent K.P. Nayar: 2. (BEGIN TEXT): Washington, April 7: The speech was delivered in Prague. But its echoes are being felt in New Delh [...]	2009-04-16 04:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI756	SUBJECT: BHARAT BALLOT 09: INDIA GOES TO THE [...] Summary: (U) On April 16, Indian voters cast their ballots in 124 election districts across 17 states and territories in the first of five phases of parliamentary elections, thus marking the start of the biggest democratic exercise the world has ever seen. Polling in the first round was gene [...]	2009-04-16 15:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI775	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEKS OF APRIL 6 TO [...] (U) Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the weeks of April 06-17, 2009, including the following: -- New Protocols for Tiger Relocations in National Parks -- Poll Indicates Political Parties Unconcerned About the Environment -- [...]	2009-04-17 14:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TSPL TBIO KSCA TRGY IN
09NEWDELHI782	PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES IRAN, AFGHANISTAN WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 17 meeting with Codel Berman, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh endorsed the Obama Administration's outreach to Iran, saying that a comprehensive dialogue will be more effective in changing Tehran's behavior than international sanctions. He urged the U.S. to stay the cou [...]	2009-04-21 06:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PARM TRGY KNNP EAGR ENRG EINV ETRD
09NEWDELHI788	BHARAT BALLOT 09: DIVIDED LOYALTIES IN PEACEFUL [...] (SBU) Summary. National elections came off with very few problems in Jammu and Kashmir, one of seventeen states where voting occurred in the first phase. The most striking aspect of Jammu and Kashmir's election campaign was its ordinariness: voters focused on governance, roads, electricity [...]	2009-04-21 12:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL KDEM PHUM KISL PK IN
09NEWDELHI8	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of December 29, 2008 to January 2, 2009, including the following: -- Trade Figures Decline for Second Consecutive Month -- 3G Telecom Spectrum Auction Postponed -- Most Indian Carriers Cut Domestic Fares - [...]	2009-01-02 11:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD
09NEWDELHI817	BHARAT BALLOT 09: ROUND TWO OF INDIAN [...] Summary: (U) On April 23, Indian voters cast their ballots in 141 election districts across 13 states in the second of five phases of parliamentary elections. Polling in the second phase was mostly peaceful and smooth. Final turnout numbers were not available at COB, but turnout appeared to [...]	2009-04-23 15:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI863	DEMOCRACY-IN-EXILE - TIBETANS DEBATE REFORM AMIDST [...] (C) Summary. Following the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's escape to India, Tibetans now look toward their future and the implementation of further democratic reforms for the government-in-exile, the Central Tibetan Authority (CTA). While the exile community has the instruments of democra [...]	2009-04-30 13:51:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PREF CH IN
09NEWDELHI864	BHARAT BALLOT 09: ROUND THREE OF INDIAN [...] (U) Summary: On April 30, Indian voters cast their ballots in several states seen as key to the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) bid to win power from the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. This is the third of five phases of parliamentary elections; p [...]	2009-04-30 14:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI872	INDIAN ECONOMY SHOWING SIGNS OF RECOVERY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Indian economy is showing some signs of recovery from the current slowdown, with many analysts predicting that the downward cycle is expected to bottom out in the second half of FY 2009-10 (October-April). The core sector (including power, cement, and steel) and automobiles [...]	2009-05-01 11:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD
09NEWDELHI886	SPECIAL MEDIA REPORT: INDIAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF [...] President Obama's April 29 press conference generated widespread reporting in India the next day. The media highlighted his remark: "On the military side you're starting to see some recognition just in the last few days, that the obsession with India as the mortal threat to Pakistan has been m [...]	2009-05-04 12:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI927	BHARAT BALLOT 09: INDIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION [...] (U) Summary: The rolling Indian parliamentary election moved north as Indian voters cast their ballots in the fourth round of elections on May 7. In play were several key battleground states for the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance's attempt to stay in power. In this fourth of [...]	2009-05-07 15:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI969	BHARAT BALLOT 09: INDIA'S MARATHON ELECTION [...] (U) Summary: Indian voters cast the final ballots in the country's marathon elections on May 13. In this fifth and final phase, polling took place in 86 constituencies across seven states and two territories. Voting was relatively peaceful with the exception of small skirmishes in West Beng [...]	2009-05-13 15:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI988	BHARAT BALLOT 2009: MUSLIM VOTE DIVIDED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff and PolFSN traveled to western UP to visit five parliamentary districts where Muslims make up a large minority, and in some cases, the majority, of voters. These five districts voted on May 13, the final phase of the election for the Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliamen [...]	2009-05-15 11:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI991	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of May 11-15, 2009, including the following: -- Exports Continue Contraction -- March Industry Growth Down -- But Manufacturing Sector Showing Revival Signs -- Consumer Inflation Shows Some Abatement -- SE [...]	2009-05-15 12:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAIR ECPS EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD
09NEWDELHI997	BHARAT BALLOT 09: TIGHT BATTLE IN RAJASTHAN [...] (SBU) Summary: While the race is close and tight in Rajasthan, the Congress Party is expected to pick up between 5-10 seats from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in parliamentary election. Polling was on May 7 and results will be declared on May 16. The Congress strategy was to pick strong [...]	2009-05-15 14:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI998	BHARAT BALLOT 09: JAI HO! CONGRESS PARTY WINS [...] (U) Please note that the numbers in this cable are all approximate, based on the latest media reports of vote count in progress. The actual results may vary slightly but we do not expect any major changes. The Election Commission will certify the final results on Monday, May 18. 2. (C) Su [...]	2009-05-16 13:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI PINR KDEM IN
09NIAMEY382	Update on Hadizatou Mani, Woman of Courage Award Recipient [...] (SBU) On May 10, PolOff and LES Pol Specialist traveled to Birni N'Konni to deliver the State Department's Woman of Courage prize to Mani Hadizatou (Ref A). Timidria, the local NGO that helped Mani file her successful lawsuit against the Government of Niger for failing to assist her under cond [...]	2009-05-28 12:29:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI KWMN SCUL NG
09NIAMEY554	Niger: Five Day Countdown to Referendum [...] Over the month of July, a series of circumstances have contributed to rising levels of tension in Niger in the pre-August 4 referendum period. The referendum, deemed unconstitutional three times by the former Constitutional Court (refs A and B),would be a national vote to approve a new consti [...]	2009-07-31 05:59:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SOCI PHUM ASEC NG
09NIAMEY631	LETTER OF CONDOLENCES FROM PRESIDENT TANDJA [...] Following is the text of a condolences letter from Government of Niger President Mamadou Tandja. The letter was received at Embassy Niamey on September 1, 2009. We will forward the original French-language letter together with English translation to the White House via diplomatic pouch. [...]	2009-09-01 13:44:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV NG
09NIAMEY945	Nominees to Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit [...] In response to reftel request, post nominates ten individuals to represent Niger at the Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit to be held during the first quarter of 2010. Representing a cross-section of Niger's small business community, these individuals are likely to have the means and the mot [...]	2009-11-30 18:03:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID PREL SOCI NR
09NICOSIA123	REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS -- NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Paras 3-6 are sensitive but unclassified -- not for internet distribution. 2. (U) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the April 2008 - February 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy point of contact is John Rhatigan, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-3364, Fax: [...]	2009-02-13 10:39:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM KWMN ELAB PGOV PHUM PREF CY
09NICOSIA148	CYPRUS/NATO: EP REPORT PUTS GOVERNMENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recently-approved European Parliament (EP) report on EU-NATO relations has sent Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and his Communist AKEL party into another anti-Alliance tizzy. Of concern to the government was a last-minute amendment, tabled by a right-leaning Cypriot Eur [...]	2009-02-26 14:00:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR CY TU
09NICOSIA149	CYPRUS/NATO: EP REPORT PUTS GOVERNMENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recently-approved European Parliament (EP) report on EU-NATO relations has sent Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and his Communist AKEL party into another anti-Alliance tizzy. Of concern to the government was a last-minute amendment, tabled by a right-leaning Cypriot Eu [...]	2009-02-27 05:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR CY TU
09NICOSIA150	CYPRUS/NATO: EP REPORT PUTS GOVERNMENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recently-approved European Parliament (EP) report on EU-NATO relations has sent Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and his Communist AKEL party into another anti-Alliance tizzy. Of concern to the government was a last-minute amendment, tabled by a right-leaning Cypriot Eu [...]	2009-02-27 05:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR CY TU
09NICOSIA193	CYPRUS: UN'S DOWNER REMAINS REASONABLY OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Special Adviser Alexander Downer remains reasonably optimistic the Cypriot leaders can make a notional deal by late 2009 or early 2010, although he acknowledges the sides' substantive differences have yet to narrow much. In a March 12 tour d'horizon with the Ambassador, Downe [...]	2009-03-19 09:42:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU
09NICOSIA205	CYPRUS: INVESTMENT AGREEMENT WITH IRAN AND GOC GENERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 2, 2009, Cyprus and Iran signed an Agreement on the reciprocal promotion and protection of investments. The agreement was the outcome of a recent trade mission to Iran. It falls under the GOC's ongoing business outreach efforts towards "non-traditional" markets such as [...]	2009-03-23 07:03:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON ETRD CY
09NICOSIA256	CYPRUS: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BERMAN [...] (SBU) Embassy Nicosia looks forward to welcoming you to Cyprus, an island whose political complexity and strategic value belie its small size. We have crafted an intensive program including calls on President Demetris Christofias and other high ranking Republic of Cyprus (RoC) officials, a m [...]	2009-04-09 14:54:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU
09NICOSIA283	CYPRUS: IPR WORKSHOP ON APRIL 9 BRINGS TOGETHER GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Summary: On April 9, more than 50 GOC officials and Cypriot business representatives discussed ways to improve local enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) at an all-day workshop organized by the Economic/Commercial section and the Cyprus American Business Association. Interna [...]	2009-04-30 04:43:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR CY
09NICOSIA332	CYPRUS: HARD-LINE HOUSE SPEAKER UNBOWED, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cypriot House Speaker and DIKO party leader Marios Karoyian voiced his desire for closer relations between the U.S. and Cypriot legislatures during a May 19 meeting with the Ambassador. As such, he felt great disappointment when two high-profile Members of Congress visited Cypru [...]	2009-05-20 14:16:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU
09NICOSIA369	CYPRUS: RATIFICATION URGED FOR GPS-GALILEO COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Post contacted Mr. Vasilis Demetriades, Officer at the Ministry of Communications and Works for an update on the status of Cyprus' ratification of the GPS Galileo Cooperation agreement. Demetriades informed us that his Ministry had already prepared the ratifying legis [...]	2009-06-10 12:39:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL TSPA TSPL ECPS CY
09NICOSIA379	CYPRUS: PRESIDENT CHRISTOFIAS BELIEVES TALAT UNDER [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-16 04:42:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU CY
09NICOSIA456	CYPRUS: GREEK CYPRIOTS EXPRESS GUARDED OPTIMISM ON [...] (C) Summary: A wide-range of Greek Cypriot (G/C) interlocutors expressed guarded optimism, tempered by an understanding of the problems going forward, in the on-going UN-brokered peace process to EUR DAS Matthew Bryza during his June 29-30 visit to Cyprus. President Demetris Christofias was ca [...]	2009-07-13 07:16:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP TR CY
09NICOSIA457	CYPRUS: UNFICYP CHIEF CALLS LAST QUARTER 2009 [...] (C) Summary: "We could reach irreversibility if the parties can identify areas of give and take in the last three months of the year," UNSG Special Representative Taye Zerihoun told Deputy Assistant Secretary Matthew Bryza on June 29. Zerihoun, who noted tangible improvement in atmospherics, s [...]	2009-07-13 09:47:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNFICYP TR CY
09NICOSIA471	CYPRUS: TURKISH CYPRIOTS GENERALLY UPBEAT IN [...] (C) Summary: Like their Greek Cypriot (G/C) counterparts, Turkish Cypriots voiced optimism regarding the UN-brokered peace process, muted by a cognizance of the magnitude of the task ahead and serious divergences between the sides, in discussions with EUR DAS Matthew Bryza during his June 29-30 [...]	2009-07-20 08:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFIYCP TR CY
09NICOSIA752	CYPRUS NOMINEE FOR 2010 SECRETARY OF STATE'S AWARD FOR [...] Embassy Nicosia is pleased to nominate Ms. Androulla Christofidou, a human rights activist working to combat trafficking in women in Cyprus, for the 2010 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage (IWOC). Following is the information requested in Reftel. 2. Personal and biograp [...]	2009-11-30 15:31:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL KAPO CY
09NOUAKCHOTT126	IN LEMDEN, ABDALLAHI SEES THE TIDE TURNING [...] Summary: President Abdallahi is more determined than ever to oppose the coup and sees political and economic trends going in his favor. He has been approached by Aziz' own Ouled Bisbaa tribe business leaders about resigning but rejects any negotiations with the military and hopes to return [...]	2009-02-11 19:26:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT199	GLOBAL FUND ALLEGES FRAUD AND MISMANAGEMENT IN MAURITANIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Geneva-based Global Fund issued a formal complaint letter to its Mauritania Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) February 13 alleging fraud and mismanagement of the country's $32 million Global Fund aid package for malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. All funding has been fro [...]	2009-03-12 11:16:00	Embassy Nouakchott	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV UNDP KHIV MR

09NOUAKCHOTT220	PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI REACTS TO RECENT EVENTS; FEARS [...] (C) Summary: In the Charge's fourth visit to Lemden, President Abdallahi expressed concern for Mauritania's economy, and the lack of international reaction to Qadhafi's failed "mediation" efforts. He offered his side of the story with his meeting with Qadhafi, and reiterated his belief that [...]	2009-03-23 14:25:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT226	MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (C) Summary: For the week of March 22-26, Charge visited President Abdallahi in Lemden, and met with FNDD Tawassoul members in Nouakchott. The AU reaffirmed sanctions against Mauritania in the wake of Qadhafi's "mediation" visit. The Iranian Foreign Minister visited Mauritania, while the RF [...]	2009-03-30 07:58:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KPAO MR
09NOUAKCHOTT250	ANTI-COUP PROTESTS IN NOUAKCHOTT VIOLENTLY [...] (C) Summary: Two anti-coup protests in Nouakchott were violently dispersed by police on April 2 and April 3. In both cases, police used tear gas and batons to break up the protests, injuring several people in the process. EmbOffs obtained first-hand accounts from some prominent figures who [...]	2009-04-07 16:42:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KPAO KDEM ASEC MR
09NOUAKCHOTT289	MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of April 19-23, women protesting against the junta were dispersed by the police. Election planning continued apace, while the number of declared presidential candidates grew to six. Anti-coup parliamentarians staged a sit-in at the National Assembly, while the n [...]	2009-04-23 14:05:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KPAO
