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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
07DAMASCUS192	Syria/Egypt, Syria/Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian Territories [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 28 reported that President Asad received a phone call on Feb. 27 from President Mubarak about preparations for the Arab Summit scheduled for March 28 in Riyadh. On Iraq, papers reported that FM Mouallem received a telephone call on Feb. 27 from Turkish FM Abdul [...]	2007-02-28 13:41:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY

07DAMASCUS193	SYRIAN FOREIGN POLICY ANALYST ASSESSES SARG [...] (C) Summary: Pro-regime foreign policy analyst Imad Shueibi told A/DCM February 24 that the SARG did not view a dialogue with the U.S. restricted to the issue of Iraqi refugees without the return of an Ambassador as sufficiently broad-based or high-level to persuade the regime to re-engage. [...]	2007-02-28 15:45:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL PGOV SY IZ IR LE
07DAMASCUS194	SYRIA CONTINUES WTO ACCESSION EFFORTS [...] (U) Summary. The SARG is agitating to advance its 2001 application to join the WTO. So far, the SARG's new effort on behalf of its stalled WTO application seems to have much more to do with its effort to break out of its political isolation than it does with any new commitment to economic li [...]	2007-03-01 06:38:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFTA ETRD PREL SY
07DAMASCUS196	SYRIAN CONFIDENCE WAVERING? [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of a visit to Tehran clouded by growing differences over Iraq and Lebanon, Bashar al-Asad's self-confidence stemming from foreign policy positions he believed were paying dividends may now be eroding. Disappointments over the frictions with Iran, the apparent w [...]	2007-03-01 13:06:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY IR IZ LE
07DAMASCUS2	CODEL SPECTER MEETS WITH SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bashar Al-Asad said he was optimistic about restarting peace negotiations with Israel, claimed (erroneously it appears) the seven opposition activists recently jailed had been released, expressed pessimism on reaching a political resolution in Lebanon given what he desc [...]	2007-12-31 13:35:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KDEM PGOV PHUM SY IS IZ LEB
07DAMASCUS208	Shara's "Le Monde" Interview, Mouallem's Cairo Visit, [...] Summary: Syrian papers featured VP Shara's interview with French daily "Le Monde" published March 2 in which he expressed Syria's relative optimism on the success of an international meeting in Baghdad aimed at stabilizing Iraq, saying that "much depends on the attitude of the United States; [...]	2007-03-04 14:27:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS21	US/Russia, Syria/Israel, Syria/Iraq, Syria/EU, HAMAS, [...] Summary: Syrian papers over the weekend reported that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has criticized the latest US sanctions against Russian arms firms for "selling arms to Syria," describing these sanctions as "groundless." The Ministry said in a statement that "yet once again, the [...]	2007-01-09 05:18:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS213	Syria/Venezuela, Syria/Norway, Syria/Italy, Syria/Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on March 5 reported the March 4 visit to Damascus of Venezuelan FM Nicolas Maduro and his meeting with Deputy FM Faisal Miqdad. The purpose of the visit was to boost bilateral relations and carry out agreements signed during the visit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chave [...]	2007-03-05 13:13:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS218	SYRIA: 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) THE FOLLOWING IS POST'S SUBMISSION TO THE ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT. THE EMBASSY'S POINT OF CONTACT IS POLOFF MARIA D.G. OLSON. OFFICE TELEPHONE: (963) (11) 3391-3785. FAX: (963) (11) 3391-3999. OFFICER SPENT 40 HOURS IN PREPARATION OF THE REPORT, WHICH IS STRUCTURED TO [...]	2007-03-06 09:06:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07DAMASCUS22	ADVISOR TO MFA SAYS SYRIANS REMAIN NERVOUS ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE SYRIAN REGIME CONTINUES TO FEAR THE FORMATION OF A SPECIAL LEBANON TRIBUNAL, WORRYING THAT IT COULD FIND ITSELF UNDER SUSTAINED INTERNATIONAL OPPROBRIUM AND ISOLATION, EVEN IF SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE REGIME ARE NOT ACCUSED OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE ASSASSINATION OF LEBANESE PM RA [...]	2007-01-09 09:54:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM SY IR IS LE IZ
07DAMASCUS224	Syria/Iraq, Syria/US, Syria/EU, Lebanon, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on March 6 and 7 reported the visit to Damascus of Iraqi VP Tarek al Hashimi and his meeting with President Assad, VP Sharaa and other Syrian officials. The purpose of the visit was to boost bilateral relations and reiterate support for national reconciliation in Iraq. [...]	2007-03-07 15:19:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS229	SCENESETTER FOR A/S SAUERBREY'S VISIT TO SYRIA [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Damascus warmly welcomes you to Syria. Your visit comes amidst heightened SARG sensitivity to the presence of up to 1.3 million Iraqi refugees here, especially given public grumbling about price hikes and increased crime and social woes. Additionally, the SARG has real [...]	2007-03-08 14:09:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ SY
07DAMASCUS236	Baghdad Conference, Syria/Iran, Syria/EU, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Mar. 11 reported the inauguration of the Baghdad Conference of Iraq's Neighboring Countries on Mar. 10. The Syrian delegation was headed by Assistant Foreign Minister Ahmad Arnus, who delivered a statement in which he explained Syria's position toward the difficult s [...]	2007-03-11 14:49:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS248	Syria/US, Baghdad Conference, Syria/Iran, ICG, [...] Summary: Syrian independent al-Watan on Mar. 12 reported that Ellen Sauerbrey, US Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, arrived to Damascus late Mar. 11 for talks on the issue of Iraqi refugees. Earlier, Washington noted that Sauerbrey would talk only about the [...]	2007-03-12 15:00:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS25	Syria/Germany, Syria/Nigeria, Syria/Spain, Iraq, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan. 9 reported that President Asad held talks on Jan. 8 with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder focusing on current developments in Iraq, Lebanon and the occupied territories and prospects of economic cooperation between Syria and Germany, particularly on th [...]	2007-01-09 13:27:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS254	ARRESTS AND POLITICAL TRIALS SURROUND THE [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 10, several prominent dissidents, including former MP and political prisoner Riad Seif, were detained when they attempted to protest the 44th anniversary of the imposition of Emergency Law in Syria. Meanwhile, the political trial of Michel Kilo formally commenced while [...]	2007-03-13 12:26:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SY
07DAMASCUS257	Syria/US, Syria/EU, Syria/Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Mar. 13 reported Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad's meeting on Mar. 12 with Ellen Sauerbrey, US Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration. Talks focused on developments in Iraq and the suffering of Iraqis at home and abroad as a resul [...]	2007-03-13 15:33:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS26	SYRIAN CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVIST CALLS FOR NEW USG [...] (C) POLOFF MET WITH SYRIAN-CANADIAN CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVIST AND IMMIGRATION LAWYER HIND KABAWAT ON JANUARY 8. KABAWAT SAID THAT THE SAME NIGHT AFTER ATTENDING A DECEMBER 19 RECEPTION AT THE AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE FOR CODEL KERRY AND DODD, POLITICAL SECURITY AGENTS CAME TO HER HOUSE TO ASK WHET [...]	2007-01-09 14:50:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SY
07DAMASCUS266	Syria/Italy, Solana's Visit, Syria/Egypt, Arab Summit, [...] Summary: Papers on Mar. 14 reported that President Asad received a telephone call on Mar. 13 from Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi. They discussed the visit of the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana to Damascus and the recent confere [...]	2007-03-14 12:21:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS275	Solana's Visit, Syria/Iran, Syria/Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers reported the visit to Damascus by European Union Higher Representative for Common Foreign Policy and Security, Javier Solana on March 14. Ziyad Haydar, a journalist in independent Al-Watan said Solana and President Asad held a closed 50-minute meeting during which the [...]	2007-03-18 15:10:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS280	REACTION TO SOLANA'S DAMASCUS VISIT MIXED [...] (C) Summary: European diplomats, including German Ambassador Wenzel, stressed the frank and generally positive nature of EU Representative Solana,s talks with Syrian President Asad, especially with regard to Lebanon. In addition, Syrian state media put a mostly positive spin on the visit, ass [...]	2007-03-19 15:45:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SY
07DAMASCUS292	Syria/Kuwait, Syria/Pakistan, Syria/Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Mar. 25 reported VP Shara's visit to Kuwait on Mar. 24 to convey a message from President Asad to the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, on bilateral coordination prior to the upcoming Arab summit in Riyadh. During the meeting Shara reviewed the [...]	2007-03-25 13:50:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS299	Syria/PLO, Arab Summit, Peace Process, Iraq, Lebanon [...] Summary: Papers on Mar. 26 reported the visit to Damascus by Rouhi Fattouh, Special Envoy of Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, and his meeting with VP Shara on Mar. 25 conveying a message from President Abbas to President Asad on the latest Palestinian development [...]	2007-03-26 12:44:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS308	SYRIAN ACTIVIST RIAD SEIF ON OPPOSITION GROUP, [...] (C) SUMMARY: SYRIAN OPPOSITION LEADER RIAD SEIF MET MARCH 22 WITH A/DCM, PROVIDING AN UPDATE ON THE DAMASCUS DECLARATION (DD) GROUP, AND HIS CURRENT ASSESSMENT OF THE ASAD REGIME. SEIF, WHO HEADS THE DD'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, SAID ITS MEMBERS WERE WORKING TO ENLARGE THE DD POSSIBLY AS EARLY [...]	2007-03-27 15:51:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SY
07DAMASCUS309	THE GOLAN: RESISTANCE RHETORIC, PEACE FEELERS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS, PUBLIC MENTION OF THE GOLAN HEIGHTS ISSUE HAS RECURRED WITH MUCH GREATER FREQUENCY THAN IN PREVIOUS YEARS. THE ASAD REGIME HAS USED IT TACTICALLY IN DIFFERENT WAYS, FOR EXAMPLE, TO EXPRESS SHARED OBJECTIVES WITH HIZBALLAH LAST AUGUST, AND MORE RECENT [...]	2007-03-27 16:16:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
07DAMASCUS312	Arab Summit, Peace Process, Golan, Rice's Statements, Iraq [...] Summary: The Syrian press on Mar. 28 reported President Asad's summit meeting with Saudi King Abdullah on Mar. 27 on the eve of the Arab summit in Riyadh. Talks dealt with bilateral relations, horizons for consolidating and boosting such relations, and topics on the agenda of the Arab Summit [...]	2007-03-28 12:18:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS32	Specter Codel, Syria/US, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian press and TV on Dec. 27 expressed great joy about the press conference which Senator Arlen Specter gave at Damascus Airport, after meeting President Asad on December 27, 2006. The meeting with the President and the press conference were the lead story in all the radio and TV [...]	2007-01-10 12:40:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS320	EU DELIVERS LONG-AWAITED HUMAN RIGHTS DEMARCHE TO [...] (C) Summary. After the eight monts of refusals, the SARG allowed the EU troika to deliver its much-anticipated, confidential human rights demarche to an assistant minister SIPDIS at the Syrian MFA. The German Ambassador, who led the demarche, told Charge that the talks were a constructive [...]	2007-03-29 17:20:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SY
07DAMASCUS33	Syria/Iraq, Syria/US, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Dec. 28 reported that President Asad received a message from Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. The message was handed by the Iraqi President's special envoy Fakhri Karim during a meeting with Asad. Talks dealt with developments in Iraq and bilateral relations. Pa [...]	2007-01-10 12:49:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS331	CODEL WOLF DISCUSSES BAKER-HAMILTON WITH ASAD [...] (C) Summary. As the initiator of the Iraq Study Group, Congressman Wolf told Syrian President Asad and Foreign Minister Mu,allim that his delegation was interested in exploring the possibility of dialogue with Syria, but was not in Syria to negotiate. Congressmen Wolf, Pitts and Aderholt exp [...]	2007-04-03 12:15:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PGOV PREL SY
07DAMASCUS332	CODEL WOLF TELLS FM MU'ALLIM TO CHANGE DIRECTION [...] (C) Summary: In a 40 minute meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mu'allim, Congressmen Wolf, Pitts, and Aderholt commented that their visit was intended to explore the possibilities for dialogue in the framework of the Baker-Hamilton report but emphasized they were not in Syria to negoti [...]	2007-04-03 12:29:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	IS PGOV PHUM PREL SY
07DAMASCUS340	Issa Codel, Specter, Pelosi's Visit [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 6 reported President Asad's meeting on Apr. 5 with Darrell Issa, member of the US House of Representatives. Talks dealt with developments in the region and means and mechanisms to start relations on a correct basis between Syria and the United States. Issa als [...]	2007-04-09 13:29:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS341	Syria/Macedonia, Pelosi's Visit, Prisoner-swap, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 10 reported FM Mouallem's meeting on Apr. 9 with Macedonian FM Antonio Milososki. Talks focused on the latest developments in the Middle East and the Balkans and prospects of bilateral cooperation. During the meeting, FM Milososki expressed his country's desir [...]	2007-04-11 04:36:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS347	Syria/Macedonia, Syria/US, Terrorism, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 11 reported President Asad's and VP Shara's meetings on Apr. 10 with Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki. Talks dealt with bilateral relations and the latest developments in the Balkans and the Middle East. Papers also featured a statement by Tom La [...]	2007-04-11 13:49:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS348	Special Report: Wolf, Pelosi and Issa Codels (April 2-6) [...] Summary: Syrian papers welcomed the visit to Damascus by members of US House of Representatives Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts, and Robert Aderholt on March 30-31, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and six other Representatives on Apr. 3-4, and Representative Darrell Issa on Apr. 5. The three government-owned [...]	2007-04-11 13:54:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS35	Asad, Syria/US, Syria/OIC, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Dec. 26 reported that President Asad on Dec. 25 participated in Christmas celebrations and exchanged congratulations with Christian clergymen and others at the Patriarchate of The Syriac Orthodox Church in old Damascus. Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim of Antioch and All [...]	2007-01-10 13:25:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS351	Special Report: Wolf, Pelosi and Issa Codels (April 2-6) [...] Summary: Syrian papers welcomed the visit to Damascus by members of US House of Representatives Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts, and Robert Aderholt on March 30-31, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and six other Representatives on Apr. 3-4, and Representative Darrell Issa on Apr. 5. The three government-owned [...]	2007-04-12 09:08:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS354	Syria/Azerbaijan, Ki-Moon, Peace Process, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Papers on Apr. 12 reported FM Mouallem's meeting on Apr. 11 with Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mohammad Yarov, focused on bilateral relations. During the meeting, FM Mouallem reviewed the latest developments in the region, including the situations in Iraq and the occupied Palestinian territor [...]	2007-04-12 12:22:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS363	Syria/Israel, Syria/Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 15 featured a statement by the Syrian Foreign Ministry on Apr. 14 that statements by US national of Syrian origin, Ibrahim Suleiman, who visited Israel and met with the Israeli Knesset Foreign and Security Committee, do not reflect the Syrian viewpoint, adding [...]	2007-04-16 09:41:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS364	US/Syria, Syria/Lebanon, Syria/Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Independent al-Watan on Apr. 16 reported a meeting arranged by the State Department with Arab reporters in Washington with Alberto Fernandez, of the Near East Bureau at the State Department, who denied that there is any new dialogue between Syria and the US, but said that "there migh [...]	2007-04-16 11:34:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS371	Syria/Iran, Syria/Palestinian Authority, Syria/Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 18 reported the Apr. 17 visit to Damascus of Iranian FM Manuchehr Mottaki, during which he held talks with Foreign Minister Mouallem and senior Foreign Ministry officials on bilateral relations and regional issues. Papers also reported VP Shara's meeting on Ap [...]	2007-04-19 09:23:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS38	Syria/Spain, Syria/Indonesia, German Aid to Iraqi [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan. 10 reported Vice President Farouq al-Shara's meeting with Mr. Miguel Lawrance, First Assistant Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party of Catalonia, who SIPDIS emphasized Syria's right to restoration of the Golan and condemned the current policies based on s [...]	2007-01-11 11:00:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS383	Arab Initiative, Syria/Iraq, Syria/ Russia, Syria/Israel, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 19 reported that an Arab League Ministerial Committee on the Arab peace initiative held a meeting in Cairo on Apr. 18 with the participation of FM Mouallem to review efforts to activate the peace initiative in light of the Riyadh Summit. The Committee called fo [...]	2007-04-23 11:50:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS389	CODEL PELOSI MEETS SYRIA'S PRESIDENT ASAD [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-25 09:17:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
07DAMASCUS392	CODEL ISSA VISIT TO SYRIA APRIL 5: MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Congressman Darrell Issa met with Syrian President Bashar al-Asad for 40 minutes on April 5. Asad stated he had no conflict of interest with the U.S. on Iraq and was not weaker because of U.S. attempts to isolate him. Asad expressed no willingness to reopen an intelligence channe [...]	2007-04-25 09:31:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY
07DAMASCUS393	CODEL ISSA VISIT TO SYRIA APRIL 5: MEETING WITH FM [...] (C) Summary: Congressman Darrell Issa met with Foreign Minister Mu'allim for 45 minutes on April 5. They discussed Syria's desire for a new U.S. ambassador to Syria, intelligence cooperation, the SARG's November 2006 closing of Amideast - which Mu'allim linked to U.S. sanctions, Syria's relat [...]	2007-04-25 09:34:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY
07DAMASCUS394	Ban Ki-Moon's Visit, Syria/Qatar, Syria/France, Pelosi, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 25 reported President Asad's meeting on Apr. 24 with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, which focused on Syria's relations with the UN and the necessity of building confidence and mutual respect between the two sides. Talks also dealt with the peace process and [...]	2007-04-25 12:38:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS400	Ki-Moon Visit, Occupied Golan, Syria/Russia, Iraq, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 26 reported a televised interview by al-Jazeera TV on Apr. 25 of Information Minister Dr. Mohsen Bilal, who described President Asad's meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as positive and fruitful. "Syria SIPDIS considers Ki-Moon's visit to Damascu [...]	2007-04-26 12:51:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS406	Syria/Djibouti, Syria/Vietnam, Syria/Italy, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 27 reported that President Asad received a letter from the President of Djibouti, Ismail Omar Ghaila, connected with bilateral relations, regional developments and developments in the Horn of African. The letter was conveyed by Djibouti Minister of Foreign Affa [...]	2007-04-29 13:48:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS41	Syria/Australia, Shara, President Bush's Iraq Strategy, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan 11 reported Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Abrash's meeting on Jan. 10 with an Australian Parliamentary delegation headed by the President of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, Meredith Burgmann, focusing on prospects for bilateral cooperation. Mrs. Burg [...]	2007-01-11 14:04:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS417	SYRIA: ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROJECT PROPOSAL [...] (U) Post is submitting one project for the ESF Anti-Trafficking in Persons Projects from the International Office for Migration (IOM). 2. (SBU) The project is as follows: A. Title: Capacity Building on Identifying and Assessing Human Trafficking and Providing Protection to Victims of [...]	2007-05-03 14:49:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KWMN KCRM ASEC ELAB SMIG
07DAMASCUS419	Asad, Syria/Palestinians, Winograd Report, Iraq, Lebanon [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 2 featured President Asad's visit to Der Ezzor province on May 1 to inspect development projects. He addressed a crowd of citizens and officials, saying that "this time the enemies are playing the card of discord among sects in the region." He added that what i [...]	2007-05-07 06:14:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS424	Syria/Russia, Syria/US, Sharm al-Sheikh Conference, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 5 reported FM Mouallem's participation in the Ministerial Conference of Iraq's Neighboring Countries held in Sharm al-Sheikh on May 4. In his speech at the conference, Mouallem stressed the need to schedule withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq in accordance wi [...]	2007-05-08 05:20:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS428	Syria/Portugal, Syria/Oman, Syria/France, Sharm al-Sheikh [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 8 reported meetings on May 7 by President Asad and FM Mouallem with Portuguese FM Luis Filipe Marques Amado. Talks dealt with Syrian/Portuguese relations, the latest developments in the Middle East, the importance of boosting the European Union's role in dealing [...]	2007-05-08 14:20:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS431	Syria/Cuba, Syria/Libya, Syria/US, Syria/France, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 9 reported Information Minister Mohsen Bilal's meeting on May 8 with Cuban MP Kenia Serrano, during which Bilal stressed Syria's concern to achieve stability and security in the Middle East through a just and comprehensive peace based on UN resolutions. Talks al [...]	2007-05-09 13:37:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS436	Syria/Libya, Syria/UN, Syria/France, Iraq, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian press on May 10 reported President Asad's meeting on May 9 with Libyan Prime Minister El-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi. This is the first high level meeting between the two countries for years. Talks dealt with bilateral relations, mutual cooperation, and topics on the agenda of [...]	2007-05-10 12:59:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS444	Asad Speech/Nomination, Syria/PLO, Syria/UK, Syria/Italy, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 11 reported President Asad's speech at the first session of the new People's Assembly on May 10, which approved the nomination of President Asad for a second seven-year term as president and set May 27 as the date for the presidential referendum. Papers also r [...]	2007-05-14 09:39:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS448	Asad Nomination/Referendum, Syria/Yemen, Syria/France, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 14 reported President Asad's meeting on May 13 with the Speaker and selected members of the People's Assembly, who conveyed to the President the Assembly's approval of the nomination of the President for a new term of office and its selection of May 27th as the d [...]	2007-05-14 12:28:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS449	ASAD'S MESSAGE TO PARLIAMENT: "A TALENTED [...] (C) Summary: Syrian President Bashar al-Asad delivered a major foreign policy speech May 10, on the occasion of the inaugural session of the newly elected Syrian People's Assembly. The speech picked up some of the rhetorical flourishes Asad has relied upon in other speeches he has delivered [...]	2007-05-14 17:10:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
07DAMASCUS450	ASAD'S MESSAGE TO PARLIAMENT: "A TALENTED [...] (C) Summary: Syrian President Bashar al-Asad delivered a major foreign policy speech May 10, on the occasion of the inaugural session of the newly elected Syrian People's Assembly. The speech picked up some of the rhetorical flourishes Asad has relied upon in other speeches he has delivered [...]	2007-05-14 17:10:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
07DAMASCUS456	Asad Nomination/Referendum, Mouallem, Syria/France, [...] Summary: The press campaign for President Asad's second term in office continues, with papers publishing articles and reports praising his policies and noting Syria's accomplishments under his rule. A curious electoral sidelight is the report on the website of the opposition National Salvati [...]	2007-05-16 07:04:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS485	North Lebanon Clashes, Mouallem, Jafaari, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 22 continued to report on clashes in Naher al-Bared refugee camp in north Lebanon. All papers also featured a lecture at Damascus University by FM Mouallem on May 21 praising Syria's foreign policy under President Asad's leadership, saying that "US pressures an [...]	2007-05-22 12:47:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS491	Events in Northern Lebanon, Mouallem/Ki-Moon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 23 reported that FM Mouallem received a phone call on May 22 from UN SecGen Ki-Moon about events in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon. Mouallem expressed regret over the events, saying, "the leaders of Fatah al-Islam are wanted by the S [...]	2007-05-23 11:55:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS50	Syria/Iraq, Syria/Australia, Syria/US, Syria/UN, Bush's [...] Summary: Syrian papers over the weekend reported the visit to Damascus by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, beginning on Jan. 14, the first such visit in three decades. President Talabni received a warm welcome in Syria. He was received by and met with President Asad. Talks during the meeting [...]	2007-01-16 08:23:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS500	PROBING SARG TIES TO FATAH AL-ISLAM [...] (C) Summary: Our contacts offer contradictory assessments about whether the SARG has been involved in supporting Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon. A majority suspect there is some link, with many pointing to the suspicious timing for the outbreak of fighting, on the eve of UNSC consideration of a [...]	2007-05-24 13:26:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
07DAMASCUS501	SUBSIDIES: A GROWING RISK FACTOR FOR THE SYRIAN [...] (C) Summary: In spite of a modestly strengthening economy, the SARG faces increasing fiscal pressure to reduce the billions of dollars it currently expends on subsidies. The SARG's budget deficit is increasing dramatically because of the dual challenge of declining oil revenues and growing pu [...]	2007-05-24 14:05:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV SY
07DAMASCUS507	Presidential Referendum, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, [...] Summary: The main focus in Syrian papers over the weekend was on the presidential referendum on president Asad's new term in office. Papers cited statements by Syrian officials praising President Asad's achievements during his first term in office. On May 27, papers featured statements by [...]	2007-05-28 13:15:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS520	Presidential Referendum, Syria/UK, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 29 reported Vice President Shara's meeting on May 28 with former Archbishop Hilarion Capucci in which they discussed the regional situation and the international community's disregard of the oppression of the Palestinians under Israel's abusive practices. Shar [...]	2007-05-30 14:04:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS521	Presidential Referendum, Syria/UK, Syrian Policy, Iraq [...] Summary: Syrian papers featured a statement made by Speaker of the People's Assembly on May 29 officially announcing Bashar Al-Asad as the President of the Syrian Arab Republic for a new 7-year term following the final results of popular referendum in which the President won a reported 97.62 [...]	2007-05-30 14:23:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS532	Syria/Iran, Syria/Brazil, Mashaal, Nahr al-Bared, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 1 focused on the visit to Syria by Iranian FM Manuchehr Mottaki and his meeting with President Asad on May 31, which focused on bilateral relations and the latest developments in the region, particularly in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon. Mottaki also met separate [...]	2007-06-03 12:03:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS54	Syria/Iraq, Syria's Role in the region, Rice's visit to the [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan. 16 continued to report on the visit to Damascus of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. Headlines featured President Talabani's visit on Jan. 15 to the tomb of late President Hafez Asad in al-Qerdaha, where he laid a wreath of flowers on the tomb, read verses from t [...]	2007-01-16 14:12:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS542	SYRIA'S WTO DREAMS CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary: In the last several months, Syria has taken several public steps in an expressed desire to advance its WTO bid, including the formation of new committees on WTO accession planning, and the holding of several workshops and conferences designed to highlight their ongoing efforts to [...]	2007-06-05 12:55:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFTA ETRD PREL SY
07DAMASCUS544	SARG NOT CAPITALIZING ON THE POTENTIAL OF SYRIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent SARG-sponsored conference for expatriates highlighted their potential benefit to the Syrian economy, but also revealed how little the regime has done or appears willing to do to capitalize on their potential. Syrian expatriates currently provide important remittance reven [...]	2007-06-05 13:07:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY
07DAMASCUS553	Syria/Italy, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel/Palestinians (6/6) [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 6 reported President Asad's meeting on June 5 with Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Massimo Dalima focusing on bilateral relations and the latest developments in Iraq, the occupied Palestinian territories and Lebanon. Both sides stressed the n [...]	2007-06-06 12:48:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS558	IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE OF REFERENDUM QUICKLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: NOW THAT BASHAR'S IMPOSED RE-ELECTION IS A FAIT ACCOMPLI, THE REGIME HAS SENT FIRM SIGNALS THAT THE TIME FOR ALL THE HOOPLA AND LETTING OFF STEAM THAT IT ALLOWED DURING THE THREE-WEEK RUN-UP IS NOW FINISHED. LIFE IN SYRIA HAS RETURNED TO ITS CALMER, REPRESSIVE RHYTHMS. WHILE [...]	2007-06-07 14:54:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY LE
07DAMASCUS568	Syria/Spain, Syria/Israel, Syria/Lebanon, Malaysia, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 8-9 reported the visit to Spain on June 7 by FM Mouallem, who conveyed an oral message from President Asad to King Juan Carlos of Spain on bilateral relations and current regional developments, particularly in Iraq, the occupied Palestinian territories and Leban [...]	2007-06-11 11:00:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS572	Palestinian Territories, Syria/Lebanon, Syria/Israel, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 11 reported that the Arab League on June 10 renewed its condemnation of the US congressional resolution which expressed support for Israel in its continued occupation of Jerusalem, describing the resolution as a flagrant violation of international law. Papers f [...]	2007-06-11 11:47:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS579	SYRIAN GOVERNMENT PREVENTS HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FROM [...] (C) Summary. Syrian security services in early June forcibly prevented the most recent monthly meeting of the Human Rights Association of Syria (HRAS) which was to be held at the office of prominent human rights lawyer Haithem al-Maleh. Although the security services are known for arbitraril [...]	2007-06-12 10:50:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SY
07DAMASCUS58	Syria/Iraq, Syria/Israel, Syria/Ecuador, Rice Visit, Iraq, [...] Summary: For a third consecutive day the Syrian press continued to report extensively on Iraqi President Talabani's visit to Syria. Headlines reported that President Asad and Talabani held a closed meeting on Jan. 16, during which they reviewed ways to develop relations between the two countr [...]	2007-01-17 12:41:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS588	Syria/Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Iran [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 12 reported a meeting by the Central Leadership of the National Progressive Front (NPF) on June 11. The Leadership stressed Syria's firm position toward the issue of peace with Israel, describing the current peace proposals to Syria as "contradictory and not s [...]	2007-06-12 12:58:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS597	ASAD INSISTS ON NEED FOR AMBASSADOR TO RETURN [...] (C) Summary: In a one-on-one with his American biographer, President Bashar al-Asad May 30 underscored the need for the return of the U.S. ambassador to Damascus, according to the biographer, David Lesch. Asad discounted the importance of the May 3 Sharm meeting between FM Mu'allim and the [...]	2007-06-13 12:34:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
07DAMASCUS598	Syria/Greece, Syria/Italy, Syria/Netherlands, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 13 reported the visit to Damascus by Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Dora Bakoyannis and her meeting with President Asad on June 12 about bilateral relations and political developments in Iraq, the occupied territories and Lebanon. Bakoyannis praised Syria's [...]	2007-06-13 13:13:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS600	POST APPROVES NSDD 38 - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF [...] Post approves this NSDD 38 Department of Defense, Department of Army request to add one Olmsted scholar position in Syria, for an appointment of limited duration. While this proposed staffing change is not reflected in the most recent MSP, post believes that DOD has made a persuasive case for [...]	2007-06-14 09:12:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	AODE AMGT KMRS MASS SY
07DAMASCUS603	Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Syria/Israel, Iraq [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 14 quoted an official Syrian source as saying on June 13 that the Syrian government and Syrian people are concerned about intra-Palestinian fighting and violence. "Fighting among the Palestinian brothers will only serve the interests of the enemies of the Pales [...]	2007-06-14 12:59:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS61	Syria/Iraq, Syria/Israel, Syria/Ecuador, Rice Visit, Iraq, [...] Summary: For a third consecutive day the Syrian press reported extensively on Iraqi President Talabani's visit to Syria. Headlines reported that Presidents Asad and Talabani held a closed meeting on Jan. 16, in which they reviewed ways to develop relations between the two countries in all fi [...]	2007-01-17 13:04:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS618	Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Syria/UK, Syria/Israel, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 18 and 19 focused on the visits to Damascus of the Kuwaiti Crown Prince and the UK Shadow Foreign Secretary. The papers reported that President Assad on June 18 SIPDIS received a message from the Kuwaiti Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on the [...]	2007-06-19 13:29:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS643	Golan, Rice, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on June 27 marked the 33rd anniversary of the liberation of Al-Qunaytirah with reports and articles glorifying the "heroism" and sacrifices of Syrian forces during the October 1973 war and stressing that the occupied Golan will definitely return to Syria. Papers cited [...]	2007-06-27 12:50:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS664	Syria/PDRK, US/Syria, Syria/EU, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 2 reported the July 1 meeting of Assistant Secretary General of the Ba'ath Party, Abdullah al-Ahmar, with Kim Tai Jung, Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Relations' Bureau at the Central Committee of the Democratic Korean Work Party. The two reviewed current devel [...]	2007-07-02 12:48:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS679	Syria/Denmark, Syria/Japan, Golan, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 3 reported Foreign Minister Mouallem's meeting on July 2 with Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller, who reiterated the importance of the pivotal role Syria plays in achieving security and stability in the region, particularly supporting efforts to restore Ir [...]	2007-07-03 13:19:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS683	SYRIA UPDATE ON IRAQI REFUGEES [...] (U) Summary: PRM/ANE Office Director Richard Albright visited Damascus from June 12-15 and June 20-21, meeting about the Iraqi refugee crisis with interlocutors from a range of organizations, including: the Iraqi Embassy, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC),the Internation [...]	2007-07-05 12:26:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV SY IZ
07DAMASCUS684	Syria/Denmark, Syria/US, Syria/Sudan, Syria/Russia, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 4 reported President Asad's meeting on July 3 with Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller, focusing on bilateral relations and efforts to revive the peace process. Discussions also dealt with the situation in Iraq and the political process there. The two sid [...]	2007-07-05 13:15:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS690	Syria/Sudan, Syria/US, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 7 reported the visit to Sudan by Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri and his meeting with Sudanese President Omar Hasan al-Bashir on July 5. Their talks focused on bilateral relations and means of boosting them in all domains. The Sudanese President hailed Syria' [...]	2007-07-08 13:15:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS694	Mousa, Bilal, Aboul Gheit, Lebanon, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 9 reported the July 8 arrival in Damascus from Riyadh of Arab League Secretary General Amr Mousa, for a two-day official visit to Syria. Mousa will meet with senior Syrian officials about the latest developments in Lebanon. He will discuss the Lebanese crisis [...]	2007-07-09 13:33:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS70	Syria/Norway, Syria/China, Bush's Iraq Strategy, Rice's [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan. 18 reported FM Walid Mouallem's meeting on Jan. 17 with Svein Sieve, Advisor of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry for Middle East Affairs. Sieve reiterated the importance of Syria's role to cement security and stability in the region. FM Mouallem emphasized the n [...]	2007-01-21 08:05:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS717	Amr Mousa, Syria/Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 10 reported the visit to Damascus by Secretary General Amr Mousa and his meeting with President Asad on July 9 focusing on regional Arab developments. President Asad expressed support to the Arab League Secretary General mission in Lebanon aiming at achieving ac [...]	2007-07-13 09:03:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS718	Syria/Kuwait, Syria/UAE, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 12 reported that President Asad on July 11 received al letter from Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad al-Jaber Al Sabah connected with bilateral relations between the two sisterly countries and issues of common concern. The letter focused on the latest devel [...]	2007-07-13 09:04:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS723	Syria/US, Syria/UAE, Syria/Guinea-Bissau Syria/France, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 13 reported President Asad's meeting on July 12 with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, and Catholic Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of the Brooklyn Diocese, focusing on the tense situation in the Middle East. President Asad reiterated the [...]	2007-07-15 14:14:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS727	Syria/UAE, Syria/Netherlands, Syria/Sudan, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 16 reported that President Sheikh Khaifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates arrived in Damascus July 15 on an official 2-day visit. He made a statement upon arrival expressing satisfaction with cooperation in recent years in the economic, trade and [...]	2007-07-16 13:45:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS730	Asad, Cousseran, Lebanon, Bush/ME Peace, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: President Asad's oath-taking ceremony and speech at the People's Assembly on July 17 was the main topic in Syrian papers on July 18. Banner headlines were dedicated to the speech, which was carried in its entirety. President Asad said that "Syria has emerged stronger a fter facing [...]	2007-07-19 10:40:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY

07DAMASCUS731	Syria-UAE, Syria/Iran, Syrian Press, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 17 reported President Asad's meeting with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on July 16. The presidents reviewed bilateral relations and means of strengthening them and hailed the role played by the Syrian-Emirates Joint Committee. They discussed [...]	2007-07-19 10:41:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS735	Syria/Iran, Syria/France, Syria/PLO, Lebanon, Asad's [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 19 reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will pay a one-day visit to Syria today to meet with President Asad and other senior Syrian officials. Papers also reported VP Shar'a's meeting with Jean-Claude Cousseran, envoy of French Foreign Minister [...]	2007-07-19 10:51:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS74	Syria/PLO, Syria/Iran, Syria/Libya, Syria/Belgium, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan. 22 reported President Asad's and VP Shara's meetings with Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, on Jan 21. Talks focused on current regional developments. Larijani conveyed a message from President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad about [...]	2007-01-22 13:46:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS745	Syria/Iran, Peace/Bush's Call for International [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 20 reported Iranian President Ahmadinejad's summit with President Asad on July 19. Talks focused on regional developments and bilateral relations. Banner headlines featured the joint press conference at the conclusion of their talks. The Iranian President call [...]	2007-07-22 13:49:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS755	SYRIAN PRESIDENT LAUNCHES SECOND TERM WITH FOCUS [...] (C) Summary: Despite the focus on domestic issues in Syrian President Bashar al-Asad's July 17 second-term inaugural speech, contacts have concluded that the speech was most significant in its reference to Syrian-Israeli negotiations. Asad used the speech to respond to Israeli PM Olmert's J [...]	2007-07-25 14:23:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF SY
07DAMASCUS772	Lebanon, Peace Process, Palestinian Territories, Iraq, [...] Summary: All Syrian papers on July 29 featured Hizbollah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah's speech on July 28 in mass rally in Bint Jbeil in south Lebanon commemorating the anniversary of the July 2006 war with Israel saying that the Lebanese resistance has foiled US plans for a new Middle East [...]	2007-07-30 06:16:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS773	DAMASCUS FRAUD PREVENTION MANAGEMENT REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-30 10:15:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS CPAS KFRD KCRM CMGT ASEC SY
07DAMASCUS774	SARG USES AHMEDINEJAD VISIT TO SIGNAL STRENGTH OF [...] (C) Summary: The scheduling of Iranian president Mahmud Ahmedinejad's visit to Damascus two days after president Bashar al-Asad took his second oath of office prompted observers of Syrian politics to interpret the visit in terms of the most notable element of Asad's inauguration speech: his co [...]	2007-07-30 10:17:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY IR IS
07DAMASCUS775	Iraq, Lebanon, Islam, Palestinian Territories, Peace [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 30 reported Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad's meeting on July 29 with Under Secretary of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry Mohammad al-Haj Mahmoud focusing on bilateral relations, developments in Iraq and the effects of the increasing influx of Iraqi citizens [...]	2007-07-30 14:22:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS777	DESPITE ASAD'S DENIAL, RUMORS OF SUBSIDIES BEING [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Asad rejected public rumors of the lifting of subsidies in his July 17 inauguration address (ref A). In spite of this populist message, SARG officials continue to publicly discuss the burden of subsidies and their future plans to restructure the subsidy system. The SAR [...]	2007-07-31 08:59:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV SY
07DAMASCUS778	Peace Process, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian Territories, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on July 31 reported FM Mouallem's meeting on July 30 with Norwegian Foreign Minister Special Envoy for Middle-East Affairs Sven Sevje. Discussion centered upon recent developments in the Middle East and efforts to revive the peace process. FM Mouallem expressed Syria [...]	2007-07-31 13:18:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS78	TALABANI'S MARATHON VISIT TO DAMASCUS [...] (C) Summary. During his six-day visit to Damascus, President Talabani met with most Syrians of significance, including four separate meetings with President Asad including two one-on-ones. Talabani was accompanied by some 20 Iraqi officials in addition to four ministers who signed unspecifi [...]	2007-01-22 15:08:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER EPET SY
07DAMASCUS782	Syrian Army, Syria/Spain, Peace Process, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 1 featured a speech by President Asad marking the 62nd anniversary of the Syrian army's creation published July 31 in the military journal "Army of the People", in which he called for the return of the Golan Heights. He said that the latest events in the regi [...]	2007-08-01 13:02:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS801	Bilal, Baath Party, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 4 featured a lecture by Information Minister Muhsen Bilal saying that the US project currently aims at lessening the value of victories achieved by the Lebanese resistance and imposing its schemes on Palestine, Iraq and other countries with the aim of seizing [...]	2007-08-07 13:26:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS802	Syria/Italy, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Peace [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 7 reported that President Asad received a phone call from the Italian Prime Minister on August 6 focusing on the situation in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. On Iraq, papers continued to report the increasing number of US casualties in Iraq. [...]	2007-08-07 13:26:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS807	SYRIA'S APPROACH TO LEBANON: CORE INTERESTS AT [...] (S) SUMMARY: The Syrian government watched Lebanon's August 5 Metn by-elections unfold in studied silence intended to signal the SARG's detachment from events across the border. The SARG's silence reflected both the regime's perception that its allies in Lebanon are gaining ground and the lim [...]	2007-08-09 04:25:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL SY LE PTER PGOV
07DAMASCUS824	Syria/India, Britain, Italy, Lebanon, Iraq, Peace [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 14 reported the visit to India by FM Mouallem on August 13. Mouallem conferred with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who praised President Asad saying that "Syria has achieved remarkable progress (which) showed wisdom in dealing with the developments of t [...]	2007-08-14 12:54:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS835	Shara, Syria/India, Nasrallah, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 15 reported a meeting with journalists in Damascus by Vice President Shara on August 14 confirming that Syria has no intention of waging war against Israel to restore occupied Golan, but he accused Israel for seeking "any excuse to launch a war." "Israel know [...]	2007-08-15 13:47:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS85	Syria/Qatar, Syria/Brazil, Golan, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan. 25 reported that President Asad returned to Damascus after a short visit to Qatar on Jan. 24, where he reviewed with Qatari Prince Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani developments in the region, especially in Iraq and Palestine. The leaders also reviewed bilatera [...]	2007-01-25 13:42:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS853	Syria/Iraq, Syria/Palestinians, Syria/Israel, Lebanon, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 21 reported the visit to Damascus by Iraqi PM Nouri al-Malki and his meeting with PM Mohammad Naji Ottri on August 20. Talks focused on bilateral relations and mutual cooperation between the two countries and means to improve them. PM Ottri expressed Syria's [...]	2007-08-22 04:39:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS857	Syria/Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Peace [...] Summary: Syrian papers on August 22 reported President Asad's meeting on August 21 with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in which he reiterated Syria's support for the current political process in Iraq and stressed the need to intensify efforts to create a suitable foundation for achievin [...]	2007-08-22 11:51:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS905	SARG SIGNALS NEW VISA REQUIREMENT FOR IRAQIS [...] (C) Summary: Confirming what Deputy Foreign Minister Miqdad told UK and other Embassies at a private briefing last week, Syrian dailies reported September 3 that, effective September 10, Iraqis traveling to Syria will need a visa. According to Miqdad, Iraqi PM Maliki proposed this action. A [...]	2007-09-05 12:14:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL SY IZ
07DAMASCUS913	Syria/Iraq, Syria/Iran, Middle East Peace Conference, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on September 4 reported that President Asad chaired a meeting the Central Leadership of National Progressive Front. During the meeting, President Asad briefed the Front's members on the latest political developments in the region. He referred to the role played by "some [...]	2007-09-06 12:31:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS92	Russia, Syria/Argentina, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan. 28 reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Tehran and Damascus must be involved in the Middle East peace process. "We are deeply convinced that Iran and Syria must not be isolated, but, rather, brought into the peace process," Lavrov to [...]	2007-01-28 15:38:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS920	Syria/Israel, Syria/Rome, Asad CBS Interview, Algeria, [...] Summary: The main story in Syrian papers over the weekend was the Israeli warplanes violation of Syrian airspace on September 6. Government-owned Al-Thawra, the only paper to appear on September 7, quoted a Syrian military spokesman as saying that Syrian air defenses opened fire on the Israel [...]	2007-09-09 12:53:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS933	SYRIAN VISA REQUIREMENT ON IRAQIS: POSTPONED FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-13 15:40:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL SY IZ
