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08RANGOON305	BURMA: FEAR AND CYNICISM IN KACHIN STATE [...] (C) Summary: A leading Kachin peace negotiator told us the KIO remained officially neutral on the referendum, but recommended its members boycott. Officials from the regime and KIO met in late March to discuss logistics for the vote and to address specific KIO concerns. Younger KIO and KIA [...]	2008-05-02 09:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM

08RANGOON336	BAGO DIVISION: IT COULD BE WORSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Southern Bago Division, among the areas that the Burmese government declared a disaster area, suffered some damage from Cyclone Nargis, although significantly less than the Irrawaddy Delta. The roads to and from Bago were clear and relatively undamaged. The city of Bago appear [...]	2008-05-08 09:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON356	REFERENDUM PROCEEDS AS SCHEDULED [...] (C) Summary. The GOB went ahead with its referendum on May 10 in the areas of the country that were not affected by Cyclone Nargis. On a diplomatic tour, two Embassy officers visited eight polling stations in two cities, Myeik and Kyaingtone. We did not see any significant disturbances, but [...]	2008-05-12 11:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON385	BURMA: REGIME CLAIMS VICTORY; NLD OFFERS HELP [...] (C) On May 15, the regime announced its constitution had been overwhelmingly approved in the May 10 referendum, which was held in all areas of the country not critically affected by the storm. Aung San Suu Kyi's private doctor was permitted to briefly visit with her after the cyclone and rep [...]	2008-05-15 09:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON387	FOLLOWING THE RELIEF SUPPLY CHAIN [...] (SBU) Summary. U Aung Tun Khaing of the Department of Social Welfare explained a three-part system through which the GOB has thus far delivered 1,816 tons of international relief supplies to Cyclone Nargis victims. The supplies, transported to the affected regions primarily by ship, reach tw [...]	2008-05-15 10:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON400	BURMA: CRONIES TOLD TO REBUILD THE DELTA [...] (C) Summary: Nay Win Maung, director of local NGO Myanmar Egress, shared with pol/econ chief a list of GOB ministers given responsibility and oversight for the rescue and rehabilitation of seven townships in the cyclone affected areas, and the various cronies the government assigned to finan [...]	2008-05-20 12:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON415	GOVERNMENT DECLARES CONSTITUTION APPROVED; ASSK [...] (SBU) State-run media reported today that Burma's new constitution had been approved by 92.4 percent in the nation-wide referendum that concluded May 24. Voters we spoke with reported wide-spread election irregularities including distribution of pre-marked ballots with the approval mark check [...]	2008-05-27 09:11:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON427	BURMA: ENCOURAGING SIGNS ON ACCESS TO THE DELTA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Social Welfare is granting UN international staff permission to travel to the Delta with two days notice. Six staff applied for permission to travel on May 26 and all requests were granted. NGO international staff are also being granted permission to travel, th [...]	2008-05-28 11:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON429	AID FLOWS, BUT NOT MUCH [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff and LES were turned around at a military checkpoint on the border between Rangoon and Irrawaddy Divisions on May 29. Prior to being stopped, we observed heightened security in several towns and villages in Rangoon Division that were damaged during the cyclone. The head [...]	2008-05-29 09:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON453	BURMA: CLEARER PICTURE EMERGING ON FORCED [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR representatives told us they observed no instances of violent, forced relocation during a recent trip to the Delta, but spoke with a military commander who said he had orders to vacate unofficial camps north of Labutta and Bogale. The government was moving victims in an [...]	2008-06-05 08:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON455	DELTA RELIEF: SMALL STEPS FORWARD, SOME BACK [...] (SBU) Summary. On a June 2 to 4 trip to the Irrawaddy delta region, Poloff and LES observed a tight security situation, particularly in areas where significant aid is flowing. We also observed and compared government camps with an NGO-run camp, which according to the government should not ex [...]	2008-06-05 09:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON461	POST NARGIS RELOCATIONS: EQUAL OPPORUNTITY ABUSE [...] (C) Summary. A number of our Burmese and ethnic minority contacts told us that the government has pressured cyclone victims in unofficial relief camps to relocate to government-sanctioned camps or return to their villages. In other instances, local residents have pressured these internally [...]	2008-06-06 10:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON47	AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S MEETING WITH REGIME LIAISON [...] (C) Summary: Regime liaison Aung Kyi used his January 11 meeting with ASSK to scold her for not responding to Than Shwe's previous demands. He told her the senior generals were suspicious of her because the statement she released through Gambari was similar to the points UN Special Envoy Ga [...]	2008-01-22 10:51:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON477	BURMA: SOUTHERN DELTA VICTIMS STILL NEGLECTED [...] (SBU) Summary. An Embassy Rangoon small grantee recently returned from the lower delta reported a lack of any organized relief efforts in much of the area south of Labutta. While the Burma Army was camped nearby, so far soldiers had not provided any significant assistance to cyclone victim [...]	2008-06-12 07:42:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON532	LABUTTA TOWNSHIP: LIVELIHOODS A TOP CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 18 and 20, USAID/OFDA shelter expert and Poloff traveled to the Irrawaddy Delta region to assess recovery efforts. Six weeks after Cyclone Nargis hit, most people had sufficient shelter, either rebuilt from indigenous materials or plastic sheeting or living in communal [...]	2008-07-03 09:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV PREF TBIO BM PHUM EAGR VM
08RANGOON540	BURMA: POST NARGIS BOGALE - DOWN BUT NOT OUT [...] (SBU) On a recent three-day trip to the delta, rural cyclone victims in Bogale township told us that they most needed cash to help re-establish their livelihoods. All three of the villages we visited suffered extensive damage as a result of Nargis, but had begun rebuilding on their own. The [...]	2008-07-09 08:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BM EAID SENV KSCA TBIO VM EAGR PREF
08RANGOON558	BURMA: KEY KACHIN GROUPS TO FORM POLITICAL PARTY [...] (C) Summary. A leading Kachin peace negotiator told us a consortium of three leading Kachin organizations recently agreed to form a single political party and to participate in the 2010 parliamentary elections. While the regime has assured Kachin cease-fire groups they would not have to sur [...]	2008-07-14 07:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON577	BURMA: DELTA HEALTH CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary. According to UN and NGO officials working in the Irrawaddy Delta, the health situation in the delta after Cyclone Nargis continues to improve. While there have been no disease epidemics, health NGOs report cases of dengue, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infection throughout t [...]	2008-07-18 07:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV BM
08RANGOON585	BURMA: CHALLENGES TO PLANTING RICE IN THE DELTA REMAIN [...] (SBU) Summary. Cyclone Nargis, with its up to 12-foot high waves, not only destroyed much of the rice farmland in the Irrawaddy Delta, but also washed away farm implements, including seeds, draft animals, and plows. Farmers in the delta have received some assistance from the Burmese Governme [...]	2008-07-22 09:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON610	RESOURCE CENTER CONNECTS LOCAL GROUPS WITH FUNDS [...] (SBU) Summary. The newly-created Local Resource Center (LRC) serves to connect local organizations with one another and potential donors to conduct projects in the Irrawaddy delta. According to the LRC's main advisor, Karl Dorning, the groups with the greatest need and the fewest funding opp [...]	2008-07-31 09:11:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON611	BURMA: NLD TO BOYCOTT ELECTIONS, BUT QUIETLY [...] (C) The NLD and a committee of 1990 MPs elect will not participate in the 2010 parliamentary elections, but are reluctant to publicize their positions or forcefully advocate for a boycott. Two key contacts told us that most opposition leaders have lost faith in the UN and Special Advisor Gam [...]	2008-07-31 09:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON67	BURMA: ACTIVISTS CHARGED, UNCLES CRITICISED [...] (C) Summary. Zomi National Congress President Chin Sian Than informed us of increasing concerns within the pro-democracy movement over senior NLD leadership. A group of 92 MPs-elect are preparing a letter to the UNSYG calling for the inclusion of opposition and ethnic leaders in the constitu [...]	2008-01-29 10:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON675	88 GENERATION STUDENTS ACTIVIST TOE KYAW HLAING ON [...] (C) Summary: Leading 88 Generation Students member Toe Kyaw Hlaing informed us that he had been traveling throughout Burma in order to try and build a "United Alliance Front" of different ethnic and opposition groups. He hoped pro-democracy activists would participate in the 2010 elections, [...]	2008-08-20 09:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON725	ASSK MEETS WITH LAWYER AGAIN, AGREES TO FOOD [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyer Kyi Win (aka Neville) confirmed to us that he met with his client again at her home on September 11 and 13 to discuss her legal appeal. Neville also reported that over the weekend authorities agreed to allow Aung San Suu Kyi regular doctor's visits, the unrestri [...]	2008-09-16 09:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON73	AUNG SAN SUU KYI: HOPE FOR THE BEST, PLAN FOR THE [...] (C) Summary. In a 90-minute meeting with the NLD's Central Executive Committee on January 30, Aung San Suu Kyi expressed dissatisfaction with the pace of the dialogue with the regime and the lack of progress towards democracy and reconciliation. She encouraged her colleagues to go ahead wit [...]	2008-01-31 04:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON754	BURMA -- ASSK'S LAWYER ON FILING OF APPEAL, ASSK [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyer Kyi Win (aka Neville) told us September 23 he plans to file his client's appeal in Nay Pyi Taw by October 3. The appeal will challenge the lack of justification for ASSK's detention under Burmese law and the failure of authorities to investigate the 2003 attack o [...]	2008-09-24 09:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON76	BURMA: SU SU NWE AND U GAMBIRA CHARGED [...] (C) Summary. The regime charged at least seven more detained political activists, including Su Su Nwe and U Gambira. If convicted, U Gambira could get as much as three years in prison while Su Su Nwe could be imprisoned for over 20 years. The ILO remains interested in Su Su Nwe's case but w [...]	2008-01-31 10:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON798	BURMA: CHARGE MEETS WITH U WIN TIN [...] (C) In an October 9 meeting, recently-released political prisoner Win Tin told Charge he hopes to use his freedom and reputation to inspire people to become more active in the pro-democracy movement and to reach out to opposition and ethnic groups outside the NLD. He acknowledged that his 19 [...]	2008-10-09 11:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON810	SHAN YOUTH GROUP ENCOURAGES LITERACY IN TAUNGGYI [...] (C) Over the past two years, the Kan Baw Za (KBZ) Youth Library and Reading Club has conducted two projects funded through the Embassy small grants program: a mobile libraries project on Inle Lake and a library and learning center in Taunggyi, Shan State. Both projects promote literacy and te [...]	2008-10-16 09:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON819	AMERICAN CENTER PROGRAM PROMOTES ETHNIC DIALOGUE [...] (C) Starting in January 2008, the American Center has conducted a Professional Development Program to bring together emerging leaders from throughout Burma to learn about human rights, democracy, and community activism. Graduates have joined local and international NGOs, created organization [...]	2008-10-21 05:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON843	DOCTOR TO VISIT ASSK NEXT WEEK [...] (C) NLD spokesman Nyan Win confirmed to us media reports that Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas) will visit Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) on Thursday November 6, 2008. This is consistent with what Douglas told us in August: that the regime has agreed to allow ASSK regular medical visits at the beginnin [...]	2008-10-29 09:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON866	BURMA: DOCTOR VISITS AUNG SAN SUU KYI BUT REVEALS [...] (C) In a brief telephone conversation with a member of our P/E staff, Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas) confirmed that he visited Aung San Suu Kyi on November 6. Douglas' visit is consistent with what he told us in August: that the regime has agreed to allow ASSK regular medical visits at the be [...]	2008-11-07 06:42:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON925	BURMA: ASSK'S LAWYER SPEAKS ABOUT HIS CLIENT'S CASE [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyer U Kyi Win (aka Neville) told Poloff December 4 that he is pressing GOB authorities to allow him to meet with his client. Neville had refrained from following up on his October 16 request to see Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) in response to GOB indications of possible n [...]	2008-12-04 09:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON932	BURMA: ABUSES CONTINUE THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS DAY [...] (C) Since mid-November, the regime has moved at least 13 recently-convicted prisoners to jails throughout Burma, in most cases far from their homes. Human rights activist Maung Maung Lay confirmed media reports that a Rangoon court has sentenced three people to between five and 19 years' imp [...]	2008-12-10 08:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON945	BURMA: UPDATE FROM ASSK'S DOCTOR [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) personal physician told us his patient is in excellent health and has regained all of the weight she previously lost. Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas) saw ASSK on December 4 and is scheduled to see her again on January 1. Douglas informed us that the British Embas [...]	2008-12-17 09:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08REYKJAVIK188	GEORGIA: ICELAND OPPOSES RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF S. OSSETIA [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker previewed reftel demarche in August 25 meetings with the Icelandic Foreign Minister and other senior officials, and embassy followed up on August 27 to reiterate the points. In press comments on August 26, Foreign Minister Gisladottir immediate [...]	2008-08-27 16:03:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF GG RU IC
08REYKJAVIK198	ICELAND SUPPORTS MOVING ISAF COUNTER-NARC DISCUSSION TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-12 16:55:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS NATO MARR PREL AF IC
08REYKJAVIK199	Iceland's Bid for the UN Security Council [...] (C/NF) Summary: Iceland's bid for one of two available WEOG seats on the UN Security Council in 2009-10 is rapidly drawing to a close. The campaign, hamstrung by a slow start and tepid support at home, has found its legs over the last year under the enthusiastic direction of Foreign Minister [...]	2008-09-12 16:57:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UNSC UN AU TU IC
08REYKJAVIK217	ICELANDIC GOVT TO RUN FIRST DEFICIT IN FIVE YEARS, KRONA [...] (SBU) Summary: Counter to the hopes of the Icelandic government, saving Glitnir Bank has not saved the economy, as the krona has fallen by 15 percent over the last two days and Iceland's credit ratings have dropped. In the midst of the bad news, the first budget deficit since 1996 was announ [...]	2008-10-03 16:15:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV IC
08REYKJAVIK254	ICELAND: NATO ACCESSION OF ALBANIA AND CROATIA [...] (U) PolOff contacted Icelandic MFA MinCouns for International Organizations Nikulas Hannigan on October 28 to follow up on reftel demarche. Hannigan said that the MFA's Legal Advisor is preparing a draft parliamentary resolution for consideration by the cabinet at the weekly government meeting [...]	2008-10-30 08:14:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR NATO PREL KTIA AL HR IC
08REYKJAVIK263	ICELAND: CAN THIS COALITION BE SAVED? [...] (C/NF) Summary: Public support for Iceland's government has fallen below 50 percent in the wake of the financial crisis here, and cracks are beginning to widen between the two coalition parties as weekly demonstrations grow in size and fervor. PM Haarde's Independence Party (IP) has taken th [...]	2008-11-10 18:15:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON EU IC
08REYKJAVIK286	Iceland: Political parties considering EU membership as [...] (U) Summary: Iceland's economic crisis has radically changed opinions here on the possibility of joining the European Union, and the country's political parties are struggling to adapt. Polls show support for joining the EU and adopting the euro reaching 70 percent, while support for the gov [...]	2008-12-05 16:28:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EUN IC
08REYKJAVIK34	ICELAND RECOGNIZES KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE [...] (U) On March 5, 2008, Iceland recognized the Republic of Kosovo as an independent state. 2. (SBU) Comment: Although the recognition comes almost two weeks after the initial date the Foreign Minister suggested to the Ambassador (see reftel),it falls neither first nor last among the Nordic [...]	2008-03-05 17:18:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KV IC
08RIGA513	DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-25 08:38:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC KNNP PREL PARM EFIN LG
08RIGA538	LATVIA AWAITING COMMON EU POSTION ON KOSOVO ICJ [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-05 13:29:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA LG
08RIGA566	LATVIA CANNOT VOTE IN UNAIDS EXEC DIR SELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-17 13:07:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AORC KHIV UNGA LG
08RIGA575	UNGA COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-19 14:43:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNGA LG
08RIGA576	LATVIA'S UNGA GOALS AND PRIORITIES [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-19 14:44:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA LG
08RIGA604	NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE: UNGA FIRST COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-02 04:22:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CDG UNGA LG
08RIGA617	GICNT EPG SAVE THE DATE - LATVIA HAS NO PLANS YET [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-09 12:08:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MCAP PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC LG
08RIGA618	LATVIA CONSIDERING RESPONSE TO US CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-09 12:08:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA KNNP IAEA AROC LG
08RIGA621	LATVIA TO FOLLOW UP BILATERALLY ON US-EU EXTRADITION AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-09 15:00:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV CJAN EUN KCRM KJUST KTIA PREL LG
08RIGA635	LATVIA CANNOT ACCEPT PALESTINIAN GUANTANAMO [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-17 13:14:00	Embassy Riga	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KWAK KISL KPAO LG
08RIGA652	LATVIA UNAWARE OF IRANIAN NUCLEAR CONFERENCE; [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Judite Dobele, the MFA's head of Middle East and Africa Division. Dobele stated that they were not aware of the Iranian Nuclear Conference in November but know that Iran has been active in their region on energy issues. She stated that Iran had been tryin [...]	2008-10-24 13:53:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC TRGY IR LG
08RIGA654	LATVIA NO POSITION ON STREAMLING AFGHANISTAN COMMAND [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-27 04:41:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO PREL MOPS MARR LG
08RIGA678	IRANIAN ENTITY DESIGNATION INFORMATION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-05 12:44:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KNNP MNUC IR GM PARM EFIN LG
08RIGA697	PSI: PARIS OEG NONPAPER DELIVERED, TRAINING MOST [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-13 15:39:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MNUC PARM LG
08RIGA784	NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP: LATVIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-05 15:08:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC TRGY LG
08RIGA786	LATVIA NOTES U.S. CONCERNS OVER SYRIA'S TECHNICAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-08 13:58:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP MNUC IAEA TRGY LG
08RIGA791	LATVIA TO PROVIDE GICNT FEEDBACK DIRECTLY [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-11 10:19:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PTER PREL KGIC LG
08RIGA792	LATVIA NOT LIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN PAKISTAN DONORS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-11 13:20:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF LG
08RIGA802	LATVIA SUPPORTIVE OF STL, NOT LIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE FUNDING [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-16 12:18:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER LE SY UNSC EUN LG
08RIGA809	LATVIA WILL REFLECT EU COMMON POSITION ON HARMONIZATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-19 11:25:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AORC APER PREL UNGA LG
08RIGA89	LATVIAN PASSPORT SCANDAL CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary. Recent meetings between Post, the GOL MFA and the Latvian security police (LSP) have yielded more specific information on developments in the passport scandal (ref. a). The LSP cautioned that the final numbers of cases, and all specific information on identities, is not complete, a [...]	2008-02-15 15:35:00	Embassy Riga	SECRET	CVIS KCRM KFRD PGOV PREL LG
08RIYADH1022	UPDATE ON JAILED POLITICAL ACTIVIST MATRUK AL-FALEH [...] (C) During a June 28 meeting with noted Saudi political and human rights activist Ibrahim al-Mugaiteeb (protect),PolOff spoke by telephone with Jameela al-Ughla, wife of imprisoned Saudi political activist Matruk al-Faleh (Reftel A, B). An emotionally upset al-Ughla told PolOff that she had [...]	2008-07-01 13:16:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS KMPI PGOV PHUM SA
08RIYADH1069	DHAHRAN EAC - 9 JULY 2008 [...] (S) On 9 July 2008, Consulate General Dhahran convened a core Emergency Action Committee to discuss the recent attack against the US Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey. In attendance were the CG, RSO, and POLOFF, and an RAO representative was consulted. 2. (S) The EAC reviewed the curre [...]	2008-07-09 14:02:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	ASEC PTER AMGT CASC SA
08RIYADH1070	SECTARIANISM UNDERMINES LOCAL CONFIDENCE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite King Abdullah's efforts to foster religious tolerance, an increase in local sectarian tension and a series of perceived anti-Shi'a actions by Saudi authorities in the Eastern Province have undermined confidence among many Saudi Shi'a that the SAG's interfaith efforts will [...]	2008-07-10 13:14:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	CIA KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SA
08RIYADH114	PAKISTAN OFFICIAL: SAG LOOKING TO RUSSIANS FOR NUCLEAR PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-28 09:15:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	KNNP PGOV PINR PK PREL SA
08RIYADH1162	DEPORTATION OF CHRISTIANS IN TAIF [...] (S) SUMMARY: On July 26 and 27, 16 Indian Christians were notified that they have been ordered for immediate deportation. They were reportedly told by their sponsors, who were told "not by the police, but thobe-claded secret agents from Makkah Governate." There is currently no evidence of a [...]	2008-07-28 15:12:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	KIRF PHUM PGOV SA
08RIYADH1163	EMBASSY DELEGATION MEETS WITH SAUDI HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy POLOFFs met with Dr. Mufteh Al-Kahtani, the Vice President of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) on July 21. We received a briefing by Al-Kahtani on the NSHR, including the role it plays between citizens lodging human rights complaints and the SAG, as well as [...]	2008-07-28 15:14:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SA
08RIYADH118	SAG RESPONSE TO THE JANUARY 27 ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Demarche delivered via diplomatic note on January 26 with the assurances from the Arab States department that it would reach the delegation attending the January 27 ministerial meeting in Cairo. It was also delivered in person on January 27 to Head of the Arab States Department of the Mi [...]	2008-01-28 14:31:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SA
08RIYADH1197	RADICAL SHI'A CLERIC SUPPORTS IRAN, WARNS OF [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, a Shi'a sheikh in Qatif, Saudi Arabia has once again caused controversy with his radical statements supporting Iran and challenging Saudi authority. In a July 11, 2008 sermon al-Nimr defended Iran's right to respond to "American aggression" and stated t [...]	2008-08-05 10:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	KIRF KISL PINR PREL PTER SA
08RIYADH121	ASHURA IN THE EP: A TALE OF TWO CITIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Falling on January 19, 2008, this year's Ashura commemorations in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia continued the trend of the recent past; Qatif-area Shi'a enjoyed increased freedom of expression while the Al-Ahsa community was strictly forbidden from any public commemoration [...]	2008-01-30 09:40:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SOCI SA
08RIYADH1212	SAUDI GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS TO COUNTER TRIBALISM [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-09 13:42:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PINR PGOV PREL SA
08RIYADH1232	SAUDI OFFICIAL DISCUSSES MAURITANIA COUP, AID [...] (S) SUMMARY. A Saudi MFA official, who is responsible for Arab League issues, confirms that the SAG condemns the Mauritania coup. While he did not have firm information on possible impact to the Saudi aid package for Mauritania, he did leave open the possibility that aid could be withheld. EN [...]	2008-08-12 08:31:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL ASEC CASC EAID MR SA
08RIYADH1235	SAUDI PET BAN RAISES HACKLES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Saudi Arabia made world headlines last week by banning the sale of cats and dogs in the capital, Riyadh. On the surface, the ban appears to be just another example of the Saudi religious police run amok. However, the topic has exposed a divide in views between Saudi religious lead [...]	2008-08-12 12:42:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PHUM PREL SA SENV
08RIYADH1283	MEETING WITH CONTROVERSIAL SHI'A SHEIKH NIMR [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In an August 13 meeting with PolOff, controversial Shi'a sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr sought to distance himself from previously reported pro-Iranian and anti-American statements, instead adopting a less radical tone on topics such as the relationship between Iran and the Saudi Sh [...]	2008-08-23 05:31:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	KIRF KISL PINR PREL PTER SA
08RIYADH1343	SAUDIS TO REMAIN SILENT ON MAURITANIA COUP [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-01 14:51:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM MR PGOV PREL SA
08RIYADH1344	SAUDI MFA ON RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA, ABKHAZIA [...] (C) On August 31, PolOffs delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Talal al-Malki, temporarily covering European issues in the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al-Malki shared that he would seek the counsel of Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal before providing a response. He gave no ini [...]	2008-09-01 14:52:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	GG PGOV PREL SA RU
08RIYADH1345	SAUDIS CONSIDER KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche (Reftel A) to Ambassador Talal al-Malki, temporarily covering European issues in the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al-Malki responded that he would refer the matter of the proposed Kosovo ICJ resolution to Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal. [...]	2008-09-02 04:35:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SA UNGA KV RU
08RIYADH1378	SAUDIS TO VOTE AGAINST UNGA ICJ RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-09 15:28:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SA UNGA KVIR RU
08RIYADH141	KING ABDULLAH TO LEBANESE FM: SAG MIGHT BOYCOTT [...] (S) SUMMARY: According to the Lebanese DCM Ziad Itani, King Abdullah supports the current Lebanese government and its push for immediate presidential elections. The King reportedly told PM Siniora during his January 25 visit that if the Syrian government prevents Lebanese elections, neither [...]	2008-02-02 12:58:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR LE SA
08RIYADH1617	EP GOVERNOR OFFERS HIS SUPPORT TO THE CONSULATE [...] (C) Summary: On October 19, Consul General Kenny made a familiarization call on the Governor of the Eastern Province, HRH Prince Mohammed bin Fahad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Prince Mohammed stressed the Saudi Arabian Government,s (SAG) commitment to combating terrorism and providing the appropri [...]	2008-10-28 14:20:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL SA
08RIYADH1657	SAUDI INTELLECTUALS CALL FOR FAST IN SUPPORT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: A group of thirteen Saudi intellectuals has called a November 8-9 fast to protest the detentions of eleven individuals they claim are being held for their political beliefs. Word of the protest has spread via the Internet, with like-minded Saudis invited to join. The intellectua [...]	2008-11-04 13:36:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PTER SA
08RIYADH1691	TAIF CHRISTIAN "DEPORTATION" ISSUE RESOLVED [...] (S/NF) DEPORTATIONS RESCINDED: On November 9 and 10, two contacts confirmed to Poloff that the Makkah Governorate's orders to deport 13 Taif Christians (Ref A) have been rescinded. Reji Johnson (strictly protect) asserted that the situation had been definitely resolved thanks to a higher ord [...]	2008-11-12 12:12:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	ELAB KIRF KISL KTIP PHUM SA SMIG SOCI XF
08RIYADH174	DESPITE PROXIMITY TO KEY REGIONAL PLAYERS, SAG [...] (C) The Kenyan Embassy in Riyadh confirmed to PolOff during a February 5 meeting that the SAG and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have not yet engaged with Kenya since the political crisis that engulfed the country following their contested December 27 presidential elections. [...]	2008-02-06 16:51:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SA KE
08RIYADH1780	SAUDI REACTION TO U.N. INTERFAITH SESSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Saudi King Abdullah got what he wanted from the November 11-12 UN General Assembly session on interfaith dialogue in New York: a UN endorsement of the value of interfaith dialogue and a boost to his Interfaith Dialogue Initiative (IDI). Domestic Saudi reaction was mixed. Saudi m [...]	2008-12-04 19:33:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SA UNGA
08RIYADH190	CONFRONTING INTOLERANCE IN SAUDI MOSQUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Acting/DCM and PolOff met with Assistant Deputy Minister for Islamic Affairs (MOIA) Dr. Abdullah al-Lheedan on February 3 to discuss SAG efforts to combat extremism. Al-Lheedan focused on SAG efforts to monitor and rehabilitate intolerant imams. He also touched on the charities [...]	2008-02-10 14:56:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KISL PGOV SA
08RIYADH206	SAG STILL REFUSES TO APPROACH THE SUDAN ON CHAD; [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Head of the Arab States Department Ambassador al-Kuhaimi and Head of the African Affairs Department Khalid Mofty on February 11. The demarche was also delivered via diplomatic note on February 6. Al-Kuhaimi essentially repeated the message delivered o [...]	2008-02-13 04:56:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SU CD SA
08RIYADH233	WOMEN'S REFORM IN SAUDI ARABIA: NO CELEBRATIONS YET [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opening weeks of 2008 have brought a flurry of rumors and announcements regarding potentially important advances in the rights of Saudi Arabia's female citizens. On January 21, the English newspaper "Telegraph" reported that the SAG unofficially planned to drop the ban on wo [...]	2008-02-13 18:56:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SA
08RIYADH291	C-NE7-01842: SAUDI-QATAR RELATIONS WARMING; WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Saudi-Qatar relations appear to be warming, however, there is little evidence of long-term improvements. The Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) told PolOff during a February 13 meeting that Saudi-Qatar tensions are not played out [...]	2008-02-20 14:17:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR QA SA
08RIYADH346	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SAG ON ARAB PARLIAMENTARY [...] Post delivered reftel demarche via diplomatic note on Wednesday, March 27, 2008. MFA was unavailable to meet with PolOff due to the visits of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah II last week. FRAKER [...]	2008-03-01 11:40:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SA
08RIYADH347	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SAG ON MARCH 5-6 ARAB LEAGUE [...] Post delivered reftel demarche via diplomatic note on Wednesday, March 27, 2008. MFA was unavailable to meet with PolOff due to the visits of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah II last week. According to media reports, the purpose of these visits was to discuss the [...]	2008-03-01 11:41:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SA
08RIYADH361	SAUDI ARABIA SENDING SHOURA DELEGATION TO ARAB [...] Post delivered reftel demarche via diplomatic note on February 27. The Shoura Council replied on behalf of the MFA to PolOff on March 3. According to Mohamed Dibaji, a consultant to the Shoura Council, the Assistant Head of the Shoura Council will lead a delegation to the Arab Inter-Parliam [...]	2008-03-04 06:51:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IZ SA
08RIYADH366	SANG CONTINUES TO PROTECT OIL FACILITIES; [...] (C) On February 25, 2008, the Consul General, Political Counselor, RSO, and PolOff met with Prince Mishari bin Saud bin Abdul Aziz, commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) for the Eastern Province (EP),to discuss, inter alia, SANG efforts to protect critical energy infrastructure [...]	2008-03-04 19:47:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ENRG EPET KCIP PTER SA
08RIYADH367	AND THE ENVELOPE PLEASE: SAUDI'S FIRST EVER FILM [...] (C) SUMMARY: From May 20 through May 24, the first ever Saudi film festival will be held in Dammam, Eastern Province. Organizers hope the event will usher in a period of greater cultural freedom and expression for the Saudi artistic community. While public SAG recognition is lacking, the fe [...]	2008-03-05 04:56:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV SA SCUL SOCI
08RIYADH368	TRIBES: A SILENT PLAYER IN MODERN-DAY SAUDI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Traditionally seen as a domestic issue, tribalism plays a key role in modern-day Saudi foreign policy. Tribalism affects which conflicts and issues the Saudi government (SAG) engages in, the extent of the SAG's involvement, and with which side it chooses to align itself. Despite [...]	2008-03-05 07:52:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
08RIYADH372	SAUDI SHI'A CELEBRATE ARBAEEN, BUT NOT WITHOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 27 and 28th, Eastern Province (EP) Shi'a celebrated Arbaeen, a religious festival marking the end of the forty days of mourning that follow the death of Imam Hussein (commemorated during Ashura). Along with Ashura, the foremost bellwether of SAG/Shi'a relations, celeb [...]	2008-03-05 13:21:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM PREL SA
08RIYADH509	SAG REQUESTED TO ALLOCATE DONOR PLEDGES TO [...] (C) Ambassador Fraker delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Dr. Khalid Jindan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a March 16 dinner at the Ambassador's residence. Dr. Jindan commented that the assistance should be for all Palestinians, no [...]	2008-03-25 09:15:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SA

08RIYADH625	PROFILE IN REFORM: NASCENT WOMEN'S RIGHTS GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Founded by Wajeha al-Huwaider and Fawzia al-Ayouni in August 2007, the Society for Protecting and Defending Women's Rights (the "Society") has quickly become one of the most active and important rights advocacy groups in Saudi Arabia. Coordinating campaigns in the local community [...]	2008-04-15 14:47:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI SA
08RIYADH708	SAUDIS ON ASSISTING IRAQ [...] (S) SUMMARY. Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq and Economic Minister-Counselor Ambassador Charles Ries and a delegation from Embassy Baghdad, MNF-I, and NEA-I visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on April 28-30 to discuss channeling $500 million of SAG funding for humanitarian assistan [...]	2008-05-01 11:21:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	CIA ECON EFIN IR IZ MCAP MOPS PGOV PHUM PINR
08RIYADH713	SENIOR SAG OFFICIAL ORDERED THE RELEASE OF 16 [...] (S) The Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission met with Deputy Minister of Interior (MOI) Mohammed bin Naif on April 29, 2008 to discuss the case of the 16 Indian Christians arrested in Ta'if. (reftel) Bin Naif said that the decision to arrest the Indians did not come from MOI in Riyadh or eve [...]	2008-05-03 14:38:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	KIRF PHUM PGOV SA
08RIYADH728	DHAHRAN EAC - 4/12/2008 [...] (U) NOTE: This cable is a retransmission since the original cable did not appear to have been transmitted. END NOTE. 2. (S/NF) On April 9, 2008, Consulate General Dhahran convened an Emergency Action Committee meeting to discuss proposals and threats described in REFTELS. In attendance [...]	2008-05-07 04:51:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER AMGT CASC SA
08RIYADH731	OBSTACLES TO JUDICIAL REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to recent media reports, the Judicial reform announced by Saudi King Abdullah al-Aziz in October, 2007 may take a few years. Even though the changes represent a significant shift for the Kingdom,s justice system, the country faces a huge challenge in the face of conse [...]	2008-05-07 13:53:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SA
08RIYADH791	DAMMAM MUNICIPAL COUNCIL UPDATE: PUBLIC CORRUPTION [...] SUMMARY: (C) The city of Dammam continues to be embroiled in a confrontation of governance, pitting four elected members of the Municipal Council against Eastern Province Mayor Dhaifallah al-Otaibi and Council Chairperson, Khalid al-Faleh, an appointed member and the second-in-charge of Saudi [...]	2008-05-19 17:16:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL SA
08RIYADH853	STATE OF THE SAUDI SHI,A 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite an ongoing dialogue between Saudi Shi'a leadership and the SAG, and slightly greater autonomy of religious and political action in the sub-governate of Qatif, the Shi'a community of Saudi Arabia continues to feel itself a second-class citizenry, facing both formal and inf [...]	2008-06-01 15:53:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	ECON KDEM KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM PREL SA
08RIYADH867	CONCERNS MOUNT REGARDING THE SAUDI GAS INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The early 2008 pullout of French energy giant Total from its Empty Quarter joint venture with Saudi Aramco and Royal Dutch Shell and the continued lack of success by Chinese, Russian, and Italian-Spanish JVs in efforts to discover commercially viable quantities of gas in the Em [...]	2008-06-03 14:45:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PREL SA
08ROME1019	BURMA: ITALY HESITANT ON FURTHER EU SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 17:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD BM IT
08ROME104	KOSOVO: ITALIANS MAY NOT SEEK TO DELAY COORDINATED [...] (C) The GOI is backing away from a Spanish-inspired push to postpone Kosovo's declaration of independence from February to Mid-March, after the Spanish elections. On January 15, FM D'Alema told the Ambassador that the GOI preferred a go-slow approach to avoid interfering in the Spanish electi [...]	2008-01-24 12:23:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SR KV
08ROME1040	ITALY DEMARCHE DELIVERED, IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-14 09:02:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EFIN IR KNNP PARM PINR PTER
08ROME105	ITALY UNDECIDED ON UNHRC GAZA RESOLUTION [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Italian MFA Deputy Office Director for Israel and Palestine Daniele Bosio and Human Rights Office Director Laura Carpini on January 24. Carpini said Italy was aware of the OIC-Group of Ar [...]	2008-01-24 13:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL IT
08ROME1067	ITALY SUPPORTS FIFTH ROUND OF WESTERN SAHARA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-20 16:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL PGOV PBTS MO WI IT
08ROME1081	GGTF01: ITALY URGES RUSSIA NOT TO RECOGNIZE SOUTH [...] (C) Marco Clemente, MFA Russia Office Director told Poloff that Italy would "under no circumstances" recognize the independence of South Ossetia or Abkhazia. Clemente added that Italy would maintain a common Euro-Atlantic position on the conflict and would continue to support the efforts of th [...]	2008-08-25 16:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU GG IT
08ROME1087	ITALY OPPOSES KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION, BUT IS WARY [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-27 14:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNGA KV IT
08ROME1092	ITALY DEFENDS GEORGIA'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY [...] DIBBLE [...]	2008-08-27 16:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU IT
08ROME1093	ITALY SUPPORTS AFGHANISTAN'S CANDIDACY FOR IAEA [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref B demarche to Italian MFA Disarmament and Nonproliferation Agreement Implementation Office Director Vittorio Rocco on August 27. Rocco said Italy regards Afghanistan's candidacy for the IAEA MESA Board of Governors' seat as a positive development that will encourage o [...]	2008-08-28 13:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IAEA PREL PARM KNNP MNUC IR SY IT AF
08ROME1094	TFGG01: ITALY WILL SUPPORT GEORGIA'S TERRITORIAL [...] (C) Poloffs delivered ref A and B demarches to MFA UN Desk Officer Leonardo Bencini and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Office Director Marco Clemente on August 28. Poloffs urged Italy to instruct the Italian PermRep in New York to forcefully denounce Russia's recognition of South Os [...]	2008-08-28 14:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL GG IT
08ROME1120	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-05 15:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN IT
08ROME1143	AFGHANISTAN: ITALY STILL SUPPORTIVE OF ANA [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Coordinator for Afghanistan Sergio Mercuri and MFA Political-Military Office Deputy Director Carlo Batori on September 3. Mercuri and Batori both reiterated Italian support fo [...]	2008-09-12 08:26:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR NATO IT AF
08ROME1186	ITALY OPPOSES ABKHAZ AND SOUTH OSSETIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-23 12:42:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSCR PREL GG IT
08ROME1213	IRAQ: ITALY TO CONTRIBUTE MORE CARABINIERI TO [...] (C) Poloff delivered Reftel Demarche to Italian Political-Military Deputy Director Carlo Batori on September 19. He said he did not believe that the GOI would be prepared to announce any new commitments at the September 26 SHAPE manpower conference beyond what has already been announced (na [...]	2008-09-29 16:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS NATO IT IZ
08ROME1251	AFGHANISTAN: ITALY SUPPORTS ANA TROOP INCREASE BUT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Afghanistan Envoy Sergio Mercuri and Deputy Director for Political Military Affairs Carlo Batori on September 17 and followed up with them on October 9. Batori said that the MFA had circulated our request within the GOI interagency and the initial r [...]	2008-10-10 14:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF
08ROME1269	YUSHCHENKO DISAPPOINTED BY ITALY'S TEPID SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary. During his October 8 visit to Rome, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko pressed for strong Italian support of Ukraine's MAP aspirations, EU integration and recognition of the Holodomor. Yushchenko's GOI interlocutors, President Napolitano and PM Berlusconi, told Yushchenko that [...]	2008-10-16 10:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO UP RS IT
08ROME1284	ITALY SUPPORTS AFGHAN ELECTIONS, PLANS G8 [...] Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2.(SBU) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche requesting support for the 2009 and 2010 Afghan Elections to Italian MFA Special Envoy for Afghanistan Sergio Mercuri on October 21. Mercuri said that Italy has already contributed Euro 5 million [...]	2008-10-23 16:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IT AF
08ROME1286	ITALY NONCOMMITTAL ON REQUEST TO RESETTLE [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-24 10:09:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO IT
08ROME1290	ITALY TO VOTE YES ON UNGA DEALERTING RESOLUTION [...] (C/NF) Italian MFA Deputy Director General for Political Cooperation Filippo Formica informed the DCM on October 23 that Italy would vote in favor of the UNGA First Committee Resolution on Dealerting (Reftel). Separately, MFA Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia to [...]	2008-10-24 13:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM MNUC UNGA IT
08ROME1305	ITALY WANTS BOTH SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO IN SEDM [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-28 15:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MK SR IT
08ROME1306	BOSNIA: ITALY CONCERNED ABOUT ANTI-DAYTON RHETORIC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona on October 28. De Cardona noted that Italy was concerned about increasing anti-Dayton rhetoric coming from Silajdzic and Dodik and the inability of political parties to move beyond narrow political, and often [...]	2008-10-28 15:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BK EU IT
08ROME1359	GOI WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, MFA Counselor Emanuele Farruggia, Director for Arms Control and Non Proliferation, confirmed to PolOff that the GOI would not be sending any official delegation to Iran's Nuclear Conference, to be held in Tehran on the 30th of November. Farruggia was not a [...]	2008-11-07 16:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC IR MNUC TRGY PGOV IT
08ROME1386	BERLUSCONIâ€™S COMMENTS ON MISSILE DEFENSE AND KOSOVO CREATE FIRESTORM IN ITALY [...] (C) During a press conference on the margins of the Italy-Turkey summit in Izmir on November 12, Italian PM Berlusconi said that the U.S. had "provoked" Russia by unilaterally recognizing Kosovo's independence, pressing forward on Missile Defense, and inviting Ukraine and Georgia to have a closer r [...]	2008-11-13 19:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO RS IT
08ROME1421	ITALY WILL NOT INDEPENDENTLY CALL FOR NICARAGUAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-21 12:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NU IT
08ROME1451	CLUSTER MUNITIONS: ITALY SUPPORTS U.S. [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia on November 28. Farruggia confirmed that the GOI intends to sign the convention but shares our interpretation of Article 21 as allowing not only for interoperability but also [...]	2008-12-01 07:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM NATO MOPS PREL IT
