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08JAKARTA1107	ADMIRAL MULLEN'S MEETINGS WITH THE GOI: BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with GOI leaders during his visit to Jakarta, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen emphasized the U.S. commitment to bilateral military cooperation with Indonesia and pledged to continue building the GOI's defense capabilities at Indonesia's pace. His [...]	2008-06-06 03:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS ID BM

08JAKARTA1111	BURMA -- U.S. BEGINS FLYING TENTS FROM INDONESIA [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. military aircraft have begun transporting relief supplies from Indonesia to Thailand for onward transfer to Burma. The Indonesian military (TNI) and Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) have provided key supp [...]	2008-06-06 06:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ID BM
08JAKARTA1182	FIRST TRACK I DISCUSSION ON ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS BODY [...] (SBU) The May 15-17 ASEAN Workshop on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (reftel) in Bali, Indonesia, was the first Track I discussion of human rights by ASEAN member country officials. According to various participants, it was a success in discussing ideas and generating recommendations [...]	2008-06-17 09:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEAN PHUM EAID PREL PGOV ID BM
08JAKARTA120	BURMA -- INDONESIAN CIVIL SOCIETY PLANS CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: An Indonesian coalition of civil society activists met January 17 with emboffs in order to plan a regional conference on Burma to take place in March in Jakarta. The USG-funded conference would invite civil society representatives from ASEAN and other Asian nations, as well as [...]	2008-01-22 06:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID BM ID
08JAKARTA1244	BURMA -- SHAPING POST-CYCLONE ASSISTANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission reviewed USG points re shaping post-cyclone assistance in Burma with contacts in the Presidential Palace and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). Tri Sukma Djandam of the Office of the President told Pol/C that the GOI wanted to make sure that the international c [...]	2008-06-26 06:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM
08JAKARTA1443	ASEAN CHARTER -- INDONESIAN DEBATE HEATING UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI will soon submit the ASEAN Charter to the Indonesian national legislature for ratification. The government vows to press for approval, but many legislators have questioned whether Indonesia should endorse the document. They point to the Charter's relatively weak provis [...]	2008-07-28 09:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM SN
08JAKARTA1626	ASEAN SECRETARIAT RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT CHARTER, ROLE [...] (SBU) Summary. ASEAN Secretariat Principal Director for External Relations Dhannan Sunoto and his team raised concerns about growing political opposition to the ASEAN Charter in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. The Secretariat officials also expressed regret about ASEAN's limited role [...]	2008-08-27 07:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA1629	BURMA -- SPECIAL ENVOY GAMBARI ON HIS LATEST TRIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari reported that during his August 18-23 visit to Burma he pressed key regime figures on the need for progress on reforms. He acknowledged disappointment with being unable to meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Senior General Than Shwe. He [...]	2008-08-27 09:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UNSC ID BM
08JAKARTA1663	BURMA -- RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS IN INDONESIA [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: As a spin-off from Mission's successful conference on Burma in March, a key Indonesian legislator is planning a road show at university campuses in order to raise public awareness of Burma-related issues. This legislator [...]	2008-09-03 08:56:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM BM ID
08JAKARTA178	ASEAN CHARTER/BURMA -- ROUGH ROAD AHEAD IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian government is committed to pushing the ASEAN Charter through the national legislature (DPR) in 2008, although it has not yet submitted the Charter for ratification. The DPR, however, is committed to scrutinizing the Charter and moving slowly. Civil society is pr [...]	2008-01-29 08:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEAN ID BM
08JAKARTA1803	UNGA: ADVANCING USG PRIORITIES WITH INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Possible upcoming meetings for senior USG officials with FM Wirajuda or Secretary General Imron Cotan (the number-three official in the Department of Foreign Affairs) on the margins of the UN General Assembly are a key opportunity to advance USG priorities with Indonesia. We su [...]	2008-09-23 06:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD MARR ID BM IR
08JAKARTA1830	ASEAN DIALOGUE PARTNERS RAMP UP TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Summary. The European Commission (EC),Germany and Australia will significantly increase technical assistance to ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat over the next few years. Japan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) also have large ongoing assistance programs for ASEAN. Participants at an [...]	2008-09-26 07:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA1893	ASEAN -- INDONESIAN LEGISLATURE TAKES KEY STEP TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: A key parliamentary committee has ratified the ASEAN Charter after a long period of debate centered on Burma and the regional human rights situation. Legislators--in an unusual step fueled by frustration over Burma--also issued non-binding human rights-related "policy directives [...]	2008-10-10 08:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEAN ID BM
08JAKARTA1927	DONORS PROPOSE COLLECTIVE ACTION TO STRENGTHEN ASEAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-17 04:36:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA1948	ASEAN CHARTER RATIFIED BY INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian Parliament ratified the ASEAN Charter on October 21. The move was expected and came after the committee dealing with foreign affairs recommended that Parliament in full plenary pass the Charter. We understand that the legislation contains non-binding "policy dir [...]	2008-10-22 06:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEAN ID BM
08JAKARTA2066	UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE -- SEEKING INDONESIAN SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The DCM urged a key GOI official to oppose no-action motions on UN General Assembly (UNGA) Third Committee resolutions dealing with Burma, Iran and North Korea. He also urged Indonesia to support the three resolutions so as to highlight the severe human rights problems in those [...]	2008-11-07 10:41:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA ID BM IR KN
08JAKARTA2091	BURMA -- USG-FUNDED PANEL DISCUSSIONS SET TO BEGIN [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: A USG-funded "road show" meant to raise public awareness about the human rights situation in Burma will kick off in early December, traveling to three major Indonesian universities. The program of panel di [...]	2008-11-13 08:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM BM ID
08JAKARTA2108	BURMA -- PRESSING GOI ON THE REGIME'S LATEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission delivered Ref A message regarding the Burmese regime's latest crackdown to Indonesian officials and a key parliamentarian on November 17. Mission underscored the need for continued international pressure in the wake of the harsh sentences imposed on democracy advocates [...]	2008-11-17 09:32:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNGA ID BM
08JAKARTA265	SECRETARY GENERAL SURIN ON BURMA, CHINA'S ROLE, AND U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary. Secretary General Surin believes that China gains a heftier -- undeserved -- stature in ASEAN every time U.S. leaders are absent from an ASEAN Summit or high-level meeting, to our detriment. He notes the U.K. has decided to sign ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation; it is no [...]	2008-02-08 02:57:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEAN EAID KDEM KHIV PGOV PREL ID BM CH
08JAKARTA269	BURMA -- JAKARTA PLANS REGIONAL CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian civil society will host a USG-funded regional conference March 6-7 on Burma. The exact agenda is still being developed, but the conference will focus on such topics as HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, and the economic repercussions of the crisis, as well as regional and [...]	2008-02-08 10:31:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ID BM
08JAKARTA294	BURMA -- NEW INDONESIAN APPROACH SLOWLY TAKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: A new Indonesian approach regarding Burma is slowly taking shape. Senior GOI officials say they are developing a comprehensive strategy which will address a wide range of concerns re Burma, including the need for a democratic transition, human rights and national integrity. As [...]	2008-02-13 09:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA372	CODEL PRICE WORKS TO STRENGTHEN INDONESIAN [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (U) SUMMARY: From February 17-21, CODEL Price visited Indonesia as part of the legislative strengthening program of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC). CODEL Price toured Aceh, met with President Yudhoyono, and held [...]	2008-02-25 09:40:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OVIP EAID KDEM BM ID
08JAKARTA373	BURMA -- GAMBARI OUTLINES STRATEGY AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a discussion hosted by Ambassador Hume on February 22, UN Special Envoy for Burma Ibrahim Gambari said he would press the regime to include the democratic opposition in the upcoming referendum. Indonesian interlocutors outlined their plans for enhanced regional efforts that [...]	2008-02-25 10:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM UN
08JAKARTA401	BURMA -- INDONESIANS OFFER TWO SEPARATE APPROACHES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two distinct and apparently separate Burma initiatives are under development in Jakarta. The two approaches were described to EAP DAS Scot Marciel in separate meetings on February 26. According to Presidential Advisor Dino Djalal, President Yudhoyono's office has prepared, and [...]	2008-02-28 08:36:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA407	US-ASEAN SUPPORT PROGRAM LAUNCHED [...] (SBU) ASEAN has been waiting with anticipation for a renewed commitment from the U.S., Secretary General (SG) Surin Pitsuwan stated in a February 25 courtesy call by DAS Marciel and representatives of the USAID Asia Regional Mission. The team met with the SG to present and formally launch ADVA [...]	2008-02-29 02:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA421	IRAN/BURMA -- GERMAN FM PRESSES INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: German FM Steinmeier visited Jakarta February 26-28 and pressed the GOI on Iran's nuclear program and on Burma. Indonesian FM Wirajuda said publicly that the Burmese opposition and ethnic minority groups should participate in the upcoming referendum. Wirajuda also said that Ir [...]	2008-02-29 08:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP ID BM GM
08JAKARTA424	ASEAN REACHES OUT TO INDONESIAN BUSINESS LEADERS [...] Summary. Sundram Pushpanathan, Principal Director of the ASEAN Secretariat's Bureau for Economic Integration and Finance, presented SIPDIS ASEAN's plan for economic integration by 2015 at an Indonesian business forum. According to Pushpanathan, the ASEAN foreign ministers have expressed str [...]	2008-03-03 02:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA452	BURMA -- USG-SPONSORED CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE IN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: An intensive USG-sponsored conference on "The Role of ASEAN Civil Society in Supporting Human Rights and Democracy in Burma" will take place in Jakarta March 6-7. Over 20 regional experts will [...]	2008-03-05 10:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID BM ID
08JAKARTA455	BURMA -- URGING INDONESIA TO HELP WITH S/E [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission reviewed Ref A points regarding UN Special Envoy Gambari's visit to Burma with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). DEPLU contact told Pol/C that Indonesia was already doing just that: President Yudhoyono had sent a letter to Burmese regime leader Than Shwe urging [...]	2008-03-06 02:57:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM UN
08JAKARTA481	BURMA -- JAKARTA CONFERENCE ISSUES ROBUST [...] (C) SUMMARY: A regional USG-funded civil society conference on Burma concluded March 7 in Jakarta with a declaration calling on ASEAN to reject the regime's May referendum unless there was genuine dialogue and popular involvement. With participation by regional experts--including a monk who [...]	2008-03-10 10:22:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID BM ID
08JAKARTA528	BURMA REFERENDUM -- U.S./INDONESIA ON THE SAME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pol/C reviewed Ref A points with a contact at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on March 14. Pol/C stressed the importance of ASEAN and Indonesia pressing the regime on its proposed referendum and election. DEPLU said it shared U.S. concerns, noting that it had made thes [...]	2008-03-14 09:31:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ID BM
08JAKARTA58	NEW ASEAN SEC GEN INSTATED; U.S. COOPERATION ABSENT FROM [...] (U) Dr. Surin Pitsuwan replaced outgoing Secretary General Ong Keng Yong as leader of the ASEAN Secretariat in an official ceremony on January 7 in Jakarta. Dr. Surin pledged to continue to advance ASEAN's goals of creating a single market, narrowing the development gap, and promoting a peacef [...]	2008-01-11 00:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA587	BURMESE SEAFARER ALLEGEDLY TRAFFICKED TO INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Burmese seafarer allegedly trafficked to Indonesia to work for low wages aboard an Indonesian oil tanker is struggling with the company to regain his passport and withheld wages. The apparent victim, Kyaw Htin, is an experienced chief engineer. The Burmese Embassy has refused [...]	2008-03-24 04:22:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PHUM ID BM
08JAKARTA735	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BURMA, SECURITY ISSUES WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Hume pressed key USG priorities--including Burma, counterterrorism, mil-mil cooperation and diplomatic privileges--in an April 9 meeting with Secretary General Imron Cotan, the number-two official at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). Cotan did not commit to [...]	2008-04-10 09:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS AMGT KREC ID BM
08JAKARTA862	BURMA -- ENGAGING INDONESIA ON THE REGIME'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has underscored to Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) contacts reftel concerns about the Burmese regime's May 10 referendum. Pol/C stressed that the regime's conduct of the referendum has totally failed to adhere to international standards. DEPLU contacts replied th [...]	2008-04-30 05:56:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM
08JAKARTA914	HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO CYCLONE NARGIS: ASEAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Visiting EAP PDAS Scott Marciel discussed reftel issues with ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan and with Indonesian presidential adviser Dino Djalal on May 8 in Jakarta. Surin said he was fully occupied with the relief issues, urged the continued stockpiling of supplies in [...]	2008-05-08 09:53:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ASEAN BM ID
08JAKARTA933	FRENCH UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA -- INDONESIAN [...] (U) On May 12, Poloff reviewed reftel points re a draft French-proposed UNSC resolution on humanitarian assistance to Burma with Fikri Cassidy, Deputy Director for International Security and Disarmament at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). Cassidy said DEPLU had received no communica [...]	2008-05-12 09:03:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNSC BM ID
08JAKARTA95	ASEAN FOUNDATION CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY [...] (U) On January 16, The ASEAN Foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary with a forum focusing on its achievements and future plans under ASEAN's Socio-Cultural Pillar (covering education, social development, the environment, and health). ASEAN Deputy Secretary General Nicholas Dammen delivered [...]	2008-01-17 00:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA980	UPDATE ON ASEAN RESPONSE TO BURMA DISASTER [...] (SBU) Summary. According to officials at the ASEAN Secretariat, most of the members of ASEAN's Emergency Rapid Assessment Team (ERAT) are now on the ground in Rangoon. On May 16, the ASEAN ERAT met with Burmese officials to request permission to enter affected areas. The Government of Burma [...]	2008-05-16 08:03:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
08JAKARTA986	BURMA -- INDONESIAN FRUSTRATION WITH REGIME GROWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesians are frustrated with the Burmese regime's response to Cyclone Nargis. The GOI has already sent some assistance and President Yudhoyono has sent a letter to Than Shwe offering more support, but the regime has not yet responded. Indonesian legislators are harshly crit [...]	2008-05-16 09:31:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ID BM
08KOLKATA95	IN MIZORAM AND BURMA BAMBOO FLOWERING MAY BRING FAMINE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Northeast Indian state of Mizoram, wedged between Burma and Bangladesh, is at the height of an acute food and grain shortage due to the destruction of crops by an exploding rat population. Approximately every [...]	2008-03-18 11:19:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAID PREF PGOV EAGR IN BG BM
08KOLKATA99	A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT - CONNECTING BURMA AND INDIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport Project linking the landlocked states in Northeast India with Sittwe port in Myanmar holds the promise of making Mizoram an economic gateway, and providing India with access to international trade routes via the Bay of Bengal. The tentative ste [...]	2008-03-19 12:02:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV PGOV ETRD EWWT EPET IN BM BG
08KUALALUMPUR1024	MALAYSIA RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON BURMA CRACKDOWN [...] (C) Polcouns and visiting Senate Foreign Relations Committee professional staff member Paul Grove called on Malaysian Foreign Ministry Principal Assistant Secretary (Southeast Asia) Ismail Haji Salam and Assistant Secretary Firdauz Othman on November 19 and raised serious concerns over the Bu [...]	2008-11-20 05:06:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV BM MY
08KUALALUMPUR1050	MALAYSIAN VIEWS ON DECEMBER ASEAN SUMMITS [...] (C) Summary: The Embassy collected Malaysian economic and political views of the December ASEAN summits from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and from the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS),a government-linked think-tank. According to MITI Deputy [...]	2008-11-28 10:30:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ASEAN BM MY
08KUALALUMPUR342	DEMARCHE TO MALAYSIA: BURMA'S FLAWED [...] (C) Poloff met May 5 with the Malaysian Foreign Ministry's Southeast Asia and South Pacific Division chief Rahimi Harun to convey reftel points, emphasizing in particular the importance of ASEAN,s role. Rahimi responded that the GOM had been pushing the regime &for years8 to expedite the pro [...]	2008-05-05 09:33:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BM MY
08KUALALUMPUR387	MALAYSIA: MIXED VIEWS ON BURMA RELIEF EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Elements of the Malaysian mainstream media, civil society and the political opposition have harshly condemned the refusal of the Burmese regime to allow in international relief teams and its insistence on going ahead with the May 10 referendum. Government officials, however, [...]	2008-05-14 09:48:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL MARR BM MY
08KUALALUMPUR799	STAFFDEL LUSE DISCUSSES TRAFFICKING OF BURMESE [...] (C) Keith Luse, Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited Malaysia August 25-31 to investigate reports of the trafficking of Burmese refugees to Thailand and the alleged involvement of Malaysian Immigration officials in such trafficking, as previously reported by [...]	2008-09-10 09:56:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL KTIP BM TH MY
08KUALALUMPUR957	MALAYSIA: WELCOME CABLE FOR STAFFDEL GROVE [...] Embassy Kuala Lumpur warmly welcomes the November 18-19 visit to Malaysia by Mr. Paul Grove and Ms. Michelle Wymer from the Senate Appropriations Committee. The purpose of the trip is to conduct oversight of State Department and Foreign Operations. Post will be generating a notional schedule [...]	2008-10-31 08:46:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TH BM SN AS MY
08LISBON1078	BURMA: APRIL GAERC CONCLUSIONS ACCURATELY [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-02 17:16:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM
08LISBON1975	PORTUGAL DEFERS TO EU ON STRONGER BURMA SANCTIONS [...] (U) Portugal continues to support the EU consensus regarding sanctions against Burma, according to Joao Terenas of the MFA's Asia Office. Terenas thanked us for the briefing on stronger U.S. sanctions but declined to comment on the prospects for stronger EU sanctions pending further discussio [...]	2008-08-08 17:09:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ETRD BM PO
08LISBON2699	PORTUGAL REITERATES OUTSTANDING BOSNIA COMMITMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Florbela Cardy and Isabel Ferreira of the Portuguese MFA expressed general Portugal and EU agreement with reftel points. Cardy stressed EU resolve for Bosnia to meet its 5 2 Agenda commitments and downplayed concerns about the EU/Russia summit. Cardy said the EU is encouraged b [...]	2008-11-07 17:20:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EUN BK RS IZ AF BM PO PHUM
08LISBON2754	PORTUGAL: IMPROVING EU BURMA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-05 10:30:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM EU PO
08LJUBLJANA127	SLOVENIA AGREES WITH U.S. VIEWS ON BURMA [...] (SBU) On March 18, Emboff met with Matjaz Marko from the Asia and Pacific Division at the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver reftel talking points urging Slovenia to make clear to the Burmese regime that the planned May referendum on the regime's draft constitution should adhere [...]	2008-03-18 15:14:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM SI
08LJUBLJANA200	SLOVENIAN EU PRESIDENCY CALLING FOR FREE AND FAIR [...] (C) On May 5, Emboff met with MFA Asia, Africa, and Pacific Division Third Secretary Matjaz Marko to deliver reftel points urging the GOS to join the US in speaking out against the flawed May 10 referendum in the pre- and post-referendum periods. Marko said the Slovenian EU Presidency had pr [...]	2008-05-05 15:50:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM SI
08LJUBLJANA207	SLOVENIA SENDS AID TO BURMA AND WORKS ON LARGER EU [...] (C) In a meeting with MFA State Secretary Matjaz Sinkovec on May 9, Charge d,Affaires Maryruth Coleman inquired about the GOS relief efforts to Burma and urged the GOS to join the U.S. in encouraging the Burmese regime to allow international relief teams access to the affected areas as soon as [...]	2008-05-09 14:15:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID BM SI
08LJUBLJANA23	EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS TROIKA MEETING FINDS COMMON [...] (C) At the January 11 U.S. - EU Troika meeting, A/S Fried and EU Presidency, Council, and Commission representatives generally found common ground on Afghanistan, Ukraine, Belarus, and Burma. On Iran, the EU advised that even a weak UNSCR would help pave the way for stronger EU sanctions. The [...]	2008-01-18 08:09:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV IR IS BM SY ECON ENRG SI
08LJUBLJANA231	SLOVENIAN EU PRESIDENCY RELEASING A STATEMENT [...] (C) On May 23, Emboff discussed Burma donor's conference reftels with MFA Asia, Africa, and Pacific Division Third Secretary Matjaz Marko. Emboff urged the GOS to join the U.S. in speaking out against the Burmese regime if an agreement is not reached during the Burma conference to allow an i [...]	2008-05-23 14:36:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PHUM PREL BM SI
08LJUBLJANA293	SLOVENIA EU PRESIDENCY - HUMANITARIAN AID FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-30 13:37:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID EUN BM SI
08LJUBLJANA33	SLOVENIA SUPPORTS FURTHER PRESSURE ON BURMA BUT [...] (C) On January 23, Emboff met with Ambassador Janez Premoze, Chairman of the EU's Asia-Oceania Working Party (COASI),to urge Slovenia and the EU to adopt a ban on the import of gems and hardwood originating in Burma (per reftel A) and to review any plans by Slovenian or EU companies to invest [...]	2008-01-25 13:03:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EPET EUN BM SI
08LJUBLJANA345	SLOVENIA NOT IN FAVOR OF NEW EU BURMA SANCTIONS [...] (C) On August 5, emboffs met with Jasna Lhotka, Minister Plenipotentiary at the MFA's Asia, Africa and the Pacific Division, to notify Slovenia of the new U.S. sanctions on Burma and to seek Slovene views on the prospects for further tightening of EU sanctions targeting the Burma regime. Lhot [...]	2008-08-05 14:51:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD BM SI
08LJUBLJANA561	SLOVENIA HESITANT ON BURMA SANCTIONS, BUT WILL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-23 16:00:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BM SI
08LONDON1172	UK EXPECTS THE BALKANS TO DOMINATE APRIL GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The UK expects the Balkans to be the key discussion item at the April 27-28 GAERC; the UK is still pushing to have a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SSA) with Bosnia signed at this GAERC, but expects it will slip to the May GAERC. According to Martin Shearman, EU Corres [...]	2008-04-25 14:05:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN ZL PK ZI IR IS CH BM UK
08LONDON1277	UK STATEMENT ON BURMA'S FLAWED CONSTITUTIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-07 10:58:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BM UK
08LONDON1287	EMBASSY LONDON'S OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS [...] Summary. In response to the President's democracy outreach initiative, the Ambassador has led an active Embassy effort, sustained throughout 2007 and 2008 and primarily with an Iranian focus, to demonstrate support and build bridges to democratic activists, including a personal meeting by the [...]	2008-05-08 10:50:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL IR BM UK
08LONDON1424	UK SHARES U.S. OBJECTIVES FOR BURMA CONFERENCE BUT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel on the Burma donors conference to Nigel Boud, Burma Director in the British Foreign Office, on May 21. Boud said HMG's objectives for the conference "tally exactly" with those of the USG. HMG's overall goal is to gain immediate access for humanitarian assistance [...]	2008-05-21 16:39:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID BM UK
08LONDON2070	UK DOESN'T EXPECT STRONG NEW BURMA SANCTIONS FROM [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-08 09:26:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ETRD UK BM
08LONDON2802	HMG SEES OPPORTUNITY IN BURMA'S GLOBAL FUND APPLICATION REF: STATE 115494 Classified By: Economic Counselor Kathleen Doherty for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) [...] (C) In response to reftel points, FCO Burma Coordinator/Deputy Head of South East Asia and Pacific Group Nicholas Alexander, told Poloff that HMG agreed with the substance of our position on Burma's application to re-engage the Global Fund but advised caution on the tactics we might use to apply i [...]	2008-11-04 17:30:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM BM UK
08LONDON823	HMG AGREES WITH BURMA DEMARCHE ON REFERENDUM -- [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel to Nick Alexander, head of Burma policy in the Foreign Office on March 19. Alexander said the UK is in complete agreement with points contained in reftel, underscoring HMG agreement that the Burmese "roadmap" as currently constituted is faulty. He shared UK talkin [...]	2008-03-19 18:01:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM EU UN UK
08LONDON966	HMG ON HOW TO MOVE THE EU ON BURMA, SUDAN SANCTIONS [...] 4 (b,d) Â [...]	2008-04-03 14:19:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC EFIN ETTC EU BM UK
08LUXEMBOURG132	LUXEMBOURG HUMANITARIAN AID TO BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-14 08:03:00	Embassy Luxembourg	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL BM LU
08LUXEMBOURG139	LUXEMBOURG ON BURMA DONORS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-21 15:15:00	Embassy Luxembourg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM BM LU
08MADRID521	SPAIN: HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO CYCLONE NARGIS [...] (U) Summary: ESTHOff delivered reftel points on May 9 to Carmen de Juana Velasco, Subdirector General of Cooperation of Sub Saharan African and Asia for AECID, the Foreign Ministry's agency for international cooperation and development. Velasco did not provide a substantive response. Spain [...]	2008-05-09 17:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL BM
08MADRID725	SPAIN'S VIEWS ON SHAPING POST-CYCLONE ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) On July 2, 2008, Poloff discussed reftel with Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for the Pacific, Southeast Asia and Philippines, Jose Luis Garcia Galan. Poloff stressed the importance of continued international insistence on access, transparency and accountability of humanitarian assis [...]	2008-07-03 10:55:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SP EAID PHUM BM
08MADRID881	SPAIN RESPONDS TO NEW U.S. SANCTIONS ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-08 15:11:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV BM SP
08MANILA1083	PHILIPPINES RECOGNIZES FLAWS WITH BURMESE [...] (SBU) The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is acutely aware of the planned May 10 constitutional referendum in Burma and agrees with our assessment of its flaws. President Arroyo publicly chastised the Burmese junta March 9 for not allowing international observers at the planned referendum [...]	2008-05-06 08:32:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
08MANILA1105	PHILIPPINES RESPONDS TO TRAGEDY IN BURMA [...] SUMMARY: In the wake of the devastating destruction wrought May 2-3 by Cyclone Nargis in Burma, the Philippine government and the country's Red Cross affiliate are moving to offer assistance, while national media have called on the ruling Burmese military junta to cease its resistance to int [...]	2008-05-08 07:55:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
08MANILA1125	FOREIGN SECRETARY CRITICIZES BURMA'S INACTION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a conversation with the Ambassador May 9, Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo lamented the Burmese regime's truculent stance against international involvement in relief efforts, and outlined how the junta's resistance to cooperation is affecting Philippine efforts to assist victi [...]	2008-05-09 09:41:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
08MANILA1178	AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FOREIGN SECRETARY ON BURMA; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post is continuing its close engagement with the Philippine government regarding the worsening humanitarian crisis in Burma, U.S. efforts in disaster relief, and coordination of international assistance. The Ambassador outlined for Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo U.S. relief e [...]	2008-05-15 09:31:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
08MANILA1201	PHILIPPINES: CAUTIOUS REACTION TO BURMESE OPENING [...] (C) SUMMARY: News that the Burmese junta may offer limited concessions to the entry of international assistance are being received with caution by the Philippine government, media, and civil society. Department of Foreign Affairs officials held out hopes that the junta's May 19 agreement to [...]	2008-05-20 10:27:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
08MANILA1260	BURMA RELIEF: PHILIPPINES FOCUSED ON A SUCCESSFUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per reftels, Ambassador, polcouns, and poloffs have underscored demarche points with Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) officials, from Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo to working-level contacts. DFA is busy preparing for the May 25 UN-ASEAN co-sponsored conferenc [...]	2008-05-23 08:13:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
08MANILA2586	PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS U.S. POSITION ON [...] (C) In a meeting with Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Director for Political, Legal, and Security Matters Leah Ruiz of the Office of United Nations & Other International Organizations (UNIO) on November 18, Poloff stressed that the Burmese junta's recent arrests of human rights activists ma [...]	2008-11-21 07:35:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
08MANILA282	PRESIDENT ARROYO KEEPS UP PRESSURE ON BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's strong remarks on Burma at World Economic Forum meetings in Switzerland have kept the junta's behavior in the Philippine public spotlight, and a prominent Philippine opposition leader has publicly echoed her views. The Philippine pr [...]	2008-01-31 08:53:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
08MANILA654	EAP DAS STRESSES NEED TO MAINTAIN PRESSURE ON BURMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings with senior Philippine government officials at the Presidential Palace and Department of Foreign Affairs, as well as foreign diplomats and the Embassy community, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel underscored the USG's continuing efforts to produce concrete [...]	2008-03-14 01:33:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
08MANILA690	DEMARCHE: PHILIPPINES SUPPORTS FAIRNESS IN BURMESE [...] (SBU) Director Maria Elena Algabre-Misrahi of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Southeast Asia Division confirmed Qch 17 that the Philippine government strongly supports efforts to make the planned Burmese constitutional referendum free and fair. She listened carefully to our concerns [...]	2008-03-17 08:32:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
08MANILA836	AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FOREIGN SECRETARY ON MCC, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 2 private breakfast, the Ambassador and Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo discussed the need for more prosecutions and convictions of the perpetrators of extrajudicial killings (EJKs),the importance of crafting a comprehensive Millennium Challenge Corporat [...]	2008-04-04 07:43:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER EAIR RP BM
08MOSCOW1003	DEMARCHE ON SUPPORTING PRST ON BURMA DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-11 13:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PHUM BM
08MOSCOW1256	BURMA REFERENDUM DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MFA DECLARES [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-05 14:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM
08MOSCOW1318	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FRENCH UNSC RESOLUTION ON [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Senior Counselor for International Organizations Petr Ilichev on May 12. Ilichev said that owing to the long Russian holiday weekend, the MFA was unaware of the French draft resolution on Burma. After reading a copy of the draft we provided, Ilichev th [...]	2008-05-12 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS
08MOSCOW1928	RUSSIAN POSITIONS ON ZIMBABWE, KOSOVO, BURMA AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-07 11:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC BM KV ZI RS
08MOSCOW401	RUSSIA "SATISFIED" WITH BURMA'S ROADMAP FOR [...] (U) The MFA issued a statement February 12, expressing "satisfaction" with the Burmese regime's recent announcement of the next steps in its "Roadmap" for political change (reftel). The MFA said that Russia hoped that the regime's decision to set dates for the "next phases of political change [...]	2008-02-14 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM RS
08NAIROBI2722	NO SALES OF KENYAN RUBIES TO BURMA [...] Summary: According to three senior Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources officials, Kenya does not export rubies to Burma. End Summary. 2. In separate December 4 meetings with Kenya's Commissioner of Mines and Geology Lojomon Biwott, acting Chief Geologist Shadrack Kimomo, and Ward [...]	2008-12-05 09:03:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EMIN ECON PREL PGOV EFIN BM KE
08NEWDELHI1013	GREYBEARDS AND INSIDERS GIVE DAS FEIGENBAUM THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During three days of meetings in Delhi, SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum heard from Indian academics, politicians and former top bureaucrats gave varying views on the bilateral relationship, Indian domestic politics, and regional affairs. Former Ambassador to the U. [...]	2008-04-08 07:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM IN BM CH CE NP
08NEWDELHI1279	INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY TO CALL BURMESE [...] (C) Ambassador called Foreign Secretary Menon on May 10 to follow up on the Secretary's call to Foreign Minister Mukherjee, and to urge India to use its influence with the Burmese government to allow"international aid to reach Cyclone Nargis disaster areas. Menon noted FM Mukherjee had promis [...]	2008-05-10 06:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL BM IN
08NEWDELHI1296	BURMESE FM TELLS MUKHERJEE ALL COUNTRIES CAN SEND [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 13:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV BM IN
08NEWDELHI1325	INDIA EXPECTS BURMA TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO ALL [...] (C/REL AGCU) In a May 14 meeting with Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, the Ambassador thanked him for conveying to the Burmese junta the U.S. concern about the immense difficulty in foreign assistance reaching the cyclone victims. Menon said that while the message seems to have had an imp [...]	2008-05-14 11:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL BM IN
08NEWDELHI1562	INDIA URGED TO PRESS BURMA ON ALLOWING AID TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/PolCouns urged MEA Director (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma) I.M. Pandey on June 6 to press Burma harder to allow international aid supplies and workers to reach victims of Cyclone Nargis. Pandey cited India's difficulties in getting aid into Burma, noting that direct access [...]	2008-06-06 12:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAID BM IN
08NEWDELHI353	GAMBARI TELLS INDIA TO USE ITS INFLUENCE ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary. UN Special Envoy for Burma Ibrahim Gambari's late January visit to India delivered the message that India should use its influence to do more to help the democratization and reconciliation process in Burma. Gambari told British and Canadian missions privately that India reiterate [...]	2008-02-04 12:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BM IN
08NEWDELHI430	MENON QUIETLY TAKING GAMBARI MESSAGE TO BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Under Secretary for Burma Pratibha Parkar told Poloff that UN Special Envoy for Burma Ibrahim Gambari asked the Government of India (GOI) for support during his recent visit to India. Gambari asked the GOI to use its influence to encourage the Burmese to allow him t [...]	2008-02-08 12:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM IN
08NEWDELHI456	MENON ATTEMPTS TO DRAW OUT BURMESE REGIME DURING [...] (C) In a February 11 meeting with Ambassador Mulford, Indian Foreign Secretary Menon reported that his February 8-10 visit to Burma made some progress. Regarding UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari, Menon related that the Burmese regime would likely meet with Gambari in a third country. However, [...]	2008-02-12 12:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM IN

08NEWDELHI702	ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER DISCUSSES REGIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-06 12:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ETRD AF BG BT BM PK MV CE
08NEWDELHI855	INDIA WILL LIKELY SUPPORT MANDATE EXTENSION, BUT [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-24 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM BM IN ID
08NICOSIA645	CYPRUS SUPPORTS NEW BURMA SANCTIONS [...] Per reftel, PolOff demarched First Secretary Nikos Panayi, Cypriot MFA Burma Desk Officer, on August 5 regarding the new Burma sanctions. In a moment of unguarded candor, Panayi acknowledged that Burma is not "of high interest" to Cyprus because the GOC does not have high stakes in the region. [...]	2008-08-05 14:11:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ETRD BM CY
08OTTAWA106	CANADA ENCOURAGING COUNTRIES TO BAN BURMESE IMPORTS [...] (SBU) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for the Southeast Asia and Pacific Division Evelyne Coulombe told PolOff that Canada is taking every opportunity to encourage other governments to impose import bans on Burma. Coulombe said that the DFAIT Sout [...]	2008-01-22 21:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD PHUM BM CA
08OTTAWA1123	CANADA'S PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS GLOBALLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada remains a strong partner in promoting and defending human rights globally. Thanks to its "principle-based" approach, the Conservative Party believes that "Canada's voice is being heard" once again. Canada has awarded honorary citizenship to the Dalai Lama and Aung San [...]	2008-08-22 13:50:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM CH IS BM CA
08OTTAWA621	CANADA CONTINUES PRESSURE ON BURMA; SENDS CYCLONE [...] (C) Summary: Canada shares U.S. concern about the imposition on the Burmese people of a non-representative constitution, and has been publicly pressuring Burma to bring an end to the country's environment of fear and repression. On May 5, Foreign Minister Bernier conferred honorary Canadian c [...]	2008-05-06 19:53:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BM CA
08OTTAWA646	CANADA'S RESPONSE TO CYCLONE NARGIS [...] (sbu) Canada is committed to providing emergency aid to Burma, but remains stymied by the Burmese regime's actions blocking humanitarian relief, Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Director of Humanitarian Affairs and Disasters Response Group Leslie Hope told Econcouns on May 9. Joined [...]	2008-05-09 20:16:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL BM CA
08OTTAWA701	CANADA AND THE BURMA CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Canada will highlight its current Cyclone Nargis aid pledges (see paragraph 2 and ref b) at the May 25 UN-ASEAN Conference in Rangoon and will stress the need for increasing access for international relief efforts in Burma, Foreign Affairs and International Trade's (DFAIT) Director of Hu [...]	2008-05-23 19:53:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PHUM CA BM
08OTTAWA900	CANADA WILL CONTINUE TO PRESSURE BURMA ON ACCESS [...] (SBU) According to Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Burma Desk Officer Chrystal Waddington, Canada fully agrees with the U.S. view (reftel) that the international community should continue to make clear to Burmese authorities that further assistance will depend o [...]	2008-07-03 16:35:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID BM CA
08PANAMA345	PANAMA: BURMA'S FLAWED CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-02 19:06:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM BM PM
08PARIS1083	FRANCE URGES INCREASED PRESSURE ON BURMA TO SPEED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-06 15:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM BM FR
08PARIS138	FRANCE CONSIDERING WTO IMPLICATIONS BEFORE BANNING [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on January 24 to MFA desk officer Jeremy Petite. Petite responded that France is currently considering WTO implications of a ban and will make a decision in line with EU partners. When questioned about France's willingness to sanction the three Burmese [...]	2008-01-25 15:42:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM BM FR
08PARIS1529	FRANCE: MEASURED APPROVAL FOR NEW U.S. BURMA [...] (C) France welcomes new U.S. sanctions on Burma and is open to strengthening existing EU sanctions as long as they do not interfere with provision of humanitarian aid, Burma Desk Officer Jeremie Petit said August 6 in response to reftel points. He added that EU experts are reviewing Europe's [...]	2008-08-07 08:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD FR BM
08PARIS811	FRENCH GAERC RESPONSE [...] (S/NF) Summary. On April 21, MFA Political Director Gerard Araud presented French views on the top-priority concerns of Iran and the Balkans, while on April 25, MFA Office Director for CFSP Patrick Maisonnave provided the general French reaction to the April GAERC demarche. Araud said that [...]	2008-04-25 17:06:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL EUN PGOV ZL PK ZI IR IZ IS CH BM GG
08PARIS887	KOUCHNER TO URGE DELAY IN BURMESE REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-07 16:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM BM FR
08PARIS900	BURMA: FRANCE SUPPORTS SECURITY COUNCIL FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-09 15:44:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD PHUM BM FR
08PHNOMPENH102	MFA SECSTATE KAO KIM HOURN DISCUSSES BURMA WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel paid a courtesy call January 18 on Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary of State in charge of ASEAN Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The conversation focused on ASEAN and the situation in Burma. Kao Kim Hourn offered his candid percept [...]	2008-01-23 06:50:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM PTER KWMN BM CB
08PHNOMPENH419	CAMBODIA ON BURMA CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Pol/Ec chief May 23 delivered demarche (Ref A) to Kan Pharidh, Director General of the ASEAN Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, on the Royal Ploughing Day holiday. Kan Pharidh understood the significance of our points, took on board the distinct [...]	2008-05-23 07:27:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PHUM BM CB
08PHNOMPENH453	CAMBODIA CONCERNED ABOUT HAMPERED RELIEF EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Pol/Ec Chief June 3 conveyed reftel points on the growing concern over lack of access for aid workers in the cyclone-ravaged disaster areas of Burma to MFA Secretary of State Dr. Kao Kim Hourn who is in charge of ASEAN affairs. Noting the potential for the ASEAN-UN-Burma cooperative eff [...]	2008-06-03 12:14:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID PHUM BM CB
08PHNOMPENH95	U.S.-CAMBODIA BILATERAL DIALOGUE STRENGTHENS TIES, [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel led U.S. participation in a successful senior-level U.S.-Cambodia bilateral dialogue hosted by the Royal Government of Cambodia Ministry of Foreign Affairs January 17. Both sides opened with statements of enthusiasm for strengthening ti [...]	2008-01-22 10:53:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV KJUS PHUM PTER KWMN PREL BM CB
08PRAGUE103	CZECH COMMENTS IN ADVANCE OF THE FEBRUARY EU GAERC [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboff met with Veronika Musilova, Deputy Director of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy prior to the January 28-29 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on Kosovo, Kenya, Chad and Burma. She indicated [...]	2008-02-15 16:41:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EUN BM EZ XG SR CD PGOV PREL UNMIK
08PRAGUE285	CZECHS PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE PEOPLE OF BURMA, [...] (U) The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on May 5 that the Czech government will provide 2.5M crowns (just over 150,000 USD) in humanitarian assistance for the International Red Cross to respond to the devastation of cyclone Nagris in Burma. The Czech NGO People in Need (PIN) is al [...]	2008-05-07 15:44:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BM EZ EUN
08PRAGUE453	CZECHS MIRROR USG PERSPECTIVE ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-16 14:03:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID BM EUN EZ
08PRAGUE545	CZECH RESPONSE ON BURMA DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Czech MFA Burma Desk officer, Hana Flanderova, thanked us for our details on the additional U.S. sanctions outlined in the JADE Act of 2008. She commented that the Czech focus is currently on humanitarian assistance in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. The MFA has already provided 10.6M crow [...]	2008-08-15 16:44:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV BM EZ EUN
08RANGOON100	BURMA: THE NLD REACHES OUT, THAN SHWE DIGS IN [...] (C) Summary. On February 6, the NLD Central Executive Committee (the Uncles) issued a statement inviting cease-fire ethnic groups to visit NLD headquarters in Rangoon for discussions. Some in the party leadership remain concerned about holding talks with these groups without Aung San Suu Kyi [...]	2008-02-08 09:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON102	BURMA: ECONOMIC IMPACT OF AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) Summary. Since March 2006, the Burmese Government has responded to ten avian influenza outbreaks throughout the country, with one human infection case. Responding to these outbreaks, the Livestock Veterinary and Breeding Department (LBVD) culled more than 430,000 chickens, 357,000 quail [...]	2008-02-11 04:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV PGOV PREL BIO KFLU BM
08RANGOON109	REGIME PROMISES MAY REFERENDUM, ELECTIONS BY 2010 [...] (C) Summary. The GOB on February 9 announced next steps in its roadmap for democracy: it will finish drafting the constitution by April and will hold a referendum on the draft in May 2008; multi-party democratic elections will then occur in 2010. The drafting process did not incorporate vi [...]	2008-02-11 10:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON11	AUSTRALIAN COMPANY TO INVEST IN BURMA'S GAS SECTOR [...] (C) Summary. Australian-owned Danford Equities Corporation will become the next foreign company to invest heavily in the Burmese oil and gas sector when it begins exploration of its offshore gas field in 2008. According to Australian Embassy officials, Danford expects to spend up to $40 mil [...]	2008-01-09 10:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET BM
08RANGOON110	DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-13 02:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNAUS UNMIK PGOV YI BM
08RANGOON112	BURMA: NO COORDINATION WITH REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS ON AI [...] (SBU) Summary. The Burmese Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD) has confirmed that despite outbreaks in neighboring countries, there have been no new outbreaks of avian influenza in 2008. LBVD officials continue to monitor border areas close to Thailand, Bangladesh, and Laos. [...]	2008-02-13 09:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV PGOV PREL BIO KFLU BM