07DAMASCUS949	SARG SENDING MIXED SIGNALS ON FUEL SUBSIDIES [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-18 16:38:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD EPET SY LE
07DAMASCUS950	ASSESSING SARG VULNERABILITIES [...] (S) The Syrian Accountability Act and other sanctions have had an adverse impact on the SARG, but not to a degree that has modified Syrian behavior on our key issues of concern. Nearly three years after most sanctions were implemented, this cable reflects the Embassy,s assessment of both SARG [...]	2007-09-18 16:53:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	ETRD EFIN PTER SY
07DAMASCUS951	SARG SENDING MIXED SIGNALS ON FUEL SUBSIDIES [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-19 04:53:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD EPET SY LE
07DAMASCUS961	SYRIAN MISTREATMENT OF POLITICAL PRISONERS [...] (C) Summary. According to a variety of credible human rights contacts, the Syrian regime continues to stonewall requests by Riad Seif, Anwar al-Bunni, Michel Kilo and other high profile political prisoners for medical treatment. In addition, prison officials have stepped up harassment of a pr [...]	2007-09-23 06:18:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SY
07DAMASCUS975	UNGA, Syria/Israel, Peace Conference, Iraq, US/Syria [...] Summary: Syrian papers on September 27 reported meetings FM Mouallem held on September 25 on the sidelines of the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly in New York. He saw Russian FM SergeyQavrov, High Re presentative of the EU Common Foreign policy and Security Secretary-General of the Co [...]	2007-09-27 13:13:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DAMASCUS99	Asad/Mubarak, Syria/EU, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestinian [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan. 30 reported that President Asad had a telephone conversation with President Mubarak on Jan. 29, during which the leaders discussed the intra-Palestinian clashes and means to stop them. On Syrian-EU relations, papers reported that VP Shara on Jan. 29 hailed ef [...]	2007-01-30 13:16:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
07DARESSALAAM1062	ACTION REQUEST REGARDING ICTR CHIEF OF APPEALS [...] (SBU) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. Barbara Mulvaney, Senior Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and US citizen, requests USG support for her candidacy for the position of Chief of Appeals at the ICTR. 2. (U) Mulvaney believes she is qua [...]	2007-07-31 14:50:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM RW TZ
07DARESSALAAM1136	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY LEAVITT'S AUGUST 23-26 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The U.S.-Tanzanian bilateral relationship has witnessed a sea change over the past two years. With the election of a charismatic, pro-Western President, and increasing levels of U.S. assistance, cooperation has expanded in areas ranging from health and education to counterter [...]	2007-08-14 15:46:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP EAID PREL PGOV ECON TZ
07DARESSALAAM1183	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS UPDATE FOR TANZANIA [...] (U) The Government of Tanzania (GOT),International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGOs are addressing trafficking in persons (TIP) on a number of fronts. The Ministry of Health is working with IOM to increase awareness of TIP and IOM is finalizing the report of its 2006 research asses [...]	2007-08-21 14:23:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HSTC SOCI EAID PREF PGOV KWMN SMIG KCRM
07DARESSALAAM1215	TANZANIA: AMBASSSADOR RETZER,S AUGUST 30 FAREWELL [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-31 11:05:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID TZ
07DARESSALAAM1236	"CREDIBLE VOICE" REJECTING VIOLENCE IN TANZANIA [...] (S) Per reftel, Post submits the name of Sheikh Musa Kundecha as a person of great credibility and influence in the Muslim community of Tanzania who offers an alternative view to Islamic extremism. 2. (SBU) Sheikh Musa Kundecha is a charismatic, populist leader working to improve the lives [...]	2007-09-06 13:37:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	SECRET	KPAO TZ
07DARESSALAAM1454	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Noel Kaganda, Office of UN Affairs in the Multilateral and Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Kaganda expressed familiarity with the U.S. position on the Cuba embargo resolution and referenced President [...]	2007-10-31 14:19:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU TZ
07DARESSALAAM1483	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY PAULSON'S NOVEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) The U.S.-Tanzanian bilateral relationship has witnessed a sea change over the past two years. With the election of a charismatic, pro-Western President, and increasing levels of U.S. assistance, cooperation has expanded in areas ranging from health and education to counterterrorism and [...]	2007-11-07 14:33:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL PGOV EAID ECON TZ
07DARESSALAAM1531	EAC SAYS IT IS READY TO MOVE FORWARD ON THE US-EAC TIFA [...] (U) The Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC),Ambassador Juma Mwapachu, told Assistant United States Trade Representative (AUSTR) for Africa Florie Liser November 13 that the proposed U.S.-EAC Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) would be at the top of the agenda of [...]	2007-11-26 11:56:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIN EAID ECON PREL TZ
07DARESSALAAM170	TANZANIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2007 [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-06 12:53:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR TZ
07DARESSALAAM225	WFP DEMARCHE: TANZANIA DECLINES TO BE A COMPROMISE [...] (SBU) Ambassador Begum Taj, Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Multilateral Division, told PolCouns February 15 that Tanzania would not be interested in standing as a compromise candidate country for the Vice Presidency of the World Food Program Executive Board. Ambassador Taj said that [...]	2007-02-15 16:06:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID AORC PREL WFP TZ
07DARESSALAAM376	ICTR: AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES TRIBUNAL [...] (U) Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (S/WCI),Clint Williamson, met with President Mose and other key officials at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and toured the United Nations Detention Facility in Arusha on March 7 and 8. Discussions centered on issues that co [...]	2007-03-18 13:27:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA ICTR TZ
07DARESSALAAM519	ICTR: AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES TRIBUNAL [...] (U) Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met with key leadership and working-level officials at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and toured the United Nations Detention Facility in Arusha on March 7 and 8, 2007. Williamson,s discussions centered on [...]	2007-04-10 14:56:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA ICTR TZ
07DARESSALAAM559	ZANZIBAR: IS A WIN-WIN POSSIBLE AS CCM-CUF [...] (C) At a joint April 6 press conference, the Zanzibar CCM Secretary General, Yusuf Makamba, and the Civic United Front SIPDIS (CUF) Secretary General, Seif Malam Hamad, announced that the two parties had completed the initial stage of reconciliation talks. CUF party chairman, Dr. Ibrahim Li [...]	2007-04-18 11:53:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TZ
07DARESSALAAM662	TANZANIA: ZIMBABWE'S BID FOR CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE [...] (SBU) Mr. Sule Sella, Acting Head of the Multilateral Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),told PolOff May 3 "to my knowledge Tanzania has not made any official objection to Zimbabwe's Chairmanship of the Commission on Sustainable Development." He noted that Tanzania n [...]	2007-05-04 12:43:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV UNCSD AORC PREL ZI TZ
07DARESSALAAM794	TANZANIA: CONSULTATIVE MEETING OF [...] (SBU) Members of the Parliaments of ten African Union (AU) member states and of the Pan African Parliament (PAP),met in Dar es Salaam from May 26-28 to consider national responsibilities in responding to the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan. Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, the AU Spe [...]	2007-06-05 03:34:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID ECON MOPS SU TZ
07DARESSALAAM84	PRESIDENT KARUME AND AMBASSADOR RETZER DISCUSS APP [...] (C) SUMMARY. During their January 16 meeting, President of Zanzibar, Amani Abeid Karume, asked Ambassador Retzer to consider a "special request" that the new American Presence Post (APP) in Zanzibar offer consular (i.e. visa services) in Zanzibar. Explaining that the APP would not offer consu [...]	2007-01-18 14:14:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	CMGT CVIS CASC PREL PHUM ECON TZ PROG
07DARESSALAAM894	ISLAMIC RADICALS BLOCKS AMERICAN MUSLIMS FROM [...] (C) American Muslims visiting Tanzania from May 27-31 as part of the Citizen Dialogue Program (reftel) were surprisingly refused entry to a mosque in downtown Dar es Salaam. As the American visitors arrived for evening prayers, a group of about 30 men congregated at the mosque's gate to block [...]	2007-06-21 14:35:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR TZ IR
07DARESSALAAM950	UPDATE ON TANZANIAN ECONOMY: SHORT-TERM GROWTH [...] (U) Tanzania's economy grew by 6.2 percent in 2006 despite drought-like conditions and a prolonged energy shortage, according to second quarter Government of Tanzania (GOT) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) reports. Exports continue to rise with minerals the leading growth sector. The co [...]	2007-07-05 14:36:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID FINE EINV ENRG PREL AA TZ
07DHAKA1207	AT 180 DAYS, A REPORT CARD ON BANGLADESH'S INTERIM [...] (C) SUMMARY. After 180 days in power, the interim government installed after the January 11 declaration of a state of emergency remains popular. It has racked up a series of accomplishments and corrected initial excesses, particularly in the area of human rights. The Election Commission has u [...]	2007-07-25 08:52:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA1236	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE LANDERS +2 [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes CHRISTOPHER LANDERS, DOUGLAS DAHL, and GARY STUBBLEFIELD on their August 4 Q 13, 2007 visit and grants country clearance contingent upon obtaining a Bangladeshi visa prior to arrival (see Paragraph 4.D. below). Although country clearance has been granted, visitors should [...]	2007-07-30 06:38:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP PARM OTRA BG
07DHAKA1295	CDA MEETS WITH HOME SECRETARY TO DISCUSS SECURITY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 8 meeting, Bangladeshi Home Secretary Abdul Karim assured CDA that Bangladesh would SIPDIS enhance security in light of recent threats by Al-Qaeda against U.S. diplomatic missions. In response to CDA's expressions of concern for those detained under the State of [...]	2007-08-09 08:34:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA13	AWAMI LEAGUE REVERSES COURSE, ANNOUNCES ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 3, Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Hasina announced that the AL and its "grand alliance" partners would boycott and resist the January 22 parliamentary elections, claiming the Caretaker Government has failed to ensure the conditions necessary for free and fair elections [...]	2007-01-03 11:12:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BG
07DHAKA1384	BANGLADESH FOREIGN MINISTRY TAKES MEASURES TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Officials of the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently attended a briefing and training on the role of the ministry in combating human trafficking on August 18. In addition, the Ministry issued a circular with instructions for its missions abroad on how to combat traf [...]	2007-08-26 01:07:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ELAB KCRM BG
07DHAKA1418	THE MAN TO SEE: CDA A.I. AND ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) Summary. Providing insight into the complicated relationship between the army and caretaker government, Chief of Army Staff General Moeen Uddin Ahmed told CDA a.i. that the recent violence had been a wake up call for the regime and outlined a series of steps that would be taken in the c [...]	2007-08-28 09:15:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA1490	GOVERNMENT MOVES CAUTIOUSLY ON RELAXATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The caretaker government is attempting to walk a fine line regarding the relaxation of the ban on indoor politics. The official gazette notification strictly proscribes the activities parties are permitted to undertake. While authorities permitted most parties to reopen their ce [...]	2007-09-12 09:30:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA1494	GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS DISCUSS ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed and Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed met September 5 with members of the nation's business community in an effort to strengthen the commercial climate. Business confidence appears to be weakening in the wake of floods, rising prices, the g [...]	2007-09-12 11:26:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KCOR BG
07DHAKA152	AMBASSODOR MEETS ADVISORS FOR SHIPPING AND ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: During separate courtesy calls by the Ambassador, Advisors Matin and Chowdhury both acknowledged the need to involve the political parties in discussions on election preparations and to hold free and fair elections promptly. The Ambassador reinforced U.S. support for elections [...]	2007-01-29 07:23:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA153	FINANCE/PLANNING ADVISOR SUPPORTS EARLY ELECTIONS; [...] (C) Summary: Finance and Planning Advisor Islam told the Ambassador that the Caretaker Government should hold elections as soon as possible, but the timing of "possible" depends on reaching consensus on the reforms needed to hold free and fair elections. Protecting human rights and minimi [...]	2007-01-29 09:15:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM BG
07DHAKA157	AMBASSADOR CALLS ON CHIEF ADVISER [...] (C) Summary. Chief Adviser Ahmed smoothly made the government's case for far-reaching reforms as a prelude to "free, fair, and credible elections." He acknowledged some "excesses" during the government's mass detentions, but urged the U.S. to focus instead on the instant corrective action th [...]	2007-01-29 10:31:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA1602	ENGAGING BANGLADESH'S RAPID ACTION BATTALION: THE [...] (C) Summary: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is the lead Bangladeshi security force for countering terrorism. Yet since its creation the U.S. government has not engaged the 10,000-member paramilitary group because of human rights concerns stemming from persistent reports of extrajudicial kill [...]	2007-10-04 08:44:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	BG MASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL
07DHAKA1724	BANGLADESH INFORMATION ON HOST GOVERNMENT [...] (U) This is Mission Dhaka's response to the action cable on &host government practices -- information collection, screening and sharing8 (reftel). Answers to questions are in CAPITAL LETTERS. 2. (C) A. Watch listing: a. If host government maintains a "watch list," how many records does the [...]	2007-10-30 10:47:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC BG CVIS KVPR PGOV PINR PREL PTER
07DHAKA1785	DRAFT BANGLADESH PART I FOR 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) The following is the draft text on Bangladesh of the first part (drugs and chemical control) for the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: 2. (U) I. Summary: A Major narcotics bust in Dhaka in October 2007 supported law enforcement officials' claims of a sharp incr [...]	2007-11-13 09:39:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM BG
07DHAKA1847	USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #5: USAID/DART [...] Summary. Tropical Cyclone Sidr made landfall in southern Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, leading to 3,061 deaths, affecting more than 6.8 million people, and damaging more than 1.2 million homes, according to the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) Disaster Management Bureau and the U.N. World F [...]	2007-11-26 11:59:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1902	DEFINING THE USG ROLE AS BANGLADESH BEGINS ITS [...] (C) Summary: The prompt and effective response to Cyclone Sidr's devastation has saved many thousands of lives and averted a potential political crisis for Bangladesh's weak Caretaker Government. The USG response during this initial phase was a model of Diplomacy-Defense-Development workin [...]	2007-12-06 11:11:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	BG EAID MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PINR PREL
07DHAKA1903	BANGLADESH'S POST-CYCLONE ECONOMY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Cyclone Sidr couldn,t have come at a worse time for Bangladesh,s economy. When the storm hit on November 15, Bangladesh already was suffering from weak export markets, debilitating inflation, meager investment and an agriculture industry reeling from severe monsoon flooding. Eco [...]	2007-12-06 11:12:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	BG EAID ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR PGOV PINR
07DHAKA1910	ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION FACES HURDLES, [...] (C) Summary: Prepared with USG assistance, a series of amendments that would strengthen Bangladesh,s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Act and a draft Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) are being held up in the Law Ministry, in contravention of instructions from the Chief Adviser that they be enacted by the [...]	2007-12-09 09:39:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER PREL PGOV KCRM KTFN SNAR BG
07DHAKA1914	Country Team, USAID/DART, and U.S. Military Coordination [...] Summary. In response to Tropical Cyclone Sidr in southern Bangladesh, the U.S. Government (USG) organized an interagency response under the leadership of the Department of State that included contributions from USAID and the Department of Defense (DOD). USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Te [...]	2007-12-10 03:14:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA195	2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - BANGLADESH [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-05 09:03:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV OPIC KTDB USTR BG
07DHAKA1959	RESPONSE TO 2007 DOL REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON [...] SUMMARY: This cable responds to a request for information regarding child labor in Bangladesh. (REFTEL) Post is forwarding other primary sources of information by email and courier directly to the Department of Labor. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) The following sections repeat the original query f [...]	2007-12-19 09:27:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB KOCI PHUM SOCI AA BG
07DHAKA237	MEETING WITH HOME SECRETARY KARIM [...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging meeting the Charge d'Affaires a.i. and the Home Secretary discussed USG concerns over recent changes in Bangladesh's visa regime for visitors, U.S.- GOB counterterrorism cooperation, the recent wave of anti-corruption arrests, allegations of police torture, the s [...]	2007-02-12 02:33:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM BG
07DHAKA244	KHALEDA ZIA FRETS ABOUT ARRESTS [...] (C) Summary. Beleaguered ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia told Ambassador that "most" of her senior figures arrested on corruption suspicions are innocent, complained that Awami League "godfathers" of violence have avoided arrest, and reiterated that her party wants elections within six months. [...]	2007-02-12 10:13:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM BG
07DHAKA275	GOVERNMENT TAKES STEPS AGAINST LABOR TRAFFICKING, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Government officials and international organization representatives take seriously allegations of labor trafficking and migrant labor violations. The Home Ministry asked for more information on specific allegations, and agreed to follow up with the inter-ministerial anti-traffick [...]	2007-02-19 11:36:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCOR KDEM KCRM KWMN KFRD PREF ELAB BG
07DHAKA335	BANGLADESH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] This Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report covers efforts by the Bangladeshi government (GOB) from March 2006 to March 2007, and address the questions submitted to Post by G/TIP (reftel). Paragraph two begins text. Embassy point of contact is Luke Zahner, Political Officer, telephone: 880- [...]	2007-03-01 02:10:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BG
07DHAKA410	GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF [...] (U) The Caretaker Government on March 8 announced it would strictly enforce the ban on political activities until further notice, effective immediately. The announcement effectively shuttered party offices and ended the government's informal tolerance of limited political meetings and "ind [...]	2007-03-12 08:59:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA460	BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT RENEWS RIHS REGISTRATION [...] (SBU) On March 20, NGO Affairs Bureau Assistant Director A.K.M. Humanyun Kabir confirmed to us that his agency had renewed the registration of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) gave its concurrence (reftel). Kabir said that the GOB never [...]	2007-03-20 10:21:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KCRM PGOV PREL BG
07DHAKA56	MILITARY SAYS NO TO POLITICAL ROLE, [...] (C) Summary: Political factions, leading business organizations and civil society are seeking international support for military solutions to the present political crisis, creating intense pressure on the military to act. Our embassy, the British High Commission and other missions in Dhaka [...]	2007-01-11 09:25:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA57	MILITARY SAYS NO TO POLITICAL ROLE, [...] (C) Summary: Political factions, leading business organizations and civil society are seeking international support for military solutions to the present political crisis, creating intense pressure on the military to act. Our embassy, the British High Commission and other missions in Dhaka [...]	2007-01-11 09:25:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA575	ECONOMIC REFORM - THE FIRST 90 DAYS [...] (C) Economy Priority: The Caretaker Government singled out the economy as a justification for the January 11 declaration of a State of Emergency in the wake of the economic disruptions from political unrest in late 2006. While the resulting political stability is the largest factor behind r [...]	2007-04-10 03:34:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL ENRG BG
07DHAKA587	HOME SECRETARY ON JMB EXECUTIONS, KIBRIA AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary. On April 5, Deputy Chief of Mission and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Secretary Abdul Karim met to discuss issues, including the recent Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) executions, GOB changes to its visa regime, trafficking in persons, the restarting of the Kibria investigati [...]	2007-04-11 09:37:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV EAID CASC PHUM BG
07DHAKA588	HOME SECRETARY ON JMB EXECUTIONS, KIBRIA AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary. On April 5, Deputy Chief of Mission and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Secretary Abdul Karim met to discuss issues, including the recent Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) executions, GOB changes to its visa regime, trafficking in persons, the restarting of the Kibria investigati [...]	2007-04-11 09:45:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV EAID CASC PHUM BG
07DHAKA776	BANGLADESH CROSSES 100,000 BIRDS CULLED, INFECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Publicly, the GOB is claiming the H5N1 outbreak "has remained under control of the government except in a few places of the country," but as Bangladesh crosses the 100,000 birds culled mark, with ten districts reporting H5N1 infections in poultry and new infections reported week [...]	2007-05-10 08:46:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA848	USARPAC COMMANDER BROWN'S MEETING WITH BANGLADESH [...] (C) Summary. In his meetings with COAS General Moeen and other senior Bangladeshi military officers, USARPAC Commander LTG Brown stressed the importance of returning Bangladesh to democratic, elected governance as soon as possible and noted the difficulties the Thai generals have encountered by [...]	2007-05-24 07:38:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PHUM PGOV BG
07DHAKA906	CONTINUED INFLATION LEAVES PUBLIC SIMMERING [...] (C) Summary: The military-backed caretaker government continues to face popular discontent over price rises, especially for basic food commodities. Recent press reports highlight public concerns as did the Centre for Policy Dialogue in a June 2 public presentation on the state of the Bangl [...]	2007-06-04 08:07:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV BG
07DHAKA957	GOVERNMENT PROPOSES DEVELOPMENT FOCUSED BUDGET FOR [...] Summary: The Bangladesh government released a draft fiscal year 2008 (starting July 1, 2007) budget on June 7. In his budget message, Finance Advisor Mirza Islam identified seven key development and economic growth challenges and the government's plan for meeting those challenges. Agricult [...]	2007-06-14 00:00:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV BG
07DILI101	AUSSIES BRIEF ON REINADO OPERATION [...] (C) Summary: International Stabilization Forces (ISF) commander Brigadier Malcolm Rerden and Australian Ambassador to East Timor Margaret Twomey briefed Emboffs March 9, reviewing the current status of ISF operations to apprehend Major Alfredo Reinado and summarizing a meeting Rerden has just [...]	2007-03-12 08:57:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MOPS PGOV PREL TT AU NZ
07DILI106	CONTINUED SYMPATHY FOR REINADO IN WESTERN DISTRICTS [...] (C/NF) Summary: In a March 11-13 visit to East Timor's western districts Emboffs and US Defense Representative found that dissident military leader Major Alfredo Reinado retains strong backing across the region, though it remains unclear if his supporters would be willing to go beyond their cur [...]	2007-03-14 12:54:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MAAR ASEC KPKO AU TT
07DILI119	SECURITY SECTOR CONCERNS INTENSIFY [...] (C/NF) Summary: Recent decisions made by both the Government of East Timor (GOET) and the United Nations Integrated Mission to Timor-Leste (UNMIT) have possibly made the security environment in Dili more problematic in advance of national elections next month. Dili is now a city where armed [...]	2007-03-22 10:43:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MAAR ASEC KPKO AU UN TT
07DILI120	SECURITY SECTOR POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (C) Summary: As detailed in reftel, Post has become increasingly concerned regarding the direction of developments in the security sector, including both the East Timorese armed forces (F-FDTL) and the East Timorese National Police (PNTL). In light of these concerns, we have reviewed our policy [...]	2007-03-23 09:58:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MAAR ASEC KPKO UN TT
07DILI121	ELECTION POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Our overarching policy continues to be focused on supporting a credible elections process that expresses the will of the Timorese people. The UN Elections Certification Team (UNECT) continues to provide detailed analysis of the many metrics that can be measured in making this de [...]	2007-03-23 10:45:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UN TT
07DILI150	ELECTION COUNT INCOMPLETE, BUT PREPARATIONS FOR RUNOFF [...] (C) Summary: The National Election Commission (CNE) yesterday, April 12, began the national tabulation of votes for Monday's presidential election poll. According to IFES representatives working closely with the CNE on this process, there are a number of problems with the district tabulation, [...]	2007-04-13 11:14:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TT
07DILI154	EAST TIMOR STABLE THROUGHOUT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. The government of East Timor conducted its first round of presidential elections April 9 largely without a significant security incident. In fact East Timor has been remarkably calm over the past two months, aside from the occasional martial arts group fight and minor clashes b [...]	2007-04-17 10:08:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MOPS MARR PGOV PREL ASEC UN TT
07DILI173	RESISTANCE ALUMNI TURN OUT FOR CNRT'S FIRST NATIONAL [...] (U) Summary: The National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) held its first national congress April 28-30, under the slogan "The land has been liberated, it's time to liberate the people!" Delegates elected President Xanana Gusmao as the party president and Dionisio Babo Soares as its [...]	2007-05-02 14:46:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM TT
07DILI204	MANAGING PORTUGESE AND LUSOPHONE INTERESTS IN EAST TIMOR [...] (C/NF) Summary: As the international community grapples with how best to assist East Timor in re-establishing security, strengthening the public sector, and stimulating economic growth, one of the most delicate issues confronting the major players is how to manage Portuguese, Brazilian and ot [...]	2007-05-25 07:58:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID TT PO
07DILI230	FRETILIN REASSESSES, PREPARES FOR POSSIBLE OPPOSITION ROLE [...] (C) Summary: The results of East Timor's April-May 2007 presidential elections clearly demonstrated ruling party Fretilin's weakness heading into the June 30 parliamentary elections. Fretilin, which has dominated East Timor's politics since independence, was caught by surprise by the extent to [...]	2007-06-14 13:44:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TT
07DILI234	EAST TIMOR PRESIDENT RAMOS HORTA LOOKS AHEAD [...] (C) Summary. In a June 20 meeting with Charge and Poloff, East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta expressed satisfaction with the ongoing parliamentary election campaign and confidence in connection with various post-election political scenarios. He confirmed that he had requested that the Inter [...]	2007-06-21 10:04:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AS PO ID TT
07DILI239	UPDATE ON USAID/OFDA-FUNDED ACTIVITIES IN EAST TIMOR [...] USAID/OFDA Bangkok-based Regional Advisor for Asia and the Pacific (RA) traveled to East Timor June 4 - 7, 2007 to monitor ongoing USAID/OFDA-funded emergency and mitigation programs, and assess the humanitarian situation in Dili. Outbreaks of violence continue to be a part of daily life in Di [...]	2007-06-26 07:18:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID TT
07DILI241	EAST TIMOR'S OPPOSITION PARTIES PREPARE TO GOVERN [...] (SBU) Summary: With East Timor's ruling FRETILIN likely to lose its parliamentary majority following the June 30 elections, the four main opposition parties are looking at the very real possibility of being in a position to form the next government. These include: former president Xanana Gusmao [...]	2007-06-27 11:31:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TT
07DILI255	ELECTION RESULTS GIVE WAY TO RENEWED POWER STRUGGLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the announcement of the validated election results are still pending, East Timor's electorate and parties have virtually without exception already accepted the results announced at the end of the counting process on July 5. The question that all are now grappling with is [...]	2007-07-09 12:52:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TT

07DILI264	USG ENGAGEMENT WITH TAUR MATAN RUAK [...] (C) In October 2006, a UN commission of inquiry recommended that the Timor Leste judicial authorities prosecute Brigadier General Ruak, chief of the local defense force, as a result of his actions during the spring 2006 crisis. The Timor Leste prosecutors reportedly began an investigation, but [...]	2007-07-23 07:31:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MAAR ASEC KPKO UN TT
07DILI274	PRESIDENT TO ASK GUSMAO-LED COALITION TO FORM COALITION [...] (C) Summary. President Jose Ramos Horta told the ambassador on July 31 that he will ask this afternoon the CNRT-led coalition to select a prime minister as the initial step towards forming a new government. The widespread expectation is former president Xanana Gusmao will be the new prime min [...]	2007-07-31 06:33:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM TT
07DILI281	BITTER POLITICAL DIVISION WILL LIKELY HAMPER NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: President Jose Ramos-Horta on Wednesday, August 8 formally swore in the new government formed by the Alliance with a Parliamentary Majority (AMP),with former President Xanana Gusmao stepping into the role of Prime Minister. With a new government in place, the country may be able [...]	2007-08-08 12:30:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ASEC TT
07DILI285	TIMOR-LESTE'S NEW CABINET [...] (SBU) Summary: Newly appointed PM Xanana Gusmao laid out an ambitious program for the government formed by the Alliance with a Parliamentary Majority (AMP) in his August 8 inaugural speech. Effective implementation will be challenged by difficult relations with the outgoing ruling party FRETIL [...]	2007-08-13 09:39:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TT
07DILI327	PACOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL KEATING MEETS TIMOR-LESTE'S LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary. In his September 19 visit to Timor-Leste, USPACOM Commander Admiral Timothy J. Keating extended an offer to provide training and assistance appropriate to the country's security needs. PACOM, he said, would work with Timor's leaders to identify which programs and forms of train [...]	2007-09-25 09:32:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS TT
07DILI330	DRAFT UNGA RESOLUTION ON RAPE - DEMARCHE TO TIMOR-LESTE [...] (U) We met on September 28 with Joao Camara, Secretary General of Timor-Leste's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Francisco Cepeda, Director of Multilateral Affairs, to urge that Timor-Leste support our draft UNGA resolution condemning the use of rape as an instrument of state policy. Drawing o [...]	2007-09-28 12:32:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UNGA AORC KWMN TT
07DILI359	CHALLENGES IMMENSE AS GOVERNMENT PASSES THREE MONTH MARK [...] (SBU) Three months after taking office, Prime Minister Gusmao can tally several accomplishments: selecting some energetic and skilled ministers, a couple of key legislative victories and the proper identification of policy priorities all linked to resolving causes or consequences of the 2006 c [...]	2007-11-08 11:16:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV TT
07DILI379	TIMOR-LESTE: FRETILIN SETTLES INTO OPPOSITION ROLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FRETILIN's leaders remain optimistic that Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's government will be short-lived. FRETILIN is confident that it can undermine Gusmao's coalition by frustrating the realization of the government's policy objectives and highlighting its lack of governing exp [...]	2007-12-12 15:17:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV TT
07DILI7	MOUNTING CONCERN ABOUT F-FDTL BEHAVIOR [...] (C) Summary. UNMIT is seriously concerned about arrogant and undisciplined behavior by increasingly visible armed F-FDTL elements in Dili. According to the Deputy SRSG, UNMIT is submitting a formal complaint to Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta and plans to raise the issue with the UN Security [...]	2007-01-08 08:30:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO MARR ASEC UN TT
07DJIBOUTI1150	U.S. DEVELOPMENT AID IN DJIBOUTI SCORES SUCCESSES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID assistance to Djibouti over the past four years has increased food security and raised agricultural incomes in Djibouti and its neighbors. It has helped to stave off famine and is reducing the risk of fatalities due to flooding. USAID re-established its presence and prog [...]	2007-10-10 15:52:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAID DJ
07DJIBOUTI1230	DJIBOUTI STRIKES (FRANCE) BACK; TENSIONS COULD [...] (C) SUMMARY. Djiboutians made an unprecedented show of support for their president, Ismail Omar Guelleh, during a government-organized rally on October 20 with over 20,000 people thronging the streets to express an anti-French sentiment over the celebrated Borrel Affair. Anti-French songs in t [...]	2007-10-29 07:32:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL DJ
07DJIBOUTI425	EAST AFRICA REGIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVE (RSI), [...] (S) Summary: East African regional ambassadors and interagency representatives agreed to institutionalize the East African RSI by requesting dedicated, line-item FY09 regional funding for East Africa, along the lines of the Trans-Sahara Counter Terrorist Partnership. In this second RSI (th [...]	2007-04-10 13:38:00	Embassy Djibouti	SECRET	PTER PREL PINR KPAO PGOV EAID XW YM
07DJIBOUTI708	DJIBOUTI OFFICIALS SEEK U.S., NOT CHINA, FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Djibouti's Minister of Energy told Emboffs he welcomed U.S. assistance and put a high priority on partnership with the United States, rather than China or other potential partners, in the area of energy and mine development. Djibouti's geothermal energy development looks promising [...]	2007-06-20 13:16:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EMIN EINV DJ
07DOHA1009	QATAR MFA WARNED THAT VISA SUSPENSION LOOMS IF [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by P/E Chief, informed MFA Assistant Minister for Follow-up Affairs Mohamed Al-Rumaihi October 22 that November 1 would be the last day Embassy Doha could issue U.S. visas due to a shortage of visa foils, which the Embassy must receive by classified diplomati [...]	2007-10-23 15:07:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	ADCO ADPM PREL CVIS ASEC ACOA ATRN KRIM QA
07DOHA1020	QATAR GIVES ORAL ASSURANCES THAT DIPLOMATIC POUCH [...] (C/NF) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Al-Mahmoud convoked Charge October 25 to discuss delivery of U.S. diplomatic pouches (see reftel for background.) Al-Mahmoud informed Charge that following the GOQ's review of the bilateral discussions on this matter, the GOQ had taken the dec [...]	2007-10-25 14:42:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ADCO ADPM PREL CVIS ASEC ACOA ATRN KRIM QA
07DOHA1040	SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL OUTLINES QATAR'S FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C//NF) Summary: MFA Assistant Minister for Follow-up Affairs Mohamed Al-Rumaihi in an October 23 presentation to a group of recently promoted senior U.S. military officers (CAPSTONE) gave a noteworthy overview of Qatar's foreign policy and made some significant remarks about domestic policy. [...]	2007-11-04 13:42:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KDEM QA
07DOHA1042	PRIME MINISTER OFFERS "SINCERE ADVICE" ON IRAQ [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Crocker briefed Qatar's Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ) October 31 on the progress in Iraq and asked his assessment of building on this progress with the help of Arab states. HBJ said Qatar was a friend of the U.S. and wanted us to succe [...]	2007-11-05 10:03:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL PGOV MASS IZ QA
07DOHA1047	QATAR-ISRAEL COMMERCE CONTINUES QUIETLY [...] (C) The Israeli Trade Representation Office in Qatar opened in 1996 but, despite its name, focuses less on promoting trade than on facilitating political engagement, such as Shimon Peres' January 2007 visit to Qatar and various civil society interactions. (Note: See reftel for more backgroun [...]	2007-11-06 10:09:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KBCT USTR QA IS
07DOHA1071	QATARI MFA AND CENTRAL BANK VIEWS ON IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmad Al-Mahmoud told Charge November 14 that Iran's acquisition of weapons of mass destruction would be a "disaster" for Qatar, the U.S. and the region. Qatar agreed that a peaceful and diplomatic resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue was [...]	2007-11-15 09:52:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KNNP PARM EFIN IR QA
07DOHA11	SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY FORE'S JANUARY [...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you to Qatar. The Government of Qatar remains a key ally of the U.S. in the war on terror and supports a significant U.S. military presence in the country. Qatar's Amir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, took power from his father in 1995 and embarked on [...]	2007-01-03 13:44:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL AMGT PGOV ASEC CMGT QA
07DOHA1104	QATAR CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR DOWNPLAYS CURRENCY [...] (C) Qatar Central Bank Governor Sheikh Abdulla Bin Saoud Al Thani told Charge and Econoff November 25 that recent press commentary speculating on an imminent move by GCC countries' to depeg or revalue their currencies is overblown. Sheikh Abdulla said Qatar's economy had been well served by [...]	2007-11-26 10:33:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN QA
07DOHA1112	QATARIS AMBIVALENT ABOUT IRANIAN THREAT FOR NOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Qataris by and large remain ambivalent about the Iranian threat, especially with respect to Iranian intentions to acquire nuclear weapons. Key Embassy contacts paint a composite picture of Qataris' welcoming, on an emotional level, Iranian nuclear weapons capability to counter [...]	2007-11-29 06:01:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR QA
07DOHA1172	SCENESETTER FOR DECEMBER 18 GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (S) In November, Qatar's Amir told the Commander of CENTCOM, Admiral Fallon, that he wants the Qatari leadership to seek ways to deepen its military partnership with the U.S. at all levels. While a desirable goal given the considerable equities we have in our relationship with Qatar, the Amir' [...]	2007-12-12 14:19:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	MASS MARR PREL QA
07DOHA1195	QATARI MFA OFFICIAL OFFERS ADVICE ON POST-NIE [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Representative to the IAEA Ambassador Gregory Schulte briefed MFA Assistant Minister for Follow-Up Affairs Al-Rumaihi December 11 on the recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran and U.S. policy toward Tehran in the wake of it. As Qatar prepares to leave the UN Securit [...]	2007-12-17 12:25:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PNUC ETTC IAEA IR QA
07DOHA168	PUTIN VISITS DOHA BUT NO TANGIBLE RESULTS [...] (C) Summary. Russian president Vladimir Putin met with the Qatari Amir in Doha February 12. The two agreed on the need for a Middle East peace conference, the date and locale of which was undefined. The two also agreed on holding discussions on an OPEC-like organization for gas producers at th [...]	2007-02-14 14:45:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EPET UNSC RU IR QA
07DOHA201	QATAR PETROLEUM'S CONFIRMATION OF SECURITY PROCEDURES [...] Saad al-Kaabi, director of oil and gas ventures at Qatar Petroleum (QP),submitted by e-mail the following document in response to reftel. The QP document confirms, line by line, all of the security procedures noted during the January 31 videoconference between QP and U.S. energy, transportatio [...]	2007-02-22 13:12:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET ETRD ASEC QA
07DOHA206	QATARI MFA DOES NOT WANT NATO/ISAF TO BECOME A [...] (S) SUMMARY: Qatari Deputy Minister for Follow-Up Affairs Mohamad al-Rumaihi told Ambassador and DCM February 25 that U.S. personnel supporting the NATO/ISAF Afghanistan mission out of Al-Udeid Air Base are covered by the bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreement. He nevertheless complained tha [...]	2007-02-25 14:57:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	MARR NATO PGOV PTER QA XF
07DOHA271	QATAR'S LEADING BANKS SUPPORT ERO DIVERSIFICATION [...] Summary. In iscussions with senior management of Qatar's top two banks, Qatar National Bank and Doha Bank, Emboffs learned that the private sector anticipates Qatar's continued diversification away from the dollar as the country becomes more involved in the global economy. Bank officials also s [...]	2007-03-12 10:37:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON FIN QA
07DOHA339	RARE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION IN QATAR: SOLIDARITY [...] (U) The Qatari Central Municipal Council organized a "rally" the afternoon of March 28 to show solidarity with Iraq. It lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes. The event took place at a central location along the city's corniche. Participants numbered a maximum of 400 and mostly included high-school and [...]	2007-03-29 14:50:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC PREL IZ QA
07DOHA351	FOREIGN MINISTER ASSUMES PRIME MINISTERSHIP [...] (U) Qatar News Agency announced today that the Qatari Prime Minister, Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, who is the Amir's brother, has resigned. The First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ),has replaced him while retaining the foreign affairs portfolio. T [...]	2007-04-03 14:29:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL QA
07DOHA495	WADAH KHANFAR LOSES POSITION AS MEMBER OF AL [...] (C) Summary: In a long-awaited move, the Amir has appointed a new board of governors for the Al Jazeera Network (AJN). Highlights include: the retention of Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer as chairman; the replacement of Wadah Khanfar as a board member and possibly as manager of the entire AJ Network; [...]	2007-05-16 08:55:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PREL QA ALJAZEERA
07DOHA508	QATAR "FIFTY-FIFTY" ON SUPPORT FOR HARIRI TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Assistant Minister Mohamed al-Rumaihi, who holds the MFA's UN portfolio, told the Ambassador May 17 that Qatar was "fifty-fifty" on supporting the Hariri assassination tribunal. He said the tribunal was "important to approve," but then outlined reasons why Qatar believes the decision shoul [...]	2007-05-17 13:03:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER LE SY QA
07DOHA511	SCENESETTER FOR MAY 24 GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE IN [...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome the Gulf Security Dialogue delegation to Qatar. This second GSD meeting and the first in Doha will mean a lot to the Qatari leadership. It will strengthen our mil-to-mil relationship and help in our efforts to moderate the Qataris' more objectionable fore [...]	2007-05-18 12:52:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL MARR PARM IR IZ QA
07DOHA577	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR GREGORY SCHULTE'S VISIT [...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you to Qatar. This visit - your second - will mean a lot to the Qatari leadership. It will strengthen our cooperation on UN Security Council issues and help in our efforts to move Doha to take stronger positions on Iran and its nuclear activities, about w [...]	2007-06-01 10:05:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL KNNP UN IR QA
07DOHA581	QATARI-U.S. GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE MAY 24 [...] (C) Summary. State/DOD Gulf Security Dialogue delegation met with Qatari MFA, MOD, and MOI officials May 24 in Doha. The Qataris acknowledged the importance of maintaining ambiguity on whether there might be a military attack in response to Iranian plans to develop a nuclear weapon. Noting per [...]	2007-06-03 08:25:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL MARR KNNP EPET IR ASEC IZ SU LE QA
07DOHA710	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASSISTANT TO THE [...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you to Qatar. This is your third visit here, and the most senior USG visit since Secretary Gates met the Amir in January 2007. Your meetings SIPDIS can help define the tone of bilateral engagement on a range of issues over the coming 18 months, help s [...]	2007-07-05 16:25:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL PINR IZ LE QA
07DOHA871	(C) SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE'S [...] (C) Embassy Doha welcomes you on this brief stop in Qatar. You last met with Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ) in Washington in December 2006 in your capacity as DNI. In April 2007, HBJ also became Prime Minister, long an inconsequential portfolio held by the Amir's brother. D [...]	2007-08-31 10:23:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL QA
07DOHA964	QATAR WILLING TO CONSIDER SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND [...] (C) Summary: In September 18 meetings at the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank, a U.S. Treasury delegation led by DAS Saeed told the Qatari Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor that the USG remains committed to an open investment climate in the United States and invited Qatar's part [...]	2007-10-03 06:55:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV QA
07DOHA982	CODEL BOYD MEETING OCTOBER 5 WITH QATARI HEIR [...] (SBU) A congressional delegation led by Rep. Allen Boyd of Florida, and accompanied by charge, met Qatar's Heir Apparent, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, October 5 in Doha. In addition to Boyd, the Delegation included Rep. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Rep. Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland, Rep. B [...]	2007-10-10 13:01:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV QA
07DOHA983	UPDATED DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR QATAR [...] (U) Embassy Doha continues to use a combination of programmatic and diplomatic means to assist the GOQ in its efforts to build and sustain democratic institutions. In line with the Mission Strategic Plan, Post has expanded its areas of emphasis to include: promoting democratic elections, pro [...]	2007-10-10 13:23:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KMPI AMGT KDEM ECON KPAO QA
07DOHA986	QATAR NOMINATION FOR THE 2008 SECRETARY'S AWARD [...] Embassy Doha nominates Amal Abdullatif Al Mannai to receive the Secretary of State's Award for International Women of Courage for 2008. Amal Al-Mannai has been informed of her nomination and was flattered by the news. Requested information follows: Full Legal Name: Amal Abdullatif Al-Mann [...]	2007-10-11 12:35:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KPAO PREL PHUM QA
07DUBAI179	DUBAI TO DEPORT 200 WORKERS FOR ENGAGING IN VIOLENCE DURING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UAE Ministry of Labor announced that more than 200 workers would be deported for having participated in violence and instigating other workers to protest. Nearly 8000 workers, principally South Asian construction workers, had been involved in a two-day protest in which they de [...]	2007-03-14 13:21:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV PINS SOCI AE
07DUBAI355	DUBAI RULER DISCUSSES IRAN AND IRAQ WITH SENATOR LIEBERMAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-03 11:14:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS KNNP IR IZ AE
07DUBAI411	ANWAR GARGASH OUTLINES ROLE OF NEW UAE HUMAN TRAFFICKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dr. Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs (FNCA) discussed the role of UAE's new Human Trafficking Committee (HTC),which he chairs, with the Ambassador and Consul General on June 21 in Dubai. While Gargash said the UAEG was disappointed by the c [...]	2007-06-25 09:40:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI AE
07DUBAI423	MOHAMMED GERGAWI DISCUSSES MBR FOUNDATION [...] (C) Summary: UAE Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Mohammed Gergawi discussed potential areas of cooperation between the USG, U.S. educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and the Mohammad Bin Rashid Foundation (MbRF) in a 90 minute meeting with the Ambassador and Consul Gen [...]	2007-06-28 11:37:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SOCI SCUL AE
07DUBAI425	GERGAWI DISCUSSES MBR FOUNDATION FUND, [...] (C) Summary: UAE Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Mohammed Gergawi discussed potential areas of cooperation between the USG, U.S. educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and the Mohammad Bin Rashid Foundation (MbRF) in a 90 minute meeting with the Ambassador and Consul Gen [...]	2007-06-28 13:05:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI SCUL AE EAID PTER
07DUBAI491	CODEL GRAHAM MEETS WITH DUBAI EXECUTIVE OFFICE HEAD NABIL AL [...] (C) Summary: In an August 12 meeting with a CODEL led by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC),Nabil al Yousuf (Director of UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Dubai Ruler Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum's (MbR) Executive Office) outlined elements of Dubai's strategic plan and highlighted recent gro [...]	2007-08-19 14:25:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON OREP IN AE