09NOUAKCHOTT312	MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: This week in Nouakchott, anti-coup protests multiplied and the FNDD, labor unions, and civil society joined forces through the signature of NDI's CFD Charter, which earned them criticism from Ould Daddah for accepting foreign money and interference. Deputy Sid'Ahmed Ould Ahme [...]	2009-04-30 14:26:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO PHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT343	THE FIRST LADY: NOT THE PRIMA DONNA DETRACTORS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Boulware's wife and EconOff spent the day with First Lady Khatou Mint El Boukhary while Ambassador met with President Abdallahi. Boukhary, portrayed by many as controlling and demanding, was warm and down to earth and clearly pleased by Mrs. Boulware's visit. She than [...]	2009-05-21 09:02:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MR
09NOUAKCHOTT379	LONG DETENTION PERIODS AND POOR CONDITIONS AT THE [...] (C) Summary: Much has been said about the Nouadhibou illegal migrant detention center, also known popularly as "little Guantanamo" or "Guantanamito." The detention center -- or "welcome center" as Mauritanian authorities refer to it -- houses illegal migrants intercepted at sea on their way [...]	2009-06-08 16:41:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MR PHUM SMIG
09NOUAKCHOTT414	MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE [...] (C) Summary: This week, the parties to the crisis traveled to Dakar to negotiate the future of the High State Council (HSC),an issue that has been blocking the implementation of the Accord for the past two weeks. The parties were unable to reach a consensus, obliging President Wade to rus [...]	2009-06-25 10:51:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT549	JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT [...] (C) Summary: Journalist and Taqadoumy Website Director Hanevy Ould Deha, detained on June 18 on charges of defamation against presidential candidate Ibrahima Moktar Sarr, was sentenced on August 19 to six months in prison, a 30,000 UM ($111 USD) fine and 230,000 UM ($851 USD) in legal fees [...]	2009-08-26 16:09:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT607	MAURITANIA: INTERNATIONAL CONTACT GROUP DOES A [...] (U) The International Contact Group on Mauritania convened on September 10, 2009 in Nouakchott to consider developments in Mauritania since the finalization of the Dakar Accord's laying out the steps for a consensual return to constitutional order leading to new elections to resolve Mauritan [...]	2009-09-17 17:22:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT623	FORMER PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI - "I UNDERESTIMATED THE [...] (C) A Man Content With Himself: Charge met with former President Abdallahi on September 24 at his simple home in the village of Lemden (three hours southeast of Nouakchott). This was the first meeting with Abdallahi since he resigned his office on June 24 as his part of the Dakar Accords. Ab [...]	2009-09-29 13:41:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR MR
09NOUAKCHOTT697	MAURITANIAN MINISTERS ON COUNTER-EXTREMISM [...] (SBU) DCM met October 21 in separate meetings with the Minister of Islamic Affairs, The Minister of Communication, and the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports to discuss the efforts of these ministries to combat extremism and to discuss how the DOD Media Information Support Team (MIST),USA [...]	2009-10-28 14:24:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAID MR
09NOUAKCHOTT705	MAURITANIA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROUNDUP FOR THE [...] (U) Summary: This month in Mauritania, President Aziz's government took important first steps towards fighting corruption while a poll financed by the World Bank found that 82.9 percent of Mauritanians think the government is corrupt. The Spanish and the French sent high level emissaries to [...]	2009-11-02 07:45:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF EMIN EAIR EAID MR
09NOUAKCHOTT711	SLAVERY IN MAURITANIA: AN OVERVIEW AND ACTION PLAN [...] (C) Summary: A deeply entrenched social, cultural and economic phenomenon, slavery is present in both the Moor and Afro-Mauritanian communities and is linked to a caste system rather than exclusively racial considerations. Slavery practices still exist in many forms -- from the most tradit [...]	2009-11-03 16:10:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM TIP PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT718	SOMEBODY'S PROPERTY: SLAVE VICTIMS TALK ABOUT [...] (C) On November 5, PolOff had the rare opportunity to meet with nine "runaway slaves" from the Eastern city of Bassikounou in the Hodh Echargui region. These slavery victims traveled to Nouakchott at SOS Esclaves' invitation to tell their stories to UN Special Rapporteur for Contemporary Fo [...]	2009-11-05 15:37:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MR KDEM TIP
09NOUAKCHOTT73	ABDALLAHI'S POLITICAL STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi's political base see the blockage of the President's return to Nouakchott on January 22 as evidence he is still under effective house arrest and prohibited from engaging in the political process. There are fears for his physical security if he tries to leave [...]	2009-01-23 16:52:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT823	AMBASSADOR RAISES HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador conveyed concerns that lack of respect for due process in the prosecution of corruption and slander cases -- regardless of the merits of the case -- will negatively affect Mauritania's human rights image which, in turn, may inhibit the expansion of partnerships wit [...]	2009-12-30 08:26:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT825	AMBASSADOR HOSTS RECEPTION FOR MAURITANIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador hosted an off the record, roundtable discussion for a diverse group of seven Mauritanian business leaders to discuss the challenges Mauritania faces to stimulate economic growth, provide employment to young Mauritanians and to create economic opportunities for women. [...]	2009-12-30 16:06:00	Embassy Nouakchott	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID SOCI MR
09NOUAKCHOTT83	MAYOR OF NEMA FIGHTS ON WHILE PRO-COUP PARTISANS [...] (C) Summary: The mayor of the remote southeastern town of Nema continues to try to improve the living conditions of his residents, despite ongoing attempts by pro-coup politicians to unseat him from his post. The economic situation remains as precarious as ever, exacerbated by the pullout o [...]	2009-01-28 09:14:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KDEM MR PGOV PREL PTER
09OSAKAKOBE135	Of Madonnas and Manifestos: Kansai Braces for [...] (SBU) Summary: Voters in western Japan are poised to hand a historic victory to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in legislative elections, tracking developments nationwide in a race highlighted by negative campaigning by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),a debate dominated by issue [...]	2009-08-28 09:09:00	Consulate Osaka Kobe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV JA
09OSAKAKOBE37	Paradigm Shift: Kansai Enterprises Contemplate a [...] (SBU) Summary: "Paradigm shift" was the catchphrase of choice during the annual meeting of Kansai area economic groups, global companies, high tech firms, and other major enterprises. With major stakes in manufacturing for export, many participants bemoaned the gloomy prospects for dealing w [...]	2009-02-25 22:37:00	Consulate Osaka Kobe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD ENRG PGOV JA
09OSAKAKOBE38	Smart Ideas from Smart People: Kansai Japanese [...] (SBU) Summary: Many people in the Kansai region of Japan not only wish the Obama administration well but have provided practical suggestions to help restore health to America and the global economy as a whole. These suggestions -- many based on Japanese best practices -- include: strengtheni [...]	2009-02-26 03:15:00	Consulate Osaka Kobe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON PREL JA
09OSLO341	NORWEGIANS LIKELY TO FOLLOW EU ON SUU KYI ISSUE [...] (C) Poloff spoke with Senior Advisor Vegard Wennesland in the MFA East Asia section and discussed reftel points. Wennesland, after consulting within the MFA, said that no final decision had been taken on how to react to the May 30 milestone in Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. Wennesland said [...]	2009-05-11 14:09:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BM NO
09OSLO384	NORWEGIAN IRANIANS: A MODEL IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Iranian immigrants in Norway are some of the country's most successful and best-integrated non-Western minorities. There are currently over 15,000 first and second generation Iranians in Norway, making them the tenth largest immigrant group. The community is highly educated, s [...]	2009-06-10 11:24:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CVIS IR KCRM NO PINR PTER
09OSLO412	SUPPORT FOR PAROLE OF SHARPUDI ELFIROVICH ISRAILOV [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-24 12:13:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	NO PHUM RU
09OSLO460	FURTHER SUPPORT CABLE FOR SHARPUDI ELFIROVITCH ISRAILOV [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-24 14:37:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NO PHUM RU
09OSLO525	NORWAY'S IMMIGRATION POLICY A HOT TOPIC IN PUBLIC [...] (U) SUMMARY. Due to a significant increase in the number of immigrants seeking asylum in Norway and news reports of generous welfare payments, the right of center "Progress Party" (FrP) has been largely successful in driving the public debate on Norway's integration and immigration policy. F [...]	2009-08-26 07:37:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI PREF NO
09OSLO586	Svalbard - Norwegian Territory with a Twist [...] (U) SUMMARY: Pol/Econ counselor traveled to Svalbard Sep 1-4 as part of a Norwegian and international group hosted by two Norwegian security policy related NGOs. The group toured the main settlement on Svalbard -- Longyearbyen -- as well as visiting the Russian mining community in Barentsburg. [...]	2009-09-22 15:58:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV CVIS PREL ECON SV XQ NO RU
09OSLO600	PROFILE OF THE LARGE AND ACTIVE NORWEGIAN DIASPORA [...] (U) Summary: The Norwegian diaspora in the United States is a large identifiable group with some 4.5 million people and maintains deep and firmly institutionalized connections to Norway. This cable responds to reftel request for information about this group. Several Norwegian-American organi [...]	2009-09-30 11:26:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL BEXP BTIO EAID OEXC OIIP SCUL SMIG TSPL
09OSLO700	FM STOERE, NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR SHARE VIEWS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the Ambassador's initial courtesy call November 9, Foreign Minister Stoere welcomed Ambassador White to Norway and offered that the priorities the Ambassador outlined during his Senate confirmation hearings in September closely match the priorities of the Government of Norway. [...]	2009-11-09 16:16:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AF NO PREL PTER
09OSLO73	NORWAY ? 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT [...] (U) Summary. Here is the submission for Norway's 2009 Investment Climate Report. Per reftel, it will be incorporated in the Country's Commercial Guide. End summary. Chapter 6: Investment Climate Openness to Foreign Investment Conversion and Transfer Policies Expropriation and Compensati [...]	2009-01-14 13:18:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV OPIC KTDB USTR NO
09OSLO739	SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO OSLO [...] (S) Mr. President, your visit to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize is of great significance to the Norwegians. Norway is a geographically mid-sized country with a population on par with Colorado, and, according to the IMF, a 2009 GDP per capita just below 100,000 USD - surpassed in the wo [...]	2009-11-30 15:25:00	Embassy Oslo	SECRET	OVIP PGOV PREL ECON ETRD SENV MOPS NO
09OSLO750	Ambassador Discusses Energy Secretary Visit, Offshore Oil [...] (U) In an introductory call with Petroleum and Energy Minister Terje Riis-Johansen on November 25, the Ambassador discussed Energy Secretary Chu's planned upcoming visit and development of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Poleconoff, FCS Chief, and Economic Specialist accompanied the Amb [...]	2009-12-04 08:07:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET OVIP PREL NO
09OSLO777	GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT'S NOBEL VISIT [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. ---------------- GENERAL REACTION ---------------- 2. (U) The response to President Obama's visit, and to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in particular, has on the whole been overwhelmingly enthusiastic, even pa [...]	2009-12-17 07:01:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL SCUL KPAO NO
09OTTAWA1	"NEVER APOLOGIZE": PM HARPER'S GOVERNING STYLE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Stephen Harper's reputation as a master political strategist is somewhat tattered in the wake of November's stunning near-fatal mis-step to abolish public financing for all political parties. However, at least on the surface, he remains unbowed and unapologetic. Relyin [...]	2009-01-02 13:20:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA10	(S) VANCOUVER OLYMPICS 2010: CANADIAN REQUEST FOR [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Defense Relations Officer Erwin Sippert told pol/mil officer on January 7 that Canada hopes the United States will respond positively and quickly via dipnote to para 2 request for military-to-military assistance in support of [...]	2009-01-07 20:19:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET	PREL MARR KOLY CA
09OTTAWA116	BANK OF CANADA GOVERNOR DEFENDS OPTIMISTIC GROWTH FORECAST [...] (U) Summary: The Governor of the Bank of Canada predicts the Canadian economy will recover from the global financial crisis in late 2009, with growth approaching 4 percent in 2010. However, Canadian economic recovery is dependent on a range of domestic and international factors, including the [...]	2009-02-12 20:36:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA134	CANADA REITERATES FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: In separate remarks on February 23, Canada's top two diplomats reiterated Canada's top foreign policy priorities -- relations with the U.S., the Americas, Afghanistan, and emerging markets in Asia -- and its support for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Canada will further narrow its pri [...]	2009-02-24 20:49:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID XF XM AF CA
09OTTAWA151	CANADA?S TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) OVERVIEW OF CANADA'S TIP SITUATION A. The Government of Canada collects trafficking in persons (TIP) information through a number of sources, including police and court-reported data and reported case law. The 2008 Annual Criminal Intelligence Service Canada Report on Organized Cri [...]	2009-02-27 21:52:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN
09OTTAWA158	CANADA WELCOMES ADDITIONAL US TROOPS IN [...] (C'/NF) Summary: Ottawa-based Canadian officials responded positively to potential changes to the U.S. force posture in Afghanistan, but repeated long-standing concerns about command and control issues related to multi-mission integration in NATO-ISAF's Regional Command - South. Canada will [...]	2009-03-03 22:00:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA161	CANADA: INFORMATION FOR LONDON G-20 MEETINGS [...] (sbu) Ref a requested information regarding Post's outlook on the continuing impact of the economic and financial situation on Canada, as well as Canada's expected priorities and objectives for the London G-20 Summit on April 2. Econcouns John Carwile (carwilejl@state.sgov.gov) and EMIN Eric B [...]	2009-03-04 20:00:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CA ECON EFIN
09OTTAWA179	PARLIAMENTARY REPORT ON KANDAHAR SHOWS FEW GAINS, [...] (C) Summary: As required under a March 2008 House of Commons motion, the government has issued its third report to Parliament tracking progress on key benchmarks. The report cited modest continued progress in training of the Afghan National Security Forces, improvements to Sarpoza prison, [...]	2009-03-09 18:27:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS EAID AF CA
09OTTAWA198	FIRST SENTENCING IN TERRORIST TRIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 13, an Ontario Superior Court judge sentenced convicted Canadian terrorist Momin Khawaja to ten-and-a-half years in prison on terrorism-related charges, with no eligibility for parole for five years. Khawaja was the first Canadian to be charged under Canada's 2001 Anti- [...]	2009-03-12 18:54:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV CA
09OTTAWA218	(S) CANADA: RE-CONSIDERING ALL OPTIONS FOR ITS [...] (S/NF) Summary: The minority government of Prime Minister Harper may not have actually ruled out extending Canada's 2,800-member military contingent, including combat forces, in Kandahar beyond 2011. If this government remains in office throughout 2010, operational requirements would force [...]	2009-03-17 16:03:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA231	LITTLE LOVE LEFT - THE CONSERVATIVES AND QUEBEC [...] (C) Summary: The 2008 federal election damaged Prime Minister Harper's political standing in Quebec. Rather than heal campaign rifts over Conservative juvenile crime proposals and cuts to arts funding, PM Harper's subsequent attacks in December against the "separatist" Bloc Quebec's support [...]	2009-03-23 17:15:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA246	Canada's Green Investments in its Stimulus Package [...] Begin Summary: Canada's federal budget for FY 2009 (April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010) introduced on January 29, 2009 announced approximately C$3.64 billion dollars (USD$2.97 billion at current exchange rates) for "Green Spending"; the Budget was passed on March 12, 2009. The federal budget for F [...]	2009-03-26 18:13:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ENRG CA KGHG SENV
09OTTAWA249	TOWARD A CANADIAN DEMOCRACY PROMOTION AGENCY [...] (C) Summary. The Conservative Party and the Harper government have championed the creation of a non-partisan Canadian democracy promotion agency. Details are still few and may not emerge with any clarity until fall 2009. So far, the government appears not to have included any new funding i [...]	2009-03-27 21:03:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM CA