08RANGOON113	BURMA INKS NEW TIP NATIONAL ACTION PLAN [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOB on February 4 signed a new five-year National Action Plan against Trafficking in Persons, showing renewed commitment to combating TIP in Burma. The five-year plan, which lays out GOB priorities for 2007-2011, was then approved by both the Cabinet and Senior Generals on [...]	2008-02-13 09:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KWMN KCRM KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SMIG BM
08RANGOON114	CENSORING THE BURMESE PRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Printing and Press Scrutiny Board, comprised of 20 low-level officers, reads and censors every written publication in Burma. The board deletes all taboo material from printed media in the country, including anything critical of the government. Because of low wages for these [...]	2008-02-13 09:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON115	WILDLIFE PROTECTION IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary. Through its small grants program, Embassy Rangoon funds a Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) mobile education project in the buffer zone surrounding Shwesetaw Wildlife Sanctuary in Magwe Division. The wildlife sanctuary is home to many endangered species th [...]	2008-02-13 10:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON116	OPPOSITION TO MAY REFERENDUM IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary. The NLD successfully celebrated Union Day on February 12, with no interference by the regime. One veteran activist used the opportunity to give a (uncharacteristically) rousing speech to more than 400 people, criticizing the regime's mismanagement, declaring the regime's draft [...]	2008-02-13 10:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON118	2007 BURMESE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS RISE DRAMATICALLY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Burmese Government recorded a substantial increase in both exports and imports in 2007 compared to previous years. Bolstered by a 71 percent increase in the value of natural gas exports, Burmese overall exports rose to $5.9 billion in 2007, a 44.1 percent increase over 20 [...]	2008-02-14 06:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PREL BM
08RANGOON120	BURMA: ELECTIONEERING BEGINS [...] (C) Summary. The NLD successfully commemorated General Aung San's birthday on February 13, with an event for children at NLD Headquarters. While ethnic groups have yet to respond directly to the NLD about its February 6 invitation, several ethnic groups commented favorably while noting that [...]	2008-02-14 10:26:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON121	MONKS OF CENTRAL BURMA PREDICT MORE PROTESTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Monks from monasteries in Yenanchaung and Kyaukpadaung believe that there will be further demonstrations sooner rather than later. This area in Central Burma historically has given rise to popular movements, and citizens of the two towns actively joined the September protests. [...]	2008-02-14 10:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON125	NEGOTIATIONS ON FORCED LABOR AGREEMENT CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary. The ILO continues to negotiate with the Burmese Government on the renewal of the ILO-GOB Forced Labor Mechanism Agreement, which will expire on February 26. The ILO is willing to extend the current agreement with no changes, providing the GOB meets certain conditions, including [...]	2008-02-15 09:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON127	BURMA: MORE ACTION NEEDED ON FORCED LABOR ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. According to ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall, the Burmese Government must take additional steps to address forced labor issues, particularly child soldier cases. The Ministry of Defense does not adequately punish recruiters of child soldiers, and the government places an unf [...]	2008-02-19 09:55:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON133	THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT OF INLE LAKE [...] (SBU) Summary. Inle Lake, Burma's second largest lake, has shrunk by one-third over the past fifty years. Silt and plants slide down the deforested mountainside into the lake during monsoon season, creating floating islands responsible for much of the water displacement. Inle farmers exacer [...]	2008-02-20 10:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON EAGR PREL BM
08RANGOON134	BURMA: CONSTITUTION FINISHED; NLD GIRDS FOR A FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: The GOB announced it has completed drafting the new constitution, but gave no information when the final draft would be published. Foreign Minister Nyan Win acknowledged to Singapore Foreign Minister Yeo that stipulations in the new constitution would disqualify Aung San Suu Ky [...]	2008-02-20 10:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON137	UNDERSTANDING BURMA'S EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEM [...] (SBU) Summary. Although the Burmese Government maintains an official exchange rate at 6 kyats to $1, in reality, Burma has a multiple exchange rate system. Exchange rates vary from 450 kyats to $1 to 1255 kyats to $1, depending on the transaction. Because the official exchange rate overvalu [...]	2008-02-21 08:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL BM
08RANGOON138	SOCIOECONOMIC DYNAMICS OF INLE LAKE [...] (SBU) Summary. Inle Lake, Burma's second largest lake and one of its most visited tourist sites, is a microcosm of the sharp divide between Burma's socioeconomic classes. More than 70,000 people live on or around the lake and most are dependent upon the lake for their livelihoods. People's [...]	2008-02-21 08:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL BM
08RANGOON139	BURMA: MANY KAREN SEE ONLY A ROADMAP TO RUIN [...] (C) Summary. Ethnic Karen and former National Convention delegate Simon Tha told us that he and nearly all of his fellow National Convention delegates regarded the regime's proposed constitutional referendum as a sham. He expected Than Shwe would continue to ignore concerns about the process [...]	2008-02-21 09:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON14	ILO FRUSTRATED WITH BURMESE GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. Although the ILO had a good working relationship with former Deputy Labor Minister Aung Kyi, (now both Minister of Labor and Minister of Relations. i.e., the regime's liaison to Aung San Suu Kyi),new Deputy Labor Minister Brigadier General Tin Tun has increased restrictions on [...]	2008-01-10 11:09:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON144	BURMA: 88 GENERATION MOBILIZES FOR THE REFERENDUM [...] (C) The 88 Generation Students (88GS) are mobilizing pro-democracy activists throughout Burma for a "vote no" campaign in the regime's upcoming constitutional referendum. During a recent trip to five of Burma's seven divisions, 88 Generation leaders met with NLD members, monks, and political [...]	2008-02-22 11:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON145	BURMA: 88 GENERATION MOBILIZES FOR THE REFERENDUM [...] (C) The 88 Generation Students (88GS) are mobilizing pro-democracy activists throughout Burma for a "vote no" campaign in the regime's upcoming constitutional referendum. During a recent trip to five of Burma's seven divisions, 88 Generation leaders met with NLD members, monks, and political [...]	2008-02-22 11:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON147	BURMA,S CONSTITUTION: NO ROOM FOR DEBATE [...] (C) Summary. A member of the Constitutional Drafting Committee told us the regime did not permit the commission's members to engage in any debate or draft any substantive portions of the constitution. Instead, the draft constitution consisted of a recitation of the 104 fundamental principles [...]	2008-02-26 09:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON153	BURMA: REGIME PUBLISHES REFERENDUM LAW [...] (C) Summary. The Burmese regime released the law governing its upcoming constitutional referendum today. The law sets forth the rules regarding voter eligibility, procedures for a se'cret ballot, and punishment for those who "interfere" with the process. While the law stated that citizens [...]	2008-02-27 10:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON154	MORE CHARGES, NO PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary. The regime formally charged several prominent 88 Generation Students activists, including Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi, with unlawful interference with the regime's roadmap to democracy. The regime also charged at least seven other key activists with sedition. Both sedition and [...]	2008-02-28 09:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON156	BURMA: STILL NO SALE OF SHWE GAS [...] (C) Summary. Despite announcements that Daewoo would begin selling gas to China by 2011, PetroChina and Daewoo have yet to sign the final sales agreement. According to Chevron's David Peters, before PetroChina will agree to a gas price, it must first determine the overall cost of the 900-mi [...]	2008-02-29 08:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET BM
08RANGOON16	QATAR AIR "TO SUSPEND" OPERATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Although Qatar Airways will stop direct flights between Doha and Rangoon on January 20 (Ref A),Qatar Airways Area Director Shahab Attarzadeh emphasized that the airline is not pulling out, but is only "suspending" operations. Since September, Qatar Airways has seen a 70 percen [...]	2008-01-11 04:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	BM EAIR ECON PGOV PREL
08RANGOON160	BURMA'S GENERALS WANT OUT [...] (C) Summary: Prominent Burmese businessman Zaw Naing told us the senior generals are tired of the increasing international attention and pressure. They are desperate for an exit, but afraid they and their families will be prosecuted, jailed, and their fortunes confiscated. They are determin [...]	2008-02-29 09:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON162	REGIME CRONIES CONTINUE WHEELING AND DEALING [...] (C) Summary. Regime crony Tay Za continues to do business in Burma and Singapore, as he looks for ways to circumvent U.S. sanctions. Within Burma, Tay Za's Htoo Group of Companies is expanding into new sectors. Tay Za plans to open a new shipping company in 2008, using two bulk freighters [...]	2008-03-03 08:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON165	REGIME ARRESTS AND CHARGES MORE ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary. In an effort to stifle an open dialogue about the roadmap to democracy, the regime continues to arrest and charge anyone who criticizes the process. Last week, the police arrested five more activists, including several family members of imprisoned activists. On February 29, t [...]	2008-03-03 09:09:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON167	AIR BAGAN CRASH RAISES SAFETY QUESTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Air Bagan, one of regime crony Tay Za's companies included on the targeted U.S. sanctions list, continues to grapple with technical and safety issues as its planes experience more difficulties, including a crash in Putao, Northern Kachin State, on February 19. Twenty passengers [...]	2008-03-04 09:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAIR BM
08RANGOON168	ILO AND GOB RENEW FORCED LABOR MECHANISM AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary. On February 27, the ILO and Burmese Government signed an agreement extending the ILO-GOB Forced Labor Mechanism Agreement for an additional year. During meetings with ILO Executive Director Kari Tapiola, the Burmese Government agreed to allow the ILO travel around Burma withou [...]	2008-03-04 10:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON17	BURMA: GUILT BY ASSOCIATION [...] (C) Summary. The regime may charge detained activist Htin Kyaw with sedition in addition to the other, less serious charges pending against him. His lawyers and family have not been able to see him since he ended his hunger strike on December 30. Authorities arrested NLD member and labor a [...]	2008-01-11 08:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON171	BURMA: TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR GAMBARI,S VISIT [...] (C) Acting UNDP Resident Representative Sanaka Samarasinha (protect) informed us that UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari will arrive in Rangoon at 9:55 a.m. on Thursday March 6 and is tentatively scheduled to depart at approximately 4:30 p.m. on Sunday March 9. While his itinerary has not been [...]	2008-03-05 11:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON179	GAMBARI BACK IN BURMA [...] (C) The UN's Special Advisor on Burma arrived in Rangoon March 6 and met with the diplomatic community to gather their insights on the current situation. He informed the diplomats that the announcement of a referendum on a new constitution in May and elections for 2010 should be considered a [...]	2008-03-06 09:55:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM UN
08RANGOON18	WARPED THINKING IN BURMA: INSIGHTS FROM AN INSIDER [...] (C) Summary: Yin Yin Oo, a Foreign Ministry official close to Number Three General Thura Shwe Mann and the sister of Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu, has been authorized to engage in general discussions with the US and British Embassies. She contacted Charge just before Christmas to sugges [...]	2008-01-11 10:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON180	PROMOTING LEARNING AND LIVELIHOODS IN CHIN STATE [...] (C) Summary. In a country where many are impoverished and oppressed, the Chins are among the most destitute. Tedim, a town of 13,000 people located in the remote northern Chin hills, depends on sparse agricultural production and remittances from abroad for its meager income. Two Embassy-fun [...]	2008-03-07 07:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON181	BURMA: SUPPORTING STRATEGIES FOR THE REFERENDUM [...] (S/NF) Burma's pro-democracy opposition continues to struggle to organize a coordinated effort to respond to the upcoming constitutional referendum. We expect the regime will continue its severe restrictions on free speech and association, making it impossible for the opposition to carry out [...]	2008-03-07 09:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOVQL PHUM BM PGOV
08RANGOON182	BURMA: GAMBARI,S SECOND DAY [...] (C) Summary. The UN told us Gambari held a discussion with the regime's Minister of Information, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Culture today, but noted little of substance was discussed. He also met with the Referendum Commission, whose members could not answer his questions. [...]	2008-03-07 10:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON183	NLD MANDALAY PROMOTES OPPOSITION, LACKS RESOURCES [...] (C) Summary. The NLD in Mandalay faces a number of challenges that reflect those encountered throughout the rest of Burma. These include lack of public awareness, lack of offices and resources to carry out activities, and a short time span in which to promote votes against the constitution i [...]	2008-03-07 10:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON185	GAMBARI'S OUTBRIEF TO THE DIP CORPS: NO GOOD NEWS [...] (C) Summary: Gambari briefed the dip corps before departing Burma, but declined to give a substantive readout of his conversations before he briefed UNSYG Ban Ki Moon in Dhaka. He discussed the conditions of the referendum with the GOB and offered technical assistance and international moni [...]	2008-03-10 10:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON186	DEVELOPING ECONOMY OF TAUNGGYI [...] (SBU) Summary. Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, is one of the fastest growing cities in Burma. Unlike the rest of Shan State's population, 90 percent of whom work in the agricultural industry, Taunggyi's 200,000 people work in the industrial, trade, and services sectors. Taunggyi's eco [...]	2008-03-11 07:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL BM
08RANGOON187	BURMESE REGIME PREEMPTS DISSENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Authorities arrested Generation Wave leader Aung Kyaw Oo on March 8, in the midst of Gambari's visit. His colleague, Nyi Nyi Aung, fled and remained in hiding. Also on March 8, two NLD members were arrested for possessing copies of "Rambo 4." The regime transferred another [...]	2008-03-11 09:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON189	BURMA: PRODUCING NEW CARS WITH USED PARTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Using import substitution policies, the Burmese Government has encouraged the development of a domestic car manufacturing sector since 2001. Currently, more than 400 small and medium-sized companies in Burma produce "new" unbranded jeeps and light trucks with used parts impor [...]	2008-03-12 04:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PREL BM
08RANGOON19	ASSK MEETS WITH REGIME; UN MOVING SLOWLY ON [...] (C) Summary: Aung San Suu Kyi met with regime liaison Aung Kyi today at the Government Guest House. It was her first meeting with the regime since November 19. UN Staff told us they are not preparing for any Gambari visit and also informed us that the GOB has still not granted permission fo [...]	2008-01-11 10:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON192	AIR BAGAN SAFETY ISSUES UNCOVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-12 09:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAIR CASC ASEC BM
08RANGOON194	BURMA: GAMBARI TO PROPOSE A "TIME-OUT FOR [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Gambari was unhappy with the short time-frame of his recent visit to Burma, and pushed hard to extend his stay and expand his schedule. The Senior General refused to grant him meetings with any of the regime's senior leadership, but did allow him to meet with Aung [...]	2008-03-13 10:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON195	THAN SHWE,S REFERENDUM: HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE [...] (C) Detained monk U Gambira told family members he hopes the Burmese people will reject the regime's draft constitution and asked them to spread the word. The NLD's Central Executive Committee continued to support a "no" vote, but had not yet developed a strategy or released a statement on i [...]	2008-03-13 10:04:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON197	REGIME FAVORS STATE-OWNED BANKS OVER PRIVATE BANKS [...] (SBU) Summary. Although the Burmese banking sector has regained its footing since the 2003 banking crisis, the government continues to limit the ability of Burmese private banks to act as banks. According to bankers, the Central Bank of Burma closely monitors the financial transactions of t [...]	2008-03-14 11:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL BM
08RANGOON198	GOB ENCOURAGES USE OF SINGAPORE DOLLARS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a change to its banking policy, the Burmese Government now permits private companies with foreign export earnings to open Singapore dollar-denominated bank accounts in three state-owned banks -- Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank, Myanmar Investment and Commercial Bank, and Myanmar E [...]	2008-03-17 01:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL BM
08RANGOON203	NASCENT HEALTHCARE IN IRRAWADDY DIVISION [...] (C) Summary. The Hinthada region of Irrawaddy Division is one of Burma's backwaters. Few roads exist for transportation, families have an average of seven children, and dengue, malaria, and diarrhea are the most common killers. While a single midwife provides healthcare in a few villages, m [...]	2008-03-18 07:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM AMED TBIO EAID
08RANGOON208	BURMA: CENSORSHIP AND SOLITARY, BUT NO CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Detained monk U Gambira has been placed in solitary confinement, apparently as punishment for his recent statements urging Burmese to reject the draft constitution. The All Burma Monks Alliance issued a statement urging monks to boycott upcoming state-sponsored religious exams but did not [...]	2008-03-19 09:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON210	BURMA - WHY THE KYAT IS APPRECIATING AGAINST THE DOLLAR [...] (SBU) Summary. The Burmese kyat, traditionally one of the weakest currencies in Southeast Asia, continues to appreciate against the declining U.S. dollar. Since September 2007, the market rate of the kyat has risen by 19 percent. Burmese economists see the kyat's appreciation as primarily du [...]	2008-03-19 09:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL BM
08RANGOON213	BURMESE FOREIGN MINISTER SEEKS SOMETHING FOR [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Nyan Win finally agreed to meet with Charge on March 18 after several months of requests. When Charge asked about plans to ensure the credibility of the upcoming referendum, the Foreign Minister used the opportunity to complain again about economic sanctions, c [...]	2008-03-20 08:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON214	DRL SPECIAL BURMA RESPONSE FUND - EMBASSY [...] Per reftel, Embassy Rangoon acknowledges the terms of the transfer of $100,000 to Post for projects in Burma. 2. Embassy Rangoon contacts for the grant are: --Financial Officer: Craig Shaw. Mr. Shaw will assist the P/E section with financial transactions related to this grant. He wil [...]	2008-03-20 08:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL KPAO KDEM PREL BM
08RANGOON215	DISORGANIZATION AND DISUNITY PRECEDE BURMA'S [...] (C) Summary: As the regime's planned constitutional referendum draws nearer, the opposition remains disorganized and scattered. Infighting among pro-democracy groups continues, with tension between the NLD's senior leaders, ethnic pro-democracy leaders, and the NLD's younger members coming [...]	2008-03-20 10:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON22	AIR BAGAN SPIRALS DEEPER INTO DEBT [...] (C) Summary. Bad management decisions and the cumulative effect of targeted U.S. sanctions have caused Air Bagan to lose close to $7 million since May 2007. Crippled by costly airplane leases and lack of passengers, Air Bagan's General Manager complained that because the company will not p [...]	2008-01-14 10:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAIR BM
08RANGOON220	BURMA: REGIME TELLS NGOS TO KEEP A LOW PROFILE [...] (C) Summary. Although most NGOs continue to conduct business as usual, the Burmese Government in recent weeks has encouraged them to maintain a low profile until after the May referendum. Politics played a role in the recent requests: Secretary 1 and the Minister of Industry 1, both of whom [...]	2008-03-24 09:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON222	TOP CRONIES FEELING THE PINCH OF U.S. SANCTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Despite public statements that U.S. sanctions have little effect on regime cronies' ability to do business, Embassy contacts tell us that the top cronies -- Tay Za, Steven Law, and Aung Thet Mann -- are running scared. Tay Za's purchase of two bulk cargo ships from Korea recent [...]	2008-03-25 09:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON234	BURMA: DRAFT CONSTITUTION REVEALED AMIDST ABUSES [...] (C) We have obtained what appears to be Burmese-language version of the regime's draft constitution. The draft essentially restated the National Convention's 104 basic principles but also granted immunity to the SPDC and ensured the status quo until the new parliament is convened. On March [...]	2008-03-28 10:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON245	BURMA: REGIME CONTINUES PRE-REFERENDUM ARRESTS [...] (C) Summary: Authorities continue to arrest peaceful protesters and political activists. Over the weekend, six participants in a March 27 "vote no" demonstration were arrested, as well as five Muslim leaders in Rakhine State. An NLD vice township chairman was beaten in an intimidation attac [...]	2008-04-02 11:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON247	NLD SPEAKS OUT: VOTE "NO" [...] (C) The NLD released two statements criticizing the referendum and urging people to vote against the draft constitution. It also released a third statement informing voters of their rights and the referendum procedures under the law. NLD spokesman Nyan Win told us the statements had been di [...]	2008-04-03 09:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON248	BURMA: YOUNG ACTIVISTS ADVOCATE NEW APPROACHES [...] (C) Summary: Young pro-democracy activists advocate new, more creative approaches to bringing political change inside Burma. The current pro-democracy movement has been weakened severely by the arrests and crackdown after the September protests. It lacks leadership, strategic planning, and [...]	2008-04-03 10:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON249	BURMA: GOB PLANS TO RELOCATE LIVE BIRD MARKET AS AI [...] (SBU) Summary. Rangoon's main live bird market sells more than 40,000 poultry and two million eggs and poultry products each day. Aware that the live bird market poses potential avian influenza threats for those living near the market, the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries and the Yangon [...]	2008-04-03 11:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
08RANGOON25	BURMESE EVERYWHERE DESIRE CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with six NLD activists in the town of Thaungdwingyi in Magwe Division on January 7. Living very simply and subject to constant harassment by the police, years of repression have not extinguished the spirit of these activists. They meet regularly to talk about their d [...]	2008-01-15 07:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON253	BURMESE TAX ISSUES DELAY SHWE GAS SALES [...] (C) Summary. According to company officials, Daewoo remains committed to selling Shwe gas to PetroChina and could finalize a sales contract within the next two months. However, the Burmese Government's recent demands that Daewoo pay additional taxes - up to 10 percent more on production reve [...]	2008-04-07 11:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET SENV BM
08RANGOON254	DIVERGENT VIEWS ABOUT BURMA'S REFERENDUM [...] (C) While many members of Burma's pro-democracy opposition have decided to "vote no" in the upcoming constitutional referendum, other members often referred to as the "Third Force", are urging the public to vote "yes" as an attempt to compromise with the military. The NLD has begun an educat [...]	2008-04-07 11:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON256	BURMA: YETAGUN PIPELINE RUPTURE TO COST MILLIONS [...] (C) Summary. Petroleum industry contacts confirmed that the Yetagun pipeline was shut down on April 2, not because of a small leak, but because an explosion approximately 15 miles from the Thai border ruptured the pipeline. Malaysian-owned Petronas, majority shareholder in the Yetagun gas fi [...]	2008-04-08 10:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET SENV BM
08RANGOON258	KAREN STATE: PEACE A PRIORITY IN THE REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary. Karens are deeply divided over whether or not to support the constitution in the upcoming May referendum. While most of the general population wants peace and opposes anything produced by the government, they live in fear of the consequences of voting no. Karen leaders also wan [...]	2008-04-08 11:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON26	INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR EMBASSY RANGOON [...] Per reftel, this is Embassy Rangoon's submission for the 2008 Investment Climate Statement. Preface: U.S. Investment Subject to Sanctions --------------------------------------------- - 2. On May 20, 1997, by Executive Order 13047, the President imposed economic sanctions prohibiting n [...]	2008-01-15 10:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	OPIC KTDB USTR ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BM
08RANGOON262	BURMA,S CONSTITUTION - A SETTING SUN [...] (SBU) The regime's proposed constitution appears to be a poorly drafted, often ambiguous document that will likely serve to preserve the military's control over Burma. While it enumerates a number of basic civil liberties, it also carves out broad exceptions that allow the regime to violate [...]	2008-04-09 12:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON265	THAI DREAMS: THE ECONOMIC PULL ON THE KAREN [...] (SBU) Summary. The increasingly poor economic conditions in Karen State drive many young people, particularly women, into Thailand every year. While jobs and money available there have the potential to lead to a better life, women are often lured into situations where they work under abusive [...]	2008-04-11 11:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON27	BURMA: SATELLITE FEES STILL UP IN THE AIR [...] (C) Summary. The Myanmar Times has demoted four of its editors after the regime criticized their decision to report a dramatic recent increase in satellite TV fees. The four editors will be reassigned to non-editorial duties but will not be fired, according to sources at the paper. So far, [...]	2008-01-15 11:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON274	BURMA'S THINGYAN: IN WITH A SPLASH OUT WITH A BLAST [...] (SBU) Witnesses reported isolated instances of referendum campaigning during last week's Thingyan water festival but described the festivities as overwhelmingly free of overt political activity by either side. However, several opposition activists were assaulted and arrested over Thingyan, a [...]	2008-04-21 11:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON275	BURMA'S THINGYAN: IN WITH A SPLASH OUT WITH A BLAST [...] (SBU) Witnesses reported isolated instances of referendum campaigning during last week's Thingyan water festival but described the festivities as overwhelmingly free of overt political activity by either side. However, several opposition activists were assaulted and arrested over Thingyan, a [...]	2008-04-22 00:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM

08RANGOON276	BURMA'S THINGYAN: IN WITH A SPLASH, OUT WITH A BANG [...] (SBU) Witnesses reported isolated instances of referendum campaigning during last week's Thingyan water festival but described the festivities as overwhelmingly free of overt political activity by either side. However, several opposition activists were assaulted and arrested over Thingyan, a [...]	2008-04-22 00:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON277	BURMA: THE ECONOMICS OF WATER FESTIVAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Burmese Water Festival is the one time of year when the Burmese are able to relax and have a good time with little fear of government repression. The Burmese save their money all year for this holiday, and may spend between 10,000 to 100,000 kyat (approximately $10-100) to pa [...]	2008-04-22 10:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL BM
08RANGOON278	THE CHALLENGES OF COMBATING TB IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary. Tuberculosis is a growing health concern in Burma, with more than 130,000 new cases of TB diagnosed a year. The WHO estimates that more than 40 percent of Burma's population could be infected with the disease. The Burmese Government, through its National TB Program (NTP) is w [...]	2008-04-22 10:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV AMED BM
08RANGOON279	BURMA: LACK OF TB DRUGS A LOOMING PROBLEM [...] (SBU) Summary. Burma is one of 22 tuberculosis high-burden countries in the world. The Government's National TB Program (NTP),active in all of Burma's 324 townships, reported a case detection rate of 95 percent of all infectious cases and had a treatment rate of 83.6 percent in 2006. The [...]	2008-04-22 10:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV AMED BM
08RANGOON282	BURMA: COMBATING MDR-TB IN RANGOON AND MANDALAY [...] (SBU) Summary. Tuberculosis is a growing concern in Burma, with the Ministry of Health ranking it as the second priority disease after HIV/AIDS. As the TB prevalence rate increases throughout the country, the risk of multi drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB also inc [...]	2008-04-23 10:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV AMED BM
08RANGOON283	PRESERVING THE CHATTHIN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY [...] (C) Summary. The Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary, established to preserve some of the last remaining habitat of the Eld's or golden deer, has come under threat in recent years due to lack of sufficient fuel wood and building materials in the surrounding villages. The New Generation Library Associ [...]	2008-04-24 09:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM SENV ECON
08RANGOON284	BURMA: "VOTE NO" CAMPAIGN PROCEEDS SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary: 88 Generation continued their vote "no" campaign during the April water festival, and are working now to organize local "watch groups" throughout Burma to volunteer to observe vote counts at local precincts. The regime may have already complicated this plan as papers released t [...]	2008-04-24 10:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON285	BURMA: RICE EXPORTS TO CONTINUE IN 2008 [...] (C) Summary. Although it has yet to make an official announcement, the Burmese Government has decided to allow further exports of rice in 2008, and plans to grant export licenses for an additional 300,000-400,000 metric tons through December, totaling 800,000 metric tons by year end. Governm [...]	2008-04-24 10:51:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON286	BURMA: ILO TO RAISE FORCED LABOR WITH THE MILITARY [...] (C) Summary. Forced labor is a significant problem in Burma, and the military, who are the worst perpetrators, are not held accountable. While the ILO Liaison Office primarily works with the Ministry of Labor, it recently sought to expand its mandate to include the military. Seeking to imp [...]	2008-04-24 11:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PGOV BM
08RANGOON290	BURMESE REGIME OFFERS ASSK A VOTE, BUT NOT FREEDOM [...] (C) Two separate sources reported that regime officials visited Aung San Suu Kyi this week to offer her the right to vote in May's referendum. Imprisoned activist Su Su Nwe declined authorities' offer of a new national registration card that would allow her to vote. The regime continued to [...]	2008-04-25 09:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON292	BURMA'S SENIOR GENERAL REPORTEDLY SICK AND [...] (C) Summary: Sources tell us Than Shwe is displaying increasingly erratic behavior, but remains firmly in power and in control. He is single-handedly calling the shots regarding the upcoming constitutional referendum and the next steps of the roadmap, including the parliamentary election. Mi [...]	2008-04-25 11:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON3	DAEWOO TO SELL SHWE GAS TO CHINA BY 2011 [...] (C) Summary. After months of negotiation, Daewoo has agreed to sell gas from its Shwe fields to PetroChina by 2011. Although the companies have yet to ink the contract, Daewoo officials confirmed that PetroChina has begun drafting plans for the construction of two pipelines - one for gas an [...]	2008-01-03 08:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET BM
08RANGOON300	POST RESPONSE: FOLLOWING UP ON THE ACTIVISTS FOR [...] Embassy Rangoon fully supports the President's Freedom Agenda. The Chief of Mission has made every effort to meet leaders and members of Burma's pro-democracy opposition and to encourage the United Nations and diplomatic counterparts in Rangoon to do so as well. To further this goal, the Chi [...]	2008-04-30 10:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON301	BURMA: NLD STRUGGLES TO MONITOR THE REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: The NLD is struggling to organize volunteers to monitor polling for the regime's May 10 constitutional referendum. Each NLD Division chair is responsible for organizing observers for his/her own division, but we detected little coordination among them. The NLD's lead organizer [...]	2008-04-30 10:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON303	BURMA: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES [...] (SBU) Summary. Although food and agricultural commodity prices are rising worldwide at unprecedented rates, Burma has not experienced the same rise in prices. Aggregate prices of rice, Burma's most important food staple, have remained relatively stable - the nationwide average price per kilo [...]	2008-04-30 12:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON305	BURMA: FEAR AND CYNICISM IN KACHIN STATE [...] (C) Summary: A leading Kachin peace negotiator told us the KIO remained officially neutral on the referendum, but recommended its members boycott. Officials from the regime and KIO met in late March to discuss logistics for the vote and to address specific KIO concerns. Younger KIO and KIA [...]	2008-05-02 09:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON306	BURMA: PREPARATIONS FOR CYCLONE NARGIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Cyclone Nargis is headed for Burma's Irrawaddy Delta and expected to make landfall this evening. Embassy Rangoon has issued warden messages and phoned coastal beach resorts. The DATT's office is attempting to establish direct contact with the regional commander of the effected [...]	2008-05-02 10:04:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON307	BURMA: MYANMAR AIRWAYS INTERNATIONAL DOWN, BUT NOT [...] (C) Summary. Myanmar Airways International (MAI),one of Burma's two international airlines, recently lost one of its planes due to the sudden cancellation of its wet-lease contract and was forced to halt flights to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur beginning on April 24. Although it just signed a o [...]	2008-05-02 10:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAIR BM
08RANGOON308	3D FUND ANNUAL REVIEW SHOWS POSITIVE RESULTS, IDENTIFIES CHALLENGES [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-02 10:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV AMED BM
08RANGOON309	BURMA: MONITORING THE 3D FUND [...] (C) Summary. The 3 Diseases Fund (3DF),the largest and newest donor in Burma's health sector, has taken steps during the past year to improve the administration of its programs. Aware that monitoring and evaluation (M/E) of its programs are key to securing future funding from donors, the 3D [...]	2008-05-02 10:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
08RANGOON310	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS DISASTER ALERT [...] Cyclone Nargis winds hit Rangoon shortly after 0000 local time on May 3. The storm picked up intensity around 0200 local time until 0600 when the eye of the storm passed over Rangoon. From 0700 to 1030 local time, heavy rain added to the winds. Reports indicate that the storm also severely [...]	2008-05-05 07:26:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON313	DRL SPECIAL BURMA RESPONSE FUND [...] Per reftel, Embassy Rangoon acknowledges the terms of the transfer of $20,000 to Post for projects in Burma. 2. Embassy Rangoon contacts for the grant are: --Financial Officer: Craig Shaw. Mr. Shaw will assist the P/E section with financial transactions related to this grant. He will [...]	2008-05-05 11:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL KPAO KDEM PREL BM
08RANGOON317	EAC TEMPLATE [...] (SBU) On May 5, Embassy Rangoon convened an EAC meeting to discuss the situation following Cyclone Nargis which struck Burma the evening of May 2 and morning of May 3. The DCM chaired the meeting. The EAC reviewed the tripwires in Post's Emergency Action Plan for a natural disaster and agre [...]	2008-05-05 13:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC AMGT PREL AEMR BM
08RANGOON318	EMBASSY CONVENES EAC MEETING [...] (SBU) Disregard Rangoon 317 sent in error. 2. (SBU) On May 5, Embassy Rangoon convened an EAC meeting to discuss the situation following Cyclone Nargis which struck Burma the evening of May 2 and morning of May 3. The DCM chaired the meeting. The EAC reviewed the tripwires in Post's Eme [...]	2008-05-05 13:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC AMGT PREL AEMR BM
08RANGOON319	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 1 [...] (SBU) Summary. All Embassy facilities suffered some damage from Cyclone Nargis on May 3, five residences are currently without water, and one residence has been rendered uninhabitable. Post is working to secure fuel and food supplies for facilities and personnel, and has requested authorized [...]	2008-05-05 13:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON320	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 2 [...] (SBU) The GOB reported Cyclone Nargis killed over 15,000 persons, most in the Irrawaddy delta region. Food, water, and fuel shortages continued throughout Rangoon. While some neighborhoods had limited water service restored, government-provided electricity was still out. There were reports [...]	2008-05-06 09:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON323	BURMA: CYCLONE DRIVING UP FOOD AND FUEL PRICES [...] (SBU) Summary. Cyclone Nargis devastated parts of southern Burma, including Rangoon and the Irrawaddy Delta. Trees and power lines are down, many homes are inhabitable, potable water supplies have been compromised or destroyed, and roads are blocked with debris. In the aftermath of the storm [...]	2008-05-06 09:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON327	BURMA: POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CYCLONE NARGIS [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, the regime announced it would proceed with its constitutional referendum, except for the five regions it had declared disaster areas, including Rangoon. Aung San Suu Kyi weathered the storm, but the "vote no" campaigns of both the NLD and 88 [...]	2008-05-06 10:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON328	BURMA: FUEL SHORTAGE IMMINENT [...] (C) Summary. Burma will soon face a shortage of fuel, Petronas Cargali Production Manager Bob Thomas told us. Burma imports approximately 110 million barrels of crude oil a year from Malaysia - roughly three-quarters of domestic need - which it refines into diesel and petrol. However, crude [...]	2008-05-06 11:04:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET SENV BM
08RANGOON330	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 3 [...] (SBU) POST OPERATIONS: As of May 7, Embassy Rangoon resumed operating on city power again. We continue to receive two diesel shipments per day. The consular section has suspended visa operations until May 21 to focus on American Citizen Services. Post's Authorized Departure Task Force met [...]	2008-05-07 08:17:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON331	BURMA: CYCLONE DESTROYS RICE CROPS, PRICES [...] (C) Summary. Cyclone Nargis ripped through the Irrawaddy Delta on May 2, destroying both the newly-planted summer rice crops and the drop season crop awaiting harvest. Before the storm, Irrawaddy Division was one of Burma's main rice producing areas. The townships hardest hit by the storm - [...]	2008-05-07 08:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON333	BURMA: THE POLITICS OF CYCLONE NARGIS ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary: The UN estimates over 1.5 million Burmese are in urgent need of food, water, and shelter in Irrawaddy and Rangoon Division. Today, the Minister of Social Welfare agreed to allow the UN to send local staff liaisons to GOB operations centers in the Delta, and seemed receptive to [...]	2008-05-07 12:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON334	BURMA: THILAWA PORT COULD OPEN BY END OF MAY [...] (C) Summary. Although access to the Rangoon Ports remains closed due to sunken ships and debris blocking the Rangoon River and unusable jetties, the Burmese Port Authority predicts the Myanmar International Terminal Thilawa (MITT) will be fully operational in two weeks. Shipping industry co [...]	2008-05-07 12:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT ECON ETRD PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON335	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 4 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon continued to operate on city power and we expect to top off our diesel tanks tomorrow. All FSNs will be allowed administrative leave at 1200 on May 9 to repair their homes. The American Center will reopen on May 12. So far 22 family members have e [...]	2008-05-08 08:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON336	BAGO DIVISION: IT COULD BE WORSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Southern Bago Division, among the areas that the Burmese government declared a disaster area, suffered some damage from Cyclone Nargis, although significantly less than the Irrawaddy Delta. The roads to and from Bago were clear and relatively undamaged. The city of Bago appear [...]	2008-05-08 09:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON337	BURMA: THAN SHWE IS THE PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: A businessman and a journalist with close ties to the regime told Emboffs that all roads lead to Senior General Than Shwe, who remains isolated and unaware of the scale of the catastrophe that has befallen his country. No one will approve visas for international humanitarian ass [...]	2008-05-08 10:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON338	BURMA: BUSINESSES PARTICIPATING IN RELIEF EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary. In response to the GOB's limited response to Cyclone Nargis, private Burmese businesses have stepped up to the plate, providing both relief and recovery assistance to thousands of Burmese. Staff from several of Burma's largest companies volunteered to lead Rangoon's clean up eff [...]	2008-05-08 11:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EFIN PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON342	BURMA: FOOD PRICES CONTINUE TO RISE, FUEL PRICES DECREASE [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite government efforts to reopen supply roads into Rangoon, food supplies remain limited, resulting in skyrocketing prices. Rice stocks throughout the city are almost depleted, and the few traders who still have rice sell it for approximately 40,000 kyat ($36) a bag, 67 pe [...]	2008-05-08 11:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON345	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 5 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Four eligible family members are scheduled to depart for Bangkok on May 9. The remaining eight EFMs who want to depart are scheduled to leave on May 13. The Embassy continued to operate on city power, and we continued to receive diesel shipments. New welfare and [...]	2008-05-09 07:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON348	BURMA: SLOWLY POWERING UP RANGOON [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Embassy contacts, Cyclone Nargis damaged approximately 80 percent of Rangoon's electricity facilities, including overhead cables and power substations. The Government continues to work to resume electricity supply throughout the city, and has restored power to si [...]	2008-05-09 11:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET SENV BM
08RANGOON349	BURMA: PRYING OPEN THE DOOR FOR HUMANITARIAN AID [...] (C) Summary: The OFDA DART team will not be granted visas "for the moment" and other missions are having mixed success obtaining entry for their disaster assistance experts. The GOB turned back 62 medics that arrived on a chartered relief flight from Bangladesh. The UN has had mixed succes [...]	2008-05-09 12:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON35	ENVIRONMENT NOT A PRIORITY FOR BURMESE REGIME [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite having a wealth of plant and animal biodiversity and vast ecosystems, the Burmese Government does little to protect the country's natural resources. Investors, both domestic and foreign, continue to plunder Burma's raw materials, destroying much of the country's natur [...]	2008-01-16 09:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON ENRG PGOV EPET BM
08RANGOON352	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 6 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon continued to operate on city power and had topped off its diesel fuel tanks. On May 9, four EFMs departed post for Bangkok. On May 13, six more EFM will depart post for Bangkok. Only one new welfare and whereabouts inquiry came in overnight and co [...]	2008-05-12 07:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON353	BURMA: THILAWA PORT RESUMES LIMITED OPERATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The Myanmar International Terminal Thilawa (MITT) resumed limited operations on May 10, shipping industry officials confirm. Small feeder ships are able to navigate the Rangoon River, and the Port Authority continues to dredge the river to accommodate larger ships. The GOB rem [...]	2008-05-12 09:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT ECON ETRD PGOV PREL SENV BM
08RANGOON356	REFERENDUM PROCEEDS AS SCHEDULED [...] (C) Summary. The GOB went ahead with its referendum on May 10 in the areas of the country that were not affected by Cyclone Nargis. On a diplomatic tour, two Embassy officers visited eight polling stations in two cities, Myeik and Kyaingtone. We did not see any significant disturbances, but [...]	2008-05-12 11:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON357	FIRST TRANCHE OF USG CYCLONE ASSISTANCE ARRIVES IN [...] (SBU) Summary. USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore and PACOM Commander Admiral Timothy J. Keating on May 12 delivered the first tranche of USG assistance to Burma, including bottled water, blankets, and mosquito nets. During a meeting with Burmese Commander of the Navy Vice Admiral Soe Thei [...]	2008-05-13 04:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON358	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 7 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon continued to operate on city power and had full diesel fuel tanks. On May 13, the remaining six EFMs who had requested to depart will leave post for Bangkok. No criminal incidents involving American staff or families were reported 2. (SBU) C-13 [...]	2008-05-13 07:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON365	BURMA: NO EVIDENCE RELIEF SUPPLIES ARE BEING [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Rangoon has combed all of Rangoon's markets and found no evidence that donated humanitarian relief supplies have been diverted and sold. Likewise, NGOs and UN staff in the Delta told us they have seen no evidence relief supplies have been diverted from there either. T [...]	2008-05-13 10:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON367	BURMA: FUEL [...] (SBU) Supplies of certain food products - rice, meat, chicken, fish, and cooking oil - remain scarce in Rangoon and prices of food throughout the city continue to rise. The price of rice has increased 83 percent since May 1 due to insufficient rice stocks. Prices of fruits and vegetables rema [...]	2008-05-13 10:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON368	BURMA: FOOD PRICES CONTINUE TO RISE [...] (SBU) Supplies of certain food products - rice, meat, chicken, fish, and cooking oil - remain scarce in Rangoon and prices of food throughout the city continue to rise. The price of rice has increased 83 percent since May 1 due to insufficient rice stocks. Prices of fruits and vegetables rema [...]	2008-05-13 10:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON37	PETROLEUM PRODUCTION DESTROYING BURMA'S ECOSYSTEMS [...] (C) Summary. The development of new and existing onshore and offshore oil and gas wells continues to inflict grave damage on Burma's environment. Local NGOs report that companies do not take precautions when disposing of the toxic byproducts of drilling, which may contain dangerous levels of [...]	2008-01-17 08:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ECON ENRG PGOV EPET BM
08RANGOON371	BURMA: SOME PROGRESS ON HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN Resident coordinator Dan Baker briefed donors on his meetings in Nay Pyi Taw where the Deputy Foreign Minister informed him that visas for all UN assistance experts would be issued and said the GOB was issuing clearances for relief flights with only one-day notice requi [...]	2008-05-13 12:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PHUM BM PGOV EAGR MARR