07DUBAI570	PHILIPPINES TRAFFICKING CONCERNS IN DUBAI -- ABUSED VISITOR [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Philippine Labor Attache Virginia Calvez (September 11),Acting Consul General Maria Louella Duarte and Consular Officer Rafael Palencia, Jr. (September 18),Pol/EconOff discussed trafficking in persons concerns. While they claim that trafficking with l [...]	2007-09-30 19:08:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN RP AE
07DUBAI59	UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' JANUARY 23 MEETING WITH UAE VICE [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-28 08:12:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS MARR AE IR IS LE
07DUBAI661	TREASURY PDAS SAEED DISCUSSES SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS WITH [...] (C) Summary. Department of the Treasury Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Ahmed Saeed met with senior executives from the Dubai-based Sovereign Wealth funds (SWFs) and financial institutions including Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (DIFC),Dubai International Capital, Dubai [...]	2007-12-09 12:36:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV TC AE
07DUBAI88	U/S BURNS SPEAKS ON GULF SECURITY AT DUBAI THINK TANK [...] Summary. Under Secretary Nicholas Burns spoke to an audience of roughly 100 local officials, academics, and journalists at the independent Dubai-based think tank, the Gulf Research Center (GRC) January 23, after which he took questions from the audience. Burns discussed how the US views the c [...]	2007-02-06 13:12:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV OPRC MARR AE IR IS LE
07DUBLIN171	IRELAND - SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Ireland's awareness of and positive performance on trafficking in persons (TIP) issues increased significantly in 2006, while the overall estimated number of suspected trafficking victims remained small. Numerous public awareness campaigns, sponsored by the Government and NGOs [...]	2007-03-02 08:39:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAP EI
07DUBLIN191	SCENE-SETTER FOR PRIME MINISTER BERTIE AHERN'S ST. [...] (SBU) An imminent, potentially historic opportunity to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly sets the political backdrop for this year's St. Patrick's Day visit to Washington by Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach, "TEE-shuck") Bertie Ahern. Building on the 2006 UK/Irish-brokered talks among the [...]	2007-03-08 17:04:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV EAIR MOPPS MARR IE
07DUBLIN286	SCENE-SETTER FOR THE APRIL 19-20 VISIT OF EUR PDAS [...] (SBU) Embassy Dublin eagerly anticipates your visit and the opportunity to join your discussions with ranking Irish Government officials and others on the full range of bilateral and U.S.-EU issues. Your visit comes at an historic moment in U.S.-Irish relations, with the scheduled restoratio [...]	2007-04-13 16:37:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER MOPPS MARR ECON SENV EI
07DUBLIN30	IRELAND FOLLOWS IRAQ POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT WITH AID [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-12 16:52:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ EI
07DUBLIN532	IRELAND TO CONSIDER DARFUR HYBRID OPERATION [...] (SBU) Ireland will discuss the possibility of contributing personnel to the UN/AU Hybrid Operation for Darfur at a July 19 inter-agency meeting involving the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Irish Police, according to Eamonn Mc [...]	2007-07-03 13:48:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO UNSC MASS SU EI
07DUBLIN565	IRISH SEE NEED FOR ACTION, BUT PREFER DIALOGUE [...] (C) POLOFF delivered Ref B demarche on July 19, 2007 to Pat Kelly, European Corespondent, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Kelly indicated that the Irish Government largely sees eye to eye with U.S. positions, with the exception that, in general, the Irish prefer to continue political di [...]	2007-07-20 09:11:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL ENRG ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL SOCI EI
07DUBLIN70	IRELAND DOES NOT OFFER EXPORT CREDIT SCHEMES TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-25 18:40:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EFIN MNUC EXIM UNSC OECD IR EI
07DUBLIN737	IRISH RESPONSE TO THE 2007 IRFR AND OTHER [...] (SBU) POLOFFS delivered the 2007 International Religious Freedom Report (IRFR) to John Kennedy, Principal Officer, Office of the Secretary General, Department of the Taoiseach on September 18. Kennedy expressed concern regarding the focus on anti-Semitism in the 2007 IRFR. He said that many of [...]	2007-09-20 16:16:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF KPAO OPRC PGOV PHUM EI
07DUBLIN748	SCENESETTER FOR FOREIGN MINISTER DERMOT AHERN'S [...] (SBU) The twin political successes of restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly (May 8, 2007) and the re-election of the Fianna Fail party into power (May 24, 2007) will be the backdrop to Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern's meeting with the Secretary on October 3. The Government of Ireland has [...]	2007-09-27 12:36:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV MOPPS MARR EI
07DUBLIN759	IRELAND ON U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON "CONDEMNING [...] (SBU) On September 28, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Gavan O'Leary, Deputy Director, Human Rights Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs. O'Leary said that Ireland is supportive of any initiative to improve womens' rights and mentioned that in general, Ireland would be supportive of legisla [...]	2007-10-01 16:08:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EI KWMN PHUM SOCI UNGA
07DUBLIN796	IRELAND AGREES WITH USG ON UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel to Ruaidhri Dowling, Deputy Director of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on October 16, 2007. Dowling responded that the Irish Government largely agrees with the US on Uzbekistan and that Ireland is taking a "princi [...]	2007-10-17 09:04:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EI PHUM PREL
07DUBLIN817	EEB A/S SULLIVAN'S VISIT TO IRELAND [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 5, Daniel Sullivan, Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs met with SIPDIS Irish government officials, members of the NGO community, and the AmCham to discuss the making of the Celtic Tiger, the economic path forward for Ireland, and assistan [...]	2007-10-25 15:24:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EAID ECON EINV EI
07DUBLIN822	IRELAND'S POSITION ON UNGA'S THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Poloffs met with Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director of the Human Rights Unit, Gavan O'Leary, on October 26, 2007 regarding reftel on the Third Committee. No Action Motions ----------------- 2. (SBU) In regards to the "no action" motions, O'Leary said that the Euro [...]	2007-10-30 07:18:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KTIA UN EI
07DUBLIN828	IRISH VIEWS ON HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION ON CUBA [...] (SBU) Poloffs met with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Human Rights Gavan O'Leary on September 26 to encourage Ireland to promote democratic transition in Cuba. O'Leary noted the suggestions and promised to discuss the points with his Human Rights and Americas Desk [...]	2007-10-31 13:37:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PHUM EI
07DUBLIN849	IRELAND'S 2008 LISBON REFORM TREATY REFERENDUM: [...] (SBU) Ireland's unique position as the only European Union (EU) member state compelled to hold a national referendum on the recently agreed Lisbon Reform Treaty puts great pressure on the Irish Government to secure a strong positive vote for the Treaty. The public and most political parties r [...]	2007-11-15 12:46:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN EI
07DUBLIN851	IRISH VIEWS ON THE NOVEMBER 19-20 FOREIGN [...] (C) POLOFFs delivered demarches (Refs A and B) on November 16, 2007 to Pat Kelly, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Ireland is disappointed in the continued intransigence of Iran and is steadily moving toward endorsement of sanctions within an EU or UN framework. [...]	2007-11-16 16:48:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	IS PREL PGOV KNNP MNUC IAEA IR PARM AORC EI
07DUBLIN862	IRISH RESPONSE -- DEMARCHES ON BIOTECH ISSUES [...] (U) Summary: The Irish government recognizes the scientific basis of USG biotech positions and recently agreed that the importation of genetically modified (GM) animal feed is acceptable under its GM-Free Ireland policy. The debate over whether the government will approve the growing of GM p [...]	2007-11-26 12:25:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD EUN TBIO EI
07DUBLIN876	IRELAND FACING NEW IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION [...] (U) The surge in immigration to Ireland during the past decade has presented the Republic with economic opportunities as well as social challenges. Foreign nationals now constitute upwards of 15 percent of Ireland's inhabitants, compared to 10 percent in the U.S. Ireland has used the immigra [...]	2007-11-30 12:24:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SMIG PGOV PREL KHLS EI
07DUBLIN888	SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S TRIP TO IRELAND [...] (C) Summary: During his November 28 ) December 2 trip to Ireland, Secretary for Homeland Security Michael Chertoff met with Irish Transport Minister Noel Dempsey and Defence Minister Willie O'Dea together and later with Justice Minister Brian Lenihan to discuss DHS's proposal to move to full p [...]	2007-12-10 07:23:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON EI
07DUBLIN905	IRISH ANTICIPATE SERIOUS EU ACTION ON IRAN IN [...] (U) POLOFF delivered policy guidelines on the Iran NIE (reftel) on December 13 to Michael Gaffey, Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Department of Foreign Affairs. Gaffey took the points on board, saying that Ireland fully agrees that unified international pressure must be main [...]	2007-12-14 15:06:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP MNUC PARM EI
07DUBLIN907	SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: A NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR [...] (U) Summary: Ireland is moving quickly to increase its use of renewable energy and position its business sector to take advantage of the boom in green technology. Rising dependence on foreign sources of energy, EU environmental obligations, and growing energy costs that threaten to diminish Ir [...]	2007-12-14 16:04:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON EI
07DUBLIN916	TOUR D'HORIZON WITH IRISH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Ambassador Foley met with Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern on December 19 to discuss a wide range of issues. In recent days, Ahern has tamped down the public reaction to a report of the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) on extraordinary renditions. Ahern indicated that the 3500-stron [...]	2007-12-20 15:46:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECIN PBTS EAIR ECON PKFK EUN
07DUBLIN919	DELIVERY OF DRAFT U.S.-IRELAND PRECLEARANCE AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Per Ref A, on December 18, 2007, Post delivered a hard copy of the draft U.S.-Ireland Agreement on Air Transport Preclearance to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs under cover of a diplomatic note. The texts of the diplomatic note and draft agreement follow. 2. (SBU) Departmen [...]	2007-12-27 16:35:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV PREL EI
07DUSHANBE1030	TAJIKISTAN A DECADE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR [...] (SBU) Ten years after peace accords ended the 1992-1997 civil war, President Emomali Rahmon has taken a great deal of credit for pulling Tajikistan out of conflict and setting it on a path which he claims could be a model for other post-conflict societies. At a June 25-26 conference commemor [...]	2007-07-06 07:26:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EAID SNAR TI
07DUSHANBE1051	NEW TV STATION AIRS AS MEDIA ENVIRONMENT CONTINUES TO [...] (U) Tajikistan's new "Simoi Mustaqili Tojikiston" or "Independent Television of Tajikistan" is a mysterious private television company which started broadcasting in June 2007. The station reportedly broadcasts to Dushanbe and surrounding areas daily for two hours in the morning and for six h [...]	2007-07-10 07:55:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE1080	OSCE IN DUSHANBE: BORDER MANAGEMENT AND MANDATE ISSUES [...] ( C) Summary: OSCE Head of Center Pryakhin told Ambassador that the Tajik government had approved only one our its four proposed border management programs -- creation of a comprehensive border management strategy -- and deferred the other proposals for further study after the strategy is c [...]	2007-07-18 12:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID SNAR TI AF OSCE
07DUSHANBE1092	VAKHDAT: IN THE SHADOW OF THE CAPITAL [...] Summary: During a July 20 visit to Vakhdat city, just twenty kilometers outside Dushanbe, the mayor and first deputy chairman underscored their district's need for macro-level economic assistance, while representatives of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) revealed a greater [...]	2007-07-24 13:02:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON EAID TI
07DUSHANBE1149	PUTTING THE BRAKES ON TAJIKISTAN'S BACKSLIDING [...] (C) Summary: By comparison to some of its neighbors in Central Asia, Tajikistan does not stand out as particularly authoritarian, corrupt or incompetent. Yet even in this context, where the bar has been lowered considerably in terms of good governance, the Tajik government's policies and re [...]	2007-08-10 12:41:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV EAID KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE124	2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Following is our submission per the referenced telegram for the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Tajikistan. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- TAJIKISTAN Tajikistan presents selected opportunities for savvy investors who are willing to put in si [...]	2007-01-19 12:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR TI
07DUSHANBE125	2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Following is our submission per the referenced telegram for the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Tajikistan. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- TAJIKISTAN Tajikistan presents selected opportunities for savvy investors who are willing to put in si [...]	2007-01-19 13:28:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR TI
07DUSHANBE1253	BRIDGE OPENING SPURS DISCUSSION OF FURTHER COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: "This new bridge is as important for us as oxygen," Tajik President Emomali Rahmon told Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who led the U.S. presidential delegation to the opening of the new U.S.-funded bridge linking Tajikistan and Afghanistan across the Pyanj River. Rahmon [...]	2007-09-04 03:57:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID ECIN ELTN TI AF
07DUSHANBE1255	TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE OPENS IN STYLE [...] (U) On August 26, after 19 months of construction led by the Afghan Engineering Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, $37 million in U.S. funding, 19,100 cubic meters of concrete, and countless demarches and interventions by the Embassy to secure building materials and licenses, Tajik [...]	2007-09-04 11:04:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON EAID ECIN ELTN TI AF
07DUSHANBE1285	TAJIK COMPLACENCY WORRIES INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND [...] Summary. The Tajik government's relaxation of monetary and fiscal policy worried International Monetary Fund Mission Chief Carlos Pinerua at a quarterly briefing for donors on the Tajik economy Sept 4. Locally, the real estate, construction, and consumer markets continue to expand rapidly. [...]	2007-09-07 15:38:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE135	INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING BUREAU LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY. The International Broadcasting Bureau's Jim Lambert briefed Minister of Transportation and Communications Abdurahim Ashurov January 23 on the history of its broadcasts and transmissions from Tajikistan and proposed that the United States and Tajikistan negotiate and sign a bilate [...]	2007-01-26 13:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ABLD ECPS OIIP PGOV PREL KPAO TI
07DUSHANBE1421	TAJIKISTAN LEANING TOWARD SUPPORTING RESOLUTION CONDEMNING [...] (U) On 26 September 2007, PolOff raised the issue of supporting the draft resolution condemning the use of rape as an instrument of state policy (reftel) with Ismatullo Nasreddinov, Chief of the Department of European and North American Affairs at the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On 3 O [...]	2007-10-05 05:12:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM AORC SOCI KWMN UNGA TI
07DUSHANBE1437	RAHMON SHOWS OFF DUSHANBE FOR THE CIS SUMMIT; DUSHANBE [...] (U) Summary: The Summits of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Economic Cooperation Organization, and Collective Security Treaty Organization, held October 5-7, brought Dushanbe to a standstill, disrupting communications and commerce, and costing a fortune. The Government of Taji [...]	2007-10-10 13:55:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1516	SETTING THE SCENE FOR COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND'S 1 [...] (C) Executive Summary. Embassy Dushanbe looks forward to your upcoming visit to Tajikistan. Besides the opening of the bridge between Afghanistan and Tajikistan in August, little has changed since your introductory meeting with President Rahmon in June. As this is your second visit, you will [...]	2007-10-19 13:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET	PREL PGOV MASS MCAP OVIP TI AF
07DUSHANBE1531	GOVERNMENT OF TAJIKISTAN OUTLAWS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (SBU) Summary: In line with its increasingly restrictive controls on religious practice, the Government of Tajikistan has banned the Jehovah's Witnesses from activities in the country. Representatives of the organization have told us that they will appeal the government's decision, and that the [...]	2007-10-26 05:43:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL TI KIRF
07DUSHANBE1584	A LOOMING COTTON CRISIS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: International banks have begun calling in part of their $360 million in agricultural loans to Tajikistan, which lacks the ability to pay, threatening a liquidity crisis in the banking sector here. Behind the scenes of this week's Sixth Ministerial Conference of the Central Asi [...]	2007-11-02 17:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EAGR ECON PGOV PREL EINV ETRD TI
07DUSHANBE1589	WEEKEND UPDATE ON TAJIK LIQUIDITY CRISIS [...] (U) This report provides an update to reftel concerning the cotton sector finance crisis in Tajikistan. President Rahmon Reacts to Donor Demands --------------------------------------------- ------------ 2. (C) According to Annette Dixon of the World Bank and Juan Miranda of the Asian [...]	2007-11-05 13:15:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EAGR ECON PGOV PREL EINV ETRD TI
07DUSHANBE1598	MINISTER OF EDUCATION DECLARES UNPOPULAR PUBLIC SERVICE [...] Summary: PAO and CAO met with Minister of Education Abdujabbor Rahmonov November 5 to coordinate cooperation between the Embassy and the Ministry. Rahmonov was extremely defensive regarding the headscarf ban in schools and demanded at length that the United States open a university in Tajiki [...]	2007-11-08 11:52:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KPAO TI
07DUSHANBE1599	DEMARCHE ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: A discussion with the Foreign Ministry regarding the Jehovah's Witnesses and the National Democratic Institute produced a little sympathy but no breakthroughs from the Ministry, and highlighted the need for more personal diplomacy at all levels to educate the Tajik Government ab [...]	2007-11-09 07:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1612	MCC DEMARCHE - TAJIKS STILL MISSING THE POINT [...] (U) Summary. EmbOffs delivered the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard to a variety of Tajik officials, who roundly ignored its implications and instead attacked the legitimacy and methodology behind the indicators. Kyrgyzstan's pending Threshold Program caught the attention of se [...]	2007-11-14 04:21:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC TI
07DUSHANBE1680	ALL THE KING'S MEN [...] (C) Summary: One year after President Rahmon's re-election, Tajiks from the Kulyob region hold approximately two-thirds of the top positions in government. While this consolidation of power has been ongoing for several years, some in President Rahmon's party have started to question whether hi [...]	2007-11-23 12:16:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1684	THE LOW-DOWN ON TAJIKISTAN'S LAW ON RELIGION [...] (SBU) Summary: Tajikistan's draft law on religion does not appear to be on the fast track any longer. Government officials will revise the current draft, and it is unlikely that the proposed law will not be considered by parliament until next year. While future drafts may take into account so [...]	2007-11-23 13:09:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1689	PRESS TV: IRAN'S PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ENTERS GLOBAL STAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Iran's 24-hour satellite English language news station, Press TV, began operations in July 2007. It has moved quickly to establish itself through widely dispersed correspondents, a large staff in Tehran and London, aggressive recruitment of guests, and generally high quality con [...]	2007-11-26 08:28:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL IR
07DUSHANBE1717	DRYING OUT IN DUSHANBE [...] (SBU) Summary: An October decree by Uzbek President Karimov governing the transit of alcohol and tobacco products has created a beer shortage in Tajikistan. Tajikistan is highly reliant on Uzbek roads and rail lines to import products from Russia, and Uzbekistan has generally allowed goods to [...]	2007-11-30 03:26:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PGOV ECON ELTN TI
07DUSHANBE1724	NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Tajikistan, while concerned about Iran's nuclear programs, is unlikely to publicly support calls for Iran to stop Uranium enrichment. Iranian investment and business ties are more important to Tajikistan, and the Government of Tajikistan will not jeopardize them [...]	2007-12-04 12:42:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IR TI
07DUSHANBE199	FLOOD SHUTS DOWN TAJIKISTAN'S PAMIR I POWER STATION [...] (SBU) Pamir Energy, the Aga Khan-supported energy company that serves Tajikistan's remote Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, suffered a major disruption February 5 when the powerhouse at Pamir I hydro power station flooded, causing local employees to shut down the 28 MW station (and run for t [...]	2007-02-06 11:56:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EAID ENRG TI

07DUSHANBE238	IMPROVING CONSUMER CONFIDENCE IN THE TAJIK BANKING SECTOR [...] Summary. The Tajik banking sector continues to develop rapidly, with over 35 percent growth since 2005. However, consumer confidence in the banking system remains weak, resulting in an extremely low deposit rate and little money available to feed economic investment. Tajikistan's top banker [...]	2007-02-12 11:42:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EIND EAID ETRD PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE239	DONORS TRY TO SPELL RELIEF IN TAJIKISTAN'S COTTON SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: World Bank-contracted agricultural economist Garry Christensen outlined a new World Bank approach to resolving Tajikistan's $300 million cotton debt crisis -- an approach which could anger many farmers, but could garner the support of the Tajik government and investors. Infig [...]	2007-02-13 11:45:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EAID PGOV PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE256	TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE OPENING COULD HELP HIGHLIGHT SUCCESS IN [...] (C) The U.S.-funded bridge between Tajikistan and Afghanistan serves as the most visible symbol of our efforts to link South and Central Asia and establish lasting trade and transportation ties between the two regions. In Tajikistan, where the Chinese, Russians and Iranians have all donated [...]	2007-02-16 12:42:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID TI AF
07DUSHANBE314	FEBRUARY 2007 BORDER WRAP-UP REPORT [...] (SBU) An interagency Department of State and Defense team conducted a demining policy assessment visit February 5-7. The purpose of the trip was to obtain an initial assessment of the landmine problem, and make recommendations to the PCC sub-group regarding the viability of allocating resourc [...]	2007-03-05 04:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINR SNAR TI AF
07DUSHANBE430	TELECOM IN TAJIKISTAN: SCENE-SETTER FOR USTDA CONFERENCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While Tajikistan's presence at the upcoming US Trade and Development Agency Telecommmunications Conference in Almaty will be thin, the vibrant and competitive Tajik telecom sector continues to attract both consumers and foreign investment. Nine major companies serve approximat [...]	2007-03-28 11:35:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND EINV ETRD PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE433	NDI IN TAJIKISTAN: A GLIMMER OF HOPE? [...] (C) Summary: After getting the cold shoulder from the Ministry of Justice, National Democratic Institute (NDI) received an encouraging sign from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deputy Foreign Minister Saidmuddin Yatimov suggested that a visa for National Democratic Institute Tajikistan Di [...]	2007-03-29 11:50:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE512	HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN U.S. POLICIES AT A TAJIK-RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite several swipes by Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov at the United States, participants in a conference on Tajik-Russian relations showed sincere interest in U.S. policy goals. While the March 28-29 conference on "Russian and Central Asia and the Conditions of Geop [...]	2007-04-05 03:26:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON KPAO TI RS
07DUSHANBE517	TAJIK ISLAMIC LEADER POINTS OUT WEAKNESSES IN CENTRAL ASIA [...] (U) Summary: At an April 5 conference on "Kazakhstan's Role and Place in Central Asia" participants took a few gentle stabs at the United States, particularly over the security situation in Afghanistan but otherwise remained neutral. Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) leader Muhi [...]	2007-04-06 11:04:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI KZ
07DUSHANBE525	TAJIKISTAN AT THE CROSSROADS [...] (SBU) Five months after the presidential election secured President Rahmonov a third seven-year term, Tajikistan seems to have stalled on the road of reform. Throughout 2006, Rahmonov assured international visitors and his public alike that "after the election," new blood and new ideas would [...]	2007-04-09 07:20:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EAID TI
07DUSHANBE584	HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN U.S. POLICIES AT A TAJIK-RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite several swipes by Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov at the United States, participants in a conference on Tajik-Russian relations showed sincere interest in U.S. policy goals. While the March 28-29 conference on "Russian and Central Asia and the Conditions of Geop [...]	2007-04-18 05:38:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON KPAO TI RS
07DUSHANBE591	CONFERENCE ON U.S.-TAJIK RELATIONS ALLOWS PRAISE AND CRITICISM OF US ROLE IN REGION [...] Summary and Comment: The April 13th conference "15 Years of U.S.-Tajik Relations" offered few surprises in terms of opinions or positions, but did provide an open forum for real debate and discourse about the U.S. role and policy in Tajikistan and the region. Some Tajik government officials pr [...]	2007-04-19 07:01:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PINR TI AF SNAR
07DUSHANBE622	TAJIKISTAN GOVERNMENT TO STUDENTS: NO MINISKIRTS OR HIJABS [...] SUMMARY: First it was gold teeth, then it was graduation parties and students driving to school, now girls in Tajikistan are fraught over the fact they will no longer be allowed to wear jewelry or miniskirts to school. In remarks to the press, President Rahmon said that students at public sc [...]	2007-04-24 09:22:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE762	TAJIKS SUPPORT FIBER OPTICS CONFERENCE, BUT WANT "EQUAL [...] (SBU) Tajikistan supports the idea of a U.S.-organized conference on regional fiber optic projects (reftel),but Minister of Transportation and Communications Adburahim Ashurov expressed greater interest in more international assistance to support the state-owned operator Tojiktelecom. Ashuro [...]	2007-05-24 12:25:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECIN EFIN ECPS EINV ETRD EAID KG TI
07DUSHANBE783	TAJIKISTAN MUST COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL NORMS TO SUCCEED [...] (SBU) Summary. Tajikistan needs to take steps to sign and abide by international standard agreements if it wants to develop its electricity sector through exports to Afghanistan and beyond. In a series of meetings with top energy and economic officials May 28, Senior Advisor for Regional Eco [...]	2007-06-01 05:31:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID TI AF
07DUSHANBE786	PERSIAN POWER: TAJIKISTAN'S DEVELOPING TIES WITH IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tajikistan has characterized its ties with Iran as purely economic, but growing political, military and diplomatic relations indicate that more than investment and trade is bringing the two countries closer together. In the last eighteen months, Tajik President Rahmon and Irania [...]	2007-06-01 13:11:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID TI AF IR
07DUSHANBE803	TAJIK PRESIDENT TRYING TO SPOIL THE PARTY-OR AT LEAST [...] (U) Summary: In an effort to help Tajiks better manage their personal finances, President Emomali Rahmon has proposed a draft "Law on Observing National Traditions and Rituals" to regulate wedding and funeral ceremonies and avoid citizens overspending on lavish events. The law limits the num [...]	2007-06-06 07:44:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE886	SETTING THE SCENE FOR COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND'S JUNE [...] (C) Executive Summary. Embassy Dushanbe welcomes you on your first trip to Tajikistan. This will be an important step in forging personal relationships with key Tajik leaders. We enjoy friendly relations with this small but strategic country on the Afghan border. In addition to DoD and CENT [...]	2007-06-13 09:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON EAID TI
07DUSHANBE894	DONOR DISAGREEMENT ON TAJIK COTTON SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Fissures within the donor community threaten to derail efforts to resolve Tajikistan's $400 million cotton debt. The Asian Development Bank favors a donor bailout of the cotton sector, in order to save industry investors and prevent a potentially fatal breakdown of the nascen [...]	2007-06-14 14:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EFIN ECON EAID PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE969	EXTENDED MEETING WITH PRESIDENT RAHMON DOMINATES CENTCOM [...] (C) Summary. In an unexpectedly long meeting with the Tajik President, which dominated Admiral Fallon's visit June 19, Emomali Rahmon hailed U.S.-Tajik relations as one of the first priorities in Tajik foreign policy and stated that Tajikistan is interested in further development of these rela [...]	2007-06-28 11:25:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MASS PGOV TI AF IR
07DUSSELDORF33	THE SPD AFTER ITS HAMBURG CONVENTION: THE VIEW FROM NRW [...] (SBU) Summary: In the weeks following the national convention in Hamburg, senior NRW SPD leaders are projecting a renewed sense of confidence as the state party retained its major national role and emerged more unified after a period of internal dissonance. State SPD chair Hannelore Kraft spu [...]	2007-11-27 08:11:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV GM
07DUSSELDORF4	NRW MINISTER-PRESIDENT RUETTGERS TO WASHINGTON: MAKING NRW A [...] (SBU) Summary: North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Minister-President Juergen Ruettgers will travel to Washington DC, Pittsburgh, and New York City February 12-17 to follow-up on his 2006 trip to the U.S. His primary goals there are to make and renew political contacts and to expand cooperation on [...]	2007-02-08 12:15:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON ENRG ELAB GM
07DUSSELDORF6	CDU NRW MINISTER PRESIDENT RUETTGERS PLEASED WITH US VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Minister-President Juergen Ruettgers told the CG his recent visit was "very successful." His second trip in 12 months, he signed an agreement on energy and environmental cooperation with Pennsylvania. He was pleased with his meetings with Senators [...]	2007-03-01 11:06:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV ECON PGOV GM
07EFTOATHENS373	YEAR 2007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: GREECE [...] Summary. 2006 was a year of strong effort by the GoG on IPR. Responding to the IPR action plan delivered in March as a result of the 2006 Special 301 process, the GoG stepped up cooperation with local IPR representatives, created special working groups to discuss IPR problems and coordinate [...]	2007-02-22 05:30:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR GR
07EFTOBUENOSAIRES1049	NEW AGREEMENT PUTS BEEF BACK IN MARKETS - FOR NOW [...] (SBU/NF) To counter increasing shortages of beef products in Argentina, Economy Minister Felisa Miceli and Argentine beef producers agreed May 9 to raise wholesale beef prices by approximately 12% on average. The agreement affects prices for cattle sold at the main beef wholesale market in Arg [...]	2007-05-24 22:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR AR
07EFTORABAT521	PM ADVISOR CATEGORICALLY REJECTS TAX CONCESSIONS [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: In a meeting to follow up on the Ambassador's February 7 meeting with Prime Minister Jettou on our desire to conclude a school tax agreement governing U.S. schools in Morocco, the Prime Minister's Finance Advisor Abderrezak Lazrak reiterated the Government of Morocco's desire [...]	2007-03-23 14:05:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AMGT ASCH PGOV EFIN SCUL MA
07EFTOSANAA588	HELPING ROYG COPE WITH SOMALI REFUGEES AND AN [...] (U) This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph four. 2. (U/NF) In mid-March, UN Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees Erika Feller visited Yemen to underscore the need for additional resources to cope with the continuing influx of refugees from the Horn of Afri [...]	2007-04-07 11:28:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF YM
07FRANKFURT1245	MEETING WITH DRESDNER BANK ON SUSPECTED DPRK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post called the attention of Dresdner Bank to information that it may have facilitated (intentionally or not) a transaction for OFAC-designated Tanchon Commercial Bank. Dresdner representatives promised to look into the report and asked for more information (ACTION REQUEST IN PAR [...]	2007-03-14 16:01:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN ETTC GM
07FRANKFURT171	NATIONAL FDP MEETS IN STUTTGART, SEEKS TO REPRESENT "THE [...] SUMMARY: At this year's annual "Three Kings" gathering of the national Free Democratic Party (FDP) on January 6 in Stuttgart, party leader Guido Westerwelle used the occasion to stake out a middle-of-the-road course for his party -- seeking to change the reputation of the FDP as a party for th [...]	2007-01-12 12:10:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV GM
07FRANKFURT3022	Hesse State Election Preview: SPD Gaining Ground? [...] SUMMARY. Six months before Hesse state elections (January 2008),both major parties have presented their economic programs. Following an ambitious program from Social Democratic challenger Andrea Ypsilanti, Hesse Minister President Koch has presented a slightly populist program which is light [...]	2007-06-26 08:12:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR TBIO GM
07FRANKFURT3043	States, Industry Still Pin Hopes on Galileo Project [...] SUMMARY: The EU's Galileo positioning/navigation/timing (PNT) project, despite its well-publicized woes (reftels),remains a beacon to state officials and industry/research in southwestern Germany,, home to ESA/European Space Agency's "Houston" (the Darmstadt control center) and much high-tech [...]	2007-06-26 13:21:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA SENV KTIA SPCE GM
07FRANKFURT3223	Kurt Beck: Profile of a Pragmatic Social Democrat [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Social Democratic/SPD national chairman and Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President Kurt Beck rose to power as a centrist leader combining political bridge-building with charm appeal to a working-class and often rural base. Having achieved prominence via hard work and charisma rathe [...]	2007-07-09 10:42:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
07FRANKFURT531	Naturalized Islamic Fundamentalists: Hesse Court Reverses [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 18, the Hesse Administrative Court in Kassel ruled in favor of four naturalized Germans of Turkish origin after the state stripped their citizenship for not having reported being members in the fundamentalist Islamic group Milli Goerus (IGMG). Striking down an earlier f [...]	2007-02-05 15:31:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SCUL KISL GM
07FRANKFURT671	Social Democratic Leader on Trans-Atlantic Relations, U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 1, national SPD Chairman and Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President Kurt Beck spoke with the Consul General at the state chancellery in Mainz, praising trans-Atlantic relations, raising concerns about military stationing issues, and offering his take on goals for the Germ [...]	2007-02-12 14:14:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR GM
07FRANKFURT731	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS BUNDESBANK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt met February 12 with Bundesbank President Axel Weber to review the state of Germany's economy, financial market regulation, and key transatlantic economic issues. D/S Kimmitt and Weber agreed on the need for open investment regimes [...]	2007-02-15 11:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD GM
07FRANKFURT782	LEADING GERMAN HUMAN RIGHTS NGO SEEKING USG [...] (U) This is an action cable (action request in paragraph 9). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Conservative German human rights NGO "International Society for Human Rights" (IGFM/ISHR) would like to partner informally with the USG and U.S. organizations on Iran, North Korea, and persecuted Christians. The [...]	2007-02-16 13:57:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PREL GM IR KN CU CH
07FREETOWN12	SIERRA LEONE: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Per reftel instructions, Post submits the following update to its 2005 Worst Forms of Child Labor report. 2. Background: Child labor is prevalent in Sierra Leone. Many children are employed in family businesses, subsistence farming, street trading, and domestic work. Within the country, [...]	2007-01-05 12:43:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID SL
07FREETOWN333	SIERRA LEONE: VIEWS ON UNICEF COUNTRY PROGRAM [...] In response to reftel, post generally agrees with the UNICEF draft country program document for Sierra Leone. Post has a positive working relationship with UNICEF. Post recommends UNICEF include additional information on the Trafficking in Persons Project within its Sierra Leone Child Protecti [...]	2007-05-29 14:44:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PREL SL
07FREETOWN355	PARAMOUNT HELICOPTER CRASHES KILLING TOGOLESE MINISTER [...] On the evening of June 3, a helicopter operated by Paramount Airlines crashed while attempting to land at Lungi International Airport killing a reported 21 people, including Togo's Minister of Sport. News reports state most victims were members of a Togolese delegation attending a soccer match [...]	2007-06-04 13:26:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ATRN EAIR CASC SL
07FREETOWN422	SIERRA LEONE: EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL [...] PolOff spoke with representatives from the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL),UNHCR, UNICEF, and the United Nations Integrated Office for Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) concerning UN efforts to combat Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) and Trafficking in Persons (TIP) by UN peacekeepers and civili [...]	2007-07-16 10:17:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UN KPKO SL
07FREETOWN459	FREETOWN GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RACHEL M. [...] Freetown welcomes the visit and grants country clearance for political officers, Rachel M. Conway, Cheryl O. Igiri, and Leslie A. Payne to travel from August 09 through August 13, 2007 for consultations with embassy officials. Visitors are urged to read the entire contents of this telegram, a [...]	2007-07-30 18:33:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA LI IV SL
07FREETOWN46	IRAQ: GUIDANCE ON PRESIDENT'S POLICY ADDRESS [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-18 18:05:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN508	NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION ANNOUNCES CERTIFIED [...] (U) On August 25, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) released the official certified results of the August 11 Presidential and Parliamentary elections (Ref A). Presiding at a news conference at the NEC Media Center located at the British Council, NEC Chairperson Dr. Christiana Thorpe anno [...]	2007-08-27 15:33:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM SL
07FREETOWN542	POLITICAL PARTIES COMMIT TO PEACEFUL SIERRA LEONE [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-06 11:39:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SL
07FREETOWN573	IT'S OFFICIAL: ERNEST KOROMA SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT [...] (U) At 1700 GMT on September 17, Ernest Bai Koroma was officially sworn in as the President of Sierra Leone at the State House in Freetown. Outgoing President Kabbah, Vice President (and unsuccessful SLPP Presidential candidate) Solomon Berewa, and Foreign Minister (and SLPP Vice Presidential [...]	2007-09-18 17:34:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR SL
07FREETOWN58	SIERRA LEONE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT [...] The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) Ministry of Trade and Industry is actively working to increase trade and investment. 2. Investment Laws: A new Investment Code went into effect in 2005. It is designed to put Sierra Leone at par with western countries concerning the protection of compa [...]	2007-01-24 17:46:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV KTBD OPIC EFIN USTR ETRD SL
07FREETOWN607	RUTILE AND BAUXITE PRODUCTION: A BOOST FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] (U) SUMMARY. Rutile and bauxite production are rapidly growing industries in Sierra Leone, with great potential to quickly become the country's most profitable exports. Since resuming operations in 2005, the Titanium Resource Group (TRG),responsible for the large majority of Sierra Leone's bau [...]	2007-10-09 10:27:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EMIN BEXP SL
07FREETOWN640	HANDOVER AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-24 18:47:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN749	SIERRA LEONE: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR UPDATE [...] This cable responds to reftel request for information for the Worst Forms of Child Labor Report. Most new information since the previous year's report is a result of the passage of the 2007 Child Rights Act. --------------------------------------------- ----- A) Laws and regulations ----- [...]	2007-12-20 18:33:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI SL
07FREETOWN93	FREETOWN GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR [...] Post welcomes the visit of Mark Stamilio, U.S. Department of State, Special Advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. Mr. Stamilio will travel to Freetown to represent the USG during a UN Management Committee visit to the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) February 18-22. A [...]	2007-02-09 12:54:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA AMGT ASEC APER SL
07GENEVA1060	WHO: Meeting on Options for Increasing the Access of [...] Summary. The World Health Organization (WHO) convened subject meeting April 25 to discuss strategies to expand access to influenza vaccines, including stockpiling options and increased vaccine production. Participants included representatives from donor countries, countries affected by the H5 [...]	2007-04-30 08:13:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AORC
07GENEVA115	ITALY CANDIDATURE - HRC [...] (U) U.S. Mission Geneva received a diplomatic note from the Permanent Mission of Italy requesting U.S. Government support for the Italian candidature to the Human Rights Council at elections to be held in the United Nations General Assembly in May 2007. 2. (U) Mission has responded that th [...]	2007-01-18 06:43:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC AORC UN IT
07GENEVA116	ITALY CANDIDATURE - HRC [...] (U) U.S. Mission Geneva received a diplomatic note from the Permanent Mission of Italy requesting U.S. Government support for the Italian candidature to the Human Rights Council at elections to be held in the United Nations General Assembly in May 2007. 2. (U) Mission has responded that th [...]	2007-01-18 06:44:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC AORC UN IT
07GENEVA1713	SRI LANKAN PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE LOBBIES [...] (C) Recently arrived Sri Lanka Permanent Representative, Dayan Jayatilleka, used an introductory courtesy call with Ambassador Tichenor June 27 to lobby hard against any kind of resolution on Sri Lanka in the Human Rights Council. Jayatilleka stressed that Sri Lanka saw all country resolutio [...]	2007-07-03 09:47:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC PINR CE
07GENEVA1803	ECOSOC LAUNCHES ANNUAL MINISTERIAL REVIEW, [...] (SBU) Summary. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivered strongly-worded remarks at the July 2 opening of the UN Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) High Level Segment, stating that "existing trade barriers, agricultural subsidies and restrictive rules on intellectual property rights...make [...]	2007-07-18 11:50:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR ETRD SENV ECOSOC UN
07GENEVA2048	DAS SINGH AND AMBASSADOR REES' GENEVA TALKS - [...] (SBU) Summary: IO Deputy Assistant Secretary Singh and Special Representative for Social Issues Rees used a human rights-focused August 6-8 visit to Geneva to also address a range of humanitarian, refugee, and health issues, as well as UN reform. DAS Singh also underscored the importance the [...]	2007-08-29 08:31:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM PREF UNHRC
07GENEVA2110	EU CONSIDERS CONDEMNING SRI LANKA IN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action cable. Action request in para 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The EU is considering whether to table a resolution in the Human Rights Council condemning Sri Lanka's recent human rights record. To avert a resolution, the Sri Lankan Government sent its Human Rights Minister and two [...]	2007-09-10 05:54:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PTER UNHRC CE
07GENEVA2492	A/S FRIED MEETS WITH ANTONOV ON CFE IN GENEVA [...] (C) Summary. On November 7, A/S Dan Fried, accompanied by A/S Paula DeSutter and an interagency team, met in Geneva with Russian MFA Director for Security and Disarmament Anatoly Antonov, accompanied by Mikhail Ulyanov and Sergey Federyakov to resume discussion of the U.S. paper on elements [...]	2007-11-15 10:24:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS GG MD NATO
07GENEVA525	VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY - STAKEHOLDER [...] Summary. Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula J. Dobriansky visited Geneva February 28 as head of the U.S. delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation on Polio Eradication, resulting in continued global commitment to eradication and establishment of miles [...]	2007-03-06 10:41:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO WHO
07GEORGETON514	VAT TX BRINGS IN THE MONEY FOR GUYANA [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 19:08:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD GY
07GEORGETOWN1042	INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, PART I [...] (U) Post presents its 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control Guyana: I. Summary Guyana is a transit point for cocaine destined for North America, Europe, and the Caribbean, but not in quantities sufficient to impact the U.S. market. In [...]	2007-11-26 18:31:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR GY
07GEORGETOWN110	GOVERNMENT PULLS ADS FROM INDEPENDENT DAILY [...] (SBU) Summary: Citing the paper's supposedly falling circulation figures, GOG recently stopped placing state advertisements in the independent Stabroek News. During the 2006 election campaign, President Jagdeo and ruling party officials repeatedly accused Stabroek News of criticizing the gover [...]	2007-01-26 20:15:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM GY
07GEORGETOWN138	GUYANA PASSES WORLD CUP LEGISLATION - BETTER LATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guyana's National Assembly unanimously passed four bills allowing Guyana to participate fully with the nine other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries in a Single Domestic Space for the upcoming Cricket World Cup (CWC). The four bills were: (1) Immigration (Amendment) Act [...]	2007-02-06 20:29:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PBTS SMIG CVIS ASEC KFRD KHLS GY
07GEORGETOWN211	MAKE HASTE SLOWLY - CARICOM INTER-SESSIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally told the Ambassdor that the Heads of Government participating in the 18th CARICOM Inter-Sessional in St. Vincent on February 12-14 were determined to "make haste slowly" on a range of issues including governance, trade, economic development and re [...]	2007-02-22 16:36:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN EAID EAGR ENGR EAIR SMIG CARICOM XL
07GEORGETOWN283	JAGDEO ON HUMAN RIGHTS, DRUGS AND VENEZUELA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with President Bharrat Jagdeo in his office and at his request on March 15 to discuss the INCSR and Human Rights Report. Jagdeo objected to the methodology and tone of both documents, describing them as on-going irritants, and said he hoped to discuss their o [...]	2007-03-16 20:35:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON PBTS KCRM VE GY
07GEORGETOWN293	Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Guyana and CARICOM--A [...] (SBU) In late November 2006 post delivered a Diplomatic Note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) proposing an arrangement for the deployment of armed Federal Air Marshals (FAM) on flights between the United States and Guyana to bolster counterterrorism efforts in the region (ref A). Despi [...]	2007-03-22 20:25:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECIN EAIR CARICOM GY
07GEORGETOWN391	GUYANA-CARICOM ATTENDENCE AT THE CONFERENCE ON THE [...] (U) Per MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper, the tentative GoG delegation to the Conference on the Caribbean will include -- President Bharrat Jagdeo -- Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Rudy Insanally -- Minister of Foreign Trade & International Cooperation Dr. Henry Jeffrey -- Chief Execut [...]	2007-04-23 11:19:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KSUM CARICOM GY
07GEORGETOWN407	GUYANA NOT CAPABLE OF ASSISTING IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-25 20:57:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ GY
07GEORGETOWN435	CARICOM: LITTLE PROGRESS ON CONFERENCE ON THE [...] (SBU) After a month of trying for a substantive discussion with CARICOM Secretariat on the agenda for the 20/20 Conference, Secretary General Carrington told Ambassador that CARICOM agrees with the broad themes suggested by the U.S. and wished to add another "Migration and Development" that mi [...]	2007-05-04 19:53:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETTC KSUM CARICOM XL
07GEORGETOWN514	VAT TAX BRINGS IN THE MONEY FOR GUYANA [...] Summary: The returns are in from Guyana's newly instituted Value-Added Tax (VAT),and the government of Guyana is in the enviable position of adding more dollars to its reserves than initially projected. Leaked news of the positive returns re-ignited issues debated when the tax made its debut i [...]	2007-05-23 19:08:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD GY
07GEORGETOWN582	SECOND UPDATED GUYANA ATTENDANCE AT THE CONFERENCE [...] After checking with the MFA three times yesterday, and sending GEORGETOWN 578, Poloff was contacted by MFA and told that they have now added Kwabena Frinpong, Head of Policy Coordination Unit in the Office of the President, to the GoG delegation. 2. Guyana has substantially changed its del [...]	2007-06-12 13:38:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KSUM GY