09OTTAWA252	CLOSE RACES ARE HOT ELECTION PROSPECTS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the 2008 federal election, 42 members of Parliament won their seats by five pct or less of the vote; these "marginals" will be particularly in play in the next election -- which most pundits expect sometime within the next twelve months. The Conservatives hold the greatest num [...]	2009-03-30 16:59:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA266	CANADA'S INITIAL REACTION TO SPECIFIC REQUESTS TO [...] (C) Summary: The Prime Minister will have personally to decide whether to extend Canada's politically fraught combat mission in southern Afghanistan beyond its scheduled 2011 end of operations and subsequent troop withdrawal. The European response to the President's engagement on ISAF at the [...]	2009-04-03 13:34:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA285	CANADA FIGHTING TRAFFICKING OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN [...] (U) Summary: Canada's federal government will provide C$100,000 to the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) to develop education and awareness programs to protect First Nations women and youth from trafficking and sexual exploitation. The grant supplements the federal government's partnership w [...]	2009-04-09 16:11:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KTIP KWMN CA
09OTTAWA30	A MODERN ROLE MODEL: GOVERNOR GENERAL MICHAELLE JEAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-13 16:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA311	TOUJOURS EN PLACE: THE BLOC QUEBECOIS [...] (C) Summary. The Bloc Quebecois, a federal political party exclusively devoted to promoting Quebec's interests in Parliament, emphasizes that Quebec's values -- including the primacy of French, the "crucial" role of culture, and Quebec's immigration policy -- differ from the rest of Canada. [...]	2009-04-22 21:28:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CA
09OTTAWA317	REGIONAL VIEWS ON CANADA'S AFGHAN MISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: During a monthly Digital Video Conference, Mission Canada reporting officers agreed on strong Canadian support for Canada's troops, but no appetite to extend the 2011 end-date for Canada's combat mission or to engage in any substantive discussion of the role Canada might play in [...]	2009-04-27 20:02:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AF CA
09OTTAWA324	THE LIBERALS GETTING THEIR GROOVE BACK [...] (SBU) Summary: Since December, interim federal Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff has set in motion changes to overhaul fundraising, to centralize administration, to restore confidence, and to rebuild the party's claim to be Canada's "natural governing party." The biennial Liberal Conventi [...]	2009-04-29 19:36:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA33	CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS COULD LIMIT CANUS [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 6. 2. (C) Summary: Canada's decision to sign the (Oslo) Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) could limit the interoperability of Canadian Forces (CF) exchange pilots and artillery officers embedded in the U.S. armed forces. Embassy recommends Sta [...]	2009-01-13 20:37:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MOPS MARR CA
09OTTAWA348	PERSISTENT ABUSES IN REFUGEE SYSTEM PROVOKE [...] (C) Summary. Canada is increasingly concerned about "wide-scale and almost systematic abuse" of its generous immigration, citizenship, and refugee policies. According to a recent report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),the number of asylum seekers to Canada in 2008 increa [...]	2009-05-12 20:39:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL SMIG CVIS KFRD MX EZ CA
09OTTAWA35	CANADA RATIFIES NATO ACCESSION PROTOCOLS FOR ALBANIA AND [...] (U) Summary: On January 14, Canada announced its ratification of the protocols of accession to NATO for Albania and Croatia. Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon and Defence Minister Peter MacKay jointly noted that Canada's action would help move the two countries closer to membership in the allia [...]	2009-01-14 21:46:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR KTIA PARM HR AL CA
09OTTAWA364	CANADA'S LIST OF TRADE IRRITANTS CEMENTING IDEA OF GROWING [...] (SBU) Summary: Several recent U.S.-Canada trade irritants have led Canadian business associations and the media to accuse the USG of economic protectionism. The major problem areas are the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) voluntary requirements on meat products and "Buy American" provisions [...]	2009-05-15 17:30:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV EIND PREL KPAO CA
09OTTAWA377	SEEKING SENATE REFORM -- AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the economy remains the most likely ballot-box issue in the next federal election, the Conservatives continue to move ahead on non-economic fronts, notably on law and order issues, but also on the "wedge" issue of Senate reform. The government's reform initiatives have [...]	2009-05-21 18:17:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA393	Talk of Retaliation Against "Buy American" Escalates in [...] (SBU) Summary: Calls for retaliation against "Buy American" provisions in U.S. federal legislation are growing in Canada. Canadian officials and businesses claim "Buy American" actions threaten serious economic damage here, both to American and Canadian firms and their joint supply chains. I [...]	2009-05-27 19:17:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA398	COULD THERE BE A SUMMER ELECTION IN CANADA? [...] (C) Summary. The Conservatives appear increasingly to favor a summer election, but so far the other opposition parties -- all of whom must vote together to bring down the government -- may not be willing to play along. Usually, summer elections are anathema to Canadian electors, but the Co [...]	2009-05-28 21:37:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA423	COURT ORDERS CANADA TO REPATRIATE ABDELRAZIK [...] (U) In a decision on June 4, a Federal Court judge ruled against the Canadian government in the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik and ordered it to issue him an emergency passport, arrange (and, if necessary, pay for) his transportation -- within 30 days -- from Khartoum to Montreal along with an [...]	2009-06-04 19:10:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL SU CA
09OTTAWA426	(S) VANCOUVER OLYMPICS 2010: SECOND CANADIAN [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Defence and Security Relations Shelley Whiting conveyed to Embassy on June 4 the second of two Canadian diplomatic notes seeking U.S. military-to-military support in advance of and during the February 2010 Winter Olympic [...]	2009-06-04 21:01:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET	PREL MARR KOLY PTER CA
09OTTAWA448	SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Mission Canada warmly welcomes the Secretary to the International Joint Commission centennial celebration on June 13 and to the bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon. I along with Consul General John Nay and his staff from Toronto will be on hand to welcome you. 2 [...]	2009-06-09 20:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD CA
09OTTAWA452	CANADA SEEKS MORE ANTI-TERRORIST TOOLS [...] (SBU) Summary: The federal government has begun a new legislative push to restore two anti-terrorism tools -- investigative hearings and preventive arrest -- that lapsed in 2007. Separately, the government has introduced a bill to allow victims of state-sponsored terrorism to sue the perpetra [...]	2009-06-10 20:59:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PREL CA
09OTTAWA466	LIBERAL BRINKSMANSHIP MAY FORCE SUMMER ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. The Liberals have demanded greater accountability in the government's June budget update and on its handling of a growing medical isotope shortage in exchange for their votes in favor of the June budget estimates, a confidence vote. The 77-person Liberal caucus appears united [...]	2009-06-15 18:49:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA470	LIBERALS BEGIN TO BLINK? [...] (C) Summary. Chances for a snap election over the summer dimmed on June 16 in the wake of unusual meetings between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Official Opposition. The public appears overwhelmingly against a summer election. Some Liberals privately question the wisdom of thei [...]	2009-06-16 20:12:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA487	TIP REPORT MAKES HEADLINES AROUND CANADA [...] (SBU) Summary. The 2009 Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report received widespread media coverage in Canada, thanks largely to the selection of Canada's first ever TIP hero, Benjamin Perrin. ConGen Vancouver took maximum advantage of this opportunity by organizing a press conference and bookin [...]	2009-06-23 21:21:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KTIP KPAO KMDR SMIG KCRM KWMN ELAB
09OTTAWA495	INAUGURAL U.S.-CANADA DEMOCRACY SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: During the first U.S.-Canada Democracy Support Consultations in Ottawa in late May, the delegations agreed to explore establishing an early warning and rapid response task force for threats to democratic governance. Canada will consider placing the issue of restrictive NGO laws [...]	2009-06-25 21:03:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM CA
09OTTAWA510	LOBBYING REFORMS LACK TEETH [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada has broadened and tightened federal regulation of domestic lobbying since 1985, creating an independent Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying in 2008, and building a new Canadian model to enhance transparency and integrity in government. However, the expanded role of the [...]	2009-07-06 21:10:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA544	CANADIANS AGAINST FUTURE AFGHAN ROLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Public opinion has turned "decisively" against Canada's military mission in Afghanistan, with more than 50 pct now opposing it, especially in the key electoral battleground provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, as well as in Atlantic Canada. A separate poll indicat [...]	2009-07-16 18:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR PGOV AF CA
09OTTAWA550	FIRST U.S.-CANADA DEMOCRACY SUPPORT CONSULTATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: During the first U.S.-Canada Democracy Support Consultations in Ottawa in late May, the delegations agreed to explore establishing an early warning and rapid response task force for threats to democratic governance. Canada will consider placing the issue of restrictive NGO laws [...]	2009-07-17 20:53:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM CA
09OTTAWA569	SLEEPY SUMMER FOR CANADIAN POLITICS [...] (C) Summary. Even by Canadian standards, political life in Canada in summer 2009 is remarkably comatose, at least on the surface. Neither the Prime Minister nor the Liberal Party leader has even been in the public eye for over ten days. They may both genuinely be on vacation or, like boxe [...]	2009-07-22 19:40:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA575	CANADA IN SYNC WITH U.S. ON AFGHAN ASSISTANCE [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: Canadian policy in Afghanistan is "very much on the same page" as that of the U.S. Canada has tripled its civilian presence in Afghanistan in the last 15 months and will have 50 civilian police advisors by December 2009. In Jun [...]	2009-07-23 15:51:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA581	Canada's Foreign Investment Reforms Create A More Open [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's July 17 federal court action against U.S. Steel attempts to force the company to meet the production and employment commitments it made to the Federal Government in 2007 in exchange for permission to take over Canada's Stelco. At that time, the GOC exercised its legal r [...]	2009-07-27 19:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL CA
09OTTAWA658	GETTING IN SHAPE FOR FALL [...] (SBU) Summary: PM Stephen Harper announced new Senate appointments and key changes to his inner team on August 27 as the Conservatives prepare for the return of Parliament -- and a possible election -- in the fall. The Liberal caucus will gather for a planning retreat at month's end. Senior [...]	2009-08-28 19:37:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA68	NEW LIBERAL LEADER MICHAEL IGNATIEFF [...] (C) Summary: An intellectual, historian, and award-winning author and journalist, Michael Ignatieff is the new interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (pending formal confirmation at a party conference in May). Harvard-educated and a former U.S. resident, the would-be prime minister is [...]	2009-01-23 19:54:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA70	Canada's Coming Federal Budget and Stimulus Prospects [...] (SBU) Summary: With the economy dominating the political landscape (ref a),Canada's opposition parties have made the January 27 federal budget a litmus test of PM Harper's ability to make his Conservative minority government work. Ottawa observers estimate that the budget will pass with just [...]	2009-01-26 13:07:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA709	ATLANTIC CANADA: FALL ELECTION WON'T CHANGE MUCH [...] (SBU) Summary: A fall election "that no one wants" appears increasingly likely as Parliament reconvenes on September 14. Polls suggest such a fourth election in five years would produce another minority government. After falling to a historic low of 77 seats in the 2008 election, the Liberal [...]	2009-09-11 21:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA719	CANADA: ODDS RISE FOR GOVERNMENT TO SURVIVE -- THIS WEEK [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-15 19:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA735	CANADIAN GOVERNMENT SURVIVES CONFIDENCE VOTE [...] (U) The government of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper on September 18 easily survived a confidence vote on a Ways and Means motion, with the unusual support of both the New Democratic Party (NDP) and the Bloc Quebecois. The Official Opposition Liberal Party voted en masse against [...]	2009-09-18 17:35:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA766	CANADA: CONSERVATIVES SURVIVE ANOTHER CONFIDENCE VOTE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Conservative minority government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper on October 1 again survived a confidence vote in the House of Commons. The censure motion, introduced by the Official Opposition Liberal Party, was the first that the Conservatives had faced since they took of [...]	2009-10-01 22:23:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA777	CANADA: FOUR BY-ELECTIONS TO TEST ELECTION MOMENTUM [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called four federal by-elections for November 9 to fill current House of Commons vacancies. The Conservatives held none of the seats, but have a crack at two of the four. In contrast, the opposition Liberals have little realistic prospect of wi [...]	2009-10-05 20:36:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA78	LIBERALS TO SUPPORT BUDGET, WITH CONDITIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff publicly confirmed on January 28 that his party will support PM Harper's latest "flawed" budget (septel),on the condition that the government submit three reports to Parliament this year on its budget implementation, notably about actual expendit [...]	2009-01-28 22:01:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EFIN CA
09OTTAWA789	CANADA: FREE SPEECH V. HATE SPEECH HEADED TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) has appealed to the Federal Court to clarify Canada's hate speech laws after a controversial ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. The Tribunal's finding related to the constitutionality of a law and penalty targeting the dis [...]	2009-10-13 20:47:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV CA
09OTTAWA814	AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETINGS WITH PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. In separate meetings with the Speaker of the Senate and the Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group on Parliament Hill on October 22, Ambassador underscored the close ties between our two nations, welcomed more legislative exchanges, and responded to concerns about "Buy America" [...]	2009-10-23 19:36:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA822	CANADA: MPs PASS CENSURE MOTION ON IRAN [...] (U) Summary: Canada's House of Commons has unanimously passed a strongly-worded, non-binding motion supporting the democratic aspirations and human rights of the people of Iran, condemning Iran's disregard of UN Security Council Resolutions 1696, 1737, 1747 and 1803 and International Atomic En [...]	2009-10-28 18:42:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV IR CA
09OTTAWA834	Canada: 2009-2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy [...] . (U) Summary In 2009, Canada continued to implement its National Anti-Drug Strategy, involving three action plans to reduce the supply of and demand for illicit drugs as well as associated crime. Canada remains a country of concern due to the amount of MDMA (3, 4-methylenedioxymethampheta [...]	2009-11-02 22:39:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CA
09OTTAWA843	WHA Assistant Secretary's Meeting with Canadian Trade [...] (U) October 22, 2009, 8:45 a.m., Ottawa, Canada. 2. (U) Participants: United States Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemispheric Affairs David Jacobson, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Eric Benjaminson, Economic Minister-Counselor, notetaker Kurt van der Wal [...]	2009-11-23 20:51:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL ECON CA
09OTTAWA845	Canadian Relations with Cuba [...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) interlocutors tell us that Canada continues to promote the advancement of democracy, good governance, and human rights in Cuba. Canada shares the U.S. goals of promoting democracy and human rights in Cuba, while maintaining it [...]	2009-11-25 20:55:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETTC ETRD CU CA