08ROME1464	ITALIANS URGE U.S. TO AGREE TO WATERED-DOWN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Elena Basile, MFA OSCE Office Director, on December 2. Basile noted the U.S. position and stated that she had just received instructions to contact post to urge the U.S. to accept softer language for the ministerial declaration to avoid a stalemate with R [...]	2008-12-03 10:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM RU IT
08ROME147	SYRIA: ITALY SUPPORTS EU DEMARCH ON SEIF'S ARREST [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-01 16:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PREL SY IT
08ROME1474	ITALY COUNTRY REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (U) This message is post's response to reftel request for updated information necessary for the President's consideration of continued suspension of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) There has been no significant change in Italian relations with Cuba over the past six months. There wer [...]	2008-12-05 07:56:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU IT
08ROME148	ITALY AND ISAF: NO NEW DEPLOYMENTS IN NEAR TERM, [...] (C) Summary: With the current political crisis likely to drag on for months, and a caretaker government prohibited from making significant policy changes, we see no prospect for new large-scale Italian military commitments in Afghanistan between now and the summer. However, GOI officials are [...]	2008-02-01 16:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PINS PREL MOPS MARR EAID AF IT
08ROME1485	PIRACY: ITALY FAVORS ROBUST APPROACH BUT MAY LACK [...] (C) Poloffs raised reftel points with Italian MFA NATO Desk Officer Andrea Romussi and UN Desk Officer Gabriela Biondi on December 4. They said Italy shared U.S. concerns over the increasing danger of piracy and the threat it posed to commerce, maritime safety and the delivery humanitarian as [...]	2008-12-08 09:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER NATO IT
08ROME1509	ITALY SUPPORTS PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE, [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Director for South Asia Giampaolo Cutillo on December 12. Cutillo agreed that the postponement of the Pakistan donors conference was necessary to provide more time for potential donors such as Italy to come up with pledge packages. He agr [...]	2008-12-12 16:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF IT PK
08ROME1532	ITALIAN SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-17 14:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER LE SY UNSC EUN IT
08ROME1539	ITALIAN SHERPA MASSOLO SEEKS USG VIEWS ON G8 [...] (C) Summary: Italian G8 Sherpa Giampiero Massolo told the DCM on December 15 that Italy wants to resist pressures to expand the G8 format during its 2009 Presidency. He asked whether the new U.S. Administration would favor another Major Economies leaders' Meeting (MEM) at the Summit to deal wi [...]	2008-12-19 08:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID SENV IT
08ROME1540	ITALIAN SHERPA MASSOLO SEEKS USG VIEWS ON G8 [...] (C) Summary: Italian G8 Sherpa Giampiero Massolo told the DCM on December 15 that Italy wants to resist pressures to expand the G8 format during its 2009 Presidency. He asked whether the new U.S. Administration would favor another Major Economies leaders' Meeting (MEM) at the Summit to deal wi [...]	2008-12-19 08:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID SENV OVIP OTRA IT
08ROME1551	G8 COMMISSIONER BERTOLASO ON SUMMIT LOGISTICS [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: G8 Summit Commissioner Guido Bertolaso, Prime Minister Berlusconi's Commissioner in charge of logistics for the July 8-10 2009 Summit at La Maddalena, told the DCM on December 19 that construction of the two hote [...]	2008-12-22 11:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON OTRA OVIP ASEC AORC IT
08ROME1552	G8 COMMISSIONER BERTOLASO ON SUMMIT LOGISTICS [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: G8 Summit Commissioner Guido Bertolaso, Prime Minister Berlusconi's Commissioner in charge of logistics for the July 8-10 2009 Summit at La Maddalena, told the DCM on December 19 that construction of the two hote [...]	2008-12-22 11:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON OTRA OVIP ASEC AORC IT
08ROME1568	ITALY SUPPORTS REGIONAL APPROACH TO SECURITY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA NATO Office Director Massimo Marotti on December 17. Marotti said that Italy shares the view that a robust ISAF contribution to the Election Support Forces (ESF) is vital to the successful conduct of Presidential Elections in Afghanistan. I [...]	2008-12-23 11:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF
08ROME1587	ITALY SHARES CONCERN OVER HOSNI CANDIDACY FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-29 16:00:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNESCO IT
08ROME159	BURMA: ITALY AGREES ADDED PRESSURE IS NECESSARY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Southeast Asia Office Director Alberto Vecchi February 4, shared USG concerns over the Burmese regime's continued intransigence, and suggested that it was time to ratchet up the pressure. Poloff urged Italy to press other countries to ban the importa [...]	2008-02-05 15:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM BM
08ROME1592	ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF PKO IN SOMALIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-31 11:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO SO ET IT
08ROME17	ITALY BRIEFED ON TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR UN SENIOR [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Coordinator for Afghanistan Sergio Mercuri on January 7. Mercuri appreciated the opportunity to review the latest version of the terms of reference/job description and was pleased to find that the Senior Civilian Representative would have t [...]	2008-01-08 13:24:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IO PREL AF NATO EU IT
08ROME170	ITALY: CONSIDERING FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR HARIRI [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points and dip note February 4 to MFA Levant Office Director Carlo Formosa who had just returned from a trip to Lebanon with MFA Director General for the Middle East Cesare Ragaglini. Formosa said Italy remains committed to Lebanon's stability, democracy, and econo [...]	2008-02-07 17:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE SY IT
08ROME195	KOSOVO: ITALIANS PRESSING OSCE STATES TO AVOID [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-13 08:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNAUS UNMIK PGOV YI EU OSCE IT
08ROME201	CLUSTER MUNITIONS: ITALY SEEKS TO PRESERVE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Acting Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia on February 13. Farruggia was aware of the U.S. briefing to NATO allies on interoperability and said that Italy would oppose efforts of Olso Process leaders to push thr [...]	2008-02-14 14:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PARM PREL NATO IT
08ROME212	ITALY: SUPPORTS MACEDONIAN NATO ASPIRATIONS; [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-19 17:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR NATO PREL GR MK IT
08ROME243	ITALY SUPPORTS UNSCR ON REBEL GROUPS IN EASTERN DRC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA UN Deputy Office Director Leonardo Bencini February 19 and requested Italian support for a UNSCR condemning the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). Bencini responded to our demarche February 28, and said Italy agreed that we must add [...]	2008-02-28 14:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	CG PREL RW UNSC ASEC ETTC IT
08ROME247	IRAN: ITALY CONTESTS EDISON DEAL VIOLATES ISA; [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 10. Summary. -------- 2. (C) Econ M/C delivered points on the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) and reported investment by Italian energy company Edison in Iran's Dayyer Block to MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi. Econ M/C also raised U.S. [...]	2008-02-28 16:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR IT
08ROME256	ITALY SHARES US VIEWS IAEA IRAN BRIEFING [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-29 16:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR IT
08ROME257	ISAF: CARETAKER PRODI GOVERNMENT MAY ANNOUNCE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Director for Political-Military Affairs Gianni Bardini on February 27. Bardini explained that the current caretaker government of PM Romano Prodi has no mandate to carry out anything more than basic administrative functions in the run-up to [...]	2008-02-29 16:24:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	NATO PREL MARR MOPS AF IT
08ROME259	ITALY: COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Counternarcotics Officer Enrico Valvo on February 28. He thanked the USG for the information on the U.S. SBIRT and Cannabis resolutions and said he would pass the information to the interagency counternarcotics working group in the Italian [...]	2008-03-03 13:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC SNAR IT
08ROME260	GOI WORKING TO IMPROVE NATO-EU RELATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-03 13:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MOPS EU TU CY IT
08ROME262	ITALY: EU COMMISSIONER MICHEL SHOULD ABIDE BY [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-04 10:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN CU IT
08ROME268	ITALY: ERITREAN BEHAVIOR UNACCEPTABLE, BUT MORE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche March 4 to MFA East Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino and UN Desk Officer Gabriella Biondi, seeking Italian views on the future of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and the possibility of sanctions or other measures targeted at Eritrea. [...]	2008-03-04 15:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO ER ET IT
08ROME275	ITALY: SEEKING BALANCED UNSCR ON GAZA SITUATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-05 14:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC XF IS GZ IT
08ROME276	ITALIAN ELECTIONS: WHERE THINGS STAND AS CAMPAGIN [...] (C/NF) Former PM Silvio Berlusconi's People of Liberty (PdL) party leads Walter Veltroni's Democratic Party (PD) by six to eleven percentage points in opinion polls as the campaign for Italy's April 13-14 parliamentary elections gets underway. A complicated electoral system and a change in the [...]	2008-03-05 17:02:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IT
08ROME288	ITALY ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY IN THE UNSC [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-06 13:21:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO IT
08ROME298	ITALY: TERZI RECEIVED BANK MELLI POINTS IN ADVANCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-10 14:50:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	EUN KNNP PARM IR IT
08ROME316	ITALY: FIRST SECRETARY WILL ATTEND MARCH 14 BEIRUT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points requesting Italian participation in the March 14 Beirut Conference to MFA Syria/Lebanon Desk Officer Michele Tommasi March 10. At poloff's urging Tommasi said Italy had decided to send a first secretary to the conference. This was a reversal of Italy's ear [...]	2008-03-12 17:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREF PTER MASS PARM SY IS LE IT
08ROME33	ITALY CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN TLSA [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-10 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN KPKO MARR MASS IT
08ROME34	ITALY RECEPTIVE TO CHINA ANTI-SATELLITE TEST [...] (S) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Acting Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia on January 7 and to East Asia Office Director Giuseppe Mistretta on January 10. Separately, Scioff delivered the demarche to MFA Director for Energy, Space, High Techn [...]	2008-01-10 18:35:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL PARM MNUC MARR TSPA CH IT
08ROME365	ITALY/CFE: GOI "POSITIVE" ON PROPOSED NATO CFE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA OSCE Desk Officer Emilio Giribone on March 25. He said that Italy will be represented at the March 27 HLTF by Brunella Borzi, MFA Envoy for OSCE Political-Military Affairs, who has already seen the draft U.S.-German Statement on CFE. Althoug [...]	2008-03-25 17:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO KCFE MARR RS MD GG IT
08ROME367	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: REFERENDUM IN BURMA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Southeast Asia Office Director Alberto Vecchi March 17 and urged Italy to speak out about concerns over the Burmese regime's announced constitutional referendum. Vecchi, who returned February 29 from a week-long trip to Burma, said Italy agreed with ou [...]	2008-03-26 10:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BM IT
08ROME371	ITALY ON IRAN SANCTIONS: MFA SUPPORTS IMMEDIATE [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Non Proliferation Office Director Farruggia and Iran desk officer Kluzer in separate meetings on March 26 to urge swift Italian implementation of the financial provisions of UNSCR 1803 (Ref A and B). Both said Italy supported a common EU policy on UNSCR 1803 implement [...]	2008-03-26 17:12:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM KNNP EUN IR IT
08ROME396	ITALIAN FM CALLS GREEK FM TO PRESS FOR MACEDONIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-31 15:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO PGOV MK GR IT
08ROME419	ITALY: "ALREADY IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1803" [...] (C) Econ and Poloffs discussed reftels on UNSCR 1803 implementation with MFA Terrorist Financing, Iran, and Non-Proliferation desk officers on April 3. MFA officials said Italy had been pushing the EU to adopt an EU common position on UNSCR 1803 by the April 28 GAERC. On the question of Ital [...]	2008-04-04 14:49:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ETRD PARM PGOV PREL KNNP IR IT
08ROME440	ITALY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON UNSCR 1540 [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Director for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Emanuele Farruggia on April 4. Farruggia had seen the Russian draft language for the technical rollover and was satisfied with it, but said he would take the U.S. position in favor of a strength [...]	2008-04-08 14:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP IT
08ROME445	ITALY WANTS COORDINATED ANNOUNCEMENT OF NDRANGHETA [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. 2. (U) This message contains an action request at para 3. 3. (SBU). SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. The Italian MFA informed Charge d'Affaires on April 9 that the GOI welcomes the possibility of a [...]	2008-04-09 14:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IT KCRM SNAR PTER
08ROME471	ITALIANS SUPPORT EFFORTS FOR GREATER REGIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-15 11:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR IT
08ROME51	CHAD/CAR: ITALY WILL CONTRIBUTE MILITARY HOSPITAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel non-paper to MFA West Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino (whose office's responsibilities extend as far east as Chad) January 11. Poloff emphasized USG support for an ESDP mission in Chad and theQntral African Republic (CAR),and requested information on Italy' [...]	2008-01-15 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV CD IT
08ROME519	GEORGIA/RUSSIA: ITALIANS PREFER DISCUSSING [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Marco Clemente, MFA Office Director for Russia and CIS affairs. Clemente agreed that Russia's Presidential Instructions on relations with Abkhazia represented a creeping annexation of the separatist region and stated that Italy was concerned by rising tens [...]	2008-04-23 13:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RS IT
08ROME52	SUDAN: ITALY STILL STUDYING REQUEST FOR JIU SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-15 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SU IT
08ROME527	NPT: ITALY APPRECIATES RECEIVING US NPT PREPCOM [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-24 15:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA
08ROME528	GREECE/MACEDONIA: ITALY IN FAVOR OF QUICK [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points on April 18 to MFA NATO desk officer Piermario Dacco. Poloffs requested high-level Italian intervention with Greece to urge renewed commitment in resolving the Macedonia name dispute as soon as possible. Dacco said Italy shared the USG concern and also w [...]	2008-04-24 15:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO PGOV MK GR IT
08ROME53	SUDAN: ITALY STILL STUDYING REQUEST FOR JIU SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-15 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SU IT
08ROME54	ITALY: POL DIRECTOR TELLS U/S ROOD ITALY SUPPORTS [...] (C) Italian MFA Political Director Terzi told U/S Rood that Italy supported additional measures to encourage Iran to suspend uranium enrichment (with a strong preference for a UNSCR, but also expressing openness to EU action). Terzi said the GOI believed in continuing the two-tracked approach [...]	2008-01-15 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV KNNP XF IT
08ROME541	CSD: ITALIAN HIGH-LEVEL/POLITICAL REPRESENTATION [...] (C) Summary. Italian MFA officials told Emboffs that the head of Italy's delegation to the May 5-16 United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD),like that of the U.S., likely will be a senior career official, rather than a high-level or political figure. This is largely due to [...]	2008-04-30 06:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV AORC PREL EAGR EUN EAID ECON ZI XA IT
08ROME544	ITALY CONSIDERING REQUEST TO RESETTLE CUBAN MIGRANT [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-30 11:32:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF SMIG CU PM IT
08ROME545	RAISING ZIMBABWE AT THE UN [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-30 11:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC XA ZI AU IT
08ROME546	IRAQ: ITALY PLANS TO PARTICIPATE IN ICI [...] Poloff delivered ref a points to Amb. Gianludovico De Martino, Director of the MFA Iraq Task Force, on April 29. De Martino said that Italy will have a new government by the ICI Ministerial and was hopeful that the new Foreign Minister would attend. De Martino noted that as IRFFI co-chair, Ita [...]	2008-04-30 11:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ IT
08ROME55	CHAD/CAR: ITALY WILL CONTRIBUTE MILITARY HOSPITAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel non-paper to MFA West Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino (whose office's responsibilities extend as far east as Chad) January 11. Poloff emphasized USG support for an ESDP mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR),and requested information on Ital [...]	2008-01-15 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV CD IT
08ROME558	ITALY UNLIKELY TO MAKE PUBLIC STATEMENT ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-05 07:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM IT
08ROME56	SUDAN: ITALY STILL STUDYING REQUEST FOR JIU SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-15 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SU IT
08ROME568	SOMALIA PIRACY: ITALY CONCERNED ABOUT SETTING A [...] (C) On May 6 Poloff delivered reftel points to Leonardo Bencini of the MFA UN Office. Bencini said Italy agrees that piracy in Somali territorial waters is becoming an increasingly serious threat to international vessels and the that the international community needs to take action. Bencini n [...]	2008-05-06 11:12:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM UNSC SO IT
08ROME57	CHAD/CAR: ITALY WILL CONTRIBUTE MILITARY HOSPITAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel non-paper to MFA West Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino (whose office's responsibilities extend as far east as Chad) January 11. Poloff emphasized USG support for an ESDP mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR),and requested information on Ital [...]	2008-01-15 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV CD IT
08ROME58	SUDAN: ITALY STILL STUDYING REQUEST FOR JIU SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-15 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SU IT
08ROME586	LEBANON: ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF SINIORA GOVERNMENT IN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Lebanon/Syria Desk Officer Michele Tommasi on May 9. Tommasi said that Italian Ambassador to Lebanon Gabriele Cecchia had already delivered a strong message of support to the Siniora Government and to General Sleiman and would continue to do [...]	2008-05-09 15:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER LE IT
08ROME602	ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ABOUT FRENCH UNSCR ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 14:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM IT
08ROME604	CLUSTER MUNITIONS: ITALY STILL FIRMLY WITHIN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Acting Director for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Affairs Laura Aghilarre on May 9. Aghillare stressed that the Italian position is still decidedly against any agreement that would compromise the "like-minded" approach and that the Italian [...]	2008-05-13 06:01:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT MOPS PREL PARM NATO
08ROME621	ITALIAN FM CALLS ON HIZBALLAH TO AVOID CREATING A [...] (C) In the absence of the FM, who was in Peru attending the EU-Latin America Caribbean Summit, we delivered reftel points May 16 to the PM's Diplomatic Advisor for the Middle East Marco Carnelos, to MFA Near East Office Director Carlo Formosa, and to Lebanon desk officer Michele Tommasi, who [...]	2008-05-16 14:02:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LE SY IR IT
08ROME64	ITALY ON HCOC ANNUAL DECLARATIONS OF SPACE AND [...] (C) Poloff delivered Reftel demarche to Italian MFA Acting Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia on January 15. Farruggia said that Italy should have no trouble submitting its Hague Code of Conduct Annual Declaration on space and ballistic missile policies by the M [...]	2008-01-16 11:42:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
08ROME657	ITALY/CUBA: ACTIVITIES FOR THE DAY SOLIDARITY WITH [...] (C) Summary: Per ref A-C requests, Post engaged in a robust effort to mark May 21's "Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People." We placed the Cuba Solidarity op-ed May 20 in leading center-right daily Il Giornale. Lobbying by the Ambassador convinced Senate President Schifani, Chamber of Depu [...]	2008-05-22 15:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI CU IT
08ROME662	BURMA: ITALY PLANS LOW-LEVEL PARTICIPATION AT [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-23 15:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PHUM BM IT

08ROME684	IOM DG RACE: ITALY HAS NO BACKUP PLAN SHOULD ITS [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-30 15:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF SMIG AORC IT
08ROME716	ITALY TO ATTEND JUNE VIENNA CONFERENCE ON LEBANON [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-05 12:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA IT
08ROME72	ITALY: MINISTER OF JUSTICE SUBMITS RESIGNATION [...] (C/NF) Minister of Justice Clemente Mastella submitted his resignation January 16 after prosecutors ordered the provisional house arrest of his wife, also a prominent politician. PM Prodi quickly rejected his resignation. It is unclear whether Mastella will insist on resigning, though an off [...]	2008-01-16 18:00:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV IT
08ROME743	BURMA: ITALY SEES IMPROVEMENT IN HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Southeast Asian Office Director Alberto Vecchi June 9, urging Italy to press the Burmese regime to improve humanitarian access and halt forced relocation of cyclone victims. Vecchi, who represented Italy at the May 25 pledging conference in Rangoon, [...]	2008-06-11 14:42:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM BM IT
08ROME745	ITALY TO ATTEND BERLIN CONFERENCE FOR PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-12 11:37:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN IT
08ROME746	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: ITALY REGRETS U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-12 11:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IT
08ROME747	ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-12 12:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNSC ZI IT
08ROME748	ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-12 12:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNSC ZI IT
08ROME78	SYRIA: ITALY SUPPORTS EU AS VENUE FOR SUPPORTING [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-18 10:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XF XG KMPI NSC SY IT
08ROME809	ITALY: RESPONSE TO CHAPTER VII UNSCR ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-30 15:00:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI IT
08ROME814	ITALY SAYS EU CONSIDERING 25 MILLION EURO PLEDGE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-01 10:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP IAEA ENRG IT
08ROME823	ISAF: ITALY PLEDGES MORE FLEXIBLE USE OF TROOPS [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with Italian MFA Acting NATO Office Director Carlo Batori on June 25 to review Italian commitments to ISAF in the wake of the June 12 meeting between President Bush and PM Berlusconi. Batori confirmed that Italy is "removing" geographic caveats on Italian forces unde [...]	2008-07-02 15:00:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR AF IT NATO
08ROME828	ITALY WELCOMES NASA-CNSA TALKS, STRATEGIC SPACE [...] (U) SCICOUNS delivered reftel non-paper to Giovanni Manfredi, Director for Energy, Space, High Technology and Aerospace and Defense Programs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on June 27, 2008. Manfredi,s successor, Counselor Roberto Liotto, also attended the meeting. Due to reorganizat [...]	2008-07-03 09:20:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL TSPA TPHY TSPL KSCA CH IT
08ROME835	AFGHANISTAN: ITALY RECEPTIVE TO ANA TROOP INCREASE [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered Reftel demarche on July 3 to Italian MFA Deputy Afghanistan Coordinator Paola Munzi and Deputy NATO Office Director Carlo Batori. Munzi said that the Italian government supports the Afghanistan Compact goal [...]	2008-07-03 13:02:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF
08ROME840	ITALY: BERLUSCONI HITS STRONG HEADWINDS [...] (C/NF) After a very strong first month in office, PM Berlusconi's political honeymoon has been upset by prosecutors accelerating proceedings in criminal cases pending against him. These proceedings, leaked wiretaps, as well as the probability of further leaks have Berlusconi insiders concerned. The [...]	2008-07-03 16:54:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV IT
08ROME859	ITALY DOES NOT SUPPORT ARAB GROUP DRAFT UNSCR ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-09 16:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IS LE SY IT
08ROME865	ITALY BEGINS CENSUS OF ROMA CAMPS [...] (C) With a large majority in both houses of parliament and a public united in feelings of insecurity in large cities, PM Berlusconi's government has begun to crack down on illegal immigration and crime. A plan to conduct a census of residents of encampments, aimed at Italy's Roma population, [...]	2008-07-10 16:02:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM IT
08ROME871	BURMA: ITALY IN AGREEMENT ON POST-CYCLONE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-11 14:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID BM EUN IT
08ROME872	ITALY REMAINS FOCUSED ON HOLDING PRISONERS OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-11 14:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PHUM PREL KDEM IT
08ROME883	ITALIAN MFA SUGGESTS QUINT DISCUSSIONS ON P5+1 [...] (C) Poloff discussed points in reftel regarding U/S Burns attendance at the P5 1 meetings in Geneva with Italian MFA Non Proliferation Director Emanuele Farruggia July 17. Farruggia said Political Director Terzi appreciated Ambassador Spogli's phone call on July 16 regarding U/S Burns' parti [...]	2008-07-17 15:17:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM IR IT
08ROME887	ITALY: IAEA BOG MESA SEAT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-18 11:38:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	IAEA KNNP PREL KZ SY AORC IT
08ROME888	ITALY: SUPPORTIVE ON INDIA-IAEA SAFEGUARDS [...] (C) Summary. Italy will seek to be supportive of India in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG),but MFA officials urgently request information on the Indian sites to be placed under safeguards, and on the likely substance of the NSG waiver request. [...]	2008-07-18 14:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IAEA ETTC KNNP AORC PARM PREL IT
08ROME892	ITALY SUPPORTS EXPANDED NTM-I; CONSIDERING [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-21 16:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO IZ IT
08ROME911	ITALY: KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON THE FARC [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-24 07:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	CO VE HR EUN PTER AF SNAR PGOV PREL IT
08ROME917	ITALY, GERMANY, FRANCE, SPAIN SEND LETTER TO SYRIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-24 16:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY LE EUN IT
08ROME924	ITALY: THE WAY FORWARD ON UNMEE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA East Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino July 25. Sammartino said Italy was largely in agreement with U.S. thinking on the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). UNMEE's mandate must be terminated, he said, given the lack of agreement by e [...]	2008-07-28 14:21:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER IT
08ROME943	ITALY: TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION MUST STAY ON TRACK [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-29 08:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV TU EUN IT
08ROME988	U/S ROOD DISCUSSES IRAN, MISSILE DEFENSE WITH [...] (C) Summary: Italian MFA Political Director Terzi thanked U/S Rood on June 23 for the U.S. assistance in including Italy in pre P5+1 consultations on Iran. He said Italy was pushing for stronger EU measures against Iran and wanted to include a robust discussion of Iran by the Quint on the m [...]	2008-08-05 12:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM PREL MNUC MCAP MARR NATO ETTC KNNP IAEA
08ROME995	ITALY: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-06 11:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM IT
08RPODUBAI55	IRAN'S RAFSANJANI CALLS 1979 EMBASSY SIEGE A "MISTAKE" [...] (C) Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani gave an unusual speech at Sharif University on November 23 in which he acknowledged several "mistakes" that had occurred during the early period of the Islamic Revolution, including the siege of the American Embassy, and announ [...]	2008-11-24 15:26:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINR IR
08SANAA1053	YEMEN'S BIG BROTHER: WHAT HAS SAUDI ARABIA DONE [...] (U) AMEMBASSY Riyadh and AMCONGEN Jeddah have cleared this cable. Summary ------- 2. (C) Yemen has a long history of relations with Saudi Arabia based primarily on their 1500 km shared border, which has led to extensive social, religious and business ties. Yemenis perceive the relationship as he [...]	2008-06-18 09:26:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS SA YM
08SANAA107	SALEH CALLS FOR ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT ON GAZA [...] (U) On January 21, President Saleh called for an emergency Arab League summit to discuss the blockade of Gaza. While his Party endorses his idea, at least one opposition figure dismisses it as an empty gesture. End Summary 2. (U) On January 21, According to Yemen's official news agency, P [...]	2008-01-22 13:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KSUM PGOV IS YM
08SANAA1078	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON GLOBAL MARITIME PARTNERSHIP [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-23 10:45:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT EAID ECIN ECON EFIS MARR MASS MCAP MOPS
08SANAA108	YEMENIS DEMONSTRATE IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIANS, [...] (U) Post RSO sources indicate that, on January 22, a crowd of between 5000 and 6000 marched from Sana'a University toward the headquarters of the U.N. Development Program (UNDP),in protest of the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Police prevented the group from reaching UNDP headquarters. The crowd [...]	2008-01-22 14:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PGOV IS YM
08SANAA1096	PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT VISITS YEMEN, BUT LITTLE BUZZ [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Palestinian President visited Yemen on June 19 and met with President Saleh to discuss the Arab-Israeli issue and Yemen's initiative to reconcile Fatah and Hamas. Open source reporting said little about the discussions and insiders told PolOff that no substantive developments [...]	2008-06-25 14:04:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS EG YM
08SANAA1139	DJIBOUTIAN EMBASSY IN YEMEN COMMENTS ON HORN OF [...] (C) Hassan Ali Hassan, deputy head of mission at the Djiboutian Embassy in Yemen, told PolOff on 30 June that tensions are still high between Djibouti and Eritrea. Hassan said the Eritrean Army has encroached into Djibouti to the city of Moulhole. There have been several attempts to enter in [...]	2008-07-07 10:58:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL DJ YM
08SANAA1165	AL-HOUTHI REBELLION: NO END IN SIGHT [...] (C) Fighting between the al-Houthi rebels and ROYG forces has intensified this year, leading to increased efforts by the ROYG to quash the rebellion militarily once and for all and prompting it to seek aid from the US, Russia, Belarus, and Yemen's own militant tribes. As fighting has increased [...]	2008-07-14 10:22:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PGOV PINS YM
08SANAA122	YEMENI GUN BAN HOLDS BUT ATTITUDES REMAIN UNCHANGED [...] (U) Yemen's historic gun ban is holding five months after it was announced. Though violence continues in Yemen reports suggest there has been some reduction in gun related crimes. Lasting change will only be successful if attitudes about weapons change and people become aware of its dangers. E [...]	2008-01-26 13:35:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PGOV YM
08SANAA1408	YEMEN RECEIVES DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-20 13:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR GM YM
08SANAA1422	TWO YEMENI BAHA'IS RELEASED FROM JAIL; IRANIAN AND [...] (SBU) The two detained Yemeni Baha'is (reftel) were released on August 19. The four other remaining imprisoned Baha'is, three Iranians and one Iraqi, are still detained in a Sanaa Criminal Investigation Department prison, pending further investigation. No official charges have yet been filed [...]	2008-08-25 10:31:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF PGOV YM
08SANAA1473	DEPORTATION STILL FEARED FOR THE BAHA'IS [...] (SBU) As of September 3, the four imprisoned Baha'is (reftel) remain detained and face possible deportation. According to their lawyer, Khaled al-Anisi, the ROYG has now unofficially agreed that they may choose the country to which they will be deported. 2. (SBU) On August 31, the Charge d' [...]	2008-09-03 14:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL KIRF PGOV YM
08SANAA1520	YEMEN: DELIVERY OF UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-08 13:29:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UN YM
08SANAA1521	ROYG AGREES TO NOT DEPORT BAHA'IS TO IRAN, BUT [...] (SBU) On September 6, the DCM stressed to National Security Bureau (NSB) and Presidential Office Director Ali al-Anisi the importance of not deporting the detained Baha'is to Iran (ref A). Al-Anisi replied that the ROYG would not forcibly deport the detainees to Iran, but insisted that they w [...]	2008-09-08 13:34:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KIRF YM
08SANAA1540	NO CHANGE ON BAHA'I CASE: DEPORTATION STILL [...] (SBU) Summary: There continues to be no change in the ROYG's position vis a vis the detained Baha'is. The President has officially signed an order calling for the deportation of the four detainees to the country of their choice. UNHCR has still not been granted access to the prisoners, putti [...]	2008-09-15 13:14:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREF KIRF YM
08SANAA1830	GPC JITTERS OVER APRIL 2009 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Although the ruling party is expected to win easily in the upcoming parliamentary elections, President Saleh has recently expressed fears about how the opposition will portray his actions during the campaign. Some speculate that he is overstating these fears to avoid taking actio [...]	2008-11-10 14:23:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL YM
08SANAA1887	SCER SITS AT THE CENTER OF ELECTORAL SPAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. While publicly the GPC and JMP continue to dig deeper into their entrenched positions regarding the upcoming parliamentary elections, officials on each side have left open the possibility of reaching a face-saving compromise that would encourage JMP participation. The GPC-domina [...]	2008-11-23 14:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL YM
08SANAA1890	PORT OF ADEN'S DEVELOPMENT SQUEEZED BY SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The port of Aden struggles to regain its stature as an essential regional hub in the midst of new management and ongoing security threats. Although the strike against new Aden Container Terminal manager Dubai Ports World appears to have been resolved, endemic corruption still a [...]	2008-11-24 14:18:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EWWT PBTS YM
08SANAA1901	SALEM HAMDAN IN YEMENI GOVERNMENT CUSTODY [...] (S) At approximately 03:54 local time on November 26, 2008, Colonel Gilberto Villahermosa, Senior Defense Representative and Chief, Office of Military Cooperation, Sana'a, Yemen, met the USAF C-17 at Sana'a International Airport, signed for Guantanamo detainee Salem Ahmed Salem Hamdan (ISN US [...]	2008-11-26 10:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PGOV PTER YM
08SANAA195	SALEH ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL [...] (U) Shortly after returning from his trip to Spain and Belgium, and only a few months after his regular annual physical in Germany, President Saleh was admitted to a Yemeni hospital. 2. (U) The Defense Ministry-funded 26Sep Net reported on February second that President Saleh had flown fro [...]	2008-02-03 14:22:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PGOV PINR YM
08SANAA1994	REYDA JEWS FACE NEW THREATS OF VIOLENCE IN WAKE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Days after the December 11 murder of a Yemeni Jew in Reyda, the town's Jewish community reports continued harassment and violence, and complains of ROYG inaction. Minister of Interior Rashad al-Masri assured the Ambassador on December 13 that the ROYG would protect the nation's [...]	2008-12-15 11:35:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF KIRF YM
08SANAA2026	SAADA, RECOVERING FROM EARLIER CONFLICTS, AWAITS [...] (S) SUMMARY. Ongoing tribal violence, a deteriorating humanitarian situation andincreasing Houthi influence across Saada point to a likely renewal of hostilities in the near future, despite the ROYG,s professed desire to avoid more fighting. Reconstruction and provision of basic services are [...]	2008-12-21 13:09:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	MCAP MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF YM
08SANAA2028	LOCAL SECURITY INSUFFICIENT TO EASE REYDA JEWS' [...] (C) SUMMARY. Representatives of the Jewish community in Reyda confirmed that they would accept President Saleh's offer of land and money to build houses in Sana'a, but worried that their immediate security needs in Reyda were not being addressed. Deputy Head of the National Security Bureau (N [...]	2008-12-22 07:07:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF KIRF YM
08SANAA2033	YEMEN INFORMED OF DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 12:52:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP EFIN PARM IR YM
08SANAA2061	GCC MEMBERSHIP REMAINS BEYOND YEMEN'S GRASP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Yemen's full participation in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is thwarted by its bleak economic outlook, including a large, but unemployed, work force. GCC members have pledged to help strengthen Yemen's development, but a substantial amount of money has not been delivered. E [...]	2008-12-30 12:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YM
08SANAA2064	YEMEN'S PERMANENT REP TO THE UN MAY ATTEND CONTACT [...] Although Post did not receive an official response to reftel invitation, Abdul Hakeem al-Eryani, Director of the Office of the Foreign Minister, told Poloff at a December 30 meeting that the ROYG is considering sending its Permanent Representative to the UN to participate. He was unable to co [...]	2008-12-30 13:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER YM
08SANAA2065	PLAINCLOTHES SECURITY OFFICIALS SENT TO PROTECT [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-30 13:04:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF KIRF YM
08SANAA208	APPROACH TO AIRLINES ON FOREIGN FIGHTERS - YEMENIA [...] (U) PolOff presented reftel PowerPoint to Capt. Abdul Kalek Al-kadi, chairman of Yemenia Airways, on February 2. The captain assured PolOff of all cooperation possible in this area. 2. (S) Al-kadi prefaced the meeting by saying that the ROYG and Yemenia Airways were already taking steps to [...]	2008-02-06 10:09:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	EAIR ECON PTER YM
08SANAA258	NEW PARLIAMENT SPEAKER AND DEPUTY SPEAKERS ALL [...] (C) Summary: The Yemeni Parliament chose its new Speaker of Parliament and Deputy Speakers on February 11. The ruling party won all slots, despite the unpopularity of its nominated Speaker and the opposition's clever strategy to maximize its chances. End Summary. The Winners: --------- [...]	2008-02-11 13:39:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV YM
08SANAA259	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN.GIFT AND THE VIENNA FORUM [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-11 13:44:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG YM
08SANAA268	PARLIAMENT SPEAKER CAUSES DISSENT IN RULING PARTY [...] (C) On February 11, President Saleh's choice was elected Speaker of Parliament. General unhappiness with the new speaker and the strong arm tactics used to elect him have alienated many in the ruling party. Considering the number of issues already facing the ROYG, the President's decision to [...]	2008-02-13 14:23:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV YM
08SANAA46	WHO HAS THE EAR OF THE PRESIDENT? PART 2: [...] (C) President Ali Abdullah Saleh holds all decision-making authority within his country. Nonetheless, he relies on an established network of advisors who have obtained his trust and respect. This is the second in a series of cables that intends to develop a fuller understanding of who influen [...]	2008-01-08 08:06:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR YM
08SANAA67	SAADA UPDATE: IT'S NOT QUIET ON YEMEN'S [...] (U) On January 10 there was renewed intense fighting in Saada in northwestern Yemen between al-Houthi and ROYG forces leading to a spike in casualties. A Qatari-mediated cease-fire is widely accepted to have failed despite efforts at the highest levels to maintain it. A fifth war in Saada is [...]	2008-01-13 15:39:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PINS PGOV YM
08SANAA835	ROYG QUESTIONED ON YEMENI DELEGATION MEETING WITH [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 12:43:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PARM MTCRE PREL KN YM
08SANAA836	PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO ROYG [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 12:43:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN PHUM PREL YM
08SANAA86	GPC MP CRITICIZES ROYG HANDLING OF SOUTHERN [...] (C) On January 13 a prominent member of Yemen's ruling party criticized his government's handling of demonstrations in Aden specifically and southern discontent in general. Earlier in the day, media reported that two Yemenis had died and 17 were injured in fighting that broke out during a demo [...]	2008-01-14 14:30:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PGOV PREL YM
08SANAA89	KHAWLAN SHIEKHS APPEAL FOR RELEASE OF AL-MOAYED [...] (C) On January 15, a delegation of Yemeni Sheikhs made a plea to the Ambassador for the release of convicted terrorist financier Sheikh Mohammed al-Moayed. The delegation averred that the Sheikh was a good, charitable man who would not have supported terrorists. They attempted to cast reconsi [...]	2008-01-15 14:55:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL YM
08SANAA91	THREE BELGIANS KILLED IN ATTACK IN HADRAMOUT [...] (C) At approximately 2:30 PM local time, January 18 in Wadi Dowan in the governorate of Hadramout a four-car convoy carrying Belgian tourists was attacked by armed men. PSO in Makulla reported that two or three of the Belgian tourists were killed, as was one Yemeni driver. One tourist and one [...]	2008-01-18 16:34:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL YM
08SANAA979	YEMEN PIPELINE ATTACK [...] (C) On June 1 the Yemeni Soldiers' Brigade (a group associated with Al-Qaida which claimed responsibility for the attack on the embassy in March) claimed responsibility for what it called a "mortar attack" on the oil pipeline near a state-run refinery in Aden on May 30. Media reporting varies [...]	2008-06-02 13:55:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND ENRG EPET PINS PTER YM
08SANJOSE286	COSTA RICA: TIP UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with ADCM and Poloffs on April 16, Vice Minister Duran painted a mixed picture of the GOCR's anti-TIP efforts. She described new training initiatives for law enforcement personnel, which might reach 500 officials over the next year, and legislative initiatives which [...]	2008-04-17 22:36:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG CS
08SANJOSE337	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: RAISING ZIMBABWE AT THE UN [...] (U) On April 29, we delivered reftel demarches to Adriana Murillo, Head of the UN Security Council Team, and Deyanira Ramirez, UN General Assembly Desk Officer, at the MFA. Poloff also presented the talking points that the US plans to raise with the SYG and UNDP. 2. (C) The two officials st [...]	2008-04-30 21:17:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC XA ZI AU CS
08SANJOSE348	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NUCLEAR NPT PREPARATORY [...] On April 30, Poloff transmitted reftel demarche to Carlos Cordero, Department of Disarmament, Terrorism and Organized Crime, in the MFA. Due to the May 1 Labor Day (extended) holiday, no response has been received. Post will advise when/if a response is received. 2. Poloff previously delive [...]	2008-05-05 18:22:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA CS
08SANJOSE349	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BURMA'S FLAWED CONSTITUTIONAL [...] This message contains an action request -- please see paragraph 6. 2. Poloff delivered reftel demarche on May 2 to Juan Salas, UN Security Council Desk Officer at the MFA. Salas answered that Costa Rica supports democratic criteria in general and voiced that the situation in Burma involves [...]	2008-05-05 18:56:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BM CS
08SANJOSE540	HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY! COSTA RICA AND CHINA [...] (C) As Costa Rica's diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China turn one year old, the David-and-Goliath-sized arrangement continues to work for the benefit of both nations. While China's generous political and financial support to Costa Rica could be short-lived and Costa Rica's [...]	2008-06-23 22:46:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ETRD ENRG ENVI MASS XK CS CU
08SANJOSE56	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FY2007 CAFTA-TCB FUNDING [...] Ref A requested confirmation of Post action on this issue. Pol/C delivered Ref B demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on December 20, 2007. The MFA was to distribute the demarche to relevant government contacts on labor (and environmental) issues. In addition, Poloff sent the [...]	2008-01-25 20:09:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB ENIV ETRD SENV
08SANJOSE589	COSTA RICA SUPPORTING LIBYAN UNSC SETTLEMENTS [...] (SBU) We delivered Ref A on July 9 to Antonio Alarcon, FoMin Stagno's Chief of Staff, and to Juan Salas, MFA UNSC Desk Officer. Alarcon told DCM Brennan they would review the issue carefully, and, based on our points, Alarcon did not think the GOCR would have a problem going along with the U.S [...]	2008-07-10 17:56:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	IS LE PREL SY UNSC CS