08RANGOON376	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 8 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon operated on city power and had full diesel fuel tanks. As of May 13, all EFMs who asked to leave had departed post and were in Bangkok. Further to pending welfare and whereabouts inquires, consular currently has only two Amcits unaccounted for and [...]	2008-05-14 07:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON379	BURMA: HEALTH SITUATION IN IRRAWADDY DELTA [...] (SBU) Summary. According to the World Health Organization (WHO),health conditions in the Irrawaddy Delta continue to deteriorate, as hundreds of thousands of people lack access to food, potable water, shelter, and medicines. Shipments of water were beginning to reach the delta and a senior [...]	2008-05-14 11:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV AMED BM
08RANGOON38	BURMA: KEY ETHNIC CEASE-FIRE GROUP TALKS [...] (C) Summary: Top KIO officials told us they were pleased with Aung San Suu Kyi's recent statement, and confirmed that the hard-line Culture Minister had visited them in an effort to convince the KIO to condemn it. The KIO views its relationship with the NLD as a friendship rather than an al [...]	2008-01-17 09:49:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON383	MEDIA REACTION: BURMESE HIGHLIGHTS [...] Following the arrival of the first USAF C-130 flights with humanitarian aid at Rangoon Airport on May 12 and 13 an unprecedented amount of positive news coverage appeared in the Burmese media. 2. In the nationally broadcast news on state- controlled MRTV May 12, nearly seven minutes were [...]	2008-05-15 06:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMDR KPAO OIIP PGOV BM
08RANGOON384	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 9 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon operated on city power and had full diesel fuel tanks. The EAC reviewed post's authorized departure and will recommend that the Department extend it, subject to another review in ten days. All Amcit welfare and whereabouts inquires have been resolve [...]	2008-05-15 07:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON385	BURMA: REGIME CLAIMS VICTORY; NLD OFFERS HELP [...] (C) On May 15, the regime announced its constitution had been overwhelmingly approved in the May 10 referendum, which was held in all areas of the country not critically affected by the storm. Aung San Suu Kyi's private doctor was permitted to briefly visit with her after the cyclone and rep [...]	2008-05-15 09:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON387	FOLLOWING THE RELIEF SUPPLY CHAIN [...] (SBU) Summary. U Aung Tun Khaing of the Department of Social Welfare explained a three-part system through which the GOB has thus far delivered 1,816 tons of international relief supplies to Cyclone Nargis victims. The supplies, transported to the affected regions primarily by ship, reach tw [...]	2008-05-15 10:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON39	ANOTHER EXPLOSION IN BURMA; NLD UNDER PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: Another bomb exploded on a bus 65 miles north of Rangoon yesterday, killing the driver. An NLD member remains in custody after he and his colleague were interrogated regarding the Charge d'Affaires's recent meeting with 7 NLD members in their town. Other NLD leaders were summo [...]	2008-01-17 10:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON390	BURMA: MORE LIGHTS GO ON IN RANGOON DIVISION [...] (C) Summary. The Burmese Government continues to restore power to parts of Rangoon, focusing on repairing power lines in the eastern, western and northern parts of the city. According to Yangon City Electric Supply Board (YESB) officials, while 40 percent of townships in Eastern Rangoon, 65 [...]	2008-05-15 11:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET SENV BM
08RANGOON392	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 10 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon operated on city power and had full diesel fuel tanks. Consular received no new Amcit welfare and whereabouts inquires and all previous inquiries have been resolved. No criminal incidents involving American staff were reported. 2. (SBU) U.S. RE [...]	2008-05-16 07:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON394	BURMA: UPDATE ON HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary: UN Humanitarian Assistance Coordinator John Holmes was granted a visa and will visit Burma May 18-21. The UN has made no progress on obtaining permission for international staff to visit the field, and national staff are having increasing problems traveling to the Delta. The A [...]	2008-05-16 10:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PHUM BM PGOV
08RANGOON398	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 11 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon operated on city power and had full diesel fuel tanks. Amcit, reported in Rangoon 376 as being diagnosed with gastroentitis and dehydration at the Mawlamyine hospital, departed Rangoon for Germany on May 20. The consular section will resume visa se [...]	2008-05-20 07:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON4	MYANMAR AIRWAYS INTERNATIONAL TO RESUME FLIGHTS [...] (C) Summary. Myanmar Airways International (MAI),a joint venture between the Burmese Government and Region Air of Singapore, will resume flights to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur beginning January 15, 2008. In October, MAI halted its international flights when the company could no longer afford [...]	2008-01-07 08:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL EAIR BM
08RANGOON400	BURMA: CRONIES TOLD TO REBUILD THE DELTA [...] (C) Summary: Nay Win Maung, director of local NGO Myanmar Egress, shared with pol/econ chief a list of GOB ministers given responsibility and oversight for the rescue and rehabilitation of seven townships in the cyclone affected areas, and the various cronies the government assigned to finan [...]	2008-05-20 12:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON401	BURMA: FOOD PRICES DROPPING, FUEL COSTS BACK TO NORMAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Two weeks after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma, food prices have begun to drop, although most prices remain higher than pre-cyclone levels. While certain food items - rice, cooking oil, and chicken - remain scarce, prices of these prices have dropped slightly in the past few [...]	2008-05-21 02:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON404	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 18 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon operated on city power and had full diesel fuel tanks. The consular section resumed visa services on May 21. No criminal incidents involving American staff were reported. 2. (SBU) U.S. RELIEF FLIGHTS: Five C-130 flights carrying relief supplie [...]	2008-05-21 07:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON408	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO.13 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon operated on city power and had full diesel fuel tanks. Consular operations have returned to normal. No criminal incidents involving American staff were reported. 2. (SBU) U.S. RELIEF FLIGHTS: Five C-130 flights carrying relief supplies were cl [...]	2008-05-22 06:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON409	BURMA CYCLONE: USAID/DART SITUATION REPORT #14 [...] U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Rangoon on May 22 and met with the Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein, according to media reports. Members of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Task Force airlifted five flights of [...]	2008-05-22 11:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SENV KSCA TBIO BM PREF
08RANGOON41	BURMA: AUTHORITIES THWART PLANNED PROTEST [...] (C) Summary. Police in Taunggok, Rakhine State disrupted a scheduled protest yesterday morning. No violence or arrests were reported and local residents said the situation in town was calm. We have seen nothing to confirm UK Ambassador Mark Canning's account of a 40-person protest in downt [...]	2008-01-18 08:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON411	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 14 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon operated on city power and had full diesel fuel tanks. Most Embassy residences have returned to city power. No criminal incidents involving American staff were reported. 2. (SBU) U.S. RELIEF FLIGHTS: Five C-130 flights carrying relief supplies [...]	2008-05-23 06:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON413	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 15 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon operated on city power and had full diesel fuel tanks. Most Embassy residences have returned to city power. No criminal incidents involving American staff were reported. 2. (SBU) U.S. RELIEF FLIGHTS: Over the three-day weekend, five C-130 flig [...]	2008-05-27 06:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON414	BURMA PORTS CONTINUE LIMITED OPERATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The Burmese Port Authority has opened all four of Rangoon's ports, albeit for limited operations. Myanmar International Terminal Thilawa (MITT) continues to receive the majority of incoming ships, as the Port Authority continues to dredge the Rangoon River and repair jetties at [...]	2008-05-27 07:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT ECON ETRD PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON415	GOVERNMENT DECLARES CONSTITUTION APPROVED; ASSK [...] (SBU) State-run media reported today that Burma's new constitution had been approved by 92.4 percent in the nation-wide referendum that concluded May 24. Voters we spoke with reported wide-spread election irregularities including distribution of pre-marked ballots with the approval mark check [...]	2008-05-27 09:11:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON417	BURMA: DONORS FOCUS ON ACCESS AT CYCLONE NARGIS [...] (C) Summary: The regime's hope for a cash-rich pledging conference fell flat as donors held on to their checkbooks despite Than Shwe's promise to Ban Ki Moon to allow access for international humanitarian workers to the Delta. In his opening remarks to the conference, the Prime Minister spe [...]	2008-05-27 11:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON418	BURMA: 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] Embassy Rangoon is not aware of any ongoing investment disputes in Burma. U.S. law has prohibited investment in Burma since 1997. 2. Primary point of contact for issues relevant to the report is: Samantha A. Carl-Yoder Economic Officer (95) (1) 536-509 ext. 4227 Carl-YoderSA@state.g [...]	2008-05-27 11:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV BM
08RANGOON422	BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS SITREP NO. 16 [...] (SBU) EMBASSY OPERATIONS: Embassy Rangoon operated on city power and had full diesel fuel tanks. Most Embassy residences have returned to city power, and Management is now focusing on clearing debris away from properties. No criminal incidents involving American staff were reported. 2. [...]	2008-05-28 06:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID BM
08RANGOON424	BURMA: PREPARING FOR THE ANNUAL ILO CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary. Although the Burmese Government has taken steps to address forced labor and child soldier issues, forced labor continues to be a significant problem in Burma, ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall told us. During the annual ILO Conference, ILO members should question the GOB's com [...]	2008-05-28 09:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON425	BURMA: ILO LOOKING TO EXPAND ROLE AFTER CYCLONE [...] (C) Summary. In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which devastated Burma on May 2-3, International Labor Organization officials are looking to expand the organization's mandate in Burma so it can address cyclone recovery issues, particularly the use of paid labor instead of forced labor during rec [...]	2008-05-28 09:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON427	BURMA: ENCOURAGING SIGNS ON ACCESS TO THE DELTA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Social Welfare is granting UN international staff permission to travel to the Delta with two days notice. Six staff applied for permission to travel on May 26 and all requests were granted. NGO international staff are also being granted permission to travel, th [...]	2008-05-28 11:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON429	AID FLOWS, BUT NOT MUCH [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff and LES were turned around at a military checkpoint on the border between Rangoon and Irrawaddy Divisions on May 29. Prior to being stopped, we observed heightened security in several towns and villages in Rangoon Division that were damaged during the cyclone. The head [...]	2008-05-29 09:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON434	FORCED RELOCATION AND MORE DEATH IN BURMA'S DELTA [...] (C) Summary: Over the last week, Embassy Rangoon has received increasing reports the regime is forcing Cyclone Nargis victims to leave government-run and private shelters and return to their villages. Local sources and UN employees confirm that forced relocation by the military in storm aff [...]	2008-06-02 08:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON44	CHINESE LOSING PATIENCE WITH BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Charge hosted the Chinese Ambassador for lunch on January 17. We discussed the lack of political dialogue and the need for all countries to speak with one voice to persuade the generals to start talking and quit dragging their feet. The Chinese Ambassador no longer tried to defend the [...]	2008-01-18 10:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON441	BURMA: UN STRATEGY ON FORCED RELOCATIONS [...] (C) Summary: UN field workers have reported specific cases of mass, forced relocation throughout Rangoon Division and the Irrawaddy Delta. Two-thirds of relief camps in Labutta have been emptied, large numbers of victims in shelters in Bogale Township are being forced home on a daily basis, [...]	2008-06-03 11:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON448	BURMA: RELIEF COORDINATING GROUP STRUGGLES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Tripartite Core Group (TCG) has met twice since its formation to work out difficult issues related to Nargis relief efforts. According to the UN and ASEAN representatives, discussions have been frank and open. While some progress was made on procedures for access, visas, a [...]	2008-06-04 11:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON453	BURMA: CLEARER PICTURE EMERGING ON FORCED [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR representatives told us they observed no instances of violent, forced relocation during a recent trip to the Delta, but spoke with a military commander who said he had orders to vacate unofficial camps north of Labutta and Bogale. The government was moving victims in an [...]	2008-06-05 08:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON454	BURMA: ZARGANAR ARRESTED [...] (C) Summary. Police arrested comedian/activist Zarganar at his home the evening of June 4. Authorities said they will only hold him for two days, but did not specify the reason for his arrest. Zarganar has been engaged in relief efforts since Cyclone Nargis and had recently given a number [...]	2008-06-05 08:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON455	DELTA RELIEF: SMALL STEPS FORWARD, SOME BACK [...] (SBU) Summary. On a June 2 to 4 trip to the Irrawaddy delta region, Poloff and LES observed a tight security situation, particularly in areas where significant aid is flowing. We also observed and compared government camps with an NGO-run camp, which according to the government should not ex [...]	2008-06-05 09:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON46	HOW MYANMAR ECONOMIC HOLDINGS (MEHL) REALLY WORKS [...] (C) Summary. Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd. (MEHL),one of approximately 55 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Burma, is also one of the most powerful and corrupt organizations in the country. Established in 1990 by the Ministry of Defense, active and retired military currently control 70 per [...]	2008-01-22 06:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EINV ETRD PREL BM
08RANGOON461	POST NARGIS RELOCATIONS: EQUAL OPPORUNTITY ABUSE [...] (C) Summary. A number of our Burmese and ethnic minority contacts told us that the government has pressured cyclone victims in unofficial relief camps to relocate to government-sanctioned camps or return to their villages. In other instances, local residents have pressured these internally [...]	2008-06-06 10:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON467	MANDALAY: RELIEF FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE [...] (SBU) Summary. The people of Mandalay have responded to the crisis in the Irrawaddy Delta by sending relief into the affected areas. While the Government was slow to respond, and even slower to allow foreigners into the Delta assist, the people of Burma are focused in their efforts. Traditio [...]	2008-06-10 08:09:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON468	BURMA: HELICOPTERS RESOLVED, ACCESS STILL A PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Advance teams for the post Nargis assessment visited the Delta June 5-7 and found that 50-75 percent of the population in the worst affected areas perished in the cyclone. Some teams confronted difficulties with access in the areas they visited. World Bank and ADB officials wh [...]	2008-06-10 12:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON47	AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S MEETING WITH REGIME LIAISON [...] (C) Summary: Regime liaison Aung Kyi used his January 11 meeting with ASSK to scold her for not responding to Than Shwe's previous demands. He told her the senior generals were suspicious of her because the statement she released through Gambari was similar to the points UN Special Envoy Ga [...]	2008-01-22 10:51:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON471	BURMA: STRUGGLES AT THE TOP AFFECTING RELIEF EFFORT [...] (C) Pol/econ chief met with the well-connected journalist and leader of the local NGO Myanmar Egress, Nay Win Maung, who described the latest state-of-play regarding the senior generals' management of the Cyclone Nargis relief effort, emerging factions among the generals stemming from disagree [...]	2008-06-11 09:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON477	BURMA: SOUTHERN DELTA VICTIMS STILL NEGLECTED [...] (SBU) Summary. An Embassy Rangoon small grantee recently returned from the lower delta reported a lack of any organized relief efforts in much of the area south of Labutta. While the Burma Army was camped nearby, so far soldiers had not provided any significant assistance to cyclone victim [...]	2008-06-12 07:42:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON478	ACTION REQUEST ON U.S. 60-DAY REPORT TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-12 10:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KNNP IR BM
08RANGOON48	NGOS UNCONCERNED WITH RENEWED REGIME INTEREST [...] (C) Summary. During a January 11 meeting in Nay Pyi Taw with local officials from international NGOS, the Ministry of Health reiterated that organizations must work within the NGO guidelines and coordinate with government officials on projects and programs. NGO expatriate staff, who must be [...]	2008-01-22 10:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON481	BURMA: NGOS REPORT SUCCESS BUT EMPHASIZE THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Over 70 NGOs are now actively engaged in disaster relief efforts, employing several thousand staff, including over 1,000 international aid workers, and report success in delivering aid to many survivors of Cyclone Nargis, meeting a range of needs. However, they stress that the [...]	2008-06-13 09:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON487	BURMA: REGIME ARRESTS MORE DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: 88 Generation leader Myat Thu was arrested June 13. His colleague and close Embassy contact, Toe Kyaw Hlaing, has gone into hiding to avoid being taken into custody. The regime also arrested activist and journalist Zaw Thet Htwe, who had collaborated with activist/comedian Zar [...]	2008-06-16 10:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM

08RANGOON490	BURMA: DAEWOO AND CNPC TO JOINTLY DEVELOP GAS [...] (C) Summary. Officials from Daewoo International Corp. and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on May 29 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),calling for future cooperation on oil and gas exploration in Burma. Daewoo Drilling Manager Bruce Leach confirmed that the two companie [...]	2008-06-17 09:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET BM
08RANGOON492	BURMA: REGIME BACKTRACKING ON ITS CYCLONE RELIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: Vice Senior General Maung Aye appears to have taken control over the Cyclone Nargis relief efforts. The UN obtained some flexibility from Minister of Planning Soe Tha regarding the procedures the Minister announced June 10. However, the back and forth for easier access will l [...]	2008-06-17 12:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON496	BURMA: GOB MANIPULATING RICE MARKETS FOR OWN [...] (C) Summary. Concerned that rising rice prices could lead to future anti-government protests, the Burmese Government has again inserted itself in the rice trade. The week after Cyclone Nargis, when the World Food Programme (WFP) announced that it needed roughly 50,000 metric tons of rice to [...]	2008-06-19 08:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON498	BURMA: REGIME THUGS CRASH ASSK,S PARTY [...] (C) Summary. On June 19, regime thugs disrupted a peaceful gathering to celebrate Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday and arrested at least four participants at NLD headquarters in Rangoon. Another ceremony by the NLD in Taunggot, Rakhine State proceeded without incident. Rumors of 88 Generation S [...]	2008-06-19 10:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON5	BURMESE REGIME "TOO BUSY" FOR GAMBARI [...] (C) Diplomats attending the annual Independence Day dinner in Nay Pyi Taw on January 4 heard from several different government officials that the Than Shwe regime was "too busy" to receive UN Special Advisor Gambari before the mid-April annual water festival. The Chinese Ambassador confirmed [...]	2008-01-07 10:26:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM UN
08RANGOON500	BURMA: POWER LINES UP BUT POWER STILL SPORADIC [...] (C) Summary. Six weeks after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma, the GOB has made progress restoring power to Rangoon Division. While Yangon City Electric Supply Board (YESB) officials claim that 90 percent of townships in Rangoon Division have electricity, the reality is that YESB staff have [...]	2008-06-20 08:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET SENV BM
08RANGOON501	BURMA: 2007 COUNTERNARCOTICS REPORT CARD [...] (U) This message responds to ref A request for a report on the Government of Burma's cooperation on counter-narcotics efforts, based on benchmarks established in the prior year, in preparation for the FY 2008 certification process. 2. (SBU) Begin Text of 2007 Certification Report Card: [...]	2008-06-20 09:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM BM
08RANGOON503	BURMA: OPPOSITION DIVIDED ON THE WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Burma's pro-democracy opposition remains divided on how to respond to the regime's new constitution and the next step on the regime's "roadmap to discipline-flourishing democracy": the 2010 parliamentary elections. Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party has formally rejected the new const [...]	2008-06-20 11:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON507	JTF-CARING RESPONSE: TERMINATION OF RELIEF [...] (U) Joint Task Force Caring Response (JTF-CR) has performed magnificently in responding to the humanitarian and disaster relief needs of Burma after Cyclone Nargis caused widespread devastation. Quickly identifying the need for delivery and distribution of humanitarian relief supplies, JTF-CR [...]	2008-06-23 10:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL BM
08RANGOON508	BURMA'S SENIOR GENERAL SHAKES UP THE MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: On June 20, Senior General Than Shwe announced over one hundred key promotions, retirements, and changes for high and mid-ranking military officers. Three senior members of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) were retired from their military positions, although it is [...]	2008-06-23 10:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON513	BURMA: ARRESTS, NEGLECT, AND A SNUB [...] (C) Summary. Detained activist Min Ko Naing's health has deteriorated in prison, according to his family. While authorities have allowed a doctor to see him regularly, his family noted he was not receiving the level of care needed. Over a dozen Burmese journalists, some working for internat [...]	2008-06-26 09:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON517	BURMA: ILO TO START CASH FOR WORK PROGRAM IN DELTA [...] (C) Summary. International Labor Organization (ILO) officials plan to start a cash-for-work program by August to assist the most vulnerable populations affected by Cyclone Nargis. Under the program, the ILO will empower local residents in poverty-stricken villages to participate in infrastr [...]	2008-06-27 10:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON518	BURMA: PROMOTING DEMOCRATIC CHANGE THROUGH CYCLONE [...] (C) Summary: Except for a few isolated cases highlighted by the Burmese exile press, private relief efforts in the Delta are proceeding unhindered by the GOB, including those undertaken by pro-democracy groups. These efforts are widespread and crucial to covering gaps in the government's inept [...]	2008-06-27 11:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM EAID
08RANGOON519	NO EVIDENCE OF DELTA FORCED LABOR; CHILD SOLDIER [...] (C) Summary. Although the ILO Burma office has not received any formal complaints of forced labor in the Irrawaddy Delta after Cyclone Nargis, it continues to closely monitor the situation. ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall reported an increase in child soldier cases - his office now recei [...]	2008-06-30 16:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON530	BURMA: NO EVIDENCE OF LAND SEIZURES IN DELTA [...] (C) Summary. Officials from various UN agencies, NGOs, and the private sector have confirmed that the Burmese Government has not seized land from farmers in the Irrawaddy Delta, despite rumors and news reports to the contrary. According to Burmese law, the government is the sole property own [...]	2008-07-02 08:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ELAB ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON531	BURMA: TRACKING TB CASES IN THE DELTA [...] (SBU) Summary. Cyclone Nargis, which struck Burma May 2-3, destroyed much of the Irrawaddy Delta, including more than 125 many public and private health facilities. Consequently, many tuberculosis (TB) patients living in the delta lost access to their medications and stopped treatment. Offi [...]	2008-07-02 09:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV AMED BM
08RANGOON532	LABUTTA TOWNSHIP: LIVELIHOODS A TOP CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 18 and 20, USAID/OFDA shelter expert and Poloff traveled to the Irrawaddy Delta region to assess recovery efforts. Six weeks after Cyclone Nargis hit, most people had sufficient shelter, either rebuilt from indigenous materials or plastic sheeting or living in communal [...]	2008-07-03 09:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV PREF TBIO BM PHUM EAGR VM
08RANGOON540	BURMA: POST NARGIS BOGALE - DOWN BUT NOT OUT [...] (SBU) On a recent three-day trip to the delta, rural cyclone victims in Bogale township told us that they most needed cash to help re-establish their livelihoods. All three of the villages we visited suffered extensive damage as a result of Nargis, but had begun rebuilding on their own. The [...]	2008-07-09 08:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BM EAID SENV KSCA TBIO VM EAGR PREF
08RANGOON542	BURMESE SUPREME COURT REJECTS MAY DAY APPEALS [...] (C) An opposition lawyer confirmed that the Supreme Court rejected the appeals of six labor activists arrested in connection with a seminar at the American Center in May 2007. The health of detained 88 Generation Students activist Myo Yan Naung Thein has steadily deteriorated in prison, acco [...]	2008-07-09 09:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON557	CONTINUING THE PURSUIT OF DEMOCRACY IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Embassy Rangoon pol/econ chief departs Post this week after ending a two-year tour that saw the largest political uprising in Burma in twenty years, the arrest and imprisonment of the pro-democracy opposition's most talented leaders, and the worst natural disaster in Burma's recorded history. [...]	2008-07-14 06:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON558	BURMA: KEY KACHIN GROUPS TO FORM POLITICAL PARTY [...] (C) Summary. A leading Kachin peace negotiator told us a consortium of three leading Kachin organizations recently agreed to form a single political party and to participate in the 2010 parliamentary elections. While the regime has assured Kachin cease-fire groups they would not have to sur [...]	2008-07-14 07:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON57	BURMA: NO LOVE FOR THAN SHWE [...] (C) Summary. Several political dissidents were summoned to the office of the Deputy Rangoon Regional Commander and told the dialogue with ASSK is not going well and that the regime would be proceeding with the roadmap. The dissidents were warned that no demonstrations against the roadmap or [...]	2008-01-24 09:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON575	BURMA: ENCOURAGING COOPERATION ON TIP WITH CHINA [...] (C) Summary. Recognizing that the majority of Burmese trafficking victims cross Burma's long, porous borders into China and Thailand, the Burmese Government, in conjunction with several international NGOs, is working with the Chinese and Thai Governments to establish bilateral liaison offices [...]	2008-07-18 06:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KWMN KCRM KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SMIG BM
08RANGOON577	BURMA: DELTA HEALTH CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary. According to UN and NGO officials working in the Irrawaddy Delta, the health situation in the delta after Cyclone Nargis continues to improve. While there have been no disease epidemics, health NGOs report cases of dengue, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infection throughout t [...]	2008-07-18 07:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV BM
08RANGOON578	BURMA: REGIME DISHONORS AUNG SAN,S MEMORY [...] (SBU) Summary: The regime appears to be downgrading its commemoration of the assassination of General Aung San on July 19, called Martyr's Day. The NLD will be allowed to hold its own Martyr's Day ceremony at its headquarters on July 19, but the regime arrested four NLD members the day befo [...]	2008-07-18 08:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON580	BURMA: ASSK SPENDS ANOTHER MARTYRS DAY IN [...] (C) Summary: The regime and NLD each held ceremonies commemorating Martyrs Day on July 19, but both were considerably more low-key than in the past. While there were no disturbances at the NLD event itself, authorities arrested at least six NLD members over the weekend. We have seen no sig [...]	2008-07-21 07:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON584	ILO SAYS NO COMPLAINTS OF FORCED LABOR IN DELTA [...] (C) Summary. Although the exile press continues to report on forced labor in the Irrawaddy Delta after Cyclone Nargis, the ILO Liaison Office has yet to receive any specific forced labor complaints or evidence of forced labor in the delta. According to ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall, th [...]	2008-07-22 06:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON585	BURMA: CHALLENGES TO PLANTING RICE IN THE DELTA REMAIN [...] (SBU) Summary. Cyclone Nargis, with its up to 12-foot high waves, not only destroyed much of the rice farmland in the Irrawaddy Delta, but also washed away farm implements, including seeds, draft animals, and plows. Farmers in the delta have received some assistance from the Burmese Governme [...]	2008-07-22 09:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON59	BURMA: ANGER AND TENSION IN KACHIN STATE [...] (C) Summary: The situation in Kachin State has grown more tense since the September protests. During the protests, approximately 200 monks demonstrated in Myitkyina, led by the monks from the local monastery training school. Only one monk remains in prison today, but few have returned to th [...]	2008-01-25 07:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON591	BURMA: 40 PERCENT PRODUCTION CUT REDUCES FISHERIES [...] (SBU) Summary. Cyclone Nargis severely damaged Burma,s fisheries sector, destroying the livelihoods of small-scale fishermen and aquaculture. Despite widespread damage, there are no indications that there will be a domestic shortage of freshwater fish and fish products, critical elements of [...]	2008-07-24 10:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID BM SENV ECON PGOV ETRD EFIS
08RANGOON592	BURMA: U/SGY HOLMES DISCUSSES CYCLONE RELIEF, WAYS [...] (C) Summary. During his July 22-24 trip to Burma, UN Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes met with UN officials, NGOs, and the Diplomatic Corps, highlighting the GOB's improved cooperation with the UN and NGOs on relief efforts over the past two months. Cyclone Nargis opened [...]	2008-07-25 02:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON594	BURMA,S KEYSTONE COPS [...] (SBU) Authorities have released all seven NLD members who were detained prior to Martyr's Day last week, but not before treating them to tea and snacks while in custody. At least two government soldiers were killed in a small skirmish between Burma Army troops and the Arakan Liberation Army n [...]	2008-07-25 07:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON595	SHAN STATE: TRAINING TRAINERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary. The Hsai Pen Media Group (HPMG) spent nearly two weeks in June training Shan youth leaders on raising awareness of human rights and democracy using Embassy small grants funds. The hands-on training targeted 12 youth who have already taken leadership roles in their communities. On [...]	2008-07-25 08:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON596	BURMA: FEC CONTINUES TO DEPRECIATE; NGOS, UN LOSE [...] (C) Summary. Burma's Foreign Exchange Currency (FEC),which should have 1:1 parity with the US dollar, continues to depreciate against the dollar. Historically, the FEC/US dollar exchange difference has averaged 50 kyat; the current difference is currently more than 250 kyat. Since May, the [...]	2008-07-28 07:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EAID ECON PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON599	BURMA: HARSHER SENTENCES FOR BLOGGERS AND MUSLIMS [...] (C) Summary. Embassy sources report that activist blogger Nay Phone Latt will be tried this week in a special court at Insein Prison. Ten mostly Muslim youth were sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labor last week for their alleged participation in last September's peaceful pro-d [...]	2008-07-29 08:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON6	BURMA: ARRESTS AND A HOSPITALIZATION [...] (C) Summary: The Than Shwe regime continued arresting pro-democracy activists during the January 4 Independence Day weekend. Among those arrested were a NLD MP-elect, NLD Youth members, and three All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF) members. Than Shwe's influential wife, Daw Kyaing [...]	2008-01-07 10:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON600	BURMA: CYCLONE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) The UN and ASEAN on July 21 released the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) report, which detailed the findings of more than 300 experts surveying more than 100 townships in the Irrawaddy Delta. The storm had a significant sociological impact on Burma: of the more than 150,000 peopl [...]	2008-07-29 10:11:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON604	BURMA: GOVERNMENT BUDGET FUNDS SOES, MILITARY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Burmese Government published its FY08-09 budget in late April, along with the FY07-08 supplementary expenditures figures. Once again, the GOB's budget data sheet provided only general guidelines, with little explanation of spending. The largest proportion of public funds a [...]	2008-07-31 07:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON607	PRIVATE KAREN GROUP PROVIDES STORM VICTIMS CARE [...] (C) Summary. The Karen Medical Consortium (KMC) used funds from several donors, including Embassy Rangoon, to treat over 1,200 cyclone victims for medical problems in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. In their four trips to the delta region in which they visited fourteen villages, 60 percent [...]	2008-07-31 08:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON609	BURMA: NATURAL GAS TO BE SOLD TO CHINA, THAILAND [...] (C) Summary. Daewoo, the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE),and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) on June 20 signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the sale of Shwe Gas to China by 2012. According to Daewoo, the two companies have yet to finalize the gas price, but should sign a fi [...]	2008-07-31 08:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET BM
08RANGOON61	FINANCING THE REGIME WITH JADE, NOT GEMS [...] (C) Summary. State-owned Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd. controls production at Burma's jade and gem mines, reaping the rewards from gem and jade sales at its annual emporiums. Contrary to popular belief, more than 90 percent of revenues from Burma's annual gem and jade emporiums come from the [...]	2008-01-25 10:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ECON ETRD PGOV EINV BM
08RANGOON610	RESOURCE CENTER CONNECTS LOCAL GROUPS WITH FUNDS [...] (SBU) Summary. The newly-created Local Resource Center (LRC) serves to connect local organizations with one another and potential donors to conduct projects in the Irrawaddy delta. According to the LRC's main advisor, Karl Dorning, the groups with the greatest need and the fewest funding opp [...]	2008-07-31 09:11:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON611	BURMA: NLD TO BOYCOTT ELECTIONS, BUT QUIETLY [...] (C) The NLD and a committee of 1990 MPs elect will not participate in the 2010 parliamentary elections, but are reluctant to publicize their positions or forcefully advocate for a boycott. Two key contacts told us that most opposition leaders have lost faith in the UN and Special Advisor Gam [...]	2008-07-31 09:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON617	BURMA: REGIME WARY OF MONKS AND ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary. Sources have confirmed reports this week that nine monks arrested on July 15 are still being held in Insein prison. The regime delayed announcing the results of monks' religious examinations until this week, but sources reported the number of passing candidates was expected to b [...]	2008-08-01 07:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON619	BURMA: CRACKING DOWN ON TRAFFICKING FROM THE DELTA [...] (C) Summary. Aware that the conditions in the Irrawaddy Delta have deteriorated since Cyclone Nargis hit, making more people vulnerable to trafficking, the Police Anti-Trafficking Unit (ATU) has stepped up its monitoring of human trafficking and smuggling into neighboring countries. In June, [...]	2008-08-01 10:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KWMN KCRM KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SMIG BM
08RANGOON62	AUCTIONING OFF BURMA'S RICHES [...] (SBU) Summary. Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd (MEHL),a state-owned enterprise owned by the Ministry of Defense, controls Burma's gem and jade industry. In addition to owning all of Burma's mines, MEHL also controls the sale of high-quality stones, putting them up for auction at its annual [...]	2008-01-25 10:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON ETRD PGOV EINV BM
08RANGOON634	BURMESE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE: FUTURE IS BRIGHT [...] (C) Summary. During the Charge's out-going call on Minister of Agriculture Major General Htay Oo, the Minister focused on the importance of promoting stability throughout Burma for the overall development of the country. Major General Htay Oo lauded the regime's seven step "roadmap to democ [...]	2008-08-06 08:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAGR ECON BM
08RANGOON635	BURMA: QUIET THUS FAR IN ADVANCE OF 8/8/88 [...] (C) GOB authorities have visibly increased security in Rangoon and Mandalay in the lead-up to Friday's 20th anniversary of the 8/8/88 crackdown on pro-democracy protests, and we have issued a warden message to the American Community. However, our contacts report they see no evidence oppositi [...]	2008-08-06 08:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON64	US SPEAKER ERIC STOVER HELPS DOCUMENT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: On December 10-22, 2007, Dr. Eric Stover, Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley, spoke with a number of key dissident groups and student activists in Burma, including two local human rights organizations and leaders of the 88 Generation [...]	2008-01-28 09:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO OIIP PHUM BM
08RANGOON643	BURMA: A GENERAL WILLING TO MEET [...] (C) Summary: Charge paid a farewell call August 5 on Lt. Gen Myint Swe, the only Burmese general who has been willing to meet with her regularly. The meeting was friendly and relaxed, even though our political differences are clear. While insisting Burma was on its own path towards democracy [...]	2008-08-08 13:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON644	BURMA: LIVESTOCK AND HEALTH MINISTERS DELIVER [...] (C) Summary. During an August 7 farewell visit to Nay Pyi Daw, Charge met separately with Livestock and Fisheries Minister Maung Maung Thein and Health Minister Dr. Kyaw Myint. Both ministers favorably noted the outpouring of international assistance following Cyclone Nargis and considered [...]	2008-08-09 02:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	BM EAID ECON PGOV PREL
08RANGOON646	OJEA QUINTANA TAKES BABY STEPS IN FIRST VISIT TO [...] SUMMARY: (C) UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma Tomas Ojea Quintana concluded his first visit to Burma August 7. Although he traveled to the Irrawaddy Delta, met privately with political prisoners of his own choosing, and had brief meetings with civil society and religious group [...]	2008-08-11 08:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON647	OJEA QUINTANA TAKES BABY STEPS IN FIRST VISIT TO [...] SUMMARY: (C) UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma Tomas Ojea Quintana concluded his first visit to Burma August 7. Although he traveled to the Irrawaddy Delta, met privately with political prisoners of his own choosing, and had brief meetings with civil society and religious group [...]	2008-08-11 08:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON648	ASSK MEETS LAWYER FOR FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) met with her personal lawyer August 8 for the first time in over five years. According to her lawyer, ASSK appeared physically and mentally healthy during the two-hour meeting, during which she focused exclusively on the legal case concerning her detent [...]	2008-08-11 08:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON649	BURMA: ARRESTS AND SILENCE ON 8/8/08 [...] (C) Authorities maintained a visible security presence in Rangoon and Mandalay on August 8, although our sources reported there were no significant demonstrations or commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the 8/8/88 uprising in the country's two largest cities. NLD sources in Rakhine Sta [...]	2008-08-11 09:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON661	BURMA: MORE ARRESTS AND RESTRICTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 12, police arrested two of the five MPs-elect who denounced the regime's "roadmap to democracy" in a July 21 letter to the UN Secretary General and the UN Security Council. Sources also confirmed the June 12 arrest of activist Myat Thu for his cyclone relief work, but [...]	2008-08-14 08:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON663	BURMA: UN, NGOS COPE WITH FEC DEPRECIATION [...] (C) Summary. Burma's Foreign Exchange Currency (FEC),which should have 1:1 parity with the U.S. dollar, has lost 25 percent of its value in the past three months, affecting international organizations' in-country humanitarian and relief operations. On August 14, the Tripartite Core Group a [...]	2008-08-15 05:17:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EAID ECON PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON664	THE SKY IS FALLING ON BURMA,S AVIATION INDUSTRY [...] (C) Summary. Burma's five domestic and international airlines continue to struggle, as a 50 percent reduction in tourism levels since 2007 and skyrocketing fuel costs have made it harder for them to turn a profit. In the past three months, Burmese airlines have significantly reduced domesti [...]	2008-08-15 05:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAIR BM
08RANGOON668	GAMBARI'S FIRST DAY [...] (SBU) Summary. In a short meeting with the diplomatic corps on August 18, his first day in country, UN Special Envoy Gambari said he hoped to build on the opening created by Cyclone Nargis to broaden cooperation with the GOB on political and socio-economic issues. Diplomatic representatives [...]	2008-08-18 09:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON67	BURMA: ACTIVISTS CHARGED, UNCLES CRITICISED [...] (C) Summary. Zomi National Congress President Chin Sian Than informed us of increasing concerns within the pro-democracy movement over senior NLD leadership. A group of 92 MPs-elect are preparing a letter to the UNSYG calling for the inclusion of opposition and ethnic leaders in the constitu [...]	2008-01-29 10:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON672	BURMA: ACUTE BREAK IN WFP FOOD PIPELINE [...] (C) Summary. According to World Food Program (WFP) Country Director Chris Kaye, WFP Burma is experiencing an acute break in its emergency food pipeline that will last through mid-September. The food shortage could affect up to 450,000 individuals living in cyclone-affected areas, as WFP an [...]	2008-08-19 08:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON673	ASSK MEETS WITH LAWYER AND DOCTOR AUGUST 17 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) met August 17th with both her lawyer and her doctor. Both report that she is in good health and spirits and both confirm that the regime has granted her request for monthly medical checkups and continued meetings with her lawyer to discuss her pending a [...]	2008-08-19 09:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON675	88 GENERATION STUDENTS ACTIVIST TOE KYAW HLAING ON [...] (C) Summary: Leading 88 Generation Students member Toe Kyaw Hlaing informed us that he had been traveling throughout Burma in order to try and build a "United Alliance Front" of different ethnic and opposition groups. He hoped pro-democracy activists would participate in the 2010 elections, [...]	2008-08-20 09:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON677	BURMA: SHARP DECLINE IN TOURISM [...] (C) Summary. Burma's tourism industry continues to suffer from the twin effects of the regime's violent crackdown in September 2007 and Cyclone Nargis in May. Tourism dropped by 10 percent in 2007, despite a record-breaking number of visitors in the first eight months of the year. Tourism [...]	2008-08-22 08:42:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON678	GAMBARI COOLS HIS HEELS IN BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Five days into his latest visit to Burma, UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari has yet to meet with any decision makers. To date, Gambari has had meetings with a number of GOB ministers, pro-regime groups and international organizations, as well as two sessions with the National L [...]	2008-08-22 09:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON679	GAMBARI VISIT CONCLUDES WITH NO ASSK MEETING [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari departed Burma August 23rd without meeting Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK). In an outbrief for the Diplomatic Corps, he expressed his disappointment that that ASSK had declined to see him and said he did not know her reason for doing so. Gambari report [...]	2008-08-25 08:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON693	BURMA: BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANIES TO DIVEST FROM [...] (C) Summary. Aviation industry officials confirm that at least two Lloyds of London insurance underwriters, RFIB and Munich Re, will divest from Burma by not automatically renewing their reinsurance contracts. The divestment -- at least partially the result of pressure from Burma Campaign [...]	2008-08-28 08:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAIR EWWT BM
08RANGOON698	BURMA: USING THE HUNDI SYSTEM TO TRANSFER MONEY [...] (SBU) Summary. Prompted by government restrictions on foreign currency holdings and U.S. financial sanctions, many Burmese opt to transfer U.S. dollars in and out of Burma through informal channels, known colloquially as the "hundi system." The system links Burmese money changers and busin [...]	2008-09-02 09:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON699	BURMA: HOW MTE PROFITS FROM TIMBER SALES [...] (C) Summary. The Burmese Government, through state-owned Myanmar Timber Enterprise (MTE),heavily regulates Burma's timber trade, exporting logs, sawed lumber, and finished products for substantial profits. In order to earn the regime's annual revenue quota of USD 300 million, MTE holds mon [...]	2008-09-02 09:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV PREL PGOV ETRD BM
08RANGOON704	ASSK SEES LAWYER FOR THIRD TIME IN A MONTH [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) met her lawyer, Neville, September 1 for 30 minutes to discuss her appeal process. Neville reported that ASSK told him to inform authorities that she would not meet with either her doctor or Liaison Minister Aung Kyi, presumably because such meetings would be used [...]	2008-09-05 09:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON706	BURMESE TIMBER EXPORTS ON THE RISE [...] (SBU) The value and quantity of Burmese timber exports increased dramatically in 2007, up six percent and 26 percent respectively over last year's figures. Timber industry experts predict that 2008 will be a record year for Burmese timber exports, despite international sanctions on Burmese [...]	2008-09-08 04:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV PREL PGOV ETRD BM
08RANGOON710	BURMA: MAI LEASES AIR BAGAN PLANE [...] (C) Myanmar Airways International (MAI),one of Burma's two international carriers, recently signed a three-month lease with Air Bagan for a Fokker 100, which will service its flights from Rangoon to Bangkok. MAI assured us that potential safety concerns were addressed through a third party [...]	2008-09-08 09:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAIR CASC ASEC BM
08RANGOON714	POSSIBLE INCREASED SCRUTINY OF EMBASSY RANGOON [...] (C) The GOB publicly accused detained human rights activist U Myint Aye September 7 of accepting money from our former assistant public affairs officer (APAO),among others, for the purposes of committing "subversive acts." One accusation was a bombing against a government-affiliated group. [...]	2008-09-09 09:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO BM
08RANGOON717	BURMA: GOB PROPPING UP AIR BAGAN [...] (C) Air Bagan, owned by regime crony Tay Za, continues to suffer financially due to loss of insurance, lack of customers, and international sanctions. Nevertheless, the GOB refuses to allow Air Bagan to collapse. Air Bagan recently obtained Russian reinsurance after Lloyds of London underw [...]	2008-09-11 09:51:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EAIR BM