07GEORGETOWN59	VAT AND CASINO GAMBLING CAUSE PUBLIC DISCORD AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The PPP/C government,s sloppy implementation of VAT and heavy-handed efforts to legalize casino gambling are giving rise to public discontent and fueling internal dissent within the party. End Summary. 2. (U) The difficult introduction of VAT in Guyana was reported reftel. [...]	2007-01-16 19:39:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KCOR SNAR PGOV GY
07GEORGETOWN818	MCC SIGNING CEREMONY'S REVEALING INSIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 23rd, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Deputy Chairman Rodney Bent participated in a signing ceremony for the US$6.7 million two-year Guyana Threshold Program contract. The event was covered by all television and radio news programs and reported in each of the thr [...]	2007-08-31 19:19:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID EFIN PGOV PREL GY
07GRENADA156	SCENESETTER CABLE FOR WHA/CAR DIRECTOR'S VISIT TO GRENADA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Embassy Grenada warmly welcomes November 12-13, 2007 visit to St. George's of WHA/CAR Director Velia de Pirro. Director De Pirro is visiting Grenada at a time when the United States is seen by Grenadians as losing its dominance in the Caribbean and China is filling the voi [...]	2007-11-06 21:21:00	Embassy Grenada	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON ASEC EAID GJ
07GUADALAJARA226	SECRETARY GENERAL ENDORSES ORAL TRIALS FOR JALISCO [...] On April 30, 2007, the Consul General met with Jalisco's recently-appointed Secretary General (Lt. Governor) Fernando Guzman Perez Pelaez, to seek his formal endorsement for judicial reform efforts in the state, particularly oral trials. Guzman expressed support for this initiative and agreed [...]	2007-05-09 21:13:00	Consulate Guadalajara	UNCLASSIFIED	KJUS EAID PGOV MX
07GUADALAJARA329	CHILD LABOR IN JALISCO: CRISIS BUT VERY LITTLE ACTION [...] SUMMARY: Jalisco suffers from high rates of child labor including the sexual exploitation of children. A recent symposium and UN visit has highlighted the problem, but has so far not resulted in any policy changes or new government initiatives. A local union is working to promote action o [...]	2007-07-03 17:39:00	Consulate Guadalajara	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PHUM MX
07GUANGZHOU1051	Xiamen Taiwan Scholars Concerned about Chen's Next [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg, Reason 1.4 (b/d) 2. (C) Summary: A Xiamen-based scholar of cross-Strait relations told Congenoffs that mainland scholars are concerned that Chen Shiu-bian might take more provocative steps after a referendum on UN membership. He questioned [...]	2007-09-18 03:40:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EINV TW CH
07GUANGZHOU1180	Taiwan Investors Lament Changing Investment Environment in [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan investors in Dongguan complain that China's new Labor Law, rising wages, and policies aimed at directing labor-intensive and highly-polluting industries away from coastal regions are harming the investment environment in the Pearl River Delta. However, even with these dow [...]	2007-10-31 02:15:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD ELAB SENV TW CH
07GUANGZHOU1186	CHINA DECLARES SUCCESS AT THE 102ND CANTON FAIR [...] (SBU) Summary: Another record-breaking Canton Fair closed yesterday with increases in contract orders; attendance was lower. Attention to toy safety, export tariff policy changes, intellectual property rights and foreign imports all affected the final numbers, with a ten percent decline in toy [...]	2007-10-31 09:01:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW
07GUANGZHOU1192	Fuel Shortage in Southern China Leads to Fuel Hording and [...] (SBU) Summary. China's fuel shortage is hitting the Pearl River Delta hard. High international oil prices have driven wholesale prices above government-mandated retail price caps. The November 1 increase in diesel and gasoline prices (9 percent) may not be enough to restore margins for retail [...]	2007-11-02 07:09:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PGOV TRGY CH
07GUANGZHOU1241	CONSUL GENERAL'S IPR ROUNDTABLE - COMMUNICATION AND ACTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Internet-based intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement continues to remain a pressing concern in south China, according to U.S. business people who participated in the Consul General's Annual IPR Roundtable on November 20, 2007. The participants also complained of incons [...]	2007-11-26 02:39:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON WTRO PGOV CH
07GUANGZHOU1275	The World's Factory Floor: Unions and Government [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Widespread reports of a labor shortage in the Pearl River Delta are exaggerated, according to representatives from the Guangdong Federation of Trade Unions (GDFTU) and local and provincial government labor officials. Union officials boasted both of portable pension schemes allo [...]	2007-12-11 08:21:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM PGOV CH
07GUANGZHOU1279	Guangdong's Season for Sickness: Possibilities for [...] (U) Summary: Findings from the December 8 Guangdong Department of Health conference on infectious disease outbreaks during the winter and spring seasons suggest that the risk of SARS is low, but there is the possibility for "sporadic" human avian influenza infection and/or reemergence of an ani [...]	2007-12-14 06:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED CASC EAGR KFLU SOCI CH
07GUANGZHOU175	Civil Society in South China, Part I: Middle [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Urban professionals in Guangdong are becoming more aware of their rights and demanding more independent representation and associations to express their interests. The cities of Guangzhou and [...]	2007-02-07 07:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PGOV CH
07GUANGZHOU176	Civil Society in South China, Part II: "NGO for [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: The three-year old NGO Institute for Civil Society (housed under Zhongshan University) was created to research, train, support, and network NGOs in Guangdong province. Started by Hong Kong academics and r [...]	2007-02-07 07:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PGOV CH
07GUANGZHOU198	General Counsel Sullivan Visits South China to promote [...] (U) Summary: During a three day visit to South China, the U.S. Department of Commerce's General Counsel John Sullivan met with senior representatives of Guangdong Province, legal representatives and U.S. business representatives, raising U.S. concerns regarding transparency, legal processes, an [...]	2007-02-13 08:44:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD BEXP ECON WTRO KIPR CH OCEA
07GUANGZHOU206	Fedex moving forward on South China Hub [...] (SBU) Summary. Fedex is moving strongly forward on both of its China hubs: one in Hangzhou for domestic operations and the other in Guangzhou to serve as its Asia Pacific Headquarters and international hub. A key draw for Guangzhou officials is the proven ability Fedex has demonstrated to att [...]	2007-02-14 09:02:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON EINV ETRD CH
07GUANGZHOU208	Tough to Talk About: TIP in South China [...] (SBU) Summary: Talking TIP is not a popular topic in South China. Many recent requests by the Consulate have been turned down in Guangxi and Guangdong. However, trafficking in persons, particularly of women, continues to occur from within China's inland provinces to South China, as well as f [...]	2007-02-14 09:05:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH
07GUANGZHOU223	DAS Christensen's Meetings on Cross-Strait Issues [...] (C) SUMMARY: Official and academic contacts in Xiamen from the local Taiwan Affairs Office and the University's Taiwan research center told EAP DAS Thomas Christensen February 2 that overall they were cautiously optimistic about the future cross-Strait relations. They pointed to economic ties [...]	2007-02-16 03:24:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI CH TW
07GUANGZHOU224	General Counsel Sullivan Visits South China to Promote [...] (U) Summary: During a three day visit to South China, the U.S. Department of Commerce's General Counsel John Sullivan met with senior representatives of Guangdong Province, legal representatives and U.S. business representatives, raising U.S. concerns regarding transparency, legal processes, an [...]	2007-02-16 07:36:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD BEXP ECON WTRO KIPR CH OCEA
07GUANGZHOU317	The Tiger Sprints Ahead: ExxonMobil First Western Oil Major [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ExxonMobil became the first U.S. oil major to launch a fully integrated refining, petrochemicals, and fuels marketing joint venture in China with the signing of the contract on February, 25. Although Chinese partner Sinopec stated in the media that the company's ability to refin [...]	2007-03-09 08:52:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PREF CH TW
07GUANGZHOU377	Let's Make a Deal: Slow Start for Cross Border Emissions [...] (SBU) Summary: The long-planned Guangdong-Hong Kong cross-border emissions trading pilot program was implemented on January 31, 2007. Despite years of cooperative planning between both regions' environmental protection bureaus, no deals have yet been struck. Furthermore, the plan has been met [...]	2007-03-23 09:04:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG PGOV CH
07GUANGZHOU418	Natural Gas in South China (Part 1 of 2): Delayed LNG Plans [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent progress in negotiations with Indonesia and other LNG suppliers suggest that the Chinese government has adjusted its expectations and renewed its interest in putting LNG projects back into the energy mix in South China. The government's unwillingness earlier to adjust nego [...]	2007-04-02 10:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON EMIN SENV CH
07GUANGZHOU419	Natural Gas in South China (Part 2 of 2): Chinese Taking [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Chinese government has renewed efforts to diversify the nation's energy mix and improve the environment by bringing anticipated large offshore gas reserves in the South China Sea (which had previously been ignored, vented or flared) to production. As offshore oil and gas fie [...]	2007-04-03 03:11:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EMIN ECON SENV KIPR CH
07GUANGZHOU449	Fuzhou Church Thrives inside its Doors [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior members of the Christian Association in Fuzhou are positive about local church development and expansion of community outreach despite limits on promoting religious activities outside of the church. END SUMMARY 2. (U) On March 28, the Consul General and Consulate staff [...]	2007-04-10 08:29:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV SOCI PHUM CH
07GUANGZHOU460	Seminary Lecturer Discusses Protestantism in Guangdong, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A lecturer at the Guangdong Union Theological Seminary provided an overview of the small but active provincial Protestant community. It has ties with U.S. and Hong Kong religious institutions and seeks to maintain good relations with the government. Local governments have encou [...]	2007-04-13 08:49:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI CH
07GUANGZHOU526	Xiamen Researchers Say Little Change in Taiwan [...] (C) Summary and comment: Scholars at Xiamen University?s Taiwan Research Institute told the Ambassador April 17 that they believed there would be little change in Taiwan?s policy toward the mainland regardless which party wins the presidential campaign. In their view, it would be neither as [...]	2007-05-09 06:50:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CH TW
07GUANGZHOU627	South China's Economy in 2006: The World's Factory Floor in [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Despite Chinese central government efforts to rein in economic growth rates and tighten macroeconomic controls, South China's economy surged ahead in 2006. Guangdong Province (paragraphs 5-23) led the pack in almost all areas - gross domestic product (GDP),growth rate [...]	2007-06-01 06:01:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH
07GUANGZHOU655	South China Analysts Criticize Government's Handling of [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of the plunge in stock prices on the mainland, South China commentators and academics complain that central authorities showed a disappointing, but all too common, lack of transparency before unexpectedly tripling the stamp duty on share trades on May 30. Analys [...]	2007-06-08 06:25:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON CH
07GUANGZHOU670	South China Airports: Capacity Shortage, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: To meet the rapidly mounting demands of passengers and cargo transportation, major civil airports in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region are gearing up to upgrade their infrastructure and service. Fierce competition is expected as both airports and airlines compete for a bigger [...]	2007-06-12 07:28:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON CH HK
07GUANGZHOU699	Alleged Labor Violations at Mainland Headwear [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the release of the PlayFair 2008 report, "No Medal For the Olympics on Labour Rights," and media reports of alleged labor violations at four Pearl River Delta (PRD) factories, Congenoff visited one Shenzhen factory cited in the report - Mainland Headwear Holdings Limit [...]	2007-06-15 08:43:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI CH

07GUANGZHOU717	Alleged Labor Violations at Yue Wing Cheong [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Congenoff's visit to a second mainland Chinese company (Yue Wing Cheong Manufacturing) cited in PlayFair 2008's report ("No Medal For the Olympics on Labour Rights") led to conclusions similar to those from his visit to Mainland Headwear (reftel). Yue Wing Cheong clearly has pr [...]	2007-06-22 02:26:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
07GUANGZHOU832	Pearl River Flotsam and Jetsam, July 24, 2007 [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is the first in a series of periodic cables that will feature snapshots of the Guangzhou consular district. We expect to cover items that are timely for Washington consideration but at this point, do not merit fuller treatment. We are, of course, willing to take a second lo [...]	2007-07-24 05:37:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PINR SENV PGOV CH
07GUANGZHOU836	Consumer Product Safety in South China [...] (U) SUMMARY: At a time when the safety and quality of goods being exported from China -- not just to the U.S. but elsewhere in the world, from the Philippines to Europe -- has been called into question, foreign companies in this consular district, especially in the Pearl River Delta, are lookin [...]	2007-07-25 07:45:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECIN EINV PGOV CH
07GUANGZHOU850	Foreign Banks: Optimistic About Profits, but Face Hurdles [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fierce competition from Chinese banks, a constantly changing regulatory environment, and difficulties in working with Chinese shareholders are the key challenges confronted by local government and foreign bankers in south China. Despite their concerns, the foreign banking communit [...]	2007-07-27 05:15:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	WTRO ECON PGOV CH
07GUANGZHOU862	Have You Heard? China Slashes VAT Refunds [...] (SBU) Summary: What's the impact on local companies in the region of the July 1 cut/elimination of export tax rebates on almost 3,000 products? Local companies are unanimous: the price of most goods imported from China just went up. Even so, foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) here are not c [...]	2007-07-30 08:15:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECIN EINV PGOV CH
07GUANGZHOU87	Fujian Province Q3 Economic Report [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fujian continued its robust economic growth in the third quarter (Q3) of 2006 despite the negative effects of natural disasters. Fujian's 12.5% gross domestic product (GDP) growth was fueled by the manufacturing and service sectors, exceeding the national Q3 GDP growth rate of 10 [...]	2007-01-19 08:42:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH
07GUANGZHOU870	Amway or the Highway: QA in a Risky Business Environment [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Amway is confident that its Quality Assurance (QA) program enhances the quality and safety of its products. As in its dealings with Wal-mart, the Chinese government seeks Amway's advice on ways to elevate safety standards and educate Chinese companies. Across-the- [...]	2007-08-01 07:45:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EINV PGOV CH
07GUANGZHOU897	Mentoring: The Guangzhou Way [...] (U) Summary: Nearly all 25 Entry Level Professionals at Congen Guangzhou serve in the consular section but the intent of management - and the desire of the ELPs - is to provide a varied experience, with mentoring integrated into every aspect of work. The Congen, mostly through a dynamic ELP w [...]	2007-08-09 08:46:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED	APER CMGT CH
07GUANGZHOU952	Export Processing in the PRD Hit with New Deposit [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 23, China started requiring export processing firms to pay large deposits, which could have a substantial negative impact on businesses in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Hong Kong and Taiwan industry associations in southern China have expressed serious concerns about th [...]	2007-08-24 08:09:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW
07GUATEMALA1135	LEADING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SPEAK OUT AT [...] (SBU) Summary: Guatemala's leading presidential candidates highlighted the key challenges facing Guatemala and outlined their economic plans during a June 6 public forum hosted by the Chamber of Industry. All five candidates stressed the need for macroeconomic stability and greater economic [...]	2007-06-11 23:57:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM SOCI ELAB GT
07GUATEMALA1136	LEADING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SPEAK OUT AT [...] (SBU) Summary: Guatemala's leading presidential candidates highlighted the key challenges facing Guatemala and outlined their economic plans during a June 6 public forum hosted by the Chamber of Industry. All five candidates stressed the need for macroeconomic stability and greater economic [...]	2007-06-11 23:59:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID KDEM PHUM SOCI ELAB GT
07GUATEMALA1164	DEMARCHE ON U.S. 60-DAY REPORT ON UNSCR 1747 (IRAN [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper to Luis Carranza, Director of Multilateral Policy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),on June 1. Carranza said that the MFA already sent Guatemala's 60-day report on implementation of UNSCR 1747 to New York after coordinating drafting of [...]	2007-06-14 16:29:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP EFIN IR UNSC AORC ETRD ETTC TRGY GT
07GUATEMALA1328	THREATS AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN GUATEMALA [...] (U) Summary: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) called for investigation of threats and other acts of intimidation against human rights defenders and protective measures during a presentation on the current situation of human rights defenders in Guatemala. Civil society repre [...]	2007-07-05 17:53:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KJUS EAID KCRM KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA1378	DEMARCHE ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR IOM DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-12 00:16:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG GT
07GUATEMALA1402	GUATEMALA ESTABLISHES INTER-INSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) Summary: An inter-institutional commission to combat trafficking in persons and related crimes was established by Executive Order on July 12. Under an initial mandate of two years, the commission will serve as an inter-institutional body for consultation, development, and consensus on in [...]	2007-07-13 18:42:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB EAID GT
07GUATEMALA1414	MFA RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR IOM [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-16 20:07:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG GT
07GUATEMALA1601	WOMEN'S RIGHTS GROUPS HOST PRESIDENTIAL FORUM ON [...] Summary: Three women's rights groups hosted a political forum on reproductive health on August 2. Politicians and NGO leaders discussed contraceptive rights, women's social status, maternal mortality, health care, sex education, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections, specifically [...]	2007-08-08 21:12:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KWMN SOCI GT
07GUATEMALA1934	DEMARCHE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY OF [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the Community of Democracies (CD) to Luis Carranza, Director of Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. Carranza said that the GOG, together with Chile and other Latin American countries, can offer political support to Mali for the Bama [...]	2007-09-24 19:49:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV GT
07GUATEMALA1938	INVITATION TO GPOI G8 GLOBAL CLEARINGHOUSE [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche September 18 to Luis Carranza, Director of Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Carranza informed poloff September 20 that he had forwarded the invitation to the Director of Peacekeeping Operations at the Ministry of Defense to forward t [...]	2007-09-24 23:20:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS PGOV KPKO GT
07GUATEMALA1941	PEREZ MOLINA OUTLINES SECOND-ROUND STRATEGY [...] (C) During a September 18 meeting with the Ambassador, center-right presidential candidate Otto Perez Molina of the Partido Patriota outlined his strategy for winning the November 4 run-off election with the support of voters of the center-right GANA. Perez Molina said he was "certain" that non [...]	2007-09-25 19:42:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KCRM SNAR PHUM GT
07GUATEMALA1944	EMBASSY OFFICERS GIVE PRESENTATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Embassy officers gave a presentation, entitled "Human Rights Advocacy: The Roles of the USG, Other Governments, and Human Rights NGOs," on September 19 to first and second-year international relations and journalism students at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala City. The presentation [...]	2007-09-25 23:22:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI KJUS EAID GT
07GUATEMALA2008	DEMARCHE ON U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON CONDEMNING [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-04 19:44:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI GT
07GUATEMALA2015	LABOR MINISTRY HOSTS SEMINAR ON MIGRANT WORKERS [...] Summary: The Ministry of Labor hosted a seminar September 26 and presented the results of a nationwide study on migrant workers and the informal sector. The seminar, attended by over 150 representatives from government, academia, private sector, civil society, and the labor movement, aimed to [...]	2007-10-05 22:39:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB SMIG EIND PHUM ECON PGOV SOCI GT
07GUATEMALA2123	DEMARCHE ON NEXT STEPS ON OAS INDIGENOUS RIGHTS [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche on October 22 to Luis Carranza, Director of Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Carranza commented that Guatemala will not be able to support suspension of negotiations on the text of the OAS Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, [...]	2007-10-24 17:19:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KDEM PHUM SOCI KJUS GT
07GUATEMALA2125	DEMARCHE ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN INDEPENDENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-24 19:28:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC UN UNGA GT
07GUATEMALA2156	DEMARCHE ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-29 17:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU GT
07GUATEMALA2172	BANANA WORKERS UNION LEADER MURDERED [...] (SBU) Summary: Banana workers union leader Marco Tulio Ramirez Portela was murdered on September 23 by unidentified assailants on a farm in Los Amates, Izabal owned by Bandegua, a subsidiary of Del Monte. Embassy Labor Officer met with SITRABI leaders and Bandegua management October 1-2 to di [...]	2007-10-31 17:09:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV GT
07GUATEMALA2182	SCENESETTER: NOV. 4 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (C) According to most polls, center-right candidate Otto Perez Molina of the Partido Patriota enjoys a slim advantage coming into the Nov. 4 presidential election, but some polls show Alvaro Colom, of the center-left UNE, to be ahead. In the final stages of the campaign, Colom has come across [...]	2007-11-01 01:14:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC GT
07GUATEMALA2200	DEMARCHE ON ADVANCING THE DEMOCRACY AGENDA AT 4TH [...] Poloff delivered ref A demarche outlining the democracy agenda of the Community of Democracies (CD) Bamako Ministerial to Luis Carranza, Director of Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. Carranza said that the GOG will not be participating in the Bamako Ministerial due [...]	2007-11-07 15:45:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV GT
07GUATEMALA2226	CO-SPONSORSHIP OF U.S. RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-09 19:40:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI GT
07GUATEMALA2242	MFA RESPONSE ON UPCOMING VOTE ON UN RAPE RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-15 23:42:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KWMN SOCI UNGA GT
07GUATEMALA2244	FOREIGN MINISTER-DESIGNATE MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR, [...] (C) Guatemalan Foreign Minister-Designate Haroldo Rodas met November 13 with Ambassador, visiting WHA/CEN Director Feeley, and Pol/Econ Couns. We discussed with Rodas the USG's request to Congress for $50 million to buttress Central American regional security. Rodas conveyed his appreciation [...]	2007-11-16 16:51:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GT
07GUATEMALA2252	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COLEMAN [...] Your November 23 - 24 visit will afford you a chance to view adoptions processes and practices in Guatemala. You will also have the opportunity to review our efforts to promote economic development, poverty alleviation, democracy, and rule of law, following the 1996 signing of the Peace Ac [...]	2007-11-19 19:37:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV CONS PREL GT
07GUATEMALA2326	GOG RESPONSE ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 17:48:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA UNAUS UNGA GT
07GUATEMALA2358	ASSESSMENT OF GUATEMALAN SECURITY REQUIREMENTS [...] (SBU) Embassy Guatemala appreciates the Department's request for post and host country input regarding priority assistance needs that could be funded as part of the Merida Initiative. We consulted senior Berger Government officials who have only five weeks left in office, as well as represen [...]	2007-12-13 13:45:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PTER SNAR GT
07GUATEMALA355	GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAVHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-21 17:17:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	WHA CEN DRL AN DPM
07GUATEMALA360	GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAVHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-21 18:21:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	FORWHA CEN DRL AN DPM
07GUATEMALA417	GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-28 21:32:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL PHUM PINS GT
07GUATEMALA488	GUATEMALAQS 2007 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) Embassy GuatemalaQs point of contact for trafficking in persons (TIP) is PolOff Lucy Chang, telephone [502] 2326-4635, fax [502] 2334-8474. Ms. Chang (FS-2) spent 25 hours on the preparation of this report. FSN Political Specialist Ronald Flores (FSN-9) spent 15 hours, and USAID FSN Pro [...]	2007-03-08 14:33:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID
07GUATEMALA528	GUATEMALA'S 2007 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) Embassy Guatemala's point of contact for trafficking in persons (TIP) is PolOff Lucy Chang, telephone [502] 2326-4635, fax [502] 2334-8474. Ms. Chang (FS-2) spent 25 hours on the preparation of this report. FSN Political Specialist Ronald Flores (FSN-9) spent 15 hours, and USAID FSN Pro [...]	2007-03-14 15:32:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID
07GUATEMALA817	GUATEMALAQS INPUT ON FY07 LABOR AND ENVIRONMENT TRADE CAPACITY [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post submits the following proposals f 2. As requested reftel, this cable outlines post priorities for CAFTA-D 3. Our recommendations build upon work initiated with FY05-FY06 CAFTA-D 4. In the area of labor, post recommends continued focus on projects an - [...]	2007-04-27 18:17:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ELAB ETRD SENV GT
07GUATEMALA820	GUATEMALAQS INPUT ON FY07 LABOR AND ENVIRONMENT TRADE CAPACITY [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post submits the following proposals f 2. As requested reftel, this cable outlines post priorities for CAFTA-D 3. Our recommendations build upon work initiated with FY05-FY06 CAFTA-D 4. In the area of labor, post recommends continued focus on projects an - [...]	2007-04-30 17:08:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ELAB ETRD SENV GT
07GUATEMALA822	GUATEMALAQS INPUT ON FY07 LABOR AND ENVIRONMENT TRADE CAPACITY [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post submits the following proposals f 2. As requested reftel, this cable outlines post priorities for CAFTA-D 3. Our recommendations build upon work initiated with FY05-FY06 CAFTA-D 4. In the area of labor, post recommends continued focus on projects an - [...]	2007-04-30 17:33:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ELAB ETRD SENV GT
07GUATEMALA823	GUATEMALA?S INPUT ON FY07 LABOR AND [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post submits the following proposals for trade-related labor and environment projects for FY07 CAFTA-DR trade capacity- building funds. Post input is keyed to reftel para 7. End summary. 2. As requested reftel, this cable outlines post priorities for CAFTA-DR [...]	2007-04-30 18:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ELAB ETRD SENV GT
07GUATEMALA834	GUATEMALA'S INPUT ON FY07 LABOR AND [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post submits the following proposals for trade-related labor and environment projects for FY07 CAFTA-DR trade capacity- building funds. Post input is keyed to reftel para 7. End summary. 2. As requested reftel, this cable outlines post priorities for CAFTA-DR [...]	2007-05-02 17:47:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ELAB ETRD SENV GT
07GUATEMALA901	GUATEMALA'S CHILD LABOR UPDATE [...] Post submits the following update to 2005 information (ref B) on child labor. Delay in submission was due to unavailability of official government statistics on child labor until April 26. Responses are keyed to Ref A. A. Laws and regulations proscribing the worst forms of child labor T [...]	2007-05-09 20:57:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON GT
07HALIFAX45	LIBERALS SWEEP TO POWER IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND PROVINCIAL [...] SUMMARY: In a surprisingly easy win, PEI Liberals ended 11 years of Tory rule in the May 28 provincial election. Robert Ghiz and the Liberals took 23 of the province's 27 districts, leaving the once mighty Tories with the remaining four. The New Democratic Party and the Green party again fai [...]	2007-05-29 14:45:00	Consulate Halifax	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR CA
07HALIFAX89	CANADA'S FOREIGN, DEFENSE, AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS [...] Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs held its 10th Annual "Diplomatic Forum for Heads of Foreign Mission" in St.-Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick, in mid-September. Seventy-seven Ambassadors, including Ambassador Wilkins, and two Consuls General participated in the two-day meeting. Three fe [...]	2007-10-17 12:25:00	Consulate Halifax	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV CA
07HAMBURG31	BREMEN STATE ELECTION - AN END TO 12 YEARS OF A GRAND [...] (SBU) Summary: The upcoming May 13 state elections in Bremen/Bremerhaven are Germany's only state election in 2007. With 40 percent in the polls, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is likely to be in the comfortable position of being able to choose its coalition partner. The only viable coalit [...]	2007-05-11 15:29:00	Consulate Hamburg	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
07HAMBURG32	BREMEN STATE ELECTION - AN END TO 12 YEARS OF A GRAND [...] (SBU) Summary: The upcoming May 13 state elections in Bremen/Bremerhaven are Germany's only state election in 2007. With 40 percent in the polls, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is likely to be in the comfortable position of being able to choose its coalition partner. The only viable coalit [...]	2007-05-11 15:29:00	Consulate Hamburg	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
07HAMBURG33	BREMEN STATE ELECTION - AN END TO 12 YEARS OF A GRAND [...] (SBU) Summary: The upcoming May 13 state elections in Bremen/Bremerhaven are Germany's only state election in 2007. With 40 percent in the polls, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is likely to be in the comfortable position of being able to choose its coalition partner. The only viable coalit [...]	2007-05-11 16:16:00	Consulate Hamburg	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
07HAMBURG35	BREMEN STATE ELECTION - SPD REMAINS STRONG WITH THE GREENS [...] (U) Summary. Though Bremen's election gave the current Social Democratic -Christian Democratic (SPD-CDU) government enough votes to continue in office, the two parties each lost votes over 2003. The smaller parties all gained votes, with the best results scored by the left-of-center Greens and [...]	2007-05-15 11:04:00	Consulate Hamburg	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
07HAMBURG63	THE SPD APPROVES OEF MANDATE, SIGNALS CONTINUED [...] (SBU) Summary: Overall, foreign policy played a minor role at the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) October 26-28 national convention in Hamburg (reftel). It was, however, the main focus of a pre-convention event October 25 sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) and geared mainly tow [...]	2007-10-31 17:16:00	Consulate Hamburg	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KUNR GM AF EU RS TU
07HAMBURG65	DIE LINKE ARE HERE TO STAY [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 6, EUR/AGS Deputy Director Bryant Trick and ConGen Hamburg Pol/Econ Officer Genevieve Libonati met with state party leadership from both the leftist Die Linke party and the Green party in Bremen. Die Linke is optimistic about its growth prospects; Greens leaders conc [...]	2007-11-08 11:17:00	Consulate Hamburg	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV GM
07HAMBURG70	HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007 GERMAN FOREIGN TRADE CONGRESS IN BREMEN [...] SUMMARY: Over 800 participants and several guests of honor, including German Federal Economics and Technology Minister Michael Glos and King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, attended the 7th German Foreign Trade Congress 2007 on November 13-14 in Bremen. Glos stated that Chancellor Merk [...]	2007-11-21 21:13:00	Consulate Hamburg	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON BEXP BTIO GM
07HAMBURG73	HAMBURG VS. SCIENTOLOGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the creation of the Working Group on Scientology (AGS) in 1992 within its interior ministry with its firebrand leader, Hamburg has been at sharp odds with the Church of Scientology and more recently has taken a leading role in an attempt to ban the organization. On August 7, Hamb [...]	2007-12-21 16:46:00	Consulate Hamburg	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI GM
07HANOI1009	"ONE UN" PILOT PROGRAM INCHING FORWARD IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: The "One UN" pilot program in Vietnam has taken its important first steps, but much work remains before the program becomes operational. According to Hanoi-based UN diplomats, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) strongly supports the "One UN" pilot, which Vietnam began last Februar [...]	2007-05-30 00:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KUNR PREL UN EAID SOCI PHUM AL CV MZ PK RW TZ UY
07HANOI1012	"ONE UN" PILOT PROGRAM INCHING FORWARD IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: The "One UN" pilot program in Vietnam has taken its important first steps, but much work remains before the program becomes operational. According to Hanoi-based UN diplomats, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) strongly supports the "One UN" pilot, which Vietnam began last Februar [...]	2007-05-30 09:42:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KUNR PREL UN EAID SOCI PHUM AL CV MZ PK RW TZ UY
07HANOI1026	AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - MORE POULTRY OUTBREAKS [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam is experiencing a new wave of H5N1 AI outbreaks in poultry. In May 2007, poultry outbreaks have been reported in 12 provinces and municipalities throughout the country. The Government of Vietnam's (GVN) public health response to the reported first human case since November [...]	2007-06-01 08:29:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
07HANOI1034	ELECTION SHOCKER: COMMUNIST PARTY COMES OUT ON TOP [...] (SBU) On May 29, the National Assembly released the results of its May 20 election, and the make-up of the legislature will not differ markedly from the previous assembly: of the 497 seats in the body, non-Communist Party candidates won 43 seats, women 127 seats and ethnic minorities 87 seats. [...]	2007-06-01 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PREL CH VM
07HANOI1055	TRIET'S PRC VISIT: ACCENTUATING THE POSITIVE [...] (C) MFA and Chinese Embassy sources are billing President Triet's May 14-18 trip to China a success, both in maintaining the momentum of improved political relations between the two countries and in generating concrete results, particularly in the areas of trade and investment (Ref A). At the [...]	2007-06-05 09:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VM CH
07HANOI1057	VIETNAM'S TRADE IN 2006: RAPID GROWTH IN LEAD UP TO WTO [...] (SBU) Summary: According to recently-released figures from the Government of Vietnam's General Statistics Office (GSO),Vietnam's 2006 trade increased 21.6 percent from 2005, reaching USD 84.02 billion. This growth reflects Vietnam's increasingly international economic policy orientation and e [...]	2007-06-05 09:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON KTEX VM
07HANOI1071	VIETNAM BUSINESS FORUM: ENTERPRISES DIALOGUE WITH GVN ON [...] (SBU) Summary: During the May 30 Mid-Term Vietnam Business Forum, timed in connection with the June 1 Mid-Term Vietnam Consultative Group Meeting, foreign and domestic trade associations held a dialogue with the Government of Vietnam (GVN) on ways that Vietnam can capitalize on recent economic [...]	2007-06-08 08:05:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV ECON EFIN KTEX VM
07HANOI1101	2007 TIP REPORT HANDED OVER [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff delivered the Vietnam TIP report country narrative and Ref A talking points to the MFA on June 13. Our interlocutor was pleased that the USG acknowledged the GVN's progress on combating TIP during the reporting period, but disappointed that more details on the GVN's stron [...]	2007-06-13 10:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG KPAO VM
07HANOI1110	LE DUAN: THE MOSTLY VARNISHED TRUTH [...] (SBU) The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) recently sponsored several events to commemorate the life of former CPV General Secretary (GS) Le Duan. State-press has characterized Duan as a SIPDIS "bright example of revolutionary virtues," but topics such as his sidelining of CPV luminaries Ho [...]	2007-06-14 08:42:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI PREL VM
07HANOI1117	VIETNAM: HUMAN RIGHTS TAKES CENTER STAGE AT MID-TERM [...] (SBU) The World Bank and the Government of Vietnam (GVN) hosted an informal mid-term Consultative Group (CG) meeting on June 1 in Ha Long City. Senior GVN and donor representatives engaged on a variety of economic development issues. The agenda featured an overview of the economic situation a [...]	2007-06-15 08:17:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN EINV PREL PGOV PHUM VM
07HANOI1144	LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH FROM WIFE OF JAILED DISSIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary and Background. On June 20, Post received a letter addressed to President Bush from Vu Minh Khanh, wife of jailed dissident Nguyen Van Dai. In the letter, Khanh asks the President to intervene on her husband's behalf during his June 22 meeting with Vietnamese President Nguyen Mi [...]	2007-06-22 03:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF HUMANR PGOV PREL VM
07HANOI1149	Visit to Vietnam of Regional Financial Attache Baker: [...] (U) This is one of five cables reporting on the May 29-June 1 visit to Vietnam of the U.S. Treasury Department's Susan Baker, the Regional Financial Attache (FinAtt) based in Singapore. This cable provides a general summary of the visit, some notes on institutional reform and tax policy, and [...]	2007-06-22 10:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN VM
07HANOI1150	Macroeconomic Developments in Vietnam [...] (SBU) Summary. With capital inflows, inflation and credit growth reaccelerating, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) is under increasing pressure to reign in liquidity. Because of official policies calling for stable interest rates and exchange rates, however, SBV has been forced to resort to bl [...]	2007-06-22 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN VM
07HANOI1151	Update on Banking Sector Reform in Vietnam [...] (SBU) Summary: State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) officials believe their efforts to reform the banking sector have put it on a firm path toward international standard supervision. However, they tried to distance themselves from the equitization process (over which they should have at least supervis [...]	2007-06-22 10:44:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN VM
07HANOI1153	Vietnam's State Capital Investment Corporation [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-22 10:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN VM
07HANOI118	HIGH-LEVEL GVN TURNOUT FOR WTO ACCESSION CELEBRATION AT THE [...] (SBU) In a marked departure from established protocol, two ministers and two vice ministers, as well as numerous other officials at the next lower level, attended a U.S.-hosted reception at the Ambassador's residence to celebrate Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Trade [...]	2007-01-19 10:07:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD WTRO PREL PGOV VM
07HANOI1212	IPR IN VIETNAM - STRONG GVN WILL BUT WEAK ENFORCEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: During a June 19-20 visit, USTR Director for Intellectual Property and Innovation Rachel Bae met with Government of Vietnam (GVN) officials to discuss IPR issues relating to Vietnam's commitments under the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) and Vietnam's accession to t [...]	2007-07-05 07:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD ECON BEXP PGOV VM
07HANOI1215	THE EVOLVING NATURE OF VIETNAM'S CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) A Vietnam Institute of Development Studies (VIDS) study concluded that the structure of civil society in Vietnam is broad-based, with many different types of organizations, associations and groups operating in the country. Most of these organizations work at providing services to the poo [...]	2007-07-06 08:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON VM
07HANOI1224	PERSONNEL CHANGES AFOOT AT MINISTRY OF TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Prime Minister promoted two Ministry of Trade (MOT) officials to replace two of the four recently retired Vice Ministers on June 6. Vice Minister Nguyen Cam Tu, the former Director General of MOT's Americas Department, will be responsible for trade policy with the Americas. [...]	2007-07-09 07:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON VM
07HANOI1235	Second Joint Advisory Committee on Agent Orange Dioxin [...] (U) Summary. Post plans to convene the second Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) on August 14, 2007, co-hosted by Office 33 of the Government of Vietnam (GVN). As agreed by the USG and the GVN, the JAC serves as a technical forum to enhance scientific coordination and cooperation between the Unit [...]	2007-07-10 10:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV TBIO KPAO VM
07HANOI1265	AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - WAVE DYING OUT BUT SAMPLE SHARING [...] (U) Summary. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) reports no human cases infected with the H5N1 strain of highly pathologic avian influenza A (HPAI) beyond the total of five confirmed cases since May 1. There have been no cases among contacts and no common sources of infection. Outbreaks of AI in [...]	2007-07-18 17:33:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR KFLU VM
07HANOI128	RESULTS OF RECENT ASEAN SUMMIT IN STEP WITH GVN'S [...] (SBU) On January 18, MFA ASEAN Department Deputy Director Vu Ho briefed Poloff on the recently concluded ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Cebu. For the GVN, key accomplishments were progress on establishing an ASEAN community and adopting an ASEAN charter, the ASEAN Counterterrorism Conven [...]	2007-01-23 04:49:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL VM
07HANOI1311	CORRECTED COPY: HFAC STAFFDEL MIXTER DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This cable is a corrected copy of Hanoi 1301 of July 24, 2007. 2. (SBU) Summary: Visiting Professional Staff Member Jonathan Cobb Mixter told GVN officials in Hanoi the recent wave of arrests and crackdown on political dissidents was causing serious concern on Capitol Hill and could ma [...]	2007-07-25 16:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF OTRA ECON BM VM
07HANOI1331	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NUCLEAR TERRORISM CONVENTION; FIVE CT [...] (SBU) On July 25, Poloff met with MFA Department of International Law and Treaties Expert Nguyen Dang Thang to deliver reftel points pressing for the signing and ratification of the Nuclear Terrorism Convention (NTC) by Vietnam. Thang explained the GVN policy of support for the world community [...]	2007-07-27 14:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARTM PREL VM
07HANOI1334	REVISED PROPOSAL ON NONPROLIFERATION ISM GENERALLY [...] (SBU) On July 23, Poloff met with MFA ASEAN Department Specialist Phan Minh Giang to discuss reftel points concerning Vietnam's position on the initiative to develop an ARF Inter-Sessional Meeting (ISM) on Nonproliferation. Giang said the GVN has no objection to establishing the ISM because it [...]	2007-07-27 15:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ARF PARM VM
07HANOI1340	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's point person on religion underscored progress in improving religious freedom, but also admitted that there is still work to be done. Vietnam plans to recognize a number of additional religious groups, including the Baha'i Faith while Protestant congregations in the Cen [...]	2007-07-30 15:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF OTRA ECON VM
07HANOI1352	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TRIET FOCUSES ON [...] (SBU) Summary: In his July 31 farewell call on Vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet, the Ambassador noted the significant progress in bilateral economic and commercial ties as well as increased USG support for the GVN's reform efforts, while cautioning that important human rights concerns rema [...]	2007-08-01 14:08:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF ECON VM
07HANOI1360	PRESS REVEALS VIETNAM'S NEW CABINET [...] (SBU) On August 2, Vietnam's National Assembly (NA) will officially announce the make-up of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung's Cabinet, approve the PM's plan to increase the number of Deputy Vice Ministers from three to five, and reduce the number of government ministries from 26 to 22, a move t [...]	2007-08-01 18:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PREL CH VM
07HANOI1366	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON STATE BANK GOVERNOR THUY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with State Bank Governor Le Duc Thuy as part of his farewell calls. The meeting covered a wide range of issues, including money laundering, anti-proliferation efforts, the stock market, equitization, inflation, the exchange rate, and areas for further coopera [...]	2007-08-03 07:24:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EAID VM
07HANOI1374	VIETNAM'S NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN [...] (SBU) The National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam (NCFAW) is taking on domestic violence issues, gender equality, and implementation of a national strategy on the advancement of women for Vietnam by the end of 2010. A key part of that strategy is to place more Vietnamese wom [...]	2007-08-03 17:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI VM
07HANOI1380	VIETNAM'S NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN [...] (SBU) The National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam (NCFAW) is taking on domestic violence issues, gender equality, and implementation of a national strategy on the advancement of women for Vietnam by the end of 2010. A key part of that strategy is to place more Vietnamese wom [...]	2007-08-04 09:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI VM
07HANOI1382	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER/FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Summary: During the August 2 farewell lunch he hosted for Ambassador and Mrs. Marine, Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem noted the many achievements in U.S.-Vietnam relations during the Ambassador's tenure. The Ambassador agreed that improvements had been [...]	2007-08-06 07:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF ETRD ECON VM
07HANOI1390	TOP SECURITY OFFICIAL DISCUSSES DISSIDENTS, CHINA [...] (C) In a long, wide-ranging discussion August 2, Vice Minister of Public Security (MPS) Nguyen Van Huong, Vietnam's head of "general security" and intelligence gave his frank views on a broad range of key bilateral issues including political dissidents, prisoners and detainees, religious freed [...]	2007-08-06 15:43:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC BM CM KIRF PGOV PHUM PINR PREL VM
07HANOI1415	NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES DEPART VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Four North Koreans who had taken refuge in the Danish Embassy in Hanoi left Vietnam for the ROK on July 27 via commercial air via Singapore without incident. UNHCR's Chief of Mission Vu Anh Son had met with the North Koreans, three women and one man, soon after they took refuge in the Da [...]	2007-08-08 15:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CB KN VM
07HANOI1419	AMBASSADOR'S OUTCALL WITH VIETNAM'S MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) On 30 July, Ambassador Marine conducted a final call on Senior General Phung Quang Thanh, the Minister of Defense. In their discussion, the Ambassador raised a wide range of issues including high level visits, ship visits, fullest possible accounting (MIA),International Military educatio [...]	2007-08-09 11:01:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER MARR VM
07HANOI1462	"VIETNAMESE PEOPLE MORE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR [...] (C) Ambassador Marine met with prominent cyber-dissident and former political prisoner Dr. Pham Hong Son, who is under house arrest, and his wife, Vu Thuy Ha, at their Hanoi home on August 9. Son, best known for his 2002 arrest and imprisonment for his translation and dissemination of a democ [...]	2007-08-14 17:05:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PINR PREL ELAB VM
07HANOI1463	UNHCR ON CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, STATELESS KHMERS [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-14 17:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CB VM
07HANOI1464	AMBASSADOR'S ENGAGES VIETNAMESE LEADERSHIP ON HEALTH ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: As part of his series of farewell calls on Vietnamese leaders, Ambassador Marine met separately with Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Truong Vinh Trong and former Minister of Health (MOH) Tran Thi Trung Chien to discuss health issues, particularly HIV/AIDS. Ambassador Marine pushed [...]	2007-08-14 17:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV KFLU TBIO PREL PGOV SOCI VM
07HANOI1475	GVN'S PETROL PRICE LIBERALIZATION - A SHORT-LIVED [...] (SBU) Summary: A May 1 Government of Vietnam (GVN) regulation on oil and petrol management allows enterprises greater autonomy in setting retail petrol prices. The GVN made it clear, however, that this autonomy only extended so far - with Hanoi reserving the right to step in if petrol price in [...]	2007-08-17 17:29:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EPET ETRD ENRG VM