08SANJOSE629	COSTA RICA COZYING UP TO CUBA? [...] (C) The Arias administration may be contemplating re-establishing diplomatic ties with Cuba. A vocal embargo opponent in the legislature (a member of President Arias' own party) seems to have Arias' ear on the issue, arguing that normalized relations would help open Cuba to democracy. FonMin [...]	2008-07-30 19:48:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CS CU
08SANJOSE674	TERRORISM FINANCE DESIGNATIONS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Econoff and Poloff met with Carlos Cordero, Department of Disarmament, Terrorism, and Organized Crime, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Costa Rica on August 7. Econoff demarched the MFA on several terrorism designations, consisting of both Executive Orders and UN designation [...]	2008-08-19 22:05:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN UNSC PINR KU IZ SY
08SANJOSE687	COSTA RICA -- DEMARCHE ON LEADERS, MEETING ON [...] (SBU) During a meeting with FM Bruno Stagno on August 19, Ambassador Cianchette personally invited the GOCR to participate in the September 24 leaders, meeting on trade and prosperity in New York. Stagno stated that the GOCR plan was for President Oscar Arias, Minister of Foreign Trade (COME [...]	2008-08-22 19:33:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CS ECON EFTA ETRD PGOV PREL UNGA
08SANJOSE71	RE-BUILDING BRIDGES IN COSTA RICA: A THREE-WAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an unusual three-way partnership, the GOCR, the Costa Rican private sector and the U.S. military have embarked on a campaign to replace key bridges damaged or washed out by flooding in the heavy 2007 rainy season. Most of the work will be undertaken by the National Emergency [...]	2008-01-30 15:10:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	CS EAID MASS PGOV PREL
08SANJOSE763	COSTA RICA: AUGUST 28 UNSC BILATERAL CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: IO Acting A/S Brian Hook's August 28 bilateral consultations with the MFA on UNSC matters were successful in bringing the U.S. and the GOCR to mutual understanding - if not agreement - on a range of UNSC issues. A/S Hook lobbied the MFA for greater cooperation on speed in the UN [...]	2008-09-23 13:23:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN IZ PGOV PINR PREL UNSC UN CS
08SANJOSE800	COSTA RICA: MEDRETE TREATS NEARLY 1000 PATIENTS IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 25-27 September 2008, Honduran-based Joint Task Force-Bravo (JTF-B) and Costa Rican medical personnel conducted a Medical Readiness Training Exercise (MEDRETE) in Costa Rica's remote Punta Burica region on the south eastern border with Panama. The Embassy coordinated the event [...]	2008-10-07 17:21:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM MASS SOCI CS
08SANJOSE855	COSTA RICA - NOMINATION FOR SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] (U) Embassy San Jose is pleased to nominate Mariliana Morales Berros for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage, per reftel. ------------ NOMINEE DATA ------------ 2. (U) Nominee: Mariliana Morales Berros. 3. (U) Title and Institution: Founder and Executive Director [...]	2008-10-30 15:22:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KWMN PHUM KPAO CS
08SANJOSE901	COSTA RICA: AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS ASSIST GOCR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From October 22-23, Poloff and RSO visited the Quepos/Manuel Antonio area, a busy tourist area located about three hours from San Jose on the central Pacific coast of Costa Rica, to discuss security issues with local U.S. investors and government officials. The RSO spoke with U. [...]	2008-11-18 23:20:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINR ASEC SNAR CONS CS
08SANJOSE902	COSTA RICA: AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS ASSIST GOCR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From October 22-23, Poloff and RSO visited the Quepos/Manuel Antonio area, a busy tourist area located about three hours from San Jose on the central Pacific coast of Costa Rica, to discuss security issues with local U.S. investors and government officials. The RSO spoke with U. [...]	2008-11-19 15:05:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINR ASEC SNAR CONS CS
08SANJOSE969	HISTORICAL VISIT OF CHINESE PRESIDENT HU KICKS OFF [...] (SBU) "Chinese president (arrives) like Santa Claus with FTA, balls, and bicycles" read one headline recapping the historical visit of President Hu Jintao to San Jose November 16-17. Hu's rock-star-like reception included major street closures and a holiday for most government employees who wo [...]	2008-12-12 02:12:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EFIN EINV ECON CS CH CU
08SANSALVADOR1007	DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-26 20:35:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KNNP MNUC PREL IR GM ES
08SANSALVADOR1024	EL SALVADOR: AGAINST RUSSIA'S INVASION OF GEORGIA [...] (C) DCM and Poloff met with Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Eduardo Calix and MFA Director General of Foreign Policy Werner Romero on August 27 to deliver reftel points regarding developments in Georgia. Calix said El Salvador opposed Russia's invasion, and that Russia must respect the ter [...]	2008-08-28 20:50:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ES
08SANSALVADOR1040	EL SALVADOR: AWAITS ICJ KOSOVO DECISION [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-29 20:35:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN UNGA KV ES
08SANSALVADOR1069	GOES RESPONDS FAVORABLY TO USG UNGA POSITIONS [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials responsible for multilateral affairs told us September 5 that El Salvador supports USG positions on all reftel UNGA issues. They undertook to share our concerns with the Salvadoran Mission to the UN in order to coordinate effectively in New York during the UNGA Third [...]	2008-09-09 17:22:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN ES
08SANSALVADOR1181	GOES WILL CONSIDER UNSCR 1835 [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-14 16:32:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP IR MNUC PARM ES
08SANSALVADOR1183	GOES SUGGESTS MULTILATERAL RELIEF EFFORTS FOR CUBA [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-14 16:32:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL CU ES
08SANSALVADOR1188	DELIVERED NPT NON-PAPER; GOES SUPPORTS WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-15 23:05:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EG ENRG IS KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA ES
08SANSALVADOR1201	PCN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SEES OPPORTUNITY TO WIN [...] (C) Summary: The National Concilitation Party (PCN) announced Tomas Chevez as its presidential candidate on August 31. Chevez believes his religious affiliation and experience make a first round win possible. End Summary. 2. (C) Poloffs met with PCN President Ciro Cruz Zepeda, PCN Preside [...]	2008-10-20 15:43:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ES
08SANSALVADOR1233	GOES NOTIFIED OF US CANDIDACY FOR CIM [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-29 22:12:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AORC ES
08SANSALVADOR1276	VP CANDIDATE ZABLAH SEES PROBLEMS IN EL SALVADOR'S [...] (C) Summary: Arturo Zablah, VP nominee for (center-right, pro-U.S.) ARENA, told us November 3 he fully supported CAFTA-DR, though he would do more to take advantage of the trade agreement. He lamented the restrictions placed on the Salvadoran economy by dollarization and privatization (going [...]	2008-11-10 21:32:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ES
08SANSALVADOR1290	GOES WILL VOTE AGAINST NO-ACTION MOTIONS [...] (C) Poloffs met with Ambassador Carlos Adrian Velasco Novoa, MFA Multilateral Affairs Director, and Gustavo Argueta, MFA Multilateral Affairs Officer, November 12. Polcouns expressed thanks for Salvadoran opposition to no-action motions. Velasco and Argueta said El Salvador has formally decid [...]	2008-11-14 23:13:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ES
08SANSALVADOR1310	EL SALVADOR NONCOMMITTAL ON ANTI-ISRAEL UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-25 22:42:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY ES
08SANSALVADOR1387	EL SALVADOR ASSESSING U.S. PROPOSAL ON UN [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-19 18:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT AORC APER PREL UNGA ES
08SANSALVADOR1389	EL SALVADOR HAS NO OPINION YET ON UNESCO DG [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-19 20:26:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNESCO ES
08SANSALVADOR1398	EVANGELICAL UNHAPPINESS WITH ARENA COULD IMPACT [...] (U) Summary: President of the Salvadoran National Commission of Pastors and Leaders (CONAPAL),Romel Guardon, expressed his displeasure with President Elias Antonio "Tony" Saca and ARENA Presidential Candidate Rodrigo Avila December 2, but said that the group would wait until February to deci [...]	2008-12-22 15:52:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV SCUL

08SANSALVADOR1400	DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 22:21:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KNNO EFIN PARM IR ES
08SANSALVADOR229	EL SALVADOR NOTIFIED OF SATELLITE ENGAGEMENT [...] (SBU) On February 21, Poloff delivered reftel notification to Ambassador Guillermo Melendez, MFA Director General for Foreign Policy. Notification was accepted without comment. Post will pass on any substantive response received. GLAZER [...]	2008-02-22 22:30:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ES PARM TSPA NASA
08SANSALVADOR238	ARENA: COENA NAMES THREE PRESIDENTIAL FINALISTS [...] (C) Summary: Rodrigo Avila, Luis Mario Rodriguez and Ana Vilma de Escobar were named February 26 as the three finalists in the race to become ARENA's presidential candidate. There is unhappiness and worry in COENA, ARENA's executive board, over President Saca's heavy handed management of the [...]	2008-02-27 19:43:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ES
08SANSALVADOR239	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RENEWAL AND AMENDMENT OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-27 19:49:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL MASS MOPS
08SANSALVADOR240	EL SALVADOR DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OSLO PROCESS [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-27 20:21:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ES PGOV NATO UN
08SANSALVADOR245	SUCHITOTO CHARGES DROPPED...OR NOT [...] (C) Summary: On February 19, a judge dismissed public disorder charges against 14 defendants who had originally been charged with terrorism in connection with a July 2007 demonstration that turned violent. The case has been a lightning rod for accusations by the opposition FMLN and US-based N [...]	2008-02-28 16:34:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ES PHUM KCRM
08SANSALVADOR248	EL SALVADOR: CUBA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-28 22:38:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL CU ES
08SANSALVADOR256	EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE UNSC ACTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-03 17:14:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ES SO UNSC UN PBTS KCRM IMO PREL
08SANSALVADOR26	EL SALVADOR TO SUPPORT PROSPER CANDIDACY FOR CERD [...] (SBU) During a January 9 conversation, Egriselda Gonzalez, Foreign Ministry Candidacies Desk Officer, confirmed to Poloff that El Salvador would support Ambassador Prosper's candidacy for the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. She added that a dipnote on the subject was [...]	2008-01-09 19:33:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ES PHUM UNGA
08SANSALVADOR264	DEMARCHE ON USG PRIORITIES FOR UNCND DELIVERED [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (U) Poloff delivered reftel points to Jose Roberto Trabanino, MFA Global Affairs Coordinator. Trabanino informed Poloff that the Salvadoran Ambassador in Vienna would be attending the meetings along with the Salvadoran National Ant [...]	2008-03-04 22:20:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ES SNAR AORC UN
08SANSALVADOR274	DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1803 DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-06 15:20:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ES UN KNNP MNUC PARM
08SANSALVADOR321	WHA/CEN DIRECTOR FEELEY VISIT TO EL SALVADOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: From March 4-7, WHA/CEN Director John Feeley visited El Salvador as part of a regional visit focused on the Merida Initiative. During the visit, Feeley attended the Ambassador's speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in El Salvador, discussed the Merida Initiative with Deputy F [...]	2008-03-14 19:58:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ES KDEM MX
08SANSALVADOR400	EL SALVADOR: MERIDA BRIEFINGS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel information to Foreign Affairs Vice-Minister Eduardo Calix, MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Guillermo Melendez, Minister of Public Security and Justice Rene Figueroa, Attorney General Felix Safie, and National Civilian Police (PNC) Director Francisco Rovir [...]	2008-04-03 18:19:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ES PINS PTER SNAR
08SANSALVADOR405	EL SALVADOR: UNSCR 1803 DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-04 16:18:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PARM NSG IR MNUC ES
08SANSALVADOR406	EL SALVADOR: PSI TALKING POINTS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-04 16:19:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL ES
08SANSALVADOR413	EL SALVADOR: INFORMATION ON WOMEN'S JUSTICE [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-04 20:35:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM KPAO PREL PGOV ES
08SANSALVADOR490	EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHE ON PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-23 18:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ES EUN PHUM
08SANSALVADOR51	EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHE ON RESOLVING KOSOVO STATUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA Director General for Political Affairs Guillermo Melendez told us on January 11 that the GoES will review the Kosovo independence issue and get back to us after completing their analysis and adopting a position. End Summary. 2. (C) On January 11, PolCouns and PolOff del [...]	2008-01-18 20:17:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PREL UN UNMIK YI EU
08SANSALVADOR529	U.S. PROPOSED PAPERS FOR NPT PREPCOM DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-02 21:40:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA ES
08SANSALVADOR539	TALKING POINTS ON NPT PREPARATORY COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-06 21:25:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA ES
08SANSALVADOR561	EL SALVADOR HOPES TO ATTEND UNESCO CONFERENCE IN [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 19:55:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	UNESCO ES
08SANSALVADOR562	TALKING POINTS AND U.S. 60-DAY REPORT TO UNSC ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-13 19:57:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR ES
08SANSALVADOR604	INVITATION TO IRAQ CONFERENCE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-21 22:07:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MARR MOPS OTRA PREL ES
08SANSALVADOR614	EL SALVADOR WILL CO-SPONSOR PRISONERS OF [...] (U) The cable is an update to Reftel A. 2. (SBU) Ambassador Jose Roberto Mejia Trabanino, Global Issues Coordinator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirmed to Poloff May 23 that El Salvador would co-sponsor the US-EU Declaration on Prisoners of Conscience. Mejia Trabanino added that [...]	2008-05-23 21:30:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ES EUN PHUM
08SANSALVADOR661	AGENDA FOR IRAQ CONFERENCE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-05 21:45:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	IZ MARR MOPS OTRA PREL ES
08SANSALVADOR683	LATEST IAEA REPORT AND U.S. RESPONSE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-10 22:37:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA ES
08SANSALVADOR684	DEMARCHE ON UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-10 22:38:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC APER PREL UNGA ES
08SANSALVADOR733	PRESS STATEMENT ON US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-20 16:29:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN PHUM PREL ES
08SANSALVADOR734	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-20 16:30:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ES PHUM PREL
08SANSALVADOR78	EL SALVADOR: SECOND SURVEY OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) Summary: The government of El Salvador would have to overcome significant political and legal hurdles in order to continue to deploy troops to Iraq without a United Nations (UN) Chapter VII mandate. In December 2007, the Legislative Assembly approved troop deployments through June 2009; [...]	2008-01-28 22:11:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES MARR MOPS PREL
08SANSALVADOR795	UPDATED P5 PLUS ONE PACKAGE FOR IRAN DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-02 17:04:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KNNP MNUC ES
08SANSALVADOR804	PSI SUMMARIES DELIVERED TO GOES [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-03 15:17:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KNNP MNUC ES
08SANSALVADOR805	EL SALVADOR: KOSOVO RECOGNITION AND DONOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-03 15:17:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNMIK PGOV YI EU KPKO KVIR ES
08SANSALVADOR835	TALKING POINTS PRAISING THE NEW EU BENCHMARKS ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-11 21:26:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM EUN CU ES
08SANSALVADOR836	TALKING POINTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-11 21:26:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC UN NGO PHUM ES
08SANSALVADOR882	DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] (C) On July 24 PolOff delivered nonpaper regarding the designation of additional Iranian entities and individuals under E.O. 13382 to Francisco Gonzalez, Security Affairs Officer at the MFA. While there was no immediate response, we will continue to follow up and report. 2. (C) Comment: Pr [...]	2008-07-25 18:53:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP EFIN PARM IR
08SANSALVADOR915	FMLN PUSHES PRAGMATISM [...] (C) Summary: On July 29 three high ranking members of the (left-wing) FMLN told us that they accepted U.S. assistance to counter crime and drug trafficking and were supportive of International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA). They reiterated the FMLN,s intention to withdraw Salvadoran troops f [...]	2008-07-31 19:54:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ES
08SANSALVADOR980	FMLN CONVENTION: WILL PLEDGED REFORMS AND MODERATE [...] (C) Summary: The (left-wing) Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) party presented its government plan for its presidential campaign at its annual convention August 17 in San Salvador. The audience was energized, and grew more so as the convention progressed. Mauricio Funes, FMLN [...]	2008-08-20 22:26:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ES
08SANTIAGO1033	CHILEAN RESPONSE ON NICARAGUAN ELECTIONS DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-25 21:12:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV NU CI
08SANTIAGO1042	BORDER ISSUES IN NORTHERN CHILE: DISPUTES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: A contested border and drug trafficking can sometimes bedevil relations between Chile and Peru on a national level, while on a local level, officials from communities on both sides of the border appear committed to cooperation. Government officials in the northern Chilean borde [...]	2008-11-28 19:46:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS MARR SNAR KTIA PREL CI PE BL
08SANTIAGO1043	CHILE: NO CHANGES LIKELY IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE UNGA [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered ref A demarche Nov. 24 to Patricio Powell, Acting Head of the MFA's Multilateral Affairs Department. Powell promised to examine the issue closely and to forward the points to the MFA's Middle East desk and the Chilean Mission to the UN. However, Powell held out no hope [...]	2008-11-28 19:47:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA IS PA CI
08SANTIAGO1062	CHILE: Progressive Political Leader Hopes for Obama-Style [...] (SBU) Summary: Claudio Orrego, the popular and recently re-elected mayor of one of the Santiago area's most diverse communities, told the Ambassador Nov. 25 that Chile is still looking for "the spirit of Obama" and needs to mobilize a new generation of voters. Orrego expressed disappointment [...]	2008-12-05 12:57:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SOCI CI
08SANTIAGO1085	UNASUR AGENDA: REPORT ON BOLIVIAN KILLINGS, [...] (U) On December 16, leaders from the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) will meet in Bahia de Salvador, Brazil on the margins of the MERCOSUR meeting in the same city. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, acting in her capacity as UNASUR President Pro Tempore, will chair the meeting. [...]	2008-12-11 18:44:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER MARR CI BL BR
08SANTIAGO1108	CHILE NONCOMMITTAL ON UN HARMONIZATION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-17 18:15:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA CI
08SANTIAGO1109	CHILE EAGER FOR INFORMATION ON UNESCO CANDIDATES [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-17 18:15:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL UNESCO CI
08SANTIAGO1124	CODEL MEEKS HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF U.S.-CHILE FTA WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives Meeks, Ryan, and Hinojosa underlined the success of the U.S. - Chile Free Trade Agreement to Chile's de facto trade minister. DG Furche echoed their assessment, noting the positive impact of the FTA on Chile. He cited many signs of the benefits of free trade to [...]	2008-12-19 18:34:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
08SANTIAGO1144	CHILE'S NEW MINISTER OF LABOR HITS THE GROUND RUNNING [...] Summary: Maintaining political equilibrium in her cabinet, President Bachelet chose Claudia Serrano, a Socialist (PS) from the "New Left" faction, as Chile's new Labor Minister. Former Minister Osvaldo Andrade stepped down on December 10 to pursue a parliamentary position in next year's elec [...]	2008-12-24 16:15:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB SOCI ECON CI
08SANTIAGO1151	CHILE'S LABOR CHALLENGES: COMBATING UNEMPLOYMENT, [...] SUMMARY: Chile's new Labor Minister, Claudia Serrano, faces pressing challenges in creating--or at least maintaining--jobs despite the economic slowdown, resolving a public policy dispute about Sunday and holiday pay, and implementing ambitious reforms to Chile's pension system. The private [...]	2008-12-24 17:09:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ELAB SOCI ECON CI
08SANTIAGO221	CHILE'S SPOKESMAN PREFERS URIBE TO CHAVEZ [...] (C) Summary. Government spokesman Vidal told the Ambassador the GOC considered Uribe an ally, and an alternative to Chavez in South America. This friendship made the current Colombia/Ecuador conflict "complicated" for the GOC given Chile's historical respect for the inviolability of settled [...]	2008-03-07 20:06:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON ECPS CO VE EC CI
08SANTIAGO412	MAY 21: DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN PEOPLE [...] (U) In response to reftel requests, Post provides the following initial plans for promoting Cuba Solidarity Day in Chile: --DVC with senior USG officials and Chilean print media to highlight Cuba Solidarity Day and increase awareness in Chile about the plight of Cuba's prisoners of conscience [...]	2008-05-05 19:09:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PREL CU CI
08SANTIAGO456	MAY 21: DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN PEOPLE [...] (U) In response to reftel A request, Post provides the following activities to promote Cuba Solidarity Day: --DVC with a senior USG official and Chilean media to highlight Cuba Solidarity Day, and increase awareness in Chile about the plight of Cuba's prisoners of conscience and drum up suppo [...]	2008-05-16 19:54:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PREL CU CI
08SANTIAGO561	NUMBER TWO DEFENSE OFFICIAL ON BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Chilean number two Defense official Gonzalo Garcia expressed considerable praise for the concrete advances in bilateral defense relations over the past three years in conversations with poloff during the Defense Consultative Committee (DCC) meeting in Santiago on June 11-12. Garc [...]	2008-06-13 19:35:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV CI
08SANTIAGO577	CHILE AND BOLIVIA SIGN DEFENSE AGREEMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The governments of Chile and Bolivia signed a historic defense agreement on June 16th designed to strengthen cooperation and trust between the two militaries. The agreement calls for greater transparency, mutual collaboration, and cooperation between police and military forces. E [...]	2008-06-19 19:05:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL BL CI
08SANTIAGO60	CHILEAN SENATE PASSES RESOLUTION CRITICIZING [...] (C) On January 17, Foreign Ministry North American Affairs Desk Officer Francisco del Campo called Poloff to the Foreign Ministry to convey the Chilean Senate's concern about the reported establishment of a "wall" along the U.S.-Mexico border, as expressed in a non-binding resolution passed by [...]	2008-01-22 14:35:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CI MX
08SANTIAGO666	CHILE TO SEEK MODERATION IN NAM STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-17 18:56:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA PERL IR CI
08SANTIAGO667	CHILE WORKING TO BUILD AGREEMENT ON INDIA-IAEA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Dennis Biggs, Foreign Ministry Deputy Director of the Office of Special Policies, on July 15. Biggs said Chile will support the India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement. 2. (C) Biggs gave Poloff an update the morning of July 17. He said Amb. Milenko Skonic, [...]	2008-07-17 18:56:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC IN CI PK SZ AU
08SANTIAGO678	ISRAELI AND IRANIAN RELATIONS WITH CHILE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Israel and Chile have enjoyed amicable relations since the mid 20th century. Chile and Israel's economic ties are healthy and growing, albeit still a tiny percentage on both countries ledgers. Israel is monitoring Iranian influence in the region, which includes enhanced Iranian dip [...]	2008-07-21 13:00:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PINR PREL CI IR IS
08SANTIAGO707	CHILE DELEGATION TO SIXTY-THIRD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] The MFA's Second Secretary for Protocol and point of contact for presidential travel, Manahi Pakarati, told Poloff July 29 that the GOC is still working to finalize its official delegation for UNGA. She confirmed President Michelle Bachelet's attendance, and added that Foreign Minister Aleja [...]	2008-07-31 20:03:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ITRA OVIP KSEP UNGA CI
08SANTIAGO712	CHILE WELCOMES GLOBAL INITIATIVE MEMBERS [...] Poloff informed two members of the MFA's Office of Special Policies, Counselor Julio Bravo and Third Secretary Alvaro Guzman, of the recent addition of Mauritius and Uzbekistan to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism on August 1. Both officials welcomed the new members. 2. [...]	2008-08-04 15:18:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL KGIC CI
08SANTIAGO735	CHILE'S MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: CENTER-LEFT PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary. Pepe Auth, President of the center-left Party for Democracy (PPD),recently told the Ambassador that the PPD's growing strength and an outdated formula for dividing city council seats among Concertacion candidates led his party to join with the Social Radicals (PRSD) in presen [...]	2008-08-12 14:41:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CI
08SANTIAGO745	CHILE PARTICIPATION IN DEFENSE MINISTERIAL OF THE [...] (U) Poloff met with Ambassador Boris Yopo, Chief of the International Affairs Division of the Ministry of Defense, and Maria Ines Ruz, on August 8 to discuss reftel request on Chile's participation in the Defense Ministerial of the Americas. 2. (SBU) Chile wants the ministerial to focus o [...]	2008-08-13 20:48:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR CI
08SANTIAGO747	CHILE SEEKS CLARIFICATION ON SEPT 24 TRADE AND [...] Ambassador Juan Pablo Lira, Director General of the Ministry Foreign Affairs, requested a meeting with Ambassador Simons on August 12 to discuss the invitation for President Bachelet to attend the Leaders' Meeting on Trade and Prosperity, to be held Sept. 24 in New York. Lira was accompanied [...]	2008-08-13 20:49:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD CI
08SANTIAGO843	CHILE ON THE SIDELINES ON SOUTH OSSETIA/ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to Eduardo Schott, MFA Deputy Director for European Affairs, on September 15. Schott reiterated the position he elaborated on August 27--Chile has no plans to recognize either South Ossetia or Abkhazia (Ref B). Schott was unconcerned by Nicaragua's recogni [...]	2008-09-16 17:38:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL GG NU RU KV CI
08SANTIAGO849	CHILE SUPPORTS HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA AT UNGA [...] (C) Summary. Chile supports U.S. and other efforts to advance human rights at the UN General Assembly and is likely to once again support country-specific resolutions expressing concern about conditions in Iran, Burma, and North Korea. Officials at the MFA's Office of Human Rights were recept [...]	2008-09-17 16:40:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IR BM KN ZI SU CI
08SANTIAGO850	CHILE RESPONSE TO COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Jaime Acuna, Deputy Director of the MFA's Office of Multilateral Affairs, and Olivia Cook, Third Secretary, of the same office, on September 16. Chile agreed that, in principle, individual countries should not be allowed to block country-specific state [...]	2008-09-17 16:41:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KDEM CI IN SF
08SANTIAGO852	UNASUR'S ROAD AHEAD AFTER EMERGENCY BOLIVIA [...] (C) Summary. A senior Chilean diplomat characterized UNASUR's meeting this week to deal with the crisis in Bolivia as an important early victory for the new organization and for its President Pro-Tempore, Chile. According to MFA Planning Subdirector Patricio Pradel, UNASUR is still defining [...]	2008-09-17 20:35:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI MARR BL CI
08SANTIAGO89	CHILE'S PROSECUTORS WANT USG TO HELP COUNTER [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) In a January 29 meeting, Jorge Chocair (please protect),the new Director for International Affairs and Extradition at the Ministerio Publico (Chile's agency for public prosecutors),told E/POLoff that Chile was interested in inv [...]	2008-01-30 12:01:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR PTER VE CU CI
08SANTIAGO891	CHILE'S UNASUR DESIGNEE ON BOLIVIA CRISIS PROVIDES [...] (C) According to Chile,s UNASUR representative Juan Gabriel Valdes, UNASUR's role in helping resolve Bolivia's political crisis remains unclear, although it appears Morales wants UNASUR present and prepared to intervene should tensions escalate. Talks in Bolivia are focused on two technical a [...]	2008-10-03 17:59:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL CI
08SANTIAGO893	CHILE: OPPOSITION LEADER LOOKS FOR INCREMENTAL [...] (C) Summary: Senator Andres Allamand, a founding member of the National Renewal (RN) center-right political party, told Ambassador the opposition hopes to improve its performance in municipal elections on October 29, but an outright victory is out of reach. Instead, the opposition Alianza c [...]	2008-10-06 14:15:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CI CO XM
08SANTIAGO931	ECONOMIC WOES AT CHILE'S NORTHERN BORDER [...] SUMMARY: Arica, Chile's northernmost city, faces multiple economic challenges, including the 2000 kilometers that separate it from Santiago and competition from cheaper Peru, which is just a short drive north. This city, once part of Peru, has the highest unemployment rate in Chile and pove [...]	2008-10-20 15:47:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND PGOV ELAB SOCI EWWT EAGR EFIS CI PE BL
08SANTIAGO933	BACHELET'S UNASUR PARLIAMENT PLANS DRAW FIRE FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several Chilean parliamentarians have criticized President Bachelet's attendance at an UNASUR parliament event in Bolivia to be held Oct. 17. The Chilean legislators allege that Bachelet should have consulted with them before attending and should have invited them to join the [...]	2008-10-20 15:52:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CI BL
08SANTIAGO942	NORTHERN CHILE: CORRUPTION AND LOW-LEVEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In Chile's northernmost city, Arica, relations between the indigenous Aymara community and the overwhelmingly non-indigenous local political leadership are somewhat strained. Nonetheless, the indigenous community has successfully fought central government decisions that they [...]	2008-10-21 19:24:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PHUM KCOR SCUL CI
08SANTIAGO95	CHILE: VIENNA FORUM TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING [...] E/POLoff delivered reftel demarche to Jorge Chocair, Director of International Relations and Extraditions, at the Ministerio Publico (MP - Chile's Public Prosecutors Office) and Gloria Sepulveda, Director of International Relations at SENAME (Chile's national agency for minors). Chocair said [...]	2008-01-31 16:33:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN PREF SMIG CI
08SANTIAGO950	CHILE'S MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: WHO IS LIKELY TO WIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday, October 26, voters across Chile will head to the polls to elect mayors and city council members. These nationwide local elections come just a year before the Chilean presidential election and are widely seen as a bellwether of the strength of political parties and [...]	2008-10-23 19:49:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CI
08SANTIAGO954	THE HEAT IS ON: KEY RACES TO WATCH IN CHILE'S MUNICIPAL [...] Summary. With thousands of seats being filled in this weekend's municipal elections, results can be interpreted in many different ways. One of the principal metrics that pundits will analyze are the outcomes of mayoral races in key districts, known as "emblematic communes". Of the communes [...]	2008-10-24 14:24:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL CI
08SANTIAGO958	AMBASSADOR SCHULTE REVIEWS WITH CHILEANS IAEA OVERSIGHT [...] (U) U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA Schulte, in Chile October 14-16 primarily to review developments on international efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear program (septel),also discussed the IAEA's role working with countries interested in safeguarding and sharing nuclear technology, as well as in de [...]	2008-10-24 19:31:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV BTIO OEXC PGOV CI
08SANTODOMINGO1023	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FERNANDEZ: CHEVRON, [...] (C) Summary: In the Ambassador's June 19 meeting with the President, Fernandez agreed to intervene in Chevron's investment dispute to prevent violence, but not to settle the dispute itself, stating that -- despite the contract -- there had to be a negotiated settlement. The President describe [...]	2008-06-25 13:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PBIO ECON ENRG EAID EAGR CACS HA DR
08SANTODOMINGO1024	AFTER THE ELECTION, WHAT NEXT? [...] (SBU) Now that the presidential election is over, President Fernandez is turning to plans for his next term, the opposition is digging in its heels, and reformers are focusing on how to improve the democratic system before the congressional election of 2010. On economic issues, Fernandez face [...]	2008-06-25 13:35:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON DR
08SANTODOMINGO1060	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PROGRESS ON ASSET FORFEITURE [...] (U) Summary. On June 13, a representative of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Asset Forfeiture-Money Laundering Unit, accompanied by Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSAs) from the Districts of Puerto Rico and the Southern District of Florida and a Mexico City-based representative of the Internal [...]	2008-06-30 21:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KJUS KCRM SNAR DR
08SANTODOMINGO1108	PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE PUBLIC AFFAIRS EVENT [...] On July 3, PolOff delivered to the Office of the Foreign Minister reftel demarche regarding the Prisoners of Conscience Public Affairs event. MFA did not have any immediate substantive response. Post will report any subsequent reply from the ministry. FANNIN [...]	2008-07-08 20:23:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL DR
08SANTODOMINGO1184	SANTO DOMINGO ECONOMIC-POLITICAL ROUNDUP, JULY 22, [...] Government,s Plan to Address Economic Crisis 2. Fernandez Focused on Constitutional Reform 3. Subsidy Must Keep Pace with Oil Prices or Lights Will Go Out 4. Astwood Extradition Controversy Â [...]	2008-07-22 20:01:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON ENRG KJUS DR
08SANTODOMINGO124	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) In his January 16 meeting with the Ambassador, PRD party presidential candidate Miguel Vargas Maldonado expressed concerns regarding the fairness of the election process; warned of possible Venezuelan support for his opponent; cited the importance of election observation; and explained his [...]	2008-01-23 19:48:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ENRG VE DR
08SANTODOMINGO1439	GODR REACTIONS TO TIP TIER 2 WATCH-LIST PLAN [...] (U) Summary: Per reftel instructions, Poloff delivered demarche and left the Tier 2 watch-list action plan recommendations as a non-paper with key Dominican officials. Our recommendations may be of assistance as the GODR is in the process of developing its own, multi-agency "integrated action [...]	2008-09-12 15:31:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KTIP DR
08SANTODOMINGO145	FERNANDEZ MAKES HIS CASE TO THE DOMINICAN PEOPLE [...] (SBU) On January 29, President Fernandez gave a major campaign speech in which he took credit for reestablishing macroeconomic stability, warned against returning the rival PRD party to power during challenging economic times, and promised a series of programs for his next term. While engagin [...]	2008-01-30 16:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON DR
08SANTODOMINGO1513	THE DR'S REFORMISTA PARTY - A PHOENIX OR DEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: The Social Christian Reform Party (PRSC),once the powerful political instrument of President Balaguer, is struggling to rise again after it received less than five percent of the vote during the May 2008 elections. The party is split in various ways and several nominal membe [...]	2008-09-26 19:01:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS DR
08SANTODOMINGO1666	SANTIAGO: THE OTHER DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Whereas piles of trash and crumbling sidewalks decorate Santo Domingo, Santiago - the DR's second largest city - demonstrates what public-private partnerships and civic pride can achieve. The entrepreneurial spirit of the region was on display during Ambassador Fannin's recent [...]	2008-10-30 14:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM EINV ECON DR
08SANTODOMINGO1683	HAITIANS SUBJECTED TO VIOLENCE AND DEPORTATION [...] (U) Summary: Longstanding tensions between Haitians, persons of Haitian descent, and Dominicans resulted in violence this week that left at least 6 dead, dozens of homes burned, and hundreds deported. Dominican authorities have issued statements condemning the violence and, while it is uncle [...]	2008-10-31 20:18:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL DR HA
08SANTODOMINGO174	AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK SPURS TRADE DISPUTE WITH HAITI [...] (C) Summary. The Dominican poultry industry is claiming that it is suffering significant financial losses as a result of the decision by the Haitian government to ban all chicken and egg imports from the Dominican Republic on January 4. The decision to ban imports was the result of an occurrenc [...]	2008-02-04 14:56:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	KFLU EAGR SENV ECON ETRD PGOV HA DR
08SANTODOMINGO180	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: DIVERGING POLLS PROMPT [...] (SBU) The results of four major presidential campaign opinion polls differ by as much as 20 percent (pct.),from a 16 pct. lead for the PLD's Leonel Fernandez to a 4 pct. lead for the PRD's Miguel Vargas Maldonado. The rival campaigns are busy debating the reliability of their favored polling [...]	2008-02-05 18:55:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON DR
08SANTODOMINGO19	NO DOMINICAN-HAITIAN POLITICAL PARTY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The press recently reported that the Dominican-Haitian Community Political Movement (MPCDH),led by Ruben Jean-Baptiste Latorti, will form a political party representing the interests of Dominicans of Haitian descent. Jean-Baptiste clarified that he will not form a political party [...]	2008-01-04 19:56:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON DR
08SANTODOMINGO192	OPEN SOCIETY JUSTICE INITIATIVE CONDEMNS DR BIRTH [...] (SBU) Summary: EmbOffs met with representatives of the Soros affiliated Open Society Justice Initiative to discuss the Dominican Republic,s birth registration policy, especially how it adversely affects Dominicans of Haitian descent. The Justice Initiative highlighted deficiencies with the co [...]	2008-02-07 16:33:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV SMIG CASC HA DR
08SANTODOMINGO1921	REFORM OF THE REFORMISTA PARTY - THE DREAM IS ALIVE [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met with Victor "Ito" Bisono, a rising star of the falling Reform Party (PRSC) to discuss prospects for the party's revival - an on-going saga (ref A). Although some Dominicans have already dismissed the party as a thing of the past, Bisono has a different vision: He pred [...]	2008-12-16 20:39:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR KJUS VE DR
08SANTODOMINGO1950	DR POLITICS - EX-PRSC STAR GUIDING FEW, FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: Eduardo Estrella, a former presidential candidate of the PRSC (Partido Reformista Social Cristiano) offered Poloff a worrying assessment of the DR's political and economic scene much like other politicians and officials have done: Corruption is reaching self-destructive proportio [...]	2008-12-22 14:11:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR PREL KJUS SNAR DR
08SANTODOMINGO1951	DR POLITICS - EX-PRSC STAR GUIDING FEW, FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: Eduardo Estrella, a former presidential candidate of the PRSC (Partido Reformista Social Cristiano) offered Poloff a worrying assessment of the DR's political and economic scene much like other politicians and officials have done: Corruption is reaching self-destructive proportio [...]	2008-12-22 14:11:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR PREL KJUS SNAR DR
08SANTODOMINGO201	DOMINICANS NONCOMMITTAL ON URGENT MEDEVAC REQUEST [...] Poloff met today with Deputy Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Alejandra Liriano, regarding REF A request for assistance. Liriano took the request under advisement and committed to informing the Embassy when/if the Dominican government takes a position. 2. COMMENT: Liriano's inabilit [...]	2008-02-11 19:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PM PREF PREL SMIG CU DR
08SANTODOMINGO323	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HUMAN [...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Alejandra Liriano, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Relations at the MFA. MFA has no substantive response at this time, but will undertake to relay the information for further consideration. FANNIN [...]	2008-03-04 16:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL
08SANTODOMINGO338	DEMARCHE ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL'S ADOPTION OF [...] PolOff delivered reftel non-paper, copies of UNSCR 1803 and P5 1 Minister's Statement to Jose Manuel Trullols, Undersecretary of State, General Coordinator at the MFA. MFA has no substantive response at this time. Embassy will report any subsequent Dominican response. FANNIN [...]	2008-03-06 14:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM
08SANTODOMINGO373	FM MORALES AND OAS REP ON RIO GROUP, OAS [...] (C/NF) Summary: In a March 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Morales described the successful outcome of the Rio Group Summit as a "team effort." Responding to Reftel demarche on the OAS Ministerial, Morales cautioned against any action that could scuttle the peace gains that t [...]	2008-03-13 21:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM CO EC DR
08SANTODOMINGO387	ONDCP DIRECTOR, DEA ADMINISTRATOR CALL ON [...] (C) Summary: On February 25, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director John Walters, accompanied by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart, U.S. Ambassador P. Robert Fannin, ONDCP and DEA Chiefs of Staff, and poloff called on Domi [...]	2008-03-17 19:24:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR MARR DR
08SANTODOMINGO389	PLD HOPES FERNANDEZ WINS WITH SIXTY PERCENT [...] (SBU) On March 6, The Ambassador, ECOPOL Counselor and POLOFFS met with Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) leaders, Francisco Javier Garcia Fernandez, National Campaign Chairman, Cesar Torribio Pena, Presidential legal advisor, and Reinaldo Pared Perez, President of the Senate, to hear their vie [...]	2008-03-17 19:36:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV DR

08SANTODOMINGO39	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN RHETORIC HEATS UP [...] (SBU) After a respite caused by two major tropical storms and the holiday season, rhetoric among presidential candidates heated up again over the weekend. The PLD party candidate, President Leonel Fernandez, launched the first attack. Referring to the 2003-2004 economic crisis during the las [...]	2008-01-08 17:01:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON DR
08SANTODOMINGO414	MEDICAL DOCTORS AND OTHER GROUPS CALL FOR MORE STRIKES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Dominican Doctors Union (CMD) organized a march to the Presidential palace on Wednesday, March 12, to demand a salary increase for medical doctors employed by the state. However, the press reported the National Police aided by the National Investigation Department (DNI) disp [...]	2008-03-26 18:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB PGOV DR
08SANTODOMINGO502	DEMARCHES ON IRAN TRAVEL BAN AND DUAL USE ITEM [...] POLOFF delivered Ref A-B talking points on "Implementing the Travel Ban and Dual Use Item Provisions of UNSCR 1803" to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Ciro Amaury Dargam, Assistant Secretary of International Organizations Affairs took our views on board but had no immediate reply. [...]	2008-04-09 17:55:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC KNNP IR UNSC DR
08SANTODOMINGO586	PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: LEFTIST PARTY HOPES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In his April 16 meeting with PolOff, Guillermo Moreno, the presidential candidate for the political party Movement for Independence, Unity, and Change (MIUCA),expressed concern about the allegations of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party's (PLD) use of state resources for the [...]	2008-04-22 18:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV DR
08SANTODOMINGO594	DEMARCHE ON PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DECLARATION [...] POLOFF delivered Reftel talking points on the U.S.-EU Prisoners of Conscience Declaration to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano took our views on board but had no immediate reply. We will report any subsequent Dominican response. FANNIN [...]	2008-04-23 19:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL EUN DR
08SANTODOMINGO668	PRD CLAIMS POSSIBLE ELECTION FRAUD; PLD SMELLS A [...] (SBU) The opposition Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) has strongly criticized the new electronic system for transmitting electoral results to the Central Election Board (JCE),with one senior party official even alleging an organized effort to steal the election. The ruling Dominican Liber [...]	2008-05-02 19:12:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM DR