08RANGOON720	PRESSURE INCREASING ON BURMESE ACTIVISTS AS [...] (C) Embassy contacts confirm that GOB security forces arrested 88 Generation Student (88GS) activist Nilar Thein late on the evening of September 10. Separately, 35 88GS activists who were arrested in August 2007 were charged on September 9 and 11 with libel against friendly foreign powers a [...]	2008-09-12 09:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON721	HOW EU SANCTIONS AFFECT BURMA'S TIMBER INDUSTRY [...] (C) The European Union in November 2007 imposed sanctions on Burmese timber imports to reduce the regime's revenues from timber sales. While trade figures show that 2008 sales to Europe have dropped dramatically, an increase in Burmese timber trade to Asian countries has far outpaced this de [...]	2008-09-12 09:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD SENV PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON724	CHARGE MEETS BURMA FOREIGN MINISTER: CIVIL [...] (C) In a September 15 initial meeting with Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win, Charge reiterated the USG's strongly held views on human rights and political reform. The FM regretted Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) refusal to meet with UN Special Representative Gambari and Liaison Minister Aung Kyi. [...]	2008-09-16 09:17:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON725	ASSK MEETS WITH LAWYER AGAIN, AGREES TO FOOD [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyer Kyi Win (aka Neville) confirmed to us that he met with his client again at her home on September 11 and 13 to discuss her legal appeal. Neville also reported that over the weekend authorities agreed to allow Aung San Suu Kyi regular doctor's visits, the unrestri [...]	2008-09-16 09:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON728	PREVENTING AVIAN INFLUENZA ALONG BURMA'S BORDERS [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite a 2006 GOB ban on the border trade of poultry products, these products continue to enter Burma illegally from avian influenza-infected countries, risking the importation of the disease. Livestock Breeding Veterinary Department (LBVD) officials, under the Ministry of Li [...]	2008-09-17 08:26:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
08RANGOON73	AUNG SAN SUU KYI: HOPE FOR THE BEST, PLAN FOR THE [...] (C) Summary. In a 90-minute meeting with the NLD's Central Executive Committee on January 30, Aung San Suu Kyi expressed dissatisfaction with the pace of the dialogue with the regime and the lack of progress towards democracy and reconciliation. She encouraged her colleagues to go ahead wit [...]	2008-01-31 04:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON734	ON ANNIVERSARY OF MONK-LED PROTESTS, RUMORS ABOUND [...] (C) GOB authorities visibly increased security in Rangoon in the lead-up to the September 18 anniversary of the start of last year's monk-led protests in Rangoon. Rumors of impending protests continue, and one Buddhist monk unsuccessfully attempted suicide at the Shwedagon Pagoda, perhaps in [...]	2008-09-18 10:26:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON741	BURMA: INDUSTRY MINISTER'S FAMILY BENEFITS FROM [...] (C) Pyi Aung and Nay Aung are sons of Minister of Industry-1 U Aung Thaung. Pyi Aung is also the son-in-law of Vice Senior General Maung Aye. The two brothers own Aung Yee Phyo Co. Ltd., IGE Co. Ltd., and UNOG Co. Ltd., and continue to use their family connections and close ties to the regi [...]	2008-09-19 09:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON742	BURMA: RICE EXPORTERS FEELING THE PINCH, FARMERS [...] (C) Private Burmese rice exporters, most of whom are regime cronies, continue to pressure the Burmese Government to allow rice exports so they can unload their rice stocks and earn a profit. The regime continues to resist, concerned that rising local rice prices could spark anti-government [...]	2008-09-19 09:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON743	BURMA: WFP FOOD PIPELINE RESTORED [...] (C) World Food Program (WFP) Burma in mid-September resumed the provision of full rations to its beneficiaries in the Irrawaddy Delta, following a one-month break in its food pipeline. From mid-August to mid-September, WFP relied on several NGO partners to procure local rice on its behalf and [...]	2008-09-19 09:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON744	BURMA,S NLD UNCLES AND CHARGE DISCUSS THE STATE OF [...] (C) During a useful meeting September 17 with Charge, leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD) confirmed Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) has resumed receiving food deliveries. Thus, the NLD is no longer concerned about her health. The Uncles are pessimistic about ASSK's pending legal app [...]	2008-09-19 09:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON747	BURMA: FARMERS PLANT RICE IN DELTA; YIELDS UNKNOWN [...] (SBU) Summary. Cyclone Nargis, with its up to 12-foot high waves, not only destroyed much of the rice farmland in the Irrawaddy Delta, but also washed away seeds, draft animals, plows, and other farm implements. Farmers in the Delta have received some assistance from the Burmese Government, [...]	2008-09-22 23:49:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON749	BURMESE CIVILIAN OFFERS TO SELL PURPORTED URANIUM [...] (S//REL to USA, ACGU) Per Ref A, Post is alerting the Department and Washington agencies that on XXXXXXXXXXXX after USDAO Rangoon received guidance from DIA, a Burmese civilian met with members of USDAO Rangoon and offered to sell Uranium-238. The individual had initially contacted the USDAO eight [...]	2008-09-23 08:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	KNNP MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR BM
08RANGOON75	POLITICS OF EXPORTING RICE [...] (C) Summary. Exporting rice is a money-making business for the few who receive permits. Traditionally, the Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC),a state-owned enterprise run by the Department of Defense, works with Regional Commanders to export any rice surpluses, funneling the profits back t [...]	2008-01-31 09:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON750	BURMESE GEM AND JADE EXPORTS ON THE RISE [...] (SBU) The value of Burmese jade and gem exports increased substantially in 2007, up 38 percent from 2006. Jade sales accounted for 90 percent of the total. Trade analysts predict 2008 exports will exceed 2007 levels and could reach more than USD 650 million. Burma's jade and gems are sold [...]	2008-09-23 09:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV PREL PGOV ETRD BM
08RANGOON751	BURMA: USING DRL FUNDS FOR ELECTIONS CONFERENCE [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see para 7. The Hsia Pen Media Group, a past recipient of Embassy Rangoon small grants funding, plans to host a conference for approximately 130 Shan and Kachin youth, November 20-24, 2008, in Northern Shan State. During the conference, participants w [...]	2008-09-24 04:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON752	BURMA: SOME POLITICAL PRISONERS FREED IN AMNESTY [...] (C) On September 23, the Burmese government announced it would release 9,002 prisoners as part of a general amnesty, but did not reveal which prisoners or prisons would be included. Our contacts confirm that at least seven political prisoners have already been released, including prominent j [...]	2008-09-24 08:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON753	MARKERS REGARDING A NEW USAID PROPOSAL FOR BURMA [...] (C) Embassy Rangoon offers a few thoughts as the interagency considers how best to address assistance for Burma. A new assistance mechanism to allow a rapid, flexible response to new opportunities for democratic development in Burma is important. We stand ready to work closely with Washing [...]	2008-09-24 09:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID BM
08RANGOON754	BURMA -- ASSK'S LAWYER ON FILING OF APPEAL, ASSK [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyer Kyi Win (aka Neville) told us September 23 he plans to file his client's appeal in Nay Pyi Taw by October 3. The appeal will challenge the lack of justification for ASSK's detention under Burmese law and the failure of authorities to investigate the 2003 attack o [...]	2008-09-24 09:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON758	BOMB BLAST CONFIRMED IN DOWNTOWN RANGOON [...] (C) Summary. A bomb exploded at a bus station in downtown Rangoon the morning of September 25. Reports of casualties vary, some indicating as many as two deaths and seven injuries. Post disseminated an internal message and a consular warden message about the bombing. We have received no r [...]	2008-09-25 08:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM ASEC CASC
08RANGOON76	BURMA: SU SU NWE AND U GAMBIRA CHARGED [...] (C) Summary. The regime charged at least seven more detained political activists, including Su Su Nwe and U Gambira. If convicted, U Gambira could get as much as three years in prison while Su Su Nwe could be imprisoned for over 20 years. The ILO remains interested in Su Su Nwe's case but w [...]	2008-01-31 10:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON763	BURMA: IVANHOE TRYING TO DIVEST, SHUTS MINE [...] (C) Myanmar Ivanhoe Copper Co., Ltd. (MICCL),a joint venture between Canadian company Ivanhoe Mines Ltd and state-owned Mining Enterprise-1, operates one of Burma's two copper mines. Ivanhoe continues to have financial difficulties with the GOB - including a freeze on its bank account and [...]	2008-09-26 10:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON764	BURMA TO REAPPLY FOR GLOBAL FUND [...] (C) The Burmese Government will again apply for assistance under the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM),three years after the GFATM withdrew from Burma due to GOB travel and operational restrictions. Ministry of Health officials have coordinated with the UN, but less so [...]	2008-09-29 09:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV BM
08RANGOON765	SANCTIONING STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES [...] (C) The Burmese Government dominates the country's economy, using its 46 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to capture profits from the sale of timber, gems, oil and gas, and minerals. In 2007, according to Burmese consultants Business Investment Group, SOEs earned more than USD 3 billion in pr [...]	2008-09-29 10:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON775	BURMA - DEFIANCE AND TENSIONS MARK NLD'S 20TH [...] (C) Despite a recent warning from authorities to refrain from criticizing the regime, the NLD celebrated its 20th anniversary by publicly castigating the constitution and making clear the party's political agenda remains based on the 1990 parliamentary elections. All eyes at the September 27 [...]	2008-09-30 09:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON783	MAKING ENDS MEET IN THE DELTA [...] (C) CDA and Embassy officers visited Kyone Hla and San Khan Chaung villages in Labutta Township in Burma's cyclone-affected Irrawaddy delta September 23. Beneficiaries of agricultural livelihood projects being implemented by International Development Enterprises (IDE) and funded by USAID/OF [...]	2008-10-01 09:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM

08RANGOON786	GLOBAL FUND'S PROPOSAL TO RETURN TO BURMA: A [...] (C) As instructed reftel, Charge conveyed, point-by-point, USG concerns and conditions regarding Burma's potential application for Round Nine of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM at an October 2 meeting in Rangoon to select a donor representative to the Country Coordin [...]	2008-10-03 09:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV BM
08RANGOON793	RUSSIA IN BURMA: UN ROLES; NUCLEAR COOPERATION; [...] (C) Charge's Oct. 7 courtesy call on Russian Ambassador to Burma Mikhail Mgeladze included discussion of current UN efforts to influence events in Burma and a sketch of Russia's activities in country. Many political observers in Rangoon believe Russia has more access to influential Government [...]	2008-10-07 09:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNUC UN RS BM
08RANGOON795	UK AMBASSADOR ADVOCATES CONTINUED UN AND GAMBARI [...] (C) In an October 8 call on Charge, British Ambassador Mark Canning expressed the UK,s view that UN Special Representative for Burma Gambari should be allowed to continue in his current role as a preferred alternative to &six months of drift8 in the UN good offices mission. Canning said the [...]	2008-10-08 10:17:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON797	BURMA EYES A GLOBAL FUND APPLICATION [...] (C) The Burmese Government held its first Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) meeting on October 7, revising its existing oversight mechanism for health assistance on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB),and malaria with an eye toward a Global Fund Round 9 application. UN, NGO, and donor representa [...]	2008-10-09 10:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
08RANGOON798	BURMA: CHARGE MEETS WITH U WIN TIN [...] (C) In an October 9 meeting, recently-released political prisoner Win Tin told Charge he hopes to use his freedom and reputation to inspire people to become more active in the pro-democracy movement and to reach out to opposition and ethnic groups outside the NLD. He acknowledged that his 19 [...]	2008-10-09 11:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON80	PROMOTING SOLAR ENERGY IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary. The Burmese Government permits NGOs to promote environmental issues, but does little else to protect the environment. For the past 15 years, local NGO REAM (Renewable Energy Association of Myanmar) has educated villagers in rural areas about conservation issues, as well as pro [...]	2008-02-04 07:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON EAGR PREL BM
08RANGOON805	MEETING WITH BURMA MINISTER OF LIVESTOCK AND [...] (SBU) Charge d'Affaires Dinger met with Government of Burma Minister of Livestock and Fisheries (MLF) BrigGen Maung Maung Thein in Nay Pyi Taw on October 10. The meeting was in response to a U.S. request for introductory calls on GOB ministers whose portfolios relate to U.S. interests. Exce [...]	2008-10-15 08:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID EAGR EFIS PINR BM
08RANGOON806	BURMA: ASSK FILES APPEAL; REGIME CONTINUES [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) attorney confirmed that his assistant filed the appeal of ASSK's house arrest in Nay Pyi Taw October 9. Authorities have not yet responded. On October 10, the regime arrested four members of Generation Wave, a pro-democracy group linked to last September's prot [...]	2008-10-15 08:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON809	ECONOMY OF MANDALAY, BURMA'S SECOND LARGEST CITY [...] (SBU) Mandalay, Burma's second largest city, is home to approximately one million people and more than 20,000 registered businesses. It is a vibrant, bustling city, and Chinese influence is readily apparent at every turn. Mandalay is a trading center and transshipment point for jade, gems, [...]	2008-10-17 06:09:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN PREL BM
08RANGOON81	BURMESE DEFY REGIME ATTEMPTS TO MONITOR INTERNET [...] (C) Summary. Although the regime in 2006 issued instructions to all cyber cafe owners to monitor and report on internet usage, only 35 percent of cafes follow the regulations. According to industry insiders, the remaining cafes, which service approximately 75 percent of Burma's internet use [...]	2008-02-04 10:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECPS PGOV BM
08RANGOON810	SHAN YOUTH GROUP ENCOURAGES LITERACY IN TAUNGGYI [...] (C) Over the past two years, the Kan Baw Za (KBZ) Youth Library and Reading Club has conducted two projects funded through the Embassy small grants program: a mobile libraries project on Inle Lake and a library and learning center in Taunggyi, Shan State. Both projects promote literacy and te [...]	2008-10-16 09:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON811	SOME NLD YOUTH QUIT PARTY; ETHNIC PARTY ANNOUNCES [...] (C) Contrary to exile media reports that over 100 youth members of the NLD have resigned, our sources told us that only eight to ten members quit over disagreements with the party's Central Executive Committee. Another 30 members signed a letter protesting recent moves by the party's leaders [...]	2008-10-17 09:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON814	BURMA: SLOW EXPANSION OF THE INTERNET [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the GOB's continued efforts to limit access to the outside world via the internet, Burmese continue to find creative ways to circumvent regime bans. Users employ proxy servers or web tunnel programs to access blocked programs, such as free email providers, chat rooms, [...]	2008-10-20 07:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS PGOV BM
08RANGOON815	DAMMING BURMA'S RIVERS [...] (C) Burma suffers from an acute electricity shortage, producing less than half of nationwide demand, according to internal Ministry of Electric Power-1 (MEP-1) documents. The GOB is turning to hydropower to make up at least part of the shortfall: it is currently constructing 19 dams through [...]	2008-10-20 08:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV SENV BM
08RANGOON818	BURMA: YEI YWA DAM NEAR MANDALAY ALMOST COMPLETE [...] (C) After three years of construction, the Yei Ywa dam, located 30 miles southeast of Mandalay, is nearing completion. Built by the Ministry of Electric Power-1 (MEP-1),local construction firms Asia World and Olympic Construction, and a consortium of Chinese companies, the dam and connecti [...]	2008-10-20 23:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV SENV BM
08RANGOON819	AMERICAN CENTER PROGRAM PROMOTES ETHNIC DIALOGUE [...] (C) Starting in January 2008, the American Center has conducted a Professional Development Program to bring together emerging leaders from throughout Burma to learn about human rights, democracy, and community activism. Graduates have joined local and international NGOs, created organization [...]	2008-10-21 05:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON822	BURMA: NEED TO IMPROVE LABOR RIGHTS AWARENESS [...] (C) Although the International Labor Organization (ILO) and GOB in February 2007 signed a Supplementary Understanding (SU) on Forced Labor, establishing a mechanism for Burmese citizens to file forced labor complaints, most Burmese remain unaware of the SU and their labor rights. The ILO has [...]	2008-10-22 09:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON835	EMBASSY RANGOON'S NOMINATION FOR THE 2009 [...] (SBU) Embassy Rangoon is pleased to nominate Burmese HIV/AIDS activist Phyu Phyu Thin for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Phyu Phyu Thin has demonstrated great courage and leadership and overcome tremendous obstacles in advancing the cause of HIV/AIDS awarenes [...]	2008-10-27 14:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO PHUM BM
08RANGOON836	BURMESE PRIVATE SECTOR REPS DISCUSS ECONOMY WITH [...] (C) During a roundtable discussion between the IMF Article IV Consultation team and Burmese private sector business and economic observers, participants discussed problems in the banking industry, the use of informal channels for fund transfers and capital financing, the problems associated [...]	2008-10-28 02:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV IMF BM
08RANGOON838	BURMA: INAUGURATION OF NEW AVIAN INFLUENZA LAB [...] (SBU) The Minister of Livestock and Fisheries on October 25 presided over the inauguration of the GOB's new Biosecurity Level 2 (BSL-2)Enhanced Animal Health Laboratory in Rangoon. The new lab, constructed by the Ministry's Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department with funds from the Foo [...]	2008-10-28 05:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
08RANGOON84	BURMA: SOME RELEASES, MORE ABUSES [...] (C) On February 4 authorities released two Rangoon-based NLD youth activists after holding them for three days. Two men arrested on January 22 for staging a small demonstration in Rakhine State were also released, but they reported having been abused while in custody. Another protestor, arre [...]	2008-02-05 10:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON842	BURMA: NGOS, UN IN FAVOR OF GLOBAL FUND RETURN [...] (C) International NGOs and UN agencies active in Burma have been approaching us, seeking USG support for the Global Fund's possible return to Burma, citing their perception of an urgent humanitarian need for increased health assistance and their experience that they can achieve life-saving a [...]	2008-10-29 09:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
08RANGOON843	DOCTOR TO VISIT ASSK NEXT WEEK [...] (C) NLD spokesman Nyan Win confirmed to us media reports that Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas) will visit Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) on Thursday November 6, 2008. This is consistent with what Douglas told us in August: that the regime has agreed to allow ASSK regular medical visits at the beginnin [...]	2008-10-29 09:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON844	BURMA: ANALYZING 3D FUND'S OPERATIONS [...] (C) The Three Diseases Fund (3DF),the single largest health donor in Burma, has successfully worked for the past 18 months to reduce the morbidity and mortality rates of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB),and malaria, according to 3DF Manager Mikko Lainejoki. The 3DF's mandate prevents it from f [...]	2008-10-29 09:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
08RANGOON846	DEMARCHE ON BURMA'S GLOBAL FUND APPLICATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-30 05:49:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
08RANGOON848	BURMA -- 88GS DETAINEES SENTENCED, MOVED TO NEW [...] (C) On October 29, a judge sentenced nine detained 88 Generation Students members, including Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi, to six months' imprisonment for contempt of court. Two days later, authorities moved the nine activists to a prison 80 miles south of Rangoon and postponed their trials for [...]	2008-10-31 09:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON852	BURMA: WELCOME CABLE FOR STAFFDEL GROVE [...] Embassy Rangoon warmly welcomes the November 8-10 visit to Burma by Mr. Paul Grove from the Senate Appropriations Committee and Mr. Paul Rademacher from H. Post has forwarded a draft itinerary via unclassified email. 2. Embassy control officer is Political/Economic Chief Jennifer Harhigh [...]	2008-11-03 08:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN BM
08RANGOON854	MEETINGS AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY IN NAY PYI TAW [...] (C) DCM and Consul visited Nay Pyi Taw October 29-30 for courtesy calls at the Foreign Ministry, part of Post's effort to expand contacts with mid-level GOB officials. The meeting with the Director General for Consular Affairs was particularly productive, as he pledged to bypass his superio [...]	2008-11-05 00:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EAID PREL CVIS CASC UNGA BM
08RANGOON860	BURMA REGIME GOES AFTER MORE LAWYERS [...] (C) Our sources confirm that on October 30, opposition lawyers U Aung Thein and U Khin Maung Shein were charged with contempt of court. The two attorneys appeared before a Rangoon court November 6 to face the charges, only to have their cases postponed without decision. In late October, two [...]	2008-11-06 09:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON861	BURMA - INCSR I DRUGS AND CHEMICAL CONTROL [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-06 09:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR BM
08RANGOON865	BURMA: OPPOSITION LAWYER REQUESTS PUBLIC STATEMENT [...] (C) Further to reftel, on November 7 opposition lawyer Aung Thein told us that he thinks a public statement by the Department criticizing the regime's recent prosecution of him and three other opposition lawyers would be helpful (please see paragraphs 3 and 4). His sentiments echo those of NL [...]	2008-11-07 06:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON866	BURMA: DOCTOR VISITS AUNG SAN SUU KYI BUT REVEALS [...] (C) In a brief telephone conversation with a member of our P/E staff, Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas) confirmed that he visited Aung San Suu Kyi on November 6. Douglas' visit is consistent with what he told us in August: that the regime has agreed to allow ASSK regular medical visits at the be [...]	2008-11-07 06:42:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON867	BURMA HOSTS SECOND CCM MEETING FOR GLOBAL FUND [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Health (MOH) chaired the second Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) meeting in Nay Pyi Taw October 31 in preparation for its planned Round Nine Global Fund Application. During the meeting, participants reiterated the humanitarian need for a Global Fund application, a [...]	2008-11-07 08:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV BM
08RANGOON871	BURMA: DAEWOO DISMANTLES RIG IN DISPUTED WATERS [...] (C) Daewoo officials in Rangoon confirmed reports that the company is dismantling its drilling rig in the A-3 block off the western coast of Burma, following accusations that it was drilling in Bangladesh's territorial waters. Although Daewoo will be able to move the rig to another location [...]	2008-11-07 09:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EWWT EPET ENRG PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON873	BURMA: OPPOSITION LAWYERS JAILED [...] (C) Opposition lawyer U Aung Thein's wife confirmed that on November 7 her husband and fellow lawyer U Khin Maung Shein were sentenced by a Supreme Court deputy justice to four months in prison for contempt of court after they criticized the lack of due process in their client's trials (Ref A [...]	2008-11-10 10:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON874	BURMA LIFTS RICE EXPORT BAN; WFP UNABLE TO BUY [...] (C) The Burmese Government, confident that it will have more than 300,000 metric tons of surplus rice after the November harvest, lifted its ban on rice exports on November 4, issuing 11 permits to private Burmese companies. However, the GOB has not yet approved a World Food Programme (WFP) [...]	2008-11-10 10:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON875	BURMA: GOB ARRESTS FORCED LABOR COMPLAINANTS [...] (C) ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall reports that the Burmese Government arrested three forced labor complainants and one NLD facilitator who filed a forced labor case on behalf of 63 farmers in mid-October. The ILO has raised this issue with the Ministry of Labor, emphasizing that the GOB' [...]	2008-11-10 10:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON879	INFORMING BURMA OFFICIALS ABOUT USG VIEWS ON [...] (C) As authorized (Ref A),Embassy Rangoon has conveyed USG views to the regime on a potential Burma Round 9 Global Fund (GF) application. In conversations with Minister of Health Dr. Kyaw Myint, Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Mya Oo, and MOFA Americas Director Yin Yin Oo, the Charge relayed R [...]	2008-11-12 09:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
08RANGOON880	BURMA: SEVENTEEN ACTIVISTS GET SIGNIFICANT JAIL [...] (SBU) On November 10 and 11, the regime sentenced at least 17 pro-democracy activists, including prominent opposition leaders Su Su Nwe, Nilar Thein, Jimmy (aka Kyaw Minn Yu),and blogger Nay Phone Latt, to between two and 65 years in prison. Most of the activists did not have the benefit of [...]	2008-11-12 10:04:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON882	BURMA: MORE CONFIRMED CONVICTIONS [...] (SBU) A reliable source has reported that an additional 24 political detainees have been convicted since November 7, in addition to the 17 convictions we reported reftel. This brings the number of political detainees convicted in the past week to at least 41, all of whom received prison sent [...]	2008-11-13 08:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON883	BURMA: SUPPORTING ASEAN'S ROLE IN THE TCG [...] (C) The Tripartite Core Group (TCG),established by the UN, ASEAN, and the Burmese Government after Cyclone Nargis, has effectively worked to improve disaster assistance coordination and resolve operational issues related to assistance delivery to cyclone-affected areas. The TCG's mandate e [...]	2008-11-13 09:17:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PREL BM
08RANGOON884	BURMA: PREPARING FOR THE ILO GOVERNING BODY [...] (C) According to ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall, forced labor continues to be a significant problem in Burma, despite limited GOB actions to address forced labor and child soldier issues. He encourages ILO members during the upcoming ILO Governing Body Meeting to question the GOB delega [...]	2008-11-13 09:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON888	STAFFDEL GROVE'S NOVEMBER 8-10 VISIT TO BURMA [...] (C) Staffdel Grove visited Burma November 8-10 to monitor USG Cyclone Nargis assistance, assess the current political climate, and discuss the future of USG humanitarian assistance to Burma (see septel). During Mr. Grove's trip to the Cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta, villagers expressed gra [...]	2008-11-17 05:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ECON SOCI BM
08RANGOON889	BURMA: STAFFDEL GROVE ON STATE/AID PROPOSALS [...] (C) Embassy discussed the State/AID proposals for additional assistance for cyclone-recovery activities ("Element 2") and a new mechanism for civil society support ("Element 1") with Senate Appropriations Committee Minority Clerk Paul Grove during his November 8-10 visit to Burma. 2. (C) [...]	2008-11-17 05:53:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID SOCI BM
08RANGOON890	BURMA: 2008-2009 INCSR II MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL [...] This report responds to reftel request for the INCSR II Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Report update. 2. Burma, a major drug-producing country, has taken steps to strengthen its anti-money laundering regulatory regime in 2008. The country's economy remains dominated by state-owned en [...]	2008-11-17 08:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR BM
08RANGOON891	BURMA: KEY 88GS PLAYERS SENTENCED AMIDST ONGOING [...] (C) Contacts with the NLD, 88 Generation Students (88GS),and Human Rights Defenders and Promoters report that the regime has sentenced at least another 45 political detainees to lengthy prison terms, bringing the number of persons convicted since November 7 to at least 86 (Ref A). The newly [...]	2008-11-17 09:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON892	BURMA: IMF CONDUCTS ARTICLE IV CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team visited Burma October 22-November 6 for annual Article IV consultations. While the IMF estimates Burma's real GDP growth in 2008 will be 4 percent, rather than the 13 percent touted by the GOB, the team remains unable to reconcile national accou [...]	2008-11-18 03:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV IMF BM
08RANGOON895	DECLINE IN BURMESE MINING EXPORTS [...] (SBU) The value of Burmese mining exports fell by 26 percent in 2007, due to falling mineral prices and lower production. Mining industry experts predict that 2008 exports will drop further, because Myanmar IvanhQopper Co. Ltd. (MICCL),Burma's top mineral exporter, suspended its operations [...]	2008-11-19 06:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV EMIN PGOV ETRD BM
08RANGOON896	SANCTIONING PRIVATE BURMESE COMPANIES UNDER THE [...] (C) The Burmese Government, in addition to relying on its state-owned enterprises, employs a system of economic patronage to ensure control over the country's economy. The GOB fosters a symbiotic relationship with select private Burmese companies, granting them joint ventures and lucrative [...]	2008-11-19 06:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON897	BURMA: FOOD INSECURITY IN CHIN STATE PERSISTS; [...] (C) Although food insecurity in northern Chin State has become more acute during the past six months due to crop destruction caused by a burgeoning rat population, the situation has not deteriorated into famine, according to World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director Chris Kaye. WFP, with [...]	2008-11-19 06:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID ECON PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON899	BURMA: MORE CONVICTIONS; SOLDIERS CLASH WITH [...] (SBU) Political and human rights contacts have told us at least 11 more activists, including Htin Kyaw, were sentenced to between five and 33 years' imprisonment on November 17 and 18. We are seeking to confirm reports that a special court at Insein prison sentenced monk activist U Gambira t [...]	2008-11-19 07:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON9	BURMA: HUNGER STRIKES END BUT TROUBLES REMAIN [...] (C) Summary. Family members confirmed that detained activists Myo Thant and Zin Lin Aung ended their hunger strike the last week of December. Media reports that their fellow activist, Htin Kyaw, had ended his month-long hunger strike remain unconfirmed. Authorities have dropped all but one [...]	2008-01-08 09:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON901	BURMA: VISIT OF DPRK VICE FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong-il reportedly met with the SPDC's number four official, Lt. General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Foreign Minister Nyan Win, and others during his November 6-10 visit to Burma, signing an agreement on visas and discussing trade, economic, and [...]	2008-11-19 09:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	MARR MCAP PGOV PREF PREL PARM KN KS BM
08RANGOON907	BURMA: ZAGANAR, U GAMBIRA SENTENCED; NLD MARKS [...] (C) Human rights contacts and detainee family members confirmed November 24 that Burmese comedian Zaganar and leader of the All-Burma Monks Alliance U Gambira were sentenced to prison terms of 45 years and 68 years, respectively. The regime has now convicted and sentenced over 100 activists [...]	2008-11-24 09:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON920	BURMA MEETING ON TB DRUGS; BIG PUSH FOR GLOBAL FUND [...] (SBU) Pledged donor funding for anti-tuberculosis drugs in Burma will decline in 2009 and fall off sharply thereafter. At a GOB-convened meeting December 1 to address this gap, the Health Minister committed to increase government funding for anti-TB drugs to 3 percent of the 2010 requirement [...]	2008-12-03 07:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
08RANGOON925	BURMA: ASSK'S LAWYER SPEAKS ABOUT HIS CLIENT'S CASE [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyer U Kyi Win (aka Neville) told Poloff December 4 that he is pressing GOB authorities to allow him to meet with his client. Neville had refrained from following up on his October 16 request to see Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) in response to GOB indications of possible n [...]	2008-12-04 09:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON929	BURMA: UPDATE ON POST-NARGIS EFFORTS [...] (C) Seven months after Cyclone Nargis, the UN, most international donors, and NGOs are shifting their focus in the Delta from relief and early recovery to longer-term recovery efforts. The Tripartite Core Group (TCG) will soon formally launch the Post-Nargis Recovery and Preparedness Plan ( [...]	2008-12-08 11:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON930	THE ROAD TO MANDALAY: CDA'S DECEMBER 3-4 VISIT [...] (C) During a December 3-4 visit to Mandalay, the Charge, accompanied by PAO, P/E Chief and the Embassy's Information Resource Center Director, met with the mayor (a Brigadier General),NLD officials, USG program alumni, and the Indian CG. NLD officials are constantly harassed (security pers [...]	2008-12-09 05:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON932	BURMA: ABUSES CONTINUE THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS DAY [...] (C) Since mid-November, the regime has moved at least 13 recently-convicted prisoners to jails throughout Burma, in most cases far from their homes. Human rights activist Maung Maung Lay confirmed media reports that a Rangoon court has sentenced three people to between five and 19 years' imp [...]	2008-12-10 08:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON936	UNHCR AND BURMA: NRS PRESENCE AT RISK; HIGH [...] (C) UNHCR representatives told select donors December 11 the agency is increasingly concerned about the status of its presence in Burma's Northern Rakhine State (NRS). According to UNHCR, the protection situation in NRS remains terrible; severe restrictions on 750,000 Rohingya Muslims contin [...]	2008-12-12 08:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON937	BURMA: REGIME FREES ONE PRISONER; CONVICTS [...] (C) The NLD reported that detained chairman of the NLD's cyclone relief committee, U Ohn Kyaing, was released from prison on December 11. On December 10 - UN Human Rights Day - authorities sentenced laborer Kyaw Thu Htike to seven years' imprisonment for his alleged role in the September 200 [...]	2008-12-12 08:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON94	GOB SEEKS TO STRENGTHEN AVIAN INFLUENZA PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary. Responding to repeated outbreaks among poultry in Burma, the Burmese Government has dramatically strengthened its avian influenza (AI) response program during the past two years, culminating in the successful rapid detection and response to Burma's first human AI case in Decemb [...]	2008-02-07 09:55:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV PGOV PREL BIO KFLU BM
08RANGOON942	BURMA: NE WIN'S DAUGHTER RELEASED; KHIN YI [...] (C) On December 12 authorities released the daughter of Burma's former dictator Ne Win from over six years under house arrest. A senior police official told our DEA Country Attache that Director General of Police Khin Yi has been appointed a Deputy Minister with the Ministry of Home Affairs [...]	2008-12-15 08:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON945	BURMA: UPDATE FROM ASSK'S DOCTOR [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) personal physician told us his patient is in excellent health and has regained all of the weight she previously lost. Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas) saw ASSK on December 4 and is scheduled to see her again on January 1. Douglas informed us that the British Embas [...]	2008-12-17 09:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON947	BURMA: GOB PLAYING GAMES WITH WFP LOCAL FOOD [...] (C) The Burmese Government continues to send conflicting messages to the World Food Programme (WFP),granting it permission to resume local procurement of rice for its general feeding program, but attempting to force WFP to abide by GOB conditions for the procurement of rice for Delta recove [...]	2008-12-18 08:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
08RANGOON948	BURMA: REPORT OF ACTIVITIES UNDER DRL SPECIAL [...] (C) Through a grant from the DRL Special Response Fund for Burma, the Kachin Youth Awareness Program purchased equipment and literature on democracy and human rights and funded travel to carry out a successful democracy and human rights awareness campaign including seminars and workshops thro [...]	2008-12-18 08:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON949	BURMA: 88GS LEADER ON PRISONER CONDITIONS, [...] (C) In meetings December 17 and 18, 88 Generation Students leader Toe Kyaw Hlaing relayed information gathered from his meeting with the family of Min Ko Naing and detailed what support was being provided to families of political prisoners. He observed that his profile was increasing as oth [...]	2008-12-18 08:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON95	BURMA: 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] Summary: With other Least Developed Countries, Burma received an extension until July 2013 to provide protection for trademarks, copyright, patents and other intellectual property under the WTO TRIPS agreement. The GOB has completed nine drafts of new IPR Laws, but since the WTO's extension o [...]	2008-02-08 06:17:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR BM
08RANGOON951	POSITIVE SIGNS AT NAY PYI TAW MEETINGS: MINISTRIES [...] (C) PAO and APAO visited Nay Pyi Taw on December 10 for courtesy calls at the Ministries of Information, Culture, and Education. The meeting with Ministry of Information officials was particularly productive, as they asked for Embassy assistance in obtaining English-language programming for [...]	2008-12-19 07:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EAID PREL CVIS CASC UNGA BM KPAO
08RANGOON957	BURMA: ENHANCING TIP COOPERATION WITH CHINA [...] (C) On December 22, the Burmese and Chinese Governments opened a second bilateral liaison office (BLO) on the Burma side of the border in Lwe Je, Kachin State. The GOB had planned to open three additional BLOs along the Thai-Burma border in 2008-2009, but this plan is now on hold until the [...]	2008-12-23 08:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KWMN KCRM KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SMIG BM
08RANGOON96	3D FUND PROMOTING HEALTH CARE THROUGHOUT BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary. After getting off to a slow start, the 3 Diseases Fund (3DF),run by UNOPS, has started moving: 26 implementing partners are fulfilling 38 health contracts worth $21 million in 300 townships throughout the country. 3DF activities target the most vulnerable and under-served po [...]	2008-02-08 06:26:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
08RANGOON961	BURMA: NINE PROTESTORS ARRESTED IN RANGOON [...] (SBU) On December 30, authorities arrested nine NLD members as they staged a procession in Rangoon calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. Two Embassy staff saw the protestors carrying a banner that read "Free Aung San Suu Kyi" as they passed in front of Shwedagon Pagoda and the old par [...]	2008-12-31 05:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
08RANGOON98	BURMESE LIAISON HAS NOTHING FOR ASSK [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with Aung San Suu Kyi's doctor, Dr. Tin Myo Win aka Douglas, to get his assessment of the current state of any political dialogue. He last met with his patient on January 24, and offered her views of her most recent meeting with the government-designated liaison on J [...]	2008-02-08 07:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM UN
08RANGOON99	ELECTION FORUM BRINGS TASTE OF DEMOCRACY TO BURMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over 100 Burmese students, journalists and businesspeople gathered at the Embassy's American Center on February 6 to watch live results of the Super Tuesday primary elections and participate in a lively discussion about foreign policy and democratic values. Embassy officers and [...]	2008-02-08 08:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPAO BM
08RIGA132	LATVIA: POINTS ON REFERENDUM IN BURMA DELIVERED [...] PolEconOff delivered reftel points March 14 to Dana Rudaka, Head of Asia and Oceania at the MFA. Rudaka expressed appreciation for the points, but provided no immediate response. LARSON [...]	2008-03-14 12:51:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM LG
08RIGA227	LATVIA CONTINUES TO SUPPORT EU POSITION ON BURMA [...] (C) PolEconOff delivered reftel points May 6 to Iveta Skrastina of the Asia and Oceania Division at the MFA. Noting that the GOL shares U.S. concerns about the Burmese regime's suppression of democracy, Skrastina stated that the GOL will continue to support the EU common policy on Burma. She a [...]	2008-05-06 09:42:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID BM LG
08RIGA258	LATVIAN ASSISTANCE IN RESPONSE TO CYCLONE NARGIS [...] Post recently sent in a demarche response stating the GOL was not planning to provide humanitarian assistance in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. However, we have subsequently learned the following about public and private efforts: --On May 13, the GOL's cabinet approved a 20,000 EUR donation for [...]	2008-05-14 13:57:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM EAID BM LG
08RIGA43	LATVIA SUPPORTIVE OF BANS ON BURMESE GEMS AND [...] (C) PolEconOff delivered reftel points January 22 to Signe Jansone, the A/S level official that covers Asia at the MFA, and Dana Rudaka, Head of Asia and Oceania. Regarding the status of the implementation of the European Council's October 2007 decision to restrict investment and trade with B [...]	2008-01-22 14:12:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM BM LG
08ROME1019	BURMA: ITALY HESITANT ON FURTHER EU SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 17:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD BM IT
08ROME159	BURMA: ITALY AGREES ADDED PRESSURE IS NECESSARY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Southeast Asia Office Director Alberto Vecchi February 4, shared USG concerns over the Burmese regime's continued intransigence, and suggested that it was time to ratchet up the pressure. Poloff urged Italy to press other countries to ban the importa [...]	2008-02-05 15:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM BM
08ROME367	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: REFERENDUM IN BURMA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Southeast Asia Office Director Alberto Vecchi March 17 and urged Italy to speak out about concerns over the Burmese regime's announced constitutional referendum. Vecchi, who returned February 29 from a week-long trip to Burma, said Italy agreed with ou [...]	2008-03-26 10:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BM IT
08ROME558	ITALY UNLIKELY TO MAKE PUBLIC STATEMENT ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-05 07:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM IT
08ROME602	ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ABOUT FRENCH UNSCR ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 14:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM IT
08ROME662	BURMA: ITALY PLANS LOW-LEVEL PARTICIPATION AT [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-23 15:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PHUM BM IT
08ROME743	BURMA: ITALY SEES IMPROVEMENT IN HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Southeast Asian Office Director Alberto Vecchi June 9, urging Italy to press the Burmese regime to improve humanitarian access and halt forced relocation of cyclone victims. Vecchi, who represented Italy at the May 25 pledging conference in Rangoon, [...]	2008-06-11 14:42:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM BM IT
08ROME83	BURMA: FASSINO SAYS EU AND U.S. POSITIONS IN [...] (C) Ambassador spoke to EU Special Envoy for Burma Piero Fassino January 17 and delivered ref points on coordinating U.S. and EU approaches to Burma. Fassino, who had met January 17 with EU High Rep Solana, Commission President Barroso, and Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner, and spoken with UN Spe [...]	2008-01-18 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PHUM PREL BM IT
08ROME871	BURMA: ITALY IN AGREEMENT ON POST-CYCLONE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-11 14:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID BM EUN IT
08SANJOSE349	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BURMA'S FLAWED CONSTITUTIONAL [...] This message contains an action request -- please see paragraph 6. 2. Poloff delivered reftel demarche on May 2 to Juan Salas, UN Security Council Desk Officer at the MFA. Salas answered that Costa Rica supports democratic criteria in general and voiced that the situation in Burma involves [...]	2008-05-05 18:56:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BM CS
08SANJOSE387	COSTA RICA SUPPORTS UNSC ACTION ON BURMA BUT WARY [...] (U) We delivered reftel demarche on May 12 to Adriana Murillo, Juan Salas and Deyanira Ramirez of the MFA's UN Security Council Team. The team was very happy to receive the text of the French resolution; they stated that Costa Rica had been asked to support it in New York but had not seen the [...]	2008-05-13 20:54:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM CS
08SANTIAGO849	CHILE SUPPORTS HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA AT UNGA [...] (C) Summary. Chile supports U.S. and other efforts to advance human rights at the UN General Assembly and is likely to once again support country-specific resolutions expressing concern about conditions in Iran, Burma, and North Korea. Officials at the MFA's Office of Human Rights were recept [...]	2008-09-17 16:40:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IR BM KN ZI SU CI
08SEOUL1021	EMBASSY SEOUL, KOREAN NGOS SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador on May 19 hosted a lunch meeting with Burmese exiles residing in South Korea and the South Korean NGOs supporting the exiles. In brief remarks before the South Korean press present at the event, the Ambassador conveyed the U.S.'s deep concern over the growing human [...]	2008-05-20 04:16:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM BM PREL
08SEOUL1060	ROK IN SYNC WITH U.S. POSITIONS ON BURMA AID [...] (C) Seo Eunji, MOFAT Deputy Director for Humanitarian Assistance, said on May 23 that the ROK had the same views as the U.S. concerning the priorities of the May 25 conference. The ROK was concerned about the lack of access granted by Burmese officials to international humanitarian aid workers, [...]	2008-05-23 07:46:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM BM EAID
08SEOUL1215	ROK URGED BURMA TO ACCEPT AID WORKERS, INCLUDING [...] (C) Hong Sang-hun, MOFAT Deputy Director for Humanitarian Assistance, said on June 9 that the ROK had urged Burma to fully implement measures permitting humanitarian assistance personnel, regardless of nationality, to travel to areas affected by Cyclone Nargis in dire need of relief assistance. [...]	2008-06-18 01:14:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM BM EAID
08SEOUL1317	ROK STILL IN AGREEMENT WITH U.S. ON BURMA POLICY [...] (C) Hong Sang-hun, MOFAT Deputy Director for Humanitarian Assistance, said that ROK policy on Burma had not changed (reftels). The ROK had finished providing humanitarian assistance to Burma, but would still press Burma publicly and privately that further such assistance would depend on full [...]	2008-07-01 07:50:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM BM
08SEOUL2248	PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE JUNTA'S LATEST CRACKDOWN [...] (C) MOFAT's Director of the Southeast Asia Division Kim Young-chae said in response to reftel demarche that the ROKG's inclination was to take a non-confrontational, indirect approach with Burma. Korea's interactions with Burma were so limited, he said, that he did not see how the ROK, acting [...]	2008-11-21 04:51:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BM KS
08SEOUL560	ROK WILL SUPPORT CALLS FOR GREATER PARTICIPATION [...] (C) In a March 19 meeting with poloff, Han Woo-yong, MOFAT Deputy Director for Southeast Asian Affairs, said in response to reftel points that the ROK has consistently expressed its desire for authentic democratization in Burma to Burmese officials. As such, it would have no problem urging Bur [...]	2008-03-20 07:18:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM BM
08SEOUL561	ROK SUPPORTS HRC SPECIAL MANDATES FOR NORTH KOREA, [...] (C) In a March 19 meeting with poloff, Jang Hyun-cheol, MOFAT Deputy Director for Human Rights, said that the ROK will vote to extend the special mandate for the Special Rapporteur for North Korean Human Rights in the U.N. Human Rights Council. Furthermore, the ROK also supported the continua [...]	2008-03-20 07:18:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS KN BM PGOV PHUM PREL
08SEOUL917	ROK CONSIDERING PUBLIC STATEMENT ON FLAWED BURMESE [...] (C) In a May 2 meeting with poloff, Han Woo-young, MOFAT Deputy Director for Southeast Asian Affairs, said that the ROKG was currently discussing the possibility of making a public statement about the flawed nature of the May 10 referendum in Burma. There was "favorable discussion" on the top [...]	2008-05-02 07:31:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM BM
08SEOUL928	ROK TO ISSUE STATEMENT ON BURMESE REFERENDUM AFTER [...] (C) In a May 6 meeting with poloff, Han Woo-young, MOFAT Deputy Director for Southeast Asian Affairs, said that the ROKG will release a public statement concerning Burma after Deputy Secretary Negroponte meets with Vice Foreign Minister Kwon Jong-rak on May 8 in Seoul. The statement will inclu [...]	2008-05-06 08:28:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PHUM BM
08SHANGHAI41	SHANGHAI ACADEMIC YANG JIEMIAN ON THE SENIOR DIALOGUE, SED, [...] (C) Summary: During a January 22 meeting, EAP DAS Thomas Christensen and Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) President Yang Jiemian exchanged views on the Senior Dialogue and Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED),Taiwan, Iran, North Korea, and China's non-interference principle. [...]	2008-02-01 06:22:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR CH TW IR BM