09OTTAWA854	QUEBEC SCHOOL LANGUAGE LAW FAILS CONSTITUTIONALITY TEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Quebec law that closed a loophole in allowing English-language education in the francophone province, finding that it was "excessive" and violated constitutional minority language rights. Signaling that it found the procedures -- [...]	2009-11-05 14:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM CA
09OTTAWA858	CANADA BY-ELECTIONS: CAN LIBERALS ARREST SLUMP? [...] (SBU) Summary: Voters go to the polls in four federal by-elections in Quebec, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia on November 9 (ref a). Although the contests will not change the balance of power in the House of Commons, pundits are looking for signs that the federal Liberals can pull themselve [...]	2009-11-05 19:55:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA861	Canada's Prime Minister Ventures to China for First Time [...] (C/NF) Summary: Prime Minister Stephen Harper will make his first visit to China as Canadian leader December 3-6. He will most importantly meet with President Hu Jintao, National People's Congress chairman Wu Bangguo, and Premier Wen Jiabao. According to Canadian officials, his main empha [...]	2009-12-01 22:59:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ETRD EMIN PHUM CH CA HK KS
09OTTAWA870	CANADA: CONSERVATIVES AID JOBLESS, BUY TIME [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 5, the federal Conservatives unexpectedly secured swift final passage of Employment Insurance (E.I.) legislation to extend jobless benefits. The achievement is the key deliverable for the left-of-center New Democratic Party (NDP),which stepped in to prop up the min [...]	2009-11-06 21:21:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA876	CANADA: CONSERVATIVE BOUNCE FROM BY-ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The governing Conservatives added two seats in the House of Commons on November 9, after the governing party surprisingly won two of four federal by-election victories. Its upset win in rural Quebec suggests the party may at least be back in the game in that province. The Con [...]	2009-11-10 22:18:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA879	CANADA IN AFGHANISTAN: SOME PROGRESS, WITH STEPS BACKWARD [...] (SBU) Summary. In its sixth quarterly report to Parliament on Canada's engagement in Afghanistan, the government cited slight progress - mostly on school construction, micro-finance, and polio eradication -- in its efforts in Kandahar Province. Training and mentoring of Afghan Security Forc [...]	2009-12-11 22:21:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS EAID AF CA
09OTTAWA890	CANADA: AFGHAN DETAINEE CONTROVERSY RE-ERUPTS [...] (SBU) Summary: In testimony to a House of Commons committee on November 18, a Canadian diplomat claimed to have filed numerous written reports in 2006 and 2007 from Afghanistan alleging that "all" Afghans detained by Canadian Forces and transferred to Afghan authorities likely faced torture [...]	2009-11-19 21:44:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM AF CA
09OTTAWA906	CANADIAN OFFICIALS DENY AFGHAN ABUSE CLAIMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-27 21:13:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS AF CA
09OTTAWA909	CANADA TO SUSPEND PARLIAMENT, AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary. Canada's Parliament will be suspended until March 2010, reminiscent of a similar but shorter suspension one year ago. The Conservatives' argument is that the government will have additional time to concentrate on the "next phase" of its economic recovery plan. There will be [...]	2009-12-30 20:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF CA
09OTTAWA940	NO ROOM FOR DOUBT: ALL CANADIAN TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN BY [...] (SBU) Summary: In testimony to Parliament on December 8, Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) General Walter Natynczyk confirmed that, in accordance with a March 2008 parliamentary motion, no Canadian Forces - apart from a military attache in Kabul - or military equipment will remain in Afghanistan [...]	2009-12-09 15:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS AF CA

09OTTAWA944	CANADA: DEFENCE MINISTER IN HOT SEAT OVER ALLEGED ABUSE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's opposition parties united on December 9 and 10 to demand the resignation of National Defence Minister Peter MacKay and to institute a public inquiry into allegations that the government ignored credible evidence of abuse at least in 2006 of Afghan detainees transferred [...]	2009-12-10 20:58:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM MOPS AF CA
09OTTAWA954	CANADA: RULING CONSERVATIVES SURVIVE 2009 IN COMFORT [...] (SBU) Summary. Early in the fall, the ruling Conservatives sidestepped the threat of an election, seized control of the parliamentary agenda, and moved forward on a twin-track of economic and justice issues, largely unhampered by their minority status. By the close of the fall parliamentary [...]	2009-12-14 22:53:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA980	CANADIAN FORCES' INVESTIGATION FINDS AFGHAN DETAINEE [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 21, the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNIS) -- the independent investigative arm of the Canadian Forces Military Police (CFMP) -- cleared the Canadian Forces (CF) of almost all allegations of mistreatment of Afghan detainees while in CF custody b [...]	2009-12-22 19:34:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM MARR AF CA
09OUAGADOUGOU1091	BURKINA FASO: OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL MEDIATOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-03 15:37:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PGOV UV
09OUAGADOUGOU172	BURKINA FASO: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION [...] Post has collected, to the extent possible, information in response to reftel request on the worst forms of child labor: A) Laws and regulations proscribing the worst forms of child labor: -What laws have been promulgated on child labor? -- the UN Convention on Children's Rights; -- the [...]	2009-03-17 07:07:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID UV
09OUAGADOUGOU305	CODEL SMITH MEETS WITH BURKINA FASO PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: A Congressional delegation led by Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) met separately on April 15th with Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore and Prime Minister Tertius Zongo. Meetings were friendly, open, and frank and focused mainly on development issues rather than on security or [...]	2009-04-28 15:30:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EAID OVIP OREP EIND ETRD ECON UV
09PANAMA153	PANAMA: NEW THINK TANK AIMING HIGH [...] (C) Panama's newest think tank, the Foundation for the Economic and Social Development of Panama (FUDESPA) on January 15 presented its brain-child, a document entitled "Public Policy Proposals: Popular Elections, May 2009" that is designed to influence the government plans of candidates runnin [...]	2009-02-23 15:31:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA163	PANAMA: OBJECTION TO THE INCLUSION OF PORNOGRAPHY [...] (SBU) Post appreciates the opportunity to review the documents used by DOL to determine whether a "significant incidence" of child labor is used in Panama to produce pornography, but is troubled by the conclusions drawn from these sources. Of the two sources that post was able to obtain, one [...]	2009-02-26 20:58:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP PM
09PANAMA182	PANAMA: NEW THINK TANK AIMING HIGH [...] (C) Panama's newest think tank, the Foundation for the Economic and Social Development of Panama (FUDESPA) on January 15 presented its brain-child, a document entitled "Public Policy Proposals: Popular Elections, May 2009" that is designed to influence the government plans of candidates runnin [...]	2009-03-04 21:46:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA184	PANAMA: MARTINELLI'S "GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR CHANGE" [...] (C) Leading presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli of the Alliance for Change on February 11 released his "Government Plan for Change," that lays out 179 proposals designed to "make a better Panama reach everyone" (que un mejor Panama llegue a todos). The document is flashy, includes big c [...]	2009-03-06 15:38:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA194	PANAMA: TORRIJOS TRUMPETS ACHIEVEMENTS IN FINAL [...] (C) In his final address to the National Assembly before the end of his term, President Martin Torrijos touted his administration's greatest achievements, acknowledged the cooperation of the Assembly, and called on the next government to build upon these successes. (Note: Constitutionally, Pa [...]	2009-03-10 13:43:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA341	CODEL HOYER EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR PANAMA FTA; [...] (SBU) On April 5, the members of Codel Hoyer met with President Martin Torrijos and selected members of his government to discuss continuation of what Majority Leader Hoyer described as an &extraordinarily close8 bilateral relationship, to thank President Torrijos for the cooperation that enha [...]	2009-04-27 20:40:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFTA ELAB ETRD OREP OVIP PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA435	PANAMA LAUNCHES CONTROVERSIAL FTA MEASURES AMID [...] (C) Encouraged by front-page coverage of U.S. officials noting progress on the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) early in the week of May 18, the current (Torrijos) and in-coming (Martinelli) governments of Panama took actions on May 20 designed to pave the way for U.S. Congressional appr [...]	2009-06-01 17:37:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EFTA ELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL SNAR
09PANAMA547	PANAMA: NEW PRESIDENT AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ASSUME [...] (U) Ricardo Martinelli became the fifth democratically elected President of Panama in the last 20 years on July 1, while Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar led a White House delegation to the inauguration ceremony. In his inaugural address Martinelli defended Panama's economic model, state [...]	2009-07-09 21:23:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA68	MARTINELLI SECURES 12 POINT LEAD OVER RULING PARTY [...] (C) Opposition candidate Ricardo Martinelli of Democratic Change (CD) has been declared the "absolute favorite" by the Panamanian media after gaining a 12 point lead over ruling Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate Balbina Herrera, according to a recent Dichter and Neira presidential [...]	2009-01-22 19:40:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PM
09PANAMA90	PANAMA: 2009 CHILD LABOR REPORT [...] Panama continued its efforts to combat child labor in 2008. The GOP trained labor inspectors, prosecutors and judges, engaged in activities to increase public awareness and moved forward on its National Plan for the Eradication of Child Labor that is being implemented by an active, inter-ag [...]	2009-01-29 21:50:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	EINT ELAB ETRD PHUM SOC PM
09PANAMA914	CODEL Boehner Warmly Recieved in Panama to Discuss Security [...] (SBU) Summary. From December 11 to 14, CODEL Boehner was received like an old friend by the Government of Panama as the first U.S. Congressional delegation to visit since the July 1 inauguration of the Martinelli Administration. The message from the President and his ministers to the CODEL wa [...]	2009-12-16 19:13:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PM ETRD PREL USTR
09PARAMARIBO230	SURINAME: RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT'S REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) Per reftel, PolEconPDOff asked Tom Kartoebi, Head of the Americas Division at Suriname's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to share mechanisms aimed at preventing torture and protecting victims. Kartoebi verbally supported the iniatitive, but requested a diplomatic note be sent to Chantal E [...]	2009-07-31 18:30:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UN NS
09PARIS1193	FRANCE-IRAN: MAGAZINE ARTICLE RE-IGNITES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. A series of Iranian and French actions in Paris seem to have decreased the likelihood that accused French citizen Clotilde Reiss will be acquitted in the immediate future. After Iranian authorities conditionally released Reiss from prison on August 16, it appeared that she coul [...]	2009-09-01 10:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM IR FR
09PARIS1203	FRENCH DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR LEVITTE HOSTS AMBASSADOR HOLBROOKE FOR AFPAK POLICY DISCUSSION [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-03 09:16:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	AF CH FR MOPS PK PREL
09PARIS1222	FRANCE'S APPROACH TO SOMALILAND AND PUNTLAND [...] (C) Summary: France has diplomatic engagements with Somaliland at a number of levels, including visits to Hargeisa by the French Ambassador and others based in Djibouti. France is helping Somaliland establish a representational "bureau" in Paris. France provides some developmental and huma [...]	2009-09-08 15:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PHUM EAID PGOV SO FR
09PARIS1233	SCENESETTER FOR A/S GORDON'S SEPTEMBER 10-11, 2009 [...] (C) Summary. Phil: We look forward to supporting your participation in the annual German Marshall Fund Conference on Transatlantic Trends and your efforts to press forward the priorities we share with the French. The bilateral relationship has seldom been better or more cooperative. The Fre [...]	2009-09-09 16:17:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO AF RU IR FR
09PARIS1294	FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS WEST AFRICA WITH DAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA, Presidency, and MOD on September 17 expressed general agreement with AF DAS William Fitzgerald on a range of West African issues, including Togo (need to keep pressing for proper presidential elections),Benin (a success story but with serious corru [...]	2009-09-23 11:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PINR PGOV KCOR SNAR XY FR
09PARIS1447	POLAND DELEGATION PARLAYS MDEP MEETING TO [...] The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Multinational Design Evaluation Program (MDEP) held a conference in Paris, France on September 10 and 11. MDEP core members had decided to expand their reach and organize a formal exchange with national regulators from MDEP non-member countries, industry repres [...]	2009-10-28 15:11:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA TRGY TECH OECD FR SP IO
09PARIS1563	FRANCE GROWS CLOSER TO RUSSIA: OPPORTUNITIES FOR [...] (C//NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Franco-Russian relations are growing closer and more stable, driven by France's increasingly pragmatic approach toward Moscow and desire to take the lead in shaping European relations with Russia. Bilateral exchanges have grown more intense, "dense," and frequent, [...]	2009-11-24 15:46:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MASS GG PL RU FR
09PARIS268	FRANCE: NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In 2008 France took significant steps to combat trafficking in persons, ratifying the EU convention on Action Against Trafficking in Persons and changing the French anti-trafficking law to better prosecute forced labor violations. The French government used its anti-trafficking [...]	2009-02-20 18:11:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF
09PARIS294	SCENESETTER FOR FRENCH MINISTER OF STATE BORLOO'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU): Minister of State Jean-Louis Borloo arrives in Washington March 4 to engage the USG on climate change and energy policy. As the head of France's "super ministry" combining environment, transportation and energy under the rubric of sustainable development, Borloo is the third ranking off [...]	2009-02-27 17:40:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENGR TRGY KGHG PREL FR
09PARIS295	THE CRISIS AND FRANCE'S BANKING SECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: French banks have remained generally profitable, despite almost USD 20 billion in subprime write-downs and credit losses. The government has provided banks with capital injections and guarantees on credit financing to bolster market confidence and encourage interbank and money m [...]	2009-03-02 06:58:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ECON PREL FR
09PARIS898	BUY AMERICAN BLOCKS BELL LABS [...] (SBU) Alcatel-Lucent Board Chairman Philippe Camus told EMIN recently that Alcatel-Lucent and its Bell Labs research subsidiary had been blocked by from submitting proposals to be funded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act by the new Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy. We [...]	2009-07-01 15:18:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ENRG ECON ETRD EIND PREL FR
09PARTO40301	(U) Secretary Clinton's March 25 Conversation [...] (U) Classified by Uzra Zeya, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (U) 03/25/09, 1 p.m., Mexico City, Mexico 3. (U) Participants U.S. The Secretary Charge Bassett A/S Shannon Laura Pena, Senior Advisor to the Secretary Dan Restrepo, Senior [...]	2009-04-03 17:28:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL SNAR MX
09PESHAWAR10	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY [...] (SBU) Fighting continued at a slow pace in Bajaur during the first week of the year, with three militants reported killed and a local militant leader claiming that his supporters would not resist if government forces entered Mamond area. 2. (SBU) In Swat, at least 32 people were r [...]	2009-01-14 10:47:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR101	MALAKAND DIVISION: SWAT OPERATION UNDERWAY [...] (C) Summary. From May 12-14, the Pakistani army continued intensified operations in Swat. There appeared to be an increase of forces on the ground, and a helicopter-borne commando raid into the militant headquarters in central Swat's Peochar valley dominated headlines. Militants in Swat cont [...]	2009-05-14 12:30:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREF PTER EAID PK