08SANTODOMINGO699	OAS HITS THE RIGHT NOTES IN ELECTION REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 6, the OAS's Electoral Observation Mission issued a "Pre-Electoral Report" on the campaign for the May 16 presidential election. The report praised the performance of the Central Elections Board (JCE); criticized the ruling PLD party for spending state resources on the [...]	2008-05-09 12:53:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM DR
08SANTODOMINGO749	DEMARCHE DEMARCHE ON NPT PREPARATORY COMMITTEE [...] POLOFF delivered Reftel talking points on the NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano took our views on board but had no immediate reply. We will report any subsequent Dominican response. (U) Please visit us at http:/ [...]	2008-05-14 19:51:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA DR
08SANTODOMINGO76	DOMINICANS CONFIRM SUPPORT OF PIERRE PROSPER FOR [...] On January 14 Poloff met with Deputy Secretary of State Jose Manuel Trulolls and Deputy Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Alejandra Liriano, regarding the candidacy of Pierre Prosper for the CERD. Liriano confirmed that the Dominican Government will support the candidature of Prosper an [...]	2008-01-16 11:34:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA DR
08SANTODOMINGO770	CESFRONT - A PERSPECTIVE FROM PEDERNALES [...] PolOff met with source who is a U.S. citizen currently residing in Pedernales, a border town in the south of the country, doing local development work. Source, in the course of her duties, has regular contact with NGOs, local community leaders, and residents, including Dominicans, Haitians and [...]	2008-05-19 20:58:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG MCAP HA DR
08SANTODOMINGO884	ASSESSING LABOR AFTER ONE YEAR OF CAFTA-DR: [...] Summary: In a series of meetings with labor unions, NGOs and officials from the Ministry of Labor (SET),our contacts highlighted some of the successes and continuing problems in labor rights since the entry-into-force of CAFTA-DR in the Dominican Republic in March 2007. Positive improvements [...]	2008-06-04 15:12:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI DR
08SANTODOMINGO887	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC RESPONSE: FORCED LABOR AND [...] This is in response to a Department of Labor request for a list of goods that may have been produced with child or forced labor in the Dominican Republic as mandated by the Trafficking in Victims Protection Act. 2. Post reports that the following goods, listed in paragraph four, are alleged [...]	2008-06-04 18:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI DR
08SANTODOMINGO90	VIEW FROM SANTIAGO: FERNANDEZ CAMPAIGN FACES [...] (U) On January 11 ECOPOLCOUNS and POLOFF visited Santiago, the Dominican Republic's second largest city, to discuss the presidential election campaign. Santiago is the capital of a province of the same name, as well as the hub of the Cibao, a 14-province region with a record of successful priv [...]	2008-01-17 12:49:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON DR
08SANTODOMINGO929	ELECTION SHOWS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The analysis of Post and other observers of the 2008 presidential election is that the Dominican democratic system has improved to the extent that widespread election day fraud, which occurred as recently as 1994, is now a thing of the past. Other strengths of Dominican democr [...]	2008-06-09 18:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON DR
08SAOPAULO117	BRAZIL,S ECONOMIC GROWTH, INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, AND [...] (SBU) Despite the mostly encouraging news regarding Brazil's rapid economic growth, new trade and industry development is increasingly coming into conflict with the country's indigenous communities. The demarcation of indigenous lands allows for a degree of legal protection; however, even wh [...]	2008-03-10 14:34:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SCUL SOCI EAID ELAB ECON BR
08SAOPAULO119	QUILOMBO COMMUNITIES SERVE AS MODERN-DAY REMINDER OF [...] (SBU) As Brazil enjoys economic prosperity and growth, the plight of the Brazilian quilombos highlights that racial and income inequality persists. Although founded centuries ago, these communities of Afro-Brazilian slave descendants still serve as an important part of the country's legacy of [...]	2008-03-11 12:37:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SCUL SOCI BR
08SAOPAULO130	CHINA'S BUSINESS INTERESTS IN BRAZIL RECEIVE MIXED [...] (C) Although bilateral trade between China and Brazil continues to grow, there are increasing frustrations on both sides regarding access to each others' markets. For Brazilian business, China represents the largest opportunities for growth, but also the greatest economic risks, and many poi [...]	2008-03-14 16:02:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL EINV ECON CH BR
08SAOPAULO142	SAO PAULO ELECTIONS: ALCKMIN MAYORAL CANDIDAC VIEWED AS [...] (SBU) The Social Democracy Party of Brazil (PSDB),the counry's largest and most important opposition party is facing internal division as well as a possibe breach with its principal ally, the Democrats arty (DEM),over this year's municipal elections. Despite their partnership on the national [...]	2008-03-18 16:15:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
08SAOPAULO170	HUMAN RIGHTS AND PUBLIC SECURITY CHALLENGES IN MATO GROSSO [...] (SBU) Mato Grosso do Sul's public security and human rights challenges are typical of those found in many Brazilian states today. The state's geographic location, sharing an international border with Bolivia and Paraguay, however, creates an additional set of public policy tests for the state [...]	2008-04-02 12:52:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI KCRM SNAR ASEC BR
08SAOPAULO171	REFORMING SAO PAULO'S JUVENILE CORRECTION SYSTEM [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo's juvenile correctional system continues to battle its image as a network of uncaring staff and unsanitary facilities that turns young petty thieves into hardened criminals. Observers agree that sustained growth and development depend on Brazil's investing in its youth, especia [...]	2008-04-03 13:00:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI ASEC KCRM BR
08SAOPAULO177	INDIGENOUS RIGHTS ABUSES INCREASE IN MATO GROSSO DO SUL [...] (SBU) Mato Grosso do Sul's indigenous population faces some of the harshest conditions among the native populations of Brazil. Government officials and landowners deny the extent of human rights abuses occurring in the state, but activists and the indigenous themselves recount stories of land [...]	2008-04-04 10:10:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAGR SOCI SCUL BR
08SAOPAULO199	MATO GROSSO DO SUL STATE HIGHLIGHTS BRAZIL'S AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) Brazil's continued position as a leading international agricultural powerhouse is fueled by the rapid economic expansion in states such as Mato Grosso do Sul (MS). Driven by high commodity prices as well as tourism to the world's largest wetland space, the Pantanal, MS is undergoing an [...]	2008-04-18 15:14:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAGR ECON EIND ETRD BR
08SAOPAULO225	All Politics is National: Presidential Race is Endgame of [...] (SBU) On April 24, the Sao Paulo State Executive Committee of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) voted unanimously to support Sao Paulo incumbent Mayor Gilberto Kassab (Democratic Party - DEM) in this year's municipal elections. PMDB state president Orestes Quercia stated that nat [...]	2008-05-08 17:23:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
08SAOPAULO242	DRUGS, ARMS AND CONTRABAND CONTINUE TO ENTER BRAZIL [...] (SBU) Brazil continues to wrestle with the serious challenge posed by increasingly creative traffickers of drugs, arms and IPR-infringing products, according to law enforcement officials and NGO representatives in Sao Paulo and Foz do Iguacu. Growing demand, both domestic and international, [...]	2008-05-13 12:39:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KCRM SNAR KIPR SENV ASEC PARM BR
08SAOPAULO276	CONTACTS FEAR TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ON THE RISE [...] (SBU) Brazil's trafficking in persons (TIP) dilemma presents a growing challenge to the law enforcement community and NGOs assisting with TIP victims. Brazil is home to some cases of agricultural forced labor as well as urban textile sweatshops where Bolivian migrants work in precarious condi [...]	2008-06-03 16:59:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ELAB KCRM SMIG BR
08SAOPAULO292	ORGANIZED LABOR DOING WELL WITH LULA [...] (SBU) A year and a half into his second term, President Lula has won back the approval of many in organized labor who had expressed disenchantment with him during his first term. By signing legislation granting legal recognition and government funding to the large labor Centrals while vetoing [...]	2008-06-10 15:46:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV ECON BR
08SAOPAULO38	GOVERNMENT EXPANSION OF "BOLSA FAMILIA" BENEFITS DRAWS [...] On the last working day of 2007, President Lula expanded the scope of Bolsa Familia, the federal monthly stipend benefiting some 11 million poor families, to include an additional payment for each child aged 16 and 17. Opposition politicians called the action unethical and possibly in violati [...]	2008-01-28 18:39:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI EAID EFIN ECON BR
08SAOPAULO39	BRAZIL: NEGLECTED INDIGENOUS FACE LAND RIGHTS CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) According to a range of Sao Paulo-based contacts, the Brazilian Government does not respect fully the territorial and cultural rights of indigenous peoples, leaving communities to subsist in squalid urban slums or neglected rural territories that represent a fraction of the lands the ind [...]	2008-01-29 09:41:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAGR SOCI SCUL BR
08SAOPAULO497	BRAZIL FOREIGN POLICY: INTERESTS VS. IDEOLOGY, AND MAYBE [...] (SBU) A significant number of academics and international relations consultants in Sao Paulo are frustrated with Brazil's current foreign policy. In their view, left-wing elements in both the Workers Party (PT) and in the Foreign Ministry put ideology ahead of national interest. The critics [...]	2008-09-23 10:57:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	BR
08SAOPAULO61	PARANA GOVERNOR REQUIAO TAKES ON THE FEDS [...] (SBU) Summary: A dispute between Parana State Governor Roberto Requiao and federal prosecutors and judges has attracted widespread media attention. Prosecutors accused the Governor of using the state's public educational television channel as a vehicle to promote his own political agenda and [...]	2008-02-13 11:45:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM BR
08SAOPAULO621	DESPITE CRISIS, MORGAN STANLEY BULLISH ON BRAZIL [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 10th, Ambassador Sobel met with the senior Brazil management of Morgan Stanley to discuss the firm's prospects and how the firm is weathering the current financial downturn. Management reported that while they expect mergers and acquisition activity to be brisk, ce [...]	2008-11-21 09:51:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR BR
08SAOPAULO66	POOR PRISON CONDITIONS FUEL GROWTH OF PCC CRIMINAL [...] (SBU) According to Sao Paulo-based public security analysts, poor prison conditions in the state are a major contributing reason for the expansion of the First Capital Command (PCC) network into one of the most powerful gangs in Sao Paulo's criminal world. While state authorities argue that a [...]	2008-02-15 08:53:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI KCRM SNAR ASEC BR
08SAOPAULO678	SAO PAULO STATE ORGANIZES TIP MEETING [...] (U) Summary: The State of Sao Paulo and the Secretary of Justice and Citizen Defense organized a broad-based meeting for NGOs and government agencies dedicated to fighting Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in Sao Paulo on December 16. Panelists stressed their commitment to "institutionalizing" th [...]	2008-12-19 17:05:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF KCRM PHUM ELAB KTIP BR
08SAOPAULO679	ECONOMIC CRISIS HELPS SERRA POSITION FOR 2010 [...] (C) Summary: The PSDB leadership sees an opportunity for their party as the ongoing global economic crisis hits Brazil. In this context, Sao Paulo state governor Jose Serra, the most likely PSDB nominee right now, has started a campaign of economic activism at the state level, promoting prog [...]	2008-12-19 17:41:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BR
08SAOPAULO87	SAO PAULO STATE SLOWLY ADDRESSES PRISON CONDITIONS (3 OF 3) [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo State officials candidly admit that a host of challenges exist within the state penitentiary system but tell us they are working hard on addressing the prison network's shortcomings. According to state authorities, the cash-strapped Secretariat for Prison Administration (SAP) [...]	2008-02-22 12:53:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI ASEC BR
08SAOPAULO94	SAO PAULO'S MAYORAL ELECTION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR 2010 [...] (SBU) In October, Brazilians will go to the polls to elect the Mayors and City Council members ("Vereadores") of the country's 5,064 municipalities. Political analysts and consultants, as well as politicians from across the spectrum, agree on one thing: these elections will set the stage for [...]	2008-02-26 13:11:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR BR
08SARAJEVO113	BOSNIA: MEETING WITH NEWLY APPOINTED SIPA DIRECTOR [...] (C) The Charge accompanied by RSO and POLOFF met, January 15, with newly appointed director of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) Mirko Lujic. The discussion focused on the challenges posed by improving SIPA's performance. The Charge reviewed the history of USG financial su [...]	2008-01-18 17:01:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PINR KJUS MOPS BK
08SARAJEVO1260	BITTER POLITICAL STANDOFF OVER STOLAC SECONDARY [...] (SBU) Summary: With Bosnia-Herzegovina's local elections looming in October, the future of the Stolac Secondary School in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton remains the political hot button of choice for local and cantonal politicians looking to energize their electorate and mobilize voters. The a [...]	2008-08-05 08:33:00	Embassy Sarajevo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BK PGOV PHUM SCUL
08SARAJEVO398	BOSNIA - SUBMISSION FOR 2008 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Summary: This cable constitutes Post's submission for the 2008 TIP report for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Post's point of contact for trafficking issues is Poloff Danielle Harms, phone 387-33-445-700 x2312, fax 387-33-659-722, e-mail HarmsDA@state.gov. Time spent in preparing report: Po [...]	2008-03-03 06:55:00	Embassy Sarajevo	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
08SECTINN02OF02JAKARTA1486	PAPUANS TAKE TO THE STRETS IN LARGE, PEACEFUL [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-05 08:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KISL ID
08SECTION01F03BEIRUT1568	LEBANON: HARIRI TELLS A/S HOOK HE MET NASRALLAH [...] (S) Majority Leader Saad Hariri stressed to Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Brian Hook the importance of building Lebanese state institutions and improving the Lebanese economy to counter Hizballah's influence. He said the calmer political situation followi [...]	2008-11-03 14:57:00	Embassy Beirut	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER UNSC ECON LE SY
08SECTION01OF04HARARE754	ZIMBABWEAN HUMANITARIAN CRISIS WORSENING AS BAN [...] (SBU) The Mugabe government continues to deny nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and private voluntary organizations (PVOs) access to 1.3 million at-risk Zimbabweans to provide food, water, seed, fertilizer, and hygienic support. Currently, less than 300,000 people are receiving assistance [...]	2008-08-28 15:11:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC EAID PHUM ZI
08SEOUL1020	UK AMBASSADOR TO DPRK: NORTH KOREA IS CHANGING [...] (C) SUMMARY: UK Ambassador to Pyongyang, John Everard, told the DCM and Poloffs on May 16 that the there has been slow but noticeable change in North Korea during the two years that he has been serving there. North Korean elites were more openly flaunting their wealth in Pyongyang where it w [...]	2008-05-20 01:31:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI KNNP EAID KS KN
08SEOUL1061	PREVIEW OF ROK-PRC SUMMIT, JOINT STATEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the May 27-30 Summit with PRC President Hu Jintao in Beijing, President Lee Myung-bak will agree to upgrade the Korea-China relationship from the current "Comprehensive Cooperative Partnership" to one of "Strategic Cooperative Partnership," said Noh Kyu-duk, Director of MOF [...]	2008-05-23 07:58:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PREL CH KN
08SEOUL107	COMBAT METH EPIDEMIC ACT: ROKG PARTICIPATES IN [...] (U) Per reftel request, Poloff confirmed that the Republic of Korea Government (ROKG) reported their 2006 legitimate domestic requirements for the licit use of ephedrine and psuedoephedrine to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) through the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade [...]	2008-01-18 03:18:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR ETRD ECON KS
08SEOUL1078	ROK NHK-II PIP MISSILE TEST FLIGHT RESCHEDULED [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-28 06:31:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	PARM PREL MARR KS
08SEOUL1085	ROK RESPONSE TO IRANIAN CRITICAL EQUIPMENT NEEDS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel information to Kim Jae-woo, First Secretary for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) on 28 May. Kim relayed continued support for U.S. and UN efforts to curtail Iranian illicit procurement activities. He undert [...]	2008-05-28 23:50:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IAEA IR KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TRGY UNSC
08SEOUL1107	THE 2009 ROK DEFENSE BUDGET IMPLICATIONS FOR [...] (C) Summary. The Won 621 trillion (about USD 620 billion) plan to transform the South Korean defense establishment inked in 2005 is under intense pressure from President Lee Myung-bak,s austerity measures. Just as President Lee is trimming all spending, the economic forecasts completed in 200 [...]	2008-05-30 06:44:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KS KN
08SEOUL111	WHAT TO EXPECT: HOW WILL PRESIDENT LEE CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: The Korean people have sky-high expectations for President-elect Lee Myung-bak. He will take office as the seventeenth president of Korea on February 25 and carries with him a long to-do list for his government and for the country. For insight on what Lee's administration will l [...]	2008-01-18 07:58:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS KN
08SEOUL1114	ROK RESPONSE TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (SBU) On 28 May poloff conveyed the reftel information to Kim Jae-woo, First Secretary of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Kim undertook to convey the details of the Global Initiative (GI) Information Portal Advisory Committee [...]	2008-06-02 06:13:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL PTER KGIC
08SEOUL1153	PROTESTS CONTINUE AS BLUE HOUSE STRUGGLES TO FIND [...] (C) Summary: Throughout the June 6-8 holiday weekend, protesters continued to call for a renegotiation of the agreement to reopen the Korean market to U.S. beef, a ban on imports of beef from cattle over 30-months-old, and President Lee Myung-bak's removal from office. The protests, which oc [...]	2008-06-09 08:32:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS KN
08SEOUL1174	PROTESTS PAST PRIME? LEE VOWS "FRESH START" [...] (C) Summary: The June 10 anniversary of the 1987 pro-Democracy protests drew record numbers of crowds demanding a renegotiation of the agreement to lift the ban on imports of U.S. beef. The demonstrators remained peaceful, heeding the pleas of the ROKG and former Presidents Roh Moo-hyun and [...]	2008-06-11 08:18:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL1182	(S) ROKG INVESTIGATION RESULTS: THAILAND TO IRAN [...] (S) On June 12, in response to reftel demarche, Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director, Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed poloff that the ROK played no role in the shipment of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (AHF) from Thailand to Iran According to [...]	2008-06-12 06:42:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC TH KS TC XB XC XE
08SEOUL1231	ROKG SUPPORTS P5+1 PACKAGE; WILL RAISE WITH IRAN [...] (C) The DCM and Pol M/C delivered reftel talking points to ROK Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Yong-joon on June 18. DFM Lee was pleased to learn of the updated P5 1 incentives package as a step forward in seeking a comprehensive, longer-term solution to the Iranian nuclear issue. DFM Lee said h [...]	2008-06-20 01:31:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IR KS
08SEOUL1243	ROKG REVIEWING ITS AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the face of multiple requests for assistance from the U.S., Afghanistan, and other nations, as well as renewed Taliban threats against Korean interests in Afghanistan and concerns over political sensitivities arising out of the recent beef protests, the ROKG has started an int [...]	2008-06-23 08:01:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MASS PREL AF KS
08SEOUL1253	NO DECISION TO EXTEND ROK DEPLOYMENT IN IRAQ; NO [...] (S) SUMMARY. In response to reftel A, Kim Hyon-du, Deputy, ROK-U.S. Security Cooperation Division, told poloff that the ROKG has not yet determined the type of post-UNSCR 1790 legal structure that would be required for ROK participation in Iraq beyond 2008 because it has not yet decided wheth [...]	2008-06-24 07:31:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	PARM MASS PREL KS IZ
08SEOUL127	LEE MYUNG-BAK TRANSITION TEAM: ONE MONTH LEFT [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Lee Myung-bak's Transition Team has had a busy first month. Charged with laying the blueprint for Lee Myung-bak's presidential term, they are now submitting legislation to begin to "pull the weeds" from the Roh and Kim Dae-jung administrations. Lee brings a diffe [...]	2008-01-22 07:59:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS KN
08SEOUL1334	ROKG TO PRESENT AT NOVEMBER MTCR PLEANRY IN [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-02 07:29:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA KS
08SEOUL1355	AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY FORCE SIZE INCREASE DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-08 07:39:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO AF KS
08SEOUL1391	ROKG INCLINED TO SUPPORT REVISITING HRF ECOSOC [...] (C) PolOff conveyed to MOFAT reftel talking points in support of according the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) ECOSOC consultative NGO status. The MOFAT Human Rights and Social Affairs Division responded that the ROKG did not have enough information about the HRF at this time to commit to suppo [...]	2008-07-11 05:55:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV AORC UN NGO PHUM
08SEOUL1570	VISIT TO RURAL DPRK: AGRARIAN, ORDERLY, QUIET [...] (C) During a June 30-July 5 visit to North Korea to evaluate the beginnings of the U.S. food aid program (ref A),Poloff and USAID officers spent three days in Pyongyang and also traveled to two port cities to the southwest--Nampo and Songrim--and four agricultural towns farther north--Hyangsan [...]	2008-08-10 23:37:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN EAGR ECON PGOV PINR SOCI ELTN MARR
08SEOUL1581	BLUE HOUSE OFFICIAL HOPEFUL OF IMPROVED ROK-DPRK [...] (C) Assistant Secretary to the President for Unification Yu Joon-ha (protect) told poloff August 7 that the Lee administration is committed to improved ties with the DPRK, but does not expect any movement until next year. The ROKG is determined to establish reciprocity as part of the ROK-DP [...]	2008-08-11 07:40:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KS KN
08SEOUL162	LIKELY MINISTERIAL APPOINTEES [...] (C) Summary: The Presidential Transition Committee is expected to announce the ministerial nominations as early as January 26 for discussion in the National Assembly session that starts January 28. Though speculation is rife, a few names have started to rise to the top. Han Seung-soo, Speci [...]	2008-01-25 06:49:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS KN
08SEOUL1663	MT. KUMGANG: HYUNDAI ASAN WAITING ON ROKG TO TAKE [...] (C) Summary: Hyundai Asan Senior Vice President Jang Whan-bin told poloff August 13 that only the ROKG could resolve the stalemate with the DPRK over the Mt. Kumgang shooting incident. He does not believe financial incentives will compel the North Koreans to negotiate, saying the matter had [...]	2008-08-20 23:39:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KS KN
08SEOUL1681	ROKG ON CHINA: U.S. ALLIANCE IS VITAL [...] (C) Summary: In a round of August 18 meetings on the state of ROK-PRC relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) officials, the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA),the Korea Research Institute for Strategy (KRIS),and academics told poloffs that 1) the U.S.-ROK alliance [...]	2008-08-25 04:54:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN ZO
08SEOUL1757	ROK SAYS "NO" TO HOSTING APDP SENIOR OFFICIALS' [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-05 06:00:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM KS
08SEOUL1768	UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE: ROK WILL GIVE RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: While officially taking a non-committal stance toward the reftel Third Committee resolutions, Korea is likely at least to oppose no-action motions and defamation of religion resolutions. Korea is not taking a position on country-specific actions until draft resolutions are circul [...]	2008-09-08 05:00:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN
08SEOUL1818	ROK SHARES CONCERNS ABOUT KOSOVO ADVISORY OPINION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Korea shares U.S. concerns about the political implications of an Advisory Opinion (AO) from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the matter of Kosovo's declaration of independence, but is worried it will be difficult to keep the Serbia-introduced resolution off the UNGA ag [...]	2008-09-12 05:35:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNGA KV KS
08SEOUL1865	GNP IN DISARRAY, LEGISLATIVE PROGRESS UNLIKELY [...] (C) Summary: The ruling Grand National Party (GNP) is facing a crisis in party cohesion. Once merely split by two powerful factions -- one led by President Lee Myung-bak (MB) and the other by long-time party leader Park Geun-hye -- the GNP is increasingly plagued by divisions within the pro- [...]	2008-09-19 03:48:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS KN
08SEOUL1869	FORMER FM YOO ON NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: Former FM Yoo Chong-ha told poloffs September 18 that President Lee Myung-bak had not yet come up with a formula for conducting successful foreign policy. Yoo said he was personally committed to helping Lee get it right since he felt, as one of the co-chairs of the election comm [...]	2008-09-19 06:20:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL1882	ROKG'S INIITIAL RESPONSE ON ENGAGING CHINA ON [...] (C) Poloff presented reftel demarche and non-paper to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division on September 23. Deputy Director Kim Woo-see and Second Secretary Koh Young-kul said that they understood the importance of the message and that discussion of these i [...]	2008-09-23 06:56:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER IR CH SK PINR
08SEOUL1912	ROK PLANS TO UPGRADE RELATIONSHIP WITH RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: MOFAT's European Affairs DG Kim Eun-joong asked for a meeting with POL M/C on September 25 to discuss the status of negotiations with Russia over the joint statement to be announced by Presidents Lee and Medvedev in connection with their summit next week. In particular, DG Kim w [...]	2008-09-26 08:40:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN RU
08SEOUL1936	CLARIFIED REQUEST FOR AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY [...] (C) On Tuesday, October 30, Poloff delivered ref B demarche to First Secretary Kim, Hyun-du in the ROK-U.S. Security Cooperation Division of MOFAT. Poloff clarified the language in ref A on the USG's request for ROKG support for the expansion of the Afghan National Army. Poloff informed Kim [...]	2008-10-02 09:01:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	EAID PREL KS AF
08SEOUL1956	OCT 2 INTER-KOREAN MILITARY WORKING LEVEL TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY The 37th inter-Korean military working level, Colonel-level talks were held at Panmunjom on Thursday, 2 Oct. This was the first North/South official meeting since Lee Myung-bak took office. The last military meeting was held on January 25, 2008. Colonel Lee Sang Chul of the ROK Mi [...]	2008-10-06 09:14:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL KS KN
08SEOUL1966	ROK TO CONDUCT FLIGHT TEST OF HAESONG II UAV [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-07 08:11:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	MARR MCAP KPAL
08SEOUL2014	ELECTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN: ROKG SEEKS DETAILS ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) On October 14, poloffs delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Development Cooperation Division's Jong-ho Kyun. Kyun noted that Deputy Minister for Multilateral, Global and Legal Affairs Oh Joon, who h [...]	2008-10-14 08:02:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	AF KDEM KS PGOV PREL XB XC XD XE XF XG
08SEOUL2076	(C) IRAN, NORTH KOREA, AND SYRIA NON PROLIFERATION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) On October 22, poloffs delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division's First Secretary Jae-woo Kim. Kim was very concerned about Yolin Technology's sanction not [...]	2008-10-22 08:48:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC
08SEOUL2082	PATIENT LEE STILL STUCK ON THE RUNWAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Political consultant Park Sung-min told poloffs over a recent lunch that President Lee Myung-bak was in dire straits. Neither President Lee nor his staff understood the reasons behind Lee's flagging popularity (stuck around 25 percent in recent polls) and had no idea what to d [...]	2008-10-23 06:57:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL21	ROKG CONSIDERING SALE OF ARMORED PERSONNEL [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see para 3. 2. (C) On January 4, Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) informed poloff that the ROKG is considering the sale of an undetermined quantity of Armored Personn [...]	2008-01-04 06:23:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS MARR MASS PARM PREL IZ
08SEOUL2130	ROK TO CONDUCT FLIGHT TEST OF NHK-II PIP [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-30 08:39:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	KPAL MARR MCAP
08SEOUL2137	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): "SBIG'S [...] (S) On October 22, poloffs delivered reftels demarches (two cleared papers, one non-paper) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division's First Secretary Jae-woo Kim. Mr. Kim will forward the items to Ms. Sung-eun Kim (MCTR) who was out of the c [...]	2008-11-02 23:27:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	KSCA ETTC MNUC PARM TSPA
08SEOUL2178	LEAFLET DROPS IN NORTH KOREA TO CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary: Park Sang-hak, President of Fight for Free North Korea, an NGO active in promoting democracy and human rights for North Korea, said he had sent 1.8 million anti-Kim Jong-il (KJI) leaflets by balloon into North Korea this year and would not heed ROKG calls to stop. The DPRK has t [...]	2008-11-07 04:42:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PROP PREL KS KN
08SEOUL2182	ROKG ON UN THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) On November 6 and 7, Poloff presented reftel demarche points to MOFAT North America Division I Director Moon Sook-hyeong and UN Human Rights Division Director Chang Jae-bok. MOFAT confirmed that the ROKG would vote to block no-action motions on all three of the resolutions, in keeping wit [...]	2008-11-07 08:53:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KS
08SEOUL22	ROKG SUPPORTS PROPOSED GI MODEL GUIDELINES DOCUMENT [...] (C) On December 7, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director, Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). In a follow-up meeting January 4, Kim told poloff that the ROKG supports the vision and outline of the proposed Glob [...]	2008-01-04 06:24:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PTER EAIR ETRD PREL PINR PINS KNNP KGIC
08SEOUL221	FEUDS UNLIKELY TO SIGNIFICANLTY DIMINISH GNP GAINS [...] (C) Summary: The conservative Grand National Party (GNP) -- out of power for the last decade -- is poised to win big in the April 9 National Assembly elections, giving them control over both the parliament and the Blue House. The progressive United New Democratic Party (UNDP) is still flound [...]	2008-02-01 09:06:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS KN
08SEOUL2231	IRAN FM MOTTAKI: COOPERATION ON AFGHANISTRAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings on November 13 in Seoul with ROK Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan and Prime Minister Han Seung-soo, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki suggested that cooperation with the U.S. on Afghanistan and Iraq might be possible, but would depend on whether the U.S. was "s [...]	2008-11-18 08:08:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR KS KN AF IZ
08SEOUL2250	ROK TO CONDUCT FLIGHT TEST OF HAESONG II UAV [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-21 07:31:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	MARR MCAP KPAL
08SEOUL2251	NICARAGUA POLITICAL SITUATION OF CONCERN TO ROKG [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel talking points on reported irregularities in the November 9 Nicaraguan municipal elections to ROK Mininstry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Central America and Caribbean Division Director Lee Eun-chul on November 21. Director Lee said that the Korean Embassy in Managu [...]	2008-11-21 07:56:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS NU
08SEOUL2305	HELP FOR NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS: PRIVATE CHARITY [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff visited two government supported and two private institutions for helping student-age North Korean defectors: Hanawon, the re-education center where all defectors spend two months on arrival; Hangyerae School, where 220 students live and study; the Heavenly Dream School, [...]	2008-12-02 09:07:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV KS KN
08SEOUL2333	DEMARCHE REQUEST - REPUBLIC OF KOREA PARTICIPATION [...] On December 4, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Development Cooperation Division's Jong-ho Kyun. Below are responses to questions posed in reftel. -- The ROK is planning to end participation in the RRT because their RRT members will be unpr [...]	2008-12-05 07:28:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID KS IZ
08SEOUL2354	ARF DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE: LIMITED ROKG [...] This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on November 25 to MOFAT Southeast Asian Affairs Deputy Director Lee Yong-joon. Lee said an interagency meeting is required before he could provide a response. 3. (SBU) On December 3, Lee stated that [...]	2008-12-09 08:32:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID MARR MOPS ASEAN ARF RP
08SEOUL2355	ROK COUNTER-PIRACY RECOMMENDATIONS AND PLANS [...] (C) Summary. ROK officials describe their approach to counter piracy in the Horn of Africa as having three elements: international cooperation and coordination, preferably under the UN; capacity building for local maritime security forces; and joint military efforts. Nevertheless, budget c [...]	2008-12-09 09:14:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER PREL KS
08SEOUL2382	NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR INTELLECTUAL SAYS ELITE KEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kim Heung-kwang of North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, a group of predominantly elite North Korean defectors formed in June, and North Korea Reform Radio Representative Kim Seung-chul met with poloff on December 3 to describe plans to target elite North Koreans with messages an [...]	2008-12-12 06:45:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KS KN
08SEOUL2387	HORN OF AFRICA PIRACY: FORMATION OF CONTACT GROUP [...] (U) Poloff met with Ahreum Cho of the Security and Counter-Terrorism Cooperation Division within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) on December 12. Cho welcomed the information in reftel A, and will pass on the information to her director and to MOFAT representatives in the U [...]	2008-12-12 07:53:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER KS
08SEOUL2388	CONTINUED COOPERATION BETWEEN SOUTH KOREAN FIRM [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (U) Poloff met Young-kul Koh of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) on December 10 regarding reftel. While Koh understood our concerns, he said that the ROKG did not uncover evi [...]	2008-12-12 08:03:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL PK KS
08SEOUL2390	NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION SEEKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloffs met with leaders of the Association of North Korean Defector Organizations (ANKDO),an umbrella organization representing 28 smaller NGOs that support North Korean defectors. Chairman Han Chang-kweon said it would be important to empower the defector community, and st [...]	2008-12-12 08:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PROP PREL KS KN
08SEOUL2396	ROK SUSPECTS DPRK SHIP TRANSPORTS ARMS TO IRAN [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (S) Summary. Jae-woo Kim of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) told poloff on December 15 that the ROKG received information on December 14 that the North Korean vessel S [...]	2008-12-15 06:01:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	PARM PREL IR KS
08SEOUL2400	CHOI JANG-JIP: KOREA NOT YET MATURE DEMOCRACY [...] (C) Summary: Legendary political scientist and Korea University emeritus Choi Jang-jip told poloff on December 11 that he thought Korea had not fully democratized and that the main hurdle to this goal was an overly strong central government. Choi, a college classmate of President Lee Myung-b [...]	2008-12-15 08:13:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL2402	DAY IN LIFE OF NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS IN SOUTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff attended the second annual group wedding for four North Korean defector couples organized by a South Korean NGO. The couples were grateful for the ceremony, which they postponed because of lack of funding. Poloff also met with two of the brides to discuss their experien [...]	2008-12-15 08:23:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PINR KS KN
08SEOUL2403	2009 BUDGET PASSES NA; MORE CLASHES TO COME [...] (C) Summary: On December 13, the ruling GNP along with the conservative Liberty Forward Party (LFP) passed the annual budget bill while the opposition Democratic Party (DP) and Democratic Labor Party (DLP) members boycotted the vote. Most pundits and Assembly sources note that the ruling party [...]	2008-12-15 08:28:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS

08SEOUL243	(S) ROK INVESTIGATION REVEALS ROK COMPANY DID NOT [...] (S) On December 7, poloff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper to Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director, Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. On February 5, Kim conveyed the results of the ROKG investigation of the South Korean company Cheonun Preci [...]	2008-02-05 04:33:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	PARM MTCRE PREL ETTC KS KN
08SEOUL2446	ROK EXPERT ON NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Professor Yoon Yeosang, President of NKDB (Database Center for North Korean Human Rights),in a December 9 meeting with Poloff, said DPRK authorities seemed recently to be adhering to two points of the North Korean criminal code they had previously ignored: limiting detention peri [...]	2008-12-22 00:14:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KS KN
08SEOUL2457	BLUE HOUSE ADVISOR SAYS FTA, MAJOR LAWS WILL PASS [...] (C) Summary: Ze Seung-wan, advisor to President Lee for civil affairs, told poloff December 22 that the KORUS FTA, along with other major legislation currently on hold due to physical opposition from the Democratic Party (DP),would be passed during the current 30-day special session set to en [...]	2008-12-22 07:49:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL2458	YOUNGNAM: GNP LOYALTY AND REGIONALISM STILL REIGN [...] (C) Summary: On 17-18 December, poloff traveled to Daegu and Busan to gauge the popularity of President Lee Myung-bak and the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) in the conservative stronghold of Youngnam -- traditional nomenclature for the south-eastern area of Korea comprised of North and Sout [...]	2008-12-23 05:05:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL2496	ROK TO SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO CONTACT GROUP ON [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. In response to reftel, Hyunghwa Cho of the Security and Counter-Terrorism Cooperation Division within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed poloff on December 31 that the ROKG will send the following two representatives to [...]	2008-12-31 01:52:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM EWWT MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER
08SEOUL291	(S) SHIELD S08F-05: ROK COMPANIES' SALE OF [...] (S) On December 10, Poloff delivered reftel A demarche and nonpaper to Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). On February 5, Kim conveyed the results of the ROKG investigation into the activities the [...]	2008-02-13 09:24:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC KS IR
08SEOUL295	ROKG SATISFIED WITH IAEA IRAN EXPORT DENIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-14 05:54:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA KS IR
08SEOUL327	REPATRIATED NORTH KOREANS' FATE HIGHLIGHTS ROKG'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 18, the Grand National Party (GNP) called for an inquiry into whether 22 North Korean's were sent home against their will following unconfirmed reports that they were executed upon repatriation. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) has said publicly that the No [...]	2008-02-19 08:26:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS KN
08SEOUL336	NO CHANGE IN ROK POSITION ON FULL ISRAELI [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-20 09:06:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SZ AA IS KS LI NZ
08SEOUL347	COMPROMISE REACHED: GOVERNMENT DOWNSIZING BILL SET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 20 the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the Grand National Party (GNP) broke a month-long deadlock and came to a compromise on Lee Myung-bak's government reform plan. The compromise includes the survival of the Unification and Gender Equality Ministries. The refo [...]	2008-02-21 07:52:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL37	PRESIDENT-ELECT LEE MEETS FORMER USG OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: During a January 4 meeting with former Secretary of Defense William Perry and other former senior SIPDIS USG officials, President-elect Lee Myung-bak said that: -- The DPRK government was feeling "tremendous uncertainty" after Lee's election and consequently had a wait-and-s [...]	2008-01-07 08:30:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS KN PGOV PREL
08SEOUL390	LESS EUPHORIA OVER NEW ROK PRESIDENT LEE MYUNG-BAK [...] (C) Summary: Lee Myung-bak's transition period, which ended with his inauguration on February 25, was plagued by weeks of political wrangling within the Grand National Party (GNP) over nominations for the April 9 National Assembly elections and intense debate with the United Democratic Party [...]	2008-02-27 07:20:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL453	ELECTION RUNUP: GNP GOING STRONG; LIBERAL LOSS [...] (C) Summary: Despite recent stumbles by the Grand National Party (GNP) and President Lee Myung-bak, continued attacks on Lee's appointees, and record low support for a president days after inauguration (49 percent in a March 1 Hankyoreh poll),the GNP still holds the pole position heading int [...]	2008-03-07 08:13:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL459	UNIFICATION MINISTRY OFFICIAL SEES SOUTH-NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Unification's (MOU) Assistant Minister for Planning and Coordination Park Chang-bong, a veteran MOU official who criticized the Sunshine Policy, expects President Lee Myung-bak's government to make clear to the DPRK that most economic assistance, including fertili [...]	2008-03-10 08:05:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS KN PGOV PREL MNUC
08SEOUL560	ROK WILL SUPPORT CALLS FOR GREATER PARTICIPATION [...] (C) In a March 19 meeting with poloff, Han Woo-yong, MOFAT Deputy Director for Southeast Asian Affairs, said in response to reftel points that the ROK has consistently expressed its desire for authentic democratization in Burma to Burmese officials. As such, it would have no problem urging Bur [...]	2008-03-20 07:18:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM BM
08SEOUL561	ROK SUPPORTS HRC SPECIAL MANDATES FOR NORTH KOREA, [...] (C) In a March 19 meeting with poloff, Jang Hyun-cheol, MOFAT Deputy Director for Human Rights, said that the ROK will vote to extend the special mandate for the Special Rapporteur for North Korean Human Rights in the U.N. Human Rights Council. Furthermore, the ROK also supported the continua [...]	2008-03-20 07:18:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS KN BM PGOV PHUM PREL
08SEOUL622	ROK OFFICIALS, ACADEMICS AND NGOS SEE SERIOUS DPRK [...] (C) Summary: In March 17-18 meetings with INR analyst Mark Phelan and poloff, ROK observers cited reasons for serious concern about the DPRK's food situation this year: -- ROK observers expected decreased DPRK crop production because of 2006 and 2007 flood damage in the 'rice bowl' surround [...]	2008-03-28 05:16:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS KN ECON EAID EAGR PGOV
08SEOUL706	GNP HEADED FOR VICTORY LANE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: South Koreans go to the polls tomorrow, April 9, to choose their National Assembly representatives. Coming less than four months after the presidential elections, interest is low and the outcome, despite all the media chatter, not really in question: the conservative Grand Nati [...]	2008-04-08 08:43:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL736	ROK ALREADY IMPLEMENTED UNSCRS 1737, 1747, AND [...] (C) In an April 11 meeting with poloff, MOFAT Deputy Director for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Kim Jae-woo said in response to reftel points that the ROKG had already implemented their obligations under UNSCRS 1737, 1747, and 1803 in imposing a travel ban on the Iranians named in the annex [...]	2008-04-11 06:53:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS MNUC KNNP IR UNSC
08SEOUL737	FORMER FM FRETS: MB'S TEAM UP TO THE TASK? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a frank April 11 lunch meeting, former Foreign Minister Yoo Chong-ha gave poloffs his view of Lee Myung-bak and said he hoped Lee would play it safe during the April 18-19 summit with President Bush. Yoo said he would continue to advise President Lee whenever called, as he was [...]	2008-04-11 07:31:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS KN
08SEOUL738	ROK HAS FORGIVEN 80 PERCENT OF IRAQ DEBT, LOOKING [...] (C) In an April 11 meeting with Gulf Region Division First Secretary Moon Byung-jun, poloff, per reftel, (1) requested SIPDIS that MOFAT attend the May 29 Ministerial in Stockholm, (2) recommended that the ROKG use its meetings with Iraq,s neighbors to encourage them to increase engagement w [...]	2008-04-11 07:50:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KS PREL IZ IR TU EUN
08SEOUL776	LEE MYUNG-BAK WEATHERS POLITICAL STORM; AWAITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Korea's political landscape is in transition -- in the last two months President Lee Myung-bak was inaugurated, a new National Assembly was elected, new parties were formed; in the coming two months leaders for the two main parties are set to change. The ruling Grand National Pa [...]	2008-04-17 08:44:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SEOUL833	ROK NOT ABLE TO SPONSOR PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-25 09:09:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KS EUN