08SHANGHAI42	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS DISCUSS TAIWAN, NORTH KOREA AND IRAN WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a January 22 lunch, four of Shanghai's leading U.S.-China relations academics exchanged views with EAP DAS Thomas Christensen on Taiwan, U.S.-China military relations, North Korea and China's non-interference principle. The academics expressed concerns about the domestic polit [...]	2008-02-01 06:28:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR CH TW IR BM
08SHANGHAI88	DASD SEDNEY'S SHANGHAI ACADEMIC MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: During his February 27-March 2 trip to Shanghai, in addition to leading the U.S. delegation to the Defense Policy Coordination Talks (DPCT),Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia (DASD) David Sedney exchanged SIPDIS views on U.S.-China relations with Shanghai's le [...]	2008-03-07 03:31:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR CH TW BM RS JA
08SINGAPORE103	BURMA - BANNING IMPORTS OF GEMS AND HARDWOODS [...] (C) MFA Director for Southeast Asia Peter Tan reiterated Singapore's position that it opposes sanctions against Burma, in response to ref A demarche we delivered on January 25. He said he would pass our points to his superiors, but indicated Singapore would not adopt an import ban on Burmese [...]	2008-01-25 09:27:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM ETTC SN BM
08SINGAPORE1191	PRESIDENT'S ASEAN 7 MEETING A "LEADING INDICATOR" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Singapore MFA's outgoing Deputy Director for ASEAN Wong Chow Ming highlighted for us November 4 the importance of senior U.S. engagement with ASEAN. U.S. regard for ASEAN confers prestige that helps the organization maintain a central role in the region's institutional architect [...]	2008-11-07 10:12:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	BM ETRD IN PREL SN ASEAN CH APEC PE
08SINGAPORE536	BURMA CYCLONE: NO RELIEF ACCESS LIKELY BEFORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN Scot Marciel told Singapore MFA Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan May 9 that the USG is focused on humanitarian concerns in Burma, specifically on ensuring that sufficient international assistance quickly reaches those affected by Cyclone Nargis. Kaus [...]	2008-05-12 01:18:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID MOPS PREL SN BM ASEAN
08SINGAPORE541	BURMESE EXILES PETITION FOR MILITARY INTERVENTION [...] (SBU) Four representatives of a Burmese exile group calling itself the Overseas Burmese Patriots (OBP) presented post with a petition May 12 calling on the United States to "immediately enter Burma" to deliver humanitarian relief "regardless of the lack of permission from the military junta." [...]	2008-05-12 09:55:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID MOPS PREL PHUM BM SN
08SINGAPORE587	SINGAPORE CONCERNED BURMA ILL PREPARED FOR [...] (C) In response to ref A demarche, MFA ASEAN Directorate Senior Deputy Director Wong Chow Ming told E/P Chief May 21 that Singapore shares our concern about the need to focus Burma's attention on ensuring international relief reaches victims of Cyclone Nargis as quickly as possible. Wong reca [...]	2008-05-22 10:04:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID PREL SN BM ASEAN
08SINGAPORE648	ALLEGATIONS THAT SINGAPORE FIRM BROKERED SALE OF [...] (U) In April, local media reported on a story that first appeared in the Japanese press that North Korea had exported multiple rocket launchers to Burma through a Singaporean trading company. 2. (SBU) The allegations that a local trading company was involved in the sale of rocket launcher [...]	2008-06-06 09:25:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC PREL BM KN SN
08SINGAPORE67	D/NSA PRICE URGES THAT SINGAPORE DO MORE ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary: D/NSA for International Economic Affairs Daniel Price used a meeting with Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo to urge that Singapore and ASEAN do more to pressure the Burmese regime to cooperate with the UN and make real progress toward democracy. FM Yeo responded that Singap [...]	2008-01-17 09:53:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC ETRD EFIN ECON PREL SN BM
08SOFIA280	BURMA'S FLAWED CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-30 14:57:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM
08SOFIA297	HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO BURMA DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-12 15:53:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL BM
08SOFIA330	COMPETENT GOB INSTITUTIONS CONSIDERING FINANCIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-23 12:49:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM BM
08SOFIA356	CYLCON NARGIS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-03 10:24:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM BM
08SOFIA388	BULGARIA WILL GIVE 50,000 EURO FOR CYCLONE NARGIS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-11 13:35:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM BM
08SOFIA546	BULGARIA: DELIVERED DEMARCHE ON EXPANDED U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 14:05:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ETRD BM AA BU
08SOFIA61	BULGARIA SUPPORTS EU STANCE ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-25 10:43:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM BM
08STATE103358	GUIDANCE FOR SYG FRIENDS OF BURMA MEETING, [...] (U) This is an action request. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points during the September 27 meeting of the "Group of Friends of the Secretary General on Burma." 2. (U) Begin points, to be supplemented as appropriate from background in para 3 and refetls. On behal [...]	2008-09-26 19:11:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM BM
08STATE107438	DEMARCHE REQUEST: REPLACEMENT OF SRSG GAMBARI FOR [...] (U) This is an action request. See para. 4. 2. (C) Department views the "good offices" mission of the UN Secretary General's Special Representative (SRSG) to Burma as an important vehicle for encouraging democratic progress in Burma. Consequently, Department has viewed with growing concern the lac [...]	2008-10-07 19:48:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO PHUM BM
08STATE112442	REPORT: ARF MULLS VISION STATEMENT, PUSHES DISASTER RELIEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the October 8-10 ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Inter-sessional Support Group (ISG),ARF members discussed the foundational elements of an ARF Vision Statement to be drafted over the next year. The United States and a few others consistently encouraged ARF members to produce a [...]	2008-10-22 15:10:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ARF PTER NK BM IR ASEAN EAID MARR PK KNNP
08STATE122822	DEMARCHE REQUEST: REQUEST HIGH LEVEL UN [...] (U) This is an action request. Department requests USUN urge SYG Ban to inform the UNSC the Burmese regime has prohibited Ban from traveling to Rangoon, to stress the lack of progress on the release of political prisoners and the need to establish an inclusive dialogue, and to continue to con [...]	2008-11-19 17:46:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE125635	DEMARCHE REQUEST - WORKING WITH THE EU TO IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Action Request: The European Union is in the process of restructuring one of its target lists of Burmese names and entities that are subject to sanctions in the EU. The U.S. supports the EU's efforts to make its sanctions more effective. Experts from State, Justice, and Treasury's Offi [...]	2008-11-26 21:45:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM EU
08STATE126248	FOLLOW-UP ON ATTEMPTS BY NORTH KOREA'S KOMID TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (S) Background and Action Request: In September 2008, we advised the GOJ that in July 2008, North Korea's primary weapons trading firm, Korea Mining Development Corporation (KOMID),was working with the Chinese comp [...]	2008-12-01 15:10:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	BM CH ETTC JA KACT KN KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL
08STATE15418	USUN STRATEGY ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-14 18:40:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE15648	APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE FEBRUARY [...] (U) Classified by William Lucas, Office Director, EUR/ERA. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 13. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on February 18- [...]	2008-02-14 23:23:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PHUM PREL PGOV KV IS IR CD BM
08STATE17870	LIMITED PROGRESS TO DATE ON IMPLEMENTING CHANGES [...] Summary: In response to reftel, this message provides an update on the Administration's efforts to implement the changes to the Immigration and Nationality Act resulting from section 691 (Division J) of the Omnibus Appropriations Act for FY08 (Kyl/Leahy amendment). PRM met on February 21st w [...]	2008-02-21 23:56:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	BM LA PREF PREL TH
08STATE21168	KUDOS FOR RANGOON'S REPORT ON BIODIVERSITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-29 21:22:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PHUM PREL BM
08STATE22047	UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' FEBRUARY 25 MEETING WITH [...] (S) Summary. Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister (AFM) He Yafei and Under Secretary Burns met February 25 immediately prior to the P5 1 Political Directors, meeting on Iran. AFM He highlighted U.S.-Chinese agreement on the strategic importance of diplomatic approaches to North Korea and Iran. [...]	2008-03-04 17:27:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	BM CH ECON ENRG IR PGOV PREL XD
08STATE27905	INSTRUCTIONS FOR BURMA BRIEFING AND GROUP OF [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST AND SUMMARY: Special Advisor for Burma Gambari will present a report to the Security Council on his latest visit to Burma March 18 at 5:00 PM, preceded by a meeting of the Burma Group of Friends at 3:00 PM. USUN's objective should be to assure that Gambari provides the Sec [...]	2008-03-18 00:52:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE36718	DEMARCHE TO SPECIAL ADVISOR GAMBARI [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: USUN is instructed to seek a meeting at the earliest possible date with UN Special Advisor for Burma Ibrahim Gambari to convey the concern of the United States that Gambari's public statements overestimating minimal concessions made by the regime in response to the UN Good [...]	2008-04-09 00:09:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE4939	INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPECIAL ENVOY GAMBARI'S UNSC [...] SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Special Advisor on Burma Ibrahim Gambari is scheduled to report to the UN Security Council on the situation of the "good offices" mission to Burma during informal consultations of the Security Council on Thursday, January 17. USUN is instructed to draw from the po [...]	2008-01-16 17:11:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE49813	DEMARCHE: FRENCH UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] (SBU) The Department requests action addressees to contact host governments (with the exception of France) immediately at an appropriately high level to urge them to consider a draft resolution prepared by France describing the humanitarian situation in Burma and calling on the regime to remov [...]	2008-05-10 01:07:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE49905	MGLBO1: BURMA MONITORING GROUP SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) Embassy Rangoon reports an eight-person Burmese delegation led by the Navy commander greeted Director Fore and PACOM commander Admiral Keating at the Rangoon airport. Press were on hand to witness the arrival. Additional U.S. airlifts are planned for May 14-16 pending Burmese governme [...]	2008-05-12 10:48:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT BM
08STATE5085	INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPECIAL ENVOY GAMBARI'S UNSC [...] SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Special Advisor on Burma Ibrahim Gambari is scheduled to report to the UN Security Council on the situation of the "good offices" mission to Burma during informal consultations of the Security Council on Thursday, January 17. USUN is instructed to draw from the po [...]	2008-01-16 20:33:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE53071	SECRETARY GENERAL BAN'S TRIP TO BURMA [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: During a scheduled meeting with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on May 19, USUN is asked to stress our support for Ban's announced trip to Burma later this week and to strongly recommend that he not only push to see senior members of the Regime and visit UN operations in affe [...]	2008-05-19 16:13:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE53182	BURMA - NEXT STEPS ON HUMANITARIAN RELIEF [...] (U) This is an action message requesting the Mission to meet with senior UN officials to follow up on Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's meeting with donor, ASEAN and Security Council Permanent Representatives on May 14 to request recommendations for further UN engagement in and with Burma. [...]	2008-05-19 18:34:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BM UN
08STATE55964	MGBMO1: BURMA MONITORING GROUP SITUATION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-25 20:47:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT BM
08STATE55967	MGBMO1: BURMA MONITORING GROUP SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) Most countries said they would withhold further pledges pending greater access. China pledged $10 million, Cambodia pledged $250,000, and the Philippines pledged $150,000. (Ops/Embassy Rangoon telcon) --------------------------------------------- -- REGIME, DONORS FOCUSED ON DIFFERE [...]	2008-05-25 23:07:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT BM
08STATE59138	CANCELLATION OF TRAVEL WARNING - BURMA [...] The Travel Warning issued for Burma on May 5, 2008, has been cancelled effective June 3, 2008. 2. The Department of State has lifted the Authorized Departure for Burma due to improvements in safety conditions in the city of Rangoon and most areas of Burma. 3. The Irrawaddy Delta regio [...]	2008-06-03 00:41:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC ASEC BM
08STATE59493	Travel Alert - Burma [...] This Travel Alert updates American citizens on safety conditions within Burma. American citizens residing in or traveling to Burma should continue to defer nonessential travel to the Irrawaddy Delta region of the country. The Burmese government has restricted access to this area for all but [...]	2008-06-03 18:46:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC ASEC BM
08STATE59706	2008 ARF Senior Officials Meeting: Making Steps Toward Reform [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ASEAN Regional Forum Senior Officials Meeting (ARF SOM) was held May 9 in Singapore. EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary and Ambassador for ASEAN affairs Scot Marciel led the U.S. delegation to exchange views on key regional issues and further efforts to strengthen ARF (May 10 AS [...]	2008-06-03 22:51:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KNNP PTER MARR EAID SG BM ARF
08STATE71264	REPLY: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE TO THE MV LEHMANN [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Drawing from the points in paragraph 3 below, Department requests Posts respond to diplomatic notes from the Embassy of Estonia (received 24 June, 2008) and from the Embassy of Ukraine (received 23 June, 2008) requesting supplies and assistance to Ukrainia [...]	2008-07-02 18:47:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHSA BM CY EN GM NATO RS SO UK UP
08STATE78858	SECURITY COUNCIL CONSULTATION AND FRIENDS GROUP [...] ACTION REQUEST - The Burma Group of Friends will meet on July 23, with SYG Ban presiding. The Security Council will receive a report on the political situation in Burma from the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) on July 24. USUN is instructed to draw on the points in para 2 below in i [...]	2008-07-22 21:35:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE84151	(S) AIR KORYO FLIGHT OF PROLIFERATION CONCERN [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-05 23:19:00	Secretary of State	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL MNUC BG BM IN IR KN PK
08STATE97116	GUIDANCE FOR SRSG GAMBARI UNSC BURMA BRIEFING, [...] (U) This is an action message. 2. USUN should draw from the points in para 4 , from the objectives in para 5, and from the background in paras 7-9 in response to SRSG Ibrahim Gambari's UNSC briefing on Burma, currently scheduled for September 11, as well as Gambari's scheduled September 12 [...]	2008-09-10 23:42:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPAO UNSC BM
08STATE99612	ATTEMPTS BY NORTH KOREA'S KOMID TO EVADE JAPANESE [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objectives: The U.S. has information that in July 2008, North Korean's primary weapons trading firm, Korea Mining Development Corporation (KOMID),was working with the Chinese company New East Interna [...]	2008-09-17 20:09:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA BM
08STOCKHOLM225	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REFERENDUM IN BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-20 13:47:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM SW
08STOCKHOLM354	SWEDEN PREPARED TO SUPPLY HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-09 15:19:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM SW
08STOCKHOLM485	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SHAPING POST-CYCLONE [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-03 12:27:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EAID BM EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM854	DEMARCHE: WORKING WITH THE EU TO IMPROVE BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-22 15:44:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV BM SW
08TALLINN161	ESTONIA: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO BURMA [...] On May 9, Poloff delivered reftel points to Eero Saue, Acting MFA Burmese Desk Officer and Marje Luup, MFA Division Director for Development Cooperation. In his response, Saue indicated that the Government of Estonia (GOE) is deeply concerned for the fate of people of Burma and has announced a [...]	2008-05-12 10:11:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL BM EN
08TALLINN183	ESTONIA: BURMA DONORS CONFERENCE RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-23 09:04:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM BM EN
08TALLINN231	TALLINN DELIVERS MV LEHMANN TIMBER DIP NOTE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Conoff delivered reftel's points verbally and in the form of a letter from Charge to acting Director General of the Estonian MFA's Consular Affairs Division, Kerli Veski. In the letter, CDA reaffirmed the USG's commitment to combating piracy and to assist the GoE's efforts to resolve the [...]	2008-07-07 14:02:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHSA BM CY GM NATO RS SO UK UP EN
08THEHAGUE307	NETHERLANDS/BURMA: DUTCH PREDICT EU TO EXTEND [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-02 12:55:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NL BM
08THEHAGUE385	NETHERLANDS/BURMA: SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-07 14:16:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID PHUM BM NL
08THEHAGUE441	NETHERLANDS:PLANS FOR MAY 25 BURMA CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarches May 22 and May 23 to Karin Jager, Humanitarian Aid Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jager said the Netherlands shares U.S. concerns about the Burmese regime's limitations on humanitarian relief efforts and supports the same priorities for the May [...]	2008-05-23 13:48:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PHUM NL BM
08THEHAGUE492	NETHERLANDS/BURMA: CONTINUING SUPPORT FOR [...] Summary: On June 3, PolOff shared reftel A points to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As reported in ref B, on May 22, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Verhagen strongly spoke against the actions of the Burmese regime and the continued delay of aid in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. [...]	2008-06-09 07:50:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID PHUM NL BM
08THEHAGUE584	NETHERLANDS/BURMA: DUTCH SUPPORT U.S. VIEW ON AID [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-11 09:54:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID BM NL
08THEHAGUE683	NETHERLANDS/BURMA: OPEN TO NEW STRATEGIES [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-12 15:31:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ETRD BM NL
08THEHAGUE69	NETHERLANDS/BURMA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-25 07:27:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD PHUM NL BM
08TOKYO1075	PRC EMBASSY ON HU MAY VISIT TO JAPAN, TIBET, AND [...] (C) Summary: Despite failure to make progress on the East China Sea energy dispute during Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka's April 14-15 visit to Beijing, Beijing and Tokyo are working hard to reach a compromise before President Hu Jintao's visit to Japan on May 6, Chinese Embassy Politica [...]	2008-04-18 10:04:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV PHUM PREL BM CH JA
08TOKYO1210	JAPAN SHARES BURMA CONSTITUTION CONCERNS [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-02 05:50:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM JA
08TOKYO1261	DEMARCHE REQUEST: HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-09 07:21:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL BM JA
08TOKYO1263	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH JAPANESE VFM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yabunaka, at dinner with Deputy Secretary May 8, said Chinese President Hu's visit to Japan was focused on the future of the relationship and that the Chinese had avoided comments about difficult historical issues. Yabunaka expressed strong dissatis [...]	2008-05-09 08:13:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CASC EAID KDEM KOCI KNNP XA AF BM
08TOKYO1304	JAPAN'S CONTINUING EFFORTS FOR BURMESE DISASTER [...] (SBU) Japan continues to seek ways to provide assistance to Burma in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, as reported ref A. Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura announced May 9 the GOJ will provide USD $10 million in emergency aid to be distributed primarily through international organizations including [...]	2008-05-13 07:56:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL BM JA
08TOKYO143	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON BANNING BURMESE IMPORTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-18 07:52:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PHUM PREL BM JA
08TOKYO174	FM KOUMURA PUSHES BURMA TO ACCEPT EARLY GAMBARI [...] (C) Summary: During bilateral talks with the Burmese Foreign Minister on January 17, FM Koumura emphasized that Burma needs to develop a stable and democratic country, bring about "concrete results" from talks with Aung San Suu Kyi, and allow UN Special Envoy Gambari to return to Burma "as so [...]	2008-01-23 08:53:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BM JA
08TOKYO178	AMB. WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH JAPANESE OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary. The international community will need to convince the Cambodian government that it must take immediate action with regard to the corruption issue at the ECCC, visiting Ambassador at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson told Japanese officials on December 3. Amb. William [...]	2008-01-23 09:50:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KJUS PHUM JA TH BM CB
08TOKYO1854	JAPAN,S RESPONSE TO SHAPING POST-CYCLONE [...] (C) USAID Counselor and Political Officer delivered reftel points to MOFA First Assistance Planning Division Director Kozo Honsei. Japan agrees that the international community should continue to make clear to the Burmese authorities that further assistance will depend on full access, transpar [...]	2008-07-07 07:45:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID BM JA
08TOKYO204	JAPAN STRENGTHENING TIES WITH MEKONG REGION [...] (C) Summary. The Japanese Government plans to fund infrastructure and poverty reduction programs in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, including $20 million to develop poverty-stricken areas and another $20 million for construction projects on the two "East-West Corridors." Former Prime Minister Abe [...]	2008-01-25 06:30:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TH CB BM LA VM JA
08TOKYO2044	JAPAN PRESSES BURMA BUT EXTENDS ADDITIONAL AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese Foreign Minister Koumura pressed Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win for progress on democratization and human rights when the two met July 22 in Singapore. He also advised Burma to cooperate fully with and not discriminate against humanitarian assistance workers engaged [...]	2008-07-24 08:44:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EAID KDEM BM JA
08TOKYO2186	REES-CAMPONOVO JAPAN MEETINGS ON APDP AND HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Strengthening and expanding the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP) initiative will help achieve the shared goals of the United States and Japan of promoting universal values, human rights, and democracy in Asia, Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees and DRL Senior Advisor Christoph [...]	2008-08-08 08:25:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM MG IR KN BM JA
08TOKYO3100	JAPAN ON RESOLUTIONS ON IRAN, BURMA, AND THE DPRK [...] (C) Japan sees "eye to eye" with the United States on UNGA Third Committee resolutions on Iran, Burma, and the DPRK, and will vote with us on them, Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Policy Koro Bessho told DCM Jim Zumwalt November 7. He assured DCM that Japan opposes "no action" motions on pri [...]	2008-11-07 08:23:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA IR BM KN JA
08TOKYO3360	JAPANESE VIEWS: ASEAN, BURMA, THAILAND, CAMBODIA, [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with DAS Scot Marciel, senior MOFA officials reaffirmed that ASEAN remains an important focus for Japan in terms of development assistance, business expansion, and political engagement. In regards to other issues Japan believes that: despite recent events engagement w [...]	2008-12-10 22:42:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECIN EAID AORC XC BM TH CB RP VM
08TOKYO515	SPECIAL ADVISOR GAMBARI TO BURMA ON MARCH 6 [...] (C) UN Special Advisor for Burma Ibrahim Gambari, in Tokyo for consultations with Japanese officials, telephoned Deputy Chief of Mission February 27 to thank Embassy for conveying to him the previous evening ref points regarding the Treasury Department's designation under U.S. sanctions law of [...]	2008-02-27 05:15:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM BM JA
08TOKYO529	UPDATE ON SITUATION IN BURMA PROVIDED TO UN [...] (C) Following up on UN Special Advisor for Burma Ibrahim Gambari's request (ref) for an update on the situation in Burma, Embassy Tokyo February 28 provided to him the following non-paper, which was prepared for him by Embassy Rangoon. Gambari was very grateful to receive the information, but [...]	2008-02-28 08:38:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM BM JA
08TOKYO565	JAPAN,S BURMA AID POLICY UNCHANGED FOLLOWING [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Koumura told UN Special Envoy Gambari on February 28 that Japan will support UN efforts to alleviate poverty and promote democracy in Burma. Japan's bilateral aid policy to Burma remains unchanged, and Tokyo has no plans to introduce non-humanitarian aid until Bur [...]	2008-03-03 23:01:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM JA
08TOKYO566	JAPAN'S BURMA AID POLICY UNCHANGED FOLLOWING [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Koumura told UN Special Envoy Gambari on February 28 that Japan will support UN efforts to alleviate poverty and promote democracy in Burma. Japan's bilateral aid policy to Burma remains unchanged, and Tokyo has no plans to introduce non-humanitarian aid until Bur [...]	2008-03-03 23:01:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM JA
08TOKYO750	JAPAN,S RESPONSE TO REFERENDUM IN BURMA DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-19 09:02:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM JA
08TRIPOLI381	LIBYA URGED TO SUPPORT FRENCH UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] (C) P/E Chief conveyed reftel points and the draft resolution text on May 12 to Tajouri al-Sheradi, Senior Political Adviser in the MFA-equivalant's International Organizations Department, urging that Libya support a French resolution calling on Burma to facilitate the expeditious delivery of h [...]	2008-05-12 12:15:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM LY
08UNVIEVIENNA584	IAEA TECHNICAL COOPERATION: IRAN, SYRIA, BURMA [...] (C) On October 28, the IAEA officially released the documentation for the 2009-2011 Technical Cooperation cycle in advance of the November Technical Assistance Cooperation Committee (TACC) and Board of Governors meetings. All documentation released on the IAEA's GOVATOM restricted distributio [...]	2008-11-03 06:52:00	UNVIE	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY AORC IR SY BM
08USEUBRUSSELS1650	BURMA: EU URGES U.S. PATIENCE ON GLOBAL FUND [...] (C) Summary: Per REFTEL instructions,Poloff shared the U.S. position on the Global Fund in Burma with European Commission External Relations and Development officials. They agreed with our principles, but felt that it was too early in the process for many of the details. They said Global Fu [...]	2008-10-24 17:01:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KHIV PREL BM EUN
08USUNNEWYORK1008	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD AND JAPANESE PERM REP DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: Japanese Perm Rep Takasu told Ambassador Khalilzad October 31 that Japan would like to take the lead on Timor Leste and Afghanistan in the new Security Council term beginning in January, as well as chair the Peacekeeping Working Group. Japan is reluctant to chair the 1737 (Iran) [...]	2008-11-04 00:24:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNGA UNSC KUNR AF TT JA IR BM PK
08USUNNEWYORK1138	UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE TAKES ACTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: On November 21, the UN General Assembly Third Committee passed by vote draft resolutions on the human rights situations in Iran, Burma, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Delegations opposing the draft resolutions argued that the Human Rights Council, rather than the Gen [...]	2008-12-05 14:49:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL AORC UNGA IR BM KN
08USUNNEWYORK1151	BAN PROPOSES "PAUSE" IN GOOD OFFICES MISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 5, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a meeting of the Group of Friends of Burma and revealed that he received "no productive response" to proposals, which included his own visit, from the Burmese regime. He proposed a "pause" to recalibrate the overall framewo [...]	2008-12-08 22:31:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK116	USUN STRATEGY ON BURMA [...] (C) In response to a request in the February 7 Deputies Committee meeting, USUN provides the following plan of action on Burma over the next few weeks. USUN will continue to engage the Secretary General, the P-3 and other Council members to build support for stronger steps. 2. (C) In a dis [...]	2008-02-08 20:58:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK1194	BURMA STATE OF PLAY AT THE UN [...] (C) During a P-3 meeting with Ambassador DiCarlo on December 18, UK and French Permanent Representatives voiced strong concern about pressing for an arms embargo resolution in the Security Council. UK PR Sawers said an embargo would likely result in a double veto by Russia and China, which wo [...]	2008-12-19 23:52:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK139	U.S. AND JAPAN DISCUSS IRAN, EAST TIMOR, BURMA, [...] (C) Summary. During a regular U.S.-Japan bilateral meeting on February 8, Amb Khalilzad and Japanese PermRep Takasu discussed Iran, Burma, Afghanistan, DPRK, and a range of other issues (UN Reform discussion covered septel). On Iran, Takasu reiterated Japanese support for the draft UNSCR, bu [...]	2008-02-14 13:44:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM KUNR IR BM AF KS SU
08USUNNEWYORK140	UNSC CALLS FOR INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Radhika Coomaraswamy on February 12 urged the Council to implement targeted measures against persistent violators against children. She also called for the Council to add rape/sexual violence as a trigger to list a country in the ann [...]	2008-02-14 14:05:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PGOV PHUM PREF UNSC BM FR
08USUNNEWYORK150	SYG BAN CONVENES SECOND GROUP OF FRIENDS MEETING [...] (SBU) UN Secretary-General Ban convened a second meeting of the Group of Friends on Burma February 13 attended by Under-Secretary for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe, UN Special Advisor on Burma Ibrahim Gambari, and all 14 members of the Group of Friends. Ban said that he had received "positive [...]	2008-02-15 18:52:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK165	GAMBARI UPDATES AMB WOLFF ON SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) UN Special Adviser Gambari suggested to Ambassador Wolff in a conversation on February 21 that if the Security Council discusses Burma before he visits Burma, the United States could underscore that Burma's referendum is not credible unless it is inclusive and transparent. Given the regim [...]	2008-02-21 18:27:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK250	GAMBARI BRIEFS USUN ON RECENT TRAVEL TO BURMA [...] (C) In a meeting on March 17 to discuss his recent trip to Burma, UN Special Adviser Gambari told Ambassador Wolff that he met with eight ministers, including the Minister of Information, the Minister of Planning and the Foreign Minister. He also met with the Referendum Convening Committee an [...]	2008-03-19 01:14:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK268	GAMBARI ADMITS NO PROGRESS IN BURMA BUT CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In both the Group of Friends meeting and during his briefing to the Security Council on March 18, UN Special Adviser Gambari admitted that his recent visit to Burma did not result in "an immediate, tangible outcome" but reported that the Burmese regime, Aung Sun Suu Kyi (ASSK),[...]	2008-03-25 14:24:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK271	P-3 AMBASSADORS DISCUSS SUDAN, KOSOVO, BURMA AND [...] (C) Summary. P-3 PermReps met on March 20 to discuss Sudan, Kosovo, Burma, and Tibet. On Sudan, the three agreed that specific benchmarks are essential to UNAMID deployment progress and tasked mission experts with drafting them. On Kosovo, AMB Khalilzad suggested a P-3 strategy review. The [...]	2008-03-26 18:55:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNMIK KV YI BM SU
08USUNNEWYORK328	SWITCHING TACTICS ON BURMA PRST [...] (C) During a one on one meeting with UN Special Advisor Gambari on April 9, Ambassador Khalilzad conveyed reftel points and reminded Gambari that his mission will be judged by how consistently he pushes for change and how honestly and realistically he assesses its efforts and results. Gambari [...]	2008-04-10 00:37:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK353	GAMBARI UPDATES P-3 ON BURMA [...] (C) The P-3 sought an update April 14 from Special Advisor Gambari on his effort to return to Burma to press for a free and fair referendum (reftel). In a meeting with P-3 Deputy PermReps, Gambari said that as of April 14, the Burmese had not responded to his proposal to travel to Burma or to [...]	2008-04-16 19:18:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK397	SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS BURMA PRST [...] (SBU) Summary: The Security Council adopted a Presidential Statement (PRST) May 2, in advance of Burma's upcoming constitutional referendum, calling on the regime to permit the participation of all political actors and demonstrate respect for fundamental political freedoms. This action follo [...]	2008-05-02 23:23:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK442	P-3 DISCUSSION ON NEXT STEPS IN BURMA [...] (C) UK DPR Pierce convened the P-3 on May 16 on instructions from London to discuss informally possible contingencies for Burma, including the prospects for a regionally led air and sea operation combined with Western assistance. She also proposed arranging some type of meeting on the Burma e [...]	2008-05-16 22:20:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK447	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD MEETS WITH UN SYG ON BURMA [...] (S) On May 19, Ambassador Khalilzad met with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to discuss the latest developments concerning international assistance to Burma. The Secretary General is scheduled to depart for Burma on May 20. He will be accompanied by UN staffers and journalists from seve [...]	2008-05-20 00:11:00	USUN New York	SECRET	BM PHUM PREL UNSC UN
08USUNNEWYORK528	GAMBARI PLANS JULY TRIP TO BURMA [...] (C) Special Adviser Ibrahim Gambari asked to meet P-3 Deputy PermReps June 13 to report that he is currently in discussions with the Burmese, Indians and Chinese on the timing and substance of his next trip to Burma, although he does not yet have a concrete date. Gambari speculated the earlie [...]	2008-06-16 19:16:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK559	SYG BAN AND UNSC MEMBERS DISCUSS SOMALIA, SUDAN, [...] (SBU) Summary. As President of the UN Security Council for June, Amb Khalilzad hosted SYG Ban Ki-Moon for the monthly lunch with UNSC Ambassadors on June 23, for a discussion that focused mostly on Zimbabwe, Somalia, Sudan, and Burma. Based on his conversations with African leaders, Ban said [...]	2008-06-24 23:16:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV PTER KPKO KHUM SU BM AF

08USUNNEWYORK58	COUNCIL ADOPTS STATEMENT REGRETTING LITTLE [...] (SBU) After a heated Security Council debate January 17 on the question of whether Burma had responded to the demands of the international community, Council members adopted a press statement reiterating support for UN Special Advisor Gambari, including a call for his early return to Burma, [...]	2008-01-18 23:03:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK662	FRIENDS GROUP EXPRESSES BROAD SUPPORT FOR UN'S [...] (C) Summary: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted a meeting of the Friends of Burma on July 23, in advance of a July 24 briefing on Burma in the Security Council, and in advance of Special Envoy Gambari's planned mid-August visit to Burma. The SYG urged broad support for Gambari's mission as [...]	2008-07-24 18:45:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK666	GAMBARI BRIEFS THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON BURMA; [...] (C) Summary: On July 24, Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari briefed the Security Council in advance of his mid-August trip to Burma. Gambari reviewed the same message and themes as during his July 23 meeting with the Friends of Burma (reftel). Among P5 members, the U.S., UK and France said Gambar [...]	2008-07-25 20:39:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK728	SPECIAL ENVOY GAMBARI ON UPCOMING VISIT TO BURMA [...] (C) Ambassador Khalilzad met with United Nations Special Advisor Ibrahim Gambari one-on-one August 12 to discuss Gambari's upcoming visit to Burma and Singapore. Gambari hopes to jump-start the political process in Burma and assist in the development of the country's election commission. Th [...]	2008-08-13 21:56:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK734	HOW GAMBARI SEES HIS UPCOMING TRIP TO BURMA [...] (C) During a meeting on August 13, UN Special Advisor Ibrahim Gambari (protect) provided Ambassador Wolff with a copy of the confidential letter from Secretary-General Ban to Indian Prime Minister Singh. In the letter, SYG Ban expressed his intention to return to Burma later in the year "prov [...]	2008-08-14 23:39:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK795	GAMBARI REPORTS "SOME PROGRESS" IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Advisor Ibrahim Gambari told Ambassador Khalilzad on September 3 that despite negative press reports, his recent visit to Burma delivered some progress on process. Though he was unable to explain Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) unwillingness to meet with him, Gambari pointe [...]	2008-09-04 20:06:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK834	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD MEETS WITH CHINESE PERMREP [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Khalilzad met with Chinese PermRep Guangya Wang on September 16. On Kosovo, Wang said the Serbian request to seek an ICJ advisory opinion was a clever idea, and one that the U.S. should support. On Burma, Wang agreed that nothing concrete had been achieved by the UN,s [...]	2008-09-18 17:18:00	USUN New York	SECRET	PREL PGOV CH BM
08USUNNEWYORK892	BURMA GROUP OF FRIENDS MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) Secretary-General Ban convened a high-level meeting of the Burma Group of Friends on September 27 attended by Indonesian Foreign Minister Wirajuda, Japanese Foreign Minister Nakasone, EU High Representative Solana, Vietnamese DPM and Foreign Minister Khiem, UK Foreign Secretary Miliband, [...]	2008-09-30 22:11:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNSC BM
08USUNNEWYORK902	KOREAN VIEWS ON 63RD UNGA PRIORITY ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Khalilzad and Korean Permanent Representative Ambassador Park In-kook led first-time bilateral consultations between the U.S. and Korean missions on October 1. The consultations, which focused on priority issues in the 63rd UNGA, are a part of a Mission initiative to [...]	2008-10-03 16:24:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNGA ECON BM KN
08USUNNEWYORK957	SYG BAN ON DRC, BURMA, SUDAN, SOMALIA, FINANCIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-20 23:30:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN KPKO SU SO BM
08VIENNA1136	AUSTRIANS INFORMED OF NEW BURMA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-07 14:30:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ETRD BM AU
08VIENNA1799	AUSTRIAN VIEW OF BURMA SANCTIONS REGIME [...] (U) Polchief discussed reftel points December 5 with Bernhard Zimburg, MFA Director for East Asia and the Pacific, and his deputy, Bruno Bilek. Polchief also provided a copy of reftel OFAC paper. Zimburg and Bilek said they were not aware of the latest efforts to revise the EU targets list fo [...]	2008-12-09 09:42:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM EU AU
08VIENTIANE183	BURMA REFERENDUM: DEMARCHE TO LAO GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Charge delivered Reftel demarche to Deputy Director General for Asia and the Pacific Viroth Soundara on March 19. Mr. Viroth said that the GOL supports the roadmap process and will assess its success in creating a more representative system once it concludes. The Charge urged [...]	2008-03-21 09:06:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM LA BM
08VIENTIANE226	GMS SUMMIT CELEBRATES IMPROVED REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The third Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit March 30-31 featured the meeting of all six GMS heads of state in Laos. The GMS leaders agreed to the "Vientiane Plan of Action for GMS Development," an ambitious 5-year plan with a reported $20 billion price tag. During the two h [...]	2008-04-11 04:37:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PREL ETRD PGOV LA CH CM VN BM TH
08VIENTIANE265	DEMARCHE TO LAOS: BURMA REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: In response to delivery of Reftel demarche, a MFA official said that the GOL sees the referendum process in Burma as an internal affair, adding that the GOL hopes that the referendum and new constitution are successful. Asked whether the GOL has encouraged a more transparent p [...]	2008-05-05 10:13:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LA BM
08VIENTIANE272	DEMARCHE TO LAOS: HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO CYCLONE [...] (C) Summary: According to an MFA official who traveled to Rangoon on May 7 with the Lao Vice Foreign Minister, Burmese officials expressed appreciation for Lao material assistance ($20,000 and three tons of food) and said that they would welcome more, but declined the GOL's offer to send an [...]	2008-05-09 10:25:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL BM LA
08VIENTIANE291	LAO GOVERNMENT ALLOWS BLANKET OVERFLIGHT CLEARANCES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Reversing a 33-year-old policy, Lao officials notified the Embassy on May 19 that they would grant blanket overflight clearances for U.S. planes providing humanitarian support for Burma. This is another in a series of positive developments in U.S.-Lao military-to-military ties [...]	2008-05-21 09:23:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL EAID PGOV LA US BM
08VIENTIANE297	BURMA DONORS CONFERENCE: LAO FOREIGN MINISTER TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Lao Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials view the Burmese government as having changed its attitude toward outside assistance as a result of the recent ASEAN meeting in Singapore. They expressed high hopes the May 25 Pledging Meeting in Rangoon will be effective in [...]	2008-05-23 07:23:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PHUM BM LA
08VIENTIANE385	DEMARCHE TO LAOS: SHAPING POST-CYCLONE ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The DCM delivered reftel demarche on July 2. In response, an official at the foreign ministry's Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Department noted that many of the principles set forth in the demarche were consistent with the conclusions of the UN-ASEAN-Burmese T [...]	2008-07-07 09:11:00	Embassy Vientiane	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BM EAID LA PREL
08VIENTIANE611	LAO MINIMALIST RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/DCM delivered reftel demarche to MFA ASEAN Department Deputy Director General Kham-Inh Khitchadeth. He acknowledged the longstanding problems presented by Burma but pointed out that the "ASEAN approach" to dealing with problems -- including the principle of non-interference -- [...]	2008-11-21 00:45:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	BM LA PGOV PHUM PREL
08VIENTIANE612	THE LAO SAPPHIRE INDUSTRY IN A NUTSHELL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although Laos has significant gem resources, its sapphire industry remains paralyzed by a lack of capital and the technological expertise needed to develop it. A cumbersome bureaucracy and worries about corruption cause many foreign companies to avoid investing in long-term pr [...]	2008-11-21 09:58:00	Embassy Vientiane	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN ETRD PHUM PREL BM LA
08VILNIUS100	GAERC: LITHUANIA WILL PUSH ON OPENINGS TO GEORGIA, [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to MFA Head of Common Foreign and Security Policy Division (EU Department) Egidijus Navikas February 15. Navikas re-confirmed GOL's intent to issue a statement in support of Kosovo independence immediately after the EU and the United States. Navikas said he th [...]	2008-02-15 12:58:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PHUM PREL KVIR IS IR CD BM LH
08VILNIUS173	LITHUANIA HAS SAME CONCERNS AS USG ON REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-26 08:43:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM LH BM
08VILNIUS330	LITHUANIA: STRONG SUPPORTER OF EU SANCTIONS ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-06 14:04:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM LH BM
08VILNIUS345	LITHUANIA: CONCERNED ABOUT CRISIS IN BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-09 14:24:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL LH BM
08VILNIUS435	LITHUANIA STILL CONCERNED ABOUT CYCLONE NARGIS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-05 13:30:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM BM LH
08VILNIUS522	LITHUANIA AGREES SITUATION IN BURMA REMAINS SERIOUS [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-02 12:24:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EAID BM LH
08VILNIUS654	LITHUANIA FOR STRONG BURMA SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-11 13:58:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ETRD LH BM
08WARSAW370	POLAND'S RESPONSE TO BURMA REFERENDUM DEMARCHE [...] (C) On March 19, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to MFA,s Burma desk officer Sebastian Domzalski. Domzalski stated that the GOP shares the U.S. concerns regarding the planned May referendum on the Burmese constitution. He noted that although Poland is unlikely to make a bilateral statement [...]	2008-03-21 15:16:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PL BM
08WARSAW579	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: POLISH HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-09 14:31:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL BM PL
08WARSAW934	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW BURMA SANCTIONS: POLAND [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-06 13:07:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD BM PL
08WELLINGTON158	NEW ZEALAND CONTRIBUTING TO BURMA RELIEF, PRESSING [...] (SBU) In response to Reftel instruction, DCM contacted David Taylor, the Director of the Asia Division in New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). On May 7, Prime Minister Helen Clark announced that the New Zealand Government committed NZD 500,000 (USD 387,000) to New Zealan [...]	2008-05-09 03:59:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL BM NZ
08WELLINGTON35	NEW ZEALAND: UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY'S JANUARY [...] (C) Summary. New Zealand PM Clark believes the indifference of most Japanese to whaling leaves the most extreme whaling advocates free to drive GOJ policy. Clark opposes Antarctic tourism and she is pleased with her government's efforts to get developing economies to accept some responsibi [...]	2008-02-07 03:53:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PGOV SENV NZ AY AF BM FJ UK IN MY
08ZAGREB353	DEMARCHE ON BURMA'S FLAWED CONSTITUTIONAL [...] Reftel points were delivered to Andrej Dogan of the Department for the United Nations at the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration. The GOC provided no substantive response, but acknowledged its relevant experts were aware of the U.S. position regarding Burma. Bradtke [...]	2008-05-06 11:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM HR
09AMEMBASSYHANOI917	Vietnam Says it is Pressing Burma for ASSK's Release [...] (SBU) Acting DCM and Poloff met with the MFA's Deputy DG for ASEAN Affairs, Vu Hung, December 2 to discuss EAP A/S Campbell and DAS Marciel's November 3-4 visit to Burma and to urge Vietnam to use its influence with Burma to press for genuine dialogue with Burma's democratic opposition and eth [...]	2009-12-02 05:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEAN BM VM
09ANKARA758	TURKEY: UNSC ACTION ON BURMA IN WAKE OF CHARGES [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-28 12:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNSC TU BM
09ASUNCION651	PARAGUAY: THIRD COMMITTEE VOTES WILL ALIGN WITH USG POSITION [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 19:32:00	Embassy Asuncion	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA PA IR BM KN