09PESHAWAR107	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 1 - [...] (C) Events in northwest Pakistan made international headlines throughout the first week in May, coinciding with President Zardari's visit to the United States, while Prime Minister Gilani appeared on national television the evening of May 7 to declare "all out war" against the Taliban. (Ref. A [...]	2009-05-22 11:55:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR108	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 8 - [...] (C) Heavy fighting in Swat, Buner and Dir characterized the second week in May, underscored by a May 12 airborne assault on Maulana Fazlullah's stronghold in Peochar valley in Swat. The government claimed to have killed over 750 militants in the course of its operation in the three districts. [...]	2009-05-22 12:04:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR109	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FRONTIER CORPS COMMANDER [...] (C) Frontier Corps Commander General Tariq Khan sees operations in Dir and Buner winding down although Sultanwas in northern Buner is targeted for an operation o/a May 20. People are returning, particularly to lower Buner, and Khan cautioned that the IDP emergency should not obscure the need t [...]	2009-05-23 07:54:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PTER PGOV PREF EAID PK
09PESHAWAR110	MALAKAND UPDATE AND WAZIRISTAN PLANNING [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-25 06:50:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID MOPS PK PREF PTER
09PESHAWAR111	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 15 - [...] (C) Pakistan's security forces appeared to seize the initiative in Malakand during the third week of May, but militants responded by launching mass-casualty bombing attacks inside Peshawar for the first time since March. In Swat, government troops encircled Mingora and appeared to achieve dom [...]	2009-05-25 10:29:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR120	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 22 - [...] (C) Pakistan's security forces continued to capture key locations in Swat during the fourth week of May. However, continuing last week's trend, the Taliban struck back by targeting security forces and civilians in four mass-casualty bombing attacks in Peshawar and one in Dera Ismail Khan, bes [...]	2009-06-04 04:12:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR124	UPPER DIR BOMBING RESPONSE SHOWS EFFECTIVENESS AND [...] (C) Summary: The June 5 mass-casualty bombing of a mosque in Upper Dir and resulting June 7-9 punitive action by a tribal lashkar have highlighted the long-standing tension in Upper Dir district over militant activity there and its recent exacerbation by the military operations in neighboring S [...]	2009-06-09 14:31:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PTER PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR128	ARRESTS, DEATHS OF TNSM LEADERS UNDERLINE GROUP'S [...] (C) Summary: The arrests of several key members of the Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammedi (TNSM) and subsequent deaths of two of the arrested members has brought TNSM briefly back into the spotlight, but in a very different role than it played earlier this year. The way TNSM handled the deno [...]	2009-06-12 11:31:00	Consulate Peshawar	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR130	BOLD TTP-CLAIMED ATTACKS SIGNAL A TEST OF WILLS WITH THE [...] (C) Summary: Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed a series of bold attacks undertaken over June 9-12. These attacks highlight the TTP's increasing willingness to attack and claim credit for violence within military cantonments, in the Punjab, and against politica [...]	2009-06-16 10:25:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV KISL PK
09PESHAWAR135	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 29 [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-22 08:27:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR138	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 5 - [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-29 16:00:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR143	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 19 [...] (C) The intensity of Pakistani military operations accelerated in South Waziristan during the fourth week in June, with the government conducting intensive airstrikes into Mehsud territory and sending ground troops to secure key locations along the critical Wana-Jandola road in preparation [...]	2009-07-08 04:18:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR144	ANP ON NWFP AND FATA DEVELOPMENTS [...] (S) Awami National Party (ANP) deputy leader Senator Afrasiab Khattak distanced the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) from a purported ISI plan to release Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammadi (TNSM) leader Sufi Mohammad and engineer the ""surrender"" of senior Swat militant leaders. Khattak m [...]	2009-07-09 04:08:00	Consulate Peshawar	SECRET	PGOV MOPS PTER PINR PK
09PESHAWAR146	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 26 [...] (C) In North Waziristan agency (NWA),a series of escalating militant ambushes of Pakistan military convoys foreshadowed a declaration by NWA's principal indigenous militant commander that the February 2008 NWA peace agreement was no longer in effect (reftel). Fighting in South Waziristan Agen [...]	2009-07-09 13:06:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR157	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 17 [...] (C) Over this reporting period, fighting in the on-going Pakistani military operation in Swat continued at levels similar to those of the previous week. Revenge killings against militants, the first of which occurred during the previous reporting period, became a definite trend, with four furt [...]	2009-08-03 14:34:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR168	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 24 [...] (C) Over this reporting period, fighting in the on-going Pakistani military operation in Swat continued at levels similar to those of the previous week, with a few notable events. The militants decapitated a policeman in Mingora and left his body to be found as a sign that the militants were [...]	2009-08-13 08:49:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR169	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 31 [...] (C) Conflict continued in the Malakand division - particularly in Swat, where the number of apparent revenge killings of militants doubled in relation to the previous reporting period. The Pakistani government obtained considerable favorable publicity for the activities of two small lashkars [...]	2009-08-13 09:05:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR17	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY [...] (C) Fighting subsided in Bajaur during the third week of January, but militants switched to "patrolling" Khar at night and launching targeted killings. With military operations now moving south to Mohmand Agency, an additional challenge for the Pakistani military is balancing operations in Moh [...]	2009-01-30 10:48:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR176	TTP SUCCESSION: CONTINUED CONFUSION AND FRAGMENTATION [...] (C) Summary: Almost three weeks after the death of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud, an apparent joint media statement August 25 by Hakimullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud may mark a truce in the battle for succession. However, Pakistani military officials believe t [...]	2009-08-26 12:45:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR18	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY [...] (C) Security forces continued their operations in Bajaur during the fourth week of January, targeting militant hideouts in various areas of the agency. In Bajaur, militants blew up a girls' school on January 27. Consulate contacts report that residents of Bajaur complain of shortages in [...]	2009-02-02 11:40:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR2	FATA SECRETARY FOR LAW AND ORDER PROVIDES GRIM ASSESSMENT OF SITUATION IN THE NWFP AND FATA [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-03 09:02:00	Consulate Peshawar	SECRET	PTER MOPS ASEC PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR24	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NORTHWEST FRONTIER PROVINCE GOVERNOR [...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Owais Ghani met with Ambassador and Peshawar Principal Officer on January 27. Ghani said that "while major military operations are over in Bajaur and Mohmand, the problems are not." Each agency would have one to three Quick Reaction Forces (QRF [...]	2009-02-09 09:05:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR34	NWFP: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY COMMENT ON SWAT [...] (C) Principal Officer met with Awami National Party (ANP) deputy leader Afrasiab Khattak and 11th Corps Commander General Aslam Masood separately on February 21. While both confirmed that negotiations are taking place with Tehrik-i Taliban (TTP) to extend the ceasefire in Swat (due to expire F [...]	2009-02-23 11:52:00	Consulate Peshawar	SECRET	PGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR36	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY [...] (SBU) No fighting was reported in Bajaur during the first week of February, but militants blew up two government schools in the Pashat area on February 2, following the destruction of schools in Bajaur on January 27-28 (Ref B). Members of the Salarzai tribe vowed to continue fighting militants [...]	2009-02-25 11:45:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR4	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, DECEMBER [...] (U) Fighting continued in Bajaur through the end of December, with around 15 militants reported killed. 2. (SBU) Pakistani security forces, backed by helicopter gunships, tanks and heavy artillery, launched an attack on December 30, targeting criminals and militants in the Jamrud are [...]	2009-01-05 03:27:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR44	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY [...] (C) Tehrik-i Taliban (TTP) deputy Faqir Mohammad announced a unilateral ceasefire in Bajaur on February 23. Inspector General Frontier Corps Tariq Khan told consulate on February 25 that no ceasefire had been agreed to and that Bajaur operations would continue (Ref A). 2. (C) Tehrik-i [...]	2009-03-04 04:33:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR48	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY [...] (C) In Bajaur, Frontier Corps appears to be shifting its focus to post-kinetic operations in the agency. We remain concerned, however, about the ability of Bajaur's militants to stage attacks. In Swat, although President Zadari has yet to sign the order, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) [...]	2009-03-12 05:27:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR5	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, DECEMBER [...] (C) The third week of December brought more fighting in Bajaur. But with fewer than ten militants reported killed, the tempo of fighting seems to have slowed considerably compared with the magnitude of fighting over the past several months. 2. (C) The situation in Swat continued to d [...]	2009-01-06 11:21:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR50	NWFP: ATTACK ON ANP SENIOR MINISTER [...] (C) Militants staged an attack in Peshawar on Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Senior Minister Bashir Bilour of the Awami National Party (ANP) on March 11 that left Bilour unharmed but six others dead and five wounded. This latest attack on ANP underscores the limits of the government's deal [...]	2009-03-13 05:09:00	Consulate Peshawar	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER MOPS PGOV ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR59	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MARCH 7 [...] (C) The release of 12 militant prisoners March 7, the appointment of Qazi judges in Swat March 12 and the repositioning of army forces were some of the first tangible steps taken by the government to implement the peace agreement and the Nizam-e-Adl "system of justice" widely viewed as Shari'a [...]	2009-03-23 10:34:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR73	FATA: BAJAUR CONDITIONS UPDATE [...] (C) Bajaur-based officials are reporting significant numbers of returnees within the past two months (approximately 211,000). While at odds with numbers reported by UN agencies, fraud (double dipping on benefits, people from areas other than Bajaur seeking benefits, etc.) may be contributing t [...]	2009-04-20 13:29:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PHNOMPENH194	DPM SAR KHENG SAYS LY VOUCH LENG INVESTIGATION [...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng stated that he, the Ministry of Interior, and the police are not pleased with the recent appointment of former Appeals Court President Ly Vouch Leng to a legal counsel [...]	2009-03-25 10:30:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KTIP KWMN KJUS CB
09PHNOMPENH246	CAMBODIA BORDER CROSSING VISITS HIGHLIGHT TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Cambodian National Police officials from the Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Department (AHTJP) recently joined Emboffs at the Poipet border crossing area of Banteay Meanchey province to highlight the Cambodia-Thailand cross-border trafficking in persons (TIP) s [...]	2009-04-13 10:52:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KTIP KWMN EAID TH VN CB
09PHNOMPENH261	CAMBODIA: 2009 1ST QUARTER REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During the first quarter of 2009, Cambodian police arrested six persons on human trafficking charges and four on procurement of prostitution charges in connection with two cases in which three rescued prostitutes were under age 18. Police reported that seven foreign pedophiles [...]	2009-04-23 06:09:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KWMN KTIP SOCI CB
09PHNOMPENH343	KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: SOK AN ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a palpably relaxed meeting May 22 with Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson, Deputy Prime Minister Sok An reiterated his strong support for a proposed new anti-corruption mechanism at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Ref A). Within minutes of reviewing desired [...]	2009-05-28 15:29:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS EAID PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH379	LAND IN CAMBODIA, PART III: EVICTIONS, RESETTLEMENT, LAND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The lax land titling system (Ref A) and the Royal Government of Cambodia's (RGC's) push to develop land through concessions (Ref B) has led to widespread land disputes and more forced evictions. The issue of forced evictions ranks high on civil society, opposition party, and do [...]	2009-06-09 01:24:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAGR SENV KDEM CB
09PHNOMPENH406	CAMBODIA PREPARES PREAH VIHEAR PLAN FOR UNESCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of his participation in the 33rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Seville, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers Sok An asked to see the Ambassador June 16 to outline progress by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in develo [...]	2009-06-17 10:53:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL KTIA KJUS UNESCO EAID TH CB
09PHNOMPENH489	WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE HARD-EARNED POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The wider political space seen in Cambodia during the run-up to the 2008 National Assembly elections last July is undergoing an autocratic nip-and-tuck as the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) exerts one of its periodic reining-in exercises in the name of greater social orde [...]	2009-07-14 11:44:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS PREL EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH555	MINISTER OF COMMERCE DENIES DEFAMATION SUITS ARE [...] SUMMARY: During an August 4 meeting with Senior Minister and Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh, the Ambassador expressed serious USG concerns about the recent attacks on freedom of speech and the constricting of political space in Cambodia, highlighting the resulting damage to Cambodia's int [...]	2009-08-05 10:57:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM CB
09PHNOMPENH577	SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR JIM WEBB VISIT TO PHNOM [...] (SBU) Senator Webb: We warmly welcome your August 18 visit to Cambodia. Your visit comes as the tempo quickens in the conduct of U.S.-Cambodian bilateral relations, which exemplifies a broader and growing USG interest in Cambodia. There have been positive developments in several key areas: p [...]	2009-08-11 12:11:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS PREF CB
09PHNOMPENH602	SENATOR WEBB MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER HUN SEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Jim Webb concluded a successful one-day visit to Cambodia August 18 on a positive note during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen in which there was general agreement on new ways to approach Burma. Webb detailed his interest in the region and in stronger relations with [...]	2009-08-19 11:23:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EAID PTER MASS KJUS PHUM BM CB
09PHNOMPENH62	HIGH-PROFILE PHNOM PENH LAND DISPUTE ENDS IN EVICTION [...] (SBU) On January 24, police, municipal authorities, and employees of Cambodian construction firm 7NG evicted the remaining residents of Dey Krahorm, ending one of the city's most high-profile land disputes. Eighteen residents were reportedly injured, two seriously by bulldozers that were clear [...]	2009-01-26 07:00:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM CB
09PHNOMPENH745	CAMBODIA'S SUMMER OF DEFAMATION SUITS WINDS DOWN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The summer of defamation lawsuits appears to be winding to a close in Cambodia. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) prevailed in most cases, though defamation actions were either dismissed or never initiated in two high-profile cases. While some appeals and smaller lawsuits [...]	2009-10-07 10:46:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB
09PHNOMPENH79	AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETING WITH CAMBODIAN PRIME [...] (C) Summary: In the Ambassador's first call on Prime Minister Hun Sen since presenting credentials, the PM took the opportunity to renew his personal relationship with the Ambassador and review the evolution of U.S.-Cambodian relations over the past several years, highlighting several areas [...]	2009-01-30 10:07:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM ECON EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH811	EAP/MLS DEPUTY DIRECTOR PALMER SEES UP CLOSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EAP/MLS Deputy Director Matthew Palmer visited Cambodia October 20-26 to take part in a Conference on the Lower Mekong Initiative (septel),meet key counterparts in the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC),address human rights issues, visit bilateral assistance program sites, a [...]	2009-10-30 05:59:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH883	EMBASSY PHNOM PENH'S NOMINATION FOR THE [...] Embassy Phnom Penh is proud to nominate Chen Reaksmey for the 2010 International Woman of Courage Award. There are a number of Cambodian women who demonstrate courage and leadership in the pursuit of women's human rights and advancement. Reaksmey stood out from the crowd due to her recent a [...]	2009-12-01 00:15:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KWMN PHUM PREL
09PHNOMPENH925	(C) UPDATE ON UIGHUR ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN CAMBODIA [...] (C) Representatives of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) are close to finding a new location for the Uighur asylum-seekers in Phnom Penh that would offer improved protection. According to UNHCR, the goal is to house the Uighurs [...]	2009-12-16 09:18:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH954	CORRECTED COPY - DEPORTATION SCENARIO FOR 20 UIGHUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 19 at 9:15 p.m., the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) deported 20 Uighur asylum-seekers back to China. Police removed the Uighurs from their safe house on December 18 around 6:00 p.m., and held them in a detention facility inside the Ministry of Interior compound [...]	2009-12-21 11:23:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH969	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL FALEOMAVAEGA TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Phnom Penh warmly welcomes CODEL Faleomavaega's visit to Cambodia. Yours is the first Congressional visit since Senator Jim Webb's in mid-August, and you will find a Cambodia seeking to take full advantage of its first real period of stability in more than a generation. Althoug [...]	2009-12-31 08:33:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KJUS ECON MARR CB
09PODGORICA119	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF THE DEPUTY SECRETARY TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: You are the highest-level State Department official to visit Montenegro since its independence in 2006, and your arrival represents a major milestone in our bilateral relationship and a great opportunity for us to advance our broader goals in this region. I recommend that two t [...]	2009-05-12 17:16:00	Embassy Podgorica	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON MW
09PODGORICA166	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF PDASD MCMILLAN TO MONTENEGRO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Montenegro. Your visit comes as the newly re-elected Montenegrin leadership continues a pro-NATO, pro-western stance. The GoM welcomed the positive language about Montenegro in the April NATO Summit Communiqui and now has its sights set on an invitation into MAP by D [...]	2009-07-08 15:37:00	Embassy Podgorica	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON MW
09PODGORICA195	CORRUPTION IN MONTENEGRO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Few countries in Europe have as bad a reputation for fighting corruption as Montenegro. As in other transition societies in this region, egregious weaknesses include extensive cronyism and nepotism, weak controls over conflicts of interest, perceived legal impunity for individua [...]	2009-09-02 13:40:00	Embassy Podgorica	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KCOR MW
09PODGORICA198	SCENESETTER FOR ADRIATIC CHARTER CHOD CONFERENCE, SACEUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Montenegro. Your visit comes as the Montenegrin leadership continues on its pro-NATO, pro-western course, having recognized neighboring Kosovo in October 2008 and formally applied for EU membership in December 2008. The Government of Montenegro (GoM) remains a recept [...]	2009-09-10 12:25:00	Embassy Podgorica	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON MARR MOPS MW
09PORTAUPRINCE1016	NAS Haiti November 2009 Monthly Report [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: In the month of November 2009, there were significant developments in the capacity building of the Haitian National Police (HNP),although significant organizational development issues continue to [...]	2009-12-09 17:44:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV PREL HA
09PORTAUPRINCE177	HAITIAN ELECTORAL AUTHORITY REAFFIRMS EXCLUSION OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) released February 16 the definitive list of candidates for the April senatorial elections, reaffirming the exclusion of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas (FL) party. The CEP list included thirteen previously excluded [...]	2009-02-17 18:19:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE250	HAITI CARNIVAL 2009 [...] Summary: Haiti's 2009 Carnival celebrations were marginally more violent than last year's but still within acceptable limits by the improved security standards of today's Haiti. An increased presence of the Haitian National Police (HNP) helped keep the inevitable violence down. For the fir [...]	2009-03-06 14:08:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL HA SCUL KCRM
09PORTAUPRINCE293	HAITI: LATEST TRENDS IN STUDENT UNREST [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassified-please protect accordingly. Summary -------- 2. (U) High school and university students in 2009 have occupied university buildings and mounted protests that have turned violent and attracted political attention. Students occupied the cam [...]	2009-03-16 16:41:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
09PORTAUPRINCE302	HAITI: CORRESPONDENCE FROM LEGISLATOR TO HOUSE [...] The following correspondence to U.S. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, in reference to U.S. immigration policy toward Haiti, was received by Embassy on March 13. Text is an unofficial English translation of the French original. The Embassy will pouch the ac [...]	2009-03-19 13:00:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL HA
09PORTAUPRINCE346	HAITIAN CRIMINAL DEPORTEES (PART ONE): THE NUTS [...] (C) Summary: Embassy inquiries about criminals the U.S. deports to Haiti reveal that: 1.) Haitian officials and media periodically blame criminal deportees for increases in crime, 2.) deportees face a degree of social discrimination and prejudice, and 3.) deportees who resume a life of crime i [...]	2009-03-31 16:12:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM HA ORA INL IOM PRM
09PORTAUPRINCE386	AMBASSADOR VISITS LES CAYES [...] (SBU) The Ambassador visited Les Cayes March 26. The mayor portrayed his city as calm and relatively free of drug trafficking but lacking sufficient funding from the central government. The head of MINUSTAH's regional office emphasized that political instability and drug trafficking were con [...]	2009-04-08 15:34:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR ECON USAID HA
09PORTAUPRINCE41	2008 ANNUAL OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL [...] (U) Below is the 2008 OSAC Annual Report on Crime and Safety for Haiti. The Bureau of Diplomatic Security rates Port-au-Prince as CRITICAL for crime and political violence, due to the potential for these types of incidents. Haiti is unique in the Caribbean for its lack of tourism, developmen [...]	2009-01-13 19:47:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC AMGT APER
09PORTAUPRINCE451	HAITI: CODEL CONYERS MEETS PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified-please protect accordingly. Summary - - - - 2. (SBU) A Congressional Delegation led by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers heard President Preval and Prime Minister Pierre Louis make the case that Haiti is at a turning point and ne [...]	2009-04-30 15:40:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SNAR EAID HA
09PORTAUPRINCE456	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CAPPS' MAY 8-11 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes at a critical point in Haiti's democratic development. After food riots in April 2008 and a disastrous series of hurricanes four months later, President Rene Preval and his new Prime Minister, Michele Pierre-Louis, are working hard to meet the basic needs of the [...]	2009-05-06 15:54:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PGOV PREL HA
09PORTAUPRINCE504	CODEL HIRONO DISCUSSES REFORM, EDUCATION, AND JOBS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: A Congressional delegation led by Rep. Mazie Hirono met with the President, Prime Minister, and parliamentary leaders during its May 8-11 visit to Haiti. The delegation, accompanied by the Ambassador, reaffirmed U.S. support for efforts to promote Haiti's stability and prosperit [...]	2009-05-26 12:51:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON OVIP HA
09PORTAUPRINCE533	HAITI ECONOMIC MONTHLY UPDATE FOR MAY 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is a monthly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. 2. (U) REMITTANCES CONTINUE SLOWDOWN. April remittances amounted to USD 81.8 million, down 16 percent compared to March. Year-to-date remittances total USD 590 [...]	2009-06-05 16:40:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA
09PORTAUPRINCE575	DECONSTRUCTING PREVAL [...] (C) Haitian President Rene Preval has now completed three years of his five year presidential mandate. Widely touted as the "transitional president" poised to lead Haiti into a new era of democracy and economic prosperity, he has had only modest success thus far. Haiti's problems are indeed dauntin [...]	2009-06-16 18:02:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV HA KBIO
09PORTAUPRINCE600	HAITI: MAY 2009 NAS MONTHLY REPORT [...] The following summarizes Post's INL/NAS and counternarcotics activities in May 2009. 2. Trilateral Conference a Big Success: On May 5-7, law enforcement, national security policy makers and prosecutors from Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic as well as U.S. officials met in Florid [...]	2009-06-23 17:52:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV PREL KCRM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE636	HAITI MONTHLY: POLITICAL, JUNE, 2009 [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. . (U) Summary: This is a monthly report on various topics of interest which do not merit a full reporting cable. End summary. 3. (SBU) DISCUSSIONS REPORTEDLY CONTINUE ON TAIWANESE ASSISTANCE TO TE HAITIAN PARLI [...]	2009-07-10 17:35:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV HA PREL

09PORTAUPRINCE642	HAITI'S MINIMUM WAGE LAW STILL STALLED [...] (SBU) Summary: Haitian President Rene Preval continues to take a strong stand behind his formally submitted objections to raising the minimum wage to 200 Haitian gourds (HTG) per day. In a sustained media campaign, Preval warns of the negative consequences of a wage increase on foreign inv [...]	2009-07-15 13:02:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON ETRD HA PGOV PREL EINV
09PORTAUPRINCE646	HAITI ECONOMIC UPDATE FOR JULY 1 TO JULY 10, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is a report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. 2. (U) The Minister of Finance announced a price increase for 91 and 95 octane gasoline. The price of gasoline 91 rose 18 percent from HTG 163 to HTG 192 (USD 3.98 to US [...]	2009-07-16 19:18:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA
09PORTAUPRINCE667	HAITI: PARTIAL SENATE ELECTIONS NOW OVER, LESPWA [...] (SBU) Summary: With the results of Haiti's partial Senate elections now final, the pro-government party Lespwa won six of the eleven seats being contested, which will give them 13 out of 29 Senate seats. A controversial appeals decision to reverse the initial result in the South Department in [...]	2009-07-24 14:01:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC EAID HA
09PORTAUPRINCE770	HAITI ECONOMIC WEEKLY UPDATE FOR AUGUST 24 TO AUGUST 28, [...] (U) Summary. This is a weekly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. Minimum Wage ------------ 2. (U) The Minimum Wage compromise suggested by President Preval (HTG 125, about USD 3.00, per day for workers in the apparel assembly sector [...]	2009-09-02 14:36:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA
09PORTAUPRINCE818	HAITI ECONOMIC WEEKLY UPDATE FOR SEPTEMBER 7 TO SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Summary. This is a weekly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. Budget ------ 2. (U) The lower house of the Haitian parliament voted in the FY10 budget with numerous changes on September 9 (septel). 3. (U) The European U [...]	2009-09-21 12:21:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA
09PORTAUPRINCE839	HAITI ECONOMIC WEEKLY UPDATE FOR SEPTEMBER 14 TO SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Summary. This is a weekly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. Debt Reduction -------------- 2. (U) On Friday, September 18, Ambassador Kenneth Merten and GOH Finance Minister Daniel Dorsainvil signed a U.S.-Haiti Bilateral [...]	2009-09-28 14:17:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA
09PORTAUPRINCE936	PROSPECTS FOR FANMI LAVALAS IN THE 2010 ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The two main factions of Fanmi Lavalas, the political party of ousted former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are collaborating to mitigate the risk of their exclusion from legislative and presidential elections in 2010. Although a united Lavalas would be the largest party in H [...]	2009-11-10 10:42:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC KINR HA
09PORTAUPRINCE941	PREVAL SETS DATE FOR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] (U) On November 11, President Preval issued an executive order setting the date for the first round of the next parliamentary elections. This announcement officially launches the election campaign and allows the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) to begin registering parties and candidates. [...]	2009-11-12 14:49:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KAID PINR HA
09PORTLOUIS169	SEYCHELLES PRISON SYSTEM: BAD ENOUGH WITHOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Incidents of piracy have threatened the economic livelihood of the Seychelles, yet the small and troubled island nation lacks the infrastructure to house a potential influx of pirates, and is barely capable of detaining the alleged pirates in custody now. A recent preliminary re [...]	2009-06-05 08:27:00	Embassy Port Louis	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MARR PREL MASS MOPPS KCRM SE
09PORTLOUIS271	SEYCHELLES: GENERAL WARD/U.S. AFRICA COMMAND VISIT 19 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: General William Ward, Commander, United States Africa Command, visited Seychelles on August 19, 2009. Accompanied by Charge d'Affaires Virginia Blaser, he met with President James Michel, Minister for Foreign Affairs Patrick Pillay, and Chief of the Seychelles Peoples Defense For [...]	2009-09-08 13:08:00	Embassy Port Louis	SECRET	ASEC PGOV PREL MASS SE
09PORTLOUIS37	MAURITIUS CONSIDERING PARTICIPATION IN 5TH PLENARY GI [...] On January 22, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) and the Russian Ambassador to Mauritius, Mrs. Olga Ivanova, jointly delivered a demarche regarding the 5th plenary GI meeting to Foreign Minister Dr. Arvin Boolell (FORMIN) and Ambassador Patrice Cure, Head of Multilateral Division at the Ministry of Forei [...]	2009-01-28 11:56:00	Embassy Port Louis	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC MP
09PORTLOUIS403	SEYCHELLES OPPOSITION BOYCOTTS OPENING OF [...] (SBU) On December 4, The Seychelles National Party (SNP),the main opposition party in the Seychelles, boycotted the inauguration of the new Chinese-built Seychelles National Assembly building. The official inauguration ceremony was attended by President Michel, former President James Mancham [...]	2009-12-09 10:50:00	Embassy Port Louis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID CH SE
09PORTLOUIS411	SEYCHELLES SERIOUS ABOUT PIRACY PROSECUTIONS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Seychelles will charge the eleven recently-captured Somalis with piracy, but arraignment has been delayed for two weeks. Seychelles has accepted an offer from UNODC and the EU to construct a 40-bed maximum-security wing at the country's only prison to house pirates and other high [...]	2009-12-22 12:07:00	Embassy Port Louis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPIR MARR PHSA EWWT PBTS SE
09PORTOFSPAIN197	CODEL Engel meets LAC leaders at Fifth Summit of the [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representative Eliot Engel, Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led a Congressional delegation to the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago April 17-19, 2009. The delegation consisted of Representative Connie Ma [...]	2009-04-30 22:03:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG MARR SNAR TD
09PORTOFSPAIN302	TRINIDAD GASBAG - ENERGY SECTOR NEWS (#3-09) [...] GOTT signs two Production Sharing Contracts 2. Fewer energy investment dollars for TT 3. BG to purchase stake in TT gas field 4. TT to develop renewable energy framework 5. TT to revisit gas supplies to Jamaica 6. Partial Scope Agreement with U.S. on energy Â [...]	2009-07-21 19:35:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED	ENGR EPET EIND TD