08SEOUL849	ROK TO CONDUCT FLIGHT TEST OF HAESONG II UAV [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-28 06:36:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	MARR PREL KS
08SEOUL856	SPI 17: U.S.-ROK 17TH SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE [...] (S) The 17th Security Policy Initiative (SPI) talks were held in Seoul on April 8, 2008. The U.S. Delegation was headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for East Asia David Sedney, with Ministry of National Defense (MND) Deputy Minister of Defense for Policy Jeon Jei-guk leadin [...]	2008-04-28 07:57:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	MARR MNUC PARM PREL KS KN
08SEOUL879	SOUTH KOREAN ANGER AT CHINESE STUDENTS' VIOLENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On Sunday, April 27, Chinese students studying in Korea who had gathered for the procession of the Olympic torch through downtown Seoul violently attacked South Korean demonstrators who were protesting China's treatment of North Korean refugees and Tibet. Unlike in other parts of [...]	2008-04-29 08:39:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM CH
08SEOUL917	ROK CONSIDERING PUBLIC STATEMENT ON FLAWED BURMESE [...] (C) In a May 2 meeting with poloff, Han Woo-young, MOFAT Deputy Director for Southeast Asian Affairs, said that the ROKG was currently discussing the possibility of making a public statement about the flawed nature of the May 10 referendum in Burma. There was "favorable discussion" on the top [...]	2008-05-02 07:31:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM BM
08SEOUL918	ROKG NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY PREPARATORY [...] (SBU) On 1 May, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Choi Ki-Cheon, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Choi said that the Disarmament and Non-proliferation Division's Lee Sang-soo departed for the Non-proliferation Tre [...]	2008-05-02 08:28:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA KS
08SEOUL928	ROK TO ISSUE STATEMENT ON BURMESE REFERENDUM AFTER [...] (C) In a May 6 meeting with poloff, Han Woo-young, MOFAT Deputy Director for Southeast Asian Affairs, said that the ROKG will release a public statement concerning Burma after Deputy Secretary Negroponte meets with Vice Foreign Minister Kwon Jong-rak on May 8 in Seoul. The statement will inclu [...]	2008-05-06 08:28:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM BM
08SEOUL936	ROKG RESPONSE TO UNSC RESOLUTION ON SOMALI PIRACY [...] (C) In a 7 May meeting with poloff, Kie-joo Kim, MOFAT Director of Security and Counter-terrorism Division, said the ROKG will both support the reftel points in their entirety and actively court the support of the Asian elected members on the UN Security Council (UNSC),Indonesia and Vietnam. [...]	2008-05-07 07:32:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT KCRM KS PHSA PHUM PREL SO XW UNSC
08SEOUL977	OPPOSITION LAWMAKER KIM BOO-KYUM ON BEEF, FTA, UDP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recently re-elected to a third term, United Democratic Party (UDP) lawmaker Kim Boo-kyum told poloff over a May 13 lunch that he believed controversy surrounding the reopening of the Korean market to U.S. beef would blow over. Also, he explained that there were several non-binding [...]	2008-05-13 08:19:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KN KS
08SHANGHAI126	CHINA 'CANNOT ACCEPT' MA YING-JEOU U.S. VISIT, SHANGHAI [...] (C) Summary: Professor Zhang Nianchi, Director of the influential Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) and expert on cross-strait relations, told DPO that Beijing would "not be able to accept" a visit by Taiwan's president-elect Ma Ying-jeou to the United States, in a March 27 m [...]	2008-03-28 04:19:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW
08SHANGHAI144	RURAL REFORM AND NGO ACTIVITIES IN ANHUI PROVINCE [...] (C) Summary: Poloff and political assistant traveled to Anhui Province on April 7-8 to meet with Zhang Deyuan, the deputy director of the China San Nong Problem Research Center at Anhui University in Hefei, and to observe a rural poverty alleviation project in Yuexi County sponsored by the NGO [...]	2008-04-11 09:29:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EAGR SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI19	SHANGHAI RESIDENTS PROTEST MAGLEV EXTENSION [...] (C) Summary. Large-scale demonstrations on January 12 and 13 against the Shanghai government's plans to extend the Maglev train line have not only highlighted dissatisfaction by Shanghai residents over the government's plans, but is an example of local residents using public means to press fo [...]	2008-01-16 08:57:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ELTN CH
08SHANGHAI20	TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL/USA PRESIDENT BOSWELL'S LUNCH [...] (C) Summary: During a January 15 lunch, Transparency International/USA President and CEO Nancy Boswell engaged representatives of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (SMPC) and an academic specializing in NGO development on ways of improving transparency in the budget process, organizing [...]	2008-01-16 09:11:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS SOCI ETRD KPAO CH
08SHANGHAI218	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS SEE MEASURED PROGRESS ON NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Shanghai academics concur that the Six-Party Talks are resulting in real, sustained progress, although, in moving forward, the pace of progress may not fully meet U.S. expectations. While the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) seeks friendlier bilateral relations with the United [...]	2008-06-16 09:25:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KN CH
08SHANGHAI219	SHANGHAI SCHOLARS ZHANG NIANCHI PREDICTS SLOW PROGRESS IN [...] (C) Summary: In a June 16 meeting, Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies President Zhang Nianchi expressed pleasure that talks between Taiwan and the Mainland have resumed, but cautioned against high expectations for future talks. Tough issues, including more international space for Taiwan [...]	2008-06-16 10:16:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW MARR
08SHANGHAI234	SHANGHAI-BASED "NGO" DEMOCRACY BUILDING EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary. In the past five years, Shanghai-based Harmonious Committee Institute (HCI),a non-profit organization, has been working to promote democracy through strengthening homeowners associations and educating homeowners of their property rights. According to HCI General Manager Liu She [...]	2008-06-23 08:18:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI
08SHANGHAI253	SHANGHAI SCHOLARS' VIEWS ON THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: Shanghai scholars described Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states as committed to cooperation on issues of common interest, but divided over any larger role the organization should play over the long term. The August 2008 summit will not break new ground but will [...]	2008-07-01 01:25:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG CH RS XD XE IR
08SHANGHAI254	SHANGHAI BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT CONCERN ABOUT COMPETITION [...] (SBU) Summary. In a June 26 meeting with ConGenoffs, newly appointed Shanghai Bar Association (SBA) President Liu Zhengdong expressed his concerns about the increase in the number of foreign law firms operating in Shanghai in direct competition with local Shanghai firms. He acknowledges, ho [...]	2008-07-02 06:11:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI259	SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN ON CHINA-VATICAN RELATIONS, SHESHAN [...] (C) Summary. In a July 7 meeting with Pol/Econ Section Chief and Poloffs, Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Luxin Jin continued to be pessimistic about prospects for normalization of relations between the Vatican and Beijing. He also confirmed that Beijing had taken measures to keep the annual pilgrim [...]	2008-07-08 00:31:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER KIRF CH VT TW
08SHANGHAI273	(C) SIX-PARTY TALKS: SHANGHAI ACADEMICS COUNSEL SHORT-TERM [...] (C) Summary: Several Shanghai academics believe the Six-Party Talks can produce continued movement by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) toward denuclearization and regional dialogue, but counsel patience since any progress is likely to be gradual. It is unclear whether North Ko [...]	2008-07-22 08:41:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH ECON JA KN PGOV PREL
08SHANGHAI276	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: China's leading academic experts on Japan are cautiously optimistic that the relationship will continue to build on recent positive developments. High-level visits by leaders on both sides, Japan's relief effort in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake, the port call to China b [...]	2008-07-23 08:58:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MCAP CH JA
08SHANGHAI280	SHANGHAI ACADEMIC YANG JIEMIAN ON TAIWAN, SED [...] (C) Summary: During the Consul General's July 25 farewell call, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) President Yang Jiemian noted improvements in cross-Strait relations and expressed his hope that the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) will continue even after the change in admi [...]	2008-07-25 08:59:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH PGOV PREL TW
08SHANGHAI283	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA'S ROLE IN SUDAN, ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Summary: Shanghai's academic experts on China's foreign policy and African studies view Zimbabwe's crisis as a strictly internal matter that should be resolved through dialogue between the ruling and opposition parties, and they strongly oppose any further sanctions. The academics also be [...]	2008-07-28 08:17:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH ETRD PARM PREL XA
08SHANGHAI320	ZHEJIANG LEADERS CONFIDENT IN TRADE TIES WITH UNITED STATES [...] (SBU) Zhejiang Province enjoys a good relationship with the United States built on a foundation of strong trade ties, provincial and local officials told the Consul General on his farewell trip to Hangzhou, Zhejiang's provincial capital on August 6-7. Zhejiang officials remain concerned that t [...]	2008-08-13 05:14:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV ELAB ETRD EINV ENRG CH
08SHANGHAI337	VOLUNTEERISM IN SHANGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite ample opportunities for people to volunteer, local volunteer organizations still have problems attracting people. Interlocutors blamed the lack of interest in volunteering to the absence of legislation on volunteers, the lack of a system to track someone's volunteer exp [...]	2008-08-18 00:34:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI ELAB CH
08SHANGHAI352	NANJING SCHOLARS UPBEAT ON CHANCES FOR CONTINUED [...] (S) Summary: Nanjing scholars express optimism that cross-Strait relations can continue to develop at a brisk pace, though cautious on the possibility of short-term steps toward political integration or a "diplomatic truce." Chinese President Hu Jintao's flexibility on Taiwan nomenclature and [...]	2008-08-22 05:48:00	Consulate Shanghai	SECRET	CH ECON PGOV PREL TW
08SHANGHAI360	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA'S PROTESTANTS, CCC/TSPM [...] (C) Summary. Academic contacts in Shanghai describe Protestantism in China as growing in number and diversity. There are three categories of Protestants in China: the official church, unofficial urban churches, and unofficial rural churches. Members of unofficial rural churches have limited [...]	2008-08-27 08:07:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KIRF CH
08SHANGHAI371	CHINESE PROTESTANT SEMINARY IN NANJING SLATED FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Nanjing Union Theological Seminary is on track for a major expansion in facilities and student capacity, according to Dean Reverend Ambroise Aiming Wang. The Seminary's new campus in the Nanjing suburbs, scheduled to open next year, as well as a new cathedral, have both been m [...]	2008-09-04 06:52:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CH KIRF PGOV PINR SOCI
08SHANGHAI374	NANJING'S AMITY PRINTING COMPANY WORLD'S LARGEST BIBLE [...] (C) Summary: With its recent move to a larger facility, the Amity Printing Company in Nanjing will increase its production of Bibles to over 12 million volumes annually, cementing its position as the world's largest Bible publisher. Among other successes, Amity Printing was commissioned by Bei [...]	2008-09-05 08:13:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI
08SHANGHAI375	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS COMMENT ON GEORGIA: IMPLICATIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: Leading Shanghai academics on Russia and international security fault both Russia and Georgia for escalating the conflict, and state that China will not support independence for South Ossetia and Abkhazia because of concerns over setting a precedent for Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang [...]	2008-09-08 05:51:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH ENRG MCAP PARM PREL RS TW
08SHANGHAI384	EAST CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ON IMPACT OF OLYMPICS AND [...] (C) Summary: Three East China human rights activists told Poloff on September 10 that their activities were tightly constrained during the recent Beijing Olympics with one of the activists prevented from traveling to the United States to attend a conference. Local security forces currently are [...]	2008-09-11 07:40:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH ECON ETRD KIRF PGOV PHUM
08SHANGHAI385	NEW CHINA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT DISCUSSES CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: Gao Feng, the new President of the China Christian Council (CCC),said during a September 2 meeting with Poloff that he would take steps to address challenges such as the insufficient number of pastors and churches and the lack of education opportunities for church workers and laym [...]	2008-09-11 07:47:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH KIRF PGOV PINR
08SHANGHAI386	GEORGIA CRISIS TESTS SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (SCO) [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-11 08:49:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH ENRG GG IR PREL RS XD XE
08SHANGHAI397	SHANGHAI SCHOLARS ON CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS: MA'S [...] (C) Summary: Shanghai academics are divided in their opinion of Ma's political skills, some claiming his distinct style of leadership creates complications for the PRC, which is frequently not consulted in advance of Ma's initiatives. The international space issue will take many years to reso [...]	2008-09-17 07:26:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH MARR MCAP PA PGOV PREL TW
08SHANGHAI408	SHANGHAI HOUSE CHURCH LEADER SAYS OLYMPIC CLAMPDOWN TO [...] (C) A prominent Shanghai house church leader said local police clamped down on house church activity during the Beijing Olympics, and the increased scrutiny has shown no signs of abating in the month since the Games concluded. The leader stated that he believes the local government fears the r [...]	2008-09-22 07:44:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KIRF SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI41	SHANGHAI ACADEMIC YANG JIEMIAN ON THE SENIOR DIALOGUE, SED, [...] (C) Summary: During a January 22 meeting, EAP DAS Thomas Christensen and Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) President Yang Jiemian exchanged views on the Senior Dialogue and Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED),Taiwan, Iran, North Korea, and China's non-interference principle. [...]	2008-02-01 06:22:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR CH TW IR BM
08SHANGHAI413	MULTILATERALISM INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT FACET OF CHINA'S [...] (C) Summary: Shanghai scholars regard China's increasingly active role in multilateral fora as the product of Beijing's integration into the global economic system and response to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. China's sharper focus on national interests and the elevation of its international [...]	2008-09-23 06:41:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH ECIN ECON EFIN PREL XC
08SHANGHAI42	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS DISCUSS TAIWAN, NORTH KOREA AND IRAN WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a January 22 lunch, four of Shanghai's leading U.S.-China relations academics exchanged views with EAP DAS Thomas Christensen on Taiwan, U.S.-China military relations, North Korea and China's non-interference principle. The academics expressed concerns about the domestic polit [...]	2008-02-01 06:28:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR CH TW IR BM
08SHANGHAI427	SHANGHAI: OFFICIALS SHAKEN BY MILK SCANDAL BUT LITTLE [...] (C) Summary: Officials in Shanghai and other East China cities appear shaken by the current milk scandal, but there have been few apparent political outcomes such as forced resignations or incidents of social instability. High-level officials in Shanghai continue to reassure the public and the [...]	2008-09-29 08:00:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON CH
08SHANGHAI428	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS COMMENT ON CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH LATIN [...] (C) Summary: China's strategy in Latin America is shaped by its desire for natural resources and not by any geopolitical ambitions, according to Shanghai scholars, and China does not want to raise U.S. suspicion about China's motives in the region. Political competition with Taiwan in Latin A [...]	2008-09-29 11:44:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG ETRD CH VE BR TW XM
08SHANGHAI43	SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ZHANG NIANCHI CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ON [...] (C) Summary. In a January 23 meeting with EAP DAS Thomas Christensen, Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) President Zhang Nianchi was cautiously optimistic that there can be progress on cross-Strait issues. He was pleased with the Taiwan Legislative Yuan (LY) election results an [...]	2008-02-01 06:36:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH TW
08SHANGHAI443	EAST CHINA ACADEMICS ON CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS: ASO WILL BE [...] (C) Summary: Japan experts in Shanghai and Nanjing believe new Japanese Prime Minister Aso, consumed by domestic political and economic challenges, will adopt a pragmatic approach to China regardless of his past anti-China rhetoric. Aso will attend the ASEM meeting in China in late October, b [...]	2008-10-17 06:42:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	CH JA PREL SOCI
08SHANGHAI449	ANHUI OPTIMISTIC IT WILL WEATHER ECONOMIC STORM [...] (SBU) Anhui Provincial officials told visiting Congenoffs on October 14-15 that the global economic slowdown has affected the province but not as severely as in coastal provinces. The most significant impact of the economic situation is likely to be felt by Anhui's rural-to-urban migrants work [...]	2008-10-21 02:17:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV ELAB ETRD EIND EINV CH
08SHANGHAI461	JIANGSU WELCOMES LAND REFORMS BUT PROGRESS ON GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary. Farmers in Jiangsu Province welcomed the Central Government's policy announcements on land reform during the Third Plenum of the 17th CPC Central Committee (Ref A),but progress on local governance and evaluation of government officials will have a greater impact on the lives of t [...]	2008-10-28 08:00:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN CH
08SHANGHAI476	(C) YIWU'S MUSLIM COMMUNITY: POSSIBLE TRANSIT POINT FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Muslim community in Yiwu, a key trading center in East China's Zhejiang Province, is thriving on the back of China's growing trade with South Asia and the Middle East. In an effort to attract Muslim businesspeople to the city, local government officials have set up Muslim sch [...]	2008-11-04 02:01:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER XF PK CH
08SHANGHAI49	SHANGHAI MAYOR HAN ZHENG GETS SECOND TERM [...] (C) Summary: Despite earlier speculation that Mayor Han Zheng would be reassigned elsewhere, he was re-elected to a second five-year term at the end of Shanghai's Municipal People's Congress (MPC) on January 30. Contacts are mixed as to whether Mayor Han will complete his term. The MPC also [...]	2008-02-01 10:01:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON CH
08SHANGHAI494	SHANGHAI: THE PARTY SECRETARY IS ONLINE [...] (SBU) Shanghai CPC Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng participated in his first webchat on November 6, fielding questions from Shanghai residents on economic and social issues. Netizens took advantage of the opportunity to raise concerns about economic development, infrastructure projects, housing [...]	2008-11-14 06:00:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PHUM EFIN TINT ETTC SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI496	THE OLYMPICS AND NATIONALISM: VIEWS FROM EAST CHINA [...] (C) Summary: Interlocutors in Shanghai and Nanjing believe rising Chinese nationalism in the months preceding the Olympics was mainly a reaction to Western criticism and "bias" against China during the Tibet crisis. Although China is more confident after a "successful" Olympics, the interlocu [...]	2008-11-14 07:37:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI505	LUWAN DISTRICT OFFICIAL RETURNS TO SHANGHAI AFTER MYSTERIOUS [...] (C) An official from Shanghai's Luwan District returned home earlier this month after mysteriously disappearing during a business trip to France in October. It is unclear why the official vanished, or why he returned, but media reports have focused on corruption as the likely cause. Public sc [...]	2008-11-20 08:38:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI506	SHANGHAI MAYOR ADDRESSES TAXI CONCERNS [...] (C) Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng met with taxi drivers and other public transportation representatives on November 18 to discuss upcoming reform plans. The mayor's meeting with taxi drivers comes on the heels of highly publicized work stoppages by taxi drivers in Chongqing and Hainan, and one cont [...]	2008-11-20 08:55:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI513	SHANGHAI: MILK NOT DOING THE BODY POLITIC ANY GOOD [...] (C) Public reaction to the recent milk scandal remains muted in Shanghai even as local stores have faced difficulties stocking an adequate supply of imported milk. Observers say Shanghai residents are angry about the food safety lapse, but the situation has not led to social instability in lar [...]	2008-11-25 03:26:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON EAGR CH
08SHANGHAI515	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Shanghai scholars believe China-India relations are improving with high-level visits, military cooperation, and increasing bilateral trade, but unresolved border issues and political distrust are hampering further progress. Many Indian Government officials still maintain a "Cold [...]	2008-11-26 08:25:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PARM EINV CH IN PK
08SHANGHAI522	(C) ZHEJIANG: FACTORY CLOSURES RAISE SOCIAL STABILITY [...] (C) Social and political analysts in Zhejiang Province said the province's economy may recover from the current financial crisis (Refs A and B),but factory closures could result in social unrest, particularly as Lunar New Year approaches. Zhejiang-based observers worry that the Central Governm [...]	2008-12-05 08:24:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN ELAB PHUM CH
08SHANGHAI523	(C) HUMAN RIGHTS DAY PETITION TO CALL FOR POLITICAL REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Contacts in Hangzhou said they have joined a petition calling for more political reform in China, which they said would be posted on-line o/a December 10 to coincide with UN Human Rights Day. Both contacts said China's current social and economic environment provides an opportuni [...]	2008-12-08 02:08:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CH UN
08SHANGHAI527	HANGZHOU CONTACTS ON INTERNET FREEDOM IN EAST CHINA [...] (C) The case of a blogger from Jiangsu Province about to go on trial for libel is being watched closely in East China, according to contacts in neighboring Zhejiang Province. Journalists and intellectuals told Poloff they see internet freedom as a critically important issue, particularly given [...]	2008-12-08 08:46:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI TINT CH
08SHANGHAI533	SHANGHAI ACADEMIC YANG JIEMIAN ON OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, [...] (C) Summary: Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) President Yang Jiemian said the Chinese Government wants to stabilize bilateral relations with the United States and avoid the recurring "pendulum effect" in relations that seems to occur each time a new administration comes int [...]	2008-12-10 03:47:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW
08SHANGHAI542	(C) HANGZHOU POLICE QUESTION ONE CHARTER SIGNATORY BUT NO [...] (C) Summary: Hangzhou activist Wen Kejian, who first informed Consulate Poloff about the "08 Charter" (reftels),was questioned by local police on December 10 and later released. Another Hangzhou activist told Poloff on December 11 that he has not been contacted by police despite being both a c [...]	2008-12-11 08:18:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CH UN
08SHANGHAI562	(C) SHANGHAI LAWYERS SAY THEY ARE TOLD TO STAY AWAY FROM [...] (C) Summary. Shanghai attorneys say the Shanghai Bar Association informed its members to stay away from sensitive cases related to melamine and residents displaced by proposed Maglev construction (reftels). Many of the lawyers expressed concern that rule of law in East China is threatened by [...]	2008-12-18 10:28:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON PREL CH
08SHANGHAI578	KMT-CCP TALKS: VIEWS OF SHANGHAI ACADEMICS [...] (C) Summary: Poloff spoke with several Shanghai academics about the 4th annual KMT-CCP forum which took place in Shanghai December 20-21. One academic who participated in the forum said the talks proceeded "smoothly" and "without big surprises." The forum focused on enhancing cross-Strait eco [...]	2008-12-24 07:42:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EFIN EINV CH TW
08SHANGHAI580	O HOLY NIGHT: FOREIGN PROTESTANTS PACK CHURCHES AT [...] (C) Foreign Protestants packed church services for Christmas celebrations in Shanghai, taking advantage of recent indications that the Municipal Government is willing to provide more opportunities for expatriate Protestants to meet corporately in the city. With the growing number of foreigners [...]	2008-12-30 08:56:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KIRF SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI75	SHANGHAI HOUSING RIGHTS LAWYER ZHENG ENCHONG DETAINED [...] (C) In a phone conversation with Poloff on February 22, Shanghai petitioner Chen Enquan confirmed a February 20 report by Human Rights in China (HRIC) that prominent Shanghai housing rights lawyer Zheng Enchong was detained on February 20. She also asserted as appeared in the HRIC report that [...]	2008-02-22 06:27:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV CH
08SHENYANG103	PRC-DPRK BORDER TIGHTENS PRE-OLYMPICS: DPRK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local officials confirm they have taken measures to "strengthen control" of the PRC-DPRK border region during the Olympics. New checkpoints have been established outside some sensitive border cities. The PRC "through diplomatic channels" requested that the DPRK stem border-cross [...]	2008-07-29 05:40:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV PREF ASEC KN CH
08SHENYANG109	PRC-DPRK: BORDER-CROSSERS AND THEIR OFFSPRING; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Contacts along the PRC-DPRK border report smaller-than-usual numbers of North Korean border-crossers this summer. Civil Affairs officials in one key border city screen detained border-crossers for infectious diseases and arrange for medical care pending repatriation. Children bor [...]	2008-08-06 06:13:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV PREF KN CH
08SHENYANG116	PRC-DPRK BORDER DEFENSE, BORDER-CROSSERS, NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC has made some progress in PRC-DPRK border security in recent years, but advances ought not be overestimated, say northeast China experts. Although new investment, infrastructural improvements and modern technologies have enhanced defense capacity, the border remains porou [...]	2008-08-20 05:20:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV PREF ASEC KTIP SNAR KN CH
08SHENYANG12	NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS: MORE PRC THINKING; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The small group of specialists researching North Korean border-crossers for the PRC government largely endorses Chinese policy on the issue, even if small differences exist. One researcher said a PRC "transit corridor" permitting North Koreans to quietly traverse Chinese territor [...]	2008-01-18 00:38:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PINR GTIP KN KS CH
08SHENYANG13	PRC: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM A MIXED PICTURE IN YANBIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Religious freedom is enjoying modest improvement in a key ethnic minority enclave of Jilin Province, near the PRC-DPRK border. Christianity is making inroads among local Chinese, migrant workers, and North Korean border-crossers. "House churches," many with links to official chu [...]	2008-01-24 01:25:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREF KN KS CH
08SHENYANG150	PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMATS; FOOD SECURITY; [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korean diplomats in northeast China did not, contrary to rumor, receive orders from Pyongyang restricting their travel in October, and trade officials recently recalled to Sinuiju reported no changes given them in policy direction, say contacts. PRC security posture appears [...]	2008-11-04 05:29:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH
08SHENYANG151	PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMATS; FOOD SECURITY; [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korean diplomats in northeast China did not, contrary to rumor, receive orders from Pyongyang restricting their travel in October, and trade officials recently recalled to Sinuiju reported no changes given them in policy direction, say contacts. PRC security posture appears [...]	2008-11-04 05:30:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH
08SHENYANG152	PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMATS; FOOD SECURITY; [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korean diplomats in northeast China did not, contrary to rumor, receive orders from Pyongyang restricting their travel in October, and trade officials recently recalled to Sinuiju reported no changes given them in policy direction, say contacts. PRC security posture appears [...]	2008-11-04 05:30:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH
08SHENYANG185	NORTH KOREA: RAJIN PORT FRICTIONS; CHINESE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese commercial concerns have been focusing on the North Korean port of Chongjin since Pyongyang recently terminated a Chinese company's lease rights at the DPRK port of Rajin and awarded those privileges to a state-owned Russian firm. One Chinese scholar claims the move is fu [...]	2008-12-24 02:50:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EWWT KN KS CH
08SHENYANG189	PRC-DPRK: CHINA'S COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1718 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two years on, PRC compliance with the spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 1718's luxury- goods provisions appears limited at best. Dandong and other border officials tell us privately that while they are implementing military-related provisions of UNSCR 1718, they are not en [...]	2008-12-30 23:51:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ETRD KN KS CH
08SHENYANG3	PRC HUMAN RIGHTS: YAO FUXIN ABUSE ALLEGATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Health problems continue to beset imprisoned Liaoning labor activist Yao Fuxin, whose case has triggered high-level USG attention since his initial arrest in 2002. In a letter to his daughter he recently managed to have smuggled out of prison, Yao for the first time described sev [...]	2008-01-07 07:43:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINS SOCI CH
08SHENYANG30	PRC/DPRK: IMPACT OF PRC EXPORT RESTRICTIONS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: NEW PRC EXPORT RESTRICTIONS ARE DELAYING, IN SOME CASES BY MANY WEEKS, SHIPMENTS OF KEY CHINESE COMMODITIES TO NORTH KOREA VIA DANDONG. IN LIMITED CASES, BEIJING IS GRANTING TEMPORARY WAIVERS FOR PRC FIRMS WITH LARGE, PREEXISTING CONTRACTS IN THE DPRK. PYONGYANG IS DISPLEASED, [...]	2008-03-03 06:00:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV ECON ETRD KN KS CH
08SHENYANG36	"SLAVE LABOR" SCANDAL HITS CHINA AGAIN: 33 FORCED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Authorities in Heilongjiang Province announced yesterday that they discovered 33 migrant "slave laborers" held captive and coerced to work--some for as long as three years--in a suburb of the provincial capital. Initial reports claim the captors "systematically" targeted vulnerabl [...]	2008-03-20 10:14:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ELAB GTIP KCRM ECON CH
08SHENYANG37	NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PRC-DPRK BORDER TRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY: New PRC export restrictions are complicating some PRC-DPRK trade and contractual relationships, according to more Chinese trade officials. North Korean businessmen have been sent abroad recently on grain "purchasing" missions, essentially requesting free "donations" in places like [...]	2008-03-21 02:10:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV ECON ETRD PREF KN KS CH
08SHENYANG38	NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS: PRC OLYMPICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two Chinese provincial governments hosting Olympics events this summer have enlisted Korea specialists to investigate potential contingencies involving North Korean border-crossers or activists that support them. Scholars in Liaoning and Shandong have told us they are keeping a cl [...]	2008-03-21 08:04:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH
08SHENYANG48	MORE INTERNAL PRC RESEARCH ON NK BORDER-CROSSERS: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Northeast China is home to 10,000-20,000 North Koreans, according to the internal research of another one of the few Chinese specialists studying North Korean border-crosser issues for the PRC Government. PRC policy toward North Korean border-crossers shifted in 2002 in part beca [...]	2008-04-10 01:12:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PINR PGOV PREL PHUM KN KS CH
08SHENYANG67	NORTH KOREA: PRICE WOES, SQUEEZED AID GROUPS, PRC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent returnees from Pyongyang, Sinuiju and Rason point to sharply surging food prices in the DPRK. North Korean laborers employed by one aid group in Rason have complained that food-inflation has eviscerated their purchasing power. Customs officials in Yanbian are strictly enfo [...]	2008-05-22 00:10:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH

08SHENYANG68	DPRK FOOD TROUBLES AND PRC-DPRK RESPONSES: VIEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC-DPRK border contacts agree that the DPRK's food situation is more dire than in recent years, but remain divided on the question of severity, with some contending conditions are "not as extreme as being reported in the West." North Korean diplomats and other officials have ack [...]	2008-05-29 05:33:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH
08SHENYANG7	PRC-DPRK: TRILATERAL RAILWAY HANG-UPS; MUSAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Unreported DPRK-related obstacles appear likely to delay the implementation of a late December PRC- DPRK-Russian agreement that aims to link the Greater Tumen region by railway; Chinese contacts are pessimistic that the new Tumen-Tumangang-Khasan cargo-transport corridor, even if [...]	2008-01-16 02:25:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH
08SHENYANG71	PRC-DPRK: BORDER-CROSSERS, RELIGIOUS TROUBLES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC appears to have tightened internal security in the PRC-DPRK borderlands in recent months, though border-crossers continue to trickle into China. Border residents report increased official scrutiny of some religious activities. Yanji officials warned religious leaders that [...]	2008-05-30 06:56:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV PREF PHUM KIRF KN KS CH
08SHENYANG76	DPRK: RASON THROUGH THE EYES OF AN AID WORKER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rason, in northeastern North Korea, is home to a variety of foreign-assistance ventures, involving everything from agriculture and animal husbandry to power generation, transportation and pharmaceuticals, according to a Westerner involved in several projects there, but tensions ha [...]	2008-06-13 00:20:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KN KS CH
08SINGAPORE1006	SINGAPORE OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO UNGA THIRD [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-17 08:20:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA SN
08SINGAPORE1046	TRILATERAL CT SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH JAPAN AND [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs met counterparts from the embassies of Japan and Australia September 18 to discuss counterterrorism (CT) efforts with Singapore in relation to the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD). Emboffs provided counterparts a matrix of Post's CT-related training and cooperative act [...]	2008-09-25 08:33:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PHUM SN
08SINGAPORE1057	SINGAPORE HAS NO PLANS TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-29 08:28:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRS EAID EFIN PREL SN
08SINGAPORE1153	CHEE'S PARTY FACING THREAT OF DISSOLUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Beset by legal actions, threatened with insolvency, and hobbled by a leadership that seems unable to gain traction with the public, Chee Soon Juan's Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) shows no sign of becoming a credible political opposition for the long-ruling People's Action Par [...]	2008-10-31 00:29:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SN
08SINGAPORE1228	SINGAPORE CONCERNED ABOUT INDONESIAN PILOTAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOS has conveyed in various senior and working level meetings its concerns about Indonesia's launch of a pilotage program for ships transiting the Malacca Strait. Indonesia instituted a limited pilotage program in September, and provided some detail on its thinking in a pre [...]	2008-11-19 09:10:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT ETRD PBTS PHSA SN ID MY
08SINGAPORE1241	DUTCH TO JOIN RECAAP; SINGAPORE STILL PREFERS SLOW [...] (SBU) The Netherlands will soon join the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP),Yoshiaki Ito, ReCAAP Information Centre Executive Director told Poloffs during an early November visit to the Centre. The Netherlands request had been [...]	2008-11-21 09:56:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHSA EWWT SN ID MY
08SINGAPORE1256	COURT SLAMS DOW JONES FOR CONTEMPT BUT IMPOSES [...] (SBU) Summary. A Singapore judge has fined publisher Dow Jones over US$16,000 for contempt of court, the largest contempt fine ever imposed here. The judge also called Dow Jones a "repeat offender" and ordered the company to pay Singapore's Attorney-General (AG) nearly US$20,000 in legal co [...]	2008-11-26 09:38:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS SN
08SINGAPORE1257	SINGAPORE WILL PARTICIPATE IN ARF DISASTER RELIEF [...] (SBU) Singapore will participate in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Disaster Relief Exercise that the USG will co-host (reftel) in the Philippines in May 2009, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) ASEAN Directorate Deputy Director Dominic Goh told Poloff November 26. Goh said that the Singapore M [...]	2008-11-26 09:38:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID MARR MOPS ASEAN ARF SN
08SINGAPORE1289	SINGAPORE TOYS WITH ALLOWING POLITICAL FILMS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Singapore is moving at glacial speed toward deciding whether, when, and how to allow political films in the island republic. Singapore's Films Act has long criminalized political films. After 20 months of work, a government-appointed Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media [...]	2008-12-11 09:04:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SN
08SINGAPORE1322	REFORM PARTY RUDDERLESS WITHOUT JEYARETNAM STAR [...] (C) Summary. Iconic opposition leader and lawyer J.B. Jeyaretnam (JBJ) emerged from government-imposed bankruptcy earlier this year and co-founded the Reform Party. The press and public greeted the event as a dramatic comeback by a political figure long known for his defiance of the ruling [...]	2008-12-19 07:49:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SN
08SINGAPORE960	UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-08 08:53:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA SN
08SKOPJE104	MACEDONIA: UNUSUALLY POSITIVE NAME ISSUE MEDIA [...] (C) Front-page press on February 8 covered statements on the name issue by President Crvenkovski, PM Gruevski and FM Milososki. A day after the Ambassador's meetings with Crvenkovski and Gruevski (reftels),the two leaders, who disagree on nearly every other issue, issued a unified message a [...]	2008-02-08 16:03:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NATO MK GR
08SKOPJE113	MACEDONIA SUPPORTS KOSOVO RECOGNITION, BUT WILL [...] (C) Macedonia's position on Kosovo recognition remains unchanged. As reported in ref B and previous, Macedonia will "not be among the first, nor among the last" to recognize a newly independent Kosovo. The competing historical and economic ties both with Kosovo and Serbia have not prevented [...]	2008-02-12 07:26:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MK
08SKOPJE114	MACEDONIA WILL NOT SUPPORT SERBIA'S CALL FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-13 10:01:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EU MK OSCE PGOV PREL UNAUS YI UNMIK
08SKOPJE120	MACEDONIA: SECULARISM CALLED INTO QUESTION AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Controversial GOM decisions to use taxpayer money to fund the construction of an Orthodox church in the main city square of Skopje, and to reconstruct a mosque in Tetovo, have sparked political gamesmanship and debate on preserving state secularism. Concerns about the impact [...]	2008-02-14 16:10:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MK
08SKOPJE140	MACEDONIA'S PRESIDENT ON LATEST NAME PROPOSAL [...] (C) President Crvenkovski briefed the Ambassador February 19 on the state leadership's reaction to the latest Nimetz proposal, which had been provided to the Greek and Macedonian sides the night before. In a dispassionate, moderate analysis, Crvenkovski said the proposal was unexpected and co [...]	2008-02-20 16:22:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MK
08SKOPJE141	MACEDONIA: POSITION ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION UNCHANGED [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-21 08:19:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MK
08SKOPJE146	MACEDONIA'S LUSTRATION LAW: OPENING PANDORA'S BOX? [...] (SBU) Parliament unanimously adopted on January 22 a Lustration Law that is likely to make it difficult for those accused of having once served as informers to clear their name, or to fully exercise their constitutional right to employment in the public sector. International observers are con [...]	2008-02-22 15:25:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MK
08SKOPJE164	MACEDONIA SHARES U.S. CONCERNS REGARDING IRAN'S [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-29 07:05:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR MK
08SKOPJE172	MACEDONIA: POINTS DELIVERED TO MFA REGARDING UNSC [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-04 15:53:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MK KNNP MNUC PARM IR
08SKOPJE179	MACEDONIA/GREECE NAME ISSUE: HOPING FOR A MIRACLE, [...] (C) In separate meetings March 6, Macedonia's name negotiator Ambassador Dimitrov and UN mediator Ambassador Nimetz briefed the Charge on the latest round of high level discussions earlier the same day. Still disappointed over the latest Nimetz proposal, Macedonian leaders are not yet prepare [...]	2008-03-06 16:40:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK
08SKOPJE213	MACEDONIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADERS ON NATO AND [...] (C) In March 19 meetings with ethnic Albanian leaders Thaci, from junior governing coalition partner DPA, and Ahmeti, from DUI, the Ambassador stressed the importance of maintaining political stability and resolving the name dispute with Greece to secure a NATO membership invitation this April [...]	2008-03-21 07:18:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR NATO MK
08SKOPJE220	MACEDONIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN DPA BACK IN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) DPA, the ethnic Albanian junior governing coalition partner, announced March 23 it would return to the VMRO-led government of PM Gruevski. The announcement came only 11 days after DPA President Thaci declared that DPA had left the coalition because of PM Gruevski's failure to meet six c [...]	2008-03-24 16:05:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR NATO MK
08SKOPJE250	MACEDONIA: PM GRUEVSKI AFTER THE NATO SUMMIT [...] (SBU) In an April 4 meeting with PM Gruevski in the aftermath of Greece's veto of Macedonia's NATO membership bid at Bucharest, the Ambassador urged the PM to re-engage in the Nimetz process to resolve the name issue as soon as possible. Gruevski said he was willing to re-engage with Nimetz so [...]	2008-04-04 16:39:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NATO MK
08SKOPJE254	MACEDONIA: MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON EARLY [...] (C) FM Milososki informed the Ambassador April 7 that the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party intends to initiate the procedure for early elections. The earliest such elections could be held is between 60 and 90 days after Parliament votes for its dissolution, which could come as early as the end of this [...]	2008-04-08 09:06:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR NATO MK
08SKOPJE273	MACEDONIA: IMPLEMENTING NEW RELIGIOUS FREEDOM LAW [...] (SBU) With implementation of an acclaimed new Law on Religious Groups due to begin on May 1, internal opposition is growing against GOM-backed programs and trends perceived as running counter to a clear separation of church and state. Specifically, some government agencies, political parties [...]	2008-04-18 12:25:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV MK PREL KIRF
08SKOPJE314	MACEDONIA: ELECTION COALITIONS READY FOR MAY 11 [...] (SBU) A week before the May 11 official kick-off of the election campaign (reftel),the State Electoral Committee (SEC) approved 19 party lists, including the VMRO-led coalition "For Better Macedonia" and the opposition SDSM-led "SUN - Coalition for Europe." Minority and small parties traditi [...]	2008-05-09 12:58:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV NATO MK
08SKOPJE320	MACEDONIA: IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1803 DELAYED BY EARLY ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-14 11:53:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR MK AORC
08SKOPJE328	MACEDONIA: TROUBLED START TO ELECTION CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) The State Electoral Committee (SEC) gave the green light to the May 11 election campaign kick-off (reftel) with the publication of the 18 candidate lists. Tensions rose in northwest Macedonia, where ethnic Albanian parties DUI and, to a far lesser extent, DPA have suffered a number of vi [...]	2008-05-16 12:00:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK
08SKOPJE360	MACEDONIA: FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS U.S. TO INFLUENCE [...] (C) Following the June 1 early Parliamentary elections, marred by violence and fraud (reftel),FM Milososki called to ask the Ambassador to influence the initial ODIHR report on the elections, due out later that day. Specifically, he asked the Ambassador to ensure that the report adopted his [...]	2008-06-03 13:01:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR NATO MK
08SKOPJE402	MACEDONIA: UPDATED P5+1 PACKAGE CONVEYED; [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-20 09:23:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM IR MK