09ATHENS1425	GOG RELEASES STATEMENT CONDEMNING AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points August 12 on the conviction of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Ambassador Dimitrios Anninos, the acting Director of the Asia bureau at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Dimitrios commended the statements made by President Obama a [...]	2009-08-12 15:04:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM GR
09ATHENS1517	BURMA POLICY REVIEW DEMARCHE RESPONSE: GREEKS ON SAME SIDE, [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-29 16:04:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GR BM
09ATHENS1669	Greek Response to Burma Dialogue Demarche [...] (SBU) On December 1, Poloff discussed ref points on U.S. dialogue with Burma with Ambassador Charalambos Dafaranos, Director of the MFA A10 Directorate for Asia and Oceania. Dafaranos said Greece fully agreed with U.S. views on the necessity of a legitimate 2010 election, for dialogue between [...]	2009-12-01 13:40:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GR BM
09ATHENS593	Consulting With Greece on the Burma Policy Review [...] (C) On April 10, pol off delivered reftel points on the subject of the ongoing Burma Policy Review to Dora Giovanni, Counselor in the A10 Division for Asia-Oceania. Giovanni appreciated the information and expressed her concern for the situation in Burma, especially in the area of human right [...]	2009-04-15 14:45:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM GR
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN49	BRUNEI DISTANCING ITSELF FROM ROHINGYA ISSUE [...] (SBU) Deputy Chief of Mission met with Brunei Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss Brunei's position regarding the Rohingya refugee issue. Reading primarily from a prepared text, MFA Deputy Director, Politics I, Haji Mulok Jamat, stated that the Brunei's position is this is an issue [...]	2009-03-13 07:15:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL BM BX
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN69	BRUNEI SUPPORTIVE OF TCG EFFORTS IN BURMA [...] (C) Per Reftel, CDA McIntyre noted USG concerns regarding adverse actions taken by the Burmese government against the Tripartite Core Group's (TCG) existing authority in a March 26th meeting with Government of Brunei (GoB) officials. CDA urged GoB to discourage the recent restrictive conditions [...]	2009-03-26 07:53:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PHUM PREL BM BX
09BANGKOK1188	THAI FM KASIT SENDS LETTER TO BURMESE FM ON ASSK; [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya told Ambassador on May 12 that he would engage the Burmese government on Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) situation, on behalf of both Thailand and ASEAN. Kasit's personal aide told us late May 14 that Kasit had signed a letter to the Burm [...]	2009-05-14 10:18:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK121	THAI RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON TRIPARTITE CORE GROUP [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points regarding the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) to Jirusaya Biranada of the Department of East Asia Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on January 15. We explained that the TCG has played a critical role in facilitating post-cyclone Nargis assistance in [...]	2009-01-16 09:05:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BM TH
09BANGKOK1246	ASEAN DEBATES ASSK DETENTION [...] (C) EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary (and U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN) Scot Marciel attended the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM) in Phuket May 19-20. He had a brief encounter with his Burmese counterpart, Director General for ASEAN Affairs U Than Tun, on the margins and [...]	2009-05-21 10:20:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TH BM
09BANGKOK1267	THAI MFA CLARIFIES ASEAN STATEMENT ON ASSK; AIPMC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to Burmese criticism of the May 18 ASEAN Chair Statement calling for Aung Saan Suu Kyi's (ASSK) release (reftel),the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) released a clarification May 26 (text below). The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) convened [...]	2009-05-26 10:44:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK1296	GAO LEARNS OF JADE ACT'S IMPACT IN THAILAND [...] (SBU) Summary: A Government Accountability Office (GAO) team visited Bangkok and Chantaburi May 12-15 to investigate the implementation and impact on Thailand of the U.S. Tom Lantos Block the Junta's Anti-Democratic Efforts Act (JADE Act). Private gem dealers claim the JADE Act, which bans [...]	2009-06-01 04:06:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON ETRD BM TH
09BANGKOK1305	AMBASSADOR RAISES SECURITY, REFUGEES, CUSTOMS, AND [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban assured the Ambassador that there would be no security problems during Secretary Clinton's July visit, in part because the authorities and local population in Phuket were sympathetic to the government. Suthep complained that former Prime Minister Th [...]	2009-06-01 09:20:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PINS ECON ETRD TH BM LA
09BANGKOK1315	THAI SENATORS ASK GENERAL THAN SHWE TO RELEASE [...] (SBU) Thirty Thai Senators, led by Bangkok Senator Rosana Tositrakul, signed a May 25 letter to the Burmese State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Chairman Senior General Than Shwe, requesting that the GOB free Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and create a better democratic environment in Burma. Th [...]	2009-06-02 09:26:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK1360	THAI FM PRESSES CASE AGAINST BURMA AT ASEAN-EU [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Department of ASEAN Affairs Director Suchart Liengsaengthong on June 2 provided us with a readout of the ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) on May 27-28 in Phnom Penh (ref A). Suchart highlighted for us the efforts of Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya to add [...]	2009-06-04 10:08:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK1374	THAI HOUSE MEMBERS PUBLICLY CALL ON BURMA TO [...] (SBU) Twenty-two Thai women members of the House of Representatives issued an open letter to the media on June 3 calling on Burma to unconditionally release Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and other political prisoners. All but one of the 22 MPs are members of the Democrat Party. MP Pusadee Tamthai [...]	2009-06-08 09:27:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK1376	Thai Government Plans Migrant Worker Amnesty [...] (SBU) Summary: Thailand will soon implement an "amnesty" plan to register illegal migrants from Burma, Laos, and Cambodia who are employed in certain sectors of the Thai economy: fishing, fisheries-related work, construction, farming and livestock, and domestic work. While details of the plan [...]	2009-06-09 00:08:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM BM TH
09BANGKOK139	THAI GOVERNMENT REACTS QUICKLY TO CRITICISM OF [...] (SBU) In a January 19th meeting with local human rights activities, Royal Thai government (RTG) Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva responded to international press criticism of treatment of Rohingyas "boat people" entering Thai territory. Recent press reports by the South China Morning Post and [...]	2009-01-20 10:23:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF SMIG PHUM TH BM
09BANGKOK1415	ASEAN SYG SURIN DISCUSSES ASSK TRIAL AND OTHER [...] (C) Embassy Rangoon Charge d'Affaires Dinger met in Bangkok with ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan June 10. Surin sees the ASEAN Charter as already building political will in the region. He praised ASEAN Ministers for spending an hour at the recent ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) in [...]	2009-06-12 07:49:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TH BM
09BANGKOK1545	THAI POSITION ON DPRK CARGO SHIP KANG NAM 1 [...] (C) We raised June 29 reftel points on UNSCR 1874 with Pattarat Hongtong, Deputy Director of the MFA's Peace, Security and Disarmament Division. Pattarat said she would share the U.S. position with other agencies involved in enforcing the resolution and would work with the MFA's ASEAN and Eas [...]	2009-06-29 10:11:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC KN TH BM
09BANGKOK1842	THAILAND: FM KASIT EXPLAINS ASEAN AND ARF RESULTS, [...] (C) Summary: Thai FM Kasit invited the diplomatic corps to an ASEAN Ministerial and ASEAN Regional Forum readout session July 30. His comments covered ASEAN aspirations going forward as a "community of peoples," global challenges facing the region, and security challenges, specifically North K [...]	2009-07-30 11:33:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ARF TH BM KN
09BANGKOK1939	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FM KASIT ON US-THAI [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador engaged Thai FM Kasit Piromya August 6 on U.S.-Thai relations, DRPK and the ARF Chair Statement, Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),Cambodian border issues, the Lao Hmong, and Viktor Bout's extradition. Ambassador and Kasit agreed on the need to elevate the nature of t [...]	2009-08-07 09:18:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM BM TH
09BANGKOK2003	THAILAND ISSUES ASEAN CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT IN [...] (C) Summary and comment. Thailand issued an ASEAN Chairman's statement on August 11 reiterating the call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) as well as all other political prisoners, with the goal of allowing them to participate in the 2010 general elections and paving the way for nati [...]	2009-08-13 10:55:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TH BM
09BANGKOK2045	SENATOR WEBB FOCUSES ON BURMA WITH PM AND FM; [...] (C) Summary. During the course of August 17 meetings with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Foreign Minister Kasit Pirmoya, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) shared the details of his recent visit to Burma and outlined his thoughts on breaking the impasse with the regime. Both Kasit and Vejjajiva not [...]	2009-08-18 08:46:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER TH BM RS
09BANGKOK233	ROHINGYA BOAT PEOPLE: THAI GOVERNMENT MEETS [...] (C/NF) Summary: On January 29th, UNHCR Regional Representative Raymond Hall met with FM Kasit in a meeting Hall described to us as "positive overall." The encounter, heavily covered by local media, was the first direct meeting by UNHCR with Thai officials on the Rohingyas issue. After hearing [...]	2009-01-29 10:36:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM KTIP SMIG TH BM
09BANGKOK2464	THAILAND: PREVIEWING THE RESULTS OF THE BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Charge previewed the results of our Burma policy review to MFA East Asian Director General Kittiphong na Ranong September 28, per reftel. Kittiphong probed U.S. thinking on how we planned to handle incremental next steps, expressed both doubt that the regime would take the first [...]	2009-09-28 10:56:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH
09BANGKOK2555	AMBASSADOR MEETS DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER; VIKTOR [...] (C) Summary: On October 6, the Ambassador met with Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban to discuss the latest political developments in Thailand, including Secretary General Niphon Promphan's recent resignation. Suthep characterized the resignation decision as hard to explain and expressed [...]	2009-10-06 10:52:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER TH BM RS
09BANGKOK2588	THAI POLICY TOWARDS BURMA: THAI OFFICIALS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thai officials, academics, and activists debated Thailand's position, role, and policy vis-a-vis its problematic western neighbor Burma at Chulalongkorn University's Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) October 6. The speakers covered the wide array of issu [...]	2009-10-09 00:33:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK2683	URGING ASEAN ON BURMA: THAILAND TO ENGAGE BURMA ON [...] (C) The Charge October 20 conveyed reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Americas and South Pacific Director-General Chirachai Punkrasin. Chirachai told the Charge that the RTG realized the seriousness of the new U.S. effort on Burma and would do all it could to urge the Burmese to r [...]	2009-10-20 10:06:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK2817	GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO CRITICISMS OF MIGRANT WORKER [...] (SBU) Summary: In July of this year, the Thai government began implementing an amnesty program for illegal migrant workers in Thailand. Employed migrants from Laos, Cambodia, and Burma may apply for temporary work permits and must have their nationality verified by their government. Those wh [...]	2009-11-05 03:01:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM BM TH
09BANGKOK2821	GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO CRITICISMS OF MIGRANT WORKER [...] (SBU) Summary: In July of this year, the Thai government began implementing an amnesty program for illegal migrant workers in Thailand. Employed migrants from Laos, Cambodia, and Burma may apply for temporary work permits and must have their nationality verified by their government. Those wh [...]	2009-11-05 03:03:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM BM TH
09BANGKOK2851	THAI FM KASIT AND DAS MARCIEL REVIEW BURMA AND [...] (C) Summary. During a November 5 meeting with Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel reviewed objectives for U.S. Burma policy as well as developments from the November 3-4 visit to Burma led by EAP Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell. DAS Marciel and FM Kas [...]	2009-11-06 11:01:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF MASS TH BM
09BANGKOK3013	THAILAND: PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] (C) EAP DAS Marciel briefed Thai FM Kasit and the Bangkok-based Burma watcher crowd of host government officials, diplomats, journalists, and activists November 5 immediately after the November 3-4 visit of EAP A/S Campbell and Marciel to Burma; his messages included the need for Thailand and [...]	2009-11-27 06:55:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK3145	THAILAND: A KEY, IF SOMETIMES RELUCTANT, PARTNER [...] (C) Introduction: Thailand is one of our closest partners on refugee affairs, having hosted perhaps the largest number of long-term refugees in the world over the past four decades. Over the past thirty-five years, some half-million refugees have moved through Thailand to resettle in third countrie [...]	2009-12-15 09:41:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM TH BM
09BANGKOK595	PROTECTING THE ROHINGYA BOAT PEOPLE [...] (C) Summary and Recommendation: We have repeatedly raised Ref A,s points with Thai officials from the PM down to provincial security personnel, as well as with wider public audiences. Such pressure reversed the temporary maritime push-back policies in place in December and early January. T [...]	2009-03-09 09:36:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM TH BM
09BANGKOK770	THAILAND RESPONSE TO TRIPARTITE CORE GROUP MANDATE [...] (C) We engaged both the MFA ASEAN Department and Burma desk on reftel's concerns about the Burmese junta possibly curtailing the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) mandate in Burma separately March 24 and 27. The Thai MFA interlocutors said they were unaware of any possible weaking of the TCG but pr [...]	2009-03-27 10:51:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM PGOV BM TH
09BANGKOK815	THAI FM KASIT'S BURMA VISIT MARCH 22-23 - THAI MFA [...] (C) Summary: Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya visited Burma on March 22-23, meeting with Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein and Foreign Minister Nyan Win to discuss a wide range of Thai-Burmese bilateral issues (ref A). MFA Burma deskoff Jirusaya Birananda, notetaker for both meetings, gave [...]	2009-03-31 11:31:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH
09BANGKOK888	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR AND FM KASIT DISCUSS U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador hosted Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya April 6 for a two-hour one-on-one lunch. Ambassador and Kasit discussed Kasit's priorities for his upcoming trip to the U.S. April 19-24 and Kasit's desire to engage the Secretary on strategic issues of interest to both countr [...]	2009-04-07 09:14:00	Embassy Bangkok	SECRET	PREL PGOV PREF BM TH
09BEIJING1209	REPORTS OVERSTATE CHINA'S AID TO ASEAN [...] (C) Summary. There is less to China's much-heralded April 12 announcement of a multi-billion dollar aid package to ASEAN than media reporting suggests, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry contact. For example, the $10 billion investment cooperation fund will only receive $1 billion in in [...]	2009-05-06 08:40:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PREL PHUM TH BM CH
09BEIJING1244	PRC: DEMARCHE URGING AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S RELEASE [...] (C) In response to reftel points requesting that China urge the Government of Burma to release democratic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, MFA Asian Affairs Department Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam Division Deputy Director Chen Chen told PolOff May 8 that China hoped that all parties in [...]	2009-05-08 09:54:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV CH BM
09BEIJING1329	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHINA URGED TO SUPPORT UNSC [...] (SBU) PolMinCouns conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Deputy Director General Li Junhua May 18 reftel points urging China to support UN Security Council action on Burma in the wake of new charges against Aung San Suu Kyi. There was no immediate substantive r [...]	2009-05-18 08:52:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC PHUM BM CH
09BEIJING1350	BURMA: MFA DG QUESTIONS EFFECTIVENESS OF A NEW [...] (C) The Charge delivered ref A points on May 18 urging PRC support for UN Security Council action in response to the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi to MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang. In response, DG Zheng suggested that a statement from the UN Sec [...]	2009-05-19 10:13:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC PHUM BM CH
09BEIJING1353	MAY 19 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA, BOC [...] Key points at the May 19 MFA press briefing: -- -- China "hoped the new U.S. Ambassador to China would play a positive role in promoting friendship between the two countries." -- China "welcomed the verdict" convicting two former Bank of China employees who "committed embezzlement and then [...]	2009-05-19 11:18:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM CH FR AS KN PK BR IN KS XG BM RS
09BEIJING1379	MAY 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Ma Ying-jeou Stop-Over, [...] Key points at the May 21 MFA press briefing: -- China continues to oppose official exchanges between other countries and the Taiwan authorities in accordance with the one China principle, and that position is unchanged. -- A statement on the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference posted on t [...]	2009-05-21 23:07:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV CH DA BM CB LA VM
09BEIJING1397	MAY 26 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK Nuclear Test, Tiananmen [...] Key points at the May 26 MFA press briefing: -- The Chinese government is "firmly opposed" to North Korea's nuclear test and "strongly urges" the DPRK to honor its commitments, stop moves that edge it closer to isolation, and return to the Six-Party Talks. -- Apologizing for the "political [...]	2009-05-26 11:05:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM CH BM TT MY PK KN KS LT NP
09BEIJING1710	JUNE 23 MFA PRESS BREIFING: DPRK VESSEL, H1N1, IRAN [...] Key points at the June 23 MFA press briefing: -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Qin Gang stated that China was aware of relevant reports of a DPRK vessel transporting munitions but emphasized that any related inspections must abide by the provisions of UNSC 1874. -- Qin asserted [...]	2009-06-23 11:43:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHSA AO BM CH JA IR KN KS SW TW
09BEIJING1757	JUNE 25 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: GOOGLE, FISHERMEN IN INDONESIA, [...] Key points at the June 25 MFA press briefing: -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Qin Gang stated that recently Google was spreading "lewd and vulgar content," and as an internet enterprise operating in China, Google should "earnestly" abide by Chinese law. All punitive measures take [...]	2009-06-25 11:01:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL PHUM PGOV PHSA PBTS EINT EPET ETRD BM CE
09BEIJING1777	PRC: MAUNG AYE TOLD TO "ADVANCE DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT;" AUNG SAN SUU KYI NOT DISCUSSED [...] (C) SPDC Vice-Chairman Maung Aye did not discuss Aung San Suu Kyi with senior Chinese leadership during his June 15-20 visit to China, according to an MFA contact, focusing instead on strengthening bilateral ties. The Chinese urged Burma to advance its "domestic democratic development" and inc [...]	2009-06-29 09:10:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	AGS BM CH ENRG ETRD PHUM PREL
09BEIJING1804	JUNE 30 MFA PRESS BREIFING: ASEAN+3, FIVE PARTY TALKS, [...] Key points at the June 30 MFA press briefing: -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Qin Gang stated that China would continue to "play a constructive role" through the ASEAN+3 and Regional Security Forum and, given that the international security and economic situation was "changing ra [...]	2009-06-30 23:07:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM MARR PHSA AO BM CH JA IR KN KS SW
09BEIJING200	January 22 MFA Press Briefing: President Obama's Inaugural [...] Key points at the January 22 MFA Press Briefing: -- MFA Spokesperson was "not aware" of President Obama's inaugural speech having been censored when broadcast on Chinese media, adding that the media in China enjoyed their "own editing right." -- China hopes the "relevant parties" will adher [...]	2009-01-22 10:31:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD CH KN FR IR XF BM
09BEIJING2331	PRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PRST ON AUNG SAN SUU [...] (C) On August 12, PolMinCouns conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department Acting Director General Li Junhua ref A points in urging PRC cooperation on a UN Security Council Presidential Statement condemning the Burmese government's conviction and sentencing of Daw Aun [...]	2009-08-12 10:18:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM CH
09BEIJING2341	PRC OFFERS WEAK REACTION TO BURMESE OPPOSITION [...] (C) China hopes Burma can peacefully resolve its own internal issues and maintains that the international community should not interfere in any country's legal system, MFA Asian Affairs Department Burma Division Deputy Director Chen Chen told PolOff August 13 in response to reftel points urgin [...]	2009-08-13 09:45:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BM CH
09BEIJING2481	PRC DOWNPLAYS CONFLICT IN BURMA'S KOKANG REGION [...] (C) Summary. China's Nansan border region adjacent to the Kokang region of Burma is calm, and refugees have already begun to return to Burma, ConGenOff observed August 30 and 31. PRC government statements and Chinese media accounts downplayed the seriousness of the conflict between ethnic K [...]	2009-08-31 23:13:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BM CH
09BEIJING2493	BURMA/PRC BORDER SITUATION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: As cross-border refugees from Burma's Kokang region continue to return to Burma, local residents and remaining refugees in China's Nansan border region told ConGenOff September 1 that refugee flows had moved to border crossings in Yunnan province adjacent to ethnic Wa-controlled [...]	2009-09-01 11:48:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BM CH
09BEIJING2788	PRC OFFERS CAUTIOUS, YET POSITIVE REACTION TO [...] (C) China believes the U.S. decision to have direct communication with Burmese authorities is positive and would like to maintain contact with the United States on the Burma issue, according to an MFA official. In response to reftel points previewing the conclusions of the Burma policy review, [...]	2009-09-28 11:06:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM CH
09BEIJING2794	SEPTEMBER 29 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRAN, NORTH KOREA, BURMA, [...] Key points at the September 29 MFA press briefing: -- China supported the maintenance of the nuclear nonproliferation program and resolving the Iran issue through negotiation. -- During his visit to North Korea, Premier Wen Jiabao would exchange ideas on bilateral and regional issues of mut [...]	2009-09-29 23:12:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC PARM CH KS KN RS IR ZK BM AF
09BEIJING2810	AF/PAK: PRC VIEWS ON COOPERATION WITH U.S., [...] (C) Summary: PRC distrust in U.S. strategic intentions in South Asia and the PRC's stove-piped bureaucracy impede China's willingness to coordinate efforts with the United States on Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to Chinese scholars at two government-affiliated think tanks. To overcome [...]	2009-09-30 10:16:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID MARR KDEM AF IN PK CH BM
09BEIJING2864	SUBJECT: EAP A/S CAMPBELL AND MFA DG ZHENG [...] (C) Summary: The international community's engagement strategy and overall policy of sanctions against Burma have failed, said MFA North American and Oceanian Affairs Department Director General Zheng Zeguang in an October 13 working lunch with EAP A/S Campbell. A/S Campbell called for incre [...]	2009-10-14 09:48:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM PGOV CASC SENV CH TW BM
09BEIJING2868	PRC/BURMA: A/S CAMPBELL'S MEETING WITH ASIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: In an October 13 meeting with EAP A/S Kurt Campbell, MFA Asian Affairs Department Director General Yang Yanyi said that China saw many positive aspects in the U.S. review of its Burma policy and suggested proceeding based on its conclusion, despite PRC concern over continuing sanc [...]	2009-10-14 10:46:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET	PREL PHUM PGOV PARM BM KN CH
09BEIJING2911	PRC PROPOSES U.S.-PRC MEKONG DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) Summary: In recognition of increased U.S. engagement with Lower Mekong countries and China's ongoing development assistance to the region, China proposes an annual Mekong Dialogue within the Strategic and Economic Dialogue framework to coordinate development priorities and projects. Th [...]	2009-10-20 10:36:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID SENV ECON CH JA XC CN VM LA BM CB
09BEIJING344	UNSYG SPECIAL ADVISER GAMBARI DISCUSSES BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese military regime's objective is to organize elections in 2010 that will be won by a military-based political party, UN Special Adviser on Burma Ibrahim Gambari told the Charge and four other Beijing-based Western mission representatives February 10. Gambari added that [...]	2009-02-11 07:59:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV CH BM IN UN
09BEIJING3489	DECEMBER 29, 2009 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: AMCIT IN NORTH KOREA, [...] Key points at the December 29 MFA press briefing were: -- China hopes the U.S. will uphold the larger issue of stability on the Korean Peninsula when addressing US citizen Robert Park's detention in North Korea. -- The execution of UK citizen Akmal Shaikh for drug smuggling, despite claims [...]	2009-12-29 10:51:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM PHSA PTER CH BM KN IS
09BEIJING761	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHINA ON TRIPARTITE CORE GROUP [...] (SBU) On March 23, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division official Song Jia reftel points encouraging China to urge the Burmese government to maintain the Tripartite Core Group's existing authorities and to impose no further conditions [...]	2009-03-24 08:49:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD PHUM BM CH
09BEIJING908	SINO-BURMESE ECONOMIC RELATIONS - PIPELINES NOT [...] (SBU0 Chinese scholars seemed unconcerned with the political situation in Burma and focused primarily on the economic relationship between the two countries during recent meetings with EmbOffs. The high cost of food and energy in Burma is inflaming the country's volatile political situation a [...]	2009-04-07 01:23:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG BM CH

09BERLIN1449	MEDIA REACTION: POTUS IN CHINA, BURMA, CLIMATE, [...] Lead Stories 2. U.S.-Chinese Relations 3. U.S.-Burmese Relations 4. APEC--Climate Protection 5. Iranian Nuclear Conflict 6. Future of Guant namo Prisoners 7. Strategy on Afghanistan Â [...]	2009-11-16 13:08:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO KGHG GM US AF BM CH IR
09BERLIN470	GERMAN VIEWS ON THE APRIL 27-28 EU GAERC MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Germany regrets the confusion that the Czech EU Presidency has caused over the status of Belarus President Lukashenka's invitation to the May 7 Eastern Partnership Summit, and agrees that it is important to ensure that he does not attend. The German MFA says it favors inviting R [...]	2009-04-22 16:53:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV RU BM MD UP XF EZ IR TU GM
09BERLIN567	MEDIA REACTION: COUNTERTERRORISM, TALIBAN, BURMA, POPE, [...] Lead Stories Summary. 1 2. Detainee Photos and Military Tribunals. 1 3. Pakistani Fight against the Taliban.. 2 4. Burma -- Aung San Suu Kyi Arrest 3 5. Papal Visit 4 to the Mideast 6. Israeli PM Netanyahu in Aqaba. 4 7. U.S.-German Efforts to Save Opel 5 Â [...]	2009-05-15 12:24:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO GM US PK BM IS XF
09BERLIN589	MEDIA REACTION: MIDEAST, GITMO, BALKANS, SRI LANKA, BURMA, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. Israeli PM Netanyahu in Washington 3. Guantnamo Prisoners 4. VP Biden in Bosnia and Herzegovina 5. End of Sri Lankan Civil War 6. Burmese Trial against Aung San Suu Kyi 7. U.S.-Russian Disarmament Talks Â [...]	2009-05-19 12:02:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO GM US IS BK CE BM RS
09BERLIN708	GERMAN VIEWS ON JUNE 15-16 EU GAERC MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Germany believes that the recent successful elections in Lebanon, which appear to have been conducted without undue Syrian influence, open the door to the signing of the updated EU-Syria Association Agreement (AA),perhaps as early as September. According to the German MFA, only [...]	2009-06-12 16:45:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN XF CU AF PK ZL BM GM
09BRUSSELS1122	EU WILL PUBLISH NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST BURMA ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following the EU's swift and strong public condemnation of Aung San Suu Kyi's conviction, Poloff discussed the case on August 12 with the EU Council Secretariat, per reftel. If there are no objections from Member States to proposed EU sanctions, they will be published in the Of [...]	2009-08-12 17:59:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BM EUN
09BRUSSELS1129	BELGIUM: URGING STRONG REACTION TO AUNG SAN SUU [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-13 12:51:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM BE
09BRUSSELS1615	EU PREPARING NEW HIGH REPRESENTATIVE TO PRESS BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff delivered reftel demarche to European Council Secretariat contact on November 30 who commented on the similarities between our policy points and the briefing paper he prepared for the new High Representative for EU Foreign Policy, Catherine Ashton. While the Council Secre [...]	2009-12-01 16:04:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM EU
09BRUSSELS1635	BELGIUM: PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-04 09:50:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV BM BE
09BRUSSELS558	DEMARCHE ON BURMA POLICY DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-14 12:42:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ETTC ETRD BM BE
09BRUSSELS579	EU REACTION TO BURMA POLICY REVIEW UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Brussels-based EU officials working on Burma policy issues appreciated receiving reftel points on the status of the ongoing U.S. policy review. Although the EU still intends a straight rollover of its Common Position and restrictive measures, Foreign Ministers may issue politic [...]	2009-04-17 19:33:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ETRD BM EUN
09BRUSSELS684	BURMA: EU CONCERNED ABOUT ASSK HEALTH, PREPARING [...] (C) Poloff shared reftel points with Leo Nordholt Schulte, Burma Desk Officer at the European Council General Secretariat on May 10. Schulte said that the EU shared U.S. concerns about the continued detention and health of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),and planned to raise her detention when the [...]	2009-05-13 15:26:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BM EUN
09BRUSSELS702	BURMA: EU CONSIDERING ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS; [...] (C) Summary: Outraged over the arrest and trial of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) on the eve of her release, EU Foreign Ministers directed Council and Commission staff on May 18 to begin looking at additional restrictive measures (including new sanctions) that might be tak [...]	2009-05-18 17:52:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETTC ENRG EPET EFIN KJUS BM EUN
09BUDAPEST286	HUNGARY WITH THE EU ON BURMA ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) MFA Asia/Pacific Deputy Director Laszlo Kuti and desk officer David Ambrus discussed reftel with PolOff on April 9. While acknowledging that Hungary has very limited contact, including trade, with Burma, Kuti said that the GOH fully supports the EU Common Position, and expects no changes [...]	2009-04-09 16:09:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD BM HU
09BUDAPEST590	RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REQUEST URGING STRONG [...] (SBU) Emboff delivered the talking points contained in reftel to Gyula Petho, Director of the Asia bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Laszlo Takacs, Director of the Far East/Burma department. Petho and Takacs expressed agreement with the U.S. position on the Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK [...]	2009-08-14 12:20:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL BM EU HU
09BUDAPEST593	GOH CHANGES ITS MIND:ISSUES STATEMENT CONDEMNING [...] (SBU) Post received word in the late afternoon of August 14 from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that, after further consideration, it would release a statement condemning the conviction and continued detention of Aung San Suu Kyi. Emboff delivered the talking points contained in re [...]	2009-08-14 15:41:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL BM EU HU
09BUDAPEST715	HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON THE BURMA POLICY REVIEW [...] (SBU) PolOff met with Gyula Petho, MFA's Asia/Pacific Department Head, on September 29 to discuss reftel. Expressing appreciation for the policy review read-out, Petho stated that Hungary fully supports direct dialogue with the Burmese Government. Based on the outlined USG policy, he expects [...]	2009-09-29 16:11:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV BM HU
09BUDAPEST879	HUNGARY RESPONSE: PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel message and talking points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Asia/Pacific Department Head Gyula Petho and Southeast Asia Section Head Laszlo Takacs on December 8, 2009. Petho said that Hungary's policy towards Burma was essentially the same as that of the United States [...]	2009-12-10 13:37:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM HU
09CANBERRA387	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO CONDITIONS PLACED ON TCG [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-15 07:32:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD EAID PHUM BM AS
09CANBERRA55	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON EXTENSION OF [...] (SBU) On January 16, Poloff delivered U.S. talking points on the extension of the Mandate of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) to Jeannie Henderson, Director for Burma at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and to Jillian Ray, filling in for Sue Nelson, her equivalent at Aus [...]	2009-01-16 04:40:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD EAID PHUM BM AS
09CANBERRA892	AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS NEW BURMA APPROACH [...] (C/NF) Summary: Australia supports the Burma Policy Review Conclusions and is conducting its own review of Burma policy. Brendon Hammer, First Assistant Secretary for Southeast Asia at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, reacted very positively to the Burma Policy Review Conclusions ( [...]	2009-09-29 07:47:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM AS
09CHENGDU203	PRC-BURMA BORDER: CHINESE ACADEMICS SAY PRC INFLUENCE [...] (C) Summary: Chinese officials from both the central government and Yunnan Province are directly involved in current negotiations between the Government of Burma (GOB) and the leadership of ethnic minority "ceasefire groups" in northern Burma, according to a Kunming-based scholar. Other Chines [...]	2009-09-25 08:40:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BM CH
09CHENGDU206	BURMA: YUNNAN LOCALS ON THE BORDER SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary: A range of local Kunming residents, including jade sellers and travel agencies with ongoing business along the border, expressed uncertainty regarding long-term security in border areas following the August conflict in Kokang. A larger jade operation in Kunming, and local seller [...]	2009-09-28 08:56:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF BM CH
09CHENGDU284	BURMA'S CG IN SOUTHWEST CHINA DISCUSSES RISING TRADE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to Burma's Consul General in Kunming, July-August unrest on the border with China's Yunnan province did not significantly affect overall bilateral trade, which continues to increase. Trade between China and Burma increased annually by: 11-18 percent between 2005 and 2 [...]	2009-12-03 07:38:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV PREL SNAR SENV KTIP CH BM
09CHIANGMAI107	BURMA: FIGHTERS DEFECT TO KNU; OFFENSIVE UNLIKELY FOR NOW [...] (C) Contrary to what the Karen National Union (KNU -- an armed resistance group operating along the Thai-Burma border) reported last week, Thai authorities assert that a renewed offensive by the Burmese regime and its proxy -- the DKBA (Democratic Karen Buddhist Army) is unlikely in the immedi [...]	2009-07-22 06:18:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS BM TH
09CHIANGMAI125	BURMA: SHAN VILLAGES BURNED, FORCIBLY RELOCATED [...] (SBU)Burmese troops operating in Shan State burned 10 villages and forcibly relocated an additional 30 in late July, according to Shan contacts in Thailand and Burma. Shan groups also accuse the troops of other grave human rights abuses, including arbitrary arrest, torture, gang rape, and arb [...]	2009-08-20 10:36:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL MOPS BM TH
09CHIANGMAI130	SHAN STATE UPDATE: BURMA ARMY COULD TARGET SHAN FIGHTERS [...] (C) Several ethnic Wa troops reportedly supported the Kokang in the latter's fighting against the Burma Army (BA) August 27-29, according to a knowledgeable expatriate source based in Chiang Mai. The fighting displaced approximately 50,000 people, according to his sources. Our contact also sa [...]	2009-09-09 08:04:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PREF BM CH TH
09CHIANGMAI136	BURMA: A KNU PERSPECTIVE ON ETHNICS, PEACE TALKS [...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion on September 17, Ner Da Mya, the son of late Karen National Union (KNU) Chairman General Bo Mya, told us that despite the KNU's militarily weakened state, conflict in Karen State could go on for years. He added that the prospect of peace talks between the Burm [...]	2009-09-25 09:06:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI141	BURMESE EXILES APPLAUD USG POLICY REVIEW, URGE SKEPTICISM [...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion with CG and P/E Chief, three prominent Chiang Mai-based Burmese exiles warmly welcomed the outcome of the USG's Burma policy review, but urged us to proceed cautiously and with a healthy dose of skepticism. They expressed concern that the U.S. might take big s [...]	2009-10-02 07:56:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI151	BURMA: MORE REACTION TO USG POLICY REVIEW [...] (C) Former Thai Ambassador to Burma Poksak Nilibul told P/E Chief on October 5 he welcomed U.S. engagement, but opined that regardless of what policy the U.S. adopted, the Burmese regime would always have the upper hand. The U.S. should work collectively with ASEAN and other interested player [...]	2009-10-13 09:48:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH
09CHIANGMAI166	BURMA: NATIONALITY VERIFICATION ON-GOING AT NORTHERN-MOST [...] (SBU) Thai Government and business contacts in Chiang Rai Province told us during an October 19-20 visit that the nationality verification process for Burmese workers is proceeding smoothly at the Mae Sai-Tachilek center, although at a slow pace. Problems they cited that are keeping the proc [...]	2009-11-06 09:22:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB SMIG KTIP BM TH
09CHIANGMAI167	THAI INTELLIGENCE KEEPS WARY EYE ON BURMA BORDER [...] (C) Thai intelligence service "Burma Watchers" in northern Thailand do not believe conflict is imminent between the Burma Army and United Wa State Army (UWSA). In their view, the Wa's military and economic strength, the degree of support the Wa enjoy from China, and the regime's hope that it [...]	2009-11-06 10:50:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR PINR PREF BM
09CHIANGMAI177	THOUGH PESSIMISTIC ABOUT OUTCOMES, IRRAWADDY STAFF PRAISE [...] (C) In a discussion with The Ambassador on November 18, staff at the Irrawaddy Magazine - the most widely-read Burmese exile media outfit - praised the conclusions of the U.S. policy review on Burma, while simultaneously expressing skepticism the GoB would take steps to address core U.S. conce [...]	2009-11-25 07:17:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH
09CHIANGMAI2	CITIZENSHIP MANUAL OUTLINES LEGAL MAZE FACING STATELESS HILL [...] UNESCO has collaborated with the Thai Government (RTG) and an NGO to publish a Citizenship Manual that will serve as a "how to" guide for government officials and civil society on citizenship procedures among stateless hill tribe minorities. Broadly speaking, a highlander who is born in Thaila [...]	2009-01-06 02:01:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SMIG ELAB PREF PGOV PREL SNAR KWMN TH BM
09CHIANGMAI24	BY-ELECTIONS, REDS AND MIGRANTS TAKE CENTER STAGE [...] (SBU) The past few days have seen a flurry of political activity in Chiang Mai, kicking off with a protest by pro-Thaksin redshirts on February 8. Separately, the Election Commission certified the results of January by-elections in two Northern provinces, and election officials here told us m [...]	2009-02-13 07:43:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM SMIG ELAB ASEC TH BM
09CHIANGMAI30	PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES CLAMP DOWN ON MIGRANT WORKERS [...] (C) According to Chiang Mai's Vice Governor, the strict enforcement of rules governing migrant workers that he initiated in the Province in the wake of the February 7 rape and murder of a local university student (Reftel),which aims to ensure that all migrant workers are "in the system," will [...]	2009-02-27 09:58:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB SMIG KJUS TH BM
09CHIANGMAI33	FRANCE KEEPS CLOSE DIPLOMATIC LINKS WITH MEKONG REGION [...] (U) Summary: Public and non-profit links between France and member countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) underscore the close diplomatic links that France maintains on the Indochina peninsula. The GOF supports research projects that raise awareness about key Mekong regional issues i [...]	2009-03-05 09:12:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECIN ELTN ETRD SENV TSPL PREL CH LA BM CB
09CHIANGMAI37	KNU UNDER INCREASED PRESSURE AS INFLUENCE WANES [...] (C) According to multiple sources, both inside and outside the Thai Government, Thai pressure on the Karen National Union (KNU) to lay low and for its army commanders to relocate to Burma has intensified in recent weeks. Several KNU commanders have departed Thailand's Tak Province for Karen S [...]	2009-03-13 09:14:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS BM TH
09CHIANGMAI38	DOCTORS RAISE CONCERNS OVER SEASONAL AIR POLLUTION [...] Summary: With the crop-burning season in full swing, Chiang Mai and many other cities in Thailand's mountainous upper north are again shrouded in annual hazardous smog, raising recurring concerns about the health consequences of pollution and what government agencies are doing to address it. [...]	2009-03-18 10:00:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR AMED CH BM LA TH
09CHIANGMAI42	RAIDS NET FIVE SUSPECTED HUMAN TRAFFICKERS; TWO VICTIMS [...] (SBU) Coordinated raids at two Chiang Mai karaoke bars on February 18 led to the arrest of five suspected traffickers and the rescue of two victims -- minors who were allegedly forced into prostitution. The suspects remain in custody while the police collect evidence and assemble witnesses. [...]	2009-03-24 11:26:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP SMIG KWMN KJUS PHUM PGOV PREL TH BM CH
09CHIANGMAI45	BURMA-KNU: THAI MEDIATION EFFORTS STARTING IN EARNEST [...] (C) Thailand's offer to serve as an intermediary between the Burmese regime and the Karen National Union (KNU),which have been waging low-level conflict for over 50 years, will start in earnest on April 6 with a meeting between Thai FM Kasit and top KNU leaders. According to our contact, in [...]	2009-04-03 08:47:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH
09CHIANGMAI49	BURMA-KNU: KNU SEEKS PRECONDITIONS FOR TALKS [...] (C) Despite the Burmese regime's offer reported in Ref A for unconditional talks with the Karen National Union (KNU),which has been waging a conflict against the regime for over 50 years, the KNU placed several conditions on its participation in future talks with the regime during its April 6 [...]	2009-04-10 07:31:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI61	BURMA: KNU ON PEACE TALKS, POLITICAL GOALS, BORDER [...] (C) The Karen National Union (KNU),which has been in a protracted military conflict with the Burmese regime, has two preconditions for peace talks with the GoB: the talks must be held in a third country, and the KNU must negotiate with a regime leader. The KNU wants to see the establishment [...]	2009-05-01 03:30:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI67	GMS: SOUTHEAST ASIA'S BACKDOORS TO TRADE WITH CHINA [...] (U) This is the third in a series of cables from Consulate General Chiang Mai and Embassy Vientiane on the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). These cables have been coordinated with Consulate General Chengdu. ------------------- Summary and Comment ------------------- 2. (C) S [...]	2009-05-19 10:06:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECIN ELTN ETTC PREL CH LA BM VM TH
09CHIANGMAI70	GAO TEAM TOLD THAT MOST BURMESE STONES SMUGGLED [...] (SBU) Most Thai gem traders do not buy from the Burmese Government auction; the number of Burmese rubies sold in Thailand is declining; the highest value Burmese gems are smuggled out of Burma illegally; small Burmese traders and Thai cutting/polishing/finishing operations are suffering the mo [...]	2009-06-03 06:36:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN ETRD ECON PGOV PREL BM CH XA TH
09CHIANGMAI71	BURMA: ETHNIC ARMED GROUPS RETHINKING STRATEGY IN WAKE OF [...] (C) In the wake of a rumored GoB plan for armed ethnic ceasefire groups to integrate into Burma's security forces as border guards or hand in their weapons altogether, several groups are reportedly contemplating whether to comply. The United Wa State Army is reportedly exploring the option of [...]	2009-06-04 01:33:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS MARR PINR PINS SNAR BM TH
09CHIANGMAI73	GOVERNMENT MUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS DURING BURNING [...] (U) Despite seasonal air pollution in northern Thailand reaching hazardous levels well above last year's, local Thai government bodies remained quiet, issuing no public announcements during the peak periods of the burning season. The highest daily PM10 measurements for the burning season (Febr [...]	2009-06-04 07:38:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON EAGR CH LA BM TH
09CHIANGMAI75	NGOS ASSIST HILL TRIBES IN DIVERSE WAYS, BUT CAPACITY [...] (U) Although the Royal Thai Government (RTG) passed two laws in 2008 that improved citizenship eligibility, stateless persons living in northern Thailand still face a host of legal, administrative, and practical obstacles to citizenship. Recognizing the many disadvantages confronting statele [...]	2009-06-04 09:49:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON SMIG PREF PREL KWMN BM TH
09CHIANGMAI76	JUNTA-LED OFFENSIVE DRIVES ETHNIC KAREN INTO THAILAND [...] (C) An offensive launched by the Burma Army in early June against the anti-regime Karen National Union (KNU) has driven at least 3,000 ethnic Karen across the border into Thailand. The attack, led by the Burma Army and the pro-junta Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA, a KNU rival),is repor [...]	2009-06-08 10:20:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF MOPS TH BM
09CHIANGMAI80	FIGHTING WANING; DISPLACES 4,000 [...] (C) As fighting between the anti-Burmese regime Karen National Union (KNU) and combined forces of its rival Karen Democratic Buddhist Army (DKBA) and Burma Army wanes, the humanitarian consequences are becoming clearer. Approximately 4,000 displaced persons have fled into Thailand, and are in [...]	2009-06-18 09:42:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF MOPS BM TH
09CHIANGMAI84	JADE ACT: SMUGGLING OF BURMESE GEMS REMAINS HIGH AT MAE SAI [...] (SBU) In contrast to other gem markets in Thailand such as Mae Sot and Chantaburi, where African gems make up the bulk of the merchandise, smuggled Burmese gems (mainly rubies and jade) continue to dominate the local Mae Sai market. While Mae Sai gem traders and jewelry producers complain that [...]	2009-06-24 01:36:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIN ECPS ECON PREL PGOV BM TH
09CHIANGMAI90	SPEAKERS HIGHLIGHT MIGRANT WORKER POLICY, NEW TECHNOLOGY IN [...] (U) As Thailand grapples with its policy towards migrant workers and in the wake of media getting caught in the crosshairs of Thai domestic politics, Consulate Chiang Mai hosted two PA speakers funded by Embassy Bangkok on migrant labor and citizen journalism June 19-20. Both programs were w [...]	2009-06-26 10:30:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SMIG SOCI ECON ELAB SCUL ECPS PROP TH BM
09CHIANGMAI91	ASEAN MPS HEADLINE ASSK BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION [...] (U) Four members of the ASEAN Inter Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) called for tougher action against Burma by Thailand and other ASEAN nations at a June 19 event jointly hosted by Chiang Mai University to mark Aung San Suu Kyi's 64th birthday. Atypically for Burma events here, a large p [...]	2009-07-02 06:55:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM TH BM RP MY SN
09CHIANGMAI94	BURMA: KNU REPORTS BURMA ARMY MAY RESUME ATTACKS IN KAREN [...] (C) The Burma Army (BA) and Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA -- a pro-Burmese regime splinter group) may be preparing to renew their offensive against the KNU (Karen National Union -- a group engaged in armed resistance against the Burmese regime),according to KNU contacts. The sources s [...]	2009-07-08 10:21:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PREF PHUM BM TH