07HANOI1476	Second Joint Advisory Committee on Agent Orange and Dioxin [...] (SBU) Summary. The second U.S.-Vietnam Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) on the health and environmental effects of Agent Orange (AO) and dioxin reviewed the significant cooperation on environmental and health issues between the two sides since the first JAC in 2006, particularly related to the o [...]	2007-08-17 17:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV TBIO KPAO VM
07HANOI1542	CREATIVE PUSH FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH - HR [...] (C) Summary: Dissident and former National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Fellow Le Quoc Quan informed Poloffs during an August 24 meeting that he and eight other leading human rights dissidents are planning a protest at the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi. On the surface, the purpose of the protest [...]	2007-08-28 17:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM VM CH
07HANOI1550	NEW CZARS IN THE MAKING? THE NEW DPM PORTFOLIOS [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung signed a Decision this week assigning duties and portfolios to himself and his five Deputy Prime Ministers (DPMs),two of which are newly-created positions. Broadly defined, the Prime Minister will oversee all Government of Vietnam (GVN) operatio [...]	2007-08-29 17:08:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EFIN VM
07HANOI156	HANI RATCHETS UP PRESSURE ON PRESS [...] (SBU) Politburo member Truong Tan Sang recently called on the Communist Partyof Vietnam to strengthen "management of the press" by amending legal documents on press activities nd improving media workers' "political stances, kills and ethics." Sang's speech followed several high-profile GVN mea [...]	2007-01-26 08:52:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCOR VM KPAO
07HANOI1562	VIETNAM LOWERS TARIFFS ON WIDE RANGE OF FOODS AND ANIMAL FEEDS [...] On August 3, 2007 the Government Office of Vietnam issued directive No.18/2007/CT-TTg entitled Urgent Measures to Restrain Market Prices. The directive made significant reductions for a number of foods and animal feeds, most of which have seen significant price increases recently on the world m [...]	2007-08-30 17:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD WTRO TBIO PINR SOCI VM USTR

07HANOI1570	Vietnam Starts to Organize Oil Pollution Policy [...] (SBU) Summary. Government of Vietnam (GVN) environmental officials say that the GVN has begun to better coordinate its response to oil pollution that plagued the nation's coastlines in the first half of 2007. The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) now chairs an inter-ag [...]	2007-09-04 08:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG EPET VM
07HANOI161	HANOI RATCHETS UP PRESSURE ON PRESS [...] (SBU) Politburo member Truong Tan Sang recently called on the Communist Party of Vietnam to strengthen "management of the press" by amending legal documents on press activities and improving media workers' "political stances, skills and ethics." Sang's speech followed several high-profile GVN [...]	2007-01-26 09:44:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCOR VM KPAO
07HANOI1627	AMBASSADOR MICHALAK AND MARD MINISTER PHAT DISCUSS AGRICULTURAL TRADE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) Summary: During his September 10 courtesy call with Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Cao Duc Phat, Ambassador Michalak advocated on behalf of U.S. agricultural products, praised Vietnam's adherence to international agricultural standards, and thanked Phat for Vietnam [...]	2007-09-12 08:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR TBIO SOCI WTRO KFLU VM
07HANOI1653	CODEL CHAMBLISS ENGAGES VIETNAM'S LEADERSHIP, [...] (C) A bipartisan United States Senate delegation led by Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia held meetings in Hanoi August 29 with senior GVN leaders, including SRV President Nguyen Minh Triet, the Vice-Chairman of Vietnam's parliament, and Vice-Ministers of Defense and Public Security. The me [...]	2007-09-14 17:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	CN OREP OVIP PGOV PHUM PINR PREL VM
07HANOI1683	UNDERGROUND DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS SAY PARTY FEELING [...] (C) High-profile political dissidents Dr. Pham Hong Son and Nguyen Vu Binh, both recently released from prison and under house arrest, remain active with the moderate Democratic Party of Vietnam (DPV) underground pro-democracy group. On September 10, Embassy PolOffs visited separately and wit [...]	2007-09-20 14:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL VM
07HANOI1693	VIETNAM REACTION TO IRF REPORT: INACCURATE BUT POSITIVE [...] (SBU) Vietnamese media coverage on the release of the 2007 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report was widespread, accurate and uniformly more positive than in previous years. Following a Mission press release alerting journalists to the report's release, initial stories were straightforwa [...]	2007-09-24 10:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF OPRC KPAO VM
07HANOI1729	VIETNAM'S INFLATIONARY CONUNDRUM [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam is not sure how to tackle growing inflation, which reached a 20-month high of 8.8% in September. Government efforts to maintain simultaneously a stable exchange rate, low interest rates and open capital markets run smack into the "impossible trinity" of economic theory. [...]	2007-10-01 17:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EAID ECON PREL VM
07HANOI1749	BUILDING TIES AND URGING REFORM IN VIETNAM'S ICT SECTOR [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy traveled to Vietnam to participate in the first-ever U.S.-Vietnam Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Commercial Dialogue on September 17-18. The Dialogue, an interagency [...]	2007-10-04 16:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ECON ETRD KIPR VM
07HANOI1756	NEW MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE SHARES HIS PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) This cable contains biographical information for INR/B in para 14. 2. (SBU) Summary: New Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang and the Ambassador discussed ways to enhance bilateral trade and investment, such as through a Bilateral Investment Treaty, GVN approval for pending U.S [...]	2007-10-05 10:27:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECPS KTEX ECON WTRO KIPR VM
07HANOI1759	VIETNAM: SUPPORT LIKELY FOR UNGA RESOLUTION CONDEMNING [...] (SBU) On October 4, Poloff met with MFA IO Department Human Rights Section Chief Dang Tran Nam Trung to deliver reftel points and a copy of the draft resolution "Condemning the Use of Rape as an Instrument of State Policy." Trung expressed appreciation to the U.S. Government for raising the is [...]	2007-10-05 14:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PHUM UN KWMN SOCI VM
07HANOI1763	"WE EAT EVERYTHING ON FOUR LEGS EXCEPT THE TABLE": [...] (U) Summary: Domestic consumption and regional exports of wild animal products threaten Vietnam's once-abundant wildlife. Vietnamese craving for wild meat and animal-based traditional medicines seemingly trump conservation concerns. Lack of high-level political will hamstring Government of Vi [...]	2007-10-09 08:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV SOCI EAGR VM
07HANOI1801	AMBASSADOR'S CALL WITH VIETNAM'S MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador, accompanied by Defense Attache, met with Vietnam Minister of Defense, Senior General Phung Quang Thanh, on 19 September 2007 for an introductory call. After a warm welcome, Minister Thanh noted that Vietnam seeks to increase defense cooperation with the United States, [...]	2007-10-17 02:53:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PGOV PTER VM
07HANOI1813	INFLATION A CONCERN BUT NOT OUT OF CONTROL [...] (SBU) Summary: While people are not happy about higher prices, including double-digit percentage increases of some food staples, there has been little commotion in Vietnam in response to rising inflation. The strength of economic growth has mitigated the impact of inflation, while incomes con [...]	2007-10-19 09:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV VM
07HANOI1836	USG AND GVN CONDUCT 2007 LABOR DIALOGUE IN HANOI [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and Vietnam's Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) conducted their fifth labor dialogue on October 22 in Hanoi. Deputy Undersecretary of Labor for International Affairs (DUS) Charlotte M. Ponticelli led the U.S. delegation a [...]	2007-10-26 05:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EAID ECON ETRD EINV WTRO VM
07HANOI1849	USCIRF MEETING WITH VIETNAMESE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-29 08:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF VM
07HANOI1850	USCIRF MEETINGS WITH HANOI ARCHBISHOP AND ECVN PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-29 08:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
07HANOI1858	VIETNAM SCENESETTER FOR COMMERCE SECRETARY CARLOS [...] (U) Your visit, coming almost one year after President Bush's, is well timed to press Vietnam to continue its rapid pace of opening to the world. The national leadership remains eager to learn from the United States on economic matters, and will be attentive to what you have to say. Your visi [...]	2007-10-30 08:16:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EINV KCOR PGOV SOCI VM
07HANOI1862	CHANGING VIETNAMESE ATTITUDES ON AGENT ORANGE/DIOXIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Changes in Vietnam and U.S.-Vietnam relations, combined with a maturing Vietnamese approach to public health, are leading to positive shifts in Vietnamese attitudes on the issue of Agent Orange (AO) and its contaminent dioxin. While long-standing Government of Vietnam (GVN) pro [...]	2007-10-31 03:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV TBIO KPAO VM
07HANOI1869	VIETNAM: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MINISTER OF NATURAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 30, the Ambassador paid an introductory courtesy call on Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Khoi Pham. Pham said his ministry's main environmental challenges include the management of solid waste, air and water pollution, and natural disaster mitigat [...]	2007-11-01 03:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON KSCA TBIO VM
07HANOI1892	2007-2008 INCSR PART I -- VIETNAM [...] The following is Embassy Hanoi's submission for the narcotics section of the 2007-2008 INCSR. 2. Begin INCSR text: Vietnam I. Summary The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continued to make progress in its counternarcotics efforts during 2007. Specific actions included: sustained effor [...]	2007-11-06 00:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR VM
07HANOI1932	GVN LEADERS URGE BURMA'S PM TO PURSUE RECONCILIATION; [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 9, Burma's Prime Minister Thein Sein arrived in Hanoi for introductory meetings with GVN leaders. According to Vietnamese officials, PM Sein's message focused on the Burma regime's cooperation with the UN, its progress on restoring order and its plans to transition t [...]	2007-11-14 07:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL BM VM
07HANOI1935	HANOI REACTION TO USCIRF VISIT [...] (C) The recent visit to Vietnam by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has generated strong negative reactions within certain circles of the GVN. GVN criticism has centered primarily on what was widely considered inappropriate behavior by USCIRF members in [...]	2007-11-14 10:07:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PINR PREL VM
07HANOI1950	VIETNAM "OPEN FOR BUSINESS": GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez led a large-scale Department of Commerce Vietnam Business Development Mission to Hanoi on November 5 and 6. This first Cabinet level business development mission to Vietnam carried the theme of U.S. business support for Vietnam's economic [...]	2007-11-16 09:00:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND EINV ETRD BEXP KTEX OTRA OVIP KIPR VM
07HANOI1961	GVN OPPOSES COUNTRY-SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-20 01:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNGA UN VM
07HANOI1966	SCENESETTER FOR ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR [...] (SBU) Acting Assistant Secretary Mull: Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit will be an important contribution to the growing U.S.-Vietnam relationship, especially in advance of Vietnam taking its seat on the UNSC next year. Your visit comes on the heels of Novem [...]	2007-11-20 07:37:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV OTRA VM
07HANOI2011	APPROVAL OF VIETNAM'S DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW POSITIVE, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 21, 2007, the GVN National Assembly passed the long-awaited Law on Domestic Violence, aimed at preventing and punishing acts of domestic violence. Domestic violence continues to be prevalent in Vietnam, particularly in remote and rural areas. The passage of the Law [...]	2007-11-29 06:27:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI VM
07HANOI2013	INFLATION IN VIETNAM HITS 10 PERCENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's Consumer Price Index (CPI) has hit a record high of 10% year-on-year for the month of November, continuing an eleven-month trend of accelerating inflation. High inflation will likely continue because of the recent increase in fuel prices and retail price hikes for the [...]	2007-11-29 07:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV VM
07HANOI2019	FOREIGN MINISTER ENGAGES DONOR AMBASSADORS ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 28 meeting, ambassadors from key donor countries engaged Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem in an exchange on human rights issues. Discussion at the event, hosted by DPM Khiem, focused largely on the recent appellate hearing of two human rights l [...]	2007-11-30 07:16:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM BM CONS VM
07HANOI2033	USCIRF MEETS WITH GVN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) On October 22, a delegation of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) met with Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Nguyen Van Son and deputies of the National Assembly (NA - Vietnam's parliament) to discuss the NA's oversight and legislative role in prot [...]	2007-12-04 05:50:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PREL PGOV ASEC VM
07HANOI2040	USCIRF MEETING WITH VIETNAM'S COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 01:59:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF VM
07HANOI2051	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT BY COMMANDER, UNITED STATES [...] (SBU) Admiral, your visit to Vietnam is well timed to complement the successes of recent trips by other senior civilian and military leaders and will be an important contribution to the growing U.S.-Vietnam relationship, especially in advance of Vietnam taking its seat on the UNSC next year. [...]	2007-12-07 04:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS MOPS PHSA VM
07HANOI2053	MONRE MINISTER DETAILS VIETNAMESE CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY [...] (SBU) On December 7, Ambassador Michalak met with Vietnamese Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) Nguyen Khoi Pham to highlight U.S. efforts to combat climate change and our desire to play a productive role in the ongoing UN Climate Conference in Bali (ref A). Pham noted the li [...]	2007-12-07 09:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM
07HANOI210	COMMANDER, U.S. PACIFIC FLEET KICKSTARTS NAVAL [...] (C) During a recent visit to Hanoi and Hai Phong, Vietnam, the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Gary Roughead, proposed a range of new initiatives intended to broaden U.S.-Vietnam naval cooperation, including cooperation in the fields of Meteorological-Oceanographic (METOC) predict [...]	2007-01-31 10:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PHSA VM
07HANOI221	PARTY PLENUM: WILL POLITICAL REFORMS ENHANCE GVN [...] (C) Summary: The Communist Party of Vietnam's Central Committee recently met for the fourth time since last April's Party Congress to discuss policy and personnel directives. Central Committee members reached consensus on reducing from eleven to six the number of Party commissions that review [...]	2007-02-02 10:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM VM
07HANOI232	Vietnam's Ministry of Finance Reaches Out [...] (SBU) Summay: In a letter dated January 23 from Vietnamese Vic Minister of Finance Tran Xuan Ha to U.S. Treasuy Undersecretary for International Affairs Timoty Adams, Ha formally expressed the Government ofVietnam's (GVN) interest in receiving technical ssistance in developing three areas: tax [...]	2007-02-05 09:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EINV VM
07HANOI261	ABN-AMRO TRIES TO SETTLE CASE, CITIBANK COULD BE NEXT [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials of the Dutch Bank ABN-AMR provided an update on the bank's ordeal in trying to settle criminal and civil charges regarding allegedly unauthorized foreign exchange deals with the state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank (Incombank) of Vietnam (Ref B). The ABN-AMRO repr [...]	2007-02-09 11:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EINV VM
07HANOI271	VISIT TO VIETNAM BY SENIOR AG BIOTECH ADVISOR SHARON [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology Sharon Wiener visited Vietnam from January 23 to 26 during an important moment in the country's agbiotech development. The advance of agbiotech is an official national priority in Vietnam. In August 2005, the Prime Minister issued a [...]	2007-02-12 09:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO OTRA EAGR ETRD EAID KPAO VM
07HANOI273	THE GVN REPORTS ON TWO YEARS OF THE NEW FRAMEWORK ON [...] (SBU) On February 1, the GVN issued its second report on the implementation of its new framework on religion. Comments at the official unveiling were largely desultory, though the GVN did make an unusual acknowledgement that it has faced difficulties implementing its policies at the local leve [...]	2007-02-13 03:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM VM
07HANOI275	PM'S VATICAN VISIT TO BE FOLLOWED BY PAPAL VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung's January 25 visit to the Vatican has elicited guarded optimism from Catholics and GVN officials alike that both sides are moving closer to normalizing diplomatic relations. Recent efforts by the GVN to upgrade an important shrine in southern Vietnam may i [...]	2007-02-13 08:09:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
07HANOI280	VIETNAM'S NOMINATION FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ACTIVITIES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Mission Vietnam submits this activity proposal for consideration under the Avian Influenza Action Group's (AIAG) program to promote public diplomacy and communicate U.S. foreign policy objectives (reftel). The proposal, "Capacity Strengthening for Public Health Journalism to Co [...]	2007-02-14 04:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TBIO KFLU KPAO KSCA EAGR AID AMGT VM
07HANOI286	PRM A/S SAUERBREY DISCUSSES REFUGEES, RESETTLEMENT WITH MFA [...] (SBU) On February 5, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration Ellen Sauerbrey met with MFA Assistant Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and MFA Consular Department Deputy Director General Nguyen Minh Vu in separate meetings. During the meeting with AFM Minh, A/S Sauerbr [...]	2007-02-14 09:42:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PREF VM
07HANOI287	A/S SAUERBREY DISCUSSES POPULATION, SOCIAL ISSUES AND TIP [...] (SBU) On February 5, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Ellen Sauerbrey met separately with the GVN's Commission for Population, Family and Children and the National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs. Commission Vice-Chairman Nguyen Ba Thuy discussed Vietnam [...]	2007-02-14 09:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF KWMN PGOV SOCI VM
07HANOI288	PRM A/S SAUERBREY MEETS WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN [...] (SBU) On February 5, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration Ellen Sauerbrey met separately with representatives of UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Hanoi. In her UNHCR meeting, UNHCR officials discussed in familiar terms the organizat [...]	2007-02-14 10:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PREF KWMN SOCI VM CB
07HANOI290	TREASURY LETTER DELIVERED ON CAPITAL CONTROLS [...] (SBU) Summary. While no senior Vietnamese officials were willing to talk on the phone with Treasury about capital controls, a cooperative Office of Government official was amenable to receiving written comments. Embassy delivered a letter from Treasury DAS Dohner to Mr. Hung that discussed t [...]	2007-02-14 10:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EINV VM
07HANOI291	PM DZUNG'S ONLINE CHAT: POWER TO THE PEOPLE? [...] (C) Summary: On February 9, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung went online for over two hours to answer questions on a variety of topics, including corruption, the economy, the media and even his personal life. The GVN says the Internet chats are geared toward increasing its "transparency of ope [...]	2007-02-14 10:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KCOR KPAO PHUM VM
07HANOI300	HUNG RESPONDS UNOFFICIALLY BUT POSITIVELY TO TREASURY [...] (SBU) Responding to the letter from Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Robert Dohner we delivered on February 14 (Ref B),Mr. Bui SIPDIS Huy Hung, International Relations Director in the Prime Minister's Office informally conveyed to us a message acknowledging his reception of the letter. [...]	2007-02-15 09:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EINV VM
07HANOI302	JOINT DEMARCHE ON PSI DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 15, the CDA joined with the Australian, New Zealand and Japanese ambassadors to deliver points on PSI to Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang, as instructed in reftel. In response, VFM Bang reiterated the GVN's policy of case-by-case cooperation to interdict suspected [...]	2007-02-15 10:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KNNP PREL VM
07HANOI310	USG OFFICIALS DISCUSS TIFA, IPR AND TRADE IMPLEMENTATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials from USTR and the Department of Commerce discussed a range of current trade issues with Government of Vietnam (GVN) officials during a Febrary 6-9 visit to Hanoi, including: a potential Tade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA); itellectual property rights (IPR) e [...]	2007-02-22 06:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON ECPS KIPR EAGR USTR VM
07HANOI325	VIETNAM OFFICIALS EAGER TO ENTER GSP PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with USTR visitors, Government of Vietnam officials expressed a strong interest in applying for the GSP program as soon as possible. USTR GSP Executive Director Marideth Sandler explained the GSP program and eligibility criteria to a 25-person forum of government of [...]	2007-02-23 07:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAID ELAB KIPR VM
07HANOI337	ADDITIONAL EXCHANGES ON CAPITAL CONTROLS [...] (SBU) Summary. Following Embassy's delivery of initial letter from Treasury DAS Robert Dohner to Mr. Hung in the Prime Minister's office, there was an additional exchange between them on the issue of capital controls. Hung appreciated Treasury's comments, informed his superiors, and expected [...]	2007-02-23 10:27:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EINV VM
07HANOI374	VIETNAM GVN COMMENTS PUBLICLY ON CAPITAL CONTROLS [...] (C) Summary: Both privately and via public statements, Government of Vietnam (GVN) officials have reiterated assertions that Vietnam has no current plan to impose capital controls on foreign investors to cool down the country's stock market. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung provided th [...]	2007-02-28 10:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ETRD EINV VM
07HANOI404	VIETNAM SUPPORTS MAINTAINING ITA DUTY-FREE COVERAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 1 meeting, the Ministry of Trade's (MOT) Multilateral Trade Policy Department Deputy Director General, Luong Hoang Thai, expressed support for the U.S. position on maintaining duty-free coverage of information technology (IT) products covered under the World Trade Orga [...]	2007-03-02 07:56:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTRO VM
07HANOI425	PM DZUNG INSTRUCTS GVN AGENCIES TO PURCHASE COPYRIGHTED [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 22, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung issued Instruction No. 04/2007/CT-TTg calling on government agencies to strengthen software copyright protection in compliance with Vietnam's international copyright protection commitments. This new policy delegates specific respo [...]	2007-03-05 10:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON WTRO VM
07HANOI440	DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER PHAM GIA KHIEM'S AMCHAM LUNCHEON [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem delivered a less-than-spectacular performance at an off-the-record American Chamber of Commerce-hosted luncheon on March 7, 2007. Though the self-interested questions of luncheon participants were partly responsible for the q [...]	2007-03-07 10:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV ETRD OVIP VM
07HANOI486	U.S. AID -- INFLUENCING THE FUTURE OF VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. foreign assistance programs in Vietnam, though low in dollar figures, are having a huge, direct impact in shaping Vietnam's reform program. Government of Vietnam (GVN) decision-makers seemingly cannot stop praising our flagship STAR (Support for Trade AcceleRation) program, [...]	2007-03-13 10:07:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EFIN ETRD ECON PREL VM
07HANOI504	STREET CHILDREN: VIETNAM'S NOT SO HIDDEN [...] (SBU) Unreliable data, allegations of periodic government round-ups and employment in the black market and other illegal sectors are prominent features of Vietnam's street children problem. Although the GVN is quick to defend its record, many observers note that the government's slow developme [...]	2007-03-15 09:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN SOCI PGOV PHUM VM
07HANOI652	GVN MAKES EXCUSES FOR APRIL 5 INCIDENT, DISSIDENT FAMILY [...] (SBU) On April 6, a local security official told Poloff that the altercation at the Ambassador's residence on April 5 (reftel) was the result of "local officials acting without orders, to protect the Ambassador." As for the five invitees to the Ambassador's residence, over the weekend we were [...]	2007-04-08 10:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC VM
07HANOI69	POLITBURO COMMISSIONS STUDIES ON POLITICAL REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Vietnam's 14-member Politburo has tasked a little-known group of intellectuals and former and current Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) leaders to examine Vietnam's (and other countries') political systems and recommend possible political reforms in accordance with Vietnam's "polit [...]	2007-01-11 10:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV VM
07HANOI720	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DISCUSSES PRISONER AMNESTY, REORGANIZES [...] (SBU) The National Assembly (NA) convened March 20 for its 11th and final session prior to its May 20 elections. Prior to wrapping up its abridged spring session on April 2, the legislature debated a new draft Amnesty Law and, in discussions with the Office of the Government and the Ministry o [...]	2007-04-18 06:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM VM
07HANOI733	VIETNAM ANTI-TIP PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP FY 2007 [...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam recommends the para 3's five anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) project proposals for G/TIP FY 2007 funding. 2. (SBU) Post will forward to G/TIP the proposal and budgetary materials related to the five proposals. Mission recommends full funding of all five of these str [...]	2007-04-20 07:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN VM
07HANOI763	PSI: VIETNAM PARTICIPATES IN OUTREACH FORUM [...] (SBU) On April 25, Poloff met with MFA International Organizations Department officer Nguyen Thi Van Anh to obtain a readout on her attendance at the PSI Outreach Forum held in Auckland on March 29. (Note: Anh had been traveling until only recently. End Note.) The focus of the forum was to p [...]	2007-04-25 07:29:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KNNP VM
07HANOI782	MFA DELIVERS MESSAGE: STOP SUPPORTING POLITICAL ACTIVISTS [...] (SBU) On April 27, the Ambassador was called in by MFA Americas Department Director General Pham Van Que to receive a message from the "highest GVN authorities" concerning the Ambassador's and Embassy's "support for political activists." The text of the message is provided in paragraph four b [...]	2007-04-27 10:14:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV VM
07HANOI816	HOW ECONOMIC DECISIONS GET MADE IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: In place since June of 2006, Vietnam's Prime Minister and his deputy have taken greater control of economic policy and its implementation, increasingly dominating the traditional consensus decision-making process of the Politburo. While Hanoi-based economists state that the Commu [...]	2007-05-04 10:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD WTRO PREL PGOV VM
07HANOI83	MFA OFFICIALS DISCUSS RANGE OF CURRENT BILATERAL TOPICS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a January 9 meeting with the DCM, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Department Director General Pham Van Que said that Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem has not yet decided on dates for travel to the United States. Que proposed several potentia [...]	2007-01-12 10:00:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL AMGT ABLD ECON ETRD VM
07HANOI830	VIETNAM 2007 SPECIAL 301 NOTIFICATION DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Economic Counselor delivered reftel demarche points by a phone call to Ministry of Trade (MOT) Multilateral Trade Policy Department Director General Tran Quoc Khanh on April 30 and in person to MOT Americas Trade Policy Department Deputy Director General Nguyen Hong Dzuong on May 2. Due [...]	2007-05-07 10:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR VM
07HANOI849	U.S.-ASEAN BUSINESS COUNCIL BOTH OPTIMISTIC AND CONCERNED [...] (SBU) Summary: Eighteen U.S. business representatives delivered a message of optimism mixed with concern during a mission of the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) to Hanoi on May 3 and 4. The highlight of the mission's two-day series of meetings with Government of Vietnam (GVN) officials, mo [...]	2007-05-09 08:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD BTIO EINV WTRO PREL PGOV VM
07HANOI890	(U) SAMPLE SHARING AND VACCINE ACCESS IN VIETNAM [...] (U) As requested (reftel),below is the Mission's assessment of the position of the Government of Vietnam (GVN) with regard to sharing H5N1 avian influenza (AI) samples. 2. (SBU) The GVN supports the World Health Organization (WHO) policy on sharing of (AI) viral samples and readily shares a [...]	2007-05-15 10:37:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AORC PREL PNIR KFLU WHO OTRA VM
07HANOI932	AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH FINANCE, STATE BANK: OVERVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: This message provides overview and general comment on Ambassador Marine's May 17 and 18 meetings with Vietnam's Minister of Finance and State Bank Governor. A series of five septels will report on individual agenda items. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Ambassador Marine met Minister [...]	2007-05-21 10:07:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ETRD EAID KIPR PGOV CASC VM
07HANOI935	AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH STATE BANK, FINANCE ON CAPITAL [...] (SBU) Summary: When asked about GVN thinking on ways to address overheating in securities markets by the Ambassador during separate meetings on May 17 and 18, the State Bank Governor and the Finance Minister showed no hesitation in embracing the market approach (but did not explicitly rule ou [...]	2007-05-21 10:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EAID VM
07HARARE1002	BFIF FUNDING ONCE AGAIN CATALYZES PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) On October 2, for the second consecutive year, the American Business Association of Zimbabwe (ABAZ),generously supported by the Business Facilitation and Incentive Fund (BFIF) and the private secto [...]	2007-11-07 14:48:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV ZI
07HARARE1003	ZIMBABWE INFLATION REQHES 60,000 PERCENT [...] (C) PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) put the annual (monthly) rate of increase in the cost of living for low, middle and high-income earners in October at 73,221 percent (181 percent),62,414 percent (123 percent),and 68,609 percent (174 percent) respectively. TM Supermarkets shared its October [...]	2007-11-07 14:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV ZI
07HARARE102	MUGABE RESHUFFLES HIS CABINET--GONO TRIUMPHANT, [...] (U) Summary. In what the MDC spokesperson termed as "rearranging the deck of a sinking Titanic," President Mugabe yesterday carried out a long-expected cabinet reshuffle. With the exception of the sacking of Minister of Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa and the replacement of Minister of Agri [...]	2007-02-07 15:47:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ZI
07HARARE1041	CREDENTIALS PRESENTATION UNEVENTFUL [...] (C) Ambassador presented credentials to GOZ President Robert Mugabe at 10 am on Thursday, November 22. Also presenting on November 22 were Ambassadors from Australia, Russia and Mexico (the latter resident in Pretoria). Over tea following the US presentation, Mugabe recounted his views on th [...]	2007-11-23 07:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ZI
07HARARE1042	CASH SHORTAGE HITS ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Zimbabwe is in the throes of a cash shortage crisis that could threaten the stability of the financial sector. With the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) providing commercial banks with less than half their cash requirement, bank account holders are able to withdraw only a fraction of their [...]	2007-11-23 09:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV ZI
07HARARE1053	KUDOS FOR LUSAKA,S ASSISTANCE IN TRANSFORMATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-26 15:16:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	APER ZI ZA
07HARARE1073	Zim Notes November 30, 2007 [...] The Embassy Harare Political/Economic Section began producing Zim Notes in July, 2007 to present a perspective on current events in Zimbabwe. Suggestions are always welcome. If you would like to receive Zim Notes by email, as well, please contact Frances Chisholm at chisholmfm@state.gov. Dist [...]	2007-11-30 09:56:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
07HARARE1091	WORLD BANK MISSION DEPARTS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (SBU) A World Bank mission which visited Harare November 22-30 reported skyrocketing hyperinflation, a shrinking tax revenue base, and out-of-control public spending that only comprehensive, mutually reinforcing policy reforms could begin to reverse. The GOZ, however, is about to announce a o [...]	2007-12-06 13:18:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV ZI
07HARARE1093	Zim Notes December 7, 2007 [...] The Embassy Harare Political/Economic Section began producing Zim Notes in July, 2007 to present a perspective on current events in Zimbabwe. Suggestions are always welcome. If you would like to receive Zim Notes by email, as well, please contact Frances Chisholm at chisholmfm@state.gov. Dist [...]	2007-12-07 10:51:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
07HARARE1118	ZIMBABWE,S MULTIPLE EXCHANGE RATES, [...] (SBU) Players in Zimbabwe's formal and informal economy primarily use three different exchange rates: a grossly overvalued official rate that is forced on exporters but a source of patronage for the ruling party in selling forex; a parallel rate for cash, which has become extremely scarce rec [...]	2007-12-14 10:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV AMGT ZI
07HARARE1119	Zim Notes December 14, 2007 [...] The Embassy Harare Political/Economic Section began producing Zim Notes in July, 2007 to present a perspective on current events in Zimbabwe. Suggestions are always welcome. If you would like to receive Zim Notes by email, as well, please contact Frances Chisholm at chisholmfm@state.gov. Dist [...]	2007-12-14 10:30:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
07HARARE1125	SADC TALKS CONTINUE; MDC TO PRESENT UNITED FRONT [...] (C) SADC talks, stalemated over MDC demands for implementation of a new constitution and electoral reforms before elections and for an election date later than March, are continuing. The MDC presented its case last weekend to South African president Thabo Mbeki who promised to talk to Zimbab [...]	2007-12-17 15:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC ZI
07HARARE1130	ZIMBABWE HUNTING SUPPORTS REGIME INSIDERS AND [...] (C) Summary. Despite a 50 percent decline in receipts since 2004, the $17.5 million a year safari hunting business remains an important source of foreign currency in Zimbabwe. At least 12 regime insiders on the U.S. financial sanctions list reportedly have interests in the industry. Hunting [...]	2007-12-19 12:36:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SENV ZI
07HARARE1134	GONO DODGES EFFECTIVE REFORM IN SIMPLY ISSUING NEW [...] (C) Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gono announced the issuance of new, higher-denominated bearer cheques on December 19, 2007 and the withdrawal of the previously largest note as a move against cash hoarders. He did not remove any zeros from the currency. Two days later, Zimbabwe [...]	2007-12-21 09:05:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV ZI
07HARARE1135	Zim Notes December 21, 2007 [...] The Embassy Harare Political/Economic Section began producing Zim Notes in July, 2007 to present a perspective on current events in Zimbabwe. Suggestions are always welcome. If you would like to receive Zim Notes by email, as well, please contact Frances Chisholm at chisholmfm@state.gov. Dist [...]	2007-12-21 10:33:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
07HARARE1137	IMF MISSION CHIEF WARNS THAT ZIMBABWE'S [...] (C) IMF Mission Chief Robert Sharer on December 13 told a gathering of ambassadors from donor countries that Zimbabwe's economic situation was gloomy and worsening. Inflation had begun to grow exponentially and had probably reached 100,000 percent. Real output had probably contracted by about [...]	2007-12-28 09:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV ZI
07HARARE116	MUGABE'S GRIP LIMITS ECONOMIC REFORM [...] (C) Muyaradzi Kereke, Senior Advisor to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono, told econoff on February 9 that Gono would seek permission from President Mugabe to allow a devaluation of the currency for the donor community. To make the policy shift palatable to Mugabe, Gono woul [...]	2007-02-13 17:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ELAB PGOV ZI
07HARARE14	ZIMBABWE 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE [...] (U) The Government of Zimbabwe's corruption and mismanagement have severely crippled the local economy making it unlikely to attract or absorb significant foreign direct investment in 2007. GDP has declined by 40 percent in the past 6 years, the largest peacetime drop ever recorded. Inflatio [...]	2007-01-05 10:08:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV
07HARARE172	AMBASSADOR VISITS ZIMBABWE'S PREMIER PLATINUM [...] (SBU) On February 6, Zimplats executives guided Ambassador Dell on a day-long tour of the company's platinum mining and processing operations in the second largest platinum deposit in the world. Having made peace, temporarily at least, with the GOZ under pressure of expropriation by ceding a [...]	2007-03-07 14:43:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ECON PGOV ZI
07HARARE205	SIGNS OF INDEPENDENCE IN ZIMBABWE'S PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Ruling party and opposition legislators in Parliament's 14 portfolio committees have demonstrated a growing willingness to challenge executive authority. The MPs have worked to conduct bipartisan public hearings, question ministers, and produce reports critical of the GOZ. This new-found [...]	2007-03-14 14:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
07HARARE217	ZIMBABWE - INPUT FOR 2007 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON [...] Zimbabwe continues to fall far short of AGOA's qualifying criteria. Post's input for the 2007 President's Report on AGOA (reftel) follows: ------------------------------ Market Economy/Economic Reform ------------------------------ 2. The Zimbabwean Government (GOZ) pays lip service to [...]	2007-03-16 09:37:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ELAB PHUM PGOV ZI
07HARARE232	RECOMMENDATIONS TO STRENGTHEN FINANCIAL AND VISA [...] (SBU) U.S. sanctions have played a key role in putting pressure on the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ). Post believes that now is the time to deepen and expand the financial and visa sanctions, and to apply further pressure on the regime as it increasingly shows signs of crumbling and fragmentin [...]	2007-03-20 11:25:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS EFIN PGOV PHUM PINR PREL ZI
07HARARE270	JONATHAN MOYO ON MUGABE SUCCESSION, U.S. POLICY [...] (C) Jonathan Moyo, former Minister of Information and erstwhile Mugabe intimate, told the Ambassador March 30 that Mugabe is aware that there is diminishing support for him within ZANU-PF and around the country. However, if Mugabe decides to run for president again in 2008, Moyo said it is u [...]	2007-03-30 12:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
07HARARE319	SUBJECT: DIAMONDS: THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE,S [...] (C) Zimbabwe is at risk of losing its Kimberley Process Certification as a result of the how the GOZ has handled the discovery of diamond deposits in Eastern Zimbabwe. The state-owned Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) seized the deposits from African Consolidated Resources (ACR) [...]	2007-04-13 07:41:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EMIN ETRD ZI
07HARARE350	ZIMBABWE: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS SOLICITATION FOR [...] (U) In response to reftel, Embassy Harare forwards the following five summary excerpts from anti-trafficking proposals submitted by International Organization for Migration (IOM),Save the Children Norway, Musasa Project, Girl Child Network and Human Rights Trust of Southern Africa (SAHRIT). T [...]	2007-04-26 06:36:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL ZI
07HARARE38	HARARE BFIF PROJECT PROPOSAL [...] (U) Embassy Harare proposes to draw on the Business Facilitation and Incentive Fund (BFIF) to sponsor two events: in order of priority, a sequel to the successful October 2006 BFIF-funded "Just Business" forum (Ref A); and a one-day trade fair with the theme of intellectual property rights ( [...]	2007-01-18 09:02:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ABUD AMGT BEXP BTIO ECON ETRD KIPR ZI
07HARARE385	DUTY PAYABLE IN FOREX CRASHES BOOMING USED CAR [...] (SBU) As of April 6, the GOZ is requiring that duty and other taxes be paid in foreign exchange on a range of items recently declared luxury goods, from most passenger vehicles to suitcases and mirrors. The policy shift closed a loophole that had made the used car market the hottest new busi [...]	2007-05-07 15:17:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PGOV ZI
07HARARE413	GONO TINKERS AS ECONOMIC CRISIS DEEPENS [...] (C) Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gono failed to address the structural problems underlying Zimbabwe,s hyperinflation and contracting production in his April 26 interim Monetary Policy Statement (MPS). Gono announced an implicit devaluation of the currency, but it fell far short of [...]	2007-05-11 08:54:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ETRD EMIN PGOV ZI
07HARARE485	MUJURU LIEUTENANT PITCHES FOR USG SUPPORT [...] (C) David Butau, ZANU-PF MP and member of the faction allied to ex-military commander Solomon Mujuru, told poloff on May 31 that Mujuru had determined that the time to unseat President Robert Mugabe was now. Mujuru had flexed his muscle and wrested control of the party structures in Masvingo [...]	2007-06-01 08:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
07HARARE504	"MAKE A PLAN" MENTALITY CUSHIONS POPULATION, [...] (SBU) As their country's economic decline continues to gather speed, Zimbabweans of all walks of life have increasingly adopted creative coping mechanisms, captured succinctly in the phrase "make a plan" that is now on everybody's lips. These plans are innumerable, but they can be grouped in [...]	2007-06-07 14:03:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
07HARARE605	GOZ IN DOOMED BID TO END HYPERINFLATION BY FIAT [...] (SBU) On the heels of a sharp spike in inflation, the GOZ on June 25 began a populist campaign to roll retail prices back to their June 18 level. Using thuggery and intimidation, "crack teams" under a newly established Cabinet Task Force descended first on supermarkets then across the retail [...]	2007-07-10 05:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM ASEC ZI

07HARARE638	The End is Nigh [...] (C) Having said my piece repeatedly over the last three years, I won't offer a lengthy prescription for our Zimbabwe policy. My views can be stated very simply as stay the course and prepare for change. Our policy is working and it's helping to drive change here. What is required is simply [...]	2007-07-13 10:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
07HARARE657	GOZ CHARTS NEW PATH TO ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION [...] (U) The GOZ's edict to roll back prices continues to wreak havoc as panic buying and supply chain disruptions have led to widespread shortages of basic commodities. Many Zimbabweans, already struggling to make ends meet, spend hours each day standing in line to buy scarce products or executin [...]	2007-07-19 15:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ZI ASEC ECON
07HARARE687	GOZ BACKSLIDES ON FUEL IMPORTATION RESTRICTIONS [...] The Government of Zimbabwe, which two weeks ago announced an end to the use of fuel coupons for the purchase of imported fuel, and which last week in a diplomatic note stated that all fuel importation and distribution would be through the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM),has reverse [...]	2007-08-02 12:47:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON ASEC EPET ZI
07HARARE692	MUGABE'S PRIEST, FATHER FIDELIS MUKONORI [...] (C) This message responds to a request for information regarding Father Fidelis Mukonori. The Embassy meets with Fidelis from time to time. We last saw him in July. 2. (C) Father Fidelis has ties with President Mugabe and other senior ZANU-PF figures going back to the liberation struggl [...]	2007-08-03 09:05:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ZI
07HARARE712	NGO COMMUNITY TARGET OF GOZ HARASSMENT [...] (C) The GOZ's recent push to strictly enforce price controls and immigration regulations has sent shock waves through the international NGO community. In recent weeks, government officials have inspected NGO warehouses, temporarily impounded relief supplies, scrutinized the use of foreign cur [...]	2007-08-08 15:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ZI ASEC
07HARARE736	ZANU-PF OFFICIAL ON CURRENT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC [...] (C) Walter Mzembi, GOZ Deputy Minister for Water Resources and Infrastructural Development, told polecon chief that the recent price control policy had been badly mismanaged and that recovery would be difficult. The parlous economic situation was ZANU-PF's greatest enemy in next year's elect [...]	2007-08-17 11:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ZI
07HARARE76	GIDEON GONO REINVENTS GIDEON GONO [...] (C) In a January 29 meeting with the Ambassador, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono said that January 31's Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) would be "totally different" from previous statements. Gono said he would confront the governance problems that were the root cause of [...]	2007-01-30 15:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN PGOV ZI
07HARARE795	GONO ON MUGABE'S FUTURE, ECONOMY [...] (C) President Robert Mugabe has been urged by those closest to him to leave office, according to Gideon Gono, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, in a meeting with Charge on September 1. In particular, Mugabe's personal physician advised him to step down immediately to preserve his hea [...]	2007-09-05 10:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ZI
07HARARE80	GONO'S LONG-AWAITED MONETARY POLICY STATEMENT - A [...] (C) Presenting his Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) to the diplomatic and business community on January 31, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gono announced he would not devalue the currency because only a "holistic package" of reforms that addressed price distortions and achieved stake [...]	2007-02-01 14:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV ZI
07HARARE822	CABINET PANEL CONCEDES PRICE BLITZ DISASTER, GONO [...] (C) A Cabinet panel reviewing the operation of the Taskforce on Price Monitoring and Stabilization learned on September 5 that the crackdown had had a disastrous effect on the supply of food and goods and was also fomenting unrest across the country, according to Munyaradzi Kereke, Senior Adv [...]	2007-09-10 16:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ASEC ZI
07HARARE879	SANCTIONS II: SDN IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION [...] (C) This cable provides a comprehensive listing of all the material post has developed on our sanctions targets, including the updating of material in reftel. Efforts to obtain biographical information on the below-listed individuals have included: --Consular Section reviewed visa files at P [...]	2007-09-28 09:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
07HARARE881	IBBO MANDAZA ON MUGABE, ZANU-PF'S NEXT STEPS [...] (C) ZANU-PF insider and Solomon Mujuru confidante Ibbo Mandaza met with polecon chief on September 25 and discussed President Robert Mugabe's health and the state of ZANU-PF. 2. (C) Confirming Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono's comments (Reftel),Mandaza said Mugabe's Malaysian physician [...]	2007-09-28 10:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ZI
07HARARE883	SANCTIONS II: SDN IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION [...] (C) This cable provides a comprehensive listing of all the material post has developed on our sanctions targets, including the updating of material in reftel. Efforts to obtain biographical information on the below-listed individuals have included: --Consular Section reviewed visa files at P [...]	2007-10-01 10:08:00	Embassy Harare	SECRET	PREL PGOV ZI
07HARARE903	AA/DCHA HESS IMPRESSED BY PROGRAMS, BUT ALARMED BY [...] Summary: USAID Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) Michael Hess, accompanied by Special Assistant Amber Brooks, visited Harare, Bulawayo, and rural areas September 16-20 to assess humanitarian needs and programs and to consult with civil society [...]	2007-10-04 10:11:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SOCI PHUM ZI
07HARARE911	TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTION AND EMPLOYMENT IN [...] (U) The competitiveness of Zimbabwe's textile and apparel sector has been highly compromised by an unstable macroeconomic environment characterized by persistent foreign currency shortages, obsolete equipment, power outages, fuel shortages and hyperinflation. While production and employment ar [...]	2007-10-05 12:25:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KTEX ZI
07HARARE92	MDC FACTION LEADER ARTHUR MUTAMBARA: MDC UNITY [...] (C) MDC pro-Senate faction leader Arthur Mutambara told the Ambassador February 1 that cooperation between both MDC factions was necessary to defeat Mugabe. Noting that MDC anti-faction leader Morgan Tsvangirai had expressed similar sentiments in an earlier meeting (Ref),the Ambassador urged [...]	2007-02-05 14:14:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ZI
07HARARE942	FINAL PUSH ON LAND SEIZURES [...] (U) The Government of Zimbabwe, led by Minister of State for Security and Minister of Lands, Land Reform, and Resettlement Didymus Mutasa, appears intent on evicting the last approximately 350 white farmers (out of approximately 4,500 farmers when land seizures began in 2000). In the past tw [...]	2007-10-18 12:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ECON EAGR EINV ZI
07HARARE951	WILDLY INFLATIONARY NEW MONETARY POLICY [...] (SBU) Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gono issued a wildly inflationary Mid-Term Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) on October 1. With concessional loans at 25 percent interest across industry and agriculture and the promise of hard currency payments to productive grain farmers, Gono is [...]	2007-10-19 10:05:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV ZI
07HARARE952	TONGOGARA REFUGEE CAMP TRIP REPORT [...] Representatives from the Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration (PRM) Mary Lange and Nancy Jackson, accompanied by EmbOff, visited Tongogara refugee camp on September 29. Despite harsh economic conditions in Zimbabwe, the nearly 2,700 refugees in Tongogara camp are receiving adequate she [...]	2007-10-19 10:22:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM PREL ZI