08SKOPJE433	MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATES IN UPU [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-07 13:22:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC ECON ETRD WTRO MK
08SKOPJE434	MACEDONIA: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] (U) This message contains an action request in paragraph 3. 2. (U) PolOff informed MFA Director for Multilateral Affairs Svetlana Geleva, per reftel, that India and Jordan are new partner nations to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI). In response to reftel's request f [...]	2008-07-07 13:32:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM PTER KGIC KNNP JO IN RS MK
08SKOPJE496	MACEDONIA PASSES LANGUAGE LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: In a surprise action on a long-standing ethnic Albanian objective, the Macedonian Parliament adopted a new language law on July 25. The law consolidates existing language use provisions from other laws and adds new provisions for use of minority languages in the Parliament an [...]	2008-07-31 11:22:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK
08SKOPJE501	MACEDONIA TO REVIEW HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS AHEAD OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-05 11:36:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OSCE PHUM KDEM
08SKOPJE502	MACEDONIA: NEW GI MEMBER INFORMATION CONVEYED; GOM [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-05 11:38:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PARM PTER KGIC KNNP MCAP PINS MK
08SKOPJE503	MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR IPCC WG [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-05 11:41:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KGHG KSCA SENV AORC MK
08SKOPJE504	MACEDONIA: MOJ MAY ATTEND UNCAC INTERGOVERNMENTAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-05 11:44:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KCRM EINT KJUS MK
08SKOPJE575	MACEDONIA: SUPPORT FOR USG POSITIONS IN UNGA THIRD [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-12 13:56:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MK
08SKOPJE576	MACEDONIA: SUPPORT FOR U.S. PRIORITIES IN THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-12 13:58:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA MK
08SKOPJE59	MACEDONIA: DUI'S AHMETI ON MAY 29 AGREEMENT AND [...] (C) In a January 22 meeting, the Ambassador urged DUI president Ahmeti not to continue to link resolution of the two remaining outstanding requirements of the May 29 Agreement between DUI and governing VMRO -- a draft language law and the social package for victims of conflict (ref A). The Amb [...]	2008-01-24 12:12:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MK
08SKOPJE621	MACEDONIA: GI-EPG NOVEMBER MEETING INFORMATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-10 07:15:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PARM PTER KGIC KNNP MCAP PINS MK
08SKOPJE68	MACEDONIA: POINTS DELIVERED ON OUTREACH TO PRIVATE [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-28 12:43:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PTER KGIC IAEA
08SKOPJE71	MACEDONIA WILL SUBMIT ANNUAL DECLARATION ON SPACE [...] (SBU) Poloff encouraged MFA State Counselor for Multilateral Affairs Svetlana Geleva to ensure Macedonia's timely submission of its Annual Declaration (AD) on space and ballistic missile policies under the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC),per reftel. Gelev [...]	2008-01-28 13:58:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MTCRE MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
08SKOPJE731	MACEDONIA: OSCE HELSINKI MINISTERIAL POINTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-04 15:41:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE MK
08SKOPJE99	MACEDONIA'S PM GRUEVSKI ON THE MAY 29 AGREEMENT [...] (C) In a February 6 meeting with PM Gruevski, the Ambassador began by highlighting two issues the GOM should close to complete its NATO accession tasks: the social package for victims of the 2001 conflict and a draft language law. Pledging his commitment to address these issues, Gruevski poin [...]	2008-02-07 13:39:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NATO MK GR
08SOFIA132	DISCOURAGING EU DEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONER'S VISIT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-06 07:42:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN CU
08SOFIA133	BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON SOMALIA AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-06 08:45:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO
08SOFIA144	BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON MARCH 14TH [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Middle East and Africa Expert, Yuliya Pirgozlieva on March 11. Pirgozlieva promised to relay the U.S. position to her superiors for their consideration. Beyrle [...]	2008-03-12 15:01:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PGOV PINR PREL PTER MASS PARM SY IS LE
08SOFIA234	PRESIDENT PARVANOV'S VISIT TO ISRAEL: GOOD TERMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bulgarian President Parvanov's state visit to Israel March 25-27 -- which included a four hour visit to Gaza -- focused on strengthening bilateral ties while maintaining good relations with the Palestinians. The Bulgarians signed a number of bilateral agreements with Israel an [...]	2008-04-17 14:52:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BU
08SOFIA24	BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON ESDP DEPLOYMENT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-11 16:19:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN PREL PGOV CD
08SOFIA27	BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON SYRIAN NATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-14 15:51:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET	PREL XF XG KMPI NSC SY EUN TU CA JA SF IN
08SOFIA280	BURMA'S FLAWED CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-30 14:57:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM
08SOFIA29	BULGARIA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-14 15:57:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA
08SOFIA297	HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO BURMA DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 15:53:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL BM
08SOFIA30	GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP CENTER POINT OF CONTACT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-14 16:06:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	KSPR AMGT KSEP KICA AFIN ABUD
08SOFIA330	COMPETENT GOB INSTITUTIONS CONSIDERING FINANCIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-23 12:49:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM BM
08SOFIA354	BULGARIA MOST INTERESTED IN U.S-EU SUMMIT [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-03 10:23:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN PGOV PREL PHUM CU
08SOFIA355	BULGARIA NONCOMMITTAL ON SUPPORT FOR U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-03 10:23:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF SMIG AORC
08SOFIA356	CYLCON NARGIS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-03 10:24:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM BM
08SOFIA388	BULGARIA WILL GIVE 50,000 EURO FOR CYCLONE NARGIS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-11 13:35:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM BM
08SOFIA399	BULGARIAN AMBASSADOR TO VIENNA WILL ATTEND VIENNA [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-16 10:09:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM LE UNRWA
08SOFIA400	DEMARCHE ON BERLIN CONFERENCE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-16 10:11:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN
08SOFIA460	PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-10 09:08:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN PHUM PREL KDEN
08SOFIA472	BULGARIA ON PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE PUBLIC AFFAIRS [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-18 10:47:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN PHUM PREL KDEN
08SOFIA489	OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-23 11:17:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM
08SOFIA60	BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-24 15:44:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL
08SOFIA601	BULGARIA ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-09 11:22:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN
08SOFIA61	BULGARIA SUPPORTS EU STANCE ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-25 10:43:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM BM
08SOFIA681	BULGARIA: MFA ON NATO EXPANSION, KOSOVO, RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. MFA Security Policy Director Petio Petev stressed Bulgaria's support for MAP for Georgia and Ukraine and eventual NATO membership for all of the Western Balkans. While pessimistic on resolving differences between NATO and Russia, he was upbeat on Bulgaria's ability to contribute [...]	2008-10-28 12:25:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR BU
08SOFIA704	BULGARIA: MONTENEGRO AND SERBIA SHOULD ENTER SEDM [...] (C) Summary: Consistent with its position at the last Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial Coordinating Committee (SEDM-CC) meeting in September, Bulgaria does not support full membership for Montenegro in SEDM without Serbia joining at the same time. In Bulgaria's view, both countries [...]	2008-11-03 15:02:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR BU
08SOFIA85	HEAD OF BULGARIAN DELEGATION'S PRIORITIES FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-08 14:31:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
08SOFIA98	BULGARIA TO FOLLOW EU POSITION ON ARREST AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-15 13:29:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET	PREL XF XG KMPI NSC SY EUN FR SI RO EZ GR
08STATE120692	BLUE LANTERN SITE VISIT TO LOM PRAHA S.P. [...] SUMMARY: In response to reftel Poloff and PM/DDTC team conducted a site visit at Lom Praha S. P. (LP) in order to verify its relationship with the Czech Republic Ministry of Defense and establish the bona fides of this export involving communication and navigation equipment for the Mi-171 hel [...]	2008-11-13 21:01:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC EZ
08STATE1335	SUBJECT: SUDAN - SUPPORT FOR JOINT INTEGRATED [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) Sudan,s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),signed on January 9, 2005, calls for the formation of Joint-Integrated Units (JIUs) comprised of forces from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People,s Liberation Army (SPL [...]	2008-01-07 13:38:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SU
08STATE18723	MGCD01: ERDIMI REQUESTS U.S. MEDIATION WITH DEBY [...] (C) In a February 23 meeting with Poloff in Khartoum, Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi reported that he had spoken to Timan Erdimi, president of the Rally of Forces for Change (RFC) and a fellow Zaghawa, on February 22. Erdimi stated th [...]	2008-02-25 20:00:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SU CD
08STATE18785	UN HOSTS NEW YORK MEETING OF JCMB COUNTRIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN Secretariat hosted a meeting in New York for representatives from Joint Coordination and Monitoring Group (JCMB) countries February 19 to deliver a readout of the recent meeting in Tokyo, and to discuss the upcoming Security Council renewal of the mandate for the United N [...]	2008-02-25 21:28:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AF UNSC
08STATE18788	PAKISTAN STILL CONSIDERING RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO [...] (C) In a February 20 meeting with Mirza Afzal Mahmood, MFA Director of the European Division, PolOff drew on Ref A points to explain the U.S. decision to recognize Kosovo as an independent state. PolOff asked if Pakistan was considering recognizing Kosovo's independence, noting the MFA had re [...]	2008-02-25 21:57:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNMIK UN KV PK
08STATE34317	WELCOME TO THE WORLD'S NEWEST DEMOCRACY: BHUTAN [...] (SBU) Demonstrating a strong commitment to a transition to democracy, Bhutan went to the polls on March 24 to provide a lop-sided victory for the Druk Pheuensum Tshogpa (DPT),one of the two parties in contention. DPT president Jigme Y. Thinley is expected to be sworn in as Prime Minister sho [...]	2008-04-03 02:59:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREF PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN BT
08STOCKHOLM121	SWEDEN ON FEBRUARY 18-19 GAERC [...] (C) On February 15, Poloff reviewed with MFA Deputy European Correspondent Anna Norell and Desk Officer for EU Affairs Annika Palo reftel points on the February 18-19 GAERC. Norell noted that Kosovo discussions will dominate the GAERC; most discussion on Gaza will be postponed until March; th [...]	2008-02-15 17:06:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SW EU
08STOCKHOLM151	SWEDEN WANTS MORE INFORMATION ON CLUSTER GROUPS [...] (C) On February 25 poloff delivered reftel demarche to Swedish Ambassador and Special Envoy of the African Division, Marika Fahlen. Ambassador Fahlen received the same non-paper in Washington last week and gave poloff a prepared, detailed response (available from the Sweden Desk officer, Marti [...]	2008-02-25 15:13:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID SO SW
08STOCKHOLM152	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NOTIFICATION OF U.S. SATELLITE [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-25 15:14:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM PNAT KTIA PINS TSPA TPHY ESA DCDG
08STOCKHOLM183	SWEDEN ON TAIWAN'S OECD PARTICIPATION; PM TO VISIT [...] (C) On March 5, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Peter Springfeldt, Director of the China Desk of the Asia and Pacific Division of the MFA. Springfeldt said the Government of Sweden wants Taiwan's status within the OECD to remain unchanged. He added that Sweden's policy towards Taiwan is [...]	2008-03-06 15:19:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON CM TW OECD SW
08STOCKHOLM186	SWEDEN ON MARCH 10-11 GAERC [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-07 16:01:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN AF ZI SW
08STOCKHOLM187	SWEDEN WILL INCREASE TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) On March 6, poloff and Defense Attache's Office (DAO) delivered, in parallel to the MFA and MOD, reftel demarche seeking additional Swedish support in Afghanistan. MOD's U.S. Desk Officer Karin Hevert noted that Sweden's participation in the current EU Nordic Battle Group will end in June [...]	2008-03-07 16:02:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF SW
08STOCKHOLM225	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REFERENDUM IN BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-20 13:47:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM SW
08STOCKHOLM240	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON BELARUS: SWEDEN SUPPORTS [...] (C) On March 27 poloff delivered reftel demarche on EU support for the U.S. to the current to Balkan and Caucuses Desk Officer Anna Hamarlund Blixt. She said Sweden is in line with the USG that political prisoners, including Kazulin, should be released unconditionally and permanently. Sweden [...]	2008-03-27 15:44:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	BO EU PHUM PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM260	SWEDEN UNDECIDED ON CANADIAN CLUSTER WEAPONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-04 12:37:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM350	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EU MOVING SLOWLY ON UNSCR 1803 [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-09 08:32:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR SW
08STOCKHOLM482	SWEDEN COMPLAINS OF EMBASSY'S PERIMETER BREACH BY [...] (U) On July 1, Head of the Gulf Department at the MFA, Dag Juhlen-Dannfelt, contacted poloff to protest the breach of Sweden's diplomatic compound in Baghdad by KBR contractors and the U.S. Military. According to a report sent by Sweden's security contractor Control Risks, the perimeter defen [...]	2008-07-01 14:49:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IZ SW
08STOCKHOLM485	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SHAPING POST-CYCLONE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-03 12:27:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EAID BM EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM510	EUROPEAN COURT TO REVIEW SWEDEN'S SNOOP LAW; [...] (U) Summary: On July 14, Sweden-based Justice Center (CFR) announced it will refer Sweden's new surveillance law to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Liberal Party parliamentarians have heavily criticized the law's vagueness. Nordic telecommunications businesses are considering movin [...]	2008-07-17 07:24:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINT PTER PINR PGOV RU SW
08STOCKHOLM511	SWEDEN NOT DELAYING BUT SUPPORTS (SOME) EU [...] (C) Background: According to USEU Brussels sources, Sweden, among other EU members, are delaying the draft Common Position in UNSCR 1803, which transposes 1803 into an additional set of EU sanctions against Iran (reftel). End background. 2. (SBU) On July 17 Ambassador Peter Tejler, Directo [...]	2008-07-17 13:43:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PINR KNNP IR BE SW
08STOCKHOLM528	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDES KEEPING PRESSURE ON THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-24 08:18:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	COL VE HR EUN PTER SNAR PGOV PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM543	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDES SUPPORT TURKEY'S EU [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-01 07:50:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV TU EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM571	TFGG001: DEMARCHE DELIVERED--SWEDEN CONDEMNS [...] (C) Summary: A senior Swedish MFA official told poloff the EU is divided into two camps and the French have watered-down the GAERC conclusion. Unless the situation in Georgia worsens, the EU is unlikely to offer a stronger statement until after Sept. 6, when the foreign ministers will meet in [...]	2008-08-15 11:05:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG RU SW

08STOCKHOLM576	TFGG01: SWEDEN PUSHES EU OBSERVERS TO GEORGIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-19 16:20:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV RU GG SE
08STOCKHOLM579	TTFGG01: SWEDEN TO SEND 2-3 OSCE MIL OBSERVERS TO [...] (SBU) Head of the Eastern European Department, Johan Frisell, told poloff that Sweden agreed to send two to three military observers to the OSCE's 28-observer contingent that will deploy immediately to Georgia. The MFA has asked the Defense Ministry to approve adding eight more military obser [...]	2008-08-20 14:00:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OSCE RU GG SW
08STOCKHOLM599	ACTION REQUEST: GUIDANCE ON INFORMATION SHARING ON [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) On August 14, CDA and Poloff met with the director general of the Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP),Andreas Ekman, to discuss the ongoing proliferation activities of Mahaco, a Swedish-registered company owned by a Swedish citize [...]	2008-08-29 14:55:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL SW SP IR
08STOCKHOLM67	APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE JANUARY 28- [...] (U) On January 25, 2008, Poloff met with Anna Norell, MFA Deputy EU Correspondent, regarding the upcoming January 28-29 EU Foreign Ministers GAERC meeting. Comments on Kosovo, Iran, and the Isreali-Palestinian peace process were highlighted: KOSOVO ------ 2. (C) Sweden felt bound by UN [...]	2008-01-25 17:38:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PHUM PREL PGOV KV IR IZ IS SU
08STOCKHOLM700	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDEN TO PLEDGE 14 MILLION [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-20 15:10:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV GG SW
08STOCKHOLM701	CORRECTED: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDEN TO PLEDGE 15 [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-21 08:47:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV GG SW
08STOCKHOLM722	SWEDEN ON PALESTINIAN DETAINEE AT GUANTANAMO [...] (S) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (S) Summary: The Swedish Migration Board (SMB) appears interested in learning more about Detainee 049 based on comments made in an October 27 meeting with Emboffs. A "formal" written request is more effective within the Swedish bureauc [...]	2008-10-29 15:17:00	Embassy Stockholm	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS KAWK KISL KPAO SW
08STOCKHOLM726	GYMNICH-GAERC POINTS DELIVERED TO SWEDEN [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-30 15:36:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EU SW
08STOCKHOLM729	EU'S EASTERN PARTNERSHIP--SWEDEN'S PROPOSAL [...] (U) The Swedish MFA Eastern European Desk met with Poloff on October 20 to discuss Sweden and Poland's joint proposal to establish an "Eastern Partnership" between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. Director Johan Frisell told Poloff the Partnership aims to g [...]	2008-10-31 12:52:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EU SW
08STOCKHOLM733	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ENGAGING THE EU ON BOSNIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-03 15:40:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV BK SW
08STOCKHOLM747	SWEDEN'S RESPONSE TO NOVEMBER GAERC POINTS [...] (C) Sweden's EU Correspondent Anna Norell told poloff on November 7 the following regarding the November 10-11 GAERC: --Syria is not on the agenda. --There will not be a discussion on Iraq, just the passing of council conclusions as "A items." --The EU will take a formal decision on the anti [...]	2008-11-07 15:46:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU SW
08STOCKHOLM749	SAAKASHVILI-PM REINFELDT MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-07 17:19:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG SW
08STOCKHOLM750	BILDT VISITS OFFICIALS AND TROOPS AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Swedish FM Bildt paid his first visit to Afghanistan October 29-31, 2008. On this "fact-finding" mission, he met with all levels of government in Kabul, including Foreign Minister Spanta and Minister of Interior Atmar, and with Balkh Province Governor Atta when he visited Sweden's PRT in [...]	2008-11-07 17:36:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR AF SW
08STOCKHOLM754	DEMARCHE REQUEST: EXPULSION OF DEA FROM BOLIVIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-10 16:31:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL SNAR BL SW
08STOCKHOLM757	SWEDEN ON EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT [...] On November 10, Sweden and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement on EU-Russia relations, signed by FM Bildt and FM Miliband The statement reaffirmed support for Georgia's territorial integrity and urged Russia to fully implement the August 12 and September 8 EU-brokered peace agreements [...]	2008-11-12 17:06:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM761	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA RESOLUTION ON HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-13 15:59:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV UN SW
08STOCKHOLM792	SWEDEN ON THE EU EASTERN PARTNERSHIP AND NORDSTREAM [...] (C) Summary: The EU Foreign Ministers will discuss the draft plan for the Eastern Partnership initiative at the December 8 GAERC, paving the way for the first Eastern Partnership summit scheduled for April 2009 in Prague, according to Swedish MFA contacts. Unique features of the Eastern Partn [...]	2008-11-28 16:39:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU SW
08STOCKHOLM799	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (U) On November 16, PM Reinfeldt announced that Sweden would sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CM) in Oslo. FM Bildt addressed the Parliament on November 28, reiterating the PM's statement, saying Sweden hopes the CM will have a positive effect on the Convention on Certain Conventional [...]	2008-12-02 15:01:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM NATO MOPS PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM801	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-02 15:24:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU SW
08STOCKHOLM829	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NICARAGUAN MUNICIPAL [...] (C) Summary: Sweden is "worried" about the November 9 municipal elections in Nicaragua but has not yet called for a vote recount. Instead, it will follow EU consensus on the issue, expected to be reached at the EU's COLAT meeting in January. End Summary. 2. (C) On December 1, Poloff delive [...]	2008-12-11 15:03:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NU SW
08STOCKHOLM832	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] Summary: On December 2 and 12, emboffs delivered reftel demarche talking points to MFA officers handling UN affairs. MFA officials said they could not provide an advance decision of Sweden's vote on the UNGA resolutions with Anti-Israel Bias, but noted Sweden's abstention of the three key reso [...]	2008-12-15 11:01:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA SW
08STOCKHOLM841	SWEDISH MFA ON EU DISCUSSION OF CONGO, SOUTH ASIA, [...] (C) On December 17, Poloffs met with Axel Wernhoff, Deputy Head of the Division for European Affairs at the MFA. Wernhoff said: -- The EU will increasingly focus on Afghanistan in 2009 and understands that a "regional approach" is needed to deal with the Afghan-Pakistani border; -- FM Bil [...]	2008-12-18 10:57:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU AF PK CG CF SW
08STOCKHOLM844	SYRIA AND IAEA DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-19 09:13:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA TRGY SY SW
08STOCKHOLM848	SWEDEN: OPPOSITION GEARS UP FOR 2010 ELECTION [...] (C) The opposition Social Democrats (SDP),Green Party, and Left Party (formerly the Communist Party) announced in early December the formation of the &Red-Green Coalition8 for the 2010 parliamentary elections after weeks of intense negotiations. In forming the first-ever coalition bloc invol [...]	2008-12-19 13:08:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM854	DEMARCHE: WORKING WITH THE EU TO IMPROVE BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 15:44:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV BM SW
08STOCKHOLM855	TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON LASHKAR-E-TAYYIBA [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 15:48:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC PK SW
08STPETERSBURG197	MURMANSK - PROSPERING, BUT WITH PROBLEMS [...] (SBU) During a December 17-18 visit to Murmansk, DPO and Poloff saw a city relatively unscathed by the world economic crisis, and in fact saw a city hoping to capitalize on opportunities arising from the crisis and building on its recent economic growth. However, despite the apparent prosperi [...]	2008-12-23 16:04:00	Consulate St Petersburg	UNCLASSIFIED	RS PGOV ECON EINV EIND EPET EWWT PHUM OPRC
08SUVA135	NAURU GOVERNANCE PROBLEMS RECUR [...] (C) Tiny Nauru has slid into another period of political instability. The landslide re-election of the reformist Scott government in August 2007 brought a sense of hope (Ref A); but leadership battles since have pushed Nauru back into seesaw political squabbles that we had hoped were history. [...]	2008-04-07 13:24:00	Embassy Suva	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM NR
08TAIPEI1400	TAIWAN'S PACIFIC ALLIES SECURE FOR NOW, BUT PRC [...] (C) Summary: While its diplomatic ties to six Pacific island states appear stable for the moment, Taiwan's efforts to expand its dialogue with the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) illustrate the problems it faces in implementing President Ma Ying-jeou's "diplomatic truce" with the PRC and his call [...]	2008-09-25 01:10:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID TW CH
08TAIPEI1434	TAIWAN-PARAGUAY TIES APPEAR STABLE, BUT UNDERSCORE [...] (C) Summary: While the facts are murky, indications and perception in Taiwan are that the PRC has thus far discouraged Paraguay's efforts to establish diplomatic ties with China in the interest of reducing cross-Strait tensions. More clear is that Paraguay is dissatisfied with strings curren [...]	2008-10-03 08:35:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW CH
08TAIPEI1464	LOOKING TO BOUNCE BACK, DPP DE-EMPHASIZES [...] (C) Summary. Since the start of 2008, Taiwan,s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been humiliated in legislative and presidential elections and wracked by a scandal that threatens to end in money laundering charges against its former party leader and two-term President. Although reeling, [...]	2008-10-14 06:43:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	CH PGOV PREL TW
08TAIPEI1479	TAIWAN, CHINA SCHOLARS TALKING, BUT IS MA [...] (C) Summary: As Taiwan and China scurry to set the date for the next round of "unofficial" cross-Strait talks, a flurry of recent visits by mainland scholars to Taiwan offers insights on Beijing's strategy and suggests Chinese leaders are in no hurry to seal the deal with President Ma Ying-jeou [...]	2008-10-17 08:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
08TAIPEI1539	MAC CHAIR LAI SHIN-YUAN PREVIEWS UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary. On October 29, AIT Director Young met with the chairwoman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC),Lai Shin-yuan for a preview of the agenda and substance of the November 3-7 talks between the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations Across the T [...]	2008-10-30 10:07:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAIR EWWT PGOV TW CH
08TAIPEI1569	PROTEST FEARS TRIGGER LAST MINUTE CHANGES IN [...] (C) Summary: Concerns about a large DPP protest scheduled for the afternoon led President Ma Ying-jeou to advance by several hours the time for his meeting today with PRC ARATS Chairman Chen Yunlin. The meeting lasted just seven minutes, with Ma delivering brief remarks, and Chen making no r [...]	2008-11-06 11:40:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1599	DPP CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN FEARS MORE VIOLENCE IF [...] (C) Summary: A visibly tense Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on November 10 that she was decidedly downbeat about the future of Taiwan democracy. Claiming that President Ma Ying-jeou wasn't really in charge of his party (the KMT),Tsai predicted more p [...]	2008-11-12 09:08:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1717	TAIWAN RESEARCHER: PRC PUTTING BRAKES ON ACADEMIC [...] (C) Summary. At least five PRC academic delegations planning travel to Taiwan in recent weeks to discuss Taiwan's "international space" and related issues have been cancelled, presumably by Chinese authorities, according to a researcher at a Taiwan government-funded think tank. Beijing likely [...]	2008-12-11 09:50:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW CH
08TAIPEI292	KMT LOOKS TO MAKE INROADS IN DPP SOUTHERN HEARTLAND [...] (C) Summary: As the campaign enters its final stage, the KMT believes that presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou's campaigning and "long-stay" program in the south will boost his support among voters in the traditional DPP "heartland." Local KMT and DPP officials say Ma's prospects are being he [...]	2008-03-04 10:56:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
08TALLINN134	ESTONIA TO PROPOSE TEXT FOR JOINT EDITORIAL ON [...] (SBU) On April 10, Poloffs meet with Aivo Orav, Director of Political Department, and Anneli Poolakese, Terrorism Desk Officer and Global Initiative (GI) POC at the Estonian MFA, to discuss points provided in reftel A. Orav said that the Government of Estonia (GOE) is pleased with Secretary R [...]	2008-04-14 12:11:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KNNP RU EN
08TALLINN139	ESTONIA: FOREIGN MINISTER CONSIDERING STATEMENT ON [...] (C) On April 21, Poloff met with Lauri Kuusing, Russia Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA, to discuss points in reftel. According to Kuusing, Foreign Minister Paet has not yet decided whether to issue a statement formally condemning Russian actions in Georgia. Paet is consulting with experts i [...]	2008-04-21 14:21:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG EN
08TALLINN146	ESTONIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO DISCUSS MACEDONIA [...] (C) On April 21, Poloff met with Kaili Terras, NATO Desk Officer, and Bjorn Piibur, Western Balkans Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA to discuss the Macedonia name issue, as requested in reftel. The MFA echoed the position it has taken in our previous conversations: the name issue is a "diffi [...]	2008-04-25 07:35:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NATO MK GR EN
08TALLINN149	ESTONIA PROVIDES DRAFT GLOBAL INITIATIVE JOINT [...] (U) Action request - please see paragraph (3). 2. (SBU) On April 25, Anneli Poolakese, Counter Terrorism Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA, provided Poloff the MFA's draft text for the proposed Estonia-U.S.-Russia joint editorial on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) (re [...]	2008-04-25 13:12:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KNP RU EN
08TALLINN161	ESTONIA: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO BURMA [...] On May 9, Poloff delivered reftel points to Eero Saue, Acting MFA Burmese Desk Officer and Marje Luup, MFA Division Director for Development Cooperation. In his response, Saue indicated that the Government of Estonia (GOE) is deeply concerned for the fate of people of Burma and has announced a [...]	2008-05-12 10:11:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL BM EN
08TALLINN174	ESTONIA ON ARAB LEAGUE SUPPORT FOR LEBANON [...] Action Request- please see paragraph (4) 2. (C) On May 20, Poloff delivered points on Lebanon in reftel to Juri Kahn, Division Director for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Estonian MFA. Kahn replied that while Estonia has no diplomatic relations and relatively little experience in Lebanon, t [...]	2008-05-20 13:15:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE EU SY EN
08TALLINN228	ESTONIA/IRAQ: TIMING FOR POST-UNSCR ARRANGEMENTS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Estonia's mandate to participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom, currently predicated on UNSCR 1151, will expire at the end of 2008. The Estonian parliament will be required to vote on a recommendation from the government to extend the mandate and thereby the deployment. The Iraq m [...]	2008-07-02 14:25:00	Embassy Tallinn	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL IZ EN
08TALLINN25	ESTONIA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR CERD [...] (SBU) On January 11, Veikko Kala of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affair's International Organizations and Regional Cooperation Division informed Poloff that the Government of Estonia will support U.S. candidate Pierre Prosper for the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discriminatio [...]	2008-01-14 12:53:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA PHUM PREL EN
08TALLINN267	ESTONIA CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR TURKISH EU ACCESSION [...] (C) On July 28, Poloff met with Piret Urb, Turkey Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA, to discuss recent developments in Turkey's EU accession negotiations (reftel). Urb reiterated the Government of Estonia's (GOE) consistent, strong support for EU enlargement, including vis-a-vis Turkey. Urb s [...]	2008-07-30 07:43:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU EU EN
08TALLINN268	ESTONIAN DELEGATION FOR THE 63RD UNGA [...] (SBU) Post has been in close contact with Veikko Kala and Tiina Krevald, UN Desk Officers at the Estonian MFA concerning the composition of the Estonian delegation to the 63RD UNGA. On July 29, Kala and Krevald informed Poloff that currently, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves is plannin [...]	2008-07-30 08:43:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV UNGA MNUC PARM EN
08TALLINN290	TFGG01: ESTONIAN FM PAET'S VISIT TO GEORGIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 15, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet embarked on a three day visit to Georgia. In addition to meetings with Georgian Prime Minister Vladimir Gurgenidze and Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili, Paet visited injured Georgians in a hospital and toured an Internally Di [...]	2008-08-21 13:20:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV RS GG AM EN
08TALLINN293	ESTONIA'S 63rd UNGA PRIORITIES [...] (U) In a conversation with Poloff on August 21, Veikko Kala, UN Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA discussed Estonia's priorities for the 63rd UNGA. (SBU) Kala noted that in light of recent events in Georgia, GOE briefing papers and other preparatory documents are now being revised. For example [...]	2008-08-22 14:16:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV UNGA EN
08TALLINN294	ESTONIAN RESPONSE TO PROPOSED REGIONAL SOUTH [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 3. 2. (SBU) In a conversation with Poloff on August 22, Christian-Marc Liflander, Director of Policy Planning Department at the Estonian MOD, Riho Rongelep, Director of Operations (MOD),Liis Jemmer from the Policy Planning Department (MOD) and E [...]	2008-08-22 14:36:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL NATO AF EN
08TALLINN323	ESTONIA ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed points in reftel with Tiina Krevald, UN Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA. According to Krevald, Estonia's four priority initiatives for the UNGA Third Committee, which they share with the EU, are the abolishment of the death penalty, a resolution on the defamation of re [...]	2008-09-18 08:19:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UNGA PHUM EN
08TALLINN346	ESTONIA ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY [...] (C) Post has engaged the Government of Estonia (GOE) Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Defense (MOD) on multiple occasions with regards to reftel. On October 2, the MOD informed Poloff that currently, the GOE is unable to provide any trainers to assist the Afghan National Army, but in 2 [...]	2008-10-02 11:52:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF EN
08TALLINN347	ESTONIAN REACTION TO AFGHANISTAN CIV-MIL CELL [...] (C) Post has engaged the Government of Estonia (GOE) Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Defense (MOD) on multiple occasions with regards to reftel. Neither agency was able to provide a substantive response with regards to requests for contributions to the Civ-Mil cell. However, on Octo [...]	2008-10-02 12:32:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF EN
08TALLINN358	ESTONIA SAYS NO TO PALESTINAIAN DETAINEE [...] (C) On October 20, 2008, Poloff met with Juri Kahn, Division Director for the Middle East at the Estonian MFA to discuss the points in reftel. Kahn reported that after consulting with the Estonian Office of Migration, the Government of Estonia has decided they are not able to accept a Palesti [...]	2008-10-21 07:08:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO EN
08TALLINN423	ESTONIA: PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) On December 11, in accordance with reftel request, Ambassador sent a letter to Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet asking him to participate in the proposed Pakistan Donor's Conference. FM Paet's office responded to the Ambassador's letter by phone the same day, highlighting FM Paet's [...]	2008-12-15 12:16:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM EFIN IBRD IMF PK EN
08TALLINN440	ESTONIA ON SECURITY SUPPORT FOR 2009 AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) On December 23, Poloff met with Lauri Abel, Deputy Director of Operations and Crisis Management and Liis Jemmer, Policy Planning Advisor, at the Estonian Ministry of Defense (MOD) to discuss the points in reftel. Jemmer and Abel indicated that the Government of Estonia (GOE) has not reac [...]	2008-12-31 13:28:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF EN
08TALLINN54	USG SUPPORT FOR ESTONIAN CYBER CENTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The experience of unprecedented and wide- spread cyber attacks in April/May 2007 prompted Estonia to accelerate its leadership efforts in promoting international cooperation on cyber security. The Government of Estonia (GOE) is working with NATO to make its national Cooperative [...]	2008-02-07 11:45:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL NATO EN
08TALLINN72	ESTONIA: RUSSIA WILL NOT RECOGNIZE AN INDEPENDENT [...] (SBU) On February 14, Poloff met with Simmu Tiik, Director General of the 3rd Political Department (Russia) and Toomas Tirs, Georgia Desk Officer, at the Estonian MFA to discuss reftel points. Tiik said, based on recent statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavarov, he does not think [...]	2008-02-22 12:50:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV RS GG EN
08TASHKENT1006	UZBEKISTAN: EXPECTING RUSSIA-GEORGIA DISCUSSION [...] (C) On August 27, Charge d'Affaires met with First Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Department Chief Mamadjanov to deliver reftel A demarche urging the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) to condemn and reject Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and A [...]	2008-08-28 10:13:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR ASEC EAID GG RS UZ
08TASHKENT1024	UNICEF PLANS INFORMAL CHILD LABOR ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Summary: On August 27 Charge and poloff met with UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef to discuss plans to assess the extent of child labor during the cotton harvest season as well as the agenda for the upcoming September 16-18 Executive Board Meeting in New York. Shareef re [...]	2008-09-03 05:15:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1029	UZBEKISTAN: NO EVIDENCE OF CHANGE IN POSITION ON [...] (C) On September 3, Pol-Econ Section Chief and Poloff met with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev to discuss reftel A demarche on the upcoming Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) meeting. Fayzullaev stated that he delivered this info [...]	2008-09-03 12:25:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	GG PBTS PREL RS UZ
08TASHKENT1035	ACTING CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL DEMPSEY MEETS [...] (C) Summary: On August 28 visiting Acting CENTCOM Commander General Martin Dempsey met with Yves Giovannoni, the ICRC Head of the Regional Delegation in Central Asia, and Raffaello Muller, the Deputy Head. The meeting, which itself sent a strong signal of USG interest to the Uzbeks, focused o [...]	2008-09-05 03:27:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KCOR PINR KZ KG TI TX UZ
08TASHKENT1036	UPDATE ON STATUS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MUTABAR [...] (C) Poloff spoke with German First Secretary Ewe Berndt on September 3 about the health of human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva, who was released from prison in June (ref A). Berndt confirmed that the German Embassy has provided financial support to Tojiboyeva for a medical exam and treatm [...]	2008-09-05 12:11:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT1037	UZBEKISTAN: NO COMMENT ON KOSOVO DEMARCHE [...] (C) On September 3, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on Serbia's request for a UNGA resolution seeking an ICJ advisory opinion on Kosovo's independence to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Desk Chief, Ismat Fayzullaev. Fayzullaev stated that Uzbekistan has not recognized Kosovo's indepe [...]	2008-09-05 12:13:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNGA KV UZ
08TASHKENT104	CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL FALLON MEETS ICRC IN [...] (C) On January 25 visiting Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral William J. Fallon, accompanied by the Ambassador, met with Rafaello Muller, Country Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This meeting was an opportunity to discuss the importance of a substantiv [...]	2008-01-28 12:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV ICRC UZ
08TASHKENT1061	UZBEKISTAN SHARES ITS VIEWS OF SCO SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: A representative from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Section told us on September 11 that Uzbekistan is pleased with the results of the August SCO summit in Dushanbe. Uzbekistan's main goals for future summits include further secur [...]	2008-09-15 12:09:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC ECIN ECON PGOV PINS PTER UZ
08TASHKENT1072	UZBEKISTAN: GULNORA KARIMOVA'S GENEVA U.N. \ [...] (C) Embassy contacts and press reporting have recently \ indicated that President Karimov's oldest daughter, Gulnora \ Karimova, has been appointed as Uzbekistan's permanent \ representative to the United Nations Mission in Geneva, \ though the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk had not \ co [...]	2008-09-18 08:53:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR UZ
08TASHKENT1077	UZBEKISTAN: PREPARING FOR GC VOTE ON MESA GROUP [...] (S) On September 18, A/DCM and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on U.S. opposition to potential Syrian or Iranian membership on the IAEA Board of Governors to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Department Chief Mamajanov. Mamajanov said that Uzbekistan will study the information properly and [...]	2008-09-18 12:33:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	IAEA PARM MNUC UZ
08TASHKENT1086	GOVERNMENT ADOPTS NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON CHILD [...] (SBU) Summary: The Uzbek government recently adopted a National Action Plan on implementing two International Labor Organization (ILO) anti-child labor conventions. According to contacts and press reports, the Prime Minister also warned regional governors not to mobilize schoolchildren to pic [...]	2008-09-19 12:37:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1123	UZBEKISTAN: NATO ENVOY ON AFGHANISTAN TRANSIT [...] (C) Summary: On September 26, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General Robert Simmons briefed a gathering of NATO Embassy officials on his recent meetings with Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials on NATO-Uzbekistan cooperation, including ongoing transit agreement discussions. Simmons said [...]	2008-09-30 09:46:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC AORC MOPS KTIA NATO AF UZ
08TASHKENT1124	UZBEKISTAN: NATO ENVOY ON AFGHANISTAN TRANSIT [...] (C) Summary: On September 26, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General Robert Simmons briefed a gathering of NATO Embassy officials on his recent meetings with Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials on NATO-Uzbekistan cooperation, including ongoing transit agreement discussions. Simmons said [...]	2008-09-30 09:55:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC AORC MOPS KTIA NATO AF UZ
08TASHKENT113	SECURITY SERVICE POWER-BROKERS LIMIT [...] (C) Summary: Reftel A discussed the keen interest of the counter-narcotics-focused Sensitive Investigative Unit in resuming active cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. However, it is still uncertain whether the Government of Uzbekistan would issue long-term visas to U.S. [...]	2008-01-29 04:23:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	PREL PGOV KCRM KCOR PINR SNAR UZ
08TASHKENT1138	UZBEKISTAN: PROTESTANT RELEASED; ACTIVIST GRANTED [...] (C) Summary: In the past week, Uzbek authorities have dropped religious extremism charges against Protestant Aimurat Khayburahmanov and issued an exit visa for human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva to receive medical treatment abroad. Forum 18, which first reported Khayburahmanov's release [...]	2008-10-06 12:32:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1139	UZBEKISTAN: UNGA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On September 29, Poloff delivered reftel demarche in support of the U.S. draft resolution, "Compliance with nonproliferation, arms control, and disarmament agreements" to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Farhod Fayzullaev from MFA's Americas Desk indicated that the issue [...]	2008-10-07 11:50:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM CDG PREL UNGA UZ