09COPENHAGEN117	DANES REVIEW BURMA POLICY [...] (U) Summary. Poloff met March 3 with Kasper Olsen, MFA's head of section for Southeast Asia, to discuss Danish policy towards Burma. Denmark is completing a policy review in anticipation of the EU Commission's annual meeting on Burma in April. Denmark's review, to be finalized this week, c [...]	2009-03-04 14:24:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM DA
09COPENHAGEN351	DANES STRONGLY CONDEMN AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S [...] (U) Denmark's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press release August 11 strongly condemning the conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi, calling her recent trial "a farce" and a clear attempt to keep her away from 2010 elections. The press release quoted Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller as [...]	2009-08-14 15:31:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BM DA
09COPENHAGEN427	BURMA: DENMARK KEEN TO WORK WITH USG [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-30 07:49:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM BM DA
09COPENHAGEN550	BURMA: DENMARK ENDORSES U.S. EFFORTS; WILL ADHERE [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-03 16:22:00	Embassy Copenhagen	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM DA
09DHAKA1014	BANGLADESH: DRAFT 2009-10 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] (U) There was no evidence that Bangladesh was a significant cultivator or producer of narcotics. Government of Bangladesh (GOB) officials charged with controlling and preventing illegal substance trafficking lacked sufficient training, equipment, continuity of leadership, and other resources [...]	2009-11-03 09:46:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINS SNAR IN BM BG
09DHAKA1032	PRIME MINISTER CONSIDERS ENGAGEMENT WITH RANGOON [...] (S/NF) Bangladesh's worries about possible Burmese aggression appear to have subsided, and the Prime Minister is now considering possible engagement with Rangoon. As tensions flared in October, Bangladesh's civilian leadership asserted control over Burma policy, with the Foreign Minister lea [...]	2009-11-11 02:45:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PINR PINS MARR ASEC PGOV BG BM
09DHAKA1039	WILLING TO PLAY BALL: BANGLADESH FOREIGN SECRETARY [...] (C) In a wide ranging meeting with the Ambassador on November 15, Bangladesh,s No. 2 diplomat, Foreign Secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes, emphasized the importance of close ties with the United States and discussed the potential for some movement on UN- related concerns and recognition of Kosov [...]	2009-11-17 08:51:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN KVIR PINR BM KN BG
09DHAKA1071	BACK TO THE FUTURE? BANGLADESH SWITCHES UN VOTE [...] (C) In a return to the position of the previous democratically elected government, the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) chose to abstain on a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution condemning the human rights situation in North Korea. By doing so, the Government reversed the stance taken by t [...]	2009-11-25 07:58:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN PINR BM KN BG IR
09DHAKA155	MEDIA REACTION: ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER'S VISIT TO [...] Summary: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher's February 7-8 visit to Bangladesh received extensive coverage in the local media, both English and vernacular. (See septel for a further readout on the visit.) This was the first visit to Bangladesh by a senior [...]	2009-02-12 08:45:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL MOPS EWWT BG IN BM
09DHAKA479	OPPORTUNITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS: LIVES OF [...] (C) Despite improvements in the living conditions of registered Rohingya refugees in southeast Bangladesh, the overall situation there is in danger of deteriorating. As the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) make further progress inside the camps, th [...]	2009-05-14 05:45:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL BG BM
09DHAKA556	THAI FOREIGN MINISTER ON BURMA AND BANGLADESH'S [...] (C) The government of Burma was nervous about the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) statements in support of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and angry with Thailand for its vocal support of ASSK's release, according to visiting Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya. The Foreign Minister also ind [...]	2009-06-03 10:20:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL BG BM
09DHAKA637	NO EASY WAY OUT: THE QUANDARY OF THE UNREGISTERED [...] (C) As more unregistered Rohingya originally from Burma continue to settle outside one of the two official refugee camps in southeast Bangladesh, their situation becomes increasingly tenuous. Malnutrition rates among this population of 15,000 to 25,000 unregistered refugees remain high, as [...]	2009-06-25 15:22:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL BG BM
09DHAKA763	BANGLADESH CONCERNED BY POSSIBLE BURMESE MILITARY [...] (S) Bangladesh's armed forces assess that Burma is considering military action to coincide with the November anniversary of the maritime confrontation between the two countries in the disputed zone of the Bay of Bengal. To prepare for this contingency, the Bangladeshi military is redeploying [...]	2009-08-03 10:50:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET	PREL PINR MARR MASS PGOV BG BM
09DHAKA822	UNHCR REPORTS INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENT, ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) In a recent briefing to donors on Rohingya refugees, UNHCR Regional Rep Raymond Hall expressed cautious optimism, noting that Burmese and Bangladeshi officials had confirmed in recent meetings that both governments were open to continued dialogue. Hall noted improvements in conditions f [...]	2009-08-20 10:05:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL BG BM
09DHAKA825	GOB IMPLEMENTING CHITTAGONG HILL TRACT PEACE ACCORDS, [...] (SBU) Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC) monitors credit PM Sheikh Hasina's personal commitment to peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts with progress towards implementation of the 1997 Peace Accords between the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and indigenous groups. In an August 18 donor [...]	2009-08-23 09:24:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR MOPS PHUM PREL PGOV EAID BM BG
09DHAKA839	GOB REFORMING BANGLADESH RIFLES BORDER GUARDS, TO [...] (C) The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) should conclude its investigation of the February 2009 Bangladesh Rifles border guard (BDR) mutiny by October, according to Commerce Minister LTC (ret.) Faruq Khan, who is charged with coordinating the investigation (reftel). Khan told the Ambassador o [...]	2009-08-26 09:51:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PREL PGOV PINR MARR PHUM MOPS BM BG
09DILI204	PRESIDENT RAMOS-HORTA EXPECTED TO MAKE STATEMENT ON BURMA [...] Political Officer delivered reftel demarche on Aung San Suu Kyi's conviction to Constancio Pinto, MFA Director for External Relations and Ambassador-Designate to the United States, on August 12. Political Officer provided texts of the statements by President Obama and Secretary Clinton and ur [...]	2009-08-12 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM BM TT
09DILI206	PRESIDENT RAMOS-HORTA CALLS FOR ASSK RELEASE [...] President Jose Ramos-Horta called for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi in a statement released on August 12 (reftel). The president's comments made the front page of the local Tetum language press. Full text is below. 2. (Begin text) President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Jose Ra [...]	2009-08-13 08:59:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BM TT
09DILI269	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: BURMA POLICY REVIEW [...] Post delivered reftel demarche announcing the conclusions of the Burma policy review to Isilio Coelho, MFA Director of External Relations, on September 30. 2. Coelho expressed his appreciation for the information on the new U.S. policy. He believed the elements of the U.S. policy woul [...]	2009-10-05 01:29:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV BM TT
09DILI321	TIMOR-LESTE ON BURMA [...] Ambassador on December 1 and 2 spoke with Timor-Leste's president and foreign minister, respectively, to share USG views on Burma as conveyed in reftel. President Ramos-Horta said he highly appreciated and was impressed by recent U.S. overtures to Burma. While he shared our disappointment wi [...]	2009-12-09 06:44:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV BM TT
09DILI323	TIMOR-LESTE ON BURMA [...] Ambassador on December 1 and 2 spoke with Timor-Leste's president and foreign minister, respectively, to share USG views on Burma as conveyed in reftel. President Ramos-Horta said he highly appreciated and was impressed by recent U.S. overtures to Burma. While he shared our disappointment wi [...]	2009-12-09 08:26:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV BM TT
09DUBLIN523	IRELAND ON PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-03 16:42:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM EI
09FSINFATC1533	Capturing Recent Crisis Management Experience [...] (U) With the summer transfer and leave season rapidly approaching, FSI asks personnel from posts that have faced significant crises in the last 18 months to consider sharing their experiences when back in Washington. FSI's Crisis Management Training division (CMT),in our Leadership and Manage [...]	2009-06-17 20:53:00	DIR FSINFATC	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC YI CD CM YM BM GG BL CU BF
09GENEVA204	ROHINGYA: UNHCR TO PUSH REGIONAL APPROACH WITH [...] Pascale Moreau, Deputy Director, Asia Bureau, told Refugee Officer that UNHCR is working closely with Thailand and other ASEAN governments to address the situation with the Rohingya boat people. Moreau said that UNHCR is trying to convince governments not to deport Rohingya as a first respon [...]	2009-03-11 16:08:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM TH BM
09HANOI192	CHARGE AND MFA DISCUSS BURMA, NORTH KOREA, DARFUR; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging lunch discussion March 2, the CDA and the MFA's Director General for International Organizations, Le Hoai Trung, exchanged views on Burma, North Korea, and Darfur; Vietnam's territorial claims under the Law of the Sea; and nonproliferation. The CDA urged DG T [...]	2009-03-03 09:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV ECON MNUC PARM UNSC NPT BM CH
09HANOI202	DAS MARCIEL'S HANOI MEETINGS [...] (C) In a wide-ranging set of meetings in Hanoi February 25, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel emphasized the continued progress in U.S.-Vietnam relations. His counterparts, including VFM Pham Binh Minh, AFM Bui Thanh Son, and Office of Government DG Buy Hui Hung, voiced enthusiasm [...]	2009-03-06 10:07:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD UNSC MNUC BM VM
09HANOI273	MFA SAYS THAT VIETNAM WILL APPROACH BURMA ON TCG [...] (SBU) On March 23, Deputy PolCouns met with the MFA's Deputy DG for Southeast Asia, Ta Duy Chinh, to reiterate U.S. support for the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) on Burma and to voice concerns over recent steps by the government of Burma to further restrict the activities of international organi [...]	2009-03-25 07:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM BM VM
09HANOI444	Demarche to Vietnam on Aung San Suu Kyi [...] (SBU) DCM delivered reftel demarche to MFA Americas Director General Nguyen Ba Hung on May 12, emphasizing that, while we are reviewing our policy on how best to promote human rights in Burma, the continued imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi casts doubt on the Burmese regime's commitment to meani [...]	2009-05-12 09:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL BM VM
09HANOI459	BURMA: VIETNAM REQUESTS INFORMATION ON NEXT STEPS IN [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Vice Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on May 18. Minh responded that Vietnam would take the U.S. request for support for action in the UN Security Council into consideration, but would need more information on what specific steps are being contempla [...]	2009-05-18 10:49:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC BM VM
09HANOI46	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUPPORT VOICED FOR THE TRIPARTITE CORE [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-16 07:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD PHUM BM VM
09HANOI779	VIETNAM COOL TO MALAYSIAN PROPOSAL FOR ASEAN FM MEETING ON [...] (SBU) On August 14, Acting PolCouns met with the Director of the MFA ASEAN Department's Political and Security Division, Duong Tri Hien, to reiterate our strong opposition to the August 11 conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi and to urge Vietnam to support a Malaysian proposal to convene an urgent m [...]	2009-08-14 09:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV BM VM
09HANOI801	RECALL 09 HANOI 801 [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-27 07:28:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD KIRF SENV BM VM
09HANOI803	SENATOR WEBB'S AUGUST 19-20 MEETINGS IN HANOI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a short, but substantively very productive set of meetings in Hanoi, August 19-20, Senator Jim Webb emphasized the need to continue building on the remarkable progress that the two countries had made since the Senator first re-engaged with Vietnam as a civilian in 1991. The [...]	2009-08-27 09:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF ECON ETRD BM VM
09HANOI847	DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) September 27, 2009; 2:15 p.m.; The Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Hanoi. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michalak Joseph Donovan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, EAP Rear Admiral Ch [...]	2009-09-30 08:40:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ASEAN KN BM VM
09HANOI848	President Triet Assures Ambassador that Relations Good, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a cordial meeting August 18, State President Nguyen Minh Triet assured the Ambassador that Vietnam's leadership remained committed to deepening reform and viewed its relationship with the United States as positive and improving. Noting that Vietnam would chair ASEAN in 2010, [...]	2009-08-26 06:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD BM VM
09HANOI851	DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) September 27, 2009; 2:15 p.m.; The Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Hanoi. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michalak Joseph Donovan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, EAP Rear Admiral Ch [...]	2009-09-30 09:40:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD ASEAN BM KN VM
09HANOI859	Vietnam Supports U.S. Burma Policy Review, but Insists ASSK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam strongly supports a more "flexible" U.S. approach to Burma and is willing to facilitate contact with the Burmese regime, according to the Deputy Director General of the MFA's Southeast Asia Division, Ta Duy Chinh. Chinh asserted, however, that U.S policy remained too focu [...]	2009-10-07 09:52:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR BM VM
09HANOI861	Vietnam's "Track II" Engagement with Burma - U.S. Urged to [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam sees 2010 as a promising year to engage with Burma but is nervous that election-related unrest there could derail efforts to host a successful ASEAN summit, according to Dang Dinh Quy, Vice President of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV). Quy, who recently met with [...]	2009-10-07 09:59:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ECON ASEAN BM VM
09HANOI875	New U.S. Approach toward Southeast Asia Opens Possibilities [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-15 09:40:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ECON ASEAN BM VM
09HANOI889	Ambassador, VFM Minh Discuss Human Rights, Nuclear MOU, [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph eight. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On October 30, the Ambassador met with Vice Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh to reiterate U.S. concerns about the conviction of political dissidents and the forced expulsion of Lang Mai followers fr [...]	2009-11-03 10:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KNNP KIRF UNSC ECON CVIS ASEAN BM IR
09HANOI925	Vietnam's 2010 ASEAN Chairmanship [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam considers its turn as ASEAN chair to be the leading foreign policy priority for 2010. Substantively, Vietnam's leadership wants to be seen as a responsible member of the international community -- professional and well-briefed, acting as an "honest broker" when possible - [...]	2009-12-11 07:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECIN ASEAN SENV KFLU BM KN VM
09HANOI978	Setting the Scene for Deputy Secretary Steinberg's September [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their highest point since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third-largest trading partner, and one of its largest foreign investor [...]	2009-09-18 10:33:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD KIRF SENV MARR KHIV KHDP BM
09HELSINKI148	FINLAND: BURMA POLICY REVIEW [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-24 13:38:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD BM FI
09HELSINKI310	FINLAND: DEMARCHE RESPONSE AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Heidi Marttila, Finnish MFA Unit for Asia and Oceania on August 18. Marttila noted that while Government of Finland (GoF) does not comment or issue press releases unilaterally on issues covered through the EU, the Finnish Foreign Minister (Stubb) is well [...]	2009-08-19 07:09:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL BM FI
09HELSINKI454	FINLAND ACTIVELY PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-04 14:38:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV BM FI
09JAKARTA1017	COMPREHENSIVE PARTNERSHIP -- MOVING FORWARD ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) wants to move forward on the key bilateral initiatives that the Secretary recently discussed with FM Wirajuda, according to Ambassador Retno Marsudi, DEPLU's senior-most official responsible for U.S. affairs. Ambassador Marsudi wants to [...]	2009-06-16 10:44:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AMED EAID KDEM ID BM

09JAKARTA1035	GOI ACTS TO STOP VIOLENCE AT ROHINGYA CAMP IN ACEH [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In response to recent beatings of Rohingya asylum seekers and Bangladeshi migrants by Indonesian Red Cross staff at a camp in East Aceh, the GOI has dispatched a security team to the camp to restore order. The situation [...]	2009-06-19 04:53:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF ID BM CE
09JAKARTA1049	ROHINGYAS IN ACEH -- GOI VOWS QUICK TRANSFER, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Key Indonesian officials have agreed with our recommendation to move the Rohingya asylum seekers and Bangladeshi migrants away from the tense Idi Rayeuk camp in East Aceh, Sumatra. They also pledged to act quickly to separate minors. Responding to a demarche on these points de [...]	2009-06-22 08:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV ID BM CE
09JAKARTA1060	BURMA -- INDONESIAN ACTIVISTS KEEP UP PRESSURE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian activists marked Aung San Suu Kyi's June 19 birthday by demanding her immediate release from detention and calling on ASEAN states to take a tougher line toward the Burmese regime. At a Mission-organized event, a leading MP--while noting that Indonesia's record is re [...]	2009-06-23 09:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA1257	BURMESE ROHINGYA UPDATE -- GOI WORKING WITHIN THE [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia and other members of the Bali Process are meeting July 27-29 in Bali to discuss Asia-Pacific migrant-related issues. One key topic involves the Burmese Rohingya migrants now in Sumatra and what to do about [...]	2009-07-28 09:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA128	ROHINGYA REFUGEES IN INDONESIA [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. Please see para 7 for action request. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian government on January 23 invited the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to assist with the safe repatriation of 193 Burmese and Bangladeshi nationals hou [...]	2009-01-23 10:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA1290	ASEAN -- INDONESIANS PRAISE U.S. ENGAGEMENT BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the Phuket ministerial, Indonesian officials continue to praise U.S. commitment to ASEAN and underscore the regional organization's central place in Indonesian foreign policy. However, Indonesia continues to press for more aggressive human rights mechanisms withi [...]	2009-08-04 10:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ASEAN ID BM
09JAKARTA133	BURMA -- USG-FUNDED SPEAKER PROGRAM MOVES FORWARD [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Mission has sponsored a speaker symposium and photo exhibition on Burma in two Indonesian cities, Bandung in West Java and Malang in East Java. The USG-funded programs seeks to increase public awareness on [...]	2009-01-27 09:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA1335	AUNG SAN SUU KYI -- INDONESIA STRONGLY CONDEMNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI on August 11 immediately condemned the Burmese government's conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) spokesman stated, in part, that Indonesia is "strongly disappointed with the verdict handed down...the verdict leads to suspicions that [...]	2009-08-13 07:53:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA1342	BURMA DEMOCRACY GROUP SHUTDOWN OUT OF CHARACTER AS [...] (C) Indonesian police temporarily stopped a coalition of Burma pro-democracy organizations from holding a conference at a Jakarta hotel August 12, reportedly following a complaint from Burma to the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). National police ordered the conference closed [...]	2009-08-13 09:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA137	ROHINGYAS -- URGING THE GOI TO ENSURE PROTECTION [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Although it has publicly classified them as "economic migrants," the Indonesian government has made no final decision regarding the status of 193 Burmese and Bangladeshi boat people. The boat people are mostly ethnic [...]	2009-01-27 11:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA1419	BURMA -- INDONESIA CONSIDERS STRONGER ACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono is considering stronger Indonesian action in response to the Burmese regime's recent extension of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. As he has done in the past, Yudhoyono may write to Burmese leader Than Shwe or dispatch a special envoy to urge reforms. Separa [...]	2009-08-27 10:42:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA162	ROHINGYAS -- IOM ASSISTING INDONESIA TO ASSESS [...] (U) This message contains an Action Request -- Please see para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (Deplu) began interviewing January 28 the 193 Burmese and Bangladeshi boat people living in a military ca [...]	2009-01-30 11:16:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA1628	BURMA -- INDONESIA WELCOMES NEW U.S. APPROACH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has welcomed the new U.S. approach on Burma. Speaking in New York, Foreign Minister Wirajuda publicly praised the USG's decision to begin a direct dialogue with the Burmese authorities, and called on Burma to respond with positive steps regarding Aung San Suu Kyi and ot [...]	2009-09-29 10:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA1667	INDONESIAN FOREIGN POLICY -- INFLUENTIAL EXPERT [...] (C) SUMMARY: One of Indonesia's leading foreign affairs commentators has called for the GOI to pursue a "post-ASEAN" foreign policy. Rizal Sukma, the influential director of Jakarta's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),argued in an October 5 op-ed that the G-20 is creati [...]	2009-10-05 10:33:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ASEAN ID BM
09JAKARTA1728	SRI LANKAN IRREGULAR MIGRANTS STOPPED BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Irregular migrants from Sri Lanka are swelling the number of potential refugees seeking to transit Indonesia on their way to Australia. On October 12 an Indonesian warship intercepted a cargo ship that was carrying 253 Sri Lankan refugees in the Sunda Strait between West Java an [...]	2009-10-14 11:58:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF ID BM CE AF
09JAKARTA176	MORE ROHINGYAS ARRIVE IN INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. A second boatload of 198 Rohingyas landed off the eastern coast of Indonesia's Aceh Province on February 3. Interviews with the initial group of 193 Rohingyas/Bangladeshis currently housed on Sabang Island in Aceh were scheduled to conclude on February 3. DepPol/C stressed ag [...]	2009-02-03 12:19:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA1779	BURMA -- ENGAGING INDONESIA IN ADVANCE OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: We encouraged Indonesia to press the Burmese authorities to launch a credible dialogue with the democratic opposition and ethnic minority groups, per Ref A instructions. GOI interlocutors reiterated their praise for the United States' new policy on Burma and agreed that the Bur [...]	2009-10-23 10:52:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ASEAN ID BM
09JAKARTA1813	BURMA -- BRIEFING INDONESIA ON NEW U.S. APPROACH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mission continues to engage Indonesian government and civil society on the results of the USG's Burma policy review. GOI officials praise the U.S. commitment to use a judicious mix of engagement, sanctions, and international and regional coordination to address the situation. [...]	2009-10-30 10:11:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA182	ROHINGYA BOAT PEOPLE HOSTED BY ACEHNESE COMMUNITY [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan and Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The 198 Rohingyas that landed in northern Aceh on February 2 are being well cared for by members of the Acehnese community. The local government has asked the International Organization [...]	2009-02-04 10:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ID BM PK AF
09JAKARTA194	ROHINGYA SITUATION BREAKTHROUGH -- UNHCR PROMISED [...] (U) This is an Action Request -- Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The GOI's Department of Foreign Affairs (Deplu) has told UNHCR that it will be granted access to the two groups of Rohingya boat people being cared for in Aceh. The promise is contingent on UNHCR including humanitar [...]	2009-02-05 10:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA1966	BURMA -- URGING INDONESIA TO PRESS FOR A DIALOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff briefed GOI officials on the need for a dialogue between the Burmese government, the democratic opposition and ethnic minority groups, per reftel instruction. Our interlocutors agreed that such a dialogue was necessary if Burma's 2010 elections were to meet minimum inter [...]	2009-12-01 11:00:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA252	ROHINGYAS -- INDONESIA WORKING WITH UNHCR, PUSHING [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The GOI will soon grant access to UNHCR to the nearly 400 Rohingya boat people rescued by Indonesian authorities off the coast of Aceh in January-February. UNHCR and IOM personnel met with the GOI to present a plan fo [...]	2009-02-12 10:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA346	PROTECTION FOR ROHINGYAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has thanked the GOI for its efforts to provide protection to the Rohingya boat people who have been rescued in Indonesian waters. GOI officials reiterated their commitment to addressing the Rohingya's humanitarian needs and working with the UN High Commissioner for Refug [...]	2009-02-27 10:12:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA488	BURMESE PRIME MINISTER VISITS JAKARTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein met with President Yudhoyono, VP Kalla and key ministers during a March 16-17 visit to Jakarta. Yudhoyono stressed the need for concrete progress toward political reform and for credible elections in 2010. Sein acknowledged concerns regarding [...]	2009-03-18 10:48:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA528	BURMA -- INDONESIA SUPPORTS TRIPARTITE CORE GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has underscored the importance of the unfettered operation of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) that was formed to coordinate relief operations after Cyclone Nargis struck Burma. GOI officials told us they supported the TCG's operations and continued to raise the matter wi [...]	2009-03-24 08:49:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ASEAN ID BM
09JAKARTA544	BURMA -- AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH EU SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Hume discussed Burma with EU Special Envoy Fassino on March 24. Fassino said the 2010 elections in Burma offered a historic opportunity and the international community should try to influence the process constructively. Fassino welcomed recent signals that Washingto [...]	2009-03-25 10:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEAN ID BM EU
09JAKARTA629	ROHINGYAS TREATED WELL IN INDONESIA, INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) This is an Action Request--see Para 9. It was coordinated with Consulate Medan and is Sensitive but Unclassifed. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Department of Foreign Affairs (Deplu) has given the International Organization for Migration (IOM) access for the first time to the second g [...]	2009-04-07 07:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA698	BALI PROCESS REINVIGORATED, SEEKS ANSWERS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. The April 14-15 Bali Process Ministerial Conference established a reinvigorated ad hoc mechanism for member countries to raise transnational issues, which could address the Rohingya problem. Another breakthrough was the attendance of a senior Burmese official. While the Rohing [...]	2009-04-17 11:25:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ID BM PHUM
09JAKARTA813	BURMA -- URGING THE GOI TO PRESS FOR AUNG SAN SUU [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has urged the GOI to press the Burmese authorities to release Aung San Suu Kyi from detention. Contacts underscored that Indonesia had pressed the Burmese regime to do this on multiple occasions, adding that they would look for ways to raise it again before the end of M [...]	2009-05-08 09:09:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA837	BURMA -- NEW INITIATIVES FROM ASEAN AND INDONESIA [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: ASEAN has appointed a Special Envoy to coordinate reconstruction of parts of Burma devastated by cyclone Nargis last year. The envoy, Indonesian William Sabandar, will also seek way to address governance and strengthen Burmese civil society as part of his mission. In other B [...]	2009-05-14 10:16:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA84	BURMA CORE GROUP -- URGING GOI AND ASEAN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per reftel instructions, Mission has urged the GOI and the ASEAN Secretariat to support extending the mandate of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) on Burma cyclone relief. We underscored the TCG's unique role in coordinating critical relief and reconstruction assistance. GOI offi [...]	2009-01-15 09:32:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV ID BM
09JAKARTA850	BURMA -- NEW CHARGES AGAINST AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Using Ref A points, Mission underscored U.S. concern regarding new charges against Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) to GOI and ASEAN Secretariat officials. The regime's latest move deepened Burma's international isolation and hurt ASEAN. Our contacts are following the matter but neither [...]	2009-05-15 09:31:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA858	SRI LANKAN MIGRANTS LAND IN INDONESIA [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY. A vessel carrying 55 Sri Lankan men ran aground in Aceh, Sumatra, on May 14. The group apparently was fleeing conflict in Sri Lanka and hoped to seek political asylum in Australia. The GOI has secured the group and i [...]	2009-05-18 06:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ID CE BM
09JAKARTA867	BURMA -- INDONESIA CALLS FOR RELEASE OF AUNG SAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In May 18 remarks, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda called on the Burmese regime to release Aung San Suu Kyi. The remarks came after Secretary Clinton's May 16 phone conversation with the Foreign Minister. The Myanmar Caucus of the Indonesian Parliament has also cal [...]	2009-05-19 09:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA870	UNHCR RECOMMENDS REFUGEE PROTECTION FOR ROHINGYAS; [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan; it also contains an Action Request -- please see para 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR has submitted its recommendations to the GOI on the nearly 400 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants staying in two camps in Aceh Province, Indonesia. Rohingy [...]	2009-05-19 10:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PREL ID BM CE
09JAKARTA884	UNHCR TO GET ACCESS TO SRI LANKAN MIGRANTS; [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR has been given access to 55 Sri Lankans migrants who drifted ashore in western Aceh Province on May 14. The GOI, for safety and security reasons, moved the Sri Lankans from a warehouse to a prison, a move which [...]	2009-05-22 08:53:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF ID BM CE
09JAKARTA893	SENIOR INDONESIAN MP WORKS TO HIGHLIGHT PLIGHT OF [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified; Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) This is an Action Request--see paragraph 7. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: A leading member of the Myanmar Caucus of the Indonesian Parliament is planning a series of media roundtable discussions meant to raise loc [...]	2009-05-26 06:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KDEM ID BM XC
09JAKARTA917	ROHINGYAS IN ACEH TO BE COMBINED INTO ONE CAMP [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) The GOI is planning to combine Rohingya asylum seekers located in two camps in Aceh Province into one camp under UNHCR protection, a senior Indonesian diplomat told us. The Bangladeshis in the same camps will be moved to an imm [...]	2009-05-29 10:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ID BM CE
09JAKARTA928	BALI PROCESS TO ADDRESS ROHINGYA ISSUE IN JULY AD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bali Process Steering Committee will meet on June 3 to discuss transnational migration issues, a senior Indonesian diplomat has told DepPol/C. Participants are planning a July senior officials' meeting which is meant to focus on recent migration movements in the region. A [...]	2009-06-01 09:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA962	BURMA/INDONESIA -- ACTIVIST FORUM ON AUNG SAN SUU [...] (C) SUMMARY: As a follow-up to USG-sponsored civil society and student conferences held last year, an association of Indonesian activist groups recently sponsored a public forum on the human rights crisis in Burma and the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK). The event demonstrated ongoing Ind [...]	2009-06-05 04:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM ID BM
09JAKARTA988	IRREGULAR MIGRANT FLOWS SURGING THROUGH INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The number of irregular migrants transiting Indonesia this year is on pace to quadruple over last year's flow due primarily to a surge of arrivals from Afghanistan. The number of migrants now in Indonesia has reached a peak not seen in nearly a decade. Many of the migrants were [...]	2009-06-10 07:52:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF ID BM CE AF
09KATHMANDU48	NEPAL: RUBY INDUSTRY UNREGULATED [...] (SBU) Nepal does not have any ruby mines, nor does the country have a finishing and cutting industry. All rubies and other precious gems for jewelry are imported. Neither the Government of Nepal (GON) nor private entities in Nepal maintain controls on the typical chain of custody of rubies [...]	2009-01-15 06:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON ETRD BM NP
09KINGSTON966	JAMAICA: WILL OPPOSE "NO ACTION" AND IRAN RESOLUTIONS, [...] (U) Per reftels, on November 13 Charg???? delivered demarche to Government of Jamaica (GOJ)'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) regarding upcoming UNGA human rights resolutions on Iran and Burma. At that time, Charg???? received assurances that the GOJ's Permanent Represent [...]	2009-11-19 13:30:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA JM XL KN BM IR
09KUALALUMPUR188	MALAYSIA POSITIVE ON ASEAN SUMMIT, VAGUE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Malaysia held a positive view of the 14th ASEAN Summit, according to a March 6 Foreign Ministry briefing attended by Polcouns, as the outcomes had reinforced ASEAN community building. Malaysia supported ASEAN's endorsement of a step-by-step regional approach to the Burmese Ro [...]	2009-03-11 11:40:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF ASEAN BM MY
09KUALALUMPUR245	MALAYSIAN POLICE INVESTIGATES BURMESE REFUGEE TIP [...] (U) Inspector General of Police (IGP) Musa Hassan announced a joint investigation by Royal Malaysian Police (RMP) and Malaysia's Immigration Department into allegations that Immigration officials are involved in the trafficking of Burmese refugees along the Malaysia-Thai border. The April 1 [...]	2009-04-02 12:16:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PINR PINS PHUM KTIP BM BX ID MY
09KUALALUMPUR365	URGING AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S RELEASE [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-14 08:08:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BM MY
09KUALALUMPUR391	MALAYSIA URGES AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S RELEASE [...] (U) Malaysia has spoken out in Washington and at home to express concern over Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and to urge her release by the Burmese regime. During a joint press conference with Secretary Clinton following their May 14 meeting in Washington (ref A),Malaysia's Foreign Minister Anifah [...]	2009-05-20 08:53:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINS BM MY
09KUALALUMPUR421	FUNDING PROPOSAL FOR PRM JULIA TAFT FUND FOR REFUGEES [...] Summary. Post submits for funding consideration the proposal in para 3 from Harvest Centre Bhd. The grant would fund teacher training to improve educational opportunities for all refugee children, but in particular the ethnic Rohingya Muslims, ethnic Burmese Muslims, and Chin communities. T [...]	2009-05-29 08:56:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM SMIG SCUL BM MY
09KUALALUMPUR459	DCM AND MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSS BURMA ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: The Malaysian Foreign Ministry official responsible for mainland Southeast Asia told the DCM May 29 that Malaysia viewed implementation of the Burmese regime's "roadmap to democracy" as a way forward, and discussed the challenges of making headway on the Rohingya refugee/migrant [...]	2009-06-08 08:51:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM BM MY
09KUALALUMPUR79	MALAYSIA: ROHINGYA SITUATION STATUS QUO [...] (C) Summary: The UNHCR has not detected any change in the status quo or increase in the number of Rohingya refugees entering Malaysia so far this year. A Foreign Ministry official said Malaysia would have "no problem" in joining a contact group with Thailand on the Rohingya situation, but g [...]	2009-02-06 10:14:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL SMIG BM ID TH MY
09KUALALUMPUR840	MALAYSIA: URGING ASEAN TO PRESS BURMA ON NEXT [...] (C) DCM Rapson conveyed reftel demarche points to MFA Under Secretary for Southeast Asia Affairs (Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam),Mohammed Sadik Gany, on October 22. The DCM briefly outlined our new policy approach towards Burma and the constructive steps we have taken over the past month to [...]	2009-10-22 09:45:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM MY
09KUALALUMPUR976	MALAYSIA LAUDS U.S. ENGAGEMENT OF BURMA BUT OFFERS [...] (SBU) Polcouns and Poloff met with recently appointed MFA Under Secretary Tan Yong Thai, who is responsible for covering Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, for a courtesy call and to discuss reftel demarche points on December 7, 2009. U/S Tan praised U.S. efforts to engage Burma and was cri [...]	2009-12-07 08:35:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM BM MY
09LISBON519	PORTUGAL: DEMARCHE ON CONCLUSIONS OF BURMA POLICY [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-29 15:13:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV BM PO
09LJUBLJANA113	SLOVENIA OPEN TO NEW IDEAS ON BURMA, SUPPORTS EU [...] (C) Emboff delivered reftel demarche and technical paper on the U.S. Burma policy review to Matjaz Marko, first secretary in the MFA's Asia division. Marko agreed that the EU common position would not change; Slovenia supported the rollover in the EU's position from last year. Marko describe [...]	2009-04-20 11:30:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD PREL BM SI
09LJUBLJANA254	SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING AUNG SAN [...] (C) On August 19, Emboff met with Matjaz Marko from the Asia and Pacific Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver reftel talking points regarding the conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi. Marko expressed GOS unity with the EU position strongly condemning the conviction. He also stated [...]	2009-08-19 11:57:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BM SI
09LJUBLJANA374	SLOVENIA SUPPORTS PRESSING FOR FURTHER DIALOGUE IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-02 14:40:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM SI
09LONDON1394	UK EXPECTATIONS FOR JUNE GAERC [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-12 12:59:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER EU LE CU BM UK
09LONDON1873	UK REACTS STRONGLY TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S CONVICTION [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-12 10:59:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM BM UK
09LONDON2315	UK THINKING ON OCTOBER 9 DISCUSSION WITH AUNG SAN [...] (C) UK Foreign Office Burma Team deputy leader Gill Lever told poloff October 8 that the key message the UK Government wants to get across during the October 9 meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) about sanctions is that sanctions are "not all or nothing" and can be done in a gradual way based on t [...]	2009-10-08 12:04:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM UK
09LONDON2761	BURMA: UK OFFERS INSIGHT INTO EU POSITION, THOUGHTS ON USG POLICY REVIEW REF: STATE 121789 [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-10 15:12:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV BM UK
09LONDON63	UK WORKING WITH EU TO IMPROVE BURMA SANCTIONS [...] (SBU) The UK shares our goal of maintaining a united position on Burma, and is optimistic that under the Czech presidency, the EU will continue to strengthen its sanctions regime against the Burmese leadership. Garret Roberts and Mark Butcher of the Foreign Office's International Organization [...]	2009-01-12 09:59:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL PGOV BM EU UK
09LUSAKA649	MORE ON ZAMBIAN PREPARATIONS FOR UNGA, UN HUMAN [...] (C) Summary. The Zambian Government (GRZ) is inclined to call for measures to address human rights problems in Burma, North Korea, and Sudan at the next session of the UN Human Rights Council. A senior Foreign Ministry official voiced some displeasure with Zambia's tendency to engage in bloc [...]	2009-09-22 08:44:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN UNHRC UNESCO KV CU BM ZA
09MADRID403	SPAIN CONFIRMS ROLLOVER OF EU COMMON POSITION ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-21 08:54:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD BM SP
09MADRID832	SPAIN'S STATEMENT ON AUNG SAN SUU KYI CONVICTION [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-19 09:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV BM SP
09MANILA1065	PHILIPPINES URGES IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of his May 16 phone conversation with Secretary Clinton, Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Alberto Romulo issued a blunt statement on Sunday, May 17, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi and urging Burma [...]	2009-05-18 08:53:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	BM PGOV PHUM PREL RP
09MANILA110	DEMARCHE: PHILIPPINES SUPPORTS EXTENDING THE [...] (SBU) The Political Cooperation Office of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Southeast Asia Division confirmed January 16 that the Philippine government strongly supports extending for an additional year the mandate of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) in Burma. The Political Cooperation [...]	2009-01-16 07:17:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PHUM PREL RP BM
09MANILA1254	AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FOREIGN SECRETARY, DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) In a June 11 private discussion over breakfast with Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, the Ambassador underscored the extreme seriousness with which the United States views the Burmese junta's trumped-up charges against pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, and the show trial [...]	2009-06-11 07:41:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
09MANILA1521	PHILIPPINES PUSHES ASEAN ON NORTH KOREA, BURMA [...] (C) In a frank private July 20 discussion over breakfast with the Ambassador, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo expressed dismay at ASEAN's timid stance on issues pertaining to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Burma. Secretary Romulo related his impression of an [...]	2009-07-20 07:57:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV PHUM PREL RP KN BM
09MANILA1711	PHILIPPINE OUTRAGE OVER AUNG SAN SUU KYI VERDICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 12 private breakfast with the Ambassador, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo expressed outrage over the guilty verdict rendered in the case of detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, while frankly admitting his frustration in searching for a [...]	2009-08-12 10:31:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM
09MANILA1712	FOREIGN SECRETARY ROMULO ON OVAL OFFICE, BURMA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a private August 12 breakfast meeting with the Ambassador, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo expressed heartfelt appreciation for the warm reception President Arroyo's party received at the Oval Office on July 30, and for the highly successful cabinet-level meetings [...]	2009-08-12 10:31:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM KN
09MANILA2133	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BURMA, U.S.-ASEAN SUMMIT, [...] (C) In a one-on-one breakfast meeting on October 7, the Ambassador strongly urged Foreign Secretay Romulo to consider favorably our proposal for a November U.S.-ASEAN Summit in Singapore; Romulo preferred that the Summit take place in Bangkok or in the U.S. Romulo welcomed the outcome of the [...]	2009-10-07 07:32:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KNNP ASEAN IR BM RP
09MANILA2230	URGING ASEAN TO PRESS BURMA: PHILIPPINES RESPONSE [...] (SBU) External Chief delivered Ref A talking points on urging ASEAN to press Burma to take constructive steps, particularly at the ASEAN Summit, to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) East Asia Assistant Secretary Ronald Allarey and U.S. Affairs Office Director Deena Joy Amatong. Amatong repl [...]	2009-10-23 09:23:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BM RP
09MANILA2494	PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS PLEDGE TO CONTINUE PRESSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior officials at the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) underscored the intention of President Arroyo and Secretary Romulo to maintain pressure on the Burmese government to engage in legitimate dialogue with Burma's political opposition and ensure credible participa [...]	2009-12-03 09:07:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM RP
09MANILA678	DEMARCHE - DEFENDING THE AUTHORITIES OF THE [...] (C) Post discussed reftel points with Director Voltaire Pingul of the Office of ASEAN Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),regarding the intention of Government of Burma to curtail significantly the authorities of the UN, ASEAN, and the Government of Burma Tripartite Core Group [...]	2009-03-27 04:20:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM BM RP
09MANILA833	FOREIGN SECRETARY ON ASEAN, BURMA, AND UPCOMING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a candid and free-ranging April 17 private discussion over breakfast with the Ambassador, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo expressed disappointment that recent ASEAN meetings in Thailand had to be canceled due to antigovernment protests, and he underscored Presiden [...]	2009-04-20 08:23:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL RP BM
09MOSCOW1333	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-22 12:29:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC BM RS
09MOSCOW2065	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRST ON AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (C) On August 12, CDA conveyed to Igor Neverov, Director North America Department and Acting Deputy Minister, reftel points urging GOR cooperation on a UN Security Council Presidential Statement. Neverov stated that the U.S. and Russian delegations would likely discuss the issue in New York. [...]	2009-08-12 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS CH
09MOSCOW2496	RUSSIA RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO BURMA POLICY REVIEW [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points and non-paper to MFA Asia-Pacific Region Division Chief Anatoly Borovik on September 30. Borovik said that Russia appreciated the conclusions of the Burma policy review and that USG plans for engagement were a "positive step." Inquiring about the nature of [...]	2009-10-01 12:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM RS
09NEWDELHI1007	URGING AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S RELEASE [...] (C) In a May 15 meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, Ambassador Burleigh urged the Indian government to press Burma's government to release Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. Noting reports of the bizarre incident involving an American citizen who tried to meet with AS [...]	2009-05-18 13:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BM IN
09NEWDELHI1721	INDIAN REACTION TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S CONVICTION [...] (SBU) We discussed reftel points on August 17 with Anju Ranjan, MEA Under Secretary for Asian Affairs, and pressed for a strong GOI expression of disappointment about ASSK's conviction and GOI advocacy for pursuit of a more productive path when speaking with Burmese officials. Ranjan referred [...]	2009-08-17 13:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL IN BM
09NEWDELHI2142	U/S BURNS REVIEWS REGIONAL ISSUES WITH INDIAN FS [...] (C) Summary: During a wide-ranging review of regional issues with Under Secretary Burns on October 16, Indian Foreign Secretary Rao reviewed recent Indo-Pak discussions in New York and criticized Pakistani inaction on Hafiz Saeed and terrorist infiltrations. Rao described India as unable to c [...]	2009-10-21 14:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IN PK AF CH RU CE NP BM JA