07HAVANA1011	TSA DELEGATION VISIT TO CUBA: 7-22 OCTOBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: A delegation from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) visited Cuba from 7 to 22 October to assess the security of Cuban airports where U.S. (OFAC-licensed) charter flights operate: i.e., Havana, Cienfuegos, Camaguey, Santiago de Cuba, and Holguin. Interchanges with [...]	2007-10-26 07:59:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC EAIR ECON PGOV PINR PREL CU
07HAVANA1019	PRESIDENT'S SPEECH STRIKES CHORDS IN CUBA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President's October 24 speech on Cuba clearly struck several nerves on the island. Among the dissident community, especially those who attended a live screening of the speech at USINT, the speech and the appearance of close friends and relatives of Cuban political prisoners [...]	2007-10-26 16:37:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU ECON PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL
07HAVANA1029	USINT DISCUSSES POTUS SPEECH WITH LOCAL DIP CORPS [...] (C) Following up on the President's October 24 speech, USINT hosted meetings with ambassadors or their representatives from 46 embassies in Havana on October 29 and 30 to provide copies of the full text of the speech, highlight the most important points, and answer questions regarding the pr [...]	2007-10-31 18:13:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07HAVANA1036	U.S. CHARTER AIRLINES IN CUBA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is a follow-up to HAVANA 01011, regarding the 10/7-22 visit by a delegation from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). This cable addresses specifically the operations of OFAC-licensed U.S. charters in Cuba. Based on information gathered during the trip, we [...]	2007-11-02 15:31:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR PREL ASEC EAIR CU
07HAVANA1070	25TH HAVANA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 25th Havana International Trade Fair (FIHAV-07) was held November 5-10 in Havana. This cable contrasts changes and new developments since last year. U.S. sales to Cuba have stagnated since last year and have dim prospects of improving. The Spanish government's policy of e [...]	2007-11-16 13:44:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR PREL CU
07HAVANA1089	BRAZIL'S NEW ENGAGEMENT WITH CUBA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Several recent developments point to Brazil's interest in building stronger bilateral ties with Cuba. The Brazilian government will increase export credits for its companies and will push for an audience with Fidel Castro during President Lula's upcoming visit. Petrobras has a [...]	2007-11-23 16:57:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR PREL CU
07HAVANA1096	CUBA: COM MEETING WITH POLISH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) USINT COM and POL officer met with Polish Ambassador Marzenna Adamczyk on 23 November to discuss the recent visit of a Polish delegation to inspect a new embassy facility and the efforts of Poland to engage Cuba,s civil society. Adamczyk reported that the delegation, which was led by the [...]	2007-11-27 13:52:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM CU
07HAVANA1098	SPAIN/CUBA: DISTINCTIVE POLICY CAN LEAD TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: SPANISH AMBASSADOR TO HAVANA ALONSO ZALDIVAR TOLD US 21 NOVEMBER THE NEXT ROUND OF THE BILATERAL HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE WITH CUBA WOULD PROBABLY NOT OCCUR UNTIL EARLY 2008, WHICH HE ATTRIBUTED TO "SCHEDULING PROBLEMS." ALONSO EXPRESSED PLEASURE AT THE DROP IN POLITICAL PRISONERS O [...]	2007-11-27 20:46:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SP CU
07HAVANA1121	CUBANS REACT TO VENEZUELAN VOTE WITH MIXTURE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cuban dissidents are overjoyed with the defeat of Chavez's proposed constitutional changes. They see this as the end of a messianic campaign of Chavez to be leader of an anti-US bloque. Many also feel that the referendum is a powerful lesson in democracy for the Cuban people. [...]	2007-12-05 14:09:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07HAVANA1170	IS FIDEL DONE? [...] (C) International press reports have zeroed in on the last two sentences of a letter from Fidel Castro to the evening talk show Mesa Redonda (Round Table) that dealt mostly with the Bali conference on global warming as an indication that he has announced his intention to "give up power" in C [...]	2007-12-18 22:03:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PGOV PINR PINS PREL
07HAVANA143	INTELLECTUALS' DEBATE CONTINUES [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 19:53:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAO CU
07HAVANA22	POLITICAL PRISONERS DESCRIBE ANGUISH IN CAMAGUEY [...] (C) Summary: In a letter smuggled out of Cuba's infamous Kilo 7 prison in Camaguey, 16 political prisoners have denounced "barbaric" conditions, including violent and humiliating repression, a shortage of food, medical neglect and a visitation system "designed to destroy family ties." The lett [...]	2007-01-08 20:47:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
07HAVANA265	PAYA: CUBAN REGIME NERVOUS ABOUT POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Cuban human rights leader Oswaldo Paya says that although the Cuban Government is projecting an air of confidence, thanks to Venezuelan largesse and expanding business with China, the regime is desperate about the domestic political situation and showing great insecurity. During a [...]	2007-03-19 11:03:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
07HAVANA315	CUBA: SWEDES GET TASTE OF OUR WORLD [...] (C) Swedish Ambassador Christer Elm on March 29 gave COM and Pol-Econ Counselor an update on the recent diplomatic flap between Sweden and Cuba, beginning with Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's March 12 mention of Cuba at the UNHRC as a country of Human Rights concern. The rough sequence of event [...]	2007-03-30 12:23:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SW CU
07HAVANA318	ANOTHER CUBAN GROUP, ANC, SEEKS PRISONERS' RELEASE [...] (C) Summary: Seventeen Cuban pro-democracy activists affiliated with the National Constitutionalist Alliance (ANC) gathered in Havana on March 29 and called for the release of political prisoners. State Security did not interfere with the meeting. ANC leader Angel Pablo Polanco told reporter [...]	2007-03-30 17:23:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
07HAVANA33	CUBA'S VALDES TAMAYO, FREED 75ER, DIES AT HOSPITAL [...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-democracy activist Miguel Valdes Tamayo died at 50 on January 10 after battling heart problems. Valdes, an executive of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society (APSC),was among the 75 activists rounded up and sentenced to long terms in March/April of 2003. In June 2004, [...]	2007-01-11 20:38:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
07HAVANA332	CUBA/SPAIN: MORATINOS VISIT CAUSES HARM [...] (C) Summary: Spanish Foreign Minister Moratinos' high-profile visit to Cuba, which ended April 3, gave a boost to the Cuban regime, at the expense of Cuba's democratic opposition. To the extent that Cuba and Spain have created a Human Rights "mechanism," it does not appear to obligate the Cu [...]	2007-04-04 19:21:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM CU SP
07HAVANA367	CUBAN OPPOSITION AGREES ON UNITY STATEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE TOP CUBAN DISSIDENT LEADERS HAVE REACHED AGREEMENT ON A UNITY TEXT, WHICH THEY REPORT WILL BE RELEASED THE EVENING OF APRIL 15. THE TEXT IS THE HANDIWORK OF OSWALDO PAYA, BUT HAS THE SIGNATURES OF MARTHA BEAITRIZ ROQUE, LAURA POLLAN, VLADIMIRO ROCA, ELIZARDO SANCHEZ, OSCAR E [...]	2007-04-14 16:45:00	US Interests Section Havana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PREL PHUM SOCI CU
07HAVANA372	CUBAN OPPOSITION AGREES ON UNITY STATEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE TOP CUBAN DISSIDENT LEADERS HAVE REACHED AGREEMENT ON A UNITY TEXT, WHICH THEY REPORT WILL BE RELEASED THE EVENING OF APRIL 15. THE TEXT IS THE HANDIWORK OF OSWALDO PAYA, BUT HAS THE SIGNATURES OF MARTHA BEAITRIZ ROQUE, LAURA POLLAN, VLADIMIRO ROCA, ELIZARDO SANCHEZ, OSCAR E [...]	2007-04-16 17:13:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PHUM SOCI CU
07HAVANA543	CUBA/SPAIN/EU: EMPTY GLASS APPEARS HALF FULL [...] (C) Czech Charge d'Affaires Vitor Korselt told COM June 1st that Spain made some headway with the rest of the Europeans, based on Ambassador Carlos Alonzo Zaldivar's May 31 briefing to EU Chiefs of Mission regarding the May 29-30 Spain/Cuba Human Rights consultations. According to Korselt, th [...]	2007-06-01 18:07:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SP EUN CU
07HAVANA597	CUBA: MORE NEW CUSTOMS REGULATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOC has restructured customs regulations for non-commercial imports and exports. Several regulations that were originally independently introduced for different reasons at different times and by different ministries have been modified in what appears to be an attempt to harmo [...]	2007-06-21 13:38:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR PREL ETRD CU
07HAVANA617	HOW TO SHATTER A CASTRO-PHILE'S ARGUMENTS [...] USINT is pleased to send in this distillation of the best of our briefings and responses to questions about Cuba, usually from audiences that are opposed to U.S. policy towards Cuba. These include foreign diplomats, U.S. university students and professors, U.S. congressmen and staff, U.S. jou [...]	2007-06-28 08:41:00	US Interests Section Havana	UNCLASSIFIED	PROP PREL ECON KDEM PHUM CU
07HAVANA619	DISSIDENT CUBAN WRITERS LAUNCH PEN CLUB [...] (SBU) A group of dissident Cuban writers, led by former political prisoner Jorge Oliveira and Victor Manuel Dominguez, founded a PEN Club in Cuba, and held its first activity June 26 at the COM Residence. The event was largely cultural, with a Cuban trio performing Cuban and American music, a [...]	2007-06-28 13:56:00	US Interests Section Havana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SCUL KDEM PHUM CU
07HAVANA622	CONSENSO ON-LINE: AN IMPARTIAL FORUM IN CUBA? [...] (C) SUMMARY: REINALDO ESCOBAR AND YOANI SANCHEZ, TWO OF THE DRIVING FORCES BEHIND THE INNOVATIVE AND INCREASINGLY POPULAR ON-LINE MAGAZINE CONSENSO (CONSENSUS),DISCUSSED ORIGINAL APPROACHES TO CIVIL DIALOGUE IN CUBA WITH COM MICHAEL PARMLY AND A/PAO JOHN VANCE. CONSENSO FOSTERS DISCOURSE FRO [...]	2007-06-28 16:13:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PGOV PROP SCUL
07HAVANA636	ZAPATERO WRITES TO DAMAS DE BLANCO [...] (SBU) Spanish leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero wrote a letter to Laura Pollan, representatives of the "Ladies in White" saying that Spain's engagement with the Cuban regime is aimed at raising human rights concerns, including release of the "Ladies'" husbands, who are political prisoners. T [...]	2007-07-03 09:15:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SP CU
07HAVANA685	CUBA: DISSIDENT DAGOBERTO VALDES REAPPEARS [...] (C) Dissident Church lay leader Dagoberto Valdes appeared out of the blue in Havana July 18, and met with Charge at a Polish Embassy reception. Valdes said he and the staff that worked with him in the Pinar del Rio "Center for Civic and Religious Training" are all no longer involved in any ca [...]	2007-07-19 12:40:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PHUM CU
07HAVANA913	CUBAN DELEGATION AT LASA: GOC APPROACHES ACADEMIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 2007 International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) was held in Montreal, Canada, September 5-8. The Cuban delegation was the largest ever to a LASA conference and they portrayed the successful change of venue from the U.S. to Canada as a "victory" [...]	2007-09-13 15:37:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR PREL CU
07HAVANA930	DISSIDENT SAYS REGIME SEES NO CHOICE BUT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leading dissident Rene Gomez Manzano believes that Raul Castro has a government team in place that is committed to instituting meaningful economic reforms. He also believes that Fidel is no longer a factor in policy decisions. Gomez thinks Raul and his allies in the governmen [...]	2007-09-21 16:04:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07HAVANA977	CUBA: SPAIN TO RENEW AID, BUT SLOW TO INCREASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Spanish Assistant Secretary of State for Cooperation Leire Pajin signed an agreement on September 29 to implement the renewal of development assistance to the island. Separately, the Joint Spanish-Cuban Business Committee ended with both countries discussing the possibility of [...]	2007-10-05 15:57:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR PREL CU
07HAVANA993	PORTUGUESE AMBASSADOR ON EU-TROIKA METING WITH GOC [...] (C) Portuguese Ambassador to Cuba Mario Godinho de Matos provided COM with a readout of the September 24 meeting between a GOC team headed by FM Perez Roque and representatives of the EU troika. In general, Godinho de Matos, readout tracked with that obtained by Embassy Lisbon (reftel) with [...]	2007-10-15 16:28:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU EU PGOV PREL
07HELSINKI122	FINLAND: 2007 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) The following responses are keyed to the checklist in ref A. Post's point-of-contact on TIP is Political Officer David Allen Schlaefer; SchlaeferDA2@state.gov; 358-9-6162-5482 or 358-050-322-7923. Overview of Trafficking in Finland ---------------------------------- 2. (SBU) [...]	2007-02-23 06:14:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB FI
07HELSINKI150	FINLAND'S MARCH ELECTION: SDP LIKELY TO TAKE [...] (SBU) Summary: The latest polls give Finland's Social Democratic Party (SDP) a chance to win the March 17 election, but the popularity of Center Party (CEN) PM Matti Vanhanen seems to indicate that the SDP will more likely come in a very close second. But in the follow-on negotiations to form [...]	2007-03-05 14:50:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL FI
07HELSINKI162	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER TUOMIOJA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Tuomioja to thank him for his helpful comments regarding the US missile defense initiative with Eastern Europe, but also to note her disappointment with other public comments he had made suggesting that the US made grave mistakes in Iraq and [...]	2007-03-08 09:29:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR FI
07HELSINKI250	FINLAND: RESPONSE TO GUANTANAMO RESETTLEMENT [...] (U) This is an Action Request; please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Poloff spoke with Finnish officials in the MFA's Political Secretariat and Office for Human Rights about the possibility of resettling Guantanamo detainees in Finland. Finland has previously rejected several US requests to [...]	2007-04-05 09:42:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PREL PTER PHUM PINR FI
07HELSINKI256	"CLIMATE CHANGE MAKES THE EU RELEVANT TO ITS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 22 Econoff participated in the "Putting A Cost On Carbon ) Where to Post 2012?" Climate Change Seminar at the British Embassy in Helsinki. Though seminar participants often cited the U.S. as dragging its feet on climate change issues a-la-Kyoto, they also positively no [...]	2007-04-05 13:32:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG TRGY FI
07HELSINKI290	FINLAND: POSITION ON WORLD METEOROLOGICAL [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Congress to Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials. (For a complete list see paragraph 5.) While the Finnish delegation generally agreed with the U.S. positi [...]	2007-04-20 13:51:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TPHY WMO FI
07HELSINKI321	FINLAND'S NEW GOVERNMENT: TURNING A PROMISING NEW [...] (C) Finland's new center-right government is eager to reverse the malaise that often typified US-Finnish relations after 2003, and from the Foreign Minister on down a palpable shift in tone is already evident. Trans-Atlanticists have replaced notorious US-skeptics at the MFA, the MOD and elsew [...]	2007-05-04 13:21:00	Embassy Helsinki	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR MOPS MARR EUN FI
07HELSINKI322	FINLAND CALLS FOR UNIFIED EU RESPONSE TO ESTONIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The escalating dispute between Russia and Estonia over the Bronze Soldier has prompted an unusually strong criticism of Russia's behavior from senior Finnish officials, who are typically known for their caution in dealing with Russia. The President and the FM have issued strong s [...]	2007-05-04 13:39:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EUN FI
07HELSINKI351	A CLEAR CHANGE OF TONE: FINNISH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Kanerva underscored to Ambassador Ware the new GOF's intention to improve the US- Finnish bilateral relationship, and he highlighted the shared foreign policy challenges the US and the EU face in Russia. The Ambassador urged more Finnish funding for peacekeepin [...]	2007-05-14 13:52:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS NATO EUN FI
07HELSINKI352	NEW SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT BREAKS WITH THE PAST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During their first meeting, new Speaker of Parliament Niinisto and the Ambassador discussed NATO issues and the EU's approach to Russia. The Speaker spoke warmly both of the new tone in Finnish-US relations and of the "more open dialogue on NATO" his party intends to lead now t [...]	2007-05-14 14:06:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO EUN FI
07HELSINKI416	SCENESETTER: FINNISH FM KANERVA,S VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Kanerva's June 11 visit gives us an excellent opportunity to capitalize on the new GOF's stated goal of improving relations with Washington. Finland has a center-right government for the first time since 1995, and the right message from the Secretary will lay out our expectatio [...]	2007-06-01 13:04:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS FI
07HELSINKI51	FINNISH RESPONSE -- FULL COURT PRESS FOR [...] (SBU) PolChief discussed NATO/ISAF's new "Comprehensive Approach" to bolstering the mission in Afghanistan and the Jan. 26 and Feb. 8 NATO ministerials (reftels) with Finnish Roving Ambassador to Afghanistan Antti Koistinen and MFA Director for Security Policy Kimmo Lahdevirta on Jan. 25. I [...]	2007-01-26 09:34:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS AF PK FI
07HELSINKI514	FINNISH RESPONSE: TRANSFERRING SURPLUS AMMUNITION [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-06 12:58:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL NATO FI
07HELSINKI530	GOF PREPARING REPORT AIMED AT INCREASED ISAF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF is preparing a wide-ranging proposal for increased participation in NATO/ISAF and for increased assistance to Afghanistan. Details are currently sketchy, but MFA officials expect the proposal to include an increase in Finnish troops; increased weapons and other materiel t [...]	2007-07-11 12:18:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS PREL EAID FI AF
07HELSINKI553	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH EU COMMISSIONER OLLI REHN [...] (C) Summary: EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn told Ambassador Ware that French President Sarkozy's opposition will complicate Turkey's EU accession bid, but does not necessarily need to derail it if the EU manages the process carefully. Rehn was pessimistic about Kosovo, and very disappo [...]	2007-07-20 10:37:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN UN TU FI YI
07HELSINKI601	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH STATE SECRETARY TIILIKAINEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Ware and PolChief met with Teija Tiilikainen, State Secretary at the Finnish MFA, for a tour d'horizon of multilateral and bilateral issues. Topics included potential increases to Finland's NATO/ISAF commitments in Afghanistan; Kosovo; Russia; and Finland's 2008 OSCE [...]	2007-08-06 08:43:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR EUN NATO FI
07HELSINKI606	FINLAND SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL SPECTER, AUG. 19-20 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The visit of Senators Arlen Specter and John Thune to Finland offers the United States important opportunities: (1) to encourage Finland to take a greater role in NATO-led crisis management and reconstruction operations, especially in Afganistan; (2) to urge Finland to join othe [...]	2007-08-07 12:39:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SNAR SOCI EUN FI
07HELSINKI657	FINLAND ACKNOWLEDGES IMPORTANCE OF U.S. ICAO [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on the U.S. candidacy to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to Mr. Matti Tupamaki, Director of Air Transport at the Finnish Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Although Tupamkaki did not explicitly say it, it was clear that, [...]	2007-08-30 11:06:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAIR AORC ICAO FI
07HELSINKI665	FINLAND WILL NOT JOIN GNEP [...] (SBU) Citing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as the clear instrument for all nuclear issues, including multilateral fuel issues, Riku Huttunen, Head of the Energy Administration and Nuclear Energy Division in the Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industry told econoff that Finland was [...]	2007-08-31 13:48:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA FI
07HELSINKI689	SCENESETTER: PDAS VOLKER'S SEPT. 13-15 VISIT TO [...] (SBU): The Embassy warmly welcomes you to Helsinki and views your visit as a key opportunity to advance the most important issues on the US-Finland agenda. Afghanistan and NATO top the list, as both are the subject of intense domestic political discussion right now. Many in the new governmen [...]	2007-09-07 13:24:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	FI PREL PGOV MARR
07HELSINKI696	HELSINKI: PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE AT [...] (U) Finland's main human rights priority over the past several years has been the battle against trafficking-in- persons (TIP),and Post's outstanding cooperation with the GoF in this area has made it a key highlight of our bilateral relationship. Post has engaged very actively with the Finns [...]	2007-09-11 11:13:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL FI
07HELSINKI715	FINLAND LOOKS TO AFGHAN PRT LEADERSHIP IN 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva and other senior GOF officials told PDAS Volker and Ambassador Ware that Finland's Cabinet Committee on Foreign and Security Policy (UTVA) gave a green light to PRT leadership in Afghanistan in 2009. The move will likely involve "alternating" leader [...]	2007-09-18 13:29:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR EAID PGOV AF FI
07HELSINKI725	PDAS VOLKER'S SEPT. 13 - 14 VISIT TO FINLAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDAS Volker visited Helsinki Sept. 13-14 for wide-ranging discussions with FM Kanerva, with MFA and MOD officials, and with senior advisors to the President and Prime Minister. Bilateral discussions focused on Finland's intention to increase its contributions in Afghanistan (sept [...]	2007-09-25 09:29:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR EAID PGOV AF FI
07HELSINKI75	FINLAND'S 2007 ELECTION: CONSERVATIVES MAKE THE [...] (U) January marked the unofficial opening of Finland's Parliamentary election campaign, and most of the country's eight political parties appear a bit slow coming out of the gate. To be fair, the election is still nearly two months away -- quite a long time, in the Finnish context -- and most [...]	2007-02-06 08:38:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL FI
07HELSINKI750	HELSINKI: EXPERT ADDRESSES CALIFORNIA,S AGGRESSIVE [...] (U) Using California as a model for initiatives at the state level, former Executive Director of the California Air Resources Board, Catherine Witherspoon, presented U.S. strategies for combating climate change to a wide cross section of Finnish society, including government officials, academi [...]	2007-10-03 13:31:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ENRG TRGY KPAO KGHG FI
07HELSINKI753	FINLAND, SWEDEN AND NORWAY EXPLORE A "NORDIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF has begun a series of discussions with Norway and Sweden aimed at developing a "Nordic approach" to security policy that could result in new NATO Response Force (NRF) commitments 2008; in more Nordic-led OMLTs; and in a long-term commitment to staffing the Mazar-al-Shariff [...]	2007-10-04 13:00:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR PGOV NATO AF SU CD FI
07HELSINKI755	FINNISH RESPONSE: U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-04 13:34:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PHUM SOCI UN FI
07HELSINKI76	FINNISH RESPONSE - DEPARTMENT SEEKS NOMINEES FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-06 12:16:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PINS PREL PROP PTER MARR MOPS FI
07HELSINKI772	FINLAND: GAERC RESPONSE [...] (U) PolChief delivered subject demarche to Finnish MFA EU Correspondent Leena-Kaisa Mikkola Oct. 11. Mikkola offered the following: 2. (SBU) KOSOVO: Mikkloa said the GOF is focused now on ensuring that legal and logistical mechanisms are in place to ensure a continuing international presen [...]	2007-10-11 13:55:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EUN PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL FI
07HELSINKI776	FINLAND: ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) PolChief delivered subject demarche to Johanna Suurpaa, Director of the Finnish MFA's Unit for Human Rights Policy Oct. 11. Finland has actively pressed within the EU for strengthened sanctions and has called for the EU to seek new sectors in which sanctions might appropriately be appli [...]	2007-10-12 14:23:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BM FI
07HELSINKI817	UPDATE ON FINLAND'S FALL SECURITY POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GoF's Cabinet Committee on Foreign and Security Policy (UTVA) met with President Halonen Oct. 26 to continue internal deliberations regarding Finland's next steps in relation to Afghanistan/ISAF, EU Battlegroups, and the pending EU operation in Chad. Finland appears ready to [...]	2007-11-02 11:35:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL MOPS FI
07HELSINKI85	FINNS UNDECIDED ON EU AVIATION EMISSIONS [...] (SBU) The Finnish government has yet to form an official position on the recent EU aviation emissions proposal, according to Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications officials Anne Torkkeli and Topi Siren on February 1. Although Finland believes aviation emissions should be addressed, [...]	2007-02-09 10:53:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON SENV EUN FI
07HELSINKI88	FINLAND'S RESPONSE TO WTO DEMARCHE: COMMISSION [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 13:24:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EUN WTRO
07HELSINKI99	INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF COURAGE IN FINLAND: ULLA [...] (SBU) Ulla Anttila has been a member of Finland's Parliament since 1992 and has taken the lead as the Chairperson of the Finnish Parliament's Human Rights Caucus on a variety of women's issues at home and abroad. In particular, her work to combat trafficking-in-persons in the Nordic-Baltic [...]	2007-02-15 07:06:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	FI KDEM PHUM
07HILLAH108	DISJOINTED POWER "SYSTEM" PLAGUES BABIL PROVINCE [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (C/REL MNF-I) Summary: Babil residents suffer from an acute shortage of electricity from the national grid, averaging between four and six hours of electricity per day. Demand for power from neighborhood and (for those who can afford it) personal generato [...]	2007-07-18 14:26:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EIND EPET PGOV SOCI IZ IR
07HILLAH114	BABIL PC REGULATES FUEL SUPPLIES AND LEVIES TAXES FOR [...] (U) This is a PRT Babil Cable. 2. (C) PRT Babil recently met with Basem al-Janabi (ISCI),chairman of the Babil Provincial Council (PC) energy committee to discuss the provincial government's efforts to regulate the distribution of fuel supplies in the province. Formed in 2006 with the con [...]	2007-07-28 06:38:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON EFIN PGOV SOCI IZ
07HILLAH154	INFLUENTIAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT HUSSEIN ALI AL-SHALAN'S [...] (C) Summary: Influential sheik and COR member Al-Shalan sees South Central as crucial to Iraq's future. Security situation improving. He fears a weakened Sadr militia will increase influence of Badrists, who "have an agenda beyond Iraq's borders." He believes that Islamists are incapable [...]	2007-11-13 13:54:00	REO Hillah	SECRET	PGOV PREL MARR IZ
07HILLAH68	MOSQUES ADDRESS PROVINCIAL IRAQI CONTROL (PIC) [...] (U) This is a Najaf PRT cable. Mark G. Davison, Leader. 2. (C) In our continuing efforts to monitor Friday prayer sermons through our sources on the ground in Najaf Province (see reftel),this past week's efforts provided contrasting views regarding, among other things, the process of P [...]	2007-04-26 14:32:00	REO Hillah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR SOCI IZ
07HOCHIMINHCITY1021	BAPTISTS, MENNONITES RECEIVE OFFICIAL GVN RECOGNITION [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately three weeks before the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is scheduled to arrive in Vietnam, the government of Vietnam has granted national recognition to two more Protestant denominations: the Mennonite Vietnam Church and the Vietnam Bapt [...]	2007-10-03 10:57:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY1064	ERO CALLS AN GIANG INCIDENT UNACCEPTABLE, PROMISES MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: Responding to the Consul General's previous protest (septel) over harassment and interference of Consulate staff during a routine FPU investigation in An Giang province, ERO Deputy Director Le Hung Quoc said evicting Consulate personnel from the hotel in An Giang was not acceptab [...]	2007-10-17 06:15:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS CMGT ASEC PREL VN
07HOCHIMINHCITY1065	GVN SHUTS DOWN ANTI-FRAUD TRIP, INTIMIDATES CONSULATE STAFF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 4, Security officials in An Giang province threatened post's acting Fraud Prevention Manager (FPM) and accompanying locally employed staff (LES) with arrest and placed them in harm's way by evicting them from their hotel late at night. The security officials also atte [...]	2007-10-17 07:09:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS CMGT ASEC PREL KFRD VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY1107	PEPFAR SPENDING IN HCMC MONEY WELL-SPENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations staff members Shannon Smith and Jennifer Simon concluded their President's Emergency Plan for AIDs Relief (PEPFAR) assessment visit to Vietnam with a stop in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) on October 11-12. HCMC officials, medical staff, and [...]	2007-10-29 12:46:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KHIV TBIO PREL PGOV SOCI OTRA OVIP VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY1131	HCMC WELCOMES SECRETARY GUTIERREZ WITH OPEN ARMS [...] (SBU) Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez led the Department of Commerce Vietnam Business Development Mission to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) on November 6 and 7, opening the doors of literally hundreds of Vietnamese policy makers, business community leaders and potential customers to the twenty-two U. [...]	2007-11-08 10:35:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ETRD BEXP KTEX OTRA OVIP VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY1136	SHIFTING PRESS PARADIGM IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: While Vietnam remains far from achieving true freedom of the press, the paradigm is starting to shift across southern Vietnam. Already, the old "total control model" in which the Government of Vietnam (GVN) essentially dictated what papers should publish has given way to a "cens [...]	2007-11-09 08:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY1192	USCIRF MEETS HCMC GVN: CITY COUNCIL CHAIR MADAME THAO [...] (SBU) During the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF) delegation's meeting with HCMC People's Council Chairwoman Pham Phuong Thao on October 25, Commissioners cited outstanding issues that marred the GVN's record of progress on religious freedom, including limitations with th [...]	2007-12-04 10:46:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY1193	USCIRF MEETS HCMC GVN: DEPUTY PARTY SECRETARY DUA [...] (SBU) The USCIRF's meeting with Deputy Party Secretary Nguyen Van Dua on October 25 explored the reasons for implementing a legal framework on religion in Vietnam, with the CIRF questioning whether the law is a tool for freedom or control, and the Secretary justifying the need to protect Vietna [...]	2007-12-04 11:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY1196	STRIKE REVEALS PRESSURES AND CHANGES IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM'S [...] (SBU) The labor situation in Vietnam is changing. With 400 strikes in 2006 and roughly 300 so far this year, previously banned (and still almost always technically illegal) work stoppages appear to be becoming a routine aspect of labor relations. The recent strike at a large (14,000 employee) [...]	2007-12-05 10:36:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ELAB KTEX ETRD VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY1233	USCIRF IN HCMC: PROTESTANT HOUSE CHURCH LEADERS [...] (SBU) The USCIRF delegation kicked off their visit to Ho Chi Minh City on October 24 with a house church roundtable of Protestant leaders from the Assembly of God, United Baptist Church, United Gospel Outreach Church and Baptist Alliance Church congregations in Vietnam. The pastors were unifie [...]	2007-12-14 03:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY1265	HCMC BOARD OF GOVERNORS OUTLINES AMCHAM PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) During the monthly American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Breakfast on December 11, American business leaders in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) expressed frustration about the Government of Vietnam's (GVN) approach to trading rights and distribution rights, explained efforts to improve customs c [...]	2007-12-21 12:59:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR ELTN ETRD BEXP VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY143	(C) VIETNAM CONSIDERS CAPITAL CONTROLS TO SLOW SOARING STOCK [...] (C) Summary: The skyrocketing Saigon Stock Exchange has gone ballistic since President Bush visited the trading floor in November. The investment frenzy has boosted the Vietnam Stock Exchange Index by about 80 percent since the President's visit, with 44 percent appreciation since January 1. [...]	2007-02-09 10:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV EINV VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY157	SAIGON INSIDERS ON COMMUNIST PARTY POLITICS [...] (C/NF) : Media contacts report that the Politburo has not yet begun to focus on the planned visit of President Nguyen Minh Triet to the United States. Triet has recovered fully from his bout with prostate cancer, but politically is weak. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung is consolidating power; [...]	2007-02-14 10:22:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PREL CH VM

07HOCHIMINHCITY168	FORMER PM KIET: STILL PRESSING REFORM [...] (SBU) Former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, one of the fathers of Vietnam's economic reform and a doyen of the Communist Party, told the Consul General February 12 that improved U.S. ties was one of the biggest milestones for Vietnam in 2006. The "full normalization" of ties with the United Stat [...]	2007-02-15 11:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EINV KCOR VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY178	USTR DISCUSSES WTO MEMBERSHIP, IT AND IPR WITH HCMC BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Area businesspeople discussed new trading rules and changes to Vietnam's legal framework as a result of its WTO membership with representatives of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, during a February 5-6 visit to Ho Chi Minh C [...]	2007-02-26 10:35:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTRO KIPR VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY270	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM CONDITIONS IN HUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Religious freedom conditions in Central Vietnam's Thua Thien Hue conditions continue to gradually improve for the Catholic archdiocese and the small Protestant community. The decision of a house church group in the province to apply for registration under Vietnam's legal frame [...]	2007-03-26 08:43:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY365	HCMC DISSIDENT LEADER TRAN KHUE INDICTED [...] (C) On April 2, we spoke with Tran Khue, Deputy General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Vietnam (DPV) to arrange a SIPDIS meeting for EAP DAS Eric John, implementing Ref A human rights roadmap. Khue welcomed the chance to meet and made no mention of any new harassment (unlike other HCM [...]	2007-04-05 08:39:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY471	VIETNAM ECONOMIC FORUM 2007: VIETNAM?S NEIGHBORS TAKE THE [...] (U) A recent investment forum hosted by the GVN in Ho Chi Minh City highlighted the importance Vietnam places on regional investors. The Vietnam Economic Forum, hosted by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI),in conjunction with the Vietnam News Agency and Asia News Network, was held [...]	2007-04-27 02:20:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD BTIO EINV VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY612	HCMC BUSINESS CONTACT ON THE TRIET VISIT, CHINA, AND [...] (S/NF) Summary: A reliable HCMC business contact with longstanding ties to President Nguyen Minh Triet told us on June 6 that Triet knows he will have a difficult visit because of the GVN's human rights crackdown, but is prepared to go to the U.S. "at any cost." Triet understands that postpon [...]	2007-06-08 10:39:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	SECRET//NOFORN	VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY681	IPR CONCERNS CONTINUE TO WORRY HCMC BUSINESSES [...] (SBU) Summary: HCMC-based business representatives and lawyers told visiting USTR Director for Intellectual Property and Innovation Rachel Bae and USPTO Regional IP Officer Jennie Ness that local authorities are not sufficiently proactive in investigating and prosecuting copyright and trademark [...]	2007-06-27 12:20:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON KIPR BEXP PGOV VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY811	ONE YEAR AFTER NATIONAL REGISTRATION, UNITED WORLD MISSION [...] Summary: On July 24, 2007, the Consul General met with Pastor Nguyen Toi, Chairman of the United World Mission Church of Vietnam (UWMC),one of Vietnam's larger Protestant denominations with approximately 22,000 adherents, largely from ethnic minority areas. Toi was generally upbeat about his [...]	2007-08-01 01:35:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY836	KHMER KROM MONK TIM SAKHORN RESURFACES IN VIETNAM COURTS [...] (SBU) On August 2, Vietnamese newspaper Thanh Nien reported that Tim Sakhorn, the Khmer Krom monk believed to have been defrocked and deported by Cambodian officials (Refs A and B),is now being held in the southern Vietnam province of An Giang for "sabotaging the solidarity policy." In the re [...]	2007-08-10 07:07:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PREF KIRF PREL PGOV PHUM CB VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY841	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL VISIT TO HO CHI MINH CITY [...] (U) Summary: On August 5-8, Ambassador Marine paid farewell calls on Ho Chi Minh City's political, economic and religious leaders, noting significant progress in the U.S.-Vietnam relationship and highlighting possible areas for improvement. During his visit, the Ambassador met with HCMC Peopl [...]	2007-08-14 21:07:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF ECON VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY846	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL WITH POLITICAL ACTIVIST NGUYEN [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 7, Ambassador Marine met with Dr. Nguyen Dan Que in Ho Chi Minh City to discuss the state of the democracy and human rights movement in Vietnam as well as to inquire after his health and treatment by the GVN since publication in mid-June 2007 of his critical op-ed in t [...]	2007-08-14 21:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV ECON VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY874	CONSULATES REPORT SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During the most recent law enforcement and security coordinating meeting among Consulates General in Ho Chi Minh City, law enforcement personnel from participating Consulates described the atmosphere for active cooperation with GVN authorities as difficult but considerably bette [...]	2007-08-24 04:53:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM SOCI CVIS VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY879	STAFFDEL GUDES TALKS BUDGETING IN HCMC [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 14-15 visit to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC),Senate Budget Committee Minority Staff Director Scott Gudes and Committee Chief Economist Daniel Brandt discussed bilateral relations (touching on U.S. assistance) with the HCMC External Relations Office, U.S. trade and in [...]	2007-08-27 01:11:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN OTRA OVIP VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY880	TIGHT LIPPED DEPORTEES IN GIA LAI [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-27 03:07:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM CB VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY892	SUNSET FOR THE MCCAIN AMENDMENT [...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 10 and 11. 2. Summary: Mission Vietnam supports the reauthorization of the McCain Amendment (ref A). At the same time, the exact reauthorization needs to be handled carefully in order to allow the program to progress and eventually wind down in [...]	2007-08-30 04:02:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY921	EWEC CONFERENCE PROVIDES VENUE FOR PRESS TO QUESTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. One of the most interesting developments at a recent Vietnamese-hosted conference to promote the East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) linking Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Burma was not so much the keynote address from Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem to the 500 inter [...]	2007-09-05 08:07:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ELNT VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY951	CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite considerable progress in religious freedom in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai and genuinely supportive provincial-level authorities, implementation of Vietnam's legal framework on religion remains quite uneven at the community and village level. While the pro [...]	2007-09-14 06:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY960	CENTRAL HIGHLANDS ETHNIC MINORITY PASTOR FREE BUT RATTLED [...] (SBU) Summary: Y Ja Nie, a Central Highlands ethnic minority Protestant pastor arrested on February 12, 2007 (reftel),was released on August 31. ConGenOffs met privately with Nie and separately with local officials in M'Drak district, Dak Lak province, on September 6. According to local gov [...]	2007-09-18 09:46:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREF VM
07HOCHIMINHCITY965	"A PERFECT SPY" PROVIDES INSIGHTS INTO THE VIETNAMESE [...] (SBU) The story behind the upcoming Vietnamese publication of U.S. author Larry Berman's biography of North Vietnam's highest-level intelligence agent, Pham Xuan An, provides an informative lesson on the contradictions and complexity inherent in Vietnam's evolving political scene. The original [...]	2007-09-19 02:06:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI PROP VM
07HONGKONG110	VATICAN MEETING ON CHINA POLICY UNLIKELY TO LEAD [...] (U) Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen told the press on January 9 that he would travel to Rome shortly to discuss the Vatican's China policy. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone will chair the meeting, scheduled for the latter half of January. According to Zen, the Pope will be [...]	2007-01-12 09:52:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
07HONGKONG1334	FALUN GONG'S VIRTUAL SKELETON [...] (C) Summary: As reported in reftel, the Falun Gong (FLG) movement has virtually no organizational structure, coordinated policy, or central financing; rather, it is a very loose association of practitioners who communicate through emails and regularly-held meetings. Given FLG's virtual struc [...]	2007-05-17 10:22:00	Consulate Hong Kong	SECRET	PHUM PINR PGOV CH HK MC
07HONGKONG1510	SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: MACAU'S PRESSING NEED FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: As Macau's economy booms, local authorities confront the dual challenges of modernizing the territory's infrastructure, while ameliorating the adverse effects of this rapid development. Macau,s air quality is worsening due to manufacturing in Guangdong province, emissions from [...]	2007-06-05 09:40:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED	CH HK MK SENV PGOV ENRG
07HONGKONG1579	HKSAR - AFTER THE FIRST DECADE: ECONOMIC OUTLOOK [...] (U) SUMMARY: At the ten-year anniversary of its reversion to the PRC, Hong Kong's economy is strong, led by a potent services sectors and robust consumer demand. Over the past decade, Hong Kong has solidified its position as a regional transportation hub, an international interface for the m [...]	2007-06-13 01:31:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI EWWT SENV
07HONGKONG1691	U.S.-CHINA COMMISSION VISIT TO HONG KONG: [...] (C) Summary: During April 29-30 meetings in Hong Kong, Civic Party legislator and March 2007 candidate for Chief Executive Alan Leong told a visiting delegation of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) that his campaign had laid the groundwork for the Hong Kong people [...]	2007-06-25 06:48:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINR CH HK
07HONGKONG1698	HONG KONG'S NEXT CABINET APPROVED [...] (SBU) Summary: The Central Government, on the nomination of Hong Kong's Chief Executive (CE),Donald Tsang, approved the appointments of principal officials for the third term of the HKSAR Government, as well as five officials who will head HK's disciplined services. Biographies for each new [...]	2007-06-25 23:31:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR CH HK
07HONGKONG1773	MACAU HEALTH CARE: RESPONDING TO NEW REALITIES [...] (SBU) Macau's health care system is coping wth the territory's quick economic expansion, rapd population growth, and large influx of tourist. A system that was created to care for 400,000residents now provides health care services to oer 500,000 people and approximaely 21 million tourists (a [...]	2007-07-03 07:07:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO SENV EAGR AMED KFLU HK CH
07HONGKONG1800	HONG KONG SCENESETTER FOR HUD SECRETARY JACKSON [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong warmly welcomes to your visit next week. U.S. trade, investment, and business with Hong Kong flourish in a largely open environment. Hong Kong is our 15th largest export market, and the United States enjoyed a USD 9.8 billion trade surplus [...]	2007-07-09 00:40:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL PTER EINV KIPR HK CH SENV MC
07HONGKONG1801	MACAU SCENESETTER FOR HUD SECRETARY JACKSON [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong warmly welcomes your visit to Macau next week. U.S. interests in Macau have increased tremendously since 2002, when Macau liberalized its gaming market. The U.S. is now one of the largest investors, behind only Hong Kong and mainland China [...]	2007-07-09 00:40:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL PTER EINV KIPR HK CH MC SENV
07HONGKONG1854	PRC MFA COMMISSIONER DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIC REFORM, [...] (C) Summary: Beijing's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Commissioner to Hong Kong Lu Xinhua told the Consul General on July 11 that U.S.-China relations were "the best they've ever been" and that Beijing was "very satisfied" with the latest round of the Senior Dialogue meetings in Washington. Durin [...]	2007-07-13 12:39:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
07HONGKONG1866	G/TIP DIRECTOR VISITS MACAU [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),and his Senior Coordinator for Reports, Mark Taylor, visited Macau on June 27 to discuss with Macau cabinet officials actions the Macau Special Administrative Region government (MSARG) s [...]	2007-07-16 08:29:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KCRM SMIG SOCI PGOV PHUM HK CH MC MG
07HONGKONG1951	HONG KONG DISTRICT COUNCIL ELECTION: A TRIAL RUN [...] (C) Summary: On November 18, Hong Kong will choose 529 District Councillors, 80 percent of them directly elected by universal suffrage. The District Councils are subordinate to the Legislative Council, but play an increasingly important advisory role to the government on grass-roots issues. W [...]	2007-07-25 10:15:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CH HK PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07HONGKONG2022	PRIORITIES OF HONG KONG'S NEW ENVIRONMENT BUREAU: [...] (SBU) During a July 19 meeting with local legislators, Hong Kong's new Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau detailed the environmental agenda for Chief Executive Donald Tsang's second administration. Yau said that Hong Kong SIPDIS Government (HKG) will strive to better regulate emission [...]	2007-08-03 00:47:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CH ENRG HK SENV PGOV
07HONGKONG2067	DEATH OF HONG KONG DAB CHAIRMAN MA LIK [...] (C) Summary: Ma Lik, Legislative Councilor and Chairman of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB),died on August 8 in a Guangzhou hospital at age 55. His passing creates vacancies in both the Legislative Council (Legco) and the DAB leadership t [...]	2007-08-08 10:35:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR CH HK
07HONGKONG2183	PRC TO ALLOW RMB INVESTMENT IN HONG KONG MARKET, [...] The Chinese State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) announced August 20 that it would allow mainland Chinese citizens to invest in the Hong Kong Stock Market. Chinese investors will be required to open a special account through the Bank of China (BOC),Tianjin, but will then be able t [...]	2007-08-22 02:37:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON HK CH
07HONGKONG2251	HONG KONG'S GREEN PAPER: NO SIGN OF PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong's "Green Paper" process to develop a broad consensus on how to implement universal suffrage has stalled. The key players, including the Hong Kong Government (HKG),the pro-Beijing and pro-HKG political parties, the pro-democratization parties, and the central government i [...]	2007-08-29 10:05:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI HK CH
07HONGKONG244	U/S HUGHES 1/23 MEETING WITH HONG KONG HOME [...] (SBU) During the otherwise informal and largely unscripted meeting between visiting U/S Karen P. Hughes and Hong Kong Home Affairs Secretary Patrick Ho on January 23 (report on visit septel),Ho pulled out a prepared text when Hughes alluded to China,s "one country, two systems" approach to Ho [...]	2007-01-25 07:36:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SCUL PHUM PREL PGOV KPAO CH HK
07HONGKONG2533	CONSUL GENERAL AND CALIFORNIA AIR EXPERT URGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Consul General James Cunningham and former California Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Dr. Alan Lloyd urged Hong Kong's new Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau to take action on Hong Kong's growing air pollution problems, in a meeting on September 20. The Consul G [...]	2007-10-03 08:12:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON ENRG PREL HK
07HONGKONG256	UNDER SECRETARY KAREN HUGHES' VISIT TO HONG KONG [...] SUMMARY: U/S Karen P. Hughes put in one very busy day of active and extremely effective public diplomacy outreach in Hong Kong on Jan. 23, both jointly with American Public Diplomacy Envoy Michelle Kwan in programs pitched to youth and Hong Kong's elite, and separately in a meeting with the H [...]	2007-01-26 07:20:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SCUL OVIP HK KPAO
07HONGKONG2587	HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE'S POLICY ADDRESS: [...] (C) Summary: In his third annual Policy Address on October 10, Hong Kong Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang touched on all the major issues of concern to the people of Hong Kong. He described a concept of "progressive development" to achieve three major goals: economic development through inf [...]	2007-10-10 10:42:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINR ECON EFIN SENV SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2596	MARTIN LEE TO VISIT WASHINGTON AS HONG KONG [...] (C) Summary: Democratic Party founder and legislator Martin Lee will visit Washington October 18-19 for discussions at State and the NSC (requested) on the political state of play in Hong Kong. His visit comes during an unusually busy Hong Kong political season, which this year includes the C [...]	2007-10-11 10:40:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2598	INFLATION, OVER-INVESTMENT KEY CHINESE RISKS HK [...] (U) Summary: Hong Kong-based China analysts warned U.S. Treasury representatives that unproductive investment was a disturbing trend that threatened to derail Chinese economic growth and stability, but that the risk to the Chinese economy from a U.S. slowdown was minimal. Analysts differed i [...]	2007-10-11 10:41:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN HK CH