08TASHKENT1149	UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST DETAINED AFTER PROVIDING TOUR [...] (C) Summary: During a five-day trip to Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan on September 29 - October 3, G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Megan Hall met with human rights activists monitoring the use of child labor during the annual cotton harvest in Syrdarya province. Despite the government's rec [...]	2008-10-08 05:16:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1155	UZBEKISTAN: EU DIPLOMATS EXPECT SANCTIONS TO BE [...] (C) Summary: During a six-day visit to Uzbekistan, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rachel Waldstein on September 23 participated in an informal roundtable at the Embassy with diplomats from the German, French, Italian, and Latvian Embassies in Tashkent. The diplomats reported that the EU would mo [...]	2008-10-09 11:41:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EUN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT1156	UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF DISCUSSES CHILD LABOR ACTION [...] (C) Summary: During a six-day visit to Uzbekistan, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rachel Waldstein met on September 23 with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Child Protection Officer Siyma Barkin to discuss the government's recent adoption of a National Action Plan on child labor. Barkin [...]	2008-10-09 11:50:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT116	UZBEKISTAN'S "TAPOICH" AVIATION PLANT REQUESTS [...] (C) Summary: On January 23, the Ambassador visited the Chkalov Tashkent Aircraft Production Company (TAPOiCh) and met with officials including Director-General Sultanov. Sultanov requested U.S. assistance in facilitating the transfer of U.S.-made auxiliary power units to TAPOiCh, as these part [...]	2008-01-29 09:13:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS ECON PGOV PREL US UZ
08TASHKENT1163	UZBEKISTAN: JOURNALIST RECEIVES 10-YEAR SENTENCE [...] (C) On October 10, a court in Uzbekistan's Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan convicted journalist Salidjahon Abdurakhmanov of possessing narcotics with the intent to distribute (criminal code article 273) and sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment. His lawyer Rustam Tulyganov told polo [...]	2008-10-10 09:56:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT117	BOXING CHAMP CHAGAEV TO MARRY GULNORA KARIMOVA? [...] (C) Summary: On January 23, the Newsuz.com website reported that Uzbek boxing champ Ruslan Chagaev has been linked romantically with the President's daughter, Gulnora Karimova. However, the Uzmetronom website reported on January 28 that Chagaev planned to immigrate to Germany and made no men [...]	2008-01-29 11:43:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SCUL UZ
08TASHKENT1173	UZBEKISTAN: RED CROSS CAUTIOUSLY EXPLORING [...] (C) Summary: On September 30, Poloff and Deskoff met with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representative Simon Yule, who discussed ICRC plans to provide assistance to the Government of Uzbekistan's (GOU) security forces. Yule believes that this engagement may reduce the risk o [...]	2008-10-14 12:13:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PREL MOPS MCAP PGOV PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT1188	UZBEKISTAN: INVESTIGATION CONCLUDES THAT ACTIVIST [...] (U) On October 14, a court in Karakalpakstan announced that an investigation had determined that the health of human rights activist Akzam Turgunov did not suffer as a result of a police officer pouring boiling water on his back during pre-trial detention. Turgunov was originally arrested in [...]	2008-10-16 09:05:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1189	UZBEKISTAN: LEADING ACTIVIST CRITICIZED BY EXILES [...] (C) Summary: On October 10, poloff met at the Embassy with human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva, who told poloff that she favored engagement with the Uzbek government and was personally against sanctions, which she believed would cutoff dialogue with the government. However, she reported b [...]	2008-10-16 09:15:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KWMN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT119	AUTHORITIES RAID POPULAR TASHKENT MULTIMEDIA CHAIN [...] (C) Summary: On January 25 Uzbek tax and intellectual property rights authorities raided the popular Nirvana chain of multimedia stores in Tashkent. Reportedly, 100,000 discs containing pirated music, film, and software were seized. Journalists were invited on the simultaneous raids, which w [...]	2008-01-29 12:36:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KCRM KIPR UZ
08TASHKENT1192	UNODC REPORTS GREATER COOPERATION FROM CENTRAL [...] (U) Summary: On September 19 poloff attended a donor coordination roundtable hosted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office in Central Asia. UNODC Senior Law Enforcement Advisor, Mark Colhoun, reported increased cooperation with law enforcement agencies in the f [...]	2008-10-17 05:25:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM TX IR TI UZ ASEC
08TASHKENT1193	GOOD TIMES AND GOODWILL FOR UZBEK LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) Summary: On October 7 poloff paid a visit to the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Budapest, Hungary, where eight mid-level Uzbek officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Security Service (NSS) were wrapping up an eight-week training program funded by t [...]	2008-10-17 05:29:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PINR EAID UZ
08TASHKENT1197	UZBEKISTAN: NGOS RECEIVE PERMISSION FOR HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) receiving Embassy Democracy Commission grants have been recently granted permission by authorities to conduct human rights trainings at schools and with law enforcement officials. Their success in engaging local officials on human rights [...]	2008-10-20 05:54:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID KIRF KWMN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT12	YUSUF JUMAEV AND SON BOBUR ARRESTED; HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Independent websites and human rights contacts reported that dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev and his son Bobur were arrested on December 17 by National Security Service (NSS) officers in Tashkent. Meanwhile, Jumaev's son Mashrab remains in pre-trial detention in Bukhara, where he is [...]	2008-01-04 11:07:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT1200	UZBEKISTAN: THREE POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED [...] (C) Summary: On October 20, sources reported that three political prisoners in Uzbekistan have been recently released: human rights activist and opposition party member Dilmurod Mukhiddinov; human rights activist Mamarajab Nazarov; and independent journalist Jamshid Karimov, the nephew of Pre [...]	2008-10-20 12:13:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1217	UZBEKISTAN: SANJAR UMAROV'S WIFE DESCRIBES PRISON [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with poloff at the Embassy on October 21, Indira Umarova - the wife of imprisoned political oppositionist Sanjar Umarov (and a recently naturalized AmCit) - described her visit to her husband in prison and his poor health condition. What Umarova told poloff roug [...]	2008-10-21 10:45:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1218	UZBEKISTAN: CUSTOMS REQUESTS TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT [...] (C) Summary: On September 30, Poloff and Deskoff met with Customs representatives who described the agency's priorities and expressed appreciation for U.S.-provided border security assistance. Customs appears to be particularly interested in receiving additional technical equipment that would [...]	2008-10-21 11:21:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS ASEC PREL UZ
08TASHKENT1222	UZBEKISTAN: KARAKALPAKSTAN'S COUNCIL OF MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: On October 2, Deputy Chairman Abdijaliev of Karakalpakstan's Council of Ministers discussed conditions in Karakalpakstan--Uzbekistan's only autonomous republic--with us in Nukus. The Deputy Chairman repeatedly asserted Karakalpakstan's "sovereignty," citing a series of its own in [...]	2008-10-22 12:56:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI SENV PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT1225	UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIALS CITE AREAS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: During a six-day visit to Uzbekistan, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rachel Waldstein met on September 22 with the Human Rights Ombudsman, the National Human Rights Center director, and Ministry of Interior officials. The officials emphasized legal reforms the government had undert [...]	2008-10-24 03:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1227	KAZAKHSTANI NGOS DISCUSS LABOR MIGRATION, [...] (C) Summary: During a five-day trip to Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan on September 29 - October 3, G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Megan Hall met with Kazakhstani NGOs to discuss labor migration, human trafficking, and child labor issues. The president of an anti-trafficking NGO in Shymkent [...]	2008-10-24 12:43:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ELAB KWMN KCRM SOCI KZ UZ
08TASHKENT1231	UZBEKISTAN: RESPONSE TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE QUERIES [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-27 09:16:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC UZ
08TASHKENT1234	UZBEKISTAN: NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF [...] (SBU) Post is honored to nominate human rights defender Mutabar Tadjibayeva from Uzbekistan for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage (ref A). A fearless and unfailing critic of human rights abuses in Uzbekistan, Tadjibayeva was imprisoned for speaking out against the gove [...]	2008-10-27 09:55:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KPAO KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1235	UZBEKISTAN: MEDICAL COMMISSION TO EXAMINE [...] (C) Summary: On October 22, the Ambassador met with Indira Umarova, the AmCit wife of imprisoned political oppositionist Sanjar Umarov, who described her recent visit to see her husband in prison on October 17 and his deteriorating health condition (reftel). Afterwards, the Ambassador drafte [...]	2008-10-27 10:57:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CASC ICRC PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1247	UZBEKISTAN STILL PLAYING HARD TO GET ON RULE OF [...] (C) Summary: On October 10 we received a diplomatic note declining a proposal to use INL funds on a rule of law project that would have been implemented by the American Bar Association - Rule of Law Initiative (ABA-ROLI). This is the latest in a series of recent setbacks on efforts to invest i [...]	2008-10-28 12:02:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM KCRM EAID PINR UZ
08TASHKENT1256	UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF SHARES RESULTS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (C) Summary: During a recent meeting with foreign diplomats, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) office in Tashkent announced that an informal assessment of child labor conducted by its employees found that students were still being mobilized for the cotton harvest, despite the governm [...]	2008-10-30 08:31:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAGR ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1257	UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS' [...] (C) Summary: On October 23, a court in Uzbekistan's Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan sentenced human rights activist Akzam Turgunov and another defendant to ten years' imprisonment on politically motivated charges of extortion. Turgunov's trial had been temporarily interrupted following [...]	2008-10-30 10:40:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ

08TASHKENT1259	UZBEKISTAN HOSTS CONFERENCE ON ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: On October 15-16, Uzbekistan's Foundation for Regional Policy (FRP)--an "NGO" with close ties to the Presidential Apparat--hosted an international roundtable entitled "Elections to Representative Bodies and Issues of Increasing the Political Culture of the Electorate" in Tashkent. [...]	2008-10-31 05:06:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT126	FURTHER AMNESTIES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS [...] (C) Summary: In the past week, poloff has conversed with several human rights contacts who expressed optimism that additional high-profile political prisoners would soon be amnestied. Those reportedly in line for amnesty include Ezgulik activist Dilmurod Muhidinov, Pentacostalist pastor Dmit [...]	2008-01-30 13:57:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT1265	UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIALS DESCRIBE EFFORTS TO [...] (U) Summary: On September 29-30, poloff and a visiting officer from the Department's Office to Combat and Monitor Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) met with Uzbek officials from the Ministries of Internal and Foreign Affairs, the Office of the General Prosecutor, and the National Women's Committee [...]	2008-11-03 09:20:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN UZ
08TASHKENT1267	UZBEKISTAN: RESPONSE ON DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN [...] (C) On October 31, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the U.S. designation of Iranian entities and individuals under Executive Order 13382 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev. Fayzullaev pledged to pass the information to relevant Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) [...]	2008-11-03 09:42:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN UZ
08TASHKENT1269	UZBEKISTAN: IMPRISONED ACTIVIST REPORTEDLY [...] (C) Summary: On November 3, the Deputy Chairman of the Ezgulik human rights group confirmed internet reports of the alleged suicide attempt by imprisoned Ezgulik member Abdurasul Khudoynazarov. According to the Deputy Chairman, Khudoynazarov attempted suicide after enduring frequent mistreat [...]	2008-11-04 05:47:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT127	ACTIVISTS RECEIVE PERMISSION TO VISIT JUMAEV IN [...] (C) Summary: Two members of the Rapid Reaction Group have received written permission from the Bukhara province Ministry of Internal Affairs to visit imprisoned dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev, who has been accused of striking a policeman with his car during a protest in December. Meanwhile, the [...]	2008-01-31 06:03:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ICRC PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT1274	TASHKENT TIDBITS NOVEMBER 3, 2008 [...] (SBU) Mahmoud Naderi, the Almaty-based Director of the International Organization for Migration who also is responsible for Uzbekistan, told us yesterday that the organization is moving ahead with plans to seek registration here (first reported in May). This would be welcome news, as it is aw [...]	2008-11-04 10:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON UZ
08TASHKENT1288	"WHIRLPOOL OF DEATH:" UZBEK TV REPORTS ISLAMIC [...] (C) Summary: On October 31, Uzbek state-controlled television broadcasted a 20-minute program claiming that members of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization had recruited Uzbeks in the town of Khonobod in Andijon province and facilitated their travel to Pakistan to train in militant camps. [...]	2008-11-07 10:41:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER KIRF KISL PINR PGOV PREL SOCI PK UZ
08TASHKENT129	UZBEK MIGRANTS EYE VISA-FREE TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: On January 13 poloff, who previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bukhara, learned that his Uzbek former counterpart teacher was departing immediately -- and possibly forever -- for Turkey. Having been frustrated at recent attempts to find work abroad in Russia, Cyprus, a [...]	2008-01-31 07:43:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM CVIS KCRM KWMN ECON SOCI TU UZ
08TASHKENT1304	UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES TO OPEN REHABILITATION [...] (U) On November 11, the state-controlled UzReport.com website reported that - in line with a resolution of President Karimov's from November 5 - the Ministry of Labor will open a national rehabilitation center in Tashkent to assist and protect human trafficking victims. According to the webs [...]	2008-11-13 11:35:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB KTIP KWMN KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1305	UZBEKISTAN: EX-POLICE OFFICERS JAILED FOR [...] (C) Summary: In three recent cases, government officials have been punished or tried for alleged wrong-doing. On November 10, the state-controlled Uzbek Television First Channel reported that a group of six former Uzbek police officers from Tashkent were recently convicted of kidnapping a loc [...]	2008-11-13 11:40:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM PGOV SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1306	UZBEKISTAN: AFGHAN REFUGEES STILL ENDURE [...] (C) Summary: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) office in Tashkent reports that Afghan refugees with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mandate status in Uzbekistan continue to face harassment and occasional deportation at the hands of authorities. According to U [...]	2008-11-13 11:47:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UNDP UNHCR AF TI UZ
08TASHKENT131	GOU AND CIVIL SOCIETY: ON THE ROAD TO NORMALCY [...] (C) Summary: In the past few weeks, the government has taken several positive steps on the civil society front, including: signaling that it will register a German non-governmental organization (NGO); opening three new resource centers for local NGOs; and awarding 22 grants to NGOs through th [...]	2008-01-31 12:41:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT132	UZBEKISTAN GRANTS OVERFLIGHT RIGHTS, USE OF TERMEZ [...] (SBU) The Government of Uzbekistan informed Post via diplomatic note on January 30 that it has approved overflights of Uzbekistan and the transit of the Uzbek-German airbase at Termez by U.S. military and diplomatic personnel assigned to NATO and/or International Security Assistance Forces whe [...]	2008-01-31 13:18:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PBTS AF UZ
08TASHKENT1322	UZBEKISTAN: EMBASSY HOSTS ROUNDTABLE FOR [...] (C) Summary: While the atmosphere in Uzbekistan's majority Muslim community has improved somewhat over the past year, some smaller Christian evangelical groups - particularly those which are unregistered and have ethnic Uzbek members - continue to endure frequent raids, harassment, and the de [...]	2008-11-18 09:56:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1324	TASHKENT TIDBITS NOVEMBER 17, 2008 [...] (SBU) The British Embassy's Third Secretary who is responsible for Public Affairs, Richard Pike, shed additional light on the recent agreement that the British Council signed with Gulnara Karimova's Forum for Culture and Arts. He explained that the agreement outlined no specific projects, bu [...]	2008-11-18 10:56:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON UZ
08TASHKENT1325	UZBEKISTAN: FORMER OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: On November 13, Furkat Sidikov (a former official who remains affiliated with the Government of Uzbekistan) discussed a range of political and security issues with Poloff and expressed interest in developing bilateral cooperation. Sidikov asserted that Uzbekistan is curious about [...]	2008-11-18 10:57:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC KISL PINS PTER PHUM SOCI AF UZ
08TASHKENT133	UZBEKISTAN, 2007 INL END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] (U) Per instructions in reftel, Embassy Tashkent presents the required annual End Use Monitoring Report to the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) for calendar year 2007. ---------- PROCEDURES ---------- 2. (U) Embassy Tashkent requires the Government of [...]	2008-02-01 02:04:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL ASEC AFIN EAID UZ
08TASHKENT1351	UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES REPORT ON HEALTH OF IMPRISONED OPPOSIT [...] (C) Summary: On November 18, the MFA delivered to the Embassy the results of a medical commission that was established by President Karimov on October 24 to examine the health of imprisoned oppositionist Sanjar Umarov (ref A). The report stated that Umarov suffered from "no significant patholo [...]	2008-11-24 11:56:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT1379	UZBEKISTAN: NEW LEGAL CLINICS TO OPEN, BUT BAR ASSOCIATION [...] (C) Summary: The Tashkent Legal Clinic Director reported that authorities have approved the opening of three new legal clinics in Uzbekistan and have granted a six-month Uzbek visa to the AmCit American Bar Association (ABA) office director in Almaty, who is currently in Uzbekistan attending tr [...]	2008-11-26 12:34:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1380	UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON TIP AND LABOR MIGRATION [...] (C) Summary: In a November 22 article, BBC Monitoring reported that Uzbekistan's state-controlled media has launched a human trafficking awareness campaign, which tracks with poloff's observation that over the past few months, human rights-related articles have appeared in the state-controlled [...]	2008-11-26 12:45:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ECON ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI KZ UZ
08TASHKENT139	RADIATION DETECTION UPDATE: GOVERNMENT OF [...] (C) On January 30 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered a diplomatic note to Post with additional information related to the November seizure of a railcar carrying radioactive material. Post has e-mailed copies of the enclosures to the Uzbekistan Desk Officer, Brian Roraff (202-647-6765). [...]	2008-02-01 11:29:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC KNNP PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR KZ KG UZ
08TASHKENT143	GOU: BLUSTER ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: There are signs of progress on some aspects of our human rights agenda with Uzbekistan, especially concerning civil society (ref A),but the issue of political prisoners remains the toughest nut to crack. We and the French have encountered visceral reaction at the Ministry of For [...]	2008-02-01 14:53:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MARR PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT144	BUKHARA AUTHORITIES DETAIN, THEN RELEASE HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Authorities in Bukhara released without charge two Human Rights Alliance activists on January 30 after holding them in detention for approximately eight hours. The two activists were initially detained as they tried to hold a protest in front of the Bukhara Province Criminal Cour [...]	2008-02-01 14:59:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT1454	UZBEKISTAN: ATMOSPHERE SLOWLY IMPROVING FOR ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: In the past weeks, independent human rights activists have held two human-rights related events attended by government officials. On November 28, the independent Ezgulik human rights group held a conference evaluating the government's recent legal reforms with several other indepen [...]	2008-12-12 06:43:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT146	UZBEKISTAN TAKES ANOTHER SWIPE AT TAJIKISTAN OVER [...] (C) Summary: The recent publication in Uzbekistan's state-run press of an article critical of Tajikistan's hydroelectric power projects, and flagged by President Karimov in his January 24 meeting with CENTCOM Commander Admiral Fallon, is the latest move in Uzbekistan's longstanding efforts to [...]	2008-02-04 08:58:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	ENGR EAID PREL TI UZ
08TASHKENT1463	Tashkent Tidbits December 15, 2008 [...] (SBU) Recently, a member of the Ezgulik human rights group's Syrdarya province branch observed that his organization has received a response from law enforcement officials regarding complaint letters they had sent over an incident in October when a police officer threatened and hit Ezgulik memb [...]	2008-12-15 12:35:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KDEM PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT1472	UZBEKISTAN: STAFFDEL MEETS WITH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary:During a meeting with Colonel Rustamov of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Defense on December 15, House Foreign Affairs Committee staffers discussed a range of defense and security issues.Rustamov voiced support ofinternational efforts to promote stability in Afghanistan and was pleased th [...]	2008-12-17 09:59:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ASEC MASS PINS PTER PHUM SNAR UZ
08TASHKENT1473	UZBEKISTAN: FOUR POLICE JAILED OVER FATAL TORTURE [...] (U) On December 12, the Tashkent provincial Criminal Court sentenced four police officers to between eight and 17 years' imprisonment for torturing to death Muzaffar Tuychiev in the town of Angren in March, according to a December 16 article by Agence France Presse (refs A and B). The article f [...]	2008-12-17 11:34:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1475	UZBEKISTAN: UNITED NATIONS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche urging the Government of Uzbekistan to support the U.S. proposal for United Nations harmonization of conditions of service overtwo alternative proposals toUzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev. Fayzullaev [...]	2008-12-18 10:58:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT AORC APER PREL UNGA UZ
08TASHKENT1476	UZBEKISTAN: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATION OF AL-SHABAAB [...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the U.S. designation of three members of al-Shabaab for supporting terrorism to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to inform appropriate parts of the Government of Uzbekistan. NORLA [...]	2008-12-18 11:23:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KE ET UZ
08TASHKENT1477	UZBEKISTAN: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON UNION OF GOOD DELIVERED [...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche onthe U.S. domestic designation of Union of Good as a supporter of terrorism to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to inform parts of the Government of Uzbekistan who work on the issue. [...]	2008-12-18 11:20:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS SA WE GZ UZ
08TASHKENT1479	UZBEKISTAN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) On December 19, Poloff and Russian Charge d'Affaires Alexey Mochulsky jointly delivered reftel demarche on the upcoming Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism plenary meeting to First Secretary Oybek Abdiev of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs United Nations and International [...]	2008-12-22 10:43:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC UZ
08TASHKENT1480	UZBEKISTAN: NEW LAW ENHANCES RIGHTS OF DEFENDANTS, LAWYERS, [...] (C) Summary: In December, Uzbekistan's Parliament adopted a new law on defense attorneys which significantly increases protections for defendants, their lawyers, and witnesses. The former Chairwoman of the Tashkent Bar Association, who provided poloff with a copy of the law, described it as "r [...]	2008-12-22 11:25:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT152	AMNESTY FOR IKHTIYOR HAMROEV AND UMIDA NIYAZOVA [...] (U) On February 3, the Uzbek language website of Radio Free Europe (www.ozodlik.org) reported that Ikhtiyor Hamroev, the son of well-known human rights defender Bakhtiyor Hamroev, had been amnestied and released from prison. The December 2007 amnesty was also applied to former Human Rights Wa [...]	2008-02-04 12:54:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT153	GULNORA KARIMOVA APPOINTED DEPUTY MINISTER OF \ [...] (C) On February 4, the independent Uzmetronom website \ reported that Gulnora Karimova, President Karimov's eldest \ daughter, was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs \ for Cultural Issues. The article also reported that on \ February 1, President Karimov signed decree PP-787, creating \ [...]	2008-02-04 13:32:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SCUL UZ
08TASHKENT1539	UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ACCUSED OF FRAUD [...] (U) On December 31, Radio Free Europe's Uzbek-language Ozodlik.org website reported that Ezgulik human rights activist Karim Bozorboev has been accused of fraud by law enforcement officials in Gulistan in Syrdarya province. According to the article, Bozorboev was accused of swindling a 60-year [...]	2008-12-31 09:05:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT155	ANDIJON-BASED ACTIVIST SAIDJAHON ZAYNABIDDINOV [...] (U) On February 5, the independent Harakat.net website reported that Andijon-based human rights activist Saidjahon Zaynabiddinov had been amnestied and released from the Zangi Ota correctional camp in Tashkent province on February 2. The article reported a telephone conversation Zaynabiddinov [...]	2008-02-05 11:37:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT156	DOING BUSINESS WITH UZBEKISTAN: FOLLOW UP TO THE [...] (SBU) Nine Jeep Cherokees were provided to the Uzbek State Customs Committee in August 2000. In post's 2004 End Use Monitoring Report (reftel B, paragraph #2-C),we first reported that "two of the vehicles are perhaps being misused" and may have been given to other agencies. The bilateral re [...]	2008-02-05 12:43:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR ASEC EAID PREL KCRM KCOR UZ
08TASHKENT165	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ATTACKED AT TASHKENT TRAIN [...] (C) On February 5, Human Rights Alliance member Elena Urlayeva was reportedly attacked by five unknown women, one wielding an iron bar, at Tashkent's train station as she was attempting to board a train to Bukhara. On February 6, poloff spoke with Urlayeva by telephone, who said she was assau [...]	2008-02-07 05:24:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT167	GOU AMNESTIES MORE POLITICAL PRISONERS [...] (C) Summary: In a press release on February 5, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced that the Uzbek government on February 4 and 5 had amnestied two additional political prisoners, Dilmurod Muhitdinov and Bahodir Mukhtarov, though Ezgulik Chairperson Vasila Inoyatova has been unable to confirm t [...]	2008-02-07 05:53:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT168	UPDATE ON EUROPEAN BORDER SECURITY EFFORTS IN [...] (C) Summary: In a January 29 meeting with Emboffs, former Chief Technical Advisor for the Border Management in Central Asia Program, Pierre-Paul Antheunissens, provided an update on the program's border security efforts in Uzbekistan. The Border Management in Central Asia Program completed and [...]	2008-02-07 08:06:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL PGOV ASEC UZ
08TASHKENT174	SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Norland and Emboffs met with the Executive Committee of the Regional Antiterrorist Structure (RATS) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on January 31. Executive Committee officials provided a rundown on the structure, responsibilities, and key officials of th [...]	2008-02-08 07:51:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC PTER SNAR PGOV PBTS PINR SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT176	HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REOPENS IN TASHKENT [...] (SBU) Human Rights Watch (HRW) reopened its Tashkent office with the arrival of its new Uzbekistan country director, Igor Vorontsov, on February 6, shortly after a visit by EU Commission members to Tashkent (ref A). As a Russian citizen (from Saint Petersburg),Vorontsov did not need a visa [...]	2008-02-08 11:55:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT183	UZBEK LEGAL REFORM CONFERENCE TO DRAW "POWER [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan agreed to substantially upgrade the scope of an upcoming March conference on law enforcement and human rights. The two-day conference is being organized by the USAID-funded Open Dialogue Project in conjunction with Eastern Kentucky University, the In [...]	2008-02-12 04:36:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM EAID UZ
08TASHKENT186	(S//NF) DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UZBEKISTAN ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-12 11:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT187	TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-12 11:46:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN UZ
08TASHKENT189	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: LOBBYING FOR KOSOVO [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-12 11:57:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV XH UZ
08TASHKENT19	TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FORMER [...] On December 27, Poloff delivered reftel press release, identifying information, and key points to Ismat Faizullayev, MFA's Chief of Section for U.S. Affairs. Faizullayev indicated that he would share the documents with other members of the Government of Uzbekistan and notify the United States [...]	2008-01-07 09:19:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KTFN UZ
08TASHKENT190	ARAL SEA TO BE FOCUS OF MARCH INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: On February 7, the Ambassador, USAID Country Director, and Poloff met with Fikrit Akcura of the United Nations Development Program and others who are directly involved with an upcoming international conference on the Aral Sea on March 11-13. Akcura described how Uzbekistan has gr [...]	2008-02-12 12:15:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EAGR EAID KTIA PREL UZ
08TASHKENT199	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ON PUTIN-KARIMOV MEETING [...] (C) Summary: On February 11 the Ambassador called on Russian Ambassador Farit Muhametshin to discuss President Karimov's February 5-6 trip to Moscow, including his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Muhametshin described the trip as "nothing extraordinary" and said all meetings an [...]	2008-02-13 11:44:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EMIN ENRG ECON SNAR RS AF TI ZK UZ
08TASHKENT2	UZBEKISTAN'S BORDER GUARD AND CUSTOMS OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: Julia Khersonsky, who works at the University of Georgia's Washington DC-based Center for International Trade and Security (CITS),briefed Poloff on her recent meetings with Border Guard and Customs officials. They were highly appreciative of past U.S. assistance in border securi [...]	2008-01-02 05:46:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS PREL SNAR PTER AF UZ
08TASHKENT20	MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met with officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) on December 4 to discuss counterterrorism issues. After an overview of the history of counterterrorism efforts in Uzbekistan, the officials outlined the MVD's priorities and responded to Poloff's questions, oft [...]	2008-01-07 10:06:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PINS PREL MCAP SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT209	NOMINATION FOR TRAINING ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-14 12:26:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ELAB OTRA PHUM
08TASHKENT210	MIXED PICTURE ON AMNESTIES FOR PROTESTANTS [...] (C) Summary: In contrast to several recent amnesties of human rights defenders, the government recently refused to amnesty imprisoned Pentecostal Pastor Dmitry Shestakov. On the other hand, authorities recently amnestied two other Protestants, Salavat Serikbayev and Nikolai Zulfikarov, who h [...]	2008-02-14 12:43:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT211	SANJAR UMAROV'S HEALTH REPORTEDLY DETERIORATING IN [...] (C) On February 14, poloff met with opposition Free Farmers Party leader Nigara Khidoyatova, who reported that the health of opposition Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov continues to deteriorate in prison. Visibly upset, Khidoyatova began to cry and had difficulty speaking through part [...]	2008-02-14 12:50:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT212	UZBEKS REQUEST NATO ASSISTANCE WITH ROCKET FUEL [...] (C) Summary: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials, visiting per the invitation of the Government of Uzbekistan, briefed the diplomatic corps on February 13 after discussing a project to dispose of 1,100 tons of melange rocket fuel. NATO is currently finishing a similar project [...]	2008-02-14 12:54:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS ENRG NATO UZ
08TASHKENT218	FORMER SOVIET WEAPONS SCIENTISTS CONTRIBUTE TO [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on February 13 with a team from the Los Alamos National Laboratory involved in a project to provide gainful commercial employment for former weapons scientists. The USD one million project is going well at the halfway point, and Uzbek scientists are making cob [...]	2008-02-19 05:49:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM MNUC KNNP EMIN ECON EIND ETTC
08TASHKENT22	GOU AMNESTIES HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST BOZORBOEV [...] (U) On January 4, the Associated Press reported that Syrdarya province Ezgulik Deputy Chairman Karim Bozorboev, who was convicted of fraud and sentenced to three and half years' imprisonment in November (ref A),was amnestied and released from prison. 2. (C) On January 7, Ezgulik Deputy C [...]	2008-01-07 13:59:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT223	STALEMATE CONTINUES ON ICRC PRISON VISITS IN [...] (C) Rafaello Muller, Country Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Uzbekistan, told poloff that, while lines of communication remain open, there is still no progress in "achieving a dialogue" with the Government of Uzbekistan regarding previously submitted prison m [...]	2008-02-19 13:31:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT251	UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ADVANCING THE [...] (C) DCM delivered ref A demarche, including pitch to release all Cuban political prisoners, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Chief of U.S. Affairs and Countries of America Department Takhir Mamadjanov on February 26. Mamadjanov did not provide a substantive response, but noted that he w [...]	2008-02-26 11:59:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU CU UZ
08TASHKENT252	RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: NORTH KOREA OVERFLIGHT [...] (S/NF) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) arranged a meeting with poloff on February 25 to pass an official response to our recent demarche (reftel) and diplomatic notes requesting cooperation on a flight of interest between North Korea, Syria, and Iran. The response noted that the outbound [...]	2008-02-26 12:01:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	PARM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT253	UZBEKS AND ICRC REACH AGREEMENT ON RESTARTING [...] (C) Summary: On February 26 the Ambassador met with Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alisher Sharafutdinov who, in the course of discussions on the human rights situation (septel),stated that the Government of Uzbekistan has reached an agreement with the International Committee of the Red [...]	2008-02-26 12:36:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ICRC UZ
08TASHKENT254	DEPUTY INTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER OF UZBEKISTAN ON [...] (C) Summary: On February 26 the Ambassador met with Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alisher Sharafutdinov to discuss recent progress and next steps on human rights, legal reform, and ICRC prison visits. The Uzbek side invited journalists to the meeting and interviewed the Ambassador on c [...]	2008-02-27 13:47:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM ICRC EAID UZ
08TASHKENT265	UZBEKISTAN: NO RESPONSE ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-28 11:10:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PBTS KCRM UZ
08TASHKENT267	AUTHORITIES REPORTEDLY OFFER SANJAR UMAROV FREEDOM [...] (C) On February 28, poloff met with opposition Free Farmers Party leader and Sunshine Coalition member Nigara Khidoyatova to discuss what she had described as a recent development in the case of Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, who was imprisoned in March 2006 on politically-motivated [...]	2008-02-28 13:30:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT281	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FREED SON OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: As part of a one-day visit to Jizzakh province on February 29, the Ambassador met with human rights activist Bakhtiyor Hamroev and his son Ikhtiyor, who was amnestied and released from prison on February 2 (ref A). Ikhtiyor told the Ambassador that his release was the result of t [...]	2008-03-04 11:45:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR PREL UZ
08TASHKENT290	JIZZAKH PROVINCE -- THE "FARGO" OF UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: During a one-day trip to Jizzakh province on February 29, the Ambassador met with the acting provincial Hokim (governor) Musa Anarbaev, toured a battery production plant operated by an U.S.-Uzbek joint venture, had lunch with alumni of US government exchange programs, and visited [...]	2008-03-06 06:45:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PBTS PHUM SCUL SOCI TI UZ
08TASHKENT294	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ANNOUNCING THE U.S. SPECIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-07 08:53:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OIC UZ
08TASHKENT299	BUKHARA COURT CONVICTS 13 INDIVIDUALS OF RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: On March 6, poloff met with Saidazam Askarov, the brother of Salihiddin Askarov, who was convicted along with 12 other defendants of being members of a religious extremist cell by a Bukhara court in late February and sentenced to between 16 and 20 years' imprisonment each. Accord [...]	2008-03-10 11:24:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT300	HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER IN UZBEKISTAN DESCRIBES [...] (C) Summary: In between sessions of an international human rights conference in Tashkent devoted to Uzbekistan's abolishment of the death penalty and adoption of what is referred to as the "habeas corpus" law, the Ambassador met with the Swiss Ambassador and a local human rights lawyer, who d [...]	2008-03-10 12:08:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT303	CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS LETS WESTERN EXPERTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The USAID-funded Open Dialogue Project, under the auspices of the Institute for New Democracies (IND) and the University of Eastern Kentucky, in conjunction with the state-supported Foundation for Regional Policy, sponsored an international conference in Tashkent on March 5-6 fo [...]	2008-03-11 14:21:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ASEC KCRM EAID PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT307	UZBEK FOREIGN MINISTER: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT MAY [...] (C) Summary: On March 12, the Ambassador was summoned to a meeting with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the release of the 2007 U.S. State Department Human Rights Report on March 11. Norov was swift to condemn the report, which he characterized [...]	2008-03-12 13:56:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT313	FORMER MUFTI: RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST THREAT WEAKENING [...] (C) Summary: Muhammad Sodiq Muhammad Yusuf, the former Mufti of Uzbekistan and Central Asia, received pol-econ chief and poloff at his Tashkent home on March 4. Muhammad Sodiq shared his view with Emboffs that religious extremism in Uzbekistan has become less of a threat now than before, whic [...]	2008-03-13 11:54:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIPR KIRF PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT33	UZBEKISTAN AIRWAYS OFFICIALS FAVORABLE TO AVIATION [...] (C) Ambassador paid a courtesy call on January 3 on the Director General of Uzbekistan Airways, Valeriy Tyan. (Note: Uzbekistan Airways is the largest non-Russian airline in the Commonwealth of Independent States. End note.) Tyan noted that per its contract with Boeing, Uzbekistan would rece [...]	2008-01-08 12:28:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL US UZ
08TASHKENT330	EMBASSY HOSTS ROUNDTABLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) Summary: On March 13, the Embassy hosted the rollout of the 2007 U.S. State Department's Human Rights Report. In stark contrast to last year's rollout, when several invitees were detained and harassed (ref A),this year's event went forward without any interference from the government. A [...]	2008-03-14 13:44:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT344	UPDATE ON ICRC PRISON VISITS IN UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) On March 17 Charge d'Affaires and poloff met with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Regional Delegation Yves Giovannoni to get a status report on the recently announced prison visits in Uzbekistan (reftel). ICRC will only be able to visit some of the approximately 200 [...]	2008-03-19 14:18:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM PINR UZ
08TASHKENT348	(S/NF) COMPOSITION OF UZBEKISTAN'S PRESIDENTIAL [...] (S/NF) Post has acquired an Uzbek-language internal Government of Uzbekistan document that outlines the structure of the Presidential Apparat and identifies its staff members. The Office of the State Adviser, the Service of the National Security Council, and the Office of the State Adviser for [...]	2008-03-20 06:49:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT351	LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT PASSES ANTI-TRAFFICKING [...] (C) Summary: On March 18 the Oliy Majlis, the lower house of the Uzbek parliament, passed a draft anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) law on the third and final reading. The next step is for the Senate to approve the law, which is listed as the number one agenda item for the upcoming March 27 p [...]	2008-03-20 12:01:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM KCOR UZ
08TASHKENT362	FOR SECOND YEAR, FEW DISTURBANCES AT JEHOVAH'S [...] (C) Summary: On March 24, the Ambassador met with the Jehovah's Witnesses AmCit General Counsel and two of their regional representatives from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The General Counsel reported that, for the second year in a row, there were few reported disruptions of the Jehovah's Witn [...]	2008-03-24 13:14:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT363	UZBEKISTAN CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO [...] (C) Summary: A broad array of senior representatives from various governments, international organizations, and donor agencies participated in a March 12 conference in Tashkent dedicated to problems associated with the Aral Sea. Several drivers appear to underpin Uzbekistan's decision to host [...]	2008-03-25 12:04:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EAGR EAID KTIA PREL UZ
08TASHKENT365	UZBEK LOWER HOUSE ADOPTS INTERNATIONAL LABOR [...] (C) Summary: On March 13, a state-controlled website reported that the lower house of Uzbekistan's Parliament adopted International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 138 (Minimum Age for Employment) and ILO Convention 182 (Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labor). In separate conversation [...]	2008-03-26 13:19:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT370	GENERAL MOTORS UZBEKISTAN TAKES OFF [...] (C) Summary: General Motors Uzbekistan, a joint venture between General Motors and the state-controlled company UzAvtoSanoat and the largest auto plant in Central Asia, officially opened on March 20 at a gala affair attended by senior GM executives and Deputy Prime Minister Sanakulov. GM repr [...]	2008-03-28 02:19:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECIN SOCI PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT385	US-UZBEKISTAN WORKING GROUP REVIEWS AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S.-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group (JWG) met on March 19 to review implementation of projects funded by U.S. Food for Progress programs. Ministry of Finance Deputy Minister Tursunov repeatedly apologized for delays in the financing of ten projects and assured the U.S. side [...]	2008-04-01 04:09:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ECIN SOCI PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT400	GOVERNMENT OF UZBEKISTAN WOULD WELCOME RETURN OF [...] (C) Summary: Senior officials from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Commission for Drug Control told U.S. officials on April 2 that their respective agencies as well as the National Security Service would welcome the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's return to Uzbeki [...]	2008-04-04 11:57:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT401	(S/NF) DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DPRK-IRAN-SYRIA [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-04 12:57:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL KNNP UZ
08TASHKENT403	SANJAR UMAROV'S SON REPORTS FATHER IN NEAR [...] (C) Summary: On April 3, poloff met with Arslan Umarov, the son of Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, who was imprisoned in March 2006 on politically-motivated charges of tax evasion and illegal commodities trading. Arslan reported visiting his father in prison with his aunt on March 26 [...]	2008-04-04 14:00:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT43	RADIATION DETECTION UPDATE: GOVERNMENT OF UZBEKISTAN PASSES QUESTION RESPONSES, COMMISSION'S FINDINGS REF: A. 07 STATE 163194 B. 07 TASHKENT 2063 C. 07 TASHKENT 2081 D. 07 TASHKENT 2090 E. TD-314/79205-07 Classified By: Poloff Steven Prohaska and DTRO Chief Fred Carter for re asons 1.4 (b, d). [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-10 17:54:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	MNUC KNNP PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR KZ KG UZ