09PORTOFSPAIN334	WHA/CAR DIRECTOR MEETS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: WHA Caribbean Office Director Velia De Pirro discussed the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative on August 3 with National Security Minister Martin Joseph, who expressed pleasure over the nascent program. Joseph urged a regional approach and was pleased that his thinking was consis [...]	2009-08-08 14:22:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MASS EAID ECON KCRM TD
09PORTOFSPAIN370	FY2010 BUDGET - IN THE RED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The FY 2010 GOTT budget totals $7.03 billion with a projected deficit of $1.2 billion, about 5.3 percent of GDP, based on average annual oil prices of $55/barrel and natural gas at $2.75/million cubic feet. This would be the second year in a row of budget deficits after a string [...]	2009-09-14 16:36:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EPET ETRD EWWT BEXP PGOV TD
09PORTOFSPAIN405	TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 2009 [...] Foreign exchange crisis or not?! 2. Trinidad and Tobago off credit watch list 3. TT Eximbank line of credit for exports to Cuba 4. Inflation/Repo rate continues to fall 5. Ship building ... way to economic diversification 6. India to set up weather station 7. Lack of funds halts [...]	2009-10-15 16:06:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EIND TPHY TD
09PORTOFSPAIN460	CLIMATE CHANGE TO HEADLINE COMMONWEALTH MEETING [...] SUMMARY: Trinidad and Tobago hosts the 21st biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) November 27-29 in Port of Spain, with several related forums beginning as early as November 20. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip are to pay a state visit just before the event, and the Qu [...]	2009-11-19 20:29:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KGHG KSUM EINT TD
09PORTOFSPAIN50	INVITATION TO FIFTH SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE AND [...] Embassy Port of Spain has received Diplomatic Note Number 264, dated February 3, 2009, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Trinidad and Tobago: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States of America [...]	2009-02-09 12:59:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED	KSUM AORC PREL OAS TD
09PORTOFSPAIN53	SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: AMBASSADORS MORALES AND ROBINSON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Patrick Manning received USOAS Ambassador and National Summit Coordinator Hector Morales, Jr. and WHA/DAS Ambassador David Robinson on February 4 to discuss Summit of the Americas preparations. Ambassador Morales underscored the import of getting logistical and se [...]	2009-02-10 17:56:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KSUM MASS TD
09PORTOFSPAIN54	SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: MEETINGS OF AMBASSADORS MORALES AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USOAS Ambassador and National Summit Coordinator Hector Morales, Jr. and WHA/DAS Ambassador David Robinson visited Trinidad February 3-4 to discuss Summit of the Americas preparations. In addition to a session with Prime Minister Manning (septel),the Ambassadors met with the Na [...]	2009-02-10 17:56:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KSUM MASS TD
09PORTOFSPAIN70	SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: SIDE FORUMS AND PEOPLE'S SUMMIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Private Sector Forum and the Youth Forum of the Summit of the Americas (SOA) will take place April 15-16 on the cruise ship Caribbean Princess, and the Civil Society Forum will be held the same days on the Carnival Victory. Both ships, to be docked near the SOA site at the [...]	2009-02-20 14:43:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KSUM MASS TD
09PORTOFSPAIN78	INVITATION TO FIFTH SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE AND [...] Embassy Port of Spain has received Diplomatic Note Number 373, dated February 19, 2009, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Trinidad and Tobago. Text follows: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United Stat [...]	2009-02-27 13:00:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	UNCLASSIFIED	KSUM AORC PREL OAS TD
09PRAGUE147	DEFENSE PROCUREMENT IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: SHADY [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-16 15:04:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARR EZ KCOR MARR MCAPP
09PRAGUE15	CZECH GOVERNMENT'S DOMESTIC CHALLENGES WEIGH ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Czech government's January 1 assumption of the EU Presidency comes at a time when the Topolanek coalition is at the most precarious position in its two years of existence. The coalition government, which has always been shaky at best, never fully recovered from the sweeping [...]	2009-01-09 14:32:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE222	CZECH REPUBLIC: FOREIGN POLICY DRIFT EXPECTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The March 24 downfall of the Czech Government and the subsequent political upheaval, as well as the planned Czech parliamentary elections in the fall, will affect a range of Czech foreign and security policy priorities. In this cable we focus on three of the most visible and sign [...]	2009-04-24 15:25:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EZ MARR NATO PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE269	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS MAY 23-25 VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Prague warmly welcomes you to the Czech Republic May 23-25. Nearly 20 years after the 1989 "Velvet Revolution," the Czech Republic today boasts a relatively strong market economy, a lively democratic tradition, and close links with the United States. The Czech Republic h [...]	2009-05-19 15:24:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN EZ OVIP PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE340	FOREIGN DEPLOYMENTS PROPOSAL PASSES CZECH LOWER [...] (C) Summary: On June 16, the Czech parliament's lower house approved a 2010 troop deployment proposal that, among other deployments, includes 535 Czech troops for Afghanistan. Senate approval should follow. This smooth approval is a stark contrast to the contentiousness of the 2009 deployme [...]	2009-06-17 14:47:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EZ AF
09PRAGUE354	CZECH REPUBLIC: INPUT FOR HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING [...] (SBU) Per Ref A, Post is providing input for a demarche prior to the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw from September 28 - October 9, 2009. ---------------------- The Interim Government ---------------------- 2. (SBU) The government of the Czech Republic (GOC) is c [...]	2009-06-24 07:33:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OSCE PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EZ
09PRAGUE454	EXTREMISM IN CZECH REPUBLIC GAINS VISIBILITY AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Czech Republic, extremists have been involved in several notable public events over the last year targeting the Czech Roma population. These events, such as the two recent arson attacks against Roma houses, generated public outrage across the country. Right-wing extrem [...]	2009-08-04 14:38:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON HU LO EZ
09PRAGUE467	CZECH PUBLICLY CONDEMN BURMESE SENTENCE AGAINST [...] (U) On August 11, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout called on the Burmese regime to immediately release Aung San Suu Kyi. Calling the verdict "scandalous" and typical of "the political cynicism of one of the toughest totalitarian regimes in the world", former Czech president Vaclav Havel also [...]	2009-08-13 09:44:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM BM EZ EUN
09PRAGUE471	CZECH REPUBLIC: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION PROGRESS [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points to Deputy Minister Czeslaw Walek of the Ministry of Human Rights and National Minorities and to Deputy Minister and Anti-Extremism Task Force leader Jiri Komorous of the Interior Ministry on July 29. The Ministry of the Interior deferred its response to the [...]	2009-08-14 07:01:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM OSCE EZ
09PRAGUE475	OPEN LETTER REACTION PART II: CZECH POLITICAL AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Czechs have a multi-faceted relationship with Russia which varies according to the issue, as well as the fora involved (whether NATO, the EU, or on a bilateral basis). As the July 16 open letter to President Obama from Central European leaders illustrates, many in this reg [...]	2009-08-14 13:38:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL ENRG EPET EUN EZ RU
09PRAGUE503	UNREFORMED COMMUNISTS COURT SOCIAL DEMOCRATS [...] (C) Summary. Despite declining membership, the unreformed Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) has a stable and loyal voter base that consistently garners 12 to 15 percent of the vote and makes them the Czech Republic's third largest party. KSCM currently has 26 seats in the Chamber [...]	2009-08-27 09:19:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE523	SURPRISE CZECH COURT RULING CASTS DOUBT ON EARLY [...] (C) Summary: In a surprise ruling, the Czech Republic's Constitutional Court announced September 1 it will consider a challenge to a law passed in May and signed by President Klaus in June shortening the current term of the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament's lower house. The court ruling ind [...]	2009-09-02 14:01:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE560	EARLY ELECTIONS SCRAPPED, INTERIM GOVERNMENT FOR [...] (C) Summary. Early parliamentary elections have been halted and it appears the interim government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer will continue to govern until the regular parliamentary elections in May 2010, although early elections are still possible. Fischer is focused on the economic cris [...]	2009-09-21 07:32:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE563	CORRECTED COPY: EARLY ELECTIONS SCRAPPED, INTERIM [...] (C) Summary. Early parliamentary elections have been halted and it appears the interim government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer will continue to govern until the regular parliamentary elections in May 2010, although early elections are still possible. Fischer is focused on the economic cris [...]	2009-09-21 15:19:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE592	GOING GREEN IN THE GOLDEN CITY: EMBASSY PRAGUE PROMOTES [...] Summary: Embassy Prague works diligently to improve understanding of U.S. environmental policies and accomplishments, promote environmentally-responsible behavior, strengthen ties between Czechs and Americans in this field, and create eco-friendly economic opportunities. Management has impleme [...]	2009-10-05 15:29:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ECON ENRG EUN KGHG KPAO OEXC PREL SENV SW EZ
09PRAGUE672	WHAT LISBON REMINDS US ABOUT PRESIDENT KLAUS [...] (C) SUMMARY. With no more excuses or options for delay, euroskeptic Czech President Klaus signed the Lisbon Treaty on November 3, the same day as the Czech Constitutional Court ruling. His signature eliminated a major distraction within the EU, allowing the U.S. and EU to refocus on important [...]	2009-11-13 15:42:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
09PRETORIA1007	PART 2 OF 3: A LOOK AT JACOB ZUMA'S CABINET [...] (SBU) President Jacob Zuma finalized his Cabinet appointments on May 10, modifying several existing ministries and creating a few new ones. Below are short biographies for each of the newly appointed ministers and deputies. This is the second of three cables looking at each of the Cabinet a [...]	2009-05-19 12:39:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM ASEC SF PGOV
09PRETORIA1009	SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY MONTHLY [...] (U) Summary: This is the South African Environment, Science and Technology Monthly Briefings Newsletter, May 2009, Volume 4, Number 5, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa. Topics of the newsletter: -- Scientists Develop New Carbon Emission Reduction Process -- South Afri [...]	2009-05-19 14:53:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ETRD SF
09PRETORIA1029	PART 3 OF 3: A LOOK AT JACOB ZUMA'S CABINET [...] (SBU) President Jacob Zuma finalized his Cabinet appointments on May 10, modifying several existing ministries and creating a few new ones. Below are short biographies for each of the newly appointed ministers and deputies. This is the third of three cables looking at each of the Cabinet ap [...]	2009-05-20 15:12:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM ASEC SF PGOV
09PRETORIA1129	ZUMA'S CABINET IS BRILLIANT POLITICALLY, BUT WILL [...] (C) Newly elected President Jacob Zuma's Cabinet is settling in following the swearing in ceremony on May 11. Most political analysts and pundits have praised Zuma's selections -- lauding some for their managerial skills, some for their willingness to bring new ideas to government, and some f [...]	2009-06-04 15:20:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM ASEC SF PGOV
09PRETORIA164	COMMUNIQUE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT OF THE SADC [...] The following is the text of the Final Communiqu of the Extraordinary Summit of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government regarding the crisis in Zimbabwe held in Pretoria, South Africa on January 26-27, 2009. Heads of State from South Africa, Botswana, L [...]	2009-01-27 16:15:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL ZANU SF ZM
09PRETORIA1657	SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER AUGUST 9-AUGUST 15 [...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, o [...]	2009-08-14 16:21:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
09PRETORIA1694	SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER AUGUST 16-AUGUST 22 [...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, o [...]	2009-08-24 06:42:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
09PRETORIA1829	BALEKA MBETE GIVES A FEW CLUES ABOUT BALANCE OF [...] (SBU) Among local observers of South African politics, one key question during the election campaign and in the aftermath of the April vote was whether the balance of power would reside at the Union Buildings or in Luthuli House. Former Deputy President, and current African National Congress [...]	2009-09-09 07:55:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM ASEC SF PGOV
09PRETORIA1859	DIPLOMATS STILL WAITING TO SEE CHANGE IN SAG'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. On 8 September, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Senior Researcher Takawira Musavengana spoke at a roundtable with western diplomats, admonishing diplomats for believing that Zimbabwe would be discussed during the 7-8 September SADC summit, downplayed Zuma's willingness to tak [...]	2009-09-11 12:27:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SF ZI
09PRETORIA1914	South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...]	2009-09-17 14:45:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF
09PRETORIA1921	SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 13-SEPTEMBER [...] (SBU) Written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau, the POL newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, or to m [...]	2009-09-19 13:26:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
09PRETORIA1981	QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY WITH KEY [...] (U) Summary: The South African economy recorded negative real growth in the second quarter of 2009, the third successive quarterly contraction. Some 475,000 jobs were lost in the first half of 2009. The trade data continued to reflect depressed global as well as domestic demand conditions. The [...]	2009-10-01 14:17:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF
09PRETORIA2103	SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 13-OCTOBER 16 [...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, o [...]	2009-10-16 16:03:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
09PRETORIA2210	SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 26-OCTOBER 30 [...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]	2009-10-30 12:58:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
09PRETORIA2267	SAG "NEGLECTING" AND "FAILING" RURAL CONSTITUENTS, [...] (C) From October 21 to 23 emboffs visited rural Mpumalanga province, where human rights NGOs said the SAG was failing to protect the rural poor and neglecting to provide public services to remote communities. While township residents have protested violently over poor service delivery, rural [...]	2009-11-05 16:56:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF ELAB EAGR SF
09PRETORIA2312	SOUTH AFRICA FEARS ZIMBABWE MAY BE SLIDING BACK [...] (U) Summary: During a press conference on November 10, Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Director General Dr. Ayanda Ntsaluba said regional leaders feared Zimbabwe could be sliding back from progress on the political and humanitarian fronts since the inception of the [...]	2009-11-13 14:35:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL ZANU SF ZI
09PRETORIA2443	SOUTH AFRICA: POLITICAL NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 20-27 [...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker for more information, or to make contribution [...]	2009-11-27 14:26:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
09PRETORIA2590	SAG EAGER TO DEVELOP STRATEGIC DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY and Action Request: The SAG is eager to develop a Strategic Dialogue led by the Secretary of State and the Foreign Minister. The idea would be to use existing and prospective working groups and the existing Annual Bilateral Forum, which would produce a summary document to info [...]	2009-12-17 10:34:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ENRG KNNP ETRD SENV SF
09PRETORIA2611	RURAL SOUTH AFRICA: CHANGE COMES SLOWLY TO MANDELA'S HOME [...] (SBU) PolCouns and PolAssist visited Nelson Mandela's birthplace of Mvezo, and also the former President's current rural home in Qunu in Eastern Cape Province December 7-8. Qunu is located along the main N2 highway, 30 km south of Mthatha, the district headquarters, in an area that was part of [...]	2009-12-21 14:17:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SF