07HONGKONG2696	HONG KONG CATHOLIC DIOCESE ON SINO-VATICAN [...] (C) Summary: According to Hong Kong papal representative Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the Holy See had been consulted on and approved the September selection of Father Joseph Li Shan to replace the late Michael Fu Tieshan as Bishop of the Beijing diocese. Because the issue was "sensitive," howeve [...]	2007-10-26 04:37:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR CH HK VT
07HONGKONG2751	HONG KONG BY-ELECTION: ANSON CHAN TOUGHENS STANCE [...] (C) Summary: Nine candidates have registered to contest the December 2 Legislative Council (Legco) by-election to fill the seat vacated by the death of Ma Lik. The clear front-runners remain former senior civil servants Anson Chan of the pan-democratic camp and her pro-Beijing opponent Regin [...]	2007-11-02 09:19:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG2790	CONSUL GENERAL AND TRANSPORT SECRETARY CHENG [...] (SBU) Summary: Transport and Housing Secretary Eva Cheng told CG Cunningham that the Transport Bureau is focused on six-large scale infrastructure projects that will strategically shape Hong Kong's future competitiveness, while expanding land, sea and air links to mainland China. She stated t [...]	2007-11-08 09:28:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR EWWT ELTN CH HK
07HONGKONG2827	HKMA LAUNCHES STRATEGIC PORTFOLIO [...] (U) Summary: Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, in his annual policy speech October 10, announced that one of his priorities during his current term would be to review the government's role in the management of its share assets with an eye toward achieving higher returns and improving g [...]	2007-11-15 05:16:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN HK
07HONGKONG2934	HONG KONG DECEMBER 2 BY-ELECTION: VOTER TURNOUT IS [...] (C) Summary: On December 2, Hong Kong will hold a by-election to fill the Legislative Council (Legco) seat vacated by the death of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) leader Ma Lik last August. Only two of the eight contestants - pro-democracy leader Anson [...]	2007-11-30 08:49:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG583	2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: MACAU [...] (SBU) Per ref A, the following are post's contributions to the seventh annual Trafficking in Persons report for the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) of the People's Republic of China. (Note: Per instructions, subheadings, questions, and paragraph letters correspond to those in par [...]	2007-03-01 10:00:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN KFRD ASEC ELAB PHUM PINR PGOV PREF
07HONGKONG603	HONG KONG'S FIRST TELEVISED CHIEF EXECUTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong's first Chief Executive (CE) debate, televised live on March 1, included some unexpectedly lively exchanges over political reform, air pollution, education, and poverty alleviation. Incumbent CE Donald Tsang appeared restrained but also denigrated his opponent's SIPDI [...]	2007-03-02 09:49:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SOCI CH HK
07HONGKONG647	HONG KONG ECONOMISTS HIGHLIGHT CHINA'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Comments from Hong Kong-based economists made in a series of meetings with visiting Beijing Finance Attache and Econoff suggest the following: Chinese economic policy makers understand the negative byproducts of the current macroeconomic policy mix: including overcapacity in some industr [...]	2007-03-07 06:12:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV HK CH
07HONGKONG837	HONG KONG GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO SOUTHERN OCEANS [...] (U) SUMMARY: AmConGen Hong Kong Economic Officer and Deputy Agricultural Section Chief delivered reftel message to Dr. S.F. Leung, the Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department's (AFCD) Assistant Director (Fisheries),and Dr. Albert Leung, Senior Fisheries Officer at AFCD. [...]	2007-03-23 11:03:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED	CH EFIS HK KTIA PHSA SENV
07IRANRPODUBAI10	CRITICISMS OF US NUCLEAR POLICY FROM AN IRANIAN SECULARIST [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-06 09:35:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL IR KNNP PGOV
07IRANRPODUBAI11	PRIVITIZATION DEBATE SHARPENS FACTIONAL RIVALRY [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-15 10:29:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECIN PGOV IR
07IRANRPODUBAI14	A PRO-VELAYATI CONSERVATIVE DISCUSSES IRANIAN POLITICS [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 14:26:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IR KNNP
07IRANRPODUBAI15	GASOLINE SUBSIDIES: IS IRAN FEELING THE HEAT? [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 14:27:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PGOV IR
07IRANRPODUBAI18	IRAN ESCALATING TENSIONS TO DISTRACT FROM DOMESTIC WOES? [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-02 11:30:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	PGOV ECON MARR IR
07IRANRPODUBAI2	FORMER IRGC GENERAL ON US-IRAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-03 17:02:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IR
07IRANRPODUBAI21	IRANIAN REACTIONS TO BRITISH DETENTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-09 12:12:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IR MOPS UK IZ
07IRANRPODUBAI22	IRANIAN ECONOMIST SAYS BOTH AHMADI-NEJAD AND THE ECONOMY ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-12 14:19:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	ECON PGOV PREL IR
07IRANRPODUBAI23	REFORMIST MP ON POLITICAL STATE OF PLAY [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-18 06:05:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	PGOV PREL IR
07IRANRPODUBAI24	IRAN OIL OFFICIAL SHOPS AROUND FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-19 10:48:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	EINV EPET ENGR PREL IR
07IRANRPODUBAI25	IRANIAN MP COMMENTS ON POLITICAL STATE OF PLAY [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-22 05:21:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	IR PREL PGOV
07IRANRPODUBAI26	UNODC OFFICIAL VIEWS IRAN DRUG CHIEF REPLACEMENT A SIGN OF [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-23 16:01:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	IR KCRM PGOV PREL PINR SNAR
07IRANRPODUBAI27	IRAN: HANDING DRUG CONTROL TO THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARD [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-23 16:05:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	IR PGOV PINR SNAR PREL
07IRANRPODUBAI28	IRAN CONVICTS ECONOMIST FOR ACCEPTING FOREIGN FUNDING [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-25 12:45:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL SCUL IR
07IRANRPODUBAI3	FORMER POLICE GENERAL SAYS RAFSANJANI UP, AHMADINEJAD DOWN [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-04 16:01:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IR IZ LE PTER
07IRANRPODUBAI30	IRANIAN ECONOMIC POLICY: AN EASY TARGET FOR CRITICS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-03 13:42:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON IR
07IRANRPODUBAI31	CONFLICTING CLAIMS WHETHER MOUSAVIAN WILL BE RELEASED [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-09 13:06:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IR KNNP
07IRANRPODUBAI32	SUPREME LEADER'S SON: THE POWER BEHIND THE ROBES? [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 07:16:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IR PINR
07IRANRPODUBAI33	IRANIANS COMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MEASURES IMPACTING [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 15:35:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR ECON EFIN ETRD
07IRANRPODUBAI36	IRANIAN PERCEPTIONS OF TALKS WITH THE US (C-NE7-00968) [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-22 15:20:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PGOV PREL IR
07IRANRPODUBAI37	IRAN TAKES THE HEAT FOR RAISING GAS PRICES [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 13:58:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	PGOV ECON EPET IR
07IRANRPODUBAI39	SENATOR LIEBERMAN TALKS TO IRANIANS IN DUBAI [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 15:24:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	PREL PGOV IR OREP
07IRANRPODUBAI47	RECENT PUBLIC OPINION POLL TRACKS WITH IRPO'S ANECDOTAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-11 13:16:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KPLS IR
07IRANRPODUBAI48	AHMADI-NEJAD IS FORCED TO MAKE SOUND ECONOMIC DECISIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-16 12:45:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IR
07IRANRPODUBAI49	"WELL-CONNECTED" IRANIANS GIVE DIFFERING VIEWS OF POWER [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-18 12:20:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	IR PREL PGOV KNNP
07IRANRPODUBAI52	USG-INVITED IRANIAN FILMMAKERS FACE REPRISALS [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-16 14:26:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	IR PGOV PREL SOCI SCUL
07IRANRPODUBAI55	EX-IRGC GENERAL CLAIMS IRGC IMPLEMENTS ORDERS, DOESN'T MAKE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-23 15:41:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IR IZ MCAP
07IRANRPODUBAI56	PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD ATTEMPTS TO TONE DOWN TENSIONS BUT [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-28 18:50:00	Iran RPO Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IR PREL PGOV KNNP IZ
07IRANRPODUBAI63	ABRUPT RESIGNATION OF IRAN'S TOP NUCLEAR NEGOTIATOR MAY SIGNAL HARDENING REGIME POSITION [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-22 12:53:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IR MASS
07IRANRPODUBAI68	FINANCIAL ANALYST SAID CAPITAL STILL FLOWING [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-21 15:11:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	PGOV PREL ECON IR EFIN
07IRANRPODUBAI69	PRESS TV - IRAN'S PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ENTERS GLOBAL STAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Iran's 24-hour satellite English language news station, Press TV, began operations in July 2007. It has moved quickly to establish itself through widely dispersed correspondents, a large staff in Tehran and London, aggressive recruitment of guests, and generally high quality con [...]	2007-11-26 11:19:00	Iran RPO Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PROP SCUL IR
07IRANRPODUBAI70	IRPO PUBLIC DIPLOMACY: YEAR ONE - A PROMISING START [...] (C) Summary: One of IRPO's primary mandates upon commencing operations in August 2006 was the revival of US-Iran public diplomacy programming - which focused largely on supporting US-Iran educational and cultural exchanges. In this three-part report on IRPO Year One PD programming, part I will [...]	2007-11-27 12:07:00	Iran RPO Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	OEXC OIIP PHUM PINR
07IRANRPODUBAI71	COALITION-BUILDING FOR IRANIAN ELECTIONS: PART ONE- [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-28 14:39:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	IR PGOV
07IRANRPODUBAI72	NOBEL LAUREATE EBADI DISCUSSES HER VIEWS WITH IRPO [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-04 13:57:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET	IR PHUM PREL PGOV KNNP
07ISLAMABAD1779	DELEGATION ADVANCES NON-PRO DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-20 10:55:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	IN KNNP PGOV PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD2083	DARFUR MISSION DEMARCHE: PAKISTAN WOULD NEED TO [...] (SBU) On May 7, Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Secretary Riaz Khan, urging Pakistan to make a public commitment of troops and police for the future UN/AU hybrid operation. In response, Khan referred to Pakistan's clear, longstanding policy regarding its peacekeeping op [...]	2007-05-10 03:12:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC KPKO PK SU
07ISLAMABAD2107	FOREIGN SECRETARY AND TURKISH AMBASSADOR REFLECT [...] (S) Summary. Charge d'Affaires met with Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Khan May 7 and Turkisk Ambassador Engin Soysal SIPDIS May 8 to hear their reflections on the April 29-30 Pakistan-Afghanistan-Turkey trilateral in Ankara. Both Khan and Soysal were in Ankara for the meetings -- Khan as [...]	2007-05-10 12:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PREL PGOV PK AF
07ISLAMABAD2494	GOVERNMENT PLACES RESTRICTIONS ON MEDIA [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-05 13:23:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD2530	SUBMISSION OF G/TIP PROPOSALS -- PAKISTAN [...] SUMMARY: Following are summaries of three anti-trafficking in persons proposals received by Embassy Islamabad for consideration for funding from G/TIP-managed FY07 funds to strengthen Pakistan's efforts in combating trafficking in persons. As requested, post forwarded the original proposals t [...]	2007-06-07 05:21:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PK
07ISLAMABAD2545	PAKISTAN JOINS GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] (U) On June 7, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially communicated by Note Verbale the Government of Pakistan's endorsement of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Pakistan intends to participate in the June 11-12 Global Initiative meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan. One offici [...]	2007-06-07 13:08:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PK PREL PGOV
07ISLAMABAD268	GOVERNMENT HINDERS ACCESS TO INTERNALLY DISPLACED IN BALOCHISTAN [...] (C) Summary: In spite of a mid-December intervention from Ambassador Crocker to senior Pakistani officials, UNICEF reports it is still unable to assist internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Balochistan. End summary. 2. (U) On December 21, the Christian Science Monitor reported that UNICEF had fa [...]	2007-01-17 11:03:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF SOCI PK
07ISLAMABAD274	BOUCHER DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, INDIA, TRADE WITH [...] (C) On January 12, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Foreign Minister Mian Khurshid Kasuri for a wide-ranging discussion, which included Pak-Afghan and Pak-India relations, Reconstruction Opportunity Zones, the development plan for Pakist [...]	2007-01-17 12:08:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PREF PK AF IN CA
07ISLAMABAD2780	BOUCHER'S FOREIGN MINISTRY DISCUSSIONS FOCUS ON CURRENT EVENTS, STRATEGIC DIALOGUE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-22 11:22:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AF ECON IN PGOV PHUM PK PREL PTER
07ISLAMABAD2794	F-16 SECURITY NOTES: REQUEST FOR TWO SPECIFIC [...] (C) Pakistan's September 2006 agreement to purchase 18 new F-16 aircraft marked an important milestone in our alliance. The agreement signaled Pakistan's and the United States' intent to continue strengthening our security relationship. We are grateful for both State's and DoD's enormous e [...]	2007-06-22 13:25:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP MOPS PGOV PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD2799	PRIME MINISTER STRESSES NEED FOR STABLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Secretary Negroponte, Assistant Secretary Boucher, and Charge d,Affaires Bodde met with SIPDIS Prime Minister (PM) Aziz on June 16. The PM stressed the importance of a stable Afghanistan and expressed concern about Afghan drug production. He reiterated Pakistan,s com [...]	2007-06-23 07:25:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PGOV PK PREL PTER SNAR
07ISLAMABAD3224	PRIME MINISTER: GOP COMMITTED 200 PERCENT TO [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador, DCM and Economic Counselor (notetaker) met with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz at his request at his residence July 24. Aziz took Ambassador to task over recent statements by U.S. officials regarding terrorist threats emanating from Pakistan. Aziz stressed to Ambassador tha [...]	2007-07-25 14:03:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG PK
07ISLAMABAD3534	MUSHARRAF AND SENATOR DURBIN DISCUSS WAR ON [...] (C) Summary: Senator Durbin called on President Musharraf August 7 to discuss Pakistan's role in the war on terror, the state of Islamic extremism in Pakistan, relations with the U.S., and education in Pakistan, particularly in religious schools. Senator Durbin recognized Pakistan had been A [...]	2007-08-13 07:01:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PK
07ISLAMABAD3873	THE NAWAZ FACTOR CONTINUED: RETURN SCENARIOS [...] (C) Summary. There are four scenarios regarding former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's return to Pakistan, which now seems likely September 10. (1) He could postpone his arrival because of Saudi persuasion or cold feet about his prospects. This seems the least likely option. (2) The government could [...]	2007-09-06 17:00:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK
07ISLAMABAD4008	REASSURING PAKISTAN ON THE F-16 SALE [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with the Deputy Secretary last week, President Musharraf, Prime Minister Aziz and Foreign Secretary Khan told us the U.S. had violated the F-16 SIPDIS agreement with Pakistan. A series of misunderstandings and delays, including important ones on our part, has promp [...]	2007-09-17 12:09:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PREL MARR PGOV PK
07ISLAMABAD4092	BIN LADEN'S CALL TO ARMS FALLS FLAT [...] (C) Summary: On September 20, al-Qaeda leaders released two new tapes calling for Pakistanis to wage holy war against President Musharraf in retaliation for the Red Mosque operation in July. The government has dismissed the threats and vowed to continue its counter-terrorism strategy. It is to [...]	2007-09-21 13:38:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PK

07ISLAMABAD4108	U.S.-PAKISTAN STRATEGIC DIALOGUE, SEPTEMBER 12 [...] (SBU) The second session of the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue took place in Islamabad on September 12, 2007. Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte and Foreign Secretary Khan chaired the meeting and agreed that future sessions of the Dialogue should occur every six months. The Pakistanis als [...]	2007-09-24 15:26:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID ENRG TSPL KPAO PK
07ISLAMABAD4208	PAKISTAN'S TEXTILE EXPORTS DROP; COMPETITIVENESS AN ISSUE [...] (SBU) Textiles and apparel account for 38 percent of Pakistan's total industrial production but almost 2/3 of exports. Despite $6 billion in investment in the textile sector in the last six years, textile exports growth slowed down in FY07 to just 5.2 percent versus last year's 16.8 percent. [...]	2007-09-29 09:23:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EINV PK
07ISLAMABAD4254	PAKISTAN'S WHEAT SHORTAGE AND FOOD INFLATION ADD TO [...] SUMMARY: During this year's holy month of Ramadan, the average Pakistani is more concerned about finding a bag of flour than who will win the upcoming elections. A combination of overly optimistic production estimates, increased domestic consumption, a temporary lifting of the export ban, an [...]	2007-10-02 08:22:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR PREL PK
07ISLAMABAD4273	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FAZLUR REHMAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-02 14:07:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PK PREL PTER
07ISLAMABAD4358	PAKISTAN EXPORTERS SEEK TO IMPROVE LABOR CONDITIONS WHILE [...] Summary: While Pakistan has ratified 35 of the International Labor Organization's 185 Conventions on Labor Rights, including all eight core Conventions concerning the most basic worker rights, working conditions are still poor, and the labor movement has a long way to go to become relevant he [...]	2007-10-09 11:47:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON EIND ETRD PHUM KTEX SOCI PK
07ISLAMABAD4739	MGPK01: SITREP 07, AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD: MIXED [...] (C) Summary: As of 1200 local time, mainly peaceful lawyers' protests occurring in Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar, and Quetta. Following a conversation with Ambassador last night, Bhutto said that Musharraf would not commit to a timetable to have elections, doff his uniform, lift the state of em [...]	2007-11-06 08:37:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PK AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLO PINR
07ISLAMABAD4751	PAKISTANI BUSINESS COMMUNITY CAREFULLY WATCHING [...] (SBU) Summary: Economic Section spoke with a wide range of contacts to gauge local business reactions to the November 3 imposition of a state of emergency. While the overall consensus is that it is too early to determine any long-term effects of the current crisis on Pakistan's economy, mo [...]	2007-11-06 11:51:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PK
07ISLAMABAD4831	PAKISTAN EXPECTS TO MEET AMBITIOUS TAX COLLECTION TARGET [...] (SBU) The Federal Board of Revenue expects to meet its annual tax collection target of Rs.1.025 trillion ($16.8 billion ). The first quarter tax (July - September 2007) collection is up by 21.1 percent, compared to the same period of last year, but falls short of the FBR's self-imposed target [...]	2007-11-13 15:17:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV PREL PK
07ISLAMABAD4994	PAKISTAN: SLOW PROGRESS ON RESTORING POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The government of Pakistan is making slow progress on restoring political rights under the still enforced state of emergency. The GOP's apparent "catch and release" policy and the bureaucratic lag between national release announcements and actual action at the local level make it [...]	2007-11-23 15:32:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD5022	PAKISTAN CENTRAL BANK PROJECTS STRONG ECONOMIC GROWTH IN [...] (SBU) The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) released its annual report on the state of Pakistan's economy in October 2007 prior to the imposition of the November 3 state of emergency. The State Bank was pleased with the seven percent GDP growth rate in FY2007, particularly given the increase in inte [...]	2007-11-27 04:19:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV PREL PK
07ISLAMABAD5037	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH FAZLUR REHMAN [...] (C) Summary. Responding to an invitation, Ambassador met for lunch with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) leader Fazlur Rehman on November 20. Ambassador reiterated that the USG supporting lifting the state of emergency and steps to ensure the elections are free and fair. Rehman agreed, but he affirmed [...]	2007-11-27 08:18:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KISL PK
07ISLAMABAD5085	MUSHARRAF'S LEGACY AND THE RETURN OF THE TROIKA [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-29 12:41:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD5099	PAKISTAN UPDATE: WEEK OF NOVEMBER 26 [...] (C) Summary: Sporadic protests by lawyers, journalists and students continued around the country the week of November 26, and opposition political party leaders continued to debate whether to boycott the January 8 elections. In the wake of Pervez Musharraf's retirement as Chief of Army Staff, [...]	2007-11-30 14:17:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PK
07ISLAMABAD5101	AMBASSADOR MEETS CARETAKER PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: During a courtesy call with Ambassador, Caretaker Prime Minister Muhammedmian Soomro reiterated the government's commitment to facilitate election observers. He promised immediate action to resolve eviction notices and visa problems of the International Republican Institute and T [...]	2007-12-01 09:23:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK PHUM
07ISLAMABAD5138	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NAWAZ SHARIF [...] (C) Summary. During a one and a half hour meeting December 3 with Pakistan Muslim League-N party leader Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz, Ambassador outlined USG support for free and fair elections with the participation of all parties. Nawaz indicated that he would boycott the electio [...]	2007-12-04 15:36:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PK
07ISLAMABAD5139	PAKISTANI ECONOMY WEATHERS STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (SBU) The imposition of a state of emergency and political uncertainty has markedly affected Pakistan's ability to attract and retain portfolio investment, its exchange rate and the wholesale and retail business. There have been large outflows from the stock exchange; foreign investors have wit [...]	2007-12-05 01:48:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV PREL PK
07ISLAMABAD5262	PAKISTAN: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Summary: The Government of Pakistan (GOP) continues to pursue a national strategy for the elimination of the worst forms of child labor. A legal framework exists barring children from hazardous labor, and Pakistan has ratified all eight of the International Labor Organization (ILO) core conven [...]	2007-12-13 11:20:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI PREL PK
07ISLAMABAD5263	PAKISTAN VOTES FOR ISRAELI-SPONSORED UN RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary. We welcome Pakistan's December 11 UNGA vote in favor of an Israeli-sponsored resolution; however, the MFA was quick to stress privately and publicly that the vote was a reflection of Pakistan's support for the content of the resolution and should in no way be interpreted as a polic [...]	2007-12-13 12:48:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK IS UNGA PREL
07ISLAMABAD5267	GOP URGES U.S. TO BACK OFF PUBLIC CRITICISM [...] (C) On December 5, MFA convoked Polcouns and the Ministry of Information convoked Press Attach to complain about public statements by in-country Mission officials. MFA's Acting Director of Americas Sohail Mahmood told Polcouns that our consuls general were making "inappropriate" "political" [...]	2007-12-14 05:03:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PK
07ISLAMABAD528	PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF MEETS SPEAKER PELOSI AND 110TH [...] (C) Summary: In a January 27 meeting lasting more than an hour-and-a-half, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Committee/Sub-Committee Chairs of the Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Appropriations Committees called on Pakistani President Musharraf. The Speaker [...]	2007-01-31 12:21:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AF IN MOPS PK PREL PTER XF
07ISLAMABAD5289	PAKISTAN: STATE OF EMERGENCY LIFTED [...] (U) Summary: As promised, President Musharraf has lifted the State of Emergency (SOE) and restored the constitution; he addresses the nation at 2000 local tonight. The January 8 general elections can now proceed under an established legal framework. However, the effects of the SOE linger on [...]	2007-12-15 09:46:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PK PREL
07ISLAMABAD5388	PAKISTANâ€™S NEXT PRIME MINISTER? [...] (S/NF) The Pakistan Muslim League has unofficially selected former Punjab Chief Minister and current head of the party's Punjab chapter, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, as its candidate for the Prime Ministership following the January 2008 national elections. Elahi, who until the November 15 dissolution of [...]	2007-12-28 16:40:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER PINR SHUM PK PINS
07ISLAMABAD5394	OPEN COMPETITION LEADS TO VERY LOW MOBILE PHONE RATES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pakistan's telecommunication policy reforms earned the country USD 8.0 billion in investments over the past four years. Promotion of open competition in the telecom industry has led to some of the lowest mobile phone rates in the world and substantially increased the average Pa [...]	2007-12-30 12:15:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON ETRD EICN EINV PBTS PGOV PK
07ISLAMABAD5411	PAKISTAN: CODEL SPECTER MEETING WITH CHAIRMAN OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 27 meeting with General Tariq Majid, Pakistan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter and Representative Patrick Kennedy stressed the importance of U.S.-Pakistan military cooperation, support for Pakistan's counter-terrorism efforts, and the p [...]	2007-12-31 12:49:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PK
07ISLAMABAD608	INTERIOR MINISTER ON PAK-AFGHAN RELATIONS: [...] (U) This cable contains an action request; please see para. 5. 2. (C) Introduction: In a February 5 meeting, Interior Minister and Chairman of Pakistan's Jirga Commission Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao told the Ambassador that he has extended an invitation to Afghanistan's jirga planning com [...]	2007-02-06 09:26:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AF PK PREL PTER PREF
07ISLAMABAD709	REFUGEE TRIPARTITE MEETING ANNOUNCES CLOSURES, [...] (U) On February 7, participants of the 12th Refugee Tripartite Commission announced their decision to close four Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan in 2007. Scheduled in two phases, the closures will affect over 240,000 of Pakistan's estimated 2.4 million Afghan refugees. The Government of Pakis [...]	2007-02-14 02:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PK AF
07ISTANBUL1005	TURKISH SECURITY CHALLENGES: DOMESTIC PRESSURES [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-23 08:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER TU
07ISTANBUL1011	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CONGRESSMAN ROHRABACHER [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Istanbul follows President Bush's successful November 5 meeting with PM Erdogan in Washington and Secretary Rice's constructive Ankara meetings with Erdogan, President Gul and FM Babacan on November 2. The President and Secretary Rice greatly improved Turkish-Ameri [...]	2007-11-23 08:50:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TU
07ISTANBUL1014	Energy Secretary Bodman Meets with Turkish Energy Minister [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 15, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman met Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler in Istanbul. They reaffirmed the U.S.-Turkey strategic energy vision for the development of Caspian resources and delivery systems to bring them to market, including the Trans-Caspian p [...]	2007-11-26 14:18:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET AJ IR IZ KZ RS TU
07ISTANBUL1015	IRAN/ENERGY: AN IRANIAN DELEGATION IN ISTANBUL [...] (C) In the best of Iranian bazaar tradition, an Iranian delegation representing Iran's oil ministry and energy industry attending a November 15-16 energy conference in Istanbul tried hard to portray Iran and its vast oil and gas reserves as a stabilizing force for regional energy markets and [...]	2007-11-28 06:38:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL ECON IR TU
07ISTANBUL1017	IRAQI CG IN ISTANBUL ON IRAQ-TURKEY RELATIONS AND [...] (C) Summary. In a courtesy call on Consulate Istanbul CG Wiener on November 27, Iraq,s Consul General in Istanbul, Ambassador Salah Abdulsalam, said his two top priorities here are to rebuild contacts with the Iraqi community in Turkey and to strengthen economic, commercial, and political c [...]	2007-11-28 06:48:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON IQ TU
07ISTANBUL1028	CODEL ROHRABACHER DISCUSSES KURDISH ISSUES, [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 26, CODEL Rohrabacher met ARI Movement founder Kemal Koprulu to discuss Kurdish issues in Turkey and Iraq. The Congressman was joined by Congressman Louie Gohmert and former Chairman of the California Republican Party Shawn Steel. Koprulu was accompanied by Rifat [...]	2007-12-03 10:58:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL TU
07ISTANBUL1045	GENDER EQUALITY IN TURKISH POLITICS: IS PARITY [...] (U) At a joint Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation-ARI Movement conference entitled 'Young Women Fit For Politics', Turkish and Swedish MP's discussed women's role in policy-making. The Hjalmarson Foundation -- a democracy-development foundation tied to the Moderate party of Sweden -- and the ARI Movem [...]	2007-12-11 08:49:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM TU
07ISTANBUL120	HRANT DINK SUCCESSOR CONCERNED FOR FUTURE OF [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Hrant Dink's widow and Armenian-Turkish weekly Agos' new editor-in-chief Etyen Mahcupyan to express condolences and discuss the state of affairs for the newspaper and the Armenian community in Turkey since Dink's January 19 assassination. Mahcupyan expressed [...]	2007-02-16 08:58:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR TU
07ISTANBUL136	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH DISCUSSES HALKI OPTION [...] (SBU) Summary. While in Istanbul to attend a session of the U.S.-Turkey Economic Partnership Commission, EUR DAS Matthew Bryza met separately with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II (septel.) In his meeting with Bartholomew, the two touched on issues related t [...]	2007-02-23 05:17:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU
07ISTANBUL148	ISTANBUL JANUARY PD ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: Istanbul PAS activities in January 2007 included organizing an official visit by the Consul General to Kocaeli, an industrial province east of Istanbul; a round-table discussion with a group of young journalists; and a radio interview with one of Turkey's leading intellectuals. In a [...]	2007-02-23 15:10:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO PREL TU
07ISTANBUL159	PRIVATE SECTOR MEETINGS INFORM U.S. - TURKEY EPC [...] (U) Summary: The third meeting of the U.S. - Turkey Economic Partnership Commission began in Istanbul with a full-day session devoted to the private sector. These private sector meetings were designed to inform the government-to-government meetings that followed on February 9 (septel.) Priv [...]	2007-02-27 13:00:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ETRD TU
07ISTANBUL183	BSEC SENIOR OFFICIALS DISCUSS RELATIONS WITH EU, [...] (SBU) Summary: BSEC Senior Officials met February 26-27 in Istanbul to discuss establishing an institution-to-institution relationship with the European Union, review the status of ongoing projects including a labor/employment study to be performed the OECD, and discuss preparations for the 1 [...]	2007-03-07 10:48:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV EU
07ISTANBUL187	S/P KRASNER DISCUSSES IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, [...] (C) Summary. Following policy/planning consultations with the Turkish Foreign Ministry in Ankara, S/P Director Stephen Krasner met with the secular, nationalist-leaning Marmara group as well as academics in Istanbul on February 23-24. Lecturer and writer Soli Ozel questioned how a revolutio [...]	2007-03-08 08:40:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU IZ IR
07ISTANBUL252	TURKISH OPINION MAKERS ON PM ERDOGAN AND THE [...] (SBU) Summary: In what was meant to be an hour and a half tour d'horizon with three of Turkey's most prominent opinion makers, Ambassador was only able to get one question in: Will PM Erdogan be a candidate for President? The heated debate that ensued was a sharp contrast to the backdrop of [...]	2007-03-26 13:38:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAO TU
07ISTANBUL258	BANKERS' TAKE ON POSSIBLE ELECTION OUTCOMES [...] (SBU) Summary: Istanbul bankers and key business leaders are evenly divided on Prime Minister Erdogan's presidential aspirations with some claiming he would be a fool to take the highly respected but largely ceremonial position while others claim Erdogan's ego will not allow him to forego the [...]	2007-03-28 10:34:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN TU
07ISTANBUL346	FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR DAVUTOGLU'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. Senior Advisor and Iraq Coordinator David Satterfield met with Prime Minister Erdogan,s senior foreign policy advisor Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday, April 21, 2007, to discuss U.S. and Turkish policy toward Iraq and related issues. Ambassador Oguz Celikkol, special representative [...]	2007-04-24 15:54:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU IZ XF
07ISTANBUL347	ISTANBUL FEBRUARY-APRIL PD ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: During the February-April period, PAS Istanbul's efforts concentrated on addressing press reports claiming U.S. "inactivity" on the PKK in northern Iraq and on speculations that Armenia "Genocide" resolutions in both the House and the Senate were expected to pass. We also organized [...]	2007-04-25 08:55:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO PREL TU
07ISTANBUL406	ISTANBUL: A TALE OF THREE OUTLOOKS [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings, an entrepreneur and founding member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP),a representative of Turkish tradesmen and craftsmen, and a Kemalist academic each commented on today's politics; the first resentful of secularist prejudice, the second aggrieved [...]	2007-05-15 12:36:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL46	TURKEY'S FOREIGN MINISTER OUTLINES POLICY FOR AKP [...] (C) Summary. Several thousand Istanbul Justice and Development Party (AKP) precinct captains and party faithful jammed an auditorium January 13 to hear Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul acclaim Turkey's foreign policy achievements and goals as the party continues its campaign to energize its coh [...]	2007-01-24 09:51:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL468	ONE INSIDER'S AKP: MISTAKES, POSSIBILITIES, [...] (C) Summary. Metin Kulunk, an Istanbul-based Justice and Development Party (AKP) founding member and rival to Mehmet Muezzinoglu for AK Party's Istanbul Chairmanship, met with us May 23 to review his recent trip to the U.S. and share views of the AKP heading into parliamentary elections. He [...]	2007-06-01 09:39:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL509	ANAVATAN WITHDRAWS FROM ELECTION, HOPES TO [...] (C) Summary: Motherland Party (ANAVATAN) Istanbul Branch Chairman Sinan Gedik confided his party withdrew on June 8 from upcoming parliamentary elections because it anticipates the elections will result in a three-party parliament unable to elect a president and consequently forced to dissolv [...]	2007-06-13 08:01:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL541	DAS BRYZA, AMB DAVUTOGLU DISCUSS WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. During a June 15 meeting in Istanbul, EUR DAS Matt Bryza and Prime Ministry senior advisor Ahmet Davutoglu discussed ways forward on Cyprus in the run up to the December 2008 EU Commission report on Turkey's accession process. Davutoglu argued that the current government was un [...]	2007-06-26 08:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU CY EUN
07ISTANBUL542	TUSIAD LUNCHEON WITH COMMERCE DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary. Deputy Secretary of Commerce David Sampson, joined by Ambassador Wilson and Consul General, met with leaders of the Turkish Industrialists, and Businessmen,s Association (TUSIAD) on June 7 at TUSIAD,s headquarters in Istanbul. The discussion focused on the organization's missi [...]	2007-06-26 09:13:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TU
07ISTANBUL550	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE WINS PYRRIC VICTORY IN [...] (SBU) Summary and comment. On June 26 the Turkish Higher Court of Appeals (Yargitay) upheld a local Istanbul court decision to acquit 12 members of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the charge of "illegal obstruction of religious service." In rendering this decision the court [...]	2007-06-27 11:48:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM TU
07ISTANBUL624	STAFFDEL MAKOVSKY/GUREVICH DISCUSS ELECTIONS, VIEW [...] (C) Summary. In separate July 7 meetings, House Committee on Foreign Affairs (HCFA) Senior Staff Members Alan Makovsky and Gene Gurevich discussed the July 22 parliamentary elections, the possibility of a cross-border operation (CBO) into northern Iraq, and the effects of a possible U.S. Arm [...]	2007-07-13 06:24:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL63	U/S LEVEY DISCUSSES IRAN WITH TURKISH BANKS [...] (C) Summary: In meetings on December 4 and 5, Treasury U/S Stuart Levey briefed leading Turkish bankers on the risks posed by deceptive Iranian banking practices. U/S Levey noted that Iranian interest in Turkey would likely increase as European banks pull back from their Iran business and ur [...]	2007-01-29 06:59:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER EINV TU IR
07ISTANBUL631	NORTHWEST TURKEY'S TEKIRDAG IN CAMPAIGN MOOD [...] (SBU) Summary. We visited Tekirdag located just up the Marmara seacoast northwest of Istanbul a few days after the press splashed claims of U.S. support to the PKK by three masked persons said to be PKK defectors across newspapers and television sets. The pleasant town, known for excellent k [...]	2007-07-16 13:55:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL664	ISTANBUL GOVERNORSHIP: YARGITAY'S REJECTION OF [...] (C) Summary. Istanbul Deputy Governor for minority affairs Fikret Kasapoglu described the Yargitay,s recent rejection of the Greek Orthodox patriarchate's ecumenicity as a commentary rather than a binding decision. He stressed GOT policy on this issue remained the same and that it was the g [...]	2007-07-24 06:10:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL TU GR
07ISTANBUL675	TURKEY: SMALL PARTY ALLEGES RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The minuscule Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) intends to file a complaint of "gross violations" of rights against Turkey's Supreme Election Board (SEB) with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The SEB's decisions are final and may not be appealed to any body inside Turkey, [...]	2007-07-26 13:13:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL690	AKP MP VAHIT ERDEM ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, [...] (C) Summary. Justice and Development Party (AKP) MP Vahit Erdem argued that the U.S. offers the only viable strategic partnership for Turkey, but noted that U.S. Iraq policy is an enormous problem and cautioned that only concrete U.S. action against the PKK in Northern Iraq could ease the pr [...]	2007-07-31 06:19:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER TU
07ISTANBUL70	SAKARYA PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR: KIRKUK REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary. We met Sakarya Governor Nuri Okutan on a visit to the province's major city, Adapazari, on January 18. What we had anticipated as a 30-minute courtesy call turned into a one-and-a-half hour lecture on Iran's historical influence in Anatolia, Turkish-Iranian relations and current [...]	2007-01-31 07:24:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU IZ IR
07ISTANBUL779	CONSUL GENERAL'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) Summary. Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler stressed the importance of US cooperation in combating PKK terrorism during a cordial introductory meeting with the incoming Consul General. Guler offered his continued full support to the Consulate General, including and especially with respec [...]	2007-08-29 10:57:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM TU
07ISTANBUL855	AN IRANIAN ACTIVIST'S ADVICE ON REACHING THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-21 04:50:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM IR TU
07ISTANBUL868	ISTANBUL OFFICE CALLS UNDERLINE IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) Summary and comment. EUR/SE desk officer Danielle Garbe met recently with TESEV President Can Paker, former Special Envoy General Edip Baser and academician Kemal Kirisci to hear views on Turkey's domestic politics, its foreign relations and the bureaucracy's view of the fight against t [...]	2007-09-25 14:24:00	Consulate Istanbul	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU IR IZ
07ISTANBUL869	TURKISH JEWISH COMMUNITY ANXIOUS ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. Turkish Jewish community secular leaders expressed their anxiety about the impact of potential constitutional reforms now capturing headlines during the Consul General's September 20 introductory call on Chief Rabbi Haleva. In separate meetings, community representatives had a [...]	2007-09-25 14:50:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL872	ISTANBUL BUSINESS TO U/S BURNS: NOW IS THE TIME [...] (SBU) Summary: In a broad-ranging dinner conversation with two recently-elected AKP members of parliament and four senior business leaders Undersecretary Burns discussed constitutional reform, prospects for resolving conflict with Armenia, the treatment of minorities in Turkey, Turkish press [...]	2007-09-26 12:27:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
07ISTANBUL893	AN IRANIAN OIL EXECUTIVE ON ISA'S "UNINTENDED [...] (C/NF) Summary: On September 26, Consulate Istanbul &Iran watcher8 met with Assadollah Maleknejad, Vice President of Iran,s Pars Oil company, to discuss regional and Iranian hydrocarbon issues. Maleknejad politely criticized USG energy policy in the region, arguing that the Trans-Caspian pi [...]	2007-10-02 06:20:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ECON ENRG PGOV IR TU AZ
07ISTANBUL896	TESEV TO U/S BURNS: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IS THE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Leaders of Turkey's most progressive civil society think tank, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, stressed to U/S Burns that while reform of Article 301 was important, the government must c [...]	2007-10-02 13:27:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL TU IZ
07ISTANBUL900	BORDER ISSUES DEBATED BY TURKISH AND ARMENIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkish and Armenian academics came together in Istanbul and Ankara in September for coordinated conferences on the Economic and Social Consequences of Opening the Armenia-Turkey Border. The conferences, supported by the Eurasia Foundation with funding from USAID, were a foll [...]	2007-10-04 12:09:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM ECON ETRD TU
07ISTANBUL928	IFTAR SEASON IN ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary and comment. Iftar dinners traditionally highlight family, tranquillity and solidarity. While U.S.-Turkey friendship and cooperation were themes at most iftars, guests often noted challenges in the relationship. The Consul General hosted our first Iftar on September 18, in honor [...]	2007-10-16 15:24:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
07ISTANBUL972	THE PKK, CROSS-BORDER ATTACK, AND A NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 23rd, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) hosted a conference on security and human rights. Panelists Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat -- a Justice and Development Party (AKP) vice chair, and Head of the AKP Parliamentary Constitution Commission respon [...]	2007-11-07 11:05:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL TU
07ISTANBUL987	A PROFESSOR OF GENERALS SPEAKS OF THE OBLIGATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-14 08:41:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER TU IZ
07JAKARTA1011	GOVERNMENT CT EXPERT RECEIVES POSITIVE ATTENTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: National security hearings in late February and the ASEAN CT ministerial in early March temporarily renewed a public counterterrorism (CT) dialogue in Jakarta and reenergized the GOI's National CT Coordinator, (ret) Police Inspector General Ansya'ad Mbai. Mbai told us that his la [...]	2007-04-11 00:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PINS KJUS KISL ASEC KVPR CVIS ID
07JAKARTA1038	EAST JAVA: Lapindo Mud Volcano Floods Roads and Rail While [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A March 30 dam wall collapse at the source of the PT. Lapindo Brantas (Lapindo) mud volcano flooded East Java's remaining north-south road and railways, causing major transportation disruptions. Local mudflow victims delayed damage control response by preventing heavy equipment [...]	2007-04-12 08:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EPET ELAB PGOV ASEC ID
07JAKARTA1051	CDA'S INTRODUCTORY CALLS ON WORLD'S LARGEST MUSLIM [...] (SBU) As part of post's ongoing engagement with Indonesia's Muslim community, CDA made courtesy calls on the chairmen of the world's two largest mass Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)'s Hasyim Muzadi and Muhammadiyah's Din Syamsuddin. By way of introducing their organizations, the c [...]	2007-04-13 08:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KISL PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1053	INDONESIA - AVIAN INFLUENZA SAMPLE SHARING UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Health Minister Fadilah Supari's March 28 pledge to immediately begin sharing avian influenza (AI) samples, and similar pledges following World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Margaret Chan's April 4 Jakarta visit, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) has not yet [...]	2007-04-13 08:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1055	INDONESIA TRADE AND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH 2007 [...] Summary: After lengthy negotiations, Parliament passed a new Investment Law on March 29 that is now awaiting presidential approval. The new law will require further implementing regulations to come into force. Members of the G-33 met in Jakarta from March 20 to 21, with the G-33 claiming it [...]	2007-04-13 09:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV ECON KIPR ID
07JAKARTA1057	SCENESETTER FOR MINDEF SUDARSONO'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: Indonesian Defense Minister Dr. Juwono Sudarsono's April 16-18 visit to Washington offers a timely opportunity to push him on military reform and accountability and explore Jakarta's thinking on Iraq. We expect the key policy issue on Sudarsono's agenda will be Indonesia's progr [...]	2007-04-13 09:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM ID
07JAKARTA1059	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL UP AND RUNNING [...] (C) On April 11 President Yudhoyono formally swore in the nine members of the new Presidential Advisory Council, created in accordance with last year's Presidential Advisory Council Bill (Ref A). The Council consists of luminaries from the legal, political, military, academic and educational [...]	2007-04-15 23:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL ECON EFIN KCOR PINR ID
07JAKARTA1076	UNSC/KOSOVO: GETTING INDONESIA TO YES [...] (C) Summary. In response to Under Secretary Burns' request (ref A),I recommend that the Secretary, and even the President if necessary, contact their Indonesian counterparts to urge support for the Kosovo resolution. I have pressed the case with a former Foreign Minister, the Speaker of the [...]	2007-04-16 10:28:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC UNMIK KFLU TBIO YI ID
07JAKARTA1102	INDONESIA - ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS MARCH 2007 [...] Summary. On April 2, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) announced that consumer price inflation rose a modest 0.24% in March on a month-on-month (MoM) basis as rice price increases moderated. Three days later, Bank Indonesia (BI) announced it would keep its benchmark 30-day Bank Indonesia [...]	2007-04-19 08:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1128	BANK INDONESIA CONSIDERS SWITCH TO OVERNIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: Bank Indonesia (BI) seems likely to move to targeting the overnight interest rate rather than its one-month Bank Indonesia Certificate (SBI) rate as its policy rate for targeting inflation. This duration shift will have the benefit of addressing anomalies (some self-induced) i [...]	2007-04-23 06:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1157	PKS VERSUS THE WORLD IN JAKARTA GOVERNOR'S RACE [...] (C) On August 8, Jakarta will host the first directly contested governor's election in the 500-year history of the city. The election represents arguably the most significant political event in the country between now and the 2009 Presidential elections, and the results will have implications [...]	2007-04-25 06:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL ID
07JAKARTA1171	INDONESIA - TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Indonesia (GOI) continues to make progress on developing an Indonesia Tsunami Warning System (ITWS). The Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) test launched an early warning buoy (tsunameter) on April 10, and the Ministry of Research an [...]	2007-04-26 07:29:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TPSL AEMR TPHY KSCA ECON PREL ID
07JAKARTA1185	PSI: JOINT DEMARCHE WITH AUSTRALIA [...] (C) Officials from the U.S., New Zealand, Canadian, British and Japanese embassies in Jakarta joined Australian DCM and PolCouns for a joint demarche on the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to Desra Percaya, Director for International Security and Disarmament at the Department of Foreig [...]	2007-04-27 08:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP XC
07JAKARTA1212	INDONESIA'S NEW INVESTMENT LAW - GOOD NEWS AND GREY AREAS [...] (SBU) Summary. After a two year delay, Parliament passed a new Capital Investment Law on March 29 that provides a range of protections for investors including equal treatment for foreign and domestic investors, protection against nationalization, international arbitration for foreign investors [...]	2007-04-30 09:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON ETRD PGOV KCOR ID