08TASHKENT431	ICRC: IMPROVING UZBEK PRISON CONDITIONS LIKELY TO [...] (C) Summary: During a five-day visit to Uzbekistan on March 27 - April 1 (septels),Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Pamela Spratlen SIPDIS met on March 31 with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Regional Delegation Yves Giovannoni t [...]	2008-04-14 14:08:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT432	UZBEKISTAN: RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE AND MFA [...] (C) Summary: During a five-day visit to Uzbekistan on March 27 - April 1 (septels),Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Pamela Spratlen SIPDIS visited the Tashkent main Madrassah and the Jewish community in Bukhara. She also met with Ministry of Foreign Af [...]	2008-04-14 14:52:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL TI UZ
08TASHKENT441	UZBEKISTAN: SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OFFER THE [...] (C) Summary: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) Pamela Spratlen, Ambassador Norland and Emboffs participated in a series of meetings with high-ranking Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials March 28-31 in Tashkent and Bukhara. GOU authorities agreed to all requested meetings [...]	2008-04-16 05:02:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI ECON UZ
08TASHKENT444	A/DAS DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN [...] (C) Summary: During her March 27 - April 1 visit to Tashkent and Bukhara (septels),Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) for South and Central Asia and SIPDIS Public Diplomacy Pamela Spratlen held meetings with a diverse array of human rights and civil society representatives. [...]	2008-04-16 05:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT445	UZBEKISTAN: SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OFFER THE [...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/DAS, accompanied by the Ambassador and DCM, met with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for nearly two hours. Norov covered a wide range of topics from human rights to security and economic issues. He welcomed an invitation for his D [...]	2008-04-16 05:50:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC PHUM ECON EINV SOCI SNAR AF UZ
08TASHKENT446	UZBEKISTAN: NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL CHIEF [...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/DAS, Ambassador, and DCM met with Secretary of the National Security Council (NSC) Murat Ataev. Like FM Norov (septel) and Parliamentarian Tashmukhamedova (septel),Ataev greeted the U.S. side warmly and announced that the GOU's Ministries and the NSC are ready fo [...]	2008-04-16 07:57:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC ELTN KISL PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PINS
08TASHKENT447	UZBEKISTAN APPROVES MAJORITY OF OSCE PROJECTS [...] (C) Summary: On April 14 Bernard Rouault, Senior Project Officer at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordination Office in Tashkent, informed poloff that the Government of Uzbekistan approved 14 of the 19 proposed projects submitted for 2008 after a long [...]	2008-04-16 08:12:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OSCE PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT449	UZBEKISTAN: GOVERNMENT SEEKS FEEDBACK ON "6 PLUS [...] (C) Summary: On April 11, First Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov told the Ambassador that the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) will indicate who will participate in the upcoming Afghanistan Support Conference in Paris, and provided us with a non-paper elaborating on the "6 plus 3" proposal that P [...]	2008-04-16 10:24:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC AORC PGOV AF UZ
08TASHKENT452	UZBEKISTAN: ENCOURAGING EFFORT TO FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: During her March 29 - March 30 visit to Bukhara, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) for South and Central Asia and Public Diplomacy Pamela Spratlen held meetings with a diverse array of civil society representatives, including U.S. Government-sponsored exchange pr [...]	2008-04-16 13:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KWMN KCRM OEXC EAID UZ
08TASHKENT454	UZBEKISTAN PLEDGES TO ABIDE BY UNSCR OBLIGATIONS [...] (C) On April 14, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). On April 15, MFA U.S. Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev requested that Poloff provide a separate list of the Iranian proliferators that he could circulate to relevant Government of Uzbekistan agencie [...]	2008-04-16 14:16:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC KNNP IR UNSC UZ
08TASHKENT459	UZBEKISTAN VEHEMENTLY DENIES RUMORS OF SEPARATIST [...] (C) Summary: Senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials directed MFA Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev to deliver a statement to Poloff on April 16 refuting press reporting on separatist sentiment in Uzbekistan's autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, and warning that U.S. Embassy i [...]	2008-04-17 12:05:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT464	DENMARK DELIBERATING A CARROT VERSUS STICK [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Danish First Secretary Ulrik Birk-Petersen met with the Ambassador and poloffs on April 16 to discuss the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. The Moscow-based Birk-Petersen was in town to gather current information ahead of the EU's April 28 sanctions debate. He opin [...]	2008-04-18 12:45:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI DA UZ

08TASHKENT465	DENMARK DELIBERATING A CARROT VERSUS STICK [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Danish First Secretary Ulrik Birk-Petersen met with the Ambassador and poloffs on April 16 to discuss the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. The Moscow-based Birk-Petersen was in town to gather current information ahead of the EU's April 28 sanctions debate. He opin [...]	2008-04-18 13:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI DA UZ
08TASHKENT476	UZBEKISTAN: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS RESPONDS [...] (C) Summary: On April 11, the Ambassador used a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov to pursue our dialogue with Uzbekistan on human rights as a follow-on to A/DAS Spratlen's March meetings with senior Uzbek officials and an array of human rights representatives (reftel). Nematov noted [...]	2008-04-22 11:50:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT478	UZBEKISTAN: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PREPARES TO [...] (C) Summary: On April 7-8, visiting Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) officials Laurel Cotton and Lindsay Guthrie met with officials from Uzbekistan's Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) and the State Customs Committee (SCC) to discuss DOE's upcoming ass [...]	2008-04-22 12:45:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ASEC PREL UZ
08TASHKENT482	NATO ENVOY: UZBEKISTAN POSITIVE ON COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. NATO envoy Robert Simmons gave a readout to NATO Embassies on April 15 of meetings with Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials. According to Simmons, senior GOU officials may be split on pushing Uzbekistan's "6 plus 3" proposal. Simmons reported on the NATO land transit agreem [...]	2008-04-24 04:44:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC AORC MOPS KTIA NATO AF UZ
08TASHKENT49	THIRD STRIKE FOR FORMER DEFENSE OFFICIAL ERKIN [...] (C) Summary: On January 14, the independent Ferghana.ru website posted an open letter from the wife of Erkin Musaev, a former Uzbek Ministry of Defense and UNDP official who was sentenced to a total of 20 years' imprisonment in 2006 and 2007 for espionage and corruption in three separate trials [...]	2008-01-15 11:58:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MASS PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT496	(S) UZBEKISTAN - DEMARCHE ON FLIGHT OF [...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the updated information concerning the North Korean flight of proliferation concern to MFA Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev on April 25. Fayzullaev said that the information would be relayed to other GOU agencies, and asked whether the Government of [...]	2008-04-28 07:31:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	KNNP PREL PARM KZ KN SY IR UZ
08TASHKENT5	ODIHR LIMITED OBSERVER MISSION TO UZBEKISTAN WAS [...] (C) Summary: On December 26 Ambassador and DCM had an outbrief with Ambassador Walter Siegl, who headed the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) limited election observer mission for the Presidential elections in Uzbekistan. Siegl reported that, although the c [...]	2008-01-02 10:48:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE UZ
08TASHKENT500	JEHOVAH'S WITNESS SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS' [...] (C) Summary: On April 25, the Samarkand City Criminal Court sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses congregant Olim Turayev to four years' imprisonment on charges of illegally teaching religion and organizing a religious organization. Poloff was able to observe the trial. The Jehovah's Witnesses plan [...]	2008-04-28 12:44:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT501	HIGH-PROFILE PRISONERS REPORTEDLY TREATED AT [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 26, an independent website reported that the health of recently imprisoned dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev had sharply deteriorated, and that as a result, he had been brought to the Bukhara province hospital's cardiology department for treatment on April 24. On April 28, p [...]	2008-04-28 12:51:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT506	UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL 301 INFORMATION DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On April 25 poloff met with MFA's Chief of U.S. Affairs Ismat Fayzullaev and delivered the information per reftel that Uzbekistan will be included on the Watch List of the 2008 Special 301 Report. This designation is the same as in last year's report, but Fayzullaev seemed pleased by the [...]	2008-04-29 10:16:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON KIPR UZ
08TASHKENT508	HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DIRECTOR STILL WAITING FOR [...] (C) Summary: More than two months after applying for accreditation with the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights Watch Director Igor Vorontsov still has not received any indication from the Ministry on whether he will be accredited or not. According to a Cabinet of Ministers resolution from 200 [...]	2008-04-29 12:37:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT51	POSITIVE RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: UZBEKISTAN TO [...] (SBU) Post followed up with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department on Uzbekistan's position on the upcoming vote for the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (reftel A). Durbek Amanov, the Chief of the Department, confirmed that Uzbekistan [...]	2008-01-16 07:52:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA UZ
08TASHKENT517	AMCIT RABBI AND JEWISH-AMERICAN NGO FACE [...] (C) Summary: In the past month, the Ministry of Justice has refused to renew the accreditation of an AmCit Rabbi, who heads the World Wide Lubavitch Movement in Uzbekistan, and threatened the registration of the Joint Distribution Committee, a Jewish-American humanitarian organization. In ad [...]	2008-05-02 12:07:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ECON EAID KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT518	UZBEKISTAN: CUSTOMS OFFICIALS REQUEST FURTHER [...] (SBU) A representative from Allied Technical Services worked on the repair of an X-ray van provided by the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program to Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee May 1-2. Customs used this van between 1998 and 2007 primarily to scan the belongings of [...]	2008-05-02 12:34:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PBTS PGOV KZ UZ
08TASHKENT529	BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON UZBEKISTAN'S DEPUTY [...] (C) Post has obtained a copy of a CV on Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Gulnara Karimova, provided by the head of Uzbekistan's OSCE mission in Vienna Yusupov to USOSCE Ambassador Finley in late April. Ms. Karimova is the eldest daughter of President Islom Karimov. The data is as follows: [...]	2008-05-06 10:59:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT532	UZBEKISTAN: OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: Per reftel requests, we have summarized below efforts to implement the President's Freedom Agenda in Uzbekistan through outreach to democracy activists and dissidents. Democracy and human rights remain at the forefront of our agenda with the Uzbek government. The Ambassador and [...]	2008-05-08 02:10:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT546	UZBEKISTAN: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE REFLECTS [...] (C) Summary: Uzbekistan hosted a significant international conference focusing on regional security, particularly the situation in Afghanistan, on April 29-30. The event illustrates Uzbekistan's continuing concerns about the security situation in Afghanistan as well as growing regional interes [...]	2008-05-13 11:52:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC EAID ECIN KNNP KTIA MASS PBTS PGOV
08TASHKENT549	ACTIVIST REPORTS DEATH OF JASLYK INMATE [...] (C) Summary: In recent days, we have received conflicting reports on prison conditions from human rights activists. On May 8, Reuters reported that a prisoner at the Jaslyk prison in Karakalpakstan died, possibly from torture. Local human rights activist Surat Ikramov, most likely the source [...]	2008-05-13 13:33:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT550	ACTIVIST BRIEFLY DETAINED IN NAMANGAN; POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: On May 8, the independent Centrasia.ru reported that human rights activist and former Radio Liberty correspondent Nosir Zokirov was arrested in Namangan for allegedly insulting a police officer. On May 12, the independent Harakat.net website reported that Zokirov had been release [...]	2008-05-13 13:35:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT552	HUMAN RIGHTS IN UZBEKISTAN: THE CASE AGAINST [...] (C) Ambassador's introduction: The U.S. faces a decision in June on possible sanctions against Uzbekistan given ongoing concerns about the government's poor performance on human rights. Reftel cites upcoming leadership transition issues as a key factor in this decision, arguing that now is [...]	2008-05-14 13:36:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT553	UZBEKISTAN: GOVERNMENT DENIES REPORTS OF SMALLPOX [...] (SBU) Uzbekistan's Ministry of Health has denied reports that two cases of hemorrhagic smallpox originating from Karakalpakstan have appeared in Tashkent. (Note: These claims have surfaced in the Russian press and the internet website www.centrasia.ru. End note.) Chief Public Health Officer an [...]	2008-05-15 04:00:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT554	UZBEKISTAN/UNSCR 1803 60-DAY REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-15 04:07:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AORC ETRD KNNP TRGY UNSC UZ
08TASHKENT561	PENTAGON AND DEA OFFICIALS PARTICIPATE IN [...] (C) Summary: As part of the military-to-military Action Officers Working Group (AOWG),on April 17, 2008 a separate meeting was held with Uzbek officials to discuss possible counternarcotics cooperation and border security-related issues as part of a Counternarcotics Working Group. Two visiti [...]	2008-05-16 12:40:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR UZ
08TASHKENT566	UZBEKISTAN: SHEDDING MORE LIGHT ON THE SHADOWY [...] (S/NF) A source inside the Government of Uzbekistan recently provided us with information on developments inside Uzbekistan's Presidential Apparat. Within the National Security Council (NSC),NSC Secretary Murat Ataev apparently has strengthened his influence considerably since last summer re [...]	2008-05-20 07:54:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR UZ
08TASHKENT577	TASHKENTERS QUIETLY SEETHING OVER FATE OF ORPHANS [...] (SBU) Summary: A statue commemmorating the adoption of orphans from the Western front during World War II was removed from a prominent Tashkent square in the dead of night on April 12. The move rankled ethnic Russians, who viewed the move as an assault on the city's history. Even ethnic Uzb [...]	2008-05-21 08:34:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PINR RS UZ
08TASHKENT578	IOM QUIETLY MAKING NEW EFFORT TO REGISTER IN [...] (C) Summary: International Organization for Migration (IOM) Chief of Mission in Kazakhstan Mahmoud Naderi met with poloff on the margins of a major international workshop on trafficking in persons (TIP) in Tashkent on May 14-15. Naderi confirmed that IOM executives in Geneva have discreetly a [...]	2008-05-21 08:39:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT580	INTERNATIONAL ANTI-TIP WORKSHOP IN TASHKENT SETS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) co-sponsored a major international anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) workshop on May 14-15 in Tashkent. Visiting American participants included a Congression [...]	2008-05-21 09:42:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT585	UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DIRECTOR DENIED [...] (C) Summary: One week before planned visits by Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom John Hanford and Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher, the Uzbek government, with its usual perfect timing, denied accreditation to Human Rights Watch's director in Tashkent and threatened to deport an AmCi [...]	2008-05-22 11:52:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT589	SIGN OF BETTER TIMES? LAND BORDER CROSSING FROM [...] (C) In contrast to the land border crossing experience of poloffs traveling from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan last year (reftel),on April 26 a poloff on an unofficial trip in a personal vehicle encountered only pleasant, efficient service from Uzbek border guards and customs officials. Whereas p [...]	2008-05-23 04:17:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI ECON KZ UZ
08TASHKENT590	UZBEKISTAN: POINTS DELIVERED ON FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-23 05:35:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO UZ
08TASHKENT591	IMF MILDLY UPBEAT ON UZBEK ECONOMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 15 Sena Eken, Assistant Director of the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department, briefed a select group from Tashkent,s international community on the conclusions reached by her IMF team during two weeks of Article IV consultations with Uzbek Government officials. [...]	2008-05-23 11:06:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD KCRM SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT592	UZBEKISTAN: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (U) Poloff delivered a paper encouraging the Government of Uzbekistan to support the use of biotechnology in agriculture, per reftel, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Faizullaev on May 22. Faizullaev pledged that the information would be distributed to interested parti [...]	2008-05-23 12:01:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO UZ
08TASHKENT6	PRESIDENT KARIMOV BEGINS TO RESHUFFLE CABINET IN [...] (C) Summary: Official press reporting indicates that President Karimov has appointed Rustam Azimov as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Ravshan Mukhitdinov as Minister of Justice. Unofficial reporting suggests that Karimov also has appointed a new Minister for Higher Edu [...]	2008-01-03 12:43:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT604	UZBEKISTAN: ASSISTANCE TO WATER EXPERTS COULD [...] (C) Summary: On May 14, Ambassador met with representatives of the Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC) to discuss regional water management policy. The water experts indicated that the demand for water in Central Asia has increased in recen [...]	2008-05-30 09:53:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EAGR EAID KTIA PREL UZ
08TASHKENT608	UZBEKISTAN: GRANT SUBMISSIONS FOR FY 2008 TAFT [...] (SBU) Summary: Post solicited and received two submissions for the FY 2008 Taft Fund for Refugees (formerly the Ambassadors' Fund for Refugees) announced in reftels, one from the International Professional Education Development Assistance Center (PROFED) proposing to assist Afghan and Tajik re [...]	2008-05-30 12:57:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT609	FORMER OPPOSITIONIST SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS' [...] (C) Summary: The grandson of a prominent oppositionist was recently sentenced to four years' imprisonment for assaulting two individuals with a knife, but we do not believe that he was targeted because of his previous involvement in opposition politics. On May 23, the independent Harakat.net [...]	2008-05-30 13:21:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT612	UZBEKISTAN: FOOD STAPLE EXPORTS -- MAYBE YES, [...] (SBU) We delivered food staple export points and aide-memoire (Ref A) on May 30 to the MFA's Amercas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who had no immediate response. Fayzullaev promised to refer the issue to relevant agencies in the Uzbek Government. 2. (C) Although officially Uzbekistan has no [...]	2008-06-01 10:56:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON TBIO UZ
08TASHKENT620	AMCIT RABBI TOLD TO LEAVE UZBEKISTAN IMMEDIATELY [...] (C) On June 4, the Ministry of Interior and Visa and Registration Department (OVIR) informed Rabbi David Gurevich, a dual American-Israeli citizen whose accreditation and visa expired on April 1 (ref A),that he must leave Uzbekistan immediately. According to Gurevich, the OVIR official told [...]	2008-06-04 12:30:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT623	BOUCHER AND SENIOR UZBEKS REVIEW OBSTACLES AND [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher visited Uzbekistan May 30-June 3, stopping in Samarkand and Tashkent. In separate meetings June 2 with Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov and National Security Council Secretary Ataev, Assistant Secretary Boucher di [...]	2008-06-05 10:57:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	PREL ASEC ELTN PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PINS ECON
08TASHKENT627	TOJIBOYEVA RELEASED FROM PRISON; VOWS TO CONTINUE [...] (U) Human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva, who was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment on politically-motivated charges in 2006, was released from prison on health grounds on June 2. Tojiboyeva was not amnestied and remains subject to the terms of a three-year suspended sentence. Tojib [...]	2008-06-05 12:07:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT628	(S) UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FLIGHT OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-05 12:08:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC UZ
08TASHKENT632	UZBEKISTAN: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post is providing the following information on the use of child labor and forced labor in the production of specific goods in Uzbekistan. Numerous credible sources report the widespread use of child labor in Uzbekistan during the annual cotton harvest, a practice [...]	2008-06-06 11:09:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON EIND ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT633	UZBEKS RELEASE RELIGIOUS PRISONER, SON OF HUMAN [...] (C) On June 6, Human Rights Watch director Igor Vorontsov confirmed that Hamidullo Madmarov, one of the sons of Margilan-based human rights activist Ahmadjan Madmarov, had completed his seven-year prison sentence and was released from custody. Ahmadjan Madmarov still has two other sons and tw [...]	2008-06-06 11:27:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT634	UZBEKISTAN'S OLDEST "POLITICAL PRISONER" RELEASED [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 4, authorities released from prison 83-year old Akhmadjan Adilov, a highly controversial figure whom some human rights activists considered to be Uzbekistan's oldest political prisoner. Adilov, who operated Uzbekistan's largest agro-industrial complex in Namangan provin [...]	2008-06-06 12:46:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT639	UZBEKISTAN/SCO: PRIORITIES AND OUTLOOK [...] (C) Summary: Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),including representatives from MFA's Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Section, have indicated recently that Uzbekistan prioritizes security and economic cooperation within the organization but is strongly opposed to Iran [...]	2008-06-09 10:00:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL ASEC ECIN ECON EINV PGOV PINS PTER UZ
08TASHKENT659	BOEING UZBEKISTAN: DAMAGE CONTROL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Boeing is in the midst of negotiations to replace 787 Dreamliners it had contracted to deliver to Uzbekistan Airways with 767s. Assuming the negotiations conclude successfully, it is expected the new contract will be signed later this summer. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Ambassador [...]	2008-06-12 08:08:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT660	UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON EXTRADITION OF [...] (C) Per reftel request, on June 11 poloff voiced serious concern to MFA America's Chief Ismat Fayzullaev over the May 14 extradition of Erkin Halikov, an Uzbek asylum seeker who was in prison in Kyrgyzstan. Poloff observed that Halikov's case was being followed as an example of the government' [...]	2008-06-12 11:35:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ICRC PGOV PREF PREL KG UZ
08TASHKENT661	UZBEKISTAN: EQUIPMENT DELIVERY WILL ASSIST BORDER [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Chief of Mission and Emboffs provided Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee with radioisotope identification devices worth approximately 90,000 USD during a June 6 ceremony at the Higher Military Customs Institute in Tashkent. Deputy Customs Chairman Rustam Mansurov exp [...]	2008-06-12 11:46:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS ASEC PREL PGOV PTER KNNP UZ
08TASHKENT670	UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON SENIOR ROUNDTABLE FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-13 10:06:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KPAO KWMN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT677	UZBEK GOVERNMENT TO RE-REGISTER JEWISH-AMERICAN NGO [...] (C) Summary: On June 12, regional coordinators of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC),a Jewish-American humanitarian organization, reported being told by a Ministry of Justice official that their organization will soon be re-registered, pending the resolution of a minor legal issue. The r [...]	2008-06-16 07:05:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT7	NURMUHAMMEDOV SISTERS DESCRIBE BROTHER'S TORTURE [...] (C) Summary: On December 24, poloff met with Ranoh and Danoh Nurmuhammedov, the sisters of Takhir Nurmuhammedov, one of three inmates at Andijon prison T-1 who were allegedly tortured to death in November (ref A). The sisters described the abuse their brother suffered in prison and probable [...]	2008-01-03 13:07:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT700	RUMORS CONTINUE TO SWIRL AROUND YUSUF JUMAEV CASE [...] (C) Family members of dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev, who in April was sentenced to five years' imprisonment at a minimum-security labor camp for resisting arrest and harming a police officer (ref A),continue to report contradictory and unsubstantiated information about Jumaev's condition and th [...]	2008-06-19 12:00:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT701	ACTIVIST REPORTS ON DEATH PENALTY COMMUTATIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: On June 12, Mothers Against the Death Penalty and Torture Chairwoman Tamara Chikunova reported that Uzbekistan's Supreme Court had completed its review of more than forty death penalty cases following the abolishment of the death penalty on January 1, 2008. The Supreme Court com [...]	2008-06-19 12:05:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT702	SANJAR UMAROV'S CONDITION REPORTEDLY IMPROVES IN [...] (C) On June 16, Sunshine Coalition leader Nigara Khidoyatova reported to poloff that the health of Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, who was imprisoned in March 2006 on politically-motivated charges of tax evasion and illegal commodities trading, has noticeably improved in the past few [...]	2008-06-19 12:10:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT708	UZBEKS TO RESPOND TO AMBASSADOR HANFORD'S LETTER [...] (C) Summary: During a May 28-31 visit to Uzbekistan, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met with government officials to discuss Uzbekistan's Country of Particular Concern (CPC) designation under the International Religious Freedom Act and the contents of a dr [...]	2008-06-23 05:10:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT713	FRUSTRATED MFA OFFICIAL VENTS ABOUT UZBEK POWER [...] (S) Summary: At a June 20 reception at the Ambassador's residence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev expressed to poloff his deep frustration with the Uzbek government structure. He criticized Foreign Minister Norov as "weak" and noted that rank-and-file [...]	2008-06-23 09:19:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KCRM UZ
08TASHKENT714	UZBEKISTAN: SCO OFFICIALS DISCUSS PLANS, POSE [...] (C) Summary: In a conversation with Poloff on June 17, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) Senior Experts Bakhram Auanassov and Kairbek Amenov discussed upcoming SCO plans and the role of observer states, but were reticent in discussing threat perce [...]	2008-06-23 10:54:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC ECIN ECON EINV PGOV PINS PTER AF UZ
08TASHKENT720	UZBEKISTAN: EU DIPLOMATS NOT KEEN ON THIRD [...] (C) Summary: On June 16, poloff hosted another session of a periodic roundtable on human rights issues with Human Rights Watch director Igor Vorontsov and counterparts from the British, French, German, and Czech Embassies. During the meeting, the EU diplomats expressed skepticism about attemp [...]	2008-06-24 06:26:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT721	UZBEKISTAN: AMBASSADOR CONVEYS P5 PLUS 1 PACKAGE [...] (C) On June 20, Ambassador met with officials from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) - including Oybek Eshonov, Chief of the Department for Middle East and Near East Affairs; Nosir Giyosov, First Secretary of the Department for Middle and Near East Affairs; and Ismat Fayzullaev, C [...]	2008-06-24 08:06:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KNNP MNUC PARM IR ASEC PREL PINS UZ
08TASHKENT722	SURKHANDARYA PROVINCE ACTIVIST REPORTS [...] (C) Summary: On June 20, human rights activist Fakhriddin Tilloev reported to poloffs the torture and imprisonment of four alleged Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) members in Surkhandarya province. According to Tilloev, all four were allegedly linked to a Tajik HT leader named "Norillov," who invited the [...]	2008-06-24 09:13:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL TI UZ
08TASHKENT730	UZBEK INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CONFERENCE A BIG SHOW [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan organized a "Media Freedom in a Modern Democratic Society" conference on June 9-10 in Tashkent which provided little debate on press freedom in Uzbekistan. The event was originally to be co-sponsored by the EU, but EU Embassies pulled out of the con [...]	2008-06-24 13:04:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT739	UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON PROPOSED [...] (C) Summary: In a June 24 meeting with Poloff, Bahromjon Aloev from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec) for slow activity and duplication of effort. He noted Uzbekistan's especiall [...]	2008-06-25 11:54:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC ASEC ECIN KTIA PBTS PGOV PINR PREL UZ
08TASHKENT741	UZBEKISTAN BAR ASSOCIATION PUSHES FOR A MEANINGFUL [...] (C) On June 24 poloff met with Gulnora Ishankhanova, Chairperson of the Tashkent City Branch of the Uzbekistan Bar Association and Guljakhon Amanova, the organization's Projects and International Law Issues Consultant, to discuss the May 1 Presidential Decree on strengthening the bar associati [...]	2008-06-27 08:46:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR UZ
08TASHKENT748	TRANSPORTATION AID PROVIDES CRITICAL LIFELINE TO [...] (C) Summary: Humanitarian supplies delivered through transportation programs funded by the Office of the Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia (EUR/ACE) continue to fulfill critical needs of NGOs and other institutions in Uzbekistan that serve many of the country's most vulnera [...]	2008-06-27 12:53:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT749	UZBEK TV DOCUMENTARY BASHES JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (C) Summary: A recent hour-long broadcast on Uzbek state television highlighted the "illegal missionary activity" of Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentecostal churches, and appeared to be designed to discredit those groups and inspire fear of and disdain for their activities. In 2006, the airing of [...]	2008-06-30 01:45:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT763	UZBEKISTAN/SCO: OFFICIAL DESCRIBES SCO'S [...] (C) Bakhram Auanassov, a Senior Expert from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) Regional Antiterrorist Structure (RATS),recently provided Poloff with a speech on the SCO's role in Central Asian security. He had intended to give the speech during the Tashkent-hosted international co [...]	2008-07-01 10:46:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL ASEC KTIA PINR PINS PTER UZ
08TASHKENT764	STRATEGIC TERMEZ RIVER PORT PLAYS QUIET ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary: On June 27 the Ambassador and emboffs made a rare visit to the Termez City River Port on the southern border with Afghanistan. Barges at the Soviet-era facility transfer goods from road and rail links to the upstream Afghan town of Hayraton, returning with agricultural produce. [...]	2008-07-01 12:23:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON MCAP KCRM AF UZ
08TASHKENT767	UZBEKISTAN: HEALTH CONDITION OF RELEASED HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff visited human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva at a private clinic in Margilan, where she has been receiving treatment since being released from prison on medical grounds on June 2. Tojiboyeva explained that [...]	2008-07-02 06:46:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ICRC KWMN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT771	UZBEKISTAN: SPECTER OF CORRUPTION STIFLES [...] (C) Summary: On July 1 poloff met with an affluent, well-connected young acquaintance from Bukhara whose extended family has successfully established a syringe-making factory. The family is also planning to diversify and start another factory to manufacture diapers. The young man wants to st [...]	2008-07-03 08:47:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR ECON BTIO EPET SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT777	FERGHANA VALLEY ACTIVISTS AND IMAMS REPORT LESS [...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff met with several human rights activists and religious leaders who reported that religious extremist organizations like Hizb ut-Tahrir have become less active (or at least less visible) in recent years. While [...]	2008-07-03 11:22:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT778	UZBEKISTAN: UAE TO BUILD CULTURAL-RELIGIOUS CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with an Economic Specialist of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Consulate General in Tashkent on July 2 to discuss the recent conclusion of several investment-related agreeements between the UAE and Uzbekistan. To date, the Government of Uzbekistan has approved 21 UAE i [...]	2008-07-07 04:28:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV ETRD KISL KTIA UZ
08TASHKENT780	UZBEKISTAN TERRORISM FINANCE: REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-07 08:21:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KU UZ
08TASHKENT782	UZBEKISTAN SIGNS UP TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-07 11:13:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGIT KNNP PTER UZ
08TASHKENT783	UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-07 11:14:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT786	UZBEKISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR NEW DEMOCRACIES FINALLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Justice chose the symbolic date of July 4 to announce the formal registration of the USAID-supported Institute for New Democracies (IND) in Uzbekistan. Although IND has successfully functioned in a difficult environment for the past two years without registrati [...]	2008-07-08 11:02:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID PINR UZ
08TASHKENT787	UZBEK GOVERNMENT REPORTS CONVICTION IN TRAFFICKING [...] (U) A major state-run newspaper, Xalq Sozi (People's Word),ran a prominent 800-word article on July 1 reporting that a ring of Uzbek nationals was arrested for trafficking at least two Uzbek women to China with false employment offers. An Uzbek national, Aleksandr Rudenko, who worked in Chin [...]	2008-07-08 11:04:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT79	OPEN DIALOGUE PROJECT TO CO-SPONSOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: On January 16, poloff met with the directors of the Open Dialogue Project (ODP) and National Democratic Institute (NDI),who talked about their recent activities and plans. ODP Director Mjusa Sever described her organization's plans to co-sponsor a March conference on law enforcem [...]	2008-01-22 12:36:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EUN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT792	UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES MOVING TO DEPORT [...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff visited Birlik opposition political party Deputy Chairman Pulat Akhunov, who returned to Uzbekistan from exile in Sweden in March 2007 to renew his passport, at his family's estate in Andijon province. Akhunov [...]	2008-07-09 12:59:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT793	UZBEK AUTHORITIES DEVELOP PLAN TO IMPLEMENT CHILD [...] (C) On July 8, International Labor Organization (ILO) representative Svetlana Rakhimova (protect) provided poloff with a copy of the government's draft national action plan on implementing ILO child labor Conventions 182 (Worst Forms of Child Labor) and 138 (Minimum Age of Employment),which th [...]	2008-07-09 13:10:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT794	UZBEKISTAN: LARGE EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN TOWN NEAR [...] (SBU) Several Embassy contacts reported a series of explosions occurring in or near the town of Kagan, about 15 kilometers away from Bukhara, during the early morning of July 10. Preliminary reports are sketchy, but it appears that some type of accident occurred at an army depot used to store [...]	2008-07-10 05:18:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT797	ACTIVIST REPORTS MISTREATMENT AT NAVOI PSYCHIATRIC [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 12. 2. (C) Summary: On July 2, Bukhara-based human rights activist Shukhrat Ganiev reported visiting a psychiatric hospital in Navoi province and discovering that 12 teenagers, approximately between the ages of 13 and 16 years, were at the hospi [...]	2008-07-10 08:30:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB OEXC PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT80	AMBASSADOR RECEIVES WARM WELCOME IN CHILLY BUKHARA [...] (C) Summary: Despite frigid temperatures outside, the Ambassador was warmly received by the hokim (governor) of Bukhara province during a trip to the province on January 10 and 11. The Ambassador also visited the Naqshbandi Sufi Shrine and met with Bukharan Jewish community leaders at a local [...]	2008-01-22 12:58:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ELAB KIRF PHUM PINR SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT802	UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON EXPLOSIONS NEAR BUKHARA [...] (SBU) Summary: As the day progresses, more reports have come in from Embassy contacts and local and international news sources regarding the series of explosions which occurred during the morning of July 10 in the town of Kagan, approximately 15 kilometers from Bukhara (reftel). All reports i [...]	2008-07-10 13:14:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC PINR PREL PTER UZ
08TASHKENT807	UZBEKISTAN: KAGAN EXPLOSIONS: DAY TWO [...] (SBU) Summary: Later in the day and evening of July 10, the state-controlled media carried several stories on the series of explosions which occurred early that morning at an army depot in the town of Kagan, near Bukhara (reftels),reporting "preliminary data" as showing that 3 individuals wer [...]	2008-07-11 13:22:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC PINR PREL PTER UZ
08TASHKENT81	DEEP FREEZE (LITERALLY) PERSISTS IN UZBEKISTAN [...] (SBU) Unusually cold, sub-zero temperatures persist throughout Central Asia (reftel) and, while most people in Tashkent report barely adequate heat in their homes, there are press reports indicating that up to 300 people protested insufficient heating gas in Ferghana (uznews.net). This follow [...]	2008-01-22 13:38:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ENRG UZ
08TASHKENT818	OSCE NOTES ON KARIMOV MEETING OFFER INSIGHTS INTO [...] (C) Summary: On July 3 Bernard Rouault, Senior Project Officer at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordination Office in Tashkent, provided poloff with notes from the June 4 meeting between Alexander Stubb, visiting Chairman in Office of the OSCE and Fin [...]	2008-07-14 12:21:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OSCE PHUM PINR AF KZ UZ
08TASHKENT819	UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST CHARGED IN [...] (C) Summary: On July 13, the Voice of Freedom website reported that human rights activist and opposition party member Azam Turgunov was detained by police in the town of Mangit in the Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic on July 11. According to Human Rights Watch director Igor Vorontsov, Turgu [...]	2008-07-14 13:07:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT82	SENSITIVE INVESTIGATIVE UNIT STILL FUNCTIONING AND [...] (C) Summary: On January 17 poloff visited the Sensitive Investigative Unit (SIU) within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was established with the assistance of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) expertise and funds as well as funds from the Bureau of International Narcotics and [...]	2008-01-22 14:21:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM EAID UZ
08TASHKENT821	UZBEK AUTHORITIES REJECT CHRISTIAN LITERATURE [...] (C) Summary: On July 8, the Ambassador and DCM met with Bible Society Director Sergei Mitin, who reported that Uzbek authorities ordered the return of a large shipment of Christian literature that the Bible Society attempted to import into Uzbekistan in May. The authorities did not provide a [...]	2008-07-15 08:16:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT835	UZBEKISTAN: SIX MONTH SCORECARD ON HABEAS CORPUS [...] (SBU) Summary: The USAID-funded Institute for New Democracies (IND) co-sponsored a workshop in Tashkent on July 9-10 to examine efforts to implement a law with habeas corpus elements that took effect in January 2008. There was high-level participation by the Government of Uzbekistan, includi [...]	2008-07-16 11:48:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM EAID UZ
08TASHKENT836	OFFICIAL HINTS AT GREATER ROLE FOR WESTERN NON [...] (C) Summary: Furqat Sidikov, an Uzbek diplomat who previously served in Washington and now works at the government-sponsored International Center for Strategic Studies, sought out poloff at a July 15 reception to discuss the future role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Uzbekistan. [...]	2008-07-17 11:41:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PINR UZ
08TASHKENT838	BUKHARA PANICS AS KAGAN IS EVACUATED AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 16, authorities again evacuated Kagan, a town near Bukhara that was the scene of a series of explosions at a nearby army munitions depot on July 10 (reftels). An official told poloff that authorities planned to divert a nearby canal to flood the munitions depot, which w [...]	2008-07-17 13:27:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC PINR PREL PTER UZ
08TASHKENT843	YUSUF JUMAEV MOVED TO HIGH-SECURITY PRISON IN [...] (C) During a two-day trip to Bukhara on July 15-16, poloff met with the daughter of Yusuf Jumaev, a dissident poet who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in April for resisting arrest and harming a police officer (ref A). The daughter, Feruza, explained that Jumaev was recently moved f [...]	2008-07-18 11:36:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT845	UZBEKISTAN: BUREAUCRATIC WRANGLING STALLS [...] (C) Summary: On July 10, Poloff met with the Chairman of the Disabled People's Society of Uzbekistan to discuss Uzbekistan's efforts to ratify the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Despite most ministries' endorsement of the Convention, the Ministries o [...]	2008-07-18 12:31:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT854	HEALTH OF IMPRISONED OPPOSITIONIST REPORTEDLY [...] (C) On July 22, Free Farmers opposition party leader and Sunshine Coalition member Nigara Khidoyatova reported that the health of imprisoned Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov has deteriorated again. She reported that Umarov's son Arslan has traveled to Uzbekistan from the United States [...]	2008-07-22 12:17:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT863	(S) UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FLIGHT OF [...] (S) On July 24 poloff delivered demarche per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to promptly pass this time-sensitive information to the appropriate authorities within the Government of Uzbekistan. BUTCHER [...]	2008-07-24 12:06:00	Embassy Tashkent	SECRET	MNUC PARM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT865	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH RELIGIOUS LEADERS, [...] (C) Summary: During a visit to Uzbekistan on May 29 - 30, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met with a variety of religious leaders, scholars, and human rights activists. On May 30, Hanford met a local Jehovah's Witnesses community representative, historian a [...]	2008-07-25 07:44:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT866	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH ICRC REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Uzbekistan, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met on May 30 with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Deputy Director Raffaello Muller, who reported on prison conditions for individuals convicted of religious [...]	2008-07-25 07:53:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ICRC KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT867	UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PREVENTING [...] (SBU) On July 24 poloff delivered the demarche per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to pass the information to the appropriate officials. BUTCHER [...]	2008-07-25 12:29:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MNUC PARM TRGY ENRG EMIN ETTC KNNP UZ
08TASHKENT878	BUKHARA ACTIVIST: BETTER-TRAINED IMAMS FENDING OFF [...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Bukhara on July 15 - 16, poloff discussed the current state of the region's Muslim community with a prominent local human rights activist and imams at Sunni and Shiite mosques. The activist, Shukhrat Ganiev, observed that that Muslim religiosity, especia [...]	2008-07-29 12:43:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL SOCI EG SA RS UZ

08TASHKENT88	HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CLAIMS VICTORY OVER KHALILOV [...] (C) Summary: According to government sources, Parliament Speaker Erkin Khalilov has been replaced by Dilorom Toshmuhammadova, the leader of the pro-government Adolat Social-Democratic party and one of the four officially-recognized presidential candidates who participated in the December 2007 [...]	2008-01-23 14:05:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN PHUM PINR UZ

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