09PRETORIA378	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 27, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 9 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Q4 GDP Down 1.8% - U.S. Trade with South Africa - Government and Auto Industry Officials to Discuss Loan Package - Task Team Recommen [...]	2009-02-27 14:19:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
09PRETORIA436	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 6, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 10 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Government Still Sees Growth in 2009 - Job Growth Data Sparks Disbelief - South Africa's House Prices Still Falling - New Vehicle Sales [...]	2009-03-06 10:56:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
09PRETORIA5	SOUTH AFRICA: A/S FRAZER'S CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi E. Frazer reached out to South African and regional leaders to outline U.S. policy on Zimbabwe and explain why the U.S. no longer believes President Robert Mugabe can be part of a power sharing solution to Zimbabwe [...]	2009-01-02 13:24:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC PGOV EAID SF ZI
09PRETORIA543	PART 1 OF 2: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AHEAD OF THE [...] (C) This cable is part 1 of 2 in response to C-AL9-00425 received on March 9. Reftels refer to parts 1 and 2. The structure below follows a question and answer format and includes Reftels where applicable. Post has sent in nearly 100 cables since September 2008 covering many of the questio [...]	2009-03-23 07:16:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL SF
09PRETORIA596	South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...]	2009-03-27 11:52:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF
09PRETORIA612	WELCOME TO POST [...] the date and time of arrival; 2. the airline and flight number; 3. the number of accompanying family members; 4. any pets scheduled to arrive with you, including their sizes and breeds; and 5. a personal e-mail address so that we may contact you after you leave your current assignment with [...]	2009-03-30 09:43:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	APER AMGT SF
09PRETORIA664	PART 1 OF 3: SCENESETTER FOR SOUTH AFRICA'S APRIL [...] (C) South Africa on April 22 will hold its fourth national election since the end of apartheid in 1994. From all indications, the government and its institutions are ready for this poll, and turnout is expected to be the highest since former President Nelson Mandela's victory 15 years ago. [...]	2009-04-03 14:51:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL SF
09PRETORIA674	SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY MONTHLY [...] (U) Summary: This is the South African Environment, Science and Technology Monthly Briefings Newsletter, March 2009, Volume 4, Number 3, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa. Topics of the newsletter: -- SOUTH AFRICANS JOING EARTH HOUR - REDUCE POWER USANGE BY 15% -- [...]	2009-04-06 12:37:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ETRD SF
09PRETORIA71	QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY WITH KEY [...] (U) Summary: The deterioration in the global economic landscape affected South Africa's third quarter 2008 economic performance. Weaker international demand, falling commodity prices, and the tight domestic economic environment resulted in the lowest quarterly real GDP growth in ten years. Une [...]	2009-01-14 15:03:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD BEXP KTDB SF
09PRETORIA797	SOUTH AFRICA CAMPAIGN FUNDING [...] (C) Summary: The Helen Suzman Foundation hosted a seminar on April 15 to discuss the country's laws on political party funding, an issue which the media and electorate have largely ignored in the run-up to South Africa's election on 22 April. Panelists agreed that both the source and amounts [...]	2009-04-21 11:57:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV SF
09PRETORIA802	PART 1 OF 2: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AHEAD OF THE [...] (C) This cable is part 1 of 2 in response to C-AL9-00425 received on March 9. Reftels refer to parts 1 and 2. The structure below follows a question and answer format and includes Reftels where applicable. Post has sent in nearly 100 cables since September 2008 covering many of the questio [...]	2009-04-21 12:11:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL SF
09PRETORIA806	SOUTH AFRICA VOTES: SITUATION REPORT #2 [...] Summary: South Africans remain focused on the unfolding drama of national elections as voting continued through midday. Voter turnout remains strong overall, but there are significant differences between polling places. Observer teams are reporting minor irregularities and procedural problems, [...]	2009-04-22 15:37:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM ASEC SF
09PRETORIA817	SOUTH AFRICA VOTES: SITUATION REPORT #3 [...] (U) Summary: National and provincial election results began trickling in on April 23. Early numbers show that the African National Congress (ANC) will again receive a huge mandate from the electorate, but there are signs of strength from the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Western Cape. The Co [...]	2009-04-23 15:43:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM ASEC SF
09PRETORIA88	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 16, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 3 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - South African Economy to "Feel Pressure" - Manufacturing Output, Business Confidence Dive - South Africa's House Prices Fall - Stadiums [...]	2009-01-16 12:08:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
09PRISTINA148	KOSOVO/EULEX: AT FULL OPERATING CAPABILITY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 6 the European Union's rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, declared full operational capability (FOC). Four months after its initiation, EULEX can claim some significant successes, including a complete and violence-free roll-out of the police component; the reopening of the [...]	2009-04-08 17:27:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KV
09PRISTINA149	USAID ROMA RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM: PROGRESS AFTER A [...] (U) Summary: USAID has initiated a long term resettlement project for 50 Roma families residing in two camps for internally displaced persons in north Mitrovica. The camp residents continue to suffer life-threatening health effects from lead poisoning over nine years after moving into the UN [...]	2009-04-08 17:42:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL UNMIK KV
09PRISTINA150	KOSOVO: MAJOR ELECTION-RELATED CHALLENGES AHEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo's political scene is increasingly focusing on municipal elections widely expected to take place in autumn-winter 2009, though no date has yet been set. Coalition and opposition parties alike see municipal elections as an opportunity to gain momentum for national elections, [...]	2009-04-08 18:33:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID UNMIKV KV
09PRISTINA178	KOSOVO EFFORTS TO SECURE RECOGNITION [...] (C) Summary: Since the initial rush of recgonitions after its declaration of independence in February 2008, Kosovo has had to work intensively for each additional recognition, using all tools available to move the undecideds into the "yes" column. Support from the USG and other friendly nat [...]	2009-05-04 10:49:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KV
09PRISTINA249	KOSOVO: ASSISTANCE NEEDED TO MANAGE IMMIGRATION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please seen paragraph 12. 2. (C) Summary: Increasing numbers of foreigners are entering Kosovo and requesting stay and asylum. Kosovo's laws governing asylum and migration are good, but border authorities lack the technological and physical resources to prop [...]	2009-07-01 13:59:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV SMIG KV
09PRISTINA256	KOSOVO: EULEX AT THE SIX MONTH POINT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six months after EULEX's deployment, we are getting a better sense of the mission's strengths and weaknesses. EULEX Police, as an example, were active and successful in suppressing protests in north Mitrovica during Albanian efforts to rebuild destroyed homes in Kroi i Vitakut. [...]	2009-07-04 10:10:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KV
09PRISTINA49	KOSOVO: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ADDRESSES [...] (C) Summary. Over the course of several meetings among international representatives in various formulations between January 15 and February 9, the urgent need to address a number of so-called "practical issues" (which more or less correspond to the "six-points" from the UN Secretary General' [...]	2009-02-10 13:54:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV
09PRISTINA533	KOSOVO: HITMAN'S CONFESSION SHAKES KOSOVO POLITICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo's political establishment has been shaken following allegations that Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) officials were involved in assassination plots during an effort to consolidate power from 1999 to 2003. A Democratic League of Dardania (LDD) member of parliament, Gani G [...]	2009-12-01 19:29:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM EAID SR KAWC KV
09PRISTINA63	KOSOVO: ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE, [...] (SBU) Summary. In the first year since its declaration of independence, Kosovo has made real progress in consolidating its sovereignty and pursuing its democratic objectives, including adoption of a new constitution that meets the highest European standards and grants broad protection to Koso [...]	2009-02-16 12:40:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KV
09QUITO176	GOE PEACE OVERTURES, THEN ANTI-U.S. JABS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The past week has seen President Correa veer from an awkward attempt to propose a new relationship with the U.S. to outbursts against the use of polygraphs and insinuations that the U.S. Embassy activities did not square with the Obama administration's policy. He also reiterated [...]	2009-03-10 22:56:00	Embassy Quito	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL SNAR KCRM PTER EC
09QUITO449	PRESIDENT OBAMA'S CALL TO PRESIDENT CORREA ADDS TO PRESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Initial Ecuadorian government and media reaction to President Obama's June 10 phone call to President Correa focused on President Obama's message of congratulation for Correa's reelection and his desire to deepen U.S.-Ecuador relations, but did not include extensive comments on his [...]	2009-06-15 12:06:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO EC
09QUITO513	LATEST ROUNDS OF ANTI-U.S. RHETORIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: While the GOE talked in Washington about expanding bilateral cooperation, the Correa government and its fellow travelers here in Ecuador continued to bash the U.S. Unsubstantiated allegations over the last few weeks included that the U.S. Forward Operating Location (FOL) caused [...]	2009-06-25 23:39:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR SNAR PHUM OAS EC
09QUITO70	QUITO'S NEW AIRPORT MAKES PROGRESS BUT FACES BIG [...] (SBU) Summary: The construction of Quito's new airport has made significant progress. The project is large and complex, however, dealing with an unpredictable political environment, sensitive community relations, and environmental challenges. The builders have made several recent missteps th [...]	2009-01-29 19:28:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR EAID EINV ECIN EC MARR MCAP
09QUITO873	Correa and Indigenous Leaders Talk, Agree to More Dialogue [...] (SBU) Summary. After a week of protests and the death of one indigenous protestor, President Rafael Correa and over 100 indigenous leaders sat down in Quito for a highly contentious discussion resulting in a six-point agreement to talk more often and about specific issues. The agreement calls [...]	2009-10-08 14:21:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EC
09QUITO877	Correa and Indigenous Leaders Talk, Agree to More Dialogue [...] (SBU) Summary. After a week of protests and the death of one indigenous protestor, President Rafael Correa and over 100 indigenous leaders sat down in Quito for a highly contentious discussion resulting in a six-point agreement to talk more often and about specific issues. The agreement calls [...]	2009-10-13 16:58:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EC
09QUITO937	Ecuador: Yasuni-ITT Initiative Still Searching for its First [...] (C) Despite Ecuadorean President Correa's frequent claims to be raising funding among European nations for Ecuador's Yasuni-ITT rainforest/oil conservation initiative (Ref A),the reality is that the Europeans are so far skeptical. During an October 27 conference at Chatham House in London, Pr [...]	2009-11-06 19:39:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PREL SENV ECON EC GM UK SP
09QUITO963	GOE Defensive on Benefits of Correa's Trip to UK and Russia [...] (SBU) Summary: President Rafael Correa's visits to the UK and Russia on October 26-30 have elicited media carping on the large delegation, Correa's statement about considering recognition of Ossetia and Abkhazia, and what were seen as meager outcomes. Correa's backers and the MFA defended the [...]	2009-11-17 21:36:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MARR KPKO KHDP EC RS GG UK
09RABAT200	MOROCCO: DETAILS OF MOROCCO'S DIPLOMATIC BREAK [...] (C) Summary: The senior Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) official in charge of Middle East and Islamic affairs told us that Morocco broke relations with Iran due to Iran's negative reaction to GOM support for Bahrain's sovereignty, Shia proselytizing activities in Morocco and Iran, [...]	2009-03-12 19:36:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR SCUL KISL IR MO
09RABAT201	MOROCCO: 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT SPARKS [...] (SBU) The Moroccan and Western Sahara chapters of the 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices sparked high interest and comments ranging from favorable to deeply critical. The embassy rollout included multiple television and radio interviews by the Charge d'Affaires (CDA) and Embassy [...]	2009-03-12 22:28:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KPAO WI MO
09RABAT221	MIXED REVIEWS ON MOROCCO'S LEVEL OF RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: A range of government, religious, and education leaders told EmbOffs and visiting DRL/IRF officer that while tolerance is broadly observed in practice, some problem remain. Government forbearance for perhaps 150 foreign Christian missionaries was being stretched, they said, as p [...]	2009-03-19 18:54:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI KPAO MO
09RABAT246	MOROCCO: ENHANCING WOMEN,S RIGHTS AND MOBILIZING [...] (C) Following up on the March 21 launch of the Middle East Partnership Initiative- (MEPI-) financed training for women candidates in the June municipal elections, Minister of Social Development, the Family and Solidarity Nouzha Skalli reminded Charge and PolOff that although 12 percent of seat [...]	2009-03-27 17:49:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB EAID PGOV KWMN MO
09RABAT267	POLITICAL FOOTBALL OVER GAY RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Recent Moroccan responses to overt homosexuality illustrate the extent to which this issue has become a touchstone between conservative and Islamist factions and modernizers, including many supporters of the throne. A Moroccan gay rights organization based in Madrid has receive [...]	2009-04-02 08:40:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KISL SCUL MO
09RABAT281	MOROCCO'S ANTI-SHI'A CAMPAIGN: IRAQIS TARGETED, [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Morocco's campaign against Moroccan Shi'a appears to have abated after delivering a strong message to Islamic activists. The campaign included confiscation of Shi'a books and interrogation of some Shi'a leaders. Civil society is beginning to publicly criticize [...]	2009-04-03 19:07:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PREL SCUL KIRF KISL IR MO
09RABAT286	PJD LEADERS DISCUSS ELECTION STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the "moderate faction" of the Islamist-inspired Party of Justice and Development (PJD) have acknowledged the party has been under some pressure from authorities, but emphasized that they have not been intimidated into trimming their sails. They said the PJD decision [...]	2009-04-06 16:02:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL MO
09RABAT336	MOROCCO: INSIGHTS INTO RECENT MISSIONARY EXPULSION [...] (C) Summary: Morocco's expulsion of five Christian women last month accused of proselytizing has created a flurry of concern among the approximate 4,000 local Christians who meet regularly throughout Morocco. Three local Christian leaders from Casablanca (one of whom legally imports and sells [...]	2009-04-20 14:00:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI KPAO KIRF SP MO
09RABAT385	MORROCO: LOWER HOUSE LEADER SEEKS GREATER [...] (SBU) Summary: During an April 28 meeting with Charge, lower house of Parliament President Mustapha Mansouri made a strong appeal for increased contact between Moroccan Parliamentarians and Members of Congress to facilitate better understanding of Morocco's claims to Western Sahara. Mansouri [...]	2009-05-05 17:40:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PHUM KDEM MO
09RABAT408	OPENING UP AGAIN? MOROCCAN PRISON ADMINISTRATION [...] (S/NF) Summary: This cable responds to Ref A request for information and provides a broader general update on Morocco's prison situation and the now year-old Prison Administration. Overcrowded and underfunded, Morocco's prisons are in a difficult, but changing situation. They have won increasing in [...]	2009-05-15 12:35:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PHUM SOCI EAID SNAR PTER KCRM MO

09RABAT42	MOROCCO: WOMEN'S ELECTORAL SUPPORT PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Mission Morocco proposes that the USG (MEPI) urgently provide between USD 500,000 to USD 1 Million to implement a major quick action effort to support a major expansion of women's political participation and enhance democracy. Morocco has recently allocated [...]	2009-01-15 20:03:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KMPI KWMN MO

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