07JAKARTA1276	INDONESIA HOSTS IPU ASSEMBLY AND PUTS THE [...] (C) Summary. On April 29, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono convened the 116th International Parliamentary Union Assembly in Bali, Indonesia. Parliamentarians from 126 of the 140 IPU member countries dispatched representatives to the Assembly, which ended May 4. The opening rema [...]	2007-05-07 04:40:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KISL UNSC BM ID
07JAKARTA1279	JAKARTA REQUESTS DOD REWARDS PROGRAM ASSISTANCE [...] (U) Action Request: See paragraph 2. 2. (S) The Indonesian National Police (INP) has provided us with information on four Indonesian counterterrorism rewards candidates who helped INP CT units track down top Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) operatives Azahari, Jabir, and Abdul Hadi. Our rewards workin [...]	2007-05-07 06:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PTER ASEC MOPS PREL PINS ID
07JAKARTA1282	YUDHOYONO'S RESHUFFLED CABINET STRONGER ON GOOD [...] Summary. (U) On May 7, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made much-anticipated changes to his cabinet for the second time since assuming office in 2004. President Yudhoyono said the modifications would increase the cabinet's effectiveness and improve the ministers' ability to work cooperativ [...]	2007-05-07 08:58:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV EFIN ID
07JAKARTA1331	INDONESIA - WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Summary: We delivered reftel demarche to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on May 9 and the National Institute of Health Research and Development (NIHRD) on May 10. Siuaji Raja, Deputy Director for Socio Cultural Affairs and International Organizations at DEPLU, told us that the [...]	2007-05-11 08:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO
07JAKARTA1388	USTR FINDS IPR PROGRESS, CHALLENGES IN INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Visiting USTR officials Barbara Weisel and David Katz reviewed efforts related to intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement in Indonesia during their May 3-4 visit to Jakarta. Members of the National IPR Task Force noted that difficult and ongoing challenges [...]	2007-05-16 08:56:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR EINV ECON EMIN KCOR ID
07JAKARTA14	INDONESIA - ILLEGAL LOGGING MOU PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Jakarta's Illegal Logging Task Force recommends Washington agencies divide the $1 million in proposed State Department ESF funds under the U.S.-Indonesia illegal logging MOU between the following three activities: --$550,000 for the enhancement of an existing DOJ-ICITA [...]	2007-01-03 09:46:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON ETRD PREL PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1424	Indonesia/East Java: PRC Consulate Offers [...] (C) SUMMARY. The recently established PRC Consulate General in Surabaya (ConGen China) is actively promoting Chinese interest in infrastructure and natural resource investment projects in Eastern Indonesia. Chinese Consul General Fu Shuigen (CG Fu) has worked hard to connect Chinese investo [...]	2007-05-21 07:32:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PNAT PINR KISL EINV ID CH TW
07JAKARTA144	TERRORIST FINANCE - VIEWS ON RIHS DESIGNATION, USG [...] (S) Summary: Given our recent experience with the designation of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) Indonesia branch, and Indonesia's new status on the UNSC, it is difficult to predict how the GOI would react to a proposed Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) designat [...]	2007-01-18 03:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PTER EFIN ETTC PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1475	COMMISSION OF TRUTH AND FRIENDSHIP HEARINGS IN [...] (C) Summary: The May 2-5 hearings of the Commission of Truth and Friendship Indonesia-Timor Leste (CTF) primarily provided opportunities for a series of present and former Indonesian government officials to lay out their theses on the violence of the time. At no time did any official concede [...]	2007-05-24 11:46:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINS TT ID
07JAKARTA152	Central Sulawesi: Police, Laskar Mujahiddin Clash After [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Central Sulawesi police and Detachment 88 raided two safe houses in Poso, Central Sulawesi on the morning of January 11, 2006 killing two and capturing 4 members of Laskar Mujahiddin (LM) on their "most wanted" list of 29 terrorists operating in the province. A Poso police offic [...]	2007-01-18 09:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINS PGOV PNAT PHUM KJUS KISL CACS ID
07JAKARTA1561	USG SUPPORTED EMBEDDED PERSONNEL IN INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Summary: In keeping with Secretary RiceQs Transformational Diplomacy objectives, US Embassy Jakarta really took stock of our successes in placing USG personnel directly into Indonesian government offices. We are pleased to report that we currently have 27 positions embedded within key G [...]	2007-06-06 09:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	APER EAID PREL PGOV ECON EFIN KCOR KIPR ID
07JAKARTA1563	IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1540 IN SOUTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary. A two-day regional consultative workshop, held in Jakarta on May 28-29 for countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),considered ways in which regional and other states, as well as relevant international organizations, could cooperate in the implementation [...]	2007-06-06 10:21:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL UNSC KNNP OSCE KPAO AORC ID
07JAKARTA1580	A/S HILL DISCUSSES NORTH KOREA AND KOSOVO WITH [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, A/S Hill and Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Dino Djalal discussed North Korea, Kosovo, Lebanon, Iran, Thailand, the Indonesian mud flow problem, the Newmont case, military cooperation, the Yudhoyono administration, and economic growth. Djalal said if the U.S. is [...]	2007-06-07 10:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	BM ID KN LE PGOV PREL
07JAKARTA1629	IRAN AND EAST JAVA MUDFLOW: DPR QUERIES YUDHOYONO) [...] (C) Summary. On the heels of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's refusal to appear personally before the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) in a June 5 query over Indonesia's vote in favor of UNSCR 1747, sanctioning Iran over its nuclear program, the DPR is now threatening to "interp [...]	2007-06-12 08:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON UNSC IR ID ENRG EINV KISL
07JAKARTA1656	A/S MULL UPDATES BILATERAL POLITICAL-MILITARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In meetings with Indonesian foreign-affairs and defense counterparts in Jakarta on June 4-5, Acting Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Stephen Mull pressed for Indonesian accession to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI),proposed a reciprocal Article 98 ag [...]	2007-06-14 10:06:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR PHUM PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1657	Bilateral Energy Dialogue Back On Track [...] Summary. (SBU) A U.S. Department of Energy Delegation led by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) for Policy and International Affairs Katharine Fredriksen reached agreement with the Government of Indonesia (GOI) to resume the U.S.-Indonesia bilateral Energy Policy Dialogue (EPD),which [...]	2007-06-14 10:52:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ENRG EINV PREL ID
07JAKARTA166	INDONESIA - JANUARY 19 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Governor of Jakarta signed a regulation on January 17 prohibiting all backyard farming of poultry in residential areas in Jakarta by February 1. However, at a subsequent meeting organized by the National Committee on Avian Influenza Control and Pandemic Preparedness (KOMNAS) [...]	2007-01-19 10:00:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1660	ORANGUTAN CONSERVATION INDONESIA [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-15 01:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TBIO TPHY ID

07JAKARTA1672	WEST KALIMANTAN - DWINDLING FORESTS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: West Kalimantan's abundant forest and fresh water resources are under threat from logging and plantation companies, though the government has recently cracked down on some illegal loggers. The majority of tribal peoples in the province rely on forest resources for a livelihood [...]	2007-06-15 10:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID ECON TBIO ENRG ID
07JAKARTA1757	PSI AND LAW OF THE SEA: DISCUSSION WITH HASYIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 19, Charge discussed the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) with Ambassador (ret.) Hasyim Djalal, Indonesia's foremost authority on maritime law. Djalal advises the GOI on martime matters and his views are widely acknowledged to be a major factor in the GOI's reluct [...]	2007-06-26 09:19:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MOPS PREL BEXP UNO ID
07JAKARTA1771	INDONESIA - REACTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Per reftel, Embassy hosted eleven Indonesian NGOs for a roundtable discussion of President Bush's new international framework initiative, and reaction was generally positive. The NGOs stressed that combating deforestation needs to be part of the initiative, along with increased [...]	2007-06-27 11:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGHG SENV ENRG ID
07JAKARTA182	INDONESIA - JANUARY 19 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Governor of Jakarta signed a regulation on January 17 prohibiting all backyard farming of poultry in residential areas in Jakarta by February 1. However, at a subsequent meeting organized by the National Committee on Avian Influenza Control and Pandemic Preparedness (KOMNAS) [...]	2007-01-23 01:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1874	REP. FALEOMAVAEGA MEETS WITH PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO [...] Summary. During a July 3-6 visit to Jakarta, Rep. Eni Faleomavaega met with the President, Vice President and the Foreign Minister, receiving promises from all three that he could go to Papua the next time he visits Indonesia, despite being refused permission on this trip. President Susilo [...]	2007-07-11 00:21:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ID PREL KDEM EAID
07JAKARTA1878	INDONESIA - NEW PACKAGES ON INVESTMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 8, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) issued a new Presidential Instruction with four components: investment climate improvement; infrastructure development; empowerment of micro, small, and medium enterprises; and financial sector reform. These are updates to packages th [...]	2007-07-11 06:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON EAIR EFIN PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1892	CODEL PAYNE'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF DEFENSE [...] SUMMARY: Meeting in Jakarta on July 6, Congressmen Donald Payne (D-NJ),David Dreier (R-CA) and James Moran (D-VA) complimented Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono for Indonesia's remarkable democratic progress. The Congressmen voiced concern about the slow pace of military reform, lack of ac [...]	2007-07-12 01:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR PGOV PHUM ID
07JAKARTA1930	CODEL PAYNE AND HDAC FIND RECEPTIVE AUDIENCE IN [...] (U) On July 4-7, CODEL Payne visited Jakarta as part of the House Democracy Assistance Commission's (HDAC) ongoing legislative strengthening program in Indonesia. In a whirlwind three-day visit, CODEL Payne met with President Yudhoyono (Ref B),Defense Minister Juwono (Ref A) and top legislat [...]	2007-07-16 03:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM ID
07JAKARTA1933	SCENESETTER FOR EEB A/S SULLIVAN VISIT TO JAKARTA [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Jakarta welcomes you to Indonesia. Yours will be the first high-level State Department economic visit here in several years. We encourage you to make a strong pitch for OPIC to facilitate U.S. investment, for exploratory discussion of a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT [...]	2007-07-16 11:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ECON ENRG KCOR PGOV ID
07JAKARTA1962	REHABBING THE RADICALS? GOI OFFICIALS DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. During their June 27-29 visit to Jakarta, S/P Principal Deputy Director Matthew Waxman and S/P member James Green met with Government of Indonesia (GOI) counterterrorism officials to discuss their methods of combating radicalism, and notably Indonesia's deradicalization program. [...]	2007-07-19 08:05:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL KISL ID
07JAKARTA1984	INVITATION TO TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON FROM INDONESIAN [...] Embassy received the following letter from Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati, dated July 9, 2007. Related to the larger conference (United Nations Framework of Convention on Climate Change 13th Conference of Parties) December 3-14, Secretary Paulson is invited to attend an Event of Min [...]	2007-07-23 06:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ECON KGHG SENV ENRG ID
07JAKARTA1994	PROPOSED ARF ISM ON NONPROLIFERATION: INDONESIAN [...] (SBU) We discussed reftel concerns on July 24 with Mariyani (single name only) in the Directorate of Asia-Pacific Intra-Regional Cooperation in the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) and provided a copy of the revised draft proposal for an Intersessional Meeting (ISM) on Nonproli [...]	2007-07-24 10:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM ARF ID
07JAKARTA2033	BILATERAL DEFENSE DISCUSSIONS PROGRESS; HR VETTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the seventh U.S.-Indonesia Bilateral Defense Discussions (USIBDD) in Honolulu July 18-20, USPACOM and the Indonesian military (TNI) approved 132 military-to-military activities for FY2008, agreed on provision of U.S. GPOI assistance for the TNI's planned Peacekeeping Training [...]	2007-07-27 08:46:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL MOPS PHUM ID
07JAKARTA2063	D-FM WIRAJUDA BILAT IN MANILA [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Mission provides the following suggested background for inclusion in the briefing materials for Deputy Secretary Negroponte. They are for reference for his planned bilateral meeting with Indonesian Foreign [...]	2007-07-31 08:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV TBIO MARR ID XF IZ
07JAKARTA2065	PAPUAN CIVIL SOCIETY DISCUSSES SPECIAL AUTONOMY [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent USAID-supported study of Papuan civil society demonstrates that opinion remains divided on the Special Autonomy Law. Papuan interlocutors agree that the GOI has not done an effective job [...]	2007-07-31 10:13:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAID ID
07JAKARTA2095	Indonesia's Coal Output Increases In 2006 [...] Summary. During 2006 Indonesian coal production and exports increased 3.6% and 8.2%, respectively. According to unofficial statistics, Indonesia passed Australia in early 2007 to become the world's leading exporter of thermal coal, which is used mainly for power generation. Indonesian coal exp [...]	2007-08-03 06:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN ENRG EINV PREL ID
07JAKARTA2139	VISIT OF OES A/S MCMURRAY TO INDONESIA, CLIMATE CHANGE AND [...] (U) Summary. In a visit to Indonesia July 26-29, OES A/S McMurray and several Indonesian officials discussed climate change policy and the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 13th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP-13) meeting in Bali December 3-14. Dr. Emil Salim, P [...]	2007-08-07 23:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID ECON TBIO ENRG ID
07JAKARTA2140	FORESTRY ISSUES DOMINATE VISIT OF OES A/S MCMURRAY TO [...] (U) Summary. In a visit to Indonesia July 26-29, OES A/S McMurray discussed deforestation and climate change with senior Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials from the Ministries of Forestry and Environment, non-governmental organizations, and a policy advisor to President Yudhoyono. The GO [...]	2007-08-08 00:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID ECON TBIO ENRG ID
07JAKARTA2161	PSI: FOLLOW-UP WITH INDONESIA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Mission is in the process of following up with relevant Indonesian officials to discuss the points provided ref a on the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). Pol/C plans to meet with Director for International Security and Disar [...]	2007-08-09 04:03:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PHSA KTFN ETRD ID
07JAKARTA2194	SCENESETTER FOR CEQ CHAIRMAN CONNAUGHTON VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Jakarta welcomes you to Indonesia. You are coming to Indonesia at a time when the country is under increasing criticism for its rapid rates of deforestation, something to which the Government of Indonesia (GOI) is increasingly sensitive with the approach of the 13th Uni [...]	2007-08-11 12:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ECON ENRG KCOR PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2217	INDONESIA SEESS ASSISTANCE WITH FINANCIAL SECTOR REFORMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Finane (MOF) Sri Mulyani Indrawati and other MOF offiiials greatly appreciate current technical assistn*ce from the U.S. and welcomed more during a visitbby Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia Robert Dohner. Mulyani expressed concern about rei(onal financia [...]	2007-08-14 09:16:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN IQNV ECON APEC PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2218	REVIEW OF PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE POINTS [...] (C) Summary: Pol/C reviewed latest points concerning the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) with key GOI maritime expert Ambassador Hasyim Djalal. Djalal underscored that further review by the GOI was necessary, elaborating that the Yudhoyono administration was concerned that an outright [...]	2007-08-14 10:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHSA KTFN PARM ID
07JAKARTA2230	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES SAMPLE SHARING AND VACCINE WITH BAXTER [...] (SBU) Summary. The President of Baxter Bioscience's Vaccine Business, Kim Bush, told the Ambassador on August 14 that he believes the Indonesians would welcome a solution to the AI virus sample sharing impasse. Negotiations among a smaller group of key stakeholders could best resolve the issue [...]	2007-08-15 09:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO EAGR CASC KHIV PGOV KFLU ID
07JAKARTA2234	CAPITAL FLOW VOLATILITY EXPECTED TO INCREASE, FEW PREDICT [...] (SBU) Summary: At a two-day seminar in Singapore sponsored by Standard and Poor's and the Malaysian Rating Agency, regional financial analysts and economists predicted that capital flows in to the region would continue to be large, but may become more volatile as investors' risk appetites shift [...]	2007-08-16 06:32:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID SN
07JAKARTA2248	PRESIDENT,S NATIONAL DAY SPEECH UPBEAT, BUT NO [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: President Yudhoyono's annual National Day speech offered a generally upbeat assessment mixed with a sober recognition of the challenges facing the country. The speech covered democracy, terrori [...]	2007-08-16 10:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PTER ID IR
07JAKARTA2263	GOI ANNOUCES REMISSIONS FOR PRISONERS, INCLUDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: As in previous years, the GOI granted sentence reductions of up to six months to tens of thousands of inmates on Indonesian Independence Day, August 17. As many as six convicted terrorists (none of them major figures) may be released in coming days as a result. For the second s [...]	2007-08-20 10:09:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV KJUS ASEC ID
07JAKARTA2348	ISLAMIC LEADER DESIRES CLOSE TIES WITH U.S.; [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Hume on August 24 paid a courtesy call on Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second-largest mass-Muslim organization. Syamsuddin emphasized his desire for continued dialogue with the USG and outlined his preferred "inclusive8 approach for dealing wi [...]	2007-08-27 09:52:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL ID TH RP
07JAKARTA2365	ACEH GOVERNOR'S U.S. VISIT FOCUSES ON ECONOMIC [...] (U) This is a joint Medan-Jakarta message. 2. (U) Summary: Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf will visit the United States September 9-26. The visit includes stops in multiple cities and meetings with a range of companies and government officials. In Washington, he will also meet with the World [...]	2007-08-28 09:53:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EINV EAID PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2375	EAST JAVA MUDFLOW UPDATE: FULL ECONOMIC IMPACT [...] (SBU) Summary: During EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel's visit to the Sidoarjo muflow site, the site manager expressed confidence that current efforts were mitigating the risk to surrounding areas, but warned about possible seismic activity. Local economic experts were univerisally [...]	2007-08-29 08:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EPET ELAB PGOV ASEC ID
07JAKARTA2392	INDONESIA: DISCUSSIONS ON THE COMPLIMENTARY [...] (C) In response to Reftel A, Mission offers the following list of current and former senior GOI officials who have spoken publicly in support of democracy and the complementary nature of Islam and democracy. (Note: Nearly all prominent Indonesian officials, including President Yudhoyono, fit t [...]	2007-08-30 10:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ID
07JAKARTA2393	YOGYAKARTA EVENT HIGHLIGHTS U.S.-ASEAN TIES [...] (U) Summary: The GOI's Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) and Gadjah Mada University hosted an August 29 seminar in Yogyakarta celebrating 30 years of U.S.-ASEAN ties. Pol/C and Econ/C outlined strong U.S. support for the continued development of close political and economic ties between A [...]	2007-08-30 10:21:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON PGOV KPAO ID
07JAKARTA2407	US-INDONESIA ENERGY SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary. White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chairman James Connaughton and U.S. Senior Climate Negotiator Harlan Watson discussed energy security and climate change strategy with senior Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials, NGOs and donors during a series of meetings on [...]	2007-08-31 07:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ECON TBIO ENRG ID
07JAKARTA2421	DAS MARCIEL'S MEETINGS WITH DEPLU DG HADI AND SBY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate August 28 meetings, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel discussed a range of bilateral issues with Andri Hadi, Director General for Information and Public Diplomacy at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),and with Dino Djalal, advisor to President Yudhoyo [...]	2007-09-04 09:28:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM CACS ID
07JAKARTA2431	PAPUA: REPORTED INTIMIDATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Contacts in the Papuan human rights community report increasing threats and surveillance. While the threats are usually anonymous, Papuan activists believe they come from the Indonesian security services. Mission has no specific evidence that any individuals are in immediate da [...]	2007-09-04 10:06:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ID
07JAKARTA2436	ASEAN CHARTER ON TRACK, INCREASED DIALOGUE WITH U.S. URGED [...] (SBU) Summary. DAS Marciel emphasized U.S. interest in engaging ASEAN during meetings August 27-28 with ASEAN Deputy Secretary General Nicholas Dammen and Indonesian Foreign Ministry Director General for ASEAN Mr. Dian Triansyah Djani. The officials underscored that ASEAN is entering a qualit [...]	2007-09-05 01:38:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PHUM PREL PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2442	HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION REVAMPS, AIMS FOR A FRESH [...] (C) Human rights activists say they are hopeful that the new members and new chair of Indonesia's National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will pave the way for a more pro-active body. We understand that the new team will lobby for amendments to several of Indonesia's core human righ [...]	2007-09-05 06:57:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR ID
07JAKARTA2459	DONOR ROUNDABLE MEETING ON CLMATE CHANGE [...] (U) Summary. During a September 5 Donor Roundtable Meeting on Climate Change, Agus Purnomo, Executive Director, National Steering Committee for the Conference of Parties 13 (COP 13) updated donor partners and embassy officials on COP 13 preparations. Joe Leitmann, Environment Coordinator, Worl [...]	2007-09-06 08:36:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ECON TBIO ENRG ID
07JAKARTA2468	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON CHAIRMAN OF INDONESIA'S [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador Hume's September 5 courtesy call on Hasyim Muzadi, Chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest mass-Muslim organization, Muzadi spoke candidly about his concern over U.S. foreign policy. He also emphasized NU's efforts to promote mainstream Islam. The Amb [...]	2007-09-06 10:22:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL PINR ID
07JAKARTA247	RECREATING THE CALIPHATE: HIZBUT TAHRIR INDONESIA [...] (C) Summary. Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) spokesman Ismail Yusanto told us about his organization's ideology, structure and goals, most notably the re-establishment of an Islamic caliphate and imposition of Islamic law. HTI is a hard-line Islamist movement that, while ostensibly non-violen [...]	2007-01-30 07:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KISL PREL SOCI ID
07JAKARTA2470	DAS MARCIEL MEETINGS ON INDONESIA'S ECONOMY, [...] (SBU) Summary. EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel, during his August 27-28 visit to Jakarta, heard complaints that Indonesia is not attracting as much investment as neighbor Vietnam. Reasons include the Indonesian government and Parliament's ambivalence towards foreign companies and [...]	2007-09-06 11:08:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN ENRG PGOV KGHG ID
07JAKARTA2474	EYES ON THE PRIZE? THE SULTAN AND HIS POLITICAL [...] (C) When Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X announced earlier this year that he would resign as Yogyakarta's governor in 2008, he triggered a flurry of speculation about his political plans. Many observers interpreted the Sultan's announcement as a signal that he intended to pursue either the presi [...]	2007-09-07 08:29:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL PINR ID
07JAKARTA2476	POLICE SHOW RESTRAINT IN HANDLING CASCADE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian police have repeatedly shown restraint in dealing with large and sometimes volatile crowds in recent months. This trend suggests that the police--including the Mobile Brigade--are developing a level of professionalism that is increasingly in line with internationa [...]	2007-09-07 10:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ASEC PINS ID
07JAKARTA2500	PRESSING FOR INDONESIAN SUPPORT ON BURMA IN UNSC [...] (C) Summary: DCM emphasized reftel points on Burma with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Secretary General, September 7. Pol/C also underlined points at DEPLU office director level. GOI is committed not to praise in any way the regime's so-called "National Convention," but did not [...]	2007-09-10 10:05:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC ID BM
07JAKARTA2518	USG-supported Counter-Narcotics Center gains official GOI [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono has signed legislation officially recognizing the Joint Interagency Counter Drug Operations Center as part of the Indonesian National Narcotics Board. While USG assistance he [...]	2007-09-11 08:40:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SNAR PREL KCRM ID
07JAKARTA2528	MILITARY PROMOTIONS HOLD MIXED IMPLICATIONS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia recently publicized its military promotion list for 2007. As in past years, the promotions and reassignments represent a cross-section of the Indonesian military, and are a reflection primarily of seniority. Six key appointments have mixed implications for U.S. policy: [...]	2007-09-12 03:16:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2549	INDONESIAN/IRANIAN RELATIONS: MARGINAL SUBSTANCE, [...] (C) Summary: Many elements of a strong bilateral relationship remain underdeveloped between Indonesia and Iran. The two countries maintain marginal trade and investment links. Defense and security cooperation is virtually nonexistent. Despite this, much of the public and Indonesian legislat [...]	2007-09-13 06:31:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PREL MNUC PARM ETRD UNSC ID IR
07JAKARTA255	YUDHOYONO CANS THE CGI [...] (SBU) Summary. In a surprise announcement, President Yudhoyono told the media on January 24 that Indonesia would end the Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) donor forum. While many observers believed the CGI format had outlived its usefulness, the timing and abruptness of the announcement - [...]	2007-01-31 09:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EAID EFIN PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2556	INDONESIA'S SHIAS: A SMALL COMMUNITY UNDER SOME [...] (C) Summary: Indonesia's low-profile Shia community is believed to be growing, but it is a very small minority in this Sunni-dominated country. Leaders of the only national Shia organization say many Shias hide their faith to avoid discrimination. Violence targeting Shias is rare, but there [...]	2007-09-13 07:29:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PINS PINR PHUM ID IR
07JAKARTA2584	FACILITATING TRI-BORDER MARITIME SECURITY [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Delegations from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines and observers from Brunei, Australia and the United States participated in a multilateral maritime security conference August 27-29 in Ceb [...]	2007-09-14 09:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR PREL PTER ID RP MY
07JAKARTA2598	CENTRAL SULAWESI - POSO: ECONOMIC RECOVERY KEY TO [...] (U) This is a joint Surabaya - Jakarta message. 2. (C) Summary: While interlocutors describe the current security situation in Poso, Central Sulawesi, as "good," all agree that economic development is critical to Poso's stability. Extremists continue to eye Central Sulawesi's young and po [...]	2007-09-17 07:44:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EAID ID
07JAKARTA2600	TRADE MINISTER EMPHASIZES REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT OVER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Minister of Trade Mari Pangestu outlined the Government of Indonesia's (GOI) "multi-track" approach to trade policy emphasizing multi-lateral and regional engagement over bilateral agreements in public remarks delivered on September 12th. Pangestu also stressed the inclusion of [...]	2007-09-17 08:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV ECON BEXP ID
07JAKARTA2609	BANK INDONESIA BRIEFS UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY ON ECONOMY, [...] (SBU) Summary. Two Bank Indonesia (BI) Deputy Governors briefed visiting Under Secretary Jeffery on Indonesia's macroeconomic success in recent years; BI's effort to improve the formal arrangement for managing economic and financial crises; and the central bank's work to prevent large-scale c [...]	2007-09-18 00:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2611	U/S DISCUSSES INDONESIA'S ROLE IN COP 13, CLEAN ENERGY, [...] (SBU) Summary. During his visit to Indonesia September 10-12, U/S Jeffery held a roundtable lunch on September 10 with GOI officials, donor representatives ad private sector representatives. The head of Indonesia's COP 13 steering committee said that the GOI would await the outcomes of the U.N [...]	2007-09-18 01:19:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG EAID ECON PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2616	U/S Jeffery Meeting with Vice President Kalla [...] (SBU) Summary. Vice President Jusuf Kalla and Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery discussed U.S.-Indonesia cooperation in anti-corruption, energy security, and climate change during a forty-minute meeting on September 11. Kalla returned to his customary theme of the importance of stability and econ [...]	2007-09-18 06:57:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EINV SENV ID
07JAKARTA2644	TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY IN INDONESIA [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation, is a crucial test for transformational diplomacy. Just ten years ago it was an authoritarian, military dominated state weakening under the pressures of [...]	2007-09-19 10:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON SOCI TBIO ID
07JAKARTA2649	U/S JEFFERY MEETS WITH ECONOMISTS AND BUSINESS LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary. U/S Jeffery discussed Indonesia's economy and investment climate with economists and business leaders September 10-11 in Jakarta. Outlying regions such as Aceh and Papua face infrastructure and development challenges. Large established western companies with good local partners [...]	2007-09-20 00:33:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV EINV ID
07JAKARTA2660	HOPES DIM FOR RATIFICATION OF INDONESIA-SINGAPORE [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Embassy Singapore. 2. (C) Summary: Indonesian officials see chances for ratification of the Indonesia-Singapore Defense Agreement as dimming, five months after its signature. Leading the charge, a key Indonesian legislator has urged the GOI to cancel [...]	2007-09-20 09:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV ID SN
07JAKARTA2674	IMPLICATED IN CORRUPTION CASE, PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A special unit within the Attorney General's office has reportedly implicated T.B. Silalahi--an influential adviser to President Yudhoyono--in an ongoing corruption investigation. According to media reports, Silalahi allegedly received a house from a contact. Silalahi has heat [...]	2007-09-21 06:42:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCOR ID
07JAKARTA2682	Bilateral Energy Dialogue Date and Venue Change [...] (SBU) Director General of Oil and Gas Luluk Sumiarso told us on September 20 that he liked the USG proposed agenda for the bilateral Energy Policy Dialogue (EPD). He expressed particular appreciation for the mix of Government-to-Government and Government-to-Business modules. Luluk stressed th [...]	2007-09-21 09:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ENRG EINV PREL ID
07JAKARTA2690	EXPERTS APPLAUD BANKING REFORMS BUT WARN OF LONGER TERM [...] Summary. Financial sector experts working in Asia gathered at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on September 6-7 to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing Asian banks over the next decade. They lauded Asian policymakers for largely correcting the excesses that led to the 1997 [...]	2007-09-24 06:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2695	Invitation to COP-13 Trade Ministerial [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 24, Embassy received official correspondence from Government of Indonesia (GOI) Minister of Trade Mari Pangestu addressed to United States Trade Representative (USTR) Susan C. Schwab. The letter is an invitation to attend a trade ministerial on the margins of the C [...]	2007-09-24 08:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP EINV ECON ID
07JAKARTA2732	WEST KALIMANTAN: UNDERSCORING THE VITALITY OF [...] (C) Summary: Pol/C spoke September 26 at a university in West Kalimantan on Borneo island, emphasizing the need for Indonesia to play an enhanced role supporting democracy and human rights, especially in Burma. West Kalimantan--a vast area with a fractious, multi-ethnic population--was focus [...]	2007-09-27 08:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA2737	INDONESIA REACTS, SPURRED ON BY REGIME'S BLOODY [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Wirajuda broke the government's silence on Burmese events, calling September 26 for the regime to exercise restraint and noting that the matter will be discussed in the ASEAN context. Mission continues to press the GOI to use all levers available to try to pressure the regime [...]	2007-09-27 10:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ID BM KPAO
07JAKARTA2743	INDONESIA - TRILATERAL STRATEGIC ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary. The missions of Australia, the U.S. and Japan in Indonesia, at a September 20 meeting, agreed to pursue several issues in close coordination, including avian influenza sample sharing, encouraging better Government of Indonesia (GOI) compliance with UN 1267 Al-Qaeda-related asset [...]	2007-09-28 02:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR KTFN KFLU PREL PTER PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2745	GENERALLY POSITIVE ASSESSMENT OF INDONESIA'S ECONOMY [...] Summary: Several key economic officials proviced a generally positive assessment overall of Indonesia's economy. Coordinating Minister for the Economy Boediono chaired a high-level briefing for donors and the private sector on September 25, noting that Indonesia's economy has grown more than [...]	2007-09-28 03:36:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV KMCA KCOR ID
07JAKARTA2756	INDONESIA SUPPORTS DRAFT UNGA RESOLUTION [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Diana Emilla, Deputy Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),underscoring that Indonesia--as East Asia's larges [...]	2007-09-28 09:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN UNGA ID
07JAKARTA2769	PAPUA ON LOW BOIL, BUT LITTLE SIGN OF A BLOW UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff visited Jayapura, the capital of Papua, September 17-19. The province remains one of Indonesia's least developed regions and officials are frustrated at the slow pace of fund disbursement under the GOI's Special Autonomy plans. Worries about the role of the military pers [...]	2007-10-01 09:22:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ECON PHUM ID
07JAKARTA2777	INDONESIA - 2008 DRAFT BUDGET, SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN [...] (U) Summary. On August 16, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) presented to the Parliament his FY 2008 draft budget, which focused heavily on boosting infrastructure spending. The draft budget targets 6.8% economic growth for 2008, up from 6.3% expected in 2007, with 6% inflation. In or [...]	2007-10-02 07:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KMCA ECON KCOR PGOV ID
07JAKARTA278	INTERIM BILATERAL DEFENSE DIALOGUE EXPANDS [...] (U) Summary: An interim session of the annual U.S.-Indonesian Bilateral Defense Dialogue (BDD) in Jakarta on January 30-31 reached agreement on several important additions to the FY2007 agenda. Those included a multi-tiered set of exercises on humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) [...]	2007-02-01 09:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL ID
07JAKARTA2783	PAPUA: CONTROVERSY CONTINUES TO SWIRL AROUND HUGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In recent meetings with poloff, Freeport McMoran officials insist they are doing everything possible to address security and environmental concerns surrounding their massive mine in central Papua. The use of police instead of military for security around the mine has not yet res [...]	2007-10-02 10:12:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS EMIN SENV PHUM ID
07JAKARTA2795	INDONESIA - OCTOBER 3 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. In its October 2007, GlobeAsia (a respected Indonesian business magazine) ranked Minister of Health Fadilah Supari as number 16 of the top 99 Most Powerful Women in Indonesia. On October 1, the National Institute of Health Research and Development (NIHRD) confirmed H5N1 in a dece [...]	2007-10-03 08:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2796	INDONESIA - OCTOBER 3 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. In its October 2007, GlobeAsia (a respected Indonesian business magazine) ranked Minister of Health Fadilah Supari as number 16 of the top 99 Most Powerful Women in Indonesia. On October 1, the National Institute of Health Research and Development (NIHRD) confirmed H5N1 in a dece [...]	2007-10-03 08:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2815	BANKING SECTOR UPDATE 2007 - NEW REGULATION ON [...] (U) Summary. Since announcing its 2005 Indonesian Banking Architecture plan, Bank Indonesia has launched several policy packages and regulations to promote banking consolidation via merger. On September 21, Bank Indonesia issued a new regulation setting out additional incentives for bank conso [...]	2007-10-04 07:32:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2821	BURMA -- MISSION MAKES POINTS, BUT INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY -- Per Ref A, Charge urged a key Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) contact to support a formal UNSC meeting and a Presidential Statement (PRST) on Burma. Indonesia continues to prefer dealing with Burma in the UN Human Rights Council--not the UNSC--however. Without a very quic [...]	2007-10-04 10:13:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC ID BM
07JAKARTA2828	EAST KALIMANTAN -- ENGAGING STUDENTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 2-4 visit to the resource-rich Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on Borneo island, Mission team held a wide-ranging dialogue with 70 students at a local university. Emboffs used the occasion to underscore the strength and vitality of U.S.-Indonesian relati [...]	2007-10-05 07:25:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KPAO ID
07JAKARTA2846	INDONESIA/BURMA: IN REBUFF TO GOI, LEGISLATORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Escalating their response to the Burmese crackdown, Indonesian legislators have blocked the appointment of a new Indonesian envoy to Burma and put on hold agrement for Burma's new ambassador-designate to Indonesia. The move to block the two appointments may be temporary, but is [...]	2007-10-09 09:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM
07JAKARTA2855	INDONESIA/BURMA -- ACTIVISTS CALL FOR REGION-WIDE [...] (U) This is an Action Request -- Please see Para 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY -- Indonesian civil society activists concerned about Burma met with Emboffs at the DCM's Residence, October 5. A/DCM and Pol/C reviewed USG Burma policy, underscoring our strong support for civil society efforts in favor [...]	2007-10-10 09:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM EAID PHUM
07JAKARTA2871	INDONESIA - SAMPLE SHARING POSITION HARDENS [...] (SBU) Summary. Following participation in a Third World Network-organized meeting in Geneva, Indonesia's views on sample sharing seem to be hardening. Dr. Widjaja Lukito, Government of Indonesia lead on sample sharing, told us on October 11 that Indonesia intends to seek support within the Glo [...]	2007-10-11 07:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2874	YOGYAKARTA: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES FOR DECENTRALIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: Yogyakarta's decentralization framework is robust, yet its implementation and results incomplete. Following major earthquake damage and economic decline in 2006, the Special Province of Yogyakarta is working to attract investment and improve the investment climat [...]	2007-10-11 09:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV KJUS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA2875	YOGYAKARTA - PROMOTING ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Yogyakarta provincial leadership has instituted several initiatives to promote greater accountability and more responsive local government. The Governor established public and private ombudsman offices and a regional oversight body to promote better governance. Despite some [...]	2007-10-11 09:48:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KMCA KCOR ECON KJUS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA2892	GOI--REACTING TO CONCERNS--ADJUSTS REMISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to international concerns, the GOI has quietly adjusted its sentence remission policy for those convicted of terrorism-related offenses. Instead of applying the annual holiday-timeframe remissions policy for all prisoners indiscriminately, the GOI will take time to [...]	2007-10-12 06:00:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KJUS ID
07JAKARTA2893	DEFENSE COOPERATION -- INDONESIAN NAVY CHIEF [...] (U) This is an Action Request -- Please see para 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: CDA recently discussed the proposed USG 1206 program placement of coastal radars in the Sulawesi Sea area with Hashim Jalal, an influential Indonesian expert on the Law of the Sea. Jalal explained that the top Indonesian [...]	2007-10-12 06:08:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHSA MASS MARR ID
07JAKARTA2903	THE POLITICS OF RAMADAN IN INDONESIA -- THE GOOD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: October 13 marked the Muslim holiday of Idul Fitri--the end of Ramadan--and the Indonesian political spectrum celebrated in its inimitable fashion. On the positive side, they held multiple ceremonies to give money to the poor. On the negative side, a number of politicos--includ [...]	2007-10-15 10:03:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KISL PTER ID
07JAKARTA2916	BOWING TO PRESSURE, GOI ANNOUNCES TOUGHER [...] (C) SUMMARY -- The GOI's formal revision of its criminal sentence remission policy has taken effect. The new regulation makes it more difficult for certain groups of convicts--notably terrorists--to receive the annual sentence reductions traditionally given to most prisoners in Indonesia. Th [...]	2007-10-16 10:00:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KJUS PREL ID
07JAKARTA2917	BURMA -- URGING INDONESIA TO SUPPORT GAMBARI'S [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Pol/C reviewed Ref A points with GOI officials. They expressed full support for UN Special Envoy Gambari's efforts and said Indonesia is examining steps meant to facilitate his mission. As part of his SE Asia trip, [...]	2007-10-16 10:40:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAO PHUM ID BM
07JAKARTA292	REQUEST APPROVAL TO TRAIN MOBILE BRIGADE PERSONNEL [...] (U) This cable contains an urgent action request (see Para 8). 2. (C) Summary: Recent counterterrorism operations by Indonesian National Police (INP) units in Central Sulawesi highlight a deficiency in our approach to police training in Indonesia. Specifically, the 2003 ban on using Inter [...]	2007-02-02 08:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC KCRM KHLS KPAO PGOV PINS KJUS KISL
07JAKARTA2924	A CABINET OF ONE -- INDONESIA'S FIRST LADY EXPANDS [...] (S) SUMMARY: According to contacts, Indonesia's First Lady has expanded her influence within the Palace and emerged as the President's undisputed top advisor. Kristiani Herawati's ascendance has apparently come at the expense of other key advisors. The First Lady has allegedly leveraged he [...]	2007-10-17 10:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PGOV KDEM KISL PINR ID
07JAKARTA293	PARLIAMENT FLEXES ITS MUSCLES ON BURMA [...] (C) In a relatively rare moment of constructive assertiveness, the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) chastised the government of Indonesia for abstaining on the UNSC Burma resolution vote (Ref C). On January 25th, the DPR's Commission I - the Commission for foreign policy and defense [...]	2007-02-02 08:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KISL UNSC BM ID
07JAKARTA2934	RESUMING ENGAGEMENT WITH KOPASSUS, THE ARMY'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The time is right to resume gradual engagement with KOPASSUS, the Indonesian Army's elite Special Forces unit. The basis for engagement remains the Secretary's waiver of legislative restrictions on military SIPDIS cooperation with the GOI issued in November 2005, which opened [...]	2007-10-19 05:29:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS ID
07JAKARTA2945	PRE-COP BOGOR SCENESETTER FOR U/S DOBRIANSKY: INDONESIAN [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: Embassy Jakarta welcomes you to Indonesia to participate in the Informal Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change in Bogor, October 23-25. Indonesia wants the pre-COP ministerial meeting to increase prospects for the success of the 13th UNFCCC Conference of the Par [...]	2007-10-19 10:09:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ECON PREL ID
07JAKARTA2953	INDONESIA'S SUPREME COURT -- LACK OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Supreme Court has made progress in implementing reforms designed to improve the efficiency and professionalism of the judiciary. The Court's potential remains unfulfilled, however, largely due its reluctance to tackle the issue of judicial accountability. While movin [...]	2007-10-22 09:25:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA EAID ID
07JAKARTA2958	UNGA -- URGING GOI SUPPORT ON THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY -- Pol/C met Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) contacts, October 22, reviewing U.S. views on key UNGA Third Committee issues. Pol/C also reviewed the recent Troika discussions re Kosovo. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) THIRD COMMITTEE: Pol/C met with Ramadansyah Hasan of DEPLU's Di [...]	2007-10-23 04:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA ID KV PHUM
07JAKARTA2967	MAINSTREAM MUSLIM ORGANIZATIONS PRESS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's two largest mass Muslim organizations--Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah--have recently publicly criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East. In addition to the ritualistic criticism of the USG, the statements--made in advance of Palestinian leader Abbas, visit to J [...]	2007-10-23 11:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL ID XF
07JAKARTA2973	NATIONAL INVESTMENT TEAM VS NEGATIVE LIST [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Indonesia (GOI) reestablished its National Team for the Enhancement of Export and Investment (PEPI) to coordinate investment policy formulation and implementation in addition to investment promotion. The institution was reinvigorated in response to complaints [...]	2007-10-24 06:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC ASEC EINV ECON ID
07JAKARTA2980	BURMA -- FORMER GENERAL REVIEWS RECENT VISIT, [...] (C) SUMMARY -- On October 24, Lt. General (ret,d) Agus Widjojo reviewed with Pol/C his recent visit to Burma for an official funeral. Widjojo--serving as a special Indonesian envoy--said he had met several regime figures on the margins of the trip. Widjojo said he had urged the regime to wor [...]	2007-10-24 10:16:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ID BM
07JAKARTA2990	DEFENSE COOPERATION -- ENGAGING INDONESIA ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The U.S.-Indonesian military-to-military relationship has reached an important phase. Both sides need to discuss how they see this relationship developing. The October 29-November 3 CHODS conference in Hawaii provides Admiral Keating with an ideal opportunity to engage Panglima [...]	2007-10-25 10:21:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV ID
07JAKARTA2992	CENTRAL JAVA -- SUCCESSFUL OUTREACH AT AN ISLAMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff spoke at a pesantren (Islamic school) during an October 23-24 visit to the Central Javan region. Poloff underlined the importance of the U.S.-Indonesian relationship and the need for additional efforts to foster dialogue. Students asked questions about U,S, policy in the [...]	2007-10-25 11:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KPAO ID
07JAKARTA302	TSUNAMI RECOVERY AND TRANSFORMATION - ACEH AT TWO YEARS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency of Aceh and Nias (BRR) has made significant progress on the immense task of rebuilding Aceh and Nias in its 20 months of operation. However, in contrast to a year ago, BRR is receiving increased criticism for spending too slowly (or t [...]	2007-02-05 08:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV PREL SENV KCOR ID
07JAKARTA3020	INDONESIA'S UNSC PRESIDENCY: PROCESS ABOVE ALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia is looking forward to assuming the UNSC presidency--a largely procedural position--in November. The GOI agenda is likely to be shaped by Jakarta's preference for consensus-driven multilateral approaches to foreign policy issues. On some key issues--including Iran and B [...]	2007-10-29 09:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC ID BM IR
07JAKARTA303	INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS - JANUARY 2007 [...] Summary. Minister of Forestry M.S. Kaban and European Union (EU) Commissioners Louis Michel and Stavros Dimas agreed in Brussels on January 8 to initiate formal negotiations on a voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade. On January 12, the leaders [...]	2007-02-05 09:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID

07JAKARTA3044	WAYS FORWARD ON THE BURMA ISSUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Michael Vatikiotis of the Henry Dumont Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue offered ideas on moving the Burma situation forward, after discussions with leaders in the region, including Indonesian Foreign Minister Wirajuda. Vatikiotis said it was important that ASEAN unanimously ratif [...]	2007-10-31 11:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV XC BM ID

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