09NEWDELHI2285	INDIA UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT RESOLUTIONS ON IRAN, [...] (U) PolCouns conveyed Ref A demarche on November 12 and 13 to Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretaries for Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran (PAI) Division, Y.K. Sinha, and UN Economic and for Social (UNES) Division, Rajiv Misra, respectively. Emphasizing the importance we place on the Indian G [...]	2009-11-13 13:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UN IR BM KN
09NICOSIA270	CYPRUS: EU'S BURMA POLICY FOCUSED, CONSISTENT [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-16 12:24:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ASEAN BM CY
09NICOSIA538	CYPRUS SHARES USG CONCERN OVER AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S [...] (U) On August 18, Poloff delivered reftel points on the GOB's recent conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) to Cyprus MFA Burma Desk Officer Sevak Avedissian. Avedissian said that the GOC and the EU share the USG's strong concern over the verdict and continuing detention of ASSK. Avedissian [...]	2009-08-19 04:25:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BM CY
09OSLO341	NORWEGIANS LIKELY TO FOLLOW EU ON SUU KYI ISSUE [...] (C) Poloff spoke with Senior Advisor Vegard Wennesland in the MFA East Asia section and discussed reftel points. Wennesland, after consulting within the MFA, said that no final decision had been taken on how to react to the May 30 milestone in Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. Wennesland said [...]	2009-05-11 14:09:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BM NO
09OSLO504	NORWEGIAN OPINIONS ON THE SUU KYI VERDICT AND BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The GON shares our reaction to the Suu Kyi verdict, and Foreign Minister Stoere has made forceful statements condemning the trial as "political" and "a farce," while also stating that an international boycott of Burma is of limited effectiveness without India and China on board. T [...]	2009-08-14 07:01:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM NO EAID
09OTTAWA867	Canada working "behind the scenes" on democratic reform in [...] (C/NF) Canada is working "behind the scenes" on new ideas for advancing democratic reform in Burma and welcomes U.S. high level engagement with the Burmese government (reftel),according to Erin Koenig, deskoff for Burma, Thailand, and Regional Human Rights in the Southeast Asia and Oceania Rel [...]	2009-12-03 19:42:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM BM CA
09OUAGADOUGOU394	DEMARCHE DELIVERED UN SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-18 15:02:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC BM UV
09PARIS1413	France: Total SA's Investment Projects [...] (SBU) Total SA executives gave Deputy Assistant Secretary Douglas Hengel an overview of investment activities in some of the world's political hotspots. On Iran, they denied talks had resumed on phase 11 of the South Pars gas field but expressed frustration over Chinese companies entering the [...]	2009-10-21 10:24:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ECON EINV PREL FR IR KZ NI RS SU BM
09PARIS1706	FRANCE FULLY SUPPORTS U.S. POLICY ON BURMA [...] (C) France fully supports current U.S. policy on Burma and wants to work closely with the U.S. to insure a coordinated approach, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Southeast Asia DAS-equivalent Charles-Henri Brosseau, who spoke to POLCOUNS on December 10, 2009. Brosseau noted that the F [...]	2009-12-16 16:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM FR
09PARIS512	FRANCE FOCUSED ON BURMA PRISONER RELEASE, [...] (C) France remains focused on prisoner release and launching a legitimate political dialogue in Burma and sees no reason to ease sanctions against the Junta at this time, Burma desk officer Jeremie Petit told us April 8. Responding to ref A points, Petit said the EU decided to keep the Commo [...]	2009-04-08 14:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD FR BM
09PARIS586	FRENCH PREVIEW OF GAERC: CROATIA, BURMA, MIDDLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 24, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona previewed the April General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting's discussions on Croatia, Burma, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, follow-up from the U.S.-EU Summit [...]	2009-04-24 16:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN KPAL KWBG HR BM IS GZ WE CE UP MD
09PARIS664	FRENCH GAERC PREVIEW: GEORGIA, BOSNIA, SOMALIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 15, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona previewed the May General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Overall, this General Affairs Council will be largely devoted to preparation of the June European Counc [...]	2009-05-15 15:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN BK BM MD SO CE IR RS GG FR
09PHNOMPENH146	SECOND ANNUAL U.S.-CAMBODIA BILATERAL DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) and U.S. Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs Scot Marciel participated in a senior-level U.S.-Cambodia bilateral dialogue hosted by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) March 3. The second annual bilateral dialo [...]	2009-03-05 07:13:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID PGOV KJUS PHUM PTER KWMN BM CB
09PHNOMPENH35	CAMBODIA: REVIEW REPORT BEFORE EXTENDING THE [...] (SBU) Pol/Ec Chief raised reftel talking points with MFA Secretary of State Kao Kim Hourn January 16, noting especially that ASEAN and Cambodia would burnish their credentials in the international community by continuing with the Tripartite Core Group's (TCG) notable humanitarian work. 2. [...]	2009-01-16 11:25:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID PHUM BM CB
09PHNOMPENH438	CAMBODIA RESPONSE: KANG NAM 1 DEMARCHE [...] (C) Acting Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarch and talking points June 30 to Hos Sereythong, Director, Asia 1 Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs an International Cooperation. He noted that while he was familiar with press reports regarding the vessel in question, he had not yet recei [...]	2009-07-02 04:06:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM CB BM NK
09PHNOMPENH602	SENATOR WEBB MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER HUN SEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Jim Webb concluded a successful one-day visit to Cambodia August 18 on a positive note during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen in which there was general agreement on new ways to approach Burma. Webb detailed his interest in the region and in stronger relations with [...]	2009-08-19 11:23:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EAID PTER MASS KJUS PHUM BM CB
09PHNOMPENH890	CAMBODIA AGREES TO PRESS FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador demarched the RGC on the need for the Government of Burma (GOB) to engage Burma's democratic opposition and to move forward with democratic reform and out of isolation. RGC officials agreed that the 2010 elections indeed represented an "open door" for Burma and wer [...]	2009-12-04 10:51:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KIRF BM CB
09PRAGUE324	CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: COMMENTS ON UPCOMING JUNE [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 11 emboff spoke with Magdalena Janesova of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy in advance of the June 15-16 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on: the Middle East, Lebanon, the Western Balkans, [...]	2009-06-11 15:59:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN EZ EG PGOV PREL SU LE CU BM
09PRAGUE467	CZECH PUBLICLY CONDEMN BURMESE SENTENCE AGAINST [...] (U) On August 11, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout called on the Burmese regime to immediately release Aung San Suu Kyi. Calling the verdict "scandalous" and typical of "the political cynicism of one of the toughest totalitarian regimes in the world", former Czech president Vaclav Havel also [...]	2009-08-13 09:44:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM BM EZ EUN

09PRAGUE719	CZECHS AGREE ON NEED TO PRESS FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-11 16:09:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL BM EZ
09RANGOON1	BURMA: RICE EXPORTS LOWER THAN EXPECTED IN 2008 [...] (C) Despite GOB expectations that rice exports in November and December would total 300,000 metric tons, Burmese traders and military-owned Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC) exported only 45,000 metric tons of rice during this period. Demand for Burmese rice remains low, as international cu [...]	2009-01-02 05:11:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
09RANGOON10	BURMA: FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES GAMBARI, DPRK [...] (C) During a January 5 meeting with Burmese Minister of Foreign Affairs Nyan Win, the Charge reiterated the USG's concerns about ongoing human rights abuses in Burma, including the continuing arrests and recent long sentences for political activists. He stressed the importance of dialogue b [...]	2009-01-06 07:51:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM
09RANGOON100	BURMA: OJEA QUINTANA BRIEFS CHARGE [...] (C) In a private meeting February 17, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Myanmar Thomas Ojea Quintana agreed with Charge's assessment of Burma's deteriorating human rights situation. His four-point agenda includes the need for legal reform, release of political prisoners, reform of th [...]	2009-02-17 09:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON106	BURMA: CLARIFYING USG POSITION ON GAVI [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel points February 18 to Dr. Nyo Nyo Kyaing, Director of the International Health Division of the Ministry of Health. Charge had sought to speak directly to the Health Minister, but he has been unavailable. Charge explained to Nyo Nyo Kyaing that the USG did not [...]	2009-02-19 07:17:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI EAID PHUM PGOV BM
09RANGOON110	UN HUMAN RIGHTS RAPPORTEUR BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) In a February 19 outbrief for the Diplomatic Corps, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Burma Thomas Ojea Quintana reported on his visit to Insein prison, meetings with several high-level GOB officials in Nay Pyi Taw, and the regime's refusal to let him see Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) or [...]	2009-02-20 07:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON111	BURMA'S NLD: NO PRECONDITIONS FOR DIALOGUE WITH [...] (U) In a "Special Statement" dated February 19, the National League for Democracy (NLD) Central Executive Committee (CEC) clarified it has not set any preconditions for a visit to Burma by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. The CEC notes that during a February 2 meeting, UN Special Envoy Ibrah [...]	2009-02-20 08:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON112	BURMA: ONSHORE OIL PRODUCTION LIMITED [...] (C) Although the GOB claims Burma has untapped oil reserves of 3.5 million barrels, actual production continues to fall far short of the country's domestic needs. In 2008 onshore production averaged 10,000 barrels a day, forcing the GOB to import up to 20,000 barrels a day of oil and diesel. [...]	2009-02-20 08:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET PINR BM
09RANGOON116	BURMA: SOME POLITICAL PRISONERS INCLUDED IN RELEASE [...] (C) On February 20, Burma state media announced the government would free 6,313 prisoners on humanitarian grounds which would allow them to take part in the 2010 elections. At least 19 political prisoners, including four NLD members and seven monks, have been freed. The regime also reportedly [...]	2009-02-23 08:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON120	BURMA: NLD SOUL SEARCHING ON SANCTIONS, BAN VISIT [...] (C) The National League for Democracy (NLD) has issued a correction to its February 17 "Special Statement" to clarify that the NLD has not changed its stance on sanctions. The original statement contained language interpreted by some media as criticizing economic sanctions. Party leaders no [...]	2009-02-24 07:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON126	BURMA'S 2010 ELECTION: UNCERTAINTY PREVAILS AMIDST [...] (C) One year after the Burmese regime announced parliamentary elections will be held in 2010, nothing is known about the timing of the vote, what rules will govern participation, and who will compete. In the absence of hard facts many potentially key players -- among opposition, pro-regime, a [...]	2009-02-27 12:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON132	USGS/DOC ASSESS BURMA'S OIL AND GAS RESOURCE AND [...] (C) During a three-day trip to Burma, United States Geological Survey (USGS) petroleum geologist Craig Wandrey and Department of Commerce (DOC) senior energy analyst Paul Hueper met with international and local oil and gas companies operating in Burma to assess the country's resource potentia [...]	2009-03-02 23:51:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET PINR BM
09RANGOON133	ILO AND GOB RENEW SUPPLEMENTARY UNDERSTANDING ON [...] (C) The ILO and the Ministry of Labor on February 26 signed an agreement extending for an additional year the ILO-GOB Supplementary Understanding (SU) on Forced Labor. Although the ILO had planned to extend the SU indefinitely, the GOB claimed it did not want to "tie the hands" of a future g [...]	2009-03-03 01:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON134	BURMA: TAY ZA EXPANDS HIS EMPIRE [...] (C) Tay Za, the regime's favored crony, continues to expand his empire in Burma. Over the past three months he has purchased three large hotels, expanded his airline business, and entered the telecommunications industry. Embassy Rangoon recommends OFAC add Tay Za's newest companies and key [...]	2009-03-04 04:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAIR ETRD PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON135	BURMA: TWO SMALL BOMBINGS IN RANGOON, NO CASUALTIES [...] (SBU) Police Special Branch has reported, and RSO has independently confirmed, that two small bombs exploded in central Rangoon on the evening of March 3. Police have reported no casualties. Post has not received any reports that American Citizens were affected, and neither location is frequ [...]	2009-03-04 04:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC PGOV PINR BM
09RANGOON138	Burma: GOB Publicly Criticizes U.S. Human Rights and [...] (U) On March 5, the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper published two announcements by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticizing the USG's recently-released Human Rights Report (HRR) and International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR). The MFA statement on the HRR "categorically [...]	2009-03-05 07:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SNAR BM
09RANGOON14	BURMA MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE ON POLITICAL [...] (C) During a January 5 meeting with the Charge, Burma's Minister of Agriculture and Secretary General of the mass-member Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) Major General Htay Oo discussed the upcoming 2010 elections, suggesting it is time for generational change and saying y [...]	2009-01-08 06:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EAGR ECON BM
09RANGOON142	BURMA: REMITTANCES DECLINING DUE TO FINANCIAL [...] (C) As in many developing countries, Burmese rely on remittances from overseas -- which may have totaled upwards of USD 1 billion in FY07-08 -- to supplement incomes and make ends meet. According to unpublished data from the Central Bank, official remittances (those sent through Burmese bank [...]	2009-03-06 04:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL PINR ELAB BM
09RANGOON143	BURMA: OVERSEAS WORKERS RETURNING HOME BUT JOBS [...] (C) The Burmese Government has officially acknowledged that 10,000 migrant workers have recently returned to Burma -- anecdotal evidence indicates the figure is actually much higher -- and has publicly pledged to provide them with jobs and other assistance. However, Ministry of Labor officia [...]	2009-03-06 05:19:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ELAB PHUM PGOV BM
09RANGOON148	BURMA: TWO OPPOSITION LAWYERS COMPLETE PRISON [...] (C) Opposition lawyers U Aung Thein and U Khin Maung Shein were released from prison on March 6, following completion of their four-month sentences. Both attorneys were charged with contempt of court on October 30, 2008 after protesting the lack of due process in the trials of several detai [...]	2009-03-09 06:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR BM
09RANGOON153	BURMA: ILO TO EDUCATE CEASE-FIRE GROUPS ON FORCED [...] (C) The local ILO office has reached an agreement with two Karen cease-fire groups to conduct awareness training in areas traditionally off-limits to foreigners. ILO Liaison Officer chief Steve Marshall, who will conduct the training, hopes to reach the same agreement with the Wa ethnic grou [...]	2009-03-11 01:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON156	BURMA: LAUNCHING PILOT PROJECT TO COMBAT MULTI-DRUG [...] (SBU) The Burmese Ministry of Health, working with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Medecins sans Frontieres-Holland, will launch a three-year multi-drug and extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR- and XDR-TB) pilot program in Rangoon on March 23 and Mandalay on April 2. The Nati [...]	2009-03-11 06:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV AMED BM
09RANGOON164	BURMA: HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES VISITS BURMA [...] (C) UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres' March 7-12 visit to Burma was strictly controlled by the GOB, according to local UN staff. Guterres visited Nay Pyi Taw, Sittwe (Rakhine State),and Myeik (Thanintharyi Division). Guterres met with the Ministers for Home Affair [...]	2009-03-13 07:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF BM
09RANGOON166	BURMA: COMMENTS ON DRAFT TVPRA REPORT [...] (C) Forced labor remains a problem in Burma, despite improved coordination between the International Labor Organization (ILO),NGOs, and the Burmese Government. In response to Ref A, Embassy Rangoon recommends that five products -- rice, rubber, sesame, physic nut, and sugar cane -- be adde [...]	2009-03-16 07:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON174	BURMA: REMOVAL OF U MOE MYINT FROM THE VISA BAN [...] (C) U Moe Myint, owner of Myanmar Petroleum Resources Ltd. (MPRL) and Myint and Associates, became subject to the 212F visa ban in 2008 due to alleged connections to the Burmese regime. While he is a successful Burmese businessman, he did not earn this wealth based on his connections to the [...]	2009-03-18 07:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON CVIS EFIN PREL PGOV PINR BM
09RANGOON175	BURMA: TRIPARTITE CORE GROUP POWERS CURTAILED [...] (C) UN Resident Coordinator Bishow Parajuli informed diplomats and aid officials March 18 that the Government of Burma has decided that the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) will no longer have the power to approve visas and extensions of stay for international staff engaged in Cyclone Nargis relie [...]	2009-03-18 08:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PINR SOCI BM
09RANGOON176	BURMA: REGIME ARRESTS MORE NLD MEMBERS [...] (SBU) The National League for Democracy (NLD) told us that the regime arrested at least the following four of its members since the beginning of March. Authorities have not provided any information about the whereabouts or condition of these individuals, or the reasons for their arrests. [...]	2009-03-18 08:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON178	BURMA: FOOD INSECURITY A GROWING CONCERN [...] (SBU) Although Burma's overall production of basic foodstuffs -- rice, beans, and cereals - is more than enough to meet domestic need, the GOB's restrictions on internal food distribution, as well as its emphasis on exporting food for profit, prevent sufficient domestically available food fr [...]	2009-03-19 07:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
09RANGOON181	IMPACT OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS ON BURMA'S [...] (C) According to a study undertaken by a Harvard team and international NGO International Development Enterprises (IDE),Burma's agricultural sector has been significantly affected by the world financial crisis, increasing food insecurity, and poverty concerns. The report estimates that ove [...]	2009-03-20 07:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
09RANGOON187	BURMA: REACTIONS TO THE "AFTER THE STORM" REPORT [...] (C) Officials from the UN and international NGOs, including International Development Enterprises (IDE),Save the Children, and CARE, have criticized the findings of a recent assessment of Cyclone Nargis assistance conducted by Johns Hopkins and the Emergency Assistance Team (EAT) based in T [...]	2009-03-26 01:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	BM EAID PGOV PREL SOCI
09RANGOON188	BURMA: MEETING WITH MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS [...] (C) During a March 24 meeting with visiting EAP/MLS Director Stephen Blake and Charge, Burmese Minister of Home Affairs and acting Minister of Immigration Major General Aung Oo reflected views we believe are typical among Burma's top generals. He described the country's need for stability an [...]	2009-03-26 05:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR PINR ASEC KTIP BM
09RANGOON189	BURMA: MLS DIRECTOR MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) EAP/MLS Director Stephen Blake visited Burma March 22-25, as part of his five-country familiarization tour. In Nay Pyi Taw March 24, Blake, Charge, and Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win discussed a range of issues. Mr. Blake and Charge expressed strong concern over the recent curtailment [...]	2009-03-26 05:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON193	BURMA: MLS DIRECTOR MEETING WITH LABOR MINISTER [...] (C) During a March 24 meeting in Nay Pyi Taw during EAP/MLS Director Stephen Blake's five-country familiarization tour, Blake, Charge, and Burmese Minister for Labor and Relations, Major General Aung Kyi, discussed labor issues and relations with Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK). Aung Kyi gave assura [...]	2009-03-26 07:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON194	BURMA: MLS DIRECTOR MEETING WITH NLD UNCLES [...] (C) In a March 25 meeting with visiting EAP/MLS Office Director Stephen Blake and Charge, the National League for Democracy's Central Executive Committee (CEC aka the Uncles) explained the NLD is not opposed to participation in the 2010 elections, but would not take part unless there is a revi [...]	2009-03-26 08:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON195	BURMA: MLS DIRECTOR MEETING WITH ETHNIC POLITICIANS [...] (C) In a March 25 meeting in Rangoon with EAP/MLS Director Blake, three ethnic politicians said the Committee Representing People's Parliament (CRPP),an organization of MPs-elected in 1990, has enjoyed greater freedom to meet since September 2008. They said CRPP members are not opposed to p [...]	2009-03-30 04:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON196	BURMA: MLS DIRECTOR MEETING WITH AGRICULTURE [...] (C) During a March 24 meeting in Nay Pyi Taw with EAP/MLS Director Stephen Blake and Charge, Minister of Agriculture and head of the Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA),Major General Htay Oo, acknowledged that USDA will play a role in the 2010 elections, but stopped short of sayi [...]	2009-03-30 07:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON197	BURMA: MLS DIRECTOR MEETING WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL [...] (C) During a March 24 meeting in Nay Pyi Taw with EAP/MLS Director Stephen Blake and Charge, Burma's Attorney General U Aye Maung asserted the 2010 elections will be "free and fair" and conducted "in accordance with the law." He said his office is responsible for writing the election laws whi [...]	2009-03-31 01:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ETRD BM
09RANGOON199	BURMA: SEVEN NLD MEMBERS SENTENCED [...] (C) Recently-released opposition lawyer U Aung Thein informed us that an East Rangoon District Court sentenced seven National League for Democracy (NLD) members to between five and 10 years' imprisonment on March 30 (see para 3 for list). According to U Aung Thein, the seven men - arrested i [...]	2009-03-31 05:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON2	RANGOON 2009 ANNUAL OSAC CRIME/SAFETY REPORT [...] All answers are keyed to reftel. I. Overall Crime and Safety Situation: Many criminal acts go unreported or uninvestigated in Burma, making it very difficult to assess the level of criminal activity. Police precincts routinely under-report incidents in their areas of coverage. GOB crime st [...]	2009-01-02 06:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC BM
09RANGOON20	BURMA: SALE OF IVANHOE MINE DELAYED [...] (C) Canadian-owned Ivanhoe Copper Co. continues to negotiate with state-owned Mining Enterprise-1 (ME-1) and a consortium of three Chinese companies - WanBo Copper, Norinco Copper, and Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco) - for the sale of its joint venture company, Myanmar Ivanhoe Copper [...]	2009-01-09 04:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN PGOV PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON200	BURMA: DONORS PREPARING TO PURCHASE TB DRUGS IN [...] (C) Burma will face a shortage of tuberculosis (TB) drugs in mid-2010, leaving the region vulnerable to new outbreaks of both TB and multi-drug resistant TB. WHO estimates that Burma needs between USD 4-5 million to cover the drug shortfall; and to ensure timely delivery of drugs, procureme [...]	2009-03-31 07:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
09RANGOON204	BURMA: KEY KACHIN GROUPS WORKING TO FORM A [...] (C) Summary. In an April 1 meeting with P/E Chief and Poloffs, Kachin peace negotiator Dr. Saboi Jum told us that a coalition of Kachin cease-fire groups is actively working to form a political party to participate in the 2010 elections. The new party, tentatively named the Kachin State Progr [...]	2009-04-02 06:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR BM
09RANGOON205	BURMA'S GENERALS: STARTING THE CONVERSATION [...] (S) As the review of U.S. policy regarding Burma continues amid signs that the military regime wants to engage with Washington, we offer some thoughts about the senior generals, what motivates them, what they might want from engagement, and what the U.S. might place on the table. Burma's milit [...]	2009-04-02 07:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL PGOV BM
09RANGOON207	BURMA: GLOBAL FUND PRINCIPAL RECIPIENTS SELECTED [...] (SBU) The Minister of Health chaired the fourth Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) meeting March 31 in preparation for the GOB's planned Round 9 Global Fund application. During the meeting, CCM members selected Save the Children (US) and the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) as the du [...]	2009-04-06 22:59:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
09RANGOON208	BURMA: DOCTOR: AUNG SAN SUU KYI IN GOOD HEALTH [...] (C) Acting DCM met April 3 with Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas),who confirmed that he visited Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) for her scheduled monthly medical appointment April 2. He proclaimed the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader to be in good health, and said she is anxious to talk and [...]	2009-04-07 05:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON210	POLITICAL PRISONER SU SU NWE REPORTEDLY ILL [...] (C) Summary: The health of political prisoner Su Su Nwe is reportedly deteriorating. We have confirmed that the regime allowed her medical treatment by a general practitioner but not by a specialist. The labor activist, who suffers from a congenital heart problem, is imprisoned in Kalay Pr [...]	2009-04-07 06:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON214	BURMA: TCG REGAINS LIMITED VISA POWERS FOR UN, [...] (SBU) During the past month, UN and ASEAN members of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) have joined us in urging the Burmese Government to reconsider its early March decision to strip the TCG of its power to approve visas for Cyclone Nargis-related activities (reftel). In an April 3 letter to [...]	2009-04-08 07:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PREL PINR PGOV BM
09RANGOON215	BURMA: RUMORED MILITARY RESHUFFLING [...] (S/NF) Summary. State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Secretary One Tin Aung Myint Oo was promoted to full General in late March and may also have been named "Military Advisor to the Senior General," according to a P/E contact. While state media began to refer to him as "General" on Marc [...]	2009-04-08 07:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON220	BURMESE PRESS COVERS USG RICE DONATION [...] (SBU) The Embassy Rangoon Charg dQAffaires, Embassy staff, World Food Programme (WFP) representatives, and local journalists traveled to four villages in the Irrawaddy Delta on April 1 to observe distributions from a shipment of 16,620 metric tons of USG-donated rice to survivors of Burma's Cy [...]	2009-04-09 05:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO EAID BM
09RANGOON221	BURMA: NGO WORKING TO PROTECT TIGER POPULATION [...] (C) American NGO Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) continues to work with the Burmese government to protect Burma's dwindling tiger population. While the GOB established the world's largest tiger reserve in the Hukong Valley in 2004, it has yet to approve a WCS petition to expand the pro [...]	2009-04-09 23:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ECON ETRD PGOV BM
09RANGOON222	BURMA: KACHIN NLD DISCUSSES U.S. POLICY; ELECTIONS [...] (C) Charge Dinger and poloff traveled to Kachin State in Burma's far north April 3-7 to take the political temperature and observe an embassy small-grant environmental project. Police Special Branch (SB) attention made political discussions difficult, though brave National League for Democrac [...]	2009-04-10 04:09:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON223	BURMA: REVISED TRIPARTITE CORE GROUP TO HAVE NO [...] (C) The UN Resident Coordinator in Burma has clarified that, under new Government of Burma (GOB) rules, the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) has no visa-authorization powers, not even for ASEAN or the UN. All visa requests for Cyclone Nargis related activities must now be approved by the GOB's F [...]	2009-04-10 05:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PINR SOCI BM
09RANGOON226	BURMA'S WATER FESTIVAL: OPPOSITION LAYS LOW; THUGS [...] (C) Burma's political opposition laid low during the April 13-17 Thingyan water festival and Burmese New Year, with no overt political activities reported during the five-day long national celebration. However, thugs, presumably on orders from the regime, beat up five National League for Dem [...]	2009-04-20 07:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON228	BURMA: WATER FESTIVAL PARTICIPATION AFFECTED BY FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Water Festival, the most-anticipated holiday in Burma, usually boosts Burma's economy, providing jobs for day laborers and vendors while generating profits for those who organize festivities. However, this year's Water Festival was not as profitable as in the past: the Government sold [...]	2009-04-21 06:55:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL BM
09RANGOON229	(C) BURMA: JADELAND CO. SUPPORTING THE REGIME [...] (C) Yup Zaw Hkwang of Kachin State owns the largest jade mining company in Burma, Jadeland Co., and his family provides significant economic and political support to the regime. Yup Zaw Hkwang helped to broker the cease fire agreement between the GOB and the Kachin Independence Organization [...]	2009-04-21 23:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON23	BURMA: PLANNING MINISTER DISCUSSES U.S. POLICY, [...] (C) The Charge met with Minister of Social Planning and Economic Development U Soe Tha in Nay Pyi Taw on January 5 to discuss assistance issues, the possibility of expanding the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) -mechanism, and the world economic crisis. The Charge laid out USG concerns about Bur [...]	2009-01-09 06:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN PREL PGOV PINR BM
09RANGOON230	BURMA: TWO NLD OFFICIALS ARRESTED AFTER LEADING [...] (C) NLD spokesman Nyan Win told us that on April 22, authorities arrested two Rangoon-based NLD officials after they led a Buddhist prayer meeting at a local pagoda to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners. Security officials arrested Twuntay Township NLD vice p [...]	2009-04-22 07:18:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON232	BURMA: NGOS NEGOTIATING MOUS FOR DELTA PROGRAMS [...] (C) As Burma approaches the one-year mark of Cyclone Nargis, the Burmese Government has told NGOs providing assistance in the Irrawaddy Delta to sign formal Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) to continue projects. The majority of NGOs, including those already operating in Burma before the cyc [...]	2009-04-23 06:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON233	BURMA: REGIME CHARGES NLD MEMBERS WITH RELIGIOUS [...] (C) NLD spokesman Nyan Win informed us that two Rangoon-based NLD officials arrested on April 22 have been charged with defaming the Buddhist religion. Authorities charged U Chit Phay and U Maung Soe Wai under section 295 A of the penal code at a Twuntay township court the afternoon of their [...]	2009-04-24 06:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON235	WHO'S WHO IN BURMA'S OFFSHORE GAS SECTOR [...] (C) Burma's offshore waters are becoming more crowded, as foreign companies from China, Korea, Russia, India, Malaysia, and Vietnam secure contracts to explore and develop offshore natural gas blocks. To attract additional investment and capitalize on the recent gas discoveries in the A1, A [...]	2009-04-27 04:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV EPET PINR BM
09RANGOON237	BURMA: URGING THE GOB TO ADDRESS GLOBAL FUND ACCESS [...] (SBU) With the June 1 deadline fast approaching, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and WHO technical advisors continue to revise the MOH's draft Round Nine Global Fund application. Embassy Rangoon, USAID, and other donors reviewed and provided comments on the first draft; we expect to review the [...]	2009-04-27 07:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
09RANGOON238	BURMA: GOB RESPONDS TO SWINE FLU; NO OUTBREAK IN [...] (SBU) The Burmese Government has informed us, and WHO agrees, that, contrary to a BBC Burma Service radio report, there are no cases of swine flu in either humans or animals in Burma. The GOB continues to coordinate among various Ministries and plans to produce a swine flu action plan short [...]	2009-04-27 07:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
09RANGOON239	BURMA: REGIME ATTEMPTS TO PLACATE ROHINGYA WITH [...] (C) On April 22, Rohingya sources in Rangoon told us that, over the last couple of months, a small group of Rohingya businessmen has joined the regime in initiating a number of community-development projects in northern Rakhine State in an attempt to placate the Rohingya community ahead of the [...]	2009-04-28 04:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON24	SHAN YOUTH PROMOTE DEMOCRACY THROUGH CONFERENCE [...] (C) Through a grant from the DRL Special Response Fund, the Hsai Pen Media Group (HPMG) in November 2008 conducted a conference for ethnic Shan youth in Thibaw Township, Shan State, on how to approach Burma's upcoming 2010 elections. Nearly 90 Shan youth from Rangoon Division, Shan State and K [...]	2009-01-09 07:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON240	BURMA: ZARGANAR REPORTEDLY ILL [...] (C) Family members told us imprisoned comedian/activist Zarganar has been suffering from acute symptoms of jaundice and hypertension for well over a week. He was taken from Myitkyina prison to see a specialist for tests on April 27. His sister, who is with him, expects to receive the test res [...]	2009-04-28 06:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON244	BURMA: SOME NLD MEMBERS CALL FOR PARTY CHAIRMAN'S [...] (C) Prominent NLD member Naw Ohn Hla told us that on April 29 a group of 30 NLD members (including 15 MPs-elect) delivered a letter to the NLD calling for the resignation of party Chairman U Aung Shwe and Joint Secretary U Lwin. The letter - which was delivered on the second day of the NLD's [...]	2009-04-29 07:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON25	CONTRACT FARMING IN BURMA (C-AL8-02135) [...] (U) This is a response to an INR request (Ref B). 2. (C) Since 2005, the Burmese Government has encouraged investors from China, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Kuwait to invest in contract farms; to date, only the Thais have a formal agreement to farm 120,000 acres along the Thai-Burma borde [...]	2009-01-12 00:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BM
09RANGOON254	BURMA: NLD UNITED ON NEED FOR DIALOGUE; READY TO [...] (C) At the conclusion of the National League for Democracy's (NLD) two-day national meeting on April 28 and 29, delegates overwhelmingly approved a declaration stating the party will consider participating in the 2010 elections provided the regime releases all political prisoners, reviews and [...]	2009-05-05 07:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON255	BURMA: ILO SHEDS LIGHT ON LABOR ARRESTS [...] (C) ILO Liaison Officer Steve Marshall (strictly protect) confirmed the GOB detained and subsequently released four Federation of Trade Unions Burma (FTUB) members on April 10 for illegally crossing the Thai-Burma border. Government officials denied the arrest of a fifth FTUB member, as rep [...]	2009-05-05 07:09:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM PINR BM
09RANGOON260	BURMA: AMCIT ACCUSED OF SWIMMING TO AUNG SAN SUU [...] (SBU) On May 7, Embassy Rangoon received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) stating that an American citizen taken into custody May 6 while swimming in Inya Lake had admitted to entering the Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) compound located on the lake and spending two nights [...]	2009-05-07 07:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON263	BURMA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI UNDER MEDICAL CARE; [...] (SBU) The Burmese authorities did not allow the primary personal physician of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas),to make his routine monthly visit on May 7. Douglas has reportedly been detained by Burmese authorities since that date for unspecified reasons. Douglas's p [...]	2009-05-11 06:11:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR BM
09RANGOON264	BURMA: POLICE SEARCH ASSK'S COMPOUND; RUMORS [...] (C) As of COB May 11, Embassy Rangoon has not received consular access to AmCit John Yettaw, whom Burmese authorities detained May 6 for allegedly swimming to Aung San Suu Kyi's home and remaining there for two days (Reftel). Charge and other Embassy officers continue to press the Ministries [...]	2009-05-11 07:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL BM
09RANGOON266	BURMESE GOVERNMENT DEPORTS TWO AMERICAN JOURNALISM [...] (C) Burmese Police and Immigration officials ordered two Embassy-sponsored journalism trainers to depart the country on Thursday, May 7. Officially, authorities accused the two of violating the terms of their tourist visas but provided no details concerning the alleged illegal activities. C [...]	2009-05-11 07:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL CVIS CASC BM KPAO
09RANGOON270	BURMA: GOB LIMITING VISAS IN MAY [...] (C) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has informed the diplomatic community that the GOB will not be issuing any more visas for official foreign visitors during the remainder of May, but indicated that visas may be issued after June 1. MOFA has yet to justify this policy. Diplomats and [...]	2009-05-12 08:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV PREL BM
09RANGOON271	BURMA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI,S HEALTH IMPROVES; DR. [...] (C) Dr. Pyone Moe Ei was granted access to Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) on May 11 and found her in better health, according to National League for Democracy (NLD) Spokesperson Nyan Win. ASSK's primary physician, Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas),remains in detention and her lawyer has not been allo [...]	2009-05-12 08:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON272	BURMA: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-13 06:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER BM
09RANGOON273	BURMA: REGIME GRANTS ACCESS TO AMCIT; NO NEWS ON [...] (C) The GOB granted consular access late in the day on May 13 to John Yettaw (septel),who has confirmed he swam to the home of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and stayed for 44 hours. Yettaw told us Burmese authorities have treated him "wonderfully;" he is fine (see proposed press guidance at para 8 [...]	2009-05-13 08:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL BM
09RANGOON276	BURMA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI AND AMCIT JOHN YETTAW [...] (C) On May 14 Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and detained Amcit John Yettaw both appeared at Insein Prison Special Court for a hearing in connection with Yettaw's entry into ASSK's residence. Consular officer attended the proceedings and reports ASSK appeared healthy. Authorities charged Yettaw w [...]	2009-05-14 07:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON281	BURMA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S LAWYER ON NEXT STEPS IN [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) personal attorney, Kyi Win (aka Neville),told us May 15 he expects to meet with his client again within the next two days to prepare for the May 18 court hearing. Neville said that ASSK was "disgusted" by Amcit John Yettaw's intrusion to her home and told him to [...]	2009-05-15 07:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM CASC PINR BM
09RANGOON288	BURMA: FIRST WITNESSES IN ASSK/YETTAW TRIAL; AMCIT [...] (SBU) On May 18, Consul attended the opening session of the trial against Amcit John William Yettaw, Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),and ASSK's two live-in aides at a special court in Insein prison. Consul was permitted to observe the proceedings, but was told he could not speak with Mr. Yettaw unt [...]	2009-05-18 09:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL BM
09RANGOON291	BURMA: CDA MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER; DAY TWO [...] (C) CDA met today with Foreign Minister Nyan Win to press for ASSK's release and for direct consular access to Amcit John Yettaw. Nyan Win defended the legal process against ASSK and asked what the U.S. is willing to give in return for her release. He made no commitment on Yettaw but is clea [...]	2009-05-19 07:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON295	BURMA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI ADDRESSES DIPLOMATS AT [...] (SBU) When the regime allowed foreign diplomats to attend the afternoon session of Aung San Suu Kyi's trial on May 20, ASSK briefly addressed the group from across the court room. She expressed appreciation for international support and a hope to meet later under better circumstances. Inter [...]	2009-05-20 07:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON298	BURMA: UPDATE ON CRONY STEVEN LAW'S ACTIVITIES [...] (C) Steven Law, one of the regime's top cronies, continues to expand his businesses in both Burma and Singapore. The authorities recently awarded Law's Asia World Company the rights to build the new international airport in Nay Pyi Taw, and his newest company, Gold Energy Co. Ltd., is const [...]	2009-05-20 23:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON299	(C) BURMA: SILVERWAVE CO. BENEFITS FROM REGIME TIES [...] (C) Minn Minn Oung, Chairman of Silverwave Group and a number of affiliated companies involved in the agricultural, timber, mining, and energy sectors, provides significant economic and political support to the Burmese regime. Minn Minn Oung admits his companies received government contracts [...]	2009-05-21 00:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON30	BURMESE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF DISCUSSES [...] (C) The Charge met with Lieutenant General Ye Myint, the head of Burmese Military Security Affairs (MSA, Military Intelligence),in Rangoon on January 12 to discuss several military-related issues, including the invitation last August by Vice Senior General Maung Aye and LtGen Ye Myint for a [...]	2009-01-14 06:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR PINR PHUM BM
09RANGOON300	BURMA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI MEETS WITH RANGOON [...] (C) Rangoon-based diplomats from Singapore, Thailand, and Russia -- representing the dean of the diplomatic corps, ASEAN chair, and UNSC president, respectively -- met May 20 for nearly 30 minutes with Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) in the Insein prison guest house where she is being held. This is [...]	2009-05-21 06:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON301	BURMA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI/YETTAW TRIAL, DAY FOUR [...] (C) The May 21 session of the trial against Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and John Yettaw focused on the examination of Yettaw's personal belongings, including photos and videos he took inside ASSK's residence. With the exception of Embassy Consul, no diplomats or journalists attended, which was [...]	2009-05-21 07:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON303	BURMA: ASSK TRIAL - ALL PLEAD NOT GUILTY; YETTAW'S [...] (SBU) Amcit John Yettaw, whose mental state appears to be deteriorating, proclaimed Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and her two assistants innocent during an unprovoked courtroom outburst May 22. The day's trial focused largely on Yettaw; ASSK attended only the afternoon session. At the conclusion [...]	2009-05-25 13:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON310	BURMA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI TESTIFIES; THANKS DIPLOMATS [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) took the stand May 26 after the prosecution unexpectedly rested its case on May 25. ASSK answered the judges' questions about a written statement she submitted to the court in which she apparently set forth her version of the events surrounding American citizen Jo [...]	2009-05-26 08:03:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL BM
09RANGOON311	BURMA: 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] Embassy Rangoon is not aware of any ongoing investment disputes in Burma. U.S. law has prohibited new investment in Burma since 1997. 2. Primary points of contact for issues relevant to the report are: Prior to July 27, 2009: Samantha A. Carl-Yoder Economic Officer (95) (1) 536-50 [...]	2009-05-27 06:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV BM
09RANGOON312	BURMA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI HOUSE ARREST ORDER [...] (C) Before the start of the Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) trial session on May 26, Police Director General Khin Yi told her that the GOB would lift her house arrest order on its May 27 expiration date. However, Aung San Suu Kyi remains in custody at an Insein prison guest house because of the Yett [...]	2009-05-27 08:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL BM
09RANGOON314	BURMA: TESTIMONY CONCLUDES IN AUNG SAN SUU [...] (C) Testimony concluded on May 28 in the trial against Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),her two assistants, and American John Yettaw. The trial will resume June 1, when the prosecution and defense will present closing arguments. There is no set timeframe thereafter for the judges' decision, but law [...]	2009-05-28 05:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON315	BURMA: PREPARING FOR THE ILO ANNUAL CONFERENCE [...] (C) Although the Burmese Government has taken steps to address forced labor and child soldier recruitment, the use of forced labor remains widespread. During the upcoming June ILO Annual Conference in Geneva, Embassy Rangoon encourages the U.S. delegation to press the GOB to strengthen its [...]	2009-05-28 06:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON316	BURMA: STATE MEDIA LINK BOMBS TO OPPOSITION GROUPS [...] (SBU) On May 27 state media reported that two bombs exploded near government buildings in Mon State. According to police, there were no casualties when the bombs detonated near the Economic Bank and Forestry Department in the state capital Mawlamyine. So far, the police have not responded to [...]	2009-05-28 07:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON320	BURMA: NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY: PROTESTS [...] (C) On May 28, police near Insein Prison arrested a solo protestor who unfurled a sign calling for Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) release. Authorities have increased the security presence in Rangoon to guard against mass protests. National League for Democracy (NLD) leaders told us the party has [...]	2009-05-29 06:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON321	BURMA: MEETING WITH MINISTER OF LABOR -- AUNG SAN [...] (C) In a meeting on May 29, Burma's Labor Minister, Major General Aung Kyi, who is also the regime's point of contact for "relations" with Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),signaled that he continues to believe ASSK only wants dialogue with Senior General Than Shwe. Aung Kyi said that if ASSK wants [...]	2009-06-01 02:55:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM CASC BM
09RANGOON324	BURMA: CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN TRIAL POSTPONED TO [...] (C) Burmese authorities have postponed until June 5 the next trial session for Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),her two assistants, and American John Yettaw. That session is expected to include closing arguments in the trial. ASSK met May 30 with her attorneys for over two hours; they confirm that [...]	2009-06-01 03:51:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON326	BURMA: HEALTH MINISTRY SUBMITS GLOBAL FUND [...] (SBU) The Minister of Health submitted the Burmese Government's Round Nine Global Fund (GF) application on May 31, requesting USD 320.6 million over five years to fund HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB),and malaria programs. Funds, if approved, will be overseen by two principal recipients: Save t [...]	2009-06-03 01:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI EAID PHUM KHIV PGOV SENV BM
09RANGOON327	BURMA -- ENCOURAGING A REGIME--NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR [...] (C) In reftel conversations, the Charge, at the request of National League for Democracy (NLD) Central Executive Committee (CEC) member Khin Maung Swe, conveyed to Burmese Government Ministers that the NLD is ready to engage the regime in unconditional dialogue with all issues on the table. [...]	2009-06-03 05:26:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
09RANGOON328	BURMA: FAMILY DETAINED AFTER SEEKING EMBASSY [...] (SBU) On June 4 a family of five, plus a friend, approached the Embassy front gate holding Burmese-language signs appealing for Embassy assistance with the case of a detained family member. They did not claim any political affiliation and did not raise any political issues. They voluntarily [...]	2009-06-04 05:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC BM PGOV

09RANGOON329	BURMA: ASSK CLOSING ARGUMENTS LIKELY TO BE [...] (SBU) Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) lawyers have told us they expect closing arguments in her trial, currently scheduled for June 5, to be postponed; the session had already been delayed once from its original June 1 date. Lawyers confirmed that the Rangoon Divisional Court (an appeals court) ha [...]	2009-06-04 05:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM

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